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[Music] so [Music] yes foreign [Music] oh [Music] hey [Music] so [Music] hello [Music] true [Music] [Applause] [Music] this is nice [Music] [Applause] [Music] thank you [Music] this [Music] it's [Music] alright [Music] good grace [Music] uh oh [Music] just is hello [Music] mic check [Music] oh [Music] oh [Music] well thank you kelly's got one with your name [Music] so [Music] so [Music] um [Music] oh [Music] i [Music] uh [Music] yes [Music] okay good evening uh before we begin i just want to give a quick round of applause to gary mccoskey for the piano tonight [Applause] so good evening and welcome to the 2022 east law medal high school student achievement night as we move toward the end of another school year now is a great opportunity for us to reflect on all of our successes tonight i am so excited that we are able to come together in the frederick wheeler auditorium to celebrate the amazing accomplishments of these 80 students seated before you we have scholars artists leaders volunteers activists and athletes the students here though unique in their own journey collectively embody the values that we hold so dear and are true representations of what we see as east long meadow high school spartans these spartans seated here have time and again demonstrated a commitment to scholarship to their community and to excellence they have been invited here tonight to acknowled they've been invited here tonight to acknowledge the that commitment and effort and personally i'm pumped to be a part of it however i am not alone in that as i look across this auditorium i see hundreds of faces here to show that support recognition and excitement we as a staff and as a community members are here in attendance this evening to reinforce how truly significant these accomplishments are for that i would like to thank i would like to thank the students families district staff scholarship programs colleges and local organizations that have made tonight possible at this time i would also like to acknowledge the presenters and distinguished guests who are able to join us tonight as they take a few moments to read their names please hold your applause to the end mr gordon smith superintendent of schools ms pamela blair assistant superintendent of schools for business dr joanne welch director of student services ms heather brown director of curriculum instruction and assessment mr gregory thompson school committee mr gary wright assistant principal mr kevin mcgee athletic director mr mark bale english teacher and department head ms jennifer faulkner foreign language teacher and department head mr brian freeman math teacher and department head mr todd less tech ed teacher and business and tech ed department head ms chris norton health teacher and family and consumer science department head ms christine ruger social studies teacher and department head ms catherine wallend science teacher and science department head miss shelby matroni guidance counselor and department head miss mindy bellew guidance counselor mr cretia illingsworth guidance counselor miss janet sullivan guidance counselor miss beth meehan graduation coach mr leif flori math teacher and senior class advisor miss carol forward vocal arts teacher mr elio gonzalez math teacher miss bonnie rivera spanish teacher and for community members and presenters we have commander brian tidland ms sylvana ayala miss grace baroni mr daniel barrett miss judy bates mr tom sarado mr paul federici miss corinne geramini miss adele hill miss mckaylan kelly mr mark kelly miss teresa lolly mr tony markowski ms celeste o'brien miss andrea pelletier the sunter family and as i said before our pianist for this evening garrett mccoskey can we give them all please a round of applause [Applause] so we'll now begin the presentation and ask as each recipient hears his or her name please come forward to receive this award and take a seat on the stage behind us and just to note some of the uh checks for the financial awards will be received at a later date so if you have any questions about those awards they can be answered in the main office you can come see us and we'll answer those questions so without further ado let's get started our first award for this evening is the east lawn middle high school principal's award this student achievement award is presented to a graduating senior in recognition of outstanding contributions to the school and it is my honor to give tonight's award to garrett mccoskey good evening it's my honor this evening to award the certificate of academic excellence and this is awarded to students who have qualified under the standards prescribed by the massachusetts association of school superintendents and this year's recipient mr nicholas cassidy good evening and on behalf of the guidance department we want to congratulate all the recipients of tonight's awards this year i have the honor of awarding the dartmouth college book award donated by dartmouth alumni club of pioneer valley to a junior who ranks the top 10 percent of their class demonstrates intellectual leadership has made positive contributions to the extracurricular life of their school and demonstrates a love of the outdoors this year's recipient is eliza yakubuchi [Applause] the elms college book award donated by elma's college each year to a junior who makes a positive impact on the school or community braden dobeck [Applause] hello the harvard club of western mass junior book award is donated by the harvard club committee to provide recognition and encouragement to a young person of promise within our community this year's harvard club recipient benjamin luke [Applause] the st michael's college book award is awarded to juniors who have demonstrated a sustained and sincere commitment to community service within the local community and have taken on a leadership role the students must also be an inductee of the national honor society this year's recipient is miss morgan market morgan martin morgan is unable to make tonight so um we'll get the award to her hi everyone the smith college book award is donated by the springfield smith college club to a junior girl with the ability to combine academic achievement and community participation this year's recipient is ava devenich [Applause] good evening everyone um the springfield college book award donated by springfield college to a junior whose personal values and aspirations most closely align with the mission of springfield college to educate students in spirit mind and body for leadership in service to humanity and has demonstrated exemplary record of service to their high school community in the community at large this year's recipient sophia sayers [Applause] the suffolk university book award is presented to a student prepared to live in a diverse global society while also appreciating the richness of various cultures this year's recipient ms keely k [Applause] the western new england university book award annually the admissions office at western new england university sponsors a book award the book provided is the same text the incoming western new england first year students utilized for their summer reading assignment this past school year this book was selected to offer opportunities for students to generate scholarly discourse as well as examine personal perceptions values and attitudes this year's recipient is gilda dascali [Applause] the williams college book award awarded to a junior in the top five percent of his or her class who has demonstrated intellectual leadership and has made a significant contribution to the extracurricular life of the school this year's recipient is clude awan [Applause] the yale university book award is awarded to a junior for outstanding personal character and intellectual promise this year's yale recipient gabe savadra [Applause] so this is the american legion post 293 boys state award it's awarded by the ganta rally post 293 american legion and the east long meadow long chamber of commerce the two two junior boys were outstanding in the following leadership citizenship scholarship courage honesty and character the boys will be attending stonehill college in northeastern for a week in june and this year recipients is john fitzpatrick and daniel majera [Applause] congratulations thank you very much also i have the american legion post 293 girls state which is awarded to two junior girls who are outstanding in the following also leadership citizenship scholarship courage honesty and character and these girls will be attending stone hill college in northeastern for a week in june the recipients are molly haller and taylor diflorio [Applause] thank you the east of the river chamber five town chamber of commerce awards tonight the following scholarships to students who have utilized the career center here at the school the recipients of the erc five scholarship are alexandrov dimitri glue and caitlin gibbins [Applause] [Music] [Applause] so the cheryl reed scholarship the recipient of that is brandon herrlick [Applause] the leonard preston william and paulie stebbins scholarship the recipients of that award are brandon hanoush and james romalite romeo lotus [Applause] good evening i'm happy to be here on behalf of munson savings bank and be able to present three scholarships and these are awarded to graduating seniors planning to attend an accredited college technical school or certification program scholarship is based on the applicant's academic performance and extracurricular activities so i'd like to start by bringing up alexandros dimitra gloom stephania lacroix and brandon fridlicka [Applause] i brought up a ringer and i was told that there'd be no soapbox so i couldn't match her height anymore this is my daughter erin she graduated last year so i figured she could hand out the certificates and give me a little bit of break hi i'm adele hill from the rotary club of east long meadow i represent both the east long road east long meadow rotary scholarship memorial foundation incorporated and east long meadow rotary foundation inc both are staffed through rotarians and this year we're giving twenty four thousand four hundred and fifty dollars total in scholarships so overall between both groups and next year we're going to bypass the 500 000 but right now we're at 478 850 for the scholarships i want to thank mr smith mr page but really the faculty the staff and teachers from east long meadow high school because this was one of the most nail-biting scholarship committees we have had in years where it came down to a 0.5 difference in the 34 applicants in receiving the scholarships that we're going to present tonight so thank you very much and i've never seen our financial guy give that many high counts and he's very high he's very low counter so thank you for what you do for our um our our future because i expect a lot of these kids to be taking care of a lot of us older folks here soon um these scholarships are done on the whole person con concept we do not look at just grades because everybody can have a bad grade from here and now we look at academia school contributions community involvement future plans goals and their letters of recommendation and i got to tell you some of the students from east long meadow high school write really good letters of recommendation for their fellow students and peers so it was great to see so we're going to go through top down uh ryan mourinho [Applause] [Music] [Applause] the earl mcdonald memorial scholarship in the amount of thirty five hundred dollars [Applause] we have two james davis memorial scholarships each for twenty one hundred dollars the first is for sally nugen and the second is for aaron hamilton these next four are in memoriam of one of our club member dan burak's um son and um wife who have passed the the douglas burek memorial scholarships are of 2500 each for dillon dulcinos and caitlyn gibbons [Music] the gene ference bureaux scholarships each of 2500 nicolas cassidy and atakin awan [Applause] ladies first and last but not least and i still remember taking my kid and this kid home from zoo camp one day the willie ferrero memorial scholarship in the amount of two thousand dollars to garrett mccaskey [Applause] thank you the hub international new england scholarship for five hundred dollars hubbard international in new england is honored to be part of the islamic community the scholarship program was created to recognize high school seniors who will be continuing their education in the field of business this year's recipient alana joyce and the cloud nine marketing group scholarship for five hundred dollars founded by elhs alumni dylan pilon cloud9 marketing group is honored to be part of the summer community this scholarship program was created to recognize a high school senior who would be continuing their education in the field of business with a concentration in marketing this year's recipient caitlin givings [Applause] [Music] [Applause] good evening up next is the hugh o'brien award since 1958 the hugh o'brien youth foundation has been holding leadership seminars for 10th graders throughout the united states these seminars held regionally at various colleges bring young people together to develop leadership potential to encourage and assist students in their quest for self-development and self-identification to introduce potential leaders to today's leaders through informal seminars to provide exposure to the opportunity to explore america's incentive system and the democratic process this year's student ambassador is audrey o'neill [Applause] a little short here the carmella arvala mano memorial scholarship is in memory of my grandmother and yes this is her sweater it is rewarded to individuals who demonstrate humility social responsibility and a commitment to positively impacting the lives of others this year's recipients are liliana mantoni eric donaldson and brandon herlicka [Music] thank you this is the matthew barrett memorial scholarship in honor of my son this scholarship was established in memory of matthew barry at class of 2017 and is awarded to students who are planning to further their education with consider consideration to students who have exhibited strength and depend dependability in high school athletics abigail divinity and brandon herdeka foreign good evening everyone and congratulations to all the award recipients i'm here to present the mary lou donahue scholarship mary lou was a nurse who served our school district for 26 years and was instrumental in building the nursing services that we offer to our students carried on today and the mary lou donahue scholarship is awarded to a worthy student entering a bs nursing program and this year's recipient is connor dearborn [Applause] good evening my name is paul federici on behalf of my wife darlene and i were honored to be here tonight to be able to give out the awards from the daniel federici memorial foundation um this got these scholarships where we actually have four scholarships and i'll explain the fourth one in a minute these scholarships are a memory of our son daniel federici who was in the class of 2004 and they're awarded to seniors who are hard-working and who may be pursuing an education in a trade now normally through golf tournaments we were going to give out three scholarships however if you don't think that things you say in the normal course of life affect people are a client of my client and friend of mine passed away unexpectedly last year at an unfortunately very young age and shortly after he passed away his wife called me and said that what i said at my son's funeral touched him and he talked about it often over the years and because of that they wanted to have any money go to our scholarship foundation in his memory so we got another 1750 scholarship besides the three two thousand so so just to let you know it's you know you can make an impact whether you know it or not [Applause] [Music] [Applause] so our four recipients are madison la julia tyler trombley who i believe is not here noah good child and zachary comisso [Applause] okay so who's noah who's that congratulations good evening the scholarship is in memory of our beloved friend corey garwacki class of 2005.
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[Music] okay i'd like to bring the brookfield board of education meeting for may 4th 2022 to order please join me for the pledge of allegiance [Music] all right we have our all seven of our members are here this evening um and uh and with dr burrell um so uh we'll jump into the agenda and first up uh this week is some appreciation and recognition um we do this every year around this time and it's a special moment um so i've got a i'm gonna start with a reading of a resolution for teacher and staff appreciation week whereas brookfield teachers open children's minds to the magic of ideas knowledge and dreams and whereas brookfield teachers keep american democracy alive by laying the foundation for good citizenship and whereas brookfield teachers demonstrate a passion for teachers that inspires enthusiasm for learning for teaching that inspires an enthusiasm for learning whereas brookfield teachers fill many roles as listeners as explorers role models motivators and mentors and whereas brookfield teachers are the key to the quality and success of the brookfield schools and whereas brookfield teachers continue to influence our children long after their school days are only memories be it resolve that the brookfield board of education supports and endorses may 2nd to may 6 2022 as teacher and staff appreciation week and that the board extends its wholehearted appreciation to brookfield teachers for their outstanding contribution to the children of our community and urge all members of our community to take the time to recognize and acknowledge the impact that teachers have on our lives and the lives of our children i'd like to invite the representative of the teachers union uh tara nygaard to come up and i just want to thank you for coming hi and i then i'll just reiterate all the parents who are out there listening say something really nice to the teachers and to the staff in the schools um so the second uh proclamation is in recognition of school nurses day whereas through their skill and expertise our nation's school nurses help to foster a healthy nurturing community in which our children can learn and grow and whereas most often school nurses are the first and sometimes the only line of defense against illnesses and conditions our students face making their contribution to the education and welfare of our student population invaluable and whereas the nature of the profession calls on their ability to take roles beyond that of just a health provider acting as teacher confidante mentor and friend to the students of connecticut and whereas today's society presents students with an overwhelming number of physical social and mental ills and school nurses have become an essential component of effective health programs both in and out of the classroom and whereas the overwhelming dedication school nurses show to their profession and to the children they care for stands as a testament to their commitment to the success and wellness of connecticut's future generations now therefore be it resolved that the brookfield board of education supports and endorses may 11 2022 as school nurses day and that the board extends its wholehearted appreciation to brookfield nurses for their outstanding contribution to the children of our community and urge members of our community to take the time to recognize and acknowledge the role of these nurses in our lives and the lives of our children i'd like to invite beth o'connor up to receive the congratulations of the board on school i will add that the last two years have proven what superheroes our nurses are so very truly well deserved okay the third recognition um i'd like to turn it over to dr burrell all right thanks mr belden so we have a recognition of students here and i'd like to um let everybody know that we're going to recognize the students who participated in our 15th annual hrra who's atonic resource recovery authority annual poster contest and he actually has your microphone on it's on seth can you try it again can you hear me on this one set okay this one's working okay all right so um i want to recognize the students who participated in the 15th annual housatonic resource recovery authority annual poster contest and to that end there's lisa is already up there i'm here um the board of education and superintendent assistant uh lisa grambling who has led this poster contest for 15 years now is going to put together has put together a presentation for us so lisa the floor is yours thank you dr barrel good evening everybody i'm lisa grambling i'm the secretary to superintendent barrel and it is my honor to uh present the winners of the 15th annual hrra recycling poster contest just a little background we have surrounding towns that participate in this we get the templates from the hra and we distribute those in january and the students have until toward the end of february to hand in their artwork and they're judged by grade for second third place those posters come back to us we send all of the first place winners out regionally to be judged and then um the hra has their ceremony at the end of april which just happened last week and dr brielle is going to join me in a little bit to fill you in on what a wonderful presentation that was so we had 156 participants we had 11 regional winners and we are so proud to announce that brookfield had the regional grand prize winner this year so i'm very very proud of that um so the regional winners uh receive either 75 50 or twenty five dollar check our grand prize winner received a two hundred and fifty dollar check uh and her poster will be on twenty heart transit buses uh all throughout the area and the um participating teacher in school receives five hundred dollars for uh environmental educational needs this doesn't happen without the principals and the secretaries the teachers the poster contest coordinators none of this can be done without you so i just want to send a heartfelt thanks because again we couldn't do this without you guys so we're going to start with our youngest artist and that would be kindergarten so this is our kindergarten first place winner and second place regional winner grayson hoyt we have kindergarten second place enrico flores kindergarten third place lena hamlach our first grade first place and third place regional winner was tyler freeman a lot of talented youngsters here first grade second place ethan hertel first grade third place brady lim and that takes us to huckleberry we had second grade first place and third place regional winner elizabel we had a lot of siblings participate together this year which was wonderful second grade second place kaylee clarkson second grade third place evelyn shettino third grade first place jason yoon and the theme this year was composting so that important to mention [Music] third grade second place daniel yoon third grade third place natalie freeman fourth grade first place and this was a first place regional winner amber zhang fourth grade second place brianna lim fourth grade third place natalie shettino fifth grade first place and another first place regional winner was zion bilal fifth grade second place was mina coimbatore i understand there's a spelling in her name that's wrong so we'll fix that for her fifth grade third place alicia cabral sixth grade first place shah dejang sixth grade second place evan bartholomew sixth grade third place brook scallon seventh grade first place and hrra honorable mention shreya kelkar eighth grade first place and a third place regional winner was kalyn fulchetti eighth grade second place is rebecca batterton ninth grade second place sophia pachenko and we have ninth grade third place mia buca room 10th grade first place and second place regional win winner was fatima abdulrahman 11th grade first place and third place regional winner was anna lynn and 12th grade first place and third place regional winner was eliza silva so we saved our regional grand prize winner and poster for the very end and dr brill if you would like to come up and say a few words about how she was presented with her award you did a good job all right so alvina balal is our regional winner out of how many towns is it well it's 12 towns and um she uh received not only for this beautiful poster that you can see here she received a 250 check and the high school is receiving a 500 check as lisa talked about earlier she did this beautiful poster here which will be on how many buses be on 20 buses around the region um advertising and how we deliver this news to her is lisa called the parents and let them know that the kids had won and they had the regional winner but didn't tell them who and so they were in suspense and doing the extra cleaning on the house because we were all coming over to do like a publishers clearinghouse sweepstakes uh and surprise them so mark myself um jen um what's jin's last name from hre oh yeah um jones and uh mrs carr our first select woman we all went over and we presented them with this and it was a big surprise balloons the whole thing and it was just a lot of fun and we took the picture and uh they're just really proud of their daughter and uh we're really proud of elvina as well and it's just really exciting so um again thank you we have a couple pictures to share oh yeah go ahead actually so there is the winning entry and this was the the picture of the family and then the picture of um mark bellanda and dr barrel and uh miss carr with the family and of course mr blanda can't wait for his check so i'm bringing table and that's what the heart bus will look like so congratulations to everybody that participated and everybody that one and hopefully we will see you next year thank you thanks lisa it's always so exciting but i just love seeing the progression of the artists as they get older beautiful the effort is amazing so um the last bit of recognition uh is one i'd like to turn over to mr milan it's a high school recognition good evening everyone i'd be remiss if i didn't say i feel like happy gilmore every time i get one of those if anybody's ever seen that movie he wins the big checks and just throws him in the back of his car thinks he has to catch them um i'm i i really don't have a ton to say i'm actually i was um when dr braille shared that uh mr bell would like me to come up and talk a little bit about the u.s news and world report um it's with i'm very humble in the fact that we have received this award as a high school um for the last four years running 2019 20 21 and 22 we have been identified as one of u.s news world report u.s news and world report's best high schools there are almost 24 000 public high schools in the country they only rank u.s news and world report ranks about 18 000 nationally uh this year we were 1743 which puts us in the top 10 percent in the country in terms of where we fall so that was pretty exciting and then in terms of public high schools in connecticut there's 206 they there's more than 206 public high schools they only rank 206 um where 37th puts us in the top 18 percent of public high schools in the state of connecticut this work uh really goes out to the people and the teachers and the students who really do all the work here so they look at sat scores they look at this year they look for the first time at uh ngss the next generation science standard scores factored into their ratings they look at college readiness preparedness course number of students taking advanced courses they look at a whole host of different categories really i can't take no credit for it's the work of the teachers and the students uh and the administrators i used to work formally with like mr bednark who was here when uh that was that happened so i'm just i'm so pleased um typically you might see uh if anybody's seen emails from me or letterhead you might only see the 2019 badge i'm going to amend that and probably put the years because it is a racket they charge a thousand dollars for that badge so we're not buying it every year so um that's what it's there for it doesn't take away from the recognition but i'm not going to pay a thousand dollars for a badge i'm just going to share it locally so thank you for the time to recognize all the hard work of our staff and our students over the last several years and it continues today so thank you um i know ben is coming up next i was going to actually do the student report but ben i know you're up next on the agenda and you tend to not toot your own horn i'll let you talk about where you're going to school because you've made that decision um just don't flex me up here you're going to make me look bad there's uh ben was part of the um and when a press release will be coming out shortly um there's an initiative in the state of connecticut uh to encourage uh student voice voice for change and people may not know that ben and another student here at the high school uh one through student government and one really through with work through future teachers of america uh created a proposal a grant that was actually um shared with the entire student body they had an opportunity to vote on it and um turns out that ben's grant and ben's not really ben's grants for the school but i credit ben with the hard work he earned us a twenty thousand dollar grant from the state of connecticut so ben thank you very much and that's all i have for you so thank you thanks mark it's it's a streak you have to keep up mark um so i think that's it for our recognition section of our agenda today uh next up is our student representative report so ben let me turn it over to you okay first of all go off the books and say that we did win 5-0 against colby cathedral that's three sets for varsity two sets for jv so get that out of the way well done all right inaugural season it's a big deal it is yes all right so um past events we had clubbies tree plenish which was this last weekend and that went really well i think they had over 100 trees that they planted around the town and again that's just to help um kind of balance out what we use in paper usage in the school and planting trees and then also outdoors club had a hike this last weekend as well in town at housatonic state park lower yeah lower historic state park and okay so for upcoming events um this weekend may 8th mother's day we have the national honor society 5k i think we have around 150 runners so i think you might still be able to register it's technically noon but i think we i think oh is that all right mrs zarchek might open it up again we'll see all right and then may 20th is senior prom at the water view may 23rd is peer counseling st baldrick's fundraiser that's from five to seven in the cafeteria and that's pretty much open to anybody in the community who wants to help show solidarity for kids with cancer and it's also to raise money um but the whole idea is you shave your head and that solidarity really helps people who are going through something like that and then may 24th we have the bhs chorus concert followed by the spring band concert on the 25th 27th we have a plc day may 30th we have memorial day so it's no school june 14th is the grad party semi-formal at candle it in june 15th is the senior trip to six flags june 16th is the grad walk which would be walking around the different schools revisiting where we went to school and june 17th is the rehearsal for graduation followed by the 18th graduation rain or shine so then moving on to athletics mr baldwin just wanted me to share a few pieces of information so 10 members of the athletic advisory attended a sportsmanship conference and received a michael's achievement cup award for having one of the best athletic programs in the state and also on april 29th so the unified sports ciac awards night both wisconnier athletes philip ferreira and cameron police were honored by the ciac high school athletes ahmad hashmi and jillian mitchell were honored as well and then also receiving recognition that night where a whiskey coach corlyn rafferty and she was honored for five years of service and then high school coach nick castellano was honored for five years of service and high school athletics director stephen baldwin was honored for 10 years of service and for the all-state winter sports winners that was girls basketball catherine celosi boys swim mata stephanie stefano and jude lucarum and wrestling matt carosa hockey kenny graniker and dance elizabeth destefano and siobhan feeney and then we also recently had four athletes named academic allstate so kyle rosa for football jackson barrell for football maddie carosa for wrestling and siobhan feeney for dance and then girls from athletic advisory will be attending a woman in leadership conference on may 10th and finally a very successful florida trip just happened over spring break where we had over 125 athletes from the high school go to florida for a nice little trip and my final announcement that i've missed mr dr brill's been waiting for that i will be attending quinnipiac university next year have you chosen a major yet or is that still in your future i have chosen a major and it goes right along with this so i'm going to be going into mathematics as a secondary education like program oh excellent yeah excellent he didn't want to leave the blue and yellow he wanted to stay a bobcat so yeah bobcats yeah bobcats for life bobcat for life go ahead congratulations thank you all right so next up on the agenda is written correspondence okay deborah case wrote regarding ppt meetings irene korea wrote regarding meeting minutes helene gone wrote regarding published curriculum brittany mcmahon maura keenan kristen joshie jennifer powers tara o'shea vita culinary kim rachela and coach mike wrote regarding bhs athletics and coach lisa shang kristen jose wrote regarding tonight's agenda and mohammed shaikh wrote regarding a bus issue okay um board minutes i will move that the board approved the minutes from the special meeting expulsion hearing on april 4th and the regular meeting on april 6th okay it's moved in second in any discussion on the minutes hearing none all in favor any post no all right um so let me turn it over then to dr burrell for an update all right thanks mr belden uh so we have a lot of exciting things going on as you heard with all the reports from the high school and the recognitions and mrs grambling's hra uh presentation uh in addition to that um i wanted to give everybody an administrator administrator progress update um first off um amy di nicola hickman our new special education special services director she's here with us tonight she started on monday so she's here with us and it's day three and she's still here so thank you good to see you so we're excited to have amy with us and joining the team um in addition to that we had the internal interviews today for center school interim principal it went well and i'll be looking in the next few days um to make a final decision um at huckleberry it's very important to note that uh we've been we actually worked with the baa and both dr pepsosky and dr rudel they have done an incredible job and their interim positions in leading huckleberry the last few months and we have moved to have them be principal and assistant principal for next school year with no more interim in front of their names we're very proud of them and i was actually able to go over to the school and announce that with the faculty and uh there was a nice uprising of uh applause and as dr pepsosky says whooping it up and uh they were having a good old time over there they're very pleased and so we're really excited for both of them i'm sorry what's that well-deserved oh yes definitely they've worked very hard over there and done a great job very proud of them and then for our assistant superintendent interview process round one has been completed round two is this friday actually mr belden is the board member representative on the team and it's possible that sometime late next week we may have a decision moving forward and i would bring the candidate forward on may 18th to the board so that's the administrator update we also had a really we've had a tremendous opportunity and i shared this in my weekend update with the board student safety obviously is is our first priority student in staff safety and um in updating and enhancing our emergency preparation we're working with the connecticut center for school safety and crisis preparation dr emery bernhardt is the new leader of that organization from the state but he's actually housed at western connecticut so he's very close to us he's a great resource and we are actually in a pilot working with him our our district in terms of him working with all of the state regulations with crisis preparation and updating plans and aligning school emergency plans and ours are going to be the first pilot and model aligning for the state he's building this pilot as he goes along to update what we already have and enhance what we already have so we're really excited about that he was in on april 26th for a training with us and then our threat assessment teams had an all-day training yesterday where we participated with some new york schools and we were working on threat assessment training and developing all new protocols and uh you know setting ourselves up for success in violence prevention um and really getting our vocabulary uh together and all of our processes in place so we're really excited about this and threat assessment if people aren't sure what that means it's a problem-solving approach for violence prevention and so we're always being proactive here at the school as best we can so anyway we're really excited about that and really proud of the team and the effort they've put in before i go any further um i actually want to stop for a second invite up mr bednarik the assistant principal at wisconier who heads up seventh and eighth grade he's gonna talk a little bit about normalcy we are going to the washington uh back on the washington dc trip we're really excited about it ed's one of the leaders with mr renda heading it up so ed share a little bit about the trip for us you got i want to second that we are very excited this year to be able to bring back the dc trip uh it's something that's been missing for a few couple years now so it's about time we get back and get back to doing what we need to do for the kids so we are scheduled to go on the dc trip starting on may 18th we will arrive at the the middle school fresh early in the morning at six o'clock ready to go on three uh three coach buses down there each coast coach bus once we get to dc is gonna have a tour guide we're gonna be staying at the embassy suites hotel for two nights so it's a three day trip two night trip wednesday through friday uh a couple things about the hotel they do have security there overnight i like to you know say that to the parents and let them know that on every floor the security so the kids are so tired from the day and all that we do i'll talk a little bit about the itinerary too uh they're so tired that uh they for the most part they have right to sleep we're all tired the the chaperones too let me give you a quick copy of them yeah all right so uh some stats for you this year the participation out of 197 students 141 are attending that's 191 eighth grade 197 eighth grade students 141 are attending so that's about 72 percent that is a bit of a drop from prior years which was typically around 90 percent we did expect that there might be a drop based on everything that's kind of going on right now right so that was that was expected uh we will have 56 students remaining behind those students are going to report to their science teachers for the first thing in the morning on the days when everyone else is away the science teachers have put together a bit of a curriculum for them things like virtual tour of dc they also throw in some fun things because we want to do fun things for the kids who are staying behind too okay the cost of the trip this year is 545 per student that was almost something that we weren't sure if we could overcome it was it was really it was up by about a hundred dollars from previous years uh that's also something that we did expect everything is inflation-wise everything is going up across the board um from buses to fuel just everything across the board so we did anticipate that there would be an increase and there was but uh i early on i worked very hard with a mr jewett who uh helped me kind of organize the trip in the beginning and we decided early on that we're gonna try to overcome these these hurdles as we go and see what we could do to to make this trip happen so the number of chaperones are going to be 18 total chaperones there's going to be 10 that are staff and eight who are parents their chaperone to student ratio is one to eight that's actually better than the recommended and really better than most schools that are one to ten so i think our one to eight goal was pretty good so we really have one chaperone in charge of eight kids which is very very doable it's a very organized trip and it works well let's see i wanted to mention uh as part of the cost just about everything is paid for the hotel is paid for almost all the meals are paid for the only meals that are not paid for on the way down we stop at a rest stop for lunch and on the way back home we stop at a rest stop for lunch so those two are not paid for but everything else in the trip is completely included okay we do recommend if kids want to buy some things they might want to bring a little a little extra spending cash okay some highlights of the trip we're going to be going to the smithsonian museum of american history we see all the monuments the washington monument we're planning right now to go to the u.s capitol something new this year we're going to the smithsonian national zoo which i am very excited about because we've never been there before and i think this is going to be a a very interesting year to try something a little different and i think it's going to be a lot of fun for the kids uh also of course we do our memorials the lincoln memorial korean memorial vietnam memorial martin luther king roosevelt world war ii jefferson memorial which which really are they're just fantastic it really is a fun trip across the board we keep the kids busy we move we go go go everyone is just exhausted which is great because we're getting a lot in uh i didn't mention also that uh you know what the purpose of this trip is also to enhance our our eighth grade social studies curriculum right that's our connection to our curriculum piece uh on friday which is the last day we're there we're gonna go to arlington national cemetery we're gonna see the wreath ceremony for the tomb of the unknown soldier and then we will depart sometime around 12 30 to head back to whiskenier for friday night which is usually around eight or nine o'clock eight to nine o'clock arrival back at wisconsin so that's kind of the overview of the trip a letter went home to parents just this week that contained all the information related to what to bring departure times when to arrive at the middle school prescription medication related items for for a nurse different protocols uh what they could bring snacks stuff like that so that just went home uh this week so i think all the parents should have that now we've also been sharing that with the kids the social studies teachers actually go through everything on that letter with the students so they're aware of what's expected and ready to go on this trip and i can tell you that they are very excited i've been as i as we've been getting closer and i see the kids i'll tell them oh washington dc a couple weeks away and and every time i talk to a student who's going to washington dc they always light up and say oh i can't wait it's going to be great it's going to be great so i think it's really going to be a fun trip thank you yeah we've got it is there any questions yeah any questions i'm so glad you're doing it i am too i agree yeah we need to all right thank you appreciate all the hard work and send the best of the teachers who are participating thank you thank you all right a couple more things wanted to share um that our technology committee met on may 2nd we have a number of various stakeholders participating in the technology committee technology committee work eric presented a couple of board meetings ago about future ready schools and our participation again aligning with the state and what's going on and taking advantage of resources that are out there to take advantage of and in addition to that the technology committee work obviously will feed into work we do and you can see next on the agenda i'm going to talk a little bit about candlewood lake but also strategic planning so it all feeds in and we're really excited about what's happening there and those teachers are our teachers and other stakeholders are quite energized next week we are going to have our kickoff candle with lake planning team meeting on the 11th and uh that's an afternoon meeting for a couple of hours and we're going to be meeting with again various grade levels various subject areas pre-k to five um and also various staff members from the different unions and so forth so really it's not just faculty staff as well and we really have a number of categories that we're starting to look at and get ourselves ready not only vision mission climate culture but also logistics the move in what's that look like starting to get information from the construction manager on that and when we're going out to bid on the moving contract and what is bus drop-off really going to look like there's a large school there's a lot of things to do the handbook how do we take two handbooks and meld them together make that work um so there's a lot of things we're actually going to be i'm going to be reaching out to both pto leaders because the ptos are going to have to get together because we're going it's one school so we're going to have to figure out how that's going to work so all that stuff now it's that energy exciting getting real time and like i said in a note to the board a couple of weeks ago once we take that tour may 17th and i just was fortunate enough uh maybe two weeks ago to to walk through with mr checkout it really becomes concrete um it's it's wow this is real um it's going you can just feel it's gonna be beautiful and it's just so exciting and so once you get that in there you probably you'll feel the energy like i do at this point and get really excited about it so anyway that's coming i wanted to let everybody know that about that and finally strategic planning our formation meeting uh really it's kind of a kick-off meeting to talk with mr costa who is our ed advanced consultant that's on may 24th and again that's a brief afternoon meeting and we've got a number of uh stakeholders there parents etc and actually mr moland is getting uh working to get us two students identified to participate with us as well so we're really excited about the future planning for the future and uh in in getting after it so i don't know if anybody has any questions but that's my report for tonight thank you okay any questions from the board okay um so we're gonna move on to subcommittee reports first up is facilities to you okay we have a lot of updates so we we met on april 6th we reviewed the school due reports and discussed equipment leaks and maintenance issues the update for wisconier the water we have one last sample bottle to do if the test is acceptable then we anticipate the state to close this issue we reviewed our capital projects hvac dance coordinating with the high school to get most of it done during the summer we had our first official day of work on the project it is underway materials have been ordered we're just waiting on signatures and contracts we aren't worried about supply issues but just workforce issues we'll have full control of the heating by winter though the boys locker room project unfortunately came in at 263 thousand dollars over budget what was originally quoted so ken met with marcia and we're waiting to hear back about options for possibly additional funding to cover that additional cost the guidance wing roof at the high school the architect has been picked and they're updating the specs three full restrooms are scheduled for repair at the high school one specifically i think near the main office or the main entrance and one in the math wing two main office okay two near the main office and one in the math wing security measures we're still waiting on the specs for that and the electrical server we have the specs and most likely have a surplus with that project update for the wall at wisconier the cost came in significantly higher than expected the lowest bidder came in at 1 million 30 000.
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[Music] so [Music] indian high school district board of trustees meeting of may 5th 2022 is called to order at 2 17 p.m the following members are present anna piercy and mary randall trejo katherine smith brian brian o'neill and i al-jabbar staff has requested the following amendments to the agenda replace page three of the agenda to include the following student names under item 7.3 christopher cervantes devorah estrada and michelle munoz i think you all have the copy in front of you and then exhibit lll page 3 to 5 to list all monthly salaries as whole dollars and then exhibit n n n replace the cost amount on the number four a wait a minute well the first one was ll which was pages three to five to list all monthly salaries as whole dollars and then exhibit n n n replace the cost amount on the page number four a and then the final one is exhibit p-p-p hold it hold it okay three of ten here all right let me repeat it one more time it's uh exhibit lll page three to five to list all monthly salaries as whole dollars and then exhibit n n n replace the cost amount on the number four a you got everybody's good there all right see head nodding okay and then exhibit ppp replace page two to reflect dissenting vote under item six three three six point three point three okay to accept this amendment perfect i have a motion as amended and i have a second all in favor all right and you pose motion passes unanimously we will now proceed to the study session i will hand it over to nancy perfect thank you so much um we have um rick musto and lindsey hayward from lpa to give the update for the facility master plan this is an update to our 2014 facility master plan and obviously this is the draft master plan and then we will be bringing this back to the board in june for the adoption so any questions you have please feel free to ask at this meeting thank you and good afternoon again my name is rick musto managing director with lpa and we have lindsay hayward here as well she's an educational planner with lpa and she's been very busy for the last since i think november working on this plan so i'm very happy here to give you an update i think all of you at your desk you should have a complete copy of all the diagrams at least so we were not going to be walking through each individual site that would probably take the better part of the afternoon so i'll spare you that for today and let's see if i can get this to work here we go so we'll just walk you through the schedule and i really want to emphasize the process that we've been through since we did the update as you know we did the original master plan in 2014 the california department of education does recommend that the updates that you do updates your master plans about every five to eight years so you're right there where you need to be and it's great that you are pursuing an update because quite a bit has changed as you know in about what it's been eight years since the original master plan so we'll talk a little bit about the community survey that was done in uh march and a little talk about the scope categories and deal with cost a little bit and talk about our next steps in terms of prioritization and please i know you will but interrupt me if you'd like anywhere if you have questions if i cover something a little quick this is the very very difficult to read but the really important part is on the upper right hand piece you see a big red arrow so we really started this process in november of 2021 and here we are towards the very end so we've got a couple more steps to go to finish and we're very close so we've been there's been a lot of work and a lot of meetings and what i'd like to do is give you a little summary of all the meetings that we've had so the stakeholder engagement process we've been through we've had an executive steering committee we've been work meeting with regularly so we've had about 10 of those to date we've actually had four large community forums we just finished one last week we've met with the citizens oversight committee we've actually had two cabinet meetings i think so far this might be our second board of trustees meeting i think we did one earlier just as an update as a beginning piece i met with elcap and a lot of focus group meetings with a lot of individual groups within the district so all the different focus group interest groups that gave us kind of an update on where things lied with the sites and with facilities we did an online survey we had a lot of principal meetings and a lot of site committee meetings that the principals formed so really all together we probably hit about 1600 participants so you can see here there's been quite a bit of participants so i think we've for for an update i think we cast a really wide net and i think it's been very successful in terms of all the people that have given us input which is really the key to getting a successful master plan is reaching out to as many people as you can uh we're not the authors of the master plan we're just sort of the vessel to create it the um one activity we did at the last forum it was over at the convention center we had a large large group i think we had a close to 50 people and what we asked them to do was weigh in on we did an activity and we asked them to help help you and help us decide for a prioritization process so what they did is instead of having this this group prioritize and say we think you should do this school versus that school we actually asked them to prioritize the criteria that would be used to identify what you would want to do in terms of projects in terms of forming a project list so i don't know if i want to go over these individually but essentially we ask questions like does the project develop equity by ensuring that the sites with the greatest need for repairs and or new improvements are addressed first we have questions such as does the project address imminent liability regarding maintenance condition systems functionality code compliance ada health safety does a project enhance technology does a project benefit the majority of students and staff and so on so we actually have all that great information we're currently compiling it and the next time we get together and when we meet with the cabinet again we're going to present back at least from the forum standpoint where they thought the highest priority should be in terms of criteria which i think will really help us inform the direction that we'll go see there we are here's a couple images actually from that that activity we had a lot of different sites show up it was great i think gilbert high school got the prize they had the most participants and some of the students presented back some of the criteria in them very great kids it was really awesome to see them and to listen to their comments now we're going to take a step further back in time and i think it was around in march the district did their first poll the first survey and i don't expect you to be able to read this slide either but what i'll do is i'll go over this with you in a little bit of detail this was a survey that a consultant did with the school district i think it was mainly telephone survey and they made a lot of calls and they the good news is they asked to rank different criteria different things that are important to this to the schools and whether they felt they were strongly favorable or somewhat favorable and actually this is just kind of a highlight of one of the areas and i know that the poll consultant has already presented to the board so i don't think it's worth your time to go over that in detail again so this is just kind of a high level reminder that a lot of the criteria that were identified that the public felt very strongly favorable or somewhat favorable the highest one i guess is a is the question about upgrading older schools so they meet current health codes building safety codes provide proper access for students with disabilities if you put those numbers together at the very top row you're at about 86 percent favorability either strongly favorable or somewhat favorable so that's very good and all the way down to the bottom things like install solar improving health ventilation insulation doors windows to increase efficiency so more about you know being good stewards of the environment and sustainability that was towards the lower part of the list and even that was still about uh 77 or so favorable so i think that was really favorable outcome and the final slide and you know these questionnaires the way they pull they ask a lot of questions up front and this oh there we go and then they give the people being pulled a little background information and say here's a little more history and they try to give them some information and after that's done then they ask the question one more time so in terms of the question about uh pursuing a bond the final question was you know the results were about 58 between definitely yes and probably yes so that was as of march now they're going to redo this poll and and i think one of the comments that were made as that happened at a time was like the day of the day after the war uh started and so maybe people were feeling a little you know hesitant at that time but um they're gonna we're gonna redo the poll in june and we're gonna bring back those results to you in july or the district will so you'll get to see the difference and i'm sure the consultant will highlight the delta and the changes and um i think everyone would think the numbers might get a little better by that time any questions so far so i race through this maybe i'm just out of range here you want to give it a shot or maybe just do it manually actually um i'm going to let lindsay walk you through these are the scope project scope categories i i probably just to kind of clarification on page four i just wanted to i know the bottom box that you have you're kind of talking about board board board of education meetings and then community forums the the third one which is their school site committees and it says just total size did that mean that we actually made 20 presentations to school site committees okay all right speak into the mic the process started with us meeting with each individual site committee and they so met with the principal and they brought together a site committee meeting we walked around the site a bit with them asked a lot of questions we went over the previous master plan and sort of talked about maybe what was talked about as their priorities in the prior master plan and then walk the site ask more questions as to their current needs and if those have changed since the last time obviously you've done a lot of work on your campuses in the last handful of years so understanding where those changes might have occurred what priorities were actually already accomplished as a part of the current bond and then we went through the process with the community forums we had one on the east side one on the west side and then we actually got back together with each of the principals one-on-one to hear feedback based on their draftmaster plan so we've met with school representatives a couple times in that perspective and they were also all included in the community forums those committees came to each of the community forums as well okay perfect we've had some great groups the total participants which is 1600 plus which includes i'm kind of talking about the parent aspect of it yes their part of that school side council is also aggregated into that yes so the school site each school site did have parent representatives as a part of that as well as staff different staff members athletic heads things like that and then as far as the number getting up to 1600 we actually pushed out a survey to students to parents so that's what that little pie chart is on the right we heard back on that survey outside of even the in-person gatherings we heard from 764 parents 388 students close to 200 teachers and then 56 admin and librarians so that helped us garner even more input and understanding of the need all right thank you you better say one thing to me what we're hearing here and seeing is such a wonderful example of why america is america and i wonder about other countries how many other countries go through all of this to do what we do and i sadly i don't think the general public understands and has a grip of what we do to make public education as good as we can make it so i just want you to know i'm thrilled and overwhelmed because it's so wonderful thank you very much we love working on educational projects that's for sure and you have some very passionate stakeholders so that makes the process even more fun are you going to click forward for me just so i know okay perfect so as a means to break down what feels like a very large amount of potential work or a large amount of need in a district of your size we break things down into project scope categories and this does a couple things for us one it allows us to cost estimate these categories separately so that as you're looking at maybe priorities and equity and things of that nature across the district as you implement projects moving forward it gives you things broken down into a little bit more digestible pockets if you will and it also allows us to really understand sort of where there's major need across the district across different school sites and then site by site so it really just allows us to break it down into more palatable chunks and so i'm going to walk through each of the scope categories one by one to kind of clarify what's in each of those so in category one it's modernize and reconfigure existing classrooms so what we mean by that is if you have an existing classroom that hasn't really been touched in a while and is eligible for modernization that would mean things like new carpet new lighting new finishes things of that nature that really sort of bring it up you guys have done some lighting projects and things like that and some modernization already on quite a few campuses but where there where that hasn't happened that's what's in this category this category also encompasses maybe combining a couple classrooms if they're undersized to make them to make them more adequately sized for the educational model you're doing so scope category number two is existing building systems toilets and improved energy efficiency so this i like to look at is sort of all the utility stuff that's above the ground that you might be able to see whereas category 3 site utilities is sort of all the stuff you don't see which is always the unfortunate part of putting money in money underground that people can't see but is vital to kind of the performance and needs of the school so these two sort of go hand in hand a bit in tandem so existing building systems would be things like hvac units restrooms sit in this category so redoing those which we heard from you know both students and parents on their survey restrooms always comes up it's a thing uh and then site utilities be more the underground the feeds into the campus and a lot of those have actually on the campuses that you've done significant quad improvements on in the last handful of years with your measure h dollars a lot of that has actually been updated as a part of that process so you're not going back and digging things up to only do that work again which is great scope category four is new construction so anywhere on a plan that you see uh anything slated for new construction that's captured in this category so we can kind of separate that from modernization as you look at different categories this would obviously be a more expensive alternative but sometimes when you have really aged aged buildings where it costs more to sort of replace it or structurally upgrade it it makes more sense at a certain threshold to do new construction thanks rick you're keeping me on point here scope category five is design lab science career tech and elective programs so this even parses out construction in a more significant way so this is whether it's modernization or new construction anything that's kind of under the heading of a science lab or an elective lab some of those larger spaces that are a little more intensive and tend to be a little more expensive because the amenities they provide things like making sure you have water in science labs or in elective labs that sits in category 5.
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board member tennis okay i'm calling the board workshop for today into session and hopefully we will have our other board members joining us very shortly so with that um we'll do the pledge allegiance i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all all right thank you okay so um and for announcements [Music] do we have yes hi my name is jessica hunt and i am the pta representative for district 13 and i am just announcing again our awards dinner that is happening may 16th the doors open at 5 45. will we be served appetizers of bruschetta and crostinis after that we'll have a salad course and then our main entrees include rosemary tri-tip with garlic mashed potatoes and roasted vegetables chicken parm with roasted vegetables and pasta and for our vegetarian dish will be a pasta primavera tickets will be 25 apiece they include that and a wonderful dessert bar that has so many listed that i can't say them all so checks can be made payable to district 13 pta please please please come we would love to have you and you will get to also see these wonderful kids at pv serve this great dinner because not only do they cook they're like doing everything they're decorating i mean it's just going to be amazing you want to give me the date again may 16th 16th okay good all right and i encourage everyone to come and the student chefs are wonderful all right so the other announcements mr shepherd do you want to talk about our glowing accomplishments state competitions so every once in a while we get to step out of the box and not just recognize athletics right we get to recognize all the all the things we have going on in our district and we have some amazing students i was commenting to one of my colleagues earlier these kids are way smarter than i am it's not a high bar and they have been able to represent chico unified in various skills usa competitions so i'm going to turn it over to one of our outstanding representative teachers and he's going to explain the success of our cte programs all right thank you hi my name is john andrew i teach industrial technology computer science robotics and drones over at chico high school um i'm here to talk about three different competitions and i thought there were slides but it's okay the first thing i'll talk about is the cyber mayor's cup uh this is a competition that's been going on in the state for quite some time uh oh thank you uh it's only in the last three or four years that they had a far north region which chico falls in they used to lump our region in with the greater sacramento area but to try to give us an opportunity they started promoting it in the more northern areas we've competed in the last two years and i'm happy to say chico high's represented well uh last year we had one team one first place and this year we had two teams they got first and second place wow so great over here is uh simon fan who is on the golden panthers team uh who won the gold medal and then we have jacob toss who got silver so that's the school's trophy there is a larger more elaborate beefier trophy that goes in the mayor's office and that has a plaque that just keeps getting added as a perpetual type thing great fantastic um you want to talk real briefly about the composition entail i think it's just a good opportunity to have what we learned in to take theoretical knowledge and put into you know practical application and it's a good way to also look further on into other kind of leads you into what kind of industries you can go into with the cyber security or computer science in general so good opportunity to have i'm glad that we had it this year all right great okay the second thing i am going to talk about is a county robotics team called blue belt bots i've been involved with this for 10 years now we started a non-profit about 2016.
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edgar and bonnie zimmer recognized the potential of the youth of the community and the importance of education to assure a strong future for their beloved monroe county first his private foundation made scholarship and tuition waiver grants and then in 2002 they established the zimmer family scholarship program at the greater st louis community foundation perpetually providing scholarships to help students receive a post-secondary education in the field of their choice at the accredited college of their choice mr zimmer's vision created a partnership between the high schools in the county and the community foundation that annually awards scholarships to students of good moral character and academic promise who have been proven leadership or entrepreneurial spirit with demonstrated financial need of the college they will attend awards can be up to six thousand dollars per recipient and scholarship recipients will be eligible for renewal consideration for a maximum of twenty four thousand dollars over their four-year college career this year's two winners isabella crabtree and jake steve [Applause] congratulations to all of our students on your outstanding accomplishments you're amazing on behalf of the administration faculty staff and your families we're proud of you and good luck on your future endeavors we will now that concludes that concludes this ceremony you will have your senior superlatives as we are running checkout in the gym we'll call you in groups of about 20 but you're able to take advantage of the senior superlatives that mr bleckley will help you with and then there's also ms dickerson to set up some spots over the side if you want to take some pictures but thank you for everything and we will have our senior signing around 10 30.
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it is awarded to a high school senior entering an accredited accredited college or university was proven exceptional community service and or volunteer work with preference given to students who consider a major in the field of communications and this year's recipient is michaela miller [Applause] thank you good evening it's my honor to be here tonight to present four scholarships in memory of henry and helen johnson who are very dear people in my life it is the intention of this scholarship to be awarded for each subsequent year of enrollment in a four-year institution this year's recipients are nora cavanaugh [Applause] nina kocovia [Applause] [Music] thank you spencer carroll and brendan hardlicka [Applause] [Music] good evening everyone it's so nice to see you all here i missed you for the last couple years but i'm really enjoying this evening i wish to congratulate our graduating class of and the village who brought them to this point the teachers the parents the grandparents their coaches everyone i appreciate all that and i would also like to congratulate the football team from this year do we have any players of this year's class would you stand up for me please [Applause] this scholarship is presented in honor of my son brad kelly who was a member of the class faces there already of 19 okay 2 000 help me out 1996.
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so we're trying to set up a meeting with the engineer to review the proposal and determine if there's a way to reduce the cost maybe every bid or work with the bidder to reduce the cost we have 700 000 in capital for the project so we still have time in the process to move forward arpa funding so the funding for the bhs library rooftop was approved 90 000.
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similarly category 6 performing arts entails things like your band room choir drama dance anything to do with your theaters on campuses that would be under your performing arts category scope category 7 is multi-purpose rooms or multi-purpose and cafeteria rooms because those are kind of part and parcel to one another as well as food service improvements so anything to do with your kitchens as well sits in category 7.
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this team consists of any student in high school from throughout butte county so this year we had team members consisting from chico high inspire and las pumas just double checking all three members behind me are actually members of the team simon focused on our scouting application where they identified what teams were doing uh what well at competitions and then these two gentlemen over here were on the drive team and design team and build team because we had a small team this year but forest here is an inspire student so he's representing them all right um you saw us driving that around a little bit earlier uh i'm gonna let them describe what it was and what they the two events that they participated in real briefly okay [Laughter] yeah you want to be able to talk so people can hear you yeah thank you yeah so um this is our robot blue tang she's meant to compete in the first robotics competition uh 2022 rapid react um we went to the sacramento regional and the oh yes yeah as well as the um utah regional um so yeah do you want to talk a little bit about what our design process was yeah um interesting it's a lot um over pretty much all of covid we had no frc season so it was a great time for us all to get a practice doing having cat experiences and knowing how to design parts which for this spot was an immense help good point at the 3d printed ones pretty much all of the colored parts have either been milled on a cnc router table or 3d printed which both of those have taken a lot of time and effort and cadding the entire robot to making making sure everything fits together in a way that actually works um so question for you are you telling me you guys made every single component on that thing kind of more or less or not everything does i mean we don't make bolts ourselves like the shafts perhaps you know you did not make maybe there's a lot of stuff that we just bought that are basic frc supplies but um pretty much everything that's colored we made ourselves the stock aluminum is either cut down or bought to the exact size but the clear polycarbonate this blue piece on the front the entire front bar intake assembly was pretty much 3d printed oh the axle on the inside we did sure it's amazing so it's one of our goals that every year we take them to at least two tournaments it's all dependent on fundraising because it's a non-school activity this gives them the ability to iterate basically so they we went to the one competition without a climbing mechanism that arm on the side we made sure we had it for this next one because we realized that was a big make or blaric moment for that this is the first year that our team has made it to the elimination like the elite eight type thing from using a basketball analogy of the actual event we've been in the elimination before we just got out really quickly um we went to elimination in both tournaments we made it to qualification the quarterfinals this time around as well so uh we're getting better and better and they're learning more and more and the more that they build on this they build legacy access to equipment at chico high school compared to other years has been tremendously has built our game because the 3d printing and the cnc router capabilities as well as mr cockrell's powder coating booth that's what got this noticed it's bright orange for a reason so people look at it but that's what allowed them to win the industrial design award which is sponsored by general motors all right the car dealership the manufacturer of the cup vehicles so um that type of thing so i'm going to let them devil and what's the relationship between the inspire student and the chico high student what that's expand on that a little bit so like i said uh we started a non-profit called inspiration robotics in northern california in 2016 just before the oracle dam crisis we did that because we wanted to be able to do fundraising it was the whole buildbots program was developed with the rop program and that's the year that it went away and so we needed a better way of keeping track of funds um when it was part of rop it allowed us to bring in students from all over the county and it was very inclusive some students from las plumes knew how to build things really well other students from chico high and inspired knew how to design things really well and everyone cross-pollinated and it was really really advantageous environment for them because they saw students outside of their own school their own district even and so we've just kind of kept that going and as time goes on we just keep bringing more people and it's whoever wants to participate um so really it's the non-profit that spuns the whole program where do you guys like get together where do they get together to do all their their uh do you know where the highway 70 industrial park is in oroville across from surplus city and the paintball zone okay uh steve's hand class has given us a 2 000 square foot office space to operate out of and so usually we make the trip down there two or three times a week during the build season if it's smaller things we'll use my classroom because it's a convenient and more the majority of teams from chico but we look at this and say where can we make the biggest impact and there's a lot of opportunity for the kids in chico to work on things we want to try and see if we can get other kids involved too that's why we make sure it's a butte county thing um so we've had kids from regalia paradise gridley biggs all part of the team in the past and so it's really a part of that blending of it thank you yeah thank you so what were the criteria for this robot yeah so um going into this competition season what we're first given is a basic game animation that showcases roughly what you want your robot to do and for this year that was to shoot balls to hang on a hanging structure and also to intake balls off the field um so to go off of that they also give us what is it like 180 page rulebook where we have to memorize basically what the gain elements are the dimensions of things and just figure out what mechanisms could we make to accomplish these tasks it's really fun to go to these these competitions because you always see someone came up with a unique way of doing something uh the best operation that i saw to get up to a 12 foot high bar what what was it 12.
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thank you it was that long ago i'm so sorry anyway brant exhibited his love of the team love of the sport sportsmanship and in that vein tonight we are honoring our recipient and in addition to the recipient the whole team has a special honor and um miss kelly did just fly in from florida so i told her she could talk as long as she wants just so everybody knows um but one of the greatest honors that any of our athletic teams can receive is the sportsmanship award for western massachusetts and our football team received that it's better than any championship in my opinion and the individual who is receiving this scholarship was instrumental in uh demonstrating good sportsmanship with that team and i'm going to leave it to miss kelly would you like me to present it and uh congratulations to christian thomas [Applause] thank you [Applause] [Music] hi again everyone um i'm here to present the heather aquin memorial scholarship which is given in memory of heather aquin a beloved special educator mark twain once said that the two most important days in a person's life are the day you're born and the day you understand why and for heather i think that happened on the same day there were a lot of friends of heathers at the audience tonight and this award is given to either a past student of heather's or to a student who's passionate about special education and so it gives me great pleasure to present this award in memory of a beloved staff and colleague so jack calcities congratulations [Applause] [Music] [Applause] good evening uh this scholarship in memory of susan ross an islam medal high school math teacher is awarded to seniors for their commitment and dedication to learning of mathematics mrs ross was a very important person in my life way before she was a teacher here at islamabad high school for the first time ever we're going to award three junior scholarships so we'll start with those i'm happy to present the susan raw scholarships to taylor de florio nicholas carlone and jack forsyth [Applause] [Music] and now for the senior scholarships for the susan ross scholarship michael corlone and aaron hamilton we'll start with those two [Applause] congratulations and last but certainly not least two of my favorite almost twin sisters as i call them sally nguyen and katie yuan [Applause] [Music] [Applause] thank you so i am presenting the ralph schindler memorial scholarship so this scholarship the memory of ralph l schindler the east law middle high school principal from 1964 to 1979 is awarded to a graduating senior planning to enter a technical or trade program or a community college immediately following graduation this year's recipient is noah goodchild good evening everyone i'm here to present the brian sunter memorial scholarship it's meant to honor our son brian who died in a car accident eight years ago but this award is for a cross-country runner who demonstrates a dedication a work ethic leadership abilities tremendous support for his fellow runners and teammates and really just a complete passion for the sport of cross country and tonight's winners are alexandros dimatroglu nicholas cassidy and james romaliotis [Applause] congratulations good evening everyone i am here to present the knights of columbus council number 4306 scholarship however i do want to say one thing i received a phone call last week mr richard fracier was supposed to be here to do the presentation and i think this is the first time in my 27 year career i've not seen him here but he did want to extend his apologies that he was not able to make it and to congratulate everyone in all of the award winners tonight the knights of columbus number 4306 is honored to provide scholarships to deserving students the student has demonstrated high high school achievement participated in co-curricular activities and exemplified community service the four recipients tonight are nicholas cassidy sarah greco brandon hanoush and anna thompson [Applause] stand right there also a brand new scholarship this year is the three guys at the grill scholarship and um this year's recipient is mr nicholas cassidy okay good evening st michael's church would like to present the markowski book award for the following students for their outstanding community service through our parish the recipients are nicholas cassidy liliana mantoni and sarah moriarty [Applause] congratulations sir oh let's get that [Music] good evening my name is mrs o on the go tonight i've worked at meadowbrook now coming on 20 years and so it's very lovely to see the children grow up to be wonderful accomplished adults and the east long meadow scholarship foundation was started in 1961 by a concerned town resident who wanted to just assist the students with their college uh what's that thing there the fee yeah so so it continues today thanks to the community thanks to the students that undergo a rigorous door-to-door campaign and storefront collection it's fully community supported parents then have to commit to volunteering for four years and students can then reapply uh one of few scholarships that do offer renewals so this uh tonight first the songwriting scholarship foundation first recipients are sarah greco and gabriella machalski [Applause] under the moffett scholarship uh the memorial for howard moffat our recipients are nicholas cassidy norah kavanaugh nina kochovia liliana mantoni and ryan marneau so thank you the lewis b scholarship for engineering and applied sciences we have two recipients this award was at a request of a list b in memory of her father and we just facilitate it the recipient is amman karana and wyatt poole hey lumber's yard um yeah there we go business uh presented by tom serrato he was unable to be here this evening but he reached out to the scholarship foundation wanted us to vet um to find a recipient that might be pursuing anything in the science you know science of lumber and sales and we have an environmental science possible applicant and they said well that's close enough so they wanted to present one this year to brandon herdlika [Applause] [Music] uh just one we had a little printout you're good thank you uh spencer carroll is also a recipient i just had a misprint and we didn't have a certificate but spencer carroll is also a recipient under the assange [Applause] thank you and i'm very pleased to present the business department award tonight the business department award is given to a student who has excelled in business coursework is a self-starter and has shown a strong aptitude for the various area of the east lawn meadow high school business curriculum this year's recipient abby davoy [Applause] good evening i like tonight you can kind of think that uh the future is in good hands on behalf of the english department i'd like to um award the junior book award to the extraordinary eva donovan devenish [Applause] and the senior book award goes to the equally wonderful brook vicara [Applause] good evening it's my pleasure to present the awards for the family and consumer science department these awards are given to students who've shown excellence in the culinary arts and child nursery management courses the first recipient for the culinary arts award is katie new newian [Applause] um and we have another award for culinary arts um cameron gadette memorial award cameron was a graduate of the class of 2020 who passed away unexpectedly cameron showed an interest in cooking and actively participated in the course during his senior year this award is given in honor of cameron and his love for cooking this year's recipient is nicholas cassidy [Applause] hmm we have two awards for our child nursery management course they are sarah grant and nina cacovia [Applause] graduation good evening i have the pleasure of presenting the fine arts department awards the fine arts department is dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in the development of individual musicians and ensembles these students represent the highest development of technical visual and aural skills and appreciation of the visual and performing arts as a whole our award recipients have participated in a variety of activities and ensembles pursue musical and artistic interests outside the classroom participate in community events and will become lifelong learners in the fine and performing arts for our art award i'd like to present it to kaylee sanchez [Applause] and for our vocal and instrumental music awards i'd like to award those to reya mckechnie and garrett mccoskey [Applause] thank you these are this year's awards for the department of classical and modern languages this award is given to students who have achieved an outstanding record in their advanced study of spanish this year's recipient is abigail devinich [Applause] [Music] this award is given to a student who has achieved an outstanding record in their study of latin i am delighted to present this year's award to delaney varela [Applause] finally i would like to present the massachusetts seal of by literacy award the seal of my literacy is given by islam meadow high school in recognition of the achievements of students who have studied and attained proficiency in english and another language meeting the state criteria established by the department of elementary and secondary education in addition to the recognition tonight students who earn this distinction have a physical seal placed upon their high school diploma that certifies their language proficiency for future employers and college studies i am very pleased tonight to recognize east long meadow's first ever student who has earned the seal of illiteracy patrick crenshaw [Applause] good evening uh tonight i'll be doing a few of the math department awards uh the first award we'll be giving out was computer science award this award is given to a student who has demonstrated a high degree of proficiency through the course work in advanced computer classes or through involvement in computer related school work this year's recipient is noah symansky [Applause] and the next award is the math department teachers award this award this year is given to two students who has who have demonstrated excellent excellence in scholarship throughout their four years here at esau meadow high school so this year's recipients are mike michael carlone and aaron hamilton stick around in the last math department award i'm pleased to present the western math math league award for excellent excellence in this year's math league competition this individual also achieved the highest number of points for east longmeadow in this year's season i'm pleased to present the western mass math league award to aaron hamilton good evening the science department has four awards to give tonight the first one is the rensselaer medal it's awarded to a member of the junior class who have displayed outstanding achievement in math and science and the recipient tonight is gabe savadra [Applause] the next award is the boston lomb awarded in recognition for outstanding academic achievement good character and superior intellectual promise in the field of silent science and the recipient is keeley k [Applause] the science department award is awarded to a senior who has excelled in science shown good character possesses strong leadership skills and stands out for their accomplishments this year's award goes to nicholas cassidy [Applause] [Music] [Applause] the last award is the science achievement award awarded to a senior who has demonstrated a high interest in science and in many of the courses offered so the award tonight goes to delaney varela [Music] [Applause] thank you good evening again i am here to present the social studies department awards the history and social studies department awards this is the book award given to an outstanding senior who's excelled in his or her history and social science courses throughout her four years at the high school this year's recipient is cleo tron [Applause] the academic achievement award this is a cash award that's given to a senior whose average ranks among the highest in history and social science courses over a four year period in a minimum of three full semester courses the recipient is aaron hamilton the frederick douglass and susan b anthony award this is a recognition award winners are selected on the basis of scholarship in the humanities social sciences leadership community services this junior winner will also be eligible to apply for a scholarship to the university of rochester this year's recipient is eliza yakabuchi [Applause] the george eastman young leaders award it's a award that is given to a student who displays strong leadership has high grades and challenging courses and is involved in extensive extracurricular activities the recipient is eligible to apply for a scholarship to the university of rochester this year's recipient is john fitzpatrick [Applause] the social studies department recognition awards these are certificates for those students who have shown special interest initiative and intellectual curiosity in the social studies awards will be made to students in junior and senior class the juniors it is john fitzpatrick and benjamin liu the senior recipients are attica awan and sarah moyarty [Music] civics and community engagement award these are recognition awards by the teachers in the history department and advisor of the civics oriented clubs here at the high school to a senior who has consistently demonstrated commitment toward improving the world around them by making contributions to local national or global communities for civics engagement and leadership this year's recipient is aidan cochrane [Applause] and finally the academic achievement in psychology this is a national award by the teachers of psychology and secondary schools and it is offered to a junior or senior from the ap classes who has consistently demonstrated outstanding performance throughout the course and an interest in psychology this year's recipients are brandon hanoush and jenny shin [Applause] and i'm very pleased to present the technology engineering department awards given to two students in the technology engineering department who are self-starters and consistently demonstrate a commitment to excellence and achievement in the technology engineering courses this year's recipients caitlin biffinger and ainsley smith the muriel brown award is awarded to a female student athlete who has represented elhs with outstanding sportsmanship leadership scholarship athletic performance and integrity i would also like to personally thank her for the impact and the positive impact she has had on the athletic program at islam middle congratulations to olivia robb [Applause] [Music] [Applause] the red stewart award is awarded to a male student athlete who has represented elhs with outstanding sportsmanship leadership scholarship athletic performance and integrity i would also like to thank him for the positive impact he has had on the high school athletic program congratulations to luke mazza the maryland baker scholarship is a monetary scholarship given to members of the boys and girls swim team who have demonstrated team leadership and spirit congratulations to emma bedard and michael carlone [Applause] good evening it's my pleasure to present the virginia d schindler citation which is awarded to a senior for citizenship through services in memory of mrs schindler spouse of the former principal of east long meadow high school uh congratulations to this year's recipients stefania mccoury and xavier boaz [Applause] i'm also presenting the key club award which is an achievement award in honor of mrs marilyn burke a long time key club advisor for the elhs and this year's recipient is garrett mccoskey i'm next going to be presenting the student council scholarship uh this is an annual award which is given to a graduating senior who is also a member of student council this year's recipient is patrick stevens [Music] [Applause] and finally this evening i would like to extend my congratulations to the students who will be inducted into the national honor society this evening on behalf of those who are currently members we welcome you to the national honor society the membership of the east longmeadow national honor society has been earned by the effective demonstration of the four qualities held in high esteem by the society scholarship leadership service and character the inductees are alec ken jemi ben kenjemi laura shabbatarov nicholas ferguson sarah grant molly haller luke haynes faizon mohammed andrew nolan wyatt poole and lana zoo [Applause] [Music] [Applause] so i'd like to give one more round of applause uh and congratulations to all of our recipients tonight you can stand up stand up [Applause] so we are almost done for this evening uh but before we conclude i would be remiss if i didn't take time to acknowledge the person who did so much of the legwork to coordinate this evening's event bring all of us together so i ask everyone to please join me in thanking miss kayla ochoa for bringing this event to life [Applause] uh so that concludes our evening tonight so thank you again everyone and congratulations again to all of our students on stage thank you
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uh but these numbers are from november so the price may increase we're having the vendor update us quote not sure if we have to go out to bid so since it's a state funding grant we need to review the rules it's also important to know that there is a long lead time on hvac equipment so we don't expect this project to be completed before the end of the school year the building condition study was also approved we have sample rfps and the high school will be the main priority custodian staffing update we have one open position at huckleberry but we do have green light filling in so there is a body there cleaning protocol and staffing at the new school um center candlewood lake elementary school ken and dan are going to meet with hilliard first and then hillyard's going to develop some proposals before presenting options to us at a future meeting so in june we'll get a meeting with uh hillyard to go over their proposals summer plannings contractors need to keep moving and completing work on projects so just a heads up we're considering moving parks and rec programs to the high school but only if we have to athletics and building administrators are being asked to coordinate the scheduling of activities such as summer school and extended school year with any building projects that will be going on this summer and main office leak at the high school the expected cost is 52 thousand dollars we took this request to repair the roof over the main office to the board of selectmen the request was repo was approved by the board of selectmen the transfer of funds request is now being passed on to the board of finance on wednesday the 13th dan has been in touch with the contractor and expecting the work to only take about a week or so that's about it a lot of updates there's a lot of them there are facilities a lot going on any questions for joy all right i'll turn it over to rosa for the finance committee okay so we last met on april 11th and uh it was a relatively quick meeting just to kind of review what you already know we do have a spending freeze that that was in place since march 8th ken reported that we would have otherwise had a budget deficit of around 45 thousand dollars the accounts that are mostly contributing to that overrun are substitutes heating costs due to it being such a long and cold winter more than anticipated and professional services related to special education so the accounts that have been affected by the spending freeze are mainly books supplies extended duty and professional development but at this meeting we we usually have a representative from the board of finance and eileen cook was there and with some great feedback so she was able to communicate that the board of finance is perhaps willing at least to cooperate with us perhaps use some town contingency funds to help us with some of these overages so that our students are not going without things or we're not getting too far behind on our priorities so ken was going to reach out to the principals see if there was anything that was really vital or high priority that we can maybe still purchase this year despite these budget overruns so that's good news and we're expecting an update on that at our next committee meeting on monday and that's it okay any questions for rosa all right so the last of our committee reports is policy and communications so demi um we met last wednesday april 27th and the beginning part of our meeting was really to finish up the budget flyer that was distributed today via email that's really sort of a recap of what went into our budget for this year and lots of detail behind the numbers so that people can make uh an informed vote at the on at the referendum so that has been completed and was distributed today after that we jumped into policies and the first one we discussed is a new policy that's in your packet that we'll be talking about a little bit later on it's policy 4115.3 which deals with evaluation and employment of coaches so i won't go into too much detail about that now because we will get to it later we discussed three more policies two of them are also in your packet for review tonight for a first read health medical records dealing with hipaa regulations and another new policy 5144.4 physical exercise and discipline of students so um there was a final policy that we discussed but we decided not to bring it forward to the board tonight it has to do with use of exclusionary time out and we decided to table that for until we could have further discussion with our new special education director so uh we'll continue those discussions and that was about it debbie these are all policies that are part of our cave recommendation in terms of the mandatory lists that we've been working on chipping away right okay any questions for debbie all right hearing none we'll move on next up is our consent agenda i'll move that the board approve the items on the consent agenda which are resignations retirements and the march financials second it's moved and seconded any comments oh thanks mr belden so uh first of all i'd like to thank laura miller for 27 years of service as our occupational therapist and we're just excited to wish her well uh in uh her future in her new endeavors and really thank her for everything she's done for students and staff alike and families throughout her almost three decades in the district it's just amazing so we wish her all the best and also to mrs richards or one of our nurses over at wisconsin as a matter of fact i talked with patty she's been with us nine years uh she's actually going on the washington dc trip for the last time so she is the nurse that's on the trip and when i went a couple of years ago i got to know paddy quite well because we sat together on the bus and it was it was just great getting to know her so again we wish her uh all the best uh as she contemplates retirement thank you okay thank you any other comments okay all in all right favor me oppose all right we'll move on all right so we're moving on to new business uh we have a number of policy items in the new business and um before we get into the first item the the we're going to talk about the coaches evaluation process as we're all aware there isn't as an item growing that hasn't come to the board yet but this policy is kind of on the critical path to making decisions on that front so the first item on the motion is to waive our 30-day waiting period so we we as a board can decide whether we're going to approve that policy tonight or if we choose we can then send it back to committee or wait the 30 days but it would be by waiving the bylaw which is the first motion i just want to make sure everyone knew that was in context it was so that we have the flexibility to decide what and what rate and pace we're going to do with instead of it being governed by one of our policies so that's i just wanted to start there so item a i will move that the board wave bylaw number 9311 policies for the purpose of adopting new policy number 4115.3 evaluation and employment of coaches second okay it's moved in second is it was my explanation clear enough did you have any discussion on that okay all in favor okay so we've waived the 30-day waiting period so the next one is actually the policy itself i will move that the board approve new policy and regulation number 4115.3 evaluation and employment of coaches as recommended by the policy and communications subcommittee second it's moved in second and let me turn it over debbie to you and let you say a couple of remarks yep um it's important to note with this policy that all of the steps outlined in this policy are things that we already do as a district we already do coach evaluations [Music] so we just need to have a formal policy in place um this policy that's before you tonight is mandated by cabe and has been approved by cave so we did not make we did not we're not recommending any changes to what cabe recommends for this policy so it's really just these four clear steps and the description underneath it okay and then the procedure that's also attached to it that's a that's a regulation for governing the actions of uh of the on how we do it correct interestingly bob and uh we talked uh for a little bit about this at the policy committee the appeal process while a regulation and typically regulations aren't usually we don't have the board approved regulations in this case um this is the appeal procedure has to be a part of the evaluate of the policy and it's it kind of was part and parcel so uh attorney murphy recommended that we approve this regulation which is the procedure the appeal procedure because you have to have that in place for your coaches okay so i sent a note out to everyone saying that we were i was going to try and push this through this evening and just to make sure everyone had a chance to read it and look at it does anybody have any comments or suggestions to the you know policy that we can deal with tonight or is it something we have to uh are there any concerns that we have to send back i guess is the question i had a couple of questions okay um so debbie said so because i'm just looking here just um so is this one through four always been in place because it looks like the font is different too so is this something that's always been done or is that just a kind of like a grammatical type bow it looks like this was inserted i it came from cape so i can't comment on that but we certainly could adjust the font i was just curious because it really stuck out it's not something we added in no right that's that's my question so is that something we added or that's always been in the policy through cave this is the k policy i saw the same thing i immediately wrote to lisa saying we got to fix the font so um down at the bottom before the legal reference this is a board made terminate the terminate the contract of any coach at any time for reasons of moral disc misconduct and subordination or violation of the rules of the board or because the sport has been canceled by the board so does discrimination i was surprised not to not see that term in there is that considered moral misconduct i couldn't imagine on the definition of discrimination in that regard joy i i wouldn't be able to answer that question what i can't tell you though is that this starts to get into the right of the board versus a more veteran coach as you can see in the paragraph above where they've been for three or more years as a coach and then they have that right to the appeal and so forth so that's where that appeal comes in so if you've coached for less than that you then you don't have you you don't have a right to an appeal okay it's like almost like a 10-year kind of not quite but it's the same concept um more rights are bestowed on a more veteran more senior person and on that second page coaches appeal procedure so the very first sentence there will be an annual evaluation of all coaches to be conducted by the coach's immediate supervisor so is that the um athletic director yeah our value our evaluations are in direct alignment with the connecticut athletic directors association and mr baldwin brought those in five or six years ago and those are those evaluations are conducted by him okay him and only him not he's he is the immediate supervisor okay the athletic director yeah and midway to be covered by these procedures a person must the person must both be an athletic coach holding a coaching permit who was hired by the board i guess i was confused by that because coaching permit who was hired by the board so they're that's never coming through not a volunteer coach that would apply to somebody you know volunteer coach they're hired by the board and then the other piece to that is having the coaching permit all our coaches have to be certified to coach correct but doesn't come to the board for approval coaches correct i think they're just considered a board of employees everything says recommended by the board of education okay hired by the board it's a collective term and it's really mostly just our consent right like that would just come across do we put coaches in our consent agenda we don't that's why we probably should if that yeah because we do every other hire under the consent agenda i would think that's right we should have them under our consent they're all processed through hr but absolutely that's a that's a good felt suspenders and for number three at the bottom of that page um kind of the last sentence the board in its soul discretion may assign a subcommittee the board would determine how many members are on that subcommittee or the board has the board has the choice to hear have a hearing as an entire board or can appoint a subcommittee to okay and then the board would decide if the subcommittee would just make the decision or it would be the subcommittee would meet to make a recommendation to the board it says if this occurs there shall be no further right to appeal to the full board so it sounds like right it sounds like so to me i interpret that as the subcommittee would decide yeah make the decision they would they would conduct the hearing and all of that and yeah if the board chooses to create that subcommittee they also create the right for that i would i would i would urge us to do it as a full board as a matter of course unless we have a situation that's rather minor right you know off some milk and uh and we can do it but these if it's a termination we ought to hear that sort of appeal as a board i think probably the way we handled the book reconsideration yeah well more or more when we've had uh grievances that have had to come to the board right we meet as a board the big purpose of this is coaches are separate many coaches are not part of any bargaining unit they're not full-time employees they could be separate and so coaches um you know like everyone deserve due process and that's why you have the appeal procedure and it's important for the organization the board the administration the employee the coach remember it might be to understand the rules of the game what are the guidelines that we follow should we have a disagreement and so that's why it's important to have this for our coaches i just had uh just two more things on the third page 3.3 kind of midway it says for good cause shown the athletic coach and administration may call a limited number of witnesses is there a number are we putting a number on that or one of the things that you like to look there is you want witnesses for both sides if it ultimately goes to a hearing to be witnesses that can provide substance um that have some semblance of what the issue might be and in there also there's a timepiece where the board needs to be notified of who those witnesses would be in advance so it isn't just um a line of people who decided i'm in the mood to support the coach or i'm in the mood to support administration or i just want to make a comment on this and people come up kind of in a state of emotion there's a reason they're coming they're prepared both sides are aware and the board can be prepared and that's important during a hearing so it stays organized so could a certain number be denied it because it says limited or no i think at that point joy would probably if we were to that far into the situation we'd probably be seeking counsel on that and having conversations and how do volunteer coaches play into this is this under the same purview or um they would fall under our volunteer policies they're not necessarily employees although they do have to be licensed or certified so i don't i don't know that we could use some guidelines like this but they're volunteers they're not employees so they have different they have less rights frankly because they're volunteers okay i think we should look into that because i have concerns that they're still in the capacity of coaching just as much as a regular clutch okay that's it so you have a lot of questions were there any recommended changes to the the write-up that you would make um the only thing discrimination piece i think that's needs to play into that um i don't see it falling into moral misconduct or insubordination then that's in the the last line on the policy itself correct so what what are we thinking we might want to do can we get and i think the most important thing is the appeal procedure must be not must needs to be to move things along for us approve tonight if there is a question on the policy we could hold on policy just so you know um well let me just could we add the word discrimination into that list or do we want to send it back for a review i i would ask if you could find out from cave what's included under more misconduct if they can define that to me that's a legal question to be very honest with you i feel like violation of the rules of the board is kind of broad as well like could it be covered under that and we have lots of different policies that reference discrimination so yeah i actually wouldn't i actually wouldn't be in favor of including that word specifically the rest of it is just as broad as moral misconduct and i think it could be argued that discrimination would fall under that and under violation of the rules right it's kind of doubling we do have that discrimination set of rules and i think the thing to always remind the board and the public on this is cave has lawyers that vet these policies and then they recommend them forward so that's the one thing so legal minds have already looked through these just that's important too so it's important to vet these from our own perspective hopefully um well attorneys have looked at these and approve these three so under under three though we talked about the subcommittee we talked about the subcommittee may uh sorry the soul discretion made a sign subcommittee consider an act or we would want chain change act to recommend no i don't think so because i thought we were gonna make any decision that the subcommittee would make would be as a board so the way i'm reading this and the way i believe it what it means is that the board should the entire board decide to create the subcommittee they are also therefore empowering that committee to act right now if we don't if we decide not to form a subcommittee we can do that too we can just act as a full board so we will have knowledge of what the complaint is just as an aside that's a very similar construct to what we do with expulsions where we have as a policy that says we can do it as a board or we can have a hearing officer and we more often than not do it through a hearing officer and that's been at the discretion of counsel and dr burrell right it's a delegation of authority to a group we trust right so i think given this circumstances having the flexibility to have you know take a subset of you can't be more than three of us right just or we have a forum of the whole board so and the board at this moment has a choice here the way rosa just described it there so and that's that's how i read it and that's how attorney murphy described it so at this moment there is no formal appeal presented to the board so right now the board doesn't have to make a decision on that they just leave the appeal procedure as is and then should a formal appeal come forward then the board can make that decision so you're saying the way it's written here is if if an action comes before us we can decide it in a as a board in a board meeting or choose to assign a committee a subcommittee that's how i wrote it and what i would recommend is a set a separate afternoon or evening for the board to have a separate special meeting for a hearing not to try to shoehorn it into a regular meeting that wouldn't be appropriate i think you're right about that are you okay with it all right so um so i think with that any other any edits then to these two is everyone okay approving this i think i like amy's comment about the violation of the rules of the board i think that covers discrimination so i don't think we need to make anything okay all right so uh any other discussion okay all in favor of approving the motion for both the policy and the regulation four one one five point three please say aye aye aye any opposed pass is unanimous okay um next up is uh new police the next two are our first reads um and amy if you want to join both you're doing both that republican can move us along i will recommend that the board approve new policy number 5125.11 health medical records hipaa for a first reading by the policy and communications subcommittee and i will move that the board approved new policy number 5144.4 physical exercise and discipline of students for a first reading as recommended by the policy and communications subcommittee second okay it's been moved and seconded uh then you want to give an overview of this yep so again these are on the list of um mandated policies mandated by cabe and we already follow these um steps under health and medical records in 5125.11 basically this policy is saying that um any student records under ferpa are not subject to hipaa so in other words ferpa supersedes hipaa and that the one thing where there's a space here that the board of education designates and then it's blank that would be our special education director would be designated as the hipaa privacy officer any questions on that one okay [Music] um the next one is [Music] the 5144.4 physical exercise and discipline of students again this we already abide by all of these guidelines this is nothing new there's nothing out of the ordinary here it's basically just saying that you you cannot use you cannot take away recess as a disciplinary consequence and you cannot use physical activity as punishment you cannot deny students wellness instruction either okay any questions so we have uh these are first read so it means we have our 30 day clock starts we'll get it on an upcoming uh agenda yeah in june assuming the dates work out yeah and uh and we will get gives everybody a chance to read through this debbie when would you like uh comments but um probably i'm just looking to see when our next meet our next meeting is the 15th so um say by the 10th your meeting can't do this no that's a sunday oh i was looking at the 18th okay so maybe by the friday friday the 13th right yeah yep sorry as a committee to take a look at whatever the feedback might be yep cool okay all right so all in favor of moving these to a first street did i do the vote already or no i don't think i did all in favor of the doesn't the best thing all right any opposed no number one um there was in in the package that was distributed there's a nine three one one um yeah i think we just got the wrong files that's a copy that's like oh okay okay by a lot of weight well that was just that for information i got you i got it i got it i got it i got it okay i just was thinking i was looking at another policy there all right so i'd like to amend the agenda uh for this evening it was an item that we missed and i'd like to get a motion to add an item on the nurses contract which we have finished negotiating it's been approved by the nurses union to the agenda as our next business item can i have a motion for that so moved okay and then second second all right moved and seconded uh any comments on that motion which is just adding an item all in favor okay so there's a so um go ahead i will move that the board approve the successor contract between the brookfield board of education and the brookfield nurses union second okay it's moved and seconded um let me give a uh brief update so that um so the the um this should have been on the agenda so uh and i did send out the successor contract to each of you who came in a little bit late this evening but i thought what i would do is just summarize what the negotiations were the negotiating team was myself amy and mike and we of course had maureen and ken and some of the teams from that from the administrative team [Music] it concluded i want to say a month ago yeah a little over a month ago i think it's a three-year agreement it's the current year plus the next two years so um it's kind of late in getting implemented it's only seven to eight members in the union group it's a very small union um the big change in this contract was we moved the nurses onto a step plan similar to what we have in like teachers um and and it was interesting because both parties were interested in moving to that new model but it's not doesn't come for free when you do that so it became it really intersected with the money discussions um the reason why the old contract just had ranges top and bottom range for things and then every year you'd get a gwi but therefore no one would ever move in the range right so you never had career progression inside your range if you started in the middle of the range you were gonna be stuck in the middle of the range forever uh in your career so the union came to us and said we really do need to have a way to progress you know from the low to the high right um in inside the ranges um so we looked at a number of models um the uh and agreed to a structure that's built into the contract [Music] it's a 9.4 percent over three years about 3.14 per year on average on a very small union so we felt that was affordable it fits within our budget this year within rounding um and uh but the gwis in there are only zero percent in the first year as we move on to the um on to the uh under the step scale two percent and two and a half percent in the second and the third year so they're not outrageously high cost but because of the move to the step there's a little bit of a cost to it but it's a good it's the right model to move for the nurses will also pay an additional one percent on health benefits um and they go from 16 to 17 percent in the third year of the agreement and we had a couple of the other than that there's just some small things we fine-tuned the bereavement leave language um and had care for sick ones um to make sure it was clear who you know what is uh what you know we have uh i think three days in bereavement for a direct direct family family member and one day for you know if it's not not a close family member we had a lot of discussion about what what defines a close family member but we settled on a list of um you know relationships you know and so it's you know parents and grandparents and children and spouse and significant other and i forget all of them but there was uh it was a laundry list of them and then one day if it's not in that list and and then we fine-tuned a little bit on uh caring for sick ones in the family right which was a relatively minor fix from a prior to the prior contract so other so it really came down to a money discussion um the teachers union has approved it i'm sorry the nurses union has approved it just found out on either monday afternoon or yesterday yesterday yesterday afternoon they signed it they they had uh done it so they've asked if we could get it on the agenda for this evening for our approval so i'll ask you might if you have anything else you wanted to add to that okay similar by the way just as ascenda had similar sets of discussions and structure on the secretary's contract when it comes so um so that's that's ahead of us yet but uh it's the same negotiating team and on both sides same union group as the same board group so um so any questions okay all in favor all right any opposed all right okay so next up is old business uh and there's a just an update on the budget estimate for everybody the annual town meeting happened on tuesday night it was actually a rather brief annual meeting we've had we've had them go for hours on end and i think it lasted 27 minutes or something like that it was sparsely attended the key action at that meeting is to set the referendum date which is now on may 17th at the normal polling places in the normal hours from 6 a.m to 8 p.m and for anybody who's listening whether your family members in the schools or you're just listening to our board meeting please vote it's part of our civic duty to vote on budgets so just remember the normal voting place for huckleberry hill is not huckleberry hill right saint martin okay good good clarification um so uh um so that's the only major thing that's changed i think uh mr post we've gotten final numbers on the uh in on the health insurance which actually came in a little higher even than the last estimate and i believe the initial discussions with the board of finances they will help us out in sorting that through with contingency right in next year's budget because it hits them equally right and that's one of the reasons they have contingency there so that's been a good positive energy discussion so that's the update on uh budget anybody else have any updates that they're aware of again vote right please i'd like to have more people voting than came to the town meeting right next up on our agenda is public comment the board of education does welcome public comment individuals or groups can address the board concerning any subject which which is in within our jurisdiction uh three minutes are allotted to each speaker um and uh comments and questions at this type of meeting a regular meeting we can deal with any topic related to the board's management of the schools however discussion of personnel or individual members of the board is not considered appropriate so we've had we have to do on a sign up and we have two people that have signed up and mrs scalera is first on the list if you'd like to um please when you when you speak name and address and we have the microphone up here [Music] hi erin scalera five jackson drive i'm here this evening to speak to you regarding the academic support program at the high school level i began questioning placement for all iep students a year and a half ago and i've yet to and i've yet to get a real answer and i do not understand why this placement structure is being done i've spoken to more staff members and administrators than i care to admit as well as sent to ferpa requesting same yet i'm here today standing before the board no closer to getting answers than i was prior to questioning it so i'm here asking you where does a parent go to get this information that they need this academic support structure is not what is being done in surrounding towns which made me question even more when this change occurred and yet why did it change children who are on ieps are required by law to have individualized education plans as well as specific as well as goals specific sorry hate public speaking specific to areas [Music] of weakness and or their disability by simply automatically placing all iep kids in academic support class in place of a study hall does not sit right with me the more questions i asked the more disappointed this approach made me children on ieps are placed in the should be placed in the least restrictive environment by law and this structure does not follow this law at all this was the first red flag i attended a septo meeting last year where i was told by the director of special education while the academic support class has a specific curriculum that case management is massaged in the structure you and i both know that case management cannot simply be massaged in if it were simply that easy none of our children would be on ieps after looking at the syllabus for multiple grades at the high school level in the past few years as well as student assignments none of these assignments are specific or individualized and tailored to the student's needs by posting generic assignments that a child is expected to complete does this somehow check the box of case management or individualized goals and instruction this is yet another red flag it was brought to my attention a few months ago that the children in an academic support class were subjected to a presentation by a staff member who spoke regarding college and that accommodations in college are non-existent this first of all is not true and yet for a child to walk away feeling that college is not a place for them is disgusting it's infuriating as a parent but it's even more bothersome that a child felt that way walking away with that being said if all the iep children are not were not forced into this academic support class that very conversation would have never taken place as the audience would not have simply been child been children who are identified with a disability yet an even bigger red flag when i pushed the placement i was told it was a free credit yes this was actually said and yes another red flag children on ieps are required by law to have goals and objectives for post-secondary education by their 16th birthday as far as i'm concerned every child in high school should be working on a plan for post-secondary education or entering the workforce all of our students not just iep students all should be exploring career options as well as taught skills to write a resume a college essay or simply apply for a job does this take place in the regular education curriculum i will end this evening by saying i recently attended a septo meeting where a local special education attorney was presenting and i briefly expressed my concerns specifically relating to academic support placement and the structure that bhs currently has i was told what i already assumed that several violations were taking place so i am standing here before you this evening raving red flag after red flag and i asked the board how is this being done and better yet why is it being done thank you thank you next up is mrs matthews monique matthews 18 road so i have two points i want to get across today i'm here to speak tonight regarding the disappointment with the committee that was formed for the hiring of the new special education director myself and two septo members indicated had interest in becoming part of the hiring committee we were a very versed group of parents with years of knowledge and it was my understanding that in the past a septo member had been asked to sit on the committee i'm not sure why this time around we were denied when the parent that the district did pick could not make it was a backup parent picked if not i find that to be totally unacceptable the district should be willing to work with the septo parents and team and be transparent during the hiring process and this wasn't the case instead there is a divide and that only affects our most vulnerable children point number two there has been a big decline in communication consistency and accountability within our special education department and as a district as a whole parents all year have been not been denied in-person ppt meetings yet written in our reopening plan it states that parents can request an in-person meeting the excuses given to us were we don't have the space to social distance and teachers aren't comfortable but here we are going on field trips prom in-person pto meeting school plays which is wonderful and it feels so good to be back to normal but no in-person meetings for parents who have kids in special ed we need to keep them out every school does something different that causes frustration with parents as i've been saying for years there is no accountability within the district and we have a leader in a board of ed that doesn't does not hold our staff accountable we need to do better thank you [Music] thank you that's it for who we have signed up for uh public comment for this season okay um last item on the agenda before our three main points is an update on the candlewood lake elementary school okay just have a little update um the project is a little bit over 50 percent complete which doesn't sound like a lot but i think now it's going to really start to take off because you can see all the walls are up they're still working on some of the walls in the steel in some of the later sections but mechanical electrical plumbing all the stuff that's above the ceilings that's complete in some of the areas already and then sheetrock is the next thing that's going to go up in those areas windows are being installed and i spoke with eric conklin who's been working on our technology package and he said that the district was approved for the e-rate funding request for wireless access points and network switches which is great news because we will get all the equipment and installation at a 50 discount so this is like really good news from the state throughout may he and the technology committee will meet to provide input for all the technology requests for the building and those will have to be sent to the state for approval hopefully by the end of this month before we can actually start making purchases on those so that's that's it unless you have anything no and then you're exciting to add the tour on the 17th oh yes uh right before the mbc meeting so you want to say a little bit about that yeah so on the 17th so the mbc has moved their meetings back to huckleberry so they will be doing their monthly walkthroughs but um on may 17th we will have an opportunity at seven um no not seven o'clock i think five yeah six or six fifteen um before they're before their seven o'clock meeting yeah we'll we'll get we have to send an update note yes yep yep so may 17th be really exciting we'll get a chance to walk through the building so [Music] so right after you go vote then we can come here yep all right that's it right yeah that's great okay thank you all right so three main points well i think we would lead off with the um the hra poster contest winners and then i was wondering if you want to uh if we should put in the administrator progress update yep yeah and then finish up with the update on canada lake elementary school can we throw in the last day of school people something about the last day of school i would so just like we have a decision we have to make the last day of school sure because there's a hanging monday um john and i met and we agreed we'll so there's nothing to discuss right now he wanted that john wanted to talk to some of the building administrators and we have a corporate national schedule next week so it'll give us some time to talk uh as a team together and i can bring forward yep but maybe when you like talk about when you've had for the new school in that update maybe you can um i don't slip something in there go vote so like the board's going to tour the the new building on the 17th aft you know make sure to vote that's also the referendum you know something i could say flip it in there gentle candle like elementary school your future voting location although it's not that it is your current one is yeah right okay will we send out a voting reminder through the parent we usually do send a reverend reminder and [Music] at center school there is a pto meeting on may 10th their abc countdown to the end of the year begins may 13th and may 16th to the 20th is the spring book fair at huckleberry there is espa testing for the fourth grade this week and the third grade next week may 10th and 11th are the fourth grade trips to adventure park may 11th 12th and 13th are the second grade trips to new pond park their abc countdown to the end of the year begins may 13th may 16th is a third grade trip to ridgefield playhouse and may 16th and 17th are the fourth grade high touch high tech field trips a lot of field trips at huckleberry which is kind of nice wisconier has the espa testing for grades five and eight on may 10 through 12 in grades six and seven may 17 to the 19th the ngss testing for grades five and eight only may 13th there's a unified theater skits showcase on may 9th at 6 00 pm uh band and chorus trills and thrills field trip may 13th and of course the 8th grade washington trip may 18th to 20th and at the high school is the national honor society 5k this may 8th at the high school and of course the budget referendum may 17th from 6 a.m to 8 p.m get out there and vote that's all i have okay thank you so the last item on our agenda is an executive session um and for the members of the public we will uh as soon as we make the motion to go into executive session we will terminate the public broadcast and we will move into executive sessions i'll move that the board enter into executive session for the purpose of discussing strategy and negotiations as it relates to collective bargaining attorney client privilege information and the superintendent's goals second moved and seconded any discussion all in favor all right all right so it's unanimous and we're terminating our broadcast thank you all for uh listening in this evening and we'll see you at the next
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category eight is physical education improvements and this is really important to clarify from another scope category we're about to get to which these are indoor physical education improvements so this is from gyms to locker rooms to wrestling rooms team rooms things of that nature that are interior space as compared to a future one which is more on the exterior as far as play fields and things nine is admin and staff support so that's your administrative faculty work faculty lounge anything that's really about supporting your staff i will say that the parent centers on your campus are encompassed in this category just as a point of clarification and then number 10 is student collaboration and student support so this speaks to all the amazing um things you guys are doing as a district to support your students so things like your wellness centers um anything to do with sort of counseling your pledge centers so college and career centers things of that nature all the way you're kind of tackling it completely around from kind of mental health all of those things to supporting their future and career in college sits under this category relative to that student support and then number 11 safety and security this is a bit of i won't call it a catch-all category but it does entail a lot so safety and security i think most of us think oh you can see well so good lighting fencing to make sure secure point of entry safety and security also includes parking lots and drop off so that's kind of a safety feature as people are able to safely pick up and drop off their kids to school number 12 is outdoor learning environments and quads so again these two 12 and 13 are both outdoor scopes but we do try to separate one that's more about enhancing the learning environment just outside the classrooms and some of those social outdoor space for kids relative to quads and things like that and then 13 which has everything to do with pe and athletic fields and hard courts and last but not least the last few we're rounding out so number 14 is 21st century learning classroom flexibility this really speaks to the flexible furniture so we were very careful because um on this particularly category category when we cost estimated because we know you've done a lot of work on this in in the past that most campuses have about 50 percent of this work done so we were able to encapsulate that and make sure we weren't capturing that again in terms of reflecting the reality of where you are number 15 is technology infrastructure so that is fairly self-explanatory i guess in terms of infrastructure to make sure you have that the needs to do technology the way i look at that one is if you can kind of turn a building upside down and shake it whatever doesn't fall out falls in that category relative to technology anything that can kind of fall to the floor would be something that's more um equipment based at a later date and then last but not least the category 16 is the community resource center so this was something we looked at as one of the district initiatives to make sure as these come online through the grant program and everything else as you guys serve to support community parents and students at each of your campuses that we put this in its own category relative to understanding what that will take as well so those are the scope categories if you have any questions hopefully i don't go to that through that too fast just a question okay you bet i think it's on page two you mentioned restrooms people are yes interested in those um with the water shortages that we're looking at now and probably more so in the future are you looking at um waterless urinals for the men's room uh where you don't turn water onto the faucet where you put your hands under and it comes out right the sensor absolutely creative ideas i think those are all i mean that kind of happens as you work more closely with standards and implementing these but i think those are all conversations so from an estimate standpoint yes those can absolutely be accomplished in the cost that we have attributed to this i think even the pandemic has brought on a lot of conversation about touchless anything we can get and so i think moving forward that's something the district will be considering as they create their standards but yes toilets seem to always come up from parents and students it doesn't seem to matter what district we're in it is a hot topic so you're not alone i would like to ask a question for the electrical heating hvc ac do we have electrical air cleaners like they do in hospitals i'm going to defer to patty on that those are just hvac units we have air purifiers in the classrooms but uh and then the 13 filters that that's how our classrooms are equipped and that is because that's typical classroom construction and you know obviously to add maybe uv lights or that increases the cost also we might now that we're looking at us we might look at different types of units but um you know with yes or finding that we have at this point now we don't have anything like you mentioned they have them in hospitals and um we have them in our home was advised by an architect and i have a gentleman come and clean them four times a year and i wonder about the air purifiers that we have in the rooms are those cleaned yeah we have to replace filters on those so we're actually in the process of doing so so we're looking at maybe twice a year to start replacing filters twice a year and so they're replaced they're not cleaned the machines actually tell us and so the filters are purchased okay thank you very much and liam i can go actually sorry you can actually clean the filters as well so based on the use of those purifiers um they tell you how often you should replace the filters but in between the replacements you can actually go in there and clean them it's quick it's a vacuum oh thank you and they're going to obviously with covid and they say it's going to be with us for ever and to me this is extremely important and i think for everybody plus what we have at ground level within the classroom the air purifiers thank you and my question was it might be a patty question but you had mentioned our community resource and funding that's coming down the line i was thinking about item 10 and you know you mentioned their mental health services do you know if or have you heard through the grapevine or if there any funding coming down the line for um you know for for construction or structures building structures i know there's some mental health dollars uh for employees for for personnel but have you heard about uh no i know that uh no but we're all you know if there's something out there we're always looking forward to talking about whatever funds we have right so turn over every rock right every rock we can find yes so i have a quick uh and this is a public document obviously right so on nine i know you mentioned uh that the parent centers will be included in there yes but i'd like to highlight that and make sure that we insert that in there absolutely and maybe put administration staff and parent support okay so that we obviously you won't it's more clear no that's great that's a great point i'll make that note so what is the difference uh in your mind between what mr jabari is talking about m number 16 the community resource so the district has sort of those three tiers of support so there's the student support piece which is the wellness centers where you have your not even your counselors but sort of the speech pathologists the psychologists social workers things of that nature that really can surround the student with those types of services as well as under that category is the pledge center which is kind of the college career center and then there's also counseling under that so it's sort of enveloping that student with any service they could need to support their development the parent center is really intended and correct me anywhere in cabinet if i'm going to misspeak here but we've we've learned a lot at this district it's amazing the level of service you guys provide so the parent center is really then to do that next year of helping to support parents that support their students so having that resource on campus where they come in and that's where the faces coordinate coordinator is relative to that and then the community resource center is always going to be on the perimeter of the campus that it has exterior access that does not cross the security perimeter of the campus so that's more of a community resource on a more global scale in which your schools sit in the community so there might be more i don't know if there's any clarifying but that's the high level i understand example when we were looking at these um even grants we have um carlos already has brought us our uh um patty and myself to go to sites and with some of his staff as well and we like we have looked at already where would be an ideal location if we were to bring in additional resources or using our current um classrooms which wing would actually possibly work so we have really identified many of the spaces already so an event that we can notify we get these grants we'll be pretty much like ready to go and figure out okay do we these rooms that we can have now i'm not not every single school is going to be as easy but some school will be easier than others one of the other things that we do look at is to make sure that there is there is um restroom access to the community centers because you know when they come in and the idea is these will be open like after school hours right and into night time as well so we want to make sure that when they come through there's also you know they have to use the restrooms that there's also available so these are the things that we or i mean from day one since i got here um staff has been very vocal about you know we want to make sure their space is available so um pretty much i mean i've gone to so many sites with carlos and his team to identify locations already at this point i could see that because i think there's also community organizations who like to come in to rent our facilities right so it's a great opportunity to make use of those type of uh locations as well yes and and we also have different services on the weekends um different for example even dental um you know they come in a mobile unit as well so different things like that so for example we prefer to have these centers um close by the parking lot and have exterior doors um if not then is there a way that we can secure some of the areas like for example maybe we have to put some fencing in one area we've thought about that if there are two sets of restrooms maybe ones that we can just fence off so that will be still part of the campus and this other restroom we can take it and use it as a community center restrooms right um and then even when they come in at night um which would be the best best areas is there enough lighting for example so you know all these different things we already have um you know discussed and talked about to make sure we have you know these different things that we need so which which leads me to ask like i know that we're applying for community school grants i'm assuming that we also paid attention to each of the campuses on where we would locate a community school if that were to happen right yes i mean i think we have a lot of locations already it's just a matter of um moving things around if we need to you know things like that um and yeah so in some rooms we do have to move or if we need to bring additional things um then we may have to do that some some schools are a little bit harder but i think we have enough i think um rooms hopefully in a couple years to be able to move things around and locations have been identified on each of the master plan sites as a part of this effort that's what the cost is tied to so all right do you want me to click for you sure okay thank you all right we'll move along here there's been a couple questions about cost so that's a good introduction to the next segment here um i get the pleasure to talk about money here so to start with we're going to talk about a fund this is just a funding summary so this is all the different pots of money that the district has access to and then we're going to follow up with what the actual our first draft cost estimate is for all the need so this would be the pieces that would fund the need so to go through these one by one this is very similar to what we would have presented in 2014 you have about 13 million dollars in developer fees deferred maintenance set asides 30 million dollars and it's a set aside for maintenance operations you get about that's set aside and operations per year times 10 years then measure h balance current funds committed about 20 million so you're just about through all of your measure h dollars it's perfect timing so then school state or state school facilities program the matching funds that potentially you can get from the state so there's some remaining state eligibility mainly for modernization about 96 million dollars worth and of course that isn't money that you have in the bank that's money you have to apply to and then wait for the state to fund the fund the application and there's always strings attached to the state money a future general obligation bond right now we're identifying a number of about 319 million and that's just a current placeholder that number could change depending on what the district's decisions are for that category uh the district's been really good at pursuing the esser funds that's from the feds so that really funds hvac outdoor learning areas and related improvements and those have to be spent by 2024 but there's about 46 million dollars worth of dollars there and i know that patty's been very busy spending that money so that's starting to yes and then e-rate uh set aside for technology infrastructure uh that's money you get about three million dollars per year times 10 years so on the 319 million the potential if if if we were to get that there would be state matching on top of that and do you have any idea how much more that would be we submit our projects to the state for and we know that we have about 96 million in eligibility but we need to apply we know that's there and it keeps going up every year so this could change go up actually so every time we have a project that's eligible we submit to the state as soon as we're the 96 million yes but that doesn't take into consideration 319 million of a new bond correct okay so how much yeah so how much in addition would the new bond bring in if there was money from the state available i'm sorry 40 and and 60 is the state so what the bond money would do i'm not i'm not sure if i'm answering the question but the bond dollars what they would do is bring in uh 40 uh that would allow us to seek the 60 of the cost of yeah yeah another way to say that is to get access to the state money you have to have your own local dollars to apply a match so which is 319 yeah so the only way to get access to the 96 is that you have you know a portion of your 319 million that you would apply to a project than to be eligible for your share of the 96 million but the 96 is the total max currently that you have okay that's not the way i was understanding what was saying yet oh i thought the 96 we already had in the bag that we could get no okay thank you so this is in addition okay so this is a summary of all the potential funds to apply to future projects and if you add that whole list together you're at about 527 million but then what we would like to just make sure everybody understands this these are dollars in 2022 um price so this is you know money today and the things that when we talk about the costs of actual projects there's things that this dollars doesn't cover so what we'd like to do is you really only have two thirds of these dollars to apply to projects and what because there's things that the one-third that you want to save those apply to things that haven't been defined escalation and construction cost even though you may come down with a project list we really don't know when projects will be timed so you have to set aside dollars for those escalated escalation costs you might have interim housing costs that are very difficult to define now so you want to set aside part of your bond for for interim housing there's things like off-site fees you might pay to cities at anaheim or other cities so there's all together we recommend about a third of your total dollars be set aside for those future unknowns as you then go to do your implementation plan that would implement uh the projects as you move forward so really the total with this particular funding list here the total amount you would have to apply to projects is about 353 million dollars so now we're going to talk about actual let's see i need your help with the clicker on that one so so with the plans in your hand there that the different sites we went ahead and did a cost estimate of all the the current need over and above what you've done to date this is all the new needs um it actually comes to close to two billion dollars about a 190 about a billion 986 so it's a pretty sizable amount of money that's what's left and this current slide really shows the dollars applied across the different scope categories that lindsay went over so you can get an idea of how that number relates to all the different scope categories so we did it this way and i'll just click to the next one to show you the way and then if you were to look at it in terms of how those dollars would apply by school site we've got it summarized for convenience here as well so we've got the junior highs the high schools and then your other uh facilities all together again it adds up to about the two billion dollar number this is our current estimate and again these are these are total project cost dollars in 20 22 dollars so um this includes things like um all the soft costs you'd have on a project like all the fees you would pay the dsa fees the architecture engineering fees inspection fees uh furniture and equipment things like that all the things that wouldn't be considered part of your hard cost are included in these numbers so the actual hard cost numbers we typically think of those they're typically about 75 percent of these numbers and then the so the 25 percent you would set aside for the soft cost there's a lot here and i don't know if you want to go through these in any detail but just to give you a little background the um in 2014 if when we were presenting the same list the total came to about a billion two billion three big number at the time but again that was eight years ago i asked my estimator what that would be in today's dollars and he said if you were to escalate those dollars in 2014 until today it's about a 1.5 or you know percent increase so you'd you'd be getting pretty close to a 2 billion dollar value in terms of the cost back in 2014 so that just gives you an idea how much things have escalated just in those last eight years and of course what we did what's in these current numbers are based on the need today not the need back in 2014 so you've accomplished a lot of great work but the work you haven't accomplished your facilities are now eight years older than they were back in 2014 so the existing buildings uh the costs are more significant now than they were eight years ago so they might have been categorized as minor modernizations and if they hadn't been modernized then now they're going to be more significant modernization a lot of your hvac equipment might have been um not quite at a point where they need a replacement now they're at a point where they need to be replaced so keep that in mind when you look at the the difference between the two so there's a lot more need today than there was but we were very very careful and probably the biggest challenge of this update has been to making sure we understand what you have completed to date and then there's this big area in the middle of things that you have in process and what we didn't want to do is count need if you've already had that accounted for in terms of work that's in process and if it's in process it means it's already been associated with measure age funds so we're not doubling up on scopes i hope that makes sense so this almost 2 billion is after we've completed all the projects we already have money for that is correct it's the complete list of projects that you would do at a school site everything that you know was the need identified so it's there's a lot of scopes if you look through those diagrams you can see pretty much everything's being touched that wasn't touched previously it wasn't like we said okay we're only going to do this much work at the school sites the idea of this master plan is to give you the complete list and uh there isn't a school district in california that does a master plan that can fund their complete list of need it just never happens there's the the list it's um just ask ellie unified they pass multi-billion dollar bonds every couple years and that list just keeps going and never ends so um so just a question hypothetical we need a new high school and it needs to support 2400 students without the land cost what is it going to cost to put it up uh uh support it with everything inside of it uh that's a pretty tough question to answer um i think i would probably have to get back to you on that one because i'm just trying to draw some parallels yeah all this modernization since we've had two bonds since i've been on board uh that's close to about 400 million i think we've we've invested now 400 plus the two million now we're talking about two two and a half billion dollars that's that's why i'm wondering do you start a whole new district with less than two and a half billion dollars yeah the the costs are pretty pretty high right now and and it depends on number of enrollment the types of programs the buildings you know there's a lot of variables there but we're doing some new con some new working with some districts on new high schools and they're uh they're they're up there so we're doing one up in the bay area and i think they're i think you could say the total cost of a high school middle school elementary might be with a b i don't know if it's like somewhere in a billion dollar range for one big complete campus from k-12 just to give you an idea of course that's a little higher priced up in the bay area but it's pretty staggering what construction cost of what's happened just the last year so the good news is these dollars are all established on this recent escalation that we've all seen 20 22 dollars there's a lot of things we don't know about the future still there's a lot of unknowns with the future yes i am just sort of thinking outside the box and a variable with all the problems in china and the material is not coming now shanghai apparently is just in total lockdown and all these containers are building and ships are not and we're not getting what we're ordering and eating and so these to me are such a huge unknown into the future and of course what is it going to do to pricing it's just it's stupefying quite frankly when you ask that question i'm it's a huge question and they just aren't answerable at this point yeah there's there are a lot of unknowns that's for sure um i mean the district you know patti and her group there they continue to move on there's projects in construction and in planning we've we're overseeing many many projects in construction and there's challenges at all the sites but there's always workarounds and they move ahead and but you're right you don't know if it's a very finite time frame and this will get resolved or if it's going to go on for some time but certainly any good construction design team looks at those variables and makes decisions about what materials to use certainly certain materials cost a lot more so you might be recommended to steer away from certain types of construction types but there's you have to look at where you're at at that time and talk talk and understand what's happening in the community you have an idea of what percentage of our construction materials come from china when we plan projects we're hearing for instance switch gears for electrical switch gears to for the uh the point of entry of the electricity of power to our sites um almost a year out so you place the order and they might they might arrive on site in a year uh hvac units are taken from 18th depending on the system and the manufacturer 18 to maybe 20 26 weeks so it's almost like a half a year right there right six months so that's what we're dealing with and it changes it's almost like uh every month there's just new things we have to deal with 50 of our costs are tied up for china would you say when we build modernize i would say i'm not sure about that number but i i think a lot of it is coming from from china what about russia i'm sorry what about russia anything come from there i'm sorry i said anything come from there in our construction nothing comes to mind that i can think of so that's curious because of the geopolitical yeah area that we're in right now and who knows what's going to happen you know a month from now um as people get ideas in their in their head what would it be doing to us yeah no i don't think i've heard of any materials that we get from there and if there were there's the the good thing is for the most most of the time there are options it's not like you're totally strung sometimes the options cost more money that's the difficulty but if you can get ahead of it before you commit in a bid then you can make sure that you have your specifications written in a way that allows a little flexibility so you always hear of um issues that maybe they could be more um local localized or there might be for a couple months to lay on something so they might you might get a recommendation to shift to a different product uh and usually there's other options to be able to do we have to buy steel from america or do we buy steel from other countries i don't know if this district has a policy no no okay because that was one of the faux pas that happened i think what one or two bonds ago the prices just went up because it was china caused huge well yeah there are supply issues this deal right now i was just touring a job site yesterday not one of our projects but they actually brought the contractor on board early to procure their steel ahead of doing any other good work just so they could try to get it to arrive and not delay their schedule so there are strategies like rick is saying when you think ahead and start planning your projects there are strategies to be able to try to get ahead and meet your schedule it just takes more planning and it might take partnering with somebody in an earlier phase like bringing on a construction person or a team to be able to procure some materials that you know are a struggle earlier to be able to hit those deadlines there's there are some workarounds it's not fun none of it's fun right nobody wants to deal with supply issues but it's kind of universal for everyone right now and we do look at that when we plan projects but again there's also a lot of coordination issues and when you buy things the district buys in advance that could become also an issue during construction so we have to really make sure we partner well with with a contractor and suppliers so it's something you have to look at everything really before you make that decision to buy materials in advance so i have a go ahead i was just going to make a comment that whatever uh challenges are you know arise i i'm confident and patty and the team you know you've worked out so many issues before and you know like you said you you have those strategies you know and you consult with other folks and and we partner with other folks so i just wanted to just um of what we're hearing so you're ready to hear more and more of that from us and that just translates into delays or changes in cost right these supply right issues they are it deepens our appreciation of what all of you people do so i'm looking at the draft budget customer by school right so i'll take anaheim high school for instance it's 165 million i'm assuming that the site also prioritize what they need the most versus bills and whistles yes that way yes so that really you're kind of jumping into our next steps and i'll cover that in detail but that's but uh that was one of the tasks of why we've had the sites form a site site committee and why we met with the principal so many times and they have then given us a list of their top priorities so they understand that there's a prioritization process and that you know they need to be selective in terms of what they but do we also try to look for themes if there's things that are constantly coming up something i just know off the top of my head that came up a lot with science labs at the high school level some of those needs where there might be something more thematic that a lot of high schools are bringing up in terms of you know prioritization so but yes we asked site by site for their top three and have that at our disposal yeah yes but like at anaheim high school for example we have cook auditorium or western where you have handle stadium those are obviously district priorities right and uh they're going to be correct i know it's a lot to digest but um if you have any other questions i'm sure you'll have plenty but um our number 21 district central kitchen 37 million how much is in the budget not in the budget but in the financial statement uh geared towards the kitchen i believe it was about is that four million dollars that was that i saw the new kitchen yes central kitchen i'm assuming that's what this number 21 is district central kitchen there was a set aside yeah 37 million when he set aside for that one right it was just a little bit estimated yeah but how much money maybe yeah i think was only four million or three to four million that's it in the yeah so it's only currently um in the fun 13 balances it's between it's about four million dollars that was set aside that's it so quite a bit yeah so that's why we weren't not able to build it this last time i mean so and knowing that um they're from balance that's not going to be enough to build central kitchen without support from some type of a bond for that um if you don't have any questions at the moment we could go to really the this is kind of the end of what we wanted to talk about today is that our next steps are to formulate all these priorities that we said we're in the process of doing we're going to present those back to the cabinet and we're going to involve the cabinet in an activity to try to understand and digest these numbers and prioritize school sites and projects and we'll also help them by giving them feedback we receive from the community from the previous surveys so we can then end up with at least a recommendation to bring back here to the board and we understand the next date to come back here would be june 16th where we would like to show you the results of all that prioritization and ask if you wanted to adopt the master plan at that time actually we did have a couple slides here just maybe for a point of familiarity maybe you've seen these enough in the past but we did put a couple slides up to show you kind of examples of what you have in your packet we like i said earlier we probably wouldn't want to walk through every single site but if you wanted to take a moment to see how it's organized i could walk you through that a little bit so each site actually has an existing image of the slide of the campus the way it looks today and to our best ability we tried to include things that were in process and everything's color-coded to show the different types of classrooms they're all solid colors you can see um it just and there's a star at the entry point we've got the kind of circulation drop off with the yellow dotted line there then what we did is you see the very next one is a proposed so i'm looking at right now we just have sycamore up on the screen and we've taken those same colors on the on the left hand you can see the there's a legend on the right hand side there and it's probably very small in your sheet as well as it is on the screen here but the solid color means modernization that lindsey describes so we're not demoing the building or moving walls around we're modernizing those spaces the second color-coded block if you're looking at the legend is a it's a color that's white so it's basically a solid white elements that are with a particular color that represents new construction so everything that's white with just the color and the color represents the type of classroom it might be whether it's a science lab or administrative type space but anytime you see white um it's it means new construction and sometimes you see part of these boxes floating off in space so that that means it's actually the second floor so there is multi-story construction proposed so you can see the two-story in those cases then the third type of organization here is the on the right hand side of your legend it's the same colored box but there's hash marks through it that that's that more intense version of modernization that means we're reconfiguring the space moving walls around and it's sometimes changing the use so it's a little heavier amount of effort so we identify those separately from modernization because the costs associated are differently then you can see notes about the play fields and areas where we've gotten you know this isn't meant to be a design again this is a 10 000 foot view of your campus this gives a guideline to the architects that inherit this to implement this so it would say something like we showed main quad that just triggers that there's been dollars set aside for a main quad update and you've seen plenty of beautiful main quads in the in some of your modernized campuses to see what that could look like but we've got dollars to set aside to be able to implement that level of finish on your quads we have outdoor learning course identified as well in the site new parking lots solar is identified there's lots of so all the scopes that you saw in the cost estimates are reflected here um so this gives you an idea of how all those dollars are being spent can we go to the anaheim proposed sure it happens to be one that we have up here um same with a lot of the bucky cove a lot of your outdoor improvements we've drawn those scope lines through those to make sure that we've captured and acknowledged that work has taken place and we're not estimating more work to so we're looking at anaheim proposed so i i'm just curious i know i asked this question from nancy i think patty you and i and nancy need to sit down to have a discussion at some point is that i'm i'm looking at the lincoln parking lot thing i know it's a proposed but are we not uh aggregating or taking into account the other side with the rest of the uh properties including the parking lot as of right uh it's the one to the to the east yeah to the west west negotiated so this particular one i'm assuming that we had already projected to get this done right the one that's showing right now with the the parking lots okay but we have already projected and allocated funding correct uh we have dollars write the adjacent property as well as so we can develop the whole site just come up with a plan we're in the process of doing so yeah and i i'll bring this up with you maybe another item where i'll have to discuss with the rest of the board right is to figure out depending on how long it's taking for us to negotiate with the city because it's been already quite quite some time right and i think the community itself is actually losing patience primarily because it's impacting parking in the neighborhoods the back end of like cyprus and those areas right so i would propose that and this is the discussion that i wanted to have is to we take a look at and expedite that aspect of it if i know we're having discussions right now with the city but we got to take a look at and see how we can expedite that process to put that in the front burner to get it done besides being a parking issue it's also an eyesore now right because it's been gated up and it's been there for so long uh i know we had our banners there but those banners fall off and you know it's just a green thing there where people are asking what are we doing in that in the community itself so i think we need to ex look at expediting that as soon as possible does this take into consideration the possible widening of of the street yeah so what we're looking at here is it already in the consideration or that b okay okay all right okay thank you that's my comments thank you thank you thank you very much thank you for your time appreciate it all right um [Music] so we will now uh since our study session is complete public comments closed session item is there anyone that wishes to address the board of trustees regarding closed session items only at this time i see no one so the board of trustees will now hold a closed session to discuss item 5.1 through 5.10 on the agenda and it is now and we will move to closed session
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it was like transversal one small feet yes okay 12 feet in the air basically they put a giant compression spring on the robot and it jumped up to it wow it's amazing to watch but um so any more questions about viewport boss before i move on to skills usa so two weeks ago we came back from the skillsusa state conference down in ontario california mr farquhar jill mckay and i sent 23 students down there we did things from technical drafting architecture photography there was a t-shirt design contest cyber security drones computer programming and related technical math we had two students meddle at this conference and one of them jasper nikolai got a gold medal for technical design it's a very difficult contest that requires you to have a lot of knowledge about drafting techniques and procedures he's a sophomore and so we're really excited that he's going to nationals as a sophomore just to see what can happen there yeah and then uh fiona was uh in photography and she received a silver medal for her photo shoot that she did at the contest so we're really happy with what how they performed really happy that they had the experience and just really excited to be able to give them that opportunity type thing year after year after year for skillsusa i just want to really compliment you guys on working together and being so creative i also know that you were sometimes beating our quote unquote athlete administrators with your robot so that's cool hopefully everybody saw the front page of the er yesterday of a 14 year old being funded by the navy to develop an artificial intelligence that would detect fire danger and they're now putting it to test in a remote area so when you think about how much we have suffered from wildfires that we didn't know were happening until they were out of control this will be an incredible development and he's only 14.
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so you guys are on the right track do you know which school he's from pardon do you know what school they're from cycles yeah newport beach okay so go snag him yeah all right anyone else questions or comments are we going to see this thing work or well we saw it [Laughter] we have a before uh viewbuildbots.org buildbots.org there is a website uh shopping area that we use through teespring all right okay so you're not gonna shoot it at me right you're gonna i'm gonna go over here [Laughter] yeah you can shoot tom that's okay kelly our insurance policies all intact and everything right all right [Applause] okay actually yeah this thing first time i started driving it was really top heavy and tippy uh their solution wasn't going to get uh less top heavy but like no if we want to go fast but if we do get out of balance [Music] all right way to go guys and do i understand it picks up balls too yeah let's see let's see this [Applause] can i get a prototype of that for my toddler's toys please vex iq is where it's at look how fast wow but you're thinking these guys could actually are going to play basketball someday you're going to [Applause] thank you hey thank you guys really appreciate you coming great you gave us a kick-off start [Applause] uh classes i'm teaching next year is software uh programming and robotics and drones that's one pathway and then the other pathway is computers components the networking of things then cyber security and networking so all right we have mr parkour's engineering and architecture courses uh he is busy this today and yesterday building a tiny house on campus building a what now a tiny house oh that's right i saw that yes oh he did i missed him i must be in class that's cool all right [Laughter] well we also have both schools high schools track and field qualified to go to state and state is coming up this weekend all right so okay okay well actually consent happens right now so we moved to our consent calendar and um john you have two you want to pull yes please i'd like to pull 3.1.3 all right fresno trips okay and anybody else at one they want to pull okay so seeing uh nothing else being pulled dr kaiser we do have public comment under consent okay like two oh i see yes i'm sorry so julie hi treat good evening i had an emergency eye surgery problem so you didn't see me for a few weeks oh i'm still kind of on the side a little bit uh detached right now that was fantastic yes oh my gosh i'm gonna cut the tail into that um so on the consent agenda there were a few things um that marigold trip really um kind of made an impact on me when i was in elementary school sixth grade in the bay area we went up to redwood glen for our overnight and you had to get certain grades but you went up there and looked for lycan and we dug through scat and all this crazy stuff but the one overnight piece we had to do a hike no lights no flashlights nothing and you just had to kind of keep track of each other front and back i'm 58 i can still remember that to this day so the fact that this that's money well spent the things that i see in some of these consent agendas i always tell parents you gotta dig into the details because you know we tend to focus on some of the negatives but that that stuff's just incredible so kudos for all of that the track team i could never run so congratulations on that and the only part in here was that um the piece on the kids that are um you know that need the grade adjustments a great assessment the great accommodations and it's just breaking my heart to see some you know the percentages of kids that are struggling for a variety of reasons and i'm hoping we can just kind of come out of this and maybe learn something i've sent a note down to the butte county um or the board of supervisors but public health department behavioral health department scott canelli um danette york you know if they can just engage i mean my gosh all of this stuff just needs to be solved and cracked i mean 30 i think that i saw in here that needs some accommodations and i watched that workshop a few weeks ago um with the iep so i'm all behind helping with that and getting us through this so thank you very much but go marigold and my gosh go the robotic team [Laughter] all right thank you okay so can i have a motion i move passage of the consent calendar minus uh 3.1.3 and 3.1.4 is that right john shepard yes second dude all right so i have a motion and a second uh it'll be a voice vote um robinson i landed i kaiser eye dolby ai tennis all right 5 10 11 thank you okay so mr shepherd is back with 3.3 3.1.3 go thank you so both three and four i want to thank member robinson for catching this the dates for both of those field trips um dues to some um inaccurate calendaring we need to adjust those dates to may 26th through through the 29th for both oh for both okay okay all right so it will read that the chico high track team will go to the championships may 26th through the 29th and then number 4 we'll say that pb will go may 26 through 29th all right so can i have a motion i'm of approval of 3 and three four all right with the dates corrected seconded second okay so i have a motion and a second uh all those in favor say aye okay so thank you for that and i'm glad you caught the error in the dates all right so now we move to our board workshop topic um which is chico unified district technology and cyber security madam president board members i appreciate the time today to be able to present to you what we're doing with technology and chica unified tim karis is going to be co-presenting with this with me he did a lot of work on this uh slideshow and preparing for this i just want to say thank you to him for all his work on that um we are going to let tim take this one yeah good evening everybody um we are here to talk to you about technology and chico unified um it's a huge topic because it really touches everything that we do um just like people in their personal lives technology has kind of taken hold in our lives and very very same for uh for the school environment as well so we're going to talk about security um in both internet security and individual student security and monitoring of of computer use and then talk about some of the uses we do have a couple guest speakers one from a consultant firm that we use to advise on cyber security and one from the fbi so before we get into the big scary um topics of cyber security and the threats that are out there just to go just wanted to take a moment to go over why we use technology and she can unified in how we use it first of all for students college and career readiness we saw a great example that just prior to this where students are getting their hands on technology very high level technology so that's an example of technological skills higher level technological skills but even those that aren't going into a tech field need to be able to function on a computer in college they need to be able to function on a computer in just about any job that they are going to take after after leading us our curriculum is to a large degree online right now students use technology for research we get assessment data from students via the use of technology just about all of our our district assessments are given online and so you can see that number almost 90 educational websites visited by chico unified students through january from a staff standpoint we're able to better monitor student safety both safety in general and safety online using technology teachers use it for managing learning with with software such as google classroom um data analysis takes place online there's you know unlimited amount of teaching tools around out there and we're better able to communicate with folks so with that i'm going to let um we'll talk more in detail after the security presentations but um i'm going to let john take on cyber security care so cyber security is a big subject nowadays it's as we're going to see here in the in upcoming presentations it's just exploded the amount of like ransomware that's going on right now yeah we have a couple of presenters with us nathan may is a special agent with the fbi and so he's with us today and so i'm just gonna let him start out this conversation to kind of give you an overview of um what's going on in the cyber world right now so nathan you there yes i am can you hear me yes we hear you well all right well thank you for the introduction there uh i run a cyber security team here at the local fbi office in sacramento and we address we investigate uh things that have to do with uh cyber crime whether conducted by criminal gangs or conducted by state sponsored hacker boots and i've been here about two years we've been in this job for about two years i've been with the fbi about 17 years so that's kind of a short summary there since we don't have too much time today i'm just going to jump right into some of the things that we see happening with government organization in particular school districts and there are two things the two height of cyber crime that is really disruptive to um an organization and and these two things are what we have observed happen again and again to governmental local government or agency in particular school district and the first one is business email compromise and essentially what that is is a financial fraud scam where they try to get into the middle of your email conversation between you and perhaps a vendor so how it would work is they would pretend whether through script email or whether through getting access to the actual real email account of the vendor and let's say you have an ongoing relationship or you have a bill to pay that vendor um a vendor will they will the the actors the bad guys basically will observe the email traffic your communications with each other and what they would do is they get in the middle of that and they send out the email and essentially email would say hey we changed our account number so you know for next month's payment can you send it here and redirect that payment to an account they control and once because it's a trusted relationship there's an existing vendor relationship there right so you just go based on trust you make that payment and that payment goes you thought you paid the bill um the real value did not get paid and the money is then withdrawn by money more networks and most of the time they'll end up overseas so as you can see um we've seen losses anywhere between a couple hundred thousand dollars up into uh you know millions of dollars so that could be a very very disruptive to an organization for small private small to media private companies that could bankrupt them right for a school district that could take away resources that are used for educational purposes um the second thing that we see quite a bit is ransomware essentially um criminal uh gangs a lot of time they're overseas um eastern europe uh russian but uh in other places as well and what they would do is they would whether through phishing or through some other intrusion methods they would get into your network they equip your network then they leave a note behind or they send them a no and they demand payment and if you don't pay them then you lose your data if you pay them then you know you're kind of enabling that crime right you making that crime um profitable so um so that's uh and then we've also seen the second stage ransom as well uh which essentially is okay if you pay us will give you the key to decrypt and if your it team has backup and um and have been doing a good job at keeping backups um you may be able to just wipe network restore from backup and keep going well in that case the second stage come in and say we have your data right and your data is sensitive in value depending on what they've got and they may say if you don't pay we'll sell you data we'll put on the dark web we'll make money from it somehow and um you know if the data they stole was really sensitive um you know uh personal identity uh identifying information things like that um sometimes organizations will have to have to pay to get that new data back or pay to not have data distributed outside of your organization so those are the two things that we see happening again and again and those two things could be prevented by changing some business processes by putting player defense into your network right so for the first one bbc um have having that follow-up you know don't trust that email alone right so if the email they say we change your bank account we change our bank account send it here it's then um i wouldn't trust that email to go with to begin with right i would uh pick up the phone and it would call me not not phone number that they left of that school email but um you know maybe a phone number that you know is good right a known good phone number to your vendor and verify hey did you send this email because once that money is sent and goes overseas it's really hard to get back and then on the law enforcement side we have a process where if the fraudulent transaction is detected early enough and and you fill out an ic3 or you call your local fbi office or something if it's early enough within um let's say seven two hour period um beyonce is it's gone right it's been much gone less than 72 there is a good chance of getting something back right so uh the longer probably toward the 72 there's less likelihood toward the you know the zero or as soon as it's discovered there's a higher likelihood of getting uh the money back right so that's on the dvd side on ransomware again backup is something that should be done regularly it's verified it's done well um also defenses uh make sure that the ransomware but other times they get in they deploy ransomware and then the the ransomware just kind of quickly throughout the network so have network segmentation things like that protect your valuable data you know identify what's valuable to protect and put some extra uh you know fence it fences around it uh to to uh to make sure that uh even if they do extract data they can't it makes it harder for them to get to the the value provider that would prompt you to make that payment right so those are some of the basic things if we have more time happy to talk more about additional things that we can do happier questions than you may have as well so i'd like to ask um so have we seen been seen a really large increase then i take it of ransomware is that something that is is it is it plateauing or is it still continuing to climb the amount of ransomware that we're seeing right now it is um it is not stopped like that is one of the uh the scam that we see the most coming in in terms of reporting in public and um the way it works is the ransomware gangs and it's really organized crime at this point it's a they coordinated each other they each bring certain skill sets to the table they have money neural networks you know malicious coder software developers people who can code and it's called malicious software instead of legitimate software right so um and and they organize and they they victimize people so yes we do see a lot of and different different games i don't know the exact numbers but the fbi is tracking probably a good three dozen different variants of ransomware um perhaps more and i know private cyber security companies in the private industry also track these groups i have a question yes sir does it ever sensible to um try to make incoming emails dumber you know and what i mean by that is uh you know sometimes if uh i've got like a word document or something and there's a bunch of formatting in it that i don't don't like and i just wish i could just get rid of it you know because i don't like the way it looks you could save it in a really dumb format you know like a text message or something that doesn't support all that ugly stuff that you don't want um can you put some kind of a or is it ever practical for you know like when the emails come in that are from outside of our system they say external on the top which i think is really helpful right is there also a way to program in like a reserve it is a decision that you could make that any email coming in would immediately just be converted into a text only sort of thing with no you know no live links to you know no no no no no files that could be open to just kind of strip out the smart stuff that the bad guys are using i mean that's that's something that uh i think a lot of depending on what's off of what software you use what what email solution you use i think uh some of some if not most of the features you're talking about are customizable and i think your it team will be able to to um to answer some of the more specific questions so they would know what what software solutions being used right but yes there is there are ways to shut off links there are ways to shut off auto loading of images and things like that on email very good thank you any other questions important agent nee thank you so much for your time today i appreciate you taking some time away for your schedule to join us today thank you very much thank you thank you for having me so um we're diving into cyber security and you received the side of this from law enforcement we also have braun martin with us today he's from executecheck who is one of our cybersecurity consulting firms and he'll also give us a little more insight into the current um the current cybersecurity um environment that we're living in right now can you step up to this good afternoon thank you uh thanks for having me uh so we're executing tech we have several hundred employees a dedicated security team and uh kobe was the greatest thing on the planet earth for uh the bad guys i i can tell you that so you hit the next slide this is kind of the security landscape looks like i'm gonna go through this relatively quickly uh but again the intent here is for you guys to be as interactive as possible i can specifically mr tennis answer some of your questions i've learned some of those things in the past on what the pros and cons of that are so i want to cast your mind all the way back to 2016 what did that universe look like from an i.t perspective um back then everything was pretty much on-prem you had a couple things that were hosted at the cloud but for the most part john his team was responsible for everything that ran out of the district right that's just that was the reality of it today that is no longer the case right it's actually relatively rare to run all of your applications out of it i've granted one client that does that today um i'm sorry what did you just say that you have one client that does what that runs their applications how if they did not allow any cloud applications of any other organization so for instance we have a lot of our applications that live in our data center at the district office instead of having them host it up in amazon or someplace else i only have one client that still does that for all their apps they do not allow any cloud applications inside their environment one out of thousands of clients we have one client that does not allow it everyone else has moved to the cloud for one reason or another um so essentially data collection accounting sales sorry that means they're kind of like an island they're kind of disconnected from the internet basically or they have some sort of intra web very very significant and the reason why they do that is their financial services firm so their clients are wells fargo are bank of america things of that nature so they're just about that perspective they're so sophisticated the event that their entire primary data center went down they'd be live in their other data center crosstown in 30 seconds so these guys they take this very very very seriously central data collection as a result is now very very common right you don't have a bunch of distributed systems all over the place everything's kind of in one location uh and again now that kovid sent everybody home for a while and that was super fun for john and his i.t staff right they had to figure out how to get everybody to work remotely and access their data and as secure as fashion as possible which now meant that you needed more bandwidth you need more access by more people 24 7.
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right the old hey i've got a backup window i've got an outage timing things of that nature it doesn't usually have those luxuries anymore right we kind of run like a 24x7 shop and then on top of that and this is the big nasty out there that really kind of weirded today which i'll talk about is the internet of things there's a lot of devices that are connected to the internet that aren't computers i guarantee you that presentation thing has an ip address on it just literally your your screen it does but we don't plug it in it's yeah because it's an iot device so and i've been in so we've got again a dedicated team does it like we've gone into areas like this we'll find like a toaster that's got an ip address on it and we can like turn the toaster on during the presentation which can freak people out and it should because there's not a lot of security around some of that so targeting the home depot hacks from a couple years ago that hack actually came into their iot system it was actually through the refrigeration system one side and hvac system on the other so that's how those guys got into their environments so why why is that the case in 2015 ransomware is a grand total of the 325 million you just heard nathaniel right he medias this up all the time so these numbers are legit um it was 11.5 billion in 2019 again covet hit and it was over 20 billion dollars last year and we're tracking to be 30 billion this year it is now the most profitable business in the world it's more profitable than drugs as he said they're tracking dozens of these cartels that are out there there's been one major arrest made total so there's almost no risk to being part of some of these things in fact there are websites that are available that you can go to and put as much information about an organization as you can into that website the cyber criminals will use that information to try to get into the organization and if they do successfully they'll give you a piece of it as a finder's fee some of these links i'll send this document to you guys going to check these things out later if you want but again we've seen about the these are the very very public ones that were made you guys may remember last year like the east coast suddenly ran out of gas for a while because one of their big producers was there they got crypto but just so you know their pumping stations were fine like their ability to generate energy was not compromised the system that was compromised was their billing system the billing system was completely turned off and wrapped up it was so expensive for them to try to figure out because they can't just keep pumping oils they don't know who they're selling it to that has shut down their entire operation they coughed up 40 million dollars to turn their billing system back so so that's that's the real deal this morning just i was talking about with the internet of things so last year i had a very large client get compromised and we worked with the fbi at that point in time and we started theorizing about what the next level of attack is that was uncovered this morning it's called a botnet in most of the universe you have a compute device like your laptop and then you have a server somewhere it's amazon or something john hosts or things of that nature their compute they have the ability to like you ask it to do things and then it will do them but between those two points you have a whole bunch of other devices that aren't particularly intelligent their routers their switches their hubs are things of that nature but they handle the network traffic this latest attack is so sophisticated what they figured out how to do is update those devices and what it says is if i get a piece of information from you send it on to where it goes but make me a copy of it and it just slowly starts to bifurcate what that traffic looks like so over time they're dumping that information and eventually they're going to get some of your data out of it it wasn't malware it wasn't crypto it was something completely new and they're targeting financial services organizations and government organizations because they know if they get enough of that data for you guys and they lock up your systems you're gonna have to pay to get the stuff done undone later it's brand new i'm gonna ask just probably a boneheaded question but um i feel like it's my job to ask it so i'm going to do that um is there like a you know i gather there's not some kind of panacea response or if there is we'd be going back to the educational stone age of some kind but just saying well let's see let's go down the list of things that maybe we don't need you know um is there a room for a world view or maybe a voice at the table that would just say well maybe we can do without that one really dangerous thing you know and is there is that have any traction it would be tough so i have a hospital client but that was kind of their mechanism they said they were going to basically go back to paper in the event that something went wrong they were going to go back to paper it failed so many things now require so much electronic interaction that the idea that i can just go back to paper to do my job and actually do it successfully it's just not reality anymore it just isn't so i'm with you it'd be nice to do it but it it hasn't proven to be successful in any cases that we've seen instead what we've tried to do is how do we start looking at some of these things right now we have tools and i'll i have a slide that talks about this later that we're pretty good at scanning what the compute device is at the client side and there are tools that do a pretty good job scanning what the computer is doing but we don't necessarily have a lot of tools that do stuff in the middle because they're hideously expensive traditionally the ability to start monitoring looking at what that stuff does is now possible and we typically refer to this as a sock a security operation center that's now reading what is that device doing because the device knows that it's sending it to you and sending it to you at the same time it knows that it's doing that but we're not looking at that information because those logs are huge and super boring for a human being to look at it so you really need a computer to say why is it that we're now suddenly streaming that to two different locations so that's kind of that next layer of the onion the security onion that we need to start adding onto the systems and this is gonna spur that more and more as this stuff comes out now this particular botnet we know has been out there for about 18 months i'm pretty confident that a couple of my clients actually were impacted by this so that gentleman for the fbi and he just mentioned that vendors will change their routing for your for your payments we had a client that that happened to about a quarter million bucks and everybody was like how did that happen what you know what took place and it looked like it was completely legit well now we're pretty confident after seeing how this bot network it was legitimate it was legitimate because he was you know releasing information that she didn't know was being released so that's the kind of thing that's happening at this point in time so something that everyone really really needs to be aware of and as you said the number of tax is dramatically increasing you'll use to see attack once every couple months now it's very very very rare for a week to go by without some sort of attack taking place which if you kind of think back to beginning of covid there's a big huge stigma if you got it right oh you had coveted you weren't cleaning your hands you weren't you weren't by the end of it and everyone was talking about how many times they got it like i got it twice how many times did you get right we destigmatized it that kind of needs to happen when it comes to cyber security we need to be really really comfortable saying hey i think something happened to me without somebody going what you do wrong because i've had vps of operations do something but they didn't want to acknowledge it and then two weeks later we find out that you know 50 grand was sucked out of an account we're like why didn't you tell us like you knew what was going on you knew there's something weird in that last email you read it's like well i really want to talk about it we're like okay well now we know you just got to talk about it there's no stigma to it it's going to happen and it's going to get worse so if there's one thing that comes out of this is that if you see something that's weird tell i.t tell somebody don't keep it to yourself it needs to be de-stigmatized because if you haven't been hit yet my father-in-law is a pilot there's two kinds of pilots ones that have crashed and ones that will crash okay they're just it's gonna happen so just be aware of it and be comfortable with it so that's what's the toughness okay so again the tools and technologies used to be millions of dollars they'll build a sock they're now much more reasonable and you don't just have to build them internally there's also third-party services that will do this now for you as well they're much more easily priced they're not cheap but it's a heck of a lot cheaper than cuffing up a 5 million dollar payment to get your students data back which i'm sure you guys heard about me at the same time we now need the distributed workforce to also be protected like everyone from here works from home at some point in time during copay right that just does a normal part of the operation and there's no possibility that you're going to get everyone to come back into the office five days a week it's just not going to happen not for a long long long time so we need to really build up the understanding that you need to protect the entire network no matter where it is so what does that mean these are the security layers that we talked about again this is kind of that network from the outside then you have your platform right this is your antivirus it's the stuff that we have the at the edge piece that the chinese team managed really really well get your applications what what are you using to get to it then you'll get your data and then the last part is the response which very very few people have a real formalized mechanism or how do you respond again you need to have it out there that when you get hit if it's a win not an if these are the steps that we're going to take in order to make sure you protect you as much as possible there are tools out there now that'll actually tell you in the event that something happened what data did they get because really really if they have your data that is not particularly sensitive don't pay them who cares like all right yeah you've got i'm a public organization you now have my budget for last year congratulations you can find it on the cheaper website right there's no there's no downside to that so if you can actually sort through and find what data they have it makes a big difference on whether or not you make the decision to pay the ransom or not and this is what your security risk management looks like today again it's a cycle right we have network security user education awareness malware prevention removability controls i was very happy when i first handed my little key drive if that he asked zach asks can i use this can i plug this into my system which is good three years ago someone would have had you used to be dry you just want to plug it in there would have been no hesitation whatsoever so at least now we have awareness that maybe i shouldn't plug that into something secure configurations managing privileged end users this is a big one a lot of people have the same password and same access to different layers of the environment if john goes to login as an administrator he should be able to log in this way to access this part of the system and he should log into a completely different way to access this part of the system and that needs to be the case for every single thing that happens and now we know again based on what that botnet there now needs to be a third login you now need to have a different login to access security systems and security controls of network layer then you do from your server layer so it just gets more and more layered as things take place incident management again track what's happening who's doing it again we need to start moving the stigma what's happening out there monitoring and then mobile and home working so there are certain people that they have direct vpn access into the system they need to be tracked differently than somebody who's just coming in over just a portal so what about the person who was deliberately providing information in hopes of getting paid another word so that's what the stock is doing because we're trying to see why because you're you're literally coming through millions and millions and millions of logs so if we start seeing something i'll tell john earlier we had a client that um they went down south america they logged in their system and then very very quickly we started seeing something coming in from laos from the same person we have a sock that's doing that a normal computer would be like yeah that's a legit credential let it in like because it really was it was it was just the fact it was coming from an unexpected place that the system turned off that traffic so unless you have those kind of controls like your log into your login so you just kind of be aware of how these things operate i think that's next one okay so this is kind of our recommended approach this is the hardest thing the average security environment is never done there is no end there is no and now i'm secure right nothing could be proven to be secure it can only be proven to be unsecured right because i broke into it it's a bank it just hasn't been broken into yet so there's a constant ever evolving space that that requires new tools adoptions methodologies things of that nature is our recommendation as many layers that we know of can be protected with as fast as possible so if you saw a couple things that last slide you don't necessarily have try to patch those as fast as possible it is better to have more coverage than to have better individual coverages like having the latest and greatest server backup software that was hideously expensive but that's the only thing you've got is not as valuable as having okay backup and then putting some resources to some of these other some of the functions and then again as critical note there's no one solution right there is no magic bullet there is none specifically to your question earlier part of the problems we have we have like law firms and such that we work with if i'm cracking open the word document or the excel document or the powerpoint to strip that information out that goes it that means it's seeing some of that so if there's hipaa information in there if there's you know ppi in there it becomes a problem that becomes a district issue so you need to just be aware that if i'm going to look inside the word document and strip out all the formatting that i like and just read what's in there and put it to a different format something was looking inside that document so just be aware there's some privacy concerns that you can take it's not just some dumb computer tool that just strips it out and it is but at some point they screw up right they make mistakes et cetera et cetera and then there's the thing that we really do recommend is like if you're gonna send some information it should be encrypted if it's encrypted that tool can't see it it doesn't understand what's happening right it's all scrambled anyway so if you're going to send out all of your social security numbers don't just send a blank word document make sure it's a password control and things like that so back to my question um like um but if somebody's sending in some piece of spam or some random just phishing email what do i care if it's got you know if my tool is is is looking into their email and i don't know the tool that's sophisticated enough to understand the difference between this and just spam versus this is something i really shouldn't be looking at it doesn't know that right scanning everything and you guys are scanning for spam malware right so it is trying to catch the big ugly stuff it's just not necessarily sophisticated enough to understand the nuances between them good questions any other questions and this is legit like i might like i said we've had clients pay a lot of money a quarter million dollar just lost in just one transaction for a school district like ours you know without tipping our hand too much to the bad guys who are all obviously following this on our youtube live stream right now um what's like the worst case scenario like like you know i mean our our kids data i guess they can walk up and we have they have locked up and we have seen all your um student information system and all of your active directory has been locked up and completely malwared which means that you don't have the access to it so um then they'll they'll post it they'll post everything right so that's that's problematic and then on top of that these latest attacks are so sophisticated um so for example you guys got off the 365.
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okay so office 365 behind the curtains you don't see will keep 200 copies of every word document excel document anything that you're working on if you store in the cloud it'll automatically keep 200 copies of it so you can always recover if you accidentally delete one there's now malware out there that's written in a macro that'll go out and it'll change one symbol in that document 201 times and save it and then delete it so that when you're actually going to go find your document it's already screwed it up to the point where the document you're trying to go get back is gone that's how sophisticated these attacks are so they know how these the attackers know how your backups work so they actually go and they look for most backups they tag it somehow they'll have like a dollar sign at the front of the file name or at the end of the file name they actually go on they look for those and the first thing they do they join your backups but they don't crypto you they don't encrypt your data they just delete the backups for 30 45 50 days because they know if they just delete your backup from last night and then crypto you well i can take a day's loss i'm not going to pay a million bucks to get a day's worth of data back but if i do that for 60 days now you go john i need the last 60 days for the data he's like it's gone okay now recover everything for the last two months but my point was kind of like that's a word document right you know i mean who cares right these are the computer these are like the student information systems so like all of our gpa data for example like could just all of a sudden proof you know be gone unless we pay somebody a bitcoin or something like that right exactly exactly so gpa data i mean i just like to maybe think of maybe again without like tipping our hand like like what are the kind of things that we that's really sensitive all the home addresses any social security numbers for any of the parents that are coming into the system like literally any piece of data that you can store about any one family their addresses etc etc all of that's stored somewhere and they will post that as well as their any kind of student trouble like if you have an hr department says hey the student's on a pit plan and things of that nature like all that will and they're nasty data iep thank you yeah to finish to tie off my point that i want to make on this i would just look for things to not keep around you know if there's things that we don't really need to have you know digitally then you know why collect them that's just my thought any question i was just going to say there have been two districts in the north state that have been hacked successfully and they had their all of their student data all of their staff data everything was frozen so you couldn't get in to do um you couldn't get in to pay your employees you couldn't i mean they were basically dysfunctional um they did not post it they did pay a two million dollar um ransom but they got their their there's actually been far more than two that those two just were made public the rest would be able to keep quiet yeah those are the only ones i'm aware of yeah but again they had to pay they had to pay because they literally couldn't run payroll they couldn't do anything right in the event that something does happen again you know reach out to a firm like us like those documents that the nathaniel from the fbi were talking about we know how to fill out those fbi forms because we filled them out many times at this point so we work with that team we understand what to do against the incident response the the sooner you know what to do when this is going to happen the better off you'll be what happens well 72 hours is a very short time framework it's next to impossible unless you have some sort of sock that's like throwing up information to you right away like you don't know and these guys are smart like my biggest client got hit always on easter weekend now we know that they had been in there for at least 40 days and they were just waiting for easter and then that friday night at 11 40 they kicked it off and we just happened to have the tool there that alerted to say hey we're starting to see a lot of disk activity what's happening so we're able to turn things off before it really got out of control but even in that case it was sophisticated enough that it had basically encrypted about 20 of their data for their executives it ignored all the arrests but they knew who the cfo was the ceo like they knew who those people were they started encrypting their system first that's very sophisticated they indeed they're they're cartels these are not good people okay thanks for your time appreciate it hey i appreciate you providing the information in the service critic so as you can see things are it's really an interesting time right now um we've seen a huge increase in cyber crime um one thing we've been doing is we put layers into place so braun mentioned about an onion about layers and that's really important is have layers of protection in place and so what we try to do is make it painful for someone who comes in and tries to you know a bad player comes in and tries to steal our data or tries to ransomware us for the payout for as much as you know as much whatever we have our data that we have is worth so much to them so if we can make it painful enough where it's not worth it for them they move on so for instance we have i have this light here so i want to do just a quick analogy to you let's say a car in a dark parking lot right so you have this beautiful you bought a new car our district's kind of medium-sized so it's like a camry it's not a la unified works as a ferrari and it's not a little tiny school that's that's just like a you know a 1960 dart sport it's you know it's a decent car and it's parked in the parking lot and so you know recently you probably all know we changed our passwords and now we have to change our passwords every you know a couple times a year we make it so that um you get fishing you know fake fishing emails so these are these are the basic things we do now to make it so this car is secure you know we're we're turning the car off we're taking the keys out we're rolling up the windows with our firewalls and we're locking the doors these are the basic things right here that help keep us safe and so we now have other systems too where we put layers in place to make it difficult for people when they do get into our system to get through to that data to that car to be able to steal it so that's where people like braun and others come in to help us put those systems in place and we've had great support from our senior cabinet from business to be able to do these things and so i just wanted to to ease your mind a bit that you know we're not wide open with the car running and the windows down but that threat's always there if someone really wants to steal that car they're going to steal the car right i mean if it's if that's really what they want is that that camry and they don't want to go after that ferrari they're going to they're going to be able to do it so our job is to put those layers in place and just make it painful enough where they they find another car with the windows down so go on to the next slide so i think the next one here i think goes to tim nope this one is me so i want to talk a little bit about student data privacy so you know we beyond just our you know us protecting our systems and our data here we have other systems out there we you know illuminate different systems that store our student data out in the cloud and so we have to have contracts with them so if they get hacked then we have you know there's repercussions they they have to report to us what happened and let us know within a certain time frame so there's a link on here and this is a list a public website that lists all of our software and all the contracts that we have with those with those different companies um this is required by law assembly bill for 1584 requires that so that link is available for any any public member to go out and look at that and see what our different programs are and and that we have contracts with them um we also we use you know we use a lot of chromebooks and so we have a management console that we use to manage those the google management console allows us to lock down those chromebooks and keep those you know keep our kids safe in there so they can't just install things and do whatever they want to we lock down our student email so that they can't receive email from outside sources so that they're not getting links to click on that's going to get them infected and affect our network and then recently we were able to lock down our windows machines so it used to be a student can put in a usb drive and you can run a program on a machine so that's been locked down now so that they can't do that anymore you can't they can't run any software that's not pre-installed by cheap you're going to find okay you go to the next slide all right so security is a program that we use it's a it's the filter that we use for our chromebooks but it does more than that too so it when the kids take their chromebooks away from school they're no longer behind the filter that butte county boss education has so they have to have a filter still on their chromebook that's security so when they take that home their devices are secure they're they're filtered correctly so this shows some of the things you know as it filters the internet on those chromebooks it also then watches and records where are they going and what they're doing so you can see from this one you know that the number one thing that's being blocked are games right that's the number one thing that security is blocking for us our games and the number one site that they're going to is discord so discord is a gaming chat site so it's blocking that because parents wanted it to or because it's just securely decided or we you decided or something that that we want to block that so it's doing that because we as a district decided to block games yeah so we had a short list of games that were requested by staff yeah that were allowed all other gaming was blocked so like cool math games for example which which sometimes has a little bit to do with math and usually it's just a huge time suck for my boys but that's why on the approved list i i gather that was on the approved list it no longer is oh really it's most anything but math games so yeah so we are looking at those those gaming sites that were requested by staff and we're putting into place a mechanism so that sites can be submitted and then we can look at that and see if they really are academically based games or not well i really appreciate us being on this as a parent with three kids in the system who um you know they have active little minds those those those guys and yeah they like kids are drawn to video games you know and sometimes they're drawn to it right in the middle of a of a history lesson you know in class so that's um that's great they find those dozen websites that are open they know about those so so we're going to be looking at those and what will be available coming next school year will just be educational games because gaming is important for kids though i mean it's like when i was a kid they would bring in the movie projector and that like really ages me they bring in the projector and show a movie right and so it was you know the lights are down it's like oh good a movie and so for kids it's the same kind of thing you know and there are some really great sites out there um starfall great site for young children to be able to learn abcs and it has games on there i have some reason to believe i may have asked you about this or talked about this before john but um that i've had guys bring home a chromebook with a book or something stuffed in the to keep the book to keep it from closing all the way okay and i have some limited reason to believe i've never taken the time to do an experiment but that if you open that up and you never properly closed it that it worked you know that thing they were looking at at school because the filter the filtering is different at home versus at school at school you're able to access things on your chromebook that you can't if your parents have blocked it at home you it might still be okay at school because this on-site filters don't take that stuff out that parents have have have programmed into securely you're aware of that yes right um but i'd like to have confirmed if that's true or not so that would be something i need to talk to security about to confirm that or not so um i've heard that that might be happening but i have not seen it yet so i would need to talk to security and see if security has means or google has a means then to to get around it to cause that to stop so oftentimes when we find something like this there's oftentimes almost every time a solution that could be put into place to resolve that and so that's where i really you know for the public for our parents if there is an issue that i asked that you would bring it to our attention because that's how we find these things out and then we can go in and we can fix it so you know we've had issues where kids are getting around you know there's millions of kids in this country who are trying to get around the filters on their chromebooks i mean we have you know 30 million kids who are running chromebooks who are trying to figure out how do you run this stupid filter so that was it's a stupid filter so kids figure it out and they post it on reddit so when something come back that comes out then we then need to find a way to fix that so if you hear about something like this please let us know so that way we can put fixes in the place i just realized though there's probably a bunch of kids at home watching this meeting on on youtube you know and they heard me say that and now they're all going to do it geez can't win let me make a note about that that matt can't win [Laughter] so really quick sorry john take a minute to pause just to let everybody know that i actually have to step out for a presentation for my organization that i couldn't get away from um and my intention is to be back ideally by the time we have our action calendar but um i will do my best to be here in a timely manner and then i will i will follow up with questions if i have them as well as watch the presentation um recording on youtube so thank you for putting the time and two into this and apologies for having to step out at this time just it's been quite quite the week in a little bit thank you so then the next page here is um also about security security it scans through all the different files that are in student drives looking for keywords that might be in there that could be a concern and if it finds those it sends alerts out then to our staff to let them know hey you know look at this and and we i get all of those so i'm an administrator so i see all those and it's just a great system because it really helps us to identify kids who are struggling and having issues and it gets our counselors involved early on so it's a great system and it goes beyond that too so then the next slide security 24 takes that to the next level so if the artificial intelligence and securities data center sees a progression of alerts come in that hints that there might be some kind of an event coming you know the student might do something severe it will alert them and then they can take the step then to call the police and so as you can see from this slide here they've made eight calls to the police so far and so it's a it's the system works it's it's been very beneficial for us when i think about how many school shootings might have been involved avoided if we had had this kind of checking system yeah yes so from this we're going to transition into um classroom technology is there i know that that's cyber security portion was kind of harsh i know it's it's a difficult subject um but it really is the the state of things today and so i just uh if there's any you know you have any questions you have anything that you want to ask me at some point please feel free to let me know and i'm going to turn this over to the tim for right now all right so i'm going to talk about the use of technology in the classroom highlights of you how technology is used in the classroom because there's we could be here for for days we talked about every software system etc etc in use in chico unified so uh first what you see here is digital curriculum so when we buy when we adopt a textbook and this has been going on for quite a few years now we get a digital copy so students are able to access the textbook as well as enhance content right here you can see a virtual field trip video that students can watch the instructional strategies are are modern instructional strategies that align with our approach to to teaching in chico unified which is the universal design for learning um [Music] we we we depend on these a lot um they're easier to go home it's easier for a care student to carry one chromebook home with a handful of textbooks on it than a handful of textbooks on so digital curriculum and then social emotional surveys and services uh we were able to leverage uh technology in the classroom to get a better read on where our students are as far as their physical and emotional safety things like sense of belonging at school mental health concerns so we're able to get more robust data than ever on the status of our students that's kind of in the um it's not all bad news category associated with technology you know i mean we all know that's a double-edged sword right i mean the fact that these kids are like on i'm gonna we're introducing them right wrong or indifferent we are introducing kids to a world where they're going to be looking at a screen a lot and we know that that has a huge downside to it because statistically apparently you can see that the people who are on social media all the time and stuff like that are getting more depressed um but i guess it's not there's a silver lining in that at least we can kind of find really alarming search terms and things like that that direct us to kids who might have some sort of crisis right correct and the kid i'd like to add so so gene was telling me about the the new curriculum is coming out it's just amazing because it you can like highlight a section and it'll read that to the student and you can change the speed on that you can click on a link that'll take you to something to explain what that is so it gives kids so many options to be able to dig deeper into the lesson and really learn in a multimedia in an interactive way that they really are comfortable with and so it's just a it really is amazing there's there are difficult things in the in you know with technology right now with the cyber security but the idea that i can have you know the mass of human knowledge in this device in my palm of my hand is amazing so there are amazing things that technology can do as well so it really it is a two-edged sword i totally agree with that you know i mean the internet is truly the most powerful research tool that has ever been created bar none you know i mean i i i came of age in college and stuff like that researching things in the library right going to the card catalog and then pull a drawer out you're looking for your topic maybe you're talking to the librarian right who may be steering you toward this drawer or that drawer now you just if you can think up you know i've gotten in my opinion quite good at this just the right you know obscure search terms i mean you're right there the idea that we would keep kids away from that you know somehow and and limit their exploration too much you know to a point where they they weren't fluid fluent at doing that you know would be from an education standpoint probably a mistake i agree it's wrangling in it so it's finding that balance between you know what the internet has to offer and the threats and finding that protection for the kids yes so yeah so back to the social emotional side of things kids can we have multiple ways via technology where students can request to speak to a counselor an adult on staff kids can in some cases kids can scan a qr code on their phone to make a request kids are regularly presented with surveys where they can click a button and say i would like to talk to an adult and so that's been especially given the you know the last few years you know around our area that's been huge for us okay assessment is an important part of educating students we give a variety of assessments for a variety of different reasons right now we're in the middle of our state tests which are given online in addition advanced placement tests are moving more and more to online district common assessments whether it's given on illuminate or renaissance place to administer star reading or ixl or iready all of that is is done online and in a lot of cases those systems are able to give students instant feedback on how they did and you know we talked earlier about why kids kids love gaming and kids love gaming because they get that instant feedback they know exactly where they stand and maybe what they could do differently next time to go further in the game same way with with education you know we talk a lot about instant feedback whether it's on technology or whether the teacher is giving them students instant feedback based on a question they asked or reading over the shoulder of a student it's hugely important and technology allows us to leverage that the reports that you see here we see an i ready report and a star reading report will give teachers and a huge amount of information on discrete skills in a lot of cases where students need to get more help or where they're excelling they're able to get broad broader areas of areas of need or areas where students are excelling and allows the teacher to reflect on what they're doing in the classroom so hardware in the classroom we have a lot and john and his team have done a great job rolling out chromebooks so we've been on one one-to-one for a while now as far as chromebooks go chromebooks have a four-year life cycle in chico unified so we purchase an average of about 3 500 a year so we keep cycling new chromebooks into the rotation for students we have over 20 000 currently being managed and the reason why chromebooks are chosen is the balance between price and performance um they're cheaper machines um if we spend a thousand dollars on a laptop per student that laptop would still be out of date pretty quick four years five years max maybe so it's cost efficient john mentioned the google admin console we're able to manage those on an enterprise level as a district to lock them down we can see traffic on certain websites it gives us a lot of the chromebook gives us a lot of flexibility to to meet our needs as a school district the viewsonic touch screens have been a huge hit in all of our classrooms um those purchases have been made probably over the last four years i believe four or five years we started putting those in using bond measure monies when we would do we we do at school and then when kobe came we were able to complete that project yeah so viewsonics are a touch screen um so it's a basically a modern whiteboard or a modern chalkboard with the enhanced capabilities of the internet and the software on the machine etc etc so that's been a huge win for us and very popular with teachers and students [Music] staff laptops we were able to purchase recently laptops for for staff through covid a lot a lot of folks were working from home and it is easier for for adults with the software they're accessing to work to work on a laptop so those have been provided for all staff members over the last couple years and again everything i'm saying has been a huge heavy lift for our it staff and it's been supported by by senior cabinet approvals and board approvals and that's why we've been able to keep up document cameras as well are out there are out there so a teacher can can take a picture write something down and have a project very easily so that's just an example of some of the hardware in the classroom and john john had so i did what i want to mention on those those document cameras so we purchased document cameras with cobit monies and the new model is 4k so it's a really sharp picture and has a really really big zoom like an optical zoom that zooms away in so you could put something on the table that's small you know if you're in a science class you can put you know an insect or something there and zoom way in on it almost like a microscope and so it's just a cool amazing tool that our teachers can use and these all these things that we're talking about here are in all of our classrooms right so as far as classroom management goes managing the day-to-day workload assignments correcting assignments et cetera et cetera we use google classroom for it allows teachers to it's what teachers used for the most part to run their classrooms when we were remote but even when we're not remote it's dependent on to notify students of due dates give details on assignments provide resources teachers can grade any link that the teacher wants the students to see they can post in google classroom and it's just a very flexible tool our teachers have been trained over over the years in a variety of settings there's always a google classroom training available we make sure our new teachers coming into our district are know how to use it so it's been an invaluable tool for us in managing student work and a classroom in general more on veering more off on the security side of things but it's also a general classroom management tool is is go guardian where teachers can add additional website filterings for the time period that those students are sitting in their classroom they could see at any given time what students are looking on their chromebooks looking out on their chromebooks they can set themselves up to receive off-task alerts of the students you know going to websites that aren't part of the curriculum and then teachers can also chat with kids uh during class none of this is meant to take the place of traditional classroom management like i didn't have goguardian as a teacher but if i didn't want my kids on certain websites or on the on the on the computer in general just shut your chromebooks you know you can't there's still that that human factor in managing somebody still has to look at the screen somebody still has to you know see what the kids are doing and deal with that but it does give teachers a valuable and powerful tool um i want to geek out on goguardian for a couple of minutes because i see this as an important since kind of realizing that um securely which is where you as the parent you can control things that your kids are looking at on the computer at home but that doesn't apply at school that's that's the domain of of the administration and the teacher um so should we be informing parents about well we're doing it right now of course but but in a more pointed way trying to explain to parents that here's kind of the lay of the land in terms of how what keeps your kids from doing certain things at school you know and if you have certain wishes or desires take it up with your teacher encourage your teacher to set up a scene on securely on sorry on go guardian is it a good idea for us to be like empowering parents with all this information so that they can if they've got an agenda i mean how many you kelly staley the superintendent have gotten to know me and my family pretty well over this stuff because my wife and i were very interested in in monitoring and some trying to manage our kids activity we don't like them wasting time in class and stuff like that do we want how many parents do you think really are interested you know on that level i'm embarrassing myself here by asking you this question because i'm sure i must be a freak of nature yeah i have honestly no idea i do think it's always a good idea to make sure that parents know the resources that we have and you know parenting runs that wide spectrum from those that are hey we're going to let you do things and fall down and then pick you back up to ones we're going to prevent you to getting to that point yeah i mean i think parents yeah sorry man as a former principal especially when we first started rolling them out in carts and and those types of things and when phones came readily available for every student we had different things that families would ask us to do at different levels towards the end of march we were we had some families would say all right i have a way for my child to log into google at home with my desktop computer and those types of things i'm going to have log in i want this to stay in the teacher's classroom you know so my my kids don't having it from to and from school and those types of things we we'd have it from that level all the way to a parent not saying anything and having um the child just bringing it back and forth those are all adjustments we we make but i can tell you since we rolled out the big roll out when we needed to go full online uh when we went completely online we want we haven't come back to our teachers and say these are again all the the safeguards that you can do in your classroom we do it on our new teacher training every year but again we want to go back now that we every student has one all the way down to elementary back when we come back in august on this next year we'll be doing training again for every one of our teachers and we do an all-day training day and one of the sessions that every teacher will get elementary junior high and high school again is how to do the scene how do you work your goguardian if a parent's asking you you know these are things you can do you can pull up every screen every computer screen on your video so you can see when a kid is supposed to be doing maybe research on an english thing and they also now open up another tab they can shut that computer down right there you know from their desk so we need to need to go again going back over with our staff in which we will in august because we talked about that john john jonas and his team will be doing that for every one of our staff members and then matt you bring up a great thing i think back to school night or what whatever these are things is available to your kid and our teachers talk to us what you want for your student or our your classroom what we'll be doing in those things technology wise to make parents more aware i think the most things we can do that is back to school nights because that's when we get our largest amount of parents coming back on campus and we we can also we have things on our website that we can push out too but i just want to know though that is something that since we've had these conversations that we need to go back and remind everybody what we're handing it to our students that sounds great you know nothing we talked about in our meeting that we had um we had a meeting about this because i'm on the sub committee or whatever for this topic um uh the idea of like uh pushing the concept of um citizenship right like like digital citizenship right once i had one of my guys who shall remain unnamed um once uh my wife found he had like about like a hundred tabs opened on his in his chromebook you know he's maybe he's just wasting his life away and and mine too doing that you know but maybe he wanted to hide something on one of those tabs you know or something like that you know he's sneaking around the teacher or something like that you know um well that would be the sort of thing that you know we want to discourage that right we want him to develop you know responsibility and use these resources appropriately you know so i think that concept of digital citizenship for kids would be a good thing for to mention and kind of circulate that concept i also think we need to recognize our quality of teachers which i think is quite high and so for my very bright six-year-old it's very simple he sits in front of her because that's the quickest and easiest control function you know for a kid that is going to be doing something in a further part of the class and so that reminds me dr kaiser i want to make a point too hey i mean we're not paying these people these teachers to be in there and be a bunch of like little you know like babysitter cyber cops i understand that they've got a complicated job to do and you know this is going to be one part of what they're doing but but you know too much it can't diminish from their the main thing which is to teach an entire classroom full of kids which i you know recognize is a very you know challenging job and has many different facets so so one thing we can do and so when we when we do additional training on goguardian for our staff and in the fall this will give give them an extra tool so so for any teachers who don't use this or don't really haven't seen the power of this tool it'll open a new door for them because it's you know you're seeing a screen then on that slide right there that shows you know seven or eight chromebook screens and what's currently on those screens and that's what a teacher would see there's another screen that has color bars and so each website has a different color bar so if all the bars are the right color you know all the kids are on task if one bar is a different color and they just have to glance and see oh that person's not on task and they can go back and look and see what they do if they go back and close the tab you can go back and go guardian and see what was going on two minutes ago or ten minutes ago or three hours ago and we can help them to automate so when class starts it automatically launches a scene that gives them you know it limits what kids can do and so it's just a it's a very powerful tool right and you know we talked a lot about kids essentially going off task in the classroom and that's happened forever it will always happen this just gives them a tool [Laughter] so this gives them another tool up their sleeves make sure their students are on task even beyond like a security concern or looking at anything appropriate teachers want to know their kids are working on stuff they should be working on so very nice tool so when we talk college and career readiness um it's everywhere technology is everywhere um right when kids get accepted into a college or given a portal all parts of the college logistical experience are online they're registering for classes their class calendars or their assignments etc etc course catalogs so they are technology is embedded into colleges at well as well and you know like it has been said numerous times here we want our students to go off and succeed and not have technology be a hurdle in college as far as career goes recruitment and job seeking the most basic thing is is done online now basic computer skills are present in just about any job description and then you know as the job market continues to change and jo the job market will look different in 10 years than it does right now the one thing that we can be sure of is that technology will play a large part in that and this the bigger head start we can give our kids the better um and then of course again like what we saw the first you know the student presentation today from the chico high students those higher level tech skills um you know kids are hungry for them number one and they're highly marketable you know if you're a coder you can pretty much work wherever you want you know you have a job somewhere if you're a database person you can work wherever you want you have a job somewhere database person send them to me because we yeah that was a plug for any database people out there for us and then you know before we get to questions i just wanted to bring up the chico unified mission statement and you can see there uh in bold is we want our students to confidently participate in a changing global society and we're all very well aware of the role of technology plays in that and it's not going away anytime soon so that is a big part of how we're making kids ready both academically and with the tech specific skills so with that any questions i think one of the things that first of all chico unified we had all of our students equipped with chromebooks before chico state had their students and it was in the similar you know shutdown from koved so i think that could use to how quickly and effectively you were able to respond and the second part of that is the fbi and our consultant guy they're talking about major criminal gangs and going after big ticket items but a student who doesn't understand when they're exposing themselves and their own checkbook or their own you know whereabouts by their lack of being at least credibly prepared that they could be hacked that's a serious risk to them and to their families so i think that's another aspect of this where we are trying to make them understand that it can be dangerous in a different way for them to just randomly go off and jump into some kind of sight so i think that's very important so yes so i need to be mindful of the fact that today i got a message from a t and t thanking me for paying my bill and that that they'd love to give me a gift we have um we have systems that send automated emails to our teachers and often a teacher will email me said can i open this because john's put the fear of god into him regarding fishing so their our staff is very well conscious of that and i agree kathy we do need to um but it's happening our kids aware so often with the things that i try to do business with in the world that i i've i as much as possible i just don't anymore it just it's too scary because i'm not sophisticated enough to know how sophisticated they are and and i have a daughter in i.t who does the security stuff and she she does this oh god mom i can't believe you did that way too often because it it they're clever and and i do appreciate the fishing emails that most of them i've caught so they work and you know i said we've seen a huge improvement with our staff on on the number of clickers so they're called clickers in the system so the number of clickers has dropped substantially so if that is working very well so yeah um we've done the one-to-one chromebook rollout we've got the the viewsonics the touchscreen uh do you have an idea what the next big thing is gosh it's hard to say i you know ai is coming into its own and so you know in the next few years ai based things probably in the cloud would be something to really watch for i know i thought that 3d you know the the virtual reality classes would just take off but you know i i get motion sick on them maybe others do too it just has not flown it's it's there but it just hasn't flown like i thought it would so um but yeah i think ai maybe is something to really keep an eye on what about the metaverse is the metaverse in our future here at chico unified it's not in my world so that's the new facebook is the metaverse and so um it just seems strange to have these these icons for yourself it just it's odd kids can just lay at home you know like in like dark closets with weird glasses on and they can just be in a virtual classroom and yeah how about that i don't think so either well thank you i mean i think that was great yeah excellent presentation complicated subject thanks okay so um caitlyn is not expected to be back until a quarter to seven correct a quarter to eight okay so um we do have our discussion action calendar and um on it we have our resolution 1577-22 increasing the level 1 school fees it's good to see you back julie thank you to everyone for your your well wishes i appreciate them very much good evening um thank you for having me here this evening we have lynn gruber on the phone from koppel and grouper they are our consultant that developed the fee justification study for the district lynn see you there hello thank you for being here tonight if you want to uh we're going to just go over a quick review i'm not sure what was covered two weeks ago so we're just going to do a quick review and then lynn has some slides to cover as well so we'll go through them quickly as possible if you have any questions please stop us okay okay okay so we're here to talk about developer fees oops there we go i think there's a wrong button sorry about that there we go so what are developer fees back in 1986 the state legislature passed a b 2926 that allows school districts to collect developer fees on residential and commercial property in order to fund construction and reconstruction of school facilities as a result of new development why do we collect them it is our mission and our integral is integral to board adopted goals to provide safe healthy and positive learning environments for the students we serve our district has made a promise to our community to leverage all available funding sources in order to implement our facilities master plan the master plan was developed by our community by our schools parents teachers and staff and was adopted by the board of education yes when was that adopted originally it was adopted in 2012 and it has been modified updated uh three times when was the most recent 2019.
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and it talks about facilities correct right and that's all i have for now okay carry on okay the current facilities master plan that's the 2019 version describes an overall need of 590 million dollars for our facilities this is a page out of the master plan which shows the implementation schedule we're currently in phase four the red line shows where we were at in december of 2019 when we passed this or when the board adopted this master plan you could shift it over most of the way through the pleasant valley high school project and completed with chico high and we have begun with the programming for mcmanus at this point what's the duration of how long this plan is in theory was was was going to take forgive me if you said that already not a problem i have the dates that were projected is the final date but it is dependent upon fund availability we don't have all of the funds to do all of the projects is isn't it also impacted by the fact the law just changed and we have a whole new group of children who will be our responsibility yes we will be putting out an rfq for consultant services in the form of an architect to come in and assess our facilities and help us figure out how we are going to provide essentially double the amount of kindergarten classrooms at our schools in order to house the tk community so this slide shows developer fee revenue over the last 10 years average we bring in about 2.8 million per year in developer fees and in the last 10 years total of 28.3 million this is a list of projects in the last 10 years that were funded with developer fees or partially funded with developer fees so you see the project and then you see the dollar amount that follows those dollars are developer fee dollars that were spent on the project it's very common that we combine measure e measure k state funding developer fees everything we can get our hands on to fund the projects that are in the master plan so the grand total there is 29.8 million dollars in the last 10 years of developer fees spent on these projects so this slide gives you historical information about developer fees since 2012.
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so the first column is of course the year and the second column is what the fee was adopted for that year and then the percentage of increase the commercial rate and then the impact per student per square foot on the on the community for housing the student in a classroom five dollars and you can see the five dollars and forty cents the last column is the difference between the residential fee that the district is allowed to collect and the impact that is proven in the justification study and the dollar amount at the very last column is the impact or the deficit so for instance 2022 the rate if adopted would be 4.79 per square foot for residential development the impact is actually 6.99 so there's a deficit of two dollars and 20 cents per square foot yeah um briefly can you uh explain to us how the impact is um decided like what goes into finding that number yes i will let lynn answer that question lynn sure and ashley can you hear me yes okay great uh actually i'll be going through that in my slides but the the impact is calculated through the fee justification study by the state correct well the the rates that you can charge are adopted by the state allocation board and then once those rates are adopted by the state allocation board each district has to do a fee justification study to prove that they are justified in levying up to those speeds so in the justification study we have the the formula for that impact per square foot yes and i'll be going through that thank you i must reminisce no no worries okay and then we're gonna hand it over to lynch he's gonna take over the next few slides just let me know when you want me to push ahead okay sounds good so as i said the estate allocation board determines the fee and that is based upon the statewide cost index for class b construction and this is set forth in government code um and the at the state allocation board or the sap reviews these fees and adjust these fees every two years so we're always kind of looking backward at the increase that we've already seen and as we know these last couple of years we've seen significant in increases in the in the cost of construction the fees were adjusted in february of 2022 up to 4.79 per square foot of residential construction and 78 cents for commercial construction next slide so as i said before each district is required to have a fee justification study prepared and that study demonstrates the nexus of the requirements and the fees and the nexus requirements are set forth in government code section 66 000 which sets forth how to calculate the fees for any type of impact so the cities also use 66 000 for like how how much a sewer uh costs the sewer impact fee costs the library impact fee all of all of the fees that public agencies charge new development are governed by government code 66 000 not just school school districts that requires us to identify the purpose of the fee the relationship between the fee and new development and then the relationship with the fee amount and the facilities cost attributed to the new development and then there's an annual accounting of those fees collected next site so this goes into your question of the study methodology and first i'll go through the residential first what we do is estimate the cost per student in in the case of chico for the eligible modernization projects and this is based upon the 2019 master plan costs then we look at we project the student enrollment from new housing and we use student generation rates in the case of chico you recently had king consulting do an enrollment study for you and those student generation rates were based on the housing that has been built in recent years and they were deemed to be sufficient for this study then we look at the projected residential development that is expected to be built within the next 10 years we utilize recorded track maps approved track maps for projects that are actively seeking approval and through that process reaching out to the city and of chico we've determined that there's the potential for approximately 3 117 units to be built in the next 10 years then we look at the cost impact and the cost impact is the total cost of the master plan divided by the school district's capacity and then we look at the the average student per household divided by the average square footage of new housing units and since 2016 that average is i'm sorry for the past 10 years that average has been square feet for the average unit next slide unless you have questions there okay so in our report the cost per housing unit is approximately 9791 divided by 1400 square feet which is the average unit size equals the impact of 6.99 uh cents per square foot so i'm sorry what is that 9 hundred and ninety one dollars reflect that is the cost based on the per student um average of the current capacity so that's your the the current capacity of the district is about 931 i think it is and that divided by the master plan cost of that 590 million that that julie was talking about earlier and then that's divided by the number of units so who bears that cost that that well that's attributed to all the housing units through the district right because we can only charge new development for their impact and certainly the um the cost the cost of the total master plan is is born by not only new development but existing development as well the commercial impact is set forth in the code as well we have to use employee generation rates of per each category of commercial and those are based on a san diego study that was done many years ago so if you're wondering why we have a san diego reference injury justification study that's because of the code requirements and new employees also create new housing needs and therefore students and inner district students impact school facilities so folks that work within the district but don't live within the district also have an impact we do take off a residential offset so any new housing that employee that houses employees we subtract that off of the impact and then that net cost impact is what we are what's eligible to be charged on a per square foot and the next slide shows those as as set forth in the fee justification study and if you recall we are only allowed to charge 78 cents per square foot so each of these categories is well above the 78 cents per square foot except for residential self-storage and that's so low because there are typically very few employees for quite a bit of square footage of building and then the next slide talks about redevelopment so this is we need to determine the next net impact between existing development and new development and we only charge for the additional impact so if you have a 2 000 square foot home that is say demolished and it's replaced by a 3 000 square foot home we would only charge the residential fees on the net impact of the thousand square feet next slide the adoption process we've provided a public review and notice period and that is required by law to be at least 10 days hold the public hearings which we did at the last board meeting and then the next step would be to consider the adopt the resolution and then the fees would be effective 60 days after the adoption date and i think i'll turn it back to julie to go over the actual timeline of the notification thank you so this slide is just in response to some questions that we had received from the board after the last board meeting so the notice regarding the study and its availability for review was in the chico enterprise record on march 15th and then again on march 29th and the study the draft study was made available at our district office beginning march 15th and available for review by any citizen the final study was also available at the district office on april 5th copies of the study were sent to a company called ccon financial construction company on three occasions march 15 march 28 and march 21st on the march 15 occasion we sent it to them because they always request them from us so we automatically sent it to them and then two individuals from their company requested it on those other dates so we sent it then as well with that i'll open it up for questions so i need to have a good understanding what's going to happen if we don't approve this increase um i've gotten to know you know the team here and i know that everyone in this room has nothing but the best intentions with every facility that we build and the way that we manage all these facilities and the things that we do with them and the kids that we educate and you know i thought long and hard before giving any back on this at all because you know i know that the heart of this organization is good um and the money would be used you know i mean uh state contracting rules like prevailing wage and stuff like that not withstanding this money would go to good use in terms of building a better educational facilities for our kids so what is going to happen if we don't approve this today well the short answer is the other funding sources that are available to the district will will bear the burden of funding the implementation of the master plan we would continue to collect the fees that were adopted two years ago and so what are those other sources so we have measure e we have one more draw on measure e in three years we have measure k which we have taken our last draw of measure k bond measure we have state facilities program grants we have applied for every state facilities grant that we possibly can us receiving money for those grants is dependent on the state selling bonds and adopting bonds we have several projects approximately 14 million dollars that have been approved by the office of public school construction to refund the district for the funds we've spent on previous projects and we don't at this point know when those funds will come to us because we're not in control of that schedule so if i said hey you know miss kissel the state's loaded right we're always hearing about the budget surplus they've got there and we know they're nuts for education down there if we just said you know we think that money's going to come in to help us fulfill the plan do you agree with that i would love to agree with you on that the fact of the matter is if we have 14 13 14 million dollars waiting to be funded from the state you can imagine what every other school district in the state has in their [Music] you know their applications that are in and the way it works is they fund projects until they run out of funding approval and then they continue to review and approve projects beyond bond authority and then when the bond authority is there they will fund the projects from the top of the list down and then when they run out of money they will cut them off so and and the state also allocates funding based upon a formula of grants which have historically um not been representative of the cost of construction i'm sorry can you repeat that i did you kind of were muddled there at the very end oh sorry so so the state funds based upon eligibility of the school district as well as a grant formula and the grant formulas were initially set forth to represent approximately 50 percent of the construction costs and now we're estimating them to actually cover about 30 to 33 percent of the construction costs of what they are funding and they do expect the districts to pick up the remaining percentage either with local bond dollars or developer fees i think the other aspect of this is every single school district has a new group of students that now by law are available to come and that's the four-year-olds and [Music] that also means very different structures to the rooms to how they are handled how they're processed and so it's not just the kids that will come in with new houses built we will have kids who will come in who are already here they just weren't eligible and now they are and that's the law didn't say wait till we got money the law said next year eileen thank you what i'm going back to is the the hand wringing that we did during the years that we were putting together the facility's master plan and how much work went into um itemizing the need of every single school in the district where we stood with our portables with you know the maintenance that we hadn't been able to do for so many years and when we put that facility's master plan together and put it out over about 30 years 12 to 30.
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yeah um we knew that the funding was the issue but that if the district was going to upgrade to the point where education was being determined by the the need for education rather than education being determined by the condition of our facilities which was the goal we didn't want we wanted our facilities to reflect what we needed to do with our kids and thanks to um you know your work and your predecessors in pulling in every single possible bit of funding and and to the citizens of chico who passed the bonds with the you know with the guarantee that we provided about what the taxes were going to do if you go out through our district now compared to what we were looking at in 2010 and 2012 it worked you know our our school district is looked up to as one of the shining stars in northern california that's why we're not a declining enrollment district i think and now we're faced with a wish come true as educators we've known that the most impact you can have on a child's success in later life is to get them into school as young as possible and after years of pounding on our state legislators to make it possible for us to bring those four-year-olds into public education um we have that threshold in front of us the only problem is where do you get the 29 million dollars to house them i don't want to be responsible for doing anything to make it harder for us to realize the dream of bringing our four-year-olds in under our umbrella and giving every one of our kiddos the best possible shot at their lives i understand that um you know there's there's always an issue of what's the impact and i um i'm not blind to the fact that the developers you know they have a job to do and making it possible for new homes and new developments to move forward is their job and i appreciate that because that's what supplies us with a vibrant community however if you don't have a vibrant school district to pull those people into those new developments you you're fighting a losing battle i i want chico unified to continue to reflect the best possible vision for our kids and so it it i i couldn't live with myself for not voting to approve this increase um it means too much to the district it means too much to our community um i know that the city council has moved to expand on um how developments and and others are zoned that's opening up a a more robust opportunity for development both residential and commercial and so what i see ahead are are good things but part of that good things is to make sure that the school district can um do what we need to do to bring our four-year-olds in to an environment that is conducive to their learning in an environment that that it is uh you know where for your four-year-olds can reach the handles and sit in the right i mean i remember when we had to um put junior high kids into an elementary and they couldn't they couldn't function in those little facilities but we didn't have the money to put the proper facilities there for the kids i don't want to be in that position right now with this amazing opportunity we have to bring four-year-olds in so i am you know i'm very much in support of doing what we are legally entitled to doing what our study has shown we have justification to do and and with apologies to developers that may feel that it is um you know hampering them i'm i'm not blind to that feeling in the you know in the field but overall i think it helps everyone it helps the developers bring in um you know new people into a community that that values their kids i'm going to open it up to public comment at this point and then we can come back to the board in terms of questions or commentary so do we have anybody from the public who wants to comment we do have three people three people okay first is mr bill webb okay and they get three minutes you'll see a card over here a car nothing no no green light red light yellow light or whatever uh thank you board my name is bill webb i'm representing chico builders association also representing the community homeowners and renters uh in our town and our county i think one thing that's lacking or maybe missing or maybe just wasn't explained very well it's not just the city of chico obviously that we're looking at we're also looking at the surrounding county areas that have development as well so we'll get into that a little bit more but as as a builder developer um and a home provider because we also have apartments we're very used to paying fees that's one thing that we're accustomed to paying is our fair share we're also cognizant of the cost to our home buyers and our renters so what's before you tonight if we're using the 1400 square foot uh mean for the unit size and a 71 cent increase is about a thousand dollar per unit cost that ultimately gets passed to the homeowner or renter national association of home builders puts out an annual survey across the whole country of every city county and state based on the median income level home home costs this would price out a thousand dollar increase would price out about 91 individuals or homes from purchasing that home so these times were were confronted with increasing costs on it on a daily weekly basis so just an another thousand dollars um made me think well what what has happened in the in the school district over the last 20 plus years so we went back and we pulled the enrollment since your enrollments decreased yet in the city of chico alone we have built over 10 000 units so now we're going to project another 10 years and build 3 000 units how are we justifying that enrollment's going to go up 642 students i get that i get to tk4 but how do we justify 640 kids when we've built over 10 000 units over the last 23 years and enrollment's gone down i i would just ask you look into that and and the nexus of where we're at on that the other thing that's i don't want to say misleading but maybe inaccurate in the report is the 3117 odd homes or units to be built over the next 10 years historically in chica we build 500 units a year that single family and multi-family if you extrapolate that over 10 years that's 5 000 units so where are they coming up this doesn't count anything built in the county is that 30 seconds or 30 seconds okay well so to wrap up school fees don't solve the problem they're they're they're a small amount of of your cost allocations so the difference between not collecting and collecting the increase is about five hundred thousand dollars you're still going to collect over three million dollars annually we don't oppose school bonds we don't oppose that it just seems like this is this is the low-lying fruit that allows you to grab money so we'd like you to consider you know a no increase or maybe maybe there's something we can gradually step into thank you gm hello um chris giovalli uh chico builders association as well and epic homes been home builders in chico area with my dad and i for the last 30 40 years um this is a probably it's a difficult decision because i i i understand where you're coming from you see where you can get the fees and it makes it easy and and it's validated by a fee structure but it doesn't necessarily always need to be maxed out at that that fee level um the nexus fees need to show a really reasonable relationship between the fee and the use and the cost of it well in the county in the state state is lost and has decreased in population this year and the year before the county in the last five years has decreased 15.56 percent in population so if you look at back years ago and i'll say 2010 there's 219 000 folks in the county today there's 185 000.
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