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there's 457 kids reading the column down who live in that attendance area so they're at net 86 positive i can't remember did this include pre-k or is this a cape this is only k-12 i can't expand it if you'd like but so so just note in these numbers because the reason i say that if you look at our numbers if you look at all the schools with the exception of cta if we talk about elementaries just take it as a raw number that the size of the school built right the capacity of the school that's built is approximately 850 might be 866 it might be 844 but it's right at 98.50 range so if you're looking to see how much capacity a particular school has again you also we we have pre-k programs in ellsworth we have pre-k program at simonton at ranch so that that factors in the numbers just a little bit and if you look at our numbers on what i give you at the beginning of each board meeting with the report that does include pre-k number kids so if you look at that and you say how come they're showing this number for ellsworth is an example when you show when i show you guys the number that's 600 plus that's again part of it is the the pre-k stuff thank you for clarifying that um i appreciate that the only other thing i watch on this chart and sometimes is that how many kids go to their school so overall district-wide at least at the elementary level 78.5 percent of kids go to their designated school and so the other ones are showing what the individual attendant what the individual schools are doing and so we have one simonton that's distinctly lower serves a lower share of its student population it doesn't necessarily mean anything it could just be the location of a program or what have you but especially in large districts where you're trying to look across 20 elementary schools and figure out who's doing what sometimes that'll that'll be a little bit of a hint as is the chart down below which you know of of the kids in the school how many come from their attendance area how many come from elsewhere in the district and how many come from outside the district and so it is good to see that you know the homes traditional academy has been very good uh at bringing in kids from outside the district and that's something that we can definitely uh use to help bolster the enrollment numbers so we use the attendance area projections that relationship you just saw and then we converted into what that means for the school and again this would only be k-12 so it's it's pretty much the same numbers it gets translated and mapped out a little bit but the overall growth pattern um really doesn't change it looks pretty much like the attendance area numbers but out towards the end um you know three of the four schools would definitely be over capacity uh with the numbers that uh dr wyman was just was just giving you and i'm not sure about the uh the middle school and high school uh numbers if you look at the 3132 your high school's built for about 2100 middle school about 1100 i mean i'm giving a take a little bit so you'll see that those numbers would then be just at capacity but that's 10 years out and that's assuming that this cap your rate or the that ratio stays stable if it goes up then we'll be hurt in there but if it doesn't it won't that's what makes this so much fun um still increases in school-age populations since 2010 i mean not as dramatic as they were in the decade before but they've you know been completely offset by the growth of charter school enrollment we do see everything's indicating a run-up in the housing market to somewhere between a thousand and fifteen hundred units per year which we can probably sustain for five or six years before we actually start begin to run out of places you know that are billed at least the most economical land will be gobbled up by then the impact of the housing impending boom i'm calling it in your district because i guess it really uh maybe not be a boom but it certainly is an advance we don't know what that's going to really mean to you because of that competition that we keep talking about but i think dr wyman's point is very well taken that if they can't get sites for schools then your capture rate's going to go up um so we're saying the total enrollment has had to add at least you know 1500 um using that conservative assumption which means that our you know ep ratio or service rate continues to fall and it's possible that because of that you could actually end up growing much faster um but um hopefully they will get a chance to see that coming and we'll be able to react to that so i think that's our presentation i appreciate your attention i'll take any questions okay i have a question not related to your data but maybe you can provide some insight over the last couple of years there have been a lot of a lot of stories about the share of the colorado river water and about water and for a while building permits were on hold because of the lack of water resources now we see all this boom coming how is how are we going to support all these new homes with the lack of water that we currently have i'm not sure how many places actually put a moratorium on building permits most of the bigger municipalities in arizona are very well positioned in terms of their water supply you get south into pinal county in the stanfield area and you've got you know other kinds of issues with you know subsidence and things like that but overall 66 of the water in arizona gets used in agriculture bottom line and it's not going to be 66 20 years from now so we're going to find waters for roof water runs uphill to money that's what i've been told so you know if there's demand for for industrial space and for homes we're probably going to get the water are we going to be a lot more cautious yes we are but you know our water demand right now is less than it was 20 years ago as a state because of our conservative you know our conservation measures now we may have done the easy stuff first you know but the fact of the matter is we've actually been able to forestall our increase in use of water unfortunately our climate is not cooperating [Laughter] you have any questions uh lisa or chad no i do not no i don't either okay okay thank you thank you very much i appreciate the opportunity so 9.2 aggregated expenditure limit limit presentation okay just wanted to bring you up to up with some information on the aggregate expenditure limit you're hearing a lot about that um so we could drop that presentation some of this is uh stuff that people know so we'll kind of move our way through it but uh and it is off of reports that are excuse me presentations that have again elsewhere i'll give you some of the more detailed stuff at the end there's a few updates of some things that have occurred this week um but uh someone i can belabor a lot of this but we're gonna next uh next couple slides and get uh let's see where we're at next one nope wrong wrong presentation someone prior to that okay just some of the basics so everybody's on the same page um the ael is constitutional so it's it's something that's driven the constitution and it it drives everything uh really where it comes from um it's really coming back in the 80s and basically out of prop 13 in california and making sure that cities and towns school districts community colleges didn't run taxes up through the roof and so they built on this concept and so it's really just limitations on arizona governmental jurisdictions back in the 80s uh late 70s early 80s um and the way it works more than anything else it limits school district expenditures of local revenues that'll be real critical local revenues but and it's it's built on growth and so it takes fy 7980 as the as the base and adjusted annually for cost of living and for uh student population increases and there's a mechanism to increase the total amount if if the dollars get too much now the big difference for school districts is that in cities and towns each city or town and community college is able to do it by themselves so if the town of queen creek was over they could go ahead and take a vote of the public of their electorate in the town of queen creek to ask themselves to go ahead and up the limit on what they could spend in the town of queen creek for school districts decision made nobody really knows well i'm sure somebody knows why but i haven't heard it they aggregated all of the school districts together in the state of arizona and so that's what's creating the problem go ahead next slide let's say i think a big key point that just gives you a little bit more information uh but the key point is this does not apply to charters there were no charters in 7980 so this is a situation that's for school districts only not for charter schools um and you can see that you can as i said increase it cities have increased at 77 different times since 79 80.
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wait so the same exact schedule since 1998 except because the bottom four steps off oh we changed it a couple of times like the actual the major change though it stays the same we've cut the bottom four steps off to raise because we want to recruit good teachers and um there's a lot of journal over all schools in arizona including us mostly because of our international teachers but uh if we don't get good people to start with we're not going to do what we've been trying to do so that's one of the things i've recruited uh care out of out of ohio i hope the salary schedule and my charm heads up the view of it and hopefully the school that was supposed to be a joke here hi diego also vertical movement is allowed well it's kind of factored in because the longer you stay here the more you're going to move right but it also could mean you could stay here you gotta trust that your administration knows how to run solar respectively and get things done okay thank you all for for suffering through this oh thank you for bringing it a long time is we should have done this an executive session before we started the process in october [Music] all right that's robertson mr goodley this duncan hi mr curtis and i and we have five to zero people in the vote on this and i will work for the committee hopes in the next three weeks next item on the business agenda was the approval of requests for a board against items a request has been made that report vote to requests be approved by the majority of people the wording on that is a little bit awkward to me but a board member was made to do a vote by the board on individual agenda requests to appear on the agenda so it looked more like we were all in agreement and as such instead you know and i know there's some agenda items we've had in the past that numerous war viewers have asked for and sometimes that didn't happen um i almost feel like we're kind of micromanaging ourselves by doing this but against it but i don't i just don't understand very happy it's if one person does it all the time well some of us i'm i'm not trying to put this room do some of us are more engaged with some of the stuff that's going on different items i i believe there's probably three of us that do the majority of the requests maybe some more than others and that's okay we're all governing board members here we're all gonna have different huge different thoughts processes um i'd hate to see people's agenda requests because there's stuff doesn't want it because that seemed to be kind of dangerous well if i put some crazy idea on it as soon as we start somebody could say that i made the most of the table it's just a wacko idea that gets tabled indefinitely definitely well he would do the same thing yeah but i think we should be aware of it and do it so i'm not sure how that i mean to do that say i wanted to make an agenda on the request for march then we would have to vote on the board to even get that approved to go on the march agenda so technically if you stop if i said right now i wanted a thing for march it would then have to be an agenda item for us to individually vote on these agenda items yep so it'd be another month before it even be on there so this is adding responding steps or it would require a special session on the board just basing this off personal experience i don't think that was intended i think the intent was if bob dooley's a board member says i want to put xyz on the agenda for march they list it down in the board votes whatever the list is the board votes yes or no but what what just without my previous experience as a president before his clerk i think is best like if we just keep continually at the end of the monday or wednesday or both i'd like to see this as a jedi then president board officers can look okay we have a log on this month but we can probably get a schedule here that way because something we discuss and we can find time for it like march pretty full i mean i could sit here and i said i want to talk about this this this in march can we do it yeah we could but we don't want to have too much yeah one side of the sword is i may want to get a jit item on and the and the board votes no we don't want that agenda right you know the other side of the sword is it prevents the president of the board from becoming engaged part of the agenda because now if we bring it up and then the board says yeah we want to we want to vote on we would like to discuss this and vote on this and the president boarded against it ronnie said no way i don't want to do that then we would still be able to go to the board and say you know what we'd really like to have this on the gender wreck and so you see both sides didn't mean that you're trying to censor one person from and not letting them get items on as a board it could be a way that the board can get items that the board's concerned about on the agenda so and we would hope that it would be the second way all the time yes it's not to say that hinder someone from putting something on it's just that we when this came a lot of it from nikki whaley when she was here right that that was one of the things that she said that you could do and it would make it seem more cohesive forward if we all agreed that that was an important item i've been trying to ask this question for a little while now so we have it right now in policy that any board member we can have something we have to contact dr billy five days before the meeting goes out to have something wrong so if i five six days before the meeting to help i think we need to have this agenda item we don't have time for the vote to get together to afford the inheritance is that actually going to be on the agenda eventually yeah but we don't have time to do it like i said at that meeting and all you're doing is just a quick quote do you agree with that agenda item that would take very much time it's going to add 30 days and then the next thing is on there antoine already knows that's coming so there would be something there and each of us that agreed that this was an important item and that's and we could do business together and i think it would get on the um on our schedule quicker that way because it's all of us together we agree right or whatever every question i am not at the need i i just i want to say that we do do that every time we we approve the agenda at the start of the meeting that's what we're doing we're saying we're okay with all these things and if at any point any one of us doesn't want to have any one of those discussions or votes you can say at the same time it didn't work today because i have said that we would have that we'd have the discussion on it on a discussion day instead we're here at 8 30.
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the big ideas behind that basically it removes any sort of consequence or restitution and i am on board with the restorative practices as described by ms densmore and the sros but the more i dive deeper into just restorative justice itself what i'm finding is not what she's describing um it talks about restorative practices is the study of restoring and developing social capital social discipline emotional well-being civic participation through participating participating learning participatory learning and decision making with a student who decided to act out he was a student president and they removed him from office saying it was the same scenario he might face someday if he was a politician so he starts becoming a class clown they say all right you're no longer super president which that was the example from the book yeah that's right okay well from a what yes website whatever with the book um and basically it's about removing that fear of a consequence from these students and it's also important to note that the parkland school where the shooting happened in florida i did some digging into that they implemented restorative justice into their education system before the shooting happened so this child this kid nicholas cruz went through this and you know they say he did this he did that but nobody flagged him with the fbi or anything because restorative practice didn't want to give him a consequence they wanted to put him in a little feeling circle so he could talk about that so my concern is as a district teachers already feel like they have no options and they have no support whether they say it or not some teachers feel like okay this kid has been removed from my class and he's back five minutes later there's no discipline some teachers are very good at discipline some schools are very supportive but a lot of teachers are already feeling that their hands are tied and there's absolutely no no accountability for their student misbehavior so if we start implementing this restorative justice especially at the elementary level and not having any consequences that's how you know this is how we get to riots and toppling statues and destroying businesses because people eventually if they grow up feeling that there's no consequences that's what happens where um do you know how this book is being used or can you speak a little bit to this are these teaching tools there's twenty pres madam president members of the board this per this purchase was from our ess department um to provide so um miss corey montano can come up and provide some additional thank you hi so the purpose of the books is the new k4 law that came into place we're looking to add to the options not take away so students that i think i um gave an example so one of the perfect examples is a student let's pretend a student graffitied something the admin has the right to use the matrix part of the decision making of that administration might be to do some kind of an intervention with our student support technician and our behavior coaches right and so what part of what restorative practices would do is to help the student understand what they did to the property the choices that they could have made and then part of restorative justice typically actually has to do with making what was wronged right so then it would probably be cleaning up the graffiti another example so it's not taking away options in fact it is can be multiple um i always use the wrong word um resolutions to a disciplinary for a a behavioral action so it could be multiple things so it could be an intervention and another disciplinary consequence but we aren't able to suspend students for k4 for some of those things so we're looking to add to our options to hopefully teach the students a different way to be and then to um learn from it and it's not taking away consequences so i do think one of the most common things is people think it's kind of a softening and a not holding students responsible but what we want to do is actually teach a different behavior and oftentimes when a teacher is the on the opposite end of it let's say a student swore at a teacher multiple times was very you know belligerent about it part of what a restorative justice would do is actually have the student have to mend that relationship that conversation with the teacher in addition to whatever other consequence you needed to have because of that action but it's actually reintroducing themselves back into the classroom not just saying i'm sorry and mumbling it under their breath but having some kind of ownership over their behavior and then restoring their relationship with that teacher so the intent is to add not take away and this is a practice that's you know taking place under the supervision of an administrator having done a disposition for the behavior and there being a consequence this could be one of those consequences so why don't we just add an iss room i mean we can't suspend k-4 students why don't we just add an in-school suspension room where you can remove that student and then they can still do their work there's still a consequence and yes you can add some restorative to it but my concern is what i hear from district and what actually happens in the schools is not really what's happening and often i can't speak for anybody else but i feel like i feel lied to a lot of times because i feel like people our district might say one thing but then what's really happening in our schools is entirely different you can see it we have so many conversations about the crt because we we just we're not confident so my concern with this is yeah you might say one thing but what actually happens is entirely different uh member statement i cannot speak to that what i can speak to is that we um could share i don't i guess i'm gonna ask um we did present um to administrators about all of their options and so we did include an on-campus reassignment so like an iss as part of that k4 and that was our intent is to be able to open more doors so uh for example in that that example that i just gave the administrator could say student you are going to um work with the behavior coach or the sst and you're going to have some kind of a restorative justice um conversation and then have to clean the graffiti and you are assigned in school on campus reassignment to that room for the remainder of the day and tomorrow or if it happened in a specific classroom we prefer if it were to be for that class period for two or three days but you can go to your other classes because the issue was in that class with that teacher so we need to separate the student from that class but we you know so there's different ways and we tried to give that to admin so we did a whole presentation on that and showing kind of the multiple ways that they could use it because we do think that there needs to be something that's going to change the behavior and also hold them responsible for what the actions were um so and we did we added it in infinite campus as it dropped like we made all of the pathways clear so that the edmund are able to utilize that and keep the consequences as necessary for our k4 who are not able to be suspended off of the campus in keeping um just the item with or the discussion with the voucher item um would are these books have they already been just i know they've been purchased um have they been distributed not to my knowledge so would it be beneficial for you to review it to make you feel more comfortable we could but i i am just not confident that what you say and what actu what is going to happen is actually going to happen so that's can i ask have you have you read the book yourself so i haven't done it but i did a lot of consultation with my the lead behavior team and then there are campuses who are utilizing restorative justice and so this was something it is meant for the um the adults it's not for the students and it is meant to help understand how you would assign it so that it is meaningful to help change the behavior as opposed to not having any knowledge of how to try and implement that change yeah it says instructional aid on the voucher so right um to ms chapman's point though you are familiar with the term restorative justice and how it's being uh portrayed maybe in the media yes and i think that's where it's important where you look at how it's being utilized in schools and how we would be utilizing it and so i think if there is a concern about how it's being utilized that that's something i would look to and it's kind of outside my lane in some ways so i'm sorry i can't speak to all of it but i can speak to the purpose behind it and why it was purchased through ess it's because of who would be um helping to utilize it right um i guess what i'm saying is um so something with that type of title sounds kind of like a shock factor to some people not everyone but some people no matter what side you're on on the spectrum of politics and or law um but there is a concern though um in our state and other states um where they are using this practice in determining outcomes of case law for instance so for for us to see this title in our schools is a little concerning so we can make it if it were i would i would like to review the books i mean maybe we could table this piece of it table ratifying the entire voucher no at this book purchase well well it's already been personal okay i will make a motion to approve and ratify the expense voucher two zero five two and two zero five three with the exception of the little book of restorative justice and education and all its copies and the little book of restorative justice teaching tools and all of its copies when we and when we can review it then we can revisit it i'm madam president members of the board just for clarification this has already been paid for so i'm not exactly sure maybe i didn't maybe i distribute it she said right um i'm sorry can i just get clarification then mike my motion is to approve the vouchers with the exception of this item and what he's saying is um they've already been purchased so what you were saying though you had mentioned just not distributing not distributing is that what i'm sorry that's i didn't hear that so thank you very much for that clarification yeah so can we do two motions gratification and then an additional motion to not yeah do you want me to redo that motion and just in just in the future just for my own knowledge too just so we don't because it seems like this happens often who's responsible for deciding whether or not certain books that may be controversial in nature are purchased like ultimately if a department or a teacher or whomever brings forward a list who ultimately decides yeah go ahead and buy them and you know maybe there needs to be some more oversight over that so we're not in this situation often madame president to your question of who decides that the decisions are made at multiple levels and i will just interject my own comment on this that the board has made it very clear what it expects of administration with regards to crt and that has been fairly well communicated the understanding with that and with the selection of books is with that understanding and if there is a concern about something that has been a decision has been made on a purchase i will assure the board that it was not with the intent to lie to the board or to in any way miscommunicate to the board but with the full intent to provide resources to our staff with the understanding of the board's expectations regarding crt but do you understand my frustration okay if everybody understood our expectations would i be finding this in our expense voucher and if i don't want to approve this expense voucher what happens i'm president mrs chaffin to your question is do i understand why you have reservations i absolutely understand and to miss densmore's point yes there is national concern about this term i will share that at the safety summit the experts who have completely investigated parkland shooting are the same ones who at the safety summit are saying that they are recommending restorative justice so there's a perhaps a difference between social justice and restorative justice but the police departments we just had a recent conversation about so about sros and the diversion programs that they're using it is not very different from what we are wanting to implement in dysart with our our student discipline as was mentioned the expectation that we have a discipline matrix that that be used and that this be used as a second layer to help with the restoring the relationships restoring the behavior restoring the the wrongs that that were committed and making things right is in no way intended to promote crt it's no way intended to disregard the the will of the board in any way and there's going to be unfortunately some conflicts in terminology from what national attention is on some of these words and what is happening in dicer the the the national story doesn't always get localized here in dysart to represent that this is what we're doing we are doing things in a way to to represent the will of the board and as we continue to make those purchases it is with that full intent that we honor the will of the board and it is not it is not the intent to present false information will you be able to oversee dr kell i mean before it makes it to the agenda i mean if there is any titles moving forward that i mean you knowing this board would raise concern then before we spend money on them um you personally just make sure or you would designate someone that you feel understands the board and would you know determine whether or not it is in line with the vision madam president we will continue to make every effort to screen titles of books that may be perceived as inappropriate thank you i guess because that's my concern because what happens now it's already paid for we've already spent money on this i think there's a president the response would be if the board so chooses to censor this book it would not be distributed i'd like to just say that i think that there's a big difference between censoring a book and choosing not to use it in our instruction because it does say instructional aids right so that is the intent to use it as an instructional aid not a supplement if the book was in our library i would not want it censored right madame president perhaps my term there is if the board doesn't want us to have this in circulation with staff we will remove it and destroy it thank you i just i speak for myself on this only but i i just never want to be labeled as someone who wants to censor books or or materials um but i do think that we need to guide our staff um in the vision that that that we feel strongly about so i not for censorship so that was all i understood thank you i would agree with that too as far as the censorship right okay so there was a motion uh i just want to say i do put trust in our staff to make the right decisions and um if we get to the point of i hope you don't i feel like we're going down the road of being the book police and i at some point we do have to trust our staff because i firmly believe that our staff is not going to go down the road of trying to sneak something in with the crt i have to put that trust in them and for us to be discussing this at this point um is showing that we're not trusting our administration or our staff to do their job and i understand your frustration ms chaffin but it seems like we're going down a road that we really shouldn't be going down well then maybe the stuff should stop popping up stop popping popping up on our expense vouchers because i do agree with you there is a lack of trust there not because it started that way just because of things like this that i find so i agree to your point that this my concern is nobody's read the book you've read a summary you've read online before i say i'd like to read the book first before i i mean i making two motions pulling the book for distribution that's fine but i would like the book to be made available to us just because that's in the title doesn't necessarily mean what the big picture of that is i think we need to read the book and and just see see for ourselves i agree with you all right so there was a motion made do you want me to amend my motion i want you to do whatever you're comfortable with i mean i'll support you i mean i i i do want to say to ms schaffen's point um i don't you know trust is earned and i do think there's been multiple times when we've had a discussion like this and we think we're clear and we move forward and then we're having another session so i can understand where there'd be some discomfort i think that's justified but i think that's a you know bringing it up for discussion is a far cry from saying you know whether it be the censorship or the book police or i think that's unfair to to paint her in that category because again i always want to support every board member having the opportunity to express concerns and speak you know without judgment and for conversation and i think that there's been reason um for her to feel this way you know just based on previous discussions so um i feel like whatever whatever your original intent was or based on discussion if that happened to change whatever discussion whatever motion you feel if you feel you need to amend it or you want to stick with your original that's completely your right as a board member i will stand with my original motion do you have a second no i'll second sorry motion made by crystal chaffin seconded by dawn dunsmore could you repeat your motion that's been a while it's been a while did you get it luisa no okay my motion is to approve and ratify expense vouchers 2052-2053 with the exception of the little book of restorative justice and education 20 copies and the little book of restorative justice teaching tools 20 copies sorry you amended that piece of it though to say about the decisions is correct okay so motion okay flash ratify vouchers two zero five two and two zero five three without distributing is that right yes without distributing the little book of restorative justice and education 20 copies and the little book of restorative justice teaching tools 20 copies second so with that motion there's no need for a second motion correct no no okay dawn motion carries next we move to request for future agenda items anyone i would like to request a future agenda item for the purposes of in the event that we happen to pull an agenda item if we could please be notified of it so we can have the information beforehand instead of at the meeting i don't know how to form that into an agenda item i can try to type something up for it just fill out the form and give it to louisa and i will do that anyone else okay i move that we adjourn the meeting second second mate or motion made by christine pritchard seconded by joe grant did you second okay
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community colleges counties three times and once by a community college school districts have not been able to do it now it has been raised i believe it's two or three times but it is a vote of the of the legislature that has to do that so go ahead next one again we went through that 86 was the first time voters approved adding 10 percent to the limit this is uh critical when you take a look at this when it talks about local revenues you're sitting here federal funds state grants and other funds adjacent ways cash funds instructional improvement funds are excluded and this would be critical if you look at solutions is when you go to do your cuts it's not as simple as you cut all the way across the board if you have to cut because there's there's money that's excluded if you look at the legislature excuse me ade they will go ahead and give you a number they'll tell you all of your money that you make anywhere in in your budget and then they back out these excluded funds and so yeah there's some still some confusion on some of the pieces that can be excluded but also local voter approved so the bond money or if you have an override is also excluded the carryover balances in m on capital are excluded but that's a that's one that there's still questions out because they've always raised this there's a number of questions out there if they do not raise it is what does it really mean because your your carryover balances are buried into the middle of your budget how you just automatically exclude them becomes problematic i could go ahead and say well great i'll take all my carryover and i'll go ahead and code all my employees to my carryover and i'll turn around and create carryover in another part of the budget am i legally allowed to do that how would they know if i did or didn't do it so there's a number of different issues out there that are problematic at best if they do not solve the problem you'll probably see a ton of litigation and or legal questions flying in march as everybody tries to figure out what's going on because again they have generally done it very quickly and it hasn't been an issue but this year it may be different and next year this is not a one-year problem this is a multi-year problem next slide okay let's see uh this just gives you a little summation because this constitutional legislature just can't automatically change it [Music] okay only the vote of the public can change it they have the limit they have the ability to increase it okay with the annual legislative override but they can't change constitutionally what the language is on this particular situation if you don't um include uh revising the budget revision causes practical difficulty and that's where you got 25 percent even less actually it's 25 percent of the year but you have to really understand that april may our portion of the year where everybody's in june is really a dead month so to speak when there's no kids so you so your budgetary expenses in june are limited in comparison to april and may so everybody's talking about 16 25 percent of the year but those numbers are are exponentially tougher because you're really only talking about what do you do for three of the months not all not either two three three of the months not for the months if you want to look at april 1st is your deadline to the months not three of the months so it's a little bit more complicated than that and it is a pro rata reduction meaning for both school districts everybody's got to share the burden okay next clyde so this just gives you an overview of where they came off the money please note i'll talk about later but there's probably going to be a new number that's going to be connected on this just to finalize it so this is not the final number but they're projecting a 1.15 billion dollar shortfall which is 16.09 percent that must be prorated for our districts it's a little over 5 million dollars to give perspective next slide i'm not going to go through this but if you're looking if you want to look at i know bob you like the numbers um this just gives you an idea of what 2021 actual was what 2022 estimated is and what 2023 estimate is so we're seeing this year but then we're looking at next year too where you have an estimated shortfall uh very similar now you'll see these numbers are off a little bit comparison to what i just said before which is 1.15 that's just more what they did in october of 21 when they actually ran the numbers in november you saw that 1.243 go down to the 1.15 over that course as different numbers came into the budget so those numbers may flex a little bit even if they don't solve this problem but not substantially they're going to be in the same area next slide so again the language talks about based on uh constitutive definition all monies revenues funds property and receipt of any kind whatsoever received by and for the account of and so then they've gone ahead and identified those funds that can be excluded we've talked about those but it becomes critical depending on what you talk about even the classroom site fund it's not as simple as just the classroom site fund the classroom site fund in 2000 when it was passed was excluded but what happened in 19 when the legislature greeted the the law on classroom site funds and know and took it out of the voter initiative and put it into the budget those funds are no longer excluded and so it there's some classroom site funds excluded but the majority aren't so all of this gets very complicated based on all and and each district is different i can tell you we have funds down here that i didn't have in payson basin has funds force fees that nobody down here has so it's not as simple as as just making cuts here and there because each district is unique to any number of factors do you have medicaid do you not have medicaid funding some districts do some districts don't so it's it's it's going to put competition uh of districts against each other as they try to solve problems uh to solve this problem if it's not solved now why are we here next slide please really it's the three things last year you were in the red if we went back a couple slides and that was because of the loss of students due to the covid and that took the number down so that you did not exceed the aggregate limit last year those kids are coming back so that becomes part of the problem then you also have any number of the 20 for 20 by the governor uh they finally solved the lawsuit for daa all that dumped more money into the system and so you're seeing everybody taking credit at the legislature for all the extra money they gave us well first of all it's not extra money it's the money they owed us but the negative to all the money that they owed us is now put us over the aggregate expenditure limit so it's kind of a double-edged sword of of of what occurred uh going forward and so and then the 3-0 money we 301 money we talked about too next slide what are the biggest problems uh again if you take a look at it um if you go back to 70 90 you remember special education did not come into the country until really the late sixties so that the night the types of um uh coding that we put for kids and coding is the wrong word um but we didn't have all those kids you didn't have autistic kids labeled like you do today back in so you're seeing a lot more labels on kids that you didn't have especially was 10 years in so it's an infancy there so that looks radically different obviously our schools look different how you build a school what you build a school what's it look like the technology the cost of technology all of those kind of things are different uh you didn't have ell funding in those days k3 reading uh so there's just where the way we're operating schools today contin compared to 7980 obviously is our is totally different but we're still on a 7980 uh formula the formula is not bad they just need to update it with approval of a lot of different changes so 208 the biggest problem with 208 i'm not going to go into all of it the big issue is 208 cannot cannot be excluded from the constitutional definition of local revenue the initial judge is ruling through the supreme court will tell you that more than likely they will rule that and and and the supreme court said if 208 numbers are put in and they ext they take the dollars above the aggregate expenditure limit it is not constitutional that is more than likely what's the ruling going to be from the law they kicked it back down to the local level judge won't get into the politics of it um everybody was asking for a decision by him on january 21 he called everybody in on monday meaning the both sets the in the argument everybody had already done the evidentiary stuff so they're why is he why are they being called in well it came out very quickly he told everybody on monday i got a pretty heavy docket i got a lot of things on my plate i have 60 days to rule that gives me the march 10th i'll rule when i rule in essence she's playing chicken with the legislature and the legislature is not thrilled with that and they're very skittish to go ahead and pass the ael override before march 1st because they believe if they do it will set a precedent for the judge to then say you can go ahead and fix this in future years by doing the same thing even with the issue of prop 208 so you have a political game of chicken taking place on top of that if you do want to pass it a lot of the legislature are going to say sure and i'll give you a great example it was passed out of uh senate ed this uh this week vouchers the voucher expansion is significant let's just say it gets killed somewhere along the line we're getting ready to march first i'll tell you what i'll give you my vote on ael if you go ahead and put vouchers back in you need two-thirds vote of both the house and two-thirds vote of the senate governor it's not his fight and so he ain't fighting he'll deal with it once they go ahead and pass so this has become very very political in nature and that politics and the 208 piece is what's going to create some problems as to whether they decide to solve this thing before the first now there's a ton of people that think they will um i can just tell you i'm not sure next slide please i'm not sure what's on the next slide the timeline just so you're aware the real big one is march 1st if they do not solve it by march 1st we will actually get a new number on march 5th march 5th is a saturday so we'll probably get it on friday the fourth that new number will be built off of your um 100 day counts which is why you get a new number our number may go up from 5.3 to 5.4 million or something like that i don't know the exact number uh and then you have to have your cuts by april 1st that means there will be a special board meeting because you have to do a revised budget you have to do a uh notice of that budget and you guys would have to come back and say yes we approve this new budget it is problematic and it is confusing because of the excluded pieces so if you have title dollars or you have special ed dollars they're not affected by this you wouldn't technically if if someone's decisions and if there's people online i'm not suggesting this in any way shape or form but if someone's decision was to furlough people or let people go you wouldn't have to technically do it with title dollars or was bad because you're still going to get the funding what you were approved for the funding by the state or by the federal government is still coming your way it's mno now that has a problem so if you have people that are paid out mno that becomes problematic so it's not as simple as just taking wholesale uh quick solutions to everything it starts to get very complex if you look at esther's dollars you have a on um american rescue plan or wrestlers three you have a maintenance of effort issue and if you remember those dollars were very specifically given to states and and they were told they cannot cut school districts and replace the cut dollars with these new dollars in essence is that not what we're kind of doing so there's a whole lot of things that are going on no matter what solution you look at it becomes very very complex very very fast and so people just trying to look at the solutions we're working on 10 12 different solutions but every day there's something new um that comes that comes up so just note the solutions and even if we come up with something this year that's just a short-term solution you still have the issue next year and probably in future years and so what are we doing with this and it and and it's the politics of it get very difficult because if we all solve the problem then we just feed in the narrative that see we knew you had the money anyway well we don't have to worry about giving to you and i will tell you on the floor of the house and the senate that point has been spoken on on a regular basis that school districts have the money they should have been preparing for this and therefore it's really not a problem and so you got a problem there if you do if you don't solve your problem like some people want to do those kids very theoretically could go over to a charter would you send your kid to a charter this year and then ask them to go back to our district next year if you know that the district's going to face the exact same problem next year so the long-term solution is they have to fix this they have to fix it beyond just one time easier said than done given the dynamics of the politics we're in right now and so at this point just be aware that we are looking at solutions i was part of a uh panel a couple of weeks ago and then i'm on another one tomorrow uh really more than anything else it's just with superintendents and it's really just to talk ideas i don't know that anybody's coming up with a solution the weird part that you're gonna have with all this let's say they choose not to solve it is at the same time that we're doing all this stuff with this year's budget that is negative and bad you still have to build next year's budget this is not new money this is not a new tax this has been authorized by the legislature it's really just trying to give us an opportunity to spend that and so at this point the question is [Music] how much do you rally the troops different districts are handling that different i would just say it's very critical trying to be politically correct here it's very critical that you understand who is representing your district and how much political capital you're going to use to try and change the mind if in some cases they can't be changed you will have certain individuals when we talk about our our two-thirds majority they're going to vote no on the the override of this aggregate limit no matter what happens that's fundamentally where they stand and they're not coming off that and so you keep in mind that when you when you start to rally the troops if you're in a democratic area rally the troops the democrats are probably going to vote yes anyway so whatever comes or you're rallying the troops you're speaking to the choir so you really have to look at what your makeup of your legislators are to see what position you want to put people in and and how can you get um how can you effect change or not affect change with this particular situation there's probably two or three very large constitutional questions that some people are running up the flagpole with attorneys but because this is uncharted territory there's no guaranteed answer to some of those questions i'm not going to go into them because people are still trying to figure out what they are but i can tell you that i'm aware of at least two possibly three that are being uh put out as possible solutions um but the lawyers are going to have to take a look at them to try to understand what was or what was or wasn't placed in constant constitution than what it does or doesn't say or placed in the statute so that's a quick overview it is getting dicey you're down to probably about 12 days left before when i say 12 days left before march 1st legislature does not meet on fridays nor do they meet on saturdays or sundays so you're really got four days now obviously if this thing's big enough they may come in on a friday or weekend but if you just take the number of days that are left on monday through thursday you have in the neighborhood of 10 days left or 12 days left i don't have the number right top my head but there's not a ton of days left more than happy to answer questions if you have any uh i do have a question um if the legislature does not vote by march the first and a school district chooses not to revise their budget what is the penalty that's prescribed um well the first thing you have to do the there's a question about what is the penalty and there's been some recent uh things that took place in the paper there's another component to this whole piece is will the county school superintendent level on julie if i get out of my wheelhouse please speak up but they may not give you warrants to go and exceed the money that you don't have there's been several comments about just spend it you can fix it next year but that implies that the school superintendent in the county is going to actually allow you to exceed that that's just come up in the last two or three days so i don't think all the county schools superintendents have decided what they're doing i am aware of some that did come out as a result of that and say we will not let you expend it we will not give you warrants to go above and beyond because i'm on my authority as a school superintendent meaning a county school superintendent i all good conscience cannot do that so so even that's the problem with this is someone comes up with an idea then all of a sudden these guys are split maybe the county school suits are split and so now you got this county doing this and that county doing that so everything that comes up seems to just get in the circular discussion and and because it's never been done nobody knows what the answer is so if i could just paraphrase what i think i heard your answer if a school district should vote to not change their budget and continue to try to spend as they have the county school superintendent could say we're not going to give you the funds we're not going to issue you warrants to allow you to spend the money so and that like i say is just happening right now and so i don't know that anybody knows where people are on that what is the penalty for school board members if they decide they don't want to follow this dictum from my reading of the law i have not seen that there's a specific penalty that gets down to either the administration level or the school board level i have not there's numerous different laws and i haven't read all of them but but we're i've been taking a look at several of them i have not seen anything on that but i'll take a look and see they're gonna make you pay come out of my retirement there you go okay any other questions i don't lisa chad do you have anything no i just need to digest all this information right yeah i just thank you dr wyman that was very informative that helps me understand a lot better what's been going on okay next report is the paper this will be our student achievement report so we'll go through this one fairly quickly um i know i know i know i'm looking at the clock it's past your bedtime well let me tell you what for those of us that were north carolina it's a long way past our bedtime next slide please next one okay we just want to give you a couple different comments because one thing we have seen with paper uh are some of the comments from kids and and what they're saying about the product uh it's been received very positively uh as a as a homework uh process both before christmas and and after christmas so i'm not gonna read them for you but you can see there's a combination of kids from a variety of different areas next slide please um this will give you a perspective and i'll tell you what this means learning moments is intersections with uh between a student and a tutor that plus 8.49 gives you what the numbers been since january 1st so you're seeing uh the number of sessions individually when they they meet uh you're looking at um i've mis-titled that i apologize the second one is not sessions but i i mistitled it i'd have to go back look it up uh the active students those the number of students that have actually been involved in this and i can i will break that number down a little bit more for you can so you can see the number of times those kids come back but so overall you're really talking about you went november 29th to december 22nd and then this was as of 128 so you basically had uh just short of a month coming back um is what the is what the numbers are so uh in conversation with paper we meet with them uh quarterly to see the numbers they're very pleased what the numbers are in comparison what other districts have done for our kids and what they're going next slide uh your top subjects this has changed a little bit prior to christmas and after christmas uh the basic arithmetic and essay writing has flipped uh before christmas essay writing would have been your top subject in basic arithmetic second it is now flipped uh just based on the number of uh assignments next slide this just gives you two different uh markers about the number of sessions where the schools are at some have attacked it more quickly than others uh but again it's very new and and into the into the system so i think is a overall statement where we're doing very good but you'll see in some cases the high school has more essays but the middle school has more sessions of tutoring um and so it just varies uh different teachers have uh really embraced more so than others and so you tend to see that in in some of the some of the uh numbers that are up there but overall we we would anticipate these numbers continue to grow over the next couple months and over the rest of the semester but we're pleased with what we're seeing at this point because again it's it's been a very short period of time that we've had it in place next slide so this is those 562 kids the one activity so 355 or 62.8 percent of those kids came back for a second activity so you return coming back so a teacher may have done an assignment to go ahead and get the kids to learn about it well then do they ever come back and they're saying yeah we see 62 of those kids come back for a second assignment and then you see another 242 that it came back for a third and 174 that came back for a fourth so you are it's not a case of hey we just practice it in class and everybody forgets about it you get a situation where kids are coming back and using it uh repeatedly next slide uh you can also see we are seeing some after hour sessions uh so four o'clock to eight o'clock so it's not also just things that are taking place during the school day it's also taking place uh outside of the school and i got another slide on this one but take a look at that longest session yeah no because kids in one case with a kid they were working with a kid on an assignment uh the the student was at the middle school need to change classes the tutor stayed on while the kid went to the new class and then came back and continued to work with the kid and so the the the you can look at every one of them i didn't put them up here but whenever we get whenever we get so that four hours and 30 minutes they have a k they have a number assigned to that and so all you have to do is go find that number and you can actually read through the entire transcript of what was said and so all of these sessions have their own ids we we had a teacher at the high school a veteran teacher uh in english that went ahead and had her kids do an assignment and then reviewed every one of those transcripts to see what she thought and she said with and i think it was 40 kids because she's not a full-time teacher of the 40 kids that that did assignments she felt the communication between the tutor and the kids 38 out of the 40 was top-notch and there was only two that she thought maybe the the tutor might have kind of let him a little bit or something like that and so overall you're seeing they'll stay with the kid as long as they need to stay with the kid if you go to the next slide i believe it's the next slide um let's see i thought i had another slide that told a number of cases one more slide please no maybe it's not they they told the number of cases i've asked for it i thought i put it up there but uh maybe i didn't just on how many how many situations were over one hour and so it's it's significant in terms of of the number of cases that they'll stay working for now one one issue with paper just so everybody's just kind of like spell check you got to be a good bad speller you got to understand the content well enough to know what to ask so sometimes the kids are a little uh res uh resistant to ask questions because quite honestly they don't know the content well enough so there are some some issues but the the what we felt very good about is the responsiveness of the program they have contacted us if they believe there's an issue with the kid it could be as simple as the kids being a not head and maybe doing things they shouldn't but they've also reported to us several cases where they felt based on what was in the writings or what was being said that there might have been a concern of possible self-harm or the language was there and they call us immediately to let us know about those situations so we can take a look at it so overall that safety issue has been critical for us and and they would rather err on the side of caution and raise some issues that maybe uh and once you look into it is really not that big a deal but they said that's fine we would rather we would rather be cautious and bring it to your attention than you guys do what you need to do with it but there's been a couple at least a couple if not three that that there was some uh follow for further follow-up next slide okay so any questions but that just want to give you guys a rough update we do have a meeting coming out of spring break with them to see what the numbers look like and then we have another meeting with them coming out of the end we wanted to wait until i think it's the tuesday after uh memorial day just so we would have the full numbers for the semester but on the whole we're pleased and i don't know if there's anybody out uh i'm laura was here she had to leave um she's she's had a lot of it but um we can answer any questions if you have any i'm just happy to see it's being used to this capacity thank you okay so um we're back we're down to a request for future agenda items does anybody have anything they want to uh put on the next agenda that would include our minutes from this from last week so we would have three meetings worth of minutes the last regular meeting the special meeting and tonight's meeting on the next agenda i'll send them to you sure lots of reading fun stuff anything no okay it's gonna be a short meeting next week next time now the next meeting's march 2nd so it just depends on what happens on march 1st okay i'm going to make a motion to a gen to adjourn at uh 8 10.
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was that specific it was brought up to prove the agenda and it was discussed about just tabling the vote am i correct and then we decided once that item comes up then we'll ask for a tabling of the vote but still continue with the discussion i don't think it should have been because but we've i did that before so i'm not going to get into that but everybody else has the board of the administrator everybody else was fully engaged to change that agenda item so we would defer them out um so i had that motion and then we came up with an agreement that we thought would work you you also could have done that you could have said i i moved i moved to indefinitely postpone that agenda item and then we could both you could vote that and if we agreed with you then it would be indefinitely postponed and if we disagree then we go ahead with it so my point is every single meeting we do do this we do do what you're asking for and if there's anything that you don't want to talk about you can you can vote to postpone it and you can move to postpone it and if enough people agree with you we will and one other thing i want to say is nikki whaley did not suggest that we bring things forward like this she suggested that we almost universally allow people to place their their agenda items on the on the what you're saying right now so that other people can have a chance to talk since i have a chance to say that i object to this you need to make a motion okay this is silly to be arguing about this right now this is not a discussion period this is [Music] but that was when we had no monday night meeting this marcia i understand what you're saying but monday night we decided to have it as a discussion we've discussed this last year it's happened a couple stuff on times if you need to not just vote because you know i'm going to look at something i have a question about this i'd like to ask and get something clarified so i i don't want to look like we're trying to stifle discussion of any kind but reasonable well especially since the people were here for the discussion on this topic now now and talking on this just i just need 30 seconds sorry i'm sorry supporting the trusted officers and this is to me this is adding a step to when rodney and sometimes ronnie and myself and the superintendent meet to discuss talking about the agenda i thought it was a pretty big deal last year trying to keep stuff identized like okay i can't get it now we'll try and do it here we try to get it somewhere but we have to communicate do i think we need to have a board vote on every agenda request no i don't i don't because i think that's gonna maybe prevent some discussion prevent some agenda being brought up now if that gets put on by the board president he said i would like the schedules for here so like they said someone said i'd like to table this seem to get a second motion involved in but i'm not a fan of this i don't like this i don't think we need a pre-approval of agenda as we've spoken about later and then vote again on it that's just me i think myself rodney the board officers could say hey but you were there when uh nikki was here i understand it but i still was i still got what i was saying she did say that a lot of the school districts are doing this and so so that's exactly what i was trying trying to say so what nikki really suggested was that what what you're saying is in general agenda requests will be added to the agenda as is [Music] how if it works um in cases cases where the board president says no i don't i don't i don't approve of this it's inappropriate or it's going to take too long um she said that um the suggestion was that the person who's requesting it can then ask for this vote the type of vote that much is suggesting i could say okay well i request that we ask the board if they want to have this discussion um that's what she suggested not having it as a blanket thing for every item just in those specific instances where the vote for the item was being denied i just want to clarify that that's what she was saying this is an informational that [Music] um the recommendation is just that recommendation so i mean it's up to the board whether you want to table the vote you don't have to build on it you could just say that everything has to go or yeah if no one makes emotion then it was kind of felt i thought it was just we were just going to that's what i originally thought too and when i saw the voting grid down below if it's a discussion of it then [Music] good night [Music] so does anybody have a request for the future oh obviously um i do um let's receive this executive session oh no okay wait i think that might be one where we send out an email and see what data's done and work for the majority of the board remember to set a date you find out that we're not going to perform [Music] yeah that's pretty necessary you want to meet us in the email or if you send it out then we could all just respond to you individually are there any other and it was denied um and i i think but i don't know that there may have been a misunderstanding about what i was wanting to discuss the whole purpose of the request was to discuss ways to get the word out on the superintendent posting to our aho community and by that i don't just mean people that live in auto i mean the the families that have moved away from auto and their friends all of the people that are part of the extended aqua community i feel like that's a gap we have postings um like on national job boards which is great um but our our um our consultant can be expected to know how to get the word who can get the word up to um regarding more local communications so that's that's the discussion i would want i wanted to have is going to do anything to get the word out better and if so how do we go are you talking about searching for candidates so we can't because we can't do that we have a contractual agreement with them are you are you talking about like the stakeholders he's done it a lot so so i think he has ways of knowing how to get a hold of the community and especially where he works with mostly um smaller communities rather than the people's spectrum large communities see this is what the discussion would be good once you have it but we can't have it because it's been denied um so i am asking for that discussion discuss how to get the lord out um to the greater auto community and um like literally how how how that works like we send a list of um i don't know local organizations that we hope to share the information with um to the consultant so you can learn distributed um those would be the kind of questions i would not so i just want to say i i'm asking for it again but because i feel like maybe there was a misunderstanding can we table that uh because i think you'd be stepping on his job so i that's why we that's what the type of thing that we were discussing that we can say would you table it but it depends on what she's making that we can generally request because it's the time in the table at the time of this one it actually comes up on the agenda to be discussed i'm really i'm part of the reason part of the reason it's not on the agenda you're really really tripping on thin ice it's really borderline micromanaging yeah he has a contract i've talked to him and i don't have a dog in this fight but the district has signed the contract and we are bordering on he's not you can do what you want to do but aspa is not going to support it or pay for it so you got to be very careful i don't want asba to think this board is micromanaging it's not productive in your search folks at all i think that but i think we're also getting close to meeting my violations this was simply her making an agenda of requests and now it's become a discussion will just leave it as he requested this and so noted by the sergeant president thank you okay and now we know further uh
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i'll second all in favor aye aye aye motion carries a five to zero thanks guys thank you okay
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[Music] so [Music] so [Music] so [Music] so [Music] so i called to order the workshop for bullhood city elementary school board on thursday february 10th 2022 at 5 30 p.m roll call corey burgess here amanda amen here charlene diaz here anna boyd here melinda sobreski here all present all right moving on to item 1.3 policies dfa through dica dr short mr president and board members this looks like a big bunch but some of them are pretty darn short so i figured we could get through them and i did not have any recommendations for your consideration for any changes but you might have some so revenues from investments dfa if any of these you guys have any questions on we'll just yeah just stop this as we move on next one dfb and this answers the question you had earlier corey revenues collected from rental or lease of school-owned real estate shall be deposited in the civic center fund and monies from sale of school-owned real estate shall be deposited as allowable under state statute so um yeah so what this means is for instance uh uh if we move forward with our housing our neighborhood employee neighborhood housing project the rental rental funds that we get from employees will go into the civic center fund and it is a separate freestanding fund totally separate from mno and so anything that goes into that gets used for the same kinds of things this is also the fund where we put funds uh for where we put money for instance renting our facilities um so for instance the rental to the legacy foundation goes into this and then this is the fund from which we would pay for any repairs or uh anything like that when groups rent our facilities for other things and and they pay us a rental fee and they pay us a fee for the custodial service it all goes into this fund and then we pay abm for that custodial service out of this fund so what goes into this fund can come out of this fund but that's about it okay pretty self-explanatory oops did anybody have questions about that one no okay sorry guys don't get too carried away here uh dff um income from boy that got kind of yeah that was wow that's got kind of weird didn't it okay income from school sales and services uh vocational activity income and advertising income we don't have either of those but we certainly have a policy in case we were going to do it i i suspect that the advertising income is the piece that was added in 2010 because i recall that about that time was when the legislature said we could actually sell advertising space on our buses okay we've never done that but we could do it so let's do it okay uh banking services in fact this is i think an item on our agenda to that we do formally each year but it's a designation of what banks we use for our various accounts okay and this is authorizing signatures excuse me so i'm one of the signa signators on all of our accounts and then the second signature depending on the account it might be tracy clark for student activity it might be [Music] jenny beck for some things it depends on the account and it might be is kristin on there no jenny or yeah so jenny or um tracy or me okay prior to last year we only had credit cards for gasoline or fuel it became very apparent maybe it was a year before but certainly last year became very apparent that a whole lot of a whole lot more businesses and vendors will not take purchase orders and so we needed to have we needed to have credit cards for payment of some of our things so with the board's approval at that time we did away with the fuel credit cards and so we have a general visa credit card account with um jpmorgan chase and so when people travel they come and check out a card that they use for fuel or they use for whatever we've authorized them to use it for but we also use them for other purchases as well for companies that will not take purchase orders and these are just the regulations how we handle it we did work very closely with the auditors and with the performance audit auditors two years ago and to really clearly delineate the processes for who handles that and kim is the one who keeps the credit cards we have a safe that we have them in she has a very clear system for checking them out for relating each time they're checked out to a a specific purchase order number and and then checking them back in and and requiring that receipts be brought brought back so the completed purchase order then has the receipt and has all the documentation okay uh i have to tell you that i don't know that we've been using this document i think it's new to us oh have you i give it to everyone see she's ahead of us ahead of me at least so good so uh people are signing that they will be responsible excellent thank you i didn't know that piece this one has to do with bonding any of our employees who handle cash and uh so that if there is a loss that we have that covered okay the accounting and reporting we do use the usfr uh which is an arizona accounting system financial records count accounting system and it's coordinated by the state department of ed and the auditor general's office we wear out those little books let me tell you because we're looking at them all the time for coding and for making sure that we have things in the right places and we're still learning and we still make some mistakes on new accounts because we kind of have to figure out which one but we correct them as soon as we know the changes so this one's similar it's just describing the um the accounting system that we will use it is prescribed in arizona there's there's not a choice districts cannot pick some other accounting system they must use the one that's that's prepared by the auditor general's office these are a couple of the funds that we have the general purposes revolving fund this is a small a small account maximum of five thousand dollars in that account but it's the equivalent of cash so that uh for instance uh we run out of postage or we need special postage for for say we have a ups package we need to send um you know we can write checks to to purchase those kinds of things but it's a a very limited use account it's just kind of like pocket change the auxiliary account is is the main account uh that we use if we had book stores and it's the account we also use for athletic activities this is simply uh holding us accountable to presenting to you the annual financial report uh that is completed usually by the end of september uh for the previous year and um so we've been doing that we present it to you at the october meeting for approval and it gets submitted to the state and it's essentially the closure of the previous fiscal year's business and once again it's just direction on the fact that we submit our budget to the state using the forms that are provided for us by the auditor general's office it also gives some direction about how these are visible or available to the public and and i have to say when i was reading through this the other day i'm going to double check that we are in fact doing all of doing all of those things that we're supposed to do i do know that things are available for folks to look at and we may not actually have the budget on our website but we have a link to the budget that's at the ade because that always gets our folks to the most current version as you know we've already done two revisions this year and uh so anytime we submit a revision to the board then we take that i mean to the state then we take that link and post it on the on the web page so that folks can see what our budget is okay that's the so i'm guessing that all none of those will appear on the next agenda for any revisions okay okay the other section here is just to give you an opportunity if you had questions or some discussion about the regulations and the changes to regulations and exhibits relevant to the open enrollment policy that you all approve the changes in october and so i just went through and made sure that the documents we use for procedural purposes are in line with the new with the new policy and regulations and exhibits don't technically have to be approved by the board i like the fact that our district has historically brought these to the board first of all because it gives you lots of input into how we are making sure that this policy is followed but the other thing is that it really gives me support in terms of carrying out the procedures that that we're doing so rfb ra simply was correcting some of the things that we learned already this year such as the word elementary is not in our title and and then i've recommended on that one a change the student would transition to his or her attendance area school at the end of the current school week if we are revoking open enrollment you're all educators and and so i know you understand that if if we have some reason to re uh to revoke an open enrollment the second week of the quarter the last thing we need is for that student to be hanging around for another seven or eight weeks without you know knowing that they're going to be uh leaving anyway and so um our practice has been pretty much at the end of the next school week we needed to make it match yes i didn't give you the corrected one it still has elementary and i'm so sorry you were on a roll though i didn't want to say anything no no no no no kim gotcha uh is it not is it not no you know what i changed it in the agenda but i didn't change it in the workshop it should be correct in the agenda okay so i'll tell you the rest of these um would you please jfbra no up yes there we go okay thank you kim um okay so you can see the things that are struck out in red and the changes and and then the addition down at the bottom any questions or comments about those okay let's hope we got jfb rb correct no i didn't change it up there either i'm sorry okay uh the recommendation the recommended changes here are uh in accordance with the changes in the policy there needed to be some very specific kinds of procedures and i believed that that paragraph was kind of vague and kind of vague so i i thought it would make more sense for people to see the specific you know here's what we do here's what we do here's what we do um in the first paragraph uh we're changing we're recommending the change to an equitable selection process which conforms with the requirements of the policy rather than a random selection the issue with the random selection if if we actually were using it is when we get all of the applications we sort them first of all to find the open enrollment requests for children of employees we don't want them and we don't want those students in the random selection because it is allowed by policy for us to have those students and and in practice in in the past we have uh we have also then dated as we receive the applications we date and time stamp them so that it's it's pretty much first come you know they get considered first if they get their paperwork in first um and and that kind of thing and then the list reflects the changes in the policy uh whereby um we're we're doing those we're doing that process in order so that uh the the description before was a little vague and made it sound like you're doing this random selection and you might first be you might first be drawing a student for a first grade open enrollment at one school and then the next one you would draw would be an open enrollment for first grade in another school and it was kind of confusing it made it so it could have been done that way and we need to be real clear with folks on on how we're doing it and they need to know before we do it how we do it um uh and and this will make it very clear to folks and we will publish it that way so that folks know exactly how we're doing this i won't read all of those i want to insult you by reading all of those i will be coming to you next month with a recommendation for capacity class capacity the deadline for open enrollment application is march 1st and we will start this process after that even though we won't know for sure what our numbers are but i want to establish that class capacity before we make any of these decisions so that there's no thought on anybody's part that we're adjusting those capacities because of the number of open enrollment requests we've had or because of who might have made open enrollment requests we don't want there to be any question that we're playing any games with this we don't concerns or questions okay okay okay this is the um an updated version of the exhibit the actual enrollment application and other than the way it looks on the page about the only change or the only change is adding the item that says asks if the student has an iep by policy and by law we cannot deny open enrollment to any student just because they have an iep however we do have class capacity limits in our special ed programs and so if someone is asking to have a student open enrolled to one of our sites and that classroom the capacity is already filled in that site then we can deny that that open enrollment request it's it's not because the student has an iep it's because the program is already full the other reason is and this has happened before particularly where we've had parents from outside of the district request open enrollment for a special ed student and they might say well you know i'm asking for enrollment for my student to go to diamondback school and yes my student has an iep in which case we can say okay ex you know tell us a little bit about the iep because if that student happens to be a student who is supposed to be in a self-contained iep classroom desert valley is the only school that has that program for lower elementary students so we would not want to grant open enrollment to diamondback when diamondback does not have the program to support that student and so we would just advise the parent you know we do have a site and then advise them if we have capacity and if and if they're willing to do that then you know we would grant it so it's it's just to help us make good decisions uh to help parents and their children and then this time this year for the first time we actually have it translated into spanish and thank you thanks to sheree norton who is our homeless coordinator she translated it for us and it will be available in translation on the website as well as the english version awesome okay kim go to the one that's in the agenda please okay the second uh the change in this one is the open enrollment revocation letter that we had before tried to handle both attendance issues for revocation and infractions behavioral adherence to school or district rules in the same uh the same document and i think that was i thought that was cumbersome so i'm proposing that we that we edit this one to just refer to attendance reasons and then i presented c jfbc jfb dash ec as the one that deals just with in you know enforcement of infractions and then in this one then um you would have to strike behavior right where it says a letter was sent to you on a date to notify the potential consequences if behavior absolutism yes thank you for catching that okay thanks good catch and i need to change on the other one take off absenteeism thank you good catch so the good news is that we don't very often revoke open enrollment doesn't happen very often good all right you're going to want to strike the absolute right yeah i did i did all my paperwork i saw whoops i better do it on both of them so yeah i did thanks shirley those are all the workshop items thank you all right any questions okay with that moment with that being said we need a motion to adjourn our workshop i'll i'll make the motion that we adjourn the workshop i'll second that motion anna boyd all in favor aye corey burgess hi amanda amen hi charlene diaz hi anna boyd i'm melinda sobreski so moved we are adjourned we have about five six minutes before we get ready for our next meeting [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] so [Music] [Applause] [Music] so [Music] [Laughter] so [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] do [Music] i called to order the regular meeting of bullhead city elementary school board on thursday february 10th 2022 at 6 00 p.m roll call corey burgess here amanda amen here charlene d is here anna boyd here paul present all right if you join me for the pledge of allegiance 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 citizens president if you please sign in in the back and call to the public this is the time the public may speak to the governing board regarding issues within the jurisdiction of the governing board and subject to reasonable time space and manner restrictions the governing board may establish comments will be limited to three minutes per individual unless specifically waived by the governing board at the conclusion of the call the public individual members of the governing board may respond to criticism made by those who have addressed the board may ask the staff to review a matter or may ask that a matter be placed on future agenda however the governing board cannot take action on matters that have not been noticed in advance as part of the agenda we have two calls to the public today first ava smith like intimidating i don't know if that works or if i need it i have a pretty loud voice all right good evening board members and superintendent stewart thank you for the opportunity to speak with you tonight my name is ava smith and i am coming to you tonight as a parent of two children in the elementary district a community member and a local educator i understand that you are unable to answer any of my questions issues and concerns as those are the rules of call to public but i'm here to ask and state these as discussions and decisions are taking place and this uh decisions are currently being made now and in the near future regarding the housing project i would like for these questions issues and concerns to be considered as part of the conversations regarding this project as various community members have voiced the same and or similar issues concerns and questions i do also want to add that tonight parent-teacher conferences are being held at the elementary school sites which makes it difficult for any teachers and staff to attend the board meeting this evening i know staff and educators of the district who would like to attend board meetings but it is difficult to do that when they are scheduled on nights where they are otherwise obligated to their responsibilities and duties at their home sites there was an article in the newspaper on january 16th of this year that caught my eye i've heard about the housing project idea but specifically this article raised a lot of questions issues and concerns i want to state that i am questioning the long-term value of this proposed project schools and districts nationwide are dealing with an unprecedented amount of staff shortages is this housing project targeted at retaining the valuable dedicated loyal employees you currently have in the district or focused on bringing in new teachers in my opinion the loss of teachers in the district last year did not only represent retiring teachers or ones who relocated i believe conversations need to take place that discuss how to retain the educators who are already here as we may be facing a larger amount of teachers leaving after this year i did see from the agenda tonight that tonight that the land is already in process of being purchased in the area of cali de mercado my question to you regarding the already in process purchase of this land is why is it in that process before you know if the community is going to vote for this housing project the article on january 16th titled on the front page bcsd authorizes call for mail-in election with the first part of the article stating board authorized a call for a mail-in election may 17th asking district voters for permission may i go on please thank you to move ahead with its district housing project i am confused as to what happens if the vote comes back with no what will you do with the land that is currently being purchased which is actually on the agenda tonight to be discussed and perhaps decided upon this article also stated that the mail-in ballot is costing twelve thousand dollars it stated the district would pay that out of its current budget yes we are looking at an expense of twelve thousand dollars a drop in the bucket compared to the project's potential long-term benefits this brings me to my next concern the state of arizona is looking at a potential loss of funding stated in today's newspaper article bcsd could lose 2.642 million dollars in state funding if the cap is not raised according to arizona department of education figures due to this possible loss of funding i am seriously concerned with spending any money on doing a mail-in ballot that at one point in the near future if that cap is not raised would not be considered a drop in the bucket i believe the way the housing project discussion should have been started what's with the community's vote on the project first to see if it would be supported i don't understand or see the point now to do a vote if there is a real possibility of the results being a no and then the district owns land and there's not a plan to do anything with it if the housing vote does fail this needs to be considered i understand the fact that as it was said in the article it's really hard to say no to an opportunity to better the educational environment in our community at zero monthly cost to the taxpayer but i think that there is more to it than that housing is an issue for every family right now not just educators and perhaps there is some truth to the fact that some teachers are leaving because of housing but as prices go up and cost of living increases we need to be searching for ways to give educators reasonable means in order to live their salaries and earnings cannot stay the same while everything else rises it is cause and effect across various industries companies have raised what they are paying their employees as it is a nationwide issue with the increase in cost of living but it seems that teacher and staff salaries are not at the core of discussions to address this problem locally and i am not clear on how providing housing is the solution to this with that said there are multiple concerns and questions who is managing the project what are going to be the cost of managing the property and its upkeep and maintenance this is something that was and has been a mainstay concern for the crushed field house if this is to make an economical and financial impact on teachers what is the rent going to be that the teachers and staff will be charged for living there rent in our area right now for a two to three bedroom house ranges anywhere between twelve hundred and two thousand dollars per month apartments are expensive as well in order for this to be helpful to educators it has to be considered what the rent will be it would have to be affordable for it to truly impact enough educators livelihoods and incomes are these apartments and or houses a one two or three bedroom who is going to build the rental lease and agreements and is the district going into real estate how are the employee tenants and their families being chosen for this housing will they have to qualify are you looking at both the salaried employees and classified employees is the targeted audience for this project new teachers to the district ones who are moving here from out of state and has it been considered there are educators in the district who may need housing i have also heard that this plan is to be temporary until the tenants the presumed employees of the district find more affordable permanent housing i cannot imagine teachers being moved into this housing with the stress of knowing that they only have the ability to live there with their families for a certain period of time is it a three-month six-month or 12-month lease moving in the middle of a school year is one of the largest stresses and if this is only a temporary situation that stress would be placed upon these employees and their families what happens if their lease expires and they still have not been able to find a permanent living situation what happens if employees of the district are living in the housing project and then they are either fired or they decide to resign are they allowed to stay in the provided housing until their lease is up this could lead to putting people out on the streets if their contracts are tied to their rental leases how many housing units is this project providing how many employees will this housing project impact help and effect there are six schools in this district with a certain number of employees at each i also want to bring to your attention the fact that there are teachers who have been in your district for a number of years already in permanent living situations who may not need help finding affordable housing i ask you this for those employees who do not need to take advantage of this housing project opportunity shouldn't they be financially compensated in some way perhaps the idea of a monthly housing allowance or yearly housing stipend so they too feel a financial impact in their households and incomes this housing project may be viewed as only a financial incentive for new teachers or ones who are in need of this opportunity but then not provide a financial incentive compensation or stipend to those who don't need this opportunity but have dedicated themselves to the district and are valuable members of the district who should be given that same kind of financial consideration i would like to know what other items these esser funds could go towards i ask this because there are many site renovations restorations improvements and additions that could be done at each of the six campuses to improve the sites which would then improve the educational environment for the staff and students i know recently just this week at desert valley they are experiencing major sewer issues that have had the classes closed for three out of the four days this week i've heard about air conditioning issues at sites and in classrooms and i would love to see additional bathrooms on playgrounds having been part of the education realm now going on 13 years i know how precious school funds can be when we get them i want to make sure that the board is making the absolute best decision possible for all those involved and that everyone's opinion about this is heard and considered has the board sent out a google form survey to those in the district to gain personal staff insight as to whether or not this housing project is necessary or would make a difference in teachers choosing to stay or leave if out of the six schools that survey would come back with a large majority saying they would not be taking advantage of this opportunity then perhaps it should go into reconsideration i think improving the campus sites would make the students learning environments and the teachers teaching environments more effective helpful and enjoyable one minute please i'm so sorry one minute left one minute left okay i'm almost done in the construction of this housing project when sr funds speak to construction are they speaking to a housing project outside of school grounds and campus sites i did look up esser funds and the um the united states department of education and it spoke to construction investments that adhered to the academic social emotional and mental health needs of the students and perhaps new construction when it's it would be too expensive to fix the buildings that we already have so to close up i would just like the community to be part of this conversation before the mail-in ballots are sent out i would also be interested in finding out the percentage of current employees who would take advantage of this and to see if it would be intended as neces you know intended or is necessary and i thank you for your time tonight thank you mr president i would like to have an item maybe uh forming a town town meeting or something on on the housing project could we have that put on the next workshop sure when we get to future board topics if you remind me we'll place it on that time right okay our next uh call the public linda sabrowski sometimes it's really hard to wear two hats but i'm i'm talking to you now as uh the chairperson i don't know what you want to call me i'm of the leadership group from women's council we have a group of 12 people who were chosen from various companies here in town who have have joined to learn leadership skills yesterday we had uh had our had our meeting here if you guys aren't are probably aware of it but we we were discussing media and public relations and all that stuff and it would the the papers i got back the reviews were so overwhelmingly i really like this i did this this is great i'm going to i learned some things and they actually on the back page listed how they were going to be better leaders because of what they heard so i want to thank this the school district for as part of colorado river women's council and lance for his for for his time and for you for allowing his time to do this for these people it was truly magnificent yesterday thank you very much thank you awesome thank you item 2.6 adoption of the agenda we have a motion to adopt the agenda as submitted i move we adopt the agenda as presented amanda amen all in favor aye corey burgess i'm anna amen hi charlene diaz hi anna boyd i'm melinda sabrasky so moved item 2.7 donations we'd like to thank the public and all those who donate to our schools it is very well needed and much appreciated diamondback received a check for 200 for the music department uh a check for 685.97 for my touch desert valley uh music for the music program at an estimated value of 150 from chris and sonia roy fox creek received lunch for staff at an estimated value of 200 from national life group dj for school dance an estimated value of 75 dollars from james bischoff uh 20 bags of organic soil an estimated value of 320 and seven tomato cages at an estimated value of 23 from tri-state ace bullhead middle school 250 mojave high school concert tickets for students to attend an estimated value of five thousand dollars from julie hassett from the colorado river concerts we still receive many donations to our sites that are greatly appreciated and all that our community does to help us out thank you very much item 2.8 superintendent reports dr stewart mr president and board members excuse me you have our reports the updates i would share with you are that i attended the bolts training in flagstaff on friday it's the first time i've been to the bolts which is the oh i can't even tell you what the acronym stands for but it has to do with leadership for board members and it was particularly informative because they did three they're doing three this year one in flagstaff one in phoenix and one in tucson and so the participants in the one in flagstaff were board members and superintendents from northern arizona so many rural districts and with many of the same kinds of issues that we have so it was informative and um and also learned some tips for some things that we could do a little differently in our process of meetings and that kind of thing sunday afternoon through actually early afternoon on tuesday i left early i attended the school safety security and trauma informed practices summit in phoenix this is a joint project by asa arizona school administrators association and a business coalition in the phoenix area and the maricopa county sheriff's office part of the emphasis is on how we can prevent school violence the major emphasis is on how to prevent school violence but tying together historical violent school actions and what's been learned from those with how to prevent those actions both with training for personnel so for instance our district has done stop the bleed training for all of our employees we've dr we've done um the equivalent of alice training active shooter training for all of our employees but then tying that into how can we prevent those events from happening and so some heavy emphasis on mental health issues with our kids uh early warning signs for students and then aftercare so so it was pulling together all of those pieces and coalitions uh it was uh heavily it was it was heavily attended not just by arizonans it was actually a national program there were presenters from all over the country uh from the fbi the social ser the secret service and and then noted mental health professionals so it was very worth it was very worthwhile um today just today i attended an asa-sponsored meeting of i think there were about 60 arizona superintendents involved and it was a discussion of okay what are our options as school districts if the aggregate spending limit is not suspended for this year and so it was very helpful to to hear other folks ideas and other school districts ideas on how we can address that issue if we have to and then i had lunch today this first time in two and a half years that the superintendents for the four districts that come together as colorado union high school district it's the first time we've been able to have a lunch together and have a working lunch and that was very very helpful as well you know of course we had pleasant pleasant conversation but we also talked also about the aggregate spending limit situation we talked about budgets other otherwise and we talked about salaries and those kinds of things so lots of collaborative stuff going on and it's very refreshing to have that awesome i'll answer any questions you might have any questions at this time all right moving forward item 2.9 board member updates do we have any updates to be shared with the board so i do um i just wanted to say that um for those that don't know with mojave going in the lockdown the soft lockdown that they had i got a lot of positive feedback from our staff who has students that they felt like and even just reading it and talking in the public that the district bullhead city school district did a great job of sending out the information auto dialers the text messages the emails posting it out on social media it was well received it was quick response the bullet city pd did a great job of getting them on campus i'll tell you that it's it's so nice to hear the uh positive responses coming from teachers towards administration about reactions and communication because oftentimes we hear like oh lack of communication and it was nice and refreshing to hear a lot of positive response on that communication coming from the top down and on to the sites so that was that was great um also i want to give a shout out to abm and their work with with desert valley just knowing what they've had to do and the time they've spent there and their reaction time um i feel like sometimes they don't get enough pats on the back for what they do when they react to things like that for us um it's not anything that was maintenance like you could have foreseen this to happen so um to do what they did was great for us and then also transportation buses all passed in inspection with dps so that was great yes that's awesome anything else all right moving on item three consent agenda do we have a motion to approve the consent agenda as submitted i'll move that we approve the consent agenda as presented all second melinda sabrasky all in favor aye corey burgess hi amanda amen i'm charlene diaz hi anna boyd i'm melinda sabroski so moved item 4.1 policy g-b-e-b-a staff dress code do we see any changes in here that need to be made this is a second reading none so at this time i'd like to move that we approve uh policy g b e b a you have a second i'll second that motion attaboy all in favor aye corey burgess hi amanda amen hi charlene diaz hi anna boyd i'm melinda sabrasky so moved item 4.2 the proposed calendar dr stewart mr president and board members following last month's meeting i met with mr silk and mrs brown at the high school to to negotiate if you will or uh talk about uh this calendar and uh their calendar uh interestingly enough some of the uh comments that you all had made and then some conversations on our side from our leadership team had already been discussed by the high school leadership team and and and matched so it was a fairly brief meeting the changes from what i submitted to you for consideration last month are that we moved the spring break to match what the high school had proposed on their calendar and and then i moved to the first day of school back to the first partly because we still had to make that 150-day count that matched this year and then we coordinated the parent-teacher conferences the high school is doing uh two half days of school and two half days of conferencing our leaders uh suggested that we try doing just one long day each time and so there's so the overlap allows teachers of high school students high school teachers of elementary school students to come when they're not committed and vice versa so those are the those are the key changes it still has our ending date a week or so later than than the high school that has to do with the different requirements for days and hours on the on the two sides there was discussion we all discussed as had been suggested the idea of starting winter break three days later and carrying spring break i mean i'm sorry carrying winter break over through the fifth of january the issue with that is that it would have completely upset the balance of the two semesters on the high school side and so it may be an item for discussion on the calendar for the following school year but it it it made disproportionate semester lengths for the high school is that because they start a week earlier than us then they didn't make the adjustments yet so once we get to that adjustment if that were to rise then it would be equal yeah yeah we would get we would be closer and um and and next year it's going to be for the following school year we'd have to look at that anyway because the two winter holidays move to the middle of a week uh to the middle of the week and so you know it gets a it gets a little wonky at that point anyway so um uh this is um it was actually as i say a very brief and collaborative meeting and i recommend that you approve our calendar any other questions on the calendar okay i'd like to make could i i'm sorry i'm sorry mr burgess um one of the things that was of concern to some folks was tiny t-birds being open when our elementary teachers need it open when the calendars don't match mr silk promised that tiny t-birds would be open any time our district needs that facility open and you know in the spirit of collaboration between the two districts we have a good relationship relative to those things and and that took some anxiety away for our folks i would like to make a motion that we approve this calendar pending the approval of the proposed calendar by this high school district because their meeting is next week and in case anything changes we're not talking about it so that is my my motion i'll second that motion amanda amen all in favor aye corey burgess aye amanda ayman aye charlene diaz hi anna boyd i'm melinda sabrasky so moved item 4.3 completion of the property purchase dr stewart uh mr burgess and uh board members um our original closing date for uh for this property purchase was uh february 15th in the hopes that the legislature would have taken some action on the aggregate spending limit and obviously that has not happened so today i signed the paperwork to extend that closing date to march 4th and so just wanted to to have the boards either approval to move forward with that or uh or to back out of that agreement uh either way and and if we are moving forward to allow me to go ahead and sign the paperwork and and make the payments we need uh as of march 4th as opposed to waiting until the next board meeting questions i have one comment um to add there is a possibility that legislation could postpone um we hope not but we never know in politics what's going to happen um i can't postpone well or they might not go so they they could go not in our way they have to make they have to decide they have to decide either if they don't do anything then then then that's a decision um yeah and and originally you all said it's pending on that but i think part of that and not the only reason that you made it contingent upon that was because we also thought we might have to use the so3 money that's designated for the housing project to backfill our budget if in fact the aggregate spending limit is not suspended i've been reminded in in the last week that the sr3 funds excuse me cannot be used in that way so we would we would have to find other ways to trim our m o and capital budget by 2.7 million dollars we cannot but um uh so i just you know in the in the spirit of having all the information on the table for you all um you know and we cannot use those funds so those funds would still be available for the housing project regardless of what happens with the aggregate spending limit yeah we also talked about at one point with the purchasing the land and if for some reason we decided to back off we'd still own the land it's still a nice piece of property in a nice area where the value would be good so if we did in the future want to sell it and we've all had that converse okay i just want to make sure okay the district especially when it's this amount of money the district can in fact sell without a vote of the public just as in this case we could purchase without a vote of the public because of the amount of money involved if it were over 250 thousand dollars we would have we would have had to go to the public so when the money cannot be used to offset than that sr-3 cannot be used to offset uh or backfill our 2.7 million do not raise the dollars then we need to sharpen our pencils yes yes and i will tell you that those two just gave raises and all kinds of stuff so yeah and it's fine i i mean the truth is those those two things i participated in today the the meeting with all of the other superintendents and then the meeting with our our local superintendents and i came back and and looked at the budget and um uh it would be tight but we could do it i would i have to be creative so by next month i would be bringing you that creativity and there would be lots of folks involved in that there i would probably be asking you for a workshop meeting before the next board meeting uh so and and uh and our other stakeholders that we have you know this is this is a serious kind of issue and so you know the stakeholders need to be involved in this just as they were involved in the development of the of how we wanted to spend the sr3 money uh back in june so um you know we this is not a one-person decision this is a this is a uh you know having lots of voices involved in this so just to clarify um to make sure that everybody understands that because i know that there are concerns that if we purchase this property and everything falls through it's a property that we can sell yes right and it's a good piece of property yes yes so it's something that we could easily sell so if if everybody's like no we don't want the house and no we don't want this and the community just completely shuts it down purchasing this property does not put us in a hole that we can't get out of not at all okay and in fact there uh another another individual has in expressed interest in purchase of the property so i was pleased that they were willing to extend that the owner was the seller was willing to extend the closing date when we know that there are other parties interested in the property so that tells me that yes it is a viable property for for sale any other questions all right then i would move that we authorize the superintendent to complete the purchase of the property if the aggregate spending limit resolution carry aggregate limit resolutions carry in the legislature wait a second i'll second that motion amanda ayman all in favor aye corey burgess i'm amanda amen hi charlene diaz hi anna boyd i'm melinda sobreski so moved uh item 5.1 regulation jfbra open enrollment do we have any additional questions on that item and i move we approve item regulation jfbra open enrollment i'll second that motion charlene all in favor aye corey burgess hi amanda amen i'm charlene diaz hi anna boyd i'm melinda sabrowski so moved item 5.2 regulation jfb rb open enrollment any questions on that then i move we approve item jfb rb open enrollment i'll second that motion charlene all in favor aye corey burgess aye amanda ayman aye charlene diaz hi anna boyd i'm melinda sobrowski so i moved item 5.3 exhibit jfbea open enrollment any additional questions and i move we approve i exhibit jfbea give a second i'll second that and avoid all in favor aye corey burgess i'm amanda amen hi charlene diaz hi i'm adam boyd i'm melinda sabrowski so i'm out item 5.4 exhibit jfb eb open enrollment any further questions we're going to withdraw the behavior on there correct okay correct this one no questions no weather okay uh then i move that we approve exhibit jfb eb with the changes requested do we have a second um melinda sabrasky's ii all in favor aye corey burgess i'm amanda aymond hi charlene diaz hi anna boyd i'm melinda so moved i exhibit jfbec open enrollment any additional questions just the one change the same uh then i uh move we approve exhibit jfbec with the changes requested we have a second second all in favor hi corey burgess hi amanda amen hi charlene diaz hi anna boyd hi melinda so moved item 5.6 colorado river educational technology consortium internet rfp dr stewart mr president and board members um if you recall not too long ago james mcnutt talked with us about applications for the e-rate funding based on your approval at that time he went out for proposals and for several projects that would be funded by e-rate those proposals were opened and evaluated yesterday and so there are some recommendations here i will tell you that it's out of my wheelhouse so i would ask james to be to come up and be available to uh explain or answer any questions but particularly to explain what each of these pieces entail some of them i will tell you some of them entail approval in maybe not in theory but in process but before any actual purchases would be made those specific purchases would come back to the board because they are large so um would you like james to talk about this a little bit first or do you want just to answer have uh answer your questions did anybody have any specific questions yeah i'm just amazed some a couple of those had two million dollar deposits or special construction costs mostly um and that's on the next item and i can speak to that a little bit when we get there if you'd like to to know why those costs were so high any specific questions um e-rate is one of those things that is offset our technology costs incredible um so it is quite impressive how much money we save off of this um can i just propose that we just have mr mcnutt just give us a quick synopsis of all of the items that way you don't have to stand here as we do each one and uh kind of just give us a quick rundown of what to expect and in in terms that even i can understand would be great i i will do my best thank you mr president board members dr stewart uh the first item is the shared internet connection between the high school district and the elementary district through the technology consortium we've had that with sudden link in the past sudden link has been an excellent partner with the district for many years however with the twn project fiber project that was i believe kind of hosted by mec there's now a little bit of competition in the fiber optic space in bullhead city and twn came back with some very good prices um at five gigabit and i let me back up a second we're currently at three gigabits uh per second for our shared internet connection we're bumping that up to five um the twn price came in at about fifty percent of what sudden links price did and then we also had options for upgrading to seven or 10 gigabits down the road so we always apply to e-rate for the maximum speed that we may need throughout the year in this case 10 gigabits or 10 gigabits and then we'll start out at five and then once that circuit is starting to get saturated then we have the option to bump that speed up as the the contract progresses this year all the contracts were asked to be one-year contracts as not to lock us in you know with twn being a new partner in the bullhead city area the last thing i wanted to do was lock us into a five-year contract and then find out that maybe the service isn't quite so great or even worse if there's construction delays then we're stuck without any internet connection so the recommendation from the evaluation committee was for all of the twn services so the internet connection and the links between the district office and our three schools that are not right here diamondback fox creek and sunrise is initially start out with both services keep the sudden link service as a month-to-month service and also enter into a 12-month contract with twn and as the services come online and we verified that they're operational and reliable then we can migrate over to that with the internet connection we have about 60 to 70 firewall rules that all have to be updated with new ip addresses our email relays have to be updated there's a lot of work that goes into bringing a new internet service online and to make those changes 100 percent reliably at midnight on june 30 would would probably not happen um kind of the same thing with the connections between the schools while that is a little less complex that would mean i'd have to have a person standing at fox creek a person standing at sunrise a person standing at diamondback and a person in the server room here kind of like at midnight ready to swap plugs around and hope everything works so by keeping both services for a time that gives us the ability to migrate over without creating a lot of downtime and a lot of interruption of service once we're on the new connection then we could give sudden link our disconnect notice or if we are utilizing both circuits at the same time and it makes sense financially and in the best interest of the district we could potentially keep both services the nice thing with that is if one goes down there's another one there to pick it up so our our outage rate with sudden link has been extremely low i think the last couple of years we've had maybe three hours of internet outage during the day total and the connection between the schools are are very reliable so that may not be necessary on the the wan connections the 2.5 million dollars in construction costs the the reason you'll see those is those companies bid dedicated fiber so they would the the company would literally have to come in and trench and install fiber between the district office and each of those schools which is what twm has been doing for the last year you drive around and you you see the big orange pipe sticking up out of the ground that's where twn is installing their fiber and these companies would basically have to get utility right-of-ways and do the exact same construction and it's not cheap so uh 2.5 million dollars is actually about half of what it was costing uh five years ago when we went out to bid for dark fiber and we got the prices back and went uh no we'll we'll stick with you know 900 a month instead of spending 5 million dollars both of those the the twn services if you approve that tonight we would have to enter into an agreement with twn because they still have to incur construction costs to bring the fiber into our buildings and make the connections so if you approve both the internet and the wan agreement items we would sign that contract with twn and that would commit us to the the 12 months of service provided that they can provide the 12 months of service with diamondback fox creek and sunrise the anticipated go live date for those sites is june which is really close to july 2022 so if there were any construction delays or anything like that we'd want to keep that sudden link service intact and running so that we don't have an interruption of service the other three items um is what we consider priority two on e-rate so we have a set amount of funding we can spend in priority two or category two um one of the items that i asked for was a firewall i was not quite sure where the prices were going to come back on these the the one that i really wanted came back at about 450 000 of which the district would be responsible for close to 160 180 000 and we knew right away that wasn't going to fly the budget just could not handle that so we stepped it down a little bit and after the evaluations and that we still came out to where the district would be kind of on the hook for close to a hundred and ten thousand dollars what you would be approving tonight is go ahead and seeking approval for e-rate funding you're not approving the purchase of that firewall if we can't move some of those dollars from not e-rate eligible to e-rate eligible i don't think we can afford it um a hundred and twenty thousand dollars for a device that plugs into a rack seems like a lot we do get quite a good benefit out of it but i just don't think that we have it in the budget so if we came back after e-rate gets done evaluating it and they say no no you gotta pay a hundred and twenty thousand dollars we would just say no thank you so you're not approving purchasing that tonight you're approving us asking for e-rate to fund their portion of it and the same holds true for the other two the y-bot managed internet broadband services the technical category it goes under it's a wireless monitoring program that would install one sensor in each building and it's kind of like a a wireless watchdog it records what's going on with our wireless all throughout the day it performs tests on a regular basis every couple of hours it does a speed test and monitors what's going on and gives us recommendations on what we can do to improve it they sent us a demo unit and i'm i'm one of the biggest skeptics out there i you know i feel that i'm better than any piece of technology we ran it for a couple of weeks at bullhead middle school and their engineers said hey you know if you did this and this you might see a little bit of performance we made some tweaks to our wireless and complaints about our wireless went away overnight so it did it did do us some really good benefits even just during the demo so this would expand that and allow us to put one sensor in each classroom and then finally was the network equipment that will hopefully finish our switch upgrade we lasted a network upgrade seven years ago the last three years we've been slowly implementing new switches throughout the the schools and i think that would finish it um and again on on those three or my bigger part the the wireless sensors and the network equipment those are completely e-rate eligible we would pay 85 or we would pay 15 of the total cost e-rate would pay the remaining balance and we would also bring that back to you once the e-rate is funds are approved and set aside then we would come back and say okay we're ready to move forward with these projects these are the amounts the pos will be so those three items you're not committing any funds to you're just authorizing us to go ahead and apply for the e-rate funds okay any questions so you were mentioning that we so we can cancel sudden link if we do stick with twn and it's working great and what not then there's an option for that is there going to be a cost for terminating that contract early since it's a yearly contract uh our contracts are and you are the my i'm sorry the contract for sudden link was a five-year contract that expires june 30.
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[Music] is [Music] especially do not available can i have a motion to go back to open session i make a motion to return may i have a roll call this is here mr cakewood president mrs johnson president dr moreno mrs simonton president mrs swanson president pledge of allegiance please stand 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 can i have a motion to appoint dominic cerone as our interim board of education member i make a motion to appoint dominic cirone as our interim board of education member mrs samuelson aye mr gatewood aye mrs swanson aye mrs torrell aye mrs johnson hi motion passes six zero can you hear me now just speak loudly into the microphone please [Applause] okay raise your right hand and repeat after me i dominic cirone do solemnly affirm that i will faithfully dis discharge the duties of the office of member of the board of education of the oswego communities unit school district number in accordance with the constitution of the united states the constitution of the state of illinois and the laws of the state of illinois to the best of my ability so you repeat it i dominic cerrone do solemnly affirm that i will faithfully discharge the duties of the office of member of the board of education of the oswego community unit school district number 308.
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Mhm. I would say between 30 and I know, isn't that right? She came around and she was Hopefully, I just never had to drive. I'll check it. All right, before we start the meeting tonight, um I wish to have a moment of silence for Justin family.
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good morning i'm kate and i'm elijah with your morning announcements for february 11 2022. are you a senior that has not ordered their cap and gown yet see bata for information on how to order yours so you can be in the ceremony all freshmen will be meeting during their seminars on thursday and friday this week concerning class enrollment for the next school year now to isaiah with the weather today will be a high of 44 and a low of 21. saturday will be a high of 33 in the low 27th and sunday will be a high of 30 in the low 15. now back to the announcements students who are working on the knowledge assessment for a second semester dual credit class are reminded that the deadline is sunday february 13th now to isaiah with the lunch lunch today will be beef and cheese burritos refried beans and chips and salsa back to the announcements uh we go your comfort zone a challenge that could earn you up to 200 200 the greensburg optimus club is hosting their annual speech contest february 22nd give a 45 minute speech on the topic of staying optimistic at challenging times application forms are in the office and all information can be found on the flyers hung up around the school for more information see mrs kulkelmeyer attention all juniors the greensburg prevention group is looking for a new role model for be the wall be the wall is building a wall between greens between decatur county teens and substance abuse if you would like to be in the next role model and earn a 200 scholarship towards your first semester of college pick up an application in the guidance office the deadline is march first now to addison with the sports i'm addison with sports good luck to tristan smith alex dance and brian merritt at semi state for wrestling tomorrow boys basketball has a home game tomorrow jv starts at six the theme is valentine's day so wear your red and pink now back to your announcements please follow greensburg safety on instagram to stay up to date in your community the decatur county parks and recreation department is accepting applications for summer employment for lifeguard pool cashier and concession positions for the allen memorial swimming pool contact teresa kovacic at the parks department for applications or details have a great day and be sure to follow us on twitter snapchat and instagram at gchs pirates also be sure to listen to gtv
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hmm um call a meeting to order we'll start with the pledge of allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands one i just quickly want to remind everybody that we are live streaming the board meeting tonight again thank anyone who is joining us live virtually and also those who might pick up and watch the recording at a later date always great to have community members involved and want to hear what's going on with the school corporation so we'll start with consent agenda items so if we want to have a motion for approval for consent agenda items please earl second second travis is there any discussion all those in favor and now we'll ask if there's anyone um present who would like to speak on any item that is not on the agenda and i believe we have two yes the first one is liana mckinney who was the other person maybe they want to go first uh brad ponsler would you like to go first absolutely uh hey brad ponchler indiana farm bureau so appreciate the opportunity to be here this evening i've just got some information to share been in touch with superintendent brown and assistant superintendent johnson so we've got an initiative with farm bureau to promote a broadband speed test to get uh to our communities so we're just asking you know our members non-members farmers anybody in the state we're doing it statewide so to get better internet service you know to everywhere so we've seen the need of that from farmers agribusinesses across the state and so i just wanted to visit with you on that i do have uh something i'll hand out with you i know i think you guys have already kind of shared it on um you know with teachers and principals and that sort of stuff so it's pretty easy just you can go to the link and we're trying to create a map statewide just continue to show the need to legislators that we work with on the need so i'll hand these around it's got my contact information on it as well my business card so i just wanted to kind of share with all of you i know i've been in touch with superintendent brown and assistant superintendent johnson so just wanted to share with all of you and kind of share our efforts what we're trying to do not only here in jennings county but across the state i got a comment about this boy he played on a football team we went to floyd central they were undefeated we beat them 46 to 6.
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you can you hear us now yes yeah i just turned on the speaker oh okay all right so we're going to call the annual meeting at the board of finance for the jennings county school corporation to order um i think phillip are you running this show uh after you do the election president secretary excellent so um what we'll start is um for the election of a president yeah well you guys you just need somebody needs to nominate someone and then just do the normal vote okay just for this purposes of this meeting that's a little excellent and that would be just for this meeting what no i'm not the president it'd be like right it has to be okay i'll nominate amy okay i'll second that all right so we have a nomination by earl in a second by pat um are there i need to or is there any discussion okay then we need to do a roll call um so susan if you'll do a roll call chelsea yes tony yes pat yes travis yes earl yes myself yes yes um and then the next we need to elect a secretary so if we um have any nominations for secretary susan yes okay all right so we have a nomination by tony and a second by earl any discussion so if you'll do a roll call susan chelsea yes tony yes pat yes travis yes earl yes amy yes yes okay all right next part is the designation of depositories we have two places we bank with german american and old national the next order is the investment report and the in the investment report it's in your packet the only thing worth noting on there is our interest has dropped significantly in 2020 from 2021 and that's because we basically paid for the wrestling facility construction the money that was borrowed in 19 was put in cds those got pretty good interest because you had a very large amount of money that's since been paid since the building has been constructed so we're down to what our what and then interest rates slightly dropped a little bit from that standpoint also because interest is next to nothing so but the report shows what that is and on top of that we did not purchase or sell any cds in 2021 next up is review investment policy the policy is policy 6144 listed on our website there is no recommendation of changes at this point in time next steps cancellation of outstanding checks there were no outstanding checks older than two years which is a the law that we have to follow our oldest check currently in our system at the end of december was dated 7 29 of 21 so not even 6 months old is our oldest check that we have in our corporation last thing to review is the corporation fiscal and qualitative indicators which is again on a state website is where this is located i put it in your packet but the only two things worth sort of viewing on there is we've had a slight drop in adm from 19 to 20.
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all right good evening everybody i'm tara carr for celebrating brookfield and it is um what is today thursday evening the 10th of february 2022 i'd like to call to order the meeting for the board of selectmen i have myself again first elect me tara carr and selectmen harry shaker present this evening um selecting steve dunn is not present this evening and um with that i'll pass it over to glen rooney board of finance i'd like to call to order the board of finance meeting for february 10th everybody in the board of finance is here except for brianna rucco uh on to you bob okay i'd like to call the february 10th meeting with the board of education to order thank you all for coming we have a quorum if we have four of our seven members we do have i think two members will be arriving late because of conflicts so because we started early tonight which is kind of nice so let's start by uh rising for the pledge of allegiance [Music] pledge allegiance to the decline of the united states of america and to the power for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all [Music] so thank you everybody for coming this evening our primary goal this evening is to actually share the board of education budget with both before the finance and the board of selectmen we are entering into a uh to the next phase i'll call it of the budget process because i can't call it the first phase because we've been at it for a couple months now um the uh and and i will be doing the presentation tonight with help from dr barrel um but before we start um i'd like to turn the floor over to eileen koch if i could because she has a special uh announcement my apologies ahead of time but i heard that it might be somebody's birthday today so there are some cupcakes to help celebrate at the end of the morning happy birthday i promise we wouldn't sing you [Music] okay so my goal would be to go with reasonable pace tonight i know everybody has very busy calendars um and i will pause as often as we need to to do questions and answers as we go or if you'd like you can hold questions till the end and you know so you see the whole picture and then we could do that i do recognize that there are more meetings on our calendars and we will have plenty of opportunities to talk in fact the board of education is scheduled with the board of finance i think on march 8th so i'm one of the thoughts glenn and i had is that ought to be a very working meeting we'll do this we won't do this presentation a second time but as uh as people have questions you can send them to myself to dr burrill or mr post or all three of us and we will get them answered right so there might be more detailed questions that people have but we'll talk about that budget as we go along and some of the things we've done already to scrub this budget so let me see if i can get this to work right um i put the mission statement up in the first present first chart of every um budget presentation just to remind us it's all about the students right we're here to give a good education to to our children in brookfield the the board of ed is charged with doing that we try to do it with a relatively tight budget mentality but we do understand that there are other pressures that the town has to deal with taxation revaluations and everything else and we like to participate in that process but what the budget you'll get from us today is our best estimate of what it takes to do the educational job that we're charged with so we've been at this budget process now since october it's kicked off at the beginning of october now just to remind everyone we're just barely into school and dr burrell sits the principles down and says now start working on your budget for a year from now so the budget process in this in school districts is a never-ending process uh dr that work was started in october was worked through in november it came to the board of education in the first meeting in december which is i think the second it's december 1st this year number first this year we are the earliest district to get a budget from our superintendent of all districts and the reason we've been doing that is then we take it as a board and we really use the month of december and the month of january to exercise it we actually we have a finance committee who goes through all the line items all of our board members have a chance to inspect the budget ask questions try to find opportunities to do it as efficiently and as effectively as we can we had a numerous presentations at our board meetings on the various topics we'll be talking about today so it's a very busy month of december and uh january for us we submitted that budget at the end of january uh we're doing this presentation a little over a week later and and we do understand the process now goes all the way into may right as we go through reviews and public hearings um as as a town before i jump into the budget itself i want to talk a little bit about the thing that will dominate the discussion uh for the for school year 2022 2023 and that's the new elementary school that we have um for those of you who haven't seen it this is the artist's rendering of the of what the new school will look like what you're looking at is the cafeteria entrance right in front of you the main entrance just passed it and the uh young early elementary entrance further we actually have a school design that has a separate entrance for the kindergartners and the first graders because they're just so tiny compared to fifth graders and and what you see here is the front facade which is very natural it will have a stream rolling in front of it that property has a stream that was buried was called eastbrook it was buried for years by the farmer who owned the property and that's why the the fields were always a little wet so they're going to open that up and put bridges over it and give a very natural feeling to the to the property what i thought would be interesting and it's only 30 seconds is to show you a little bit of what's really going on right now so this is uh thank you to eric he pulled out his drone and went and did a little video for us so what you're looking at here and if i could do this in the back these are the classroom spaces back in here these are the common spaces the gym and the cafeteria the main offices are here uh this is the beginning of the early childhood side side the the drive will come right in the right in the front here and the bridges will kind of grow go across to the entrances of the olympia there's the stream you can actually see the stream bed itself there this is where the parking will be for the new school and i would point out that that's right where huckleberry is now which is what was in the foreground and that's what gives rise to the biggest challenge we're facing in 2022-2023 is how to move into the new building get the parking built and then be able to get all of the teachers to be able to get to the building so they could teach so let me turn to dr barrel for a moment let him talk a little bit about some of the challenges we've been facing sure uh thank you bob and uh and thanks everybody for being here and uh assembling this evening we are extremely uh excited uh thrilled and grateful for the opportunity to be building a brand new elementary school that will bring three school cultures together i mean essentially we've got the fifth graders eventually from wisconier they will not no longer be educated in portables they will be at the elementary school which is very appropriate for the age level of course our huckleberry students and our center school students all coming together so we're really excited about that some of the things in terms of timing that have been a challenge and we started to talk about this in very early november because we are working hand in glove with the municipal building committee and mr cecco there was a roofing materials delay so that has has slowed us down a little bit and and while uh every every setback could be looked at as a challenge we decided we were going to flip that and look at it as an opportunity and frankly it's it's given us a little bit of the gift of time in terms of some of the planning we're doing with our with our faculty and our staff as we transition over the course of next year having said that um the original plan was it was a full a move in in 2022 at the beginning of the year that is not going to happen actually what's going to happen is we're going to move the huckleberry students at the middle of the year next year into candlewood lake elementary school when it's ready i'm getting a little head of the slide the piece we have to think about and bob started to talk about that is the parking situation so as we think this through we only have space and temporary parking space for about half the faculty and staff in subsequent visitors and so when we move the students from huckleberry in the right before christmas time and over the winter break into candlewood lake because it'll be ready by then uh next year and we get the kids in then we vacate huckleberry now what happens the school now the old huckleberry needs to become demolished that takes time you don't just demolish a building like you see on tv and it's an implosion and it's done there's a lot of materials that need to be removed there you have to be safe it's on an active school site there's a lot lot to do and you have to have parking as well you can't just use the entire property do whatever you want to do that's going to take some time through the winter months and then the parking will start the asphalt will come together and so forth and all the landscape changes we only will have room for parking for the huckleberry now candlewood lake two three and four grades uh faculty and staff so that's gonna happen all of next year the huckleberry kids start at huckleberry middle of the year they go to candlewood lake they finish the year at candlewood lake center school students next year actually stay at center school for the entire year so center school will be an active school the entire year next year there'll be no disruption to the students of course all the kids matriculate a grade at the end of this year to the next grade um and then they will move in at the beginning of 23 24 and fifth graders they'll already be a candle with candle with lake because they'll be fourth graders who matriculate to fifth grade they just won't go to wisconsin for the fall of 23.
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good all right good evening tonight the planning committee tonight is february 10 2022 this is a planning committee meeting for the cheshire board of education roll call please mr messiana okay mr martelly present mr white here there's rosemary here you have a quorum and all members of the committee mr martel all right [Music] okay any communication emails anything from the uh we have not received anything so we haven't got anything not related to this no no i don't see any members of the public here to address this evening um all right so i guess we'll just jump right into the agenda then do you want to kick it off sure so what i did is i provided the same package of information that we had when we did our site visits um there's nothing that's changed um just a couple of things that i wanted to do quickly and i will turn it over to discussion one is that um at our site visit meeting we spoke about the roof schedules and i just wanted to show you where we are with our roof systems across the district and if you just look up on the smart board here this is a summary and there's a there's a copy of this for all the committee members let me just make this a little bit bigger yeah so this was this is uh mr corvette's schedule and i'll just highlight quickly so you can see this is done by school this is chapman they have a total of a little over 28 000 square feet of roof systems this shows the installation date and i'm just going to highlight the this chapman roof the warranty expired in 2010 so we're 12 years past the warranty period however the roof is in good condition this rating was done combination of a walk through with um mr clavette and the missionary new england mason okay so the high school the right items again those represent the roofs out of warranty and then in the spark pylon if the condition of the roof is poor it so indicates so i'm not going to belabor this you could see that there's a bunch of different roof systems some are new and they're excellent and we've got plenty of life some are past their warranty but they're still in good condition if you look you know up here this isn't on the bottom of your right we have 604 000 uh square feet of roof systems of which 296 000 square feet roughly 49 is under warranty uh which means 51 is out of warranty that's just informational the more important detail is here so of the other 600 4 000 square feet about thirteen percent seventy five properties a hundred fourteen thousand of that seventy five thousand is doolittle's roof system which is one of the capital budget requests that we have for year two about 300 4 000 square feet is in good condition and then about 18 109 000 square feet is new and in excellent condition okay so that's just a high level summary of the roof systems um then are there any so what i have here in front of um on the smoke board in front of the committee members are is the exact schedule that we've been looking at this is the schedule that is sorted by school and what i thought we could do is we discuss if there are any changes to be made the options are if we take one of the items proposed for 22-23 we can move it to a future year um right now the total capital bud quest i there's totals on the bottom but i put totals up here as well so as we make changes we could see what what's happening to the total right now we're 32.5 million the only other thing that i did um and it's it's up to the committee if we want to move something out of the five-year plan and into year six which means it won't be in the five-year plan i i would put that here so rather than take anything out of the capital plan altogether we could put it into year six so that we preserve that as one of the items that we know is on our list to be um that's something that we need to get to it at a future point in time right okay and the importance of that is the five-year capital plan the you know the borrowing the debt cost associated with that that does get built into the overall towns not only capital budget but also the debt service goes into the operating budget so there is some give and take that uh the town council certainly will take up as they review the operating budget as it relates to whatever's in the capitol so that's what i wanted to present and with that mr martellio i'll turn it back over to you leave discussion or however you would like to proceed sure so i um i took a look at what we used as for this year's capital budget request um i went through the items we did the sidewalk and we looked a lot of these items in the field and i kind of made my own list and i passed it out to members of the clinic i made a couple extra copies here um trying to be very careful about what we put on to restaurant into the voters this coming year because we're going to have two elementary school projects obviously which are going to be about probably about 100 million dollars for those two projects on the ballot so all the items that were proposed for this year the following do you want me just to kind of read through what okay so i'll just if you guys i made two extra copies for you for those i may or may not be listening or watching at home so starting with cheshire high school um moving forward with the 225 000 for the hvac improvements um the cam lock for the generator at 60 000 for toilet chester high school 285 district-wide improvements uh laboratories at 250 flooring replacement roof repairs 125 district wide acoustic tile replacement 100 000 repaving another 100 000 so for district-wide improvements maintaining exactly what you would propose at 775 000 so that's left unchanged um over at dodd hvac improvements which we'll call it that one for 100 000 roof placement for the design of 50 000 i'm sorry let me start over unit ventilators at dodd for the 200 000 the rtu replacement had died for 120 000 for a total of diamond 320 thousand dollars over at doolittle hvac 400 roof replacement design for 50 and the window replacement design for another 50 for a total of too little of 200 000 and a highland school 310 for exterior lighting improvements 50 000 to for the redesign for the traffic flow for the parking areas and then the 220 for the emergency generator for total at highland school 580 000.
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um so all right cuddles we're all good all right thank you all right uh we're going to go ahead and move on to item one i'm going to call the meeting to order will will the administration please call the roll days a regular board meeting of february 10th 2022 at 5 30 p.m members of the of the board in attendance president andres quintero president vice president mim pham president [Music] members administration superintendent dr bauer present all right at this point uh the quorum haven't been established for procedural demeaning uh the board of trustees of the alam rock union elementary school district does here acknowledge uh that the district schools and facilities sit on traditional lands of the moequema only people and that the board of trustees further acknowledges with respect to reverence the muekma alone uh people lonely people try with san francisco bay area or their stewardship of these lands and i'll proceed with the pledge of allegiance we have a flag in front of you let's face it ready pledge allegiance all right moving on to item 1.02 discussion and modification of the agenda uh i believe that we have a modification that needs to be made um which is item 8.03 uh the contract so i'll go ahead and move that up uh or i will propose that we move that up um to right after this item which is 1.02 uh is there any other items that i'm sorry i didn't hear you clearly what did you say we're moving item 8.03 to immediately after this item immediately after 1.02 is there is there other items that the board wishes to move ahead or move in different place all right see none then we'll go ahead and uh through consensus adopt the modification as amended the all right um is there any um public comment with regard to item 1.02 hello board president at this time i see no public comment all right see none then we'll go ahead and uh move on to item 8.03 oh hold on give me a quick second let's go ahead and adopt the agenda um formally you have a motion to adopt the agenda as i see you vice president farm i board member travis hi foreign and board member hi motion with myself holding high the motion passes all right moving on to item 8.03 we have a second approval and ratification of the tentative agreement between the allen rock union elementary school district and the elm rock educators association for the period of july 1st 2021 through june 30th 2024.
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there you go okay we'll call the um february 10th apple valley school board meeting to order at three o'clock and uh with that we'll do roll call dennis bender here christopher nunez present maria para i'm here wilson so is absent and rick is here i'm here all right california department of public health is requiring massively worn it all into our public settings irrespective of vaccine status for eight weeks december 15 through february 15th alpha valley unified school district will continue to follow facility mass entry guidelines um [Music] dennis would lead us in the pledge [Music] ready begin i pledge allegiance of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with whatever religion thank you please be seated all right moving right along item four public comments kylie do we have any uh public comments we do have one okay all right mr owl you're up all right zach laying on us there is one we changed the policy to 30 seconds so just for you [Music] that's not a problem i'm very experienced with board policy and how to get waivers to them just do what everybody else does just stay up there forever good evening board members superintendent nelson assistant superintendents i'm mr zackow i am the chief negotiator for the apple valley apple valley unified teachers association also known as avuta tonight i would like to provide you with the avuta sunshine negotiations proposal for the 2022 to 2025 school years our strategy in creating this sunshine document was two-fold number one to eliminate as much confusing vague and archaic language and that is currently in the contract and replace it with clear and concise contract language number two to update update the financial position of all unit members that fall within our contract and to ensure that in this time of the highest inflation the inflation rate figures came out last week for january the nation is currently at 7.5 national inflation as calculated by the consumer price index it is simply one factor that is an indicator among many economic factors such as local inflation state inflation national producer product index there are many different but what this shows us is we are currently in the highest inflation inflationary cycle since 1982 that is 40 years okay tonight we have provided each of you with a binder if you please go to your binder if you open your binder up you'll see on the inside flap there's an avuta negotiations team roster so that you know who all the negotiators are who are secretaries or alternate negotiator is and all of these people have done yeoman's work putting this sunshine proposal together and i thank them if you go to the table of contents you'll see articles 1 through 13 and then flip it over should have articles 14 through 20 i believe and then on the last page 21-23 now if you flip over to article one the first page behind if you'll notice article one you have um you have typed in red avuta uses red to indicate new language or changed language okay so anywhere where you see red that is a new addition or a change if you go over to article two you'll see at least in my copy the word librarians is stricken out uh we highlighted that that there i don't think we highlighted the rest of the contract but we highlighted it there just so you can see anything that we've struck out we believe is language it should be deleted okay so those were the the main considerations as you read and if you look towards the back of your contract you'll see a a a flap that says contract in it we provided you a complete copy of the 2019 to 2022 contract so as you look at our sunshine and when we did the sunshine we tried to put as much contextual language without actually copying the entire article over but we tried to put context before and after everything if you want you can immediately go back to the original context read the original language and see how our language and the context differs so again we we've done this uh for the ease of everybody so every board member uh the superintendent the assistant superintendents all got a cop a copy and i believe kylie did was there a copy for you as the secretary okay well i thought we had one extra but if we didn't um i'm sure um i appreciate your time on this i look forward to having a very good negotiation cycle avuta is going to negotiate in good faith like we always do we have no preset concepts at this time we will go in there and we we will walk the walk okay and we we will do what's necessary and i'm hoping we could come to a satisfactory agreement on both sides many times in negotiations and i've been a negotiator for nearly 30 years i was also a negotiator in the army i used to negotiate army contracts some of them were multi-million dollar contracts and i used to have a philosophy when i when i worked with vendors because they thought the army was just a piggy bank you give money to or we give money to them depending on and i didn't i didn't agree with that so i always told them negotiations is not the process of give and take it's the process of give and give giving and taking rarely gets you anywhere you become entrenched in positions each side needs to be willing to work with the other and that's what i've always called give and give again i've been negotiating for avuta since 2000 since year 2000 and therefore we've had seven contracts in a time period in that time period there's only one contract i did not directly write something in so of the seven last contracts i was an author on six of them so my my historical and continuity knowledge on this goes back very very deep so again if anyone ever has any questions don't hesitate to contact me and uh when the district does their sunshine next month we're looking forward to getting started and getting it done thank you very much board members superintendent superintendents have a very good evening uh is that it for public comments uh kylie okay i do have any public comments pertaining to closed session that was it okay all right we're going to be uh moving into closed session but prior to that i want to read uh sections one through eight what we'll be discussing in closed session number one people personnel expulsion cases exp 152122 through exp 1621-22 item two conference of litigation government code section 54956.9 subsection a current litigation six cases two zero one one one eight three two zero two two nine five six two two correction two zero two three three six six two one zero three three nine six two one one three o 303 government code section 54954.5 subsection c and subsection d two e anticipated litigation five cases 2018 1907 2020 2105 2020 2107 2021 2203 2021 2204 government code section five 54954 point five subsection d anticipated litigation one case beverly goss number three public employee discipline dismissal release reassignment transfer leave title certificated and classified employees item four public employees appointments right donations retirement reduction titled certificated classified employees item five conference with labor negotiator agency negotiator dustin conrad the employee organization apple valley unified teachers association six conference with labor negotiator agency negotiator dustin conrad the employee organization california school employees association seven conference with labor negotiator agency negotiator trine nelson the employee organization unrepresented item eight conference for real property negotiator government code 549 five six point eight negotiation parties matthew schulenburg at the bell unified school district we have a motion to go into close session motion okay so we're going to be back in closed session we'll be back out by 4 pm you okay okay we'll call this meeting back to order at um about 4 13.
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it's my understanding that if we do nothing it reverts to a month-to-month contract where we would still pay the same rate that we've been paying and our cancellation would be a 30-day notice and then it would it would terminate at the end of the next billing cycle so if we said on august 15th we don't need the sudden link uh internet connection anymore 30 days later the service would be canceled that would be the middle of september we would have to pay september's bill but that would be it and that would be my recommendations to do something along those lines to make sure that we get the new services up and running before we cancel those and amanda i would say conversations that happened today in the chamber of commerce government and business affairs committee meeting a discussion because mec presents updates every month um that that is kind of the standard pro process that local businesses are using where they're having the overlap time but as soon as as soon as the um the twm is functioning the way it should then they're ending there yeah and that's perfect i just want to make sure that we didn't lock ourselves into anything and and we now we have to pay a cancellation fee and and you know something like that yeah services yeah right and we would also ask for e-rate funding on that sudden link service while we're doing the transition so uh in the past um i've not done it here but the four years i spent in new mexico we had several client the k-12 clients that did the same thing and we basically apply for both services the the team that handles the e-rate program usac would come back and say come on why do you need two internet connections and that's when we would explain that you know this one is going to month to month this is new service there's new construction there could be delays as soon as it's active we'll take steps to cancel the other one and it's usually approved without any other issues do we have to wait for the crush board because if this is a shared service in the consortium is that something that we have to you know approve pending or i mean i i'm not sure maybe dr stewart can provide a little bit of clarification but sorry the elementary school district is the fiscal agent for the consortium so even if the high school board did not approve going to twn we still need a new we still need an internet connection twn was ranked the highest in our evaluation matrix the rules on e-rate are pretty clear we have to go with tw and unless there's an overwhelming overriding reason to not choose them okay so the high school would have to go to twins or they would have to seek out their own internet connection yes then it would force them to withdraw if they didn't want to do this it would force them to withdraw from that element of the consortium and but um their technology person was part of this committee was on the evaluation team i'm sure the recommendation will be the same yeah i'm sure it will be too um but i think the other part is we have to we have to look after what we need and um uh and in this case it's out you know it's our district's decision on this on this piece so we don't have to wait for them we can make a decision on this award the contract based on this and how it's set up yes and if they choose to go with it great if they don't then that's okay too exactly i just wanted to make sure that it wasn't tied to the consortium and we're now and it's a that's a great question it's a great question i also want you to know that because he won't say it himself james has done really good due diligence on uh on the twn thing uh because you know he's he's reasonably a skeptic on some of these things you know he doesn't want to be sold a bill of goods uh so he checked with um what state was it florida oh marana here in arizona tucson down by tucson who they already have twn and so he checked with them on what kind of service and do they do they provide what they say they provide and and he said that when he conducts a speed test he usually gets more than what they're sold so that they're not as big of a client as we are but you know he had a 200 megabit internet connection he said he would often see 250 300 megabits when he was doing the speed tests and responded just like sudden link does you know what one of the things i really valued with sudden link and still value a sudden link is when there is an issue they are very upfront and say this is what the issue was this is what caused it and this is what we're going to do to make sure it doesn't happen again and even when i'm the cause of issues their engineers are more than happy to sit on the phone with me and talk through ideas about what's going on and he said he gets the same thing from twn that when there is an outage they respond very quickly you know he he's out on the outskirts of tucson and their their wireless relay was on a mountain he said yeah sometimes it would take an hour or two for somebody to get up to the mountaintop and start climbing a tower like an hour or two that's that's great you know for for somebody responding like that those are pretty good response types twn also included kind of like a service map and they've set up a very good highly resilient network which i'm sure suddenlink has as well so that a a single a single issue anywhere along the network would not cause analogies it's it's it's a big ring so if there's a problem on this half of the ring the data can flow one direction if there's a problem on the other side it can flow the other way so i think i think it'll be a good uh solution for us any other questions thank you hold on i just had one on why bot you had mentioned that um i thought originally you said one per school but then you had said one per classroom is it one part classroom one per school my apologies it's one per building per building correct so uh like perhaps at the middle school we might need one or two in the main building but uh the majority of the other schools whether it's like an eight or a 12 classroom building one sensor would be sufficient but my apologies it's one per building no worries thanks any other questions all right then i'd like to move that we approve item 5.7 oh sorry 5.6 do we have a second i'll second emotion all in favor aye corey burgess hi amanda amen hi charlene diaz hi anna floyd i'm melinda sobrowski so moved now i'd like to move that we approve item 5.7 we have a second i'll second melinda all in favor aye corey burgess aye amanda amen aye charlene hi anna boyd i'm melinda all right i would like to combine items for my motion 5.8 5.9 and 510 because those are all based on approvals um through the e-rate approval so at this time i'd like to motion on five eight five nine and five ten uh pending approval through e rates all in favor aye corey burgess i'm amanda amen hi anna boyd i'm melinda so moved item 511 hope mr president and board members we've been working first for a couple of years now on making sure that we have really good partnerships with other agencies in the in the community and in the county and excuse me as a result of some of those things the county health department mojave department of public health has offered us some supplemental programs that address students mental and mental health particularly in life choice kinds of training and they would provide the instructors for these we're currently doing uh some things similar things with some programs from west care at both the middle school and the junior high as elective courses and and those are working out very well so this gives us another source of some supplemental things these deal a little more in depth with some of the topics and so these would be opt in for our elementaries at the junior high and the middle school of course parents approve those course you know signing up for students to sign up for those courses anyway so those are already really opt-in courses there are four of these and when kim put them in um she didn't realize there were four so one is hope and there are three others and i've asked jen to kind of brief you on these but this would be supplemental this would not replace or would not replace any of our current academic programs it's just a supplement and it's a really good it gives us some offerings for students who have some real issues that we've not been able to address beyond that i would have jen answer your questions and the best she can after she's met with since she's met with the county person i did have a couple real quick first off this is this is a program provided by the county we're basically providing the classroom to give these services to our students and it is an option so if you want your student to be part of this it's available it's not required so you opt into this program right okay oh okay all right so um the four programs the first one is project hope and that's kindergarten through eighth grade it's actually kindergarten twelfth but first it would be kindergarten through eighth grade um it's more developing like drug private prevention attitudes or just the skills neces the skills to say no to drugs basically um their focus is opium and opioid addictions but the hope curriculum is a little more broad so it's not specific to just opioid um they have project alert which is only for seventh and eighth grade and that is more um peer pressure like what are you going to what could you experience how would you feel when your friends are around you maybe dealing having drugs doing drugs and you know what kind of things might you come up with and decisions you have to make based on peer pressure and things um operation prevention is to through eighth grade that actually takes some science and ela standards um and they actually list the standards in their lessons they're more hands-on experimental it kind of goes more with the science new science standards and new science curriculum [Music] and the last one is a scholastic program and that deals with over-the-counter medications and that's fifth through eighth grade they gave a lot of information so i know i we gave overviews of the various lessons that and um grade levels for each of the programs the only one that i didn't have a whole lot of information on was the scholastic she just gave me a link and even i couldn't get through too much when i went to the link but all this is available for parents that may be interested in this absolutely okay so i have one concern and and that is is that meaning for the elementary piece because if they're doing the elective at the middle school junior high then that's something different but when you're talking at the elementary section the there are like 11 sessions and they are 45 minutes long i don't know that we have 45 minutes in a school day that you can eat that out um you know yes you're talking maybe once a month but that's still 45 minutes or even apply it to a flex friday yeah it's gonna say after school because because if it's in opt-in that's kind of my whole point is that okay we need to come up with an alternative because not from classes during a regular school schedule is not going to work um i did think that while you could probably run it through pe um you know if it's once a month and it's a 45 minute option um i mean 45 minute program they could probably do it that way but to put it in a regular classroom i i just don't see that well yeah the hope curriculum was a lot longer and more i mean it's really thorough it is a really good program but it just that's a lot of time that would be taken away from other things that we need to do well but as you as you were stating i mean pe and health are both in the curriculum and in the standards at least you know at the high school level for sure um k-12 certified physical education and health teacher this is important like it they're not just talking specifically about opioid which is a huge issue but the over the counter prescription medications that are readily available in homes um you know yeah my kids are older now so like the cabinets you know they're no longer hidden unlocked or whatever but you still have to talk to them about you know ibuprofen and tylenol and you know anything else i mean you know just even the things of like how to make the healthy choices and what to focus on and the difference between safe and unsafe and and how to have some of those conversations i don't know i i actually i'm really excited because seeing what we've been going through for the f past few weeks at the high school um you know there's things in here that focus on vapes and marijuana and those are the i mean we've been busy we've been very busy in the administration at mojave with with those types of things and i feel like there's this uh this uh i don't know how to describe it but like this feeling out there that it's legal it's fine um and but they're not realizing what's happening and what our students are affected because you know the whole frontal lobe i just think that if they had more education when they were younger and then they had an opportunity to make those informed choices versus the peer pressure and then just feeling like oh it's legal it's okay you know make an informed decision and whether or not i choose to do that and i i love starting at the lower levels why do you choose it's just okay too and trying to find that time is the concern that i have i see that i can see it being a little bit easier at the junior high middle school high school level because you can make an elective course out of it yeah i do like the idea of flex friday especially since it's an opt-in thing that you know we couldn't do that and even if we did it with pe being an opt-in they're providing the instructor so yeah on that day if you got 20 kids coming out of pe that day that pe teacher might be a little excited but it would definitely be a be a situation where we're not providing additional staff for it so it's it it could definitely work with that health program because it'd be different grade levels so um but i do like that idea but yeah just during the regular yeah definitely not take it out i think i think i think pe is is a smart way to do it and you speak with the pe teachers and ask them you know hey is this something that you'd be interested in an opportunity for a guest speaker to come in it's the community it's a nice thing to do as well um i know we do it at the high school with guest speakers that come in for presentations and we usually but the freshmen will cycle through you know because the lower grade level will cycle through that freshman class so if we're doing it through pe or something um after school is great as well um i would say we leave it to site discretion yeah absolutely instead of seeing it it's an option or it has to do oh no i wouldn't discretion let him say this works best for our schedule because what works at one school may not work in another one um but it's opt-in and we're not providing staff we're providing a room which i think works out great we are and just so that we're totally upfront about this since these presenters are not certified teachers are not listed as subs we would need a school district employee present as we have for instance at fox creek that one paraprofessional position that you all approved that involves that person having a sub-certificate and being in that room so that's not an insurmountable issue um and it would and it wouldn't affect the after-school or the flex friday but it would affect during the school day so um uh you know and we would make sure that we've got we have the liability things covered so just wanted you to be aware of that yes um okay so my my only concern with okay so i love things like this and stuff but as someone who did come from a very rough um household and things like that my only concern is what is that there's a plan in place to support students through these things important as as they're going through these things and it's not just we're teaching a class and here's your class because i'm going to guarantee yes you're going to reach a couple of kids but a lot of them it's they go home and the people that because i was reading through some of the curriculum earlier today and some of the lessons about trusted adults and it's like well what if that trusted adult is the very person that you're supposed to be not listening to yeah you know what i mean and i know that it's it's frustrating for people a lot of times because parents they you know i'm a parent i have two kids in this district and one in the high school district and you know we want to be like you know all parents are these amazing people that just never hurt their kids and never do anything wrong but that's not true i mean that's important the difference between an adult and a trusted adult was the lesson i think and and that's important and it's like providing a place where and more than just these lessons so that when kids realize that that trusted adult is possibly not mom or dad you know how do how do we handle that and having the support systems in place for that and that's the nice thing about having a counselor on each site when we have you know we have one that doesn't because of who couldn't find someone but um that's one of the nice things about the counselors because that's the kind of relationship that they have established with many students is that they are a trusted adult um there would need to be more than that and and we want our students to it's not related directly to this but any of the thoughts and and you know trauma-informed practices and all of those kinds of things is that we expand the availability to our students of trusted adults for things that are not necessarily about academics but about other issues that they have and and we know that our kids unfortunately these topics are our issues with our kids and uh and unfortunately other topics of uh you know that um that put our students at risk outside of school um exist and and we can't just ignore them so we're already looking at building support systems for our students this would just help with with the the informational side of it and we will continue to build the support side awesome any other questions all right thank you uh that i move we approve item 5.11 the hope project and other curriculum as presented i'll second that amanda amen all in favor aye corey burgess i'm amanda eamon hi charlene hi anna boyd i'm melinda so moved item 5.12 professional staff contracts and compensation dr stewart mr president and board members it's time to start building the budget for fiscal year 24.
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in accordance with the constitution of the united states the constitution of the state of illinois and the laws of the state of illinois to the best of my ability i further affirm that i shall respect taxpayer interest by serving as a faithful protector of the school district's assets i further affirm that i shall respect taxpayer interest by serving as a faithful protector of the school district's assets i shall encourage and respect the free expression of opinion by my fellow board members and others who seek a hearing before the board while respecting the privacy of students and employees i shall encourage and respect the free expression expression of opinion by my fellow board members and others who seek a hearing before the board while respecting the privacy of students and employees i shall recognize that a school board member has no legal authority as an individual and that decisions can be made only by a majority vote at the school board meeting i shall recognize that a school board member has no legal authority as an individual and that decisions can be made only by a majority vote at a school board meeting i shall abide by majority decisions of the school board while retaining the right to seek changes in such decisions through ethical and constructive channels i shall abide by majority decisions of the school board while retaining the right to seek changes in such decisions through ethical and constructive channels as part of the board of education i shall accept the responsibility for my role in the equitable and quality of education of every student in the school district as part of the board of education i shall accept the responsibility of my role in the equitable and quality of education of every student in the school district i shall foster with the board extensive participation of the community formulate goals define outcomes and set the course for oswego community unit school district 308 i shall foster with the board extensive participation of the community formulate goals define outcomes and set the course for us oswego community unit school district 308.
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And after that, participate in Pledge of Allegiance to the flag as we said this time. Thank you. 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. I will speak in the order at to be heard yet? I have an action needed item, the recommendation to remove the shuttle portion for the patent transport S31 from the patent contract 2019-2023 with Sarah Peyton per her request effective January 3rd, 2022. Do I have a move? Do I have a motion to accept the modifications as presented? I so move. Second.
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their head football coach got on the school bus you remember that it's been a few years ago you [Music] thanks coach that's been a few days ago yeah like it was yesterday but again appreciate the opportunity and uh if you know farm bureau many of you know our our insurance company but i work on the advocacy arm for farmers agribusiness people and you know rural indiana and you know all of indiana really so but that's you know i work for the parent company just to make sure you're clear my contact information is there and again appreciate the opportunity thank you good evening um i noticed all of you stood up and said the pledge to to allegiance but i also know that there's five members on this board who does not believe those words that come out of their mouth when we say liberty that means the right to choose the right freedom freedom to choose in october there were three very distinct speakers that came before each one of you in about the mass mandate one speaker was a grandmother and um the grandmother said hey my my grandchild has had three this was in october three upper respiratory infections from being masked which goes along exactly with what dr fauci said at the beginning of the pandemic he said people be touching their mast bringing breathing in bacteria causing more harm to their health than good masking is not good another parent came the first parent came and he had all this research about how masking does not work the third one came up said i have a child who's a kindergarten gardener who is regressing educationally because of being masked okay then another parent came up and said hey this isn't about masking our kids this is about the funding you all get well over the past between the last school board meeting and this bluebird meeting all of those things became very apparent and very true maths do not work because we had to shut down the school and it is not about the safety of our children because you ran the school two more days knowing you should have said shut down it's about the money okay i i'm just here to really point this out to you because you're not fooling anybody everybody knows that it's just running a mug so let's give the freedom and the liberty back to the parents letting our parents choose what's best for their child and stay out of our parents business medically what's best for their child and that's all i have to say thank you so next on the agenda we have some stronger together recognition we do so um we have so many employees who do an amazing job for us each and every day and last night we celebrated our teachers of the year and our operational and educational personnel of the year and tonight i thought it was important for us to celebrate some gentlemen who have been working so hard for the last well always but the last two years in particular so many things required us to change what we're doing in our schools and these guys have stepped up over and over again most recently with the winter storm they came in all over the weekend they were plowing i came in on sunday afternoon you couldn't even tell there'd been snow and ice here because they just had already cleared the parking lot so well so greatly appreciate what these gentlemen do in our schools each and every day they're just godsends even painted mason jars for us they're just fabulous we greatly appreciate them wanted to recognize them tonight just a small token of our appreciation so when i call you up if you come up and get your t-shirt and your certificate and then depending on how they feel about shaking hands you can walk or fist bump or whatever you want to do kelly love grove thank you so much kelly appreciate everything you do [Applause] marshall boyd [Applause] frankly [Applause] thank you very much sir appreciate it thank you appreciate your leadership thank you so much thank you appreciate you thank you everyone thank you every day not just today brian hilton [Applause] chain over [Applause] [Laughter] it's like a super bowl week mike rayburn [Applause] the last but not least jeff anders [Applause] thank you very much thank you for lending us debbie he's a keeper thank you all again for um your dedication to the corporation to making sure that we meet our mission that's on the back of the wall and for always putting the kids first next on the agenda we have sand creek elementary presentation well thank you all for inviting us here this evening and we love the opportunity to talk about one of our favorite places i'm so glad this evening to be joined here by two of the members of our leadership staff there assistant principal karen pedego and teddy bates our title instructional coach these ladies are amazing true cornerstones in our building you know they just do an amazing job for our students each and every day i'm so glad to be up here with them talking about our wonderful school so we'll get started we're going to start with our goals here at st creek we're going to start with our reading goal just and all of our academic goals we'll talk about those you know coven has had an enormous effect on our impact on our students reading levels and you know as teachers reading teachers for many years tammy and i've been reading teachers for many years we would see that summer slide but nothing like hogan has impacted our children so we knew we had to do some big things and with the help of nikki um and the whole team of instructional coaches we've come up with a good plan and it seems to be helping our kids each and every day and so what we've learned our reading goal for 2022 year to reach that 90 percent goal of jimmy's county school corporation to have 90 of our students reading on grade level we knew that this year we had to be rigorous and get to 80 so we're working really hard to get to that goal two of the measurements that we use are bountis and pinell for our kindergarten and second grade students and that's a one-on-one assessment where a student reads their book with a trained teacher or interventionist and they code their decoding strategies in the process of their reading and also they check their comprehension and then we have our star reading which is a computerized assessment that teaches various or that test assesses various reading skills that the student has and is a reading level so we understand that um the integrated reading approach is the best approach for our students right now and that involves word recognition and language comprehension so this year many of our teachers came through true were trained in a phonemic awareness strategy or program of hegerty so i did i brought a clip a little bit of a clip of a heggerty um session going on in a classroom this teacher is very engaging and so i'm not going to blow it up because it's told me i can't so you're going to have to look at it in that small little spot there we go the word is i love those hand [Music] is [Music] so you can tell the kids are very engaged in that i think the teacher as well it's just a great time the kids are manipulating those sounds that they hear and you know reproducing those words for the teacher and doing such a great job also phonics um it's not anything new we've been doing phonics for years but we're putting a really strong focus on making sure that we're getting that direct instruction very explicit to the kids that need certain skills that they may be lacking part of the thing part of the the things that we're using for that is our wonders our reading series so we're using our decodable readers and then also site recognition so many of our students have sight word booklets that they're anxious to show you if you come into their classrooms especially when they've reached that next level they have these colorful booklets that they take home it's nice for the parents because it's something easy that they can practice with their student at home and then it's nice for our esther parents to work with the students in the classroom and various activities to build their sideward vocabulary and then of course we know that students get better if they just get to read read read read and build that stamina for reading longer sets of texts so we want to make sure that we're providing enough time for kids to just be engaged and build interests for different genres of reading so we're ensuring that we're putting that into our classrooms as well you also see guided reading to work on comprehension skills and the standards there that they need to in reading and we use comprehension toolkits it just helps break it down a little bit differently so that kids can build those skills so they can really work on those metacognition skills that they need to interact with the text and then our tier three supports our interventions our title one staff an amazing group of interventionists they are like little bees all day long pulling kids into their learning lab and doing interventions uh from like almost 7 50 to like 3 15 it's like they hardly ever stop they always have a set of kids in there working and then the essa pairs i will say that sometimes they've had to be used i know shayna would say well i think you've taken all of our subs for essa paris but sometimes they do have to be used to cover classrooms but when they're not they're always within the classroom working with the teacher working with those students in those guided reading groups and it's it's just made such a difference to have that extra support in our building so we're very thankful and then just some of the interventions that we use there level text work gillingham strategies gardens for our dyslexia um students and sra so that's some of the things that we do in reading you we'll let karen talk about slim all right one two three thank you so much for having us we really appreciate the time being here um so we're very grateful this year to be working with stem and five star technologies ryan stroud is their representative who is working with us helping us become stem certified over the next couple of years it's very exciting for us stem is not new in our district we know that but the way in which we're incorporating stem learning and stem instruction is kind of new over the last this year and certainly will continue to evolve we're working with ryan with on our first domain which is developing a culture for stem in the building if you're not aware over the past few years stem has been taught within a learning stem lab it was a self-contained room with the best stem instructor you could ever meet mrs diana robbins in our building what we're looking to do now is increase that culture throughout the whole building stem will not just be a stand-alone event but it's moving out into the classrooms as well we're very excited diana robbins who i spoke about she's incredible and she loves stem so much that even though it's leaving her little space and i just see her letting it go from her fingertips out to the classroom and she's done nothing but be incredibly generous to all of the teachers how am i help what do you need where can i be to help you how can i support stem learning in our building i just really want to give her all the credit in the world so we're bringing stem out into the classrooms as well as the stem lab what we're looking for is a true cross-curricular event with stem we do not want it to be any longer a stand-alone event we're going to have to be sure that stem isn't a part of our reading instruction our math our science our technology there's certainly lots of room for steven to be a part of our building i also want to thank jen layman she is the director of stem education for the district and she has brought engineering i have to read it it's such a tongue twister engineering is elementary e-i-e kids to the building it was like christmas this fall jen sent over a big tub for every grade level and within that tub were supplies for stem activities lessons curriculum videos it was fantastic so teachers got to spend the beginning of the year going through their kids and thinking through how they were going to apply that teaching not learning in the classroom it's very exciting you know i was thinking over before we got here the kinds of experiences i had as an elementary student now that i'm in the elementary school i watch students experience things they live things they play things they learn things that i never knew even existed when i was their age and i think that's going to keep happening for us all if we try to envision what our students will be doing when they are our age i think that is probably impossible to imagine because i certainly couldn't have imagined standing here with a computer presenting to you it's just really fantastic so what we can do and what we're trying to do with stem is teach our students the skills that they would need depending on whatever career they may choose in their future what kind of path they take whether they have employment with a job whether they're caring for their family we want to have skills necessary for them to succeed and the design process gets us there we are going to be teaching our students to ask questions imagine possibilities question what they've already found out plan create think it all back through and try again those are the skills that we think no matter where our students go those are the skills that will be needed and we're happy that stem is going to help take us there so when we think about employability sky's the limit for our kids we just really need to have them in a good space so they're ready for that our grade level teams work hard every week every month to work on how that they can plan for stem best they're real tigers it's very exciting and truly with diana robbins behind them as their greatest cheerleader of course another part of our first domain within our stem certification is working on sustainability are we creating a system so that our school can sustain this effort are will all the pieces be in place to keep stem alive and well in our building we certainly hope that it will be that's our goal so the last the m in stem of course is mathematics so it's perfect that the next thing that follows is our math goal um as a former math teacher uh math and stem are really a high interest to me so this was wonderful for me to speak about our goal is at the end of the year also 80 of our students being at or above proficiency on their star map assessment um we'll be a partner with our math goals we're wanting students to really understand the math that they're doing are they understanding the concepts beyond simple effect fluency very important but we want to be sure that they're learning more rich mathematical concepts are they thinking critically we know that's going to be a part of everything that they do um are they strategically thinking about the work that they do all of those pieces will help us reach that goal that we have like i said as a former math teacher as much as i know critical thinking and depth of knowledge and deep understanding of the work is important man we can't give up on those facts just we can't and our teachers are not giving up on that so they absolutely work on fact fluency we're using the adopted curriculum go math our teachers are working within the curriculum maps that the district has in place and we're on our way to reach those goals thank you so family involvement we've had to change over the last couple of years family involvement's always been one of my favorite parts of title one the last couple of years have brought some challenges to it since we can't have everybody in our buildings but we've come up with some ways to meet those challenges we still have our annual meeting we use class dojo for communication we've done some take home projects book blast this is a snapshot of what dojo looks like during one week this week we sent over a thousand messages to people and it's basically a texting app sort of that we use to communicate with parents so our family involvement has changed we've had to make it take it christmas make it take it for years we went to a drive-through make it ticket in 2020 and this year in 2021 we had a walk-through event and we still had over 200 people come so we were pleased with even though they didn't get to stay in our building they came and they walked through and they enjoyed being part of it and we we can't have them in a lot so we started sending some things home we did some turkeys we asked them to disguise turkeys and we had over 200 children bring in disguised turkeys for thanksgiving so it was and then we did a project plan like a science fair project we sent home books with every child and they could make a project and then we gave ribbons we graded them on a rubric and gave out prizes for those we had good participation with that then we had book blast book last sort of a fundraiser of sorts parents signed their kids up and they asked for sponsors and then sponsors just donated money some might have donated a dollar or five dollars but overall we raised nine thousand a little bit more than ninety four hundred dollars for books for our school those books went directly to kids and two classroom libraries and then we had a mask reader we had five staff members that volunteered to be a masquerader and they used a snapchat app and they disguised themselves [Music] see some of you will know who this person is i can't wait to share this book with you i love the magic treehouse series and this series of books have been written by an author whose name is mary pope osborne this particular book is called high time for heroes and i really would like to read to read the prologue to you and that will give you some insight into what the books might be about one summer day in frog creek pennsylvania so she wrote the prologue and invited the kids to join you check the book out from the library after they listened to all five masqueraders we sent the links out on dojo so the families could watch them together and then the last slide was to click on the mask and they were directed to a google form and they guessed who the masqueraders were and it was a lot of fun especially the book class we've had great time with that um i think that just covered um it brought along his challenges but as teachers as educators were like bring it on we'll we'll figure out a way to make this great for our kids and for our families so it was just exciting so i wanted to share at the end what our teachers have been kind of doing here recently with our e-learning days um it's hard to imagine you know can we make that you know as engaging and as exciting as it is to be in the classroom with the teacher no not always but our teachers really work hard to do that and they've been very creative and give kids a lot of opportunities to respond in really unique ways so i'm going to share a couple of them here the first one's pretty self-explanatory it's going to be just a student actually explaining his math problem the process [Music] so he's explaining how i got his answer and then this next one um the little girl listens to three stories and she has to choose the one she likes best before she does a comparing contrast type activity with them and this one i think could go viral okay three two one i like the one with the working snowman [Music] thank you [Laughter] [Music] thank you again for this opportunity we love to be at sam creek we love our students we love their colleagues that we work with it's just a wonderful opportunity to come here and share just a little bit about our school thank you so much thank you susie [Applause] um so we'll um keep moving down the agenda under new business we have um neil's administrative guideline yeah those are just in four okay perfect um and then um go down under program special education update we do not have any beautiful singing [Laughter] so this is just an information this is our rda results from the state so we're just going to share with you the information they share with us the first one just tells you what the areas of the calculation are so what are they looking at to figure out our scores they're going to look in the results area at preschool data our graduation rate our least restrictive environment percentage of how many kids are in a general ed classroom the majority of their day and then looking at our assessments the compliance areas is looking at our disproportionality when we look at the categories that fall into the different disabilities and suspensions expulsions that sort of stuff then we look at testing timelines our transition ieps so those are the ieps for those students who are either 14 and up or a freshman through senior and then preschool timelines and then the data just looks at our reports and are we getting them in on time when we look at the calculation for the results matrix we are put into categories based on the number of students we have in our corporation we fall in the middle group which is the 2500 students to 10 000 students so all the schools that are put into this group have between 2500 and 10 000 students enrolled the scores they take all those schools and put them in a list with their scores the top 20 percent earn a 5 the next 24 and then so on so when we look at our compliance and timely data matrices there we had a zero percent in disproportionality which is really good with the discipline a zero percent in disproportionality with our racial and ethnic groups and this disability categories um zero percent i skipped whatever the zero percent in our suspensions expulsions in the racial and ethnic and then the other three are evaluation we were 100 compliant on our evaluations happening in that 50-day timeline so parents sign a consent to evaluate we have 50 school days to complete that evaluation and have the meeting we met that 100 of the time there are ieps put in place for students who qualify before their third birthday we met 100 of compliance and meeting that within the timeline of having the testing and the meeting by their third birthday and then this was not a pool year for transition ieps but we didn't end up 100 this year for those so the first area we'll look at is the results so uh the i learned there the first group is percentage of students who are at approaching proficiency on ilearn language arts and we had 26.81 which gave us a two the state average was a 30.9 so we are below state average there and this is state average for our medium group our middle group mathematics students with disabilities approaching proficiency we were at 32 32.09 and the state average was 31.5 so we were a little above state average there growth we were at 41 the state average was 42 and then for math we were at 48 and the state average was 47.
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