Where is it? Taken away by Bloomfield. Here they are on transition. Left-handed floater. No. Rebound. Yes. Put back there by Bluefield. Now they extend the lead 118. So a little bit of a run here for the Bengals. >> Oh my gosh. >> Here is Gonzalez. Gonzalez floater. No. Short. Balls go out of bounds. And it will be a boomfield ball in bounce. Approaching 50 seconds now left to go. No fouls yet on either side. No team fouls of course. And here is the number 12 once again. 45 seconds left to go. Shot. No rebound. Where is it? Comes back out. Here's Pkin. Pedin. No rebound. Gonzalez almost had it, but it comes back out to Boomfield. And it's stolen. Nice steal there. Here is Angel. Oh, he got off the mark. He lost the handle. Comes back out. Now they got to come back on Z.
So, there will be some of that will be again displayed at Cub Fest, but those are the tables that were donated. So far, we've gotten three and our goal will be about 10. We've got two of them that will be designated a staff with umbrellas. So, staff can have a area [clears throat] outside to to eat during lunch. The next thing is we're having a new mascot. So, we're trying to merge that bear cub dynamic thing that everybody talks about. So, if you look, that's the design of our new one. So, we've got a full-size Ashley's worked together and with us to basically make that design. That's in production now, so it'll be a full-size. We will use that a lot through events. We made it junior high feel where you can see we've got Crocs with socks and the flat bill kind of thing.
Please say your name, your address, and you'll have three minutes. Hello, I'm Tara Clutier. I am a Greenfield resident at 255 Cole Rain Road in Greenfield. I am a teacher here and um I would like to talk for a second about the fair fix for retirement plus that is before the senate um at this time and ask I don't know what the school committee can do as far as this bill is concerned um it's H4361 um retirement plus was rolled out in 2001 it was very poorly rolled out. Um, I was a new mother with a young baby and I thought I was in retirement plus and many years later I found out that I wasn't. Um, so we're asking there's a there's a large group um of teachers that have taught more than 30 years um asking for the opportunity to pay the extra money that we would have taken out had taken out over the years.
Good evening board members and superintendent Mr. Parker. Thank you for having me. My name is Payton Hunders and I'm a junior at High School. I'm first going to start off with some past events for you guys. February 9th, we had um our new tech leadership a 5ear board meeting. The week of February 2nd, we had fun celebrating our counselor, Miss Williams. February 6th, our forestry students attended the Laurian conference, which never disappoints. Our yearbook training in Chico was on February 5th, and it was a very productive meeting. Our students still talk about it today. Um, February 23rd, students had a great time on the ice on the ice in Mount Shaka with Mr. Hernandez and Miss Maria. Enrollment updates. We have currently 43 students, 42 9th graders, 25 10th graders, 45 11th graders, and 31th graders. Since last board meeting, we have one freshman from Northern Summit, one freshman from in the district, and one junior from Foothill.
Um, specifically, I didn't hear it mentioned in previous meetings that our Spanish speaking students, they go to RTI to help them to get to the point to that where they understand what's going on in the classroom. I spent time with a translator on my phone speaking with students because I don't know Spanish very well and they didn't know English very well, but we worked together and we had progress. So, I would strongly encourage you to um fortify that specific department and um not take away from it. Um again, that was why I volunteered there because I don't want to be a sub. I don't want to replace a teacher. I want to help the teacher, right? And that's why we're all here is because we want to help the students in the district and make it a better place. So, um thank you for hearing myself and Jacob as a parent and student.
Thank you. Dear trustees, happy Valentine's Day. Please have a heart and take care of the people who take care of the kids in this district. This is the only job I know of that gives pay cuts instead of raises. I am poorer with each year of service I provide. You are breaking my heart and my spirit. Health care keeps teachers healthy enough to teach our kids. We can't give our all if we are not at our best. We cannot be fully present and engaged if we are worried about affording health care for ourselves and our family members. Have a heart. Happy Valentine's Day. And BUSD trustees, thank you for working hard to find the money in the budget to give teachers the peace of mind that stable health care brings. Thank you so much and happy Valentine's Day. >> Thank you. And our next speaker is Christy Gurnie.
So, we all know how wonderful our men's volleyball team is. When they do really well in the Big West Conference, they compete, qualify for the national championship, and and we can win national championships. So, we're not asking to compete at that level. I agree. We we're not going to pay one player $6 million. That's not the right solution for us. >> Can you give me an idea? I mean, your highest valued uh athlete the past year, Wisconsin was uh your kicker. Can you disclose to us what is this NIL deal? >> Um I I have not I don't think we've disclosed publicly any of our individual student athlete deals. that >> but if we go down this road of using taxpayer funds, I think the public has every right to know how much we're paying for whoever doing whatever. >> Yeah, I and I understand that and I that's where I guess we've asked for the modification that we would disclose that by team as opposed to as individual students.
I'm a nurse and a faculty from the University of Hawaii. I'm here to share that this initiative also supports the workforce development. We also have training nursing students which supports them not only in develop our skill their skills but also in connecting with the community as well as with the community navigators that exist in the community. Thank you so much for your time and I would like just to reinforce that this initiative is a win-win all the way around. We have a workforce training. We have a service to the community as well as be able to develop the science and as well as better efforts to support everyone around. Thank you so much. >> Thank you very much. On Zoom, identify yourself, please. >> Aloha. This is Jordan with Lahina Strong. We'll be standing on written testimony today. Lahina Strong supports you guys passing SP 2969.
Angel Gonzalez coming back. Oh, good defense. Nice defense there by number 15. Wow. Showing his >> hustle both sides. Angel Gonzalez rebound. Where is it? Farrell had a hand on it. It'll go out of bounds. And now we're approaching the end of the first quarter. A well played first quarter. Here's one last shot. No, that'll count. That basket did count. Oh, the miss. give credit to the shot to Jordan Curry, number 12. He knocked it down. So that will bring the lead to 118. Well played first quarter. Both sides certainly a little rusty start for Clipton, but they had a little bit of a run there. Led by Angel Gonzalez playing good defense, good offense. Certainly had some rebounds there by Farrell. He had good contributions by Alvaro, Rodriguez, Bayz, Shan Leonard. H making his presence felt. Certainly good team play there by Clifton again coming into the contest with a two and two record.
So, it's got a backpack. So, it's going to be really cool. We've talked about things through they'll be using What are those shoes called? What are the ones? The Crocs where you can put like the the Jibbitz and putting those to do some sales and things. We've got some cool ideas coming. The last thing that I'll talk about too is the student entry withdrawal information. That's been a huge success for us. If you open up that document that's linked there, this is some data that just goes through how we One of the things for us that was big was just the recruitment and retention piece. We always saw a lot of students in moving in between schools within the county. So, when you look at some of these numbers, the one that's going to that's hard for us to pull is entry data because that's not going to capture students who moved in over the summer.
It's with interest compounded. It's not going to be cheap, but um it gives a fair retirement so that somebody else my exact age that taught the exact same number of years as me, I would have the same opportunity as them. Um so if you're watching or if if the school committee can support it, I would appreciate that. Um there's many people in my shoes tends to be people that in 2001 were young mothers. There's lots of us that are very much that. Um, now I'm an older mother asking you to help me. Um, thank you so much. I'll talk to you later about my other things. Great. Thank you. Anybody else in the room or online for public comment? Okay. Not seeing anyone. Um, I think we will move on. Um, our student representatives unfortunately couldn't be with us here tonight. Uh, but I believe superintendent is going to give their spiel for them.
Current events leadership is continuing to Valentine Candygram this week. Um, we stopped today and then we have our breakfast club tomorrow, which we'll be about. And then recruitment still continues with Miss McWills um and it'll we'll wrap up before our parent night which is March 4th. Upcoming events new tech continues to break new ground first CTE pathways on campus and next year Shasta College dual enrollment courses. We applied for nine dual enrollment classes for the 2627 school year. We have pre-calculus, statistics, health and wellness, intro to engineering, intro to municipal resources, environmental horiculture, career choices, understanding human behavior, and 3D CAD fundamentals. Tomorrow we have our breakfast club, which is our school assembly. Monday through Friday, um, February 16th to, um, the 20th, we have no school for February break. Monday, February 23rd, Chico State is coming to New Tech to talk to all of our juniors.
really appreciate all of you for what you're doing. But again, I would just encourage you to maybe look in other areas because those are such important departments and I will tell you that our PE teacher is a mental health coordinator. She aids the mental health of the teachers. She aids the mental health of the students. And it's very important that our students can take a break from the room that they've been in with the teacher they've been with. Go out, do a physical activity that's in plan for them. have a teacher saying, "Hey, looks like you're having a rough day. We're gonna work it out. It's going to be okay. That teacher loves you. Head back to the classroom and get it done." Right? So, I really would ask that you all really, really think hard in other areas that you can cut back besides those two specific departments.
>> Hi, I'm Christy Gurnie, Brook Tree Teacher. I brought you the treats. Happy Valentine's Day. Um, it's homemade almond roa. Um, so I have a few more Valentine's to read. Honorable trustees, CATAB members, especially families at this time, need to be able to afford to take their children to the doctors and not have inferior medical plans that possibly break the bank if a medical emergency arises, have a heart, and demand that management approve CATAB benefits propo proposal. CATAB's proposal will save the district money in the long run, and help to recruit and retain teachers. Healthy teachers provide better services to students. Affordable health care is love. Settle now. Another um investing in health care for employees will attract new hires, retain good teachers, and keep up employee morale. This one uh hello trustees. It's important that you understand that I need health care covered in my benefits.
I I think that is the standard nationally. But if that's not where we are, then I understand. And if the money if if the money from the state comes and requires individual disclosure, then you know that we would have to make that choice. I guess I I just don't know exactly how the privacy rights work for individual students. >> I just want to introduce K as an example because I'm just trying to understand like we're not going to be paying $6 million for a quarterback. Um but K's deal gives us kind of an idea of like did he get $10,000? did he get $50,000 so that we could kind of rightsize this appropriation as well because if his EDI deal was small then maybe we don't need to give you 10 million bucks right >> okay yeah I mean I guess that's where I would say collectively we are trying to um raise $3 million for our entire athletics department for this year and then our target was to have $5 million for next year and that's why we made that budget request and that would be across all of our teams.
Mahalo. >> Thank you for that. Anyone else wishing to testify? If not, members, we're open to questions. Any questions? Chair questions? No questions. Okay, we will move on to the next item on the agenda. Senate Bill 2657. This is relating to Alzheimer's disease related and related dementia research. Establishes the Alzheimer disease and related dementia research center of Hawaii within the University of Hawaii. Requires the research center to be administratively uh affiliated with the University of Hawaii John Burns School of Medicine. And testifying on this is University of Hawaii Kamal Masa Masaki. >> Good afternoon. >> I'm Dr. Masaki. I'm the chair of the department of geriatric medicine and I'm very happy to provide strong support for this bill on behalf of the John Aurn School of Medicine.
Bloomfield they're three and one coming in. They're led by coach Leonard. And of course Clifton led by Miss Shmley, Miss Ve, Miss Vayner there on the sideline. Always put time aside for these kids. And now checking in. He looks like we got a new starting five. >> That's number 10 to the >> Matthew Zan Bran there. Matthew Zamreno of course with Shauna Tanium. He's on the floor. We have number 20 on the floor also. That's Daniel S. And we have number two. He's on the floor. That is Aiden Taylor. Altanium passing it along to Daniel. Yes. Count it. Nice. What a pass there by Alanium to say. Now it's 1310. Out to the wing. Here is number 22 McDow. McDow out to the wing. Deep three off the mark. Rebound. Where is it? Comes back out. And looks like another chance opportunity for three. Too strong.
There's not a way within the Skyward reporting system for us to every single kid to start the year isn't is a new entry. So, I can't capture summer. But, I can kind of give you statistics. Usually, we lose a lot of students again in county. We only lost four to nearby schools. So, the withdrawal is all withdrawal including summer. So, that's all of our numbers. That's huge for us. So, we lost four to nearby schools just two of those buildings and I've listed those there. We lost 11 to a virtual or home school. One of those students was a fifth grader, so we don't have a fifth grade up virtual option just because we don't we don't have that option in our curriculum. So, we lost one there and then the other 13 moved away, moved outside of Madison. The entry was 23 students from August 8th.
>> Yes, thank you. They had other obligations tonight. So, they did submit a nice report and I'll I'll run through that for you. Uh, the February student report to the school committee from our Greenfield High School. Student councils had had a very busy month and they participated with Special Olympics, their unified boti tournament on Friday, January 23rd. They brought three teams from Greenfield to represent and they're also looking forward towards March where they're getting ready to take another polar plunge to raise money for Special Olympics. If you would like to donate to the Polar Plunge, can contributions can be sent to Angela Mass at the high school. Sounds cold. A polar plunge there, right? Key clubs on
Friday the 27th, we have a field trip to UC Davis with Mr. Lewis and Mr. Hernandez. March Wednesday, March 4th, at 6 p.m., incoming 9th graders student parent night are welcome. March 7th, we have our crowd feed cleanup um volunteer opportunity with Miss Hernandez. In February 13th, we have our spring swing welcome event.