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um and uh that conservancy now is a subsidiary of the downtown detroit partnership but again we could talk about some of the details of the conversation they have developed a funding mechanism for much of their activity it's both private fundraising but they also have a tax incremental financing district that they've established there and so it's uh the other thing is that i think uh other communities around the country uh have been looking at detroit and seeing what has happened uh david alluded to uh working uh uh you know in partnership with other communities around the country to understand their issues and of course detroit learns from that but the the communities that they work with also learn from the detroit experience so it just seems like we're at a stage where we need to accelerate our learning about what really works uh and i think we'll find that these are going to be different in each community i don't know nearly as much and i don't know a lot yet about detroit but i would encourage people to look at the downtown detroit partnership website and and click on a lot of the drop downs uh it i would say in a half hour no more than an hour you can really delve into this you know as a preview before we uh proceed further but um plymouth is another intriguing place uh that as i understand it and we have not personally talked to anybody in plymouth but uh jeff crockett who is has spoken in public comment uh has uh started with a foundation over there that's been very generously supporting kellogg park and my understanding at a very superficial level it's the it's the city of plymouth it's the downtown development authority and the chamber of commerce have formed some kind of a working relationship with the uh with this foundation as well so i think each community is going to reveal something a bit different but i think we'll learn from it and in the process we'll over time we'll figure out what what's going to work in in ann arbor and i the probably the biggest takeaway from our conversation with david cowan is which is staring us right in the eyes anyhow is uh is we really got to engage the business community uh as major long-term stakeholders in this process excuse me i just want to say that david was extremely generous with his time with us and offered to continue the conversation yeah can we draw him into one of our meetings as a uh participant i would think that would be you know at the appropriate time i think that would be very much a possibility the facilitated discussion that yeah we had before and that robert black referred to again as being a useful form might be an opportunity to draw him in as a participant in our discussion just a thought adam i could see these committees that are matched up with communities and with a kind of a common agenda so we can gather information that's comparable an outgrowth of that could be uh you know focus facilitated discussions with the you know speakers from from these communities who could uh just that might be a process to think about i think uh we're all thinking along the same lines here uh certainly uh frank i think that uh you know sort of what we've had a chance to trade emails on and certainly what you and rita have shared this evening and what alan's thought process is i think actually there's a lot of commonality here which is you know we this would be a great first step on the long-term visioning for this council to really start to investigate other communities and what is working you know we have we have uh i don't know if this is the correct term but sort of gotten hung up on what the limitations are of our current space and maybe what the reality is is that we need to be a little more visionary um and and not seek to necessarily determine what the limitations are for a new wheel that we have to create but really look to what others have done and so i i think that uh you know the outreach that uh that you rita and frank have done uh have has been very helpful and i'd like to make a proposal that maybe as a series of next steps we form uh i think the technical uh term by our bylaws is a committee or a series of committees um that each highlight different communities and we do we we can obviously uh form these as uh needed and uh add to them as needed but we try and identify you know a series of maybe half a dozen communities initially that we feel we want to look into to draw examples from and certainly alan to your point about bringing forward individuals who who serve in those communities in similar roles to us you know how we can utilize tap into their expertise bring them to the the full console the commons if necessary but certainly inform the work is is probably a good use for time to try and uh illustrate some of those examples so i'd like to make that proposal uh going forward so that we can identify some communities at least initially there's by no means a limitation on this list but at least a few communities initially assign folks to help investigate those communities and as rita stated maybe even assign some minimum criteria for which we want to make sure that every committee investigates uh from from neighboring communities neighboring meeting quite broadly in this particular case so i'd like to see what other thoughts are on that proposal um and uh i know alan has his hand up we'll go to him first but uh see what other folks thoughts are on that proposal as well allen yeah i i support that proposal i don't want to side track it but i do want to uh call into the conversation that the enthusiasm for detroit is not uh universal and i was brought to my attention a book that analyzed the development of detroit in relation to the poor and black community that has been in some way bypassed in the organization of the downtown development and i think i will share i hope that heather can share with you all the review of a book that did a very detailed analysis of how the detroit development has functioned in relation to the african-american community and the poor communities in the around the center of detroit so there are many partners in here and sometimes when the emphasis is on the business community the poorer people are left out of the picture and the development of the commons is very much a development that sees the base as the actual whole population of the community and so i just want to put that in and i will share it through heather the uh review of this very interesting book of detailed research thank you thanks ellen i i i uh frankly i share your sentiments too by the way um i think that uh it's very hard to argue that the neighborhoods in detroit have not necessarily benefited from the same development the downtown has but i also want to keep us thinking about the fact that it's we're not just talking about detroit obviously really and uh frank used an example of the ddp uh there are certainly very positive examples as exist around the efforts they've done but uh you know certainly the efforts are on equity i know many have expressed those uh desires here and i share those sentiments um and i think that um in general what the proposal that i'm making is related to is uh you know looking at the the constructive features and also the effects somewhat negative in case in some cases that we can learn from other communities so that we don't make the same negative effects or gentrification that that maybe some communities have have uh you know mistakenly gone down uh you know um maybe by by accident frankly not not by malfeasance so um jeff your hand is up um please feel free yeah um can you hear me yeah so i uh had the honor a number of years ago i was a a trustee of the of the episcopal diocese of michigan and um one of my responsibilities was to engage with the city of detroit some a a very relatively poor area of the city of detroit the island view area down there um and it's anchored by a fairly um dynamic uh episcopal church called the church of the messiah and barry randolph is the pastor down there and uh he is a sort of leading light in the city to try to to to get the uh the poor members of of the community more engaged in the economic development and i helped him put together plans for doing that entrepreneurial training education uh putting uh some businesses in place and so forth and uh as part of my role and funneled some resources from the episcopal diocese uh so i had a pretty a pretty good understanding of what the issues uh were then this was about seven or eight years ago but um barry's still very active and um the key really was to as part of keeping the community the the lesser powerful lesser uh you know wealthy members of the community engaged in the development process was to bring this entrepreneurial training and entrepreneurial dimension to and helping them build businesses as part of the process so um that's one point i wanted to make the second one is and we had some fair amount of success uh the second one was um to the other extreme there are two or three or four places in europe uh and one or two in in other parts of the world india in particular um and in latin america that have had uh some extraordinary things happen uh in terms of uh this kind of thing and they i'm not saying we want to over extend ourselves and going too far afield but i think there's some experiences there that we can can learn something from as well which i i know quite well and i think there are plenty of people who are willing to zoom with us from those communities to talk about you know what they did and what's going on because we are part of an international network whether we recognize it or not of of cities that are trying to transform themselves in the current environment and get more um central engagement so i i think we should not ignore that dimension be very careful not to to spread our resources too thin but we should you know get some input as well from a broader broader story okay thanks uh very good points jeff uh frank you got your hand up here um you know to allen's point we uh we don't want to restrict our uh our learning to you know what's going well and right in these communities we want to we want to learn from things that they've attempted that haven't worked or that they haven't attempted that they should have um so it's i guess three 360-degree learning there i've coined it i guess um the other thing is that uh i think this process of identifying communities and and and uh individuals from the council and we may eventually want to add people outside the council but i think we should start within is a way to get us all engaged i i'm going to call out sarah for for a moment and we rita and i got to know sarah back earlier in the summer and we're just so impressed with her um urban issues background and uh professional credentials that uh i i'm eager to uh you know involve everybody on the council and there's a lot of talent here a lot of good background and uh so i think this is a mechanism to to do that as well i i hope i it was okay to uh highlight you over there i gotta smile okay i'm okay [Laughter] i'm going through lists like cities that i've worked with in my head to try to figure out good so so i are there other thoughts on the idea of uh you know proposal i think we can actually take some time and i think it'd be a very good idea you know all all of uh or many of you put forward uh offline last time a number of ideas of examples of things we should consider for uh highlighting in the city council resolution so i actually think that process was actually quite good um in terms of trying to generate ideas i'd like to propose we do a similar process here where we don't necessarily at this meeting this evening suggest specific communities to highlight but maybe we agree to form a few maybe three uh given the number of uh representatives we have in the on the council of the commons three working or three committees rather sorry specifically uh where we investigate a series of communities and you all uh submit everyone here submits ideas of communities that that we would like to consider to heather and we break up those communities individually that way it's somewhat random frankly and we maybe can learn something from from communities that we weren't necessarily thinking of but we are inclusive with all of our thought processes with suggestions so i'd like to sort of make that suggestion that if if we want to go down this route of community committees maybe it's a good way to describe it we also go down the route of suggesting uh offline which communities we think we should consider and then dividing those up individually so i think we got a couple hands up here uh erica ellis and actually four hands up erica alice stephen and sarah not necessarily in that order but maybe we'll go that uh that order erica uh why don't you go first yeah um i like the idea of having a committee that focuses in on doing some research and around best practices and identifying what that criteria would be um i'm just a little confused about the recommendation for three different committees kind of doing the same work as opposed to just one committee that is comprised of you know whoever here would like to volunteer to be on that subcommittee um and then amongst that that one subcommittee um the work would be divvied up so i was just curious why you were thinking about it being multiple committees um mostly because i think there's uh at least historically uh this council has uh seemed to be um more focused on a council of a whole um and so if there is just a small number of people that would like to focus on this shoot i don't think i have any objection to that but it seemed just to be that there there was a stronger interest in the past of not having a smaller subset of the council to focus on issues so uh you know that's really the only reason i suggested that that we try and engage more members of the council but you don't have any objection that if it is just a few um i think uh we had alice stephen and sarah um ellis do you wanna go next yes um so committees all of which would be doing the same work or a committee you know it's it's a little bit fuzzy here but one suggestion i would have is to think of if you have you want to look at a whole lot of community communities and you need to split the labor between those among those cities um to study these cities or make contacts with them or communities it doesn't even have to be cities there are four about four areas where it would be good to have to compare the same four areas of interest in each city so like how each project or city has addressed administration or funding or the physical aspects that were transformed perhaps um you know what what the physical aspects had to do with what they did um so those are three areas i think there's yet another one that i had in mind but so that we get a comparison of the different ways that you know in specific areas not to miss one on in each case you know um otherwise we'll just have this way hey i like that way you know or this way maybe this could work in ann arbor but you know you can see how the if there's any difference or commonality in the way that they approached administration finance and maintenance or regulation whatever whatever we want to settle on um those we should look at those specific areas so that we will address our own questions about our own site not skip over them in each in any case you know you want to have okay we studied this city and they did this this and this for those four things the city did it this way you might find commonalities and you might find significant differences or realistic applications i just don't want to copycat copycat say seattle or something i you know just because we like that city and the way they did it doesn't mean it's going to work here but if we study the exact categories of things um that that might help us sort through the sea of both subject areas subjects and subject areas that's it take my hand down stephen uh thank you i fully agree with what erica said um i feel like there's one committee here maybe not multiple committees here i fully agree with what uh alice said i feel like if we're going to step into this we ought to have some way of measuring sort of apples to apples or trying to get consistent criteria or questions that we're asking about these different projects and i guess my own original thought maybe is just one way to sort like sort of a taxonomy for this may be able to think of cities other cities or other locations within michigan similar tax structure similar business you know communities whatever maybe look at communities outside of michigan but also in the united states and then maybe look at communities outside of the united states as ways to kind of divvy up the the different uh examples that may be out there thanks sarah thanks so i also agree with what alex said in terms of like a research process if this is a road that we're going to go down and i guess you know i've worked with parks apartments across the country i've worked with you know individual developers who have developed parks across the country and so i'm trying to wrap my head around like what exactly are we trying to figure out like what are we looking for similar park types i mean i wrote a whole report on like transforming parking lots into parks like maybe there's examples in there that might work but then there's also examples of like bigger parcels but like the partnerships that were formed to fund that might make sense so i guess like there's an entire universe of like examples out there so i think you know before we just start throwing out like examples of parks we think are nice like we really need to somehow like stephen saying like come up with criteria and maybe we all just need to like think on that for a bit because i'm not really sure like where my head wants to go i like this approach i just like i'm not entirely sure who what i don't know of any other park that's really comparable to the situation that we have here so it's kind of like cobbling together like a bunch of things that worked that might work for funding or design or things from from other parks across the country i think alan is next yeah it seems like we're moving towards convergence i i like what alice uh said in trying to lay out criteria and uh uh she said she had four in mind and mentioned three so i've been trying to put a word around the fourth and uh you adam put out that word equity and i think that that is one of the factors we have to look at you know what is the uh the bottom-up democratic participation development element of what is going on in these various places so that should be part of what we look at and i think it's great if we can pick some cities and see whether we have one committee or that breaks down into three subcommittees or whatever everybody can't do everything but we should have some common framework to look at and as best we can see what we can learn from other places and but the uh democratic bottom quality is essential to the sense of the conference and we're really seeing the users of commonly told resources are able to more effectively control and utilize and create a [Music] research is more productive than when either the government does it or it's delegated to some private corporation and how we see that uh use of the users of the versus action the energizing element so equity i guess is maybe one word to put into these criteria very good point ellen uh i think we've got uh frank and then rita um this has been helpful uh and i appreciate alice's list uh which you know we can continue to uh fill out and understand but i think i think common criteria uh studied across various situations i was just reflecting back what what motivated uh me personally to you know begin to identify communities and understand how they how they achieve what they're achieving and it it gets back to what i've expressed is that you know what is the public private contract uh for partnership how how we have uh public entities like the dda and the city of ann arbor coalesced in partnership with community organizations of groups like the library green conservancy and the initiating committee in our case but other groups detroit had this uh you know detroit 300 uh conservancy that was formed uh almost 20 years ago so i i'm looking at kind of the larger structure uh in wanting to learn about that uh not to the exception or the detriment of you know how did how do they how did they work with a particular park situation and or whatever but how did they form this community partnership and these things evolve but the ones that have been successful i'm sure we can learn from the you know things they did right and things they did wrong along the way by their uh by their own reflection and our our observation so that that's where i think uh this could be most valuable but that's just my opinion uh thank you frank we got rita and then uh councilmember bricks um i just want to say i think this discussion is great and i absolutely agree with having common um elements that we would use to compare across communities or projects or whatever we're going to be examining and i believe that each of us has some ideas that would be contributing to that kind of discussion the thinking of in my mind we're setting up a table with elements that we'll look at and versus cities or wherever these things kind of things happen so i just want to add one more element which would be a time frame that we um set a target by which this kind of study or whatever we want to call it um is completed or that we attempt to complete it so that we don't have a negative long extended kind of thing i don't think this is a thesis this is gathering ideas and looking at them and then figuring out where we want to go that's my idea all right thank you rita uh councilmember breaks yeah just to support what um sarah and um kind of frank added on to i think um in terms of really what is our purpose of looking at these communities i think we um i agree that it is that public partner public-private partnership that really needs to be explored a little bit more and we can see what our our group has struggled with a little bit and we can anticipate what's going to be what are going to be struggles to come after a design is is formalized so funding partnerships to successfully fund a space are clearly um questions that we're going to need to have answered and then operational models are something that we are currently struggling with so those are you know if two things that i could imagine would be helpful helpful pieces those are ones that i would hope we'd focus on uh thank you erica jeff yeah i just wanted to make a couple of observations one is certainly when we think about innovation for example and hopefully ann arbor is going to be innovative in what we do and that's our tradition and and hopefully that will continue and obviously we have unique circumstances as as everybody does um one of the things that i teach when i teach innovation is is you want to try to achieve insight an insight is composed from my perspective of three dimensions one is patterns of the past what has happened historically so hindsight the other one is what's called outside where you're looking at other people other models what other people have been doing and sometimes you want to step outside the model of cities or towns you might want to go into something completely different you might learn some kind of uh tool or idea that would work in a unique situation like ann arbor so you don't necessarily just want to look at your own industry so to speak as as other models but you might want to be a little creative about thinking about borrowing something from somewhere else just to use a silly example henry ford you know didn't invent the automobile what he did was he put the assembly line together with with uh building a cheap automobile and he learned that from the arms manufacturers and the chocolate manufacturers okay so he didn't go to to other car companies because they were all building stuff for rich people right they were all bespoke they weren't low-cost mass-produced anyway i don't want to get too off in the academic woods here but anyway that's the one thing uh and then the third element so you've got hindsight outside and then you've got foresight and there you're looking at scenarios of the future and you have to use the novelist or science fiction writer's idea uh or a way of thinking when you do that and you have to you have to try to imagine possible end states that would be desirable or attractive to people and work back from there to see where you you know what the steps you would have to go through to get there and so if you put those three together hindsight patterns of the past outside other models and then imagine the scenarios of the future you put those three things together you get profound insight and that's where create you know truly creative or innovative stuff comes from okay that's one one one dimension the other dimension is the big elephant in the room that every city that i know about that i'm looking at when it comes to these issues is grappling with is the whole issue of sustainability and you know i don't know how that would necessarily fit in with the immediate goals that we have here but i think it needs to be you know born in mind we have a very large sustainability effort going on in the city of ann arbor and every other city is either looking at that or doing something like that and a lot of times you look at cities and what's happening is the center of the city um is actually becoming the the place where these people start to think about how you would radiate out from the center of the city uh a new model of sustainability for the whole city it becomes kind of a catalyst or trigger so i think uh you know talking to you know uh missy stultz's group and the and the sustainability people would not necessarily be a bad idea when we think about what kind of designs what kind of central uh focus we're going to have and how that connects with the rest of what's going on okay thanks uh so to try and uh summarize a little bit about kind of i think what we're hearing here where uh let me just get a show of hands um you know who is interested in being part of a subcommittee on one or more aspects of this uh regarding other communities and i certainly can break it up in a variety of ways can we get a show of hands on that okay so uh i i think that's most folks so um you know i feel like we have a couple of variable options here you know we or we can establish uh common criteria and break up subcommittees based on community or uh potentially we could break up subcommittees based on criteria and investigate the same communities for those similar criteria maybe i'm missing something but it feels like in order to isolate variables we want to go down one of those two routes um and if folks feel like i'm limiting my thinking please feel free because i certainly have i'm not intending to do that but um but it feels like you know we've essentially got to choose one of two pathways and then we need to generate some ideas uh for how we're going to structure those committees uh in in one of those two pathways would you describe those again i didn't quite get it yeah so it sounds like we have a couple of proposals on on the table if i'm correct in my understanding one is um we just we create sub uh subcommittees that are based upon um identifying together or offline by submission a series of common criteria and then the subcommittees investigate all of those criteria uh inclusively based on a community so for instance choose plymouth michigan and we want to investigate how they are structuring their center of the city area how they are being more inclusive for equity purposes how they are funding it how they are structuring it from a use perspective et cetera um or so that's that's one option as i see it or we then structure a series of subcommittees that say for plymouth dexter detroit traverse city portland wherever we want to investigate in one committee the funding sources and in another committee the uh usage opportunities and another uh subcommittee the uh how we're dealing with uh making sure that we're not gentrifying the community um so i feel like we have a couple of maybe i'm wrong on this at least in my thinking but in hearing everyone talk this evening it seemed to be that we had you know essentially one of two tracks where we could be more community specific but greater numbers of questions and you know therefore influence some variability uh in our in our research or we could be more structured in our elemental research what we're looking to obtain from each community but um be across many communities in a in a subcommittee so i feel like there's there's a couple of options here maybe i'm missing something and like i said till please feel free if you think i am to to correct me on this but in terms of like moving forward those are the two sort of pathways that i seem to be hearing from folks comments i would um suggest i mean to some degree leave this up to the remember i think i saw five or six hands go up the folks that wanted to serve on this committee but um personally i would recommend the the first suggestion of of reaching out to a community and trying to to determine that information having done research like this in the past i find that it's often one person who's who knows all this information it'd be kind of horrible to have five people from this commission reach out to the same person about that so i think it'd be a little more efficient use of time to to go with um one person trying to to reach out to a community but i will trust whatever the committee decides i think we've got a few hands up here i'm not sure who put their hands up first so we'll just go in order as i see it uh you know rita alice uh sarah rita all right um i'll just speak quickly um i agree with what erica just said my brief experience with um talking with david cowan um i just found that things just sort of you think of one thing in this conversation with him and it connects with another thing and so you quickly can get a lot of information um from one person so i think it would be hard to have a laser focus on one thing they all are so connected right oh alice oh yeah i'm not even muted um i i agree with what erica said what what rita said and of course what i said um because um i think we actually were charged with the with uh looking at the funding or the these certain areas we need to get that that task done and i think this is a great way to do it if we in what erica says it's very cogent about being efficient and not taking too much expecting too much of one person or one effort in one city so yeah i go with the first option of determining what our central areas of focus are and asking for response from various cities which is probably a determined list at first we want to make sure we have these 20 cities or communities or places i think using places is a good one a good way to go to not just identifying cities and that way we have really focused information that is that is also integrated in the effort so i i support that first way of doing that excellent sarah um i agree um and i think you know if there's just one sub committee if only half of the i mean i think if we can all if we can define however many people are in the subcommittee if the whole group wants to do this those common criteria the same questions i think that'll take a lot of that variability out of it and you know if there's six of us doing this i think you know we split up into groups of two do the interviews and i think it would make sense to sort of come back together and look at all the funding answers together and see like what we see you know emerging as as trends or if there's different information that we need to collect and maybe we can sort of sort of do both of the ways that you described but like erica said i think that we just need to contact somebody one time because these people are really busy yeah sure else do you have anything else to add i did um yeah i i don't mean be a stickler for technicalities but um i'm going to um i think the way that is described in our bylaws we need to be careful about the number of people in one committee we can name the committees differently and still have a committee but i think three to five is as much as we'd wanted to have an even number or i mean an odd number of people but really a small number so that so that we're not i mean it's hard to organize the community the way we are structured you know we're on zoom here but we need to be able to actually do the work together without having the difficulty of a larger group decide what we're going to divide and develop and so forth so i would i would recommend a small a few committees or related communities committees with us a few people at a time so i i agree with all of these things and i think that i'd like to make a couple suggestions uh obviously for bylaw purposes and certain for open meetings act purposes we want to make sure we're in compliance here um i'd like to make a couple of suggestions one as it relates to criteria that we want to make sure we cover it's really important that we be inclusive of all of the all the folks on the council of the commons with collecting that information and secondarily in the same vein making sure that we are all submitting uh ideas for communities to research and so i i'd like to ask everybody to make sure that and maybe heather for those who are not in attendance tonight if you could put a call put out a call to action for all the council members here to make sure that they are communicating back with you you know around communities of interest that we want to look at and criteria of interest that we want to make sure we tackle the second thing is i'd like to suggest that to alice's point maybe we have a small group of folks heather uh myself or alice one of the two of us doesn't have to both of us and then maybe frank and or rita or both get together and just talk about uh bringing all those thoughts together and dividing up into some subcommittees and so frank and rita are mentioning this because you had the grand thought of of uh this process and i think that it's a really good one so maybe we can we can do that we can create the committees based on that and and send the information back out to uh council members and then we can initiate dividing up uh based on that to create these committees based on a common criteria and a common set of communities of interest to look at here and then we can move forward uh to alice's point with a small number of people with common criteria common uh communities of interest um you know uh in a subset uh of of course and um and go from there so i'd like to make that i guess is my suggestion for how we break up this work um and then maybe uh we have a the small initial working group of heather uh either else or myself and frank or rita uh and or rita to um to you know divide it but divide that up is that a suggestion folks are good good with we do that in a very short period of time by the way like within a week so that we can move forward i think that's a great idea okay any objections i guess is a better way to describe it i had zoom okay okay so um hearing none seeing none uh why don't we move forward with with regard to that um and so i'd like like to ask that everybody from uh you know one heather submit or send out a request to all council members um you know requesting information around communities of interest that we're interested in investigating and criteria of interest and then uh simultaneous to that we will get a small group of folks together here to take in that information not limit it down by any means but try and uh and try and organize it and also break us all up so that we can investigate uh based on that and then we'll set some criteria to read his point around time frame and try and start utilizing our monthly meetings to report back this information try and build upon it learn more and utilize it as a learning tool to inform our our discussions about the long-term proposal uh going forward um so i i i feel like unless there's any objection to that you know that feels like a good next step to me okay are there other other comments or questions around the uh the community partnerships or agenda items um specifically on the agenda this evening i don't see any um are there any other agenda items that folks would like to have on the agenda this evening um i guess i i would just like to ask that we start talking about figuring out how we're moving forward with a physical design that was one of the four categories of interest that i was thinking of sorry for partic yeah i know i appreciate that erica because you reminded me that this is something that is tangible as well and and we have for instance one category of interest the criteria of interest is like are there any other built on a parking lot you know a parking garage an underground parking garage well maybe there are some um i know there's one in chicago so um that would be one or um a whole block you know a center inside of block with a perimeter you know these physical characteristics are something we're gonna have to deal with one way or another and so it'd be good to see if they're wow i never thought of that you know they got pretty much the same situation okay good so i think we think about our physical characteristics and how their potential is there or not you know maybe some more or low hanging fruit but i think that's that physical aspect is very important because it's something people can see and think about as opposed to these sort of arcane areas which we must deal with but you know finance and funding is sort of like uh science fiction but physical is right there so that's my suggestion i think that's a good idea frank frank anytime you yeah um it turns out uh again in conversation with uh mr cowan that grand circus park is is built above a an underground parking structure and the campus marshes in another park downtown detroit have basements under them i don't know what he quite meant by basements but there's there's a level below for mechanics of fountains and storage and stuff so there's yeah you got it yep other other points i think we're going to learn a lot from this exercise by the way i think it's actually going to be very interesting for many of us here um jeff has his real hand up [Laughter] yeah please feel free i do have a real hand yeah i totally agree and alice is absolutely correct um the only thing i would say is i i i think in doing that we should not forget what adam said earlier which is maybe we should not limit ourselves to just what we're seeing right now in terms of a you know a space that we have available to us try to imagine at least in one of our scenarios possibly of the future working back from there a broader vision of what the center of the city might be i'm not talking necessarily about you know the software part the human part but i'm thinking of the physical space itself uh that it it may be that we come to realize that it may be important to to have a broader center of the city than we have and rearrange some of the the pieces that are there and to a greater extent with the collaboration of our block partners and other people in the city to truly make an innovative and unusual and powerful statement uh center of the city statement so that's one thing um and i don't uh i don't think we can um totally ignore uh the the human element i mean we do as part of that imagining of the future we have to have i think a stronger idea or stronger set of possibilities about what we're actually trying to achieve what is our end's goal uh what what or several possible end goals to some extent the political structure is dictated by the by the gr you know by the geology and the geography and the the the urban structure but it also has to be dictated by the kinds of human relationships we want to achieve in the future for our city okay excellent points jeff i think we got a few hands up i'm not sure whose hands carry over from the last line of questioning so i'm going to go rhea alice allen uh i'm going to repeat myself i also want us to make it for a future agenda item to really start thinking about a plan for our group so we've got some really solid things that we're starting out i really like it but i think that's just part of it so i think there is kind of like another set of steps that we that i'd really like to see written down so that we know we have them as tasks i think that's a a very good point very good point alice and then alan yes i think a calendar is a great idea sort of a calendar also we were talking about the physicality of the place i think the connections between physical places is interest isn't is important too i mean lately we heard about the train station plans kind of at least going on pause if not imploding um but uh the minute i thought of that we have an opportunity just like we had an opportunity with another sort of debacle recently with the food trucks um that our center of the city is logically the first place that people might want to go from the train station or it might be one of the major destinations on the tree line that that is projected to go to williams street or up to williams street or something like that so this is this should be a destination a physical destination that's connected to other physical destinations absolutely including the park system so you've got an actual park right there it's a connection where do you go from there maybe to the playground park that's up between the train station and in the uh center of the city that little place on fourth i think as you go down to the depot um connections so i think it's important to think of the connections between the physical spaces as well as the there's their role as a destination alan yeah uh all in accord with this i yeah but going forward in this comparative uh searching for more information i don't want us to lose [Music] particularly the martin people and library as uh elements in what is possible and and other plans that are you know going to impinge upon or coordinate with what we are doing so i think that our the local organization and as this conversation began connection with the main street state street business associations and our own community we need to be doing our community organization right here as well as looking what is you can learn from other places yes i if i'll just enter interject a short little thing of what alan is saying reminds me of libraries and their parks parts bryant park in new york next to the metro the metropolitan library and we have the potential of having our own little park attached attached to the uh our own library and there are many other other aspects too there there are museums that have parks attached to them and so forth so there's a great deal of potential ryan park has some very interesting uh topography uh issues too which also probably knows about let us let's not forget also that there are some major structures going up right now as we speak yeah in the area and alice has referred to this before and some others that you know so all these people are going to be there and they're in these structures they need a place to go to and uh so we need to bear them in mind as well and see what what their input so i think we've got some really good ideas we've got a couple of action items that that uh for for all council members one you know to reiterate is ideas around communities of interest that we want to target and you know be an inclusive list you know we had a great process for this uh for submitting ideas uh for the city council resolution last time i'd like to re-uh purpose that same process and you just utilize it for both communities of interest and also criteria of interest and then we're gonna have a small group of folks uh you know heather myself uh alice uh maybe rita and frank determine you know break that down and take that list and divide up uh everybody and try and correlate it to a common set of um of criteria of interest with a uh a diverse set of communities of interest and break up into some subcommittees based on that so we will take that action item we're going to try and do that within the next week so that we've got three weeks before the next council meeting and we will assign some homework uh for uh those organizat those uh uh subcommittees to report back in in some type of organized fashion at the next council uh of the commerce meeting so uh and this can be uh an gen item uh read it to your point we're on the long-term agenda we'll utilize this to inform that long-term agenda don't really what that's gonna look like at this point but certainly um we will we will figure that out so i feel like we've got some good direction at least we're on some shorter uh term action longer term visioning items uh out of this meeting tonight so unless there are further conversation on this uh agenda item i'd like to open it up for public comment um and uh i am pretty adamant it's 903 i would really like to um hit our nine o'clock mark at some point here you know in our process then we start about three minutes late so we we may have started three minutes late so maybe we're even but uh but we've been about 21 slate of real time so we got some time to make up um so any other any other comment on this agenda item if uh or we get to open a public comment three in the morning here and and to alan's uh benefit uh obviously here um heather do we have any members of the public would like to comment we do we have a hand up we have robert black i'm gonna allow you to talk now i'm not gonna take three minutes i'll make this very quick i i want to applaud you guys again watching your alignment and connection to each other respectfully and working through confusing and conflicting issues that show up both within the group and outside the group is exemplary i think alice hit one right on the head that you need to resolve very quickly which is the confusion about naming who's involved within this group what are they called and then what is the name of this group and the place you're looking for is it a commons is it center of the city which i love it evokes certain images that's very powerful and um you know there's uh alan talked about a bottom-up process there's also a thing called inside out you have the outside shaping forces which are other ideas like jeffrey mentioned from his outside thing in the issues from the past there is a park in in california in berkeley that's called kaiser center five-story parking structure which was at the time in the 1970s the largest urban park on top of a parking structure that won awards all over the place in urban planning one of the members of the initiating committee chad used to walk to work through that park you might want to talk to him about some examples of of what works and what doesn't it has two fountains on it it's beautiful and it's a concrete structure purely anyway um just quickly this outside in process then is from within you and you already have a number of criteria at your disposal through the great efforts of the task force and also there's a bunch of work that's been done within the initiating committee that could be helpful to you in terms of creating a structure for this understanding the criteria and then lastly i just want to support rita's idea of a plan where i facilitating this meeting with you tonight i would have a number of pieces on the board up there that are large words like learning and criteria and framework and insight and innovation things to inspire you there's a process called visual listening where you take these images and you put them in front of you and you start to create another idea that inspires you in the larger community and and then also just in terms of a larger time goal i want to reiterate alan's mention um i just did a thing with a this this museum at 200 years old you talked about detroit at 300 in in 1824 ann arbor was chartered and founded so in 2024 what's that number right so think about that as a time frame and use that as a as a catalyst and you will start to create things like they're doing in detroit um i could go on and on but i just want to applaud you for your your beautiful work together and i i wish you good luck in continuing and and lastly i'll just say adam's thing about when you see the take this perception of of a conflict as an opportunity to build partnerships that attitude and the strength of your commitment to you know really understanding and listening to other people will pay dividends as you move forward in any resistance you meet will be easily overcome i tell you so thanks again and good luck in the next few weeks with your work thank you for joining us this evening robert any other members of the public heather oh that's it all right well with that i can get a motion for adjournment a second all right excellent uh with that i think we are adjourned we are only eight minutes over so i take that as an improvement you
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it amazes me i can ask you what happened in 2003 i'll just do it to you right now oh goodness 2003 you lost in the postseason who'd you lose to we lost to heron in double overtime at our place i can ask you that from 2003 i can ask you what play how you scored how they scored they had a really good running back then went to carbondale his name was baker played at carbondale real good he was really really good all right we'll go back to water i just had it i just had to throw everybody this guy can name any play any player he'll give it any probably the records i believe too i think we've we've toured around with that too anyway you and coach warner come into the game 9-9 since 2001 18 and 16 overall is columbia and waterloo and what do you expect waterloo to do on the offensive side of the ball so what are you preparing for this week and uh without giving away too many insights like you said we've coached against coach rose for a number of years uh he's he's been anywhere from double wing wing tea to spread he's all over the place so our kids we have to be ready for every formation everything we're going to see the whole gamut you're going to see an alt-off set that belleville altoff used to run back in the day where they have a tackle split out and they shift um they shift him in and they go tight in on the back side so our kids are gonna have to be able to make adjustments on the fly within a one or two second window if they don't shift then we're gonna have to stay in a certain look our kid formation formation-wise our kids defensive we have to be fundamentally sound we have to make sure we're in the right gaps and and doing our responsibility so then what are they going to do defensively that we're going to have to do offensively or what is do you know what coach horner's got in mind i mean you know we have one film on them obviously they played one game so we were able to see what they did against modern day and you know like coach horner has to do you know on the offensive side of the ball he's got to prepare for a three-man front a four-man front or a five-man front okay and you're going to see a 5-2 you're going to see a 4-4 you're going to see a 3-3 you're going to see it 3-4 okay you're going to see if about four or five different looks you're gonna play cover three they're gonna play cover two they're gonna play couple four on the offensive side of the ball from a defensive coach you could see double wing from a week you could see spread you can see uh wishbone you can see hugh wyatt double double tight i mean the the list goes on and on and on and on and on so you know each week it's kind of like a you know you're playing chess with your opponent uh coach coach horner has to do the same thing on the offensive side of the ball and and uh so do i on the defensive now just a reminder to everybody we will not be broadcasting this week um so don't be looking for the game just a heads up on that so now one question i'll ask you what's your favorite memory coaching against waterloo well just because we're only nine miles apart you know i think every victory that we've had against them is my favorite memory because when these kids are gonna grow up they've grown up together nine miles apart they played against each other in little league they played each other you know in junior high now they're playing freshman ball jv ball high school ball so this we always tell them there's one or two games on your schedule that you're going to remember for your high school career it's probably homecoming and it's the waterloo game so anytime you play waterloo you can walk off the field saying blue pride with more points than them on the scoreboard that's a good thing that's a good thing all right so now for anybody that doesn't know coach germain and we have mrs jermaine and jared here he's a planner he's got to have everything ready to go when i tell him hey i'm going to interview you for a pregame okay let me know what you're going to ask so i know what to say and today i said hey i'm going to get you for coach's corner today okay well let me know what we're going to talk about so i can get some time to prepare and he's got his notes written here however sometimes you have to have some rapid fire questions whenever goodness gracious whenever you can't prepare so we're going to take that first answer that comes to your mind ready okay remember that's that first thing that comes to your mind oh goodness gracious all right favorite pre-game meal pasta pre-game superstition shower pregame song justin bieber justin bieber i knew that was coming favorite uniform combination white on white game coached anything you say waterloo will i say anything i'm sorry we'll go favorite game coached probably the greenville game in 07.
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at the middle school they rolled out the literal red carpet so our projected enrollment last year was 615 students and we're at 629. you can see a lot of uh you know growth really coming in at um the seventh grade [Music] finally at the high school welcome to ramland our link crew does a great job uh working with our students and preparing students to greet their freshman classmates and students that are new to the school so all you have to do is look for those those green t-shirts and you know somebody's there to help you out if you have a question and the red t-shirts and we also had like a i guess like a more of a maroon color with gold for our seniors it's our tradition at cheshire high school so our enrollment here uh is you know pretty close to projection 1337.
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and that's it for closed session thank you there'll be a presentation adoption no there's adoption of the agenda the board may have approved the agenda as is or add and or pull items from the consent i just agenda for discussion and or action we need a motion a move item five second all in favor aye any opposed thank you we have a discussion information presentation on unaudited actual financial report for 2020 2021 by mr schulemberg thank you very much miss oppara that the board could turn their attention to the screen i apologize audience it is behind you if you'd like to follow along this is a quick recap of our last year budget cycle or 2021 as we close the books i'd like to remind the board that this budget cycle actually started before the pandemic in january of 2020 when governor newsom proposed the state budget for the 2021 budget cycle great revenue estimates at that time great funding but you know what happened in march unfortunately to the entire state of california the may revised it was really the battle of are we going to get a budget cut or are we going to have our cash deferred luckily the legislature won that battle in june with an on-time budget and we did not get cut we did not get an increase but they deferred all of our cash which creates other problems fortunately with the budget condition of the state those deferrals have now been rescinded and we have received the cash we were supposed to receive for last year's budget cycle just a quick reminder as we move through the budget cycle some of the reporting periods back in october i was in front of the board with a financial update as of october 31st presented that in december our second interim update is the financials as of january 31st and then in may we talk estimated actuals which establishes the starting point for the current year budget that we're in now that we've closed the books with the unaudited actuals but i do want to remind the board these are preliminary numbers until the auditors audit our books and make any appropriate adjustments but this will establish the updated beginning balance for the current year which we will bring forth in our first interim when i'm in front of you in december talking about those financials so a quick recap last year we had 187.1 million dollars in revenue and you see the breakdown lcff sources from the state is our major source of revenue at 72 percent of our revenue and our federal and other state revenue at 13 and 12 percent and 3 percent local totaling that 187 million on the expenditure side we expensed a total of 176.2 million and you'll see the three main areas for those expenses are certificated salaries classified salaries and employee benefits typically school districts run between 80 and 85 percent of their budget on those three categories this particular year our percentage dropped below 80 because of the supplemental federal and state funding we received during the pandemic to mitigate the effects of the pandemic that really didn't go toward a lot of personnel expenses but it went toward a lot of stuff here's some specific numbers in our general fund unaudited actuals i'll take your attention over to the right hand side the combined column you'll see that we had an excess of about 10.8 million dollars on our budget prior to a transfer out of about 2.6 so our combined ending fund balance did increase about 8.2 million the the slight majority of that you'll see in the restricted column is four point about 4.5 million dollars on the restricted side but that does give us keep in mind this particular ending fund balance and the expenses as we move into this year will be adjusted based on the agreements with our bargaining units that you just ratified this evening the components on our unrestricted side are revolving cash of course we have to set aside forty thousand that's an emergency cash fund for emergency checks that we need to issue stores corresponds to the inventory we have on hand in our warehouse of mostly supplies will school supplies and cleaning supplies prepaid expenditures are expenditures that we pre-paid in the last year that weren't due until this year and we have 18.7 for a reserve for economic uncertainties and then the number at the bottom is our minimum required reserve for economic uncertainties which is three percent of total expenditures and transfers out on our restricted side of our budget we have about a 6.3 million dollar ending fund balance and you'll see the components there restricted lottery is funds solely intended for the purchase of instructional materials we have 50 000 remaining in the classified professional development block grant which is planned to be expensed during the current year when that money expires we have 1.4 million carryover in our routine restricted maintenance account we have 4.2 million in our expanded learning opportunities grant program that was created by ab-86 which funded our previous year summer school we'll fund some after school programs this year and our summer school for summer of 22 and then we have a little bit of the sb 117 covid funds those do not expire and those were some of the funds that governor newsome gave out to school districts at the initial onset of the pandemic we have several other funds we operate different programs in our district i'll just go through these fairly quickly you'll see fund 11 is our adult education fund we have an ending fund balance of about 261 thousand fund 12 is our as our preschool program we do have a very healthy ending fund balance in that program fund 13 food services i would like to point out that we did have a 1.8 million dollar deficit we had 1.8 million dollars more in expenses than we did in revenue as we continued to feed families in the community during the pandemic we paid all of our nutrition service workers some of them over time to conduct those feedings and handing out all those meals with a decreased reimbursement the the state and the feds have now come forward with some increase in the reimbursements in our current year and we continue to feed all of our students free breakfast and free lunch on a daily basis as part of the federal community eligibility provision we did make a contribution to fund 13 in the amount of 1.2 million using some of our federal esser funding to cover a portion of that but we do have an ending fund balance of 1.8 million after that slight deficit fund 14 is deferred maintenance uh the board previous years has committed those funds to major maintenance projects this is like hvac roof replacement parking lot replacements fund 25 is our developer fees we continue to collect those revenues on both residential and commercial development within the district fund 40 is our special reserve for capital outlay we make a transfer into that account each year you'll see it about 1.4 million that's previous redevelopment agency revenues that are now distributed by the county to participating local educational agencies those are for facilities projects only they're earmarked and required to be used for construction projects and fund 51 is a bond interest in redemption that fund is on our books as i've mentioned previous to the board we have no control over that that is a fund that is held and administered by the county that was established as part of our measure s school bond from i believe 2004.
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favorite win greenville game of 07. favorite child both of them jared i'm proud of jared because he went and got his first shot today so i'm proud of jared for doing that good deal yeah all right well coach germain thanks for coming in thank you for everybody for listening thank you for everybody coming up to aces tonight to watch the coaches show rather coach's corner and like i said we will not be broadcasting this week but we will be back here 6 30 next thursday at aces wild for the week three coaches corner presented by holton meets before the alt marquette game hopefully we talk about an eagle victory and we keep this thing rolling so thanks again everybody and we will see you next week thank you alex [Music] you
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projected in 1348 the actual enrollment but you can see it's really the younger grades that are driving it even you know cheshire high school with 32 beyond projected in the freshman class so our overall enrollment summary in k through six uh pre-k through six actually is 2163 was projected actual for enrollment over 51. the total for the district the projection was 4081 where at 4206 or 125 beyond what was projected and that's you know for us the first time in a long time that we've seen enrollment numbers you know well in excess of what was projected so that's a sign of growth and it's it's a great sign for our community people want to move here so transitioning a little bit from our opening in school our opening of schools and our enrollment uh just want to you know quickly go through what our strategic initiatives were we've had the same strategic initiatives for 12 years and that's you know an issue that's what we're updating and it's supposed to be like 10 years but because of the pandemic things kind of got pushed back a little bit and we've we've updated things since then but this is a year when we really have to renew uh what we're doing and so i'm going to quickly go through that our mission statement cheshire public schools and partnerships with fam and partnership with families in the community will prepare all students to meet the challenges of an ever-changing global society by providing high quality educational opportunities that inspire lifelong learning and service to others so in 2011 we created these strategic initiatives designed to be applied through 2021.
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finally what we do with this information of course i mentioned we'll make adjustments to our current year budget at first interim we update our assumptions constantly through the year the lcff revenue our bargaining unit agreements our lcap goals and action steps and of course covet expenses and any continued staffing needs that we may have our auditors will be in district the first week of october to complete their audit of the of the 2021 budget and all the financial transactions uh thank you any questions different constructions thank you mr so um the measure s bonds um i do not know that date off the top of my head but i will research that and get that to the board for their information mr schlemberg we restate the question yes absolutely i'm sorry the question was with our measure s facility bonds when do those bonds expire many of you or if you're an apple valley resident within the school district on your annual property tax bill we'll see a school bond that is our measure s bound which was passed by the voters in 2004.
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really i mean five six years ago a lot of these initiatives were fulfilled and we reviewed them with our cheshire strategic planning committee back in 2016-17 and ultimately we sharpened the focus to what you know today complex thinking and social emotional learning now i'm not going to read you each slide but we identified key initiatives in the areas of curriculum we identified some instructional strategies that we wanted to improve a decade ago how student work should look how we want to assess and evaluate students what technology should look like in our schools and think about that you know that was ten years ago to project technology a decade ago i don't think we would have you know predicted what we see today and then finally personalized learning was added a few years after 2011 for a total of 16 goals now the issue is nobody could remember any of the 16 goals it was just a little bit overwhelming on top of that we had our cheshire performance standards which we had adopted about mid 20 it was about 2 000 it was about 2006 2005 and we've evolved uh uh in 2019.
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i will research that question and get your answer mr self thank you emergency substitute teaching permit for prospective teachers by christine dupree good evening board members i'm here to give you an update on our current substitute teacher recruitment so our current reality and folks this will be on the screen as well behind you um for our approximately 650 teachers we have about 215 substitute teachers on the books not all of them currently working due to either expired credentials just a various set of reasons for themselves so that leaves us with about 83 subs that are actively showing up to work on a regular basis not quite enough to meet the need so as you can see this is our typical amount of vacancies that we have seen these first four weeks of the school year 83 subs is not quite cutting it given especially on that any given day um go ahead matt we are only seeing about 35 to 45 of our substitutes accepting a position that day um again various reasons we have some subs that um are only available to work three days a week they can't pick up the job so but we are incredibly appreciative of those 83 subs that we do get to see on a regular basis now given that that does give us some vacancies left on our campuses if there's any bright spot in this it's been the fact that so many folks have stepped up to help out where they were needed whether it's certificated staff that don't normally their normal position is not within a classroom they're helping to cover our vacancies but that help i also want to mention is not limited to just our certificated folks our classified staff have been champs we've got bus drivers that are helping out with lunchtime playground duty we've got nutrition service workers that are happy helping with after school dismissal so it's just really amazing to see that that core value of service is alive and well with our apple valley employees so what we have done so far in order to get ourselves some more subs um on your current hr report we are asking to increase the salary temporarily for this school year from a daily rate of a hundred and fifty dollars up to a hundred and eighty dollars and a long-term substitute rate from 165 up to two hundred dollars a day this is consistent with other districts in our area increasing this rate for this school year we have also begun a program of preferred resident substitute teachers these are subs who have agreed to show up on a daily basis to a school site they have committed to us that they will be there for the remainder of the school year so they are earning 250 per school day um we had a little bit of hope when the governor released an executive order waiving the 180 day waiting period for recent retirees but that was not an option for us due to our employees participating in the supplemental retirement program so what we are aiming to do now is implement the emergency substitute teaching permit for prospective teachers um the permit has been around for quite some time but has not been in use by apple valley so what this does is allows college students to become substitute teachers they can sub same limits as a general substitute teacher 30 days in the general education classroom for any one particular teacher 20 days if it's a special ed classroom but the difference for them is they may only work a maximum of 90 school days per year because the intent is that they are still enrolled in college themselves this is only good for one year they can renew it one time but when they renew it they still have to show active participation in college they have to have earned units along the way so the requirements for this credential must have a minimum of 90 semester units with 30 of those units being upper division they have to be currently enrolled in a university must be four year they also need to satisfy the basic skills requirement which we have gotten some relief in that as far as the seabest is no longer the only way to meet that requirement there's some transcript analysis that we can do passing scores on ap exams sat scores that we have a variety of options to get these substitutes qualified they also still need to complete an application including fingerprinting and then there is a typically a hundred dollar application processing fee but as part of the executive order that fee has been waived until the end of next school year so we are hopeful that this uh will give us a much bigger uh canada pool it puts them as being a qualified substitute and i have some personal attachment to this one this permit is actually how i got started in education and so it's really exciting to see that it's going to help us not only fill those vacancies in the classroom but it actually strengthens our applicant pool because then when we go to hire if we're in a spot that we're hiring intern or emergency credential teachers we're still being able to find some who have that substitute classroom experience any questions that is all i have for you i do um the first question that i have for you is the fact that a college student can be can serve as a teacher the challenge that i have with that is um what safeguards do you have in place for that college student when they don't meet their standard in managing the students behavior or the student educational requirement in the classroom but they are substitute teachers and you are putting them in front of our kids right the intent for this is that they are we're aiming at those who are in elementary teacher preparation programs okay so the hope is that this is not a career choice for them to stay as a substitute but their intention is to become a teacher and so that's kind of protected itself in the basic skills requirement that they need to meet because they have to hit core subject areas in order to qualify for that basic skills piece and then kind of the same spot as a regular sum my next question is when you place a substitute teacher in a classroom with children do you have a letter you sent to the parents to let them know that a substitute teacher is now the teacher of record for their child for that period or not they're not becoming a teacher of record at all this is just completely just us and that's safeguarded in that they can't stop any more than 30 days for one particular teacher okay thank you the only other thing i would like um kristen to address is the fact that um the numbers of absences um for our staff has increased each week that we've been in session um that is not a normal trend for us do you want to address with yeah normally on any given year we typically or any given day we're able to fill our vacancies um at a 70 to 80 percent and we've been hitting about a 40 to 45 fill rate percent fill rate these last three and the issue for people being out is not just they don't want to be at work yeah no in in it's it's a variety we always have absences anyway due to um life events and surgeries and other medical needs but we do have a lot of folks that are out on quarantine concerns and so it's it is not a fill rate by by choice a lot of these are we have asked them to be at home thank you any more questions thank you kylie do we have any public comments we have one public comment on one topic we have ten public comments on the other topic the first seven that were submitted will meet the 20 minute maximum the other three will have the opportunity to submit their comments for the instructions in the back of the room and that you are able to read aloud regarding how to submit those comments to be distributed and publicly posted thank you so much these three can submit as provided on our public comments card speakers are requested to limit comments to a maximum of three minutes if more than one person wishes to speak on the same topic subsequent speakers should limit their remarks to new information only public comments shall be limited to a maximum of 20 minutes per item in a situation where we have additional public comments and have exceeded the 20-minute maximum time per item members of our community will be able to submit electronic public comments to kindly underscore cardel c-a-u-d-e-l-l avusd.org by tuesday september 7 at 12 p.m these public comments will be publicly posted and distributed to all members of the board of trustees an information card with the information is available at the signing table joshua mullet [Music] is joshua here joshua mullet [Music] okay [Music] you don't see him okay okay [Music] and before we start as a warning inappropriate conduct disturbance or willful interruption of any board meeting shall not be permitted persistence by an individual or group shall be grants for the chair to terminate the privilege of addressing the meeting the board may remove disruptive individuals and order the room cleared if necessary erendor [Music] hello everyone my name is aaron diorio i'd like to address the apple valley board and all the citizens and parents here i'm a licensed marriage and family therapist and i've been doing one type of counseling or therapy for or another for the last 25 years and i've also been a resident of apple valley for 25 years i'd really like to address masks and the effect that they have on our basic communication with each other i think you all might know that body language is over half of the way that we communicate with each other and certainly our facial expressions are even greater than that um i just was talking with the man back there that said when i'm speaking with someone that has a mask on i can't tell if they're smiling at me or sticking out their tongue or what they're doing i have no idea so you know i think we've all seen you know we've walked into a restaurant or someplace where everyone's got their screens up you know and we all know the effects of what's happened to our interactions from just having screens in our life a lot of us don't have family dinners anymore we don't come together and there's a real loss of joy and happiness because of that i can't think of anything more tragic than taking away a child's smile everybody here loves their kids and it's valuable for us to see them smile it's important for us to you know to see each other smile what do you do with a baby the first thing you do with a baby is make faces and silly expressions and you teach them to mirror each other i wonder what kind of damage we're doing to our children when we are avoiding that kind of interaction we're not letting them mirror us we're not letting them develop in the way that they're supposed to um we can't tell how detrimental that's going to be in our future and for those who are going to be running our country later on uh another aspect of this is just um you know you can find the statistics on either side but i've seen plenty that say mass do absolutely nothing and it also inhibits our need for oxygen i don't know about you but i like to breathe air and i there's been plenty of examples of kids that can't compete in sports and do other things because they're not receiving enough oxygen into their uh system so um you know i just want to be an advocate for freedom for freedom for choice for going back to the things that are really important to us in this country you know they they've always said marijuana is the gateway drug to harder drugs i think mass are the gateway drug the gateway period to uh control force and uh basically a lot of forms of tyranny that i don't think anybody really wants if we don't stand up for our rights we're going to lose them thank you [Applause] melissa wedzel that's probably good all right hi my name is melissa wetzel i am with stand-up san bernardino county and i would like to address the unethical covet compliance happening within this school district some of you know me because i'm in your emails and that of all the all of my representatives on all levels of government i came and protested oh by the way i listened to the last meeting before i came here i came and protested all this a year ago at this location and addressed this board a year ago and the consensus has generally been that the district has no authority and is just taking orders as it pertains to covid a year ago i asked that all of you come out and speak as citizens at our board our counter county board of supervisors meetings to address some of these issues i've been speaking at those meetings for over a year and have never seen any of you there perhaps you will consider showing up now a year later as things have become more dire you say you advocate for our children and on maybe some level you do and yet you continue to participate in this compliance that claims to be health oriented yet there are many studies that claim masking is harmful and baseless on many levels i will provide you all with some of that information via email following this meeting if you believe this is wrong and are still complying you are part of the problem and you are the enemies of our children i don't care who you sent a letter to because i probably sent them a letter too if you care about our kids and about freedom on any level you must make yourself visible and become vocal i know i have are you worried about losing your jobs for if you stop complying well my husband's already lost his job over defying covid compliance because at some point ethics and morality and human rights must become more important than money and rules have you seen what is happening to the health care workers last year's heroes this year's unemployed will you participate when they try to mandate the injection everywhere as you watch your family and friends become second-class citizens as segregation finds its way back into this country into this facility as you all saw today is happening for many of us already for those reasons and more i have removed my children from the public school system and we're finding new ways to live as we are quickly becoming barred from normal participation in society but i will continue to fight shoulder to shoulder with those brave enough to take a stand for humanity trenay i heard you uh we're not a fan of the sign where's trenay at one of our local protests and if that's the case then please show up and stand in solidarity with us thank you [Applause] erica lancaster [Music] hi i'm a parent of one student now in this district i had two last time he was here and spoke now i have one uh maybe next time i will have zero depending on how things go here um you said last time that you were advocating for our children but nothing has changed and now you guys are waiting to reevaluate with the california department of health but that means you're just complying what have you done to advocate to end this nonsense no we're pretending at this point everyone is just complying if you're afraid to lose your jobs half of the military is about to lose their jobs because they're not going to comply with an experimental vaccine there's not going to be time for advocacy pretty soon our country is falling apart at the seams and the only silver lining i can see is that the failure of leadership is being driven out from the dark and forced into the light and this movement you're seeing is not going away we are not going away we are only growing and things are going to get ugly in this country i understand that you did not plan on being here for this time of our country and of the world but here you are and now is the time to take a stand and sacrifice something we just had 13 u.s servicemen sacrifice their lives for our freedom and you guys will forsake our children's health for your self-preservation that has nothing to do with anything else here except our freedom that's what we care about our freedom of choice to wear a mask or to not we do not want to comply and we won't comply anymore and i want answers as to what you have done that is tangible not meeting once a month with a group what have you done have you allocated funds in your budget for parents that now have to pay for homeschool because they will not force their children to wear masks have you have you done anything have you got on the phone and made contact with schools that have managed to push back against the masks and my other concern besides the fact that i found out that two teachers in this district marianne shoop who was two of my children's teacher by the way at vanguard has signed a petition to dis to go against the school rules and teach critical race theory to our children in this district what is being done about that there is one other teacher that also signed a petition jacqueline ray i don't know her but there are two teachers that are on the petition that they signed i will email you that article and that petition the other thing is the cova testing on site is this laying the groundwork for mandated testing of our students are we going to have access to that data will that our children be tested without our consent and what's going to happen when they're tested and they've been positive thank you thank you [Applause] june football june come on hi my name is june karpel i have three children two of which have graduated from apple valley unified school district and one that is currently a student first of all i do want to say thank you that schools are open having our kids in person learning is a blessing i've been a part of apple valley unified school district for 20 years and this is my very first time attending a school board meeting and the first time i've ever felt the need to my concern tonight is masking of our children as well so here are two facts that we know even though this topic is such an emotional topic i think in this instance we do need to kind of stick to the facts the first key fact that we know is that children have a low mortality rate for covet last year 42 million kids contracted covet and only .008 died as compared to the flu in the year 2018-19 roughly 480 kids died so the flu actually had a higher mortality mortality mortality rate for kids and never once did i hear the district ask suggest or mandate my kids to wear a mask number two kids are not super spreaders many recent studies published including an israel study a north carolina study even found out that 90 000 students there was not one single student teacher transmission of covid and there are many more studies out there proving these facts so why are we protect what are we exactly protecting them from is what i'm asking okay and has the district even considered the negative effects of these mass many doctors are now producing studies one even mainstream doctor dr mccary he was actually a proponent of mass is now saying that it's cruel to mass children okay and he's the one who's listing things that could go wrong fogging up the glasses where you can't see with learning severe acne problems vectors for pathogens mass exasperate anxiety lower oxygen interfere with learning they affect communication in the classroom facial expressions human connection and i would like to add that mass perpetuate fear fear of a virus that possesses little to no threat at all to these kids dr mccary also stated that the adverse developmental effects of requiring a mass for a few weeks are probably minor we can't say that with any confidence when the practice stretches out for months or years in a statement made by dr fauci himself august 2021 he is quoted saying hopefully mass won't have any lasting negative impact on them hopefully so what i propose is we allow for mass choice we should give students and parents the right to decide what is best for their children we can't wait for the cdc or the cdph to update its guidelines and catch up to what the science again is saying like they did for outdoor masking our kids have suffered long enough they have beard a burden they were never ever meant to bear i am sincerely asking apple valley unified district to follow lucerne unified school district's lead and petitioned the state to get counties to decide for our district what is best for our students [Applause] loretta sanchez loretta sanchez [Music] sorry sandra footer hey everyone um i'm a grandmother now i had my children graduate from these districts 20 years ago but now i've got grandchildren in your district and now for the first time just like her i'm here because i'm looking at my grandchildren in their future it's too much but i want to say let them breathe but in addition to breathing i'm here on behalf of my granddaughter who is among the students population that is hearing impaired and the first speaker spoke and said she spoke about we need to see we need to mirror we have mirror neurons in our brain those are there for a reason we are we're inhibiting those mirror neurons in our children when they can't see the faces of their teachers and their fellow students they we need to see each other and the but the masks are obstructing my daughter's ability to learn but her need to breathe takes precedence the new studies are showing that what basic common sense science should have already produced considering how limited the risk of covid19 are to the children forcing them to wear face masks is criminal mandates are not laws we need to uh and we need you to grow a backbone for our children when you stand up for them others will follow be on the right side of history the jma the jama pediatrics a top rated monthly journal published by the ama found wearing face masks increase the amount of carbon dioxide inhaled at on unhealthy levels the science is absolutely clear the only thing that's unclear is this anti-scientific mandate over us and our children which place our government in tyrannical mode rather than its proposed purpose of working for us we the people subsequently we are developing an unhealthy society and especially within our children by lockdowns face masks and absence of necessary activities but what makes all of this utterly heinous is that this is not being done out of ignorance it must be intentional as i hope all will understand after i conclude and this should make every parent grandparent and conscientious american citizen outraged mandating children to wear face masks for a long period of time while at school and participating in other activities is unprecedented move one that was put into place despite no research showing the practice is safe it's simply not the case because the act of mask wearing comes with great risks of adverse effects now that the pandemic is more than a year behind us evidence is mounting showing that the use of face masks in children is causing more harm than good and we won't know fully how harmful until possibly years down the road thank you [Applause] madrid hi there hi how's it going yeah so i used to be a teacher in the school district never went to a board meeting but i felt that god needed me here tonight as i'm sure most of you felt that too and i feel that we are missing from our leaders common sense decency and facts first of all i'd like i don't know if parents know that i would ask for the box of masks that were given to your teacher in your classroom i would love for you guys to read the label on that because directly on the label it says this does not prevent you from contracting communicable diseases from any virus so why on god's earth are we putting our kids in masks i hope we get an answer for that and what about the ridiculous quarantine how are our kids supposed to learn if they're have to quarantine for what five ten days how are teachers supposed to come back and do and teach those kids they are missing out on everything education is a joke now i want to know will you guys take the liability for any harm these teachers and students experience as a result of these long periods of mass there's almost no as somebody else mentioned almost no risk to our kids at all 4.2 million tested positive since it's been a year and a half with covid that's a total of with a total of 0.008 that have died however like the other woman mentioned the flu um with the flu cdc estimates 480 kids died in the 2000 2009 2018-19 season that's more than the year and a half of covet did any of you suggest wearing a mask no nobody did at some point we have to look at the science and use our brains especially those of us that call us educators this is all child abuse and a little known fact look it up please osha also states that you cannot force a person to wear something that has no purpose would you put your child in a helmet to protect them from meteors no that's asinine we would not do that you are creating hypochondriacs and creating fear of the world around us for our poor kids not to mention the psychological effects of the mass not seeing your teacher's mouth and anyone's full expression and they're launched and are there any long-term studies for these effects no so are you liable for that then so when the actual science is not in favor of masking then what then why do it you do not mask healthy people period that is something called tyranny so what does it come down to funding your paychecks what you are up there to support your community yet you count out like every other politician your hands are not tied you aren't a precipice right now it's time to do the right thing even if you get flack for it all it takes for evil to triumph is for good men and women to do nothing thank you and i sincerely pray that you take all things into deep consideration tonight [Applause] lorraine nobody hi um first of all thanks for holding this so that we could all need to get to the mic please get closer a little closer yes okay my name's lorraine i'm a nurse practitioner i've lived in apple valley for the last 24 years i've been in all three of our local hospitals for the last 15 years in various departments i have two children at the lewis center which i realize is not part of this but i wanted to be out here and support fellow parents and teachers i really don't have much to add you guys are very thorough you've covered everything but i think it is important again to speak to the facts and the science we're not seeing children in the hospital okay unless they have underlying health conditions which those people need to be protected just as our elderly and our immunocompromised patients vaccines are available to everybody for free and if you're concerned you're more than happy to get one or two or three and you can wear two and three and four masks if you like this is not a disease for our children to bear the brunt of when our kids went back to school as most parents probably recognized there was a major shift in their demeanor in their mood in their sleep habits eating exercise is critical they're happy to be back in school they realize that the sacrifice of wearing a mask to be back in school is to some degree worth it but we as parents know better for them they are not as educated they are not as experienced as we are and this is creating generational change that you are going to see god knows for how long and for what study after study shows children have a robust immune system particularly against viral disease you kept them out of schools not you particularly us out of schools for 18 months you will see some of the sickest children coming out of this pandemic because they have no natural exposure to these viruses and bacteria that we are designed to evolve with so for those reasons i am asking that you please take a stand for the future of our kids their health their mental well-being and for parents and teachers alike and from someone who has an oath to first do no harm that is why i'm here tonight because it is my job whether i'm in the hospital or out of it to speak on behalf of those who can't and protect those who can't thank you [Applause] for the following people please be sure you submit your your statement to uh kylie i treated that oh she already did okay i added one so i have two left uh i have um marie savinsky and marjorie solis if you submit your statement to kylie and they will have it to us superintendents comments i first want to say thank you to the parents and the community members that have come out and spoken and asked what we're going to do about it um i know it's hard to get up at the podium it's not something that people are comfortable doing but i know that you have to have the ability to speak your mind get your point across and we have heard what you have to say if i spent my days letting you know what advocacy i did i would not be doing the rest of my job so i will let you know that i have communicated with the state superintendent of public instruction i continue to advocate on the behalf of what you are asking for i don't get to make the decision nor does this board there is a belief that we can that we can veto that we can say no i will tell you that the comment about trenay standing with a sign um where are you was based on i called that parent the one that got up and spoke and asked where i had been and i did call her i spent an hour on the phone with her and she told me that the parents had been offended that i had sent a response to their email at the startup of school as a group email that i didn't take the time to individually respond to each email what i explained to her was we had a new law two two mandates as well as independent study that we were trying to open school hindsight i could have definitely delayed and requested a delay to school i don't believe that would have changed any of the outcomes that have happened so my comment was in a thread of social media there was an accusation that she had contacted me three times via email separately and i had not even responded to her after talking to her she explained that that wasn't the case that her husband had emailed me and that i had responded i told her that i was apologetic for making anybody feel that their email individually was not um taken seriously that i was trying to get to the work of opening the schools so as far as the masking it is a mandate it has a criminal accusation if we don't follow it and i'm more than willing to get you the government code for that and share that we'll post it you can have access to it but there are some ramifications for educators so continuing to sit here and tell us is fine i'm good with that because it gets it's it's streamed people get to see that you are here advocating on behalf the second thing i would like to address is the quarantining of students currently our numbers are approximately 180 students that have been positive coveted tests since the 22 days we've started school go ahead so my response regarding data all of you know the data you know that very few children die of this disease however we have a student that died last december in apple valley unified school district they're not a number they are a child and if it were your child you would be horribly offended that somebody would reduce them to a number so i just want to keep pointing out that we did live through that with that family we are aware of what happened and so with great concern for the loss of any child whether it's childhood cancer whether it's the flu whether it is covet i will continue is will you go on please thank you so i just would like to appreciate you to continue doing this one that you put your mass on when our students came in i want them to have the ability to come to these board meetings and do what they have been charged to do as asb students one of them ran into me at a school site the other day and said he was fearful he showed up at the last one he didn't want to come without knowing what the process was going to be i don't want any student to walk into this room and be intimidated by adults as far as the startup we've been in school for 22 days just over a month [Music] where is our police okay if we want to hold this meeting and be civil about it i suggest that we take our turns right now the superintendent is speaking and we are going to give her the time to speak thank you i wanted to acknowledge all those that have done extra duty work to support our students being in classrooms our principals that and aps who have gone in and substituted classrooms our directors and assistant superintendents who've been out wiping tables at lunch so that our kids are in school it's been a heavy lift there are a lot of absences and we are tied by the osha requirements that our teachers have different requirements than our students under quarantine so i just want to acknowledge the extra work that people have done in the first 22 days back to school nights were adjusted and they were either done virtually or um outside and i know they were well attended gotten lots of comments by parents and they've been given a new way for the future and then i'd like to final them finish with thanking mrs poppick for being here tonight and congratulations on your new position at phoenix academy i know that mrs white is extremely excited to have you on campus thank you thank you christopher do any statement thank you all so much for coming out tonight we appreciate you joining us and those that spoke we know that it takes a lot to get up and to speak your mind so i appreciate it very much and we appreciate you being here if this is your first meeting we look forward to seeing you at others and encourage you to get involved in all of the business of the district thank you thank you missus so mr like what are you guys doing seriously is regain control somebody is sending us a fight will you give that to the clerk we do not take papers from uh you don't hand me it was from a previous meeting it was from the previous meeting it was from the move meeting go ahead and give her your contact information and i will contact you yes we're going to close i understand the rest of the agenda okay now go back through ask anybody who has comments mrs though do you have any comments no i don't have any mr bender do you have comments no comment mr rawley do you have comments nothing i do want to agenda is something in the future but i guess i'll wait till the next go around when you come back just the future agenda item oh okay good now yeah which is good now okay i wanted to agenda maybe we can get a report on um the stadium what it would take what's the process since we do have the land now and i had some inquiries from some people just just a report on what the next steps will be sure on the stadium for granted absolutely mr schlemberg will put something together with what we have no no no rush does have to be by next meeting but just sometime in the future okay perfect thank you public hearing people textbook and instructional material compliance k-12 2020 2022 school year no i don't have any comments yes this is an annual hearing conducted to uh let the public have an opportunity to make comment we post that we have sufficient instructional materials at this time it's required by this certain number of weeks into school we're early we have had our williams visit from the san bernardino county superintendent of schools to the two school sites that received them we were missing just a few math one books that were just tough to find they're on order and that's going to be an adoption that gets updated so we are in compliance except for just that handful of books that have been ordered and are in route yes you will receive that letter um but this this hearing is also part of our requirement just to satisfy the sufficiency of instructional materials education code requires 60 119 and ccr title 5 section 9531 c requires the governing board of any local agency receiving instructional material funds from any state source to hold a public hearing on the sufficiency of textbooks or instructional materials by the end of the eighth week of school are there any questions or comments from members of the board regarding the pupil textbook and instructional materials compliance k-12 2021-2022 school year i now open the public hearing regarding the pupil textbook and instructional material compliance k-12 2021-2022 school year for public comments at 7 30 4 p.m any comments hearing no further public comments i now close the public hearing for pupil textbook and instructional material compliance k12 2021 2022 school year and owns at 7 35.
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so for those of you that have seen our corner of complex thinking and social emotional learning uh before we've updated courtesy of mr woods our our logo here this is really the uh pictorial version of what we aspire to be in our school system we want to really support all of our students to be in you know complex thinkers and have that capacity as well as strong social emotional learners so what does social emotional learning look like if we consciously focus on social emotional development of our students then school practices will demonstrate a clear focus on social emotional growth and students will demonstrate these key skills self-awareness self-management skills cultural awareness relationship skills and responsible decision making now these are this is a goal that we adopted the five years ago so what are we doing in 2122 we're building the capacity of our staff supporting teachers with sel coaching really respond again focusing on responsive classroom and restorative practices the ruler program which you may have heard of from yale recognizing your emotions understanding them labeling expressing and regulating your emotions and so these are things that aren't new but given what we've been through over the last 18 months we wanted to focus on you know doing what we do well and continuing that that trend rather than trying to to go after chase something new from the component of complex thinking if we engage in strategic systemic alignment of curriculum assessment instruction professional development and resources around complex thinking then classroom instructional practices will demonstrate a clear focus on complex thinking and student work will demonstrate complex reasoning inquiry problem solving skills and the exploration of ideas so you know some of the strategies that we're looking at here we want our we want our students engaged in meaningful application explanation and inquiry connections proof reasoning finding solutions to problems we're doing these things through learning walks a few years ago pre-covered we would take teachers around to observe other teachers and practice how well you know where are the these things happening in the classroom and then how do i improve my practice to ensure that these things are embedded in and when we talk about you know our test results and we did this an awful lot k through eight we're focused on making sure kids are complex thinkers and they can be successful on whatever they apply themselves to whether they be you know a project in class or an assessment they're just sharp people and we're using learning walks again this upcoming year and we're focused on something called acceleration so students may have missed things from being you know out at the end of spring at 20 or uh the kind of the tumultuous last year we're not going to go back and re-teach everything our kids are perpetually behind that way we teach them what they need to know right now and fill the gaps from old stuff so that it's connected to what they're learning now and um you have to pare down the curriculum and really focus on what's important and that's really helped us as well to be successful through the pandemic so some of the dividends of our work um the fifth best overall s back performance in connecticut for k through 12 districts uh that probably sounds familiar because we had the fifth best connecticut performance pre-pandemic and we still have the fifth best performance i want to kind of get into some of those details that now that's sixth grade levels worth of kids third through eighth grade norton has been named one of the top elementary schools in america that's just incredible right um highland was recognized as a special olympics unified champion school an espn honor roll member i believe the first elementary school to be given such an honor numerous other awards and recognitions the commissioner of education the governor others cabe have recognized the work that we've done to keep our kids in school and keep them successful and so we're really excited about that and then you know skills you can't possibly quantify if it weren't for the five minute delay that we had here and the technical issues i'm afraid to play the video because i it's uh i don't want to mess with our technology but the video is probably the cutest thing you've ever seen it's a darcy student last year walking his mom through some of our sel skills so it's something called the dandelion breath where you close your eyes take a deep breath and exhale as if you're blowing the seeds off the top of the dandelion and then he does another strategy where you do a three count on an inhale three count on an exhale and he you know is sharing this with his mom and talks about how his his teacher helped teach him these things that goes back to the the ruler program and you know i'll talk momentarily in a moment about why that's so important that our kids have those sel skills and they're connected to our academic success as well so we you have to pardon me the state just released all the um the student achievement data yesterday so we are still going through stuff but as of right now it looks like at the high school level we had 73 percent of our students reach the achievement benchmark in ela and 59 in math in science we had 57 rankings wise that's 15th 17th and 14th in durgby now those are areas that represent our performance it's kind of where the ranking was a couple years ago last three years ago last year we had improved a little bit pre-pandemic there are things that we want to focus on to improve that we do have a a new math department chair this year who's already kind of started running and and we also have added more instructional supports in math and writing so we're there to provide those supports in coaching kind of like that acceleration piece that i was telling you for students of all grade levels at chs in grades three through that's by the way that's only 11th grade for all three of those in grades three through eight combined our ela percentage of students that were at the goal or higher was 77.2 percent and that's second in durgby uh and it was fifth out of the derg a and b combined so durga is basically fairfield county ridgefield darien westport new canaan wilton weston those districts there are eight districts there and there are about 18 k12 districts in durgby out of that group uh we finished fifth uh in the state now the reason there's an asterisk next to that is that last year's testation was a little key because the pandemic the vast majority of students participated in person in the building with some students participating remotely and so the students who participated remotely weren't included into the counts across the state they were small and they were so small that they didn't often register the state won't report a group less than 20 students so it really doesn't in change the rankings necessarily but i do want to put that caveat out there and definitely you know all schools across connecticut were in different places with respect to how much in person learning they did obviously nobody had more than cheshire we were full day every day in k-8 math smarter balanced achievement you see here after the year that was the pandemic last year and the three months that we were out of school the year prior we still had 68 of the kids meet the benchmark pre-pandemic you know right before our you know the pandemic couple years before we were at 68 percent so our achievement is still really exceptional we were second in the derg there as well when you combine overall math and english achievement we were number one in durgbay so our students are still performing at exceptionally high levels compared to their peers across connecticut and if you're performing at the top of the pack in connecticut you know by looking at the data we're performing at the top of the pack nationally so this shows you 2019 these were the rankings in 2019 the early review of our data the top five are still the same new canaan dairy and west port ridge field and cheshire we're in pretty outstanding company there these folks i'll just they spend quite a bit more per student than we do and we actually by the way so do these people and we outperform them so there's a lot to be proud of there i think it's because we're focused on complex thinking social emotional learning and we have an incredibly dedicated staff and families that are incredibly supportive of the schools and their students so success for all learners i think this is equally critical for us pre-pandemic our special education students that were identified with special ed services performed fifth in connecticut i can't tell you unfortunately i don't have the data yet on where we are in connecticut but we're third in the derg amongst you know really high performing communities so our special education students are performing at very high levels too so that's something that we're we're definitely very proud of so i talked a little bit about why that social emotional learning the dandelion breath all that's important we live in a vuca world that's a phrase coined by the u.s military represents volatility uncertainty complexity and ambiguity things are constantly changing i talked about technology being different 10 years ago everything changes at a lightning pace and i loved when uh canadian prime minister justin trudeau said the pace of change has never been this fast yet it will never be this slow again so we're preparing kids that are kindergartners in the class of 2033 or you know whatever it is to be to be ready for 2033 and what the world's going to look like then and that's you know kind of mind-blowing so we're teaching them the skills to be complex thinkers and how to be really self-aware in terms of you know their emotional states and being able to manage so that they can be successful not just in the cheshire public schools but life after cheshire so what are we doing as a school system moving forward what what should things look like as we move on um i've asked the board of education to review our our documents called the vision of the graduate i'll be working with community stakeholders parent groups business groups the teaching staff the students to take a look at that and see what sort of adjustments are needed but also you know part of the early board feedback was around what sort of benchmarks are we looking for so those will be things that we'll incorporate this spring we will i will propose to the board after a thorough community review a three-year plan to continue toward our goals ten-year plans in the vuca world get outdated really quick so we're focused on it on a three-year plan so i know that you know i hate standing here and droning on to you you know to folks and just going through the slides but i wanted to give you a thorough overview of you know particularly our enrollment because i know that's such a critical component of our uh school modernization plan moving forward and indeed as beyond actually what was projected we're growing and then of course you know the the board of education uh agenda item why we're here tonight is the affirmation of our goals so these would be our goals for the 21 22 school year and then like i said in the spring we hope to adopt new goals that uh can last us three years and and help propel propel our school system uh to continue to move forward so at this point i'll take any questions from the board yeah tim uh yeah with respect to the change in the student population you went up from 4 100 to 425 students yep any common trends that drove it elementary schools uh our elementary we saw a lot of the growth at the elementary level um and so you know obviously if you've lived in the community over the last year or so you recognize that the housing market has been very active and i you know half jokingly say people don't move here for the night life um you know they move here to get a great education and so we see a lot of young families buying homes and that's reflected in our data so you had the projected at a moment in time a few months ago versus the actuals what was last year's actual so this year's actual day or two ago was what 42 42-20 or something right yeah i could go back do you happen to know what the actual was for last year carol i know we have that so last year's actual was 4098.
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discussion action session it is recommended that the board of trustees discuss and take action on the following items madam president we um this is the this would have been something we would have discussed in closed session we waited to do it for the second class session this is not a readout so we go back to close we can we can move um item i one to after closed session so that if you have questions regarding the discipline um they are both ars administrative um okay so we i move that we go to cl go back to closed session um you can move on to you can skip you could make a motion to table um discussion action item i1 and move to discussion i think that would be fair to say that we can go into closed again or you can do the consent agenda and then go to closed and come back and finish i it is recommended that the board of trustees consider approving a number of agenda items as a consent list consent items are routine in nature and can be enacted in one motion without further discussion this procedure con conserves a meeting time for a full discussion of significant issues um consent items to be approved in one motion items one through thirty two i move we approve items one through thirty two on consent yeah i'll second it can i get a mission to um i need the emotion at least before you go to class table item we still have a motion on the table for consent yeah we have to approve oh okay then we um go into table item i of the discussion action session um until we come out from the close and you're opposed to that no no you need a motion and then a second i'll move that we um table it and then a second good second second second bite bender all in favor aye aye aye any opposed okay so now you can um so we can go too close you can um yeah we're going back to close mix uh discussion action section it is recommended that the board of trustees discuss and take action on the following items approve the recommendation of the administrative hearing chairperson effective immediately on annual review ar number one to 2021 2022 i need a motion i'll move the item all in favor aye any opposed and i'll review ar number two 2021-2022 i need a motion move the item i'll second it all in favor aye any opposed motion carries approve the certificated and classified personnel actions as listed i need a motion so move second all in favor aye any opposed approve the requested leaves as noted i need a motion so move second all in favor aye all right any opposed approve the declaration of need for fully qualified educators before we take a vote trine nelson would like to explain and address the need for immediate action this is the item that you added to the agenda it has to do with our ability to hire under an emergency credential and it was missed on the agenda so we wanted to make sure that it was handled so that we could move forward with these hires any questions any move it a second there second all in favor any opposed and then i need a motion to adjourn the meeting actually oh you have comments well you have to um let everybody know that there was no action taken in closed session which there's no script for that yeah we didn't do it and then if we can there's no no action taken in closed section uh superintendent's comments um i appreciate the board um working with us over the issues and i just wanted to be sure everybody was aware that there is an updated update to our website with a covered cases that are spanning our district they're inclusive of our staff and our students over a 14-day cycle and updated once a week likewise this week something we should be celebrating is that we had our stay our student peers program here at the district office they're here tomorrow as well um being trained and at a time where there's a lot of trauma these students are trained to assist their peers and one of the best things that is the outcome is they are active listeners and so they're there to support and we appreciate the work that goes into this the staff that supports it and then hopefully next board meeting we will be in conference room a with our new setup with the streaming still available but i wanted it to be acknowledged that we so appreciate the work that rit department has done to support this and granite hills high school who's allowed us to use the equipment that students use on a daily basis in the great academy so we're thrilled to get that equipment back to them permanently and have made the transition to um stream our own thank you mr nunez do you have any comments no comments tonight thank you mrs cell i don't have anything mr bender mr raleigh uh no thank you i don't have any comments um mr raleigh you had some uh closing uh pizza items you mentioned yeah we already did it put it on the agenda okay all right we have the signing of documents uh there being no further business to come before the board of trustees it is recommended that the meeting be adjourned i need emotion so second all in favor 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you were thinking drop about 10 or 20 students and it went up over 120 yeah that really speaks to the school modernization and part of why we're looking at that right now right well it's not necessarily factored into that tim and it just to follow through on your your point is that the birth rates from a few years ago crossed over 300 births in town for the first time in a long time it had been hovering in the mid twos birth rates crossed three uh several years ago three four years ago and those are students that are going to start enrolling into our school system uh in the next couple of years which will push things up in cheshire the rate of enrollment is more than one student per birth if that makes sense so if we have 300 students born in a given year because people move into the community we have more than one student born per every or more than one student enrolled for every student so the students who are born here stay here and more move in is you know the data interpretation of that and that's what slr formerly mylon and mcbroom and nasdaq they look at those things and that's why we're projecting issues with the size of our elementary schools any other board members with any questions comments i talked about the songs don't do a little so uh yeah disappointing we had the mold issues but i really appreciate the quick turnaround and a lot of new little families were disappointed but intermediate after two days uh kudos to the team and angle surfboard came around really quick so i know the mold was found initially in the library where chromebooks work yeah i know there's really no air circulation in that building unless the heater is running or even at the boiler right so it's not right of course there so assuming next year we have another hot even muggy summer what what can we do to prevent that from happening well air circulation is a significant component to you know inhibiting mold growth obviously there's a couple of things we could do air circulation with windows open and fans running and dehumidification are the two strategies that would you know i mean certainly this is more vin's neighborhood than mine but we've had a lot of conversations about this over the last 48 hours so i mean anything you want to add there i would add a couple of things i would just you know say that there should be some context around what happened at too little because when you have some small amount of mold that's just taken care of internally either by our step by and or by performance so since i've been here which is almost 12 years we've had three mold remediation issues one has to do with the cheshire high school we had a lot of water that was sitting in the underground utility tunnels and and there was some insulation that was paper based and so the paper the hot uh air and the humidity because there was standing water led to mold you wouldn't have known it except that teachers and staff that were allergic to mold started reporting symptoms we have a process through the school nurse that's how we found out there was an issue we went exploring found the issue resolved it took us a couple of years and quite a significant investment to fix that problem so that was a standing water issue that was about 2011.
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in 2018 similar issue um to um at the high school but it was different it was air conditioning that was short cycling over the summer and when we came back around this time of year there was mold in the library now you would say well it's air conditioned why did you have mold well i'm not a technical expert but because there was nobody in the library the whole summer the air conditioner was running in short cycles but not enough to dehumidify the air and so we had you know a mold growth that had to be remediated it was the same crew actually from surf pro who did a really good job in 2018 that did this one and then we had this one at two little slightly different set of circumstances than this one in that it was just very humid period of time doolittle does have some a high water table we believe and so it was an extraordinarily humid period of time we don't think the mold was there for very long at all because the chromebooks that it was discovered on had just been cleaned and put into the carts you know within the two weeks before the the they were about to be distributed so yes it happened we dealt with it um if we had a long-term solution the real long-term solution would be to add proper ventilation in that school which would include air conditioning and dehumidification within the air conditioning one of the solutions we had for the 2018 library issue was not change out the air conditioning but we literally added dehumidification heat so that as that air conditioning unit is running when there's no occupancy it does dehumidify the space so you know my point is you need some context this is not a recurring issue of this magnitude it was large enough that we needed to close the school for two days and as jeff said for next summer what we'll clearly do because we're not going to have you know a full scale solution you know we will take you know extra precautions make sure we run some more fans along the floor open the classroom doors periodically to try and and move the air through it's really you know a strategy that does work we we typically do that um in all this all the schools that don't have ac which is all but highland so this year just was a combination of factors and and a large outbreak will you continue to test the era do a little bit of sure enough you know this is okay and for parents that concerns about especially kids that have you know a larger account or really bought by even you know small amounts of mold just so that again so the situation the answer to that is what we'll look for and this is why the process that we follow is so important so if anyone has symptoms you know whether it's a student or a staff member it has to get reported to the school nurse because the school nurse you know does maintain a log of the complaints and if there's a trend that we see that you know there are many students or staff that have allergic issues that gets reported to a maintenance department we have a regular process called two tools for schools we do meet there's an indoor air quality committee for each of our schools so we're on top of it from an understanding if there are symptoms being reported you know as far as testing that is not recommended for mold there is no standard for mold in a school building because mold exists naturally it's just when the conditions are right those mold spores will grow rapidly and that's what happened with us over too little over the last couple of weeks so testing isn't the answer it's really watching for any kind of symptoms being reported and obviously maintaining a regular cleaning cycle you know the the schools are not cleaned over the summer there's there's no reason to do that they all the classrooms are detailed over the summer but there's not the nightly cleaning and wipe down which does tend to remove any any mold that would be located on the hard surfaces in particular so you're welcome you know been talked about um really mitigating these problems you know not having quote a solution that would be uh you know a full-scale air conditioning dehumidification system within the building you know it's the same thing this morning not maybe this morning but on many other mornings with our traffic you know we can take small steps to to mitigate the issue but in people drive their students more than they did in 2050 when the buildings were built so we can do things that will mitigate the issue but until the the facilities are scaled uh and designed in a way to handle that sort of vehicle traffic you're not going to quote solve the problem um today's problem i will say is dramatically different than what typically happens today we had a substantial four car accident i think it was four cars on route 10 route 10 was closed i i haven't seen that in forever uh it was closed for like 40 minutes and unfortunately all the traffic had to be directed toward doolittle down cornwall as a detour and then we also had a an accident at the corner of academy route 68 and route 10 this morning with three vehicles as well airbags deployed um it was just like a perfect storm this morning after last night's storm so um that this morning was an anomaly unto itself but otherwise speaking you know we're going to try and work on traffic and mitigate those issues any other questions from the board we want to we can entertain a question good so i mean we could all agree that the mold is dangerous correct it depends on the amount okay but we all agree that molded causes respiratory damage or possibly that um no i you know i don't know that i would go i'm not an expert to be able to answer that question at the panel nobody has nobody's certified industrial hygienist or has a degree in mycology is this correct yeah okay i'm just asking yeah so you know but you responded in my email you said it's not black mold but when you put up a picture up there mr master says it's a white ring but all i see is black black in the center yeah was there a nest on the mold that's wood no there's mold on the wood right the white stuff can we go back to it or not um i just have a few questions because i'm i'm here on behalf of the do a little you know the community here's got major concerns over the mold it's i i don't want to compare the mold to a traffic incident that's not a fair comparison so i'd like to get back to the screen that you show yeah i'm getting there yep because you did state in an email that it's not black mold and if we had it tested white or grey no we didn't test it you can look at it and see it and servpro who does do this every day and has you know qualified people know what yeah we just put it we more or less put a band-aid on an ongoing problem since 2010.
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how much did the movie it's your characterization what was that that's your characterization no those are the facts multiplayer hasn't disappeared and disagree we've talked many especially oh yeah it's available in nature as we remind everyone tonight there is no public comment tonight because it's more of a showcase oh we can't ask questions later this month because i signed up for songs all right i just want to see the mold though just so we're clear that when a statement it's not blackboard actually that's why you can email the presentation yeah it's going to be available online an hour before our meeting here it's going to be available on uh our website tomorrow okay so that can we zoom up on that mr match does that happen no it's the same as high as it goes yeah are you talking about those things i'm talking about the two white spots there one white this side the center yes that's those are holes that's not mold no they're holes in the wood okay all right maybe i didn't see this this here is what we're looking at well it's really hard to see that's the problem it's this lights up here yeah that's a little closer here so the fuzzy ring you were talking about was not about the mold when you said a fuzzy ring that's a hole right here right and this is a hole as well those are two holes right correct holes in the wood where kids are like just pencils down a hole into the wood and then this is on the edge of that the mold on the inside okay correct that's that right there is a hole and i understand why you would look at me i understand why you would look at that and think gee what is that that's those are holes it's white it's called white or gray mold white or dremel yeah what is what it's typically more rice because you don't know or not the health director she she doesn't review this she we have an expert from servpro come in and evaluate that so when you say remediated how much the remediation cost we don't have a final cost so that's so much we will definitely remind us that there is no public comment tonight when you move on to the business meeting but here's what i suggest we do you're going to follow up the dual appearance so if you do have a report certainly from sopro you can share i would definitely eat them out yeah as soon as we have all the information available definitely so we will do that thank you so much back to the chairs we can resume the meeting please yeah so if the board could please return to the dance we'll just adopt the uh goals thank you guys before i i do that though i just want to take one quick moment um mr peregini you mentioned uh vin can you hit the screen there thank you um mr perry mentioned at the outset that our administrative team was here did i just kill that lamb perfect the our administrative team was here tonight and there was a point last fall i swear to god when my phone would ring and my wife would say scott jeffrey because when we were going through the the kovid thing you know with 800 750 kids in his school unfortunately each principal here had a a patch whereas like every time the phone would ring it would be them unfortunately during some of those those periods um and they stuck through what you know contact tracing is not their expertise although i could argue they've become it um they stuck through that they worked incredible hours last night kelly grillo my wife's yelling at me because kelly's texting me at the dinner table at eight o'clock because she's got questions on these things the the work that they put in not only to do that stuff but to get the results that we see here tonight and it's not just the academic achievement it's the fact that our kids are well adjusted enough to have that sort of academic achievement to be able to come to school every day feel loved feel cared for feel like they belong and able to perform on that level i don't know that i could never say enough thank yous to the folks that are in this audience i know the time and energy to it and from the bottom of my heart i just want to express my gratitude in front of my bosses and the community for what you have done for our kids so thank you very much i appreciate it [Applause] thank you dr solomon man santa for the the presentation as a doctor so no the presentation will be available online and for any parent that has any questions on the mold issue please email uh cpskova19 at cheshire.e12.ct.us i should run this one by heart now uh it will get that out to you so a lot of information there and uh i really appreciate the pretty essentially little community for the latest schools as i heard from many parents and and some today very happy with the outcome um very happy the kids are back there they didn't seem to miss a beat they seemed very happy and uh so i when i want to iterate you know i'm sure you have to board i can speak as well but uh i know it's uh uh probably a very emotional uh day for all you folks out there being their first day of school considering what you went through last year so i definitely echo dr sullins concern praise that uh while it's not always ideal i think you do an outstanding job you know kids back to school acclimated we all know they do much better when they're in our school buildings interacting learning having that social emotional dialogue it's critical so uh behalf of my kids thank you very much for making this happen and uh you know let dr still know if things come up during the year we'll certainly be there to help you uh work through it so again i want to say thank everyone for getting going and hopefully the rest of the school years smooth sailing any uh comments from the board members on the presentation or seeing as there are none there is no old business we have one new business item which is just the affirmation of the strategic plan and it isn't our border bed packets it's also printed out for us um we can make a motion and we can discuss a little more like someone like to make a motion mr grippo thank you mr chair um move that the cheshire board of education reaffirms the cheshire public schools strategic objectives and goals for 2021 2022.
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great is there a second second by mr martelly any discussion or any more details you want to share in this thought or something i would just say you know i think that these goals serve their purpose for the time and place that they were in um obviously you know when we as we've evolved we've reached a pretty high uh pinnacle and we hope that you know collectively with the community we can design new goals that allow us to continue to sustain and even grow beyond where we are today thank you i had a quick question so these goals as the strategic planning initiative kicks off throughout this year that's that's happening uh around the context our stage of plan correct so if for some reason is it likely we might you may come back by spring and say hey we review the goals and we have a slight change to them and are these sentence stoners an opportunity to adjust them based on the work of that committee sure i we these are definitely not set in stone i mean what we have here is um a pathway that has has been quite successful for us uh we as i mentioned earlier we accomplished a lot of those 16 goals that were set forth in 2011 and focused in 2016 on complex thinking and social emotional learning you know we talked about some of the dividends we've seen at that point we were 35th in connecticut in our performance and we've been fifth for two consecutive administrations now so we've seen great academic achievement but a few years back 2018 uh dr gad miss solano mr grippo was a very active in some of these meetings we have other team members who were on the personalized learning task force and designed a vision of the graduate and those were those really at that point became more of our focus for our goals so we want to continue to review that and not only look at all right well are these goals still appropriate for the next three years and if so what sort of benchmarks will we want to try and hit on that on that pathway for our success and just one last question for as far as the strategic planning initiative uh committee if there are parents out there or community still go someone involved what's the best way for them to well they're going to be invited at various points throughout the year so as i did with you know the initial formulation back in 2016 we'll be going to uh pto meetings to make sure there's broad parent involvement and opportunity for feedback but like i said i think my favorite part was meeting with students at cheshire high and at the middle school they they were really instrumental in ensuring that we had a social emotional learning goal and they they told me that that was really critical to them and um you know as a former mental health professional um it just you know so obvious when they pointed it out thank you for that any questions on the board tim yes thanks with regard to the pta meetings do you have a sense across all your schools generally are they going to be online in person any rules at this point yeah unfortunately right now it looks like they'll be predominantly online i know that our administrators want to be creative and maybe if we can get outside for one early in the air or something like that but um until this stuff really subsides uh we're we're just being conservative uh i'd hate to lose one of these guys because of a contact for eight days or something like that so we're just trying to be a little conservative thank you yeah thanks tim any other questions from the board seeing as there is none the motion is that the cheshire board of education reaffirms the cheshire public schools strategic objectives and goals for 2021 2022 all those in favor it is unanimous thank you team we have no well we thought about business there's none before a call motion to adjourn just uh a couple of upcoming meetings our next board of ed business meeting is september 23rd here in town council chambers 7 30 p.m there will be an open forum here in town thompson chambers on october 7th and i'll follow up with the two parents earlier that's an opportunity for uh an open dialogue more or less with the board where we can actually sit down out there break up in the groups and talk about finances planning uh various committees and have a little bit more back and forth dialogue so stay tuned for that i'll find more details on that at december 23rd meeting and that's really the upcoming is this month we may have a curriculum meeting on the 13th faith is working with marlene uh and myself an agenda for that so hopefully more details next week but uh hopefully this rest this month is is fairly smooth smooth sailing for you out there and again thank you for getting schools back open again that being said i'm going to call for a motion to adjourn just like to make a motion tim question adjourned uh second second by faith all those in favor uh unanimous thank you this meetings adjourn thank you for coming here tonight we'll see you soon you
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[Music] [Applause] so [Music] oh foreign hello i can't i love your face [Music] boy so thank you i'm joined by jacob clarke head football coach of the audible northside middle school spartans and loved and joined by many coach clark thanks for joining me today what do you know about this sophomore well coach this southport team is always a wily opponent they have dangerous weapons all around the field uh a returning a two-year returning starter at quarterback running back much improved returning starter and just a variety of weapons on the outside that can get loose at any time hoping those bulldog defenders are ready and able to read their keys and stay in keep those cardinals in front of them otherwise it could be a long night southport opens a season 0-2 a loss to a state powerhouse roncalli and a loss against their rival i stay across town but all right sorry about that we'll try it this way so southport opens the season 0-2 looks like they lost their their week one game at roncalli state power and lost a home game against perry meridian who's a rival of theirs anything you know about those two contests that you picked up on coach yeah well obviously there's no shame in that opening season loss at roncalli the defending state champs really coming off a tremendous season at 4a they took a little hiatus from the top of 4a power and are now back in control that state championship game they were able to put up huge points against my brickies from hobart i believe they scored 55 points in the state championship um won that 55-7 and then you know perry meridian is a much improved team this year not only are they an improved team but that is a rivalry game anything can happen in those rivalry games as as we bulldogs experienced last week at columbus east the rivalry game really hinges on three or four plays and if they go your way it can be a good night for you so no shame in either of those losses and definitely athletes everywhere on the field for southport tonight as mentioned the bulldogs have their home opener here at max anders field tonight they've had two road contests one across town and one across the state really down in gibson southern so one and one the bulldogs entered the contest tonight they lost to the gibson southern team that we mentioned they've got a pretty good quarterback down there coach clark you might know something about him and then of course the 28-0 [Music] monstrous win last saturday morning postponed because of weather over the the neighborhood columbus east olympians yeah gibson southern is number four actually they've moved up since then they're number two in 3a right now with a quarterback a d1 quarterback allen going to purdue next year that guy can sling it around the yard in addition to other division one talents that they have that is a very very tough 318 and then last year last week's win at columbus east man uh you know like i said previously those rivalry games can absolutely be brutal uh just went well for the bulldogs last week i thought the defensive line played tremendously well in that win and we're looking forward to them to step up again tonight and put some big pressure on school this is an southport event that bulldogs host and try to have all the youth football programs all the way from the little ones up up through the eighth graders here they can get in the gates for free and most of them have their journeys on and um what a cool opportunity to come out and dream the dream this is what keeps indiana high school football alive is these young ones and the taylorsville bears and the powell football league both represented tremendously well tonight they put in long hard hours in the sun and get to play on saturdays and dream about one night playing on friday night and then it's a lot closer for those middle schoolers who you know whether they're at central north side this is their dream to come out on play on friday nights we really appreciate the leadership here at columbus north high school inviting them to come out and enjoy this evening [Music] [Applause] is [Applause] he's a three-year starter he's a gritty football player he wills this team to victory uh he is willing to do what it takes he has no individual ego just a great team leader like i said a three-year starter in 6a football in conference indiana he's been around the block he knows what to expect and a very great tough leader for the bulldogs [Music] [Applause] [Music] foreign oh absolutely the offense hinges off of number two and what he does he makes great reads you know dylan got a lot of uh clean up time last year backing up the tremendous running back the bulldogs had last year but now it's his turn and as that offensive line begins to gel and come together i expect to see bigger things out of mr redmond as far as his numbers are concerned but i'm also very proud he also doesn't care about the yardage he cares about the team and the win and that's that's really what's important here for the bulldogs you know it's going to be really interesting to see what they do with their base alignment they they start off and they look like a 4-4 cover three but they've got a hybrid linebacker safety walk down in the box to stop the bulldogs run i expect keegan cassetter to have a whale of a ball game because he's a handful for anybody to try to cover in man-to-man coverage and if it if they stay in that three-day zone uh he's gonna have a heyday i would expect to see more cover two uh out of the out of the cardinals but early in the ball game that'll be something to check um [Music] yeah i really expect shepherds going to have better numbers like i said the competition they've had this year has been really stiff he's got a live arm he is a gritty quarterback and he's also a two-year starter in conference indiana he knows what it takes so so he'll be he'll be a threat to also pull down the ball and run if things go awry the running back van der waals he is much improved from last year he's also a returning starter in conference indiana for southport he's a tough hard-nosed kid if he gets ahead of steam it could be an issue i appreciate that and a big shout out to my wife for letting me postpone our date till after the game isn't that the truth yeah it's an absolute perfect night tonight southport will start with uh a whiteout and a corner deep so the speed in the back [Music] kicks away received at the 17-yard line brought down at the 27-yard line that's where the cardinals will start yeah pierce burge on the return there it looks like he got about 12 yards on the turn good coverage by the bulldogs uh here comes the bulldog defense first play of the game here looks like southport starts with a twins formation to the boundary and quarterback and the gun shepard's gonna give to the back and he's gonna get swallowed up for no game maybe a loss of one [Music] yeah bulldogs were well scouted on that that twins closed formation is a heavy run 95 percent run this year for southport so far out of that twins closed look so we'll see if that stays true that carry by josiah odinger a junior five nine from southport the flip formation we got motion across the middle and shepard back to pass looking across the field over his head bring up third down just a touch inaccurate a little high for the big tight end there it's a good looking target number 82.
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uh at six foot five 215 pounds he's athletic uh but good coverage there by the dogs i'll call it third and third and ten here two personnel change for southport they're gonna come out in a spread formation two by two one back shepard again in the gun back to pass sprinting out to his right completion made that's gonna be a first down on the southport sideline it's like number one with the catch wilson eight uh excuse me six foot 180 senior for southport and wilson's definitely the deep threat there he's got the jets so bulldog corner respecting that speed and and breaking late on that ball first and 10 balls in the 39 yard line 11 minutes 10 seconds to go here in the first quarter looks like shepard came up for the play to the line of scrimmage with no play or quarterback oh my that is bryce calvert you're right he's a sophomore for south southport carry this time again by number 13.
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josiah odinger for no gain yeah southport getting a little tricky there keeping the quarterback in putting the backup quarterback and the backup running back in that formation change bulldogs got to be aware yeah you're right coach they've got shepherd is a has an up back here as a wing and the sophomore quarterback taking the snap and gave his to josiah again number 13 and he goes nowhere again that'll bring up third and nine yeah bulldogs just absolutely swarm there led by carson dibble the six foot 190 senior was having none of that stuff that run very short gain if any savion miles in there big d tackle for the dogs helping plug things up and make a stop third and eight ball on the 41 yard line that same third down formation two by two spread one back shepard back to pass looking down the field he's got a receiver that's a reception and he is gonna score that's jihad wilson that senior uh receiver number one for southport that's a 59-yard touchdown there for the cardinals yeah absolutely little trickeration there that's the sophomore calvert airing it out deep great ball great control in the wideout just out running the bulldog secondary really nice play there by the the cardinals looks like they're one short on their p-a-t team late sub here plenty of time on the play clock that's number 47 for southport who i will make up a name for him because he's not on the roster that's no good no good wide to the left and we have 9 31 left on the clock here in the first quarter and it's six nothing cardinals yeah that is the backup kicker the regular kicker uh it looks like he may be in street clothes so we'll have to watch a little trickeration on any kicks from uh southport going forward uh tough start here but i'm pretty sure the bulldogs coach plus will get defense over there on the sideline get them rallied up and get them coached up and and get that corrected i mentioned it's youth football night but it's also youth cheerleading night there's a whole gang of them out here coach with the north cheerleaders and they are joining in and trying to figure it out by looking at the big kids next to them so what a what a neat opportunity for moms and dads to get a picture of those little ones now and then do a side by side when there are juniors and seniors out there themselves here in several years donovan craig back to kick it for the cardinals scroggs and cast header back deep they're going to kick this ball short and that's going to be picked up on the 40-yard line by tyler blyth the experienced bulldog and that's where north will start with great field position on the 40.
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