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so that is extremely low at the national level uh for california um as of december uh in december it was about 6.5 so california unemployment always tends to be a little bit higher than what the um the national rates are but look at the um inflation um this is the numbers we're seeing right now i think in december of 2021 inflation was at about seven percent and in january as we um you know the latest number that we have it was about 7.5 inflation um i think we all know this um when we go to the gas pumps right now i mean how much a gallon gas cost is exceeding five dollars even for the regular and so basically the transportation and housing those two things are increasing the inflation rates um acro across the country at this point given that the um the state is doing uh well uh because they able to deposit um the um money into the public schools system stabilization amount um the research cap trigger is going to go in in the fiscal year 22-23 so this occurs when the state deposit the money in the prior fiscal year so now um in um 20 to 23 the district cannot have more than a 10 reserve so but as you will see in our montana projection based on our current spending pattern we will be falling below that 10 regardless at this point so as we all have seen our enrollment has been declining significantly you know across um as well and the districts even in our feeder are declining as well so then the governor at this point has basically proposed something called you know to to make sure that we don't follow the cliff so you will see here uh in 2019 that was what we've been funded on on the 2019-20 ada so we've been doing that for about two years at this point right so we've found it for 2021 2020 and 21 22.
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the next grade span is 4th through sixth um it is identified as a grade span and has a base grant then there's seventh and eighth it has a base grant for that grade span then there's a 912 grade span that has a base grant those base grants are equal across the entire state of california and those base grants are what's affected annually by the cost of living adjustment that the governor proposes in the legislature approves where the funding levels differ under the local local control funding formula is based on a district's unduplicated pupil percentage that is the percentage of pupils that qualify for free or reduced lunch that are english language learners or foster youth and that is where the funding per student varies as you look across the state of california some districts have very low upps some districts have extremely high upps apple valley unified we're approximately 74 percent on duplicated pupil percentage so approximately 74 percent of our students come from families that would be considered families of socioeconomic status they qualify for free reduced lunch or they're an english learner or they're a foster youth neighboring districts are typically higher so they typically receive a little bit more funding per student thank you thank you matt thank you okay moving right along receive a buddha sunshine proposal for successor agreement with abusd dustin yes um i think i can uh probably save us some time and explain items uh two through five um all together here uh we are as the board is aware entering the season of uh both bargaining units having their success or contracts open you'll notice a lot of what appears to be repetition through the agenda the couple these items are on here three times uh but tonight's the night that we officially uh publicize the sunshine proposals both from avuda to the district and from the district back to ebuda and the uh csea sunshine to the district and the district back to csca um so those are all publicly viewable and viewable there for the board to consider later on we'll have a public hearing in the agenda that names these same exact four items and that's where we have an opportunity for the board has the opportunity to hear from anybody who has a comment on any one or more of those they can speak during that one slotted time to come forward and speak and then uh lastly in the agenda under discussion action you'll see the two um sunshine proposals from the district to the bargaining units are there for you to take action uh and hopefully guide and direct us to go ahead hit that negotiation table and start this process with both units so this is uh you know it's on there a few times it's all in compliance with government code in terms of what we have to do to publicize and um i think you know we're working well with both units i think both units would would speak the same way back toward us and we're kind of ready to hit that table and knock these things out so i just want to share that with you okay thank you is there any questions from word to dustin okay that took care of two through five let me move on to public comments um kylie we have some cards we do we have various topics so i can give it to you topic by topic or you want the whole chunk okay let me read these off before a lot of you have um spoke here before so you kind of know the rules we limit it to three minutes and there'll be a timer and if you don't hear it i'll remind you that the time is up in a polite way and we would like to keep it to 20 minutes per topic because we have different topics here tonight so we want everybody to be able to get [Music] their comments in so well as you speak you'll speak at the microphone here so adjust it so we can all hear you and uh some of these um cards here um it's hard to read the names but this one here i can read it it's elizabeth bachmann so you're up elizabeth [Applause] and after elizabeth will just be actually give you a heads up it'll be hayden huffman so you're on deck good evening av usd board members the last two years and mainly the last school year has left me with little faith in any of you mrs nelson on july 20th 2021 i emailed you in regards of masking our children your response to me was thank you for your concern but at this time i cannot do anything i will file your email and pass it on to jay obernaulty you said he was the one who had the control to change the mass mandate so at mr obernolte's next town meeting on august 7th i went to speak to him he in return bounced it back to my local school board as well as local assemblymen after the meeting many reached out to me and said to get in contact with christopher nunes so i emailed him later that same afternoon the following day i received a phone call from mr nunes who at that time expressed he felt the same way that mass should be a choice nothing came out of these different communications just typical dialogue to calm me down and hope that i go away in the coming months the mandatory vaccine took precedence as us parents had to fight to ensure our children would not be forced to get a flu shot slash the coving coveted vaccine once again i hope this room is filled with parents demanding that their children never have to be forced to wear a mask again we have heard all the data the science but most importantly if you really follow the science our children would have been the first to have been unmasked in school without a doubt our governor continued to mass children k-12 in california our children became pawns of our pawns in political control battles conditioning them to comply and follow orders i ask you right now why do we have school boards and the first sentence was the role of the school board is in is to ensure school districts are responsive to values beliefs and priorities of their communities you have failed this you have not been responsive responsive to the request of your parents in this district i can almost bet that you all have received thousands of emails this last year wanting you to allow mass choice as we encouraged our children these last few weeks of their rights to protest peacefully unmasked and their rights to in-person education you would not even budge you sat our children out in freezing temps and said that's their choice you told your principals and i have children in two different schools not to budge as parents came to complain daily mr goodro said every time that i spoke with him that he could not move the kids inside without direction from his superintendent mrs trenay nelson whom i emailed numerous times in the last three weeks only to receive one email in return telling teachers that they could not allow students unmasked in their class and at the same time sending emails to parents stating that no child can forcibly be removed well that didn't go so well elizabeth your time is up please okay can i finish real quick go ahead you got just a few i'm asking you to write a resolution not only to end man mass mandates but to put in writing that you will never mask our children again no matter what sacramento or the cdph suggests if if this resolution does not happen i will have to pull my children out of this district my children will never comply to wear masks again they're not yours to experiment with thank you hayden hayden huffman and after uh hayden will be uh keith wilheit you're up next good evening board board members my name is hayden i'm an eighth grader that attends city bowl academy i feel as i'm speaking for the majority of the student body and even teachers first and foremost simple face masks are a joke and do not work but i don't but i do not feel that is the reason for abu valley unified school district demanding mass honor students we are a paycheck for the district in return we're being treated like animals we are being forced out of our classrooms in inclement weather for six plus hours while while outdoor sports at the schools are being canceled to the weather it breaks my heart to see my fellow classmates suffering because they want to exercise exercise their human rights to not wear a mask as i'm sure you all do every day i can't even see whether my friends uh and classmates are happy sad or excited anymore because their faces are always covered we are not spoken to very nicely or treated very kindly when we are outside in our segregated areas how come i can leave school and go ever wherever else i wish to without a mask on it feels like you don't even care about a student's teachers and school staff members you your math decision as board members have divided the community please don't say that it is easy just to put on a mask on and comply we are done complying last week my brother last week my brother was physically dragged out of his classroom for respectfully declining to wear a mask i admire my brother for standing up for himself and the majority of the student body not one not one student in the video i saw was probably wearing their mask this specific morning it was 21 degrees outside how is this student supposed to learn in those conditions you guys are making the poor teachers and school staff enforce recommendations by the health department they aren't laws they are your laws because of money signs that is not right more members please be better and do better and make mass optional thank you [Applause] okay keith uh will height and then after keith will be jennifer wetzel first of all i want to thank you for the job you do okay some of you most of you but there's a few of you that don't do your job okay our kids are suffering because this masked mandate and your job is to oversee the safety and well-being of our students and you're not doing that and it's frustrating as a as a parent and a grandfather to watch these kids suffer the kids that are protesting how many of you been out there to talk to them have you what did they say go ahead maria tell them they're concerned because you're good people you're not evil i will respond when it's time for me to speak when the president gives me permission to receive okay okay go ahead and finish sir okay so they're being required by principals to sit out in the freezing cold five hours a day if i put my kid or my grandchild out in the front yard for five hours a day in the cold i'd go to jail and you're not doing anything about it i had i have a recording of a principal in the beginning of this that told the kids they will not if they're going to protest they're going to do it right they will not have seats to sit on some of them they will sit on the cold concrete if you want to hear that that that recording call me my number is 760-265-2406 but i'll bet you not a damn one of you will call me that's disgusting you're making you're not doing anything about these principles holding these kids because they're protesting because they're tired of the mass they're hurting they can't breathe some of you don't have yours on why but our kids have to have them on do something about it you're good people don't wait for the governor to fix things you don't have to wear the mask one of our kids change it tomorrow thank you very much [Applause] jennifer wetzel and then we have uh after that it'll be uh aidan king deck hi good uh evening abd whatever um i'm here to address other safety concerns other than kobe because covet isn't the only safety concern out there my son has autism he's a special needs student he was bullied on the bus twice there was no resolve from that he was shot in the head with a projectile god forbid it wasn't a gun he was injured there was still no incident report taken from my son that day that happened on december 7th on january on december 1st on january 6th my son severely broke his arm on campus during a gaga pit game that i didn't even have any idea that they were doing i didn't sign a waiver for my son to play dodgeball he's at school to learn not to be injured not to be bullied he ended up with a broken arm 12 screws and two plates i am not allowed to see the video because there's other children's faces in this video however at the beginning of covid we were all on zoom meetings where we saw every child's face and not only that we saw inside people's homes their privacy was invaded via zoom but i cannot see the incident that happened to my son i i asked can i come in with a law enforcement to see this video and still i was denied want to know what happened to my son i want to know what's going to be done to address the safety of our children regardless whether they have special needs or not my son is entitled to a one-on-one aide he's supposed to be there at all times where was this aid i've been conflicted giving been given conflicted information as to who and what people were on on the field that day and i was given different information from the principal of the school and the school district they still will not give me the information that i want i want to see that video of my son being injured i want to know if the teachers were on their cell phones or watching my child because every time i go to drop off my child i see a teacher distracted on their cell phones and it's unacceptable my son had major surgery i lost clients i lost work out of this i had to reach out to legal help to get this result and it's still not resolved and this has nothing to do with mass mandate you want to keep our kids safe with a mask you guys can't even do it on the bus you guys can't do it on campus i'm not here for a mask a mask should be a parent's choice to send their child to school in a mask or not it should not be dictated by the school it's not a law it's a re it's a uh guidance okay sorry um and you know i don't know um i i've also heard that you guys are going to mandate a vaccine on our children unacceptable thank you [Applause] aiden king and after aiden will be uh samantha solis i believe so um i i have been um having to sit outside because i would not wear a mask today i did yesterday i got hot and sick because i did and then a few days ago i did and it snowed after school that day so i was cold and tired and i just wanted to go home like it's my choice if i want to wear a mask or not so i to be honest i i think that masks are just ridiculous and they don't matter in life it's my choice if i want to wear a mask so i can wear a mask if i want or i can wear a mask if i i i just don't have to wear a mask um um in school if i don't if i don't want to because it's my body and it's my choice if i want to wear a mask or not so i've been doing this for a long time sitting outside because i don't want to wear a mask in class with only a few other kids and i can't get any learning done out there so i'd like to stay in my class to be able to learn because on zoom i did i didn't get much learning done there either so now i'm behind in school just because i don't want to wear a mask so i'm going to keep on doing this because i don't want to wear a mask and so why do i ask if please fix this um because i really really don't want to wear a mask [Applause] samantha solis and then uh after samantha i believe um it's the same address it starts with the m i can't read the writing hello my name is samantha solis and i am in middle school and i'm currently attending sitting bull academy and i don't know much about stuff that's going on right now but i do know what people are doing to me and many other children is wrong and this should not be happening like for example one day i decided i was done with this and i'm not going to wear a mask in class today and i my teacher told me to go put a mask to put my mask over my nose and i literally shook my head no and they sent me to a place called the boneyard where they stored all the old desks that were slowly but surely rusting away and being there was cold and dip and i couldn't feel my feet but my feet hurt and like there was needles stabbing my feet it was cold and i couldn't feel my feet until twelve o'clock and it was nine when i got there it was cold and it had just snowed it was cold and i couldn't feel anything if if if this if my mother did this to me they'd take my mom away i'd be taken away from my mom but somehow the school can get away with child abuse and now i'm homeschooled and my grades are the best best because i'm not in class at the beginning of the year i got honorable for the first time in my life and i just want you to know i may only be 12 but i know the difference between good and bad and what you're doing is bad and i really do hope and pray that you will make the right decision and make the mask optional for kids that do and do not want to wear it and why should i wear a mask in class if i can't breathe and i can't i can barely understand what my teacher's saying is saying to me and i barely even know what my some of my class looks like some kids i they're in my class and i don't know i didn't know who they were thank you i think you're up mom i couldn't read your first name i'm sorry but mary cruz okay thank you and after that will be ryan young my name is mary cruz solis and i want to address the way the mask the kids mask protest was handled i believe it was a hundred percent wrong the way this was handled okay i don't know who approved this or who okayed it but they need to step down how dare you leave the kids out in the heat okay because when my daughter first started she got sunburned okay this is how long she's been doing it then it got cold so now she's in the heat and the cold so how would you guys like to be discriminated against for over something you believe or something you wear this is shameful i would like to know what you plan to do to properly and humanely accommodate these kids i would also like to know how you plan to help the kids that you willingly lift outside denying them of their education maybe you could use some of the millions that you got in covet relief to get them some help because some of these kids have fallen behind or maybe you can get them their own mask-free classrooms and segregate them like you already have right now you are not representing the community at all you guys need to fix this not tomorrow not next week tonight tonight you guys need to fix this [Applause] after ryan will be uh bella car hello my name is ryan young and i attend apple valley high school as a student i'm here so that you can hear from the student what we have endured since february 14th after watching the super bowl it became clear to many of us that our government does not follow their own guidelines and many of us decide that it was our time to take off our mask we the students are the ones left to suffer in this mandate and we are tired we are done on february 15th the weather was windy and then the 30s and by sixth period turned to rain we had to sit and rain cold that night it turned into unexpected snowstorm which i'm sure y'all aware of that days that followed we're in the 20s and we're made to sit in the cold and the wheat and the wind and freezing cold we got we got a warning on our phones to watch for freezing temperatures apparently our district does not watch for students because we are left in cold to wipe off snow offered chairs with our sleeves because they demanded us to sit down the best part it was so the best part was that our proctor was watching us from the inside without a mask i've been sent up the a6 detention for having a bad attitude for questioning why i cannot stand up to get warm it has been literally freezing temperatures and we are not allowed to stand in the sun to get warm i assume that many of many of you guys are parents or grandparents how can you let us be treated like this how can you get sleep by knowing this is happening to us my my mask is off and it is off for good sit me in the cold and treat us like animals but my mouth stays off [Applause] after bella carr will be uh kendall fondville hi my name is bella carr i'm in fifth grade i go to verago i have been protesting since the end of second trimester my decision is not to wear a mac wearing a mask my friends and i don't like wearing a mask because we feel like we can't breathe in them we sit outside every day it makes us sick and we get sunburned when it's a cool day i still sit outside because i don't want to wear a mask please and the mask wearing so i could go back inside my classroom and learn thank you [Applause] after kendall will be uh angelia archuleta i'm sorry to pronounce it hi my name is kendall flanville and i go to school at sittingville academy the reason i'm going to be talking here is about how i was excluded for things in my class for not wearing a mask one thing that i was not able to do with my class was learn because i got kicked out of class for my t from my teacher because i did not want to wear a mask so then i had the choice when i was talking to my principal if i wanted to sit outside to wear and not wear my mask or if i wanted to stay inside and wear my mask but i chose to stay outside another thing that i was not able to do that i had been looking forward to this whole year was the meeting in my teacher's classroom at lunch i was not able to do that because i was sitting outside but the reason i was sitting outside was because i got kicked out of class so me and my friend had to go to normal lunch when we had been working hard for that spot and then we just get left out of that experience because we were sitting outside because of our rights and my friend said that they were not wearing a mask when they were inside because they were eating lunch but when my mom was on the phone with my teacher my teacher said that they were wearing a mess the whole time but i'm more on my friend said because how are you supposed to wear a mask when you were eating but i did not think that it was fair that me and my friend were excluded for that but look at what we started yesterday there was eight people doing the protests but today there was because i stood up for what i believe was right because i stood up for what i believed was right i'm proud of what i started for for not wearing the mask and it doesn't matter if it helped or not because i'm proud of what i did [Applause] and then up will be castro i'm sorry i can't pronounce the first name yes there you go my name is evangeline archuleta i am a freshman at academy for academic excellence i'm out here to speak about discrimination i have a medical exemption and i was having stabbing chest pains headaches breathing issues and it was happening five hours plus after school i also have asthma which can make it difficult for me to breathe due to my medical conditions i was issued a mask exemption from my doctor when i was brought when i brought my neck to school i was met with a lot of pushback from a majority of staff most of most of my teachers placed me in the back of the class if as if i was being punished or for misconduct i have been said segregated by from my friends and placed behind plexiglass bullied from other students and and staff members i've been told to wear a mask because it's not that big of a deal if i have breathing issues and having chest pains it is a big deal in one of my classes my teacher told me i'd have to put on a mask and or i'd have to put on a mask to sit with the normal kids am i not normal i have medical issues that have i have no control over what kind of show are we running here in another one of my classes one of my teachers or excuse me from assignments that involved moving around the class which is almost all of them and if i have one bad grade all of my grades go down because i am not able to do some assignments um one of the things that happened between me and that teacher was there's a group project which i needed a group and i came late that day and he told me and quote i could give you a partner but you'd have to put a mask on and i wouldn't tell you to do that i told him no thank you and he knew i had a mass exemption yet passively aggressively asked or suggested that i put on a mask this teacher didn't give me any instructions on what to do with this project i was left to do it all on my own guessing what i should do and i was too scared to ask because he constantly will go on and on to embarrass me you guys are all about my body my choice when it comes to abortions but the second is like life threatening to me it's an issue think about that for a second thank you for your time [Applause] up on deck will be melissa wetzel i'm here to speak about mask enforcement i get you guys have a lot on your hands but we are going on two years of this i can't believe this is still up for debate given what our great governor of california has demonstrated and the science that they just can't seem to make their minds up about not to mention leaving kids outside who refuse to wear a mask because they believe in breathing fresh air and not constantly breathing back in their own breath into a mask that creates moisture and an environment for germs to grow and causing even more respiratory issues than the one everyone is apparently trying to avoid how is that okay every kid has a right to an education and you guys get plenty of money for them too and you're okay with leaving them outside especially after all these kids that are speaking here but if it was a parent keeping their child from an education then it would be a problem right none of this makes sense we should all have a choice and the right to breathe a piece of cloth is not going to save any lives let's be real here and it should not be anyone's responsibility but their own to take care of their health you shouldn't put that on someone else this is causing more division and half the time these kids don't have the masks on right and they're they definitely don't stay clean in school and they pull it down constantly throughout the day if this was about safety and saving lives you wouldn't serve such crappy toxic preservative-filled foods to these kids in school as well and so many of these masks are that they wear are disposable which are being left filthy thrown on the ground and not to mention they're made of cancer-causing chemicals and they're breathing this in all day at this point i really think it's about the money and the funding you're getting for this pandemic and enough is enough [Applause] after melissa will be maria alexa hi my name is melissa wetzel i'm with stand-up san bernardino county i also work in collaboration with freedom angels and i come here representing my family and myself i would like to address discussion action item number nine pertaining to enforcement of ma masks from now until march 12th what we really need today is a strong resolution like the resolution number 2022-05 um which was passed by the board on by this board on 10 25 2021.
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it has gone over to the senate and the senate has referred it over to the senate education committee we are expecting that it will be heard at the senate education committee here within the next few weeks uh in terms of house bill well before i move on to house bill 2566 does anybody have any questions about 2565 okay all right um house bill um 2566 uh is the bill that is um regarding the state institutional voucher uh it's essentially the bill that was asking for the additional funding for capital outlay and for transportation so it was first read in the house and assigned to house education and appropriations i am pleased to let you know that it did pass out of house education unanimously unfortunately the chair of the house appropriations committee did not schedule the bill to be heard and unfortunately what that means is because the bill did not pass out of both subcommittees 2566 in its current iteration is dead for this particular session it is unfortunate because while all of the appropriations bills do end up getting held at the end of the at the end of the legislative session because they're negotiated out as part of the greater state budget process the budget negotiation process we did want to keep the bill alive for as long as possible in order to raise awareness among the state legislature of the need for this particular funding um unfortunately though well i guess fortunately legislators do have their personal priorities there's a lot of bills that need to be heard and it is the chair's prerogative to set the agenda um unfortunately there just wasn't enough time to to hear the bill in the appropriations committee this year the good news is is that the chair of the appropriations committee did agree um that this is going to stay on her list for budget negotiations at the end of session so we know that this is going to be brought up and hopefully it will be included in the kindergarten to 12 verb the budget reconciliation bill at the end of session i am also working very closely with the prime sponsor of 2566 and other legislators to figure out if there's a way for us to possibly resurrect the bill using another bill as a as a striker vehicle no decisions have been made yet exactly on how we're going to do that but i am meeting with a group of legislators on monday morning to start having those discussions um i am also going on a parallel track and meeting with legislators one-on-one to educate them on this issue and to educate them on how critical the need is for the funding for this particular issue and also to request that individual legislators please place this on their list of budget priorities for the end of the legislative session when it comes time to develop the budget reconciliation bills so this is a little bit of a setback but we are continuing to move forward and we are continuing to do everything that we can to raise awareness of the issues over at the legislature and with that i'd like to make myself available for any questions about the bills are there any questions for ms murphy no okay um seeing none we can move on to 7.03 discussion action item urgent approval a revised policy jf student admissions marie murphy okay that's me you have before you the red line for policy jh admissions it was posted to the website i have not received any public comment on this particular policy um i did have several board members individually reach out to me with some questions about this particular policy and in the interest of making sure that we're abiding by open meeting law i'd just like to go ahead and start the discussion on policy jh so i can answer those questions for the whole group are there any i know i have a question um but uh so at least on the uh and the 30 mile radius rule um so you know on that one that's new uh we from time to time have had students from casa grande from maricopa uh from the eastern parts of mesa and gilbert and what would be considered the east valley and metro phoenix attend uh pdsd and you know to so we've we haven't had that hard line of 30 and i i don't think it's and i don't think it's appropriate and why don't i think that there is there should be a hard line at some point um you know we can't move a child from yuma to phoenix to ptsd every day um or to asd every day but they're nevertheless we're we're missing a lot of arizonans by drawing that 30 mile radius if it's a hard radius and if their child uh you know if the least restrictive environment is ptsd you know if that child needs a campus where they're taught instruction in asl and their peers have asl and the staff use asl there's very limited options i think there's one other school in maricopa county and there's one other down in pima and then there's the schools operated by the agency so you know and and we certainly have to weigh that against sitting on a bus for a long time in metro phoenix i completely understand that um but you know the the parents are parents are part of the iap team too and parents can make that choice if that's what they want for their child if if attending you know this school all things considered if attending this ptsd or asd uh you know really use a leash restrictive environment for them and they're willing to to make that that sacrifice of you know several hours on the bus a day which again is is not optimal but you know the other choice may not be optimal if they're in their smaller community and they may be the only asl user in their you know in their school or in their district or one of very few uh you know i think we have to make some sort of gray area between 30 and 50 miles then you know then have that hard thing i i know that there's transportation issues i i know that that's logistically difficult to do um but that's why we have a good staff to do that um they're really good at logistics and and i have every faith that they're gonna be able to accomplish that um have you thought of ways that we can change that 30-mile rate or if there are other board members that disagree i mean you know speak now uh go ahead thanks president i agree with you i think just maybe one consideration i i would personally rather have the policy reflect that distance has to be a consideration in the discussion of placement but i'm a bit concerned about setting a firm mile boundary for making those decisions it needs to be based on the student's need and the determination through the iep team about appropriate placement and least restrictive environment so personally i think it makes more sense to have the policy be more general in terms of giving the directive that it needs to be a consideration as as placement is determined but have the mileage at least a firm number left out of that so um my my response to both of your comments would be yes i have taken that into account and i do have some alternative language that i can propose what i can tell you is that in the creation of this particular policy we had a group of subject matter experts trying to figure out what is what is this line between what is a reasonable amount of time for a child to be on a bus versus what is potentially not a reasonable amount of time um the 30 mile radius was uh selected because 30 miles essentially covers the majority of maricopa counties so it would keep everybody within the phoenix area able to be able to um go on a daily basis to ptsd if uh and hang on i need to i have maps here but essentially if we're looking at possibly extending out to 40 or 50 miles so for instance 50 miles could mean um a child from nogales uh being driven every day all the way to tucson it could mean a child from casa grande being driven all the way down to well tucson or to potentially phoenix and we do have students right now who are being transported age as young as three two and a half hours each way and that's a long time for a three-year-old to be in a car to go to school every day so i i certainly do understand and i respect parental choice uh i i think that our subject matter experts were trying to look at also what was in the best interest of that child but i do have some sample language um to give you but i see that sue k was going to ask a question so let me answer her before i process the sample language so my question is if you kept the hard line um is there a process in place that a parent could um seek a waiver to that policy so that's a that's an excellent question sue k and so what i was proposing after i received some questions from individual board members about this some of the language that i was considering changing was to say that students who are residing within a 30 to 50 mile radius shall be considered for day student status on a day on it on a case-by-case basis and that the placement team shall discuss distance and geographical location as one consideration in the decision for admission and placement but i also do want to caution you all that related services transportation it's already part of the iep discussion when you're looking at placing a child but what we would basically be doing is saying okay we're setting a 30 mile radius but if you're 31 miles or 35 miles we'll we will take a look at that on a case-by-case basis and um i i i don't want to speak for albert albert you can feel free to pop up here anytime you like um but but that was sort of the compromise language that i that i tried to draft to address some of the board questions but also to address some of the operational concerns that i know transportation has so thank you board president and members of the board i'll make myself available to answer any questions regarding the operations side of transportation thank you maria and how long a student is on a bus or a vehicle uh so yeah if it's if students on the bus for you know 32 miles or 35 miles um how much you know what's the marginal difference in time on the bus that would all depend because we go curb to curb so it all depend on the actual specific location of that student um so even if having that 32 for example getting 32 on right off a freeway versus 32 miles in to the center of tucson that could be a very different amount of time that you're on the bus and that all depends where the student is actually currently located so to say one way or the other i couldn't give definitives and i'd hate to tell you one way or the other um but ultimately it would be a matter of just a few minutes for the most part right because i mean to me you know pds i mean we know where the schools are um and where we know where we're getting these students who are further away they're in casa grande or maricopa that are right near major highways right not always for example i have a student that lives 17 miles off the road of pomerane that i'm currently picking up every day and in order to do that it has to be essentially chauffeur transportation it is one staff member in a vehicle to go pick that child up so the entire allocated cost of that one staff member which is is essentially for that which eats up almost the entire voucher fund that we would need for the rest of education aspect right and so there is the financial component of it obviously that shouldn't drive our decision of what's best for students but it is an aspect that must be considered but it is not always uh right off the freeway from this particular area right i i guess i don't mean to imply that it's always off the freeway but the idea that we're bringing people from further out as we leave the metro area we get into more rural areas that you know have generally roads with higher speed limits um once again you know not in east mesa i suppose not in east mesa not in parts of gilbert that would be at the 32 or 33 mile mark correct and so in that 30 mile mark you're you're absolutely correct you're in the major metropolitan area as you go further out you're more in the rural areas of the of the state uh just for some comparisons though i'd like to go ahead and give some ideas of what it looks like from our district what we're proposing versus what others have so if you take every school district in the state of arizona and come up with the averages the average square miles of a district that is within the state of arizona is 573 miles the median is actually 282.
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so make sure with the f with the drop down there uh that way um it is a significant drop that's why you will see in a multi-year projections uh what the numbers they are so the governor is proposing to do a three-year averaging taking the um ada from 1920 2021 and 21-22 and do a three-year averaging so that will significantly help our district uh if that happens in this model uh currently we're not projecting that at this budget since that this could change we do not know what um that could look like is it current is it only for one year is it ongoing um we do have some numbers that we project that could happen and so our goal is hopefully by by may when the government um i'll do his main device then we would know what that number could look like but we do have an idea what that looked like at this point so we're very grateful for this proposal and hope this happens as it it should so these are the um the dart for a second interim somewhat some of the numbers that we are using so the cost of living adjustment as you will see for current year is a 5.07 percent it is uh projected to go up to 5.33 so even as we speak at this point the cost of living adjustment for 20 to 23 has already gone up um to 6.17 from the legislative analyst office at this point so the numbers are actually going up so that's actually will be a good thing um and then in out years it kind of dropped down to about 3.6 in the out um three years starting 23-24 calstrs continues um to be uh going up so we know that it's going up to 19.1 percent um in the in 22-23 uh calpers as we know that that number has um is going up quite a bit this year at 22.91 and going up to 26.1 percent um we are hearing that um calpers is hoping to decrease um those rates based on their latest um number that they've shown and so if that happens we'll be bringing that at the budget adoption in june so we'll just have to wait to see hopefully those numbers will come down a little bit there will be a less uh cost to our district okay so um i do now wanted to show some of the numbers that what we're working with um as we have shown uh at first each term as well we are uh um we do have the declining enrollment for next year we are looking at a decline of another 721 so current year we're at about 28 400 students next year we're projected to go down to about 27 683 students so and based on our trend we are projected to lose about 750 students each year and then um the third year out um about what one thousand student in that third-year out so we are looking at that uh trend still at this point i did talk to some of our feeder districts i think they are stabilizing in in couple years that's what they're telling us so we're hoping that if our feeder district stabilized it will also help us stabilize our numbers and hopefully that we don't have contained this trend but these are the numbers based on the uh projected um you know that when we roll up the kids these are the numbers we're looking at our unduplicated p on duplicated people count um did um go up a little bit and so we're able to update the numbers here um so we went up to about 76.56 percent and going up to 77 uh next year and then falling down to about 76 percent in the out years there as we have seen here this um is the dishes contribution for these stirs and pers as well as you will see here from last fiscal year we're looking we did increase our budget by about eight million dollars and these are ongoing costs that we we are absorbing in the budget and in 21 22 to the following fiscal year is an additional six million dollars that's going up and so this is a big problem um for every district in california the the pension and so we're hoping the governor will propose some type of a um remedy to help all these districts uh in california because this is a significant problem um in every single district at this point the health and welfare um district contribution as we have seen current year we are projected to be about 53 million dollars and we are projected to go up to about 57 million and then 62 million and 66 million dollars in 2425.
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we need a resolution that uh that states that from this moment on avusd will not enforce any mass mandate requirements if any are imposed by the governor state or local health officers or anyone else for that matter we all know that at any moment the metric can be changed and shifted and the powers that be may change their minds and reinstate whatever mandate they want we cannot continue to subject ourselves and our children to segregation because some punks for a lack of a better word at the top say so as we close black history month and enter women's history month let us be reminded of the courage shown by rosa parks during the civil rights movement of the 50s and 60s she said no and that's exactly what i do every day i say no i will not subject my children to the segregation and discrimination happening today in public schools i say no i will not stand idly by while you all continue to participate in discrimination and segregation i say no i will not participate in these crimes against humanity that you all seem to be so comfortable with and you guys know it's happening you know it's true and you know it's wrong and you let it happen anyways while all these kids are outside in the cold you guys do not care because if you cared you would have done something a long time ago okay some of you would have done nothing to fight for equality and it shows and it's gross you would stay steady doing what you're doing what you're told like you are now telling these kids they're not allowed in school but you sure are making sure they get attendance though let's take note of that they do check in first okay but you can choose you can choose now today to say no i will not allow these kids to suffer anymore i will not allow segregation and discrimination in abusd schools not for one more day not on my watch i expect nothing more of you than i expect of myself this ends when we say it ends medical freedom and bodily autonomy are the new civil rights movement are you are you on the side of equality and freedom or for segregation and discrimination be on the right side of history action speaks louder than words give these kids mass choice right now today thank you [Applause] um is that maria oh i'm sorry go ahead that's me you're up and then after uh eric um it's a tough one starts with a p p l a there you go good evening board members my name is marie savitsky or marie alexis i'm sorry no that's okay um i came tonight to remind you of a problem i foresaw back in october and a solution i posed to you in november ouch this is pretty heavy tonight and i've had conversations with a few of you since then this is what i was trying to avoid back then i specifically spoke and wrote to you back in november and again in october and again in november that we were not finished with that resolution you passed on october 25th the resolution was in fact incomplete and needed immediate amending i distributed amended draft to specifically include mass choice i emailed it to you all on november 3rd and distributed a printed version to you at november's board meeting calling for mass choice back then parents have been sharing with you the science evidences and testimony with you for months our tolerance and grace has run out the grace period is long over you've had plenty of time officials in other districts are being served with notices of intent to recall some groups of concerned folks are looking into filing claims against elected officials bonds this is not something i want to see happen to any of you i know for a fact a few of you are very good people we go back in time but there are parents talking about this being the next step you've been noticed long ago and many times over you can now be considered knowingly working in concert to cause or foster harm in exchange for money if action is not taken tonight to clearly clarify in writing parental medical choice specifically mass choice anti-discrimination for religious and medical exemptions i will teach every one of these parents how to file claims against your bond we will then take action to start the recall process again i don't prefer to do these things i'm a very busy full-time working single mother of five children and now i am homeschooling them because i'm done i'm asking for all of you to take another strong stand for our community please revise your resolution to specifically include mass choice starting now i've distributed another copy of the revised resolution draft for your consideration you need to figure out a way to do this tonight thank you [Applause] after eric will be tristan krapal i feel like i'm just talking about myself my name is eric placencia i'm a student at apple valley high school and oh gosh i'm nervous okay so oh gosh okay you're doing good yeah okay okay now i'm just gonna start reading now that i'm sure that if i was for example the owner of a big company and i had a few rules i expect people to follow them including me now i don't know maybe newsom should really accept the fact that he broke his the rules that he mandated that you put for the whole state of california on february 13th is when you can see your favorite governor newsome of california not in fact wearing masks indoors in public spaces and i don't know if um you know you guys are aware of but there are teachers on campus not allowing students well not allowing but they don't care if we don't wear a mask or not and on february 13th is where you can see 417 people to be exact at the super bowl with new zealand with a bunch of other people that are wanting for people to wear masks and as as you can see or as you can hear from the news newsom claims that he was holding his breath the entire time well [Laughter] well i don't i don't think that's possible to hold your breath for that long i don't know how long the super bowl was but i'm pretty sure i'm pretty sure you could not suffocate but you can die from that and um from the fact that kids will stay outside not wearing the mask because teachers are telling them or forcing them to wear their masks they don't oh okay i'm sorry i'm sorry i just i went somewhere else i went somewhere else um so students are being told to go outside in the cold and as you guys were aware of it snowed and that day you guys told us to come back to school and i thought that it was just going to be a great day because you know no school there's snow right but no we came back to school uh with a notification at six in the morning telling us that we have to come back to school and you can see people protesting and from what i heard that guy back there i don't know your name but that dude anyways uh he said that there was a security guard inside the library and i'm i'm really lucky that i don't have any teachers that are forcing it on to me but there was one teacher that told me to wear it or else which is just made me really sad about it please wear it i don't want to lose my job and i when i thought of that i was like this is very ridiculous because why would you why would you guys enforce this why would you guys make teachers scared and make students wear their masks so that way they can't lose their jobs i mean you guys aren't wearing it why should we right why why should our governor why should i governor uh tell us to wear masks if he's not even wearing a mask around 62 417 people in a super bowl right after school apple valley uh i'm just gonna put a random number i want to say 500 uh plus people are in that school now we're talking about thousands of people all in just one big populated area why should why should we wear our masks if you know our governor isn't wearing it you guys aren't wearing it i don't i don't really see a point in all this with the mandate and the vaccine and it says right here and i state which is what um what's his name fauci uh said uh where uh dr fatcher makes a statement saying the vouch uh the vaccine prevents covid19 from mutating now he says i doubt seriously seriously that any vaccine uh will be 100 protected the best we've ever done is measles and which is 97 to 98 of effective now what's the point of this vaccine anyways it doesn't really work all these people or all these you know um sources telling us that this does this this does another thing oh no this we were wrong about this we changed our minds no i'm i'm honestly getting sick of it because on i want to say tuesday tuesday is when i had a substitute for my favorite class which is math which is really weird eric your three minutes is up please uh we have other speakers uh can i real quick all righty so the substitute was saying i need you to wear a mask but i don't want to wear a mess you can just put it under as you can as you can tell she didn't really care you can put it under right here it's all right i don't really care but i refuse to wear a mess i'm going to have to ask you to leave now thankfully it wasn't too cold it wasn't too hot it was perfect but for the people who stayed outside in the cold i don't really see that i don't think that's fair for other students to stay outside and you know do that thank you after tristan will be june corporal okay hello everybody hello pat hello my name is tristan krappel i'm a sophomore at granite hills high school i'm here tonight to talk about why the board should vote to not enforce masks until the 11th i feel bad for the kids that are protesting having to do all of their work outside in the freezing cold being segregated from their friends harassed threatens a threatened and word for their grade slipping i know what that feels like i have a medical mask exemption and i have gone through all of that myself for eight months i've been harassed by teachers in the halls yelling at me to put on a mask i've been kicked out of class for just getting up to throw away a piece of paper because i was less than six feet away from another student i have been removed from class by none other than pat slosher after my mom spoke at the board meeting about masked choice ironic isn't it i had to sit in the office for almost two hours while they talked about an accommodation i felt like i was being punished for not being able to wear a mask while having to sit in the room for two hours the room was dark i was alone as if i had some sort of contagious disease i felt like an outcast and it was hurtful to know that i was neglected throughout the office due to my inability to wear a mask every day in class i have to sit away from my friends and if i don't i have to all right if i want to i have to put on a mask while sitting with my friends at the table my math teacher miss pike will not let me join a group or will send me outside with all the other protesters if i do not comply i have a medical mask exemption and i am not supposed to be wearing a mask it makes me feel bad because i have to choose between sitting with friends and socializing like any other high schooler or for my education and this is why i want this to end now not on the 11th now thank you [Applause] after june will be avery conference hello everyone okay last big meeting we had at granite was about the vaccine mandate in october i remember my speech it was about how the only pushback i saw thus far from the district was against the parents last month i announced at the board meeting that since the powers that would be that be would not stand up for our kids that they would start standing up for themselves along with their parents since then our kids have been harassed threatened set out in the cold to sit on concrete wet tables and chairs prevented from coming in their classrooms grades docked blankets taken away and even forcibly removed back in october all five board members unanimously signed a resolution against the vaccine mandate and was opting for mass choice but when our kids decided to stand up for their right to breathe and share their smiles the pushback from you was against the kids just like you did with the parents instead of pushing back against the state 36 plus districts 15 plus counties in california and growing have stood up to newsom giving their students mass choice there was only five states in the u.s that even masked their kids now even less i am sickened and disheartened by the willingness the district has been to continue to abuse our kids they had everything taken from them school sports friends extracurricular activity etc and is the last to be allowed to unmask though they are the least vulnerable to this disease if it was about the science they would have been the first sun mask did you watch the state of a union address tuesday no one in congress were wearing masks afterwards were kissing biden shoulder to shoulder our kids the next day were set out in the cold for not wearing a mask with caution tape around them it is going to take a long time to heal what we've done to them you declined to take a firm stand against newsome through a strong resolution for mass choice which makes me question your leadership going into the vaccine mandate at the very least you need to stop the enforcement of these masks until the mandate drops on the 11th the science will not change in eight days we know by an email from the san bernardino county that you are the authority on how mass are enforced if you do not stop enforcing mass hundreds of your apple valley unified school district kids will continue to suffer you will no longer be able to hide behind the state or county for your bad behavior you will be responsible for their future harm and will be opening yourself up to legal actions as you continue to use and abuse our kids as pawns for money 70 million right so far history books will be written not just about the abuse that our kids have endured but about their bravery we have kids from high school all the way down to the littles in kindergarten who are fierce patriot warriors braver than a lot of adults i know sitting right here we are all learning together that freedom isn't free it costs everything i can't wait until they don't have to wear a mask anymore but when that happens it's gonna be their victory they will be the ones responsible for ending this no one will ever take their freedoms away again let these kids know you hear them you see them you care be on the right side of history do the right thing vote to end this tonight thank you after avery will be uh trisha morrison hi my name is ava contreras and i attend apple valley high school a lot of people at the school know me as the girl who has been quarantined for about 90 days one can only imagine my grades then basically straight f's all because my teachers would never send me my work but one shout out to ms robbins during this time when my grades were not its finest not once did cheney or mr goodro email my mom nor me telling me that i need to get my grades up but this semester when i'm outside protesting they email my mom saying that my grades are dropping and i should probably go back to class let me tell you my grades three a's two b's and one c of strange how they're checking up on me now when i'm still passing my classes but they didn't when i was failing the only reason my grades are like this is because my teachers won't grade any of my quote-unquote missing assignments and i'm not allowed to go into a classroom to take a test because i'm not wearing a mask they have also told my mom that i've not not been doing my work ironically the exact same day that a teacher told me he sees me out the circle every day working my hardest to do my work and he appreciates it so which is it am i doing my work or am i not doing my work half the time the internet doesn't even work out there so even if i wanted to do work i couldn't we stood out in the cold with one teacher supervising us not even allowed to stand up from our seats without getting in trouble they wanted to want it to make want to make it seem like we're all defiant kids for standing up for ourselves but we aren't we are being treated like animals but treated like animals but are still expected to act like it's a normal classroom before covent i never had anxiety since going back to school with math i do now anyone who knows me knows how much i love school and never missed a day but now i dread going every day staff say what we're doing is pointless because we got what we wanted but we didn't get what we wanted we want masks lifted today not in a week's time thank you [Applause] after trisha will be morgan morgan we have a gift for you could you bring these up for the board members we have to report any gifts it's free it's a donation you have stood behind a lie while waiting for the state to tell you what to do so you could collect a paycheck from them proudly preparing students for their future that's what your motto is online how is telling our children to sit outside in the cold preparing them for their futures or picking a student up forcibly and removing them from a classroom how is making fun of kids or mocking them for standing up for their rights preparing them these are the things our children have been dealing with and they will not forget this they will be better adults because of the way they have been mistreated by their teachers principals and peers they are learning how to stand up for themselves against sellouts like yourselves our daughter along with several other students have been fighting harder than any of you for their rights they are children fighting an adult fight we have recently received voicemails from the high school saying that our kids did not use their time outdoors to do work mr goodrow response to this was that they're just letting us know that our kids are outside need to check for missing assignments but the message is rude and it's stirring up more anger with your parents but nothing will be done nothing will change because you don't hold anyone accountable you are adults and you should be embarrassed that you have had the power all along to protect our children and to prevent the drama and division in our schools but you've done nothing if i parented my children without a backbone i'd be raising them to act like some of you spineless some of you have no business being in a position to make decisions in the best interest for our children because you don't make them you wait for someone else to do your job on march 9th the senate health committee meets regarding sb 871 it's adding the covet shot to the list of mandatory vacs to attend public school are you going to keep your word and not change the previous resolution made about the vaccine i'm here today for two reasons the first is to tell you that my children will never wear a mask again they will be going to class and if your teachers touch them in the slightest to remove them from class i will sue you for 70 million dollars of your relief money our children are good students they've gone outside to be respectful they've done their work they've kept their grades up in 30 degree weather with snow they have done everything but wear muzzles for the last three weeks but they won't be doing it ever again the second reason i'm here today is ask you for a resolution that you will continue with masks will not continue with masks after the 11th according to your agenda you're voting today on the 4th through the 11th of march but if the mass mandate comes back into play after the state forces a vaccine for kids to go to school and it finds a way to force masks again we want a resolution today that you will continue with mass choice will you continue to disappoint the families in our district and hide behind your lies or will you prove me wrong today and show that you have the courage to stand up for our children thank you [Applause] morgan and then after morgan will be jaden bechtel hi my name is morgan radona my friends and i have been outside at school for about two weeks and it has been freezing outside i don't know why we started when it is more than halfway done but i can tell you that we are sick of being forced to wear a mask the school is breaking laws by not letting students in class this district needs to straighten up their sources so the stuff that we do at school is legal while i've been at school i've been called to the office when i'm inside i'm asked to put on my mask or go outside so they have to follow me outside just to tell me that my mom was so nice she ordered me lunch and it has arrived starting on february at school we chose to not wear face covering and we are facing the consequences my friends family myself and myself have been doing things like theater softball jutsu and having lots of family time without a mask also i was sad when a company wouldn't let us do our presentation outside with them so we had to go inside with the mask to do something that was scheduled to be outside without our parents to be able to watch so i had to choose to either go or leave but i went and wore my mask on my chin and guess what nobody cared because it didn't matter to them so why should it matter when i don't wear one in class also mass mandates have been far have been also last minutes have been so far so far been depraved cold and calculating infringements last on our rights lastly we do we have to wait until the 11th for us not to be forced to wear a mask we should have the choice starting now thank you [Applause] after jaden bechdel will be monica king hi hi i'm jaden i came here a couple months ago to talk to you about the mass you said you said you were on our side and when i left here i felt like i was protected and you guys have my back just because i am a little kid doesn't mean i don't know what's going on actions speak louder than words us kids that are choosing to not wear our masks these last few weeks have been treated pretty bad i sat in the freezing cold and they took away my blanket now i'm sitting in the sun trying to see my work which is hard because we have nothing over us but the worst part is my relationship between me and some of my teachers i feel like some of them don't like me anymore i don't want to wear a mask anymore but i feel like at school i'm getting in trouble for it i think school used to be fun and happy and a happy place but right now it just feels hateful and divided some staff make me feel like i'm doing something wrong but to me i know i'm doing something right so i ask that you please stand with us and make school great again by lifting the mass mandate like all the other school districts did thank you [Applause] after monica king will be marty sylvia good evening what a powerful group of people behind me wow so item number 32 gives a contract template for essentially the kobit 19 federal funding that was directly tied to having our county continue the local code emergency here for the past two years it was federal funding reserved for those counties who complied with mandates as well as continuing the local covet emergency while some would have argued that this showcases that the county were good stewards we would argue and have for the last two years that it came with a very high price limiting our liberties and participating and perpetuating the rollout of propaganda and the promotion as well as coercive practices that impacted the lives of residents in this county during not only um of this county including not only your constituents but our small businesses employees and most importantly our children other counties in the state did end their local covet emergency and therefore did not subject their constituents to the loss and limiting of liberties guaranteed under both our state and the u.s constitution i just want to acknowledge that the board of supervisors in san bernardino county is at long last terminating the emergency proclamation from the novel coronavirus in our county on almost the anniversary of two years since it was proclaimed we have faithfully and diligently come to outspoken and given public comment requesting the removal of these masks and at long last it's being terminated our understanding is that there will be no more federal funds dispersed and likely it may be brought up at the state of the union this evening this likely is reason for the termination so while not a victory all on our part though something we have long advocated for i acknowledge that you are terminating this local emergency and i am grateful that i and my people behind me have diligently come before you and share truth and facts provided you with data and research to back up what we have said the truth on the record and eventually whether here or um the truth is on the record and eventually you guys you're gonna have to just face up to what's been done here um i just want to say that i'm like so proud of my son and all the children behind me for speaking their truth i hope that when and it will when this all comes back again after the 11th that you guys choose to do better that you choose to do what's right for these kids thank you [Applause] michaela sigan early hi good evening you guys i know i am some of you some of you guys know my face let me introduce myself my name is marty bernado soria and i am a product of the school district as is my father as is my as are my two sisters and many other family members that still live in this community um in my 47 years i've worked as a respiratory therapist at san bernardino county hospital dealing with the sickness of the sick i was a stay-at-home mom that was active very active in my kids education and now i am an educator um my oldest son was is a 21 2021 graduate from maple valley high school i have two other sons that are at apple valley high school that are joining in the mass mandate protest and let's be clear on the type of kids that you think or may assume that are out in sun devil circle my boys are scholar athletes that carry above average gpas they are varsity lettermen they are a part of the mass program they do not have one single disciplinary mark on their record all through all their years of school you could ask anybody any buddy at the upper valley high school who my kids are and they have nothing but good to say about them so please throw away any assumptions you have of the type of kids that are protesting this they aren't kids that are just wanting to get out of class they care um it's really easy to play mr goodro because he's our principal but i i blame the lack of leadership to you mrs nelson and her team um you have single-handedly single-handedly created a toxic and hostile environment at alpha valley high school an environment where student teacher and administrative relationships have been completely destroyed because you didn't want to lose your job your job by definition a superintendent's job by definition is to promote the success of all students it is to focus on learning and achievement and to support public education and all stakeholders we are your stakeholders our students are your stakeholders um and you have failed us on every single count as our children have sat in the cold the wind the snow and the heat i ask you how is that promoting their success how have they been able to learn and achieve and how have they you supported the student and the parents um at apple valley high school students have been threatened to have senior activities taken away if they do not comply with the mass mandate for the last two years everything's been taken away from them i'm surprised my son and 21 actually had a graduation and i thank our administrative staff at appa valley and the school board and you guys for making it happen i do appreciate that but so much has been taken away from them why are you going to scare these kids into fear into complying with this last thing i'm going to say is that our motto for the school district is we are you guys are proudly preparing our students for the future so instead of treating these kids like criminals we should be applauding these students that have been standing up for what they believe in these students are not only preparing for their future they are taking control of our future do better [Applause] i'm sorry man what's your name michael signorelli michaela signorelli okay i'm sorry i i i called you didn't i yeah okay thanks hi my name is michaela signorelli i go to vanguard preparatory i came here tonight to tell you how i feel about the masks when i'm wearing the mask i feel like i can't breathe the last time i came here you said you were going to do something about the mask but yet you haven't done anything of wearing the mask inside i sit outside in the rain wind snow cold and sun i came to school one day with a blanket to try to keep me warm and they took it away from everyone and never gave it back and they a proctor is going around telling the kids that aren't doing the protest good job and giving them candy which it makes me feel uncomfortable because i feel like they don't want us here or don't like us when i'm outside it's really hard to do my work because there's kids playing outside the sun is in my eyes because there's no shade where they put us when it's time for pe they don't let us go in the locker room to change so i have to do pe in my school clothes which are very which which which are not very comfortable and it makes me super hot and when i wake up i don't want to go to school because of how the school is making me feel for what i'm trying to do what's best for me so i please ask for you to remove the mask mandate because the school is the only place i have to wear it and i want school to be fun again thank you have a good night okay thank you that um concludes the portion of public comments give a card sir can you fill one out before you speak well it just kind of keeps track of it but you can speak first and then fill it out before you go home [Music] um first off ditto to everyone that uh spoke tonight so i want to make a couple points here real quick i just want to add on roseville joint unified school district last board meeting they made that they passed it that night they have not lost funding they haven't lost reliability insurance and they haven't had any issues at all everything's going 100 normal and they did it weeks ago so i want to remind you about that also their statistics from their website um when they had mass choice i mean masks were required to just a week later to two weeks later they went down 73 in covet cases so by removing the mass their code cases went down just for staff alone they went down fifty eight percent in two weeks in covert cases by removing the mass so i want to remember that the students in my classroom the ones who wear the mask are the ones that are gone most the time the ones that aren't wearing a mask they're there almost every day they don't get sick ones that are all wearing the mask every single day again even the vaccinated ones they're missing time more than anyone else so just want to point that out um one thing i want to say too mr nay you said um last time last board meeting you have to listen to cal osha and have the rules on you all the employees at app valley school district you should know too that and if you're going to play that call card of osha requirements employers this is from osha.gov california.gov employers are also required to teach every worker that's required to use ppp equipment to know when it's necessary what kind of what kind is necessary how to properly put it on adjust where take it off the limitations of the equipment proper care maintenance useful life and disposal of the equipment there's a list goes on that if you're going to require your staff to wear these masks you have to have a whole bunch other checklist you need to be doing otherwise you're about you're violating cal osha standards is right there alone so i want people to be aware of that last thing we as a community we can't even if we get everything we want tonight and two in a month we're all back to normal we can't get our eyes off the ball and let this stuff get out of control again we need to stay involved and be in control especially if you're sending your kids to public school if you can home school home school if you can make that sacrifice do it if you can't it doesn't work for some people some kids need to be in public school you still need to stay involved and help out and make sure that the next dumb thing doesn't happen the next dumb thing in the vaccine and critical race theory or whatever the heck else is coming that just might have nonsense in it we need to be accountable holding these people accountable all the time not just right now again when good times happen people get weak and we just let things go fly by we got to stay strong and i just want to give i think we should applaud one more time for every student every speaker but definitely every student that talks to me [Applause] okay we have some other business before we actually get down to discussion items it's going to be real quick does anybody need five minutes we've been sitting up here for a while uh anybody need a restroom break for five minutes we're gonna take a quick five minutes and then we have a few just a few things to go through before we get to the discussion items so let's go ahead and take a break at 7 41 and we'll be back at 7 46.
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the proposed 30 mile boundary is actually sorry it is 2827 square miles as just a reference point the largest district in the state of arizona is 4413. a 50-mile radius is 7854 square miles and with this it would be two so as a whole we're looking at just claw just close to 15 000 square miles of operating service with a 50 mile radius so just as a comparison as an average of 500 versus 15 000 so which is something we're more than capable of taking care of it's just a matter of having more one-on-one service right it's certainly right much larger which is you know part of the reason why we're asking for more transportation money but um but 50 i don't know that um if anyone's suggesting that that hard number would be 50 but rather that we not have a hard number that transportation you know distances is taken into consideration or maybe we have a hard number that's really big um but we're gonna you know again if it's 40 miles or 35 miles the parents have to understand that that's going to be an issue and they may not you know they may not want to do that or they might i don't know absolutely absolutely and i'll turn my time over right after sue um which is that is part of idea section b which is related services so that is discussed um but i do agree with you david as far as a hard number uh we know uh through uh different various studies that the longer a student is on transportation the lower their education becomes our educational access becomes in the sense of homework after school activities et cetera so i i do think that a hard number and having a boundary uh definitely creates that interest of okay this student is too far and in the best interest of the student we would recommend a different avenue for the least restrictive environment for education that's okay so i i have two thoughts my my first one is i i kind of like the alternative language that you propose maria with the 30 mile hardline and 30 to 50 case by case as long as that is not the only deciding factor but my second is more of a question and um i'm just wondering if there is anything nationally that's considered a best practice as far as how many hours a kid should be in transportation to and from school um different various studies i get different answers usually it's under 60 minutes from what i see what we're proposing here is mostly right around two hours as a maximum but different cities have different results for that there's arizona conducted a study regarding that back in the 90s to determine mostly the closure of rural schools and consolidating those downs on the effect of long-term transportation they didn't have anything that was quantifiable to say yes this was the outcome of making that decision as there's so many other related aspects to that so i think it's just more of trying to put yourself in the shoes of the student of if we're talking about a 7 30 a.m start time that means if it's a two-hour distance it's a 5 30 a.m pick-up time which means report time for my staff is at 3 30 in the morning in order to make it out to that location and then that means that that student is not getting home until roughly 5 30 or 6 p.m so and in phoenix where we start at 8 a little later that's a pickup time of about 6 a.m so a little bit easier on on the students but when we're talking obviously with preschool elementary that that's a pretty difficult aspect but i agree with you in the sense that um having that discussion in the iep as section b is something that is prominent there i think the intent of this was to firm up that definition with the aspect of us now being an lea and now being solely responsible for transportation of our students whereas in the past it was a partnership between us and the district um and this obviously includes uh mostly that 30 increase that we saw in our transportation load give or take um from the lea status change and i think that's the overall intent if there's another aspect that the board feels would be a better way to do that i'm open to hear those options but i think it's best interest for those students of not being on a bus more than two hours this is oh go ahead thank you this is board member jans i would like to say that this comment is near and dear to my own upbringing i spent a lot of time on the bus every day growing up in a rural town needing to travel back and forth to the larger city to drive myself to get to campus might have been 20 25 30 minutes depending on how much i sped as a young person but on the bus it took about an hour to get there and i would arrive home probably two and a half hours or so daily after school and that was not a great experience it was truly awful to the point where when i got my driver's license i would count my pennies to get gas anything to avoid riding that bus everything possible with that aside um i've been a part of many iep discussions as a counselor and advocating for those deaf hard of hearing students before asdb had that lea designation the problem was you know a district would say you must go to ptsd or asdb cancer campus and they may not have supported a student because the student would have been on a bus for over an hour sometimes two hours daily and so i have done my research where i need to find that case law to say that it's unreasonable to force a child to ride a bus for more than 45 minutes that's it's unreasonable that being said um i think that 30 mile radius is an agreeable approach and i do like the language that says when the home residents of the student is 30 miles outside of the radius of campus that impacts daily transportation and it is not reasonable the dorm team should meet to figure out a appropriate placement for that student in order to meet those concerns i feel like this is open language with what we've been provided here if the 30 mile radius isn't necessarily big enough we could include language that would instead have a time limit for what would be considered too far where we would then recommend dorm placement as a better fit for that student the last thing that we want to do is force parents or force kids to feel like they have to ride that bus for an extremely long period of time on a daily basis if instead they have the option to take advantage of the dorm program they should be able to make that choice all right just one question that i had just the the language in that paragraph just trying to get a little bit closer to the intent of it so it's written in a format that presents both the first bolt and the first sub-bullet as should so items for consideration in the discussion around admissions but then the second sub-bullet is a shell so it's providing a hard limitation so is is the intent that the 30 mile or 50 in this case that those are primary considerations but not solely limiting factors and that is a piece of the conversation or that if you are in this case outside of 30 miles you are either placed at the tucson campus or remain in your district would you like to go and answer the show yeah sure so um it is my understanding from the subject matter experts that the 30 mile radius was intended to be directed that it was intended to be a hard a hard line of a 30 mile radius which is part of the reason why i um drafted the language of the 30 miles being the the hard line and then 30 to 50 being on a case-by-case basis under consideration by the iep team so uh with with the new language that i'm proposing there's a hard line and the ability beyond the 30 miles to allow for deeper discussion and to say is this the least restrictive environment a day school or do we want to look at possibly a residential placement thank you so that's my understanding of what the subject matter experts wanted i do like the language of the 30 to 50 miles with the consideration at the iep team meeting i think that's a team decision including the parents and we don't force anybody to do anything um it is a team decision and if the parents feel comfortable with that and again like we tell all of our parents during iep meetings an iep is a fluid document we can have a new iep meeting at any time and if you change your mind we can do that but bottom line is we need to look at least restrictive environment and the programming for the student and what kind of education they're getting if they have peers who are using the same language there's there's so much involved in that decision it's not just it's not clean cut so i think if we could keep that and i don't think there's going to be that many yeah like and we do understand that it is a very delicate balancing act between being very respectful of what the parents would would like to see and where also as as the subject matter experts and the educators trying to act with what's in the best interests of the child um because we know that it's not necessarily in the best interests of a three-year-old to be on a bus or in a car for five hours a day when they're already looking at an eight-hour school day so what what we are trying to do here what i tried to do with this compromise language was to balance that fine line between respecting the the parental decision but also making the parents aware right um and and to hopefully have the iep team come to a collective decision on what's in the best interests of that particular that discussion needs to be had at the iep team meeting and um let the team decide what's best for that's why we call it an individual education plan okay um thank you and superintendent do you have your hand up no oh okay sorry i just want to make sure um uh it's okay yeah so it is so um and again maybe we should address this on the front end um this because enrollment for next year is kind of already happening now um you know the the idea would be that we suspend our normal first read rule so we need a motion to do that um and then we would need to vote on adopting it uh right away today uh you know potentially with uh miss murphy's proposed language so i move two other quick things before we make the motion um just two small things that i noticed in there that i'd like to propose um changes to in the section on students eligible for admissions consideration one of the requirements is that a student must have a current iep um i think it would just be helpful to either remove the current iep language or clarify we just don't want to have a situation with a student who hasn't met but is coming out of state and doesn't have a current iep isn't eligible for admission yeah just again wanting to ensure that we're not unnecessarily limiting and i think just the other quick recommendation in the referrals evaluations and placement considerations section uh the last sentence of the second paragraph stating that asdb is the final determinant of whether placement is appropriate i would just recommend and like to move that into a separate paragraph below the paragraph that it's in is talking about initial placement ensuring that documentation is received within 15 days from the district that's referring over whereas that final determinant is about the student that asdb is doing the placement at evaluation determination for so i think would just be clear if it if it said that it's and it's like just a separate sentence below with a continued placement language um just to clarify those those two okay um that sounds good and we have miss murphy's language about the there on the record so we know would you like me to read it to you just for the purposes of the motion just for the purpose of the motion to read i want to make it real clear to everyone because we don't you know have like you know we're not in zoom so i can't bring up the word document do you want us to move to um to and vote on reading it just the one time first uh we we can do that we can do that now to suspend the the first read policy and then uh ms murphy can read her her um amendment along with uh mr warner's amendment so i moved that we suspend the first read policy on this on um revised policy jf all right uh second i second support remember chance uh all in favor aye aye aye aye that's mike okay um and then just for the record miss murphy uh mr uh wonders has read his amendment so we understand what it is if you can read yours quickly yes i will be adding the language students residing within a 30 to 50 mile radius shall be considered for day student status on a day by on a case-by-case basis the placement team shall discuss distance and geographical locations as one consideration in the decision for admission and placement okay um thank you i move that we adopt the policy oh sorry i do have a question point of clarification this is board member chance if a student is within the well let's say less than the 30 mile radius however um the transportation would still take over an hour is there a consideration that needs to be given to put to placement at the tucson campus in that case as that would be section for the idea subsection b that would be discussed within that and if they noticed that the particular location was within 30 miles but a difficult location to get to and it was determined that it would take over an hour it would be discussed but underneath this reading is that if it's under 30 miles it would not qualify for any other further discussion other than left up to asdb in order to work through those details to confirm transportation now i would like to say though 30 miles for the most part there would be very few instances that we would see something over roughly an hour and 15 minutes or an hour and a half that would be very very rare most of those would be an hour or under we do strive for that in our major metropolitan regions especially in the tucson area phoenix getting over to east mesa is a little more difficult especially on the u.s 60 during rush hour that may be under 30 miles but due to rush hour traffic and other conditions it may exceed that one hour period of time but obviously transportation would be discussed during the iep placement meeting this is board member jans i just wanted to make sure that parents would be aware that they do have a choice if they do feel that that transportation process is taking too long that they know that they have the choice to place their child at the residential program in tucson as well so i'm not sure how that could be brought to a parent's attention well this would actually if they were within that 30 mile area not allow them to be into the dorm placement at that point um as they would qualify for daily transportation is my understanding of how this would be interpreted but um that is a good point of clarification um actually i would like to clarify that the policy as it as it's written right now says day students should reside within a 30 mile radius so it's permissive it is not mandatory okay okay um i moved we adopt the policy as amended by mr wonders and ms murphy in their uh prior readings uh all in favor uh raise your hand and uh mike on the phone okay uh all in a post and any abstentions commissioner thank you um next up is uh 8.01 call to the public call the public on non-agendized items um you know similar to the earlier one on agenda's items um suki will read just the brief note on it i just want to reiterate that all comments are accessible on the website given in the agenda for this meeting and will remain public for several months these are public comments and the board has not reviewed these comments for factual accuracy and the viewpoints expressed in these comments are in no way indicative of the viewpoints of asdb its leadership or the board there were four public comments on non-agendized items and they were the summary of those four comments i took notes two were concerned about um the redesign and transparency and communication and would like to see more clarity on that end one was specific to requiring kelly crazy to learn american sign language and the third was a general comment or a comment from audiologists feeling concerned about misrepresentation at the work study session that there was a blanket statement made about the parents or about audiologists being able to connect community audiologists with families um thank you sue k um 8.02 discussion possible action item agenda items for the next regular board meeting scheduled for may 5th 2022 in phoenix are there any uh any board members like to comment on this board member chance okay i would like to reinstate the discussion about the ombudsperson position i think it has been demonstrated that we do need to take action and i would encourage us to move forward with that process it does seem to be evident that we need an ombudsperson within the agency so i'd like to have that conversation about how we can proceed um and um if that person is to report directly to the board um it's it's critical for staff to have an individual that they feel that they can trust and that they have options for mediation as needed okay thank you pv uh any others okay then we can go to 9.01 action item adjournment uh i i move that we adjourn this meeting okay somebody jump in second and sue seconds all in favor say aye aye any opposed thank you everyone um yeah we will see you next time heading out next week
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as you all know a health and welfare benefits tend to go up to about 10 each year especially in this category we are very grateful that we have a great health benefits welfare benefits committee that we do meet on the monthly basis uh thank you uh um board trustees um kathy um and um anna piercy for serving on that committee as well so the committee come together and really work on different things to make sure that we get the best plan as well so at second interim the um total general fund revenues was using here is about 500 million dollars at this point um and bulk of it is coming from the um local control funding formula as you have seen it's about 72 percent and the other revenue we'll bring in is the federal revenues about 67 million and most of these are the one-time dollar pandemic funding and so um that was this one time as we all know we're total we have received about 156 million dollars and those are already projected in double entire budget out the next slide here is the total general fund expenditures here and we are looking at a second interim to spend about 508 million dollars for current year as you will see the bulk of our expenditures are on the salaries and benefits year with the one-time dollars we are spending um about ten percent of our total budget on on books and supplies and so these are the one-time things that we're spending on as you will see here this is our um current um the second entrance budget in um 2122 and then the out year numbers as well so current year we are deficits spending by about seven million dollars at this point um and for 2223 about 20 and a half million dollar deficit you increased about 26 million dollars and in 24.25 about 27 million deficit these are the the numbers i really want on the board to focus on we are in a deficit spending mode part of us due to the one-time dollars coming in but bulk of it is also our declining enrollment and so our goal is with the governor's proposal um hopefully that will help us at least narrow down the deficit spending and so that's our goal to make sure that by june the number we bring to board the governor will have a more firm proposal by then so you will see right now our current year our um available reserve is at 11.33 but going into next year the current projection right now is a 7.72 so that is below the 10 percent um on the 10 percent that we um can't the cap is at 10 so we are below the 10 percent for starting uh 2223 and that's what we are required to do at this point it does go down to about um 3.66 in 2223 and then um 2425 also we're down to about 3.22 percent and so that's extremely low um you know when you have a reserve of only three percent in those calculations in there the board mended additional three percent and that's still in there so that's our goal to make sure that we can still um have the additional three percent above what the um what the required reserves are so um so the the timeline so uh in february um joe comona brought up the lcap supplement that was part of the requirement to go to the board as well as the a to g grant um to board and i believe the a2g grant will be approved tonight so that's part of the new process and um tonight we'll bring in the second interim we are waiting for the may revise obviously in may we'll see what those numbers look like and put the budget together i would lcav for june and so uh and we will be presenting that on june 6th uh to the board and then um that will adopt the outcap as well as the budget on june 16th and so that concludes my presentation um and i'm happy to answer any questions that you may have all right board members do you have any questions no no no perfect well thank you very much dr nian great presentation um i know we got some challenges coming ahead but i think we're ready for it we are ready for it thank you so much our team and thank you uh for for the for this time thank you absolutely thank you very much all right next we go to public comments open session items i'm going to read this uh little paragraph here opportunities for public comments occur at the beginning of each agenda item and at this time for items not on the agenda persons wishing to address board of trustees should complete a speaker request form available on the information table back there and submitted to the executive assistant prior to the meeting each speaker is limited to a maximum of five minutes each topic item is limited to a total of 20 minutes board members cannot immediately respond to public comments as stated in the speaker request form so i know uh carl you have your little gadget right there so you could keep track of the timing i'm going to call on first speaker wendy sparks good evening do i need to say my name and address that said that on the paper no i don't know my name is wendy sparks um okay good evening as a parent of a senior and a freshman that have both participated in football at cypress high school i'm here to discuss the condition of the fields at the high school and at handle stadium i would like to start by saying the renovations that have taken place at cypress high school are exceptional driving by cypress high school or walking through the new quad area and passing the swimming pool puts a smile on my face as i continue my journey through campus toward the fields my smile begins to fade the fields are not only a sight for sore eyes but they are a danger to our student athletes i was first aware of the hazards on the field when my oldest son was a freshman and a friend of his was injured with the torn acl due to the deplorable conditions of the field fast forward a few years later and another friend had the same injury while playing soccer on the cypress high school fields and it doesn't stop there while helping out at our two-a-day practice this year i see one of our players coming over in a golf cart with the athletic trainer walking from one field to the next he stepped in a hole and tore ligaments in his ankle this is unacceptable to me and i hope to you as well our student athletes deserve better and it is imperative to take action the shape of our fields are in at handle stadium isn't much better we have multiple teams playing on this field throughout the year and maintaining and repairing it must be a priority from 1992 to 1998 i attended most kennedy high school football games and watched mr o'neill's sons play so when i go to handle stadium i feel this certain sense of nostalgia but once the nostalgia wears off i ask myself how is it possible that this stadium looks basically the same as when i was in high school cypress high school hosted two cif games this year at the end of the season the fields have been played on and maybe even practiced on for many many hours we had some friends coming to the game from the opposing team and the first thing i said to my husband was oh great they are going to have to play on our fields it is always uncomfortable to have someone come to handle and see what our stadium and fields look like instead of being excited to have a home game it is somewhat embarrassing i have heard comments about the terrible conditions that handle from coaches players parents and even the referees i urge you to take a look for yourself on monday i attended the master facilities plan meeting and was glad to see there is a plan to turf the fields in our district the problem is those plans are in the future and handle stadium wasn't even discussed we need our fields to be repaired and maintained throughout the year i have a few pictures for you that we that were taken at the field at cypress high school this is just a quick snapshot of what the fields look like during certain times of the year pictures can't tell at all seeing the fields in person allows you to see just how dire the conditions are please keep our student athletes safe we have repaired our parking lot because of the hazards it has posed let's do the same for our fields and keep up the work throughout the year thank you very much for your time all right thank you very much next is walter jensen i think thank you um didn't prepare anything on paper but i just wanted to uh i was asked to uh to share the experience of my kids being in the anaheim school district and particularly being a scholar or student athletes and to best do that i'd like to go back a little bit before i moved here we came from long beach and we picked a very good school district here and i'm school district and we were very happy that we moved here academics are awesome everything is great so i have no complaints about that um but i do have to uh agree with the lady i spoke earlier as far as the conditions of the of the fields i am fortunate that my kids are also very active my son is a baseball player he's on the varsity team for cyprus he plays football also at the handle stadium and my daughter found out when we moved to cyprus when we joined ayso that he was pretty good in soccer and also pretty good in track and field and i'm proud to say at the handle stadium she was back to back uh was a 100 meter and 200 meter and long jump champion so very athletic and with that comes also a lot of aspirations and dreams right so um she she started to share how she really want to be like number 13 alice morgan i believe her name is which is a very good soccer player anyway she's from this this area too that's when she was right about in in elementary school and then their aspirations became more and more realistic and she really wanted to go on the next level being a scholar athlete eventually a college a collegiate athlete and she actually did have potential to to do so and as she got better and better in soccer i decided to eventually take her out of ayso and get into club soccer which was kind of pricey but it was worth it because she joined the premiere and there they they have practice at saint john bosco and the field was really good and i have to say i already then felt that a lot of the ayso practices was at lexington high school i already felt that the field conditions were really bad being a foreigner myself i'm dutch i'm i'm a soccer fan i could already see that the field wasn't really that great but you don't take it that heavy you kind of like roll with it you're not really worried about it but slowly especially when she joined the high school team when she went to cypress high school where she practiced almost daily on the field that the lady just described it was just really concerning and worrisome and eventually i started to realize that she started to roll her ankles more both both sides so left and right which is painful and you kind of like are not that worried about it in the beginning but when it happens two three times then eventually one of the worst days was that she she rolled it uh right before she was supposed to go to an um what he called it a showcase tournament in las vegas he just had to complete one of the practices at high school and she rolled it again and this was so severe that we decided eventually let's have a look at it let's see in orthopedic and and don't get me wrong my daughter still loves soccer and she's going to stay with the cypress high school soccer team because she loves the team um but what we noticed was that she did eventually had a tear in one of her ligaments in her ankles and orthopedic did say you're going to have to if you want to play on the next level you're going to have to get an operation and it was just sad to see that you know you see the dreams from alice morgan to more realistic playing on a college level you see that slowly dissipate and and disappear and and it was painful for me to see but i know my daughter is very resilient she doesn't really she says no i'm gonna i'm just gonna play on high school level and i'm not going to play any college level because i don't want to get operated the the prognosis was you have to be operated if you want to go to the next level which would have meant he would have missed the high school season at least one or maybe two of the the last seasons and it was just hurtful and painful to see as a parent how that kind of affects your child and hey guess what my time is up i just wanted to share my experience okay one more minute well i just like to wrap it up by saying that it was painful to see and and you want the best fields or conditions for the kids eventually you want and my attempt here was to help you guys understand how it really affects the young girl that has those aspirations and and you can see that the conditions were just really tough on their ankles and i'm not the only parent like the ladies share they're they're a lot more athletes and when you look at the high school soccer team you can see that they're they're more athletes walking around with knee injuries and right now my daughter is playing soccer with the ankle brakes still she's gonna hang in there but less less mobility and she's getting shin splints and so they're all side effects of the field uh conditions and that's just what i wanted to share with you guys the experience thank you thank you thank you for sharing your story all right next uh is eric morale uh good evening thank you for the opportunity um i just want to echo a little bit i heard wendy talk about some of the you know visiting teams and parents coming over to cyprus and it's it's um you know to hear their comments about how you know terrible the field is compared to you know their home school and where they play and and just to kind of you know them say that they're concerned about their their kids getting injured i remember this fall the field was so dusty that and there was basically no grass it was all dirt that the dirt was just kicking up and the kids were breathing it in and they were just coughing like you know non-stop during the game when i took a look around you know at anaheim and i i you know i remember western high school handle stadium back in 1976 and it looks very similar to what i remember it back in 1976 at the little olympics that i participated in um you know when you look around at the other districts um around here you know santa ana unified has you know uh they have turf fields and new stadiums garden grove has two new turf stadiums for the six schools orange all the school sites have turf to practice on and of course they have fred kelly they just redid that fullerton has three new turf stadiums los al has a new turf stadium huntington beach all school sites have turf fields yorba placentia same thing they all have turf fields all south county schools have turf fields and stadiums in long beach has turf fields and stadiums so we are you know way behind way way way way way behind um and you know luero was here earlier and it was it was great that you honored them and they did a great job and they had a great year our coach at cypress high school was orange county coach of the year this year i'm not sure if you're aware of that and that's that's a pretty big honor um we're at a disadvantage we're at a disadvantage when we play teams in the playoffs and schools these other schools that have lights and turf fields when it rains they get to practice if it gets dark they get to turn on the lights and practice at their schools we don't have that opportunity we have to close it up before five o'clock when we were in the playoffs this year it got dark and when it did rain the fields were really really poor and difficult to practice on i personally uh walked the field a couple of weeks ago and it was so bad i i honestly in good conscious i don't think i don't i don't think i could let my my my son practice on those fields if they don't get repaired and maintained they're just really really bad just walking on it myself i felt my ankle turn um you know several times as i walked on the grass field they're just they're just not not not work you know it's it's not worth it football's a rough sport and people get hurt all the time you don't want to have needless injuries due to the field conditions so i ask that you consider that thank you very much thank you all right our next speaker is uh mazza go ahead i'm just waiting for everybody to get a copy so i can read we'll get it okay thank you excuse for a lot of us not being here we're already getting ready for our meshika new year's the month of march and our aster calendar uh in our native american tradition we uh this is the month we celebrate native american new year's this is the year of the rabbit duchly but back to this letter of virginia carmelo and the word colonists at anaheim high school chandheim united high school district board let's move anaheim towards a more exclusive and dignified future by removing the mascot and the name colonist many schools and national sports teams have come to a rational understanding of the negative impact of mascots that are offensive and harmful they have chosen in a spirit of respect understanding and for the better benefit of communities to remove their distasteful mascot names such actions in our country demonstrate that removing long-time negative representations of oppression racism and equality are a step towards healing persuasive and historical injustices towards minorities especially native americans and indigenous peoples there is a there is a historical disconnect between the colonists as depicted by the anaheim high school mascot and much later german colonists in anaheim colonists arrived in the americas east coast in the early 1600s and were never in california colonists predates the establishments of the united states and democracy colonists worldwide took indigenous lands as their own under violent dehumanizing and unscrupulous methods raids and warfare which is the reason the word should not represent high school students in 1857 the germans planned a project to move to anaheim were in fact investors it was local native americans and indigenous agricultural work that made possible the water supply and land preparation for the vine yards so that the germans could prosper three years later when all was ready germans arrived to make their homes on unseated land during this same era local natives barely survived incursion having suffered 90 percent loss of population under horrifying attempts to completely exterminate indigenous peoples and take the land for native americans the term colonist is a reminder of the cruel and disastrous treatment of our ancestors in 1963 dr martin luther king luther king said the following quote our nation has borne in genocide when it embraces the doctrine that the original american the indian was an inferior race even before there were large numbers of negroes on our shores the scar of racial hatred and already disfigured colonial society from the 16th century forward blood flowed in battles of racial supremacy where perhaps the only nation which tried as a matter of national policy to wipe its indigenous population moreover moreover we elevate the tragic experience into a noble crusade indeed even today we have not permitted ourselves to reject or to feel remorse for the the shameful episode our literature our films our drama our full core and all exalted let us be forward thinking and responsible to all let us create much needed sensitivity for all cultures be the change for our community let us end the era of harmful mascots remove the depiction and name quote so respectfully virginia carmelo and there's a virginia carmilla the gabriellinio tango descendant an elder he's a long-term pres resident of anaheim she is a native to this land and it was lanaz where her ancestors before her virginia current family has lived in anaheim for three generations before her her father graduated from anaheim high school virginia is the former council member and the former tribal chairperson of the gabriele tangua nation in the great los angeles basin and also orange county her six children attended schools in anaheim school district and do her grandchildren today she is a cultural educator and consultant thank you for listening and the name the original name before anaheim before anachaem which is a german word is that's the uh the river by the angel stadium and um it's just you know it's still it's still hurting hurting a lot of us you know and many people are going to come again and just like we said before and more came and this time will be more and uh but it takes time we but we request we demand that you change the name of the school not just the mascot and if you change the name when the new uh name should be maybe the jaguars or tugna speak with the tang was the phone number is right there on virginia camilla's phone number and happy woman's month thank you ladies women thank you thank you [Applause] our next speaker is chris walsh thank you i'm here to talk about the adoption of the blm task force as part of the curriculum in the anaheim unified school district as a parent to biracial children i was upset to learn about them being subjected to a lesson that asked them to identify differences in their peers that focused on stereotypes of different people of different skin colors my children are biracial and they are both white and latino and these lessons teach them that they are both oppressor and oppressed district's position on this is that it's to promote a discussion that focuses on race racism and racial equity and on the surface and taken at face value it seems it's an innocent enough assignment however since the adoption of this task force in early 2020 blm has proven themselves to be a violent group that advocates for the defunding of police and the disruption of the nuclear family as well as promoting a marxist ideology nationwide they're currently under investigation for misappropriation of donated funds uh they're barred in the state of california from further fundraising and so they can properly account for these funds as well as other states and amazon now i i'm here to encourage the anaheim unified school district to reconsider their support of this group and withdraw from any involvement with any organization that would encourage our children to focus on our differences based on skin color i don't believe that our children are naturally predispositioned to look at each other based on skin color race or the stereotypes that exist within each group i don't want my children or any other children to be subjected to a discussion that asks them to to focus on this and that's pretty much all that i have prepared for today i do apologize i would like to make further uh statements on this but i'm just here to let you guys know that i i do not approve of the blm task force uh being forced upon our children and i would ask you guys to really reconsider and take another look at this organization and withdraw this from the curriculum in the school district thank you very much thank you next is marissa bermudez good evening i'm board president jabbar and board members my name is marisa bermudez parent of a student at sycamore junior high school first of all i wanted to start off by i'm thanking you for the resolution that you passed this evening on the community schools that's actually something that is very personal to me that i i'm so thankful that i'm able to participate in the um community school steering committee and i believe that my participation is valued and that um we all have an active voice within the group so i think that's super great and the fact that you guys adopted a resolution is amazing so thank you very much i really appreciate it the other thing that i wanted to speak on was the fafsa applications um i was on you know i didn't write the the dashboard name on there but the one that you look at to see how many applications have been turned in district-wide school-wide and how many applications have been completed and how many have been awarded especially i was looking that up right now because on the way over here i was having a conversation with my sister and she was saying um have you looked at the dashboard and i said no i looked at it the other day but um nothing was had been awarded yet to any of our students so looking at the data today we have a total of 288 applications that have been submitted this has been us that on february 27th and um out of those ones 19 i'm sorry 5 students um is what we're looking at but out of those students only 1 902 possible students 1 932 students have submitted an ffs application um a thousand seven hundred twenty they've been completed but only a hundred and thirty have have gpa submitted so as of um february 27th which was the last day the dashboard was updated um only 105 fafsa applications have been awarded i'm hoping that between that time to now because applications deadline was yesterday that our school personnel who are in charge of turning in that gpas have done so because i believe it's very important that we turn the gpas in in a timely manner so that way students can get their award letters from fafsa and see how much money they're going to be receiving not just what they're already going to be getting from the cal grant or the pell grants but what money they're going to be awarded from the schools that you know potentially you know want to have them attend their schools so i know i've talked to several of you regarding this issue and it's something that i think it's very important that we look at and we don't leave it to the last minute just in case if our district has not submitted gpas there needs to be a application um turned in by tomorrow for the extension of 30 days so i hope whoever's in charge of this to really look into it and let's not leave this till the last minute and it's nothing to you know to bash on anybody or anything but these are our students that we're talking about and that we need to make sure that they're planning they're planning accordingly and to where they're going to go to the university for the students that you know are going to be going off to college or to the four-year institutes i believe it's very important and i've brought this up at one of the committees that you know that we sit down with the parents and the students and go over these award letters and explain to them the opportunities that they have depending on the acceptance of the schools that they're they've been accepted to so that was what i wanted to bring and highlight today and i hope somebody looks into this and hopefully it's they've already submitted and we don't need to do an extension that would be great but i just wanted to bring that up thank you thank you marita i've actually since you and i spoke i think a couple of weeks ago i brought it up to mr freed and he he explained the process to me they're in the process of getting that done so thank you spoke to it today as their kids are feeling the pressure to get those things in there you go all right thank you all right our next speaker is uh uh public comment is camila okay snot patty not okay all right that's the end of our public comments and now we go to our educational services 10.1 school-sponsored student organization i have a motion in a second all in favor aye aye including our student vote and that's an eye okay resolutions resolution number 2021 slash 22-bot 0-2 compensation for board meeting and this is a roll call vote hello second i have a motion and a second uh trustee piercy i don't know he's not even looking at me okay i'll vote yes jesse randall trejo okay now you are okay all right all right trustee smith aye mr o'neal abstain and then i vote i motion passes four one four zero one thank you you're welcome 10.3 resolution number 2021-22 adjustments to income and expenditures general front resolution number 20 21 dash b-16 adjustment to income and expenditures various funds and the 2021-2022 second interim report this is a role model second i have a motion and a second any questions seeing none uh trustee piercy aye rusty randall trejo aye trustee smith aye trustee o'neal hi and i vote aye motion passage unanimously 10.4 resolution number 2021 slash 2022-b-17 cal shape plumbing program award and this is a roll call vote second we have a motion and a second any questions comments i just had a quick question so the the total amount for this one is eight thousand two dollars yes yes okay are we planning on applying for more or is it okay so we are working with a consultant to come up with the rest of the bulk of it yeah okay how much are we expecting um we can get those number to you yeah okay we're still working with those numbers right now all right perfect this is a uh um roll call vote trustee piercy aye specially rondo trejo aye trustee smith hi trustee o'neal hi and i vote our emotion passes unanimously 10.5 resolution 2021-2022-b-18 cal shape plumbing program award again roll call vote of proof okay okay any questions see none uh trustee piercy aye tracy randall trejo aye rusty smith aye mr o'neal hi and i vote aye motion passes unanimously 10.6 resolution number 2021 slash 2022-e-20 autism awareness month we have a motion and a second second any um questions or comments seeing none trustee piercy aye trustee randall trejo aye trustee smith aye trustee o'neal aye and i vote aye motion passes unanimously 10.7 resolution number 2021 slash 2022-e-21 caesar jarvis day and this is a roll call vote i'll move second we have a motion in a second this is a roll call vote uh trustee piercy aye trustee randall trejo hi verdai trustee smith aye trustee o'neill aye and i vote i motion pastors united and i just have one comment to make because i remember this you know when cesar chavez started this and it was the the thing i remember most about and i just had to say that it was a great book boycott of grapes and it worked but it was it was really something i'll never forget that i was pretty young then all right thank you 10.2 resolution number 2021-2022-e-2022 national child abuse prevention month no move second we have a motion in a second trustee piercy aye trustee randall trejo aye trustee smith aye trustee o'neill hi and i wrote i motion passes unanimously 10.9 resolution number 2021-2022-e-23 arab american heritage month it's a roll call vote second we have a motion in a second trustee piercy aye jessie randall trejo hi christy smith aye christie o'neal hi and i vote high motion passes unanimously we already voted on 10.10 business services we move on to 10.11 agreement diagnostic library laboratory services don't move second we have a motion in a second all in favor aye aye aye any opposed motion passes unanimously 10.12 agreement mzo consulting llc so moved second or is it mcq mzq okay um a motion we have a motion and a second it's actually mzq consulting sorry um okay okay any questions no no all right uh all in favor any opposed motion passes unanimously educational services education 10.13 educational consulting agreement ethnic studies dr jose paolo michalis i'll move second we have a motion in a second all in favor any opposed motion passes unanimously 10.14 adoption of a through g completion of improvement grant hello second we have a motion in a second any questions comments okay all in favor aye aye aye opposed motion passes unanimously 10.15 revised board policy 71106.01 graduation requirements gilbert high school first reading this is a information item any questions seeing none 10.16 revised bold policy multiple policies first reading these are all information items any questions on those no but i had to kind of chuckle up the headlights on the what headlights it's just i'm hope we don't have that problem that should be an elementary school thing i've never heard of one but you never know so we have this yeah yeah 10.16 okay 10.17 education consulting agreement district choral festival second a motion and a second all in favor aye aye aye any opposed motion passes unanimously all right 10.18 agreement orange county department of education bullying prevention programs we have a motion a second any questions or comments no just the comment more teachers be need to be aware and out amongst the kids especially on the junior high level to step in when you see that so not enough teachers do that i'm sorry but because it's extra work but we need to especially now all right okay all in favor aye any opposed motion passes unanimously uh 10.19 independent contractor services agreement accountable healthcare staffing inc removed second motion a second any questions or comments seeing none all in favor aye any opposed motion passes unanimously 10.20 independent contractor services agreement new direction solutions llc dba pro care therapy salute second we have motion and second any questions seeing none all in favor aye aye any opposed motion passes unanimously 10.21 education consulting agreements tent masters so move second we have a motion to second any questions seeing none all in favor aye any oppose motion passes unanimously 10.22 certificate of administrators classified management and classified confidentially salary schedule action item so we have a motion a second any comments or questions seeing none all in favor aye any opposed motion passes unanimously 2022 this is the superintendent's office california school board association delegate assembly election and this is a roll call vote but everybody has the ballot let's get to gj can we vote and then give it to carl tally and then uh after that there's somebody on there you that vote that you voted for oh there's somebody i don't want to vote for [Laughter] me too i'm forbidden can we come back to that well while we do that so we could go ahead and go to consent calendar any items to be pulled on consent calendar um anybody else no move for the balance second a motion to move the balance in a second all in favor hi hi any opposed motion carries now let's entertain a motion for both yes yeah 11.7 mm and 11.8 so move second we have a motion a second uh any questions seeing none all in favor aye aye any abstentions i all right we have uh four zero one all right carl where are we at almost man you couldn't get that done anything i'm just kidding i'm just kidding just kidding all right so we're going to go to 12.
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thank you back uh back at 7 50. thank you so we're going to move on we're going to just go through a few uh housekeeping items here we have some some public hearings we need to open and close real quick and then we'll move on so on the public hearings we're going to open them up conduct a public hearing for the public to provide input regarding evuda's initial bargaining proposal to the apple valley unified school district and the time opened will be 7 51. is there any comments hearing then we'll close it at 7 51. i believe i have to keep it open for one at least one minute we'll close it in 7 to keep it open for one minute okay we'll close it at 7 52. we'll go down to item 2 conduct public hearing for the public to provide input regarding csea's initial bargaining proposal to the apple valley unified school district we'll open it at 7 52 [Music] is there any comments on this public hearing okay okay we'll close the public hearing at item three conduct the public hearing for the public to provide input regarding av usd's initial bargaining proposal to the apple valley unified teachers association we will open the public hearing at 7 53 for any comments okay we'll close it at 7 54.
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yeah so we're going to go to uh 12. no report for the superintendent no report for me what about john does john have a report there you go and carl got a shout out today i love that yeah all right so before we go to our trustees i'll take this well here so it's top seven these are the top six this is a tie so you may just want to go okay all right all right um so we have we tallied all the votes that were casted and i'm gonna read out the top it's supposed to be top seven but we have top six and then we have a tie for two positions with uh one vote each so i recommend that we just go with the top six sure yep so the top six are lynn davis from tustin unified school district candice kern with cypress uh elementary school district we got lauren brooks with irvine unified school district carrie buck with placentia yobalinda school district um michael simons from huntington beach unified school district and i'm just kidding i kept it today to give the suspense and marie randall too are you on their intimidation there [Laughter] all right so we have a selection of six candidates i think we need to do a roll call vote with a motion to approve the six which will vote interesting second we have a motion a second and we'll go with trustee piercy aye trustee randall trejo hi verdai trustee smith i third it aye trustee o'neill hi and i will i motion passes unanimously all right okay and then we go to the board of trustees report uh trustee piercy we'll start with you first okay okay since the last board meeting did we do this at the last board me or was it so late we didn't i don't remember but anyway i i attended the black history celebration at uh kennedy's performing arts and it was very interesting and well done um i was amazed at the guy doing the artwork i was just fascinated how he could just draw it and then wipe it off and then draw more and it was very interesting and then i uh attended the the discipline committee on virtual and it was very interesting to see some of the uh results of the survey that was sent out um and i'm waiting to get a lot of the actual his no she's not here shauna's not here did they send out the comments i was waiting to get the comments i thought she was gonna do all that on friday on friday oh okay because i want to see those yeah and then um i attended the community facilities uh meeting on monday and the cypress community center and that was very interesting and as i said before some of the uh the concepts put forth by the architects were nice they were good but they were pie in the sky you know um because of the things that were told to them that we want to look for and the things that we would like and everything and they did all this stuff and i just having lived through measure z and now h it doesn't always work that way even though you plan on it because i know now they've got on the plans like they came up with this idea for another building for lexington well they put it next to the fence you know the gym yeah next to the gym where they were supposed to have been in the fenced area that's next to the gym a room built under z so they'd have a inside it never got built so we'll see what happens but uh i re it's an interesting process and i certainly hope that all the principals share with the teachers and give them the opportunity to have a pack of sticky notes to make their comments on the the maps and uh i want to go to the one this coming is it monday or tuesday monday monday here in in the la palmer room okay so i'll try to avoid that and then one other thing that i attended well i mean i was interviewed by the kennedy wasp committee uh early in the morning and i was expecting something different but they were asking me questions and whatever and par part of it was because the lady that was doing it i knew anyway and so she was at you know i've known her in the community but interesting the way they did it this time but wasc's meetings are really tough i've been through a lot of them and it's it's interesting and this one was kind of held a little differently so okay thank you that's it for now all right thank you miss renault trio thank you everyone for voting for me to get on the ballot for a delegate thank you i appreciate it i want to continue that work uh uh there was actually an oc delegate meeting uh that i had attended um earlier this month um i attended my no crop meeting and uh my guselpa meeting and after 10 years of being on that board i actually got elected president this year extra pay on that committee right oh yeah i also i didn't attend the black lives matter uh celebration in person but i was on virtual and it was a beautiful celebration and i'm very proud of the work that committee is doing um also attended ethnic studies meeting and they're moving along uh just great work from um all the people on there and and i love the community support us grant was talking about you know all the teachers administrators and counselors uh working side by side together together that's that's how we get it done in the uhsd i'm not sure if i had reported that um we attended the tet parade which is just phenomenal um it's just great to get out there and it was really great to be there in person and just the celebration of the and having nancy as a partner was really fun fun and um next year we're going to eat right yes we're going to eat we're going to get something to eat before we we have to wait because it's it's a show business you hurry up and then you wait for uh hours before the the step-off time but it's a lot of fun and our kids were just really excited to be there and represent and you know they just embrace auhsd um and so i'm really really happy and honored to participate and shout out to ricky and the team for getting it getting us there every year and it's a lot of hard work uh managing all those students um i also represented us at auhsd at the oc fair they have a big tech parade or celebration in the oc fair that i didn't know about and in addition to myself some representatives from magnolia saying um they had a big stage outside and so it was a lot of fun and a lot of celebration next year i recommend you guys go there a lot a lot of good food and a lot of um historical i don't want to say artifacts but a lot of historical possessions are there and a lot of people that can tell their own story than the vietnamese flight and i am looking forward to spending how many hours are we going to spend together tomorrow night and saturday uh doing our ambassador interviews and they're doing it early this year because their intention is to get the uh the next folks in and kind of shadow you for a couple of weeks or months and i think that's a fabulous idea and as our trustee jabbar said you guys have represented us this year tremendously and uh you've done a wonderful job and anyone coming after you and to get the uh the opportunity to shadow you is going to learn so much from you and your brilliance so thank you thank you for that phenomenal job this year just been outstanding absolutely and that's my report thank you okay abdullah have you enjoyed this what have you gotten from this i've gotten a lot it's been so much fun uh i met so many people this year and like i saw the inner workings of our district like never before and it was really it was a really good opportunity and i only have two meetings left so i it kind of hit me was it's kind of crazy so um i'm excited that i got all these opportunities to speak with all of you and kind of share this year with you so it was a great uh great end of my high school experience so i'm glad that i got this opportunity and kind of represent the students in the same way that i have when i was younger and now i get to kind of speak for them and uh make sure that their concerns are addressed and i feel like i've i've gotten to do that a few times and i'm glad that i'm able to represent their voices in ways that they might not be able to directly connect to and yeah i think it was a really great opportunity for you yeah thank you very good well i want to thank you for your sensitivity and i'm going to take my mask off because what i have to share with you is highly unusual you told me your family's from syria and that part of the world today we go to work every day open our refrigerators and there's food we have electricity and we have no idea sometimes how fortunate we are and recently i called a friend of mine who lives in my hometown in northern california and i met her when i was 12 years old and she and her mother and father came here from holland just after the war and i called her recently and i said did you see 60 minutes the other night with about anne frank and she said i sure did and i said her name's willie wilhelmina and i said willie you and anne frank would have been the exac the same age and she said we were the same age we lived through that time at the same time and she said audrey hepburn is the same age and lived in the same community and read so she said to me i have a book that a person a friend gave me and it's called dutch girl audrey hepburn and she mailed it to me and i just posted it back to her today and it is one of the most difficult books i have ever read and i have read a lot because i've known many people from my age and my generation that have lived through wars and have come out of the holocaust and she and her family came out of the holocaust in holland and i turned on the news and i watch what's going over in ukraine and i read the pages and i can't believe the comparisons of the descriptions in the pages of what these people lived in when the germans were coming through and shooting people and going into their homes it is just so impossible to think that yes that happened and it's happening today and it has brought it to me just firsthand how very fortunate we are in this country and there are many people that are striving to save their lives and to get some sensitivity to what's going on in their daily experience so i just want to call this to our attention because i am so grateful to all the people in this room that have really kept things going in a very very difficult time that we have all become extremely touched by this virus and masks and just trying to remember how fortunate and kindness is so powerful to each and every one of us and what you did tonight meant a ton of heart for me so from my bottom my heart thank you and i just want to say thank you to all of you folks so anyway i didn't attend the insurance committee meeting we are so fortunate once again americans and i listened in on the discipline committee and i'm here tonight and i just want to say i'm so grateful for all of you wonderful people thank you thank you kathy mr o'neill yes i also attended the facilities master plan presentation at cyprus community center with miss piercy and we've already discussed this so i won't go into that so you already know what we what we uh saw uh attended the sister city commission commission meeting uh we we are still toying with the application process for sister cities and how we're going to approach that it's um some interesting feelings that are were presented so that's that's going to continue on attended the black history month presentation uh and saw the artist that miss piercy mentioned and i tried to take some pictures with my just my cell phone and when i looked at them later on it was just the lighting was terrible but it was like because it was on a white board and just flashed right back so you couldn't see a single thing you can't even see the artist standing there so it was very unfortunate but that's uh the cameras we have in our pockets nowadays i attended the kennedy choir performance uh last saturday night some lessons for the candidate choir performance for the pictures oh the other the other thing i just said [Laughter] ah yes i need all the help i can get kenny choi performance they always put on a great show and they didn't um uh they continued to do a great show on the and uh uh with the new choir director there she's been there what two years now uh two years two maybe three years uh she's he does a great job yeah right before ben retired yeah and then i attended the girls engineering day at dale uh walked through the various classrooms that the girls were were engaged in and saw the various um procedures that the the professionals were putting them through and it was i was very pleased to see how many professionals that were actually there teaching the kids helping them through the process so it's really really great so every year i get to go and see that and hopefully look at it again next year i forgot to mention that i just want to add on to that that uh it was amazing how many of these women gave their time and then all the teachers that came and uh it was interesting and the girls i love seeing them work together you know and how they set things up and they started working together i wasn't able to stay all day but maybe next year and uh maybe next year i can bring my granddaughter like al brought his daughter and and niece and so that was kind of neat but uh one side effect of that was i did uh get to talk to some of the science teachers and and some of their concerns and so that was always i always liked that so got to talk to a lot of the science teachers all right trusty president jabar shout out to jessica yet she's one of our outstanding curriculum specialists she does an incredible job organizing planning and building capacity right for our teachers to participate so it's one of the big reasons why it's such an amazing day yeah absolutely and i'll just begin with that i think it was a great great day to see some of our kids and like aspirin said i had my daughter and my niece there and they loved it they only spent a short period of time but they would have loved to stay a little bit longer but uh yeah it was great so congratulations to all of them and please let them know that we appreciate it and i know it's been a few years now that i've been going i was i was reminiscing i think that was my first one of the first events when i got on the board i was uh nine years ago so yeah so i think it's this uh seventh this was the seventh this was the seventh right yeah yeah um all right so i actually attended our water polo team dinner uh which was a great night for all of our students it was amazing to see some of our student athletes excel and some great stories too so it was awesome to hear that i also attended the lcap meeting last night awesome turnout and thank you to manuel and jaren for actually taking me through all the groups and it was great to see our engagement and student partnership too i think we had more than 290 uh uh participants and then we had another well including the uh um 250 in person 254 in person in 47 online right yeah and it was it was great to see students uh participating so again kudos to you guys for taking the lead on that um i did attend the black history month i took some great pictures though yeah must have been sitting next to me i was sitting next to you that's what i should have showed you uh i don't see your camera uh it was great i love the uh artists too so it was nice to see that it was kind of something different and you know it was uh well received by the audience uh the anaheim high school win a package event that i talked about last time uh that was going to be held and we we served more than 500 families who actually came by and again kudos to our ambassadors who showed up in droves and then i want to thank the bros uh i this is the first time the organization which actually partnered with us uh they looked at it and they were amazed at the number of students and number of uh volunteers we had i want to give a big shout out to our sully and arsely huerta and tanya garcia for actually taking the lead and getting everybody in together so i know they're not here but please let them know it was a great event we not only gave out blankets and clothing and food but it was a great to see all our community members coming back so i went to the magnolia high school international festival again that was i always loved to go to the western international festival and then magnolia now and and it was outdoors in the new new uh air the student quad area and it was beautiful um still i mean i think everybody was waiting to get into campus after kobe the place was packed uh it was great and then the goals engineering i mentioned it community schools uh committee meeting again thank you grant for inviting me after three invitations i made it to hope to make the next one but my wednesday is always packed so but thank you for that it was great i'm looking forward to actually uh opening ceremony to make sure that we are there for that one uh i also attended a health fair where i also attended a water polo fundraising event the very next day which was great water polo team has been really uh i think they've been doing a great job in not only recruiting but they're thriving so i want to make sure i think the coach did mention i've spoken to robert about coaching staff for them so i think it's coming your way brad so take a look at it and let's support them because i think there's also a safety concern for me so let's make sure that that happens i also attended a health fair for afghan refugees my boss is sits on an ad hoc committee to support it so it was interesting there was a family who had kids who were from anaheim but the the health fair was in laguna niguel so i want to make sure that we are paying attention to our african refugees maybe enrolling in anaheim high school i know that most of the high schools are geared towards south county because they are i don't want to give the location out but um it's a south county spot that they're having the health fair and also there are hotels where we are housing them but i think naturally because of uh the community in anaheim you do have some people who are leaving and coming to anaheim so let's be cognizant of the fact that we might be getting african refugees our way and i believe uh we have a second resettlement agency which was actually approved and they're based out of fullerton and we have a partnership with them which is ikna we've done work with them and we have an mou with them so i would encourage i'm going to put you guys in touch so that we could work with them to see if we are bringing in students into ikna let's sell not sell but let's encourage them to come to anaheim union high school district because of our robust uh you know program that we have for summer so that's something that we want to keep an eye out in the next few months that's about it on my my report so advanced planning future meeting dates our next meeting board of trustees will be held at uh thursday april 4th i can't believe that it's going to be april wow and any suggested agenda items i would like to know about the turf we've had that discussion here in the past this gentleman was talking about turf is that the synthetic material that he's referring to so we'll we'll probably ask you to give a friday update yeah and give us give us all a friday update on the conditions i know that i've had conversations about the conditions of the field too so let's maybe give a little and in that report would you tell us what schools have had their feels improved if any i know we've worked a lot on buildings but now that it's been brought up you know what have we done for the fields perfect and since we didn't cover this yeah this is going to the next so we don't have to duplicate these stack yeah up leave them here yeah we leave them here we don't have to reprint them yeah thank you mr o'neill for that for saving papers and money because that's a lot and i'd like to take this opportunity to adjourn the meeting uh in memory of jackie brock our former csca president um it's so sad and i'll ask for a second second okay i have a motion and a second on the floor and uh take the word all in paper motion passes move to adjourn [Music] second
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item four conduct a public hearing for the public to provide input regarding av usd's initial bargaining proposal for the california school employees association we'll open the uh public hearing at 7 54. is there any comments hey we'll close the public hearing at 7 55. okay we've got through the public hearings special meaning we have none at this meeting so that'll move us to discussion items first discussion item is enforcement of mass requirements from 3 4 to 3 11 20 22. so i'm going to make a motion that we open it for discussion do we have a second to open it for discussion okay so raleigh motion second by bender is there any opposition to discussion on this item we're all in favor of that okay all right so i'm going to just open the discussion real quick and i'm going to go through i'm not going to make a recommendation i'm just going to open it i'm going to make a couple of comments and then we'll pass it around well i'm first i'm going to make a recommendation i've lived in this town since 1967.
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we have a good superintendent you might not agree but my recommendation is we drop this damn mass mandate some of our schools have turned into a toxic situation i went to a church last sunday and it was full you know why they weren't wearing masks and i'll tell you that's that's the way i'm gonna vote okay so uh we'll go down i'm gonna make a comment before and i'm gonna go to chris then wilson then maria this top this issue has divided this community and it's going to take years of healing somebody made a comment i'm not sure which speaker because it is so toxic and it's really it's shame on the state of california for doing this because it throws it all on the schools miss trenay nelson has started as a kindergarten teacher all of these folks up here have worked their entire careers in the schools and they make their living at this you get somebody like newsom who has no clue on what really goes on in schools but they keep passing these laws and they throw the monkey on our back and it's so difficult we have been living this day after day i speak to trine about what's going on and the problems we're having and how can we the solutions and then the attorneys get involved and the threats get involved that you know we can you can lose pensions and you can lose certifications and you know get sued personally which that can occur but it has been very contentious and i i know there's been a lot of attacks thrown out on to different people um not not physical threats but just you know character threats and things like that and that's unfortunate but that goes with the territory i'm not saying anybody in this room has done that but you see that nationwide today and you know when the president united states gets up there and says you know what we need to end kids wearing masks well then it's time to end this thing really like dennis says it's just time to end it and you know we got one week left we got no no no no i didn't lose time we listened to you guys i said we have like one week to go basically to get to end this thing but this whole next week is just going to add more contention more kids sitting outside more protests and things like that so i'm with dennis and i'm going to leave it up to the the board members which way they want to go mr nay nelson will do whatever this board tells her to do because we only control her position we don't control anything else we have no say over teachers we have no say she's a contract employee employed by the five of us so she will do maybe she doesn't really want to do that because it it adds more headaches to the job that she already has okay but she will do it and i admire her for that so with that i'm with dennis okay we're gonna go down the line and then we'll make a motion and then we'll take it from there okay so wilson you're going up well as stands for now i've been here since 1977 came up to build the first treatment plant and raised my four children here in epilee high school you know and a couple ladies know my daughter jennifer the lawyer and my two younger sister my doctor and my dentist the in in and i'm i care about this community and that's why i'm here and uh i think that yeah this this mass mandate and then you know if remember a couple months back we talked about the vaccination we said we could we have two options you can have it or you don't you don't if you don't want it you don't need to have it okay that's a choice parent's choice and so i think that the i agree with the recommendation that we end this mandate on math chris 328 that's how many students we have in this district plus their families plus our employees we've been working this entire pandemic to get common sense type things passed proper guidance to actually keep our employees and our students and our community safe and doing the best that we absolutely possibly can i i don't know how to i'm not a scientist i you know don't know how to figure out data curves and what we're doing and where we're going and how things are panning out i do know that our local hospitals have gone from being in triple digits with having sick patients from covid uh in january and february to thank goodness now being down into the single digits i know that thank goodness other states and our own are finally starting to come through at this point i've been fighting and working with our local state elected representatives to make sure that we get the appropriate guidance to get rid of the mass mandate at the appropriate time do i wish you would have consumer absolutely we are right there at this particular time let's follow the guidance and finish this out that's my vote thank you that's okay hey maria go ahead you're up the rules let's let us speak please respect can you all hear me um on friday i think it's friday or thursday after i had received so many letters from you and i could not reply to those letters just so you know i received quite a few of those i decided to go out to the schools so i chose to get out and see the children myself i don't want to be told where the kids are i didn't want to read about it i wanted to see the real human beings that were sitting outside so i went up about a high school and i was there for about an hour and a half with those children and i went from table to table to talk to those young adults and i have to say that i have never walked out of a place feeling more proud of the human beings that i saw there those children convinced me that they were really our future they spoke about what their beliefs were and they also did their work when i asked them how they were keeping up with their schoolwork they told me they were doing their work and i was exceedingly proud of them i asked them if they would like to go back to the classrooms and they told me only if the mass win was not mandated at that point i told them that we're doing their civic duty of speaking up if you don't speak up people don't know what you mean and these children spoke up and we took notice we went in i went in and listened to them and when i was done i left that school and i went to yet another school to see what was going on nothing was going on there but at least i managed to see the classrooms and see the students doing their work then i went to sitting bull academy and at sitting bull academy i talk to the students at each and every one of those tables in the upper campus and the lower campus they all heard my voice they may not recognize me now because i'm not wearing a mask but when i was there i had my mask on so they remembered um they told me who they were but they were really cautious until i told them that i wanted to hear directly from them because i represent them and they shared their plight some of the children were asked if you had to go back to class would you and they said yes but the funny part of it was the youngest children said well my mom will kill me and so i said whatever you do remember you go home to mom we're just here for a short time so don't let your mom kill you um so having said all that i have to say that the portion of all of this that bothered me was the fact that they were outside it bothered every ounce of my energy every ounce of who i was um and so that was what brought me there to see the children to hear from them because i am their servant i am here to serve them i'm not here to serve me my children are no longer in this high desert but every one of your children is important i would love to see this end like yesterday i would love to see all of this go away um as i've listened to the uh all of my esteemed members here um i keep thinking that covid must have a roadmap and covey roadmap says i'll be done on march 11th and on march 12th i'll just leave your country and go somewhere else but we know that's not the fact we know that covet is still around we also know how to take care of ourselves my concern is what happens to our employees because we do have employees who are still com supposed to follow the guideline so whatever our team says i will listen very intently before i make my final decision okay thank you thank you chris thank you maria wilson dennis so let's do this i'll make a motion um okay today is thursday and it is 806.
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so tomorrow morning at seven o'clock school starts i want to make a motion because it takes time to leave us it takes a little bit of time to make notifications on the superintendent's part so my motion's going to um they state um that beginning at um seven o'clock or 1201 on sunday evening that the mask mandate will now be enforced at the alpa valley unified school district so that because that's monday through all of next week so with that said though i want to read this into the motion until cd cdph aligns to cdc guidelines the apple valley unified school district board of trustees will take responsibility for litigation both criminal and civil district and individual resulting from this decision this protection includes defense and anonymity of all classified certificated and management employees of the school district due to any and all covered claims even if not covered by the district's insurance carrier further any action taken on the credentials of any certificated staff due to this decision will be defended at the expense of the school district so basically what that means is that the board if we support my motion takes all full responsibility for this not the school district employees they make their living doing this we do not they are going to be in this district a long longer than we will probably be on this board so they we have to take responsibility for that so with that that's my motion that i'm 1201 sunday evening which is what's the date on that tell them what you have to do i'm making my motion because we have to admit we have to have and i'm not gonna anyway that's that's my motion you guys uh do you have a second for that yeah i'll say that but i want to make sure that they understand it a lot of people have to be notified tomorrow in order to do that's why it's being delayed to start till monday yeah you got it right make it we have a motion so let's take a roll call vote wilson but before you take the vote i think we need to you know if somebody has a better motion then throw it out there i was trying to make it easy for you we have to take a vote no but but i'm asking for clarification the point is that even if if you say we're going to do it we may not be able to do it understand we need to make sure that it's password illegal okay that's that's reason why he talked about not violation action yeah that's that's my cop yeah yes yes maria hold on for now you're gonna hold off okay chris uh no dennis yes i vote yes as well so uh the motion passes he's holding up if anybody gets sick teachers are students wait a minute listen listen charlie kerva for for maria opera wilson we have a vote okay discussion are you abstaining okay so we have three three three three reason for just like the abstaining sitting here they don't have all the information while their kids are wearing a mask i want to have the information why i'm not i'm voting on football please ma'am you need to run and get on [Music] we're not going to get anywhere but you guys yelling back and forth no no no well if you're gonna disrupt the meeting i'll have you lean you're gonna disrupt us we're trying to get a vote here maria voted no okay vote no motion passes three to two that's it's final okay there you go all right okay moving right along yeah got it [Music] to two we just wrote it if if we're going to disrupt the meaning we're just going to end this okay we passed it three to two no we're not gonna we're gonna okay well i'm not gonna move on if we're gonna keep getting uh disrupted here okay discussion items okay so now we're on to item three item two review discuss take action to amend the board meaning schedule i make a motion that we do okay motion by bender second bye you ever have to we can we can take a motion and a second and then we can discuss it right second why okay any discussion yes this is in regards to the change of time correct okay unfortunately it's very difficult for me to make it because i work until five o'clock every day okay so i have to take off from work early and make arrangements so it's very difficult for me to get here so if we can begin at five o'clock i would appreciate that so one of the options would be to still get the same solution which is a longer closed session so that you have the ability to have the discussions in closed session so you could continue with them at five with a closed session that doesn't end before seven for public well no our normal time is good right starting start at five with a seven yeah you can do a seven o'clock start time for this meeting then right so open so so right so if if i'm hearing it would be a motion to um take action to amend the 2021 2022 board meeting schedule for just the may um april and may board meeting because june is a one o'clock start time um because there's two of them and then um for the 20 we can bring it for the 2022 um it's just for the two now and then you can determine whether that works for you and that that's helpful for um future calendar okay i'll go with the uh okay so all in favor aye are you opposed okay that'll be real so so that i understand for kylie the motion is that we start at five we come out of regular session at seven and um for regular session at seven for the two board meetings and then we will review this for the 2020 2 23 calendar year okay thank you three meetings two in may oh sorry two in may but still five o'clock start time five o'clock seven o'clock come out of closed yes number three mutually agree to no more than six candidates for the 2022 california school board association delegate assembly for sub regional 16 b one two three four five six so we have to select six does anybody have any preference you know any people wilson [Music] okay we'll go with uh heather allgood kristen cameron from needles barbara dew youth victor valley cynthia gardner of the world clayton moore victor val and james o'neil redlands everybody good with that that's good okay yep you have a motion yeah uh i'm going to do 6.
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yeah i move to select the top six incoming candidates okay all in favor okay item four approve the cds code application to establish apple valley virtual academy k-8 as new school i moved to the discussion there's no presentation on there i can answer any questions that you might have but the background of materials kind of went through the explanation yeah so i move that we approve the cds code application to establish new virtual academy for k3 it is a new school all in favor all right that'll be the order number five approved initial sunshine proposal from the district on contract reopener for a success or agreement between the apple valley unified school district and the apa valley unified teachers association of buddha any discussion six approved initial sunshine proposal from the district on contract reopeners for a success or agreement between the apple valley unified school district and the california school employees association c s e a second a discussion discussion all in favor all right approve the recommendation of the administrative hearing chairperson effective immediately oh this is on the expulsion so um on 2021 we have um so for number 17 through 20 you can take action yeah 17 220 we can take action uh all in favor aye right okay on um i don't know if you got a motion in a second get a motion [Music] second okay and then we go to expulsion case 2021 and we amended the to the hearing panel recommendations to read to be expelled by to sbcss community day for the reminder of the 2022 spring semester also the board amends the plan item number eight to be student must complete approved anger management program so basically he's expelled for the rest of the the school year for 2020 21 this semester 2022 yeah okay still move yes we all in favor do you have a second you got a second dennis got it yes [Music] all right explosion cases um step number six stipulated case step number six motion wilson second maria all in favor aye any opposed hearing then that'll be the order approve the certificated classified personal actions as listed so move motion wilson second second vendor any discussion all in favor all right okay approve the requested leaves as noted motion salute nunez second maria any discussion all in favor aye okay consent calendar prove the consent list is recommended the board of trustees consider approving a number of agenda items as a consent list consent items are routine in nature and can be enacted in one motion without further discussion this procedure conserves meeting time full discussion of significant issues consent so we have a motion to approve one through 16.
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somebody will contact you uh about this uh from staff wrote that down well ma'am you can leave and go to work and you'll be contacted for sure you'll be contacted by staff about your request ma'am please have her leave the podium ma'am you have to leave we're in the middle of a meeting okay consent items one through sixteen all in favor okay there's no second uh closed session staff reports attendance report child welfare we have no uh no reports okay we have no need to go back into uh closed session is there um i'm getting there yeah okay closing items any future items nothing okay uh superintendent comments trenay you have anything you want to add yeah on march 17th at granite hills high school on this property i invite all of the board to attend field day this started prior to covid we had mr schlitter on the campus organizes for all of our students in the district that are severely handicapped to come and participate in activities that give them what many students experience in competition and they have audiences to cheer them on and it is just a wonderful day so feel free to come and participate and watch and cheer for the students because um it is a once in a lifetime experience and we're so excited that these kids get to experience it march is arts education and women's history month and then at last month's board meeting mr schulenberg shared the presentation regarding facilities and how we fund capital facilities projects we will be bringing a request for quote um to the april board meeting in order to bring a facilities assessment consultant into the district to identify all the possible capital improvement projects for a master plan that includes the question about a um stadium here and facility for this property um we also will have for qrik and jate who are our architect firm to come in and work on our transitional kindergarten so you'll see that next month as well because that's an immediate need for facilities as we expand and then just another celebration we've had outstanding performances of our students including career and technical education organizations over 120 of our health occupation students of america are going to have gone through the regional competitions and are advanced to the state competitions 120 are going on to state that'll take place in long beach over the spring break and then 240 of our skillsusa competitors will be moving on to the state in on april in ontario super excited these students have had their advisors engaged at the state level competition and we look forward to sharing their future success with you which means national they'll be going to nationals this summer teachers have been engaged in ongoing professional development they're back in person with those topics such as ortongillian hyphonics math with the ucla curtis center and our own deliberate discourse training modules are just a few of the items the teachers have participated in so look forward to spring break at the end of the month i know everybody's ready for that and then we'll be in graduation season thank you wilson comments mariah congratulations to uh the student speakers at our la the student comment and the artwork that they shared um to us and um and all of the great things happening at our schools um [Music] i'm looking forward to coming out to one or two more of your events as you are holding them at your school sites that's it thank you christopher uh i want to say thank you very much to yucca loma phoenix academy and sycamore rocks for letting me visit a week and a half ago i had a great time thank you very much to chief molina and our entire pd for giving me an inside look at how our department is interacting with our students and our community um congratulations i don't know that i would ever give a single congratulations but to uh armand from uh um high desert premiere academy on graduating and how cool is that that we already have an entrepreneur in our mix in our in our campuses and then uh congratulations to granite hills high school on your wasc accreditation for six years and to apple valley high school for winning best of the desert so congrats to everyone thank you dennis i have no comments all right i'm just going to wrap it up by saying i apologize to the board i didn't let the beating get out of hand here uh you know we did i believe that we really tried to do the right thing and then it just went sideways on us so anyway um so with that in hindsight we have a next meeting is april 14 2022 at 5 pm and conference a do i have a motion to adjourn that'll be the order good night thank you
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states of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all any changes or additions to the agenda we wanted the consent agenda any questions or discussion about the consent agenda it's like there's a number of personnel lots i'm going to approve the consent agenda items presented second comes up you want public comment sections communications looks like we have a nice thank you there for the parks family move on to bbes report and darla they have elementary parent teacher conferences tonight and tomorrow so she's not here right now so if you have any questions and she doesn't make it in time i can i'll be happy to relay that information to her or relay questions to her and get information for you any questions or comments elementary report move on the middle school report mr springs questions one add-on i have our final quote for our dodge ball for heart was 1 868 and one student chloe gilbert raised 835 owners so the gym will have a shelf a little plaque above the gym for her next year awesome as well but all right yeah i think we only need to commit this year oh my god move on to bhs and national honor society just to get finished dave is here stacy will be here in a little bit uh possibly as soon as they get done so again um you have any questions i can relay them to him if he doesn't make it another question we'll move on to special education march report i don't really have anything to add i will start my spring tour probably between uh now well after spring break i'll start it where i go around and meet with all my staff build the whole co-op and get needs and wants for material items as well as training and stuff report you want a technology report guys there's not a written report in there that's mine just two items because it was such a short turnaround from the last meeting one stacy mallory and craig coolman along with matt spring and myself are involved in taking a look at the middle school technology center in those labs the modules synergistic has committed that they are leaving that format they're going to a different format for middle school technology that's more steam focused and oriented and more full class instruction that's something we don't believe in uh we believe in that concept of the launch pad that that that program launches kids in a variety of directions into different vocational pathways and so another company that started at the same time synergistic did in fact it was a spin-off of synergistic is a company called depco out of pittsburgh and they have middle school and high school technology modules craig and stacy went down and took a look on friday at their program their lab and their equipment and so forth we're very interested that will be a curriculum piece and then any hardware upgrades will be technology and that leads me into the technology capital outlay you'll see kind of your executive summary next month with the idea of this is what we're looking at across the district and then the idea of that that would go to bid if you're okay with it that would go to bid and then turn around and we would see uh bids come back at the may meeting with the may report so that sequence hasn't changed last but not least please do not take any kind of disrespect of me stand sitting during the pledge right now guys it takes me like about four minutes to unfold and get up in fact i looked at my clock and thought okay i better start now and lucas said go and i thought and so i love the country and i will not disrespect it but i was i didn't want you to watch me try to unfold myself so please understand that okay okay thank you is that the original kind of program that's always been in there yes that has been that exactly yeah they had they've upgraded gone cloud-based did a lot of other things with it uh did some changes to some things but that that concept is still the same and that concept is one depco still still believes it absolutely and that that was talking to stacey and myself and doug is that self-exploration that self-learning is what we want kids to do and if we go to the whole whole class module it's going to be the teacher directed learning through everything rather than kids problem solving with a partner on their own so that the detco is definitely something that we're interested in another discussion move on superintendent's report i just have two quick things um just want to quickly review the premium pay plan place in november and just see if you know any comments uh discussion questions suggestions anything along those lines um so again i guess we can leave it as is or we could make you know possible adjustments yeah i think we discussed it when in january we approved this or was it december it was actually [Music] the best thing for our children is to have healthy teachers in the classroom and i want to support that i'm kind of on a side pub too our health illness numbers are just off the charts great we have not anagen tested anybody and i don't know about today for the past two weeks none today so again so we're heading into week three so we'll have something to discuss i'm going to say after spring break we allow a week or two after spring break that we'll evaluate we'll talk about this at our next board meeting and maybe look at the health and absence guidelines again our illness numbers are all under two and a half percent or less uh everything's going really really well so anyway on that side note there another item that we're looking at as far as uh we've had some people inquire about uh daycare potentially having uh an opportunity to be able to have what for example was with kids in the summer like kindergarten or first grade first-grade age kids uh be able to have daycare in the summer run through the burlington early learning center and so our ratios there can be really good because again the older the kids fewer the staff so we're looking at that we're probably going to get a flyer out to elementary school start out with kindergarten to see how many kids uh that that you know how many are interested parents when we'll get a flyer and then we'll see how many spots we can possibly have and then if we have let's just say we have 24 spots and maybe in kindergarten there's 16 kids that are interested we'll go to first grade and we'll take as many as hot spots as we can kind of a first come first serve scenario so anyway it could be helpful for the parents in the summer absolutely okay so [Music] are we still having any issues with getting positions after school filled as far as maybe in the after school program or like to run the clocks at basketball games or work track meets well i think that's a good question maybe for matt and dave a little bit but right now they're going into the spring season of course and then again you don't have super like for example you don't have to deal with like for example taking gay because typically we don't take gate at baseball softball track so it's fewer musicians there and when you have two different gyms so for example that could be twice as many gay people for people to do gay so but if you have some ideas well my thought was if somebody had an extenuating circumstance and they were gone six days if there would be any ability for them to maybe work some of those extra after school activities that are sometimes difficult to fill to maybe earn back um but their potential incentive by helping out was my thought um it's a little bit of like open with fill events and things like that but we'll use an automated timing system for for all the timing so that cuts down on workers and then i mean for for our drag we're still we still take three adults per field event we're running eight field events off at the same time and then every baseball softball jd varsity we've got to have these two people there so there's there's opportunity there it's just whether that's something we want to look at in the stream i just know that some people have some extenuating circumstances that right maybe if we could give them the opportunity to earn it back it could be mutually beneficial it's a thought after school program or not the daycare i know is advertising for high school students to apply to work after school i didn't know that from just like 3 30 to 5 years it seems like i saw it at the bullet center we yeah we did and we still have i think we still have the opening posted the openings posted for either substitutes or permanent staff and we still have a few if i'm not mistaken a few para openings left lindsay is that correct just a few but no we for the next boarding meeting i'll try to have me or maybe in my friday notes i'll try to have maybe a number of where we are after nine weeks how many people would still have that ability to have the premium pay incentive and that way you guys can kind of have an idea of how many staff are still in the running to get that premium paid it just gets difficult to define extenuating circumstances yeah especially it does absolutely and with just one group of leave it's hard i mean there's no someone use six sick days for six sick days it's just discretionary so really we don't have a definition between why someone's gone immediately and we could say there are some extenuating circumstances that you know they they are really good employees for us they for whatever reason this semester they missed some days uh that would not allow them to have that premium pay incentive um and you think gosh oh you know you kind of feel for them but again if it's hard to judge a jury and everybody if you if you put in like an appeal process and everybody that had six days or more absence put in an appeal to that that premium pay incentive everybody is putting in for that in that that i guess that that appeal i think they all believe that they have a valid reason and if you put in a judge and jury situation if it's me for example or the board it becomes hard it really becomes hard i think if you were to allow somebody to make up maybe that's probably not the right word but to participate in some after school activities to earn back that incentive you have to open it up across the board you would be able to say if you're eligible and you are not i think i have to get open to everybody that's willing to put in that extra time if they work six hours and get that day back you're also saving because to me it would have to be volunteer time so you're also saving that extra depending i wouldn't want to hurt those people who rely on that too because that's something i don't have anything else any other questions for the premium pay or summer kindergartners first graders move on to the board report and i was going to share we kind of talked about this last month with um judicial center and flint health tech moving in community um flint hills has still expressed that they're very interested in this community and they need the facility to do it and the ball is kind of in our court about how serious we are about vacating elementary building a new one and assuming that will be up north of the high school so we kind of need to get serious about a number that has a board we would be comfortable with our community funding for new elementary schools whether that's if flynn hills tech offers us the price of building building a new elementary school is probably pretty easy to come up with but if they come up with only half and right now the estimated number's 20 million maybe probably uh aiola talking with them they have built a 600 student elementary school on 25 million dollar price tag so we would be looking not quite at 600 students but anyway and again of course a couple this was a couple years ago when they passed their bond issues so and that would be kind of part of the discussion is i mean if we need to come up with a 10 million dollars is that done at a bond level or do we look at our capital outlay being increased over a couple of years to support some of that or what but the interest is there for the building i think we don't necessarily know their financial fortitude to back up that interest but we need to know what our community do we want support i kind of everybody i've talked to seems on board with the idea it's just a number right it's having a flint hills tech campus in our community i think would be huge for the future of burlington and coffee county going forward and that new elementary school isn't a bad thing built for this day and age so just entertain anybody's thoughts about how they feel about it i guess did you put together a community well i've done that i haven't done that yet because i kind of a couple of reasons one just of course we had our retreat work session on friday i guess if you give me the direction as a board to try to go and pursue i'm going to say flint hills technical college and the county to see what they are looking to spend on the land and the buildings then once i can get that if you if you let me go forward with that i guess to try to find out what that what that dollar figure is going to be what they're going to pay then that allows me to come back to you guys and say okay let's just just again just round numbers and nothing set in stone but let's just say a new elementary is 20 million if they are going to offer us let's say 5 million for the elementary the the daycare and the land that that's going to be a 15 million dollar price tag that that's something we'll have to decide and then i think we get a community advisory committee together at that time to discuss what would you guys be willing to go to bat and support is it is it 15 million or 20 million is it 10 million and 20 million so i think i want to wait until i guess you guys give me a little bit more of a directive to pursue what they're willing to pay for the facilities well i think right now what i see is the judicial assist center really has kind of pushed us in this but wait it's really not even that's not even part of the equation now so it's really whether or not flint hills is going to purchase the elementary school and then we build from there so i think i guess my question would be is you know what kind of valid offer are they going to provide and i don't know anybody's come up with that yet but i would certainly entertain you know an offer from them and then see where we go from there but and i think it makes sense good sense to put it all on one campus up there you know in one place uh for lots of reasons but busing and everything else do we have an appraisal value from the county on any of that did they do we we do yes and uh we just did get that if i'm not mistaken um so i wish i could now everybody's yes if you know if you notice everybody's appraisals did go up i think six to seven percent somewhere in that neighborhood if i'm not mistaken so we could utilize that let's start yeah a real good start sure and then some of that too is the area south of the current courthouse the elementary school and the playground area the county judicial center as stands takes up all of their parking all except one little strip on the north end of their parking so i would entertain asking them what they want for that helmet for the daycare in that land for them to have a parking lot too and then they would have have it all right there for their parking that they could do now i know the playground on the north is not really our property right well yes and no it it it's yeah we take care of it and the city basically has granted that to us but if we were to make a change to that north facing part of the elementary in some way shape or form we'd have to get the city's approval so if we were to take down the call buttons if you will we would have to get their approval if we wanted to put parking in the front there we would have to get their approval but selling it do we have to i think it would just go follow along the lines it would be it would be flint hills technical college for example if they were to buy it and then they would just they would follow along with the the rules already set in place for that land if they wanted to do something to it they'd have to get city approval not that this would be a make or break piece of it but is there any concerns with selling the daycare property since we accepted all that grant funding to pay for seven days here well i think that yes if we were not looking at continuing a daycare in my opinion because if we were just to say well we're not going to do that we then yeah it would it wouldn't look great right but i think what we would be looking to do is just to continue that exactly exactly and yes it would have been ideal if we were known about this maybe two or three or four years ago but timing you know sometimes timing doesn't always work out perfect so anyway well can you put together some numbers of what it's appraised at just forced to start a little bit easier ticket to swallow right and i do think with the friday retreat uh work session that we had you kind of get an idea of how far if they build it on the on the west side where the parking is you get a feel the parking lot is going to be basically gone and on top of that it's going to be really close to that street there because i call it a street but it's so i would say it's a road if you will street or service road whatever that leads to the circle driver i'll put together some appraisal numbers do you want me to approach like flint hill technical college in the county to find out if they will if they're interested in what that dollar amount board of education and elementary i mean daycare basically elementary so you pull up the appraisals okay six point three almost that's buildings only or that's land and everything else okay [Laughter] [Music] okay i will uh approach the county as well as the technical college and go and see where they stand then the committee of course i'll share that information with you guys as well and we'll have some of you on that committee okay move on to vhs softball field turf discussion okay we did discuss this at the friday um the the retreat work session that we had um and and i know uh like i said you you guys have had a chance to see you know what the field looks like and i put some information there in your report again the rec center is interested in just for everybody's knowledge that rec center is interested in contributing a hundred thousand dollars towards this project uh be twenty thousand dollars a year over five years or they may pay it off even sooner than five years if their financial situation each year you know it's better so they um again they're they're very interested they like the restaurant concession stand facility up there they like the the facilities you know it just it puts things that are close by and makes it easy to take care of so anyway having said that and i shared with you we did have the field turf committee meeting last tuesday the one comment i won't go into a lot of the details but there was a lot of really good discussion and dave a few since you were at the meeting if you have anything you want to add but the one comment that was made and i really appreciate j hale made this comment and jay said well if you don't do field turf is there a way to fix this field so that it does drain better and it does doesn't cause you issues to deal with and one of the things that we talked about was okay you're probably gonna have to raise that infield up you're gonna have to build it up almost like bring in a lot of dirt potentially have to do something with the dugouts that was something we talked about because the dugouts provide some shade where it's it's hard to get that that area of the field on the third base side dry because of where the sun is in location during the spring um further to the south so you can spend a lot of money and brad griffin's comment was you know you can spend a lot of money and you may still not be in love with the project the way the way it turns out um so yeah we haven't looked at some possible options other than this going towards a field tour project also one comment was made with that because you could you potentially use like for example the dredging of john redmond the the dirt that was used that was pulled out of there i made multiple phone calls today and found out that dirt's not ideal for an infield it's a very fine organic type dirt and it's not it's not compacted it's very loose and very does it it's not the type of dirt that you would want on an infield so and some evidently somebody local has a lot of the the soil the dirt from john redman that was the phone call i had to make uh i i called the army corps of engineers i called somebody else i can't remember and then finally got a hold of the person that actually had this dirt from the redmond dredging so anyway dave i don't know if you have anything else i i mean the issues we deal with now are it's difficult for a team you know to be able to practice somewhere um you know practically then try to play there it's nice to be able to practice in the place you play played and we've relocated games in multiple years just because that feels not playable so i would like to see even though it's not going to be me so whoever comes into that position have a field that they can show up daily practice play on and you know turk makes sense to me because it also provides opportunity for brokers direct also drawing people in for you know outside tournaments things of that nature as that gets bigger and if you guys decided to go ahead and do baseball now you have a complex that's very marketable for other people you also have the opportunity of doing rental fees for softball for other schools on off nights that we don't play so there's a lot of advantages with that like the rec center since they're putting 100 000 in on this if they host a tournament then they just get all that money right we don't we wouldn't be able to to charge that right is that what they're is that way they're wanting to get in on it that's kind of part of it i and i think they they fight the same thing especially early in the summer where rain they have rain house nasa feel that they can at least play some games i know craig has always talked like to be done with summer softball by the fourth and capturing four so those younger kids have some summer whether they've had wet wet summers you're gonna be playing in the end of july so it gives them that opportunity too but i know i know humboldt it is a it's fairly lucrative for me now they do have baseball softball but um but the only way would be for us to make money is if we organized it and did it outside of the rec center or with we like in april and may we read out the facility for other towns to come in like for example last year we hosted regional softball the rains just didn't work for we couldn't get on our field and a lot of other places had the same problem we did we ended up going to ottawa university and playing there so that's eight teams going to ottawa them spending money in their restaurants and convenience stores and walmarts and you know the dollar general stores and things like that so and trying to relocate we've got to provide the workers for that that was quite a challenge as well so um yes i i didn't know the assistant ad he did give me a break i know humble bring theirs they hosted and posted two hooks of their own on the off nights hosting another uh they were getting 400 you know our softball games are typically tuesdays or thursdays so if it's wet we can host monday wednesday even friday and have you know that you know just used a lot then you also have wear and tear and things like that but uh you know i would suggest if you move in this direction steel is eliminated on that turf field it's all molded clean or turf shoes softball is all for baseball is if you'll turn about female grass depending on the event so for waverly high school we that's a reciprocal because they host their meat and then we also know theirs so we just trade that expense when their junior high is 250 delaney host regional is foreign we may need to look at increasing our our amount our dollar amounts because our track's brand new uh i don't know how long that fees been in place we may need to look at adjusting that for our policy i would i would recommend that so if the problem is just the infield have we looked at disturbing infield like they do we can do that that that is an option that isn't i mean i love everything we're saying about the good positive things of it but 488 000 is a lot of fun i mean all the half tournaments bringing in things community that's great for a little bit double the money we've renovated a whole wing of school and that's i mean i like spending money there i mean that's where the kids are all the time but i totally understand all the aspects and good parts of it and i mean even for the drainage i would like to look at either other options some french drain in front of the uh i guess the south bench uh maybe building up the fence the field having some options like that instead of just having everything at once and just going total turf like what is an actual number for someone to come in and put a curb in front of the dugout and then drain away from that and build up that third base line or build up the whole infield if that number's 60 thousand dollars i could be on board with that that'd be great and if it doesn't work out in five years we're in the same spot then we look at it but an incremental step to fixing the problem is how i would like to go at it or even if if that becomes uh cost prohibitive just looking at just the infield [Music] maybe something instead of just the total 488 number this is kind of what i would like to see rather than just either we struggle through with what we have now or just go all in onwards that's kind of how i feel about it okay i think we could look at the other avenues to address it how much were we getting from that that's going to have to be if we don't put turf in the outfield that's going to have to be fixed so but that's about the difference of 11 5 with our settlement with that with the um oh i can't remember the company but anybody who split the difference so we we have half of that cost of 11 500 so 57.50 um and we can get that done i'm going to say late late late summer early fall they'll come in and do that work um if we do again to to me if you're looking at just again a smaller version or a private project then you're again you're looking maybe doing the infield and the warning tracks and leaving the grass outfield as is you could do that and what that number is going to be i don't know because i'd have to ask them but it i want to say it may be half that number approximately um there are for example a person a person has an infield turf outfield grass on both their softball and baseball varsity fields why did they do that they they got to use scholars and cents they do they like it because they can play again you typically aren't you're not you're not missing gains on a field that's wet because the outfield is wet grass obviously it absorbs obviously moisture better um i think you know from what i gathered from them that if they could have done it they would have done it but you know turfed everything but they they get money no because we again i've got i have this as a budget item yeah as as you've seen with capital like there are a number of things that we have in in as far as in the capital outlay we may do we may not do like for example parking you know we talked about maybe doing parking out of the like baseball softball or addition fields as well as additional parking at the high school those projects may or may not ever occur we wouldn't have to put anything on a back burner because of this project because it's already budgeted in so if if you want to table this and wait till april to make a final decision you can if you want to that that is also an option they're going to a company is going to need to know if they're going to come in at the end of july 1st of august don't have this done by the middle of october they're going to have to know i'm going to say here by the april board meeting for sure what did hold on can you think it was right after we left [Music] oh that's just a google connection you should be correct so the material that's on the infield where did it come from it was the midwest whatever third that are the plain surface point it's groomed and dry it's a really nice surface so i've looked at that for quite a bit and the infield is actually lower than the outfield and that i i believe that that's part of our problem i don't think it's the sun getting it the sun would help if it hit it better but it the grass out there serves as a barrier the water running off and the dugouts are a little higher i just can't help but believe that if we were able to haul in several ton of this material and spread it out and the turf company they're going to have to do that anyway you can't leave turf over it as it is you're going to have water standing on the turf so we haven't lost anything if we raise it a little bit and let it pack and see what it does i just i have with lucas i kind of have a hard time spending that much when when we might be able to just fix it by raising the infield a little bit but again i want to let you know you're you're going to i mean it's going to be a dollar figure it's going to be a real dollar figure and then if you do that and you've got a skid steer you could spread it if they just hauled it in we've got we have three guys out there today i mean don't get me wrong i mean they and they love that skid steer and that skid steer has been very helpful to them but we're going to get into the mowing season here heavy duty and you know it's going to be hard for them to be able to do a project 188 000 and i can make a lot of that work right i'd like to know the cost of other options before we go all the way okay i mean if we yeah half the turf is i mean i'd say it's square footage right yeah yeah it's based on square footage so if you look at just doing the infield and it's half-ish i don't know how that works but talk about that or even the cost of the the door work i mean i don't know what that would cost if it's a year and we spent 10 grand or something on it well i'm sure that's that's a part [Music] think in terms of that warning track that's 11 500 just that warning track i mean it that you've got laser leveling you've got heavy equipment you've got guys that again have done obviously it's a skill to do that um and i did mention to you all you know for example in baseball and softball you're bringing fields out of hibernation in the winter they're not in the best shape and you're trying to play games on them in late march early april or in april and the fields are just getting to a point where they're in good shape and it's the end of your season come may the fields are in the best shape in may in may june july when the summer when the summer programs are on those fields so having said that you're trying you're trying to bring those fields out of the winter and it's and again that's not always easy it's not always easy to again to do with it we don't have a ground screw we don't have a crew like kaufman stadium of 10 guys or you know they've had a lot more guys well like 10 guys working on our fields it's it's very minimal if you want me to do some checking and see what an infield would cost maybe infield softball and i'll just say infield at baseball as well to get kind of get a number for the two projects i would i would say this i would recommend that we go with mazda if we are going with that company going with the turf company they have provided a bid that's less than the other company that i've worked with as far as getting a bit of palace and so i would um i would recommend that we go with them they're a local company out of kansas meridian kansas they've done a lot of a lot of projects very i won't say high school direct center projects and college nfl type big time projects so if you want me to do a little bit more research i can have we actually had anybody come in on the south side because it looked to me like on friday that was where the worst department was on that south side of that field who actually had a professional come in or look at that and said we did yes we had again we were doing the work on the infield on both and as well as the outfields we did and how much was it well again they came in they redid that midfield three years ago i think it was three years ago the problem and i was out there today of course we had about a half an inch of rain and approximately sleep you know snow whatever you want to call it you can see where the sun's hitting that field and you can see where the sun's not and again today obviously wasn't a great drying day it's not 70 and you know sunny and windy you know that type of thing it's just that that area of that field just doesn't see the light of day much so it's the third base line so i have the same problem at my house so on the north side of our house i mean we had a wood deck it rotted i mean the sun it's the way it is the sun is located on the north side of and there that house out is probably about the same as the and it will not see sun so i have another idea why don't we just buy a tarp and keep it covered when it's not being used we could do that but taking it off putting it on and taking it off putting on is a little bit of a challenge got all kinds of kids you're you're you're right you're you're exactly right a lot of times they kept it covered and yeah they went and they went to turf i mean don't don't get me wrong what i'm saying i understand i understand exactly i mean it is an option it is an option a tarp isn't a is an expense the summer power they're going to get that tarp on and off fields with you know that the rec center may have some issues there we've got high school we've got high school kids they can obviously do some of these things so i am interested in the infield part about the humble ones they are in theater but not i think they would yeah okay i'll work on getting some revised numbers on i'm gonna say the infield for softball as well as maybe even the infield for baseball so that will have at least a projection for what that could look like whether we do just one or both that's the discussion for april um also so for years we fought the drainage issue in the high school parking lot and burlington construction said it's not your parking lot it's that tube way down there right and we spent 15 grand lowering a culvert that took all the water off a couple hundred thousand dollars for the concrete and it was very beneficial could we reach out to them to say we have a drainage issue here can you shoot it give us some levels where you think maybe drains or i think a curb in front of the dugout and run some water there or this i could an idea i mean it's not that bad that that is a good idea and i can um i can't i can ask that they're probably going to defer to like a field type of a turf type field type kind of let's say i mean uh a field construction type scenario but i could at least i could ask jeremy i mean even off of the field it's to the south and the west it looks like it's where the water would need to go even off of there it's flat right we'd have to fight something there so you can pilot if you wanted right now you know what i mean but in thailand sure okay any other discussions i think uh you're gonna go try to get some more numbers or just in field maybe some other issues there's a motion there okay okay we'll move on to personnel move on to retirement looks like we've got one there for our food director 41 years 41 years food um motion path 7-0 we will miss diana a lot it's wonderful i think the negotiations could be ten since you've had that information for a couple of months so who wanted to attend for that motion recess i've been creating a session for 10 minutes to discuss certified contracts pursuant to the exception for employer employee negotiations um thank you motion guys appreciate everybody's okay comments
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they're drawing me in you're good you're on muted good evening everybody we're gonna call the meeting to order uh we'll start with a reading of the open public meeting statement uh new jersey open public meetings law was enacted to ensure the right of the public that advanced notice of and attend the meetings of public bodies at which time any business affecting your interest is discussed and active in accordance with the provisions of this act in the board of education policy zero 162 board of education is bound from the borough found broken and any person who has requested individual notice to pay the required speed please for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty the constitution of uh united states and the constitution of the state of new jersey and that i will prepare true faith and allegiance to the same and the governments established in the united states and the state on the authority of the people so help that i possess the qualifications prescribed by law for the office of member of the board of education that i am not disqualified as a voter minister to rs 19 4-1 no disqualified due to conventional firearm or offense listed in new jersey 18 a 12-1 and that i will faithfully unpartially and justly perform all the duties of that office according to the best of my ability so help me god congratulations here [Music] thank you very much uh i will keep my president's comments brief um the continuing top priority for the board is the search for our new next superintendent um so we've continued to narrow that field we're currently negotiating and hoping to bring in our preferred candidate for but also come closer i don't fight i promise uh so superintendent search uh we've narrowed and are negotiating with our preferred candidates we're looking forward to bring uh them in district for a visit with key stakeholders over the next week or two um and then i just want to give some shout outs to a few of our sports teams uh so the boys basketball high school team uh currently playing their state group two uh final tonight uh so wishing them luck uh our middle school wrestlers have a state tournament upcoming this weekend and our high school wrestlers particularly alex martinez carlos angela and sean markey all having gone to states in atlantic city this past weekend so wishing them well thanking them for um uh continuing to support the community and obviously put our best foot forward uh in a very public way dan uh uh dr gallagher would you like to give your superintendent's report yes first off i'd like to um congratulate deanna scott who is one of our child study team members um she was uh selected the 2022 public sector representative of the year award from midland school so i want to give her i also want to give another kudos out to pax who uh wanting scholarship uh got recognized that a scholarship award the bill denney rutgers football letter winner club award on this past sunday so i just want to make mention of that the last two things are we have a vaccine clinic on wednesday by 3 30 to 5 30 in the high school cafeteria so anybody in the community is welcome obviously we have about 50 kids that we we anticipate going for vaccines at this time but it's still open to the public as well um and the last thing was we had our first mock-up meeting of the new website um which i thought went very very well we're in the um beginning stages obviously of redoing the website at this point in time we'll have some more information about the website coming out shortly and that's all i have great thank you dr gallagher we're moving on to section number three and we actually have some committee reports i believe education governance and hr are for this cycle since edith is not currently here mike would you mind providing the update for education sure a bunch of it's actually already been covered we talked uh this was last week so we talked about a couple of the donations that we already discussed at last two weeks ago at the meeting um we also learned that our k to eight buildings are going to be starting a new math curriculum next year they chose envision which is by pearson we took a quick look at our dashboard and how students are moving through the i guess we'll call the link levels um and we seem to be seeing some pretty good progress in most areas there in both math and language arts um as expected some of the levels were a little low at the beginning of the year with you know pandemic loss but we're seeing some really good movement now and also actually i think that's about it oh and our staff had some pd on um aligning our curriculum to standards which you know is an ongoing task so we had some pd in the district as well let me keep going i'm also governments or do you want to do well maybe just ask any of the members who are not present at the meeting if you have any questions about any of that topical material i would just say you know speak as you go otherwise mike you know you can keep going or do you want to since governance is kind of a summary maybe we do hr next sure good i think i'm okay with that all right so we're gonna skip three two and we're gonna go to three three yeah we'll loop back sure all right the human resources uh they we got the coveted updates that we had discussed uh and then the staffing issues that were caused by uh retirements resignations and pcr and then some busing issues were discussed as well okay and i'm back so for those out there who don't know governance is not only its own committee but kind of acts as a committee of the committee so to speak so we we kind of talked about a lot of what's just been said but in addition to that we also took a quick peek at our strategic plan um and saw how we're moving through it as the years you know have passed on that and also as dr gallagher just mentioned we talked quite a bit about the new website and how that development was going and everything else i think was already covered uh and we did just have another operations committee meeting tonight the next update on that will follow at our next regular business meeting uh roger and i will go there and i think we had a really good conversation about the build of the budget as well as a few other uh more tactical items so before we move on from committee reports from any of the members do you have any questions concerns comments that you want to offer all right so at this point i believe we are on item number four which is open to the public for agenda items do we have any comments from the room we have no comments on all right i think we can close that and move on to number five which is the approval of our minutes from 2 21.
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hi i'm wiley and i'm marlo and you're watching cat tv news [Music] this month is women's history month so make sure to appreciate women this month go and buy us some gifts well okay i don't think that's the actual point of women's history month you're non-binary you don't get a say in this okay well let's get our news started first thing of note this friday the 11th we have an early dismissal and as of yesterday kate maytech is now maskless in the sense that they're now optional tomorrow at the middle township high school from 5 30 to 7 pm they will be hosting a college fair in the gym there will be a number of universities attending like stockton rowan cedar crest and accc if you're junior and haven't been able to go on any campus tours or just haven't quite decided where to go here's a great chance to look at some future possibilities anyways the class of 2024 is selling the newest edition of sand jam hoodies the black hoodie is completed with a tech logo in white ink if you want one step by room 144 mr aftanis room with 25 in hand hurry they're only sold this march cat tv reporters went down and interviewed luca about his dnd club let's see what it's all about there's a new club here at cape may tech so i'm here with luca sarah to find out more hiya i started a club that centered around tabletop role playing games specifically dungeons and dragons um we play after school on thursdays in the exploratory a room from 2 30 to 5 30 p.m anyone that's that would like to join is welcome to come down and start playing nice uh so what is dungeons and dragons so d and d is this thing that's commonly referred to as a tabletop roleplaying game basically a bunch a bunch of friends get together and act out basically a story and roll some math rocks along the way just some dice of differing types all right uh and why did you start the dnd club so from my own personal experience dnd is this experience that can be either very emotional and kind of heart-wrenching or just some fun with your friends for multiple hours at a time and i think this school would really benefit from having something where it can be either just mindless fun or a deeply gripping experience alright thank you for that luca back to you guys in the studio seems pretty interesting this week's question of the week is pretty fun who's your favorite musical artist let's check the responses the weekend i love the weekend my favorite musical artist has to be i show speed he's just one of the most hard touching singers i've ever listened to especially his song shake speed it's got to be owl city i think baby keem is pretty good boys my favorite musical artist is little i don't know where he's from but he raps he sings and best artist i've ever seen i think if you know me frank zappa would be too easy to even answer so i'll just say another really good artist is a they might be giants if you haven't listened to any they might be giant songs you are seriously seriously missing out my favorite musical artist is david bowie green day in the offspring oh my favorite music artist is playboy cardi and yeet you know for me that's kind of like a very very tough question i've spent like most of my life out there running with music somehow some way was always a passion for me i reflect back on pink floyd u2 uh eric clapton got some great bands out there and i'll tell you what the cool thing to me is a lot of students here enjoy the type of music that i've always been in we go back to the 80s and sometimes even the 70s and my class takes that time sometimes to enjoy it uh listening in the background i think it's great anyhow you guys have a great week thank you very much uh chicago my favorite musical artist has got to be a group called elo which is electric light orchestra i really like them during high school days uh kanye jack stauber who's your favorite music artist well for a long time probably for more years than i care to say that would be bruce springsteen he is my uh my hero my rock and roll hero um known snails probably taylor swift taylor swift you know my favorite artist obviously young lean been a long time fan really happy to see him you know getting a real spike in popularity lately that's been pretty nice my favorite artist is blade from drain gang echo 2k uh yeah you got that uh thai boy digital krill chris champion the man uh my favorite artist is herbo randall wright iii my favorite musical artist is morgan wallin i'm gonna have to go with a little tj you know best out right now what great feedback i've never even heard of some of those people well i tell you my favorite artist is but you know you probably wouldn't even know them i just i listened to really underground music very indiana um oh really yeah they're called imagine dragons i'm sure you've never heard of them no of course not marlow yep i'm marlo and i'm wiley and you're watching cat tv news [Music] you
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mike davenport here christopher espinoza here jawell fuller here jenny hankstrom here terry pavisic here nancy kupko here scarlett o'hara here and jade toledano here thank you we have a quorum let's stand for the pledge 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 okay i believe we start with student perspectives from south high good evening everyone we're excited to have mr zona rega here with some members of one of our newer clubs we've always had different versions of gaming clubs and these guys do a lot of video gaming and they their club is called smash brothers and if you're not a gamer like me you might not know that's a specific game yeah they will be our first group to compete in the illinois high school association esports in the video gaming club so we've invited a few of the members of the team to come and talk to you today so i'm going to turn it over to them hello my name is edmund lucas i'm in i'm a hospital i'm a sophomore in downers grove south and i wanted to talk to you about smash bros and specifically um why join every day you know it's funny as it sounds like as good as smash bros i am you know before i come into this club i've never actually you know played against the real human before okay always like play it against like you know the computers and like you know you know i like to come to smash bros because like smash bros is um my first competitive game you all like you know the skill ceiling is really high in the game you know it's really you know fun to play against real people and like different types of people you know there's like good players and there's bad players you know there's so many different you know types of players and also you know about ihsea and you know we went to our tournament in naperville too you know you know there was a lot of you know good players and bad players you know but um we all had a fun time we all learned a lot from it too and um with the future of this club in particular i wanted to be like more than just smash bros i want like different types of clubs you know all like sponsored by like esports to like you know come to life i want like fortnite rocket league and different types of games to come to school too uh hi my name is edwin rubio i'm a junior at donuts real south and the reason i would go to the smashers club is before when i was a freshman i would always see other people just pull out their switch and just play with their friends and sometimes i would like to join in but there's those people that are that are like anxious you know they can't take no for an answer so they're just shy and don't want to like feel that embarrassment or just telling someone random hey can i join you and they're like no it's fine oh okay so going to smash club just brings me like i guess happiness saying that all these people are just like me i don't have to be scared and i could just tell someone hey want to play and they'll be yes and we have a good time also at the naperville tournament there were some really nice moments like they projected like projector every every single person's name you could pick your own nickname if you want to and then they will call you up they will call you up by your name that you chose and they will act like an actual tournament it will be all fun and we participated we lost the first round but that doesn't matter we still had fun and it was enjoyable and like to see the future of this club would be nice something i think would be nice is since it's esports i think it would be nice if maybe we could put in a few new games just in case other people want to play join esports but just aren't into smash bros or like aren't good at it but still want to have a blast hi i'm alex aguilar i'm a freshman from downers grove south basically why i joined the club honestly i decided ever since i heard about there's clubs in this school the first thing that come to my mind if there was a smash bros club in in the school so i decided hey why don't give it a try till basically it was fun for me to see other people who like playing smash bros like me so it was kind of a good time i did not went to the tournament honestly because i was really busy at the time well i hope for the um feature of the esports thing to like they said have more people to like play other games to join the tournament sort of that way they can show how good they are thank you you guys have any questions for us now what is tell me i can't get the whole the entire name of the game it's called smash [Laughter] so you know smash bros is the game is the name of the game oh yeah the game like we're talking about it's called super smash bros ultimate there's five games in like the title and like smash bros ultimate is the one we're talking about that's the newest one okay and what's what's the premise our candy crush yeah the premise of the game is like um different games different nintendo games like you know the main characters from different nintendo games come to like one game and they all like fight each other and like you know sometimes nintendo will branch out and like you know they'll have games from the xbox or the playstation for either dlc characters you know like characters you have to find or like you know they'll find because like nintendo will branch out because you know how nintendo was really child friendly yeah you know they will bring out characters like i know you haven't heard of this game before it's called solid snake it's yeah it's like it's not child friendly as you can yo you see you know in the game it's like a whole bunch of like it's like call of duty essentially you know i'm shooting guns and killing people and you wouldn't think they would like bring it in smash bros but he's in the game um calling in the game yes donkey kong is in the game always always relevant donkey kong is indeed a nintendo game so yes he is in the game now do you um have a certain time that you're on it so that other high school students can play you at a time or do you just play within your group or um how does how does that work exactly because you know with it being the internet it could be you know me you're playing against i doubt it i don't think it is [Laughter] so in the club we all play in person yeah like because not all of us in the club will have nintendo switches so we all have to play in person but like you know if we like sometimes if we feel like it we can all like um like link up on nintendo switch because they have like a whole like friend base on there too and we can play online there too if we feel like it but i mean do you do you um invite like uh let's say hinsdale south uh do they have a club like that that you could play against them as kind of a a practice maybe for them i'll jump in here as well we went to naperville north that had over 80 high schools all the way from down south um hintonsdale south was there for instance um and they brought different players to play in this tournament okay so it's all in the building and then they just maybe could sit across the table from you and okay i'm i'm just trying to i would set up in like you know in the neighborhoodville north tournament that we went to they would like sit there what um they would ask all of us in different schools to bring our own switches there and they would have monitors and like tables and chairs to sit up and then we would all be like placed at like certain tables like to fight against each other in the game oh okay so you know that if you're let's say you and i are going to be facing each other we would probably be at the same table so that you can see my expression [Music] it's a modern take on chess club you know i'm just i'm just trying to visualize you know what what's going on because it it sounds really cool you know how many members in your club oh every meeting we get about 20 to 30 students um all guys or do we get a few excellent all right excellent to hear that um and then uh uh you guys you're aware that this is something that's i mean it's gotten really big the some of the schools that my kids go to colleges that they go to have esports teams um and there's even like scholarship money absolutely for that sort of thing too it's got to be a really big deal yeah so we'll have our own t-shirts and jerseys too i've actually just joined an organization this year where um some colleges have reached out about scholarships oh wow that's cool my um 10 year old son just became a gamer that's why i'm trying to know here i'm trying to get it to know yeah would we host anything like um i so it looks like next year um the ihsa is going to start to allow different schools to kind of build their own region and host more matches that i think are associated with you know bringing in hinsdale south here for a day um and so it's looking like we're hoping to be able to bring some schools in and get it a little bit more competitive between each high school rather than one term does north during the process of building one and um a couple of months ago our conference met and talked about all the gaming they had a whole thing i think it was lions township right and lions township is a big gaming room i mean like the lounge chairs and the parkas and everything so i mean sometimes we're like yeah oh it's legitimate yeah i saw that one at trine university a couple weeks ago wow so you're saying forget basketball let's just let's do this it's just one more don't forget basketball there's many another thing yeah i know but you know what i'm saying so i have a question do you guys um it doesn't go as far as to start to if you're interested in like building these games is that something too that is down the line because yeah that that would be good these may be our future game makers or whatever or working at one of these companies that make these games that probably is cool the other part of the organization that i uh know who spoke about this said that there are other outlets um specifically because it's a multi-billion dollar industry that we're looking at here um where we had students shout cast or kind of like talk through a match as it was being played at the last tournament um there's advertisement there's graphic design and there's a whole bunch of different areas that students who might not be great at the game can still find their behind their area every branch of sports is in esports so the guy's real quiet i actually just learned some of the black ones um rappers in my era a few of them are voices on some of these gangs that's the best i could relate to we all have a donkey kong [Laughter] so that's a really cool thank you so much all right we know it's only been a week but this is the board meeting we typically have updates is there anything in the last week you feel like jade or scarlet you need to desperately share at this point we have a couple things all right yes all right i can go first you can go go for that sure okay so yes as dr haley just said it has been a week so um respect week has wrapped up um it was such a fun like experience to see our different students with different abilities interact and just learn to embrace those differences and our deca team also went to state i believe over the weekend and many of our students placed so jenna m was the state champion principles of marketing mary g and sema finished in third in professional selling and hospitality and tourism professional selling prospectively and the team of nala and mara finished in the top ten in innovation plan and robert g finished in the top 10 for human resource management so our deca team had a very successful state tournament i'm not sure if any of them are going to nationals i'll find out in the next couple of days and then our fine arts department is still working hard to perfect everything for the spring musical this year spring sports are in full swing this is the last week of tryouts so we wish all those teams luck as they start their seasons and then finally a little plug the senior class board is hosting a fundraiser this week and nothing but cakes it's to raise money for our prom so if you could stop by order some bundt cakes that would be greatly appreciated by us thank you is there is there like a slip or something a lot of these fundraisers you have to show them something that this is part of them just mention it but i can also get the flyer and send it okay because any excuse nothing is it in darien do you have an excuse and you can also order it ahead if you're having like parties in the summer and it'll still benefit so like you can so like i know for us it's like ordering graduation cakes ahead of time they'll still benefit that that's awesome okay all right send us a slip please yeah yeah okay are very important here okay okay so to start off it has been a week but there's always so much changing at north there's always something going on so today is the first day that we celebrate a national school social work week which is very exciting i know it's so exciting yes i'm very thankful for all the ones we have at north our retired one as well we have amazing licensed professionals that are there for us to help us process everything that we go through and i'm very thankful for all of them we each have some on our alpha teams both at north and south so it's a special thank you from the bottom of my heart to all of them uh next like scarlett said we did have the deca competition for state last weekend and from north we had 21 people uh qualify for state and one of our students is going to nationals in the spring in april which is so exciting we are so proud of all their efforts and everything that they've done next heading into something more academic we have the national language contest coming up in the next couple weeks the german one took place in january but the french one is on the 15th and the spanish one on the 22nd so i think it goes to show the enriching opportunities that north provides the students and the commitment that the students put in by taking these languages and learning beyond the classroom so with that we also have the spring musical mary poppins it's very exciting this weekend i think it's gonna be fun i think it's gonna be cute a lot of people that i know have been working very hard on it the crew the cast making everything look absolutely so cool i've gone into the auditorium and it's just i'm so excited um sunday we have our pretty and purple fashion show which is for our boss varsity athletes as they us spread philanthropy and help fundraise for our boosters which which is also always something so important for our schools and for athletics we have our winter guard placing second this past weekend in our circuit show for our division which is so exciting we're so proud of their efforts everything that they've done and finally for our special congratulations to our cauldron yearbook staff last a couple weeks ago we found out that our dgn students earned several awards from the ijea which is the illinois journalism education association they placed for their yearbook a whole new world third place in the overall excellence category which is so exciting and the place in the following categories third in copywriting second in sports coverage honorable mention for best of use of photography third for graphics second for layout and design and second for theme development so we placed very high on all of those which i'm so proud of them i know all the editors last year tried so hard it was such a trying year to try to put a yearbook together right when we were mostly remote learning or we were in some sort of hybrid but they tried so hard as long along with our advisor dr smith she worked very hard as well and i'm so proud of them and i'm proud to see what us editors can come up with this year for our yearbook as we aim for spring delivery so very good excellent very good great report all right moving along other reports for this night uh for tonight uh returned in person learning really it's just the metric update from the last week uh as everybody knows we are following our guidelines matched up with the cdc guidelines and it all came together last week without any issues everybody's kind of doing their their own thing right now at school our case numbers have dropped down to two in the last week so uh numbers continue to drop down and uh close contacts uh we're not tracking anymore so that'll just be zero from here on on out so uh but pretty much getting closer to school is normal all right uh hybrid block schedule update so we're at the point now where we have some real good details gina has been putting in just so many hours on pulling all of this together the one of the key pieces of this hybrid block schedule is this access period and what's going to fit into there gina has a whole schedule that the team has been putting together putting that whole schedule out at this point we're not quite ready to you know week by week tell you exactly what's going to fall where but we're going to bring to you some themes here and i'm going to have gina talk through that but just for a reminder that that's what we're talking about is this access period that's two days a week every week wednesday and thursday uh for about 25 minutes of time all right so we've uh broken it down first into just you you'll see that it's like first semester we have some good specifics second semester uh there's some things we we figure are going gonna happen we'll share with those with you in a second we're waiting for strategic planning to wrap up because some of those ideas are gonna fit into second semester and there's also we're gonna just hold some spaces because i'm sure we'll learn some things first semester that we'll need to do second semester and we don't know what those things are yet because they will present themselves as the school year starts so i'll turn it over to gina and talk about some of these things so the activities that we've outlined in this presentation both the ones for first semester and beyond were basically thought of or discussed suggested recommended by a group of over 50 people so we had over 50 people working on the access committee and in processing and in meetings came up with a host of activities that we could do during access we will not be able to do all of those the first year absolutely the two concepts the the main concepts behind access and can you go back to the last slide please as you see that it's two days a week conceptually and certainly not starting the year out but as we move on the idea was that one day a week students would be able to get support academic support help from teachers okay and hopefully from their specific teachers and hopefully from there yes from their teachers and one day a week would be more for programming right for things that we do now some of which we do for example in our monday like pbis mustang way positively north schedule some of which we go into classes and take time to do could be done during this time okay so it's kind of one day a week for that programming one day a week for student help from their teachers in the beginning thank you in the beginning we have a lot to do in the beginning to set that up right we're going to focus a lot of our time on executive functioning for example helping students to understand and look at their grades so that they can determine where they should go for help so it's going to take several weeks for us to get get started where students are ready to go out and get the help that they need so some of these lessons are going to be front loaded so the beginning the first three weeks month give or take is going to be front loaded with some of the lessons that you're seeing on here so for example the executive functioning lessons and i just listed a few and some of those will be simple things that are done now in classes but not necessarily done in every class so we're talking about some strategies just to give you one that's not up there that many of you can relate to like helping students to write a professional email when they go to college they will need to write emails and oftentimes we see students write emails that look more like a text might look with abbreviations and those kinds of things some of these things are really simple things but things that we really know that all students need and that access period provides us that time so this is not meant to be an exhaustive list by any stretch but these are just some of the things that we plan to do in first semester so the counseling in both buildings they push into classes now and do a lot of post-secondary planning work on a four-year plan with students what courses should they take they talk about college they talk about tcd they talk about the trades those will go into the access periods uh i mentioned some executive function functioning let's add on to those so just a reminder part of this schedule change is tied to the dga contract that we entered into right so they pair together there's some features in that contract that we added beyond this this access period for students to get help from staff one of those is office hours which every teacher posts when their office hours are available whether it's in person or virtual for students to just drop in and get help that's when a teacher is either physically or virtually waiting you know for a student to come and get help so some of this is teaching students building in intentional like this is how you advocate for yourself here's the menu of ways that you can go get help teacher office hours access period the resource rooms the resource period before school after school we also in this contract entered in wrote down that if a student gives a teacher 24 hours notice that teacher needs to find a time in that next 24 hours whether it's in person or virtual to meet with that that student right so when we negotiated the last contract that contains this schedule change that was really built around students being able to get help in real time from their direct teachers when they needed it it's all wrapped together as part of that right it's part of this whole package that the board negotiated with teachers focused on students getting individual help from their teacher when they in real time when they need it well as close to real time as possible the bell schedule is the final piece of all of those resources that we pulled together but we haven't had this access time to teach the baseline set of skills to all students as to how to use that time how to advocate for that time you know how to reach out and arrange for it you know it's just resources that are out there and students that know how to tap into it do and there's students that don't really know how to advocate for themselves in that time yet having this built-in time that's where it shows up as like executive functioning that's really what that means it's the skills like note-taking and writing emails and those kinds of things but it's also building in the skills for how to be a successful student how to get help when you need it how to advocate for yourself you know how to check on your grades and to monitor your progress all of those things are skills that right now if you have the right set of teachers and the right experiences and the right parents and the right like the right set of ingredients you get really good at doing those things we want to make sure that every kid is good at doing those things okay i'll get off my soapbox would there be would they have choices in that like if there was a let's say there's a resume writing seminar would they have the choice of attending that or going to see a teacher are they going to have that kind of flexibility to decide so we haven't built out one one aspect of it in terms of what will be optional in terms of the student help time but we've talked about different opportunities for students so there are other schools that do they might not call it access but they do this where they might uh for example open a gym right so students who want to play basketball i don't know why we're talking best i don't know basketball it's insane we've talked about different options i could also see something like that and we're we're not talking about that tonight i know but i could also see something like that during resource and that is that time where students on an eight-period day so on monday tuesday and friday would have a lunch so period four five or six and for about half the period we're we're planning to put in some programming to assist students the topics on those days might only pertain to a group of students and it and in some cases might be optional so where you know you have a couple of choices if you want to go for this you can go here if you want to go for that so we're still working through some of that um so if we look at what we were talking about before access is kind of thing the way we're looking at it right now are topics that every student probably by grade level needs to get right because there'll be certain things that we know that ninth graders need but seniors don't but a senior probably needs something like writing a resume or you know that kind of thing so there will be stuff targeted by grade level where the resource period which is when your lunch period rolls through in the block will be more like what gina was saying likely be more things that are you pick the thing that you go to rather than every student at a grade level is getting the same kind of skill and the counseling lessons are differentiated by grade level and they built so what students do in ninth grade obviously they build on that for tenth and and so on so definitely when like the colleges come would that would you try to target that might time or is that right more in research right because maybe not every student wants to go right right or you'll buy but but that would also be things like trades local businesses those kinds of things could fit into that space and we we do a lot of that now okay even during i mean during the lunch break so um the difference is it will be more time built in where students aren't having to miss lunch to be able to do it or class but certainly built into the schedule to provide greater flexibility doesn't mean that we wouldn't necessarily do some of those things either on the eight period days there might be some things that are you know specific to a date that we still might want to do but at least this provides greater flexibility the schedule provides flexibility not just in terms of access but in terms of resource so it's 25 minutes long yeah it's about 25 30 minutes long is that going to be enough time all together because you know it from the sound of it you've got some really neat things to present to ourselves it's a good spot to start and and to be honest with you i don't i wouldn't mind seeing something like that every day of the week so that you can um really present some of the things and and that so i'm it's just how much time are we going to shift away from instruction to do these things yeah but those are instructions and running them right i know we know you know something's called the home room or was it wasn't there wasn't there kind of a 15 minute thing built no currently no no historically no no not anymore my schedule i know has been for at least a couple of decades i'm not sure exactly i like where you're i think though but hank's got something he wanted you were i was there something more you were saying no i was just saying that to start with this this is the model we're recommending to start with and then as jenny you asked last week you know what happens down the road we evaluate every year how it goes and if it looks like 25 minutes isn't enough time then we'll discuss how is that looking how is that working we do believe that this model puts those skills in every student's hands so there's many of these skills that a teacher might like your english teacher might teach you i don't know what cornell notes is something like a note taking skill or whatever so you might learn that in your english class but then your social studies teacher might show up and reteach that and then later on another teacher might reteach it where our teachers will know like we've taught this skill to all of our students you can use this skill you don't you can assume yeah the kids will know it so when we talked early on in the year about access will give time back that's how it works now i want to prove it out and make sure it's doing what before we take any more instructional time into these kinds of times well i guess i'm just looking at it as maybe first semester would be the more intense uh training let's say first few weeks of the first semester right because that's that's knowledge that they're going to use their entire four years so you hate to gloss over it for 20 minutes because by the time you get your passing period and all that kind of thing um you know to me it seems like it would it would be better if we could put some first semester in some second semester and you know that kind of thing that has been clearly a challenge because every group i meet with so we have a list of i don't know 40 50 different lessons and everybody wants every different group has different focus and of course that lesson has to be week one all 40 of them have to be week one so that's obviously not going to work right um so we are in the process of determining what students need from from the start i think you raise an interesting question in terms of number of days i do believe this is two days a week is the right way to start i do think as we move on and students have a baseline and the way that this complements with resource the way that it complements with student instruction in their classes you know whether it's doctors mentioned english but global connections any class i think i think it's the right way to start but it certainly will be a challenge and that's part of the challenge we're going through right now to determine exactly what needs to come before and remember this is year one right so what will start to happen is it'll ninth grade you'll get a certain set of skills and then 10th grade we build on that and then 11 you know and it goes on where right now it's we have this backlog of things we'd love to see every kid have this skill set right and now you want to do everything all at once and that that's not how it's going to work long term it'll be here's the things that we know that 9th graders need coming in to be successful and then here's what we add on year 2 and just like we do in our counseling department but it will be that way around all of these other skills that gina is talking about on the board where this will build through your high school career next year will provide the baseline for us i was going to ask so so what does access period physically look like that's my question too what is it is it like mandatory is it it is mandatory where are the students i'm sorry can you go back again no thank you go ahead bouncing between that's all right um we strategically placed it um not the first period of the day so that students will already be at school right so it's basically placed between first and third on wednesday and second and fourth it's not like lunch where there are multiples well that's the thing everybody wants everyone will have an excellent assignment every student and every staff member so we say assignment you that you'll have a place you're supposed to be right so that's where you might be in room c267 with 24 of your closest friends and a teacher or two okay good probably two attendance will be in most cases it should be two and attendance will be taken it's not graded so students will not receive a grade a letter grade or anything like that but attendance will be taken students are expected to go to access how do i make it up if i missed it so we're actually and it's interesting that you say that because we've been talking about that not just in terms of access but in terms of resource so we're looking at and this is a lot to take on but we're looking at putting the resources from the access lesson resource and resources but the materials on a website so right now a lot of our counseling resources are on our website we're on our website right so you can go in now can we force students to go in can we probably not but we can certainly send out reminders the access teacher can let them know the next time they see them that oh you know you missed this just a reminder you need to go in and take a look just like we do for the counseling presentations now okay so it would be a webinar is basically well it might just be resources that they can click into and take a look at so access you can be in other places or you can be in this room and it's not it's not like a home room used to be right not necessarily no it sounds similar in a way there are some aspects that would be similar to a home room in another school but it's um i'd say the programming here is what makes it different different yeah so you because we've taken home rooms out of schools correct right yeah right totally used to serve as like an attendance period because it used to be that you that's where your attendance for the day was taken and recorded but that's not what we're talking about yeah like one room was show up announcements check in yeah you know get your attendance taken and that was pretty much it right and then you were off for the rest of your day this is actual programming that's inside of there but one of the things you touched on shirelle is there's going to be some of these that are program planned and there will be others in which students can leave that room and go over to their teacher that they need to see in their other room so there'll be this trading of kids at the beginning so like i need to go see mr wugaiser you know in his class because i'm having trouble in social studies so we've worked it out where i'm going over to his class for that 25 minutes and he's going to have somebody in his class that's going to go to mr lang's class you know because he needs help with spanish right so well i don't know i just gave you a book it's like physics is there anything you can't do i'm just picturing you know some kid he okay say he misses a day and it's something that he really needs you're gonna tell him to go to the website and find out i think about special ed add kids adhd kids do you really think they're gonna go well but that's where their other support system kicks in what is that other support system that's their iep and their alpha team yes or their teacher yeah yeah it sounds like a lot of accountability yeah it does well i mean we check kids in every class period kids are supposed to be somewhere every class period we do it every every period throughout the day all year long so this the getting kids to where they're supposed to be and checking if they're there is something we're really good at that's a logistical thing that we we have worked out pretty easily so is there any staff development in that time or are no not in access okay no access is just focused on these student things with our teachers all free at that that time and then on those days is that lunch the same amount of time as the regular the monday tuesday friday shorter it's a little bit shorter on that day because they have the access time and on one of those two days the resource time to come through so lunch is really focused on eating okay on those days because you you that second half of the lunch period that you have on monday tuesday and friday that time for you is worked into those other spaces okay chris what's your perspective on this oh i was going to ask since you've got a number of different lessons that are going to be offered to these students and they're probably going to be in different rooms and if you've got like a resume building thing for a couple of weeks in one room and then you've got other courses how are you gonna make sure that student like i anticipate that you're gonna have a lot of location changes how are you gonna make sure that these students no not for the programming that you're talking about yeah that programming yeah for resource yes there'll be a spot where if you want to go if that's something you want to go learn about you would go to that location and do that right but access is every student gets it in their assigned room okay by and it's really grade levels that are getting targeted pieces so it's guaranteed right and there could be some exception so for example let's say that a counselor is meeting with her freshman let's say she has 60 freshmen well that's not going to fit in one room we might move students to a larger location or we have some like double rooms you probably remember some of those but that will be few and far between that's not a weekly type of thing okay on most days you're going to your your actual your access room and then it's either depending on what's going on at that point it's a time for you to go get help or or to work like a study hall or it's uh us determining your content in that space okay and fourth period isn't um i mean in this particular example the person has sixth period lunch right yeah right so right if you had and you could leave at the end of the day if you're junior senior in good standing yeah so that would be good and the choruses that would be five that would be five and six on those yeah so on the block days if you had if your resource fell fifth period and you're junior senior in good standing and your parents have agreed to it and all you've checked all the boxes you could leave early yes it provides great flexibility what time for example we have students who do internships really helping them pull up that time schedules for those students like in our internship class so that they can have that open so that would provide some flexibility and scheduling for them as well and other programs as well but internships is an example hold on hold on we got another question sure no it's just a lot of first one you said fifth and sixth so that's toward the what's that an hour early they leave or hour and a half i think uh 80 78 minutes so i'm pulling up the exact time yeah so they would be able to leave at 202 p.m that's pretty good i'm so i'm excited about the counseling piece of this um we have uh we actually have i know we our student-to-counsel ratio here in our district is better than most but it's still i've expressed before not enough um and and i've i've had conversations with you before hank and probably a few others just everything i went through with my kids trying to identify a college for them to go to you know and um and now i'm helping my niece with with that and there's just so much more most you you mentioned if a student doesn't have the parent and doesn't have the school really needs to be that um for them and there's so much more we could do with guiding our students to their post high school life whether it be the military whether it be trades whether it be great in the workforce college um i think that there's so much more we we can and should be doing with that and this is going to allow us to do more right there's going to be a lot of pathway yeah work inside of here of helping each student understand there are all of these pathways or combinations of those pathways like you could work and go to school right and helping them pick the right pathway understand how to enter into that and how to be successful one of the other things we hope to teach over four years is that many people move between pathways right you might start in college and then need to go to work and then go to the military and then come back to work and then go to college right and that's fine life you know you might start in community college go to a four-year college go to work you know it it could be could be a four-year college and then something else right who knows so it's helping students understand that there are all of these pathways that the career choice that you're having has a variety of pathways of getting there some of them will come at a greater cost than others but either way it's helping each student figure out what is that pathway for them so that they're ready to enter into that post-secondary well i'm really excited about that because and i know that this is something that you have wanted as well so um and i know our counseling staff does as well they you know there's only so many hours in the day um and this will lead to that now what about our students that are in the tcd program how how is that going to work with with this so we send students to tcd either in the morning so what we call am am tcd or pmtcd unfortunately no matter where we place access it's either going to be in the morning or it's going to be in the afternoon we tend to have a smaller group of students in the amtc's so that was part of our rationale and placing it in the morning and we will have those resources available too to all really to all students but certainly they can they can reference that it's interesting that you asked that because this year at least in scheduling and in registration it looks like we have more students that we will be sending to tcd next year than we have at least in the nine years that i've been in this position that's great news um you know we'll follow through with the paperwork and all those kinds of things more have registered than have registered in i don't i don't know how long i have a question it's a little off topic but kind of mike mentioned like the kids where they're going to go and knowing and then hey um dr thiele you mentioned this way you may go that way i i had suggested a while back but i know we weren't there to do it but one of the things with the kids that are getting ready for college the one of the biggest complaints i heard was not being able to do the fafsa and have we had i mean that was something i was willing to volunteer for to come would have the parents sit down and and well i helped kids and ended up helping him do it even though it wasn't horrible and right now we do hold sessions where students can come in for help and they even see some information system or in the in the evening part part of the the challenge with the fafsa is that you need your parent information and that's often one of the challenges we face so we get the students to where we can oh sorry but i could definitely see that being more of a resource activity so if you need help with your fafsa this week coming into the college career center or wherever yeah i'm talking about more like a community night where you have we do that now volunteers that will help because the parent could come there because the parent is yeah their work during the day the counselors run that now okay all right because what i found when my daughter was going through there were there are some great counselors but what do you have you don't have i mean you can't hire 40 right so it's just the bandwidth against that's right how many students and there's nothing they're working their butts off i'm not right i'm not you know i'm just saying that you don't it's not enough well but this should help the efficacy of our current counseling staff because we build in this time where every student is getting these baseline skills and some of these cross over with the things that counselors are providing support for and then you have that built-in resource time where students and we have programming going on so the idea is that a single counselor doesn't have to do everything with each individual kid right is that you get some some scale here that you build into the process so that now when a teacher when a counselor is meeting with a student they might have already identified a career path right and maybe already have identified i'm looking for a small liberal arts school and okay now i can jump past a whole bunch of things and jump right into what you need right now rather than i need to meet with you and work up to the point of this is where we're at right so it makes the time that our counselors have with students you know we i said at the beginning about being students being better at advocating for themselves that means teaching students to be better at saying what they need what they want and yeah and that they know more so when they that time that is spent one-on-one with a counselor is way more effective than what it is right now yeah because i just find one of the detriments to success is access to information everybody does not have access to information so yeah but i mean i know everybody's doing a great job it's just how do we go in this is how we do it people that could lend their time to have talent and time to you know it's up can you skip to the next do you mind if i was just going to grab myself but don't touch them so one of the things i want to mention that goes along with that is we became an avid district almost a decade ago well this was good and as you know that we have one avid class at each grade level freshman or junior senior yes one of the goals of avid avid as the organization but also our goals here in district 99 is to implement avid strategies as much as possible in what is called school-wide so across the curriculum right and a lot of that occurs already dr thiele mentioned uh cornell notes for example and that's an avid strategy when i say it's an avid strategy avid are best practices their strategies they're taking from all different places but they kind of package them and train teachers and train avid schools on how to implement these strategies one of the really exciting parts to me of access is we'll be able to do more of that school-wide and part of what avid is really good at is getting students prepared and thinking about college and thinking about what comes next and in some cases it may not be college although avid is more focused on college than not but it does help students to think about post-secondary in general as well and so we certainly are planning to build in avid strategies and i put like beyond first semester but in years to come as well we already do some of that but it's we might do it in global connections but we don't do it in any other classes or we might do it in our strategies for academic success classes or we might do it in this class here we want it to be school-wide so all students learn how to use those strategies and so that they'll have those strategies with them for whatever is next so i think that relates to to that part did you have a question yeah how many years did you say that avid was had been a program probably five years no boys i think it was one year when i was still in the building so i believe it's about a deck give or take a decade but it's one class of students there was one year at south that we did have two classes at a grade level yeah but that was okay not typical yeah i i know i had some friends who took happened do you guys ever um like get feedback from graduates who went through avid and then went to college and were like hey these couple of tips helped and things like that absolutely in fact uh some of the alumni have met in the summer yeah um and some come back we've had avid graduates come back and tutor for us so you know part of avid is tutorials not to give you too much detail but their tutorials and in a perfect world they would be led by college age tutors that's really challenging for us because they have schedules that don't always mesh with ours right but some of them have come back and tutors were tutored which has been great awesome i'm going to go back and slide to make sure we get i just wanted everything yeah all right so other things that we're already planning on falling in first semester of next year include social emotional learning skills our pbis lessons so instead of an alternative schedule on mondays that would fall on an access period we have our required training that has to happen in the first 90 days of school shootings that's alice safety training we have a variety of surveys that we need to give and then obviously we talked about the student help and support so that fills up kind of your first semester uh of skills you know it when you sit down to start building out a schedule it seems like how are we going to fill all this time and then it's full yeah so uh then we have this as gina said this long list of other skills for second semester and beyond um that we've talked about some of these tonight uh i guess i'll turn it over to you you've been in the room but that's one other question so yeah i appreciate all the work that has been done on this but i know i asked early on what metrics will we have in place to make sure that this is working or not working because i think we talked about doing it and i don't know where we are at on that to be honest at this point but almost like a trial period for this but if it's full-fledged what metrics are we going to build and make sure this is or have we considered that yeah that's why we're bringing in a third-party program evaluator that's why meg ormisin is coming in and white and company our architects are paying for that study that is the stuff that's going to give us yeah that's all report back yeah they will meg will be reporting back to the board on the progress uh periodically for the next two and a half years uh as to how the progress is going the feedback that she's hearing the data and metrics that indicate that we're making progress and if we're not then it'll be our job to come to you and say all right this came back that this wasn't successful so here's how we're going to fix that so the board will get real-time reporting uh on how effective these changes are and um and of course we would be doing that as an administration anyway but it's always nice to get a you know an independent third party to come in and talk to people and give you feedback that isn't you know our view on it but you know somebody who isn't connected to us to come in okay so connect on that i actually forgot to the ninth and tenth graders during that time would they be in the commons like the resource on the long oh on their lunch period on the long lo yeah yeah yeah for half of that will be resource will be programming where they can either will go to do things or can go to do things depending that's the next thing that gina is working on after access right um and then the other half of that is like a study hall and then that's where commons library all of those resources the counselors you know everything that hangs off the commons is available yeah yeah so it's like gives them a you know lunch you have to eat and then you have that short back half of it 20 minutes or whatever to get help this gives you a little longer period of time one day a week to take advantage of all of those things well they so the the well they have the entire lunch period to like they could choose to eat later in their lunch period now yeah yeah that's what's going on this year right and that's why meg's going to come in the researcher is going to come in in the next couple of months to just do some feedback from students on how that went this year and then next year it's kind of like you're still going to have that monday tuesday and friday then on wednesday and thursday you'll have a little lunch period inside of a class right where you go and get lunch but instead of two longer lunch periods on those two days instead you get this resource on one of the two days it's a little longer chunk of time right so the idea is that you're giving students a variety of different shapes and sizes and teachers a variety of shapes and sizes to build in what they need in those spaces like right now if you need to go make up a test that's hard to do on your lunch hour to go eat and go make up a test but on a resource period like i could go make up a test on that day and i don't have to stick around after school or miss a practice or you know miss getting home on you know at my normal time on a bus i can go make up a test during a resource period i got plenty of time right so it's giving different windows of time and then it's up to us in that access time especially at the beginning of the year to set expectations and teach students how to use that time appropriately right that that doesn't just become 40 minutes that i i blow off and then oh my goodness i could have made up this right and it's it's building some expectations and then help our teachers doing that as well like hey mike you have a test that you missed this week you should make that up by next friday and your resource time would be a great time to do that right you have that nightmare again now so are you asking if they could have eaten during that later i'm saying there's still time to eat there's still time to eat there's still the time yeah so if we go back so if we look at this sample like they're not going to eat in that six right so this student if it's thursday right they're gonna show up in the morning go to english and then go to their access period then they're going to go to their social studies class and then this specific student has b lunch so they're going to go to the first two two-thirds of their elective class so let's say that's art they'll go to like two-thirds of their art class their whole art class will break go take a 38-minute lunch and then they all come back and finish the last third of that class where another student might start in lunch and then go do their whole art class another in a you know an ad or a arts of you know it doesn't have to be art right it could be a different class of spanish right and then another student might start in their french class and then in the last chunk of that go to lunch right but so this student is in the b lunch period right so they start their class go through two-thirds of it go eat lunch and then the whole class comes back together and finishes then this particular student has resource part of that will be either required or offered options which is what gina is going to work through with this team next and we'll come back to you with here are the things that we're offering and this is where she said like maybe it's the top four universities that our students go to maybe it's college of dupage maybe it's the four biggest employers in the district 99 area come and talk about getting a job with them or the different maybe the different jobs that are offered there so that they can see they have everything from a custodian to an attorney that works in the building up the street right and or maybe it's we are pushing and pro all all juniors need to come during this time and do their bubbling for s.a.t exactly right it could be any number of those things that happens and then the other half of that is study hall for some kids for some groups of students every so often that whole block of time could just become you know your time for a study hall and depends on how everything gets programmed and placed out for the the course of the year but or you could have a student that's a junior senior in good standing that then is allowed to to leave at that point so maybe a junior that has to do sat bubbling needs to stick around until they're done bubbling and then they could go ahead and go home right or they stick around for the whole period but that's kind of how that day kind of flows through i know it when you look at that it's like wow that's confusing but it really doesn't become that way because we have less messed up weeks i'll call them messed up right unusual weeks over the course of the year so monday starts becoming every monday is like this and every tuesday is like this and every wednesday is like this and every thursday and then every friday right so you start to build even though there's differences in the course of the week the week doesn't get monotonous but the weeks get predictable you know over the course of time so by building in time for these things to happen we actually get more consistency over time as to how a student's schedule works i have another overarching question it kind of goes along with what shirelle was asking in terms of how we're measuring our success with this ultimately i i think that we're we're looking for more success with standardized test scores we're looking for better grades we're looking for i mean what are we you know what are we going to use as the as the yardstick i guess so the initial let me pull up the i'm going to pull up my slide so i can read from it of what meg proposed after we met with her several times to walk through all of this information with her what she brought to the table is recommendations for the initial data pieces and there could be more than this as time goes on right but this is her first take on it survey says um [Music] potential measurables were number of times students connect with teachers to receive help improvement in student achievement number of poor grades impact on cultural issues related or reflected in the culture and climate surveys impact of the wednesday thursday schedule creating access connection with trusted adults especially in year two because we envision that you will keep the same access period teacher year after year after year right so that you start to build a different kind of check-in with an adult over time and that gives a different perspective you know is it remember i taught science right so there was a lot of students that i had one year or one semester only but i also taught band yeah so i had students that i saw for four years you get a very different perspective of a student in both settings right sometimes students will step out a little bit more if they know they're only going to be with you a semester right and it's a little different relationship there's a much different relationship of a student that you have year after year after year and you see them grow and this is kind of creates right now there's very few academic interactions banned maybe some of our art students um where you're going to see you know choir where you're going to see the same teachers for four years of your career this provides that opportunity for every student we have an adult that's checking in over time with the kids so you see them when they come in in ninth grade you see them start to develop into what their future you're talking about college and career pathways with them is they then move into their junior year and they're thinking about what might happen after high school and then as they're entering into those finalizing those plans in senior year that same adult has kind of followed you through that journey over your four years now that same adult is for what class all the questions access this access okay because i'm like if it's not a good fit i wouldn't want to say no it's just access okay so you were that would be non-graded sound great okay so that's a different relationship as well right yeah yes yeah so that that that works for me okay so awesome we were talking about the yardstick though so oh so back to that thanks thanks for getting me back on track mike uh other things on the list are so impact of the wednesday thursday schedule creating access connections with trusted adults in year two so making sure that we are seeing some of that occur college and career readiness standards so there's a whole list of standards that right and indicators that we're tracking uh things like are students involved in two or more activities or athletics that's right right and those kinds of things uh impact on any attendance data uh and then others that that she comes up with what's interesting is standardized test scores aren't necessarily on here because really what you get on standardized test scores is data that's far less robust and challenging than the types of skills we are trying to build through these like standardized tests aren't built to measure the types of skills that we're developing in this new schedule i agree but you know the outside world always looks at that right they look at what are the greats you know what are the scores like yeah what are the scores like i believe that if you do all of these things mike you will see those in that but it would not be serving our kids well to be the point of focus in this work but if we measured it but not necessarily oh we always measure it yeah we always said academic achievement right yeah yeah i mean but that for the higher the greater indicator of post-secondary success and academic achievement is gpa you know yeah i mean that's why this the schools are finally moving you know the colleges are finally moving away they were doing that before the penalty sort of like in our next four years you're going to see how we're already yes making huge strides in that in the work that we're doing this year that will really get amped up next year so stay tuned we're next where it is making a difference is is helping my niece and looking at things now um discovering that that standardized test score can still help quite a bit though in terms determining whether or not you may get a little higher scholarship yes than you might have got otherwise so it's still in play oh it's absolutely in play we have two seniors here so yeah what did that yeah so those are those are the metrics and then so with the the culture survey that would encompass student satisfaction parent satisfaction staff satisfaction yes okay yep all right other questions i i i hate to keep bringing up bring it up this is the time most of what i've read you know the pros and the cons it definitely seems like going to block schedule or a hybrid far more pros than clients but then there's always that one little group you know that i that i can never forget about i look at the kids with behavior issues they're in a 90-minute class what's that teacher going to do you know 90 minutes they're it's difficult enough to contain them within a 40 or 50 minute class what happens so first of all it's 78 not 90.
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thank you oh how are you i just messaged okay [Music] did you turn oh thank you all right good evening it is wonderful to see so many people here tonight we thank you for being here this is a regular school board meeting for the bartholomew consolidated school corporation our board of school trustees we started each of our meetings with reflections from one of our colleagues and thank you dr shed about a month ago i had the opportunity to accompany a small group of students to washington dc our indiana group of 20 students and four adults spent the morning of our last day there in the senate office building talking to our indiana senators mike braun and todd young the senators thoughtfully fielded many insightful questions from the high school students one of our most passionate and compassionate students asked each of the senators what their opinion was regarding the increased polarization found in both politics and the us versus them attitudes and belief systems of so many people in society today it was senator young's response to the question that resulted in a lot of stimulating conversation long after we had left the senate building his response was and i quote it makes my heart bleed senator young went on to provide a few different explanations as to why he believes such sharp dividing lines exist in the world of politics that oftentimes set the tone for society at large a large chunk of the culprit according to him is social media algorithms keep us plugged in with those that further reinforce our opinions resulting in even more extreme beliefs technology makes it easier to spread misinformation more quickly another simple explanation offered by the senator was that it seems more people are simply less willing to admit when they make mistakes and that they are less willing to pop possibly revise their views even in the face of much evidence that refutes their views however senator young made it clear he doesn't believe the current state of society is all gloom and doom he said he believes conditions have been much worse before and that we made it through those times just like we'll make it through these current challenging times our indiana contingent had several good discussions on the way home regarding their takeaways from our u.s senators particularly senator young's it makes my heart bleed statement another particularly perceptive student asked the group if they had ever heard of the notion of intellectual humility and its counterpart intellectual arrogance that she had recently been reading so much about she went on to explain both concepts after drawing blank stares from her peers her summary of intellectually humble people described them as those that consider they could be wrong or that their views are eligible for revision in the face of contrary evidence she added that intellectual humility involves acknowledging the fact that we might at times rely on either faulty or incomplete information or that we ourselves are not experts in categories that we simply aren't her explanation of intellectual arrogance included an unwillingness to acknowledge competing information less of a desire to learn new things and less tolerance of those they disagree with she went on by saying that intellectually arrogant people have stronger emotional reactions when people disagree with them and are much more likely to disparage people that hold different views from theirs in other words they are more likely to promote an us versus them kind of thinking as compared to intellectually humble people that are more likely to be open to the opinions of others and take them seriously needless to say this student's musings led to more stimulating conversation with her peers in one of my readings in preparing for this reflection i came across a thought-provoking statement the most powerful force on this planet is human cooperation a force for construction and destruction here's hoping we can find more cooperation leading to destruction rather than destruction in order to do that we have to take on a perspective of intellectual humility and be willing to accept that our beliefs aren't necessarily the best for everybody nor should they be the beliefs of everybody hopefully intellectual arrogance can lessen and we can communicate with one another respectfully with open ears rather than just taking over talking over those we disagree with instead of actually engaging with them i want to conclude by saying thanks to the student that asked the tough question of senators young and braun i learned a lot from her and the ensuing conversations that occurred with her peers may she and so many others continue to engage with others in such meaningful challenging and thought-provoking ways thank you very much all right if you are able if you would stand and join me in the pledge of 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 all right six of our members here are present dr bills is under the weather but she's going to join us on screen here very soon turning on her camera so we definitely have a forum and let's get this thing started here on our screen and behind us you will note the mission and vision for bartholomew consolidated school corporation each of these guide us in our decision making and also listed behind us includes our high expectation objectives again guidelines for the decision making that we might be making throughout this evening the fun part is all the wonderful recognitions that we get to do this evening so first i'm going to turn to dr roberts that we might recognize our state wrestling finalist kade law thank you dr biltz it is also when we have the opportunity to recognize uh excellence within our school system and we certainly have that with the columbus east wrestling program so i i'm going to ask mr p used the athletic director of columbus east to come to the podium thanks peter dr roberts school board members cabinet members again it is with great pleasure that we are here tonight to honor two magnificent people tonight first a little bit on coach cooper he was awarded the indiana high school wrestling coaches association coach of the year and and to me one of the highest honors you can receive is to be voted by your colleagues the people you compete against the people that that you work with and across the map with for them to say you know he is he is the coach of the year i i just think it's a it's an unbelievable honor for that um coach cooper you know he's done some very special things for columbus east and for for this community and school corporation his program has seven straight sectional titles six straight regional titles has won the conference five out of the six years and for the first time in school history and this is something that's only been around i think five or six years columbus east was the 3a steam tape team state duel champions and we'll have one quick story about that and i don't i see that three minutes not on you but i'll try to go quickly so you don't turn it off so we're wrestling in the uh the final match of the day and i mean it's going to be a tough one we were the two seed they were the ones see roncalli i want to make sure i'm giving the teams rights anyhow we start out on fire it's like oh my gosh and i mean my heart rate starting to go starting to go starting to go and and we get off i hate saying we because i'm just standing there sweating being nervous but anyhow the olympians get off and they've got a nice lead and then roncalli is making a battle i mean they're coming back and they take the lead and then it's basically come it literally came down to the last match of the night and uh we were blessed to win that blessed to win the st team state title when i went to shake coach cooper's hand to congratulate him he literally about ripped my arm off i mean my wrist was sore for three or four days he was so excited so just i mean he is a very special coach for columbus east for this community very proud of what he's done and and then he's producing great wrestlers like cave law and he's also providing many men opportunities to take their athletic skills to the next level academically and that's really what we're about is student based athletics and providing opportunities and he has several of his wrestlers that that move on and wrestle in college are going to get very nice degrees and and get an excellent head start life i can remember the first time i saw kade russell i was going into his freshman year we we had a summer i think it was like a three-way in our gym and we had just come off another very strong season we were saying goodbye to some very talented seniors we had a lot of gaps to fulfill and i was interested to see what this team was like and it's like well who's this wrestler k law and i mean he came he just fired right in there and i mean stuck some guys i'm like oh man i think we're going to be okay and throughout the years like i say another great story about kade was uh in the state finals a couple years ago your knee wasn't a cave that was really messed up that you went out there and kept fighting hard and i mean he could have just done a medical injury but i mean he stuck the match out and that's why it was so neat for him to come back his senior year and make it to the state championship match he had a tough route to go but we're very proud of him but again i don't want to steal any of the thunder but i am going to turn it over to coach cooper to talk more about cade [Applause] uh thank you mr hughes uh it's always always exciting to come talk about our kids our team um kade is uh you know just put an immense amount of time to the sport if you know anything about wrestling uh you know earning success there is not easy right it takes a long time i mean these years that's a decade of work right there to get to get to that level so um you know cage is just a member of an outstanding senior class we have 10 seniors one of them here tonight ashton hartwell is also a state medalist but you know 10 guys that it's going to be difficult to say goodbye to but i'm confident that you know and ultimately what i tell our guys like i mean wrestling is great you know it takes you so far but at the end of the day when when you leave here i just want you to be able to go grind you know and go to work every day hold a job support your family do all the things you want to do but and fight for the things you want so i think that's one thing we focus on in our program just to get kids ready to do that and i'm real confident with these 10 seniors that we have that that were in in that spot uh winning winning state duels was was tremendous i mean anytime you can accomplish something as a team you know i tell our guys in the room all the time in practice it doesn't matter if you're the weakest guy in here the worst guy in here at wrestling it doesn't matter you're a part of our team you're a part of that success uh and the kids buy into it uh academic success i mean these guys really lead the way our our team was uh we had a 3.56 team gpa this year which is the highest that it's been as long as i've been involved last year we won uh the team competition with the gpa slightly less than that this year they haven't announced yet so hopefully that's that's us again but um we had 10 academic all-state members as well and kate was one of those you know a three-time state state uh finalist a two-time medalist he placed third last year and then made it to the state finals wrestling under the lights in an overtime match this year to take second also very proud to announce that uh kate is going to be wrestling at purdue university next year mr newell especially is mr jensen especially excited about that so just a fantastic kid and then uh you know i know he'll be back i know he'll be around helping out with our program uh when he can but just a fantastic individual okay ball [Applause] okay congratulations let's take your shirt [Applause] that's a wonderful bonus to be able to congratulate both our student and his coach thank you both very very much all right so this is one of those happy sad moments that we get to do i will turn to dr fleet for our human resources recommendations good evening i request approval of the hr resource recommendations as presented all right thank you very much so i need a motion for approval so move thank you mr bryant just last second okay thank you um all right all those in favor step in just real quick before you discuss the recommendations dr biltz is now on camera part of our policies we have somebody electronically engaged they do need to be on camera for the vote and will be a roll call so not just so real call for them thank you all right are there any discussion items about this list of human resource recommendations all right and we will do a roll call for approval mr grimes all right mr bryant mr huff dwyer aye ms wilden hi thank you and i as well so these recommendations have passed unanimously thank you [Applause] so as a part of those recommendations um was a retirement of um this is amy dixon amy is in the audience here this evening and is retiring from northside middle school uh amy has um served as did serve as a math teacher for eight years three years as an assistant principals for the past 15 i believe maybe as principal at north side so when we do those human resources recommendations there are a lot of names and so forth and they're going to want to bring that one out with amy and the audience it also leads to this next piece which we'll be asking you for approval too which is a recommendation for mr dixon's replacement and that recommendation dr pleek is mr evan burton very good so we do have a a recommendation for mr burton for your information mr burton is a product of bcsc uh he attended schmidt elementary school north side middle school and columbus north high school so this kind of grew up along that little block right there has 15 years of experience in the field of education four years of teaching experience in the content area of science and 11 years as an assistant principal out of the 11 years as an ap he has served seven of them as the assistant principal the last seven at northside middle school so there's our recommendation that mr burton be accepted as principal before you do ask for a vote on that dr shed i do want to acknowledge that north side middle school's continuous improvement council so we have cics in each of our buildings north sides was involved in this process i think we have cic members in the audience tonight if you are here please stand northside cic so thank you [Applause] so crystal serves as co-chair for the cic cic we very much appreciate her and that team's leadership in helping us through this process and getting us to where we can make this recommendation to you this evening um i think that is all i need to say at this point i'm going to turn to you dr schiff for a vote on mr burden as our principal for north side middle school all right so i do need i'll take y'all's comments as a motion i do need a second for the appointment of evan burton thank you miss and with that are there any comments any discussions about this recommendation all right here we go mr grimes all right mr bryant lauren mr dwyer aye ms wilton hi thank you and i as well so unanimously we are welcome to say evan burton is our new principal in middle school at northside middle school mr burton if you could come to the podium please we wouldn't mind hearing a few words from you this evening congratulations on thank you i think pete's had a pretty good bar so i'll try not to talk as long as pizza as this evening so anyway thank you everybody so i'm just very appreciative and grateful um for the confidence that northside has in me and cic and our staff to to be the next principal um there and the bcsc has in me to continue to lead in this district being able to serve the students staff and families for almost seven years has really given me the opportunity to make northside my place and i've never had a desire to be anywhere else take this opportunity with kind of a captive audience here to thank my wife beth for her understanding that texts phone calls emails don't really have an end time and the school day never really ends either so without her uh support or i guess her support throughout these years it just has just been invaluable so thank you also to continue the thanks i'd like to thank my administrative co-workers some of which are here today for just advice and guidance as i've continued to move my career and the biggest thank you possible to amy dixon for just being an absolutely exemplary mentor and friend so it was said to me when i was hired to be the assistant principal at north side that i had just gotten the best job in the district and i am and i know that that's because i was given the chance to work with and learn from you so thank you finally i've been thinking the last couple of days about how to kind of move forward from just the excitement and the best way that i can kind of talk about it is is that is that i have a get to job not have to job i get to work with all the north side students and prepare them for whatever comes next i get to lead and work side by side with the best absolute best teaching and support staff and finally i i get to continue having an overwhelming sense of pride to call northside my home and to bring value to to my community so again i i'm trying to contain myself but uh just thank you uh very much and i'm i'm so excited for this next chapter awesome [Applause] okay we're going to have right is [Applause] so how very exciting so congratulations now we have the opportunity to learn from rock creek elementary school join us all right thank you this evening to our school board and dr roberts for allowing us to come and share with you about rock creek i have amazing staff and students here with me as well bring cute kids they always say and it makes it go better so a little bit about rock creek and so we have a 324 students in our current enrollment with 15 general education classrooms if you think of rock creek many people would state it's a multi-generational community building so grandparents parents their students some of our current families were even the first individuals to attend rock creek so it is nice to hear those stories when we have community events rock creek was built in 1958 with three building additions the latest was adding four classrooms onto our building in all right thank you um our goal this evening is to explain the number talk strategy to you that we have utilized this year and k-6 at rock creek we will explain how this consistent strategy aligned vertically in our building has increased overall proficiency in math as well as computation i have several staff members and then our two students with us tonight so the why why did we choose to do number talks and why did we choose a strategy for our building in 2020 21 we looked at the data and it indicated that two areas that we needed to work on for growth was computation and also computation in relation to number sense just not understanding the math facts and so the why when we do the research behind number talks is that math is about making sense of numerical relationships and it's also helping students when they're consistent with number talks understanding place value and then utilizing those strategies when working on different problems and so if you continue to look at our data from this year you can see at the top overall proficiency for math between the fall and winter nwea assessments we've seen a five percent increase and then when you look at just the computation strat strands for k-6 you'll see a 9 increase between the fall and winter assessments of nwea one area to really pull out is that fifth grade overall proficiency we've seen a 15 increase this is a grade level that mrs ellsberry will share with you they have been using this strategy for quite some time and these students also have seen a 31 increase between fall and winter with computation so that's a pretty large increase and we're excited about hi i'm tabitha tedder udl facilitator at rock creek elementary and some things i want to bring to light about member talks and tying it in with udl in the udl principles so for example in the area of engagement number talks minimize the threats and distractions by allowing students a risk-free environment to allow them to discuss the problems and take on their explanations and listening to others and suggestions from their classmates another example for number talks is that it varies the demands and resources and increases mastery oriented feedback from those students and allows for various ranges of discussions from those classmates it allows a consistent expectations and various strategies and self-assessment to increase self-regulation for those students another example that number talks aligns with udl is through representation and providing support for vocabulary and math notation and symbols and also when you think about action and expression for udl number talks aligns and provides multiple ways for students to respond and communicate through multiple levels of support and practice and reinforcement hi i'm amy elsevier teach fifth grade at rock creek um i'm going to share with you an example of one of our math talk days one of our lessons we have been studying place value and so this would be an example this would be on the board um i post the question to the kids they have the option of they can write out their answer on a whiteboard they can just talk about it some they like to do in their head that becomes a almost like a competition between them i think sometimes but i had noticed something i feel strongly about is that kids need to be able to talk about why why is that trans or what makes that answer correct what's a different way that you can do it and so in a whole classroom of students that's difficult to give everybody a voice and so a nice thing about number talks is they're speaking with each other and so they're learning from each other and they're able to each have a voice in what they're saying so um we have a video of the kids this is for my students discussing what you just saw the number one nine thousand one hundred thousand unparalleled fifty three and because the one is one hundred times greater than the one in the scribbled number so let's go up to the hundredths place and the nine is a hundred times greater than the nineteen terabyte number so go up [Music] so they're quite proud of themselves they've quite thrilled me doing this video for you i am amanda gleck i teach kindergarten in kindergarten we strive to build a strong foundation of number sense so each day we take five to ten minutes prior to our math stations which are very hands-on and we have our number talks and these include recognizing and building numbers subitizing and other early computation skills and story problems and here is our work it out wednesday so this is where we have our story problem practice first i read this story problem to them and i have them listen and visualize what's happening and then they talk to their peers about how to solve the problem what what their what is their plan and then they then demonstrate with dry erase boards or objects with manipulatives on how to solve it i feel that number talks give our kids a chance to really explain their mathematical thinking and strategies and to help them ensure their understanding [Music] i teach their great at rock creek and to start our math lessons we do some type of number talk every day it's a little bit different to kind of keep the kids engaged this these are one of their favorites you know the would you rather they always come up with their own silly ones but with math you know would you rather so you give them some type of situation where they're going to have to choose option a or option b okay and then they're going to have to explain their thinking so just as my colleagues have said the best part is to hear their why even if their why is incorrect they still have a why they got there and that's really when as the teacher you can dig in and you know fix their line understand help them understand their misconceptions so we did bring two of my awesome students i have two friends with me today so they're gonna just share what they like about it and so they're a little bit nervous but they're gonna do a great job this is caroline glick she is in my class and she's just going to share what she likes about number talks you okay to do that talks okay that everybody participates and helps other people do it and you get to talk with your friends about the math problem at your table and nope and um all right here's theo west what do you like about men talks what do you enjoy i enjoy to work it out with the other people and see what they think and if you have two different answers you can both do it together to figure out which one you think is right did you think of yours yeah what i liked about it was that everybody participates on doing the math equation and that the um that the people uh she said you know it's great when she was talking to her like okay so what do you guys like about them and she mentioned to me she said that people don't get upset when you're wrong they don't say things to you like oh my gosh you're so wrong and that just kind of hit my teacher heart because it is hard to talk in front of your peers and being able to share in the risk of it being incorrect or having something different and so that is a big risk for kiddos to take and so the fact that she could recognize it's okay to be wrong and still share out i feel like that's a very important piece of this so thank you guys you did awesome are there questions for any of us now that they've all left are there questions individuals have i just have a comment i think this is a great program mainly because y'all have heard me talk about my daughter and you know both of my kids they've struggled with the whole map placement and flash cards and things like that and even today you know it's funny because being a history teacher is far better in being a math teacher and it starts with knowing your math facts knowing the placement and trying to understand what math is and i appreciate this because i really think this will help our students in the long run so thank you yes i can hear oh i'm sorry go ahead i can i can hear my mad head faculty over in bloomington thank you so much for focusing on the why that is so important in mathematics so that's very valuable and i appreciate that you know and caroline you're learning that about mathematics and what it means and that you can work together on problems that's very important to also understand i particularly appreciated the relationship between the math talks and the udl framework and use that to make them work together thank you i have a question how does this scale for the different grades yeah so it's nice that we got to hear from kindergarten third grade fifth grade what were some of the lines of thinking in terms of how teachers adopted it and adapted it to their grade level so when we started the school year we looked at our data as a building and realized that computation and understanding how to apply that computation was an area we needed to grow in so as a building we have a document that really shows by standard what the grade levels below and above are working on and what the expectation is as a kindergarten first all the way through sixth grade teacher what my students will know and be able to master before they leave four computation number six and so being able to see that allows me to kind of segment then when i do my number talks each day on which areas to work on and then as we do assessments we can see where our strengths are or maybe where we need to grow a little bit and review but i had the opportunity to when i do my observations i strategically went in during number talks time and it makes me excited to hear kids talk about numbers and just understanding the relationship they have and really we can see that growth beyond and some of our kids that are really mathematical thinkers it's great to hear about their vocabulary and so i have questioned fifth grade teachers regularly why is your math growth so high every year and being able to see kids talking about it i really believe that's a piece to it theo and claire line you are my hero okay that's pretty great wonderful thank you very very much thank you all thank you again you and caroline for coming to be with us tonight right we're going to flip from that brain of mathematics to the sexual studies check and see if this works hello my name is jeannie long he's gone you guys hear me okay hi my name is jeannie long and i work in the elementary curriculum and instruction office and i'm brandi coomer and i'm the coordinator of instructional technology i would like to thank the bcsc school board and dr roberts for allowing us to come and speak to you about our social studies resource committee and our findings that we have we have for you so the goal of this presentation this evening is to present the social studies resource adoption committee's recommendations and gain approval of this resource for our elementary students i would like to recognize the participants of this committee that served with me we had representatives from the majority of our elementary schools we had parents on this committee an administrator a udl facilitator an ell teacher and every grade level representative some of our members had prior commitments and were unable to attend this evening but i would like for those members that are here if they would please stand so they could be recognized i would like to sincerely thank all of them for the time that they gave to bcsc that if they're here or were unable to be here i appreciated their commitment to this process so when we looked at coming up with a rubric we had two main things in mind how can we provide a have a a scorable rubric that is with the bcsc udl framework with engagement representation and action expression but we also added a component on our rubric how does it meet our indiana academic standards in social studies that was very important to us that it meet both of those criterias our udl framework and our academic standards the timeline for this process is we started in september and we formed our committee we quickly then reviewed resources and then we're here tonight for your approval so the two resources that we evaluated were studies weekly and discovery education studies weekly has an online and a print component discovery education has is an only an online program i have linked the websites to studies weekly and discovery education for you to per to take a look at later so when we looked at these resources we looked at what characteristics do we want a social studies program to have in our elementary schools and we looked at do they represent our state standards that's what we teach i've been a teacher in bcsc for 22 years this is my 23rd year in the district my first year in this office and the state standards are what guide us they're very important to us so that had to be in there we wanted to look in our elementary is there some way we could have an online and a print component for our elementary students it has to span grades kindergarten through sixth grade is there something that our kindergarten students and teachers could get value out of as well as our sixth grade teachers and students was it accessible for all students accessible to all teachers in a variety of different ways was there an ease of navigation not just for the students but also for the teachers were you able to find the resources to do the lessons with the students were they able to navigate the sites as well and another very important component was is it going to be cost effective for our parents that's something we have to be very mindful of is it cost effective for all of our parents in bcsc so you can see from our chart that we have studies weekly has checked off all of those characteristics on our on our our sheet of what we were really looking for so let's take a closer look at studies weekly you have in front of you one of the newspapers so studies weekly is so i have a variety of grades to all of you we have kindergarten through six grades in front of you and when you look at this you know that it's you can see that it's a very unique format it's in a newspaper format it is full color there are between 21 and 32 weeks that the students will receive and the teachers will receive to use they are able to mark these up they're able to circle text they're able to highlight they're able to really make these truly consumable within those classrooms and they can be used for a variety of subjects not just social studies you can use this for your reading instruction as well they are standard aligned studies weekly gives charts and they give lots of documents of where they are aligned in every grade level but the most intriguing to me was that they are completely indiana standard based in third and fourth grade so some of you i made sure that i put two third grade and two fourth grade because those are my my favorite because they're completely indiana history and it says across indiana history and all of the articles are indiana it's talking about the wabash river it's talking about the tribes in in that we're are in indiana it's a hundred percent indiana history and that's what when i taught fourth grade we were looking for true indiana history it also has access to the students and the teachers have access to all of these resources online as well so students can access them on their chromebooks it will read the text aloud to them teachers can project them on their smart boards they also have interviews and online field trips that they can enjoy from the comfort of their classroom and we believe at this time in our negotiations with studies weekly that the cost will be under seven dollars a year for the students for this resource so i have an online field trip that i wanted to share with you as an example some of the online field trips can be a minute and a half that's what this one is some are 30 minutes so i did not keep the 30 minute one for you so i just wanted to show you one of these uh field trips wilson adventures this week we're going to visit the wright brothers national memorial in kitty hawk north carolina the biggest lure at the burke brothers national memorial is naturally the monument itself [Music] entering the memorial grounds visitors can park and check up big kill double hill to have an outpost perspective of the greenwich structure visitors can also experience 360 degrees of plans in this vast monument [Music] a reproduction of the laundry is located not far away [Music] as are the small monuments marking the exact locations of the first through fourth landing spots nearby visitors will find republican living quarters where the wright brothers called home during their buying experiments and the hangar where they stored their famous 1903 white fire just south of the monument lies a life-sized statue recreation of the events that were photographed during the first flight [Music] thank you for visiting the wright brothers national memorial event see you next time on weekly adventures thank you so we looked at the we looked at the rubric we looked at what they scored in each of the sections but we also looked at what their comments were what did the people that served on this committee what were their comments and so we had a bcsc parent that said this curriculum clearly shows how the materials align with the indiana standards a fourth grade teacher said this is my favorite i want to use it now and then a fifth and sixth grade teacher they said there is a great mix of videos pictures timelines questions read aloud options and editable questions now i'm going to turn it over to brittany for her section all right so thank you genie as genie had said there's a lot of technical pieces that go along with this option as well and this is one of the better online interfaces that i've seen and not all of them are created equal and this one is fantastic because it's compatible with our existing technologies whether our students are using ipads in kindergarten or chromebooks in the upper grade levels it's also compatible with our district supported assistive technologies as well so some of our students who need to have those options this is flexible and compatible with those and something that really stood out from this particular resource and this option is that there are several assistive technology pieces built into this platform on its own which is really great because it doesn't mean that students have to pull up four or five other applications to be able to read with their ears and have pieces interpreted or have closed captions if that's something that they need there's the ability to have any passage on this platform let aloud the students can adjust the speed and the voice it highlights the words they click on the words and there's a picture dictionary that can even pop up and show them that's what this word means and all of the videos have closed captions that are accurate and are in multiple languages including english and spanish thank you so we had some opportunities with studies weekly so there was there was an optional pilot for the fourth nine weeks so i asked some teachers that i knew would you be willing to try this in your classroom the fourth nine weeks the online component and the print text studies weekly said that they would give us the print materials at no cost for those classrooms that would like to try these newspapers to see how the students reacted to them and what they felt about them they also said that we could use their online platform so that the teachers and the students would have some chance to practice so we were excited about that that we had this option to bring in the print version and the online in the fourth quarter and we have every uh building and every grade level that will that is represented in that so it is our recommendation and our request that bcsc school board would approve studies weekly as our social studies resource in bcsc k-6 classrooms thank you for this consideration what questions do you have for me about studies weekly all right colleen's questions um we deal with this maybe every other year every five years sick everything four social studies so i'm not up to speed on all the steps in the process but do you get a chance to meet with representatives from studies weekly or what you normally have had it not been a coconut can you tell me a little bit about the meetings and the face to face so what we have done this year because of covid they have been zoom meetings so i had zoom meetings with other providers first to narrow our search and they were one of the people i had a zoo meeting with so i had a meeting with them and i asked them some clarifying questions about their program and what would be included and we started very initially starting about talking about cost and having them walk me through the process so i did that with probably three or four vendors met with them on zoom and then we had uh i've had a lot of interactions with them zoom meetings phone calls emails asking them some clarifying questions in a typical year because i've been around the district for so long this you know 23 years and i've been a lot of textbook evaluations on the other end as a teacher normally in a regular year we we have had it on our big adoptions where when you narrow it down you have a presentation and they come but with covid we did all zoo meetings with them um and they they discussed the program with us studies weekly so how many states are they making this available do you have a sense um i think that i'm not sure how many states that they do individually so what they do is um they for fourth grade in most grades that's your indeed your state history so they have a lot of states that they have um built that for so for us we have k one and two will be their national newspaper that people get third and fourth grade is indiana specific because indiana standards are your community and so they included indiana as our community so there's indiana information in third grade fourth grade is the all the standards are around indiana history so they make it specific and then fifth and sixth grade are their national news newspaper so i'm not a hundred percent sure on if they have all 50 states that they make those specific state pages for we both got fourth grade papers here at this end of the table they look fantastic and i don't know how he said something like this is generated i mean i'm looking at week 25 you're looking at week 13.
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welcome to our monday march 7th meeting if you'll please join us in the pledge of the united allegiance all right we'll move right into our agenda approval deletions editions dr veraco thank you seek board approval for the agenda you were provided last week we have a motion by miss kelly second second by dr medlin any discussion hearing none all in favor aye aye motion passes is there any correspondence mrs kelly thank you so um we'll move on to our liaison committee updates and i believe dr malcolm is the only one who has an update tonight okay thank you for the opportunity um it's relating to the lake central education foundation what they wanted me to share with you is that right now the committee is meeting to determine the grant award recipients this is grant round number 56 this is a larger amount than usual it's 750.
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