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so is that three sections two seventh and one eighth or that's one seventh grade class and one seven eight class yes first pivot again can you just repeat the number oh yeah sure so there's one grade seven class one seven eight combo class and the total number of students is 66. sorry that's wrong oh one there's one more eighth grade class i didn't scroll up there's another eighth grade class that is 33 student that's on top of the 66.

i'm calling this meeting to order um good evening everyone my name is john mursky i'm chair of the ann arbor energy commission um i am participating from my home here in ann arbor welcome to the november 9th electronic meeting of the energy commission this virtual meeting is to affect social distancing and to mitigate the spread of the covet 19 virus we will conduct this meeting similar to in-person meetings commissioners during your roll call please indicate your current location during the meeting please remain on camera as you would be visible during an in-person meeting also mute your microphone when not speaking public comments will be via telephone only to speak during any of the two public comment opportunities please call one of the following two toll-free numbers 877-853-5247 or 888-788-0 and enter the meeting id number 937-67516819 and these numbers will remain the same during the entire year for energy commission meetings this information is also available on the public published agenda in the public notices section of the city website and on the broadcast of this meeting on ctn channel 16 at t channel 99 and online at www.a2gov backslash watch ctn um missy would you um read the land acknowledgement and then uh move from there to taking roll huge i acknowledge that this the land the city of ann arbor occupies is the ancestral traditional and contemporary lands of the anishinabe including the ottawa ojibway and buddhawatomi as well as winedat peoples i further acknowledge that our city stands like almost all property in the united states on lands obtained generally in unconscionable ways from indigenous peoples the taking of this land was formalized by the treaty of detroit in 1807.

president uh attending from my home in ann arbor thank you vice chair coleman garcia carlene coleman garcia um from ann arbor great uh councilmember briggs here in ann arbor thank you councilmember radina here in ann arbor thank you commissioner mccoy here in ann arbor awesome thank you so much uh commissioner oh pause i'm sorry commissioner george is in the waiting room so we'll come back to him in a second just moved him over uh commissioner carver president from here in ann arbor thank you commissioner hello everybody i'm here in ann arbor at my home great thank you commissioner juno president from my home in ann arbor thank you commissioner stevenson here in ann arbor and commissioner george uh here in uh delta township uh ingham county awesome uh chamberski you have a quorum you are also on mute thank you yeah so thanks very much thanks everybody for attending next time the agenda is the approval of the agenda uh i believe it was mailed out wednesday of last week hopefully everybody's had a chance to look at it as well as our meeting materials can i get a motion to approve the agenda so moved by uh krishna cleavy second by council member briggs any discussion all in favor say aye or raise your hand i all that's uh looks like it's unanimous so no no nays and no abstentions so that passes um so um next we have approval of the minutes and the minutes are posted to legistar um hopefully everybody's had a chance to look at those as well any um well first of all a motion to approve the minutes council member briggs second by council member radina any discussion seeing no discussion all those in favor of approving the minutes say aye or raise your hand i looks unanimous again thank you very much so that brings us to public input this is an opportunity for persons to speak for up to three minutes if if you are watching on ctn call 888-788-0099 four eight seven seven eight five three five two four seven and enter meeting id number nine three seven six seven five one six eight one nine as i mentioned this mentioned this information is also displayed on the meeting agenda in the video feed city staff will select callers that have raised their hand one by one using the last three digits of your phone number in order to electronically raise your hand to indicate your desire to speak please press star 9 on your phone you will hear an automated message that the host is allowing you to speak when speaking please move to a quiet place mute any television or background sounds so that you we may hear you clearly so please state your name and address at the beginning of your comments do we have any callers we do and just very quickly i see commissioner levin is on the line and if you can hear us great i can't move him over it looks like he's only on the phone so i can't move into the panel uh so i just wanted to acknowledge he's he's with us um thank you yeah for public comment caller uh ending in 998 hi can you hear me yes we do okay great um hello my name is zachariah farah i'm a senior at the university of michigan ann arbor and i live at 2-2-2-2 fuller court you've probably you may or may not remember me from calling in a few times the energy commission on the issue of public power and establishing public power utility and i'm calling in today just to say that i'm very happy that the idea of an seu is being proposed i think it's a terrific idea and i i really hope that it will uh encourage business owners and residents to invest in in solar panels for their properties i think it's again a great idea i know that i'm speaking from my own personal experience like my family won't invest in solar panels because there's there's not that financial incentive because they can't sell it back to the grid because of um the pretty absurd laws we have in this state but um hopefully the sdu will be able to solve that in certain areas of our city um i'm also calling to uh to thank the the sponsors and the authors of this resolution that's going to be considered today at the resolution recommending uh the municipal utility feasibility visibility study um i'm really happy that this is finally uh being will be voted on by the energy commission we've been calling in for since i think february i think you would probably know better than than i would but um you got to listen to it after all so i am i want to say i've never really seen such a movement in the city with so much enthusiasm and widespread support um we really want answers uh establishing a public power utility and so i i do have a couple concerns about this resolution though although i'm very supportive of the of the resolution overall um first of all you know like i said we've been calling it for a long time and i i'm wondering when this feasibility study might be finished because we know that once we have the answers to our questions we need to act quickly we are running out of time to um to have some serious policy change in the city um and uh if this takes too long i'm concerned that we're not going to have enough time to actually go go and implement some of these things and that kind of brings me to my second point which is that in the second resolved clause five different policies i believe are our limit are mentioned there um again i'm very supportive of an seu um i'm very supportive of looking into public power but i'm kind of confused why uh my green power program is listed here i mean that's a dte 30 seconds program and we know it's insufficient we know that's not going to get us to where we need to go so i'm just wondering you know that there doesn't seem to be a cap on the scope of this feasibility study especially because it says including but not limited to so i'm afraid i guess i'm just concerned that if this feasibility study doesn't have a limited and defined scope that we're going to be waiting for a very long time to get the answers that we need uh and again we're running out of time so uh thank you very much for considering this resolution uh the last thing i'd like to say is one question i've been getting a lot is will a public power utility okay that's it thank you very much thank you for calling in and sharing your thoughts caller ending in 171.

we'll call this meeting and order and we'll start with the pledge of allegiance led by chuck waldo i pledge allegiance to the flag thank you chuck um just for those since we're not sitting at the rostrum we're going to introduce who we are my name is dave merrill this is chuck waldo and this is jennifer brimhall diana butler is ill tonight she's not with us and we hope she gets well soon margaret gabby another school board member is welcoming twins into the world not herself i mean her her daughter-in-law is having a set of twins soon and she's there helping out so and this is dr michael wright and mary ford and we'd like to excuse brenda our finance director today because she's also ill we will begin with the recognition of uh the vr star award dr wright we'll do let you do that mr webb has the the plaque i don't see alicia here but uh mr webb if you want to give a little bit of background on the role alicia plays thank you so alicia de cruz is our front office receptionist and she fills in for all the other ladies when they're out too so she's new with us this year and she's doing a fantastic job helping out whatever we need her to do she jumps in and helps out with substitutes getting them lined out when sandy's gone she helps out with attendance just really a bright face for the public parents students when they come into the office so we're grateful for the work that she does out there for us thank you mr webb we'll make sure she gets her plaque and a picture so we can show that around next item is a consent agenda consent agenda consists of minutes from previous meetings vouchers and reports personnel items just business items that really are necessary but they don't require a lot of discussion any member of the board have any item that you would like to pull out on the consent agenda and vote on independently can you pick up your are any of our new personnel or any of the new personnel here we've got um no henry john penrod okay so can we have a motion to vote on the consent agenda have a motion from chuck a second from jennifer all in favor okay the consent agenda has been accepted item 3.4 this is uh three proposition 301 performance pay we received a handout on that earlier reviewed that dr wright do you want to review that for us again yeah this is a requirement in order to provide incentive pay for uh teachers classroom teachers and so this year's plan is closely resembles what we've done in the past there's a baseline test that is administered to figure out where the kids are and then they measure the progress of those students they keep the students in the group that demonstrate high attendance too so we're not holding them accountable for kids that have excessive absenteeism on this plan but if they have 90 attendance or better they take a baseline test and they take a post test and that they show the growth of the of the amount percent i think it's 10 then they qualify for that portion of the pay and that is based on that 10 performance for the teachers themselves that's correct do you know how many people how many of our teachers tend to qualify is it virtually all of them we've had we have maybe a couple a year that don't but i'd say a vast majority do any other questions chuck yeah um on that i noticed that the teachers have a couple of other teachers come in and observe them and then make comments i think that's a great idea i i'm assuming that they're teachers that teach in a similar environment is that correct i think it's at the same grade levels the principals are here that actually created the plan if you'd like specific on any grade level i could turn the mic over to any of these three people i was confused just a little bit about the high school i understood the elementary and the junior high completely but the heist cluster confused with that one so the high school teachers they act we did this last year and those teachers that go to another classroom that may not be within their discipline they've actually appreciated seeing different techniques that they could actually take back into their own classrooms so it's been beneficial staying within their department and also going to other departments a cte teacher going into an english teacher's classroom or you know different even a regular classroom teacher going into a cte classroom there's different techniques that they use within those categories that are beneficial across the board well also i think teachers learn a lot about other things that are going on in the school that they might be oblivious to yeah that is for sure the case they get to see that the kids in action especially if they're going into one of the hands-on classes they get to see the kids in a different light like oh wow this kid is really engaged in cabinet making when maybe they don't like to write an essay or they don't like doing their their math homework but they get to see them in a hands-on environment and they see the kid in a different light too very good there are no further discussion you can have a motion to vote on item 3.1 have a motion segment by chuck all in favor motion is passed item 3.2 discussion of the occupational safety and health osha and federal mandate regarding the covet 19 vaccinations and testing dr wright so the the state is questioning the the feds and they're legally challenging the mandate to have every organization private or otherwise 100 employees are more vaccinated so our legal counsel said hold off we don't believe that they do have the authority to do that and we think that's the way it's going to fall out if you recall we took a a survey some two or three months ago probably even four months ago when we found out that approximately 10 to 15 of our teachers said no i'm not going to get it i'll resign before i get it so that's a problem for other health care facilities schools and other things and in arizona it runs a little differently and so our direction has been just to sit tight they think the mandate will be overruled and in the end public schools won't be forced to do it that's where it says but i wanted the board to be informed about the the legal challenge that's going on and to make you aware of the the federal mandate that had been issued and subsequently challenged we have a policy right now in the school district what is that policy the policy is we strongly encourage the vaccine but we don't mandate it and the same is with mask if you want to wear a mask that's fine you may but we don't require it for the teacher or the students with kids now from five to 11 being able to be vaccinated do you think it will have an effect on them or will that our continued policy remain the same with the children as it is right now i don't think we would adjust the policy at any age group what we would do though is make our facility available with the indian health services to come in and provide vaccination for those that are interested in booster shots the last event we had i think 100 100 booster shots and 20 or so new shots and so it's we're getting a fair turnout when we do that so we'll continue to support it in that respect yeah i came and got a booster and i thought well i'd be able to walk in walk out a couple of minutes it took me about 30 minutes paperwork to do i hate paperwork all right so any other questions concerns comments you'd like to make on the board okay we'll move on to the next item and that would just be our superintendent's report in in in your report i'd like you to comment on how many cases how many absentee students we have during the week on any day and how many teachers are affected right now we as far as absenteeism that's a big push we're seeing an inordinate number of students absent for good reason another uh there's been a bit of a lingering effect with you know hey for a year there was a lot of flexibility and rightly so because we were online only for half of that year and parents and kids got accustomed to kind of coming and going and so when you start keeping score and you tell them you're going to keep score it's it's a change it's been a little over a year and so essentially what we're doing is making sure that we're announcing to the families and letting them know if you don't make satisfactory progress you're gonna have to repeat the grade or the class or the course and so we're uh we have i would say right now a third of our kids at the elementary are probably in the high absenteeism and i would say that would be consistent with a high school in the in the junior high last week we had 48 kids out in one day so there there is illness going around in addition to covet there's a common cold and there's a respiratory thing going around and some other things but we're really trying to help the parents see that it's important that they work with us on this issue and that they may have to have attend summer school in order to stay on pace we're going to start in the second semester and certainly in the summer school we'll have sessions for remediation and that's going to probably continue we may have to move that up into having you know after school remediation some of those things to try to and we're getting kids moving in too by the way and and some of these i know we've had a couple of recently second graders that came to move that moved in didn't know their letters and so they're not only non-readers they can't even identify identify letters and so if they haven't been in our school system for a long time we're trying to get those kids caught up as well and that's in addition to the efforts that we're putting in on the social emotional side if you recall we're really worried about the stability of the home and some of these kids and the residents in which they reside and we're worried about frankly teenage suicide we're worried about self-harm worried about kids doing harm to others and all of those things are valid concerns and coming out of the second year of a pandemic and so of our roughly 1850 students we have about 178 identified as suffering trauma right now in in the process of or recently we've had a couple of our students have had multiple deaths in their family from the disease and and other reasons so it is uh to answer your question on the numbers uh for the disease itself we were averaging one or two a day last week we were up to probably i don't know on an average ryan do you have any five to six at your school a day and maybe an equal number between the high school and and the junior high the highest number we had in one day was about 25.

oh good meeting everyone thank you for coming to order united please of america and to the republic for which it stands thank you she said she's coming down which i don't know she's down now mr actually yeah mr ollery yeah mr mcgiving yes here thank you okay we have approval of the agenda if i would remind everyone on the agenda that now is the time if you want something cold and the only time to pull something out of consent so with that i'll understand a motion on the independent motion second discussion i would like to pull um the vitamin b the approval vouchers from uh replace uh vouchers as d is that correct yeah thank you guys we're at the approval of the agenda and we have a removal of vouchers to item 12p at new business any further changes to the agenda october 14.

currently the mortality rate for children under 18 is less than 0.01 which is less than the figure the cdc goes on their website for the mortality rate of the seasonal flu in the same age bracket before this pandemic if any of you suggested that kids need to quarantine for 10 days if they were near someone with the flu should have been laughed out of this room the fact of the matter is here to stay we need to stop making decisions based on the nonsensical proposition that we can end covet completely it's time to stop asking those of us who simply follow the data and believe in actual science to acquiesce to those who make decisions based on the opinions of cable news pundits and their political agendas we cannot continue to quarantine every student for 10 days just because they came in contact with someone who's tested positive um we need to have an alternative that allows our kids to stay in school back in may this board listed among its chief priorities maintaining local control i believe that it's time for you to exercise that priority the purpose of my comments here tonight are to ask this board to make a local provision allowing kids who have been determined to have close contact been given the option to take a coveted test and allowed to stay in school if that test is negative thank you thank you sir members of the board and community members my name is gene hughes i live at 2398 east glen canyon i'm here to speak about agenda item number 12a under new business if the arizona school boards association proposed by launch changes and vote authorization and first of all i want to thank you the board for again providing documentation with every meeting agenda i applaud your efforts and your transparency i read every bit of the information before coming to any meeting that i come to and i strongly encourage everyone else to do so to help us all be a little bit more educated about what's going on in schools the recommended action on the arizona school boards association proposal by law change is stated as follows in the agenda this is not on the printed agenda you have to go into the online agenda to get all this information but it's all there so the recommended action is and i quote motion to consider and give direction to the district secretary on voting on one by-law change proposal and one core belief addition to the arizona school boards association your rationale and the attached documentation explain the bylaw change very well however i was unable to determine what is proposed as the core belief edition so i researched the arizona school boards association website as well as the national school boards association website but was unable to find any information on what is this core belief edition being proposed maybe you have it somewhere but i usually look over everything well always look over everything you've got very carefully couldn't find it but i did find troubling information on both those websites for the arizona school boards association and the national school boards association including a letter from the national school boards association to president bike [Music] and based on what i saw on these websites my curiosity about this core belief edition has really turned into fear and concern so i would ask you today that when you get to discuss the core belief edition that you please explain it to us and i urge your careful consideration discussion and making a decision that is in the best interest of all students in arizona not some politically motivated agenda thank you anderson good evening or community members my name is angie anderson i live at 428 west paseo solana in the heart of green valley at la canada and esperanza i'm here tonight to oppose the asba bylaws change being voted on and urge a no vote although the asba board of directors recommends a yes vote i believe that rather than singling out certain people for special treatment the change to the bylaws does nothing to renew our commitment to all people to a more perfect union dividing people into tribes causes weakness uniting people causes strength and a better understanding of the human condition when we are united there is nothing we cannot achieve we know that discrimination is among the most despicable injustices imaginable what concerns most parents is what's best for their kids they want an education climate free from bigotry and intolerance as adults we lead by example i'm sure this school and governing board want to achieve the same goals as parents and grandparents thank you all for doing the hard work necessary to ensure we have a healthy and mature population capable of success finally uh mr papariz come on down [Music] my son is a former student here and i've had the privilege of working with all these lovely board members over the years but i have something really happy to see a little happiness hi kids um if for all those that read our local school paper or not school paper but green valley news you probably noticed over the last month there's this thing called the reader's pick award and they have all these different businesses and whatnot they have one special category called the best teacher on the planet i got to nominate that teacher and then go out and trash the seed streets and try to get votes for that teacher and that teacher lost no machine yeah anyhow know more about that the teacher in question is our very own empty banning so very speech but it only took 30 years come on i'm very honored um i i really wish we had won the best place to work because really this is the best school um to work at i've been here for a long time and i hope it continues so um the is nominate a staff member to receive the men's bell award every month and mrs fanning always has a lot of little post-it notes about how wonderful and amazing she is and students in high school attest to the great work that miss fighting has done in preparing them for math and future in college so we do have the very best so thank you so much okay next we have our superintendent report as a reminder this is a report so there are no uh no questions on them okay good evening president members of the board and community students staff and parents thank you for being here today just want to keep in the forefront our mission statement and boys and girls you see this everywhere it's there on the wall teachers see it in our nether heads it's in our website continental school district will provide a community environment in which all individuals are challenged to achieve excellence in academics character and life skills our vision statement building for the future learning cooperating and caring for all theme of the year is focused on the big rocks as you all know we are very excited to let everybody know that we did our first teaching and learning learning walks which i really feel this is the work that's going to move us forward and increase student achievement in a learning walk staff members we go into classrooms and there's a leadership team so you'll see in the picture on the right hand side everyone that was there about five or six adults go into a classroom observe the teacher and the students for 15 to 20 minutes we leave and we come back and we discuss um best practices and obviously there's a rubric of sheet of water form that we go through we go back into the classroom and we give feedback not only to the teacher but to specific students for their behaviors and their vocabulary and their actions in terms of meeting standards so what we are going to do in december is split up and divide and conquer and this time we observe three teachers so the next three rotations will observe six teachers so every teacher will have a chance to be visited and be on the observing side to see best practices throughout our school so we can develop a common knowledge and on teaching and learning and expectations for our students and our staff um conferences meetings and trainings i attended the yamapak strategic planning board meeting in phoenix and amma pack is working on college completion for all students so it really is talking about what can elementary schools middle schools and high schools do better to prepare students for college success and at continental the avid work that we've implemented this year is truly for that purpose to really build college college readiness for students we also talked about college academies for parents i'm getting parents to understand better understand college and university life to help their students the asa conference we were at we i went to a session on the international center for leadership and education which is model schools and discussion of rigor the highlight was talking about data teams and the collection of data in all classrooms to determine instruction and goals which again ties into the learning walks that we are doing october november i've been presenting love and logic to parents um here at our school we have 10 to 12 parents who are coming i also volunteered to do some parenting classes in rio rico at umandi middle school again talking about our crawling quality world picture our laugh needs which are the love and belonging achievement fun and freedom and we talk about the three types of parents the helicopters the drill sergeants and the consultants so um i will offer another parenting session in the spring it will work this one is during the day and i'll offer one in the evening so we can hopefully also learn common knowledge because teachers use how to turn their words into gold for school and we also teach how to turn words into gold for uh home asa executive board meeting in dear valley was yesterday and the word of the day was paused because we're pausing on essence requirements things are changing at the state level and superintendents and school teams are trying to stay ahead of the game but they keep changing things so it was just pause and across arizona all districts are struggling with the lack of substitute teachers and bus drivers so we feel very fortunate that we are fully stacked right now with our drivers our substitutes we do have substitutes a lot of districts are using esser funds to help um to post positions for teachers to help close the achievement gap increase learning and there they don't have applicants so we have the funding but we don't have applicants for teachers and subs and drivers in arizona so it's a state struggle enrollment update we're steady so we put this in every board meeting so you can see where we are in terms of enrollment so we are at 656 students today and at the end of 1920 school year we were at 696 so we're still down about 33 students what i wanted to share this attendance update based on 656 enrolled students pre-k a so when we later on in the agenda we'll be discussing covid cases and number of students who have had to quarantine and isolate and what that looks like but what i'd like and everyone to see here is week one the first week of school so you can see we had 92 attendance of our students our goal is 90 or better every week and we just broke this down for fridays because usually fridays is when parents want to take off and have three day weekends or so we are looking at fridays but you'll see the number of students that we had we had 47 students out that first week of school and three were in isolation and five were a quarantine so there were 39 extra kids absent week one that were non-covered related okay week two and i'm not going to go through the whole chart but you can see week two we had 93 students absent and 28 of the students were out due to covid or quarantine so we had 65 additional students out so you can see on the weeks we have 65 71 54 65 41 students who are out on a regular basis i highlighted in red because those are the weeks that we are not at 90 attendance or better so we really have to work at getting our kids to school in order to close the achievement gap um if they're not here during the day they're not here for after school tutorials we are having our first saturday school on this saturday that and we've identified some students but we really do need our parents to understand that we really do need kids in school via their rotary birthday books again cults appreciate rotary's continuous support for our school and students so we used to do monthly birthday books and we combined the kids by semesters and it really is nice because kids get to interact with other kids not just two or three at a time as they're talking about books and picking their books so again thank you to vaiverde rotary for birthday books for students our foundation mark your calendar sweetheart ayla saturday february 12th we are looking for sponsors and silent auction items so any of you know any business partners or have brands who are willing to help sponsor the gita or provide items for sign an auction we greatly appreciate it we will also have our jazz band performing and may have some of our students our art club's art worked up so it really is a good time also um our continental foundation submitted and received a grant from the greater green valley foundation to finish our outdoor musical playground so our foundation really does amazing work for our students as well as providing many grants for teachers for additional items that they may need in their classrooms student advisory meetings and let's talk here's our student advisory kids um we had talked about at our first meeting in october the fact that they wanted um in september they really wanted to build up our kindness efforts at our school so we had a plan to make kind be kind posters that you'll see hanging around our school and we do have middle school students middle school advisory and other students attending the let's talk youth development day this friday in sao anita that will have us give our students a chance to discuss school life how they're feeling any issues or concerns they have really talking about how things are going academically and socially emotionally avid parent dinner we introduced um avid to our parents and we did have i believe 10 parents out of a lot of kids i don't know how many total avid kids we have but we know we have at least 40 in the middle school and each grade level has an avid teacher but we introduced wicker which is writing inquiry comprehension organization and rigor parents shared the number of we asked who how many were college graduates we talked about how many were first generation college graduates spoke to students about how many had been to the u of a do they know about nau they've heard about it the kids have never been there asu so we really are going to promote college and career going culture and take our avid middle school students to do site college visits locally and um at asu and nau so stay tuned and our aauw women are here and we want to thank them again for the chromebooks that they provided for our students we did a little video that will tell the story so [Music] thousand dollars [Music] and that conversation started with our students named chrome and that 500 donation that amuw made because of the amazing efforts of the aauw women's game we are so excited that the 500 donation grew to 27 000 it was a true testament and the collaborative efforts of our community and of the organizations that support continental and we're looking forward to the aaw women supporting us through tutoring for reading and math with the students on their cookbooks so we are very grateful thank you i'll start with just a simple conversation it was a conversation what can aauw do to help out the schools and that conversation started with our students need chromebooks and that 500 donation that aauwm was able to give us with the community involvement group over 27 000 so we're able to provide chromebooks for our kindergarten and first grade students so thank you [Music] stand over here for a minute [Applause] but once they get on they know how to use the program and we will continue hopefully by end holiday season beginning of new year they will be able to log on themselves uh [Music] okay can i have our wonderful age of young women please stand up can be the spokesperson family art night very well attended we had 192 students and parents at 10 a special thank you to our foundation as well for providing 50 to each teacher for their art projects so there's some of the projects that were displayed we had our middle school kids with mr boyce make the sugar skulls and it was very interactive we interacted we had a lot of students doing great art projects trunk or treat and halloween carnival we have an amazing ptc and outstanding community support thank you trick or treat we had preschool kids kinder and first graders come to our hallways to trick-or-treat there's some of our preschool students a few pictures of our colts in action our coaching staff and students rock there's our cheerleaders and our basketball players again as a reminder this is information only not an opportunity for questions but if anybody would like to see anything presented please let me let me know or let this monika know so we can get in on a future agenda and again thank you if the big rocks don't go in first they aren't going to fit in later and message that i read today and one of the articles that i read was stop getting distracted by things that have nothing to do with your goals are you filled up so we'll stay the keep the state of course then keep focused on teaching and learning so thank you very much good evening governing board and continental committee we appreciate you coming out real quick i'm going to break script i am the last thing standing between these kids and their moment and i have two presentations so kiddos go ahead and stand up real quick stand up reach down and touch your toes we just won't touch the sky all right sorry but it's been a long time for these kiddos already so um with that i'm gonna make my presentations as quick as possible [Music] so the first thing i'm going to talk about is our first quarter sports um flag football we had 42 total athletes girls volleyball we had 45 total athletes cross country we had 33 total athletes with a total of 120 total athletes participating in first quarter sports keep in mind we do not have a big middle school that is super impressive numbers so we're very very excited with that um as we were able to share very freshly after we run these at the last board meeting our girls volleyball team ended up traveling to take a birthday and winning second place so great year coming off of children for them and then our girls cross country team ended up taking first place down at rio rico so that's the fun part of my job now the quarter disciplinary report for first quarter the continental staff is using surgery to report infractions odrs is an office discipline referral and minor referrals are represented in this report we had a total of 30 infractions for just quarter watch for kindergarten three grade 18 minors both majors the results of some of those were one student one day in school suspension six students out of school suspension minute is 21 days okay we're working really hard and keeping all of our kids in because of having to quarantine them so we we are working hard to keep all of our students on campus as much as possible the one thing i'd like to add to that as well we're really excited this year we've been able to bring back the cold box store that our ptc moms have been helping with that's a motivation for the students to get cold for their positive behavior for being kind safe and responsible and at the end of the month they get to cash that in for a prize okay works a lot like you see at the different pizza places in town as far as those prices and it really motivates the kids to do good things my next presentation is future growth plans so this is something that we're really we were actually asked at the last board meeting by mrs keith to share about what our plans are moving forward what thoughts do we have as our community continues to grow around us and we get more and more students that don't know so our strategic planning future growth according to the sfb the school facilities board based on square footage continental will be at a capacity of 1148 students okay that number is not what we're predicting we're going to be in a year or two that's what the facility board requires before they will give us funding to build a new school okay it's that number our current enrollment enrollment is in including preschool on tuesday august 17th the administration team met with mayor murphy to discuss discuss growth and demographic study 20 years out so they talked about what our community will look like in that we really ask the the question sarita seems to be growing very rapidly what is that going to look like for us and essentially they're going to start even in the next couple of years developing some of those concord shirts that are more to the north around the town of syria but we're looking at the bakan orchards down here 15 to 20 years out before we actually see development of homes in the majority to the full capacity is what we're being told by many of her we're continuing to explore land owned by continental to consider future site which we do own approximately 20 acres in madera highlands madera highlands project growth is approximately 660 homes with an increase of about 30 percent of kindergarten for 8th grade and 21 increase of grades 9 through 12 within the next three to five years approximately 211 additional students kindergarten adding one teacher per grade level so right now our current campus um kindergarten through fifth grade we actually have four classrooms with our build out that we did about six seven years ago and we're using three of those currently so we have one extra room in each pod however the special education department we are using each of those rooms to house our special education as you'll see a little bit further that is a concern that we'll talk about approximate student enrollment total 867 281 students below sfb capacity okay so that's kind of where projected growth is at for now issues of concern lack of available classrooms lack of elementary gym currently taking up space in the middle school so our elementary students are currently meeting in two classrooms we have the dividers where the elementary pe is housed in those two rooms expanding special education services and programs needed parking on current campus as many of you know if you were here for the truck retreat we were parked i think a mile down the road and so we're we're having some ideas we're working on that as well and then of course transportation as we go we have to think about our transportation we're looking at freeing up existing classrooms by creating space for specialists okay we're also in the middle school two classrooms being used by the elementary pe one classroom being used by ell an academic and behavior support teacher in elementary one class in each plot is currently being used for special education to solve that problem we've talked about things that we may need to do in the next anywhere from like three to six years is build a resource building as original plan call for when you can't build or build a new preschool and move special education into the current move the preschool to another site for location that we already own property owners also another idea is to convert the bus barn into an elementary gym and we'll talk more about that as well so resource building um four to six small classrooms office is needed so what i was talking about before where um this part next to the fifth grade product was actually not built out during our our original build which was designed to house the special education department which is now in those class that extra classroom in each room next slide the bus barn currently is 60 feet by 80 feet um 12 feet by 12 feet office is also in there and a 12 by 12 storage so we would look at making that taking half the bus barn and making half of it for our elementary gym and then the other half would still be used for fixing buses our maintenance department and things like that keep in mind this is just a not a guarantee that we're doing these things this is a suggestion to overcome the growth that we're experiencing here's an example alter valley which is out of three points arizona converted their bus bar into a jam it was built in 1994 the floor was approximately 100 dollars and the entire cost was about three hundred twenty thousand dollars for the building process ours we're we've already asked a contractor he's coming in two weeks to give us a quote as always we'll go out for three different bids on that but we're just interested to see what ours would be we're only looking at doing as you can see that's actually as i want to say we have three full-size basketball courts in that bus barn we're looking at it would be about one and a half um so quite a bit smaller they added four swank coolers the price is important um they were put in several years ago for about twenty thousand dollars the prices of this may go up because the cost of construction materials and things have gone up so we're looking forward to having that first contractor bid so we have an idea of what that would cost needed parking on current campus this is obviously a big concern we've looked at a couple different things here so south of white house canyon road we actually own three acres so our lot is in a big square and it actually comes across most people don't realize this but right across the street we own three acres in the shape of a triangle okay so we talked about what would it take if we did that um and made it even temporary parked in this moment but then our concern was we still have people trying to cross white house camping so we're looking at this right here which is about one acre of playing and clearing that out and for the time being even if it was just a dirt block when we have a big christmas concerts when we have um the trunk or treat or those activities that makes it safer for our community because we're not part you know like i said a good mile down the road um so that's something we're actually looking at very quickly and we're already working with the county and getting the proper permitting just to clear that land and then future development later on could be possibly paving it with asphalt things of that nature but right now just having the dirt bot for available parking would be much safer than our current system okay how do you kids and she can come and meet with me as well if she'd like to make an appointment that can go over with that now for the best part of the meeting for sure i'd like to introduce our goal for the month come on up okay all of our students with the white slip come on up here we're going to do preschool at the front and our middle schoolers eighth grade in the back so three screens right here kindergarten right here yes thank you [Music] if there are any quotes of the month that showed up a little later your slip is back there you can go see miss monica and get in the line and then colts of the months do i have your attention up here if i could have your attention after we read the beautiful messages from your teachers you're gonna go back there to miss molina see she's waving your hat she's gonna give you a shirt and a coupon for a free ice cream from our wonderful posada java and then you're gonna come back and and stand over here by the wall because at the end we're gonna take a picture okay so don't go back to the seats just yet all right all right so armando is kind and safe he's very responsible and he's very good at problem solving and always tries his best um all right so miss tesso's kindergarten teacher says jack tries every day to be his best he is a good friend to his classmates and helps everyone he follows the school rules and is a good role model congratulations [Music] is [Music] harper anderson mrs olderson writes harper is a wonderful student she is kind because she's always concerned about how her classmates are doing and she's always eager to help in any way harper is safe she knows and understands classroom cafeteria and playground rules and follows them well harper is responsible i can trust her to run an errand to another classroom or to the front office i can trust her to walk a classmate to the front office or to the school nurse and she helps me in many ways and she's such a wonderful part of our class so proud is very kind safe and responsible student he's always willing to help his classmates he looks out for them and makes sure they have what they need whether it's helping them with work or carrying their books he offers to assist in any way possible whenever something is needs to be done he's willing to step in and help no matter what congratulations [Music] so leighton miss jones writes lane is always demonstrating kindness safety and responsibility he's helpful to friends and always tries his best leighton is funny hard-working and a joy to have in class congratulations my name is so mrs rodriguez right emma is kind to everyone around her and she smiles every day she remembers to use classroom supplies and school equipment safely she's responsible because she brings her classroom supplies and homework daily congratulations maggie is very kind safe and responsible cold maggie encourages her classmates and truly cares about them she practices safety and physical education by listening and following directions maggie shows responsibility by recalling and practicing our physical education procedures without having to be reminded of them i am so proud of magni and know she will inspire many more quotes to come and she was nominated by miss kohler her pe teacher congratulations is always kind and makes sure everyone around her is safe she's very responsible and always ready to learn and help others congratulations my name is alexandra patterson and my teacher is miss [Music] all morsky miss marsky writes alexandria started second grade ready to learn she's a phenomenal student and friend she always gives her best alexandria is kind caring always willing to help anyone around she sticks up for others i love her eagerness to try her things she gives it her all alexandria has a great imagination and is a great problem solver her creativity constantly amazes me we're lucky to have her in our class alexandria you are so smart kind responsible and reminding you daily week you do hard things congratulations alexandria you are a brilliant kid so addison miss navado writes addison has been working hard in she's exceptionally polite exhibits a positive attitude in the classroom and likes to cooperate with her peers and her teacher addison takes an active role in the classroom discussions and is always looking to challenge her learning to keep up the great work addison love miss navado my name is callisto you are a great example of what a cult should be you come to school prepared and ready to work you're always there when a friend or your teacher needs help your great attitude towards everything helps others around you feel good and ready to tackle anything keep working hard ellie you're doing a great job so logan was nominated by mrs roman alley logan is caring and considerate of his fellow classmates in and out of his grade level he works hard at everything he's given with a smile on his face he shows everyone how to be responsible for your own learning every day he's a great student leader and someone to watch as he grows up moves up into middle school in a couple of years congratulations so her teacher is miss mills and she was nominated by cynthia by mrs boledi who's our music teacher olivia is consistently kind to her classmates she shows concern for others when she asks how they're doing and will always be inclusive to other students during group activities she's safe by reminding others to do the right thing and use materials appropriately in addition olivia is responsible by always coming to class prepared and ready to learn i'm proud to have a student like olivia in my music classes she's intelligent she's an intelligent young person and has a bright future ahead of her congratulations so miss mills writes danny has opened up so much this year and i'm so happy that she gets up in front of the class to present the stories we write she's kind to everyone and makes everyone feel special she's safe inside and out of the classroom she turns her homework in on time every week thank you so much for always being so sweet i'm so glad i get to have you in my class this year congratulations my name is sebastian and my teacher isn't screwed so miss greer writes sebastian is eager to learn and improve he's very knowledgeable student who is eager to share his knowledge with his classmates sebastian is great at helping his classmates with work or any problems they may have congratulations [Music] so mrs adams writes viviana is a top-notch student she comes to class prepared and ready to learn her perfect spelling tests show that she's responsible in her study she's kind to her classmates i can count on her to make safe choices and be a good example for others to do the same congratulations and so she was nominated by middle school teachers juliana has a big smile and is always willing to help others she was elected president of the builders club by her peers where she works tirelessly for the good of all juliana is polite respectful obeys all school rules and never engages in unsafe or inappropriate activities she stays after school to watch over little ones whose parents are sponsoring after school activities juliana has earned the trust and respect of her teachers and peers she's a hard worker volunteers and participates in her school and community and is very conscientious about keeping up with her assignments juliana is always puts forth her very best effort in all things big or small she's a role model with passion and enthusiasm for life the middle school teachers have chosen juliana mcgee as our eighth grade cult of the month for october 2021.

hereby call this meeting to order. Uh, roll call, please. Dr. Hall, Mrs. Galbert here, Brown is here, Mr. Wallish here. Mrs. Walters here. Vice President Rup here. President Albert here. Please join me for the pledge.

The first area I want to talk about is that in order to for us to understand where we're going, we got to understand where we came from. Okay. Two years ago, school board voted in favor of purchasing a building on the northeast side of Creek to move the maintenance department in there. At that time that it was done, the school board ignored two possible resources closer to all our community schools that would have saved the school board thousands upon thousands of dollars. The decision was made. We continue to push forward. Just last week, you made the very same mistake. You voted six to one to destroy the dome, a building that could be used for the benefit of the entire district. And yes, I'm sorry I wasn't able to be here. My public comments was read. I was at home watching the vote. I heard all the comments about how it was a difficult decision.

i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and into the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for i'd like all welcome everybody tonight and those are watching on facebook live uh future board meetings november 23rd december 14th of this year january 11th 2022 all 6 p.m at this building we have no revisions of the agenda except for we've added a couple things under recognition and in business i guess that's technically a revision of the gender so we'll move on to public direct ignition we have a recommendation to approve a thousand dollar donation from kerry and nancy pamel for southwood high school wrestling i'm just gonna do all this together recommendation to approve the 300 donation from msb of wabash county for southwest high school wrestling recommendation to approve the 200 donation from early learning indiana quality program study for metro north little north program a recommendation to approve a high 1500 donation to be used for uh 500 for little 93-year programs 500 for the old norse 3-year old program 250 scholarship for southwood high school outstanding band senior and 250 scholarship for outstanding norfolk high school band senior and i would like to mention one thing this is a little unusual that we haven't done before but on number two the three hundred dollar donation from msd wall bridge county they actually did some work to raise some funds and so they took care of some trees and some landscaping and different things like that that we would have either done ourselves or probably some of we paid someone else so instead of paying someone else we played on the south of wrestlers because they did that so there might be some more things like that that they'll do so [Music] coach hamill came up with that idea and we proved it and i think it's a good thing to be able to give back on the work that they do for the corporation into their program not as usual we appreciate the donations thank you todd so i moved here too so question second to approve the donations all the members of course senior school recognition students and staff mr mcdivot well can i go ahead and do mine first and then i'll um i'll do these and we'll go with mr mcdivot and then we'll go with our spotlight so first of all from southwood um junior senior high from mr mcdaniel he writes the southwest community we'd like to recognize the gridiron knights as the end of their season gets out of central the knights suffered a number of injuries this year yet continued to play with courage and journal determination also south florida would like to recognize miss knee in both southward and norfolk students who presented the fall play clue over the weekend students did a great job so they did do that on saturday with the matinee at 1 and then 7 that evening suffolk elementary mr boone writes that our robotics team organized a food drive to benefit the blessings the backpack program last week at last year's state robotics competition our circuit nights were awarded the jack klein memorial award jack is a former indianapolis public school student and robotics enthusiast who died after battle of lithuania a few years ago winners of this award are asked to find ways to pay it forward in communities throughout the year robotics team members helped to collect account school donations last week and all 1599 items were were collected for blessings in the backpack our sixth grade team members and coaches used these food items to create a food sculpture as part of the contest held at november's first friday event in the wabash to get very organizations involved in the drive to donate two blessings in a backpack southern elementary i'm super proud of our robotics teams for spearheading this school-wide collection and to all of our southwest elementary school families for the tremendous response and helping our community and i do want to say that they did do um prime minister did they do that sculpture did i read that they did that sculpture and i saw that it was huge and it was really good did they actually have winners um did they place and they placed they didn't win but they placed i think they should have won because i saw the rest of them it was very very good anyway but i was not a judge i thought for sure they would have won but anyway um and also salvador mentioned congratulations to the six students who were in winners in the school portion of the elks hoop shoot competition one boy one girl from each age group eight nine nine ten eleven 12 13 will now represent southwood elementary at the area competition to be held at shark creek elementary on saturday december 4th good luck to our free throwers at the next level competition so that's all i have so we now turn it over to mr mcdevitt thanks mr keith a couple years ago when i first came to white's one of the things that i wanted to try to work on adding to what we do for our students is to add some art opportunities or things in the arts so a year ago because we already had a teacher on staff that was a retired music teacher mr whitaker we started a girls choir section a year ago that grows our leads two times a year sorry two times a week but the other thing i knew we were missing was a legitimate art opportunity now because so many of our kids kids are behind on credits our primary objective really is credit recovery we need to give kids an opportunity to get caught up on credits and that is still our primary focus however i also know that you know sometimes those art type classes are exactly what kids need to kind of just give their mind a different way to work and then when they get back to algebra hopefully they can you know be better algebra students so anyhow last spring i reached out to a couple people that i had connections with at indiana wesleyan just say hey here's a vision i have for our school if you ever have any art therapy majors or or art education majors that are looking for opportunity community service let me know send them my way long story short uh we connected with a student in indiana wesleyan this year her name is mackenzie addison she's been coming this semester uh one day a week on thursdays and doing an art class for us we started with just girls and just recently we have the voice section we don't do co-ed but we separate them and i want to sort of read you a couple comments that students sent me unsolicited about this art class just a couple weeks ago so one student wrote me and said i wanted to thank you for making our class possible for us i really look forward to art every week it is really nice to be able to have time to enjoy art which is one of my favorite coping skills and she just says thank you and then another student says i really like art class it's calming and fun and just something to do i love painting and learning to draw things and i just love it in general thank you for letting us have an art class the intern that's miss uh uh miss allison uh that comes i think her name's michaela that's pretty close it's mckenzie she's very nice and she's fun and helps us out a lot so uh and again the young lady's name is mackenzie she's doing a great job on her her first day in the building and i'd already met her and i talked to her of course and the first thing in the building i actually missed her because she is she's younger so i don't know mrs arnold had that experience but honestly the young lady is doing a really nice job and so our kids are benefiting from it as their comments clearly show and like i said we just added the voice section last week so just one does sound like that it's really cool yeah we thank mr mcdevitt for for that vision because we know like you said the primary goal and objective for the students but yet they have to have some other kind of releases and i think that's really good even with the choir and what they've done and they've had some performances right in the chapel yeah i was there at the chapel they did a great job the director who was a teacher who's a retired band choir director he pretty much stood in the back got him started and they did really well so it's neat to have those other opportunities in a situation where you don't necessarily have a lot of time with the kids because they're not there for a long period of time so thank you for that about how many kids is it i don't remember for the art yeah i think for the girls we have seven and of course it's always fluctuating and last week when we started the boys we started small let's see how it goes i think we have four boys all right for the spotlight i'd like to have shelley and valerie um come over here dr will get that camera put right on you so again we suspended our spotlight program uh last year because of covenant we brought it back this year and so basically um the principle that comes um to the to the meeting which we have one per meeting sometimes more than that depends on what reason then someone that has been nominated from that school will be selected and shelley nominated valerie and so i'm going to turn it over to shelly to read what you had to say about her tyler is a good friend and she's a great co-worker um and this is this is just what i had um said in my nomination i chose to nominate valerie trail because she is an advocate for students to become better readers which helped them become better students brower works to ensure each student finds material that meets their interest and their reading abilities our kids come in they can have a second grade reading level and they're a 16 year old so valerie works very hard to find those books and those interests that will help them just become a grammar near and build confidence in their abilities which then spills over into their other academic classes as well um i guess i kind of covered that part there um valerie is quiet conscientious dedicated and committed valerie is someone you can count on to go the extra mile she can often be found staying late coming in early even days that are not contact based all right thank you after they take a picture if you want to mention anything too i would love to so uh because of covet there's been numerous times throughout the last 18 months where you've had cottages on quarantine sometimes the whole all colleges have been a quarantine and mrs trail always makes my library work in whatever way that she can make that work since kids can't come to the building she'll take requests via basically i assume we could be an email if you would have mentioned and she will she will get those books and have them delivered to the colleges can collect old books so even when we're on quarantine the library is over because of mrs trail's extra going the extra mile one thing i want to mention too the first time that bank and trust is really our sponsor and like i said before the meeting you'll be getting something um what it is yet um but you'll be getting something and thank you very much for your service so thank you for coming here all right and you're welcome to stay with me or you're welcome to leave tips i miss a lot of excitement if you leave but uh that's okay okay we don't want it we don't want to get too excited okay moving on to public comment for agenda items online for the facebook viewers we're at 10 they're nine now lost one there that's fine tuned in for the spotlight [Music] all right so moving on to consent agenda items uh first item is the approval of our minutes from the october 12 view i'd like to approve a second motion and second to approve the minutes from our last meeting all in favor say aye all right claims i have some questions so we have two payrolls um because we only had the one board meeting in october payroll number seven represents the october 15th pay which is what our payroll normally is and then i was giving you a heads up at the last board meaning that the payroll number eight which would have been the last one in october would reflect all the retro pays from the teacher contracts uh and so that's why it's higher than what it typically is uh on a monthly basis so that does reflect all of the retro pays and some of the eca pays that has started from the end of the fall season that number will drop back then a little bit it'll drop down yeah you're catching way up all the way back sure and it'll probably be anywhere between 20 to 25 000 more than what our payroll typically was just because of the new increases to the teacher salaries and also have some coaches that will still be paid out the next pay as well uh from the end of the fall season only to prove it's payroll seven and eight yeah both of those together sorry i want you a second to approve payroll seven and eight all in favor say right all right financial summary uh just enter the month cash balance report just kind of shows you the in statements for the month of october and where our fund balances ended at the end of the month and so nothing really stands out um you know the big thing that we did there was we made that transfer out of operations in the rainy day fund was really the only big adjustment that would probably be noticeable on there but other than that everything is still moving in the correct direction here i'd like to protect that ring from this as we add to it to go to the point then we'll do the cash flow stuff the next part i'll have a better idea of what our reconciliation will be with our adn account numbers for november december those will be paid to us from the department and reconciled from our adm account from what we estimated to what we actually had so since we estimated lower our estimation was 2 000 students and our adm ended up to be almost 20 25 it would reflect that increase of 25 students okay we'll move on to personnel under personnel under resignation we have heather hayden track coach southwood high school employment face outerweight car professional at metro north elementary under retirement we have judy decker bus driver for the south that's effective at the end of this calendar of the year uh under leave we have number 129 leave to extend at the end of the first semester additional coaches for the winter season for northfield danielle tolson junior high girls basketball brian hoffman junior high girls basketball volunteer scott halpert junior high girls basketball volunteer chris kuhn fifth and sixth girls basketball volunteer college walt junior high boys basketball volunteer brian du bois junior high boys basketball volunteering elena reed junior high assistant cheer volunteer tiffany stiff six boys basketball jared hubbard third boys basketball todd mccullough fourth grade boys basketball jason dawes fifth grade boys basketball chris moore sixth grade boys basketball and harney kennedy eighth grade girls basketball additional coaches for winter season for southwood travis east holmes seventh grade boys basketball colt wyatt sixth grade boys basketball brian massett fifth boys basketball nate plyler sixth grade boys basketball volunteer ryan wilcox junior high boys basketball volunteer ryan chambers junior high boys basketball volunteer ryan pershing elementary boys basketball volunteer tanner wilcox elementary boys basketball volunteer and jackson taylor wrestling volunteer danielle shannon field junior high cheer shawn klein fifth grade girls basketball randy pershing sixth grade girls basketball adam weiner seventh grade girls basketball and chris whitaker 8th grade year old basketball and yes i did on purpose fly through those i like to talk about each one [Laughter] because todd's reading those names i just you know because i've experienced a little bit of this i appreciate the people that are willing to commit this i represent names with the word volunteer of course congratulations i have a daughter in there so i guess i volunteered i will just take a second that also speaks to the retirement judy decker i know she's done this job for many many many years before wow was going to echo that too so thank you for doing that hopefully i think she's done not 40 years [Music] so if anybody is interested in becoming a bus driver um see melissa ball here 260 563 850 option number seven yeah okay okay i'll move okay we can get past the heartland career center report since that's not here superintendents before i don't have anything tonight okay curriculum and instruction nothing you report tonight all right you guys do anything can i get you guys a feeling um under new business we have a recommendation to approve a metro north restroom renovation beds yes so that's in your packet um when we took the bond out this past summer the two main focuses were the roofs at northfield and southwood and then the restrooms at metro north elementary and so we put this as a winter project uh to hopefully draw more interest in the more interest you draw before we get more bids we got a pretty good turnout we had five bids turned in uh you can see the range of those bids was from a total anywhere between three hundred and two thousand dollars up to 536 thousand dollars so that was a big range when i had budgeted this i had budgeted this around 300 000 my hope was not to spend more than that and so we broke up the bids a little bit interestingly just so we could uh be careful on what we got and maybe still be able to do something with our restrooms so at metro north there are four sets of restrooms that we're going to be fixing up uh three of them are student restrooms and then one of them is the set of restrooms across from the nurse's office which students also use but they're more used for the public for the most part because i believe they're just single stalled anyway and so the base bid that went out was to fix up the restroom across the nurse's office and then two of the student pairs of restrooms and then the alternate two was to cover the third student set of restrooms so the base bid and alternate two would cover all of the restrooms then we put in two other alternates because those restrooms still have the old floor floor urinals that go from there all the way down to the floor that really they don't put into restrooms anymore because they don't necessarily meet i think it was a health code but anyway the alternates were to take those urinals out and then replace them with the standard type of urinals obviously that involves a little bit more of demolition and construction a component so the fear was that it may cost a little bit more plus we wanted to stay out of an issue where we had to become fully ada compliant in those restrooms because then that would really increase the cost of that we are going to make the restrooms across from the nurse's office ada compliant so at least we have one set of restrooms in there that are wheelchair accessible so anyway with all that being said uh the lowest bid was shawnee construction at 302 000 which actually covers all of the project all the base bid and all of the alternatives uh and it really stays around that budget number that we were shooting for uh otherwise you know if the prices came in a lot higher then we would have to look at maybe just doing the base bid or maybe just doing the base bid and alternate number two and not really able to do the floor urinals at that point in time so we felt very good about the bid that we got from shawnee we also got high recommendations from people that have worked with them and so the plan is with your approval of shawnee that they would start the ordering process to get the materials in so that they can start this winter with a time frame to end before the school started next fall uh hopefully they'll get in and get out as quickly as possible anyway because they'll want to get to do stuff in the summer and get out of our buildings and not waste that time there anyway so so what are all are they fixing in these bathrooms so they will replace everything so stalls urinals stools um they will replace all the sinks and the hand washing stations they'll replace the ceilings and the lights uh and then they'll fix up the floor uh in areas that means it fits up as i recall i don't know if they made it into this but there was a concern that the sink on the other side of the wall where teachers could not view that sink is that going to get moved to the opposite side of that wall now with this remember they were talking about the teachers wanted to be able to see the sink where the kids were selling the hand washing the hand washing so the hand washing sink will not be open just the hand washing sink will be in the same spot it'll be replaced to do that would have been a much bigger project because then you had to tear down walls to combine the two yeah i remembered that that was on the wish list but i did that i didn't know if it actually made it happen to no not to keep prices where they need to be this will give them what they need okay um so that's the plan they would just block off one set of restrooms work on that set and then once that's finished they'll walk off another and that leaves still two sets of student restrooms open plus the one across from the nurse's office so train included yeah yeah we're not hired showing you before they've been they've been before i've never worked with them in my time maybe in the past sean has done some things for us but the contingency never comes back to us does it that's just in there it's in there if we don't use it then it just doesn't get charged to us i move to approve second question to approve the renovation bids for metro norfolk to approve the extended daily field trip for sharp creek elementary fifth grade to go to chicago motion second to approve the field trip to chicago all right recommendation to approve the reappointment of holly kendall to serve on the iran public library board of trustees from january 26 2022 to january 26 2026.

first director to be joining the central office team in january presentations from each school on last spring's impasse results uh updates from several subcommittees of the school play including the election subcommittee the policy subcommittee and the superintendent evaluation i want to thank sebastian for uh volunteering to live streams tonight thank you so much for being here and spending your night with us i don't think you have any members of the public is that right all right so just a reminder to speak up speak clearly since we're all masked it's just a little harder to hear so just shoot your voice across the room okay so let's start with the pleasure [Music] liberty and justice face up with me so we'll go to the consent agenda um this consent agenda has seven sets of meeting minutes and that shows how busy everybody's been two school committee meetings two new member training meetings two subcommittee meetings and one executive session may i have a motion to approve the consent agenda so lori had a second yes uh when i signed him in the office the other day i came across some animals um headed to the williamson police department it was mark's school committee mass enforcement enforcing the mass mandates i'm sorry i can't hear you sorry we needed a police officer to do that yes we did that evening that seems like a waste of budget particularly special about that because there may have been problems with mass clearance that we needed to address is that related to what we discussed at the last meeting calling parents domestic terrorists who don't agree with certain policies or is that just something else where i don't know why i'm throwing that in like i'm just curious why would wasted money paying for 30 minutes well there's no special judgment that was wasted money was not mine in this chair so i would like to receive this meeting mike i'm sorry i said that's your judgment it's not my judgment as a chair okay so i'd like to proceed with the meeting so we've made two adults from mass police okay here we go um we have a second for the consent agenda all in favor say aye opposed say no no uh discussion oh wait we didn't have discussion because there's not usually a discussion on consent agenda so uh i guess that passes we have the majority um communications we have two communications in the shared drive a joint letter from the berlin select board and berlin finance committee to the school committee and a public statement from the massachusetts association of school superintendents and the mass school administrators association uh plus as a verbal or update lori and i spoke with the boys and selectmen last night we have a nice exchange with them updating them on the school community's community engagement goal and the regional school committee's election and uh to solicit their suggestions on engaging posts and requests and residence and the election process and then finally i think some members of this committee attended the virtual sessions at the massachusetts school committee and massachusetts school superintendents joint conference last week personally i found some of the sessions very useful one in particular contract negotiations another on proactive communication to convey your district's message that is very needy uh and i just wanted to check to see if anybody else who attended sessions found any of those particularly useful comments have you found yourself able to remove those names because i was in um you know i'm not sure i know you can access their handouts but um i don't know if you can access the video anybody else want to comment on the sessions they went to was it useful some of it some of it yeah not even yeah so yeah so myself it was redundant i felt like i was like okay the first time i went to um i thought was interesting um yeah there was like literally like six in a two-day span yeah i'll get i'll get back to you if you have um handouts or um any notes from ones that are pertinent to the work we're doing on the committee you can um forward them on to me and i'll get them up into the communications folder to share or send them to some committees that are working on things uh i went to the bus when i listened to the bus one no bus the transportation issues yeah yeah that wasn't redundant it was just like okay we have a problem yeah i don't know they were probably they were trying to tell school committees to not allow schools to make any alterations to the bus routes at all so it just happened um so does anybody else have any other communications to report to the school committee i heard from some parents in regards to that weekend the conference they wanted to know what the deal was with the social media pictures of the attendees and learning masks including commissioner o'reilly has been following around on social media if you've paid attention to any of that so you guys notice any of that you're watching this session if yeah some people did yeah i was going to tell them so i mean this is communication they did have several parents come up to me the other day and they were asking about that why did their kids still have to wear them if the commissioner doesn't even wear that that as a compass no no because i just didn't i think they just they just took it out of iran if you if you double vaccinated then you didn't have to that was a that was a hotel room they weren't in a school building either so they were not separate facilities building determines the risk factor no before is that mandate applies so the first thing the most important thing here is i wanted to introduce you know patrick our selection for pupil personnel director she uh i won't go through her whole bio but as you know she's been with us for 12 years she's currently the middle middle high school special education coordinator and um we had 11 people applying for the job we interviewed five and we then we had two finalists i want to thank bob i asked bob if he would kind of have this whole thing and put it together and did a great job of going through the interview process and collecting the data we needed so so we selected janelle and janelle has been working with karen's been working with janelle as her mentor for a number of years now once janelle expressed interest in being becoming a special education director personnel director um the other thing i'm happy with is one of the things that we try to do since i've been here at least to build capacity in the district and um and select people who are qualified and who were already in the different or small districts so that's not always difficult it's not always it's not always possible to do that so um just a couple things because you're gonna have to vote on a contract and a salary we do benchmark the salaries and you know the salary we agreed to move the janelle is considerably below what karen's was it was still is she's still with us [Music] but we felt that you even though she's done all of the veteran work she's done a lot of the um special ed direct and people personnel and the task that karen has given her she's still new to the job and um so we sell them off with the atmosphere the contract is a standard contract it's the one karen has the one most of us in the central office has she's had to give up some things and gained a few things but um that's so that's basically where we are with janelle again i won't be able to tell but you want to say anything um you know i'm really honored for the recommendation i have been here for this is my 12th year in berlin boylston i've worked with students at every grade level in the district following preschool all the way through high school and some of those that stay with us beyond i've you know received a lot of direct mentoring from karen mulder and even the previous vps director judy valenport and you know i'm really looking forward to continuing on here for you know the foreseeable future does anybody have anything on the committee have any questions about the process what we did you mentioned whether they were both internal and external candidates we had one general candidate thank you so much all right so when we vote on this in the business portion of the meeting we're going to hire janelle accept her contract and salary and stimulate his contract just something else here this is really related to a couple things one is um you're going to take a vote on a policy that's related to the vocational school but also just as a way of giving some information on how things are done and how that's the process for selecting students they have the the vocational school has a lot of the system you have to do two things one you january 15th student recommendation that's also january 15th and also a required interview which is february last year around that time resident students accepted people and non-resident students they've been doing a lot of equity work and so one of the things they're going to do this year is they're going to hold for the lottery the lot of these on on april 8th and they're going to accept 300 students and the way the students are picked is based on the three-year average of the history of the acceptance of the community so let's say our three-year average has been 10 kids in in berlin they get 10 seats so when they pick the lottery everybody will get a seat so if what happens is and then the rest of those kids who from the resident district will go on a waiting list there'll be an additional waiting list for non-resident students so the kids from boston for example and so what would happen let's say you have let's say you have you had 50 seats and you know in your district and only 40 kids applied you get 10 extra seats they go into the general they'll go into a general lottery now and they'll go into a general lottery of resident districts of residence to school after the waiting list because he might have another district that has 10 seats and 12 advocates so 10 get in two go on the waiting list but in resident schools so they sit in this pool down here once they pick all 300 whatever's left over or to get close to that number once all those seats are filled for the residents they go they do a general they do a general lottery and all of those kids from all those resident districts that didn't get in they get picked out of that pool once that's done if that gets that gets exhausted they then go to the out of the out of district so and the reason they did that is because they wanted to make sure that each um each member district got the um got an equitable amount of seats and that all those kids got in so um so that's the process for acceptance and to have passive the other reason i bring it up is because you're going to vote tonight on policy that basically says from the standpoint of this committee that if you are a boylston resident then you must first apply to asp before you deploy anything else the chances now of a broader student actually getting in become pretty low considering that they're actually in the third lottery selection process at this point so but that shouldn't change that should have changed what you do at least we have a starting point for western students and if they don't get in then they can always apply someplace else but um that will be the system going forward and most of these uh policies that the asset committee has voted on um yeah they said they're doing their equity work too so they wanted to make it as fair as possible the result is that if you're in a non-member town your chances of getting in uh [Music] to get in i'm just concerned that they're done they're going to find i mean they can apply somewhere else first but if they get an acceptance those when they get accepted those are conditional acceptances so for example there's another they have another policy another they have a up to a 10 days suspension of expulsion that they they'll take that conditional acceptance and they'll be voting and so that's not usually an issue with us but there are some districts that uh they really have an issue with this and they've expressed that they've expressed that to the assad because they have kids who who had some issues and they don't think it's fair that they should get their their acceptance revoked so so potentially could a boylston student fly like if they're going to set on a location they want to go if they have applied to a whisper vocational school and after that if they don't get yeah right but but i would assume that because they're again not a member you know right they're example then the same thing that would happen all the other vocational schools are doing the same thing so it's going to be if you have a member district you will get in and that's what they want to make sure that you've got if you have 15 seats you have 12 kids they're all getting there um but what is that the non-mental issue put them in a little more scary situation so and as diane is saying that all the other safe equity work this policy is an asset policy so i'm not familiar with the other schools um but i'm sure they're doing very similar work i haven't heard anything anything no i think it really stems from just the the equity piece yeah um you know due to the vocational schools receiving you know public funding and um you know no longer being able to to pick and choose who they who they select as long as you're a member town everybody has equal you know access and rights yeah and so i mean and again i don't think it should influence how you vote i mean policy is in place but if you get accepted here that's where you it's a good school there's no reason not to go there unless you're interested in you know an agriculture program or some animal science something that they don't have but any of the standard programs they do a great job and there's no reason that they should be still there first so so i just want to give you guys an information piece just so you know how it's done what's going to be done going forward at least right now unless something changes and just so you can put that bolt into into some contrast thank you okay so just one additional point on that before the talent voice that we remember is not a member is responsible for transportation to any schools these students attend so if they go to more than one school it kind of works for bands or buses to all these other schools [Music] we're focusing on that now preparation for presenting in mid-december um budget templates have been sent out they do have um you know we did some early modeling i know you saw the email the memo from the town of berlin i've done some early modeling um and anticipate that it was going to be a significant challenge to get two and a half percent um we don't want to go into too much detail here we'll get to budget things change so but we do have some other district costs that were new this year that will be paying for the next year that are not from this year's budget we're seeing some significant increases in student needs whether in district or out of district so that's going to be a factor that we look at so i just wanted to mention that now see i'm surprised we will certainly work on this you know what you do in the prior years of the summers to start when we'll work on it throughout do our best to get for living to be um thank you any questions for bob all right are you going to carol daryl before we begin the presentation this evening i wanted to just bring tonight's presentation for the school committee give you a little bit of background on the mds today so you have to understand what the principles begin to present so it's reasonable to say that in past 18 months has been like no other we've ever experienced in the fields of education one of the fallouts in terms of annual data collection was the cancellation of the spring 2020 mcats the 2021 mcas tests are the first uh statewide assessment results we've had since the onset of the pandemic well it tends to provide us with information about how those challenges and disruptions affecting student learning and progress they can't do that in terms of comparing to the 2019 mcats because it was two cohorts ago and it was pre-pandemic the 2021 assessments were showed an administration of shorter tests to students in grades three through eight which creates a variety of varying individual student performance levels compared to previous years also there was some missing results that we don't have in some of the content areas which affected how we look at data and no principles we'll speak about that shortly jessie's intention in giving this mcas test this past year was really to use it as a diagnostic tool for this year only the staff in each of the schools are looking at this data however in ways that specifically meet the needs of their students our students and the instructional practices we have in each of the schools tonight's principles report will focus on three parts the assessment results by participating in grade levels and content areas our district results against the state and then our strengths and in particular next steps not necessarily through the same lenses we looked at mcas from the previous years but in how we're going to address deficits as they relate to the loss of direct instruction and the interruptions to learning created as a result of obtaining them so in a letter to the parents from the mass commissioner of education in october he said in our state like every other state in the country many of our of your children our children have not progressed as much as we can normally expect so that kind of frames what we'll be hearing about tonight what we do in terms of what we're doing in terms of the state is a big picture the state of federal pandemic relief money is going toward meeting students academic social emotional and mental health needs which is really critical and then there's a bit of release of tools and resources to support educators in the universities which we're utilizing to support what we need to do in each of the schools our students so tonight's presentation we're kind of going out of order from what you see in your your agendas i'm going to have ace thompson from both wells to present first followed by john campbell in berlin and then diane dusari and sally stupid um i'd like to piggyback a little bit on what was i'm speaking too about making really global generalizations about these stories and i think the other piece that we have to remember is that in our district in my school particularly transitioning through different offices throughout the year you have kids that were hydrating most of the year leading up to this you had kids that were four days a week leading up to this you have you guys that will pull in your mouth any adventures that migrated between all of those moms so you know i recommend everybody take a look extreme caution here and make generalizations the other piece to it i feel like i need to say is the state announced this was a test that was held it was coming at the same time that we were reintroducing all the students so whereas in the past years i focused our impact administration with providing the optimal opportunity for the adjusted at that time i was focusing on reintroducing kids to the normal daily routines and so we did not have everyone test first thing in the morning we did not move special schedules we did not do anything we tried to leave everything in place because it is worth just getting used to paying back now i say all that and you're like oh my gosh how about it it's not it's not bad so i started off with this one because you get a general overview you look at the blue that's the bes scores and the stage is in red what we're looking at is the percentage of students that met or exceeded the standard and so what you can do is you can compare bes against the state and you see that we continue to outperform the state as as we traditionally have it's not to say everything is all sunshine and rainbows but if i say globally we're doing okay um we'll talk a little bit about math because across the state math was really was a was a casualty of the pandemic when i looked specifically just at ela it's a hopefully a little clearer a little bit easier to see again we're breaking it down by grade level and we're we're out performing the state one of the things that mcas has always done is they break down these tests into three categories you see the same thing on the berlin report so you're talking about reading language and writing i wish third grade didn't come first because this is the only highlighted one um but when you look at this you can see reading is the area that you can earn the most points and we out based the state we outpaced the state and language where we really struggled in third grade is writing and when we talked with those third grade teachers we realized they spent so much time focusing on those other areas and in the hybrid model they didn't have as much opportunity to provide not just reading not just writing opportunities but some of the explicit feedback that they've traditionally done i want to go back for one second because i want to point out they still did really well overall it's because the writing portion is such a small component that being said this is a problem for us and it's a problem for the current fourth grade teachers so what they've done is they've added a great expression block into our rotational social studies and science so these kids are getting extra opportunities to practice writing receive explicit feedback from the classroom teacher about it and so that's where that's how we're addressing this area indeed moving through the rest of the areas where i wish i led was pretty much uh above well not pretty much startle above where we're expected today um we will talk a little bit and when i talk about next steps about how we're going to improve um in writing especially i think um i'm hopefully not stealing it down there i'm going to give you too many times [Music] you'll you'll find that we work really hard to work and you descend in you know one district already um mathematics you can see it was a really it was a tough year across the state um and it was a tough year for our students as well again we're still doing better but you look at that fourth grade and it's not as much better as we would like again everyone just want to say this is the percentage of students that meet or exceed the standards on the on the mcats they break it down into five categories you're looking at operations and algebraic thinking base ten fractions and one positive fractions because fractions have been something that we've spent a lot of time over the last couple of years talking about is traditionally an area of weakness for us so kudos to the teachers i think they found a lot of creative ways to do asynchronous fraction work at home and i think that might be be part of what we're what we're seeing there um measurement and data and then um into geometry i'm gonna kind of fast forward through the area that stuck out to us in and this was geometry and geometry is also an area that we've we've often struggled and tried to focus on what we find is that in the in the scope and sequence it traditionally comes towards the end of the year and in fifth grade especially because of the demands that they were finding in there it came after m so i don't want you to look at this and say oh man they didn't learn any geometry they they did um but just not before it was assessed and so it's something that the the math coach and the teachers are talking about right now i'll talk a little bit about the math coach towards the end so it's a it's an area of attention and growth for us uh and then science and technology fifth grade is the only grade that takes the science and technology again we outpace the state we don't get those nice little categories about um about where we where we outdid them but who's a solid science here this is what i feel like is actually the most important information we can take from these outcasts uh in the next three slides what you find is the standards that our students struggled on compared to this day you know there's a lot of standards at each trade level um so you'll you'll find that this the standards we did well on we did really well on these are the standards that we struggle on and this is the information that next year's this current year's teachers need so when they're teaching these students and they come across this this thread they can say hold on these kids struggled with identifying characters feelings we're going to spend a little bit more time and so you'll see um fourth grade especially they had a liars and focus um and i think that just speaks to in some ways the depth that they were able to cover on the one side as well but they've got some work to do in fifth grade um and then up at the hunter this is what they're what they're looking at i think overall given the set of set of circumstances and the environment in which the test was presented and taken um i think we have some positive ways from this but we also definitely have some some areas of growth am i mumbling or talking too quietly this mask is killing me okay so next step when we look at english and language x we've started incorporating hmh um in the in the upper grades it's a new pilot program for she has a written language component that we're looking really closely at and where we're incorporating into our daily work um and as i alluded to before in fourth grade they've created that extra blob for writing instructions and to catch the kids up i hate saying that job to focus some additional instruction um in math i finally did it i've been trying to buy joey florinoy away from berlin for years um and so i'm fortunate to have a little bit of florida magic in my building halftime now not only does he have a nice focus on mathematics but he also has um i had the perfect word before i stood up here a nice personality and a nice way to engage staff and teach and teachers on mathematics discussions um and so i'm really i'm really looking forward to the year working with him he's already jumped in with a couple of different grants we've been spending a lot of professional development time with those those guys looking at mcas results talking about math instruction in ways that we can tie our assessments into that instructions um and the other the other the other movement we've had is um we were able to extend jeff smith our title one math interventionist to full time this year so we're going to be able to to spend some extra time with those struggling mathematicians whereas her time is bit 0.6 is pretty tight in the past so i feel like i just ran through a marathon but you know i'm here if you have any questions or comments yes my question is specific okay that they were given this spring that the same test essentially they took in 2019 or was the test different the tests were different but they were shortened the questions were probably similar but they hardly chose which questions they were going usually it would be more of the same types of questions so they could have a fair kind of sense of whether the students truly mastered a particular standard and in so in your opinion is it unfair to try to compare the 2021 to 2019.

the problem is that you know it doesn't tell us it's just ruthlessly accumulative the third grade test is one of the easiest tests that you have mathematically because it's very straightforward as they move up into fourth fifth and sixth and seventh grade they're asked to be more conceptual on their answers explain why show how that doesn't happen in third grade third gets a lot more you know farmer brown has seven rows of corn each row has six corn stalks how many corn starch but the state across the board same score right so you certainly appear to be doing something right there together they will pay for the third grade test which as you say is easier i'll be very interested to see how that third grade class doesn't import what they maintain yeah carry that wave of excellence yeah great thank you sure so both both the schools with the math scores were several of them oh even the fantasy school district said that right but then in science they were almost off the charts like i think even though i think it was like what top four or five or something i always thought science and math were more linked than that because they're more linked like yeah jump in for the middle of high school where you're more light in terms of the subject here when it's more can you describe the difference between rotation and revolution can you describe the water supplement not a lot not a lot of computational stuff [Music] webinars for parents that joey foreign and i spoke to joey about the other idea about taking those and he is going to do that that's right somebody does the presentation if you can't get to that one you'll be able to see when i see a friend on facebook one of their child's homework assignments and their attempt to help them they were wrong and they myself to see that so it's going to be great to have that resource available to parents to themselves make sure they can try it out yeah absolutely it's like that grammarly commercial or that commercial girl my father that toronto um and the type of mmcas tests vary according to whether the students are in middle school or high school so the 2021 spring m class was administered to students in grade 6 7 8 on grade 9 biology only in grade 10 which is our quote unquote high stakes test required for graduation on in both ela and matt um as ace and john had said these tests um were altered to accommodate the fact that um there are different learning modalities we have to remember that across the commonwealth um schools varied and whether they were in person on from you know the mid-september all the way through june whether they were hybrid like we were um or whether they were full remote for a majority of the school um so in grades six through eight these tests these tests were changed on in not only length of time but also on the amount of questions that were given um and the fact that students on taking these exams were not given the same questions um as their their fellow classmates across the commonwealth um so as you're gonna see this evening administration department chairs and teachers took a look at this data and really a comparison between toronto and the state and then what they did is is really we took a look at what actionable steps needed to be take taken in order to improve in the areas of math english and biology across the grade levels so sally and i are going to go ahead and begin with our english results all right so for the grade six ela results um tahanto outscored the state in both the exceeding and the leading categories with 66 percent of our students in those categories in comparison to 47.

foreign you helpful good evening everyone this is getting started the greater lawrence technical school district committee november 9th at 6 00 p.m so can you have vocal miss fitzgerald here miss disler present miss could we please rise for the pledge of allegiance and remain standing for moment of silence i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all thank you first item on the agenda is the exceptional regis lordes luna ceva ceballos john so this evening we're going to honor one of our students from the medical assistant program lourdes luna survives who is the daughter of carlos luna and sonia ceballos of lawrence has been a student at great lawrence regional technical high school since september of 2018 she is studying in the medical assistant program and is looking to further her education in the psychiatry field with hope of someday becoming a psychiatrist as a student at greater lawrence she is in the process of becoming a certified medical assistant she is also certified in cpr first aid in osha lourdes will will be having field experience as a medical assistant at a local medical office this fall lourdes has been successful in her academic coursework at greater lawrence with a 4.05 gpa and is currently ranked 15th out of 395 students in the class of 2022.

okay account balance of october 19th 2021 1 million 42 588.34 deposits on october 20th 2021 till november 4th 2021. 2 million hundred and forty thousand two hundred ninety five point eighty nine uh transfers in and out october twentieth to the twenty first to november fourth to uh two thousand twenty one less payroll of october 28 2021 895 148.91 uh warrant uh number seven of october 26 2021 194 thousand five hundred and forty four point forty one book balance of november fourth two thousand twenty one two million six hundred ninety three thousand one hundred ninety one point ninety one bank balance november 4th 2021 3 362 0.95 mass municipal depository trust account balance october 19 2021.

[Music] so [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] no [Music] hello [Music] so [Music] no no no no [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] my [Music] good morning everyone my name is sebastian mata and i'm the student ambassador here at anaheim high school before we officially begin please stand for the pledge of allegiance place your right hand over your heart ready begin i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all you may be seated thank you at this time it is my honor to introduce dr jared freed the assistant superintendent of education for the anaheim union high school district [Applause] thank you sebastian good morning anaheim high school students faculty staff and community welcome to anaheim high school's town hall meeting which will showcase the robust civic engagement education all of our students were able to experience the past couple of weeks i would like to start by thanking all of you for your efforts and hard work throughout this process as well as thanking our board of trustees for their support as we embarked on the civic inquiry journey but i like to acknowledge trustee al-jabbar who is here with us this morning thank you for being here i would also like to especially thank and acknowledge the great work of the anaheim high school teachers who have masterfully led our students through this process with integrity i would also like to specifically thank miss michelle majewski for her leadership in supporting and coordinating these efforts with our teachers here at anaheim so thank you [Music] as many of you know we have received many community inquiries asking for the removal or keeping of the colonist's name and mascot as a school district we felt this was a great opportunity for students to partake in a civic engagement project that is relevant to them and unleashes their student voice here at the anaheim union high school district student voice and civic engagement are important key drivers that allow us to prepare our students to become life ready this project is a testament to those drivers and beliefs we cannot be more proud of our students and faculty as they navigated through this process which we will outline shortly what i along with our superintendent mr michael matsuda are most proud of is how our students have demonstrated tremendous civility towards one another while engaging within our civic and democratic process students at anaheim please know that you are a model for our country and how to actively engage in civil discourse my hope is that our students leave this experience empowered as both students and citizens to build a better world through unlimited you now to review this process please give a warm welcome to brandy hoxworth anaheim high school asb president thank you dr fred for all the support throughout this process welcome everyone i would like to start off by introducing myself my name is brandi hawksworth and i am anime high school's asb president throughout the past week all the students at anaheim high school went through a five-day lesson focused on the essential question should anaheim high school keep rebrand or replace its mascot with this essential question as a guide students embarked on a civic learning process that engaged and unleashed our student voice the five-day lessons focus on a variety of key elements on day one students went through a lesson introduction and awareness as to why we are going through this process day two focus on the analysis of primary documents as we read we were asked to annotate and discuss these primary documents on day three we were asked to conduct an image analysis of our mascot throughout the years and conduct our own research on this topic day four focused on the civic dialogue allowing students to discuss their positions with each other in a structured and civil manner last but not least on day five students were asked to write a letter or record a public service announcement to the board of trustees explaining their position on the essential question should anaheim high school keep rebrand or replace its mascot on november 9th students at anaheim high school shared their response to the essential questions by casting a vote to keep rebrand or to replace its mascot this day comes with great significance during our lesson we learned that the students of anaheim high school also voted to determine the name of their mascot exactly 100 years ago on november 9 1921.

good evening everyone today is november 9th 2021 and it's seven o'clock and i would like to go ahead and call this meeting to order let's go ahead and get started with agenda item 1.2 flags blue so we can all edit stand up moving on to item 1.3 roll call we have board member cruz gonzales president board member rodriguez pena here board member bo here board member greer that is not on yet he sent a message that he is troubleshooting uh the internet and so he's hoping to be on soon okay awesome and i uh board memorianis is here now please get a motion to move 2.1 the approval of our agenda for today i make a motion to approve 2.1 by second we have a first fire board member rodriguez pena a second by board member beau we can go ahead and cast our vote i'm not logged in yet so we'll go ahead and we'll do a roll call we have board member cruz gonzalez since we have you online yes board member rodriguez pena yes board member bo yes and i myself yes we have four yeses and one absent at this time go ahead and move forward with our agenda for tonight and at this time since we're moving on to 3.1 public comment on a gender non-agenda items i would like to remind everyone so the translation services are available to the public and they're available through resume do we have anybody on line that would like to speak lika yes we have melissa wilson perkins with her hand raised hi um good evening board superintendent and cabinet i wanted to call in tonight to talk about tk8s in our district when the reorg reorganization committee voted by a narrow margin to include a tk and model 3 all model 3 variations proposed were required to select a location for a tka in our district um i i don't believe that the reorganization committee spent enough time on this issue and any nominations for a tk8 locations besides ellington that that we made were were not fully informed as necessary data points like the cost of updating campuses for adding um additional grade levels was not discussed as a parent member on the team i apologize for not asking more um site-specific information regarding this issue um i believe that more information about community desire for a tka in our changing district site engagement and potential costs still need to be taken into consideration to determine potential tk locations also please consider that if a tka in our district has value in giving parents choice then a wall-to-wall language school is actually doing the exact opposite it forces parents with their children enrolled in our dual immersion program to choose the tk8 or leave the program and doesn't allow non-di parents to opt in to this tk8 school because their students would be years behind the target language lastly as we can see from some of the hypothetical model 3s presented by the superintendent's team two tk8s in our district which drain our middle school population two tkas starts our district's middle school campus well below um our district's desired capacity goals uh that's it thank you very much for your time thank you miss wilson perkins do we have anybody else online that would like to speak we have no other hands raised at this time thank you since there is no more public comment we'll go ahead and move on to the general function of this meeting which is item 4.1 full reorganization go ahead and hand it over to kevin thank you board president i just want to walk i want to walk uh through uh some of the attachments um that are in today's board agenda um and explain uh what they are and why they are uh so for the first attachment is the attachment uh that you had uh at last week's um school reorganization meeting uh there is a uh a small change in the uh pyp myp area uh just to add for transparency and clarification uh we did put there uh that um let me see where we put that out um no let me we'll we'll look for that in a quick second um to see where where that landed uh but we were gonna put there that um the cost for an ib coordinator in the myp pyp can be taken over uh duties from possibly existing staff we also put the 10-year capacity enrollment that was a request we did change it the formatting around a little bit just so it's a little bit larger but that does cover obviously more pages again we've seen this before this is just a different format to to allow for a larger font there was also a request to have a map of our schools that denote the enrollment and the capacity or current enrollment capacity of schools and so here you see uh a map with the school sites uh red line to the school site e is for enrollment and c is for uh capacity so just a different way of looking at it this is on a map versus on a in a table a question in regards yes ma'am before before we want do we do we have this for our our viewers to also look at it's attached to the board agenda item um we can put it up if you prefer just just so when we talk about it they can they can see what we're talking about sure um do you want to uh put it up hope uh there was a question about the map yeah the question is regarding the enrollment does um that include if it's gonna we're gonna remove the sixth graders does this enrollment include the sixth graders or not that's enrollment so this enrollment uh yolanda includes this is current year's projected enrollment so this is not based on the school reorganization or the plan this is the actual projected enrollment for new year so to include the grades that are at the schools currently right now so we have the tk6 um ellington the tk8 the high schools and then when the middle schools are seven and eight okay but i thought that we we wanted to see what um what would it look like if there's not six figures you know you know the um tinder to fifth grade right you know if what would this boost look like then and i apologize i misunderstood enrollment now okay i misunderstood the request i can get that for you i just clarify make sure i understand so we're going to do the same thing but you would like to see this with pk5 and then six through eight at the middle school and am i determining i'm utilizing the schools that's on here and then do i leave the schools that are scheduled to close blame yes okay i'm going to the share so i can put that i can put that up if that worked let me start with me a second uh lika do you know if that's a setting it's not letting not allowing me to share oh there you go okay uh the next um attachment uh this was a couple of uh requests in this attachment uh so we had a request to see what it would look like if um arlington tk8 were to remain open and so on this first one here this is adding uh arlington tk8 as the one tk8 so you will notice that valley dale is no longer a tka as a tk5 the second page if we insert ellington tk8 here ellington is on the southern tip of the district and so we kept valleydale as a tk5 instead of having two neighboring dis schools as a tka and we made hodge the tk8 again that is not a for no other reason that it was the more the most northern school that's that's the only criteria uh there so what is the difference between um hodge and dalton of the distance um not not major but if you look at the at the map here uh hodge is the most northern followed by uh longfellow and and dalton so i don't think it's much norther yeah but just just a little bit um the third the third graphic here was the request to see what it would look like if the high schools were flipped so in other words gladstone high school became the one high school and azusa high school became the one 6'8 and so this one is one tk8 with glaston high school being the high school and then the last one is 2 tk8 with gladstone high school being the high school uh again these are just trying to capture some of the thoughts um in no way shape or form is this a um you know what what we are suggesting to do these are just trying to capture the thoughts and the requests just to give different views as the conversation begins those were the attachments so i turn it but present i turn it back to the board of education do any of you guys have any questions the conversation i i do yeah i just want to know um so i wanted to know that are we going to be talking about the schools and what order are we talking about the schools the programs the budget i think that you know speaking about the schools is more important because we need to set our foundation to know what are we going to put in this tool you build a house you build a foundation then you work up um i i just think it's important that we just need to you know rip the advantage and let's just do it we just have to decide because we only have two more meetings to go and we're supposed to decide on what is the vote about the schools or the programs or you know so if it's about the schools we only have two more meetings special meetings to decide that and then we can go forward i just think that we just keep going in circles just like we're talking about this okay fine we talked about this and then what so i just think that we need to strategize in phases step one two three and then know where we're going from there remember thank you board member regispena i um i share your sentiment around finding us landing starting with a starting point um because we've got to start somewhere however um i'd like to begin our conversation with program so that we can and better understand the costs of our current programs the cost of any future programs that we've discussed or any other programs we might want to implement and then really i have a couple of questions around the demand for programs enrollment at our current programs and what our stakeholders what our parents are doing community have said about what they want to see so that maybe we can start with who's in our program now and what have their what has our parent and community said about what they want to see to get a sense of how many seats we need to make available for any particular program no i i understand that but i still say you know you you just hypothetically you know you're you're gonna be talking about 10 programs 15 programs i don't know and then maybe we'll end up with five schools so we're gonna waste most of the time speaking about programs and we don't even know what we're gonna put in these schools you know i understand what you're saying but i still feel that we need to know where we're going to put these folks so i have a question maybe you can kind of kick off some of this um mr ortega can you tell us how many students we currently have in dual immersion we talked about dual immersion as a program that's growing a program that we'd like to expand but how many students are currently enrolled and is it accurate that our oldest students are in fourth grade or older students are in fifth grade um so off the top of our heads i'm not sure that we have the number uh of enrolled students in dual immersion i'm gonna look to dana to steve clarifying questions clarify board member um did you mean dual immersion at hodge or bo at both schools in um in the whole program uh my my first question is district y total how many students how many elementary students we have in dual immersion okay so i think dana got that number for us yep um i just referencing the presentation that we did a few weeks ago we have 439 students in pk through fifth grade and if nothing changed where would the fifth graders matriculate to continue in dual immersion for middle school if nothing changed so if nothing changed they would remain where they're at right now for sixth grade and then after sixth grade uh the original intent was that they would uh matriculate to slauson and there they actually would take spanish for zero period so we actually would look to build out a dual immersion middle school program that would potentially have them taking two other six periods in spanish one of those courses would be spanish language arts and then another course would be a content area for example social studies or science would that follow the 60 40 model for middle school and that would be starting in seventh grade yes it would so back about four years ago i know that you guys had a zero period for these individuals and they actually did take um spanish uh language arts and social sciences the reason i know is my daughter was in it okay so um she took it her sixth seventh and sixth graders were still in middle school it was sixth seventh and eighth and uh now she's at the high school and is taking this spanish uh for the last three years and we'll take our final year to get that i think it's really important to also let the parents know when they're coming into dual immersion that you know we have the um seal of biliteracy that these students can actually look forward to right and being able to um kind of pick it back off a board member beau being able to lay it out but i think we you know now coming back to what uh board member rodriguez daniel was saying i think regardless of what school it is at the programs are sustainable and they will be sustainable regardless of what programs we decide to keep programs we decide to bring i think it's really more more important as well i would have to agree with board member rodriguez pena we have to be able to we've decided already model three but the community already knows it's model three it's one high school i mean that's you know we're trying to be as transparent as as possible but but i feel like we're kind of dancing around fistful yes no not that school or maybe that's cool you know and and in reality one of the things that we we are voting on i mean this time around i think we learned from the last time right from the last two schools that that that we closed which was gladstone street school and mountain view was that we didn't talk about programs we didn't talk about you know these things that we're talking you know in very in detail and so i'm grateful to have this conversation um you know to be able to but i think it is important that we decide what school right that we have that hard conversation you know looking at the school um capacity to what makes sense one in the out you know one in the north one in the south on the sides i mean one of the things that um i mean i don't have it in front of me that i had um was uh i'm the one that brought up the the two tk8s and um you know let let me ask will that have an impact in our one mega middle school if we have the two eight see okay yeah so maybe that's not a good idea right okay so i don't know what do my colleagues think we can start there right so so you're saying that the if you do um six seven and eight it it would have an impact on the elementary schools is that what you're saying oh no i'm saying that if we had um two tk through eight oh right um the impact of the impact and eighth graders yeah so that would have an impact and so you know maybe that's one thing we can decide tonight is we do right it we're looking at because there's a lot of information in front of us a lot and i can't i i can i can relate to what you both are saying right like there's just so much information that we need to get through that we need to decide that we need to dialogue and we need to have these hard conversations and be able to um dialogue on on these topics and be able to rip off the band-aid and let's talk about schools let's talk about right because the programs they're going to be sustainable right we're going to try to dana looking at you right programs we're going to make sure we bring right if we bring um we're looking at the uh what is that program um the um what's the ym ymp the ib program for battle years and primaries right you know if we're looking to explore we've never had it right um i mean that that's it but if we can talk about the tk through eights right now um board membership uh generally cruz gonzalez did he have anything to say i haven't seen your hand raised just want to double check well i i mean i think i think i would ask sabrina i think she you were asking questions for a particular reason i didn't really hear why you were asking about the dual immersion enrollment sure i want to get a sense of the pipeline right and understand that um you know i i'm of the philosophy that we can't offer every choice and do it all well so by narrowing down our choices and i've been calling them bounded choices let's say we offer five things and we do that and we realign our resources do each of those five things really well if arts no let's say right start you'll want to start ripping off the band-aid if it's art ib stem and dual immersion right that's poor thing um where are kids now in the district what's the pipeline the what's the pipeline for ib primary years program at an elementary a middle years program at the the super middle school and then continuing on with ib track at our high school similarly for dual immersion where are kids now right so i heard you say mr ortega 439 students tk5 and then at this point we've identified what the middle school program would look like right so and board uh president you talked about you referenced the seal of by literacy right so if that's the goal if the goal is to provide an articulated pathway for our students to be able to earn the seal of by literacy how do we get there right so what do we need to change or ensure we have for middle school so those families that make the commitment early to sign up for dual immersion in tk or kindergarten they go to a school they experience the elementary program what are we setting up for middle school and then how will that carry on through high school and so on this um model three with one tk ellington this first page where it says gladstone if um the middle schools are located at gladstone high school 638 di and nyp um dr mitchell can you talk to me about how we can offer dual immersion and myp on one campus i don't have specific information on that i can get that for you i don't see why that's something we could not offer i'm i you can do classes in um in you know a a primary language right you can do the course work for um for this uh you know in in spanish um the dual or the myp program does have a language component um so i mean we could definitely look at exploring i haven't seen that i don't know if you have seen that mr ortega no but like you're saying uh the dual immersion students if they opted to remain in the program having experience we do have um students who do fall out at that point in time because other interests um get born right and it peaks they want to try something different and so just like every other in the master schedule there would be a again as an example a science course and that science course would just happen to be taught in uh in spanish and then their elective would be sla or a spanish language arts course as an example and i don't think that takes away or strips away from the uh nyp philosophy um that the school would live and breathe and whether you're in the dual immersion classes or not thank you i think because i i was excited to see the double aspect on this with the six through eight super middle school at gladstone high school at our last meeting we talked about the idea of having the middle school our single middle school be the end white the ibm middle years program okay that offers world language it continues a strong humanities program it prepares students um maybe better prepare students for the rigors of high school and so beginning um where my recruiting is getting back to your point about what's the pathway for the dual immersion is it still called dual immersion under the nyp umbrella and is it considered a a school within a school or is it is it more integrated right because i think we have to understand that clearly so we can communicate to parent yeah at the at the middle school it's more of a program at a school um right so so i'm taking just like i would take uh you know a different interest or a different course of study it becomes it becomes a program at our school just like high school right so if if they're matriculating to high school students in the dual immersion program should have the option to continue to explore and and grow in the area of uh by literacy bilingualism biculturalism and multi really we should be talking about multi uh at the high school level that doesn't necessarily does that does not necessarily necessarily make the high school a dual immersion high school it's a dual immersion program at our high school so with that being said i think i'm i i'm forming an opinion that um i i think i'm in favor of offering one tk8 school and that not being the dual immersion program and continuing to offer to to think about the unified middle school as the nyp knowing that those dual immersion elementary students when they go to the single middle school if when they go to the single middle school because they wouldn't be at the regular day eight that they would have the opportunity to continue their language education in the nyp program so so you're kind of what i said earlier now we're talking about making sure that we are moving in the right direction and making sure that we're not um what is it putting our kids right into tk8 so that way we have a strong middle school um i see another head nodding over here um hello uh board member career can you hear us talking to me yes hello yes yes just making sure just want to kind of loop you in we just uh went over the paperwork um the models um the the map that um we were given the 10-year demographic data and we just started dialogue basically on uh it was the t the two tk eights or the one tk8 and then um board member beau uh was was asking about the dual immersion uh district wide how many kids we had we have we have 439 students tk through fifth grade and once they get to middle school it becomes a program at the school and so one of the things that we are bringing up and um there's us here um at uh in the boardroom but one of the things i haven't heard from is a bournemouth recruitment seller yourself what do you guys think of us just having one pk through eight instead of two so we can go ahead and have that conversation now so we can start eliminating so i'll go ahead and add my thoughts and i have a bit of an unstable connection i hope you all can hear me as i'm looking at just capacity numbers and looking at how capacity is affected by going with one tk8 versus going to uh two tk's uh i'm i'm of the mind that that it would make sense of those two options to to go a tk to have a one tka model um i'll also add it would be it would be also important to note just from from our community i know that we have a tka now but it would be helpful to add up and this is as i've been interfaced with some some parents and and folks within the community is is there a is there a pool if we have a tk8 um that was offered how many how many within our community would truly be interested in desiring to go to and attend the tk8 versus um i know we we made ellington uh uh was made as a tka as a means of providing a middle school option in closer proximity so there may be folks who have stayed there because of that i just i just wonder how many how many folks from our community go to ellington because tk8 as a model is a draw um and so are we looking to solve them i'm sorry like they've transferred if they had to go like the center or just lost under foothill like they actually transferred to ellington because it's a t k through eight is that correct correct yeah i wonder how many i wonder how many people in our community look at the options that are in front of them that live on another part of town and say i would prefer that my student go to a tk8 and as a result of that relocate their students to a tk8 in order to to take advantage of that program um that's just that's something that i that i i'd be curious about but of the two options if we were looking at one or two i would say one um but i but i even i i wonder if look if if if it would be worthwhile to even look at uh the the draw the tka at all i think that's that's a great question actually i have this i had the same question tonight i would like to know how many students actually live around ellington that actually go there and are not in another district um i know for a fact that a lot of people that live around there don't come to our district um you know that they've chosen to go to covina um i know a lot of students that were supposed to go to center or lawson or foothill have transferred to ellington because of that pk3 but they don't live by ellington so um what board member requested and i myself would like to know where um the demographics of our students at ellington where are they coming from and what part of the area and what is their home school but i also know that the purpose of us having the pka at ellington because we were losing students to las valmas and when we made it a ticket then the students were not leaving it seemed like um they were there and then when it came to seventh and eighth grade and of course they had to either go to slauson or center i don't know if it was too far for them but um they were sending them to las velmas but then we noticed they came back to glaston high school so they would return so we made a tk8 then they didn't leave well maybe a few but not as many as we had i don't have exact speakers but it did make a difference but i believe those are the kids who are that live in that area i'm not sure it's from the outside but it lives there i do recall that story and that that was several years ago so you have that new data now yes um so a board president uh some time ago dr mitchell i had um asked you to run the numbers on inter district transfers the students coming transferring into the district per school so into each of our sites and where they're coming from so without you know i don't have access to any personally identifiable information but the last time you shared this with me um at ellington there were 13 students transferring into ellington from baldwin park movina glendora hacienda and a few other so transfers in and then what was the re the reason was it the reason because the programs was the reason because the tka i i always like to know what is the reason either why they're communities is unified or why they're leaving this is unified it'd be good to know that right and i think you know we've had the conversations about border schools or we've had at least had indirect conversations about border schools and so looking at um an enrollment current enrollment at ellington of 410 students let's say it's 13 let's say it's 15 maybe it's 20 you know currently i think that gives us a sense of the scale of who is transferring into ellington and from where right board member bo what your question you made the statement there was 13 students from out of the district at ellington but was there a question with that i was trying to answer your question when you said where are they where are they coming from so i asked dr mitchell before this data some months ago right and so i mean did they choose ellington because like programs was it because of work um if if it was let's just you know let's be real stay we did not keep ellington and it would be valleydale that would be the school would the parents still come right is it because of the pk i mean we need to know these reasons why these parents are coming right another another um and since we're in the subject of you know how many students do we have coming to asuza high for the ib program out of the district can you please get that information i think that that's that's another question that we right i i think also would be great you know even the medical platform high school i mean the programs that we have the programs the the important thing is you know we have many wonderful programs um you know are they being effective you know you know how many students do have enrolled in these programs you know how many people are coming from the outside just to come to our programs i mean that'd be great to know this information so i'm wondering i'm wondering if we can probably put some of those pieces in the parking lot and focus on the tk8 concept um i think um gabriela you asked for you know for me to weigh in um so i i think what i heard adrian saying and i agree with them is is to understand whether internally in our district we have interest that's transferring in there so i always think i think i would what i think would be valuable to understand do we have what kind of intra so in within our district transfers that we have going to that school right to to really think about and and really that would be a proxy for thinking about whether there's interest in our community to attend tka school or if it really is we really i know you know yolanda i agree with you when we put it in it was really trying to serve the need of that community right who really had asked for something close by and not far away so i think that's really i think that's a key piece that we need to think about for me the other questions that i have in terms of tka tk8 and i'll just tell you i'm leaning even maybe against thinking about even having a tk8 or it may be you know re-evaluating the future whether it makes sense to bring it into one of our schools and not be part of this or this current your organization and the reason i say that is up for a couple things um so i think when we fir when there was when the when it was brought up by the previous superintendent to try to move our whole district to tk8 some of the issues that arose were around programs right and whether these students would have access to daily physical education what type of um what are those called um the not their core courses i'm dropping the name um help me elected right exactly yeah what kind of electives students have access to right whether that's going to be um organized and comprehensive um you know really does it just default to um falling on the shoulders of the teachers there to figure out what that would be at that k-8 school um so those those kind of programmatic concerns i think you know they they they were they they arose several years ago and i'm not sure that we've addressed them even for decades that we have in our district right now right and i think that you know we want to make sure that we're providing a a full education to our middle school students at the tka school so i think those i have questions about that i have so questions about whether or not there's a desire in our district or whether just by default the students because we make it the students in that community are going to go there to what kind of programs would be at this tk8 school would we be able to give full access to similar experiences especially around physical education and and then electives and then number three i'm just expressing concern about what happens if they're maybe if there's not desire or if the enrollment in that area drops to subject level that we then start having combination classes which i understand we now do have some we don't have fully enough enough students to to have two full sections like we used to at ellington so what happens at that point with that program if you start having combination classes because or having to mix braids because i feel like that's one thing that as we move to the organization we need to focus on trying to prevent so i think those are the three areas that that i had would express concern around make me feel like the tka piece maybe is something that we can think about after we have really solid programs in all of our current schools so that's where i am right now thank you board member career yeah uh board member chris gonzalez i think more accurately summed up what my thoughts were thank you around what are our internal transfers and what what do those look like so so 100 percent what she said that that's what i would like to see because again yes that will communicate what type of interests we have so every chilling and everything you just said is are are i i echo those those those same thoughts so i guess we're asking for two different things we're asking for internal transfers and we're also asking for introduce visit uh outside district transfers which is one of the things that i remembered um for example the ib program was to attract other people from other districts um and so one of the things that i also have noticed um that uh and correct me if i'm wrong we we don't assess our um we we don't go back and see how our programs do you know how are they doing for the year how successful they are how many students are we keeping in the program how many have grad you know how many are continuing i i i haven't seen that um and that's something that i would like to go ahead and start with this transition is to assess our programs each year and how they're doing but but i also i do agree with you knowing also regarding the you know the k2a you know i i i do recall that when it first opened people were not our parents they were not aware of the curriculum because they didn't realize there was going to be elementary curriculum where the electives in the band and the pe like you mentioned were you know the the minute were a lot less than they would if they were in a middle school are you guys suggesting to test the parents is that what i mean i'm just saying that um so we need to look deeply do i mean really do we really need a caterway it's like i mentioned that that the students from ellington would leave because they had to go to maybe uh center and blossom it was too far for them but they came back in high school so just saying if gradstone high school was was the mega uh 7th and 8th maybe they wouldn't go to las palmas because it it's still close to them so i mean do we really want to have a gateway that yeah i agree we should get on it on that one can i just remember yeah thank you um so so gabby i'm not i don't want i'm not trying to go excuse me i'm not i i don't want you to feel like i'm trying to contradict you but i just want to be just really clear at least from my perspective right when we put in programs like international baccalaureate when we put in the tka programs we're putting them in my mind to give the students in our district a high quality education and opportunity i'm a big fan of ib and the reason i am is because when i went off to mit and i was in a dorm room with a lot of dorm area with a lot of international students they had all taken ib and they had all had pretty much their first year of credits already going walking into mit as freshmen they came in almost the sophomores because of the international baccalaureate program so that is why i'm a believer and and i would like to see our students have those opportunities i just want to make that clear because i think having attracting people from outside of our district is a bonus always a bonus but to me we our first mission is to serve the community that we live in i'm sorry board member christian solis i i'm not understanding what you're saying here contradict me what i was trying to say is that we should assess every program not just the ib program but and i think that's a great idea that's a great idea that's it so getting back to the tk issue i just wanted to be very clear i i think what i'm saying is i feel like it's for i am comfortable having a conversation about school consolidations and closing schools and saying at this point right now we're not going to look to do a tk8 um unless unless it makes sense after we see which schools close in terms of you know the need in that community and then i think that's something that we could build out in that school as it feel as if it seems like that is something that is needed in one of our community one of our areas that would be my that's what i am leaning towards remember i would agree with that with one caveat uh i would like to see that information that we uh from ellington so if we were to you know making these numbers up right if if we saw that 50 percent of this of the students at ellington were from outside of the district and other other parts of town that were transferring in specifically because they were looking for a tk8 experience then that would communicate to me that there is interest within our community for for a tk8 so so i i i would i would uh agree with shielding with the one caveat of uh and maybe you're saying the same thing but but of seeing what the data suggests on uh the internal transfers to ellington from outside of their the ellington area so just to be clear you would like to see this this data before we continue the conversation about element you know not having a tk through eight is it is that correct yeah so i think that we we could i think we can continue forward with this com with the conversation i think the data will speak for itself um as as we get that that information i'd be comfortable moving forward uh piggybacking shielding's suggestion of moving forward under the the you know you know potential assumption that we would look at tk through five uh only and not have a tk unless the data suggests otherwise at which point then we should look at at uh ensuring that that's part of the model to begin with okay just to be clear we went from two tk through eight now to talking to one and now moving forward we want to have a conversation of having no tk through eight pk through five so that way we can have the six through eight mega middle school correct yes okay yeah who would like to go ahead and continue the conversation or have any questions so i'd like to then now shift to i think the conversation that sabrina brought started initiating and talking about programs and i think referencing maybe certain um programs at different school sites um so i i just want to say that i um i think we all got an email from a teacher that i have a lot of respect for him from and she really articulated some of some of the things that i was thinking about in terms of asking students to specialize at a very young age and really about whose choice is being made when when we have um these sort of magnet school approach at the elementary level um and instead thinking about how do we how do we put in a really strong base program that every student gets i think we've already made a commitment to bring in still and i think if we as a as a community and a board and just an organization our district as a whole understood sort of the the the depth and richness of that approach right and the ability to pull in some of these areas like art or music um that are really embedded in that that program i'm thinking about is it in my mind i'll just say instead of asking questions i think in my mind it's more valuable to say we have decided this is our approach let us make sure that we do a really amazing implementation of it um and try to pull in these other pieces and along those lines i think we could think about how do we how do we strengthen these pieces like we talk about art right how do we find a way to bring in live art instructors right instead of using package curriculum that we use it which has been great right but it's not the same thing of a replacement of having like a true art having an arts instructor right dead that so kids are able to have somebody whose background is art in their classroom so thinking about at the elementary level how do we build in those pieces to give all the children across our district or example or the stem program for example how do we build in those pieces so that students are getting getting experiences in all these really critical areas so that as they move on to middle school or high school they already have sort of that base knowledge of all these different really places where you could specialize and and then and then as they get older you know they are drawn to the interest that they're in that they're interested as opposed to arbitrarily saying okay now you're at the art school so this is what you're going to focus on now you're at the stem school um so i think that's that's where i am leaning in terms of specialization i think that we have key programs that it's good to strengthen i mean and i'll just say in terms of my mind when i hear us talking about dual immersion and try to equate that to like a stem program or program in my mind dual immersion is the language kids are learning in i've seen plenty examples where you have a dual immersion school that has stem with it right so to me dual immersion is the language of instruction not necessarily it's a program that's in the level of of a stem or a arts or that kind of megaphone i mean obviously you have to opt in right but in my mind we should be thinking about how do they also get those same opportunities in terms of enrichment so that's what just to start this conversation one of the things that um you said that that kind of resonated with me as um my son graduated from gladstone high school he only had four years of computer science right and it was very limited when he got to leola maramont one of the things he said is um i wish i would have studied started coding it in kindergarten first grade right and so me being true wanting to stay here in a souza unified not having my kids in another district kept him here and so he missed out so he's a little behind in college now compared to his co you know his his colleagues who've had coding since they were in kindergarten first grade so i i hear you um board member cruz gonzalez that it's one of these things and uh that it's one of the things that we need to start here we are going to make this transition right our kids need to start from a very young age and be able to follow that path because it's it when it's sustainable and it's a strong program it does prepare them for their future preparation for greater things where i mean we have next door we we have these programs that are taking our kids right we have uh covina we have dougherty glendora right next to us and i think the vision that i'm that i'm seeing from each you know as you guys are speaking and what i'm what i'm what i'm seeing is that is that we want to make um our programs um one of the things that board member beau said is a pathway like a pipeline like right something that can be sustainable can start from a very young age and so i think that the majority of us here yeah all of us feel feel very strongly about that and um one of the things uh like coding with you know coding would be great to have here for our students to start i know you know five families who've left our district in the last four years because of coding they would come back in a heartbeat i remember uh cruz gonzalez just to add some uh context and please if this is incorrect um i'm going to project so this is uh an option that we presented uh to the school reorganization team um and then we presented to the board of education so this is this is the option that we would go to a a base program right so that every school would have preschools seal mild mod special education stem visual performing arts right parks and rec and so every school would have this this program as a strong as a strong base so this was one option and then of course we went to option two which was create these magnets or these academies but this this is just to give us context and bring us back right this was one of the options that that we presented as a possibility for uh for our um for our schools and then there's nothing to prevent us also from saying yes all of these schools will have this and then one school will be the school of the art school of the arts right i don't think it has to be either or we don't have to make all of them magnets or academies but again just throwing that out there just as a to bring context into it that this was definitely an option that we saw as as viable and strong as well right and just declare so yeah so i guess what i'm saying is i prefer option one and i'm also saying that we should not i'm not talking about taking a weight we've already built out right so we already have capacity where there's built out around arts at the school site or stem at another school site right i'm not suggesting we always say okay no that's going to go away now i'm saying let's not let's let's work on for everybody i guess i'm saying option one with just strengthening continuing to strengthen existing programs that's what i would be saying and and i agree i mean mr p if you could could you put that slide back up 100 yes so here i mean nothing on these bullet points is controversial right these are all really good programs and why wouldn't we have them for every one of our pk38 student right i mean i think we're all nodding um i'm i'm thinking back to a couple of meetings ago board member morgan's painting when we talked about middle school and middle school being a very pivotal time in students development unique students i call them it's it's um and so i mean i'm more and more drawn to this idea of the mega middle school right so that we can have you have to have enough students to offer program right and middle schoolers need their own programming it's that they're building their identity um it's really it's it's a time to really catch students and inspire them or for the years ahead um so that we're operating off a little bit of numbers dr mitchell can you tell us how many seventh and eighth graders we have at ellington because i think we've alluded to maybe we have some combination classes or we don't have two full sections so how many students are in seventh and eighth grade there yep and perhaps for the next meeting or at a before the next meeting can you tell us uh provide a report about the um [Music] the retention rate meaning the student who is in how many of our eighth graders were there from kindergarten right or were there from first grade or did they come in at sixth grade so for the first question how many was it six seventh in eighth grade or just seven seven eight uh seventh and eighth it is uh 66.

yeah oh sorry about that i think getting getting back to program i mean i keep looking at my notes and the the themes that leap out to me in our art stem dual immersion and ib and going back to that slide with the you know those very solid base programs that all of our school all of our students should be experiencing i 100 support that when we get to talking about preschool i think we need to do a little more work about how we roll out preschool at every site if that makes sense you know what what's the pace of that so that we're implementing programs that have enough students again to have the appropriate staffing that have the quality of instruction but the idea of having a preschool at every elementary site the idea is appealing but i don't want to do it just to say we have it i want it i would like to make sure it makes sense to expand our preschool sites as our demand grows for preschool and um dr mitchell if i'm not mistaken i think we are only two schools out that do not have a preschool correct every other elementary sites already has a program um one of our one of our programs on site and i believe that two schools yes ma'am i was gonna you're gonna answer my question right now the two sites i believe and again uh dana if i'm incorrect i think the two sites that currently do not have one of our preschools are hodge and ellington but every other elementary school has at least one section some schools more sections of our preschools on campus already so kind of going back to a conversation um a couple meetings ago and us named along talking about preschool um one of the things that we had um [Music] spoken about was making sure that and i remember was board member beau having a sustainable right preschool to go ahead and feed into into the schools and so i would like to have the conversation about about that um at this moment what does that look like for us to have the preschools at each of the schools and not have long felt so i heard you say that we do have preschools at all but two sites plus longfellow as its own standalone preschool site correct can i can i um yeah thank you and this is actually for parking lot and because i appreciate sabrina bringing this up um um i do i do think that it would be good to have a conversation about preschools and thinking about how expanding and i know i mean i know that there is desire for full day preschool and we you know we used to offer only half day and we don't have other options around early childhood preschool so thinking about that and i just for me personally um you know i i think arthur you know i've always thought that to really build it out we'd also it would be great if we actually were offering head start as well and be able to mix all of these approaches so i just want to put that on a parking lot um but i think i agree with what i heard sabrina would i think i heard the same thing sabrina heard right that is that we we really have enough need for preschool that we are that we're building it out at all the school sites plus longfellow and we're still feeling all these programs is that is that what i heard at all oh that is correct and again at some schools uh based on uh demand and and need we have multiple sections open at a particular site so then my question would be if we wanted to go ahead and strengthen our our our our peaceful community could we open up more more preschool classrooms at our school and i'm gonna let dana weigh in on this but my understanding is yes my understanding is as the demand is there uh we continue to build out and open more sections uh at those sites uh as we see the demand continue to grow so let's pretend we have we have one a.m session and now there's a waiting list of five six seven eight oh we have enough students let's go ahead and figure out how we open up another section and so that has we have been building as that interest continues to grow we have been building now uh sections that are at our school site and and what does it look like to have a full day baseball for our community for our school district yeah that's something that we keep a close tab on we are looking at that uh all the time we have a strong desire to open up a full year full full day preschool for our community board member cruz gonzalez yes no i i yeah i appreciate that and like i said i i'm not looking to have a conversation about that tonight but i do think it's something that at some point we should talk about in terms of what you know our focus in the early childhood especially as the state is looking to expand that you know expanding tk and changing the staffing requirements ratios for tk rights i think there's a lot to talk about that but not not in this meeting but should we talk about this as we we are we're reconfiguring and we're making all these decisions i mean my question would be then do we feel like we have the capacity even with the as you reorganize that we're going to be able to continue to offer preschool at this as needed at the at the sites as well as at longfellow i mean that's the question right but i think you've already answered so right now right with having longfellow as an option then that's where uh parents decide to go on in that particular campus what we have seen is as we have been building them people have been coming and showing up and again at some sites more than than we anticipate and so we have been responding to that um i guess we could foresee a a future or scenario where we outgrow the physical space uh then at that point in time it's just again readjusting to ensure that that we're securing you know that additional space and making sure that it's that we get it licensed and ready to ready to go and do you know of those students in long fellow um do they live in our district or are they coming from the outside or do we know that not at the top of my head i can look at that you know i can look at the at the um at the report uh that dr ball was referencing i think there might be something there i'll look that up real quick yeah because i was just wondering if um if they're from our district why aren't they going to their their school site you know why are they going to landfall not that this is the the reason uh but in the north side uh those are so we have hodge which currently doesn't have a preschool we have dalton which is a new a one of the newer preschools and we have lee which is also one of the newer preschools so if you just look at the map there was there were very little options until recently for families to take their schools i'm sorry to take their students to preschool so they had to they would have to travel to another so again lee and dalton knew her and then there was nothing at hodge and so that made it that made it that made longfellow attractive for those that lived in that area at this point i'm i'm comfortable um [Music] i'm i don't see the need to debate additional preschool i think as we as as we continue to build the the k8 or the k the elementary program at the sites i think preschools will come but i do want to make this comment and i hope it doesn't land the wrong way um up until this moment i thought we only offered preschool at longfellow and when i go to the district website and i go to our about us our programs and i go to district highlights and i click on early childhood education i get the school profile pdf it doesn't tell me that preschools are other site and so i hope that we can fold this into the conversation next week in our communication study session about how do we tell families how do we tell community members who are coming into the district who are looking at you know moving here that we do offer preschool and and where we and where it is i mean i say this because i'm one person but i i'm not i can't be the only person that didn't know we had preschool at other sites besides longfellow you know so what is the enrollment at longfellow written on here so moving forward so we're we're going to go ahead and start the conversation without the tk8 and start the conversation with pk5 right okay the board yes so let's one of the things that um i noticed here um these models right as we are not looking at the 2k and le let's have a conversation about gladstone high school being the middle school in a souza being the high school and then flipping it and this is a high school being the middle school and gladstone high school being the mega high school [Music] i would like to hear from my colleagues on what any questions that they have or opinions do we know though on budget wise um whichever high school it will be what would the cost be would be more on one school or one and the other you know what has more capacity you know what ones are going to need more um modules or um base wise also i like to know that on each of the high schools i think that's how we would determine what would high school would be feasible for for these students to put them together emerging so if we're looking at budget um very purposes only azusa high school would be the one school where based on the current projected enrollment all students could fit without adding any additional modulars um gladstone high school based on its current capacity we would need at least a couple more classrooms because they would already be at 105 capacity okay thank you welcome just to put it out there just to put it out there as a as a bigger context um again we have just preliminary preliminarily looked at the at the schools if we were thinking of just the campus again this is a high school classroom high school both schools have a section of their schools on that are portables it's not the whole entire campus is just a section and so if if that was something that we would look at then um the cost could be similar i think i agree with latasha glaston high school would be a little bit more expensive because it's not just replacing it's adding a couple more modulars as well can we also talk about one of the things that um i know you guys are talking about the modules but looking at how deliberated a souza high school is and how much work it needs because as we're going through this reconfiguration what i would like to see is for us to be able to if we're going to make a mega high school we have to make it big we have to make it great we have to right there's asbestos um we're going to be taking care of some walls and you know renovating how we want it to happen right what does that look like what does that projection look like so we provided the figures um to update or to modernize azusa high school as far as rebranding and repainting but we have not assessed every building based on upgrades i would need to know what we're envisioning as far as um if we're looking at azusa high school and then i can give you figures on that because also you know the the asphalt was in um their quad i guess you want to call it that needs a lot of uplifting and straightening it out it's all bumpy and everything and those are the things that we need to know budget wise you know uh you know what like i brought before regarding the the adult school we didn't know we needed a parking lot there and you know all of a sudden we needed a parking lot and then we needed um a fence because the fire department has to have to get bigger come in we didn't know these things prior when we made this make the last decision on on the um the removal of plasto uh street stool so those are the things we we need to know also what would that kind of cost us the asphalt i mean even the parking lot i mean it's yes it doesn't mean they're just gonna go and fit there i'm sure there's other things that are gonna have to be done and what year was um was this a high built what year was glaston high school built i can look into that um but as it relates to asphalt um that is a district-wide need um so no matter what school we select that is one of the projects that we're actually getting a district-wide rfp because there's a need district life for us to update our asphalt for all on campus i think the first graduating class for merzouzo high school was 1958 so at least 1954-53 was when it was built it was the first class of gladstone was 1969. my mother-in-law was the first graduating class so how much how much money do we have left in measure k and how do our measure k funds are we planning to use them for facilities upgrade so right now we have approximately 40 million remaining in our bond fund and we've paused all of our construction projects with the hopes of understanding the need of the school reorganization and then we will reallocate those dollars those sites one of the things um that as we're as we're speaking about the middle school and the high school regardless of where we end up because we still haven't really talked about it um what i would like to see is is the pools you know they need to get renovated they need to be working for our students we have swimmers we have a coach at gladstone high school who is fully committed during covid you know when it was when they were able to practice you even throughout the years when gladstone has not had a swimming pool they have a tree growing out of it right now she would go you know and try to find these students a place for them to i would like to see for us to have these pools renovated and working so one of the things that i suggested last week um to look for county money that is out there i um i don't know if you got a chance to do that so um that's one of the things that i would like to see included um as we're talking about um you know these this big mega middle school and big makeup high school it's great that we're gonna you know we have the fields that the you know middle school and high school can continue to use but let's also talk about the polls and that's something that um right get an estimate of how much it would be for for us to to be able to renovate and to get these pools working um and necessarily this money wouldn't have come from measure k um basically come from l.a county they just need to know a number yes so i will get i'm pulling that up now we did receive a quote on the renovation so give me one second it was as low as 5.4 as high as 7.

knowing where we live work study and recreate does not change the past but a thorough understanding of the ongoing consequences of this past can empower us in our work to create a future that supports human flourishing and justice for all individuals all right moving into roll call consultant's office in ann arbor good evening commissioner mccomber um bridget mccomber joining from my home in ann arbor thank you mr clevy uh commissioner cleavy attending for my 100 solar home in ann arbor commissioner 11.

hi uh my name is susan perler and i live at 1356 ravenwood in ann arbor and i've been a homeowner here for about 20 years in the past i lived in east lansing michigan where we had a municipal utility in the lansing board of water and light and personally i much prefer the board of water and light over dte but that's a different discussion for another day i'm calling to support the commission's resolution for the municipal fusibility study that zach mentioned the first commenter i believe that such a study is superior to other comparative analysis and the feasibility study will be more focused more efficient and less expensive um we need to know if the economics of municipalization will work in ann arbor and i believe that a focused feasibility study is the best path forward um that's really all i have to say thank you for your time and consideration thank you very much yeah caller ending in two three five hello we hear you hi um my name is eric mccleary i reside at 635 hidden valley club um in ann arbor i was calling to support the municipal visibility study as well um because i i'm a new resident to ann arbor one of the things i love most about this city is that we take the initiative on issues of climate on issues of energy and this feasibility study is how we move forward we can't continue to rely on investor investor-owned utilities that put their investors and their shareholders ahead of ratepayers and this visibility is the next step in moving ann arbor forward and therefore michigan forward because we are the example um thank you thanks a lot thank you that's all true that's all okay thank all the callers for calling in um and i'd like to remind everybody that um there is also going to be an opportunity to comment at the end of the meeting so um if you have additional comments to offer then we will consider those just as we those considered those we just heard today and then previous evenings so um we now move into the meat of the agenda and we really just have two related agenda points both related to municipalization from two different perspectives and the first on the agenda is a presentation of an ann arbor sustainable energy utility uh there's been a lot of conversation of that in recent weeks but not yet in this forum and therefore we thought it's important that we do that in this forum so that all commissioners have an opportunity to understand what's being proposed before we move on to consider the resolution as the other agenda item in the meeting so missy i'd um like to call on you um i think you're presenting i don't know if you're going to hand that off to anybody else on your staff but i'll let you control things from here yeah no i gave them i gave them a night off although i see some of them on the line here they didn't take it well first and foremost i just want to say thank you for the chance to present tonight i know we have a limited amount of time together and while we have two agenda items would it be nice if we uh get a little bit of our time back so we'll see uh but this is uh all questions welcome for tonight and what i really want to focus on is what an seu is and how it could operate in ann arbor and potential next steps for those of you who joined our public discussion about this um some of these slides will be pretty familiar but i don't want to assume that everyone was able to join that meeting so this really is more for members of the public thumbs up see the screen okay great i see some headphones awesome so for folks that are joining in i know that the commission knows this deeply i just want to ground our conversation broadly in all things uh that we're doing in our local goals and objectives so as you know in november of 2019 anniversary council unanimously declared a climate emergency and they set the goal of achieving a just transition to community-wide carbon neutrality by 2030 then in june of 2020 just a short uh year plus go they adopted the living plan and framework for how to achieve that goal known as a20 so when we talk about that i'll intersperse that throughout the conversation with folks but again more for members of the public and of course key to grounding excuse me our work in carbon neutrality is understanding what our greenhouse gas emissions profile is so both the sectors that are contributing as well as the sources and what we know from our greenhouse gas emissions profile is that the majority of our missions come from our built environment primarily from building electricity but not far behind is the natural gas that we use to heat and cool our built environment and then of course as we're thinking about transportation fuels and the role of electrification of those fuels that's going to play a really important role and so this is just kind of a grounding as we're thinking about how to transition those sectors over we know that we need to find solutions to our built environment that center kind of local generation clean energy pathways good paying jobs etc uh so i know you can't read this and you don't need to read this the whole point is over the last few months osi staff uh and you all as the commission have systematically been evaluating lots of different pathways to reduce our energy related emissions and these pathways that we've explored together have included things like uh on-site renewable energy generation right things like our solarize program or the uh solar faithful model and the ppa that's been developed from that we are exploring virtual power purchase agreements and power reduction agreements which we got through the vgp uh filing that we intervened in just over a little less than a year ago we talked about community solar we haven't talked about the migraine power program but it's on our list of things to be exploring and really understand um we've had discussions about a traditional utility community choice aggregation renewable energy credit programs have kind of been on the periphery but it's something on our docket to continue discussing and of course underlying all of these presentations and discussions which may have felt like just presentations and discussions was really getting us to a sense of what's possible and the foundation of that is michigan energy law so the purpose of the rest of our time together is not to explore the pros and the cons of each of those options a vpa a wreck purchase my green power a traditional municipal utility that's not what i'm going to focus on for this portion of the time because the answer from where i sit is likely all of the above or many of the above solutions are going to be necessary to hit a 2030 goal and target instead i want to talk to you a little bit about the seu concept and it actually came out of this commission in our march meeting i don't know if you remember but we had attorney braider who gave us kind of an overview of the foot act and michigan energy law and unrelated at least in my mind until the presentation happened was a follow-up presentation from from paul fenn on cca in which he talked about the history of cca from 1.0 which really was a kind of rec purchase program the 2.0 which became large utility scale solar buys to 3.0 which became local decarbonization and when those two presentations which seemed quite different were brought together i saw a pathway and i think some of you saw it too and we sort of talked about it which was can we basically do what is effectively cca 3.0 through a complementary utility and this is how the sa seu idea sort of emerged in my head and why we began to explore this uh just to understand is this actually a thing that might be possible um so i just kind of want to bring bring us back for a second to what attorney greater shared with us during your presentation i am not a lawyer i'm not going to attempt to do justice to the conversation that that she shared with us but the the essence of that is she shared that the michigan constitution protects the rights of cities and villages to create their own municipal utility and they can do that either via a taking aka condemnation and the buyout of the incumbent utility in their infrastructure or via competition with that incumbent utility and today every community that has started their own municipal utility in michigan and across the country has done that um and just sort of naming zealand was the last in michigan to do it they officially formed in 1902 and sold in 1915 but preserved the right to rebuy and so they bought themselves back in 1935 they were the last municipal utility forum in michigan but every utility that has done it has done it through condemnation and you can imagine why starting up a full set of poles and wires to directly compete with your incumbent utility is an expensive proposition as is buying out their infrastructure through condemnation but that still may be a viable path for us but standing up and competing an entirely competing set of infrastructure without a hundred percent of the rate base is a really hard sell chances are your rates would be higher than your incumbent utility so that got us thinking outside of the box of traditional competition what we know is due to massive improvements in energy technology and significant declines in the cost for things like solar and energy storage which are going to continue to drop maybe competition in a different way actually is viable especially competition that focuses on generation and that is the heart of the seo so i want to tell you a little bit more about that what we thought about is what if in in our focus we center that creating a parallel or supplemental or complementary or competing utility whatever term you want to use which is allowed and what if we focus on generation don't focus on trying to duplicate the grid and all the vulnerabilities of that grid but instead be strategic with how much of a new grid we need to build so that way the cost of that infrastructure isn't in play and that means we can focus more of the actual dollars on renewable energy and energy waste reduction and so in thinking about that we started to model what could be possible and if that utility did focus on energy waste reduction and beneficial electrification and of course local generation through solar with storage and potentially geothermal that's district level could this happen at a pace that was fast enough to meet the goals and objectives we had was it legal was it technically possible and the answer looked like yes and so the basic narrative or one of the narratives that we sort of hold is switching from energy as a commodity to energy being a service within this concept so just for a second um i want to share a little bit about the the thinking behind this in terms of sequencing because there's a lot that i just said and we can't do all of it at one particular moment uh and scale up so i just kind of want to ground this in some of our thinking the very first thing is a vision of what is possible and this was important because we didn't want to kind of bootstrap something we wanted to be very very clear from the onset if we're going to try to create a municipal utility that is supplemental what is the vision what do we want to aspire for what sort of the mark that we're aiming and so the vision was a sustainable energy utility for us in ann arbor would be a public utility so it is municipal power that is 100 renewably powered reliable local shared and of course publicly owned and so that's the vision that we put together and as we sort of envisioned it we thought that the seo would focus first on generation so generating local clean energy energy that would feed directly into our homes businesses places of worship community centers through behind the meter systems which you can do today right and many of us have done mark just told us he's in a fully solar powered house right now and that's exciting um and this clean energy ideally uh the way we've we've mapped it out would be paired with storage and this would help improve energy reliability as we know we had issues this summer many of us lost power for an extended period of time for those of us that have batteries we fared a lot better than other folks within the system so how do we pair solar and storage to help address the reliability concerns but also in that phase one it's not enough just to generate we need to do energy waste reduction deep energy waste reduction work and so we modeled that being a core component of the seo in phase one and that also will of course improve comfort lower bills help those renewable energy systems on roofs go further in terms of meeting a constituent's energy needs and then in the the first phase we also want to do on build finance and that helps with some of the energy efficiency work and i'm happy to take any questions about that i'll jump in in a second a little bit more detail then over time the seo would grow to offer more things that are aligned with a20 that you see in the plan and we talk about a lot things like beneficial electrification uh we could do geothermal we could do transportation electrification we could do micro and nano grids and i want to be clear that when i say over time i don't think that is an extended period of time i think uh one of the things that became pretty clear is the need if we're forming a utility we have to sell energy we need to generate energy to sell energy that's sort of at the heart of what needs to happen in the seo all of those other systems can come into play and with an infrastructure build that just passed we may expedite other things but in the drafting of this we saw generation storage and efficiency being critical so the the concept of the seo really is grounded in energy choice providing anarborites another way to procure a large portion of their energy usage and of course one that's coming from clean local reliable energy sources so to kind of further ground our thinking i just want to bring this back i'm not going to belabor these but we at the onsen identified not just that vision but these objectives for how we wanted uh to think about an seo and kind of the things that would have to check or whatever energy system we move forward so we wanted to shift our energy system of course from being carbon intensive to being carbon free which we all i think are working tirelessly on all of you i thank you for your help we want to define solutions commensurate with the time frame and ambition established in our carbon neutrality plan which means 2030 we've got to move pretty fast um and we know that emissions under the curve matter a lot it's not enough on you know december 31st 2029 for us to adopt a policy that gets to zero emissions what we do today has really significant impact so let's move quick sort of the rationale and we want to center the customer in this model right and make sure we give people the choice that they currently really don't have a whole lot of we wanted to center low low-income and historically under-represented groups in the system with a focus on affordability sustainability and comfort making people's lives actually better uh as opposed to kind of adding this as a burden viewing energy as a service and not a commodity that we're selling it's really about a relationship and helping people improve quality of life and of course we're improving the reliability um and eventually the resilience of our system more broadly so i sort of mentioned this earlier and i want to spend a few minutes more with you than i would uh perhaps in a general public discussion about the way we think about the sau and i broke the next two slides up into phase one kind of phase two plus so you can just kind of be with me sequentially okay so framing when we worked with our technical advisors we i mean honestly the question was can we do this is this even legally possible is this bonkers is it is it enabled in michigan law is this technically possible um what kind of policy changes would we need and the answer is yes it's possible no policy change is really necessary um go and so that allowed us then to go and to start envisioning what it could look like so first and foremost the seo could enable a lot more people to get the benefit of solar and the way we would do this is by directly paying for the installation on residential and business routes so they keep pointing to my roof like you should know that i have solar on my roof but i do which is that indication uh we could do this also on carports ground-mounted systems but we that we the collective public would be the ones owning that system so residents would uh not have to put the capital down up front they would have to come up with twelve thousand fifteen thousand dollars to install solar just putting a pin in this you could still do that and i'll talk about that in a minute and how you can stay in the sau if you actually generate your own but what would happen is uh someone would subscribe a resident would subscribe uh to purchase their energy at a rate that's based on the cost of that solar system and the cost to operate the seo and they would pay a bill like what you pay per usage you would just pay the seu and it would be coming from your roof coming from your ground mount and eventually in phase two through the micro grid that we hope to establish this is important right and you would have a battery on site as well so that way you have that kind of balancing of load and demand this means that residents could still have power if the big grid goes down which is happening more and more frequently and we this is already possible today right i mean i have this system in my house so this technology isn't this isn't hard to envision uh being possible additionally the seo would not be limited by current utility restrictions that constrain solar system sizes meaning 100 of your usage or the amount of solar allowed within the whole landscape aka the one percent cap those go away if we have an seu because we don't set that and adopt that as our regulation or our policy instead we would be able to maximize solar installations on viable locations leveraging all that viable sunny space that we have in our community and then of course the goal is over time those individual solar systems get connected through a series of nano and micro grids not the ease grid uh and more on that in a minute the second part of phase one kind of right out the gate would be offering robust energy waste reduction programs these would help people lower energy demand and improve comfort uh likely some of these services will be available to anyone just like what you currently have through gte there's base appliance rebates that you can get there's educational there's audits i hate that word audit i'm gonna try to take that out there's audit does not pull well no one wants to be audited so an energy assessment right to help you identify saving opportunities but the seo could also offer on bill finance which is the next point to help you make those improvements which mean you don't have to come up with a large pot of capital right up front to do your installation or your building envelope work or to help with that appliance retrofit the seo could help you do that and amortize that cost via on bill finance over a longer period of time ideally hoping to get you close to parity so your bills really don't change as you reduce usage that incremental difference could go to pay back your loan that's the ideal not always possible but that is something that we can work with constituents with because we have a different objective in the seo it's not about an instant roi on that process and this helps a lot more people access efficiency improvements comfort improvements renters landlords uh low-income tenants et cetera so the pairing of these two is actually really important as we think about kind of the equity and justice elements of this work and also if we're gonna get 100 renewable energy powering our community we need to lower our usage while we're also transitioning our usage to clean so these are these are kind of the core things that we think we can do right out the gate with the seu and uh happy to talk about some of the conversations we're having with peers about on bill finance and how we can leverage things like holland's program to bring this to ann arbor you are doing great everybody thank you for sticking with me on this for phase two what we envision is the su transitioning to really focus on micro and nano grids that would be created to enable neighbors to share power across property lines you can't do that today but if we became a utility we can we can have energy pass across those those property lines that would mean if a resident needs more power than their solar system is able to provide they can pull from the microgrid maybe that's from their neighbor or three houses down where the battery for the neighborhood is operating uh they can if you're generating more power you can send it to the micro grids a battery itself and of course if you don't have good solar potential but you have let's say glorious freeze we want you to keep those trees so this allows you to participate in the scu directly without having to take down those trees that are providing lots of other benefits of course if you're a renter and you don't have to say what's on your roof these are other ways that you can participate and the idea is eventually to get to a concept where the whole neighborhood can access and share this clean locally uh generated power in this phase of the seo we will have to stand up limited polls and wires right to connect households and businesses which is why we talk about this as a limited polls and wires infrastructure uh going household to household you know in a dense neighborhood doesn't require as much infrastructure as thinking about a community solar program or maybe it's in a park and you have to run that power to the surrounding area but that'll be an important part of this phase of work uh that that's critical to ensuring it's viability and let's see in the second phase we also can look to create district level geothermal systems although we're looking to pilot this really soon this will help transition our heating and cooling loads more sustainable uh sustainable sources of power which is important primarily of course getting off natural gas or limiting our amount of natural gas and we can support beneficial electrification programs help helping people transition to electrical appliances when they make sense for them we can support uh vehicle electrification and of course on bill finance can help us do this as well this is an important tool and we can pair things together so we can go in and work with john mursky although his house is really efficient but let's pretend it's not we could go in and do this energy assessment and we could talk about not just an energy assessment that talks about efficiency but we could do beneficial electrification too and then we can create a package that says let's do these envelope improvements let's also do a switch to a heat pump because that makes sense for you and let's go ahead and do that solar install and we're going to advertise that over 20 years and this is what your bill actually looks like and we'll fund the capital so that just opens up way more options for people than what currently exists on the market and community solar is an important piece and i sort of mentioned that before and this is the reason this is in a later phase is because of those pulls and wires and wanting and needing to stand up those electrons and then of course um we can keep growing if we own the utility whatever else happens and our community demands we have the flexibility to be able to integrate so that's sort of the concept and the potential offerings and i know that was a lot to digest but let me bring it back just for a second to the core of the seo the seu is a municipal utility it focuses on generating local clean energy fast it's about leveraging existing technologies and practices especially in phase one such as solar and storage to reduce emissions quickly while improving reliability it's about ensuring that all antarctics have access to solutions to improve comfort reduce bills and reap the benefits of the clean energy economy that means if you can't do solar you might still be able to do energy waste reduction program to the fcu so everyone would be able to access initiatives and the su as i mentioned before is general it's fundamentally as for about generation local generation there is limited distribution of that energy because it's staying in the community it doesn't need to go somewhere else we're generating it we're using it it means we don't have to worry about buying a lot of poles and wires at least not from the offset offset or outset and it means we're helping build some reliability to extreme events which are happening more and more frequently and taking power out more frequently so that's sort of the broad concept i'm going to just bring a few last points kind of with us in our discussion this was an assessment we did about how the seo aligns with the energy commission and city council adopted energy criteria and principles and the good news is it aligns well with those goals and principles and this is kind of one of the filters that we at least as staff are really running uh different things through so it passes an initial sniff test and before i close out i just wanted to share a few examples of how the seu could work and this is not meant to be an all-inclusive list of examples but just something to kind of help ground the concepts uh as as we're thinking through them and you are the first people to see this so here we go uh if we mess up i can't wait you'll tell me i know you will you're all really good so let's start with the example of a homeowner or a business owner that has good solar potential but doesn't have the capital or the interest upfront to install solar on there in this case the individual could subscribe or enroll in the seu as a supplemental utility the seo would work with that homeowner to conduct a needs assessment identifying potential energy excuse me energy waste reduction and electrification opportunities they might have because we're in that home let's do it all at once kind of a whole home assessment those selected opportunities would be implemented as long as the homeowner wanted of course them or the business owner and the homeowner would have the option of financing those through the seuss on bill financing program any rebates that the seo has or programs would help lower the cost of those improvements and then the seo would strive to create this financing package where the electric bill is as close as possible to the same or to the current electric bill that the consumer has that way um even while paying back those improvements there's not a huge spike in usage and that's the goal i acknowledge that is not always going to be possible and then of course once those improvements are paid off the resident reaps the full benefit of those improvements the reduction in utility bills etc so simultaneous with above while we're in there the seo is installing that solar and storage system and the resident is paying per kilowatt hour of usage similar to how they pay their current utility bill for dt i hope that makes sense that was first round of example one and thanks to julie roth who's on the line because she and hannah and our team drew these pictures and modeled these uh second example is an su without on-site solar so in this case the resident gets all the same benefits as what we just talked about in scenario one the difference is the residents not hosting solar on the roof but they can still do any electrification energy waste reduction improvements choose to finance those through under finance and they can sign up for the wait list but once we get the necro nano and micro grids up and operational they're in the queue to start pulling power from the system and this resident also would receive two electric bills or on bill finance bills they would have the bill from the su and they would have the bill from what if like many of you someone already has solar on their roof so in this case the way we thought about this is that the owner would enroll in the scu the seo could still assist like they did before with electrification and energy waste reduction improvements they could finance those their own bill finance they could pay up front totally flexible and then the resident would use power from their existing solar system just like they do and any excess is they have the option of selling it to the seu to go into the micro grid or the nano grid or if they don't have a battery the seo could provide a battery and they they put it into the battery system or they could keep selling it to dt at the current rate so they have options of how to participate moving on to another example here with renters so this is one which would be done in coordination with landlord landlords and we've had some preliminary discussions about this and this actually really does help with the disconnect that exists between who pays the bill and who actually finances the improvements because in this case if the seu is financing all of the improvements then it's not really a negotiation about who's whoever is paying that bill is reaping the benefits of the seu installed system so this helps actually negate some of the challenges that we've been facing about making improvements in rental properties uh so this could be done in traditional seu we're also in osi working on green lease programs on bill finance helps enable these improvements in the same way it does for other people and it helps them stay i should have said this before on bill finance stays with the property it doesn't stay with the person so if commissioner george does all these beautiful improvements so excited to sign you up he doesn't have to keep paying them when he moves somewhere else it stays with the home that he is in whether that is a rental or a single-family home that he owns or a multi-family home because they reap the benefits all the benefits stay in that infrastructure and so the cost stays with that infrastructure so this is one of the the nice things about arm build finance which is different than me taking out a loan to put solar on my roof when i leave that loan is still in my name uh one last i think one last example for you all is a community solar program now again this is a little bit later in the phasing of the scu and here the idea is these are larger installations that happen in the community they might be rooftop installs they might be ground mount they might be carports and here we would have a host for that solar that is feeding multiple different areas and we i i often think about i shouldn't say we i have to think about communities solar and business like parks that can feed into neighborhoods or you can imagine us having uh installs at schools and that could be an opportunity because the school's profile use profile is very different than what the community uh traditional residential use profile is right summer we don't really use our schools and that's where we're max generating on solar systems on schools so they could be a really important piece of the infrastructure here and what we would be doing is standing up the additional poles and wires to move those electrons from where the point of generation is to where we actually have our subscribers within the model this example is just a carport that we could do especially at multi-family sites carports will probably be something we've modeled some work in that so just to kind of close out then i want to kind of end our discussion by talking about logistics and and the next steps that we model to creating the seo so creating an seo is first and foremost i want to name this it is not a novel endeavor the city has the building blocks needed to administer it we currently administer our own water waste to water water recovery and storm water systems we do billing already we can leverage infrastructure that exists within those utilities we can also leverage infrastructure that exist in other municipal utilities in places like holland where they do on bill finance and what's really exciting is every element of the seo i told you about exists somewhere what is unique about the su is how we're piecing them together and that is a challenge but that feels like a surmountable challenge at least from where i said that is good news kind of broadly um in terms of how we structure the seou we have some initial thoughts that you'll see in the resolution this is one of the things that if the energy commission is interested in council is two we'd like to go back and actually do much more uh much more in-depth modeling about what's possible so one of the things about the seo is we could choose to staff up and have an entire staff that does these installations that manages customer service and billing or we could choose to really focus on billing and customer service and doing the energy assessments and really focusing on the relationship with people and then working with the private sector to do the installations and that's a little bit different of a model because for those of you with solar you know those systems don't really need a lot once they're up and so the real work is getting good installations in place with trained qualified individuals once they're up in an operation there's not really as much to do with them and so that's a discussion that we need to have and figure out what the best structure for the seo would be in terms of staffing and we also had to figure out how it would be would be governed and managed and there's a lot of flexibility here we do we could do that through a chief administrative which is administrative personnel which is kind of how we operate now our utilities we can do that through a public board there's lots of options and lots of good examples across the company so another next step is to kind of model and give scenarios for how this could be managed should we want to move forward but there's a lot of flexibility and that's good news and there's a lot of flexibility in terms of adjusting offerings and services to meet the needs of the community and we really do feel like uh even since we released this report we've had many many more conversations we had many before and while we were doing the report from peers around the nation who are just sharing their best practices their lessons learned their their failures in the landscape and so we're excited to keep learning from those peers and kind of leapfrog where we can so in closing um our technical legal and policy analysis regarding the seo found just a few steps necessary to move the concept forward should that be of interest to our community i don't want to presume that it is but if it is uh go with me on this journey first our advisory committee recommended starting a wait list to understand community interest in joining the scu this actually will help with step two which is the rate analysis and that determines what the rates would be uh to roll out the various phases of the sbu so engaging interest in the seo the target audiences that we've identified are customers that have significant energy demand customers who are efficient to serve uh due to location or high interest from neighbors and that really is more kind of phase two for the microgrid of course residential and uh commercial customers who are struggling with reliability and unequivocally low income and energy burdened households that could immediately benefit from having reduced energy costs so those are kind of the targets that we would want to go after but we would also in doing a weightless one i could do a broad swath we want to hit every ann arborite and spend a little bit more time and effort for example in our our communities that are suffering from a high percentage of energy bourbon in kind of simultaneous with those steps the rate analysis and the wait list you heard me mention this on the last slide we identified needing to create potential governance structures and staffing needs for the seo fourth the actual required step is the passing of an ordinance that would enable the creation of the seo and city council can actually do this uh our charter already gives us the right to start a publicly owned utility so the ordinance is actually the only required step that we have before all of the others are kind of good governance and modeling to make sure we understand however um for five staff also recommend almost immediately uh if this moves forward that we should engage with someone to do a really detailed technical analysis of all of the details necessary to implement micro and nano grids things like power dynamics backflow two-way power flow systems what kind of density we need to have what kind of wires we want to stand up and we've actually already identified a few neighborhoods we've had a few raise their hand that want to come into the seu and we've identified some of our target areas that we would like to model very specifically what the dynamics would be for that because we recognize that is probably the most most complicated piece of this work it is completely in the realm of feasible uh the technology exists to do this type of work but the question is does that technology actually match up with our system in a way that's economical and how and what systems would we want to use so we've been in in discussions with folks like the national renewable energy lab who've offered a lot of assistance in this plate in this space and offered to help the advisors fast as we move into this but we would like to initiate pretty rapidly this technical assessment and then lastly uh we have to determine how we're going to fund the seu should we want it to move forward and to be clear when i say fund i don't mean forever we just have to get the seed capital to start the work and then the seu should must be self-sustaining and likely generate revenue for the rest of the city that could go into the general fund we could choose that for other purposes but we do have to determine where is the seed capital coming from and that could very well be from grants philanthropy public private partnerships we just passed the infrastructure bill we've been talking to d.o.e and epa about potential funding sources it could be borrowing it could be that there's all kinds of options and what we know is that if we go for debt then we do have to do a vote of the people but if we're doing a grant or we get some of this offset in another way we don't actually because that's money coming in so there's a potential next step with the funding source uh depending on how we want to finance this moving forward so i know that was a lot i'm sorry i talked so much at you i apologize um i just wanted to make sure you had a little bit more detail and an opportunity to kind of ask questions about why the rationale what so at this point i'm going to stop and just thank you so we're going to open things up for questions as missy stated and we already have our first commissioner george thank you chairman mr chairman uh the first question i had from missy is dealing with the last slide that you had there in regards to uh the startup costs um i was curious on what you know what number uh if there was a number that you and your staff had come up with to start with and whether or not uh you know if you were to make the decision today uh you know i do love the idea of being able to go and start immediately and just move as quickly as possible so avoiding going to the ballot box if possible obviously that also brings in uncertainties as well so uh it would it be within the city's budget um i mean are these grants that you referenced uh you know realistic that they we could get them quick enough to stand this up uh next year all of the above so one of the things that is both valuable and to be determined with an seu is we can start with anything we can start with a hundred thousand dollars and do just two installs or five installs or we could start with 10 million dollars and do many more so part of the wait list is also to understand the the magnitude of need right out the gate that we sort of have an interest in that uh so i i recognize that's not a direct response to you but it means we can start with whatever we have we do have some money in our budget that we could do some installations if council voted for this really fast i mean not a lot but a little bit and then the grant funding uh we're just not gonna stop i think the infrastructure bill i don't yet have a really good handle on if anyone has digested it please let me know but that that's something that i anticipate there could be some funding available and we've had people call us about this as well so we're starting to investigate what kind of dollars we might be able to unlock to bring this to fruition gotcha gotcha and uh uh unrelated question to that uh obviously you've mentioned a lot about solar you mentioned geothermal a little bit um those would be the two primary renewable generating sources uh yeah are we looking at any sort of mass uh solar field or are we looking at any sort of wind farm uh generation uh you know when we're talking about this are we talking about generating power solely within the city and the county are we looking at you know building uh our financing uh working with partners possibly to build some sort of offshore wind farm in one of the great lakes you know something like that or are we just solely thinking within the county in the city yeah that's a good question so we started very much with what we could generate here within the city itself and the rationale would be uh as you go further you have to build infrastructure to move those electrons right so our analysis we worked with google and did an assessment and actually found a lot more solar potential than we knew existed within our own community alas we don't have good wind potential we've done a few assessments of it so over time especially uh the seo one of the nice things about it is it doesn't preclude any of the other pathways we've talked about so if we grow to want to do a virtual power purchase agreement or to form a traditional utility those things can still happen because we'd have the mechanisms and we'd have gotcha gotcha and my last question um insofar as staffing capacity right because obviously to stand this up and continue to grow and so forth um you know obviously there's the cost of the actual infrastructure that you're building and you're creating and you know working with the public but you know and it does sound to some degree like you're creating and expanding a whole department right uh and so where would the money for the additional staffing costs come from uh and would there it sounds like it does that there would be a need at some point to go to the ballot for money no uh so it depends on how we fund the seed capital but the staffing would be covered in the rates right all the infrastructure and the staff it's part of what you pay for when you pay for your electricity kind of coming through so the answer of exactly what that would be sort of depends on how we want to staff it do we want to have the installers on staff do we want to contract that out and have really us focus on customer service and billing so that is sort of the one of the asks was doing the governance model and the staffing to run different scenarios so we could actually get to that rate analysis that includes different options and make a more informed decision we would not be asking for more funding and also thank you for your vote of confidence that i could run the seu probably not my skill set uh commissioner kerber yes just from an overall standpoint of the the legal standing of the seu i assume it's going to be a non-profit extension of the city of ann arbor and there will be no other external shareholders whatsoever no other investments that would have any say in terms of the direction of this unit yeah you're right um the one thing we have had some discussions about is there are tax entities there are entities who might want to take advantage of the federal tax incentive to help lower the cost and so those could be in play uh i don't know if they are but no one would have a say in the su this would be governed it would be a public utility and the people that would have to say are the residents of ann arbor great thank you [Music] as you might expect i probably have 4 000 questions on this one but i'll try to keep it brief um i think one of the key topics mr george raised this um mr kerber danced into it a little bit is the economic side what makes sense i think that missy as you move forward that us as a city we have to put some smart steps to make sure you do capture the federal tax credits you can get um i i think that we need to be very careful about diversity um mr george was pointing to the idea of just solar um i think most of you attended my session when i talked about our example where i did a study in lansing and i built the lansing's uh current solar system it's the delta solar project that feeds lbw and we also did some work with the wind side of lansing we know that their loads about the same as ann arbor's um some really bad things happen when clouds fly over solar systems and you can have the fastest largest battery in the world and guess what happens doesn't help um there's little things called inertia that come into play and a lot of electrical terms that i won't bore this audience with i just caution us to be careful and make smart steps it's it's great to be aspirational and put as much energy into something like this we can we also have to be mindful that um there's not too many of these that exist um there's a total of five in the country um none of them really look like ann arbor's so we would be the first of a kind um i've tried to procure financing for first of a kind adventures before the city has lots of good benefits there that we don't have as a developer but there's some issues that we need to be cautious on and public safety comes into play here if we start banking on this seo basically serving our our constituents we're taking on some risks liabilities indemnities many other legal issues i think mr levin from our commission could vouch on legal issues that might pop up on something like this that we really need to be careful of that i've lived my career dealing with so i'm happy to help going forward looking forward to the discussions on seo just be mindful that there are lots of sleeping issues here that weren't covered that we could spend hours on and i'll just stop there thank you chuck commissioner thank you um missy did a great job of explaining it and i thought that there were undoubtedly many many issues as we're starting to hear allusions to that we can work out later but i had really uh two simple questions one is i guess if it's on bill financing that means if you have a house and you live in it for three years and then you sell the house the costs just go with the house to the next owner that's a good question though yeah yep that's correct and the second one which i think i know the answer which is no is have you discussed this with anyone at u of m yet yes i have actually oh cool what's what's the context there because i think what we're doing now is we're hiring that person that we said we would hire we being you and me and the others on the president's commission on carbon neutrality uh to report directly to the president and sort of be in charge of everything um that person is we're going with the national search firm and all that so we'll get a heavy-duty hitter i think but we haven't hired that person yet so i'm just interested in what's going on on campus in your discussions then thanks yeah the answer the answer is all things are going in those discussions there is definitely interest and i'll say just to kind of move out of just um we've had this conversation with aps and others about the seo because we want you know large consumers within the system and i think there is there's excitement and they show me what it does for me kind of mentality and that's where we need we need to get to right which is where we need to do the rate analysis and be able to show them exactly what this would do for them and how this would impact and as you know better than anyone pack with the scope 2 goal first if we're doing an electric utility and we can generate electricity on site at a lot of these places well that's the first goal at the gate for the eu so i i think there was there was interest i wouldn't say there was like signing on a dotted line but the competition was really constructive great thank you mccoy yeah thanks thanks missy this was the presentation was really helpful and if julie's listening thanks for the examples because i feel like a lot of my questions were answered through the like scenarios that were laid out so that was really helpful um so thank you for that um my a couple questions i had um one i mean you meant you mentioned just now that google helped you find that there was more solar potential than um you originally thought which was helpful to hear because i remember when paul then first first presented it there was there didn't seem to be like that significant amount so i'm wondering if um right now it's still determined that like in the ideal scenario where you know we get as many people signed up as want to get solar everywhere that can like can ann arbor is there an ability for ann arbor to power itself or will we still need some people to be relying on another source of power um you know with this additional that you were able to find um and then yeah my other question as you were talking about thinking i don't know if this is chuck what you're alluding to i'm just wondering like how like does this just make ann arbor like a mini texas right that's like isolated from immigrants in ways that could be bad during storms or is this different than that in ways that aren't as terrifying um i oh do you have another one no i think i was just looking at my notes i think those were the two main questions i had okay great if if another one pops up let me know uh so in terms of the amount of power what we've we actually found and i want to i'm going to caveat this in a second is over 400 megawatts of potential within ann arbor which is way more than we thought and i we're unpacking how that happened to go from you know under 100 megawatts to this projection it's a few things one solar is just much better right and it's able to generate more than it was before but that does not mean that all of those potential additions are really economical so that's kind of a the next assessment right is how much of this is marginal solar versus how much of this is really good solar potential that makes sense to bring online uh our total community usage right now is about 440 megawatts so there's a gap how we the way that we modeled this was sure energy waste reduction lowers that right because we have efficiency to gain within the system but we imagine that we're picking up all of our efficiency gains through electrification right so that's kind of a display it's like a wash in our modeling and so that means we have this this marginal gap that we've got to try to figure out how to film so uh hopefully that answers that first one the exciting thing though is it's not as big as you thought it was so that that was something i was really excited and questioned a lot of that data and then in terms of mini texas and to truck's point of view this is a supplemental utility which means we are not islanded and that is good and bad uh the the good part of that means you still get power from dte if heaven forbid your microgrid goes down it also means if dt's grid goes down you still get power from your microgrid or if we're not in microgrid and we're in phase one you still get power from your solar and battery story so it's actually a redundant system that you have which makes us totally different than that uh model did that answer your questions amber okay uh yes i was just going to speak to that point as well and in 2016 the energy commission did a solar feasibility study um in partnership with the u.s department of energy and one of their contractors and chairman mursky and myself and chuck hook um worked on that and we found um you know upwards and uh two three hundred thousand uh three mega 300 megawatts worth of solar potential in uh in ann arbor of which we only needed 78 megawatts um which is uh roughly consistent with the a20 so you know disc counting the technical potential of solar stuff to get us where we need to do we've got a lot more potential and and i know that the the stuff that uh missy's been looking at we didn't even look at commercial buildings we just look at residential so um there's a huge potential um for self-generation uh in here i think our problem is gonna be figuring out how to um figure out which ones are the best sites versus ones that are marginal and coming up with with some kind of a system for that and the other probably just want to make a compliment since the office of sustainability innovation was created i'd probably been a rocking mrs shoe saying when are you going to unleash the innovation part of sustainability and innovation and i just want to compliment you on your apt use of innovation in meeting our 820 goals with this sustainable energy utility initiative it is uh innovation at its best so um thank you and uh great job thanks mark and just one quick point i forgot to say amber to your question and to what mark just said our assessment was only rooftop potential so we got 400 megawatts only on rooftop that's not carports it's not community solar ground mounted systems so we'll pick up something there that's just a little harder to model if citywide thanks mark um i i might add uh just anecdotally uh when uh we had howard lazarus as city administrator i recommended to howard that he had ad you know and innovation to the name of every single department in the city of ann arbor so maybe that's something we can reconsider again well done well done misty thanks mark commissioner juno thank you um thank you for this presentation missy um yeah i just want to echo um what others have already said i think this is such an exciting opportunity to really truly center uh decarbonization and energy efficiency and you know creating a decentralized grid which is going to be really really hard to do in most of the other options that we have here right so um that's the future i think in so many ways and i just think this is really um really great to see this developing um i guess i kind of have a question um too i i imagine you know this being a little bit more piece meal um either household by household or neighborhood by neighborhood uptake um uh like how do you foresee some of those kind of more social challenges um you know as we as we move this out throughout the city and how do you foresee being able to handle those or or what kind of programs or different actions might be necessary to kind of um bridge the gap between you know helping people understand this is something that could benefit them and getting them to actually participate in a program like this yeah it's an excellent question and i think we would unequivocally welcome guidance advice and leveraging of networks in that space some of the things we've initially kind of mapped out and again nothing has been decided in this no one has told us we're doing this so this is just us preliminarily planning uh everything from of course every single resident mailer boots on the ground using our ambassadors knocking doors giving testimonials of people who are excited and who have signed up uh showing theirs their actual energy bills and the utility uh and the use of the utility the use of uh the seo and how it's improving their life or not and uh i think the the we're gonna have to use every tool in our toolbox to reach people in this there will um if i speak very candidly from our office standpoint we really want to emphasize low income and energy burden folks so i expect we're doing like our team is door knocking in that way our team is having meetings in those communities and investing a lot of time and effort and i would turn to my council colleagues too and say they would i imagine if council directs us to go we're working real closely with council to make sure their constituents know about this opportunity cool or excuse me sorry um commissioner stevenson thanks uh hey misty um great presentation i thought i really explained a lot of stuff for me um so that's new um i'm excited to see this you know go in ann arbor and maybe hopefully reach somewhere my question about um the reliability aspects i just so if we're not buying holes in the wires which is what i usually think about when i think about improving liability um are the main factors of this like and like you know the degree of reliability from this like the micro grids and like the locally you know controlled and local access stuff like that or where can you speak to that a little bit more for me yeah there's two levels of reliability so in phase one it's by having basically a redundant system so or dt becomes your redundant system if you will where you've got solar and storage on site which means you are able uh to if you just have solar you don't get the benefit of solar if the big grid goes down because you can't push electrons out onto that grid right you can't you can't harm workers on the grid if you have a battery however what you can do is have your shoulder feed that battery and the battery feed your house right so the big grid is down but you're still getting power so that's kind of phase one how we address reliability phase two is through the microgrid so big grid goes down microgrids could still function or micro grid goes down big grid's still functioning you have that redundant system in operation thanks commissioner 11. yes uh thanks for the presentation missy a few questions uh so first of all i mean we've talked about doing this feasibility study for a municipal utility and i'm wondering is this like another option that we could consider at the same time in that visibility study is that going to cost more than kind of what we were ballparking before i am excited about this as i would say a more likely scenario and a lot less uh legal issues that would come into it um yeah there is the liability issues as chuck mentioned but we'd have that either way for a municipal utility but i'll let you answer that first yeah you bet uh so there's actually a resolution that we'll talk about uh after after this that integrates the two so what is nice about the scu is we don't actually need a feasibility study because the report answered most of those questions what we need is a rate analysis and so if we were going to go out and do a feasibility study those firms i would hope i mean qualified firms do rate analysis as part of that and so we would ask them to do the rate analysis and we simultaneously would be doing the wait list because the rate could be influenced by how many people are ready to subscribe to the system okay uh my next question is about the landfill solar partnership that we're thinking about are we assuming this is going to kill that deal also that's land we might also potentially be able to use for a you know in the future if we do the seu so i'm just wondering how that plays into things no um landfill solar is regulatory i mean we we have to we have to move forward on that project both parties have to agree to terminate it and this is one of those projects to me that's about uh getting emissions down fast and so that project is moving and we might actually be breaking ground in 2022 on a 20 megawatt install in our community that's next year and so um we wouldn't preclude the option of eventually acquiring it as part of the seo when we stand up to the community solar phase and we put up the poles and the wires and we buy that and we use that as part of the system uh but we don't have to we can still get that project moving uh we'll know more shortly about whether or not that's economically viable doesn't doesn't kill the project but dt can't kill the project on their own is that what you're saying that's correct okay and then uh are we allowed i don't remember from the previous presentations if we start this up would we be bound by the city uh limits in terms of customers yeah good questions yeah yeah so this that that's right so we have a franchise as a city of ann arbor and that's what allows us to do this is because our franchise is non-exclusive that said i will tell you i'm in conversations with many people in the area about how they could explore their own seo but we might be able to do customer service together or billing together or contract work together so there's there's some gray because currently we sell water to people outside the city so in theory we have a connection that we could maybe leverage in the future to cooperate with ceramics yeah this may be outside of i you might know better than i do and are i will go to our attorneys but what i have been advised so far is that it's a really big it's because it's through the franchise it's what the boundary franchise does no i mean legally yeah they're separate kind of things that i just might if if in the future like you said we could cooperate maybe with uh another scu for pittsfield township for example or whatever then we'd already have the billing mechanism uh set up for outside communities but anyway i think maybe when you're talking about the the newer uh information you got from google how does that compare in terms of like uh the peak and the solar excuse me the peak in winter versus like i'm sorry the peak in the summer whereas in the winter we're getting a lot less obviously do we have information on that i do and i'm happy to share it i don't have it at my fingertips right now yeah apologies okay thanks i'll let other people speak up mccoy do you have another question yeah i think one of them might have been just what noah asked i was wondering if you could share the like analysis around um the solar increases that you found or like where where there could be places and like notes that i've been interested in seeing um if it talks about winter versus summer um and i mean i think it's also helpful and interesting to know that it's just for rooftop solar i mean one question i have that maybe goes beyond this conversation and is maybe more for city council is i think there's an ordinance like that prevents like ground solar um front yard i'm wondering if um sorry would you say it's just front yard front yard oh okay it's just front yard so i just wonder if there's also like considerations of thinking about if there's other down the line if there's other city ordinance that might need to be changed to like even increase that number more as we consider different potentials can i piggyback on that real quickly missy um are there hoas in ann arbor that might limit that i assume that there are and that might be something that we should also just know we analyze at some point yeah yeah and we're really great commissioner quite really great point about front yard solar and i think that's something we've talked about as staff in kind of things we want to bring to council anyway for reconsideration sorry council members it's coming uh and then for the hoas this is actually something we've been working with our state representative on because hoas can ban solar they can also bend other sustainability things like line dryers outside clothes uh hang your you're drying out and that that's just kind of counter to what we're trying to do broadly so we've been working with them on some legislation and last time i checked in with representative robbie i mean it's drafted i think he's just waiting to introduce it commissioner and then commissioner yes just um as a practical way of understanding what this would mean to a business a business that has a very large roof a roof that's capable of supporting more than just their current load so if they focus on just offsetting their current load by building out a system they get the investment tax credit they get depreciation and so forth and they can sell the excess uh over generation to to basically to the grid in this scenario they what would be the value proposition for the seu coming to that same small business and convincing them to build out 100 of their capacity when they're only going to be using half what's the incentive for them to do that yeah so yeah absolutely and if i fully understand your question one would be they're not building out their roof right the seo is so they don't have to lay out that capital at the beginning and then they pay back on their usage based on kilowatt hour usage so the i guess the incentive for them is hopefully more reliable sustainable power that they get with some battery storage on site and then they get to be in the green business space the value for the seu is we get to leverage that extra roof space to generate more power to go to their neighbor or wherever else we may need to move in well i see the value for the seu yeah sure i'm just really trying to understand what it is for the small business person as opposed to taking the value for themselves to giving it up to you yeah we would be i think the honest answer is if they can take it themselves and already have we would want them to i mean that's absolutely fine and then excess generation would come to the seo um the the kick i could see in that model is it won't make economic sense for them to over generate much unless you would not allow them to overrate much right but if they were paying outright for the install for example i i think the economics sort of break for them as an individual to generate 200 if the roof was capable of doing that whereas that the sau could and would want us to maximize that generation so i think that needs to be further kind of explored how to make that value proposition really clear thanks for naming it um but the intent would be to maximize if we can and help help more commercial enterprises small businesses take advantage of renewable energy that just can't pay the upfront cost today okay thank you mr briggs yeah um on the hoa discussion i just wanted to um let you know missy that um might be attorney um uh mcdonald has actually been having conversations with him about his recently that's come up on a different issue and i had a little bit on the we should move slowly on this but maybe we should actually be thinking about a little more quickly um and then on the discussion of kind of what number suggested it um i think it is probably useful to be doing a brainstorming session on how you know what types of other ordinances this might um we might be wanting to think about or where we might see policies that might challenge each other for example there's certainly a lot of interest i think right now to realize some of the the benefits of increased density in our community to get more folks living here and yet as we densify a little bit i can imagine that there could be some impacts on solar access and so what what does that mean for our community might be something worth exploring thanks um this is definitely an exciting opportunity um missy you mentioned the having done some modeling around solar potential and for in for generating energy i was wondering if any um modeling had been around for the energy efficiency piece um what kind of potential for reducing demand is is in that part of this equation yeah so we did well great thank you for asking that question because i think that often falls off of people's minds when you think about generation so we took uh existing household bills you know we picked like representative uh different houses looked at their bills looked at their energy audits and kind of came up with some estimates we did uh i'll pull up the model in the background but i believe we we projected to 25 uh reduction potential through the kinds of improvements we're talking about and it is different for different types of houses so i'll go look at that in the background as we move into the next phase of conversation and i'm happy to share the specifics with you but we know we have significant energy waste reduction potential in many of our older homes well most of our homes are older homes in ann arbor so we have a lot of potential did that include commercial space as well are you um because i i don't know square footage wise how residential square footage compares to business um are are you guessing 25 reduction potential for commercials building i don't have that number on top of my head right now what we did um we've been working pretty closely with the 2030 district who's doing all of these energy audits in commercial spaces and kind of stratifying those based on what we have is potential in restaurants versus office space and so we're going to take that kind of nuance to really figure out potential across the different markets whereas residential is a little bit easier there aren't as many categories do we have any idea what percentage of res residential buildings have been maximized from an energy efficiency standpoint oh i can't imagine it's high uh based on what we see i i don't have a number for you but i i don't even think we're at a percent i don't think we have a good way of collecting that yeah right now but this would be something that potentially the seo could collect well any other work we're doing the benchmarking you know that that past council will help us with commercial and multi-family sites really understand where we have high performers and when we have potential if the home energy uh label goes through that's going to give us the sense of like much i mean not a sense it's going to give us actual data about how our residential units are performing so we will get that information to be much more strategic uh in in kind of how we intervene in the market that'll give us a good sampling that we can look by neighborhood and get a better estimate of by neighborhood um what kind of potential there is so i agree um can i just mention with a 2030 district my recollection is that they're targeting a 15 uh 50 reduction in energy use by 2030 if i'm not mistaken it's a very very aggressive target um but you know i think what missy is saying there is a lot of potential both between residential multi-family and commercial for energy efficiency i would and if you think of that that we saw at the beginning you know if you were to say somewhere between between 25 to 50 of that but then took the natural gas part and took the elect the transportation part and electrify all of that those are that's that's a that's a huge huge amount that we still have to power um so we still have to hope for you know a lot of a lot of other good things to fall into life bridget did you have something else to add to uh well just uh one other follow-up question to that so for somebody who doesn't have solar potential in their house but could do a lot of energy efficiency work the way it would work through an scu it sounds like it would almost be like a pace program meets michigan saves um so that they would be if they joined the seu and got the energy efficiency work done they'd be paying a certain amount of money every month and i guess everybody is hoping that for that homeowner the amount of money they're paying every month would equal the money that they're saving on their energy bill is that yeah so it would be like our pace like residential pace i think that is one way to think about on bill finance the the other sort of thinking that's the goal commissioner right is that like people either have savings from what they pay even with those improvements or kind of lock in but we would be able to i mean we would be working with the homeowner to model their options and put together the right package for them we can't you know we can't force them to make other choices we wouldn't want to do that if we'd really want to customize to some people may want to do it all and are okay with this life premium others may need the savings immediately and we're really going to focus on what has the most savings potential up front to that point about um uh the savings um i worked with a lot of contractors indeed the one that worked with my house i did energy efficiency on that and financed that through michigan saves it's fairly standard practice now for you know reputable contractors when they they go in with a michigan saves loan that in order to get the loans through michigan saves they actually have to show how the energy savings will meet the loan payments on a monthly basis or at least on an annual basis so that analysis is done um and the state that's i mean that's pretty much state of the art so um you know i assume the city would you know follow a similar protocol in a project you know we michigan saves could be the the partner on a uh on this kind of a program as well so um you know there's there's as i said this is standard practice um and indeed on solar solar installations as well it's the same question you know well that if you're going to borrow money does the solar system generate uh sufficient output to pay off the loan payment on an annual basis um and if the answer is no then there the the lender michigan saves um slams the brexit so i think that's that's good that's the good news uh bridget do you have another question again okay um anyone else i had a few thoughts i wanted to share first of all thanks for everybody's great questions uh you're you're you had a lot of questions that that i didn't think about and i really appreciate everybody uh illuminating the discussion um lots of details and maybe a few doubles in some of them one question i have missy is and maybe it's just something that also like a few others you had to note down is how do we structure an scu so that it is also socially and environmentally just in terms of who it serves in what order it served serves them and i can imagine you know if you get 100 000 or 10 million dollars and you get a list of people and you know um a bunch of people on commissions and city council say oh we're interested in doing this um and typically we're people of privilege how do we you know how do you how do you then determine who gets in the front of the line who is in the back of the line um and you know these things become then potentially very political i'm wondering if you thought about that at all yeah and the answer is simple and complicated uh one is who we choose to reach out to really targeted right so there's already people on a waitlist we are we already have a waitlist going folks that have demonstrated interest but who do we spend time with and who do we knock and and whose community are we in and that that is where i think we can really focus on the economic and social justice aspects of the work also we're creating something so we can create it with the tenants that we hold and the values that we hold more complicated that was the political question and that is hard um it's hard i i don't have the answer to that and i think that's something we're going to have to discuss kind of more broadly that one thing of name that i think about is what happens if i center a large area of low-income folks and it's not in a council ward it's in someone else's word what does that mean for how the seo functions and how we support it and that's a real question that i don't have an answer to and i think i need i need to have guidance from you know our elected leaders from our community about how we want this to really look and roll out and i have one last question for you and maybe for chuck and that is with regards to reliability and resiliency to really have a high level of both it seems to me we're going to have a lot of additional wires connecting homes in ann arbor is that not general truck is true but it seems to me you know if i'm if if we're talking about connecting rooftops and batteries and um you know on individual residences on uh carports uh et cetera et cetera commercial entities and then providing resiliency by connecting all those together then in effect at some point we almost have a redundant set of connections uh between structures in the city do we not technically there's a risk and a risk is related to how power flows to get you know again i'll get into the electrons and voltage and power quality that's where you're gonna find probably find straight currents you're gonna find outages that cause other outages and cascading events so the devil's in the details john if it's laid out right we could probably mitigate a lot of that but it has to be laid out right and there's cost to make sure that we provide that reliability to our ultimate customers if that's the route that's taken okay yeah and just picking up on that i think obviously chuck knows way more about the mechanics here but part of what we need to do in the micro grid study and why that's something we want to move forward with is we want we know the neighborhoods i know the neighborhoods where i want to start it's working where from an environmental justice standpoint we've already been engaging and working and so we can look at that neighborhood very specifically and say can we underground what kind of wires how many wires how much connection how many poles and get the specifics and yeah there will be some redundant infrastructure but it'll be limited uh in terms of that redundancy to what we actually need and that's what we need to answer in kind of the next phase of the work okay so uh and by the way hold your don't hold your breath john too long we'll have wireless power before you can blink that would be wonderful uh so we have another significant part of our agenda that i'd like to move on to and that is the resolution in front of us i'm going to turn things over to missy in a second but i just have a few comments that i'd like to make as chair first of all i want to thank all the people that have been come come coming to meetings um watching um them listening um them and also providing public input i think it's helped us better gauge sentiment in the community as well as understand what some of the issues are and i really want to say thank you very much for everybody that's done that also we've had really some excellent presentations including missy's tonight um and in commission meetings but outside of out of this meeting there was a really good presentation that missy and her team did um in a public forum and so i think that's really helped illuminate uh our discussions um tonight and then going forward for the rest of the evening and we we now have a resolution in front of us with another resolution uh from city council that has asked us to weigh in on a feasibility study by the end of the year and i just have a couple of requests as we go into the discussion and i think this is just a continuation of the way we've conducted ourselves up until now um and i'm really proud of the commission i i want all of us to be open-minded um i hope that we continue to as someone smarter than i or wiser than i said seek first to unders understand than to be understood and another thing is i i'm hoping also that we can work towards a win-win solution um i think we we see that that's a convergence that we've had here in the last weeks and months and i i definitely hope that we can continue on that path so that we really do end up something because i think everybody that's in this group as well as people that have been calling in as well as calling following it really have the same goals the same passion and i think that can hopefully lead us to a good conclusion so our objective tonight is to hopefully either tonight or at the latest uh in our december meeting uh finalize a resolution um you know i guess we could say we we aren't going to vote on any resolution or approve any resolution that's an option too i have a sense that we're coalescing around a resolution and we have um obviously tonight sometime we also have time on in the december meeting if we need it and i would just ask people to consider as we enter into this discussion that we have sort of two competing uh objectives if you will and one is that we would like all of this to move forward with speed on the other hand i think we want a precise resolution that really gives city council uh direction on what to do with the feasibility study and if we recommend the feasibility study what's considered in that feasibility study so we we can discuss this very very quickly and move forward quickly but then we have the risk of leaving things out of the resolution that we may regret later on so i think we'll all have a sense of that uh as the evening goes on and then we can decide another hour or so from now um how we want to bring this to a resolution do we vote on a final resolution tonight or do we want to do some additional crafting um taking into consideration people's comments tonight and take a vote in the december meeting where we lose a month but as i said maybe we gain some precision in the wording of the resolution that we all feel is is really important so missy i'm going to ask you to introduce the resolution uh i asked missy if she would do that because we're actually considering a slightly different resolution than what we considered and was had a first reading on in our july 13th meeting and so i wanted to have missy talk a little bit about what took us to where we are today and then maybe we can pull the resolution up and discuss it have questions make proposals for wording changes etc how does that sound with everybody great john i have a question do don't we need to make a motion before we move to the discussion phase um because we have a new resolution in front of us it's not the other one yeah so why don't missy why don't you introduce it and then we'll take a motion and get a second to consider it and then we'll open it for discussion thanks mark i appreciate that yeah absolutely well uh to start off i also want to thank commissioner cleavy and commissioner mccoy who worked really hard on this behind the scenes and to all of you that sent comments in over the preceding few weeks so what uh is before us is a resolution that marries a number of things it marries uh the ask that we've received to do a feasibility study for a traditional municipal utility it marries next steps for a sustainable energy utility that was on that last slide that i shared and it brings in an options analysis which is something a number of commissioners have asked for which is understanding more than just those in particular the traditional utility uh kind of understanding the pros and the cons of other approaches uh primarily when we get towards things like the rate analysis and what it would cost you that work i recognize this is a lot to process we really try to kind of harmonize those three different asks and so i'll pull up the resolution uh it is it is different in form also just adding we did clarify uh what would be in a feasibility study so the original resolution we had asked for a feasibility study and i think thanks to folks like commissioner mccoy we really added more clarity so that it helps with for example should this move forward the drafting of an rfp uh so let me oh boy i'm gonna end up sharing my whole screen don't judge me if that happens uh let's see can you see the feasibility state the resolved clauses so high level i'm not going to read these the first resolve clause focuses on the traditional uh utility feasibility study and this is where we add more description of what we would expect to see i would say this isn't exclusive but these were the kinds of things we would want to see in an actual study itself so this has been added uh and i think i will turn that to commissioner mccoy to tell me if it changes the spirit of anything but it i don't think it changes the spirit of the initial resolution but instead provides clarity to it the second was the pathways analysis that some folks have asked for on the commission kind of understanding how does the purchase of an existing iou infrastructure traditional feasibility or traditional mutualization compared to these other options that we sort of been exploring broadly the third resolve clause then says that if any other options are analyzed they have to go through kind of a similar economic and technical feasibility study to what we outline for the traditional utility to the extent that's possible the fourth resolved clause says uh that this is kind of like our filter on the study that anything analyzed we want to understand how it aligns with of course a20 equity sustainability transformation and those energy criterion principles since we've decided and adopted those as core elements of our decision making process we want to be able to look at them through very parallel lenses and then of course we want this to be done uh this is the fifth i think result uh by a qualified firm of course we all want that to happen using kind of best practices in case we've missed something in the field has evolved since other studies have been done and then the last resolve clause that actually is about the seo and it says simultaneous with the above we want to move forward exploring the governance structure of the staffing registering public interest starting with a technical study for the nano and micro grids and uh drafting the ordinance of just starting that process to actually create an su doesn't mean adopt it but let's start that one but marries a lot of things and uh was a herculean attempt perhaps by many many people to try to bridge a lot of um a lot of great comments you've had so i'll stop there so thanks missy uh can i get a motion to consider the resolution in a second and then we'll open it up for discussions and comments second a bunch of first and seconds um i think first was um commissioner mccoy and then commissioner uh garcia and then a bunch of other ones uh after that so thanks um i i have before we as we open it up i have two things that i'd like to mention that are really just minor grammatical things um just so we get those out of the way i might have caught them chair okay but go for it yeah okay um one two three four in the fifth whereas um will we talk about dte um instead of saying who i think we need to say which because it's not a person and then my green power is capital m capital i and then green power when we refer to that further down those are the only two changes of that nature that i saw so i'll open it up then to everyone else for other kinds of comments and proposals etc so first commissioner mccoy great thanks um yeah so as missy and jen said too i think you know this goes back to noah's question earlier like part of the goal of this new resolution was understanding that like the seo can be a step towards full municipalization depending on um the feasibility study and also like just the ability to do this through one resolution to start getting working on the seo now while we consider other options that will take a little more time to weigh um one thing with the new resolution that i feel i personally feel should not be in it um is the second resolve clause looking at the pathways option um i feel that way because i'm worried that adding this whole feasibility analysis of all these other options some of which we haven't even discussed as a body yet like michigan green power missy said that's potentially on the docket for future times earlier in the meeting but we haven't really had a large conversation about it yet so i'm worried that having that clause could make the feasibility study take significantly longer and also cost a lot more money than we originally had estimated when we were considering a feasibility study and instead i would recommend to just replace it with a resolve clause that um asks the study to include a preliminary rate analysis for the sustainable electric utility um missy said earlier in the meeting that the seu doesn't need a feasibility study um which is what that second resolve clause would do that really we just need a rate analysis so i think we should replace that clause with something along those lines and really focus this study on the seu and municipalization and then if we want to um pass something that's looking at other options as well we should do that in a separate resolution um and i also feel that way because i feel the res that clause also kind of pits them against each other it wants us to weigh the options in compared to one another which i think a lot of us would agree that in the end we're going to need a lot of these options um working together and so i don't think a study that compares them to each other is actually what we want or helpful i think we want a study that can compare um specifically uh the municipal electric utility and um to how like dte our current power main power provider would be not these other options that could be components of it thank you can i can i reframe part of that and ask for an explanation from misty or anybody else uh that that's with us and that is if i look at the second resolved clause um a vppa and migraine power are are they not both options available under a municipal either either form of municipal utility they would be open to the seu as they would be open to municipalization through condemnation so if just if we look at that list in taking at least those two do they need to be called out because essentially they are a subset of the options available to to both is that correct or incorrect they're also an and like oh or i'm sorry not an and they're an or um that you we could choose those pathways instead of other pathways or in addition to other pathways so we could do a vpa right now without having a utility okay okay we can't do a ppa but we could do a vpp right and migraine power individuals could do but the city on behalf of individuals could i mean i'm just wondering to if we look at that list just to shorten it down and be more precise do we do we cut out migraine power because it frankly isn't something that's we could do now but it could be done either under municipalization through condemnation or through an seu maybe i mean if we if we take dt's infrastructure we're not enrolling in dt's program well this is perhaps part of the intent um and i did not add this so i i will leave the floor open for the commissioners who did recommend this change that i think there's some there's some nuance to this question that needs to be explored about what that would look like okay maybe we note that as as an open point can i also ask them while we're on that same topic um cca uh could someone and frankly i think i was in musings um in my own head and then talking with other people i thought it's something maybe should be on the list but i'm wondering what is the feasibility study going to tell us about cca given it's not legal and we we don't know the pathway or the pathway to a cca other than what we i mean what do we expect to learn more about through the feasibility study other than what we know what the political pathway is parallel statement that this was something that came from the commission so i would welcome commissioners sharing their thoughts one would be uh we could i could imagine a use case of understanding pricing in ccas that are like us or going to the market to get a sense so if it were enabled we could have we could at least have a discussion about how hard we want to push for that kind of legislation and maybe have more information to go to our legislators about why but again just that that's my thinking on something that was added by some other folks okay no i think that's that's a good point i mean um in the end a lot of this comes down to economics and if if that illuminates uh if the economics under that illuminate the economics with the other options that's that's an important input okay sorry for interrupting um got a bunch of other commissioners lined up here carlene all right thank you very much um so i'm also going to be asking a question about uh the uh resolved two clause as well as uh how it connects to resolve three clause and the final uh clause which is the the sixth the sixth clause so um the the sixth clause which uh states that uh the en the energy commission recommends that something is with the above actually the city continue investigating the creation of a sustainable energy utility by and then it lists um the different approaches um [Music] what would be different from this versus um studying uh pathways to meet or with what's proposed and resolved clause number two it seems to me that we would look at how much it would cost um to do the things that resolve clause number six is instructing um um council to initiate right away so we would be studying how much it's going to cost while doing it at the same time kind of having a hard time articulating the question does it want me to understand if i if i understood you correct or the essence of the question it's really kind of what are we asking for the seo because it's in its own kind of separate resolve cluster why is it also in two and uh that was because the rate analysis is the part that we need we don't really need any of the other kind of assessments but we do want help a firm that was doing kind of this assessment should be qualified to do a rate assessment for the seo okay so then possibly then it would be um my suggestion would be to specify doing a rate analysis then for the scu in um the second result clause or or adding it to the list in the sixth yeah i'll just jump into it that's why i suggested like you know both john's comments and carlene's comments are why i suggest taking out the second resolve calls and just replacing it with a resolve clause that explicitly states asking for a rate analysis for an seu and not including these other options that might not make sense for a few disability study okay that was pretty much my my question it seemed a little bit redundant thanks commissioner hook i'm sorry yep so thanks missy for presenting this um i really think as a body we really need to revisit this idea though in terms of combining lots of thoughts and moving parts here we've got the seu that missy presented we know it's structurally different than a cca or that it's different than a municipality we also still have the dte option which i'll just say on the table is our as our is our base point right and i always think about somebody raised to stephen covey point earlier today one of my favorites is begin with the end in mind what are we going to try to accomplish here are we going to try to recommend that the city do something different at the end of the day than where we're at today and i think that's the case i think it would be foolish for us to spend a lot of time writing resolutions that don't result in that but i think we need to be mindful of what is that finish line what are we trying to accomplish and how do we best get there people have identified speed is critical um i think quality is equally critical in making sure that what we produce is is a sound um that we don't recommend um option a and option b is the one we should have picked how do we avoid that from happening if we don't study the options um cca is out there we can do a high level screening if you want to see which whether it holds muster and feel comfortable that the decision we make relative to the other options allows us to say the cca's not going to work and we have legal issues we know that we've heard that i'm aware of them i've worked with ccas in california i know how they operate what i'm getting to is i think we really need to distill this resolution into two parts i think we need to focus one resolution on an scu it sounds like we don't need a lot of funding for it it sounds like we don't need any kind of a a council recommendation or cha transition we don't need a feasibility study per se paid by a third party consultant because we've already had some folks look at it but it's a totally different set of pathway it's a different set of people it's a different set of responsibilities it's got a different budget so i mentioned it's probably got a different schedule it really belongs on its own and this resolution we've been talking about for since march or whenever we brought this up as far as the municipality really should stand on its own because it's going to need funding and we're going to have to find a pathway to get to that funding and make sure the scope for it is appropriate that's not going to be an overnight process and we know how long it takes the city to fund things like this so um this is not a slam dunk and i don't want to wait install the seu activity waiting to figure out if we can even do this municipality study let's get moving and let's let's transition from a large pretty complicated lots of resolution um engagement to very crisp written resolutions that focus that one on a municipality one on the mscu the municipality really needs to hold its muster against the other options it can be done in parallel to the seo but at some point we need to sit down and figure out is the seou the right approach or is there an option coming out of the study made by others that looks better and is a better solution for the city and i'm afraid until we really understand that and get on a pathway that gets to that date let's say it's it's may 1 2022 that we make a decision we need to set that end date and understand what it looks like and how we're going to get there and i don't think adding them both together in the same body of a resolution works for me you know i could step back and and provide technical comments to the resolution as written it's a lot of effort i think to get to the finish line with this it's really the first reading of it tonight and i prefer that we think about splitting it into two parts and i'll just stop there thank you do people want to discuss that or do we want to move on to the next question how do people want to handle that i i i sort of prefer talking about a topic and resolving that before we move on to the next topic i see a few nods um so i'm gonna i'm gonna address chuck's at least topic of two resolutions versus one and i i wonder what the practical benefit is of going back and having a whole bunch of weird whereas clauses that are going to be the same and having a resolve clause in uh one resolution and then another bunch of resolve clauses that are different in a second resolution rather than simply having um two different resolve clauses that define exactly what we want all in the same resolution as we have in front of us right now i don't see the benefit of splitting it does can somebody else or chuck speak to that commissioner briggs or councilmember briggs did you want to comment on that yeah i agree with what commissioner hook um is saying in terms of just there's we're sort of um bringing together there these are two different paths or maybe not two different paths but they're two different concepts or multiple different concepts that are being brought together in one resolution but we're also we're having this conversation simultaneously in our community and so i think that there's um there's a fair amount of benefit in just having going to council because because the council discussion is going to um likely address all of these different issues at once it's it's nice to actually have had a resolution that kind of does that and have the recommendation of energy commission all at once saying you know this is what we support the path that we support um and there may be it may be you know because they're broken up into different resolved clauses i think it provides the opportunity to say okay that's eu can can get moving um you know hopefully with usability study if this moves forward can get can get going but they're they're not necessarily time dependent upon each other um i do think you want to make sure that they don't get um you know slow down on one because um or you don't need to i guess it's my general thoughts do other people have comments on this before we move on i do john i think that i i i guess i would i understand what chuck's concern is um i don't think i would be in favor of breaking it up either so let's say we have a this this document i think is uh covers covers what we need to have done to move forward to you know finding a pathway to getting a20 completed and getting carbon neutral by 2030.

a move we approve of october 14 discussion mrs allen yes mrs keith yeah mr australia yes okay folks bear with me we have quite a few here i've got a few to read and then if you don't mind uh please remember when you come on up we've got two minutes okay [Music] this is from uh mr and mrs right we are the grandparents of a seventh grader attending continental deeply troubled by the number of increased transmissions the parents of our grandchild share the daily notifications of the graduate students and our staff our families follow all cdc guidelines and our grandchild wears a mask to school the most recent data indicate that schools without a mass mandate experience a much higher outbreak than those who have who have science proves that mitigation strategies work please have this letter read at tuesday's meeting with a request that the board implement a policy that will guarantee the health and well-being of students and families and faculty vaccinations mass and social distancing are vital to getting the pandemic under control and keeping our communities safe we received a letter from the school last week to remind us of our yearly tax credit donation the students will not be able to take advantage of our contribution and enjoy the benefits unless they are healthy thank you folks appreciate your comments okay this is from christine john dear connell school board members and administrators as a concerned parent local healthcare professional i urge you to do better by our children in implementing a science-based covent mitigation plan clearly or mass our optional policy is not working i often get multiple messages on a daily basis about affected staff members and students my seventh grade son has had several of his teachers affected her quarantine and now informed me that his classroom of 24 was down to 10 last week due to copenhagen it is impossible to provide an effective educational environment with this sort of instability your oath as school administrators and governing board members is clear you are to provide both academic excellence and a safe environment to our students sadly you are failing miserably in both areas since your mass our optional approach is not working how about trying a new strategy and following science the centers for disease control american academy pediatrics and the pima county health department will all have clear all have clear school-based mitigation strategies in place for stopping the spread of this highly contagious and deadly disease what this means for you is to proactively implement mass mandates and facilitate vaccine vaccination efforts in addition to having most robust health and safety measures and disease management plans in place we are all extremely tired of wearing mass social distancing and the daily destruction of our lives that this i'm sorry disruption or realize that this disease has caused over the past 18 months but until we change our behaviors this virus will continue to be part of our lives the machinery of the virus will continue to infect and mutate until mitigation efforts are reached in high levels or until your herd immunity is reached through vaccination efforts as we move into cold flu season and the delta and new variants spread if we're seeing even more chaotic and unsafe learning environment for our students and staff so if you are truly dedicated to the health and safety of our students and providing academic excellence then please get on board with science and help eradicate this virus i challenge you continental governing board members and administrators to lead by example and implement these common-sense science-based measures to protect our learning community from coming up thank you for your comments appreciate them okay this is uh catherine jungle board members the news in our local newspaper regarding the cases of copen among teachers staff and students is most alarming i find it very upsetting that there is not a requirement for all to wear masks during the flu pandemic over 100 years ago without the medications available to us now mass boring contributed to the elimination of that tragic health crisis at the time my grandson eli attends continental and ever since he has attended i volunteered there i loved being involved in helping the children however with this pandemic and lack of mass vaccine resistance as well as the younger ones not not yet able to be vaccinated there's too great a chance for me to take with my own health so i have not been able to enjoy helping the teachers of students i still wear a mask when i shop go to church and i have been vaccinated and ready for the booster listen to science the vaccines are the answer to ending the spending until one gets their vaccines mass keeping their distance and frequent good hand washing i'm sorry until one gets their vaccines masked keeping their distance and frequent good hand washing are the only answer to help to keep us all safe as possible there's a sad state of affairs there are so many who are missing school economy staff as well as students surely this will not be a successful school year if this continues thank you for your comments i appreciate it okay emily jarvis come on good evening president mr mcgibbon members of the board and community members my name is emily jarvis i am a parent of two students here at continental i'm here today to speak on behalf of my children and the students in the community and i'm here to tell you why we should end the mandatory 10-day quaranting of healthy students to contact tracing we all agree we want policies that are healthy and good for our children that must include looking at their total health and weighing the two years of data we now have our children spreading covet the science is no according to the largest study carried out on 1500 school children in germany zero transmissions occurred in schools they concluded quote children act as a natural break on infection and the south korean study of 65 000 people found transmission from children to adults at zero to two point seven percent said differently they found children played no significant role in transmission our children dying according to the cdc in 18 months of 73 million u.s children covet has been present in 343 pediatric deaths though it's been the only cause mentioned in 6 children have a 99.997 survival rate children are not spreading or dying in anywhere near pandemic level numbers this is not to minimize any doubt but to scrutinize policy in light of real data so what are the risks of coven to our children after two years of data we know that the most serious risk to our kids due to coping is suicide and mental health we've had far more coveted suicides than living deaths in children 2020 youth suicide increased 22 percent to close to over 2 800 children if 343 children died with covet to date in 2020 alone 538 more children committed suicide than in 2019 and in 2020 the cdc reported a 51 increase in suicide attempts among teenage girls the academic social athletic physical and emotional development and freedom they are denying healthy children on an ongoing basis as criminal and we have a moral comparative to set up a town if we are following the science healthy children should not be preemptively banned from school for 10 days due to contact tracing and this can happen to a child multiple times they are constantly waiting for the other shoe to drop and we are perpetuating a mental health pandemic our cure is worse than this disease for our children we do not wish to cater to a coconut forever or to covet only policies the science shows banning healthy kids from school is anti-science and does far more harm than good we say no to social diseasing no to mandatory masks ever again and please permanently rescind the mandatory 10-day quarantine and social distancing for healthy students temperature checks are reasonable attend a ban from school and social shining is not and lastly the anti-science mask ambulance must have no part in this situation thank you for your time and i have left behind supporting evidence for all of you thank you tom brazny you're up thank you president mcgivern members of the board of community members i'm tom brosny i live at 1062 east lumberjack trail i am the proud grandparent of two continental cults my day job i am the green valley sarita representative for supervisor steve christie who's our county supervisor in this area so i want to talk about a conversation i had with a parent uh and what we call a constituent cert concern a couple weeks ago a parent called me regarding quarantine protocols that pima county health department makes in the decision in having students and classes quarantined i discussed with supervisor christine a week ago he addressed this to the pima county health department folks represented by dr garcia deputy county administrator who oversees the health department during this november 2nd board of supervisors meeting here are the two main major takeaways from that conversation first pima county health department does not have the authority to mandate that children need to get vaccinated to attend school that kind of mandate would need to come from the governing board and i'm pretty confident that this governing board would not do that second the health department does have under state statute the ability to request warranty this has to do with the authority under state statute governing disease breakouts as an example in the past the health department did close down parts of the bale school district because of a pertussis outbreak the health department analyzes data presented to them by continental school and makes a quarantined request to the school administration if the school or parents do not comply the only remedy for the health department is to file a lawsuit they cannot in themselves enforce a quarantine they will not call the sheriff's department to lock down the school i hope this clarifies some of the concerns that parents have when the health department becomes involved i'll watch the school administration the governing board and applaud the efforts they've made to keep continent el continental open for in-school learning thank you oh my name is paul lagree i'm a father of a student here at continental um i'd like to start by expressing my gratitude to the board and to mr latham and the covet task force greatly appreciate the hard work you've done to make sure that our children have attended school throughout the pandemic but i'm most grateful that you've chosen not to allow our children to be used as political powers we've chosen to listen to actual science and real data that have from the beginning dictated that our children attending school in person is the most responsible decision when it comes to the issue of quarantine though i think we can do better for our children i can understand the logic of winning the quarantine from the disease that carries a high mortality rate however since the beginning of the pandemic it has been proven over and over again that children simply do not carry the same risk of death of 19.

congratulations so if we can have our colts squeeze in a little and then we're going to take a picture [Music] is yes everybody stay cold stay there so at this point we ask our uh both of the months to stay we also have another special presentation that we do every month it's called the golden horseshoe award which is kind of like employee of the month and we have one for certified and classified and so at this time we're going to do that we ask that they stay up here because these individuals that i name really do it for these students up here and so they worked very very hard for that so we're going to start with our classified employee of the month talk a little bit and then this great of us will also talk a little bit but this employee has been kind of stable of us running through a pandemic um when we first shut down one of the things that our school continued to do was provide lunches and breakfast throughout our community it didn't matter if you went to our school or not um if you were one years old until 18 years old and you came to any of our locations these are cafeteria staff fed them um and so this individual has worked hard has gone through lots of changes this year as we messed up her lines as she might say and created new ideas and she embraced those and worked with her staff and has just done a tremendous job and i know that on our student surveys oftentimes the kids say oh we need better food better food but our our students eat on a regular basis i eat there almost every single day and absolutely love lunch and that's about the only quiet five minutes i get is eating that much and i really appreciate her hard work and her staff's hard work for the director of our cafeteria mr pj and you had your whole crew plus more and you were directing us like a champ on how we were going to prep breakfast prep lunches get stuff out to everyone and you continue to do that to this day the kids are a priority to you and we love you and thank you very much for all of your hard work you always have a smile on your face you always make us laugh our next staff member is one of our certified employees this individual we actually brought in um at the beginning of the pandemic and so she's never seen a normal school year here in cocktail school and she actually was brought in as our behavior and academic support specialist and although she does that and balances that she does everything we ask and more and she's always looking for opportunities to support us and help us um even to the point where last minute for the last two days we asked her to cover her class she was able to put everything she had planned aside and cover classes so that we could stay in school on campus and it's just selfless selfless acts one after another and just willing to do whatever i have never ever heard her complain i've actually stolen a phrase um from her and at the beginning of the year when someone would come over the radio and would say hey you know i've got this going on this going on and she just comes on and her sweet voice says i can help and that to me just defines uh the type of lady she is where we don't even have to ask if she goes through the need she feels that so um bertha please i would just like to add just how very grateful and lucky we are to have you on board our students love you so much she's also our avid teacher for our middle schoolers and just the support that you give our students our staff her colleagues love her so very much and just you are very selfless and you always it's true on milwaukee saying i can help i'm there where do you need me what do you need me to do thank you thank you for the passion that you have for what you do and the service and your expertise you're teaching all of us lots of stuff so thank you okay sir one two three okay thank you parents you all are amazing great great kiddos and we're so happy to have them here with us thank you for your speech and thank you folks we talk we understand that you have life to live feel free to leave [Music] thank you guys oh [Music] well then the church comes over helps them [Music] thank you folks have a great evening thank you for coming okay folks we're gonna continue with the meeting now any discussion on that yes well i'm i don't know if i can do this monday thank you so much for your 30 years i'm not going anywhere 30 years teaching middle school kids so personally i need one more year out of you because my daughter's going to be here and my son had her and his favorite classes matt in high school so thank you so much yes okay report items district financial report discussion on aggregate expenditure limit uh mr schubert are you on yeah there i am hope you're feeling well sir please go forward with the report to us tonight before you you have the district financial report as of november 2nd and also we wanted to have a discussion on the state's aggregate expenditure limits on november first the state went ahead and came out with their amounts that each district would be responsible for to get at or below the aggregate expenditure limit um when that report first came out the district would have had to cut 1.2 million dollar budget in order which would have been our portion of that cut since then it has been revised down it's been down to just over 1.1 million dollars again this is something that we will have to do this fiscal year if our legislature doesn't do anything by march first so i guess one of the big questions is i know that the the superintendent's association within pima county is to the legislature i know that the groups that i belong to as far as business officials we are proposing a letter to our our elected officials that i guess my question is what is the public and what is our our chairman of the pima county gop and the pima county democratic party what are they doing to help get this done and uh we have the consolidated board report do we entertain a motion to approve that board report some discussions well there's two items on here right let's let's uh i'll entertain a motion on the board report and we can have any discussion or questions this is on the district financial report correct 11am [Music] i just want to say for for those of you that uh have shown up any any grassroot efforts you can do to reach out to your your legislator would be amazing um it's a 1.2 billion dollar cut in education statewide as of december 1st um and this this should be the easiest thing to get through our state congress in the world both sides of the aisle should fully support this so it should be a very easy task to get done so any grassroots efforts would be wonderful we do have a form that was given to us um superintendents with facts and talking points that we'll put at the back table for you and then if you have questions you can come see us for the public thank you thank you for the discussion yes and we're gonna have some letters and phone numbers and emails that we can cut paste to descendants in because it's um like we're 1.2 sarita is roughly 12 14 million tusd is it's a lot um i mean it's just crazy how much sir that's i mean we can't afford to lose 68 dollars so i'm preaching to the choir i know but so we'll get some more information out as soon as we can so we can and we'll get with the newspaper and all the other facilities that we can to like tell our people no no no but greg who is the one that initiated this was it the governor or the lawsuit so this limit has always been in place it's part of the state of arizona constitution and the constitutional limit right so it's always been there um within the past 10 years or so we've come up across this limit i want to say we're here for other times i know that twice that they have actually voted to go ahead and suspend the limit the issue that i see moving forward is i don't see this limit issue going away anytime soon um the figures that they use to calculate everything is based off of last year's student enrollment um when districts put together their budgets they're put together based on a weighted student count so if and not to sound um horrible about this but if i have a child that has a disability that child count is more than one when i'm putting together my budget whereas if i have a kindergartner that kindergartner gives me is a half of a person and when i put it using the same numbers a fed student within the preschool program is also funded at half where when they're putting things together that special needs student is still one person that kindergartner is a full person and every student i have within my preschool program is a full person so they're using baselines from the 80s that really need to be updated to warm modern times next year they're projecting a 1.27 billion dollars over the limit okay any further discussion just just one comment you know if i understand this correctly greg it's principally due to the fact that when prop 301 uh went into effect it was passed by the voters and there was a sales tax related revenue issue that expired and i mean in essence the sales tax was renewed but by a vote of the legislature which then made it local revenues and and applied against the aggregate uh expenditure limitation is that correct yes sir that is also correct but it's also taking please remember this is that that 301 amount count as about 650 million dollars towards a 1.2 billion so that's about half of it okay so we're still over that limit even if we were to take 301 out of the figure thank you for that clarification yeah to me to a certain degree this is an oversight on the part of our legislature and and and i've got to believe that we can get this uh this limit uh suspended um and and yeah i said echo what i think kelly and again and president mcgivern have said it's really essential that we contact our elected representatives and get this thing done because i'll tell you if this actually does apply to this fiscal year and this does not get changed and we go all the way until march first we're not anybody left until the day uh march april the night i mean it gets concerning so uh write your legislation thank you so much in a second on the board report financial report i'll move to it i've got just a question greg on the district financial area but what yes or funds remain unspent so currently we have budgeted capacity within ether2 for a special ed reading program um and right now the majority of us are free gym um you put me on the spot i can't think of everything i said there's some there's some funding in there for um saturday school and i i don't have i don't have grants management i can't tell you exactly what else is in there but all of it right now is about 38 000 within salaries and then 25 of that within benefits that we're hoping to use for for district employees who run out of lead time that way they can still maintain a full paycheck if they have to be out for any length of time so in essence we don't have a whole lot of customer 2 or s or three monies to spend that are not committed all right everything is committed okay um the only exception of that would be the uh the money for the salaries and benefits for the employees of ronald lee thank you okay um quick question um you think that the funds are committed uh but those are not obligated so we could de-obligate those funds and use those funds is that correct you that is correct um there are some things that we haven't done yet like this of the saturday school and i think you know we're in the process of starting fast saturday school um and again without actually having grand management open and safe before everything is actually allocated to i can't speak intelligently on that correct but we also know that a percentage of sr3 had to be obligated to increasing student achievement to close the achievement gap um and so that's why we included saturday school in to that plan in terms of helping kids catch up correct 20 percent of our essence reallocation had to go to closing the achievement gap okay okay mrs any further comments well no that's clarified and you still have eighty percent of the money yeah as long as they haven't read long we don't have purchase orders against those already then yes because we did have to enter it into grants management and it had to be approved at the state level so what what we submitted is approved and if we are going to change it we have to go in and ask them to reject it and amend it if that's what we decide to do okay any further questions okay mrs allen yes mrs price yeah mr austin's group ms valerie yes mr gibbon yes uh the district finance report passes thank you um coco 19 update discussion and information yes discussion and information and i did um ask mr nathan um this web host will be available to come to the podium for any additional questions that the board may have um as monica opens the update i did provide and hopefully those of the public will be able to see the agenda so on the report there it has the first line is current current student positive cases and you'll see a total of 21.

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. And Miss Rup, would you please recite the mission statement? Sure. Our mission is to empower each student to positively impact the world for a bright new future. Okay. Next up is public comment. We have one in person and one came in via email. Uh first up in person is um James Young and topic is transparency in the community. The floor is yours, sir. Thank you, President Albert. Uh, before I begin, let me uh give a shout out to all the veterans, military veterans. Uh, thank you for your service. How much time do I have, President Aubrey? Five minutes. Okay, good. Dr. Congress, members of the board, staff, and community. Um, I want to talk about transparency in the community and it's in three different areas.

Again, we believe that you made a mistake and there's still hope for the donor. Our school district is very unique because we have a lot of active retired school teachers. We've have former school board members that go back as far as 40 years ago to current time. We believe that we're moving in the wrong direction. Okay? Okay. And I'm going to offer you several suggestions for recommendations for your consideration after I'm done. The decision was made about the dome. So again, let's continue to move forward, but I want to go down I want to take a trip down memory lane for a moment. Again, if you remember, this school board referendum did not pass. The majority of people that voted against that school board, that school board referendum came from Creek and Monae. They did not come from University Park. If you do, if you look at the numbers, you can fact check it.

given the difference in the test itself absolutely but in 22 we'll be administering a test that's more similar to 2019's version we're anticipating that we have not heard anything about the mcats for 2022 yet and what they i guess i would be interested as we move forward in understanding obviously we tend to outperform the state i'd be interested in knowing what is that delta in 2021 comparable is that delta in 2019 but we're still overforming the state are we out performing the state by more or less than we used to follow the state in terms of trying to compare the results yeah um just uh don't take this in any way as any sort of veteran but looking at these numbers um i don't know how they compare to 2019 i know we shouldn't be comparing them but on all accounts almost all the categories i know it's like at least the third sometimes well over half aren't even in expectations is that like how do those compare in general to two years password is that what are you looking for what will be a good standard for that so we're seeing less kids that are meeting or seeing years past not just at ours at our schools but across the state i think it speaks to i think we spoke about it last year a little bit when we were talking about our aims about data we were able to really work with kids in developing skills and keep those skills moving along the scanners were harder to get to and in as much i think that's why when i show those three slides of the standards where their kids didn't necessarily make that's where we're going to make up some of that ground and where we're going to be able to focus our work with the kids to get deeper into that because those are the areas that kept those yeah i mean it's totally understandable i completely get that i'm just curious how that compares in years past is it like one of the categories before one of the greatest people 64 didn't need expectations that's a pretty big number what is that usually is that specific to that grade is it just that class because profit was that number like 20 last time or you know it's lower than it typically is but i couldn't pull the number right off my somewhere [Music] yeah okay that that's that just trend sort of stuck out to me i know it was a bad year you know you can't do i mean there's always so much you do but to see that much not even meetings surprised any other questions i think it's great that you do the written expression vlog i think that's a really funny problem thank you okay john all right um and ace is right before i start you know we strive very hard to work together and to address common issues in a common fashion because we do want our kids to be talented which is obvious the other thing i want to say before we start is that i think our scores i'm going to probably assume for tons of they're not as good as they might look they're not as big as they might look because of the way the tests were done the style of testing that they've done this year so take what i'm about to say with a grain of salt um if i can make this work um [Music] i use very similar graphs these are the ela scores for berlin and grades three four and five last year and if you get my newsletter you wouldn't know that we were actually kind of excited about this each of these three scores are the highest scores of burlington in the last 10 years do not ask me about it because all i'll be able to say is fabulous teacher um but it was a very pleasant surprise to see the kids that you really love here's some morning theories one of them is that parents are super comfortable with reading with into their children yeah that's always a blessing in the school districts like ours we have parents who have the time and the energy and the commitment to work with their kids because when we were hybrid a lot of that felt people at home so for our students on this day these were our results and we were as i say you know extremely pleased that being said uh and i again this was in my report we break them out the same way um in third grade basis right we outperform the state in all areas in fourth grade similarly we outperform the state in all areas fifth grade's the same thing and again we were delighted to see that the one concern that i had that ace has that all of our teachers here was that whole idea of the essay and write it and again as you saw my report my big concern was conventions um conventions is the part of the writing school that addresses punctuation grammar and spelling the knucklehead stuff right i was in a first grade classroom the other day first grade six years old what's the teacher telling you or asking them what goes at the start of a sentence a capital letter what goes at the end of the sentence a punctuation marker yes still in my third fourth and fifth graders are struggling with conventions this is a pattern that we noted um actually back in 2019 and we thought we're going to get better we're going to collect those points and then filter so a lot of that momentum was lost but it remains a goal for us you can see we did okay here this is where we were two years ago or three years ago we couldn't beat the state we just barely beat the state third grade did pretty well fourth grade did pretty well fifth grade did pretty well but there's so much more that we can collect so it is a point of uh focus for us is to kind of just you know empower that mechanics of writing piece they're doing okay with the ideas uh they're that's improved this part it just makes me crazy so this is something that we're working on this is mathematics an entirely different story you can see third grade fabulous year in third grade thank you mrs julius thank you joey um but fourth and fifth grade both of the fourth grade um tied the statement fifth grade was just slightly above the stage and it concerned us um as you can see if you look at the state reverse everybody is now statewide in mathematics as i'm not sure to get in my report athletics is ruthlessly cumulative so when you're home reading with mom and dad but probably not getting the same support for mathematics we're going to see that drop a lot of talk about acceleration academies and how are we going to catch up the reality with mathematics is so what teachers have been working on as you've worked with is trying to identify underlying misconceptions or misunderstandings mathematically that we need to address before we can move on so it slows us down a little bit but it allows students to become stronger mathematically we noticed the same thing again third grade did fabulously in all these areas um significantly outperforming the state in fourth and fifth grade however it's the same story we were below the state level in geometry in fourth grade we were below the state in fifth grade it's not a ton of points but it's an entire subject area that they're going to need when they get to toronto they're not the hot already in geometry um so we have with mr florence help started to address kind of remediation around that part of uh what we're doing this year is building in some sometimes just to kind of do a cyclic review so the kids will do work unrelated to the scope and sequence a little extra warm-up math which will include things like geometry geometrical this is a challenge only because it can be for them a really complex concept they have to understand the vocabulary they've got to understand the mathematical ideas it's not the most interesting thing for most kids but it's a point of focus for us science and technology again as mr thompson mentioned um they didn't give us any kind of a breakdown just the overall meats or exceeds again that was one of the highest numbers we have right now we were very very pleased with fifth grade performance at science next steps for us we're gonna continue to seek out tier two interventions um looking for strategies to better support struggling readers the kids who read well in my school read well and they're highly functional and they're independent readers they seek out opportunities to read it's amazing to watch for some of the kids who struggle especially some of our older kids it's a challenge and so we continually look for ways to kind of support their efforts to become better readers and as i mentioned we're going to re-establish our focus i'm not going to mention some writing because that makes me crazy in mathematics we're going to look for ways to improve the performance and geometry which is historically kind of a weak point for us um and then the other thing that mr florida and i have been talking about and i should probably meant to mention this too jerry florida wants to establish kind of a parenting outreach effort to help parents better understand about what a lot of parents would call the new math which is what my parents called it back when i was thinking about um a lot of parents struggle mathematically with why can't we just do it the way i learned it when i was in school and the answer is we want kids to have a deeper mathematical understanding so that when they get to tahanta they can all take the cool part now and not the intelligence because we went from all they had the challenges that math can provide um they have them ready to do higher level math to haunt them they've got to be better grounded in mathematical concepts at the elementary level so we're going to try to help parents understand that so when kids come home and they want to do partial product on multiplication parents not only will know what that means but i think that's what parents we're looking at the fourth third fourth and fifth comparison to the state oh sure so they don't take them gas until third grade take it right so we don't know for example whether that grade four class would have been at 70 but for that fifth grade class that was in 41 they would have taken two years before in grade three do you know where they were they were not nearly that weak i was saying they were around 64.

in the state as for partially meeting or not meeting we had 34 which is compared to the state's 53. the areas that we scored higher in uh for sixth grade were sa language conventions which is john talked about how to do spelling and punctuation and grammar et cetera and also characterization and development of plot and the area that uh we spoke below the uh standing was for passage tone which is when writers talked about their the attitudes or feelings about their subjects for grade seven um we scored higher than the state oh sorry we outscored the statement exceeding and meeting with 70 of our students scoring in those categories in comparison to 43 for the state and 30 percent of our students scored partially medium or not meaning compared to these states 57. the areas that we scored higher than uh the state were areas of the use of greek and latin matrix of the groups and the use of context and the area that we scored lower in had to do with character identification in the poem and for grade 8 um we outscored the state and exceeding meeting with 54 of our students compared to 40 percent in the state and 46 of our students scored partially meeting or not meeting compared to the state's 59.

lourdes has been a member of the national honor society since her sophomore year as a result of her outstanding grades and community service lourdes has also contributed to her school community outside of the classroom as a volunteer tutoring student in ela and in homework help lodes has taken her leadership role in both school and in her community lourdes has been seen as a leader in our school providing assistance to underclassmen as a ready leader and in the community with the jlts interact club lourdes has designed the school's uniform for the medical assistant program and has participated in the walk for hunger lourdes is a very caring and compassionate student and displays these qualities to everyone she comes in contact with lourdes has overcome a very tough time during high school years dealing with anxiety and depression especially during the culvert pandemic lourdes has also struggled as a newcomer to united states working very hard to learn english lourdes is one of the hardest working and most responsible student that we have and we are very proud of her accomplishments and her hard work while she's been here at congratulations congratulations lord uh you've been a mess [Music] right [Applause] oh like how you put your mouth [Music] he's still a baby hey tom how you doing yes ladies and gentlemen luis would like to say something i'm nervous so i just want to say thank you really actually thank you from the bottom of my heart this is the first time that i'm receiving over an award like this and i don't know i can deeply say that i can see my efforts coming back to me thank you [Applause] okay great family i wanted to thank the family um and recognize the all the hard work and achievement done by our exceptional reggie these are the things that um makes this job worthwhile thanks for being here tonight it was wonderful to have you thank you thanks for being here [Music] you have a great family thank you welcome my great family thank you welcome next is the approval of the minutes of october 26th 2021 i got a motion to approve by leo seconded by maryland any discussion no discussion phase is closed sue rocco miss fitzgerald yes ms disla yes miss morata mr lamontagne yes miss mama yes and mr sorello cash balance report jerry's not here mr hawaii will you read a cash balance report november 4 2021.

2021 6 million 307 997.66 and transfer from concentration account interest 530.95 mmt dt balance on november 4th 2021 6 308 528.61 in total operation operating cash balance 9 million one thousand seven hundred and twenty point fifty two can i get a motion to approve still move second any discussion this question is now closed so roll call fitzgerald yes miss disler miss morata mr lamontagne miss marmal and mr cirillo chair welcome yes you're robbing your phone john nice consolidation uh conciliation report in regard of funds revolving fund um you have in your packet any questions on the funds no and you have a copy of the budget report any question on the budget report leo okay you also have the oped quarterly trust report in your packet and we have um i don't think you have i'd like to bring up uh one informational well we're looking for a vote actually for a line to add a line item in the revolving fund for the food bank revolving account so we've been getting some donations for our food bank revolving account but we don't have a line item specific for that account so we need to uh the committee to approve to have a line item so that we can put those uh donations into that fund and get that account can i get a motion to uh to add the line item into the account for the food fund yeah you got a motion for approved by leo second in my maryland any um comments two roko miss fitzgerald yes mrsla miss morada mr lamontagne yes miss marmal and mr cyrillo cheryl chess um [Music] donations none um articles and ability assistance saw at north andor camp john so we just we had some students that participated in the what's called the ability assistance show at north andover uh cam so taylor maloney and i.t junior jacob dinsmore gave back to the community and gained valuable professional video tv production skills as they taped the abili ability assistant show at the north andover cam uh they did a great job um i'm not sure uh if that's on tape but i'll do some research if that is i'll give see if i can get you a link so you can see the taping any questions you know at this time public participation is open we don't want nobody for public participation or the station is now closed superintendent report contract on tracing contact tracing badges john just on a follow-up from last week that frank asked to put this on the agenda the contact tracing badges we had decided um because um students were no longer going to be social distance uh at a distance that was reasonable in order to make the contact tracing badges effective that we ended up not ordering the badges i personally forgot that it was in the opening safety protocols procedures that the committee had voted on so i do apologize for not having brought that back to the committee once we did that never gave it a second thought so that was on me so i i do want to extend my apologies for not having brought it back for a vote comments miss marvel so the question is does a vote need to be taken in order to remove it from the reopening plan that's where where my my confusion lies since we had voted to approve to have that on the reopening plan it was never it was never done to begin with so wouldn't it have to be removed or discussed as to um i believe you already gave explanations uh to the reasons why but from my understanding i think we would the committee would have to vote in removing that from the reopening plan is that correct so yeah correct um yeah correct well we questioned for a motion but before that i want to hear everybody else if anybody else has any comments if you're all done okay anybody else so i have a couple of concerns especially in lieu of what's happening in boston and we had they had to shut down the school and go remote what is our plan right now in case there is a similar or close to a similar of an outbreak how we're going to be notifying the staff anybody that's close contact and what is in the plan to to resolve what is close contact and what we should be doing for the safety of the people that are in that classroom in close contact to that particular person for the staff and anybody else that might be close contact if we don't have the badges to um to determine how close a person was for close contact yeah so even with the badges they would have been ineffective because if you had the badges and you would go on a computer to see who was a close contact you would have you you would possibly have 100 students that were close contacts just because the students were no longer within six or no longer apart six feet or greater or even three feet or greater uh at this point in students who were students or staff members who were if vaccinated would not be considered close contacts what we do is if a student um any students that we may suspect uh has been within somebody that may have had had contact with someone that with the virus those those students are uh can they would be coming in and tested for five days every morning for five days to test and stay um in terms of i can bring back to the committee our uh the um covert team will be meeting again and uh looking at this further given the situation in boston uh and coming up with do we need to make any changes in our in our protocols and procedures uh if at this time we think that we're having some issues i do have a covert report as to how it's been going in the school uh that i i've actually been going pretty well in the school when you look at the numbers considering that we have 600 students so we've had a total number of positive report reported to the nurse this school year so far 21 students that have had covert that doesn't mean that they've all been in the school but 21 students have been identified as having covert which is a small number given that we have 1600 students no in-school positives from another positive so there's been no school transmission from what we've been able to tell from one student to another within the building given a student that may have been tested positive and have been in contact with other students there's been no evidence of any transfer of the virus from one student to another from being in the building there have been 50 total students in that are in our quarantine list in some capacity or of isolation or quarantine from what we would consider uh what the we consider close contacts if we know in fact that that student was a close contact uh within a specific space and and did not get the vaccine they would then become a close contact and they've been isolated in quarantine a total number of binex rapid tests performed for symptomatic students and staff is 151 so we've tested 151 there have only been three positive rapid tests at school two students and one staff and all the testing that we've done seven students have i have done tests and stay unvaccinated school identified closed contacts which means they have rapid tests first thing in the morning for five days 35 tests total a lot of students are still coming to school sick when asked they have been sick for multiple days so then we at that time would do a test when they come in sick if we don't have a permission slip then we would call the parent and get permission to do a test on the student so at this time it's been manageable biggest challenge we've had is we have had a lot of students trying to the nurses trying to deal with the amount of students coming in sick and having to deal with some of those issues but there's been different various reasons that students have been sick but overall it's uh it's been very i would say has worked out successfully in the protocols and procedures we've put in place to this point any questions mr since we're on the general subject of covid what do you happen to know what our percentage of vaccinated um people in the building is including staff and students so i i don't have the exact number uh with me uh i can get that for you and actually email it out to you uh our student population uh that have been vaccinated i believe is somewhere around 55 to 57 percent uh staff i'm not sure on the numbers but um i believe it's in the 80 but um the last that was a while back so i can get those exact numbers for you and email the school committee what those exact numbers are normal so superintendent my concern is that the committee approved for the investment of these badges which i'm assuming is a hefty investment uh because of the explanation that you gave regarding its purpose and the value that it would bring for its use so the minute that you found out that it was actually part of the reopening plan wouldn't it be the school's responsibility to um immediately use the badges or from my understanding is it that we don't have enough for all students besides all the other factors that you have mentioned but is it that we don't have enough badges for all students as well and secondly i did wanted to briefly mention because you stated something along the lines regarding vaccination like even though from you know even though those who are vaccinated you could still uh receive and transmit covid so being vaccinated or not i don't think that that that would be able to uh it should be used as a justification to not use the badges um and lastly i'll finish off by stating that i will feel comfortable if we do have to make a decision to vote on removing the badges once we do receive the report that you mentioned um and we have more details regarding you know regarding validating no longer having it in use okay so when we started the school year the badges that we had in the past were no no longer in effect because the time frame in which we contracted with the company had ended last june so we would have to renew a contract for 600 students to first purchase the badges and then then purchase the software which is what a monthly fee would pay for each individual students and given the fact that they would no longer be effective in uh doing what we wanted it to do in terms of identifying who those close contacts were at a time when um the protocols and procedures were set at six feet protocols up for uh social distancing without that as part of our protocols and procedures at that point then made those badges ineffective because students would be in close contact with many students and would be very difficult to try to manage the number of close contacts within all the badges for that many students it was uh and the cost was uh some very substantial in the if i'm trying to remember what the cost was but it was well over two hundred thousand dollars if i remember right to have the badges for something that was not going to help us in determining and keeping us safe at at the level that it was when we initially used them and back then we had less students and it was more manageable to utilize a tool like that so i personally would recommend that we not proceed with purchasing the contact tracing badges at that kind of a cost when it's not going to be effective it would be doesn't in my own mind make sense to spend that kind of money on something that would not benefit us and keep us safe at the level that would make sense but i can bring you further data on our plans for future uh safety in terms of reviewing uh again what has really worked well for us and what's not working well for us we convene the cova team i think we have another meeting next week when we bring the team back together we can look at all the data and we can bring back another recommendation i can bring back another recommendation from the covet team to the school committee before they make that final decision on the badges mr yeah i just want to follow up on vivian's concerned and some things that i heard so we do have some badges we don't have them all we didn't buy them all correct i'm sorry i had my microphone on so we do we bought some budgets initially but we didn't buy the rest is that true we had badges but we no longer we would have to re-lease those badges in other words we had to repurchase those badges they were only good till june our contract so we'd have to purchase 1600 badges if we were going to do all the students so knowing that we were talking about 200 000 expense in situation if i may say that way how is it that we forgot to just bring it up to the committee that's one question also just to follow up again we do need to see what is because i i know mr xia asked what's the what's the protocol that we're using in case something happened but i i'm i'm not sure i you said a lot of stuff but i didn't hear the whole protocol so i would like to see that coming to us what is what is it that we're putting in place and we need to remove the batch portion of it within that so that we can go ahead and you know approve and emotion and approve it john until next meeting i uh i will bring you up to date on all the new protocols and procedures there's been changes from the department of education over the last few months uh and we've made some adjustments and changes to the covet team i don't have everything in front of me right now to go into detail when and how we made these changes but i'm happy to bring all that to the committee next meeting so if the committee so feels as though still in our best interest purchase the badges and you know that would be up to the committee to make that decision once you have all the details and information i'll also do a little more research in terms of contacting the company and seeing uh if there's have any um recommendations or suggestions to make those uh tracing badges effective in the way that we have our procedures and protocols today maybe there's some way that our system that they have that we're not aware of so i'm happy to try to do a little more research on that as well but given what information we had i believe it was in the best interest of the school not to purchase those badges at the time was that's why i made that decision at the time the thing was that you made the decision but we didn't know about it and i think that's the big that's the whole thing that the badges were part of the opry opening plan it's in it was in place because we decided for that and it never it was never brought out here and i understand you brought the explanation today for that but i think we're just going out of the whole subject where it's not that we want the badges to be implemented it's just that it's part of the implementation and we never move that removed that from the whole plan that was approved uh you're absolutely right and that was on me not having bring that back to the committee when that decision was made i know when the committee made the decision we had different information and you were operating under a different set of protocols and procedures when the decision was made to continue to use those badges after you made that decisions protocols and procedures changed which made them i believe ineffective but i didn't bring it back never really gave it another thought as the year continued and so yes that's on me for not having brought back that to the committee to make a new decision based on the new information that we had yes marmol um do you mind um reminding me did we hire any con what is it called contact tracers due to the badges and if that was the case were those positions terminated considering that uh the use of badges is no longer in operation john so we still have contact tracers but contact tracers weren't in place because of the badges that was just a tool to help them determine who may be a close contact so we still have contact tracers that i think since the beginning of the school year have put in about a total of two hours have not put in a substantial amount of time in terms of doing uh contact tracing beyond the school day in terms of and the work that they've done is mostly inform doing informational in terms of giving information to to parents regarding any contact tracing that we contacts that we thought may have happened and the parents needed to be notified that may have happened here in the school but we've as i said have had no evidence of any uh transmission of the virus to another students who has been in in school and within close distance of another student okay so for for the next meeting bring back more information on what our plans procedures are and as right now i definitely have to go back and review dusty's guidelines but i don't i don't remember anywhere in destiny guidelines saying the person was vaccinated was not considered close contact but i could be wrong bring that as well and what would be the price that we're talking about for the the badges and monthly fees um so i'm gonna be looking for motion table discussion ms fitzgerald i'm not sure what we're tabling the removal of the um the badges we're not removing it so we're not amending the policy right now because the open the policy what we agreed for reopened was with the badges included so just for my clarification that we're making a motion to table changing the okay any further questions oops miss fitzgerald miss disler miss morata mr lamontagne miss marmal and mr cirillo chairwood yes um co-op report superintendent thank you marilyn leo usually correct me when that happens december calendar mr superintendent so you have a copy of the december calendar right now it shows that we have two district committee meetings in december typically the committee votes to only have one even though we have two so right now it's on the 7th of december and the 21st which is four days before christmas so typically in the past the committee voted to not do the meeting on the week of christmas actually i'm going to be looking for a motion to to to um amend to that one day uh removing their 21st um got motion by from leo gonna get it a second second by miss marmo maryland i was just going to throw out the idea of instead of having it on the 7th have it on the 14th where we have a meeting on the 23rd of december that would give us in case there were large warrants or anything and i'm just it doesn't matter to me which day it is but that would be kind of like in the middle unless someone knew that they were not available that night it might be better in terms of information that we would be getting you want to do on the 23rd 14th no she returns the 7 to the 14. you meant in your motion any further discussion so that means we'll be meeting on november 23rd right no no i'm just i'm talking a lot so we're gonna be okay one month so we're gonna be without meeting for like three weeks if we put up for the 14.

so is that three sections two seventh and one eighth or that's one seventh grade class and one seven eight class yes first pivot again can you just repeat the number oh yeah sure so there's one grade seven class one seven eight combo class and the total number of students is 66. sorry that's wrong oh one there's one more eighth grade class i didn't scroll up there's another eighth grade class that is 33 student that's on top of the 66.

um mr ma i have a question around our um i know we've we're continuing to look at the capacity by site so seat capacity um do you already have a report or can we quickly get together a report of each of the campuses kind of from a master planning perspective how many classrooms how many meeting spaces if there's an auditorium the acreage of each site so as we we look at number of students and we look at our our goal of having these strong base programs so that for example every elementary school would have um a parent room it would have a special ed room it would have each of these kind of specialized rooms um do you have that um handy was that something we can get um before thanksgiving um yes i could work towards that so the capacity that we have in front of us identified as walking each classroom to identify how many classrooms could be utilized for space and then we subtracted four classrooms um one for a parent resource room one for a preschool what was it three classrooms i'm sorry there was more at the face i think we did okay i thought doctor rolls just in general i'm sorry i believe she's referring to the high school correct i'm referring to all schools all sites so here this is just number of c right um to make it more tangible right so school campus a has 20 classrooms uh a space you know or it has 25 classroom and in our reorganization 20 of those would be general classroom spaces the 21st would be the parent room the 22nd would be the special education room the 23rd would be the library something like that the 24th would be the vapa room or it's the science lab just so it becomes more real so when we say we're talking about every um elementary school having these rich programs where are we going to house these programs so yes then then to latasha's point uh right now the way the capacity was was built was uh counting every room that can house students and then subtracting four rooms to be used for other other things so we have for instance uh the innovation lab we have a parent center we have a library um we didn't quite specifically you know pinpoint but we said okay we let's do additional four and i believe at the high schools that could be wrong with tasha i think we said six yes at a minimum yeah but i mean we can put that on paper and i i'm pushing a little bit because i think we've talked about it generally and we agree that we need these auxiliary spaces and when we write it down it's a it's a commitment to say yes we have these are for regular classroom use and these are our auxiliary uses and we're built and we're going to then ensure that each campus has the same type of auxiliary spaces because we think that's important yes 100 so yeah every every capacity that we have put so far subtracts four rooms at the elementary level and six at the heights below so when we look at at adults and 489 capacity that means 489 can fit into classrooms but we still have four empty classrooms that we can use and repurpose for something else will you also include the multi-purpose space so if there are indoor cafeteria spaces library spaces i mean i'm thinking of rainy day spaces that are not in the classroom i don't know if all of our campuses have that type of large multi-purpose space do they every single campus has a multi-purpose cafetorium so every every campus does have have one of those um in terms of the other specs i'm not 100 sure again we can we can we can put that on paper for you and i'm also interested in the acreage of the site and just to confirm is this for every school site that we currently have open or are we looking for those that we are planning to remain open so i can understand every site and i think it's whether or not we're going to use it i think we need to have we need to know the capacity the size and the types of buildings on that fight just to go back real quick to a question that was asked in regards to our measure k fund dollars um uh mr ma i'm going to ask a question that kind of goes back to your to what was on your predecessor's desk um but maybe we can try to understand what what the what might have been discussed back then so in addition to the measure of k dollars there was also i want to say 19 million in state refunded dollars or reimbursement dollars when you say that there's 40 million left in measure k well one do you know what i'm referring to and and two when you say there's 40 million does that include that number or or does that exclude that number that includes that number and yes though what we have done is we use bond projects to submit for other state funding and as those funds come in they are allocated to what is available for uh bond projects going forward so we have a total remaining of all funding sources that could be utilized for bond projects approximately 40 million dollars thank you you're welcome [Music] so i would like to at this time ask my colleagues um what do you guys think about gladstone high school being the middle school or gladstone high school being the high school or vice versa asusa high being the middle school or asuza high being the heist remember remember go ahead i saw your shaker all right i get to go first um from a numbers perspective it seems to make it makes sense to me to have azusa high school site remain the high school site and transition to gladstone high school site to be the middle the unified middle school site as i heard we say that if we combined all of our 912 students to gladstone we'd necessarily have to add a couple of portables you know that's exactly what i was going to say thank you and and yeah and we have a lot of work to do at azusa high school anyway i'd rather have that be for actual upgrades rather than classroom additional classrooms or remember yeah i would i would agree with the fact that the the numbers that we've been presented with seem to suggest that azusa high school makes sense to be the centralized high school classroom high school as a centralized middle school um but i i similar to board member rodriguez pena it's a question i i i do wonder what are some of those other additional costs um that that go into ensuring that the site is is set up um to best house students um so it would make sense to move forward under the under that assumption in my book but but i i would love to collect some of that information prior to you know full-fledged i remember chris gonzalez so i i would agree um and additionally i would just add i think um it would make sense to think about if we are since we are closing foothill middle school how do we utilize that potentially as an annex for azusa high i mean i so when i go to work in long beach every day there's a school an elementary school where the city actually blocks off the street so that kids from an elementary school can go can walk across that street so it's actually closed during the day so so kids can walk across straight to go to their to go to their field so um as an example so think about since we would have a full empty site now right next to the high school how do we then utilize that to think about how do we um make sure there's additional space for zeus so high as as opposed to thinking about now we have to put in additional portables so and and and i'm just putting that as a as a suggestion not saying like that needs to happen but short answers i agree yeah i think that's the beauty of azusa high and foothill being so close to each other because i do know also lincoln high school in the canal they you have a school attached not attached but like across the street where we can utilize um a foothill as part of azusa high i know we talked about also the overcrowding you spoke about last time um you know maybe have some classes there and um yeah and and since i number wise i think that one of the best choices and would foothill middle school provide overflow space if we're doing construction we're talking about major upgrades that we you can't limit those only to summer and winter break and i mean they even have pluto even has two parking lots that i didn't even know but they do and yeah and all the teachers are mm-hmm yeah i i think that um you know look looking at um the majority has spoken and um and we are looking forward to having gladstone be the middle school sixth through eighth is what i'm hearing and this is a high becoming the ninth through twelve high school and one of the things that um i i would agree if we're gonna you know asusa high has has not been renovated for a very very those classroom right i mean you walk into i mean we can we can talk about elementaries as well like paramount beautiful on the outside ah inside it's just not open these are things that we're gonna have to take in account as as we're you know moving forward with this and i would agree but hill would have the you know carry the overflow as we're renovating and upgrading asus high now that we are gonna we are gonna make this that one high school um so commentary a board member i i would like to ask as a request to staff if we were to move forward with that with azusa high school as a centralized high school gladstone high school has a centralized middle school what then is needed at each campus and and based on based on what has already been assessed as those campuses have have been walked now knowing if if we were to to assume that that would be the case what are those additional changes and what are the costs associated with those those facilities upgrades on each of those campuses um that that would be is is what is what is the best way to get that from staff we can we can work on on on something uh to assess what facilities wise what might be needed based on this current recommendation so we'll run with the idea azuza high school will be the one high school grassland high school would be the one middle school and then based on that we can do some preliminary audits to say okay based on this here's some things we might want to consider in terms of facilities and maybe there's a considered list and then there's like have to list and what's a what would you say is an appropriate timeline for that turnaround time i'm gonna let natasha weigh in on that one um depending on how um detail we want to be um if we're just saying high level painting asphalt upgrading restrooms vice versa i can get that quickly but if we're literally saying walk the campus and assess it from top to bottom i would need to work with our architects to do a full evaluation and yes i would like to see that yeah if we went that route of the more robust kind of assessment do you have a sense of a general timeline of what that would take i would need to reach out to them first and then i can put that in my board update if i can get a response before on thursday but i can start with brian and we can walk the campus and just assess what we see i mean we could write that update and i think we could do that within a couple of weeks so maybe before thanksgiving seems feasible that'll be our goal based on our our assessment yes sir can i just have a clarification a question is this also including rebranding are we keeping this is a high school the same and i'm just looking for the aesthetics of our campus that's a that's a conversation we need to have right now okay yes board member career your hands fill up with well just just to share my two cents on that yeah i think yeah since you're already yeah brent branding and whatnot yeah i think that's a conversation that we need to have um i'm i'm really interested again to board member regis paying this point what are those things like the parking lot at gladstone street that we that we were not aware of what are those things that would be helpful for us to know that by moving forward in in this direction the additionally associated costs uh that we maybe don't know now so that that's why it would be worthwhile to wait a couple weeks if that was the case to get to get a more robust uh assessment to have a better sense of those additional costs can we have the conversation about rebranding because that that's something we we don't need to wait for a facility yes i'd like to have the conversation about branding of the high school we did have figures on that at one time correct we yes ma'am right or president are you talking about the costs involved or are you talking about whether we would or would not no no not the cost just the conversation on on rebranding um since since we now have decided that right we're keeping a souza high what will the campus at isuza high at 9 through 12 and the gladstone high campus eight sorry six through um i think it would be in you know a really good uh time right now for us to talk about right are we gonna keep the name asus high at the high school are we gonna keep blackstone at the middle school or should we rebrand and make it a whole new name whole new mascot for the middle school and the high school and i think i would like to add the um have the community and even the students you know um be able to select or pick names and include them and also if there is going to be a name change that we should include the community and include students uh you know their input remember both i'm barely agnostic whether or not to keep the names or go to a new name um i'm more interested in what's going to happen on the campuses rather than what we call it and i don't i'm not meaning to sound crass but i'm i'd like to focus our money and our energy on the program my own personal experience i went to one high school for two years and then they built a new high school and they said okay you live in this side of town you stay with your old high school you live on this side of town you go to the new high school so as a junior i went to our new high school and i didn't it didn't have a big impact on me now yes i got to go to new campus but my old campus wasn't old it was you know we went from a 2000 um high school 2000 uh student high school to each high school was then roughly a thousand students and as a part of the junior class we were seniors for two years but was the new school a new name yes because it was a second high school built in my city yeah yes that was the second high school so that's that's some of the only context i have for changing mascots and changing my affiliation during my high school experience it wasn't a major impact for me really um i lost the program but i gained a program right so the sport i played was no longer offered at my high school but we had an another academic program that i participated in at my new high school so um just you know experience of one it didn't have a large impact on me as an individual board member chris gonzalez so i just i'll just put on the table i'm not in favor of changing names of either school i think it just makes sense to keep it i think um aside from just the fiscal responsibility of you know the cost it would it would cost to change the names one of the things to consider is the impact of changing a name on 50 50 plus years of alumni at the schools and the connection that they have to the school if we do create change the name and now suddenly they may not may or may not feel connected to that school so i i'll just put on the table that i'm i i would i would prefer to just keep the names as is and i'll i'll just i'll just put on the table for just just to kind of for people to stew on um yolanda rodriguez pena middle school um but we'll i'll just put it on the table right on come back i love those kids yeah there you go thanks adrian you know one of the things that i hear what the two board members are saying but one of the things that i want to share with the public right now is that my whole childhood during this whole reconfiguration this is emotional for me i do have some emotional attachment but i'm trying to be logical i'm trying to do what is right for this district this is not an easy task and that you know people that you know what you guys you do one high school two high schools you know please watch the videos i cannot share i'm thinking right now right because i wanted to hear from my colleagues i wanted to see the data right i think i think that this question right because we and i'm sharing this right i've been here for a long time i went to the gladstone my my brothers and sisters went to asusa high and i and i and i hear you you know um foreign history right but but i think i i would like to also ask the community what do they think i would like to ask the students not just eight students that have come to a superintendent roundtable or just the parent i would like to ask the community this is a big transition right so we have the rivals gladstone we have a souza right there's some people that would say i would never bring my kids to a souza high school or we have the other ones that i would never right but at the same time what it comes down to is we're going into one middle school we're going into one high school that this is the reality of this and as we're moving forward yes cost wise right it would be and it would be great to keep asusa high and gladstone names but i would like to know what our community thinks and i also feel though in in fairness to the two high schools you know i mean reorganization this is big yes but in fairness i feel that um we can also start fresh you know i mean i make that backlash by that too but you know we need to start fresh we want to start new schools new names new locations it's going to be this is going to include the whole community of azusa so and we're going to start first we should start fresh that's how i feel board member career so one let me i'll push back on on uh both board member rodriguez pena and president just with this thought if as we look at the resources that we have i think we have to ask ourselves the the cost as we assess the cost associated with rebranding and we look at something like uh president obama we talk about a swimming pool if we were if we're looking at we can't have it all like we're gonna have a swimming pool or are we gonna rebrand and maybe that's not a good example because of the cost of the swimming pool but but in essence to to to rebrand it comes at a cost of other things and so i think we just have to ask ourselves um do would we would we forego upgrades and improvements in other areas for the sole purpose of rebranding and that's a that would be difficult for me to fully get behind depending upon what those numbers were you know i i understand what you're saying but i think we have a community to answer to and i i neither did say that that i wanted a rebranding or that i didn't want a rebranding what i'm saying is i think it's important that we get that we ask our community that we ask our parents our our our students because we are going to display some students i think it is important that we include them in this moving forward this is how would that be done mr thing well we did do a survey and again in all fairness one of the questions was not could we rebrand it but rebranding did come up in the survey analysis through the open ended and so we do have data that was organized and synthesized for us and if we just do a quick look at that um i think most of most of what you will see is not in favor of rebranding now again this was not a question about rebranding right this was and most of if you if you see it um most of it is centered around cost like why would we spend this money uh and then there are some um i think to some about uh if we rename then that's the the whole thing about the alumni and tradition um there's some of that as well mr well do you have the your memo on the rebranding cost i can pull that up right now i have it up um heard on the screen uh yes me create that one over um a little bigger yes ma'am now um if i'm not mistaken this was for the middle school and i think this is the high school here correct starting right there 1.8 million well no it's not 1.8 for rebranding that's correct that's everything included yeah so just for for rebranding 110 for the turf overlay right so it's not the whole the whole field but we do need to redo the turf overlay and then possible athletic equipment and or uh you know uniforms uh banned and all that um again these are just um projections but at one high school or were you talking about um this is one high school in them okay so then the middle school would have to double the same correct right right yeah but to be clear this this table new branding is the logos on the sides of buildings the marquee sort of the the the sign right the gym floor it's the taking up the parquet and having a new logo on the hardwood floor right because we and we just put in new floors is that correct no the correction the gym floor is including the logo and a new gym floor both gym floors need to be modernized would it be modernized at gladstone high school in it was it bleachers it was bleachers both high schools not the floors okay so so just so to be clear you're talking removing lockers and kitchen those are the only two it's around it's about 1.2 million per high school yesterday okay 2.4 for two sites potentially so i'll just add again um now that we're actually looking at some of those numbers i it makes me uncomfortable to look at spending 2.4 million dollars for the purposes of rebranding because that you know in order to do that we are forgoing substantive upgrades to facilities on on across the across the district yeah now that i see the numbers yeah i i do i don't think that financially that we should um spend that on on the two of high schools then we could use it in other um programs or repair because i know i do know like i said we're going to have unforeseen things that need to be done um just like we did the last time we should use that money on on that and just for clarity um i i would i would say that it's 1.8 uh the 2.4 is we're adding the gym floors and the gym floors um we are proposing whether they're with the lean logo or with the old logo that's probably something that we should look at redoing because they need to be redone so if we just take the new branding the 235 the the overlay uh which is a 110 so call it uh 350 plus the 500 850 times two so 1.6 1.7 i'm sorry i would also like to throw in the locker room if you've walked into gladstone's locker room where those are ancient like about a thousand persons we would still need you know and then as we're as we're looking forward to um we would like i mean a souza hype would need some lights for friday night lights as well i mean it's we can if we're going to stay with you know if we're not going to go rebranding and you've already said the data speaks for itself there's other possibilities that you know we we can upgrade our our high school and make it a state of the art school competing with our surrounding district but even at glaston high school though you will still have to change high school right the word high school the market and some of the meanings but wherever there's just a local g we can keep that but anywhere that has the word high school printed yes that would have been would it be changed to middle school if that was the desire of the board yes so it seems like the majority um would like to go ahead and not go with the rebranding yes right right yes okay and that's what i'm hearing and so superintendent uh cabinet that's what the board has decided is to keep the names of asusa high school and gladstone middle school it would be change the buck middle school so the as we're looking for um as we're looking into the mascots ford would you like to go ahead and continue with the same mascot since the i think it makes sense to keep the statement right they they have their the gladiators on there and the aztecs on that is a highway and i i see the majority so that would be the same as we're moving forward with this here um and we're making this as a high the high school and gladstone high school into the middle school and keeping the name and keeping the mask up one of the things that i would like to go ahead and um would like um as we're looking into the programs right some of these programs such as and i'm just throwing this out there i i don't know if this like the baseball team right at azusa high or gladstone uh the football team band poor band they they're their outfits are like they're old i mean that's something that we also need to invest in as you know they just got them oh god was it gladstone azusa has a couple of years ago has new uniforms and i'm not sure about gloves but we're going to have a middle school band so that's something also too you know looking at those programs being able to invest in with this reconfiguration being able to invest in these programs that they have adequate equipment that they have added you know uniform our students deserve this any more comments on the middle school and high school remember both i'm looking at our next couple of meetings mr mall how quickly can you pull together a five-year projected budget based on just the changes we've talked about so consolidated middle school consolidated one one comprehensive high school um and add in line adding in light items for some of these specialized programs that we have on the cost of considerations adding in transportation um what does that timeline look like to look at a five-year projected budget i think that's that's the next piece okay you know we're getting consensus around big parts of programs and some of the site where does that land uh i'm just making sure i understand so we're saying for me to identify all the plans and costs that we will need and then you want me to divide that over the next five years to obtain it or am i just what is what is the five year projected budget the district's operating budget assuming all of these changes happened july 1st okay i think i'm not following i'm sorry if you could say it a different way so um when you present us the budget we look at our three-year budget so we have the current year year is year one year two is the next year year three is the following year when you do the the the first interim and the second interval right so i'm asking for that kind of presentation with a five instead of three year a five year i mean we're we're looking at we're entering into this conversation about school organization one major consideration is fiscal responsibility so as we make these changes to sites and staffing and programs we have to be grounded in what's our budget going to look like in five years are we going to be able to sustain these programs that we're talking about but based on our current funding i can give you a five-year budget we have a actually a six-year nyp already drafted so that would you like me to show but that would not account for any planned expenditures because right now we would plan to use that as a bond funding let me try to say it a different way uh so we have a six year nyp that's based on our current situation right now with 17 schools right but now we know that there's going to be only one high school and one middle school how does that affect the sixth year nyp because now we don't have two high schools and three middle schools correct yes and you know we've looked at some big line items like whether it's 2.5 or 2.8 for transportation i mean we haven't talked about transportation in detail but that's a number that should be incorporated into this to see what it looks like if that's that the highest most conservative projection for transportation and then adding in some of these other costs for example for continuing with dual immersion for implementing the ib at an elementary and at the middle school these costs are already identified but layering them into the projection so it will be helpful and this is just me speaking um so we're not overstating to truly identify what schools will be closing so i can also count that as a savings otherwise i would just be saying okay these are the costs that we need right now for these two schools but everything else will remain whole and i don't think that's what our plan is i don't want to overstate and give inflated numbers but if i knew exactly how many schools would be remaining even if we just say there will be x number elementary we know there's one middle there's one high school then we can look at staff and i would have to work in collaboration with jorge to say okay what will be the savings of staffing will be the savings on programs how much would we have to invest in each program that we're identifying so i can get that but i don't have enough information at this time to produce that i think it's in our best interest then as a board to have that conversation right now i mean we're asking you know we're this is what we have two more meetings and that's it so i think it's in our best interest to talk about these so one of the things that um that we're looking into it is the that we decided is not to have any date at least we know that um one of the things one of the um we have uh we have two elementaries um here which is the second uh because i only see one element here we have two which is ellington and lee and just as again this context the reason there's all incidentally there this came from the school reorganization team that's the only reason right that's that's what i was um looking at this right so you guys need to give me a minute i would i foreign that this is what came forward um you know from the from the reorganization team but again every person who i've spoken to was a part of the reorganization team though they were complicit in the final result i've heard no one uh expressed that they were you know extremely excited about the about the model entirely with that being said um i really think it's incumbent on us as a as a board to to do what we can to ensure that we're not kicking this can down the road so that five years later 10 years later we're needing to have this conversation again when we have the data that already communicates what's what's coming down um you know the pike here with with that being said with as we currently have uh i like two schools that are on the list it puts us at a at a i guess i don't have the final numbers because we have to make make some adjustments but it puts us in the low 70s um if i'm not mistaken the low 70s in regards to capacity and that will just continue to decrease as time goes goes on i think that there that we need to seriously consider at least at least one additional elementary school that we would consolidate um as well um so that we're not we're not needing to revisit this or put it on to the next iteration of the board to revisit this in x number of years [Music] i'd like to revisit my my previous request about the assets at each site but looking at the number of classrooms the auxiliary spaces and also the acreage so when i look at a district map i'm looking at schools in the north the south the east the west looking at if we are consolidating to something like a seven to to reach 70 75 80 capacity how do we ensure that we have room to grow in 20 years when enrollment comes back and that's why i wanted to ask about acreage right what would be our capacity to build up or to add portables or to build out on some of the larger site and that's something that i like to have a better understanding of before looking at just seat capacity per campus and maybe mr ortega or anyone here if you have a sense of which are the larger campuses so not just from a seat perspective but which are the the camp elementary campuses that have more land are there campuses that are landlocked or we could not expand are the campuses where we could expand board member vote you're also talking about fields correct where we can put portables and so forth right okay i mean just as a quick reaction i think um we are very blessed that our schools uh are large are on large properties i'm trying to think of the top of my head right now um i mean every school that i think of i mean we have i mean they are they're in terms of land um we are very fortunate that we do have uh big uh parcels of land again i'm trying to think of i'm trying to run through the elementary schools right now and every elementary school that i can think of has ginormous amounts of land and they do i can testify to that i've been to every school site and do their outside activities and we have plenty i mean if a student goes and plays you might lose them that they're so far at the other end i mean seriously i mean all the schools that they're like they're they're huge so that's one lens and i'd still like to see the the numbers all the land and they're all like and the second lens is what's the status of modernization at our elementary school are there some schools that have been more modernized are there schools that have had zero modernization so as we choose sites to remain open and invest in or sites that we've recently installed or upgraded what does that look like so one of the questions was asked if we did modernization at the elementary school i know that for a fact we did magnolia there was some at odds um and so the there's just um foothill had a full-on makeover full a brand new uh pe locker room from strat um so there's a lot of i know that there's um there's documentation where everything you could what which i've seen it before um where there is duck uh daddy's uh what has been done at every school what is what you know what is the potential um uh modernization they're waiting for and so and that is true and then for most of our elementaries um their modernization included underground utilities um hvac so not so much of the aesthetic um some could have been roofing um but with that i would i mean i will still provide the report but all of our facilities need to be upgraded all of our facilities need to be modernized so no matter what school we select it would be at the point that they all would have to be touched at this time one of the things that i i wanted to bring up was um you know one of the projections that has led us to where we are now right is the birth rate so people are not having six to ten kids like them right or even four kids nowadays you're not having four kids i have four kids we have four kids right but we're the exception as we look forward to i i think it's um you know as we look forward to when we look at this production right one of the things that i heard you say board member beau correct me if i'm wrong is that you would like to keep not go to three elementaries because the possibility of um you know uh birth or or having the extra room for additional for it for something that we may need right growth bro i'd like to consider you know what is our target if if board member agree if 70 is for 70 capacity you feel is too low what is the right number and how many schools you know if we close one more elementary school would that get 75 for capacity i mean what does that look like incrementally and and what is the cost savings we're trying to achieve i remember one of my first board meetings we looked at a projection and i think it was at the time looking out for years we were going to go over a 13 million dollar cliff so is that what we're that's what i'm trying to get to so if by making these changes are we also ensuring that we're realizing the cost savings to do it um yes the quick answer is yes um so this will take a collaboration on on all parts um we would need to ensure that based on the school that we're closing how we eliminate that um we're being strategic about the staff that we are keeping is based to fill need or future programs so that will take um that's a comprehensive plan but that is ultimately our goal so one of the questions was that what does the projection look like if we were to go ahead and close three elementaries right instead of two right here we're looking at two and if we can identify which tools then i can upgrade the capacity what's been right which one 73.71 capacity for model three yes one tka model three one tka do we have a sense from other districts that have consolidated schools what what capacity they landed on i on a low end the percentage has always been 75 percent um but when you start at 75 percent in your decline enrollment district you're quickly going to drop beyond that so the rule of thumb will be typically to try to get your school size to have a capacity of 85 percentage so that way you can project out what programs you're going to implement to attract students versus that decline coming right back to you and you're being below 75 and the projection um we don't have it in front of us but the projection in in what is it four years our enrollment here in our district was gonna be under was it four thousand i would have to get that i don't believe it's that low not four thousand i'm gonna share my screen if if it's helpful uh this is from an um a prior worksheet and so if we wanted to again uh punch in numbers this in a live manner uh would change your capacity right now this is the way it looks like uh from the school reorganization team so you see ellington and lee there at the at the bottom but again in a live manner we could change these changes around and i think these are even older older numbers this is this is now that i'm looking at this this was by when we started so if i was to update them um on our 10-year demographic um for president in four years our projected enrollment is six six one nine six six one nine yes ma'am okay thank you that's looking at twenty three twenty four i guess so 24 25 we're looking at six four two one maybe this is not working that's an old one i try sorry mr ortega would you be able to help us prepare that these worksheet with the different scenarios with the current data and looking at how we can get to 85 capacity yes remember career yeah that similar to that that was going to be my question if what if 85 capacity was our target then then what would that mean by way of school close consolidations or or you know we have two that are on the list is that three three schools at four schools um that were we're consolidating the others to get us at 85.

president uh attending from my home in ann arbor thank you vice chair coleman garcia carlene coleman garcia um from ann arbor great uh councilmember briggs here in ann arbor thank you councilmember radina here in ann arbor thank you commissioner mccoy here in ann arbor awesome thank you so much uh commissioner oh pause i'm sorry commissioner george is in the waiting room so we'll come back to him in a second just moved him over uh commissioner carver president from here in ann arbor thank you commissioner hello everybody i'm here in ann arbor at my home great thank you commissioner juno president from my home in ann arbor thank you commissioner stevenson here in ann arbor and commissioner george uh here in uh delta township uh ingham county awesome uh chamberski you have a quorum you are also on mute thank you yeah so thanks very much thanks everybody for attending next time the agenda is the approval of the agenda uh i believe it was mailed out wednesday of last week hopefully everybody's had a chance to look at it as well as our meeting materials can i get a motion to approve the agenda so moved by uh krishna cleavy second by council member briggs any discussion all in favor say aye or raise your hand i all that's uh looks like it's unanimous so no no nays and no abstentions so that passes um so um next we have approval of the minutes and the minutes are posted to legistar um hopefully everybody's had a chance to look at those as well any um well first of all a motion to approve the minutes council member briggs second by council member radina any discussion seeing no discussion all those in favor of approving the minutes say aye or raise your hand i looks unanimous again thank you very much so that brings us to public input this is an opportunity for persons to speak for up to three minutes if if you are watching on ctn call 888-788-0099 four eight seven seven eight five three five two four seven and enter meeting id number nine three seven six seven five one six eight one nine as i mentioned this mentioned this information is also displayed on the meeting agenda in the video feed city staff will select callers that have raised their hand one by one using the last three digits of your phone number in order to electronically raise your hand to indicate your desire to speak please press star 9 on your phone you will hear an automated message that the host is allowing you to speak when speaking please move to a quiet place mute any television or background sounds so that you we may hear you clearly so please state your name and address at the beginning of your comments do we have any callers we do and just very quickly i see commissioner levin is on the line and if you can hear us great i can't move him over it looks like he's only on the phone so i can't move into the panel uh so i just wanted to acknowledge he's he's with us um thank you yeah for public comment caller uh ending in 998 hi can you hear me yes we do okay great um hello my name is zachariah farah i'm a senior at the university of michigan ann arbor and i live at 2-2-2-2 fuller court you've probably you may or may not remember me from calling in a few times the energy commission on the issue of public power and establishing public power utility and i'm calling in today just to say that i'm very happy that the idea of an seu is being proposed i think it's a terrific idea and i i really hope that it will uh encourage business owners and residents to invest in in solar panels for their properties i think it's again a great idea i know that i'm speaking from my own personal experience like my family won't invest in solar panels because there's there's not that financial incentive because they can't sell it back to the grid because of um the pretty absurd laws we have in this state but um hopefully the sdu will be able to solve that in certain areas of our city um i'm also calling to uh to thank the the sponsors and the authors of this resolution that's going to be considered today at the resolution recommending uh the municipal utility feasibility visibility study um i'm really happy that this is finally uh being will be voted on by the energy commission we've been calling in for since i think february i think you would probably know better than than i would but um you got to listen to it after all so i am i want to say i've never really seen such a movement in the city with so much enthusiasm and widespread support um we really want answers uh establishing a public power utility and so i i do have a couple concerns about this resolution though although i'm very supportive of the of the resolution overall um first of all you know like i said we've been calling it for a long time and i i'm wondering when this feasibility study might be finished because we know that once we have the answers to our questions we need to act quickly we are running out of time to um to have some serious policy change in the city um and uh if this takes too long i'm concerned that we're not going to have enough time to actually go go and implement some of these things and that kind of brings me to my second point which is that in the second resolved clause five different policies i believe are our limit are mentioned there um again i'm very supportive of an seu um i'm very supportive of looking into public power but i'm kind of confused why uh my green power program is listed here i mean that's a dte 30 seconds program and we know it's insufficient we know that's not going to get us to where we need to go so i'm just wondering you know that there doesn't seem to be a cap on the scope of this feasibility study especially because it says including but not limited to so i'm afraid i guess i'm just concerned that if this feasibility study doesn't have a limited and defined scope that we're going to be waiting for a very long time to get the answers that we need uh and again we're running out of time so uh thank you very much for considering this resolution uh the last thing i'd like to say is one question i've been getting a lot is will a public power utility okay that's it thank you very much thank you for calling in and sharing your thoughts caller ending in 171.

this is the energy generation side and um you know i think we we need to do a bunch of these things so i i guess i wouldn't support that i also have a comment about the resolve thing that started this i can come back around or i can do that now go ahead so um i think um i'm in favor of of us looking at the options that we have before us because i don't see of the 41 utilities municipal utilities that are out there and the models that we have that any of them meet the the goals that we're trying to achieve um and if you look at the history of them most of them were were done because there wasn't service available to them or it was an economic consideration but in large part um you know the decision was was financial we're we're looking at an emissions based decision tree here um trying to figure out how we can um you know zero out our emissions at the same time maintains levels of prosperity and all the other things that we're doing so to narrow this down to when we're going to look at two options i think or hurts us i think we need to look at how the options fit together so i'll just use myself as an example i have solar panels on my house but i don't generate sufficient energy because of my poorest foresight to be able to meet 100 of my electrical needs so i meet the rest of my green needs by buying power through my green power so between the combination of my green power and my solar systems i get 100 um i think we're going to need to to understand all of these options how they fit together at some point we may want to you know we got a 20 megawatt uh solar system up the street we're putting in boulder colorado showed us one thing that as you start moving down this track you get more leverage and perhaps we could induce dte to offer that to us through their migraine power at a reasonable and competitive discount that would meet our needs at some point or buy it outright or whatever but to say we don't need to look at anything but you know these two options traditional municipalization and scu and that's it i think we're we're cutting off our notices spider face um there's movement on on uh you know community choice aggregation there's there's movement on that last week there's movement on you know how we would do if we would need power purchase agreements or virtual power agreements if dte throws up a bunch of barriers virtual power is an issue we're going to have to understand this and it's part of the of the cost so to to me i think saying we're saying here you know we need to look at a20 energy related emission reduction and clean energy goals that should be driving this and these are the options that we have in front of us traditional municipal seu but all these other things are out there as well my green power itself we need to be able to unleash the innovation side of this program and let us come up with the optimum mix of these things so i'm not in favor of saying oh we're not going to look at these other things because it'll slow it down i you know i'm with chuck i think we need to be thorough and if something if next week something happens on community choice segregation that changes this thing a bit i want to have the i would be really mad if we say well we're not going to look at that we're going to go as fast as we can on this other model because we've agreed to that and we limited ourselves i'm not for limited in fact i'd be open to saying you know the combination of these and other options that impact us in the future i would expect that that missy and her team would look at all options and leave no stone unturned so i you know i appreciate the the drive to you know make this as simple as possible and get it done so we can you know hit the deadline which for for the election november but that's not my limitation my limitation is a two zero that's what i think should be driving us thank you um i think council member dina was next and then edie or right after thank you chair mursky um i'm gonna follow that up by by agreeing um almost entirely with with commissioner cleavy and in part with commissioner huckamaldo i also wouldn't support separating this out um i i as i read and and i welcome kind of other commissioner's thoughts because it seems that others maybe are interpreting this differently but as i read that second resolved clause i took it as as exactly what commissioner cleavy was suggesting which was that you know this is a complicated issue and there are likely going to be multiple solutions that we need to undertake in order to achieve our a20 goals it's not just going to be one that solves all of our problems and and so what i'm looking for in in particular as i look at kind of the second half of that first result clause what what our goals are in undertaking this feasibility study with an emphasis on the cost to power the utility with 100 renewable energy um the assessment of the quality of those assets and to repair and replace um all of those things um what we may come back with is a recommendation that there is a combination of these things that gets us there and and i think that's what this that final phrase there in the second result resolved clause emphasizes for me is we are truly interested in getting an answer on what is the best solution for ann arbor to get to 100 renewable and decarbonization by 2030.

currently the mortality rate for children under 18 is less than 0.01 which is less than the figure the cdc goes on their website for the mortality rate of the seasonal flu in the same age bracket before this pandemic if any of you suggested that kids need to quarantine for 10 days if they were near someone with the flu should have been laughed out of this room the fact of the matter is here to stay we need to stop making decisions based on the nonsensical proposition that we can end covet completely it's time to stop asking those of us who simply follow the data and believe in actual science to acquiesce to those who make decisions based on the opinions of cable news pundits and their political agendas we cannot continue to quarantine every student for 10 days just because they came in contact with someone who's tested positive um we need to have an alternative that allows our kids to stay in school back in may this board listed among its chief priorities maintaining local control i believe that it's time for you to exercise that priority the purpose of my comments here tonight are to ask this board to make a local provision allowing kids who have been determined to have close contact been given the option to take a coveted test and allowed to stay in school if that test is negative thank you thank you sir members of the board and community members my name is gene hughes i live at 2398 east glen canyon i'm here to speak about agenda item number 12a under new business if the arizona school boards association proposed by launch changes and vote authorization and first of all i want to thank you the board for again providing documentation with every meeting agenda i applaud your efforts and your transparency i read every bit of the information before coming to any meeting that i come to and i strongly encourage everyone else to do so to help us all be a little bit more educated about what's going on in schools the recommended action on the arizona school boards association proposal by law change is stated as follows in the agenda this is not on the printed agenda you have to go into the online agenda to get all this information but it's all there so the recommended action is and i quote motion to consider and give direction to the district secretary on voting on one by-law change proposal and one core belief addition to the arizona school boards association your rationale and the attached documentation explain the bylaw change very well however i was unable to determine what is proposed as the core belief edition so i researched the arizona school boards association website as well as the national school boards association website but was unable to find any information on what is this core belief edition being proposed maybe you have it somewhere but i usually look over everything well always look over everything you've got very carefully couldn't find it but i did find troubling information on both those websites for the arizona school boards association and the national school boards association including a letter from the national school boards association to president bike [Music] and based on what i saw on these websites my curiosity about this core belief edition has really turned into fear and concern so i would ask you today that when you get to discuss the core belief edition that you please explain it to us and i urge your careful consideration discussion and making a decision that is in the best interest of all students in arizona not some politically motivated agenda thank you anderson good evening or community members my name is angie anderson i live at 428 west paseo solana in the heart of green valley at la canada and esperanza i'm here tonight to oppose the asba bylaws change being voted on and urge a no vote although the asba board of directors recommends a yes vote i believe that rather than singling out certain people for special treatment the change to the bylaws does nothing to renew our commitment to all people to a more perfect union dividing people into tribes causes weakness uniting people causes strength and a better understanding of the human condition when we are united there is nothing we cannot achieve we know that discrimination is among the most despicable injustices imaginable what concerns most parents is what's best for their kids they want an education climate free from bigotry and intolerance as adults we lead by example i'm sure this school and governing board want to achieve the same goals as parents and grandparents thank you all for doing the hard work necessary to ensure we have a healthy and mature population capable of success finally uh mr papariz come on down [Music] my son is a former student here and i've had the privilege of working with all these lovely board members over the years but i have something really happy to see a little happiness hi kids um if for all those that read our local school paper or not school paper but green valley news you probably noticed over the last month there's this thing called the reader's pick award and they have all these different businesses and whatnot they have one special category called the best teacher on the planet i got to nominate that teacher and then go out and trash the seed streets and try to get votes for that teacher and that teacher lost no machine yeah anyhow know more about that the teacher in question is our very own empty banning so very speech but it only took 30 years come on i'm very honored um i i really wish we had won the best place to work because really this is the best school um to work at i've been here for a long time and i hope it continues so um the is nominate a staff member to receive the men's bell award every month and mrs fanning always has a lot of little post-it notes about how wonderful and amazing she is and students in high school attest to the great work that miss fighting has done in preparing them for math and future in college so we do have the very best so thank you so much okay next we have our superintendent report as a reminder this is a report so there are no uh no questions on them okay good evening president members of the board and community students staff and parents thank you for being here today just want to keep in the forefront our mission statement and boys and girls you see this everywhere it's there on the wall teachers see it in our nether heads it's in our website continental school district will provide a community environment in which all individuals are challenged to achieve excellence in academics character and life skills our vision statement building for the future learning cooperating and caring for all theme of the year is focused on the big rocks as you all know we are very excited to let everybody know that we did our first teaching and learning learning walks which i really feel this is the work that's going to move us forward and increase student achievement in a learning walk staff members we go into classrooms and there's a leadership team so you'll see in the picture on the right hand side everyone that was there about five or six adults go into a classroom observe the teacher and the students for 15 to 20 minutes we leave and we come back and we discuss um best practices and obviously there's a rubric of sheet of water form that we go through we go back into the classroom and we give feedback not only to the teacher but to specific students for their behaviors and their vocabulary and their actions in terms of meeting standards so what we are going to do in december is split up and divide and conquer and this time we observe three teachers so the next three rotations will observe six teachers so every teacher will have a chance to be visited and be on the observing side to see best practices throughout our school so we can develop a common knowledge and on teaching and learning and expectations for our students and our staff um conferences meetings and trainings i attended the yamapak strategic planning board meeting in phoenix and amma pack is working on college completion for all students so it really is talking about what can elementary schools middle schools and high schools do better to prepare students for college success and at continental the avid work that we've implemented this year is truly for that purpose to really build college college readiness for students we also talked about college academies for parents i'm getting parents to understand better understand college and university life to help their students the asa conference we were at we i went to a session on the international center for leadership and education which is model schools and discussion of rigor the highlight was talking about data teams and the collection of data in all classrooms to determine instruction and goals which again ties into the learning walks that we are doing october november i've been presenting love and logic to parents um here at our school we have 10 to 12 parents who are coming i also volunteered to do some parenting classes in rio rico at umandi middle school again talking about our crawling quality world picture our laugh needs which are the love and belonging achievement fun and freedom and we talk about the three types of parents the helicopters the drill sergeants and the consultants so um i will offer another parenting session in the spring it will work this one is during the day and i'll offer one in the evening so we can hopefully also learn common knowledge because teachers use how to turn their words into gold for school and we also teach how to turn words into gold for uh home asa executive board meeting in dear valley was yesterday and the word of the day was paused because we're pausing on essence requirements things are changing at the state level and superintendents and school teams are trying to stay ahead of the game but they keep changing things so it was just pause and across arizona all districts are struggling with the lack of substitute teachers and bus drivers so we feel very fortunate that we are fully stacked right now with our drivers our substitutes we do have substitutes a lot of districts are using esser funds to help um to post positions for teachers to help close the achievement gap increase learning and there they don't have applicants so we have the funding but we don't have applicants for teachers and subs and drivers in arizona so it's a state struggle enrollment update we're steady so we put this in every board meeting so you can see where we are in terms of enrollment so we are at 656 students today and at the end of 1920 school year we were at 696 so we're still down about 33 students what i wanted to share this attendance update based on 656 enrolled students pre-k a so when we later on in the agenda we'll be discussing covid cases and number of students who have had to quarantine and isolate and what that looks like but what i'd like and everyone to see here is week one the first week of school so you can see we had 92 attendance of our students our goal is 90 or better every week and we just broke this down for fridays because usually fridays is when parents want to take off and have three day weekends or so we are looking at fridays but you'll see the number of students that we had we had 47 students out that first week of school and three were in isolation and five were a quarantine so there were 39 extra kids absent week one that were non-covered related okay week two and i'm not going to go through the whole chart but you can see week two we had 93 students absent and 28 of the students were out due to covid or quarantine so we had 65 additional students out so you can see on the weeks we have 65 71 54 65 41 students who are out on a regular basis i highlighted in red because those are the weeks that we are not at 90 attendance or better so we really have to work at getting our kids to school in order to close the achievement gap um if they're not here during the day they're not here for after school tutorials we are having our first saturday school on this saturday that and we've identified some students but we really do need our parents to understand that we really do need kids in school via their rotary birthday books again cults appreciate rotary's continuous support for our school and students so we used to do monthly birthday books and we combined the kids by semesters and it really is nice because kids get to interact with other kids not just two or three at a time as they're talking about books and picking their books so again thank you to vaiverde rotary for birthday books for students our foundation mark your calendar sweetheart ayla saturday february 12th we are looking for sponsors and silent auction items so any of you know any business partners or have brands who are willing to help sponsor the gita or provide items for sign an auction we greatly appreciate it we will also have our jazz band performing and may have some of our students our art club's art worked up so it really is a good time also um our continental foundation submitted and received a grant from the greater green valley foundation to finish our outdoor musical playground so our foundation really does amazing work for our students as well as providing many grants for teachers for additional items that they may need in their classrooms student advisory meetings and let's talk here's our student advisory kids um we had talked about at our first meeting in october the fact that they wanted um in september they really wanted to build up our kindness efforts at our school so we had a plan to make kind be kind posters that you'll see hanging around our school and we do have middle school students middle school advisory and other students attending the let's talk youth development day this friday in sao anita that will have us give our students a chance to discuss school life how they're feeling any issues or concerns they have really talking about how things are going academically and socially emotionally avid parent dinner we introduced um avid to our parents and we did have i believe 10 parents out of a lot of kids i don't know how many total avid kids we have but we know we have at least 40 in the middle school and each grade level has an avid teacher but we introduced wicker which is writing inquiry comprehension organization and rigor parents shared the number of we asked who how many were college graduates we talked about how many were first generation college graduates spoke to students about how many had been to the u of a do they know about nau they've heard about it the kids have never been there asu so we really are going to promote college and career going culture and take our avid middle school students to do site college visits locally and um at asu and nau so stay tuned and our aauw women are here and we want to thank them again for the chromebooks that they provided for our students we did a little video that will tell the story so [Music] thousand dollars [Music] and that conversation started with our students named chrome and that 500 donation that amuw made because of the amazing efforts of the aauw women's game we are so excited that the 500 donation grew to 27 000 it was a true testament and the collaborative efforts of our community and of the organizations that support continental and we're looking forward to the aaw women supporting us through tutoring for reading and math with the students on their cookbooks so we are very grateful thank you i'll start with just a simple conversation it was a conversation what can aauw do to help out the schools and that conversation started with our students need chromebooks and that 500 donation that aauwm was able to give us with the community involvement group over 27 000 so we're able to provide chromebooks for our kindergarten and first grade students so thank you [Music] stand over here for a minute [Applause] but once they get on they know how to use the program and we will continue hopefully by end holiday season beginning of new year they will be able to log on themselves uh [Music] okay can i have our wonderful age of young women please stand up can be the spokesperson family art night very well attended we had 192 students and parents at 10 a special thank you to our foundation as well for providing 50 to each teacher for their art projects so there's some of the projects that were displayed we had our middle school kids with mr boyce make the sugar skulls and it was very interactive we interacted we had a lot of students doing great art projects trunk or treat and halloween carnival we have an amazing ptc and outstanding community support thank you trick or treat we had preschool kids kinder and first graders come to our hallways to trick-or-treat there's some of our preschool students a few pictures of our colts in action our coaching staff and students rock there's our cheerleaders and our basketball players again as a reminder this is information only not an opportunity for questions but if anybody would like to see anything presented please let me let me know or let this monika know so we can get in on a future agenda and again thank you if the big rocks don't go in first they aren't going to fit in later and message that i read today and one of the articles that i read was stop getting distracted by things that have nothing to do with your goals are you filled up so we'll stay the keep the state of course then keep focused on teaching and learning so thank you very much good evening governing board and continental committee we appreciate you coming out real quick i'm going to break script i am the last thing standing between these kids and their moment and i have two presentations so kiddos go ahead and stand up real quick stand up reach down and touch your toes we just won't touch the sky all right sorry but it's been a long time for these kiddos already so um with that i'm gonna make my presentations as quick as possible [Music] so the first thing i'm going to talk about is our first quarter sports um flag football we had 42 total athletes girls volleyball we had 45 total athletes cross country we had 33 total athletes with a total of 120 total athletes participating in first quarter sports keep in mind we do not have a big middle school that is super impressive numbers so we're very very excited with that um as we were able to share very freshly after we run these at the last board meeting our girls volleyball team ended up traveling to take a birthday and winning second place so great year coming off of children for them and then our girls cross country team ended up taking first place down at rio rico so that's the fun part of my job now the quarter disciplinary report for first quarter the continental staff is using surgery to report infractions odrs is an office discipline referral and minor referrals are represented in this report we had a total of 30 infractions for just quarter watch for kindergarten three grade 18 minors both majors the results of some of those were one student one day in school suspension six students out of school suspension minute is 21 days okay we're working really hard and keeping all of our kids in because of having to quarantine them so we we are working hard to keep all of our students on campus as much as possible the one thing i'd like to add to that as well we're really excited this year we've been able to bring back the cold box store that our ptc moms have been helping with that's a motivation for the students to get cold for their positive behavior for being kind safe and responsible and at the end of the month they get to cash that in for a prize okay works a lot like you see at the different pizza places in town as far as those prices and it really motivates the kids to do good things my next presentation is future growth plans so this is something that we're really we were actually asked at the last board meeting by mrs keith to share about what our plans are moving forward what thoughts do we have as our community continues to grow around us and we get more and more students that don't know so our strategic planning future growth according to the sfb the school facilities board based on square footage continental will be at a capacity of 1148 students okay that number is not what we're predicting we're going to be in a year or two that's what the facility board requires before they will give us funding to build a new school okay it's that number our current enrollment enrollment is in including preschool on tuesday august 17th the administration team met with mayor murphy to discuss discuss growth and demographic study 20 years out so they talked about what our community will look like in that we really ask the the question sarita seems to be growing very rapidly what is that going to look like for us and essentially they're going to start even in the next couple of years developing some of those concord shirts that are more to the north around the town of syria but we're looking at the bakan orchards down here 15 to 20 years out before we actually see development of homes in the majority to the full capacity is what we're being told by many of her we're continuing to explore land owned by continental to consider future site which we do own approximately 20 acres in madera highlands madera highlands project growth is approximately 660 homes with an increase of about 30 percent of kindergarten for 8th grade and 21 increase of grades 9 through 12 within the next three to five years approximately 211 additional students kindergarten adding one teacher per grade level so right now our current campus um kindergarten through fifth grade we actually have four classrooms with our build out that we did about six seven years ago and we're using three of those currently so we have one extra room in each pod however the special education department we are using each of those rooms to house our special education as you'll see a little bit further that is a concern that we'll talk about approximate student enrollment total 867 281 students below sfb capacity okay so that's kind of where projected growth is at for now issues of concern lack of available classrooms lack of elementary gym currently taking up space in the middle school so our elementary students are currently meeting in two classrooms we have the dividers where the elementary pe is housed in those two rooms expanding special education services and programs needed parking on current campus as many of you know if you were here for the truck retreat we were parked i think a mile down the road and so we're we're having some ideas we're working on that as well and then of course transportation as we go we have to think about our transportation we're looking at freeing up existing classrooms by creating space for specialists okay we're also in the middle school two classrooms being used by the elementary pe one classroom being used by ell an academic and behavior support teacher in elementary one class in each plot is currently being used for special education to solve that problem we've talked about things that we may need to do in the next anywhere from like three to six years is build a resource building as original plan call for when you can't build or build a new preschool and move special education into the current move the preschool to another site for location that we already own property owners also another idea is to convert the bus barn into an elementary gym and we'll talk more about that as well so resource building um four to six small classrooms office is needed so what i was talking about before where um this part next to the fifth grade product was actually not built out during our our original build which was designed to house the special education department which is now in those class that extra classroom in each room next slide the bus barn currently is 60 feet by 80 feet um 12 feet by 12 feet office is also in there and a 12 by 12 storage so we would look at making that taking half the bus barn and making half of it for our elementary gym and then the other half would still be used for fixing buses our maintenance department and things like that keep in mind this is just a not a guarantee that we're doing these things this is a suggestion to overcome the growth that we're experiencing here's an example alter valley which is out of three points arizona converted their bus bar into a jam it was built in 1994 the floor was approximately 100 dollars and the entire cost was about three hundred twenty thousand dollars for the building process ours we're we've already asked a contractor he's coming in two weeks to give us a quote as always we'll go out for three different bids on that but we're just interested to see what ours would be we're only looking at doing as you can see that's actually as i want to say we have three full-size basketball courts in that bus barn we're looking at it would be about one and a half um so quite a bit smaller they added four swank coolers the price is important um they were put in several years ago for about twenty thousand dollars the prices of this may go up because the cost of construction materials and things have gone up so we're looking forward to having that first contractor bid so we have an idea of what that would cost needed parking on current campus this is obviously a big concern we've looked at a couple different things here so south of white house canyon road we actually own three acres so our lot is in a big square and it actually comes across most people don't realize this but right across the street we own three acres in the shape of a triangle okay so we talked about what would it take if we did that um and made it even temporary parked in this moment but then our concern was we still have people trying to cross white house camping so we're looking at this right here which is about one acre of playing and clearing that out and for the time being even if it was just a dirt block when we have a big christmas concerts when we have um the trunk or treat or those activities that makes it safer for our community because we're not part you know like i said a good mile down the road um so that's something we're actually looking at very quickly and we're already working with the county and getting the proper permitting just to clear that land and then future development later on could be possibly paving it with asphalt things of that nature but right now just having the dirt bot for available parking would be much safer than our current system okay how do you kids and she can come and meet with me as well if she'd like to make an appointment that can go over with that now for the best part of the meeting for sure i'd like to introduce our goal for the month come on up okay all of our students with the white slip come on up here we're going to do preschool at the front and our middle schoolers eighth grade in the back so three screens right here kindergarten right here yes thank you [Music] if there are any quotes of the month that showed up a little later your slip is back there you can go see miss monica and get in the line and then colts of the months do i have your attention up here if i could have your attention after we read the beautiful messages from your teachers you're gonna go back there to miss molina see she's waving your hat she's gonna give you a shirt and a coupon for a free ice cream from our wonderful posada java and then you're gonna come back and and stand over here by the wall because at the end we're gonna take a picture okay so don't go back to the seats just yet all right all right so armando is kind and safe he's very responsible and he's very good at problem solving and always tries his best um all right so miss tesso's kindergarten teacher says jack tries every day to be his best he is a good friend to his classmates and helps everyone he follows the school rules and is a good role model congratulations [Music] is [Music] harper anderson mrs olderson writes harper is a wonderful student she is kind because she's always concerned about how her classmates are doing and she's always eager to help in any way harper is safe she knows and understands classroom cafeteria and playground rules and follows them well harper is responsible i can trust her to run an errand to another classroom or to the front office i can trust her to walk a classmate to the front office or to the school nurse and she helps me in many ways and she's such a wonderful part of our class so proud is very kind safe and responsible student he's always willing to help his classmates he looks out for them and makes sure they have what they need whether it's helping them with work or carrying their books he offers to assist in any way possible whenever something is needs to be done he's willing to step in and help no matter what congratulations [Music] so leighton miss jones writes lane is always demonstrating kindness safety and responsibility he's helpful to friends and always tries his best leighton is funny hard-working and a joy to have in class congratulations my name is so mrs rodriguez right emma is kind to everyone around her and she smiles every day she remembers to use classroom supplies and school equipment safely she's responsible because she brings her classroom supplies and homework daily congratulations maggie is very kind safe and responsible cold maggie encourages her classmates and truly cares about them she practices safety and physical education by listening and following directions maggie shows responsibility by recalling and practicing our physical education procedures without having to be reminded of them i am so proud of magni and know she will inspire many more quotes to come and she was nominated by miss kohler her pe teacher congratulations is always kind and makes sure everyone around her is safe she's very responsible and always ready to learn and help others congratulations my name is alexandra patterson and my teacher is miss [Music] all morsky miss marsky writes alexandria started second grade ready to learn she's a phenomenal student and friend she always gives her best alexandria is kind caring always willing to help anyone around she sticks up for others i love her eagerness to try her things she gives it her all alexandria has a great imagination and is a great problem solver her creativity constantly amazes me we're lucky to have her in our class alexandria you are so smart kind responsible and reminding you daily week you do hard things congratulations alexandria you are a brilliant kid so addison miss navado writes addison has been working hard in she's exceptionally polite exhibits a positive attitude in the classroom and likes to cooperate with her peers and her teacher addison takes an active role in the classroom discussions and is always looking to challenge her learning to keep up the great work addison love miss navado my name is callisto you are a great example of what a cult should be you come to school prepared and ready to work you're always there when a friend or your teacher needs help your great attitude towards everything helps others around you feel good and ready to tackle anything keep working hard ellie you're doing a great job so logan was nominated by mrs roman alley logan is caring and considerate of his fellow classmates in and out of his grade level he works hard at everything he's given with a smile on his face he shows everyone how to be responsible for your own learning every day he's a great student leader and someone to watch as he grows up moves up into middle school in a couple of years congratulations so her teacher is miss mills and she was nominated by cynthia by mrs boledi who's our music teacher olivia is consistently kind to her classmates she shows concern for others when she asks how they're doing and will always be inclusive to other students during group activities she's safe by reminding others to do the right thing and use materials appropriately in addition olivia is responsible by always coming to class prepared and ready to learn i'm proud to have a student like olivia in my music classes she's intelligent she's an intelligent young person and has a bright future ahead of her congratulations so miss mills writes danny has opened up so much this year and i'm so happy that she gets up in front of the class to present the stories we write she's kind to everyone and makes everyone feel special she's safe inside and out of the classroom she turns her homework in on time every week thank you so much for always being so sweet i'm so glad i get to have you in my class this year congratulations my name is sebastian and my teacher isn't screwed so miss greer writes sebastian is eager to learn and improve he's very knowledgeable student who is eager to share his knowledge with his classmates sebastian is great at helping his classmates with work or any problems they may have congratulations [Music] so mrs adams writes viviana is a top-notch student she comes to class prepared and ready to learn her perfect spelling tests show that she's responsible in her study she's kind to her classmates i can count on her to make safe choices and be a good example for others to do the same congratulations and so she was nominated by middle school teachers juliana has a big smile and is always willing to help others she was elected president of the builders club by her peers where she works tirelessly for the good of all juliana is polite respectful obeys all school rules and never engages in unsafe or inappropriate activities she stays after school to watch over little ones whose parents are sponsoring after school activities juliana has earned the trust and respect of her teachers and peers she's a hard worker volunteers and participates in her school and community and is very conscientious about keeping up with her assignments juliana is always puts forth her very best effort in all things big or small she's a role model with passion and enthusiasm for life the middle school teachers have chosen juliana mcgee as our eighth grade cult of the month for october 2021.

that was as as of november 1st we updated today and board members do have the actual handout that we gave you that has the total at 41. so they did double non-campus student positive cases is at 22 that's the second column current staff positive cases is that 15 and the total coveted cases altogether are 78.

The first area I want to talk about is that in order to for us to understand where we're going, we got to understand where we came from. Okay. Two years ago, school board voted in favor of purchasing a building on the northeast side of Creek to move the maintenance department in there. At that time that it was done, the school board ignored two possible resources closer to all our community schools that would have saved the school board thousands upon thousands of dollars. The decision was made. We continue to push forward. Just last week, you made the very same mistake. You voted six to one to destroy the dome, a building that could be used for the benefit of the entire district. And yes, I'm sorry I wasn't able to be here. My public comments was read. I was at home watching the vote. I heard all the comments about how it was a difficult decision.

Creek shot it down. Monise shot it down. University Park voted in favor of it. Now, according to your agenda, you want to talk about some working cash bonds. The majority of those bonds are going to be used for schools in Creek. How much sense does that make? Creek voted down the referendum and now you want to use the working cash bonds to build up Creek. Doesn't make very much sense. What does Monae get out of it? I'm sure you're getting something out of it because you voted in favor of it. What does University Park get out of it? I wonder. Again, we believe we're moving in the wrong direction. Okay, but let's continue to move forward. I like to know the policy on posting of four years on the school's website. I looked for it, couldn't find it. Okay. I want to know why residents of a school district are treated differently.

the problem is that you know it doesn't tell us it's just ruthlessly accumulative the third grade test is one of the easiest tests that you have mathematically because it's very straightforward as they move up into fourth fifth and sixth and seventh grade they're asked to be more conceptual on their answers explain why show how that doesn't happen in third grade third gets a lot more you know farmer brown has seven rows of corn each row has six corn stalks how many corn starch but the state across the board same score right so you certainly appear to be doing something right there together they will pay for the third grade test which as you say is easier i'll be very interested to see how that third grade class doesn't import what they maintain yeah carry that wave of excellence yeah great thank you sure so both both the schools with the math scores were several of them oh even the fantasy school district said that right but then in science they were almost off the charts like i think even though i think it was like what top four or five or something i always thought science and math were more linked than that because they're more linked like yeah jump in for the middle of high school where you're more light in terms of the subject here when it's more can you describe the difference between rotation and revolution can you describe the water supplement not a lot not a lot of computational stuff [Music] webinars for parents that joey foreign and i spoke to joey about the other idea about taking those and he is going to do that that's right somebody does the presentation if you can't get to that one you'll be able to see when i see a friend on facebook one of their child's homework assignments and their attempt to help them they were wrong and they myself to see that so it's going to be great to have that resource available to parents to themselves make sure they can try it out yeah absolutely it's like that grammarly commercial or that commercial girl my father that toronto um and the type of mmcas tests vary according to whether the students are in middle school or high school so the 2021 spring m class was administered to students in grade 6 7 8 on grade 9 biology only in grade 10 which is our quote unquote high stakes test required for graduation on in both ela and matt um as ace and john had said these tests um were altered to accommodate the fact that um there are different learning modalities we have to remember that across the commonwealth um schools varied and whether they were in person on from you know the mid-september all the way through june whether they were hybrid like we were um or whether they were full remote for a majority of the school um so in grades six through eight these tests these tests were changed on in not only length of time but also on the amount of questions that were given um and the fact that students on taking these exams were not given the same questions um as their their fellow classmates across the commonwealth um so as you're gonna see this evening administration department chairs and teachers took a look at this data and really a comparison between toronto and the state and then what they did is is really we took a look at what actionable steps needed to be take taken in order to improve in the areas of math english and biology across the grade levels so sally and i are going to go ahead and begin with our english results all right so for the grade six ela results um tahanto outscored the state in both the exceeding and the leading categories with 66 percent of our students in those categories in comparison to 47.

the area that we scored higher in had to do with the use of context food and for lower it was irony analysis so um grade 10 for grade 10 um we scored higher um versus the state in the areas of use of literacy techniques claim evidence and reasoning and really this claim evidence and reasoning reasoning has to do with really a school wide focus um not only in the area of ela but also history as well as the sciences and that really is um about you know writing you know writing across across the curriculum um we outscored the state exceeding and meeting with 90 of our students scoring in these categories in comparison to 64 in the state uh 11 of our students scored partially meeting are not leading the pair to the states 36 percent um and we're very proud of the fact that we did not score below on the state in any category uh for a grade 10 ela and in fact our student growth percentile for this cohort in grade 10 was the second highest in the state so we're very proud of our of our current juniors so in terms of moving forward with ela both of our middle school and high school english and history departments um have worked together to determine actionable steps towards improvement across all the grade levels they're doing this for reading by recognizing important details and ideas and passages and also for reading looking at recognizing similarities and differences in multiple documents that address similar themes and utilizing similar literary and stylistic techniques for writing they're working towards supporting claims with evidence from multiple sources and providing reasoning for inclusion of specific evidence and they're doing this through teaching specific strategies and techniques for citing sources when providing textual evidence and also utilizing the state provided mcas writing uh rubric in ela and a very similar spy rubric in history and as was talking about to continue teaching the cer which is the claim evidence reason um as a basic writing strategy so that students consistently hear that same terminology from grade to grade and from the different topics um they're also working together to analyze mcas essays written by current juniors on last year's impasse exam because they are available on the pearson access webpage and they're examining the essays to determine how the state scored the essays and possible reasons for instance a score of a five compared to a score of three and for a deeper dive of analysis of this data there's a report there's a nice chart in the report that we changed now for mathematics right so for math as you know both john and ace are talking about um they're because math is a curriculum that builds upon itself um there definitely was a a decline scene with results for the whole entire state for toronto our sixth graders outscored the same in meeting and exceeding with 42 of our students compared to 34th in the state and 58 of our students uh sport leaders partially we were not meeting compared to 67 in the state and the areas that we scored higher than the stadium had to do with expressions and equations ratios of statistics and for lower it was integer inequality for seventh grade we outscored the satan exceeding our meeting with fifty percent of our students outscoring i mean scoring on these categories in comparison to thirty five percent in the state and forty nine percent of our students scored partially meeting or not meeting compared to the state 65.