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and that really disappoints me and saddens me and frustrates me that that's the message and the takeaway that has happened from some of our discussions as a board because i feel like it has been the effort of this board and administrative staff as well as a previous school board to make the best of our challenging barriers we are all empathetic and understand that the lord's geographical areas of unc one want to present unique circumstances however we cannot use this as a reason for an excuse from having to make our decisions and have a clear plan for our district for the future a few consistent points over the past few years in our different community study groups have been that everyone would like the district to have a clear plan for that future that everybody would like to know what steps we're taking to have a 5 10 15 year plan and they would like more unity in our district i think it was allison that said a couple meetings ago that possibly combining or consolidating our high schools would be a good step in that direction of community to help us see what our needs may be for the future and help us see you know what our numbers would be [Music] and how many people would be willing to to try to work towards that unification and consult consolidation with the discussions the board has been having over the past few months we are trying to move in that direction as hard as that may be we want to bring the district together and we want to provide the best opportunities for all of our students by bringing our being senior high schools together it would be a large step in the direction of our goals the best for our students is to bring them together to increase our numbers and not divide our district also people have asked if we're broke again if that's why we're having these discussions and i would like to respond to that also i did cover some of my funding concerns at the last meeting that i can state them again with some of the legislature that is moving through the kansas state department at this time there is an increase in virtual student funding that is proposed but there has been no increase in revenue legislature to cover this increase in funding so it is likely to mean a cut to standard education suddenly in order to balance the budget legislation that provided for fair and affordable funding is nearing an end and control will shift from the kansas supreme court soon and that fight will have to be reinitiated if if it is there are also changes coming in special education funding from the government that could mean that it's a district we will have to come up with a large sum of money to offset the decrease in government funding in order to maintain our level of service to our students as we are required to do in addition to my concerns for the not so far off future i ask this question in response why should we wait until we are broke our district will be much better prepared for the future if we are proactive instead of reacting would they be better in this time of teacher shortages for us to be able to increase our teacher's base pay in order to attract and retain our high level educators it would be wise for us to be able to move salaries out of capital to our general fund so that we can free up that money spend on our facilities and our students such as for increasing security and safety as our vote at our buildings as this has been pointed out as a concern and as we heard from ina tonight we want to do what is best for our children the students and that means doing what is best for the district long term also feel like a plan is the most respectful way to move forward for everybody at this time because while we may pursue the land transfer or while the wilson admiral deputies may pursue that option i feel like we need to have a set action plan set forth for what will occur in the years to come just so that there isn't that question every month and there isn't this discussion and this concern every month or at the end of every year because i know that the western north communities feel like this is something that has brought us over here and while it may not actually be brought up every year it is a recurring theme because the district of our size even if we combine our high school students and combine all of them without losing any we would still be a small school we would still be a 1a school and i feel like that points to the fact that it's not feasible for us to operate to the junior senior high schools it is nothing personal and i truly hope that we could come together because i was around two when we went from and i know you guys kids are tired of hearing about this but when we went through the consolidation from papua new guinea to central plains and that was a tumultuous time too back when i was in high school we were dead riders but we've been able to come together and work as one community and as a history and it is my hope that even through difficult and challenging times we would be able to come together as a whole district and i would like to make a motion that beginning the 23-24 school year all seventh through 12th grade students in usd 112 be consolidated to the central plains junior senior high school attendance that beginning the 2023-2024 school year all 7th through 12th grade students in usd 112 be consolidated to the central plains junior senior high school attendance center paint platform can i elaborate so i know in that time frame there could be plenty of other things that occur [Music] so what my motion is for is just what i said to have a clear action plan in place in case something else doesn't occur or there are different options proposed not knowing but i think that making a motion to move without fully is not a very good option there's there's a thousand things that need to be looked at there's pros and cons for the gym those different options the pros and cons for wilson students depart from their pros and cons for women and faculty closely and i think that that means if that's the direction that the board wants to go that that needs to be part of the discussion the board improving like that without having a discussion with explaining your numbers without doing any of that i think that's a huge mistake and just finding another responsible and forward and even demonically uncomfortable that's there's a lot of things to look at mr clark where are we staff boys now in both ends of the district i think right now who are higher tonight we're fine in the high school the workforce it's very important and exciting she will stay in second grade with extra time that we paid her what we've done this year we do not have that that's as far as the teachers that i know are we need to build we're there [Music] we don't have any uh other classroom openings right now we've hired our secretary here at the high school uh we do have a special education teacher hired here at the high school math uh joshua things i can't talk about due to the rules same with my counselor here and we need to find another way so basically we're probably in a normal year as far as that we've had some people step up like emma but we'll [Music] i know there's [Music] some options on there but there could be some other departures that maybe i don't know about yet but right now that's the ones i know about well i think we're probably in agreement this board that one high school is probably the best way to go i don't think we're in [Music] agreement of transporting students from the north and south and there's some ambiguity in what i thought tamara said about the district getting along and what's best for kids i i'm having a tough time seeing that all the way through all that road just runs one way but her motion and the second allows the wilson endurance community to pursue another auction if there's one out there there may not be if there's not an option out there and that time comes to force people to come this direction i have doubts that you will give a large percentage of students i can't speak for them but that's a year off but i think it's just it's really going to put a further divide and it's just you were right when you were saying our staff wilson and maybe down here i don't know it's on pins and deals are stressed out our students are stressed out they made a video to present they have board watch meetings they come to board meetings students shouldn't be doing this there's no peace they don't have an opportunity to be students and children i would hope that we could come to a an agreement within the next year and to settle this one way or the other and i appreciate your your motion gives us time to do that but i also understand what brad is saying you know we had a there was a prayer meeting in wilson yesterday that 40 to 50 people attended that center or not listen to this hidden center on easter it centered on the community of wilson the dorms in the school and the school board that's sad we're in a situation we should not be in that we are so maybe this year we can find an option to change things so i want to say that since the last board meeting i've received a lot of correspondence from people all over the district which i genuinely do appreciate because i think it's important as patrons of the district to know what's going on and be engaged and express your thoughts and share insight because we all have different perspectives and different opinions i think that one thing we can all agree on is that every community is passionate about our district and we all passionately want to have what we have now and try to avoid as much change as possible people have a variety of opinions of what should be done and what's best for all students however recurring things have surfaced for me and my conversations with people one of them being any change made to the current structure of wilson schools i've consistently been told anything i vote to change is because i am emotional and i'm pushing my agenda um that's an unfair assumption to make about anybody sitting here having an agenda about anything that they're doing without having a conversation i think it's we can all agree that having these conversations is very emotional and while you can feel your emotion that doesn't mean that that's what drives your decisions every single one of us sitting here has conflicting values that we have to balance as we have these conversations as we make a motion as we vote um we have a lot of different people from different walks of life we have parents taxpayers administrators coaches teachers retired residents of the communities grandparents alumni business owners church members board members and we all have to come here and we have to be able to have these conversations and we have to be able to talk about the facts and then move forward and i appreciate the fact that we can have these discussions with um singleness by the way um but that being said just because i don't like a decision someone else makes or emotion that they make that doesn't mean that they made it for the wrong reason another one that i hear consistently no matter who you talk to is they don't want us whether it's any community you fill in the blank some community has another community that they feel like they've been victimized by at some point sadly that's something we probably all have in common but i don't think we can't overcome that and come together i genuinely feel sorry that anyone feels this way and i hope that in the future we cannot continue to perpetuate that problem within our district we will be a stronger district that can provide additional opportunities for our students if we can come together i really believe that but if we're ever going to do that we have to stop campaigning to leave the district or kick them out or even just saying those things that's not that's not going to keep us together we have to stop seeking opportunities to widen the gap and focus on the opportunities to approach the gaps between our communities and historically i don't think that we've done a good job of that as humanities as a whole and the other thing i've heard is getting by is good enough and i think this goes back to the are we broke yet um no we're not broke but i don't ever want to be in a position where in an emergency we have to make a decision because we're going to be broken we don't make a decision i don't think i don't think that's how any of us would like to run the district and i don't think that's the most responsible way to take care of our tax dollars and unfortunately it feels like any time any proposal is put out there the responses are negative whether it's consolidating 7th or 12th graders whether it's let's do a walk schedule and align schedules and share teachers the knee-jerk reactions tend to be negative i can't i will never and this is what they always do to us and i'd like to ask what if we were to change the self-narrative that we've had within our district so let's try this and i can do that and i don't know what that looks like but i know it doesn't look like what we what we're sitting here as now and the risks that we have between our communities and in the end what we dwell on is what we've become and so are we going to dwell on the conflict are we going to dwell on the opportunities that we have in front of us to try to unite and be a stronger district or are we going to let the past dictate our future kind of to build on what allison was saying as far as kind of using these challenging times one of our goals is to educate and prepare students to be advocates for themselves and to be able to know the process of government and that includes school board proceedings and while it is not fair to have this stress i do think we get you to have an opportunity to help educate our students and i would like to possibly take the next year to have work sessions that serve as assemblies at the schools to allow the students to ask anonymous questions or you know to really understand the process and why we have to make the decisions we have to make and i go back again to this being why i have made that motion is to try to have some respect for everybody involved in the process and that does include the teachers and the students and our superintendent who has put in countless hours trying to come up with the answers to our many questions and i think it's only fair to come to a clear action plan at this time next question uh my question is uh one of the things that every community always wishes for is a building in their community no doubt in earth boston when we had to close our building in bushnell i would never deny that uh one of the things uh in several of the plans or ideas that have been exploded and i you know i hear it from hollywood father they want me they like everything in their community clapping likes having some community wilson like having school in their community uh with some of the plans that were put forward whether by board members myself or working together we can assure a school building in wilson because we don't have there's no room for elementary down here i i even proposed a plan where it would be pre-k through eight and i thought that was an opportunity to look at it in a positive light that we can guarantee that building so that it does lead me to wonder where that middle ground is okay further discussions will report hearing done motion generally stands as the 23-24 school year the seven through wilson that would attend school in the central plains junior high actually brad is that 7th through 12th grade students in usd 112 be consolidated to the central plains junior senior high school attendance center classroom perfect so we will go around the table or vote right here motion passes any further discussion my board upwards i just want to clarify that i think express interest in that land transfer i think it would be great for you guys you know if it could make that i know we're setting this date but if we get some more information here i think we definitely need to talk about it again um but this is a path to move forward but like i said there's always something else to come up but uh i think okay uh second one is we're not gonna do anything tonight on student fees but i didn't give you a package of what student speed were determine prices i do not believe at this time i will be recommending any cost increase in uh uh something lunches other than maybe the adult price uh my look at increasing our textbook fees just a little bit to help us i mentioned that's been fun oh uh um yeah i was just wondering if that would help us but uh if we do increase lunch prices if that would help us by the name number one of the things we have to do is have our lunches be a certain percentage of what the reimbursement is and i deal with it like once a year and i remember it and i forget it so i will give that information to you we have this uh spring after free break people allow junior high students to take technology home we have that position with a little bit of but i think it's been a positive thing so we might move them into the uh [Music] our lovely legislature which mr joney mentioned earlier uh they are on break that's a good thing that means messing something up uh they really didn't accomplish much they really needed to get some stuff done by friday april 1st and they didn't the school funding bill that they put forth did not pass because there were i emailed them they just put too many things in it it wasn't like a straight funding bill they were trying to put other things in it which did not help uh really you can't they can't they should put all that stuff in with funding one of the things you know that policy around allowing non-resident students to attend any school district that they wish imagine uh you're a district in greater wichita and say you want to have your kids go to derby or andover may or suddenly everybody in hoisington or elderwood decides they want to come to wilson or class there's a lot of issues there that i mean we just can't willy nilly say hey everybody wants to come come you know we can't be prepared that we were never expecting uh also here's another company they have that kansas promise scholarship program this would give our tax dollars to students from missouri nebraska colorado to come to kansas to go to school i don't i don't get that one myself uh but we need to get a clean bill they did pass and it will go to the governor senate bill 160 that's called the bearish and woman sports bill and also the parents bill of rights they did not pass with a veto proof margin the governor has called the parents bill of rights the teacher demoralization act which basically that put your lessons out there what we hear all that kind of stuff so we've got a month [Music] you know and they even went to like 1 30 in the morning and we rest assured no good decisions are ever made at 1 30 in the morning but they're off until they come back here at the end of this month i would encourage you to contact them to pass a clean budget bill which funds gannon lawsuits so that's all i have any is work last year i hope you know is having a superintendent's coffee here but it will be on wednesday instead of my normal tuesday i've got some stuff i need to take care of first thing in the morning so i will do it on wednesday at 9 a 00.
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as are we so uh you know it's people are you know um transferring to different schools in one case some someone's leaving the profession in another so it kind of depends on on there's a variety of personal reasons why these things are happening and and so yeah fortunately i can say that our principals have been busting their tails to to get staff to replace them so um we are we're gonna have another assessment on that will go to uh mr vogel's request for kind of our turnover uh retention but um we you know we aren't getting the number of uh candidates that we'd like but we are slowly fulfilling positions anything else again this is an action item i have a motion to approve tonight's personnel report i'll make an ocean two questions and supplements second all in favor all right thank you and welcome aboard thank you item 9e is grow your own and alternative pathway to certification incentive programs so this is kind of in response to what we've been talking about staffing and everything else i think that it's actually a good time to talk about this um really there's two parts of the program one is the grow your own where we want to promote our existing typically classified staff who don't have bachelor's degrees we want to help them obtain their bachelor's degrees in education so that ultimately we can put them in the classroom it would be for just those staff existing staff members that we have identified and having those skills that we think would be good in the classroom ultimately they would get free tuition through what's called arizona teachers academy and those are that's at asu u of a or nau my understanding is that there's discussion about the upper college offering education bachelor's degrees as well and i don't know what the cost of that that would be if it would be free for teachers or that they could be part of the teachers academy as well but that would be exciting if that happened what we would do the district's uh contribution of the district's commitment to that would be while they're getting their bachelor's degrees any fees assessment costs or books that weren't covered as part of the program that this could pick up okay in addition to that this is the big deal a lot of times these staff members have to quit being working for us in order to do their student teaching we work with them on paying them doing their job their their current job and working with them to allow them to student teach so that that income didn't go away i also had a conversation with a staff member from nau that says there's actually a way that we can get give them a certificate even before a regular teaching certificate even before they get their bachelor's degree and they can be in the classroom can start keep paying them as a teacher while they're doing their student teaching so that's one thing that we also look into when they once they get their regular teaching certificate that they would get an additional stipend from the district their commitment to the district would be in that program four years they owe the district four years if they leave early they owe the district two thousand dollars for every year they leave early okay bachelor's degree takes four years we'd support them for four years the expectation from the district is they support the district for four years okay the other program is the uh the alternative pathway to certification incentive program so this is for those staff it could be a staff member or a new employee coming into the district that currently has a bachelor's degree we can actually put them in the classroom and with a rate with a alternative pathways certificate so there are certificated then they take training through nau u of a asu there's some others but nau told me that this would be a free program for them as well this this year and that they would work on getting their full certificate their regular teaching certificate in the process we would pay any fees assessment costs books that were required as part of their education training once they let's see once they have received their regular teaching certificate they get a um let's see what's this their stipend amount would be four thousand four thousand dollars i believe and then they go to that it's a two-year program and then they would owe two thousand dollars for every year okay so um really it's we're trying to bring in employees potential employees into the district that we recognize everyone that applies would not be accepted we need to focus this on those that we will have a high likelihood of success we anticipate it'll cost about ten thousand dollars a year per employee not a year per employee that we bring into this program ultimately the total cost either over two years or um four years but it could bring you know the focus would be on those already living in the community and hopefully once they go through the program they stay in the community and want to continue to work for you well that would be the hope yes so that's what this pro these two programs are all about so john uh presented this to me on thursday and this being my second term i have seen a lot of programs come through that we have approved i don't know that i've ever been as excited over a program as this this is just like you said it keeps keeps it in the community it helps them grow professionally and we just might get some good teachers out there i'm excited i would echo that i would applaud i applaud the concept and the leadership that's bringing it to fruition i'm going to vote the a for it no doubt about it i i think i've read this twice to make sure i understand everything this spectacular uh you know this approach the only question is john is there a it's going to be very time consuming even for our staff to you know mentor these people and so forth do we have an idea of how many people we could the practical matter handle in the program i don't um you know i'm thinking about starting small we're talking less than a handful at least to kind of get our feet our feet wet and see what kind of commitment there is to that to them but right now you know we have we have people that are on the alternative pathways program and so we already have people that are supporting these teachers already we also have instructional coaches that that's their job now their job is to help new teachers in the profession and so we already have people in place that would be doing this anyway but i don't see us going with 20 to start and like i said less than a handful to see what kind of commitment there is and what kind of success um a motion then please to pass this fantastic program i'll make a motion for the approval the crew approved to grow your own and alternative pathway to certification incentive program the second place all in favor all right item 10 a instructional time model and four day week any more questions or pretty clear okay again an action item well since i'm on a roll let's just keep going thank you for the approval to use april 18 2022 that was designated as a makeup snow day to now make it a remote learning day [Music] approval to use april 18 2022 has designated the makeup snow day to now make it a remote learning day okay okay now a second thank you all in favor aye aye thank you item 10b is the revision of our 2021 and 2022 school calendar so because we had to we have a school calendar that has monday today as a non-instructional day this is just a revision of the calendar to basically use the snow day as a non-instructional day we're stopping 2021-22 school district school calendar [Music] thank you all in favor hi [Music] now on to probably the next most exciting thing for me to get involved in um construction of a chino valley high school track and associated financing so we have um and i we talked about this in my evaluation in december one of my goals prior to retiring was to get a tracking place um at the time we had a quote i think it was 580 000 give or take for the track uh maybe a little bit less um we we think we've identified uh that we have the funding to do this i've got a re-quote uh 680 thousand if we don't do this now before long it's going to be a million dollars to do put a tracking and so uh we have um we we are proposing to do a eight year finance on this and so this would be um if they're talking starting the guy i think hopefully he was joking with me was saying he wants to start tomorrow but um you know we need to get the financing in place and a po cut but their goal is to construct this and have it done prior to basically the beginning of july when the monsoon starts i want to allow some time for marty camp to kelly athletic director and mark metz our our track coach they actually went down to central high school which is where this picture is from and saw the track that this company that support services has put in so if you guys want to come on up and talk a little bit about what you saw down there that would be great so yeah uh last wednesday mark and i got to go down in a tour central high school uh their track um it's pretty much going to be the same uh the same style that we were looking at and they got theirs installed how long ago was it six a few months ago right i can't remember yeah yeah just recently i think it was just real yeah they had a couple delays because of the weather and they had to go back in there a few different times this is part of the reason why they want to get started now in april uh so we avoid those issues but it's a beautiful track um we're looking at um it's a i think it's the color's red and we're looking at probably adding the the long jumps and the high jumps as well talked to their aed they had a really good experience with this company and i'm forgetting her name right now but uh it sounds like she is um very much about keeping everyone on the same page making sure we're meeting with our maintenance our administration and the athletic department as well to make sure that uh it's going as smoothly as possible as far as the actual track i'm gonna let mark talk a little bit more about it because he's the expert here and no one here in the district knows more about truck than this guy i mean so i started coaching here in 2003 with john and um were you here in the first year i was one of the first track coaches here yes and um last time we had a meet was 2009.
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calendar year for 2021. it was 101 000. and this year we have received 54 000 so mr schubert reminded me that calendar year is january to end of year so that 54 000 is just from january to now okay so we're on track and even ahead of where we are we'll be sending out a robocall and put a place on ptc and our website to just say last chance tax credit donations for this year's taxes are due by april 14th so again get your tax credits in if you want them to apply for this year's taxes do we know kind of how those receipts happen during the year i mean how much of our annual tax credit money we get in the first quarter second third and fourth we can look at that definitely it'd be interesting since the tax year doesn't follow the fiscal year uh so it might be interesting to see because i look at 54 000 knowing that there's probably people including me that made tax credit to apply to the 2021 taxes yes in the first quarter of this year and that would concern me that it's currently in 54 if i don't know what the history historical has been yes we could definitely become information town hall meetings so we did not have the parental and student participation that we anticipated to gather information on our next steps and refinements of school procedures and curriculum needs we sent out mobile calls and i wish more of our students were here because one of our concerns is um that sometimes parents don't answer the robocalls or they don't pick up or don't finish so um and what was interesting is last year we changed the robocall number and it's not a continental number because what we were finding is as people were not picking up the robocalls when we were calling for the nurse or you know actually calling because we had a sick student or something was wrong parents were not answering so we changed the robocall number which other districts do and it's a 1-800 1888 or a 720 it's a different area code which i think we need to let our parents know that's the robocall number because i know i don't answer you know other area code numbers or sometimes it comes in as potential spam right so we can also print a report after the robo calls to see if people are actually answering so we went back to look at the report for the town hall so there were 725 calls made there were only 22 confirmed answered calls and there were 334 not confirmed or answered and there were 368 messages left so in addition to the um to that a special email was sent directly to the 80 students on our dnf report um that was sent on behalf of mrs cuevas mr nathan and i we advertised the town hall at school we had flyers on the ptc facebook pages and the advertisement boards were placed around town at the corner of the bottom of the hill and outside so a few takeaways and things to consider we heard that the with the family events there were too many and we talked about structuring them a little bit different so that they're more meaningful so when we met with the 301 committee we already talked about maybe combining the math and science night so that you're not coming out science night and then coming out math night coming out literacy night so we're working on that syllab people would like to see a syllabus from classes as to what's being taught with clear expectations and we are going to be posting curriculum on our website and we'll talk a little bit about that so that people parents will have a more general idea of what is being posted but we know that on our monthly newsletters that we are going to reinstate that we want to put the curriculum partner there for parents to know exactly what's being done at those grade levels and also feedback was from some of our middle school students we've heard this before but one was voicing it there that lockers being reinstated in middle school to avoid back problems in the future our class size update i know this also came up um during town hall and we have talked about it with our governing board members so just looking i wanted to just show our current class sizes 28 classes kinder through eighth grade so you can see there the numbers of the students enrolled so if you look at kindergarten you see that miss silverson has 20.
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it served him incredibly well he is a very successful young man raising a family of three and if he hadn't had cap he would have been in jail i'm sure so i just want to say thank you for that program and i hope it continues because there are children that need that so thank you thank you want to close yep okay um can i get a motion to close the public hearing on the closing of moani education center building moved second roll call please repeat brown is an eye mrs galbraith aye mr sualish aye mrs walters aye vice president ruth aye president albrecht aye okay the public hearing is closed um can i have a motion to adjourn all in favor say aye all opposed okay we're adjourned from the special meeting you can turn off the you
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but we didn't find out until after the last board meeting that this was going on but we'd like to apply for the loan to do so copy copy or refresh district wide as well as our interactive panels that we utilize in the classrooms we can get approximately 1.574 million dollars at a great interest rate of one percent on this money so later on i'll ask permission for us to apply for that loan what any questions comments concerning the application for the common school loan i just had one question just for my knowledge what is the interactive panel refresh okay if you walk into a classroom it might look like a great big tv screen but it's more than that it's a touch screen it and so you can interact with it and it works with the computer and the students devices can interact with it as well and they they can capture what's on that screen into their device for notes and that's just a small amount of what it does but it does a whole lot more than just look like a tv screen okay thank you for that board we have one in our conference room also in my office so we utilize any other questions comments thank you mr streets request for rfp for reporting and analytics software mr trees yes you may ask what that all means in layman terms basically it's a dashboard where we can gather all of our information to make it easily read for not only the public and the board but our teachers as well we currently have a dashboard called decision ed we purchased that several years ago but we found that it doesn't really interact with all our data very well and it's not being utilized by by very many people because of that because it's hard to use as well so we want to send out an rfp to see what we might be able to replace that with so later on we'll ask for permission to send out that rfp questions or comments on the reporting and analytics software thank you mr freeze i'll let you get settled madame vice president i'm fine okay move on board goes student achievement update thank you mr president members of the board and dr smith i'm pleased to bring to you this evening our third installment of looking at our student achievement data relative to board goals and the board goal that we're going to look at this evening is about our district benchmark math and reading assessment so this is our fast bridge data grades two through eight so just as a reminder that we administer our fafsbridge reading and math assessments to all students in the district up through the 8th grade and this is a nationally normed adaptive assessment we're looking at mid-year growth data this evening so one of the questions that we have to ask ourselves as we are in recovery from learning loss of the pandemic is how are our students doing mid-year of 2022 compared to how they were doing at mid-year of 2021.
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we have at least four cracks this white that go all the way across it and i've had some middle schoolers and high schoolers trip over and so i remember like i'm when you just made the motion up here about it like i'm getting goosebumps right now and um but i never thought my youngest daughter's in 7th grade i never thought how how were we going to afford something like this and the benefit it would be for not just my track team and i'm selfishly it is me but the community the middle school i mean today at practice we had over 100 middle school and high schooler kids out there plus i mean people that walk on it and do all this stuff so this is really exciting this is a great track um you know just maintaining it would be a thing because that last track we had was lasted 10 years it was 2000 2009.
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miss tesla has 21 and ms mejia has 23 and down the line so we currently have three classes that have over 25 students out of the 28 we currently have 10 classes with 20 or less students third grade is the highest and they've been the highest they've you know since kinder um with 80 students at that grade level so if we looked at potentially adding a fourth teacher that would bring the class size down to 20 for fourth grade next year student advisory uh climate surveys and marketing so we meet with our student advisory fit and monthly and we really had been discussing with them our rating on greatschools.com so our rating was a 2.8 2.8 stars and it's currently 4.5 which rounds up to five stars based on 51 reviews so we had conversations with our students in terms of public perception of what people think about continental and the positive publicity and marketing our school and ideas they have on how to do that we also shared our ela curriculum that's on public display so again parents we will be recommending the curriculum to our governing board that's behind you so if you want to look at it let your friends know come and see it but we're excited that it has a spanish component for our dual language kids we'll also um be able to see that family science night again thank you to our 301 science committee we had a great turnout despite the rainy day and there's some pictures of our staff and students at science night one thing that we thought of at our nights is maybe pulling the parents for 10 or 15 minutes to give a quick snippet of let's talk about reveal math and look at where it is on our website and how you know what's being taught let's look at our reading curriculum and vice versa special recognition mrs quillen our special ed middle school teacher and programmatic assistants just deserve a huge thank you for always going beyond the call of duty to teach and keep our students motivated to learn they're amazing and students were recognized for demonstrating growth in mwa formative assessments between bookmarks one and two and bill she did it now because she wants the kids to really focus on the next benchmark so that we can also award them so she had him in the foyer there at middle school she had a list of the top um students who showed the most growth and she goes beyond the call of duty she spends her own money buying all these neat art sets and puzzles and things that the kids are interested in that she lets them pick from so donations will be accepted for end of the year prizes for her end of the year award so i told you that i would share with the board generation schools network i spoke a little bit about this they will be coming in to support our leadership team they will be here on our learning walks on tuesday april 26th then again um board members you will if you can attend with us at that time it would be great mr mcgibbon attended a learning walk with us and um we'd like to have you all come and participate in our learning once but they are going to help us develop a customized turnaround leadership program that allows for guided team review of the four domains of school improvement with coaching to create a big win strategy and instructional way for our school guidance and coaching to determine 30 60 and 90 day plans that go along with our strategic plan with each of our directors and their departments okay mean confirm so we did meet with meet and confer we will be sharing responses with need and convert to the groups we'll keep being completed by april 20th so i will be sharing the drafts i'm waiting for some of the groups to send me their google docs so we can respond i'll be sharing the responses and reviewing them with mr schubert and mr mcgivin and mr austrian will meet with the teams on the 20th time no it is just does it have your name on there oh sorry no it was not it was just mr osterny and mr mcgivern because mr ollery was on a nice trip somewhere [Music] we chose to be okay school needs assessment update so you know we've talked a lot about identified school needs assessment outcomes are working on the fish bones being developed and we will be working on action plans that will be submitted to ade honor before april 30th and our state testing updates all science tests in grades fifth and eighth have been completed students have completed writing and ela part one we still still have ela part two math and third grade oral reading fluency all testing will be completed on april 21st we have until april 29th to complete makeups and so far we have 25 students on our makeup test list and this is our anticipated dates of receiving our testing results so may 14th we will have the report for third grade ela and math on may 25th we will get the report for the rest of the grade levels and then june 15th we'll have paper copies of the scores that will be delivered to districts and charters which we in turn email home to our families the results climate survey update so responses thus far are below we are closing the window for surveys on april 30th again a reminder to please continue to get them done our goal is to double the response rate so to date we have 45 staff members who have filled it out last year we had 44 um students we have 193 so far last year we had 264 parents we had 50 um current and last year we have 52 so we are we'll be sending out messages to get those done career fair results our job fair was held on saturday so again thank you to staff who participated we had people apply an interview for the following positions we had one teacher three substitute teachers and five programmatic assistants it was the first career fair that continental has done so we felt pretty positive about people that came in to pick up applications alkaline later oh sorry many inquiries and some people took home applications so we were pretty happy about that okay and response to call to the public so our fundamental administrative team responds to questions and call to the public with direct contact with our constituents as soon as possible um questions are resolved with the appropriate staff and it's always our goal to reach a leading situation and understanding we continue to encourage our governing board members to refer parents and community members directly to the site to resolve questions and concerns prior to them getting to response or call to the public so if there's things or lack of communication or things that we can clarify beforehand of course that's what we would like to do is be proactive we are working on updating our teaching and learning curriculum on our website which will be completed by the end of the summer the page will consist of arizona college and career ready standards links to existing curriculum and book lists used in all content areas will be posted and we will work diligently to ensure we're complying with any and all legislative fields that are passed which would require our attention so right now if you go to our website and it will say district information you there's a link there that says teaching and learning slash curriculum and it will take you to a lot of our sites that we're already using the standards are there we build math information is there um our ela there's information on beyond textbooks so there's a lot of curriculum information there from parents and it does have a theme a little site that says under construction because we will continue to add to it between now and the end of summer okay so again as a reminder this is not the opportunity for questions or discussion but if there's anything you'd like to see on the agenda um for next week please let me know thank you that concludes my report can i let you know now yeah i'd like to know how many students were down from the 28th or 2018-2019 school year which is the pre-coven year and have you considered texting instead of robocalls so the robocall goes out as a text and an email and a call okay so that it goes out all three ways and um what is the cost of the generation schools eight thousand dollars is the cost for that and it is out of our esser funds part of the sr funding was to work on leadership and professional development so that is what um we chose as a team to go with roxanna the 19 school year enrollment that is a solid number because we basically just didn't finish the fourth quarter so that was our full enrollment on uh for 1920.
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and that's the data that you see in front of you if the data point is in green that means it's an increase over proficiency compared to 2021 and it might be an increase at the grade level or an increase within the cohort so maybe third graders as you can see scored five percent higher than they did as second graders if you look at the 2021 data compared to the 2022 data so on this screen you can see it broken out by race so this is the percentage of our students that have reached that proficiency mark you do see one grade level of concern from our second grade where we're a little flat-lined with our black subgroup and we have actually declined within our hispanic subgroup all other grade levels you see green across the board second grade is not really a surprise to us as that's the cohort that has been most significantly impacted by the pandemic if you think about their three years of schooling kindergarten first grade second grade that cohort has been significantly impacted on the next screen is further disaggregated and we see that continuation of concern in second grade with large increases at our other grade levels and so this tells us that that second grade has to be a priority for jumpstart the og tutoring that we have offered through our partnership with marion has to be an emphasis for our second graders especially and you can see we do have growth at all of our other grade levels when we look at math math is similar in that our second grade cohort is our cohort that isn't showing as much proficiency as last year's second graders so again that point of emphasis for extra support and jump start we do have the majority all but one sell with significant growth you can see and this was true for reading as well our most significant growth is at our middle schools and no surprise there last year if you remember we were in a hybrid model at our middle schools where half of our students were at home the other half were at school and then they flipped so no surprise that we're seeing um double-digit increases in proficiency this year and then this slide is by subgroup again lots of green with second grade being our great level of concern one point to add to this data is a continued monitoring of our attendance data so typically pre-pandemic our student attendance rate would average 96 to 97 percent at this point we're averaging 91 percent so we still have a significant gap in that data point that certainly impacts achievement as well so just in terms of overall analysis i've already spoken to the concern with second grade they need to be a priority we did administer iread 3 to our second graders as an optional opt-in to the ibreed testing with the state that has given us some good data when we're seeing our greatest subgroup gains at the middle level which tells us that our students need to be full time in person that the virtual instruction is not the best learning environment for the majority of our students as we look at at further analysis we know where we're getting the biggest bang for our buck is in that daily on grade level core instruction that even though we do have students that are behind in terms of of grade level we've got to continue to provide that on grade level core instruction and then supplement with interventions and so as we've analyzed our interventions so this would be additional time outside of the core where we're giving students support we're using the 60th percentile as an indicator that we're making significant growth in the the interventions that i've listed there so our retired teachers we now have quite a cadre of retired teachers that are serving across our entire district and they lead the way no surprise our veterans lead the way in terms of of getting growth from students our orton gillingham work and and we see great growth in the small groups across every elementary school and part of the reason that we're continuing that into jump start with our partnership with marion university we do have a couple schools that are getting good growth from a program called lli that is not universal across our district we have other schools that aren't getting as much growth so we've really dug into that individually by school our lexia core5 computerized program is getting some growth at a couple schools our greatest growth has been in the middle school with the sra corrective reading program we've got some teachers whose students are averaging as a group over 90 percentile growth and that's really really amazing i mean we've seen some decent growth from eighth graders at xr math as well and so everything you see on the screen is esser funded and so part of our job is to analyze we still have a couple more years of our esr grant where are we getting the greatest result student result for the money that we're spending and so now that we're we have a semester in we're able to analyze and further support principals as they're deciding what interventions make the most match for their students be happy to entertain any questions or discussion so how many retired teachers do we have now in this dr anderson you do the contracts for us would you come up and speak to the the number of retired teachers that we have use your teacher voice we have a couple additional at the middle school as well in the supporting the sra corrective reading program could you give us a little bit of insight why our attendance two things why are attendances at 91 now and also a little bit of insight into the sra program that is so incredibly successful and i know it's for middle schoolers but is any of it would any of that program be appropriately used you know fifth sixth grade yes um i'll address the the corrective reading program first this has been a long time standing intervention particularly at belzer for for many many years and we've seen that kind of growth over all the years that that we've had corrective reading and it's a very scripted regimented some teachers would call it boring and it is but it's about those basic skills that some of our students have lacked and so it's research based very focused and when taught with fidelity in an environment of high expectations students can really show great growth yes it would be appropriate for upper elementary as well and we have a couple elementary schools that are trying it um we do need to provide some more professional development this summer for teachers thank you and then the 91 yeah in terms of the attendance piece and mrs bush might be able to to more directly answer this but um one of the um phenomena that we've seen across really all segments of society is that return from lockdown that return from being a home that return from i'll just zoom in when i can to you got to show up in person and that's really been a challenge across so many segments of society from employment to attendance at school and so i think some of it is that getting back into the in-person in-person flow mrs bush would you add anything to that i would i would concur with that mr notre we have had not just a small break in the routine we've had a a major break in the routine that has lasted um a couple of years and so um just being out of the sink and the routine of school in addition to all of the hardships that you know i know that we're all seeing light at the end of the tunnel you know on what we hope are the the heels of this pandemic but we still have a lot of families that are that are suffering the residual effects of that um we have families that um i'm seeing transportation be a bigger issue than it's ever been before and so i think that's part of our our attendance issue and then um just you know families that are that are staying with other family members we still have some of that and so that combination i think has just got us to a point where we're just not quite back um at the level of attendance that we want to see but we're slowly inching there and our families know that we will get their children to school right absolutely yeah absolutely yeah okay i have a question it's concerning um will you answer the first question concerning the funding that is through esser and so just for future forward or if i'm moving too far ahead stop me okay will we will this be something that we'll be able to use future forward so not just this year but this next year as well yes yes for the next two school years we have cares grant funding for the next two years although just like i answered the question about corrective reading many of these have been in our system already the retired teachers is a new one and we haven't taken advantage of that previously to the pandemic and we're seeing the greatest results there okay thank you so two years we're able to see and utilize this is awesome thank you you're welcome i just had a couple questions thank you for this um the first one is on the reading and math data one of the examples could be slide four so if some one group is in middle of the year 21 for second grade then diagonally down would that be mostly the same group of kids then with a little turnover yeah just a little um for third grade just to kind of see how they've improved or okay yes we pay really close attention to that diagonal data okay because that's the cohort yeah so tracking that reward over time okay thank you for that and then the second question i had it was mentioned i believe at our last board meeting you had talked about possibly analyzing the data from students who attended summer jump start especially in the lower elementary grades is that in process right now because we have our meeting with purdue university later this week where we'll really get the details of it their big picture is if students attended jumpstart they performed better on this data yes okay thank you you're welcome a diagonal on this african-american group from third to fourth grade that's a that's a huge number decrease huh in math at 26 percent yes that's why why it's in red yeah and and you take when you start fourth fifth middle middle school math it's hard to get it's hard to catch up if we don't do something extra right absolutely so the question becomes so when we say we're going to do more for second graders what does moore look like what does that mean that we're not already doing so i think step one is the emphasis from the building principle with students and families about the importance of our summer programming the the data study that i just referenced with purdue is clear if you come this summer you get better results during the school year not all families make that a priority necessarily for their summer vacation and so that's step number one as our principals ensuring that we give our resources to our second graders but we got to get them in the building for the month of june yeah and then we think about our district you take our black and hispanic those are two largest populations so those students have an impact on the overall performance of the district just in size right certainly so we have to put our efforts in absolutely she won't make something doing saying that correctly that's right and then so so how does this uh i know there's just one snapshot so some uh you know assessments or assessments but so this is one snapshot of how we are doing as a district but then we do another snapshot around in the year i learned and we do in fact we've already had another fastbridge screener since this data this data was from january we had one into february early march as another uh checkpoint so you're right it is one data point um doesn't define a child by any means but what it does do is allow us look to look at trends across the building it allows principals to look at it by teacher so they they know where their holes have been um from an hr point of view but just like this second grade data it really allows us to tailor what our messaging needs to be to our community to make sure that we get the kids who will most benefit from an additional month of instruction into our buildings this summer so we use it for different purposes but in the life of a child this is one data point right and but we can look at this data by school by class yes by a teacher yes interesting it's good data it is okay any other questions or comments just one more going back to retired teachers how do we go about recruiting the retired teachers and is there a limit on how many retired teachers we can take on um given the money we have available through the cares act or otherwise well we are fortunate to have um significant dollars to be able to invest in learning loss and our district has chosen to make learning loss the priority for this particular grant money so we do have the the funds i expect to have even more next year um we're really through the building principles relationships with retired teachers is how that happens so um we have building principals who retired teachers you know put in the retirement letter and they've already had the conversation about will you come back and and tutor for me um next school year and so it's now become part of our process of retirement you know the question is a comment thank you mr notre curriculum update english language arts grades 4 through 12. thank you mr president members of the board and dr smith we have engaged in a program review process for english language arts and i'd like to invite dr anderson and mr harsha to the microphone as they have led this process and i see we have some of our leaders that are with us this evening as well so thank you all for being here dr anderson dr smith mr president members of the board thank you all for listening to this presentation tonight for our ela program review the first slide just talks about the law around the idle doe and state law around the adoption process we last observed i mean sorry evaluated our ela program in 2016 and now we are doing it again because our adoption is almost over and we want to make sure that we are keeping up with whatever is new out there so we can provide the best educational experience for our students our current reality is our team has worked very extensively around what's new and what's cutting edge with education we wanted to make sure we research building knowledge and the science of reading and make sure we are aligned with the best practices in ela and so as we went through our process we wanted to make sure that the goal of this adoption was to align with best practices and not keep doing the same thing over and over again not only that we wanted to make sure whatever we adopt in the next adoption is promoting positive identity development throughout our curricular resources we have had a extensive pilot process where harrison hill elementary and brook park have conducted a year-long pilot of ckla which is core knowledge language arts in grades one through six what i really want to point out is some of the data points from those two buildings harrison hill and brook park have are performing better than pre pandemic on the ire iii assessment also both schools are showing continuous improvement overall and in their subgroup data than in previous years and both schools are above the 51st national percentile growth with their subgroups and achieving higher than before therefore closing the achievement gap and so that was one of the programs we really extensively looked into we also through the pilot process asked other teachers throughout the district to pilot a unit and we took their questions comments and collected their feedback afterwards quick question here dr anderson yes on this partly process so in layman's term though i mean it's good wording but what are you what are you telling me about harrison hill in brook park from this pilot process through the pilot process they are performing better than they have in previous years using the materials that we are discussing at this time significant improvement or just in like like one percent half percent 13 like what are we talking about here significant harrison hill's significant it's important to tell us brooke park a little less significant okay um just because we just began this year harrison hill this is their second year of the pilot and statewide there was a decrease in proficiency on ireat3 so less students are proficient now than last year so no big surprise there with the result of the pandemic harrison hill and brook park have more students proficient this year than they did in 2019.
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so how could we maintain i think you know drainage i'm thinking of the youth football our our football team and tend to go on to have little runways so that this cleats don't get um messing it up but i think like i said i'm i'm beaming at this and i yes i'm very excited and this is a better constructed track than what we had also i think the problem is it was a really cheap track in 99 and it was black so it was getting all that heat expanding contracting and i think that's part of it um so i think this um everybody that i at most trucks we want to run on now are red prescott is blue but most most of them are going to be red that we run on and correct if i'm wrong phoenix union which is central high school is part of all of their tracks are basically the same thing they're all the same thing yes is that correct so can i quick question but just a comment i was glad to see if they're going to reuse the existing surface of the sub base material which is smart but i have no no idea what they're talking about in the surface itself what is that so this polyurethane um basically just called a rubber track synthetic so um they used to make out of ground up tires um and then it just codes so obviously for rain snows that um we can run on it but it's gonna be a permeable surface then no it's not going to know so it will kind of they'll do it but it will go off to either side okay they'll probably go away go toward the bleachers go to the outside either or yes yeah so i and again you're educating me because i just totally unfamiliar with within the description of that service material and you're right you know the old way of doing the track is i ran on the dirt track when i was in high school yeah yeah than this than the one we have now but yeah with the weather obviously it's kind of hard they're actually they basically build an asphalt road around that's the track base and then put this thin rubber coating on top of the asphalt well that's what i was curious about because i'd never heard about it but then i'm not interested other than the fact it should be red yeah now how long is the process of memory doing how long did they sing six weeks um they said to just do i don't know how long the subsurface will be the actual the the red or the track will be four six weeks so no means this year no no no and that's obviously intention is is to have middle school and high school meets i think that's this is really great we need this yeah now next we need bathrooms that they don't have to go out there purchasing cooperative so they they have trained with their margin of profit so to speak to be very competitive for government entities like themselves awesome this is exciting well i think yeah i will make a motion to approve the construction of the cvhs track and associated finance second any other questions or comments before we vote we have college [Music] all right with that good night [Music]
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but what was it for 18.99 well that we could put up but the 1920 is an accurate number because we basically finished three of the quarters and we're only fourth quarter online but we can get you those numbers thank you all right thank you so now for the fun part um this warehouse is going to lead us in our special recognition in the introduction of the cult of the month and your okay [Music] good job so elena smith was nominated by mrs rodriguez her first grade teacher elena is kind to her peers and teachers every day she uses her classroom materials and school playground safely elena is responsible because she comes to school regularly and completes her work on time congratulations [Music] was nominated by all of the middle school staff she's a sixth grader here at continental michaela is a thoughtful person she does all her work well and timely when she finishes her work she helps others in her groups and she makes sure their work is well done she brightens up each day with her smile congratulations and great job at being kind safe and responsible and next we'd like to present our staff golden horseshoe award which is serves as our employee of the month and for our teacher we have nominated a teacher who's been here for quite some time kindergarten teacher who has been very dedicated to her craft loves her children and not only the children in her in her classroom but the children in all great in all the great levels and in her kindergarten pot she's always welcome and open to helping others and also those students that might need a little extra support and help she has one of the biggest kindest hearts she gives a lot to our school in regards to donations and especially when we have our foundation gala she does so much for that so that is lorraine mejia and then for our support staff we have someone who's always here every morning with a smile making us laugh outside engaging with the students they can always go to him if they need help they have that friendly smile that kind nature and also a very big heart can always be counted on is extremely dedicated and he's a big part of our continental family we want to thank you we call him mr ben but it's then peter stark we cook let's see thank you great thank you so with that we'll move on to more board stuff you all are welcome to stay or need to get home that's fine as well or a little bit of boat please okay we know it's a school night and you know you may have homework so that brings us to number 10 the consent agenda um um i have a question um a couple of things um one the compensation when was the last time we did a compensation analysis we haven't done an official compensation analysis we did three years ago we typically look at comparisons and ms alonso will look at district comparisons to look at adjusting incoming rates we're starting salaries for new people but we have not done an official one if you are referring to a specific company or to that length okay um and then the other thing the um i guess we pulled the vouchers off of here did not yes all right that's all so i have two questions uh about correction in the minutes from the 321 meeting this is just terminology uh i think i was corrected when i originally made the motion on the financial statements and the audit report that we were to accept it wasn't it was to accept not approved and if you could just correct that uh to accept the audit report and second on the field trip request at desert sky cinema um school there was absolutely no purpose listed for this document so when the eighth graders go on their their trip to uh to washington d.c this is something for those that aren't going to be able to have something to do during that okay what is it i mean it's just going to see a movie just going to the theater for a movie okay for one day or two i believe it's just the one day and we did something similar with them last year when let's have a strip did this before so the remaining eighth graders that didn't go on that short update where i believe it was also the day yeah yeah mr mcgivern miss jolly mr greg this brings us to you yes sir so for the district financial report you have the report within your uh your packets um you also have your um your budget versus actual which is showing everything on the category budgeted and what has actually been either spent or encumbered so i'm more than happy to open that up for discussion and answer any questions that you all may have um two on the uh on the district financial report the overall m o budget is listed at 7 which varies by 32 000 from the budget revision number two that we approved on december 2021 and what's the difference between the two lectures i'll have to double check and take a look okay i mean it's not a significant amount yeah i'll have to double check it's just different and and it tracks with the budget natural exhibit it's just that it varies from the from what we have approached another budget revision and just a clarification if i'm reading this correctly we still have a hundred and forty two thousand dollars of unspended funds in nestor two and three would that be correct that seems about about accurate okay some of that money is still earmarked for things like summer schools and summer interventions and things like that so there are things that's budgeted for then we just haven't come across yet and then just a clarification on on the budget versus actual report but on the right side of that report greg you've got it uh my checkup board report and data entry and there's a difference can you just explain so that difference that you see there is that six the 600 codes because that 600 code doesn't fall with a 1 000 or a 2 000 because it's it's basically where we pay coaches out of it's where we pay club the leaders out of so it doesn't exactly fall into a 1000 or 2000 it's intermixed but having those numbers there in my check then it matches straight up with those 600 so thank you that's how i was doing my double checks on it get a motion to approve item a district financial reform all right thank you that discussion foreign yes mrs kais yes mr mcgivern mr ellery yeah and mrs and we'll move on to the new 11b approval of the vouchers so before we have a discussion i believe we need to have a motion in a second i'll have to approve the rapture yes um i i pulled this item from the agenda for a couple of reasons number one it seems that there's always a lot of questions here and i'm just wondering if we we should not have federal vouchers not as part of the or the consent agenda but i have a question on the payroll vouchers number one i couldn't see the voucher number uh that was on there for both of the payroll vouchers if you could just tell me the flight voucher number that we signed that aligns with that please [Music] zero one zero zero one zero yes okay now zero zero zero zero one zero was there i i tracked that it's the two payroll values you just couldn't read the number at the top i can move it to the number right now [Music] the document number is sorry about that sir we'll pull those for you right now [Music] the only other question i have on the payroll vouchers is i noticed four items [Music] one there were two items totaling about 550 bucks um and in for a martha hoff and another 700 almost 800 dollars to martha cruz these were two new certificated teachers or certified teachers that were just hired um and they don't start yet until the first of august or so i'm wondering why expenses attributed to those two individuals on the expense voucher were these travel costs for interviews themselves that they are currently substances oh they're currently substituted okay thank you it answers the question [Music] i apologize for the number being cut off but um payroll voucher 19 is zero zero zero nine zero zero nine okay and on number twenty is zero zero one two thank you much yes [Music] mrs allen yes mrs keith yes mr mcgivern mr ellery yes and mrs yes it takes us to number 12 new business okay again um stacy bertram apologizes that she is not here to have this further discussion on our gifted program who postponed with so ade is requiring that each school provide a spoken sequence for gifted ed so this is her program design scope and sequence that she has completed that mrs that i and mr romanelli have also worked with her embedded information on the report so again it is at ease request that governing boards approved the scope and sequence prior to us sending it to them so we knew that she is not here i don't know if you would like to move for approval in may or if you're okay with now approving it so we can send it in the document it talks about how the group will deliver how we will deliver services to students k-8 so again we talked about servicing students in the 95th percentile but we do have a plan within the scope and secrets to look at either training teachers to differentiate within the classroom for enrichment also cluster proofing is very common where you pull students from the sixth and seventh state nines to work with the students the eight eight and nine stay nine students as well so that they're you know if the students choose to not be in a separate pull-up program so there's different things that we could look at this is an 18-page document this is really an important i think item but i do have a few questions and and i would move to table this item to may unless there's a compelling reason why it has to be approved before that it doesn't so that's that's good to understand the second half i believe we have july 1st to get it and if you could send us your questions that you might have ahead of time so that i can prepare to share attention to you so she can come in yes yes mr mcgivern yes mr olivier yes yes and now i tweak to the 22-23 school calendar items okay like it says on the uh rationale there was an oversight unneeded record state prior to fall break which typically happens for teachers so we'd like to recommend that we that you improve for the biased calendar the school days remain the same at 175 which is where we are this year so it was we were trying to figure out why we were over a date and then we realized why we were i would just comment that there's some missing pieces here we show the first day of school but i don't see the last and we show two-quarter start dates two first quarter dates but not four we can look and clear that up as well and bring it back to the main meeting with this calendar we need a motion yeah i think those are just administrative corrections okay i'll make a motion to approve it as amended with the administrative question second mrs allen yes mrs kais yeah mr mcgivern mr allery yes and mrs yes well for those of you that want to eat here in the cafeteria the price is going up for adults well not yet it's not yet so every few years um the child nutrition department within the department of education comes out and does an administrative review of our food service program um one of the things that they found is that our adult meal pricing is way too low their their reasoning behind that is that as it is a meal that is supposed to go to a child and doesn't that we have to recoup the cost of the reimbursement rate and the cost of food for an adult meal this would mean that we would have to change our adult meal pricing to 4.85 per meal that does not affect our a la carte pricing which would mean a a meal that does not have it has three or less components on it as far as the meal service program is concerned so if somebody wants to go up just have some fruit some vegetables in the protein that would remain with the a la carte prices but if they wanted the grains and then the milk and everything else that goes along with it it would be the full price of the 4.85 so with that i bring that to you for your approval and making this effective as of april 18th this way we have a week to get the word out to our staff that that the adult meal prices are going to have to go up and we can also explain them as well the the difference between a full meal and the avocados and the price now is three to four well i will certainly make the motion to have the price increase second and i'm frankly that's still a bargain in mind you know what food is done so mrs allen yes mrs yes mr mcgivern yes mr hollery yesterday yes d authorization for the superintendent to approve fundraisers so tonight we're bringing for you um a resolution to a finding that we have within our audit and that is for the superintendent to be authorized approved uh fundraisers in the following categories any clothing type fundraisers anything for food snacks or concessions if we were to have any gate fees for any performing arts or athletic events so if we wanted to put on a our drama club put on on a show for the public to come to see she could approve that any school dances and any banner or other types of advertising so if mr mcgibbon wanted to add you know advertise his ranch out on the baseball field this radio could go ahead and make that approval the reasoning behind us bringing is to use within our policy policy jje it states that the fundraising activities by students on school premises or elsewhere as representatives of the school district will be permitted only for those type of fundraising activities approved by the governing board which is what we're asking you to approve tonight are those activities and when connected with specific activities it's approved by the superintendent so we're asking for you to approve these fundraising type of activities that the superintendent could be able to go ahead and allow this would allow us so when at the last moment we get the yoyo guy coming in and we're having his presentation and then we're selling yoyos afterwards we can get that done without having it become a finding within our audience so tonight we're bringing up for you guys to approve i will make a motion for the superintendent to approve the listed fundraiser new discussion there's no yo-yos i'm not quite sure what that meant last year we had a fundraiser we had a presentation that had to deal with yo-yos and at the end of the presentation yes they were actually selling the kids were buying yo-yos and yo-yo holsters and you've got yo-yos in the cold box store right now i think though because i've been collecting yo-yos well and so what happened again in response to the audit because we were able to take advantage of the speaker to come in in a short notice that he was available and then it resulted in hyping the kids up about yo-yos and selling them but we didn't have important proof the money before so this is the auditor's resolution in what a lot of districts are doing in order to avoid that being able to take take companies that want great offers that may arise that will help us mrs allen yes mrs kais yes mr mcgivern yes miss valerie yes and mr hospital yes i to me the mesa unified school district and the continental intergovernmental agreement extension okay so again this is we do use have our iga with mesa unified school district that offers online services for students that is separate from our virtual school no that's our they provide they provide the curriculum they're proud of the curriculum and teachers and this year we had how many students five five students that were taking um well they attempted right attempted but did it complete because what we're finding is that it is very difficult for kids to keep up with the online school um but nevertheless we would like to continue using basic distance reading program what is this problem it doesn't there isn't a cost associated with it until students complete the the list of the courses and then uh with the aed and reimbursement it's i don't know the pricing off top of my hand but what is the gregory adm cost or adm uh funding for uh on my schools it it depends on how many hours of online curriculum so full-time full-time student it depends on how much time they spend so a student so take a year-long course the students expected to be in that course for 800 hours whatever it is if the student completes that course of study in 400 hours it's an adm charge of a 0.5 if again we can't be charged any more than a 1.25 for the student to complete the course so on an aoi though what what funding do they generate for the district though it's the same aoi funding it's just just under what the funding level is for um so so yeah so the cost for one student i think um off top my head was somewhere around eighteen hundred dollars that we would that mesa would charge us but then we're receiving forty eight or forty nine hundred dollars from the state in adm funding for that student so it's a net gain yes yes what we can do is add an agenda item to may that will it and that was well that was in the previous the pricing and all that was in the previous approval of the eight of the online the aoi school uh the pricing was was included on the fight students that attended and how long they attended and what that why they did not come in and i would assume we have some historical data as to what the revenue was to the district save in the last year or two uh last year and what we spent here would it spend okay i mean this may be fine i think we just need to know who who's really benefiting from it and and what are the cost benefit involved so that was started for this school year for the for the aoi that uh that the governing board approved at the beginning of the year so we haven't had any costs associated with it and or any adm generated because the students did not even complete a month's worth of work before being administratively dropped by mdlp for non-attendance are they attending in person now or um no they went to a different online school and it was out of our district then so we lost those five students yes and those were our only students in the online learning they weren't all in at the same time they went in at various times but uh they just didn't they didn't keep up on their end of their commitments what they were supposed to do so the the program that we passed uh at the beginning of the year the online school and we contracted with mesa to provide the learning we had five students to go into that yes zero students completed correct and there was no cost correct so mesa is not even charging us for the administrative fee of managing that because there was no they didn't complete enough time in or do enough work for that online teacher to even administer so we have this online program are we still recruiting for it um we are but uh for the most part people don't take advantage of it and the ones that do want to take advantage of it are the students that would not benefit from an online school because they they aren't the type of students that can be in an online school obviously our main goal is to have our students here but we do have conversations with parents when they're looking at alternative situations and one thing that has happened and why we have not recommended our eoi is if it's in the middle of the quarter because the courses start from the beginning through the quarter or through the semester correct so we explain to parents and kids who are doing very hard to start in the middle of a quarter in order to complete or even start in the middle semester because it assumes that they are at a certain point in in the curriculum right and so they either can't make it up or they're too far behind and it just becomes uh pretty overwhelming at that point if we had exit interviews with those parents and students no so this is a like an online tutor no it's a online curriculum with instructors so it is part of mesa distance learning so it's part of mesa unified school district their mdlp is the mesa distance learning program so that is mesa's aoi school state authorized aoi school so we're utilizing the curriculum which is to align to state standards and to their highly qualified teachers because we we don't have the staff to administer online instruction ourselves but makes the distance learning justifying the separate tutoring and the meetings with the kids the tutorials and the conversations with the parents it just is proven you know we've seen that it's at a level of difficulty that our parents and our kids are not prepared to catch up with why um do we know why those kids wanted to enroll in online school to begin with was it we we do know and sometimes it's just if they're struggling i mean we had kids who with cope and coming back to school we're still not willing to come back full time there were there were there were two students who have a lot of out of school activities that that actually caused them to miss a lot of in-person schooling and that was the whole reason for them to want to go online for that flexibility of not having to be in the classroom every day and what did we call this we had a name for it it's called skate colts okay as it outlives its usefulness i mean we really did this i mean it hasn't outlived its usefulness it's something that's an option that can be available to you know the right set of students you know if it doesn't cost us anything to sit there say we don't have a single student use it for the next three years and then we get a kid who's got cancer and undergoing chemotherapy and can't come into school that's something that they could take that's an option that's available yes so the iga is is the intergovernmental agreement that we're when we do have a student that will enroll then you know we follow all the protocols there's an option yes and so if it just sits there unused doesn't cost us anything and then when kids do take advantage of it we profit from it if they complete the whole year yes there is no cost to us if they don't complete the whole year there will be if they say they go through like 40 of the because it will generate you know how you generate adm funding so with these five students they didn't get to a certain point where it was going to generate a cost would that be offset by income it should be yes it just kind of depends on your enter and exit dates so if someone completed 75 of the course um and then ended up coming back to the classroom the difference from that we get for the kid and the tuition for this online program should offset each other yes yes i though the thing that i've seen is we've had some families that have moved and they wanted to start and this was last month two families who really wanted to see if they could utilize the online school because school year was almost over but the program it's like run by semester so what we are what they're ending up doing is i don't know how it works at some of the other online schools i looked at some of them online to research and some of them offer six week courses we don't do that so i don't know how it could impact us if we could find a program that would do six week courses if we would keep people that would stand rules but at a point at what point in the year would we even it really it really boils down to it's it's basically you either answer and exit at semester uh because it it's set up their online courses and the curriculum is set up on a on a semester basis so it's not a quarter it's not a you know a quarterly year-round type deal it's it's set up semester so many weeks semester so many weeks that's the course for for your core courses and your elective okay okay did we ever get a uh i'll winner a motion to to continue our uh intergovernmental agreement with mesa unified school districts through june 30th at 25.
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that's huge so all the the learning loss to the pandemic yet we've got two schools who have more third graders proficient than they did before the pandemic okay and i also want to note that that is consistent across almost all of their data points so it's not just ire 3 but it's also on our fast bridge assessment these are third graders correct i read three as third graders but fast bridges everybody yes okay so we conducted our research on what's out there we basically looked at ed reports which is a database of all the materials out there and they rate them and so we looked at that we also looked at our district grade level curriculum specialists reviewed it trying to see if it was the best fit for us and for our specific students again we piloted in multiple schools across multiple grade levels committees met strategically throughout the year to evaluate the program and they developed a rubric to align with not only ckla but our personal goals as a district so why did we choose ckla or core knowledge language arts has very rigorous texts it follows the science of reading which one of the big things with the science of reading is that we always do letter id before letter identification prior to doing letter sounds students need letter sounds to read and so we want to get them reading earlier so they start with letter sounds and then go along with letter id it fosters high engagement at both harrison hill and brook park along with their achievement it supports our rigor work through meaningful tasks and it promotes student teaming not only that as going through the materials it definitely promotes positive identity developed through the text through the images and all things in between so in looking at the cost of our adoption for grades four and five there is a decrease for families it goes for in fourth grade for from thirty five dollars and fifteen cent to twenty eight dollars and from the same amount in six fifth grade to thirty dollars and we're adopted we're looking to adopt this for three years sixth grade we put a paws on because a lot of their resources are aligned to middle school and so we want to further explore that process to make sure they're aligned with the best fit because even though they're in a elementary school in our district most textbook companies have them with the middle schools as far as resources so we want to make sure we're doing the best possible thing for our sixth graders no matter their environment whether they're in the middle school or they're in the elementary schools also for dual language we will continue to adopt allante adelante sorry and we will use el grants to purchase those that is all go ahead no that 150 no that's gonna come from it it hits the district the district it's gonna hit the district and that concludes the elementary portion of this presentation and i'll give it to mr harsha pardon me good evening mr president dr smith and members of the board the process for our secondary resource is very similar to what dr anderson just described at the elementary it has been six years since we have adopted a new resource our grade seven and eight are currently using my perspectives which is a product through pearson um and our plcs currently utilize that as their foundational research they do supplement with various other texts and resources uh grades 9 through 12 are also using pearson and then again in our all of our courses 9 through 12.
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a second mrs allen yes mrs keith yes mr mcgivern yes miss valerie yes you mr yes now it's time to talk buses all right so one of the things that i've done since i've come here is i've decided to start a capital budgeting committee i ask for volunteers throughout the district doesn't matter what your position is you're more than invited to attend the capital budgeting committee within that we discuss how we're spending capital dollars for the upcoming school year that way i know how to go ahead and prepare the budget for those um last year we decided that we were going to purchase a bus a year so that we could turn our fleet over and get you know relatively more reliable transportation this year it started out with well let's just put a hundred thousand dollars aside every year and once we save up enough money we'll purchase a bus and then it got brought up with a leasing option so what we have before you tonight is we have the ability there are currently four buses in phoenix that we can have by the end of the month and there is a special ed bus excuse me in atlanta that we can have probably by the end of the school year these buses aren't when i say they're new they are new they've never been titled but they are ones of 2018 once in 2019 and two or 2020s these are buses that were ordered and the orders were canceled and they've just sat on a lot of the dealership so what we're proposing tonight is to enter in a five-year lease with daimler chrysler to purchase to at least purchase these buses so let me make sure you understand that these this this lease purchase has to come out of our capital budget every single year and we are going to tie up that 145 dollars every year the great thing about this is is that at the end of the five years the buses are hours we don't turn them back in and and these five new ones like like on a vehicle lease these are actually paid for and hours yes sir um if i recall about 2000 and maybe 18 or so we did three we had three different uh lease purchases that they concluded and all is done those terms yes i remember the year but yes we have nothing on a lease purchase curve okay so that's okay correct i was basically yeah how many buses do we have we have a total of 14 buses and how many buses do we need define need we run 11 routes a day so that gives us three buses right currently as a backup how many need to retire 14 of them what what are the what what are the pull years of the current bus street our oldest bus is a 98 are all of these all five of these uh buses air conditioned yes they are yes they are and this comes with maintenance including tires yes within the lease they cut it covers all the maintenance so with regular maintenance so with the bus with every we purchased at the beginning of the year if a light goes out on on you know the driver's side blinker goes out we got to replace that there's no warranty they are fully warrantied so they've never been titled they've never been titled i'm saying on the bus that we purchased that yet to be delivered correct correct if you're saying that the driver's side light goes out we have to pay for it it's no different if the flasher in your car went out kind of weird i the only the only question i would say is um plus it's been sitting for four years you might want to make sure the tires are yeah the tires are good everything seems like such a little thing but that's a very expensive item on a bus everything everything on the buses are fine because they will be inspected by dps prior to delivery so dps has to approve the bus to be before it can even go out on the road so it'll have all its belts checked it'll have all its hoses checked the tires are checked brakes checked everything that dps does to inspect the bus to approve it to be used will be done prior to delivery i i would still count on replacing those tires within the next year or two though well the great thing is that it'll be covered underneath the leak's purchase and they will be covering that so it's 145 000 a year for five years yes ma'am and it's five buses yes ma'am and what would it be to purchase five buses today right now each bus would cost roughly a hundred and seventy eight thousand dollars a piece are we getting a deal on these because they're older yes we are honestly and the reason why we're looking at doing as many buses as we can is one we can get these sooner rather than later they don't have to be built and um i lost my transport well i think it's important also to know that right now any commercial fleet account would expect almost a at least a three maybe a five percent increase um every six months minimum so so buying one of these buses next year bare minimum would be four five percent probably maybe higher the other piece that i had for you is the 150 which was rounded 150 000 dollars we spent on the bus at the beginning of the year that bus right now is 175 000 next year that bus is 190 thousand dollars so much for five percent yeah yeah so we're working so we're getting we're getting older buses that haven't been titled they still have minimal miles on them if i say minimal i mean we're still talking less than a thousand miles so that's what we're looking at i think that's great and honestly um in 2021 quality car parks started going down so i would rather get something over the 2020 anyways we have a motion i'll move to approve the new best lease option i'm sorry so what we're talking about basically is buying five bus or getting five buses now and paying for them over a five year period yes sir and then we own yes sir and these five buses will replace the oldest buses in the fleet yes sir that are we can't maintain anymore uh we're running into problems with with some of our older buses that we have a bus that's sitting out of service right now because we can't find parts for the dash all right i believe it's gonna we have another bus that we had to put an odometer on the actual tire because we can't get parts to replace the odometer so that way we can track how many miles it's going so we are our fleet is the walking wounded you said 98 yes i'm not going to ask that question and so we're going to have 19 buses in our fleet when this what do we do with the ones we're retiring whether it's selling for scrap metal we will put them up a public option so we'll once we figure out which of those buses that we're going to get rid of now we may not get rid of all five we may get rid of three and have two more for backups that way if a bus goes down i have a spare bus to put kids in you know just last weekend we had on one of our buses i i don't know what it's called an auto mechanic by any means but there's a piece that goes from the radiator to the engine that keeps the engine cool and it cracked so i had a bus full of kids sitting out by the library with a bus that couldn't be moved so that's kind of the impetus of getting something like this done we committed so do we have places to park all these yes okay how's it gonna impact our insurance the insurance nationally with you know adding vehicles to our fleet our insurance will go up but again if we are in a pooled insurance so it's not going to make too much of an impact well and it would be offset if we get rid of these five yes and not only that but our maintenance costs will go way down on our vehicles our fuel economy goes up so we won't be using as much fuel so the amounts that that were listed as far as the value of these five buses were what the dealers said that they could get to sell them for today if we went out and bought them today yes i would only make one recommendation based on personal experience and that's um we sold a company semi for substantially more than we paid for 15 years ago about 60 days ago and if you have any possibility of selling those in the next few months i don't know if that's even a possibility but student is better because the market at the moment is very strange but very beneficial to someone selling even a school bus you'd be surprised the traded value on these which is not even included because it's trading value on some of them are 500 bucks well yeah that's okay and you can get scrap the others that have zero traded value because they won't even make the trip to phoenix to their lot the place that's covering the maintenance is in phoenix how do we get reimbursed we still perform our own maintenance or do we need to ship so there are a lot these buses are up to lot in phoenix they do have an office here in tucson that they work out of and our mechanics for these also come out of tucson so is it four buses and a sped bus yes ma'am and this bed bus is currently in georgia how'd you find these we have a really good relationship with with a couple of the different bus manufacturers and when we talked a little about what we would want to do unfortunately bloomberg was not able to provide us buses right now everything through googler had to be built so there's thomas then these are thomas buses he actually has him on his lawn well you're a lucky man to find him because i think there aren't fun these days and a lot of this also goes from mr lane and all the work that he put in on this i don't want to make this sound like i do this is a lot of mr lane on the record we'll give him all the credit that's fun i'm not good with that as well and the last question i have is we're committing 700 and some odd thousand dollars over the next five years yes sir um how does that fit into how we look at the next five years from the capital needs well it definitely impacts us you know because these funds will be locked up for the next one you're going to have to give what might we have to give up from a capital in order to well if you remember we were looking at buying a bus every year and this lease payment is nothing more than buying a bus at july of 21 rates versus july of 22 23 24 and 25 and so on because as i said those plus prices are going to do nothing but go up about 20 000 a year so in the long run it's better for us because we're purchasing in 2018 2019 2020 you know cost for a bus whereas if we were to do that one a year greg i don't i don't disagree but what this is telling us is that we are now obligated yes we are you know when we're buying a bus a year we're going to say that we really don't have the capital uh this year to do that we have to defer this this just locks it in right so we did discuss in our meeting um with our committee in terms of furniture furniture for classrooms we do have a lot of furniture in storage that's good furniture because we had already in the last three years phased in new desks and chairs so we're good with that equipment with our chromebooks that now that we have the um one-to-one k-8 so we just know that we'll just need to look at replacing chromebooks which a lot of the funding for chromebooks have come from our donors who support us which we build can still continue to do that for us our curriculum since we're in our ela curriculum and that's going to cover us for the next five years we won't have money for ela and math is also going to be covered for the next couple years so we're feeling like we're in a really good position um to do this now based on what we've purchased in the past and it doesn't mean that in the future we can't look at how much a new science curriculum is going to cost us and things like that depending on cost of curriculum that we haven't already gone out to procure i mean that may push some of that curriculum with a year out but if i don't have kids here to take the new curriculum it's not going to matter okay mr dahlin yes mrs keith yes mr mcgivern yes mr alleria and mr and our next to last event the employee benefit proposal i believe hello ben are you still there yep i am i don't need your service okay great thank you for sticking with us pleasure to be here so before we get started in the packets that you received there was an error on page four um the wrong plan was listed so i would like to hand out these updated page fours so let me let me talk a little bit about how we got to where we are today we went out for our renewals and we were fortunate to have a 10 increase come our way for our health care and i say fortunate because we were capped at 10 and it should have been much higher um one of the plans that we currently have is running a loss ratio of 468 percent so after our meeting with gallagher i called ben a day or two later and said hey here's what i'd like you to do for us i want to see if instead of balancing that 10 increase across the board that if we could take that increase and adjust it as to where the increases are needed the most so late uh was it a week or so ago i want to say it was either last friday not this past friday but the friday before or that following monday of last week we got together with ben and one of the things that not only gallagher is suggesting but the holder of our policies is that we cut our policies from four policies to three policies so the first policy we're looking at cutting is that copay gold plan which was the 468 um loss so as bait came back and they gave us three different options um they could give us a high deductibles plan a value silver plan a classic gold plan and adding in a new classic silver plan and that would take our rate increase from 10 percent to 4.1 percent the second option that was provided to us was cutting it down to the three plans like the carrier and the broker have suggested that would be a high deductible plan to buy you silver in a classic gold plan that moved our increase from 10 to 4.6 the third option and this is the option that we're bringing to you guys tonight is a high deductible plan in the value silver plan and a classic silver plan with these three plans our health insurance increase jumps all the way up to 0.2 percent so we're gone from a 10 increase to a point two percent increase um the employee premiums for each one of those plans is four hundred and fifteen dollars for the high deductible plan this is up on a monthly basis the value silver is at 461 dollars and the classic silver's at 519 and we believe with 100 confidence that as a district we would be able to cover the employee only portion for all three plants it is important for us as the district administration to make sure that our employees don't think we just gave them a raise so that they can pay for health care costs so that's one of the things that's driving us towards this this plan um ben what am i missing i'm missing something uh i think you've got what we've done and mr president superintendent rico faith general and the board mr schubert thank you very much for allowing me to join you today but the important thing is that third plan that we're talking about for the new plastic distiller plan that plan there is bringing uh savings to the employees that are in the co-pay goal plan in their overall out-of-pocket worst case scenarios in their costs as well as it's a slight increase to the old classic goal plans um you know they instead of a 240 deductible it goes up to a 400 deductible for the tier one as an example the advantage to this is again to help control the cost to help share some of this cost and as mr schubert pointed out that overall premiums at a about a rate pass for everybody for overall premiums allows the employees to actually keep their raises that they get and again the underwriting department with the aspect trust actually came back this year for the first time ever in our history allowing us to do the independent rate adjustments instead of doing a smoothing overall of having that 10 so now we're able to show each plan and the expected increases and i'd also like to say that with the district covering all three plans for the employee only rate those employees that were to go with the high deductible health plan and sign up with the health savings account the district would be don't putting in that 104 a month into their hsa accounts that they'd be saving by going on to that high end of the law plan so with that that just about covers because i believe the the out of pocket on the high deductible plan fifteen hundred dollars by the district putting in 1200 that pretty much covers their their out-of-pocket expense and also i just want to add that we did meet with staff um so that grant could review with them the three plan options on what we were going to do and wanted to get their feedback so we met with certified staff and then we met with classified staff as well prior to making our decision and the overwhelming majority of our staff said go with the third option which is the one that we presented tonight and i would be willing to answer any questions that i can and anything that i can't that's why mr pence here so we need a motion first i'll make a motion to approve the employee benefit proposals for 22-23 on a second now we can discuss you know the only comment i have is um i opened this on saturday night i started to dig into it a little bit today and there's 34 pages and it's not just about the medical plan it includes disability includes we also went out the bid for for the ancillaries and okay i understand i understand but my my chance of reviewing this in in detail and even formulating questions to me is almost impossible and i'm not questioning the research that has gone into this thing but i don't feel comfortable personally on voting on a benefit package our benefits represent 26 to 30 of our salary and it's a huge expense for the district and i don't feel comfortable voting on something that i really haven't had a chance to look at and review and formulate questions to be answered what's the timeline on this so in order for us to meet our open enrollment dates um tonight we're looking for approvals by april 28th gallagher will have completed their benefit hub so that we can begin the process of open enrollment on may 2nd and then it becomes effective for july 1st any more discussion another call please mrs allen yes mrs abstain mr mcgivern yes miss jolly abstain i'm sorry approved she did quite a bit of work yeah always back to our heroes all right the last island is our board school how many weeks we have left well it's not our truth seven weeks twenty-six weeks six family math weeks um so you see we still have a lot of events going on friday is spring holiday middle school we also have our learning walks april 26th so please let us know if you'd like to participate we are planning to do an am section at a pm section so whatever time you don't have to stay the whole time you can just come for an hour and visit one class and be part of the dialogue that would be great and you'll see all the promotion information there as well we also will be live streaming our promotions and we are not going to be limiting the guests that come in we had a few questions about that so since we've been operating business as usual we're going to have parents come and bring their family members like they have in the past and future agenda items anyone okay we'll skip that and um miss we'll just start with you anything you'd like to discuss quickly now i'm good thank you the sale i'm good good job team all right all out of wisdom that's mr albert just when will they has a decision been made by the curriculum committee and the administration on the ela choice so it is it is the committee's recommendation for an event benchmark intervention which is back here the benchmark benchmark events and and when is it planned for that to come to the board for approval maybe maybe it does a 60-day period has it started already or is the 68-day period start after that no it started it has to be up for public view for 60 days prior to board approval and recommendation so it's going on right now right now and and that 60 day period will end as of our board meeting yes okay i i just have a request i would like to sit in on a couple of classes dual language classes maybe like fifth grade and third grade or something like that if you could coordinate that um obviously ela yes definitely do you want to do kinder just kidding pardon me yeah also just one other thing i wanted to have so we are having an executive session may board meeting correct that's important and the only other comment i had i came in here with a whole bunch of questions on the buses and i got to commend you for your research on that and your answers um good work thank you sir i'll pass that along with mr blaine as well um just so you know the last day of splash day they're looking for volunteers to help out so this monica could probably point us in the right direction i gave that girl my number okay so with that we will uh uh we got some paperwork to sign yes sir ben down there somewhere oh nevermind thank you there you go [Music] okay i couldn't make a motion to change the background music it was kind of snappy you didn't give a chance 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on the next slide you can see our process like dr anderson said we do rely on the ed reports database and we also got our teachers and mr notre mentioned we have some of those representatives here who piloted uh springboard which is a product of college board studysync which is a mcgraw-hill product and amsco starting in october all the way through march and our building leaders were able to provide feedback and try out those resources in the classrooms with students and we utilized the rubric the list of the things that they looked at are on the next slide you can read through there what we were looking for and having conversations about how this resource met up with the quality of text the cultural responsiveness and positive identity development our standards alignment the texts and tasks variety of questionings that will push our students to think and to speak um and vocabulary so those were the items that we looked at our recommendation is springboard for grades seven through eleven and i just tried to outline there some of the reasons the feedback we got from teachers on the ed reports springboard met expectations and sometimes in some cases exceeded expectations on their report as a resource the questions and the tasks promoted speaking and listening right now we have a heavy focus on getting students to work together in academic teams and a lot of the prompts and tasks provided by springboard fit really nicely with that push a lot of higher order questioning and evidence-based writing academic dialogue and that aligns nicely with our s.a.t and psat provides scaffolding to support all of our students that need them strong teacher resources and obviously integration with canvas which is our learning management system as you can see there is a cost breakdown the previous prices were around 12 dollars i think it was twelve dollars and twelve cents so a slight increase from 2016.
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and then again just a note there this is through grades uh basically seven through twelve but remember that in our honors courses ib courses dual credit courses and our themes of literature in english 12 there is a variety of excuse me a variety of texts that are used just as a reminder there dr anderson and i would be happy to entertain any questions i do have a question um you used a variety of curricula to determine which is the best and you your team got together was there a strong consensus that springboard was the best yes and both at the high school and at the middle school level that was the resource that rose to the top i actually was in a middle school classroom last week and got to see a teacher engage and even ask some of the students what they thought and but yes that was the that was the one that rose to the top for sure at both grade level at both building configurations sometimes if you teach a particular curriculum you might prefer that because you've gotten to know it a little bit and i guess also um all kidding aside do you know what that hundred and fifty two thousand dollars comes out to per family it's paid for through grants so it's it's not a cost because it's a supplemental resource okay thank you with the last adoption being in 2016 so here we are going to do an adoption 2023 knowing that we've gone through this pandemic and all these other struggles barriers obstacles how you want to group that all together so was there any thing that was taken into consideration because we know what we're going through for this particular adoption any lessons learned anything like oh yeah this is a good time for us to do this adoption because of what we've just gone through with the pandemic i would say that one of the uh important elements of the resources that we looked at was what embedded scaffolding and supports they have for all students we think often about our students that are in receive special education services and those that are in our el program and that was important to teachers that some of those were embedded a lot of those you know we are sometimes forced as educators to make on our own but the resource provided a lot of those embedded supports so that teachers don't have to try to make those on their own i think that's important to consider for any resource as we come in out of the pandemic any other questions or comments we had a teacher stand to introduce themselves to us we don't get to see teachers that often yeah thank you for being here with us thank you for all you doing our students thank you for the support you know the questions and comments thank you i think i have a question if you haven't answered this maybe you didn't maybe you did we'll see um as far as the with our dual program with our dual language program has that been tested within this too or how that looks within that metric yes so adelante is our current resource okay the recommended recommendation is to continue our current resource okay thank you any other questions or comments outstanding work thank you curriculum update music grades k through six mr noteworth so the other area that's been under curricular review this year is our kindergarten and elementary music program and so dr anderson has been busy and also led that work so dr anderson i'll turn it over to you mr president dr smith members of the board um the first slide again is our kind of adoption process through public law 73 2011.
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um with the process the last time we adopted music resources was in 2018. our current reality is we do not have any music or instrumentation currently at the elc's we researched articles about what is appropriate for students at various levels we learned that pitched instruments have a positive effect on academic performance particularly in mathematics also we updated the elementary curriculum guidebook which is kind of their guide of which is aligned to national and state standards and they are creating a pacing guide to ensure that music is the same throughout all the elementary schools and elcs the process was led by our regional music specialist which is damon clevenger he could not be with us tonight we examined the mission and vision of the lawrence township elementary music program the team met multiple times throughout the school year we conducted the research and we looked at best curricular resources by developmental level attached to this slide is a couple quotes about how music and instrumentation matters our research consistently shows that young children provided with instrument instrumental instruction score significantly higher on task measuring and spatial temporal cognition and eye coordination and arithmetic and students at the elementary schools with superior music education programs scored around 22 percent higher in english and 20 higher in math on standardized tests looked at which instruments we wanted to have at each grade level and the pitched instruments are in bold because we that was our part of our research in wanting to be sure we have pitched instruments at every level the highlighted ones are the additions to each grade level so not only did we want to make sure we had pitched instruments we wanted to make sure that we are keeping current with the music's top the instruments taught at each grade level dr anderson um so i i don't really know what a boom why i don't know what he said so i don't know what high pitched instruments are you got to explain this to me okay so i know i flew the phone but what are we talking about so pitched instruments are instruments that can play a melody or a song like happy birthday where some instruments are just beats and basses in in parts of an actual song this actually plays a melody that's what the pitch stretcher means okay we've learned a lot in this process yeah too mr president i might have been on the beach the boom whacker yes okay so um as far as adoption of resources and what we wanted to do for the elcs we wanted to continue with our quaver subscription which is what students students are currently receiving now but they also wanted to add an additional music play online subscription and a first step subscription for the elcs we also wanted to add one fte for an artist in residence at the elc level and what that means is not only are the students going to the music class once a week but the teacher is also going with them and so the teacher can help on the other days where the music teachers at another school so that we can have music every day in classrooms i am happy to entertain any questions or discussion this is also part of yes sir this is that's the funding also the teacher the teacher that's why you have a super so remind me kind of where we're at on the thinking about sixth graders getting integrated with respect to seventh and eighth grade band and instruments for that so we are very thrilled with the participation this year with our sixth graders who uh signed up and go our bust over to our middle schools each day uh throughout the year and we're looking forward to next year in our planning already to making sure that we're still able to continue that next year i don't know the exact number how many we have involved it's it's i want to say around 150.
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it's in the hundreds at each school and they have access to orchestra band and choir yeah that's great so what are we doing on from promoting that aspect of it um i don't know whether the pandemic you know has you know kept some people from wanting to elect into something of that or we have other logistical issues but can you all talk a little bit about how we might even encourage more personally i was impressed with the number of students we had enrolled considering it was we're still emerging from the pandemics we started this back at the beginning of second quarter uh this school year so we're promoting it through open houses at our middle schools as well as our elementary schools since they participate it's really an extracurricular uh at the sixth grade level uh just because they go after the elementary day over to middle schools and we're pleased that we're able to provide transportation as well so that has not been a barrier for students we are also promoting for next year's program now with our current fifth graders through electronic uh media and print we have schedule we're scheduling in person for the choir and band directors to come over to them to the elementary schools at the beginning of next year to kind of get the revitalize it and make sure that we have a good sign up for next year and i'll add to that i do appreciate um i have a child that is currently in the orchestra program and so i do um appreciate the seamlessness of it as well as being able like when it was um when it had first started on just how i was notified how easy it was easy to click on a link to sign her up and i will proudly say she's playing my violin from when i was a child thank you i thank you for this just in general just i understand the importance of music so we benefit from it thank you i would say far be it from a board member to add busy work to any administrative staff however i'm a little bit curious what the attendance rate is for our sixth graders that are in that program and if it supersedes the attendance rate overall um if if that's ever something you can look at fine if not i would guess it's higher um and miss anderson you spoke about dr anderson i'm sorry you spoke about um music every day in the classrooms because the teacher will learn alongside the children and then the teacher will do that every day in the classroom and that starts in pre-k and kindergarten does that continue on through elementary school one through five six we're going to try to weave it in through our academics but yes that's exciting that's exciting because when children have music intermittently they learn to fail so that's very exciting any comments any other questions or comments i just had uh one question dr anderson what is the time frame for adoption on adding the ftes um and if you've already said that i apologize we look to add that fte next for next year programming plc's okay thank you you know the questions or comments thank you mr notre thank you dr anderson district student equity outcome report part three thank you mr president members of the board and dr smith i'm pleased to bring to you our third information session on the district equity committee measuring equitable student outcomes and just as a reminder this is driven by your board policy if we'll skip all the way to the f recommendations because we covered the first half last time and so we want to dig into the last half of the action plan beginning with the first letter f that's our accountability section next one there we go um so this is the accountability section and the the first recommendation in the account accountability section was professional development in illuminate which is our formative assessment system so the all the data that i shared with you previously this evening fastbridge data that's part of the illuminate system and so it became clear through the data that we were receiving in the equity audit that we needed to continue our professional development for all of our teachers around and our principles too around data analysis in the formative not counting on those summative statewide tests they're important data points but our formative data really allows us to take action and so this was already a goal that we had identified within my division and that's the reason you see so much of it that's already in progress and the equity audit just confirmed that this was a focus area that we needed within the district the second one in this category is around our instruction and the recommendation is to integrate our instruction much more tightly with our students cultures their languages life experiences in essence culturally responsive teaching and noting that this is in the accountability section so also having a system of accountability to ensure that culturally responsive teaching is happening in each one of our classrooms and that it's not invitational it's not that if teachers share the same background as their students but really being intentional um in learning how to teach in a culturally responsive way and then making sure that it happens and so you can see a variety of different actions that need to take place to to make that happen and we're really framing this in a positive way around positive identity development for our students and so you've heard that woven into some of the curriculum presentation this evening that even as we're looking at resources do those resources build positive identity for our students and you can also see mention of our ftim pilot our teacher evaluation model pilot that we're in it also has a section that is focused specifically on culturally responsive practices that we need to bring to the forefront sure a quick question though that so because we hear that a lot so teachers stand in front of classrooms about six different cultures in front of her how what are we talking about here trying to teach to be culturally responsive let's the community understand will be yeah so in a nutshell it really is about that positive identity development do our students see their cultures languages life experiences as assets that they're bringing to the classroom or do they see them as deficits that they're bringing to the classroom and in an environment that's culturally responsive our students see their experiences as assets and teachers use those experiences to leverage learning and so it could be as you've heard from the the ela presentation this evening do our students see themselves in the type of materials that we're putting in front of them do we have authors that are diverse so that means if i've got a classroom that mirrors our district i've got authors that are african-american i've got offers of hispanic descent i've got white authors i've got multi-racial authors and so we had to ensure that our resources that we're putting in front of our teachers and our students reflect that so that's just a real quick example there's a lot more that we'll train our teachers in but in essence do our students see themselves bringing assets to the classroom or deficits to the classroom thank you so much to hear what what we're doing so if the classrooms are getting this multicultural education through their resources through their reading materials etc then our students themselves are living in a multicultural environment and seeing the beauty of those around them as well absolutely and learning from each other absolutely the next category is our seo social emotional learning and just a reminder that the equity audit data was primarily high school driven and so one of the recommendations was clear that we needed to adopt an sel program at the the high school we do have second steps kindergarten through eighth grade but we did not at the time of the audit have a specific curriculum or program for social emotional learning at the high school this one is a big recommendation and it's a big topic this is about racialized language and defining the type of cultures that we want to have in our schools specific to racialized language and really providing that shared vision developing that shared vision providing that professional development for teachers and supporting students because what might be appropriate outside of school may not always be appropriate inside school and those are some conversations that we need to have as a community and so the next slide you can see um that that's where we're starting is with the research and the conversation um to create that that shared vision around what should be appropriate in terms of language within our schools and how do our teachers support students and living up to that expectation what great what grade is this here so this would be for the whole district but the data came from our secondary students and teachers let's talk about this for a minute because we know language is language spoken language in different household different communities totally different from what i'm sitting up here talking right absolutely so but we also know language is part of a culture though there's certain things i say in my culture only in my culture because i know my culture know what that means where it may be offensive to some is not necessarily offensive to my culture so so that's a we it's a it's a line we got to walk on this one here a little bit right so and we also know certain languages are used in certain cultures to make sure that it doesn't offend me when other people say it to me so if i make it a term of endearment in a sense so that when you say it it doesn't bother me because we said it anyway my dog or whatever whatever whatever so and again part of my culture i hear that from big mama uncle aunt mom or daddy um that's just part of how we talk in our culture right so i'm just concerned how we going to how we do this without whitewashing or in a sense uh well that's not how we speak in this setting sure so if you look at the the next slide the the action steps are really about developing what that means and so for this particular one there's not a whole list of action steps it's about a process to determine what the vision should be of what you're talking about so there's not an answer here to that question it's about a process to come to a shared vision of what is it that would make sense in our schools given that we have multicultural schools and that the the term that's used in one culture is not appropriate for another culture to say that right and so part of that defining that and teaching students that teaching adults that but that's the process that you see in the action plan so this is one that is later on the back burner and in terms of implementation there's some others that we need to get to much more quickly but because this was reflected in the data from both teachers and from students about racialized jokes sometimes jokes that were not received well because there wasn't that common understanding that you described that then created a whole series of issues whether it be conflict student to student conflict teacher to student conflict teacher to teacher and so it's important that we not shy away from the conversation but that we have a process to have a healthy discussion to determine what that outcome should be can i just add um one of the things that i'm interested to see how this shapes and molds just looking at it through as we're trying to find language trying to find um building upon this what it may look like through a punitive lens like what are the consequences if said goes forward um so i'm interested to see i know it's hard to answer that now it's not really a question as it is just processing as i do um but what that looks like future forward through a punitive lens and how that would actually affect would this be helpful or would it take away from all i'm just watching absolutely and whether it would be punitive or whether it would be instructional and restorative that's good thank you for processing i and i i guess i would like to know if we're envisioning um a multicultural language usage where one culture might be allowed to use certain language but another culture does not or are we trying to find a single a single language that will be used at schools are we going to allow different cultures to speak to each other in their comfort zone sure and i think that's one of the outcomes of the process so there's no answers it's all about the process for this particular recommendation thank you thank you for leaning into it this right here is uh it's a game changer if we get it done right uh because there is something to be said about the use of language in different settings yes that's part of education yes it is so i want us to lean i want all of us to lean very hard in this one and just as a reminder to the board that these recommendations come from the data points so it's the data points that drove the recommendations this isn't dr mayfield's opinion or my opinion or anybody else's this is there had to be enough data points in all of the the research that dr mayfield did for this to end up being a recommendation okay as we move on to the the next section the next section is about gender bias and this is specific to our adults um in ensuring our distributive leadership model that is representative and not just representative in terms of faces but in terms of decision makers who has voice what's that voice look like who gets to be part of the decision-making groups and is that representative of all of our different stakeholders and so you can see the variety of different action plans that are ongoing to ensure that we do have distributive leadership and that staff members have voice in decision making that represents all of our stakeholders and then the the last section and and in some ways this is the most important section um this is the section that is are is our community ready to do this work and so through all the data points it can go one of two ways the data points can come back that oh you better do some more foundation building before you tackle this or the data points can come back yes your community and by community that includes our parents our students and our staff and we're ready for this work that's what the data indicated so there's several action plans around how do we further this this work and so this first one is about professional development and ensuring that time is dedicated to the topic of equitable student outcomes in our entire professional learning system so that's in our staff meetings in our professional development in our professional learning communities in all aspects that we keep equitable student outcomes at the forefront and so all of the action plans are designed to ensure that time is allotted to this work the continuation of that one this one now is about how do we engage our families and keep our families engaged in this work um our focus group process was very powerful um and one of the data points that came out of our our focus groups was how do we keep this going how do we keep this conversation how do i as a parent stay connected to this conversation and so this set of action plans is all about engaging our families around their common interests around their opportunities to network and interact that meet the needs that that our families have this one is also about professional development but this is a little different the professional development for this one is focused on how to have the conversation so the the topic that we were just talking about of racialized language we've got to have some professional development on how to have that conversation that focuses and and notice the specifics here empathetic speaking and listening so seeking first to understand um and so a whole variety of action steps that are designed to get us to that point where we can have um conversations like we have been having this year but it's going to get deeper as you as you all have noted this evening and we've got to be able to facilitate that in a way that moves our district forward moves our student outcomes forward and then this last one is about partnering with others um other sister schools is a term that dr mayfield used that in our district means the school that's like yours two middle schools two high schools or your sister's school elementary um she meant within our district but she met beyond as well that we are on the cusp of really really great work as we begin to implement these actions and we're going to need to connect with those around marion county around indiana nationally who are also gay engaged in this same work so that we can continue to learn and continue to grow ourselves and so um our recent presentation at the ascd conference is an example of that um and this particular action is around continuing that type of work and then we close with um a quote from dr mayfield's book and this is just really a significant quote in that it has nothing to do with your race ethnicity culture class population school location or student population culturally competent educators recognize the power of their influence to change the course of history for the better and they work collaboratively with colleagues to strategically critique where we've failed in the past and where we'll endeavor to navigate the future be happy to entertain any further questions or discussions regarding our committee report thank you for that um i had a comment it's around j3 i was thinking about that regarding engaging our parents and our communities in addition to the action steps that we're going to be taking to increase that i really feel positive that as things continue to open up from the pandemic that will help in that regard i mean i've even noticed a significant difference this school year uh being able to be on site um parents getting to meet each other actually meet with the teacher so i'm i'm very hopeful that that will really help j3 absolutely thank you i'll just go around the horn dick questions or comments nothing here wendy questions comments i'm just overwhelmingly grateful to our community that and so many people in the community took part in the surveys and the work i'm not just our administrators not just this board of education but so many people contributed and um i'm equally grateful um really overwhelmed by the work that you the administration and our superintendent have done all of our teachers and um yeah a little verklempt this is this is lovely i honestly that this is my heartbeat and i love that the amount of information actually leaves i don't have a lot of questions right now and that's a lot for me so i thank you for that i'm just i thank you for the level of just how we're honoring to parents to just community that means a lot to me it's hard to honor when you're having uncomfortable conversations and so we are doing that well and i am i'm excited so we are too thank you thank you outstanding plan we we have to know [Music] when something is done so we gotta be able to measure it if we can't measure it we just we just really talking so as we get closer and closer to this you know i would like to know so when do we know that that is done like when i know my gas tank is full of gas right not just like i keep looking at i think i got some gas but we we need to know when this action is completed and be able to look back and be able to say did this action have impact now this is a this is a lot because you're dealing with both our internal which we have control of the internal we're also reaching out externally and we have to be encouraging be mindful that even with a well planned like mike tyson says once you get in the ring get hit things can change so we have to be flexible in some regard when things are not moving as fast and be able to say hey we have run into some challenges we need help and and also this kind of work it's about who you are as a person and what you're willing to learn that's what that's the one thing i'm learning about this kind of what am i willing to learn about myself and others and sometimes that doesn't always come across as positive some people so bored and leaders we have to continue to talk about what i always what i like about this this is about student outcome yes don't take it personal yes take a person that we want our kids to achieve that's what this is about so as we go once we get into this work uh let's make sure we keep that at the forefront of why we're doing this work and some people don't want to come along you're like i understand right but we have to move forward so can i have mr notre to interject for us the next steps for the board and i what are we going to ask the board next so our next board meeting will ask for approval of the committee report and what that allows us to do then um we as i've mentioned throughout we do have some action steps that have already been in motion um and those are presented to you on a regular basis like the fastbridge data that we reviewed this evening but others will need that board approval to to get launched and so at that point then we can really formalize the action steps and go the step further of attaching the metrics to each one and then begin working with our building principles around what this looks like in their school community so we've presented a district-wide committee report now we need to personalize this to each one of our school campuses because it may look a little different in in our schools based on their community and so that'll be the next step is working with our principals to make it personal thank you any other questions or comments thank you sir you're welcome board on to our action items approval bids for the lawrence north asphalt mr president members of board dr smith recommend the board approve the lawrence north high school asphalt bid the bomb gardner as presented so moved second recommendation has been moved by ms amy norton norman and second by dick frieza questions or comments all those in favor signify by saying aye aye and oppose the same motion carries approval of application for common school loan mr president dr smith members of the board i recommend the board approve the application for the common school fund loan as previously presented so moved second recommendation for the application for our approval of the common school loan move by mr dick fiji second by mr crystal puckett questions or comments all those in favor signify by saying aye aye and impose the same motion carries approval of the personnel report good evening mr mcgregor dr smith and members of the board i recommend that we approve the personnel report as submitted so moved second approval of the personnel report move on miss whitney mustin and second i miss crystal puckett questions or comments all those in favor signify by saying aye aye and oppose the same motion carries thank you thank you board for our action items administrator report miss amy any comments correct me if i'm wrong i believe this past week was um librarian week and then assistant principals week so i just want to acknowledge all the people who serve our district in that regard in april is also autism awareness month so um again thank you to our exceptional learners staff and just everybody in our district and then my last comment was the national school board conference i'm sure you guys can expound upon it but my biggest takeaway is just it was very engaging and encouraging to be around so many school board members across the country and superintendents who kind of had the unified goal of serving our schools thank you mr frijii no comments he knows this in the executive session oh okay not a vice president i don't think we've been together since the sixth grade basketball championships and it was such a beautiful community um high schools would kill to have that many people at their games um and in particular there was one gentleman i spoke with on the way out and he said oh this is this ride home is going to be terrible he said you know because these kids lost and they're all going to be crying in the back of the car and you know kudos to all of our parents for you know all the love and the the tender care they give their kids both winning and losing and um it was a wonderful evening thank you mr pocket i'm gonna ditto everything that miss norman and miss mussen said two thumbs up all righty doc smith i'll keep my comments short and brief thank you board for a wonderful trip to san diego on the national school board conference and uh we learned a lot and we had a lot of time to interact and uh to speak with one another which is always rewarding but i do remind the board that in a few minutes we will be taking uh place in an executive session so that's all i have until that meeting thank you dr smith thank you board board next board meeting will be will start at 6 30 be on monday 25th we will do the full board meeting in the pd room this room will be used for our civic duties correct so earlier we will stay in the pd room for some recognitions and for our board meeting as well so next what means at 6 30 p.m there's no other action board i'll take a motion to adjourn so i moved second property second by consent
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maladies good evening it is 601 pm my name is john mursky chair of the ann arbor energy commission as chair i'm calling this meeting to order i'm participating from my home here in ann arbor welcome to the april 12 2022 electronic meeting of the ann arbor energy commission this virtual meeting is to affect special district or social distancing and mitigate the spread of the covid 19 virus we will conduct this meeting similar to in-person meetings commissioners during the call a roll call please indicate your current location during the meeting please remain on camera just as you would be visible during in-person meetings also mute your microphone when not speeding speaking public comment will be via telephone only to speak during any of the public comment opportunities that's at the beginning and end of the meeting please call one of the following toll-free numbers eight seven seven 853-5247-488-788-0099 and enter meeting id number nine three seven six seven five one six eight one nine on your phone this number or this information is also available on the published agenda in the public notices section of the city website and on the broadcast of this meeting on ctn channel 16 and a t channel 99 as well as online at www dot backslash watch ctn missy would you please read the land acknowledgement absolutely chairman i acknowledge that the land the city of ann arbor occupies is the ancestral traditional and contemporary lands of the anishinabe and wind up peoples i further acknowledge that our city stands like almost all property in the united states on lands obtained generally in unconscionable ways from indigenous peoples the taking of this land was formalized by the treaty of detroit in 1807.
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okay brown is here mrs galbraith here mrs walters here mr sawalis here dr hall vice president rule here president albrecht sure our mission is to empower each student to positively impact the world for a bright new future okay my mic is on now um terry do we have any public comment no sir did anybody come for public comment okay um okay next up board updates yeah i had a question so it's been brought up twice i know we talked about it the con the census of 2020 right and there we've talked about um the changing of the seven districts so i guess i just want to get the clarification on that on what our responsibility is because i had a conversation with somebody else last week with another attorney trying to figure out what our role was in that so i reached out to dr kara to at least talk with our district attorney what is our position i mean what is our responsibility so i should be here yeah i think great here we go the district it is our position that the district does not have an obligation to redistrict at this point in time after the 2020 census um i'll give a little bit of brief background information as to why um the district has seven voting districts that were created pursuant to a court order um that arose out of a litigation matter back in the early 90s okay um and and that is the the foundation of the basis upon which district 201 got voting individual voting districts for its board of education that is different from how voting districts are created through a process that is outlined in the school code so specifically section 9-22 of the school code lays out a procedure by which a district can basically voluntarily choose to uh you know with voter approval to have seven different voting districts as opposed to an at-large voting system um section 9-22 of the school code which we just described there does require a redistricting after a you know the annual or the 10-year census right that is not what district 201 has district 201's voting districts were not created per section to section 9-22 of the school code and accordingly district 201 is not obligated to redistrict after a 10-year census like other districts who might have districts who might have voting districts that were created pursuant to that school code procedure so all that is to say that no district 201 does not have an obligation to redistrict at this point in time um they just have to make sure you know they they have no obligation under the school code or under the uh court order that was issued back in 1993 they have no specific obligation to do so is that the reason why we have seven districts is because of the court order from 1993 yes so that's why we don't need to re uh do that every time you're after the census that is correct okay but we did redistrict back in 2010 11 after the 2010 census and that was because the population had grown correctly a certain percentage or something to that effect right so the um the court order that was passed in 1993 essentially requires that there be uh you know seven voting districts one for each board member um and that two of those districts have a majority of their population be african-american um and then uh that the each district is you know within a certain range you know close in population so i you know i was not personally involved back in 2010 in the redistricting but it's my understanding that yes there had been a change in the populations within the districts and that within the voting districts and so district 201 opted to redistrict as a result of that to ensure you know continued compliance with the court order making sure that there was reasonably equivalent numbers in each of the voting districts all of which is to say that the district is not prohibited from considering or looking at redistricting but at this point in time they are not obligated to so so if there if there was if there was accelerated growth like in some other towns kind of prior to 2010 i mean anywhere between 1998 and 2006 there was rapid growth in money and crete and other areas but since then we haven't seen that so as long as we don't see that kind of growth like we see in other towns manhattan new lenox you know in surrounding areas that are a little out further west it's not going to change much right i mean i don't have the demographic information in front of me right but but as a general rule i think that's correct which is that if the if the population numbers which within each individual voting district have not significantly changed such that they are you know within uh like 10 of each other then there's no obligation to uh no obligation to redistrict all right thank you and when you guys i'm sorry no when you guys decide basically through that component say yeah we can do it if you want but it's going to be a cost i said no thanks correct it is an expensive undertaking to do that yeah that's my person over here yet i said no thanks and again i don't think the population has grown much i think there's like 21 000 they're about 22 23 000 registered voters and each voting district has about a little over 3 000 you know we which equates up to 21 22 000.
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i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all here rachel cholesky here michelle colella here kate canetta you're gladys cooper here lauren daley here jody silva joe dacilla will be arriving late okay here albert rousseau here louisa brinton here and ralph professor president we have recognitions this evening good evening everyone like at this time um invite up dr christie who is going to recognize the women's club of danbury new fairfield the recipient of the connecticut association of schools distinguished friend of education award i'm actually going to let a cast member a former principal good evening my name is mike morocco and i was the principal of old saver middle school for 25 years and i retired in 2013 i'm still an interim principal throughout the state i want to make 55 years as an educator i don't do it for money because i love kids so it's my honor to be here tonight and actually this is my second time recently because i visited middle school for the chair of the committee for the distinguished connecticut associate principal and i see that she's here and i think she's a jeweler for david from the school and for the community she blew us away the school blew us away and i prayed both in the administration great job but really why i'm here is i'm on the committee for the recognition and awards which is one of the biggest awards when you have the women's club you've got to read very carefully it is my honor to be here with christie to award this award to the women's club of danbury little fairfield cafes established this award distinguished friend of education was in 1983 to honor individuals and organizations whose efforts helped to better the schools and communities which our children learn and live it is the highest award given by our association to entities not directly involved in public education we host numerous recognition programs each year and the distinguished friend of education is by far our most popular every year we receive dozens and dozens of nominations from schools around the state and every year it is a very agonizing process to narrow down our selection this year was absolutely no exception the fact that the women's club of danbury new york fairfield was chosen this award from such a large and competitive pool of nominees gives testimony to the power and importance of this work on behalf of cass and the members and schools we represent i congratulate the women's club on the achievement achieving this much earned recognition and i thank them for the wealth of resources and opportunities that they have so selflessly afforded to the students staff and families of the danbury community i would like to have christie speak through like janet dabisky come up and accept it on behalf of the women's club these are many of the members there are other members that are tuning in from home so hello to you the women's club is no stranger to danbury public schools they've been helping out in many of our schools and they're just such a group of generous women who want to give back to their community and the way that they have been helping us last year as many of you know we started 501c3 i think i got all those letters and numbers right we basically have a non-profit at our school because of so many students that are in need of food they're food insecure so from the pandemic dana because she is so amazing along with one of our secretaries terry and our school social worker karina started the meal training and so one of our old retired not old people retired first practitioners was was sewing masks when the pandemic first hit and we raised tons of money we were able to fund it last year you know the funds were getting a little lean and these lovely ladies put on an amazing dinner for us that raised over 12 thousand dollars for our meal they didn't stop there because they love to give back and so they work with us this year and in conjunction with our pto they have purchased for us two picnic tables and our pto has two picnic tables for our new greenhouse that we got from our title one money last year so we are on our way we need two more anybody wants to build it but they have been such wonderful women and we are really proud to have been working with them and thought that when i saw the opportunity dana and i said we've got to nominate them for this because they really need the recognition they're not they don't ask for much they're not out there but they're really giving back and it's just such a great testament to our community and danbury and how we want to support each other so thank you [Applause] um what i'm going to say is probably repeating doctors of the celta um how it all began in 2019 a member of the woman's club mentioned to our community improvement committee writer's park middle school weekend program needed help with some food for 15 and 15 to 18 students at first we started to buy and replenish the tiny cupboard uh with convenient food that the students can take home and put in the microwave or just heat up as time went on we found more students and families needed help and that was when i opened my mouth and suggested a silent auction thirty give back baskets were made and tied with green ribbons twenty one gift certificate information uh was placed in plexiglas stands ready for the display and one week to go we were all excited and then came covered all baskets had to be stored food had to be checked for expiration dates and replaced businesses had to be contacted to see if they would still honor their gift certificates for another year after three postponements we finally held the auction on june the 18th 2021 it was hard work we had lots of fun and we raised a lot of money i only thought we were going to raise two thousand dollars and our president who couldn't be here tonight so we she said no we'll make five well we raised 12 over 12 000 and that was the thanks to the generosity of the area businesses your pto and the members of the women's club and my wonderful committee then nancy probably repeat thank you she's my co-chair hi there the education committee of our club has been involved in many educational projects they build a lending library for the interfaith learning center as well as donate supplies they collect the box tops for different elementary schools every year 40 of money raised from our point status sales is given to scholarships to high schoolers in the danbury area the remaining 60 percent goes to the greater danbury area charities finally on behalf of the danbury club of danbury and new fairfield we want to thank cas for their award also dr zelta dana perez and karina chelsea i hope i haven't messed this up for organizing this worthwhile project thank you [Applause] good night thank you very much right now moving on to public participation there's no one on the list is there anyone in the audience who would like to speak tonight nope okay make sure consent calendar i make a motion that the board of education approved the items on the consent calendar exhibits 22-43 through 22-48 as recommended second lauren move segmented by al is there any discussion just a correction on the minutes exhibit 22-43 i was president of that meeting so could we have a direction in our next meeting that i was in attendance um is there any other discussion any other questions so i need a motion to amend the minutes i suggested so move by kate is there a second sure any discussion on the amendment seeing none all those in favor any opposed motion carries back to our original motion lauren i moved dissected by that was you now any further discussion on the original motion all [Music] um educational staff representatives our student representative laura's yours how are you i wasn't able to print out my notes today so i was wondering of course thank you good evening board of ed members and community members thank you for allowing me to represent and speak on behalf of the alternative center for excellence tomorrow the ace environmental science students will be taking a trip to the normal program with kante and dj on thursday melissa laski will be taking students to dhs to experience burgerfest on may 6th ace will administer its humanities benchmark the day is a whole school event that will see students participate in grade level benchmarks to assess our diminutive writing skills during a three-hour session and is coordinated by the ace humanities department ace will be hosting prospective dhs students from may 2nd to may 13 20 dhs students will be coming for a day to visit our program on saturday may 14th from one to four facebook posting and barbecue to celebrate our founder joe kaepernick the day will also include activities for the kids as well as time for alumni and staff to share stories and special memories related to gel and the ace experience ace would like to recognize our super attendance award when it's kristen balani and nicole kushby um do you also like to celebrate our for demonstrating leadership in the classroom and the ace community thank you for allowing us to share what's going on [Music] did you say this is [Music] is it open to the public we are expecting principal weather to come back to provide some more details from the last what do we the next board meeting um um going backwards because i see some of our staff representatives would you like to speak this evening action items uh kate would you do action item a i'll make a motion at the board of education to approve the 20-20-22-2023 school calendar as recommended by the community relations committee and in accordance with the exhibit 22-49 is there a second part um i just wanted to i just want to say that you know the conversation we had dr selig brought forth the results of the survey that went out to our community um and it was a 60 40 split 60 were in favor of the uh the half day sessions so that is what the recommendation is from the committee uh you know recognizing that we're not going to please everybody but we are trying to follow the feedback that we got from the community thank you for that any other discussion all those in favor one abstention motion carries um action b michelle would you do that please 2022 high school graduation date motion that the board of education set the high school graduation date at wednesday june 15 2022.
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