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we're running favorable to that number and then the third component there is um special esser funding that we do have for special education services so i don't know yeah it's an area where as much as it's lean um we have a fallback a a safety net and i think what we've been trying to avoid in budgeting is like fiscal cliffing ourselves but uh because it's just prudent budgeting to not do that but um i think for you know that small amount of money i think we can be okay there you know when we talked about it okay do we need to need action or um well i think it'd be good to for us to make a motion to recommend right that's the that's the next step yeah you know recommend it for consideration by the full board of approval at their next meeting yeah so we approve this on thursday or do we went to the phone uh you make a motion now to approve it for the business move to the full business okay would you like to make a motion um i move that we approve the recommended reductions do i need to do each one or total totaling 450 000 to the full board to the floor i will second that motion okay um all in favor is unanimous of those presents fantastic thanks so much thank you all right thank you so the last item on the agenda was a discussion regarding the 2324 budget and um now we're starting to really push it out there yeah but um i i think you know the stop grant is going to factor into that a little bit esther's going to figure into that a little bit with esser basically you know we've been trying to stretch that money as long as we can for interventions and supports and services that this will not shape uh the operating budget 2324 terribly but it will be an influence like esther will be an influence the biggest influence though that we foresee operating out two years from now will be the school modernization plan and enrollment um because like this year where we had to add several teaching positions to cover the increases in enrollment that trend is scheduled to continue and we will therefore need to focus there i think we'll be able to have um better conversations after referendum in the fall about the 23 24 operating budget and beyond because if this passes if the school modernization passes referendum that's one plan of attack that we'll need to take to prepare ourselves for new buildings and the you know new equipment everything if it doesn't pass referendum the tact that we're going to have to take ben and i already have a conference call set up with a person that sells portable trailers those leases on those so yeah that's what we'll need right i mean we're gonna have to do you're spending money one way or another it's you know this is what i've been saying when i go to our pto meetings is where do you want to focus that uh or suspect can you come up with a um pro forma just a budget just are you getting that yeah you're talking about for the portables yeah we're working on trying to get that information together and when are we meeting with uh the sales rep lives here in town yeah she just emailed today so i have to just get back to her with some available dates there's a person that actually i was at at the school business officials has an annual bender day at the aqua turf and there was a booth and i i knew that the booth was going to be there so i didn't know the person lived in town yeah let's get emails if the referendum were to fail we would need trailers at all four of our elementary schools right it depends more than likely i mean it depends on where the moment growth is yeah the timing of that would be we wouldn't be slowed down and earlier yeah hey we got you guys come hang out in our trailer the um yeah the timing of that we might not need them in every building on the first year right but ultimately yes yeah i don't know where we would even put them at highland well that's though that's going to be the complication listen i mean other school districts have dealt with the issue and that's where you're going to have to it's going to be tough though in some schools where do we locate them we know where we had them at chapman right i mean no one would hate to see trailers back at chapman more than may it took you know five years to get rid of the two we had but hopefully we don't have to do that but i i think i think we should you know if we're looking at the next 10 years i mean there's a couple of things that we should be looking at the cost of trailers is one but certainly you know what's the impact of enrollment on staffing needs you know kind of what does that look like if we're going to put together kind of a forward-looking picture yeah and that's that's we'll need the staffing regardless of referendum but it'll look different in different buildings because you don't have the value of consolidating buildings the other area that we would really need to focus on is capital improvement because a lot of capital improvement has been deferred for like five years everybody's saying well wait until the school modernization plan but if you know you can only wait so long we were having windows conversations today you removed what like 30 million out of capital right yeah ish um yeah but that was over a 10-year view right right because we we took that five-year capital plan and rolled it out over 10 years okay but i mean i have i certainly have all those numbers we can we can revisit those so my recommendation would be if it's all right with you to reconvene like mid-november which will be good for us to take a look at the referendum but the financial implications of that and next year's budget sneak peek before we get into the budget presentation process in january so you know i'm not one for loading up the week with meetings but we had talked about especially after the the whole process of february of maybe meeting more regularly just so and it may be even before november yeah i mean i don't know certainly that's that's great that i know we're going to need to meet anyway next month um because we do well no it do do we need to meet again next month for the finance committee probably not we have a we have the meeting of the board june 30th which is the end of the fiscal year meeting but um outside of that i don't i don't know that there's anything specific to finance i mean the other thing that i am working on uh with erica biagetti our food service director is school lunch prices and what do we do what are we looking at for next year sure you know just kind of to see where food services is um because i'm trying to think in june we're going to meet several times in june already um because i think we're i think we envisioned doing it quarterly anyway um so yeah july and the july or something anyway yeah like that so if we met in them you know like early august or something yeah and then again you know all i was thinking of for november was we'd have the referendum results because i think that's pretty it's going to shape a lot of our decision making after that yeah if we do in august and november you know is it wasn't there a wisp a whisper of a referendum change there yeah i don't know i think we'll find out more tomorrow we have an executive steering committee meeting but if i like the november timeline in the sense that it gives us ample opportunity to share information with the community if we don't i mean because the blackout period is already taking us to like august 30th right it's september 8th maybe the board can't speak to the community as a board they can't sell the the plan if you will after that time i don't know i read through that and it seemed like it was only if money was involved like if there were expenditures involved like if we send mailers out as a board sure you can't you can't do that you put my understanding is like you couldn't um even do like a psa kind of thing right uh it has to be only factual information about the actual plan you can't say we might need a training on it yeah what you can't do yeah jeff dinofrio the town attorney had mentioned this at the town council meeting so certainly i think it'd be beneficial for the town council members and the board members myself and you know to be educated on what can and can is this like an sec type violation if it's what is the enforcement on this like i don't know if it's lashes with a wet noodle yeah it's jail time so even a projected budget since it's hypothetical would be taboo a budget is okay to say that the budget like here's what the budget would be is all right you can't my understanding is you can't say things like you know this is necessary this is needed that like influential language like that can't but you could say if um this would be the cost like that's just factual information okay objective versus subjective language is what i think is what they're speaking to but i really think it's important because this isn't my domain uh to have you know jeff the offrio top talk to us all about what can can't be done because i know that window starts end of august if they move the referendum data now it's like you know when are we going to be able to really push this to the community and really educate them and as far as trailers go um at least in the past has it been a purchase agreement or is it a lease agreement or i mean in the past we've purchased that we're just and that was way before i would think very little residual value if we had to use them but you know these days there's a lot of different financial arrangements you can rent them you can lease them we could buy them used as the conversation and some are uh some are really nice trailers depends on the condition right yeah i will say like you know you can get some trailers that have air conditioning in them which would ironically be an upgrade from chapman you know to go out to an air-conditioned trailer yeah seriously well i know when they were doing uh plat over they had all their portable classrooms they were army air conditioned you know quarters hopefully it's just something we need to get by for a short period of time you know not permanent hopefully we don't need it right yeah the um all right so the plan is we should book something for like maybe early mid august yeah and then again for after the referee okay but and do i just want to confirm so the idea is to have some kind of a projection i mean one thing we could start with is if we just took the enrollment projections that we have now from slam and new school no school just looked at what the impact would be to teacher staffing and then related staffing that might be something that you know we could share and and have some good discussion around and then any categories like trailers we can add that by then we'll have you know some information we can work with you know and as we think it through and then discuss it with the committee you know just foster some additional discussion around what the budget's going to look like going forward i think um in conjunction with that we're discussing that earlier was um the special education break point um because you know like you had said i think what was in 2015 when uh you had a staff member to make do that analysis where you decided you know when you bring things in house oh yeah beneficial to that yeah in house property and to the school system um but when we're having a now a 25 potential 25 increase in population is there a point where the town can't sustain let's say because like we saw the uh the cost per student it was like 30 or 40 000 i think for a special education student versus the 17 000 trip uh for uh general ed and so and we have you know we're always discussing about you know uh allocation of resources for all of those kids and you know at what point is it not sustainable anymore or if it is sustainable fantastic right because i know where as far as the new buildings go if if approved you know we're devoting a lot of resources to to maintaining at least the um you know birth through k yeah program you know yeah out placement drives that number higher the per pupil spending would be higher with more out placements we bring programming in because we can do it better more efficiently it's there are substantial transportation costs for special ed out placement additionally tuition cost is usually quite high and we do it better it's trying to find a enough enough students that have similar need to provide it the trade-off is the space that's the challenge like we you know we brought in a lot of programming that is financially and academically a significant improvement over outplacing but it burns space and that there's a bit of a trade-off there but we'll at to adam's point will we get to a point where we just say we we have neither the space nor the resources anymore but the resources you're going to jack up the cost of the resources if you i know i know right it's a big problem and how do we address it how do we find out when we consolidate three elementary schools into two that are larger we are in effect addressing that because they those schools uh alleviate the pressure at places like highland and doolittle where we do have specialized programming being offered so you know this modernization plan helps release valve that pressure on the space in those two buildings um and that will be a substantial benefit uh of the many that i could mention of moving forward with this planet school modernization so um you would say then the way we would be reconfiguring our space needs including the new buildings that that would be able to accommodate let's say the current ratio yeah of special ed the general ed at a 25 increase in population you would think that we would not be bursting at the seams at that point with finding using closets and stuff like kind of sometimes what we do now like you would think that with by having these new spaces in the new buildings that we should be able to properly accommodate um these programs without being on carson without correct yeah so the demographers and the the um you know mr hanson the the gentleman who helped us with the uh ed specs they were all you know we reviewed the programming in each building um we actually did a lot of work around ed specs if you recall at highland because one of the initial proposals out of the smc group was to take darcy and try and move it there and so dan uh hanson he looked at the programming there we looked at it with mike zuba who's now with slam was with um my loan you know to to look at you know do these programs fit and so yes i think that this is a release of that pressure on the space when we build these two new buildings and draw students out of highland and doolittle to ensure that there's adequate space in those those two places again another one of the the many benefits though the question that i'm asking myself is with a 25 increase in enrollment does that create a different cluster of students that we now have enough students with a specific need that we offer this particular program in-house and if so you know what sort of savings does that present it what cost to the space and uh you know you don't know that until the kids are there but um that would is is the opposite of the question being asked but the same sort of value in exploring like for example like at highland you have the um some of our uh most students with with uh needs on the developmental spectrum right yeah that yeah that are i guess would be more autism right so when when students are moved out of highland does that allow for uh adequate space for the increased population like there wouldn't be any um uh any need for additional space or that does that provide does that free up additional space to expand the program for you for additional thought so that's that's a good question there's not um the calculations were done that were done didn't include significant expansion of the current space in programming just sustaining the space in progress i mean you would think that yeah right proportionally right it would increase right but um i think that's a good question that i'll go back to christina sherwood and and robin and kerry because i think that's kind of what we're trying to get because it really is that space need is kind of because like you know the question was asked like well our population was i think was it the mayor slocum i think maybe asked the question well 2015 we were here and we had all these schools before so what's the difference and right you had you unanswered that question during that yeah the other big one was yeah the 4k yeah right it doubled the number of classrooms we needed for kindergarten right we were one of the last states districts to adopt that across connecticut but it doubled the space that we needed that coupled with the in-house special ed services program um is part of why we're here today right right yeah okay i know we want to get out of here but you just as i think about so we're going to consolidate special ed services in am i we already have but we're going to look to to consolidate them in the new school so when we consolidate the three buildings down to two what we're doing is taking general education students and special education students but just not students that are assigned to the program at highland but we're taking other students out of the building and moving them to the new north end school yeah to create more space in those buildings and accommodate the existing enrollment yeah i was just wondering how i and maybe it how that's going to affect districting but you know i mean you're if you we we are redistricting no i know we are and so i guess are we going to have these schools of excellence for special ed maybe i'm misinterpreting this and then that's where our special ed kids will be no never mind not necessarily okay it's still a very fractional percentage of our population that receives these very intensive specialty programming uh it's a it's a pretty small percentage of the district uh those students that have those needs they already come from other areas so if you have you know these the you know the intensive support needs that adam was just outlining but you live in doolittle you still go over to highland for that already now so it's not like you know we're creating buildings with their you know like much different than they are today they're pretty much the same as they are today in terms of the complexion of the students in those buildings pretty pretty almost identical just a little smaller uh in highland which we need to be perhaps a little bit smaller it do a little when you think about the number of students that are we're adding in um now norton in chapman more than doubles in size and it also folds in darcy so um it's just kind of building new new space that allows us to accommodate the huge numbers that we're seeing move in okay okay um well i think that really starts our conversation um uh yeah i think for next time maybe we'll focus on staffing um i guess maybe it sounds like august we're looking at uh staffing we're also looking at uh you know trailers and things like that right and we're also looking at school lunch yes i think that's that's a full agenda yeah right there okay um we have nothing else on the agenda um i know that we adjourn all in favor okay fantastic we are jeremy thank you thanks guys

thank you okay quiet in the peanut gallery welcome welcome everyone to our brief board business meeting and work study tonight is tuesday may 3rd and we will begin with the call to order and we'll go right into 2.01 our secondary ela and mandarin curriculum adoptions dr mccord thank you madam president governing board member miss eugetti are you there bueller no is you jetty yep here just wanted to make sure you were there tonight we have three well go ahead you good yes i'm sorry i keep forgetting the laws yeah that no problem we have three items we'll start off with 2.01 secondary ela and mandarin curriculum adoptions these two areas ela and mandarin have been under review uh for the past at least 60 days right how long 60 say i got it right and uh now we're here to present to you the findings from that review and later on we'll be asking for your approval so if i could have who's coming up ah dr cox jenna's coming up and maybe sue pretty soon at mandarin good evening dr mccord members of the board president wood this is miss corley beck and she's here as our ela coordinator to present with myself on the update of the secondary ela curriculum adoption so we're going to go ahead and just jump right in the first several slides you're going to notice are a review from our previous two board presentations just to make sure we're all on the same page so some of it is going to be some cyclical information so with the timeline over this past fiscal year we have kind of condensed the timeline into the three chunks so you'll see early on that august through january was a lot of the legwork behind the scene committee work collecting resources and then that transitioned into the next time period which is the february through may which began our pilot and public review which was a 60-day period perfect all right and then um we also put on the timeline just for june and ongoing what our plan would be pending the next steps which would be to put together the professional development training plan and materials to move forward with all of our stakeholders so if you recall the committee recommendation was the save as my perspectives for our seven through twelve ela teachers and students and that is what we began with the pilot in public review there was the criteria that we followed through this process and the criteria included the different uh categories that are listed under the arizona academic standards in addition to that there was a focus on looking at the assessments that measure mastery of those standards both formative and summative we really as a committee tried to focus on all learners so making sure that the curriculum was able to be differentiated for students that are gifted honors el sped that was again just a large focus that the committee had and then in addition uh the digital resources and support as we know especially through this past couple of years that we want readily available to our students and teachers as well so with that criteria in mind the beginning of the pilot preparation which included extensive training for the pilot teachers and materials resources how to's videos access to our coordinator and the company as well as unit selection and then once the pilot was prepared and teachers were trained and communicated with we were really excited i did share this at the last work study but wanted to share again that all but one of our secondary schools partook in the pilot and it started where we were had so many teachers that were going to pilot and they just kept coming and wanting to join in on the pilot so we just continued to take them and collected as much feedback from as many people as we could and even once the pilot because there was a little bit of a window where we could take more people but once we had to authentically begin that we did allow any teachers that came forth to at least view and get in there and take a look at the different resources that were available so we pretty much just said yes to everybody as much as we could and then that leads us to the data that we have presented or have prepared to present to you this evening and i'm just going to dive right into that so during the pilot there were several surveys that were administered throughout almost weekly to the different teachers that were piloting and we went ahead and pulled several of those questions so that you all on the board can in the community can review the findings of that so the first uh one that i want to share tonight is just on the different design and instructional experiences that students can have in regard to the standards-based skills and you'll see and i'm just going to explain the chart these will be the same charts that are used throughout this presentation and the mandarin the options were strongly agree agree neutral disagree and strongly uh disagree and so the um favorable answers there strongly agree and agree uh ended up being 96 for this question during that pilot and then moving on when looking at the different types and lengths of text complexity that students will be provided the opportunity to use through their learning 92 percent of the pilot teachers had felt in favor that that variety was provided moving on uh we also had another area looking at the differentiation that i had discussed if it be whole group small group individual and with that we were looking at eighty percent felt that those different categories were represented and provided opportunities for students sorry the clicker is going a little bit slow so it's throwing me off and then the last piece of data that we wanted to share with you tonight from the pilot teacher survey feedback is when looking at formative and summative assessment and the progress monitoring that is available with this curriculum 85 of the pilot teachers felt that there was a wide variety of assessments within provided so in addition to asking questions that had these five answers to choose from we wanted to provide an open-ended forum for our teachers to share their own anecdotal feedback and we provided a handful of statements up there for everyone to read you'll see that it's overwhelmingly positive uh the the biggest takeaway was that um there were considering that um the curriculum that they have been using they i it repeatedly has been mentioned and commented that there is a variety of resources there's a variety of materials um there's so many things all in one place so uh the feedback that we really got was that teachers didn't feel like they had to go find different materials and resources from seven different supplementals that it was all packaged right there at their fingertips and again the rest of the comments that you can review up there is just that the structure uh very tech savvy very easy to use easy to manage even with some of our feedback that we received from some of the teachers that decided to jump on and we caught their names in there and then would follow up with them so they weren't initially in and then we wanted to add them and make sure they got the training so that they were viewing everything they equally even with no guidance had voiced the same type of positive feedback so it just shows that um it's extremely user friendly and then the second part of uh this presentation is focusing on the public comment from the public review so i'm going to transition into that and just remind everyone that over the last 60 days from february 18th through april 18th that there were several locations that were set up uh with all of the resources materials there were qr codes to take our community members to the electronic uh resources as well gave some examples of different units and just really gave a feel you could sit there and go through the different textbooks um and and so forth and so these are the different locations that were available and through the public comment now i'm just going to talk about a little bit of the data that we received from that which starts off with that the content within the materials is interesting clear and appropriate for students at this grade level and with that you will notice uh between the strongly agree and agree it was 75 percent of our public feedback was in favor of that the appropriateness and then moving on to the texts and tasks provide students with multiple opportunities to practice literacy skills 78 of our public feedback came back in favor of the opportunities that were there and then for the materials that are high in interest and prepare students for college readiness there was 78 percent and i'm sorry that was college and career readiness that was 78 voiced in favor of that review and then finally the overall uh fit for gilbert public schools and that was 73 of all comments had felt that that was a good fit for gilbert public schools so moving forward sorry the clickers off a little bit moving forward one of the things that our pilot teachers did receive was a support website that was created and geared toward gilbert public schools so it included we just wanted to show just a visual an introductory video and then all of the links that guided them through and as uh saab as my prospectus received feedback from myself and jenna throughout the entire pilot process they maintained this website and geared it toward our teachers needs so much as on the next slide you'll see that they have actually gone ahead and updated their entire program for 2223 based on the feedback that came from gilbert public schools teachers one of the things that we did hear on the constructive side teachers were very positive and excited but we were trying to see um if there was constructive feedback there as well and one we had to dig for that though because i felt like it was really really positive but one of the things that did surface was going from more traditional textbooks to a curriculum that is all-encompassing that the electronic resources that there were a lot of clicks to get to certain aspects and so savvy's my prospectus has actually completely updated their program and has pushed out um at least to the piloting teachers and it's going to be a part of their program that is there moving forward to mainstream so i know that there was a lot of appreciation for gilbert public schools teachers giving that feedback and i just thought that was pretty neat that it improved their product for for all and with that that will help with refined searches easier to get to materials quicker to enter data get to scores provide feedback to students all of that accessibility is is much quicker and with that we are thankful to the board for their support through the adoption process after the successful completion of the pilot and public review our recommendation is to formally adopt and purchase the savves my perspectives curriculum and pending your approval tonight we are prepared to implement a training plan pacing guides and stakeholder communication uh mrs corley buck has letters already drafted and ready to go so we're really excited um to just share with you how the pilot and the public review have gone and truly thank you for your support up to this point so with the ela curriculum adoption at this time that concludes the presentation we have prepared and would like to open it for any questions that the board or dr mccord may have for us this evening go ahead and separate oh sure um remind me savis was previously a company entered pearson okay thank you i was like i know this is another company that i could not remember um i i have to say i i came in twice and looked at the curriculum and um i really thought it was amazing the i liked the way that the units have a question and um one unit that i looked at was you know should we be spending money on space travel or should be we be using that money for other needs and i thought that was a really balanced question where there are pros and cons on each side and for kids to really um wrestle with that and just really think about it in a in a way that they had sources to look at and could really um put some deep thought into that something that you know they probably will have to deal with in the future so i those were that was just one example but i looked through many of the units and there were many other ones that was just one that stuck in my definitely i just really appreciated the way that it gives kids really a chance to look deeply at issues and and then it had you know good fiction and non-fiction to support um and to for them to explore not not laying out one side or the other but giving them some something just to explore and and develop their own thinking so i i really liked that about this curriculum there is definitely ample opportunity for critical thinking within this curriculum so thank you for sharing at what point did the members of the pilot group have an opportunity opportunity to look at the vertical articulation from elementary school to the secondary curriculum could they see readily see linkages and did they do any of that i feel as if that dates back to even the committee work when we even brought in the vendor presentation there were connections being made um so i'm i'm not sure that i i guess to your point with the pilot teachers within their grade bands so you've got the standards that are similar for 7 8 9 10 and 11 12.

all right well good evening everyone and welcome to sorry i think if diana narvaez if you wouldn't mind muting thank you so good evening and welcome to this regularly scheduled uh board meeting of the azusa unified school district board of education on may 3rd 2022 we will go ahead and begin our open session portion of our meeting uh right now at 7 00 pm and we will do that with a flag salute led by eddie bella uh eddie adebaya rodriguez from lee hello can everyone please rise please put your right hand over your heart ready begin i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god individual with liberty and justice for all thank you so much bye bye bye that brings us to 4.2 roll call board member rodriguez pena president board member beau here board member cruz gonzalez here and i board member greer i'm also here and board member arianes is absent this evening that brings us to 4.3 which is approval of the agenda make a motion to approve uh 4.3 well second move by board member audi excuse me board member rodriguez pena and seconded by board member bo any discussion then we will move uh if it's moved so we'll move to a vote and the motion passes four yes to one absent which brings us to 5.0 report of action uh report or action of closed session matters and we do have a couple of items in front of us the first one is 5.1 student matter final sentiment for office of administrative hearing case number [Music] student number 21 22 01 14.

you would see that there from the elementary vertical alignment all the way up k12 i feel that that was seen more within the committee work that we were making those connections yeah i agree we had some conversations about that jump from that fifth grade sixth grade jump to seventh eighth grade is a big one and we did have that conversation did take place during the vendor presentation with the whole committee since then the conversations that have happened between the secondary ela coordinator and myself about that junk from readygen which is sovis and then moving into the my perspectives there's a clear connection there and we have discussed about what that's going to look like there's going to be a bridge that moves our kids seamlessly through that process okay so you you feel like the articulation very much kind of occurs naturally as we move through a process there very much okay and just a comment more than a question and that is this is material again that we're purchasing from saves pearson the curriculum is already established by us in our school setting in our school system and it's just a pet peeve there's a there's an issue there this is not the curriculum yes this is material to support our curriculum is that correct and thank you dr santa cruz that the way that i always articulated is that the the state standards are our curriculum that drives everything and um with doing a curriculum adoption with vendors and they refer to this as curriculum for the sake of this presentation um but yes absolutely the units and the uh pacing guides that i referenced in the last slide as part of the next steps we'll be taking those state standards which drive uh the pacing guides in the curriculum that is what the teachers follow currently and this is just the material that will replace what has what has not been there before correct or has been there for a long time i'm trying to be more diplomatic the the materials that are provided within my perspectives are simply the vehicle through which kids practice and develop the skill sets of the ela standards which is our curriculum that's what we're tasked with kids learning and we're just providing teachers with more resources to provide kids with those opportunities within you know settings that engage them but that's all the curriculum is just resources i i just think that that's an important perspective to communicate to our stakeholders outside of the educational community because so often individuals believe that what we purchase is all we teach and that just is not the case thank you kind of tagging on to that dr santa cruz i was i was going to ask i know that you besides having the public review there also was a public night on i believe march 2nd or maybe right before spring yeah it was probably march 2nd right before spring break i believe that there were some community members that came in and also listened to the review and gave feedback as well and similar to what you said you know when there's disagrees or even with teachers and with the public review i think hopefully we can take some of those disagree or you know strongly disagree and say okay is there something that we can do in our pacing and our the things that you guys do to guide it in a way that we're using the best parts of the curriculum best parts of the materials and making sure that we're trying to address those concerns like for instance you know as i looked at the teacher one when there's some that say disagree and so i thought if there's just even one teacher that disagreed but i thought how do we i hope that we can take that feedback from that teacher and say maybe there's probably something specific that maybe we can do as a district as coach or in the next steps to even make it better for our teachers so i appreciate those even those comments that disagreed because we want to have the best offering possible so and those were exactly what drove our conversation to follow up with the vendor which the outcome ended up being that they perfected their product and eliminated how many clicks and it came from really diving into the disagree comments or the constructive pieces that allowed us to really have an even better product at the end which is going to improve things for teachers which improves things for our students so i i agree wholeheartedly with that and we will continue to to look at that and see if there are other areas great so did you have anything mr parker it appears all these materials online no actually it can be it could it has a complete digital platform so it can be completely digital but this and this is one of the misunderstandings that i addressed early on this is not an online curriculum no i didn't i wasn't indicating that at all here but everything is digital but it doesn't have not everything has to be assigned digitally the students can still engage with text in front of them they can write things down there's going to be discussions there's going to be lots of face-to-face learning and we have this just because you can assign something digitally doesn't mean you have to and and teachers are learning how to navigate that i think that they a little bit were just so overwhelmed that there was so much that they had access to they were like wow let's assign all the things and i'm like it was but it was it was an awesome conversation to see as they started to explore this can students access some of this outside of classroom yes and they do have a process where they can you can get it to function offline so they don't necessarily have to have a working wi-fi immediately to access some work it could be pulled up in an offline environment so more kids would have access thank you anything else board members i i looked at it as well and had enjoyed what i saw and thought it was looked like a really great resource for our teachers and our students and opportunities to continue the learning i guess i would just my final question would be what would you anticipate how would you evaluate this the success the success of our implementation and basically the success of this product what do you expect to see in our students in our teachers what what looks like success to you ideally i believe that any student achievement on performance on any measure should be indicative of the resources and materials that we're using to teach the state standards i think that with our new uh assessment platform as well that there are some pieces that can connect and correlate to allow teachers to see some of those data points uh easier and the nice part with this platform specifically is that it also from a teaching perspective gives immediate feedback so students will hopefully be able to get that immediately and make an adjustment to their learning or the outcomes that are there and so just that piece alone um i i just think that teachers are going to be able to see student learning more effectively now with the training we're going to be training all teachers and so part of it will be monitoring that and making sure that that plan goes according to plan and that all teachers are trained and supported and then having a plan um that's it's not just a one and done and so that cyclical piece for the training um and then if we get feedback from teachers um or they're feeling like they need additional support making sure that we're responding to the feedback from our teachers so i think some of that will be anecdotal um from the feedback that we do receive and then i also think that some of that will go as far as our parents as well so we're just going to have to really be open to the feedback but then also looking at the data points in our hope is that all of this will lead to increased student achievement on performance so that would be the larger like that's kind of a big answer but no i think that's great i mean that would be our hope it so i guess my final thought and sorry to keep going through this but is do do you feel like i feel like you've expressed that teachers are buying into it and are looking forward to this because i'm wondering again if if one of the good parts of it we think one of the benefits is that seventh through twelfth grade you know if if seventh grade gets these things covered and then they move to eighth grade and then they get these things covered and then they move to ninth grade and get these things rather than maybe having holes that we've kind of had where we didn't have you know exactly this and then we'd move to that in the piecemeal so do you feel like our teachers are going to buy into it enough to actually implement and be you know have the fidelity to it that our students get the benefit from that vertical articulation i think that yes and i think that the driving force behind that is some of the work that we're doing with the instructional framework okay that gilbert has done where we have those concepts and those domains of instruction design instruction and assessment and because this program is going to provide teachers with easily accessible resources they're going to have a clear you know unit guide and i'm going to provide training with how that works and i'm going to show them how the instructional framework and the elements of what that looks like in a classroom fits in with the material this program you're going to start they're going to start to see that it isn't just one more thing it's the thing which is student learning and we already have teachers that are really starting to get into they're starting to see how that big picture is fitting together and having something like this which actually takes something off their plate looking for resources now they've got you know stuff right there that they can use when they see how it fits into the other conversations that they're having on their campus it's going to make a difference and and i think that's going to be the driver that keeps them going with that fidelity that you're referring to so we don't have those gaps in learning from seven through 12.

is there a motion on the floor make a motion to approve 5.1 second move by board member rodriguez pena and second by board member cruz gonzalez any discussion we'll move to a vote and the motion passes four yes to one and one absent moving to 5.2 student matter final sentiment for office of administrative hearing case number two zero two one one two zero four nine two student number twenty one twenty two zero one fifteen is there a motion on the floor make a motion to approve 5.2 seconds move by board member rodriguez pena and second by board member bruce gonzalez any discussion then we will move to a vote and the motion passes four yes one absent bringing us to 6.0 recognition and awards and we will begin with 6.1 recognition of student board member crystal flamino thank you board president um crystal flamino is on uh line i believe uh we just wanted to take the opportunity uh to thank the service of the student board members uh just a little insight that in addition to uh being here and reading our reports and purporting what's happening at the school sites i am super grateful for the student board members this year they helped formulate a brand new student advisory council they gave a lot of good input and this year's student advisory council uh the way we're running it uh the the logistics around it the the membership has just been exponentially better than it was in the past and i owe a lot of gratitude to our board members our student board members who gave a lot of valuable input from a student perspective on how to make it more successful so i just want to say thank you to them for that and crystal on behalf of the board of education and all of us here at ausd we're proud to present you with this certificate of recognition and we'll make sure that this finds its way to you at your school site if we could all have a round of applause for crystal all right moving right along uh more fun stuff 6.2 recognition of the gladstone high school medical academy and i do believe we have a spring thingy good evening um good evening board president um members of the board of education superintendent ortega members of cabinet fire the usd community thank you for the opportunity to publicly recognize our glastone medical academy and their recent achievement of receiving naf's highest level of distinction the katherine blasic the katherine basic distinguished academy naf is a national network of education business and community leaders work together to ensure high school students are college career and future ready we are proud to be recognized by naf as we believe our beliefs regarding college and career readiness closely align we are so proud to not only honor the students who are succeeding in the academy but many of the staff who have helped make this happen starting with jennie aguirre the lead mind you now jenny is quick to point out that this is a team effort with key members throughout the district and school who have played critical roles in helping us receive such a recognition i know she will introduce a team shortly when she addresses the board but first i would like to welcome ryan serrano from supervisor hilda solis's office mr serrano if you please good evening everyone my name is brian torrano and i'm a field deputy with the office of supervisor hilda solis and on behalf of supervisor hilde elise let me just say what an honor and a privilege it is to be here tonight to recognize this amazing achievement and on behalf of la county with sincere congratulations and best wishes the board of supervisors of the county of los angeles does hereby join in your celebration congratulations here hold on one second the azusa unified school district certificate of recognition is probably to present bloodstone high school medical academy for being awarded the national academy foundation's naf distinguished level recognition the naf's highest level of achievement may 30th 2022 signed by superintendent ortega and board president adrian greer congratulations yes if i can invite um miss gary to say a few words please wow this is definitely an honor for us um i would like to uh introduce the team that is here and also recognize the team members that are not able to be with us um as a collaborative team we worked really hard to get to this point um the economy started eight years ago and from eight years till now um we have had more and more success um with our students with our uh working with our teachers um of course the honors and everything that you have given um but bottom line is it is a team effort and i i definitely want to recognize the team our uh first one uh randall rogers he is our medical chemistry uh teacher and then uh edna rogers is our medical bio teacher and the woman that knows it all uh with of naf uh laurie is uh laurie madden is our uh nafta director for our school um the other uh members that were not able to be here is uh joyce de leon which is our uh coordinator for um the academy then we have doug dalter which is our anatomy teacher we have uh lauren wall also that is our medical english teacher oh and irma i'm so sorry yes irma marufo is our new member um she is our ninth grade um health occupation teacher that works with the younger kids so um throughout i just wanted to say throughout the years it's been like i said it's been it's been it's hard work and uh the team has worked very very well to be able to uh receive this distinguished uh recognition um it wasn't an easy feat um you know our kids our kids are amazing and i apologize i didn't have any children here today any students today um but they're in the midst of doing so much um we're gonna be doing guests go tomorrow and um our all our kids are going off to college and they just have other things that they were doing but our kids have really benefited from the academy we've gone from having a small internship to now having a partnership with kick hospital eminent eminent is working with the kids now um on a program that they are allowed to go to queen of the valley and uh foothill presbyterian to do floor work which means they will be in the front lines working side by side with doctors nurses pecs um on every floor it's called the cult uh program so um hospice they're still doing their hospice internship so little by little we've been doing more and more for the community but getting those kids out there and the main thing for our academy is getting them ready getting them career ready getting them just even just not just skills but their soft skills getting them it was you know funny for them to even do a resume for a while now they're just they they just know you know they send it i mean their resume some of them are better than mine so um they're doing really really well so i appreciate the board for supporting us and giving us the equipment giving us the funding and giving us everything that you give us to be able to do for our kids looking forward to seeing what happens with um you know the collaboration of azusa uh we're gonna still work this is hard we've got about a hundred i believe 140 freshmen signed up already um and then tomorrow's our eighth grade expo so it's it's going to continue on working it's going to continue on working community for you thank you so much i just want to add that this is a collaborative effort with the rop kenny gary rop teachers kusd teachers asb staff without the rlp support we will not be able to do this as well i know they are here virtually listening to this so i want to thank them as well so thank you very much love it thank you well now we'll move to item 6.3 uh which is presentation of teachers of the year and so i will look to you mr thank you board president [Music] so for president greer board members cabinet and uh guests i have the honor of starting the formal recognition of our teachers of the year at this board meeting teaching is the profession that all professions grow from and it is fitting that we take the time to honor all of our teachers of the year as we celebrate the 2021 teacher appreciation week selecting the site teachers of the year begins in february where sites are asked to begin this process of selecting from their site teachers then in march our site teachers of the year submit letters of recommendation and complete a questionnaire in april a committee of bargaining unit representatives managers myself get the opportunity to interview each of the sites teacher of the year it is a magical day probably the best day i have all year the day is filled with laughter heart felt genuine emotion and just an up uplifting feeling that our asusa unified school district students are in very very good hands at this panel interview teachers from each level and from all sites spoke about what is important to them what they value to ensure that all students learn teachers like miss terzo robles hodges elementary teacher of the year who spoke eloquently about supporting students emotionally and academically so that kids do not slip through the cracks or sierra high school's teacher of the year mr gary lambert who spoke passionately about giving students the wisdom and skills needed for democracy mr hartman paramount's uh elementary teachers of the year who simply stated asusa is just the place to be and i could go on and on talking about how wonderful it was to participate in this process there is so much passion for teaching our students in our district all told it was another great day for me to work in the district in just a few moments you will get to meet all of our teachers of the year the last couple of years for this event our site administrators were asked to create a video clip that recognized and celebrated our teachers of the year this year we asked our administrators to host their teachers of the year at their sites so that we can honor them and recognize them in person via zoom i want to thank our administrators for their constant support and flexibility as we've found ways to make this event special i also want to thank our margaret mccann our hr personnel technician who has coordinated this teacher of the year process from february through this evening i want to thank our district teacher of the year panel some of who are here tonight and above all i want to thank all of our teachers that work so hard every day throughout the year to really touch the lives of students so without further ado congratulations teachers of the year i want to now turn it over to our first principal who will be presenting from dalton elementary miss clark good evening my name is laura clark and i'm the principal of dalton school i am proud to present our teacher of the year denise poe denise has been in azusa unified for 23 years and a teacher at dalton for 19 years denise has many gifts in understanding curriculum and implementing instruction her students make leaps and bounds in their academic growth as a second grade teacher responsible for the development of critical foundational skills she prepares her students for the following year and well beyond but what sets her apart as an educator is the community that she creates with her students from the first day of school students feel welcome and build positive relationships with one another denise has very high expectations but she also provides a warm and caring environment where students can grow as learners as people there is a clear mutual respect and admiration between denise and her students and this has a direct impact on fostering positive relationships between the students learning and growing into kind and productive young people go hand in hand i wish you could spend some time in her room and watch it in action it's a wonderful sight to behold and the impact on students is for a lifetime it's with great pleasure that we honor denise poe for her continued dedication to the education and development of our dalton bobcats her hard work is so appreciated congratulations miss poe good evening my name is victoria velasquez principal of victor hodge elementary school it is an honor and a pleasure to present mrs is hodge teacher of the year although she is not visible tonight she is present watching from home surrounded by her dear family we celebrated her at school today mrs robles tirsa graduated from apu and earned her multiple subject credential there and in fact i can still remember we had spanish class together it's hard to imagine how time has flown in fact it's been 30 plus years since she joined azusa unified in 1988 and began her career as a first and second grade teacher at hodge elementary and she's been there ever since currently as a dual immersion teacher although she is soft-spoken humble and actually a bit shy tierce is also a tenacious advocate and a gregarious teacher her service-oriented leadership love for children and passion for bilingual educated education are evident to all when she was asked what the following question about how basically to improve public perception about public education and what teachers could do she shared the following implement practices that meet the needs of students in creative and engaging methods communicate with parents and work as a team to foster learning know our students and build their love for learning tirsa really is a person of integrity and her words are her actions miss robles classroom climate is one in which students are safe healthy and taught to develop skills to successfully problem solve she's dedicated to seeing students involved in healthy play opportunities for choice and active engagement she is a bridge builder who partners with families to support their students mrs luiza a parent of a first grader in her class said my son who had much resistance to learning in spanish spanish has bloomed into a child who is not only reading and writing in spanish but most importantly feels joy and seeks opportunities to speak the language he's eager to attend school and he feels supported beyond his academic needs with his teacher she is creative in finding ways to meet her students needs she has made her classroom a safe and joyous place where students go beyond meeting standards to engage in ways that they are feeling supported socially emotionally and seen as unique individuals from the projects i've received home the progress my child has made the way our children and other families speak so warmly of my assured roblism by the way she takes the time to make her students feel seen and celebrated i know that without a doubt she is beyond that of teacher of the year and we join you mrs luisa our entire hodge community faculty say congratulations to you mrs roadless good evening i'm diana rojas principal of charles h lee elementary school and it is with great pleasure that i present mrs luke alvarado as our teacher of the year mrs alvarado is an amazing teacher she is dedicated caring supportive inspiring and innovative she provides her students with the most fulfilling educational experience possible by researching and implementing new ideas and strategies that engage and motivate her students to learn mrs alvarado has worked for azusa unified school district for 27 years teaching all grade levels from tk to 4th grade here at lee she has been our tk our tk teacher for the last six years and excels at teaching our youngest learners and i'm in a multi-sensory lively fashion enthusiasm for teaching is so contagious that it always inspires her students to be excited about their learning and to do their best work mrs alvarado has a love technology and has incorporated incorporated successfully into her classroom in so many ways including robotics which has been a truly amazing experience for our tp students it has been fascinating to see her students work on coding to make their robots move along with being an excellent teacher mrs alvarado has served on our students study team schools like council pta board district math leadership team and robotics integrators test kitchen mrs alvarado is very giving of her time and there's nothing she wouldn't do for our school or our district we are truly blessed to have mrs alvarado on our staff as the foundation of our students learning and she is well deserving of this recognition as east teacher of the year good evening my name is jenny lee i'm the director for the early childhood education program for zizzi unified school district and i have the honor of presenting to you long fellow school teacher of the year mrs sylvia alapisco who is joining us virtually with her family i also have her here with me mrs dolla pisco is truly a wonderful product of azusa and she has dedicated her life to serving the children of this community she attended dalton school slauson azusa high school and apu after completing her studies at apu she returned to ausd and has taught in our district for 27 years her work has been centered around fostering our youngest scholar to embark on a joyful successful academic career currently mrs alepisco teaches a dual immersion transitional kindergarten class she is exceptional she uses her many talents which includes art dance and music in her teaching her classroom is a beautiful lively and exciting place ece's current unit of study now is insect and i had caught up with one of our students maddox maddox is actually longfellow's very own expert on so insect met him on the playground i asked him if he's enjoying this unit of study because i couldn't wait for him to experience it he insisted that i must go with him to see something very special in his classroom he was beyond excited to share the newly emerged butterfly that they had in their class he also gave me a tour of his classroom using the visual charts on the walls as references to share about the types of insects that we're studying as much as maddox loves learning about insect especially bees when asked matic shared that the best thing of everything that mississauga is teaching him it is how to speak spanish mrs alec opens door to her students through languages and academics and provides opportunities for them to discover abilities they did not know they had she inspires a student to be excited curious and ask questions her classroom is filled with children's work and activities that engage students mind she's patient caring thoughtful and most of all loved by her students this is shared by our own resource teacher mrs smith mrs soledad a parent shared that mrs alapisco makes learning fun and the fact that she's teaching the children in two languages is mind-blowing esther her daughter loves coming to school and that that is because of her teacher thank you and congratulations mrs alepisco on representing long fellow school's amazing teaching team can you hear me okay good evening everyone i am marcela fonsica the very proud principal of magnolia elementary school it is with great honor and excitement that i present to you our teacher of the year joanne christensen who is joined tonight with by her beautiful family and online her mom and dad and her twin sister gigi so we're gonna say hi to them miss christensen has been part of the azusa team for 22 years and has taught multiple grade levels at several sites three years ago she joined the magnolia team and brought with her the brightest smile the kindest words and an exuberant heart ready to give her best to our wild mustangs i actually think miss christensen put the i in wild she inspires others with her positive perspective and has cultivated a caring environment that students continue to journal about even after they've left her classroom each day she pours into her students her students love to learn and learn to love because she guides and supports them unconditionally miss christensen is an inspiration in word and deed miss christensen thank you for what you do for our community this is a well-deserved recognition and we are proud to have you represent magnolia as our teacher of the year congratulations go ahead miss flores good evening everyone my name is jeanette flores and i'm the proud principal of murray elementary and here with me i have miss rita smith tk teacher and her loving family patient caring creative and are all and fun are all words that describe our rita rita has been in azusa for 12 years and works with our tk students here at murray in her fun and kind way she teaches them how to stand in line take turns and share more importantly she also teaches them their abcs and their 123s and for those who are ready she even teaches them how to read it is rumored that she casts a spell on all of her students using pixie dust that allows her to teach them how to become well-mannered students that follow directions and follow her every command at times her colleagues lovingly refer to rita as the kid whisperer rita students absolutely love her and are mesmerized by the many ways in she in which she engages them in learning from singing songs and exploration to expressive read-alouds every day is an exciting day in miss smith's class and it is for those reasons and many more that the murray staff and i are honored to have rita smith represent us as teacher of the year congratulations good evening everyone my name is antonio flores principal of paramount elementary and it gives me a great pleasure to introduce to you paramount elementary teacher of the year mr david hartman and david is joined tonight by his wife lisa david joined our staff two years ago and from day one his enthusiasm for educating students has been evident david brings an energy of positivity both inside and outside the classroom and he is always willing to lend a helping hand to someone in need david's message of family constantly being instilled to his students allows them to feel respected cared for motivated excited challenged and willing to participate in lessons and discussions they recognize that david is committed to their growth because he has high expectations for their academic and social development david is also actively involved in our after-school stem academy he along with other teachers have been growing our program from one from one after school group to now three david also led our sixth grade students in the fuel your school uh school challenge resulting in a touchdown grand prize needless to say david continuously demonstrates his dedication toward helping students grow learn and contribute to their to their community and for these and many more reasons david hartman is paramount elementary's 2022 teacher of the year good evening my name is jenny weavey principal at powell and it is my privilege tonight to honor melanie robbins as powell's teacher of the year melanie am i on there yes you are okay sorry melanie is celebrating at home tonight with her husband adam and her daughter jolie her daughter mckenna is watching from college and i'm sure her sister tracy who is also an ausd teacher is celebrating with us as well melanie even grew up here in azusa her mom linda koscielski was an aide at paramount her dad jim is currently undergoing treatment at city of hope so mom and dad are cheering her on from there melanie started teaching kindergarten at powell in 1998.

i really see a clear path for that with the next year but also the next couple of years as we implement instructional framework and we do that but it's going to be a process but we have a plan that's great sorry that brought up one more question for me because i remember back when we adopted springboard for uh seven i think seven eight nine um and some of the teachers complained about how scripted it was and i did not look at the teacher's edition i just looked at the student edition would you say this is a scripted curriculum or is this one where they have i would not say that it's a scripted i would agree um and actually the way that the pilot teachers have been trained advised and how jenna proceeds to continue to move forward is that um we want teachers to have the autonomy and we are showing them ways in which and how to do it but it is um it is not a scripted yeah thank you all right no i just i just remembered that as mrs wood was talking and i just want to make sure that we we give our profession you know give them the training so they know what they're doing but i i would also say they're using the materials so that shows success if they're putting that aside and doing something else then that shows that uh maybe it's not working as well for them but hopefully that you know this i mean i i was quite impressed with the materials and the way that students would be engaged in thinking about things and really really thinking about it and coming to their own conclusions i didn't i didn't see any questions in there that that led student thinking in any way but gave them lots of options to think about um issues that we're dealing with now and that they will deal with um in the future and i just thought that was very um and the way it goes from you know whole group to small groups and then individual work i liked that as well so that was really good thanks and just want to say how much we do appreciate our teachers who piloted us and what they do every day and especially as it is teacher appreciation week we truly do appreciate all of our teachers and these ela teachers are definitely definitely appreciate all of them so did amazing work yeah and hopefully hopefully this is helpful you know that's what we want going forward that this provides all the things that we're hoping for resources that help so thank you very much thank you there's nothing else thank you yeah thank you next we have the seven through twelve mandarin adoption hi sue so i have madame fry souffry with me and she is our secondary mandarin coordinator and through the presentation a lot of the process is similar so since we just went through that i'm maybe going to go a little quicker but please feel free if i skip over anything that you want me to elaborate on i gladly will so the timeline is identical the nice part about starting both at the same time is that we were able to just have them all on the same timeline and we just to bring everybody back to the recommended curriculum for mandarin that we have been going through the pilot and public review is zhenbong and the criteria is a little bit different as it is a world language so i just want to review the criteria a little bit similar there was the focus on the alignment to the arizona world language academic standards which include the three modes of communication the college and career readiness literacy standards and the cultural competence components and then the proficiency-based assessments which has been a huge shift in our world languages over the last couple of years differentiation of instruction scaffolding of learning within and between levels and then again the instructor and student supports within the digital resources and appropriate practice opportunities that provide variety so this is where there are a couple of differences with the pilot since we're looking at just one language this was our first year offering mandarin and it was piloted at the school gilbert high school where we do offer mandarin and that teacher also does teach at greenfield junior so she was using the resources there as well to practice with the greenfield junior high school or junior high school students as well and the teacher went through very similar she received training from the vendor madame sue frye provided support every single week to the teacher she was able to get a copy of the materials to have those throughout the pilot and so very similar to what that pilot preparation was for the ela and then the public review very similar took place from february 18 through april 18th at the different locations that public review went for 60 days as well and we want to go ahead and just dive into the public review feedback that we received from mandarin so the first is looking at the curriculum for being interesting clear and appropriate for the students at this grade level and there was an 86 percent turnout from our public comment that agreed or strongly agreed and then moving on to the texts and tax tasks that are provided to students having multiple opportunities came to 97 of our public response the curriculum being engaging and providing students with college and career readiness was at 86 percent in agreeance and then finally the overall fit within gilbert public schools our community agreed and strongly agreed at 86 percent so with our mandarin the pilot feedback since we had one teacher we can share that she was in favor and very complementary of the curriculum but we felt like that might be skewed data with just putting together some data points from her but a lot of positive feedback from our community and the teacher and students and we put a handful of the comments there but just ultimately that they really loved it they were excited to even move forward with having the opportunity to take mandarin in the district uh that it was very informative um and you can kind of look through those comments there and then similar to ela we would like to pending your approval tonight look at rolling out a training plan pacing guides and the stakeholder communication uh similar to what i shared the plan would be equally the same for miss sue fry and even though this was a smaller pilot in public review we are continuously thankful to the board for their support through this adoption process as well and are extremely thankful to the committee committee members uh the teacher um being the sole teacher can be a daunting task but she did a fabulous job and our recommendation to the board is to formally adopt and purchase the zhenbong curriculum for our mandarin course and students for the next fiscal year so with that are there any questions from the border dr mccord on the mandarin curriculum proposal i have a i have a couple questions how many students i mean i know this is the first year how many students do we have taking mandarin about 80.

she taught kinder for five years before becoming powell's resource teacher so for 23 years mrs robbins has served the students and families at powell i decided to look up the definition of resource and the first one i said i read said staff and other assets that can be drawn on by a person or organization in order to function effectively and i thought wow that is the perfect description me and our school truly depend on melanie in order to function effectively almost every day i start a sentence with mel can you help me with blank or mel could you run that report or mel do you think you could cover this classroom and i'm not exaggerating when i say that i never even finish the question before she answers sure or of course her colleagues express the same sentiments if you need curriculum she'll get it to you if you don't know how to log the kids on for an exam she'll be right there to help you if you teach a combo she'll take half your kids and teach them math she does whatever is needed to make us run effectively and her loving heart always shines through she comes in early every day to answer the phones and greet families in the office just because she enjoys it i overhear her interactions with students and parents and they feel cared for after they've spoken with her she's also a crier she shares in the joys and pains of those in our powell family and i love that about her because it shows her tender heart we need more tender hearts like her in this world so to all of her family watching tonight be proud your wife mother sister daughter is receiving a well-deserved honor and as we wind down and come to the final year of powell next year it seems fitting that our recipient has served powell faithfully for so long so wherever you are whether it's in the boardroom or your school office or at home or at city of hope please join me in honoring melanie robbins powell's 2021 2022 teacher of the year mr trejo you may go good evening i am orazio trejo proud principal of valley dell and excited to highlight valleyville's teacher of the year miss jessica rios whose family is joining us online core to mrs real's approach to teaching is acknowledging that it takes a village to raise a child it is with this in mind that she creates a partnership with parents that lasts years after a student leaves her classroom year after year she makes sure that parents not only know their child or how their child is doing academically but also helps give our parents the tools necessary to help make their child a stronger student in addition to her strong commitment to our families she goes above and beyond to create a school community that is supportive of all students not just her classroom and lastly she holds her students to the same level of expectations that she holds for herself in other words she expects the best fortunately for her students she also makes sure they have the support to reach those lofty expectations we are blessed to have her and i'm honored that i get to highlight our most excellent miss rios doctor controls you may go let me fit let me fix this back right now and i have a minute to change my back if you don't mind there we go oh wow our camera just changed really right let me fix that angle look good okay good evening everybody principal dr contreras here coming live from center school to introduce mr irwin tafoya and is joined by his family in the background i'm i'm pleased to introduce center middle school teacher of the year the amazing trailblazing and commemorating mr irwin tafoya erwin is azusa from head to toe from cougars to g-stone azuza is always home off to cal poly for his education majoring in history in civilization not content with being a history blaster he went on to the next level and earned his masters at six foot three and lessons for subject-based learning to the room's garnet student and staff admiration at cms he's known for his dedication mr tafoya teaches with flair lessons are thought-provoking and he shows that he cares never a dull moment in room 23 active students and collaboration aplenty teacher coach life family and more mr tafoya helps all to soar there is no better rep or center than he mr tafoya is our mvp mvp mvp mvp mvp congratulations mr boyd go ahead and fear hi i'm miss fieri and i couldn't be prouder to be here with mr rico and his wife carrie and of course mr demerit to celebrate foothills teacher of the year does mr rico love to read and think you should too no doubt because if you go into his classroom you're going to see read all over the place mr rico knows history and mr rico knows language arts he takes those two he mixes them together and poof he makes the study of reading responding and writing come alive now i've had the opportunity to be in his classroom when he taught narrative writing to his students appeared over their shoulders as they wrote their stories i'm telling you it was inspiring every intro i didn't want to leave i wanted to read more okay that's rico magic right here okay on campus mr rico is known as a favorite here's what they say about him he's cool he's caring he's fair he is kind and he helps me anytime i need it he makes even the most boring things fun he always listens to me and this most important when i talk in his class he makes me feel important and for these reasons and so many more we want to thank you mr rico for giving that special rico magic and making her students feel special thank you so much very good that was awesome yeah uh dr gomez good evening azuza hi my name is martin gomez i am the proud principal of azusa high school it is with great pleasure that we recognize miss andrea vogel as isuzu high school's teacher of the year for 2022.

that's pretty darn good considering that's probably a pretty tough language it's a second language so um i did i did go look at this curriculum i did not spend as much time with it because i don't speak chinese so the books looked very um they were well laid out and you know graphically pleasing and i could see that they were teaching cultural things as well as language and the other things that students need to know so i i was pretty impressed with the curriculum but i was much more limited in my ability to really go in depth with this curriculum because i don't speak chinese so well thank you for reviewing still anything else board members uh our instructor the educator involved here is uh the sole teacher at this point for the for this language uh just interested is is the instructor a native speaker of mandarin yes because i think that's important in terms of the weight it carries relative to how she saw the materials that she was reviewing and utilizing absolutely and she was very positive about that and we did just to go back to the committee work we did bring in a parent who is uh it is her native language um and that really helped us to review the i think there were seven different vendors that had brought in materials that we would have felt equally like mrs humphries had we tried to tackle that on our own so we did have a few native speakers that were able to review from start until this point very good as well as being seasoned educators both the parent and the the high school teacher are are not first-year teachers they're both experienced so yeah thank you mrs fry because i think that's an important factor those two dynamics uh people who are familiar with conversant in and native too should hold a great deal of credibility with that material thanks mr parker that's great thank you i really enjoyed the presentation i think it's a great idea are we looking at potentially having to hire or have any opportunity are additional instructors probably not this coming year she should be able to still do level two but then moving forward into a level three as the program continues to grow we certainly would hope to need need more instructors on both campuses that might be challenging to find qualified teachers but we'll look forward to it okay thank you that's the exciting part you know i wanted to ask miss you jetty did you have anything you wanted to say or ask or questions to ask yes yeah i do yeah i i just wanted to know i know we have it at um gilbert and greenfield jr correct correct um and i may have missed this at some point but are we planning on expanding it to other schools in the future at this point the the course is in the course description book as an offering within gilbert public schools if the growth continued and there were another campus that had enough students and we were able to support that with a certified teacher we would definitely consider moving in that direction and would support the campuses to make that an option i i think it's wonderful and i think our biggest challenge is going to be trying to find certified teachers well i do say there are probably a lot of speakers go ahead misty jetty thank you no thank you thank you all right with that then we appreciate it thank you for your presentations and for all the work you and the committees and others have done then thank we thank the public for their support and reviews as well and and being part of this process likewise we thank the board for your support as well please have a good night thanks okay thank you that was 2.01 secondary ela and mandarin curriculum adoptions and we will now move to 2.02 summer project presentation dr mccord thank you madam president governing board members as always we like to tell you what's coming up for our summer construction projects and so tonight we will have our assistant superintendent of business services bonnie betts and our director of operations uh what's your name again man just kidding albert is here he's been busy for a while sorry for a long time and um but we're always excited to be able to show you what we're we're doing putting our bond dollars and our capital budget to work and making sure that our campuses are as up-to-date as possible in a lot of different areas so here you go um good evening governing board members um president mrs wood dr mccord so albert dutch over and i are here to give you a heads up on our summer projects as dr mccord shared uh was it's a little bit more challenging this year as our summer is a little bit shorter so we'll share some of the strategies that albert has employed to help that along a little bit better so just wanted to start with the bond funds financials so that you're all aware that we have enough money to actually complete the projects in the current year also wanted to talk about the status of some purchases that have already been made but haven't yet been received as well as others that are actually in process associated with transportation technology and security and then finally we'll go through the details of the operations projects that are on the docket to be completed this summer and then finally we have a list of pending projects that we we may be presenting to you in the next month for additional work that would need to be completed probably through the end of the fall in the new fiscal year so bond fund financials so um i've highlighted the encumbrance column on this uh grid to show that we we have encumbrance and technology of 4.7 million dollars in transportation of 1.7 and in facility renewal only 500 000 because we have been moving through the facility renewal dollars in this 2015 authority pretty fast also as we go through and present the monthly financials um there's about 2.2 or 2.3 million dollars in that technology encumbrance that will be reclassed to go into the fund 630 those were associated with the av the classroom a b so you will see a slight change in the future the biggest conversation they have about this slide is in transportation so that 1.7 million dollars has been encumbered since october so transportation supplies associated with buses as well as the activity buses that we ordered quite some time ago has really negatively impacted our delivery expectations for new buses as well as the activity buses so then moving into the 2019 authority you can see that the security line item there that there's a 10 million dollar commitment made on security cameras during the election and to date nearly nine million dollars has been expended or encumbered now the project is not that far along we are we've completed the three prototypical schools the security operations center has has been completed and by the end of the summer uh mr kane has shared with me that all of the high schools will be will have their cameras fully deployed and then we'll move into the junior highs and finish up the remaining elementary schools note the facilities renewal that there's 14 million dollars of encumbrance there so most of the the photos and the details that that albert will be sharing with you uh will be all those projects that you have already approved and purchase orders have already been created before i move any further any to go any further are there any questions about any of the financials on the transportation on the the buses and things that we've ordered the activity buses is that a supply chain issue that we're not getting them as quickly as we would like i'm right there there and they're not even giving us a delivery date and it's been almost a year since we've ordered them okay all right thank you i i just had a question on the previous slide you said something about 2 million in technology would be reassigned or i'm sorry i should have asked when you said that right so when the purchase order was created we're doing multiple funds and technology is still doing work with both 2015 and 2019 and so just using a fund 631 when it really should have been 6 30.

ms vogel has been teaching spanish and supporting her colleagues for the past 24 school years all while continuously collaborating with her colleagues and sharing ideas and best teaching strategies ms vogel has a presence which speaks of respect character and integrity she is always willing and committed to go above and beyond what is expected instructionally she has a great management skills and is able to teach successful lessons with different technology strategies and to strengthen the students literacy and curiosity don't just take it from me here are some comments from her students in her classes ms vogel is a great teacher she is always patient with the class explains the material perfectly allows us to work together to open our minds to new ideas and most importantly makes the classroom a safe space to participate another student wrote i picked ms vogel to be the teacher of the year because she is probably the kindest teacher i have ever met in my life i am not exaggerating ms vogel credits her family for her excellent teaching and work ethic she followed in her in the footsteps of her father mark cooley who was a spanish teacher and later the bilingual director here in azusa unified her mother diana cooley was also a teacher of health and science in addition to her parents she would like to thank her husband scott vogel her daughter alicia nygaard and son-in-law marius nygard congratulations miss andrea vogel you are a fantastic person a fantastic teacher and a fantastic colleague once an aztec always an aztec congrats ms bogo mr predomo good evening all my name is sam pardomo and i'm the proud principal at gladstone high school and gladstone high school is proud to present susanna martinez is this year's teacher of the year susannah is joined tonight she's probably joining us virtually i don't see her on the screen but by her husband angel daughter sophia who attends gladstone and victoria i've had the honor and privilege of working with susanna for the past 10 years and during that time i have been fortunate to observe susannah where she has conducted meaningful engaging lessons but like my prior colleague said don't just take my word for it here are some things that she's done so well and the students have said i've learned more in spanish class than any other class she makes the classroom environment feel like an open space where everyone feels really close miss martinez is reliable and she treats every student kindly and with respect miss martinez is the right amount of strength miss martinez makes everyone feel welcome and she is very understanding miss martinez has made a high a huge impact in my school years she is someone i look up to miss martinez is a great teacher i love her teaching methods she always tries to make the class work more classwork more fun and really funny and loves talking to her students and getting to know them but to stay within my minute i can go on and on but i have to go so please join the staff in recognizing susanna martinez as the teacher of the year yay go glad thank you mr podemo we're gonna uh ask miss walker to go ahead good evening i do apologize good evening i am the proud principal yvette walker of slauson middle school and it is my pleasure to announce mr nolan sinclair as this year's teacher of the year over the past eight years i've had the opportunity to work with nolan on many occasions he has been an asset to our slauson community he is his dedication as a pe teacher and willingness to coach all after school after school sports shows his commitment and dedication to our students the after-school sports has made a positive impact on our students here at slauson and if it wasn't for nolan's time and commitment our sports program would certainly have fallen short nolan is a natural coach and a teacher and it shows in his interactions with parents administrators teachers and most of all with students he is involved with the students and encourages them to participate and to grow in all areas there is a natural banter that occurs which allows students to feel comfortable in all of his classrooms he provides a safe space for students to interact with one another while learning nolan is kind he is empathetic he is funny he is thoughtful and most of all he is nolan sinclair our teacher of the year it is my honor to have nolan sinclair represent slauson as this year's teacher of the year congratulations nolan good evening it is with great pleasure that i get to introduce sierra high school's teacher of the year mr gary lambreit mr lambright began teaching at sierra 26 years ago he has taught just about everything including ap government where he has successfully led his students into passing the ap exam with scores of fours and fives as our leadership teacher he ah he's always planning lunchtime activities for the students or coaching our co-ed sports teams mr lambright is a true motivator to all he always has an encouraging work for students and staff members he's very passionate about building positive relationships with students and the community at sierra gary was nominated for this honor overwhelmingly by our staff and students he is one of the best classroom teachers i've had the opportunity to watch in action his students are always actively engaged when you walk into his class students are working in collaborative groups presenting or having a deep discussion on a topic students truly enjoy being in his class as one student put it i have learned so much from mr lambright this year congratulations gary for being sierra high school's teacher of the year thank you good evening it is with great pleasure that i present miss veronica fierro as a zeus adult educations teacher of the year fiero is supported tonight by her husband david her oldest son david iii her son michael and her daughter priscilla miss fierro is a strong advocate for her el students both in and out of the classroom and demonstrates a strong worth work ethic that students appreciate and emulate when they are in her class ms fiero plans her lessons so that all students regularly practice newly learned skills and receive immediate and important feedback within her esl class ms fierro creates an environment that promotes risk taking for example during the holidays ms fierro's class can be heard singing classic christmas carols and then to solidify the lesson will take her students carely through sierra high school and adult education campus recently ms fierro has been part of a team that is designing a pathway for eso esl students to earn not only their citizenship but their high set certificate her results this very first year 13 of her advanced esl students have earned their high set and will be participating in our june's ceremony not bad for year one miss fiero congratulations it is with great pleasure that i present miss veronica fiera our azusa adult school adult education teacher of the year go ahead ms benitez good evening trustee superintendent ortega and cabinet members my name is betty benitez i'm the coordinator for the special education resource center on behalf of the circ department i present to you ms julie villa julia is one of our itinerant teachers for students with visual impairments julie has been a member of the azusa family for over 21 years she currently provides itinerant services to students within the charter oak covina and west covina unified school districts san jose edison charter school as well as our student infant population ages zero to three julia is actively involved within the azusa district where she sits on the leadership committee the social committee the safety committee and the parent advisory committees for valley dale elementary school she's also actively involved in the community including the baldwin park safety committee district advisory committee and fundraising committees julie is an active member of her church our lady of guadalupe where she organizes graduation masses she has taught religious education for over 10 years and organizes parent educational workshops julie is highly vested in her district and her community because she fully believes she believes the key to supporting students and families is getting to know and understand where they come from and how they live julie is held in high regard by staff and families as well as all surrounding districts she serves she builds trusting bonds with students and offers families supports to navigate not only educational but also outside support services in order to ensure success for all students with visual impairments judy is described as the epitome of a professional charitable and generous sensitive and one of the strongest advocates for students for this and all that she does to promote success through independence and functionality for all students with visual impairments we honor julie villa as the search teacher of the year for the 21-22 school year thank you it is my pleasure to present and recognize kimberly daum as the teacher of the year representing our teachers on special assignment kimberly began her career in azusa in 2004 teaching english at foothill middle school and then moving on to teach english and eld at azusa high in her role as our english language art tosa kimberly has been instrumental in the development and implementation of our district student success drivers she has partnered with teachers supporting them through the plc process and guided teams in plan do study act models this year she developed an asynchronous course called improving reading for students in order to support our secondary teachers in strategy work and literacy development for our adolescent students to get to the heart of who kimberly dahm is i will share these words from her colleague him does not work or serve for awards or accolades but simply to inspire and impact all of those that she comes in contact with each and every day whether she meets with teachers one-on-one leads a small group in professional learning or is an integral part of a district-wide initiative every person that works with kim becomes a better teacher which impacts student learning kim is trusted and respected by all her peers due to her natural ability in building long lasting relationships this is evidenced by her excellent listening skills her ability to stay present in a conversation where she makes it a point to value others perspectives and always offers constructive feedback it is truly my honor and privilege to recognize kimberly dahm as artosa teacher of the year thank you asusa leaders and one more congratulations to all of our teachers of the year let's give them another big round of applause and now i have the distinct honor of announcing our 2021 district teacher of the year she is a true superstar and we are very very proud and excited to announce that kathleen zahagian from ellington is our 2021-2022 district teacher of the year congratulations and now i'd like uh to have mr acosta come up here and say a few words good evening everyone before i begin i would like to first take this opportunity to first congratulate all the amazing teachers of the year who are being recognized tonight and i would also like to thank and congratulate my administrator colleagues for a job well done in sharing the accomplishments of their amazing educators to stand in the company of such excellence is truly our honor board president greer honorable school board superintendent ortega distinguished cabinet to those present here today and to those watching from home good evening my name is adrian acosta and i am the very proud principal of ellie10k8 school [Music] in armenia and throughout the world the armenian people refer to today as [Music] the translation appreciation for the yearly teacher award ladies and gentlemen on behalf of our school staff students and parents it is with great honor that i present to you ellington's teacher of the year in the 2021-2022 azusa unified school year district of the year this is kathleen horison joining us in tonight's celebration is kathleen's husband stephen along with mother louise and friends and former ausd colley maya angelou once said quote do the best you can until you know better and then when you know better do better for the past 35 years at alice m at ellington elementary school mrs hagin has done just that kathleen or kathy as we all refer to her as has worked hard to not only make her classroom the best learning environment for her students but also to make ellington k8 the best school for all of our eagles from tk through 8th grade each morning at 8 15 you will find kathy out on the quad with her students and tk colleagues for a morning flag salute followed by morning song in fact this morning i had my daily workout dancing la razpa with kathy and as i stand here i can honestly say that my legs are still a bit sore if you were to walk inside cassie kathy's classroom you would see evidence of her passion and advocacy for reading on a daily basis you would see that her classroom library is quite extensive with appropriate level high interest books that her students can have access to and who are often seen on a cushion at a desk on the rug or with their teacher reading with enthusiasm and eagerness kathy is known school-wide for engaging learners through purposeful instruction and motivating activities from counting collections to interacting virtually with students from other areas and the parents of our students are always well informed about what is taking place in the classroom because kathy works hard to promote two-way communication with parents mr rogers once said quote find the helpers if you were mister if mr rogers had the opportunity to meet cathy today you would definitely be proud for doing just that you see kathy is very selfless amazing and resourced and a resourceful professional who goes above and beyond for all of the students at ellington kate eight doing things that leave us in awe for example she has established numerous partnerships with various authors who on many occasions have participated in google virtual meetings with kathy's students to talk about books kathy is also an avid grant writer and donor's choose participant if it's something related to reading and for kids kathy takes her own time to apply for it she has also received grants from foothill credit union california casualty and adopt the classroom the materials she received enhanced her academic program and support student learning all in all kathy has raised approximately over 25 000 and she has now even become a donor's choose ambassador helping promote the program to teachers at ellington as well as teachers within any ausd school she has provided partnerships with the imagination machine for example a company of talented individuals who bring the story submitted by our ellington eagles to life on stage each year furthermore kathy is also responsible for our neighborhood shared exchange boxes which looked like mail boxes and the ellington located in front of the school where students and members of the ellington community can help themselves to good books for free and that's not enough if that's not enough check this out because of mrs sahagan's partnership with scholastic book fairs and her advocacy to keep students reading during the covet pandemic scholastic offered her an opportunity to depart to be part of the united states of readers a program that has provided all of our 371 students from tk through 8th with two new free books each month for five months so let's stop for a second and do a little bit of math two free books times five months that equals to 10 free book right times that by 371 students that's right 3710 brand new free books for every student at ellington from tk through 8th grade and there's more i have just been informed late last week that scholastic has given her the green light to repeat this again next year now at this point i really could continue to share with all of you many more wonderful marvelous examples about kathy's strong work ethic her positive and caring attitude her kind and friendly rapport with everyone on the ellington campus and her integrity as an employee and as a teacher but i would much rather say thank you kathy for your dedication and for being a positive role model to the ellington community and thank you for being a teacher that cares and serves as a champion for our student kathy it is your commitment and your thoughtful personality that makes positive difference to staff members our parents and especially to students at ellington k-8 ladies and gentlemen please join me one more time in applauding mrs kathleen horisonian sahagin ellington k-8's teacher of the year and the 2021-2022 azusa unified school district teacher of the year i could have a mr ryan uh serrano from uh from supervisor salisa's office come up please good evening everyone again i want to say on behalf of supervisor hilda solis what an honor and a privilege it is to provide this commendation to kathleen sahagian we learn something new every day with sincere congratulations and best wishes the board of supervisors of the county of los angeles does hereby join in your celebration congratulations [Applause] i also would like now to welcome our friend melissa acanthar from foothill credit union to present mr hagin with an award good evening um my name is melissa on behalf of foothill credit union i'm happy to award a hundred dollar check um to azusa's teacher of the year kathleen sahagyan in recognition of your enduring devotion to the school district and its students congratulations thank you next i would like to welcome shauna curligan from school's first credit union to present miss tahagian with an award as well but before i ask shawna to present i want to formally thank our friends from schools first credit union for sharing tickets to this friday's angel baseball game versus the washington nationals we gave the tickets to misahagian as well as our classified employee of the year celia castro and from gladstone high school and our parent of the year anna valencia also from arlington thank you schools first for helping us recognize this year's all-stars so on hello is it awesome [Laughter] so on behalf of school's first federal credit union it is our honor and our pleasure to congratulate you of the year and of course shout out to all the site teachers of the year congratulations i know it takes a lot of time energy love i have a best friend who's a teacher and i know all the hours that she puts in and she didn't even make it through the year so i know and just hearing everything that was spoken about you like i thought there were only 24 hours a day i don't know how you do everything but you do on behalf of those first likes now mrs hagie and you are welcome to say a couple words board member board member superintendent ortega ladies and gentlemen i want to start by acknowledging all the amazing teachers of the year and from every school in azusa it is a great honor to be in your company i have been teaching in azusa for the past 35 years and i've always enjoyed meeting and working with teachers across the district we all know that the past two years have been challenging and teachers in azusa rose to the occasion i cannot tell you how many times teachers all across the country and in azusa uttered these famous words you are on mute please turn on your microphone um i began my career as a student teacher at murray school where i was fortunate to work with an amazing staff after interviewing in azusa where i had to teach a lesson to principals who acted like students i was hired to teach at ellington yes that really happened and they only did it for one year and then they kind of changed their mind about i was so lucky to be hired by by and learned from principal sharon lindsay as well as learn from the many amazing teachers at my school this includes suzanne pickbring who took me under her wing when i was a new teacher and taught me the important importance of always being a learner additionally i'm grateful to dr dalia recenius who taught me how to use a green screen and other technology presently i work with adrian acosta and dr anna clock both former teachers of the year i appreciate their encouragement and support there are no words to express how grateful i am i love being a teacher it is truly my passion i also love learning and working with others i'm grateful for all the teachers and principals who took me under their wing to guide and support me when i was a new teacher throughout my years in education i have said the day i stopped learning is the day i stopped being a teacher i would be remiss if i did not thank my mom and dad for all their love support and guidance both have continuously supported me in everything i wanted to do and i'm so grateful my dad passed away two months ago but i'm thankful that my mom is here with me tonight i additionally want to thank my husband who has helped me at school countless times he has scooped ice cream for reaper floats made cds for students had who had their writing performed by the imagination machine and even spent several days on the weekend putting in our two sharing libraries in front of our school lastly i'd like to end with a quote from mr rogers who i have always admired he said as human beings our job in life is to help people realize how rare and valuable each one of us really is that each of us has something that no one else has or ever will have something inside us that is unique to all time it is our job to encourage other others to discover that uniqueness and to provide ways of developing its expression from the bottom my heart thank you so much i feel truly honored and so blessed to be part of the uc unified school district thank you [Applause] and just one more thing i mean couldn't say it any better than everyone else who said everything and even as as well as you said it but we just want to say how grateful we are to have you here in the family and and we also want to present in addition to everything else you have here and the placa certificate here that's proudly presented to you for your contributions and dedication to the students of azusa and i i think that there will be a number of us here at a moment who will want to take some photos with you as the celebrity that you are tonight you laughs thank you all this concludes the recognition for teacher of the year and miss miss hagin will be available for autographs after adrian and so let me let me look to uh my colleagues if you'd like say anything yes i'd like to uh congratulate all the nominees for the 20 21 22 nominees teachers of the year and for all the work and the dedication they have give to the zenith white school district i also want to congratulate um kathy the han hanigan from district teacher of the year from ellington k28 we could not have do it without you but i think her mom was having the best time watching all the videos i was watching you you're having a good time that was really right on congratulations teachers um all of you recognize here tonight online in person with your families um you are the reason that kids come to school plain and simple it's not about anything else you as classroom teachers are the reasons kids come to school and for that reason we entrust you with our most precious resource our children so on behalf of everyone here thank you so much and i'll just be very brief i just want to echo my colleagues i appreciate the teachers um i was happy to see one of my son's teachers is the hottest teacher of the year so that was nice to see um but when i think of when i think of all the years that have spurred we're talking about centuries that we honor tonight right so thank you all of you but especially you kathy because i know that you dedicate you really dedicate your life to our community so really yeah and and likewise uh as i as i look at this list of names that represent just some of the most incredible educators that we have here in our community here here in our district i see names of friends that i went to school with i see names of teachers who i had who educated me i see names of parents who i also see out on the softball and baseball fields um i i see see friends and and just members of this community who who just pour and give so much of themselves and so yeah on behalf of of all of us at the district we want to say thank you for for your dedication for for the the ways in which you go above and beyond uh for the thank you for the things that you don't get thank you for um and know that that that we just value and appreciate you and again mr hagin hagian kudos and congratulations to you well this moves us to the next portion of our meeting which is 7.0 and specifically 7.1 public comment on agenda or non-agenda items this is an opportunity for the public to address the board of education on agenda or non-agenda items individual speakers may be allowed up to three minutes to address the board of education on any agenda or non-agenda items when the public wishes to address the board on an agenda item they may fill out a blue card stand at the podium or raise their hand while in zoom attendance the board will take blue card requests first followed in order by speakers at the podium and then those in zoom attendance i do once again just want to remind everyone that about the three minute limit and ask that you please keep an eye on the three on the three-minute limit uh if you surpass the three-minute limit then i will interrupt you and and stop you and i don't want to do that so i apologize in advance if i do um but would just ask that you keep an eye on the clock um so that um you're able to stay within that time limit with that said we will move to our first speaker which is ken oliver honourable members of the board and administration my name is penny alvin i'm a fourteenth great grandson of mock zuma ii emperor of the aztec nation i am here to explain how in 1531 direct descendants of his excellency were among the first settlers of an expansive area of mexico named by the spanish crown as nueva galicia this area encompasses many states in mexico including the present-day aguas calientes and jalisco please turn to the top uh to the first page title or second page this page which i printed from wikipedia and i highlighted some sentences for you you will note that uh don lope ruiz de esparza you may notice that anna's name is also at the bottom of the first sheet in your packet indicating that i have the honor of being ana's 10th great grandson back on the lopez ruiz de espresso page you may notice some of the other surnames highlighted such as romo macias piscarino escoto montes de oca lostano uyoa castillo and aguilera the reason for that is because those are some of the surnames of people from azusa you went to school with people you know and people you perhaps are related to if you look at the third set of papers you'll see that there were only 117 families that were granted land rights by the spanish government to populate this huge territory of land please take a quick glance at the name if you attended azusa schools you would most definitely recognize several of those surnames the reason for this is for the past 500 years those 117 families intermarried to the extent that cousins were marrying cousin and during the 1800s at least one family from that group traveled up and settled in azusa once there were quickly spread throughout the nueva galicia region that azusa was a favorable favorable place to migrate to and there were relatives already there for support so began the nueva galicia diaspora of aztec blood to azusa so all this is to say that right now you have hundreds if not perhaps thousands of aztec indian nations uh people living in azusa and those aztecs have been living here for generations and attended both azusa high school and glaston high school these inheritors should be the ones to determine how their family's history their image their name their likeness are depicted i respectfully request that you consider seeking out a focus group from azusa's with aztec blood to determine how the high school mascot should be depicted please select if i may an equal number of azusa high and gladstone high school graduates and allow them they who have an ancestral right an inheritance right a familial right and an azusa community member right to determine how their aztec family history should be depicted thank you mr alba next we have gloria sanchez romero good evening superintendent ortega and board members my name is gloria sanchez romero and today i was looking at the meetings from the last meeting and to me it seemed like um this is miss arianos was very adamant in changing the um mascot to an animal which i don't think very cool about that i think that um since we're going to keep our colors our aztec name our zoo that maybe we should just keep the a as representing our school as we have up now and today earlier this morning i went to the student school at azusa high to buy some merchandise there after spending like almost 300 there um i was talking to the lady that was working there mrs barmus and she was telling me because i was looking at all the murals there and she was telling me that all of them had taken down which is a shame because they're beautiful mural and a lot of them have been given to the school as a gift from the graduating class the path and um i was really sad about that but i really think that um if you would um consider not having a mascot and just going with the a which would be okay with me but i'm not the only one that's going to be voting but um i think that would be more appropriate than having an animal we don't think our school should be represented by some kind of animal and um all i have to say thank you mr murrow and next we have melissa fajardo can you hear me good evening board members i hope you are all doing well i am a parent at lee and i'm here once again to continue to advocate for my children and all of our lee students i would like to share with you all why i continue to be here i have lived in azusa for eight years now this is the place that we decided to raise our children i have four children attending ausd eight years ago i became a full-time mom to my two oldest and amazing boys that at the time were kindergartner and a second grader because this change was was made so quickly for me i was unfortunately not as involved as i am now in their schools attending these meetings and back then not knowing too much about how schools work azusa was a new city for us with no family or friends nearby conveniently i put them in an elementary school here in azusa that at the time was closest to our home which was a good school with some great teachers but they did not offer any programs although my children have thrived academically throughout the years i can now see the importance of having programs at our school my oldest son is now a freshman at azusa high school although he is on track with his grades he is having some difficulties finding something he's interested in he's joined sports sports which is great but he is constantly wanting to change his electives because he struggles to find something that he truly enjoys i strongly feel that if he would have had more opportunities during his elementary and middle school years he would have had better guidance or a better idea and knowing what he is interested in my other son who is now in middle school enjoys his school but has asked several times to to have him move somewhere else because other schools have programs that he wants to be a part of we shouldn't have to change our children's schools because their schools are not offering any programs all of our schools should have programs as a parent i have regret not being as involved and speaking up for my children then but now that i am more aware i want to do better my two youngest are still in elementary and i want to give them all the opportunities possible they already attend an amazing school at lee with amazing teachers and staff we have amazing parents and a great foundation all we need is your support in bringing these programs to our school our teachers ali worked twice as hard because they understand that with no programs they have to put in more work to keep our children enriched and keep them excited about coming back for every day which is why i am here because coming to these meetings to voice my concerns means that i miss time away from my family i am hoping that you are all truly keeping these points in mind for future plans and lastly congratulations to all of our susa hardworking teachers especially for our lead teacher of the year miss alvarado thank you all for your time thank you ms bijardo this moves us to 8.1 comments reports and requests by the board of education board member rodriguez uh good evening uh good evening everyone um i wanted to um say happy teachers appreciation week i would like to thank thank the teachers for the dedication this is one of the most difficult times of being a teacher with switching from distant learning back to personal in-person learning we are lucky to have you all still here at azusa unified food district we do appreciate you i just wanted to mention that i went to um in my rot monthly meeting we usually spot like different districts and um this time it was the graphic art multi-medium pathway at glaston high school teacher jim hegg and mr hagan students showed a video of their project other board members were very impressed and said you know what we wish we had that pathway at our school just and our uh high schools so i was very proud of that that i i was the most unified school district um and i want to congratulate san gabriel valley rop education foundation five thousand dollar scholarship winner from gladstone high school kaylin yang for graphic arts and multimedia i went to the murray school bmx assembly gun show students are so excited not only did they have a great show they also spoke about respect trust fairness and teamwork and making the right decision i went to glaston high school coffee with the principal i want to thank um uh i want to i i put an attorney with uh leanne hussain and her staff at azusa library for the great presentation they spoke to parents about programs that they were not aware that was going on at the azusa library they have the azusa diy night classes they have mother's day stealth defense classes teens diy neighborhood connections for housing citizenship seniors service employee and employment and how to get a library card when you get a library card you get a library card either you can be um go in person and get your book or you can rent them out and see them at home on on your on your own computer so that was some of the parents are very impressed about that uh because not everyone lives close to on the north side of town and azusa beautiful we partnered with city of azusa west coast a west coast arborist to plant 50 trees around northside park and uh uh in that in that neighborhood we approximately had 100 volunteers i want to thank mayor gonzalez council member jesse avila former mayor joe rocha azuda unified school district employs annette campos teddy and sal luera and even mr fernandez we also had students from the elementary school children's mom was there and her son helping his flat trees there and uh some of his little friends would it's great to the students to see that young to show them what volunteers about you know they they did get a gift card to um in and out to get a free lunch so you know that's they worked really hard we got done at 10 o'clock we thought we were gonna be like october one but we had so many volunteers it was a great turnout and we also had students from the zoo the gladstone interact club and we had some students on the azusa high school football team and many other volunteers thank you board member both good evening once again i'd like to offer my deepest appreciation to all of our teachers and as i shared um classroom teachers you are the reason that kids come to school so thank you and i just have a couple other announcements i am looking forward to attending several of our open house events this thursday and also bringing back an update from the azusa library i sit on the azusa library commission and i want to help spread the word that the azusa library has now waived all late fees so if you're holding on to books and you're afraid to turn them in because you are might be facing some late fees or if late fees have been a challenge for you in the past that is no longer a deterrent so just bring your book back and continue to enjoy the library so i wanted to share that news that azusa library no late fee so just bring your books back and continue to use the library remember cruz gonzalez i have nothing tonight thank you and i just i have a few so again yes congratulations and and kudos and thank you to all of our teachers out there um yes the ones who are honored and celebrated tonight but but even those who were not specifically honored and celebrated this evening uh we we also honor and celebrate you um i do also want to just say welcome uh miss camacho uh on onto here at the table um great great to have you here uh joining us and then just wanted to extend an invitation uh to any and all and specifically to to my colleagues and those here around the table um as as many of you know um there's an organization that i have the the pleasure of leading called my third place which is a youth uh mentorship organization uh this this year we've actually partnered with the district and partnered with um specifically with foothill middle school um we've been on campus doing um art and and really art art intervention and looking at how art can be used as a as a a way to uh allow for students to kind of tell their story um and and channel um kind of the the things that they're going to express themselves and so um we've been doing that throughout the course of this semester and there is going to be an art show on friday may 13th from 6 to 8 p.m at mantra coffee um so it'll be there that evening it's it's kind of come and go um six to eight but there will be a a brief program at seven p.m and so check here and those at the table here check your inbox there'll be an invitation uh for for you all um you're invited to come uh but so one invites you all to that and also let anyone here in the community uh know about that as well and that is that concludes my comments this evening and so then we will look to 9.1 comments and reports by the superintendent cabinet and student board members and i did see that we had some student board members on the scene are they still with us lika and crystal are with us okay annette good evening board members good evening we had 10 students take the ap government test and another student submitted his work for the ap art portfolio last week our co-ed softball team won their game 24-4 their next game is tomorrow at mount olive this week our health career classes are going through cpr training our parent group continues to meet every friday for the mental health classes offered through la county office mental health thank you okay crystal good evening gletzner high's hosa program was named distinguished academy by naf speaking of hosa maria jose escobar received a gold medal in medical assisting and kimberly lopez and alejandra magana were gold medal winners in emt skills gladstone high student first lieutenant brenna amarel was the recipient recipient of an award from the toronto chapter of the dar for her community service excellence and leadership nasa will be using a promo video on climate change made by our very own advanced graphic arts students sat testing for 11th graders was proctored on wednesday april 13th ela sbac testing for 11th graders began on monday april 18th and continued through friday the 22nd math aspect testing for 11th graders began on monday april 25th and continued through friday april 29th wasc visit on friday april 15th went very well in kudos to our staff students parents and cabinet for their participation choir performed on april 21st in our little theater gladstone held its first indoor rally of the year on friday april 22nd on april 25th citrus college was at gladstone from 8 a.m to 12 to enroll 10th graders into the ecp program on april 25th april 27th asb students attended the montview league asb symposium at sierra vista high school on april 28 april 28th at 6 pm gladstone choir performed in the little theater glaston drama production murder on the menu show dates will be may 5th and 6th at 6 p.m in the little theater ap testing began on may 2nd and will run through may 13th montview league outstanding senior awards was held last night and we honored the following gladiators bren amaral zamira cabanias vanessa travaria camila garcia and jairo lopez gladstone gladstone boys varsity baseball team hosts big bear this wednesday in the first round of cif playoffs at 3 30 pm on the varsity baseball field gladstone asb will hold its first talent first ever gladstone night market and talent show on may 13th on our campus from 4 30 to 9 00 pm tickets will be sold at the door for seven dollars all money we raised at this event will go to the leukemia and informal society glaston senior awards tonight will be held on wednesday may 18th from 6 to 8 pm in the gladstone gym thank you thank you superintendent cabinet again i want to thank all of our teachers for their dedication to the teaching profession being a teacher is incredibly difficult it requires countless hours of preparation and a whole lot of care and concern for students and their learning i want to thank you teachers for the work that you do each and every day please enjoy teacher appreciation week additionally i want to congratulate our csc csea employees who earned the professional growth award this is an agenda item on today's agenda uh i just want to recognize our csca classified employees who have invested in themselves by continuing their education in addition to working for the district good evening um as this is teacher appreciation week i want to congratulate and thank all of our teachers of zuzia unified school district and also i like to share great news um we i shared previously with the board that we applied for the breakfast um expansion grant um previously we are told that we were not going to receive any allocation in april i mean then february they said oh way to lose we have 55 000 for you but then they said oh wait on april 28th they announced that we're going to get 61 000 and maybe more um from the state for expansion and so we're excited about that and with these funds um we will be purchasing electric insulated transport carts um to have um house hot and cold food so we're excited about that good evening i too would like to express and recognize all of our teachers of the year but also express my gratitude and appreciation to all of our azusa teachers on this future uh us teacher appreciation night um i'd also like to put in a little plug we are hosting two of our bilingual dual immersion informational parent meetings um this week one at valley dale on thursday may 5th at 8 30 a.m this is going to be a hybrid meeting so families can attend in person or log on virtually and another at longfellow school on friday at 8 30 am we invite all of our families to attend who would like to learn more about our program me gustaria compartir que tenemos programado dos is i would i would also like to congratulate all of our teachers of the year uh all of the honorees that were highlighted tonight when you think about the collective impact positive impact that teachers have on our students and our community we just want to say how much we appreciate and we thank you for that i also want to send my appreciation to all teachers as we are in a teacher appreciation week this week again thank you so much for what you do for our students our community uh and our schools i also want to congratulate our administrators stephanie stephanie de la torre antonio flores ken stout and yvette walker who were all honored who were axa honorees this year so congratulations to them and then lastly i just want to give a shout out and congratulations to paramount elementary school to all of their staff their students and their parents for being recognized as a california pivotal practice school for the 2020-2021 school year that is a state award and so just want to congratulate paramount for that acknowledgement thank you moving on to 10.0 general functions and specifically 10.1 approval of resolution 21 22 32 order of biennial election of the azusa unified school district of los angeles county california is there a motion make a motion to approve 10.1 i'll second move by board member rodriguez pena second by board member beau any discussion then we will vote and the motion passes four yes and one absent moving to 10.2 approval of resolution 21 22 33 school board candidate statement is there a motion make a motion to approve 10.2 well second move by board member rodriguez pena and second by board member beau any discussion i just have a question um there's not a fee on here is there supposed to be a fee in here or not you know it's just for how many words in the fee that uh that they pay is collected by the uh la county registrar's office uh so i'm not exactly sure what the amount is there are changes from year to year okay one more question thank you um the last election that candidate fee was for one language so if you wanted to do it in more than one language would be 800 times the language so for example if you wanted if you want to publish in english and spanish you'd be sixteen hundred dollars got it thank you and that was but that was for the whole district right it'll be down it'll be a fifth of it now right so that was for in the last election for the esd school but it was um district-wide it wasn't so it should be different i guess if it's by district because they're less right maybe that's why this is not maybe uh as a direct dollar amount yeah i was just curious thank you yeah any other discussion [Music] and the motion passes for yes to one absent moving to item 10.3 approval of resolution 2122-34 certification of signatures is there a motion make a motion to approve 10.3 a second move by board member rodriguez pena second by board member beau any discussion then we'll move to a vote and the motion passes 4 yes to 1 absent next we move to 11.0 which is consent calendar and specifically 11.1 all which is all matters listed under the consent calendar which are considered by the board of education to be routine and will be enacted in one motion there will be no discussion of these items unless requested by a board member if a board member request discussion that item will be removed from the consent calendar and considered separately is there a motion to approve 11.1 which approves the entire consent count i make a motion to approve 11.2 through 11.9 a second well no discussion so we'll move to above and the motion passes for yes to one absent which brings us to 13.0 business and finance and specifically 13.1 approval of resolution 21 22 36 providing for the issuance of series d of the district's measure k general obligation bond is there any is there a motion to approve make a motion to approve 13.1 well second move by board member rodriguez pena second by board member beau any discussion then we will move to a vote and the motion passes four yes to one absent which brings us to 13.2 approval of agreement between azusa unified school district and enterprise we will receive some information before we take a vote good evening board i would like to introduce you all to rick and miss alexis who's online we'll do a presentation on enterprise leasing options good evening everyone my name is rick ritter with enterprise um and i'm here today to review the opportunity for a partnership excuse me all right that's a little bit better um rick ritter with enterprise fleet management i'm here to review the opportunity for a partnership with a school district enterprise fleet management in order to lower your total cost of ownership as it relates to vehicles that you operate across the district um so i'll just do a brief high level overview based on the information that was provided um given that the zuzu school district qualifies for a government buy you have a unique opportunity based on the incentives that you receive as a government entity at enterprise as you all know as a rental company we have to be experts with operating fleet as most effectively as possible from a total cost of ownership standpoint so as a fleet consultant we'll partner with the district to make sure that you're getting the best possible buy on your vehicles so we're operating them at the optimal point and that we're capitalizing on a resale market through our infrastructure and then monitoring all this through telematics program gives us all the data to make sure that we're making best possible decisions and operating both so this is a tried and true method as you can see these are all partners with enterprise fleet management so you would not be a guinea pig in this scenario this is an opportunity that you can capitalize on we are qualified through the source well purchasing cooperative um but if you would like to speak any of these preferences in terms of the scope of service you know our best fit for the school district would be to help on acquisition of the vehicle and funding as well as making sure we're doing ongoing consultation analysis after the cent per mile that you operate vehicles with um selling those vehicles at the right time through the right channel and ultimately leveraging all the data we're collecting the best in class fleet from a safety standpoint efficiency as well as a standpoint we did an in-depth analysis on this fleet and identified an opportunity in your current holding pattern to make sure that we're optimizing buying power coupled with the way that we're able to market vehicles through our network of wholesale dealerships to drive the value of those vehicles so this is an example if any civilian were to go buy a pickup truck they would have to pay msrp which is 36 000.

so we're just gonna do a revision on the purchase order which will impact the revisions i just wanted to make sure that you knew that as you're seeing your monthly reports and see see i mean two and a half million dollars is a fair a fairly significant change so it'll be a two and a half million dollars from this one but it will be added to the technology which is only five hundred thousand dollars right now but it's really a spend so far to date of about three million dollars okay and again it's important that we keep track of those and keep keep those identified and because there are different commitments by law we had we made commitments and we have to we follow those very closely very closely so that's really important so thank you for explaining that to me you bet anything else board members okay thanks miss bets okay so the detail regarding transportation there were eight school buses ordered we do expect to receive the three large buses before school begins again in july again they have not rece given us any delivery dates on the special education buses nor the 54 passenger buses so we're still waiting it was back in october that we ordered the six multi-function activity buses if you recall that was a strategy to help provide additional resources where our schools can take on the responsibility of actually transporting tennis teams or golf teams and our athletic directors and coaches would then be able to drive these multi-function activity buses but these are all general motors or ford chassis and that's where the supply chain issues are occurring at this time and then this has been ongoing with the bond authority is the structured cabling project so what's happening right now and has been approved is ashland ranch highland park courtship campo and desert ridge again the structured cabling occurs every year and if you go back and review the board agenda items you can see that all of these are e-rate reimbursable so that provides the resources to our e-rate fund that's a very flexible fund for us to be able to allocate out those resources in the future and then finally the one-to-one chromebook initiative this again is the 2015 authority and there is um we have procured them they are in a warehouse waiting for us to take possession due to space issues they will be delivered before school at each of the schools to make sure that they're there for the ninth graders as we begin the 2023 fiscal year so then um under fund 630 so this was the 2019 authority there were two big technology based projects that we requested the security camera project district-wide as well as the classroom audio visual project so both of them have been awarded the la as i i mentioned the security operations center has been fully implemented again the three prototypical schools are done as well as expecting all high schools to have all of their cameras fully functional in time for the start of school we expect that the entire project will continue through it could be quicker but we are projecting that the project will continue through calendar year 2023 and then the classroom av project just required deployment this was approved in february of 2022 and you've seen some updates and um pictures of the benq boards etc which i have actually a couple of them so this is our security operations center and mr kane was a very willing to let me share this with you again this was one of the presentations that he made to our superintendent's council two weeks ago i think now and then this is an example of the avigilon cameras you can see where it's where it is attached to the school building to the left and that's a close-up picture to the right so benson systems was our provider and avigilon is the manufacturer of the cameras and then this is a couple of pictures that mr castellano shared with me regarding the installation of the benq boards in our classrooms so are there any questions on any of that before i move on okay great so operations project summary so this is a lot of the spend that we have planned for the summer about 14 million dollars worth so but again albert shared with me some of his strategies for making sure that we can get as much of this work done as possible of course before school begins in july so he has created an expectation of conducting regular site leader update meetings so he can make sure that the principles are kept apprised and then also the same thing with the project managers and the vendors trying to make sure that we're addressing any issues as they come up and then also he has requested from our site leaders if they'd be willing to start earlier and so there have been numerous schools i'm sure albert will share some of the details with you later but numerous schools held up their hands and says yes i'm ready i can easily give you a couple of banks of restrooms where you get started early and so one of the strategies albert came up with the use of these um portable restrooms now you're thinking oh my gosh a porta potty on our school campuses you would be surprised but here they are they're actually pretty slick looking so there's a boys and a girl's bathroom available and they're clean and they're air conditioned and so we're they're deployed at which two schools albert patterson and gilbert elementary so it doesn't doesn't replace the gang restrooms of course but it does provide some some support so that we can get started on some of the restroom projects so these are the total operations spend approved to date so tennis courts i call them grounds and it's not just tennis courts it's tennis courts and some of um are let's see highland juniors um lung jumping and uh hi jump thank you yeah track pits thank you and then most of the spend is structural so restrooms roofs portables fencing millwork cabinetry additions flooring and paint both the interior and exterior so there's the 14.2 million dollars that's been encumbered pretty much and some of it has already been spent actually and completed so these are the specific summer athletic projects again the high jump lung jump pits and then highland high and gilbert high the tennis court repairs and upgrades highland high has some concrete damage that will need to be repaired as well as doing the resurfacing and the repainting and both sites are adding the pickleball striping to add that to the pe curriculums at those high schools and then these are the summer structural projects so you can see the roofing projects islands elementary south valley gca 2.1 million dollar cost note the second line item their restroom renovations it's always our largest expense and then we have flooring upgrades so again as albert has shared earlier we always focus on making sure that we're doing all of the flooring every time we deploy a project to a school so that we're mobilizing only once and whether it's the mpr or the main hallways or the auditorium or whatever the case may be we're using the same vendors so in this particular case you can see a mesquite high and you know that we've already done flooring upgrades at mesquite high but that was before we actually made the commitment that we're going to mobilize and deploy all at once so we are completing the hallways and the classrooms at mesquite high this summer is that right albert it'll be the hallways all the hard surface areas hallways and the gym building we when we did touch it originally we only touched the classrooms and all the carpeted areas and then i wanted to point out neely again we're still making some expansion recommendations due to the fact that we had the neely population move into the houston building a 800 or so enrolled school into a 350 or so enrolled school so we're continuing to make modifications at the new neely site also of note patterson elementary primarily due to its age is the first school that we have moved into replacing the mill work and cabinetry other than neely because of the front entryway and the office upgrades at neely we did make some cabinetry upgrades there but patterson this will be mill working cabin cabinetry throughout so i'm going to hand over the remaining part of the conversation to albert and i will just drive can i just ask about the cabinetry could you give us a little more specifics about the materials that will be replacing the cabinets at patterson i know in the board docks it just described it in a very i just need to know more about it so so it'll be a standard millwork cabinetry you'll have similar to what we've done in the computer labs as far as the base pieces um i think some of the question came with the counter counter pieces or the hard surface that's going to be more of your composite like your korean uh chord style i i think it i told bonnie i didn't do it any justice i think it it kind of labeled it as plastic it wouldn't be plastic it's gonna be similar the hard surface is gonna be similar to what we have at the secured entryway points as well as the restrooms and then there will be some laminate pieces updated laminate pieces at the lower level uh counter positions but mainly it will be that hard surface countertops all right thank you just want to hear plastic laminate that sounds like something easily broken so no i'm sure it's it's durable yeah definitely going to be durable patterson's lasted that wood has lasted the wood is still good guys the wood is still good it's just the hinges that are sagging um here we have south valley junior high so the roof is basically from inception it's it's under material under under it it was wasn't built up correctly we've had issues since pretty much since day one um we've combated them the best we can we've had it worked on under warranty now we're just at a point of complete deterioration and and we have a we're susceptible to penetration for rain and in other elements so you can see here where this is a regular occurrence where we continue in multiple classrooms throughout the facility to to have rain and water pouring down interrupting school time and and other sessions it was a pretty it was a pretty bad it was a pretty bad monsoon season last fall so they were hit pretty hard so how how long will the new roof last uh we have a 20 20 year warranty it's going to be a tpo and not a foam roof just like i said in this case we found as as years went on and with these pro problems progressed i mean we're back to 2012 is when we have history as far as what we're combating these um we did have it tested and and looked at and basically it was under filled where we should have two inches of material a base level some aggregate and a top coating we have some in some cases we have an inch of material we have an inch and a half with just aggregate and no base coating so so this was more of a construction issue uh like i said from onset um that we've been fighting so it's just not a simple recoat but we're actually going to go ahead and replace this entire technology and put a um a built up roof with the tpo cover so so basically we're going to get into a better technology than a phone piece a foam roof that's a fairly new school yeah yes it is it's unfortunate and we have defender taking any of the responsibility for this built in um there was some minor patches again that was that was before my time that was at a point that we did have a new construction department um and and that mainly went through that and i through that department i believe it was written out until that warranty is up and of course we know how it goes and warranties up and you know back trying to backtrack and get everybody to be accountable it was it's just been that consistent battle good but it there is a 20-year warranty on that on that roof so again just as bonnie pointed out we yes we did do the flooring at mesquite high but again as we continue to grow we feel we get better this is a hard surface vct floor this is why we actually and i joke with rod out there this his school is why we've become better because this is their vct tile you can see due to poor maintenance over time it wasn't stripped correctly and we just covered up dirt with wax and it just even when we were on site we tried to get that down to the bare material and just could not get that cleared out so um that is why we're addressing that piece the rubberization in the gym is is obsolete one the color is obsolete but but the material the material is is obsolete as well as far as in that in that specific color um that is something we did not touch and they have a ton of areas that are that are missing or have gaps in in the flooring system there so we're gonna touch that and correct that building as well and then albert the vct is being replaced with what lbt so we're going to what we what we were um and again that's why the push towards lvt to get away from things like this so the the maintenance is is a lot less there's no waxing there's no stripping strictly wet mop dust mop and easier to maintain and it's aesthetically better looking than uh vct well i can't wait to see the after pictures yeah we've updated so exterior interior paint uh mosquito um just exterior shots again just pretty cut and dry we're gonna we're gonna look to do exterior paint there playa del rey um as well as mesquite high school again uh we're just bringing everything up to date as well as as it adds a weatherization piece as we move forward with updating of exterior paint so on mosquito eye did we just do the interior we did do painting we did we just did the interior of the entire site so okay um we didn't have just again how things go we just didn't have enough time to to get that exterior piece going okay so typically how long is the exterior paint do you have like how long has it been since mesquite l was painted or uh mosquito l off hand i mean i think we're we're probably pushing typically you're gonna get seven to ten years out of that exterior paint um now i think mosquito adventure to say and i could be wrong i think back when we added that wing about 2007 we may have painted that so we yeah we're at probably i guess what's that 16 we're pushing 16 years then mesquite elementary used to be an outdoor campus and they changed it to an indoor campus and my kids were there at the time i don't think it's been painted since then yeah so 2007 yeah generally speaking when when albert and i look at the grid that we're using which gives the life cycle of all the various components we are two to three years behind from the life cycle components generally speaking with all these types of projects so interior paint we of course at greenfield junior high we've just completed the exterior paint um so we thought this is optimal time to push in and get them completed just to the point of trying to get it touched as closely as possible um and that way those two those two that that function itself is closely uh matched up as far as their timelines and when they're gonna be up for renewal so restrooms again this is our biggest uh project piece it has been for the last few years um we've been moving through just to update flooring tile basically for floor to ceiling we got got the restrooms new partitions new cabinetry new mill work as well as hand dryers floor tile wall tile as well as lighting fixtures we're moving up to led lighting fixtures in each one of these remodels um this is the current state of patterson's gang restrooms that they have allowed us to access getting close they got the tile on the wall and they're continuing to press forward again to bonnie's point um all these schools have been great accommodating it's hard to give up restrooms especially at older schools like patterson and gilbert l where basically they're at a premium and there was some challenges at gilbert l but justin we we talked through it we walked through it and allowing us to put those uh portable restrooms on site again we weren't going to toss them port of john's but as we explained what they were getting they totally took it in and and ran with it which again helps us out and helps us try to meet or at least get as close to the timeline of completion uh prior to the start of school and this is uh carol ray again you can see they're dated um and we're going to do the same there portable renovations this is i believe these this is our last set of portables we held off but they will be you are going to start to be utilized as of next year and you can see there and obviously they have been skipped quite a bit uh for quite a while i meant um so we we have some exterior issues going on here again like the other portable jobs we will strip that paneling off put new paneling um to avoid uh interior penetration whether weather or in this case it it may be animals and we have cat issues and some other things that we they like to make in a lower level apartment in some of those uh those structures there so other structural pieces as bonnie pointed out is uh or or some of the our athletic venues we're looking at we we did address some of the tracks a couple years ago our junior highs are in need of refurbishing some of these pieces you can see here this is highland junior's high jump pit obviously those those should be a black rubberized surface the lighter areas that that's down to the concrete so again to try to avoid injury to the junior high athletes and and maintain that facility we we're looking to to correct those areas highland highland high school um tennis courts we have 10 courts here at highland high in particular we're going to redo all 10 courts and with the addition of um eight pickleball courts which will be in conjunction with the uh with four um tennis courts there as bonnie pointed out they have more structural issues than gilbert high that's why i highlighted them in this presentation so we do have some concrete foundation pieces that that do have to that we do have to renovate and these are the the patterson elementary uh millwork pieces so they are they're i mean i hate to say it the wood's probably going to be better than what we're going to put in just because of the age of it um functionality i don't think it meets the functionality of the school needs and which is totally a different layout than any of any other facility we have this is an older style teachers have taken it upon themselves to try to make it work as best as possible try to dress it up so we're looking at to give them a more functional piece uh moving forward similar to current current facilities i think i think one of the teachers told me that those were kitchen cabinets that they put in when they were at that school they're pretty close to it yeah so they weren't exactly built for schools and then this last section is just to give you a preview of what might come before you in the next month or so go ahead albert so we are looking at a um led project starting at all five comprehensive high schools again those being the largest this would not only touch the exterior parking lot lighting exterior perimeter lighting but we'd start looking into getting into the stadium portions of those facilities again led not only it bringing a better quality of lighting to the to those sports venues it will cut not only utilities as well as maintenance costs uh acquired by the district and then are we going to be careful about um light pollution yes and keep it keep it going down to the the stadium or so it's not diffused yes yeah so this is easier and that's another plus with led is it's easier controlled or easier you get more directional lighting to the surface that you're actually trying to contact rather than the pollution or the bleed by um into either neighborhoods or or other businesses okay thank you and and prior prior to all uh projects they will do a photo metric so they'll see where those are raised and and where those adjustments need to be and that is one piece that we've talked about is making sure that we do not intrude or read into anybody's uh into neighborhoods and affect anyone's home um as well as uh the led lighting we're also looking at automated irrigation this again is to try to help reduce emergency response in the sense of sprinklers coming on in the middle of the night sprinklers coming on during the game as well as energy costs reducing water loss by automatic shutoffs pressure valves things like that the work it's more accessible for us to adjust these fields as we need to put them on schedules make last-minute scheduling and other things just to be able to monitor that piece of these that we haven't done that we're doing manually now um five high schools and mesquite junior we're gonna we're gonna look to do uh stage rigging upgrades and replacements again become a uh create that standardization or come up to standard as well as the safety aspect to go along with the rigging uh we're gonna go start getting into those pieces uh computer lab remodels speaking with uh mr martin these are the last facilities that have some whether it be a major piece or a minor um needed needed renovations to to complete that entire computer lab remodel to create a a new a new learning space or a more traditional classroom playground and indoor outdoor learning spaces we're looking at two facilities right now superstition springs mosquito uh as well as patterson it's based on um uh curriculum and space need for those facilities so we're looking into or we're having those discussions on the playground indoor outdoor spaces um expansion of canyon valley to include rise again a few years ago a couple years ago we we moved in and created that science wing um now we're going to look to take er take the south portion of of the old uh power-based building and create a learning area or become comparable area um to the north side for for the rise program [Music] do we have a um a thought about what we're going to use the current rice space for yes although although we're starting up that um i don't know what they call it teachers academy um maybe that would be useful it would be available for a lot of different thoughts and ideas but we haven't uh our main uh objective is to move rise and then we'll we'll concentrate on what we want to do with that space there okay all right thank you and then the other items that are on the list are pretty much for your review but i did want to jump to the kitchen upgrades so albert is very involved whenever the nutrition services department needs to to put in a walk-in refrigerator a walk-in refrig walk-in freezer or or even sometimes just equipment and what's been happening is we're adding equipment and then we don't have enough power so albert's very involved in all those i just wanted to make sure that you all knew that the nutrition services fund will be fill fitting the bill for most of those upgrades question if you just move back one no no thank you bonnie on the rigging upgrades for mesquite junior and the five high schools that is a pretty sensitive area what vendor are we using or are we bidding that out to are there a number of vendors who would help us with that or um right now we're actually looking into one and i apologize i'm at a loss for their for their name but they do specialize in the wriggling and certification and and that was specific to to our view or our on taking of this is to make sure it was somebody that was familiar not only familiar but certified in that specialty equipment that they do have that was qualified to pass those certifications so thank you because that's extremely important and sensitive area and the danger zone to be sure along with that there's a cycle by which we review evaluate and re-secure our outdoor bleacher spaces is that on some kind of cycle albert that one too we're looking into because it again is another specialty item there are a few that we need to review such as gilbert high for other modifications so we are looking for a provider for those but each year they would go through a safety check correct yes yeah yeah good i'm i'm glad to see that rigging area because that i don't think has been touched in any real significant way in a long time in any of our auditoriums right could you just touch we just kind of skipped over the campo verde and mesquite high indoor outdoor learning spaces could you just touch on that so so again these are going to be similar um the closest thing i could think of right now again i'm probably butchering their thought but but the the two principles the two administrators at these sites have awesome ideas for their for their site and again i'm just a guy trying to facilitate it for us um but i i would say similar to the commons at highland high school they do want to open it up they want to expand that learning experience that gathering experience that school experience in their mesquite high schools would be in their their library campbell verde is more in their resource room that it's more of an open or free space for for students to come gather study uh meet with friends hang out during their their um in between or lunch periods so it's just it's just more to add to that that learning environment and those two those two sections the um indoor outdoor learning spaces as well as playground and director learning spaces for our elementaries is really in response to the covid pandemic where we really needed to expand space and give people give kids room so much of it was launched because of that um so here's here's an additional highland high south valley as well as it we're looking into the hvac highland high specifically on their auxiliary buildings they they have standalone they are a chilled water site so the majority of that building or the facility the main facility is all on a chilled water facility their auxiliary sites are our package unit or dx units as they call them but those are aged as well um we've had continued issues again same as south valley uh some of those have had continuous issues we're looking at 15.

um and so what we found is that typically with government entities there's a buy and hold strategy based on a capital budget constraining how many vehicles we can replace well because the government entities buy so well and we're able to market vehicles so effectively based on our experience in the industry and our infrastructure rather than holding vehicles for an extended period of time we're able to capitalize on unique opportunities and in this example um and what we've done with other government entities is operate a vehicle for only 12 months and actually drive revenue for the district which will help lower your total cost of ownership and your budget so this particular example is unique to a pickup truck in the current market conditions but this is also the example of ongoing consultation and expertise that we're going to provide as a fleet consultant to make sure that we're operating as efficiently as possible and using um the funds appropriately to make sure that we can give you all the visibility and information so that you can focus on education and leverage our expertise and so one of the unique opportunities from a funding standpoint is our open-ended equity lease this is not a traditional lease you'd experience at a dealer this is no wear and tear fees there's no over mileage penalties and you participate in the entire equity of the vehicle um so this is a cash flow tool so we're able to do more with your capital budget and make sure that we're replacing vehicles at an effective point both for safety and from maintenance and fuel standpoint so that there is operationally efficient as possible i already touched on the acquisition and the disposal and then the telematics program would allow us to track the data safety as well as utilization utilization's especially important in a government scenario to make sure that we have the right number of vehicles that we don't have too many and that these vehicles are being used at an optimum point um so that we can right-size the fleet in the event that anything's under utilized and we can better serve that with a rental or other reimbursement other op well so we did a 10-year analysis where we took the current fleet identified your holding patterns and our recommendations and identified the oldest vehicles in the fleet as a place to start a partnership and what we did was by taking this model where we're identifying the right term for the vehicle based on the capital cost annual mileage pattern and when that vehicle should be sold were able to effectively replace your fleet over the period shown here with an effective savings of 382 000 now this is a financial forecast and this demonstrates that by taking a more proactive approach and leveraging expertise that we have in the automotive space that we're able to drive down your total costs and operate an effective and safely in the process and then in terms of tools and technology we have enterprise client website which is essentially a data warehouse for all of your elite data that would be using as ongoing consultation and tracking and then we do have the ability to provide manufactured comparisons where we're putting manufacturers side by side and comparing them on a cent per mile basis as well as what the effective holding pattern is or the type of vehicle that's going to be the best suited for your need so all of that being said enterprise fleet and partner with the district to help drive down your total costs and leverage our infrastructure and expertise um to give you more control and visibility into your overall feed spend and to drive down your total cost in the process while refreshing your fleet and keeping it safe and operating back so i think as a just an everyday user when we think about leasing a new car or even buying a new car we generally experience that um the the vehicle loses value when you drive it off the lot so could you explain to us in a layman's terms how you're able to generate revenue after we've leased a vehicle for 12 months yeah so and that that example is specific to a half done pickup truck so the resale market's extremely strong right now and your average mile pattern or annual mileage pattern is about 5 000 miles a year um so because you buy the vehicle so well if you and i were to go to a dealership we couldn't buy as well with the government buy that essentially covers that up front on depreciation that you're referencing so with minimal use and 12 months later we're able to actually remarket that vehicle on the fair market for more than we purchased it for with the qualified government body and that's not going to be the case for every vehicle class that you operate but given the pickup truck market right now as well as minimal after market it's an opportunity that this weekend relies on thank you and i have a second question um and also you mr mel what is our um our plan for transitioning from uh fuel-based vehicles to electric or hybrid and what will that mean for our uh charging station infrastructure yes so that's a great question so um by going through this lease that would actually um it is one step ahead as as we're exploring type of vehicles to lease um in the meantime we are currently exploring um facility grants where we can do infrastructure on adding the charging stations um we're also doing that for our buses as well one of the things that we ran into or that we learned is that we have to um first we need to identify the type of fleet that we're going to have and then find a universal charging um we talked to surrounding districts who were able to be awarded the state grant to get the infrastructure for the charging but now that they're buying buses and vehicles those charging stations do not work for those vehicles so we didn't want to make the same mistake so we're trying to partner to them simultaneously you're welcome so i have two questions um one's very sabrina's first question do you mind going back to the government the one that you showed the um the f-250 side um so to your point about where the used car market right now is very very um it i won't say type there's but they're really used cars are very expensive right now right because because of the shortages and shortages for new cars so in terms of are these numbers based on like the current market these estimates are based on current market so the the numbers that we've used from a resale standpoint are based on the commercial black book index um so yes those those are current market this particular example you know even pre-pandemic before the used car market had its spike was being implemented instituted and the government buy coupled with selling a vehicle lightly use very low mileage there's always going to be a robust market from that standpoint but given the nature of the open-ended equity lease in 12 months if it didn't make financial sense to remarket the vehicle we could extend that out for another 12 months and continue to depreciate the asset until the fair market value exceeded the residual that the police was being written to thank you um and then my second question um can you go to the slide that has later on that has the number um our sleep our current fleet profile the one with the yeah there you go so i look and see how many average years our fleet has so i'm very excited about this opportunity right and i also noticed that the city of azusa is a partner with you and i see their like light and water trucks driving around look really nice so i'm actually very excited about this my question is actually for our staff in terms of fleet size right is there going to be an analysis of the of the current fleet size whether it's the right amount i mean we have factors maybe we've never had enough cars or maybe we're closing school so we don't need so many right so at what point when does that analysis happen in terms of the actual fleet side so that actually and i will start yes so that's actually taking place now um so at this point in time we don't have enough vehicles for our team um and the advantage of the lease is is as um our school sizer decreases and our number of faculty staff that utilize vehicles decreases we just um contact enterprise and we'll say hey we're going to turn this vehicle over versus if we purchase all these vehicles now we have a yard full of vehicles that are just sitting right but the analysis is happening right now though yes ma'am why when do you anticipate that being done so um can you um elaborate on that because we identified how many cars we need based on our current staff so i see here that you have our current our current fleet is this is this what you anticipate us needing or this is our current fleet right now currently right so do you already have the numbers in terms of how many cars we we need to plan to have yes ma'am and is that in this presentation no ma'am but we couldn't hear that you can share that with us no problem so i have a question right you may have answered i'm not sure if i was hearing you properly but so if we lease it we'll say 10 years will um is the least you could either return it or keep it or change it for a newer year you're a model right what are we doing after that time do we know yet um can you um say that one more time kind of like okay when you lease the car you can either return it or you can keep it or you can or you can return for a newer model so or which one of those you're to do are we going to keep them are we going to upgrade them it may be both options so depending on our like if we have um and um board member cruz gonzalez example if our number of our employees are decreasing at that time we may choose to turn the lease over but if we still need the vehicle we'll be working with enterprise to get a more modern upgraded vehicle to be more to continue to be efficient just to add on there for context we do have quarterly meetings on an ongoing basis with our fleet partners um and we're continuing to reevaluate the market your needs utilization so it's not just let's get started it's an ongoing consultation we're continuing to earn the part and and do we have a cap of how many miles you can put into it no open-ended equity leases do not have any mileage restrictions but but when you lease a car you have you when you return you you have to be at 13.

you know roughly you'd get 12 to 15 years out of unit here some of these we've gotten you know well past that time close to 20. um now we're looking into doing it just just for highland hyde alone i just i put a call out we had gotten a quote i followed up on the quote we're looking at lead times with some of these delays they're saying the units are 27 weeks out some of the gear switches on certain things we're looking at they're talking about 52 to 56 weeks out so we're over a year on some of the lead times on some of these so so right now a lot of these are doing our due diligence to get those costs um to get those costs associated with these projects so that we have them lined up and so as we do present them and bring them and we know we're going to move forward we could start putting in those orders with with the expectation that they will get changed out but in these cases obviously through from a maintenance standpoint um we would keep those things rolling until it's time to go so um gilbert l again we're gonna do some exterior structure pieces some um we're we're gonna we're just trying to update the campus and just kind of give it a i don't want to say facelift but we just want to kind of rejuvenate the campus so do some structure pieces throughout the campus as well as on the cottages the front entryway as well as their grounds and then mesquite junior high we're looking to do the the perimeter of the track the concrete perimeter has deteriorated over time so we have many safety hazards and it may it may look simple um again it's it's a it's a concrete curving or border but again in in times uh right now it with the concrete cost it's it's elevated project it's a larger project and it is uh safety as well so that's all we have board members miss you jetty do you have anything that you guys would like to ask or comment i think all of this is wonderful and really pleased about the pickleball quotes well i really appreciate the voters who helped us to have these funds because it is expensive to keep these things up and make them look nice and to keep things safe i mean don't want to do peter pan if that rigging isn't good we just we want to be careful so dr santa cruz did you have anything no just uh my commendations to you and your department albert because six weeks this is extremely ambitious i know you're doing some of it now where you have the opportunity but that's and then the lead time on supply chain issues is a problem for you but uh thank you for keeping things moving forward as much as you can given all the constraints especially the six week time frame oh thank you no and and i got it i mean i do have a great team so they they definitely make me look better as well as i i mean i got to mention uh steve wells he does such a good job it's like you know i i just i can't speak enough about him i mean he goes above and beyond and and helping me maintain this and i guess maintain both of our sanity you know trying to get these pushed but we do want to try to do it bonnie asked me at the beginning of this she goes do you think we can and i said hey at this point it is what it is and i said this this may be the learning point to get better again as we move to get better each year next year and we could we could start setting expectations and schools see how we handle it and we see how schools handle it and we make the changes as needed but i think everybody across the board from from the facilities to to my uh the sites themselves to my operations team i think everybody's started adapting and adjusting well i do have a question with our change in calendar those two weeks that we have in the fall winter and spring will we be using those you know for some construction projects because obviously we've shortened the summer time oh definitely and and so my view going into this um is we're going to look at a preliminary schedule here's our schedule that's what we're looking to do we of course we want to be optimistic and hey we're going to be ready by july 26th actually we know we should we need to be ready before because occup they start occupying it you know a couple weeks before school starts so we look at that preliminary and probably two weeks prior to that maybe even three maybe that mid july point now we look at the secondary pieces okay where do we create a stopping point where do we what can we do what can we continue on with what can we stop at and then where can we pick up in those fall breaks in the winter breaks knowing that and communicating that as bonnie pointed out earlier trying to communicate that as best as possible to the facilities and in administration at those facilities of okay this is what we look like or this is what our timelines are going to be and then we work around school functions and other pieces that are that are involved as well so i think one of the assets that we have in our operations department is the ability to communicate with our schools every time a project starts albert's always very very good at throwing out the timeline to them but also with the understanding that anything can happen if we've learned anything over the last couple years is deadlines aren't always exactly what we want them to be and as you've talked about whether it's buses whether it's materials uh supply chains are upside down and backwards finding people to actually do jobs is is extremely hard these days and so what i've really appreciated is how albert and his team can pivot extremely fast but and how they communicate that with the principals and the staff on each campus has been phenomenal because there are no surprises and if something is going to come in on time they tell them and they start looking for loose solution a b c and d for that and so thank you for that that keeps everybody on an even kill and understanding that the job is going to get done no matter what so thanks so um we shared that albert and i went to that srp ribbon ribbon cutting where they had the portable that is that actually that picture the portable bathrooms that was when albert told me that he was deploying them that was the first time i'd ever seen them so that was his idea to expedite to get these bathrooms going so i thought that was exemplary as well i think i've been to six weddings since september and i think at three or four of those weddings and all in very nice venues uh you see restrooms like that and so hey it's good enough for those wedding goats they are very nice inside now i was glad to have the visual when we showed up i pointed out right away because trying to explain again you know portable restroom to somebody well i i would just like to add and thank both of you for everything you're doing and uh i also make the comment that uh we're very fortunate to live in a community that supports our schools and provides us the ability to do this and there are a lot of districts that don't have the opportunities we have so thank the community also thank you great thank you we will now move to 2.03 fy 2022 revised budget number three dr mccord thank you madam president company board members uh we told you this would be coming down the road right around this time and here it is it's you've seen this budget numerous times on a monthly basis and other avenues as well and so this is budget revision number three so jackie and i will be tag teaming this i think she is coming up here right she's okay just checking she just ran one we should go pretty fast because you guys are all aware of this stuff but i'll go ahead and let you begin whenever you're ready i'm jackie thank you so we are here tonight to present the final revision for budget for fiscal year 2022 this is revision number three tonight's report will include the average daily membership slash enrollment comparison from the revision 3 to fy 2021 mno and unrestricted capital changes bond and debt service funds state and federal funds and some other fund changes in the actual budget documents some of the changes that we'll note here tonight have been highlighted in yellow for reference so on this particular slide just going down to the enrollment at the 100th day which is in the last row looking at fiscal year 2021 versus fiscal year 2022 those are enrollment numbers so you can see that we definitely increased in enrollment but you can also see that from our revised number three we in we mostly increased in our total uh adm average daily membership or student count so really wanted to bring to light the difference between enrollment and average daily membership and largely we we achieved greater average daily membership because many of our online students moved back to the bricks and mortar so that's how we received more than you might have expected with our enrollment increase year over year this slide shows the fy 2022 mno and capital budget change detail you can see the adm which was shared on the previous slide and then this also includes the weighted student count and then at the at the bottom section of this we're actually showing the budget calculation pieces i guess so the revenue control limit you can see where from the revised or from the adopted to the revised we did gain 9.2 million dollars that was directly related to the weighted student count increases but note in that in the next row where we're highlighting it in yellow we opted to make a recommendation to you to move 20 million dollars of largely one-time money out of mno and put it into unrestricted capital which is largely a fund utilized for a one-time expense in addition we're able to earn interest earnings in unrestricted capital and this will leave us with a budget balance that will be carried over into that's more than enough to to fund the budgetary increases that you all have approved for fiscal 2023 for next year these next two slides are directly from the budget document this shows this was uh from page seven this shows our revenue control limit and then the transfer of the 20 million dollars that miss betts just spoke about bringing down to the bottom the 35 million dollars in capital and this is from page 8 which is our capital page um it shows our current year allocation last year spend and then again 35 million for capital expenditures so again it's a transfer of budget basically from maintenance and operations into under restricted capital the money's not going away um it's there and available to us um well into the future and i do believe the next slide is the next slide on the federal funds no the next slide is just let's go ahead summary of what we just discussed with a decrease in adm increase in weighted student count the revenue control limit has increased slightly the mno budget decreased of 19.4 due to the 20 million dollar transfer and then this is the slide i was referring to so i just wanted to remind everyone why we had achieved such a large budget balance carry forward due to the advent of all of the one-time federal funds flowing in to gilbert public schools over the last two years and note the two new ones that occurred in the current year the education plus up grant and the 100-day in-person grant so a total of 56 million dollars of new revenues that is one time in nature giving us the opportunity to increase budget balance carry forward in m o to increase our flexibility moving into the unknown of the future and this is the bond and the debt service budget detail so you can see the difference between revised number two and revised number three directly related of course to the bond sale which closed on february in february of 2022 that's that going from 34 million up to the 84 million that's the 50 million dollars in proceeds note to the change in the fund 700 the debt service fund the because of the 50 million dollars we had an increase in expected payments in the debt service fund so that was increased by a little over a million dollars more just wanted to make sure that you all knew that we did anticipate that and we have more than adequate revenues in the debt service fund to make our final debt service payment on july 1st fy 2022 federal grant change detail uh we wanted to share with you the change in idea and preschool we did receive an additional allocation of 285 000 dollars um the second line is the arp which is part of the um cares coveted plan for idea and preschool these four all four of these funds are combined on the actual budget document and then finally fund 322 which is the 100th day in person grant at 3.9 million can i ask miss martin so what are we using those extra funds for as far as i know they're probably did they come with restrictions on how to use it or when to use it and i can't remember what we've talked about using it for yes the idea funds are specific for special education students for preschool and regular eds or preschool in k-12 so the additional fund in idea was just additional funding from this from the state from the feds through the state for our original allocation of idea so we'll just use it for hiring teachers for all those needs that we have been always continuing correct for special education because every year we see increases so it just gives us more available resources which decreases the load on the maintenance and operations fund okay and we'll see a lot of these expenses probably go toward tuition for outside services yes okay thank you here are fy 22 other budget change detail 500 fund 500 school plant there's a increase due to the former neely property sale 510 is nutrition services there's an increase there due to universal free fund 525 and 526 there's an increase because of increased activities and participation post covid thank goodness and then fund five oops nine six zero self insurance there is obviously a huge increase we did not have that in the adopted budget we are budgeting now toward anticipated revenue of the 45 million and the other two e-rate and energy and water savings those are separated slightly those are corrections from the adopted budget there's an overview of what we just talked about i have i've had some questions about the uh neely sell and just the spend and it's restricted it has to be in capital and school plants right in capital funds is that correct so um there is an allowance for use of some of that money for maintenance and operations i cannot remember the details though about the circumstances so let me include that in the board report this week i do believe that we would be eligible we would probably not make that recommendation we would leave it for capital expenditures any other questions you go so in-depth there's nothing left to ask board members miss you jetty did you have any questions no i just i just want to thank mrs bets and her full department for all of the work that they do to make sure not only we know everything but the does thank you board members anything further so this is the final revised this will be the final revision for fy 2022 and if we approve it tonight do we do you need signatures okay okay excellent thank you appreciate that thank you guys well done okay that takes us to the adjournment of our work study we appreciate everyone who participated and helped with that tonight and we will now move to 4.0 brief board business meeting i will call that to order and ask mrs wilson to please have a roll call dr charles santa cruz here mr bill parker here miss laurie wood here ms sheila eugetti here miss jill humphries here madam president all board members are present you have a quorum thank you i'll move to 5.0 consent agenda items and 5.01 approval of consent agenda items is their emotion so moved thank you mrs eugetti i mean thank you mrs humphries it's been moved is there a second second thank you mr parker it's been moved and seconded that we approve the consent agenda items as presented all those in favor please vote by saying aye aye aye and any opposed with nay okay that passes five zero thank you we'll now move to the action items and we'll begin with 6.01 the grades 7 through 12 english language arts adoption dr mccord do you have anything nothing more to add just our presentation on this item and the next item for this evening and so i think all your questions have probably been asked there but they're still available if you have more great board members may have a motion i move that we adopt the grade 7 through 12 english language arts as presented thank you miss humphries is there a second second thank you dr santa cruz it's been moved and seconded that we approve the english english language arts is there any discussion i i just want to say i think it's this is a long time in coming and i think it's really going to help both our teachers and our students to have an updated curriculum that really is based on the standards that we have now i mean because the standards we have now have been adopted since our last english language adoption so um i think it'll be really good for our kids i'm really excited for them thanks mr any other comments seeing none i will ask for a vote all those in favor of the approval of the grades 7 through 12 english language arts adoption as presented tonight please vote saying aye jetty did you vote i i said i okay perfect and any opposed with nay okay 5-0 that will pass we'll now move to 6.02 the grades 7 through 12 mandarin adoption as dr mccord explained we've already had that presentation tonight so i'll go ahead and ask for a motion board members i move that the board adopt action item 6.02 7 through 12 mandarin thank you mr parker is there a second second thank you miss humphries it's been moved and seconded that we approve grades 7 through 12 mandarin adoption as presented tonight is there any discussion hearing none i will ask for the vote all those in favor of approving the mandarin adoption please vote by saying aye aye any opposed with nay that will pass 5-0 thank you that takes us to 6.03 the fy 2022 revised budget number three dr mccord again this was presented during the work study we asked you to adopt the revised budget number three as presented thank you board members may i have a motion madam president i move adoption of item 6.03 fy 2022 revised budget number three thank you dr santa cruz is there a second second thank you mr parker it's been moved and seconded that we approve fy 2022 revised budget number three is there any discussion again i believe we've had time tonight in the work study as as well as previous meetings to discuss this so i'll go ahead and call for the vote all those in favor of approving fy 2022 the revised budget number three please vote by saying aye aye and those opposed with nay that passes as well five zero thank you we will now move to 6.04 investment of 10 million dollars in the employee benefit trust reserves dr mccord thank you madam president governing board members uh we will ask miss betts if there's anything to add to this agenda item of the investment of 10 million for the employee trust reserves i think is a very good word to continue with that yeah i just wanted to make sure that you were aware that the recommendation is very conservative working with the investment professional at wells fargo all of the options that are presented for the investment are aaa rated or of or they are treasury bills and just a reminder that they are they're tiered with differing maturities every month so that in the event that we do need the cash flow to meet the demands of claims they would the cash flow would be available to meet those ongoing requirements thank you are there questions board members so the idea is to have to invest just a part of the reserves that we have to have to gain interest and to gain the interest off of that and have we done this before in the past um we have always had the ability to and we have not though it has only been the last two years that the reserves that we've had such a successful um occurrence in our employee benefit trust so it's timely that we do this now keep in mind that that having investment earnings in the future could decrease the amount of fees that we're paying to our providers and stuff like that so the recommendation indicates that at a minimum we we should receive over 120 000.

yeah you're referencing a closed-ended net lease which you would experience at a dealership you and i could not go to a dealership and qualify for an open-ended equity lease that's based on our funding partners okay understood thank you yeah no problem thank you so just in terms of just in general generalizing right um so your government partners how often how long do they generally keep their cars that one year three years ten years and i know it's hard to just generalize but just roughly like um like say a school district right yep i would say if i had if i was pinned down to give you an exact general answer it would be three to four years um it all depends on the type of vehicle aftermarket equipment the annual mileage pattern so there's a lot of factors that go into that but they would average out the three to four i have a few questions uh you you had indicated that you talked about the sale of the vehicle so so you're saying that when if the vehicle is leased and then in essence once it's sold back is what you're saying what can you can you communicate what you mean about how you assist with the sale of the vehicle yeah absolutely as your fleet partner we would be able to remarket owned vehicles as well as any vehicles that you acquire through the enterprise partnership so because you know as a an entity we sell over a million vehicles a year we have the infrastructure in the partnership with wholesale dealers where we're going to be able to drive the price of that vehicle based on that partnership and relationship so we would instead of the district selling on your own we would sell on consignment or on your behalf which allows us to get more value for each vehicle and and that would include our current fleet or that's that's in regards to the the vehicles that we obtained through this partnership we would have the ability to help you remarket your current fleet as well as any vehicles that you would acquire through our partnership and you would keep all the equity or resale proceeds based on the lease structure of open ended and then you had also made a made mention about uh a cent per mile so uh and i just heard you reference that so i know we're saying it's it's open-ended and so therefore there is not a a mileage cap um if there's not a mileage cut can you speak to the the cent per mile charge that you were referencing um the semper mile would not be a charge it's a benchmark on how efficiently we're operating the fleet so we would take the fully burdened cost so your acquisition the fuel you use the maintenance as well as reselling the vehicle and based on the annual mileage pattern we would benchmark the cent per mile to make sure that we're operating as efficiently as possible and then as we as we evaluate our fleet and i'm talking from from small down you know up to huge are there are there categories of vehicles that that we would not be able to use so i you know maybe buses come to mind right are there are there other vehicles that that we would not be able to utilize the partnership for it's a great question so we can help with your light and medium duty vehicles that means anything up to 26 000 pounds in the gross vehicle weight rating um we wouldn't be able to help on anything beyond that but anything from a chevy spark all the way up to you know a 650 utility bed we would be able to help with but we would not be able to help the school buses bucket trucks or heavier equipment that fall past that 26 w i just have a process question for us though um um the there's no actual agreement attached to this to this agenda item is that because it's the contract to resource well or is there an actual contract between us and so actually the purpose was for mr rick and his team to present to see if this is um even what the board would like for us to explore if we get the go-ahead then we will bring back a formal contract to put on the board agenda okay because if the gen dice is infil i have another question um regarding you know i'm reading here that um enterprise will order the vehicles where where are these vehicles coming from they're not necessarily the ones on your lot right you order the needs of the district or that's correct yeah where do they come from the best way to acquire a vehicle from a cost standpoint is to go directly to the manufacturer so we would um request the government incentive that you qualify for with the manufacturer the vehicle would be specked out your exact needs nothing more nothing less and we could factory order that vehicle um that way you're getting the best possible acquisition price and the exact tool that you need for the job so um enterprise i know is uh what i is a rent rent place right rents your cars enterprise rent-a-cars fell cars there too and released cars yeah i wasn't aware that i'm just not yeah no so i never bought a car no absolutely so i'm a member of our enterprise fleet management division so we work with commercial and municipal entities to help manage their fleet and lower their total costs we also have a rent-a-car division that you referenced a truck rental division our sales division so there's different divisions within the company um so as you're as a fleet manager we would be helping your total cost of ownership in that ongoing consultation but our division does not rent cars or sell cars directly right so you you mainly uh do them with um two districts in in city halls or con you know yeah cities counties universities school districts hvc companies roofing contractors home health care companies so we just we span a lot of different industries utility company okay thank you understood just a couple more questions uh one you you said that that we have the potential to to save in the long long run i think i think it was a 10-year projection 382 000 so when and i understand that it is a projection is is this projection you talked about the the truck and and the truck image and you talk how holding it for one year this is the savings that one has 3 000 but that's due to the resale market at this current time so what is this 10-year can you speak to what the 10-year projection is is getting at to where there would be a 382 thousand dollar savings for the various vehicles uh over the course of that time yeah absolutely so what we did is we identified all the different vehicle classes that currently operates your holding pattern versus what we've identified as optimal based on your total cost of ownership and then we played that out over the course of 10 years so in this example you'll see that um just in the first couple years your maintenance spend drops considerably because we're getting the oldest vehicles that cost you the most from a maintenance standpoint out of and then if you look from a fuel standpoint you see that that reduces as well considerably in flat because we're getting rid of the least efficient vehicles um and then looking at hybrid options and ev options they incorporate um and then the other element is that selling vehicles at the right time when they still have good value as opposed to holding them until there's no value left so when you couple those things together over the 10-year period when you run that's how you achieve that policy okay and then the last question i have is for mr mall so i mean all of this all of this sounds great what what are the what are the potential disadvantage that you first right now the only potential disadvantage is the delay on the vehicles um no matter how we slice or dice it it seems like it's taking vehicles a long time to get here um but we the advantage of this is that they will all always be working and so they'll know when the vehicle is available and then we'll be first online to go forward but at this time that's the only disadvantage we have and that does that's that's a disadvantage that we would experience whether we were working with enterprise or not are there any are do you can you see any specific disadvantages to the the partnership with enterprise not at this time any other questions mr ritter who are your competitors um in regards to other food management companies um you know in the government space there's not a whole lot our you know primary competition is mindset in terms of a buy and hold strategy other fleet management companies are ari wheels um donlin you know where we're positioned is we work with municipal and commercial entities that operate anywhere from 20 vehicles to several hundred vehicles and that's where we add our best value we have a local support theme that provides ongoing consultation where the competitors that i referenced are more positioned to serve large fleets of several thousand or more and provide more of a technology and then operate on your own with dedicated in-house representatives as opposed to an outsourced ongoing consultation solution thank you um and so then for clarity to your point board member cruz gonzalez so this is an info action item but you don't actually need us to vote in order to move forward with uh with the contract you just need direction i just need direction that we would like to explore this and i can bring a contract to the next agenda item yes i agree and i just have to give one anecdote so when i first got elected there was a board member who went on a field trip with some students in the minivan and the door fell off the minivan this is the early 2000s but i'm just saying like so this is very i am very much in favor thank you who are those people thank you all for your time and it's been a pleasure sitting in on all the tremendous accolades that have been celebrated absolutely mr mall is anything else you need is that give yes thank you thank you moving on then to item 13.3 approval of consultant agreement between zeus unified school district and daniel minion their motion no this is an action item approval of a consultant you're oh i'm sorry thirteen point three thirteen point three i'm saying yes um approval on thirteen point three make a motion well second move by board member rodriguez pena second by board member bo any discussion i just still have a question about the um the empty positions but so when do you anticipate those being filled so we're getting close we're getting close um so we filled our accounting supervisor position um miss winnie sue our new purchasing specialist just started we still have a vacancy and a lead accountant and we have one vacancy in payroll but we have selected the candidate okay then we'll move to a vote and the motion passes four yes to one absent moving on to 14.0 curriculum and instruction and specifically 14.1 presentation presentation of a zeus unified school district a through g completion improvement program we do have frankie hello again um i have the opportunity tonight to give you some information about the a through g completion improvement grant program uh this program was actually notified through edcode and we have an opportunity to get some money and start using it so the presentation goes thank you so the so here's a very simple description of what the a through g completion improvement grant program is and there is an ed code directly linked to this and the purpose is to provide additional supports to districts to help increase the number of students who would be eligible to graduate with a through g um as you know a through g um let me let me go into the next slide to make sure what e3 sheet is e3 is essentially a sequence of high school courses and that students must complete what they see or better to be minimally eligible for mission to the uc or california state university system and so the grant will allow us to develop students coursework as well as professional development to ensure that our students are through g ready to give you a brief understanding of how our ausd graduation requirements compare to a through g i just show this little chart here and you can see that we are very closely aligned so there are some factors that are different for example we do require other things that a through g does not for example we do require two years of pe that a through g does not um but other than that we are very closely aligned in regards to graduation requirement and a through g ability there are however what is not pointed out there is for a3g eligibility there are recommended number of years versus required number of year and for our students to be competitive our counselors always talk to our students to make sure that they not only do the minimum but they go beyond which is you know the recommended um so for example it is required that you have three years of math i mean you want three years of math but you really want to recommend them to get four years of math you want it's required to have two years of science but you recommend them to have three years of science it's required that they have two years of the same language other than english but you recommend that they have three years so um a3g eligibility is based on these basic requirements but our counselors always recommend our students to go for more moving on to the next slide so there are two parts of this a through g program improvement grant um the first part is the a through g access grant and this access current the priority areas are these four areas listed um don't necessarily need to read this all to you because we are doing a lot of this through our lcap that is the the great thing about this access scan brand is it aligns very well with what we already established in llcap um in usc will receive approximately 520 000 of this a through g axis grant and i want to show you on the next slide the other part of this grant is the learning loss mitigation grant and that will be around 195 000.

in interest earnings over the next about 10 or 11 months and the hope is that we could pass that on to our employees in the future as we as you know just depending on what what comes our way that's right so we have opportunities to potentially decrease premium in the future continue doing premium holidays on behalf of our employees there's lots of options for us but to continue to also have the healthy trust fund so that we can provide those benefits that's correct too yes okay thank you any other comments miss you jenny did you have anything no other than i think this is a wonderful idea and it'll be very helpful thank you any other board members discussion okay seeing no further discussion i will call for the vote those in favor of investing the investment of 10 million dollars in employee benefit trust reserves please vote by saying aye aye did we i just was just thinking that i don't know we have somebody make a motion i'll make the motion uh i move approval of item 6.04 investment of 10 million dollars in employee benefits trust reserves thank you dr santa cruz is there a second house second thank you mr parker now it's been moved and seconded any further discussion hearing none now i will call for the vote all those in favor of approving the investment of 10 million dollars of the employee benefit trust reserves please vote by saying aye aye ms betting excited the board to such a degree we didn't even want a motion that's right now we're investing 20 million no no no no 10 million and with no i'll just saying any not in favor with nay okay so it passed five zero thank you very much okay we are to the adjournment um is there a motion i motion that uh we adjourn thank you mr president thank you mrs humphries it's been moved and seconded that we adjourn i will call for the vote those in favor that we adjourn please vote by saying aye aye aye thank you and any opposed with nay all right we shall adjourn and board members remember to sign

so these two parts will allow us to continue what we're doing in our lcap for example next slide our lcap goal three already have these actions and services built in and we will continue these and augment it more with this funding we are clearly focused on college readiness we pay for our students assessments all of our students for example if they want to take the psat or the sat i know those are a little obsolete right now but if they did want to and still we encourage students who want to because it is an optional test if they do want to we pay for it entirely if students are taking ap tests we pay for it if students are taking ib tests we pay for it we're gonna pay for it not only through the a2g grant that is before you but also we have written that within our lcap we pay for the avid program to ensure that our students understand the value of a college education many of our students are first-generation students going to college we support them with apple tutors we support them with college visits we support them with understanding study skills we support them with fafsa um applications all of these things we support through habit yes of course should i wait no please please okay okay so um are we funding um our continuation high school because it is a credit recovery high school so that our students can graduate with with a higher grade but are any of this funds going to the continuation yes so um the learning loss mitigation allows us to do credit recovery and so we have um apex classes online for our students so that they can take these credit recovery we use learning loss mitigation funds for a lot of our students online and virtually for summer school but if you're saying specifically for the continuation high school we have general fund for that and so i'm not going to say that this directly is the only contributing um grant money that will support the continuation yeah i would just say that because you know the purpose of it is to you know have our students graduate with this year or better and that's where the students go to get you know better grades and and for credit recovery yeah and we also offer that at the two um high schools the comprehensive high schools so when a student does not get a c or better and an a through g class there are opportunities even at the school and they don't have to go to sierra and the continuation high school in order to recover that credit and mr chang on the other on the on the weather end as well when you're saying uh if a student wants to take an ap exam that's for all three high schools yes right all three high schools we heard today from teacher of the year uh sierra membrane nice students passing the ap exam with fours and fives they they also benefit from those funds as well thank you within our lcap go interactions and services we support obviously a lot of programs and the mindset and idea of getting our students to be college ready and within it we have credit recovery options as well as advancement in a through g course um moving on just showing you our a3g completion rates um you know we were at um [Music] pretty much around 34 and then we started seeing some momentum being built um right at 2020 and which will decrease or increase our a through g to about 45 percent but you know the the hit of cobit um really brought us back down to about 38 um but this shows that we've been doing a lot of good things in our district start moving those numbers up a lot of the contributing factors include increasing our math requirements you know making sure that our students are taking a language other than english establishing bpa papa classes for a graduation requirement so that really that alignment with the a through g requirements showed that through the last several years we've seen an uptick we want to continue that momentum i know over it has presented some challenges but as we get through this pandemic we hopefully will continue to see an uptick in our a3g ask question about that um so how much impact do you think the fact that in 2020 and 2021 um students were able to um do is that past sale right that they weren't necessarily graded how much impact would that have had on that or we can we look at that and see the impact of that well um the ucs and csus accepted the past not passed um so the the courses that were a through g um eligible um the the university accepted the past not passed our challenge um during this time was a lot of students um not necessarily performing as they should and as we historically might have expected our students to perform in these classes um what we developed in the last two years with kovid is that a lot of our students um especially the ones who are ready for graduation they needed more credit recovery so the learning loss mitigation would help something to that matter um so in that sense the past not passed thankfully our universities accepted it but the impact of the lower d through g is more because our students were not passing classes even for high school graduation i was talking about we had a spike in like yeah that was that that's what i was talking about like how much of that is connected to the fact that students were able to do a past failure and not and not have to get a grade knowing how many of our students complete the a through g's but may may not have a c or better in all those classes right yeah that's what i was asking oh i'm so sorry i totally misunderstand that i don't know i can definitely look into that and then get you i can try to figure out if there's a way based on her history um i can try to figure that out sorry i totally misunderstood that um our next slide so some of the things we're going to work on and have been working on high quality professional development um a target a student support program utilizing um in-class and virtual tutors and credit recovery opportunities so for example we are partnered with california education partners non-track collaborative that focuses on decreasing the dnf rate especially with our ninth graders and we have seen some positive results year-over-year results for example semester one results from this year versus semester one results from last year we have seen um some good numbers in regards to a decrease we're working with doug reeves for um for a lot of our teachers to do a pilot program for grading practices we're working with dr nancy akavon regarding interventions and instructional leadership we continue to have apib and avid trainings in fact summertime is huge for that we have a lot of teachers going ap ib and avid trainings and of course we have continued district support from our tosas so all of these help with our high quality professional development and then we also have student support programs in which for example with other funding sources we've been able to get interventionists working with our students increasing the number of students in ninth grade classes um interventions working with students directly we have a hey tutor program we have virtual tutoring and we are currently in discussion with apu to see if they can fund in-class tutors with their um i forgot what is the grant money that they get they get um students and qualify for um to be paid work study yes yeah gosh i can't believe i forgot that i was a work study student um but yes through work study so we can get these students into our classrooms to be classrooms thank you we again mentioned earlier they mentioned free college readiness for all students college writing is testing for all students s-a-t-a-p-i-b um we're extending our partnerships with citrus college apu and we are exploring once again because we used to have partnership with princeton review or kaplan and expanding the use of our college board ap classrooms we want to be able to make sure that all of our teachers who teach ap classes can expand their resources within the ap classroom and that is something that is done that is available for all of our ap teachers and we want to continue to build leadership and collaboration amongst our teachers our counselors so that they can help our students understand the value of a3g classes and then also a key area is to make sure that our middle school students have a good understanding before coming up to the high schools so those are the basic things that we're working on i i know it covers quite a bit there's a lot of things actually i just gave you a quick overview of what we're going to be using the grant funds for to any other question whatever beau mr chang i was just taking a look at the um the grant uh allocation awards especially that goes along with these grants and just looking at some of our surrounding district and where they are with their a through g um percentages what's our what's our target what's our goal if we're at approximately 38 percent now what's our goal i i can't say that i have an actual goal um because ideally we want to prepare all of our students to be college ready but the grant is based on a 67 percent um anything less than 60 you get a certain amount versus those who are above 67 so the cde is using that target of 67 to differentiate between the two funding funding amounts for certain districts that'd be a good number to keep in mind but again i don't have a personal goal because i think ultimately it's 100 but at the same time realistically we do see that our graduation rate has to correlate to um well let me rephrase that i think it's number one priority is ensure that our graduation rate increases and continues to be above the 90 percent that we are and if we increase the number of our graduation rate the increase our graduation rate then our uc eligibility will increase because we are closely aligned so that's that's probably the best way i can answer that but i want to push on that a little bit so i understand our graduation rate is what is it 92 percent and so if we have 38 of those let's say we had 92 students or 100 students and 92 92 of them graduated does 38 mean 38 of the 92 or 38 out of 100.

38 out of 100. okay and so how how how far can we move the mark forward by only looking at graduation rates because i heard you say that our graduation requirements are very closely aligned to the a through g requirement so maybe i'm missing a calculation of why those numbers aren't closer you can graduate from ausd but more of our students graduate from ausd not being a through g um complete so where's the gap the key area is the c and better so we we have a lot of our students who there that is the area that we have to focus on how does it see your back and then um so i think it's important to state what our goal is not really be afraid of stating that our goal is 67 i mean if that's something that's been identified in a grant then i think that you know the people in sacramento have identified that as a statewide goal and so by setting the carrot at 67 percent they want districts to get there and in looking at geographically surrounding districts west covina is at 54 percent covina valley 66 glendora 60 baldwin pork 41 monrovia chartered 46 bassett 37.

so i think you know a lot of schools have a lot of you know room to grow to get to 67 but i i i think we really need to not be afraid of stating what our goal is and if the state has already identified 67 as um an incentive to get there i would like us to consider that to be our benchmark as well so can i just say something so having been part of those conversations in sacramento when these numbers were negotiated i just want to suggest that we decide and we decide here what what what what our goal should be right because i would say that 67 to me is low right i think we should aim for higher than that um um but i do think i i think what makes sense to me is we're going to be approving the updated lcap right let's put a goal in there and we're supposed to have annual goals so let's let's let's and it's i think it's our atg's already in there right so let's review that to the el cap process and make sure that for this next year do we think like is that growth reasonable so that we're getting to whatever whatever the end target is but so that we have a base an annual um growth target i think that's important and i also think it's important to disaggregate to look at how different student groups are doing and i i would agree with that just that the concept of so 67 or or 80 or 90 that might be a target vote but if we were to look and say where do where do we get what what can we target by the end of 2023 where can we target by the end of 2024 and and and have kind of iterative benchmark uh that we that we said as that i have a question so in terms of the p requirement it's it's not an a through g requirement but is it an ed code requirement that students have physical education right so there are some requirements that may not be okay yeah just gonna clarify that um in terms of the sat um i'm just wondering i don't think i think right now maybe premature but just the fact that they use these you know have moved now to not using standardized tests and many ologists except my alma mater have decided not to use standardized tests um i just i'm not sure if continuing to invest in a system that may be deprecated in a few years right because it's really not equitable um i'm not i think we should have continuing conversations instead of like doubling down and trying to give more opportunities i don't know i'm just saying like it's all everything is so uncertain i think we should think about the value of that investment um in terms of the slide you showed with the a through g completion a through g requirements versus our requirements right why don't why don't we just add one more year of language right and then our graduation requirements align with the a through g requirement i think that's a question for my colleagues right why don't we just add one more year of language um especially if we build an opportunity for language in the middle schools right they could actually start some of those early and maybe not impact their high school years um i think that's something for us to think about moving forward um i do have a question about the strategies right because i hear a lot about intervention additional support right i mean i think in my mind we want the goal should be around first best teaching what happens in the classroom right um even as you think about mtss right we want to have students succeed the first time around right and so i think i'm probably looking more to like norma you and dana right around like how do we how do we connect the dots for everyone and i hear you i mean we're doing good things with on-track collaboration with looking at the dnf rate i'm talking about grading practices but so how does that connect to all of this is what i really want to understand because a lot of this is really around kids get a d in a class right and then they're no longer a through g eligible because they don't have c are better in other classes so where and looking at are just have we done an analysis about students and where they are and where they start getting the d's frank you want to speak to the data that you started looking at for students yeah unfortunately for the last couple of years we've seen a trend in which a lot of our incoming ninth graders well not incoming they're ninth graders now they experience a lot of um challenges and you at their ninth grade early years um we see a lot of these and f's in math and in english so thankfully we're working on that with the on-track collaborative but we definitely see a lot of just at the early years of high school a lot of students experiencing those challenges are you looking at three pandemic years are you just looking at the less so so what i i think i actually had on my list ask arthur for an update on the on track collaborative and what's happening with that because i think it's important for us to understand like where we are with that because i think i'm very interested in understanding what kind of analyses are coming out you know what how are we identifying as what are the major factors in terms of kids coming in and maybe you know in their freshman year they get a d or f in math right or english right um and just having those very public conversations about the pieces that are these stumbling you know i agree with that it's like so so you focus it at ninth grade and the next question is though what are we doing about it you know what are we doing to help these students and to also communicate with the parents and let them know how important it's because you know it's hard to explain to students they they go to um elementary they go to middle school and they need to understand that once you go to high school if they're on credit it's not just a grade it's more than that because that is going to help them through to get to college right or even to get a better job so you know how are we um letting the parents know you know how important and and the students too because students they just come into school and they just maybe not think about it i don't know but you know how are we reaching them is is that a question that you would like me to address no no no no no no i'm sorry i'm just thinking out loud you know what are we doing you know what are we doing for these students and and families you know i include the parents because you know education starts in the home but right but we need to let the parents know how important is even when they go to coffee with the principals you know you see a lot of parents in high school these days um well it's more open now after the epidemic a little better thank god for that but you know they need to know that how important it is you know need response to go in there and speak you know we need to reach them and not wait till they're like a junior and they then they end up at sierra high school you know we need to try to reach them before that i'm just no i'm not asking a question right and then my last question is just around budget right so do we as a board have to actually adopt a uh we you just have to have an information item at a board meeting um and so um are you gonna clearly align a budget for how we want to spend these monies like at what point is that gonna come to us so we can see like how this aligns with or else happens yes i can generate a report that along the way and and you can see how the alignment is if you were like i think i was asking if maybe we have a plan an event i understand things may shift right and that there's value in being able to make sure but but i i would really like to see like at the outset like right a budget of where we anticipate as spending these dollars in house sure um keep in mind that it doesn't have to be expended until i think 25 um 2025 um so this total amount i would give you kind of like a three-year plan for what you can do perfect yeah and i think it makes sense to bring that when you bring the elf information but i think looking at budgets at the same time makes sense i just wanted to share a comment that as we talk about this particular grant being focused on a through g and for students in grades 9-12 i'd like to have a future presentation and discussion on articulation between junior high and high school and where we're providing more support to middle school students so as eighth graders matriculate to high school how are we ensuring that they are ready to do high school work and rather than doing a remediation once they get to high school and maybe fail yeah the two questions i had were around pe and and uh two years of language the discrepancy uh what's up here the disruption between the a through g and then our graduation requirement with pe to board member cruz gonzalez's question we require what is that the what is minimally required by ed code yeah and that's what that's what our graduation okay and then as far as language yeah you pose the question i mean for for the rest of us um i i'd be here to know what other if there are thoughts from other board members around this the concept of of there being you know two years versus one year and then also hearing from from uh staff around what what is the what what is why why isn't that currently aligned why is there that description yeah my question is so if the requirement is two years why do we have one year that's you're right i mean why is it not two years if it pleases the board i'm thinking uh we can uh bring a presentation uh to kind of see um you know for every action there's a reaction um we have the ada g and then we also have uh cte pathways and courses and robust um on the if we're talking college and career maybe on the career side and so just kind of see how those things work together in in tandem and in collaboration um so that when we're when we're looking at our students our high school students um that we're keeping in mind um for most students right that's six periods uh four years and so how how do we how do we uh have a graduation a requirement um that that honors lots of different choices and i'm not saying it can't be together i'm just saying we can explore that and study that and see how that see how that how that works uh for uh for all of our students i welcome that conversation i mean i'll just give the examples though when i went when i went to school like my first year of language is in eighth grade and i got high school i mean i got credit for my for my a through g's for that right so i think that there are ways to think creatively about how we fit all of this in um and then what was the other thing but oh the other thing is the piece about the same language is right because once upon a time a normal might know this better than me like we have we would have people come in who were fluently spanish and so they would be encouraged to take ap spanish one year and then the next year to go to france instead right and so that was a common practice i don't think i'm not i don't think it's anymore but i think for a long time that was a common practice so this same language piece is really important any other questions thank you okay so we will move to 15.0 human resources and specifically 15.1 approval of professional growth awards for the 2021 2022 school year make a motion to approve 15.1 i'll second move by board member rodriguez pena seconded by board members gonzalez is there any discussion uh i just want to congratulate these classified employees uh you know to continue their education and um and i'm also glad that the unified offers you know um some funds and and i noticed that i have there's some employees here their high school elementary even the adult food transitional program and middle school so it'd be interesting to see what are their job titles i mean are they instructional custodians what their jobs are because i i want to um i know that they have families and they work but they want to continue their education you know you just look for another job i mean you know within our dis right so i i want to congratulate these customer employees for um taking the time to review the work i just want to echo what yolanda just said i mean i agree with you um congratulations to all of these people i do want to say i just want to say i appreciate the fact that we have this right i think so often schools pay attention to professional development for their certificated staff and so i think this is very important and the more we can give all of our staff opportunities to grow the better so i just want to express my appreciation for that and just one more thing so as long as i've been in the board it's um i was in the same amount who gives who decides what amount is the words to be 250 but the amount is um has is part of the agreement in the csca um contract so under article 19 uh it states that the amount is 250 uh but it's also important to note that an employee can receive up to a thousand dollars um through this same um article in the contract uh they just cannot receive the 250 every year it's every other year they could apply uh for for this professional growth provided that the units that they're using to um to satisfy the requirements are not the same units that were used for previous awards so so changing this amount would be negotiate negotiable with the csda correct have you ever thought about that or we i just been seeing i've been here 10 years and i've been seeing the same amount i'm just you know inflation has gone up so forth and i i'm just um wondering if you know give it a shot from i don't know we're open to the discussion for sure thank you okay any other discussion and we will move to vote and the motion passes four yes to one absent which brings us to 16.0 and there are four well 16.0 and then we have 16.1 through 16 uh mr ticket 16.4 in error where it says it has action listed there that is correct that's an error so so that means for 16.1 through 16.4 each of these are our info items are there any um questions or or or any uh any discussion around any of these four items hearing none i'll move this thing to 17.0 and 17.1 which is adjournment and i we'll entertain a motion make motion to approve 17.1 adjournment second the move but moved by board member rodriguez pena is seconded by board member beau any discussion remember you want to talk to us while you're oh you're already up okay all right then we'll move to a vote and the motion passes four yes so one absent and with that this meeting is adjourned uh at 9 45

welcome to the wednesday may 4th 2022 meeting of the anne over planning commission while we are conducting this meeting in person we will provide virtual opportunities to address the commission during public hearings please be patient if there are technical issues mr leonard will you call the role yes commissioner mills yes absent commissioner gibb randall commissioner sovay here commissioner abrams here commissioner hammerschmidt here commissioner dish present commissioner lee here commissioner clark here commissioner white here we have a quorum all righty may i have a motion to approve the agenda okay moved by commissioner lee seconded by commissioner is there a discussion on the motion discussion all those in favor please say aye opposed the motion carries all righty a little closer thank you um we are on to number four which is minutes of the previous meeting um uh may i have a motion to approve the minutes of april 19 2022 okay uh let's see commissioner lee seconded by commissioner weich um any discussion of the minutes no all right all those in favor of the motion please say aye any opposed okay so the motion carries we are on to number four which uh reports to the planning commission council number dish do you have any report council hasn't met yet okay uh mr leonard um no report i'm still uh we have a potential pud pre-submission for next week's working session but it's not confirmed yet so i will certainly update the commission on the content of that working session probably on friday of this week okay any other commissioners or officers or liaisons have anything to report from any of the other committees or anything all right commissioner orc met on tc1 i refused myself but there was a continued discussion for tc1 rezoning at stadium boulevard can i ask the nature of their recusal yeah happy too uh i am a property stakeholder uh in the currently planned rezoning territory all right thanks for that okay so we are on to item six which is audience participation uh this is an opportunity for persons to speak up for three minutes about an issue that is not listed on the public hearing of this agenda please note that the planning commission will be holding dedicated public hearings on two one two miller avenue site plan and the comprehensive plan review if you wish to address the planning commission on other matters now is an appropriate time to speak on this matter press star 9 if listening by phone or use the raised hand feature of viewing into the web link for phone access call 877-853-5247 and enter meeting id 977-6634-1226 city staff will select callers that have raised their hand using the last three digits of your phone number or by name if available for those accessing through the web link you will hear an automated announcement that the host is allowing you to speak when speaking please move to a quiet area and mute any television or background sound so that we may hear you clearly for any speaker please state your name and an address at the beginning of your comments we don't have anybody present in the room is there anybody virtually waiting yes okay caller with the phone number ending with five three four you have up to three minutes to address the planning commission good evening this is tom stalbert calling from lowertown in ann arbor later on tonight we're going to talk about the comprehensive plan as i was thinking about some items relating to that i was thinking about the past and actually was quite reflective today about uh my friend ethel potts who passed on and how was it five years ago maybe uh her and i were at the planning commission talking about the upcoming morningside level retail project and saying how if the application that was being presented to you was to be contemplated that it required a revision says a comprehensive plan because it was not conformed with the comprehensive plan uh and i think we were getting naive at the time it should have been done um in that case uh it would have been a very simple matter of uh looking at the comprehensive plan seeing how that site called for the mixed-use urban college and as planning staff itself said that this uh the proposal did not comply with that and there was a desire by the developer to have essentially an entirely residential development with unnecessary commercial use uh given that was multiple parcels one partial recorder but it could have been zoned to something that would have use and the rest would have been zoned to a residential category so why didn't a revision to that part of the comprehensive plan occur as we requested well if it had occurred you would find out what the citizens the community envisioned for that site for that area in the case of that area of extreme service village probably would have been confirmed as what the community did want uh you look at what you want for tc1 and that's consistent with that that makes sense uh and then the development could not have proceeded which has rejected has the community said no well our vision has changed uh we're fine with an entirely residential project that's called that location uh and then we if we had then changed the comprehensive plan to match that new vision uh then the project would have had to go for a residential zoning and the most tense residential zoning let's say what was approved for valhalla 30 more seconds wasn't as much as they wanted so in essence we didn't do the city did not partake in revising the comprehensive plan to the site as it should have because the developer would not have like either outcome but that's not how we operate so we're looking forward to changing uh revise our comprehensive plan which we need to do we need to look at the past and learn from the past and learn why we've gotten things so wrong over the past few years with regards to the comprehensive plan that's one of multiple errors that's occurred with regards to the comprehensive plan in the past few years i think we need some training it's time to get that from an outsider three minutes thank you anybody else no other speakers are indicating a desire to address the commission okay uh let's see we are on to item seven then uh mr leonard are there any uh new scheduled public hearings yes we have two new public hearings scheduled for the may 17 22 uh planning commission meeting one is 330 detroit street sight plan for planning commission approval this is two existing buildings are proposed to be removed and accommodated a five-story building to include 14 residential units 23 on-site parking spaces eight 1 850 square feet of ground floor retail space and pedestrian vehicular access will be from north fifth avenue and detroit street the zoning is d2 a lot size of 879 square feet 0.23 acres the site is located at 303 303 12 and 314 detroit street the second new public hearing is proposed amendments to the ann arbor city code chapter 55 unified development code to sections 5.16.1a residential occupancy section 5.16.2 a and b adult day care center child care center 5.16.3 j outdoor recreation 5.16.3 p transit corridor development 5.16.4 b non-profit corporations 5.16.6 c drive through facilities 5.16.6 g group daycare home and section 5.19 parking standards are being considered to eliminate minimum parking requirements for all uses eliminate or consolidate some parking use categories eliminate the option for off-site bicycle parking change the weight limit for vehicles parked and driveways and simplify the requirements for electrical vehicle parking and change reformat include the tc1 district in the special parking district regulations all righty we are on to item 8a which is unfinished business and we have the um the site plan on 212 miller avenue that we discussed last time for planning commission approval this is the proposed construction of an eight unit multi-family residential building on this point two acre parcel zoned d2 downtown interface this item was postponed from the previous meeting and we have up to 10 minutes for a petitioner presentation hi i'm kathy keineth with maken engineering and we did go back at the last planning commission meeting you asked us to look at providing better barrier-free access to the site so we went back through that process and we've met with the city we looked at doing some various configurations of ramps and we determined that the lower level graduates would be severely impacted by placing a ramp um and you know as we discussed at the last meeting there were also some issues with the city sidewalks and existing grades there not being very free compliant so we came up with a solution of providing a lift on the outside and if i can i will share my screen with you um can you see that not yet no there we go so originally um i also back up the step here this is the 309 ashley project which is under construction the work along the right of what has already been completed there is an ada compliance sidewalk along here there's a door back here where my cursor is pointing and this existing sidewalk that was installed with the 309 ashley project is a barrier-free um ada compliant sidewalk so what we're proposing to do is to use this area and grant a pedestrian access between the two properties which would allow people to use the existing sidewalk come up this sidewalk that's on the 309 ashley property and then access a proposed lift that we are looking to put in this area when originally we had the steps here we moved the steps over to the east and we think that that's the best solution to provide the barrier-free access from the public right-of-way up to this patio area where the entrances and the courtyard are to the 212 miller project and i will leave it at that unless tom has anything he would like to add uh no thank you kathy that pretty much sums up about what we looked at over the last two weeks thank you mr khan would you like to give a staff presentation yes um what i wanted to add to kathy's presentation is that um we did put together a meeting amongst a number of city staff members as well as the petitioner um the architect and the civil engineer and um city staff all supported the proposed lift as a apparently viable solution to creating a safer uh non-motorized access to the to the east side of the site um so staff at this point um continues to recommend approval of the cycling project okay thank you so now we are on to the public hearing this is an opportunity for persons to speak up to three minutes about the proposed 212 miller site plan if you wish to address the planning commission on this item press star 9 if listening by phone or use the raised hand feature of viewing through the web link for phone access call eight seven seven eight five three five two four seven and enter meeting id nine seven seven six six three four one two two six city staff will select callers that have raised their hand using the last three digits of your phone number or by name if available for those accessing through the web link you will hear an automated announcement that the host is allowing you to speak when speaking please move to a quiet area and mute any television or background sounds so that we may hear you clearly for any speaker please state your name and address at the beginning of your comments first is anyone present that would like to address the planning commission on this topic don't see anybody in the room mr leonard any speakers that are waiting in the queue online no speakers have indicated a desire to address the commission on this item okay i will close the public hearing then and read the proposed motion the anniversary planning commission hereby approves the 212 miller site plan inclusive a layout amendment stated 4 22 22 as it complies with all applicable local state and federal ordinances standards and regulations and it will not cause a public or private nuisance moved by commissioner dish seconded by commissioner lee discussion of the proposed motions nobody commissioner lee uh just a quick clarification question um does the latest site plan actually show this change or is it changed okay gosh i was looking through um i'm guessing the renderings didn't get updated but uh but the change is representative cool all right just wanted to make sure perfect thank you yeah and i would just add on to that you'll recall in order to keep the shorter time frame we did suggest that they provide this one page layout which they've that's been attached to the packet the subsequent full site plans will be amended to reflect that with this revised layout but i think that's what you're referring to yep that's perfect thank you for the clarification looks good to me okay i just would like to say thank you team development team for accommodating our request and coming up with a creative solution so we appreciate that you um that you went through that exercise okay are we ready for a vote all righty um mr leonard okay commissioner abrams yes commissioner hammersmith yes commissioner dish yes yes commissioner lee yes commissioner clark commissioner weich yes commissioner gibrandal yes commissioner sovay yes the site plan is approved thank you very much for your time we are on to 9a regular business uh this is for the discussion of the comprehensive plan review the anniversary planning commission and planning development and services unit review the city comprehensive plan on a regular basis the planning commission is seeking comments about the city's comprehensive plan including elements that should be studied for possible change or new elements that should be added to the plan presentation by staff that would be me um i am going to just run through a very brief uh overview if i can remember how this whole zoom thing works okay as commissioner gibrandal indicated this is kicking off a look at the city's comprehensive plan just a reminder of the framework about why we plan we plan for a couple of reasons the michigan planning enabling act first of all that is the state legislation that directs us and allows us to plan it's an act to codify the laws regarding and to provide for city planning city our local ordinance uh the chapter eight uh directs not only the establishment of a planning commission but also that the planning commission shall prepare a master plan for the orderly physical development of the municipality and the bylaws the commission shall the planning commission's bylaws shall advise the city council in the preparation and continuance of the comprehensive plan being a guide for the future development of the city but more importantly the comprehensive plan is the guide decide designed to help us create a vision of what we want to be how do we want the city to change how do we want it to evolve what is our vision for what the city looks like on the long-term horizon there are a couple of terms that are referenced already in this presentation and that you'll see over time first is master plan and comprehensive plan the planning commission has already started this process but as you'll note from the previous slide state legislation refers to master plan many of our documents are entitled master plan however the term master may evoke slavery it may invoke paternalism it may invoke a finality that is that suggests that things are set in stone and not to evolve so for those reasons the planning commission and staff are moving towards an evolution of using the term comprehensive plan rather than master plan there's no specific reason that the term master plan has to be used as a term despite its reference in legislation but um i will confess that over 20 plus years of doing this work it's still um at times finding myself tripping up and switching my terminology but um that's the aspiration that i'd like to that i'd like us to consider moving forward what is the city's plan the city's plan in our case is actually eight documents some communities have a single document we don't we have eight documents these documents collectively comprise our comprehensive plan for the city these eight documents collectively set the policy guidance that the planning commission city council and our community utilized to understand what our vision is for the city and that's a lot of pages as a reminder you've seen this before sometimes we talk about this in the context of development review right now we're talking about this in the context of the left side of this this graph this graphic the comprehensive planning process is the widest opportunity for community engagement it's the widest opportunity to set the topic areas and aspirations and exploration of how we want our community to evolve this is the sort of casting the widest net to figure out how we can identify and prioritize goals so that in the future we can set those strategies and implement those goals so that the subsequent development that we see is meeting the goals that we desire as a community review uh of the comprehensive plan happens through a couple uh from a couple of of points um since 2008 and the adoption of the michigan planning enabling act there is an expectation that communities will review the plan every at least every five years and then in your bylaws it actually establishes a higher standard to review the plan on a annual basis so this is an opportunity to be very um big thinking broadly thinking um i think you've seen some of the feedback already from communication that's been received in the packet but this is an opportunity to really we're not presenting changes to the plan at this point but rather an opportunity for the public to come to use the planning commission and say the plan should be changed or it shouldn't be changed what should it address are there ideas for what the process should look like are there ideas of what the product should look like how how would it be usable how would it be functional are there particular areas of emphasis how far ahead should we be looking 20 30 50 years and in fact anything um again this is the opportunity for really the broadest opportunity for feedback and and brainstorming as the city considers um if to undertake this work and if and so in which direction this isn't the only opportunity for that feedback planning at a2gov.org is always available to the community to provide feedback at any time as we move forward thank you okay now we're going to have a public hearing on this topic this is an opportunity for persons to speak up to three minutes about the city's comprehensive plan if you wish to address the planning commission on this item press star 9 if listening by phone or use the raised hand feature of viewing through the web link for phone access call three four one 877-853-5247-6634 two six city staff will select callers that have raised their hand using the last three digits of your phone number or if i name or by name if available for those accessing through the web link you will hear an automated announcement that the host is allowing you to speak when speaking please move to a quiet area and mute any television or background sound so that we may hear you clearly for any speaker please state your name and address at the beginning of your comments first is anyone present i don't see anybody present any speakers that uh wish to address us virtually at this time mr leonard not yet but i'd suggest we give it a minute while we're waiting we we got quite a few um emails and things like that too so i hope people have had a chance to be able to look at those uh mr stolberg you have three minutes to address the planning commission hello this is tom stahlberg again calling from lowertown in ann arbor i really encourage you to engage an outside consultant to work on revising our comprehensive plans and engage an outside consultant to work on training both planning commission and city council in understanding better the relationship between the comprehensive plan and zoning and our udc a lot of people on the planning commission right now are very capable professionals can do a good job scrutinizing his night plan and this has been observed by multiple people i've talked to but over the past five years not just the current body but the body overall over the past few years is not addressing a brazonings and master i'm sorry comprehensive plan issues in a manner that uh us with experience in the business are accustomed to seeing uh as one land use attorney an expert in this area said they're not even having the right conversation and what that relates to is in order to comply with the michigan zoning enabling act of michigan planning enabling act and our own udc there are certain criteria we have to follow in certain process we have to follow uh and we have not been doing that when we make evaluations uh free zonings uh we are not always following the criteria that's in our udc when we're taking other actions we're not following the process that's outlined in those other enabling acts we're not permitted to have zoning if we don't comply with the michigan zoning enabling act and we've been out of compliance frequently over the past few years so i'm very much in favor of revising the comprehensive plan i'm very much in favor of city council planning commission and planning staff being better educated and better aware of the proper process for proper loss and i hope we can get that education from outside the city with by hiring an expert as part of this process thank you very much any other speakers caller with the phone number ending with four six four you have three minutes to address the planning commission um hi this is uh linda brauer can you hear me yes we can okay so you know frankly i am i'm mystified by this agenda item because it's raised um in terms of you know we're supposed to look at the map at the comprehensive land use plan every year and you know you want the community to weigh in if you think it's something we need to do now and if so which little bits and pieces of what we think should be changed i i don't understand this because state enabling legislation says for certain to fulfill certain requirements we have to completely review and update our master plan i think it's every five years we are well beyond that so i would think that as the city planning leaders you guys would be trying to put some heat under council to get that complete review rebooted as i recall before the pandemic there was a commission or a committee appointed to to seek out a consultant to shepherd through that process now i know that how would lazarus stop that process and then the i don't know why and then the pandemic happened so it got put on the back burner it's time to put it on the front burner not just a look at here and there let's do an annual cursory review we need a complete comprehensive review of the comprehensive land use plan and i want to point out that at the um april 18th city council meeting our city administrator milton dehoney stated that our comprehensive land use plan is badly out of date and needs to be updated that's a quote and he talked about how state law requires this to happen and he proposed allocating seven hundred thousand dollars seven hundred thousand dollars for the process of re review public engagement and revision so i'm hoping expecting that budget item will be approved at the may 16th council meeting and you should be now getting ready to prepare to shepherd that process through and during the same presentation mr dahony called out three specific areas for future focus overall one downtown upgrades including public restrooms and i as your city planning commission i would ask that you look at where we can have public restrooms downtown and number two equity inclusion which should be part of your process as well as every other city process and he the third focus he mentioned was engagement and he said it needs to be robust and inclusive of all sectors of the community and so that kind of public engagement not has to be part of the comprehensive review of the comprehensive land use plan not just looking at particular stakeholders quote unquote but at broad sectors of the community just as our new city administrator mr dehoni has asked for and i'm really expecting the city planning commission and mr leonard as a planning staff head to really put some heat on this because it's high time it's way overdue we need to look at everything as as the community thank you very much thank you any other speakers alex lowe you have three minutes to address the planning commission alex lowe you can address the planning commission alex lowe there you go now we can hear you sorry about that all right sorry about that um hi this is alex lowe uh calling from fernwood avenue i'm actually quite excited about about the new comprehensive planet options that that we have for it and i just thought i'd express what i'd like to see but first thing i'd like to see is more for uh focus on pedestrians and uh bus riders it um that that includes uh things like if you've got a large development under under proposal uh uh requiring cut throughs uh so that people can acc uh access uh busways and various leads goes really well with uh with the tcc one zoning uh related to uh to which i'd love to see more push from all parts of um of the city government to work towards more tc1 faster and i think i think it might be time to start to start considering in in certain areas of uh of the city's parking maximums um we we death desperately need more density in the in the city so that we can allow more people to uh to live in ann arbor and in some places what uh what we're seeing is just huge swaths of parking at outside of uh stores that even on black friday just never fill up beyond you know thirty percent maybe fifty percent so i'd i'd love to see uh to see some action taken on that thank you thank you no other speakers have indicated a desire to address the commission alrighty so there is no action proposed tonight but this is an opportunity for a planning commission to be able to provide feedback to staff on what to incorporate into future action on the comprehensive plan yeah and i can maybe just set the stage for that a little bit so you heard some of this during public comment the city administrator is proposing funds for to assist the city in some comprehensive plan update process that has not been adopted but it will be considered i think at the second may meeting of of the council accurately we went through an rfp as well back in 2019 i believe so from a staff perspective i just i want to tell you what sort of my envision is my vision is for moving forward um i do think it's time to sort of revisit that comprehensive uh plan update that was started in 2019 and got a bit sidetracked by the pandemic my vision would be to start working on a request for proposals in that regard i think much of the requests for proposals priorities that were established previously are still relevant a more concentrated focus on climate change a more concentrated focus on equity more concentrated focus on perhaps aging in place and now we have the benefit of some more community conversation about some of these items such as the a20 plan and and other community conversations so uh i envision um frankly sort of dusting off that rfp uh starting with where we are today with some updates having an initial conversation with the master plan subcommittee of this group to get it into what i hope is a pretty final format present it to the planning commission then for feedback and then it'll sort of go away from the planning commission as the hopefully the city the budget holds we can start working on that we i do envision engaging a consultant to help with this so we can start that process eventually hopefully successfully select a consultant and start the work of that process so that's what i envisioned from a process perspective either now or at the next meeting this would be an opportunity if there are big picture aspects of that rfp that you think would be really important that perhaps weren't addressed last time um if any of those big topic areas that i just mentioned seem to be glaring blind spots for something that you want to see specifically addressed provide that to me now or even if you individually provide it to me as correspondence before the next meeting or even after that i can take that and start considering it in the context of that rfp so um i'll stop there again this is an opportunity for the public to sort of provide their feedback to you if you have thoughts now things that you would really want to make sure that are emphasizing that rfp i can take them now or in the future commissioner dish i'm not really sure how to word this but i think it's distinct from equity and i think that it has to do with updating the comprehensive master plan with a view to understanding uh sorry uh well with a view to reparation and i i hesitate to use that word because it can be just a red flag word but i think more than equity is at stake here it's really a we want to have a consciousness about how land use contributed to wealth creation in the past for a limited group of folks and what can be done to address the the built-in structural distribution of wealth through land use patterns and to as much as we can mitigate redress you know undo undo is hard we don't get to start from strat from scratch but clearly this is a you know it's a national conversation most of us are aware of it it's come up here on planning commission many times and i think of that as being distinct from equity because it has something more to do with with justice so anyway i kick that out there i think we've talked about this before so i just wanted to bring it back up commissioner hammerschmidt are we able to see that rfp at some point soon to be able to make comments yeah on it okay um i agree with what commissioner dish was saying um to the extent that we talk about equity and racial justice both i think that's really important um yeah i think it'd be good to see the rfp another thought i had was you know coming out coming out of covid public health is sort of another umbrella where we can you know that climate change impacts health um equity impacts health um what's the other thing oh aging in place um so that could be that's a frame that i know a lot of other cities las vegas just did they adopted a new comprehensive plan and like health sort of was a frame for that i think it'll just sort of that'll depend like what consultant we pick but um that could be something if that's something that we think would work as a frame maybe that gets worked into the rfp i don't know but yeah i kind of want to at some point would like to see the rfp that we used last time to be able to yeah i can share but um let me just give a maybe a quick high level overview of the content now a little bit more than what i had did before so the the original rfp um started with um a pro a conversation with the community about values i envisioned this to be a bit of a less so about what are what are our visions for being uh where we want to be but more as a um a set of filters that we could apply when we were facing a different a difficult discussion through the evolution of the comprehensive plan when we were facing something that there were maybe multiple viewpoints a set of values that we could go to and say how would it further these values to perhaps help us resolve conflicts in that process um the second piece was community engagement that it was going to be expansive and successful to make sure that we were getting to everyone it included even aspiring community members as part of that conversation instead of just community members and that and we've specifically emphasized community engagement as your proposal should reflect that as a primary proportion of cost and work because it's so foundational to the process we asked for we suggested consolidation right now we have eight plans um the original rfp set a target of a maximum of 100 pages i will tell you that in the even in the preliminary conversations that that was really appealing to some people and it was really scary to some people because we have thousands of pages of policy and i think that there's a fear of what gets lost in that but i think it doesn't have to be 100 pages but having uh having to read eight documents to establish what the community's vision is i think is also not ideal land use [Music] identify a future land use plan that addresses goals of the city including projected or desired population growth the original target was 2050 and beyond trying to perhaps think about less of a future land use map that is very referential to our current zoning pattern and more of a future land use map that might similar to those values provide a framework for how proposals could be evaluated i think that's a fundamental component of our community conversation do we want to preserve our existing land use pattern or do we want to find ways that it can evolve then we talked about focus areas aging in place perhaps updating our design guidelines that are used in our downtown districts we started having conversations about applying those elsewhere how does it interact with the university of michigan plan we will not be planning on university property but how are we thinking about their long-term evolution a very and then a very specific uh an effective implementation strategy for us to take those visions move forward um that's an addition those are so those are the things beyond the um the focus on equity and climate change that i had previously addressed so i'll share this as well but that's a more comprehensive picture of what was in the original rfp that's super helpful which brings up a couple of other questions for me um one of the things i was going to ask anyways that talked about the like consolidation so you showed the pictures of like the eight different plans so you know we just adopted a transportation plan the 820 plan how and then you should like the land use element so like what port are you seeing that this is an update to that are we trying to eliminate some of those other planes we're not going to eliminate a transportation plan that we just adopted so and there's like the pros plan for parks we're just kind of going to take those plans and incorporate them within this document so that you wouldn't have to read those others to get a general idea or how are you envisioning that i think it's a great question uh the some of them i think are well suited to consolidation i would say things like our natural features master plan our downtown plan our land use plan and the sustainability framework those are all city-wide gi city-wide or very fairly wide geographies that i think would be well suited for a single consolidation plans such as the transportation plan the tree line master plan and the pros plan the pros plan gets updated on a sort of a little bit tighter timeline i feel less strongly about those i i would say generally their four documents is still an awful lot but there might be some logic in keeping some of those so i don't i'm not i don't envision all of them being consolidated but i don't know that i would start off with that assumption it might be worth at least the exploration about how far could we go okay then the last thing i think um we talked about values they talked about focus areas and i feel like they could be one in the same so i i think we need to up like absolutely set focus areas initially but if it feel i'm assuming that the the consultant would sort of go through like you know we all sitting at this table are saying equity injustice has to be a focus area you know when we get out into the community when the consultant gets out into the community maybe they'll hear something vastly different i mean there's going to be some sort of like discussion if we say these are certain focus areas that we want and that's not what comes out in community conversations there will be adjustments i can't imagine that the ones that we've said would not be but you know i also don't want to be like premature and saying like before we even have community conversations like we've decided that these are the focus areas if that makes any sense don't think we're doing that but that's that that community engagement plan i think has to be sort of like designed to make sure that that input is all reciprocal yeah i mean i i think that's i i'm not worried about that ours for example our city council has set some policy directions you know that's for example climate carbon neutrality is something that this board struggles with on a project-by-project basis our legislative body has declared that as a goal and so including that as a focus area seems pretty comfortable to me justice and equity seems like a fairly comfortable component to put in there as a priority um perhaps things like you know i mean i like when you're when you're posing that question i think about aging in place we have an aging population like everybody else but a lot of the things that are good for aging in place are good for everybody across the community so maybe it doesn't need to be framed in that way so but i i also think that there's some logic in trying to be specific in what we're asking for so that we get the best partnership and assistance in getting there so i think to keep it too open to say let's wait till the community engagement process is resolved before we know what those focus areas are that might that's probably too late but i hear what you're saying we need to build in the ability to sort of reset and make sure that they are reflective of what we're hearing yeah i totally i totally agree with all that i think it's just you know i think there's this rhetoric that's like well why should i participate if they've already decided yeah yeah commissioner hybrid like i guess maybe that's this is just a very specific thought but like through the past few years we've learned about the possibility of engagement that may not have been in that wasn't in the rfe to that degree before and so making sure when we are talking about community engagement looking at access to technology access to multiple time scales but you know access virtually and in person and making sure there's like we just have more tools and access points so i think that's just something to like to reinforce which might be another way to engage i think how we discussed in the previous effort around this our current and aspiring communities um which i know is also like an interesting one but you know we've got that commuter segment of our population the student segment of population and so those are areas outside of you know the established population that have a huge impact and should have a say um and probably have a desire and can have pain points to that should be voiced and listened to um so those are at least a couple of my additional thoughts right now oh um we did talk maybe like six months ago about maybe doing a call or at least at this table like looking through every like is that part like prior to this process something that we're looking to do or like offer up to the consultant as like a first pass from our end yeah i mean anything i think we do in that regard would help that process um it is something that we've talked about it's something that i wish i would have gotten done already but any progress we make on that even if it's not complete i think helps set the stage if only sort of uh an audit about the goals and strategies of the previous documents and what is our assessment on those you know uh an example of one of those as you'll see in the work program is revisit premiums to encourage housing in the d1 and d2 districts so that occurred in 2009 that was a specific strategy it was accomplished five years ago i probably would have said chuck we don't need to do that but here we are now revisiting that it's still reflective of that same strategy so um but yes the shorter answer is i think that would be work that would be well done well time to be doing now as we're gearing up to a contractual relationship with a consultant say hey here's some homework all ready to set the stage for where we've been but you also got a lot of other stuff going on so is do you think that do you imagine that being with the full board part of this committee like subscribe to start with the master plan committee okay um and then for timeline i'm assuming that we're trying to get to a contract starting with a fiscal year or yeah if the funds are awarded they wouldn't be available until july so now seems like the right time to start sort of a rfp i don't know exactly when that procurement process will start if we'll start it actually in july but the time seems right to start getting organized so that once that hits we're either well underway or maybe even close to a selection process yeah yeah i don't know if like you don't want to actually announce rfp until the money's officially like opened up first it hasn't yet yeah until july so yeah i guess that's kind of the time you know like are we ready to sign from the rfp in july or are we ready to release the rfp for applications in july yeah we could probably release it before okay um but even starting now i anticipate that there'll be some time and we're going to want to provide some time to respondents to make sure that you know we're getting the information we want yeah um and i guess to that committee since we have a lot of commissioner turnout like and i don't know if we've addressed that role in this past year since it was kind of like a floating thing since we we didn't know how active it was going to be i just wanted like if anybody wanted to like join oh um in the interim right now that like isn't like officially designated to that committee yeah typically we do committee appointments in july but maybe it makes sense to bring it with the work program next meeting and since time's right that there's going to be work particularly done on this plan committee okay so yeah we would we would wait till july typically but since just get a head start on new committee appointments maybe or at least for this one okay that's it thank you anybody else go ahead commissioner abrams uh can you remind us who's on that committee i was afraid you were going to ask that and while you're pulling that up i also just um have a question about the timeline the process that you described sounds very lengthy and i'm wondering how we balance um taking our time and leaving enough time for the right amount of engagement and you know close careful thoughtfulness with a kind of urgency that i think we feel in the community feels to do this and i'm also thinking about 2030 and it being i don't know or maybe we could just talk about an estimate of the process you described and how long it might take it sounded to me like could easily take two two and a half years or something like that um and so then would we be would city council be adopting a new comprehensive plan in like 2026 or 2025 for things which were meant to impact our you know 2030 goals among other things so yeah um i i do think it's a multi-year effort sure i know i know i just wondered if we could just and i think realistically about how to about the timeline i don't mean to brush us but maybe just to have expectations um shared expectations i i think that part of that is probably part of that we're more successful in that probably by more accurately pinpointing the focus areas at the outset so as we're engaging with a consultant we're putting together that work program we have a better sense of what what we need to do and that gives us a better ability to probably stick with that time frame and be faithful to it i think to the extent we um leave more of that evolution um not content but even like sort of categories to we will decide that after phase one that probably increase increases the chances of more time for scale i think the last rfp was proposing about a a year and nine month process which i thought might have been optimistic so the current plan review committee is commissioners clark hammerschmidt lee and sovay thank you um is there uh what would be the standard practice in terms of um i'm trying to figure out how to say this so there was a consultant who had been engaged and that contract was terminated due to covid no it was never executed it was never executed yeah we uh we had um so as a reminder to new commissioners when we started this process in 2019 we actually formed a sort of an advisory committee each award nominated a resident from their ward as well as the mayor and then we had some city staff as well we went through that group did the review of proposals shortlisted them for interviews conducted the interviews and then came to a recommendation that was never exec that was never approved by city council so um is there any possibility of uh having that time and labor be part of this process or are we are starting from scratch required um i don't think we're starting from scratch because we have that rfp is a good foundation already i think that it does warrant going through the process again part of that is firms deciding what their capacity is timing wise and we are going to have some minor adjustments to that rfp we have the a20 plan now we didn't have that before previously we said climate change should be more front and center now we have some more specific recommendations i think one of the questions now is how do we want to pull that document into our land use framework so so the short of it is i don't think that there's much recycling that work but at the same time i don't know that we need to go through that same process again commissioner hammersmith do you mean the same process you mean with the community correct okay i was going to ask about so you're envisioning the the selection process is going to be comprised of staff i don't know yet um but um probably something different than it was before that was it was a really robust process we got a lot of feedback but one of the things that was interesting with that is because for whatever reason that construction we started having a lot of discussions about content and what might end up in the planning process versus sort of just getting to that process so i don't know you know again very very interesting conversations really compelling passionate conversations but it wasn't necessarily always the best path towards getting us into the work of actually turning the switch and starting to actually incorporate some of those ideas or test them so um so it'd probably be some combination i'm guessing of commissioners and staff yeah ultimately it's a city council awards the contract um but i haven't i i i don't have it sort of exactly mapped out yet but not the same process as last time i'm pretty i wouldn't recommend that that makes sense to me commissioner lee uh thank you um i kind of voicing everyone else's uh discussions i think it's important for us to clarify the deliverable and timeline of things just to be able to have a pretty broad understanding of you know what are expectations of timing as well as deliverable are we combining are we reducing are we enhancing some of these different plans i know each one of these have had incredible amounts of feedback inclusion research so um the thought of combining would be you know have to be a pretty rigorous process um my other thoughts i know there were some comments that came in about the land use plan um being a pretty critical one for us to tackle i agree with that also natural features just because i know we've come such a long way with storm water as well i've also been looking at other you know cities comprehensive plans best practices an infrastructure plan is i think something that we might want to also consider um as we move forward uh identifying and resolving conflicts that may exist between the different plans just given the kind of temporal nature of how long it's you know the distance between it i think will be kind of critical um but uh yeah overall the overarching point that i want to hopefully we can get is clarifying the deliverable and timeline of this of what we're looking to achieve so that we we're all talking kind of from the same viewpoint okay these are some of the hallmarks or i guess time frames that we need to hit so those are the two items deliverable timeline let's clarify those and then and obviously the the values piece is so obvi incredibly important transparency inclusivity social justice all of those things are going to be obviously key as we move forward and and the ability i love the comment about technology and how far we've come in the way that uh people provide comments so i think we have a opportunity to be more inclusive than ever but uh just uh wanted to bring up at least these points of resolve conflicts that exist within plans and let's clarify what are we do like what's the deliverable of like what's the composition of that comprehensive plan going to look like at the onset without compromising all of the underlying work that's been done to you know get us to where we are so just getting a clearer sense of that i think will help a lot of people to conceptualize what this process will look like thank you anybody else um i would just like to get a little bit more clarification i'm not on the committee i'm not asking to be on the committee for this but um i'm just wondering how you see the interface between the larger planning commission and the subcommittee is it that something that's going to sort of come up in a somewhat regular basis are working sessions or do you see them being pretty separate i'm just curious because i i would definitely like to be able to weigh in every once in a while but um i don't have the bandwidth for it either to be able to be on it so yeah i don't know um it could happen a lot of different ways initially i think that i would envision that the subcommittee would help as like orc does they help staff present a better product to the full commission so the committee wouldn't have any action they would they would be an extension of the staff in that case sort of playing that interloper role between what we put on paper and them saying i think the commission's going to be more responsive to this approach and so then that would come to the full commission i would envision at some point i think it would be great to have the planning commission say and take action to say yes this rfp represents our desire for how this process should look and the product that we want and the areas of focus i think that's important that's an important endorsement because you are the body that ultimately has to create this document and present it to the city council then the next phase of that would be determining how we want to involve the planning commission with uh selection the planning commission won't vote on that contract but i think we want to figure out how to involve the either the committee a few members in that process so that once that does go to city council similarly the planning commission has had a voice and saying yes this seems like the right partner for us to undertake this is the right scope these are the adjustments we would suggest so that's presented to city council and then if that is enacted then then it's probably the next phase is what's in that work plan what groups are we creating are we creating a steering committee are we creating many steering committee are we creating focus groups um the last plan had a little bit of both it had some sort of bi-disciplinary focus groups but then it also had some sort of steering committees that were sort of over top of those focus groups trying to tie some of those things together so um and that's one of the things that you know i think that a consultant can help bring us some expertise and how that has gone in other communities and that's that's one of the really great benefit besides horsepower is hey they're they're doing this planning process in multiple communities on a frequent basis where they got several going at a time they can bring that expertise and knowledge about how those community engagements were successful or not successful and how we can improve upon them that's helpful thank you um i guess one other thing i'd like to say too is the whole idea of aspiring people in ann arbor and i have teenagers and i just noticed that their views are really different than a lot of the things that we hear here for our public comment and um you know they're the future i would love it if my kids could afford to live here i don't know that they will be able to um but i think it would be interesting to engage like some people in our local high schools or things like that about like what they this is really i mean we're planning for the future these are the people that we hope can live here the people that grew up here that actually could have a chance to live here too so i'd like to think about that in a slightly broader way because i think they are very unlikely to show up to our typical meetings um and i think that they do have an important voice so i guess i would just add that in terms of how to think about engagement as well within this that um you know i think there are lots of places where where kids and students are corralled where we could actually get get their feedback and not ask them to show up to an evening meeting or something like that and i think that um uh there's a lot of things that they have a stake in with this so i'm sure they're at least watching mom on tv [Laughter] all right so um what i i just want to just sort of reflect back what i'm hearing um it sounds like the commission is of a similar mind as i am probably a good starting point as a similar rfp as we did before i'm going to make some adjustments based on some of the comments that we talked about um i would say um the next time that this full group might see it is after staff has gone through it and the sub the plan subcommittee has gone through it so i'm not going to commit to a time yet but i do want to get moving on it it's perfect timing with our bylaws now if that council budget holds um i do think that we're in good shape to make some progress if anything i would say that i'm a little worried about cost based on this budget item and what our last cost was um but um i still feel really fortunate that so far that um and i think the administrator as as was noted he's he's very committed to having this conversation to the extent we can so great okay thank you all right we are on to uh item 10a which is other business so um this is the 2022 city planning commission and staff work program recommendation uh and the recommendation is postponement so um mr leonard did you wanna yeah so as you'll recall from the memo so this is um a frequent flyer on your agendas both the last meeting this meeting and then it will be presented to the commission for hopeful adoption at the next meeting so after the public hearing we just held after this conversation about the plan um this is an opportunity for you to say i like this i don't like it i want to re we should re-prioritize things um since you've last since you last saw this i think i made the changes that were discussed let me just highlight them um i did and you i think you there was at least one communication on this i pulled out the next steps my milestones as part of this this is an annual work plan we can always put it back in if desired um um i added what i thought um and thanks to commissioner sylvain mills who um i sort of bounced some just just some drafts off of um there was a conversation about why are we doing some of these things what is the impetus for this where they reference in our planning documents so in the top stanza you're seeing more sort of regulatory frameworks and then in the bottom is our planning framework i put down just a very simplistic reference to where you would find the applicable language in those documents as it relates to those standards i did include the a20 plan on here um i also include applicant petitions things that the planning commission has proposed and things that staff have proposed in addition to the land use planning framework uh i moved parking maximums and added solar energy readiness to to this year um as was as was discussed another item that was discussed uh was mixed-use neighborhoods 20-minute neighborhoods providing other types of uses in perhaps residential neighborhoods to reduce trips that has been added to 2023 missing middle r4c and residential district infill has also been added to 2023 other than that you'll still see the tc1 by corridor by year you'll still see the laundry list of sort of things we might get to in the future again this is just another touch point hopefully it's getting closer to what's comfortable for the commission this 2022 is a little intimidating to me but just to be clear i'm happy to shoot for the moon and we'll see what we can get done any discussion commissioner sylvain thank you for adding that um if you want to look at it um with those references i like in terms of the work plan for 2022 and just the previous discussion um the transportation plan recommends parking maximums in transit corridors which we've done you will reconsider them that next meeting okay so i guess i like i i just want clarification on like uh in addition to that for for me i'll just kind of voice that i i do not see parking maximums as a priority to pressure the work plan instead of being thoughtful of the other agenda items when the parking maximum goals i feel like have been met um to the extent of being within those districts they're not recommended to be um applied to all districts at this point so i'll just say that like of of things and priorities that would be one that i would be happy to drop to 2023 if not just watch the market and like respond and have it be kind of a living thing so i i think like what you did was actually really uh really helpful to be able to like see and pinpoint exactly what the language said about parking maximums and decide at least for me that it isn't kind of a necessary effort at this time any other comments i would envision i buy the next meeting i don't know how much i will have but to the extent i have a better sense of time frame for the planning process i might reflect some of that in there but i uh as a caveat i don't envision that at half that time those timelines have to be in here i really envision this to be our this is the big thing that goes on the bulletin board there's a lot of work that happens with each one of these that we can talk about time frames and i'm happy to develop other products so um just over the coming weeks before that adoption if it's something that you feel is important to incorporate we can look at it but i really wanted to start with a um the list this and just keep us hopefully disciplined on these things the other challenging thing will be if things come up um if for some reason council asks us to look at something in the past we sort of put a placeholder for that there but that hasn't happened with the same frequency over the last year that it probably did the prior couple of years so i'm okay with it how it is mr white so looking at the work plan in particular the delta changes am i is my understanding correct that the comprehensive plan review process won't touch the udc that's correct so is in in terms of this lead of the changes in udc one of the things that i was hoping for was sort of some consolidations of overlaps in some of the zoning does this incorporate that or is it being kicked out separately as like the r4c at the bottom of 2023 and then into 2024 so the idea would be we would like take a meeting and everyone brings the thing they want to get rid of in the udc and then we we hash it out put it on a board and then we come to some consensus and then we vote things out of the udc or is your plan staffs going to bring recommendations to planning as alexis has already done and then we say yes or no to those types of things so it can happen either way how did if i could how are you imagining it in the work plan so right now in this work program i'm not imagining a lot of capacity for um adding new things so if you if like if if that is something that the planning commission is desirous to say that there might be things that are not reflected on this list that we would like that you'd like to tackle more quickly in that case i would suggest we define and name it and we add it to this year and then we move something else off maybe it's parking maximums maybe it's something else or move something back i guess i'm because i don't want to be out of line that is to say this is your first this is exactly the process you're not out of line it i understand that i'm not out of line in this part of the conversation but when i start directing staff work that's where i feel like it's out of line so if if if the idea was hey i've looked at the udc we can get rid of like 40 of these restrictions which would you know help us with light sizes and non-conforming lots and would allow for height restrictions to be removed and stuff like that i imagine that's going to generate some kind of staff work and then you're going to say okay we can either do these 40 things you just brought to us or we can do the things that are on the work plan that i've already created for you so what i'm asking is given that you're the person who brings the plan to us and then we give you feedback how did you imagine that going did you did you imagine that being a part of this year's work plan at all and so you just say no yeah okay it's not it's not part of this work plan but it could be like one of the things we do i know you're agreeable and i appreciate that but but i want to be clear you know it's the planning commission that's why this is here this it is for you to direct my work and so it is for you to tell me of these things which are the things that are most important to the planning commission and if um and and i would say like it depends if you want to eliminate if if that conversation is let's eliminate lot sizes and all dimensional requirements in all districts that's a big conversation sure um that i'd probably say like we probably need to move three or four of these things off at least to have that conversation um if we have that conversation that's more focused it might it might be one if that's but if that's a conversation i think that's my point is let's name it let's commit the resources to having that conversation to see um what that looks like or just put a placeholder on there just and even if we have to limit it even if that list is 30 and i say let's start with these five sure that's at least prioritizing that conversation in the context of all these other things that the commission has already talked about right so i think in my mind i was waiting for the invitation of the review of the udc four things we could just consolidate and it doesn't seem like that's on the horizon explicitly yeah it's being picked up in the r4c conversation it's being picked up in the missile missing middle it's being picked up in things that alexis identifies and brings to us but there's not a blanket conversation where we look at the udc and we say there's a lot in here that doesn't really need to be in here you know like i didn't know that in the udc is the restriction of unrelated people inside the living thing that was surprising to me because i just read about that in kansas and i was like i thought we got rid of that but no it's right there four unrelated people can't live together by statute and i'm like why is that in there i mean i know why but why is it still in there so that's the kind of thing and and there's no un unless we bring it through the um planning commission business at the end of the agenda then it's a surprise to everybody there is no real conversation to tack it on to something and that's what i'm i'm really asking is what's the process for us to have that level of conversation because we've identified hey this shouldn't be here but there's not a clear path for how are we going to talk about it what are the implications what does it mean for staff time and so then it just sits and then you just bring it up like i am now and everyone's looking and they're like yeah what are we going to talk about that okay did you have something yeah we had like unzoning i think was it was called right which was this kind of a little maybe brainstorming segment that it got a little lost is i'm assuming that's kind of what we're trying to get back to can you explain kind of where that win or like how that logic might fall into something yeah so a couple things it's not on here it was something that i threw out it um i guess i didn't hear a lot of momentum towards it i think part of it is also i think some of the things that commissioner white is talking about and unzoning there are aspects of that conversation that we could undertake today we could clear the deck and dedicate our next working session to let's just start what's everybody's wish list for the udc and then some of that i think would be sorted in the context of what do our plans support in that regard and what do our plans not support in that regard so i think some of that can happen through this plan process that we're talking about when we undertake that planning process what do we want that to say about our definition of family what we wanted to say about lot sizes across the city what we wanted to say about height so there's a lot of ways towards it and i would i think in a way the broader it gets and the more comprehensive across all of our land that's the right place for it that's not to say that we have that conversation and there might be some really more pointed narrow things that are clearly supported by the years of engagement that we've already commented that are reflected in our current planning documents even though we are we might suggest that yes it's time to update our plan it doesn't mean that we disregard the policy that we have on the books now so um part of that conversation is these three meetings what are you not seeing on here if if if getting rid of unrelated the definition of family is one of those things that's the kind of conversation that we can add to this work program um it doesn't have to happen in these meetings we can dedicate a time to it to explore that but that's part of my intention is sort of getting this to you in these iterations to say there's 10 things on here that i don't see that i would like to see that's up to the whole commission to agree that those things are important as opposed to just one commissioner it's not a list of everybody's wishes but this is absolutely the time to to do that and if and i can work to sort of put together that conversation if you feel like that hasn't been provided adequately i think the thing that i'm struggling with is the the land use through the comp through the comprehensive plan review overlaps but doesn't directly address so like the setbacks is in the udc it's not going to be in the land use but how we use the land is related to how we place structures on the lots and i just don't know where to get into that because where we get into it is when someone comes and says like jennifer hall did and said you know we're going to build this structure here and we see the setback and we're like why are you not maximizing this land and coming closer to the sidewalk because this doesn't need a 35 foot setback and so then it's it feels like it's incremental yeah whereas we had that conversation about that one lot and we're like well if we just change it by five feet we should be able to get more in and and you sort of looked at the plots and alexis weighed in and all of that and so it's just like i just don't know where to bring that so if you're saying let's dedicate a working session to unzoning then it would just be helpful to a know when we can do that b um figure out if there's some interface with staff so that i can ask the question before the meeting about like hey if i propose a change to setback from 35 to what's that going to do across the city you know in terms of lots so that we don't have that argument not the argument but that discussion where you could say well darl let's look at these original plottings and how that all lays itself out so so that's all because i just don't want to feel like it's coming out of left field and you've got this work plan and you're like gosh we're getting close but we keep getting tripped up on these small places so i like your idea of let's have a unplanning working session where we all like pick five things in the udc we want to see go and we just bring them and like survive or just vote them out of the udc exactly because i just say i think there's some things about that i'm learning about our land use that restricts certain things and you know i even asked you the question about setback and it was like where is it and you're like it's at the property line and i'm like okay but here are three things tell me exactly where this becomes an issue and then we have all those non-conforming um units or you know uses throughout the city and so it's like how do we just sort of you know i think it was jane henry's comment tonight that just sort of said something about that to just say like how do we just skip it in the code and just say we're just going to accept this as a new non-conforming district as opposed to trying to do it incrementally so that's all and the only opportunity to have this conversation because of the open meetings act and how we can use email is here at the table and then our meeting is at 11 and everyone's like oh fun conversation but i would like to go to bed and i i just want to avoid that so um yeah so i vote not that it matters for a uh an unzoning you know sort of conversation and i'd love to hear what the other commissioners think about that go ahead commissioner abrams i really like that idea um i also think that we often have small small bites on our agenda like um cottage food industry update update or i'm drawing a blank but i think between us we could all remember kind of smaller items so i think in the work plan something like drive-throughs or i think there can like maybe we could have a working session to kind of generate a bunch of ideas but we don't have to take them all on at once and we could identify ones that are little nibbles or smaller bites and sometimes those small bites balloon and end up taking nine months but sometimes we are able to be quite efficient and do things within a couple of meetings um and adding 20 minutes to each meeting or something like that it doesn't have to be so maybe we could um try to tackle it that way like maybe there's a kind of i don't know what you call it in the work plan but there's a an allowance let's say that we hold for kind of smaller scale items and the work plan really outlines much bigger the kind of bigger things we know are going to take months months of work commissioner dish i like this idea of an unzoning conversation uh as often when there's a potluck or even a reverse potluck i'm a little daunted that my offering may not be very good because the idea of reading through the udc and figuring out what i want to strike that feels like more than a weekend's homework but it does seem to me that a number of things have come up so i know that during the discussion of adus two years ago that uh restriction on the number of unrelated people that could live in a place because we had to think about it in terms of the adu and the main house so that has come up and there seems to be an appetite to think about what purpose that is serving and what sorts of normative household forms it is enforcing um and so that would be something that i think we've already talked about it seems like there are probably other things like that that we that have come up before that we might want to visit in a systematic way and like you said commissioner white getting some staff feedback so that you know what looks ridiculous to us oh but think of this oh so and it's fine for that to happen at the session or or in notes beforehand the way the staff gives counsel staff responses so that we save embarrassment um we could you know we could do that kind of format but if if anyone else can think of ones that we have spoken about before and i don't know can we talk about setbacks generally i know that we have spoken about them with respect to particular zoning districts uh because we that's what we did with when we did when we just did the great r2a revision we specifically looked at um it wasn't setback but it was lot sizes right so yeah um i don't know if there are are there other things that have come up more or less repeatedly that are in the udc that we would want to come to in a structured way and really think if we want to tackle rather than keeping on butting up against them and in feeling you know vaguely annoyed or confused by what they are doing there i guess i would add one other thing too and that is like what makes sense to have does it make sense to have that discussion as part of our own discussion and or is it better as part of the whole comprehensive plan piece too so that that's they're i'm a little confused by that frankly about sort of how those things overlap um and so i don't know if you have any wisdom on that well i think i think commissioner weich was starting off with this the planning process at the conclusion about planning this planning process ideally from my lens it has there's three pages with tables at the end and it says year one the city should update its lot size requirements and it's setback requirements and it should look at uses in the r1 districts year two it should evaluate changes to its natural features ordinances in the following manner and it should consider consolidation of commercial districts for simplicity and it should revise short-term rentals in the follow to consider this impact um year four five and it get it lays out then that's the the plan as commissioner white asked doesn't change a single regulation in our udc it does result in a community vetted and bought in prioritization of those changes that we should undertake to the udc after adoption for the sake of realizing our vision i think commissioner weich is saying i don't want to wait till that there are changes that we should take concurrently to that process yes and those are those are the changes that you that we've identified here because they are currently reflected in our plans as we go through that process that is the conversation that we would have i would be frantically at this table trying to say i want to reduce the lot sizes in the r1b district i would be frantically trying to answer the question does our plan address that or not commissioner i guess like i support maybe i didn't say it when it was on the page loud enough before it fell off the page the unzoning um but i am kind of imagining a structure where through a working session brainstorm we discover things that might fall into the charlie delta category and then other things that get their own line item right like that there's there's two tiers of this work to be done and some things might be less impactful and be all single correct right um and so this feels like a bigger conversation than parking maximums but um like unzoning before parking maximums and then at least we get the first round of things out to figure out what needs to map out into this list and what then becomes maybe in the future list rolling into you know i guess whatever all the minor changes and so when it kind of comes up again in staff tasks they're like oh there's actually this pile down here um so i i would support that i'm not sure maybe that's for like the next meeting if you're starting to look at time look what an unzoning working session might be at least they kind of have dedicated discussion to it to build the framework and sort of make the decisions at that one to start doing the ordinance work just for a reference point over the last 10 years the city has on average adopted four udc amendments per year [Laughter] how many have we adopted so far in 2022 i don't know that yet i mean i just haven't done that data so um it's you've been increasing over the last five years we've averaged six amendments per year so just for a scale of a pretty good that's that 10 years is different planning commissions different councils different planning directors um yeah so i i um i really appreciate this part of the conversation because for me the disconnect is between the udc and the comprehensive play that we're going to create a document that plans the city to 2050 but it's not going to actually touch the codes at the at that process and i think that's the piece when i'm talking to people in the community that there's that disconnect of like oh how are we actually going to do the missing middle if we don't actually change the udc so we can say we want to build these sort of neighborhoods that are more walkable or more livable or where people can age in place but then it pushes the udc to have to change to reflect that and there's not a straight line or i shouldn't say it as declarative as that there doesn't seem to be a straight line all the way from the land use to how it's going to change in the udc it feels like it's going to happen but it happens in stages it happens incrementally it happens along this kind of path and as we've already identified there's some things that i think we've already noted like oh do we really need to have this and if we do need to have it it may inform the consultant's work around the comprehensive plan and so if if we can't adopt 15 revisions to the udc because that's unprecedented it would cause a lot of concern for folks we could cue that up to the consultant to say as you're building out our land use these are the changes we need to see reflected in the udc so that we can accomplish this vision of aging in place this vision of a walkable neighborhood and just the idea of having you know in our neighborhood in lawton there's all these roads but there's not enough sidewalks that get you out of the neighborhood so even if you want to get out of the neighborhood you have to walk all the way up to scio church before you can go and it's like where does that come into the land use map where we like cut through two people's yards and we created easement and we put a sidewalk there so that they could get out to get to main street so they can go to bushes without having to walk a half a mile to get out of the neighborhood and so that's the those are the kinds of things that i'm looking at as i bike around the city as i walk every day through the city to try to say like how do i get to my library from my house right and and how do i cut over and so forth so those are the the sort of unzoning uh things that i was sort of trying to tee up and um and i'm grateful that you're open to that i think my specific question would be let's say i have a list of things three right now should i send that to you and then let you feedback or does it go to the whole group because of open meetings i i just don't know what the protocol yes so um you can share with the whole commissioner you can share with me and i'm going to share with the whole commission okay great all right i'm not gonna so i'm not gonna but towards that end i won't any response i do to your questions is going to go to the whole commission right which is fine because that's what it has to happen but i can just send it directly to you okay thank you i appreciate this time to have this conversation just don't ask commissioner lee cause i never return his calls commissioner clark did i see your hand up did i see your hand up or no yeah it's sure of course yeah so this is kind of like i don't know what to call it infill sidewalk project because i heard about that from people in fox fire too that their understanding was that when fox fire was created there were cut-throughs programmed but they didn't never got made and it that is not small you know if you have to go all the way up to duvarin and then walk a while where there's no sidewalk and the traffic is going 65 and then cut in i mean that's crummy that's not walkable at all so that is a that is a dimension of walkability that that i don't think we've talked about a lot and i really like that go ahead commissioner clark i hope this says um okay time to mention this um sorry so something i didn't uh we kind of briefly mentioned about youth engagement in urban planning um a little bit step beyond that i just was curious if there was space on the agenda for um making more all-age-friendly cities and centering like children and families we're about to get a bunch of um affordable housing units and other developments that are assumed we're going to be bringing in families and children there's a lot of new materials and research on cities and how they can plan and zone to be more child friendly there's ways with like zoning with child care places like that looking at which areas of the city our in-home daycare is allowed but zoning what you know the size of the lots that would be required given the time right now with you know what a shortage we have in those things and that we're trying to make a city that's for all stages of life i just would be curious if there's any space that we could kind of squeeze in not only engaging youth that are older to do so which is a great idea but also um children and yeah so that's it yeah i think that's really that seems that's a better articulation of what i was talking about with aging in place um you know the original rfp actually recommended enrollment in a very specific program through the end of the bird through the aarp um called livable communities and it's really intended for aging in place and the provisions of aging in place for the elderly are really good for children and they're really good for everybody um so yeah i i think if nothing else it's a broadening of that definition and that focus area um i also like the idea though of of just being able to have a session where we can kind of throw spaghetti at the wall and get your reaction about like well that you know you may that that may be a little out there or something like that because um i think that it would be nice to have kind of a brainstorming session that felt a little bit more free um too to be able to just kind of see and help each other you know uh just gauge each other's uh reactions to some of these things too and just uh see where we land and then we may come out with one thing or we may come out with five things or something like that and i don't know that we need to vote or prioritize but we don't often get that opportunity and i've we haven't done it for a long time but like having that whole day workshop thing i feel i'm i've missed having that opportunity to be able to have that more kind of loose and open format and i get it that we're kind of stuck with the working session thing and that's fine but i would like to be able to bring some of that feeling in of being able to really kind of talk with each other too about um ideas and priorities and just like well what if this or what you know or it's just so that we can we're all seeing a lot of different things here and talking to a lot of people and experiencing a lot of things through our own professional networks and everything too and i just think it would be helpful to be able to have a session or two where we could really kind of pick each other's brains and i i totally get your need to be able to have these as tacklable items and maybe we'll come out with two that are tacklable items but it would be nice to have a format where we could just be a little bit more open with each other to be able to you know have a conversation yeah i think that i think that conversation might benefit your review of an rfp yeah and i was thinking the same thing that maybe uh maybe the retreat format is a good place to do this i'm just gonna jump in and add to like i know you can't probably like the the research behind alexis is really good at like explaining where the codes come from but like for unrelated persons it can be because you can have a dozen unrelated persons living together in a basement an unsafe condition sort of thing right so like worst case scenario and typically a historic moment tips the scales to requiring a code and you know i can't pull every precedent but it's helpful sometimes to situate why codes might be couched you know in health safety and welfare but have other sort of impacts to opportunities of living and things like that so like i think if we can also like set that conversation in that way so we can maybe as we i don't know if it's like a two-part then that we like raise the question of like why is this this feels and then we send you back with some homework to explain why it is so that we feel more comfortable with what's still on books that we might not want to pursue right we're like oh now that we actually know it's kind of purpose in in the udc we feel more comfortable with its reasoning yeah i am [Music] i'm sensitive to that i think my initial thought is i would bring a bunch of staff and i would try to provide that framework sort of in real time to the greatest extent we can at the same time i sometimes um as much as i wish i weren't this way sometimes i think me and bureaucracies can be sort of we can sort of gravitate towards it's always been this way because of x y or z and so i do wonder about whether there's just some value in really just finding the right line between trying to answer those questions but being clear taking a step back from advocating like for example the definition of family um has a very um impactful history across the whole state our definition of family to my understanding is sort of the court case that establishes a reasonable balance of being able to limit the number of people that can occupy a dwelling unit so that you might not get unsafe impacts i'm guessing part of it frankly came from student encroachment into neighborhoods as well without that there would be the provision to any home would then potentially could be occupied by a much higher um number of people because you know going from like a a four bedroom in an r4c versus a dedicated home so i'm guessing there was a lot of public policy discussions it makes me nervous to adjust that because i know it's been vetted and supported by the courts but that's an example where like i don't know if that's the right thing for that conversation just because of all that doesn't mean it's not worth revisiting so um so i appreciate that i don't know the answer i sort of feel like it's somewhere between us trying to provide some color commentary but still writing it down to see where we go with it yeah i totally agree like it's not to just like uh remove things from the list but also it might be more about defining the terminology instead of just removing the line item sort of thing when we understand the purpose behind it and uh actually the per there's like purpose and there's impact and those can be two different things and to have the conversation of what both of those are might steer us in a better direction of the way to change that policy so that's right like poking holes in it you know in the best and the worst case scenario i think is the best way to get to good policy and it's um from some of the research i did for the housing and human services advisory board you mentioned in 99 years we've gone from seven pages of regulations to like 340 pages of regulations so when you're talking about there's a moment in history or that's exactly what happens there's all these moments and over that time period whether it's marijuana facilities or short-term rentals or accessory structures or you name it there's these moments in time where we say how do we want to respond to this and that results in that drastic increase in regulations all coming from very good policy discussions and thoughtful discussions and debates at the time but collectively they can have a big weight on a on a site and times change too anybody else okay so we are at item 11 audience participation one more opportunity for persons to speak up to three minutes about any item of interest if you wish to address the planning commission at this time press star 9 if listening by phone or use the rain raised hand feature viewing through the web link phone access call 877-853-5247 and enter meeting id 977-6634-1226 city staff will select callers that have raised their hand using the last three digits of your phone number or by name if available for those accessing through the web link you will hear an automated announcement that the host is allowing you to speak when speaking please move to a quiet area and mute any television or background sounds so that we may hear you clearly for any speaker please state your name and address at the beginning of your comments nobody's present here is there anybody in line virtually there is kirk westfall you have three minutes to address the planning commission hi good evening a great discussion tonight i unfortunately missed part of it at the beginning but i really appreciated the conversation um i uh the first thing that kind of struck me about thinking about the future comprehensive land use plan and the rfp and so on which i hope um i hope some timetables can be can be put on because that's i think a super important process um made me wonder if uh folks that have the opportunity to look at the sustainability framework which is um one of the elements of the comprehensive plan it's it's uh it's a pretty short and readable document and i'm i'm curious to hear from folks um like how the format of that or sort of the broad values of that would differ from your ideal uh you know comprehensive plan at the you know at the as a finished product so i'd be curious to to hear any observations about that um what else struck me about the conversation is it sounds like um it might be helpful to have some clarity around what is and is not possible or advisable to do uh either you know before the comprehensive planning process takes place you know next year or whenever [Music] or at the end of that which is going to be in a couple of years my impression has always been that anything that touches like r1 or r4 um has been assumed that it's going to wait for that process i wish i wish i was wrong you know things like eliminating minimum lot sizes or reducing setbacks or allowing increased height and density and residential areas you know i would love for that to happen quickly but you know i i just in an effort to prevent any kind of wheel spinning with some of these work sessions um it would be good to get some clear guidance about what is and what isn't possible to my knowledge that you know the r2 adjustments that were made have already been called out in plans and that was sort of allowed from that standpoint um 30 more seconds with regard to the work plan i i just want to i i hope you all were able would be able to read my lengthy email today at some point but i really want to reinforce the the importance of parking maximums uh new studies have shown that parking maximums are three times more powerful than increasing transit service basically if people don't have places to park you attract non-drivers uh to live in your city and on page 82 of the 820 plan it calls for setting low parking maximums throughout the city not just uh not just in downtown or that's where thank you anybody else yes caller with a phone number ending with four six four you can address the planning commission for three minutes uh thank you this is linda burauer again i appreciated your talk about the comprehensive plan i'm very happy that you want to look over that previous rfp and see if it can be revised and updated and send it out quickly i i think that's wonderful 700 000 is not a small amount of money and hopefully council will pass that amount um for the process i do i don't understand it sounded like brett didn't think the i know that the previous committee that designed the rfp and was actually in the process of betting consultants um it sounded like mr leonard didn't think that was a very friendly process and i wonder why i mean it seems to me i think that committee was composed of staff and planning commissioners and one community representative from east ward and it seems to me that that was a really good way to do it and i would hope that you wouldn't just exclude neighborhood ward representatives when you resuscitate this committee i i think i heard brett recommend you keep it just to counsel um just to some segment of planning commissioners and staff that's not inclusion i mean we're you're always talking about equity and inclusion that's not inclusion so please rethink that and then i also want to say in terms of the actual process of designing the community input i really appreciated whoever was talking about getting teenagers involved i totally support that i totally support being very proactive and going out into different segments of the of the community like high schools i think we need to broaden the scope of the input to include all ages very important to include all income levels all neighborhoods go into low-income neighborhoods you know into community halls in those neighborhoods with the schools you know you just need to do broad outreach and then of course all races and ethnicities so we really need diverse input and i'm hoping you're going to go in that direction my only final point is it seems there's a quite a bit of confusion even among the planning commissioners and i know some of them are new about the relationship between the comprehensive plan and the udc now there there is a relationship and i think it needs to be made very clear and if mr leonard cannot make that clear to the commissioners maybe he can call in a professional to make make that relationship a little more clear for all the planning commissioners because it really is a key there's there's supposed to be a relationship and we need to make sure there is a relationship and not look at the two of two separate entities which it seems like are confused about thank you very much any other callers adam joskewicz you have three minutes to address the planning commission hi adam juskevich here from the fourth ward 1430 las vegas drive um i think it's a lot of good discussion um i just want to make sure um the the previous caller listed a bunch of different groups of people um i think it would be valuable to include input from renters in ann arbor because that's a pretty large portion of our residents in the city and i think we should make sure that they're included in any discussions that we have about land use thank you that is all okay any commission proposed business or is that what we've been discussing for the the last 45 minutes alrighty then i think we are moving on to item 13 which is adornment moved by commissioner dish second invite commissioner weich we are adjourned thank you commissioner gibrandal for your fine leadership

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consumer science the university of wisconsin oshkosh elijah jarvis business management [Applause] congratulations webster university kirsten shane biological sciences with an emphasis in research and technology [Applause] western illinois university owen brewer exercise science and sam helms nursing [Applause] congratulations western kentucky university elise broski business management and caitlin knox public relations [Applause] congratulations congrats ywam colorado springs alexa bauman undeclared [Applause] entering the workforce to continue their education through on-the-job training we have aaron zarek mike rudock allen whitaker brodie um fleet cameron corbin and elijah woolen [Applause] thanks thank you thanks thanks andy carroll dorian thorne dustin heath chase phillips michael cassetta ryan dahl austin mahan and alexis redick also moving on to the workforce job training [Applause] thanks guys thanks thank you and that is all our seniors how about one more round of applause for all of them [Applause] i want to thanks for everyone attending it was great to have an assembly again seniors thank you for everything we will dismiss by rose so please take a seat we will go back to our third hour class get our books and we will head on to fourth hour thanks again everybody

so our first is the academic challenge and he doesn't know this yolk but he also placed fifth in computer science challenge at the academic challenge carson walton [Applause] and then from the math team luke hofbine [Applause] student council caitlin kenningstein [Applause] the columbia education association scholarship the cea offers two 500 scholarships to columbia high school seniors one with the intent to pursue a degree in education the other two a senior pursuing an education at a trade school the scholarship for an award in education is being awarded to lexi schlemmer [Applause] the scholarship for an education at a trade school is awarded to colin sagan [Applause] the columbia kiwanis scholarship ms ogilby is here to present that this is a thousand dollar scholarship awarded by the columbia kiwanis to a deserving senior at columbia high school this year's recipient joe suter the columbia pta scholarship the columbia pta awarded four 500 scholarships to seniors who will be attending college next fall the following scholarship winners please come forward jolie hilge dyke owen jackson caitlin kenningstein and jennifer proctor [Applause] marie's ice cream scholarship the 500 scholarship is being awarded to a chs senior with a minimum 3.0 gpa who has been admitted and enrolled in a university college or technical school and must be a member of and participate in at least one of the performing arts at chs this year's winner is luke hobbin the u.s marine corps distinguished scholar award each year we award we award this to a graduating club from the graduating class the u.s marine corps distinguished scholar award the students the student chosen are exemplary young citizens role models for other students and exhibit the personal traits of courage poise self-confidence and leadership congratulations to allison fredberg the columbia volunteer fire department scholarship mr matheny will be presenting this is a local scholarship that is awarded each year to seniors planning to further their education in the fall each scholarship is for 750 dollars community service is a factor in the selection process when i call your name with these five seniors please come forward cole dickerson grant matheny sydney sanderson cammy stefanower and jake steve [Applause] thank you [Applause] the monroe county licensed beverage association scholarship this is a one thousand dollar scholarship to one student from each high school in monroe county selection criteria includes the a-c-t s-a-t scores essays school and community involvement and grade point average this year's winner is lexi schlemmer [Applause] you're doing well the ladies auxiliary of the columbia turner's gymnastic association scholarship this scholarship is awarded to seniors pursuing an undergraduate degree based on a number of criteria including being a child or grandchild of current or past member in good standing congratulations for winning each winning a 500 scholarship mallory snow and cammy stefanour [Applause] in addition there are three 250 scholarships they go to avery flowers holly rep and drew stump [Applause] the state bank of waterloo and cbai foundation scholarship the scholarship amounts vary for the awards given was open to all high school seniors sponsored by a cba member bank this year's scholarship winners are first for a thousand dollar scholarship kyle mcconaughey [Applause] the next one is fifteen hundred dollars a year for four years for a total of six thousand glenn powers [Applause] we're going to take a break from scholarships and go to our departmental awards for outstanding academic achievement each winner was chosen by the department for the agricultural science grant matheny [Applause] business education miles brumback [Applause] english lexi schlemmer [Applause] family and consumer science sydney sanderson [Applause] fine arts sabrina walters [Applause] german madison ebner [Applause] industrial technology jordans magala [Applause] mathematics luke holbein [Applause] [Music] [Applause] performing arts choir and then show choir is lexi schlemmer and avery flowers [Applause] performing arts concert band jazz band and marching band we have zach o'leary alex bloom and thomas krueger [Applause] physical education holly rep and garen herd liquor [Applause] science alex patrick [Applause] social studies jolie hill goodnight [Applause] spanish l o'reilly [Applause] technology austin lubers [Applause] back to the scholarships the monroe county fraternal order of police scholarship mr hopkins officer hopkins will be presenting [Applause] the monroe county fraternal order police offers scholarships to seniors interested in a career in law enforcement or related field or child of law enforcement officers please come forward cole dickerson jolie hilgeich and cammy stefanour [Applause] congrats everybody the columbia kiwanis vicki smith key club scholarship ms oglesby will be presenting that one as well this is a thousand dollar scholarship awarded to a senior key club member at columbia high school key club is a service organization and members participate in a variety of community service projects throughout the year this year's recipient is addison white [Applause] the reiterski marching scholarship award mr mr sporakis will be presenting this is a new scholarship named in honor of former chs band teacher these 500 scholarships are being awarded to luke holbein and caitlin kenningstein here we go the semo monroe county alumni scholarship area seniors who've been accepted to and plan to attend southeast missouri state university were eligible to apply for this 2 200 scholarship applicants are judged on academic achievement extracurricular activities and community service this year's recipient avery flowers [Applause] the seal of bi-literacy program students have the opportunity to be recognized by the state of illinois for earning proficiency in english and one additional language as part of the bi-literacy program two honors were available the commendation toured by literacy and the seal of bi-literacy these two honors require test scores in both english and the second language we are awaiting some results however these students have already earned accommodation toured by toured by literacy for spanish so i have several names so hold applause till we're done but come up students alexa aguiar avery allen izzy barker ava descher alyssa fredenberg alexa hildenbrand zach o'leary ethan riebling ella riley and kirsten shane congratulations foreign we have one student at this point that has earned the seal the seal of body literacy and that is cami stephanauer [Applause] students have earned accommodation toward biliteracy for german ashley boyer madison ibner caitlin kenningstein lexi schlemmer and alexis vocal [Applause] the waterloo independent order of fellows scot of odd fellows scholarship this is a three thousand dollar scholarship for any senior planning to attend college the independent order of odd fellows is a global fraternal organization which aims to provide a framework that promotes personal and social development the following winners please come forward elizabeth bowler carl dickerson avery flowers and riley henderson [Applause] our final scholarship and it's the big one the edgar o zimmer family foundation scholarship edgar o zimmer supported hundreds of monroe county youth with college scholarships for decades before his death in november 2006 at the age of 102.