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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 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[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

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.

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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.

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and so to reach this our priority will be to increase the number of buildings performing by providing support and identifying and resolving barriers this includes working to expedite and simplify access to data and supporting buildings getting started with benchmarking through webinars trading strata jams help centers and partnering with the 2030 district in cases where buildings consistently do not comply with the policy or might intentionally intentionally submit false information enforcement in the form of fines will be used so our small our smart goal is based on compliance and the policy was also incentivized energy efficiency improvements so in general an energy concierge can help uh step buildings through a process of doing an energy efficiency improvement and help secure financing through local resources like michigan saves or pace and so energy concierge is something that our office has been working about developing and hopefully can be starting to get set up by the time these buildings are starting to benchmark and then information from energy benchmarking can reveal what building types are the best candidates for energy efficiency improvements allowing for more targeted supporting programs or incentives to be developed lastly there's a few other ways that we can track progress as well through energy and financial impacts awareness on both the building owners side and also the market side um and then more widespread impacts like economic impacts on jobs and local economic development or workforce development and education so i know it's way past uh eight so i want to thank you for your time and open it up for questions thank you zach and uh thea that was an excellent very professional presentation and um really reflects the great work that you've done we've got several people that are interested in commenting i'm just going to go from the upper left in my screen commissioner mccoy okay um yeah thank you that was really interesting um and great to see so thank you for your work on this um and i definitely agree with what dia said at one point in the presentation that i think for me transparency seems to be the most important aspect in this um my only concern was that just that there seems to be a lot of homes in ann arbor that are converted into multi-family units i've lived in one that was a multi-family home that was more than four units shockingly um and there's also a lot of existing buildings that are smaller than um 2000 square feet um i think every i've lived here for six years and i think four different places within those six years if not more than that and all of them would not fall under um these uh like that threshold that you determined um and i think my concern particularly comes from it seems that these multi-family units seem to be generally much older than the bigger units that are available or the bigger buildings that are available and so i would make an educated guess that they are also more inefficient so i think i think if you're confident that um you know this will be covered by a green rental housing ordinance like that you know concern is fine with me but i just wanted to voice that um and i hope the green rental housing ordinance comes before us soon i know we've been talking about it for a long time um and then my only other comment would be that um for the task force i i think i would like to request that a tax force that you know involves a policy that impacts renters includes them as a constituency group i hope the same for the green rental housing ordinance we're often left out of decision making processes that impact us even ones like this that would probably impact us in a positive way so i just hope to see that um included in the future thanks thank you commissioner zucker say thanks again that's great presentation and just couple quick comments of i mean the in the data age i think just just the collecting of this data is so valuable um just to learn from and that hopefully we could also maybe use this in connection and cooperation with the previous topic the of to help kind of guide decisions for when to reuse versus to rebuilds maybe there's some kind of connections we can make between between the data gathering and the embodied energy moving forward thanks jay uh commissioner hook um and then council member briggs yep a great presentation appreciate that um just a recommendation you know age is a lot of times a telling point for where we should be looking but i've been on a lot of buildings in ann arbor i can't even count how many that are in the 20 000 plus square footage probably over 100 easy and um the telling telling issue is if we could get a drone mounted infrared thermography camera we could do it ourselves and pretty much find the buildings without getting too discriminatory but really infrared tells a tremendous story particularly if you can get the roof component in that's going to give you a lot of data on where things are at with a specific building and where to start so good work and i also wanted to add the energy concierge program is a great place to go to for helping assist in this space thanks thanks chuck council member briggs yeah thanks um great presentation and um sounds like it's going to have a lot of great outcomes i just wanted to ask a little bit more about sort of the process that was being set up in terms of the reporting i know the goals is to create accuracy so and how that data might be able to be compiled differently instead of having kind of multiple faces um so dte i know sends me a a monthly benchmarking report against how i fare against other homes and so i was wondering if there was an opportunity for the city to get that information directly from dte if that was an opportunity or if that's the first question i have yeah i'm happy to answer that now yeah um yeah unfortunately uh larger buildings can be a little bit more complicated than single-family homes which is a huge frustrating part and actually a gap that we should have talked more about um so in multi-family buildings have multiple tenants building owners don't automatically have access to information on how much energy their tenants are using or how their tenants are using that space um so it can be a bit of an involved process getting all the information that they need and then also we are working with dt and making that process uh easier with automatic data uploads looking at looking at sorry we're looking at starting doing aggregation thresholds so if there's a certain number of tenants uh building owners wouldn't need to get explicit authorization from each tenant while still perfect protecting data privacy of all those but i i do see where you're coming from um i think out there all of the data exists and it would be great if we could just get it all in one place and it would be easy um but it is also balancing um additional to the energy consumption information um also some information on how the building is used yeah okay okay and maybe and that's part of it i just wonder if there's you know if we're having to work with dt already to make it easier for the building owners to get that information it seems like it'd be easier for them just to have provide authorization you know we up front about providing that information to the city and then some other information that we compile with it and then almost the city provides information back to the building owners on an annual basis as opposed to trying to get the information to the city and then get the information back out to the public so if there's a way to streamline that um and make it easier for folks it seems like we end up with more accuracy and then i wondered obviously we have we're the water utility so obviously we provide it i was just looking at my uh my information um it seems like we should be able to kind of create an algorithm where we have that information already ourselves rather than asking maybe just asking for some baseline data to help inform that is that could you help me understand more kind of that process too sure um so i think the powerful point is that providing that information in a way that's useful for building owners and the market to [Music] consume and so right now from a legal standing i don't believe we can do the easy route of just asking bt for everyone's data and just um you know sharing everyone's uh information without first working with them um so that's one thing that we're working through um but i i do think while we do have the water data on hand it's also helpful just to make sure it's in a really useful um i don't know a format for building owners to use and then starting to get it also if you're renting i want to know you know am i going to pay a lot for water in this building having a bit more of an idea of what your expected utility cost might be yeah no i understand that i'm just trying to make it i'm just trying to understand a little bit better the the process of instead of having acquiring that information kind of trying to drag that information out of folks and then communicate it back out to people if we can somehow incentivize making that making that easier and also doing some of the legwork on our end so that that is um that we're making it really easy for people to do that um since we're since we have the water utility data i guess that's i just maybe want a little bit more information about kind of that moving forward we could talk about it if i may council member yesterday on that too yeah so the analogy there's no question we can legally do benchmarking the analogy that's been given to us is like a relationship that you have with your pcp that i can't call and get larry kerber's medical records but larry could give permission potentially for me to get his medical record he could give me his medical record yeah so that's the the legal landscape utilities are operating in and so we're trying to figure out how it's not it's not a legal question it's a programmatic question so then zach and i are kind of working on staffing like how many interns how are we partnering with the 2030 district what's the role for the concierge to really make this easy for people to get there it's a heavier lift on our side than would be ideal but how do we make it an easier lift for the buildings that are disposing yeah and that's sort of what i'm gonna i assume we couldn't just automatically get it but i that was kind of the piece around having the opportunity for them to authorize it as opposed to having to give us data on whatever you know time cycle that we had wanted it um at and then there was remember if there was one more question on this oh i guess the other piece is obviously um if there isn't compliance what does enforcement look like and i know you mentioned fines but realistically what is what's that look like yeah we have a backup slide that i'm happy to pull up um so it'd be helpful if i didn't overshoot it apologies for this cool so the current fine structure is based off of recommendations from other cities and so it's set at a level that would potentially be more expensive than paying someone to benchmark for you um and so that's why the starting level is every 90 days after 30 days of written of a written notice of not being in compliance um and additionally um we also understand that there might be some difficulties or burdens getting up and running so we really want to focus on if someone's not in compliance helping them get in compliance versus um just defaulting to only loving a fine okay thank you yeah and i guess you know my hope out of this is that i mean this is this is a great program i think it's going to offer the outcomes are really good just making sure that we are not sort of i guess uh the government is being seen as sort of a partner that's um really helping to facilitate and make this easy and to help um help building owners and make better choices in the future as opposed to kind of being yet another thing that sort of people groan that okay now the city needs us to do this you know and it's and it's becomes really challenging to find the staff and the time to be able to enforce effectively so those are my those are my only concerns with that commissioner kerber you're muted thank you for the presentation it's um quite interesting one of the things that i just observe in visiting buildings is just how much energy is wasted and i've seen estimates that the amount of energy that's wasted is in the neighborhood sometimes 30 to 40 percent you see it just going out the door some doors are open i mean so much of it is just just not being taken you know seriously so this is certainly a step in that direction but when i saw the presentation and i saw the average building that does benchmarking gets down to gets two and a half percent savings and i'm kind of shocked i mean that seems to be a relatively small number considering how much energy is actually going out the door how much being wasted so i guess my question is once you have this data what steps would be taken to get that two and a half percent to something really really more significant two or three times that would be the minimum in my opinion um because there's so much that's there that could be saved see or zach you want to tackle that or sure oh go for it zach we work together a lot can you tell um um yeah so what could potentially happen is a there could be a follow-up policy to this that would implement standards that would encourage folks to go beyond that um beyond what the benchmarking reveals through um the low low hanging fruit but um for now i think we're focused on giving um building owners the tools that they can use to manage their data i think that's a really critical first step to any other anything else that could eventually come down the pipeline if it ever were to um we want to make sure that we're setting building owners up for success in a program like this um and are equipping them with with the data management tools that they would need for for that to be successful anyhow um see anything to add to that yeah i go go for it all right um i just wanted to say there's a lot of great processes once the building is benchmarking not reinventing the wheel to uh start incrementally making improvements um and so having a city-wide policy puts us in a really great position to start knowing who to help with that policy or not policy with that process um but i know their books have their hands up missy yeah i just wanted to jump in on that and say i think it's a really good point larry into councilmember briggs kind of question about support what this will give us is really much more nuanced information about our if you will have flyers and our areas for significant improvement and so we can then be much more surgical with limited resources and helping those folks improve and that's information we just don't have today so i think you're you're right if my understanding is from the research this is what happens on its own without a supporting ecosystem as you know we want a supporting ecosystem so we expect further deeper faster improvements uh we just don't have there aren't a lot of examples for us to point to with data so we'll have to we'll have to be on the vanguard on this one okay commissioner cleavy i just want to encourage you guys to not underestimate the amount of hand-holding that this is going to take when you start working with these companies um so um just just make sure you budget for enough time and resources and stuff because i think that's going to initially suck up more time than you think and we averaged when i was at the energy office we found that it took roughly an hour and a half to get per account to get the data from the utilities that's after being put on hold and dropped calls several times um and uh when i worked with the energy star earlier iterations on portfolio manager we found the same thing that you know unless you got a full-time energy manager this is hard and um so i think the energy considers is a really important thing and i encourage you to to think through how much effort you're allocating for hand-holding and helping people get into this system initially if i can comment on that quickly before i go to commissioner mccumber uh jan culbertson was mentioned earlier and she's been involved in this and some of you might be aware of the fact that the ann arbor 2030 district is doing a lot of work in this area i'm interfacing with dpe and energy star portfolio manager and um they're working on some um processes that would automate some of this mark and hopefully address some of your issues i'm sure they're going to be handholding in the beginning but they're they're paving the way for that obviously on the back end of this is probably going to be a lot of hand holding as well too to help start helping people commissioner mccomber um yeah thank you john um you kind of partially answered my question or addressed it which is um unless i missed it i didn't hear that progress had been made on talking to dte about creating a data bridge my understanding is that that's a kind of a critical piece of the successful benchmarking ordinances in other cities so i'm wondering if um zach and dia can talk at that point a little more sacrifice you want to add to what i said just do any more additional details to share yeah i mean so it is a currently a pilot underway where dt is explicitly working on making that automatic data upload from their system into energy star portfolio manager um so it's a work in progress i don't think it's as beautiful or as seamless as everyone wishes it were but we're excited to see where that goes um you know um i think also we're not the only city now in michigan that's looking at doing this and i think as we see more and more cities starting to come up with these ordinances over the next couple years that there'll be more and more pressure from utilities even if it's not set up right away for them to set it up soon because there'll be a lot of demand for this data so it'll be uh perhaps a customer service providing thank you any other questions i have a few hopefully um that we can take care of a minute a piece a one minute update on the timing for the home energy audit disclosure ordinance what's that was mentioned um what's the timeline yeah so that also went through legal review and i think we had a good clearing um so our next step is going to do some stakeholder engagement based off of that um and then i'm not sure what the timeline was for bringing this mandatory commission i'll bump that back to i see yeah next month we had planned to have the first reading of the resolution okay great um a uh a couple of comments um that hopefully are helpful well first of all i want to thank you for um an explanation on the threshold um and what i would encourage um some related to that but just in general is that since this is a new program that there's something that triggers whether it's in the resolution or whether it's just someone going into their calendar that we review um this ordinance um for how successful it is where there's bugs where we can improve it whether or not the threshold being should be increased or decreased or whether we should uh take stretch out the timeline but just maybe something that reviews this um once a year for the first couple of years or something like that and then finally i just wanted to i think it's finally um yeah i think it's the only important thing the university in michigan has a office of student affairs and since the university of michigan has also declared a path to carbon neutrality and set some targets that that office has an off campus housing website and it seemed to me we could collaborate with them to potentially get some of this information out to renters pushing sort of going back to maybe a little bit to commissioner mccumber's statements um to get this information listed on that website we've also talked with simi about potentially getting listed also on that website whether or not they have eb charging um it's just if if we start to trigger uh landlords to start to think about oh this information is starting to get out in the public domain then that may start to encourage them to actually take action so just wanted to offer that up as a suggestion um with that um unless somebody else has any other comments um we can start to wrap this up with the reports um thanks again then zach appreciate your burning not quite the midnight oil with us but nevertheless thanks a lot thanks for having us okay okay we're we're gonna get this meeting done so that um it's not dark where noah and missy are sitting so next is energy report news from the office of sustainability and innovation and also from commissioners and missy if you would like i'm gonna give you an opportunity maybe to address um the caller's um questions about um the landfill solar so if you want to you can do that now or we can maybe do that some other time depending on time yeah for sure absolutely i know we're running late so i will share with the commission after this we just released to counsel last night a one-year report on a20 that chronicles some of the major things that we've worked on and what's coming next i'm just going to send that to everyone uh the highlights are we're coming off of a really fun and exhausting 820 celebration week we had 23 events last week over six days we got to interact hundreds of different ann arborites and it was really invigorating and delightful uh i will share i think it might be an interesting this group john referenced it earlier that we just did a data poll and we're automating a lot more of our data and one of the things we noticed is as of days ago i think it was as of yesterday we have almost the same number of solar permits sold that we had in all of 2020 so we're six permits short and it is june that was as of june 7th so we will absolutely continue just blowing the roof off of solar permits multiple solarize programs running we've got some big ones coming down the pipeline so it's looking really great um the other thing i wanted to share to mr garber's comments is tomorrow the michigan public service commission has their meeting in which they will make a formal ruling on the settlement and the vgp case of which settlement was recommended by the parties involved and then there's one issue that the administrative law judge pulled on and just want to share so we think about the the landfill solar project that's in there one is the cost estimates were really generated absolutely randomly by uh folks in a conversation uh especially with the media so sometimes people talk about 40 or 50 million dollars we don't have cost uh where we are in that process is we've done the technical studies to show that the the site actually can take an injection of 24 megawatts which is a lot of power at a given site and so we understand the upgrades that would have to happen at the at dt's power sites in order to take that infuse and we are about to go to council at their next meeting asking as part of a traditional contract with tetra tech a small pretty modest roughly 60 000 increase to do the environmental impact assessment at the landfill which is the last phase after that comes back which i'm going to assume is going to come back pretty great because we do a lot of monitoring at the landfill we already know a lot about that site because of it being a landfill then if everything is cleared we go to bid and we start getting actual pricing so at that point we'll be able to talk about what this project would cost and whether we want to proceed it is true that we did negotiate with dte that they would own the asset this time and the reason for that is because it's a capital landfill the liability associated with the cap landfill you can imagine if uh mr cleavy was one of the subscribers and his his air quote panel broke that cap landfill he is legally liable for all of the improvements on that landfill and we didn't think that was the best way to come into community solar and so instead we have offered it up as an anchor tenant program where people can subscribe and get the benefits of that without having the liability associated with that asset it's also a bridge to true community solar where we have actual community ownership and we're excited to be working with a number of different stakeholders on that as part of other initiatives that we're working on but this is um this is kind of that that bridge it's also the largest undeveloped property that we have in the city and really the only site we have that's viable for this kind of volume of energy production uh so it is not a go it is not defined but what we got and hopefully what we'll get tomorrow i think around three o'clock is when the ruling will come down is permission from the commission an agreement that dg and ann arbor will work in good faith to see this project uh through to final costing and make a decision about how best to proceed and that is something we cannot do outside of this filing we dt there is there is no need for them to have to say yes this filing is how we got to that point and there are other things i know we talked about in our last commission meeting that we were able to get through the intervention those are just some of the things i wanted to share um we're really excited to see the rooftop solar work progressing and hopefully by the end of this year you'll see even more solar on city facilities stay tuned for more thank you missy uh mark i see you have a hand up and then i'll also open up to other commissioners for news important updates etc go ahead mark just quickly i just want to remind everyone that the great lakes renewable energy association was the first organization outside the city to endorse that project and and uh we continue to be really happy with the way that it's unfolding and the work that missy's doing on this thing so the best of all worlds we're getting now be great if utilities would change their business model to be more in line with ann arbor but whatever thanks missy great job others i have a question while other people mull over whether they have a question in an email exchange with another commissioner actually commissioner kerber i was wondering if there's anybody that can um advise us as a group or also maybe acting individually how we can positively impact legislation that is being considered at the state level to address the cap on distributed generation any thoughts um that anybody wants to share on that there's been letters been sent out by glrea i'm recommending writing members of the house committee um beyond that anybody else want to comment chuck so i i can't talk on behalf of the utility but i will say something that i think is pretty important i've mentioned this probably in the past that the one percent cap was there it was put in place so that we avoided a land a an avalanche of applications and it took about a year and a half to two years for maybe what more than that more like three years for the actual applications to approach that that percentage it took so long that bumping it by a hundred percent more seem to make logical sense and then we'll see what the tren what that trajectory looks like to get to two percent i don't think in talking with my brethren if there's any barrier to keep going the barrier is really based on the infrastructure that exists the missy mentioned that the injection of the landfill solar one of the dte i think 46 kv circuits is at the maximum limit we have these infrastructural issues that if we if we slam circuits with solar the circuits become impacted negatively so we have to go in pieces and this is part of the planning process just to avoid overload if you will i'll just say it at a high level i could get into some really deep weeds if you want me to talk bars and react to power and capacitors and things like that but i'll stop uh i'll open it up again again for general news and updates or comments from commissioners one thing quickly i did want to share and i apologize for not bringing this up before is that there is another bill that we're watching pretty closely and it um very candidly is targeted at us which is the ban on the ban so there's a proposal to ban municipalities from banning natural gas infrastructure which as you know is not something that we have explicitly called out an a20 but um we're watching that really closely and there was supposed to be a vote on it today but it got pulled for some reason and there are a number of different opportunities for folks to sign on and share support however you support or don't support that resolution thank you anyone else otherwise we'll go to working group updates okay working group updates um the only one i think that is still really functioning is transportation electrification carlene can i ask you to give us a brief update on that we've been in discussion um this month about figuring out how we can support multi-unit dwellings um to have electrification for ev charging um we're just exploring what the biggest challenges are right now and what we can do to as a city to help help folks um to make those transitions just add one other thing to that um the working group had uh presentation from may mobility back in april and may mobility is a ann arbor based company that is developing and launching autonomous with autonomous vehicles in several cases um ev vehicles and they just announced and are launching a program in downtown ann arbor in conjunction with a number of other entities to run a pilot essentially in ann arbor they've run pilots in grand rapids and in columbus ohio so we're happy that they're doing that here and i encourage you to check out their website and to have a ride with them and see what it's like to uh run on a autonomous ev vehicle so it's a it's a shuttle actually um anything else uh carlene or missy otherwise i'll give an update okay i'll give an update on the environmental commission so as usual uh look to legistar if anything i tell you sounds interesting we had an update from the city on uh the gis tools that the city has four natural features it's actually a really cool website where you're able to look at all different kinds of natural features from trees to forest fragments to wetlands topography there are photographs that you can look at dating back to 1947 essentially through the present that you can overlay on those to see how tree cover has changed and so on and so forth so if you're interested in anything related to natural features um the city offers that and also washington county does as well so if that's that's a tool that could be of interest to you we had a presentation from a seas group that is working with the natural features working group of the environmental commission and the city on a project to enhance that data they are going into selected plots and identifying uh tree species and they're matching that with remote sensor data lidar data and some other data to be able to do a much more complete mapping of the tree canopy in ann arbor that would allow even the identification of individual species that's particularly helpful for example if we want to attack invasive species um and also you know have a good good sense of what where where we have particularly important specimens that are not um lining the streets and where we have information maintained by the city the other thing that we did is we handled a number of issues related to the gelman plume had a report on some issues perceived by the city and others uh related to the monitoring program that gelman has proposed there was a resolution that was considered in past and then finally let's see what was the last thing oh yeah there was some just quick discussion about uh how the new adu uh ordinance might affect natural features um and that was just discussed that was tabled and we didn't take any any action on that so those are things that were discussed in the environmental commission um i think that's it unless anybody has any questions for any of us otherwise we'll move to public comment so i have to read my spiel here this is the second last opportunity for persons to speak for up to three minutes and provide public comment if you're watching on ctn call 888-7 or 877-853-5247 and enter the meeting id eight 913-5783 four five zero two this information is also displayed in the meeting agenda and on the video feed um city staff will select callers that have raised their hand one by one using the last three digits of your phone number in order to electronically raise your hand and indicate your desire to speak please press star 9 on your phone and you will hear an automated message that the host is allowing you to speak when speaking please move to a quiet area movie any background noise on televisions so that we can hear you clearly and then finally please state your name and where your address is at the beginning of your comments nobody okay we'll wait 30 seconds and leslie while we're waiting that 30 seconds i thought i would just mention um i talked at the beginning of the meeting we had a number of people stepping off the commission um we're in the process of reviewing applications the mayor ultimately makes nominations and those are voted on by city council but missy josh arlene and i are looking at applications we met once to look at those we had a really big and excellent slate of candidates and so we're working on filling those positions and hopefully we'll have action and on that soon and have some new members of the of the commission you see anybody okay so items for the next uh meeting uh agenda any proposals uh amber you have your hand up yeah i have two but i have a question first it says on the agenda that the next meeting is in august so is next month the working meeting or is our next meeting for july um actually we we talked about meeting agendas going forward um august typically um we haven't had meetings um just because there's a lot of people that are traveling or vacation or you know summer break kind of stuff so um we we haven't finalized um either of those we also typically have working sessions um missy or carlene did we actually we didn't um we added it as a discussion to say should we meet in august because i think we weren't sure so we wanted the body to decide that's why it was on there yeah yep so what where what are people's thoughts um let's see i i had a piece of paper with a bunch of different ideas that we talked about i don't know missy do you have them in front of you by chance let's see here so um july we talked about as missy mentioned earlier the home energy disclosure ordinance and we also talked about getting an update from matt groskoff on what's going on at viridian at county farm they have some interesting developments there with a microgrid and solar and things like that so that was um one of the things that we talked about doing um and then yeah so that was those are some possibilities for a july meeting are people up for a july meeting anybody else propose other topics i mean one topic is is clearly um reconsidering the or the resolution that we talked about this evening as well on low embodied carbon and construction and benchmarking if possible yeah yeah those things i had two other things that i was going to propose for topics for next month or whenever it's in the future one is that i would like to request that we invite the ann arbor for public power group back um for follow-up conversation since there were some lingering questions from commissioners continued issuance in the public comments and then follow up from hall of fame presentation that ken mentioned um i'd also like to propose a resolution around this and the other thing is to be interested in follow-up um to the rmi beneficial electrification presentation we heard last month with some conversations around next steps i'm not sure if this is being talked about in a in a working group or electrification but um i had a conversation recently with a homeowner who is trying to electrify and they identified several barriers even though they're interested in taking the next steps on their home and i can i can send a detailed list of what they told me um for whenever we discuss this but basically they were saying that there's a dearth of heat pumps available in the area and there's more interest than there are pumps available right now partially because of the presentation around heat pumps that have happened and there's also a need for contractors who are able to do this work and then of course there's huge issues with costs just parodies and billing issues um the standard systems um so i just i thought that you know these all seem to be ones that can't be beared by individual homeowners or business owners and that we should be you know working collectively to to try to make it so that these aren't things that would impede someone who's interested from doing these on their home um and i also just wanted to add that i really appreciated that both presentations today were both really informative but also came paired with ordinances so i just really like the model of learning and then being able to discuss and take action on what we've learned um or maybe what we've already known but got reviewed so thanks excellent points missy amber to that point if you could send anything that you have from the resident to us too this is one of the things that is the priority for the second year of a20 for staff so we are actively working on massive electrification work and support services contractor training manufacturer discounts homeowner uh incentives so please please please we'd love the commission to take it up too but don't wait um if there's something we can do where we stand ready on that's in that sense yeah actually there's something that i failed to mention too as far as working group updates there is a working group that is focused on concierge services um we're in the information gathering phase um chuck is on it wayne appleyard josh um a couple other people i'm sure i'm forgetting and we've divided that up and we're in in the process of soliciting information from other cities on their programs so that will also hopefully address some of these issues that you're referring to ember but yeah there's also supply chain issues and training technician issues and a whole bunch of things like that that all impact us um so i noted your comments um i think it sounds like we're up for a july meeting anybody have a problem with that and then um in our july meeting we can talk about the august meeting and generally missy joss carlene and i have a meeting a week before that where we're talking about agenda ideas so hopefully we'll be able to bring a proposal about august um to the meeting in july how does that sound okay so um i think i'm the one that's fading the most and almost you're losing me so it's an appropriate time to adjourn this meeting and uh thank everybody for your attention i enjoyed the meeting mark go ahead you have to raise your hand thing at the end um missy and paul are are going to be presenting the glra's clean energy seminar this thursday talking about community choice aggregation within the context of michigan's current electric choice law so that's going to happen and then um ember we're also having a a c detroit clean energy seminar on municipalitization later this uh in august as well so both of these things are i think are important so yeah you're all invited as usual to uh tap into that presentation on thursday thank you mark great it is 8 54.

the bridgeton lions club established in 1987 created a 500 scholarship to memorialize his community-minded spirit and to who display academic ability leadership qualities attitude of caring for others before announcing our recipient i would like to recognize mr john simon from the virgin alliance club please stand [Applause] this year's recipient is hunter mcchesney [Applause] the 500 cumberland county council of education associations frank marcy memorial scholarship award winner is a child or family member of someone who is an njea member a student must demonstrate the following characteristics humanitarianism leadership sportsmanship citizenship integrity desire and determination this year's recipient is alexis spencer [Applause] scarpa tech pto scholarship is awarded to individuals who have shown active pursuit in the educational experience here at scarpa tech they've also formed bonds and connections with the school these pursuits and connections are reflected in the pto mission statement each scholarship is in the amount of 500 this year's recipients are grace halter and jack kruger [Applause] one 500 scholarship is generously awarded by the oldest insurance company in the state of new jersey cumberland mutual insurance this student possesses a minimum 3.5 gpa and intends to pursue a career in the field of information technology or business this year's recipient is michael green [Applause] i would now like to introduce odarizi chairman and president of the board of trustees of the italian cultural foundation of south jersey to speak on behalf of the italian cultural foundation [Applause] congratulations class of 2021.

325 kids have had a jump start or elementary has concluded their summer session i believe courtney's done on miss up and down on thursday and the high school goes june 30.

mauricio's family would like to recognize these two students for exhibiting empathetic social awareness in the community this scholarship is funded through the deaths against depression non-profit organization which the family has started to create a larger awareness of teen depression congratulations to andrew luck and katherine the ptso persistence and grit award was established by forkfield high school ptso in 2019 the persistence and grid award recognizes two senior students with an excellent work ethic determination persistence positive attitude and they demonstrate a consistent desire to improve academically the recipients of this award will be receiving a fifty dollar gift card along with a book by angela duckworth entitled rick the power of passion and perseverance congratulations to lizzy gomez and ching bang's son [Applause] the next scholarship is from the vhs booster club community spirit scholarship the following student is very active within the brookfield high school community and the athletic community in particular whereas in a whether as an athlete team manager spectator or fan his overall high school experience has been enhanced by various roles in our athletic community making him the winner of this year's bhs community spirit scholarship congratulations to logan wayne uh the next scholarship is the bhs booster club class act sportsmanship scholarship this award recognizes a student that actively demonstrates the principles of the cia city class act initiative brookfield strives to follow an established set of guidelines for behavior at sporting events and has a student-led group to monitor and address sportsmanship concerns within the school the ciac serves as the sponsor for the program which aims to provide a framework enabling schools to promote encourage and monitor positive sportsmanship within their department congratulations to this year's recipient brazen sylvester great [Applause] thank you mrs griffin i appreciate your time and effort coming up here i know this is not the easiest thing and as my team up is sitting up in front of the stage i know they can't wait to get off we're in the home stretch we're moving now uh let's be thankful for the air conditioning working uh one thing that uh some people certainly have learned over uh the kovitz stay at home don't doom scroll on facebook it's probably not worth it you know there's a lot of stuff out there that's negative don't believe everything you read air conditioning works well moving forward [Applause] the connecticut association of school fine arts awards is a program annually that honors two outstanding seniors from each of the member schools in the state who excel in performing or visual arts these students must also possess the supporting qualities of scholarship and leadership so these two students actually have already been recognized they don't have a certificate for them but i'd ask them to stand at this time and we can recognize jenna dorazio and katie jorgensen there you are there's katie and i can't see the gemini others congratulations something dr burrell knows about the connecticut association of public school superintendents certificate of excellence on behalf of our superintendent dr john barrell we would like to congratulate two students who receive certificates of excellence and special recognitions from senator richard blumenthal based on community service and service to others academic prowess and leadership service to the school community congratulations to lila stubey and benjamin jurgy [Applause] in the home stretch right hour and a half right now not too bad the next scholarship is the viola martini wildlife scholarship it's one of the largest scholarships that we do give out every year viola martini widely became the first town clerk in 1931.

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on behalf of the italian cultural foundation it is my pleasure as chairman of the board of trustees to award nine one thousand dollar scholarships to selected graduates of scarpa tech each of these students are awarded the scholarship because of their commitment to their education and perseverance to succeed it is now my honor to recognize each of these students receiving the scholarships trinity bignani ronald barnaby jose helen green sam hand elizabeth lacerez alexis spencer luke vastano and jason wheeler [Applause] the following scholarships are on behalf of the vineland rotary club to honor deceased members the first of these scholarships is entitled tribute to deceased rotarians in the amount of one thousand dollars this year's recipient is alexis spencer [Applause] the second vineland rotary memorial scholarship is to honor deceased vineland rotary member reverend c ross collins in the amount of fifteen hundred dollars this year's recipient is elena murray [Applause] the vineland rotary club established the one thousand dollar edward f duffy memorial scholarship to honor the memory of respected attorney municipal court judge and long-time rotarian edward f duffy his family and friends will continue to fund it in his honor the recipient is a student who plans to pursue a career in law or paralegal studies and has maintained a 2.7 gpa or higher this year's recipient is millie martinez sosa [Applause] the one thousand dollar spirit of rotary scholarship is for a student who has achieved academic success while also enthusiastically leading a life of service to others this year's recipient is connor thomas [Applause] the grapevine newspaper created the hometown heroes project in february of 2009 to celebrate cumberland county's everyday heroes who embody and demonstrate the values of courage compassion character humanity personal initiative and responsibility now renamed snj today each year the newspaper honors two dozen citizens from the cumberland county area who make the community a better place to live in and work through their charitable and or civic volunteerism all proceeds from the annual hometown heroes gala are donated to charitable organizations including the vineland rotary club's scholarship fund scholarship is awarding 2 500 to a student who demonstrates the same values as our hometown heroes through charitable or civic duty this year's recipient is zeal patel [Applause] the edward l bernhardt memorial scholarship of one thousand dollars is for a graduating scarpa tech interact member this student demonstrates positive character and scholastic ability this scholarship is not restricted to college or university training but shall also include training or schooling in non-academic fields or endeavors this year's recipient is jocelyn jones [Applause] so [Applause] i would like to introduce miss marie francischini and mr ronald franceschini jr toward the ronald j franceschini senior memorial scholarship [Applause] wow good evening it is my pleasure tonight to present this scholarship of one thousand dollars in memory of my husband ronald to a deserving student malachi griffin for his honesty integrity and leadership [Applause] so the elks lodge of millville is awarding two 250 scholarships to students who exemplified mastery in their program of study this year's recipients are elizabeth lazarez [Applause] and elena murray [Applause] i would now like to introduce miss tabitha gentiletti class of 2020 president and alumni chloe swift katie kennedy and teresa klugevich to present the tech class of 2020 alumni scholarship [Applause] if there is one word to describe the class of 2021 it is resilient and believe me we the class of 2020 know exactly what you have gone through your strength courage and dedication throughout not just your senior year but your entire high school career have not gone unnoticed in honor of your brilliant resilience the alumni association established by the class of 2020 would like to award the following scholarships this year's recipients are sam hand [Applause] jocelyn jones [Applause] and finally matthew carroll [Applause] the investors bank scholarship of 500 is for a student who is pursuing college and has achieved exceptional grades the academic transcript weighs heavily in the decision to award this scholarship this year's recipients are isabella edwards [Applause] and melody mercado [Applause] the shi international scholarship of 500 is for a student who plans to continue their education at an nj state university college or community college the student must be pursuing cyber security or information technology this year's recipient is michael green [Applause] the robin spirit scholarship in the amount of five hundred dollars to be awarded to a student who is involved with tech clubs activities and organizations this award will be given at the discretion of the student services team this award is being given by ms patricia robbins retired assistant principal from scarpa tech miss robbins oversaw the student services team clubs and organizations and school activities during her tenure ms robbins fostered the development of student interests and promoted student involvement club development and pride in career and technical education ms robbins witnessed many students flourish as a result of their engagement in extracurricular activities these students have left their mark at tech and their school spirit will be long-standing their example will allow others to follow in their path of belonging acceptance and fulfillment as said by tony robbins success without fulfillment is the ultimate failure before i announce our recipient i would like to recognize miss patricia robbins in the audience tonight for supporting our students through the robin spirit scholarship this year's recipient is destiny hawkins [Applause] i would now like to welcome dr rossi president of ccasa to the podium to present the ccasa allen associates insurance scholarship in memory of stanley allen the cumberland county association of supervisors and administrators along with allen associates insurance group present two scholarships in memory of stanley h allen these 250 awards are presented to students whose outstanding performance in their program has set them apart and they are planning to continue to pursue higher education or employment within their trade this year's recipients are taylor rothen mall [Applause] and elea watson [Applause] congratulations [Applause] at this time i'd like to introduce mrs darlene barber deputy director of the cumberland county board of county commissioners and former tech superintendent to the stage to present her to scholarships mrs barber [Applause] good evening everybody congratulations to all the award winners and to all the parents in the audience on behalf of the director of commissioner director darrella who could be with us tonight and one of our fellow commissioners over here carol musko and the rest of the commissioners i want to congratulate you all this 250 award is presented to a student graduate of the strive program who shows dedication to both athletic and scholarship achievement the student selected hashtag leadership and desire to continue their education this year's strive scholarship recipient is anthony hunter [Applause] congratulations strive outstanding scholar award the 250 career and technical outstanding scholar award is presented to a student graduate of the strive program who has shown dedication and determination by maintaining the highest academic average this year's drive scholarship recipient recipient is tyrese tyrese vaquero did i say that correctly tyrese [Applause] congratulations [Applause] at this time i'd like to invite mr ronald francischini president of the cc tech foundation board to the stage to assist me in presenting the foundation scholarships mr christine [Applause] founded in 1999 through a donation from the estate of mr mel camp the cumberland county technical education center foundation an independent non-profit community-based corporation formed for the purpose of providing increased community support for the cumberland county technical education center by directing available resources towards areas of identified need the cc tech foundation provides an effective mechanism through which community resources can be allocated for worthwhile programs and scholarships for our graduating students this foundation is a vehicle for informing the public channeling support for the students of cctech enhancing community participation and furthering the quality of education that is provided by the cumberland county board of vocational education this mission was expanded in 2017 with the generous donation of one million dollars by mr and mrs john f scarpa and their foundation since 1999 the tech foundation board has awarded scholarships and grants to both graduating seniors and adult students that has totaled close to three hundred thousand dollars tonight we recognize the class of 2021 and the recipients of the cctech foundation scholarships joining us here to celebrate these recipients are following the following members of the foundation board both past and present when i say your name if you could just stand first mrs darlene barber former cc tech superintendent our president mr ron francischini [Applause] foundation board members mr jim gruccio mr carlos mercado [Applause] and this is carol musso also liaisons to the foundation board are is our board president mrs ruth hans [Applause] we'll begin with twenty two one thousand five hundred dollar scholarships that are being awarded to students from each of skarpatek's cte programs we will list each award winner by program this year's recipients are from the automotive technology program alexander garofels and anthony capitano congratulations from our construction trades program christopher fennelly [Applause] and aiden kiley [Applause] congratulations [Applause] from our cosmetology program fernanda ortiz sandoval [Applause] and brianna bannerman [Applause] congratulations from our culinary arts program jazani lopez [Applause] from our engineering program trinity bagnati [Applause] trista cleaves [Applause] haley purits [Applause] and luke vastano [Applause] [Music] okay mr franciscani we're going to switch hopefully gave me easy names hello everyone so health science and medicine program we have four recipients jocelyn jones [Applause] elena [Applause] and mackenzie robbins [Applause] [Music] okay our information to technology program joy of self [Applause] julie's shoe [Applause] law enforcement program colin green [Applause] angelina weber [Applause] studio production and broadcasting have a difficulty saying this name ron francischini [Applause] courtney hand [Applause] all right don't get a big head congratulations [Applause] welding technology jacob goblins [Applause] great job [Applause] at this time i would like to invite foundation board member mr james garuccio cfo of the burns cull automotive group to the stage for our next scholarship [Applause] good evening everyone and congratulations to all the award winners and most importantly to their family that here supporting them tonight the burns call automotive group scholarship is a 5 000 award to a graduating senior who plans to pursue a career within the automotive field is enrolled in the automotive technology program and has maintained a 3.5 gpa or higher within the automotive program this year's award winner has excelled while here at tech his drive determination has inspired not only his classmates but his professors it's with great honor and pleasure that the rk kia subaru chevrolet and toyota vineland present this award tonight to mr austin ditzel [Applause] so i was talking to mr gruccio and he indicated that he has extended warranties for all of you if you need it whether you own a car or not okay so we're moving on to uh the burns coal automotive group scholar now where am i going turn the page the mel camp memorial scholarship this is a 7 500 scholarship is awarded in memory of mr mel camp a retired tech school tour coordinator when mr camp passed he donated his estate to the tech foundation it is through his generous donation that the tech foundation was formed this award is for a graduating senior who holds a 3.5 gpa or higher with in his or her program and is continuing their practice in one areas automotive technology construction trades cosmetology culinary arts or welding this year's recipient is melanie robertson [Applause] congratulations [Applause] i'd again like to ask mr guccio to join us on the stage our last scholarship of the evening is the john f scarpa legacy scholarship this scholarship in the amount of ten thousand dollars is being awarded to a graduating senior who plans to pursue a degree a degree and career in one of the following areas information technology engineering health science and medicine law enforcement or tv studio broadcasting this graduate has earned a 3.7 overall gpa or higher on behalf of mr scarpa who could not be here with us this evening and before the winner is revealed i would like to take this opportunity to share why this scholarship is awarded and the story of its namesake [Music] growing up in vineland new jersey in the 1940s and 50s john f scarpa was a bright and inquisitive boy curious about how things worked he wanted to understand the basis of things and the systems in which they were applied ultimately his interest would be in communication of sound music the spoken word and how they in proper combination could improve modern society later this would continue beyond john's business success and entrepreneurial fame enabling him to encourage others to do as he has done create and improve the mechanisms that support our lives it was in my seventh grade science class i've always had an interest in science mr ray our science teacher uh had us build a crystal radio set while i was in school there was a professor he came in and spoke about cable television beginning in the western part of pennsylvania the hills and mountains where people would go stick an antenna on top of a mountain and then run a wire down into town and they had television it always fascinated me in 1982 john saw the bright future of communications in the cellular telephone industry he joined forces with sam aziz and together they launched a publicly traded company called american cellular network amsel john's success grew and with it his reputation not just for making wise business decisions but for his consideration and generosity john's desire to pay it forward is deeply rooted in his upbringing his mother taught him to give to others to help them achieve their dreams he in turn instilled this belief in others the cornerstone of john's life remains deeply grounded in his family his wife janna his two daughters grandchildren and his siblings well i think without question you know what once once that reputation gets out that you're you're a giver not just a taker um people are going to want to come to you and and do business with you and and get involved with you well i think one of john's main contributions in terms of success in business he connects with people you can't do good business with good people unless you can connect with it and that you actually comes from they recognize that he cares about him they recognize that he is compassionate they recognize great integrity they can trust him and in in trusting is more emotional than physical and once you develop a trust with john you follow his leads he's very giving of his time from that standpoint and certainly he's demonstrated a high degree of philanthropy in the region here in new jersey he's done a lot of things for various organizations he does so much with philanthropy whether it's the police foundation that he founded among others with uh in palm beach the the entrepreneur ship that that he fostered at villanova and the law school part of his giving is in an area that gives of itself education john took what he had learned and created and imbued it with the principle that guides his life see what needs to be done and do it i think john because of his background you know his family and vineland just you know working to make a living partner and always had a goal it sort of drove him to be what he ended up being today a wealthy philanthropic entrepreneur that was successful in almost every endeavor but part of the motive was to help his family and make a contribution to vineland where he grew up that let's give these kids a chance they can do it there's some very very bright young men and young women there and i told them when we had the dedication of that scarpa tech i looked at every one of the students i said your job is to get out of here and my job is to help you find a way to get a scholarship giving other people an opportunity to take their opportunities enhanced by john scarpa's dollars and move on maybe end up being another john scarper somewhere down the road that's why he's an entrepreneur that's why he's a philanthropic he's empathetic he he likes to help other people and through his efforts and through the people that helped him he has continually given back ever since becoming successful but i want to see these kids get an opportunity in their lives it's the only way to break through this thing without education you lack knowledge without knowledge you lack confidence without confidence you lack success bet on yourself and you will accomplish goals that you did not even know [Applause] it's an honor to be here to speak on behalf of john who regretfully couldn't be heard this evening but promises he'll be here next week to share his thoughts with you in person during your graduation um having known john you know since i was a young child um i just there's one takeaway from that that video that i think really should be imported upon you uh there are a lot of uh accolades and that john has received over the years and and you know he spoke some great words to you but one of the key tenets that you know he taught me and is don't forget where you came from okay he has done wonderful things across this country across actually the world uh but he never forgets his roots he never forgets the people that helped him get where they are today so i think it's important for each and every one of you as you graduate to remember that that this is you are a wonderful opportunity you've had a tremendous education you've won these wonderful awards and you have great success ahead of you and he would want you to remember that and i'm sure he'll say it next week that let's remember those that brought us here and let's when you enjoy your successes in life you know repay that black back to your community from which you came so congratulations to all of you and tonight as you heard his vision is to help each one of you go forward this year's recipient of the john f s carpet legacy scholarship has certainly been hard working motivated and focused the student has achieved the gpa of 4.75 didn't know that was possible that's awesome [Applause] the student is a member of the national honor society an echs associates graduate unbelievable and strong participation in medical math and the science and environmental club has had the distinct honor of being the senior class historian and the vice president of this great class for two years the student has been involved in many community activities and has done a tremendous amount both here at tech and now in her community united i say more this recipient has been accepted at the university of pennsylvania to study in their college of arts and science as a biology major major it is with great honor and privilege this evening that i asked miss zeal patel to come forward [Applause] enemies [Applause] could we have another round of applause for all of our winners this evening [Applause] before we continue just on behalf of the cctech foundation board what talented students we have we were just amazed um my my colleagues and i had to work hard because there was just so much you guys do so much i just uh we're just so proud of you so you leave here you've got something do something with it and be kind be nice and just help help everyone that you can't don't forget us because health science i'm going to need you in my nursing home for god's sakes also um mr joe is selling the floor mats too just to let you know thank you very much [Applause] all right so i have a prop for the next event [Music] so we have fabulous students it's a 50-50 split you all as their family contribute to their success here this evening and thank you for that the other 50 percent are phenomenal teachers support staff that day in and day out get to interact with these superstars in the class of 2021 and all the other classes here at tech each year we have the phenomenal task of selecting one of those rock star teachers to honor here as our teacher of the year so it is my distinct pleasure to talk a little bit about our 2021 teacher of the year with her lengthy and dedicated career as a registered nurse this teacher of the year has industry knowledge and a true passion for health care to her students she implements innovative and engaging methods in her classroom that allows students to enjoy their activities display mastery of content and grow confident in their choice of career pathway always approaching everyone with a kind heart and an open mind she forges strong interpersonal relationships with students and staff that not only allow for a more productive learning environment but provide an example of how we should all act even when we are stressed to the max outside of the classroom she is the hosa advisor for skarpatek hosa is the international career and technical student organization for our future healthcare professionals she plans organizes and successfully hosts each year the annual hosa southern regional leadership conference this event brings hundreds of students from schools all over our state to compete and her work with hosa has helped place scarpa tech at the center of this all-important competition more importantly her work with the students of hosa has helped produce countless awards medals and yes national champions yet for her teaching a full school day and serving as an advisor just aren't enough whenever tech hosts school-wide events it is with a hundred percent certainty that she will be in attendance sometimes not only is she in attendance but she's an active participant such as the time she danced on the stage is danny zuko from greece for the lip sync battle or her very short-lived career as a professional athlete during the staff basketball game other times she attends events just so she can support her students and cheer them on her enthusiasm and wit bring a lot of fun to tech events and i think it's fair to say that her attitude has added to our school spirit now before i announce our award recipient for teacher of the year i want to share something that just occurred a couple weeks ago so this teacher and i shared affinity for disney and i was walking down the hallway during one of our spirit weeks she was dressed in head to toe of baby yoda so the hat her mask her shirt head to toe baby yoda so our teacher of the year mrs charbertsol i wear my mickey ears my tech mickey ears for you so please join me in congratulating our 2021 teacher of the year mrs char bergdahl [Applause] now if you're going to give me a mic you guys i am so fortunate to work with amazing administrative leadership um i didn't know i was going to speak um our amazing board thank you are my amazing peers [Applause] but most important i get to come to work if you want to call it work every day to see you guys that is the best part i mean i don't even this isn't even a job i get to come spend time with you i teach you a little something you teach me a little something maybe it's the new dance or the new tick tock thing i'm open to it i'm good um but just please remember a few things laughter is the best medicine and in the words of a famous elephant dumbo don't just fly soar it's yours go for it [Applause] on behalf of the board of vocational education the cctech foundation board all of our benefactors and scholarship heroes that are joining us here this evening and of course the administration and staff of scarpa tech it is my honor to congratulate you once again and wish you all of the best this is the most exciting week so enjoy every moment celebrate with your families and thank you to our families who have joined us here this evening for these outstanding students one more round of applause [Applause] thank you for joining us and have a wonderful evening you

and so i i just wanted to commend the administration facilities and i.t for helping get this done they did it right after the school year is over they started virtually the next day so they haven't had a break those teachers haven't had a break we wish to express our appreciation for their hard work yes absolutely we've already talked about the the points of reunification and wildfire events i will add to that that our district office and campus leadership teams and leadership will be working on continuation of operations people still need to get paid we still have to have an accounting of a number of things that are going on on campus if we are asked to evacuate or if another federal agency assumes control of any of our facilities provided safe to do so we will leave behind a team to to monitor what's going on that's the other takeaway i got from fellow superintendents don't just evacuate your area leave 20 or 30 people there to watch out for things to monitor key control keeping doors locked and you know once that the group knows we're watching they tend to behave better they get people from all over the country some as young as 18 or 19 to help fight these fires and so we'll we have those plans we're we're talking about that and we're making sure that we have the capacity to keep the vital operation components going finance doesn't stop or hr functions it could be wide and varied if we suffered at something locally you know we'd have maybe health issues or health insurance issues one to make sure our employees are covered and understand what it is normally those happen in the worst transitions we might be trying to get contracts out who knows what it is but we're looking at those things that matter most that we need to make sure we're prepared for have we even involved a city in these plans so that the city government's available and cooperative or maybe assist in some way yes in the in the larger effort absolutely i spent the earlier in the spring i spent the day at the ready set go meeting they had it at the pinetop timber fire department and i was one of maybe 35 local leaders that was there we'll continue to participate in those efforts we'll communicate with the town i communicate with the town manager on mountain meadows park any asset they have they're willing to help us out and vice versa but we're we're trying to pretty much mirror whatever else the fire department recommends this is how you stage it this is how you evacuate and we're trying to think about the business components as well as the the physical safety what other aspects of the operations must move forward okay i i will add in the in this part megan made me think of it with their experience and with our exceptional students are our principals all of them know the kids that have exceptional needs will have a plan to make sure those children have the individual support they need to be properly transported supervised and taken care of during any such evacuation the last thing aboard is just the from the fab lab to robotics to our cte programs to our athletics and music setting covert aside another great year very proud of our young women and young men despite all that kids just keep going teachers keep teaching i.t guys and gals keep showing up and uh i also think that the it was just no small feat to deploy gather redeploy gather and redeploy it one more time and gather 2 000 computers and and and roughly 1200 hot spots there was just a lot of work and coordination between our it team who are our br superstars the principals lauren ryan was in a associate essentially a dean position working teacher on assignment worked tirelessly and of course courtney they worked very well together as a team with our other departments jb's not here our facilities teams were great transportation was great food service all of those things don't just happen that's a lot of teamwork uh professional people our finance brenda's team was recognized again with another award uh we have we things are well run we're we're very fortunate to have people that have the level of experience they do brad pico i was talking to a board member earlier has over 25 years experience writing grants and in that space nate has a lot of he worked at a school district with 70 000 kids we're very fortunate to find people like dave kelly that come and want to work here at blue ridge within our hiring practices with mary and the efforts that she's making and we're streamlining those processes i'm i'm just proud of the team's effort thank you any questions from the ward in regard to anything that's been discussed i think i can speak for the board and say i'm proud of what we have here at blue ridge and it humbles me to be a part of what this administration is doing and i think we have the best in the whole region when it comes to education facilities and activities and education that's the primary thing so thank you very much from the board i know dr wright will tear up on occasion trying to talk trying to talk through his emotions on how much he loves the people that work here and uh i appreciate that there very much so if there's nothing further we only need to announce that our next regularly scheduled board meeting will be july 13th in this location at 5 pm so if there's nothing further i have a motion to adjourn i have a motion from chuck i'll second it all in favor

her office was in the basement of town hall which later became the joyce memorial library and is now the brookfield museum and historical society the people that remember viola best describe her as being an amazing caregiver she enjoyed baking and sewing and even conducted much of the town's business out of her own home don't do that anymore the viola martini scholarship is presented to a student who embodies these exemplary qualities this recipient should intend to pursue an education in the health care profession have a good work ethic and show enthusiasm for taking care of others this year's recipient will receive a 5 000 annually renewable scholarship do the math quickly that's twenty thousand over four years congratulations to angela mangini [Applause] and certainly not to be outdone is the raymond g wydleck scholarship he's the son of george and viola widely he was born raised and lived his whole life in brookfield during his working years he was an accountant tree farmer and held the position of brookfield town treasurer for 30 years many of ray's stories about growing up in brookfield are documented in his book titled the ironworks district which can be purchased at the brookfield historical society the raymond g widely scholarship is presented to a student who plans to pursue an education in aerospace research scientific research or mathematics the recipient must have a good work ethic and possess excellent critical thinking skills this year's recipient will as well receive a five thousand dollar annually renewable scholarship for up to twenty thousand dollars congratulations to alyssa mitchell [Applause] all right next up is the president's award for educational excellence this is a letter from uh president joe biden and dr jill brighton it says congratulations on receiving the 2021 president's education award america is a country where we are one and unite through tough times you are the future leaders of this great nation and through your determination and resilience to push forward you have reached this ultimate accomplishment of being recognized for this prestigious award dr biden and i are pleased to congratulate you in receiving the 2021 president's education award we are honored to join your family friends school and community in celebrating your wonderful achievement jill and i send our best wishes and blessings keep challenging yourself be kind and while we continue to fight the coven 19 pandemic be sure to wear a mask [Applause] okay i've got to get my list because this is where i really get tested so students that are awarded this presidential award for educational excellence there's a couple qualifying factors you have to have a gpa of 4.0 or higher also have excellent sat scores we have several students to award tonight typically how this goes i say a name and then i try to space it out and then i tend to hear a clap and then i have to go faster and faster so what i'm going to ask everybody to do is as i read these names please come up front there are so many kids that do so well in our district that have such great grades i couldn't possibly spend the time handing them out right away so what we're going to do is have everybody when i call your name come up we're going to line up across the front of the stage right and at the end of this program you can come up and mrs genovese and mrs negre will give you your actual certificate so here goes here's all the names batangi nellicherry christopher essino adarsh [Applause] jessa wong emily capel alexander gorsetz kaitlyn catherine jurgen katherine mcgrady azza henner david zabarelli emma bess connie seguerra kylie moody daniel drysdale zoe garvez brade sylvester [Music] helena burke [Applause] katya kirsten uh gia zoo ariana landsbot nicholas schilling ezon khan nicole circa theresa kirchey connor carlson benjamin yerrigan vince diesta susan roddick hayley orbindorfer logan white shawn adams oh this is such a small print i don't know what happened i lost it uh lila stooby michael texera sam weigel abby ashley lynch julie bendarick dana darwish mariella nella nathan darnell rachel thomas joseph bernard benjamin mangold theresa leupold mason polsslar buschlar sorry rebecca case chloe palagonia ethan shapiro and faith best name i asked faith today in the hallway how to say her name correctly and she told me mr bellanda it's mechanic without the mug so faith canic and that's it come on up come on up here i want you all to line up if you heard your name we got to get a picture just line up right in front of the stage it's pretty impressive when you look at this all our students in a 4.0 or higher wow look at that it's good for the camera all right dr burrell's got the camera out he's got the wide-angle lens everybody look at dr gorill he's over here on this left side sorry left side everybody's smart there you go all right thank you congratulations i'm gonna have you come up at the end and get your awards and our last two awards of the evening to give out um are our class of 2021 salutatorian and valedictorian first up is our class of 2021 salutatorian christopher eston come on congratulations chris another great comment when he gets his medal oh it's heavy it is heavy and last but certainly not least our valedictorian for the class of 2021 the thangy nellicherry christmas tanki verified it is heavy so i leave you with a few last words i want to send a special thank you to our local scholarship providers who generously support our brookfield high school students it's so appreciated let you know that scholarship checks certainly will be mailed home for those who do not get them already tonight um and then leave you with a couple other quotes you can read these as you as you head out tonight before we call students up to get their presidential awards i will say a few more things i'm so looking forward to seeing everyone on saturday knock on wood weather looks good folks like cool so we're excited about that to my seniors make sure you get all your stuff in tomorrow so that you get your cap and gown at 1 30 in the cafeteria you'll see mrs uh dark angelo mrs griffin and mrs sheidy there handing out caps and gowns tomorrow along with your tickets uh and your parking passes so make sure you get that stuff in um what i did it was a last minute decision i don't want anybody to to be feel left out um but uh i left out the forks congratulations have a good night so anybody that's eight l is the company misses genevieve's a to l for your presidential certificates and m to z can go see mrs negri a to l mrs genevieve and m to z point c mixes negri thank you and have a great night you go

okay i may have a motion to adopt the agenda all right uh mr kurzner is i mr hyde mrs duncan hi mrs robertson please join me in the pledge of allegiance i pledge allegiance to the pride 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 in my next order of business just visit his comments abc want to come in no okay we'll move right along then um do we have any governing board reports the superintendent's report thank you madam president um summer school um our numbers are approximately and then all the periods between 25 20 and 25 at least for a teacher uh a little better than i thought they'd be i just like one this evening for that 38 students today in uh five periods lost i've seen about except for special especially it has um during the school year mr edmund is on vacation this week he will return next week and probably take vacation after that's the remainder of the month thank you this governor is here and so i appreciate that i appreciate it for supporting him being here a month before his official contract i've been in his shoes and walking into the office a number of years ago and the test looking like it does right now and selling a house full of boxes it was kind of stressful so i appreciate the fact that the board supported him coming through and he was able to do that so um yeah i was gonna formally introduced him last week he's been on campus obviously uh cruising around we've met fight once a day for a few minutes and talk about things deal instruction for the for the subsequent year so hopefully it's been a good good experience for both of us sfb is kind of a challenge each day school absolutely important we're working on a project i've mentioned this before we're still having a few hurdles in my opinion placed in front of the district we have about a 1.4 million dollar roofing project we're trying to get it done when i was when i was younger and more naive about six months ago i thought we'd have a done neighborhood this summer every superintendent school principal wants this kind of work done in the summer because it's more safe for our students um that's not happening school facilities a bill before the legislature this past week to dissolve the goodwill support it never got out of committee thank goodness the facilities board there's been discussion to make it not a specific board to make it quite a function of the state government and in fact the acting director right now is the director basically the government's name is andy tobin and annie tobin was instrumental here a couple years ago when awful improvement was trying to raise the rates at that time he was chairman of the corporation commission he was not in support of raising brakes which is not alignment with his party he was raised he was putting a little bit of pressure on aps because of rage and service as the governor offered him a job he was like the governor offered a substantial job he took it so then the government could appoint someone the next vote as you recall uh alabama i received the increase of rates but andy tobin is ultimately in charge of sfb right now it's kind of more complicated they're fighting for budget with legislature every year and the older schools in arizona become more upkeep as necessary so i think that's part of the problem we did get approval we had one classroom the refrigeration university has fixed it several times we went out and i have raised this issue that we don't have funds from sfp if we use our own capital monies they won't reimburse us so we obviously want to use as many sfb dollars as we can it took them seven weeks to get one unit approved um we finally got approval this week angelina was working with the substitute of our liaison i think that may have expedited about two weeks ago our hvac company was here to do work on the gym project and they had they it cost a lot of money to bring a crane down here from phoenix and while they were here they asked me i said we think we're going to get the job to do that one on this individual rims can we go ahead throw it in the room i said yes so finding out it should be equipmentary projects a teacher hopefully by summer schools classrooms so it's a frustration before you leave tonight hopefully the board will approve the proposed budget i'd like to reiterate some of the things that leanne said last monday night um this has happened before about three times in the last 15 20 years where we had to have budget forms for the state approved budget it's awkward i think it happened one year as i was business manager and that is the budget forms the worksheets are 18 pages at that time legal pages i haven't done it for a while i'm not sure it's a lot of work let's put it that way so it will be necessary for us to have a budget decision probably in september or october again we usually do that in december and may but the budget is going to be our best guess because we acknowledge my opinion we're not being told how much if the change for adm is going to go up or down uh 301 that's going to change and so on and so forth so we got a couple challenges there but we've seen sign we have to have on the next board board meeting we will have the adoption but i hope we have a budget that we can do that but we have to have a minimum 15 days and it can't go past july 15 for the next quarter uh july 14th which is good planning um we have on facebook it starts putting the word out if anybody's talking to you and we'll be sending communications to parents probably put on the marquee i will ask the board in july to approve the opening school on august 9th i hope arizonans use their judgment last summer to recall july was a tragedy as far as the spike in code of 19.

welcome public we appreciate you being here if you'll stand with me let's have 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 for those in our television audience we do have a quorum tonight uh mr artona myself and we have miss martinson on the telephone just to let you know so with that item number four is adoption of our agenda if i could have a motion to adopt tonight's success and a second i think all in favor thank you item five is call to the public i do not have any notes on my desk uh would anyone in the audience like to speak this evening with that we'll just keep on moving on item number six is our public hearing we do need on our proposed budget we do need a motion to open the public hearing madam president and do i have a second i came here all in favor all right and so moved mr livingston all right so we do have six items i would like to discuss really briefly and then i've got a support document list here maybe half an inch there if you have a really good question that pushes me back into the data i can just dig that right up from here so the six items i'd like to discuss is are as follows number one the year ended this june 30th the student count was reduced due to a distance learning percentage reduction that count ended up being 2057 students and next year that distance learning percentage is going away and we've estimated after i've talked with several folks especially and it was right here 2150 so an increase of about 90 with no reduction so if you factor the distance for the difference just for the reduction we're looking at at least about 35 to 40 students that were maybe not here this year just like sixth grade going to seventh grade first grade going to secondary 40 to 50 students and then we don't lose the reduction so this week so that's where we come up with about 90 more students 2060 basically to 21.50 so the capital funds that the district generated have always been reduced they're called district additional assistance this year they're reduced around 111 000 that reduction has gone away so that means our capital budget went from new revenues of around 910 000 to this next coming year a million ten so they went up around 100 so that's really good we go to page one we see the difference there i can keep you from going to pages here so the reduction in capital including the doing a way of the distance learning increased their operating budget by just over a million dollars that's again an estimate from our ending approved budget for this year and in our operating budget to next year 14 and a half million this year 15 and a half million next year if everything comes out always wanted so and we do have one more one more bit of news part six the classroom site fund has been collapsed from three different groups of funds for students for teachers and teacher performance and different factors it's been collapsed to one fund which will be easier for principals to manage performance and compliance and contractual terms and the funding for people for that went up from 425 dollars per student this year to 733 next year so the revenue this year was 1 million 150 000 next year it's projected to be 1 million 820 000 so about a 35 increase that goes straight through to certified teachers that are teaching again approved curriculum with a sort of certification from the department of ed those are the main things capital went up slightly our operating budget one half a million dollars based on the factors that we have at this point and correct me if i'm wrong john just as a clarification two days um classroom site fund also called prop 301 so we prop 301 actually doesn't even exist anymore so we want to kind of get away from that term and go to the actual term which is classroom cycle so they are synonymous but we want to kind of get away from the proper one that increase the prop 301 is a one year only increase by correct so they don't it's probably going to go down next year and so um cindy and john and i have talked about some strategies to kind of level that out so that we don't get this bolus of money and then all of a sudden salaries go down the next year so we want to we want to do that and then also and i'll talk a little bit about this in my update we have no state budget this is the best estimate that we have from the depart actually the auditor general's office so we guarantee numbers are gonna change we i i i would bet my life on it that we're gonna have a different budget comet latest december we may decide to do something earlier but um you'll know more once that budget is approved thank you um peter annie do either of you have any questions not here i don't have any questions okay thank you we do need a motion to close our public hearing and a second all in favor all right hi fantastic public hearing closed um item seven eight is our superintendent's report mr shaw okay you have uh my report on your desk um a few items sr3 i gave you an update last board meeting and we did not have an amount allocated yet we learned this a couple weeks ago and we have just over three and a half million dollars is the district's allocation for esther 3.

and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all thank you and let the record reflect that all board members are present and before we begin I'm going to read a statement that's been prepared by the district public meetings are an important component of Dysart Unified School District governing board members sit together on a common platform to exchange views and opinions and reach Solutions benefiting the Dysart Community behavior of participants and guests at a governing board meeting is important to the successful governance of the district Dysart respects the First Amendment rights of community members to share their comments with the board through civil discourse in that vein the following rules will be followed all present will demonstrate behavior that reflects respect for self and others disorderly conduct that interferes with the education processes of the district ARS 13-2911 or failure to comply with reasonable requests will not be tolerated any person who engages in disorderly conduct ARS 13-2904 will be dismissed from the meeting trespassed by law enforcement and or arrested thank you members of the board if I could invite the board to come down in front we are going to do a very special celebration to wrap up our 100th year Centennial anniversary so this has been a historic year for many reasons I mean there's a lot of things that we could add to this year to say that this was a year to remember or not but one of the things that we're celebrating tonight is something that we've been looking forward to for a long time and that is our 100th year anniversary so throughout this year we've been doing a lot of celebrating we haven't done everything because of some of the limitations but we have had themed Spirit weeks we've had some special lesson plans some art projects um some special presentations schools have done fun things counting to 100 different lists that we created with Athletics and some of the historical events over the last hundred years but we want the community to know how much dicer appreciates all that has been done prior to this year there are a lot of people that have gotten us to this point and we appreciate the the Legacy that has been left for those of us who are in Dyson right now you see around town that there are some banners out on the the light poles you see some signs on buses and on some of the buildings we would have liked to put a banner across the street and had a big old traditional parade but some things just weren't possible but we would like to thank the cities of El Mirage and the City of surprise for being so supportive and actually participating in many of our celebrations throughout the year we asked a lot of people to share their memories and we have looked far and wide to find somebody from the first graduating class we couldn't find anybody but we have had some Extraordinary People along the way who have made a big difference and this evening we have a very special guest here and that is Margaret Truman Baker and Margaret has her own family Legacy in Dysart her father Jack was a governing board member all of her siblings went to Dysert schools I believe your children all went to Dysart schools and Margaret herself was a governing board member so Margaret if you would like to come up here one of the things that we are doing that I think is kind of special is when we see somebody who's doing extraordinary things we like to recognize them for being extraordinary so I'd like to present to you with this extraordinary pin and extraordinary if you would share this with the kids all the time what is extraordinary and we break it into two parts there's extraordinary so Mark you are extraordinary and we appreciate all that you've done for us but I'd like to invite you to share a few of your thoughts and some of the memories that you have of dicer you're taller than I am good evening to everyone especially you school board members I know a little bit of what you go through but of course back in the days I was elected in 1970.

that'll be good all right you guys we're live okay six o'clock okay um i'm gonna call this meeting to order at six o'clock all right i'm going to make a motion to adopt the agenda and oh hold on okay with the exception of um 9.1 since uh i'm gonna table that to next month since it was a topic that mr ray had brought brought up and so i would like him to be here when we discuss that so 9.1 will be next month other than that as presented second all in favor aye aye um is is he on the okay chad may call in so and he may not so we have a forum a quorum and we're gonna head that way um so motion carries three to zero let's go ahead and do 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 okay uh let's do uh any any questions on the meeting minutes from last month if not let's i'll take a motion i'd like to move that we approve the meeting minutes from the last meeting as presented i second all in favor aye aye motion carries three to zero uh superintendent update okay we've got a number of different things but we'll go ahead and start because i see levi in the back of the room uh what we want to do is uh uh what i'd like to do is start a new recognition program we thought about it given the blue apples and recognized the valedictorian and salutatorium for the graduating class from combs high school and so we wanted to do that tonight catherine jacobson is a is the valedictorian and levi tuckfield a salutatorium catherine couldn't be here because she's already uh started a job in tucson i believe so she plans to attend asu and pursue a bachelor's degree in engineering and she's also been accepted to their chemical engineering program and to bear honor college with the tuition but if levi could come up here why don't you give them this little war i don't know if you have a picture kayla and then we'll give them the box too come around front levi's gonna be leaving in august to brazil to serve on a two-year mission for the church of jesus christ of latter-day saints upon return he plans to attend byu to major in kinesiology and minor in business he will then look to go to medical school to reach his goal of starting his own sports medicine practice his ultimate goal would be to work with a major sports team but he is ready to take on whatever life offers we just want to recognize him with this and at the same time i'll jump into part of another thing and since he's an all-around uh stud he also took second in a high jump at state and track so just want to congratulate levi congratulations [Applause] uh some other things also congratulations levi and you guys are more than welcome to stay or leave we won't be offended if you leave there you go um for our track team at the state track meet we did have uh bubba tua nema who took first in shot and fourth in discus bubba also was a um heavyweight stamp uh champ in wrestling brody tucker took second in shot eighth and the javelin eamon fairbanks took sixth and pole vault with a personal record and kylie wiles took eighth and powell so overall again it's just examples of kids doing well a couple of things i want to bring to attention to make sure we know um at just know that the state budget has got some issues um and so we're not quite sure when that budget's going to be passed uh they are meeting tomorrow i talked to some people today and there is was nothing on their agenda as of the time i spoke to him so it may be an exercise in futility tomorrow when they meet but they have managed to put up a situation with um where they can vote from they don't all have to be present and the house that met on monday had all 60 members present virtually or in person and so they may try to push some stuff through uh the real issue that's out there is is just the flat tax and and whether they can move off the flat tax issue which i don't think they will but what it creates is we may have to have a proposed budget at the retreat or depending on what happens in the next week if we have to we may adjust and try to do a special meeting the 24th but a number of us are out at a conference the last week of june so it creates its own set of issues um and it will if we get the stuff back from the state before july 1st um and uh and that means that they pass the budget and we get all the right uh forms from ade we can't just take the budget hearing and then change the budget when you adopt it so we would have to have a second budget hearing we have to have that second budget hearing no later than july 2nd so we would look to do something on the 21st if something happens and somehow it falls into our lap and we can run a meeting on the on the second we would because then on the 14th you guys are going to have to go ahead and adopt the budget if we can't run that second meeting then just know we're going to have to come back with a revision in september because the forms we're trying to push out to the last possible moment to go ahead and and um uh let the legislature pass something and so that's why we're trying to push it out if we don't have board members and stuff we'll work around it because the issue will then be we'll just go with the 21st but then just know there will be a budget revision uh in september because there's just no we can do the numbers that we're projecting in our budget not all the numbers are available to us because we don't know what's going to be passed in the budget so just know it's a little bit of a cluster down there um as is normal but we will we will get things going around it i just want to let you know we are i know there's people back there that have the same deer in the headlights look i do that that we have less than a month and and our teachers are back for some trainings um we have training going on last week and this week with synergy uh sc for our special education teachers we have a summer camp july starting july for teachers that's voluntary through the 12th we have new teacher orientation 13th and 14th and we have all of our staff returning on the 15th so we are compressed hello chad you there hello okay sorry about that no not a problem um i also want to let you know uh we did receive the platinum award for healthy arizona wellness program that's the highest award given to organizations by healthy arizona wellness the ward recognizes businesses that are making efforts to positively affect the health and well-being of their employees their families and their community through evidence-based work site health initiatives and promising programs under dr duplistus the hr department and wellness committee uh committee we've been working on this for several years and this is the third year i believe in a row that we've won the award but this is the highest award i think the previous years it was a step below we are making good progress with our hiring we have filled over 39 teaching positions and 55 new staff members we have had a couple people that leave left us at the last second and we are still struggling with special education teachers and probably you're going to have to do contracted services and maybe even more so than we have in the past we continue to work it but there are any number of people that are still moving around i also want to make you aware that um in terms of the cta principle uh we will be moving forward with uh interviews on monday uh we had 20 applicants and we've chosen six to interview another 20 applicants i believe the six that were chosen maybe five of the six if not six to the six have all had experience as principles and then on tuesday we will have a community forum that starts at 5 30 that you're more than welcome to show up where some questions will be asked and the candidates will be what's at 4 30.

um so we'll get started in about uh one minute we'll let jamie let the rest of the people in we'll get started in about one minute we'll be reviewing uh this registration document and i'll give you a rundown of what we're going to be doing tonight in about one minute we'll get started in about one minute uh all right it is 701 we're going to go ahead and get started my name is kevin mcgee i'm the athletic director at east london high school i'm here with diane savakul the athletic trainer at the high school uh we're gonna be presenting about 30 minutes of information most of that information is going to come from the registration document that's up on the screen the meeting is also being live um on youtube through lcat i'm sure that a lot of eighth grade families and new athletes will have a lot of questions along the way please wait till the end of the presentation and then we will be taking questions through the chat box and we'll answer all of your questions about the upcoming athletic season so to start out we are going to take a look at this registration document it was sent out by me to all current 9th 10th and 11th graders it was also sent out by dr allen to all the birchman park middle school 8th graders if you did not receive it it is posted on the high school athletic website that we'll go to in a few minutes so thank you for considering participation in a sport at east london high school participation in the lhs athletics should be an educational and rewarding experience for student athletes coaches and families so important dates football and golf are approved by the miaa to begin their practices and tryouts on friday august 20th so mark your calendars for that if you're a football player or a golfer soccer field hockey girls volleyball cross country and cheerleading are scheduled to begin on monday august 23rd so those are the dates that are mandated by the miaa for the official start dates uh be aware that games and practices may be scheduled on vacations saturdays and sundays the game schedules are being finalized and are in the process of being moved to a new website so all new um athletes and families this will be new for you but returning athletes and families it'll no longer be kept on the miaa site so schedules are all being moved to arbiter live and the scheduling process is going to be finished around august 15th so the website for arbiter live is on this sheet of paper all of our home games have been inputted on that website but it's going to take other athletic directors some time to put in all of our away games so just be patient with that and the schedule will be posted completely by august 15th and you can check it out to see all of our home games which are already in there the most important thing that you're you're going to want to be aware of uh after tonight's meeting is these three steps um that are critical in order to get approved to participate on that first day so number one is guardians should register athletes on family id registration is critical in order to start the clearance process and for important athletic communication during the summer this registration is the only medical social information about the athlete the coach will receive and it's imperative that all pertinent information is inputted so we are asking families to register by june 13th that's a pretty short window but what that's going to allow us to do is to start clearing athletes so when we get those registrations it allows me to share email addresses with coaches it allows us to start figuring out how many athletes want to do each sport and then it allows the nurse's office and the trainer's office to clear those athletes with physicals and concussion testing so number two families should submit a current physical exam to the high school nurse's office one per year and they're valid for 13 months the physical exam should be a paper copy mailed to the high school main office the miaa rule is if a physical expires in season then the athlete is not allowed to participate past the date of expiration and the penalty for that is a suspension for that number of games that they participate with an invalid physical very important for all incoming 9th graders so current eighth graders and any new students at elihs must produce a valid baseline concussion score due to covet 19 precautions we are allowing students to take the test at home and directions for this online test are on page 3 of the registration packet it will also be posted on the athletic website that will review in a few minutes it's an online test that diane savakul our trainer will tell you a little bit a little bit about later on but that's really going to be important for current eighth graders and new students at elahs so varsity coaches will be emailing fall athletes and parents by june 20th they'll be using the email addresses that you put in family id on the registration by june 13th they'll introduce themselves and they'll talk about their program through the email some coaches will be setting up some in-person meetings that can happen over the summer and their coaches are also going to be encouraged to videotape any of those in-person meetings so that families that may be away on vacation can get all of that information so by june 20th each varsity coach will reach out to each athlete and parent email that's put on family id there is an athletic fee of 149 please do not pay this athletic fee until early september so just so that you're aware there is that athletic fee but we will not be collecting any money until early september the student athlete must be academically eligible so all incoming 9th graders are automatically academically eligible all incoming 10th through 12th graders must have a minimum gpa of a 2.0 which is a c average for their entire previous academic year fall sports is different than all of the other sports during the winter and the spring winter and spring is based on your previous marking period grades the fall is different and it's based on your entire previous year so current 9th 10th and 11th graders you want to be aware of your current grades in your entire academic year this year you want to make sure that you have a c average with all those grades put together my email address is on the registration packet as well as the website for the athletic department so i'm going to take you through the athletic department website just so you can see some of the things that are on there um that will really help you understand some of the things to have a a good season and to be aware of what's going on so if you go to the high school website um if you take a look there and then you click on athletics that'll bring you to the athletic website and there'll be important announcements on the left side all these important announcements on the left side we already went over through the registration packet if you look on the right side there's a spot to pay your athletic fee so if you were to click on pay athletic fee which again you're not going to do until september but if you click on pay athletic fee it'll bring you to a uni pay gold website currently we're taking athletic fees for spring athletics but in september it'll say fall athletics and you'd click on there and you would pay your athletic fee take a look back at the athletic website the elhs sports programs you can click on that you can see all of the sports programs that we offer in the fall the winter and the spring so that athletes can think about what sport they want to participate in also on the athletic website you can click on coaches email addresses right here that'll have all of our coaches and volunteer coaches and their email addresses please give the varsity coaches time to reach out to you so if you have sport specific questions they're going to reach out to you by june 20th so give them some time please don't reach out to them until after june 20th which will allow them the opportunity to send out a lot of information that will answer a lot of your questions so again varsity coaches will reach out by june 20th but their email addresses are there if you have questions about the program after june 20th the athletic registration packet that we're going over right now you can click on this tab and everything i'm going over tonight will be written down there for you the concussion testing instructions are on here also if you didn't get an email from me or from dr alan you can click on that to see the concussion testing information if you keep going down the screen the sports schedules this is what i was talking about earlier this is brand new for this year so if you click on sports schedules it's going to take you to arbiter live so it's no longer the miaa website it's now arbiter live if you put in islam middle high school it'll bring you to some options and then you're going to click on east lawn meadow high school and then it's going to show all of the different sports teams right here so you'll be able to view all the different sports teams like i said only our home games have been inputted i'm a little bit ahead of some of the other athletic directors who are still in putting their home games all of our home varsity and jv games are inputted we do hold off on inputting freshman games until late august because we don't know who's going to have freshman teams but let's just pretend that um i was a boys varsity soccer player and i wanted to take a look to see what the schedule looks like you want to make sure you click on the correct year so you go to 2021 2022 and you're gonna see all of the boys varsity soccer games that have been inputted already all again all of our home games are there only some of our away games are inputted so so far um but athletic directors do have about a month to get those in really important for parents to do and for athletes i would really suggest that you click on follow the team so if you're a varsity soccer player or jv soccer player when you go to arbiter live click on follow team you can put in your email address and you can sign in anytime that i make any changes to the schedule whether it's a postponement a change in time you would get an email notifying you of that change it would be an instantaneous change anytime that athletic directors change the schedule you would get an email so i really encourage parents especially to follow the team of the athlete of your child taking a look back at the athletic website the family id registration again the link is on the registration packet but you can also click on family id and when you go on family id you'll be able to view how to register for fall sports so you get to this website when you click on family id you go down to elhs 2021 fall season you click on that and then you register your athlete registrations do take about 15 to 20 minutes and it's really important information for coaches to have about your about the student athlete so that's the athletic website which is really useful for all the things that we're going over i'm gonna go back to the registration document to page two on page two this is a top ten list of reminders that i've come up with that um over the past five years doing this job that really families should be aware of and some of these are changes from last year so i'm gonna go through this packet so based on the co-curricular attendance policy if a student is absent attends less than a full day of school or comes in late after 8 a.m on the day of a game or practice or on the friday preceding a weekend event he or she will not be allowed to participate or attend unless his or her attendance has been cleared by the athletic director if the above happens then the athlete or parent guardian should contact the athletic director and request a waiver so this is really a policy to make sure that athletes are putting school first and that they're attending school if at any time an athlete comes to school after 8 a.m or needs to be dismissed from school what i do ask is for the parent or guardian to email me just let me know if it was a doctor's appointment if it was a miscellaneous family commitment if a car broke down any of those reasons would be approved but i do want them coming from the parent or guardian so that we are all putting athletics first sorry that we're all putting academics first and that students are going to be in school so that they can then participate on the sports team so if there's any issues with that please contact me so that we can make sure that they're putting school first and that they're in school on those days participation in athletic programs at elhs is a privilege not a right student athletes should model positive behavior on the field off the field in the stands as spectators and in the in the digital world number three is the miaa bona fide team member rule it states members of a team are not allowed to miss a high school practice or competition in order to participate in a non-school activity in any sport recognized by the miaa there is a potential mia waiver that students can apply for but this must be done with the athletic director during the first week of the season the new miaa penalty if they're if no waiver is done is a one-game suspension for the first defense so this used to be a 25 suspension um from the rest of the season or from a future season the mia has changed that rule for the upcoming season that the penalty would be a one game suspension saturday and sunday practices are exempt from this rule but they will be handled by the head coach so it doesn't mean that athletes can miss saturday and sunday practices without any penalty it does mean that the coach would then talk about what the consequence would be for missing saturday and sunday practices for other sports teams and the mia has made it very clear that they will not approve any waivers that conflict with postseason practices or games so the waivers are only for the regular season number four is about any time that there is any type of uh concern that an athlete or a parent has we do ask that you schedule a time to speak with the coach if that meeting doesn't go well feel free to reach out to me to schedule a time to talk with me and possibly the coach also and if that doesn't mean if that meeting doesn't go well feel free to reach out to the principal to talk about that concern if you ever have a serious concern please be prepared to write an official letter of complaint with your name attached to the statement but one thing that we did back in the fall of 2019 uh that's been really beneficial is student athletes at the end of their season do anonymous student experience surveys based on their athletic season so any current athletes you'll be getting an email tomorrow or friday from me about your current spring season those are anonymous they're meant to improve the athletic department uh and they're meant to really get the student athletes feedback on where we can improve so if there are any concerns feel free to bring those up with the coach myself or the principal but there's also an avenue for athletes that would prefer to be anonymous to do that experience survey at the end of the season number five please understand the scheduling rescheduling process is very complex and many things must be taken into consideration um transportation availability referees facilities opposing school approval eastland middle high school school events coaches availability trainer availability holidays my least favorite environmental factors which has really changed athletic schedules dramatically over the past couple years weather the mia pviac scheduling guidelines will all play a part in the athletic schedule that is typically created six months before the season begins again schedules are complete for the fall for varsity and jv teams we're just waiting for the away games to be inputted by athletic directors at other schools number six is the chemical health policy please note that regulations apply to student behavior 24 hours a day seven days a week inclusive of the first allowable day of fall practice through the end of the academic year or final athletic event a student shall not regardless of the quantity use consume possess buy sell or give away any beverage containing alcohol any tobacco products including e-cigarette e-cigarettes vape pens and all similar devices marijuana steroids are any controlled substance there's a 25 suspension for the first offense and for the second offense uh number seven in regards to booster clubs booster clubs are considered a separate entity from elhs no student athlete should ever be required to participate in booster club activities and playing time will never be impacted by booster club participation booster clubs are awesome i don't want to take away from that but it's just important that we all understand that they are separate from the high school and are optional for our athletes but they do a lot of great things for our athletic program number eight if an athlete ever has a injury on an elh team that involves extensive medical bills then please contact the athletic trainer for supplemental free insurance that may help with the reimbursement of some medical bills so the injury has to occur during high school sports i've gotten great feedback from families that have utilized this insurance the high school does pay a pretty large amount of money for this insurance so i really encourage parents if you have any type of serious injury reach out and apply for that free insurance that can supplement a lot of your bills again there's no guarantee with it but i can tell you that parents and families have given really good feedback otherwise we would not be purchasing that insurance number nine elhs uniforms should only be worn by the student athlete on game days uniforms should not be given to friends or family to wear all uniforms must be returned to the head coach at the end of the season we do have a limited budget uh keeping track of the uniforms is really important one of the things we're doing this spring is we're collecting all uniforms at the last game the high school is going to um be cleaning all of those uniforms getting them ready for the next season but athletes will be returning them after their last game so that's one way that we're trying to make sure that uniforms don't disappear again it helps the athletic budget but it can also really hurt the athletic budget if a group of kids keep their uniforms because then we have to make tough decisions with our budget on how to get uniforms for a team number support other elhs athletic teams and cheer for them at their games please do not say anything negative toward the opposing team fans or officials so i am really optimistic that next year we will have student sections in the bleachers especially outdoors i want our student sections to be loud i want them to have a lot of school spirit but i'm very clear with our student section that at no time should they be saying anything negative toward the opposing team fans or officials it's real clear cut with that expectation but at the same time there's nothing better than a home athletic event with a student section that's very spirited and energetic and loud and positive and cheering on our team sportsmanship is a priority at elhs student athletes attendance at athletic events will be restricted if they are not representing elhs in a positive way so that's all of the information that i have for you tonight diane savakul our athletic trainer is going to go over some information and then both uh her and i will be answering all of your questions um and one thing i would like to just follow up on is again i'm very optimistic about next year this spring has been awesome it's a lot of return to normalcy i do think fall outdoor athletic events are going to feel very normal next next fall the indoor events i'm still a little bit apprehensive and concerned about i don't know what that's going to look like but i do think that the outdoor athletic events are going to look very similar to other fall seasons not including this past year so i'm excited about that i'm going to pass it off to diane savacool and then i'll be available for questions okay i'm going to start with the basic concussion testing instructions um again because of covid we are allowing you guys to take the testing at home the biggest thing is it must be taken on a computer not on a tablet or a phone that is an issue we've had this past year when people have been taking it home that they're not using the proper um thing i guess so um any student who has already participated in athletics at east london does not need to retake it for this fall but all upcoming 8th graders and new students must take and pass the testing which is for about or passing tests before they participate in a fall sport it's extremely important that the student taking the student athlete is the person taking the test we're asking parents and guardians to enforce this honor system to make sure it's not a friend or relative taking the concussion test it's critical that student athletes take their own tests if a student athlete does not take his or her own test this will delay alter the safety of the athletes return to practice after head injury completing the testing is not enough to participate on the first day the student athlete must have a valid passing test the student athlete will not know if he or she has passed it until the athletic trainer reviews the results of the test um due to the summer vacation um i'm asking that the kids can take it before june 30th i will be definitely checking by then but um in the month of july it will be limited checking so if you email me let me know you've taken it um i will check it but it may be limited checking at that point but i will be back august first checking for sure um student athletes may only take one test concussion dates the concussion baseline test per day if they take more than once more than one a day it's considered invalid because of the process of the testing any student athlete who is unable to take the concussion baseline at home will be permitted to schedule a time with me to take it if you'd like to schedule time please email me my email is listed right there tips for taking the testing make sure you read the directions before you start each section take your time make sure you're hitting the correct buttons for each test some of them require the spacebar some require enter or the right or left arrow keys on the computer if you don't follow the directions you'll have to retake it due to invalid score i cannot offer individual sections of the test so all 13 sections need to be retaken if you do any of them incorrectly there are practice tests but for each so most of the sections which will also help prevent invalid scores take the test in acquiring environment where you're able to concentrate and um the instructions for registering on baseline the concussion baseline are listed there as well i'm not going to go over all of them it's also on the athletic website but the biggest thing is make sure you're using capital letters and entering your name the way that it's supposed to be entered okay um physical exams must be current which mr mcgee already said again if it expires during the season you cannot participate past that date of expiration so if your physical expires september 6th on september 7th you cannot participate without a new and current physical it's the parent's responsibility to make sure that the physical is current and up to date physicals are kept and filed on file in the nurse's office for future sports clearances but please check with the health office if you're unsure of the date of your child's previous physical when handing in a new copy especially now in the fall please indicate your child support so that we can better organize our paperwork that we get in the preseason the health history form that is on the mia forums are now covered by family id students will be medically cleared once the health office has a current physical and has received any additional clearances that we may need from additional medical professionals so if your kid has a diabetic or cardiac or asthma or anything that's limiting their ability to participate in sports we will ask for an additional clearance from a specialist um so when filling out the family id please make sure to fully complete all fields especially those involving emergency contacts previous injuries medical conditions medications health insurance and previous head injuries any and all medical concerns or conditions must be indicated while filling up this information also as a part of this registration you and your child must verify that you've reviewed the signs and symptoms of concussion and will report such symptoms to me the coach the athletic director or school nurse if the isn't info isn't on family id the athletic department staff including the athletic trainer and emts will not know of your child's medical history or need should they need to be transported by an ambulance this is very important because this is the only information that we get and if i'm unaware of a condition or a coach is unaware of a condition it can lead to issues when they're transported by ambulance anytime a kid is seen by a doctor we need a doctor's note regarding the injury illness please make sure the injury or illness or reason for the visit is clearly stated so that we know the student is going to return to sports the only acceptable clearances are those from medical doctors do po or nurse practitioner per elhs athletic policy chiropractors and physical therapists cannot write clearance notes for return to sports um to make your life easier get a doctor's note every time you go and if your child is being followed by a physical therapist or chiropractor and your primary care would allow it have them write a note saying they can be cleared by the physical therapist or chiropractor please give the notes to the nurse during the school day or to the athletic trainer after school so that can be given to the nurse the next day completed medical forms should be dropped off at the health office and doctor's notes can be directly faxed to 413-525-9781 concussion baseline testing is given before the start of the sports seasons at east long meadow again all freshmen and new new participants at the lhs the baseline testing is not testing to see if your student has a concussion the baseline test is to is taken to the athletic department staff has a guidance of normal reaction time memory and cognitive abilities which is used as a reference point when a student succeeds a concussion after a suspected concussion for a diagnosis of concussion athletes need to be first cleared by their primary care we do not accept urgent care or emergency department doctors to clear them to return due to the fact that they are not familiar with their normal status that they have when they go to a primary care if a concussion was diagnosed the primary care must include the athlete to begin the return to play process with the athletic trainer this process first involves taking the post-concussion test and returning to within a reasonable level of the original baseline testing the post-testing results are used to determine if the student has returned to the pre-concussion levels after post-testing is normal the student will begin a progression of physical activities for a total of six days as long as there is no return of symptoms before they will be completely medically cleared to return to athletics if your athlete has a return of symptoms or has continued symptoms or is a numb unable to pass the post test during this time period they must be reevaluated by their primary care before continuing all this information is listed on the elap el ps district website under the athletic tab um if your student is injured at practice and the injury is not reported to the coach or athletic trainer it is your responsibility as a parent to notify the athletic director athletic trainer or school nurse of the injury so we can track the progress of the injury and the students return to activity again get a note to clear the student once the injury or illness is over mr mcgee also mentioned if there is a significant medical bill associated with your injury you can contact me and i do have the school insurance forms i will pull out for you and give to you without any issue per east long meadow public school policy students exhibiting signs of illness must be free of an elevated temperature for at least 24 hours without the use of reducing medication and must be free of symptoms of gastrointestinal illnesses for 24 hours as well before before returning to sports or school if your child is sick have them stay home and rest and get better this is one small but important way to prevent illnesses from taking out an entire team for islamic training guidelines any suspected rash or skin condition that has the potential to be transmitted to another student will be required to be evaluated by a physician there is a medical clearance form that must be completed by the evaluating position the physician will give me directions as to how the area must be covered and treated written instructions including diagnosis treatment such as medication that is being prescribed with any side effects how long the area must be treated and what it means what means need to be used for covering it before they are permitted to return to any competition should be indicated typically the area must be covered for the entire course of the treatment again this is something that can be transmitted to other athletes so we want to make sure that we're treating the correct issue the state mandated miaa heat policy will be followed for all practices and games if the temperature and humidity levels are at a high level practices may need to be modified and games may potentially be postponed due to this policy your child's practice times and locations may change on short notice this policy states that practices need to be modified or changed according to the reading on the wet bulb globe thermometer i will be using that to accurately determine the weather conditions and its effects on practices and the health of athletes during that time please make sure your student has all their inhalers epipens diabetic supplies and any other medical supplies they may need with them at all times i do not have these things to give them if they need them in an emergency in addition i do not have any over-the-counter medications such as advil elite tylenol benadryl etc to give your child the lhs department athletic department will follow all massachusetts department of public health east long by now department public of health and mia guidelines for costumes and restrictions as they relate to covert 19 in the fall further information on these guidelines precautions and restrictions will be sent out to elhs families in august any questions or problems feel free to call me i mean email me sorry my emails right there and i will see you in the fall all right so that's pretty much everything we have to present tonight i want to go over a couple quick things so it again the video is going to be posted on the lcat youtube page varsity coaches will be getting in contact with athletes and parents based on the email addresses on family id by june 20th uh most important thing from tonight we're asking all families to register on family id by june 13th that's the most important thing i'd like you to take from tonight and then one thing that i did not mention is i do communicate through student school email addresses also to remind them about missing concussion testing or missing physicals or their academic eligibility so student athletes you should be checking your school email from me also and that's a way for me to send out a bunch of emails i can send them out to 40 student email addresses at a time saying you're missing your concussion testing or you're missing your physical so i can't emphasize enough student athletes please check your emails over the summer there's nothing worse than showing up on the first day and finding out that you're not cleared to participate so check your school emails and i'll be giving you updates so at this time any questions that families have i believe there's a option for question and answers if you have any questions feel free to type those in not seeing any questions jamie am i looking at the right spot for questions yeah there's a q a button it just says no open questions um if anyone is unable to type for any reason they can raise their hand i can send them in and they can ask their question if that isn't working but it should be so we might be having some technical difficulties on questions oh i got a question all right got it thanks jamie all right so uh my freshman is starting on the fall do i follow the varsity coach or non-varsity coach that's a great question so the varsity coaches their job is to be they're responsible for their entire program so the varsity coach is responsible for the program the varsity coach is responsible for setting up the tryout process so leading up to the season varsity coaches will be communicating with all athletes in their program freshmen sophomores juniors and seniors after that tryout process which is usually three to five days then teams will get split up into a varsity team a jv team and then potentially a freshman team in some sports that's where that paid coach the jv and freshman coach would then start communicating with families but we do rely on the varsity coach to run the program and during those first three to five days it'll be the varsity coach and leading up to that point the varsity coach that's going to be communicating with the families the next question do we give the current physical to the high school nurse or trainer for an incoming freshman another really good question so all incoming freshmen um current 8th graders please mail a copy of the physical or drop a copy of the physical off at the high school so even if that physical went to birchland it's very beneficial for us to have a paper copy at the high school so don't rely on that physical being transferred from birchland please send that physical to the high school main office through mail or dropping it off at the high school um the physical is needed at the time of registration can we register and provide physical at a later time yes so real good question i apologize for the confusion on the physical so the physicals need to be in ideally a couple days before that first day of practice so if your health insurance doesn't allow for a physical until august 15th that's fine for you to bring in that physical august 15th five days before we start um if you have a valid physical that does not expire if you can send that into the high school this this week that will help us clear those athletes but if you can't get a physical until august don't don't go out and get a physical before then it's okay for you to send in a valid physical in august as long as you have that schedule then you have a plan for it to come in we will be able to clear that athlete with the physical before their first day whether it's august 20th or august 23rd but as long as the family has that plan to get that physical to us again if you have the valid physical please send it in this week if you have a physical coming up over the summer send it in after that appointment the next question my son will be a senior next year and turns 19 in january 2022 do i need extra paperwork yes so if you can reach out to me there are some miaa guidelines with age i believe since it's january i believe you're going to be okay but um if you can email me that question about the age and i can double check the miaa rule i believe it's before september 1st but email me that question and we can look at a little bit closer do we need to register for all freshman sports now or is this just for fall sports so this registration on family id is just for fall sports we'll keep this athletic um video up for anybody that missed it and and all of these policies and rules will carry over to the winter but as far as the registration on family id that is that we're hoping that families register by june 13th that is only registering for those fall sports there will be a separate registration for winter sports and then there'll be another separate registration for spring sports once you register once for an athlete future registrations are very easy because it auto in generates almost all of those fields so it does allow for quick registration in the winter and the spring once you've registered once but this registration is just for fall sports does my son have to do the concussion test now if he is not planning on a fall sport but is planning to do a winter sport um so he's not required to do it now but i would suggest doing it in the next week or two maybe once um school's kind of slowed down a little bit and he has a little bit of free time um i would suggest getting that concussion test out of the way it's good for two years um and probably ten to twenty percent of eighth graders the first time that they take the test produce a invalid score because they do one of the parts wrong so in order to just get that checked off the box i would definitely encourage all eighth graders to do the concussion testing in the next few weeks ideally before then so we can start clearing you um but again there will be some athletes that get invalid scores that will need to take it again if you get an invalid score our athletic trainer diane savacool will email the student athletes email address the school email address to let them know that their score was invalid so other questions especially from eighth grade families i know that it's mostly this is mostly geared towards eighth grade families and also geared towards new athletes at east london high school and i know that typically families the thing that they come to sports night for is to hear the varsity coach and varsity coaches again they'll be sending out emails by june 20th some varsity coaches will be setting up in-person meetings some will be setting up zoom meetings but you will get communication from those varsity coaches by june 20th um and they'll talk about the the first few days what the process is going to be with tryouts how they're going to handle playing time uh how they'd like you to communicate with them they'll talk about how they'll establish roles with the athletes so another question is will parents and students be emailed regarding tryouts for winter sports yes so for winter sports we'll do something very similar to what we're doing with fall sports i'll send out the registration packet for winter sports that'll be around november 1st so families will get registration packets around november 1st for winter sports you'll register for those winter sports and then the coaches will reach out to you we may also will hopefully be able to meet in person with all the varsity coaches in november winter sports always start the monday after thanksgiving so those winter sports start the monday after thanksgiving and spring sports they always start the third monday in march so just on your calendars you can kind of mark those days down um and those the winter sport registration and communication will all happen in november and then that'll all start the monday after thanksgiving other questions from any families you do all have my email address um i always try to email back within 24 hours of school time please send out all those questions in june i will be away from my computer for most of july so there's no high school sports that happen in july so any questions and concerns june's a great month for me and the athletic trainer and then we'll start getting back and getting ready in august for the start of football and golf on august 20th and for all of the other fall sports on august 23rd so thank you all for listening again feel free to email us with questions and we're looking forward to the upcoming fall season thank you

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