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robin mcdowell on behalf the event red donated a hundred dollars in the equipment and volleyball equipment cory baskin 95 town park meadows and stacy morris that donated 200 in supplies and there were a couple of significant donations that were on item 3.1 and 3.2 if the void board would consider any objections to adding 3.1 3.2 in to this okay respectively that would be the blue ridge sports clubs foundation donated three thousand dollars for uniforms for the eighth grade football team and then through the efforts of mr pico uh walmart has provided a community grant of two thousand dollars to be used for school purposes great any uh comments or thank yous make sure we get our thank you letters out to all those uh appropriate since it's item 3.1 3.2 we need to vote so can we have a motion to vote on items 3.1 3.2 as they're indicated and the donations that we received have a motion a motion from chuck a second from diane all in favor that'd be unanimous to hear who's here okay item uh number two the consent agenda a board after reviewing the consent agenda is there any item in the consent agenda that you would like to pull out and vote on separately or shall we just let it ride the way it is fine how about you dinah all right we have a motion to accept the consent agenda emotion from chuck uh second diane all in favor that's unanimous also okay we have already covered item 3.1 and 3.2 so that moves to item 3.3 a recommendation to approve the sole service sole source provider for friends of navajo county anti-drug coalition for the junior leadership academy dr wright you want to explain that for us yes sir this is a youth an opportunity for our youth the leadership academy is a long-standing arrangement the blurred schools have had with navajo county and this is a program cost it's a sole source provider because they're the only ones that provide it and for procurement we have to get the board's uh blessing this is an annual requirement and the cost is twelve thousand yes sir any questions on that if not we have a motion to accept item 3.3 i have a motion and a second all in favor and being honest thank you okay item 3.4 recommendation to approve the social sole source provider for advancement via individual determination avid dr wright you want to explain what avid is to us yes sir this is a program that was brought to us by jessie reek and it is developed to help provide opportunities for children and youth that are are struggling and might need a little help provides role models and provides programs to help guide and direct efforts at the i believe it begins at sixth grade and goes through the high school and so this is they're the only people that do this program it's going to be implemented it's already started to be implemented last year and so this is the uh in order to move forward with the board we have to have your approval as a sole source provider is there a cost for this and that's my first question the second question is it community supported i mean are the mentors coming from the community or are they from the school staff there i believe mr pico's on the phone isn't he not mary i know the cost of the program i thought we had recorded but i know this is coming through a title through our title funds lauren has some further instruments let lauren handle it as far as the mentorship it's also based on students so there'll be student mentors involved in it as well going down to some of the younger grades and i actually don't know on the outside community members we always welcome community members in there and so that would be part of any of the grants that we do as well as members to come in and participate but as dr i mentioned this is with our targeted school improvement grant and it's what we're using for professional development to teach our staff how to meet the diverse learner needs besides the accomplishments i'll get it right here okay thank you mary we have the cost of brenda found it it's 32 500 32 500.

now does this language work membership on each subcommittee should strive to include representatives from at least two member towns or districts maybe it should be district towns remember times yeah i like that okay good um so we can include that one um for first read and discussion and then i also this one is very straightforward i literally just this is just the reference policy from masc um for us to to consider um so this is the advisory committees to the school committee and this is intended to include things like the sctf where membership can include individuals be beyond school committee members or delegates of the superintendent so that's that's where that phrase comes in when we say residents if somebody is a parent of like a choice student i i guess i was just thinking of like the the definition like how do we draw the boundaries for residents right what i did sorry i should say this is the um the model policy and what i added um i replaced the model policy language sorry i didn't include track changes but um i replaced the model policy which talked about um staff members being appointed at the discretion or recommendation of the superintendent and just copied the language that we have in our current in our current subcommittee policy i just copied that from here and inserted it into the advisory committee but i have that same question carrie um was do we want to limit it to just residents or should it be residents and guardians of students i think that makes i mean you know somebody from a town that's not included in a region wants to be a member because they have a connection to the schools directly through their their family or you know like i don't know it's just worth considering because i could see it arising as something what if you use language like um members of the broader arps community that would take in parents and guardians from anywhere that would take in you know a grandparent who has um an interest in it in a special um maybe some special skills that they could bring to it or a member of the business community um that's connected with the schools in some way or i don't know if you think that language is too um open to interpretation but that's one thought it's true about parents for school choice kids because it was either two or three years ago that the entire pelham pto or pgo whatever it is was all school choice parents i wonder if we could suggest the guardian language or something similar to that and then see if how the full committee feels about it or another interested party i think resident is too specific but i'm i don't want to make it completely wide open but i wonder if they're if they're all being appointed then it would be somebody having some weighing kind of what the and i think we should not use family members just to be inclusive or like guardians or family members just for i don't know what's the language we usually use around we usually we have been using parents or caregivers okay um so that that's that's the interesting thing that i i wonder about is do we want to say caregivers because that could include babysitters that are after school only and i don't know that's i mean in this particular case that's i'm i'm not objecting to the use of the that phrase but what if somebody's a would would guardian that would include foster care parents yeah i wouldn't think so yes because they're legal guardians okay should we be really and maybe we don't need to be but should we really specific and say residents of the four member towns it doesn't matter i'm just thinking of like if i were on the amarristor pelham it i'm just thinking like the enrollment working group which was an amherst specific thing would we would that would we want it like trying to think like relevant umber town or um um or maybe it doesn't matter because it'll work itself out hmm no you i mean that's a really good point it says we include but then it doesn't say it has to include right and right i think um we could add something that says membership requirements will be determined you know will be i guess that's point four right so the appointments made by the committee so that's true and then the committee can have a discussion um right because it's it's still it's it doesn't say that the committee has to accept anybody that so if it's an amherst only it's a if it's an advisory committee to the amherst school committee the the amber school committee could decide we only want amherst residents or or parents of amherst students right shhh we could just say of where appropriate i don't know right it says staff and members and students may also may be appointed to the committees where appropriate um um i'm gonna you know what i'm gonna um take this off um residence oops that one in the residents um residents of the four arps member towns parents or guardians of current arp students staff members and students and staff members and students also may be appointed to committees where appropriate i think you could even take out the and before staff and just put a comma after correct i like that okay so again this is sort of saying that it's one year and then you may be reappointed after one year was seven something from the um that one made me laugh i don't know it just seems kind of like a very um positivist statement as uh my actual everyone i'm i'm really curious as to the background of how that got in there yeah i almost wonder if it's too much i don't i don't know i it seems a little i don't know why should an emotion come into this i don't think we should be completely robotic um no um so it should include research in fact i don't know i mean i think it's just a funny statement i don't know yeah i i think it's yeah not having been part of the the policy group that drafted the reference policy um yeah i don't i get what it's like the way i interpret it is to say that it's not an advisory committee of just saying well what do you think right like it's not intended to be sort of focus groups like what is your reaction to this or what is your reaction to that but to actually be doing some doing some sort of compilation of um so maybe one of the way would be saying that like committees could committees will conduct research i mean i don't know will use how about committees will use research in fact to to as input for recommendations sure and it could be qualitative research or quantum yeah you could do a focus group and then come back to us and report them which found um advisory committees will use research in fact informing recommendations what if instead of the word fact you put the word data yeah i like that in fact it just feels accusatory somehow it does that's what i was thinking i didn't understand f responsibilities for the release of information in the press and i just was wasn't sure what is that maybe intended for sort of really serious advisory committees on something in case sort of the but i feel like it's almost unnecessary um i'm thinking it's in there for things like when you have a building committee um like for the building project that we're and right now sometimes they have the chair of that building committee actually have responsibility for talking to the press um and in most cases uh that wouldn't be the case it would be the school committee the school committee would still be the one to talk to the press or the superintendent so maybe it should say something like um well the way it's written it's just going back to six so each committee that's two well maybe what does it say i mean if you wanted to make it explicit you could say the school the you know the the chair will maintain their responsibility for release of information to the press unless otherwise instructed kind of thing yeah but i was thinking we could also just say responsibilities if any for the release of information to the press that's good i like that that way it keeps the syntax any other i feel like it's not worth worrying about it too much because i feel like somebody's going to have some feedback on this i think it's good i mean i think we've made some good updates and i think it it's still pretty well in its own to begin with yeah and i'm exhausted from our meeting last night i know i know and it's seven o'clock so oh um i remember debbie you you telling us at the very beginning that we're always very good at being one hour which is one hour exactly and i and you're right um okay so are we good for bringing these to the full committee um on the probably on the 29th um oh no wait uh we have it on the we have it on the next agenda i think next week um are we good for bringing these in for a first read i think they're ready okay great excellent well thank you um so do we want to um back to the question about um another possible meeting um the week of the 21st um and and i bring this up because i will say that i don't know where folks stand there is there is some sentiment from a that i've heard for wrapping this subcommittee discussion up this june um so that that would be the only thing is if it comes out that coming out of our full committee meet um meeting next week do we want to have a placeholder meeting for the week of the 21st in case the full committee wants us to make some refinements and consider it for a vote on the 29th [Music] are we meeting on the 22nd we are not um there was we almost were when but we moved the meeting to the 14th and so we have the um oh sorry the amherst committee might be correct because of the conversation that we had yesterday um but the region right now is not scheduled to meet on the 22nd the next right now the next region meeting is the 29th so i can't do the 24th or but i could probably do the 21st or 23rd potentially the 23rd is the employee recognition retirement event yeah i could do the 21st if people could do it i don't know they put on your calendar if we do the 21st could i make it could i request that it'd be at 6 30 instead of six it's just a little easier for my family that would work for me um yeah i find that 6 30 generally is is an easier time unfortunately it looks unfortunately for the next meeting we have to start at six but um the 21st yes 6 30 works for me does that work for you stephen okay is that the first day of summer it'll be the longest day of the year stay open talk about policy excellent okay great uh if there's nothing else um then i will move that we adjourn is there a second second and we'll take a roll call vote um debbie hi uh stephen hi harry hi and allison hi so we are returned thank you

wow he is flying finishes that third lap at 3 47. and he's taking the turn quickly here by [Music] [Applause] 100. [Music] yeah medway having a tough time here can't really do much about that looks like ds is certainly going to take the first and two spot for my predictions and look at this owen is going to be lapping one of the ds girls here straight just unbelievable speed here he's on pace to be like um being the low fives here see wow now he's ripping down look at this he might be five i think he's gonna be five 453 on the clock 454 455. he's gonna be five minutes here it'll be real close five minute mile there wow explosive speed unbelievable and here we go this is the uh runner in second finishing his mile here with some speed it's going 5 22 really good and i think this is the girl ready to finish her mile at a speedy 531 there unbelievable and just someone just fell on their back just hopefully they're okay probably just exhausted by 100 relay boys dsb you're in lane two midway you're in lane three dsa you're in lane four dsc you're in lane five this is for the boys wow just a dominant dominant performance there from owen diaz you're in lane three bad way you're in line four [Music] [Applause] and this is the second place girls runner here finishing strong here she's gonna finish in under seven minutes here this is six fifty four runway a you're in lane three ds a you're in lane four dsc you're in lane five girls yes you're in lane three midway you're in lane four for the boys medway you guys are in lane three and follow us on our instagram pitch yay fitzy's back in the building right now for starts we're looking at ethan aliye better known as edog he's gonna give a pretty solid start for the goon squad they're 400 also starting we got james gibbons aka gibb dog and ronan conley aka roan three solid ds raider starters for uh c three solid uh ds radar realized can we talk about that impressive five minute mile there how about that oh yeah oh yeah unbelievable [Music] well we're happy to have you up in the booth here i'm happy to be here with you guys you know thank you thank you it's been solid work did you guys see graduation or was that yes we did yeah i'll tell you it looks professional yeah it does good absolutely good i know work you guys man absolutely see me get my diploma yes i did second one yeah no big deal kind of a kind of a big thing you know hey i saw you get some awards too oh yeah yeah yeah hard studies paid off then yeah hard work pays off that's what i'm saying all right sam goes for tracks and goes for academics tell the kids same goes for life you know absolutely that's the part of being a ds raider work hard earn big absolutely how's this race going what's going on here figuring some stuff out i guess just name off what's happening i guess we got uh ethan james and ooh that doesn't look like running anymore they might have sub them out roan dog is not racing right now the roadster the rounds oh no i see you up there oh yeah that's classic red oh yeah his hair is flaming just like his speed and they're off oh yeah oh yeah oh yeah big speed making big strides pulling through looking great good squad is still going on so-called elephant races really picking up with ryan kane he's been a real big spirit this year very very slept on with his speed he's one of the big throwers oh worth oh great handoff great handoff walker adams is awesome i think that's jay wow also known as jack wilson oh he's off definitely picking up a lot for the goon squad elephant is struggling behind with walking oh that mustang is off yeah hey first of all here we go john phillips oh yeah good squad really pulling in hey sarge oh my god yo blink you might miss him look at him go all right well that was a tremendous race that really was hopefully we'll see you back here girls for one hundred x girls are in lane three ds is in lane three midway is in length four man does that kid know how to call a race or what oh please be at the start boys 400 girls 400 on deck i'm gonna put that one up on our dsc tv instagram page it's ds cable tv oh my phone died so we'll see if it went through it probably did not but i will get that up as soon as [Applause] possible i'm excited to see uh fitzy race now i'm up here with uh cameraman dan murphy if anyone saw we did a um we did triathlon one time and we uh recorded it dan is actually a very speedy runner himself girls 4x100 is off yeah and they are off look at this midway in the lead right here but yeah it's quickly closing up on them oh good handoff there look at the ds ds racer flying trying to keep up and she's getting a little ground on her but midway still in the lead here looking for a good handoff here and uh oh what happened oh the handoff was botched and medway is going to be able to high step their way into the end zone here end zone meaning finish line wow great hand off there from medway and look at this flash speed here she is flying the lug raiders coming up and uh despite the botched handoff he finished pretty well boys 400 last call please be at the start girls 400 on deck final call to check out the table for boys 110 meter hurdles girls 100 meter hurdles last call check in at the table boys 400 fx girls 400 on deck ds turtle team please be ready after the 400 to set up the hurdles okay yes they're getting ready to bucket once again here somebody look at this we have the legendary mr bennett here hey what is going on assistant throws coach dan bennett here uh hopping in the booth here thank you sir made it through the weather uh there was some fun and games going on in the gym but uh what's going on some volleyball or something yeah there was some corn hole some games of jackpot throwing up the football really showing off some of the athleticism of the athletes uh but we're back out here you can scooch up a little bit cool it's just this yeah you can peek a little bit let them know dan if he's peeking too far yeah we've all been leaning over a little too far but that's okay and they are off girls 400 that's next please be at the start yep men's 400 we got aiden britt is out like a bat out of hell he is so fast aiden will be playing a key role coming up at the tri valley league showcase meet and he is out strong through the first 200 meters as he goes into the back curve boys and girls 800 please check out the table boys and girls at this point it's really a race for second yeah the table works the curve comes on the home straight boys and girls eight hundred please check out the table brit is a d1 commit going to high point university next year to pursue an academic and uh track future unbelievable just a great athlete multi-sport athlete then oh yeah football player let's see looks like second place for medway and it'll be pretty close for third yeah aidan just like the wind yeah i gotta say low 50s if i had to guess maybe a 52 or a 53 second on that one 400 that's unbelievable girls 400 up next boys 110 meter hurdles on deck followed by girls 100 hurdles yeah i was just working the 4x1 uh down at the second or sorry that rather the first exchange area so um that's always exciting and quick action make sure that the kids are staying within the two big triangles uh no issues there on my end so that's great so um how would that stand up in college that must be like d1 fast like yeah good right there right yeah you know certainly a good future ahead of him at high point um you know there's some good athletes right around his speed you know that's the top of the pyramid where things get really cooking so you know maybe we could see a sub 50 out of break coming up with the tvls or the statement where he's going to play an absolutely crucial role so here comes the second heat of the men's 400 we got two dover sherman athletes taking the back straight right now so no medway uh mustangs in this one huh yeah it kind of shows the depth of the dover sherman team that even in these middle distance events we got sometimes two or three heats of athletes to run through unbelievable there's more runners than there are fans here it's a scorcher i wouldn't want to be running the 400 that's for sure no you know luckily the shower came and cooled it down a bit but it still is a scorcher oh yeah i'll say all right we got a we've got a little race for uh first here between two teammates looks like uh number four is gonna come out at the end of this one wild five they're right about 65 by my watch uh-huh so you um you were a shot put thrower weren't you yeah well yeah back in the day i did a little bit of everything i used to run 400 hurdles and then i throw the javelin and the discus it's been a real privilege to be able to give back to the program that was so much fun and good competition in high school so i've been showing the kids javelin shop put in discus and working them through and you also coach your uh little brother johnny bennett huh yeah indoors that was a great opportunity johnny uh broke the 55-record which we were very proud of and now he is uh pursuing a lacrosse season much too much to my dismay but he's loving it he's having a good time so you know he made the right call yeah yeah really the whole family's been involved with track for a while my mom was uh the mid distance distance coach up until this past year when robert moser took over and my mom is still the [Music] indoor head coach of the boys and girls team and then my dad works with the linebackers in football so everyone's everyone's really involved in my sister of course back in the day was three sport runner as well so wow we're all about it at the bennett household much like your family with a commentary oh you know yeah we uh we get in there you know yeah what's your call for the next uh ds medford lacrosse game while we wait on these hurdles that's a good question my call is that ds is gonna win um but you know that game was very close last time sorry folks i meant to say we have the the women's 400 meters coming up and then we'll be at the 110 hurdles something to look for be luke law floyer will be trying to get a preliminary time in the 110 hurdles in order to qualify for the state pentathlon which will be coming up in two weeks so he needs to get a mark in every event which i believe he's done everything except the hurdles and the high jump because he already ran the mile in an impressive 5 15 for a big strong guy like luke and he long jumped i think a top 15 mark in the tvl despite that not really being his event and of course he's a good shot putter i think he threw uh 37 feet outdoors so far but he had a good 39 foot throw against uh um hopkinton indoors to win that one so he's just a real competitor we got the girls 400 meters coming down the back straight right now looking fast the only one mustang in between a sea of raiders here oh yeah pink shoes has a nice lead here it's about like 15 yards or so maybe 10 takes the corner yeah a lot of raiders right here bunched up fighting for it 48 through 300 meters it's a nice lead here for 242.

these athletes have participated in sports for four years and attended bhs and we're very committed to their teams this award is it goes to the person who is highly regarded as the best senior athlete and congratulations to zach drukas and kate mcgrath [Applause] the respectful athlete prevails scholarship a 500 scholarship donated by a member of the community there was application process this person had stamina to stand through any storm when life brought little their way they have the tenacity to triumph even in moments of great turbulence they are unshaken in moments of uncertainty congratulations to ariana moody and kate lintola the brookfield high school physical education department scholar chosen by the high school physical education teachers stephen chaffey congratulations to everybody i almost made it through an award ceremony without crying i'm michelle thank you mr baldwin i will i want to make sure i didn't really name the board members that are here and they gave up their nights i want to make sure other than dr burrell we have uh joy greenstein rosa fernandez that book deb brooks bob belden and amy foster here with us tonight between the uh stand-up show of mr hill uh mr baldwin giving away chick-fil-a money and almost crying like i i got nothing um but i do want to say to the parents out there um you know thank you for doing such a wonderful job with your children it is certainly my pleasure to be here uh every day to work with them and to see their faces and to be able to interact with them on a daily basis you may not have noticed something it was something really small um but i'm going to embarrass him but stephen trophy he was like it was his turn to get an award and he waited for the girl to go first and then let her go first so that is fantastic so um stephen yeah he's very proud of yourself you got a pin too soon right really yeah nice congratulations all right so on to uh this thing called the principal's awards i might know a little bit something about that so each year i do recognize two students that have proven themselves to be productive reliable and hardworking members of our school they are models for how we expect students to conduct themselves in school and the community it is my pleasure to present this year's brookfield high school's principal awards to emma sands and logan white thank you so logan actually works for the school like i'm pretty sure i'd give him the keys to my car if i needed to so all right moving on to the most improved student award how do i not give this right at this time i want to acknowledge a student's growth during this school year this particular student has become an independent he's advocates for himself and he puts forth so much effort in everything that he does he has become a great problem solver i just missed that smile so i got to get him up here one more time congratulations grady bamboo oh performer to the end i love it congratulations grady and then to a student that i will certainly um miss dearly um the bhs biggest heart award this student is kind empathetic always has a half energy about him and makes everyone around him smile i'm gonna miss him dearly next year so congratulations to nicholas santos come on up nikki [Applause] michelle i have to tell you it was the best this is the quote of the night shake nikki's hand i didn't shake his hand but i came he looks at me and says wait a minute the show's over nikki it's over you can go home thank you nicki all right so we have next up is the brookfield bobcat character for life scholarships so what qualities were considered when choosing the recipients of the bobcat character for life scholarship we look for students that possess a strong work ethic demonstrate exemplary citizenship consistently keep a positive attitude in our role models for their peers during their time at brookfield high school congratulations to alexa downs and sam weigle [Applause] sam you gotta have character if you're a red sox fan so can you notice how sam waited and logan now is going backwards waiting for emma he's gonna he's gonna think about that tonight says me tomorrow moving on to the fayetteville overheal overhaul memorial scholarships mrs fayette l overhaul was a former teacher in danbury and at western connecticut state university prior to her passing she established a charitable foundation to provide scholarships for area graduating high school seniors this is the 14th year brookfield high school students will receive this scholarship i am pleased to present the fayette l overhaul memorial scholarship in honor of high academic achievement just two students this year congratulations to izan khan and christina [Applause] at this time of year it's always important to make sure we pronounce names right so one of my favorite movies is elf you've probably seen it and uh he sits there in the office and he says francisco and that's how christina's uh told me to say her name was cisco francisco that's so i'm just thinking of welfare i was sitting in a full suit with a cup of coffee going francisco you really don't want to get in here it's scary so we have several awards to give from the united states marine corps the first one is the semper fidelis awards for musical excellence it is sponsored by the united states marine youth foundation a non-profit organization established to provide incentives for achievement in our nation's schools the foundation has provided an award for musical excellence for student musicians throughout the country this year's recipients are tara burns and ben maple [Applause] good job so next up is the united states marine corps athletic achievement award which are designed to recognize high school varsity athletes who display courage poise self-confidence and leadership on and off the field and who are also exemplary citizens and positive role models for younger students award recipients inspire others or display the greatest determination and will to win all of which are essential marine attributes this year's winners are haley carlusi and roy cafone um next up are the united states marine corps scholastic achievement awards the united states marine corps scholastic achievement award is designed to recognize noteworthy academic achievement and leadership in high school students nominees are exemplary young citizens and role models for their peers congratulations to grace hodginosto and ian bellis all right up next is a new scholarship this is the service academy reserve officer training course scholarships funded by the harteny family charity fund so this is for a student with an accepted appointment to a service academy or accepted into selection for any rotc program this year's particular recipient will be in the army national guard please join me in congratulating jenna de rossi congratulations brookfield threat of the arts the brookfield arts commission was chartered by the town of brookfield to engage in activities intended to promote understanding and appreciation of the arts encourage community participation in arts activities coordinate information concerning artists and the arts and to act as a liaison between artists schools and the community to engage in activities designed to encourage local artists there's a lot of art in that statement and demonstration of their talents and promote activities that both entertain and enlighten congratulations to i know this is the least surprising award jenna ross [Applause] i didn't want to have to make her walk all the way back around up next is the vhs choral award so this comes directly from mr lamendola this is what he wrote entering as a freshman in our general chorus from day one mr lamendola knew this singer had a special talent the natural track for a serious singer at bhs is to start with general chorus move to honor special chorus and audition for the elite group of chamber singers this was the course for our award winner who excelled and led the way in each choir always arts minded this student took advantage of all that bhs had to offer on stage as well as in the choir room performing in our fall and spring cabarets as well as our main stage musicals we want to thank her for her tireless dedication to our program and wish her well as she plans to attend eastern connecticut state university with a double major in music and psychology congratulations to anna tino yeah students i don't expect you to break out into a jogger and if you don't have to run up here this is your time take your time walk up i mean grady did slow walk us a little bit but you know take your time come on up and enjoy the process we're congratulating you so take your time so no rush okay next up is the vhs longmeadow player scholarship again from mr lamondola he shares in the fall of 2013 mr zlamondola held auditions for our bhs mainstage musical musical excuse me the sound of music the show had several children's roles and there were special auditions for brookfield students but they introduced uh sorry between the ages of 5 to 11.

congratulations all right we are very fortunate because we will we have a music department that's not just the one of the best in danbury i always say they're the best but they're one of the best in danbury um they are working with a group of our students and they're getting ready to perform a song called the middle and featured in there will be glenn anderson jacob amante and jaden fogo so boy guys if you told me we're going to take that long i would've like gave a little more intro but we're very proud of them and what they can do come on up gabe aiden come on jaden while they get set up i'll tell you a quick jaden story when jayden was in sixth grade sorry jayden jaden was in sixth grade and i went into his class and he was in an ela class and he had this t-shirt on that says leader of the pack and i said you know what that just defined this class leaders of the pack so jaden you thought it was going to be negative i had a good story whenever you guys are ready [Music] don't [Music] try everything you can and don't it just takes some time [Music] it just takes some time [Music] it just takes some [Music] will be time [Music] oh [Music] do everything you can [Applause] it just takes some fine time everything will be all right [Music] i told you they were the best nice job guys thank you so much and to our students did you hear that kid on the guitar glen anderson amazing and our drummer a lot of that came from our little kid rock program that we started in danbury and our kids got to play all different types of instruments so we're really proud of them now we're going to have the best part i'm going to call our assistant principles up ms rinaldi and miss parentagas and our guidance counselors mr dewanta well let me do it in order mrs paleyola hey mr dewant no miss rodriguez and mr dewanta and they're going to be doing the presentation of certificates this is the best part so okay good evening everyone my name is sheri prendergast i'm one of the assistant principals here and we are going to start with cluster 8 1.

he's gonna go he's gonna go first wait ready alberson eileen avila anuya elanky gonit body anna clara almeida jillian bieber alexander anderson darren bengett jayla and duhar jackson bach maria arnell charlotte bouffard ashton beach dominic burns cody benaway gisella bustamente [Music] haley capone dior carr justin castro brianna carvalho chavez benjamin celeski robert cole catherine chicaisa christopher cooney you're good you're good savannah cosquerella simon cordova nathan de silva kiera chambers daniel damato reynelle cruz akem diogun olivia chipkowski chloe jelani silvio d'angelo natalie duque joshua d'souza jacob encarnacion domain arabeira ex mighty's espinal leanne fernandez jeremy espinal daniela forshaw daniel fernandez sarah gallarza lillian gabriel patrick garcia kailyn garabo elizabeth getzei grace gibson andrew george xavier going eva george colin gordon ian goldschein nelson gray eric woe ashley gualpa kevin guzmayo mark guaman alex gutama eliana haddad chelsea guzman alexander hannan daniel guzman robert hernandez thomas morneau [Applause] david hirsch mia hatsis lindsey hollister michaela hunter reese layla howard kelsey ayorio carmen jacobs natalie jimenez krishna jacob joy wisela lopes bella karim sandro montero ethan kennedy isabella moran vidal caitlyn lamp manuela moran kayla lorenzo sofia marrera gabriel lopez cameron myrosky emily lopez gibbons ella narciso grace mariano maria nacimento nathan marufi nicholas ochoa addison michalek georgenik ordonez mayara morisse jeremy ortega sebastian morales eileen palomek fajardo melissa nepaman subhadra pisantes joao pedro nunez samuel ramirez diana ponza dante rivera christian podi gabrielle roberts larry red rebound angie sanchez alexia ribeiro larissa rodriguez [Music] beatrice robero matthew rodriguez delaney rodriguez de leon anya roman jenna saltzman jaylene sanchez natalie schmidt maria clara santos jackson seguenza ashley sarcino kellen silva derek bear schoenberg mariana silva adam schrag giovanni smirglio hannah tartaglia sia surivasav elise marie tavares allison suarez castro elijah taylor [Music] dashell swift sarah taylor [Music] caitlyn taylor david thomas michelle uzaka sophia toledo perez william valley sydney turner olivia vaz natalie vargas yasmari vasquez jason velasella angel velastegui sarah waters ray neal walker caitlyn zeloski jason white melanio zapata zinay williams cody zoo braden wolfe so i'll take her card she'll read evan wolf diana atrey oh am i stopping now did you read nonsense i did nandan alahari diana atreya shane barton i don't know who this is jeremy barretto sadie bates james bennett peyton brown lucas califano leslie castro zoe faith canada jeremy diaz jules dalstrom v drong kieran edwards [Applause] [Music] kyle jeffers delvin florentino nope kyle florentino vivian lynn sarah giusto [Music] annabelle maichinso colton kitridge elian mercado gutierrez allison lazzaro rosales daniel millen alexandria neighbor clara rodriguez [Applause] amanda phillip [Applause] anderson swakanala shang hunter poonsie evan sarajeva gary pribisky jason schmidt karen rivas anna stratitus marianna sousa ariel villa selina stevens eileen valeda william talbot warren webster and isabella valenzuela thank you let's have a big round of applause for the class of 2021.

um by the time we get to roll call hopefully everybody will have logged in so i need to go through my spiel and i'll start that then right now uh so it is june 8th at 6 02 pm and i'm calling this meeting to order my name is john mursky and i am participating from my home here in ann arbor uh welcome to our meeting this evening electric electronic meeting of the energy commission this virtual meeting is to affect social distancing and to mitigate the spread of the kovit-19 virus we will conduct this meeting similarly to in-person meetings commissioners please remain on camera just as you would be visible during in-person meetings also mutual microphones when not speaking public comment will be via telephone only to speak during any of the public comment opportunities please call one of the following toll-free numbers 888-788-0099-487-853-5247 and enter meeting id number [Music] 913-57834502 by the way these numbers remain the same for the entire year for the energy commission meetings this information along with two local diamond numbers is also available on the published agenda in the public notices section of the city website on the broadcast of this meeting on ctn channel 816 which is att channel 99 and online at www.a2gov.org backslash watch ct end so missy would you please read the landing acknowledgement yeah absolutely chairman thank you i acknowledge that the land the city of ann arbor occupies is the ancestral traditional and contemporary lands of the anishinabe including the ottawa ojibway and otawatomi as well as lined up peoples i further acknowledge that our city stands like almost all property in the united states our lands obtained generally in unconscionable ways from indigenous peoples the taking of this land was formalized by the treaty of detroit in 1807.

i went over to the ann ashley parking roof deck and got some other pictures of it because you can see it a little bit better from there and that's when i discovered there's also a solar water heater on the county office buildings there they supplied me with this picture of the water heater on their building that provides hot water to their office building fire station number one has solar energy on it that's right across the street from the police and courts building from the parking structure you can see it it looks just like that what it is is a solar water heating system that was built in 2007 to heat the shower and wash water this is uh the firemen live here shower here everything and they really like hot water for washing the fire trucks off in the winter this is a picture of it during its construction this is a very famous picture that was put in the national planning magazine and came within inches of being the cover picture for planting magazine one month but what happened was the crane that was supposed to lift these collectors to the roof didn't show up and they ended up using the ann arbor ladder truck to raise these collectors to the roof of that building then we got a grant from the state and hired the hands-on museum to build an exhibit inside their museum to talk about how this water heater works and and whatever it had a real-time readout on temperatures of the water in the storage tanks and at the collectors a very nice exhibit city hall actually has three separate solar energy systems on it totaling 810 square feet on the police and courts and another 520 square feet on the offices that were built in 2010.

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their commitment to their academics their passion for their cte program involvement in their community and for the leadership they have demonstrated over the past four years i would like to offer my congratulations to tonight award recipients at this time i would like to call mr baecelli to the podium [Applause] good evening our first scholarship of the night is the cumberland county vocational technical education association scholarship this 250 scholarship is intended for a student who contributes a great deal to his or her school environment but who rarely achieves a claim for his or her contributions a scholarship will be awarded to someone who has worked diligently in the classroom and in the shop has participated in and contributed to both academic and career classes and to someone who in a teacher's instructor's eyes has had a positive impact on the school and the people within this year's recipients are sachira matias feliciano and aleyla watson congratulations i would now like to introduce mr mr spatola to present the aaron j pierce scholarship [Applause] good evening the aaron j pierce scholarship was established to offer one thousand dollars in scholarship to a senior who is choosing to pursue a career in automotive industry is involved in their community and school and has demonstrated skill and mastery of academic success this scholarship is in memory of my friend aaron j pierce aaron was a mechanic for most of his life for many years and he had a huge passion for helping others including friends and family and an even bigger passion for cars we would like to present this award to alexander or falls [Applause] [Music] [Applause] thank you mr spatola congratulations alex i would now like to introduce miss pierce to present the gina pierce memorial scholarship [Applause] gina pierce was a member of the bridgeton exchange club while working as the coordinator of the culinary arts department here at scarpa tech this award was created in honor having served as a respected member of the exchange club and her love of skarpat the family of gina pierce donated money to make these awards possible this year the recipients of this award are students enrolled in the culinary arts program and will be pursuing post-secondary studies or have secured employment in the field this year's recipients are jazzani lopez cassidy cope ariana mercado and marissa tyrell [Applause] [Music] okay [Applause] thank you miss pierce and congratulations ladies the cumberland county retirees education association is awarding a 900 scholarship designated for a student pursuing a career in education students wishing to become a classroom teacher school nurse school counselor school social worker or other certified positions in the field of education eligible for this scholarship this year's recipient is joy acelta [Applause] congratulations [Applause] [Music] the mars river 100 mars river township scholarship is designated for a student who graduated from mars river township elementary school this year's recipient is prateek malati [Applause] okay the tech student services team is awarding two 250 dollar scholarships the recipients demonstrated great resolve throughout their high school experience this year's recipients are abigail moore and fernando mendoza chavez [Applause] i would now like to introduce miss valerie james of the christian rotary club to present richton rotary club scholarship [Applause] good evening everyone on behalf of the bridgeton rotary club i'd like to announce that one thousand dollars bridgeton scout bridgeton rollery scholarship is for a student who exemplifies citizenship academic achievement leadership and one who will utilize a scholarship to help continue at a college or university the student must be a senior who is currently an elected class officer or a student council officer this year's recipient is melody mercado [Applause] i would now like to introduce miss jeanette bachma to the stage to present the hero scholarship [Applause] on november 18th of 2015 pepe tragada a 39 year old husband and father free suffered from sudden cardiac arrest by playing a kids versus parents soccer game because of quick action taken by other parents at our field and emergency responders only minutes away he survived this tragic event immediate cpr and the use of an aed is what ultimately saved pepe's life this is how the heroes foundation was born since 2016 our foundation has been able to donate over 70 aed's to nonprofit sporting groups we've also donated over thirteen thousand dollars in scholarships the hero scholarship was established to offer scholarships to a graduating senior from scotland tech who is pursuing a career in the health care field this year we are awarding two scholarships a 500 scholarship to jocelyn jones [Applause] and a fifteen hundred dollar scholarship to elena marie so [Applause] the new italy american society was established in 1905 in an area of island known still today as new italy charles k landis intended this area to be used for farmland and attracted experienced grape growers from italy by establish establishing the first italian language newspaper in the u.s because of this many italian and sicilian immigrants arrived in east vineland thus giving the area the name new italy the society is a non-profit organization consisting of members from diverse backgrounds and given the area's history of hardworking individuals members of the new italy american society wish to support a student who shows strong interest and skills in their trade the organization awards two 250 dollar scholarships for students in the automotive construction trades or welding programs this year's recipients are connor green and austin ditzel [Applause] so [Applause] the italian american benevolent association is providing multiple awards of a thousand dollars to students whose judgment courtesy generosity and compassion to fellow students best exemplifies the principles of moral courage brotherhood service and good conduct before announcing our recipients i would like to recognize the representative of the italian american benevolent association in the audience tonight mr pete schifflaglio please stand [Applause] thank you sir this year's recipients of this scholarship are trinity benadi ronald barnaby jose chanez ronald francischini colin green [Applause] sam hand elena murray [Applause] luke vastano [Applause] and jason wheeler [Applause] congrats [Applause] i would now like to introduce miss stephanie pierce co-president of the seabrook chapter of the jacl to present the japanese american citizens league award and the governor ralph carr courage and character scholarship [Applause] my name is stephanie pierce and i'm pleased to be here with you today representing the japanese american citizens league founded in 1929 the jacl works to secure and maintain civil rights and to promote cultural educational and social values jacl recognizes the importance of developing future leaders and in support of that goal we are proud to present two awards today the seabrook jacl ralph carr scholarship colorado governor ralph carr was a passionate defender of civil rights for all americans believing in equality and justice for all displaying the same courage and fortitude as well as being an outstanding student i'm proud to present the 2021 ralph carr scholarship 2.

after retiring from the police department he started a second career as a classroom aide at cc tech where he was employed until his passing in 2014. lieutenant marx was an active member and former treasurer of pba local number 94 and prior to becoming a police officer was a bridgeton volunteer firefighter lieutenant marx continues to be loved and missed by his family friends and colleagues this year's law enforcement scholarship of 500 is presented to a law enforcement student who has shown leadership and academic excellence in their program the selected student has shown a desire to pursue a career in law enforcement and will be attending college this year's recipient is millie martinez sosa [Applause] our second law enforcement scholarship the law enforcement director's award of 500 dollars is sponsored by sheriff robert alstino and miss kathy austino sheriff faustino retired from the vineland police department and was elected sheriff of cumberland county in 2009 sheriff faustino is an avid supporter of the scarborough tech's law enforcement program and was honored with skarpatek's business partner of the year in 2014.

to call this meeting to order and we'll start with the pledge of allegiance and i've asked megan penrod to lead us 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 all for being here i'd like to excuse excuse me excuse margaret gabby board member today she had a child graduating from high school and she felt like she need i mean a grandchild graduating from high school i think her kids are older than that but she didn't want to miss that so we excuse her for that i think uh miss barrymore jennifer brimhall is probably on her way she should be here soon first item on the agenda return over to you dr wright is donations to blue ridge school district yes sir uh the pine top senior citizens uh senior rather has donated 149 dollars big lots donated 500.

any questions in regard to that chuck and the entire cost of this is being paid out of this grant yes yes that's correct okay uh any further questions comments or anything and we have a motion for item 3.4 a motion from diana a second from chuck all in favor that would also be unanimous okay item 3.5 recommendation to review and approve the northern arizona council of government's lease agreement nacogog reviewed that dr right you want to explain what that is and what that means to us yes this is part of a head start program the board approved two years ago we've been having an ongoing program for that time i believe just recently this past 12 months the facilities have been updated to incorporate additional two classrooms and so i believe we have four in total and so this lease agreement the the consideration for the lease is in the equipment and the playground equipment and the remodel of the classroom facilities we don't charge them rent for that and we provide this service as a program for those children in our area that need additional supports so when they leave we keep those improvements yes sir okay uh if i recall when i read that lease um i thought it said there were five classrooms that they were using it could be i two or three we've added i i couldn't remember if we started with three or two so that makes sense believe it was five yeah okay then that would be that whole the left side that used to be the kindergarten program i believe in the multi-purpose building that is the old elementary school all right so any further questions or anything on 3.5 if not can we have a motion to vote emotion from chuck in a second all in favor that also passed item 3.6 6.

all right we're live okay uh so sing a presence of a quorum called to order the meeting of the policy subcommittee of the regional school committee um at 605 pm on wednesday june 9th and uh i guess we should we need to take roll call attendance um carrie i carry a present debbie debbie present and allison present um we have oops sorry i need to download and then go back to the agenda separately sorry um do we have minutes to approve we do did i don't remember if i sent the minutes or not i made the minutes but i probably forgot to email them to you okay so no minutes to um no minutes to approve tonight um but the uh first item that we are reviewing is the draft of the proposed policy um for a vendor diversity and commitment to that diversity i should say and i wonder since that we haven't shared that i can share that on screen so that if anybody's watching it they can see it and i need to make sure it's gotten oh there window okay because it's like i don't want to share my whole screen okay there are you seeing the word duck i am okay i'll add it to the stream do you want me to show just the document so it's larger for people or do you want to stay on the screen um we can stay on the screen okay you'd be weird if people see just the document you know um i can make the words bigger though let me okay okay so this um the the request was um from our assistant superintendent dorian cunningham was to create a policy that requires contractors and vendors to share the same commitment to diversity and inclusion and equity that the district does so this is the draft that um debbie thank you very much for doing the research for us to review i don't know if it would be helpful for me to share my thinking on how i put the draft together that would be great okay um i apologize one of my dogs has decided to bark so that'll be in the background but i took the opening paragraph the language is um almost directly from policy acb which is our affirmative action on cultural diversity policy um that particular policy um i think gets toward what we're wanting to do with our vendors um from there i used language that is already in existence in some of our documents that we use when we requesting vendors to put in bids so the bullet points um the first bullet point comes from that and then the second bullet point i just based on what i know to be our goal in the district so that's it thank you for putting this together debbie i'm sorry i said you're welcome but i'm muted because of my job i'm going to um pull out of the stream for a moment and go let her out of her crate and then i will be right back okay sorry i'm just reading do do you have any um i'm just wondering oh good perfect timing [Music] i don't feel like i have any um ads i think this is um so yes thank you thank you debbie for for doing this work and um and pulling that in i think that that approach of pulling in from the um what we put into our rfps or ifbs um makes perfect sense um and if this strikes me as in line with the spirit of doreen's request as well yeah i don't have any changes to suggest i think it's likely doreen or the committee the larger committee will have ideas of ways to modify or change it but i mean this seems like a really great starting point and thanks yeah well now i apologize for the drinking in the background okay super quiet but if you'd like um i could share this with doreen tomorrow at work ask her to go over it see if she has any suggestions that she would like us to include before we turn it over to the full committee but um i have a feeling she'll probably be pretty happy with it i think it incorporates most of what she's looking for but of course she may have ideas that i'm not thinking of so i'm happy to share it with her tomorrow great next step and are there any legal implications here where we'd want to hey run it by anybody outside of uh like i'm thinking about the mark terry's and well i spoke to doug slaughter he's the one who gave me the language for bullet point one from our ifbs and he suggested that once we have something finalized before we send it to the full committee we send it to mark terry just to make sure that we're not stepping on any legal problems um he didn't think if doug didn't think it would be a problem he thought that this could easily be added into everything that we send out right now it's only in the ifbs but he said it should be in rfps and everything that we do and he didn't see a problem okay okay so our next steps on this will be um that uh debbie will share this with dorian um for her input um and pending that edit um we can incorporate it i think at the end of our meeting today we can talk about whether we want to meet once more um before the meeting on the 29th um no because this is not being on the meeting um there's there's no way that we'll be able to get it in for the 29th because um the the regionals my only question was if we want to have a first read for the school committee on the 29th or if we want to wait for a first read for the school committee until when we reconvene in the fall so we can circle back on that afterward um anything more on this one so the other items we had was other um welcome steven um i've been watching for quite a while did you have any are you um so if you've been watching do you have any comments on the policy that we that i was just sharing on the screen i do not okay i'm sorry if you were were down there and i didn't see you i'm distracted by my very loud and obnoxious dogs yeah i got to watch you walk away and go uncrate your dog i'm sorry i did miss you for a long time excellent um so we we also had um on our agenda to talk about um any policy referrals coming out of that um last regional meeting so the that one would be the subcommittee policy um and i had shared ahead of time a first proposal that is not i is i just took stab based on sort of the conversation that we had at the at the regional meeting there's no um i know we haven't had a chance to talk about it but i thought it might be easier to help us get started so let me just share that screen do you see that um debbie uh yes no i do i'm so sorry there we go so um this is our um current policy bdes on subcommittees um and in the green are the edits that that i started with as as a starting point to suggestion for modification um based on the masc reference policy i think also in my notes actually i'm going to move this so that i can see it myself um so i used to google me not um stream yard okay i made it too big on my screen so now i can't see it okay okay um in the in my comments on the side i think i i link to some of the um reference policies no i didn't but um that might have been in the other one so the first suggestion the the um uh again marked in green is in the first paragraph to right-size this policy to be just sub-committees of the school committee and create a separate policy for advisory committees and task force um and then the other thing that in the reference policy and then when i look at sort of other districts around the state and the online policy manuals most all of them actually spell out that it's a one-year appointment um if it's a standing subcommittee and we reappoint every year it's it's more of a formality um but i do think that it might be helpful for us to sort of codify that um in policy and the other change so in the first bullet is just again pulling out task force and pulling that in into a separate separate policy um our policy gave all authority to the chair um whereas the reference policy as well as most other districts say that it's actually subject to approval of the committee and i feel like that's we do that anyway so um i feel like that's important in case there's in case i decide to go rogue um you guys can um do that and then the other the other clarification here is just is to pull out that the subcommittees um are subcommittees of school committee and membership as school committee members and then again creating that sort of clarity that a subcommittee of school committee members and then the advisory committee policy would be um would have sort of broader membership directives or possibilities um and then the other thing that the reference policy calls out in specific is is really if there are standing subcommittees to include them and list them here um some districts include it in their just general subcommittee policy others have a separate policy that lists what the standing subcommittees are since we have close to 200 policies i'd be inclined to just keep it within this one versus adding another policy um so i just took language that i've seen in other um i think belchertown was one um that other districts sort of just saying there are forums standing subcommittees that remain in place until the annual reorganization meeting i pulled this these poli these subcommittees from our subcommittee spreadsheet as well as the description that's in those and one of the questions that i had also that i think is worth having the conversation at our full committee meeting is um to consider adjusting these to be a little bit more clear about what our what the committee the full committee expects from our subcommittees our standing subcommittees so as an example in other when you look at other districts when they're describing the budget subcommittee some say that the budget subcommittee actually reviews the annual budget our practice and the in our committee is that the whole committee reviews the budget and and weighs in we don't we don't delegate that necessarily exclusively to the subcommittee so some specifically call that out and don't even have a budget subcommittee others will have a budget subcommittee and the role that for the budget subcommittee is to work on the manage and create the timeline um for the overall budget process um including budget hearings and community um presentations um an engagement and sort of just managing that as opposed to being the responsible group for the reviewing um so that was that was one idea um sort of like that would be worth discussing um the policy committee is is no different that's not one that i would saw as ours being unique and different from other um districts the superintendent evaluation is one that it's a little bit different if you look at other districts they call it something else i'm not saying like i don't know that we need to call it something else but in addition to developing the guidelines the instrument and the timeline they also have the responsibility of proposing goals for the superintendent so starting at the beginning of the year managing the goal setting process as well as the evaluation process so that was another one that i wanted us to consider there so i'm done talking carrie so i had a couple of reactions to the draft the first one is just um i i like i'm not against the change where we say that it's only school committee members but i'm looking around the virtual table and i see debbie she's not a school committee member so but i've always really valued her participation on the committee her knowledge especially institutional knowledge that she brings to the to the to the table so i guess i i'm thinking i i don't i'm realizing also that i'm on officially you know i i think i'm on all of the standing committees yeah i it's i'm not i'm not a huge fan of that um as we talk about um anyways so but but i do have some thoughts on so so that's one thing but then i did have if you scroll down to the committees i so i will say like when i was on the budget subcommittee with um sean mangano as the as the finance director we we did actually function where we'd meet prior to any budget hearing and we'd go over all of the materials it wasn't that so in the same way that the policy committee reviews the policy documents and then they get reviewed you know we're not the ones making the decisions and but we did actually meet with sean and we'd go over the documents and i think what happened was there was a change in finance directors at the same time the pandemic hit and the practices have have shifted over time so i don't know that our budget committee has functioned that much differently than um always i guess some of these like changes that have happened have been related to changes in personnel and changes and you know brought around by the pandemic um but and then again the audit piece i do think that i remember like meeting with the auditor as a member of the budget subcommittee um and we also have opeb which i'm also the chair i so that's another kind of sub thing out of the budget so i don't know if it's worth i'd be happy to like think through and flush out some of these standing ones a little bit more um and i'm open to kind of thinking through but i do i don't know if it's worth codifying the the the balance but it does seem kind of funny that i sit on all of these standing ones and i'm sure there are some anyway i i think we should codified like the annual you were asking the question about the annual revision of like looking at it and i think it is worth doing that annually to think about who's on which committees yeah it was a bit rambling but those are my my big reactions otherwise i think it makes a lot of sense what i'm thinking because i my understanding debbie is is actually the delegate of the superintendent as opposed to um and so and i think that's based off of um this this line that says committee chair and superintendent are ex-officio members of all subcommittees so i think we could sort of just spell that out and say that the committee chair and superintendent or their delegate i like that um because i i agree like and especially with the policy subcommittee it's important to have right i think and with the budget subcommittee you're going to have to have the finance director there right well they're there but are they a member oh that's true that's true um now the the one other thing too i am glad you brought up the opeb and and the audit because as i was going through our spreadsheet it's called our subcommittee spreadsheet and we talk about them as subcommittees and yet a lot of them are appointments or representatives or you know job like roles that we play and so i do i do think that it might be helpful for us to separate those out and sort of really be clear this is a subcommittee and that as we're delete this the committee is delegating the work of the committee to these groups to sort of progress them in between our meetings and then there's advisory committees and task forces that have a specific purpose and then there's appointments or you know um roles or liaisons that that we're required to and that's that's separate but they're not they're not subcommittees necessarily so that might be where like that's where cpac or bpac or um jlmsc or negotiations um you know there are there are representatives at the table for those particular meetings or um the collaborative education the um i had the question about the audit because in our spreadsheet it says that the chairs do that role but i i i mean i haven't been chair for very long but i didn't play that role um this this year or last year so that's what i wasn't really sure so i'm wondering if that actually the way you described that carry if that's actually part of the budget subcommittee i mean it was pre-pandemic i just remember meeting with sean as part of the budget committee and having the document shared with us and the findings i don't think eric was there so i don't know if you're still using the same spreadsheet that's the one i created um yeah okay if it is it's becau i put chairs there because that's what had been happening in the past um when i was asked to create the spreadsheet they asked me to list all the member the state the current members of the committee at that time and up to that point it had always been the chairs just meeting with the finance director to do the audit so i don't think there was any um i don't think it's codified that it has to be the chair i think they had just been volunteering to do it up to that point well part of the part of that too was that our friend trevor felt like he needed to go to every single sub community meeting and be on them so that's how that happened so um so i mean obviously these are decisions that the full committee will make um but just like thinking like do we want to propose that it's that it's a budget and audit subcommittee and combine those since it sounds like that aligns with some past practice sounds like we haven't we've depending on who's on the committee and who's in the finance office it it it varies um we don't have a consistent way so we could propose i would say whichever way makes no sense i think that makes sense personally i don't see why not yeah and see do you really only have three then the other ones like i said were um oh well so this is this is the the question mark right is then does um there was one called the data trends subcommittee that i think is dissolved um though it hasn't really officially been dissolved but that um uh that would be that's the only other one that's actually a subcommittee as opposed to there's representatives from the committee that are participating in another committee or another thing so that would be negotiations that had been listed as a negotiation subcommittee um jlmsc wasn't there um on that list because i was using the last one and then i forgot to include that but that would be another example of like yeah there's a that's a there's a standing appointment but it's not really a subcommittee and those were the only two um uh sctf was the other one and they think it's sort of in that one um just from conversations with the current co-chairs of that the desire is to keep that as sort of an advisory committee with sort of with membership beyond the the school committee members only so that's why that's not here yeah the so the the data trends subcommittee that was that was rick hood that was really pushing that one and really since he left we really haven't had any data that we can oh oh you got muted oh i got muted we have nothing going on that we can trend the data not even the this the high school and their yeah and i think that that's something that we can talk about as a committee and it struck me as that might be one that becomes an advisory committee just the sort of the way it was described was to create sort of that process um what do what do we think about proposing the superintendent evaluation committee to encompass also the goal setting or do we want to keep that i think in the past couple years it's been the chair it's interesting i'm looking at the list on the masc and they have the personnel and policy subcommittee um i do anyway i was just it's funny to see how other places do it because it looks like masc rolls the evaluation into the the policy one we could have even just two um i i think i don't know i kind of like how it's worked i mean in the past i'm not i don't i don't i guess part of me is like if it's not broke don't fix it yeah like if there's a reason to do it i think that makes that like i'd be happy to bring the question to the full committee and people have an issue with how it's been going in the past but otherwise it kind of like the way it's i mean i know somebody must be working with the superintendent to set those initial goals but i feel like it's actually been a fairly generative process where we all get together and talk it out yeah yeah really um sorry i was gonna say i i agree and of course it's the makeup of our current committee but we are a committee that that we all like to dig into a lot of these topics and and and collaborate on them so i i do feel like there's there's certain certain things that do take a chunk of time outside of the committee to do the work and progress the work in between committee meetings and that's sort of where i went and and yet there's so much that the full committee does like to discuss and and deliberate because i you see some some committees are really designed that their subcommittees are where the business is happening and that the full committee meetings are more report outs and and approvals as opposed to deliberation and i don't see that as a fit with our our personality is a committee so debbie sorry no that's fine i was just going to say i think doing setting the goals with the chairs ensures that the pelham school committee the amherst school committee and the regional school committee are all going to be represented equally in setting the goals and it gives those other committees an opportunity to talk through with the superintendent if they have goals specific to their committees so to me that's why it makes sense for it to be the chairs doing that initial part yeah good point [Music] any other thoughts on the edits here the only thing i just thought of was something stephen said the other night about the policy subcommittee having a representative from another policy the evaluation committee having representatives from each district and i i wasn't even aware of that but it seems like for the reasons debbie just um brought up it might be good to put that make that explicit so there's people remember that because i don't know where that's written i'll keep your money for two more years before i'm done i'm just trying to say membership is the prize yeah that whole thing came about after we met with the msac rep for about four hours one night and when went over all of the how how poorly we were actually doing on our superintendent evaluations because people were doing their own nobody was following the rules we didn't even know what the rules were so that's how this thing came apart and then it was audra gracinski and emily marriott that really i mean he spent hours on this thing putting it together yes they did okay i do wonder i wonder if we should have sort of a a statement here that says each subcommittee should have representatives from more than one member town just just to avoid it being all amherst does that happen at all i'm trying to think of like the budget's pretty well balanced you're right that we do have um yep the one thing i would say there though is part of it always depends on the makeup of the committee and if you have a committee that's really collegial and wants to make sure all the towns are represented that's great but if you end up with a committee that say there's a chair who for some reason wants to freeze out one of the towns that chair would not be required by this policy to make sure that all the towns are represented um so that would be my only concern about not including language around equal representation yeah because i wonder if that um would help like i mean this is different this is saying that there needs to be four four members of the evaluation subcommittee versus but i do think like you know i remember what if we should state it as a goal rather than a record i'm just thinking about um like i'm thinking i don't want to make steven have to be on every single subcommittee because he's the only representative yeah that's that's the other problem you the for leopard and shoots berry their representatives would be terribly overworked and i think they already have uh sometimes you know this is already like the region as i guess it is for us too but um i forgot who made the comment the other day but just the sense that they felt like volunteering for me being on the region was service enough to their right right and that's true you're right about that that as a regional member they are part of the whole body so they're representing their talents in that way what's funny for me is i feel like i'm a member of the regional school community in the shootsbury school committee because we meet once a month for 45 minutes is more like a subcommittee [Music] it is fun though being the one rep from a town because i'm being hammered now because there is that growing it i think it's about 120 votes now it's not enough to push them over the top but they really are pushing for that 100 statutory and they're all mad at me because i'm sticking to the 55 and 65.

this uh announcement sorry i'm getting feedback here folks [Applause] all right so anyways let me try this again our bella bard bartle the sophomore emily landry out of medway the junior alexander martinovich the sophomore out of dover sherburne senior merritt sullivan dover sherburne and isabella play some music later on sweet i just have to um man are we gonna record some time for the team real quick so i just gotta write these down uh i'll probably up oh after of the ten hurdles right here it's like halfway through i'll come up sweet thank you all right and the stream is up here too now ds won the first one that was brit to win that one and now we're getting ready for the women's 400 hurdle [Music] [Applause] girls 400 turtles off and they are 100 meters second call please be at the start boys 100 meter followed by girls please be at the start and looks like medway's in the lead here with diaz well diaz just took the lead at the same time here we go that's one [Applause] one in two spots here they are flying [Applause] and as the turn comes they're still in the lead here midway looks like they're picking up a little steam trying to get um they're fighting for second here medway takes the second place spot is going for first and does she took the lead real quick [Applause] merit took the lead oh man this is a photo finish here folks and diaz wins it a minute and 10 seconds since they don't have names on their jerseys or numbers i don't know which one won but congrats to you at the start boys 100 girls 100 meter on deck alright so boys mile first call please check in on the table boys smile girls mile please check out the table first call it is so hot up here folks let me tell you that [Applause] i'm not even running and i'm sweating like a pig up here this is pandemonium folks so much going on at once makes doing sports look easy filming them and broadcasting i mean we're hoping to have fitzy join us in the booth in just a few races here [Applause] oh first call girl shot put first call girl shot put boys 100 last call please be at the start boys 100 girls 100 on deck the boys 100 here i believe last call girls discus last call girls discus as a reminder if it starts thundering or lightning we will go to the gym okay so in case of thunder and lightning i don't know if you heard this they will bring it to the gym i believe this is the men's 100 meter right now we got zach jaffe from dover-sherburn freshman eric lindstrom from medway the junior nick rinaldi the senior from dover-sherburne everyone knows and loves that guy we got the junior connor gilmore from medway dover sherburne alexander versa sophomore and luke armpits uh from medway he's a sophomore they're off look at this they are booking it now i think that's nick in the lead right here absolute monster and he wins it and that looked like it was like 10 or 11 seconds very impressive showing from nick rinaldi second call boys and girls smile literally i'm looking for this women's 100 meter we got caroline gillette here oh no this is men's again apologies what is going on with this roster oh here we go um emily oh no that's like sorry folks this is kind of confusing i just have someone else's phone with the roster on it it's all i don't know which ones all right look at this bunch of ds players racing each other here and oh that was some speedy stuff there finished in 13 seconds i think the one on the far left won that one goes 100 meters anyone listening up here that wants to come and announce feel welcome to do so i will not i'll not bite you believe it or not this is my first experience watching one of these events all right here we go more dias racing each other look at this guy in the second lane there flying he's way ahead of everybody and oh he got it in uh 12 or 13 seconds boys and girls one mile please check in at the table and be ready for the start oh diaz has some speedy people out here [Applause] first call 4x100 boys and girls please check them at the table and here comes the girls ready to race here okay women's 100 meter if i can find this roster here [Applause] all right look at this looks like medway's in the lead right now hit the one and two get the one and two here and medway's gonna win this race finishes in 13 seconds speedy speedy [Applause] hoping the weather can hold off here yes and the girls are getting ready to run boom and they're off this is all ds racing against each other here the ds girl is in the lead right here in that fourth lane [Applause] oh and i was in the way sorry about that hey ds wins that one oh and thank goodness here's fitzy everyone knows and loves this guy here he is hey guys this is uh senior captain steve fitzpatrick speaking just uh just got told if i could officiate a little bit 400 meters yeah this is my thoughts in here you know right now we're doing the uh girls 100 meter see a lot of ladies in blue there that's great second call girl shot put second call girl shot put we got raiders and lands three sorry i'd do a quick photo up i got raiders in lane three four five and six then we on two and one gun just went off let's see we got lane two taking a pretty early lead yeah she's hauling oh she's hustling no competition there raiders will be in second and third but uh yeah that's like two all the way once you get the guys going let's say a little bit more got some raiders going down the stretch here lanes two three four and five tight race here they have a three-way between lane two three and four oh they're hauling to the end yeah they are neck and neck there really going at it let's see all that hard work paying off this is our last regular scene you know really seeing all the all the hard work start to pay off here boys and girls mile together got uh one last heat here got a raider in uh lane two some midway guys in three and four another raider in lane five next boys and girls last call see mr garrett out there helping out with the blocks he's been a champ all season long sick overall great guy great coach very knowledgeable unsung hero yeah big mit guy really yeah he ran there i'm gonna separate the mic a little bit so i can cheer let's go raiders four by one acres four by one anchors go blue yeah blue is way up yeah we got some blue in the lead oh yeah lane five she just stole that race please be ready love to hear this just love to see the raiders out here you know really shine all their hard work yeah seriously you know that's what i love about track and field man it's just such a passionate sport where all your work just directly goes into the uh your outcome it's a beautiful thing to see oh we'll be running together the boys and girls smile being ran together they've been there together great to see that does that usually happen yeah it's good for feminism oh that's great just uh overall great you know absolutely saves time saves equality so are they racing each other is it still men against men and women against women i still men against men and women against women but you know last there was actually there's no to me the snoring go man she was like she almost won the whole thing wow she was insane so i was like good to see that cool opportunity you guys catching any uh cool highlights yet um yeah we have actually we took a nice picture of you that we posted right on the story really well i'm gonna take a look at that if anyone who's a student athlete could please grab their masks and head to the gym there's thunder please grab your mouth got some thunder calls going on here oh god some booze from the crowd [Applause] boo yeah i see some some grounds here as we head out to the uh head out to the locker room [Applause] not sure what we'll be going yeah so um yeah what's the scoop with that like um if so there's this talk of thunder but it's all talk come on like get real there's christian there walking by total alpha yeah you can tell by strad oh yeah [Music] all right take a little bit intermission here due to the weather inclements arriving but you know what think about these guys they've been working all season long you know a lot of perseverance with this whole pandemic you know these guys are tough i'll tell you that and a little bit of rain a little bit of thunder it seemed like they thought that was they were still practicing still running oh yeah just fine-tuned machines out here uh-huh for sure for sure well we will take a little break and uh hopefully we'll get you back uh in the booth and uh we'll be able to continue here for sure you know what uh how long it's gonna take i have no idea i gotta zoom at six oh gosh i'm muted all rights okay we are unmuted here we're getting ready to start the mile the men and the women are both going to be running it at the same time yeah so there was a little bit of thunder a little bit of lightning a little bit of rain not too much and it has paused so let's hope that we can finish this event boys and girls mile last call starting in a minute and a half all right starting in a minute and a half here for my 100 meter boys and girls make sure you check into the table you're on deck boys and girls 400 meter please check into the table first call 400 meter and they're off let's see here i remember when i ran my mile it was in middle school and uh yeah it was really hard i think i finished in like eight minutes not not too impressive but that was my first mile i'm expecting these kids to do it in a lot less time i'm guessing the best smile will probably be in the low sixes high fives but we'll see and yeah diaz has the two lead spots so far a lot of running left though and for ds women um ds is winning that one too all right here we go a couple kids flying down now great pace both in that number one lane [Music] [Applause] [Music] all right [Applause] i don't see any medway ladies running the mile here interesting well look at that lead there for diaz he is just they're boys and girls 400 meters waiting at the table four by 100 meter boy you guys are up next scrolls on deck look at that lead it's about i would say it's like 30 yards in front i'm hoping fitzy comes back here soon and helps me with my announcing duty here all right look at this lead this kid is flying i yeah i'm guessing that's owen because everyone's calling his name so owen just with a great lead here [Applause] yeah some nice uh cheering going on from the raiders in the field there wow this guy's like 50 i like wow he's 60 yards in the lead here that's owen from the other ds player in second place there unbelievable and he's taking the turn i think this might be his third lap do you know he's finishing his third here a mile is four laps boys 4 by 100 you're up next boys 4 by 100.

there you go i think that's zoey and then we got fielding coming through in 66 67 and they hold on to the one two and three and they do wow big sweep that's a feel-good sweep right there against the good divisional team medway yeah big league rivals sorry boys 110 meter hurdles so um did a long jump or something that was like a record is that true yeah that's yeah right on um he broke the long jump record earlier at uh this year meet the previous record was held by diaz track legend spencer robbins since ben re-broke his own record at our last duel meet here at home with a great leap of 22 feet and one inch wow absolutely massive ladies and gentlemen at home just think about that how difficult and challenging it would be to jump 22 feet especially a guy with a big strong frame like his football linebacker basketball that is very impressive there if you didn't hear over emily nick rinaldi jumped 22 22.1 oh 22 feet and one inch right yeah so we'll see what he can manage today and he'll also be over at the shot put um and he's already had a 41 foot throughout the season which is highly impressive i mean someone to be girls someone to be competitive at a league level in so many events that's that's pretty rare and it's always special when you have a an athlete like that especially a nice kid like nick rinaldi so call boys first call boys it's hard to talk over emily sometimes with that yeah i hope the viewers at home can hear us over the speaker but so um yeah what was i gonna say there let me say um do you encourage uh your kids to go into the gym and work out for uh track and field yeah lifting is a huge component of [Applause] lifting is a huge component of track and field events especially at the higher levels that you get so any kid that really wants to make something of themselves in track has got to be in the weight room and especially in my area of specialty the shot put discus and javelin that's a huge component is the upper body and lower body strength that they can put into a throw so most definitely we we get them in the weight room and encourage them out of practice because we don't we've only got so much time to work with them but that's how they get to the next level that's great here we go we got aiden hirsch warming up some nice form he'll be at the tvl meet running this event something to look out for hershey's also hersh is also looking to make his uh preliminary qualifier for this state meet coming up in the pentathlon that's where the team is hoping to get our first state title in track and field so see some of these big performers there as well yeah so where is that going to be taking place that will be at you know what it slips my mind so i don't want to speculate but well let us know yeah well some of the fans at home might want to be there so look out for um look out for sawyer garrett in lane he's right in the middle if our fans can see he's in a down position and luke laufler with the blonde hair he's trying to get his oh no he's in the next heap but here's sawyer garrett wow look at sawyer he is on fire three sawyer takes the lead followed by aidan hirsch followed by a medway mustang and there's steven fitzpatrick coming up trying to get third but sawyer garrett will take the win wow what 17 second finish there sawyer garrett it's an impressive time wow yeah he didn't even hit one very talented hurdler and in his own right and his father's been there every step of the way coach garrett as a former mit hurdles coach so he brings a lot of expertise to the team so is there a penalty if you knock one over how does that work does it shave time or something no so really the only penalty is the inefficiency of knocking into a hurdle it obviously slows you down so you want to get as close as possible without knocking the hurdles over but there's no there's no actual penalty the you can be disqualified if you knock over someone else's hurdle or impede in someone else's lane so sometimes that can get tricky here we should have in the innermost lane you'll see luke lawful or as i was mentioning before he's trying to make his qualifier for the pentathlon it states got lou to tommy down there in the red the official ready to start this race so luke has the yellow shoes i'm assuming yes and he takes the lead here a lot more athleticism than technique i'll say that but he's doing his best well-built runner here yeah and he is a soccer team oh yeah great soccer player yeah he is nice and football player there he goes so that's what he needs he needs to get a time on the board um so we can move on to the pentapoland coming up at the states and with the time of i think 20 seconds that was that should be able to do it right yeah not bad not bad the second lowest height girls turtle team yellow triangle second lowest height look at aid in here just uh being a good sports player oh yes there we go moving as as the hurdle crew moves these from the blue marks to the yellow marks um for context the boys hurdle at 39 inches and and the ladies hurdle at 33 inches for the 110 hurdles second call boys discus second call always tricky to get these hurdles in the right place with the proper orientation because it can be a costly mistake if the hurdles are off because these athletes have got it down to a t the number of steps they take in between the hurdles and the height that they're acclimated for people my phone's dead yeah the phone battery burns right up in this uh this heat this heat is brutal yeah damn bennett with the photo yeah it won't be my first photo op hopefully not the last absolutely we hope to see a lot more yeah [Applause] so what who are the notable uh female runners in this race definitely emily burt she's definitely someone to look out for in the 110 hurdles uh and especially some of the viewers that are big into diaz track and field as i'm sure there are many um emily is the uh younger sister of brooksberg who was quite a stud hurdler in his own right back in the day class of 2019 so the jeans have certainly carried on so emily burt's definitely the girl to look out for in the 110 hurdles and i don't know about the med medway roster but i'm sure i'm sure they've brought some good hurdlers absolutely so with with your bill i would expect you to be like a linebacker or like a running back or something what got you into track and field you know track and field like i was saying earlier has definitely been a family business my dad actually had the um men's javelin record here at dover sherburne um back in the day all the way up until pj doyle broke it with a crazy throw 184 so i just started doing track when i was a little kid my mom obviously was a coach so that really got me interested and i was around the team and just really fell in love with the sport i've definitely bulked up to throw college javelin but don't be deceived that was pretty quick on my feet back in the day in the 400 hurdles so i believe it [Laughter] i believe it that's probably the most fun event i'd say 400 hurdles yeah it takes everything you're running around popping those barriers i saw one funny clip i forget where but it was like a runner that literally just hit every hurdle over while he ran he like ran through it it was so funny that could happen we see down at the start line there holding the clipboard is another legend that's matt greeney um men's uh assistant i don't know if he runs the defense of the offense for the the ds lacrosse team and he's father of uh no agree legendary dias milor who ripped a 157 in the 4x800 over the weekend but here we are down at the start line of the girls 110 hurdles or 100 hurdles excuse me ah there we go neck and neck here wow there's emily bird along with two medway runners [Applause] with my with the medway mustangs yeah it seemed like that the second to last hurdle there is when she took her lead on the on the mustang and it looked like uh the mustang hit the uh the hurdle thing yeah like we were probably talking about earlier those can really become almost uh a break that you hit once you get a hurdle definitely slowed her down just enough so bert could get that w yeah emily had the momentum and that can be so key coming into the finish line can make or break a race when it comes down to the 10th of a second one of the great things that we have the privilege of doing here today is automatic timing so you'll see it takes a little bit longer to set up in the beginning and break down at the end but it helps the these races run so smooth and gets these athletes really accurate times so the automatic timing is a computerized system versus typically a hand time hand timed system that happens at most meets so it's a costly device but it's well worth it when those athletes get to have those precise times that they can use to qualify for big invitationals and statements technology so where do they put those things is it like a uh yeah basically down there at the start line uh lou to tommy his gun is um connected to um the he's got a device he's holding that connects it to the little truck down there at the finish line and that basically sends a signal and then as soon as they cross they have this photo technology and they have a sheet of which runners in which each lane so then they can look back and see down to the hundredth or even thousandth of a second if they need to on what the athlete's time was based on the picture synced up with um the time that they have that's amazing here we go second heat of the girls 100 hurdles looks like medway is going to hold on to the first and second place here and this one with 20 second finish i believe there we go yeah so just for context for the listeners that aren't privy to it the first heat is typically the fastest one so and they're even called scoring and non-scoring heats sometimes in the sprint events so that second event there counts for the athletes personally but typically won't count for the overall result of the meet the first heat would though oh good to know it's so nice to have a veteran up here two kinds yeah you should have heard me when i started out i was like i don't know what's going on well you know jack of all trades over here calling every every game and an event we got and uh i i do what i can it's honest work hey another day another dollar exactly let's see what's next is it the 800 meters it might be all the hurdles and blocks off the track men's discus will be starting soon got some guys warming up so how many um heats can uh or does an athlete usually compete in you know because it's like i see that they're not in every one so sometimes like you save your fast guy for certain ones or how does that work yeah exactly that's a great question so the tvl coaches get together at the beginning of the year and almost always agree to the same rule which is the 2-1 rule and that means an athlete can participate in either two field events and one running event or two running events and one field event so for instance like i was saying my lineup in high school was the 400 hurdles that was my one running event and then i did the javelin and the discus two throwing events versus my friend tylen mendez he had the uh inverse he did two running meaning the four by one and the 200 meters and then he would throw the shot put so basically the reason for that rule so that athletes don't get pushed too hard by the coaches and that they have sort of a reasonable thing on their plate now come the tvl showcase meet the rule changes and it becomes the three the three rule so you can either do two and one or you could even do three so if you've got a really talented runner um let's say i'll just you know make this up for the sake of explaining like noah greeny he might be able to even do the mile the two mile and the four by four or if you had a great talented throw where they could do the discus the javelin and the shot put or the high jump and the long jump in the shot put some combination of three events but yeah that usually comes into play with athletes like nick rinaldi or nick turk that are talented athletes that can be throwers and runners and jumpers nice thank you for answering that i hope not if we have to cancel the meat the lightning is close by and it's not going to be out of here lightning has been detected please collect your stuff the meat is clean oh no please please lighting has been detected so i guess the meat is cancelled i'd be willing to die for this meat i don't know about you hey i'm up here i'd be willing to also i'd be willing to put it on the line ladies and gentlemen to call this meat for you but safety safety needs to be paramount so we're gonna cancel the remainder of the meet i think that's a win for the boys and the girls on ds you know what i would say i'd be like all right you can still run but no more javelin you know what you know what i'd say i'd say you can still run but be extra careful you know don't let that lightning get you or we'll be liable yeah but you got rubber shoes on you're okay rubber shoes yeah that's it they say the safest place to be during lightning is either in a car or outside at a track meet so on that rubber mat i don't know how they detected lightning in the area does that mean someone saw it or do we have like a military sonar that's like yeah with all this technology i wouldn't be surprised yeah well my first big gig calling track and field and this happens oh god maybe it's divine intervention they're sending me back to coaching oh no well hey we loved having you and i guess uh we're gonna wrap this all right thanks for having me big handshake hey big shout out to the dsctv crew they always do great work and it was awesome to be a part of it today shout out to all the fans thank you so much you

mr five [Music] hey [Applause] foreign there you go good evening if everybody can find their seats we're gonna get the program started isn't it great because everybody to take their seats and the two superintendents keep talking in front of the room oh i'm sorry dr verrell dr lutzy you're allowed i've been working hard this year um good evening and welcome to our in person which i can't believe senior scholarship awards in the class of 2021 today is a very unique opportunity we're actually combining not just the scholarship awards but also the athletic awards to try to get it all done in one shot it is amazing to look out and see all these faces a couple questions people ask about mass how this works clearly i'm up here without my mask i do appreciate even though it can be confusing based on the cdc local health department and guidelines we have to follow everybody's favorite mitigation strategies a word we all hope we never hear again so yes mask wearing is expected within your family pod i understand you can certainly take them down but as you see with the exception of me speaking at the microphone everybody else has masks on uh a little bit about tonight we're gonna do a quick introduction i'll do a welcome uh and when it comes time for rewards i want everyone to know that the expectation is the students are going to come to the stage they're going to come to the left side of the stage walk across right in front they'll get their award and they'll head back down this way so i will be your mc uh my name for those of you that don't know is mark bellanda i am the proud brookfield high school principal cannot believe that we'll be seeing you again in four short days on the football field or sorry top football here for graduation i want to say some really quick thank yous i know he's sitting in the booth bob but mr st george uh and mr lomendola today they had their concert at two o'clock their concert originally was supposed to be outdoors last week uh then weather was not cooperating so they moved it to today and shockingly this evening the weather wasn't going to cooperate and so they moved to two o'clock this afternoon they flipped it so mr st george i know you said a thank you to me but right back at you for being flexible and doing a wonderful job today so thank you also thanks to uh lisa genovese uh who's up here at state stage right looking at me really happy that she's on center stage along with mrs negri who helped to arrange these awards so a big round of applause for the two of them obviously a welcome to our superintendent dr john barrell and our board members were also here tonight so thank you for coming tonight this evening and throughout the course of the evening you also hear from some of our department heads and administrative team leaders they're over there and i'll introduce them as the night progresses so thank you again everyone for being here tonight i don't want to take too much longer you don't want to hear me talk let's start getting to some awards but before we do that i want to invite the class president matagi nella cherry to come up [Applause] good evening everyone please rise 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 thank you also special thanks for the artwork here done by tanya segura as you can see highlighted there on the screen well done tanya thank you and we have an addition so you can see the flowers on each side of the stage were donated by hollandia nursery so thank you to them but also thank you yeah and also to the music departments those uh parents i can't remember who it was this is me and jamie somebody out there suggested that we could continue to use these flowers so thank you for providing them it's not time to award the money just yet so parents said are you reaching to see what money kids get i know but we're going to start with some departmental awards and scholar awards for different departments so the first person i'm going to ask to come to the podium tonight will be mr hill who is the stem department chair mr [Applause] hill good evening for the math department for applied math for applied matter lauren red silva for algebra 2b matthew there we go physics sound waves all that fun stuff uh for pre-calculus xavier peranda [Applause] for algebra 2 angela mangini for statistics one gia shu and olivia destefano for statistics 2 noel palazzo and kailyn ganga 4 ap statistics tanvi cheneru for ap computer science noah tchaikovsky for honors calculus zachary drucas for ap calculus a b emma bets for ap calculus bc hanger the math league senior career award goes to a senior who has given outstanding dedication to the math team and this goes to adarsh kandula finally for mathematics the mathematics departmental scholar for this year is every one [Applause] for science anatomy and physiology one haley kensek belonger for anatomy and physiology 2 angela mangini for ap biology teresa leopold for physics andrew golly for honors physics ian bells for ap physics 1 jessica wong for dna biotechnology alyssa mitchell for environmental science lauren rutzel for zoology one alexander morissette for zoology 2 andrew meneses [Applause] for intro to veterinary technology kaelin gonda [Applause] and the science departmental scholar for this year is chris estinal [Applause] so now as science finishes up we will transition to the english departmental awards thank you mr hill unfortunately dr spencer could not be with us here tonight uh the department chair of the humanities department she's actually teaching a graduate class at college she could not be here so stepping in for her will be our one of our sister principals mrs jules scheider good evening everyone we'll start with the english department awards for creative writing we have megan mindy english for sarah jackson english for ap lit chris esnald and for apply to english diego gonzalez english 4 honors caitlyn preston and the english department scholar is kate jurgen congratulations all right social studies department awards for american government we have michael tyshera for honors american dog kate yergen u.s government and politics ap ian [Applause] bellows [Applause] for sociology megan minji [Applause] psychology sarah jackson psychology ap emily capelle [Applause] applied social studies lauren retzel [Applause] for outstanding achievement in social studies ricardo dos santos and the social studies department scholar for the year is that's right thank you mrs sheidy ian's comment to me was he probably should have sat a little closer so moving on to the career and technical education awards um we're also pleased to bring back to the stage mr andrew hill mr hill come on [Applause] up we can joke around during the math and science but when it's time for cte it's all business thank you i'm here all week for marketing one grace hajnasto for sports and entertainment marketing christina with zico for business management zachary drucas for accounting one we have two students julia bednarik and rebecca cacase for personal finance also two students andrew lott and carl connor carlson for intro to business christina wiscico deca leadership awards go to matangi nellicherry and tom b general we also have some deca recognition awards and those are going to matangi nellicherry tanvi cheneru tanya sakura ariana lonzbaum grace hajnasto and katherine mayhem for culinary art ii sarah faye for child development christina elephant fennec for architecture and design one ethan shapiro [Applause] all right you're good i threw everybody off sorry i'll take the play um electronics gia shoe [Applause] for stem tools materials and processing seraphia [Applause] for computer aided drafting danny drysdale for video production jed rachela the cte departmental scholar for this year is rebecca case chef i'm really i'm i'm at a loss of words after that joke from mr hill i'm not sure where to go so i'm just going to turn it over to world languages we're going to move right along uh and turn it over to uh mrs kevin holly the department chair for world languages this is holly come on up thank you mr berlanda um now seniors i know we're here to uh commemorate you tonight right and celebrate you but i really want you to take the time to say a big thank you gracias medici to your families and your loved ones for that you would not be here for them tonight all right for a spanish four lord russell red spanish prize jacqueline rossigno [Applause] for spanish for honors avery juan for ap spanish language and culture catherine yergen for french cinema honors christina elfanik for asl one alexa downs [Applause] for asl ii angela mangini and for critical literacy skills leslie loja [Applause] the following seniors will receive the connecticut seal of by literacy on their diploma the seal of biliteracy recognizes the value of students academic efforts and the tangible benefits of being bilingual and biliterate it prepares students to be 21st century global citizens in a multicultural multilingual world the seal acknowledges that mastery of two or more languages is a valuable asset for both individuals and their communities it also provides recognition to english learners for the great value of developing english and maintaining their primary language for chinese spanish and english avery huang you could argue that's tri-literacy right there yeah french and english christine alfanic and sarah [Applause] another tri literacy here portuguese spanish and english yeshida fernandez for portuguese in english lucas montero and gabriela soto for spanish and english the list is a little longer ian bells michelle benitez helena burke liv casey tanveet chanunu christopher esla kailyn gonda adarsh kandula theresa kergey mangold kylie moody sam weigel and kate ursus absolutely here all right we've got a lot of bi-literacy here in the district don't lose it when you go to college all right each year our world language teachers not many achieving senior members of the spanish honor society for the shs scholarship after the scholarship committee evaluates the nominees on their academic achievement throughout high school their performance in the national spanish condo their attainment of the sale by literacy and their commitment to a life-long language learning journey the committee votes to choose an award recipient felipe benjamin jurgen all right in addition to being the world language department scholar student has received the national spanish exam bronze medal for the nation this student is kate jerkinson thank you everybody all right i know it's been a while since we've actually like had human contact with each other it's going to help students my graduating seniors come graduation you actually will get a diploma and right so here's how it works you actually shake with your right hand take with you like no it's not a joke like it takes a while to learn that shake with your right hand take with your left i got a lot of like a knuckle a couple of fingers they're not really sure how to go so shake with your right hand and i'll give you with your left alright so we'll practice that you'll be graded a little bit later um so moving on uh to the next set of awards uh we're gonna go to the find a fine and performing arts visual performing arts it's called about 17 different things in this building but for those of you that want to know exactly what it is it's our music and our actual art classes so mr st george who is our team leader will come up and present those awards mr st george [Applause] thanks very much and hello we'll start with the band awards are going to go this year to ben hergen and tara burns for jazz band ben mangold and caroline morton for beginning guitar alexa downs for percussion workshop daniel gregory for ap music theory avery huang for special chorus honors kate yergen annatino and vince fiesta report chamber singers ashley lynch and andrew lott [Applause] for music appreciation one carl henke for music appreciation to joseph mcnaryk and our department scholar for the music department is katie eargan moving to the visual art department for ceramics one tambie cheneru [Applause] for ceramics ii connor carlson for art one ian bellis for art two tanya sakura for digital photography lauren russell for design lucas montero for yearbook isabel martirano [Applause] for ap studio art jenna durazio [Applause] and the visual arts department scholar is julia benarek [Applause] a nice gym well done thank you to be fair i wasn't really modeling well for the kids i had to my hands were close they couldn't tell which one this one's much better i'm reaching out and giving i'm learning i'm learning uh we're going to move on to the athletic department and it's my pleasure now to introduce our athletic director mr stephen baldwin good evening everybody and congratulations to all so what mr belander just told you about receiving your diploma throw out the door when you come up here for these um each each award winner for athletics will receive a plaque a pullover and a check all donated from chick-fil-a the brookfield high school southwest conference leadership award is given to a highly decorated athlete recognized by the swc these athletes are leaders on and off the field congratulations to mia lutzy and logan white the brookfield high school southwest conference unified leadership award this award is presented to an athlete and a partner in requisition of their positive contributions to brookfield high school and the southwest conference congratulations to grady obama jack queen is also recipient and um he's a junior so we'll present him at the award ceremony next year the ciac scholar athlete is presented to the students who are athletes with the highest gpa and participate in sports their senior year congratula congratulations to adarsh kandula and matangi military the ciac unified sports award is presented to athletes and their partners in recognitions for positive contributions to brookfield high school and the ciac unified sports program congratulations to nicholas santos and hudson greenberg [Applause] the brookfield high school athletic director's award is presented to student athletes who best personified what it means to be a bobcat the athletic director looks at athletic participation cochlear activities leadership integrity and community service congratulations to susan rounding and stephen chaffee the bobcat ultimate teammate award is given to the athletes who best exhibit the quality of sportsmanship team spirit perseverance and kindness congratulations to jack carroll and abby down yeah the brookfield high school frank gravel gavels excuse me sportsmanship award celebrates former bhs principal and coach frank gavel it is presented to athletes who take who are take charge leaders that display good sportsmanship and show respect to self teammates coaches opponents [Applause] the brookfield high school robert brown leadership award celebrates former brookfield high school coach and physical education teacher robert brown it is presented to athletes who demonstrate what it means to be a captain and a leader these athletes also demonstrate passion for their sport respect for others and are honest and trustworthy encouraged teammates and work tirelessly at their sport congratulations to megan mingy and stan wise [Applause] the army reserve athletic award is created was created in 1981 by the army reserve to honor top students this prestigious award is presented annually by the u.s army reserve to high school students who have shown outstanding ability in both academics and athletics congratulations to kaylee gunn and harrison albanese [Applause] the city adamski award is provided it's provided to the best overall athlete in class of 2021.

80 children auditioned 80. sorry he had a lot to say in this one um this is a long one it was a long day i'm not sure you might have mentioned what color he was wearing um naturally mr la manila was looking for children who possessed the it factor needless to say our bhs drama award winner has the it factor and she was most certainly cast in the sound of music once in high school she immediately joined the chorus and drama club and gave her a ball to both programs as a freshman she was cast as young fiona and shrek the musical her sophomore year she was cast as understudy for the role of julian the wedding singer and last year she was cast in the lead role as rosemary pinkle pilkington and how to i can't even scroll there's just so much i am so proud of her this does not take away from anything katie irrigate congratulations congratulations to be honest it was my i pride myself in my ability to work with technology and i can't at this point figure out how to scroll over and scroll down to the pages of stuff so that's why i just moved on but katie we're very proud of you so thank you up next is the ben jordan memorial scholarship dr ben jordan was a beloved member of the brookfield high school mathematics department students and staff alike enjoyed his teaching appreciated his collegial contributions looked to him for advice laughed at his comedic timing and miss him dearly dr jordan worked with students at all levels from ap calculus and differential equations to algebra and geometry he took joy in watching a student persevere through to the solution of a problem they found difficult this award will be given to a student who has overcome challenges to succeed in mathematics this scholarship recognizes hard work and persistence not just achievements this year's recipient of the ben jordan memorial scholarship is lance lawnguard up next is the brookfield education association and eugene l mcgowan memorial scholarships each year the brookfield education association awards three scholarships to graduating seniors who have consistently displayed excellence in leadership in both academics and extracurricular activities these 500 scholarships are fully funded by the faculty and staff of the brookfield public schools it's an honor to announce this year's three recipients kylie moody tanya seguera and logan [Applause] white [Applause] congratulations so any person who's well prepared should have a backup paper copy here's the master i'm going to finish your statement katie you're good so where i left off was and last year she was cast in the lead role as rosemary pickleton and how to succeed in business sadly we did not get to see her on stage this past spring however we know her performance would have been amazing in 2021 she was elected as president of the honors special chorus and is a member of the chamber singers as well as participated in the drama's club's online virtual cabaret mr lomando would like to thank her for all she has given to the bhs drama club and he will miss seeing her on our stage in the years to come let's all wish her the best of luck next year she plans to attend malloy college conservatory majoring in musical theater congratulations katie here up next is the brookfield animal hospital scholarship it's an aaha accredited animal hospital proudly serving the brookfield connecticut community they're committed to quality veterinary care and this is the second year they're offering their scholarship to a senior who is graduating from bhs that intends to pursue a career working with animals please join me in congratulating this year's recipient andrew vanessa thank you moving on to the daniel burkhart first generation scholarship the daniel burkhart first generation scholarship is awarded to a senior who was a first generation college student and demonstrates national demonstrates natural aptitude for learning and critical thinking as a first generation college student we are proud to announce that this student will attend western connecticut state university in the fall congratulations to lane phillips moving on to our next award the danbury old timers athletic association scholarships in memory of raymond alexander kozak and anthony v barello the danbury old timers athletic association is an organization that was founded by the athletic communities of the greater danbury area in an effort to raise money for school teams and to award scholarships to local high school students this year's deserving deserving recipients are dylan kaifus and caitlin preston up next is the robert j khan memorial scholarships the robert j khan senior scholarship was designed to acknowledge a graduating senior who demonstrates the commitment of volunteering to help a person or a group of people who have some type of special need and require help navigating everyday tasks since mrs khan and her husband were in high school they both gave their time to help individuals with special needs as well as raising their children to follow in their footsteps congratulations to izan khan our next award is the dorothea angstrom scholarship award dot angstrom was a brookfield girl scout leader for 50 years this scholarship was established to honor her the committee set out to choose a worthy recipient whose values and love of girl scouting closely match dots this student has been a girl scout for 12 years she wishes to be a pediatric dietitian and will be attending university new hampshire this fall she earned her silver award and scouting while with troop 50286 congratulations to alexa downes so up next is the brookfield pop water scholarship each year pop warner awards scholarships for higher education to the most deserving seniors eligible students must have completed one full season as a pop warner football player cheerleader and or completed two years as a pop corner student demonstrator coach or volunteer these students are also involved in service of the community and to the brookfield public schools pop warner is proud to have awarded over 1 million dollars in scholarships since and this year they are proud to present their scholarship to julia benard up next is the brookfield lacrosse cubs scholarships the brookfield lacrosse club will be awarding a 1 000 scholarship to one senior boy and one senior girl from the brookfield high school lacrosse programs there to be a senior in brookfield high school lacrosse team they need to be recommended by the brookfield lacrosse head coach in good academics standing at brookfield high school and plan on attending a higher education institution these students were required to submit to the brookfield lacrosse club board a one or two page to two page essay describing why they should be selected to receive the scholarship the essay also needed to include leadership roles within the brookfield lacrosse community and the greater brookfield community volunteer roles and hours completed through the year with the brookfield lacrosse club as well as the academic achievements at brookfield high school so quite a lot congratulations to this year's awards win award winners nicholas schilling and susan rotter [Applause] that's my goalie thank you up next is the newtown savings bank scholarship the newtown savings bank foundation traditionally provides college scholarship donations annually within each of the bank's primary communities that it serves their primary goal is to invest in the health of the communities where the bank branches do business and to provoke and to provide support and financial resources that benefit social services affordable housing initiatives education community economic development health and human services as well as arts and culture this year's award recipient is lauren daly congratulations all right i'm going to take a break from reading some of these catch my breath a little bit but i want to introduce our next presenter who will give the several next several set of scholarships away that'll be our assistant principal mrs susan griffin who is also the assistant principal for 12th graders so mrs griffin good evening my first award is the don lynn award he was a field high school graduate excuse me and a typical american teenager he loved playing video games eating at wendy's and hanging out with his friends he never shied away from hard work and he managed to work at his parents restaurant while he went to school he was determined to attend college he would be the first in his family and he was accepted at western connecticut state university he enrolled there knowing that he was going to have to take two buses to get there but he really wanted to go on tuesday november 22nd 2011 don was killed by a distracted driver in front of the westcon campus where he was rushing to catch his bus in honor of his memory this scholarship is being awarded to a deserving young woman kimberly hernandez right the robbie shatner memorial scholarship ravi shatner graduated from brookfield high school in 2013.

[Music] do [Music] do [Music] so [Music] do [Music] so [Music] so [Music] oh awesome welcome class of 2021 congratulations we would like to extend a warm welcome to all of our broadview families to mayor cavo to the board members rachel chaleski i think kate cornett's back there mr fusco also to our superintendent sal pasquerella who i don't know if you know this is his last year so let's give him a round of applause [Applause] and kevin walston our assistant superintendent i just want to just ask you all to stand for the singing of the pledge excuse me it's a star spangled banner and the best part about this it would be sung by our eighth grade students [Music] is bursting in air gave proof through the night that a flag was still there [Music] all right that was wonderful and just i just their names are in the program but i do want to acknowledge them again sophia trilelli yamaya claxton and aliyah calderon for singing our star single banner thank you ladies i am so blessed to be at this amazing school you may sit down i'm so blessed to be at this amazing school you have this is just a special community of staff students and parents and i thank you for all your support especially during this crazy time called covet the impact of covet had like a major impact on a lot of us physically mentally socially emotional helps and it was almost devastating yet covet tried to rob us of many things like in person learning and the simple things for my eighth graders like eating in the cafeteria or walking side by side in the hallways or our favor gathering at the lockers you missed those wonderful things and having those conversations but one thing covet could not steal and parents i need you to hear this loud and clear it could not still steal any of our desire to bounce back we have some of the most resilient children i have ever met in my life and they have bounced back and they have come out and i don't have to tell you look out here that's evidence showing you that they were able to make it all the way through so this is not a funeral this is a celebration and i'd like to take time to give them a round of applause [Applause] we had a lot of things that we tried to go back to and it was difficult because of our size but we did have an eighth grade ceremony and we honored a few students i'm going to ask those students if they can stand up we have their names in the program you know who you are you got an 8th grade award and don't worry about the first person standing up just stand up don't let me start calling names thank you we're very proud of our students and once again it's in the programs guys you could sit down thank you nelson mandela states that education is the most powerful weapon that you can use to change the world i'm showing you we have change l agents right in front of us kids that are going to go out there and do some great things and i'm so proud of them so our goal is to get you out of this hot sun so i'm going to call up and i'm so glad to have our mayor of danbury the esteemed mayor cabo good evening and thank you all for being here and thank you for inviting me here dr pescarella assistant superintendent wallston principal thomas thank you very much it's my honor and privilege to be with you here tonight i'm not going to speak very long i'm just going to echo some of the sentiments that principal thomas spoke about this pandemic in the last 15 months showed how resilient and how strong and how we can overcome anything if we put our minds to it and we put our will to it and you did that you showed that you proved that and you're here today to reap the rewards of all your hard work and your effort you know as you go into high school it's going to be much harder work but you showed that you have the ability to handle that work and you'll be able to handle it well and so as a city we're very proud of each and every one of you and all your accomplishments we wish you well as you go into the summer we wish you a happy and safe and fun summer and we need to thank your parents your teachers your educators for all the support that they've given you throughout these years to get you to this point where you're moving up and so congratulations from the city of danbury thank you for all that you've done keep up the good work and we look forward to seeing you in the years to come thanks very much next we will have to address the class of 2021 our assistant superintendent of schools kevin wallston good evening everyone and congratulations uh broadview middle school so let me find my glasses and i will get started dr thomas told me i only had a couple minutes to talk so thank you dr thomas administrative team staff parents and families board members miss rachel celeski miss kate canetta mr russo mayor cavo and of course dr pasquerella and our students here this evening it is a pleasure to be here celebrating with you so i had the pleasure of being part this is my third graduation that i'm part of today and i had shared earlier at our middle school graduation that one of my favorite things to do is read stories going into the elementary schools to our k-5 students don't worry i know that you guys are not elementary school students and i decided to share a story that i thought was appropriate for a middle school moving up ceremony story is called a gathering storm you started your middle school journey as tiny droplets of water you were small and aimless enter in a building you didn't know with some others who had you had never met after those first few years and days and classes some of you became attached to each other together you started to form small clouds each group working together to survive as you grew and matured these clouds started coming together you found ways to move together and work together to create amazing things you look past your minor differences to see greatness you could achieve when hundreds of individuals came together you were a force to be reckoned with but not feared a tiny rainstorm dropped heavy dropped creativity and knowledge wherever you went as the years went on this small storm gathered strength you you spoke louder you ask more questions you let it be known you are as individ you are an individual as well as a group more students joined in bring in more strong winds of change and excitement all of the elements all the elements of our collective storm have gathered and you are ready to tackle high school as in one awesome force i call it pride determination and quality together you will take high school by storm scooping up every ounce of fun and education in your path to the graduation class of 2025 i challenge you to move forward with pdq pride determination and quality goodbye for now but i certainly see another storm coming in four years collectively i'll see you guys again in 2025.

we're going every other angelica lopez castro [Applause] evelyn alvarez presidential award of academic achievement haley luis honors presidential award of excellence jayden aponsa honors presidential award of excellence national junior honor society amanda magnago high honors presidential award of excellence national junior honor society jay anderson angel morales honors presidential award of excellence dominic a two attending presidential award of academic achievement lenin novarez presidential award of academic achievement devon bath honors presidential ward of excellence mariana naciamento presidential award of academic achievement alison biermann izza nashad high honors presidential award of excellence national junior honor society christopher bogard nyla osifiana presidential award of academic achievement samantha bollinger honors presidential award of excellence [Music] catherine pando presidential award of academic achievement jaytham bowden [Applause] christian patino presidential award of academic achievement carol brito presidential award of academic achievement jacob pellerin mathias cagnum honors presidential award of excellence elinda fat maria carmago presidential award of academic achievement henry finnett honors presidential award of excellence malena campaverde presidential award of academic achievement eric cortea yahaira chacon presidential ward of academic achievement carlos puma jayvon clacken jacob quezada chastity coats presidential ward of academic achievement emily quilley honors presidential award of excellence jasmine coach and sella honors presidential award of excellence jessica rex honors presidential award of excellence eric coons honors presidential award of excellence brianna chimborazo janae davis bruce medina presidential award of academic achievement justin de carvalho honors presidential award of excellence wilbert reyes rocco de lucio tyler ramos kaylee diaz juliana riccio weiss honors presidential award of excellence janaea foreman presidential award of academic achievement amarise rivera cabrera luis galarza kalyn rivera emily gentile honors presidential ward of excellence raymond rivera luis jerome raymond wrote us edwin gomez [Applause] jonas rodriguez [Music] angel gonzalez valerie rodriguez philippe gonzalez jefferson segura chris granda honors presidential ward of excellence national junior honor society brian severino ruby granio presidential award of academic achievement alan staton presidential award of academic achievement emily guzman presidential award of academic achievement gisella to curry mckenna hawkins honors presidential award of excellence joseph tapia darielle hildago wait sophia torelli honors presidential award of excellence yes nia hurtado presidential award of academic achievement owen tamasic honors presidential award of excellence sarah tina jean presidential award of academic achievement alan trate high honors presidential award of excellence isabella jordan [Music] ashley told guapa honors presidential award of excellence shirley landon honors presidential award of excellence please give our cluster 8-1 the congratulations and 8-2 you're up jackie valverde high honors presidential award of excellence just a few more friends aaron yadav honors presidential award of excellence national junior honor society [Applause] alex zinnin presidential award of academic achievement and now for our cluster eight two do you want me to stand here out here so direct them down here there we go there you go that see that that's smart thinking oh this is coming off they're walking like they walked by so slow i'm like come on we gotta wait for the other side um amanda lynn acosta honors and presidential award of excellence jasmine lopez no jasmine jasmine that way high honors presidential award of excellence miles macklin honors presidential award of excellence emily busteau honors presidential award of excellence [Applause] amen mahmoud high honors presidential award for of excellence noah batista honors presidential award of excellence [Applause] justin moracho honors presidential award of excellence ava boylan honors presidential award of excellence aidan maldonado honors presidential award of excellence national junior honor society nevaya [Music] boza jaylene martinez honors presidential award of excellence alan boyeston olga mayan presidential award of academic achievement xavien bond honors presidential award of excellence joslyn mendieta presidential award of academic achievement addison caba honors presidential award of excellence sandy mendoza presidential award of academic achievement briana edwards marley manchina high honors presidential award of excellence national junior honor society jazeera gabazudo zalada saheed moran honors presidential award of excellence liliana calipa high honors presidential award of excellence national junior honor society [Applause] [Music] justin morano presidential award of academic achievement jack kambazaka honors presidential award of excellence emmanuel morpha brant kanafe presidential award of excellence caitlyn nascimento honors presidential award of excellence alba castillo [Music] alex nevis honors presidential award of excellence israel castro allison oliva alexandra silas cordova honors presidential award of excellence milena oliveira honors presidential award of excellence derek chacho presidential award of academic achievement camilla ortega honors presidential award of excellence anna da silva honors presidential award of excellence anaika osguara andro de imperio honors presidential award of excellence frederick filippo presidential award of academic achievement genesis duran honors presidential award of excellence christian pentato presidential award of academic achievement alexa cough [Applause] tiffany prak honors presidential award of excellence jamiah claxton presidential award of academic achievement samuel ramirez honors presidential award of excellence gianni shiaflow honors presidential award of excellence angel rojas presidential award of academic achievement jocasia justine presidential award of academic achievement sabrina tapia amy chunkovic presidential ward of academic achievement lia gina theodora catherine diaz presidential award of academic achievement andre valerio gabriella espinoza neda teskov high honors presidential award of excellence national junior honor society [Applause] valerie flores-grulian kaylee vargas honors presidential award of excellence jayden fogo lina scapatucci high honors presidential award of excellence national junior honor society jefferson galdemez isabelly silva [Music] ariana greathouse darny vidal giovanni gregorio mendez honors presidential award of excellence [Music] miriam takara hi honors presidential award of excellence national junior honor society chris gouchen honors presidential award of excellence jacqueline viviar angeli gutierrez honors presidential award of excellence evelyn guzman honors presidential award of excellence national junior honor society holden hofka meyer presidential award of academic achievement [Music] max hinn honors presidential award of excellence to ho presidential award of academic achievement jason jarrah honors presidential award of excellence vianet lao high honors presidential award of excellence [Applause] up next we have our 8-3 cluster oh [Music] but they're doing it okay walk all the way around yeah so they come around the back i don't know where's the brakes [Applause] i think these come to us okay rafael diaz sarah lippman high honors presidential award of excellence and national junior honor society tara fagan honors presidential award of excellence julia lopez honors presidential award of excellence and national junior honor society julian farmer campbell honors presidential award of excellence ashley rendon presidential award of academic achievement davi fernandez barry wrath presidential award of academic achievement samuel ferreira honors presidential award of excellence anthony peloso joelle garcia ethan fong honors presidential award of excellence rangel garcia ayan alam charisma gardener honors presidential award of excellence sochelle alec honors and presidential award of excellence nicholas adida honors presidential award of excellence angelica almashi tristan sanchez luke alvarado camille salazar rafael amarine honors and presidential award of excellence gianna garofala honors presidential ward of excellence glenn anderson high honors presidential award of excellence and national junior honor society jocelyn gonzalez ariane archibald honors and presidential award of excellence danny granizzo honors presidential award of excellence anna bautista presidential award of academic achievement rashad hall ayanna blanding honors and presidential award of excellence leanna harrigan honors presidential award of excellence jack botello edward holtz presidential award of academic achievement francisco bordeaux honors and presidential award of excellence andre ilardi high honors presidential award of excellence national junior honor society julia pereira honors and presidential award of excellence kayla jacobs honors presidential award of excellence louis pereira thomas james honors presidential ward of excellence angelique tapia daisy jarrah presidential award of academic achievement eugene spratt nain khan honors presidential ward of excellence diego soto honors and presidential award of excellence jager lao honors presidential award of excellence brianna bollinger honors presidential award of excellence and national junior honor society aiden levy kimberly silver nelson lee high honors presidential award of excellence national junior honor society megan cicinski honors and presidential award of excellence edward marin presidential award of academic achievement tyler savarino honors and presidential award of excellence isaiah medina honors presidential award of excellence alex severino angelina wynne honors presidential award of excellence aaliyah calderon honors and presidential award of excellence kayla men victoria calderon honors and presidential award of excellence camellia vieira briana collins honors presidential award of excellence and national junior honor society samantha parish honors presidential award of excellence henrique condido honors and presidential award of excellence jonathan patino castro batista brandon peralta honors presidential award of excellence joshua cornett [Applause] christopher sandoval michael chukimarka presidential award of academic achievement casey pereira victoria conte presidential award of academic achievement [Applause] fallon rivard honors presidential ward of excellence luisa correa honors and presidential award of excellence matthew robbins honors presidential award of excellence diana assad high honors presidential award of excellence and national junior honor society daniel rodriguez de oliveira john tennokona zahira rosario presidential award of academic achievement sandy ventura chloe tremendellis honors presidential award of excellence national junior honor society jameer vickers brianna wiggin [Music] [Applause] brian bacally sean leonard hi honors presidential award of excellence [Applause] go on oliviera matthew tennisella [Applause] christian yuki [Applause] ricky vu [Applause] morena zarba honors presidential award of excellence national junior honor society ian velasquez honors presidential award of excellence and last but not least cameron wilson presidential award of academic achievement congratulations to all of our students who are being promoted to the high school [Applause] i'd be dismissed if i don't take a minute to acknowledge our teachers in the clusters if the eight one teachers can you please stand up and i need everyone to give them a round of applause eight one teachers [Applause] our eight twos teachers please stand up come on 8-2 teachers [Applause] and of course 8-3 please stand up they're the soldiers doing this crazy thing that we call education and we can't do it without them so i wanted to just do a quick acknowledgements because i'm going to get you out i see you fanning i'm going to really get you out but i have to acknowledge a couple people first of all mr donovan who actually had this all set up for us he's the principal at danbury high school and he allowed us to be able to take his field and to do this promotion service he didn't do that we probably wouldn't have a promotion service so i wanted to acknowledge him today also mr miller who is um our he's our everything he does our programs he he does a wonderful job with all the video and i wanted to thank him and his team because they've been helping us out a lot during this so mr miller wherever you are take a bow and um of course no principal can do this by themselves and if they think they can then they shouldn't be a principal i have to be honest with you if i didn't have the support that i have from my assistant principals ms rinaldi and miss pentegas i don't know what i would do so i have a strong administrative team and dr sal have you to thank for that i'd like to give them a round of applause as well [Applause] and just a side note this whole promotion was put together by one of our guidance counselors and i can't thank mr dawanta enough for what he did he took on this whole thing only thing i had to do was show up i didn't have to carry a box or anything it was amazing because parents helped me with that mr dembonta can you stand up for that please [Applause] and once again our counselors i don't know what i do i have some of the best counselors if you guys could just stand up real quick just to take an applause as well our secretaries are working they worked hard in the school putting the programs together doing the um promotions uh miss spool and miss balco i wanted to thank them and miss balco was retiring this year in case you didn't hear so we're really kind of sad about that and of course our amazing pto who actually bought backpacks for all of our students which are going to be needing them in the fall so i can't thank my pto enough for everything they do [Applause] eighth graders at this time i know you maybe felt like this point wasn't going to come that you maybe struggling but i'm saying to you right now that you made it and you did a great job and if you look side to side there are some people that didn't make it there are some of your friends that didn't they're not here right now and the reason why is because you took this challenge to the next level you did what you were supposed to do and you earned the spot that you're sitting in so i just like to take the time to congratulate you and this is what's going to happen the music department is going to sing another song with some assistance from our students and then after their song i'm going to come up and then i'm going to say some really cool words like real quick cool words and then all of a sudden we're going to actually process off and 8-3 since you were the last group in you will be the first group out okay so let's have our music department [Music] i learned to be ashamed i won't let them break me down the dust i know that there's a place to rise [Music] i am who i meant to be this is me this house is [Music] this is me [Music] is [Music] [Applause] [Music] this is me [Music] gonna [Music] i am who i meant to be this is [Music] this is me congratulations guys we love you that is awesome all right 8th graders do me a favor please stand up please turn around and face your parents give them the biggest applause on earth because they are the reason you are here thank you broadview parents we couldn't have done it without you one more thing now you can turn around and now you're gonna give me my gift don't sit down because we're almost out you're gonna for the last time the broadview prize statement come on now broadview pride congratulations to the class of 2021 we're gonna march out awesome job [Applause] [Music] wait okay [Music] three little birds [Music] so sweet little girl on the concrete [Music]

academy's class of 2021 moving up ceremony my name is renee walker and i'm the president of the west side's chapter of national junior honor society would you all rise 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 please remain standing ready [Music] twilight's last gleaming [Music] streaming [Music] does that star spangled for the land of the free and the home of the bread [Applause] please be seated i'd like to share a few words with you this afternoon first i would like to go back to where it all started the sixth grade i woke up got on the bus then i thought to myself here's my big moment middle school as i'm approaching the front doors my heart starts to beat out of my chest my first thought was what am i supposed to do my friend at the time was in eighth grade so i initially go over to him and ask him what am i supposed to do he proceeds to say i don't know what you're doing but i know what i'm doing then walks away as you can tell i didn't have the best first impression of middle school but it just kept getting worse from that day i believe that everyone would be mean and work for themselves but as time went on i got to see the real middle school experience specifically the west side experience this i got to make many friends they got to be some of the best people i know to this day i made many memories those i will never forget it kills my heart to think of leaving this school on this day westside has watchmen girl to be the person that you're watching on this podium right now not only has the school watch me grow but a specific teacher too i would like to thank mrs haddad for being the best advisory teacher i could ask for and always acknowledging the good deeds i did from my peers and always asking if i did okay when i looked when i looked upset i'd also like to thank you for the little things you did like printing me a new schedule on the first day of sixth grade after someone's um after someone accidentally took mine it kills my heart to say this but i can't believe we're leaving the school on this day i made many friends and i would also like i would also like to thank everyone here for being some of my best people that i could walk across the stage with and possibly go throughout my rest of the high school's experience with this one of my many accomplishments throughout middle school was being president of national junior honor society just from being in this organization i have learned the two responsibilities of being a leader and a role model i am very grateful for the opportunity he has given me i used to think middle school would be go by very slowly and be a never-ending suffering but these have been the fastest three years of my life and i cannot believe that our middle school years are ending but as the great tony stark once said part of the journey is the end so if this is our final goodbyes i just want to congratulate all the people walking across this stage today and i just want to say you came a long way thank you all [Applause] i would now like to introduce our principal dr frank leblanca good afternoon everyone what a wonderful afternoon to celebrate all of our eighth grade students and their accomplishments we are certainly very proud of all they have done during their middle school years and they certainly were a very special middle school class 8th graders you are about to experience the next big change in your life the beginning of your high school years before we continue i would like to take a moment to recognize and thank those who have helped plan and organize this afternoon ceremony special thanks to mrs sanchez and mrs fanoff our school administrative assistants [Applause] mrs riefberg and mr dara our school counselors for their help mr lewis our music teacher for our special musical entertainment today and certainly our eighth grade teachers mrs near mr rovnak mr savino mrs larosa mrs pokencheck mr prokowski mrs locke mrs cobaita miss joss on you mr mayhew ms ferreira mr o'neill and miss christine and we'd like to thank the pto providing our plaques today the denver public school system has 18 schools almost 12 000 students and nearly a thousand staff members that are united under the leadership of our district we all work together under that leadership toward a common goal to have students who are high achievers independent learners and who make positive contributions to both the school and community i would like to acknowledge our special guests today superintendent sal pascarella assistant superintendent kevin walston director of curriculum and instruction carrick has dr kazur carrick casamiro did i miss anybody everybody and also board member and parent rachel celeski at this time i'd like to introduce a very special guest with words for you our mayor joseph calvo thank you principal ivanka good afternoon it's my pleasure and honor to be here with you all today i have prepared a 17-page speech because i figured it was going to be cool today but i'm going to cut it down a little bit just keep it a little bit shorter as the mayor of the city of danbury i can't tell you how proud and honored i am to be here with you today the work that you've accomplished over this past year these past 15 months under our covet situation really has been untenable and you have done just a fabulous job with that and we are so proud of you that you were able to accomplish your studies and have your moving up ceremony here today dr pasquerella assistant superintendent wallston and the administration has just done a fabulous job under extremely difficult circumstances and we need to thank your parents as well for the job that they did helping you get through these past 15 months it's been an incredible challenge for all of us and i just again so proud and honored to be with you today as you move up into your new challenges of high school high school will be a piece of cake compared to these last 15 months and so you guys are going to do great at that and we're looking forward to seeing some really great outcomes with you in the next four years so enjoy your summer have a great time be safe out there and we look forward to seeing you in your high school years thank you [Applause] throughout the spring a number of students were recognized for special awards they have already received those awards so we ask the following students please rise wave to the crowd and be recognized once again for your outstanding achievements receiving the connecticut association of boards of education awards chloe de jelani and eric go [Applause] receiving the superintendent's award isabella valenzuela and colton kittridge receiving the exchange club service award eileena villa [Applause] and now having received the presidential silver academic award those students who have achieved the honor roll there's a lot of you [Applause] and then the presidential gold act achievement award those are students who received high honors [Applause] today i have the pleasure of awarding the principles award the principal's award was selected by me in consultation with eighth grade teachers to recognize students who best represent what we think a model student at westside middle school academy should be the students selected have achieved academic excellence excelled at stem and global studies projects and displayed excellent character and leadership and this year's principles award and if you are called please come forward in global studies ex marisa espinal and in stem david thomas [Applause] we will now recognize our scholar leaders in addition to receiving an award they will have the honor of speaking with you today vivian will speak about her middle school experience and ria will speak about the future that lies ahead so vivian hello parents guardians family members and fellow students we've made it three years ago my peers and i were graduating fifth grade now we're going into high school it's been a fun but wild ride and i'm very happy that it was safe for us to have this moving up ceremony in person for me and i'm assuming many of my fellow classmates and students middle school was a time of character growth change in learning we made new friends and discovered more about ourselves than ever before especially with the pandemic we learned to change and adapt to our new surroundings and keep our heads high the class of 2021's experience during these three years has definitely been unique and unforgettable and when writing the speech i wanted for us to be able to reminisce on the past and remember the struggles as well as the victories so going back to sixth grade i have very clear memories of struggling to open lockers rushing to get from classic class and trying to figure out the flow of middle school strangely i also remember fearing the 8th graders looking back on it were really not that scary anyway we all got used to our new environment eventually with the help of supportive staff and teachers seventh grade rolls around in the year is off to a good start we had all of our normal activities and everything was great then mid-march came around and i'm sure many of my peers can remember the announcement that said we were all being sent home everyone was ridiculously happy oblivious to what the pandemic would bring distance learning began on march 31st two weeks after schools had closed by the end of april a lot of students myself included were feeling stressed and anxious living the same day every day worrying about assignments and not being able to see much of anyone wasn't easy for the most of us this was a new way of living that none of us including parents had ever experienced before it took us time but we found ways to cope the world had changed and the daily lives of the class of 201 had changed with it that brings us to this year we start off the year with remote learning as well as the new schedule and new teachers still though we were already used to the world of google meets and online learning tools distance learning in the fall was as close as we can possibly get to an in-person school environment in a remote setting and it was easier for all of us to understand what we were being taught the months went by and on monday january 25th blue court students myself included went back to west side for the first time in almost a year it was such a surreal experience everyone with the mask on and socially distanced as well as being in the building and seeing people in the flesh that hence seems the pandemic had begun after going back i got to know my teachers and classmates better as well a few months went by and that brings us to the day graduation i would like to say that overall it's been an amazing three years with you all even if you didn't know me personally i hope that life takes you places that you continue to find and you find yourselves and achieve your personal goals i also want to thank parents guardians teachers and the staff of westside you've helped make the school the place it is for all of us students again congratulations to all the graduates and best of luck in high [Applause] school dear students parents and guardians thank you for being here today students of west side middle school academy congratulations on making it this far into your academic careers it feels incredible to have been able to get this far with all of you and i would like to say thank you to all the amazing students and teachers that helped us get this far what we have been through together is no easy feat and i would like to congratulate you all once again on your accomplishments as we began 2020 as seventh graders it is safe to say that none of us were prepared for what was to come however the fact that we managed to pull through despite the most unexpected circumstances shows that we have what it takes to be successful we now understand how incredibly difficult it is to see what the future holds for us i for one did not expect moments of awkward silence on google meets and cameras that were switched off all the time i'm pretty sure none of us did but i see all of you in front of me now having gone through struggles and staying resilient throughout i am confident that no matter what life throws at us personal or universal we will manage to succeed i know for a fact that we will all go on our own paths after today at times these pets will converge perhaps at danbury high school where we will have the same math class our paths may fork and it is in those moments that our choices are crucial every one of us has the ability to find success through our own paths but it is up to us to take the necessary steps to find that success i'm sure that we are all wondering what high school will be like but what i can tell you is this in the near future we will be like 6th graders once again small fish and a big pond we will have to build upon our previous experiences and we will have our ups and downs on a roller coaster journey just remember how terrified we all were of middle school i think and can confidently say that middle school was not nearly as scary as i thought it would be and i assume high school will be the same no matter how high school may be portrayed i know that high school is an opportunity for you to discover more about yourselves and explore your strengths and weaknesses distance learning was as big of a question mark as high school is but the fact that you all managed to excel despite that shows that high school will be no problem for you i hope to see all of you once again at our high school con graduation showing off all that you have achieved and that brings us to the great beyond that follows high school whether you have your entire life mapped out or have no clue what the future holds i know that you can bring your dreams to reality i hope that regardless of where the circumstances take you regardless of all the speed bumps and rocky roads you will eventually arrive at the destination that you hope for and while you shoot for the stars take a break and appreciate the little things in life and everyone that has helped you get to this point your final assignment due at 11 59 pm by the way is to say thank you to your friends your family your teachers and the wonderful people that have been by your side and will always support you let me complete my assignment by giving a heartfelt thank you to my parents and little brother thank you all so much and congratulations once again thank you both you did a great job now i'd like to introduce mrs jennifer blue assistant principal to recognize these students all righty thank you we are proud to present vivian lynn and ria parziar with these plaques of recognition for their accomplishments [Applause] all righty i'd like to thank you i'm sorry i'd like you to think back for a moment to when you first started at westside middle school academy many of you were concerned that you would get lost or that you wouldn't be able to handle the homework or you wouldn't be able to make new friends the building looked huge compared to your elementary schools yet here you are and at the end of eighth grade you learned how to manage your time how to be creative and how to work in groups to solve problems many of you earned honor roll or high honor roll status at least once while participating in a variety of activities outside of school you have each had your challenges and successes as you move through your middle school years it's time for high school and you are ready the choices you've made and will continue to make will determine who you will be i hope that you will choose to make a positive difference in your family school and community as you leave us today the best wishes of all the faculty and staff at westside middle school academy wishes you good luck to you all so now ladies and gentlemen the moment you have been waiting for is finally here the presentation of the west side middle school academy class of 2021 the class will be presented by eighth grade teachers mr o'neill mr savino and miss pokencheck the students will be honored by the administration and eighth grade core academic teachers members of the board of education dr pasquerella mr walleston dr labanca and mrs blue having met the requirements of the danbury public schools for promotion to high school it gives me great pleasure to present west side middle school global studies academy class of 2021 members of the board of education dr pascarello mr wallston dr labonka and mrs blue having met the requirements of the danbury public schools for promotion to high school it gives me great pleasure to present west side middle school stem academy class of 2021.

[Applause] on behalf of the faculty and staff of the west side middle school academy magnet i want to thank you for joining us for our moving up ceremony to the 8th graders i wish you good luck in high school best wishes i hope you have a fantastic summer in terms of our recessional today our students are going to head out the field in this direction parents if you want to either meet them in the upper area or down here to take pictures you're more than welcome i'm sure our teachers will hang around for a little bit if you'd like to get pictures with them as well congratulations have a wonderful day from west side middle school academy so students see your 81 teacher for your certificate provided you do not have an outstanding obligation to the school my 81 students meet me over here by the flag thank you you

knowing where we live work study and recreate does not change the past but a thorough understanding of the ongoing consequences of this past can empower us in our work to create a future that supports human flourishing and justice for all individuals thank you before we take the roll call i'd just like to acknowledge that several commissioners term has expired and i would like to thank them for their service so mike schreiber theresa hatcher and julian singleton all of them are stepping down from the commission and i want to thank them very much for the time that they've devoted to the commission and work on energy matters um in particular i want to call out mike treiberg who has served many many years on the commission um going back all all the way to working on the original 2012 time in action plan and i think all of you know that he's been a key part of the commission in its work the last several years so thank you all very much and with that um because of their absence and because of the fact that their terms are up um they obviously um will not be here tonight and that obviously is affecting um who's going to be here so i just wanted to acknowledge that and missy go ahead and um do the call from here then absolutely commissioner hook him sorry chuck hook um and my home in ann arbor good evening thank you for that excellent reminder if you could please uh state the the city that you are residing in uh commissioner mccomber uh president and joining from arcadia michigan commissioner pleavey present and uh here from my home in ann arbor okay commissioner levin here uh at my home in ann arbor tia murski here also from ann arbor vice chair colvin garcia president and calling in from ann arbor thank you councilmember briggs present and here in ann arbor once again sorry that my video is not working councilmember radina president here in hanover thank you commissioner president uh from my home in ann arbor thank you commissioner mccoy here and in ann arbor thank you commissioner george here uh in the city of ann arbor thank you commissioner kerber larry you're muted but we see that you're here i know you're here we saw you saying present for whatever coming in from seattle excellent jamerski you have 100 of sitting commissioners great thank you very much thanks for everybody for attending i think we're going to have a great meeting tonight uh the first uh agenda item is or i guess we've already had a couple of agenda items but the next agenda item is public input this is the first of two opportunities for residents or anyone for that matter to speak for up to three minutes if you are watching on ctn please call 888 788-0099 or and 877-853-5247 meeting id 913-5783-4507 this information is also displayed on the meeting agenda in the video feed city staff will select callers that have raised their hand so to speak one by one i'm using the last three digits of your phone number in order to electronically raise your hand to indicate you desire to speak please press star 9 on your phone you will hear an automated announcement that the host is allowing you to speak when speaking please move to a quiet area and mute any background or television noise that we may hear you clearly and finally please state your name and address at the beginning of your comments do we have anyone not yet not yet well we know we have a delay of maybe 30 to 40 seconds so we'll wait for someone to raise their hand car ending in one three four i'm gonna you should be able to speak in on the airline uh thank you dr stultz and chair mursky it's ken garber 28 haverhill court um i have a question to ask really about the landfill solar project um i'm an outsider coming late to the discussion um and i have to admit the language of the um vgp voluntary green power settlement approved by city council in april it's hard for me to really understand um so as i read it um the city will pay for the landfill solar project but dte will own it the electricity that's generated will feed into the energy grid and be distributed throughout the dte system however the city would become the so-called anchor tenant and will sign a long-term contract for the life of the asset the city becomes a quote subscriber of last resort unquote for credits and wrecks issued from the project but it would have the ability to sponsor community solar i assume this means deciding which entities for example pittsfield township get to pay dte for wrecks or other credits based on solar generated electricity from the landfill any leftover credits the city would purchase so as i understand it city residents will pay uh what 40 to 50 million dollars which was the black veatch estimate to construct the 25 megawatt project that dte will own and utilize the city is anchor tenant decides who buys renewable energy credits from dte and we also agree to buy any leftover credits so if i'm reading this right dte adds to its renewable portfolio at our expense of course the public benefits by having a 25 megawatt solar facility added to the grid but shouldn't dte be doing more renewables anyway at its own cost and are we missing an opportunity here uh paul fenn the speaker that we brought in back in march uh suggested that the city establish a parallel utility a franchise a kind of mini muni that would start to keep compete with dte on a small scale fenn said such a city-owned utility could be established fairly quickly maybe within a year is there any possibility to incorporate a city-owned landfill solar project into such a parallel franchise just a question again i might be misreading the settlement agreement and i don't know how feasible this would be or if the settlement agreement um by its very nature um basically locks us in to uh the arrangement that's outlined the um landfill solar pilot um so i welcome a discussion of why city ownership of the landfill is not feasible uh regardless i hope you'll push for full transparency in the up upcoming landfill talks so that the public and energy commission can be informed and can participate thank you so much yeah thank you very much ken uh chairman we do not have any other folks in the queue okay um maybe we can uh discuss some of these points later on okay so um our first uh agenda point is um an energy education update uh from um dave campbell um former city staffer in the energy area and or member of glra do we have dave with us yeah he was just being promoted hello hello hello hey dave i got kicked off for a second so i don't know exactly where you're ready for me now we are all right and i can share my screen with this uh button down here hopefully all right before i do i just want to say hi to the energy commission members and uh introduce the fact that uh working with missy from you know very start of the a20 project the great lakes renewable energy association has been a partner on a number of things uh at one point missy asked for people who were interested in getting involved in community education and i joined a group of people that are doing that uh it is now we've been meeting for oh a number of months the group is pretty much myself we've got the hands-on museum the leslie science center and the ann arbor district library are kind of the other people that are in this group that have been working towards some community education kinds of things with the a20 kickoff week we aimed with very little time to try to do a couple of activities one which we did manage to pull off was uh oh i don't know bringing back the uh hands-on museum farmers market uh kids exhibit that was used to be on a kiosk uh at the farmers market but with the fifth avenue reconstruction disappeared for a while and uh we're busy bringing that back now one of the activities that we've been pursuing is related to the fact that before the covid the summer before kovid we had been josh mcdonald and i had been working with the hands-on museum and leslie science center to do a stem grant to bring a weeks-long renewable energy day camp to ann arbor and we ran the first pilot of that the summer before kovid and we had great results with that and one of the activities that we did with that involved taking there were about 14 students in the seventh grade give or take a grade or two that were in this day camp we walked them up to the top of the fourth in washington parking deck to look out over the roofs of downtown ann arbor and started just asked them to look around for solar collectors and and made a made a game out of it so we started looking at utilizing this is perhaps an activity for the a20 week the library is is going to incorporate it into their uh summer games a whole renewable energy section of scavenger hunt and whatever their renewable games we're moving forward with with these things with the idea of adding more and more right now we've been concentrating on downtown they wanted to have a family activity where they could come to a section of downtown and park and walk around and have access no locked doors no anything to these activities and so i'm going to show you it's the beginning of what we've come up with so i'm going to try to share the screen and somebody's going to give me a thumbs up or something when they can see what i'm talking about hopefully you can now we can alright so what we've got is something that we're calling downtown ann arbor's invisible solar which is solar energy systems visible from the fourth washington parking structure roof deck so we're working on the signage and everything that'll go along with this but it's pretty simple how do you do it you go to the parking structure of fourth in washington and you take the glass elevator up to the roof deck on the seventh floor and then you can walk around the roof deck and look out in all directions and you can start finding some solar energy systems the roof deck has been fenced all the way around so it's safe for families kids and even dogs so what can you see from up there uh washington county courthouse put in some solar energy uh from the roof deck this is what it looks like fourth in washington to the uh county office building over there it's a 10 kilowatt folder photovoltaic system that was built in 2011.

from the parking deck you can see these collectors that are on the police and courts building one of two systems that are there uh one's 800 square feet of collectors that heat hot water for bathrooms and showers and there's a second system that supplements space heating for police and courts this system which you can see these collectors from down on huron street on the guy c larkin building provide hot water for bathrooms and showers in the city of old city hall building the old a3c architects building at 210 east hiron has these highly visible solar collectors from the fourth washington parking structure that were built there by a3c architects in 2007 just to introduce green technology to their clients they had something they called the urban retreat up on the roof it was a glasswall penthouse that had a solar demonstration and a living roof garden and could be used by government and non-profit groups and i actually held a number of meetings in that when i worked for the city this is a picture back to guard the living garden is no longer there but you can see it behind it but this is what it looked like there were six kilowatts uh demonstrating both standard rigid pv panels and thin film stick on panels the rooftop garden and they actually have a geothermal heating system with wells that were drilled in the alley behind this building the mckinley town center way down in the right corner here i've built a system that from the rooftop is barely visible at all that's all you can see of it from the rooftop of the fourth from washington parking structure but a google earth picture of it shows the extensive solar energy that's on top of that building this was a 19.8 kw solar photovoltaic system built in 2011 uh back when google was negotiating an extended lease with mckinley they wanted one of the things they asked for was solar energy on the building and mckinley came through with it i worked for the dda at the time and we gave them uh i think a twenty thousand dollar grant towards paying for it uh arbor brewing company is just across the street from the fourth washington parking structure and this is what you can see from there there's two separate systems on the left the solar electric just a three kw system that was used to power the pumps for the brewing process and on the right is a bunch of evacuated tube solar water heating collectors to provide heat for the brewing process built in march 2012 got a couple of pictures of it being built and then the owner matt breath up on the roof with that this was the upper brewing was the ann arbor's first solar powered brewer probably michigan's first solar powered brewery and some people went on to make a career in designing solar-powered breweries after this installation again this was another one that was subsidized by the ann arbor dda at the time all right there's two other systems that would be visible from the fourth and uh washington parking structure but there's a building in the way and those are the farmers market solar and the solar carport at the fourth and catherine surface lot um but you can see them easily from the ground this is just a quick picture of what the farmer's market solar looked like a thin film solar collectors that were glued to the metal roof this is a picture of it during construction this is mayor hifja holding one of the roofing panels with the stick on solar on it we again hands-on museum we got a grant to hire hands-on museum to create this educational kiosk about the farmers market solar it had interactive buttons that kids could push to find out how much energy was being produced and how the system worked and this particular this is a big heavy piece of bronze that is what's being saved and we're working to get that not mounted in another kiosk like this but mounted into the wall of the market office building itself on the outside so people can come by see it realize their solar energy at the market and learn about it finally uh the solar carport in the parking lot was built just a few years ago in 2018 it's 13.4 kw carport it was at the time billed as a demonstration of concept as the dda was looking at the rooftops of all their parking structures and wondering how much solar they could possibly build on those rooftops so we put this here as a demonstration and to learn about how they work it has three publicly available electric car chargers underneath it where you can public can come in and plug in their cars and run their cars with sunshine 100 pollution-free carbon emission driving and then just one last fun fact in 2017 ann arbor was one of 13 cities that were in the first selection group to become a solar america city we received four hundred thousand dollars in federal funds and support to implement six hundred and thirty thousand dollars in a community-wide program to promote renewable energy in ann arbor mariha was quoted as saying this award is another indication that ann arbor is serious about achieving renewable energy goals and continuing our leadership um so that's you know what we're trying to do is bring education and awareness you know not only of what is in the city but a lot of the history behind this effort that we are now pursuing in ann arbor to uh you know become carbon neutral by and uh i just thought i'd share that with you guys i'd uh be surprised if you didn't learn something from that that's my presentation i'll take questions if you want thanks steve um that was great i had no idea how extensive the history was uh dave thanks so much for for informing us about that um i'm wondering if there's going to be any opportunities to provide um on-site uh interactive educational displays uh so like for example at the north side uh community center installation um or other areas throughout the city that are planned like the resiliency centers that are that are gonna be going in the way we're feeling right now the uh the people that are involved in this group from the librarian from leslie science center hands-on museum are all really enthusiastic about this and and we're just we're just this is our first toe dips here what i showed you we think it can go a long ways and we think that what we're we'll warn missy now uh yeah we think that as we move forward we'll be presenting some form of a grant application to say let us expand this out further and certainly things like north side community center uh there are many many many spots around the city where people could become aware of that we're already been doing some solar there and learn how it can be utilized you know in their own life commissioner phoebe david how are the how were the grant funds that you mentioned 650 000 was that allocated to these projects or how else was that spent do you you know is there any left yeah i don't uh you know those grant funds came just as i was leaving so you know you'll be happy to hear the clean energy coalition was uh heavily involved in how those were spent um part of it was spent you know 140 000 of it or so was spent through clean energy coalition for a solar plan for the city another large chunk of money was spent for a small solar energy system on top of the michigan theater i you know i was not around for how that where all that money went but it did you know the point here is to just say that you know it what missy has done is come along and kick this up to the next level or three but ann arbor has been uh working at it for quite a while also member grace thanks yeah great presentation um definitely learned a lot it seems like from the dates that at least for the downtown solar there was kind of a big boom kind of in the around 2007 to 2012 and then there's been at least from the view of the fourth and washington deck a little bit of stagnation and so just curious if any thoughts on why kind of the downtown business solar you know hasn't continued as soon as i retired from the city of ann arbor in 2008 i got hired both by the downtown development authority to run a downtown energy program and by italy iclei to run their national energy office program but what it meant was that downtown development authority was heavily involved in energy programs for the four or five years that i was working with them and we did oh i don't know 140 audits of downtown businesses we followed that up with a 50 uh support up to 20 000 for energy improvements at those businesses and a number of those businesses uh use that 20 000 towards uh putting solar energy on their roofs as one of one of the things they did so i think that some of that is because we had incentives available anybody will tell you anytime you want to give out incentives you know actual money people like it thanks uh commissioner mcquy please uh yeah that was great information i definitely didn't know a lot of it um my comment is more of a sad update to the presentation at least for me personally but my understanding is that ann arbor brewing co closed last year their downtown ann arbor location so it's cool to know that they were brewing with the with the solar panels and i hope whoever moves into there if they haven't already is able to utilize those as well and be an attractive thing to them but thanks for the content anyone else i just have a quick comment dave look judging by some of those shots you'll need to also mount a little telescope there at the top of the washington parking deck and maybe we need to have one of those uh mountain like panorama signs where you can look at all the peaks and you point they point out where this is the system in that system so um and one one last comment from my side uh my recollection isn't maybe you can confirm this dave uh mayor i think around 2005 um declared a goal of 5 000 solar installations in ann arbor by 2015 and i think we probably got um maybe a tenth of that if we were lucky and to council member briggs's uh question certainly one of the the issues was if you look back at solar pricing per watt um back in that time frame um the people that were doing this were doing this for altruistic purposes for the most part um because there really wasn't particularly a great financial payback and that's probably another reason why we saw a drop-off in installations not only downtown but just in general across the city um so those are just some thoughts from my side i can see that commissioner cleavy also has a comment just a quick thing on ann arbor brewing i think there's somebody in we see staff or some place but we have an opportunity here to see if solar improves the real estate value of a building or what impact if anything it has on a commercial building i don't know if they're if they've moved that array or they're going to move that array if they're just going to leave it as part of the building and include it in the sale but it would be interesting to see what impact if any it had i know on davis house for example he had some difficulty selling a house because people didn't know how to how to manage it or run it et cetera so you know what what impact if if any hopefully positive impact it has on the sale of that building because it would be an interesting question to get asked and answered does anybody know is the building for sale or just is it just up for lease right now i i don't know um by the way i would also um note that if i'm not mistaken commissioner cleavy and former commissioner apple yard and maybe some others um maybe commissioner hookum helped put solar on the rooftop of the arbor brewing uh facility in gypsy isn't that right mark chuck my pe stamps on both systems i ended up taking over uh interesting collaboration of parts and pieces in matt graf's basement to put that up on the roof and get it built with another gentleman so i'll take a little bit of credit for it my knowledge is that that's a lease building and i'm not sure if it's attached but we did a pretty solid job of attaching the solar somebody's have a hard time taking it off we're good legends knows that uh there were some people that were very active to get those initial solar app installations up and running and um it's great that we have julie doing the solarize program and she reported today in a webinar um how numbers are really just going out of the roof so um i think uh she's gonna present again in two weeks if she's not missy um on the implementing eight to zero at noon um and i think give um a fuller update on on solarize is that correct that's right yeah i can i can share that after the meeting with the commissioner yep okay thank you very much dave thanks for all the good work and we're looking forward to uh see what finally the uh the product is and uh um hopefully that what that doesn't in terms of accelerating additional installations so the next uh point on our agenda is a proposed resolution um and we have two guests uh so this is a resolution on low enviro low embodied carbon materials in construction uh and we're going to have her presentation um from jan culperson and from luca henron henriette and then i will together the three of us will introduce the language of the resolution um and uh walk ourselves through it and um the idea would be that we would um vote on it we could vote on it tonight but depending on the discussion um we may uh postpone that until the next meeting so uh jan or luka i think luca you're the one starting off correct uh yeah that's right uh yeah but if you're so much if i could share at the screen that would be great yeah jan go ahead hold on you should be good now jim um i would ask that both of you introduce yourselves i don't know if that was part of the plan anyhow but uh yeah great uh [Music] wonderful um well uh as as uh chairman mursky said uh my name is luca henrien um i am a postdoctoral research fellow in the global co2 initiative um in the audience today we have uh alexander reese who who will be assisting on behalf of the global co2 initiative with this as well um jan if you want to say introduce yourself good evening everyone i'm jan culbertson i'm leadership chair of the ann arbor 2030 district and an architect and dan would by the way was uh responsible for a lot of those installations that we saw in the former a3c uh office building so thank you dan go ahead hook up all righty um well thank you all so much for for having um having having us today um jan if you want to go to the the next slide um we wanted to briefly explain to you um how this resolution came about um so as i said i work at the global co2 initiative at the university of michigan which is an on-campus initiative um if you want to go to the next slide i have a little bit of information about it our mission is to get co2 capture and use recognized and implemented as a mainstream climate solution as a global umbrella organization we convene and accelerate research development and deployment by working with research organizations which are in the academic governmental and commercial space and um we work with funding sources as well so angel investors institutional investors government and commercial investors throughout the world my work um in the global co2 initiative has been working on local state and federal policies that support carbon capture and utilization in this work we have focused on the construction sector jan you want to go to the next slide um so here you'll see a diagram that shows what are the market potentials and the gigaton co2 mitigation potentials for co2 based products this is a road map study that the global co2 initiative has put together and you'll see that i highlighted in red boxes concrete and aggregates which are both important sectors in the construction space um and so we see a strong potential um in the construction sector uh for carbon reduction and storage as i reviewed policies um that are affecting this i saw a lot of different movement um but i had seen some small resolutions that have been quite effective in helping promote the use of lower embodied carbon materials one of the really effective ones had been coming out of a village in new york and they had begun with a small resolution that had led to some projects in the city actually reducing their embodied emissions through their newer projects and i thought that a similar resolution in ann arbor could motivate action on this often overlooked piece of the emissions i presented this idea to chair mursky and he was interested in it and he connected me with jan culvertson as she was undertaking a similar project on behalf of the ann arbor 2030 district um so both the global co2 initiative and ann arbor 2030 have been working on acknowledging and finding methods to reduce the embodied emissions of construction materials to do this we came up with three important steps first we need to find ways to highlight the importance of embodied emissions um which jane will talk about then we wanted to find ways to develop local expertise and local methods to reducing these emissions and then finally we want to find the best ways of communicating these widely so first things first jan will provide an overview of the embodied emissions especially as they relate to construction materials thank you luca and really there are pieces most people are really familiar with operational carbon um that's the building energy consumption which also includes um water use and then embodied carbon though is a little bit newer uh that we're kind of looking for looking at and being able to quantify and that's the manufacturer transport installation of construction materials life cycle tends to also include the full life cycle of bill of building materials most people are pretty familiar with this pie chart by now about the global co2 emissions by sector but if you look at it building materials and construction is a full 11 of global co2 emissions um and you know that's kind of small but why is that important and uh basically as we really work on reducing our operational energy the pie the slice of pie of embodied energy does not change and so it becomes a much bigger piece and uh there have been some calculations done from 2020 to 2050 if we continue to build as we um have always built um that operational carbon would be as as big as the embodied carbon the embodied carbon would be almost as as large as the operational carbon so it's really important to start paying attention to this because we're building now and that embodied carbon stays forever strategies uh reuse reuse our buildings don't tear them down reduce the embodied carbon and the materials and new construction and renovation and then sequest carbon in building materials and building operations um this is sort of an interesting graph and it talks about if you decouple the material impact um uh from volumes you really see that you know like pvc and some of the plastics have a much higher impact um than concrete but what you also have to factor in is how much of that material is used and concrete is huge it's used all over the globe and so uh in the 2030 district and as architects um you you start with the the stuff that can you can make the biggest impact the biggest reduction and the building structure and substructure is about 55 of a building's um carbon footprint and we're talking about mostly commercial buildings here and the building enclosure is another 33 so that really led me to to think about well how do we building structure and substructure the highest embodied carbon concrete and steel wonderful um yeah and to emphasize that i mean concrete is uh one of the most important and widely used resources uh in the world and so obviously just the volume that it's used in is the reason that the embodied energy is such an important component of that embodied carbon excuse me um one of the most effective methods that we have seen to actually help reducing these emissions is to assemble uh groups of stakeholders across the sort of construction landscape um to have them all communicate on what is currently available um and what will work and we were lucky uh and and i was really lucky to to meet jan and that um she was working with the aia of huron valley the washington contractors uh association and the a2 2030 district in assembling a group of these stakeholders um and the group's primary charge was to develop recommendations for concrete and steel specifications that will lower embodied carbons in our steel this group assembled different ways to reduce embodied emissions and concrete using locally available methods so methods that we can use today and the group even went as far as creating a local best practice that we've been able to test and jan will provide you more insight on the sort of results of this task force all right so we gave the task force a charge to develop uh recommendations for concrete specification uh that will immediately um reduce the embodied carbon and concrete and then also develop recommendations that may need further research and market transformation or before we could actually implement them and then also to discuss policies that would reinforce and promote these materials so we did do an initial uh presentation and um there's a um a link to the full uh presentation that we did uh a couple minutes about a month ago and this is sort of the task force and what i learned uh with this task force is you really have to um get together owners the designers the engineers and also um the researchers have been wonderful um and the contractors and we pulled in associations and so what we went after is this is is basically um cement is the big the big black person in the black i should say the big um [Music] sort of dark shadow um around um um in body in body carbon and it it's about 13 of a typical concrete mix but it has a full 70 almost 80 percent of the greenhouse gas emissions in it so a ton of cement equals a ton of co2 and um one of the first recommendations is um there's a different type of cement it's called limestone cement and we found that it was actually being manufactured up in charlevoix in michigan and what it does is it increases the limestone from about five percent component to about fifteen percent component um and it's accepted by um the department of transportation etc um the other thing is if you uh specify well-graded aggregate okay this is different size stones right um the you don't have as much volume of cement in the mix as well and then we're already using some supplementary cementitious material so it was interested in in looking at them and we found out that fly ash which is in a lot of specification is really um hard to get right now and and as the coal plants are closing it's going to be even harder to get although they're thinking about perhaps mining some of the fly ash that's been buried but it would have to go through a whole process to be able to be used also slag which is the next supplementary supplementary cementitious material is like um uh more readily available but we also found out that um the it's often the best flag is from blast furnaces and we're trying to get a the conversion of the steel industry into electric arc furnaces because it reduces the global the co2 emissions by about 50 just by using a different furnace um and as steel production moves to the electric arc furnaces slag maybe um a little harder to get and we also found out that slag is being imported as far away from us as turkey so that's that's kind of uh disappointing um and so what we found was evolving to use recycled materials and one of the one that is closest to uh it's actually being produced in in connecticut right now that's the only one we could find that was actually in production in the country but it uses um a hundred percent post-consumer glass and it's processed and and used not only in cement but some other materials so we're uh working with that company presently and uh doing some testing and hopefully look at a feasibility of bringing that into southeastern michigan um we looked briefly at what was the um reduction that we could get now and it was about a 37 reduction um if we um uh one used the like portland limestone cement um used slag and uh then also looked at what the projection was if we used a ground glass paslin and um we think we can get uh with the ground glass paslon about a 50 uh reduction in the embodied carbon and concrete how much is that okay well here's a a building that um is uh going to be constructed in ann arbor and we calculated that there was about 3 000 cubic yards um 40 if we did that just the 40 percent replacement this isn't doing uh ground glass puzzle on um we'd have um the equivalent of a car circling the earth 38 times or powering almost all of ann arbor for about 11 hours so that's in one building so there's a significant amount of of co of of co2e reduction that we can make by just changing how we specify our concrete another option uh opportunity that uh is being worked on is how our urban trees are being processed um and if if you chip a tree you kind of you know that carbon is is released so uh what is the best way that we can um kind of keep that carbon sequestered and that is processing the uh the urban lumber that currently now mostly gets shipped and turn it into usable materials so there is a urban ashes if some of you are familiar with with them they're working with the city to look at a different type of of um model for how wood is used in the city so those are two examples dealing with um what would be waste and also dealing with directly changing our specifications there we go um alrighty now that uh we've talked about uh the embodied carbon and the importance of it and the task force and the results that we've seen the important step now is how do we widely communicate the importance of embodied emissions and methods to reduce these emissions uh slide so we arrive finally at this resolution that we're really excited to be sharing with you all today which uh in addition to some of the work that we do in the task force at the global co2 initiative and that a lot of researchers and and stakeholders within the space are doing nationwide we hope that this will help communicate the importance of embodied emissions to this broader audience and cause some action and hopefully here in in ann arbor um this is our adoption curve and we're hoping that pieces like our resolution and work of the task force will help people be early adopters and these types of technologies in ann arbor so that we'll get that local expertise um it was really exciting to see that presentation of solar projects over ann arbor i'd be really happy to see low embodied carbon concretes all over the city and people can go to the top of the bridge deck and instead of looking for solar power panels they'll be looking at looking down at the concrete below them which could be using recycled materials recycled glass storing concrete storing co2 in itself um and so that would be that'll be really exciting um slide we're lucky that uh this type of work is actually being performed nationwide uh so in the top left here we have marin county it's in the bay area they have a low carbon concrete code they have a specific county code that allows them to have a higher a threshold for embodied carbon the village of hastings on hudson on the top right they have a low embodied carbon resolution similar to the one that we'll be presenting today and they have this resource page where they provide opportunities for people to find out more about how they can reduce their the embodied carbon in their concretes the bottom left we have portland which has been working on a low carbon concrete initiative where they piloted some new low low-carbon mixes for their sidewalks and then finally by clean california which is a statewide policy which uh sets an upper threshold on embodied carbon unfortunately biclean doesn't have concrete in it currently but it has a lot of important building materials and it sets an upper threshold for the embodied carbon in those materials um slide one of the important pieces of this resolution is the creation of a resource guide we're hoping that the resource guide will be hosted by the city and that it will answer some of the practical questions of actually using embodied carbon so here we would outline what's currently happened what are the locally available solutions but also highlight um new potential technologies and highlight local projects that are actually using these and provide some answers to the questions that people have when they start getting ready to tackle the problem of embodied carbon we hope this guide in conjunction with this resolution will ease the adoption of currently available low embodied mixes and eventually will lead to the utilization of co2 as a component of concrete especially in ann arbor we hope to bring attention to the work of the task force and continue to grow local expertise on methods of reducing emissions and i'm really happy to introduce this resolution as i truly believe it is a complementary piece to the plans for ann arbor to address the burden of climate change given all the local stakeholders and worldwide experts in the ann arbor detroit area we are really well suited to be ground zero for a revolution and low embodied carbon construction thank you all so much for your time thank you luca jan did you want to say something yeah i just wanted to to also say that this is um becoming very much a part of both structural engineers practice and architects practice so i don't want people to think that there aren't resources out there and that'll be uh more expensive or more extensive to be able to do this um se 2050 is structural engineers it has all sorts of resources around that engineers can use to lower embodied carbon in both steel and concrete tally has you know a lot of free webinars the ec3 is a free tool that um talks about life cycle analysis they also have a tremendous amount of resources there architecture 2030 has a materials palette that they're developing the boston society of architects has a week-long course that you can take just in embodied carbon so it is is really front and center of of um building design and practice uh at this point so i would really encourage ann arbor to take the lead because if we're going to work on this transformation it it it really does need um owners to be drivers thank you great so uh what we'd like to do now is share the draft resolution with you and talk through it uh get your comments on it and uh will talk at the end about potentially taking a vote on it uh missy is can you share the resolution yeah hold on i'm just trying to download it in the background um do you want the the one as posted correct well i i can show i have the one that uh is the original one that's posted also with um highlighted potential amendment um that we haven't posted just the idea to change it came up last night and was confirmed this morning i have i have it i can share it or if you have it yeah if you give me a second i'm just going to pull it up here okay great do you want to talk um talk through it while i get ready for you yeah i'll just talk through a little bit um real quickly first um so this was a process that lasted probably luca what a good six or eight months so we sent the original draft of the resolution to missy to look at and also share with others within the city then there was this task force that was created and it met several times um an output of the task force was the idea of this resource guide so that was changed or i should say added to the resolution so i i can see it so i'm assuming everyone else can see it looks like it yes so um this it's rather long i don't want to read through it word for word hopefully everybody can do that so um the first portion is basically just some high level uh recognition of some basic issues related to climate change and reason for climate change if you can go back real quickly or a little bit missy the one thing that we wanted to change compared to what is shown on legistar is this um whereas clause that is highlighted um in yellow so the original formulation is crossed out that was what is posted on legistar um but um i suggested last night that we modify this uh based on actually essentially the same document that's quoted in or referenced in the other warehouse clause and i just wanted to point this out that there is within the 2018 ipcc report there is a carbon budget that is based on a 67 probability of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees and if you use that as a basis and take into consideration of the rate at which we are releasing carbon into the atmosphere for the last couple of years basically we're now at the point where uh co2 emissions have to be reduced by 65 by 2030 and to net zero by 20 40 to meet that 67 probability of limiting warming to 1.5 degrees and i just wanted to point that out because typically in the public domain even amongst ourselves we're talking about 50 reductions by 2030 and carbon neutrality by 2050 and actually the situation is a lot more urgent and dire than that i also call your attention to the email that i sent out linking to an article this afternoon so um basically this now transitions into what we're doing in ann arbor we talk a lot about concrete and we talk about whoa can you go back and see yeah yeah so you know concrete and steel making up um the the major portions of that um that some analysis um from mckinsey uh which i think we all know as a consulting company showing what the percentages are of contribution to emissions um obviously what jan said before concrete is the most widely used construction material in the world um particularly in china i think i read not long ago that china in just a handful of years used more concrete than what the united states has used in something like the last century so this is a global issue and anything we can do here will certainly lead to impetus to other entities and countries around the world doing things um outlines here you can see in the center um about the importance of um cement um and what we're trying to control here um this new um category of low embodied carbon um and how it's uh defined and it's measured by the global warming potential which is i think everybody's familiar with um and then some of the strategies are outlined here that jan covered at the bottom of the page and obviously that by employing these techniques that there are some higher costs but they can be offset by lower material costs and then transitions towards the bottom to talking a little bit about steel and what we can do to reduce the body power green and steel and um then basically now we're getting into um some a little bit more background information in terms of how this can relate to the state of michigan and you can see uh about referencing the global co2 initiative and what it's doing at the university of michigan um and what i talked about and what uh luca talked about earlier is helping to develop um this resource guide and hosting that through the city of ann arbor not only just for the city's use but hopefully also for the university and other entities um in in the region and hopefully at the state um and then also the involvement of uh the aia uh local group here in huron valley the contractors association etc um and then finally we we want to be a leader uh what luca said we um want to be sort of an early adopter and push the curve so here are the the resolve clauses and i guess i can read them alouds um so people that are listening can hear the key elements resolved the energy commission requests anniversary council to direct the city of ann arbor so that it encourages and will work to promote the use of low embodied building materials in building and infrastructure projects involving concrete and steel where the utilization of these materials does not significantly increase the cost of or delay project completion and where utilization does not compromise either construction integrity or public safety and be it further resolved the promotion of low embodied carbon materials could include but may not be limited to identifying and highlighting local low embodied carbon concrete and steel product options making embodied carbon materials educational materials more accessible recognizing local projects utilizing low body carbon products promoting other low embodied carbon strategies like the use of high recycled material content materials and the use of mass timber which is also referred to as cross-laminated timber when appropriate and sharing ann arbor's program successes and lessons learned with other towns and local governments in the state and region and be it further resolved the energy commission requests ann arbor city council to direct the city of ann arbor to engage in work encouraging the city planning department and commission to urge developers and property users to reuse and repurpose existing buildings as a means of minimizing the net total carbon footprint of construction and be it further resolved that the energy commission requires anniversary council to direct the city of ann arbor to lobby the state and other entities such as the university of michigan and the washington county road commission to adopt robot embodied carbon strategies related to the built environment so that is the proposed uh resolution can we get uh someone to here i've got first of all let's um get someone to move to consider this in a second and then we'll open it up for discussion assuming people are willing to to do that today can we get a motion from commissioner cleavy a second from someone from commissioner zucker so let's open things up for comments and discussion commissioner cleavy i think commissioner hockham was before me okay go ahead you can go mark if you'd like it doesn't matter um just a couple things i i wished i would have known about this um there's a large movement afoot i think missy's aware of it it's um ase has got a standard on infrastructure that's coming out on sustainable infrastructure i've mentioned it in the past there's been a tremendous amount of work i saw some some alignment with what's been done today by what was presented earlier there is a tremendous amount more information that's available i think dan pointed some of it out i'm part of sc 2050 there's um like i said a ton of information out there one of your resolutions is great which is avoidance we're all focused on this if we can avoid infrastructure construction we avoided the whole co2 piece um i i think we need to really focus on that and the whole concept of our capital improvements program i know mark you've looked at that in the past why not have tougher screening with carbon i mean that's one way to get rid of some of these issues right out of the block i think that'll go a long way on the private side certainly some of the things that we mentioned are great i have had a lot of discussions with the ready mix institute a lot of work with the structural engineering side a few things in a resolution are cross-tied across disciplines we've talked a lot about buildings what about the rest of infrastructure we've got roads pavements all kinds of things transportation infrastructure where co2 is important we could really do a good job of reducing our carbon footprint in those spaces also the thing that we've really looked at in at a national level is not just the embodied carbon but also all the other greenhouse gases that come into play when you're working on an existing building when you're working on an existing car you're dealing with refrigerants that are tremendously bad we replaced cfcs with hfcs hfcs we did for a reason because they're not such a harmful element to the ozone layer but hfcs are big greenhouse gas and we need to take steps in that process not just carbon but all kinds of other bad actors that are out there that are part of the program um we mentioned nitrous oxide that's out there that's that's found in all kinds of products we need to worry about sf6 uh um so sodium hexafluoride is a really bad gas it's in a lot of our electrical equipment we're making strides there so i think we need to look at the resolution a little broader talk about some other things that we could really tackle to make it a broader based approach what could really hit home locally i could probably talk for a few hours on this but i'll stop um i would like to be a part of it going forward like i said the ase e7 is going to have a lot of information that's replicable it could be adopted right out of the box here for the city i know nobody's seen it yet it's it went through public ballot it's going to be published here shortly as a standard but i'll just stop there thank you thanks um commissioner cleavy then council member briggs then council member george i think that's what i'll do i just want to pick up on uh lucas uh statement about accelerating the innovation cycle incur because i think um part of what we're faced here with this is adoption barriers and we can't afford you know business sort of business as usual adoption uh for these these kinds of technologies so bear with me just a moment to put it in perspective in 1995 i was hired as a consultant to the national institute of standards and technology that were creating a large grant program called advanced technology program and i was brought in to work with the michigan concrete association and portland cement and of others to craft research funding programs to look at ways to embed other things like ground glass and other things in so you know we've looked at the science of this back to 1995 and here we are in you know almost 2025 and we're still talking about adoption cycles so i guess i love everything in this and i agree with everything that's said i would agree with chuck that i think we need to you know broaden it a bit but i would suggest that we pick up and on the innovation part of the office of sustainability and innovation and embed innovation into this resolution and not use language like promote but uh ask the departments to develop innovative ways to implement so i you know i think that that having uh a uh you know an assessment embedded energy assessment embedded pollution assessment uh as part of the purchasing program for the city makes an awful lot of sense but you know i think if we're going to have the city push on this we need to move beyond education because education is is got us into a 50-year adoption cycle on technologies and we can't afford that anymore it's been 50 years since i did almost 50 years now since i did the uh solar project with dte and consumers energy and lansing board of water and light to do the first utility interconnected solar pv thing in the state and we're still talking about whether this is going to destroy the utility system if we plug solar into the system um this is where citizens can make a difference we're not going to invent new stuff we're going to do those things but we do have impact on the innovation cycle and the adoption cycle so i need i think we need to get the word innovation into this i think we need to ask uh the individual to work with the office of sustainability and innovation to develop innovative new policies how these planning department how these other departments work how exactly are they going to do this i'm not interested in education promotion i want to see how they change their way of doing business to make sure that this embedded carbon issue gets addressed and nothing gets built forward where it isn't addressed so i would say let's push let's let's stop being so passive on what we're doing here we know what needs to get done we need to crank the system up force it to react we have an office of sustainability and innovation and let's unleash this innovation part of that office and let's get this done and next year let's find out have stand back and find out you know what difference was made in the buildings that were built and really push this to the resolution with action not ever resolution with let's promote and educate also member rates thank you um so great presentation i learned a ton um and appreciate all the resources and definitely gonna be doing some more um reading on my own um and i a few points i think me as we begin to to work on this it may be helpful to to break some of the part as a memo and some of it kind of reduce the resolution and really focus in on what are the key resolved clauses that we want to drive home there's um i understand the point um that mark was just making around not wanting to to focus too much just on education but getting things done um i do think we have to be um we have to be cognizant of the sort of the framework that we're operating in um in terms of the tools that we have as a state and and also the planning department has we can't require anything from the planning commission side um and so it's a lot of um incentivizing and so education does become really helpful i know when i was serving on planning commission a lot of the a lot of times that just the fact that commissioners began to talk about things over and over again really did begin to shift has begun to shift what kinds of projects were seen in the city um but i do have a little bit of concern around the third resolved clause um which is around reusing and repurposing existing buildings which is great i think we all know how important that is um but i also think we need to we are different than hastings on hudson um in terms of the the framework in which this is going to come into and the discussions that are currently happening locally kind of the context that a resolution like this might fall into i think we need to be realistic about the existing conversations that are happening and how quite honestly how this might um how this resolution might be used and how it might be weaponized honestly um and that is that we are having huge debates around development in our community we're having huge debates around transportation and and how we should transform our transportation network and so i would love to see maybe a little bit more work or a little more thought given to um including in within this how for example um to use an example that came up the planning commission last night there were large debates around valhalla development um i don't know how many folks have been have been following that but it was a 454 unit development that was on on south main street close to kind of bushes over um over that way um and a lot of a lot of questions about the density of that development a lot of the the benefits of um having more people live closer to where they work and not have to commute as far and so what i don't want to see us do in ann arbor is start kind of pitting these silos against each other sort of construction versus transportation emissions and i think we have to figure out how we can talk uh complement how those how these conversations kind of can complement each other and also start talking honestly about the trade-offs um because those are what kind of i think where many in the community are ready to go with this as well how much more beneficial it is is it to build a large development closer where people work and where they can live car free like lifestyles versus the embodied carbon in a building um so and then on transportation side i am really excited to see um work being you know considered around um rebuilding our our infrastructure system but i can imagine every project now coming forward and having conversations around well the embodied carbon in that concrete is um actually derailing our transportation or our carbon neutrality goals so sorry being very long-winded but these are some of my concerns and i think this is great and i'm super excited about and we have to start talking about it but i just kind of wanted to start weaving some of those other ideas into this as well thank you commissioner george thank you mr chairman um i want to echo some of the councilwoman's points that she made uh but before i do that i want to thank uh you know our two presenters there i also learned a lot from that and i appreciate the time that you put into that um for uh context i work for a construction union uh on the management side at our state council and one of the main things that my members do we represent 13 000 people across the state of michigan and we build things and a lot of the work that we do is concrete and steel related so you know when we're talking about these types of things uh you know this is very uh both personal for uh my perspective is something that i see on a day-to-day basis uh and it's something that i know affects a lot of livelihoods across the state so i want to kind of start out with that type of context i had a couple of questions for presenters i didn't know um i didn't i hope i didn't miss the question section of that but i did want to ask either luca or jan if you know if you did some sort of um a cost comparison for some of those alternatives to cement uh i i know you mentioned cost there a little bit at the end but i was just curious if you had some sort of you know maybe a top-line kind of statistic for cost yeah um that's a good question and we don't have the um we don't have costs for the ground grill as possible on but the limestone cement option it limestone cement is slightly more expensive right now um but you use if you use less of cement less cement the mixes as a whole are they're pretty neutral um as far as costs go um and the goal would be at and mca says they want to roll this out and make sure that the plc is used almost universally around the state within a year that that's one of their goals um and they actually because of this task force implemented their own task force so we're really trying to you know like like mark said some of this stuff has been known forever but it hasn't been implemented implemented in the market and and and that's what's critical and it's got to be owners and it's got to be uh designers with their specifications really really changing it so and and cost is important and uh that's why we had owners in in the group gotcha yeah i recognized uh a couple of the the contractors that you uh listed on the screen are a couple of our signatory contractors uh so uh it's great to see that um and you know i think that uh you know that's great to hear on the movement that you're referencing there jen um and especially i i also wanted to ask that question in the context of as some folks probably know the the construction industry has like many other commodity uh impacted industries that there have been a huge uptick in costs um partially driven by general commodities as well as labor shortages because everybody seems to want to build right now um so you know that's very good to know that it's basically cost neutral and even if it's marginally more uh expensive that the the savings um on the carbon side would outweigh that but i would say um that when we're talking more broadly to folks um you know when we're trying to you know broaden this coalition um you know really trying to make sure that that is um spoken about in a way that is inclusive because uh you know when people say uh when you know people say that projects are too expensive and so forth they often want to cut on the labor side you know we want to make sure that we're not trying we're not having a lose-lose situation here so i did want to mention that briefly i also wanted to mention that in the responsible contracting policy that the city enacted last year there was green language in it in the draft form um and then it never made it into the language that the city council enacted so i'm i really wasn't quite sure why i didn't make it out um but there was language in that um and i don't know where it went um i don't know maybe missy if that's something that you can maybe find out um and maybe dig a little deeper on i don't know how broad it was but i know there was a section about um green um kind of um items in it uh that didn't make the final cut so um and then i also uh just wanted to uh make a point um i also share the councilwoman's concerns about the third resolve section um i've seen this a lot uh from two different angles one from the concern that um you know we're trying to stop development um because of the environment environmental impacts of that which uh is extremely unequitable for a city like arbor and the areas that surround the city when we are facing housing and apartment shortages across the area as someone that rents as part of the majority of ann arbor citizens that rent in this city that as we're seeing rent prices go up every single year sometimes significantly over five or six percent because of the demand and so the idea that we need to you know reduce or you know significantly curtail new construction is frankly it seems like that um you know the generation that was able to buy in and buy houses in the city is able to say that well as the generations that have come after them haven't had the same opportunity it seems extremely unequitable to me and as someone that wants to see the city could continue to grow and we've added you know 6 000 new residents since the last census and uh calculations there that you know we need to be uh cognizant of that when we're having these conversations and when i walk around downtown and walk around the city i don't see a lot of buildings that can be reused uh frankly speaking so you know i i wanna make sure that what the council woman said about it being weaponized especially if it would be great if we could avoid the development debates on council if all possible with something like this and focus on some of those solutions that uh were proposed uh and about that resource bank that is where i would love to see this resolution really focused on um so i do apologize for the the length of my comments uh but i wanted to make sure uh i got a lot of that across thank you mr chairman thank you great comments uh chuck and then mark and then i'd like also to provide an opportunity for luca and jan to comment on um maybe some of the more important questions and comments that have been made go ahead commissioner so for robert's question on substitute materials on cement like a dry fly ash or ground granulated blast furnace slag those are almost not zero so the cost to replace cement with some of these products is effectively nil to mine the fly ash that exists in the ground today which is a substantial source unfortunately produces more carbon and mining it so you have to look at the what i'll call the a carbon balance when you're looking at a system somebody brought this up earlier you have to balance whether it's proven to do one thing at the behest of something else so i think we have to be cautious on those things it's a little bit scientific i will take us to task on this concept of has the city grown enough i think we've invested a lot in the city we're trying to lead by example i share your concern about housing being limited i think we really need to look at it the density piece is important but i really think we need to start focusing on have we have we grown enough we've built these green zones around the city where is our carbon footprint going to end if we keep allowing growth we need to consider that and i think equity comes into play but i think we really need to focus if we're going to march to the drama we need to reduce carbon we might need to consider whether we're the right position to offer that up or not so i'll just stop there thank you commissioner cleavy i just thought i would inject a little bit of levity into this conversation um back in the 1990s the national institute of standards technology had me under contract to go around and do a series of seminars on their new funding program to do research on cement um and so uh people had in the audience were were uh phd people with cement anyway this is one of the jokes that somebody from the audience told me about uh this this and here's the question what can a really really really small duck teach us about cement yeah you want to take a shot at that you got me you got me stumped duck i can't believe again micro quacks i'll just leave it at that thank you well hopefully that won't be an issue with these new materials either in steel or concrete uh luke and jan do you want to respond to some of the questions and comments i would be happy to to hop in um [Music] um remember hookum and cleavy thank you so much for your comments you both mentioned um uh hfcs and cfcs um and i think one of the that's definitely a component of it i think one of the ways that currently exists to calculate and measure embodied emissions is the environmental product declaration that's sort of a standardized procedure a nutrition label for your different building materials and in that it includes um not just your global warming potential but obviously also includes um you know like hydrogen and and and uh and hfcs and and uh nitrogen and ozone as well so i i think that would be a good way um as an existing framework that would allow um those things to be considered as well in the in the procurement process um if if a policy that was looking to to be sort of more than educational was looking for a way to do that and consider more than just co2 um the environmental product declaration would be definitely the direction that i would point you in um i i think uh on the uh on the the third statement in the resolution um i think for us you know one of the things that we've noticed just you know as a researcher one of the things that i've noticed a lot is um that there's a lot of embodied energy in repair um for of of construction as well and obviously in new buildings there's an enormous input and so i think that was included as a way for us to um try to motivate people to as much as possible reuse but um i i hadn't really thought about it in um the environment of ann arbor and the impact that that would have um so happy to have further conversations about that um uh other than that i really appreciated your your your comments um and uh jan do you have anything that you wanted to add i think um just a couple things one i think it may be with the the um the whole idea around reuse um it's not just that the whole building but we don't do a very good job right now of construction recycling uh we need to definitely there there's a lot of things that we can reuse or reprocess um and i think that might be able to be able to be balanced in that in that resolution um the other thing around labor i just want to say that um one of the things that we are doing with the concrete piece is uh some training and as it turns out um these materials tend to be uh easier once labor gets used to placing them and so you can really get i think a win-win when you really look at the supply chain uh the designers the owners and uh and chuck i want to talk to you about steel thanks jan and luca i see jay has his hand up i think chuck and robert if take your hands down if you're done leave them up if you still have another comment go ahead jay yeah and i just had a quick question or comment of maybe seeing if we could tie this into our recycling in the city i i don't know if we've rebuilt the material recycling center yet or the process side of it but if if there's some way we can make a connection kind of the circular economy of our you know who we're selling our glass to or something if we could get our glass recycled from the city going to one of these you know glass glass ground glass places or even if you know maybe we can promote a company you know starting up a factory year a little closer than in connecticut or something so maybe there's some way to tying it into our own waste stream to tie back into the city i can suggest you go ahead luca um so yeah that's a a wonderful idea uh jay thank you so much for bringing that up we were thinking um the same thing we had talked to the company that's working in connecticut um and we brought those samples because the the hope was at some point that that could be replicated um obviously transportation costs would be astronomical if we had to bring everything in from connecticut and it seems like there would be you know a suitable glass environment in the michigan area to start something like that um so you know we're i think the tests are still ongoing with that concrete so we want to see the performance before really moving forward with that but it's something that we're um the task force is really interested in moving forward with in in any way anyone else i have a few comments um and then a suggestion uh so i made some notes hopefully i cover these all um first of all uh i will um uh the blame or whatever for uh initiating the resolve clause about um reusing buildings and i'll give you a specific case that i had in mind and it really had nothing to do specifically about the city of ann arbor but it's my understanding the university of michigan intends to tear down the fleming administration building um you know that there's obviously a hell of a lot of embodied carbon in a building like that and that would to me be a prime case where the university should be engaging resources including even student design teams to look at how that building could be redesigned repurposed whatever so that it doesn't have to be torn down and i agree completely with some of the concerns that council member briggs mentioned about you know weaponizing this and i think either possibly eliminating that clause and dealing with that that issue separately or refining the clause to make it clear that you know if you're looking um at replacing a few small one-story buildings with hundreds of units where people will be reducing their vehicle miles travered where that building is being built to high environmental standards in the city of ann arbor where it would be built outside the city of ann arbor to much much lower standards with with the commute that if you look at the total life cycle of even losing the embodied energy in those few buildings um and building a brand new building the total life cycle emissions are much much lower and we need to argue on that basis and i know there's a professor at uc berkeley that's done analyses of urban lifestyles versus people commuting and shown that the the overall co2 balance is definitely in favor of of urban um urban density um so um just this is not in any order um i think i may have mentioned this before as you know i'm your representative on the environmental commission i'm in a working group that is working on a construction and demolition ordinance so the idea you may know that the solid waste resource management plan has a small section on construction and demolition primarily about um just basically capturing data but we'd actually like to um get to an ordinance there are a number of ordinances in the country and so we're working on that as far as the glass issue recycle ann arbor is really a mission driven vision driven organization that we potentially can work with on recycling glass and getting it to a processor that can potentially use this glass or with with its context so that might be a possibility um then refrigerants uh refrigerants we looked into that's that's in the 820 plan reducing the use of these higher global warming potential refrigerants as as commissioner hookum pointed out most of those things are controlled by the epa and also the us government has recently indicated that the really high gwp uh refrigerants are to be ruled out and so in terms of maybe influencing recovering practices we might be able to do something there with education but the sense was at least my sense was that we probably wouldn't get a huge um return on our time invested there since there's um sort of outside of our influence of our sphere of influence um and then um just one other thing that i think as we talk about changing the resolution we could add certainly a lot more to it um there is a specific reference to working with the washington county roads commission so um roads we definitely want to take as a part of what we're targeting here um and i think the other thing that we want to do when we look at modifying this is diluting our efforts so we can have a resolution that says we're going to educate on um 15 different things um but as jan pointed out the real the really big opportunities are in concrete and steel um and potentially with mass timber that's more farther down the road so um what what i was going to propose is that we put the resolution into a google doc or we actually have it in a google doc that we share that um with the commission and that we allow people to propose revisions um and comments and maybe set a deadline to that and then hopefully take up the resolution again in our next meeting and i wanted to put that out there for um people's comments um obviously i didn't clear that with jan and luca before i said that but i just wanted to run that by everybody to see if that makes sense so i see uh council member briggs has her hand up and then we'll take other comments as well thanks and i appreciated the thoughtful comments and replies on this um on my comments and it makes sense in terms of next steps to to be getting getting input from everybody i did wonder if considering what a big role planning commission and planning staff will have in this um in the execution of this if it might make sense to either obviously share this google doc with planning staff and get their feedback or maybe actually do a depending on what their this what their availability is for a work session to actually go and make this a similar presentation there and get a little bit of feedback about how they might see this playing out um so that we are kind of building this out the most productive way possible i leave it up to you to figure out what makes sense but i certainly think that the education around this and um figuring out how we can um do more than educate but um and be innovative but uh and really push this would be great uh but i think their their buy-in and their their input might be helpful great great idea um i have a question of missy missy we shared the resolution do you know if it was shared with planning and if they came back with any specific comments it was only shared with staff in planning it hasn't been shared with the planning commission and just because i have before i'm going to share i'm not confident that you can be working on a resolution together deliberately i think that you might be capable of sharing a document and adding comments but you can't deliberate on them i'm going to check i'm sending a note to legal right now to confirm process forward just to make sure like we can't have discussion back and forth i know that great i appreciate you doing that and certainly um keep us informed of what we can and shouldn't be doing um commission or council member actually missy just covered i i wanted to make sure as well that procedurally we were okay um because i know that sharing a doc like that and having the entire body work on it can probably get deliberative if people start adding comments rather than just suggestions and so um so yeah i i would be interested to hear what missy hears back um obviously comments could be accessible to the public um if that document was shared in its entirety but i'm not just not sure on the rules on that so i just want to make sure that we're okay um and i also just wanted to thank everyone for the conversation on this i feel like i'm learning a lot tonight and i think it's just helpful right great so um i would suggest then before we take any action we get some feedback um from legal through missy and any other recommendations um sleep on this for 24 hours and then we will we will get back with you as far as what the process will be going forward um one other thing i'd like to react to commissioner clevy's comments and i agree completely educating cajoling etc only gets us so far i would say that probably the michigan building code may provide some limitations but we should see what we what we can do up to and to stretch that um and we'll try to incorporate that also into the document jan you you're going to be an expert on that as well as potentially luca as well john i think specifically the capital improvements process that's what i'm thinking most specifically to to include um you know embedded carbon in the evaluation process for cap okay okay luka's got a way to do that great that makes it simple good thank you um anybody else have any suggestions or want to modify that proposed approach great uh somewhere several people said it and i'll even add even though i've been working on this with jan and luca i learned a lot tonight also about different perspectives and the way this can be interpreted so i think it was a valuable conversation and i see that we're building momentum and i sense that we have a lot of support which is really positive so i think once we have a good product that hopefully this will sail through certainly our commission and then hopefully we get an endorsement from planning and then it can go to city council for their review any any other comments so join me in thanking luke and jan for all their efforts on this and for joining us tonight and you're welcome to listen in um we're going to have a presentation that you might be interested in certainly jan um about um action um on an ordinance uh for an energy benchmarking ordinance i think jan maybe even been involved in some of the work on this so um we're gonna have uh i think is it zach and thea right that are going to their their they're listed there there we go they're appearing so um missy maybe i'll turn it over to you to introduce um them in the subject and um should be another interesting conversation yeah thank you so much chair mursky uh well i am really excited to kick it over to our experts in this landscape now on osi zach and thea they are both members of the office of sustainability and innovations and they've been working for quite a few months on a commercial multi-family benchmarking ordinance as well as the home energy disclosure ordinance but today we're going to focus on the benchmarking and next month you're going to care about the home energy disclosure ordinance so with that i think uh in terms of sequencing they'll tell you a little bit more about this this will be the first read of a possible resolution of support similar to what we just did and then we can deliberate uh with the intent of the commission considering for formal uh vote a resolution support for benchmarking along with the ordinance itself that would go to council because we're nearly there with that i'm going to kick it to the end zach to tell us a little bit more about what's in this benchmarking ordinance we've been working on great can you see my screen okay cool already zach cool uh well good evening everyone thank you for having us um as missy you mentioned we're here tonight to introduce to you the commercial and multi-family energy and water benchmarking and transparency policy say that 10 times fast um the agenda for tonight has the draft of the ordinance attached but we're just going to present an overview of the background of the ordinance its intended impact some of the specifics of the policy and then a few notes on implementation so we'll uh definitely leave some time at the end for questions but of course feel free to jump in if you have any during okay so um we'd like to start at the beginning and sort of address why we have a proposed benchmarking and transparency policy to begin with um i'm sure as most of you know uh the city of ann arbor formally adopted the a20 plan to achieve a just transition to carbon neutrality by 2030 um and it was just a year ago last week we regularly track our communities greenhouse gas emissions and we are far from reaching the pace of emissions reductions that are needed in order to achieve our goals so we need to take specific action to accelerate that progress buildings are the single largest source of emissions in ann arbor they represent over two-thirds of our total greenhouse gas emissions the 820 plan includes specific strategies to not only power our buildings with renewable energy but also to reduce the amount of energy consumed community-wide through energy and energy efficiency improvements this benchmarking ordinance that we are presenting on tonight represents one policy in a suite of programs that together will ultimately cover all building types and uses throughout the city of ann arbor so this uh policy covers commercial and multi-family buildings and we set out to find a way to improve the energy efficiency of these buildings and it turns out that increasing efficiencies improves a lot of other things as well buildings become more affordable on a day-to-day basis there they become safer healthier and more comfortable for all of its users the the tenants occupants etc and lo and behold these all translate into fewer turnovers and longer tendencies so people want to stay where they are because they're more comfortable for longer i'd like to point out that we're not setting any precedent with this policy and theo you can advance to the next slide we found a best practice of benchmarking and transparency policies amongst over 35 other cities in the u.s and that number continues to grow year over year this map is small but to give you a sense we're talking about cities the likes of seattle new york chicago and l.a but also some smaller cities like des moines st paul columbus and berkeley and these policies mean that at least a quarter of all u.s commercial building space in the united states already actively benchmarks their energy use and these policies have proven results cities who have benchmarking policies see a three to eight percent uh reduction in their overall energy use just through a benchmarking policy um to bring that locally here in ann arbor that correlates to over 2.2 million dollars in savings for our community um so when a building owner benchmarks they use basic building information like the size and use type and combine that with their monthly energy and water use to measure their building's overall performance uh and so these two these are the two elements that make up this policy it's the benchmarking and the transparency and so when you are looking at a building's overall performance it allows easy understanding of relative performance uh which means that it makes it comparable to other similar buildings and it also highlights opportunities to cut waste and save energy by revealing low hanging fruit for efficiency improvements so that that's from benchmarking on the transparency side of things when credible and consistent information on the performance of an individual building is shared with the public through transparency that helps people who use the building like renters and tenants and occupants to include that information in their decision making when choosing a place to rent um a very apt and common analogy that you hear when talking about benchmarking is like the miles per gallon of um of rating cars during our stakeholder engagement process we after holding a task force we put the draft policy out for public review i just want to touch on a couple of the points that that came back from a survey that we did um and and these kind of highlight the importance of a benchmarking policy um only 25 percent of the respondents agreed that proper property owners currently have the information that they need to easily identify energy and cost saving opportunities in the building so there's a lot of uh room for improvement for getting that information into their hands even fewer people agreed that tenants have a high consumer awareness of energy efficient buildings um and are able to factor that into their decision making that touches kind of on the um the transformational side of this we definitely want to make more tenants aware of that um and 61 of the respondents say that this policy will enable the market to value energy efficiency in buildings so um we we demonstrate here a clear need for this policy um so how does benchmarking benefit users um commercial buildings are unique in that their the performance from one building to the next can vary wildly depending on its size depending on its use etc um you compare that say with the average single family home which tends to have a pretty consistent energy consumption and so there exists a need to fill this data gap and to establish clear steps and criteria to identify these opportunities and also to celebrate our successes as we move forward with this policy um examining the energy use of a particular commercial building empowers building owners and property managers to take control of the energy they use through an easy to use online tool to manage their properties and thea will tell you a little bit more about that tool here in just a moment oh and i have another side here so what are we trying to accomplish with this policy um you can come back to that goal slide sorry about that um some buildings in ann arbor currently benchmark voluntarily but there isn't yet enough participation to see for us to start seeing the widespread benefits and so by using a benchmarking and transparency policy the goal is to scale these benefits to the entire community and include all commercial and multi-family buildings and with more participation we can streamline the process of giving building owners that access to their building data and improve their experience and then we can also increase the demand for energy efficient buildings um um through the market transformation cool trying to get my house to work uh thank you zach for that background and showing why benchmarking has been adopted in so many cities energy benchmarking is an easy to use tool and i'll briefly explain how benchmarking policies operate to provide powerful data to building operators to help inform energy investments and also to provide the data to the market to enable factoring energy performance into decision making i know this is a bit of a an overwhelming uh process so i don't mean to go through all of it but just as a general overview um in a benchmarking policy the building owners of certain buildings are required to share uh benchmarking information with their local government they do this by they do this benchmarking by gathering details on their space use from tenants and energy and water data from utilities and then they input that data into the energy star portfolio manager a free online tool and then once a year building owners report certain information from energy star portfolio manager to the city in return they receive individualized and actionable information to help when deciding what investments make sense for their buildings some of the information is posted on a public-facing website like an interactive map to help renters tenants occupants and any other building stakeholder incorporate energy performance into their decision making um so we keep saying that benchmarking is an easy and fast process this is because it leverages energy star portfolio manager a free online tool and also a best practice used by a quarterback commercial space in the united states as zach mentioned um a building can be entered for the first time in energy star portfolio manager in only a few hours and after that initial account creation each year energy data is simply uploaded and that's made even easier when that can be um automated which is currently being piloted with the anne arbor 2030 district and dt get energy star portfolio manager also creates an energy star score which is a one to 100 numeric score available for most building types that summarizes how they're performing um the energy star score shows what percentile a building is operating in by normalizing for any factors that might affect energy consumption to compare buildings across the national population and so any building that goes scores over 50 is doing better it's performing better than 50 of its peers and those scoring over 75 are considered top performers um and can even get an energy star certification just like some appliances in your home might have um epa has found that buildings that start with lower energy star scores and higher energy use achieve the greatest savings buildings with scores below 50 save twice as much as those starting with higher energy star scores so it's a really quick and easy way for building owners to quickly understand how they're doing and understand if they have a great opportunity to start making improvements so starting with these best practices from over 30 over 30 cities across the nation that have a benchmarking policy we further refined what an energy benchmarking policy should look like for ann arbor in particular we reached out to stakeholders to define to define the opportunity co-create policy recommendations um and develop evaluation criteria and so we uh that's where we are now but i'll run through some of the things that we've done today as well one of the first forms of public stakeholder engagement was a task force which was conducted specifically to co-create that policy language with the community we worked with multi-family and commercial building owners and property managers the housing commission energy efficiency contractors city staff including those from the building and planning department um and through the process as well we had an open email account so even if somebody wasn't on that task force they could still email email us with any feedback or questions to what we were posting online once the policy language was drafted using recommendations from the task force we put forward that to the general public through an open house that was recorded and it's available on our website and we also ran along an accompanying survey which zach has already mentioned some of the results from we'll be meeting one last time with the task force later this week to share our final recommendations uh with that background zach is going to introduce some of the detailed recommendations for the annaber commercial energy benchmark coordinates starting with what buildings would be required to benchmark unmute okay all right thanks thea um so yeah the uh when we were talking about this policy what buildings actually are going to be included in that we determined based on best practices in other cities and on ann arbor's particular characteristics that all buildings greater than 20 000 square feet should benchmark um this will maximize the energy savings potential while minimizing the burdens on smaller buildings and city staff um and it would technically cover any building greater than 20 000 square feet uh this is regardless of the building's use meaning commercial industrial institutional or multi-family in the case with buildings uh with housing units the building must have at least four units so the the intention here is to not cover small multi-family buildings um of course the city of ann arbor cannot mandate anything of buildings that are not within our jurisdictional hierarchic hierarchy so meaning state federal public university or public buildings um etc we will recommend that they all benchmark but we cannot actually enforce participation that said we'll work with them as much as possible um and all city buildings of city of ann arbor buildings will will benchmark um i would also like to mention that the university of michigan already does their own benchmarking um for what it's worth why are we including benchmark uh fam multi-family buildings in the benchmarking well that's because in ann arbor multifamily buildings represent nearly half of all commercial buildings uh once you whittle that down to the 20 000 square feet or larger that proportion only increases so in order to include the majority of large buildings that would benefit from increased access to data and support from to inform energy efficiency improvements um we decided to include multi-family buildings um why did we choose to set that threshold at 20 000 square feet well we we sought to balance the intended outcomes like emissions savings and financial savings for a community with the number of buildings that would be included so that we could provide the best level of support possible so looking at uh these graphs here um the the top lines on either of these we've got emission savings on the left and financial savings on the right the top line on either of these uh represents the savings that um a benchmarking policy uh would would present and you can see on that top line kind of in the middle there there's kind of a nook at the 20 000 square foot threshold um and so you see that the the savings kind of begin to level out as you go below 20 000 square feet the bottom line in either of these graphs it shows the total number of buildings that are covered at each square footage threshold after that 20 000 square foot mark as you move to the right you can see that the number of buildings exponentially increases after 20 000 square feet um so there are some other cities that with existing benchmarking policies that found owners in the 10 to 20 000 square foot market really struggled to comply with the policy at the same time the city struggled to provide enough support additionally from a building science perspective buildings that are in the 20 to 25 000 square foot range are on the low end of the threshold that benefit from benchmarking similarly to what these graphs illustrate and the smaller buildings all the way down to single family homes tend to benefit more from asset reviews like energy audits than they do from benchmarking um so in looking at ann arbor's building stock uh you can advance uh this this table um the best practice is to phase in the requirement of buildings to begin benchmarking and phasing is driven by square footage as written by this policy uh we generally start with the largest buildings not only are there fewer larger buildings to support as we build our implementation but larger buildings also tend to have dedicated building managers and increased staff capacity so it's usually easier for them as well to get started right out of the gate thea will touch on this in more detail in a moment but ann arbor's policy would start with city buildings initially after a year we would do hundred thousand square foot buildings and larger a year later we do fifty thousand and larger than twenty thousand and larger um and what we wanna point out with this table is that these thresholds as they've been chosen at this rate these phases um it about doubles the number of buildings that are covered each year each time we hit another threshold what happens if the buildings are below 20 000 square feet um like including single family homes as i mentioned earlier smaller buildings can benefit more from things like energy audits which help them identify energy investments without requiring them to annually monitor their energy consumption so a home energy audit disclosure policy which is something else that we're working on would cover single-family homes and horizontally stacked housing units like condos when when those homes are sold a similar policy to that could cover commercial buildings the smaller commercial buildings uh and finally we're also working on a green rental housing standard that would protect renters by ensuring a bare minimum of comfort and utility affordability uh i did say earlier that all buildings are covered but there are some exemptions that building owners could apply for uh they would have to apply for these exemptions annually and these exemptions were decided upon with the help of the task force and based on legal recommendation so just to touch on these briefly buildings that could be exempt from benchmarking include those that are unoccupied obviously if nobody's there under occupied which means that if it's a multiple unit building that 50 or fewer of their uh units are occupied or buildings that have plans to be demolished there's a demo permit pulled from the building department and finally buildings that are solely owner-occupied with no tenants could also apply for exemption from benchmarking but there are some buildings that can still benefit from benchmarking but could face harm if their information was made publicly available through the transparency element um so there are exemptions for that as well these buildings these include buildings whose energy might might disclose trade secrets like some industrial buildings or or those that may reveal critical facilities like data centers for instance great thank you zach for that explanation on the choice of covered buildings to match like we said maximizing impact with the capacity of our community and our staff um so commercial benchmarking and transparency not only fills the data need but it also incentivize incentivizes building owners to start making smart energy investments when building owner's benchmark over 80 percent plan or implement efficiency improvements some of which of those are behavioral or operational changes that bring immediate and low-cost reductions in energy consumption over 60 of facility managers that benchmark use it to help justify energy efficiency improvements and a 2012 u.s epa analysis of over 35 000 benchmark buildings got an average annual energy savings of two point four percent which increases up to seven percent when they benchmark consecutively for seven years or for three years i'm sorry um along with providing uh useful information to building owners market transformation driven from transparency is perhaps the most important benefit of energy benchmarking to our community and it's now a standard best practice included in nearly all recent benchmarking orders ordinances in other cities um when we share information with stakeholders that's credible and consistent they can start valuing that and including um and budgeting for their expected utility costs and their decisions into their decision making it also allows us to celebrate those buildings that are high performers and inspiring those who aren't currently high performers to maybe see how they could become one um lastly an incentivizes building owners to improve building performance by providing but through that market transformation by providing um real benefits um to making improvements and having a more desirable place for folks to rent or um when we look at transparency in our public survey we found that 80 percent of our respondents um thought that transparency would increase energy efficiency improvements and 70 thought that it should be included for most buildings um and just over here on the right side is a little example of some visual visualizations of what other cities have done and they usually take the form of interactive maps so what would benchmarking and transparency look like in terms of timing um as zach mentioned we're looking at doing um three different phases and before all of that leading with city properties to show our own leadership and just to resolve any barriers or difficulties that might come up the three faces are spaced one year apart and they double the number of covered buildings each year there's a deadline that's based in may for each year and that's based on a national standard of may and june deadlines so that if folks have uh properties that span multiple cities that also have benchmarking ordinances they're not dealing with uh deadlines that aren't similar to each other you'll note that the initial transparency begins one year after the initial benchmarking for each phase which gives building owners a full year to see what their benchmarking results were and make those low-cost improvements that can improve their score our task force recommended a longer timeline which we felt did not meet the 820 goals and lost the benefit of market transformation so we're continuing to work with our task force to create a system that meets the goals of h20 while recognizing the needs of our community um for building owners tenants occupants in the market that is using this this data it's important that it is seen as highly as high quality and dependable which means that it needs to be accurate um some of the actions will pursue to increase the accuracy of data generated through this policy include prioritizing adequate training and support streamlining the data upload process and providing support there as well reviewing any extreme values and outliers and revisiting them leveraging the built-in data quality tool and energy star portfolio manager and also incentivizing that buildings verify or certify the results using energy star portfolio managers uh certification process um so kind of getting into how will you track progress um so we will check success of the program first by measuring compliance of buildings covered by the policy with a smart goal to reach 80 to 90 compliance of all covered buildings by 2025.

millie martinez sosa [Applause] the 2021 seabrook chapter jacl citizenship award the strength and vitality of every community relies on continued participation of good citizenship the jacl commends this exemplary graduate possessing moral character commitment to service and strong leadership i'm pleased to present the 2021 seabrook jacl citizenship award to submit to samantha rodriguez [Applause] before announcing our recipients of this next award i would like to recognize sheriff robert alstino in the audience tonight he along with his wife the bridgeton superior officers association scarpa tech rcsj campus safety unit under sheriff michael santiago the ccia arc international duran glass of millville and the bridgeton pba sponsor these two law enforcement scholarships the first one the law enforcement scholarship is in memory of lieutenant gary marks retired and is supported by the bridgeton superior officers association following a two-year service to his country in the u.s air force lieutenant marx returned in 1979 and became a bridgeton police officer he served in the bridgeton police department in various capacities until retiring as a lieutenant in 2004.

welcome mr ostina [Applause] this award is presented to the law enforcement student who has been dedicated focused and exemplified leadership this year's recipient is ken lewd jr [Applause] thank you sheriff the edward pinson scholarship foundation was founded in 1997 by millville resident edward pinson a farm boy from nebraska mr penton spent his adult years working as a boiler room operator in cumberland county he was not a fancy man but humble and modest he was a gardener and could fix anything mechanical he worked hard and enjoyed a good reputation within the community edward cared for his elderly mother until she was 101 years old his legacy is the edward pinson scholarship foundation and it represents the product of more than six decades of dedication and hard work although edward was not an educated man in the traditional sense he valued education and always considered the potential of every individual and their contribution to their family and community these scholarships which are offered as a result of mr pensen's caring and generosity are an opportunity for the recipients to make a difference in their lives and in the lives of their families and community there were many fine applications received this year and the scholarship committee commends all who applied this year's recipients are trinity benite [Applause] ashley berkey henry condy jocelyn jones [Applause] noah jones elizabeth lascarez [Applause] jezzani lopez millie martinez sosa hunter mcchesney [Applause] elena morigi fernanda sandoval ortiz luc vastano [Applause] and angelina weber [Applause] good [Applause] dr charles s rasner an outstanding lion known for his community involvement passed away in 1986.

robin mcdowell on behalf the event red donated a hundred dollars in the equipment and volleyball equipment cory baskin 95 town park meadows and stacy morris that donated 200 in supplies and there were a couple of significant donations that were on item 3.1 and 3.2 if the void board would consider any objections to adding 3.1 3.2 in to this okay respectively that would be the blue ridge sports clubs foundation donated three thousand dollars for uniforms for the eighth grade football team and then through the efforts of mr pico uh walmart has provided a community grant of two thousand dollars to be used for school purposes great any uh comments or thank yous make sure we get our thank you letters out to all those uh appropriate since it's item 3.1 3.2 we need to vote so can we have a motion to vote on items 3.1 3.2 as they're indicated and the donations that we received have a motion a motion from chuck a second from diane all in favor that'd be unanimous to hear who's here okay item uh number two the consent agenda a board after reviewing the consent agenda is there any item in the consent agenda that you would like to pull out and vote on separately or shall we just let it ride the way it is fine how about you dinah all right we have a motion to accept the consent agenda emotion from chuck uh second diane all in favor that's unanimous also okay we have already covered item 3.1 and 3.2 so that moves to item 3.3 a recommendation to approve the sole service sole source provider for friends of navajo county anti-drug coalition for the junior leadership academy dr wright you want to explain that for us yes sir this is a youth an opportunity for our youth the leadership academy is a long-standing arrangement the blurred schools have had with navajo county and this is a program cost it's a sole source provider because they're the only ones that provide it and for procurement we have to get the board's uh blessing this is an annual requirement and the cost is twelve thousand yes sir any questions on that if not we have a motion to accept item 3.3 i have a motion and a second all in favor and being honest thank you okay item 3.4 recommendation to approve the social sole source provider for advancement via individual determination avid dr wright you want to explain what avid is to us yes sir this is a program that was brought to us by jessie reek and it is developed to help provide opportunities for children and youth that are are struggling and might need a little help provides role models and provides programs to help guide and direct efforts at the i believe it begins at sixth grade and goes through the high school and so this is they're the only people that do this program it's going to be implemented it's already started to be implemented last year and so this is the uh in order to move forward with the board we have to have your approval as a sole source provider is there a cost for this and that's my first question the second question is it community supported i mean are the mentors coming from the community or are they from the school staff there i believe mr pico's on the phone isn't he not mary i know the cost of the program i thought we had recorded but i know this is coming through a title through our title funds lauren has some further instruments let lauren handle it as far as the mentorship it's also based on students so there'll be student mentors involved in it as well going down to some of the younger grades and i actually don't know on the outside community members we always welcome community members in there and so that would be part of any of the grants that we do as well as members to come in and participate but as dr i mentioned this is with our targeted school improvement grant and it's what we're using for professional development to teach our staff how to meet the diverse learner needs besides the accomplishments i'll get it right here okay thank you mary we have the cost of brenda found it it's 32 500 32 500.

item 3.6 recommendation to approve uh purchasing cooperatives these are you better to explain i'm not going to try to explain i'm going to i'm gonna let brenda explain these okay brenda this is just an annual housekeeping item this is a list of all the purchasing cooperative the district is using for fiscal year 2021 and this allows us to bypass going out for bids and things like that so i just want to come to the board and get it approved for the year what i thought any questions about chuck okay i have a motion emotion from chuck a second from diana all in favor that be unanimous thank you 3.6 3.7 a recommendation to review and approve the school facilities board in regard to fire alarm system yes sir this is at our elementary schools roughly 28 thousand dollars to bring the that facility the elementary school that houses k through six uh up to code and the s b needs the board's approval in order to provide that install do we have any costs or is the sfb gonna cover that completely this will cover it completely all right thank you motion chuck second diana all in favor that's also unanimous okay the second one is uh ssb board in regard to repairing the high school gym roof finally yes this is for that complete design for the replacement of that we've been working on it for two years and so now we finally got the approval to get the design and then likely we're talking you know early summer next year we don't want to start a project like that in the monsoon not to mention construction so we're hopeful that we can get a start on this perhaps late may 2020 so we won't have to shut down correct like shellow did and had to borrow people's channels off basketball season that's not the case all right so this this is not to repair this is just for the design this repair this is for the design to replace that roof and the old gym and the new gym are contiguous roofs that's where the argument has been our argument has been and has finally been accepted this is one roof we need the whole thing done okay chuckling this is just the design when they're talking about the design it's just the assessment of what it'll take to to complete that removal of the roof and the replacement just like it has it's just for the the the term they give for the design of the job we're not it's not going to change the architecture of that change okay we're not re we're not changing the superstructure of the no sir or the slow bringing you know material itself yes sir what is that roof shaped like is it a valley i mean does it go like this and that's where the problem is where the new gm and the old gem chuck do you remember i don't lauren knows a little about everything when it comes to construction i believe it's just so flat that there's pockets where it would just have snow and a nice melt and this ice build up so you can't really do much on the design so it's just replacing the decking and the paper on top well on a roof that's flat like that you always get ponding areas and that's the problem and they deteriorate because of the sun and the rain and so forth and the heat and the cold and so i can see why yeah that roof is not good it's tough and in the discussions that i've been involved in last couple years part of that our request was to create some slope within the design and so that might be part of it to check but we're not looking to do something completely different with it yeah okay all right so we have a motion to vote on a motion from chuck a second from dying all in favor 3.8 that also has passed okay this is item 3.9 and this has to do specifically with this time of year in emergency planning fire evacuation and reunification locations for children that are coming to school here dr wright you want to explain that yes sir unfortunately we're in a fire season and we're in a severe drought when you look at the map of the southwest every state in the southwest especially new mexico and arizona are in severe droughts and so there's fires active all over the state right now i think there's a numbering about six the largest of which nearest to us is globe miami so it is uh just one of those unsettling things that we're preparing in the event that we're in school in session right now we still have of the 325 a couple hundred kids between the high school and the junior high in session we're prepared if need be to re to evacuate the children and youth and take them to one of the five locations that we've that we've identified before i read these off do you have a question mr walter no okay the way that we arrived at these locations was to figure out where are gathering points that are that with which people are familiar and looking for a lack of timber so you think of snowflakes in the middle of flatlands they don't have a lot of timber it's they're not at the same risk that show low and pine top lake side or at fortuitously porter mountain is it has a barrier all around it it's on about a 60 acre 40 or 50 60 acre parcel to begin with it has 40 acres and it has no timber i think anywhere within a couple hundred yards it's a concrete structure if i'm correct and so that would be our number one choice is if we had to evacuate during school the building principal mr grace is going to coordinate with the other principles and facilities and i.t to say if we had roughly 1875 youth and children evacuated in september to my building where do they go how do we go about contacting parents what's that process look like our first iteration was summer school let's get prepared for summer school mr grace can create a path easily now for 225 kids building will it'll hold up to upwards of sixteen hundred to eighteen hundred people pretty easily if we use the gems cafeterias and others we could probably put twenty five hundred so that's a central point however if that's not available we're thinking about the direction of the fire the timing and the speed if we had to go east i think this is east right toward round valley eager springerville we can use their facility of a large facility there large parking lots same is true with snowflake and show low meadow mountain would be good as if it's at from the east far east direction and we just need a reunification point we would do this well in advance if we thought that there was any danger in the local area we would keep driving and we would go to round valley or snowflake or as far as we needed to go now a couple things we're working through we don't have enough buses to put everybody on at once that's a realization we need to coordinate through how many drivers we have how many staff members we have how many other vehicles could we use to evacuate kids our first line of defense is if we think there's any chance of a wildfire we wouldn't have school in session in person we would just do it online and i believe correct me if i'm wrong i know justin here but lauren is in touch with this as well i think we could have up to 40 to 50 percent of our instruction if you're going to do more than 50 you have to have state approval we wouldn't come any anywhere near that we might have less than one percent the entire year for you know god forbid that there's a big event here but the point is we're not going to wait until it's dangerous to remove our kids we have to have a plan ultimately if there's any case in any instance where we're on ready or set we would have to and it looks like our area would be threatened by wildfire we wouldn't have school in session at that time one comment the you're mentioning the threat of the fire but the other issue that we need to think about is a smoke because if there's true wind's blowing the right direction uh the smoke is probably going to be a problem long before the flames are yep and it just depends on the direction of the smoke mrs hoffmeyer was telling me hey if the smoke gets worse tomorrow we might let out early or nice absolutely so the principles have brought up those facts those are good those are good points of evaluation and you're right the smoke we're getting the smoke here is from that fire so you're right it'd be insufferable and that's coming from globally 90 miles away yes sir uh but if we have a fire closer it's the smoke is going to be much more dense true i have a question about uh notification how do we let people know where their kids are going to be and how they're going to be able to pick them up if they can yes what's the biggest nightmare i can see absolutely so where we landed is that we have presently text messages email social media on three different platforms the all calls very effective and uh just with those those four mediums we can we can reach i don't know ninety percent of our kids and so the other part of it with radio stations police department our sign and marquee signage that we'd have we'd notify the town so i'm pretty confident we know this if we can keep kids safe and takes parents a little bit to find them they'll be okay but we'd like to try to take the the angst out of it as much as we could and so these five locations are prominently posted because there's no danger in doing that and we'll say your child the message we'll read in all those areas is that blue ridge elementary school located on porter mountain road here's the address or there your your child or children are at round valley high school at 550 north butler street eager arizona and they'll remain there in the correspondence we have assured parents they are remain in our care and custody excuse me until such time a parent or guardian arrives and so at the next stage that we need to get at okay now our kids are here how do we divide them who's responsible for them how do we get the supervision there how do we assign teachers there's yet work to do okay do you need the board to approve what you've done so far so you can continue working or shall we table this until it's completed this is just uh for communication for the boarding community just a point of information so until we get a plan completely in place we don't need to act on it and mr keep it work up thank you and if there are if the board has any concerns now that you can think of let me know if you think of something during the week we haven't send us an email and we'll continue to keep this front and center until we get snow something uh that we had to deal with previously when the rodeo cheddar sky fire was here was uh the the fire workers themselves actually moved in to the school campus here and they this was their headquarters and then out towards the the school in porter mountain that's where they staged all their heavy equipment uh from there so we might be running conflict with them wanting to use this facility is that i remember driving by here and there must have been 100 tents out here and they were using this facility for hygiene and food i believe right so so yeah a lot of people were here so that's probably something else we might have to address and we are thank you that we were looking through and trying to understand the board's authority over use of our facilities where does it start and stop at the federal level um what authority does the board president and the board have when they're not in session i would imagine be the board president to make those determinations working with the superintendent so if there's action required then we would ask the the board to approve myself and brenda probably for authorization i want to make sure that i've been cautioned by surrounding superintendents be careful about signing agreements with any agency because you may end up incurring several hundred thousand dollars of damage and never be reimbursed or only partially reimbursed so our that's kind of my next question if if that happens can we have something in place that says you know you can use the facility but it's going to cost you so many dollars a day while you're here that's what we're exactly we're trying to learn is what are our rights and where do the rights start and stop and then what authority does the board have and the district have ultimately yes sir i recall that during the rodeo cheta sky fire when this was the base that they took heavy fire trucks out on our track yeah and they were parked and camped out there and they basically deteriorated uh they caused ripples and and defects in our track which we ultimately had to redo so there are expenses that we have been cautioned about just about that and the district had just signed an agreement with the red cross in that case a couple weeks prior we do not have an agreement and i'm trying to understand what the district's rights are so we could pro frankly protect taxpayer assets the other concern that i have is we've got these sites picked out but we may need to have um preparations in in uh place for food and water um that we can transport because if if we have to go yeah take it with us yeah if it's to our elementary school it's probably not a big problem but if we're going to round valley or someplace like that we may need to have a large supply of drinking water and food yes sir and fortunately all of the four of the five are school facilities that have their own they're either with southwest or have their own um i've visited with each of these superintendents and like us we would work with them and help out they would figure out the impact we would open up a purchase order and make sure that our kids were covered it's one of the nice things about living in a smaller area in rural areas we help each other out we've we've as soon as show low's office burned down before the fire's out brendan and i called and offered our facilities if they needed help and they didn't need it but i'm confident our associates would help us out and we would reimburse them appropriately well i just wanted to make sure that we had preparations yes sir please and they have they'll have uh it'll be supervised they have if we're in need of supervision and help i'm sure they would help just like we would and each of those facilities high schools are like little towns they have medical they have food in many cases security and they have transportation they have internal technology you have a little a little site there and that's one of the reasons for choosing high schools this meadow mountain would be a very short-term thing that we knew was just going to be short-term but nonetheless probably out of an abundance of precaution we decided to do it i think that's mountain meadow mountain meadows there you go mountain meadow park and that's on woodland road correct yeah yeah that would be quick all right if any other questions or comments about that no all right thank you uh 3.10 item 3.10 is a superintendent's report we'll just let you touch on those items in the agenda yes sir the uh mary ford has reached out again with our indian health services and brenda and i thought a good idea to have uh offer our boardroom again for ages 12 on up to get some uh coco shots and so they're willing to do that the first session will be on uh june mary helped me out 20 june 22nd and i think it'd be probably from 8 o'clock in the morning to three or four in the afternoon much like what we had last time they'll have a johnson johnson and i think it's modernizing maduro's the other one pfizer johnson johnson pfizer it'll be free and it's open 12 years and up anybody wants to come in maybe somebody's been waiting they're not sure they're welcome to come in free of charge we'll have a follow-up in july i believe we wanted to have another one there are we going to do a robocall to notify all the parents in our district yes sir we'll have a we'll head all of our points of communication to do the best we can to encourage parents to have children 12 and youth 12 and up vaccinated well and um we might also want to include uh new staff members in that as well anybody could be welcome anybody's welcome yes and we should to your point we'll make that clear that students adults anybody's welcome to come yeah okay the uh on summer school we had 325 kids approximately between first grade and 11th grade participate now that in the in the past we didn't have it elementary other than our head start and at the junior high i think we'd have a handful of kids needing to make credit credit recovery 20 to 30 at the high school maybe at a big year 40 to 50.

wow he is flying finishes that third lap at 3 47. and he's taking the turn quickly here by [Music] [Applause] 100. [Music] yeah medway having a tough time here can't really do much about that looks like ds is certainly going to take the first and two spot for my predictions and look at this owen is going to be lapping one of the ds girls here straight just unbelievable speed here he's on pace to be like um being the low fives here see wow now he's ripping down look at this he might be five i think he's gonna be five 453 on the clock 454 455. he's gonna be five minutes here it'll be real close five minute mile there wow explosive speed unbelievable and here we go this is the uh runner in second finishing his mile here with some speed it's going 5 22 really good and i think this is the girl ready to finish her mile at a speedy 531 there unbelievable and just someone just fell on their back just hopefully they're okay probably just exhausted by 100 relay boys dsb you're in lane two midway you're in lane three dsa you're in lane four dsc you're in lane five this is for the boys wow just a dominant dominant performance there from owen diaz you're in lane three bad way you're in line four [Music] [Applause] and this is the second place girls runner here finishing strong here she's gonna finish in under seven minutes here this is six fifty four runway a you're in lane three ds a you're in lane four dsc you're in lane five girls yes you're in lane three midway you're in lane four for the boys medway you guys are in lane three and follow us on our instagram pitch yay fitzy's back in the building right now for starts we're looking at ethan aliye better known as edog he's gonna give a pretty solid start for the goon squad they're 400 also starting we got james gibbons aka gibb dog and ronan conley aka roan three solid ds raider starters for uh c three solid uh ds radar realized can we talk about that impressive five minute mile there how about that oh yeah oh yeah unbelievable [Music] well we're happy to have you up in the booth here i'm happy to be here with you guys you know thank you thank you it's been solid work did you guys see graduation or was that yes we did yeah i'll tell you it looks professional yeah it does good absolutely good i know work you guys man absolutely see me get my diploma yes i did second one yeah no big deal kind of a kind of a big thing you know hey i saw you get some awards too oh yeah yeah yeah hard studies paid off then yeah hard work pays off that's what i'm saying all right sam goes for tracks and goes for academics tell the kids same goes for life you know absolutely that's the part of being a ds raider work hard earn big absolutely how's this race going what's going on here figuring some stuff out i guess just name off what's happening i guess we got uh ethan james and ooh that doesn't look like running anymore they might have sub them out roan dog is not racing right now the roadster the rounds oh no i see you up there oh yeah that's classic red oh yeah his hair is flaming just like his speed and they're off oh yeah oh yeah oh yeah big speed making big strides pulling through looking great good squad is still going on so-called elephant races really picking up with ryan kane he's been a real big spirit this year very very slept on with his speed he's one of the big throwers oh worth oh great handoff great handoff walker adams is awesome i think that's jay wow also known as jack wilson oh he's off definitely picking up a lot for the goon squad elephant is struggling behind with walking oh that mustang is off yeah hey first of all here we go john phillips oh yeah good squad really pulling in hey sarge oh my god yo blink you might miss him look at him go all right well that was a tremendous race that really was hopefully we'll see you back here girls for one hundred x girls are in lane three ds is in lane three midway is in length four man does that kid know how to call a race or what oh please be at the start boys 400 girls 400 on deck i'm gonna put that one up on our dsc tv instagram page it's ds cable tv oh my phone died so we'll see if it went through it probably did not but i will get that up as soon as [Applause] possible i'm excited to see uh fitzy race now i'm up here with uh cameraman dan murphy if anyone saw we did a um we did triathlon one time and we uh recorded it dan is actually a very speedy runner himself girls 4x100 is off yeah and they are off look at this midway in the lead right here but yeah it's quickly closing up on them oh good handoff there look at the ds ds racer flying trying to keep up and she's getting a little ground on her but midway still in the lead here looking for a good handoff here and uh oh what happened oh the handoff was botched and medway is going to be able to high step their way into the end zone here end zone meaning finish line wow great hand off there from medway and look at this flash speed here she is flying the lug raiders coming up and uh despite the botched handoff he finished pretty well boys 400 last call please be at the start girls 400 on deck final call to check out the table for boys 110 meter hurdles girls 100 meter hurdles last call check in at the table boys 400 fx girls 400 on deck ds turtle team please be ready after the 400 to set up the hurdles okay yes they're getting ready to bucket once again here somebody look at this we have the legendary mr bennett here hey what is going on assistant throws coach dan bennett here uh hopping in the booth here thank you sir made it through the weather uh there was some fun and games going on in the gym but uh what's going on some volleyball or something yeah there was some corn hole some games of jackpot throwing up the football really showing off some of the athleticism of the athletes uh but we're back out here you can scooch up a little bit cool it's just this yeah you can peek a little bit let them know dan if he's peeking too far yeah we've all been leaning over a little too far but that's okay and they are off girls 400 that's next please be at the start yep men's 400 we got aiden britt is out like a bat out of hell he is so fast aiden will be playing a key role coming up at the tri valley league showcase meet and he is out strong through the first 200 meters as he goes into the back curve boys and girls 800 please check out the table boys and girls at this point it's really a race for second yeah the table works the curve comes on the home straight boys and girls eight hundred please check out the table brit is a d1 commit going to high point university next year to pursue an academic and uh track future unbelievable just a great athlete multi-sport athlete then oh yeah football player let's see looks like second place for medway and it'll be pretty close for third yeah aidan just like the wind yeah i gotta say low 50s if i had to guess maybe a 52 or a 53 second on that one 400 that's unbelievable girls 400 up next boys 110 meter hurdles on deck followed by girls 100 hurdles yeah i was just working the 4x1 uh down at the second or sorry that rather the first exchange area so um that's always exciting and quick action make sure that the kids are staying within the two big triangles uh no issues there on my end so that's great so um how would that stand up in college that must be like d1 fast like yeah good right there right yeah you know certainly a good future ahead of him at high point um you know there's some good athletes right around his speed you know that's the top of the pyramid where things get really cooking so you know maybe we could see a sub 50 out of break coming up with the tvls or the statement where he's going to play an absolutely crucial role so here comes the second heat of the men's 400 we got two dover sherman athletes taking the back straight right now so no medway uh mustangs in this one huh yeah it kind of shows the depth of the dover sherman team that even in these middle distance events we got sometimes two or three heats of athletes to run through unbelievable there's more runners than there are fans here it's a scorcher i wouldn't want to be running the 400 that's for sure no you know luckily the shower came and cooled it down a bit but it still is a scorcher oh yeah i'll say all right we got a we've got a little race for uh first here between two teammates looks like uh number four is gonna come out at the end of this one wild five they're right about 65 by my watch uh-huh so you um you were a shot put thrower weren't you yeah well yeah back in the day i did a little bit of everything i used to run 400 hurdles and then i throw the javelin and the discus it's been a real privilege to be able to give back to the program that was so much fun and good competition in high school so i've been showing the kids javelin shop put in discus and working them through and you also coach your uh little brother johnny bennett huh yeah indoors that was a great opportunity johnny uh broke the 55-record which we were very proud of and now he is uh pursuing a lacrosse season much too much to my dismay but he's loving it he's having a good time so you know he made the right call yeah yeah really the whole family's been involved with track for a while my mom was uh the mid distance distance coach up until this past year when robert moser took over and my mom is still the [Music] indoor head coach of the boys and girls team and then my dad works with the linebackers in football so everyone's everyone's really involved in my sister of course back in the day was three sport runner as well so wow we're all about it at the bennett household much like your family with a commentary oh you know yeah we uh we get in there you know yeah what's your call for the next uh ds medford lacrosse game while we wait on these hurdles that's a good question my call is that ds is gonna win um but you know that game was very close last time sorry folks i meant to say we have the the women's 400 meters coming up and then we'll be at the 110 hurdles something to look for be luke law floyer will be trying to get a preliminary time in the 110 hurdles in order to qualify for the state pentathlon which will be coming up in two weeks so he needs to get a mark in every event which i believe he's done everything except the hurdles and the high jump because he already ran the mile in an impressive 5 15 for a big strong guy like luke and he long jumped i think a top 15 mark in the tvl despite that not really being his event and of course he's a good shot putter i think he threw uh 37 feet outdoors so far but he had a good 39 foot throw against uh um hopkinton indoors to win that one so he's just a real competitor we got the girls 400 meters coming down the back straight right now looking fast the only one mustang in between a sea of raiders here oh yeah pink shoes has a nice lead here it's about like 15 yards or so maybe 10 takes the corner yeah a lot of raiders right here bunched up fighting for it 48 through 300 meters it's a nice lead here for 242.

these athletes have participated in sports for four years and attended bhs and we're very committed to their teams this award is it goes to the person who is highly regarded as the best senior athlete and congratulations to zach drukas and kate mcgrath [Applause] the respectful athlete prevails scholarship a 500 scholarship donated by a member of the community there was application process this person had stamina to stand through any storm when life brought little their way they have the tenacity to triumph even in moments of great turbulence they are unshaken in moments of uncertainty congratulations to ariana moody and kate lintola the brookfield high school physical education department scholar chosen by the high school physical education teachers stephen chaffey congratulations to everybody i almost made it through an award ceremony without crying i'm michelle thank you mr baldwin i will i want to make sure i didn't really name the board members that are here and they gave up their nights i want to make sure other than dr burrell we have uh joy greenstein rosa fernandez that book deb brooks bob belden and amy foster here with us tonight between the uh stand-up show of mr hill uh mr baldwin giving away chick-fil-a money and almost crying like i i got nothing um but i do want to say to the parents out there um you know thank you for doing such a wonderful job with your children it is certainly my pleasure to be here uh every day to work with them and to see their faces and to be able to interact with them on a daily basis you may not have noticed something it was something really small um but i'm going to embarrass him but stephen trophy he was like it was his turn to get an award and he waited for the girl to go first and then let her go first so that is fantastic so um stephen yeah he's very proud of yourself you got a pin too soon right really yeah nice congratulations all right so on to uh this thing called the principal's awards i might know a little bit something about that so each year i do recognize two students that have proven themselves to be productive reliable and hardworking members of our school they are models for how we expect students to conduct themselves in school and the community it is my pleasure to present this year's brookfield high school's principal awards to emma sands and logan white thank you so logan actually works for the school like i'm pretty sure i'd give him the keys to my car if i needed to so all right moving on to the most improved student award how do i not give this right at this time i want to acknowledge a student's growth during this school year this particular student has become an independent he's advocates for himself and he puts forth so much effort in everything that he does he has become a great problem solver i just missed that smile so i got to get him up here one more time congratulations grady bamboo oh performer to the end i love it congratulations grady and then to a student that i will certainly um miss dearly um the bhs biggest heart award this student is kind empathetic always has a half energy about him and makes everyone around him smile i'm gonna miss him dearly next year so congratulations to nicholas santos come on up nikki [Applause] michelle i have to tell you it was the best this is the quote of the night shake nikki's hand i didn't shake his hand but i came he looks at me and says wait a minute the show's over nikki it's over you can go home thank you nicki all right so we have next up is the brookfield bobcat character for life scholarships so what qualities were considered when choosing the recipients of the bobcat character for life scholarship we look for students that possess a strong work ethic demonstrate exemplary citizenship consistently keep a positive attitude in our role models for their peers during their time at brookfield high school congratulations to alexa downs and sam weigle [Applause] sam you gotta have character if you're a red sox fan so can you notice how sam waited and logan now is going backwards waiting for emma he's gonna he's gonna think about that tonight says me tomorrow moving on to the fayetteville overheal overhaul memorial scholarships mrs fayette l overhaul was a former teacher in danbury and at western connecticut state university prior to her passing she established a charitable foundation to provide scholarships for area graduating high school seniors this is the 14th year brookfield high school students will receive this scholarship i am pleased to present the fayette l overhaul memorial scholarship in honor of high academic achievement just two students this year congratulations to izan khan and christina [Applause] at this time of year it's always important to make sure we pronounce names right so one of my favorite movies is elf you've probably seen it and uh he sits there in the office and he says francisco and that's how christina's uh told me to say her name was cisco francisco that's so i'm just thinking of welfare i was sitting in a full suit with a cup of coffee going francisco you really don't want to get in here it's scary so we have several awards to give from the united states marine corps the first one is the semper fidelis awards for musical excellence it is sponsored by the united states marine youth foundation a non-profit organization established to provide incentives for achievement in our nation's schools the foundation has provided an award for musical excellence for student musicians throughout the country this year's recipients are tara burns and ben maple [Applause] good job so next up is the united states marine corps athletic achievement award which are designed to recognize high school varsity athletes who display courage poise self-confidence and leadership on and off the field and who are also exemplary citizens and positive role models for younger students award recipients inspire others or display the greatest determination and will to win all of which are essential marine attributes this year's winners are haley carlusi and roy cafone um next up are the united states marine corps scholastic achievement awards the united states marine corps scholastic achievement award is designed to recognize noteworthy academic achievement and leadership in high school students nominees are exemplary young citizens and role models for their peers congratulations to grace hodginosto and ian bellis all right up next is a new scholarship this is the service academy reserve officer training course scholarships funded by the harteny family charity fund so this is for a student with an accepted appointment to a service academy or accepted into selection for any rotc program this year's particular recipient will be in the army national guard please join me in congratulating jenna de rossi congratulations brookfield threat of the arts the brookfield arts commission was chartered by the town of brookfield to engage in activities intended to promote understanding and appreciation of the arts encourage community participation in arts activities coordinate information concerning artists and the arts and to act as a liaison between artists schools and the community to engage in activities designed to encourage local artists there's a lot of art in that statement and demonstration of their talents and promote activities that both entertain and enlighten congratulations to i know this is the least surprising award jenna ross [Applause] i didn't want to have to make her walk all the way back around up next is the vhs choral award so this comes directly from mr lamendola this is what he wrote entering as a freshman in our general chorus from day one mr lamendola knew this singer had a special talent the natural track for a serious singer at bhs is to start with general chorus move to honor special chorus and audition for the elite group of chamber singers this was the course for our award winner who excelled and led the way in each choir always arts minded this student took advantage of all that bhs had to offer on stage as well as in the choir room performing in our fall and spring cabarets as well as our main stage musicals we want to thank her for her tireless dedication to our program and wish her well as she plans to attend eastern connecticut state university with a double major in music and psychology congratulations to anna tino yeah students i don't expect you to break out into a jogger and if you don't have to run up here this is your time take your time walk up i mean grady did slow walk us a little bit but you know take your time come on up and enjoy the process we're congratulating you so take your time so no rush okay next up is the vhs longmeadow player scholarship again from mr lamondola he shares in the fall of 2013 mr zlamondola held auditions for our bhs mainstage musical musical excuse me the sound of music the show had several children's roles and there were special auditions for brookfield students but they introduced uh sorry between the ages of 5 to 11.

on october 9 2016 the fall of his junior year at manhattanville college he was walking back to school when he was tragically killed by a drunk driver robbie was a friend to everyone to many and he's remembered for always smiling he personified kindness and was known to say never leave your smile at home this scholarship is going to be awarded to a senior with the most welcoming smile and a very kind way with peers as recognized by the staff at workfield high school congratulations to andrew love yes the robert warren lundqvist memorial scholarship robert lundqvist attended longmeadow junior high and danbury high school and in 1968 he graduated from western connecticut teachers college he was a veteran educator who taught mathematics for his entire career he also was a tutor with students here at brookfield high school to robert teaching was not a career but a passion he truly cared about his students and was well respected by staff and students to preserve the ongoing memory and legacy of robert warren lugenquist this scholarship was established to recognize outstanding and successful mathematics students who exemplify good citizenship as well congrats to mario tomena so the dex maniac memorial scholarship is being presented in honor of dex spaniard a former brookfield high school student dex was known for his good nature his friendly disposition and his ability to be a good friend this year's recipient is someone who embodies those traits these distinguished characteristics deserve to be recognized and rewarded sometimes all it takes is one good friend one caring soul to make a difference fern spinach dex's mom billy and kate his best friends would like to congratulate tom b cheddar and they wish her the best of luck after high school the jada sierra lewis memorial scholarship i get all the memorial ones okay this scholarship is being presented because on december 2002 jada's life ended prematurely by way of violence this memorial scholarship is mr lewis's way of healing and giving back the recipient of this scholarship is pursuing a college education focused on a career that encompasses working with children and may include but is not limited to social work education mental health and or any field that involves working directly with children our congratulations to katherine collum [Applause] a former graduate kelly martin established this scholarship in 2006 to commemorate the positive role that brookfield played in her life through school community and career achievements she learned how one's actions can have a meaningful impact on others with this scholarship she hopes to inspire other young adults to develop their unique strengths this year's recipient of the kelly martone scholarship is tanya's queer [Applause] the women's public work field is a non-profit organization whose mission it is to promote interest and pride in our community to stimulate participation in civic and cultural activities and to encourage friendships the women's club is recognizing this young lady for their annual award thanks to her commitment to supporting her community congratulations to grace hex manasseh the next award is the exhibiting empathetic social awareness scholarship it's in memory of rich nellischer the exhibiting empathetic social awareness scholarship is being provided in the memory of marish who graduated from brookfield high school in 2018.