So that deserves a round of applause. Um again, I'm just really proud of this team. I'm so glad that the board chooses to recognize them because it's so much hard work. It's more than just a regional competition and a state competition. It's from the start of January until May. And it's been really amazing to see how far they've come and what they've been able to accomplish. And I think each and every one of them had APR that day. Um, so again, really great job and I'm super proud of you guys and it's been an honor. >> My name's Victoria. Isabelle Telson, Stephanie Chandler, Julia Martinez. >> And then not with us tonight was Eliza Ketta, Mina, Lara, and >> Kayla Castillo. >> Yes. >> And will we all get to see you next year? >> Yep. Okay. that one. I was She's looking at >> we can fail you.
But this is just to make it one cohesive document. So, so are we are you suggesting kind of like that type of kind of cohesiveness as a process or are you thinking big picture comprehensive plan related like a wider detailed >> process? That would have to be more planning. >> No, no, of course. This is what I'm trying to >> I'm thinking of, you know, something I've been talking about for several years now is that in looking at these bylaws for all these years that >> they're messy and they're things that >> they just need to be cleaned up. But the d the job see feels now to me feels enormous >> insurmountable. >> And so it seems like with having some outside expertise and perhaps a working committee of interested people not not necessarily planning board but maybe there's people from the community. You know having a like a working group working with a consultant.
Like the grades aren't in yet. We English P. >> Sorry. But thank you for coming. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> All right. Thank you for all you do. >> CONGRATULATIONS. >> Uh I'm going to ask uh Mr. Olsen to Sorry. I'm gonna ask Mr. Olsen to hover around a little bit. We have one more kind of unique recognition for Stag High School. Um, SAG High School was recognized by Learning by Design, which is a uh national publication for architecture in schools and and and uh uh SAG um based on the project that of course this board is fully aware of um that was completed about um about a year ago. Um >> um that uh expanded um classroom space um um a lot office space and and and hallways as well. um we know on the on the floor level how impactful that's been, but it's also equally um impressive and and and we're very thankful to have a uh national recognition for that project.
Um, it seems like it would be a great thing to try to tackle now that we do have a comprehensive plan. You know, it seems like the next thing to me. So the comprehensive plan process for me is a much more vigorous planning board-led process >> that requires us as a planning board working with the select board to appoint the implementation committee >> and then start that really close work with them to properly essentially work in partnership with the select board and implementation committee to bring those items forward over the next couple years. So, I would not feel comfortable, certainly not today, committing to some sort of consultant to help us. I think that's really our job, not a consultant's job. But if what you're suggesting, Trish, is more of like a coherent uh sort of like let's clean up the language and make what we have a little bit cleaner, that's totally different.
So, uh Mr. Olsen and uh our our crew from GC Studios, Studio GC, sorry, I always >> I know Anita, it's like I've been I've been mismanaging codes all week. CVS is not C. Yeah, we're good. Um but uh Mr. Olsson, please u share some thoughts and and invite your your friends, especially the the former stag grads. >> If we can get Nikki Bridges and Brian to come forward here. >> Dave, please join him. You wereave >> I think part of that >> you know Dave, Mr. Dave, um first of all, I just want to say um uh first thank you to the board um for funding this project. as you know, it was so so needed in our building and it made such an impact. Thank you to Dr. Nolting um for listening, for coming in and and really kind of getting boots in the ground to kind of see what we were experiencing, right?
I'm all for it. I wonder if we should use our new design review group to create the design review committee and maybe see if we can put some of that on our new design review group. Like in theory, we have a new design review bylaw where we can appoint people for an ad hoc project. >> Um to me that's a really good sort of way to to clean up the language if that's what you're talking about. And I think these are really separate things like so that's what I'm going to say. So which one are talking about? I am talking about >> like like she said no substantive changes in our bylaws. Not looking to change bylaws. >> Okay. >> Looking at them saying >> making sure our definitions are the same. >> The same definition is in two different places or these are misnumbered or you know the math doesn't work right.
And and certainly um support and investigate what kind of options that that we had and certainly with the support of Dave. But the really really cool thing um with Studio GC is we had two architects who are stat graduates. Um, so both Nikki and Brian graduated from Stack High School. So, it really makes it really special for our for our community, right? You know, they were super successful students, right? But to see them come back, right, and then really pour their creativity into the building, like certainly we felt the love in that, right? And I guarantee we wouldn't have the same product if it wasn't for the fact that we had two chargers just really kind of leading the way on it. So, um, so certainly thank you to to all of you, but thank you to you guys, um, for taking care of your home and helping us with the addition.
>> So here can I make a small scary suggestion? >> Sure. >> Chat GPT would do that in about an hour. >> Yeah. Absolutely. say no. >> No, no, [laughter] let me just be clear what I mean by that. Let let me be clear what I mean by that. >> There's a lot of reasons why you shouldn't and I don't I it's not the form. >> Just to be clear on that. Um there's ways to do that ethically and correctly where if you are literally looking at numbering or inconsistencies. Uh you're not going to blindly trust it. You're going to need human beings to double check all of the work and read it from start to finish. But in this day and age, that's not a crazy thing to think about. Um, so unless the town of Ashlin has forbid the use of that, >> I'm just afraid, well, >> there's resources to make that happen that don't seem overwhelming to me if we're really just talking about like a couple words, consistency, missing definitions, even >> that's really not achievable in chat GPT.
Um, so I don't know if you guys want to say anything. >> Nick, are you you're not you're not afraid to speak. So, I I'll call on you, Miss Bridges, for just a brief statement of behav. We've had a great partnership with your with your architect firm for as as far as I could recall. Um so um this was a I think a a great um integration of what we needed based on what you guys were able to create for us. So thank you for that. But also I just want to give you an opportunity to to share with the board the the the purpose for for why this recognition was so special. >> Yes. Well, thank you. I mean, we're here on a night of celebration, which is the greatest thing to be here, but we're just so happy to be able to celebrate with you and present you with an award instead of the students or in addition to the students.
So, I don't know if you how much you use it, but what we have access to is a free version. And we're not going to pay for any AI at this point in time. And the free version only allows you about an hour of work a day. So we really this is not something we would be able to achieve on a free chat GPT in any way, shape or form. >> I think it's also about a discussion about what do you think the bylaws meant here versus here, >> right? >> You know, and so but but anyway, I think these are different discussions. This is something I'm personally interested in because as I've gone through the bylaws so many times, like there's just things that are like this is a mess, but okay, we'll >> right deal with it. >> It'll wait, right? So there's that taskoriented finicky, you know, attention to detail kind of thing.
So, um this award is um for uh outstanding design. It is presented by um learning design, learning by design magazine and the project is featured in the magazine um which we have copies for you today um to share with you and um it is the 2026 um educational facilities design outstanding project award and um for the CI expansion project it's awarded to projects for the innovation and design and um for expanding um collaboration and communication and community within the school and built environment. So, we're just um so honored to have been able to work with the school district. We want to present this award to you and share this award with you and it was just such a pleasure to work with the administration and staff. Um such a great great opportunity for us people who are so dedicated to their students here at District 230.
>> Yeah, >> that's one thing. And then I think comprehensive plan is >> big ideas. What do we what do we other >> totally So these to me are totally probably even completely different people that are >> like I'm more I'm more interested in this finicky thing and you're probably more interested. >> No, no, no, no. I I I'm glad we defined what we're talking about. what we're defining [clears throat] is the finicky thing. So on the finicky thing, what I would suggest is is it seems like Trisha, I think you have a lot of expertise over the de you've been doing this for a long time in different ways. I would support Trisha's efforts to to take a stab at it between the lines. I absolutely agree that it's an overwhelming task. My Chad GPT or Claw like I can tell you Claude 20 bucks a month would do this in 20 minutes.
Great job. >> Sure. >> I don't have much to add, but um yeah, it's just a pleasure to work for a board of education like you guys um approving a project like this um both being stag grads um and just kind of giving back to the district that I think kind of shaped us who we are as well. Um and I want to thank uh Eric and his team and then Dave uh Keading and John Connelly and and and everybody else. I know I'm missing some names, but um it's just a truly an honor. Um and uh yeah, just happy to be here to present this award to you guys. They have a picture of Stag on there. >> So, we'll leave everything. >> And I I also want to thank the board members that preceded all of us. Um there are several of us who were not um on the board at the start.
Um, but regardless, I think, you know, if we want to kind of not you, whether we use it or not, like I I'm almost willing to play with my free version, I call it free because 20 bucks a month is not much, and do that with Trisha. Um, because I would think between my brain and hers, we could do that um, pretty quickly. But if the two of us cannot handle it, why not appoint the design review committee ad hoc group and find some people? >> Design review committee is actually committee for this at all. Yeah, that's that's okay. Yeah, that's not the function of the design review committee. That's they're not for ad hoc tasks. They're for building review. >> That's fine. Yeah. >> So then it stays within our confines. >> But you do have the ability to make another ad hoc. >> We can we can make another ad hoc committee in a heartbeat.
I came on when it was in the middle of construction, but we've seen the benefits um every time we go into the school and see what it has done for the climate, the safety, the appearance. I was saying that at the conference last fall, the triple eye conference, Sue and I stopped at your table and there we were um front and center. So, it's definitely a showplace and we're very proud of everybody's efforts to bring us to where we are today. So, thank you. >> Yeah. And and I just I just want to say being there when you just brought the initial pictures to building and finance, Nikki, and we sat there and looked at it and said, "Oh, that would be kind of cool. That would be great." And then we said, "How much is it going to be?" And then we figured that out.
[clears throat] We can hire an intern. We can do all kinds of we can get an English major to come in and do claude and then change it. Um there's a variety of ways to do it. I I think I think for me now that we've defined what it is, I don't think it's an impossible task with the right resource. So >> it might not be what what but what I'm afraid of is and what maybe I just don't understand. Um and because this has been all my experiences with AI um and granted they've been in my own realm of architecture. It's like okay here's the AI and now I still have to go through it with a fine tooth comb and and put it all back in order. So, it's like if I have to do that anyway, I'd rather be talking about to some like a person who maybe uses those tools.
But it the thing that was most amazing about this project and and Dave, I know you'll agree is that every month as we monitored this from the very beginning until that final piece was put in place, it just seemed like it almost was going too smooth. Every month we're like, "Okay, something's going to happen." And it never did. It was such a seamless project and it just rolled from beginning to end. We know it came in sooner than we thought. It came in under budget, which was great. Um, and it's beautiful. Um, and it served all the purposes uh that Stag needed. So, I mean, to get an award, I think kind of justifies how that whole project worked. And I think you guys and Dave and everybody who is involved in this and Eric obviously you spent a lot of time in this. You guys should also be congratulated because you put a lot of time, a lot of effort, a lot of work and and the proof is what just happened.
>> Maybe uses those tools. >> Um, but but has the professional expertise of of putting those things together. Otherwise, I don't need the AI. I have to go through it anyway because if AI does it, I still have to go through it anyway to check the AI. Yeah. And so the way the query would work is you for example would take two definitions that I'm sure you could you through through your experience you might have examples already. Like you would take two definitions that seem inconsistent and you would query as in like here's an example of two inconsistent definitions. Here's an example of a section where things are misnumbered. These are the kinds of things you're asking the model to identify other items like that in the zoning. >> Yeah. It's not it's not that >> it's not that straightforward of okay, you know. So um >> I mean it usually takes I've done this in two other communities and hire and we've hired a consultant both times and one time was Mark Babowski who did them in Wearham and it's usually a few month process.
So thank you guys so much for what you did and it it is greatly appreciated. So thank you. I just wanted to add also that the collaboration on the onset of finding out the ideas, what our problems were, what we needed, um the listening from um you was wonderful because you took all that back and you figured out solutions to problems that we didn't even know could be solved. And I think because of that is why it went so smoothly and so quickly. I as a board member was like, "Oh my gosh, we just saw drawings and we've already approved the budget." Like this is going way faster than I had ever expected it to, but it was the good communication, the sharing, and the collaboration. Um, and then finding us top talent to put those build, you know, put that addition on. Um, the communication with Dave and, um, John and and Eric.
It's really not as quick and simple as it sounds. I know it sounds simple but there's really a lot to it and there there's there's people that dedicate this is all they do for a job is recodifying zoning because it's >> so I guess where I'm going with this is if we're going to spend money on this I am not a fan of that. If we're going to get a grant to do that, I would be very curious kind of what the value ad is. If we're going to be reszoning anyway for the comprehensive plan, if we are talking more about like obvious cleanup of things that over the years we've noticed, I'm confused why we can't do that ourselves. So, in general, I'm not quite clear what we're okay where we're going with it. I think >> because spending money on grammar and corrections, I would So much more in depth than that.