>> Fair enough. >> I like how in Sebastian's game, you can still watch Rocket League happen in the background. >> Yep. >> But we don't care about Rocket League. We care about Mario Kart. >> I personally care about Rocket League. That was a little sneaky uh like little shortcuts that Asher's doing where he's cutting over the plants. >> Mhm. >> He is holding first. So Asher's holding first with quite a big gle, too. The only one right behind him is uh >> Lane. There we go. >> Lane, >> aka turtle lover. >> I was trying to think of his name for a second. >> Do they ever get to use their nicknames? >> Mean they're gamer tags? >> Yeah, because I always see cyber. Well, I mean, they're on the same team, so they're not going to show individual usernames. This isn't like Smash or something.
Thank Thank you, Kate. >> Thank you. >> All right. So, uh next on the agenda is um the Ballard Road Highland Road um ANR. We had was this just last time we we met with this I think. Right. So, um, and there's there was a question, uh, about one of the lots, um, not meeting the rule of 22. So, we're >> both of them, the one was the one seemed obvious to me, the other one the other one I didn't notice. Um, >> actually, yeah. Um, you're you're correct. >> I'm sorry. >> Oh, pardon me. You'd think I'd know that. >> Yeah. So, if um obviously it's been three weeks since our last meeting because it's usually it's usually two, but there was that one um uh an extra Thursday in January. So, it would certainly be good to refresh our memory about what's going on in the project.
So, thank you so much for being here tonight. If you please like to join us uh for a photo and any of the coaches in the audience. Thank you. That's right. That is it. That's quite an accomplishment for both schools. >> Yeah. All right, we will now have our student representatives report by our board of trustee representative Leia Garcia. Hello again. So to begin with Anaheim, there was a very major accomplishment as the William A. Kirk auditorium was reopened and for those of you who were there it was a very very amazing experience and even our congressman Lucera went and it was a very awesome experience to be able to join with the community on a momentous occasion and we can see here they also had many other very exciting events like club rush and the winter sports pep rally. Next at CVA, with the help of the CVA staff and students, they created vision boards, which is a very, very special occasion because, as you know, Cambridge Academy doesn't always meet in person.
McKG on behalf of Kumio Lewis, CEO of Hawaiian Council. We just wanted to stand on our written testimony and strong support and really emphasize that this is a clarification bill. As I read it, we are making sure that the gift of education, long-standing education that has benefited so many Kiki here in Hawaii is able to continue. Uh this gift is making sure that we can reach community who needs it the most. Um and we stand in strong support. Mahalo. >> Thank you very much. Next up is Kel Nani Abad on behalf of Jack Wong for Kamehameha's business. Good morning roads for the opportunity to testify. I'm Kawabad. I'm the senior vice I'm the vice president of strategies and experience for and testifying on behalf of our CEO Jack Wong and our board of trustees. We submitted written testimony in support and in collaboration with the Hawaii Association of Independent Schools.
It refers to the the moral and the ethical values. My ethical values says that I try very hard not to lie. That doesn't mean that now and then a little white lie slips through, but it means I try very hard not to do that. It try that I try to always consider other people that I always try to make life better for other people. How about the rest of you guys? Same. Okay. All right. Agree. Mhm. And again, here we go. There was a big conversation on integrity because we're not seeing a lot of integrity right now. Um, basically it reli it relies on us to be have integrity because we are grassroots. We are as close to the ground as we possibly can is in being politics and so if we don't show that to Dr. Stewart and the rest of the district office, she has a hard time showing it to her leadership and their leadership has a hard time showing it to their their staff and then the staff doesn't show it to the kids.
So I chose her and then said, "Heather, in two weeks, you're going to pass this on to somebody else." She gave me a look like, "I really don't want to talk in front of people, but she got to come up to the office over the announcements and pass this on." So every two weeks on Friday, they turn in their write up, they they pick the person, they write it up, they pass it on, and from there we bring them up on Monday, they read it over the announcements. I summon the next person up and say, "Hey, I need to talk to you five minutes. Nothing big deal. Just come on up." They come up every single time really nervous and they're like, "Why is the principal calling me to their office?" Right? And they get up there and they see the hammer and they're, "This is awesome.
We all loaded up and spent the day up there and found all of his projects and it was really really awesome. And whenever we got there, we noticed he had a little extra ribbon on his project and we're just kind of like, oh, we don't know what that is. Few days later, I got an email and he had actually won the 4 leaders choice award as well. And so I'm going to bring up Shirley and Jess Bailey, our our um Purdue um partner, and they're going to talk a little bit more about that. But it's really exciting. His project is actually at the it's housed at the um the 4 headquarters at Purdue, and it gets to go around the entire state for the entire year to be showcased throughout the state of Indiana. So, I'm going to let those two come up and then they can and Angie as well and then um that way they can kind of talk to you more about it and then we'll go from there.
>> Oh, that's true. >> Like, it's here. It's either you're on the same team or you're not. Looks like we had first, second, fifth, and eighth. What is going on with EMTT today? He's the green Yoshi. Normally he holds first. >> Yeah. >> Oh, we're on the leaf circuit. >> Leaf cup. >> I don't know. Mario Kart >> completely [laughter] [gasps] [snorts] >> a mass array on a selection. >> Cheese land. [laughter] Oh, Sebastian got cut off from his shortcut. He's now down to eighth place. >> Okay. Yeah, it's just the Leaf Cup. >> Okay. Asher still holding first. I I believe this is their second game because I think we've No, it wouldn't be their second, would it? They didn't start till 5. >> I don't know. You're acting like I know. >> I thought you would know. >> Well, you never know how fast or slow their matches were going to go.
And sure, and um >> if you can do that, that would be great. >> So, for the record, uh my name is Jason Panos, practicing law at 246 Andover Street, Peabody, Massachusetts. I'm joined by uh the applicant representative Sander Depitri, representative of the Depitri Group LLC, and our project civil engineer Mark Allen Carr of MP Design Consultants. Uh Sander is of 735 Main Street, Boilston for the record again. and uh Mark uh practices at 118 Turnpike Road, Sweet 200 Southboro. So, by way of update, since we met on January 22nd, we accomplished the following. We submitted a storm water permit application with the Conservation Commission for hearing on February 23rd, uh just a couple of weeks from now. And obviously on on February 2nd, we submitted to this board revised ANR plans uh to create the zoning conforming lots uh subject to the rule of 22 and otherwise.
So, this was a time for all the students to get to know each other in person. They also had a servaton that brought together students, staff, and families so that they could have hands-on projects to support the community. And they supported the five C's with compassion and collaboration. At Kennedy High School on January 21st, the Kennedy open house and expo showcase was held and students, parents, and community members were able to explore Kennedy's innovative, diverse, and vibrant programs. They were they were able to meet with the dedicated staff and the different departments and see firsthand the achievements of Kennedy High School's achievements and student body. Next at Catella, they had a very powerful month of impact with a league champion girls wrestling, very inclusive ASB events, a life-saving blood drive, 24 plus clubs showcased at the two-day club rush. Strong family engagement through open house, and the community resource fair, and an RZP summit 2, which all schools had an RGP second summit.
We're offering some amendments for your consideration. I'm going to just take a few moments to share a few highlights of our testimony if it's possible. First, we want to mahalo Governor Green for his leadership in introducing this bill. And we want to acknowledge and mahalo the circle of strong schools, organizations, and individuals among whom we stand in in support. Senate Bill 3123 empowers schools and donors to define our relationships and interactions with our hana and ohana in ways that are authentic and aligned with our values. who we are and who we always have been for Kha. This measure allows us to maintain our pelina with hama and ohana as our founder Kellyahi had intended. Our proposed amendments seek to provide greater clarity and to strengthen the bill. We've included a redline draft in our testimony for your convenience and we worked on these again in collaboration with the HIS uh leaders.
So, it comes basically and I'm not saying that we're the the parents of all this, but what we do is very very important as far as staying honest. And I think the word courage is going to come up more and more for us because we're going to have to have some courage on some decisions we're going to have to make. I've seen Dr. Stewart have courage on some of the things she's brought to us. Um some things she's not sure how we're going to react to, but she still does it and she listens. So I'm saying that we are going to have to develop this same kind of courage. Okay. Um keep going. Can you do one more? There you go. Competence. Sometimes this is where I see that we don't have all the competence we need as board members. Um we keep harping at uh Dr.
We've had tears. We've had emotions. We've all things." So it started with Heather and it's transformed into this. So, these are faces that many of you that can see the board uh recognize. And some of them um for those of you that have a hard time seeing. Amber Roar, top-notch teacher, longtime O Elementary teacher. Couldn't brag about her more. I think this was a really cool one. Once Amber won it, uh she actually nominated our custodian, Tyler, who's in the crowd tonight. Um that's just good culture to me when your custodian is that appreciated. I think that's a really cool thing. So, Tyler does some great work for us and we sure appreciate her. Andrew Swank, another full time host teacher right there. Apologize for the button, miss push. We all know Mr. Swank love Mr. Swank, Mrs. Warren with him. Mrs. Esinger and Mrs.
>> You stay here. Yep. It's your project. >> Hello everyone. Um thank you for having us this evening. I'm Jess Bailey and I'm president of the Jennings County 4 Council and vice president of our livestock um committee. Um I get the privilege tonight of um awarding this award to Simon. Um as Mrs. Christ Johns did say um he won grand champion um with this project. Now I just want to remind you to win grand champion at the state fair. It's from all the counties. There's three projects from each county in the whole state of Indiana that are at the state fair. So he went up a bunch of a bunch a bunch a bunch of projects. So then he won grand champion out of all those and then you add to that leaders merit award. So then that's when all the grand champions go into that pool and they all decide on whose project deserves that.
>> That's true, >> cuz every cup is different. Chopper. So Asher's just holding first with an insane lead. in both races. >> And then it does look like Lane is keeping second. >> Mhm. >> And then EMTT is actually >> there's a blue shell coming after >> running in third. >> Can he dodge the blue shell? >> Yeah. It's just a lot harder and he doesn't really need to cuz he has such a lead. >> Yeah, >> but he does have a rocket coming for him. So >> Mhm. The duration did run out, so it doesn't really give him that much of a boost. >> Yeah, >> if Sebastian can get out of eights while he's in this pack of them, he could score us a couple more points. >> Yeah. >> One through three and six. So, it does look like we are >> doing okay.
Um the chair was initially right. The uh lot that did not conform to the rule of 22 was lot uh parcel A which is marked on the plan on the screen. Uh you may recall from January 22nd, this is the type of plan that the chair requested um showing the ANR lots superimposed on that 1950 subdivision plan. Um, and because of the rule of 22, we now have an ANR plan that shows three lots, parcel A, parcel B, and parcel C, which is an unbuildable landlocked parcel. Um, and it will be used for storm water management, utility placement. We haven't quite figured out exactly uh what, but there will be a use for it. uh the affected lots from which the parcels are created. Uh according to this plan uh and all references to the lots in my presentation are going to be to this plan.
Next at Loera Lera High School had Loera Gives Back Week, which was a collaborative fun event for the clubs, ASB staff, and students. The class senates gave free snacks out every single morning, and the clubs had lunch activities that offered community service. On Friday, Best Buddies held a district-wide basketball tournament where they all contributed to welcoming 500 students on their campus, ranging from band, cheer, clubs, ASB, and more. And on Saturday, the students continued the Zen Garden community service project brought by the National Honor Society. And then more pictures for you. Next, at Magnolia, in collaboration with Savannah's ASB, they hosted the Buna Night on the 24th of January, which was a very huge hit with a taco truck, a live band, and a student performances. There's also a karaoke room. This is the second year of this event after debuting the idea in 2025.
We also provided a copy of these with the AG's office. The suggested amendments are primarily on page three of the bill and they aim to achieve two objectives. First, we propose using the simple phrase conditional gift in place of donor conditioned educational awards conditional gift. The change clarifies that both school conditioned and donor conditioned gifts. >> Your time is expired. If you can hang around there probably there's likely to be questions. So, thank you. >> Okay. Thank you very much. >> Next up is Terry George, CEO and president for Hawaii Community Foundation. Uh in support, Rachel Wag Wagenman D um director of marketing for Hawaii girls why schools for girls at La Pietra. Also in support Dr. Ruth Fletcher for St. Andrew schools in support Kane Kabaola Lindsay for Association of Hawaiian Civic Clubs in support. Malia Tuchia for Hawaii Children's Action Network Speaks in support.
Stewart about uh teach us more about budgeting. Show us do that kind of thing. Um how do how we talk about the discipline system? We need to have that competence when we go out into the world or into our grocery stores and we meet people and they say, "Oh, you're on the school board. What did you think about uh somebody vaping in the bathroom at junior high?" We have to have the confidence that we know what the rule is that we know what consequences could possibly be and how faithful that they are done to are treat the how faithfully the kids are treated with those kind of things. Okay, competence is a real big thing and it's not just being able to read and write and do some math. Okay, go ahead. Um, by electing me president again, obviously you thought I had the skills to do the work.
Reef right there. Tyler then shows Mrs. Pendleton, another long time host teacher who we sure love and appreciate. Um, and then this most recent time, Mrs. Hamilton, our librarian. So, we've had classroom teachers, we've had custodians, we've had librarians, all the things. We cannot be more proud um of that. And it's super fun to watch them not only receive it, I think my personal favorite story. Everybody was excited. There were tears. Molly Warren, who we love, one of our special ed teachers, she realized what was happening and realized I was going to make them take a picture. And she started to walk out when Mr. Swain gave it to her. Was like, "Molly, this is not you can't opt out of receiving the host. Like, this is not how this works." She's like, "I got to put my makeup on. You're going to take a picture." So, she ran out and got her makeup and we're ready to roll.