Right now I put a ceiling of about 10 to 20k a month profit, but I'm shooting for some pretty high goals at the end of the year. >> I've worked on a lot of trucks, done a lot of things that I 17 or 18year-old doesn't typically do. >> I love working with a lot of veterans come in and we got to redesign different lights for that which I love doing. >> I'm Jack Watson. I'm looking to be intern for electrician. >> I'm photography. >> I'm Braden White. I make graphics and ebike graphics. >> My name is Charlie Wendy, founder of Chuck Cheeseburg. It'll give me like a a step ahead before. So, I'll get what a year or 6 months ahead of everybody else. I think it'll help me a lot. >> Field experience. I'm super excited. I feel like it's a more structured thing to give me more opportunities to learn especially more like business aspect.
And this particular site is even closer. It's 2 miles from the Nyanza site, which was in operation from 1917 to 1978 as Multiple Textile um corporations. It's listed on the United States um EPA site with a laundry list of the chemicals that they found at the time and since as being um admittedly um dumped into the area and and therefore as part of become the um permaculture around and for 50 years that soil has been sitting and been containing itself as you would hope after any kind of environmental fallout things would just sort of settle and contain themselves. And I know for me, I'm concerned. I do um hold space in one of those buildings and am close to the area regardless um that once that soil is disturbed, if they're doing soil testing on stationary soil that's been sitting and had other um permaculture roll into it to help to sort of settle it to where it is.
And so the new refreshed site does that for our basic student support, but we're trying to move move all of it over. I mean, it's it's a ongoing process. And then that site can house as we envision it, it would house the kind of work that this bill would potentially >> So, what is what is your hopes that we do with this bill? Um if if this bill were to pass, it would be useful for our institutional research office to have additional staffing support. They increasing federal compliance has meant that much of their time has been spent in the last few years submitting reports on financial value transparency and gainful employment, as well as the recent Acts legislation, which may or may not an injunction may be put on, which requires them to put together 7 years of data across the UH system uh for your institutions and compare that to admissions criteria at a granular level.
>> I do like probably 10 to 15 orders a day in just an hour and a half that I have with this class. I do five sheets of decals. So that's 50 orders. >> Set up in the market was 100 to 150 burgers every Saturday morning. And then also we did BY as well and that did pretty well. 80 to 120 burgers every Saturday as well. >> My name is Eddie and I'm currently in link and I do I have a YouTube channel. >> My name is Ray Roberts. I'm the student leader of the Battavia Bulldog media team. >> I'm coach Pan. I think the key thing has been over the last few years is giving students time their creative passions and it can't have some of the same restrictions that a classroom setting has. >> I'm pretty busy throughout the day. I do sports, got homework, too.
What happens when you start digging that up and what kind of environmental fallout and impact will that have and how can you anticipate or accommodate um that potential? >> Thank you. That's exactly what we're trying to get to in in asking for these reports. >> Thank you. >> We we don't have that answer, but hopefully we will. >> Thank you very much. >> Stay tuned. >> Thank you. >> Okay. to the commission. Just before you continue with comments, I just want to remind the public the commission has a threeminut limit on comments. Um I will be keeping track of that. >> Okay, sure. Go right ahead. >> Jun, one shore road. I'm on the historical commission, but speaking as an individual resident, um I reflect what Kim just said. Um I appreciate everything that she said and I agree with it. Um, I also want to say that um I just if I just if I understood correctly, I just heard that um this was a closed site previously by the D and I understand that it was but I believe it was closed as a commercial site, not as a residential site.
So, there's a there's a lot of huge heavy lifts that the the team has been working on. But aside from that, um I think we can work towards this internally. Um and we already have a lot of the pieces in place, but there's as I said some internal data transitions happening. We're moving, as you know, to EAB, and that has a whole data warehouse infrastructure that we have it we're in the process of implementing. So, to be determined how all of that will come together. So, it may be a little premature to see if this bill is necessary. >> That's my biggest concern. We keep asking for data, and it keeps asking for more and more additional warm bodies to get that data. And then what do we do with that data? Just I think a small percentage of that data is actually utilized on a day-to-day basis.
So, link I have the opportunity to go home, get the work done there, and have a better schedule. >> We've got between 15 and 20, but we're hoping to expand with the incoming freshman next year. Hoping to expand that number to upwards of 30 people. >> We can provide opportunities for kids to realize their dreams that won't ever happen under a lot of normal circumstances. Simp not giving them that gift of time in their day to work on a passion. >> There is no limit to doing whatever you want. It just seems fun. >> It's been great. I've been proof. >> I think that I've developed a lot of leadership skills just being able to improve and help others improve as well. >> It was really cool to have. >> That's awesome. >> They can do cool things like this. >> It was something I cared about.
We are now looking at this site to put families with children in it and if this site floods and or as they dig up the contam dig up the dirt and contamination and create and create a problem there. We had children die in this in this town from the contamination at Nyanza and I think that we need to be very very very careful about what we're doing here. Thank you. Okay. Thanks for your comment. So, anyone else in the in the select board room like to make a comment? Okay. Uh seeing none, we can move on to uh the online questions.
So, again, you know, what are the what are the pros and cons and the and the amount of money that we're spending to enable this kind of data and how many people are really utilizing the data and does the data really translate into results for like the one we talked about nutrition, you know, is the data going to going to then result in everybody eating you know, what percentage of the population is going to change their habits with that money over what period of time? Yeah. It's like all of this this climate change, you know, we're spending so much money on climate change and all the data that I've seen is that it's such a small percentage. All of this that we're spending such a small percentage in our role in saving the planet compared to what is going on to the rest of the world while people are going without electricity, water, and food in many places and and can't afford some of these things because the cost is going so high because of all the resources that we're putting into some of these data.
I'm super excited. >> Awesome. So again, that was just a video clip from one of our current interns and voices of multiple other interns. And >> at this point in time, we're open for questions. >> Very comprehensive presentation. >> I don't know. I don't have too many questions. So how are you looking for um like commners and vendor partners? What is what's your process or are you still figuring that out a little bit which is that it's okay? Part of it is knowing which ones to target, which is where the interviews come into play. So, like you don't want to start aiming for something that that's not in align with what the kids are asking. Okay. >> So, um we're now probably in the next week or so ready to begin like our strategy. >> Obviously, the chambers one, like we said, internal models within the district itself is another one.
Uh, I'll recognize Julie if you want to come off mute and speak your three minutes. >> Uh, hello. Um, this is Julie Nardone, 86 Elliot Street. Um, what do we mean when we talk about the footprint? What is included in footprint? And by what year did it have to be there? I am pretty sure I read that all the buildings included in the footprint had to have been there by 1947. >> You want to? >> Yeah. >> Um I can actually read you the definition. Just give me one second. While you're looking that up, Chris, uh, Julie, we will discuss this thoroughly as time goes on. So, but Mr. Lucas is going to try to give you an answer here, at least for this evening. >> Thank you. >> Okay. Knew I had it here. Um, per the Wellen Protection Act, uh, the properties within a historic mill complex, which quote means the mill complex is in but not limited to Holy Oak, Tauntton, Fitchburg, Haver, Mthuan, and Medford in existence prior to 1946 and situated landward of the wide facade of a retaining wall, building, Slooh, or other structure existing on August 7th, 1996.
And yes, it needs to be done, but still people need to be able to survive right on day-to-day. yeah, I mean, we can do anything with with more with more staffing and therein lies the whole issue with the bureaucrat bureaucracy that is there and the number of vice presidents and associate vice presidents and you know, and superintendents and assistant superintendents, deputy assistant, and area super you know, we we keep adding on layers and layers of of people and then I'm not sure that we really at the very bottom of the level of the general public and the students are actually benefiting by all of this. Well, we would hope to use this data to help support a student success agenda and that's certainly what a lot of the internal data dashboards that will be setting up in the next year will do. So, that we were just talking about this this morning in our officers group so that we'll be able to say, "Here are the kinds of gateway courses that don't contribute to student success so that we can intervene and and figure out how to make changes.
We've already had some of those conversations. We had conversations with Mark about what that might look like in the athletics department. Um, and so like it's putting together that puzzle board with those pieces now that we know what the kids are interested in. >> Great. Thank you. >> Any other questions? >> I would just say like anecdotally like I have a junior in high school and I have a daughter in college and like what work will look like uh with this AI revolution we're going through is a exciting but also very scary. And so the kids are kind of wondering like uh is this even going to be a option in five years? And so I think the access to go out and collaborate with business partners and get that experience and see what the work actually is and understand because I think I'm of well I'm older than Brian actually but uh you know we would you would get a major because you're good at math or what you said and you just like well I'll be an engineer but then you didn't really know what it was and then you're wasting time and effort and maybe you don't realize that mistake.
An historic mill complex also means any historic mill included on the Massachusetts Register of Historic Places. An historic mill complex includes only the footprint of the area that is or was occupied by interrelated buildings, manufacturing buildings, housing, utilities, parking areas, and driveways constructed before and existing after 1946, used for any type of manufacturing or mechanical processing and including associated structures to provide water for processing to generate water power or for water transportation. Um, I think it's pretty clear the site meets that definition and there's um it's it's pretty clearly demarcated with the wall on the site. That's that's the limit we're using is that wall and then the the edges on the north and south side. So, um it's pretty clear in aerial imagery. We've gone back prior to 1946. Um it it's very clear and we can provide further documentation if needed, but it's that's the definition of what the state massp protection act requires for a stone mill complex.
So that's the ideal aspirational hope behind how we could use this data. >> those stuff some of those stuff you can tell without all of the data, right? I mean come on, you know, we we know >> And we do have access to DFW data now. I mean and we have implemented different kinds of professional development strategies based on that. So we are working with it already. For some reason legislators just feel like if we ask for the data if we get the data that things are going to change. Unfortunately, that's not happening but um Okay, yeah.
You've already graduated from college. So I think for these kids to get that like several of the students said to get that leg up uh is amazing. So I applaud you because I know this has got to be a tremendous amount of work to build this thing. So thank you for that. >> Anyone else? >> Thank you very much for this great job. >> All right. Try to follow this up with a board policy reading. Brad. >> Sure. I'm gonna actually start with Erin. We have one board policy. This was a hold over from um a couple policy committees ago because we wanted to really study it and look at it about uh homeschool students and part-time attendance. They're kind of complicated issues. So, uh we had our special ed attorney, the district's special ed attorney weigh in on this. We used press uh for some of those pieces.
>> Okay. Thank you, Mr. Lucas. Julie, uh does that answer your question? Um, >> that was a verbatim Yeah. description. >> Yes. My only other question is, is a dirt parking lot considered a parking lot? >> Is a dirt parking lot considered a parking lot? >> The the the regulations say parking areas. They don't specify, but it's generally um the m the the parking areas associated with the mill are part of the complex itself. So, >> yeah, I think it predates asphalt anyway. So, yeah. >> So, it's it's part of it and that's that's common practice with this this with this type of um project. >> Okay. Great. >> All right. Thank you, Julie, for your question. >> Be discussing that further as we go along. >> Okay. Uh Mr. Minani, would you like to come off mute and ask your question or make your comment?
Numbers any questions for me? Uh so Deborah, do you think that we can get the data without giving you this position? Um we have already I mean aside from our testimony talks to some of the data that isn't currently centralized and that would be more difficult. The rest of it we already have we're just needing to figure out how to consolidate that data. So If the thrust is towards student success especially then we do have access to most of that data already. So how much of the data do you not have? In In a So there's two levels to it. Things that we'd have to figure out how to collect so the data exists but it's out there in different databases or at different campuses. So a lot of that data is in it's one two third paragraph of our testimony. So for example, we don't have across all campuses the instructional cost per student credit hour and per degree awarded as as system wide.
We were seeing in our own implementation of this policy, there were some inconsistencies just because there was a lot of stuff in it and we tried to really make it crystal clear about what opportunities are available for part-time attendants or for homeschool students. Um, and hopefully we achieve that. Erin, do you want to >> Yeah, I just I had my notes. So yeah, we met on the second and it was a pretty robust conversation about this and really and Brad clarify this for me if I make a mistake in stating it for the board, but uh we have these uh non-fultime students uh whether they're going to parochial schools or homeschooled and they will seek out for part-time enrollment and so it better defines their eligibility and then it defines what they're eligible for a service. A lot of this is with like special ed and that type of thing but also with extracurriculars what they can participate in.
>> I do have a couple of questions. Uh thank you, Mr. Chair. I appreciate that. I'm somewhat confused with respect to the conversation that was just had this evening. Uh specifically uh pointing to I'm sorry, Joe Manyani Two Hopper Lane, a lifelong resident here in Ashland. Uh I am a select board member, but I'm uh asking questions and clarification as a resident. uh after uh for tonight's purposes. Um I have uh during the conversation tonight, there were several uh references to a RAM study that was already presented. Um if if I remember and I know Mr. Angler made a comment about that as well and uh another gentleman that was at the podium. I guess was that RAM uh report was that for a prior project which is totally different in scope and in nature on this landsite and if that's the case then anything that the DP has considered as a result of that I don't know how that can be correlated to this new project which is totally different from the previous uh project where this RAM report was filed um so I'm assuming that That RAM report was filed by a previous uh developer andor property owner and from what I heard tonight from Mr.