Um so, any of these attachments to the trees would be at most 1,000 lb. Once the posts are there. Um and we could even balance cuz the posts have the the adjustment provisions for the post in the in uh detail um detail two, actually. were designed to allow for a for a a load cell to be put under the posts if you really wanted to get fancy with it and actually balance the loads on the posts as well. Uh which which might And I did that also because it might become necessary because we can't go to full footing depth typically with this because of the trees. So, that's why I proposed a grade beam and significant adjustability uh in it to uh to accommodate for any kind of differential settlement. Okay. Um And how are the stairs supported? I Obviously more on the ground, but when they get up to the platform >> Yeah, it's You know, I don't have a detail of that.
Any questions? Mrs. Counts, do you have anything to add? No. Mr. Danders? Not tonight. Thank you. Okay. You're saving it all for Sunday. Um as a as a former Red Alert Robotics mom, I know that the team made it to state, so I'm going to go see them this weekend. >> It's just making sure it's at the state Cuz I was trying to figure it's at the state fair. >> It's at the state fairgrounds, yep. A- in the morning? It's Saturday and Sunday. >> So it's I know how it goes. So Sunday's kind of the last of the qualifying rounds, they'll pick the alliances and then the afternoon's the playoffs. Okay. So you don't want to get there too late. It is the most interesting thing you've ever been to. I always had to have a mom sit next to me and explain what was going on.
But the net effect is positive. By the way, most school districts in the state of Indiana do not have migration. They have net operation. Okay. [clears throat] I want to point out here is all we know most of this one's natural increase. This is the excess of birth over deaths. That's the backbone of US population growth for the last 300 years. Okay? Not for immigration, natural increase. Notice how that number goes to 80. And this this is the demographic trend of the next 15 20 [clears throat] years. for loss of natural increase even after CO we already in this country have six states and 1200 counties 16 in Indiana with more deaths than births and it's economic and with the aging baby boom they start dying off with the birth rates low you can only lose natural increase okay so u all the counties in Indiana that were called CPG zero population growth they tend to be in the west and along the Illinois line down towards Kentucky.
But but here we go. Uh hate to sound like a broken record, but uh it the both teams are making similar types of mistakes. Same way the exact same way the first quarter started. Exactly right. With um draw one, turnover. Draw one, turnover. So, little Groundhog Day going on over here in Natick. >> That's right. Erin Hickey gets the ball off to Ally Marseglia, who's going to take it behind the net. She's going to survey the defense, see what she can do, off to Maggie McGuinness, and may see the ball go around the circle a time or two here trying to figure out what Dedham is giving them, hopefully be able to hit a cutter at some point. Early now has it. Now, she's going to head behind the net. Hitting a cut around the front and Lily Vitti buries it. Well done. The freshman uh Ali Early to uh I'm sorry, Leenie Early to Lily Vitti for her hat trick.
Every time they do it. So, I'm sure the two coaches they're talking about it. I think they've tried to reset it the lights before. And then it takes a while for it to power down and then power back up. So, two officials talking it over with the coaches. We'll find out what's going to go on in a minute. The lights look worse. Well, it looks looks worse on TV than it does No, I think uh Due to the lights on the It will start at 8:22 with the score of Longmeadow five, Minnechaug six. at a later date.
Hello, I am Hayden Wang and I'm a student at Treasure High School and I would like to address the board of ed on the matter of the deportation of Rihan. And I would like to ask why an official statement has not been made yet and why uh and why you have not made an example to defend Rhan against this kind of attack and why you have not done more about the situation when his rights and due process have been violated. I would say thank you for bringing this up tonight and um we have made several uh public statements on uh on this regard. So, um town council members and board of ed members, myself included, Miss Cullinin, um Miss Fitzgerald, we were up at the Capitol when um when uh Senator Blumenthal gave his press release, as were members of the town council. So we were there in support of and our the chair of the board of ed uh Sam Rosenberg made you know she made a statement publicly.
>> So, uh any questions about the Dittle projects? Once we go through them, we can kind of do a a potential culling if if need be. >> Yeah. >> I'll just say I I do think uh improvements at Dittle are generally a they're a priority for me simply because the town we have two new schools and Highland and Dulo aren't. And I find it hard to believe that those schools which were, you know, supported by everybody in the town, I do believe that that has an impact on property values and I want to do what we can to keep Highland and Dittle um keep them upgraded uh to whatever extent we can because one of the I do think a big concern for people in town is property values. >> So, And those are the two dittle projects you'll I mean there aren't a lot of dittle projects because a lot of that is tied to the EPC, right?
It's um It's a custom like welded steel bracket that wind winds around there. They're supported on the top end of the platform and um the tail of the of a of the beam actually comes down and supports them kind of the midpoint. And they're actually There's a There's actually a um a strut as well. So, is it supported by the tree or by the platform? They're supported by the tree or no, by by the platform. By the platform. >> Yes. So, it moves with the platform. And there's a little landing platform and that's the one um [clears throat] It's like a little landing about the size of this table. That's the one where there's a slip plane of two pieces of plastic that can slip independently. And then finally, the drawings that were included [clears throat] in our packet had a lot of um bubbled notations with in red with supplemental information.
Okay, Mr. Alexander. I appreciate you filling in for me at the C9 uh board meeting last month. I had a work commitment I could not get rearranged, so thank you for filling in. As it turned out, we just had enough cuz traffic and an accident, it was we didn't think we were going to have meeting. >> the text stream, so. Okay. Seeing there's no further to do day's over. Adjourned. All right.
Uh but that's moving uh moving to the [cough] states rapidly. But um Rhode Island, Vermont, Maine, West Virginia, Connecticut, South Dakota are all CPG have more deaths than birth. West Virginia's been here for about 15 years now. So, but this is what drives the enrollment [clears throat] forecast. modest population growth. Um, again, it's all going to have to be in migration because you don't have a natural increase. Uh, it's coming. Bad news for baby boomers is they're not going to live forever. Ain't pregnant to them is true. The next slide is the actual district level population. And the analogy I have to use here is a bucket of water. Okay. If I have a bucket of water, I'm got a hole in the bottom. I'm pouring water in the top. As long as I'm pouring in faster than it's going out the bottom, the level will rise.
Yeah. Great pass. Saw Vitti cutting in the middle and again, as you said, Vitti has a nice little hat trick over here. So, freshman Early to senior Vitti. So, little connection over there. Um what else is going on in Ashland before we get this off? So, you know, the boys were one and seven. They're playing at Dedham right now. Not sure what the score is, but hopefully they're doing some doing a little better. Uh baseball team is three and two. Softball team is six and one. Boys tennis one and four and girls tennis 0 and 5. So, that's a quick recap of the Ashland spring sports unless I missed a team. And we are back. >> Dedham with the draw control. Now they're moving up into the offensive zone. Should be a good match up over there. We have Ashley versus uh Ava. For Kelsie Murphy over number 12, that's Maddie Chew.
Then there's also a joint statement that's gone out from town council and board of ed in um support of standing behind Rhan and and um I'll let the superintendent add anything that he wants to because I know he's been working tirelessly to get us the information as it comes in. >> Yeah, I issued a statement last week as well. Tomorrow I'll or tonight even I'll email you the various statements that have already been issued. Um and they date back to last week actually. But um you know obviously we're all concerned uh about his status. The latest update is that uh he's been issued a bond hearing uh which is directed to have taken take place before I guess end of day Monday. Uh it's our hope that he will then be released at that point. Um so we're all, you know, very sensitive to what's happened for him and all of our students, our school community, and uh we're looking forward to him returning back to Cheshire High School soon, >> but I'll send you those statements.
The air conditioning, the windows. So I removed them from this plan for this year because I know that we're still working on the EPC. So I, you know, we might need to bring them back in subsequent years, but at least for where we are now, um that's why do little is still light because a lot of this is reflected in the EPC. >> And so when you mention the EPC, you're talking about the energy performance contract, >> which I was just at a meeting. I don't you were there. the big ones. >> Um the total project now, we still have hurdles, >> at least one big one, >> but uh the total project now is listed at $55 million in improvements. And of all the buildings in town, all the schools, the one with the most check marks was >> Dittle. >> Um there's a lot to there's a lot to be done there.
Um What are those that appear to be putting information >> So, you probably received the um the submission set that went with the went well those They came in with the uh with the field submission. And that was my attempt to draw attention to the like this is said this is a dynamic attachment. This is said this is a dynamic attachment the last three times you you guys have seen this. They saw it, but Right. Is it So, So, when it What's the chronology on those drawings relative to the comments in the packet? Are Did you see You saw all those notations on the drawings? Who accounts for those? That accounts for They well, they came in those came in with the Those came in with the submittal um and they were just there to draw attention to this fact that uh the the notation of a dynamic um attachment that can allow for movement has been brought up on the past two prior submissions and even in emailing with um Mr.
But for some reason, the hole in the bottle gets bigger and it's now going out faster than I'm pouring in. If I keep pouring in at the same rate, level will drop. Enrollment works the same way. What's the size your 12th grade cohort going out? What's the size of K enrollment coming in? Okay. Now we've had dropping births [snorts] in this country and state for the last 15 years and it peaked in '08 and this is something that all schools are dealing with. So those 2008 birth cohorts were at large or [clears throat] relatively large are graduating high school and small birth cohorts 2020 2021 are coming in. That's why most school districts in Indiana, the Midwest, the South, across the country are have declining employment called cohort balance. Okay? And there's another factor in there too. Um, you know, they have a drop in kindergarten [clears throat] next year 218.
Wow, that was Was that a good save or was that just Yeah. I don't know if it bounced over, but I'm going to say it's a save. >> Yeah. But again, to me, when you watch Duffy kind of play goalie, it's just the way she positions herself. Which you couldn't pay me any money to play goalie in lacrosse. But she doesn't care. Like the bruises. Good job getting low for that low shot, but then is able to get her stick up if it's a if it's a bounce shot and and try to knock it out, which is what looked like happened there. Defense over there. And once again, the the Ashland defense is doing a good job of keeping the Marauders out of the critical scoring area. Pushing them to the outside where can't do much damage. So, it looks like in isolation Sam Sayette is defending over there.
>> Okay. >> Thank you. >> Sure. >> Thank Thank you very much for coming forward. >> Appreciate you expressing the concern. >> Yes, Mr. White. >> Yeah. Yeah, I just I just wanted to add that um based on what I've seen. Yeah, based on based on what I've seen, I consider it to be a complete travesty and it needs to be uh remedied immediately. It it should be today. I don't even know why we're have to wait a week if this is a clerical error. It's just absolutely awful and I I don't understand why it can't be remedied quickly based on what the judges said. So anyway, but thank you for coming to speak tonight and it it really is something that needs to be addressed ASAP because it's it's just wrong. Thank you. >> Mrs. Many >> Miss Mankey who is here in the front row tonight.
Uh so anyway, I just wanted to mention that in relation to what I said a second ago. >> Yeah. And that's been one of my concerns and I mentioned it to Emily is making sure that we get air conditioning over there because they're the only ones >> that's in there that's in the EPC. >> Okay. >> Sorry. >> No, no, you're good. The next one is Highland. So, the first is the electrical distribution. This uh shows up on your uh your big sheet. It says row 12. Um you'll see that that is actually a a two-year project totaling $350,000 total, but in the first year you see $50,000 for design work. Um Rich, you want to give a quick summary of that? >> Yeah, it's just I mean it's a 1970 building. It was designed uh prior to the advent of Smartboards, you know, chrome carts, things of that nature.
uh Who's Was it Freeman reviewed this? Um He he like in the response to the January 2 Well, the this response to the December 12th submission um came back on January 12th. Um He said he responded since that trees are dynamic and how they move to grow, we need to see documentation how this was accounted for. And I'm like, well, it says on there this is a accounted for moving in this direction two two or three inches in either direction. And I And I responded back to that in writing to like to to draw atten- his attention to it. Um This is yeah, the specific hardware is marketed as like dynamic uplift arresters and there are several notes about the dynamic connection and range of movement range of independent movement versus structure movement in the installation details on both the 1030 and the 1211 submissions.
That's the COVID baby bust happened in 2021. Okay. I blame social distancing. um [laughter] birth [clears throat] rolled off the table in 21. Then after being you know locked away for a year the inevitable happens in 22 births go back up and it's like a heart monitoring goes down up and flat. Same thing with birth dropped in 21 up in 22 23 went back to where it was in fourth and continued this slight decline. So most school districts are going to see small cohorts hitting kindergarten this year and probably bouncing right back the year after that. So the system um you got a 242 grade going out next year. That's why you see this drop and then they start dropping another 249 going out. 240. Um 230 is about your break even point for your [clears throat] 12th grade graduating class. You'll notice that the kindergarten first grade enrollments consistently go up and particularly the K5 starts in 2029 you start seeing consistent increases going back up to 1500.