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um motioned by kaiser seconded by timothy i remember now because okay there's a long pause now i remember yeah um so uh in my experience teaching health related subjects having a course in health and i've had courses in health having a course in health doesn't translate into being able to teach it appropriately to students because it's a very sensitive subject so i acknowledge the coursework but i also i would like to know that that teachers that are teaching the topic and and this is a bigger discussion for another for another time to look at or to look at our health programs our health education programs in general um is is definitely on my list of things to do um but yeah that's that's what i would say is is it it takes more than just coursework to effectively teach um health to our students mr landau i'll simply say that i share those concerns and i think that's a really important conversation to have about why it is that health basically is getting the short-handed stick to find someone to cover it effectively that is an important topic i am going to be voting yes on this to make sure our schedule is smooth for this year but it is a conversation we should have okay any further discussion jim what's the minimum amount of coursework that someone would need to be able to teach a single subject class i believe it's um i believe it's 12 units 12 12 12 units so upper level units so 18 units would be a minor in most cases just just just to give the board a little more background there's not a lot of health teachers because there's not a lot of health jobs you typically in one of our high schools you might have one health teacher because it's only a semester class and you're teaching primarily freshmen so so typically they'll have a credential and a supplement or they'll have two credentials so so it's not necessarily when you open up a position if it's part-time you're probably not going to get candidates you have to have a full-time job or they'll go somewhere else but there is a supplementary credential or a supplement for health that you know somebody more of like a science teacher would be able to obtain produce there is through ninth grade but if you don't if the ninth graders don't take it and you have 10th 11th and 12th you can't teach those and and that's why we're coming to you you can't teach it with a supplement not not above ninth grade not above ninth grade but you have to have the full credential above ninth grade or i need to come back or the exemption or however you wanna however it's called sorry yeah so there's challenges that are beyond just um right getting so the issue the issue that i like currently have would be a pe teacher having that exemption to teach that to 10th 11th and 12th graders correct i i'm also a little bit biased because i'm a science teacher and i have a very have a depth of knowledge of science so it's a little bit different than from the physical education perspective which is related to health also it just doesn't go into a lot of the more psychological parts of it any further discussion board are we i don't know how many of you guys had this pegged as the hot discussion item did not okay um uh all those in favor of passing 57 no 1547-21 signify by saying [Music] uh yeah i was gonna call for ninais was the last one no it's a voicemail because we were not unanimous last time thank you um dalby i'm going to call again for the vote dobby daley name kaiser yes tennis eye lando robinson aye 4-1 and you heard our concerns yes thank you and they've they've been there for a while i've attended several meetings on this very subject okay next one uh number four discussion action mr hanlon again the declaration need for fully qualified educators so you actually passed this back in june and there is one change on this document and is because we have hired a number of interns and ctc requires us to have for each teacher to have a cloud credential which allows them to teach english language learners which are in nearly all of our classes and when you're an intern you haven't gotten that credential yet so we waive that for their first year or possibly two depending on how long it takes them to get their credential and um but that is a requirement in order to get your primary credentials so eventually they do get that but we're waiving it until they can actually go through the classes and get that credential so that's that's where we're at so what we've done on this one the number has changed i think we had to add another three um hires that are interns that are not cloud credentialed and that has to be documented and submitted to the commission on teacher credentialing it's a little difficult to understand are you saying interns interns so if we can if we open a position and we can't find a qualified candidate we'll take a student teacher and then we will um make them an intern and they're they're actually paid um salary schedules so yes they're an intern what's going on it's a motion sensor we need our audience members to do some jumping jacks do jumping jacks and move around a lot out there yeah or tell phil to go fix it there we go a lighter would be better in some ways but maybe that's not you know fire code did you have a class on that jim yes i have some questions on this item yes um so i'm new to the whole world of teacher credentialing and and this kind of stuff but um if you have somebody who there's different levels of qualifications of t of teachers right there's you mentioned interns then there's a fully credentialed teacher right who if they wanted this job and they're already in it would automatically be theirs if they didn't have somewhere else to be right so maybe two ends of the spectrum of right who's eligible to come apply for this job is that correct maybe kind of accurate and then there's degrees to which somebody is tenured or credentialed or something something like that or you've either got a credential or you don't maybe it's in that subject area maybe it's in a different subject area but who else is on that spectrum of who who should get the job off or you know by law or whatever according to the contract so so we have teachers that aren't emergency credentials sometimes on an emergency credential um and that is the the most needy category um and typically their special education because we cannot find folks you said the most needy well the most needy because we can't we can go out and we advertise and they're not out there there's just no one to hire and a lot of school districts are in that position in special education mathematics and science the sciences for us in chico it's it's almost entirely special education especially when you're trying to hire a special special education teacher in august um and and we've had to do a few of those questions they're not there they're just not there so that's when we turn to an intern and i think nearly all of if not all of them all our interns are in the special education classrooms because there just is no one to hire they all have jobs it's a very difficult job and and and districts gobble them up so so anywhere from an intern then you can get someone just fresh out of college and they have a temporary credential they have to go through something called an induction program and once they pass that then they can get their permanent credential and then they just renew that every five years so it could be any of those levels there and then the ten year is a different kind of a different issue because um um you have the first year and then until march of the second year to make a decision on whether that teacher is going to become permanent or not and um but in the meantime they're expected to continue to make progress on their um clear credential and that could take up to five years um it just depends they have five years from their first job to get their clear credential and finish that induction program so tenure actually kind of begins even before you get your clear credential is that what i just heard it could it could potentially so we've had we've had folks that um that don't start the induction program in their first year out of college they put it off for a year two but they have to have it completed by year five and so so conceivably they could get tenure before that but if they don't get their clear credential the tenure doesn't protect them they have to get their clear credential and do these people but they have a credential yeah it's just not cleared because they didn't go through the induction these people got a crack at these jobs before when when they become available this what we're voting on here is a you know a declaration that we have a need for a fully qualified person are we ruling out everybody else who's on that spectrum um i'm not sure the people we these categories of of people with these um provisional um the interns the interns the um provisional credential right is that the first two years of your credential uh it's a preliminary credit preliminary sorry um are those people hanging around um when we when we make this declaration and we're not hiring them or no there's none we're so we're not even allowed to get an intern unless we've gone out searched and can't get a qualified candidate so then that's only then are we allowed to get uh place an intern in the classroom so we have to show that we've gone out and advertised and tried to get those candidates now we know that's not entirely true because it did happen last year that an intern was hired over qualified credentialed candidates i'm not familiar with that situation um okay thank you very much yep isn't maybe jim makes it clear isn't there something that we have to do to say that we are looking for fully qualified educators in particular areas um that's why we're saying we have a declared need yes yes that's correct any other questions board do we have any public comment we have none actually just a really quick just recap question we already voted on this just the numbers changed a little bit because we have a different need we had a couple um special education teachers leave us and were unable to hire any so we were able to have interns fill those positions so that that's the reason in august it's nearly impossible to hire a special education teacher unless they happen to move into chico you know on a whim yeah most of them are definitely already picked up by right okay thanks i just wanted to wrap my head around what's all that we have already done and what what's needed yes okay do i have a motion associated with this agenda item i would move uh 3.3 4 excuse me 3.4 is there a second i'll second i have a motion and a second um any further discussion board okay uh call for a vote by member dolby dolby aye kai zorai tennessee land do i robinson i five o thank you board okay we're done with the personnel stuff this is a a board responsibility to ourself to work to evaluate ourself and our effectiveness and concerns when this was presented at the last meeting it was the first time many members had seen the compiled excuse me evaluation and so we delayed commenting until this meeting so we're now to the board self-evaluation score sheet to see if there are any comments on the section the board that where there was a score less than three i believe was our our cutoff asking for further explanation and discussion is there any discussion by any board member on those items on that list yes mr tennis i i i see honesty in this i'm sorry i see honesty in it i think that um i think we've done a good job i think that it's not all rainbows and unicorns and it's not an artificially rosy view of our performance you know there's some 2.6s as a 2.5 and i appreciate that thank you any other comments or yeah i'll echo that actually and just also add that it demonstrates our willingness to be transparent in how we are governing um and and being realistic about how we are as a board and as a group and it gives us those those particular items to pay special attention to you know while we know what's going reasonably well and and where we're not doing so well you know when we have our our professional development workshops together you know we can spend that time to really um work on those those pieces in our relationship building in our yeah for our for next for for the future or as we move through into the future so i appreciated this process also just for that ability to think on you know as an individual but really because we we govern as a group not and not individuals i thought that that was a very healthy and transparent take on on where we're at right now especially in the first year with two brand new board members any other comments sorry you go i was just i was reflecting on on transparency and getting input and um i i feel like it would be interesting to have gotten ed services um uh also like input or from their perspective how how we are doing as a group um i don't know if that's something that's normal or typical or or what but um those comments do exist if you want to go back to our backup materials on superintendent staley's self-evaluation there's about six sheets of comments and some of them do come from ed services and others about board performance as a matter of fact and they're they're quite interesting and i appreciated that those comments were made i i would like to comment on number nine here provide community leadership on educational issues and advocate on behalf of students in public education at the local and state and federal levels why this is of interest to me is is because i i have a frustration that we have not done a good job of um giving a broad base and a deep um dive into the issues that weigh on our district and our board and our processes to the point where any parent or any public person has an understanding of you know what goes into a lot of the background and things behind our decisions and i believe that it's because of that that there is so much perceived um lack of total support while total support you don't ever want total support that's that's not healthy but lack of understanding and support of what's being done because there's not a great deal of understanding of why things are being done whether they're mandated or whether they're you know have a lot of of work and background to um support them and bring them forward it's just frustrating to me that there's there's not a lot of understanding of of why we do some of what we do and i don't know how to solve that problem i just i just don't know because the average person parent they don't have the time to spend to get into the depth that we have to do or the people that are advising us have to do and um and so that's that's a that's a frustration level for me can i respond to that madam president yes um i i don't agree with what you said at all i think they have a clearer understanding of what they need than we do much of the time and um i was i mean it's going to come to no secret as no secret to anybody here that i was incredibly frustrated with um the um i think ambivalence and frankly disdain of this board toward the parents you know i mean i didn't come here tonight intending to make that speech at all um this is just responding to what you said you know i um i doubt we have much of an audience tonight it's not a very dramatic agenda i'm just saying how i feel about it how i feel is that we weren't there for the community like we should have been that's just how i think and and i heard a lot of parents and i saw a lot of comments an overwhelming majority who thought that we should have made decisions that were different from what we did and we just ignored them collectively so so that's that's how i feel um did you want to respond to that or right now i can wait okay um so i in in one way i um i can relate to what matt's saying about the previous board and how things went last year and i think that he and i probably both have this in common and that's why we ran for school board this year because of the way we saw things being governed at the beginning of the pandemic and at the beginning of the school year last year however i do want to just acknowledge that that there is a faction and whether it's a majority or not i think is still more or less a mystery because we see what we look for and so you might see a majority because that's the people who are reaching out to you but i see a majority on the other side and it's quite interesting that we have different perspectives and because we hear from different groups of people and so i'm never going to presume that you know any particular group is definitely the majority unless we actually have quantitative verified data however i would also add that all of their voices are important and i think that as a board it's important for us to acknowledge all of those perspectives and wants and needs and and concerns and be as transparent as possible which is why i think it's great when we do our discussion we ask the questions that we might already know the answer to but just so that the public can hear our decision-making process and where we're coming from when we do make a vote and so i would just encourage us to keep doing that it might make our meetings go a little longer but it is our duty to to express why we're making the decisions that we're making that do have an impact on many people in this community not just our students and staff but really the community at large any other members well i uh it is very difficult for someone to know whether they're quote unquote speaking for the majority because we cover 588 square miles so most of us have exposure to a particular segment of people and i think it's really going to make the mandated separation of voting for trustees into quote unquote neighborhood defined by census but the same relative number of people so that was initially done as a way to achieve a a racial ethnic representational framework of reference but it could and this would be to me really unfortunate it could put people in very extreme positions based on what they perceive to be their assigned district you know and just for example the right now the intensity of the argument about setting up a water district that's going on and that has state mandates about saving water but it also has some very strong political and economic representational issues so i think it's possible we could fall into that with this mandate to be in districts that are organized supposedly around a particular representation that might not function in that way in our area so it'll it'll make some of these things that you are both bringing up perhaps even be more pointed i am i i think i get i get frustrated with the comment that that i'm not listening that i'm not paying attention to what parents are saying um and i read every single email comment sent to me every single one i respond to a lot of them and and have back and forth dialogue with them there is no discount of what people have to say that may not agree with other things that i hear about a particular issue in the end it's my responsibility as a board member to do what i believe is in the best interest of a majority of our students and is lawful there's that component too we have a fiduciary responsibility to act within the law and i take that very seriously too but to be accused of not listening to people that are expressing an opinion that's just not true i may not vote in favor of whatever their opinion is um but they have been heard and i do you know i do a lot of of independent reading and and stuff out outside of what comes to me through my regular school board stuff so i you know i expand my horizons as far as information but in the end i have to vote for what i think what has been shown to me to be in the best interest of our kiddos that we're responsible for and what is lawful any other input or discussion okay this is um these materials are filed as part of our process this year is the board self-evaluation stays with us and until we clean out our closets ten years from now oh i just went through purging again um it's a valuable process because if we don't stop and take a collective look at what we're doing we're not going to grow we're just you know it's an important process it may not be comfortable but it's important anything else board okay i think we're we're um done with this it's not uh an action um why does it say announce votes we don't have to approve what we've done we just put this as a discussion action item in case the board wanted to set any action items for themselves they could do that moving forward but you got it it does not have to be approved as is do we have any bright ideas about how to do this differently that we'd like to put in writing and make part of our process for next year or um one of the things that that i think we talked about before was we are about to go to a california school boards association conference and there are many good trainings and roundtables with other school board members throughout the state to sit down and pick their brains and their process results and and so we're you know we're headed for some some good um some good in service okay um our our next thing should be real close to asking if anybody has anything for the next on the floor oh items from the floor we have no items from the floor other than a really beautiful m in the middle of this floor again i just this is just a beautiful facility okay board member requests to agendize items for the future okay so i have a motion to adjourn so move i think we're adjourned board is it still light outside yay we can even see outside now yeah i know the moon was white and you
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hello this is chris cooper superintendent of clearwater schools here with a brief update we've had school for seven days it's great to see everybody back in the buildings and all the activity that comes along with that we always have a few hiccups as we go but i think we're starting to hit our stride and getting some of those things ironed out some of the issues we have had unfortunately uh are centered around cobin we currently have eight students out that are covered positive staff member and that has caused some other issues with close contacts and and quarantines and many other things as many of you know uh one of the ways we've been trying to control that is by masking certain groups or or classrooms for a specific amount of time so currently we've had have had uh sixth through eighth grade in mass that should end after monday and then we also have a fourth grade class second grade class in that same boat and then and most recently one first grade class what that does is allowed allows us to keep kids in school and also not have further quarantines because if both students are wearing a mask one becomes positive the county has said that the other one does not have to quarantine we will still notify parents if your child is as close contact the county considers that low risk i'm also attaching to this update a flow chart or a quick reference guide that our school nurses nicole slack and stephanie dahl have put together appreciate their work on that because it is very confusing i've been in multiple meetings even today with the county and with wsu and and um been in contact with kdhe and it's confusing for us that deal with it every day so i can't imagine what it's like for parents know that if your student is affected by covid we'll have a personal conversation with you to try to walk through all this but we also wanted to have the quick reference guide just as some information because one of the another thing we're doing is we're starting some daily antigen tests on monday over at elementary east very limited numbers if you haven't got a call please don't just show up there for that test it's it's very limited numbers for close contacts and would always be only with parent consent um so we are not going to conduct any type of obviously any type of medical testing including cover 19 testing without explicit parent can sign consent so um that's going to be up to those that want that or don't want that one of the things we're trying to avoid is to end up where unfortunately our neighbors to the south wellington have ended up and when they announced last night that they're closing school until after labor day up until september 7th so we feel for them and hope hope that everybody stays well and that they can get through this in a timely fashion that does affect us some because we were our high school was scheduled to play volleyball and football with wellington next week so assistant principal at the high school heath elliott has been working to try to get other teams that we can participate with we will be hosting volleyball on tuesday mulvane will be here for sure and hopefully we'll have a third for that triangle triangular looking at friday for football i've heard that derby's open but that seems like probably not a good idea for us so hopefully there's a team out there that would want to come to clearwater and and have a game with us at night speaking of activities we have a lot of things going on today uh this evening across our community with the blue and white and all the activities that come with that volleyball football youth things and also the booster club is having a barbecue at the park from six to nine so if you can get out and enjoy that i would ask that as always we be aware of that coveted 918 is providing some issues for us already this year so if we can just keep the distance and do some things that we know can help keep everyone well just good hygiene that would be greatly appreciated because again as in last year to get through this we're going to all have to work together i wanted a quick reminder that we have late starts every monday so coming up next monday everything will run 30 minutes late buses breakfast start times and everything is 30 minutes later than normal so again excited to be here feel blessed to be here starting my second year superintendent in clearwater looking forward to a great year as we continue to move forward we are working on a long-range plan about how we can move this district into an even better place great place to be a kid but my personal belief is we can always get better so 40 community members came together wednesday to start the process of how are we going to how are we going to continually improve our district so i'm excited about that as always when we go through challenging times let's come together not divide apart and i always like to say assume positive intent and i tell my kids what that means is everybody's doing the darn best they can right now in this moment and i think if we assume that we're able to have good conversations we'll get through whatever the 2021 throws at us and i think we proved that in 2020.
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on lands obtained generally in unconscionable ways from indigenous people the taking of this land was formalized by the treaty of detroit in 1807. knowing where we live work study and recreate does not change the past but a thorough understanding of the ongoing consequences of this past can empower us in our work to create a future that supports human flourishing and justice for all individuals thank you thanks galen um do you want to proceed to the roll call sure okay uh commissioner graham commissioner graham commissioner needham council member dish and i'm gonna check uh uh wait a minute we got some people waiting to get in if it's okay i want to start over okay everyone said uh commissioner graham commissioner needham councilmember dish president from chicago okay um commissioner gibb randall president and ann arbor councilmember griswold president ann arbor commissioner khaliwar president ann arbor uh president uh brown uh president in ann arbor commissioner mursky president in our vice person uh mitchell president in ann arbor commissioner vanderbilt commissioner vandenbrook chris vandenbroe here in ann arbor sorry all right commissioner oriole commissioner oriol and commissioner zane carrying a number right we have a quorum all right well thank you thank you so let's move on to the approval of the agenda um are there any uh is there a motion to uh to consider the agenda okay from shannon uh seconded by kathy griswold um um discussion are there any amendments is anybody requesting any amendments raise your hands will speak up by hearing and seeing them um was the agenda accepted as originally written raise your hand say i i i always say no anybody who say no many abstentions hearing and seeing them um the agenda passes unanimously without a moment um so let's pass on to the approval of the minutes from our last july meeting um let's see um is there a motion to consider the minutes from our july 24th um i don't see one but and john mercy motion to accept the minutes and seconded by john callaway any uh discussion anybody any discussion okay hearing and seeing none um all who approve the minutes as written has submitted raise your hand or say i i think any opposed any extensions okay hearing and seeing then the the minutes are approved unanimously um let's pass on to public commentary um this is an opportunity for persons to speak for up to three minutes please call nine 1-888-788-0099 four eight seven seven eight five three five two four seven and enter meeting id nine four zero zero four three eight four four two six this information is also displayed on the meeting agenda and video feed 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 to indicate the desire to speak please press star 9 on your phone you will hear an automated announcement that the post is allowing you to speak when speaking please move to a quiet area and mute any television or background sound so that we may hear you clearly please state your name and address at the beginning of your comments and be patient there can be a delay of up to 30 seconds before a connection is established is there anybody on the line dealing there's no one on the line okay let's wait a few minutes though wait a few seconds i think that's 30 seconds anybody on the line yet there's no one on the line okay then uh this ends the public commentary period on the agenda so um i'll proceed to unfinished business so i just like to open by saying that um i think this is the perfect time for a review of our accomplishments from last year um what um and what we i can consider in terms of approve improving our work um i think um i think this is probably the best me the best time of year and the best time to approve it as opposed to the end of the year so but i'm open to any suggestions um so under unfinished business i've just listed the categories under which um we've been um either the themes that we're charged with in our bylaws such as solid waste water quality or quality and um we've asterisked the things that are kind of ongoing activities such as the gelman update uh the phosphorus discharge in the very river and the pfas and so i think this is a good time for us all to just discuss what we've done and i just want to reiterate my feeling that um our really our tangible work products are draft our ordinance droughts first of all like if we can help council and staff on draft ordinances to improve the environmental situation in the city here i think that is our uh that is our primary work product uh the second one would be resolutions in support of of actions by council and staff and the community considering members of the community and you know i i feel like this this forum is kind of is kind of the most logical forum for integrating input from both the community members you know through all of our connections and our networks within the community in general and with council and with city staff and to try to help improve city government and provide a forum for discussion and action so um so with that in mind um i'm just looking over what we've done for the last year uh we haven't really completed drafting any um you know any ordinances this year of course it's been a pandemic year um we have issued a number of resolutions particularly you know last fall we were occupied with the government boom since we were the court documents were opened and we did spend three meetings three full meetings on drafting a resolution that i was very happy with i think we we did a very good job in integrating information and uh coming up with proposals uh for um um you know suggestions for for solving this and uh things have been proceeding proceeding after many many years were men remembering that this plume was first discovered in 1984.
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this meeting provided by the board of education march 18 2021 notice and the co-star setting for the date time and place for the meeting similar notice has been posted in the town hall the brielle school website and the borough alert has been notified can you please call the role individuals hi um can i have a motion to approve the minutes of the july 21st 2020 regular public meeting yes um [Music] thank you for your concern my family thank you so much um good to be back uh yes today we had a kindergarten orientation with 44 kid partners and new student orientation 20 students we've had a very very busy summer preparing for the real world of school and so i will talk about that in my administrative report but one of the things we did um this school year especially during these trial times is from kindergarten to eighth grade we love turned our student progress using my ready we would test kids in september again in january in the final of june and one of them to put on the website tomorrow that i just wanted to share with you um i'm not going to go grade by grade what you want me to but the overall results is when children return to school [Music] uh midway go first week were the midwife scores and then the final scores were uh are the grade scores and teachers use this diagnostic diagnostic tool to help them inform decisions to their practice where kids are weak when they are strong we look at the whole grade level where we're not focusing enough on the same fractions in them comprehension and reading but what we found and as parents you should be happy to know more importantly as the board of business has been our focus as a board that the academic uh results by the end of the year is we have seen significant growth at every single rainbow and um and where we didn't see that growth where there are pockets we have made some decisions this summer in our curriculum on areas that we're going to have to focus on but you know many people talked about our schedule and you know our schedule i think you know was second to none we got children in every single day you know we provided them with rich instruction and when you look at where they were when they came here in september and where they finished in june as a board you should be very proud of the hard work that she just did the commitments education that our children have and moving forward we know what we need to work on and that's why this summer one of the new programs that we're going to be bringing into our school is called um which means what i need now and so i'll use first grade as an example has three teachers when they have a win period and it will happen once a week for every grade level k3 when they have a winning theory we're going to divide that group up from groups of three which in first grade we have about 16 students in class we're going to bring in at least five professionals because now we have a math interventionist and reading interventionists and others so we're going to bring that in and break our books even into smaller groups so that we can address the needs whether through enrichment activities or remedial activities on grade level activities or certain skills that they need and we feel that in probably five to six weeks those things will change and so that when those groups change the skills that they're working on will change so we're very excited to be introducing that to our children and then at the other grades we have scheduled into their uh schedule g t classes for students and we are going to be pulling sometimes kids out of some of their special classes and addressing those needs too uh through our curriculum in the special areas in the beginning of the year we're going to administer to all students it's a cognitive test it only takes about 45 minutes to administer it will give us some information as well as we're going to administer in september [Music] been doing whether it's foundations and readers workshop writer's workshop math workshop but these are going to be added programs to our for our kids so that our children uh you know will be getting uh more of the things that we think that they need the other thing that will happen and this is not just part of our branding but our children will change classes they'll move from classroom to classroom they will go outside they will talk about that and they're looking forward uh they will eat outside every day as long as the weather is great so that they can get outside and i think that will help with their social emotional development because we know children as well as teachers are coming back with a lot of anxiety and we want to meet those needs of those children when they come back but this is for of course if you when you go through and look at it whether you're looking at first grade second grade third grade math or ela you will always see that the majority of our students are performing at or above grade level and the children that are two grade levels or below the number of students at almost every grade level i have the numbers here and the chairman or all under um are all under ten and so as a as a team or no [Music] of that population has an iep we are aware of that um in fourth grade we will have um two classes with a special educator in both those classrooms the third class will have a baby so in the fourth grade you'll be two professionals in every fourth grade classroom to meet the needs and there's only um 18 students in those classes to so have 18 students and two professionals in that room we think we will be able to provide a very rich instruction for the students as well as giving them the tools that they need whether going to math interventions or reading interventions at the same time as delivering our curriculum so um we are having [Music] and we'll continue to look at our growth and teachers will use this data to perform their own practices we've been using already now for four years and it has really helped us as a school district the second thing i wanted to share with the board is everyone here is a look at um 21.22 school year and so let me begin by saying last year we did a lot of wonderful things our day will begin at 8 10.
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[Music] [Applause] [Music] my [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] james is ready i called to order this meeting uh valencia elementary school district thursday august 26 2021 at six o'clock p.m roll call corey burgess here janie borland here amanda amen here anna boyd here just missing charlene diaz citizens president if you please sign in in the back if you'll join me for a pledge of allegiance the lab of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation undercover indivisible with liberty and justice for all can we get a motion to adopt the agenda submitted all motion to adopt the agenda is submitted please remember to say your name amanda amen i'm in the mic too good for you thank you thumbs up from james i'll second that corey burgess all in favor aye corey burgess hi genie borland aye amanda eamon aye anna boyd so moved item to the consent agenda we have a motion to approve the consent agenda as submitted all motion to approve the consent agenda amanda amen i second it anna boyd all in favor aye corey burgess hi jeannie borland i'm amanda amen hi anna boyd so moved item 3.1 increase of meal prices for adults to three dollars for breakfast and five dollars for lunch dr stewart mr president and board members we received some information from the excuse me from the arizona department of education whatever division it is that has to do with the meal program for our students indicating what the reimbursable amounts are for the meals and we were in fact charging less than the cost for our meals this has not been raised in several years and so i'm recommending that we raise the price for lunch to five dollars and the price for breakfast to three dollars for adults do we have any questions do we have um any options if they you know work during their lunch or yes okay yeah as a district um that was one of the things we learned last year was that um that those meals should not be free and so we have built it into our budget and for for any employees who work give up their duty-free lunch to serve in the cafeteria work in the cafeteria can get a meal if they want and we pay for it awesome thank you any other questions all right and if we can have a motion to approve item 3.1 i motion to approve 3.1 amanda amen [Laughter] i'll second that cory burgess all in favor aye corey burgess aye genie berlin i'm amanda eamon aye anna boyd so moved item 3.2 new positions higher one at 0.73 full-time employee at six of the sites for health assistance dr stewart mr president and board members one of the uh things that we did last year uh with the covid crisis and was to use some of our grant funds for full-time health assistance at each of our sites we did not include that in our grant proposal initially this year because we were hopeful we wouldn't need that we've had enough cases and enough situations the time that it takes for the health attendants to make the private phone calls and do the paperwork and those things is taking quite a bit of time just as it did in the past and that means then that kids who just need a cough drop or kids who you know employees or students who need some assistance from the health office we still need somebody for that we don't need full-time positions we're proposing this as part-time they would only be working during the time students are in school and we can pay for this with s or two funds i recommend that we have these positions for the remainder of this year so this would be funded completely out of the ester grant completely out of s or two okay any questions then i move we approve item 3.2 corey burgess oh genie did you have a question yeah yeah i did is this something that maybe we don't need an employee at every site to do but possibly you know if they're working at the district office and making these phone calls and and i mean are there that many at each site that we have that many calls that have to be made that it deems a full position well that's why we made it part time sure it's a good it's a good question it's part time first of all we have to be cautious about hipaa regulations and so the health attendant and the principal are the ones who are making excuse me any specific and handling any specific information about our covid kids we're at as of yesterday at 35 students on the 14th day of school and so you know we can't quite predict where that's going that's a third of almost a third of as many as we had last year it's half as many students as we had all year last year someone at district might be able to do the paperwork but then that delays all of that just means that for six site or for five sites six sites that they're having to do the calls and the and those kinds of things with families so we gave this some serious con some serious consideration before we recommended it but we've had cases at all sites and the health attendants could frankly use some assistance did you have any additional questions jeannie or did that answer your question i mean i don't know we've got i mean can these can these attendants also be getting a sub certification so that they can be in classrooms instead of teachers using their prep time to sub or is it going to be in the health office only i mean it just seems like a lot of time during the day for an assistant in the health office i don't know well i hadn't thought about that piece the um [Music] there's certainly some other things that they can do helpful in the office one of the things that is required every year is the 45-day screening that happens at the beginning of the year during the first teachers on the 35th day or so fill out that screening for all new students there will be quite a few of those at every site this year because students we have students who've come back we have new students and right now everybody's pretty busy so we can probably keep them pretty busy at least the rest of this quarter doing the contacts and the paperwork with that um you know i'm sure there are other things that they help with vision and hearing they can help with all of those things that have to happen relative to that and certainly can pick up on some of the other duties that need to be done relative to the office in a pinch just like anybody in the office they could be in a classroom for a period if they needed to be they were very flexible last year they were also the ones who kept track of what we needed in terms of uh the sanitizers and the cleaning equipment and all that they were the ones who went around and checked on all of that and made the orders and yeah that's not an everyday thing necessarily but i think we can probably keep them pretty busy i do like that idea of making you give them a certified sub if they're coming on its staff we could probably help expedite that we're doing that with for instance the one of the positions that you're looking at the job description tonight that you approved at the last meeting for that position up at fox creek we are making sure that person has a sub certificate it's our employee it's not through esi and we are paying for it because we're expecting that to be part of the position we certainly could do that with these folks we have such a sub shortage yes and that's one more person on staff on site we can do that so let's add that in there okay um to put them in as a great idea genie okay any other questions no i'm good now thing all right so the vote is to you hi genie borland i'm amanda eamon hi anna boyd great so moved thank you uh we are on to item 3.3 additional addendum position for leadership dyslexia training designee at each elementary site two thousand dollar position mr president and board members if you recall last meeting you talked about uh addendums uh for our team leaders and and those things among other addendums mrs lott has received information more information than we'd had before about the as usual unfunded mandate from the legislature that we have a trained person on each elementary campus at least one on each campus who's trained in recognizing dyslexia number one and number two in coaching other teachers in how to help students who are identified with dyslexia so we pay for the training that's been set up already we're looking for volunteers from our school sites to uh to take this role but this is on top of their duties as a teacher and and so it struck me that this would be an addendum could be an addendum just like a team leader position uh for for some folks on our campus what is the anticipated time this is gonna take after the training is this something that they're gonna put hours and hours each month is this something that is once a month training what are what are we looking at we don't quite know this is such a new thing i'm not sure we quite know what it involves jen and i have spent some time talking about trying to figure out how the state or how the legislators know what's required we don't even know fully what's required uh the trump i think we're going to find out probably from the training or they're going to find out you know from from that training what's what's expected we don't even quite understand what the state is using as a definition of dyslexia the term itself means difficulty learning to read okay well that could include kids who are in special ed it could include el kids it could include students who have some kind of developmental delay you know they're just slower developing than other kids most people think of dyslexia as reversals but that's only one piece of dyslexia and so we don't even know what the legislature had in mind for a definition for this never mind what we're going to expect this person to do so was the plan to for miss lott to get trained first is that what it is or are we getting teachers to volunteer sending them down and getting trained we don't even know what that training is yet we don't know anything about it jen can answer that training is roughly depending on the company 750 to a thousand that they have to dollars um and then they're the person who we train kids or we will test kids um using our devil's assessments which also has a built-in dyslexia indicator and so then we have to send letters out to all the parents of that indicator kind of like a 45-day screener and then we have to monitor them and you i envisioned the person having you know doing some professional development with the teachers a lot of it i believe is the things our teachers are doing already but they may be learning some things from their training that are specific to kids with that so will they be handling each individual kid at their site too managing their case is this or is this just i'm going to do some pd training the only reason i'm getting at that we do repeating training all the time exactly and teachers step up and do that to get offer a 2 000 stipend if you're not if you're only teaching a pd training is no what kind of worms are we opening training but 36 hours can go towards your also your uh you're licensing so i i understand and we're paying for that so maybe we might want to look at maybe compensation for the training or to offer a two thousand dollar annual stipend because once they go in they kind of don't wait i'd like to get more if they're doing this all the time and they're constantly working two thousand dollars i was thinking gosh that doesn't seem like a lot well and frankly being perfectly honest here we needed something we needed to carry it we need an incentive here for anybody to even volunteer to take this on when we don't even quite know what it involves so the only reason i put the 2000 was because that's what you all had for the other stipends so you know it's open obviously for your discussion and um and can be adjusted at some point exactly i'm just concerned that we go out and have somebody do their 36 hours of training whatever that does get to get used towards their licensing so you know there is that in there but two thousand dollars once you're there that's an ongoing 2000 every single year and if all you're doing is pd training once a year for two thousand bucks that's nice [Laughter] so where are we at on this i would just like to know what if they're managing students now we you're talking a huge caseload in 2000 may not be yeah sure the right ballparks sure rather than saying yes let's do a 2000 type and let's get more information say yes okay we are gonna reimburse for your time this isn't we're not asking you to work for free but we need more information anything we can run through 21st century because they're not working with the students right no this is this is totally separate from that so i'd like to table item uh three point three point three um until we get more information are you all okay with that yeah yes all right it's okay do we need motion to table yes you do yes then imovie table item 3.3 all second amanda amen all in favor aye corey burgess hi jeannie borland hi amanda amen aye anna boyd all right so i moved i'm sorry um but we didn't have a second on 3.2 you guys all voted on it but there was because genie had a discussion you motioned and then you wanted to discuss we've got to go back to three point two yeah i wondered if we did but i so we're good for three you guys went so fast i'm like yeah all right well you could have waited until we got the three six or so so um okay it's good to have kim back i know right excuse us on our toes so we need to go back to 3.2 um and let's just make a new motion because good idea we stay we stay good so item 3.2 i'd like to make a motion that we approve the hiring of one point seven three four uh full-time employee at each site as a health assistant with a um subcertification yes so if we can i make that motion corey burgess yeah we're getting here do we have a second a second julie borland all right all in favor aye corey burgess hi jeannie borland aye amanda ayman aye anna boyd all right thank you thank you thanks kim and now we're on 3.4 uh 3.4 job description construction manner manager health assistant paraprofessional para professional preschool paraprofessional behavior resource center paraprofessional instruction dr stewart mr president board members since i knew i was bringing to you job descriptions for the two positions you approved last month it was a good time to bring related related job descriptions to you so the ones the only really new ones there the only two new ones are for the construction manager and for the paraprofessional instruction which is the fox creek position the others are just updates of current positions that we've had i put the health assistant in there uh we had it we took it out at the end of last year and so i'm and i had never brought you the job description for that last year so that one it really is new as well any questions and i would add a footnote that um i got some pretty good advice on the one for construction manager because it's out of my wheelhouse awesome all right with that i uh motion we approve item 3.4 corey burgess i second the motion anna boyd all in favor aye corey burgess hi jeannie borland i'm andy ayman hi anna boyd so moved item 3.5 jk student discipline jkd student suspension jke expulsion of students this is a first reading so we don't need a motion but are there any questions or updates for these policies mr president i would just give you some information uh we did get the policy advisory from asba all 122 pages i pulled these three because of course student discipline is something that is already occurring and so i felt it was important that we get this out for you all to look at for the public to look at get any feedback on these three the changes are due to changes in the law that occurred in the last legislature and there are some significant changes relative to discipline suspension and expulsion of our younger children so they're lengthy and gives you a little time to read through them any of the changes are underlined by asba and i have had them reviewed by our attorney and he's uh he's you know said to bring them to you the way they are so i just wanted to give you a little background in that so they are vetted they have been vetted this is a first reading so if there are any concerns from the public or from the board members you do have time to review these matters item 3.6 executive summary of health school assessment dr stewart mr president board members if you recall we used some of our esser funds to do a healthy school assessment this is the executive summary so it's very very rough a summary of the work that's been done you'll get a complete a complete report uh next month next month in september this is tom milroy his name is on this he's one of the folks who's been working on this he's here to answer any questions this document is for just for your review but it was also uh the back some of the background information for the next item on the agenda so if you have questions for tom uh that's one reason that he came tonight yeah all right um anyone i had a few if you're still going through it um looking at this on the air quality ventilation that's immediate attention we are kind of aware you know our hvac systems are in serious need of repair um i i was just wondering going through this uh we have and i can't tell from the picture looking at it the co2 that's co2 monitoring right there that's correct parts per million is that the same as the one on the next page that we can actually read or i could actually read sorry the the six point six eight or sixty eight parts per million yeah mr president members of the board that was um so actually those are two different devices so the device that you see in the in the top is going to be the temperature humidity and [Laughter] so temperature humidity and co2 reading device and then the one in the indoor air quality or the one in the carbon monoxide section is actually carbon monoxide parts per million number so those are two different devices that we used to conduct the the two different assessments there okay so that helps that's 4 23 423 all right so what is the 423 on the immediate attention what is that so that's that's the parts per million for carbon dioxide okay in the classroom space as opposed as opposed to carbon monoxide monoxide okay that's correct so all right yeah die versus the mo yeah yeah big difference yes certainly and where does that fall in the category because on the other one you have the breakdown for the monoxide um where does that fall was that 420 423 423 yeah that's a good question um i i need to go back and talk to the engineers to get you a definitive answer there uh when we're looking at this section we kind of looked at a number of criteria across carbon dioxide humidity and then also you know temperature readings and how the if the if and when they match the thermostats we mark that as well as dr stewart mentioned this is going to be the really high level report we'll have all the minutia and the details in the finalized report which we're hoping to present in the next september meeting but let me get that uh information back to you if that works immediate action i just didn't know where to correlate that to because i didn't have a graph on the other one we had once sure absolutely tell me where that was okay all right feedback yeah so let me know where we're at with that um i was when i was reading through this i did notice that one of our biggest concerns of course was our hvac and for when it came to the air quality that is like the solution not the end-all be-all i understand but in each one of these items that's in there updating the hvac um long-term sustainability update the hvac update the hvac update the hvac so we're going the right way that's that's going to take care of a majority of what we're looking at right so we're planning on doing that with our esser funds putting new air conditioning units in and so from what we can tell from this information that you did for us in the air quality control we should be in pretty good shape for air quality control with our new hvac systems that's correct yeah so the the new hvac is going to help tremendously almost across the board on all six of the assessments that we looked at in addition to the hvac i mean units that are from 1994 replacing those with anything is going to be better than what they are currently if we're going to be completely honest there in addition to that though the desert valley chiller something that would also be has been prioritized by the district and also a building automation system which really helps the district in monitoring all of the items that we're looking at co2 co carbon carbon carbon dioxide and humidity levels and temperature zones it also allows for scheduling ventilation circulation providing better outside air conditions in the classroom environment and a number of indoor health quality enhancements in in and of that self so we're looking at those three items as the top priorities that were laid out in all the strategic meetings that you guys had i sat in on those started with a list of 200 items and now you guys boiled it down to four buckets and and then in that in those four buckets you guys got it down to those three items so those are the ones that have been shared by the district leadership team that we'd be focusing on but to answer your question the hvc is going to be a huge uh weight off your guys shoulder in terms of looking at that from a healthy safe and efficient learning environment for students and and i would add to that corey that the reason for having that automation system move up so high on the list is we know we can't replace all of those older you know we can't replace 192 air conditioners in two years we know we can't do that so we need to be able to maximize the life expectancy of the others that are old the automation system would help us control that across the district and uh and keep an eye on you know keep an eye on what's going on you and i all of us know that there are folks who turn their air conditioners down and you know we put the covers on the on the thermostats and they use the paper clips and whatever and you go in at 62 degrees in a room none of you teachers none of you three would do that right so this bas system the building automative system is the one where we can set and maintain and monitor them yes remotely remotely literally from a phone yes that was going to be my next question yes and and i asked them lots of questions about this because i wanted to make sure that as we replace any of the other air conditioners so we install this automation system on every hvac unit that we have in the district okay and as we go along we start replacing more of the hvacs is that something that we're going to have to what are we going to have to do about it and they've told me that it is attached and when you put in a new hvac unit you move it from this one to you move it to the new one and you're good to go so that seems and i'm i'm right about that time that's correct yeah yeah it's about a plug-and-play solution yeah it's kind of a plug and play so uh to me that's a real big advantage to first of all help maintain the units we have as long as we can and and make sure they're operating efficiently so that if we have something like for instance we had a pd in this room a couple of weeks ago and this thermostat at the beginning of the training was at the correct temperature and sometime during the morning it was on a timer or something suddenly it's at 85 and that one's still functioning at 72 and we know now that unit which sits right out here is working extra hard to keep this room cool um and and we would have gotten an alert we would have gotten an alert that there's something not not functioning correctly there so that's just an example and then we can kind of override the whole paper clip thing in the or having units run on weekends at 70 degrees when they don't need to be at 70 degrees and then one of the things that i haven't talked with them about but we would want to be able to do is to figure out how when when employees teachers want to work in their rooms say on a saturday and we have the system automatically set up to keep it at 80 degrees say on a saturday that they can still cool the room down for the length of time that they're they're working so we haven't talked about that but i'm sure there's a way to do that absolutely so and one thing i wanted to add on the building automation system side is we've been on site i think about three times over of course about five days we did an assessment a preliminary assessment back in 2020 and we've been on site and that was actually we were on site a couple days after cl schools were closed down and one thing that we were seeing is is you guys had the abm folks going around each classroom having to modulate the thermostats and that's something that you'll be able to handle from an iphone from a a laptop computer so that you're not having to worry about teachers that leave their conditioning on at 62 degrees during a weekend or during spring break or those types of things which obviously it's just wasted consumption wasted money to the utility companies that could be really reinvested back into wherever you guys find the priority but thank you dr troy you're on the money with with everything anyone have any other questions i will tell you i was surprised because i had really pretty much thought that we would have more issues with allergens and so you know this is a case where data is saying it wasn't as big an issue as i thought it was although we know we've lost a teacher already this year because of allergies but the other point is that they did that uh the tests with the carpets and the allergens in the rooms the week right after they cleaned all the carpets and cleaned all those rooms so uh so they have said to us and we've got the data for you but you know we have to remember what the conditions are so i suspect those data are true for when they did it but by january maybe not so much i don't know but i was a little surprised that it wasn't as big an issue as i thought it yeah was if i could add one more thing for that dr stewart yeah so the uh looks like the carpets were being shampooed the day we were there conducting the assessment the two days that we were there and the two days prior to it to us being there so we still ran the allergen test on the carpets and as you can see we'll have plenty more pictures in the full report but as you can see in some of these pictures obviously the look the design is something the aesthetic of the carpets is something that dr stewart mentioned is a priority to improve and so obviously that would be something to look into for future planning that's why we we framed it up in that fashion but from our science and data we weren't really able to find find too much of allergens due to that and then one other item that i wanted to kind of give you the cliff notes version on if that if that works for y'all is uh the energy efficiency side of things obviously the hvac pie chart speaks for itself but one thing that was mentioned by you mr president burgess was the idea of not replacing 191 units that are over 14 years old at once um setting you guys up for failure come down 15 20 years down the road and so we put together a phasing plan for the district that could be customized to help the district in accomplishing any amount of units in a year two years three year phase we have a capital asset planning software that we've already embedded the hvac inventory to that can be customized to give the current standing a snapshot of where the district stands and then help the district in budget and plan for the future uh whether that be through replacing units now uh replacing units in 2023 2025 2027 that really can be uh customized and updated as you guys have more understanding of what you want to replace when so i just wanted to add that color there because we are in total agreement it's not a good sign if if someone's coming in here to say let's replace all 191 units at once because that's really not looking at the longevity of the district and really we agree with that methodology so thank you for that any other questions this time okay awesome thank you thank you thank you very much hang around you may have questions i know yeah don't go too far item item 3.7 uh right yes yes 3.7 uh cooperative design agreement to initiate replacement of the hv hvac units repair of desert valley's chiller and installation of automatic control system dr stewart mr president and board members i've been doing my homework since the last meeting and have talked with some other outside experts because it is outside of my wheelhouse but the traditional design bid build process i built a timeline for you here had some help with that but to show you that we we know we need to replace some things soon and um so in our discussion last month one of the things i said was i just arbitrarily looked at the number of ac hvac units that we have that were purchased in the last century we have 85.
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oh god she doesn't have any change it works it works says what do we get good evening everyone and welcome to stag and uh tonight we get to meet our three student representatives so we're looking forward to that um but uh let's begin tonight with the roll call please denver o'sullivan here member murphy peterson here member o'connor here member heartick here member dalton here member gracias here member seratori here all present and accounted for all right do we have any amendments no sir okay then the first item of business is uh dr nolteam who has a few comments that he would like to make at this time yes thank you so we are now officially reopened for school so our first couple weeks uh were uh well one is is it was really remarkable to see the kids return uh in full force our staff returned the festivities that went on the activities that the kids were engaged in and the energy was was exceptional um myself and many of the district office folks were able to be in the buildings on numerous occasions to see freshman first day and to see how the lunchroom looked and how passing period was going and get in and out of some classes and um all in all given given the journey that we've had from essentially march of 2019 to or 2020 to now um where we do have all of our kids back in the building and our staff is ready to go teaching in a in a mostly traditional way has been um has been a huge success so far uh those successes are never met without challenges right so we have um a lot of uh things that we're still working through as we open a school year in a very unique circumstance i i reported to the board on numerous occasions that we're still doing our best to try to shore up our transportation situation um you know that is as you have probably seen that is a kind of a national crisis it's definitely a statewide crisis in terms of bus transportation services bus drivers specifically so um we're still continuing to work work through routes we're still continuing to try to onboard drivers uh to get fully staffed as as quickly as possible but that's that's definitely been um one of the challenges that we faced um and clearly um you know staffing at the support staff level is is a constant process trying to make sure we're fully staffed with special services aids dean's aides and other staff members but we are essentially as of tonight going to be fully staffed and our teaching staff our teachers have been an incredible support network for our students their spirits are tremendously high i have not had one conversation in the hallway or in passing with a teacher or support staff member who is not exceptionally glad to be back doing what they love to do with the kids that they love to work with we are really looking at a new world when it comes to what we were managing last year with close contact uh quarantining um and things of that nature um the two things that we were really different from last year um one is that the the guidelines change for our favor with regards to social distancing particularly if both individuals are masked you know that's helped reduce significantly the number of close contacts we would have otherwise had in the past week we did have 25 students last week that were held to close contact it would probably be closer to 65 without those mitigations changing to our favor in addition to the the fact that we removed several individual students from having to quarantine because of their vaccination status uh and then the third piece is launching the vianex testing has removed several students from from that that potential need to to quarantine so those have been um been successes we're still not wanting to have 25 close contacts having to quarantine so week by week by week it'll be a kind of a measurement for us to see how many students we could get down below a certain amount of time because they are missing class time uh this week monday we launched our first uh version of our covid dashboard unfortunately we had three of our our seven metrics that were considered in the yellow category based on cdc guidance we had four categories in orange so that puts us in orange as a school district for the next uh hopefully short period of time ultimately there's really two things that are impacted one which has not changed ever since the governor declared a mass mandate for public schools on august 4th that would have been one mitigation we would have shifted towards in orange we're already there because of the governor's mandate uh the second piece is we we do need to then be more conscientious within the lunchrooms of guaranteeing six feet of distance between students eating lunch because clearly they're on math while they're eating lunch so those guidelines are important to to try to adhere to most of the other guidelines um were were not major changes but those two are uh and another update which um unfortunately is fresh off the press and something i could say within the meetings and in groups that i networked with within the the the world of school leaders superintendents and others um did not find out until a few texts at about 6 15 this morning that we were getting a press conference today at 10 p.m 10 a.m from governor pritzker which is now um uh adding it a layer of challenge with regards to now our staff uh has to be vaccinated by uh by september 5th so we're working through that now i wish i could unveil a plan to you tonight but between 10 a.m this morning and 7 p.m tonight we still have some things to work out so we're in the process of doing so um but that is that is just kind of a a signal of how many changes and how quickly they happen and our staff has been great our administrative team has been outstanding of of rolling with those changes and making sure it goes back to our original reopening plan 100 of our days intact 100 of our kids in seats activities intact and all those things are are what we focus on continually so thank you for the time and and uh that's just a quick update all right i hope well thank you and uh once again it's great the kids are back that's what we want and hopefully as time goes on uh things will get better so all right then uh our next uh item on the agenda is the uh consent agenda so at this time i would entertain a motion uh to approve the consent agenda i move that the school board approved the consent agenda as presented motion made by member murphy peterson seconded by member o'sullivan uh to accept the consent agenda any comments or questions all right let us vote remember o'sullivan yes member murphy peterson yes member gracias yes member yes the motion passes and the old business okay and we will get to the board committee reports and our first report is uh the education committee and uh kate uh who subbed in very well for pat and it was a uh quite an evening so uh kate it's all yours well thank you um so we met um education committee met um we talked about initially the school improvement plan um dr nolting gave a transition update um back then we had just received word that masking was going to be mandated um a lot of our plan that has obviously been ongoing um but the foundational elements of our plan have never like the goal has never changed uh which include 100 on-site attendance with no interruptions in class time curricular co-curricular programs or social events and to minimize student or staff absenteeism due to illness or quarantine and to increase and maintain a high degree of local control we have been advocating for that all along although sometimes we don't always get what we want mitigation specifically masking social distancing and testing protocols will be adjusted when community and campus metrics allow as dr nolting just indicated in his report this is all based on cdc guidance and instructions from the state superintendent and the isb um we did have a public comment which was nice uh we had three individuals there we had a pretty lively conversation um all very um it was a very nice conversation people were very respectful of one another a common common issue that we have is parents being concerned about students having to wear masks so i think we clarified that for them and the roles that we have to follow and penalties that we face if we don't so everything was i think happy at the end then dr mcmillan talked about curriculum and instruction specifically summer school she provided the committee with a summer school update accelerated and credit recovery courses were offered to students in an online format as well as in person non-credit driver at an extended school year um an established in-person help center it's carl sandberg high school was available for students who asked for help or students assigned to come due to falling behind or pacing at or below 70 percent summer school was a success with a pass rate of 96 percent that's pretty awesome dr mcmillan also shared with the committee the draft proposal to add a co-op girls wrestling team beginning with the 2021-22 winter season um they have a number of um female athletes that are interested in participating and andrew is going to be the host site um the district has proposed a budget which obviously will need some staff and coaches and officials and some equipment but we're all heading for that so pretty excited about that and then we also talked about some policies we did the first reading of several policies and um in addition we also talked about the five-year review of a couple of policies that we kind of look at from time to time um using animals in the education program and our title one programs so we had a pretty lively meeting a lot of um uh conversation a lot of people contributing so uh it was great and we joined the meeting at 8 10 and our next meeting is september 1st at 7 pm in the district office any questions for kate all right kate thank you again and uh you did a great job that night i think in all the years i've been here i don't even remember public comments at a uh board committee meeting so uh thank you very much all right uh and now we will move on to student services and melissa yes hi um we covered a lot in this month's student services we started with dr nothing he provided us an update on the district opening plan and we'll go into all that since we've already covered it twice now um the professional development opportunity we added more professional development opportunities um the goal is to provide support for our students and their needs coming back in uh into the buildings uh we also are using binex diagnostic tests which are elective on-site cova tests these are open to all students and all staff who may have been exposed to covet this test will help us with less quarantine time and out of school for students and staff if if elected they could test on day one three five and seven plus we have added extra help in our intervention room it's been set up to help those students who do have to quarantine and miss some instructional time mr ovando and dr dreyer presented professional development activities that ran over the summer the focus supporting our students now that they have returned to our campus the topic was what is trauma understanding trauma how it impacts student learning what practices to engage in class with and we partnered with better lesson trauma informed workshops for staff teachers and pps participated dr dreyer has created the trauma informed practices cohort there are 50 people from all of our buildings and these practices are important in the classroom because they will encourage a sense of belonging and a sense of safety for the students mr riley updated us on the pals program which is open to the speed students school links in panorama school links is now replacing the long-standing career cruising program school links is interactive forward-thinking and student-focused all students can all students can check out career options help with selecting courses there's a parent dashboard and students can use this platform to request letters of recommendation from teachers they can build resumes and portfolios and there are internships listed on this site so this is very exciting and this is this is a long time coming so we're excited to launch this panorama is a platform that stores our interventions the pps team will utilize this for sel survey data and it'll all be under one platform which would allow us to really dive deep into our data and and uh have a have a better handle on our um [Music] our surveys this replaces the dap survey mr ovando presented our partnership with moraine valley uh for the first summer session the the students that enrolled in this earned a credit at moraine valley this is a bridge program for el students and it exposed them to college 101 and it was highly successful and we're really excited about our partnership with moraine valley mr riley gave us an update on our esy special ed summer programs that ran at stag this summer these programs help extend the school year for altima students and help maintain their skills there's theme days daily living goals this this year this summer was the largest group to date with 57 students seven teachers and 22 paraprofessionals it's a community-based instruction with traffic signals buses cooking consumer math and of course our ever famous charlie charger dog treat business the bridge program had 14 students eligible from the 8th grade ieps offering instruction and support in reading and math this helps their executive functioning skills and communication skills as they transition into high school uh then we went into the six-minute solution lisa shulman presented an overview on this program which helps students k-12 with their fluency needs we covered house bill 40 which extends students eligibility for all all iep to continue the full school year even if they turn 22 mid-school year house bill 2748 extends eligibility for a student who turned 22 during the covent pandemic in the first three months when the schools were closed we had two policy reviews and then dr nolting shared with us um the passing of bill donovan and we recognized him and the effect that it had on our our sandberg community he was a beloved member of that family and he will be greatly missed and our next meeting is september 14th okay any questions from melissa all right uh i do want to just comment on the esli program every year it gets better and better and i mean we go back to when the summer program was they went to the zoo where they went to the park and now they're actually learning skills and and and uh it's just a great program and every year it's just better so i i love it and it's great too that the attendance keeps improving too so obviously everybody's hearing about it and it's it's fantastic so i really applaud the people involved with that great job okay and then last but not least building and finance sue another busy meeting thank you um building and finance met um on august 17th and we had a nice turnout with our committee members uh all the new principals or all the principals were in attendance along with dr wheaton who is going to be joining us from time to time at our meeting and then we had mr steven and mr lavelle share their information as well mr keating as we always start out with our projects uh he shared with us the committee that not all the projects have been completed uh due to material shortages that are going on and delays in labor so um we are not too far off of our deadlines but there were some shortages and some delays i'm going to keep some of that for him to share with us later on so he can give us a more up-to-date report but he did share with us that this solar project is completed and currently working as sandberg and stagg and andrew had a defective part that caused a delay and was probably up and running at this time he can let us know that for sure one of the nice things that was reported the system um i'm sorry stag was approved for solar for all program this is a grant that [Music] you need to have specific credentials in order to qualify getting this grant will allow the district to be paid up front instead of having the money that we get for these grants um brought to us in installments so that way we don't have to lay out that capital and we'll have that money up front so that was good news to hear we're glad that stag qualified for that the roof phase ii project has begun at all three schools and was close to completion i expect when mr keating comes up and reports he will tell us that our schools are complete or near completion the elevator renovations at samberg is complete and the elevator run renovation at andrew was completed but waiting for inspection these will be the last elevators that need to be updated in our district they are now all ada compliant and brought up to the um standards of today we were reported that the hvac pool and gym update we received a new bid package for that there was an increase more than what we had expected due to various reasons that expectation was something that we expected just due to how much work is going on out there and the demand for getting this work done this is caused also by the ussr's funds we received um we're working on making sure that the funds that we're going to receive are spent within the time frame that we have and so not only us but all school districts are making sure they're using those funds and so there's a big demand to get construction projects done mr lavell shared with us that due to the delays of the cook county office the county clerk's office we have not received any of our property taxes at this time as you may notice the deadline for your taxes is october 1st so they have moved that back a little bit and due to that we haven't received uh our property tax income at this point this is usually about when we start seeing some monies coming in so that is to be expected we talked about our tentative 2020 budget it's that time of year um this is the second time that we brought that to our committee and we are we have that budget on display we will be voting on that um in our september meeting and if there's any changes that will be brought to our attention before then we talked about transportation and the issues that are going on with transportation right now with the shortage of drivers as dr nolting brought up how are this how all three schools are affected by that and having the a b routes put in place to make sure we get all of our students in on a timely fashion we are hoping that in september or october that we might find some new drivers coming into our [Music] our bus vendors but time will tell on that we also discussed our hazardous route resolution something that we do every year there were no changes to that they are the same as they were last year we discussed the reopening plan as the other two committees did as well and we talked about a new proposal for girls wrestling um girls wrestling beginning in the winter session of 2021 being that this is a new sport we would be having all three schools combined at this time and then as the program uh with fun coach and as the program expands then we'll look at adding another coach in the future one other action item that was put into our packet was the district vehicle surplus sale we have a good handful of old vehicles that are on their last legs and we will be putting those into our surplus once approved tonight our next meeting will be on september 20th at the administrative center at 7 00 p.m thank you sue any questions on the women's wrestling um i assume we sent out a survey of interest yes um do you think we're going to feel the full squad probably i assume 12 to 14 weight classes and is there more than one level is it just one level is it varsity software jv freshman yeah so so we anticipate that this year this first year will be there's 12 weight classes that are approved through the ihsa competition committee uh last year as as uh there was a girls wrestling platform there was 11 girls that were actively participating last year so we're hopeful i think that the survey effect my recollection was roughly about 35 to 50 girls that were interested highly interested in participating district-wide so we're hopeful that we'll at least maintain uh a level um in in wrestling many times when you're kind of building you you match up kids in exhibition matches based on those those kids that are over so i don't anticipate a full jv level this year um at least one full i think we'll have a full roster right yeah absolutely thanks okay any other questions for sue all right thanks again sue okay then our our next item on the agenda is uh any comments from our teachers association and michelle i i think i saw you out there are you with us okay wonderful next month we'll bring the mic out to you thank you michelle and do we have any okay hi buddy okay thank you for joining us buddy we appreciate it all right and now at this time is one of one of my favorite times of the night is when we have our student representatives to tell us what's going on at the schools and tonight we get to meet our new reps for the year for the first time and normally uh we oh okay we're gonna have to flip a coin we're gonna have our first trip come on up and i think mr olson probably said you're coming first good evening everyone and welcome back it is my uh honor and pleasure to introduce the bulgarian powerhouse representing stack high school julianna petra now we talked about um our girls wrestling program which we're super excited about having you know bulgarians and wrestling are big i asked juliana if she would be interested um in this her senior year she declined um because what i'm going to share with you right now is she's involved in a lot of things um you know really she's in wynn's symphony she's an advanced percussion i asked what's the difference between advanced percussion and percussion she told me in advance percussion they give you two sticks um social action club yearbook nhs spanish honors society she's one of our ambassadors here at stag high school and and you know uh not only is she busy in all of these co-curriculars she's really busy during the school day she's one of those students who had opted to not take a lunch um not only not take a lunch but also take a zero hour so that means she takes eight classes here every single day um you know absolutely just amazing her she she loves english particularly particularly she loved english with mr wendell and last year and in the future she's looking to either go into medicine or looking at potentially health care administration she's looking to say relatively local um in in looking at uh you know her post-high school um uh institutions looking at depaul looking at loyola looking at uh urbai and and really you know that goal that she's shooting for is is northwestern so it is my pleasure to introduce the board of education to juliana petrov [Applause] evening my name is juliana petrov and i'm thrilled to be here tonight sharing the exciting events that have occurred throughout the month of august at sag high school to start off august 2021 has looked very different from august 2020.
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mm-hmm uh well good evening everyone and welcome to a rainy and cloudy stafford field here at columbus east my name is josh burnett i'm the communications coordinator for bartholomew consolidated school corporation and i want to say thank you for joining us here on this friday night it's been a great week overall with bcsc bcsc's fall sports rivalry week columbus north columbus east have participated in a number of fall sports this week everything from cross country tennis girls soccer jv boys soccer so far the boys soccer match was unfortunately postponed last night and as one wise person once said it feels like deja vu all over again and thankfully the boys soccer match will be rescheduled for tomorrow saturday night at 7 p.m at the new bcsc sports complex and just for those of you who haven't heard either on one of our radio stations or i haven't seen on our facebook channel we are currently in a lightning delay and what we just heard a few moments ago from athletic director pete hughes here at columbus east is that we are going to try to make some type of official decision at or around 7 30 pm and so we wanted to go ahead and start the live stream here just to let those people who are wondering what's going on and haven't heard on one of those different communication channels what's going on there's a great crowd of cars abandoned umbrellas and many different sports accessories from student sections that have left here on stafford field a lot of excitement here with the crosstown confrontation as i've heard sam simmermaker call it always look forward to northeast week and you know it's it's a big football game here tonight tonight is the first columbus north columbus east matchup for brand new columbus east head coach eddie vogel i know that uh you know they've obviously had a great legacy with coach gaddis here for almost a few decades and so tonight is ed vogel's first columbus east columbus north game as a head coach also the sound and spirit of columbus the joined band of columbus north and columbus east we're set to play here tonight hope that that can still go on and you know in the midst of everything that our community specifically has gone through with kovid not having fans in many of our contests last season many were looking forward to getting out and seeing people as well as watching a great football matchup hopefully we can do that tonight but we'll we'll see we'll be here and update you every step of the way so for those of you who might be wondering about a lightning delay each time we see lightning it sets us back 30 minutes we definitely want to make sure that those who are in the crowd as well as on the field are not put in harm's way and so each time there is lightning it sets us back 30 minutes and we unfortunately lost internet connection uh the network was completely down over here in the columbus east area and so for those of you who joined us the first time on the live stream we we didn't just uh go off by choice the entire network went down and unfortunately we wouldn't have been able to stream at all and so hopefully we'll be able to have a strong connection special thanks to all the bcsc technology folks that are working around the clock to to help with the network shout out to people like eva cagwin nick williams chris bradley to name a few that i know they're always working with their team to make sure that we have a reliable internet connection for our students and and tonight for our athletic teams and for you watching the matchup i want to say special thanks to all of you who are tuning in here live on the bcsc youtube channel you know about what it must have been june of we really started to use the youtube channel first with live streaming the school board meetings wanting to make sure that those who are interested in all the decisions going around bartholomew consolidated school corporation that they knew what was going on and you know we had the capability and um me someone who was coming from the private sector and moving and working for the school corporation are um you know we talked uh amongst the bcsc cabinet and we thought this would be an opportunity for us to get into live streaming and i hope that you all have enjoyed that it was it was really neat uh recently i found out i'm involved in a indiana school public relations association and found out that we actually have the number one most subscribed public school corporation youtube channel in all of indiana and that's 300 school districts and it's because of people like yourself families like yours that have subscribed to our youtube channel and you know our district's commitment to trying to bring whether it's school board meetings or athletic contests we're still trying to figure out ways to get in other different student performances there's different licenses that we need to navigate around and we don't want to do anything with copyright infringement sometimes when there's even music playing in the background at athletic contests our youtube channel gets flagged and i know that that was a frustration for for us last year during the columbus north columbus east wrestling meet which man that match was so exciting and each time coach cooper and each match weight class would come out they would have a different walk up song and unfortunately though youtube was not happy about all the different [Music] popular songs that were being played and so we got flagged and so many times that the stream eventually got taken down after we went off and so we're trying to learn each and every week you know how we can better offer a live streaming option for those of you who one might not feel comfortable still going out in public or need to be away and but still want to stay connected to you know your favorite student athlete or to stay informed and all the decisions going on so i just want to thank you for tuning in be it an athletic contest or a school board meeting it's great so i'm going to go ahead and just throw this up for a little bit and please subscribe to the youtube channel for updates not just to tonight for tonight's game but each and every week we're trying to publish videos whether it's a we are bcsc podcast last week i had the honor and opportunity to talk with our most recent bcsc teacher of the year columbus north science teacher stacey daub and so we were able to have a great conversation and get a little bit more of her back story celebrate her almost 32 years i believe at columbus north and in bcsc i know her husband mark as well works in the technology department great family she's a great teacher and it was it was nice to hear her story and then just today we released the newest bcsc e newsletter and we had the opportunity for this week's we are bcsc podcast to actually show sorry i'm getting distracted by this uh lovely music being played downstairs the most recent e-newsletter we've got a program from the local columbus rotary club happened on monday in wcsi's sam simmermaker mseed an annual event it's a columbus rotary club program where columbus north soccer and football coaches come and talk about their different teams give a preview of match-ups and i know dr schwartzman the women's soccer coach for columbus east one of his annual happenings is he's always got corny jokes and that was it was great to have him that was conducted via zoom this year and so we use that for uh this week's we are bcsc podcast uh for those of you who are watching on youtube um you can find that each and every week on our facebook page as well as if you um sign up for our e-alerts specifically with email we send those through email we don't want to send it through text just because we want to reserve that for different emergency communications and and so we send that through email you know oftentimes whenever i send out a message as a communications coordinator it's because of what could be a crisis communication so we want to use that e-alert system very strategically but we have decided for this this school year to use that email function and so please sign up for the e-alerts you'll be able to get those if you sign up for the bcsc portion there's many different boxes that you can check go ahead and check the bcsc box all right so a little bit after 7 709 here stafford field got a good crowd here over 120 of you 20 different devices tuning in i appreciate you all um either sticking in for the upcoming live stream or just passing the friday night either you're in your car or you're at home i would say get your popcorn out but we don't know yet if we're going to have a game or not tonight i know i'm looking forward to the chance to see our olympians and bulldogs on the field a lot of new faces over here at columbus east i believe there were over 30 seniors that graduated last year i was just talking with malachi parks the starting quarterback last year for columbus east his dad and i thought it was really cool both malachi parks columbus east quarterback and blake huffman running back for columbus north our roommates in our plane at hanover college down in southern indiana and you know that's that's one of the cool things about columbus east columbus north there is a rivalry but before and after the games they're friends and when they graduate sometimes they go on to become roommates in college and so i definitely want to wish good luck to blake as well as malachi down at hanover and uh looks like i've got some good news that um people are starting to come out i haven't got any official word but um i start i'm starting to see people moving so we're clearing up a little bit and hopefully that's a really good sign and so i don't have anything official to tell you at this point but i'm going to go ahead and take a a break here for a second throw this up here again that we still are in a lightning delay i'm going to go talk to a few folks and see if we have some good news so thank you for tuning in and we'll be right back and we're back here at cloudy stafford field josh burnett communications coordinator here again for bcsc thank you for those of you who are tuning in to the live stream i've got some good news and some bad news good news is the referees are coming soon and i did see columbus east come across the street over south mar road however the bad news is we just had a white another lightning strike and so that will reset our lightning delay for another 30 minutes and so i haven't had any official word one way or another i've talked to a couple of different columbus north and columbus east football staff and and we just really don't know right now so we will make sure to keep you updated every step of the way appreciate you all tuning in i know that this is uh you know this is the best football game of the year in my opinion i've seen a lot of great east north games over the years i can say it's a little bit louder today just because we're over here at columbus east i am a columbus east grad but i've seen you know some great football games with it i'm the same age as touchdown stevie brown seen a lot of great games with uh with stevie as well as the keel guys each of them got to see drew dusty and gunner i'll never forget the time that uh peyton manning came down to watch an east north game i mean it doesn't get much better than the sheriff coming to watch columbus east columbus north i've seen just some really good running i remember lucas surface for columbus north uh running up and down the field and i'm showing my age for some of you that's really young and some of you that might be a little bit older but i think we all would agree that the columbus north columbus east rivalry is it doesn't get much better than this and so you know on a rainy lightning filled friday night it is a little depressing at this point and hopefully we can get it in but we will update you either way sometimes i've definitely learned this i'm sure you have too with you know just going through covet 19 sometimes you just you have to have to tell bad news and it's never fun but it is the way that is and and we have an opportunity as uh one of our principals jeff bockmeyer says it's it's make it a great day or not the choice is yours and we're gonna make it a great night here at columbus east because these student athletes and this community i mean we it would be great to have a night like this wouldn't it it's been a it's been a rough year and a half just going through everything and it's always great to be able to just relax and escape reality and watch just some good clean fun and football on a friday night and i hope that we can get it in but we'll be back in a few moments probably around five minutes from now and so thanks for tuning in until saturday morning the game will be at 10 a.m gates will open at 9 00 am once again tonight's game has been canceled or postponed until saturday morning start time 10 a.m gates open at 9 00 am sorry folks we'll see you tomorrow all right we just got word ladies and gentlemen that tonight's game has been postponed uh columbus east columbus north will move their game the varsity game to 10 a.m tomorrow here at stafford field gates will open at 9 00 a.m and so the game is being postponed tonight and rescheduled for tomorrow saturday morning at 10 a.m [Music] i'm gonna go ahead and make a graphic for us here quickly as i can alright we'll see you then so for those of you who are tuning in and didn't just hear that we are rescheduling for tomorrow morning saturday 10 a.m gates will open at 9 00 a.m i'm gonna make a graphic real quick and i'll stay here live for a few moments just for those who um who are coming in and out so i'm gonna take a quick break make a graphic throw that up and be right back a 10 a.m start time with the state's opening at 9 00 a.m we'll see you tomorrow all right so hopefully you heard the tail end of that announcement from our announcer here um tonight's game has been postponed until tomorrow saturday morning at 10 a.m gates open at 9 00 a.m and i'm gonna check one more time with one of our coaches here on monday night so because of saturday tomorrow morning varsity game being rescheduled monday night will be when the jv and freshman games will take place at both at 6 00 pm and the freshman will be here at columbus east and jv will be at columbus north so thank you so jv will be at columbus north freshman will be here at columbus east on monday night both at 6 pm and tonight's game between the varsity north and east will be rescheduled for tomorrow morning 10 a.m we will live stream it again i will get a new link up hopefully in just a few minutes and we'll put that on all of our communication channels we will be back with you in the morning looking forward to a great contest between the bulldogs and the olympians thank you for tuning in hope that you are driving home safely if you're in a car somewhere listening to this or if you're at home i hope that you're enjoying your friday night with family staying safe and healthy and we will see you soon you
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so that's all i have for this updates mr cooper everybody have a good weekend and look forward to a great school year you
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a long time you know especially in a community community like this for something like this to have been um having to have been left to uh with its own devices so um so i'd like to open the floor just briefly for a discussion about what people uh think might uh what kind of policies and procedures we might think of implementing to improve our efficiency and our work product and our output so please raise your hand if you if you'd like to mention anything hi kathy you raising your hand okay sorry i was just getting a hair out of my eyes i am paying attention i did not want to be distracted that's all right that's right um okay so i would just like i would just hope that we can um we can improve you know our efficiencies and try to try to uh develop more things we have things on the table either we're going to discuss next in terms of these uh broad areas that are part of our you know that are part of our rematch from our bylaws but also ongoing projects that we have and i apologize if i've dropped anything but um i do think we've made significant progress in the last year um so i see some hands up now on the first is john mercy and then rita you have the floor john thanks steve uh i concur with your um general comments uh i particularly support the statement that we really add value um not so much with resolutions of support i mean that's nice um but i think we really add value when we work on something that eventually leads to a change in policy or programs or something like that and my sense is we do that best when working groups are focused on an issue like that and there is a core group and it meets regularly and it's really focused on that task and my belief is in my experiences not only on the environmental commission but also on the energy commission that that leads to the best outcomes the most quickly uh and that's evidenced by a number of different things that we've done i mean we're gonna probably talk later about um zero waste um it's not true of the lighting ordinance it's true of the eb charging ordinance it's true of some of the um energy benchmarking and disclosure ordinances that are going to be coming to council here soon um and my sense is is that we would be best served going forward and stephen iu and just for transparency for everybody else steve and i met yesterday and again today and just chatted a little bit my sense is that we would be best served as a commission if we really want to have out work that leads to tangible outcomes and benefits to the city that we organize around that principle and that we not juggle a bunch of other issues and talk about a lot of different things but really focus on on specific tasks like i said that focus on policy and programs um yeah i'll leave it at that thanks well everybody's quiet i think there is value in resolutions um because they they obviously do support changes in kinds of you know policies and programs um but um those are most just ad you know really advocacy they're they're really not adding a whole lot of value in my view i'm sorry i was muted um rita you have the floor and then lisa and then kathy um well i just want to make a kind of a suggestion that applies to myself as well that um as we get into our working groups that it's a good idea to set some time frames some target time frames to complete a task and even if it's not done it's better to at least have have a goal of a time uh and then to address what may ever may be a problem so um as i said i am speaking to myself on for example something we'll talk about later the chapter 40 kind of thing um and some some other tasks but but i think that's what would be something that that i would like us to see have have an expectation of ourselves to complete work yeah lisa you're on the floor yeah i wanted to just add a couple things first i wanted to say that um john callaward and i and jenny patoski um turned in with the support of the of osi a next cycle grant to research metrics for the circular economy and if that grant is successful there's a second round of funding for more money for a kind of boot camp for how to actually build this circular economy which would be great or i don't know build isn't really quite the right word but in any case um so we are doing those things and um then the white paper that you that i just sent to you all i'm sorry i i did not i'm i was in the car today and you know just didn't didn't um i didn't so i didn't see your email steve so i didn't realize that that you were depending on me to circulate it um so that white paper is the basis for a resolution and the zero waste working group has been working on that for a really long time and it takes a long time to get the language right and i think one of the keys for the work that we're doing in the zero waste working group is that we're working really closely with staff so that we're making sure that the stuff that we come up with aligns with priorities that staff really has and isn't taking us off in or isn't trying to steer staff off in directions that they don't have time or capacity for and so i mean i think things like the construction and demolition ordinance are a great example of exactly the kinds of things we should be working on because that is a priority of the solid waste resource management plan and it's something that i don't think staff has time to fully develop but developed with their close collaboration and guidance i think that kind of uh that's pretty productive and so um yeah so so i think that's all i can think of for accomplishments that i know of from that group so far oh thanks lisa kathy yeah before um yeah based on what you said as well as john mursky i think much of the work of the commission is perceived to be bringing about change bringing about improvement in the organization and i definitely support that but we need to make sure that we have a strong foundation so that staff doesn't have to choose between working on a new project and maintaining the existing operation and i think that's one of the reasons that the ordinance changed to chapter 40 has been so difficult it's because we really want to change the perception i was looking through some old a2 fix it tickets and a former council member who created a beautiful prairie area in his backyard that backs up to green road there were numerous tickets complaining about his backyard and how it hadn't been mowed and so how do we implement change and improvement in a smoother manner um and i don't have all the the answers but i definitely think that the focus needs to be on education not enforcement whenever possible um and again how can we strengthen the present um you probably remember i modified the plan to include the phrase develop strategies to manage flooding and since the last meeting we have had terrible destructive flooding in many areas and i've been standing out in people's backyards with my muck boots on and we really don't have the capacity within the organization to manage what's happening right now with the increase in rainfall this year let alone moving forward and so i i think that if it's not a matter of the commission passing resolutions it's it's some recognition that that we need to assist the organization to build a strong foundation now and as a commissioner i don't even know what that would be as a council member i know that we can pass policies and and approve budgets for additional work but it seems like there needs to be greater awareness within the commissions of that so and the last thing that i think has been really positive with my experience on the environmental commission is just the opportunity to work with commissioners on other commissions as well as other governmental entities it's been educational and i think that we've accomplished a significant amount such as gellman such as flooding where we we need to strengthen our relationship with the county uh working with evan pratt uh working with eagle representatives and i don't know that we need to formalize it but i think that we need to at least recognize that that's a positive so thanks okay thank you yeah um yeah i think this is worth uh this is worth an extended discussion about um staff time because um i agree with john that it's very important to get staff involved as early as possible and um however we don't want to make too many demands on their time and i'm just using this as an example i know that uh uh it was in our last meeting a month ago the orchard hills community uh we talked about we met we discussed briefly about the flooding in the orchard hills and about that there was never actually a fort a flood management plan done for orchard hills and that jen lawson was working on it but um so this would seem to be something that we should be developing a work group around but we need a commissioner we only need one commissioner to try to lead such a work group and maybe work with jen lawson and try to initiate something more strategic and and direct in terms of stormwater management um um galen and i before the meeting were just discussing that osi is going to have uh an ambassador program it will include like flooding and things like that is part of the resiliency strategy in terms of the a20 plan so it looks so i'm hoping that during the next year we'll find a commissioner that will step up and try to organize a work group around that you know i work with jim lawson and perhaps jerry hancock has been the other staff person that i'm familiar with uh that's spoken to us about uh you know about flooding issues so um so i'm hoping this this is something that we can develop but we need to have a commissioner that will step up and volunteer for that um and i will remind people we we are still missing two commissioners you know plus a representative from the parks commission so i'm hoping uh to recruit somebody who would be interested in importing in storm water and water quality issues to help the commission um you know with those topics um shannon yeah before i can unmute myself um i think i'm in a really good position to be able to do that in terms of my background um i've had kind of a rough year in terms of other stuff going on in my life and with how much time i have um but i feel like i'm in a good position just with my work professionally and things like that to be able to help with that um when we walk worked with other water things before it is tough to be able to to get the staff time sometimes that you need for this because some of this really may be uh in terms of understanding where those pinch points are and things like that um there just may be need to be some like studies done and things like that it's like that's tough right to be able to like run models or whatever um but i think that um you know it is definitely an issue and it's only going to get worse and there are limited things we can do i mean it's like like just as an example i mean allen creek system in the pipes was only sized to be a year and a half storm we get that you know many times a year and so there are certain things we can do and there are other things you can't do um so um but i think i probably have a decent idea of kind of where some of those issues are too and have some sense of a way to move through that system so i feel like i could probably work on that um i just need to be careful about um just some things in my personal life in terms of the amount of time that i could spend on it right now um but i do i would like to be involved in that and i feel like i could contribute to that okay well thanks shannon um i mean i i i'll just say and say that bob um you know bob has been interested as well and so i think he would assist you i i have to emphasize that um also i think everybody who's leading a working group um should feel like they should be able to delegate almost all the tasks to somebody else especially in a pinch so uh i'm just throwing that out there so kathy you have the floor and then john i i would be interested in being a member of that work group and and i just want to state how exceptional the employees are in that area but also i believe that we're they're working well beyond their capacity right now and so we need to recognize that the only reason things are going as well as they are is because of the extra effort of these exceptional employees agreed thanks cathy john i may be a broken record to some who've heard me speak on this issue before and but i i think we need to um think about our work the same way that business thinks about their work um in in terms of business businesses get paid by their customers for delivering positive outcomes to their customers and our customers are our residents and we should we should think about our efforts in not in terms of work done or intentions or hours spent or something else but what do we do that leads to for example a reduced number of flooding events in orchard hills and or a redu reduction in the impact all the work we might do in in terms of hours spent or talk or anything else is really not doing anything for the residents of orchard hills unless we do reduce the number of flooding events and and or we reduce their their severity and i think that that thinking is not not sufficiently strong in city government and and the work that i see being done and i think you know i i mentioned you know the ev charging ordinance i mean that will lead to specific tangible benefit outcomes in terms of the number of eb chargers that are going to be available to residents and visitors in ann arbor i mean there's a clear clear benefit and i think to get to those kinds of benefits we need a very specific and clear issue or task with a clear objective we need some a group a clear leader we need people that are willing to work with that leader and meet on a regular basis i mean i'm going to speak here i may be a little bit out of line because chris is not here um but thinking about natural features um we've done a lot of work but one of the reasons why we haven't reached an outcome is because we're we haven't been meeting on a regular basis and really pounding out the work done and so you need also a drum beat of meetings and um you know as you mentioned as somebody else mentioned we we we need a commitment i mean there's a lot of research that's been done in various settings that if a group gets together and says i commit to doing x by y versus just saying i commit to doing x but i really i promise that i will do x y y the likelihood that x will be done by y is substantially higher like double than just by a vague commitment saying we're going to do x and it's x is not very well defined and why the date is not even you know even mentioned and so i would ask that we as a group think about all of those things as being requirements for tasks that we take on that we have really something in mind that's going to delete lead to a direct benefit to our residents that we have you know a clear issue and an objective that we have a clear leader with people that are willing to work with that leader on a drum beat and that we have a clear deliverable we are going to do x y y and otherwise i really think we're wasting our time not wasting our time but we're not we're not being efficient and effective and i think we all want to be efficient and effective thanks for indulging me thanks john are there any more comments i mean i'll just um i i mean i agree with john on this point i think it's important but um i think this is where um just some basic things work on regular monthly meetings and i'm probably one of the worst with the construction and demolition ordinance i'm one of the worst here because i confess that i've not gotten much done over the last six months due to various various reasons but um i intend to reform and we'll have a meeting on um we'll have a meeting in september and get rolling uh but i think it's um we also have to remember that it's important in the beginning to spend some effort before we get to the stage where john's talking about where we actually define the problem appropriately and we we brainstormed what the possible causes are and that we have kind of a swot analysis done you know strengths weaknesses and opportunity of threats of the various approaches remediating it and then developing smart goals out of those with action points and regular monthly meetings i mean that's in my experience in business as well that's how things get done in an efficient manner and everybody feels good in the end because uh because we have a tangible product to show for our work for our time commitment so um so i'll get off my soapbox here too and um does anybody else wish to make a comment now i don't see any anybody uh talk uh so i think um i want to thank uh i want to thank shannon for stepping up here and um we'll support you as much as we can and uh and please um again i feel like um i think i think because we all have uh day jobs and other things on our plates i think it's also important to have a co-leader i think it's it's gonna it's it's rather difficult that one person is trying to pull all the strings and that there needs to be somebody who is following at the level following everything at the level that the leader is doing so that they can step in a fairly short notice and help out um so kathy you have your hand up you have the floor then i suggest that we find a new member who can fill that opening you know as you sort of alluded to some someone who has water expertise and uh i'll take the action item to to try to find someone and and maybe rita and i can look at the applicants that are out there right now but i mean unless anyone's opposed to that i think i think that we need a member that that has leadership ability and will meet all of john's requirements for quantitative work need i say more okay all right uh kev thanks kathy lisa you have the floor [Music] yeah i just wanted to say i think maybe we need to refresh the applicant pool yeah um i think the our recruitment efforts kind of hit a dead end not because we weren't we didn't read them through and recruit but that many people weren't really interested like it the pool seemed to have a lot of i don't know algae floating in it rather than fish and so um we probably want to recruit again and um and i and you are not algae chris far from yeah no no i agree i think um i think i think it would be good for all of us to you know recruit for our networks as well and encourage people that we think are appropriate to apply for the commission and part of this for me was also raising the visibility of the commission in the community and that's why i wanted to have a table at the green fair on october 1st and i'm really happy that three of us have stepped up to help with that i'm talking to missy about tabling maybe having a cloth you know for the commission and and we'll see how that goes and we'll have some materials to present on october 1st so um um yeah so let's try to encourage people to apply and then give it a month and then look over the applicant pool or maybe just a few weeks so this could be an action point for the meetings that people will encourage applicants to apply specifically that are introduced either interested in storm water management and water quality i'm not sure they need to be members of the ann arbor community i mean jen lawson has alluded to the fact that a lot of some of this is in the you know in the uh purview of the drink the county brain commissioner so um let's have a just let's some of you want to reach out to jen lawson and ask for her advice um about you know about uh about what kind of uh expertise we'd like to have on the commission to help her deal with uh these issues as well as maybe jerry hudson on the carry-out so uh john you have your hand up and then lisa it might be worth work reaching out to the pure river watershed council um those those people are connected with a lot of people who are interested in these kinds of issues water quality etc they have a lot of volunteers and um yeah i would um i think some of us um have contacts there so i would recommend that we think about that thanks thanks john lisa yeah i just wanted to say that i would be happy to table in the morning of october 1st um i won't be i have to leave town for the afternoon but i'd be happy to be at the green fair oh thanks lisa i don't think it starts till five or so i haven't seen it exactly but um we'll see okay but thank you for volunteering i'm chris and i'm chris vandenbrock has volunteered as well as lunia and um young women i believe has volunteered to help out with that as well so um so i'll key i'll put you on the list here um and uh so tell you what um i don't know who else has contacts on the iran river watershed council but i have dealt with a lot of the people there over teapots issues other such things so i i can take that on personally as i will try to get uh their advice their input on this over the next week okay so here's a smartphone yeah by this time next friday i will have a couple of i will i will get a couple of people applying uh to be a commissioner that are that are qualified you know that uh the herod river watershed council is recommended john you have your up the green fair runs from six to nine pm yeah [Music] the setup will start at five i think so um so that's it five to nine on friday october 1st and i think it's going to be on main street but i'm not sure i haven't seen the location from christine chopra uh my communications have been with christine um it will be on main street yeah okay all right so i'm hoping that i'm hoping showing up at this event tabling along with other uh organizations will help raise our profile and possibly lead to some more applicants and larger applicant pool all right so um i think that's a good discussion about water quality because i do think that that's been an area that's been chronically um under kind of underserved by the commission and so i think it'd be important to try to try to recruit somebody develop a working group and try to get a tangible work product on the next year kathy you have your hand up um council will be having a working session september 13th on the decision of whether we want to go forward with upgrading our existing water treatment facility which is staff's recommendation or explore connecting to the great lakes water authority and so anyone who's interested can look at the two attachments that are out on legistar right now what day is that kathy september 13th okay yeah that would be a significant step a significant uh change in order in our ability to manage our own you know well it has a lot of ramifications um kathy did you want did you have something no i apologize thanks rita you have the floor uh i just want to be sure that we get the document references from you kathy that you just alluded to um on the great lakes water on the water session okay okay yeah i think they're probably on legislator right kathy they're on legistar as uh support documents for the meeting on september 13th so they're they're easy to find and they're connected to the i think to the agenda okay yeah alrighty thanks so um [Music] so let's see uh what's the next topic people would like to discuss um let's see okay well i will i will uh let's move on to um natural features and pollinators and then solid waste so um um the zero uh the zero waste looking group has has uh has done a tremendous job lately and so uh lisa do you want to mention um what that work group has been doing and where you are yeah john do you want to start and talk about our work with jenny and then i'll talk about the zero waste working paper unless john mursky you want to talk about that working paper because you put a lot of energy into that as well yeah uh sure just a little bit more to add to what lisa shared earlier in the meeting but we've submitted a grant proposal to nexcycle to fund an intern to get us started with a circular economy metrics initiative we've also posted the internship opportunity through the city so that's all in the works for hopefully here in a couple of weeks about the the funding and simultaneously we're getting ready to submit the next stage of grant funding um to kind of continue the work through another funding opportunity the first one was a micros grant the second one will be i2p3 can't remember what the acronym stands for but it all relates to what we're trying to do around the circular economy initiative uh we so the first phase will be to work with an intern to help to define metrics and review literature and help kind of get us set and grounded the next days will be a project with a group of c's masters students and we've already reached out and got commitments from two faculty members probably one firm won a backup to kind of get us moving ahead and both are very excited and think there's a strong fit with what the students will be interested in that work won't start for a while yet but you can see we're kind of building things in stages we've also had a great meeting last month or earlier earlier this month with washington community college college about um kind of a boot camp for small businesses to get them connected to the work and thinking about what we're doing uh so lots of things going on so uh jenny lisa and i meet regularly we've got a trell award where we're trying to keep everything managed and moving along and it's just been really good good progress good partnerships i think we've got folks lined up from the university the city the county nonprofits that are involved in this so lots of good energy around the circular economy initiative yeah that's fabulous john you know it's been um i mean the the city had some goals and metrics back in 2008 and so um um you know it's it's it's wonderful to see this being revived in such a strong way and i can use your all's advice about moving forward with the construction and demolition my construction and demolition ordinance as well moving forward so you guys have done this really efficiently and effectively so um i would like to see this say something similar with the construction and demolition efforts um maybe i could subway into that um because um i've gathered you know what i've done is i've gathered a lot of information i've got a poor group of people i'm sorry john are you finished let's go say i thought john murski did you want to pick up with the no okay well okay the secret to our success with this other thing is that john besides being incredibly smart has remarkable organizational abilities and this this trello site is is amazing and then jenny is a task master talk about steady drum beat of meetings she's like okay when are we meeting next so that is one way of doing it and so then the other the other thing that the zero waste working group is working on um has finished now that a draft that it's happy with but for your review of a white paper on zero waste proposing a definition of zero waste which we went back and forth and haggled on a lot um and uh the the objective of the white paper is to make the argument that it is important for the city to reaffirm it's zero waste uh i guess it it did have a zero waste goal or i don't know zero waste was a commitment in a couple of other waste planning documents but it fell out of the sharp and so we're saying you need to reaffirm this principle you need to define it because without defining it that's silly and then uh there need to be a firm set of target goals because you never you don't say so we're going to hit zero waste and it'll be in five years great we're done it's it needs to be a gradual rollout and so we propose a coup a couple of different timelines which you'll see in the white paper and then we proposed in the white paper a number of strategies for reaching them in uh so i i think i got myself um distracted so that the point of the white paper is to argue that the city needs to reaffirm this principle define it and then align uh the the schwarmp and the a20 plan and the idea is that a zero waste goal is part of aligning the schwarp and the a20 plan and since it was left out of the schwarmp we need to get council to reaffirm it to actually bring those two things together and then it really is a permission for us and for solid waste the solid waste area to work on strategy five of a20 and of course it it will be easier to do all this kind of work when there is more funding but um in the meantime that's why we're working on these grants because at least we can get some outside funding and we can show the city that it actually makes a big difference to its carbon footprint and also we can show them that there's a lot of energy in the community for doing this zero waste work and when you connect the people who are doing that and when you recruit people whose primary business isn't zero waste but for example like the restaurants with those returnable containers that a piece of their business can participate in the circular economy that's how you create the circular economies you build these connections and you create the policy bridge and also you know the social media software and other kinds of things that enable people to find these services and so that's what we're working on and i think it's really exciting to bridge these two plans um and um and so i'm i'm sorry that i didn't disseminate the working paper in time but i look forward to either you know probably talking about it in september makes more sense lisa you want to talk briefly about the resolution too well yeah i mean right and so the the intent is that the white paper supports a resolution which i wrote one draft of but i've never written a resolution before so i sent it to john mursky and uh jenny and of course staff is going to have to work on this resolution but i wanted to draft something for them first and i think in this case a resolution is really the appropriate thing because it's not i don't we can't i mean there is an ordinance that i would like to have and that is an ordinance paralleling the ev charging for compost because right now we're not creating the infrastructure for composting um and i think that's problematic and shannon had raised that at a planning commission meeting but but i think at this moment what we're trying to get the city to do is integrate this work and put it on make it a priority for the city and make the circular economy a lens through which other things are considered just as we often invoke our carbon neutrality goals as a lens through which other things that we are allocating or building or approving are considered and so that's what we're trying to do is just push this up into and and so that we're not only focused on end of life strategies of recycling um and even composting although those are both very good but that we also need to be um taking advantage of you know all the work that our our residents are doing to not buy stuff and to give away their things that could be useful to someone else even if they aren't useful to them anymore so okay now thank you lisa um anybody else wish to make a comment on this topic okay i'm just going to add briefly that um the the local sierra club here on valley group is sponsoring a uh a trash talk tour it's going to be september 19th uh there's going to be a website coming online soon um there's about there are 14 stops on this tour they include you know the drop-off center the the we care facility for composting the old landfill um down there they also include several businesses such as by the pound the pto thrift shop there's a new company i wasn't even aware of called bring your own container you know that's offering for sale containers that are reusable for takeout and other things so that's going to be a stop on the tour as well as zingerman's black pearl and um and my blue mama and then we're going to end a common cycle and i'm leading the bicycle tour uh so if anybody wants to join me on a bike i hope the weather's going to be good but we're planning a bike tour but it's otherwise it's going to be self-directed uh there'll be a website um with some videos i think and um and anybody in the community can do this tour and so uh we're gonna this is uh you know designed for community education and uh try to make people more aware of how solid waste is handled in the city currently and what we could be doing better so i just want to mention this in this form and um um and the one thing and the only i'm going to schedule a meeting for the uh cnd group i do have a core group um i don't know who else might want to join i know john morsky has volunteered um i've kind of been slow at selecting other volunteers until i have other people in place i'm jenny petrovsky's been working with me and i agree she was a taskmaster about about doing a proper procedure i've become a little bit more familiar with the city's way of doing these things um and so but i do need some help more specifically um i'll be done in a second here um i do need some help specifically because it's clear now that uh to get to make this economical and to achieve the kinds of economies of scale that are required there are a couple of basic things first thing is that we do need to have a dedicated construction and demolition work this cannot be done within the current work however of your current uh raa site the old caliber facility on jackson road is ideally placed for it and there already is some construction and demolition recycling occurring there principally through the university of michigan's led building uh building campaigns and projects and um and i and theo egremont you know who's the county's solid waste um person is a part of this core group but to get the economies of scale this needs to be county-wide this needs to be organized on a county-wide basis so at least coordinated with the county not just the city so i would appreciate some people who might feel more politically adept than i am and more familiar with the political landscape to maybe step up and uh help out with that part of the project so you know and getting some coordination between town and city so this wouldn't be like a permanent person with a court group but just somebody who could feel questions that come off occasionally uh while we're working with each other because it's not clear to me how to do such a thing i know werma wormo was a process that where the staff worked with uh county staff on that and that was a long process though that took out some three or four years that says from my recollection uh so john you have your handout to your points and then going back to what lisa and john talked about um steve remember that uh doug selby um is um willing to at least join the group part-time representing uh home building contractors and i've met joe vig who's head of big construction that does a lot of large construction projects for the university of michigan and i'm happy to approach him to see if he might have a recommendation of someone perhaps in his firm or someone else that would be willing to join this effort because as we've recognized in some of the preliminary discussions that we've had this won't work if we impose something on contractors that they're not involved in formulating um as to what john and lisa talked about i just want to reinforce what i said earlier we had in both cases a clear task we had clear leaders um we should give credit to sam mcmullen who did a lot of work on this um zero waste framing i mean he really was the leader and established the drum beat and made sure we met and kept us on focus and on task and we had a really clear objective and as i said before if you have those kinds of things um you're much much more likely to be successful and this is just two more examples of that um the one thing that we never did for ourselves um which ended up not being an impediment but still is as we discussed the best practice is we never set ourselves a due date but we we had you know really committed people and we met regularly under clear leadership and focused on a task thanks yeah thanks john yeah doug selby is a member of this core group and you know also jan culbertson you know since she's an architect and she's involved in project 2030 so i've got a number of people covering construction i've reached out to the uh associations but i've not gotten uh any commitment from them as yet um so rita you have your hand up and then kathy rita sorry sorry sorry um this is a solid waste question and it's not it goes back more to um residence and education and um is there someone who's addressing the process of providing good guidance to the community in terms of our recycling efforts um in understanding what exactly can be recycled and to keep our recycling stream clean as clean as possible and i'll just really one tiny anecdote that i that um happened with me today as i went with a friend to um the drop buff station um we spent maybe um 10 or 15 not 10.
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every 10 children can enter the building similar to last year at a 10 all pre-k k and 1 will enter through the sirena theater pre-k will go into the pre-k door first kindergarten in first grade will enter the east side of the theater door safety patrol and teachers will be there to them their class will group second third fourth and fifth graders will enter through the library they will go directly to their classes sixth seventh and eighth graders will enter these doors right here if you have multiple children the youngest child's door wins so if you have a first grader and sixth grader the first grader and the sixth grader enter [Music] the first grader gets in their classroom and your sixth grader knows exactly where to go so families with multiple children the youngest child wins i tell them that that's the door that everybody wasn't doing each quest in our building on our schedule is 40 minutes long and so matt and literacy are 80 minutes old every day uh for parents the arrival time as i said is 8 10 and pick up is 3 o'clock it used to be 3 10 305 now it's three o'clock um we have we have arranged for additional staff members to be at those entrances as well as people from the childhood city team the classroom teachers uh k through 5 will have two teachers in the classroom the children are wrong when children arrive and report to their classroom they'll be an activity for them to do we will move into the morning meeting okay we will have morning announcements every morning meeting and our morning announcements is the tv studio and then we begin our day with our period one class currently we are planning a before and after care program and i'm going to keep advertising this because the number of people enrolling is very very low [Music] this program has to be self-sustaining and so i'm going to advertise because i think parents are very busy this program is a very reasonable program run by our staff and professionals so we really want to see this program happen because we believe it helps parents the only thing i can think that may be working against us this year because we've had this program um soon after i got here the grants minnesota program that the school ran and we've had every year [Music] my rotations i said my guess is we're going to have these programs um [Music] uh as much as possible you want children eating episode and so even in november even if it's a little colder jacket we go outside and leave and then they can get involved and play as quickly as possible in the classroom children in k through 3 will have a snack around 10 o'clock and i remind everyone it's a healthy snack that children will have um at lunchtime if they're going outside they will have their lunch outside and right now parents are going to be asked to broadband their lunch our cafeteria service went under we no longer have their service so we have informed the state that um for any of our children who are free to reduce loans we will provide that for them for everyone else probably till january we will have um we will have asking parents that they provide a lunch for them and so we did a great job this year and it was excellent this past year and i hope this year um we hang in there until january until we have a group of services all uh three children will go to specials they will go to the art room they'll go to the stem lab they'll go to the library they'll go to help in pde so it will be a normal day those grades they travel with their teacher to those designated sites but they will be traveling throughout the day um they also have spanish came to three children or go to a science lab mr yi is their science teacher so we have science lab kindergarten through third grade so that's a day in the life of a third grader i wish i was a third grader and then i said before they will also be exposed one day to the winning program what i need now a day in the life of a fourth or an eighth grader is similar but fourth grade i have teachers that are highly qualified to teach literacy reading math science and social studies so in 4th through 8th grade children will travel to those locations they'll come with their math instructor their reading instructor science lab and social studies in fourth and fifth grade science and social studies is the same instructor in sixth seventh and eighth grader they have a social studies instructor or a science teacher again at those grade levels they will have similar to k through 3 they will have health and pe stem they will have art music [Music] what happens in k-3 that we will have seo classes social emotional time for children to talk from that move to morning announcements again produced by our children and done every single day and then they will move into their you know normal schedule again for them eating outside will happen every day peanut-free tables and climate weather we have to eat inside there'll be peanut-free tables in here and if they go outside they'll be peanut contains outside the outside tables will be designated by the color of the umbrella on the inside children will appear to retain and our experience with peanut children there's always friends that want to eat them it means not having to take another jelly sandwich that day or having any kind of peanut butter there's always plenty of children eating a pretty peanut-free table we plan on we'll be doing this tonight offering extracurricular activities for our students so in the full we'll have cross country stop and field talking in the winter we'll be playing basketball and wrestling and the spring we'll have a track team with peaceful team with social teams pto has organized fall spring and winter enrichment program after school tuesdays wednesdays and thursdays bring the chess club back the yard club we plan on doing many things for children after school because it's a great service for them for their social emotional and for parents having our children stay in this building is a very safe place for them to be from three o'clock three o'clock to four o'clock we'll also have student government teach production studio and safety patrol as i said [Music] and you know if a teacher never comes up with new ideas for clubs we always welcome that and um that's why our pto in richmond comes up with this every year that teachers come up with creative ideas but they know things that kids want to do so it really comes from the students on what they would like to do in their school and then finding the teacher who wants to live in that program our music program is back we'll have instrumental music from fourth grade to eighth grade we're very excited about that last year retirement grady and this is two brand new music and art teachers that are full of great ideas for the school year so our fun and performance program i'm really excited [Music] um we are still talking about filling out that daily uh symptom report parents should never send children to school and we don't have that problem here occasionally in the morning the child comes in with a fever and keep them separate it happens but keeping children home when they're sick is the obligation of the parents so it's keeping all of us safe and healthy um the other things that we get uh all staff students and visitors in the building um uh the administration and the health stand at braille work closely with county regional health commission to monitor treasures and raise our external staff you know [Music] so we are ready you know to open our buildings we have a full staff um currently right now shared with some board members that in the last few weeks i've interviewed many but had planned to hire three different aides all of which taken teaching jobs elsewhere there's a big shortage of teachers throughout new jersey throughout modern county i have my teaching staff in place currently i i do not have two teacher fees and at the high school i have to supply three teacher aides for their life skills program right now got the resignation of one person late this afternoon took on a job so i'm looking for that before the school year so it's only only three days one for the high school and two people that i'm looking for but as far as the staff you know we're ready to open the building [Music] um [Music] i recommend that we just do one release form and that's it um parent signs off on at the beginning of the year like they do back to school genesis right and then if you could add that in there just saying that i will not send my child to school if i have all these symptoms and then i think that would cover us for the year instead of the daily symptoms [Music] you brought up lunch um two things just to clarify so we're nuts free classrooms but not enough free school correct so they can have nuts in the cafeteria and outside but just not for snack within their classrooms [Music] and not afraid in a classroom because of the small environment but outdoors and then here we can keep our children that are not about our food service provider um i maybe talk to the pto or some other organizations to do some fundraising lunch ideas maybe also pizza one day or i don't know another local restaurant maybe just that we could have some type of hot lunch sometime through i know we talked about this years ago to do that so maybe we could bring that up again it doesn't help until our food service provider starts in january [Music] give our children better food healthier [Music] clarify chris is um the before and after all that information has been on the website correct and can you please send out another email tomorrow reminding everybody of that okay all right thank you uh um just for clarification the doors that the kids are going to be coming in is that the same one that we were doing last year except for second and third grade came to the side entrance right here fourth and fifth came [Music] and can you just clarify what exactly happened we didn't have enough time to get to get it started we have somebody through january right now [Music] news i think um there was a busing shortage so for our sports parents are going to be required to take what they did last year take their children to the sport events because busing is a real issue here in london county um we've got 36 parents that ate in blue that go to private schools right now and it's all because b1 is states that uh there was not enough time to block foreign [Music] last year those were the only two that [Music] um why it's an emergency can you tell everybody is [Music] if [Applause] earlier in january he's been here a few times just can't do it um overall you know good trend to see how many students came in below grade level above grade level but especially and you mentioned the fourth grade class but especially in the fourth and up grades quite a few students that are end of the year are still one grade level below and i was wondering if you had any insight into that any indications that you know why that why that um this is not an excuse but with upper grade students when you're getting them at the end of the year i really can't listen so they just rush right through it they don't try they don't care and as much as we encourage uh we know who the children are and we know how they perform day in and day out because we have that data whether it's chapter tests or benchmarking but some of that already scored is those who just refuse to very little guests go [Music] you know and so some of them and then those who we know are lower not so much when you say this is a state test but i'm ready i did this one already no we have to do this is the final score we want to show how much you learn this year and as much as teachers encourage sometimes some children are just they're at spent lead access the marketing period grades and everything to try to find those outliers if necessary did those students make up this different portion of the invitees because the children that did not do well there we set that up to all those families and i have to share with you that over 50 of the families that got letters said no for one reason or another i'm having a tutor come to my house i'd rather not have them come to school um my child was spent i'm not worried about it but over 50 we averaged our classes that was a free program this summer uh we averaged six or seven in class so they got rich instruction by more professional teachers here but for those who said no we're going away too you know you're offering this program for the month of july and we're bigger too two weeks i'd love to beat them but i can't so even the parents that cared it was just interfering with their stem two other questions what is the threshold to make the aftercare program happen is there a certain number that we need to get to from 11.
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20 of those at coyote are in rooms that we're not currently using and so i don't see any point in focusing on those but the 65 other units that were purchased before the year 2000 probably are the ones we need to look at and and this week has been an exception but from the first of july to last week we were having one to two ac or hvac units going down each week and the process with sfb as i've told you all before is a minimum of two months so to work in this process of using our esser money we have options legal options for how we handle procurement of big items like air conditioners or sets of air conditioners so the top one is the traditional kind of procurement methodology where we have several bid steps in there and and the time frame is we wouldn't even start installing probably installing air conditioners out of that process until uh august of 22.
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students have gotten the opportunity to be present on campus for events athletics and most importantly in-person classes august was a busy month for stag students as it was full of events to bring students and the community closer and reconnect the theme for the entire stag community this year is hashtag recharge our school staff and student leaders are making deliberate efforts to build relationships among students staff families and the community after the physical and social distancing we have all experienced this last year and a half making these personal connections is so important and it is incorporated into everything we are doing every student and staff member at stag even received a recharge t-shirt as a way to show we are all doing this together during the summer our courtyards were renovated to make it possible for staff and student students to use this past pathway as a sidewalk instead of using the hallways teacher teachers have also used these courtyards to take their students outside and even teach class from outside we love going outside for some fresh air while it's the warm-up stag started off by hosting a two-day chargering in event student leaders and staff welcomed our newest charters class of 2024 class of 2025 and as well as the incoming transfer students onto campus on august 5th and 6th for the afternoon approximately 400 9th and 10th graders were guided by dozens of student volunteers and staff in a scavenger hunt around the school games and much more to prepare them for their first day of school we have also had assemblies each day awesome food a dj and inflatables it was a fantastic day to meet new friends learn about and participate in some of the amazing activities at staff and to get a good feel for the entire campus stag's fall athletic tryouts began on august 9th this year in order to promote engagement and involvement in school for as many students as possible shaggs girls tennis team had no cut tryouts that focused more on where students as placement on the team would be based on their skills rather than if they would make it at all numbers have significantly increased among our entire fall athletic program at least 490 chargers are involved in fall athletics and we anticipate the numbers will go up even more when our cheer team finishes their second round of trials later this week there are now 132 players in our football program and 53 players in our tennis program for girls alone teachers and staff were welcomed into the school on institute day which was on august 11th and 12th teachers were eager to begin the school year and have the chance to work together to get ready and welcome students back they have done a tremendous job teaching with the challenging circumstances online and we can't wait to see what this year has in store for us on august 13 we welcome over 600 new students to staff for their first day here they did a trial run of their schedule got to practice using their locker met members of their pps team and even had an assembly and spirit training stag high school ended its first week of school with its orange and blue celebration to kick off the 2021-2022 athletic season fall sports held open practices and skill competitions there were merchandise giveaways and free food and a huge turnout from our students and their families this friday night lights preview was a huge success and we are thrilled to kick off the official season the next morning we had a full house for our fall orange and blue athletic parent meeting the support from our charger families is phenomenal with the school year beginning we have also started our mandatory drills our school has practiced the evacuation drill in case of a fire we have practiced the lockdown drills for students to familiarize themselves and how to protect each other in case of the threat of an armed intruder we are having another fire drill friday morning to practice evacuating the school as if it were a wheel drill during a passing period we use our advisory time for these exercises and have the chance to ask questions and have discussions about them with our teachers as the first week of school ended teachers have been engaging with students after months of feeling unmotivated and disconnected teachers created activities to connect students with their peers and as the second week approached we have started learning and participating in class discussions teachers have done an amazing job treating the situation as it were a normal school year which helps students adjust back into their regular school routine on tuesday we had our annual back to school night for our parents to be able to come into the building to follow their child's schedule meet their teachers and learn about the curriculum for each class the parents and staff both reported how nice it was to get to spend time together and the parents couldn't believe how many steps they got in that night our stag marching charter chargers have been practicing all summer for upcoming competitions the marching chargers are having their first current performance on the football field tonight stag is also excited to once again host the marching band jamboree and we are thrilled that our fellow schools in the district will also be in attendance it's on september 11th to save the day thank you all so much for your tish attention and support and i look forward to working with you this year thank you adriana okay who is that i think uh dr smith are you and oh of course of course of course as they're walking up i just want to note that the representative from andrew is a legacy you'll probably recognize the last name four years ago miss nala hamdin was uh presenting to you all year and now we have well i'll let miss good hoffman i'm excited to introduce aya hamdin president of student council here at andrew high school aya is very passionate about volunteering for special olympics and she's committed to our restorative circles group she helps out regularly with that group i takes rigorous classes at andrew and is very involved with nhs and spanish honor society she's not only president of student council but she's also president of our sports medicine club she has not yet committed to her school post high school but she knows that she wants to pursue a career in sports medicine as dr nolting shared uh nala her sister legacy was uh five years ago also that stood before you um i am so excited to introduce aya to you she's not only an outstanding two bolt but an overall outstanding and amazing human so without further ado it is my pleasure to introduce aya hamden to you good evening ladies and gentlemen my name is ian hamden and i'm the student council president at andrew high school for the 2021-2022 school year it feels great to finally be able to plan our normal activities and we've already dived right in beginning week one over the summer i along with mr dalton and miss othman have found uh ways to ease the transition for students to be back in the building full time we focus on students who are either fully remote last year and have not been in the building for over a year or those who are new to andrew and have never been in the building at all the theme the seniors the senior leaders selected for this year is bring back the thunder we have been apart for so long and missed out on so many favorite events so as we're bringing back our students and staff full-time we're also bringing back the energy the spirit and everything that makes andrew andrew in order to begin this transition we invited students of the class of 2025 along with the remote sophomores in the class of 2024 and our incoming transfer students to our bold bath bolt bash was an opportunity for incoming students to meet fellow peers that they may not have known before and to learn more about the extracurriculars offered and become acclimated to our andrew community as a whole we successfully ran two days of this amazing event wrapping it up by teaching them our traditional chants cheers and our fight songs the first week of school ran very smoothly and it is apparent to all that we're already bringing back some of that thunder that we've been missing monday and tuesday we held our annual welcome back assemblies where we introduced our theme to our students and did our traditional tears that same friday we had our senior leaders hold our senior sunrise where we had almost 200 seniors come out at 5 30 in the morning for some pancakes music and to watch the sunrise on our football field that night we had our popular black and gold showcase where our fall sports teams were spotlighted followed by a flag football game and a varsity football scrimmage the energy of our student section was incredible and a big welcome home to everyone in addition to sports many extracurricular clubs have gotten together to plan as usual and our fall sports have begun competing this week we wish them the best of their seasons thank you so much and i cannot wait for the rest of this year okay so that would mean that isabella is next good evening everyone it is my distinct pleasure this evening to introduce sandberg super senior isabella torres uh to you this evening as our student council president um bella is a highly involved sandberg student new alpha theta nhs relay for life global connect our club green team and a gamut of probably some other activities that uh i'm actually forgetting uh she takes a highly rigorous course load with the gamut of ap courses um when i think about bellator as though i come back to we had some re-engagement events this summer we brought in students from the class of 2025 our incoming freshman and our incoming uh in some cases uh incoming sophomores from the class of 2024.
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up to 10 minutes talking with the person at the gate uh asking questions about what we could drop off for sure plastic bags yes styrofoam yes uh hard plastic of certain types no lids of plastic containers yes and so my this is just a suggestion i don't know who does it maybe it's me um to create some um displays of actual physical objects and say this is something that can go and this is something that cannot go into the stream so that's i don't know who takes it um but i feel like having the actual physical object available to view will help people in their decisions on putting the right things in the actual recycling okay thanks scott kathy you have your hand up and john and then chris um i was going to volunteer to handle political questions if that's exactly how you're framing it anyway i'm volunteering to help oh great thanks kathy um um anything else okay thank you very much uh john you have the floor uh to read this question by far the best resource is recycle ann arbor's a to z recycling guide um well it is the best resource that we have and it also has yeah the ability to provide comments so that if you're not happy with the information that it provides that you can suggest improvements and they're not always acted on immediately but they generally are acted on and um i would suggest that um if somebody has a better idea please step forward but my belief is that that is by far the best resource the second best resource which is not available widely is um simply having the right tags or labels or whatever you want to call them on the recycling carts um we we have them on our uh recycling carts at least on some they're not on on compost carts except for the couple of routes that were tagged during the more more carts more compost i think is what it was called um uh initiative but that was just on a couple of routes in route one and reward one um but i you know those those are the the two best things and if you go to the a to z recycling guide it it is structured such that it it can if properly filled out can provide the kind of information that i think you're looking for it's structured that way i have used it and i didn't feel like it answered my questions but i'll look at it again definitely yeah and then go to the bottom and then there is a suggestion form where you can say this is not providing um the information that i need or it's providing it in a way that's confusing thanks okay thanks chris you have the floor um so this is a subject that's very dear to my heart um the a to z guide i mean i agree with everything john mursky just said however the a to z guy drives me crazy if you go to plastic bags for instance there's 13 different kinds of plastic bags and i can't sort them out i'm working with brian weiner and who is responsible at recycle ann arbor for trying to find markets for all this stuff so part of the problem is what's recyclable is what he can sell to somebody who wants it and another part of the problem is that uh we don't know what the new murph can sort yet so for example jennifer patoski has a sorting game and she worked with dan ezekiel to make a little video and i sat next to her at a table at the farmer's market recently and uh i know you did julie said she so in this little game she states that well anything smaller than a fist can't be you know recycled because it's too small for the murph well we don't really know but that's the song that jennifer is singing right now um i'll give you a good technical example so if you look at the little triangle on the recycling and the plastics that you've got that got little numbers number one is p e t and it's recyclable but it's really recyclable if it's in the form of a bottle there's a slightly different formulation if it's in the form of a tub that you might buy lettuce in at a grocery store and if the number of tubs get if the percentage of tubs gets too large in the mix of bottles then the purchaser doesn't have as much interest in it so brian is walking a fine line and jennifer is saying for now let's throw out those big tubs which just drives me nuts because they're so nice and clean when i dump the lettuce out why can't i recycle that so i think part of the message is it's an evolving workscape we have to just kind of wait and be a little bit patient and i'm working with brian weiner to improve the r to z guide maybe with some general things in front of it like hey if it's real small throw it out it doesn't say that anywhere in the guide right now and so on and so on and so on so this really has to be i mean i just really really am eager to fix this so if you got more questions throw them on me and i'll brian weiner and i will work it out as we go on thanks yeah i think um some of the i mean i mean some of the things i'm most hopeful for in this realm were the extended producer responsibility bills uh there was one the state of maine and the state of oregon have just passed and the governor signed bills uh demanding extended producer responsibility and um if you look at waste dive occasionally you know this um weekly newsletter the daily newsletter waste time there are many initiatives to try to simplify plastic packaging to make it more recyclable so there is movement out there at the national level to help to help resolve this issue because it's just it's just a nightmare right so um i'm young when you have your hand up yeah i'm thinking about um the a to z guide and like information about recycling and composting i think that to promote diversity we should at least like um provide language assistance to people who don't speak english or include information that's like really important in different languages and um if like translating all information is really a big task we should at least like include a message at the bottom of like whatever message you're sending out that says we offer language assistant because like um promoting diversity in sustainability is really important and i think we should do that okay now that's a great point on when um tell you what i'll try to connect you with brian weiner and you can discuss that with him okay he's on the board of directors of recycling ann arbor and he's very passionate about recycling and i think he'd probably be the best person to answer to address your concerns and try to propose a solution think about solutions um anybody else wish to make a comment on this topic um i mean i participated in this um more compost more carts campaign and i think it was very successful and uh it's been difficult to get the city to try to run okay that was done in one of the 45 routes that the city has one out of the 45 routes it was it was done through a sustaining ann arbor together grant there was a ten thousand dollar grant that it was managed by the uh ictj and so uh and i thought it was very successful and these stickers were quite uh it involved what it involved just to let everybody knows it involved um every thursday morning for the month of may we ran around to the carts that were out on the street because you have to do it when they're on the street and we put notices there first saying this is going to happen and then the second one was another set of notices and then the third third and the fourth weeks we slapped the stickers on the cards and we had stickers for uh you know for the waste parts and for the compost parts and for the recycling parts and so it's a very easy thing to do so far the city has only had the uh had the time and the resources to put it on new cars so they have pledged that whenever new carts are requested by residents that they'll have those stickers on them but uh this is a complicated topic because as uh i participated in jenny's sorting game as well which is a big hit with children especially you know it uh it depends on what community you're in because the what's recyclable depends on the murph and who and what kind of contracts they have in place so uh this is one of the one of the situations that is really going to come under the purview of warmup you know for regionalization if we're going to regionalize waste processing and we have to uh we have to uh you know we have to make the messaging consistent so um um so let's see that's all i have to say i think uh and i've been trying for for years to try to get a group of volunteers together to go and do these parts of other to do a similar thing um through other routes in the city that haven't had a little traction on that um so far so john you have your hand up to use your um last example and build on comments from rita and chris this recycling thing is so freaking complicated it's a disaster i mean if you if you are in ann arbor and you're on aunt city of ann arbor property you can recycle glass if you cross over and go into university of michigan building you cannot recycle glass and if you go into a township um that you know for example you know you're in the in our public school system and your kids going they have a school system and maybe they're taught one thing but the township has a different murf what can be recycled there is different it is just so damn complicated if we make it it it's it's yeah what more can i say chris you know this better than probably the rest of us but it is it is a it is a disaster we're lucky that we have um a uh i forget what exactly the rate is called but about 10 of our recyclables are rejected 10 to 11 that's relatively clean compared to lots of municipalities um and um you know that's also include dirty recyclables as well as the things that that aren't recyclable we're actually pretty good at that rate but um you know for those of you are reading about what was going on with china and i forget they called the their their program to uh improve their their acceptance of recyclables um they were shooting i think for um cleanliness levels of below 0.5 so you know if we if we were just have been shipping our stuff to china directly for recycling it all would have been shipped back on a boat i mean that's how far we are from being able to to do this well and it's just in its you know industry and the point that steve made earlier about responsibility it's it's just made extremely difficult for consumers to be able to understand what can and can't be done and i work in this all the time and i'm completely perplexed a good portion of time as to what i what i myself can do amen um so chris would you want to talk about uh talk about this topic a little bit or uh do you have anything to add well i i just agree with everything john's saying i like to do it it's extremely complex and i i see my task as in an outreach sense it's got to be made simple enough for my neighbor my neighbor is happy to throw stuff in the recycling bin but he really doesn't care what number is on the plastic i mean i take the time to read it because i'm kind of a nerd and i say well this is number seven so we can't do that blah blah blah blah but i'm one out of a hundred so again i'm just agreeing with what john is saying and so i see now rita is interested she wants to know what can be recycled what most of my most people don't care they just store somewhere so it is very remarkable really and i think you're correct john that our rejection rate for recycled stuff is about 10 and overall the residential in the residential stream we recycle or we prevent let's say put this way we divert from the landfill about 50 of residential trash into the recycling stream which is really good we can get better and there are various outreach programs for that and i want to participate in them but i'm i'm just preaching to the choir here again i'll shut up i think i may have shared with you i i i lived with my daughter for two weeks and that was extremely enlightening to see how the average person even my own my own daughter you know what what their what their attitudes about recycling are and you know it's chris you've you're you've taken on a huge task i'm happy to help as best i can but well i'll work with brian and young nguyen and and whoever really it's it's uh it's really important so we'll do what we can yeah i mean yeah it's so i mean i've always relied on pre-cycling myself you know but you can't even buy spinach anymore with a rubber band around it you know against to come wash the triple washed in a plastic box so um i grow my own as much as i can but you just can't you know everybody's gone to this convenience thing of everything's sterilized in a plastic box so um but i do know that uh i knew that it's an action on the national level about this there's a plastic pollution bill it's in congress and there's also uh there's also a a plastic bottle mandate um that's on the uh you know for our recycling uh you know expanding the plastic recycling to or actually uh expanding bottle bills nationally uh a bottle bill for plastics that extends to all plastic containers feeding juices and water but who knows what the prospects of that getting cast in congress are and even if it does it'll probably be at least five years before uh before the deadline comes for industry also chris you have your handout well i don't want to take up too much time in this meeting for this subject because we could spend a whole meeting on it but just add in that on the trash talk tour that you mentioned steve i think one of the stops is on liberty where they advertise a refill station so you don't have to buy a new bottle of shampoo every time your bottle runs out you can take the old bottle of shampoo and go get it refilled which we ought to be aware of and dan ezekiel's trash talk tour is an effort one of the outreach efforts to get everybody in the city you know if you get a thousand people will be real happy to be aware of this kind of thing because not only does that help the recycling but it is a part of the path towards the zero waste or the circular economy that we're all talking about so yeah you know that and maybe uh i know uh i know the 820 program the uh the sustainability ambassadors program the galen runs um i know they have some some ambassadors that are working on solid waste issues so do you want to mention any uh anything that's going on galen right now um we'll be kicking off our second cohort of uh sustainability ambassadors that's going to be happening on september 15th um we uh currently have a cohort of about 20 residents right now who are ready to participate and you know take the journey with us okay and i heard that some of them were working on a project with multi-family housing is that correct for composting and um maybe recycling well there's a couple of groups um i think that the composting uh group or the group that was working with jenny uh slowed down a little bit due to the covet you know so um and that was ray and his wife and some others so um hopefully we can get that picked up or the second group will pick up where they left off that you know or hopefully they can combine their efforts okay all right thanks kalyn rita you have your hand off you're you're muted okay sorry um just a question for all of us um in terms of thinking about what we're working on and the a20 program and targeting thinking about our actions in terms of what it can do to reduce the carbon output which is what we really all want to do um so it's you know i don't have a solid thing to say about it right now but it seems to me that we should kind of um target and prioritize um those things that address the most impact that we can have on that plan okay thanks rita all right so uh shall we i think we've exhausted this topic unless anybody has anything more to say so uh let's move on to another one how about uh um yeah chris is not here for natural features so um i don't know if anybody wants to speak on his behalf um but we can move on to pollinators the friday you want to talk about what the pollinators work group is doing and uh what do you see your long-term goals as being and steve i can give a real quick update on natural features oh yeah okay john yeah natural features the group has been working on a number of different things um but i would say the most tangible undesired outcome is a change to the udc regarding um the protection of trees through expansion of um what's currently there to both to include both landmark and heritage trees with two separate lists and also to enhance um or add requirements return regarding grading permits and um chris and wendy carmen and i have been meeting as chris has been available which um hasn't been very frequent during the summer months it gets back to what i talked about earlier that you know really having a drum beat is really really important but we're getting pretty close to having a product because we're not meeting on a regular schedule i can't say that that pretty close will get across the finish line with something to present to the commission in six weeks or in another you know four months i i just don't know but um a lot of work has been put into that we've got we've gone through language now we're going through it the third time um so um we're getting pretty close um and of course there's there's other kinds of things like the seas project and things like that that have been presented i think to the commission that the natural features um uh working group has been has been working on rita what did i miss um am i okay uh you didn't miss but i'm glad you brought up this these projects because it is pretty exciting those students have completed their um field work and they'll be starting they're cleaning their data set so what they did was go out and identify some trees in specific areas um and identify their sizes their species etc get some basic information about them combining with some databases that are available from the university from fi the arb and the trees city tree database street tree database and they'll be using machine training to identify um kind of a flyover of the city to train train the system to identify these the trees in these areas and then look at the whole city to see what we can find out about our remaining native forest fragments that will help the the work that that john and and chris are doing and wendy are doing it's really really exciting um they they also included some information which i'm really happy about which has to do with identifying even invasives so they've they've figured out a method to deal with buckthorn thickets um yeah and um the um i talked with them a little bit about tree of heaven trying to get them to find some of those that to see if we're having any kind of really serious invasion um overall um just that kind of thing so um ideally what we'll have is a tool that we can use over and over in the city to look at what our tree canopy is what the quality is of it what the species are and track it over time um that should be a really helpful tool to all of us so just it's great okay um um so we die does anybody else want to mention anything about natural features okay let's move on to pollinators all right well i'll just say that the pollinators group is sort of spinning its wheels right now but um i do want to um thank galen for the ambassadors in particular when um um bill connett who has joined our pollinator team as a really strong member who's interested in working on improving um the education features which really means updating our website and getting some really good information available um some of the the things that we've talked about in the past have to do with building on work that's available already so when the environmental commission passed a resolution and then council subsequently did as well to um encourage use of integrated pest management and reduce use of pesticides there was really in my mind a need for an education component and so what i'm hoping to do as we move forward that we'll have information on plant types um resources in the community that of people and organizations that that do the kind of plantings that support pollinators um that'll be the kind of thing that will build into this um we'll see um and i'll we'll be working with city staff to get it updated there's already a really good pollinator website on the nav website but we'd like to really um push it a little bit farther so i'm really happy to have this resource and bill in addition brought in a young anthemologist who's going to help us with some um guiding information as well she has uh this is really exciting she works um has been working um with the smithsonian as a scholar and kind of a storyteller and so i believe that we'll be able to develop some materials that convey information that will be useful to people something that john has commented on many many times and i agree is is developing reach outreach to the community to reduce turf grass and i think what what i will be focusing on for the next few months um and ideally i'll put some deadlines on it um is working on um a plan to do something that um professor doug tell me one of the great entomologists or one of my my heroes is to shrink the lawn so i'd like to work with um parks and uh there are our allied groups that we identified as we went through and did some outreach this spring with some of our pollinator groups to um work with them on on their ideas on how do we get a major step forward with shrinking the law um and so i hope to have something more solid to report to you on that in the future thanks rita i'm have you had if you had any uh engagement with large landowners as yet you know i did once i did one small effort uh at a local church and it turned out to be it turns out that my assessment of this was that it wasn't really in the mind of of the person who was responsible for the property to do the kind of changes that i was going to suggest and so it was like kind of a bad cold call in a way so um i i want to um kind of have some rethought thinking of that and i certainly welcome any suggestions from anyone and john has given me a number of them uh to follow through um to make some progress in that way um well just to say to everyone else what we'd like to do is to find some large landowners who have a lot of green grass and ask them to change it i'd actually like to ask the schools when i was during the lights out period this month um i was sitting at pioneer high school and looking at their giant front green lawn that didn't have a wii speed that i could see um and i'd really like to change that you know um that would be a goal [Music] excellent hey john you have your you have the floor just to carry on the conversation very briefly with rita me to consider reaching out to the 2030 district and jan culbertson it's a little bit far afield from what they're generally doing um but they are also forming a house of worship group um that's going to focus on sustainability issues and so you know to get to the right people in the church that are interested in sustainability as opposed to the guy who's just in charge of mowing the lawn who may not really um share you know the same values to the same degree at least would be potentially really really powerful so yeah you have you must know jan right um you know i know her name from reading it but i have not met her and i haven't had a conversation so um if you can give me some contact that would be great yeah i'll be happy to connection okay yeah i could see that as a great cascading kind of thing you know if you establish it in the place of worship that the worshipers may take it home yeah i mean i'm enthusiastic about schools myself too because if you can if you can get something like this and then on a school property you know the kids are going to go home and talk to their parents about it yeah there are a lot of rain gardens and good good native plantings at schools but i was just looking at this giant lawn that's what i was really kind of astounded by you know and i just hadn't thought about it before certainly i've passed it many times um kathy you have your hand up and then channel one of the issues with the pioneer lawn is that it's used for football parking and so if we could come up with something other than a lawn that could also serve as a parking lot that would be fine okay julie noted uh shannon here before yeah i actually was gonna say something similar and we helped design that because there's a huge stormwater facility underneath it and it has to be able to support cars on top of it has all these layers of sand a very special seed mix on top of it to be able to make it all work so um there are surprisingly few places pioneer believe it or not um and they do have that great pioneer prairie i think something that um at this school is definitely there are areas that they could they can do less mowing um um i think some of the big uh rental companies that own lots of land like mckinley or things like that that just have big huge lawn areas around parking lots and they make decisions for lots of areas in town um it's it's the thing they've just been doing forever and so it's a big mental shift and it's not going to happen with the cold call like it just won't and so there's to be kind of a cultural shift and desire for that or pressure um and uh but they you know some of these big companies own lots of land with that you know so i think that the schools are one though that at least the schools do recreation on their lawns at least there's that um it also is a thing you have to take care of and it's a different kind of expertise and there's not a ton of it in terms of the capacity in ann arbor to the people that i know that do this are just booked solid for a long time and so so we need more people doing it in terms of the management the professionalized management of it which is really kind of what it comes down to so even building that capacity i think it would be an interesting thing to do because there aren't enough people that know how um so that could be a potential in the schools or wcc you know or other places yeah perhaps and i i would start in some ways with interviewing the people that do do it and and where you know what how that happened and yeah and and thinking about some of these larger landowners outside of the university and schools and things like that that are kind of the obvious ones um but it's a it's it's a whole different world of management and it's hard for people to take on a different world when you already have something very operationalized so yeah i mean shannon do you have an idea of what the relative costs are for like getting on a riding mower versus like reading yeah there's some good data on that out there that you can find um again it's it it's a very intense first couple of years and then you can start to back off but it takes a very intense first couple of years so um it's you you really have to kind of commit to it and want to do it and believe in it because it looks like crap for a couple of years this starts too long i know i've done that yeah i've done that before in my private property and it does require selective for a number of years you know yeah okay so i think it would help when you're talking to people like that they're basically business people i think it's good to just it's good to have some rough idea at least of what the cost yeah cost comparisons and things like that are and there's some good data out there you know for that rita you know that could be a pitch um so yeah there are there definitely is good data out there for some of that because people have saved money over time if they're doing high inputs if they're irrigating and doing fertilization and spraying and all that kind of thing and mowing then if they're doing high inputs then it is cheaper go this other route but if they're not then it's not so that's something that's tough so if you um can direct me to that kind of data that'd be great yeah let me make a note for myself that isn't something i've touched on yet okay okay and the term i like is ornamental turfgrass that's where it's not used for sports or anything else because i think that captures it perfectly because we don't we all don't think it's very ornamental anyway so let's call it so it has a bit of disparaging to it so i call it ornamental turf grass so um okay do you want um anything else on the pollinators [Music] thank you okay well i think that almost wraps it up um and so uh but there is one other thing i'd like to bring off and that is like local food this is something that you know is part of a20 it's part of it was part of the first sustainability plan that matt and i put together it was part of the sustainability metrics but it's something that always seems to fall through the cracks so i'm wondering um i'm wondering if uh during our recruitment effort if we can try to find somebody who's interested in local food and trying to see what can be done to support the a20 goals in that respect because though you know it's not going to be the energy commission um i'm not sure uh um i mean i've done a fair amount of research on it and i have a group together who's interested you know including the people at argus farmers market some of the local organic farmers associations things like that um you know the university and the uh the university's uh food program um project bro you know the people at uh and that uh you know amanda sweden who's at the uh at the saint joe's on the farm she runs the saint joseph so i think i already have a group of people together that could be a nucleus for a work group to work on that but i don't have time to deal with that i don't know anybody else who has the interest in maybe the background to participate in that so i'm hoping maybe we could we could consider recruiting somebody who's interested in that topic and promoting local food because if you look at project drawdown this is a substantial part of reducing carbon budgets improving resilience uh getting healthier diets plant plant-based diets going things like that so i just want to throw that out there and see what people think um shannon you have your hand up oh okay anybody okay again it seems to like uh drop off the back of the wagon okay all right well um does anybody want to bring up any other topics um i know i mentioned air quality there's not much we can do about that but it's in the back of my mind and i think um uh the phosphorous discharges and pfas are going to be topics of uh future um a future commission meeting soon um i'm working on both of those because that's some kind of things i'm working on i'm the uh team leader on a sierra club uh grassroots network national team working on ppos and i've been working with several other non-profits on those topics so um i think i can put together a program on fifa as it's impacting the city's operations and i just want to mention that uh the drinking water has kind of been dealt with at this point um we don't have any identified surface discharges but we will have requirements for our wastewater and our um hop iosolic discharges coming up really soon so that's all i want to say about fifa's at the time at this time so uh okay i see several hands up uh john callaway and kevin john morsky john yes just a quick update in terms of the search for the new resource recovery manager position for the city that that process is ongoing uh there's been a couple of interviews there's a couple more coming up so it's ongoing don't have any help yeah thanks so yeah john so you're involved in those um and there's a discussion yeah good good excellent thank you thanks for that update um anything else okay so kathy and then john mursky and then rita um just a reminder that the a.g dana nessl would like to be invited to our meeting regarding pfas and uh also when we look at air quality i think that we should look at air quality in southeast michigan looking at just ann arbor air quality can be misleading and we're not negatively impacted in the same way and if one of our goals is equity then i think it's important to look at the detroit and the down river population yeah kathy on that topic i'll just mention this briefly is uh um i've been i've been mentioning this in the local sierra club meetings uh there's actually in the ecology center here has done some things because now you can get some really cheap portable um monitors for both pm 2.5 pm 1.0 i'm nox and stocks pollutants and um i purchased a few myself from a company called purple air and i'm working with those and i thought it might be a good idea to try to include those in public schools that are near the interstate 94 corridor um i agree with you it's not it's not such a particular issue here in ann arbor and as as we start electrifying things and not burning any more natural gas our air quality will improve here but the major problem is diesel you know diesel traffic along interstate 94.
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um we talked you know dawn and i were just talking about that today what is my number that i run because it's not a budgeted program what is my number so to pay a teacher to run the program to pay for you know paraprofessionals to assist in that program what is the number that i need and uh dawn i just asked for that today what is my real number that i need to know i can run this program we don't know the number and um sorry last question on the covered protocol it says that you know positive cases or close contact 14 days [Music] whatever the new protocol is if they're wearing a mask and i'm sitting it has to be that 15 minutes or so since we're wearing masks we believe our team will be probably zero because we're wearing this we're never going to be next to one another for more than 15 minutes so i think the quarantine that we live through and the quality that we're going through is going to be very different sure my question is if a student is made to quarantine what is the are they live in the classroom like we did last year i believe that the legislation was changed right now we're not and we'll just have it as sick days will that go against their limited number of sick days that they're a limited allowed especially when you're out sick like this or they're hospitalized you know you know we've worked with families like that uh the number that goes against our school report card is the number of children the children that have excessive you know they go over the city it's just like in high school 15 to 20 days out of school randomly that's what hurts our report but things like this [Music] when they're out or hospitals [Applause] a lot of information all right moving on on our agenda visitors business visitors are permitted to comment on agenda items only at this time tonight okay great correspondence this charity on to committee reports finance ted uh dennis and mark here tonight uh current curriculum there was no curriculum meeting this month report uh mr terry can we add uh our contractors prior contract to the new jersey school boards and new jersey public employees relations commissioners new jersey per public employees relations commission yes have a community situations meeting uh it was on august 11th it lasted well over an hour and it included myself stuck with the embarrassio and mr walter as well as press we discussed much of what was part of chris's presentation i ready and we encourage you to uh take a look at the website to get that information we discussed a little bit of a follow-up on the gifted and talented program which we reported on last month we discussed live streaming and the job mr slater's done and then we discuss this which most of you and because he's well respected everything he's ever said to me i found very incredible i listened after the end of much discussion debate dialogue [Music] in that letter it included frustration it concluded community denied it was a basic follow-up to the previous letter and if you'd like to say and uh although i have not submitted an official report and have my notes here i promise you i will do that before thank you kurt board members any questions for her okay great uh chris administering your report well i started off the beginning by um the building we spent a lot of time this summer like we do every summer preparing for the school year in classrooms paying offices shine floors the lighting project is finished when you walk out the store and look down the hallway i've never seen that hallway look so bright and beautiful that's our center hallway and the one hallway that goes down to the fifth grade um there are my majority of social studies in the concrete math class that lightning project is done for our whole school this led lighting new ceiling tiles if i could throw in ceiling tiles i don't know if you noticed when you walked in because you will have to look up about a pto ceiling project we have 160 families submitting ceiling tiles done by children and when i tell you when you leave here today um if you did one or if you didn't do on the ceiling tiles look amazing uh the messages that children wrote about tiles the artwork that they did with the tiles it's in the main office and throughout this whole little hallway my estonian staff led by jorge did an amazing job i said and she laid tile because he spaced them out it's just a beautiful mosaic of the artwork of children it just says so much about our school so please check that out because not only having new ceiling tiles and lighting the children work is what children will notice when they come back they will not notice that the holes are brighter and get them delighted grow up since that children will just notice how beautiful and how inclusive so new furniture has been moored some arrived some are still waiting for uh because furniture like many things you're experiencing in your own home is now instead of two weeks or four weeks it's you know eight weeks twelve weeks out uh but it's been ordered to get it in we just have to be patient like we've all heard today so i'm just really impressed with the amount of teachers um close to 80 of my teachers have been in this building more than two days and this is on their own preparing their classrooms for the next school year and you know many people say the teachers have a great they have a whole summer i share this often with the board and the community that our teachers put in a lot of hours planning and preparing for the new school year but the classroom is both magnificent i am so impressed with what the classrooms look like by the dedication of our teachers we've hired many people because we lost people in our budget we need an additional special ed teacher and so in every grade level except for first grade and second grade i had an icr setting which means an in-class resource which means a special ed teacher working collaboratively with a regular teacher in the classroom so we have that at a grade level we have resource rooms we have a special ed teacher dedicated to delivering wilson to many students in our school our speech teachers are ready our root room is ready you know like i said we are ready and prepared curriculum writing has happened this summer a lot of it still we've done some revisions to our report card we've made a decision to move from four more periods to three marking periods trimesters it gives the teachers more time working with students so they can give parents more information so every 60 days you'll get a report but intermittently you will get a progress report which the teachers have updated and like i said today i use teacher orientation many parents here have listened to me and i've been around for a long time the communication that you've had with your child's teacher is critical for their development as well as giving teachers information about your summer quarter so that communication is very important i will stress with the staff they return to school three days prior to when we have children here we call professional development days it begins next wednesday thursday the following tuesday that they will we will be working together to prepare children to come back into this building and communication is key and that's what we're um some of the things that we're going to be talking [Music] that work that we've done this summer has been pretty comprehensive uh moving trimesters revising report cards in our master schedule we have several teachers work on it so it's not just something mrs carlson says here's your schedule uh mr samuel can work collaboratively with our teachers so that we develop a schedule that is very comprehensive and that meets the needs of our children lunch periods stay the same as we've done in the past um sixth seventh and eighth graders have that first lunch period when they're thirty uh eighth graders speak first six and seventh graders play that second period begins around 12 17.
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that's a year from now i want to be sure by a year from now when it's hot again that we've got as many of those things in place as possible so i uh sought some advice from chuck esseg at aasbo the business [Music] business association for arizona and he referred me to another person who i haven't talked to yet but he did refer me to the other person and he indicated that this was a good process for us to use i spoke with the business manager for cottonwood oak creek i think it's oak creek school district who they've done some similar projects in the past and he also said that he would advise the co-op process what the co-op process means we are members as a district we are a member of a number of co-ops one is called save i'm sorry i can't tell you what those letters stand for but it's based uh mesa school mesa city the city of mesa kind of started it in many school districts and county uh offices and city offices in arizona are a member of that co-op we're also a member of the mojave purchasing co-op we use i g p a i think that's a governmental gpa yeah that's a big government one a nationwide government one and so when you do that that that group has already made sure that any of the vendors on their list meet all of the requirements for federal procurement regulations and and in arizona meet all the regulations for arizona procurement things to make sure that we're doing things legally and following all the rules for spending tax money so having done that and schneider has done this assessment so they already have a lot of information about what we may need to do and what we're trying to do and so i was recommending the agreement with them to proceed so and i know corey has questions and the rest of you may have questions too this is uh this is a this is a process and uh and a big project i'll let you guys go first one that you're talking about um so you you know which group it is that you're looking at i'm looking at schneider electric electric electric and through this co-op they've already done all the work to make sure everything do we have like a verification from that group like is there a way to confirm that that's like from the group like sure i can get that from them the the yeah absolutely and this happens this one happens to be through save um because they're listed as one of the vendors with save and and we can get that verification um uh and that's good business practice for us to do so yeah because i'm just not familiar with them absolutely um yeah and uh yeah we would want to do that but it would be true for any vendor that's listed with them and so you know we do business with a number of vendors already from mojave cooperative regularly and transportation has a number of things that we purchase you know from the use the co-op for because it saves us a lot of steps and a lot of time um uh so you know yeah we absolutely could get that okay so it didn't really click with me until you said mojave co-op i'm actually quite familiar with the mojave co-op um and what it actually is is the paperwork's filled out saying i mean there's other details to it but basically that you're not trading with any terrorist organization that you've you've met your agreements that you don't fund this and you don't fund that so it's it's paperwork they have to fill out in order to spend taxpayer money they're also on here to make boards decisions on where they purchase from a little bit easier because they've met an agreed-upon markup value so that's really what the co-op is in essence i i was trying to put that together but you said mojave now i'm like okay now i know what this is that was familiar but the save i was like it's just another co-op it's just the same thing it's just that's why i wasn't quite putting those together like 10 of them but it's really the same thing now where i kind of have an issue with all this is by going with this co-op we are actually limiting who in our community would be able to bid because if we go co-op design and you're not a company on the co-op you now aren't bidding it because you've restricted that to be a co-op bid right but they subcontract with they subcontract with that's part of their process okay that's what the co-op does yeah so if we bid with a co-op we're actually limiting who gets to bid because we're going through the co-op when we first talked about this one of my big things was is here is an amazing opportunity for our community we have hundreds of thousands of dollars going into this project to say that we would be a year out before we could replace air conditioners i think is stretched by a long margin um if we put out to bid that we need this done uh contractors knowing this kind of thing is on the table especially when there's so many programs out there that could would jump on this deal would jump on this and i don't want to tie the hands of our community members and saying you can't be part of what we're doing in our school district because we're going with a co-op i do not want to do that so well i mean august to me 2022 does not help our teachers who have no air in their condition in their classrooms currently and it doesn't get hot in august it gets hot in march oh i totally get that what i'm saying is i don't think the august 22 22 timeline is correct right i think we can absolutely because we could i to go in and get bids by not going co-op it is just a few forms they fill out right this isn't like no it's more than a few forms that they have to fill us out even if it's uh well for procurement we would have to and i have to get bids we have to and we have to we have to put out the we have to put each of these steps what you guys are saying i'm just not okay with taking a purchase this large and basically telling i'm agreeing with 30 okay i thought you weren't telling you that there's procurement training i had to sit in last year for hours oh we definitely i'm not saying don't fall and you know and it's gonna it's gonna have to be done absolutely absolutely but i agree with keeping uh there are so many places in this community that we could benefit and i agree that's my whole thing come back and i but i think the question to ask tom is is is because they essentially become the project manager for this am i representing that correctly okay and i don't think that that precludes them from working with our local vendors because i've said all along that i really want to keep as much money of this money in the community as possible and i've not asked tom this question before so we'll put him on the spot so tom in this process would we be looking at local vendors to be doing this job so yeah absolutely so i wanted to shake my head to i agree with that keeping it local so we as act as a general contractor so we are the point of contact between the district and all the subcontractors that we'd be working with this process allows us to pick local contractors and whether that be through the building automation system or the mechanical or the design those types of things are all subcontracted out so for instance in parker unified school district we reached out we managed that entirety of the process so we conduct the energy audit which is the design phase we manage the engineering then we con we manage the subcontractors the contract management construction management these are huge economic boosts for communities that we work in and so this is absolutely something that we vet subcontractors in local territories and work with the district maintenance team and abm we'd be working with to figure out okay which contractors you typically work with which ones do you like working with which ones are you stuck working with and we can help you know bid the work out to the certain subcontractors that the district is hoping to work with that's really the approach where the general contractor and we keep things local that's the whole idea of our approach because to me it has to be kept local absolutely we have enough yes we do that we can pull from and keep that i mean their children went to school here they went to school in these schools like yeah we got to keep it yeah yeah so that would be my big thing is that this would have to be and i understand and i believe i understand i could be tolerant i'm definitely not in con in construction but i believe i understand you would be supervising what's going on you would then reach out to these vendors in in town and say hey we got 25 units we need replaced are you capable of doing this and they say sure we're capable of doing it they would work that with you you would then move that on so why best bang for our buck why do we have you as a general contractor then so when you're looking at the number of things that i've heard you value throughout all the conversations i've had we've had maybe 30 plus meetings over the last year and a half and things that i've heard you all value sounds like time is something you value getting hvc as quick as possible streamlined approach a sustainable outcome these are the things i val that you said you value and a price is something that you value with guaranteed performance and outcome of the design so when i hear those are the types of things that that you value we're the best fit for you if you can if you were to look at the the graphic above or in front of your computers the arrow below is our target this would be us moving quite quickly actually so for instance in parker unified school district that just approved the final project this week we've moved pretty quickly to get to this phase in the construction world like everything covid has impacted it and so construction is booming so you'll have subcontractors that are really nitpicky on what they want to bid for if there's a lot of competition sometimes they're not going to bid it but utilizing schneider electric's presence we're the largest company that no one knows about we have 138 000 employees globally we have nationwide presence regional presence we have a lot of pull in the construction industry so if you needed contractors to bid the work we are we are the the folks for that um in park unified school district we had challenges with that we called i think about 10 contractors both locally based in phoenix and nationally to bid the work and we ended up moving forward with about five and got and we're moving forward now with with someone that we're really comfortable with um that gave us the best price and the best quality um and so that's something that's that's exciting and and we we choose to work with with districts that have you know they i know going around and we see that you guys have a lot of mechanics i mean you could just drive around here and see the the trucks at the end of the day we want to make sure that you have a quality subcontractor that's qualified to install this work that lasts over 20 years and it's in a timely fashion so you need a construction manager like schneider electric to manage the entirety of that process and and i will tell you that it's not just that they're hungry they like working with us tom attends all of your meetings virtually i didn't know that for a while but he's been so he knows what you value because he's been listening to your conversations for several months and and they have modified they have modified as i have asked them to modify so for instance this document i asked them last thursday if i could have this by monday okay and i had it monday morning they have changed the timeline to meet because we know we want to move with this so they're they're very good working with us and that's on top of any of those other things that we know from co-ops we know sometimes from co-ops from folks we've worked with them that we don't get good product and we don't get good service we don't work with them anymore regardless of the fact that they're in the co-op so i'm hopeful that especially since we want to keep the money here that that um that this is a a doable thing for us okay i do have another if anybody i don't want to all right um on the agreement the last sec well before the signature page section b um the customer agrees to then you have a list of followings then under that it says if the above condition is not met customer agrees to pay uh 38 578 for design agreement um these things are can you can you put this in layman terms what you're asking me for here absolutely so i'll i'll put in a story i think i like still i like hearing stories and i think most people like hearing stories so say we were to get approved to move forward into the design phase we conduct the design over the next four ish four to five months we hire subcontractors to walk the sites we conduct all the drawings and design engineering we mobilize our our troops and our engineers to get on site and really understand what's the top needs what's the best design when we're replacing units from 1994 there's going to be a lot of modulations to air duct systems condensate lines gas lines those types of things for an example at parker unified school district there was a lot of complexities that weren't thought through initially and so the design took a month longer than we actually expected because we had to move gas line up it didn't meet code it was getting corroded things like you don't think about in initial stages but when you actually get mechanical drawings and design implemented you see that so say we put those all together we have a final price a final savings and a final guarantee for the district of of these these improvements will generate this much in savings this much in revenue for the district we guarantee that if we don't meet that guarantee we'll write a check to the district so all of that is is included in the design phase if at the end of the day we put this report together at parker it was 293 pages it's going to cost around we believe we budget around 80 thousand dollars for the district for for bullhead city school district and we asked that that if you guys if we bring that back to you all and you vote it down or don't want to move forward with any for for any reason we ask that you cover about half of that so we're not really in the business of doing just design faces we're in the business of doing the entirety of the installation and so that's really the cost of doing business for us is getting into this and in the hopes that we can work collaboratively and and find a design and a fit for the district moving forward does that make sense it makes sense [Laughter] what are your thoughts on that i don't like it but it makes sense i just don't like saying that yes you're going to give me a bid to put in x number of units that we are planning on doing and it's like if i go to build a house and somebody designs a house and says this is what i'm doing same story and i say oh i don't like your bid because you're 30 higher than i think it should be now i'm paying you 40 000 bucks so that's what i don't like um we we have no idea what this is going to come back with we have no idea what your your percentage markups are we have no idea what we're spending and what we're hiring you to do but you want me to guarantee a 40 000 check to you i don't like that so there's there's just too many questions here for me to say okay i'll give you 40 grand um tell me what it's going to take to fix my air conditioning units because that's in essence what you're doing you're saying this is what it's going to take to fix what you've got we're going to spend a lot of time to do that which yes that's a cost of business we understand there is a cost and sometimes there's a risk in those costs but you want me to take on half of that risk when we have a project we're going to be doing so that's how i see it we're going to be doing a project i don't know if you're going to be the guy doing that project at this point but you want me to guarantee you for 40 000 that you will be that's why i don't like it mr president if i can respond absolutely so the the thirty eight thousand five hundred seventy eight dollars is nothing that you have to pay us at this point it's it's not out of the other district's pocket at this point but what it's going to be included is that design fee or contingency fee would be rolled into the final project price and so if you decide not to move forward with the final project that's the only time that you would be paying for it so what the 38 578 is we're purchasing your design report so if we for some reason decided net we're not going with you we pay the 38 578 but because we're paying you for your time and the report that's correct so we would have the 219 page report like parker depends on different yeah whatever it is yeah we would have that report that they created and completed for 38 578 that's correct and in reality it's it's going to be a lot more than that if i'm being well that's what you said yeah you're just charging or something so well he said he estimated it's 80 000.
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bella was one of our student ambassadors of that event and if you watched how bella went about that event she ensured that no student left that event without connecting with her but then also connecting with another peer at the event she forged connections between students at that event that i'm sure carried them into their first few days of school and uh will continue to carry them into their future sambar experiences uh so that's what bella does and something i've talked about with our staff and our students this year are our three weeds and i set this out from the start that i say our three wiis our tenants are we learn we grow and we inspire and i don't think i've come away from a bellator's interaction or watching bella torres as a student or in the hallways at sanberg high school uh whether that's been talking to our friends whether that's been talking to students at a re-engagement event or whether that's been in a student council meeting asking uh the principals and principals questions about uh how we can do things better at stanford so bella embodies the that tenant of we inspire i'm inspired every day by watching bellator torres is a sandberg student i can't wait for you to learn a little bit more this year about what's going on at sammer from having hearing from bella and i hope that you're as inspired as i am from having the opportunity to hear bella's work so without further ado bellators [Applause] good evening and well-met my name is isabella torres hey it's me bellati your student council president of sandburg i'm honored to be here and especially to represent a community so close to my heart august especially has been an exciting month of transition exploration and reconnection for sandburg's community and it seems the districts sandbridge transition began two weeks ago on august 4th and 6th sandberg hosted our re-engagement days for freshmen sophomore and transfer students alike groups led by staff and student leaders introduced the new students to sandberg they were given the opportunity to explore the building ask questions speak and party with other students a few a week later on august 13th the freshman first day started and thus the official beginning to our school year the guidance office has since continued to support all students through the adjustment class schedules are settling early college applications are beginning and students are always welcoming every day more transfer students begin their journeys at sandburg and our counselors and tour guides have been wonderful at guiding each of and every one of them through our school throughout this month i've personally connected with so many students that i had in the entirety of the previous school year i'm watching them learn to love sandberg live and in person one of the new students like in sandburg to a college our culture is diverse inclusive proud and spirited of course the students are not the only ones transitioning tuesday night parents have the opportunity to walk our schedules and meet our teachers families are readjusting to consistent school schedules among the staff there are so many new faces and in new places um it has always been an honor to work with dr smith and even more so now as our principal like him so many staff moved positions this past year it's exciting to see them grow alongside the students i believe every staff member continues to do their best to help and connect with the students i think it is safe to say that the transition to in-person school has been a welcome adjustment for everyone we have even had our first fire drills off as unpleasant as the alarm may be it is also very concrete reminder that we are finally back in the building and it certainly beats sitting at home waiting for teachers to return with enthusiasm i am also happy to announce that sandberg will have a homecoming following current guidelines we will of course be outside so long as weather so long as weather permits sandberg can expect a homecoming dance spirit week and assembly student council's planning is underway and the student body is buzzing likewise other extra curriculars are returning in full force over the next few weeks clubs continue to host informational meetings and their first events of the year perhaps my favorite thus far has been the summer show too much light makes the baby go blind without without surprise the incredible cast crew and director put on a comical performance or rather performances the premise was 30 shows in 60 minutes a feet they pulled off every time and always got the audience off on the athletic side of activities our teams fans marching band cheerleaders and color guard are off to an amazing start last friday on august 20th sandberg hosted the blue and gold scrimmage game the cheer was on the excitement strong tomorrow night sandbrickfest begins to celebrate our first home football game the game against prospect starts at 7 pm if anyone would like to go additionally both our golf teams have already begun winning boys golf won a quad against lincoln way west like white central and homewood flossmoor last week girls golf defeated bradley the rest of our fall sports begin competitions this week throughout it all sandberg superfans have been right there in the action they assist their freshman first day and continue to hype the entire school it goes without saying that we're all excited to be back and in person and in the wise words of dr smith we're learning we're growing and hopefully we're all inspiring it's looking like a great year to be an eagle thank you and sincerely isabella for us [Applause] well ladies thank you very much it's a pleasure meeting you i look forward to hearing from you every month this year and hopefully uh we'll get to see your smiling faces soon okay the next item on the agenda is public comments and we have one mr brian roland sir if you'd like to come up to the podium okay thank you for coming tonight um you'll have five minutes and uh afterwards uh we will be no conversation it'll just be you know your comments and whatever you'd like to say so i'd like to get a little bit of clarification here just to make sure i'm up to date on what i've got uh in terms of information from you guys uh so i've seen so the contact tracing and if if a student is positive test positive there's two different guidelines if you're vaccinated versus understanding if you're asymptomatic and you're vaccinated you don't have to miss a thing you continue through school normal day normal everything co-curricular activities if you're not vaccinated you're out for 14 days or you get spit in the cup every two to three days until the 14 days is up so i have that correct has that changed yeah so we we are um we are utilizing a binax test which is a nasal swab and that would allow a student to stay uh stay in school assuming that they test negative throughout the process and it's a 15 minute turn on the test if they is that for the unvaccinated kid or the vaccinated kid as well that is only for unvaccinated students so at that point then you're you're segregating the unvaccinated student for a virus that the vaccinated student is still walking around and spreading which then creates a circumstance that my child becomes a close contact and then is again subjected to normal monitor is that a fair statement so my child has a close contact with a vaccinated student who's tested positive because now they're in the same class because the vaccinated student doesn't have to stay home at cert at this point we just like your comments well these are these are my comments i'm just making sure we're understanding each other clearly it's funny that that makes sense okay you can continue so okay so we're not gonna there's no there's no discussion um okay so we're going to segregate the unvaccinated children for a vaccine that is not fda approved for at least at this point half of the half of the student body and overall that's kind of amazing that it's approved when it's still two years out from its long-term clinical trials so i'm not here to argue to debate vaccination statuses or what's legal or not but i just want to show the hypocrisy and the problem here of exposing non-vaccinated students to vaccinated kids that are apparently positive and walking around with the virus system so you really ought to rethink that whole process there because you're you're subjecting unvaccinated students to positive tested kits there should be a equal distribution there uh aside from that that's kind of my main thing so you guys have confirmed what i understood um i understand the mass mandates and you've had your discussions uh with parents uh on a side note i would like to urge the board uh there are a lot of parents that would like to have the option for themselves of whether they put a bacteria mat on their kids face or not for five to six hours a day i walked through andrew for two and a half hours yesterday and by the end of the day i was struggling myself with i don't wear this um you're going to subject our kids to this without any consent of the parents um we know this virus to be 99.9 safe for our kids they're not going to die from this that's not a that's not a that's not a statistic that you can really refute um [Music] outside of all of that what i want to urge this board to do is talk to other boards there are a lot of other schools around here that want to do optional masking but we've got the dictator in springfield who's swinging his hammer taking away funding from schools if enough schools stand up for it and join together there's going to be there's going to be limits as to what he can do he can't discredit half of his state illinois is largely a pro-choice state parents want the choice to do what they what they want with their kids so i'm urging the board to talk to other districts district 230 shares the share schools with payless tinley and orlando within that there's elementary schools and middle schools where they're getting the same feedback from parents that they want optional mastery talk to the boards be the leaders that you put in your mission statement join join forces with the other schools that want to allow this that's really about all i can do is urge you to talk to other boards and see what can be done in order to give parents back their choice so that's really all i have to say thank you so no discussion we will take your comments into consideration and and i i will just address quickly uh your point about joining with other schools um the one thing that you need to understand is that your issue is not with us with other school boards your issue is is with the governor uh our hands are tied and and our hands are tied because if we don't follow what the governor says regardless of what you think we may be able to do we won't be able to do it because he can do what he wants and the amount of time we would spend fighting the governor if the mass mandate if we didn't follow his mandate the children in that time frame would lose their ability to participate in extracurriculars would lose their ability to play sports and potentially we would lose funding none of us here feel that that's worth it sir we're done okay sir sir that's it your time is up thank you sir please sit down or i'll have to ask you to leave be the leader sir thank you we're doing what's best for your children whether you believe it or not okay at this point um we would now go to the curriculum spotlight john i believe that's you is that correct oh katie hello good evening it's great to see everybody thanks for having us um as you know district 230 has eight technology innovative innovation facilitators they are affectionately known as our tips and they are led by chief technology officer john connolly a portion of their day is spent dedicated to the classroom but the other part of their day is spent working with both staff and students on leveraging appropriate technology for benefits both in and out of the classroom tonight three of our tips are here to highlight the authentic experiences that technology has offered in our current and recent past and how the growth of instructional technology will continue so please welcome mrs soucallo mrs borst and mr rodinez okay well we're going to start off by introducing ourselves so we're going to skip that part thank you dr mcmillan um i'd like to point out that um dr nolting has a history of timing my speeches um because he usually has a hook and yes he's starting the timer right now um we're told we have seven minutes but we haven't started yet so okay we're ready to go right now um so first thing you want to do is just kind of talk a little bit about um how proud we are of our teachers and how they really kind of stepped up um during this pandemic and all the wonderful things that we've seen i'm going to start with um a world language teacher her name is gabby whitie um she's spent the last two years really working her butt off to just make such authentic learning in her classroom learning flipgrid learning paradigm learning all these great things for a classroom and i think our kids have really benefited from this but i'm just so proud of what she's done and we feel like there needs to be a personal touch to what we've done this past year and a half hello um i'd like to talk about one of our world language teachers as well um suzanne reedy um she's a phenomenal spanish teacher and she has taken the technology and she's made it her own and the things that she's done with it are amazing she shows us things that she finds in the programs and she's really wanting to share and she gets legitimately excited about the authentic learning experiences that she's able to provide for her students i'm going to talk about a friend of mine lisa evans and um she is she is what we would call a traditional teacher and she she knows that right and she she embraces that um she's a math teacher so she's very linear isn't it yeah okay i need two of those things right okay no that's it that's all i get okay but anyway um pre pandemic she she really enjoyed as our most of our math teachers do they like writing on the board they like showing examples on the board um you know the and and so but she really had to transform her teaching and she embraced it wholeheartedly she was super excited we're talking today she's telling me how you know she was making her own videos using screencastify she was uploading them into ed puzzle pre-pandemic she didn't even know what those words meant you know so she's doing all this and she's super excited that this year for as hard as she worked last year these are awesome resources that she created that her kids are going to benefit from this year so really focusing on like the great things that came out of this pandemic that we've lived through or are still in i guess um but anyway um so pre pandemic just a couple of things that you know we kind of struggle with all educators kind of struggle with and who doesn't love a good sponge about me so on the left right engagement engagement has always been a struggle in the classroom right you have 30 students in front of you how are you actively engaging all of them all of the time right so that was one thing that we kind of struggle with on the right one our favorite things absenteeism right because the kid comes in the next day and they're always like did i miss anything i said no we canceled class and waited for you to come back for today um but that student would be at home and they would really be missing out on what was happening in the classroom and it was a struggle um it was a struggle so the pandemic kind of helped us up some of those problems though pre-pre-endemic we had tons of teachers that would come but not not the size of what we see in the last year and a half and we would have small meetings um and we'd have small groups and it would be kind of the same groups that would come month after month um but the amount and the number of people and people we haven't seen before during pandemic and after pandemic has been amazing and the way that they're reaching out and trying to learn more has just been amazing after the pandemic so we're just going to pretend that that's where we're living right now um but during the pandemic and i know that we talk about learning loss and things like that but the level of engagement that our teachers here at district 230 were able to get the increasing engagement was absolutely amazing um and and we're not gonna go through all of these but um as a teacher i like to say thank the board for their support because these applications were what were able to make help our district 230 teachers be so successful so you know them incorporating learning management systems like canvas and google classroom purchasing paradox for us to use to make sure that we have 100 engagement with our students screencastify so teachers could be making their own videos at home posting them an ed puzzle with questions so that they know their students are actually going through um step by step and answering questions that go with it actively learn which is increasing our reading comprehension so all of these applications is what enabled our teachers to have so much success we have some fun data to share with you because it can be fun data can be fun yeah the the data is good so um one of the one of the cool things is that um from 2015 to uh the fall of 2020 just like the number of assignments were published in canvas we went from five thousand seven hundred and fifty five to forty six thousand and that's not like that's like a flash in the pantheon that's a demonstration of this becoming part of our culture and the teachers grabbing on to it and the best thing about this year so far is we can see if the teachers recognize the value of it they're running with it and it has become part of the regular classroom routine which increases transparency and again additional opportunities for authentic learning for the students um also between 2015 and 2020 you saw the number of courses more than double from 331 published courses to 700 and again we're seeing that continue that that momentum is continuing now because people are grabbing the best things that we took during that difficult time and we're still using them and leveraging them leveraging them to increase uh student learning class discussions they increased five times the 5506 separate classroom discussions which gives even the quiet students the opportunity where they have to participate so you can hear every single voice and then again continuing at this trend of flexibility and uh rapid growth in google classroom we experience a 28.7 increase in teacher usage and again very similar the same thing it's become foundational it's not it's one of these things that's just what we do and once that continues it just makes the learning more authentic and more constant for students um the other thing that really changing christine kennedy touched on this a little bit is um you know last year what our professional development looked like so before last year it was very tip driven right it was very much kind of a lecture style and really not quite not really like how most of us actually teach what was so cool last year is we had other teachers stepping up taking leadership roles and running these professional developments they were becoming so comfortable with the technology and i don't think i would have said this before pandemic that they were comfortable enough that they would step up during our profession professional development and they would lead it and that was something really really cool to see now i put after because we put that in quotes the pandemic after dependent on it but where we're seeing these trends what we're hoping that is going to kind of continue here um and this is kind of goes along with our spongebob meme at the beginning these are agendas that teachers have created pre-pandemic writing everything on the board during the pandemic putting together these awesome resources for kids so they are not skipping a beat when kids are absent they're not missing out what was written on the board they have hyperlinks they have videos they have ed puzzles um everything is really accessible to them 24 7 on their phones where they get most of their information i mean teachers found such value in this in the work that they put in last year that the teachers that last year was their first year doing it they're continuing to do it this year because they see how good it is for our kids if you were to ask my students they would think i'm sponsored by paradigm because i talk about paradigm all the time so this we do get some i get some free slags so i do like the swag but one of the things about pear deck if you don't know what peridek is when you when we were in school you'd ask a question you'd be like please don't ask me please don't ask me because one person got asked where paradox it's every kid has to respond on their computers so you're getting a response from every student in class every single time so they have to stay engaged because then if they're not answering i could be like well why didn't you answer bob why didn't you answer the question um so you can you can then work with them and then it drives such discussion but you can see how far we've come in 2021 um 2020 2021 that the amount of engagement that has happened and the number of times that we're asking students to respond to us that has been immense and the number of teachers using it are like oh my gosh we would have told them before but part of pandemic had made them use this and it's been amazing in our classrooms pre-pandemic as far as growth and understanding tools and just overall use i think we're all seeing the same thing in our buildings is that you know we had multiple users working within these systems and sharing them and trading information um but then during when things started to happen even our most reluctant users were pulled forward there was no choice we had to adapt and the best thing about that because you know through every trial you do take some good things from that trial is that now as we're moving beyond these systems have again become completely normalized and just a standard part of our school culture uh everybody now pretty much has some presence in classroom or canvas and they're using these things and that provides again additional continuity for the students additional opportunities for learning and definitely we're able to make sure that all the students are participating at this point that's great um some of the things that the authentic learning that our students have been able to use in the last two years have been amazing um from the call that i had with john and the people who did our solar panels and my students were able to see you know and talk to them and ask them questions was unbelievable um to pulling and my kids don't want to hear twitter ever again because i i go on twitter to find physics videos and that's one of my favorite videos of a helicopter going up and the blades aren't it looks like the blades aren't turning because the frame rate is the same as the helicopter blades so the helicopter blades look like they're not turning and then it spurs discussion so that's all stuff you can bring into the classroom that's real the life i have parents out that have contacted me and they're like i'm a crane operator i can bring in video like it's all those things that have just spurred us and i don't think that we would have been there if it weren't for not that i'm saying i wanted it but it has pushed us forward to make so much more learning opportunities for our students and the students have stepped up and the teachers have stepped up so we're proud so i think we're at six minutes and 30 seconds we're right there okay we're right on track okay so perfect so we're just going to kind of wrap it up we just wanted to you know um on behalf of us and the staff that we're here representing think the board for their support um all of those applications that were purchased to help us do our job especially during a pandemic were essential and the staffer could not have been as successful as they were without that support so we appreciate that and we also want to say thank you for the time because as you know um time the time that was given to us in the morning to be able to create these lessons teachers could not have transformed their curriculum like they did without being a lot of that time in the morning so thank you on behalf of i'm just going to speak for everybody what the heck on behalf of everyone we want to say thank you for that support and for the time that you gave us in the morning to make these things successful so thank you no no no but if i could say it was a great job three things just uh about the tips and the presentation one i took the spongebob meme personally just for the rest um you know i i think the the three people that you are talking to today i've had actually personal experience working with all three of the incredible uh educators they're they're they're teachers before their tech folks and that's a very important thing and i think that's an important quality is uh people are are connected to how they teach and how they how they bring energy to the classroom and all the technology is kind of part of that and the third thing is that and i don't want to speak to you but i know it's a goal you know when when tif started i think you guys were speaking to the to the crowd if you will you were finding the teachers that were attracted to technology that were working with you predominantly and over time and then i think the pandemic accelerated that but over time you really started teaching people or working with people who wanted to learn and develop and grow and i know the next challenge for you as we do move beyond this pandemic is to keep those people engaged and keep them moving forward because the power of what they were able to discover is is there so my compliments to the three and your counterparts who aren't here today because i know you're representing them too does any does anybody have any questions that's great stuff like that oh for tony so fast for tony only i guess no they're back that's true okay no question once again thank you very much thanks for everything you guys do we appreciate it all right then the next item on the agenda is the tentative budget always an exciting topic so do you want to stay there do you want whatever you prefer john it's up to you uh it's more of a summary page if you look at uh stage two of the budget back this is gonna be this entire [Music] currently it does reflect [Music] almost a 3.6 million dollar deficit which impact is going to be able to you know negate and have a balanced budget between adjustments to revenues and expenditures there were some numbers um that were still coming in as we mentioned there's uh we're starting to see how much energy the solar panels created energy bills [Music] um [Music] numbers [Music] this year last year this in the last couple of years [Music] i just wanted to add something i didn't put into my report was that we will be reporting our student activity and athletic accounts as well going forward um that is something that the state has mandated so when you see that on this on the reports um that is uh new legislation that we're complying to and that's why it looks a little different good jobs okay thank you john uh we look forward to seeing that deficit uh disappear okay next is the uh the vehicle surplus and john i think that's you sure we normally do this once a year um [Music] okay can i have a motion please go to school board declare the list of vehicles presented as surplus and authorized administration to sell the vehicles okay motion made by member o'sullivan seconded by member hardik for the surplus vehicles any comments or questions for john john i hope it's the blue van on the side of stag that sits there year after year i've never actually seen it move i've asked eric olson about it several times maybe you should please have it out of here you could put in a bid [Laughter] all right any other questions okay let's vote lisa o'sullivan yes member murphy peterson yes remember o'connor yes yes remember dalton yes remember gracias yes member serratore yes the motion passes uh are you going to do the pooling gym or is dave okay dave good evening everybody um to answer your question no that was not one of the vehicles it's not we've got something worse we had a different parking spot just for just a different view oh wait everybody background is on on thursday july 15th at 1 pm we receive bids for the 2022 hvac pool and gym upgrades this work includes the installation of new pool dehumidification units new heating and cooling units for the gyms that do not currently have any and duct work where needed we had 14 contractors pick up bid documents we received seven bids bids from this work range from four million fifty thousand to four million five hundred forty nine thousand five hundred dollars the work will mostly likely be done during the summer but we will try to get some of the gems done during the year if possible the lowest bid for this work was see acetely heating and piping bid four million fifty thousand dollars we estimated the work would cost 3.5 million to talk with contractors and architects about whether or not they breathed pricing would go down we did it out later all estimations were that it would not with the demand load like some said and with the estimation of how increase of materials architects have reviewed the bids and contact the references and are recommending their bid for approval our engineering team has worked with the team this team in the past and they're happy with their work i recommend the school board award the 2022 hvac upgrade project to see acetale heating and piping for four million fifty thousand i've attached the bid results for your review i i have a question oh wait let's do the motion first i'm with the school board we're the 2022 hvac mechanical upgrade project to see acetely heating and piping contractors of bill park illinois in the amount of four million fifty thousand dollars a second motion made by member o'sullivan second event member hardik to accept the bid for the hvac pool and gym work okay now questions like uh quick question so here at the stag building we have a gym called the rug room correct the rug's gone now but it still doesn't have good ventilation it doesn't have air conditioning it doesn't even have a fan so does any of this yes will that help this is part of this zone correct this is part of those gyms i'll have air conditioning now in that section of the school as well as the pool here as well thank you any other questions for dave all right let's vote for o'sullivan yes member murphy peterson yes yes member of harvard yes remember dalton yes member gracias yes members yes the motion passes okay the next item is the demographic study john i think that's you yeah um [Music] would like [Music] the so there's several components that go into this they have a template phrases um okay can we get a motion please i move that the school board authorized the district administration to order the generation tables from rsp at a cost of ten thousand dollars with five thousand dollars being paid by district 230 with the understanding that the remainder is to be paid by district 135 second a motion made by member dalton seconded by a member of gracias to authorize uh the demographic study any comments or questions quick quick question john approximately how much do we generate on an annual basis from these builders site of the fees is considering i'm i would guess i would guess okay so over here over here and what we're doing here is we're paying to change the charts is there any idea that they in doing this they may look to change the ordinance audience like they actually change what they're doing here is are we leading to them actually trying to change their contribution levels uh yeah the summer market that they change it's totally fairly complex but basically by having an increased career market value of land and accurate generation okay those two two things we're going to get what we're supposed to get and it'll be dependent yeah and does 135 agree to pay their 5 000 of this um yeah i'm not sure um thanks okay any other questions okay let's vote yes member murphy peterson yes remember o'connor yes yes remember dalton yes member gracias yes members yes the motion passes okay dave do we have any other updates on our construction projects yes i do have updates i don't do you smell that too yeah yeah that's part of our construction going on here um currently all of our back order materials aside from a few odds and ends are in so we're going to be working second shift starting next week to finish up door projects at stag and andrew the baseball field is really close they've got the last couple loads of the red rock coming in they're finishing upgrading around the outside and when that's all finished then they can come in and do the final approval and give us the permits and be done with that field and looking really forward to that um i would say the roofing at all three schools aside from the metal flashing work all the tear off is done now at stag so they have uh top coating to do and then there's a final uh liquid aluminizer you call it that goes over the top to keep all the the roof from spreading around um little granules that go on top of it uh as far as the alterations go yeah aside from the doors there's a door here at stag a few door parts need to be done that'll be done next week on nights the tennis courts with finally got all the parts and pieces in for that all the liquid they need to finish then we get stuck with all the rain so hoping to have stag complete next week and sandberg shortly after that probably the week after let's see anything else here the solar power yes they did have that part come in they put it in yesterday and now currently all three schools have their solar power running um hoping to get the uh portal up shortly so we can see and we'll get some sort of presentation so we can see how actually how it's generating it's can't wait to get that finalized so that's another project i'm pretty excited about um i'm waiting on simplex to finish scheduling to finish the elevator at andrew and once we get all that scheduled that should be no problem it just needs to be tested with the inspector there so once that's done all those projects will be complete the window project is complete now that the hvac upgrades have been approved i'm going to push off to find out how quickly we can get these units and see how what the timeline is going to be for installation it may prove to be all next summer or if we can get some in earlier we will try and i think that's it does anybody have any questions on any projects we have going at the schools everybody good okay dave thank you very much thank you good job all right then it gets us back to dr nolte so uh policies yes so as you can see on page 84 there are several policies that are uh presented to you for first reading all of those policies were based on press review and language legal updates so since this is a first reading all we are going to need is a voice vote so all in favor i move the school board approve the first reading and public display the board policy six two 6145-6160-6235-6255 zero two one zero two one three zero two two four zero two two six zero two three zero five one zero five two zero and eight nine zero thank you sir very clerky we need a second second motion made by member o'sullivan seconded by member dalton now all we need is a voice vote so all in favor opposed okay motion passes all right sir all right goals yes sir so in uh at your station extra areas you should have a a very colorful breakdown of our goals for this year as as i think you'll hopefully note that most of what we've been presenting at committees in previous board meetings regarding our reopening plan as a significant portion of our goals so i'll just quickly highlight those as as you know those three areas we've we've talked about quite a bit but within obviously maintaining our school programming at 100 is one of our reopening goals we're monitoring that obviously by looking at our uh at our calendar and our ability to deliver a traditional uh academic program throughout the year uh after school in athletic programs as well uh you heard from our tips that's one of our areas that we'll be continuing to monitor is how we're supporting our staff particularly with instructional support and technology support as we continue to integrate some of the positive lessons learned from last year's format we'll also be monitoring academically how students are doing academically within their grades and grade distribution um and within our graduation rate and freshman on track data the the theme of those two data points is essentially we want to get back to what we were where we were at prior to the pandemic if not better so those goals were established based on those um based on those standards from 2008-2020 uh the second goal within the reopening plan is obviously looking at students uh physical and emotional health as well as our staff um so we're gonna be monitoring attendance and and the mitigations that we talked about at the beginning of this meeting are helping us maintain um student and staff attendance at a rate of 90 or higher again that was what we were at with uh in that 2019 that pre-pandemic year uh we are also looking at this goal to to engage students in our co-curricular program as you heard from our three student speakers we're off to a great start we want to continue that to maintain opportunities for kids to participate in things connections social health and wellness are big parts of the co-curricular program we're also looking to to monitor our student and staff emotional health and then make adjustments throughout the year as well as uh providing them done being our staff with professional development to help them manage trauma-informed instructional practices in the classroom and supporting students who who may have need and then our final goal really falls into involvement at the state and local level to re-engage our local um officials and all the way down to springfield ideally on on reengaging local control um so that includes working within our state associations our local superintendent group um and obviously within the construct of the board and some of the interactions you have to the statement made earlier in public comment obviously we have been and we will continue to be highly engaged with our communities with our state level organizations and with the individuals we work with in springfield and and continue to exercise our voices uh i'll pause for a moment at the first goal but those are our three main points and obviously a big portion of this year is reopening so that's why it's significant part of this plan all right a second part that you'll very well recognize because you've been actively engaged in this is is this is the year that we were building our strategic framework uh clearly uh our our work that we've done thus far is to build a mission and vision and strategic pillars which you have all been uh participating in and shared our progress our first and second and third goals are really almost a timeline um in terms of how we're going to engage a collaborative process of students and staff uh board members and and community members and building um what would be essentially uh our action plan moving into uh the second half of this year and then our 2020 to 23 school year and it's a work in progress to to to establish benchmarks for uh identifying goals and metrics uh developing capacity and and organizing resources um with with the idea that when we get into the later part of the school year where we're able to kind of design and implement uh moving forward so a lot of these goals are what we're going to read more as benchmarks uh and in fact on september i plan to share with you kind of a an outline or a timeline if you will um to kind of correlate to the to the at least the first portion here of how we're gonna frame this out and then our last goal is really about um community engagement and rebuilding one of the areas in which uh i think identified through our uh through my listening tour if you will prior to um starting on july 1st um this was one area that came through and i think there's two parts to this that that really resonated first uh anytime you experience something like a like a pandemic and a disruption that we saw you're going to have a cultural rebuild that you have to engage in so that's just a part of the dynamic of having the experiences that we had so the second piece is our community uh is looking for us to look at our communication protocols our how we communicate what we're communicating um and how we're engaging folks in the process so the first goal is really about um the communication platform and taking a look at that if um if you're not following me on twitter you should start following me because one of the the first pieces of that actually came out two days ago when we are featuring impactful students and humberto from sag was our first student and he did an excellent job and we're pushing those out on a weekly basis from a district level in a manner that we think people could digest it social media platforms um you know websites uh you know one to two minute snippets uh that's kind of what we're hearing from our community and then the other three goals are really connected to our five essentials uh we did it um over the summer uh we did break down the five essentials data there's three areas that we think we could improve on that i think fall under the the guise of rebuilding culture and communication so we're looking for gains within the areas of effective leadership collaborative teachers and effective instruction the other two areas on the five essentials were rated as the highest possible rating in this from the state of illinois these three weren't bad but they fell a little bit short of the highest grading so those are areas we'd like to focus upon so this is the plan as presented tonight and certainly welcoming your feedback or suggestions or any modifications you'd like to see okay well this time let's we have a motion and then we can get a discussion i move that the school board approved the district 230s fy 2020 school improvement plan as presented second okay motion made by member gracias seconded by member murphy peterson to approve the goals for fiscal year or school year 2021 2022 okay any comments or questions yeah bobby did a really nice job i mean you took that framework and you filtered it down and filtered it down and i really like the mission statement a lot i'll read it real quickly d230 is an interconnected learning community that inspires innovation at the feet and leadership and here you describe what should go into mission state but i think you really filtered it down and got the essentials without being too too long-winded so uh it's a great start and we've got more work to do obviously on this but the second thing that you'd mentioned about kind of recreating a culture we heard it both times uh twice from our student speakers uh i think recharge and it was mistake and then bring back the thunder or something like that it was andrew so it's kind of neat how you mentioned that and they've mentioned that so obviously something needs to be done but good news is we can start the clean slate and go from there yeah right now these are good thanks thank you anybody else i think these uh i agree with pat i mean this is you know when when we started with with just a blank sheet of paper in uh june and now here we are and uh it's it's amazing how we got to this point but i think it was a great process and uh i think we have a great result so um good good good work by all so thank you sir thank okay let's vote sullivan yes remember murphy peterson yes member o'connor yes yes yes member gracias yes member tori yes so we have our goals for this year all right sir anything else that you have no sir all right then at this point i would like to entertain a motion to enter executive session to consider information regarding the appointment employment compensation discipline performance or dismissal of a specific employee or legal counsel for the public body to discuss student disciplinary cases to discuss matters relating to placement of individual students in special education programs and to consider other matters relating to individual students to discuss collective negotiating matters or deliberations concerning salary schedules for one or more classes of employees and to discuss pending or probable litigation against affecting or on behalf of the public's body motion made by member hardik seconded by member gracias to enter into executive session let's go remember sullivan yes murphy peterson yes remember o'connor yes yes remember dalton yes member brassius yes yes we will be entering an executive session at 8 37 p.m shall return thank you to okay all right we are back at 10 20 p.m and uh at this time i'd like a motion on personnel action i moved that the school board approved personnel action including staff co-curriculars licensed staff employments and leaves of absences professional support employment leave of absence and resignations support staff employments leaves of absences and resignations a second motion made by member murphy peterson seconded by member hardik to accept personnel action let's vote member of sullivan yes member murphy peterson yes member o'connor yes member heartick yes member dalton yes member gracias yes member serratore yes motion passes okay uh so all we have left is board comments so uh mike i have none none okay pat i already mentioned about the uh mission statement that was great and then um just the observation uh tuesday night at san bernardin's open house was attendance was extremely low it was probably twenty percent thirty percent normally was i don't know what's called it i don't know if it's i think it's a i think it's a fluke i think it's important but i've been going for eight years and it's always part of it might be that they weren't giving cookies lemonade out lunch and gym there's no you know pfsa or you know boosters selling anything um i thought it was really interesting it was uh i think most of my classes i went to four parents and each one um i'm not concerned about just kind of a comment so and then um getting back to the class of 2022 i asked katie um for wednesday's meeting talk a little more about the um class of 2022 and their college preparedness and post-graduate preparedness because a vast majority of these kids you know i talked to my kid where do you want to go what do you want to do i don't know i don't know i thought it was my kid and then i started asking other kids and realize it's not my kid i'm talking to kids in lincoln east i'm talking kids why every time i hear a kid in 2022 i ask that question and a vast majority have no idea where they want to go to college i have no idea what they want to do when they grow up and i blame it on not being in the building and clever it's not our fault but it's something we have to work on right especially in that intervention advisory um period two c yeah that's right because um i think your junior year you weren't in school collaborating like hey i'm looking at this point walmart university in san diego oh i've never heard of that what's that like oh my gosh that sounds great or i want to go in the underwater basket with you oh i didn't know it was a thing you know they're not they weren't collaborating and getting ideas from each other so a lot of them are really lost so i don't know what our curriculum is for the seniors for advisory but we really got to press home that college you know readiness you know you used to at your lunch period go in the gym and see all the different schools there that was gone right now we did a career day online i thought it was great but it's just not the same and again i'm not blaming anybody because we did the best we could what we had but i think that really has to be a pretty big focus um and we're going to talk about education next week um man like one more thing i'll save it for education next week as well so that's that's it hey thanks kate um so glad everybody's back um you know again we're we're doing the best we can given the rules we have to comply with and but it certainly sounds to me like staff students teachers everybody is super excited and i think that's the most important thing dave i don't want to elongate an already lengthy meeting but i do think it's probably worth mentioning that since our last meeting a lot has changed [Music] if you recall we had a number of parents and and public speakers who stepped up and suggested that our best course of action was to ignore our legal counsel's advice ignore the insurance representative's advice [Music] show courage and do the opposite of what everybody is telling us to do and we got a little taste of that tonight as well i think it's worth mentioning that in your introductory remarks tony you had kind of laid out a lot of our concerns and those concerns included the fact that if we did not follow council and we did not follow the insurance recommendation we would lose our protections we would lose potential toward immunity that we currently have we would subject ourselves to personal liability our students wouldn't be able to participate in extracurricular activities they wouldn't be able to participate in ihsa sports they we could potentially lose funding that includes 16 million dollars in esser funds and guess what every single one of those things that we were concerned about even though we didn't know it at the time came true within a week so for any parents who might have uh might be insomniacs and actually still up watching this um let me just suggest to you that we really are doing the best that we possibly can and we are truly looking out and acting as fiduciaries for your taxpayer dollars we're doing our best to protect that money and we're doing our best to try to keep over 3 000 kids safe in our buildings including teachers and administrators so we're doing our best to try to figure this out there is no road map but we are not going to act recklessly collectively i think i can speak on behalf of everyone we're not going to act recklessly we're not going to uh start making decisions that are completely contrary to what's in the best interests of our families so i think it's just worth mentioning uh in light of the fact of how much things have changed since the last meeting i agree with kate and pat from all sounds of it the the teachers the students everybody is rolling they are they enjoy being back it's some step towards um what they once remembered and i can only hope that that continues thank you thank dave sue i'm just gonna say that i agree with what kate had to say and what dave had to say and just uh thank dr nolting for the work that he's putting in outside of dealing with the reopening act or reopening it the reopening plan with our vision mission and pillars that's a lot of work i think that's going in the great great direction um and i thank you for all the hard work you put in from before day one melissa um patrick said a lot of the same that i was going to say but i did get to go to my very final back-to-school night and it although it was a very low turnout it was thunderstorming and crazy out there so that may have impacted it um i will say that the energy in this building even with a third of the people was invigorating i had it i i had the best most fun evening on a tuesday night right here at stag high school that i've had in a long time it was the first time i was in this building in a year and a half the staff was excited the administrators were excited the kids that were helping direct us i literally had students personally escort me because there wasn't that many parents sometimes i was one or two of us in class listening to the teacher but they were grateful that even two of us were in there now i do have a senior so it could have been because i was senior parent and most senior parents don't go to back to school night and it was my last one i wanted to be here but i will say that everyone is thrilled even wearing masks to be back in the building and having as normal of an experience as i can for the start of school so i commend everybody recommend the staff the teachers what bus drivers we have everybody like it you know it's been challenging every way we turn and like dave said we really have been stewards for the community and for our students and i really am proud of us because it's hard when 30 people come and try to get us to do the contrary and we stuck to our guns and we were correct and hopefully we will continue to be correct and i just know that our group will work it's it's hardest to make the right in in just decisions so thank you all for all your hard work every one of you uh it was great to see the uh the three student leaders here tonight uh you know that's a true sign that the year has begun and it was so nice to hear them talk about activities that are going on in school and that they're in school and you could you could tell from their voices their reaction their attitudes that there was excitement uh there's excitement in the schools and uh you know as as i think you said on institute day you said you never thought you'd hear a 15 year old say god i can't wait to go to school and yet you know here we are and uh they're all happy to be in school and so that makes me feel good um that they're happy and uh you know and just you know one final note on on this whole mask issue or whatever you know that the students tonight talked about some of the sports that the kids have already played some of the games they played already and the fact that they're going to be playing their first football games this weekend if we were fighting the governor right now if we weren't requiring the mass those kids would not have played those games and there'd be no football this weekend and i don't want to be the person that would have to go to those athletes and say sorry guys you're not getting a play this week um so i'm happy where we are and i think you know everybody uh has done a great job so so thank you all sir you have the final word no i thank you for those comments and and uh i i do think that as uh as was stated earlier you know our many times the the best way to lead is is to not uh is to not pound your chest and show people how tough you are but show people how smart you are and be diligent and good stewards of the community and and as you said um you know i plan to go to samberg tomorrow night much it's probably going to be about 90 90 student athletes compete a marching band perform a bunch of dancers and cheerleaders be there and probably um maybe a couple thousand fans in the in the stands and and that's not something we envisioned a year ago um and and to do that is it takes discipline to do that takes takes forward thinking to do that takes collaborating with other board members and other superintendents and those are things we're doing and you should be proud of yourselves as a board for um for for i hate to to use a term like this but keeping your powder dry and making the right decisions for the kids that you're um in in charge of their their their education and their their um their experience and um we'll continue to to move forward and i'm hopeful that next month we're meeting in a building we're meeting with students presenting to us maybe um getting some highlights on how homecoming went so thank you all for your support and and we'll keep moving forward all right and so at this time i would like a motion to adjourn from a second well she made my member heartache second amendment gracias to adjourn it didn't take long please so let's vote remember remember murphy peterson yes member o'connor yes member heartache yes remember dalton yes remember gracias yes member sir tori yes we are adjourned at
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if there's any schools nearby or communities i think it would be good to try to place those monitors in those locations and try to get some citizens some residents involved in moderating air quality and reporting his epa zone because i've looked into this and the epa you know their monitors are maybe 50 miles apart and not in very uh not in the places where you might expect them to be or we might want them to be so i think this is something we should all be mindful of but i'm not sure exactly what the city can do about it well i'm concerned that if we increase our reliance on electricity and dte burns more coal in the detroit and down river area it's going to negatively impact some people and i would hate to see that done because there's there's already a serious air quality issue as well as as toxins in the ground in many of those low-income neighborhoods yeah it's a problem all right but um i think dte i'm not sure how much more coal they're burning because they're already transitioning to natural gas um and um yeah okay i just want to be mindful of it sure yeah but i think for in terms of what ann arbor can do i think that's what we could do is try to try to increase the air monitoring locally here and provide some resources and education along the i-94 corridor and uh actually i was i wanted to reach this program through the hvg group into mexican township and excellent because their equality is much worse than ours for various reasons i'm john mursky and then rita mitchell to follow up on that um the 820 has a pilot neighborhood program in bryant and i'm pretty sure bryant is right there on 994.
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first and second graders eat first kindergarteners go out to play 20 minutes we switch 10 dollars each playing the flying [Music] to teachers i don't create a schedule for you i create a schedule for children that makes sense for children and um and they know and understand why we do something like that so we're very excited about the hard work that's put into that so our master schedule as as your educational leader the master schedule reflects what i believe in education to be important and this schedule for children reflect the needs and what children mortality to be successful i shared with anybody parents today today's kindergartner is the class of 2030 in eighth grade and i don't know about you but i don't know when they're in 8th grade what this world is going to be like and what they're going to need but we have to be as progressive as possible preparing our children for 2030 those like kindergarteners because today even for an 8th grader five years from now over 70 percent of the jobs that exist today and seventy percent of their jobs that we never even heard of before that's how quick our global world is changing but as educators we need to challenge and prepare our children for 21st century skills and that's exactly what we're doing and that schedule reflects that one question um faculty will be in person correct yes so thank you so back to school night uh we're going to for the health and safety of everyone we're going to have three back-to-school nights so from southpaw to the multiple kids [Music] a three four five night and a six seven eight nine is what we decide that we're going [Music] so the 23rd that's a thursday i will get that out to you k12 the following tuesday is probably the 28th okay tuesday is 3 4 5 and then that thursday is 6 7 thank you dave you probably do but that's how it looks back to school night tuesday 3 4 5 thursday 6 7 our calendar our master calendar that you get is almost complete because we try to put all the things that are happening through the pto booster club or plays we try to uh wreck on the rec program and stuff we'd like to put in as much information about calendar so that helps you so that's going out to press very um soon item mr becker for human programs i'd like to put forth a motion this evening to move action items a1 through a from [Music] syllabus for item a3 the second one a webinar entitled demystifying critical race theory and how to cultivate it um i know that was not available but i wanted to ask about that in a particular course great question that's a great question you know because we hear a lot about crt i know people even in this community saying mrs carlson's going to grant federal dollars and teach crt here in school you know i know all that's out there um so we were encouraged as superintendents here in london county to go to this webinar because people are going to ask you about crt because there's a lot of misinformation out there a lot and so um i'd like to send you some of the highlights of this webinar unfortunately for me at the time i could not attend but i haven't gone it's you know my two hours but i've spent some time looking at it and the misinformation that's out there it's mostly leveled at the universities not even high schools and definitely not elementary schools but in general they're in general cpt is committed to social justice and eliminating racism [Music] we need to uh raise and racism must be about analyze across different disciplines psychology sociology science and social studies so but this is starting at crt is starting now at the college level and over time we'll work his way down so we needed to have some answers about the crt because i have never heard of it it came back through the media and i was like teaching you know white people [Music] a lot of it is demystifying it so people you know you know relax the people who are a little you know taking back that we're going to start teaching the crt is [Music] know about it ourselves this professional development gives her an opportunity to answer if anybody has questions but the long term of it is it doesn't have a place in elementary education [Music] you know there was one part of the webinar that said harry tubman was born when thomas jefferson was president when she died ronald reagan was alone and people say that that was 400 years ago so there's misinformation that's out there that we need to clarify at the accomplished level so when they're working with people they're going to be teachers here are some of the misinformation that you may have received someone's really [Music] mom of counting ground tables that's what came up that you know we're going to be asking these questions and we have to speak intelligently and so we can if we don't understand what this is all about so i'll learn [Music] moving she simply was taking the opportunity to be able to inform herself not through a google search but really take professional development to say this is what it is and this is why as your leader that's my job to keep educating myself so that i can do a better job educating teachers so teachers do a better job can you call the role yes no okay uh finance okay um any questions motion but i would say yes or edit that it was provided from a previous rfp okay why don't we just strike the line right strike them up [Music] all right yes nothing under buildings and ground receiving nothing our policy uh dave personnel i'd like to put forward a motion to approve items great join the second i'm the second there want um [Music] all right so um the motion will be through for e1 through e14 okay and kurt you still second yeah for sure we're just removing head slater building used from e1 yes okay visitors business visitors are permitted to comment on agenda and non-agenda vital items at this time um first off i just want to thank the board for putting the letter out for talking about to push this issue along because this isn't going to be the last one and i think we need to keep pushing back and bring as much back here as we possibly can so thank you for the lord for doing that appreciate it rich to that specific point uh it was offered by karen's contributions by sean and uh cam specifically led off with that that hey we've done this we've done it to the best of our ability in which we were evolved we were you know congratulated graduated allow us to continue i believe that's the second part so yeah thank you for watching i appreciate that um secondly uh just we could get some clarification on the quarantine policy for the year i was the current understanding my child is exposed to a childhood test positive how my child has to go get a test wait for the test and stay isolated for how long even if he has no symptoms and gets a negative result i can speak to that that's within the uh road forward plan there's an exemption at the school level for those of you that don't know i'm an administrator in another district i'm also on this board so i know to go forward playing pretty well at this point there's an exemption that in a school as long as all the children are wearing masks if a child becomes positive and he or she is the only child that's born to be dead at that time all the other children as long as they're aware of the mask are not quarantined at all and that'll be the policy going forward that's a cdc exemption also authored by the njdoh as well so that's a school k-12 exemption at this time and we're following that yes unless it changes thank you thank you any other visitors business at this time here questions for you um last year with a child got sick or had or not segment like symptoms [Music] go to the doctor no matter what i could take okay so my understanding of the language is specific to that regard is that the former wrote forward or diploma plan call for the student must go get a copy test a new language the student who should go get a corporate test so each district will then have to just have to use their discretion in determining that but should is different than must and should we say the doctor says that's what we're saying uh jessica brielle um to add to that so my daughter has really bad seasonal allergies so this week she say she's sneezing stuffy nose coughing and she gets sent home and the doctor gives her a note and next week the same thing is she going to get sent home again every week for the same thing it's really hard to talk and what ifs we have to deal with that with our school nurse as well as with your doctor moving forward and if that means that your doctor has to tell our school nurse that your daughter has allergies and this is the symptom that's between you your doctor and our school nurse can i get that preempt like now saying that she has that [Music] is an awesome [Music] position [Music] it seems like we're definitely leaning towards the more impressive approach this year hopefully hopefully it stays that way more i would um on the front of the side the quarantine i think we've got to do everything you can do these kids here and just like this happens you're doing it's a great job appreciate that we can keep that government really speaking um [Music] are they wearing this full day did they take it off at their desk we are not using the plastic dividers students are now about six feet apart and three feet apart at all times when they're inside the building moving around the building they must wear their mask if they're having their snack they're not wearing a mess if they've had physical activity and i'll explain physical activity in the classroom we do brain breaks in a classroom and a brain break they get up and they have the dance get the wiggles out they will remove their mess as they're actively engaged if they're doing something active but if they're sitting at their seat they must wear their mask if they have to go to the bathroom and have their mask on to go out to the hallways when they get to gym of course they must unlock because they're engaged in physical activities and next breaks will happen if the child needs a break teachers know how to do that we'll be discussing them in teachers so they will just like we did last year [Music] as many as breaks as they need please encourage your children to ask for it if they need it you know teach them that at home you know we all have to be in this together and communicate together with their teachers um [Music] is [Music] if your child's doctor writes a note and our school physician says because they'll be in consult and our school doctor says yes i [Music] uh [Music] you know i know you know we have mostly very very good parents but we do it up here and so that's why i have to protect your child culture thank you [Music] and i know this class is much smaller than the typical class and their guests are six feet apart or further 10 feet apart whatever the magic number is is it possible that they don't have to play from when sitting and maybe just put them on transit only because they're just having a um [Music] around that classroom [Music] um [Music] even at the high school um health class health class fairly new to me i hear talk of what is being taught at the surrounding districts and i wonder if i can get a copy of the [Music] great thank you [Music] though i mean as everyone's expressed concern here wearing these six hours a day probably children of oxygen leads to anxiety depression um you know what are the steps forward what are the next steps you know the board is going to take in trying to reverse the mass mandate or if anything they can do um i think obviously at this point it produces more harm than good for our children and that's a serious concern and secondly to the reintegrated curriculum um i'd like to know how we can get a copy of the curriculum specifically the health care um curriculum um last year my first grader was in health class and they're watching videos and learning how they should get shots and get flu shots and you know i think that's something that should be discussed at home not in the classroom and teaching kids about flu shots and different kinds of medical procedures i'd like to see this curriculum so that we know um what they are learning and if we see it you know it's a possibility to hop out of a blender thank you very much as far as what we can do next our hands are a little bit tight really all we can do is write a letter we encourage you to you know 100 letters is better than one um so you know voice your opinion if you want that all of us up here and failing to somebody else um we took it over when we got sworn in we took an oath to follow the law that's what you you know elected us to do and right now that's the law and we have to follow it so that's where we are moving forward we are on top of any executive orders that come in and we will move forward when we have uh and i hope you can see tonight for what we're doing and how we're moving forward with our plan we want the kids to have a complete normal school year as possible and everybody in this building kudos to chris and her team have worked tirelessly this summer to make that happen okay um as curriculum of all curriculum i don't know if that one is currently online but um [Music] call the health teacher and discuss that with them if there is anything you know when they get older in fifth and sixth grade and we have to teach about reproduction if the parent opts out we have another place for the child to go so that's what i described in the beginning about your communication with the teacher if there's something that children's all talking about they may not understand it exactly what the teacher said that you should communicate that that's your responsibility to communicate with the health teacher about what is this that you're teaching and our health teachers are professionals their certificate is in health education and they'll share with you you know the cycle of what we teach in first grade and they'll share that beforehand because there's some kids that don't come home and tell their parents anything that they learned in class today absolutely [Music] i would encourage you and i i said this at a board meeting was the end of last year as a regards to the governor and executive orders i don't expect everybody to sit down at their computer and actually write a letter out but with the technology as it is now it's fairly easy to go online put your address in and get a list of all your representatives and with a click of a mouse basically generate an email then you can send to all of them and you can do that every day there's been issues that have come up this last year and over the past few years i've done that and everyone in my family's done that and that does get stuff done so i would encourage you to send emails to the governor asking him to put the control back into your community email your representative from state legislature from congress everybody and let them know that you want the power back to you because if enough people do bother them with this he is going to relent but if we all just kind of get angry and post things on facebook that's not going to get anything done we actually need to get after them to enact to enable them to to actually change these things and equally is important november [Music] my question is um nobody has spoken about social distancing um we heard that the deaths are closer together than they have been i think that's fantastic i love it um i'm definitely gonna be encouraging my kids to ask some aspirates and to do jumping jacks while um my question mostly is about lunch and recess when they are outside last year they had to stay their full person they weren't allowed to intermingle with other classes within their brains can they play with whoever the hell they want to this year yeah thank you great yeah uh justin north brielle um with the masculinity in place it's not going anywhere um indoor air quality is becoming a huge issue for everybody that's wearing their masks i know last year they improved the merc filters within the air handling system over the past eight weeks of the summertime have any other upgrades in installed is there anything on the upcoming agenda we're we're still on route 13 which is a high quality ill infiltration system we have air conditioning in every single classroom throughout the building and the offices um unlike many other students so um our classroom environments our classrooms are very clean we encourage children to wash their hands and those things that we did last year we'll [Music] so with that being said is there in outdoor air being introduced within the system is it a continuously running system or is a halo system being introduced like are there any upgrades that we're looking at and you can put a murph 13 filter on your own home and say it's great um but if you're not bringing the outside air into the school all you're doing is recycling cold air so i'm already recycling old air as i'm standing here so just looking to see if we're doing anything better we've been working with different facilities we're putting air scrubbers in we're doing air changes per hour is any of that on the table for investigation are we just happy to build it i think moving forward we're always looking to do what's best for our building so go under buildings and grounds and look into that and see what else we can do with our systems and make quality better in our school moving forward because of course the board would always want that and we want to change and look forward to what's best for our students so i think it's our responsibility to do that so for building the grounds we can look at that moving forward okay just one other thing with the cafeteria is cafeteria is out of service until january with providing hot meals correct so is there anything between now and then other than a request for proposal that is being done i mean is the cafeteria federally funded or school board funded we moved out of the federal program because we didn't think it was serving our children the best that we could by so then we have we have a savings between september and december since we don't have an active cafeteria so that money been put aside to look at how in some way shape or form we can introduce hot meals to the kids one day a week two weeks a week three days a week tonight a couple days a week where we can have some type of hot lunch brought in right i mean if we've known for three weeks and the kids are starting in a week or two i mean kids have to do their homework from the day before but they come in and they're looking for a meal it's kind of tough to say oh well i didn't get an rfp i'm sorry because [Music] is from the general fund to fund the groups or the program okay um we just want to be able to give our kids hotline at some point between september and january so let's work on that thank you [Music] so that you could easily distance children when they're doing music lessons is it depends on the individual that the child needs an extended time they don't have to leave the room and so we've created this building a room called our social emotional mindfulness room and so it's a place where children who need breaks can get brave and they get socially distanced but we'll have movement you know we'll have music and movement for them who those who need that is possible [Music] yes as much as possible they say three feet and it's the 15-minute rules thank you else all right thank you everybody i appreciate it great questions this evening um discussion uh board members i just have one thing to discuss that i need to move the september meeting from september 15th so that will be announced and posted on we discussed the selection criteria for the gnt programming updates that you have [Music] and it's done [Music] genesis well an email go out letting everybody know that it's our children and with the budget closing uh the end of june when would they be um can you pay the bills yes all in good night favor
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80 000 to do this and correct me if i'm wrong tom so if let's say that happened okay now we have the report okay so if you all decide not to go with their company to continue with it you still have the report and you go with another company but then that company doesn't have to do any of the engineering doesn't have to do any of that other stuff um and and they benefit from the work that they've done i just don't know if it's and i know you're telling me it's an eighty thousand dollar value but i mean i could tell you this is a three hundred thousand dollar cup i don't know it's an eighty thousand dollar value and you're wanting me to basically say here's 40 grand for a study we're gonna do if you decide not to have us do your work you're still paying me 40 grand so i mean i i'm not trying to call you out on anything or say i just don't it doesn't i don't know this section so to to say that we're guaranteeing you 40 000 to do a project we know we're going to be doing because we have yes or grant to do it i just don't i don't i'm just not comfortable okay we're paying 40 000 unless we pull out on that i understand that but what i'm getting at is let's say his bid comes back and it should be or we find out air conditioners are five thousand bucks and he comes back at ten thousand dollars i'm like you're out of your mind i'm not paying double what the job is but but that's that but that's the guarantee that's the guarantee we have of going with a contract because save has vetted them that they don't do that to people they have a history they have a business history guaranteed markup is save yes what the markup is over cost because yes when we buy auto parts for example yes we go through o'reilly on the mojave program and it's a guaranteed flat rate yes are you in the same program we provide open book pricing that's okay absolutely there we go that makes me feel a lot better okay that's where i was hung up i don't want to sure we're paying for that design when the job's done no matter who does it i just wasn't comfortable saying right oh we don't know what this is going to cost you you're doing you're guaranteeing me 40 grand no that's where i wasn't comfortable i don't like saying oh okay and corey when you look at the upper arrow on this okay we would be paying a fee at every okay at every step where we do a bid so we run the risk of getting getting the design step and paying the full 80 000 out of our extra money if we did that process it's like saying that that was my whole point i know that there's a cost in doing that i get that part that's not what i'm arguing what i was worried about is that we're going to say oh let's move forward having no idea where this pricing is going to come in and oh sorry we're double what it should be but you still owe me 40 grand that's where my hang up was because yes i understand you've got people to pay to figure out i get all that that's not at all if that's how i was coming across that's not what i meant what i meant was i don't want to pay double what something should be with open pricing we know where we're at absolutely like with like i know the riley thing because i looked into that that it's a guaranteed set markup on what that part exactly so that makes me feel better okay a whole lot better because i was not grasping that was that your only concern was the price part was that it not knowing what i'm paying for okay i don't like being locked into something and not knowing if i'm actually getting the deal i should be getting yeah because we don't know what those costs are but if it's in that open market we know where we're at that's a set pricing that's already been vetted i get that now okay so i was just missing that page in my books and i'm sorry i didn't clarify that early so one thing one thing i think i i need to mention up front here is we're we're not the cheapest solution in the world we're the number one energy service company because you have a quality design a quality approach a quality construction management and a quality generated savings with guarantee and measurement verification we also have client services team that's dedicated for post installation so i want to be very upfront we are not the low-cost low-bid solution we are the highest quality energy service company in the industry for the district sometimes you pay more for longevity and savings in the long run it's getting the biggest bang for your buck the biggest bang for your buck i agree with that and before we even got to this whole thing um uh two years ago when i first came on board and went to you know some of the state meetings because i needed to i needed to dive deep into some of these things the company which shall remain unnamed that we are still paying the we still owe 1.6 million dollars on replacement of all the lights and all of that stuff approached me uh to uh you know to talk about some future projects now we didn't know any of this stuff was in the works at the time right and and and um i didn't know that that was the company with whom we had that deal when they were approaching me until they said oh yeah we've already done x y and z for your district and i thought well you may have done x but then you disappeared we haven't seen y and z okay so uh and they happen to be on they happen to be on mojave's contract so you know it meant that i wanted to do homework in this process now that it becomes real to me a real deal as opposed to a conversation to make sure we were not getting into the same kind of situation so because i have your best interests at heart and ours as a district so i try to really do my homework i'm glad your question got answered so i feel better now and i can yeah and one more thing because i it sounds like you'd like to be updated throughout the process and one thing that we wanted to do here is as you guys are prioritizing that's why we provided this executive summary throughout the design phase it's a collaborative approach we we find this to be a partnership for parker unified school this year we just finished this week it's a client for life so when we may be a client for life we're there now and in the next 20 years the next 40 years we want to be the cl the district's go to and so through the design phase it's going to be a collaborative effort so if board members would like to join meetings if you'd like me to provide updates on a 25 50 75 cadence we're up for doing that as well we just want this to be a collaborative effort so when we get to the end of the end result it's nothing surprising and and everything's streamlined by that point if that makes sense perfect awesome any other questions okay does judy have any jeannie do you have any questions um i was just wondering was this the same company that came and presented to us like a year and a half ago they can't they did an energy study for us at the time which was uh an energy savings study um there was a little more involved in that but this was much more specific we were wanting in this one a much more uh and ins in fact a broader study in this that wasn't just energy energy same as the previous one that was more than a year and a half ago well no but they did the energy study for us about a year and a half ago the the unnamed company was launched i just happened to be in signing papers and i sat in on a presentation right you did it yes you did genie yeah you did and so i was just curious if we weren't i mean we weren't interested at that time in pursuing i just was curious as to what's changed since then that we're pursuing this option um i think what's changed is that that was an overall energy savings plan that was similar to the one that was done with the unnamed company that was you know a very different kind of approach to things this is a very specific one really related to what we're wanting to do with our esser money and our and our strategic plan um so that one was kind of a shot in the dark from from them and this was a very specific request and in this case jeanne the difference then was that they offered to do that study it cost us nothing this was this was put out the healthy school assessment was put out to bid to quote i'm sorry to quote and a number of other even folks on the on the contract services were offered the opportunity to do the healthy schools assessment and schneider is the only company that responded so this was a very specific one where we asked for them to do something as opposed to the other one where they volunteered to do it okay thank you sure any other questions okay then i'll move we approve item 3.7 i'll second the motion all in favor aye corey burgess thank you hi jeannie borland hi amanda eamon hi anna boyd so i moved seconded it thank you item 4.1 future topics do we have any future topics they'd like for future meetings not at this time we have some from the previous meeting and we will make sure we follow up with those and uh there will be some other new things that i weight tossing your way as well i am hopeful to have the revised budget ready to post publicly on monday because that's the 10th day before the next meeting if you are planning on meeting on your regular thursday meeting date because there has to be a 10-day lead time so i'm working very hard to get that ready to post on monday all submitted well we don't know jen got it posted on monday a day early with lots of changes and it's very long and it's very i sent you a summary kind of list of things and i left off one which was some revamping of this room uh i forgot about that but we think that they are already overwhelmed at ade with the s or three applications because they have since monday posted that they are looking to hire some people to to review and approve the sr-3 grant proposals to the tune of 50 or 60 000 salaries if you live in the phoenix area so uh i i think they're i think they're gonna are very surprised already 50 to 60 000.
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and maybe we could do some air quality measurements there because of all the logistics and truck traffic um and i shared this um with steve yesterday we discussed it together he is generally aware of it too i listened to a freakonomics podcast the other day and of all things um they covered uh cognitive decline exposure do you listen to it cassie not yet but i'm very interested listen to it cognitive decline due to exposure to pm 2.5 particles and not just long term there can be poor air quality on a given day and that will affect people's cognitive abilities on that day and um if you if you think about what the social cost of carbon is you know we talk about you know lung impacts and cardiovascular vascular impacts but if you also think that there is a cognitive decline um over the long term and also on individual days um especially also now with all the forest fires and things like that this is just one more huge negative impact of burning fossil fuels and climate change and everything else i i didn't realize that there's actually that kind of impact with cognitive ability due to pm 2.5 so it's a it's it's an episode within the last month so if anybody's interested in listening to it check it out that's it hey thanks john harita you have your hand up um well i just want to um uh kind of echo the concern about um kind of displacing our air problems to other areas um so if we electrify our cars that's great our local air is a little better but if it means that we're pumping out more um particles in another area of the state that's a real concern so i think we all need to work toward you know whatever that means we've got to keep that in mind so but back to me um and uh an issue of uh chapter 40 which i neglected to send out to you all last month um so i'm going to send a message to the entire mission and those who are interested in reviewing the document um i will appreciate that i will include a couple of versions and i'll explain them in an email to you and those who are interested i'll ask you to respond and i would like to possibly have be a little more responsible maybe have two meetings by zoom and a completion that perhaps we could um review by this body next month okay thanks rita um so um why don't we move on quickly i want to end this meeting at nine um so let's uh let's move on to reports from committees other commissions council and chair if there's no other comments on these topics okay i don't see anybody's hand up so um uh we've already kind of discussed the work groups on the committees um other commissions um how about shannon do you want to tell us about the planning commission activities okay lisa i'm looking at you too i think um things that relate directly to environmental commission um not not thinking of a lot of things that really really directly i don't know if you if something knows the infill development count at uh you know the one out by briarwood um because it's yeah right yeah so it's like one of the things that's really difficult in the city is to be able to once you're zoned a certain way um to be able to make it more dense over time and that's one of the ways that we are trying to figure out how to make things more efficient and have you know you're using current infrastructure um you're i mean there's just a lot of it's better to do that than it is to build in a corn field somewhere outside of town and so there was um an older uh condo association that's over near mary vestal park not too far from bryant school actually incidentally also very near the highway in fact one side of it borders the highway and uh they were able to zone it to be more dense and to have a green a former green space become a more stacked flats and part of this worked because it was already next to a huge park and so them having green space was a little redundant in terms of what was around them they're also on bus lines and you know things like that and so it made a lot of sense to be able to slip these um units in there i think um we have struggled with um our dual goals of being able to be both affordable and sustainable at the same time and i've kind of found that what we end up doing is sort of choosing one in terms of the theme of the of the project in front of us because it's difficult to achieve both it really is so um in this one i would say it ended up becoming more leaning towards the affordable side of it and going with the density and all of the environmental benefits that happened because of more density in that way though we did go round and round about the eb ordinance and trying to kind of right size and tune um what is possible what is appropriate to ask for in different um developments we have a pretty clunky way of being able to get people to rise to the occasion for sustainability we don't have a lot of um there's not a lot of agility that we have to be able to kind of fine-tune things because our ordinances are ordinances and it made me feel like boy it'd be nice to be able to really have a more nuanced approach project per project but it's really hard to do that in government that's sort of what i i feel like lisa i don't know if you have any other comments around that um no i was just so pleased to see an infill project because we see so few of those and this is a way that i think people are willing to accept density um and yeah i agree it was hard you know not to ask them to like remake the whole development while they're at it which made the project totally unsuccessful so it you know because our ordinances actually say that right right so we kind of struggle with that sometimes we did about how to yeah to find that that balancing act but i think that's kind of the the only thing i can think of that that really applies that would have any overlap with environment well other than the fact that when you all talked about the um downtown the um you know the housing that's going to go on the lot next to blake transit there was a lot of talk about how do you make this work given that there's going to be exhaust for some time until we illustrate that and from i listened to the meeting i was on vacation and um the the thing is is that the way it's going to happen is people aren't going to be able to open their windows and you know but of course if you live in manhattan you don't open your windows so you know it's a culture shift well then once we electrify if all the buses get electrified that's another thing and and that was part of where they were going with it but there are also a lot of concerns in the meantime you know right the fumes going up and everything like that and if it's affordable housing does that mean you're just like layering on you know or air quality on top of that and it's a great project in so many other ways because of all the nested uses and it's very difficult to develop at site with outside of this city i mean like it would be really tough for a developer to come up with the site plan for that thing that would have worked well with all of the city infrastructure around it in terms of the ata and things like that and so um yeah yeah it's tricky and um one of the things i would also just say that dovetails a little bit with what you were talking about before with the air quality piece it doesn't it's more of a comment on what we're talking about before rather than being planning commission but that vegetation can actually make a really big difference with that air quality at least in in the right season and um [Music] and that there's been uh studies done that really show like having a robust green buffer between the highway and the areas where people are it makes an enormous difference so um uh it would be kind of interesting actually that you can test that with some of your with some of the instruments that you have um stephen and the other school that i would recommend looking at would be forsythe and wines which are truly right on the highway whereas bryant is a little bit further back um so but yeah air quality is is it's a tricky business with um what we're talking about with the affordable housing downtown which is essentially on that that old y lot across from the library and of course that one just to make sure that it's clear that one is um it's affordable and it's market so it's being checked um yes given that there are buildings over um bus stations in many other communities as well as over freeways isn't there the technology to do air handling and purification oh absolutely yeah and it's not entirely covered either it's it's it's open on sides and things like that so maybe a little tricky to um be able to completely capture everything that's my memory of it lisa is that it was yeah right but entirely you know the best covered and sequestered so oh i didn't understand kathy's question but definitely the buildings are going to be designed with they're going to have super hvac systems and triple or double paned windows it's just that people will not be able to open their windows and you know for me when spring and summer are here i want my windows open except for the mosquitoes this year who just dive-bombed everything but you know so i think that is you know and as i said like if you live in manhattan you don't you you just take that for granted you're not gonna open your windows but i don't think people in ann arbor think that way and so it it might be seen as a disadvantage for this housing yeah sometimes with with lead buildings and things like that they they um people opening their windows makes it much more difficult to control how uh you know that all works too and so many times you can't anyway when you have a high performance building so not always but you know many times okay kathy you have your hand up and then john morsky well well my question was actually isn't there technology to handle the air that's being exhausted by the buses like under the awning area i realized we have many buses that are out in the street as well but and i didn't know if it was a limitation on the technology or a limitation on how much money aaata wanted to spend that i don't remember about whether um i i didn't know that there was definitely going to be error handling i don't know to what extent you know to how much they can i know for sure there's a lot of parking around it too and because it's not entirely covered you can't kind of control everything you know that's that's happening with that so it'd still be kind of bleeding out the sides and things like that so because it wasn't a truly enclosed system okay and i believe when the aaata station was rebuilt the expectation was that many of the buses would be down at the multimodal train station parking structure rather than at the current location and so i don't know if long term if wherever the new train station is located if that would divert some of the buses from that location i don't know if that's still the plan we didn't we didn't get into that at all so i have no idea and i think that you know clearly the um this was just our very first peak at the proposal and so it it still has a long way to go in the process and we brought up all these kinds of issues around air quality several commissioners did and so i think we're going to get a lot more information as it as it comes down the fight so okay thanks and i didn't mean to give you all the questions no that's okay it's important no i mean you know it's not just diesel versus electric i mean you probably get some improvement just with natural gas or propane you know and i know for some time you've been able to get buses that will burn propane with natural gas so you know but electric electrifying everything should help as long as we can do it on renewable sources right so okay i'm sorry john you have your hand up sorry to extend the conversation a bit but i think this is pretty important um the 820 plan is is pretty clear um step one is 100 clean and renewable energy and step two is electrify everything and my view is that we should be looking at this building in the context of the a20 plan this building is going to be there i mean let's be realistic it's going to be there 60 or 70 years and we we should be doing everything we can to talk to a triple a ta to push them to electrify and the city is doing everything it can to get to 100 clean and renewable energy and if we're going to meet our 2030 target we need to be doing both of those things and in my view the building should be designed recognizing that it's going to have a life of another 50 years after that point and shannon is absolutely correct i'm not an expert in these matters but i'm i'm aware of what she said that you know opening and closing of windows particularly in certain seasons can really throw off the hvac system but if when we're talking with the developers we in my view we should not plan this building based on the next nine years but based on the 51 years or the whatever 100 years after that recognizing that we have a climate crisis and we have policy at the federal and the state in the city level that says we we need to get rid of those diesel buses period um if i can parlay that into then an update on on the energy commission unless there's anything else to be said uh okay quickly that they have every intention of making this a sustainable high performance building well i mean also in terms of you know opening windows and things like that too no i get it but just just so you realize that it that it's not like that was not discussed they definitely want that to be part of things they want to be able to follow ages or just so you have a sense that that that was definitely part of the discussion as well right right okay all right thanks so quickly the energy commission is not meeting this month um we thought we would probably not be able to get a quorum um so we're not we're not meeting we're meeting in september the primary focus of december meetings are going to be two related topics and that's going to be energy benchmarking slash disclosure slash energy audits and disclosure where we're essentially trying to do the same thing to two different sectors the commercial multifamily is going to be governed by one ordinance which is energy disclosure that enables then benchmarking um peer-to-peer and then also obviously by the city because that information will be in the public domain and then there will be a second ordinance that is targeted to single-family residences requiring an energy audit that has to be disclosed when a house is um sold so that that information is known to the owner and to the buyer or the seller and the buyer and that hopefully will trigger um energy improvement upgrades um that are in support of 820.
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