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Absolutely. >> And then could we just go to a meeting so we could learn about what's going on? >> Yes. Okay. Those are public meetings. All right. So, next is an executive session. We might return to open session to vote. Could I have a motion, please, to enter executive session? May return to open session pursuant to mass general law chapter 38 section 21A purpose 3 to discuss strategy with respect to collective bargaining BBRSD custodial staff teams through the local 170 if an open meeting effect on bargaining position public. move. >> Beth, >> second. >> Lisa, anybody have a comment on it? >> Megan, >> I >> Beth, >> I >> Jazz, >> hi. >> Lisa, >> thank you very much. All right, we're going to enter executive session. Thanks everybody for coming. Take a short break. We'll get in there.
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Thank you. [laughter] That was a call to order. So calling to order the joint committee on committee committee on education and committee on economic development and tourism. Today's Wednesday, February 11th. We are in room 229 and this hearing is being streamed live on YouTube. Uh if the hearing is abruptly at end due to technical difficulties, committee will convene on Friday, February 13 at 1 p.m. in conference room 229 with a notice posted on the legislaturator's website. And due to the number of measures and due to Monday's cancellation of all our committees, we had to juggle everything around. So you will be given one minute to testify. Uh I hope you uh will uh understand that and if technical issues arise during your te Zoom testimony committee may need to proceed to the next testifier written testimony is on file and appreciated. So um we have two measures on the joint agenda starting out and I want to welcome our committee on EBT chair uh Linda from Maui uh my vice chair Senator Kedani and your vice chair Senator Wakai.
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Good afternoon everyone and welcome. This joint hearing of the Senate Committee on Education and Committee on Health and Human Services will come to order. Today's Wednesday, February 11th, and we're meeting in this room, conference room 225, and this hearing is being streamed live on YouTube. If this hearing is abruptly ends due to technical difficulties, the committee will reconvene on Friday, February 13 at 1 p.m. in conference room 229, which a notice will be posted on the legislaturator's website. And due to the number of measures before the committee and the volume of testimonies, um testimony will be limited to one minute per testifier. And in light of the the rain day we had on Monday, a lot of our hearings are being backed up because everything had to be rescheduled. So, I hope you will all uh be patient. If technical difficulties do arise during Zoom testimony, a committee may need to proceed to the next testifier, but we do have your written testimony.
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Gentlemen and fellow club nights and welcome to Clay High School gymnasium. Today's unified battle game features the field Bengals against your Clinton Mustang. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome these visiting Bengals. Number five, Jordan Clark. Number 14, Jacob Kelly. Number one, Malcolm Stevens. Number four, Adrien Ray. Number two, Andrew Royster. Number 50, Giani Taylor. Number 31, Tiana Fergus. Number 10, Xavier Adonis. Number three, Sully. Number 20, Nathaniel Rivera. Number 23, Max Pier. Number 12, Baroo Hamad. wrong with that kid. >> Number 30, David Leo. >> Wearing zero, Christian McDougall. Number 25, Italy Patterson. Number 61, Ethan Rodriguez. Number 83, Emanuel Stevens. Number 22, Legend McDow. Manager Jordan Curry, manager. Jason Meyers and manager Amelia Martinez and their coach is Mag Leonard. And now our Clinton Number 14, Sean. Number 32, Franklin. Number 25, Kyle Carol number 24. Jeremiah number 15 number 22 Hans number 30 number 23 letter Aro Rodriguez.
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I think probably a thing that would help like me feel more seen and heard as like a student is when like my teachers ask me like questions about myself, about my life, like what I want to do for college. And it helps them like become a better teacher when they start to learn things about who I am. And it really helps me as a student like get a connection with my teacher because then I actually want to be there and I actually like want to be engaged and learn. Miss Ahmad was my freshman year English teacher and she made a really big impact on me and made me feel like freshman year was a lot easier. Always asked me how I was doing, always asked, you know, life questions, life updates, and she was just really personable. And I think it made that class even more fun.
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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. We're going to go and start off with student recognitions. So, I'm going to ask Devin Barley to come up for the girls IHSA state wrestling finals and we'll go there. Uh so, before we hear from coach Johnson, our girls wrestling coach, I wanted to recognize the two athletes in they show what toughness and grit and resilience is, what they truly look like. They've earned their incredible achievements throughout this year and they have an unbreakable competitive spirit. So, I want to say how proud we are of these two ladies that are that are about to be recognized. They put girls wrestling on the map for Madison and we're just so proud of them. So, I want to introduce coach Johnson and let him say a few words about his athletes.
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Heat. Heat. Hello. Good evening. Welcome to the Greenfield Public Schools School Committee meeting for February 11th. There's some materials getting passed around. We're good. We're good. Um, thanks everyone for being here. Uh, I'll go ahead and read the chair statement. This meeting is being recorded by Greenfield Community Television, GCTV. If any other persons present are doing the same, you must notify the chairperson at this time. Is anyone else recording? All right, great. Um, if not, I'll go ahead and call this meeting >> go ahead and call this meeting to order at 6:31 p.m. Uh, member Webb, can you do a roll call of the members? Mayor Disorger >> here. >> Member Dyman >> here. >> Member Goodwin >> here. >> Chair Ston >> here. >> Member Webb, I am also here. Vice Chair Childs >> here. >> Member Denive >> here. >> All right, we have a quorum.
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So we'll call this meeting to order the ter Anderson High School District. So just so some of you haven't been in a meeting in a long time. So just to refresh you on some of the rules. All comments for particular items are done just before that item comes up. when we go into close session, which we're going to in a few minutes, only comments in that particular time period are for close session items. So, as we go through the agenda, comments from the public will be allowed at each individual step as we go through. It's different than it has been many years ago. This has been enforced for a couple years. I just want to remind you of that. So, roll call. Joe Gibson here. Weeks, Jackie Halivera, Julia Renaro, Stacy Evans, >> all here. So, are there any public comments for close session items?
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Okay. Good evening everyone. U I'm going to call this uh meeting to order. Open session at 6:23. Please join me for the pray begin 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 us for all. Um, I need to announce the close session actions. In close session, the board took action regarding student discipline. The board voted to approve an amended stipulated expulsion agreement. The motion was made by Julie Greenwood and seconded by Rhonda Clark. The roll call vote was as follows. four eyes, zero nos, zero abstensions. And then secondly, in close session, the board took action by a vote of four voting yes and zero voting no and no abstaining to non-reelect certain probationary certificated employees of the district for the 2026 2027 school year. All right.
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Alrighty, it is 6 PM. We're calling this meeting to order. Uh, first order is this is roll call. >> Trusty when >> here >> trustee Shin Vasan is absent. Trusty Brewer here and Trusty Boak. All right. Four out of five trustees are here and we have quorum. And first order of business is closed session. We have student discipline conference with labor negotiators and public employee discipline dismissal release and complaint. And we will are there any public comments on close session items? Seeing none, we'll adjourn to close session. All righty, everyone. Good evening. It is 7:27 p.m. and we are reconvening to open session. And first up is the flag salute. Um, Trusty Win, would you like to do the flag salute? >> Yes. U please stand and face the flag. All right, ready? Begin.
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Okay, with that, Senate Bill 3263. First up for University of Hawaii, Matt Elliot. >> Good afternoon. Excuse me. Good afternoon, Chair Kim, [clears throat] Chair Decoy, Vice Chair Kadani, Vice Chair Okai, and members of the committee, and Matt Elliot, director of athletics. Thank you for the opportunity to be here. I'm representing the University of Hawaii athletics department. Um, we are in support of bill SB 3263. Um, as we know and we've talked about at length, NIL is a new challenge for college athletics across the country and in this state and we believe that um, it requires a range of solutions to be able to successfully take this on. Um, we've requested uh, made a budget request to help fund the NIL program going forward. But this endowment program that is uh outlined in this bill, we think makes a lot of sense because not only does it allow us to emphasize the importance of keeping up with the current athletics landscape, but it creates a long-term sustainable solution as well.
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The purpose of today's hearing is to receive testimony on measures relating to student health and safety in schools, academic and workforce programs u and also with the University of Hawaii. So, we will start with our first item on the agenda. Uh I go welcome my chair uh yes >> from the big island. >> Yes. Thank you for HHS and with my vice chair um Senator Mel >> and my vice chair um Senator um Michelle Kedani. Okay. Senate Bill 2969 starting with Dana Moore testifying for Hawaii Community Health. I'm sorry. I'm say this is relating to the Maui Wildfire Exposure Study and Maui Health Registry. Appropriates funds for the University of Hawaii to expand and sustain services provided by the Maui Wildfire Exposure Study and Maui Health Registry. With that, Dana Moore not here. We're on Zoom. >> Aloha. Can you hear me? We can hear you.
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is number 20. Daniel number two, Aiden Taylor. Number 21, Ibraim Wa and number 10, Matthew Sandro. And we first and Miss Elena. Ladies and gentlemen, at this time, we ask you stand, remove your caps, and face our American flag. will be at the north end of the gymnasium as we honor America by playing our national anthem. Heat. Heat. Thank you. >> All right, I'm going to get started.
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>> A specific teacher that I like the most and I'm going to give a shout out to is Mr. Nandez. She an aid teacher. Shout out to her. my goat. She gives out like supportive answer. Like when I have like trouble like struggling days, struggling with music or math or anything like she just comes by and supports me, talking me out like, "Hey, like I think like if you want you can like go drink some water real quick or I'll give you candy." Yay. What's up kids? A teacher that I really want to say I'm grateful for, someone I want to show, Miss Foss. She's really been helping me since freshman year. She she been my freshman year D teacher. She's my freshman year English teacher. She's like a big sister aka mother. She's helped me like overcome like a lot of stuff. She talks about how I could better myself in life, better myself after school.
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>> [applause] >> Uh thank you guys for having us. Thank you guys for coming. Kind of been an annual thing since we started girls wrestling here. Great support from the top down through the administration and the community and that's what it kind of lets us keep doing this year after year after year. Um Devin hit it on the head. A couple of young ladies that really exemplify what it is to be a wrestler through hard work and grit and determination. Also, exemplify what I think anyway that it means to be a cub, community, compassion, caring for other people, things like that. First young lady I'll bring up, Maya Bullock. >> [applause] >> Uh Maya's a junior. She started her wrestling her freshman year when we actually opened up and had our first official team. It was still before the IHSA sanctioned wrestling, but she just kind of hit the ground running.
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Everyone is present. Um, with that, we will roll into public comment. Uh, our recording secretary is unfortunately out sick today. So, if you have public comment, um, please address member well. All right. Anybody else? We can get a list going. Anyone else in the room for public comment before we invite the first one up? Anybody? Anybody? Okay. And if you are online and you would like to make public comment, go ahead and start putting your name in the chat now. Um, come on up.
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Hearing none, we do have a couple of awards before we go into close session. What are the items for session? >> That's not close session. >> That's in human resources report. >> All right.
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My third item of business is um since Stephen is not here tonight, I move to appoint Julie Gothier as clerk pro 104 for tonight's meeting due to Steven's absence. I accept the nominations. Thank you, Julie. All right. So, let's move on to the consent agenda. Item five. Um, do I have an approval agenda? Move to approve the consent agenda. >> I'll second. Okay. Um, does anybody have any items that they'd like to discuss? Um, I just wanted to acknowledge the um, donations by the Bulmer family, I believe, and uh, oh, Buller, I'm sorry. And also, um, Sher Baxter to the Wasuma Elementary School. Some for field trips and some for the garden. Thank you for that. Um yeah, and I just wanted to acknowledge the retirements um that we got and the letters of resignation. Um we have a few employees of long time standing that are leading our district and uh Lesie and and Eric and they've been uh in our district for a long long time and have contributed so much um through the garden coaching etc etc.
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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. And Trustee Brewer, would you like to read the district mission statement? Basa Union School District provides all students the skills to become lifelong learners and successful 21st century global citizens. >> Thank you. And trustee Boak, would you like to read the norms of the board of trustees? >> Yes, of course. The Beressa Union School District Board of Trustees agree to focus on the best interest of students at all times. Be respectful. Listen openly. Address problems and process, not persons. Keep each other informed. Maintain confidentiality. Work toward the future. Learn from the past. Equal participation from all members. Stay on task. Thank you so much for that. And there were no items um in needed in action for close session.
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So, while we do still believe that it's important to have immediate short-term funding, this endowment is something that makes a lot of sense for us in the future. We have recommended a few modifications uh with the bill and those modifications are in our testimony. But in short, just the request that if the endowment could start at a a lower amount, maybe a 2 million total amount instead of 10 million to at least allow us to get started before we're able to raise the full 5 million in matching that is um articulated in the bill uh currently. That would be wonderful. Second, uh we've asked if we could in the reporting requirements not submit individual student athlete data, but a aggregate that across teams. um that would that would be ideal. And then our third request is just that um if a student needs an agent, then the agent should be certified, but allow students to choose not to have agents because some of our student athletes choose to do this on their own and and don't need that.
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