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that was a long time ago um but so i'm looking at slide 11 and you gave an example of a planning area and then i'm looking at slide 30 and 36 and you talk about all these buildings that are going to build out and i feel like the last time i saw you present you had some kind of idea like you had talked to people who had bought the land i just like i feel like last time i had a little bit more information about how many homes were going in were they single-family were they multi-family were the apartment were they seniors maybe i just missed it all right i think what i heard there was what what information do we have specific to developments and what units could be built and what type of units so starting on page 35 36 37 and 38 we've listed based on where that development is in the development process if it's current in the table i have here on page 35 we've listed the name that we've given and in most cases it's going to follow um that type or subdivision name we have the type of development that it is so if it's sf then single family if it's th that's town homes um if it's apartments it'll be either apt or mf for multi-family is it a current area that we're seeing building activity the existing units that are in that development and then the potential units that could come online with that development and then we've listed the junior high school that it's in we could have easily listed the high school where there's only two of them right or we could be enlisted elementary buildings but this is this is what i would allude to that we've shared in the past that gets into specifics of when it's being built and what type of development and how that relates i think what we did different this year is we broke out four quadrants of maps so we could zoom in a little bit tighter and you can see some of the names and these developments but one other key thing on these developments and then i'll pause and see if that answers the question this changes me probably on a monthly basis based on where their conversation is with each of the cities or villages and where it is in their process to develop where infrastructure is located where the plan is for infrastructure so this these series of maps if we look at where things were three years ago five years ago this is always changing can i piggyback yeah um so regarding like the current subdivisions that we know are going up is there someplace that will outline for us how many students we would have to absorb into our school district how many would there be and where were they yes you do and what i'm showing on this particular series of tables is the junior high school they would go to but we could easily make this where we also list the elementary school well what obviously the high school well in a high school that's what i wanted and a high school i don't i don't know why they would only do high yes that i also don't know why they're not here and why they didn't print this out for us okay can i ask a question regarding um the capacity limits being reached and exceeded for long beach i was wondering if that included um the fact that we currently house a significant portion of our preschool program at that facility or is this in uh attendance boundaries for k through five only yeah this would just be k5 students so currently we have over the galaxy that's interesting right because currently we have quite a large number of preschool students who also attend school in that building and we know that we are experiencing capacity concerns both last year and anticipated for next year as well and looks like for the foreseeable future um it might be worth if we consider is this something that we have talked about moving preschool back out of this building into one of our buildings that is a little bit freer of space in order to create more rooms um for students and there's a discussion of preschool for all so what's that there's also discussion like nationwide about pushing preschool well i'm just talking about democrat like a capacity right and actual yes there's that also um this conversation what i'm talking about is we have several classrooms that could be utilized for k through five on top of the fact that they're already saying that school's over functional capacity well if if i'm reading this correctly the instructional capacity is 522 the students attending for example this year is 415.
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you can set times you can set temperatures you can set everything just like you do at normal thermostat or anything else so that part i'm not too worried about brian you had something yeah the mitsubishi mini splits will they throw air 35 feet and if you will i mean they'll take care of those rooms you know they'll play with those rims so even if you don't isolate the return air will still work is our return air just the ceiling area above the ceiling is that correct larry yeah there's no actual ducking duct excuse me duct work so if i actually held it really to be honest with you i see some warrant there but i have a tough time justifying it because we're just doing you know portions of building we're still using it [Music] and i do understand that you know because we do spend the 58 60 000 and then we lose another one we're gonna have to you know replace that but it's still half still half price for the entire building well i'll make the same motion i made last month i'd like to replace the four compressors for 58 000 motion what do you want me to say there okay there's a motion on the table is there a second hi okay second by scammer is there any further discussion here well we will no matter what we will next year and we have something so it's not 58 times four divided by four yeah so it's it's just repairing what we have was one of his options presented to place two instead well i don't understand the hesitation that's saying the hesitation we spend all this money and we're out there we the school district we put also in the capitol outlay i don't know if it's i don't know how you say we we the district so that's what we're talking about then every time something's going to go on it doesn't benefit wilson it's going to be this way need another weight room and black one and we still have seven more years on that how many more years so just trying to make a quiet decision here because that evidently wasn't a wise decision to do it at that building so it's four of them down correct out of eight correct yes sir did anybody give you an ask a sample i've not i've not had anybody do an acid sample i don't know anything until you said that right now that's one thing i didn't know about those units okay i've been doing this for 30 years so i know what acid is in the system mary should know too so i'm just saying if you got four compressors out got eight compressors if another four go out then you're out that money i appreciate that right now we do have emotions i understand but i'm just my experience i appreciate it any further discussion motion on the table is to repair replace the four broken units for 58 58 000 all in favor raise your hand two three okay but she's still upstairs thank you there's a motion to do to replace two of the units for the lesser amount of 36 even uh is yeah well i guess 200 what that just meant the price i had for two was thirty thousand thirty eight i did is that what you said that that's what i was thinking what well they still got the cost of bringing the crane out and all that fun stuff so 31.
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and then people kept donating to track and i said i would say sir that so then we just had to take it out so then holding on to you know four thousand dollars or five thousand dollars in the track run when there is no track fund where we could use those for other sports something at some point we have to make that decision and say we have to supplement the sports that we have or the activities we have or the clubs that we have rather than keep feeding money into an area that we don't have anymore so at some point the business manager at the time which wasn't laura uh three business managers ago has to make that decision when they're doing their budget that we haven't had traction for three years we've disbanded tracker and no longer have trap on our aia schedule but people but we have these four thousand dollars that aren't doing anything with but we have a field trip that's going to the zoo and there's no more money in the fields account so it's up to that business manager what they want to do with that those funds so at some point we do move it over it's not going to stay there forever well we have a forum don't we that twists the active programs and donors would look in that form and choose one that is likely to be used for that [Music] it's not new but it's new to me and um i wish i could say that i took a long time and consideration and really worked with the team on coming up with an answer but this was one of those ones that was sent to previous principles emails by the time i got it it was due in 24 hours so something that we always talk about either board meetings or just our campuses campus security obviously number one at any school should be security of our of our students and faculty and staff and i'm not having the fence and i could tell there had been cameras here at one time outside i guess they just randomized continuously and and that just kind of disappeared so um just off the top that was the quickest thing i could think of that was really it were a need for and that you know saying 6500 for a fence wouldn't cover this part if you'd like to try cool fencing or something it's so expensive so it got some estimates and um and just wrote to them asking for that for for social emotional well-being of our students and to be used as a deterrent number one just like when our sheriff's park across the street you'll hear those toy haulers really break down real deep in those diesel trucks and you know officer was on us inside my office and talking to a student there's just a truck out there the sheriff truck but it's a deterrent so um so that would be number one and then second you don't have security on the campus things happen and it's nice to be able to see who just went in and out of the bathroom at that time we have a lot of he said she said things fortunately a lot of it's just mischief and misbehavior but we do have some property damage here and once a while students do get hurt and nobody really really sees it you don't have a true story so it'd be nice to be able to go back and see those those things we've used the camera in the cafeteria a few times that nobody has time to sit and watch everything but to build to go back and see who did throw that first banana you know to start this whole this whole mess um and in the past i guess cameras have been pointing in in a certain direction didn't have the wide range to where they could be vandalized without seeing who was vandalizing it so with our new state-of-the-art cameras um you know with that wide view and the night vision if somebody does go damage one at least one of the cameras will catch that as well as you know all the other cameras to and from and and what i've seen with our sheriff's department we're such a small community even if the kids have the hoodies on and the mask something about the tennis shoes yeah there's something or they make a mistake you know and we've a backpack current note or something and uh at we at least they can they can learn of us them and that that you have to pay for damages that you cause um and we can at least have our eyes on that and as we talked about with the survey some of the teachers felt uh security was was an issue as well and we had some random vandalization i know a stalker outside of her door this year or if there were cameras at least we're going to see you know who caused that you know what cotter doing and kind of stuff you know a small amount of cameras to start with to make sure that we're able to have the wiring um correct and it's not draining from our our system that we already have from our servers and uh to set it up that way so we're gonna kind of start small and then build up with what we like with that i'm using using the 6500 that was the max so they did give us the max so you know we sent thank you letters and everything to them and then they came out and took photos and i know that they put that on paper which was nice just so they um you know supposed to see that we're really we are driving we're working on it um as well as um that's it's what's best for our schools so um we're working with uh with with jose our own maintenance staff for to help with the wiring and the piping that goes the wires will go through and then sheriff was our sheriff deputy lozano and some of the other guys are coming out just with their excuse what they've seen in certain buildings whether it be tucson or here where they work where the best placements will be um so getting that advice as well from them and the first four should be here shortly thank you because they do have a turnaround around and um so we'll try to get those up as soon as we can i guess in the summer but you have to look and see if that's going to be suitable and then uh and then go for growth from there so they are outside cameras they're not in any any restroom or breaking no balls or any projects off and if you want anything filmed you can just the kids already haven't failed anything in a classroom so um that's already handled but uh but yeah so we're just hoping that wanted it'll be a deterrent and two that they can help with any any situation that can arise and hopefully makes everybody feel a little safer congratulations thank you thank you very much government so i think you you all have a copy in front of you um it's just kind of the same as last i added the green are editions i added a section on conflict of interest with the conflict of interest form for board members in the back i based on our discussion last month i added the section on page seven for uh requests for project items um and that you know has the uh the timeline for requesting agenda items as well as the agenda creation and publication same thing all about regenerative creating the agenda underneath that consent agenda and in the back go all the way back i've added some things to the board calendar and powers and responsibilities on page 17 i ordered an independence as an appendix on powers and responsibilities and i edited and this is probably the newest biggest change the last page is appendix open meanwhile guidance so this i basically um condensed our training our reading training that we had and put it in there as far as i understood it so that's it okay you're welcome to famous before questions comments um it's not up for approval this month uh but i do want to i actually added a calendar hoping to do that in august [Music] thank you yes well i can't hear a word yesterday i guess it must be wendy because you really have a female that she had added something to this yes about it marcia i would like to make a the handbook it's not up for a vote or anything but what i'll do is i can i'll send you a copy um on that discussion that's what i'm getting at yeah yes yeah i believe we're gonna have another thing i read that all the way through and i have some notes on it and i i definitely want to be there okay yeah i believe we're going to have that scheduled um at another date to discuss it further yeah i think it would be wise [Music] because i don't okay yes yes she was saying that she was putting this and putting it out there for us to look at and review but was hoping to have it on the agenda in august so that that should give us plenty of time yeah and allow your opportunity to participate in the discussion in person right i i mean the whole meeting was that way i couldn't hear and so um okay so now we are on the um four number have agenda items to request um so that would be the only thing i have to add is the best items that are specified there for the uh from the superintendent support mainly the the more priorities from before which does actually be itemized to came to the agenda for the wednesday so that they can be discussed okay and nobody goes to me thank you marshall good evening
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right if we were if it was only the students that resided in the area then it would be at 588. 444. unless i'm no you're probably right so you're correct dominic you should be looking at the results yes okay so they're not reas they're not attending the school they reside at so do we know if our preschool numbers are higher than the amount of difference do we know what our attendance is there are 108 preschool students are there 108 preschool students in that building and how far up do we want to run when we start looking at things such as square footage of classrooms which we know is smaller in that building than other buildings when we look at the functional needs of the school for the students there that may have higher need situations and need extra support and just to achieve what everyone else is able to achieve in other parts of our district are we looking at something being changed for that dr sparlin you know what you bring up a good question there lori we'll look at those numbers and get back janet but uh we haven't had that piece of the conversation right now so we'll look into it thank you i appreciate it and um if i may um couple things one i can't help it i'm sorry it's cosmetic but slide seven uh aurora don't forget about the color coding us in there in the corner sorry um and um the junior high situation oh um i i mean i can't help but notice um notice that piece um i mean if enrollment is really going to go down that much i mean i hate asking this question but i can't help but ask this question which is uh it's a lot of um that's a lot of empty space yeah i'm not saying i'm not like i'm not saying we couldn't possibly utilize that space but perhaps we need to um think about how we're going to utilize that space um i mean we're we have to upkeep those buildings if we're going to run those buildings and that's a cost piece and can can we you know that there's that and hold on hold on one other piece um that i wanna as long as we're sit as long as i'm asking about secondary um i i really love the balance between our two schools um but i am starting to get a little concerned as i look at 2026 2027 as i start to see one school kind of pulling away from the other i cannot stress enough that if you're going to have two high schools in a district you've got to keep them about as close to the same size as possible right but all the buildings going over here okay i get it but you do not want a situation where one dominates the other in size i'm not saying that's what this projection says um but i would be very leery going much further than what these projections say so um that's not what you want and any anyone who works in a district where you have more than one high school if one i don't care how fluent you are um if if i mean you want to go down to hinsdale his deal south's nice and in a nice affluent area and if you don't think they don't get dominated by hinsdale central you're fooling yourself um and so you want these high schools to be about the same size as possible and so that's getting a little uncomfortable well you brought up the point so one of the things i would just note for everyone very quickly is that especially as we're having the conversation surrounding the usage of our old chopper facility if we're looking at some of these things and an expanding preschool population um these are all things that i would invite everyone to consider as we look at some of these numbers to look at it in a more big picture way yeah and i did have one other question um slide 24 and slide six was it slide 24 i'm assuming the um uh k through five per 100 that factors in 55 i mean i'm assuming that's a that's an overall and that assume that factors in 55 plus housing um i'm assuming that factors that in meaning the total units built right like so are those considered are those part of the hundred units right i'm assuming that's part of the hundred i just assume that but i i i don't know that i would assume anything that's not specifically stated because it probably has the answer might not have made it on a slide john can he hear the question that's being asked yeah did you hear that one last question rob about that yeah lincoln um what was the question you want me to repeat it too yeah you want to talk to him give him so um slide 24 the 30 uh that's that total number 35 for the k through 5 per 100 i'm assuming that factors in 55 plus housing also if any exists what we have done is if it was 55 plus housing that's not factored in a total unit for single family because we wouldn't generate kids from those type of units the other thing that this focuses on is with each of the elementary boundaries just k5 kids though when we look at let's say wheatland elementary 2007 we got 41 k5 kids for every 100 single family units you can see that it went up and then now it's down this current year to 28.
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it's 30 038 dollars roger any further discussion hall of fame right most best okay and more discussion on the ina alert security proposal uh you had a presentation last month from jamie and jake from a out of wichita or excuse me out of ellenwood they are a vendor state approved vendor uh you have a packet in there um and uh this the one thing that i that is not in this and they're getting it to me uh is vape detectors here at wilson but the majority of this work is cameras the first one is cameras at central plains high school uh second bid is the door access where they'd have cards and the third bid in there is 45 000 for the vape detectors you'll see pictures uh where all the vape detectors those are i don't know if they're printed in color or not the black dots and then you have a picture of the canvas where all the outer cameras would go and then another picture of the campus where all the inside cameras would go um this is district one no that's right most of this is this is all just central plains high school right now we have nothing at wilson i'm getting they're getting me a vape detector bed he was headed to they're both headed out to western kansas so i don't doubt i got it i haven't checked my email i would like the board i don't need you necessarily to make a motion tonight but to consider spending this money out of esser for a secure entrance and vape detectors and cameras at our building in claflin and also vape detectors here at wilson senior junior senior high school do you expect not quite that much i couldn't believe how much fake detectors are those vape detectors are vape detectors smoke detector scuffle detector like if two kids were getting in a fight in there and it also would automatically alert that camera that's right there to start make sure it was filming and also send an alert to the building principal or somebody else in the building that hey we got vaping going on fighting going on whatever it is [Music] probably not say at every single door but quite a few of the doors did they look at all the doors and say yeah we can yeah they have looked at all those doors part of me i'm in a real pickle here because part of me wants this and once it yesterday for student safety we have secure entrances like this building it's all contained central plains elementary schools all contained for somebody to get in they have to be buzzed in at clapton we have to have them go between a couple of different buildings but i'm also concerned that if we were to do some work down the road would we still be able to salvage what we're putting in so we've got until what 23 24 to spend that esser money yes sir and part of me wants to say plow ahead let's get this done i think it's very important because clapland is security wise our biggest i'm going to say vulnerable area but i i also would be very interested i want those vape detectors too because i'm telling you guys we have got an issue in this district with vaping it is uh i don't want to say it's out of control but i think there's a lot of kids vaping what do you think potentially well i just would worry that like say we did a bond or something and they came in i'm sure they could then retrofit it to the new door or whatever because if you were to do a bond you take central plains high school i think you're going to have to replace virtually every exterior door in that i mean i would think we could work in conjunction and say hey you know here here's what you did you know they would make it work um yes we have not used any s or three yet i i i'm still trying to get my plan through the state um i don't know how to talk about that all right um are these the only ones that we got a bid from yeah they are ellenwood they're on i talked to folks at the state there on that if you notice on the top of that bid it has state contract number 48 20 3 7.
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and we definitely pull out when we know it's a 55-plus development should not be in this factor i also heard with long beach to answer this i will verify but i believe the instructional capacity of 522 is what the capacity would be to serve kindergarten through fifth grade i think there's additional rooms that are not part of that instructional capacity that do serve those roughly i think 100 um preschool kids definitely almost positive that's how this was set up purchased k5 instructional request so this is a pretty common question how did he get the number of rooms in the instructional capacities this is something we go over a lot yeah that was provided to him from us did you provide him the instructional capacity for k5 in addition to the current preschool or inclusive of the current preschool so what we do is we go through and look at the classrooms that are in there and how they're currently being used so if they're currently housing which they are early childhood those our classrooms are outside of they're built into that instructional capacity of those smaller numbers wait so let's say that they have three if they all if they have on average three sections of each grade level so you have all of those plus you have two classrooms being used for early learning those classrooms are taken out of the equation for being able to house kindergarten through fifth grade students okay so this is exclusive of preschool is what i'm understanding the 522 is just not including the stuff that um preschool needs but everything else in the building that's currently used for elementary yes okay correct okay thank you anybody else i just have a general question it probably more for dr sparlin maybe faith maybe dr petzke but their net takeaway their main takeaway is that in order to maintain a growing district it will require more units to be built and occupied similar to that of the 2000 2009 boom so is there some sort of intergovernmental discussion that goes on to affect that or to say hey we need to make sure we continue building homes and and keep the district in the loop the village yeah the different villages i mean yeah they they're constantly looking at the number of you know residential as well as trying to build the commercial piece and the industrial piece because that's the uh that's really the important piece it brings in the tax base without the additional students and uh there needs to be a good balance there you know i think there's a few takeaways here we're seeing that the senior classes that are graduating are larger than the kindergarten classes that are coming in the birth rates are down for kendall will and kane and we have fewer students coming from the single family and multi-family units than we have in the past which and then without the covet recovery piece is is is is contributing to the declining enrollment as we see it even though there are so many more units and things being built at this time i guess like to be just really blatant like i uh public education is kind of under fire right now and i mean the covid recovery is not is totally understandable it's not surprising and i'm sure we'll continue to see people um unenroll their students and and look to homeschooling so i guess my you know the difference between you sent the the number of um enrollment you know in your report on friday and we're at 17 000 119 and then by 2027 we're down to 15 five i mean that's a considerable bomb money and when part of the evf funding is enrollment it becomes it it's a it's a factor it's not the it's hold harmless yeah yeah we it's so it isn't because it's hold harmless we'll never get less than we get now right it's called the foundation oil i understand that but it's still not necessarily going to grow true you know what i mean oh that is a good point that's what i'm saying it's not going to become more so i just want to make sure that like you know i just want to make sure that we're working with our with our villages and our and other um communities to make sure that we are creating a place that people want to live and um and making sure our narrative as the school district because it's often portrayed in a poor poor light on social media and so forth you know dr petsky we talked about this working with realtors to make sure they understand you know what's going on in the school system and so forth so can i ask an additional question to that so um well i'm gonna state the question and then i'll come back so multi-family in the report it says multi-family student yield rate is lower for multi-units than single-family is that typical for across the board for all of the customers that you work with or is that just typical for our region state or city did you hear that rob are those pretty typical for other studies that you see in the single family yield rates are those the same that you see or are these higher or lower than what you're typically used to seeing all right yeah so page 25 with the multi-family yield rates this is pretty typical where there's going to be a range i mean if you look at some of the developments that are in the lakewood creek elementary much larger right same thing in green park much larger number of kids than what we see in some of the other areas when it comes down to number of bedrooms that will be in these units if more of them are studio or one bedroom we typically yield fewer kids the other thing that we see in multi-family developments that drive how many kids we get are other amenities that might be on those molds so so if that's the truth i'm sorry you fade away different things like that will drive what we see for yield rates um but yeah this is this is pretty typical of the range that we see okay so if that's if that's the true statement what jen is saying is even more important when we're working with the intergovernmental uh you know relations that we're having based on the type of developments that will go in and around because if we if we're if we're seeing a higher uptick i think it's at a higher uptake of of single family homes i think but either way that's that's something that we need to consider or just to include in the conversation because if they build more multi-family then that's still going to have a dramatic impact on enrollment and i think i think multi-family i don't from what i from what i've read there's more turnover if you think about it so um you know there might be 16 kids for longer periods of time so you don't need new building in order to keep kind of that um got it so but i'm not a demographer yeah i think he is here there's more people moving to the area they're just have there's just fewer kids coming out of all the single family and multi-family homes you know like if you look at the multi-family rate i mean from 2021 from 2014 i mean it's dropped 33 percent in regards to the number of kids coming out of the multi-family home and that's the trend that you're seeing which would coincide with the lower with the lower birth rates i don't know how to solve that what i what i'd like to see is us gets 100 funding part that i'm afraid is you know you drop to a level where you start to have to have discussions about do we have to shudder a school that you're paying for that sits there while you make a mortgage payment on it for crying out loud that's the part scares me you know am i gonna sit here as a taxpayer and pay for a school that sits empty i mean that's the part that scares me because as far as evf is concerned i i understand your point and if you fall into a different tier you're not going to be prioritized as much i get it but as long as you have the hold harmless well and in theory they you know we talk about school financing in theory fun things we except for the fact that the hold harmless isn't accounted for in our financial projections that we currently use that's exactly what i was so well that's the equivalent of not getting an increase in ebf so currently we look at projections that include an increase in pbf this would say because of hold harmless we might be held harmless because we really would be lower than that so we really should be looking at a zero percent increase in ebf glory we're not going to move out of tier one and two within the next i'm not talking about the tiers i'm talking just about the projections that we use that account for what we have typically seen in an ebf increase each year if we're not going to increase because we're going to stay put at the hold harmless because our enrollment is declining no that's that's not the case okay the goal is to go from tier one to tier four that's where you want to be we want to get that right yeah and we will continue to increase we will continue to receive more money as we until until you get to tier two tier three tier four which won't be for at least at least three to five years it's gonna take a huge drop to get to tier four is what you're saying yes no no i i get it that's not but that's a specific piece that's extra money that we receive for being in those or getting that amount i'm saying that the amount say we get tier one funding right and right now our tier one funding is a hundred dollars because we have ten kids all right so if we had next year nine kids we should get ninety dollars but we this is just the theory i'm going so let me finish it out and see if you get where i'm going from um the theory would be we would get 90 except we'll actually get a hundred because of hold harmless so if they increase that nine dollars we are or that ten dollars and five or ten dollars per kid to ten dollars and fifty cents per kid we're still only going to be at nine dollars and or ninety five dollars instead of a hundred dollars does that make sense so we would still be at hold harmless even if they increased what they gave us that's what i'm talking about so would we get 100 or 105 right and right now and and either one we don't have the ability to predict right now but what we do know is that for our financial projection purposes we're assuming we're getting a hundred and five to a hundred and ten dollars and we have a five-year strategic plan built on that's what these projections yeah and if they don't then can we make i mean we will look every year and say okay what we can and cannot do but i mean they all it's a it's a piece of a puzzle so i'd like to see projections with no increase in ebf for each and every year well if there's any of us that are considering not levying we should be awesome no no no no no no this has nothing to do with liberty well it does if you're going to bring that piece up it absolutely does i wasn't talking about levying at all but hold on a second you're talking about projections right and you're talking right right and you're saying that that the eb if we're going to be held harmless or if there's a hold harmless right that doesn't come to fruition that affects our projections correct right okay so if any of us are sitting up here any of the seven of us i see and we're thinking about saying we don't want a levy we should also have that in our projections as well yes five years out yes that had already been asked for also sorry we asked for that one you just weren't here yet yeah but yes the what happens if you don't levy and for five years out not just one every year for each of the next five years right all right so are we we're done with that because i mean i'm i'm good now okay so i think we are okay wait one more question eugene i'm just gonna levy there you go so we should have that projection on for the next five years i'm not going to raise i'm never going to vote to raise taxes okay well and that's why it's not it's not a question it's more of a statement because i think that when i look at i also looked at the rate of transfers were higher than or could be higher that's something that we could control so i think that we should as a board as a district should think about our communication strategy when we're thinking about who do we want to attract into our district and how do we use pr uh to make sure that we're that we're talking about i don't i don't know what do you mean it's if somebody moves into the district correct i'm saying oh a transfer in order to transfer in and out of the in the district not not between schools i'm saying oh okay i'm saying i'm saying like uh we we were just on the u.s for world report for the best schools but do people know that and so i think that you know we talked about all of the beautiful things that our students and district is doing for fine arts i think that we we have so many good things going on in our district and i think that you know so many families could benefit from it but do they know right so link that to this correct we don't have we need a communication plan for that and so what you're saying is your goal is to increase our enrollment through stronger communication of the benefits of the area that is correct okay so that would be your wishes to increase our student enrollment to better utilize our facilities and i agree with you it's the better than the alternative right and well let's keep a note of this one as we start to make our plans okay all right anybody else because we need to move on we've got poor renee sitting over there and she's been here a long time waiting are we good all right good good conversation rob we appreciate the data and it's going to give us a lot to talk about in the months to come so thank you very much thank you can we start with thank you you guys have a nice evening thank you yeah before her eel yeah item 6.4 is an annual information item regarding resolution request of kendall county for land cash funds does the board have any questions and what's been presented all right hearing none better ask her something she's been sitting here this whole time we're so sorry item 7.1 is an informational presentation on our english learners program tonight we have rene sartor here to present and renee is our director of english learners so the floor is yours renee and thank you for your patience no problem good evening i'm happy to be able to present our annual report of the english learner department so first i want to explain that the names and acronyms and acronyms for english learners and their programs have evolved more than a few times over the last decade with the state and federal agencies so currently isbe uses the term multilingual department to better describe the department's emphasis on students being seen as linguistically and culturally diverse students who are on a continuum of learning more than one language not just a student who is learning english so while while isbe uses the term multilingual department the students are typically still referred to as english learners so as such i'll be using the term english learners or the acronym els in this presentation okay so this is this presentation is going to include an overview of the english learner services in sd 308 best practices and programming for english learners and highlights of the work that we've done towards the goals of envision 308 the english learner or el department oversees the curriculum and instruction for els professional development title iii grant and budget federal and state processes and procedures and reporting written translations and oral interpretation and the bilingual parent advisory committee also known as the bpat so the bpac is an autonomous group of parents that exist to support represent and nurture the educational growth of the students in the various english learner programs the bpac supports the families of these students as well the district is required by state law to have a b pack that provides input and guidance to the programs it offers students here are the total english learners over time so while our district enrollment is not growing the number of els within the district continues to grow so we're currently at 11 the category of english learners though is not a static population so that is every year some els exit by reaching proficiency on the yearly standardized language assessment called the access test and other els enter the program so when looking at standardized el data keep in mind that from one year to the next the actual students making up the el population have changed nor our el is a homogeneous population so students can come from a family with very high or low socioeconomic status families can have different educational backgrounds some students are recent arrivals to the country while many others are actually students born in the us from parents who speak english and another language also during this time uh the last couple of years because of there have been interruptions to assessment and not only interruptions of assessment showing language proficiency for students but also interruptions to their learning which in part could have affected the number of students that exit from the program here's a breakdown by grade level clusters of the number of students as well as the languages spoken so you see that the highest numbers of students are in the lower grades and this makes sense because as students come in and they begin to acquire language proficiency through the years the numbers go down and secondary and you'll see that there's 70 languages in all so far that are spoken in the district and spanish is by far the highest with 67 percent of the students with spanish as their background language we'll talk about the programs that we offer here now so the state of illinois has specific laws regarding the required programming for english learners and when there are more than 20 students of the same language at one school the district is required to provide some form of bilingual education for students of that language so spanish is the one language that meets that threshold currently the state requirements are considered the minimum of what a district should offer students and it's considered the ground floor of merely maintaining compliance so still the state strongly encourages districts to not settle for the minimum requirements but to go beyond this to offer students the best programs possible so for this reason oswego 308 offers students the highest level of service for which they qualify so the highest level of service if a student in kindergarten through eighth grade if they're a spanish speaker that highest level of service would be dual language and if the student is a speaker of another language that highest level of service would be sheltered english so by law parents have the right to choose the level of programming for their students and this includes refusing all services so here are the programs that we offer in sd 308 at the early childhood level english and or spanish instruction is provided either in a self-contained classroom or through a pushing classroom model then next at every school level and every grade there is easy lsl resource that's available to students who did not choose either sheltered english or the dual language program here the students in a general education or a special education classroom and an esl teacher will focus on language development through co-teaching or push-in or pull-out for sheltered english instruction students are in self-contained classrooms of all english learners from various language backgrounds it's taught by an esl endorsed teacher who modifies lessons in all the subject areas based on the students language proficiency instruction is provided in english the elementary sheltered english program is located at old post for kindergarten through fifth grade and the junior high counterpart is at murphy junior high then dual language is the model where native spanish speaking students are in a classroom with native english speaking students and all students are learning the district curriculum in spanish and english together we offer dual language in spanish because first we're required by the state to offer bilingual education when there's more than 20 students who speak the same language and then two because there are enough spanish-speaking students wide to make dual language a viable program we couldn't offer dual language in another language let's say mandarin simply because we don't have enough speakers of that other language to make it a viable program in dual language the goal is for students to develop bilingualism by literacy and by culturalism and instruction occurs in spanish and english in varying amounts throughout the years by following a language allocation plan so in kindergarten approximately 80 percent of their academic content is taught in spanish and then it progresses through the years to 50 50 where it by fifth grade it's 50 spanish 50 english the junior high dual language is located at uh planck junior high and the elementary dual languages are at hunt club and boulder hill in junior high the program continues to develop bilingualism and by literacy through having social studies in spanish for grades six through eight and a language arts period in spanish sheltered english in junior high allows for students to have their core content area classes taught or co-taught by an esl endorsed teacher and the high school offers a variety of sheltered classes taught by an esl endorsed teacher as well as co-taught courses with the general education and special education classrooms high school graduates can earn the state seal of biliteracy this recognition is given to graduates who have shown high levels of proficiency in listening speaking reading and writing of more than one language so this award is available for native english speakers who learn another language either through dual language or the world language department as well as for english learner students who could show proficiency in their native language and english students earn college credit towards foreign language requirements in college and showcase their skills to potential employers with this award there have been several students each year also that receive the seal in more than one language on the following slides i'll show a graph that outlines what the research shows on how english learners who are still in the process of learning english perform on standardized reading tests in english from first grade to high school when they participate in any of the above program models so as you see on the list it starts with two-way and one-way dual language and those are different in that in a one-way dual language program the classroom is made up of only english learner students in a two-way classroom model then the classroom is filled with a mix of both english learners and english-only speaking students so these programs build upon and deepen a student's understanding of spanish in addition to learning english so it's called an additive bilingual model bilingual programs as in number three and four only use the native language for a short period of time until they could fully replace the native language with english this is a subtractive bilingual model and then the el models the or esl models are programs that only teach through english and don't include native language instruction so we'll look at important research an important research finding by a study done by thomas and collier they looked at standardized tests of english reading and the study aggregated long-term data from records of more than 2 million english learner students from well-implemented and mature see programs the axis on the left there that shows the national percentile of students of monolingual english students it shows how they performed on a standardized test of english going along the the grade levels so the axis at the bottom here shows the different grade levels going from first grade up to 11th grade the colored lines represent the six types of language acquisition programs and they show the average achievement of those some two million students by second grade you could see that there's uh most of those programs they're making significant gains for the students and we even see one program in blue appears to be outpacing the other significantly so here we see by the time the el student reaches high school how their achievement compares to native english speakers so colored lines one and two are dual language programs three and four are the short-term or part-time bilingual programs and five and six are the english-only programs so you can see that the english-only programs five and six start out with large gains in academic achievement in first second and third grade and then the student achievement declines steadily up through high school the only programs to reach and then exceed the performance of monolingual english speakers are in the dual language program right around fifth grade is when most english learners are able to exit the program with enough english proficiency that they can show on the access test further research that was done by thomas and collier also shows that dual language programs are extremely effective for increasing the academic achievement of low income and underperforming monolingual english students so the takeaways from this research among other things is that dual language is an optimal program for long-term success learning a second language takes five to seven years to reach high levels of proficiency and academic achievement and it's counter-intuitive but research shows that students with a foundation in their native language perform better in english than students who don't have that foundation dual language provides high levels of english proficiency and academic achievement in an environment that promotes and sustains a student's native language so while we can't offer dual language to all of the different languages in our district when we provide services that are only in english the instruction must be scaffolded so that the content is provided in a linguistically and culturally responsive way so a way that celebrates and validates and incorporates the cultures and languages of all the students in the classroom so we strongly encourage families to continue reinforcing and strengthening their home language with students even if it's not offered in the school setting so now looking at assessment so there have been challenges over the past several years given the significant changes through the pandemic so many state assessments were postponed or cancelled or only had a portion of students participating due to remote learning so in looking specifically at access language proficiency scores the exiting criteria has changed over time as well as the administration of the test going from all paper and pencil to all online and these changes have made it more difficult to compare the performance of students from one year to the next it's also caused fluctuations in the percentages of students exiting the program we've also experienced changes in the assessments that the state provides students such as going from the icesat to park to iar and even district assessments such as we had been using star assessments and then we moved to fastbridge so there's been some disruptions and some changes in the different assessments that we've used so also we need to consider that assessments for english learners that specifically look at their language usage and their language proficiency more than just the once a year snapchat that the access test gives us and we also need to assess both languages of instruction to include spanish language proficiency for those students in a dual language program to see how they're developing in that area as well so we're planning to study not only not only students while they are english learners but also to study and see how they continue in their academic trajectory once they are former english learners or once they have exited the programs so now we're able to better keep track of those students since we moved between our data systems in our district also moving from e-school to tyler as for the assessment work that's in development we've begun testing for spanish in the dual language fifth grade and junior high called the apple test we want to see where that proficiency is lying for students as they're coming through the program and we haven't been able to do that before and we ran a pilot this spring with fastbridge so that they can expand their spanish offerings hopefully to maybe more benchmarking and and progress monitoring of students also in spanish as well as in english we're also enhancing our use of english proficiency monitoring through uh programs like reading a to z okay so now start talking about the english learner programs and how it supports and vision 308 so for us success in 2026 will show a cohesive continuum of services for english learner and multilingual students from pre-k up through high school our work so far to strengthen the continuum of services has been so far this year by forming a core team of sheltered english staff to identify the needs in that area in that program we've continued began last year and continued this year to work on dual language development and working on their oral language as a staff and in future meetings we're going to prioritize professional development with them also we've provided professional development in the area of special education and english learners to several of the special education groups and we began developing a system of assessment that aligns with the goals of the english learner programs such as i mentioned monitoring the progress of english more frequently and spanish language proficiency as well there we go so some highlights of the success so far of the english learner program this year is i was able to participate in district walk-throughs together with other staff and administrators to observe instruction and engagement in literacy and math and that included a lot of seeing a lot of instruction in esl sessions in sheltered instruction classrooms and dual language and i was very proud of what our educators observed while we were walking through those classes with all of the engagement of the english learners in their classrooms we also participated with the literacy and math frameworks and they were developed with english learner and dual language components to them so they were part of that formation of those of those frameworks and then we've also worked on instruction that's engaging and correct culturally and linguistically responsive to help our students grow even more for the indicators of success we hope to see that by next year the district and initiatives like the literacy and math framework and social studies curriculum will include professional development that's tailored to the teachers of dual language and english learners we'll develop a system of assessment that aligns with the goals of the el program such as monitoring the progress of english and spanish language proficiency in addition to monitoring academic skills and knowledge and tracking the progress of els after they exit the various programs and we'll have common expectations for instruction in dual language and sheltered english instruction as well as continue professional development for the teams that work with the english learners to differentiate instruction and to provide interventions so in our trajectory of envision 308 we are making progress and we hope to continue that so let me know if there's any questions great thank you very much renee very informative questions do you have for renee um mine are all related first of all i noticed slide four i can remember um there was many comments people had where they s um i came across people saying well it's only five percent of the district and uh it would appear we've added over 800 students since that time and more than doubled the percentage so that's an observation for those who said it was only five percent of the of the district in 2015.
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i'm not saying i couldn't get them cheaper part of the draw for me with them was that they were local one of the things that they offer is for ninety five dollars a month it's optional remote monitoring so if we were not there and something were to happen they would and you know let us know hey just so you know something's going on up there whatever uh these cameras were they even they even proposed cameras and i thought it might be a bit much that did like facial recognition we have some instances where parents or guardians are not allowed to be in a school to get a kid or whatever you could upload that image and if that person came in that camera would notify you of that to me that might be a little bit much but um uh yes those are in like virtually every locker room bathroom area for me it was red dots i should have had ink so i don't think we've ever done anything with vape detectors they did uh they're doing artists they're doing ourselves yeah who's that hp uh tell you what it's been awful uh the nice thing about it is it's endless and what you can use it for um that's why i was curious about if we only got one bed i know what hp charges um yes that would be something new is the big protective part but doesn't mean i can't do it right the old middle school was surrounded with cameras inside and out we got key cards um i got it programmed into my phone so it comes straight into my phone uh how many times that car was when it was used it videos it as soon as it gets used uh whether it's going in and out so do we want to give the board a chance to digest this a little bit maybe give a very good chance to talk to local that's fine companies in the district i would like that consensus okay superintendent uh first off daycare at wilson and then kind of tied in with that i'll do two daycare on the central plains and worked up a sheet here on the proposal to operate group daycare in the wilson school facility we're still if you recall j.r robel he will be at our june meeting and i might even try to get him here for our special meeting but i will definitely have him here for our june meeting his grant to help us run some day cares or get a daycare up and running is quite a process uh we're fortunate that here in wilson we have some the facility where we could get it up and running as soon as everything were to be approved through the state and then come back in and supplement it with some of the money that uh j.r robel is working on for example we have a director you have two employees 16 an hour 48 weeks pretty self-explanatory they would be district employees you have about 69 000 in salary i had district employees and basically what you have here for all this would be mirrored at our location on the central plains end of the district uh i had district employees will be play half rate and if they wanted to keep their child in the program during the summer they would pay full price uh costs per child you can see birth 18 months 140 bucks a week 18 months and up 125 a week if they have more than one child in daycare they will receive a 20 discount these numbers you see here for a group daycare maximum of 12 are pulled straight from the state website and basically iran numbers if you were totally full and had no discounted kids or anything like that how much each of those one two three or four would bring in talked to uh another superintendent in winfield uh nathan and i have known each other for a long time they are running a daycare they are doing it at no cost to the parents and are just it's just a program where they're just gonna eat it they think it's worthwhile they're just gonna eat the cost uh on the back side of that sheet i know wilson is working with dane hanson to get some extra funding i know they're very dane hanson is very supportive of uh daycares wilson has also done some fundraising for equipment and the like and i believe they're at about four thousand dollars and i think it's climbing a lot of little information there i'm really leery that we can get it open like on the first day of school because it's gonna that's where the folks that really want this up here are gonna have to really help out because there's a lot of requirements that would have to happen between now and then fire marshall has to come i mean there's just a lot of things you have some additional costs you know the license 87 a year i would like to purchase the frog street curriculum uh that's what we're using in our three and four year old program there is a toddler an infant program as well uh snacks i said a thousand bucks i don't really know that would just be you know you could ask for donations we can serve them school lunch there's another program that would allow us to uh serve them school lunch you know we would have probably some increase in insurance some supplies trainings they would need to continue to attend materials etc i don't know three thousand dollars a year they are proposing and we haven't decided a hundred percent i don't want to get hit in the back of the head by sandy right now on the location here in wilson uh i need to talk with some fire marshal on a few things there uh the pictures you see this is what j.r roble had worked up he's showing it in the kindergarten or excuse me early childhood classroom the second page you'll see he has sent in the proposal to do like a mobile unit sitting back there off of the rec center i talked to mike urban the mayor about this i mean honestly it is something we need to look at as a district uh as a positive for our parents uh i know wilson has already got a couple of ladies that are interested in being the director the assistant director and if they they were to be hired for that i would put them in charge of getting this thing rolling because honestly running the district and trying to run into my wife used to run a group daycare so she helped me with some of this information um could be uh a bit of a challenge for somebody like me but we can get some people in here thoughts from a the board members you say winfield is doing it yes then are they full or they uh yeah they it varies um they have it in i believe he said two of their buildings don't quote me on that nathan um he used to be superintendent in fairfield that's how i got to know him now he's down in winfield uh they do not charge anything uh we're not quite there yet uh do you know any other districts that are there's a i'll tell you i had a discussion at great bend is not doing a school sponsored daycare but they have signed off on a day care that will be built in great band they all they also at their old washington building have got some programs for teachers kids and things like that uh there is a need uh do we know numbers from here uh rough okay and this is why i want j.r to come and talk because i don't understand everything he's doing a hundred percent that's why i did it where we're paying for it or figuring out a way to pay for it the state will pay for the food you turn that into okay they've done as much if not more research than i am uh he is going around and he has collected tax credits uh so a business will say in lieu of paying and i have won we probably got close to a hundred thousand dollars down on the central plains into the district where a company will say in lieu of paying 30 000 in taxes i will give thirty thousand dollars to this day care and somehow it all gets run through the state and we can use that money to like build the facility or update the facility or whatever it is we need to do uh i really want him to come and speak to that because that is what he does wilson has kind of got a group going and they really want to get jump started on this and then kind of jump in at the end with uh with what jr has one of the other reasons that we have looked at claflin is we have a county commissioner down there who is really helping to push getting daycares in all the barton county communities eleanor hoisington-claflin great bend and he has i've got i need to get a hold of him i haven't done it yet be honest with you just haven't had time but maybe direct some money our way as well uh i would stress these daycares whether they're located in claflin hall they're in wilson would be open to any family in our district you know if somebody uh was worked in wilson and lived in hollywood maybe that would work out or whatever greg we already have a waiting list up here too got the group setting committed and do we roughly know numbers of kids ages and babies would you just have to hire another person to take more kids yes so far two already me being the administrator and then my sister being the assistant administrator so so far there will be two people so we can get to a center setting enough kids well and i i like i've said to me if i get it to break even i'd be happy that's right i'd like to see them as free yeah yeah and that would be quite a like i said the one in claflin is still over probably a year out at least because it's a whole building that has to be brought in and put down uh we're fortunate like i said here that we can kind of use some existing space and go from there so i guess what i would ask for tonight is this is where i'm going to struggle giving a recommendation to the board i recommend we do a daycare in wilson i can't tell you what i think the final cost to the district would be because i don't know what kind of money they're going to get from dane hanson you've applied through there right sabrina is working on sabrina is working on it okay um thank you like they are all about heaven for danger so there would be some money there that would be a positive in ellsworth county if we could get one going in hollywood the city they gained handsome money the city does have a commitment that's a great part for the community it's a great perk for the school and their employees and i think it would be probably self-sustaining i believe once it got started great idea i mean yeah it's something that would draw people in exactly i mean is it feasible just to say that you know keep keep chugging along with it with it is that okay by consensus maybe keep fortune forward maybe at our special board meeting i might have two people to hire i would hire them as paris that way if this all falls apart i still got them to work and then but uh about to be an option um and kind of give you guys updates uh so good students work in there yeah absolutely yeah absolutely i've been a big and another thing that i have been a big proponent of in doing this is uh i'm gonna ask the like i said if we're going to do this i don't want to do it halfway i want to go all the way we're going to use frog street curriculum the same we use that we will be using in third grade fourth grade so 30 year old four-year-olds i want to see at least quarterly parent involvement nights where parents come in and we have doctors we have nutritionists we have people that will say hey here's why you feed vegetables to your kids here's why you go to the doctor here's why you go to the dentist um i really want to focus i mean it's great for our kids our parents our teachers kids but also i really want to do it for our kids that we will be getting that come from a little tougher environment and need a little bit more of the help still looking at working with tori hamake and hiring her she is a daycare surveyor right now which means she knows what to look for what not to look for she would also be a excellent help in the family engagement getting kids into the program uh mrs ozier can tell you my biggest fear on her capping three-year-old and not that i'm not okay with it because we got to know numbers is i don't want somebody coming in who i really need their kid in the three-year-old program and then we don't have a space for them that is my biggest concern because if the sooner we can get them and get them headed on the right track the less trouble and issues we'll have as we move forward is my opinion so how about uh by consensus the board agreed to pursue the daycare programs at wilson and central plain does that sound okay or will's in a cloud and then they'll just keep going wilson's a little further ahead yeah they're way further ahead wilson for right now right nicely okay well i think you can put something i mean we can proceed yeah yeah we're we're going to keep working toward it but i think wilson could have jumped the ball harder yeah yeah j.r is going to help you that clap yeah he's gonna he's coming to our june meeting he couldn't this one because we set in some meetings with him and i write a bunch of notes but i don't always understand he knows how all those intricacies worked all right um i want to talk one of the things that the board had asked me about was roof repairs at central plains and wilson and i want to know if you want me to send these out for bid we work in the past with john williams from washington roofing in your folder you should have a couple of pictures from the school here in wilson and the school in hollywood uh where you will see areas that need to be addressed uh this is his email from me this is way back in december holy cow that's a long time ago uh seal all fasteners valleys ridge then flashings with i'm going to say it's like a bed liner in your truck but thicker they will color match it to the best of their ability uh he has walked our ruse he's the guy that has done our entire roof of clapping uh you know he said his thoughts and i this is why i like john i've known john he was a couple years older than i was in high school uh he uh flat out you don't need to do your whole roof coat it because most people want to come out and coat every inch of your roof he said uh i just do your valleys your seams and so forth uh i'd have a couple other companies i'd need to send this out to bid for uh high school you know my thought is on the i don't know that we need to do the gym at hollywood mrs ogre do we have many leaks in that area we have we didn't have them on this live stream every once when we get one around where the heat was connected okay uh my thought would be you just kind of deal with uh the hollyrood maine area and then that maine wilson school building and i don't know when he says 1611 square feet i i did not talk to him today uh if that is the whole entire building or just one side of it that seems kind of low to me but i will ask you're talking 16 voting leaner that's not square footage yeah and that could be the whole building because he's only talking about seams that's very good thank you josh from his uh they're already looking at stuff that we've had damage on i i tried to get john to walk it with my insurance agent but he cannot contact my he doesn't feel comfortable contacting the insurance agent i need to get a hold of cassidy and have them hook up on my behalf to look at the building and i i will do that just i wanted to give the board an update i know chad had mentioned i don't know probably over a year ago we need to look at these roofs we need to look at these roofs because if your roof goes bad the rest is coming right after it so uh i my hope would be but by june i can get you some bids i'll have insurance and uh maybe we could get it started after july first i mean we had that wind storm over in claflin was it the december one toby where we had some damage up on the roof he's reading his phone uh whatever we called them they were out they fixed it when we had the hail storm they were over there covering all the broken sun skylights uh taking care of us great company they've done well by us if the board would like for me to go ahead and get bids and proceed forward with that i think we need to all right thank you uh legislative update they're not in session right now and i gotta walk you wouldn't be you'd be surprised uh we actually have legislators that watch our board meetings because i got called up and i was uh reprimanded saying they hadn't accomplished anything they only listened to one thing yeah she wanted to debate me on that and i was more than happy to at that moment so uh you know here's my problem and if you're listening i want you to hear this they deal with stuff that just doesn't matter they are parents bill of rights any parent in our district can come into my office a principal's office their teacher's classroom our teachers send home stuff we put stuff i mean you can find out whatever we're doing you know they throw out this thing that well they want to talk about when uh i'm going to say human growth and development or sexual education is taught and they'll tell you it was taught well we got we're teaching it in kindergarten we're not teaching it in kindergarten we're not teaching it in first grade fifth grade mrs osher the boys watched the boys the girls watched the girls is that right and in sixth grade i think they watch each other's correct not sure on that but we're not doing it down in and they spread that out there and it's not true and they spend all this time hyping everybody up that my gosh they're talking to kids in kindergarten about what whether they're a male or a female 100 percent false and that hacks me off so sorry if you're listening you heard it um governor vetoed parent millerites and i don't think it uh will have uh they don't have enough votes to override it uh the one on uh the transgender uh really they what everybody says is let the kansas high school association deal with that because there could be some legal liabilities for school districts uh they are one thing i'll give you credit they're looking at helping us with some liability like we've always had concerned if we send a kid out to work in holster manufacturing or the gas plant covering those companies so the kid was out there and he got hurt they couldn't come back on the company or come back on the school they did not they had the opportunity so if you see one they have the opportunity to fully fund special education and they didn't do it and for our district that's about a 250 000 hit to our budget every year because they don't fully we spend well over 300 000 in local assessments but it's probably 250 000 think about that that would fund a pretty healthy raise for every teacher in our district if they would fund special education they never have i know it's what it is i tell you one good thing again i'll give them credit where credit's due and i'll pound a little on them when it's not due uh they're kicking in some more money for student mental health which i appreciate also putting in some money for uh safe and secure which we might be able to use for some of that uh ina alert they're putting in some money allowing us some some is it they said for money four million dollars uh in art funds for that virtual math program they originally said they picked the program out and that always makes you nervous when legislators are picking out the math program they want your kids to do uh makes you wonder if somebody around there somewhere might have stock in that business i don't know now they've just said it's going to be certain virtual programs our district does well enough we're not going to have to worry about that um you know there's there's a lot of little things in there that they're going to be working on they've they've got some of their access to grind and stayed alive so i'll keep on top of them i'll give one of our representatives credit she was willing to come out and spend a day in our district but i couldn't be here that day i had to go do something so we're going to do it once she's done so if you ever hear her our superintendent can be kind of tough on us that's probably true uh that's all i have thank you open agenda need to do a budget republication we could do that by zoom or in person in the evening what would you guys prefer the dates would be um yeah i've got to get the form in the newspaper publish it and then we have to wait 10 days to have the hearing after that so we're looking at um like the last week in may like the 25th 26th or 27th i'm going to try to get that if i can't get in the elsewhere paper i can get a great bent paper because they publish on wednesday friday sunday so i can grab one of those um so anytime i yeah 25th 26th or 27th 25th or 26th probably i get in the paper on the 13th one two three four five six seven eight yeah sorry i'm talking about if the the budget that we're going to republish is not the general fund that's going to be the virtual fund number 15 it needs to be higher because we're getting more credits earned and we have to have the authority to pay graduation alliance for those credits earned so that's what we're doing it's no tax dollars or anything like that just basically we're paying for republication to get that budget up high enough so we can pay them as these credits are earned for those grants and that will also allow us to collect a little more money yeah 20 and over is the account that's the main money maker for that so i'll try to get that amendment done and send that to the paper those are the days and like he said we could probably do it soon i could get you the stuff to look at you know yeah there's several things we're going to need to do i might recommend we do it in person yeah and then we'll have other things on this special meeting besides just that but i've started a little list already here so thank you so on that agenda will be budget republication and then district office location yes what else oh we may have personal personnel yeah we'll get an agenda out you know it can't be changed but we'll get to the point exactly what we're going to have on there i might wait because i this one here every day i turned around i was getting another that's why i typed up but i've never had to actually type up amendments to the agenda which i did this month [Music] any other open agenda uh items for next month you know i want to review our ovt visit we've received our report from our obt team uh kudos to our district our district leadership team they gave us brave reviews for what we were doing for students i also need to readdress the strategic plan that we have and i might have usually this month is a month i give the communities that care survey data but i don't have that yet so i might have that and if i can work up a report by then i'd like to present that that lady i think that meeting is going to be at clapton's turn june 13th is the second of june let me go back um just to the opening slides there was i don't know if everybody's seen it or not sports in kansas there was a write-up for my parents um from saint paul about the state parliamentary that was like three days i think it was something very special about being from a small school in kansas if you are from london you understand this you recently received this email from the spectator at the k e m f f a state paralympic championship chad i saw your post where you were a keynote speaker at the ke mfa avant coaches feed simply can't be whenever any athlete attempts to tie or break a state record they stop the meet so all athletes can watch and support one another through the video of one of the parents at our school saint paul took of g events report record breaking 355 pounds wide at stake a video like this could have been taken several times of any athlete's record-breaking attempt they all stop and watch and support it's one of the most awesome things i've seen in the video you can see the meat chris bainer right left their team sherry herron he's right there with every athlete central plains says an awesome job of hosting the state paradise of course we are proud of the athlete that our school right in the state river that i'm way more proud of what's going on behind the athletes great things going on in this state don't see it and i was there in it really like that was my first experience with good job chris uh any other items for next one there was a couple camera motions thanks everybody
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is that english learners or is it spanish speakers english learners okay okay and in the uh teaching and learning it was we found that it was just the students that are currently english learners not the former english learners as well so it's a that's a big population that is um and then um coincides with my other two points and questions one is um can you talk to me maybe about um uh what we're doing or or what you're experiencing when it comes to recruitment and um while i'm not saying these are the only two areas they're certainly not but you know i think of that junior high piece and also the lower grades that stick out to me and again i'm not pretending the those are the only two areas uh you know there's there's a lot of areas that we were going to have issues with when it comes to recruitment but they certainly stick out to me when it comes to to this to this can i add absolutely please do just uh special education that's another um big piece because you know there's going to be a lot of dual needs is that number i don't know it's probably 17 18 percent if you include the you know former eels so yeah i didn't know if you wanted to talk about your exciting cohort work to help you with the recruitment yeah so right it is exciting that next week we're going to begin a cohort that's funded through our grant to allow current teachers that we have the ability to get an esl endorsement so we've looked at a range of teachers in grade levels and a lot of different practices special ed teachers included and you know teachers within special content areas to try and get a wide range to help us with that part so we're excited that we're going to start kind of building from the inside in that way and you know we also had done a lot of outreach to bilingual community members where we sent out information and did a large recruitment effort and we're still you know always always still looking for that piece too so that kind of ties to one of my questions i had how many current staff teaching el and dl hold teaching certificates versus special assignment certificate specialist i believe no i believe you're asking about whether they have their teaching certificate or whether we're having to go on their provisional piece right and i believe that everyone has their teaching certificate this year we have no i've double checked with ken but i believe that is true yeah i just there's i mean i have several questions like for instance when you have data i just like i'm struggling a lot the last time we had data i just checked the board docs was 2014.
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like i'm i'm struggling with a program that we expanded with no actual data to back it so i know that we went from icesat to park to fast bridge and star was in there somewhere but we don't how can we have a program that we expanded and we don't have any actual data to say yes this is working for us like i can see the data on a program that's run real well from somebody else at some other district but how does it run in our district how are how many of those kids with the seal of iliteracy were were k8 el or dl how many of them were never dl or el or esl yeah with the assessment i would i would love to see you know the continuum into former els um but we don't have that for any kids well we do districts we have data on kids we have we have the same data on the language kit so but well that's so that's kind of my point we haven't put any of that up here so the question has always been from way back in the day is this program successful which we have never been successfully able to answer because we don't have any actual data nobody's ever provided and said hey here's all the here's all the fifth graders from all over the district here's the ones that are you know this language here's the ones they're just here's the ones that just speak english and here's all of their information and there was a point in time where we were like well we're learning two languages and it's much more difficult so they will be behind but what i never got was actual data so you want long-term data so i want all data so you want so you want long-term data that shows those exiting and i agree so i think for instance we i've always said we should show like brokaw students what do they look like when they exit our system because um we should see what long term what some of these programs that students have um early on in their academic career what does that look like long term i don't disagree with that so looking at the high school students like how many english learners are currently at the high schools there's 246 between both high schools of those students students that are from our district that are still english learners in high school of them are students with ieps so we don't know if in any way their learning disability could be affecting their level of showing that they attain english also of those students came into the united states or after fifth grade so they're still in the process of learning english and then uh seven um of the students came to us from other districts after you know in junior high and high school so really there was a sprinkling there were seven students among both schools that were students who had been in the dual language program so that's telling me that the students in the dual language program are exiting but so back to the seal of by literacy how many of those kids were not in any programs how many just speak spanish at home or speak chinese at home because we have kids at west high who get ceo by literacy who never had you know what i mean like i want to know when we put up data that says this many kids got a seal of by literacy well if you're going to actually tie that to one of these programs i want to know how many actual kids were a part of that program and how many of them just speak that language at home i did like i i'm really i've been struggling for the last 15 years maybe not 15.
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it's been at least 11. i haven't been struggling the last 15 but we've certainly struggled the last three all right renee and i came in at a time where state testing had just changed and then we hit because we we sat in my old office we're like all right when we do this and then that spring of our first year was when we had no tests no statewide testing at all right so like i don't want this to come out the wrong way but we've been making excuses for the last 10 years and that's way before you guys have been here and we we just keep doing what we're doing and we have no idea if it's working none and then i want to right and the other piece i want to know is how many of these kids how many of these kids are dropping at junior high right how many of them are actually going to be my question because they go to one junior high so now all these kids who have all these friends in the neighborhood if you want to stay in dual language right you have to go to the one junior high so that was going to be my question because i also remember and it was one of the last meetings i think i went to right before the pandemic with the junior high dual language families because there have been some pretty significant concerns about the inability to fully staff that program at the junior high level so students weren't receiving a true dual language education correct me if i'm wrong but there's two parents that were there i think sitting here um but i believe that i'm remembering it correctly that we didn't have an ability to keep bilingual staff on staff to adequately support our junior high program and we have no program at the high school we just have spanish so right so the dual language program as we currently have it here is k-8 with the theory being that it can take 10 years to master a language from what i remember and if i'm wrong please do correct me because i clearly this is not my field of expertise it's just what i'm kind of remembering um but my understanding is that in order for it to be effective you're now saying that we should have five to six years so i guess my questions would stem more around what are we going to do to make that that be a value add to our english learners and our students who have been participating in the dual language program in those junior high years to actually make this a functional k through eight program rather than a functional k through five program with a few years you can optionally add in yeah so the last two years we have had instead of just two dual language teachers teaching three grade levels and two courses we've had three dual language teachers plus we've added a coordinator that is helping to coach as teachers and help them with their curriculum and their teaching engagement and those are the positions that we often still see unfilled so even if we have allowances for them are they actually being able or do we have full staff i i do see okay okay good because that was the change i think from when i had last spoken with you about this pre-covet to now is that we weren't having fully hired staff at that time that were bilingual and able to provide support for the program um like everybody else i also would love to see data to see that what we've seen in this report and this research that was published in 2010 has borne out it calls to mind i know faith and i had had conversations and we have about class sizes in 2014 class sizes mattered and currently now unless they're less than 15 we're told they don't so a lot can change in just a few short years um i'm not following with the less than 15.
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uh that class sizes unless you're going to reduce class sizes to less than 15 students i'm so sorry um and that's what our new research shows so i'm curious what new research shows in the last 12 if there has been any and really more importantly are we um providing a dual language program that can promote those benefits that we theoretically could see which is why it was chosen in the first place so yeah we'd have to answer that question for any program yes that's exactly right i don't seem to have to answer it for this one well any el program right we'd have to answer and that's what i'm saying my suspicion is that um we're doing as good as we can um we're getting better every day at it um and i believe that that research probably holds true i haven't read otherwise you guys probably have spent a lot i know you've spent a lot more time on this um topic specifically but i'm curious how how are we performing at that 50 proficiency level not even compared because we can't really compare we don't have the same kind of amount of students or the same percentages of special education in non-dual language as in regular dual language however or the value or excuse me the native language additions type of instruction but we do have data of how our students have achieved over time and while it's not consistent completely due to those tests we do have some that are pretty darn consistent that we've seen in all of our other areas that we could maybe look at that and see at least our students achieving anecdotally we we think we know but could we look at that instead of comparing to other types of programs just how are our english learners doing and and be with the idea that it has to be because if we looked at third grade you see what i'm saying yeah i do you know it's got to be yeah and it has to include former yells and that's where the problems have been is yeah just just yells not including former yells how are our kids doing is what i'd like to know right are they achieving yeah because because we're not going to be able to find right ten years ago um the seal of biliteracy because well and what's this literacy might not actually speak to our actual english learner program right you can earn that without it right i know you were going to say something you were going to say something thanks i was just going to say that with assessment though right we need to look at the former english learners and track them and see how they're continuing also not just the english learners at the time because again that's a that's a moving target that's like testing a kid running the mile while their leg is broken right once their leg is healed now you're not testing that right right that makes sense so now it's piecing together those names that we know who's a former english learner and looking back at their data through the years you know when you do the dual language ones i also want to see the english speakers who are also testing i don't want to just see the yeah that makes sense okay yeah i just i have a so i'm a newbie so this is all although i've had the privilege of having this uh presentation we're talking about el and dual language which one are we required yeah okay so but no no you're not required to have a dual language program in spanish i'm sorry yes right right and spanish it's the only one that qualifies right now okay when you're asking for when any of the board members are asking whoever wants to answer for data what are you what are you looking for that we are doing it properly how are their reading scores how are their math scores how are their all of the scores that we test all of these are english levels listen i understand what you're going to say to me you're going to say they're behind because they're learning it in two languages but i still want to know like how do you relate how do you relate to your peers at the same level at the same time no what i want to know is long term i just want to know if we can see that in our district girls are learning math at a less advanced rate than our boys and in english our girls are learning at a more advanced rate if we can tell that and we see that in presentations i want to know how our english learners are learning compared to our general education learners that is that's what i would like to know and i do understand it is harder because we don't track our students once they enter the general student population once they leave an english learner program for whatever reason or whichever program they're going to be not counted in that group but we do have a lot of automated statistical systems that got us to the rest of it so i'm hoping that we could find a way to be looking at this yeah long term and in proper context in proper context yeah that's what i'm saying yeah right are they achieving i mean and i don't know the ins and outs but are they achieving yeah and then my the rest of my question was for dual language um is it my understanding that it is a lottery to get in not for the el population okay forget if you're not an english learner student right so as a measurement of success i happen to live in hunt club so it is a dual language school and it is like the fury to get in um when they're signing up so is there a reason that we haven't expanded it beyond where we're at and hiring bilingual teachers is not just our district issue it's a district across it's an issue across the country but beyond that is there a reason that we have sure you take the calculation of how many spanish-speaking english learners you have at a grade level and then you want to make approximately 50 of just the english learner only so i mean the english english-speaking students and so it depends on that number of english learners that kind of drives how many understood understood thank you that now seems really obvious i think an important point for that this board would want to to consider is it's it's literally the only program that um strives for that serves the educational and social emotional um needs of el students it's the only program that's proven to do that it's the only program that's integrated into the building um it's not segregated and it's works it relative to any other el program and i why this is like 15 years of research no that was the reason i was asking because i literally was consoling a mom because her kid didn't get in years ago before i even understood you know the the whole why they couldn't get in and i just wasn't well why are why can't we expand it now it makes it total it would have to be like a world languages type of right and it's very expensive tonight was how do we promote our district that's awesome okay anybody else wants to say anything on that subject thank you so much for your patience we really appreciate it okay 8.1 action item approval of bills for payment can i have a motion please yes ma'am i make a motion to authorize the payment of bills in the amount of three million eight hundred twenty eight thousand four hundred seventy five dollars and fifty nine cents as presented second mr cyrone aye mr gatewood aye ms johnson aye mr ploger aye ms swanson aye ms doyle aye ms simonton aye motion passes 7-0 action item 8.2 approval of minutes from previous meeting can i have a motion please i make a motion to approve the minutes of the board of education meeting on april 25th 2022 open and closed session second miss doyle aye ms swanson aye mr cirone aye ms simultan aye mr gatewood aye ms johnson aye mr ploger aye motion passes 7-0 action item 8.3 approval of 2022-23 board of education meeting dates can i have a motion please i make a motion to approve the 2022-23 board of education meeting dates and times second miss simonton aye ms swanson aye mr plogger aye mr doyle aye ms johnson aye mr sirone aye mr gatewood aye motion passes seven zero action item 8.4 approval of superintendent evaluation tool can i have a motion please i make a motion to approve the superintendent evaluation tool as discussed and presented second mr cerrone aye ms johnson aye mr plogger aye mr gatewood aye ms swanson no miss doyle no miss hamilton aye motion passes five two action item 8.5 approval of building administrator contracts can i have a motion please i make a motion to approve the building administrator contract as presented second mr gatewood aye mrs doyle aye ms johnson aye mr siron aye ms simonton aye mr ploger aye ms swanson aye motion passes 7-0 action item 8.6 approval of district administrator contracts can i have a motion please i make a motion to approve the district administrator contracts as presented second miss simultan aye mr kloger aye mr gatewood aye ms swanson no mr cyrone hi miss doyle aye ms johnson aye motion passes 6-1 action item 8.7 approval personnel report can i have a motion please i make a motion to approve the personnel report as presented second miss doyle i miss swanson no mr cerrone aye ms simelton aye mr gatewood aye ms johnson aye mr ploger aye motion passes six one can i have a motion to go into closed session please i make a motion to enter closed session understand could i interrupt with just one second we missed uh six four oh i could just that information item i thought we did totally about it i i feel like i had asked six four and dr sprelin had said yes six four i thought we covered it but there were no plans we covered it yeah sorry all right but we did i remember that part we did kind of a motion to go into closed session please yes i make a motion to enter closed session under statutes 5 ilcs 120 2c10 the placement of individual students in special education programs and other matters relating to individual students 5 ilcs 120 c11 litigation when an action against affecting or on behalf of the particular public body has been filed and is pending before a court or administrative tribunal or when the public body finds that an action is probable or imminent in which case the basis for the finding shall be recorded and entered into the minutes of the closed meeting second miss simultan i ms swanson aye mr pluker aye ms doyle aye ms chance
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bring this meeting to order uh my name is john mursky as chair of the ann arbor energy commission uh i'm as i said calling this meeting to order and i am participating from my home in ann arbor welcome to the may 10th 2020 ann arbor energy commission meeting this virtual meeting is to affect social distancing and to mitigate the spread of the covid19 virus i'm looking forward to the day when i don't need to say that we will conduct this meeting similar to in-person meetings uh commissioners during roll call please indicate your current address uh or your current location i should say during the meeting please remain on camera just as you would be visible during in-person meetings also mute your microphone when not speaking public comments will be via telephone only to speak during any eight of the two public comment opportunities please call one of the following toll-free numbers 877-853-5247 888-788-0099 and enter the meeting id which is eight 937-6751681 nine on your phone this information is available on the published agenda in the meeting notices of the city's website and on the broadcast of this meeting on ctn channel 16 and 18t channel 99 as well as online at www.a2gov.org backslash watch ctn missy we're ready for the land acknowledgement i acknowledge the land the city of ann arbor occupies is the ancestral traditional and contemporary lands of the anishinabe and wanda peoples excuse me i further acknowledge that our city stands like almost all property in the united states on lands obtained generally in unconscionable ways from indigenous peoples the taking of this land was formalized by the treaty of detroit in 1807.
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brown is here this is galbirth here dr hall here this mr swalish here mrs walters vice president root here president albert here please stand and join me in the pledge of 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 and ms roop would you please read the uh mission statement yes our mission is to empower each student to positively impact the world for a bright new future thank you terry is there any public comment no sir okay um next up is board updates any members have board members have any updates um i'll just still do the one for us that we had another acme meeting and it was productive and we're meeting again tomorrow right tomorrow afternoon so we're we're in the thick of things now but things are going well so i just want to give the board an update that we're still we're meeting okay any other board updates if not i'll turn over to caracoglines for superintendent updates well i am just just thrilled tonight to share with the board as well as our community our jrotc and a special celebration this is the group that has gone through all four years in this district and we are so proud of them and um certainly under the leadership of theo reid i'm going to turn this over to him and then i think there's going to be some a few words after after that good afternoon once again good afternoon that's how i do my cadets okay ladies and gentlemen good afternoon i'm petty officer reed the senior naval science instructor at creep monday high school and welcome to our little small plank owners awards ceremony mainly for the district of personnel you guys have not known that crew money high school was established in it as an nadcc in which means everything operated by the school and had to be operated by the school and by the district with no funding from the navy i want to tell you a little small story of what happened here i requested an area of management inspection in september of as an nndcc which is simply unheard of for any in any dcc to have an area manager's inspection i knew from the attitudes and motivation from our cadets over here to my left that we were passed and passed with flying colors not only do we pass but we pass receive it and outstanding then the following year i requested another ami inspection in 2019 and was told by the area manager that this would not that you would not have an on-site inspection two years in a row because once again this is unheard of so then i called him back and i said please not only did did we pass another ami inspection but again we passed it with flying colors we would receive in 2019 another outstanding in 2000 july of 2019 i had there was a meeting for all the instructors and senior naval science instructor in great lakes illinois which we do once a year the director of njrotc captain tim dossler from pensacola florida requested my presence he came to me in the meeting and asked what the hell are you doing at crete monet i said that's creep money sir i thought we were in some serious type of trouble and i thought that we had done something wrong he then told me that crete monet is number 43 on the list to become an ngotc i looked in his eye again and said that's creep mo knees sir he said i would like to put crete bonit creep monet number one on the list and offer you to make history being the first school to become an ngotc from an nndcc in just one year i looked at him [Applause] i looked at him and i said crete monet accepts her plank odors for creep money high school in george tc these cadets and adults that we're celebrating today have made history we were the first in in ndcc to become an ngotc in just one year it has never been done before and i give great credit to the board um our principal our mainly our superintendent and and these cadets that are here to my left i am so so proud of them so let's give them a round of applause if you would we will now have our presentation of our plaques each district employees which is a plank owners will receive a custom njrotc plaque from the njrtc department crew money high school mrs margie trish along with ngrt officer commanding officer rachel perry executive officer christina jones and command master chief emmanuel grier will be honorable honoring our guests and distributed the awards when i call your name will you please come to receive your plaque nelson just albrate that way just walk that way shake the hand right here is there's pressure there extend that's fine maurice brown thank you sir okay janine galbraith cheryl roop um and the superintendent cara colonies let's give our ngo district plank owners a round of applause at this time you can take your seats oh you want to oh go take a pitch okay i can't see anything he's there we tall all right at this time our plank owner cadets would like to come up and give you like a two-minute word of encouragement and thank you for your support and to say their farewells each cadet has already received their custom ngrotc plank owner sash a strand blue and gold separated means they completed four years of njrotc with all a's and a blue and gold strand together means they participated in four years of njrotc they've also already received a custom njrotc and a custom ngotc plaque as i call your name will you please come to the podium michaela freeman [Applause] good afternoon everyone i'm cadet freeman i've been part of the njrotc family for four years and let me just say it's been one of the best experience i've ever had not only does this program teaches you the core values of honor courage and commitment but also teaches you to be disciplined respectful organ organized loyalty and pride it also teaches you to have fun even while helping others or doing community service you always have fun with and you're around people that you're comfortable with i just wanted to say thank you to petty officer reid even though i did cry freshman year after being yelled at thank you for being a father figure helping me out of my shy shell thank you for pushing me to be the best that i can be and helping me become the person i am today just thank you for being you i honestly would be lost if it wasn't for you i also wanted to thank ms trish and the board for making the program happen our community is in safe hands especially with petty officer and the program this program has helped so many students get on the right path and i'm excited to see this program grow thrive and continue to give back to the community my advice to the younger cadets is to stay committed and focused don't be a follower they get nowhere be a leader and show out it is safe to say that we can pass it towards continuing our legacy with the next generation of cadets with that being said cadet freeman signing off i'd now like to introduce cadet madison hall good afternoon i just wanted to thank you all for coming and i hope you enjoy i want to start this letter off by saying i'm cadet hall petty officer first class and boy let me tell you android tc has been an experience i will never forget when i first got into the program i was thinking petty officer reed was going to bully me i was thinking petty officer was going to tell me to drop down and give him 10.
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supports the south we have a hard time fielding teams and so again that's just the generation right like it's not going to be able to go to high school and you're going to have 500 kids out but when you put them together you'll be able to feel more teams too and so so it's hard to market that right to do all this better because you want people want to hear we're going to add five math classes and 10 spanish like we're going to do that stuff and it's not so much that it's that kids will actually be able to take more of the classes that we offer and that's because you got more signed up so they're teaching more different times yeah yeah more signed up being more teachers willing to offer those sections it doesn't make for a great smoking but it would make for much better education um so for the rest of the new building um a season number for parkings and drives tennis courts tour football stadium which includes a locker concession a restroom building that's all within the number nothing those aren't broken out separately here baseball and softball fields those are turf with lights in a soccer and football practice field grass so they can use the stadium since its turf an outdoor support building similar to what you have the two schools a lot of storage eating outside then some placeholders and allowances signage fencing those things that you'd have on campus we did include the land purchase price and the solar panel array was a carryover that's been there i think from some previous studies in previous work which is one thing that we weren't a part of but it's just kind of a carryover so we have that there plus contingency plus escalation so that's the bulk of this option but what's right below it is what i alluded to when i started so where it says for reference those are pieces that we hold out separately just as talking points because they were questions that were given to us in our meetings that just kind of came up you know what would the auditorium only be what would the field have to be what would the competition jim be and these i guess you have to to realize on that conceptual plan that we just proved that would work these are square footages that we pulled from that plan so like when i say competition gym or field house that's just the floor area of just that piece obviously locker rooms go with that restrooms go with that corridors go with that but that's we will be guessing at a number to try to include those spaces you could build on day one a gym and four sets of locker rooms and then just add on a field house or you could not go to the locker rooms add on two more with the field you know there's lots of options so for the sake of a study and discussion i just pulled square footages of just those floor areas so i just wanted to try to clarify that um i mentioned the classrooms if you reduced most of them from from 900 to 800 just again as a talking point since that's one of the differences between your current buildings and what we would recommend or draw from day one on a new design what if baseball was grass or partially grass there's two numbers there if you do it all in turf or just in field baseball fields are actually in turn if they're more than football field or bigger areas so that's that's actually a common kind of misconception there's a point so i wanted to point that out that's why a lot of fields are just in field because it's quite a bit less to do just an infield than a whole field compared to football and in a softball there if you didn't grasp instead of turf so again none of these numbers are included in the overall they're just they're just separate line items separate talking points maybe there's more there might be more solar might be no but they're just a separate discussion point that came up while we were talking going back to the original yep the high school area when you come down here to auditorium you feel like how many gyms are in the original high school basketball so the competition gym is one main gym with bleachers and then two cross courts practice courts the field house has three courts in it that would be an additional two of what correct so yeah if you were not using the main competition gym just all um wreck gyms erect courts you'd have five two in the main comp gym and then three in the field house in this scheme yep so one competition gym main main gym court you know if you had the bleachers out one event or put the bleachers back two crossboards like you see in most most places and then a three-quart field house so that would be an addition to what the other thing is okay correct so there's not an auditorium included in there is yeah so those are pulled out yeah [Music] worded that wrong so these are for reference only everything that's in the list is included above they're for reference if you were talking like yes yeah if you were to pull them out okay okay that makes a lot more sense to me yes i thought it was scott i wouldn't tell you certainly all right so in my in my head writing it made sense i can see that's wrong that's just if we wanted to delete something out of this 106 correct that would come off of that one yeah so these are essentially savings they're deductions at least that's a test it wasn't they on that field house thing that's not even close to a 200 meter track three quarters it would take a lot more than that no i mean a lot of it depends on the overall width and geometry of the space so yeah in the conceptual plan um conceptual's too strong i'm worried in the in the bubble diagram type plan that we have um it's not laid out to that you could put a trap a walking track i would not call it a run yeah that that part you know we haven't gotten that far yeah it kind of depends on people's definition of a field house and what creeps into it and bleacher you know it just depends on where it goes so yeah everything in the reference is included above there's an auditorium in the design there's the band rooms there's the locker rooms to support all the athletic spaces there's a training room there's all those things that support it everything's turf above in the original top number um so everything down below is just if you were to pull it out as a savings or or say what's that cost by itself type number takes a lot more sales yes yeah as i'm typing it okay let's get here the last page so then in this scheme you build a new building it's 912 for the district uh northfield and southwood junior highs now would become pre-k through eight over time the other buildings you wouldn't need to invest in necessarily and keep going for you know a short period but as you're doing that transition you would not need to invest as you would in option one where everything stays the same so that's the huge difference you know in this scheme so i mentioned at north and south to become pre-k and k classrooms you need to do restrooms within those spaces and that's taking over existing classroom space wherever it would make sense in the building adding the restrooms it's not additions it's not adding on it's doing it within your building so that's that's those uh those numbers um still doing the secure office edition renovations that's exactly what we had the other number just times two what what is that what are we trying to do there uh right now when you walk into kind of that arcade area with the logo you know you can get in and go anywhere so it's controlling a person coming in we did a design quite a few years ago where we took over part of that and part of the courtyard next to where your offices are so as a person will come in they're totally controlled into the reception of the office before you have to release them then to go into the building elsewhere so it's not just having like the camera and the buzzer right like you do now the door you know if you get buzzed in boom you can do it if i come in at 9 30 in the morning to drop something off i have to get buzzed in i have to go physically into the office and then let back into the building and that way they are created i guess there's a physical person there versus they could go anywhere before they come in contact with somebody uh at the office we do those a lot of different ways this one is just based on that design because we have done it in the past and a lot of schools will take over like a group of classrooms right next to an entry on the exterior wall you know then flop the space rebuild the classrooms but now your offices is on the outside so i come into a vestibule and then i have no choice i have to go to the office so you can choose to let me in or not based on the needs yeah that's what that is and that design was done when you did the facades of norfolk and southern correct correct yeah is it more than ten years yeah it's been a long time sam yeah i'm just like not going to spend that much money he's good but just getting out there graduating yeah well it was after you guys left we decided to do that the other items there that you see are the pieces that would make sense to do to those buildings that were in option one like the asphalt repair that ethis on the building those sorts of things just again times two in this option because it's the same at both schools so windows doors asphalt masonry and the e fist the thing stuck on the outside basically all of this would have well not all that's incorrect some of this would have to be done in what time versus building a new school to build a new school and then this would be retro done into those buildings i mean it could be done concurrently it could be separate projects what you know say three years down the road what i mean we still have to keep everything else operating up until that point what things do we foresee that's still going to have to be done or fixed in that time so some of the things that we left off of an option like this is things that like cpf would pay for uh we've done almost your roofs at the other buildings except sharp creek's a little different so there's there's things that are good for that period of time you know there might be smaller things that just have to be done along the way we couldn't account for all of that because he wouldn't necessarily need to deal with some of those big ticket items things that we could say we're not going to make it three years you know with this you know like a roofer yeah i think any of those you could make it the three years you might need to band-aid things a little more here and there um but i don't think [Music] yeah those are turkey questions you know looking at such an investment like this and a new building and looking much longer term yeah some of those schools have really benefited from some work even if it's for a few years but then three years later you spent let's say half a million doing something well it's a big chunk if you could get along for three years and not need it i mean those are those are tough to um identify and you might see you know different ways so what i included on on this top for north and south are what we think would be needed for those buildings to to invest in them use a long term for this scheme you know so for instance i did not show renovating a boatload of locker room space that you have if you go pre-k 8 you wouldn't need to do all those locker rooms now eventually you might choose to but for this scheme and on day one you certainly wouldn't need to spend that money so that's kind of the logic that we used for this and then the same the same exact scope for the for this building and a new storage building included in that so that's getting like a bigger office [Music] if you want to walk around i can show you where people are cornered just crammed in a corner and have no privacy when they probably need privacy in their position so that's the challenge we have a lot of open spaces with people having to have confidential conversations with people well scott i'm okay with my lavender office though we never changed it for six seven years that's the big quick picture happy to answer anything i can or even after tonight taking more stuff we're happy to always there was infrastructure kind of put in a little bit into this absolutely yeah the like for a brand new building that cost per square foot includes utilities to the site and all those things if something is excessive let's say gas has to come from a mile away that's a different story but you know things are essentially there that that includes that stuff it includes general sidewalks and paving and those things not extra parking it like stadium parking that's why there's separate numbers there for some of that but it does include the general cost and earthquake of building a building yeah general earthwork we are actually chris and i were talking before the bill before we started about like getting soil borings so getting it's always a good idea um for the land purchase uh would be smart probably to get a few you wouldn't need 50 or anything and we can kind of help with locations that might be smart now if a project moves ahead we would recommend a whole lot more um you know probably on a grid to some extent where we think we're building where's asphalt where a building is because by that time you need to know if there's a big pocket of muck somewhere that you could avoid with a design avoid it so you're not wasting money on dirt um but yeah for the sake of the land purchase you wouldn't need that and then once a survey is the same thing once it would move ahead into a real project definitely to survey the whole site you know we need that information but you wouldn't need it for the land purchase just one sporting event that we don't use a little bit with like a pool you don't have that in there right correct maybe we just make the retention [Music] [Laughter] it was a lot of money money and a lot of maintenance they're expensive on day one and they they're always i agree with that though it would be great i mean it's it's something that you know you see a lot of i mean obviously we're there's uh several schools in our conference that have them i didn't realize that that had one buried in the middle of that building just you know just extra competition other programs you know basically it's we can ask for donations for that part of it yeah if you break down all the athletic facility costs in this it's significant already yeah yeah i hear the bum in football through doors i think it just bears repeating that option one is a lot of money to get us to where the buildings are efficient and addresses nothing about our programming agency not just programming but little things like well why doesn't that basketball coach get paid as well as the one at that other school that has one high school that we're paying two head coaches and we don't have to in this situation so not you know sports there's sports needs to be considered but there are a lot of other things first but my my point is that we haven't really talked about anything important yet if we do option one no it doesn't fix our problem with having two needing two spanish teachers that's been the struggle because not it's not only the students that can be the issue with not being off the program but then you have to have the teachers licensed to be able to teach that course and you know we're doing some finagling now just with within the high schools to try to keep some of the programming but it may come at a cost of losing some of the programming so how many courses how many i guess basically how many different programs do we have right now you can just combine one to one class how many in our high schools every single one of them it's hard for me to think of one we cannot we wouldn't do that with english maybe would be one but even yeah i would say english should probably be the closest but all of the others [Music] pretty easily really it was hard actually to sit and talk about room spaces because you know realistically we would not need as much staff as we wanted but we didn't want to count that way because we're hoping with additional staff we can offer additional opportunities and so because we're not hard pressed to pay our staff um and so that was a that was kind of a juggling act to get to that like like i'm saying like it wasn't formal but just the ballpark and i scott i know one one thing that i can answer for that and i don't know what the numbers are recently but i know when this board first started hearing your critical mass come out of kevin's mouth thank you the uh the thing that we were looking at is that between northfield and sophomore we had at least 50 sections a day that met with less than 10 kids and so by looking at a single school the possibility existed that we could combine those resources provide those kids and then have instead of one teacher teaching you chemistry at one school and one teacher teaching chemistry at another school then combine that have one teaching in chemistry and one teaching ap chemistry or chemistry two or you know different options that we just can't offer at this point because we're so spread out and i guess i don't know what those current numbers are for sections less than 50.
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uh public works session on our strategic plan number four mr key favor well and again you just said that this is um we're gonna continue with our strategic plan of number four and uh we want to welcome adam from partnerville vilma and um he's just going to share some information uh about some of our plans so i don't know if there's anything else we want to say dr king or anybody but we'll just turn it over all right well thank you um christian nice to meet you so a little bit of quick background see i todd i mentioned i looked before i came the last time we did this in a work session was just over a year ago i think at that time we had more than just kind of two options we went through a bunch it was another year before that i think when we had kind of the initial conversations so since then we've met a few times a smaller group a lot of things have changed the markets changed quite a bit so we wanted to update some things for that we've knocked off some building projects at some of the buildings some roofing metro's getting the restrooms renovated so we took some of that off the scope so those are some of the updates but also we had initially started out as the discussion was to bring up buildings to a to a light new condition which we dropped a year ago in the last study not like new just what we need to do to really invest in them and keep going um so that was one change i just wanted to bring up there's a lot of history on on the studies and where we've been so um at our last smaller group meeting we kind of honed in on these two options that i'm presenting and showing you now that's the current spreadsheet and that is option one is to basically keep all your buildings and grades everything like it is now just do the work that needs to be done at the buildings not drastically add anything to them just you know do the work that needs to keep them up to date and then option two is the new high school thought and along with that would be some work at a couple of the other buildings you wouldn't have to invest that much in all of them because over over a few years you know some might go to other uses or not be needed as much but there is some work that you would still need as some of the other buildings even with the new building it's not just the new building so that's kind of the quick update of where we were as far as the market goes um the last time or just over a year ago we didn't have an escalation number in this was kind of teetering i mean it was escalating but it wasn't to where we were projecting that far out there's seven percent on there now on top of our normal 10 design contingency that 7 is based on 12 months and that's pretty much where we've seen the market a lot of contractors we do business with that's kind of where they're at too and estimating so we feel good about that number a few months before that it was about 12 um but seven percent now for for 12 months is our best guess that's where we think it was each so that number is on there as well so those are kind of the quicker updates um so the summary page there you can kind of see the the big picture and again this is all kind of 30 000 foot elevation trying to program out uh forecast a little bit in the future where you might want to go with our small group conversations that we've had and then doing our best to kind of put numbers to the scope so option one like i said is to keep everything the same your current layout your current um great organization all your buildings um and so that comes in just over 60 million dollars with the contingencies and the things i talked about and we'll dive into the detail option two then is the new 912 high school but then also turning north and southwood northfield and southwood into pre-k part of that means some restroom renovations within existing space to make those pre-k and k rooms um that's part of the scope that was added to those buildings to do that um along with some other that we'll get into and then also keeping central office and the transportation buildings here with summer innovation but keeping them here you know with the new campus you could always look to move them in the future but as far as this estimate what this scope is we kept them here so that's the big quick summary um i know some of you have seen this more than others i don't intend to go through every line item but i do want to get some highlights um for each building and for each option just any questions along the way don't say until the end just let me know i'll try to answer them as we go so option one keep things the same um metro north pre-k through two building uh needs general renovations like we've done to some of the schools still would add on a secure vestibule addition renovate the office there's some asphalt work and then maintenance work windows doors hardware playgrounds keep existing and add a new playground mechanical including air conditioning the gym it needs a new chiller so those most of that has been on the list like i said i dropped off the restrooms that we're finishing now halfway through now since that work is being done so i did update all that and that keeps that keeps everything pretty much as is but no new additions even though we've still struggled with having the cafeteria and gym space being used for the same for different purposes correct at the same time yeah in option one there's no major additions in any of the buildings it's upgrading so yeah any functional issue like the gym issue or the athletic or cafeteria in gym space any of those functional things would still exist in this option we have looked at all those other options of adding on those are various versions of these we do have those but for the sake of tonight we kind of reduced it down to these two to talk about that that's been one of the big issues that's raised at metronome right chris but the mushroom and the shifting of the does that improve with the littlest being there or it's worse does it help it doesn't help i mean it's all a lot of it's dictated off of the schedule because they share specials teachers between the two buildings and so they can't have gym in there when it's lunch time and also breakfast is something that breakfast is stuff and then they tear down and they do lunch and tear it out so it does become an issue as far as spacing is concerned uh because they ate as early i think as 10 45 for lunch because that's one where you could fit it in this schedule and that's the reason why they move those classes up [Music] to start that early to get that many kids through by a certain amount of time and then when you try to have programs or even events there it's not conducive to having those because of the space to do it right we build cafeteria space or build gym space just to do it right i would probably think that we would add gym space um and use some of that current space that's there for the kitchen so yeah we do have all those various options um but for the sake of tonight it was kind of simplified and that's more that's true for more than just metro for you know getting um so then in this scheme moving on to sharp creek um you'll see some things repeating you know the general building renovations um and those go for the for the square footage that you need so like in the next option some of the numbers change because you wouldn't necessarily need to renovate a lot of some of the buildings so the secure offices things like asphalt windows those things will repeat there's some more roofing quite a bit of roofing at sharp creek that would need to be done quite a bit of mechanical work there as well that would need to be done and that's trickier work at that building so that's yeah those are kind of the other highlights besides the repetitive when you talk about that especially the mechanical side of things i think oh this would have been four four years ago four or five years ago um performance services had kind of previewed us on some of our elementary buildings because they had finished up those energy savings projects in high school and at shark creek elementary they really highlighted the fact that a lot of that mechanical stuff was past its life cycle and so steve could probably talk more to that when it comes to the mechanical side it's about the necessity in that building is going to be very important uh on the mechanical side of things that number would be all hvac now yeah yeah that's all we're talking about union events floor replacement units in each classroom yeah that's the wall correct yeah yeah the the tunnels maybe we're good on day one but uh building you know it's pretty challenging to keep those updated and keep it you know in good shape so there's there's more ways to slice it but that's what we looked at just over a year ago he kind of did some more detail estimates on just that and just the roofing part of it so that's where this came from anybody else on sharp creek window replacement seems that it seems like it's cool i hope i have a count right if that's the case because those yeah and part i mean part of where we're at too on things like this with that 10 design contingency that's there is for let's say i estimated 25 windows and there's things like that that might get caught along the way so i'm not i don't have the numbers or floor plan with me right now to verify that but that's that's certainly could be possible okay northfield um so the building renovation there are the rest of the areas that we have not touched with the 19 project that one has a larger secure office addition and renovation we had looked on a plan that's probably been 10 years ago to kind of infill a little bit of the courtyard next to the office and create a secure entry there's lots of ways to slice it again you could take over classroom space but for the sake of the study we just updated the numbers from that plan that we had already done for you a few years back asphalt again some masonry some of that work's been done so this allowance isn't very big because there's been some stuff done along along the way here the e-fists on the building need some repair work and then some similar renovations also cur includes new tennis courts new football stadium turf softball and baseball and then also a new kind of ticket booth football entrance piece along with a new generator a generator a new main panel here so most of those items were what we've had on the list all along and what you've seen before just with some updates southwood l um similar scope as far as renovations the cafeteria the remaining parts of the building that you're using adding a small secure vestibule and then again exterior asphalt work adding a parking lot there a small parking lot in the front and then similar renovations with windows doors restrooms and some more roofing there's a fair amount of roofing in that building that would need to be done as well we came up with the renovation there as well i don't think in this game any event has changed since the last time except some of the oh was that amount done yes absolutely there's actually only a small portion of that that's not included in this all the way to the north north and east i believe it is there's a small six or eight classroom portion that wasn't included in this because it was newer but yeah this is most of the buildings okay then at south wood junior senior high essentially it's the same scope as northfield i'm trying to see actually if there's any exceptions to that because they basically had twin work done for every project looks like it is the same scope yeah i think the big difference there is just the gym floor yeah that was never replaced is replaced at northfield the number one the building renovation number is larger than than north yeah it says right here both gyms yeah thank you yeah thank you so it's not as a separate line item but it's in that top line item so that's why that's a larger dollar and then this building and the transportation building like we've had before a small addition um to this building and then a larger pole barn has a storage building for transportation [Music] well we also have that [Music] that we're probably going to have to tear down here pretty soon so i mean right now it's not being used for anything yeah we had a tractor in there but that was solid yeah we haven't done any sort of layout for that it's kind of this big picture this size building but i just want to point out too that you know we continue to talk about the sp number four which is strategic plan number four and so one thing i just want to remind us that you know it's facilities and technology provides safe and efficient learning environments so the objective for us is optimize utilization and determine feasibility of current facilities and other possibilities and when you when you think about this and this plan obviously doing the first one that you talked about adam will provide efficiencies of the actual physical plant um but it does not change the fact that we would have five schools and the number of students that we have in certain buildings and so i guess that's one thing i just want to point out that part of our strategic plan was to do a study and look at that but it's not utilization of facilities because of the critical mass of students that we have so i just want to point that out when we look at that so that makes sense i mean we got additional but we still have to do the high school south winning norfolk do this money we're talking about plus the additional no no not to that degree no no because actually yeah that would be taken off and actually you already have the other cost i want gonna see the next he's got seven i just didn't know if we'd be right adding that plus this okay good question this i want to make sure yeah well and i'm gonna point to to our picture there the left for most of you i guess the right to ten minutes you're in that one or one yeah yeah that was great so 1959 so obviously they were thinking about the same thing i'm sure as far as the efficiencies and things like that because of all the all the township schools that we had so i always go back to that because i look at that and think okay where are we at in our our present environment right now and that's what i look at so that was 60 years ago oh yeah over 60 years ago so we're still trying with priority number four the facilities and technology and being efficient we're trying to see how can we be more viable uh for the next 60 years plus maybe i that was actually a little plus too so 60 plus years so we do still have some of the chairs though that were in that picture by the way so uh they're out there and christian with i guess your point was the question about these numbers yeah the intent is that one option has all the scope within that option we've done a whole bunch of different versions of this just like chris mentioned adding a gym here or there and those things so there's always those options and anything in between but i guess what we are asked to bring were just these two tonight to go through but yeah the intent is in that second option that's the option yeah i don't expect you to add from other well that's what i want to make yeah yeah it's kind of what i figured but yeah i just want to make sure some salesman will do that for you exactly yes there's no catch but um option two has the the buildings that will go through with a new building but it also has some things that i pulled out of that as talking points things cost savings whatever you want to call it because as during our discussions we talked about well what if we don't do it what if we do this so i'll get to that but i just wanted to start with that that it's not this is an all-inclusive list where it's all added up there's options within that so the first part of option two is the new building and you'll see there on the left 165 000 square feet now where this comes from there's nothing designed we don't have a floor plan we don't have anything that's done that would be very ahead of the game so again this is a 30 000 kind of foot view your existing high schools are about 138 000 square feet just for reference so the way that we got to this was looking at your programmatic needs you know the courses that you offer we went through a lot of that's programming we call that programming went through a lot of meetings with tim and the kind of a small group to pin down what do you what do you have what do you or see in the future that you'll have how many rooms does that need um how many square feet are the room and that gets us down to a program of spaces that says all right you need a hundred let's say twenty thousand square foot of building well on top of that you need walls you need janitor's closets you need other space to physically make the building work so that's a multiplier that we had on top of the program once we did that it was actually quite a bit larger than this 165.
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i didn't i always find time well since it's time to start and i'm already standing until anyone else join me [Music] 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 everyone future board meetings may 24th june 14th and june 28th all here at 6 00 pm keep your eyes open and your schedule clear we may have more there are no room i guess there are a couple revisions to the agenda under recognition but nothing else that i see so we'll just start right in on that public recognition um the first thing i'm going to do is read a long list of donations made for the sharp creek robotics team going to dallas for the sake of time i think i was going to recognize the names of the people and not necessarily keep reading the whole line across then we have jones contracting gary lewis liz moosley steve and kathy hoffer american eagle landscaping landscaping ron and rhonda bear tom gillespie gebhardt holdings kirtland automotive john judy ellsworth terry and carla crum troy and rachel guyer donna yentes marianne milan kathy steele gillen waters terry and jackie thompson an anonymous donation thomas steinmann american legion post vandermark duffy enterprise gary and steve grunkle manchester family dentistry cindy hook local farms susan mattern steve and deanna hakuma atlantic track grand staff pizza king uaw local 685 edward jones barbiel adeline amy howenstein crossword crossroads bank crossroads investment a second one for rachel guyer diana and roger ramp james and janice singer allison masterson masterson massage dennis and judy mckill cider reality larry and cindy hoffman chris stephanotis dwayne wagner amy siders doris paul paperworks stan and kathleen leland and andrew and emily beale dana hook and another cash anonymous cash donation i'd like to thank all of those people that's a very impressive list of people who have gotten behind our shark creek robotics team and making sure that they can go to the world's competition and also right now and they're there now yes um also under uh donations we have a recommendation to approve a three thousand dollar donation from first farmers federal our first farmers bank and trust a recommendation to approve a 100 donation from pam i'm going to butcher this name maggot finch sorry pamela for northwest robotics recommendation to approve a 17.70 donation from general mills box tops for education for elementary student use recommendation to approve a 100 donation from sally arvin in memory of mary and kendall for wmap for those of you who don't know marion luke kendall passed away recently and was a long time employee of warwickshire wabash miami area program recommendation to approve the individual donations the from sharp creek that i just read recommendation to approve a fifty dollar donation from mike and ann swanson also in memory of mary lou kendall for wabasha miami here my wall back recommendation to approve the donation uh fifty dollars from robin claire fifty dollars from helen alright a hundred dollars from debbie carter fifty dollars from l hoy 250 dollars from greg garner all in memory of ross trump for northfield band and the recommendation to approve a 50 donation from dawes angus also in memory of kendall and that is our list of donations [Music] motion and second to approve the recommendations that i just read the i'll go ahead and do that tonight mr daisy so mr boone um was originally up for tonight but our spotlight from southwood elementary they were not able to come and he actually is working on interviews um and so that's what's happening right now with them so i will go ahead and do the recognitions and then i also have a picture for our staff spotlight that i'll put up here in just a few minutes but first of all mr mcdaniel from southwood has a few of them southwood junior senior high school would like to recognize kenny mcclure for coordinating that night flight 5k as a physical education teacher mr mcclure regularly speaks of the benefits of a healthy lifestyle the night flight 5k was a fun event to get students outside with opportunity to run or walk the event regardless students and staff are outside and active special congratulations goes to james unger grade 7 and jacob beachler grade eight for shredding the competition and placing first and second respectively way to go guys and i will say mr mcdaniel did not put this in here um we challenged him to be number one um he was number three though um but he left the seventh grade and eighth grade but he was actually number three um mr mcdaniel also said southwood high school would like to recognize the efforts of mrs johnson mr stetler and the members of the student congress they organized the 2022 penny wars to raise money for teacher appreciation week and help organize the first annual southwood carnival students were able to play games get their faces painted and participate in other activities after the 5k we appreciate their efforts the southwood community would not like to recognize teacher appreciation week specifically the outstanding educators at southwest junior senior high school as principal i am proud of late nights grading and planning the efforts to help students the willingness to do whatever it takes for students to be successful and have an outstanding educational experience thank you to all teachers this week and every week mr mcdaniel has one more according to the u.s news and world report southern junior senior high school earned high national ranking in the 2022 best high schools to be part of the exclusive group schools are judged upon the number of students taking and passing one of our ap exams proficiency in standardized test and graduation rate this award is a testament of the hard work of the staff and students at southwood junior senior high school way to go nights mr snyder at northfield junior senior high last week was teacher appreciation week so a special thank you to all of our staff thank you to central office andrew dixon for lunches and for all the treats different parents provided this week is nurses week thank you to our msd nurses especially with all the added work due to coca-19 last couple of years i was hoping we won't have to use that word thank you mr snyder mr snyder also said congratulations to our northfield junior high robotics team mason logan lyons cody geiser and logan graf work together to pull off to pull off a 36th place finish out of the top 500 middle school teams in the world last week in dallas texas congrats on a fantastic season good luck this week to our elementary robotics teams i will say that when we talk one more time 36th place out of 500 middle school teams very good there but i would like to go ahead and recognize because it wasn't going to work out because of spring sports and things like that for our staff spotlight so i have a picture here and i will read um so on the left there is uh chris stephanos dean of students and on the right is teacher jane kendall kindergarten teacher so teacher jane kendall nominated by dean of students chris stephaniz chris is stepping into a new role she has come in with such a positive energy and working very hard to make a profound academic and social impact on her students and staff she is supportive and cares deeply for our students and staff she has shown grace and kindness to our students when they need it most she brings such a welcome experience to our staff and we are lucky to have her influence each influence each of us in a positive way and so again on the left there um is mrs stefanottis who's the spotlight tonight unfortunately we're not able to have her present but we did get a picture so we could show and we appreciate uh jane kendall kindergarten teacher for nominating her so i guess they won't be able to talk right now like we normally do so that's what i have our recognitions in spotlight tonight all right so now at this point we have a public comment or agenda items only if there's anybody wanting to say anything let's see so we'll move on approval of minutes from our last meeting on [Music] april 26 2022 [Applause] we accept the notes from the last thing people are doing second motion in a second to approve the movements from our last meeting all failures okay financials claims payroll our normal payroll will be short-lived because we're getting towards the end of the year so we'll start getting those eca counts for um the building levels and the spring sports ending and then obviously that will lead into summer school so we'll probably see a higher than normal payroll for a month or and that would be a small fraction probably a little bit but i'll move to approve the payroll for this period i'm sorry we'll send a second to approve payroll [Music] financial summary uh just a couple things um end of the month for april balances so you can see again good numbers here education fund approaching the 8 million mark which is good um our cops grant we finally finished if you remember what that money was used for that was used for the updating the intercom and alarm systems within our buildings [Music] and that was a 345 000 grant that we received to help us fund a majority of that project so that we're done with that grant that's all i have about in the balances the other thing i showed you was just start it's time to start thinking about 2023 budget and so i mapped out the calendar of dates again this is nothing that's set in stone but we do have statutorial guideline or deadlines i guess for certain things to be finalized and submitted by certain amounts of times so i map it out based off of those due dates and we kind of followed the same mantra here the last uh five or six years as far as that spacing or pacing is concerned of when things are done so i don't need to go over that but that's just more for your reference we'll move on to personnel under resignation we have tracy snyder bus driver for north effective towards the end of may aaron strange teacher at southwood elementary sheriff all shaper bus paid special needs those are both effective at the end of the school year employment we have casey stuffer principal at southwood elementary school for the beginning of the next school year jacob watkins teacher at charfoot elementary church creek elementary at the beginning of the next four years tracy kennedy summer secretary and that date that start date is to be determined yet hillary ellsroff varsity head girls basketball coach and brandon baker junior varsity head and girls basketball coach at northville i think that's just a swap of those two positions and that is to happen immediately aiming long secretary summer secretary at southwood high school megan ellis summer secretary at southport high school and retirement beth eagan teacher of southport high school i'll leave number 139 and you see the dates there transfer mary norman transferring from sixth grade teacher to fifth grade teacher at southwood elementary effective the next school year kim rutledge transferring from music teacher to elementary classroom teacher at southwood elementary effective at the beginning of next school year jessica brewer transferring from computer science teacher at north southwest high school in northville high school to computer science earth science and spanish at northfield effective the beginning of next school year and joseph mitchell transferring from spanish teachers sure sorry well joseph mitchell transferring from spanish teacher to junior high science icp at northfield effective next school year and if i could say a few words before first of all um well you know what i guess let's go ahead and vote on first i'm sorry [Laughter] let's make an official well i'd like to introduce to you mr casey staffer new southwood elementary principal um it's uh one of those situations too where he's coming back home um and so welcome i don't know if you want to say anything we you didn't have to have a speech but yeah i'm very blessed and humbled by the opportunity and uh i know i'm extremely excited i know my family is excited to get back into wabash uh we have 300 kids and they'll be going to southwood elementary and uh our junior senior high school as well so awesome congratulations thank you so much can we have been uh good to meet you and a little bit more about you and i have a long list of things things to learn i'm ready to do it and actually uh casey is going to be coming to our admin meeting tomorrow um to introduce i don't know if he's going to stay he's what was david and then also introduce him to the staff uh on the 17th i believe in may in the morning so uh we'll get get started right away since we have this approved so welcome back congratulations thank you jacob watkins another person that uh north phil grad coming back home um and i actually had the privilege to be his principal his freshman sophomore in junior year and then i came to central office his senior year um but went to school and uh has one year under your belt now or two years one year under your belt and so uh welcome uh to jacob and then his uh fiance is what you want to introduce yeah this is uh abby burns uh better hat to be on 2011 coming up so we got planning under her belt but uh yeah just super excited to be back in the community i mean wabash and uh it's just super exciting to be part of this team and be part of this canadian build here again yeah i don't want to put you on the spot but casey talked about having three kids that are coming to school not right away don't plan on leaving anytime soon jacob is teaching sixth grade at church experience elementary i'm super excited science that's right it's gonna be great here yeah that's all right we won't make your employment contingent upon the number of kids and i do want to mention though too so we do have a retirement of beth negan and um in her uh retirement letter i want to just share just a little bit um as you are aware this is just mr mcdaniel but then she also wrote me two and i'll share that a little bit but as you're aware this year is my 43rd year teaching for the metropolitan school district county i've been a member of the southland staff for all 43 of those years my first three years i spent mornings at southwood high school and afternoons at southwood elementary or la fountain elementary the next three years were at southwood high school the morning in northfield in the afternoon so she's been a lot of our schools for the last 37 years including this year my entire day has been spent at southwood and that is just how i have loved it and i also wanted to mention another email that she sent to me that she kind of reiterated some of the same things with a lot of other things that she mentioned but she said southwood high school and teaching have been my life but i am ready to see what the next journey will bring please convey to the board of education for me that it has been an honor and privilege to work for msd of walgreens county so really pretty cool that uh 43 years so appreciate all the hard work that she's done and making a difference for kids and families and um that's a long time so we wish her well in her retirement yeah i'm sure well okay under reports heartland career center do you have anything nothing new to report okay superintendent's report mr keith i'm not going to do a report during the new business i'm going to do more of a little history about the 1003 flexibility resolution thing so i thought i'd just say that for that part okay uh curriculum and instruction report you know in the honor of spring i i like to come and tell you about all the testing we're doing and complain about it but i do we actually did something positive and so i i should give them their fair shake uh we started i learn for those of you maybe that's high step right it's the new version of eyeliner or i learned as a new version of iceland uh and they kept promising to give us our scores earlier and earlier and of course and we have already started receiving our ilearns course for this year for some students and so that will be a game changer who can actually get that information while we still have the kids in the same classes and the same stuff and so uh teachers will be able to log in and see how certain kids did and stuff and so it's not 100 of a pound on the back but you know what they i feel like that's a good step for us and so we'll try to make use of that okay don't count on any more of those but i thought all right we'll move on to new business we have a recommendation to approve the resolution of the 1003 flexibility labor request all right so i want to explain how we got to this situation all right and i some of you know some of you do not know so house bill 1093 it just was that education matters at the very end of this short session the legislators added this part at the very end of the session um and this is house bill 1098 established a definition for virtual student instruction day and requirements for virtual student instruction days provides that a public school may conduct not more than three virtual student instructional days that do not mean to establish requirements i love all of this it provides that a public school that does not comply with these provisions we not count a student instructional date for the 180 day student instructional day requirement allows the department to waive these requirements provides that the instructional days tuition support distribution formula take into account only certain schools and grades within school corporation if fewer than all the schools go to conduct the minimum number of student instructional days can you read that again so when they put that in there they were talking about three days and that's in here a little bit later but they were talking about they would only allow three asynchronous days of e-learning okay and so after that came about the indiana department of education had to basically look at interpret what that really meant so then in april 26 they sent a virtual student instructional days 180 day requirement it tried to explain a little bit um they didn't explain everything because they said there are still some things going on but there were two waiver options the first waiver option was 180 day instructional day waiver request submission waiver requests must be submitted to the ido within 10 business days of extraordinary circumstance cancellation and jotform is forthcoming for the 2022-2023 school year the big question right now in the state is what is extraordinary uh circumstance cancellation uh dr chris kuhn and myself went to the nes school boards association meeting a couple weeks ago and they did mention that extraordinary um circumstance cancellation could be in clinton uh weather days like we normally have so in other words we could have more than those three asynchronous e-learning days if we apply for waiver but other people are saying no those are not going to count so the other option was the 1003 flexibility waiver request that request has been in the books for a couple years now but when schools were applying for those waivers basically the state board of education they were denying denying all that um they have now started to approve them and the doe actually in their memo actually told us that that was one way of doing that so speaking with a lot of other superintendents and talking about it this would be the route to go so that's why the resolution that you have before you is a resolution for me to even apply for the 1003 flexibility waiver request we have to have a resolution and so i won't read this all to you because i know you don't want me to but i will just share a little bit of information so the first few bullet points talks about how many minutes that we have so what we're looking at is the waiver request because the law says we have to have 180 days the flexibility grant says that we can do something different than days we can do minutes and for high school juniors 7 through 12 you are required to have 360 minutes per day or six hours in the elementary since we don't count like kindergarten is not required they go from first grade to sixth grade is 300 minutes or five hours and so doing our calculation which is already on the deal it's called the link it tells us how many hours that we have and so right now k through six it averages uh we are 8 100 to 11 700 minutes or 27 to 39 days over the requirement now we're not going to cut any of those days out um but and then for norfolk southwood it's 7 200 minutes or equals 20 days a whites is a little less of 38.75 or equals to 10 days i don't know if you guys can see that so what the proposal here is for this not to worry about the instructional days but we would use the waiver and if the doe has to accept it i mean they have to look at it and then they have to send it to the state board to approve all this so if approved we would continue to have our three built-in e-learning days but we would not i'm sorry flex days which are for professional development but we would not have e-learning during those days and then any inclement weather days we would go ahead and have e-learning except if we have the rare situation where we had three four or five in a row not having those as e-learning days but the teachers would still be working during those days and at the very end it does say that the number of teacher contract days shall remain unchanged at 183 so that does not change at all so what this does again then this allows us to be able to use minutes instead of uh days and so we would still be in compliance with the new law of um uh house bill you say we will not use that learning days for what or even earlier well we would use e-learning for inclement okay this is saving them for the right questions well and really we don't have to say we won't have to save them because we have the flexibility now so it's a little confusing right so let's go back again so the doe i may have actually had this written up here but there are two different options either we could do a waiver which they which it's still in debate if there's a waiver that they would even do for e-learning or inclement weather delays so that's one option and i don't think that's going to be one of those things because weather for us in indiana is not extraordinary now if it's a blizzard with 30 inches of snow or if it's a tornado that destroys things or something like that or a flood or something like that so we would go to the flexibility there which if that is if that is approved then we can just do our plan and there's no other things that we'd have to do because it's already it's already a waiver that would be approved i'm not saying it's going to be approved but they have approved other ones that are very similar to what i gave you in this this is like a jot form i have to fill out um and i just basically gave you the job for what it looks like because it talks about our professional development what we've done so far with our focus and tim's kind of led that with our with our admin team and we would continue that with our teachers and there's other things that's all in here so ask questions if i did not explain that well so my request is that you would approve this resolution that i would go ahead and submit this to the doe on their job form too many kids aren't listening to that so they're going 27 days are you saying that's what you would have heard in yours i would have heard that you know we're here to educate and do the best we can and give them more than what they even need nobody listens to us why move to the resolution well resolution for the 1003 flexibility waiver all figures okay so now we have a recommendation to improve an overnight extended out-of-state trip for southwood from eighth grade history and english classes to washington dc for may 16th through the 19th of next year you were motion and second to approve the recommendation or the uh the uh request for southward eighth grade uh history in english to go to washington dc all in favor say aye all right okay we have no unfinished business no foreign policy again i'll extend that off they offer to comment for any items welcome aboard mike um any items from board members
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okay ladies and gentlemen we're about to start the meeting call the meeting to order would you please join me in the pledge of the flag and then remain standing for a moment of silence 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 please keep in your mind in your thoughts this evening the men and women protecting us around the world thank you very much okay the chair would appreciate a motion on to accept the eight minutes from april 26th second discussion all those in favor anyone opposed jerry cash balance report please cash balance report as of may 3rd 2022 count balance on april 21st 2022 is 930 382 spot 28. we had deposits from april 22nd to may 3rd 437 spot 87. less payroll on april 28 883 617 93 warrant number 19 for 5 000 on april 22nd number 20 for 202 and 202 05.81 it leaves us with a book balance on may 3rd 2022 of 2162 196 spot 41 and a corresponding uh bank balance on the same day of 3 million 13 498 spot 25 in our mmdt account on april 21st we had 8 million 813 274 spot 01 and that is interest of 3270 spot 42 leaves us with an mmdt balance on may 3rd 2022 of 8 million 816 544 spot 43 in a total operating cash balance of 10 million 978 740 spot 84.
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what i'm trying to do is kind of get a feeling from from the folks here um what they number one think about that idea number two um maybe just kind of toss around some suggestions so that you know um as this is you know perhaps executed under the the superintendent committee as one of the board goals um we can kind of have some ideas to put into play there and and start that conversation so with that i will open it up okay would you like board members to respond to you first um i guess i'm looking to get everybody's feedback but if board members want to jump in first i think that would that's a good order of operations just i may be a bit below the curve but um i thought kevin and our district was doing a good job keeping in tune with um our stakeholders so please enlighten what we're how we're feeling i think no i think that i think that the administration is doing a good job with that i think as board members and as a board we have a separate role to play in the conversations that we have with the community and you know our ability to have conversations about different things is broader than what the administration may be able to get into so you know i think part of this is trying to help people understand sort of what the role is of the board in a more direct way so they can you know they can ask us questions in a less formal setting about some of these things and we can have conversations with them and also to just sort of make sure that we are making ourselves as approachable as possible to the public because that's that's to me really what our role is is to to be sort of like the the liaison between the public and the administration and the schools um so that's sort of the perspective i'm coming from okay does that make sense i am certainly open to hear how we can improve and i'm guessing that since ann was starting to jump in and has some great ideas also thanks alan and my colleague mike is here tonight too we've had fairly good success with our open forums um and so when i think about being approachable kate you just use that word um i think right now many of the community members may see the board and let me walk you through this see the board as being able to have their three minutes before a board meeting and not really understand that um a it's not a time to get a response um we are have been doing a lot of work in the community through parent c through pep through a lot of our other parent trainings to encourage parents to be able to talk directly to board members and i think we do have some folks that will reach out to a board member with a specific issue or a problem they're having but certainly what i think would be amendable to to perhaps everyone is to set up something where there's maybe quarterly dialogues very much like what we do with chats with kevin um the chats with kevin are very specific to um his role in the district and questions that he's able to answer but a more inclusive dialogue um besides what he does with the board you know just a give and take conversational type um event maybe you know zoom or something live when we get past our our coveted surge here again um just to have that open up that dialogue and feel and have families feel that they can come to something and talk to board members um you know and and so it stops this type of thing and puts people on a level playing field where they really feel that they can have that open dialogue so that that would be my thoughts on that type of thing mike did you want to chime in on that with some thoughts too no i don't really have anything to add i i i i agree with your points um yeah if there's you know i don't know if it's zoom is the right mechanism or whatever but i mean there's always you know always capacity to to increase you know the feedback loop between the district and um the community um but you know that's you know that's that's a place i think you and your office has pretty wired so you know i would just sort of defer to you guys on on the best mechanisms to keep that back going i certainly you know think it would be a good idea to you know let's try it out let's see if we get a good audience that comes you know let's let's do some free thinking before we actually offer it you know what's going to be the the catch to help bring folks in you know do we pose some questions up front around the goals that the board is working on perhaps we do it after those goals are complete and that will help direct the conversation a little bit those are my thoughts i agree that we need to uh extend ourselves in the community again the question would be how do we go about doing this and i'm sort of looking at that both sides sure i want to get to know some parents out in the community that i don't already know but again when we get to um a certain portion of what type of questions do you want a parent to present to you uh and i think most of the people in the community don't know who the board members are and i think if we open it up and saying okay you know most people don't even know what war they're in in danbury okay this is uh you know kate she's on she's on the board of bed and she's in this war and that can develop some kind of question i don't want it to come where it's gonna be um a disaster where people are asking negative questions concerning administration teachers uh and other people and it's including board members so i i think we really have to be careful how we go about setting this up and new zealand could be a start but i also like the idea of uh meet and greet uh you know somehow you come through beaver brook uh and that that's just one thought because we thought talked about this about 10 or 15 years ago come through beaver brook introduced the whole slate of board members that are there uh and and and um you know the parents want to have a few minutes with the board members let them do so and then look at a a next step after we do that stuff but i you know and maybe it's just me with my gray hair and old age just said uh i've learned the hard way that you really have to be careful how you bring people towards you and we don't know the question that they're going to ask and everybody we have a lot of new people don't know how to answer a particular question concerning our parent you know our parents say what i'm having problem with the bus stop i'm going to uh go to the board and i'm going to do this that's not the procedure you have to be able to answer them it's a chain of commands and then you know then if you can't get any support from that chain of command then your next and final stop is the board so you know we have to sort of more or less educate them too so that's sort of where i'm coming from i think it's a good idea always get the public and the community and you know get to know someone that you know that you haven't met before so how we go about doing it is going to be uh the concern we have asked folks um with the chats with kevin once they register if they have questions ahead of time that we do help prepare for um and kevin reads through them and and so we do have some ideas sometimes but not always um you know real specific questions i think perhaps some guidelines about how they're deferred if it's not an actual board issue um and the steps that you just outlined um they're gladys are points well taken yeah i think the uh the education piece is the part that i think is is a really important thing to to recognize there because um folks don't always understand sort of the connection between the administration the board of ed and you know how everything functions and who they have to go to so i think that that that in itself just offering that as an explanation people have all different kinds of ways of internalizing information um for us to to have a you know whether it's a face-to-face conversation where we're talking about that or you know assume a zoom call where we're talking about that i think providing that clarity will help folks engage with the district in a more meaningful way so i appreciate you know i certainly appreciate what you're what you're saying though i think providing some structure before we go into that space is really important i know as part of parent c one of the nights was spent on talking about the role of the board and how the community can interface with the board um so that might be something that we want to think about how do we uh you know talk to patrice nelson and um felicia thayer that actually did all the work in parents see and do we want to perhaps offer a workshop in that so more families can understand the role of the board um and how the board works and i think that you know might be a good um a first step if you would um certainly i will make sure that all the things going on in my office that you're all invited to so this saturday ten to one at the danbury dome we have our early childhood um resource fair so please board members come out bring your tag danbury public schools will have a couple tables there wonderful opportunity i know that mr ginelli a passport member has come out several times and um just to there and greeted folks you know hi i'm you know dick janelli i'm a member of the board uh you know this is what we do so i invite you all to this saturday at the dome at 10 10 to 1.
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well good evening and welcome to this special board meeting of the zeus unified school district board of education on may 10th 2022 the time is 5 30 and we'll call this meeting to order and we will begin with flag salute next we'll move to roll call uh board member audience here board member bo here board member rodriguez pena president and board member cruz gonzalez here and i am also here next we will move to approval of the agenda 2.1 and we will do a hand vote is there a motion to approve the agenda make a motion to approve move by board member rodriguez pena seconded by board member arianes any discussion then we will uh vote by hand board member adionis yes board member beau yes board member roger gaspina yes board member cruz gonzalez yes and i am also yeah which brings us to 3.0 and 3.1 public comment on agenda or non-agenda items this is an opportunity for the public to address the board of education on agenda or non-agenda items individual speakers may be allowed up to three minutes to address the board of education on any agenda or non-agenda items when the public wishes to address the board on an agenda item they may fill out a blue card stand at the podium or raise their hand while in zoom attendance the board will take blue card requests first followed in order by speakers at the podium and then those and zoom attendants i don't it doesn't look like there's anyone here to make a public comment is there anyone online to make a public comment we do not have anybody online okay then we will move to 4.0 general functions and 4.1 discussion and approval of the azusa unified school district uh facilities plan which is an info action item you board president greer board members we are excited to be back to discuss our facilities plan moving forward and now that we have made a decision on school reorganization it is important to move forward in investment in our facilities on tonight's board agenda there are two attachments one attachment with which you have in front of you in a spiral bound uh is our azusa unified school district facilities plan and the second attachment which you have in front of you as well is a spreadsheet that follows or mirrors uh the plan uh so those are our two attachments uh for tonight our objective should we step here for board member cruz gonzalez i don't know which one we should um for member chris gonzalez would you like us to uh put up either one of those attachments right now uh no i'm able to pull them to look at them myself thank you but i'll say as as we are looking at him we should probably have it shared just for the public to be able to when we when we get to the specific ones yeah sure um so our our objective uh tonight our hope uh is that tonight we walk away with some decisions on projects that we move uh forward with in anticipation of tonight uh and in its in anticipation of this moment if you may recall we have at our last board meeting we approved the last issuance of our bond which will which we will use for some of these projects and in addition to that at a previous board meeting we also brought forward to you a contract with dixon because we know that once we ramp up in these projects modernization construction having a project manager someone to stay and focus on these things is going to be extremely important i also want to remind the board of education that when we started this journey one of the things that we did right away as a team is put a pause on any construction or modernization until we realized a decision on school reorganization um and so now we are ready to move forward and begin um these projects you are going to notice that these projects are in categories and so we have categories our our main categories are prior commitments uh these are commitments uh that we have made as a board uh through measure k um specifically around uh sites that were previously not modernized with the previous bond which i believe was measure i but i could be wrong measure i thank you so that is that is the first category our second category are safety related items these are items that our staff in partnership with our architects and other have determined to be projects and that would increase the safety uh of our facilities for our students and staff and community then we have our next category which is strongly recommended we have further broken that up into azusa high school and then general and then our last category are upgrades and add-ons things that we have heard about along the way if tonight if if if it is possible one way of looking at this is maybe we can walk away with some of the categories maybe not the whole thing but just hey this category in this category we can move forward but we still need further discussion on this category another way of looking at it might be a hybrid so this category we we would like to move forward this category not in its entirety but these things in this category were we're good to move forward as well this will um enable us as a staff uh to again uh begin the much needed uh modernization and construction of our sites and it would help us to align to uh the best potential maybe not 100 but to the best potential the 23-24 school year when we have one high school when we have one middle school and when we have two fewer less elementary schools again maybe not 100 but it would it would give us a big head start to try and get as much done for that critical school year that being said i look to board president and the board of education we are ready as a staff to assist in any way shape or form how how you would like to proceed if you would like us to walk through uh the plan uh the spreadsheet however that is i look to the board president and the board for direction and so so to my colleagues i'll ask you that that's what's in front of us this format and how we would like to proceed so you'll you'll note that there is a 45-46 page uh plan that we have in front of us so if if we deem that it be most helpful we could go through the 46 pages and kind of go through each each item to determine it um we may also we may also be able to look at the overarching plan on the spreadsheet and kind of look there and see if there are highlights and so i'd love to hear from each board member on a preferred preference of uh moving forward um i i myself i would like to see the um the priorities you know um what i mean by that is this i i feel the schools that were not done with measure i they were supposed to be completed with the measure k and that was the we promised the community that's what was going to happen and the second one i would like to look at also is um azusa high you know you know uh they can be ready for the ninth graders coming in because i feel that's a big priority and um you know because we have so many different um categories i i'm not sure if it's easier to concentrate in a few of them and i don't want to rush it either but you know uh concentrate on the ones that need to be done and you know really talk about them and then i don't know have another meeting and work on some other ones instead of trying to rush into all of them at one time so so i hear you you highlighted a couple categories that you feel are important to discuss specifically prior commitments as well as this is a high school and you would be comfortable going into greater detail with those uh but maybe not going into as much detail with all the other items yes and then and we would go forward with that but i i just feel that i just want to rush it and just kind of just time it all together i i think that our priorities um which should be done first and foremost any other board members any thoughts on how i agree with uh board member rodriguez pena on um addressing my prior commitments as well as isuzu high school i think an important um direction to come away with at this meeting is the direction on the safety related items so i would like to spend time during this meeting to have a greater understanding of the safety related items and the timelines as presented in the book you have you have a thought or preference on on how to proceed i agree okay so why don't why don't we go ahead and do that i i would say uh my my take is yes i i would i think that that makes sense to look at prior commitments also to look at azusa high school i have a couple kind of specific questions um that could be asked here or could be asked later that are kind of sprinkled throughout and so so maybe if they're i i would like it if after we discussed those we look at our our time and so if there were just some opportunity for some general questions even if we didn't go through every single item but i know that i have some specific things highlighted on uh that i i would like to do but with that why don't we go ahead then and begin with uh prior commitments and so why don't we go into tremendous detail then i'm looking at the report with the category of parkman absolutely um i'm gonna turn it over to latasha in a quick second uh just to give a brief overview of this category uh as was stated earlier and as board members refer to when measure i bought was passed there were some school sites that were not modernized and so this particular category focuses on adultin only and on paramount the major categories and again i'll let latasha get into more detail the major categories in this modernization include underground utility replacement so gutting out the asphalt the cement and really upgrading and modernizing our underground utilities that particular uh project um would be for lee only because that has been completed at dalton uh and at paramount uh the second phase of this is uh fencing fencing upgrades that would consist of lee and paramount because dalton has finished the fencing project and then the last one which all three of them need is the actual modernization of the classrooms and the office space and so again i'll turn over to latasha to talk about in detail but those are the three overarching big projects in this particular group called prior commitments you can ask questions going on or do we i'd say let's let's let's ask questions in real time so my question was regarding the underground utility uh replacement what does that consist of does that consist of um because you know we have more chromebooks they'll say and and you know utility for the um the web i'm not i'm not too familiar with but i know that it needs more power and needs more um yes right right so this underground channel we will focus on the plumbing everything underneath the turf so this would be plumbing water usage um and so forth and some electrical um i think the cabling that you're speaking of will be tight on mr emmanuel's project um that's already um okay so underground is many the plumbing not necessarily yes ma'am okay thank you or member beau hi miserable and any other uh cabinet members um i'm asking this question for the benefit of new residents and new stakeholders that we're not here when um one measure ipad um so i have a question about the kind of the sizing of the measure i bond and what was contemplated to be funded with that right because i'm also looking at you know now we've got prior commitments that still need to be addressed and fulfilled for our community and if we took all of the items as outlined on this sheet with the safety the strongly recommended and the upgrades there's approximately a 48 million dollar hole so i think as as trustees we're looking at how to fulfill our promises to the community and how we're how we're spending and that's part of why we're having this special meeting but also if at such time we're looking at issuing the next bond um and if where do we sit with how to size that bond and what would we want that to do for the next phase of capital improvement so just a little bit of history again for those who are newer to azusa um i'll go ahead and take uh that question and i look to board members who have been on here longer to ensure that i'm spot on when measure i was passed the the objective was to modernize all schools i believe that the the strategy uh was that we were going to do um a school modernize the school get that done move up do you recall what year that was maybe sterling might remember the year that um measure i was passed in 2014.
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