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DS goals programs and schools so this is one of my favorites for so many reasons it has so much potential so under this objective we have all of our like Facebook Instagram Twitter YouTube peach jar so a lot of these resources are free resources which again I know makes more copies if it saves this money but these are all platforms that we can utilize to tell our story and it's up to us to decide what that story is that we want to tell so we have test scores where we're exceeding this eight eight standards we have a teacher who we just found out about a book we have kids participating in robotics festivals where they're winning awards for what they're doing and all of these things are are things that we want to shout from the rooftops and our rooftop it's basically like Instagram and YouTube and page targets we'll get into a little bit later but again the bottom of the limit was the median we have the resources in place to create video we have the in place to create graphics to create memes if that's what we need agree all of these things that are our public likes to interact with so if you're a parent if you're a student you're used to binding information nowadays through social media channels so the way that we're leveraging our use of these channels is super important for our presence in the community it's super important to like help build up the image one of the things that I didn't say in the beginning regarding image is that I have a super-secret objective that's not within these five and it's not going to be super serious and I got to say it out but and this is being recorded but one of my overarching goals that kind of encompasses these five goals is I would really like to change the perception of a USC within this local community so I think that we've taken a meeting in some areas and I think a lot of school districts have there's a lot of school districts that are really struggled in our area for for various reasons and I think if people had the insider perspective that we all have they would really know and understand the reasons why they can be proud of us as a district they would know and understand all of the strides that we've made and all the things that we've accomplished if we are small but mighty we may not have as many resources as other school districts but we're doing a lot with what would you having they're accomplishing great things we have great educators and we have great students we have students who are overcoming challenges every single day and we just saw that nr and our test scores so my my overarching goal in doing all of these in and executing this plan is to see the public perception of a USC change to beginners and lots of secret Bowl but now it's out in the open today so back to utilizing a variety of media one of the realities of in this kind of goes in hand in hand with the next goal which is maintain a positive media relations presence to enhance the district's image one of the realities of today is that people do get news from sources like Facebook and Instagram and Twitter and YouTube especially in our area the San Gabriel Valley our Vince media resources in terms of these papers are very limited there are no longer education reporters that are assigned to a certain area and I mean use paper as a printed but how many people actually you know will get them and look through for the education section I've been getting newspaper every day I'm looking at the educate education section and it is it's small and honestly all the things that are in there it's you know something that's controversial so nobody's looking to promote these positive stories and use a muffin a pill bottle that we ever gonna have to fight but one of the things that we can do to leverage the decline of friend media in this area is to really bolster our presence on Instagram Facebook YouTube Twitter any other platform that we decide that we want to use so again this has been it's gonna be a little bit of a slope as I said before one of my core values is a communicator is consistent consistency so I've been here for about four weeks now and I'm working on getting all the things in place that we need in place to be able to launch a consistent video media presence within our social media channels and then again all of that will be integrated with our website president so anywhere you go whether it need to act the website or any of our social media channels you will be able to see our video media presence again already touched a little bit on next objective the fourth objective which is making topography their relations presence one can't enhance the district's image so even though these opportunities to take advantage of print media are few and far between that doesn't mean that I'm not going to send out news releases that I'm not going to you know keep in touch with reporters that I know part of my plan is to create an e-newsletter that goes out with updates to anyone actually who wants to on my target would be that we can send these updates to our local news media and if they see something in there that they would like to report on making that reach back out to me and I can provide them with more information but also for our community members who may be interested in knowing you know what's going on at the district things other than what is posted on our Facebook Instagram Twitter and all of that so I'm not giving up on on my media it's still there but it's just not as as much of a player and in our world anymore due to the the rise the use of social media and then last but not least our fifth objective is achieving a coordinated communication both internally and externally regarding safety and crisis management so this point is kind of a baby of mine because I have five years experience in law enforcement so part of my experience as a 911 dispatcher was to oversee emergency communications I worked in university studying at one point and part of my responsibility there was to make sure that we had a consistent and an executable emergency communications plan so that all of our faculty all of our staff whether or not they were sitting at a computer at the time whenever because he happened be aware when and they would know what their responsibility was in the event of an emergency so my goal is to build on what is already in place here and continue to use the communication systems that we have in place here to make sure that all of our employees are equipped with the knowledge and they know what their role is in the event of emergency that we have the ability to communicate with them in the event of an emergency so we have you know grounds people who are not sitting on a desk we have bus drivers who are not in office so if something happens at a school how how are these people to know that something is is going on the great news is we already have a communications platform that we can begin to utilize to send out notifications like this and they're already several of the pieces are and play when it comes to emergency communication is to make sure that we are doing right by our students and that we're doing right by our staff if something were to happen so again these artists there's a five overarching objectives there is a larger document that covers kind of good the more intricate ins and outs of each of these objectives as I said previously as a good communication plan is something that is continuously evaluated and updated according to the goals and priorities of the organization so I'm committed to consistently reevaluating this and adding to it or taking away and doing what we need to do to make I would love to go to the console meetings at the city hall periodically can give updates on I didn't so just one question for you and I just want to say appreciate you include listening learning because I feel like a lot of times communication is more that right listening to what you're saying and being responded to that so I I'm just if you could elaborate a little more on how you intend to ensure that we're getting they were that we're hearing you know feedback from whether it's the school site at what end you know at all the different levels and and how and how exactly have the work that we do in sort of the communication that we continue to send out what would be the easiest way for school sites for anybody really to communicate with me so do we need to create a forum for it is it just send me an email when this happens and we need to create some guidelines surrounding what what does Lika need to know or what does the board need to know so that I mean I think part of the question in people's minds right now is they don't want to inundate me or you guys for the information so it kind of like filter and through oh yes we should tell them this or know what maybe they wanna know about that I from my perspective everything matters so I would rather have more information than not enough information so any way that I can facilitate that information getting from out there to me I am willing to do so we've talked about two main things the the primary of being a web-based forum that everybody would have access to and that somebody can go through and fill out and that would come directly to me and then I can create a report to send to Kevin to central and it's sent to the border to whoever needs to get to to make sure that we're addressing those concerns so within the plant also in the more detailed plan I have come up with a system for making sure that we are following through on addressing these concerns when they need to be addressed and so again that is something that I'm thinking through insurance and okay once we have you know these issues can be due on these forms and once I'm sending them on what its gonna be in my process to follow up to make sure that okay yes we did call mr.
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now okay go back to address this concern on school lunch line or whatever it may be and then that can be something that we keep record of is what you know you know do we have these the same schools reoccurring and we have the same families coming up again and you know how can we make sure that we are staying on top of these things about people know that their voices are being heard that's great and then the other person after you is going the other way right so one of it one of the issues that we have right now is often a decision will be made or this thing will change back to look like approaches will change right and I would say there's uneven communication and understanding about why things are changing more the process and determining how thing that you think is so very often not decisions are made very collaboratively collectively and I'll point out that services where a lot of decisions don't make to through these different groups that you have that you do just make decisions right but but then often I'll hear you know sometimes there's not understanding why things have changed or there are that process and I won't say it's inconsistent rights and so it doesn't happen everywhere so how are we going to ensure that that people are aware of if there are changes aware of it aware of why those changes are and aware of the process that people that that we went through to make sure that that stakeholders in the board engage and it was them you know those changes were good off to a collaborative process I think that's probably something maybe I want to talk to you a little bit okay about to get some of the examples to figure out like what type of information it is or what what type of decision it is I think that would depend on how we communicate it out and who we communicated to by I definitely understand I'm trying to be everywhere but you know I like the basic calendar because I notice the peach term that everyone puts the fire on there you know why they were edifying what's good about the day but the website has a different time or it says various times what does that mean you know um and school site their page that's something different then any was the app same thing so in the old days it was a calendar you know each school pretty much like what they have here you recom and we had different place trying to figure out a map um they're the wrong time or what is very is talking to me to me so is it like one of these I'm not sure what like I said what's website with a was not every school utilizes it the same thing with the stream I'm looking at the screen activity stream line and the is app tonight I did my research okay yeah the app that has the stream is everything so if you're signed up for multiple spools within all and you will see everything from every school that's posted ever whether it be peach to our Facebook memo that goes out like every everything everything it posted an activity stream for every single school that you're signed up each but as far as the calendar if we need to work with our school sites to make sure that they have the tools to update their calendar and I'm happy to provide them training to make sure that they are doing that I could be wrong but I do think about is an expectation is that everybody is using the calendar so it is not a lot possible goes up and that's the word I'm gonna go so wrong I'll come to pick that up and I see where I'm gonna go you know but not everyone has it make sure that they know how to update it and that they have the tools to do it and that they are we gonna and on the app also on the under scoops not everyone has like what they say if the stare heights through their website it's not in here so yeah we're just go to tip you know but I wanted to go there what a person is oosan' high school they have it not so they have a section in the app no Mike it's his website yeah you know okay I just wanted to congratulate and it's an awesome plan yeah but my only concern is how how have you identified your cheerleader that's ready to say that you have I have that network of individuals going back important to receiving information from each side in the school site have you looked into that as to who that point person is that your model is how you're gonna be able to get that communication going yeah it's part of my note or tuned to the school of my my field trip around the schools identify who that person at that site it's advanced generally the person I'm also updating the Talz Facebook site and their and their webpage I'm surveying that whoever that person or persons are are my main source of information from the school sites so right now there is generally one or two people at each school site that have volunteered for the opportunity to be that updater and to be that connection information and they are my go-to person if I have questions about something that I'm I'm getting or not so you're also combining that training necessary we have to partner up to date yes yeah again that word your sugar yeah that's the work in progress so I've been a four or five school sites already and we have more scheduled for the coming weeks to make sure that everybody understands how to use all of these platforms and they know how to have a successful website in solution to you the other time measures to after your lunch is the next checkpoint is when it's working well Germany since you say you've been envisioned all of this ahead of time what's your timeline essentially that's assume that you launched it tomorrow and then we'll go visit and say it's working well in there month joins time I for like although these pieces working together is that by the end of this month all of our school site social media updaters and website updaters would have the tools that they need to continue to actively update so right now they're they're adhering to a schedule where they're required to post over there they get the opportunity to post a certain number of times many of them are already exceeding that and then the part two portion of them who aren't it's matter of them meaning the training some people just aren't as familiar with a lot of these apps that were even in a lot of the platforms but I'm working with both our vendors on school and feature our to help provide those training and I'm combining some of it myself as well well thank you for the emissions plan what come on board yeah I'm glad that the district discovered you so far you did a great job in in four weeks I wish you luck you know on your journey it's really good a fish think that I was disappointed where's the noblest release as a commissioner on the board for the significance economy and efficiency so hopefully I can help you with the schools they are in the undercurrent area which is Center and uh be down and look like when we that connection quit work school warden okay so your parents we weren't even texting we wouldn't even texting I mean parents wanted to be notified via text and so that's that's where we work and I think over the last five years it's almost felt like and I mean those of us here almost felt like we've been just kind of going like this you know waiting for that breath of fresh air where everything that you just stand right now is everything that we wanted to hear and so we have to be realistic to is worth a written saying there are so many different layers right to this a lot there's a lot I mean and so the expectation we have to be realistic to this is gonna take time it's a culture shift that's gonna have to take place and so um that's one thing that we have to be mindful I mean even with just you know training on a simple app it's it takes some time to get used to to those things so so thank you for this this is this is great I don't I'm coming to the end of my chair right now I'm just super happy that that that we found him and I know that you're gonna take this this mystery to another level so thank you very much for tonight and for this for this presentation it was you [Laughter] okay so we're gonna stay up here we're on 10.3 and we're on P star e fires update so okay so I don't know that peach jars had a little bit of history with the district before I got here so I've been trying to kind of wait my way through that I have a little bit of a unique perspective with peach tart because I was one the community partner of a OSC's who was hoping and praying that we would have a platform where we can send out fires because in my prior position one of the things that I hated the most was wider distribution time when I had to sit there and like hang out and transmit all the stuff but it was expensive to do all of this and now it's an interesting thing on the eponym side to kind of see the implementation portion of it and how it has or maybe has not worked out so one of the first things that dr.
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Kaminsky said to me when I came in with that we need to take a look at PTR and I know that with that the request of the board's I'm hoping that I can answer some questions for us all of maybe clear up some misconceptions about P star and then decide whether or not this is something that we do want to move forward with and we keep I will say upfront that my recommendation is that we would keep a star on there are a number of different reasons but I'm really reasoning and one of the things that came out of discussion with principals is the reality that we are never going to find one communication platform that will meet everybody's needs so especially with the way society is changing with the way media achieve me again you're gonna have some parents that you get by using Facebook you're gonna have some that you get using Instagram and you're gonna have some that you get using feature so I don't think that there is ever going to be a one-size-fits-all approach to communication platforms not just for us but for any district but I think that the more tools that we have in order to communicate but though the more the more tools that we have in picture being one of these tools the the wider our reach will be I guess you could say so one of the first things that we did was we kind of came up with a couple of questions and again these were questions that we're I guess you know passed on to me questions that you guys have come up with the board questions that others had asked it speech are an effective way for a USC staff to communicate with parents good parents to know what peach tart is and I access it and its feature of barrier for our community partners who may want to advertise activity and resources to aost families so we started out by talking to our principals and ma meeting and we started off with the conversation simple question and we asked is a strong effective way for the transmission of a parent so in person we have this conversation they've accepted amongst themselves and they reported back to our group they were sent a link to a feedback form after when they were able to kind of also enter their thoughts on peace truck so they could even vote yes you might be sure nobody don't what a speech jaar but then also there is an opportunity for them to just because I needed feedback that they may have had from their site as well about the use of our platform for communicating with parents so our person wreckin question this is from the principal or this was opposed to principles which are being an effective way to share information with parents we have 66% 66.7% that said yes it is 25% that said no and then a 20% that said what is pitch dark I realized that that that person the didn't know what everyone knew that we had a Flyers but didn't connect that each wires and pitched are are the same thing so I think actually that's a common misconception that parents may realize and teacher and staff may realize yes we are sending up B players and that one is called Jennifer's they don't necessarily equate the two as the same thing we move on to the next breath the next question that we asked was would you like to receive more training on how to use pitch dark we have 66.7% Pat said yes they would and then 3.30% that said no they wouldn't so I think that 33.3 0% that says no is the portion that you see that's octave on pitch jar right now so they're the ones that are continuously updating flyers and that are using the resource about speech that means that there is a large portal and our deluxe version of our principals and teachers the sites who are in need of more training on on how to use PCR so one of the things that I found in conversation that has prevented people from using it is the lack of knowledge on how to usin so I think this may have been just part of an implementation issue in the beginning any time maybe rolling out of new communications platform you need somebody with an expert on that platform who can then you know go out and train people on on how to use it and that may have been a piece that was missing before I was prepare at that point so I'm not quite sure what the situation was but and again anytime you're introducing a new platform like this there is a time investment on the part of the person who is spearheading the implementation to learn all of the ins and outs so the part of that training for me has been i sat there a couple of different webinars with peach dart and I went through all of their online resources that they have to filter through what what I need to know myself but then also what do our principals and our site administrators who are using peach tardies they have been using this platform so one of the things that we have already done and I think I'm jumping ahead here because I think this at the end but we'll go with it is the resources that I was given from each jar so the online webinars and these are a series of two to three minute videos so they're not super time-consuming they're all accompanied by a step-by-step picture guide on how to upload and how to create an account on how to access your account you got walked out on all the extra bonus resources that peach jar has like we have a bunch of fire templates that you have fundraiser ideas they have all of these things that are included with this picture license that we have that most people didn't know about those have already been sent out to all of the school site administrators who are the ones who are using peach jar and then I'm also doing visits to the schools to follow up to make sure that everybody knows how to assist them so what we're doing is I'm going schools were sitting on and we're uploading wired and they are doing and handing over the controls to them and just talking them through how to do it so that they've seen it they've done it they've experienced it and they know how easy it is to use one of the questions that is not on here was the last question that we asked principals was would you like to go back to home for fire distribution and 100% of them said no and a lot of them gave a reason why so one of the primary reasons why is that is to read paper fires for a school site is expensive all of the printing on paper all of the ink and then all of the time that it takes to package those out by class and then to distribute them to class it's too time-consuming it was too expensive were to talk to Bobby's living back we move on to the next component the next step that we took was sent out from surveys Japan and we asked them two simple pleasures I mean you can use pitch-dark to receive flyers from your child's school 59% offences yes 14 know and then 27% said what is PR so then I think part of this what is P started disconnect could be that experience to know that air is feeding a fire they don't know that it's from peach jar expect that might admit that we might could have clarified it from the beginning but through discussions I'm realizing that this is a common disconnect between people even within own district was in our district so if it's a disconnect the people within our district and surely it's a disconnect for our parents so we're trying to reach [Music] through blackboard just like agenda omegas 2015 so parents you have the so I partnered with Marvin and my ass and he helped create the two questions are they with her parents just using the dial to enroll to the second question that we asked parents is you prefer reason you prefer receiving paper files from their child's school or email fliers and I mean it's a pretty close split here with 59 percent saying email and 41 percent saying paper so again this is I mean we're not going to have one communication platform at the one it's also I look this and I do see a pretty even split but I also have in the back of my mind that no matter what it is that we're using we're slow to me missing some of our of our people that we do want to reach one of the pieces of feedback that I also received from sites is that when they send paper and wires home they don't necessarily know how many of us get the Flyers actually make it home because they see them you know on the playground after school they're picking them up from their walkways as kids are walking out one of the things that pitch-dark affords us that's integrated into the platform is we have the ability to then go back and see okay well how many people actually clicked on this how many people actually open this and after talking to our teacher our representative we found that our open rate across the board is about 33 percent which sounds small but it's actually the pitch-dark average so we are on par with the PHR average for opens of our flyers you know I think you should be able to picture today so what happened to the organizations in our community the 501 C 3 organizations like the baseball and cheerleading and the voting days and you know since we wanted we can you be friendly right cuz I were there asking and I think last year we had a situation with the I want to say I think one of the one of the misconceptions on our part as well as on the part of our community partners was that pitch turned icing that you could not also hand out paper flyers and that's not true so it's within our feature our contract each dart has to be the platform through which the fire isn't prude but then after it's approved you can also send out paper Flyers if you as an organization which to do so so I think we actually had our golden day golden days fibers that were through any star and then students got paper copies of those as well so that's one of the misconceptions that I've been working to clear up regarding the city person Bracken in the library I sat down with the city manager with the director of library and I teach divisions with Parks and Rec and what the head librarian to talk about the issues that they have had in the past and again that was one of the misconceptions was that they didn't know that they could also send out a [Music] great platform and one of the yeah that's a great idea why don't one of the differences for nonprofit organizations is that they do have to apply for a separate sort of user okay the repeats are that will allow them to post fliers with no cost so they try to go through the regular our platform there Bennett there's for it but again that's one of the things I think you can clarify on the website and I've already been working with community partners face to face let me know that they do have the ability to go directly through our chief dark person who's been great actually with helping walk some of them through how to set up the 501 C 3 account so they can't those fires but then it doesn't for the clarification a person like for example organizations want to send out hardcover clients because they have seen response arm or attendants essential or events and whatnot so I don't even relates to the beach I said out loud but it's the continuing and being able to provide those waters essentially on school sites independently not not the mystical so they're already getting those pliers just to be dispersed in my school science at night so I mean I just want you that that clarification is them it's just like that it's not that they're asking the school to put in it but was tributed okay have it already ready to be disappear yeah I mean again with the approval would look a picture yeah they're welcome to it talking about fire so I think one thing that we can do better as well or another thing that we can do better in regards to C star is let parents know that peaches are buyers are actually available to the AOS D so some people may be afraid of like oh you're gonna send me too many emails and clog up my inbox you don't necessarily have to access suppliers through your email address you can access them through the app and if you have kids at multiple schools the great part about using an app is that you can get all the keeps our fliers all in one place within so that's something again we're working on creating a social media piece and then hopefully in video just about certain generals that we can post and we can send out so I would update people about these types of we talked to some of these already but provide training resources and support for USC staff we utilize Petrarch's web again is in progress it's part of my road tour to schools we really hit several of them and will continue to do so and if some schools need a second go at it or if they're doing it I'm happy to be there and to do that with them utilize the community liaison tech schools you know like social media and regular meetings it's just the coffee with the principal meetings to inform parents about speech jaar and to especially inform parents about access to it via the app I think there are even parents in our community who may not necessarily know that we have an app so introducing that as well I know that there was new tools that were created that are in the communication poncets that we can distribute to school sites of the parents that I know we've already done a blast on on social media and making sure about it as well and then engaged in a district-wide campaign and sure parents have an updated email address on record at their child's school so this is important again not just for pre start but for any sort of communication that the district needs to send out via email and then engaging the community partners to experience the book will see with peach tower had questions about its use and so that is done I think we can provide some clarifications on our website and that's why we'll continue to work on this based on with our community partners who have had concerns and maybe a bad experience with peach tart I wouldn't want that to deter them from wanting to advertise their opportunities and resources within our district so again I think that our problems with peach jars can be to be resolved mostly I think we what we need to do or what I need to do is just run through the input patient process of thr again with all of our school sites with all of our community partners to make sure that we didn't miss anybody or anything in communicating what it is how to use it and then the many different ways that you can access peach jar so again I think that what may have been missing before was somebody who's willing to kind of take all this on and be that point person and not me I'm your girl and I do recommend that we keep it because again it's just one of a number of tools that we have to our constituents so what are we going to do with this 41% I think I think that portion as well and may also have access to the app and maybe we can help them to realize that they can just scroll through their app better than having you know bunch of paper spaces well maybe add another question whether or not they are connected they have device that are what EU gems get speakers in don't you work with them so you can go back and kick it to their school study and work with their parents my daughter uses pitch-dark educate in the school district that my grandchildren go to she absolutely adores it so I was like what's going on so it's really cool there you know we're working through all the problems when you said they possibly doing a video on how to use the beach for the can I know for myself I'm a preschooler right so I don't know and they don't have an Aries account and I'm not sure that's probably different issue but so there are some some probably some some parents that don't marketing communication because of where their students are but I appreciate this and you have me a believer again in each star for now so as you have seen and our students and faculty have seen their employees have seen it's been a busy summer and there's a lot of new things to celebrate out at the schools in terms of the the modernization that we've been working on so this is just a quick overview some before and after pictures to remind people where we were in where we are now so it's in a middle school there as part of the fencing that was done the as we call them years ago we started cleansing to enhance security and where we could do it that would also enhance the appearance in the school and particularly to make the school a welcoming environment for students and staff and parents we tried to incorporate them into the design what's happening there is they're actually shifting the parking lot a little bit moving building an area for plants in front of the school walkway and to make up for that space that was lost there they extended the a little bit closer to the sidewalk and now you can see a little bit more you can see the plants in front of the fence there with a sign of books about comedy with the principal you can begin to see the area in front of the building where the flagpole is and the building in the back event is their family center and that has a very large patio area there it was at the school just a few days ago they're talking with the faculty and actually I didn't even ask that they can it came through that way just raving about how how much better it was there's an open field that they just how much they likes it the sign of it they actually talked about it they're thinking about it it had to be moved in order to complete the work and so I think we'll have a bit of a competition to figure out where it should go it's a treasure hunt in a school Thurman Bell like that this is Dalton and Dalton aside from the work that was done earlier in Monster with the roofing and the HVAC their work in the we had a little bit of fencing work but mainly a lot of work in the quad area they've gone it's been all repaved and there was quite a bit of as they did the underground utilities there was quite a bit of unevenness that needs to be taken care of and they were also able to extend a portion of blacks the asphalt back around towards the scientists that when they go so there's kind of a before shot of it that was always a challenge I remember actually in one of the construction meetings before as we were starting this project I just said to them do you think we could do something about the parking lot and the answer was well it depends if the underground utilities go through the parking lot and thank you very much everybody the underground utilities went to the parking lot which meant their parking lot cut got upgraded and Murray and let's see there's normal who through that with these school entrance there afterwards and I'm hoping that the shapes that are inside that you see on the bottom portion of there that's the kindergarten area there I'm hoping the little kids are learning their shapes this is the Slauson kitchen this was a kitchen redo that involves getting a new walk-in freezer and a walk-in refrigerator this is a large kitchen many other schools and so they need equipment about great 40 internal workings of the kitchen itself but also for the survey of the students at Sloss and so there was some remodeling - it could be serving a line area and this is the finished almost finished project there where you see the new serving area there that's expanded with a the kids go in one side walk pass pick up their hot food and they come out the other way because you can't see in this picture that there are two other stations where they think I'm pretty and so we'll show you in the future we'll show you some of the pictures likeness not I received a picture today from me that Walker of their new walk-in freezer it is basically a memory looks like a room a room sized freezer with still shelving in it so it's nothing like you know I'm home where you open it up and you dig through things now this is a whole room that is the freezer and there's lots on high school before those were the non-avian compliant steps and now afterwards it's all organized or ramps to get people up in wheelchairs there's their famous letter G that they love and and it doesn't not to be forgotten this enzyme has been getting a facelift - they had a major project this summer to upgrade their storm drain system and that was completed they're able to start on the the complete the fencing that they were putting along the front of the school and hope that nobody finds it that signs hanging out and Susan high school and have actions a picture of all of our schools it's not calendar considered by the board to be routine and will get backed by the board in one motion format following last consent calendar agenda item there will be no discussion of these items prior to the time the board staff or the public request specific items to be discussed the discussion is requested by a board member that item will be removed from the consent calendar and will be considered separately the superintendent and staff recommend approval of all consent calendar agenda items do we have any items that we call tonight motion passes fighter moving on to 13.0 curriculum and instruction this is now opens Yuko the caring for sufficient textbooks do we have anyone here wishing to speak on this item saying uh no like the mushrooms close the public hearing 13.2 approval of sufficient expose resolution to make motion to improve 13.2 I don't need it right now but I'd like to know I know we do an audit like and we'd like madly try to rush to make sure that people have books can we just get an update on unlike how many we're actually missing books that we've exit but in place I just want to start tracking it and I think you know what I mean like I mean I know we make sure that everyone has it by a certain date but I'd love to have us achieve even more I make sure that everyone has it on the base we'll start and I know I mean I know there's all but but just if we can stop tracking that what does the student preferable yes we should pass this 5-0 about 13.3 is you so high schools field trip for Clovis Invitational cross-country tournament 2018 resolution 18 - 1998 what are the wishes of the board a major was little section includes any discussion questions seeing no one is a student potential oh yes motion passes five-0 we know it to 14.0 resources 14-point woman approve the tentative agreement between the Azusa Unified School District and the California School Employees Association this is chapter 299 what are those issues overboard like a motion to approve motion passes five-0 thank you okay now moving on to fourteen point two student teaching agreement between Pepperdine University and look past the spec zero moving out to 15.0 policies and bylaws 15.1 this is the second reading like you're reading approval of work policy related administration of revised work more closely to one four zero evaluation of this superintendent first-rate three Bibles Vogel awesome Akashi any questions motion passes 5-0 15.2 is a sick of reading the approval of board policy regarding personnel AR for one 12.2 to staff teaching English learners AR 4 1 1 2 2 a 2 3 special education staff a tart or one 12.4 of examinations what surpasses 50.3 this is a first reading that word policy regarding students and then it board policy they are an eliminated e51 13.1 chronic absence and truancy amended a r51 13.2 work permits amended word policy and eliminated are five I just I just have a concern about the both the AR and then BB five one one three point one so I don't see any language about any means of mechanism to implement some restorative justice here in absenteeism and how do we go about what is your idea about that as to it does talk about essentially that as a board policy that whatever the cause is so how do we find that that cause requires some some means to address them and the other capacitor gather them you've announced at one time two times three cents families why they're absolutely if there's a health issue we call the nurses in and it's something recently that we discovered that a lot of students were was something as simple as giving a nebulizer at school getting that doctors know it's medication and we have a recovery day where various homes the most recent visible as they just targeted students with many more absences the systems like traditional sweet redundancy sweet it's more just to find out what's going on and looking at data we find that a lot of the students who are absent or the TK's in the case and so that's kind of educating parents you know obviously we don't want children or ill in school but it's also bad you know they do need to be at school we should start processes we have start meetings at every school where students who are like Maria and the man at their meetings that they go out me you know they're not like loading the front with their app how can we help you help your child be in school indexed I think that's really good instead of going in in continue punishing they were in with their parents are thankful for that but that's also about 500 students were missing 10% of the school year those are chronic truants necessarily those are students who are chronically absent and they could have the justifiable excused absent but if they're on a school so essentially the community zones are equipped to handle all of you determined because you're also citing cluster comes to bullying for example that could be a number of inquired other questions okay so it is actually a 928 now that our meeting thank you everyone for coming out tonight
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of the League of Women Voters of the Ann Arbor area I welcome you to tonight's debate featuring members of the high school debate team from Dexter high school the students will be presenting for and against arguments on proposal 2 which encompasses in an independent Redistricting Commission initiative proposal 2 as it states will be on voter ballot in the general election on Tuesday November 6th the League of Women Voters is very pleased to sponsor these debates the league is a nonpartisan civic and political organization that encourages informed and active participation of all citizens in government we also work to increase understanding of major public policy issues and work to strengthen and broaden knowledge about our form of government and democracy the league does not support candidates or parties we do take stands however on issues that we have studied one of the league's important goals is to assist voters in making informed choices at the polls and thus we bring you tonight's program we are broadcasting from the studio's of CTN of Ann Arbor under the direction of the network's production professionals volunteers from the League of Women Voters are managing tonight's debate our moderator this evening is John Chamberlin John will now introduce the participants and explain the debate format and guidelines John thank you Donna we are pleased to have the debate team from Dexter High School participating in tonight's debate organized by the League of Women Voters tonight for students from Dexter will be debating ballot proposal 18 - - which if approved by voters will amend the Michigan Constitution to establish an independent Citizens Committee to draw new district boundaries for Michigan's congressional state Senate and State House districts following every census dextra high school has been involved in competitive debate at both the state and national levels since 1994 at that time the team has won the prestigious most prestigious awards in the debate world including several state championships as well as national recognition it is won the George Segal Miller award for being the best overall debate team in state multiple times and last year it qualified a public forum team to the National Speech and Debate tournament as extra coach English department chair Deb Marsh has been teaching and coaching debate and forensics in the state of Michigan since the 1983-84 school year she has been named debate coach of the year four times she was inducted into the Michigan speech coaches Hall of Fame in 1995 and most recently her colleagues honored her legacy with a name trophy the Marche to be awarded annually for the best public forum debaters in Michigan nine members of the Dexter debate team have participated in the preparations for tonight's debate although only four will be seen on camera the four students who were here from tonight are on my right the team arguing in favor of Proposition 2 Rose Reilly and Zane aready and on my left arguing in opposition to proposal to Ethan Dunn and Hannah Jacobson harm the rules for the debate are as follows each side will have six minutes to present their opening arguments beginning with the four side each side will then have four minutes to respond to the other sides our opening arguments beginning again with the four side I will then direct questions to the teams beginning with the against side and alternating who responds first to a question each team will have 90 seconds to respond to each question and we will spend about eight minutes on Q&A in closing each team will have two minutes for a closing statement beginning with the against team and timekeepers from the League of Women Voters will keep us on schedule by reminding speakers how much time they have left in each segment so let's begin the ballot wording for proposal two is as follows a proposed constitutional amendment to establish a commission of citizens with exclusive authority to adopt district boundaries for the Michigan Senate Michigan House of Representatives and US Congress every 10 years this proposed constitutional amendment would first create a commission of 13 registered voters randomly selected by the Secretary of State for each who self-identify as affiliated with the two major political parties and five who self-identify as unaffiliated with major political parties secondly it will prohibit partisan office holders and candidates their employees certain relatives and lobbyists from serving as commissioners 3 it will establish new districting criteria including geographically compact and contiguous districts of equal population reflecting Michigan's diverse population and communities of interest districts shall not provide distant proportionate advantage to political parties or candidates and finally it will require an appropriation of funds for Commission operations and Commissioner compensation with that we begin to debate with the opening statement of the team that supports passage the proposal - good evening everyone my name is rose Reilly and my partner in saying reading I would like to thank the League of Women Voters and mr.
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[Music] good evening my name is Donna critter and I am a member of the League of Women Voters of the Ann Arbor area I welcome you to tonight's debate featuring members of the high school debate team from Saline high school the students will be presenting for and against arguments on proposal 1 which pertains to the legalization of marijuana and this proposal proposal 1 will be on the voter ballots in the general election on Tuesday November 6 the League of Women Voters is very pleased to be sponsoring these debates the league is a nonpartisan civic and political organization that encourages informed and active participation of all citizens and government works to increase understanding of major public policy issues and seeks to strengthen and broaden knowledge about our form of government and democracy the league does not support candidates or parties but we do take stands on issues that we have studied one of the league's important goals is to assist voters in making informed choices at the polls and thus we bring you tonight's program we are broadcasting from the studio's of CTN of Ann Arbor under the direction of the network's production professionals volunteers from the League of Women Voters are managing tonight's debate our moderator this evening is John Chamberlin John will now introduce the participants and explain the debate format and guidelines John thank you Donna good evening to viewers we are pleased to once again have the debate team from Saline high school participating in these debates organized by the League of Women Voters tonight for students from Saline will be debating ballot proposal 18-1 which if approved by voters would amend the Michigan Constitution to legalize and regulate the possession use distribution production of marijuana by individuals 21 years of age or older the Saline debate team began in 2013 an English teacher shelley venomoth the teachers coach has been with them ever since their public forum debate team has won the state championship for the last three years the varsity team is placed in the state quarterfinals and finals four of the last five years and the team has earned the George ziggo Miller award in 2015 as the top debate team in Michigan Shelley venema has won a number of awards for her debate coaching including two Coach of the Year awards in recent years nine members of the debate team have participated in preparations for tonight's debate although only four of them will be seen on camera during the debate at the conclusion of the debate Shelley will introduce the other members of the team the four students you will hear from tonight are on my right arguing in favor of proposition 1 are not only the I air and Madeleine horny ACK and arguing in opposition at the proposal one on my far left knee Shan Bhattacharya and next to me Michael equal Co the rules or the debater as follows each side will have six minutes to present their opening argument beginning with the four side then each side will have four minutes to respond to the other side's arguments beginning with the four side I will then direct questions to the teams beginning with the against side and alternating who responds first to a question each team will have 90 seconds to respond to a question we will spend about eight minutes on QA in closing each team will have two minutes for a closing statement beginning with the against team timekeepers from the League of Women Voters will keep us on schedule by reminding speakers how much time they have left in each segment with that let's begin let me first read the ballot wording for the proposal proposal 18-1 a proposed initiated law to authorize and legalize possession use in cultivation of marijuana products by individuals or at least 21 years of age older and commercial sales of marijuana through state licensed retailers in my opening statement I mentioned that it was a constitutional amendment it's not it's a legislative initiative the proposal would allow individuals 21 and older to purchase possess and use marijuana and marijuana infused edibles and grow up to 12 marijuana plants for personal consumption impose a 10 ounce limit for marijuana kept at residences and require amounts over two and a half ounces to be secured in locked containers create a state licensing system for marijuana businesses and allow municipalities to ban or restrict them permit retail sales of marijuana and edibles subject to a 10% tax dedicated to implementation costs clinical trials schools roads and municipalities where marijuana businesses are located and finally to change several current violations from crimes to civil infractions with that we begin the debate with the opening statement from the team supporting passage of proposal one good evening I am Madeline horny ak a sophomore at Saline High School and part Ana I am part of the saline high school debate team My partner Ron Allen eaier and I would like to thank the League of Women Voters for inviting us to partake in this event today we are debating proposal one which is about the legislation of recreational marijuana on the pro side we are going to show you a few of the many benefits to legalizing marijuana in the state of Michigan recreational marijuana has already been legalized in nine states as well as Washington DC marijuana used for medicine purposes has been legalized in an additional 21 states including Michigan the first point we would like to address is the economy legalizing marijuana would increase our economic stability first marijuana will be a new industry from Michigan and legalizing recreational use would create a positive economic trend a 2015 report from the ArcView group found that legal cannabis had become the fastest growing industry in the US with the national market expanding from 1.5 billion dollars in 2013 to 2.7 billion dollars in 2014 both Colorado and Washington have expiry tremendous growth in the cannabis business in the years since each state fully legalized recreational markets according to the website global news in total tax revenues from cannabis increased to over 135 million dollars in Colorado additionally if the state of Michigan were to legalize marijuana before other states then Michigan businesses will have sufficient time to take root as other states legalize it merit Michigan companies will expand into those markets as well and that money will circle back to Michigan the Marijuana Policy group is one example it is a consulting firm based in Denver Colorado they consulted with the Colorado State Legislature on the recreational marijuana proposal in 2012 but since then they have also worked with other state governments such as Alaska and Oregon as well as working with individual companies nationwide by being one of the first in the nation to legalize the recreational use of cannabis Michigan could see a similar expansion of our businesses the next point we would like to address is that legalizing marijuana would allow for new jobs to be created the Washington Post rates that in 2015 the legal marijuana industry in Colorado created more than 18,000 new full-time jobs and generated 2.4 billion dollars in economic activity the potential and legislation of recreational marijuana could lead to a boost in our state economy as we show through examples of Washington and Colorado and it could also go towards taxes toward public goods secondly legalizing marijuana will increase the safety of usage as it will be more regulated marijuana product testing is a standard requirement for legalized marijuana products market this means consumers are better informed about the marijuana they use if marijuana was legalized in Michigan then the state would set these standards and make the drug safer to the public one of these examples would would be the information on any pesticides fertilizers or any residue low solvents that could remain on the product when being sold another important point to address would be the potential lasing of marijuana which is a prominent issue with unreliable sellers in the black market like we said earlier state laws setting universal standards with limit sellers ability to lace cannabis with other harmful substances lasing is the Prostate process of mixing in another more harmful drug usually an opioid with marijuana forming a drug cocktail lacing is usually done without the users knowledge these state laws and regulations could potentially save the lives of people who are trying marijuana for the first time and are unaware if something is wrong this could prevent many opioid overdoses and save many lives if a cannabis product is found to be laced with an illegal or more more dangerous drug the seller will likely have to face repercussions from the state since the sellers will likely not want to lose their license to sell marijuana they are much less likely to lace their products with unknown substances which will increase the safety of consumers and prevent overdoses now here's my partner with some more information third let's talk about societal benefits in Michigan first crime would decrease in prisons would become less crowded if marijuana or legalized in 2012 the states of Colorado and Washington became the first in the nation to legalize cannabis for recreational use Colorado's marijuana policy group conducted a thorough investigation although many respects skeptical of this legalization the Marijuana Policy group estimates that the majority of growth in the legal marijuana industry is not coming from new previously untapped demand for cannabis but rather from a reduction in the illegal unregulated black market this shows that there would be a reduction in illicit activity as the demand for marijuana would shift towards legitimate activity with the legalization of recreational use prisons would also become less crowded if recreational marijuana really was legalized a number of marijuana related arrests and imprisonment would decrease and live assume it's that 9 percent of current prisoners are in prison for marijuana related violations since the proposal would change many crimes or misdemeanors to civil infractions crime rates and imprisonment rates would drop dramatically for Michigan therefore legalizing marijuana would benefit Michigan society moreover Michigan will use the tax revenue from marijuana for community improvement agenda such as money for research to help veterans schools roads and more additionally minors would also use marijuana less than they are currently opposition to the legalization of marijuana argued that this would lead to a slippery slope of adolescents using cannabis which is not true an institution working for Washington state legislature produced a report showing overall decreases in youth cannabis usage rates the report was based on anonymous survey data from the state's Department of Health which pulled for usage among students grades 6 8 and 12 the results of the survey showed decreased usage by students in all four grade levels this shows that although the general populace is weary the facts show otherwise teen years and rates have actually decreased therefore legalizing marijuana will benefit Michigan's society as a whole because our teenagers will be less likely to try marijuana which means they will be safer and have a better chance as a bride at a bright future overall we want to reiterate that you the voter have a choice to make we strongly urge that you vote for the proposal to legalize recreational marijuana it has proven benefits on the body and aiding with mental illness chronic pain and more which is why we urge you to vote for this proposal in November thank you from 2002 to 2013 marijuana use disorder has doubled in its prevalence and 7,000 people try marijuana for the first time every single day hello I am Michael nicosia a senior at Saline High School my partner Nisha and Bhattacharya and I would like to thank the League of Women Voters for this amazing opportunity to participate in this debate as the conside we are going to point out flaws in the current proposal and the ramifications of the legalization of marijuana in Michigan in order to educate voters who are voting in this upcoming midterm I'm going to outline the first two points and nishan will outline the last first we'd like to say that we're not talking about the medicinal use of marijuana but rather the effects of recreational usage our first point is the health effects and addictiveness some point a health detriments the protein may argue that marijuana has some benefits to your health however the use of marijuana by individuals will actually increase their risk for negative health effects that can adversely affect their lives according to the Center for Disease Control smoking marijuana can lead to an increased risk of heart disease and a greater risk of bronchitis cough and phlegm production marijuana users also have significantly more are significantly more likely than non users to develop temporary psychosis and long-lasting mental disorders including schizophrenia subjecting the common citizen to a drug that can cause an increased risk and life to lifelong illness and the risks involved is something we as the community should avoid users will drastically decrease the overall health of our society as strokes bronchitis and schizophrenia will become more widespread these lasting impacts can destroy the lives of individuals and these problems don't just affect though who chose to use marijuana according to Patrick Condren a certified a certified addictions counselor marijuana use can also cause delinquent behavior aggression rebellion and poor relationships with family especially parents families of people suffering will be hurt because of the problems that their loved ones are facing as a result of marijuana use this can really hurt the community overall especially in Michigan and marijuana isn't simply a drug that one can easily stop using so point B addictiveness marijuana usage can be addictive according to CNBC marijuana is currently the leading cause of substance dependence other than alcohol had alcohol in the u.s.
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okay good morning today is October 5th it is the 32nd day of school this is whe teacher sister reminder to check your pick up list and we do have Spanish club this afternoon thank you today for lunch there will be three cheese pizza mixed vegetables sliced green peppers fresh apples and no two different breakfast double there will beat muffin graham crackers yogurt dried cherries for juicing we have some friends celebrating birthdays today we have a lot birthdays to celebrate today I mean I've been in giba Isabella pot Gorsky and over the weekend we have Benjamin and pongetti canine gopher Danny Reyes Kaitlyn Gardner Fulop Zen nap Louie Nicole Jackson Georgia and mrs. Keenan happy birthday please go to the office to pick out a birthday book yesterday's one fact question was arachnophobia is the fear of what animal the answer is spiders the winner is Kayla asks and mrs.
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[Music] good evening today is Wednesday October 3rd 2018 and I would like to call the regular meeting of the Brookfield Board of Education to order if we could all rise for the Pledge of Allegiance pledge allegiance to the Republic for which it stands we have six of the seven board members present this evening jen is under the weather and cannot make it so first of all we have our student spotlight from whisk in air middle school dr. Bri yes so if our wonderful students from whisk and ear and mr. Benton Eric and mrs. Haas could come to the podium they're going to share with us what's going on with the student implementation of ruler this year folks may remember that we kicked it off last year with teacher training and the adults in school are getting trained and now our roller program has been expanded to the students this year so mr.
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Chamberlain for the opportunity for my school to participate in this debate My partner and I are arguing in favor of proposal 2 as mr. Chamberlain said in his introduction this proposal creates a nonpartisan committee to redraw congressional district lines to better represent Michigan voters currently every ten years the state legislature is charged with creating congressional districts the problem is that partisan legislators use their political power to draw districts that disproportionately benefit candidates from their own party this means that disadvantaged populations are grouped into districts that do not adequately represent them taking away the impact of their voting voice according to the Princeton gerrymandering project Michigan is one of the most gerrymandered states in the u.s.
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in 2008 marijuana use accounted for 4.2 million of the seven million people age 12 or older classified with dependence on or abuse of an illicit drug this means that about two-thirds of Americans suffering from any substance use disorder are currently suffering from marijuana abuse or marijuana dependence as stated by the aforementioned study marijuana is an addictive substance if you use it you can get addicted and will be hurt by it as a number of people using this harmful substance increases so will the number of people addicted this means that more and more people will be subjected to the detrimental health effects that come with the use of marijuana this addictiveness can push wedges into families increased familial strife is also something we should avoid as a community and also the terrible effects that marijuana has on its users considering the addictiveness of marijuana and the negative health effects that come with its use then it would not be beneficial to vote YES on this proposal our second point is moving down the H ladder by legalizing marijuana use for individuals who are 21 years or older there Blinn increased use of marijuana among younger teens a report titled the legalization of marijuana in Colorado the impact states the latest 2014-2015 results show Colorado youth ranked number one in the nation for past month marijuana use up from number four in 2011-2012 and 14 at number fourteen 2005-2006 with Colorado being a state that legalized marijuana in 2014 this shows that an increase in marijuana access does in fact correlate with an increased usage among teens therefore teens teens can become more addicted to this substance and subjugate themselves to more use later in life leading to a drastic increase in these negative effects on the health 10 years or teenagers are even more susceptible to addiction than adults according to the Center for Disease Control about 1 in 10 marijuana users will become addicted for people who begin use before the age of 18 that number rises to one in six this increased risk should be weighed heavily when it comes down to the effect on teenagers especially when it comes down to the age ladder this all stems from the legalization underage marijuana use will increase by legalizing marijuana use for individuals 21 or older this means that there will be more health problems for teenagers and marijuana would not even be the only drug user drug that teenagers will use but instead it would lead to the use of other worse drugs now here's my partner nishan with some more information thank you Michael now I will highlight our third point about marijuana being a gateway drug marijuana used by individuals can lead to the use of other harder drugs such as heroin according to the center of Disease Control quote people who are addicted to marijuana are 3 times more likely to become addicted to heroin heroin is one of the major hard drugs and usage the impact of this is that once you legalize a gateway drug such as marijuana then it goes down the ladder in terms of hard usage especially connecting it back to younger ages and the possible increase of usage of harmful substances if marijuana is legalized then it will lead to the use of harder drugs such as heroin across the populace this is a problem these those harder drugs can cause severe health effects as well such as heart infections liver and kidney disease and mental disorders considering the increased use for teenagers and the eventual lead to worse drugs we urge you to vote against the proposal keeping in mind the negative effects achieved with this proposal we strongly urge you the voter to not pass this bill our three major points the negative health effects that marijuana has on its users the increase in use among the teen aged population and it being a gateway drug show how there are major problems in the proposal being presented because of these problems we strongly urge a reconsideration of the proposal in its current state and strongly urge you to vote against it in the upcoming midterms thank you now your responses to the opening arguments and the for team goes first alright I'm gonna begin by pointing out flaws in my opponent's points then going back to reader at my own their first point is on the health effects and the addictiveness of marijuana they say that there are long-term health detriments to smoking marijuana however the foundation for a drug-free world says that the long-term effects of smell through marijuana are debated but the negative effects of smoking marijuana are mainly related to prolonged use beginning in adolescence let's talk about how this relates to the Michigan proposal the short answer it doesn't the proposal you will be voting on in November legalized as recreational marijuana only for adults over the age of 21 by 21 the brains of adolescents are mostly forms and the risks of addiction impaired thinking etc are much lower additionally many of the effects on other people that they mentioned could be because of teenagers who frequently take risks or let's be honest are just teenagers they say that those who use marijuana have bad relationships with their parents and exhibit delinquent behavior this use of the word delinquent implies young people who if they feel they are turning to drugs to feel fulfilled they may already have negative relationships with their parents this implies correlation not causation meaning that marijuana may not cause these effects but may actually be a result of delinquent behavior and an unruly home life additionally they say it's addictive but they said it themselves its second to alcohol alcohol is legal we have to trust our adults who are over 21 to make choices for themselves their second point is about moving down the age ladder they read you statistic saying that colorado youth are ranked number one in marijuana use I have two responses first their statistics are from the rocky mountain high intensity drug trafficking group an anti-drug organization Mark Twain has a lovely quote for the situation which implies the statistics can be taken out of context without knowing much about the study that was conducted which could lead to misinformation this statistic may be one of those examples since their group's purpose is to limit the availability availability of drugs so they would naturally be opposed to legalize marijuana second we gave a counter statistic to this and one that is actually a year after theirs we tell you that Colorado youth have actually decreased their marijuana usage in 2010 they may actually be first in the nation but perhaps they were already first and now their usage is decreasing which could be a cause of legalization of recreational marijuana additionally Deborah Hassan professional professor of Public Health at Columbia conducted a comprehensive study and concluded that there appears to be no basis for the argument that legalizing marijuana has increased teens use of their drug this direct the counter is their point their third point is that marijuana is a gateway drug this is again correlation not causation marijuana does not cause a person to use both drugs rather an increase in risk taking behavior especially in adolescents cause both teen marijuana use as well as the use of harder drugs later in life I would like to remind you again that this proposal would in no way allow minors to consume cannabis products therefore this correlation is irrelevant to the topic and should be disregarded now to reiterate my points first the economy legalizing recreational marijuana would have an incredible impact on the economy Michigan would be able to bring in millions of dollars in tax revenues and we would have thousands of new jobs additionally this tax revenue would be actually more stable than other kinds of sale taxes as it would not be subject to business cycles because only a minority of people who use the substance second safety hundreds of people die from opioid overdoses caused by opioid addiction every day who knows how many of these addictions are caused by marijuana being laced with other kinds of drugs by legalizing marijuana we could actually help the safety of our consumers third societal benefits there are many societal benefits including a reduced prison population tax revenue that will go towards things like veterans suicide prevention roads and schools and actually a decrease in teen use of drugs in conclusion we believe that a vote for Michigan's proposal 1 will help propel Michigan towards a brighter more stable future thank you four minutes I'm going to respond to my opponents arguments before coming back to my own first my opponents talk about marijuana supposed benefits the economy in Colorado quote thirty five million dollars from taxes went directly towards funding the state's education system to the average person thirty five million dollars sounds like a lot of money that's how much money comes into the best capital construction fund from marijuana sales taxes each year but one school for example cost seventeen million dollars and there are 178 school districts in Colorado competing for the same funds this shows that the amount gained in taxes is actually minimal and it does little to alleviate the demand in Colorado contrary to what the pro would like you to believe now again to speak to the opponent's economic arguments we said that for one in terms of supplementation Medicaid cost up to upwards of 5.3 billion dollars in Michigan alone adding to our last rebuttal point the tax revenue gained from the additional tax is miniscule in supplementing the cost of programs such as Medicaid in Michigan in terms of job creation sure you can increase jobs in a new industry but isn't it is not worth subjecting the community to a harmful substance such as marijuana as mentioned in our first and second points their second argument is that the usage of marijuana will become safer if legalized however this is not the case glen gash was the agent in charge of the US Drug Enforcement Administration field office in Grand Junction Colorado he said quote our black market has increased twenty fold he went on to say that in 2014 he seized a couple hundred pounds of pot but that steadily rose to about 13 tons in 2017 this shows that marijuana does not actually become safer use illegal black market sales of marijuana only increase as a result of legalization as shown in Colorado our opponents second argument also says that marijuana will be safer if legalized which implies that marijuana is already unsafe in its current state therefore it cannot be justified legally speaking for recreational use because of the harm present especially within our first few points about how marijuana has health detriments such as a risk of heart disease bronchitis and phlegm production this harm is not worth the risk in terms of hurting the community in Michigan again we'd like to mention as the conside that we are not arguing against the status quo which is legally allowing medicinal usage of marijuana now on to their last argument about societal benefits to Michigan when our opponents mentioned that there was a decrease in violent crime and murdered in Washington they never gave a direct link to how the legalization of marijuana actually caused a decrease in violent crime and murder this is a classic case of correlation but not causation meaning that the decrease of violent crime may have happened at the same time of the legalization but may not have been because of it this is also mentioned that teens are going to be less likely to try marijuana as proven by our statistics throughout our debate this is false Colorado youth ranked number one in this nation for the past month marijuana use in 2015 marijuana was legalized for Colorado in 2014 showing that it was a direct cause of the legalization of marijuana this was as the pro stated in their case then Colorado's youth wouldn't have this high amount of use yet they do indicating that the legalization does influence and increase team usage of marijuana now Michael will restate our side and why you should vote against this proposal Thanks news Sean going back to our speech now in general voters should vote against this bill because of the negative health effects that marijuana use have News has on its users the increase in use among the teenage population and it being a gateway drug our first point that we mentioned is the health effects and addictiveness of marijuana specifically the health detriments of it we talked about the effects on people under the usage of marijuana in terms of heart disease bronchitis and phlegm production we also talked about in our sub-point be the addictiveness of marijuana specifically quote about two-thirds of Americans suffering from any substance use disorder are suffering from marijuana abuse or marijuana dependence we move on to our second point which we mentioned moving down the age ladder and the effects on the teenage populous and how Colorado Ruth youth ranked number one in the nation for past month marijuana use up from number four in 2012 and number 14 in 2006 thus we urge you the voter to vote con thank you will now turn to some questions I will address the first question to the team arguing against the proposal as I said one of the arguments in favor of legalization here and elsewhere has been libertarian argument that individuals ought to be free to consume substances engage in activities unless they're doing so creates you know very large negative effects for society and that argument is certainly you know present in arguments for this particular proposal it also is likely to make marijuana safer to consume because it will be regulated if you buy it at a licensed dispensary you will have some confidence that it's not laced with other things this is likely to move some people from being non users to users because they are now not using marijuana because they have some question about whether it's safe so I'd like you to respond to the BIRT Aryans who argue in favor of passage of this okay so in response to this I talked about the role of government in the lives of the people the role of government is to promote the common welfare of the people and I don't think that introducing a drug such as marijuana would fundamentally protect the people which is the government's purpose the government's purpose is to protect the people but also promote a certain form of freedom now we can see we can support a form of freedom through various means however legalizing a drug and allowing the freedom of choice for the people to use such a drug although it be harmful to a community we want to avoid the effects against teenagers and against youths who may be affected by the drug especially when we talk about in Colorado where youth usage is number one in the nation so that would be my response to the libertarian argument side um we fully agree that people should be allowed to make their own choices for themselves they should be allowed to say this is what's best for me and I don't think that has anything to do with the government yeah add something ok move on to a question and address it those of you arguing for the proposal and I'd like to return to the question of of marijuana used by people who are not yet 21 whether it's high school students college students there's clearly a good deal of interest in that there's a lot of you know data that suggests that that people in high school and in college do engage in smoking marijuana they also engage in a fair amount of binge drinking so it may well be that that binge smoking or binge eating of marijuana brownies may occur and these have serious effects on on people who are not yet adults and I'd like to hear a bit about why why or how this proposal will make it you know sufficiently difficult for teenagers and college students to get marijuana products and why we shouldn't worry about the downside costs of having young people ingest or smoke marijuana I believe there's a lot of penalties that are going to be put in place for in terms of they have to be kept in a locked container out of reach of minors all kinds of things I'm not completely sure on all the specifics of what the exact wording of the proposal is but you know there's going to be a lot of regulations on you know you can't have this kind of stuff in the house with a minor or something like that and I mean obviously I don't think you can completely 100% stop it but I do think this will make it less of a far away thing so instead of saying you know I'm never going to be able to smoke marijuana why don't I just do it now it's illegal anyway they'll be able to say you know I'll do it when I'm 21 because I can do it and it's not it's not banned so I guess we're hoping that there's since there's no conclusive evidence that proves that teenagers teenager teenage use of marijuana increases with legalization I guess we're assuming that's going to apply in Michigan as well all right so we would we would argue that that odd the legalization of marijuana won't be completely regulated as shown through our study of Colorado of the impact of legalization there because Colorado legalized in 2014 and they found that Colorado Colorado youth ranked number one in the nation for marijuana use and this was compared to number four before legalization in 2011 so this shows is a direct correlation between youth access and use of marijuana and the legalization and we believe that um because of the study because of the specific study that teenagers aren't going to be regulated to the necessity that it's going to be these the addictiveness is still going to occur with legalization there's going to be more access to the general public just because it's not going to be illegal there's going to be greater access for them and also we mentioned the black mark and how the black market will only exist and the study that we brought up of General of the measure of the US Drug Enforcement Authority who basically said that the black market still exists specifically to Washington in this case as they also legalized but this shows that black market and trade illegal black market sales can still end up getting in the hands of these teenagers who will still end up getting their hands on marijuana and obviously as shown to our case this is extremely bad because of the addictiveness and how it's a gateway drug okay let me ask you one more question that that goes to the the economic benefits and costs of legalization you've heard you know claims that this will generate jobs it will generate tax revenue thinks that you know society likes to find ways to to do that and it could in by one estimate the over a hundred million dollars a year within five years of tax revenue they're also savings on enforcement costs police courts jails probation all of the other kinds of things and the the observation is commonly made that current enforcement efforts fall disproportionately on citizens of color so how do you respond to the positive side on the economic benefits that might accrue to passage of this proposal aunt so in terms of job creation we would talk about this in our rebuttal that introducing a new industry such as marijuana introducing a drug that we have deemed harmful throughout our case with the risk of heart disease and the gateway into heroin and harder drugs then we'd say that despite a new industry being introduced a industry is not good for the public in any real fashion for example if we legalized a harder drugs such as heroin for example something that is deemed generally incredibly bad for the public then now we have a new industry that could possibly generate a lot of tax revenue but that does not make it safer for the common citizenry are going a little bit off Whitney Sean said we would also argue that the negative effects of the legalization completely outweigh any tax benefit that Michigan the state of Michigan would be getting because of the access to teenagers and they're a result of addictiveness album and a result of the diseases that we mentioned like heart infections liver and kidney disease and specific mental disorders because of marijuana so we would argue that the legalization and just the increasing access of it and the negative effects of marijuana as it being addictive and the health effects with the and at being a gateway drug to other drugs such as heroin outweighs the tax benefits um that would be a resolve the 10% tax that would happen in Michigan okay thank you that brings us to closing statements and each team will have two minutes for this and those arguing against go first to remind our audience Nishan and i stand against the legalization of marijuana it's better to vote against this proposal because of the negative effects that will have on a michigan community this is an issue that affects you the voter you have influence on this legislation you have the opportunity to make the best decision for the community and that is by voting against legalization in Michigan this proposal poses problems as mentioned such as negative health effects that increase in use among teenage population and it being a gateway drug even though this proposal is for adults ages 21 and older we mentioned the negative effect of marijuana being a gateway drug because even in Colorado where marijuana was legalized only for those 21 and older Colorado youth still ended up ranking number one in the nation for marijuana use after the legalization these health detriments caused by marijuana won't stop as we talked about in our case marijuana has proven to be addictive time and time again across all ages finally marijuana is detrimental to the health of those who use it increasing the risk of bronchitis heart disease and stroke think of those in your family and think of those in your community and your friends that can be negatively affected by this bill if you care about your community and wish to avoid the negatives that the legalization will bring with it we strongly urge you to vote no this November thank you in conclusion we believe that the legalization of recreational marijuana would benefit Michigan as a whole we've shown you the benefits of passing this proposal but before we do that let's just go back and see what the negative effects that they said were they pointed out that the health effects in addictiveness of marijuana would cause teenagers to use it more and would cause the detrimental effect on society there's been no conclusive Studies on this additionally they say that moving down the age ladder and would cause teenagers to also use marijuana more there have additionally been no conclusive studies about this same with the gateway drug therefore there aren't there is no real proof that any of those things could happen there are statistics but those could be entirely correlation there's no proof overall what this comes down to is choice since there's no proof that marijuana is either a gateway drug or causes drastic negative effects on society we need to be able to trust our adults to make good choices for themselves just as they can with alcohol currently we've also shown you that the economy is going to get a boost from the addition of jobs and a new industry and that we have to jump on the train before it leaves this station we have to let our businesses have the chance to take root before they can expand into other states as those states legalize marijuana second safer marijuana would save multiple lives people have died from opioid addiction in opioid overuse opioids have been mixed into marijuana currently dipped through the black market this causes addiction this causes detrimental health effects imagine cocaine in your marijuana third there's also a ton of societal benefits including the decreased crime rate lower prison population tax revenue and lower teen drug use we've shown you the benefits of legalization now you as a voter have one job to do go out and cast your vote at the polls on November 6th thank you to the League of Women Voters for this wonderful opportunity and we hope that everyone watching has a great rest of their night I want to thank our four debaters for their analysis and their presentations on this important proposal to legalize marijuana in Michigan I would now like to introduce Shelley then I met and asked her to introduce the other students who have worked to bring this debate to your attention Thank You mr.
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Bednarik please it's baseball important you gotta push the button good so he is celebrating tonight his his team and his sons baseball team went undefeated over the summer so they are having a banquet in their honor tonight so and we must say that mr. Ben nari this is his debut as the new assistant principal yes that's whisking your middle school so thank you very much well I'm gonna go ahead and hand this over to mrs. Haas my name is Catherine Haas and I am an eighth grade Spanish teacher at was scenario school and I'm going to present what we did last year for our staff charter and then our students who are Rama Joshi in anishka Meno Hart are going to present the process that we took it to implemented in our classrooms so I believe that mr. and I already told you that we created a staff tartar last year um and this is it um so as you can see it has the feelings or emotions that we would like to feel as a staff and then their definitions with the behaviors and actions that would show and support those emotions and feelings so the same process that we did as a staff the students also did in our homeroom so they're gonna explain their process and then I'll show you some examples okay after Miss Haas explained that we would be creating a homeroom charter we worked in small groups to brainstorm ten feelings or emotions that expressed how we want to feel in homeroom and in school in general next each group shared their list with the class and we tallied the most commonly used emotions on the board we then chose our top five emotions and worked in groups to brainstorm specific behaviors an action that would help us feel this way at school for example some behaviors and actions that our homeroom came up with for the emotions safe our knowing the procedures and what to do and in case of an emergency like a fire drill or lockdown and following the safety regulations of the school finally we brainstorm strategies to help us deal with uncomfortable feelings or conflict here are a few examples remove yourself from the situation take some time to think about it before reacting talk to someone you trust such as a teacher guidance counselor friend or another adult and address the problem in a comical manner miss Hoffs then made our top five emotions and feelings into a poster to display in our homeroom we decided to include the words in English Spanish and Portuguese to ensure that everyone in our homeroom feels equal and included that the process they just explained was what basically every homeroom teacher in every grade also did um and that's what we did as a staff last year at a professional development um so I wanted to give you some examples of some of the charters that were created so far this year and a few different grades so this is mrs.
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a Gallup study done in 2017 reports that 45% of Michigan voters identify as Democrats or as only 38% of Michigan voters identify as Republican despite the majority of Michigan voters identifying as Democrats we have an overwhelming Republican majority in our state legislature and federal representatives this disparity is explained by the gerrymandering of congressional districts that gives Republican candidates and advantage over Democrats and elections in the status quo Democrats and gerrymandered districts have very little say in who their representatives will be this has detrimental effects on political representation and therefore undermines the principle of democracy by making the process of voting less impactful on the results of the election in order to remedy this undemocratic and unfair system proposal two's nonpartisan committee will be chosen through a lengthy selection process the applicants would be selected through statistical weighing process that will match the demographics of the committee with the state as closely as possible therefore a committee that best represents the population and the interests of the state will be formed we believe that the citizens of Michigan should vote in favor of the proposal because of its transparency a September 25th article from the Center for Michigan revealed how business interests and GOP insiders shaped michigan political boundaries behind closed doors during the 2011 district map drawing state legislators used supposedly nonpartisan organization called the michigan redistricting resource group which under a federal lawsuit has now been exposed as a group of private GOP consultants proposal to will stop this kind of clandestine behavior as it requires that the new commission hold 10 public hearings across the state to solicit information from the general public this in itself is a powerful reason to vote to adopt the proposal our democracy is based on an educated electorate who participates fully in the process under proposal to the electorate is finally reintegrated into the process of creating congressional districts in a public and transparent way which allows for the electorate to know and understand the process a second reason the voters in Michigan should adopt the proposal is because when partisan politicians draw the maps minority party voters cannot be according to Michigan Radio Zoe Clarke Democrats won over half the votes for State House in 2016 but Republicans won most of the seats when the Republican legislature drew the map in 2010 they tried to make sure that their voters were in a majority in each district lumping together the Democratic voters so their votes didn't matter the idea that a political party would bias the district map seems unimaginable under a democracy however we are not the only state in this situation twelve states have already passed proposals on nonpartisan committees to draw new district maps and there are five ballot proposals in other states this November to change the way that states draw their district lines in order to allow voters to choose their politicians instead of politicians choosing their voters we must adopt proposal to the third reason the voters in Michigan should adopt the proposal is because of the emphasis placed on objective fairness measures for newly drawn districts according to the Center for Michigan the proposal establishes new redistricting criteria including geographically compact and contiguous districts of equal population reflecting Michigan's diverse population and communities of interest and the districts created under proposal to shall not provide disproportionate advantage to political parties or candidates these requirements will act as a mission statement for the committee and will guide their decision on which map to select for the state there are guidelines concerning compactness contiguity and fairness of districts under the status quo however these are mere guidelines and not the guiding principle for creating districts as they will be under proposal two in order to make Michigan a state where fair and democratic elections where voters choose their politicians and not the other way around it is imperative that Michigan voters vote to adopt proposal two in November thank you now the opening statement those arguing in opposition good evening everyone My partner and I stand in opposition of proposal 2 which aims to redraw congressional lines through a nonpartisan committee under the current system partisan gerrymandering creates congressional districts that tend to favor a particular partisan group proposal to aims to prevent gerrymandering by creating a committee that will redraw congressional districts in a nonpartisan way though we agree that the present system is not perfect the process for redistricting outlined in proposal 2 has a number of flaws within the specifics of the proposal we disagree with the proposal for three reasons one it is expensive the committee is made of unexperienced individuals and it won't solve the problems it claims to address in order to understand why we believe this will begin our argumentation with our first point proposal 2 will be expensive according to the Detroit Free Press the Commission is expected to cost five point five million dollars a year this money will be used to pay Commission salaries the cost of the selection process and the creation and operation of the committee the money to support the commission would be appropriated to the Secretary of State's budget although five point five million dollars sounds like a lot of money the reality is that it would likely cost much more both California and Arizona have nonpartisan commissions very similar to proposal two and both states have ended up spending much more than they had predicted according to the citizens Research Foundation of Michigan in California the cost of their first try using a citizen Commission was about thirteen point eight million dollars around four million dollars was used for the state's select extensive selection process and three million dollars was used for developing the redistricting plan the remaining expenditures were for costs that occurred after the plans were adopted particularly legal expenses Michigan's proposal will likely face legal battles if it is adopted this money will come out of the general fund which affects other programs like road repair and education taxpayer money is crucial in sustaining many social programs in Michigan so the added cost of fighting legal battles and the selection process for nonpartisan commissions a disadvantageous and be considered by voters before going to the polls secondly the proposal does not require anyone to have experience training education skills or expertise according to the Ballinger report selection as a commissioner is based entirely on an applicant's geographic residence and the demographic characteristics they possess along with a lot of random luck supporters say Commission selection is akin to jury selection proposal 2 does not even require a face-to-face interview this is in sharp contrast with a thorough interview process that applicants for independent redistricting commissions have in both California and Arizona additionally the citizens Research Foundation of Michigan explains that the majority of the Commission members are unlikely to have any sort of educational background in policy ethnography or other fields relevant for working on the redistricting process the process of redistricting is involved in complex it requires a depth of understanding and all factors that make a fair district and how to apply all those qualifications to an entire state map with little experience in policy for redistricting it is unlikely that the committee will be able to effectively redraw congressional districts without being prone to bias in Arizona they hired a consultant to assist their inexperienced committee in the involved process according to the Detroit Free Press the Arizona's Commission work and maps drawn were affected by partisan politics the Commission hired a Republican leaning consultant that affected how the committee members through the congressional districts Andy Minkoff a Scottsdale Democrat who sat on the Arizona's first redistricting commission said the change was a step forward because it made the process transparent and gave citizens a chance to be heard but partisan politics infected the Commission's work and affected the maps it drew in 2001 we were very clearly manipulated by a Republican leading consultant the Commission hired Minkoff said finally it is completely impossible to eliminate gerrymandering under the status quo because the locations in which Democrats live in the state of Michigan will necessitate gerrymandering if our aim is to adequately represent them in congressional bodies according to the Detroit News democratic voters tend to be clustered in urban areas while Republicans are spread out more uniformly across the state since Democrats are not spread out throughout the state in the same way that Republicans are it would be difficult to create many contested districts without gerrymandering finally through pass precedent nonpartisan committees have shown to be fairly ineffective at preventing extreme partisan in politics according to Jason Barraza a democratic political consultant in Phoenix the Commission has not reduced extreme partnership partisanship in Arizona politics the committee was affected by partisanship bias and struggle to work effectively past precedent shows that the michigan this michigan committee will probably end up failing to create contested districts and prevent gerrymandering in michigan in review Michigan voters should not vote to adopt proposal 2 because of the unexpected costs the lack of experience of the committee members and the impossibility of ever truly solving for gerrymandering it is also important to take into account the press precedent of other states that have enacted similar policies to proposal 2 when voting for or against the current proposal spending a large sum of money on a commission to create a system that is prone to flaws and potential gerrymandering is not beneficial to Michigan voters therefore we stand in opposition to provide proposal to thank you and now the response off the conside makes some good arguments they are certainly not without contention that being said let's look at the first argument about this being an unexpected cost they compare us to states like Arizona in California and how the cost is higher however currently the proposal allocates 5.5 million dollars each year to the cost of the committee this is only 0.1% of Michigan's total budget even if this number would be doubled it would still be a miniscule PI's price to pay for a more fair in just democracy in fact I'll reference Winston Churchill's words a democracy is the worst form of government except for all of the other ones we cannot create a government that is perfect and there is no way for us to eliminate bias however having a committee which is less partisan than the current way that we redraw congressional district lines is certainly a step in the right direction and going to help ensure voter representation now moving on to their next point about inexperienced committee members the lack of accountability I have three responses to responses to this first of all just because somebody on the committee has entirely held office doesn't necessarily mean it's a bad thing if anything it's a benefit because it reduces the bias of that individual member if they had held office previously that means there are probably more likely to having biases and alternative motives my second response is in accordance with all things considered Michigan Radio they say that there's a lot of resources that will go towards helping the Commission form its final redistricting plan the proposal includes language that will allow members to hire staff and consultants including legal representation to assist with data collection and analysis in addition the public will have plenty of input the proposal requires a minimum of 15 public hearings throughout the planning process the proposal ensures that this committee will have available resources to make the best Congressional Maps possible the committee serves as a way to have the least bias my third response is to address accountability the committee can still be held accountable if they are to collude with lobbyists or other special interest groups in such occasion they can be kicked off of the committee off of reprimand Ettore action now moving on to my third point which is that we won't completely solve this problem they give Arizona and as an example of how bias can still affect the process however keep in mind Arizona had two Democrats two Republicans in one ardent partisan member on the committee we have five nonpartisan members on the committee creating the largest represented group so ultimately we feel like there will be less bias they also say that we can't move voters based because they live in certain areas however due to the Voting Rights Act we have to establish minority districts which have been used as Democrat packing areas where we put in a lot of Democratic voters so they have less representation if we vote YES on this proposal we can move them out of these districts giving better representation to Democratic voters ultimately if we reject this proposal it's highly likely there will be and there will be no other solution to this burden to our democracy we agree with Nancy Wang and an armored attorney it's certainly not going to be a panacea but it's a big step forward compared to what we have right now it's night and day it's infinitely better for these reasons we strongly urge you all to vote pro on proposal - thank you okay your response to start my rebuttal I think it is important to address that both sides of this debate agree that gerrymandering is a problem furthermore it is necessary to consider the fact that eliminating some of the carefully constructed district lines that our opponents are calling gerrymandering in this is highly unlikely to be solved by voting for proposal two in 1965 the Voting Rights Act included the requirement for majority minority districts to be created in order to prevent the dilution of minorities voting strength for example congressional district 14 is recognized as one of the most gerrymandered districts in Michigan because of the Democratic packing that has occurred in that minority district however the Commission will have to create minority districts under proposal two because the state is still responsible for following federal laws another claim the pro makes is that the committee will be nonpartisan the assumption that the committee will actually be nonpartisan is highly unprovable no one is completely nonpartisan everyone has their own personal biases past experiences and exposure to the two major political parties which will inherently influence their ideology thus proposal two is too idealistic moving on to their pros reputations to our case we start with the cost of proposal two firstly the cost being point one percent of the Michigan general fund is still a substantial amount of money that will be taken out of other programs and that is without considering the potential increase in cost due to lawsuits remember this is millions of dollars which should be going to the reconstruction of our roads funding of social programs or funding our education system the pro side brings up the point that the proposal will only cost point one percent of our state budget however if the point one percent cannot prevent gerrymandering consequently not fulfilling the purpose of the proposal then it's a waste of taxpayer dollars especially when they were put especially when they can't quantify the effectiveness of the proposal moving on to the problems with citizen-led districting although the committee requires a of experience and policy this can lead to a map that is poorly drawn regardless of bias the Secretary of State can hire congressional mapping experts for the committee that can be biased or favoring one side remember the Arizona example that we read you in case where the state hired a party affiliated committee consultant who was able to influence the way the committee decided to redraw the districts while proposal to maybe a different process remember partisan bias is unavoidable these committee members also don't have any experience in congressional line mapping or in policy we agree that the members of the committee should not have held any previous political position however policy education is important in order to draft new congressional lines on their point about committee accountability while collusion is reprimand abble we have no insurance if we are dissatisfied with the committee's draft the only alternative would be lengthy legal battles which will add to the cost of the proposal as I mentioned earlier thank you and I urge you to reconsider proposal - thank you thank you well now I'll pose some questions to the teams beginning with with those of you who opposed proposition 2 and go to the point that you were just talking about of the ability of the committee to be independent and the argument here I think is that that it is important to create a level playing field for electoral politics as level as we can get it so that bias isn't built in to the election and subsequently to the legislature enter the law and you may disagree with that in principle but I didn't hear it but if you do tell us and secondly you suggest that it's more or less inevitable that partisanship will creep in the question it what is it about the structure of this commission that leads you to think it's more or less going to happen and to is there any reason to think that the partisanship will be any near as you know important as it would be if one party controlled the process in the legislature so we provide you in our case the example of Arizona where it was very easy for another commissioned person to come in and actually explain like how to redraw a mapping and they favored it in the Republican side because he was a Republican representative and so what we're saying is that yes although Arizona there was only one person that was nonpartisan it's still a probable thing that could happen under the Michigan proposal that needs to be addressed and that the voters need to take into account when they're voting for or against this proposal and I think when you see that this example of Arizona and how they address this issue and how it actually led to no impact overall for whether or not it was stopping gerrymandering in their state I think that it is something that like Michigan voters do need to take into account as well as you address that nonpartisan like how are we going to know what's going to be infiltrated and as my partner read in the rebuttal she stated that no matter what people are going to have a bias whether it's like leaning one side or the other and even if they declare themselves nonpartisan it's hard to say that in the committee filled with for Democrats and for Republicans that there's not going to be some influence there in terms of mapping what do you say so in response to that we'd argue that the Michigan committee is very different from the Arizona Committee for example the Arizona committee has two members of both major political parties and then one one member who is not affiliated with either political party however in the Michigan committee there are four members from each major political party and five members who are not affiliated this means that the largest group in the committee are actually people who are not affiliated with any political party and this means that we have a greater assurance that partisanship will not be taking over the committee this means that we have a bigger buffer between those two partisan groups who will help to guide the group towards a more fair and less partisan way of districting the map so you would you like to add anything oh just to comment on how you said it's better than having one party that's completely in control of the process because with this committee no matter what the leading of the nonpartisan members are at least there's equal representation of people who solely identify as a Democrat and Republican so no matter what I definitely think that this will ensure a redrawing of the maps that's more representative of a majority of Michigan voters interests okay now a question for you folks this is a fairly complicated proposal its selection mechanism takes a number of paragraphs to explain it it does guarantee a lot of transparency I don't hear anybody complaining about that and then there's the rule for how we how the Commission chooses a plan which is quite complicated so talk a little bit about you know the complexity and why that doesn't stand as an argument against doing this sure well the complex we would argue on the affirmative side here that the complexity of the actual proposal is something that safeguards it from partisan influence and from the influence of other things that would take away from the fairness of those congressional districts the way that we go about selecting a map is a three-step process first in the most favorable situation the committee would have a majority vote on a map that they all agree upon if that doesn't happen we go to something called a rank order voting where each member of the proposal submits one particular plan those plans then get ranked and then we go down the list of that ranking so let's say we start on the top ranked map if that map can get two votes from the party that the person who presented it is not from so let's say the person is a Democrat if they can get a vote from a independent and a vote from a Republican or if they can get two votes from a Republican or two votes from an independent then that is the map that we select then once we've gone through all of those maps if we still haven't been able to choose one it goes to a random selection of one of those thirteen maps and we argue that this complex an involved system is actually something that is going to help us select the best map through looking at all of the ideas and all of the input from them from the committee so starting on roses evaluation of the three step process right so we have the majority vote which we argue and I argued in my rebuttal is the idea that we could have these five nonpartisan members actually take sides and so instead of having five like legitimate non partisan members we could have an unequal balance there so the probability of that is pretty high I'm considering that we know that there it's really hard to have an actual non biased voter then we move to the second step which is ranked order voting which we argue is a really bad thing so the the idea of rank order voting is that they rate the different drafts as what we're going to call them in order of like success and like what they what they would like for the districts and then if we get to the random selection then we end up with a gridlock which is what's happening currently in our federal government right we're having issues in our own Senate and in the House of Representatives it's really important to understand if those five nonpartisan members take sides we could write it could happen where we have a gridlock and then the Secretary of State would end up making the decision which would then therefore not be a nonpartisan decision so those are things that we have to consider and that the voters should take it into account when voting for this proposal this is in mind that the Secretary of State is like a random selection that is not like selected by the committee members right so one of the one of the proposals could get chosen that could be the least ranked on the list okay thank you okay you've talked a good bit about the Arizona case and they're one of the states that uses commissions what evidence you have you repeat the evidence on Arizona but from California or other states that use commissions about their ability to counter gerrymandering and establish a level playing field for politics and have any of them been successfully the outcomes of those those commissions been successfully challenged in court is there evidence that any of them you know would be even more biased than a legislature might have produced who had it controlling the process which is what we're concerned with here in Michigan so what we argue on the con side is that in Arizona specifically we state that according to like Andy Minkoff a Scottsdale a Democrat who sat on Arizona's first redistricting commission that overall they were impacted by gerrymandering through a nonpartisan consultant or throughout actual like partisan Republican reference meaning consultant and this actually had no effect on overall like preventing gerrymandering in the state and we're saying if this is a potential in Michigan and we're going to be wasting millions of dollars that could be going to other plans then overall it shouldn't be worth it to like agree to proposal too and that's where we provide the Arizona and California evidence from the Detroit Free Press as well talking about how a lot of the money around like seven million dollars went specifically just to legal fees for the Commissioner and although and I think we need to take into account the extra money that's going to be added on like we're not like I'm sure we're unsure of how much but there's going to probably be more than 5.5 million which is the expected amount for Michigan I think that needs to be taken to account specifically when Arizona itself had absolutely no effect on like the overall gerrymandering in the state and one thing is there any evidence about how citizens feel about Commission's they you know wish they hadn't done it it's not worth the trouble is it affecting how citizens feel about their state governments um we didn't find anything like specific on how it affected like the citizen how the citizens felt but again a person that sat on the committee chair and saw that I had no effect because of this gerrymandering situation it I didn't really have an effect Hannity of anything that yeah I think it's also important to consider the lawsuits so just the fact that there were a bunch of lawsuits against the redistricting um draft that in itself provides evidence that if we were to adopt the same sort of policy in Michigan we would have a bunch of lawsuits filed against the theaters Commission and it would be that in itself is kind of the evidence to show that the people were displeased with the with the decision so first of all remember it's impossible to create a perfect system there's no solution that's going to completely eliminate jury mentoring however looking at Arizona gerrymandering was still reduced it's unfair to say that there wasn't any effect at all and the citizens even found the whole process was more transparent so ultimately gerrymandering while it'll still be a problem can still be greatly reduced and the main problem that we saw with Arizona also is the gerrymandering that they had doesn't quite work in the same way as Michigan's because the majority of voters in Arizona a Republican or as a majority in Michigan are democratic so currently in Michigan Democratic voters aren't being as represented and in Arizona after the shifts while Republicans took a lot of positions in Congress there were Democratic lawsuits however that's to be expected as there were more Republican citizens in Arizona whereas in Michigan we wouldn't see the same lawsuits from the Democrats considering the fact that if we were to change lines it would be highly likely since there's a greater Democratic population we would see more Democratic representation okay let's move now to closing arguments and this time those in opposition get to go first throughout this debate we have established that gerrymandering is an issue faced by our state we recognize that it is a problem needing solving however we urge voters to consider the fact that proposal 2 doesn't actually solve for carefully drawn congressional district lines and instead it gives a false sense of hope we negate on the grounds that proposal 2 will cost far more than the projected amount evidenced by the precedent set by Arizona and California due to michigan's unique demographic we must use examples from similar states in order to make an informed decision it is likely that the cost of the proposal will exceed 5.5 million due to the cost of operating the system and the continuous bombardment of lawsuits instead of wasting millions of dollars on an empty promise we should use the money elsewhere such as the reconstruction of our roads bolstering our social programs and funding our education system even if the proposal is enacted the chance that any improvements will be made is highly improbable it is crucial to understand that a nonpartisan decision is unlikely due to the probability that five nine part of nonpartisan members of the committee will be influenced by the two major parties this could lead to gridlock or another draft of gerrymander congressional lines that favor one party over the other this means that we will have wasted millions of dollars on a proposal that provided no solution to our problem the basis of our arguments in I rest upon the reality that even with proposal to carefully drawing congressional district Lions will continue due to the federal mandate in 65 that requires minority districts to be carefully drawn this leads to Democratic compacted districts for example minority districts like district 14 will remain the same even though Michigan recognizes this district as the most gerrymandered district in a state do not settle for this proposal for this proposal and it's inadequate provisions recognize that it gives no solvency to gerrymandering and instead distracts our state from an effective solution thank you and I urge you to reconsider a proposal to get the last word all right so every voter in Michigan should take into consideration several points as they make their decision on proposal to this November first voters must confront whether the additional cost of the nonpartisan committee is worth the work on redistricting that it will accomplish we argue that the cost of formulation and operation of the committee is far outweighed by the facts that such a committee will have on our democracy as a lure removes a thorough amount of bias from the process they try to respond by saying the committee consists of members who lack experience bur remember they'll have resources available such as consultants and data to help them make the best Maps possible second creating the Commission which represents the voters of the state politically and demographically will give us a better chance of having fairer district maps we may not be able to ensure that gerrymandering will be eradicated but as long as we can provide a decent step in the right direction that helps address the problems we have right now we think voters should say yes to this proposal third there will always be a certain level of gerrymandering as I just said due to federal Mynor mandate on minority districts and in districts such as district 14 however remember we can reduce the severity of this problem by reducing Democratic packing in these districts with a less biased many finally consider what happens if we don't do anything at all Republican gerrymandering will continue to prevent Democratic voters from having political representation this is our only unfair to the majority of voters in Michigan that are Democrats but continuing to allow gerrymandering undermines the concept of democracy at the end of the day we need to consider the reality of the situation if we don't pass the proposal it's highly unlikely anything will be done to solve the problems to vote a representation in the status quo however if we vote YES on proposal to come this November we'll be strengthening our state's democracy and helping restore faith in Michigan voters thank you thank you so I want to thank our four debaters for their presentations on this proposal to amend the Michigan Constitution I would also like to introduce Deb Marsh their coach who has you know put in probably about as many hours as they have getting this organized thank you well I'd like to just tell you a little bit about these kids first of all I'm really proud of them for stepping up and doing such a great job tonight this Zane is a four-year debater he's a senior and he'll be graduating this year he's a full IB Diploma student and I expect pretty amazing things out of this young man Rose is a junior and she is basically our our hope for next year too like we've not only have you seen how great she is right now but she's gonna lead our team in the future and I know that she is also a full IB Diploma student so she will be on her way to I don't know changing the world I can you can already tell can't you Ethan is is probably the most I don't know he is going to be the best dad or the best teacher or something he takes all of our little debaters and he turns them into really good speakers and really responsible humans and I am just I can't say enough about him he's a senior and he's graduating this year and he is going to make everybody proud because he's kind of like a his own fan club of all our seventh and seventh graders on up they just they just adore him and this is Hannah and she is a senior this year she's also these three are all four-year debaters so they've been around for a long time and Hannah is a full IP diploma student and she is she's gonna go out there and she's gonna just going to make a difference I know it because she already well you saw that like hurt intensity and her passion and it come through and I'm really just so very proud of them and thank you guys so much for inviting us it was a really stressful and challenging because this is a hard topic to get our heads around and we know that the voters are going to have a tough time but we hope that we gave you a balanced approach so that you could really make your own decisions on this and that that we gave you the information that you needed to go and vote in next November six then be there go to the ballots thank you all yes thank you all again to the dexstar High School debaters the students who are present your researchers who did a lot of work behind the scenes and obviously your teacher coach who is very proud of you and we appreciate the participation that you've been in we also wish to recognize and thank the moderator John Chamberlain it's been a wonderful job finally thanks to our volunteers and to lead partner CTN for making this live broadcast possible these debates will be rebroadcast on channel 19 a number of times between now and the November 6 election they are also available on ctn's YouTube channel and through CTN video on demand for streaming on your computer or your smartphones you can also go to our website the league website of lwv and arbor org and look for the link to the student debates please urge your friends and fellow residents to watch these debates as well as the many candidate forums that the league is organized for the November 6th election for additional non part son and dispassionate information on current proposals and candidates for office please go to vote for one one org the league's voter resource guide covering proposals and local state and federal candidates that will appear on the November ballot and I echo your sentiments please make a plan to get to vote on November 6th thank you and good evening [Music] [Applause] [Music] you
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Chamberlain I'm Shelly venema I'm the proud coach of these kids and I'd also like to introduce to you Jared Webb and Noah Walters who helped them do their research and then also not with us this seemed B it's this evening but also helping with the women and this board were Megan Ben Kowski Brittany Bryant and Molly LaForest thank you again for having us we'd like to say go cast your vote on November 6 thank you thank you all I will say thank you to all of the Saline high school students the presenters here tonight the researchers and teacher coach for participating in tonight's debate we also wish to recognize and thank John Chamberlin as your moderator finally thanks to our volunteers and to lead partner CTN for making this live broadcast possible these debates will be rebroadcast on channel 19 a number of times between now and the November elections they are also available on ctn's YouTube channel and through CTN video on demand for screening on your computer or your smartphone you can also go to the league's website at lwv ann arbor org and look for the link to these student debates please urge your friends and fellow residents to watch these debates as well as the many candidate forums that the league has organized for the November 6th election for additional participation in dispassionate information on current proposals and candidates for office please go to vote for one one.org the league's voter resource guide covering proposals in local state and federal candidates that will appear in the November ballot can say is make a plan and be sure to vote on Tuesday November 6th good night [Music] you
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Fitzgerald Colby Fitzgerald Charter so she used emojis to represent the emotions and there's we're respected happy safe appreciated and excited and then she lists the behaviors that their homeroom came up with to show what they were going to do in order to ensure that these feelings happened in the class setting and then this one on the left is Kayla Ryan's which also has the emotions that her homeroom came up with and then to the right is mine um and so I also put the emotions that my homeroom specifically came up with Rama and Anushka and my homeroom um and we also decided to include them in different languages because we have a very wide representation in our homeroom of those languages so these are some of the examples from eighth grade and then in fifth grade they did it a little differently they have more of a preamble um so on the left it's they have what can we do if things aren't going our way or people are stopping us from feeling assert energised and chill um and so they brainstormed what they could do for in the lunchroom um in classes or during special on the bus or at home and in the hallway in the bathroom and then this is an example of a class charterer I'm not sure if which homeroom it's from but um to feel energized and chill at school so we can be happy and learn we will respect each other and ourselves while working hard and persevering I believe these are fifth-grade examples here is another one from grace Cole buzz class it says we the kids of miss Cole buzz class in order to form a more perfect classroom family will establish kindness and respect we will provide an environment that is safe happy and comfortable and where mistakes allow us to grow we will believe in being compassionate and encouraging to everyone learning is our goal and we take it very seriously this is who we are and what we believe and they all signed it um and then for Emily Cooper's homeroom she's also a fifth grade teacher it says we the kids of Miss coppers class in order to form a super classroom family we establish a sense of motivation respect and appreciation we will be responsible for our own learning coming mentally prepared each day this way we will feel confident doing our work and in our ability to grow as learners so each grade or each homeroom took a little bit of a different spin on how they wanted to present or create their Charter um I'll get to that a second I'm mr.
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I don't wanna me let you know that for some grades they wanted to do it as an entire grade level um and others did it as teams or they did it as homerooms mom so this is our first time ruling it out this year and so there were different interpretations of it and they all I think aim out really great so the next step is to implement one of the anchor tools which are one of the tools that will allow the education of understanding your emotional intelligence to continue and it's um the mood meter which is a tool used to check in on how you're feeling in order to encourage emotional awareness and so Colby Fitzgerald and myself and mr.
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Brenda will be going to a training on October 15th um for the Yale Institute of emotional intelligence and we're gonna be doing some workshops on how to implement this in middle school and high school settings and then also how to engage the teachers in implementing this as well in the schools and other inker tools will come down the way as well there is a meta moment and a few other things that I will be learning since I'm new to this as well um last year there were two other teachers who were doing the training but unfortunately they're no longer working with us so Colby Fitzgerald and I are going to get some training this year so that we can further the implementation of the emotional awareness program so thank you if you have any very much questions you look just a comment I love the charters oh thank you thank you so much awesome okay well thank you [Applause] okay moving on we have public comment there's no one signed up to speak and no one here to speak so I think we're all set by our student representative Matty was unable to make it tonight so that moves us on to written correspondence Kim McCarthy wrote in support of the current fifth grade model at with Kinnear and Ron Jaffe wrote in regarding communicating with the community on a large on large school construction projects recommend a motion that the board approved the minutes lists to blow as recommended regular meeting on September 26 2008 Dean any discussion okay all in favor aye opposed okay and we have the superintendent's update Thank You mr. the as you recall last and you may report last week I deferred my time to the principal's they were presenting the 1718 achievement results so I do have a few things to go through with you the first one is reviewing and just letting you know that the 2019 2020 budget development process is underway it officially started this week misterpost put the materials out to the principal's and actually we met not only as a central office cabinet on Monday morning but on Tuesday morning we met with principals and with doctors follow our special education director and we really we talked about last year's initiatives didn't quite make it into this this budget that we want to continue on as part of our strategic plan and our goals as well as you know looking at enrollment and all other things that are impacting what we're doing and what we need to do to continue to move forward along along with our strategic plan and to move our district forward so we're in the initial stages of developing that next month Ken and I will bring to you budget assumptions as well as proposed goals for budget development for the board to consider and typically on our timeline that's at the second meeting in October and then in November we also have a budget roundtable and then we have another board meeting in November where the board would likely kind of approve the the goals going forward in the assumptions so we could really finalize with the superintendent's proposal for 1920 would be which would be presented hopefully at the very first board meeting in December so we'll quickly be there and that's why we start so early it's amazing the other one one of our initiatives for this year that was a board goal that we were able to make good on through the budget process was the enrichment consultant Nicole Mike onus from the Yukon Center for talented and gifted was down with us last week the principal's the special education administration a few teachers myself and dr.
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Ruby were in attendance at a meeting for the day we spent a day workshopping the ideas of enrichment talented and gifted what it could look like different ideas that are coming out of different schools our program that we used to have and we come up we came up with some concrete concepts that we're going to continue to evolve throughout the the next couple of months as we continue to me the concept of integrating some of the we talked to the concept of school-wide enrichment and really that we really a concept of more of integrated enrichment and we'll define that as time goes on but coupling that and integrating with our existing curriculum design work and really building that in the enrichment in rather than something that's an imposition after the fact on top of curriculum that's already developed so that was one thing proactively we can do that we're excited about I've talked a number of times of really a number of times about really looking at how we identify talented and gifted students right now it's a very traditional way that we identify students and we identify through a very cognitive academic assessment called the ol staff whole SAP assessment and that's only one indicator now and one way of going about it but that's what we've used three four traditionally here in in Brookfield we're looking at some other assessments that really tap into creativity as well perhaps some kind of committee model where there's work submitted and you know a real detailed process where we really give our best effort for those students who might fit into a talented and gifted area and then what might that look like if we service if we do move forward with any kind of implementation for year one being next year we were talking about some really piloting small maybe in one grade-level kind of an area where we start to identify children as they get into their upper elementary years and how we can support classroom teachers and and figure that out again it's it's we're in the initial stages we've got a few months of work before we propose what we might need is resources to support such a program for next year but it's in the works and I wanted you to know kind of give you a status update where we're at turned over to Kenton for a second we transitioned as many of you know to the Canon copiers this year in one of my newsletters in minut news and numbers we went from 300 machines throughout the district down to 70 so while it's definitely more efficient and the machines are more high-powered and I don't mean to steal your thunder again there is a cultural change in how we approach printing and copying so I'll turn it over to Ken and how it's coming so far it's going very well I have to give a lot of credit to the staff for making the adjustment especially between wood we made the the change out around the rater on the opening of school and it's a big difference for them but like dr.
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Birol said the machines are more powerful higher-quality and we have the secure printing so you have to use your badge to to get something off the printer and it's actually come in handy a couple of times for myself when I've sent something to print and then realized I had to make a change and then I was able to go to up to the to the printer and delete the one that that I didn't want so I think we're gonna see some significant savings from that but by all accounts so far was very successful rollout Eric did a great job communicating our technology director Eric Conklin communicating with everybody and they brought in a very good trainer from Canon who went around to all the schools and did multiple training sessions who have gotten creaked a acclaim for her so so far so good yes so far so good and really again I can I'm glad you said that a real thank you to the staff because the beginning of the school year is hectic as it is and we were hoping to roll it out a little bit differently but timing is what timing is and the staff was tremendous as they always are flexible and for the most part positive responses but it is a change so you know some people aren't as happy as they'd like to be when they used to have a printer in their room for 10 or 15 years it is a change so but we're working on that and we do appreciate their their patience and their flexibility how much we saved over $130,000 a year it's a big save that was one of our one of our goals early on was that really examine those contracts and see how they are and so and we have to we have to give the purchasing agent Jerry gay not a retic as part of this whole of working that deal out we did a nice job with that professional learning just an update very I'll be very brief a lot going on this week and next week with Teachers College training continuing English language arts our new Smiths items Missoni and science units of study they're called modules more training going on with that continued training and social and emotional intelligence with the ruler program and then I sent so all of you yesterday the agenda for Friday's professional development for those who might be watching as a reminder it's a professional development day so teachers are working administrators are working and most of the staff is working but the kids are off on Friday so going well and continued learning and training it's just ongoing kids it's really fantastic the effort people are putting in speaking of effort of the walkthroughs classroom visits we're continuing from last year the walkthroughs are where the administrative team is broken up into triads we go out as teams of three and we're really looking at what have we done as administrators and how impactful have we been in working with our staff on helping them improve student engagement during lessons and also looking at that gradual release of responsibility model that were applied district-wide over the last couple years and we go around we take data on that and then we come back and reflect and you know it's part of that I think we were on the team last year walking around together head and so we're looking forward to that the first round starts next week it lasts about two weeks it will do two more rounds of that throughout the year I have to give mrs.
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Ferris our director of instruction kudos she's really there's a lot of scheduling and logistics and then obviously handing things off to the building administration to develop those schedules I communicated with the teachers yesterday and let them know that we'll be coming around and the one thing it's really important to communicate not only to our teachers but to the board and to the public that when we go around as an administrative team like that we're looking for the impact of administration and what we've done as leadership instructional leaders to see what's manifesting in the classroom it is not at all an evaluation of teachers it's not a supervisory moment to go in and evaluate what they're doing it's to inform our impact as leaders and it's important to communicate that because when three administrators walk into your classroom it could be very intimidating and teachers wonder you know you're taking notes where's all that information going we share all that information with the teachers at each of the buildings and faculty meetings so we want to be very transparent about that and make sure the teachers are comfortable with that the next one superintendent office hours one of the first ones we're going to set up is we're working at the working on the venue right now but dr.
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Cipolla and I are dr. small our special education director were actually going to team up and go out and have some office hours together and we're looking forward to that I think one of the coffee coffee places here in town you're working on Lisa's working on that and then Lisa came up with another idea I need some feedback from the board she thought about a stroll with the superintendent before the weather goes south maybe a walk on the Greenway and have conversations with people you try to go to some different okay I'm getting not so apparel I guess we're going to do that Lisa okay all right very good so literation as well yes there you go so so we're trying to get the you know some different ways to interact with folks and hear from people and answer questions that people have and I was interacting with one parent was asking about one of the initiatives that didn't make it through in the budget process for this year about school start times had a nice back-and-forth today with a parent on that so just when you have those opportunities to talk people get a chance to understand and and see all the considerations we have to we have to think about when we make these big decisions as a district so anyway we're looking forward to that that's coming up at the end of October and then the final thing it's not on here October 1 is always our big check-in on enrollment I'll be giving you a report on that at the next board meeting the enrollment report just want you to know that and Denise Walsh our power school guru is working on that as we speak including that pretty much together does anybody have any questions question well we get information it's a specific school request budget request from their Ennis traders will we see those lists or no you don't want that be shared you don't typically we get if there's if there's an interest in that we could have on some kind of process to have a discussion about that we haven't typically done that but I'm open to that if you want to see what principals are thinking about and putting forward we get all the information then we call it through before it comes it comes out in December so absolutely I know it's early as far as the enrichment consultant you know the consultant define like are we going like the gifted and talented or more enriched ranks I know those are two different that's actually we had a big discussion about that and we almost are looking at perhaps a parallel plan where that integrated enrichment concept is we build in to our to our new curriculum that we're developing and support teachers and implementing that and then also we would need a enrichment coach a talented gifted teacher whatever we want to call the position someone who understands how that works integrated into the classroom and it's differentiation up and down of course and by interest but also someone who understands the needs of the learners who are those students who are I then as talented and gifted as many of you know by law we have to identify as public in public schools we have to identify children that are talented and gifted but we do not have to service them okay and currently we don't have any program to service service them in Brookfield so that is something we do need to consider it as part of the discussion so the model being talented and gifted program per se and then the consultant looking at enrichment - yeah almost both in a parallel track so but again I think it's important too that when we talk about that and we develop that plan we would need a person to do that with expertise is there an area there's no doubt about it it's not it's not one of these things you could just put on top of teachers and expect it to happen yeah well and for the community to keep in mind that talented and gift is a very very small 3 percent of the kids right yeah absolutely and he typically identify in the third grade year and service most typically through the middle school years is kind of how that works upper elementary I'd like to build on the point I think over the years that I've been on the board we have had very pointed questions and now what are we doing about this so as we're developing the program I think it will be important that we communicate well on the concepts yes you know was it a pullout program is it in classroom program why is it a good program what is our measures of success on that program all of the concepts we fear we will tend to over/under communicate and and overlook any importance of telling our parents what are we doing right and I think that's extraordinarily important so that people have it in their head absolutely knowing a little bit about it used to be easy right it used to be how to program kids went to that programmer and once they went to the regular classroom it's not that it's not that simple anymore it's much more in classroom and much more [Music] differentiated larger and so understanding how that works why it works why it's good for my kid it is well ahead of actually implement absolutely and I think that's going to be important that's why we had to start the work right away with our meeting maybe it was two weeks ago now whenever whenever we had that first meeting and we need to get another one together soon with some tentative dates on the calendar because we need to have some priority we have to have a pretty solid proposal for when I'm talking to you in December saying you know we need this resource for this reason for this program you know that has to be well defined and then once once that's in place then you could have those conversations where you explain exactly what so do you think the first time we'll be actually talking about the definitions of the program will be as part of the budget yes I will not have it prepared until the delivery time yeah and then we then we could I think once the initial discussion happens on that throughout the budget process which I'm sure will revisit that talk about that a little bit more and as time evolves that that will crystallize even more because we'll have more time to plan so one of the things that people I think still don't understand is we're doing a budgets a year in advance in trying to you know then getting the consultant in place and putting these plans together you know this is what we're getting prepared and so it's a great opportunity it's a fort goal we're really excited about it and so we want to do the right thing by our kids and we haven't had anything in place for years and we want to make sure we get this in place and what we get in place we want it to be the best program oh I'm very excited about is just for full disclosure my son is a graduate student at the UConn program and she's just been named as the implementer for his school the American School in Monterrey Mexico to implement that's very same program so I'm gonna be listening to him Jeff holidays she was sitting - what was your in here okay that's gonna be fun yeah it's going to be exciting and in the other key to that though is yeah you have that happen you have to have the right person on the Austin in my city and so maybe part of this is that this program weatherization and we all are small and in the black I'm during the day that address sure that I need and I don't know in full support of thank you [Music] okay moving on we had at the end of minute of course which some forming uniformity tweaks possibly we and great job sort of utilizing another tool to get any information out there and this is the coherent plan brochure which still had a little bit more in progress but were we went through it and anything it's also really great job communicating some of our goals where we've been where we're going there's also a whole panel ruler program so that's gonna be really nice around the community sort of in the plan so so that I was for communications for the pathology part of our being over the summer we got a little work done on the 3000 series and there nine policies that you see only tonight these are policies most of the wish cave had recommended but people didn't yet have there were three that actually will be later on tonight and and [Music] okay vermin a motion to approve and [Music] every three days a few things very quickly I mean they cover the whole Washington Monument Jefferson Memorial Lincoln Memorial Korea Vietnam Memorial visited us happened in the museum okay and rose all Orioles the White House Arlington Cemetery the young soldier amazing probably one of the most moving experiences of the whole of the changing of the guard and in a really sweet as it all into this three days kids are throwing alright also really quickly advanced and it really is a wonderful and it was a course with approval and if you go to any questions about Trevor [Music] so the planning is gonna go on in the collaboration conversations as you know DC you know comment on their teaching learning all year long it's pretty it's pretty exciting that's why right now the cow box and it's all something new that's kind of you probably which is an online and this up giving me a lot of the people online through email digitally and they donate directly through through the internet so or where we go with traditional would the money that each student addresses go directly to do their I'm out or will this all be together actually mr.
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