Some students do not move forward because they think what's happening to them, it's not it's not serious enough to violate the policy. So that means we need to do more education. Some students choose to not move forward because they don't want to put themselves at risk against somebody who may be a perpetrator that's a fellow student or even another employee. >> So yeah, we don't have the time to really go into all of it. I think these are this very important but it's important that you reach out to the students at the university and especially a number of them who might be on the fence at this point and not sure if they should be filing or not filing. Um but I think it's important that you not just meet with representatives but you somehow have these public forums. >> We will do that. >> Give them the opportunity to to voice these concerns and room for us to improve.
And so we wanted to make that change too. Um, I believe that's all the summary I need to share. Mr. Russell, I'd entertain any questions the board may have on this first reading. >> Only question I have and I don't know why you didn't about asking it when I first read this. Um the body cam footage, is this request from the prosecutor's office or are these um foyer requests? >> Right now, they would just be for law enforcement or other agencies that are asking, but if we did get a foyer request, we'd want to have that in place. We've had it from time to time. Um did I state that right, Miss Conrad? Do we have an actual foyer on this right now? >> Um we have >> we have Yeah. So we have recently. So we've had both. I guess all three. Police body camp.
>> So, um, discuss the next item on the agenda is to discuss the request from the conservation commission to hire an attorney to represent them for the 10 to 60 Main Street project. Um I know we have a couple members of our conservation commission here, but um we had received a request from them um and then they had a subsequent meeting and a vote that um they had wanted to um to have a separate town council >> for um for the the 10 to 60 Main Street hearing. Um the attorney the um firm that that um we utilize for town council is um separate attorney but representing >> same firm is representing the applicant in another town in another matter and so as um there is sort of a it's not really a conflict but it's definitely Right. It's it's it's a little on the gray area side >> um that they had requested that that they um be able to bring in their own attorney for that.
>> And that's a schoolwide assembly. >> That would be Yep. By grade level. >> By grade. Yeah. >> Yeah. And and I say assembly, it's not really it's the we actually do it by team. So we have a 7A team will go in in a seminar room then 7B. So it's a little bit smaller, but they all get the same message across in the uh center for empowerment since that maybe is not something. >> I was just going to ask what >> those are those are lessons that we have. It it it there's different uh areas around um just it could be around relationships. It could be around behaviors. Um um >> social media use. Yeah, there's different ones that we have. We've had we'll have it. I think it's going to be there's already happened in sixth and seventh. I'm not sure about eth right now, but that's something our counselors put together uh where we have someone and these are lessons that dovetail or or go off of also lessons that they have in our health classes.
that he's available if you have any questions for him. >> Thank you, John. So, on behalf of uh the principles of of the the school district, and I I don't pretend to speak for everybody. This is my opinion and in talking to some colleagues particularly after we had a demo of the system there's uh over all all I think we were intrigued by the potential to improve the safety and efficiency of our day-to-day operations keeping students and staff safe through this system. Um, and there's a few kind of questions that come up a lot that drive administrators use of the current security cameras. And I think this system holds a lot of promise for again increasing the safety and efficiency. The first is the the who is this student question. That's very common right now. You take a screenshot, you send it to your other administrators.
>> Thank you. We'll do that. >> Okay. Members, any other questions on this? Not I want to call the AG up. Candace. So Candace, you heard the testimony that there are concerns, legal concerns, constitutional concerns. Is that something that your office looked at when you looked at this bill? >> I I believe they have, but I don't know if they've come to a conclusion, but I can ask them to report back. >> Okay. as we move forward. We would like that. Thank you. Members, no other questions. If not, thank you everyone. Um, we are moving on to >> Sorry to interrupt chair. We have a late comer on Zoom for Elizabeth Fujiara. >> Okay, Elizabeth, go ahead. Thank you for that reminder. Elizabeth, >> can you hear me now, Chair? >> Yes. >> Oh, great. Uh what I mostly wanted to say was that I think the concern here is that with the Trump administration basically tearing apart the federal DOE and there is no longer an office of civil rights that's really able to investigate that if we are able to adopt this bill as it is or make whatever modifications are necessary, it would really help the children especially especially the young girls in middle school and high school.
>> Yeah. >> Okay. Typically from concerned parties. >> Okay. >> Any other questions? >> Thank you, Dr. Taylor. >> Our next is 8.2 school-based mental health services. Dr. Taylor, >> Miss Burger is going to provide us with a great update on this. >> Good evening, everyone. Thanks for staying so long and asking great questions. Um, moving on to our community mental health update. As I've shared over and over with you all, we too use a MTSS model when we provide our supports for our school counseling and our mental health teams. Kristen, you can go to the next one. Um, here's again a visual that I have shared number of times with you all just of the supports that we provide our students and families. Um, and most recently we have partnered with community health for our school-based services. So that's our outside provider who provides services to our students but in our school space.
So, um >> so what's the process? What do we have to vote to approve that? Do we get to hear who they're bringing in? >> How does that work? >> I think so. You know, you have a couple members here. Um, and I think you know whatever questions that you have would be um >> appropriate appropriate. >> Come on. Come on up. >> We have questions. >> We do have questions. >> Okay. Um, Carl Hackinson again, vice chair of the Conservation Commission. With me is Jean Crouch, 35-y year veteran of the Conservation Commission. um questions. >> I'll start. So, it makes sense. I understand what you're saying that the legal our legal council is then representing the same on the other side. Um so, do you have another firm in mind, someone you use for other things? Um that that's where I would start. Uh the answer is not specifically but generally we've uh spoken to uh several firms and um but we didn't want to speak in too much detail because we wanted to get your approval before we before we went too far along.
Okay, >> they could be very similar. So, it's kind of reiterating again the message of appropriate social media use. So, you know, appropriate behaviors, relationship behaviors, >> um things like that. >> Okay. Thank you. around the high-risisk behaviors. Um, again, we our whole idea behind anything is really trying to get it as early as possible, intervening uh with the students and then also the families of of of these of the families of the students that may be the victim um and also the bullying themselves andor with the challenging behaviors. And then really uh in our mind like we we have a behavior referral that students have to write a reflection form. Now I I'm not naive to think that every single form is very very reflective because sometimes they're doing that reflection form when they've just been given a consequence. So but we have them reflect on what happened, what would you do differently, you know, what did you do?
Uh, hey, do you recognize this student? They, you know, created some vandalism on our campus or they they were on our campus and they shouldn't have been. And so it takes time to try to identify. sometimes we're not able to identify the student based on that particular footage um you know once it's been emailed to other principles. So this process seems like it would be very efficient to be able to identify to lock into that particular student and be able to potentially identify them. Um also on campus uh sometimes we don't know every single kid by name and so if if a student reports to us that somebody said something or did something to them um in the hallway then we can kind of identify and find that student right now. Again, we kind of like take a screenshot and like send it around to the teachers, go, "Hey, does anybody know the student's name?" And then we kind of investigate it uh from there.
Um I think that's the reality of what's going on on the ground and the DOE staff I believe are doing their best at this point but they uh just need more guidance uh and new legislation to help them go forward because of the Trump administration. >> Okay. Thank you very much. >> Okay. Thank you chair. I appreciate >> Thank you. We're going to move on to um Senate Bill 896, Senate draft 1, relating to the educ to education, establish new requirements for teacher ed, I'm sorry, required the Department of Education to submit annual reports to the legislature outlining certain information concerning capital improvement projects. require reports to be posted on DOE's website annually in a searchable format and provides that any CIP funds and covered for more than 5 years without commencement of construction shall be specifically identified and justified or shall be subject to legislative review for revision or reassignment.
um we worked with them for about six years and they've served 300 to 400 students on and off for those last years. Um however, due to some legislation and some changes, they are no longer going to be providing school-based mental health services um moving forward. So, they let us know that their contract was going to end this school year, which then um had our team scattering on how we're going to support those families and what's next. We put out a request for proposal um to our local community, mental health agencies, other partners to see the best way to support our families to provide that wraparound services. Um we had our counseling team, administrators, some parents all be a part of that process to review the different proposals that we received. Um out of that, adult and child was the top winner of what we saw.
>> Okay. So, we have people in mind. We would if if it were approved tonight, we would have to have that flow through Michael's office as as soon as we could and and go from there. >> When's your next meeting and that you would need legal counsel in place for? >> Well, this is for only 10 to 60 Main Street. Yeah. >> Because that's the only appearance of conflict. >> Yeah. >> Uh their first hearing before us is March 2nd. >> Okay. And so we would like to have whoever is representing us be on board before then. >> Before then. Okay. So pretty tight timeline. >> Okay. >> And we we still as a commission haven't spoken how we would use council. Um it would probably be uh in a different manner than the CBA did. We wouldn't necessarily have to have them present at every hearing.
What was your your responsibility in it? What would you do differently next time? and what is it that maybe we could help you with in situ different situations that you have. And again, the whole idea is that kids understand what the behavior was and where they could change the next time. Like don't where did you go wrong? Where did you steer the the wrong way? And again, I could tell you during the years I've been doing this, students know their behaviors. The big the hard part for them is to be able to control that behavior when this student when student said this to them andor they're upset about things that you know we all know they these are things that could be bringing from the outside things that happened at their home like I had a student today found out something about that student's his behavior was a little off today found out that something happened I'm like there you go this weekend you know was something that was really tough on this student but being able to help them get through times and situations like that is a we look at and then our obviously our mental health staff and how we're going to move forward, you know, they they they'll sit with students and we any student that goes into our suspension detention sometimes, but any students with more of a serious suspension, our mental health staff, one of our mental health staff meet with that student and they do they actually they will talk about the reflection.
Um, another uh question, where and when did did it happen? Particularly at junior high, some kids have a really hard time placing themselves at a moment in time, especially if something emotional happened to them. And so, right now, you have to go back and go, "Okay, so you're leaving third period." and we try to click around to many different cameras to try to manually track the student to see if we can identify when the incident took place and where it took place, who was involved, who might have seen it so we can pull in some witnesses. Um, and again, this program seems like it would really potentially aid in the efficiency being able to interview those students and then get some kind of positive resolution to that situation. Um, including the other side. Uh sometimes again we want to find out what happened a few minutes before that situation and again if we can easily identify the student and then follow that student seamlessly through this program instead of trying to manually click on a bunch of different cameras I think we can get a a much more efficient and a better complete picture uh of a given incident.
Uh with that we're calling up Sen Hoyuchi uh the AG's office. Good afternoon, chair, vice chair, members, and hurishi from the attorney general's office. Um, as we noted in our testimony, the new section being added to 302A um by section 2 of the bill requiring the annual that the DOE submit an annual CIP report to the legislature. Um, just based on the way that chapter 302A is organized, we suggest um actually adding that section to part five of 302A rather than part four. Um, we think structurally that makes organizationally makes a bit more sense. Um, also the pilot program within DOE's office of facilities and operations that would authorize superintendent to redesate funded vacant positions as positions exempt from chapter 76. um because wages are a mandatory subject of bargaining, we think that to address any kind of of of um issue with the language in the bill, we've suggested um an amendment in our testimony.
Um they've previously worked with Center Grove. They work with a lot of Johnson County schools and they really have a wraparound approach to supporting their students with school-based mental health. You'll see on the next slide just their approach um the way that they come around and support. They support similarly to what our schools and families are used to with skills therapist counseling um but provide a lot of professional development and at home supports with our students and families that we think will be really great um to move to that instead of not having anyone to support our students. So, we are excited to move forward. Um, here with me tonight from Adult and Child is Asia Asia Bridgewwater and Caitlyn Schuman. So, I wanted to introduce them. Um, give them the opportunity if they wanted to say anything. Um, you guys can come on up or stand there.
Um, but that would depend on who it was, how available they were and things like that. But we uh um we haven't really it's kind of a safety net. You know, we're really not using council for 61 Waverly Street because it's moving along fine and we're kind of experienced at what we do and and we have a path forward on that stuff and we haven't hit any real bumps in the road yet there. Um and and that may happen with 10 to 60. We don't know yet. Um >> 10 to 60 has more issues related to it. certainly has more issues and more potential issues >> and um uh we don't want to have council brought in >> after the fact. >> Right. Right. You want them hearing the information and part of the discussion. >> Exactly. >> Okay. Okay. >> That answers my question.
They'll get get a little more deeper with that. Um and then obviously meeting with families and helping them to because there are families that help that need that help. You know, they'll say to us, "It's happening at home too. can you help me? You know, how should I how should I do this at home? You know, and again, that's what our job is to be able to help the student, not just at obviously at school, but on the outside. Um, oh, I said that the tiered responses. I'll just again we'll talk about the different classroom based um things that could happen. Our administrative support and the times that our assistant principal, myself andor our Dina students are meeting with with our teams and helping them uh through through different or difficult situations sometimes challenging behaviors. the data we have. Um we we go over that in the the um school climate committee and then the behavioral form that we um that we we have had this behavioral form for years up uh incident reporting and then maintaining all the data from that and we share that data with our school climate committee.
Again we want to administer justice you know firmly fairly and get positive resolution so we can move forward. Um and then there's the should this student be here question. Uh sometimes you have students on or around campus um that should that shouldn't be there. They just they kind of kind of damn that's funny. I got thousand kids but you don't look like you know one of my students. And so trying to get uh ID on that student, find out where they are, where they're supposed to be. Again, this system could could help with that a lot in terms of identifying um that student and then following up to make sure that they they're not where they shouldn't be. And um finally in in this day and age, you know, we we now have in our schools uh signs that basically say, "Hey, no yelling, you know, no no berating office staff coming in here." And sometimes some people have to get uh 626 letters where like, "Hey, you're not welcome on our school grounds for, you know, seven days because you pose a a safety risk to our our staff and our students." And so being able to identify when that person is is on campus uh for that length of time again would be a huge uh boost to our current safety.