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there's a casino night and the memorial day celebration at the municipal building at 10 a.m on memorial day also the eastern education foundation just so everyone i'm going to say this every month i think just because it's just a an unbelievable group of men and women they the eastern education foundation is a non-profit organization that was formed to benefit our students educational experiences they hold a number of fundraiser events every year and a hundred percent of the proceeds go to our district they're partnering up with our pta and they're holding a movie night at savage field which was talked about tonight already on may 13th at 6 30 and then they're also holding their annual larry cole memorial golf outing on june 6th at the little mill country club they're expecting it to be the biggest golf event that they've had in 15 years they're really excited about it there's going to be golfing food drinks prizes contests everything if you would like to be to attend that golf outing or be a sponsor or donate or even volunteer to help because they're always looking for help please contact them at www.easterneducationfoundation.com thank you or dot org i apologize thank you thank you mr lanzalata any other committee chair well i would just like to say on behalf of all the ptas and ptos they're doing a wonderful job organizing events it's nice to see they're getting back to the way things were before kovid took all the events from our students so kudos to all them science days are being reinstated socials are being reinstated recent resource runner book fairs ice skating events and i would just like to say a big thank you to our staff because staff appreciation is coming up next week and also we have our district art show coming up second week in may so i just wanted to pass that along thank you to all of our volunteers in the district it wouldn't be possible without you and as far as the eastern education foundation just touching on what jeff said scott zielinski who's the president has been working very closely with our pto and pta presidents and they are organizing a movie night free of charge for the entire community to see the movie in kanto and that's going to be on the 13th of may it starts at dusk and there will be some food trucks some things to purchase but basically just a fun free event for our whole town so thank you to all the volunteers making that possible okay the meeting will now be open to the public referencing any items of interest however if your questions or comments pertain to litigation student or personnel items or negotiations we ask that you see the superintendent after the meeting since we do not discuss these matters in public we ask that you limit your comments to three minutes per person and also that this section is meant for one comment per person anyone wish to speak please state your name good evening kelly cam uh 50 crown borough parkway marlton just a little bit louder yep thank you kelly cam bryce elementary 50 crown rural parkway uh on behalf of the evesham township administrators association i'd like to take this opportunity to publicly publicly welcome our new colleague amanda frye amanda we are so happy you are joining us and know you will find a great home at rice and with us here at eve sham your principal and supervisor team is here to support you collaborate with you and problem solve alongside you always please do not hesitate to reach out to any one of us just as you transition into your new position but any time welcome and congratulations i know that edgewater's park will be argued thank you anyone else wish to speak please just come up to the microphone state your name address good evening my name is ian smith i live 429 third street listening to your opening statement and i know that none of you will answer but do you think that your curriculum and your actions reflect your opening statement and i'm sure you'll probably nod yes but i don't think that any of these parents behind me will agree i'm appalled by the way that these meetings are run you are nasty to the public who has a very very valid reason to be upset and it is your job to maintain your composure to not roll your eyes and to not certainly walk out at the end of the day no matter how much you may not agree with the public you work for the public and it is your duty to listen to them without interruption without having your lawyer tell them to sit down because that is your job to serve all of these people right behind you you mentioned ukrainian aid which is a noble cause but how many of these parents behind me are interested in ukrainian aid and how many are interested in the over sexualized curriculum coming next year [Applause] [Music] you guys really need to reevaluate how you're doing things because if you think that treating parents in the way that you do is going to get you anywhere it won't it will continue to fill these rooms with people who are unhappy you are failing our children and not only are you failing our children you are grooming our children and we will not have that schools are here for one excuse me two reasons one of those is to teach academics it is not the school it's not the job of the school of the board to teach culture or to teach sex or to teach race relations from a loaded curriculum to children that is the parents place you mentioned that you are keeping kids safe that is your second job do you really believe that there's a 12 year old girl who doesn't feel safe in this school do you know her name you ignored the problem until it grew and it's going to continue to grow it is unacceptable the way that you handled the matter and as a superintendent it is your job to step up and take responsibility for those failures and i bet my three minutes is up that is yes okay sorry well i will tell you this you do not have the right to teach our children about sex you do not have the right to mask our children and you do not have the right to order people to be vaccinated or to be tested and make them lose their job as a result of these okay that's your three minutes i'm very aware it was my three minutes and i don't think any parent behind me will be upset if i finish thank you sir we have rules and regulations and systems that we need to follow okay i have three minutes that was yielded to me no no we don't do that they can come up to the microphone devious sexualization of children [Music] per person our system of operations that is not okay sir you are out of order i'm so sorry but you are teaching sex start your three minutes please have a seat thank you [Applause] hi my name is eileen and i live in new jersey and i'm here just to play off of what mr smith just said um i know you have a pos a policy of harassment and intimidation and bullying which if any student acted the way you just did they would have a hip violation it's just totally outrageous you should hold yourself to the same standard that you expect these children to be held to um it's better if you would just listen to people everyone wants to hear what people have to say except for maybe you i um this curriculum that they're implementing i watched i read a um one of the lesson plans this is a lesson plan as i'm reading the lesson plan to my sister on the phone here we go here's the board there's a penis there's a man and there's a woman these are third graders the lesson plan says hey jamal go up to the board and point to the penis hey um annie can you go over and point to the vagina can you point to the clitoris this is third grade level of what you want i'm telling my sister on the phone and my 18 year old daughter is like you are disgusting what are you talking about and i want to tell you if that curriculum was talked about in my workplace people would be filing her sexual harassment charges on the person having that conversation this is grooming what you're doing is trying to get children comfortable about talking about body parts in front of adults this is grooming this needs to stop you do not get to take away parental rights that's a given number one no one takes away the parental right your job is to teach education and that's it and the appropriate level for a third grade sex should be hi you guys have private body parts if anyone touches your body part you should tell somebody you should never feel uncomfortable this is the level that you should be talking about sex so children feel safe not so you can groom them that is disgusting i wouldn't even stand up to a board in whatever grade and what is the purpose of this honestly what is the purpose of this yes i'm almost on my couple minutes here and i know you're busy looking at your phone but i would say it is best for all of you to take note because you are not going to have these positions much longer because everyone here is going to step up and they're going to run against you and they're going to stick up for parental thank you [Applause] anyone else wish to speak during public comment please state your name address kristen sinclair attorney for the child advocate coalition llc 89 christopher mill road medford new jersey i'm holding a mascot that i want you to look at this is a child's toy in a middle school who has been a victim of a sexual assault i want you to think about what a child would go through after this who still has a stuffed animal to comfort her you need to look at your own procedures i know you don't want me to talk about all the things that happened and i know them all and you know that i tried to help and i tried to mediate but you didn't want me involved so now everybody's here now it's going to be a news story get an investigation in here an independent investigation you obviously can't police yourselves you can barely police us either have the people who are responsible step down or get the doj office of civil rights get a private law firm not cooper levinson none of them you need to investigate what happened you cannot have 50 children changing their names to a different gender in just one wing and tell me that things are okay here and that everybody's safe children of the same gender threatening to rape other students in bathrooms and bragging about it and going on tick-tock and saying i'll be right back in school it's not okay your mission statement's off have a great night thank you anyone else wish to speak thank you name and address please i'm jen foley of 67 5 crown royal in marlton as i'm sure we're all aware by now something awful happened in our schools and i can't say that it's the first time i'm not sure if the board is aware that a group of fifth grade boys in another elementary school were planning in class to rape a fifth grade student what was their punishment they had a talk with the guidance counselor no suspension and the young girl is still in class with these same boys every single day in fifth grade i have a fifth grader and if that was my daughter i wouldn't be happy with the way that that was handled or not handled at all you publicly condemn anti-semitism written on a bathroom stall and rightfully so but when a sexual assault occurs in the very same place you don't think parents need to know about students trying to rape each other in the buildings where you're responsible for them you don't think that this type of victim deserves to be heard i'm not an administrator but i'm a well-connected parent to children and families in this community i'm a room parent in three classrooms i coach three soccer teams and i'm the leader of two girl scout troops if any one of my hundreds of community children that i've served over the past few years that parents were entrusting to my care came to me with such a serious allegation i wouldn't miss a beat and i wouldn't make excuses it would be a top priority for me to get to the bottom of what happened to bring a child peace how do you sleep at night knowing a child is suffering yet you've abandoned your responsibilities and stay silent eve sham's so busy being politically correct and appeasing an agenda that once again the safety of our children is being overlooked and i know i've stood here before you and explained several other situations where my own three children don't feel safe at school to the point that we're looking at moving different schools i'm shelling out a third of my paycheck to possibly send my kids to private school because my fifth grader watched a kid get knocked out on the lunch playground the other day a couple weeks ago what was done about it the kid was suspended for a day and then they moved him to my daughter's gifted and talented class where she has to sit next to this kid that she watched knock another boy out anyone aware of these situations and guilty of inaction i encourage you to look in the mirror what would you want done if any of this happened to your child all guilty parties need to resign from our district immediately and possibly consider an entry-level job [Applause] i want you to take a good look at your administrators and our board and hold them accountable for what did and didn't happen for keeping our children safe and listening to our children if god forbid another one of ours is assaulted in our district thank you thank you [Music] anyone else wish to speak during public comment hi please state your name and address good evening courtney bracken 161 sussex ave so um i understand that there was a sexual assault that occurred in school a few weeks ago i also understand from the family of the victim that there has been zero support offered from anyone in the district and that the district has completely failed to protect her after the incident was reported as a member of the child advocate coalition i call upon the superintendent and principal romanelli to either step down or invite an independent organization to conduct an investigation into the district's handling of this incident and any further incidents clearly there has been an immense failure and many citizens no longer feel safe sending their children here everyone involved should be ashamed of themselves we seriously need to address and look into the sexual nature of the curriculum i truly believe that this is leading many that this is leading to many more disturbing incidents we want to know and believe that our children are safe when we send them to schools and cared for sadly many parents no longer feel this way with this district and that's truly upsetting every district needs to be completely transparent with parents email all curriculum give all parents an opt-out option and be transparent that's what we're asking for with every incident every parent in here should have been well aware of what has taken place here and i don't think many know that and it's very upsetting to many and we just hope that things change soon thank you thank you anyone else okay come on onto the microphone name and address please hi spring williams five sudden court um i do have a couple of questions do you guys answer questions no this is just public comment we don't have a question answer section but if you have specific questions you can see the superintendent after okay well i wanted to express my questions for everybody and you can express your questions you might not necessarily get an answer just so you know and i was going to say and um dr smith if you can just email me i know you have my email address okay okay all right so my questions are regarding the new curriculum for grade five and grade eight for grade 5 the standard states that puberty is a time of physical social and emotional changes and the performance expectation states explain common human sexual development and the role of hormones for example romantic and sexual feelings masturbation mood swings timing of pubertal onset and then for the grades eight hold on a second okay here we are there are factors that contribute to making healthy decisions about sex the performance expectation states define vaginal oral and anal sex so my question is based on the state memo how is eve sham going to interpret this because i do know that there is flexibility so what is the plan for esham school district for grades five and grade eight relating to these standards was that the end of your comment or do you have more that's my question okay that's it okay i'll follow up we'll talk okay thank you thank you [Applause] hi please state your name and address good evening val gallagher 651 main street so i too am going to touch on the topic of the sexualization and the curriculum in the schools and i know this part isn't on you guys governor murphy along with the njea and the new jersey department of education decided to pass all of this in 2020 while we were all locked down barely hold ourselves together however sexual harassment can be defined in many ways i'm going to talk about that in the united states sexual harassment is a form of discrimination which violates the title 7 of the civil rights act of 1964 as it relates in the workplace if what happened in the girls bathroom took place in an employment situation that would have been recipe for disaster why is it okay to protect adults and yet you all bury your head in the sand and chose not to protect a child a child who you do know mr smith does not want to come back into school she is afraid to come back into school i hear teacher after teacher after teacher in the njea talk about how school has to be a safe place for these transgender kids to feel like they can be called their proper pronouns if they do not feel safe in their own home for point six percent of the population we're going to turn a deaf ear in a blind eye to a twelve-year-old child little girl and not protect her anyone sitting in this room whether it's anybody here anybody who's watching on youtube anybody that's back here if any of y'all think that this is okay i seriously would expect your resignation because this turnout you see today will only grow we are not giving up because it's our god duty right to fight for our kids and i and these folks don't co-parent with the government thank you anyone else like to participate in public comment at this time any more comments thank you come on up to the microphone you state your name and address please sharon 43 bonaire um i'm a little sad to hear what i'm hearing here i've never heard this before this is all new i know that i have sent you an email mr smith about my experience from this school how we went to vanzan how wonderful the principal is of anzac absolutely wonderful my experience when i was here was not so good with the principle that currently is here and to hear this knowing what i experienced which was nowhere near what this is going on it's a very appalling as a taxpayer to hear this as a parent to hear this this is sad and then you have these other parents that are here because we wanted to talk about the sexualization that's going on with the curriculum that's coming up it's very sad that this is what we have turned into and it's even sadder to see what's going to happen and i know you can't answer the question of what the current curriculum is going to be because i know that maybe you guys haven't discussed it and you will but will you send out an email to every parent letting them know what will be discussed what won't be discussed in the classes and that's it i just i think that every parent should know what's going on because this is disgusting and it's sad for everyone for all parties to be very honest that's it thank you [Applause] name and address please my name is annalynne smith i'm a burlington county resident so my concern is is not concern my my thought i'm thinking i'm sitting back here i'm listening to all these parents to talk if a child were to come to school and express that they are being sexually assaulted at home you would call child protective services right you would call the police right you would assist that child right but when our children come to school and they're being sexually assaulted in school we do nothing we don't even notify the parent make no sense to me you're not i'm sorry please don't speak so let me say this as a 35 year old woman who myself was sexually assaulted as a child and i can't even sleep in the dark without my husband being in the home with me this child will be affected for the rest of her life and no one stood up for her and you can be mad you can cross your arms you can roll your eyes but this child will be affected for the rest of her life and no one did nothing thank you [Applause] name address please my name is eric simkin i'm from voorhees i did mention already that my address is really none of your business um i'd like to talk about policy 9140 i'm not sure if anyone has read any of the policies but that's about citizen advisory committees this isn't a question and answer form i think that the citizens here need a question and answer forum they're looking for answers a three-minute one-way speech whatever you want to call it a comment is not a conversation it's not communicating it's a one-way communication every relationship requires good communication to be successful and this communication process is a failure i'm also suggesting the public become involved with the board and the schools by the schools in adopting according to policy 9140 citizen advisory committees for curriculum development for policy review and enforcement and vendor vetting those three things seem to be causing a whole lot of problems and the consequences are things that we're going to see as a community very similar to the assault that occurred that assault is the direct result of policy and curriculum and it needs to change and the parents and the community need to be heard thank you thank you [Applause] hi name and address please hello i'm brandon bouchard 243 foxwood lane my comment is directed at justin wanted you to be able to put a face to the name i also after hearing the other assaults and sexual assaults and what's happened to my own children and talking to every other parent that expresses lots lots of concerns about assaults that you do absolutely nothing about i just wanted to publicly call for your resignation as you are a spineless coward thank you thank you anyone else wish to comment public comment [Applause] any more comments from the public anyone okay at this time i will ask for a motion to adjourn can i have a motion motion from the board to adjourn mr lanzalata i'm sure you have a question okay no i just want to have a quick comment i just wanted to reiterate on something you said earlier it's staff appreciation next week and this staff is wonderful teachers here are awesome doing a fantastic job i just wanted to thank everybody for all you guys do every single day for our students can i say something um if you are a parent of a student in marlton please stand up i take offense i take offense how many okay how many of you actually live in this town i've got two little kids at home okay okay okay miss knowle that was out of order okay we don't engage with comments with the public that was out of order okay at this point are there any questions or comments from the board member any other questions or comments seeing none motion to adjourn all in favor aye aye thank you [Music] [Applause]
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okay thank you any discussion all those in favor under relations looks like we have an mru an mou for ap tip indiana with a high school this is to increase staff training for ap courses and to encourage and increase student participation in ap courses so it's a lot of support over uh several years to help with that do i have a motion motion by susan second do we have a second path any discussion all those in favor and then we're down under another yeah we actually do have um one thing i'd like to just as a point of information to share with the board we had some good news we found out we received another grant for 50 000 and todd and mandy were the authors and uh the worker bees behind the scene if you guys want to share your grant news so it's the the 2022 digital learning grant so the focus is improving blended and online learning through the universal design for learning and with our ictq grant where we're bringing udl into jennings county this kind of partnered with that so with the grant it's providing five you know six and a half months of training through five-star professional development where they will come into our buildings and help train staff in the classroom we also have udl training that we're sending our 17 fits our facilitators in training for udl we'll be getting them certified in levels one and two and then we'll also have a stipend for them to complete that training and then we will also be able to provide them with a goal book toolkit which is a a resource that they can go in and if they have any skill in the classroom that they're looking at teaching or finding a different way to teach it will give them 15 20 different ways that they can teach that skill so we're getting them resources so that they can start using the principles in the classroom thank you thank you that's fantastic fantastic anything else teresa all right well then i will entertain emotions earl got a second second travis all those in favor
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here we go um as i read this just as a homeowner i'm a little confused as to how this would be applied um you know particularly the last part of that paragraph take any action which may injure or destroy a street tree injure i mean what what are we injury to the point that would kill the tree what are we talking about because you can you know weed whack a tree and injure it um what's that what's the degree here and that that may be inappropriate for this but that's just something that you know oops i was confused about um i think weed whacking is a pretty important thing but i also think i'll just throw this out um lead racking and perhaps um the significant um uh what do you call volcanoes mulch volcanoes around trees and on streets that can seriously harm the lower bark but yeah it could be more specific perhaps is that i mean i think it would be injury to the point of killing it but i'll leave that to you know experts in terms of how that should be defined and i mean just another anecdote you know we've got two really nice trees in front of our house but the neighbors hired somebody to trim them back because they were blocking sun to their house and you know it's a city tree is that allowed that could have been injury you know i don't know and the arborist said no we can we're able to cut up to ten percent of the tree without checking with the city which sounded like crazy to me but i know um curious what do you think about that maybe maybe um shannon is fast um i saw some folks working in the front a very small front yard on north 4th down the hill from kerrytown this week they were digging up the whole small front yard and had soil piled up around a street tree up almost to the first branches and were operating a machine right next to it it would surprise me if that tree didn't come out of that process on injured which probably would mean bark stripped off soil disturbed in the root zone tree broken in parter and whole i would think injury would be obvious and serious in order to draw the attention of someone who would complain and therefore enforcement action so this is something the point of of this is to allow people to um lodge a complaint and have someone from the city take action um so yeah is that something like um that the reference kind of information that um council member griswold just mentioned could help with i'm confused a bit about the green brook i found on the city's website a whole compendium of specifications for roads in the city easily available there's a section called material and design standards it talks about site distances it talks about site triangles talks about plant substitution talks about trees in the public right away it talks about reeds and grass in the public way the language in there um isn't in code per se unless these specifications are code i think they're what the city calls the green book the language in there would need amending to some degree if we did these changes to chapter 40.
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this session will be held after the board lead so we'll be closing on the meeting going into executive session and then after we're done with executive session then we will return to a public meeting um exactly that's amazing
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there's also a section in the development code called landscaping and some pieces of that would need to be improved in order to blend with this these changes in chapter 40 but i don't know of any separate procedures apart from an ordinance that are in existence in the city diagrams are included in udc and certainly could be included right straight into this code and we've talked about doing that um okay maybe this is something to talk over with uh those uh staff over here um mr marsa yeah um page three uh down in the section three fourteen number four yes uh yeah down here towards the bottom cultivated herbaceous plants may be grown up to 36 inches in height if not fully opaque above 24 inches um and if they are not in a sight distance triangle safety area on the right away or on an on adjacent private property i guess i kind of coming at this also as a homeowner i read that and was like i don't know opaque a fully opaque plant 20 up to 24 inches i don't know i was just like what is this and what is the part about on adjacent private property fully opaque would mean you cannot see through it period so like a boxwood or a u you know what i'm saying so something that's like a shrub that's fully foliated okay um private property of course means if you come to an intersection and you have a you hedge right at the sidewalk at that intersection and the intersection is not controlled with a stop sign you wouldn't be able to have good sight distance so the private property violation would be there i guess okay so the some people do that yeah they on adjacent property private property is referring like so if it's adjacent to a limited site just if it's adjacent to an intersection let's say you're in at an intersection the cities right away and you have sidewalks the cities right away extends to about six inches inside your sidewalk and then your private property begins but on some intersections if you put a arborvitae hedge right on your property line right at the sidewalk you would not be able to see around the corner so you're saying that like so this is trying to point out that that even if that boxwood or whatever is less than if is it allowed if it's less than 24 inches yep it just can't be more than 24 inches and it can't be more than 24 or less than eight feet in other words there has to be a window through which you can see okay and it doesn't have to be 100 percent clear okay now you can see yeah reasonably so that that section may be i don't have any great suggestions for it at the moment but like we just had to have this conversation for me to understand that section so i would point it out as maybe needs to be worded a little bit better okay and then on the next page i noticed there was uh a line about sorry um number nine there the city shall endeavor as much as possible in number nine uh and i felt like that was that's kind of vague the city shall endeavor as much as possible um it's like either um when writing requirements uh things like this i feel like you have to you can sell and they well uh i guess to me like that's like uh the city's gonna say well we endeavored but sorry we didn't tell you like you know it was just like leave them a pretty big out for not having to inform you of uh work happening we could say it's absolutely required and it'd still be the way it happens i'm gonna leave the line out i guess i don't know i i just uh we're just i mean the language is intended to be a bit gentle on the city yeah but if it set a a cultural guideline that would be good i think most of the time they say when they're coming to do sidewalks they tell you there's going to be utility improvements in your neighborhood and i i don't think this is violated all the time in a terrible way here in ann arbor i think most of the time they're informing people yeah you know and i wonder like i can see where in an emergency situation that's where they don't have the adequate time to inform people what's going on and you know maybe saying like if it's not an emergency then you got to let people know and i mean if they're up to their discretion whether it's emergency or not i suppose but i think they do generally let people know it's just sometimes it's kind of irritating and a lot of people don't pay attention yeah yeah i i just felt like um so much i mean i in general i think this is um very well written and very um very specific i think that's nice it makes it really clear not a lot of wiggle room but the city shall endeavor just to me came across as i'm too vague so we should we can talk about that can't we chris maybe there's another way to talk about it oh yeah express that do what we can do okay i circled it on my copy so there's a lot in here about private property which you're not asking about it's more here on private property about private property than in the existing ordinance or anyplace else in the city code except perhaps landscape and screening in development projects and the idea i think fundamentally behind rita's effort here is to encourage and allow and and build on the idea that we want less grass and we want more um at least water absorbing ornamental gardens on people's property going forward if not native plantings and and the idea is to get both the safety thing to work on the right of way and to get the city to recognize these things more carefully my experience has been people who enforce against or in response to complaints know nothing about native plantings and about [Music] natural habitats which is why we added this whole section in here is to educate and identify and get the city to keep a registered list of places where people are trying to do something other than mold grass i'd like to move on because chris um vandenberg has his hand raising we're we're at 8 35 i want to make sure that we get up through this and um have a few more minutes yeah just a real quick comment i'm going back about five minutes about the word opaque i i was really happy to read that in this document because just just for example on first street uh just east of just south of liberty there's a median in the middle of the street that separates the bicycle lane from the car traffic and the city puts some grasses in there and the grasses are clearly higher than inches but they're not opaque there's absolutely no trouble looking through those grasses to see a biker or somebody in a wheelchair or something and i was struggling in the past to come up with some kind of verbiage because we have this mindset well it can only be so high you know so i i just want to it's just a good example of how that word opaque can play a role so that that was my comment um uh the comment in here about garbage is that already in another city ordinance i don't think so kathy i think this is where that part was in this ordinance oh okay and we just improved upon it a bit i think that didn't get that from another city i think well the whole segment we got from another city yep yeah but i think we do have a gosh let me look at the existing i would just say that from my perspective i would like this to be um useful for the staff as well as the homeowners you know that it that it really works both ways um and essentially helps communication and i appreciate those kind of questions that call out those things mr marsa in particular things okay and it'll be important for the legal department to take a look at this because i know that there was one property on the near west side where a neighbor complained and the city went to court because they alleged it was an unplanned natural area i think i have the the verbiage right the the city lost that case and it was on private property in the back of the home so we we need to make sure that anything we have in here and i think all this is very good but we need to make sure that it's legally defendable mr gruber i i'm sorry i don't have this document to look at on my own so i'm just looking at it as you go through it so i have a question about as i look so if you remind me if the plants are are opaque or you can if you can see through them and they're woody plants they can be above two feet but less than eight feet did i hear that right no and what's what's the herbaceous perennial rule then it can did i see that it couldn't be above three feet whether or not it's opaque uh generally yes you know okay if someone again it's fully opaque that causes the problem yeah regardless of the height and there's generally a rule that that can't happen between 24 inches and eight feet 12 feet over the roadway eight feet over a sidewalk okay so herbaceous perennials like goldenrod and joe pyle those that sometimes get bigger than 36 inches are those not okay they wouldn't be okay in any site triangle including a driveway aprons corners bus stops in median gardens except i guess we have to get along with huron parkway but they do mowing at the intersections there um [Music] and any pedestrian crosswalks so uh there has to be a site triangle where pedestrians are near the road and on curbs um on straight residential streets straight sections of residential streets um [Music] there shouldn't be a lot of complaining going on as long as they're not weights which generally means invasive species okay thank you but um it's kind of really specific but joe pyre would would be one that that personally i wouldn't recommend to put in that sidewalk buffer strips chris just because i think that's very likely to be four to five feet tall yeah there are a number of a number of great prairie plants that probably are too tall for the sidewalk puffer strip but not for my yards right exactly okay um is the idea that if you are going to have like a prairie on your property that you would have to register with the city to do that or is it optional the idea behind that stipulation was that the city would be informed as much as they can about what people are doing out there so that if there's a enforcement person that understands dumpsters and garbage and that sort of stuff they can do that if there's an enforcement person that understands natural features and natural areas and natural communities and natural plants they can be sent to deal with that complaint and if the city knows ahead of time that they're working with someone who's trying to do something different than mo graf there would be a chance of a better discussion and outcome with the property owner no it wouldn't be required for one second i think i think she may be getting at something different that you can do anything you want front yard in your backyard in your side yard as long as it's not taking people's views from their cars for pedestrian for bike safety so that's the thing you can do whatever you want but if you're in conflict with where you may be blocking people's views that's when it's a problem and so you can have the 12 foot tall joe pi weed sun yard you just can't have it in if you live in a corner you can't put it on the corner where you may be blocking a car from seeing a pedestrian come by okay chris graham is saying that you don't have to register with the city because you want to do a prairie in your front yard if you want to plant the right of word which is that strip between the sidewalk and the road i think that's what he's getting at is that if you are doing something in there that is tall you know that's where the problems are because that can block people's vision so easily does that clarify a little bit i guess i didn't understand that from the document that that section was with regards to the right of the city right away or the or the mohs strip or the sidewalk what do they call that rock cluster strip for calling it fluffy shirt that's right sorry i thought that was in the um section on you know what's going on on your own private property there is that let's see it applies there certainly it applies there only if you have a property that could potentially block again if you're on a corner and you could potentially be blocking from seeing somebody approach the corner uh like your part your private priority what is what is considered not part of the public right of way but you're on a corner and it could affect that's right and so maybe that more clear in the way we're setting this up from the very beginning um in terms of the areas we're actually talking about okay um because if you're asking that question then it probably wasn't clear enough yeah thank you thank you i do think it's intended to have give staff a kind of a an opportunity to say hey i know this house is different so they maybe receive a complaint but if they if if the city has accepted a person's registration then it's really less likely that they'll get a citation unless their sidewalk buffer strip can't succeed the heights that we're talking about well on private property the case that kathy was mentioning where someone was talking about an unmanaged native landscape or something someone who would register to have a prairie on their property is it is presenting likely to be presenting something very different than someone who lets weeds grow in the backyard especially noxiously so uh and there's a section in here that says you can't do that so i i um it's not just the right of way that's available for registering and getting on the city's radar um [Music] it's it's people who are doing something different again experience on a cul-de-sac in up off nixon road a new neighbor moved in next to a very famous botanist wife who had a wildflower garden knee-high the neighbor absolutely didn't like it and started raising holy hell and called the city and got a complaint about this sidewalk buffer strip there and made my client mow it down it had no weeds it had calf high wildflowers in bloom they were absolutely gorgeous it was a real genuine mistake on the part of the city enforcement officer but part of the intention here is to try to solve that problem and to stimulate the city to have someone in their employee who knows what they're doing um we are at 8 46 uh kathy um yes i think we learned a lesson from nomo may and we're going to have to make sure that there is a budget for education as we roll this out because it's very important uh and and that we stress and have staff stress that this is really about safety 99 of the time you know it's we don't want to interfere in what someone's doing on their own private property if there isn't a safety issue or if it's not an invasive species one of the the problems that i've come across many times is in areas where there isn't a sidewalk people will grow tall vegetation in even abravity right out and over the curve and that has become become a practice in the the area near king's school and so one neighbor does it and then another neighbor and now we probably have at least a dozen cases of that right up to uh school crossings um that are coming up out of their uh public walkways so i'm not sure how we're gonna address that but it's i think it's a major safety issue and the last thing i'll mention is the dda has been planning trees uh that are in violation of this ordinance one example is huron street at the city hall parking lot exit where i don't know what kind of tree it is but it it branches out at about three feet and goes up and so it blocks visibility it's definitely opaque when it's it's fully leafed out and so again it's a matter of agitating whoever is selecting the the trees for the dda because once they're planted people don't want to make a change just really quick i guess two things that come to mind in some of the pieces on trees and invasive species in several of these instances um i guess just wondering what type of capacity or if there's a realistic expectation i noted that there was language that says no invasive plants will be allowed in the right of way um or be allowed to reproduce i mean there's places where we have like vault so i just wonder is you know i mean is there is there going to be capacity for the city to take that on and the um urban forest department and and i don't know if that that could potentially be a little bit more specific i just feel like going through um looking for tree seedlings is kind of a large ask so just something on my mind i think again most of the provisions most of the stipulations in this ordinance would be enforced by complaint and my view of someone who was allowing invasive species in the right of way would be a whole sword of canada canada thistle in full flower and fruit right up next to the road first of all it's very prickly if somebody touches it secondly it's a very it's a wind-blown seed and terrible we need to eradicate um someone might come if i lived next door to someone who's doing that i'd probably complain um [Music] so i i some of these things are are here are suggested to give the city grounds to respond reasonably to a complaint they aren't here because the city has time or effort or interest in going out to to find everybody's got kind of pissed on the street long just won't yeah i do think that's a an opportunity that we could use for the education component um and and i know that certainly nap has done massive amounts of education of a lot of people over the years that um i'm one of them that now know more invasive plants than i ever thought i would know um and uh so an alertness helps um i think i'm gonna have to ask us to stop if that's okay and i want to apologize to um fisher ruber um and anyone else who didn't get the attachments i'm very sorry and i will work to correct that and i'll send you these documents to make sure that you happen to review um i think it would be good to if anybody has any additional comments to please send them to um to me and to chris and both continue on this uh it would be great if we can get this to a point where the environmental commission would say yes let's move it on to council that's a goal that i would like us to reach um so uh is it okay with everyone if we stop here um thank you and um i would like to see my agenda excuse me rita is is now the time to get staff input uh possibly so that we get staff input before the next environmental commission meeting um i don't know and are you talking about um which staff um i would just send it to the city attorney and the city administrator and say where we would like this reviewed before the next environmental commission meeting so that we can recommend it to council um forgive me kathy but i i i think we are not we are charged the environmental commission's charges make recommendations to the council it's the council's charge to ask staff to do something they don't work for us i agree but i've noticed the attorneys i'm trying to uh get this um implemented before the end of the summer so i'm just looking at it in terms of the number of months that it's it's going to take before it's actually you know voted on by council and then we're going to have to have a few weeks before it goes into effect i think the council is best equipped to press staff to respond not us okay uh but there are council liaisons on the environmental commission if you want to do the asking you can you and kathy oh okay i would just like to get it implemented so that the community can benefit from this i get to this season and we're we're gonna miss you let's get it done before you're out of here come to member dish unmute uh kathy yeah i think i mean council member griswold i think it's a great idea for this to be referred now to staff because it will have to be referred it can't be brought to council before it's been referred to staff so unless the environmental commission wants to continue to discuss it we should refer it to staff i think and if we decide we need to bring it back to the ec that's another thing um i'm wondering if commissioner dubrandal agrees with me that it should probably uh go past planning because planning deals with natural features or yeah okay so i don't know not really actually it's not really a planning commission okay so just then it's just legal and the city administrator who should always be in on everything so will that go to them through you and um council member are we gonna what's our process i think that's the way um i don't really think we can give them a deadline though um but it would go through the first or two though right i mean you would you would send it to tiffany to review to stephanie forrester oh right right right yes that's who you should get it yeah so probably um the best way is to um meet with mr dahoney and ask him if he would like us to proceed uh okay we think it needs to be reviewed by the city forester and the city attorneys and so the we in that case is is me and kathy thanks thanks and yeah we can talk about this offline okay thank you everyone thanks this was really helpful we do not have any additional business tonight um we uh we intended to have these two discussions and so um we are at 8 56 we can um ask the pleasure of the group do we want to do a quick review of and report outs of of um actions from various council members other um just from the parks commission i just had a couple of real quick updates if you want to hear them um yeah just uh um the city is going to be installing a monitoring well for the gelman plume in garden homes park um i think that work is gonna happen probably towards the middle to the end of the summer just wanted to bring everyone's attention if you walk in that park like i do um and then uh let's see what else this um i don't know if any of you are aware of the the nature playscape that's being built in leslie um leslie park at the leslie uh nature center but that is well underway and leslie is holding a fundraiser they call it mayfly it's an annual thing at the dinner um so if anybody is interested in supporting leslie and the great work that they do i just bring that up and it's an opportunity to actually check out the new nature playscape and um solar panels we talked about um the energy um here but um solar panels are slated to be um installed in number of a number of parks and they're hoping the city is hoping that that work will start later this summer um but a number of facilities that already have uh parks that already have facilities so they have buildings um the plan is to put panels on those buildings so places like um burns park the uh community center there the canoe liveries uh the swimming pools places like that and then the final thing is the note speaking of the no mo may that was alluded to earlier um i you will still see mowing in the city parks um for various reasons and if anybody wants more details i'm happy to talk i'm just going to try to keep this really brief but um it's it's very difficult to schedule the mowing for all of the parks particularly if you have a full month where the parks are not mowed so um the parks will continue to be mowed in the month of may this year i just want to report that the u of m workforce housing resolution that was unanimously approved by the environmental commission and energy commission was reviewed by a couple of members of the economic development corporation uh i was told that the economic development corporation's mission does not include this type of housing but we did want to get some of their expertise i shared it with the group in an email today and if there are any questions i'm willing to answer them i i looked at it again after sharing it and i do see that there are a couple of typos so i'll continue to try to refine it uh and also um it has the support of some student groups as well as i mentioned it to um one of the leaders of a state level union and they were interested in it as well so the i know i have a biased opinion but most of the feedback has been very positive and the ann arbor observer also has an article about this resolution as well as an anaca resolution it it somewhat intertwines the two resolutions um which is not 100 accurate but it's always good to get positive media coverage so i'm i'm thankful great thanks commissioner juno yeah i just wanted to give a really quick update from the energy commission on a presentation on the wheeler center solar park formerly or commonly referred to as the landfill solar project that the city is undertaking um julie can probably speak more to any of this folks have questions but this is the 20 megawatt installation that will be going into a landfill site um construction anticipated really 2023 and possibly generation by 2024 um some of the questions that came up uh is this truly additional and um again as julie mentioned earlier because this is a difficult site it's unlikely that it would have been built otherwise um so this is you know additional clean energy um and i guess that's most of it as as she mentioned as well um is a subscription-based service so folks can voluntarily opt in and if not enough people choose to opt in the city can take on that power to offset municipal energy um and it will be installed with pollinator habitat and fencing to to block the views so um and could be taken over in the case of the municipalization campaign could be taken over so that's the roundup there um and there was a resolution that was passed in support of that and now it's on right thank you chris graham i know what you're going to talk about so as many of you know the city contracted with the school of natural resources and environment last year not sure last year last spring i believe to do uh tree um remote sensing mapping and work for us they presented their final report this morning and it's exhilarating i i'm it's going to be so exciting to show you what they did um among other things it's very clear there are a lot of native forest fragments around the city some more important than others of course that aren't owned by the city and therefore some of the work we've been doing about upping our mitigation requirements and development on behalf of those woodlands is true and valid and important to carry on with the graphics that they will be providing to us in very complicated packages um will be incorporated into the natural features pages of the city's website um and we're working to make a lot of that available on handheld devices um the ability to understand trees across the city not just street trees as is now the case but the entire fabric of the city's force of its woodlands is very helpful including down to genus level in many instances something like 55 of the city is identifiable in that way um they've done a very good job with the graphics that show where turf grass exists and of course it's in the back of our mind to try to persuade people to have a whole lot less of that around it's not active recreation land we're very excited it's going to take some time to get this gigantic set of files and materials into the city's systems and get it digested and up so you can see it and use it but it will come very exciting yeah i was lucky enough to see it today it was really great so thanks um mr kellert yeah i just emailed everybody the link to the circular economy initiative website uh that is now on the city website so thanks to city staff particularly jenny patosky and the interns that have been working with us for moving that forward um you'll see there's kind of placeholders there for some things that are coming we're working on a couple of videos to highlight different aspects of the circular economy um we're really focusing our work on three primary metrics for this this is based on the lit review that has been going on for the past couple of months but of course decarbonization in terms of the direct link with a20 um but also building this out uh it's most way of most value and relevance for municipalities focusing on resiliency and equity too as a part of defining the circular economy we've got a half day work session planned tomorrow with a group of c students that is working with us on this plus our interns to kind of make sure we've got our work planned out for the summer and we're making good progress with our partnership with the state through next cycle in terms of building all of this towards kind of public education and awareness campaign to make sure as many folks know about this and understand all the different dimensions as possible and take advantage of the wonderful um circular economy network that we're identifying and highlighting through this work so more to come excellent thank you um shannon you're next in my view would you like to talk about planning um the only thing i think the last month would be that we started looking again different sustainability initiatives that we have within our actual purview um which is frustratingly small in terms of commission um we ask a lot of questions to developers around which we really have uh technically no legal right to to press them on or to be able to enforce anything so we're trying to identify areas where we actually can have some sway um one of the things that we're considering right now is um people that have a lot of sustainability initiatives in their developments that maybe they would get reviewed first maybe they would jump to the front of the queue um in the city process um because time is money and if you can get people um some special timing makes a big difference it just doesn't so if you see you you keep getting pushed back and because you're not doing these things and maybe you'd have a little bit more motivation to be able to incorporate some of these initiatives into your planning so that's just one of the things we're batting around i'm hoping that there's some other things too i know we are hoping to revisit um solar panels in the front yard again because when that went through and got um declined by uh city council it was a different council then and i think there's a lot of shifts and changes since then so um there are definitely things out there that we're going to be working on uh people are very motivated to do that um uh i think especially around parking too and really trying to figure out how we can make us a more transit centered city um and helping to kind of support people to to rely on on um on cars less so those are the big things i think that we're working on right now great sounds really good um mr kruber would you like to talk a little bit about the pollinator group sure i'm putting you on the spot but yeah you can you're there you can fill in where i miss uh so we are trying we're working on educating and getting the word out about no moment and we have put together uh the the website on the city website is now available with information on the ordinance and how people can register or at least let the city know that they're participating so we can track how many people participate and where they live um we've included lots of resources there and we're going to host a sort of kickoff event next week one of our pollinator group members is a an entomologist so she's going gonna share some information for the to the community about why this is important and then we'll do some q a right rita answer questions that folks might have uh and then we hope that maybe we'll have a sort of closing out gathering maybe even in person if it works out at the end of may or in early june to sort of celebrate and then think about how we can get this off and running and maybe be more prepared for education next year right yes it was a really rush to get this going and so um uh commissioner martin i really appreciate your comment on the parks um because i um i feel bad because there are people you know it's kind of this push-pull that we hear in the community but i do want to tell you something that um that i found out from um lindsey stiltz yesterday i asked her to give me the um countdown registrations and we had 797 people sign up as of yesterday which i was really impressed about um and i see a lot of um i'll just pun buzz on online about people talking about it um in town on the next doors um sites and facebook things are people are talking about it and i am really happy to see that um and i'm hoping that this could be kind of the wedge where we start um encouraging people to reduce their mowed turf grass so that's really kind of what's behind it in my head along with the support for the the pollinators in general so and it's um yeah it's been great working with bridget and i'm looking forward to already next year um all right did i miss anybody that would like to report on anything um well i'm going the public commentary our next schedule meeting will be uh oh may 24th um i guess i would like to ask people if they would like to suggest any topics please send them in to me and to steve brown and oh staff oh yes 426 yeah 26th yes thank you calendar reading got to work on that um julie i know you're not a regular person did galen leave anything for for you to tell us in the report not necessarily i could tell you millions of things but um i i will not because it's late but i will tell you just a couple of fun things that this past weekend osi um held our of our free tree giveaway um sean reynolds has also been talking about the mapping project with a great enthusiasm and we can't i can't see it but we held another free tree giveaway at leslie science nature center on saturday and gave away over 600 trees these were beautiful trees they were three to four years old they were in good health it was really fun i enjoyed fully um participating in that and then the osi was also it was a busy weekend at leslie science center again on sunday for earth day celebrations there where there were just loads of people coming through having great conversations about all things um a20 and that was really um really fun to get into the community like that um we have a resident newsletter that is um coming out we're just finalizing it now and it will be full of all sorts of information about what's going on um we're doing another seo meeting for the general public tomorrow and also on may 4th um we are are hosting helping host a um forum on the latest ipcc report for folks that want to come and uh have a discussion about that there's um me look quickly that we're planning um and a very large hopefully electrification expo at the farmer's market in july on july 15th which i am really excited about with vendors there with heat pumps and i'm hoping electric mowers and you know anything we can think of it's home electrification as well as induction cooking demonstrations we've got live music food trucks it's going to be just really fun for all of us who are sort of energy nerds and that's how we have fun um we're going to be at the dexter ann arbor run and the taste of ann arbor um and we have a20 week coming up and so we're very busy knee deep in planning lots of community facing activities for eight to zero weeks so there's lots more but the newsletter is coming out and if you're not subscribed to it um okay please do so because it's full of full of good information okay thank you very much um i'm going to move on to our next public comment or closing public comment and now back to the statement this is an opportunity for persons to speak for up to three minutes please call 1-888-788-0099 and enter the meeting id which is one 989-28516 three seven um the information is also displayed on the agenda in the video feed city staff will select callers that have raised their hand one by one using the last three digits of the phone number in order to electronically raise your hand and indicate your desire to speak please press star 9 on your phone you'll hear an automated announcement that the host is allowing you to speak and speaking please move to a quiet area and mute any television or background sounds so that we may hear you clearly please state your name and address at the beginning of your comments so julie do we have any callers i do not see any colors you are currently the meeting host so i don't know if you can see any colors but i see that's a good question um i do not so with that i will entertain a motion to adjourn shannon and second i guess i'll take it from lucy um all right i want to just say thank you all this was for me this was really an enjoyable meeting and it was good to see you maybe sometimes i'll meet in person who knows um and uh thank you for all the work that you're doing for this city thank you rita good night
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the 2021-22 senior honors local scholarship award ceremony the purpose of this program is to recognize senior students who have made contributions to our school and community the seniors choose to have programs presented virtually so they can celebrate their accomplishments with family and friends at all thank you again for being such a great group of kids and working to make tonight's program a success a huge thank you goes out to local scholarship sponsors who invest in our students your generosity gives our seniors a leg up on their life endeavors tonight's celebration is not only about our seniors accomplishments our school is holding this award celebrate ceremony to celebrate the underlying values that our honorees exemplify values like courage intelligence empathy toward others kindness discipline and the love of doing what is best for others please continue to hold up these values as you move forward in the future i personally would like to welcome each of you tonight's ceremony live on the youtube channel i would also like to recognize the individuals who put this awesome event together thank you to donna boland crystal ecton monica suiter dave watkins craig coleman and doug vanderlin and to our staff who work tirelessly for our students again thank you for participating now let's get this show on the road by recognizing each senior and their future plans to start with donna paige marie angers plans to attend colorado christian university and major in psychology she's earned 50 acc college credit hours and she's received several scholarships the beckman scholarship the distinguished achievement scholarship the impact scholarship and the preferred admit scholarship harley marie alford plans to attend washburn university and major in medical imaging and sonography she's earned 42 acc college credit hours kylan mercedes-allen plans to attend johnson county community college a major in horticulture she's earned three acc college credit hours raven nicole allen plans to attend allen community college her major is currently undecided she's earned 24 acc college credit hours and she is receiving the presidential scholarship ty christian anderson plans to attend emporia state university and major in business he earned the associative arts degree from allen county he's receiving a track scholarship and the tuition voucher for the jones foundation drayton lee brown plans to attend fort scott community college and then a policing academy his major is going to be criminal justice mitchell adam broyles plans to attend pittsburg state university major in marketing he has earned the associate of science degree from acc he's earned three flint hills tech college credit hours and he's got the cherokee nation scholarship along with the phi theta kappa scholarship elliott reed burns plans to attend k-state university and major in agricultural business he's earned an associate of arts degree from acc cooper arthur carlson plans to attend k-state university major in music education and he has a general scholarship from k-state university marcella sophia carpio plans to attend a four-year university in washington and major in art and photography david check plans to attend missouri welding institute and major in welding he has earned one flint hills college credit hour derrick laurent cole plans to further his education and work towards alignment certification he's earned seven hours from allen county and from flint hills technical college evan eli holmes plans to attend flint hills technical college and major in industrial engineering technology he's earned 18 allen county college credit hours he's earned one college credit hour from flint hills and he'll be given the tuition voucher for the jones foundation gentry rhian konkel plans to attend pittsburg state university and major in nursing she earned the associative arts degree madison lee courson plans to attend emporia state university and major in social science education she has earned the associate of arts degree from allen county and she's going to receive the phi theta kappa honor society scholarship a presidential scholarship and a tuition voucher from the jones foundation kate ryan krieke plans to attend neosho county community college and major in business management he's earned 15 acc college credit hours and he's earned three flint hills tech college credit hours eli daniel crutchfield plans to attend a two-year college and major in marketing he's earned 30 acc college credit hours madison lynn dalby plans to attend allen community college major in nursing he's earned or she has earned 55 acc college credit hours and she's earned a merit scholarship riley dawn davis plans to attend butler county community college and major in pre-pharmacy she's earned six acc college credit hours and earned three flint hills tech credit college credit hours paige grayson dietrich plans to attend k-state university and major in industrial engineering she has earned the associate of arts degree from acc she's also earned scholarships from academic merit award the carl r ice engineering scholarship and the university scholar award cadence renee dudley plans to attend emporia state university and major in elementary education she's earned 50 highland county college credit hours she's receiving a volleyball athletic scholarship and the tuition voucher from the jones foundation james tyler dubuque plans to attend pittsburg state university and major in electrical engineering technology he's earned 12 at aacc college credit hours and 26 fhtc college credit hours logan leslie friend plans to attend missouri welding institute and major in wealthy he's earned 10 acc college credit hours and 5 fhtc college credit hours he's also going to receive the mwi welding competition scholarship trinity renee hanners plans to attend the bridges program jordan lee hartpin plans to attend martin community college and major in emergency medical services education paramedic he's earned four acc college credit hours and five fhtc college credit hours we're going to take a moment pause to see if we can get that to come back up is okay sorry about that a little technical difficulty but we'll get started again um okay ready for keaton nicholas egwall he plans to enter the workforce after he gets his cdl and becomes a semi driver eric brian hockett plans to attend fort scott community college and participate in john deere technology program he's earned 10 acc college credit hours and earned nine flint hills tech college credit hours mary jane desiree huff enlisted in the marines for eight years she's earned 10 acc college credit hours and thank you mj for your service raylan nicole hunter plans to attend pratt community college and major in veterinary technician dalton wayne iceman plans to attend flint hills technical college and major in industrial engineering and technology he's earned 15 acc college credit hours earned 18 flint hills tech college credit hours and has gained a tuition voucher and a jones foundation scholarship maggie ann jarvis plans to attend the university of kansas and major in exercise science she has earned 47 acc college credit hours and will receive the crimson and blue scholarship derrick benjamin jesse plans to attend emporia state university and major music education he's earned 53 acc college credit hours and received from emporia state the marching band scholarship the music talent scholarship a presidential scholarship and a tuition voucher from the jones foundation felicity madison johnson she plans to enter the workforce sky courtney elizabeth jones she plans to attend a post-secondary post-secondary institution and major in nursing she's earned five acc college credit hours kirk fletcher keegan plans to attend either emporia state university or sterling college his major will be theater and creative writing he's earned 33 acc college credit hours he's been offered scholarships from emporia state the academic scholarship the music scholarship and a theater scholarship tyler lee kirkby plans to attend wichita state university a major in mechanical engineering mckenna nicole klubeck plans to attend the university of kansas and major in biology she has earned an associate of arts degree from allen county community college max michael coolman plans to attend emporia state university major is pre-engineering he's earned 52 acc college credit hours and scholarships of a tuition voucher and jones foundation sage sierra coolman plans to attend emporia state university and major in elementary education she's earned 21 acc college credit hours and earned three flint hills tech college credit hours she has a tuition voucher and a jones foundation scholarship and kylie elise link planned to attend allen community college and major in early childhood education and she has earned 18 acc college credit hours kyanna joe langton plans to attend allen community college and major in farm and ranch management she's earned 37 acc college credit hours and five fhtc college credit hours she's been awarded a livestock livestock judging scholarship jc shaylan martin plans to attend the university of kansas her major is to get all the way to a master's in psychology she has earned the associate of arts degree from allen county and she has been awarded a jayhawk scholarship owen lane merchant plans to attend flint hills technical college major in welding technology he's earned three acc college credit hours and the welding technology certificate from flint hills he will receive a tuition voucher from the jones foundation parker jack mcdaniel plans to attend kansas state university and major in wildlife and outdoor enterprise management he's earned 29 acc college credit hours zoe alexis mackenzie plans to attend wichita state university and major in graphic design she's earned 30 acc college credit hours and three fhtc college credit hours miranda k meats plans to attend the university of kansas and major in biology she's earned the associate of arts degree from acc michaela emily anis meyeroff plans to attend allen community college and major in business she's earned seven acc college credit hours tanner anthony noonan plans to attend pitt state university and major in diesel mechanics he's earned four acc college credit hours and earned five flint hills tech college credit hours scholarships is the mwi welding competition scholarship and the paola high school welding competition scholarship eric marcos pavone plans to enter the workforce and travel the world he's earned 36 acc college credit hours and earned three flint hills tech college credit hours kara theresa page plans to attend flint hills technical college and major in graphic design she has earned nine acc college credit hours and earned 18 flint hills tech college credit hours and she's received a tuition voucher and a jones foundation excuse me bryce joshua joshua pritchett plans to attend pittsburg state university and major in business finance he's earned 52 acc college credit hours bryson scott raymond plans to attend flint hills technical college and major in network technology he's earned nine fhtc college credit hours and he will receive a tuition voucher from the jones foundation aon marie raynor plans to attend the university of saint mary's and major in english education she's earned nine acc college credit hours and she's receiving an athletic scholarship for wrestling sage ryan reynolds plans to enter the workforce in construction and continue as the owner of sage's rusty woodworking he attended the rural regional technical center this year catherine zelamay rohr plans to attend pittsburg state university and major in exercise science she earned the associate of arts degree from acc and she's earned three fhtc college credit hours trinity eve ruggiero she plans to take a year off from school then go to a one-year esthetician school kade andrew russ plans to attend the university of central missouri his major is information technology and has earned 44 acc college credit hours scholarship of out-of-state scholarships and the red and black scholarship william joseph saliva plans to enter the workforce he's earned seven acc college credit hours gage robert shetler plans to attend flint hills technical college major in power plant technology he's earned six acc college credit hours he's earned 14 flint hills tech college credit hours and the tuition voucher and jones foundation scholarship samuel byron smith plans to attend penn state university and major in pre-physical therapy he's earned 37 acc college credit hours josie ray stedel plans to attend the university of kansas and major in business she's earned 41 acc college credit hours kylie paige stevenson plans to attend flint hills technical college and major in graphic design she's earned 44 acc college credit hours and will receive a tuition voucher from the jones foundation madeleine rose turner plans to attend wichita state university and major in forensic chemistry she's earned the associative arts degree from acc and has been awarded the morrison merit scholarship thomas alexander udru plans to enter the workforce as an employee of wolf creek he's earned a power plant technology certificate from fhtc mckylie jean-marie van grays van dyce she plans to attend allen community college and major in psychology she's earned three acc college credit hours jane lane wagner plans to attend k-state university and major in business management he's earned 53 acc college hours and the academic merit award and the royal purple scholarship tanner waite plans to attend flint hills tech college and major in computer programming and design he's earned flint hills tech college credit hours 15 of them and the tuition voucher and the jones foundation serenity helene washburn plans to attend fort scott community college and major in animal science and industry pre-veterinary science she's earned 40 acc college credit hours and a meet judging scholarship and carly marie whitwork plans to attend johnson community college and major in dental hygiene she's earned 43 acc college credit hours and wyatt james wilson plans to attend kansas state university and major in bio biological and agricultural engineering he's earned 58 acc college credit hours emilia ann young plans to attend the colorado school of mines major is mechanical engineering she has earned an associate of arts degree from allen county community college and she's won the vanguard scholarship and brock daniel zimmerman plans to attend wichita state university pre-med is his major and he's earned 14 acc college credit hours now the senior honors and awards outstanding senior awards teachers in each department at burlington high school recognize an outstanding senior who excels in their curricular area the outstanding seniors in art are miranda meets and madeline turner the outstanding senior in band is cooper carlson congratulations the outstanding senior in family and consumer science congratulations to sage coleman hang on just a second are we is it frozen i did it from the beginning is oh go ahead go ahead and close out of that one guys close out of those individuals do it close out of the individuals and only have the senior honor okay the outstanding senior for fccla congratulations to paige acres the outstanding senior in fbla congratulations to brightly davis outstanding seniors in ffa goes to kiana langton congratulations an outstanding senior in foreign language congratulations go to madeline turner and the outstanding senior in forensics goes to kirk kiga great job and the outstanding senior in language arts goes to madeleine turner good job the outstanding senior in math we have two of them emma young and max kuhlman congratulations and the outstanding seniors in science they just couldn't decide so we have three we have madeleine turner thomas unruh and emma young the outstanding senior in social studies congratulations dalton eisman the outstanding seniors in technology congratulations katie rust and kylie stevenson the outstanding senior in theater congratulations kylan allen the outstanding senior in theater productions actress two of you sage coleman and emma young congratulations ladies the outstanding senior and theater productions and actor goes to kurt keegan good job and the outstanding seniors in theater production and crew go to paige acres bradley davis zoe mckenzie kayla meyerhoff katherine rohr and kylie stevenson congratulations girls the heisman high school program students who participate in a sport or cheerleading and who have a cumulative gpa of 3.0 can nominate themselves for this award the heisman corporation then chooses a male and a female from each school to enter their scholarship program at the state level our heisman high school winners are emma young and jamie wagner burlington honor scholars in the past for the last 50 years ku would honor the top 10 percent of each graduating class and call them kansas honor scholars this year ku has decided to put an end to the program and put that money into their scholarships instead we believe in honoring our top 10 so we are going to call you the burlington honor scholars these are the students who are the top 10 percent of the graduating class of 2022 you will receive a medallion to wear at graduation the burlington honors scholars are paige acres paige dietrich kaden stadley max coleman miranda meets madeline turner and emma young congratulations the kansas governor's scholar each high school in kansas can nominate one student as a kansas governor scholar the requirement is that this student ranks in the top 1 of the graduating class bhs chose the student with the highest gpa and act score combination for this award it was just given out yesterday in topeka congratulations emma young the ganet kansas all-state academic team nominee each high school in kansas can nominate one student as their nominee for the ganec kansas all-state academic team bhs chooses the student with the second highest gpa act score combination congratulations derek jesse the presidential scholars program each school in the nation can nominate one senior from the presidential scholars program and one senior for the presidential scholars program for career and technical education this year emma young was chosen based upon our gpa and our act scores to represent bhs in the presidential scholars program and kyanna langton was chosen to represent bhs in the presidential scholars program for career and technical education based on her gpa act and her accomplishments in a career and technical educational field congratulations ladies the dale m dennis excellence in education award the dale m dennis excellence in education award is given to a senior who exhibits a desire for learning and who excels academically the staff at burlington high school votes on the recipient congratulations jamie wagner the kansas masonic lodge exemplary student award each year kansas masonic lodges recognize students for being exemplary in their schools recognition could be for academics leadership overcoming special circumstances or for just being an all-around good kid the bhs staff votes on the recipients one male and one female this year's winners are madison courson and ty anderson congratulations you two the ronald reagan leadership award this award is voted on by the burlington high school staff and is given to one senior who best exemplifies the characteristics of drive humility and service before self congratulations kyanna langton the kshsaa citizenship award this award is voted on by the bhs staff and is given to one female and one male student who best exemplifies the characteristics of respect responsibility and reverence congratulations to paige acres and max coleman good job the debbie rock school spirit award this award is voted on by the bhs staff it is given to one senior who best personifies the meaning of school spirit throughout the broad spectrum of all school activities congratulations sage coolman the menard family scholar program this award is associated with the college of business at k-state university menard scholars foster leadership development ethical decision-making and innovative thinking congratulations jamie wagner good job the united states marine corps scholastic excellence award this goes to jc merchant and kurt keegan united states marine corps the semper fide award for musical excellence congratulations to emma young and derek jesse good job the united states marine corps distinguished athlete award congratulations to kate stedley and jb wagner certificate of acceptance for enlistment in the united states marine corps delayed entry program the job mj huff the future marine of the quarter for recruiting station kansas city again congratulations mj huff the allen county associate of arts degree completers several seniors took acc concrete or concurrent classes during the summer classes and night classes and or online classes to earn the required 64 college credit hours needed to earn the associate of arts degree from allen county community college we also have one individual that's earned his associates of science degree and that is mitchell broyles the other individuals that earned their associate of arts degree is ty anderson elliott burns gentry conceal madison courson paige dietrich mckenna klubeck j.c marchand miranda meats katherine rohr madeleine turner and emma young congratulations to all of you for that hard work of getting that extra degree work from the colleges the certified nurse aid certificates these students earned their certificate as a certified nurse aide while in high school they are gentry conkle riley davis madison dalby skye jones katherine rohr mckylie van patten mariah dan nice and brock zimmerman cpr certifications these students earned their cpr certification while in high school elliott burns madison dalby brylee davis cadence doubly tyler dubuque dalton eisman maggie jarvis derek jesse max coolman zoe mckenzie eric cabone bryce pritchett gage shetler sam smith and brock zimmerman good job guys you're there to save lives that's right the osha 10 certification these students earned their osha 10 certification while in high school they are tyler checked derrick cole and combs logan friend jordan hart pence eric hockett kyanna langton owen merchant tanner noonan sage reynolds gabe shetler and thomas unruh good job tanning consultant certification goes to jc martian good job young lady pharmacy technician certification is brylee davis excellent the fhtc power plant technology certificate was completed by thomas unruh and the fhtc welding technology certificate has been completed by owen merchant coffee county flight training scholarship this year uh goes to derrick jesse he's working to earn his pilot's license vocational concentrators to attain the status of a vocational concentrator students must have achieved three or more credits in a single vocational pathway achieving 80 percent on the course competencies are better with at least two credits being a combination of technical and application level courses a concentrator has not obtained an industry recognized credential in the agricultural animal science pathway the concentrators are elliott burns michaela meyerhoff serenity washburn and wyatt wilson in the business finance pathway we have mitchell broyles in the family and community services pathway harley alford bradley davis maggie jarvis mckenna klubeck kylie van patten and carly whitworth concentrators in the manufacturing processes pathway are cooper carlson paige dietrich tyler dubuque tyler kirby max coleman and jamie wagner concentrators in the teaching and training pathway are cadence deadly sky jones sage coleman kylie lang and in the web and digital communication pathway we have raven allen keaton headwall dalton eiseman kiera page bryson rainey katie rest kylie stevenson and thomas unruh and the vocational completers to attain the status of vocational completer students must have completed three or more credits in a single vocational pathway achieving 80 percent on the course competency or better than with at least two credits being a combination of technical and applicational level courses in addition the students must obtain an industry recognized credential or pass a third-party end of the pathway assessment the agricultural animal science pathway kiana langton jordan hard pence agricultural comprehensive pathway derrick cole and agricultural power structural and mechanical pathway goes to logan friend eric hockett tanner noonan tyler chet evan combs and sage reynolds the kansas scholars curriculum the state of kansas offers a scholarship program for students who have completed a prescribed curriculum of four credits of english four credits of math three credits of science specifically biology chemistry and physics three credits of social studies and two credits of a foreign language our kansas scholars curriculum completers are paige akers gentry conceal kaden stedley mckenna klubeck miranda meeks madeleine turner wyatt wilson and emma young the state then uses a special formula based on the cumulative gpa and a ct score of the completers they then identify the top curriculum completers as designated kansas state scholars if they are named if a student is named a scholar he or she can then apply for a state of kansas scholarship we have four our kansas state scholars are paige acres madeleine turner wyatt wilson and emma young national honors society this year i had the privilege of being one of the co-sponsors of nhs what a great bunch of kids along with deborah parker and gail hazelhune these students will all wear a blue and gold honor court at graduation to designate that they are nhs members we will start with our officers paige acres nhs president emma young nhs vice president josie siddell nhs secretary sage coleman nhs treasurer and paige dietrich stuco rep the other senior members of nhs are harley alford raven allen ty anderson elliot burns cooper carlson kaden stevley tyler dubuque maggie jarvis derek jesse kirk keegan mckenna klubeck max coleman kiana langton jc merchant miranda meats bryce pritchett catherine rohr sam smith madeleine turner jamie wagner carly whitworth wyatt wilson the a.c.t club 30 the act test is used for college admission course placement and scholarships the highest composite score a student can earn on the act is 36.
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i'm nick baim and i'm here um for cat tv news and reporting for tinkercon i'm here with mrs agustini miss stratton and cara daniels who are organizers of the event miss agostini what is tinkercon tinkercon is a steam event a bunch of classes will come together with different projects and different activities and have a whole host and range of events throughout the day when like when is it happening tuesday may 3rd 2022. awesome um what programs will be there um we'll have a wide variety of different things that you can do there you can make crafts play games and it will just be a bunch of fun some of the things we'll be doing also include there'll be drone demonstrations as well 3d printing we'll have an e-sports arena and we'll also have a karaoke party and other things going on as well anything that has to do with science technology arts um at the cricket station you can [Music] make a paper lantern uh a character bookmark and then a little basket of strawberries that sounds cool um will there be any um thing happening in the future is this going to happen next year do you know yeah this is our fifth annual tinkercon and we hope to have this and have it grow bigger and bigger each year that's the interview thank you again
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shirelle fuller here jenny hagstrom here terry pavich here joanna vazquez drexler here nancy kupka here scarlett o'hara here and jade toledano here 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 hey perspectives all right good evening everyone uh as you know we have probably 60 some clubs in student activity organizations and those are constantly changing based on student interest not long before kovid shut a lot of our activities down our orchestra orchesis dance team was for dance club and since that time i think they're up to 60 or 80 members and are doing multiple events so as one of our fastest growing groups i thought i'd invite them here to share some of the things they've done most recently hi i'm renetta jacob i'm a senior and i've been in orchesis for four years hi i'm liana o'rourke i'm a senior and i've been an orchestra three years hi i'm bianca pedoza i'm a senior and i've been an orchest for four years so today we ask ourselves what does orchesis mean to us orcas orchesis for me is a judgment-free zone to welcome dancers of all levels ethnicities genders and so on together we express our passion for dance through all types of music and beats we come together and stand as a team to spread these varieties of dance throughout the community yeah we're noticing it perfectly focuses is such a welcoming diverse and passionate community of dancers i feel it's a place where students can express themselves and really feel seen especially because we have so many genres of dance i joined orchesis my sophomore year i had been a figure skater when i was younger and was involved in musical theater before but i had very little formal dance experience so i was a little nervous going into it but one of the things that's so special to me is that i felt like i had a place in orchards right away there was always someone to help me out if i was having trouble with choreography or just needed some cheering on it's a super encouraging environment where you can grow as a dancer but also learn so much about other students i feel so lucky and happy to be a part of this amazing community for me orchesis is a very inclusive and fun club that i'm absolutely proud to be a part of many dance styles are represented here and it gives people the opportunity to express their creativity in the form of dance to be honest i had little to no dance experience when i joined which is why i was really hesitant at first although i started out struggling with picking up choreography i pushed through my limits and seeked ways how i could improve eventually i discovered that dancing was an ultimate passion of mine orchesis will forever hold a very special place in my heart because it helped me grow so much as a person and develop many valuable skills and lessons i wouldn't be the person i am today if i didn't join orchesis so for now for how and how and why it started so as a freshman in high school i felt like something was missing there wasn't a space where all dance forms could express themselves there were people who didn't make the dance team yet still had the urge to dance and there were people even on the dance team that wanted to dance even more i felt like something was pushing me to create a club that nobody had ever seen before at dgs a place where everyone belonged and was welcome so together my friend blessy and i approached mrs hendrickson knowing her dance her love for dance we created this club called orchesis our idea of orchesis focused on being inclusive so we made auditions no cut and welcomed all styles of dance as a bollywood dancer i finally had the opportunity to show and teach the community my culture so now there are more than 50 students involved in the student-run company and we create a wonderful annual showcase when i was a freshman in high school i knew that i wanted to get involved in an extracurricular at dgs i just didn't know exactly like what clubs or sports that i wanted to join luckily mrs henriksen was my p.e teacher at the time and she told my class about the new dance club called orchesis where anyone can join regardless of their dance experience she encouraged us to sign up for it despite being new to dancing at the time i would look forward to rehearsals every tuesday because i love the positive environment that orchesis provides for everyone and now we will talk about this year's showcase this year's showcase was very exciting performing in front of a large audience once again felt so amazing and i'm beyond grateful that we have the opportunity to have a more normal show before we graduate high school yeah i agree the stage crew also did an amazing job helping us out during tech week and they did a beautiful job with the lighting as well we love getting to share what we have been working on all year and like biaka said it was such a great experience to end off our senior year in orchesis so now about our previous showcases um besides my passion for bollywood i was able to try out other styles of dance which i thought i would never be able to do so it was interesting to see other students come up with such creative ideas behind their dance pieces one example i remember was one dance had a message such as not having to follow this beauty standards of our modern day society i started out in orchesis only knowing how to dance hip-hop but eventually i also was able to try out different dance styles such as jazz and contemporary the previous orchestra showcases have helped me become more open on trying new things and express myself through dancing i was also amazed at people's creativity passion and inspiration seeing on their members is purpose on why they choreograph and dance is what makes every show special and meaningful now i'd like to share about how we stayed connected through the pandemic specifically during remote learning at the beginning of junior year i started running the orchesis dance company instagram account i'm so excited and thankful mrs henriksen gave me that opportunity i wanted to highlight different dancers recognize seniors and things like that as i started posting i began to realize i felt a lot more connected with both students in orchesis and my own friends and classmates i realized that connection was something i really needed and i wanted to give that to everyone else so that became my new goal with managing the social media some other things we did to connect with each other during road learning is a secret santa gift exchange on the screen you can see some pictures from zoom and then some officers last year choreographed a valentine's day themed dance so everyone learned it we compiled the videos and we were still able to dance together now i will talk about the addison trail diversity show so in march we were invited to perform our photograph dance in the diversity show this was an amazing opportunity to share our piece as well as watch other students from schools in the west suburban conference there are a lot of performances for example there was spoken word in all girls mariachi bands singers and other dance groups including the dgn steppers we got to ride the bus with them and they were so amazing and it was just a way to celebrate unique talents and stories through different forms of the arts so now about the spirit assembly so about a week ago we were asked to dance for the bollywood for pep assembly and it was amazing to finally be able to show my own peers what my culture looks like we had a sludge on the background to explain each type of dance in the bollywood world and which area the dance came from so essentially it was a history lesson but in an entertaining way we also included a group of boys who to dance with us so they took in a dance which is something that they thought they would never be able to do and it was just an amazing feeling to be cheered by my fellow peers and know that we all support each other as a community besides this diversity show at addison trail it felt very exciting to be able to perform photograph at the spirit assembly in front of the whole school and perform with the most amazing people i've met it was such a wonderful and memorable experience this spirit assembly was definitely one of my favorite memories from dgs i loved the enthusiasm from the staff and students and i thought it was so cool when everyone started waving their phone flashlights and singing photograph together it was just such a beautiful moment for us as dancers but also for us as seniors and getting to have one last assembly together at tgs thank you so much for inviting us to speak about the dgs orchesis dance company and share our experiences does anyone have any questions so are any of you planning to pursue dancing after um i will definitely be doing the dance club at my college yes clubs yeah yeah um are there any guys that want to join your computer yeah we do we have like about [Music] two or three oh just two or three [Laughter] all right let's encourage them is this photograph the name of a song yeah it's a photograph by ed sheeran but like the concept behind the dance was like the memories yeah right we're def leppard it was a no-cut club that is so cool see even i could dance with them that's what's really frightening well what also is neat is that you've got dancers from the dance team the you know the school dance team also participating because it's giving them another outlet which is which is really well i mean they're not tired enough how many how many members did you say you have for more than 50 yeah different dance groups and like different dances too like we come all together for the annual showcase okay and how did you pick the name it was just it's like a greek and yeah um i think it's a greek word for the art of dance okay oh okay it's an educational session for us and um you'll have to be sure to uh pass along our thanks and congratulations to mrs henriksen because i you mentioned her name i don't know how many times here she must really be special because i'm guessing that this is a little above and beyond what she really has to do right so terrific well thank you for being here [Applause] all right uh student board members our final four number one wait a minute yeah [Laughter] is that just us it's been such a drab year yeah i wish there'd been more going on yeah you know what i know it's a little boring a little black faster it's fine um okay no in all seriousness this has been an awesome opportunity i think both me and scarlet can agree on that but north okay so may we are starting the end of the school year seriously two weeks left for seniors three for uh everybody else starting in our fine arts our dgn theater is doing their last play the spring play it's called the curious incident of the dog in the night time it sounds very interesting very intriguing i know they've put a lot of effort into this as they always have and i'm really excited to see how it goes and all their efforts to be seen on the stage also in our fine arts last week we had our spring art show and it was incredible to see our visual artists have their work displayed their efforts displayed specifically i think something that was really cool to see um was our art history class because we only have one section of that i have a combined manuscript on display which i thought it was really interesting to see it's something unique it's something that you don't see every day uh moving on to sports we've had our spring sports do amazing so far they are doing so well for our seniors we've had many senior nights already as they start to wrap up seriously the school year and specifically i want to give a shout out to our volleyball team our boys volleyball team who have had a game at home recently to honor mason who passed away earlier this school year it was amazing to see the community come out and support our team and see how our community really unites in these moments so that was touching for journalism we have the state champ in news writing kate rose at north she plays in sectionals and she is our state champ which is so exciting congratulations to her [Music] um as you can see by scarlet nice shirts and north and south we celebrated decision day for seniors which is so exciting as we decide where we're heading after district 99 because district 99 has prepared us very well for our future wherever we're going and it was so it was really real to see everybody all my friends with their college grade i'm like okay it's real we're leaving um but i'm so excited to see where life takes us and it's important to always see the positive and everything and see yeah see where life is heading and it's going to be good it's all about perspective so we also had our academic awards starting to come out so our teachers are able to recognize those students who go above and beyond in their classrooms for math science awards and it's amazing to see those students be recognized for their efforts and everything that they do in the classroom and beyond this week we have started ap testing today which is so much fun we started today with ap gov this morning it's going on this week next week and as always i feel like i'm i say it very often a test score doesn't define us but always all the luck and so much effort that is put into that last week we had the recognition of national drug awareness week our c triple s department uh sent down many emails and many announcements about how to avoid drug usage and reaching out for help in those situations which i think is something very important for us to recognize and this week we have staff appreciation week for all our teachers and everybody else in our buildings and it's something so easy i know dr thiele you tweeted about it it's something so important it's so simple to say thank you and i think it goes a really long way for some people so i think saying a simple thank you to our teachers is always worthwhile and like i said it's may it's very exciting uh it is mental health mental health awareness month this morning erica's lighthouse did a healthful is your cup activity out in our main street lobby uh to see for us to be able to reflect on how we're feeling right if we're stressed if we're overwhelmed if we're overflowing and it was a really nice activity to start the month and right around ap season and we will be continuing that this week and it's something that i'm very passionate about so yeah that's north in a nutshell um i committed to ie university it is a really good university in spain so i will be leaving very far soon espana um no district 99 has prepared me very well for an international education i'm really excited it's going to be three years for my bachelor of laws which is great and they have a partnership with northwestern so i'll be taking their north western track okay come back for my jd in two years so at 23 your girl will be a lawyer very good very good i'm going to be highlighting a lot of the same things that jade highlighted from north so all of our spring sports are still telling them as their seasons progress i want to shout out our girls softball team they have a conference win streak of 89 games so far so it's been going on for a couple years i know they it's very important to them and every conference game they keep adding another win to that streak spirit week was a ton of fun i mentioned that last week last time i gave an update we capped it off with our first indoor assembly since before covid we saw performances from our orchesis dance club and the variety of the styles bollywood and contemporary our caribbean soul club also performed and our cheer team taught us a little roller coaster cheer after classes competed against each other the senior class came out the winners we won our coveted spirit jug so that was very exciting and i want to thank our ace club for hosting this really awesome week we're really glad that it was back this year it's always a ton of fun as jade mentioned yesterday was may 1st so our seniors have decided where they're going post-secondary as a celebration all our seniors wore something to represent their next steps whether that be college the workforce or the military i just want to wish all of our seniors good luck as they begin this next chapter of their lives we all know they'll do awesome things and this wednesday will also be our senior awards to highlight all the achievements of the class of 2022.
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[Music] good morning i'm grayson and i'm bryson with your morning announcements for tuesday may 3rd walk-in sports physicals are available for twenty dollars to athletes at the dc mh well clinic monday through friday from eight to six pm during the during june and july there will be sports physical night at dc mh tree city medical partners on thursday july 21st from 6 to 8 pm physicals are first come first serve under 20 cash or check only now to braden with the weather hi i'm brandon with the weather today as a high of 71 with a low of 55. tomorrow is a high of 62 in the low 51 and thursday the high is 60 at the low of 48. now back to your announcements there will be a call-out meeting for girls interested in rain cross country next fall on tuesday may 10 and 11 a.m in coach davis's room there will be a call-out meeting for boys interested in running cross-country next fall on thursday may 12th at 11 am in coach davis's room any student who is interested in trying out for privateers for next year plan to attend an informational meeting this wednesday at 11 a.m outside the athletic office nana braden with the launch hi i'm bryan with the lunch today's lunch is grilled chicken parmesan with steamed broccoli and chocolate chip cookie now back to your announcements attention seniors tuesday may 3rd ms offenberg will be coming to your english class to collect information in reference to plans after graduation this information also includes any scholarships grants and awards which you are accepting or and their amounts please plan accordingly and have this information ready available junior optimist club will meet on tuesday may a reminder for all prom goers all vehicles will be valid parked at prom please follow greensburg safety on instagram to stay up to date in your community now to kylie with sports hi i'm kylie with sports today we have a tennis meet at home versus waldron and the county track meet at home now back to your announcements there are summer employment opportunities at the allen memorial swimming pool for full and part-time positions including lifeguards pool cashiers and pool concessions call 812 812-663-8284 for more info the wire library will be closed for a meeting tuesday may 3rd from 11 20 a.m to 2 p.m have a great day and be sure to follow us on twitter snapchat and instagram at gchs pirates also be sure to listen to gtv radio on live 365.com
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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 welcome to our monday may 2nd school board meeting we will start with our agenda approval deletions editions dr baraka thank you mrs seuss you do have an amended agenda before you with some additions to roman numeral seven three that's my professional leave request to add the three board members to the law seminar in indianapolis on june the second thank you we have a motion by dr malco second second by dr medlin any discussion all in favor aye motion passes we'll move right into our liaison committee updates mr marshall i i have nothing to report on personal interview thank you dr medlin nothing to report thank you dr malcolm um yes the lake central education foundation is again looking for volunteers if you're that type of person who wants to be a part of lake central community we have a spot waiting for you and for dire parks department they meet next week so i have nothing to report on dire parks thank you and for my committees for dollars for scholars uh may 11th is the um scholarship evening and the invites did go out so if you got an invite please respond to mrs burrita so we'll move on to our official school board business topics consent agenda dr baracko thank you again seek board approval for the minutes from our regular meeting and our special meeting on april 18th as well as approval of the claims payroll and extracurricular expenditures you received in your packets move to a proof you have a motion by mr marshall second second by dr medlin any discussion hearing none all in favor aye motion passes there are no public comments so we will move on to our official school board business topics regular agenda dr veraco thank you and we're going to begin our evening with some recognitions of outstanding student achievement for our first batch i'd like to introduce mr enyart lc athletic director to begin that process with our coaches thank you [Applause] at this time i'm gonna we're gonna start with our first program that's cheer i'm gonna have coach loden come up and she loves public speaking so she's very excited to be here tonight [Applause] the cheerleaders are getting recognized this evening for winning a national championship this past february we attended the universal cheerleading association nationals we entered a new division this year we went into a non-building division we have a lot of very talented tumblers and um we beat a team who had actually won that division like over the five out of the last six years so it was quite quite exciting for the girls we compete we pretty much compete all year starting in late september we compete at state we do a state prelim we do some local competitions and this was our last one so we'll call the girls down at this time maddie bigger staff [Applause] addison black [Applause] sammy carlson [Applause] carly gabler haley junkin [Applause] callie cronky [Applause] lily lane who is not here this evening lily was also being recognized this evening for making the all-state cheer team that is um that was at state she competed against oh probably over 60 girls and was one of the top 12.
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good evening call to order of this finance committee meeting on uh may 3rd at 6 00 31 pm um miss jaczynski roll call please here miss ham here ms rosenberg mr chairman thank you i'm all right i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all okay thanks for coming this evening oh yeah guys great to see you in person the pledge sounds so much better that way yeah doesn't it um okay so going to the agenda here um since this was a publicly noticed meeting was there any public comment that was sent beforehand no okay great um all right next up is the stock grant application okay so um just to provide you a little bit of overview on this this is something that i know adam has had the benefit of meeting uh tom bibia who's a local cheshire resident i first met tom um i want to say like 2013 when i was chester high school principal and he was working for the fbi at the time and we coordinated a large training exercise for local law enforcement uh regional law enforcement around like amber alert response and so since that time we've done a lot more work together he's been serving as a consultant for us around school security issues and tom and i share a philosophy around trying to stop significant school violence before it becomes an issue before it gets to fruition right a lot of what you see around school violence though is is uh intuitive as it sounds to try and intervene beforehand a lot of time money and energy is spent on hardening school facilities as opposed to a more comprehensive approach that includes that but also includes how do we intervene before things become significant because that's the best outcome for everyone obviously so in that process we looked at something called the stop grant um it's i'm going to pass out to you um did you have a copy did i give you earlier i didn't bring it up so the stock grant i think is brought on by the bureau of justice and they issued through federal funds 43 million dollars to state excuse me local groups every year and it's for money to be used over the course of three years and uh there's no match requirement so you have the you know the grant for that three years but you do have to have a sustainability plan for when the money runs out what is your plan for after the money runs out so typically you know with respect to you know a grant like this i wouldn't necessarily bring into the board if i felt like we could enhance our programming or something like that given the fact that there's a sustainability requirement i felt like it required a conversation and um what we're looking at in this grant are a few different things that we would want to potentially move forward so you'll see um i apologize the pages aren't numbered but it's the um if you flip to the it's the third page technically it's the the second page midway down says behavioral threat assessment teams um so any time that students make threats uh or that there's a perceived threat so it could come actually we've had it from adults in the community as well we organize a team at the building level with district representation about how to process that threat i know this is a conversation adam we had in greater detail with policy but there is training required to to have a process that's implemented with fidelity across the school system as a matter of fact we're already kind of planning that for this summer um as a review because we did some before uh kovid but feel like you know we need to revisit this sort of work so we have plans for august july and august actually for different groups of mental health professionals across the district and our administrators to go through that training so we are doing stuff like this already but we would be able to use money to do this to do teen and youth mental health first aid um alice some of the things that we're already doing could be paid for for three years and then our plan would be to to basically just reintegrate that you know through our budget um the other thing that isn't part of the current plan but was part of previous work that we had done is the potential to use uh to have a district-wide security facilitator that was something that adam i think you remember was that like three or four years ago then i want to say it was 18 19.
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we have a few students that have met the 30 criteria for the a.c.t those are derrick jesse kirk keegan j.c martian wyatt wilson and emma young yes okay the uh burlington high school we recognize the students who score the highest second highest and third highest act scores we do not use the super score for that because some students take the a.c.t just once and some students take it several times so the act bronze award for the third highest acts for the class with an act score of 31 and yes they gave you permission to announce their score um jc merchant and emma young congratulations ladies the azt silver award the second highest act score in the class with an act of 32 congratulations kurt keegan and the act gold award the highest act score in the class with an a-c-t score of 34. congratulations derek jesse those students will all receive a medallion to wear at graduation the honors graduate students can graduate with honors based upon their cumulative seventh semester gpa honors graduates will be given an honors medallion to wear at graduation honors graduates from lottie gpa of 3.2 to 3.49 are tyler chet evan combs madison dalby skye jones kylie lank zoe mckenzie and tanner noonan kara page gage shetler kylie stevenson and tanner waite the honors graduates who are back the lottie they have a gpa of 3.5 to 3.79 they are harley alford kylan allen mitchell royals elliott burns cooper carlson sofia carpio eli crutchfield dalton eisemann maggie jarvis owen marchant parker mcdaniel catherine rohrer katie rest kaden rust sam smith thomas unruh serenity washburn and carly whitworth honors graduate summa laude gpa of 3.8 to a 4.0 goes to page acres raven allen ty anderson gentry conkle madison corson paige dietrich cadence dougly tyler dubuque derrick jesse kurt keegan mckenna klubeck and max coolman sage kuhlman kiana langton jc marchant miranda meats eric pavone bryce bridget josie stedel madeleine turner jamie wagner wyatt wilson and emma young students who are graduating magna laude or summa laude will also receive the presidential award for academic excellence to be eligible students must have earned a minimum gpa of 3.5 congratulations hey mr wreath what do you say we give away a little bit of money now i think it's time all right we'll get our local scholarships up and we want to thank all local scholarship sponsors is it going to work miss monica it's doing the same thing it's doing the same thing okay one moment please we'll be right back there we go again we'd like to thank the local uh scholarship sponsors for their generosity to the class of 2122.
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today also kicked off as jade said ap testing so good luck to all the students who are taking those tests they're long but you know if you take the class you're prepared for them i also want to congratulate five of our journalism students who meddled at state and how hard they work for to all their different events i don't completely understand everything that they do for journalism but i know that what they do they're passionate about and that's all that matters our spring musical was also fantastic the cast and crew of legally blonde did an amazing job over the course of the two days with teacher cameos which was also a fun little touch and this week we are celebrating staff appreciation week so from all of the self students thank you to our teachers staff counselors and everyone who helps us be successful on a daily basis they really make a difference in our students lives and with only a few short weeks until school is over for the year our students are working hard to wrap up their school years as they look forward to their summer and we're in the home stretch and we're excited to see what the summer and next school year brings thank you and you are going to i'm going to ohio state um i'll be majoring in biology on the pre-med track fantastic that's right thank you both fabulous board members thank you don't celebrate yet they've got one more one more meeting we'll be here may 16th oh goodness no there's a whole thing there's a whole thing coming i thought there was a homeless we have a whole thing okay [Music] this is just their last report yeah this is our last report they're not getting off the hook that they've got another meeting we'll be here one more meeting wonderful nevertheless you bring up a very good point we would be remiss if we did not reiterate and that is it is teacher appreciation yes an administrator and for all you guys do and uh there is uh opportunity on our website that's what i tweeted out earlier for anybody in the community to go and leave a personal note for any staff member that has impacted their students this year or any time in the past it's always nice to get those kind words of thanks it is but let's not forget you're all teachers too yes and we appreciate you all right we won't make you wait till we'll sleep all right we have any reception or visit nope nope okay um here we go strategically i'm getting there i'm not going to do it in three minutes but i'm telling you all right all right uh at the next board meeting the board will be asked to take action on the strategic plan uh this has been an engagement process for the entire year involving a variety of different uh committees our last step was putting together uh the mission vision and value statements just like before it works through a variety of committees those that involved students family members staff members just like each step along the way did today i'm going to bring to you kind of how that strategic plan turns into a strategic roadmap and guides our work moving forward so as i said throughout this i remember we hired a consultant to help lead us through this work they did a wonderful job of gathering feedback from many different audiences so we've talked about the strategic plan which is really those pieces on the top which is the mission vision values so the mission tries to describe in a single sentence what we try to do every day the vision tries to talk about in a single sentence kind of what our product is what we're creating as a school district the values are exactly that the values that we use as we do that work and then the strategic directions we've talked about in several board meetings in the past that's the actual work what we're committing to do those are kind of the overarching ideas moving forward and then each year as the board is aware we set tasks and outcomes that the board tracks throughout the year as we do that administrative work at the end of each year i bring the border report it's our end-of-year proj progress summary now that will change to end-of-year strategic plan progress summary uh now that we will have an updated strategic plan in place and then after the board receives that report we go back and set new tasks and outcomes for the next year we just keep going in that loop until we feel it's time to come back together and write a new strategic plan all right so after all of the work with all of the groups this is our recommended mission statement every day the district 99 community works to provide a foundation for students to confidently pursue a future of their choosing our vision so what we're do what we're producing right district 99 will graduate students are equipped to realize their potential and positively impact their community and the larger world and then i won't read all of these to you the board is humans in advance but uh really i i strongly like these statements you know that these are the values that we have right we care we trust we belong we prepare and we evolve all of those feed into those strategic directions and expectations right so these in the past we called like gold domains right it's kind of this is what we're doing uh to accomplish those mission that mission and vision while we stay true to our values the board has seen these many times before um but just to reiterate i'll give you the top piece which is so when we talk about it right it's the direction is that main heading and then the expectations of how we accomplish that strategic direction are listed underneath so we'll do this one just to kind of give you the format and to give everyone the format so the strategic direction is an equitable and supportive environment and then the expectations are what fall underneath that okay so what will happen now the board remembers in the past i would bring you tasks and outcomes for each of the goals underneath that you'll receive the same thing now the kind of overall domain as it was in the past would be an equitable and supportive environment and then for each one of these expectations underneath we'll provide the board an idea of how we're what tasks and outcomes are we working on over the course of the year to meet each of those expectations to make those things happen all right so in an equitable and supportive are equitable and supportive environment in growth of student ownership and agency in the area of increased student engagement in post-secondary planning and in the area of recruitment retention and support of high quality teachers and staff so the next steps at the next board meeting i will bring this to you as a recommendation that the board accepts the strategic roadmap this is like the final review so if there's something in here that a board member has concerns about please reach out to me immediately so because i'd like to go back to the committees and talk about it if there's something that stands out that you're concerned about otherwise this will come back as is at the next board meeting for approval and then after that we'll start getting to work as we always do in may and june in setting those tasks and outcomes for the next school year so that in july we can bring you the plan usually in august we approve it and we're up and running for the next school year any discussion questions regarding the process have you taken uh for lack of a better description these domains and overlaid them on top of what we've been doing and have you not yet that would be kind of the next okay step uh we were we talked about that early on with the committees that were coming together and they were very cautious about like this isn't just rebranding this was from like the parents and the students that were in the room like we don't want come up with this and then you just figure out how to fit what you're already doing inside of this we're giving you the directions for the next five to seven years there might be stuff there's likely stuff that you're doing that fits into this but we don't want you to crosswalk it they gave us the directions of start clean start with this and as you work through how you accomplish those things sure there's stuff we're doing but don't reverse engineer it from here's what we're doing now let's try to squeeze it into the new so certainly um so it just i'll be really curious to see how this impacts what we do going forward because i'm guessing that when you do that overlay that there's some places where we're doing where we're too heavy with something not enough focus on something else and um that's what you'd hope would happen since we didn't reverse engineer it yeah i think as we look at those strategic directions we talked about this a few board meetings ago one of the key words in there is ensuring that these things happen right so there's a much more focus of providing evidence of completion of those things which we've done in the past but it's different of overarching as an organization of doing it versus ensuring that you did that for each individual student right we talk a lot about in general as a school district this is what we do this kind of takes the next step of are we making sure that we're doing these things for each and every student right so when we take um when we take a look at what our on here where is it our our vision right the vision statement which was to realize their potential and positively impact their community in the larger world one of the problems we've always had is is how do we measure our success you know district 58 for instance you know all they have to do is look at what's happening to those students as they matriculate to district 99 or other schools and see what you know how well they were prepared how are they doing whereas we don't get that ready feedback right and so and when we're talking about not just from colleges but also from the workplace from the military you know so i'd be really curious to know how how we can measure our success with this um i think that's a real challenge with this vision i agree with the vision but measuring that success is going to be difficult it will be yeah that continues to be an ongoing challenge for all high schools but definitely we will be working at that okay i had one concern and it's a small but under on slide 13 and recruitment retention and support of high quality teachers and staff the word ensure always makes me pause and the first bullet ensure that staff represent and reflect the diverse students and families served in district 99 laudable we've been trying to do it for years i don't know that you can insure that just because we know that the employment base just isn't there correct so just maybe some thought to like strive towards or because i i well you can set a lofty goal right and and and sure indicates you're going to accomplish that you're going to accomplish it and while it would be ideal to have our staff reflect the diversity of our students we have not no school has really been successful yet in doing so just because it doesn't it in our defense it doesn't say proportionally so all right we can make in-route inroads in [Music] yeah it doesn't say proportionally it would be impossible to do that with what the the workforce is out there available to us well i've often thought i mean it's impossible to achieve perfection but it's not unreasonable to make perfection your goal in something knowing that you're the only way you're going to get there is if you aim for it you know so i i guess once again thinking back to the measure right do we consider it a failure if we fall short of ensuring that every staff right no not if we go into it with the understanding that this is a goal right uh and while it may be difficult or even impossible to really achieve um we're this is what we're aiming for i can agree with strive ensure like the shorts that stanford's responsibilities adapted not that they we shouldn't strive for all those things i'm not trying to i just i don't i i think it's too easy for us to be off the hook if we're not saying we're going to ensure that i i strongly believe that every student that comes here should be able to find themselves somewhere at school and that's what that first one talks about so you could say staff shall represent and reflect the diverse students and families served in district 9 and i read that the same way as saying and sure right you know it's this is this is what we're aiming for this is our goal and you know we don't just because we don't we can't necessarily achieve that 100 percent doesn't mean that that's not we we strive for yeah but ensure i think is a much stronger word than we shall well it's a measure of importance right i mean how important it is correct that when i bring you tasks and outcomes that will that'll be when the board can say well is that really an achievable outcome okay but i think these statements need to be lofty they need to be these strong standards that's what this community expects that's what this administration expects all right so uh at the next board meeting this will come forward for approval all right hybrid block schedule i know it's already approved but uh this last week we had drop-in q a sessions dad and i were at south uh gina and courtney were at north as well as some of our teachers teacher leaders helped in these sessions and i just thought it was appropriate to share with the board you know we just get better at explaining it and explaining it and after meeting with the staff for a day that the board would benefit from seeing some of the key slides we used with the staff so with the community so we just thought we'd bring it back here plus as we talk about the strategic plan inside of that access period and resource periods is where a lot of this material will happen that's inside the strategic plan so we shared with everybody once again the key benefits of the hybrid block the board has seen this many times i really like this graphic that the team came up with for uh the staff to see this is just pretty much the skeleton right there's no classes in it there's like this is really a clean way of looking at it and what it helped a lot of people understand is right now when we look at our current schedule people think about here's what i do first period for the week here's what i do second they think about the week very horizontally right and the new schedule as we talked about it with staff it became very apparent like if you just think of it more vertically than horizontally the week makes a lot more sense right so monday tuesday friday are obviously all the same one through eight you know so you're thinking about those days from beginning to end one through eight when you move to wednesday you're thinking about your odds you move to thursday you're thinking about your even periods and when you just kind of change that mindset of horizontal to vertical all of a sudden the schedule became a lot more simple for people to digest especially as you stripped away kind of what was rotating inside of here like what am i doing this day here it is right uh we talked about how the different lengths and durations of class periods lasted and then we filled in for an example for like here's a stu we did for a staff example a student example now to say like now look at it vertically day to day how that feels how that flows you know it it's different than what it is now but it's not as complex and when you just look at here's what i'm doing today uh it gets pretty easy as you move from place to place we talked about how access period is going to work how we'll take attendance that students will be grouped by grade level that staff members will so we talked in our group ed and i as an example that this year or next year maybe ed and i are partner teaching a group of students we have 24 students between us they are all 10th graders the next year we'll have that same group of 10th graders ed and i together as 11th graders and then we'll have that same group then again as 12th graders and those students will graduate and then ed and i pick up a new group of ninth graders together and go through four years with them and how that's a different dynamic of getting to know students in a different fashion where i'm not grading those students and i'm meeting with them to support them and i'm meeting with them year after year after year and we're seeing each other grow through this process is a very different experience for our students and for our staff you know i'll probably be meeting and partnering up with a teacher that's not in my department right and you know it just will change a lot of the dynamics and relationships in our schools we talked about the programming the board has seen this in the past of the actual things that will occur during access seen this slide as well we talked to them about specifically at the beginning of the semester there's a lot of coaching up on how all of this works and expectations for the year we have some different things in there that occur every year at the uh throughout the year and then as the semester goes on students get more and more opportunities to go out and get help from teachers we talked about resource period which is when their lunch period rolls through the block schedule if you remember in some of the large group activities that we'll do opposite some kind of study hall time and then some of the activities which the board has also seen that we're talking about doing second semester and then into the future as well we talked about how remember professional development rotates into this new structure so when the teachers launch period shows up they're participating in in professional development one of the key things rob and our team has been working on is teachers in their first three years what their experience is in professional development and then how that differs then from our veteran teachers here on staff so what you're looking at is kind of a rough very rough draft of what that might look like for our first second third year teachers as they work through kind of learning the district and our expectations all right that's it for schedule any uh questions anything new i popped up in your head that you had to ask about in there a couple of things we heard in the government class yeah yeah sure yeah uh well mike and uh and i and had the opportunity to sit at south's government class was it last week yeah week before yeah last week and uh well we had two good questions that came up one of them was about uh a student came up and and put a map on the on on the screen of bus routes and there was a specific bus route uh that he was concerned about that i don't know if you remember it the bus drops them off the students farther away from where they all live off but and it goes past all of their homes when it doesn't drop them off and he made the argument that the bus should drop them off there because it's close to all their homes and had a map and like had mapped out the entire route and from our perspective it seemed that assuming that there was no reason that the bus couldn't drop them off at that spot pending like uh dangerous situations for whatever reason that that they should be able to be dropped off closer to their homes because i guess he said it's like uh it's like a cul-de-sac and they drop them off at like the bottom but then most of them live up like the top and then it the the bus goes like out around he had a map i told him to come to the department the board meeting bring that to the main office have him see mr davis but yeah some of the cul-de-sac are not big enough for a bus to make a radius turn yeah it depends on which one but tell them to come to the main office and ask for mr davis and he'll go through it okay we have kids make suggestions yeah yeah well there were there were some some busing questions related to how that was gonna work with the hybrid schedule yeah so several things related to busing remember we're adding additional routes in the morning to shorten up the length of time that students are on buses we shifted arrival and drop off times and then district 68 adjusted some of their start times in coordination with this to make routes work better and then we actually had like a bus summit like we spent an afternoon together with 58 68 and 99 so that their team could work with our team to look at areas where we could improve some of our routes and busing and think a little differently about a few things so they've continued to work on that in the second half of the year and i imagine that we'll see some improvements come next fall as a result of that work we heard some apprehension too about the length of the of on the wednesday thursdays uh the the longer periods and and uh and we must have reiterated oh it was we were there for well you were you were there for the class before i got there so you for like four classes um but we heard in the three that i was there just this same sort of theme about how can you expect us to sit you know in a classroom what's expected yeah and we kept answering that that same way um so i i'm hopeful that once once this gets launched change is difficult people are concerned i tried sharing chris tried sharing i mean been really be really easy for us just to do status quo here right i mean why go through all this if we don't think it's going to be better if we don't think learning's going to be improved students are going to be better supported and and grow in this uh the easier solution would be just to keep going the way we're going everybody's happy you know but that's not what we're about here is it you know we're about doing things better and always looking for ways that we can improve so we try to share that with the students as well i don't i think you know i thought some of them were receptive to that and others were still pretty skeptical it's all right let's see what happens i hope it happens really well and and also the you know concern that well what if this doesn't work you know and i said well you know first of all we're expecting students to share with us their experiences and we've been expecting it we're yes and we have you know we've shared that we have an independent group that's going to be helping to evaluate the success of all this and and that we're hoping with continual feedback that this can get refined and improve but if it's not going well at all we're not gonna keep doing something something that's bad we're sure that we aren't that proud you know i mean it's i i mean seriously this is you know you have to you know it's easy to keep things going the way they are right but um if you want to achieve greatness it means you have to take some level of risk you know you have to venture out into something that you maybe you haven't done before we're not reinventing the wheel here no this is something that other districts have done as well so to say that it can't work here is a non-starter because we know that it's worked in other places and we're not that different we're so um hopefully we can get people on board i i really felt like um in listening to the students that the pandemic really it kind of hurt us here a little bit right people had uh a poor experience we asked how many thought that you know remote learning was great and nobody raised their hand shocking um and i some of our students right are remembering from remote learning that we we we were doing things on a hybrid block schedule and they're relating that to this and meet with students and remind them that their teachers in that setting were planning primarily for their students being virtual the majority of students in that setting were virtual now you're planning for all of your students to be there with you it's a you're not you're not planning to do the same thing at all right so when i remind students of that they're many times like yeah you're right that that's very different you know so it's just reminding them that yes it was these longer blocks of time but most of most everybody was virtual at that point so it's a very very different experience as we all know yeah yeah yeah it was fun yeah it was it was a good experience all right we have one action item this evening and an exciting one it is uh we are in hiring season so quite often in may at our may workshop we'll throw in uh approving some personnel this includes many teachers and an administrator um he's here this evening joining us keith uh to be uh associate principal over at north high for curriculum and instruction um so that's there under the action night so therefore we need a motion for the board of education to approve the personnel report appointment administration appointment certified so moved secondary thank you mike davenport aye terry pavicich aye joanna vazquez drexler aye christopher espinoza aye cheryl fuller aye jenny heggstrom aye and nancy kupka aye the motion carriers welcome [Applause] all right uh in your board packet this evening is uh the the first reading of policies there is a massive amount of information to shirelle and i uh sherelle and mike uh spent a good amount of time reviewing it in advance of our policy committee meeting and then add our policy committee meeting please read through those if you have any questions suggestions for changes or concerns please email mike shirelle and myself and uh we can respond to those as we go through it yep yes shirelle [Music] fine if you could all put on your calendars september 10th we're going to be having a event at north high and the foundation not me yeah it is because it is my birthday well next day terry's birthday party yeah yeah yeah um well we're we're still tying down this test save save the date so for the education foundation yes yes and uh hope that uh the powers that be will give us a nice day because it's outside i think we could all use one of those and it'll be a welcome back to school we'll hopefully be out of monsoon season by then yeah all right any other announcements call a question so yeah we have a motion to adjourn all those in favor aye aye all those posed all right have a good evening thank you for your service everyone all right you
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grace mills layla missouri kelsey moore peyton morris [Applause] catalina murray haley newton ryan nolden [Applause] anna any illinois [Applause] jules perco greta siegert [Applause] greta just made the purdue university cheer team this weekend emma speck and grace swanarski kylie tatini and stephanie tuffdell [Applause] oh jessica jessica almighty [Applause] is going to get a picture we'll step over here i just told me and you can get in there [Applause] girls would you like to introduce your parents that are with you tonight or have them stand up parents of all their cheerleading would you like to stand up yeah [Applause] and for those of us that go to those ball games and you're always there and you're always doing those back flips it scares me to death but congratulations we appreciate you and parents thank you our next program is going to be our girls swim and diving team and coach kalinski all right um i would just like to introduce our boys and girls uh team that went to state in their events that they swam in uh we'll start with the girls i'm not sure did i see amanda amanda abdullah amanda abdullah all right she's not here anna k brood she went to state in the 200 medley relay izzy marcotte i didn't see izzy did i nope no is he megan o'sullivan didn't see her either brenna pacheco she's here uh she swam the 200 free relay and was also part of our uh our sectional champion to uh 200 free relay meegan suica she was in our 200 free relay and also sectional champion and jory wilson i didn't enjoy these two jory was in our 200 medley relay and the 100 backstroke [Applause] thank you [Applause] all right so we'll go with the boys here um uh our boys uh state team this year aiden blaze for diving i did not see aiden [Applause] we had leo bowman he swam three events at state this year 200 medley relay 200 free relay and the 100 breaststroke ford crackle he uh swam the 200 medley relay 500 free 100 back and 400 free relay zach gramachi i did not see him but he was in diving and he actually was fourth place this year at diving carter schuster he spam three events 53 200 free relay and the 400 free relay eric tinsley 200 free 200 breasts well i'm sorry 200 free 200 free relay hunter breast which you a sectional champion and the 400 free relay tommy tinsley he was 200 medley relay and 200 free relay [Applause] griffin weber 200 medley relay and the 400 free relay our 400 free relay placed 13th at state and just for the record uh our boys this year ended munster's 36-year sectional winning [Applause] how about parents of the swim teams would you stand up for a round of recognition [Applause] our next program is our central left program and coach kevin mathis [Applause] good evening as chris said my name is coach kevin been here for a while the girls this year had one of those historic years where they went out and pretty much swept just about everything that we entered this year our varsity team was the the state champion in aaa and jazz palm as well as hip-hop making the consecutive winning since 1995 a total of 50 state championships for this lake central all right we also had another champion with our trio our small ensemble which was lily rogers grace pinna and gabriella gracovic [Applause] our dancers also went to the national championship and competed in all three categories our palm i'm sorry our hip-hop finished fourth in the nation our palm was national runner-up and our medium jazz was national champion which marks the 18th national title that these girls have brought back to lake central i know you guys all want to get out of here so i'll go quick first up we have two of them together recognizing alexa edwards madison galacta congratulations gabriella gerhofick chloe hardesty isabella holdren megan martowitz grace penna courtney pereira [Applause] gianna poulos lily rogers jillian brzezowski freizel [Applause] vivian denson who is home ill today fiona hopkins olivia iguardia addison schalke abby olendindi [Applause] and amir youssef [Applause] further yeah are you ready [Applause] okay ladies would you please show us where your parents are appearance would you stand up for a round of applause you certainly deserve it [Applause] all right our our next program is going to be our gymnastics team i don't think i saw coach parcella here all right so this lake central gymnastics program has taken quite a turn in the last four years with these young ladies they'll go down as one of the most decorated teams they finished fourth in the state for the third consecutive year so congratulations to them our first gymnast is chloe amanda titus [Applause] liliana ventura sullivan sydney black haley delgado [Applause] alexa rimley [Applause] taylor semenzy ava gutien isabella martisik amanda todd elise blackhurst [Applause] uh and andy we'll call her andy andy andy rica angela all right angela sorry sophia de montes and savannah lamb and christina amanda titus [Applause] all right [Applause] okay appearance of the gymnastics team members would you stand up parents thank you for your dedication and our our last program our program we're going to talk about is our wrestling team i don't think i saw coach trivline here coach miller was here i think he must have stepped out so on behalf of them we had three individuals qualify for the state finals this year our first was jake seuss galermo rivera and johnny cortez who finished fourth at the state finals this year congratulations laughs [Applause] you know i really really want to express our appreciation to coaches for giving us these names and for supporting all of our students the way you do coaches and parents i have to make a special announcement because as i look at this group there's a two families i've known since the little ones were in kindergarten that would be the tensley family and the cortez family so many years many years but i do believe mr mathis could i put you on the spot can you refresh my memory about your your awards what they came to if you accumulate a number oh i put them on the spot didn't i well um wow um the state championship the girls won three state titles this year which would have been their 50th since 1995.
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that was approved in the budget we had gone out to hire somebody and then that that position didn't work out uh the person that we were looking to hire and then shortly thereafter things you know got crazy i forget what it was but we didn't end up pursuing that we had to kind of shift gears um and it's kind of been on the boards back burner it's it's an it's an item we'd like to move forward with but just haven't been able to get that going yet this would be a way to build that in over three years and have a runway to know that in three years we'd be phasing this in um so those are just some thoughts i had that i wanted to put out there this i don't have a formal plan to give you today it was just more of an explanation um that i would ultimately hope to bring to the board before we submit an application but um i think as much as because of the fact there's a sustainability component to this um i think you know i'd want the board to review this uh in closer detail and this is just putting it on the radar this evening just like right uh so how much does each year each of the three years would we be looking at well it can't exceed a million dollars over the course of the three years um so it couldn't exceed more than 333 i mean if you leveled it out um we're not going to come close to that right you know this i mean the the position of school security director uh the district security manager position that was 95 000 um before benefits and everything else so you know there you're talking about 120 uh maybe uh that would be again you know four years out from now because this would cover you know three years of budget time so would we have to maintain that level of funding or let's just say we chose not necessarily but i i you know it would be the recommendation i think you would have to review it at that time but i think when we write the grant we would have to say you know what's our intention here and even if the intention is to dial it back a little bit you know as more of a consultant role after full three years of full time then the board could always i would suggest that we do that and then the board could always elevate that full-time if we needed to um but i wouldn't want to say we're going to go full time and then try and cut it and then have somebody come back to us going yeah you said it was going to be full-time yeah that was one of my questions actually instead of hiring a physician um you could hire a security consultant for three years because that way you're not getting entangled in permanent employment and or the person you know if you if you're using a i don't know if it's a service or you know whoever would you would hire for yeah i think we would have a singular person do it yeah um it's a little bit like technology uh in the sense that when you have different people jumping in and out there's the coordination of services can really start to deteriorate right we've seen that you know at the town level um and i think when you're dealing with something like security and you're talking about you know monitoring uh these situations over time and making sure that everything is okay we'd be better off with one singular individual and granted i mean at full-time employment if the position is cut i mean just any position then that you know would be a position that's that's cut right there wouldn't be any sort of entitlement to another position or probably can you um when you hire a person like that can you make it a durational position you could do um you know at least for now like interim contract you can convert it afterwards perhaps at year four you know i don't know if you would have to have a you know whatever the important i'd probably talk to floyd about yeah the merits of any sort of i mean when we post interim positions we go into that like a one year position so yeah i know a teacher is going to be out this year for maternity leave i go into that hoping that i'll get the highest caliber or candidate but the highest caliber candidate if the option is available is going to want a permanent job right so you know there's trade-offs in that i think what i hear you saying is if after three years and the money runs out i just want to uh have the option of a clean exit yeah right and not have it held because i mean i still think like when you put the budget together you put a line line item in there because it does you know when you put the budget together it could be 150 000 for that position per year right but it's depending on where you put it right it says either it's the contractual line or it's a personnel line well actually i guess you'd have to decide that ahead of time yeah i think we you know we would talk because we had that position i think in the managers and directors portion of our budget right previously a few years ago and i think we would probably keep it there uh that's folks that's those folks are not at least that carries carries us out three years it kind of gets us into whatever we're going to get into and by the way i mean we could review when when we go to put together a more formal yeah we can review what that role is um just so you have a better sense of that i mean it goes back to what we were doing a few years ago we're required statutorily to do certain things like a district facility assessment right now we contract that out right our intention would be to hire somebody that can actually conduct that on their own right so there's an offset there somebody who coordinates all that we have to do a super comprehensive all hazards plan for the state per building so it's everything from hurricanes and and tornadoes to school uh violence issues is the binder is this thick and vin has to spend a lot of time coordinating that on an annual basis i mean there's there's something gained there oh yeah yeah yeah not to mention you know all the buildings that are every building is required to do a monthly drill whether it be you know fire lockdown whatever the case may be um you know having somebody to coordinate that for us is a pickup so this person would be a liaison with the fire and police department you know it so we'll go through that and we can take a look at the value what i hear you saying is let's be conscious about having options in year four right yes and i think we're conscious of that so for example teen and youth mental health first aid i had spoken to liz linehan about this a while ago when we were first examining this the cost of the training in my mind is exorbitant is very expensive uh and so i know you know in legislation this year they were looking to uh have the state develop a kind of a something commensurate with this sort of training that could be offered at a much more reasonable price if we four years from now assuming that that's developed we could evaluate that and consider that as an option out also you know over the course of the next three years there's enough runway that we might be able to design a program commensurate to this program that would be a potential uh this this money is designed to give us uh the wherewithal and capacity to do things that we don't already do with the intention that year four we're in a better position to do it more independently or with some support um and then so that's kind of the plan but you don't have a plan you just have an idea right now so it's i'm not asking for a yay or nay but just planting the seed so that when we do come back with a more comprehensive plan and this good early feedback for me on that year four idea how do we exit this cleanly that we can put something together i can give it to you guys in a few weeks and you could say yeah yeah this makes sense let's let's pursue this yeah cause i think it won't matter on how strict the language is uh the um what uh what was what was the sustainability the sustainability piece right um and also it sounded like we had we had like we said gotten behind in our alice training yeah to have uh funding right kind of pick that up again um you know those those items i think would be right and then also it says here bta must be done in conjunction with a research partner or evaluator who can track data pertaining to the use of the bta does that require what does that require us we would do that internally i mean is that is that extra software is that extra tech is it hiring it sounds like it would be part of your reporting for the government yeah we you know we would maintain we would we already maintain records when we uh engage in threat assessment um so we would have to just sustain that anything that we do we have to report back obviously i mean they don't you know they want to know what are you using the money for and how is it working for you and you have to put that in your proposal yeah right yeah so we will we'll outline that i just wanted to give you kind of a heads up that this is what we were working on on the side and worst cases we draft something up and you know we ultimately decide not to submit and it looks like the application is if you go to this justice grants.us doj that's where you could read the full output or is this the full application or no no what this is these are screen shots okay of a powerpoint presentation that they gave ah right um so this is the highlights yes yeah understand right so we can read it there if we want to yeah okay but the the deadline is coming up in the middle of june that's good you know yeah and the money would be issued in all in october so i mean it would allow us to really hit the ground running if we decide this is how we want to proceed and uh we should know pretty quickly which is nice because sometimes you submit these grants and you don't know for you know a year it's nice you're submitting in june and you'll know about the summer because usually you could submit way earlier yeah by the end of the summer right right that's good so it's just a heads up and i appreciate your initial feedback so yeah we can kind of incorporate those thoughts when we do it can i mention just just one thing on the alice training because i think it's important that what we did this year is we did subscribe to alice training videos online and we did it through our video training platform so all staff and all new staff that's hired does get alice trained by watching the video what we've put on hold which we actually just took off of home last week is the live demonstration which is an important component um and we did have a training session last week we have another one we're scheduling for when school begins um but everyone that's on staff and any new hires will get this video based you know alice training and it is by alice the company so it is does meet the requirements so you know it's actually better that we're able to do this video because you know new employees they would ordinarily when we were not doing the videos had to wait until we held a session now within the first 30 days of employment they can watch the video and at least understand you know what alice stands for and the basic components so kind of have advanced the ball even though covet prevented us from doing the live training to the extent we would have liked okay all right faith you have any other questions okay we'll set you up yes okay and then we'll move on to the um the reductions or proposed reductions proposed reductions i'll take this one dr sullin yep okay so the town council did pass the town's overall budget and they reduced the board of education's budget from what the board had approved uh by 450 000 so what we've prepared for this evening is a potential list of reductions by line item which the committee members have a copy of and i'll just start from page one which actually on the bottom is labeled page two but it's page one so uh of the four hundred fifty thousand we recommend a reduction to the teacher line of three hundred 000 which is because we expect seven teacher retirements jeff do we have six in hand at this point i i saw an individual who would be number six in the building telling me but i haven't seen the letter they were in the building this afternoon um so i'm assuming we have six and a half there is a seventh on the horizon we believe and then um you know there's the strong potential that we have a half year retirement in the next year so we're pretty comfortable in the seven retirements coming to fruition we would save forty thousand dollars each because the teachers that are retiring our top step you know we would hire somebody you know probably in the range of a step three so that would save us 40 000 in salary per person and then we also have have a resignation of a teacher that's near top step so that would save an additional 20 000.
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uh again we'll be awarding over a hundred and ten thousand dollars this evening of money for those individuals burlington high school ffa scholarship in the amount of 300 will be awarded to these individuals elliot burns derrick cole cade creaky logan friend eric eric hockett kiana langton owen martian tanner noonan wyatt wilson and serenity washburn great job ladies and gentlemen our next scholarship is the ducks unlimited john redmond chapter scholarship and we have a special presenter mr mark harris on behalf of behalf of ducks unlimited it's my privilege to announce the recipient of the first annual john redman ducks unlimited scholarship to parker mcdaniels congratulations partner i want to thank mr harrison for coming up and doing that uh that's much appreciated the uh the heather arnold scholarship renewable for one thousand dollars per semester goes to derrick jesse and kylie stevenson congratulations that's great the harold w ziegler memorial band scholarship award in the amount of one thousand dollars congratulations jc margin coffee county evangelical ministerial alliance christian life scholarship in the amount of 500 and the pastor of the coffee county evangelical ministerial association established the christian life scholarship out of the desire to promote a public christian lifestyle among high school students we intend to recognize students have demonstrated christian virtues in their daily lives this is not a scholarship intended for a student who simply attended church even though we evaluate regular church attendance we desire to recognize students who present a consistent christian wellness in all areas of life consistently demonstrating christian character dependability and willing to serve others it is my pleasure to present this christian life scholarship to harley offer congratulations the mark bowlin trucking career and technical education scholarship in the amount of 500 congratulations tanner noonan good job tanner wolf creek employee association scholarship in the amount of five hundred dollars goes to mckenna klubeck and emma young congratulations young lady the fittings export community scholarship in the amount of 1500 two winners they are tyler dubuque and jc marchant congratulations excellent job excellent job homer hatch conservation scholarship in the amount of 500 goes to elliott burns parker mcdaniel and wyatt wilson great job guys the rod hoover memorial scholarship in the amount of one thousand dollars congratulations jamie wagner the burlington wrestling foundation scholarship in the amount of three hundred dollars goes to a owen renard congratulations eon the cat backer scholarship in the amount of 500 they're giving four this year those winners are paige akers madison carson parker mcdaniel and emma young the coffee county sheriff's reserve scholarship the amount of 250 goes to jamie wagner good job young man and the coffee county sheriff's reserve's deputy troy a rogers scholarship in the amount of 500 congratulations miranda means the wildcat scholarship of hundred dollars goes to serenity washburn good job serenity the wildcat scholarship in the amount of one thousand dollars goes to tyler check and derrick cole great job you guys and the lorry show rand memorial scholarship in the amount of one thousand dollars congratulations to elliott burns and bryce pritchett the burlington james scholarship in the amount of five hundred dollars thank you james these two individuals mckenna klubeck and emma young great job young ladies the fcc la scholarship in the amount of congratulations to paige acres raymond allen and kaden stepley the champions of character silver scholarship goes to sage kuhlman and the champions of character gold scholarship congratulations to the following paige acres jamie wagner carly whitworth and emma young those amounts will be given to us at a later time the william f build our career pathways scholarship in the amount of 500 dollars goes to cadence dublin good job the aaron shively memorial scholarship in the amount of 500 congratulations to catherine rohrer and emma young and the floyd lewis foundation proud american scholarship in the amount of fifteen hundred dollars goes to max coleman parker mcdaniels emma young good job and the deborah gates-lewis memorial scholarship for cancer support and awareness in the amount of one thousand dollars congratulations goes to ty anderson and miranda means the burlington masonic lodge number 66 scholarship in the amount of 500 goes to evan combs great job evan and the burlington firefighter scholarship in the amount of 500 congratulations ty anderson the liberty 4-h club scholarship in the amount of 250 dollars goes to wyatt wilson good job wyatt and the string town bombers 4-h scholarship in the amount of eight hundred dollars congratulations goes to mechanic klubeck and elliot burns the next three scholarships are awarded by coffee county 4-h trips and awards committee the 2022 ottawa co-op association coffee county 4-h scholarship in the amount of 250 goes to kiana langton the 2022 dell douglas memorial for 4-h scholarship in the amount of 200 goes to elliot burns good job elliot and the 2022 francis e spillman memorial 4-h scholarship congratulations to elliot burns the lauren's legacy scholarship we have several winners each scholarship is in the amount of 500 congratulations goes to ty anderson elliott burns madison courson kate creeky kayden stapley derek jesse max coleman sage coleman jamie wagner and carly whitworth the coffee county foundation roy g de long scholarship in the amount of 1 000 it's renewable for four years with a three-point gpa goes to max coolman and emma young congratulations youtube it's a great scholarship the burlington rotary club scholarship in the amount of 500 congratulations goes to paige dietrich and mckenna klubeck the vfw post 1030 scholarship goes to madeleine turner congratulations now on behalf of the burlington alumni association i'd like to introduce judy stuckey she is coming up here to hand out the alumni scholarships so thank you judy [Music] thank you this year's poorly scholarship in the amount of 750 goes to page acres a new scholarship this year from the pieces and patches quilt guild in garnett of which has several coffee county members so we divided up the scholarships this year there is a 400 scholarship that goes to page acres and these following scholarships are all managed by the burlington high school alumni scholarship foundation gladiola bowman memorial scholarship in the amount of five hundred dollars goes to kylie stevenson nih jack and rita f rich scholarship in the amount of 500 goes to ty anderson the burlington high school alumni association scholarship in the amount of 750 dollars goes to evan combs bill freeman memorial scholarship in the amount of one thousand dollars goes to max coolan the deborah roth memorial scholarship in the amount of one thousand dollars goes to josie stedale the j howard and laverne birkbeck family scholarship in the amount of one thousand dollars goes to mitchell broyles the glenn o may scholarship in the amount of one thousand dollars goes to emma young the sally j donahue memorial scholarship in the amount of one thousand dollars goes to michaeli van patten the margaret delores bowman decker scholar memorial scholarship in the amount of one thousand dollars goes to cooper carlson the john a decker memorial scholarship in the amount of one thousand dollars goes to jamie wagner the jane keith dap memorial scholarship in the amount of one thousand dollars goes to sage kuhlman the kirk banmerring memorial scholarship in the amount of one thousand dollars goes to elliot burns the dwayne fetch family memorial scholarship in the amount of 1 goes to page acres the kiever family memorial scholarship in the amount of two thousand five hundred dollars goes to madeleine turner the albert clara may and roy matthias memorial scholarship in the amount of three thousand seven hundred dollars goes to paige dietrich the maria isabelle lang memorial scholarships which is two of them are given and this is a one thousand dollar scholarship that is also renewable for three more additional years making it a total of a four thousand dollar scholarship if all requirements are met those go to gentry conceal and miranda meets the elmer dean and mark marjorie her scholarship and the amount of four thousand dollars goes to sam smith the warren and gladys decker memorial scholarship in the amount of four thousand dollars goes to mckenna klubeck and once again this year we have been given money from an anonymous donor in memory of missy and frank hate and there's three five thousand dollar scholarships and they go to eric pabone kylan allen and dalton eisman we want to congratulate all of these students and we wish you all the best thank you congratulations seniors we are here at bhs truly love you and we are very proud of all your accomplishments seniors will receive their packet of awards and scholarships tomorrow in their english classes please finish strong by completing all of your schoolwork the next week and a half everyone here at bhs appreciates the resilience you have shown during this school year congratulations on and good night to the class of 22 and remember this will be online where you can get to it again if you have questions or if you didn't catch something thank you again and i hope you enjoy and thanks for watching good night you
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50th state title since 19 and then they won uh jazz this year which would have been their 18th state uh national final uh since the same year eighteenth suggests also do one extra thing i can hear in the audience back there they were also grand national champions out of a hundred and seventies all right [Music] [Applause] well it's quite a cumulative number of awards that you have earned with the girls and their parents and i do believe that there are some signs that are going to be found celebrating that at the entrances of the dire shareable in st john communities and that was put together by the some of the parents of the um centrolettes so that'll be a nice reminder to those of us that come through our community thank you kevin may i ask you a tongue-in-cheek question how old are you [Laughter] no yes well this was a nice night to celebrate we want to thank all the students for all their hard work and we want to thank their parents for supporting them our coaches for guiding them and we want to thank everybody for coming out this evening to celebrate this we are going to continue with the rest of our business meeting of the board but if you need to get on to other things this is a good time to check out right um yeah rob jake good job kevin is i'm always fight four times yes all right so my second item this evening is just to review some key topics from our superintendent's spring meeting that took place two weeks ago the first key item was from lisa tantal of the school board association she's the attorney she wanted to address sea 83 open meetings and this legislation that passed that goes into effect immediately as soon as the governor signed it was that we must permit public comment at every public meeting and so the way this impacts us is if we have an open dialogue like we do when we review board policies at our work sessions we need to have a spot on there for the public to comment at our work sessions we haven't had people attending our work sessions for the most part because we're not taking any action but nonetheless that's a change for us i i think the key on this piece would be since we generally talk about the board policies and then bring them back at a future public meeting for action the public actually would have two opportunities to comment on any of those board policies and the other key piece was that comment must be allowed prior to a vote and those of you have been on the board for a while know about five or six years ago we switched to having comments twice a meeting so the early comment period is for any action item the later comment period is only for things that aren't on the agenda anything else somebody would want to comment about we are allowed to set reasonable time limits for our comments as well as a total time limit which mrs always announces i do think that we've always in the past extended the time necessary to let everybody who signed up uh say a few words of their concern the other thing is that virtual meetings moving forward are only allowed if the state or local government declares a disaster emergency which means that for us to meet and present would present a risk to any of us and the other piece is that at least one of our schools in the district would have to be closed for the disaster emergency so it's not likely we'd be doing any virtual total virtual meetings in the immediate future barring i guess something like a tornado so any comments about that i mean as i mentioned at our work session i think we're we're pretty good because we have pretty good system in place already the next item is hea 1093 and so the isba updated a report and so this has to do with the number of e-learning or virtual student instruction days that we have per year um at the meeting they were anticipating a an update from the doe and we did get that update and so in your packet you received the updated piece and as mentioned in there we can do up to three asynchronous days with as a substitute for a snow day and after that we have to make up those days at the end of the year unless we have live instruction for fifty percent of that instructional day which equates to us to about three or three hours and 15 minutes and so as mentioned to the board earlier we are going to reconvene the e-learning committee to work through these items and we'll bring that piece back to the board at a future meeting this summer after we've had a time to you know talk through what that would look like for us typically three days should be enough i mean we've had some years where we only had one or two snow days we've had some with as many as five or six but typically like this year we were four typically we are around three or four so um that is some relief for us but uh we still need to uh continue to pay attention to that because um if you don't hit the 180 days you don't get your full tuition support and that's not an option for lake central and then my final item is the department of local government finance and the wording of public referenda questions once again the required language on the public question on the ballots has changed it continues to be in my opinion and an opinion of many others confusing this year they changed the question to sharing a percentage increase in taxes for the average resident when in the past it would say how many cents per hundred dollars of assessed value your taxes would go up or would be impacted and so it's important for us as an organization to continue to talk to our legislators about the importance of making this question easier for rank and file people to understand it continues to not be as clear as it needs to be and as somebody who's done a couple of these campaigns when you're explaining it to people at their door if the way the question reads when they get to the voting booth looks really different from what you've explained on their doorstep it makes people anxious and i i think the important piece here is to be fair if people know what the impact is and they don't value it they have a right to vote no but the important piece is the question shouldn't create doubt or concern or confusion for voters and so we want to continue to work with our general assembly to say let's look at this piece and let's figure out even if it requires us to have more words on the ballot to make sure that the question is more easily understood by the general public so i believe we need to make it a priority moving forward to talk to those people who represent us down in indianapolis to try to make this better any questions about any of that stuff has has anything surfaced with the valparaiso situation since it really is a decrease but the verbiage will say increase well i mean the dlgf passes the question as they see fit and then it's the job of the individual districts to explain to their constituents what it means and the important part there of course is that that you convince enough people that what you're explaining in terms of the impact of them as a homeowner and a resident is what it will be but yeah that question does create confusion the way it is written especially for valparaiso given that they're reducing how much they're asking for but as i told you earlier when they received a strong endorsement from their chamber of commerce so they've got the business people behind them it'd be my assumption that their parents would be strongly behind them and so then you have to just figure out how to get to that 51 percent vote so there's been quite a bit of dialogue in the battle community about the wording of that referendum question would you guess i i don't know i don't you know i live here but i know that their superintendent has been on the record as saying as he's knocking on doors and as he's explaining to people that there is some confusion about the way the questions worded yeah because i mean i hadn't heard anything about the vapo situation until you told us about that tonight so i wondered howard i know you read the paper a lot did you see anything in the paper about balboa in the referendum question yes that was in the paper it was it talked about the inaccuracy how confusing it could be okay thank you okay and my final item this evening is to seek permission for three board members as well as myself to travel to indianapolis in early june to attend the isba indiana school board association legal seminar um seek to approve thank you we have a motion by mr marshall and i will second that any discussion all in favor aye aye motion passes thank you move on to our director of human resources personnel mrs mucha thank you very much i'm asking for approval for the personnel items in your packet but i want to bring to your attention lane whiting who has been a bus driver for us for 31 years wow thank you wow move to approve the personality second we have a motion by dr medlin in the second by mr marshall any discussion all in favor aye aye motion passes thank you very much i wanted to give you an update on the emergency buckets we started at 11 810 and these are the pending ones that are coming educational foundation dire town councils um our trustee's office for st john marathon pipe and sheriff fire association which will give us 19 for our total of 31 thousand one hundred and sixty so we thank the generosity of all of our community members and we're almost there and then i can quit talking about emergency buckets so you were needing thirty six thousand or that was yours six thousand yes yeah and the nineteen thousand dollar one is from nineteen is the total from all those people who are the checks are pending okay thank you so we're excited thank you um we also just wanted to bring to your attention that we are participating in the food bank distribution with the food bank of northwest indiana um there are central office administrators and whatever building people can find their time to be free this friday it's may 6th from 11 30 to 1 30 in the soccer parking lot so we're happy to help our community with that food bank absolutely and my last item is to ask for your permission for the professional leave form that was in your packet so moved we have a motion by mr marshall second second by dr malcolm any discussion all in favor aye aye motion passes thank you thank you move on to our director primary education dr bracey good evening i'm coming before you tonight seeking your approval for the professional leave request you have received in your packets you have a motion by dr malco second second by dr medlin any discussion all in favor aye aye motion passes thank you also mrs castaneda and i would like to share some exciting news for the first time in quite some time and we think it's been a very long time we're going to have the same math series for grades k-12 in lake central our committees have voted for reveal math for our students beginning in the 22-23 school year that means consistency in vocabulary algorithms and vertical alignment across grade levels based on the department of education's keep indiana learning reveal math is rated four stars because it aligns 100 percent with the indiana standards it provides teachers with an easy to use lesson path teachers are also given support in choosing between activity-based lessons or guided exploration as students build their conceptual understanding and it was huge for us to have a program that focused on conceptual understanding it supports differentiation in every lesson reveal math encourages students thinking by providing strong questions reveal contains a variety of assessments and these assessments and the questions in those assessments are the key reason reveals for reveals four-star rating reveal provides exit tickets with every single lesson it's already integrated into clever and there's a seamless integration to canvas there is a digital component that identifies students who did not understand the lesson and it provides guided supports and interventions for those students and there is also an online platform that provides adaptive instruction also at the beginning of this school year we had purchased i don't know if you're familiar with dr nikki newton but we had purchased her training sessions for guided math and several of our teachers have gone through those courses or they are going through those courses we have it until the end of september well come to find out dr nikki newton has partnered with reveal math she provides support for them for their guided math portion of their lessons so we are very excited to welcome reveal math to the lake central community thank you how was your committee constructed did you have k-12 representation so for elementary we have representation um k-4 there are 31 committee members 29 all voted for reveal and the other two one person revealed was their first choice bridges was their second and the other person bridges was their first choice and reveal was their second so all 31 people had a reveal on their list and the assessments that are in this uh typically that's kind of a weak area for textbooks what what was your assessment of the assessments their assessments fit our needs the only you know there was one part that we had looked at lisa alessandra instructional coach she's been digging through the data and she's been going through the books and the only area and our committee had also noticed that for first in the first grade and into second grade it was we needed more for time and money so we already have it all planned out we're going to provide more resources to address those gaps but those are the only gaps we found with the program okay and will the high ability classes be using this same yes okay yes thank you you're welcome thank you move on to our director of secondary education ms castaneda thank you as dr bracey shared we're excited that reveal will be used across the elementary middle and high school level reveal will be used at the middle school level with grades 5 through 8 for the regular and the advanced track and then will be used at the high school level with algebra 1 geometry and algebra 2.
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so that 300 000 is very solid as a reduction that's it's based on where we believe we will be no recommendation for the classified staff in terms of reductions if you flip now to the second page up near the top we have a reduction of sixty six thousand four hundred and nine dollars over what was originally budgeted in the pension retirement account because the actuaries did give us an update and they reduced the amount that we need to fund by the sixty six how long is that good for well it's for this i know what your question is so it's it's for this year for now because next year could be 300 000 increases um well it generally hasn't been working like that i'm i'm hoping more this is the beginning of a reduction i'm and i know are we starting to see this we have to speak about it delicately but i mean is the pension obligation beginning so i i i'm hoping the answer is that because um you know when this valuation was done you know the market conditions had improved and that we started catching up on the changes we made to the plan remember what we did that really drove us to have to increase the amount that we needed to fund is we lowered the return assumption and so it takes several years to catch up i'm hoping that this is a sign actually that we are starting to catch up and at a minimum we don't continue to see increases this is the first year we've decreased in since i don't know 2010 or so so it's hopefully a good sign but there's no way of knowing for sure well we'll take it for this year yes definitely okay um okay so those are really the biggest reductions and then um the next one beyond that is for pupil services um we had budgeted an increase of sixteen thousand one sixty six we're recommending we just reduced that by five thousand dollars you know we are running below budget on that line item for this year so i'm comfortable with that that reduction one more time what does that cover people services are consulting services that we provide for special education students and it could be every anything from speech assessment pt and ot physical therapy occupational therapy assessment any kind of consulting services that are very specialized for a child that comes out of that line item okay on to the last page so the other professional services line which is also running pretty well this year we are recommending reducing that ten thousand dollars and that incl that particular account encompasses a number of items including including tech services and the legal fees that we pay for services that we need so that's a small reduction and we still have an increase over the current year's budget even with the 10 000 reduction the next one rentals leases that's very specific that line item rentals leases included includes equipment leases for the multi-function printers across the district but also hockey rental pool rental this 1890 though that would be specifically coming out of our multi-function printer leases it's our copiers but because they do more than copy we send all our print jobs from you know workstations directly to these it's just much more efficient and cheaper than prison printing to a local laser printer so we've got several machines that are still in use that they're leasing but we have a dollar buyout on the lease so we get to keep the machine as long as it's functional so we have a couple of machines that we're going to be buying at a dollar no more lease payment but we can continue to use the machine and we pay a per print cost for that so that's a real that's a true pickup that um we'll have in that line from when we had developed a budget the next line is communications we're recommending reducing that by eleven thousand one ninety one so we we have budgeted this up the last couple of years anticipating that we would do more communications particularly around school modernization um but we looked at that number and think that the 50 000 is sufficient you know for next year including any communications we have to do around school modernization and you could see the in the prior year you know the the communications line was 23 000 so and this year we're running about that same level i think was safe there just can i does this cover the um the website any work we're doing on the website it does that will come out of that line as well but the website development is near done yeah the 23 000 that we've expended today will increase significantly by the end of the year we will meet that number between the website and mailings that we have planned for the spring round school modernization after the may 10th vote but that it's not a recurring expense we won't have that same experience shouldn't occur again once it's subsequent years yeah okay um and then we took a little bit out of the other services line 2500.
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in regards to the assessments because dr gracie already shared a great deal about the program we do feel having our middle and high school math coach take a look at it that the questions on the assessments and the assignments do mirror more of the types that they'll see on ilearn psat and sat so we are very excited that that level of rigor is there in those questions that will be on the assessments very good in the packets um for the upper level high school courses you also saw that we had textbooks listed for statistics ap statistics pre-calc intrigue and ap calculus those actually are just the updated versions of the current ones that they're using they're the most recent editions of them as you saw in mrs novak's presentation on our ap scores we've had a great deal of success with ap statistics as well as ap calculus and so the teachers do feel that the updated version of their current textbooks will meet those needs and so that's the full list of the textbook selections for elementary as well as secondary any questions great for my second item then i'm seeking your approval for the professional leave requests that you received in your board packet move to approve the professional leave requests a motion by dr medlin and a second by mr marshall any discussion all in favor aye motion passes thank you i would actually personally just like to thank danielle carr who is our high school computer science teacher she's attending a great deal of training this summer and we think it's going to be a huge benefit to the program and then for my last item i am seeking your approval for the field trip requests that were in your packet so moved we have a motion by mr marshall second by dr malcolm any discussion all in favor aye motion passes thank you thank you move right along to our director of business services mr james thank you um as part of the process for the biblic expansion construction project um we've talked about how it's uh we will be selling a portion of the parcel at bivets to the building corporation and um it's going to be approximately 2.4 million dollars that will come into our books that will be used toward the construction project and so this is the time where we get to have a public hearing of the use of those additional appropriations into our books so at this point i will turn it over to the public to see if anyone has any comment okay it's hearing none um now i seek the board's approval on the adoption of the additional appropriation resolution that was included in your board packet i have a motion by dr malco and i will second that any discussion hearing none all in favor aye aye motion passes thank you um next time to seek your approval for the professional leave request in your board packet move to proof we have a motion by mr marshall second second by dr meddling any discussion all in favor aye motion passes and then finally seek your approval for the donations that were in your board packet also move to approve a motion by mr marshall second second by dr malcolm any discussion all in favor aye aye motion passes thank you thank you we have no public comments so we'll move on to our board comments and consideration of future agenda items mr marshall i have nothing other than to say it's been a very full evening enjoyable and that's it thank you dr medlin just want to say uh thank you to all the teachers given that it's a teacher appreciation week and uh thank you for being so wonderful that's all thank you jennifer dramarco yes and and i would agree thank you to all of our staff members for just doing the excellent work you do it's a staff appreciation week and and all of you are very valuable and we appreciate that the commitment that you bring to our school corporation is uh very much appreciated it was a fun night it was a great night we had the art show and we had all this celebration and that's what schools are supposed to be about and so it's kind of nice that we're getting back to that these days um i did happen to run out to see a bit of the track meet so it looks like our boys track team is doing well too so um it's a very good time of year and of course the varsity and jv softball and baseball teams they're just rocking it out there so it's good things happening we appreciate it um augmenting our instruction in the classroom is all about that all about that team building that's out there all about the team building that they brought in learning to respect each other and to be a part of a team so um that's it for me thank you and i thank all of our teachers our staff and everyone that makes lake central what it is so thank you and with that we'll turn it over to dr veraco board calendar future activities thank you we will be back in two weeks we'll have a special celebration of our retirees at that time as well as our teacher of the year for the current school year so look forward to that celebration in addition to possibly a few more recognitions so thank you all right do we have a motion for all adjournment
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you see we had requested an increase of 93.10 and then the probably the largest well the largest on this page is a 36 000 reduction under capital equipment so that's a you can see the budget was 911 490. there's two items in there one is the payment for the energy performance contract which we had done several years ago and that's uh basically we have to make payments for 15 years so that's that's most of the requests um but that account is also where we budget our technology purchases and because we received that 650 000 e-rate grant and were able to purchase 1800 replacement chromebooks we do have room to reduce that by the 36 000. um the impact of that will be that we have been replacing our in-classroom aging smart boards with smart flat panels so we'll do five less with the 36 000 removed but we have to pick a place to find the reduction so we think it's reasonable you know to take it from there and so the total of all those is is 450 000 um you can see that you know that number in red and to the right of that that 80 million 664 420 that is the board of ed's approved budget by the town council it's a 2.68 increase over the current year's budget um on the smart screens so was that a particular grade because that could be a grade right five classrooms so the way we've been doing it is we've first of all we target the ones that are in failure mode you know some of the smart boards delaminate over time um so we do it on a worse first basis and then you know once we know that we've covered those then we have been trying to do it by school um but not one school at a time because we want to you know make sure everyone has the best available technology so there is five less isn't going to no i mean we can't decrease the quality no and and all the boards are running so that's the one thing that i want to you know make sure that the board understands is that you know there's a board that's that's down it gets replaced very quickly so that we don't leave when you say you're pulling out the projector or replacing the whole thing with the screen yes at that point yeah that's the new that's because you're not yet because the projector itself right the bulbs would probably be very expensive exactly higher quality picture and less maintenance with bulbs and things like that sure i mean that should last 10 years right and then they also use less energy yeah than the small boards they don't get as hot as as the small projectors i should say so you know it's a better technology for sure and that's not to say those leds yeah and the price of those have come down pretty dramatically you know to the point where you know they were somewhere around four thousand dollars which was the price of the smaller that's less expensive is there is that well because it is interactive okay so whatever the screen and the camera and all the other stuff that goes with it exactly okay it is interesting you can still get a 75-inch screen for not four thousand dollars has all the required connections maybe two it has the connections for a pc and it does run the smart the smart is a name brand the smart software is what's been used in the district for the smart boards and the importance of that is the teachers have a lot of lessons planned right so it is developed it was smart exactly it's all compatible because gesturing is the same and everything like that anything yeah and they can take the lessons plans they've developed and use them and modify them but it's still under the smart platform and that was one of the driving factors i mean this it took a few years to settle on what the replacement was going to be even though there were flat panels available they weren't produced by smart the smart ones were much more expensive and the alternatives we looked at would require a complete migration of the smart based lesson plans which was you know certainly something that was a concern for the teaching staff but now that we're able to get these smart interactive displays at a reasonable price you know everybody's happy all around and um if so if these screens are let's say installed in norton um they can be removed and brought to the new school or or reinstalled at you know doolittle or high school or something like that like whatever so i'm not sure what the what the uh what is that term portability no uh the fixtures and furniture ffa but not chromebooks and stuff like that okay yeah but like something like that and for the audience i put there's a smart on the wall out there for the millions watching yeah so and just since we're talking about that uh where are we on um um putting in the audio equipment or the uh in the classrooms are we still pursuing the amplified room yeah we didn't continue to pursue more of that there is we'd like to um unfortunately when we have a budget that 25 of our 55 line items are zero or less and then we're asked to reduce more it's it's hard yeah it is a luxury okay but we do you know we'll continue to pursue it we'll find other sources uh because we think it's worthwhile and it's not just that we think it's worthwhile there's data to support the value of amplified classrooms so we'll continue you go into a room that's amplified it's wildly different it's great did you install that equipment in now shoes i'm trying to remember there's one lecture hall at dodd right a large lecture hall and there is what one or two with the high school there's yeah three depending on how you're looking was that technology installed on any of those no um so the large lecture hall auditorium at cheshire high school already has it the there are two smaller rooms which don't have it um we focus predominantly on classrooms because during covid where kids were accessing so many remote students were accessing classes it was like they were in the room if they spoke came here for the room and same with the kids at home got to hear everything crystal clear that was going on so that's really where our focus was um and we think that there's real value in continuing to do that so how many classrooms do we have oh i don't know the exact thing was that i thought it was something like 60 it was it's a fair number yeah it's a fair number you know we probably a quarter classrooms maybe okay you know of our standard class yeah yeah can we i'm going back to the the pupil services and i look here and it says um you know the account includes fees for special ed like you just said independent evaluations and other support uh psychiatric evaluations occupational therapy speech therapy physical therapy risk assessments and medical advice do we um uh do we how do we have the capability in-house to pick up where we might cut or what what because i mean i just look at our people cert i mean our instructional expenses overall just took such a hit you know um and i you know this was one area that got comparatively you know at least on a percentage basis you know a size two percent um sizable increase but there's a couple of things on this this line that are worth mentioning one is if you look at the expended in 2020 21 it was 688 000 uh this year's budget is 790 000.
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