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that's awesome was a great job we had three kids between the two schools that um qualified to peyton stout qualified now cms logan gibson and kevin o'brien qualifying from uh nice education meeting dates uh the board meeting dates starting in july through june of next year included in the board packet and they will then be posted to our website as well why is june moved uh juneteenth oh that's right and the ones in bold are on tuesdays versus the ones in boulder on tuesday president's day and mlk yep is that what that is yeah thanks i like paper moves received two foias one from smart procure which is quarterly foia business office has responded in fact you have a spreadsheet that's all set up to to answer that file second one was received from community members samantha cook related information related to the csun daycare leagues uh we did respond to that with the letter that we shared with the owner but not regular in september and a copy of the lease agreement all right that concludes the meeting thanks again for coming out and viewing uh take a five minute break so we need a motion second to go into executive yes

crazy i'm gonna scream oh my god yeah let's give you a lot more foreign good to do sometimes i think they'll be fine check one two all right good afternoon ladies gentlemen my name is alan timming i'm the principal i'm just letting you know that we have a 10-minute delay due to traffic congestion at the north gate so we will be starting at 2 10 today thank you [Music] wow [Music] [Applause] ladies and gentlemen please rise and welcome the liberty high school class of as we play pomp and circumstance march number one opus 39 by sir edward elger [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] so [Music] [Applause] [Music] so [Music] [Applause] [Music] so [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] so [Music] [Applause] [Music] so [Music] so [Music] [Applause] ladies and gentlemen please remain standing for the presentation of colors by the academy school district 20 air force junior rotc color guard and the singing of the national anthem by the liberty jazz choir team oh say can you see by the dawn's early light what so proudly we have [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] and the rockets [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] and the home the [Music] three lancers are unable to join us today i ask that we remember all of them as part of our class of 2022 celebration fellow classmate jonathan a dangle passed away in november 2019 and jordan lee scheinert in 2020 finally our beloved math teacher head boys soccer coach and liberty high school alumnus mr chaz woodson passed away two days ago please join me in a moment of silence to remember these fallen lancers please be seated welcome to the graduation of the class of 2022.

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welcome everyone to the tuesday may 17th meeting of the ann arbor planning commission while we are conducting this meeting in person we will provide virtual opportunities to address the commission during public hearings please be patient if there are technical issues mr leonard will you call the role yes commissioner mills commissioner gibb randall president commissioner sovay commissioner abrams here commissioner hammerschmidt here commissioner dish here commissioner lee here commissioner clark commissioner weich here uh we have a quorum we have seven members present just a reminder that it takes six affirmative votes to advance a petition all right we are on to item three which is the approval of the agenda uh may i have a motion to approve the agenda commissioner lee moved my commission really seconded by commissioner white any discussion of the motion no discussion all those in favor please say aye aye any opposed the motion carries alrighty item four is the minutes of the previous meeting may i have a motion to approve the minutes of may 4th 2022 commissioner dish moved by commissioner just seconded by uh commissioner abrams is there any discussion the minutes no discussion of the minutes all those in favor please say aye aye any opposed the motion carries we are on to item five which is reports from uh city administration and city council um commissioner yes council member district yes either way so council met last night and passed a million dollar budget and it includes seven hundred thousand dollars for the master plan update and i can't think of anything that totally jumps out for planning interest but perhaps mr leonard um i think the budget might include an additional planning position on a temporary basis as well so i'm still going to moderate your work program [Laughter] excellent well that is a long time coming so i am very happy to hear that news that's great can i also add that uh commissioners lee hamershk and abrams were reappointed to planning commission last night thank you for bringing that up commissioner weights we are glad that you are continuing to be with us mr leonard any report from you no reports this evening any commission officers or liaisons have anything to say nobody alrighty we are on to item six which is audience participation um next is uh there is an opportunity for persons to speak up to three minutes about an issue that is not listed as a public hearing on this agenda please note that the planning commission will be holding dedicated public hearings on 330 detroit street site plan proposed amendments to the anniversary code of chapter 55 unified development code we have a couple of other items as well but they do not have public hearing tonight if you wish to address the planning commission on other matters besides these first two items now is the appropriate time to speak on this matter press nine if you're listening by phone or use the raised hand feature viewing through the web link for phone access call eight seven seven eight five three five two four seven and enter meeting id nine seven seven six six three four one two two six city staff will select callers that have raised their hand and use the last three digits of your phone number or by name if available for those accessing through the web link you'll hear an auditing announcement that the host is allowing you to speak when speaking please move to a quiet area and mute any television or background sound so that we may hear you clearly for any speaker please state your name and address at the beginning of the comments first though anybody that's present that would like to address the planning commission before we get to the uh online callers speakers alrighty um any virtual hands raised at this point mr leonard no virtual hands raised okay seeing none and we will uh i will close the public hearing and move on to item seven uh which is the public hearings for the next business meeting so mr leonard could you please appraise us yes we have two public hearings news public hearing scheduled for the june 7 2022 uh commission meeting first is 340 depot street site plan and plan unit development rezoning this is a proposed 7 800 square foot development consisting of four residential units and 5 891 square foot commercial use on ground floor on a .15 acre site currently zone z1 c1b being proposed for pud second is the wizard firework special exception use at 2449 west stadium boulevard an application for temporary outdoor sales at westgate shopping center in the parking area facing jackson road to set up a temporary tent to sell fireworks sporting goods and seasonable seasonal items over approximately 10 parking spaces thank you very much we will move on then to our regular business part of the meeting which is item 8a i would like to introduce 330 detroit street site plan for planning commission approval this is the proposed construction of a 14 unit residential building on-site parking spaces on 1850 square feet of ground tail ground floor retail on a 0.23 acre parcel zone d2 in the kerrytown district uh just give me a moment here we've got several people to promote be great and uh the petitioner has 10 minutes to present to the planning commission so okay to the petitioner is there anybody that you are expecting that i have not brought into the meeting i don't think so i think you've got them all thanks brett okay and will any of you be sharing a visual as part of your powerpoint or as part of your 10-minute presentation excuse me jim well i think jim plans to when mark is going to talk okay you all set uh should be all set right good evening thank you all for your time tonight i'm greg kopp from mabd the co-developers of this project participating from our office here at south state commons joining me from our team tonight are our builder partner tom fitzsimmons from hearing contracting our civil engineer kathy kinett from macon engineering and our architects mark reuter and jim strivens from reuter associates we're excited to present our project 330 detroit street bringing new residential units to the kerrytown area and a currently under utilized site with no stormwater treatment replacing two obsolete buildings in the surface parking lot the building will be a leed gold certified project we've developed a preliminary plan with our lead consultant catalyst partners to meet that standard which includes significantly exceeding code requirements for energy efficiency the building also will have a green roof and ev charging for every residential unit and with that i guess we're here to answer questions but i'd like to turn it over to uh mark to give a brief overview of the project design are you uh okay can you hear me everybody okay go ahead all right um jim uh in my office who is the project architect for this will be running the uh slides while i'll be talking and so i'll have jim put up the um the images there okay the first image really is a google 3d earth photograph of detroit street which i want to spend a little bit of time on just saying how we drive the forum for the building anyway as you can see it starts way down at the end of where the people's food co-op starts and it proceeds up past the agricultural building or the white swan building as it's sometimes known or a mav developments building past the farmers market and passed some other buildings all the way now this street has a very definite sign of character because it cuts through other streets creating many opportunities for unique buildings starting down at the people's food co-op which is a interesting building going past the farmers market and then we also have 415 detroit streets right down at the point here which is a really interesting little flat iron building and then it goes past ziggerman's uh delicatessen there which has its face sort of sheared off so there's a lot of interesting things that happen on the street and that's what gave us some inspiration for how to do this building so jim let's go to the next uh slide please so part of the inspiration for this was the market building here which was built a number of years ago as an addition to the white swan building and we are using design elements that have been borrowed from this building particularly the large heavy base on this building the concrete base the brick and then a lighter top in this case it's a green spanner glass and green curtain wall so that kind of gave us the idea about how to approach uh this building so let's go to the next slide then please jim and so as you can see here there are a number of features that we've incorporated here and one of those is quite a lot of open areas and crenellations along the edge of the building this gets us a massing situation which the building is designed into three discrete elements the there is a patio open area alongside of suite 101 here which is step back from the sidewalk giving a nice little sitting area or patio area for the users of those buildings and there is the parking that is shown in green and then down in the right hand corner is the ramp to the lower level where there's additional parking down there the building is set back from the detroit street filling station about 54 inches i think it is and back from what used to be jessica's apothecary is set back from that for constructability purposes you also should note that there is a stairway exposed to the sidewalk there and that's the main fire exit and it has a lot of glass in the front and it exposes a lighted steel sort of sculptural stairway which would be a kind of a nice pedestrian asset there there is a little area off of the main beside just to the north of the ramp down in the basement there is a little area for a light vehicle to pick up a private trash from the residence and they will just pull in there pick up private trash and haul it to an offside height uh storage and disposal area uh let's go to the next slide okay here are three perspectives and um let's go to the top left-hand hand one there um the you can see the heavy rusticated base that's concrete there and excuse me [Music] sorry um above that is the a brick um curtain or a brick elevation that is um taking the um that is that is hiding the uh facade of the residential building there and then the white curtain wall system or not curtain wall but rather white metal panel system is a light sort of element on the top and over the entrance way is a sort of a placeholder for a artistic sculptural canopy that will later be designed and incorporated as a as a design feature here on the other facade and jim can point this out on the south um the area is a are panels for arch or decorative elements and [Music] the lower lower materials there are a very dark vitrified brick and the area is has quite a lot of open glazed areas decorative panels and it has a lot of landscaping set in the indentations there upon the right hand side is upper right you can see how much area is devoted to outdoor private use for residents there's a large patios on the south west side there and that also helps the building step back a little bit from from the filling station and if you were to go down the ramp you'll also see the the um the mural that's painted on the north side of the um billing station there that will be exposed it could be lighted so that that mural won't be covered up so i think there's some large glazed areas on the top and many balconies and i think that sort of wraps up my end of it here and i think if you later have questions uh jim and i'll be able to answer those so um on to the next person is that all from the petition team yeah i think that's all we had uh brett and matt if matt wanted to add something uh to that we're obviously here for questions yep okay thank you i guess i'll uh kind of wrap up a little bit of summary here really and highlight project evolution but really on this one there wasn't a lot um so again what we're looking at a brief summary here it's about 32 000 square foot mixed use building as they mentioned 14 uh units and approximately 2 000 square feet of retailer office space on the ground level which would be located kind of towards that tr you know the point of the triangle area there they are going going obviously as mentioned for lee gold certification that enabled them to get an extra premium about i believe it's about 123 yes so three the base far is 200 percent in the d2 district so by utilizing the lead premiums for environmental sustainability they're up they were able to get up you can go a little bit higher but they're at 323 percent um so they will be providing lead um petitioner can highlight some of those methods and they did a highlight on that um they are uh sporting uh they are going to be providing sporting providing a uh vegetated roof so about 3 500 square feet of a vegetated roof um also additional or not additional but eevee parking infrastructure will be provided um previously that was and actually when the plan was originally submitted this would have been a project that would have won went all the way to city council um but as i'm sure hopefully plant cushions weren't aware tonight um this is an approval now because it obviously fits within the zoning so this is a by right approval by the planet commission here tonight um and again there's there's really uh the design matches pretty closely to what the design review board had had seen and what they had recommended um the petitioner really worked the trickiest things probably are obviously as you probably know now there's no natural features on the site there's no trees no wetland or anything else like that so nothing's going to be disturbed kind of the trickiest thing was working out some of the access points with our traffic engineer regarding the drives on detroit as well as fifth in addition to the solid waste but obviously both of those issues have been solved to the satisfaction of city staff um and really that kind of summarized up and of course staff is recommending approval of the project at this time uh let me scan through my notes here see if there's anything that i highlighted and missed um no i i that is it and i am uh again staff is recommending approval and i'm also available for any questions thank you all righty we will move on to the public hearing for this um petition and this is the opportunity for persons to speak up to three minutes about the proposed 330 detroit street site plan if you wish to address the planning commission on this item press star nine if lifting listening by phone or use the raised hand feature viewing through the web link for phone access call 877-853-5247 and enter meeting id that have raised 977-6634-1226 hand using the last three digits of your phone number or by name if available for those accessing through the web link you will hear an automated announcement that the host is allowing you to speak when speaking please move to a quiet area and mute any television or background sense so that we may hear you clearly for any speaker please state your name and address at the beginning of your comments first is anyone present here that would like to speak to the planning commission on this you may come forward and state your name and address and then you will get three minutes to share your thoughts hi uh my name is matthew banks i'm representing detroit street failing station on detroit street corner of catherine street um and uh thank you for the opportunity to speak uh you know at the filling station we really uh are looking forward to the opportunity of working with uh the city and uh our local neighbors and developers mave development on the building the building's terrific uh we love all the positives of the building our concerns about the building are not about its mission or what it's like when it's completed but we have concerns about us operating at the same time that the building is under construction at the filling station we're veterans of a number of these projects the dda streetscape project uh you know ended up taking three times longer and a couple years longer on different sites to complete these projects have a huge effect on our business losing our utilities for a day losing having diminished business for a week or two weeks can really make or break our business um i don't know how many of you have been in our business but our business is pretty unique to ann arbor uh although we run on very thin margins it's because we have a big heart uh we support a lot of people in the community that are very underrepresented people who may be just out of prison people in the recovery community people who don't have a bank account people who don't have id students musicians you name it we support a lot of people uh and we really love our home in detroit street uh again we look forward to this you know opportunity of working with mav but we were really looking for you know having a voice in what the construction site staging looks like we'd really like some assurances from the city about when operations happen can we keep noise down can we keep idling trucks down uh what can we do to all work together to really keep this a great neighborly project um so there's so much that we like about it uh you know kind of an over overriding thing is you know that we feel like we need some of these concessions uh to keep our business going if we can't get assurances uh you know the owner of our business is really thinking about not keeping the business going and that would be a real loss for our community it's a lot of work to go through these projects to uh try and keep business afloat when when things are 30 more seconds by construction so we're really looking at at what we can do to work together we've met with mav they're super they're they're really straightforward and understanding uh and you know i i personally see this as an opportunity for all of us uh to proceed you know together in a positive way i think at nav they probably feel just like we do when we're doing well and they're doing well the whole city is doing well so we really look at working together on this project the positives of this building are great for our neighborhood but we don't want the positives to be outweighed by the negatives we don't want to lose our business uh we need some help probably with this uh and that's really why i came here tonight to talk to you so i really appreciate your time thank you anybody else from the audience that would like to have their three minutes please state your name and address hi i actually have two letters to read so i may go over just a little bit so i'm lisa young i'm the chair of the public market advisory commission for the ann arbor farmer's market and my first letter is from one of our long-term vendors carlene goetz of riga michigan she says i'm a long-term vendor at the ann arbor farmer's market and i have learned of the upcoming construction of a housing project the detroit street project the construction phase of this project could be very detrimental to the market a jewel of the city and adjacent businesses parking is limited and appears to be reduced even more by this project noise dust and construction activities could greatly interfere with the existing businesses many of the businesses in the city uh were lost as the result of the pandemic and we don't need another interference to follow if the city sees fit to approve this project the least they can do is add construction restrictions to the approval these should include using fifth street to stage the construction and limiting uh dusty activities and noisy activities from interfering with the market on wednesdays and saturdays and at times with the neighboring restaurants during their busy meal times while this might be an approval uh an approved use of the property for this area it should not be developed at the sacrifice of existing buildings all of these small businesses provide necessary services for a residential a residential community every measure is to preserve them should be enforced throughout the development process these small businesses cannot survive through two years of turmoil at their front doorstep stage the construction on 5th street side and place restrictions on the construction process to be fair to those who are already located next door and across the street so and then my letter as uh chair of the commission the commission is charged with uh providing support and stewardship from the ann arbor farmers market and um as has been expressed by the detroit filling street station we are also concerned about the construction phase of the project the project itself looks beautiful a lovely use of that space but we are concerned about what will happen as as the construction and i as you all know the annober farmers market has been the heart of ann arbor's local food system for over a century it not only provides fresh and healthy food for the from the surviving surrounding farms uh into the city but it's also crucial for food access within the city and contributes to the economic and social sustainability of food and farming businesses in ann arbor washington county and beyond so the public market commission is concerned about the construction at the detroit street site especially for the market itself the sunday artisans market and the neighboring businesses so i propose that the any impacts that will happen because of the construction be mitigated and minimized in the following ways first create a document that has clear and transparently identifies those potential impacts of the construction project to develop a plan in conversation with the farmers market staff and the neighboring businesses to minimize the impacts of the construction and then told regular meetings throughout the construction project with the market staff and the neighboring businesses to provide regular updates on the various phases of construction specific issues that should be addressed in the plan are reduction of noise and dust as carlene has already mentioned and also thinking about the specific impact of parking on detroit street and as you also already all know that detroit street's a cobblestone street and that really provides some of the historic character to that area and so that's something else we should should think about preserving um you need to wrap it up okay so uh as we've said that the detroit there that suggestion is that things move to fifth avenue that might block some traffic but i i work at the university and there's a lot of traffic blockage right now at south university and east university um so uh doing this as uh detroit filling station has said it will um help with fixing residents and also be a good neighbor i think we hear what you're saying and it sounds like it's just concluding and summarizing what you've already said so thank you for your time so any virtual commenters or is there one more sorry about that mr garber thank you acting charity randall on ken garber 28 hammer hill court yeah i urge the petitioner and commission to take the concerns of mr banks and miss young to heart yeah i know the owner of the filling station and to hear that she may be considering giving up ownership is it would mean this whole social project that is that restaurant would probably be lost [Music] about the market and you all know all about its value um but yeah 330 detroit street this is an excellent project in the petitioners design review board application dated october 13 2021 the petitioner wrote that quote the building will be designed as a lead gold building and includes sustainable systems such as a green roof geothermal heating and cooling and operable windows in commercial and residential spaces i was especially thrilled to read the part about geothermal however i don't see geothermal installations in the site plan drawings and geothermal was not mentioned in tonight's briefing documents or in the petitioner's presentation or the staff presentation so there's some doubt creeping in does the petitioner still intend to use geothermal heating and cooling if so fantastic but if not why the change in plans as i have commented before commissioned in council ad nauseum it's critical for new construction to be all electric to avoid locking in decades of unnecessary greenhouse gas emissions from gas combustion in terms of efficiency geothermal would be ideal although i imagine it's a challenge on this site with its small footprint and high flow area ratio but if not geothermal i hope the petitioner will be installing a vrf or mini split air source heat pump system as many other local projects are doing leed gold by itself does relatively little to reduce emissions compared to electrification it's 2022 the gas furnace is a technology that no longer has any role in new residential construction i hope the original geothermal plan remains in place or alternatively air horse air source heat pump technology thank you anybody else come on up and state your name and address and you have three minutes to present your comments hello i'm stephanie stoffer i'm a resident of ann arbor township but i am the current ann arbor farmer's market manager um and i just wanted to reiterate a lot of things that have been said but also increase the the awareness about the impact that this may have on our vendors again we're looking to be partners with the development we really like all the environmentally forward aspects that they've discussed but we are concerned about the impact of the staging on detroit street will have on our vendors not only would it be very dusty and noisy during market hours of operation which may make it difficult for vendors to actually produce and sell their products and make it dust on the vegetables people may not want to buy those things people may not want to come to the market because it's very loud so we would love if there would be a way that we could actually make sure that during the wednesday market and during the saturday market we could be certain that there would not be any construction happening at the same time we would also love it if excuse me if the project could be staged on 5th avenue because it's not just a parking issue for us it's that we have specific vendors with very large vehicles that use the detroit street area for loading loading their product and these are excuse me vendors that have large heavy orchard equipment apples and things of this nature and they just would not be able to fit in the area whatsoever if they lose the angled parking in that area not to mention the turn radius might be untenable when the fence comes in in the plan that i have seen so we would love it if these concessions could be discussed and we could work out a way so that the project benefits everyone and does not have a detrimental impact on the market it's our 103rd birthday this year and we would love to see that continue very much into the future and we'd love to see some assistance coming from all parties to make this work for all thank you very much thank you anybody else from the audience alrighty any virtual commenters none indicated okay since we see no more speakers i will close the public hearing and read the proposed motion the ann arbor city planning commission approves the 330 detroit's detroit street site plan dated march 22 2022 as a site plan complies with all applicable requirements of the unified development code and other applicable laws ordinances standards and regulations moved by commissioner lee seconded by commissioner hammerschmidt discussion commissioner dish it is exciting to see this project but i cannot i cannot emphasize enough how important it is that the ecosystem of that area of the city survive its construction we cannot afford to lose the farmer's market you're not limited speak away one more second we can't afford to lose the farmer's market we can't afford even to lose a handful of vendors from the farmer's market it is a centerpiece of our sustainability efforts to have local food it is something that we are spending lots of money very happily on through our greenbelt monies now to preserve farming and to bring to to make farmland affordable to people who want to buy into this kind of work it would make no sense for us to allow a development that would um or for us to allow a development to proceed in a way that would um hamper our farmers market in addition detroit street filling station is not only the only vegan restaurant in town which i appreciate very much i'm not a vegan but i'm a vegetarian and i love being able to eat every single thing on the menu and just like the movie diner i could just eat right down one side if no you're all too young anyway the but in addition as mr banks mentioned detroit street filling station probably does more than any other business in our city any other commercial business in our city to support the recovery community and returning citizens and young people who need jobs while they pursue their dreams and so my question is what i don't i don't know what can we do mr leonard what are we allowed to do as a planning commission in helping to place constraints on or help facilitate productive relations for for construction and i will tell you that i have spoken with our city administrator he has a list of names to contact i'm going to add a couple names to that list but i i want to know what we can do as a board here what is within our power my recommendation would be to consider a condition if desired to approval of the plan that that condition is that the petitioner work with city staff to optimize and to the greatest extent minimize adverse impacts to that area during construction i would stop short of making decisions about that that is there was some comments about specifically where to stage because there's a lot of factors that go into that that neither i nor this commission would be the appropriate um bodies to make those decisions but i think it would be appropriate to establish a condition along those lines that would mandate that dialogue a dialogue occur and but to an extent leave that to the city staff that would be making those decisions about the most appropriate way and to the best ability to minimize impacts can we in addition to in addition to the idea of working to uh make a plan for optimizing and mitigating can we also say that we want ongoing meetings or not yeah um again i would you can again i would i would set the expectation that this conversation happened between um city staff and the petitioner some of that happens on a regular basis through regular right-of-way inspections and the like but again i would be i that's not objectionable to me but i don't know what that frequency or standard or who the parties would be again i think the appropriate condition would be that you expect as a plane commissioner as part of this that that dialogue will occur and both parties will come to that um with good intention to try to minimize the adverse impacts commissioner abrams just quickly um maybe we could add to that condition um that representatives from the public market advisor commission the farmers market also be at the table i think that was your intention uh commissioner dish that it not just be the petitioner and planning and city staff yeah so just a just a asterisk there commissioner lee um i see actually mr kowalski as a comment so i'd like to yield basically my time to mr kowalski and then to the petitioner to try and address um some of these concerns so i'd like to hear from them about what they're planning to do to mitigate so thank you for acting as facilitator commissioner lee i should have noticed that thank you uh mr kowalski please thank you you'd have to yield your time to me but thank you um so i just wanted to add a little bit more information because obviously the the location of this project across the farmers market it's been a point of discussion really from the beginning um so what i can say is there has the dda has been involved with with the discussions with especially with city staff and and i know one of the petitioners had his hands up so i would also like have would like them to fill in the blanks as well actually a little bit but as far as the staff end of it the dda has been involved working through it with engineering as well because there are some other construction projects that are going on within that area i believe a water main and maybe a sidewalk there's some issues there's also construction issues and i know they're trying to line up some of the timing issues they've been in discussions for that to minimize impact on any surrounding businesses um i can also tell you from the beginning obviously park staff has reviewed this um and they were sensitive to that concern and as well really yeah maybe a month or so ago again we were working with uh one of the manager uh the parks manager that oversees some of the farmers markets operations and she uh was in contact again kind of the dda in between engineering and also again obviously our park staff with her so it's it's really been a point of discussion going forward um and that we we also recognize that um that that is something that needs to be preserved and protected with the farmers market so staff is very aware of that um again everybody from between engineering um from engineering to uh again sorry the dda as well as obviously parks and planning staff so we have been involved with that and uh they they were attuned to all the comments basically again so if there was overwhelming concerns they tried to identify them through the review process but everybody has agreed and again i believe traditionally add to this that there's future conversations that are warranted when they get to some more of the details regarding construction staging and that so i just wanted to add that information that it has been a point of discussion staff has looked at it between various different departments because there's kind of a lot of moving pieces between what planning can control what parts and then obviously what engineering who maintains the uh the right-of-way uh the impacts of the right-of-way as well so um thank you commissioner lee uh that's all i had to add for right now but again obviously available for follow-up questions yeah and if if i may add to that i mean um we're very uh conscious of these impacts i mean we've met with um matt and phyllis a couple of times and i i understand their concerns i grew up in a small business i get it um we we've committed to meeting with them on a regular basis they'll have my cell phone um we the last thing i want to do is disrupt that business we own the building and manage the building across the street we don't want any disruption there we've been the neighbors to the filling station and i think good makers for a long time and and been shared space with one another when they needed it for parking and such things so i think we've demonstrated over a length of time that we're a good neighbor to them and we we expect to continue that as far as the farmers market i've been a patron there since i was a toddler we love the farmers market you know obviously it's a it's an institution we met with uh stephanie at least the one time and discussed a preliminary staging plan um just to try to get ahead of that issue and discuss how we can minimize the impacts but as matt pointed out there's a lot of moving pieces to that that need to be resolved and and we're committing the committed to minimizing the impact on uh the surrounding community it's just a tight urban site it's uh presents some challenges thank you commissioner white i think you were next uh if i can move on from this but i don't want to um deprive you of further conversation okay all righty we'll move on to commissioner weich's topic first i just wanted to ask the petitioner to respond to mr gardner's concern around the geothermal that there were plans i mean maybe before the historic district or some other body that included geothermal powering for heating and cooling but that they're absent in the site plan is mr gardner correct in that assessment and if so why is there why why has there been a change between the two presentations and does the petitioner have plans to do geothermal yeah i can take that if you want greg we honestly are not sure what we'll be using for our heating and cooling system i'm sorry can you hear me i just unmuted yep we can go ahead sorry thank you um we're working through it we've met with our mep design team uh looking at the site looking at what we're using for heating and cooling um i was just in front of planning commission a month ago regarding a different project at 212 miller where we're using high efficiency heat pumps in that project we really don't know which way we're going to go at this point we're looking at geothermal we're looking at high efficiency heat pumps we'll make that determination we plan to make that determination during working with our outside consultants we also want to address some of the sustainability issues that um you know come up we plan on making this a solar ready project both for common area and residential units we also are planning on installing actual ev chargers one per unit um above and beyond what the city requires it just doesn't make any sense for us to try and put in city standard one or two ev charging stations when we have 15 potential resident uh units there so we're just decided that we're just going to install uh one for each unit that's really as far as we've gotten on the design of what we'll end up using for hvac systems at this point and i'm here to answer more questions thank you i actually would like to interject here so um just through my past work i know the architect that worked on this site a long time ago and it's my understanding that there are 11 existing geothermal wells that are drilled down to 600 feet for this site and i'm just i was also a little mystified why that didn't show up in the site plan in terms of first of all you know you've got these things it was quite an ordeal to be able to make all that happen i know they hit boulders along the way and all kinds of things and i'm just wondering i guess just tell tell us more because that's my understanding that this site already has access to a quite extensive geothermal field that is vertical um and i'm just wondering what you know and if that's something that you're kind of don't know enough about before you make decisions or i i get it that the site right now is more level and you're uh you know going to be digging down and things like that but i would imagine you know disrupting the the initial 15 feet of those wells is still a tiny percentage of a 600 foot deep uh well so if you could just tell us more about what you know and it seems like a tremendous resource that you could take advantage of and i'd just be curious to to know more well that that's all correct uh we do have wells on site um i believe the wells that are currently on site are are powering actually the building across the street and so we're looking at all options i mean i don't i don't think we consciously included or didn't include something on the site plan again we have haven't worked through the construction documentation on whether it will continue to power the site will continue to borrow the site across the street or how we'll approve it approach it um so there's i just we haven't gotten to that design of the building yet i mean we've been focused on the the overall site plan of the building what the building looks like meeting city standards the the energy usage of the building and how we go about designing that will be our next step uh when we get into construction document documentation phase so are you telling me that the wells that are on your site are currently serving the white swan building across the street is that what i understand that's my understanding so in other words if you were to build this you're not sure if that would abandon their current system or how i guess just if i might jump in it's it's our building across the street right the marketplace building it's half the building actually that it that it feeds and so i mean i we're not i apologize we're not trying to be evasive it's just obviously as you know it's early in the process we're we're still we haven't even hopefully get past this stage and then we work on cds and really figure out kind of how the building's going to go together so it is something we'd like to keep it's something we've got to figure out how we keep and if it's possible to serve both buildings or one building or there's a lot of things that have to be figured out um obviously you know we don't govern those pieces of it it just seems like it would be a tremendous waste if you didn't take advantage of continuing to use those at the very least to power the building that's powering so you're not disrupting what they have as one of our as mr garber pointed out from the audience it i think that we all feel if i can speak for the commission feel this way that um that that would be a huge waste of a resource if those are somehow abandoned in this process of building it um and we would i i personally feel like i would dearly hope that you would be able to take advantage of the infrastructure and great expense that you've already gone through to be able to harness that energy and build on it for the future so that's the way i personally feel about it so it does feel a little funny to me that there's nothing mentioned about that in this and i get it that it's not necessarily on the um you know something that we review at this stage but um [Music] anyway those those are my thoughts anybody else on the geothermal piece okay commissioner hammersmith just really quickly i want to clarify or confirm what i hope that i'm hearing understanding that you're still investigating your options but i didn't hear you mention natural gas as an option so is your intention for this to be an all-electric building you're just not sure which way it's going to go exactly when it comes to the hvac system we simply don't know we haven't gotten to that point in the design process we're focused on the site plan process now we haven't we've had one initial meeting with our mep design team we have all of the original design documentation of the geothermal wells which are in operation are powering building across the street we don't know yet what we'll end up having to do either to keep those wells to keep those wells of service that building to potentially repurpose them to service this building to repurpose them to service both buildings so we just don't know what will be the optimizational strategy to move forward with heating and cooling i can assure you that we have no intention of creating waste here but i can't answer something i want to be honest with you i i can't answer something that i don't know the answer to we're working through it or and we certainly will be working through it uh i mean going back to all the farmers market concerns we have a very long logistics plan that we have to work out with staff too and we and we welcome you know the farmers market and staff working with that on on that whole plan also that just hasn't been worked out yet we're aware of the concerns and that is sort of the next step that we get to once we get through this approval process yeah i appreciate your transparency um and i don't think we need to belabor the point that you know that our sustainability goals of the city would you know obviously want this building to not tap into natural gas so i'm not going to say any more on that um thank you i think i'm done for now commissioner weich i think i will belabor the point to pick up from commissioner hammerschmidt and say yeah we i wasn't aware of those uh wells uh there and i think the my question remains unanswered which was um and it was mr garber's original question which is that on one set of plans you noted the geothermal but on these plans you removed them and i think my question was was that intentional so pause there okay so it wasn't intentional no no it was not i actually don't have design review documentation in front of me nor do i have the site plan in front of me or what notes are were not on either plan again i just i'm a little bit trying to figure this out because we we know the wells are there we you know we we know that we're going to work with whomever we work with as a as an mep design engineer as well as several local eating cooling contractors [Music] to figure out how to potentially repurpose them but we don't know yet so i don't know what the question i don't know what more i can answer aside from there's nothing purposefully that we're doing or not doing here but just putting on the site plan what we need to put on the site plan for you to review and hopefully approve it so i think i think for me the thing that i'm trying to ascertain is you indicated that you were before this body a couple of weeks maybe a month ago and you i think have heard us say this because we say it with almost every site plan that we review uh that these are things that we are concerned about and it's sort of surprising that knowing that this is the deliberative body that sort of brings this up and talks directly with you why you would um well i don't want to cast any aspersions on on motives or anything like that but why not just sort of give a clear indication uh to us around your intentions uh for the powering of the building and i think i mean that's just my reflection and i'll i'll save my um additional comments for later in the meeting but maybe to give you a heads up mr leonard um one thing that i was thinking about when we had our conversation around what we wanted to include in some future work that we were doing was districts and one district that i was imagining was some kind of overlay where we would say this would be a district where we wouldn't allow this kind of use of energy you know like a fossil fuel energy or that there would be incentives for developers to build to our sustainability goals in this district and this feels like a perfect sort of case or an example for me because it's like well there are wells there which would make would seem to make this a easier approach the petitioner says they don't have any plans to waste the the wells that are there but it feels like if we had a tool in our planning that was like an overlay to say this was a energy efficiency district for for an example to reach for something quickly then this conversation changes and we can say you know how are you planning this development to meet the sustainability goal because this is a planned district where we want to see this kind of efficiency so i'll save that to the end of the meeting but just to telegraph to you that i have a question about that with that thanks commissioner abrams um i'll be quick but i i i think the only reason we're discussing geothermal is because at least as i understand it the petitioner presented this project as if it was going to be geothermal at the design review board and so i'm not sure why there's a kind of you know it seems like uh mr fitzsimmons here there's a kind of surprise that we're asking about it but we're asking about it because i think the petitioner put it on the table previously so i just want to mention that um i have a quick question which is um for the lead gold premium a question for staff what happens if the project does not receive its certification there are kind of excuse me there are penalties and uh uh laid out within the code the code itself i don't know what those are offhand but there's a fine um and it it goes up i i looking right when i heard the question formula i'm trying to look through the code really quickly to get the uh but it is within the code of what the what the ramifications are so it would be a code violation okay thanks um i'm not concerned about it i'm more curious about it and also it just kind of flags for me that um something to flag for some future unknown date is whether that's the right premium to be whether that's the right certification for which to offer premiums exclusively and to not consider other certifications that we think actually achieve sustainability goals better that's it thanks i would like to call on mr kopp you have your hand raised you can go ahead thank you so so again i'm with mabd we own the property and i just want to clarify a couple of things i mean we we installed a geothermal over 10 years ago well before there was an office of sustainability in the city we put solar panels on our building at 350 south main over 10 years ago as well we're committed to that long term and we've demonstrated that we've led in that in the office environment and so we we would love nothing better than to incorporate the geothermal walls but what actually happened was they were shown on the early plans it was presumed that would be part of the project and we really hadn't done the due diligence as tom said to to figure out how that could be incorporated so we elected to take it off the plans that's not misrepresented at this point because it's not part of the psych plan approval process so i'm i'm a little bit offended and taken back that the the accusatory nature of the the questioning that that we're trying to bait and switch because that's the last thing we want to do is we want to be as upfront and honest as we can about what we're trying to do and and i guess that's my two cents about that commissioner dish say that i'm sorry if if we sounded accusatory i don't i don't think anyone meant that i think that it was a genuine question um not not an accusation and um uh we're um very i mean yes you you have put your money where your mouth is on these goals and we respect and appreciate that anybody else oh commissioner lee thank you i'm to switch gears here i just wanted to talk generally about um the project i actually really liked the concept of the materiality kind of mirroring um i think would add actually a lot of character um overall bringing you know four five stories of residential i think is a good thing for this particular area i'd love to see the office retail use on the first floor that 1850 square footer be used for something retail something that really activates and creates continuity i'd love to see again complementary uses as well as adding additional eyes on the street this is a very vibrant kind of area of the neighborhood so overall i actually just wanted to say i like the design i think everyone's had really good points uh but i just want to step back real quick and say i think from a design standpoint the idea of trash sharing with i think 2723 south state street is a good solution to the overall kind of access issues um i'd we've talked about hvac uh the thing that i actually also want to focus on is the cobblestones because i've just seen a lot of roads get destroyed uh you know i live across the street from a major senior living care facility that our road is still kind of in disrepair so um as we stage et cetera actually this question is for staff do we have like what is the repair budget or something like that does a developer have to contribute to something like that because i the character of that cobblestone is i think very unique and and that that's something that i do just want clarification on is that a city responsibility do we have budgetary allocations towards it just just the amount of weight of materials that are transported i just have a little concern on that so if you could shed some like that'd be great brett or or mr lantern or kowalski um i can just add a little bit i unfortunately don't have the exact specifics but um again it was something that was discussed i was trying to skim through my own review comments regarding the brick pavers um the developer is required to basically restore to i mean they can't leave they can't walk away they're going to be required to restore that's another thing that's within within city code um the site is inspected also on a regular basis by our city right-of-way inspectors so again they would be out there looking to see if there's you know unnecessary direct disruption in there and um again so i don't really have specifics of how that's done i know that we do monitor i know the petitioner is aware of it and we do have restoration and i'm sure that required to restore it as well as a bond um that that could be uh solid for that purpose as well and i'm sure the petitioner has no interest in restoring any more of those bricks than they they have to because they're a very limited resource and it's obviously quite expensive to restore those so really a monitoring process again making them aware and staff is aware as well i don't have specifics of that but they'll be required to restore it gotcha thank you for the clarification i know the wear and tear of construction just as long as that is really um emphasized from a restoration standpoint it's just a really character driving feature of that area um so i overall i just want to step back and say i actually really like this development the idea of the the garden on the roof for uh first flush water retention to lead gold i think there's a lot of good things about this that i support um the importance of coordinating with our community partners as well as you know again restoration and maintenance of our character in the kerrytown district is critical but overall with those kind of conditions or considerations taken care of i would be in support of this particular site plan proposal and so procedurally i guess my question is how can we put some of those again conditions of saying hey we we want to make sure that there's good community involvement uh maintenance of the brick road if they and if please feel free to stop me if there's any kind of um again if i'm being a dead horse or something along those lines but uh overall i just want to say i'm in favor how can we make sure that the community is being heard and that the um you know that we're all working together towards the same end here which is maintenance betterment i mean always a bit of a j curve but we just need to do it together so i don't know what the best way to introduce that is but i'll ask the commission for their thoughts on how to advance this thing i'm overall in support so just thank you mr leonard you got any language for us not yet [Laughter] well how about i'll say a few comments and you can work on the language that sounds good okay um like commissioner lee i think this project looks really good i'm excited for another flatiron building um in this area i think that it's really dynamic looking and so i think it it it really looks like a neat project so i'm i'm very much in favor of what i think this will bring to the carrytown area i hope we can work out the the the just stresses that go on with construction and um because i also feel strongly that this area is really important but i think everybody at this table and probably everybody in our zoom boxes feel that this area is really important too so uh i i think i i'm hopeful that um we can work it all out there's also a lot of very real um constraints around um both staging and timing with all those things and i um so probably nobody's going to be completely happy in in this process and i think that's to be expected and i hope that we can come up or that you all you know through interaction with community which you all have you know said that you're interested in through working with staff and working with the petitioner about what's possible here too because there's there's only so much i think that the petitioner can do too it can't let this project go on for five years because they're only working three days a week to be able to accommodate all the various schedules you know that are going on so i'm hoping that there can be some good common ground that can be found that is like reasonable enough for everybody so that the the market can stay vibrant enough and that um the detroit filling station can can stay alive because i think a lot of us would love to be able to see that continue to thrive because it is such an important part i think of our our community um so i'm i'm hoping that that can that that everybody can just work it out and then it all happens clearly we're not the ones that are going to be doing all those negotiations so it's easy for us to say good luck and let's figure it out um but i'm hoping that i just gave you enough time to come up with uh um so the language i had proposed before looking at commissioner dishes is that the site plan is approved with the following condition that the petitioner and city staff proactively work to minimize the negative impacts to the carry town business district during construction through collaboration routine stakeholder conversations and updates toward the goal of minimizing adverse impacts to the surrounding area while supporting the construction of this building much better than that so how shall i do this um so if um i can um i can read that again if people are comfortable with that somebody can move and support that as an amendment to the proposed motion okay do people want to hear it one more time or commissioner lee anybody else want to hear it again or does that seem okay any any any other discussion was there a second amendment commissioner dish second okay so just let me uh read it one more time just so the petitioner and the commission is clear the site plan would would be cycling approval would be conditioned upon the following the petitioner and city staff proactively work to minimize the negative impacts to the carry time business district during construction through collaboration routine stakeholder conversations and update toward the goal of minimizing adverse impacts to the surrounding area while supporting the construction of this building to be clear that is a condition for a conversation to happen between the project team and the applicable city staff commissioner hammerschmidt okay and i'm hearing this collaboration between city staff and the petitioner and then updates to the stakeholders but i'm not really hearing collaboration with the stakeholders and i kind of think that that's important and maybe it's just like where a comma could you repeat the language that i i guess i would suggest that i think conversations have started already with the city and um i am comfortable taking that message that it is expected as planner kowalski already indicated that already conversations been happening with members of parks and recreation with the downtown development authority we can make sure that that casts the a widely appropriate net or if desired we can we can bring that in i guess i just do want to be clear that there might be city decisions that need to be made that not there are not consensus about and so um i think i am specifically um making sure that we're providing shared updates uh brainstorming but ultimately the city will be making those decisions i think that's fine i i just i think i was reading it more as are hearing it more as like it's providing updates but it's not really giving opportunity for like that sort of brainstorming collaboration but i only heard it twice and i wasn't looking at it i mean i understand that ultimately the city is making the decision but you know getting that making sure that there is like that mechanism for gathering input and it's not just updates unless shared updates means like a input gathering a potential amendment through collaboration with existing businesses routine stakeholder conversations and updates yeah that works for me so it's still it's the petitioner and city staff do the work setting the condition that there will be collaboration with existing businesses and routine conversations and updates commissioner can we name the dda and parks in that and then uh because you just say state city staff so if there's a parenthetical or including uh because then the um sorry i forget what's the name of the commission that mrs light has the public market advisory commission could have representation um either through parks or through the dda in that conversation city staff including dda and parks and recreation yeah so that gets the farmers market and then it would get the business association thank you so shall we do a vote on the amendment first and i want the commissioner lee and commissioner and dish you're comfortable with those changes yeah okay can i just hear it one more time in full yeah cause we've added a bunch of things see i'm really nervous i'm trying to edit this on the fly and you guys are gonna criticize my grammar you're fine the petitioner petitioner and city staff including dda and parks and recreation proactively work to minimize the negative impacts to the kerrytown business district during construction through collaboration with existing businesses routine conversation stakeholder conversations and updates toward the goal of minimizing adverse impacts while supporting the construction of this building should we do a roll call on that or should we just do a i think yeah let's do roll call it is related to a petition okay commissioner hammerschmidt yes commissioner dish yes commissioner lee yeah commissioner clark yes commissioner weich yes commissioner gibb randall yes commissioner abrams yes all right the motion is amended okay so now then can we take the vote for the the overall project with the amended motion okay ready to go through it again commissioner hammersmith yes commissioner dish yes commissioner lee yes commissioner clark yes commissioner weich yes commissioner good randall yes commissioner abrams yes the site plan is approved all righty thank you thank you for your time thank you for coming saying your peace all righty we are moving on to item 8b um which is still part of our regular business which is the proposed amendments to the ann arbor city code chapter 55 unified development code amendments to the unified development code the udc sections 5.1 6.1 a residential occupancy 5.16.2 point a nb adult day care center child care center 5.16.3 point j outdoor recreation 5.16.3 point p transit corridor development 5.16.4 point b non-profit corporations 5.16 points 0.6 point c drive through facilities 5.16.6 point g group day care home and section 5.19 parking standards are being considered to eliminate minimum parking requirements for all uses eliminate or consolidate some parking use categories eliminate the option for off-site bicycle parking change the weight limit for vehicles parked in driveways simplify the requirements for electric vehicle parking and change reformat and include the tc-1 district and the special parking district regulations these changes will enable reduced impervious surfaces encourage land to be used more efficient efficiently incentivize the construction of new residential uses reduce the cost of constructing new residential uses and support transit services i think we have a staff presentation by mr khan thank you we do at our last meeting on april 5th in which we discussed um these proposed amendments uh planning staff excuse me planning commission had quite a number of of comments for us we went back and began working on additional language and amendments and structure of the plan in the staff report we divided these modifications into three main sections the first type of modification pertains to the number to a number of scattered sections in code that uh that require minimum parking they include sections um dealing with residential occupancy adult daycare centers outdoor recreation nonprofit corporations and we were all we were looking to um eliminate the required parking for those particular sections of note was um a section 16 3p which is the trans corridor development section and in that section uh we're keeping the language uh regarding the vehicular use area that may not be exceeded by the building footprint however we're adding some language to clarify this to some degree and that clarification includes language that says if the vehicular use area cannot accommodate the maximum number of permitted spaces the remaining amount must be provided in a parking structure or within a building so those are the main um changes regarding to that first type of modifications we also have um a second name type of modification and those uh to to those proposed amendments most of those pertain to section 519 parking standards currently the entire section is proposed to be deleted and replaced with all new language the majority of the new section includes language that is identical to the seventh edition of the udc and moved around for clarity and consistency and user friendliness so we're not making substantive changes but we are trying to make it clearer simpler easier to use excuse me um a separate comparison um document of the current section 519 and the post-section 19 is included as an attachment to the staff report the third main type of modification is specific to section 519 parking standards um there were a lot of minor tweaky type changes that the staff report summarizes i'm not going to go through all those but i do want to highlight a couple of them one pertain to table 19 which is the main required parking standards and that now provides only maximum vehicular and minimum bicycle parking spaces all previous minimum vehicular parking requirements are deleted from the table and previous maximum vehicle requirements are retained with no changes no new maximums have been added to the table the second highlight of these third main types of modifications pertains to the special parking district section that has been overhauled and now includes the tc1 district this section has been simplified tc1 shows that the maximum number of required uh parking spaces remaining at one space per 333 square feet of floor area which is about three spaces per thousand square feet the floor area and since parking is no longer required in the d1 and d2 districts the previous language about alternatives for the required minimum floor area parking spaces has been eliminated so those are the main three areas of modification that staff has made over the last month and a half i do want to remind everyone including um people watching this meeting that what the main focus is the main changes the main modifications are with within these parking amendments one of the main changes proposed is to eliminate minimum parking requirements for any land use in any district we're also looking at establishing a maximum of three parking spaces per thousand square feet of florida in the tc1 district and then lastly another substantive change relates to the ev parking section and in that section we are including a change in applicability from a site plan for city council approval to any new parking spaces that are proposed to be constructed regardless of the site plan approving body and then secondly related to ev changes we are still proposing to shift the ev ready spaces to ev capable spaces so those are the main um those are the main modifications that we have made plus a quick summary of the main issues that are are before us um i do want to um summarize uh the staff recommendation which includes staff recommends that the amendments to the udc be approved because the proposed amendments will reduce the amount of underutilized impervious surfaces encourage land to be used more efficiently incentivize the construction of new residential dwelling units by reducing construction and land acquisition costs which may result in more affordable housing units being constructed and by using land more efficiently will and will support transit service these proposed amendments are also consistent with recommendations in the city's mastermind land use element and the a20 climate action plan and that's the summary of the sap report alrighty thank you um i was remiss in not um allowing commissioner lee to make a small announcement i should have done that beginning sorry about missing you you're fine um i don't think it's a surprise anybody my employer owns property in the tc1 district so i need to recuse myself from the vote with respect to parking standards in the tc1 district so um i'm recusing myself i'll see you guys in a little bit good luck okay yeah if i could just add a a few more details um so a couple of things one sort of housekeeping issue is the original packet included the comparison table that um city planner jeff khan referenced the ordinance is the actual ordinances attached as well but it was attached this evening so i just want to draw your attention to that actual ordinance however um mr khan did a really great job summarizing the that's mostly what you're missing was the 5.16 content so that's now included in the proposed earnings for adoption so that's one thing i want to draw your attention to um the 516 section content was one of the references that you will recall that during the original consideration of this ordinance i said that there would be some other references in the udc that might be adjusted as well as parking changes occurred upon review of those those were more significant parking standards than just references so that plus the confusion about two standards was one of the reasons that i elected to bring this back to you the commission for reconsideration in a more fully developed ordinance i just want to remind the commission of that distinction we had a lot of conversation about the interaction of the tc1 what i will call the forum based requirement that the vehicular use area which is a surface parking lot area cannot exceed the footprint of the building or a percentage of that building depending on the lot size vehicular use area does not apply to parking included in a structure or below grade so there was confusion on that you'll recall that was one of the reasons why i wanted to bring that back i just wanted to clarify that with the interaction of that standard and the proposed maximum parking of one per 333 square feet in the tc1 there is a form limit that is you can't have a surface parking lot essentially larger than the building without the limit of maximum parking you would with the limit you could still achieve up to one per 333 square feet if you can't get all of that in the surface parking it would have to be structured parking or in a building so i just want to remind i brought this up as a distinction previously i think there was confusion around that i think it warranted the clarity um [Music] and the additions for 5.16 so just a couple other points about why you're seeing this again thank you um all righty so let's go to the public hearing and then we can we can have the discussion this is the opportunity for persons to speak up to three minutes about the proposed amendments the udc sections 5.16 and 5.19 if you wish to address the planning commission on this item press star 9 by listening by phone or use the raise hand feature if viewing to the web link for phone access call 877-853-5247 city staff will select callers that have raised their hand using the last three digits of your phone number or by name if available for those accessing through the web link you will hear an automated announcement the host is allowing you to speak when speaking please move to a quiet area and mute any television or background sounds so that we may hear you clearly for any speaker please state your name and address at the beginning of your comments first is anyone present don't see anybody present any speakers who are virtual waiting in the queue yes mr chambers you have three minutes to address the planning commission yes thank you this is brian chambers ward 3.

i'd like to welcome you and everyone here in the boardroom and those joining us live stream or recorded thank you for joining us tonight it's tuesday may 17th 2022 and we have our regular board meeting at 6 00 pm i will call the meeting to order and will now ask for a moment of silence followed by a pledge of allegiance by mrs humphries if you'll all stand and join us in a moment of silence if you'll join me in the pledge 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 thank you we are at item 1.04 roll call if mrs wilson if you can please call roll dr charles santa cruz here mr bill parker miss laurie wood here michela eugetti here miss jill humphries here madam president all board members are present you have a quorum thank you i'd like to move to item 2.01 approval of agenda board members do i have a motion i move that we approve the agenda as presented second thank you miss humphries i miss you jetty it's been it's been moved and seconded that we approve the agenda is there any discussion all those in favor of approving the agenda please vote by saying aye those opposed nay passes 5-0 thank you we will now move to 3.01 dr mccord for the superintendent's recognition awards dr mccord thank you madam president governing board members if you'd like to meet me in front of the dice for tonight's presentations i'd appreciate it thank you yes i would also like to just mention that miss eugetti will not be joining us due to health reasons but she is here to support you and congratulate all of you just as we all are we're grateful that you're all here tonight excited to support you and congratulate you [Music] good evening everyone how are you good thank you for being here tonight first group we'd like to honor tonight is gilbert high junior rotc if ms shanti could please come up and join us this is their leader please give her a hand thank you for being here recently your drill team went to was it denver yes sir denver colorado and they um they actually had a competition and they s they did extremely well out of i think 30 some odd how many 31 31 schools and at our last board meeting i mentioned some of the things that they did but i wanted to recognize them tonight would you do me the honor of bringing up your cadets and talking about what they won and how they did it all right come on up [Music] hello everyone my name is technical sergeant shanti as dr mccord said i am the air force junior rotc aerospace science instructor at gilbert high school and we recently april 9th went to national drill competition in denver colorado and our team did very well we have we have an armed team we have an unarmed team they both do regulation and exhibition we also have a color guard a varsity color guard and a first year color guard team and they all did very very well our duo which is obviously two people if my gilbert public math is correct perfect we we have a duo that won first place out of 31 schools two of the three of those schools three guys international guam alaska and hawaii so they our duo team took first place at nationals [Applause] so in our duo team is cadet gallieris and cadet mccutchen but they were not mccutcheon is not here tonight he had other obligations so if you would please come forward [Applause] go get that one too gallieris also took second place out of solos out of all of those schools if i could have cadet man cadet tony cadet boudreau all of you come forward [Applause] so cadet galliers cadet man and cadet boudreau were part of a four-person team that took second place at nationals um and cadet mccutchen who could who can't be here tonight and then cadet tony took fifth place on solos and they are all on the armed regulation and exhibition team but they're it's a team right so it wasn't just them the team is one commander and nine nine other people who compete very hard to make that team happen some of them have to stand by and just watch their team members and sometimes those are the people we appreciate the most right anderson okay uh and then we have cadet dearly [Applause] he is the commander of the regulation unarmed team uh he also competes on the exhibition team and cadet daniels is the commander of the exhibition team he couldn't make it tonight he had other obligations as well we are pretty busy it's the end of the school year it's only tuesday and we've already done three color guards this week so and we have three more to go so they're really busy but as i said earlier it takes a team it takes a team to make all of this happen and i have some amazing awesome cadets and an amazing awesome parent support group that that really pushes them to make sure they are up and at school at six a.m and doing what they're supposed to do for their a hour and then the weekends the after school events the holidays the breaks they don't get because they're practicing so anybody that's part of a team knows knows how much work goes into that anybody that's played any athletics and they are athletic they're recognized by aia and they belong to aia so with first second third fourth fifth and fifth overall out of 31 schools at nationals [Applause] we we have to qualify to get there so we have to go through all the arizona teams and a couple nevada teams for some reason there we get lumped in with them i guess because bullhead city sits on the border so they they kind of we lived in in nevada that weekend but we competed in arizona so yeah as we have a whole list of aia competitions that we have to go and we have to place we can't just go participate we have to place in all those competitions and we have scored we have placed no lower than third all year long that includes the state competition alhambra that includes bullhead city that includes gallegos um wes mitchell and and some other competitions that they compete in so they compete all year as a matter of fact they're booked for memorial day weekend and fourth of july so they don't they don't get a break they don't get a holiday we don't get we don't get time off like that so i'm so proud of them and all their hard work and all their efforts and and i hope you guys go and talk to your schools and your programs and do some recruiting for us maybe thank you congratulations again thank you very much if you'd [Applause] say hello to the board members maybe walk through shake hands and then stay for a photo later thank you don't run away right here oh she's handing out the trophies she's giving them you guys what's up [Music] next i'd like to bring up principal from gca he looked to me when i told him i was going to bring him up here for this mr dan hood [Applause] [Music] i didn't do anything he didn't do anything that's what he wanted to make so that's why he's up here to make sure everybody knew that this is kind of unique um they have a student at gilbert classical academy that we have a lot of them they yeah this one in particular if you don't know dan you're going to learn about his jokes here in a second you really want me no um they had a student that signed with lionsgate entertainment corporation on monday may 9th 2022 that will include the development of her original project starting in the 2025-2026 year as part of the deal this student will also become an intern with lionsgate where she will work on movie sets and continue to develop her craft under the mentorship of studio writers lionsgate has also offered to support her pursuit of higher education at the university of california berkeley and i want her principal to introduce her to all of you just because you can't say her name i can say right now this is an incredible story and asks i i hope you share this just a little bit of how it all came about just because it's an incredible story but um yeah acid dedicated come on up please [Applause] so if you would just share how this happened sophomore year going around to talk to the microphone sorry um basically none of it was planned um it was something i just did on the side and one day my dad and i we were like let's just write a little scene i guess and i just went with it and it turned out to turn into a 900 page script um and i kind of just developed it until this year when i submitted it to asu's film school where i got feedback from one of the professors and then april of this year lionsgate reached out and april 1st and so um i thought it was a spam email and so i deleted it and then i get like 200 calls from lionsgate saying please answer the email it's not a joke um but basically uh they reached out and they really liked the script and they thought there was potential in it and so they're going to help me develop it more and hopefully it turns into a movie in [Applause] this internship is it a paid internship it is a paid internship wow [Applause] so you're basically getting a job right a well-paid job and you could possibly have a movie and it says here college is gonna be they're gonna help pay for that they are going to pay for college and they're also going to help for paying anything like living and transportation and all of that in california one more time for this talented young lady [Applause] they want to know the name of the movie can you disclose that say that i we don't have a name yet i don't have a name yet so that's gonna be our next board meeting we're just gonna take a vote on that [Applause] we had a really good spring when it came to athletics this year and we just got the results we're getting the results in the results are in but we're just still kind of tabulating things related to how our folks did in track and field we had baseball teams make it to the semifinals and we also had a couple volleyball teams boys volleyball teams make it to the semifinals unfortunately they didn't win at all but the mountain that they had to climb to get there was pretty pretty tough and we have one of the teams gilbert high made it to the final or semis or to the finals and they lost to senega and then highland high made it to the finals and they lost to sandra day o'connor i had the pleasure being at both of those games and they had some very very tough competition and fortunately we were able to get one of our schools here highland high the coach of the boys volleyball team mr jeff grover please come on up [Applause] i've known jeff for probably 20 some odd years um one of the he used to be at gilbert high years ago then went over to highland high right right the highland gilbert boom it's okay no it was big it was really big he and i have had this conversation actually and uh he took over the volleyball program there and has done a tremendous job and um thank you for for being there for all the students that you've had just over the years and particularly this year can you kind of talk about your season and then introduce some of your kids come to come up and meet the board absolutely all right so we had quite a season we've got uh 17 boys on this team and we started the season winning the wolf howell tournament we didn't drop a set so we won that tournament i think the following weekend we went out to california and played in a tournament in la jolla and we didn't drop a set and we won that tournament undefeated we went through our region play and we didn't drop a set and we won all of our region matches in fact that's a three-peat in our region to go back to back to back the one loss that we had in our in our region was a non um column powerpoint match we had played sander day the 31st of march and that was the first time we had lost some sets and sandra is a very good volleyball team we've we've talked to our kids a lot about we want to be our best and we want to set the standard and we were able to do that in almost every gym of the state and every so often in life and in volleyball you you come up to someone that is a little bit better and it motivates you to be even more more astute and try to learn and refine and upgrade some things and so we got a second chance to play sandra here in the finals and obviously didn't go the way we would have loved it to go but i think often like life we learn that we can battle back and and stand proud and be excited about our season uh we ended up winning our our region like i said and i've got quite a few different pieces of hardware to represent i brought my seniors didn't want to bring all the boys that would have been a little bit louder in here but if our seniors could come up we've got six seniors i'll introduce these boys real quick and i'll have one of them speak they don't know they're going to speak yet but come on down so we've got uh to my to my left we've got uh vs lima vez uh four-year player for us and uh he's a wonderful athlete we've got to his left i guess to we'll start at the very far side naker uh is a is a four-year player for us as well he's one of our captains um just a wonderful athlete we've got andrew walker just next to him uh walker's also played on our program and did a phenomenal job for us snaker was part of a a team that has been to the final or been to the semis a couple of times and uh been a big part of our our tradition um veya we love vayne and excited for him and his future he's going to new zealand on a mission here pretty soon andrew's going to new york on a mission and nate's going to mexico on a mission so these guys are going to go be examples of highland high and volleyball over the world we've got ethan right here in the middle uh ethan was voted first team uh region and and back-to-back first team all region did a wonderful job for us this year um to his right is zach zaharas jack zaharis as some people call him uh the the announcer i think said zach a bunch of times so we love jack and and jack's defensive player of the year and uh really good volleyball player he's headed to southern virginia volleyball and uh he's going to play there after he spends some time in brazil and he's also going on a church mission there to brazil and then here to my immediate left we've got eric lundgren eric's our our motivator for the team uh he did a phenomenal job i got to battle a little bit in some big matches senior match he begged me to play front row all year and for senior night we let him play front row and he actually did a phenomenal job ran one of the best plays we probably wouldn't run all year i'm going to have nate real quick speak to us we talked a lot about our attitude and our communication and our effort and our selflessness and nate i think epitomizes that he's done that great for us for four years and so i'm just gonna have him share maybe one highlight from the season or something that he appreciates about the program and being part of the program come on down [Applause] um one highlight that i had from this season was um the actually the night that we lost the finals um it was it was a a different night to just to feel all the feelings and the emotions that were coming because there was a huge disappointment with um losing um but a lot of satisfaction with the season that we had just played but there was also this different emotion of leaving it all behind because um we're all leaving to to either college or missions and um this setting of of high school that has helped us grow and um this culture of volleyball that we've grown in for many years is all going behind but um i realized that um the culture that had been built in highland volleyball is is focused around relationships and so uh that night i just realized that um through all these years we've grown really tight as a team and um unified amongst ourselves and um that that's the big the big reason why we play sports is to to find the bigger things than just winning and losing but there are many relationships and connections and life lessons that can be learned from that and that was the highlight of the season for me [Applause] nate i don't think anybody could have said it better not just for your team rotc any other teams or any group club out there that gets together and wants to do something good as a collective group it is about the relationships and it was obvious when i was at that game the relationships that you guys had and that starts with this gentleman right here so again to the highland high boys volleyball team congratulations on a great season thank you [Applause] [Music] yes yes go to your banquet thank you for being here madam president governing board members that concludes my recognitions for this evening thank you [Music] well we thank again all of you for being here tonight and for the great way that you've represented your schools yourselves your families and gps we're super proud of all of our students and their accomplishments it's fun especially at the end of the year to have a lot of great things to celebrate so we commend you all we will now move to 4.0 the superintendent's report and 4.01 dr mccord thank you madam president governing board members again good evening to everyone and welcome to our meeting appreciate you joining us tonight we have six and a half more days left of the 2021-22 school year it has been a great year we've faced several challenges head-on and kept our focus on educating our students thank you to our teachers support staff administrators students and families for making this a wonderful year your support hard work and dedication has made all the difference in the world and it is greatly appreciated this is that time of year when all those culminating activities happen and the biggest one obviously at the secondary level is graduation this year canyon valley will have its graduation ceremony this friday ten o'clock over at highland junior high gym gilbert classical academy will have their graduation next wednesday at six over at mesquite junior high and all the other high schools will graduate next thursday evening at 7 pm graduation again is the culminating activity that encompasses 13 years of schooling our students have worked extremely hard to reach this milestone in their lives and we are very proud of everything they have accomplished these past couple years have been very challenging and that's what make this year's graduating class that much more special we are honored to have a total of 2 730 graduating seniors this year these seniors have amassed a total of 67 million dollars in offered scholarships i'm sure there are a few million dollars more but this is what we have at this point in time and it's obvious that our students are amazing we live in a well-educated community which represents how much our community values education congratulations to all of our graduates our wish for you is to lead a happy and fulfilling life make the most of each moment and always remember to be humble kind and genuine mrs wood that concludes my report for this evening thank you dr mccord we will now move to five requests to speak to the governing board we have one request if we could please play the admonition the board may make an open call to the public during a public meeting subject to reasonable time place and manner restrictions to allow individuals to address the public body on an issue within the jurisdiction of the public body at the conclusion of the open call to the public individual board members may respond to criticism made by those who have addressed the board may ask the staff to review a matter or may ask a matter be to be put on a future agenda however members of the board shall not discuss or take legal action on matters raised during the open call to the public unless the matters are properly noticed for discussion and legal action during the open call the board requests that speakers refrain from voicing complaints against school personnel or any person connected with the district as it may impact due process rights policy k-e k-e-b and k-e-d are provided by the board for disposition of legitimate complaints including those involving individuals forms required for use of these policies can be obtained from the gilbert public schools website thank you our speaker tonight you'll have three minutes and i'm please correct me and introduce yourself as you come up as kristin mcafee kristen mcafee like the virus scanner i'll remember thank you okay so yeah i'm super excited to be here today i'm an author investor and i'm a new sub i just got my certificate uh like two days ago so i'm excited i'm excited to get in the classroom um and it all kind of started my daughter uh who's seven i really wanted to you know teach her and learn what the schools are teaching so that's what like i got to do this but it's been fun um so i started out um you know i'm from chicago i moved here because of my aunt and uh i went to asu obama did our commencement so that was amazing and uh yeah i'm excited i got some great books that i read and i was talking to the superintendent i created superintendents take the best selfies and i'll leave some copies behind um champion mine said um what else uh school district hashtag rocks principals out of okay as farmers teachers association nfts and all that started because i was in a board meeting and the superintendent was like we need more community engagement we need more kids parents business owners and i think it's very important because you know you are competing against apple and all these major companies which you know trillions of dollars and then um you know we're losing students um they're not going to school in a lot in some cases enrollment rates are dropping um so i believe we should address this even with the content um so i just wrote a rap and i think i'm gonna share it why not um so i wrote this one you know as far as creating that engagement so why not do it i'm not a rap for anything but i'm like you know what i'ma do it so my school district hashtag rocks my school district hashtag rocks imma say this respectfully thanks to my school i'm recession free it don't matter how much they raise the gas prices my education is priceless can you believe i almost paid once someone to write this first i don't know which feeling is worse having no money on the first or student with no dream i give mad respect to lebron james for building a i promised school team i'm living the dream sometimes i feel i should pinch myself they say you need a good board when you're building wealth and life is the best teacher and it's not about the money it's about the principal for the record my principal is the okay is farmer and that's my superintendent in the background taking the best selfie so don't worry i'm just trying to alarm you like a fire drill run by my teacher's association at nfts teaches uh which is about teachers being a beautiful work of art teachers are a beautiful work of art so yeah i just wrote that so so the point of that is not about me right it's about you know sir mr mcafee if you could tell me okay just but yeah yeah so the point of that is you know getting the kids to do that you know having fun yeah and really building that engagement so i'm excited thank you very much we appreciate you being here thank you and thank you for sharing that thank you that is a first [Laughter] thank you we will now finish that that ends our request to speak to the governing board and we will move to reports and move to 6.01 our monthly budget report dr mccord thank you madam president governing board members it is that time of the meeting again where we turn it over to ms bonnie betts and let you know how things are going financially for the district i think i'm inspired to create a budget wrap i think that would be very good yes we have to try that please leave that to the professionals okay um so this is a follow-up to our final revised budget that you all approved on the 3rd of may so this is our monthly financial presentation that represents our financial status as of april 30th so we are only showing two groupings of funds this evening the general fund grouping our operating funds as well as the enterprise funds so to get right into it this is what you've seen every month and note that we've highlighted the maintenance and operations line as well as the unrestricted capital outlay you approved a budget that included the movement of 20 million dollars from maintenance and operations our general fund into our unrestricted capital fund and you can see looking at revised budget number three in comparison to revised budget number two going from 287 million about down to 268 million and then conversely since we increased the understated capital budget by 20 million dollars you can see the revised budget number two was over 22 million and now it's over 42 million i wanted to make sure that you all saw that and then note that the available balance as of april 30th in the maintenance and operations fund is just over 25 million and the available balance in restricted capital is um just over 30 million so before i move to the next section do you have any questions on any of that so that will be contribute to our budget balance carry forward going forward that's correct and we'll be monitoring that through june 30.

my name is kyla dean and it has been my honor to represent mountain view as student body president this past year it feels so surreal to be standing on the stage speaking to a group that includes some of my closest friends at our very own graduation ceremony and i'm so thankful for this opportunity these last four years have taught me so many important things like dedication perseverance responsibility hard work and friendship i will carry these things with me for the rest of my life and i would not have wanted to learn these things anywhere else but mountain view i have been in the musd district since kindergarten where i remember talking with all my friends every day about how we couldn't wait to grow up and graduate from school and the day has finally come on one hand i don't feel much different from the little girl that walked into ironwood elementary on the first day of school but on the other hand so much has changed and i've grown in ways i could have ever imagined we have all grown in so many different ways and it's crazy to think that we are surrounded by one another in such a milestone moment of our lives these past 13 years can only be described as a roller coaster full of ups and downs twists and turns and pauses and fast forwards coming out of two years of a pandemic was of course very exciting but also extremely scary for all of us at the beginning of this year we had no idea what to expect or if we could really expect anything but i think it's safe to say that we made the best of it all we learned how to appreciate every last moment and take nothing for granted which i think will be the most important thing that we take from high school i will never forget the feeling of being so close to losing all so close to losing all sense of normality and i think that will change how we choose to view the world our connections and our experiences for the rest of our lives i'm so thankful that we were able to get past all the chaos in the world and be here together tonight i want to take a minute to thank some very important people in my life that have had that have had a much bigger impact on me than they will ever understand first i want to thank every last one of my teachers i speak for all of us when i say that mountain view has a staff full of such kind dedicated and amazing people and i feel so lucky to have been surrounded by their care and hard work i want to thank all the amazing friends that i've made throughout my time in high school the ones i kept from elementary school and even the ones i drifted apart from i'm so thankful that i've had the opportunity to know you all i also met my absolute best friend benny my freshman year and i'm so thankful for your support these past three years and for being there for me every day no matter what in addition i'd like to thank benny's family for becoming my second family and always supporting me i love and appreciate you guys so much i also want to thank my brother ryan for being the best big brother i could ask for and for always being there for me and most importantly my parents mom and dad i have no idea what i would do without you both thank you for getting me through not only these last four years but the 14 years before these and for reassuring me that you'll be there for me no matter what thank you for being my parents and for being the amazing people you are your love and support keeps me going and i will forever strive to make you both proud there are so many more people that i could thank for touching my life in meaningful ways but i will be but i would be here forever so just please know if we've ever ever had an interaction big or small i'm thankful for you we have all had many people in our lives that have made a difference and some of you might feel like you owe all the credit to them but in reality you all deserve the credit for your successes and achievements you did it we got through all those hard seemingly pointless assignments projects and performance tasks ourselves we sat in the classes we were where we were sometimes sleep deprived bored out of our minds or just distracted by something going on either in our heads or in the world but we pushed through and we finally made it after we each walk across the stage tonight and we get our hands on our diplomas we will have hearts full of memories and minds full of knowledge and we can continue on through our journey through life this is truly only the beginning the idea of the future might seem scary and overwhelming but there was a time not too long ago when we were thinking the same thing about this very moment this may have felt so out of reach and impossible but here we are we took things one step at a time and we will continue to do so until we're old and looking back on all of our memories with huge smiles on our faces and lots of love in our hearts i look forward to the days where i will get to hear some of my classmates names on tv or in the news whether it's in a professional sport or winning an award for being intelligent and inspiring if i want to leave you all with one thing please remember to always embrace your uniqueness and remember that we each have such a special place in this world thank you all for such an unforgettable high school experience i'm so proud to call myself a part of the class of 2022.

can I have everyone quiet please okay we are back in Open Session can I get a motion to accept the recommendation for expulsion of student okay Mr Brown roll call that's for the new one Mr swales hi Mrs Walters hi Dr Hall hi Mrs galbert hi brown brown is a present Mrs rup hi turn on your mic as I was coming back was that the vote for the expulsion yes is it too late to change to a present you can change it pres it's not too [Applause] late reverting back to Dr Hall excuse me I'm asking your vote you want to change your vote to present present president albre I motion carries with five eyes and two present um can I have a motion to adjourn the special meeting so moved second all in favor say I I we are adjourned does anybody need a break or can we go right into the regular meeting you can go okay I I need to get the agenda okay let's take few minutes question for you have a question for me I have a question for you oh all hey oh your for all no I I I'll make it [Applause] [Music] oh yeah okay hereby call this meeting to order roll call please Brown is here Mrs galberth here Dr Hall here Mr swales here Mrs Walters here vice president Ruth here president Alber here please stand and join me in the pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which stands one nation under God indivisible Justice okay Terry are these all the public comments that we've received okay so we have a lot of people here for public comment tonight thank you for coming um I'm going to limit since we have so many limit each person to five minutes I will raise my hand when you have a minute to go if so uh the first up is um Bob or bab and the topic is Staff safety yes come down here please right there right here like all good teachers I'm gonna make do with what I have hi I'm Amy Bob I am a teacher at cre money Middle School I've been there for six years this is my 24th year in education I'm going to need a little crowd participation I would like you to participate as well everybody put your hands up ready put a finger down if you've been asked to do someone else's job more than 10 times this school year put a finger down if you've had to break up a fight and put yourself between safety keeping a child safe and someone else put a finger down if you've been told F off shut up talking to me who is you talking to when asked to follow Basic School expectation put a finger down if you've been sworn at by a parent for a comment or a phone call home regarding their child put a finger down if you've been given less time to complete the work and more work in which to do with zero compensation in time or money put a finger down if you are expected to have math and reading test scores go up but you have less time to teach math or reading put a finger down if your ability to do your job is based on how someone else does their job on one test put a finger down if you are the last to know Vital Information about someone that you work closely with but at the same time criticize for not getting to know them well enough or not understand what they're going through put a finger down if you had to console Comfort support a sobbing coworker because they are so overwhelmed and stressed out they cannot possibly face another day doing doing what they have to do put a finger down if you have had a weapon such as a loaded gun brought to your workplace the halves and the Have Nots we are the ones that have to live the daily reality of the decisions you are making based on student discipline and student consequences we are the ones that put ourselves on the front line every single day and have to face the ramifications of asking a child to put their Hood down put their phone away pick up a pencil why do you not have a pencil and come to work and yet still justify why our test scores are low to you and to the parents we are the ones that are being questioned all the PBIS in the world is not going to correct its students behavior who has over 80 tardies over 15 discipline referrals a bag of chips is not going to make them get to class on time we are denying them the support and the love that we need when we keep them in the building we want to know why MEC is not up for consideration to send a child that needs additional help why are we told no that they should be in a building of 1,200 and walk around in an unsafe environment and not be sent somewhere where they can get one-on-one time and attention I've heard um additionally another question I would like to ask you do you have any idea how many students are coded eo2 which is an administrative decision but not an out of school suspension but in the place of an out of school suspension just so when you run those reports in Skyward it doesn't come up as an out of school suspension how many students in the high school have been placed on distance learning for over a month without getting the time attention and education they deserve how many students have IEPs that are then being home and not getting the legal minutes that they deserve and the education that they deserve because we don't want our numbers going up I apologize I'm getting a little we are losing fantastic staff every single day because they are so beat down that they cannot face another day fantastic people and we are lowering the standards for some fantastic children that deserves so much more please consider all of these questions hear us get beside us come walk a mile in my shoes I will be happy to show you around and help you out thank you thank you [Applause] okay next up is Christine conin um and the topic is Mooney education [Applause] center I'm Christine Conlin and I am from MEC this has been an extremely trying school year for the staff and students at MEC various scenarios have been given and changed repeatedly which has caused a lot of stress no one needs that but especially those in a therapeutic environment it has caused students to consider dropping out of school vote no and allow MEC to remain open as is until the new addition is completed let us continue to support students with significant social emotional needs help those students who are falling through the cracks be a safe space for kids that learn differently and are not successful in the general School environment transition is hard for many kids but especially those with trauma and instability having students leave their space space save space and temporarily return to a place where they are unwanted unsuccessful and unloved is a recipe for disaster in The Last 5 Years the staff at MEC has supported countless students and seen over 50 students graduate that probably would not have if they were at the high school MEC has more from an alternative severe Behavior placement to a therapeutic environment many fear that if you keep MEC open next year it will turn into a place for kids with severe behaviors to be sent and forgotten about something needs to be done for these physically aggressive kids having con consquences would be a great place to start the kids that are out of control need more support the current staff and student population at MEC is not the appropriate place for many of our most violent students anymore as it was in the past this is because we have been staff has been taken from MEC and others have resigned and they have not been replaced we support those that need the social emotional aspect and have a background of severe trauma now if you vote to keep our school open and turn into a Dumping Ground of severe behaviors which is the newest rumor you're going to lose an incredible staff give the staff a choice of where they go next year no matter what the vote brings when we were reassigned months ago before the board meetings we did not get a St in our placements we were told where we were going so give us a choice next year at the high school there will be one special ed room and one janed room our kids are going to be segregated by disability instead of ability one Middle School room will start empty even though there's middle school students that would benefit from the Mec program instead they're going to be struggling again and probably disrupting the learning of others we keep hearing about this low enrollment at MEC well with two years of covid most students were online and the behaviors were not an issue like when they were in person were there kids who would benefit from MEC then yeah there were the high school is out of control and the possibility of a mass Exodus is looming however students are not being sent to MEC why is that well rumor has it it was to keep our numbers low and make our building close and here we are tonight a few of the more significant issues at the high school are multiple fights a day a shooting in the school parking lot pepper spray being released in the hallways and staff and students needing medical attention our Middle School had a student bring a loaded gun students were sent to MEC unofficially without paperwork this year did you know that to serve time in lisis suspension or expulsion referrals and behavior issues are supposedly down 51% how I will tell you how referrals aren't being written or they're not being entered things are not miraculously better the numbers are made to look good so people don't know how terrible things really are things have gotten so out of control lately I can't even begin please come to our buildings I've invited you many times this year I even invited Zoom meetings but no one took me up on it more students at MEC would substantially lower the operating cost per student at least by 40,000 that's what y'all want right the money to be lower give us some more kids there are so many students at the middle school and high school that are struggling with trauma and having behavior issues that we could support plus the cost of Outsourcing students to other programs where they can be supported appropriately is a hefty cost unless they're going to be dumped back like the middle schoolers and they're just going to get thrown back to where they are maybe that's what's happening move kids to the high school next year will be more restrictive than it is now so imagine being in a building where everyone knows you're there and not being a part of the building our kids will have a different bus schedule bell schedule lunch and gym schedule and be stuck in one room the rest of the day so now kids will do Plato every day except for English and PE math on Plato is terrible I'm The Playdoh teacher our special ed students will not be receiving individualized instruction but instead be doing math on a universal program that's even hard for our gened kids is that the same as everyone else no it's not and it's so much worse than having a separate School a community a safe space to experience their high school years with the guidance and support that is needed how will our kids get their social work Services when a social worker has 100 kids on her case load the word of the year is equity do you somehow find this to be Equitable if this was your child would you want this for them or would you want better closing and relocating the alternative school and the multi- needs program it's a reason to be ashamed of yourselves these are kids that need the most support to be successful and they can and will be successful with that guidance so I ask you about next year how long is it actually going to take to build this Wing what about all these design flaws tiny classrooms and glass rooms and an alternative school what about loud noises coming from this manufacturing area disrupting our kids who are trying to learn has anything been thoroughly thought out and considered I don't think so have you talked to your teachers Have you listened to us where is our voice because frankly it matters most we are the ones in the trenches we are the ones that the decisions impact and we are the ones that look at our kids every single day and the odds are already stacked against them thank you [Applause] uh next public comment is from Kristen uh Shreffler and topic is cmea [Applause] concerns good evening my name is Kristen trer and I'm a teacher at the middle school I wanted to attend tonight's meeting to speak on my firsthand experience with PBIS behavior issues and the need for intervention I was disheartened by Miss Riley's remarks about behaviors being the way they are because teachers are not teaching PBIS expectations I have been a member of the PBIS team at the middle school for the past four years and a data analyst for the past three for those not familiar with PBIS it has broken into tiers and the tier one universal team is supposed to focus on the majority of students about 80% through teaching of expectations and celebrating those expectations as a member of the team I know the planning that goes into advisory lessons back to school lessons boot camp lessons PBIS challenges and celebrations while I am not in every teacher's classroom I do know that the expectations are being taught I know this through conversations had with staff from observing many of our students and inart from the data reports I prepare for the PBIS meetings while analyzing that data from the May report the Middle School numbers of referrals may seem high but if we break it down we see that 144 total students make up almost 70% of the referrals this means approximately 10 to 15% % of our student body accounts for 70% of the referrals in our building if we break that down further we see that 70 students account for 48% of the referrals if we truly analyze those numbers it shows that the majority of students green level are doing what they are supposed to be doing and meeting those PBIS expectations while this seems like great news uh we have seen a massive uh Behavior issues this year unseen before I believe if we are using PBIS as the model for solving these Behavior concerns then we are looking at more of a yellow and red tier Focus the students with the repeated behaviors are not responding to the universal expectations and therefore need further interventions one such intervention is MEC while MEC may not have met the needs of all of those High referral students there are definitely students on that list that would it would meet their needs and hopefully allow them to transition back into a universal setting this however is not an option for us any longer so where does that leave us as students behaviors continue to escalate we see more of the universal students slide into those yellow and red tears we continue to see educational time interrupted and we wonder why scores drop we see good teachers become frustrated and leave and lately we see fear we have good people in the district who love our students and want what is best I implore the board and other decision makers to take a hard look at what we need here we don't need less intervention we need more CH closing MEC is a disservice to students in our district and putting another burden on already over tired staff thank you thank [Applause] you um next up for public comment is Marne niss on topic of safety [Applause] my name is Marty n I'm a p teacher here at the high school good evening to the administrators and to the school board members couple of months ago fellow colleague of mine and I were on our way out to our driver Zed cars with two students and we were shot at and my colleague was hit in the face with an air pellet gun could have hit him in the eye could have blinded him on April 12th another colleague and I were in the Fieldhouse and we walked through a mist of pepper spray to break up a girl's fight so on April 13th I filed a grievance against against central office for safety in this District I've been in this District 19 years the last 18 and a half years I felt totally safe the last 3 four months I don't feel safe in this building at [Applause] all why I filed agreements is for the sa safety of every teacher teachers Aid substitute teacher nurses custodians food workers secretaries maintenance workers and especially every student who goes to cm201u that's why I filed the grievance we had a grievance meeting what came out of the meeting at the high school we've had 28 students who have been in multiple fights multiple the thing that shocked me the most was that we've had over 40,000 tardies so far this year 40,000 that's right 40,000 tardies at the High school that's from the beginning of the school year till uh up to the date these are the tardy slips that the students get one student I won't mention name he's got 248 tardies so in this meeting the administrator that was running the meeting made it out that the teachers were at fault because we didn't call home I as a union rep in our building said I will take that teacher that gets called in and I want to rep why because in the bottom of the tardy slips these say intervention with Administration parent meeting and school intervention I've asked every one of these students and said when did you meet never met with an administrator I understand fully that the high school is down one and a half Deans I fully understand that the high school needs an attendance Dean that can address this I fully believe that okay um in my 19 years here the last couple of months like I said I don't feel safe in the building um in a time where and I met with Dr koganes yesterday and she we had a great conversation in a time where the nation is in turmoil scrs are in turmoil why are we closing MEC when we need it more than ever now we need we need that support we have teachers that are this is my last year I'm leaving I didn't have to file grievance I don't have to be up here speaking for our teachers but I have no repercussions and I I commend the teachers that got up here today I'm not asking I'm begging I'm begging you and the majority of you know me because I've been on committees with you I know you from insurance committee negotiations seeing you in the in the in the in the grocery store um I'm not asking I'm begging keep MEC open when did MEC change from a therapeutic school or from a tu a therapeutic school from a behavior school when a fellow colleague of mine taught there with me at the Sixth Grade Center when he was there we were just talking before we came in seven years ago it was a behavior school he remembers some of the fights and some of the situations so I'm begging you please keep MEC open and make cm201u the best school in the south suburbs thank [Applause] you uh next up is Teresa is it graen and topic is safety [Applause] good evening my name is Teresa graan and I have been a teacher at the high school um in the math department for 5 years during my first year at cre I was extremely happy compared to the district that I last taught in sure we had our is issues high schoolers can be a handful but overall I felt we had a good handle on safety in that first year I had a fight between seniors in my room in which I was physically hurt once I was able to call security about the fight in my room it was a mere moment before two security guards and a Dean were at my door and were able to restrain and remove the students who were fighting my division leader then checked on me and covered my next class so that I could take care of the paperwork involved and still have my lunch break it was obviously not an ideal situation but it was handled well and in a timely manner you may be wondering why I'm mentioning something something that happened 5 years ago let's fast forward to this school year one of the main struggles that we have noticed at the high school this at the high school is lack of security there have been multiple instances this school year where security was called and there was either no answer or security never showed up to the classroom as teachers we should not have to worry if we are going to be able to get a hold of security in an emergency situation such as a fight we were told that there was a shortage of security officers in the district and then started to notice security officers in our building from an outside company at first I was thrilled to see that steps had been taken to fill the need to ensure that security was on site but after a few days that excitement faded because those other security officers were not the most helpful we often saw them simply standing in the hallways and not really moving from the spot they were standing even after the Bell had rung for the next class to start they wouldn't say anything to the students still in the hall or attempt to Usher them to class it was apparent that our security officers were still overworked and stretched thin because the other officers weren't pulling their weight we've had multiple days in which security officers were severely understaffed and we as teachers were asked to be even more Vigilant in the Halls during passing period as a result students sought out the hallways with no security officers and teachers found themselves in the midst of student altercation since there were no other staff in the area to deescalate the situation lack of security in the building has put a large strain on teachers but more importantly has created a larger safety issue for everyone in the building the other main issue that I wanted to address tonight is the processing of referrals as a teacher when I write a student a referral for an infraction of a school rule that referral goes through Skyward to their Dean it is my understanding that the dean reviews it speaks with the student and issues a consequence we've noticed a huge delay in referral processing this year due to only having two and a half Deans at the high school we know that our Deans are stretch thin however students need timely interventions in order for them to be effective I wrote a referral for a student for ditching class on January 28th and the referral was just processed yesterday May 16th speaking with many of my colleagues this has happened to many of us for referrals of all all types students are going weeks and sometimes months without consequences or interventions for their actions it's even more disheartening when that consequence is a phone call home considering it's an expectation placed on us as teachers that we make a call home when we write a referral this has led to an increase in discipline issues and a larger safety concern since the students aren't receiving the needed interventions is also putting a larger strain on the teachers who are doing their absolute best to manage their classrooms personally I try to manage as much as I can within my classroom but when Behavior escalates I need to know that I can write a referral and that it will be dealt with in a timely manner with appropriate consequences during my first year in the district after being physically hurt from a student altercation I felt safer on a daily basis and still looked forward to the next day and the next school year this school year I'm genuinely concerned about the safety of my of the students myself and everyone else in the building I'm already anxious about next school year if we don't get a handle on this now as a former PBIS member and a huge supporter of encouraging positive behavior I can confidently say that our PBIS lessons simply are not enough support and intervention for some of our students I know that this year is much different from 5 years ago I'm aware that we have students that re have really struggled with behavior since returning to the building full-time we need need a better system of interventions for these students in order for them to be successful and to keep everyone else safe for these reasons which are only the tip of the iceberg we urge you to vote no to closing MEC thank you thank you um next up is Ryan Simpson in the topic is safety [Applause] hello my name is Ryan Simpson and I'm currently a sophomore at cm and HS I've had a few things happen to me and close friends I have had made me worried about my safety in the high school some examples including fights happening in the hallway that disrespects their learning environment when those fights occur occur it causes students to relate to class and have been times where other students almost get attacked because they're stuck in the chaotics even though the students that keep getting into fight keep come coming back to school I have seen kids videos of kids that are not involved in the fights that are being shoved by the security guards although the school has hired extra security guards it is not affected these guards are in the hallway but majority of the time they're on their phones talking playing games or anything on their phone there are some security guards that have bonds with their students and they block out the bad things that are happening 2 feet away from from them the back the back checking is for our safety but why all of a sudden are they worried about our safety it seems like these efforts are a little too late in the school most of the students don't even know who the administrators even are administrators are barely seen in the hallway unless something terrible happens during the school day how are you supposed to feel safe when your principal and other administrators are walking into the building with us at 7:20 and are never presented in the hallway or classroom another attempt to help improve safety are the announced Hall sleeves although this helps with the movement in the hallways there are no real consequences for being slept students get put in a room their names get ran down sent back to class with the past and parents are supposed to get called I personally have been verbally harassed by another student I informed my teacher what was going on and my teacher emailed administrator multiple times for assistance never received a a reply back the teacher even went down to speak to an administrator who said it would be look into but again nothing has been done when students that constantly cause behavior problems know that they can't get away with any punishment they continue to act out and each time it gets worse something must be done to deal with increasing students that are distru disrupting the learning environment for all the other students in the school thank you [Applause] uh we have one more public comment it was emailed in now um I've received emails from many of you I appreciate the feedback and the input uh I have read all of them uh I see that there's a couple more that have come in since 5:00 since I've been here in this building so I've have not read those yet but this one was um specifically in the title said for public comment at the board meeting so I will read it um and this is from um n nicholet Schmidt um and uh don't just says public comment for board meeting uh good evening Dr Cara and Board of Education members my name is nicholet Schmidt and I've been one of the Middle School PE Health teachers for the past 11 years here at the U I am contacting you because I've been pushed to the boiling point mentally with my career and changes need to occur changes that benefit our students for the better changes that will actually help them be successful humans to the current board members I've had the pleasure of teaching many of your children throughout the years I've worked here and I've I've had the pleasure of teaching many of your children throughout the years I have worked here and know that I was able to give your children the best education that I could as an educator unfortunately I am not sure that I can say the same as of late the reason our students have lost any sort of respect for anyone or anything in the building because they know that nothing is going to happen to them or their parents/guardians are going to come and save the day they know nothing will happen to them and they aren't afraid there's no more fear and they simply do not care because there are no solid or consistent consequences we have children that need our help children that need an alternate place to better suit their needs yet we are closing MEC sounds like a solid plan let's close the place that are at risk students need to be successful that is our job as Educators to help students be successful but just keep taking away the Necessities for that to happen no student can be successful when when you aren't giving them what they need nor can the teachers be successful either we need MEC here are just a few few of my encounters of last week at the middle school today had to call uh for 911 to be called because my co-teacher had a kid bust his head open on an electrical wiring metal box in the gym with blood everywhere while he was saying I don't want to die over and over again Wednesday we had a fight in the gym with one trying to stab another with a pencil Thursday a loaded gun yes a loaded gun plus being told to and I won't mention the word uh for doing a job that I need to calm down by a student because I told him who's an eighth grader he couldn't hit another student with a ball numerous times this is not my first second or third experience with being told what I should do by a student that is the next problem the communication relationship relationships between the central office and teachers is not there I'm tired of being the one being blamed because I am the teacher not having the support I see friends have in other districts not pushing PB in the classroom please come visit the middle school and see the amazing PBIS stuff we've been taking place all the time all the lessons we go through and incentives all of our staff work on uh for them to be successful unfortunately Behavior start at home and in the community too not just the classroom with PBIS we as Educators can only do so much when more and more is being put on us including the blame how about some support and come to our buildings to see what is happening and how we are trying to trying but we are being failed as Educators the one thing I can say is that when Laura hirs was here she always made herself present and did what she could to help us I wish I could say the same for the rest nikolet Schmidt uh well thank you all for being here and thank you for the feedback and input um that is the end of our public public comment and now we'll move on to administrative updates in closing out in closing out the year we just had uh two um items we wanted to share about some events that were going at the school uh the first one if I could have uh Heather godbout and Mark hok Conor are you here they're going to say just a few words um they've been doing some fabulous work with their students um they teach the africanamerican studies group and I know their students it was the last day for seniors today but uh their students have been working on a fabulous magazine and I wanted them to just talk a little bit about that that really emphasizes student voice um okay I'll turn that over to you Miss tap it and see what I think it turned off I'm too sure okay now it's working thank you uh I'm Heather godbout um I'm here with my co- teer Marco Connor we both um are privileged to serve the students at our high school um this is the third year that we are teaching um the African-American history class that we created uh well four years ago I guess that would be um so this is the first year we've actually gotten to teach the course as we designed it because it's the first year that we've had school regular school all year long um so we were glad to finally be able to hit that Milestone um the magazine that is being passed around to you is a literary magazine that our students create based on our study of the Harlem Renaissance um we start the year um with talking about issues of identity and diversity um and then go all the way from West African culture um before the slave trade began all the way through the present day in fact we just finished screening a film called just Mercy um which is about mass incarceration um and the death penalty it's a great film you should watch it um so as part of our study of the Harlem Renaissance we learn about the amazing art and music um and drama and thought and writing that was created um by black writers and artists who left the South the Jim Crow South and traveled North to the northern industrial cities and to California in the west um in order to escape the terrorism and violence of the Jim Crow South um and to try to make a new way for the African-American community in the United States um as part of our study we learn about a literary magazine that was published um during that time period called fire which had some notable names such as Langston Hughes um who was a part of that and then we asked our students to take the themes from that time period and to update them for the current moment um and if if you've been paying attention to anything that's happening in the world the last few years you know that there's an awful lot to say about racial Justice in the current Mo moment um and so what you have in front of you is our students original work they can create any kind of original work they want poems short stories essays uh photo spreads drawings illustrations paintings um basically anything that they um feel expresses their ideas about Pride empowerment um diversity inclusion Equity Justice um and that is what you have in front of you and we really hope to have students here to read some of their works for you tonight but it turns out that it's a really hard cell to get seniors to agree to come to a board meeting on their last day of school so unfortunately none of our fabulous students are here with us tonight but they are here with us in spirit and they are always with us in spirit um we love this it is my maybe my favorite thing I've done in Education ever in 28 years um and we hope that you enjoy it so well thank you very much yeah I would just like to commend you I would like to commend you very Noble feet fe uh feet that you embarked upon very good I really appreciate from your students okay thank you so much they've really done an excellent job I certainly encourage you to take this home tonight and and do a quick read on it it's really well done and this is this is a I've seen several other magazines come through and I want to make sure that we highlighted it tonight wow great yes um the second um uh special presentation to have um I've invited uh Mr Adam to come on behalf of Bel moral uh to talk a little bit about what they were doing uh with the students I had a chance to go out there and uh enjoy some lemonade the students read a book and they partnered they went out into the community and I'm going to steal your thunder a little bit but they went out into the community and found um a way to give back and so they contacted the president of uh Angels On Assignment she came out to the building she talked about um where the proceeds go she spent quite a bit of time with that and um they put this lemonade stand together so it was one of those hot days um so we it was very successful so Mr adamy I'm going to let you fill in the pieces I so a little of it but well thank you so much Dr K you pretty much did it all for me so um Mrs Perez is our elll third through fifth grade teacher so she was working with our fourth grade elll Scholars they were reading a book The Lemonade War so they were inspired by the lemonade stand and they decided they wanted to do a lemonade stand they decided they wanted to give back so they start calculating the quantities of the prices and they created posters to publicize working on their math and their um marketing skills SKS and then we was was fortun to get um wall generously donated the supplies for our stand sem Mr Perez included the rest of the third and fifth grade elll Scholars to run the lemonade stand Thursday May 12th my mar Scholars was able to purchase a cup of lemonade and a chocolate chip cookie so our Scholars like Mrs cogley said we um angels for assignments was the local charity that we wanted to work with um it it was it's a organization that experiences for people with families who are experiencing serious illnesses and our Scholars on one day they raised over $670 so our scholars in our school were so overwhelmed we looking to make this an annual thing most likely we going be doing an annual thing thank you thank you great thank you for sharing this evening okay next up under administrative updates teacher teaching and learning end of your update you guys here okay good evening uh to our Board of Ed education Dr koganes to our students our staff our families and our communities on behalf of the office of teaching and learning we will be presenting our end of the year update um and and I brought with me this evening uh Debbie Caserio our literacy coach at Moni Teresa peterin our math specialist at Moni Elementary Lamont holfield our division leader at the High School for Math and CTE and Dr Sarah marer our coordinator of OTL and so we will be presenting data and information on our dashboard our strategic plan our committee work for Math and Ela our building Equity plans professional development Community Partnerships with Educators rising and our Orchestra program last week the Donovan group um when they took the information from the parent survey mention that parents wanted to know more information about our dashboard and our strategic plan and I want to uh remind our families that this information is on the front page of the website and it lists the updates of what is happening at the schools and gives an opportunity for the district uh to show information uh this first page shows that we have 4,400 devices that have gone out that we have given out uh 4,000 o over 4,000 hours in professional development to our teachers and staff and then it gives information on data of course we have not taken the standardized test which is calculated into our report card um but that information will be uh updated and it gives information on the learning environment the other portion of the district website is the measurements and metrics of how we are meeting the metrics on our plan on the Strategic plan and this is the breakdown for every percentage and where we are with those goals and so if um we give this report at the end of October at the board meeting for our academic update from the office of teaching and learning and then we give it in May and so if the board based on the information they came in for our families would like an update more often we can off we can offer uh to do an update three times a year instead of twice but on this page it shows for each of our goals uh where we are in the metric and measurement of Meeting those goals and now we will have our team come up for the math and Ela committee update good evening tonight we're going to share an update on the curriculum committee work that has taken place this year starting with an update on the work of the joint math committee during the 2021 school year The Joint math committee completed the task of prioritizing all math standards kindergarten through grade 12 the prioritization process requires Educators to identify the standards that are most most impactful to student achievement identifying the priority standards was just the first step in addressing the Strategic plan goal of ensuring a vertically aligned curriculum I'm going to pass the mic over to Teresa peterin who will share out on the second phase of work that the joint math committee completed this year good evening my name is Teresa Petland the math specialist at mon Elementary I have been part of the math prioritization work from the start of the process as Dr Mamer mentioned during the 2020 2021 school year The Joint math committee's task was to identify priority standards in math for grades K through 12 this year the task for the joint math committee was to unwrap the standards and create I can statements unwrapping standards help teachers have a clear view of a standard and create an agreement regarding specific learning targets overall we needed to find what each priority standard really means this un raffing process was to prepare the team for eventually creating Comm informative assessments so the team was broken down into grade level bands the steps the grade level bands took to unwrap the priority standards were if you look at the screen there's a priority standard at the top so we used the priority standards to focus on keywords within the priority standard we looked at each standard and we found and circled the verbs what students should be able to do after instruction found and underlined the nouns what students should know found and highlighted the prepositional phrases how students are to perform the task next we mapped out each standard by filling in a chart based on the keywords also shown on the screen finally we analyze the target into level of rigor or complexity based on this information grade level band then created I can statements for each priority standard I can statements are student-friendly statements for the standards they are created to help students understand what the lesson is about and to help them understand what they are learning during the last two during the last two joint math committee meetings we took a look at each priority standard and determined when each priority standard should be assessed can you flip the slide please thank you we created a viewer friendly table to map out an assessment schedule finally we took a look at each party standard and determined the best way to assess it paper pencil online platform or Project based are a few examples Lamont will now talk about the work that was done at the high school level thank you greetings and I'm happy to be here again at the high school level we also unwrap the standards using a similar process as K to 8 we wrote I can statements because at the high school level the standards are not comprehensible by most high schoolers so we rewrote the standards in student friendly language but we still pay close attention to the complexity and the rigor that students will encounter as they move forth with sat act and most importantly college level mathematics one of the things that we realize at the high school level is that standards must be spiral throughout the year meaning if I'm an alge one and then I have this break with geometry I will be the first to admit that geometry relates to algebra but it's a task to get students to recall once they get to junior year to Algebra 2 all of the algebra 1 so we are also looking at how we can reverse The Ordering of the curriculum so that we have Algebra 1 Algebra 2 then geometry and it also matches what Happ happens with sat if you look at the SAT 70% of the exam is algebra so we see that need uh We've also worked on a common formative assessment schedule and we're going to use Atlas and partners to add the assessments uh by semester and we're projecting that we will get through four units per semester because there are so many standards in mathematics at the high school level we are going for depth instead of breadth because sometime we try to teach everything and then students leave knowing nothing so we have to identify a few things that we're going to teach more in depth and we believe that we will see the growth and the development and conceptual understanding that we want our students to walk away with with we're very confident that the unpacking process will benefit high schoolers and we looked at we flipped it from 12th grade and worked back to Cas so that we could build the model in a suitable way the only difference at 12th grade the way the standards are written they do not match the courses that we offer because we offer a statistics course AP C AB BC so we will be aligning to the College Board standards instead of Common Core for those courses simply because statistics in common core has been spread uh throughout algebra geometry and Algebra 2 so we we are excited about this work and we're looking forward to presenting further as we move along I've also been on the committee since the Inception and Barb belan and Jeff Noble as well as Tommy Connor has done a lot of the heavy lifting in getting us to where we are today thank you for your [Applause] time phase three of this project will start this summer and we'll focus on creating short assessments of the priority standards these brief assessments called common formative assessments are administered by teachers to determine their students level proficiency of the priorities and will give teachers and teams ins into the best ways that they can support their students learning all of this work could not take place without the efforts of the joint math committee I'd like to thank the members of this committee for their dedication to the process [Applause] SL so I'd now like to share the work of the joint Ela committee this year the joint Ela committee took up the work of prioritizing the English language art standards I'm now going to pass the mic over to Debbie cerio who will share out on the first first phase of that work good evening my name is Debbie cerio and I'm the Reading Coach at mon Elementary and I've been involved also with the English language art standards prioritization work since the beginning so I just want to give you a brief synopsis of the work that we've done so far and where we're going after after this work is complete so almost a year ago District reading coaches and teacher leaders began looking at nearly all of the ELA standards those standards include informational reading reading literature language foundational skills and speaking and listening this was the first pass our first look at the standards with our eyes on prioritization we've done a lot of work with standards through the years but this time we focused on prioritizing the standards it was a smaller group made up of teachers from prek to 12 and we chose the standards that we felt were most vital to Student Learning based on our experiences as well as some of the as the the professional reading that we did so that was our first step several months passed and then our second look was broadened we brought in other voices around the table more teachers from a range of grade levels joined the work so that we could get more eyes on the project they looked at the initial decisions that were made by the smaller committee and they gave feedback some standards were prioritized some were given less importance so we listen to them more people with different levels of experience so that we can kind of make changes and and alter the work that we were doing the final examination took place just in the last couple of months when the work was brought to the individual schools the members of the committee explained and summarized the work that we had done thus far and this was really a vital step in the process because the group that we brought it to the teachers they're doing the hard work they're in the thick of things doing the work on the a daily basis so each time the standards were reviewed and conversation took place and and it allowed the committee members to see things with fresh eyes and to look at standards in new and impactful ways the meetings that we held were richin conversation a lot of debating and talking and And discussing the standards and it allowed teachers to have an have a voice in the matters that impact their day-to-day instruction and it was a great way to honor the teachers experience in their field so our work next will continue this summer and into the next school year as we move into phase two the the math committee is already done we're going to focus on unwrapping the standards that we prioritized and as a committee we'll also create I can statements that will use student friendly language and that will make the standards understandable and attainable to children so that they can achieve those standards thank [Applause] you so as Debbie stated phase two of this project will start this and again this work could not be completed without the hard work of our joint Ela committee and i' like to thank them for their efforts I'd also like to thank Lamont Teresa and Debbie for presenting to you tonight thank you very much uh before we move on to the equity piece uh one of the things that I I like to often talk about is that we do have the beauty of being a prek program to grade 12 and being part of a unit district it gives us a great opportunity to align our curriculum and I'd like to thank again those committee members uh for working on that work um I will also uh take a moment to thank all of our teaching staff um all of our certified and non-certified staff because as we do go into buildings and as we are in classrooms uh teaching and learning is still still happening in spite of the challenges that we have so we thank everyone um for their work that they bring um every day to the table as we go into our Equity um plan uh we have been on our own um cm201u District Equity work for about four and a half five years and with that work uh the state has now said that we will have on our Illinois report card um an Illinois equity Journey Continuum um that we will gauge our uh student achievement gaps and they we will be able to track that progress and so for the past year um I have been attending meetings and presentations on what we are to expect in the fall and what that work will look like uh we had started that work uh within the district and this year one of the goals is that that each building would build their own Equity plan and work with their teams we have a district Equity committee which has about 50 members on it um and then those members and their building principles take that work to their individual teams uh we will post this presentation um on the district website but this is the information for the individual uh building Equity uh work in their plans and again this is part part of their uh School Improvement plans as well yes the entire presentation yes professional development on that first dashboard update we were able to say that we gave out about 4,000 hours of professional development uh one thing that has come out of the pandemic is that we have been able to do um a a lot more around professional development with virtual time uh as we come back into the 2223 school year uh we will do uh in-person learning and have a hybrid with virtual also but here again is the list of professional development that we were able to provide the staff this year finally um the office of teaching and learning had has uh been working with the high school and particularly uh Mr hollyfield and Mrs Joan Thompson for our educator Rising program this is our students who are going to have a pipeline into teaching um over the past probably month we have been working with students in this program and we are proud to say that we have hired five of them um the office of personnel and culture went over with me today and we have five students hired to be our summer Junior tutors and so they are coming straight from our program and then our last partnership that we have been working with is our e Orchestra program um from my understanding it's been about 15 years since we've had Orchestra in the district um and so we have worked with principal cros Miss Carter um from Creek Methodist Church uh Cindy Westerman from the creek Women's Club Janet kuster from the symphony Youth Orchestra Mr grib at the high school myself and Dr Cara have met um in order to bring a string uh program back to the district we are starting this summer uh with an enrichment program at the Middle School uh and then we will look to the fall to developing the pro program to continue at the middle school as an after school program and uh possibly bringing over our fourth and fifth graders to start as part of the phase and then building the program up until we have orchestra and string back at uh the entire across the entire District next month um usually we are able to give our academic report uh during this meeting this year it will be delayed to our June meeting because we're waiting on some of our assessment data to come in um as you know Illinois report cart was released three times this year we will present that information uh at the June report uh we also do an annual professional development needs assessment that will go out this Friday to our staff uh we will present the findings of that study and then uh we expect to have our special education audit findings and results come in from um our current audit that we're having needs assessment that we're doing that concludes do we have any questions thank you and thank you again to all the presenters [Applause] thank you Mrs Perkins I wasn't on mic when I said Thank you before so um next up is the consent agenda hey before we get to that um under administrative updates we can usually talk about stuff right y so when can we I guess I don't know the best time to bring this up but listen I think everybody I think everybody understands there's a bunch of teachers here right and they're addressing they want to address a problem and I think for the last three months I think it's no secret that I've Beat to Death communication but at the same time discipline how do we ask our staff members to come to the buildings if they don't feel safe so the other question I have for that is how does I if I heard one of the speakers okay I I understand that as long as you guys understand the seven of us you know we come here and some of us you know we have other jobs and we're doing the best we can but if I've heard it once I've heard it five times they've asked Administration to come in the rooms how do we make a plan to fix the problem if we can't see what it is [Applause] yes I mean [Applause] if I go to the six of us here how many emails do we get today with specific examples and then I mean the next thing we have to work on is discipline and I understand that this this board we no different than this is a society problem right it it has happened after Co but there is no reason why cm201u cannot find a solution it's not going to be the end all solution but we can't find a happy medium to make it work so everybody feels safe it's not just our staff what about our students yeah we've had some incidences that are terrible and I'm just saying that we have to listen and I mean discipline I understand Senate Bill 100 handcuffs certain things but there are other ways that we have to make it safe because I don't know about the six of you but I don't want to be addressing an issue in the public on something that happens here I [Applause] don't I mean I know this is not the popular conversation I'm having right now in in in certain in whatever light but if you ask a teacher what does their certificate say I got a certificate in teaching math I got a certificate in teaching uh language arts I got to teach uh certificate in teaching science okay we heard that teachers are frustrated they have this there's more responsibility but I will go back to it I'm a parent myself of a student in this District I had two before and one now what are we doing to get the parents involved in the students I mean I think Dr Hall said it best when you walk into the classroom the teacher sets the expectation but I still think that it's some point it has it has to be drawn from home and we have to help curve that I mean Dr Hall was on the right he was on the right path with that that teachers you know have to set your expectations but at the end of the day it's the same thing with the cell phone policy we said that and that's great but if someone doesn't support the teachers and the people doing that what good is a policy I mean I'm sorry for talking so much but if we don't talk about it we're never going to get through this I mean I mean I'm telling you right now we in a 70% plus minority based District last year and a half ago when we had George Floyd we talked about it I sat down with Miss Mitchell who was in Dr Hall space we went had coffee we talked about it you have to talk about the conversation we're never going to be able to fix it and right now what are the teachers asking for safety I mean think about it I mean look out there safety we're not even talking about uh and don't get me wrong we're not talking about other things that are important but safety is important I mean there's other issues but look it yeah I'm sorry but so Mr oh go ahead finish up I'm just letting you know that we are out of school in a week okay this is not October and they have to come in every day and Dread that every day it's we have a week we have to come up with a plan we have to be prepared and I'm telling you right now there's no way you're going to be able to come up with a plan if you're not involved not meaning just you right your team so so let me kind of address that and certainly I want to thank our teachers for sharing I read as many of the emails that I could and I we are listening to what you're saying we're we're knowing that it was always tough anyway but I do think it has gotten tougher I think the last few months I mean we're hearing it we see we hear the phone calls we are hearing and having conversations with our our um our Administration do you know what's going on in the schools we may not be out there every single day but we are hearing that it has gotten a lot rougher for teachers we have been doing some things behind the scenes to get ready for next year and I I was actually going to share that in my June board meeting some of the things that we're already working on um we have started a community uh mentoring program with the community folks out in the community because they want to have access to the families because they agree our families are not involved so they know the families they know the students we are working with them to help bring them into our schools so that our students see familiar faces so when there's perhaps some discipline issues they're seeing some friendly faces out in the community we are bringing them in we met um out at the middle school right after that that gun event that we had and teachers had said we are frightened we brought our mentoring team out to that building I think that week to listen to teachers we had about three or four teachers that came and were able to come because it was short notice uh to come and share some of their concerns so we're not done with it though we're not done with it that was just the beginning because we are going to come back and next year I am going to help chair a safety and discipline committee at the buildings with the administration and with teachers because I want to hear from you what are you seeing what are the specifics because we're going to have to work on this together and you're going to have to share with me your suggestions so that we can move Administration in the building hey so so hang on just a minute so understand that's that's the point so I'm going to use my job if I send my foreman out to run a job that's a million dollars and he's having issues I can't sit in my office and argue with him if I'm not on the job seeing what he [Applause] sees I my my point is Mr uh president alre read a letter uh a um public comment from the last person and had it had a swear word in it right and she was she was depicting a situation that happened to her how is someone in if there if everybody's asking for administration help how are they supposed to if they're not in that classroom or in the hallways hearing that to understand how that feels that's just I'm like I said I'm sorry to keep talking like that but it's the only way it's going to get across is the disconnect I think Miss rup and I were were on a committee last year and and the one thing I said in it there's a disconnect between central office in the buildings there has to be a way to to bridge that guap and I think this is a good start for us for next year in in breaking down some of those barriers so we will I we need a plan in place before next year we we will have one we will have one yeah and I think it needs to start with MEC because I think a lot of the discussions we've had and decisions we've been making we've been making without all the knowledge and all the information that we need it and we're and we're seeing that and I and I apologize because I I guess didn't I I didn't have a clear understanding of well I still don't have a clear understanding like like one of the public speakers said of when it changed why it changed and I really think we have to go back and kind of start over because a lot of things we've talked about a lot of decisions we've made have been based on inaccuracies so um I think we need to start there really and I I would I would also like to add to that we hear you I want you to know we hear you um it's been a frustration of mine as well with the Mec building um I think we have to have a more definitive of what exactly MEC is what our qualifications um you know who gets to go there who doesn't we don't have a clear picture of all of that and that's something that I think we need to know and we should be packing the house as far as I'm concerned it shouldn't be getting the numbers down it should be with all these social emotional needs after the pandemic especially we need to get it filled up I would like to encourage board members to go to the buildings and most of you know me I'm out in the building whenever I get invited I go I talk to you I bring it back to Administration you don't need inv anytime well I do I do but the thing is that the board members need to see what is going on in the classroom I'm appalled at some of the stuff I'm seeing in the younger grades we need to nip that in the bud somehow we've got to start at the bottom we're always at we're starting at the top we need to catch it and work with it before it gets to the top the little kids need the help just as much they they were they were bothered by Co just if not more because how do you teach a 5-year-old to learn on a computer with somebody they don't even know they've never even met the teacher so that was one of the things I heard loud and clear as you all know when you email me I do take it on to the superintendent the other issue is that we don't get all the truth because the superintendent isn't getting it when things happen at your schools she has not given all the information and I know that to be a fact so many times we can't address things because what we're addressing is not what really took place so I encourage you to let your and administrators know that they need to be thorough with letting the upper Administration know what's going on because I know for a fact that that is not taking place all the time all our job and and I get it she knows that but you guys I I don't know if you get the information that they sign n or night like if you have an issue but somehow we have to connect we have to fix that connect also because that's another break in the chain um and last but not least least we can't pick and choose who gets accountability pushed on them and who doesn't accountability is not across the board we're not I I know for a fact we're not dishing it out the exact same way and this young lady who said she filled out a a form on January 28th and it was just dealt with today that's unacceptable in my [Applause] book and I know the Deans are over worked we I mean unfortunately we we do know it and we're doing everything in our power to keep pushing Administration to fix these things as far as I know we're all going to continue to do that I think we have a pretty good solid board who is constantly saying the teachers aren't getting this or um Food Service needs this what they've asked 10 times or work orders aren't getting fixed if if we don't know the top of the command here is this the superintendent if you're going up the chain and you have to get to the superintendent then we're going to know because she's going to let us know that somebody came to her and then we're going to get involved if we have to but we shouldn't have to and that's that's my key here is that unfortunately I believe that the board has had to be constantly involved because things are getting broken the chain is broken and I think that the seven of us are going to be working very hard to fix that chain and we need your help I'm sorry I can't hear you she said show with the unanimous vote to expel the student oh well I can't I can't make somebody vote a certain way so okay EXC excuse me public comment is over okay so so can can I uh sure I'd like to say something uh fortunately I've and I say fortunate I've been able to be a classroom teacher a Dean a counselor and an administrator over discipline as well as over curriculum um and I I look at this and I understand where the teachers are coming from and I understand as well where administrators are coming from I feel bad for the Deans who may have gotten that received that referral and I understand when you have a stack of referrals and you have to prioritize so you may not get to a referral to late not not acceptable but that's kind of how it is you have to prioritize and go with what you think is make a judgment call so get pushed to the back I U look at this and I and I you know that I I think that we should keep MEC open for at least a year at least because that's what it sounds like the staff is asking for and I believe that it's the best thing to do now I've heard heard two things one I've heard that the staff at MEC if they re start to receive troubled students then they they may not want to stay and and I hear the teachers at the at the the reg the buildings sorry for saying but regular buildings I don't know what else to say um that they may leave so either way there there can be some trouble had um I think at the end of the day we're all here for students if we and if like Ross kuio said if you if you work from the heart you can't go wrong and that's what I hope that each one of us does when we look at this um I a lot of you know that I've had students go through I've had good and bad um I I must say my my children probably had their best time when they were at at the middle school um they they they did and that's not well everybody knows that me and Miss brag have had some issues but the one thing I can say about her is that she's always been consistent she's always been she never took anything out on my children never she she was all my kids can't say anything bad about her I can't say that she did anything so that's what I would hope from everybody now you've heard my story about the high school um one teacher asked what would you do if that was your child basically was the question to paraphrase well I had to take my kid out because of the way she was being treated at the high school she didn't feel comfortable every day she was sick she didn't want to come she didn't want to be there blah all of this but when she transferred she loved it she was back to being herself so I I've SE so I say all of that to say if I'm looking at it from a personal standpoint you have heard me say that before I would say give them what they have coming to but I don't feel that way I don't I really believe that we have to do what's best for our teachers so our teach can do what's best for our students I I remember working at Target when I was just fresh out of high school and they would always tell us the one in C City we may not have the best prices but if we treat our employees good they'll treat our customers good and our customers will want to come back and I just think that we we as we have said need to listen to what our staff is saying and do what's right by the staff they do and this trickles down for them to do what's right by the students um will will we always give them will they always get what they want desire from us no but I think they're all adults and they understand that and but that doesn't mean that they shouldn't fight for what they want um with the complaint with it starts from the top yes it starts from the top um I've gotten to see Dr cin do a lot of good but for them the top is the building and and if they're not seeing their building Administration in the hall and supporting them then with that need now that comes from the top to go down where I think that they can work together they they really can um have if they and if they can't then we need to make changes at the top of the buildings uh that that's the way I see it I but I I do know that I've had four children go through not completely through but I've had four children go through this District as some point in time and the teachers have served them well and I and I just hope that we can serve the teachers well so that they can continue to serve the students well now I do want to say this about those tardy slips yes I would you I I I'm being over over over um attendance we beg teachers to call home first yes and then sometimes with those slips it'll have each step this step that step this step and it just goes on to Hero goes on to just the next step regardless of if the teacher called home if what whatever but please please please your your contact with the with the parents um is Al is a great step for hopefully deterring some of those issues but I I thank you all for coming out tonight I really do appreciate you all and we do hear you all because at the end of the day I am still proud even though I work in a different District I am still proud to see to see some of the great things that are coming out of cre school district 201u and it's not because of us as board members it's not because of Dr KAG it's not because of your building Administration but it definitely is because of you all working together collectively um and I I'll tell you the grass is not always greener and I definitely think that you all do a a a great job overall so you can um that's that's what I have to say but we definitely want to the only thing last I want to say is if we don't support each other at each level it's never going to work it's not never going to work so board if if we could appreciate this discussion i' like to get kind of on the other side of the consent agenda and then I've got a thought an idea recommendation maybe how we move forward so yeah okay okay well if okay um for the consent agenda approval does any board member have an item they would like to take off for separate vote okay no hearing none uh can I get a motion to approve the consent agenda moved second any discussion or questions on the consent agenda roll call please Brown is an i Dr Hall I Mrs galbert hi Mr swales I Mrs Walters I vice president rub I president Albert I motion carries okay next up is action reports and I think we all know what the first first item is under that is regarding the closure of Moy education center um I think we've heard a lot of good information tonight a lot of good input from the staff um what I would recommend is that we table this item until June and that because even well if even if we even if we voted to keep it open tonight there's a lot of contingency planning that has to be done to for that for that event and so see you can either table it indefinitely we can either table it indefinitely Or V be done with take a vote and be done with it okay okay I think same emails we've heard pretty much from them the same thing we've got emails um we knew that we were going to vote tonight so hopefully everybody on this board did their previous work we took in what we heard today and we should be ready to go okay okay okay okay does any board member disagree with that that what I said thank you I think there's still a lot of questions I think there's a lot of questions um cuz we also had talked about the reasons we were going to close it and I don't mean closing it permanently because I obviously feel it's something we need and we need like I said we need to pack the house we need to get these kids that need the help and are disruptive out of there and and put into an M MEC program but until I can have a clear I want to see it written down what is MEC who gets into MEC how is this all done and I need to know the solid plan moving forward of what MEC looks like in between you know in this transition period that's exactly what I'm talking about I need to know that to make because there's reasons we did vote to close it as well and I don't think we can ignore that but after hearing all of this and my own strong feelings about the Mec program and its necessity you know especially after Co like I said with the social emotional we need to not have five kids we need to have a lot more kids attending but we have to be able to present a clear plan so that people are confident in that plan and there's not uncertainties so I don't feel comfortable myself voting for that reason it's not that I want to close MEC I need to know going forward what this looks like and that we're doing the best that we can for everybody and I want everyone to feel confident with our plan so I haven't heard that plan I haven't heard a definitive plan so for me that's why because I know we have reasons of closing we we have reasons for cloning I know we've been talking about it but we also talked about closing it at one time and we voted that I mean we we did say that so we have reason ask all those questions and I totally get that and obviously we have a lot of passion this last couple days coming out and until I know I can't vote on something I don't know and I have not seen a solid plan because I can't tell you that it's going to be staffed appropriately to deal with the issues that that I can't vote that if it's not I have to know going forward on this vote the teachers have what they need that we have a plan in place a solid plan that they feel safe that they feel good with we have to have some type of great transition we cannot just and we could bring it back up in June and have that certainty we have enough time if we vote in June will we have enough time and contractually do we have to give them a u um a schedule like a schedule before they go out yeah I think my my concern here is um you know delay sometimes delaying a vote either way if we keep it open I've got to get an administrative staff in there I got to go out and do interview we got to pull staff and we probably have to set um uh post more positions so we can't that take some time we can't really delay till June though if they have to know it'll be it'll be really rough right I not really rough but we'll it be against their contract to wait until June because won't they be out of school what do you mean out of contract because uh I go ahead I still don't know what I'm doing next year I'm doing something at the high school not quite sure I haven't seen anything but I was supposed to get a list of what I'm doing two weeks before school gets out so I can make an decision on what I'm doing and that's what I mean like do we have that either way we would we will we'll have to figure it out so but it's easier for me to know up front [Applause] okay let go as as we have it on the agenda can I have a motion to approve the closing of Moy education center as a school let me start over can I have a motion to approve the closing of the Mooney education center as a school building in the creek Mone School District 201u effective at the conclusion of the 20121 22 school year moved second any further discuss discuss required I I I do have a question so Dr cognise and your cabinet you said you have disseminated all the information necessary for the board to make a conscious decision on this is that correct I believe so and we have some board members that disagree with that is that what hearing that you don't have enough information to make a conscious deliberate my point was that the information that we had just doesn't seem to tell the whole picture and so what we were making a decision on doesn't seem to be what we were making a decision on and like the the Mec that we have is not what they're describ even as it stands now is not what they're describing and that's my and that's my problem we would have to design a new MEC for next year that's exactly right so it's a therapeutic program not a discipline program like it was it would no longer but then Dr Hall asked a question last week who changed it from a discipline to a therapeutic and that's why I'm saying there's too many open ends to this you know is it is it discipline is it therapeutic is it just the verbiage I mean I don't know you know I think there's even teachers out there I've heard teachers say you know what if I have disruption and behavior issues I want to be able to send the kids so that I don't have the disruption then you talk to someone else and they said no it's therapeutic so I just feel like we have a lot of open-ended you know unknowns because when I my kids were going through the school it was for behavior and at the time there was actually quite a few kids there then all of a sudden that number was decreased because there was um some board members that didn't like the idea they thought it was more of a like a discipline I never looked at it as a discipline I looked at it as a um restorative thing you know you're helping those kids you're putting them there for a reason to help them it's not a punishment but for some reason we were trying to lessen the numbers and I think we should increase the numbers because like I said we are dealing with a lot of social emotional needs and these teachers are feeling unsafe they're being disrespected we need to do something yes and you know but I don't want I know we had reasons that we were you know trying to you know close the building and and it's not that we want to do it the program we actually want to provide that at the high school but there's just a lot of open you know for me to make a so so what I what I would say even with with MEC I I don't know how the program changed but I guess my question would be was it changed via policy or was it changed just via action because that that's that would be the question because if it wasn't changed if it was just changed be action then it shouldn't be a issue changing it to what the policy says is there a policy I've never seen a policy is there I don't know I don't know so there is nothing there's nothing written there has to be something written that says the guidelines forc regardless of what happened in the past I think what's at the table is what do we do with MEC do we re keep it open and we we fully staff it over there and we start changing the criteria so that it opens up more and more students but that would just be for the one year because then we when we open up the new Wing it'll look different again speak well at that and I what you saying one of my things just to be clear is to make sure we're not violating the teacher's contract but two making sure if we do keep it open that we put it um do it the correct way put it in writing create the policies for it and then transfer them over knowing that we're going to transfer them over and have a written policy or written guidelines at least written guidelines for like CSK because we have no idea like you said we have no idea teachers send recommendations and they're denied why and and that's not fair to the teach because they're that's exactly what you're asking I mean why well we would have to change the guidelines is what it is the existing guidelines would have to be changed how did it ever change how I don't know how when or who changed it the the criteria had been set by Administration do we have the criteria written anywhere is there anything written that says I guess I just like there's such gray area with who's right who's accepted the again regardless of that I think moving forward we need to have them we would have them written and transparent so people could see them end of story yeah so so we got a motion on the floor yes and the motion is to approve the closure of approve the closure of of MEC wa the motion is to table it is that what you said no it's not to table it okay wasn't wasn't there discussion on the table was there ever a consensus right now we have a motion on the floor to approve the motion as written what's on the agenda that's the motion so the table wasn't involved in the discussion and we went to that we haven't tabled anything we just going with what's on the agenda nson did say do we want to table it so that was no ever made a motion to table okay that's I'm just double checking that we're doing motion is to approve it as as it reads then the president asks is there any discussion and I asked a question and it still appears to me that Bor members is wavering I don't want to say wavering I don't want to say vacillating but there's some un there's I there's some unnown questions and answers out here and I heard from the audience and some of the board members here let's either make a decision to close it or keep it open and then figure out the rest yeah here's my fear my fear is we keep it open and then we don't do what everybody wants it to do so then we are keeping it open going through all the Motions spending the money and it's not meeting the need so I need to know if I'm keeping it open that it's going to meet the need I don't want to just keep it open to keep it open it we need to know that what what we're keeping it open to do and that was something that we would have to hurry and come up with to decide what are we keeping it open for are we doing therapeutic Behavior we would we would have to figure that out okay I I have a question um and I I think that somebody mentioned that we have been um talking about this for months and it seemed like if we've been talking about this for months that we wouldn't be saying table it to next month because we need to come up with a plan because we knew what the options were we knew that it was either keep it open and have a plan ready in place in case we or close it and already have a plan in place so I guess that that's my question is why don't we have a plan in place for if we vote to keep it open like why do we have well I think the plan is in place around closing it right I know but I'm saying why don't why why if we knew that this is coming up for a vote there was no plan in place for just in case the vote fails that's that's my question turn up [Applause] Mr Brown who who first and who second yeah Bill Bill motion and Janine okay so we do have a motion on the table we do okay and it's been moved does any anyone want to amend the motion or go forward as it stands okay I I personally would like to amend a motion to postponing for if we have to have a special meeting I know we our public wants to niping in the butt tonight but from what I hear again as a board member I'm speaking personally and we're talking about some very serious issues here and it affects our students affects our staff it affects our financial position and much more and for all of the UN uh you know the unknowns here for us to make a decision and it goes either way I don't think that's proved it's me for tonight so if we get you know if it takes a week for the board to really come together collaboratively some of us again board members already know what the direction they feel pretty good in their decision making tonight if it takes a week to have maybe a special board meeting just to talk about this issue you know get more information from our superintendent come up with Plan B so be it that's me so when that's the question so when would we have a special meeting cuz if we're going to do it I'm not I'm not I'm looking at when would we have this special meeting because there are answers for sure that we've been asking I mean we I I think I brought up we need to make sure and are the students being taken care of it's no disrespect or no I'm not dis counting the staff but the idea of MEC is the students and what they need yeah so we need to figure out that's the key of what they need so can we handle that I mean that was the question on the table can the three rooms is that going to be enough I mean just think about it the middle school has its own issues that's just real I mean I mean I'm not going to sugarcoat anything we're having issues the high school and the middle school do we think that one room I mean realistically if more kids and again I'm not talking highly disciplined or whatever the rules are that we can send kids there and we don't even know how that's established but I mean you're going to have to give us a date and then we need to know or you're going to get all your information together because at that point we we're making a decision correct I think what you're asking if you know I think more of the question is if we keep it open I think what that plan would look like and what that plan would keeping it open right now from what I know right now where to keep it open as is we talking about about five students right okay this this is this is just what's been conveyed about five students we're talking about we're talk just from a monetary point of view we're talking about five paper five students I'm sorry on paper on paper okay no I'm just agreeing with you sure that's all like that's what what been given yes and communicated to the board and we're talking about again don't take this the wrong way but this these These are factual data that's been given to the board we're talking about it cost about 70 to $75,000 per student over at me to educate right roughly it depends on the number of students it depends yes that's what it was okay so and now if we keep that as right now right now the plan that's the plan right now as you see it if we decide to keep it open right now five students x amount of dollars to educate our kids and that's all we have been given so far and as our vice president has said you know what about the other stuff that's why I'm saying there's just too many unknowns at this point for us to keep it open and I'm hearing my colleagues and the audience to close it so we had our last meeting last week committee as a whole and some of these same issues that was conveyed and talked about last week has been brought to the table today and I don't think we got any further so I guess I guess what I'd be looking for as a board member if we close it we I think we kind of know what the cost savings are we know what the impact is where the where the students would be how it' be staffed what we don't know is if we kept if we keep it open what's its purpose how's it going to be staffed can we find the staff and what would that cost that's that's and that's what we need for one year for one year for one year just one year but those are those are big big questions can you get that information in that amount of time there's a lot of what ifs in the variable I can give you a hypothetical you know and again I I don't think we need hypotheticals or what if we need concrete answers well I need to know how many to staff for I yeah that's what we need um this is an ultimate Challenge and again I said this before that's why you make the big bucks that's why you make the big bucks so we need we need if we look to bring this back to the table in a week you know with a special board meeting that's what I would recommend and give us those answers give us the plan B as dror Hall and vice president alluded to a plan B you know what's what is other than the four or five students and the X amount of dollars what else is it if you can't come up with anything I'm okay with that if that's it this is all I have right here this is plan a and this is Plan B but they synonymous somewhat yeah I mean that's that's for I mean that's that is the whole thing here you know even with our mission statement that our vice president always read out is is first and formost it's our students that's first and foremost thank you it is and and and it's not just dollars and cents it's a balancing act you know it's a balancing act we need a definitely we need a direction yes okay so right now we still we still have yeah vot to vote to close so the question is can you get us the answers by next Monday or Tuesday or whatever day it is to see within there I mean I need to know like I said I can I can go back with the team and try to come up with um some hypotheticals of what a hypothetical building could look like in a couple months I think the motion if we chose not it has to be rescinded by the person who move the motion I think our so Mr Wallace you'd have to you'd have to withdraw your I know I won't be here Monday so what can you call in huh you you said can I call did you um I could I'll be celebrating my son's graduation from Mr Brown let's just vote and we'll we'll play the cards where they they fall okay Mr zalles we'll we'll keep your motion on the table let's vote tonight okay okay so the motion on the table is to approve the closing of the Mooney education center as a school building in the in the creek Moone School District 2011 you affect at the conclusion of the 20 2021 2022 school year so an I vote is for closing a n vote will is for keeping it open okay okay is that is that clear to everyone so eyes is closed open okay Mr Brown roll call all right Mrs Walters oh God million this my name the rookie you know okay make Clarity yay is keeping it open no I I I to close voting nay would keep it open yes well without a solid plan I'm going to have to go a well that make sure to keep it open that's without a solid plan moving forward I'm going to have to say nay because I don't have enough answers to close a building until with all of this going on I don't feel I have enough information I now in saying that I hope we follow through with uh increasing the numbers over there so that financially it also makes sense that we need we need to get kids over there that if we're going to keep this open we can't have five kids nine kids whatever it is we have to utilize this building and get kids into it okay Dr Hall hey Mr swanes nay let me Mrs galri [Applause] nay Mr Brown I vice president rup nay president albre I motion fails 5-2 thank you thankk [Applause] so okay thank you okay uh next up under action reports can I have a motion to establish the date for the 2021 22 amended budget amended budget public hearing as June 14 2022 move moved second let's see any discussion yeah uh Janine moved bill seconded so any questions on establishing this date June 14th Mo are you ready for a roll call yes sir okay roll call please Brown is an i Mrs galbert I Mrs swales I Mrs Walter I Dr Hall I vice president rot I president Alber I motion carries next up can I get a motion to approve and accept proposals from roeda of lywood Illinois in the amount of $2,390 58 for the purpose of installing new school signs at Balmoral cre Moni and tala elementary schools Keda Scott King Magnet School The Early Learning Center administrative offices and the Creon maintenance facility so second any questions or discussion on this item okay roll call please Brown is an i Mrs galbert I Dr Hall I Mrs Walters hi Mr swales hi vice president president Ru I president Alber I uh next up can I have a motion to approve resolution abating the working cash fund of Creek Monique Community Unit School District number 201u Will County Illinois in the amount of 6 million 396,000 191 moved second any questions or comments do I have the read this no this resolution than God yeah it's me for five years I had to read them read so um lucky okay roll call please Brown is a doubley no I Mrs galbert hi Dr Hall I Mr swales hi Mrs Walters hi vice president Ru I president alri I motion carries next up can I have a motion to approve a certificate of payment in the amount of $ 23,26 to8 to RL sole general contractor Inc for the 2022 renovation work at Keda Scott King Magnet School moved second second question or comment roll call when you're ready Mr Brown Mr swanes hi Mrs galbert I Dr Hall I Mrs Walters I vice president rot I brown is an I sorry Mr Right Mr President Albert I motion carries number six uh can I get a motion to approve certificate of payment the amount of [Music] Brown is an i Mr swales hi Mrs Walters hi Mrs galbert hi vice president Ru I president Albert I motion carries uh number seven approve certificate of payment the amount of $22759 to RL sohle general contractor for the 2022 renovation work at tala elementary school in the Early Learning Center moved second second second roll call please Mrs galbert hi Brown is and I Dr Hall I Mr swales I Mrs Walters I vice president Ru I president Alber I motion carries uh number eight approved certificate of payment in the amount of $2,787 to RL sole general contractor Inc for the 2022 renovation work at Bal moral elementary school approv second roll call Browns and I Mrs galbert hi Dr Hall I Mr swales hi Mrs Walters hi Mrs galbert I just want to make sure I cleaned that one up good didn't I that's cuz she's over there laughing and joking we're g to have to move those two oh vice president R IC U president Albert I motion carries okay um um number nine approved certificate of payment in the amount of $931,000 Mrs galbert I Mrs Walter I vice president Ru I president Alber I motion carries Terry will you change that typo in the in the minutes under number nine it says sixth Grace Center instead of Sixth Grade Center on the printed agenda it says Grace so okay next up person and culture can I get a motion to approve the Personnel report including approved certified staff employment leave of absence return from leave of absence reassignment intent to retire and resignation and educational support staff employment leave of absence return from leave of absence reassignment in dismissal moved give it to her I'll take second second moved any questions or comments on the personal report P quiet in here all a sudden m so roll call please Mrs galbert I brown is and I Mrs Walters Mrs Walters did she say I said Mr swales hi Dr Hall I vice president Ru I president albre I okay that's it for the action reports uh any old business any new business okay we do have a need for closed session tonight and we have three topics in closed session so it will be let me just make sure I've got the right ones here uh can I have can I have a motion to go in close session for a the appointment employment compensation discussion performance or dismissal of specific employees two for Collective negotiations between matters between the public bodies and its employees or their representatives and see um uh an update on litigation Mo second okay roll call Brown is an i Mrs galbert I vice president r i president Al hi okay it is no we're not finished keep me on your p's and q's Dr Hall hi Mrs Walters hi Mr soes hi okay motion carries we're in close session at 8:35 let's take three minute break and then we'll ga for e e e what do you need oh Lord [Music] yeaha can I have a motion to adjourn go hike I get them I I did but I just whatever fa say post

seven o'clock if you join me in the flag salute i believe we have miss cassidy nord an eighth grade student from ellington to lead us in our flag salute please stand do we have cassidy online it looks like she just got kicked off shall we wait we'll wait for cassidy to join us okay great i'll let you know when she gets back on let's go ahead and give cassidy a moment to um let's be to give cassidy sometimes these things happen on zoom we'll come back to 4.1 and move on to 4.2 roll call board member robert pena president board member uh cruz gonzalez here board member ariana's present and i sabrina am here uh mr greer is absent tonight we'll skip ahead to item 4.3 approval of the agenda may i have a motion to approve the agenda motion to approve second moved by board member arianas and seconded by board member rodriguez pena let's take a vote short let's take a hand vote board member against pena yes board member cruz gonzalez yeah board member ariana yes sabrina beau yes the item passes four yes to one absent we'll give cassidy a moment and when she comes back on we'll come back to our flag salute to enable her to have that honor for us tonight moving on to item 5.0 report of action in closed session there is no action to report from closed session item 6.0 recognition and awards tonight we have the great pleasure of recognizing mr kimball coburn and his lawson studio 26 students mr coburn if you could join your team at the podium please testing one two check hot mike hot mike uh yeah my name is kimball coburn um and if i get a little emotional it's because i just finished watching this is us um and it was a pretty tough episode so uh i want to first of all thank you all for all your support for studio 26 all these years that we've been doing this we're in our 12th year um it's a it's a unique place if you haven't been there and even if you have everybody has kind of a different take on what we do uh it's not just a video editing program we learn about technical stuff computer stuff um it has to do with uh with thinking and creativeness and critical thinking um it has to do with uh all the things that we learn about in you know school about they were going to be teachers all the maslow and the blooms and all that stuff but what i love about it is even though it may not we may not use all the the correct buzzwords and things like that the one word that really describes uh studio 26 is genuine um it's a place where where students can be creative and in a genuine way it's not a school program in fact we try to make it i try to make it less like school i'm sorry if i offend you guys uh because we are school um but i want it to be less like school and more like like a creative state a real learning studio where people can um can express themselves and do things and think in a different way than they're used to thinking in a classroom and that's what i love about this project that we were involved in is because of studio 26 we uh with the help of this team and i'm glad you referred to him as a team because we really are a team we were able to produce a commercial for steggy's pizza anything okay shaky species that's cute we did a commercial but you have to understand the uh this wasn't a school project this was a commercial for a national uh organization right that went out on their social media and uh starting with this quick just interviewing someone from shakies about marketing we were just interested in marketing and making a commercial and what would it take to make a commercial so we we did we connect we knocked around some ideas and we uh we arranged to pitch those ideas to shakey's visa and so the students got up on through via zoom and we pitched there they pitched the ideas uh shakies loved them and made a couple of tweaks and suggestions to us and we went back and rewrote and and we worked on to work that out and uh and so then we they said great do it we'll get we'll get these out there for you so they were able to actually use our commercials we had their support uh we didn't get paid any money for it we did it because we wanted to for the experience um but we we had a great time doing it and uh and i'm sure the students will want to share some of that with you i think someone told me that they were going to be showing those commercials to us right now so let's take a look at it and then we can have a work from our students here audio [Music] wow [Music] hi equals 3.1415926535 [Music] darlene pie shakies [Music] [Applause] i like you i'd like to introduce you this team we have denise we have ramon we have marguerite we have darlene right here students did they uh at least give you a free pizza and yeah got a lot of so how did you feel making that commercial well it was a great opportunity it was really so you know we got experience you got to learn a lot of new things you know um no your students did really good good now you guys have marketing experience underneath your belt that that's awesome um did you guys film uh when you guys were filming did you guys do a lot of outtakes did you guys have to memorize uh who thought of uh just the script oh there was kind of a lot of mistakes you made because we're tortured but i think it all worked out but it wasn't did you guys write down your script or was it just like play by here well we wrote down a script and then we made a screenplay so we like we had a plan but and also the young lady that was eating the pizza in math class is that what you do in math class did it help you out you kids did a real a fine job thank you mr coburn always your students since day one they always come through on congratulations of the board of education cabinet and staff we congratulate your accomplishment it's an amazing opportunity for young people to showcase their talent and to follow their dreams mr coburn if you could join uh me and my colleagues and cabinet here for a photo opportunity we'd love to memorialize this moment with a photo yeah all of them yes you and your team one thing i i did want to express my gratitude to mr colbert i i think the opportunities that you bring with this program are just priceless and i want to thank you for that for exposing our students to opportunities that um they probably would not get somewhere else and i can't wait to for you to be at the at the middle school at the grant at the no it's the the the new middle school when you bring your program and i can't i can't wait to see what that looks like thank you and i just wanted to say something uh mr copeland because you talked about how you try to make it not be like school i think you're i think you're making it exactly like school the way it should be i think that is school right that's i mean we know that's the way kids learn the best right they're hands-on to experience so i mean the more we do this across all of our grades i think you're a model for what we what we want to happen in all our classes thank you i'm moving on to item 6.2 mr von kyo for presentation of manager of the year 2122 yes thank you board vice president board of education members cabinet staff and of course our guests i have the honor of starting off the formal recognition of our managers of the year our managers include site and district administrators coordinators directors assistant directors psychologists and confidential employees and their work spans throughout the entire district but the one unifying quality is leadership leadership involves vision courage and most of all a deep compassion for the people and students that one serves and lead leaders have vision includes imagination foresight knowledge of people themselves policy in the law courage is also a quality that leaders must possess it's that internal fortitude that is required to continue to move forward when it's difficult or unpopular and courage is displayed on engaging in difficult conversation but most of all leadership requires a deep and unshakeable passion for people it's not just about the relationship it's taking a sincere interest in the people once served board of education and guests i'm happy to report that we have an outstanding team of leaders that make up our management team picking just one person to serve as a manager of the year is an incredibly difficult path in a moment you will hear about the finalists of the managers of the year they all possess the qualities of a leader that um that i just discussed in their responses to our questions they spoke about students who work with staff and teachers parents and our community as well as their genuine interests for our school district these finalists spoke about challenges they faced and have overcome and each of them spoke with such grace and gratitude for the work that they do each and every day before i turn it over to our cabinet members i want you to know that this type of leadership just doesn't happen this type of leadership is modeled over time it's cultivated and cared for and ultimately becomes part of our culture these values are certainly demonstrated by our manager of the year finalist and now i'd like to turn it over to our assistant superintendent of business services to introduce our first finalist mr mall good evening everyone i am honored to speak and introduce you all to mr brian jeffrey allen who we call b allen in the business division i'm brian joined the ausd family beginning in um 2021 um he brought to our family 26 years of facility management and construction experience i'm during this interview process brian was unique and our process was unique we were looking for someone who had a vision that could actually come in and help us move our campuses forward and not just be a task manager so one of the tasks was we actually took our candidates to one of our facilities and they were charged with identifying things that needed to be improved based on their expertise and recommendation and i would have to say brian was one of the ones that was able to identify everything that we thought needed to be improved and things that we didn't uncover um brian has also had an intricate part of improving the morale in the mlt department um this has been shared with me on several occasions for miss lori ray our cca president additionally he has the leadership and vision that we have been looking for to always be a part of our team um one thing that brian will do he's boots on the ground he's not a top-down leader um you will rarely find him in his office unless he's forced to be in a google meet meeting um but he is also the one that will volunteer to do something that he can't do like deep-fried turkey on thanksgiving and we had to have burnt turkey but in addition to all that throughout all the brian's achievements and um accomplishments and the morale he's improved on um his greatest accomplishment is actually his family his pride and joy is his children and his wife um and it's been an honor to write this journey with ausd of having brian on my team mr macho [Music] good evening i am truly honored to recognize lisa allen as educational services manager of the year first and foremost lisa is a mother to her two sons and daughter-in-law lisa began her career in azusa unified as secretary to the categorical office during that time she led the office and supported the office through two successful program monitoring reviews dr martin luther king jr said if a man is called to be a street sweeper he should sweep streets even as michelangelo painted or beethoven composed music or shakespeare wrote poetry he should he should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say here lived a great sweet street sweeper who did his job well i believe that lisa carries these words in her heart when she comes to work each and every day lisa leads by example her energy level is unmatched she has the stamina of a marathon runner and when it comes to taking on tasks and completing projects she is tenacious in ensuring things are completed and all her eyes are dotted and her t's are crossed lisa's greatest asset lies in her interpersonal skills she is patient and kind and her professional demeanor with all staff is valued and appreciated perhaps of even greater importance in lisa we have a daily role model of a person of integrity and honor who gives her finest effort and excellence to any and all given task lisa has many gifts and talents from which we all benefit please joining me please join me in honoring miss lisa allen as educational services manager for you now to introduce our district manager of the year our superintendent mr ortega thank you mr ronkill it is my distinct pleasure to be able to be able to speak about jeanette flores our district manager of the year janette came to azusa unified school district uh as the principal of murray elementary school in the 2018-2019 school year at that time jeanette was new to the azusa team it was her first principalship and to top it all off she was going to have to follow norma camacho as the principal of murray elementary school the saint nola camacho that's sitting here to my left in the four years since she has been at murray elementary school through pandemics [Music] and through loss jeanette has been a leader a learner and a partner jeanette has served on the p3cc leadership team that is the team that is dedicated to increasing math student achievement in our preschool through third grade level students jeanette is also currently joining her staff as a as a learner and as as a supporter of our sobrador early academic language seal implementation as a principal she is extremely hands-on supporting her students her parent community and her staff in any way that she can with her administrative colleagues jeanette is collaborative she is giving and she is supporting she's always willing to assist and help in any way possible as i have had many awesome opportunities to visit murray elementary school i can assure you that jeanette always has the school community's best interest at heart and they rally and they support her as well it could not have been any clearer than the morning we were able to go to murray elementary school to surprise jeanette with the announcement that she had been selected as the manager of the year while jeanette herself might have been surprised and trying to take it all in the news her staff displayed joy uh they provided smiles and hugs and congratulations and pride in their eyes all affirmations of why jeanette flores is our manager of the year congratulations jeanette [Applause] at this time we'd like to uh invite you to the podium and now she can introduce her family members uh who are here to cheer her on uh and her staff that's your children cheer her on as well thank you before miss jeannette speaks i'd like to present jeanette with the plaque uh recognizing her as this year's manager of the year if you could take a look at the pictures he's already gracing our our district boardroom congratulations [Music] thank you everybody here with me tonight i have my mama [Music] i have my daughter samantha my son austin my hubby mr flores i have my awesome team and my cheerleaders in the background miss martha and miss vicki and i have my awesome one-two seal teacher miss vivian morales thank you so much for being ahead tonight and i also have my awesome friend miss adriana garcia medina four years ago i came to azusa nervous and excited i'm gonna put my glasses on real quick i was nervous about leaving the district where i started my career as a classroom teacher and went on to begin my admin career to a district where there were some familiar faces but did not know where i would fit or if i would fit what can i what i can say from the very first time that i stood before the board to this day that i stand before you i have been nothing but happy thank you board and cabinet for giving me the opportunity to lead a school in this district that believes that every student will be equipped with the knowledge and skills for college and career and will fulfill their purpose and positively impact society the first day that i walked onto my my school site i fell in love i fell in love with the with the with my amazing and dedicated staff and their genuine love for our students i was impressed with the level of talent they possessed with how hard they work and how willing they are to go beyond the school day for our students i fell in love with my students as a daughter of immigrant parents i saw myself in them i saw and still see excitement vibrant futures and endless opportunities and i fell in love with my community it was the beginning of the school year and my liaison was hosting a parent meeting she asked me to visit the parent room which i intended to do because she wanted to introduce me to our parents and to my surprise they welcomed me with a bouquet of flowers and a potluck lunch they welcomed me and expressed how happy they were that i was there as their principal they had such faith in me and my leadership that i knew that i could not let them down since then it has been my greatest pride to lead murray thank you marie staff students and parents for believing in me and for allowing me to lead our school this has not been an easy journey nor has it been one that i've walked alone i've had the support of my family i am blessed to have a colleague my as gary puts it domestic associate my husband mr antonio flores who is always there for me and after a long day of highs and lows and many challenges he still has to go home and listen to me after my long day and then respond to me when i say are you listening to me thank you for making me laugh when i want to cry for listening when all i need is for someone to listen and for offering advice and words of wisdom when i can't seem to find the answer you make me better and together we are the best i love you [Music] to my kids who have been my cheerleaders in the background as i lead my school who keep me on my toes and who keep me young i think and who push me to look at things from different perspectives thank you thank you for your patience with me and for happily picking up chick-fil-a when i won't be home in time to make dinner you are my inspiration to my parents my mom and dad who came to this country without knowing the language or what to expect who worked so hard so that my brother and i would get an education and achieve what they couldn't for having high standards and holding me accountable for pushing me to always do better and for teaching me not to settle to always look for what's next where can i go from here i thank you for your support your words of wisdom and for believing in me i thank you and my brother who's not here but he he and i are very competitive and one cannot be better than the other which means i have to work hard so thanks to him for motivating me and always having my back [Music] to my long time colleague neighbor teacher mentor and friend adriana thank you for all of the experiences we have shared i have learned so much from you and hope to still learn more to arturo dana and norma you all have been such a pillar of inspiration and support thank you for allowing me to ask questions for answering my texts or phone calls and for modeling what a good leader is i could not have done this without your guidance guidance kindness and support i believe that my personal experiences have led me to this district and to my school i get up in the morning for my students i am motivated and excited to go to work because i get to help students of immigrant parents who are learning the english language who are low income and are learning how to navigate their life in a country not their own this is where i belong and where i want to make a difference i want to plan seeds in my students that will turn into big dreams and a bright future thank you azuza for taking a chance on me for welcoming me with open arms and for allowing me to become a part of the azusa family there is nowhere else that i would rather be thank you [Applause] and now i'd like to welcome ms donna perligon from schools first credit union present ms flores with an award hi so congratulations congratulations to all the nominees and on office and i'm sorry i i i skipped the spot because i was so nervous but i want to go back to this because it's important um i wanted to start by saying i'm both humbled and thrilled to stand before you along with my very dedicated and talented colleague lisa allen and brian allen to go above and beyond for our district schools and students behind the scenes and whose work is instrumental to the success of our schools to you both i want to say congratulations because you're both very deserving and there's more and on behalf of uh melissa apantar our friend from foothill credit union who could not make this meeting today i was asked to provide even explorers with a 100 check and certificate from foothill credit union aboard vice president i'll turn it over to you thank you congratulations miss flores and to all of our nominees i think you've shown that leadership doesn't happen without the support of family and friends and you all wear the responsibility of leadership so well you make it look easy uh will you join us here for a photo opportunity with your family can we um say something yeah thank you um i want to congratulate all the nominees uh for manager of the year brian and lisa well deserved i also want to congratulate mrs flores for manager of the year 2022.

my name is mia thompson and i have the pleasure of starting off the ceremony today by recognizing the honored guests in attendance first the d20 school board mr thomas lavalley president mr will tembe vice president mrs heather cloninger treasurer mrs nicole kontz director and mr aaron salt director next central administration mr j thomas gregory superintendent and dr jim smith assistant superintendent for planning and engagement special guest mr brett smith the former timberview middle school principal and current chief operations officer and finally liberty high school administration mrs melissa hernandez dean and student interventionist mr jody jones dean and student interventionist mr scott manchester assistant principal and athletic director ms kelly hoyle assistant principal mr michael sibley assistant principal ms leanne thiessen assistant principal activities director and the class of 2022 administrator and mr alan timmight principal thank you all so much for being in attendance today as we celebrate and recognize liberty high school's class of before we move on i would like to take a moment to highlight a specific guest listed earlier who has made all the difference in my high school career ms leanne thiessen we both arrived at liberty in 2019 which was my sophomore year i imagine we were both experiencing many of the same feelings nervous hoping everyone would like us excited knowing many opportunities awaited us i don't think either one of us expected to go online just a semester later one thing i can attest to knowing however is that when fellow students and i faltered struggling to find a motivation to be engaged learners through remote classes she was a constant reminding me that a little bit of hope goes a long way and sure enough she was right we slowly began to return to in-person learning during which ms thiessen further proved that she was always up for the task at hand regardless of the circumstance every morning she would stand at the front doors of the school and as i approached her she would say hello mia how are you doing today it's amazing how something as small as that can make all the difference the fact that she always knew my name always smiled and always asked me how i was doing and i was not the only one she would stand at those doors until class started each morning greeting people by name and welcoming them to the school so i would like to extend a personal thank you miss thiessen you have been a light in my life these past three years and i know you will continue to make a difference in the lives of liberties of students at liberty high school the events of the past few days have reminded me that every moment we have is temporary every conversation could be our last and not only should we but we must appreciate the people in our lives i sat in mr woodson's classroom on friday and um we laughed about the fact that i had passed this semester with an a in his statistics class i had spent a large portion of my free time doing test corrections in his class because statistics simply didn't make sense to me but i was relieved i got an a and he told me that he was proud of me and that he knew i could do well in his class because i was willing to put in the work um that was the very last conversation i had with him he was the kind of person who could always brighten your day and he reminds me that we must appreciate all those who have an effect on us and we must remember to say thank you as we continue with the rest of the ceremony i'd like to thank the honored guests for their presence here today and for their service to the class of 2022 thank you hello parents family members teachers staff and graduates my name is sadie delang as a member of a military family i have moved a lot in fact when i rolled up to liberty my senior year that was my fourth high school in just as many years at first i was terrified about what moving before my senior year entailed but i was met with an unexpected soft landing this was due in part to all of my teachers who met with me for countless after hours after school to help me understand challenging material who gave me reasons to smile on hard days and made the classroom a safe environment and who went beyond their classroom job description and attended sporting events concerts musicals and more they aren't getting paid for that a teacher is much more than someone standing at a chalkboard drilling e equals m c squared into our heads and their impact reverberates far outside the classroom educators have helped all of us to grow both as students and as people and to not just tolerate learning but to love it i would also be remiss if i fail to recognize the amazing staff of liberty high school on our first day of senior year we had an assembly where in our excitement we launched powder and confetti cannons creating an unholy mess i am in debt of those who cleaned up said mess thank you custodians of lhs i must also express gratitude to our amazing office staff who greeted us with smiles even after we showed up late again to the first period and always offered candy and thank you to the dedicated coaches paraprofessionals and all other staff members who made this year possible the time our staff spent at the school after teachers and kids had left the building did not go unnoticed though today we are here to celebrate the graduating class of 2022.

his students won monetary prizes and scholarships and built bridge building contests and design contests mr bartels and his drafting students actually designed the tech wing addition to rampart and he was the project manager for the school as the wing was built he also developed a relationship with el paso county contractors and has been awarded close to twenty thousand dollars in grant money for rampart over the years he is a firm believer believer in learning by doing and he was the lead for college and career technical education for several years he is a gentleman and a scholar and his students love his drafting class his favorite thing about rampart is the relationships he has built with colleagues and students mr casey bartel [Applause] for 30 years aixa maldonado has worked as a spanish teacher she started her career in 1989 after graduating from st mary's college while her husband was stationed at fort leavenworth kansas due to her husband's military career she has lived in europe south america in five different states kansas new mexico new york alabama texas and colorado in district 20 she worked at timber view middle school mountain ridge middle school and rampart high school in 2010 miss maldonado received the jarrett polis foundation teacher award every year the foundation has honored 10 hard-working effective and caring colorado public school teachers during the first week of may according to her colleagues her work ethic is very impressive she is always diligent and thorough miss maldonado has always shared materials fostered togetherness and teamwork led by example and all things that she has done and she found time to host gatherings within the building for language acquisition teams as well as other co-workers miss maldonado has served district committees for 25 years her dedication to her school family and community are exemplary a native speaker from puerto rico miss maldonado has always enjoyed teaching and sharing the language music and culture of her native country mrs aixa maldonado [Applause] we also want to recognize tonight miss maria rodriguez came to colorado springs in 1991 moving here as a military family she was hired in academy school district 20 in 1994 as a campus security officer and was also an assistant varsity cheer coach and game manager for a variety of sports mr rodriguez came to rampart in 1913 or 2013 as a security officer and in 2017 became rampart's attendance secretary after 28 years mrs rodriguez says that she is ready to start a new journey in her life to travel a lot and spend time enjoying her family she says that she will leave rampart with lots of great memories miss maria rodriguez [Music] [Applause] i would also like to recognize tonight miss ann beacon who passed away recently ann beacon served as an ssn paraprofessional at rampart for 25 years she was a caring and thoughtful member of our community who loved everyone and made it her mission to make a difference in the lives of everyone she encountered we find peace in knowing that she is cheering us as we celebrate our students tonight on behalf of rampart administration parents and students i thank each of you for your dedication and service to rampart high school you have made a difference for students in and out of the classroom thank you [Applause] we import faculty you are now invited to please take your place on the floor with our seniors for the commencement exercise of honoring the class of 2022 [Applause] i now give you your senior class president and your student body president grace cons and jacob walker [Applause] friends family staff and graduates it is an honor to celebrate with you all at the class of 2022's commencement ceremony this day has been a long time coming parents i bet you are wondering where all the time went so are we from the start of kindergarten it has been 4 658 days until now 658 days of growth connection struggle and hope although during our school years it may have felt like it took forever to get through looking back on those days makes it seem like time passed by too quickly especially senior year the last few months of senior year are hectic nobody wants to think about the lasts our last football game exam assembly mosh pit or essay our last spirit week and the hardest our last bell at 2 45 and our last time walking out of those doors emotions fly high and we want to hang on to every second it doesn't really hit you then in just a few weeks seeing each other will potentially need a road trip we want to cherish the memories with the people that we have been with for years although we have been anticipating this day for many months we are scared for this journey to end this closes an era for us in our jetpack joyride and musically an air of silly bands and fidget spinners an are of cheesy breadsticks and otter pops in our high school career alone we went through covid windstorms breaking windows in the school and political divide yet we also were number one for baltimore bucks in the nation every single year [Applause] we won multiple state and national championships we continued to have world-class academics we got closer we rose above we may be sad about the end of this age but we have so much more to look forward to after walking one giant road we are going off on 351 unique paths however this is not the end this is just where we get to choose our own way class of 2022 create your own paths be authentically you don't take things for granted make your mark live each day like it's your last congratulations [Applause] first off i want to thank all of our teachers and administrators for making this event possible i also want to thank every single family member here today who supported us through this 12-year journey without every single one of you we wouldn't be here today celebrating our achievements together as grace said i know this feels like the end of an era and it is but that doesn't mean we lose connection with these people who we have spent so much of our lives with after this we will all be heading our own separate ways some going to colleges in and out of state some to trade schools and some simply forging their own paths in life we'll all be out in the world in our own communities but that doesn't mean that we still won't be connected we've been thrown into a world full of technology that allows us some amazing opportunities now i know i know technology has led to challenges and opportunities but the opportunities we have been presented with are astounding we have the ability to talk to somebody halfway across the globe so no matter where you go what you do reach out talk to your fellow rams we are and always will be ramps now i can't really address how much our class has grown and changed without addressing the elephant in the room spongebob being in the 2019 halftime show in all seriousness though the kova 19 pandemic has been a huge part of our high school careers as nearly a ninth of our entire life has been spent living through a historic event to but to quote that insanely cliche quote when the going get tough the tough get going well the going got tough heck the going still is tough and we're still going we are moving forward in the world we are the tough we have experienced something that no other class has experienced we successfully navigated high school a building full of stress and acne while also navigating through unprecedented times as the media likes to say not only did we navigate through a pandemic but we started the road in rebuilding we seniors have been able to give bring our school back and give it a sense of normalcy we were able to rebuild events for years to come all the while crafting and changing those events to be as positive and inclusive as possible sure there may never be the same normal as we once knew but we created a new level of excellency and i for one like it a whole lot better now i want to end this speech off with a quote that got me through a lot of high school life is short future doesn't come with any guarantees you want something in life you gotta go for it every single one of you here today graduates parents siblings that one aunt that you only see at family gatherings you know the one pinches your cheek and calls you cute you know how true this is class of 2022 what we have persevered through what we have triumphed through is truly remarkable we wanted something in life and we went for it and i know that we are going to go for it every single day because that is who we are we are the tough we are the perseverant we are ramstrong and we are ramparts class of 2022.

[Music] i'm a bit concerned about the tc1 parking language that was just shared i do not believe the residents of ann arbor anticipated parking decks going in across the tc1 designated area it was promoted for transit-oriented development basis to foster the greater use of bus transit and i put a note out there 3500 to 5500 housing units could be established across that area using a transit oriented district um standards um six-story structures um could easily be accommodated uh to meet that density and it would foster enough transit use uh for essentially a self-functioning independent aata that doesn't require subsidies if you go through all of the tc1 districts that are anticipated across the city so i would ask that that language be reconsidered so that it is not fostering the use of parking decks as seen to be in in that statement in that language uh thank you very much i really believe we need to push for sustainable development transit oriented development and not more parking decks thank you no other speakers indicated all righty sing no other speakers i will close the public hearing and read the proposed motion the anniversary planning commission hereby recommends that the mayor and city council approve the amendments to chapter 55 unified development codes sections 5.16 and 5.19 regarding proposed modifications to the city's off-street parking requirements moved by commissioner hammerschmidt second in by commissioner dish a discussion for the proposed motion commissioner dish i want i i have a question so let me walk through something and make sure that i fully fully fully understand it so we have a form based limit on the amount of surface parking that is built into the tc one district oh is it i mean yes sorry i'm very sorry um so we have our form based limit on parking built into the tc1 district if a developer were to come to us wanting to build something not in the state in eisenhower tc1 district which we have zoned we've officially zoned but rather on packard and their project required a site plan they weren't just taking over something that existed the form-based limit would or would not apply to their project the only place oh i'm sorry brett no no problem uh the only place the forum based limit would apply is any property zone tc1 so we right now just state eisenhower correct okay um so i think that this this district has a lot of goals in it and that's why it's been so hard to figure out what's the right combination of everything so yes we want to both make use of transit on corridors where there is transit and where transit can be expanded easily so we want to both make use of and stimulate the provision of more transit that's that's a goal we want mixed use so we're hoping to get not just residences although i think we wouldn't be unhappy if that's all we got but again to really move people or or facilitate people choosing a less car intensive lifestyle you need services near you and you need fun stuff to do near you um and and you need yes easy transit to your job but near you you're going to need grocery stores and excellent bars without televisions and other fine fine things in vegan restaurants too um and so we want mixed use we want uh we want transit we want people to make use of transit um and we want to bring folks who are commuters we want to give them a place to live in the city so um [Music] do we so our big you know we've had a big discussion about the limit on essentially structured parking because or rather i should say we've had a big discussion about the parking maximum do we need a parking maximum in addition to the form-based limit i think we talked about it this last time we were a little confused last time because we because we didn't understand how the two worked together but at this point i think it's clear that the parking maximum of three per thousand square feet of far is an additional limit on top of the form-based limit and it is also a limit that is neutral with respect to use and staff is proposing a limit that's neutral with respect to use in order to facilitate development that includes services as well as residences another way to achieve that kind of permissiveness so that we could get office spaces to convert to housing or whatever the other conversions we imagined would be possible would be simply not to have a maximum over and above the form based limit certainly one of our goals is to reduce impervious surface and the form-based limit does that there are other limiting factors that constrain the provision of structured parking and that is notably the expense of it and it it seems to me that in the models that staff had provided in the previous report that we received there are a number of different approaches everybody agrees we get rid of parking minimums but there are a number of different approaches to figuring out maximums figuring out what they should be whether they should be you specific and if they're not used use specific what would a one size fits all maximum b should it be three should it be two um i think it's worth considering uh taking that taking the maximum out for tc1 knowing that we have the form-based limit and knowing that the expense of providing structured parking will contin will nobody has nobody has an incentive to over provide and we would be able to gather data on what we're seeing and what we're getting and move forward from there so i just wanted to put that on the table for consideration i'm happy to have obviously commissioners respond uh staff respond i'm always open to hearing from people who've been thinking about this a lot longer than i have i think the the other thing about this these areas is that nobody can charge the rents that they would need to charge in order to be able to build structured parking because basically structured parking works downtown because it's so expensive to build it um so in some ways we're sort of like they can do it if they want to and maybe it'll become that incredible but i think it's going to be pretty hard to truly pull that off in terms of in terms of that so in some ways we're just by doing the limiting of the footprint thing it's an i think it's an interesting question like what you know to um commissioner hammerschmidt has a really concerned look on her face and i'm wondering if she wants to raise her hand or if we or commissioner abrams if you have something that's more informed i'm just trying to like figure out the benefit of removing a maximum or like what the i'm just trying to think through where's commissioner sobe in her math when i need her i just don't really i'm just trying to understand like what do you see is the benefit of removing a maximum my my sense of it and i'm just riffing here is that it would allow more flexibility in terms of the use on the first floor um if there's retail because to commissioner dish's point if you wanted to be able to put a grocery store on the first floor it's pretty hard to pull that off with i mean you could do it but there's certainly no grocery stores in that arbor that have that kind of ratio and so you're you're you're kind of skewing towards a certain use i think with that now that's with our current use now and i totally get it that we are trying to move in the direction of more transit oriented um development here but um it's it's it i think there's power in the kind of the like you know we're keeping it super flexible by this one to 333 business but i just did some counting of parking you know and uh and i i remember was it i don't know if it was mr connor mr quality somebody was saying i think it was mr khan last like a few times ago when we talked about this talked about grocery stores being more like you know being yeah it was it was higher you know than what that is and so are we are we limiting the kind of freedom for people to kind of let what needs to happen on on that retail level i don't know it's an interesting question commissioner abrams i think i'm going to come at this from the opposite point of view which is to say that i think there are certain kinds of suburban model grocery stores like a meyer or a kroger that want that kind of parking ratio i think these quarters are more appropriate for something like the food co-op or argus farm stop or places that either have no parking or very little parking and i think you can still make a market style retail space work without giving over to a kind of suburban style development and i think for me i mean i still i've been saying this i would like to see parking maximums on our work plan um i'm gonna bring it up later that it's in the future but doesn't have a date so and i think if we are hopefully moving towards a kind of city-wide maybe use neutral parking maximum approach then i don't think we should remove it now i think we should try it or have it in there as a kind of precedent it feels like we're moving the wrong way to remove the maximum in my mind and so because what i'm also concerned about are not just developments in the tc1 but you know all that all the places that are not tc1 so i think there's a for me there's a kind of urgency to think consider a maximum generally um and it's true that the form-based code already restricts the tc one so it may not be the most urgent place to have it but i don't for me it doesn't i don't see the i don't feel compelled to remove it i guess um to accommodate the kind of grocery store model that's me when i was doing my um when i was kind of looking at possibilities i looked at whole foods which i have often been to when there is no parking there and i'm waiting in the parking lot too the one on washtenaw um and uh so i was not looking so much at like the the kroger on stadium or you know things like that or whatever on maple i guess um i i have heard through the grapevine that the co-op is slowly bleeding in terms of their ability to be able to do what they're doing i know for a while that that space that was right that's right next to argus farms that's that empty space that is now kind of taken up by um art whatever that that was sort of thought to i think this is again rumor not me i was not part of that development but i remember people envisioning it as a grocery store thing and nobody has touched it so um and argus i think is it is kind of a different animal in some ways and in that it's like right in the middle of a neighborhood but at the same time you know we and it's right on the way to downtown where a lot of people are are walking and and driving too um [Music] so like is there a sweet spot does it really matter in some ways i don't know like like to your point like does it matter that like should we just kind of keep a maximum and and then that just sort of gets at what we're i guess i'm truly kind of i don't know where i land on this yeah but i do think it's an interesting thing to consider and that's given that we have the form-based piece of the footprint part that you can't just build you know a massive parking lot because you are automatically limited by that in the previous staff report from the last meeting they gave us the statistics for the different for some of these um developments and the whole foods on washington is on there and so the just as a reference point at the current tc1 max they would be allowed 384 spots and what's currently there is 411.

but we have to adopt a propose and adopt in june so we will make the decision about what our budget balance carry forward will be for the proposed budget that will most likely be based upon our may 31st end of the month data okay so the next slide is what we consider our enterprise funds these are the funds that we expect to operate without impacting the district controlled budgets negatively they are expected to support themselves so the biggest change is on nutrition services where the estimated resources the estimated revenues have actually increased substantially we've seen a very very significant increase in participation due to the universal breakfast free breakfast and lunch program and so you can see that our available balance we're expecting at the end of this year to be just under four million dollars and that's all i have to share this evening uh miss bets i do have one question what do you anticipate for next year since that universal free and reduced lunch will go away i mean basically sorry not reduced free lunch and breakfast will be going away according to the federal government so we've been working on that we are taking a look at our last normal year which was the 1819 school year trying to look at our meal participation the those that were reimbursed they're still going to be the national school lunch program and still eligible individuals and families will still be eligible for the free breakfast and free lunch but we are looking at our budget capacity and expected revenues going into next year we're doing that right now and that will be reflective of our proposed budget as well all right thank you i would encourage families to fill that form out because it's very important that we have that information and we can help those that need it yep that's great thank you board members yes mr parker how do you anticipate reduced numbers when the launches go away or we we do we do anticipate uh significant reductions um we also will receive less reimbursement for those that are on free and juice lunch because of the universal free breakfast and lunch we have received something in the neighborhood of four dollars and fifty cents per meal we are anticipating that to go down to three dollars and sixty cents per meal so that would be a significant reduction there as well um and then also we plan on keeping our nutrition services meal prices the same as they were in the 1920 school year before the pandemic hit so we are considering all those is where we're proposing our budget for next year all right thank you anything else remembers okay thank you miss betts we appreciate that report we will now move to the consent agenda 7.01 may i have a motion for the approval of consent agenda items please i move that we approve the consent agenda item is presented thank you miss humphries and thank you mr parker it's been moved and seconded that we approve the consent agenda items as presented all those in favor please vote by saying aye aye aye any opposed with nay it passes 5-0 thank you we will now move to the action items um in 8.0 and we will begin with 8.01 the asber proposed 2023 political agenda which is humphrey's requested is put on the uh agenda tonight so mrs humphries um i will go ahead and make a motion but then we can just discuss so i make a motion that we put forward five items to be considered as our priorities for the um asba legislative committee um political agenda but should we put the priorities should we well i think that's that's what we can discuss i'm just making a motion that we put forward five items okay and then we can discuss and decide which ones we want to put forward okay there's a motion on the table is there a second second thank you it's been moved and seconded let's discuss um so i'll go first i i went through the political political agenda that was put forward for the current legislative session and i just picked out some items that i thought were priorities for me and if someone has something different i'm happy to to entertain that so my and these are not necessarily an order of priority just the ones that i picked out was fully fun fall day kindergarten it's been over 10 years we had full day kindergarten we moved it to be fully funded and in the great recession that was one of the cuts made to education and it has not been restored so to me that's a priority the second one was index district additional assistance funding for inflation that is currently done for the charter schools but it's not done for the district school so when they fully respond restore district additional assistance it's back to i think about 2009 based on numbers from 2009 so i think that is something that really needs some attention i number three priority for me was provide funding for preschool we know that when kids have quality preschool they're much more ready for school the fourth one i picked was districts all districts should be able to provide affordable housing as a benefit and that is something that rural districts concurrently currently can provide but as we know housing prices in our area have certainly gone up in this last year or two and so i think it might be a benefit to explore that but the law has to change before we can even explore that as a governing board um and then the fifth one was using state standardized tests as measurement of student growth only so that it's not um it's used only as a tool to improve student learning so those were my five priorities and if anyone else has something they want to share um i'd be happy to consider it and then we can put those priorities forward and board members so some friends i do have a question about the the one with the um all districts provide affordable housing would that i know you just said it would require a change in the law is that correct yes so currently rural and remote districts can provide that as a benefit but urban and suburban districts cannot so before we could consider anything as a district um there would need to be a change at the in the law at the legislature now and would you include with that some type of funding this in the political agenda doesn't necessarily incorporate asking for funding but i i know there are i attended a a session at asba and i'm trying to think it was probably at the annual conference where they were discussing this there are groups who are working on this the former superintendent of peoria is involved in trying to help schools to use this as a benefit for helping their districts and their teachers okay thank you any further discussion madam president i would encourage us to entertain bullet number two under revised school finance formula two and then there are several sub-categories as one of our five given the fact that there is a great deal of tinkering that goes on with school finance and school budgeting at a level above ours could you yeah could you read that please i'm not sure so we can write down what you what you were saying exactly miss humphreys uh enumerated five oh oh number two then and i'm looking at number two bullet under adequate and equitable funding okay that says revise the school finance formula two and then there are some bullets there okay uh i would i would add that as a number six and uh encourage us to substitute this for one of the five okay uh which one would you like which one would you prefer to be removed of those i mean for me i think we could substitute that for provide funding for preschool or the affordable housing or state standardized tests only for growth only measurement of growth only which one of those would you prefer to i think that although i'm a fan of budgeting for preschools i think the funding formula for school finance could incorporate the preschool funding if done correctly okay then we'll just i'll just cross that one off and we will put in um and i'll just make some notes so that gabby can read my scroll and put it and send it off to asba for revising the school finance formula any further input do we need to vote on this thing so so i'll amend my motion to put forward that we put forward these priorities to the the asba legislative committee consideration uh foley full day kindergarten index daa funding for inflation revise the school finance formula districts provide affordable housing and state standardized tests as measurement of student growth only and then i would ask for a vote on those five priorities could you add anything about the preschool funding at all and or you would just because of um well i can put additional items for consideration so i could add it but i'm talking about putting it under the the one that dr santa cruz just talked about oh okay i i could add that in yes i could say um also addressing preschool preschool funding that way we would make that statement and it still would be under the or within the five uh statements that we are allowed is that correct yes that that would that would do it so we can do that so um then i guess i wouldn't if everyone's in consensus on these five priorities then we can go ahead and vote uh miss you judy do you amend your second to the second did i i thought it was you that second in mississippi yeah if the was me i did i am ending it okay so it's been moved and seconded that we approve the asba proposed 2023 political agenda as described by mrs humphries all those in favor please vote aye aye any opposed nay nay could i please explain my vote though i'm not opposed to some of these priorities that we've said in any way i am i am concerned about some of the priorities and the way that asba has moved away from things that i believe is are the priorities of our board and district in our focus to educate our students and to keep that our main focus so that would be my vote so that passes 4-1 thank you we will now move to 8.02 gifted scope and sequence if we could have dr mccord thank you madam president governing board members tonight we asked uh you approve our gifted scope and sequence uh per ars 15-779.02 uh we need your approval for this we also have dr newman here to help explain any portions of that that you need explain thank you dr mccord may i have a motion on 8.02 gifted scope and sequence i move that we accept the gifted scope and sequence as presented thank you miss you jetty dr santa cruz okay dr santa cruz thank you for the second is there any discussion well i do think we ought to ask a few questions um i've had a lot of discussion with dr newman on this and i really appreciate the amount of work that has been put into this it's important that all of our kids be challenged at the level that they can they can reach so that they can really develop their potential and i think it's really important for our gifted kids who might need a little different challenge or a little more challenge that they also receive that so i i asked my questions previously but does anyone else have a question board members does anybody else have a question maybe dr newman if you want to just give a really brief yeah uh overview or summary of what this what prompted this to be done and then just a quick overview of what it is i guess sure good evening madam president governing board members and dr mccord the statute requires that every five years we do need to update and provide a governing board approval of our scope and sequence for gifted education so that was what the purpose for us doing it we're now at our fifth year we did make some small changes not substantive changes but some that related to eligibility for example we wanted to be sure that our students who are eligible for gifted services that eligibility aligned with what the definition is in arizona so students who are eligible in any of the gifted areas verbal nonverbal or quantitative those students will receive gifted services at whatever that looks like at that grade level in addition to that we also wanted to be sure that we updated our terminology previously we've referred to our gifted as our accelerated learning program and really we wanted to start calling it gifted and look at as we look more so at acceleration but really looking at our whole at the whole child and the gifted child and what those needs are i just have two quick questions one is about eligibility and if is there regular testing at our elementary schools or how do we do that and if a parent wants to test is there a test outside of that or how can we accommodate that i guess i'll start with that question sure we have blanket testing we moved it to grade two what we realized is we had more students that were able to become eligible because there was less of a requirement of reading and we wanted to be sure that our non-verbal students had opportunities as well so we found we used to do blanket testing in the older grades and we thought they would be more important and we are showing that more students are becoming eligible through our blanket testing at second grade in addition to that we want to be sure that with that gifted testing when students are eligible as i mentioned before it used to be in our scope and sequence for on in our program for example only quantitative gifted students if they were eligible quantitatively so with their numbers if they were eligible that way they were receiving math services but a gifted student is a gifted student so we wanted to make sure that we weren't gatekeeping in that way also so any of our students whether it be quantitative verbal or nonverbal they are all receiving gifted services at that point if our after second grade our parents want to see if their students are eligible whether that be because they're older or because they have come in at a grade but different than second grade there is a process that's already in place our campuses have opportunities to test and they're tested at their school and then the process begins as far as finding out if they're eligible or not okay great and then i did notice in there that it referred to the gifted parent council is that operating and that has a monthly meeting and then resources for parents who are who are interested or concerned with that we do we have um that continues to function and actually quite well we have parents from all each of the elementaries that are represented sometimes they might represent two depending but the parents then will circle back and share information with their school principal they'll also share information with their parents and the groups and the constituents that they represent and then also they're they do a really nice job of providing information as far as opportunities for gifted students they also provide opportunities as they're looking through for example they want to share with them some of the junior high what is what does it look like for my give to student what opportunities are there at the high school and through that partnership we have a principal honor on the parent council as well and through that partnership they're able to send information out through newsletters and otherwise and just help to support you know sometimes parents like to get support from parents that students are experiencing similar opport opportunities so that's part of it too thank you very much i do have one question can you just um help us understand what we're doing to help those that maybe are underserved groups that might not be um as represented as they should be in the gifted so um the blanket testing helps because there's less of a reading component you know of the written word so that has helped a little bit we have some of our title schools we are utilizing at times a gifted matrix providing some opportunities for students at a probationary if maybe they did not score at the 97 percentile but they believe that they would be able to be successful then they're able to participate in some of the services that way all right thank you dr santa cruz dr newman this scope and sequence booklet puts us in compliance with the law and it's well done by the way my compliments if a parent in a non-gifted typical education program were to ask us for a scope and sequence as it related to their son or daughter in the typical program how would we respond to that we would definite we don't have something per se like that because this is something that we're specifically required to do for gifted however we do have scope and sequence for all of our content areas so if they would like to know what students are learning and what resources that we utilize when we utilize those resources and those types of things that is definitely within the scope and sequence that we have that are would be readily available if someone had asked for it okay i i would just like for us to be cognizant of that uh so that we can direct our community our parents to uh the verbiage the documentation that would allow them to see the kinds of instructional sequences and formats their sons or daughters might be involved in as we're works through i'm not sure that i'm advocating for a booklet but certainly something that that approximates what we have for our gifted parents as well thank you dr santa cruz other discussion comments all right see none i will call for the vote that we accept the gifted scope and sequence did i ask for a i did ask for a okay i will call for a vote that we accept the gifted scope and sequence as outlined and given to us tonight all those in favor please vote by saying aye aye those oppose with nay houses 5-0 thank you we will now move to 8.03 policy development first street of policy gcb professional staff contracts and compensation dr mccord thank you madam president governing board members today we bring before you policy gcb the three policies we have on the agenda for this evening and the action item sections have all been uh vetted through our um our policy committee and this is up for the first read this specific policy deals with something that came down through the legislature in terms of every fiscal year each school district employee will be provided a total compensation statement that is broken down by category of benefit or payment that includes for that employee at least all the following and that i'll read those off base salary and any additional pay medical benefits and the value of any employer paid portions of insurance plan premiums retirement benefit plans including social security legally required benefits any paid leave any other payment made to or on behalf of the employee and any other benefit provided to the employee and that is for legal reference ars 15-341 and this will be the exact same thing for the next policy we talk about for certified and support staff and so these will be held within our employee portal and i think at the policy committee mr mcintosh provided you example of what that would look like for our employees so it'll be readily available for them at any time beginning the next contract here thank you dr mccord i will ask for a motion for policy development for street policy gcb professional staff contracts and compensation thank you mr parker it's been moved as their second second thank you mr eugetti it's been moved and seconded is there any discussion board members okay see none i will ask for a vote all those in favor of the first read of policy gcb professional staff contracts and compensation please vote by saying aye aye any opposed with nay that passes 5-0 thank you we will now move to 8.04 policy development first read a policy gdb support staff contracts and compensation dr mccord thinking about president governing board members stated earlier the change to this policy is exactly the change that we made in policy gcb in terms of providing that statement to the employees with those sub-categories identified within that statement so this is this is the support staff whereas the previous one was certified correct okay thank you is there a motion i move that we first read support of policy g d b support staff contracts and compensation thank you ms humphries is there a second second thank you mr parker it's been moved and seconded that we approve the first street of policy gdb support staff contracts and compensation is there any discussion seeing none i will call for the vote all those in favor of passing this first street of policy gdb please vote by saying aye aye those opposed with nay thank you board members that passes five zero now 8.05 policy development first street of policy gch professional and support staff orientation and training dr mccord thank you madam president governing board member this is a another uh portion that we needed to include in this policy and it's ars 41-1494 and this portion states school districts and charter schools may not require an employee to engage in and shall not use public monies for training orientation or therapy that presents any form of blame or judgment on the basis of race ethnicity or sex this does not preclude any training on sexual harassment or lessons on recognizing and reporting abuse blame or judgment on the basis of wraith race ethnicity or sex is identified in aars 41-1494 by seven concepts thank you dr mccord board members is there a motion some moved thank you it's been moved that we passed the first street of policy gch professional support staff suppressed professional and support staff orientation and training is our second so you can oh thank you miss you generally no i thank you miss you guys i need a photo on that photo finish it's been moved and seconded is there any discussion again just a couple of notes both of these all three of these are policy changes due to change in the state law that we just need to include and we will take these back to another policy meeting and then bring them back for a second read before they're approved so with that said and seeing no further discussion i will call for the vote all those in favor of approving the first read of policy gch professional support staff orientation and training please vote by saying aye aye any opposed with nay thank you we've passed five zero we will now move to request for future agenda items if there are any items that you would like to see on the agenda if not here then please let myself or dr mccord know or gabby in the before the next meetings we will now move to 10.0 the board committee reports beginning with the gilbert education foundation with myself we've wrapped up this year and we'll have a retreat to kind of wrap up and plan next year and we just want to continue to express our thanks for the support of our community for the scholarships and opportunities for our teachers we do have study coming up which will be a great training event in june and look forward to that opportunity and think thankful for the support that we have there we'll move to 10.02 city of mesa liaison and legislative representative miss humphries um so i was able to visit a mesa city council meeting and our desert ridge high school robotics team was honored that night which is one of the reasons i went to support them um they are i i don't remember everything but they are 10th in the world i do remember that um also others were recognized as well so it was a it was a good meeting that was good to support i appreciate the city of mesa taking time to to recognize them for their achievements thank you anything other no okay thank you miss humphreys appreciate you going in and supporting our schools in that way too 10.03 dr santa cruz town of gilbert liaison nothing to report thank you 10.04 finance and audit committee mr parker yes we did meet after the board meeting last week and the audit committee agreed to provide an oversight role for investments that for the employee trust and also we had reviewed the amount of cash at the various schools and realized that we had about a million dollars in cash at various schools in the district and are looking at potentially go into a cashless ideas involved in going to a cashless basis on collecting fees and that type of thing and seeing that potentially possible or economically viable that's about it so the cash as you're saying that's collected as fees for different programs for the students it's in my understanding is collected from uh athletic fees field trips a variety of different um because like there is we do a lot of that online right now i don't think there's much are you saying that to change it from not giving cash that way or sorry i'm not understanding there's more than you would expect so i assume some of the same things that a lot of this was paid online or uh but there are a lot of folks that come in with cash check that that to pay for certain things whether it's athletic fees whether it's field trips those types of things okay so that's much higher than we thought it would be about the amount was okay and there there are some districts that have gone to credit cards and that type of thing there are debit cards and we're having the district take a look at the potential of doing that okay i think maybe we could include some parents in understanding the rationale you know as we do that so one of the strategies that that mr parker was talking about is that the transaction fees are often very high and we have if you're going to go to a field trip we do pass the transaction fees on to the families that use a credit card or a debit card so the analysis that we need to do is to determine whether it be in our best interest to just absorb those fees and not have the parents pay them to encourage them to go cashless so that's the concept thank you thank you for your report i appreciate that and thank you for indulging my questions 10.05 insurance trust representative miss you jetty there's nothing to report at this point thank you thank you we will now move to uh item 11 meeting dates and 11.01 ask dr mccord for the future meeting dates thank you madam president governing board members our next meeting is june 7th it's a board work study and brief board business meeting june 14th is a board policy committee meeting and june 24th first is a regular board business meeting all right thank you we'll now move to 12.01 for adjournment and i will ask for a motion move that we adjourn second thank you mrs humphries and thank you mrs eugetti it's been moved and seconded that we adjourn all those in favor please vote by saying aye aye sorry any oppose with nate it's we are adjourned thank you

thank you [Applause] and now please give a warm welcome to our senior class president taylor bilow welcome students teachers administration and family my name is taylor bilo and i'm your senior class president to some of you this evening i'm a nobody and to others i'm a friend but none of that really matters tonight we put all of our differences aside to celebrate each other's incredible accomplishment of making it through high school i know we all sit here anxiously awaiting our turn to walk across the stage so i will try to keep this short the last four years have been one crazy ride the pandemic took away two years of our high school experience made us face uncertainty and made school even harder while all of that was going on a lot of us were struggling in our own ways but we made it through and it made us even stronger it's crazy to imagine that we are going to start a new chapter of our life the second we cross this stage i can still remember when as kids we couldn't wait for the day we would be all grown up and go into the so-called real world some of us dreamed of one day becoming astronauts electricians teachers doctors entrepreneurs and so on now that dream that once felt so distant is standing right in front of us and now is the time to grasp it our dreams are becoming a reality and reality is hard work with some dedication and determination i know all of us can become or do whatever we want to my hope for you on this journey is that you don't lose yourself as you pursue your dreams be the person you know and love no matter what craziness might not be going on in the world don't ever stop being yourself our worlders definitely definitely nowhere near perfect and let's be honest none of us are either doing your best and staying true to what matters in life is all anyone can ask of you and all and all you should ask of yourself now usually this is the part in the speech where you would start thanking people for all they have done for you in the last four years to get me to where i am today the people that i can stand here and thank already know how much they mean to me so instead of listing out a bunch of names i'm just going to say thank you thank you for sticking by my side through thick and thin and for pushing me to reach my full potential i would not be who or where i am today without you while our high school experience was definitely different than we could have imagined that didn't stop any of us from making the most of the time we were given now we finally get to take our first steps into the new world of independence while there will be challenges along the way there will also be great times embrace it all and whatever you do make this new road a good one thank you next up i'd like to introduce luke mandal thanks taylor hi hello and welcome to our class of 2022 graduation first i'd like to thank all the teachers that helped us get here i'd also like to thank all the families for joining us and the eight members of my own family that fought for those few coveted tickets to actually hear me speak today for some of us it's been an interesting 13 years in the miranda unified school district but it's time we move on to greater things i could stand here and before you and attempt to recollect all the amazing memories of my high school experience for three minutes citing all the people that helped me get here but that would be long and boring and quite honestly i don't think that would have an impact on anyone here because speeches good or bad should have some takeaway so instead i'm going to reflect on what i've seen for the past four years i've seen people truly accomplish some amazing things i've seen people try their hardest learn a great deal and become more than prepared for whatever they choose to do after high school i've also seen people not as prepared for what awaits them but it shouldn't matter even if we aren't prepared for what's next in our lives perseverance finds a way so to that i'd say it's time to truly start learning it's time to prepare for what's next it's time to move forward thank you and speaking next the weirdo just kidding benjamin guillermo our valedictorian [Applause] hey guys um so before i start i'd like just to say that although i may not be the greatest at writing argumentative essays i can really not write speeches so i'd like to thank uh caleb humphries for really helping me out with this so thank you so good evening mountain view friends and family i'm benjamin guillermo as luke has addressed tonight i want to celebrate us the graduating class of 2022 i'm so very proud of every one of us who will walk across the stage tonight no pandemic conflict or social unrest have stopped us from striving to get here we all have come overcome our own battles and have gotten here of course we couldn't have gotten here without the amazing help of our teachers who educated us our counselors who guided us and our administration who supported us i'd also like to extend a heartfelt thank you to friends and family who helped us along the way so let's give an applause for them i think that all of us graduating this year know the value of adapting we face the start of high school a horrible horrible ordeal we adapted we were struck with a global pandemic that cut us off from school and each other we adapted oh we learned online through terrible zoom connections and breakout rooms where no one wanted to unmute and no one wanted to talk to each other we all adapted and we came back to school together wiser and i know that as we go into the future we will adapt we will learn and we will thrive we will be resilient and ready even as i work towards becoming the valedictorian i struggled with late nights overwhelming work losing a lot of time and sleep and wanting to give up i did give up for a bit but the sense of overcoming and growing kept pushing me further and i know that this ability to overcome and grow is in every one of you we all made it here we're graduating tonight and i know that our experiences here will help us get through anything that comes our way thank you for your time and congratulations to the class of 2022.

it's really well deserved you show your leadership at murray elementary school personally because i live across the street and i'm always watching here okay so you know i see her kids happy staff's happy the community is happy and you know when i first met her i i knew that she was perfect fit for murray community thank you i just want to say thank you and thank you for leaving um your safe space in baldwin park and coming over here i think artud's done a really great job of recruiting a lot of you to come over here and i you know i really appreciate um the values that you have espoused tonight about you know the centering our students and the immigrants the families that we have especially around murray um i think that's so important to have somebody like you who can see that and appreciate and appreciate their ass heard my recruitment cells you make me cry now um you spoke so eloquently just about the people that have assisted you in welcoming you here in azusa and the love that you feel here not you know not only from the staff but from you know cabinet and um i just want to tell you that you exemplify such great leadership and it's true it comes you know when there's support at home with your family and that's when you can go ahead and just be ten times stronger at work and so thank you family for letting us borrow her we appreciate you congratulations would you like to join me for a photo thank you so much everyone uh lika we have miss cassidy from ellington ready for the flag salute we want to circle back with that yes we do she is on zoom hi cassidy good evening thank you for joining us are you ready to lead us in our flag salute uh yes would you like me to turn my video on if you would like to sure okay please rise to the pledge of allegiance place your right hand over your heart eyes on the flag ready begin 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 thank you so much cassidy we appreciate you being with us tonight moving on to item 7.0 items from the for public comment on agenda or non-agenda items as a reminder uh presenters are limited to three individual minutes um at such time that your time expires i will ask you to stop respect our process um lika do we have anyone online in zoom attendance for public comment we have no hand raised online thank you and hope is there anyone here in uh in person attendance yes please mr miz farhado please hi can you hear me yes we can sorry i didn't have a baby good evening board members i hope you and your families are doing well once again i am here as a parent of lee to speak on the future plans of our children's education and schools i was unable to attend the last meeting as i was attending my sister's teacher of the year recognition for the city of whittier as you can see education is very important to me and my family these are my two youngest boys that are the reason why i continue to be here to advocate and trying to get them all the opportunities possible in the city that we chose to live in i was able to watch the board meeting online and we are very excited to see that plans are being made to move forward and to make such needed improvements on our schools i would also like to say how great it was to see the support from superintendent ortega and president grier attending our open house it would be great to see it would be great to continue to see all of your faces at all of our school campuses from time to time although we are looking forward to see these improvements on our schools i am hoping that you are all also discussing and have plans to put programs to offer all of our children at our schools it would be great if there was a way for our families to know more about these plans and how you decide what programs go to what schools and how can we as community members and parents can get more involved and have some input so that no schools are left behind and so that all of our schools can thrive together i am hoping that programs will be a topic we will be hearing about soon as we are looking forward to see progress and changes being made for the better future of our souza schools thank you all for your time thank you miss fajardo and please please don't feel the need to apologize for bringing your children to a meeting we welcome them moving on to agenda item 8.0 comments reports and requests by the board of education board member robert pena um hello um can you hear me through here yeah okay uh good evening everyone uh first of all i want to uh say happy classified employees week i want to thank you all for your dedication and being on the front lines during the pandemic we could not have did it without you i am proud to be a classified employee for 40 years and i want to rsvp to this beautiful event for september 2020 i thought the date was wrong but you guys way ahead and i'll be there thank you all um i went to the azusa and gladstone high school expo it was great to see everyone coming together and at one high school and viewing and seeing all the clubs and all the sports that are going to be offered when we only have one high school and um people were very happy and were very complimentary about uh having this expo that was put together by our cabinet in our administration i um i i think it's it's a it was a very good start they had the balloons that i've never seen in history probably that had red and blue together either you're seeing blue and black or you're seeing red and black well this is together and it was made whoever made that did a very beautiful job and i just want to thank everyone whoever put it all together it was great people were very happy and it was a great turnout too i went to paramount elementary open house and i went to visit mrs ramirez's 4th grade classroom room 18 and students are working on the california gold rush and i remember way back when i was in the calendar well you're still doing california gold rush oh my gosh but they are so it felt really great being back in the classroom again and seeing all the parents they had their their um parking lot was full of parents all over it was really nice i went to glaston high school on the drama class they had the twist and turns of the mystery murder on the menu students did a fantastic job the audience audience at one point had the opportunity to vote on who did it right so it was certainly needed because i thought it was one person but when you get to the end you you have to have seen this i'm not going to tell you um i was wrong so uh i'm just lost in middle school in the production of annie junior uh the musical again students did a fantastic job they memorized their lines singing the songs all from the annie's musical i really enjoyed it and and i want to thank the director of jade clavercida and the students for a great job they did i went to the middle uh middle school open house at slauson middle school and again they had a great turnout i think everyone's just excited to be out everywhere wherever you invite me i'll just go there right it's going to be there i'm going to be out so um i went to an 8th grade classroom and i had a student juliana explain explain the um they had a holocaust holocaust butterfly project on the wall they had many beautiful butterflies they were handmade by the students and there was a poster that really touched my heart and i like to read it it says um this is a very powerful it's just oh excuse me butterflies are a very powerful symbol of the transformation and have been ability ability to make an impact with just a flip of one wings they symbolize all the good things in life but also remind us that life is fragile and delicate the butterflies also serve as a symbol of hope thank you board member cruz gonzalez nothing tonight thank you board member ariana's i i would like to uh thank uh the tea the art teachers for displaying their their students work this last week i had a chance to go to gladstone and as we were walking around they asked me uh do you think this is a high schooler or a uh middle schooler uh right art art piece and so i i got it if you're wrong but since my daughter was in arts uh the art class at slauson i kind of already knew what she drew so that that part i i did get it was um a great event they had the jazz dustin's jazz band out there um which was really great one of the things that um i would like to know more about is when they're having um like i guess they're having their they went to knottsbury farm or something like that that one of the students was telling me and which was really great to hear because kind of like what board member uh rodriguez pena said um they're just happy to be out you know the students that were there were just happy i mean it you know you could see it in their faces um another event that i went to was gladstone high school's talent show this last friday and you know we have some pretty amazing students um there the first place winner was she sing in three languages and she taught herself how to sing in french spanish and of course you know english and so i i was just astonished to like she didn't tell us what she was singing she just started singing and so she was our first place she was a first place winner second place uh winners were a duo um i can't remember their names right now uh it was two students that danced and put on a dancing routine and the third winner was mr phillip who i did not know that played the flute so beautifully and so we have a lot of talent and you know just seeing um the students the families come together they had sofis chick-fil-a it was just um just a great event um to come together with families and so i i would um if you guys invite me um i will come if you invite me to your school i will come and if you let me know in advance i will take work off to just come and so you guys have my number 626-691-5338 text me call me you know if i don't answer your email invite me to your schools i would really like to come and see what you guys have um that i have missed maybe so with that being said i will go ahead and turn it over to my colleague thank you i just wanted to share that i had the privilege of stopping by the foothill middle school art exhibition at montreal coffee last friday we watched some of the art was being installed and it was just such a fun time to see what our students can do and as we know we've had some amazing talent at the high school grades as well so i am expecting uh big things from all of our art students in the district moving on to item 9.0 comments and reports by the superintendent and cabinet ms jamal yes so first i would like to say it's an honor on in honor of classified appreciation week i would like to say thank you to all of our classified staff for their um continued commitment dedication and hard work they give us day by day i'm happy to also announce that we are in the plans of we are currently drawing up the plans for lee elementary school to be submitted for modernization um to dsa um those plans are slated to be in the dsa office within the next couple of months and then we'll be waiting for a time for approval and with that we currently do have four open seats on our citizens oversight committee we have an open seat for a senior citizens organization as well as a parent or guardian of a child enrolled in our district we also have an opening for a parent-teacher organization or a parent or guardian with the child enrolled in the district and lastly we have a seat open for bona fide tax payer so if anyone is interested in joining our clc committee it's not a huge commitment but we do have a minimum of four meetings a year um and we will be in person next year so we're excited about that um you can find the application online on our district website or you can call our business services office and we'll be happy to help you and lastly i would like to share that the nutrition services department will be um participating in the community fair this saturday we'll be giving out samples so everyone could taste our goodies good food like our pho i think yeah i would like to taste some of that food and do we have our do we have two student board members to make comments tonight just to recognize we do have stu three student board members hannah hannah hamilton crystal flamino and annette camacho thank you students for your leadership in serving as a student board member moving on to item 10.0 general functions 10.1 presentation of disposition of surplus property site mr ortega mr mall was that it for cabinet oh just following the note please proceed thank you i would also like to acknowledge our classified employees this week they are indispensable and we appreciate all that they do and their commitment and service to our district i had the opportunity to go see the mariachi the azusa concert on friday and it was amazing the singing and the talent that we have um is just astounding and impressive so if you have an opportunity to see them you must we have been hosting um dual immersion parent interest meetings we have a lot of interest in our program um our we hosted a hybrid meeting at valley dale elementary school we had 30 participants about 30 participants online and about 20 in person there was a lot of interest in the program and some joined because they saw the video on social media so that was exciting and we are very excited to continue to see our program grow we had um hosted um module three of our serato early academic language um training um from which our murray and hodge and valley dale are participating and during that training session one of our trainers had the opportunity to do some classroom visits um with our coach and was very impressed at the level of implementation and the language that they were hearing from our kindergarten and first grade students so we are very happy and proud of the work that the teachers have been doing alongside their coach and their administrators want to congratulate and thank all of our classified staff happy happy classified week we appreciate the contributions and the teamwork and the partnership that we have with our classified staff thank you to studio 26 what an awesome way to have a real life application and opportunity for students to show their talents and what they're learning in school i want to thank all of our middle schools who just had their open house i was able to attend a center and really enjoyed walking into the classrooms the vibe the energy of our our parents and our community it was it was really inspiring to uh to be on our campuses um just want to say that we are excited for this saturday to participate in the city's community fair uh azusa unified school district is going to have a pretty big presence there on saturday you already heard latasha we're going to be doing some food samples but we're going to have students there we're going to have our ece programs there we're going to have our pat some of our pathways we're going to have a job job kind of fair as well and so just we're really excited to be there and partner with the city um and then lastly on april 19th the board of education uh passed a resolution reaffirming our commitment of welcoming and supporting refugee and newcomer students to our district that resolution also launched a fundraising campaign uh for save the children i want to thank everyone who has already contributed and just want to announce that the fundraiser is still open and still running uh it goes all the way through may 27th so about two more weeks left there uh any amount uh is appreciated and helpful so thank you so much and lastly i'd like to join my colleagues and the board of education in the course of thank yous and celebrating and uplifting our classified employees their work is certainly essential and the dedication that they showed to our students and our schools certainly is valued and recognized i also had a chance to attend boston and center's open house this past week um i heard and i saw with my own eyes just the number of families that had attended um teachers were reporting and so were administrators that the number of families that were participating in this year's open house had exceeded recent memory so i believe there is a want to want to come back and participate with our schools and we have wonderful schools for all that to happen uh we held our selection day event uh this was a event wherein our teachers that were displaced as a result of school reorganization had a chance to select classes in their schools for next year while this was not a salvatory meeting by any stretch it was a well-organized meeting and we did receive some positive feedback from those teachers that did participate and like mr ortega mentioned um human resources will be represented at this saturday's community fair we're looking forward to being able to represent us this hr department and share with the city uh the different openings that we have all throughout our organization thank you mr and cue board president yes i'm board vice president good um sure um i would like to one thing i forgot to do is congratulate our classified uh employees for for the weekend the endless and tireless um hours you've given through the last couple years that we've you know gone through this cobid um issue and one of the things that i just read right here um which is so true um and it says right here in this in this uh invitation that they have here for their chip chip hooray um in and out burger uh lunch event that's in september that my colleague said that she's rsvp in advance right it says here we are classified we bring it every day and you do you guys are are definitely one of the you know pillars that um make this district strong so thank you again for everything that you guys do and for those that you know uh pour their heart and soul in just in every classroom with every teacher as you know is needed um here in the district um we see you so you're seen thank you mr ortega uh thank you number one great um tonight uh we are uh excited to be here in front of the board of education um as uh you know we have been on a process uh for school reorganization and we are very happy to report that uh what we are calling phase one of school reorganization which included um decisions on sites uh decision on models uh we have a we still have the mascot that we are working on diligently to um to to move forward uh but phase one is is almost complete phase two uh we opened and had a really uh productive conversation at a special board meeting and phase two includes uh our modernization um projects uh how we're gonna use the rest of our bond and some other funding that is available and the board of education did a really outstanding job of making some critical decisions moving forward obviously that's going to take a while we have a long journey with that but that phase two has been set in motion and we're very happy and pleased that that has begun tonight we launched what we are calling phase three and phase three is going to um include [Music] a process and a journey uh for us to consider what we might do with our surplus property um this surplus property that we are the journey that we're about to begin not only includes the surplus property because of the recent decisions on school reorganization but previous decisions as well speaking specifically about mountain view and our former adult school slash sierra tonight we're very happy to have our partners jessica and sarah here and tonight's objective is to provide a an overview of what's ahead for us as a district as we begin to continue as we begin the journey of deciding what what might might happen uh with our surplus property tonight uh is not uh we will not begin to discuss or talk about you know what we think should happen with the properties that is part of the long journey that we will be part and so there will be ample opportunities for that again tonight objective is just to launch this and to give a very high kind of general view of what's coming and what to expect in the coming months and probably years as we move uh towards this so with that um i'd like to turn it over to uh jessica and sarah thank you superintendent ortega good evening everyone i'm justin uh my name is jessica ehrlich we're with fagin friedman and paul frost and happy to represent the district in a legal capacity um i've been representing public school districts in the areas of business facilities production and property thank you for over 12 years um so we're really happy to be here today sarah join it yes i'm happy too um hi everyone good evening i'm sarah plito i am also an attorney with fagin freeman in full frost um and in my practice i specialize in helping districts with deciding what to do with their surplus property so i'm excited to be here tonight uh to take this step of the process off and to help introduce the board to some of the exciting options and the process that we look forward so first we'd like to thank superintendent ortega and assistant superintendent jamal and their team for really their diligence and overall effort throughout this process and getting us to discuss phase three and we'd also like to thank the board for allowing us some time we think this is a really exciting opportunity for the district and the district community and just to reiterate superintendent ortega's sentiments um the idea here today is for us to just give you a real general overview of what the surplus property disposition journey that we're all gonna embark upon looks like and there is going to be plenty of time for both the board and the district community to review this process to ask questions and really participate um so today is just the commencement of phase three so before we move forward into some of the more substantive content i did want to give just take this moment to kind of identify the six sites that we're looking at to kind of move forward in this process so mountain view elementary um center middle school slauson middle um the aec shs ellington elementary and then last but uh last but not least the powell elementary site um and you know for uh for a large majority of these sites they uh they went into operation in the early 1980s so they're you know upwards of about 40 years old um and so it's a you know it's a great opportunity now to see what um additional benefit these sites can have for the district in a different capacity and also for the community but please so as we embark on these journeys we're going to have various requirements recommendations some of them are legal requirements some of them are best practices and some are a combination of both um and some of these happen simultaneously or right after each other so we'll kind of walk through that here tonight um one of the first things that we recommend as a best practice uh is for the district to consider retaining a development consultant to consider all of your options and what to do with the various surplus sites this allows the district to be put in a position to really meet with consultants who are experts in these fields of what to do with properties you know some that we will think of off the top of our heads some are creative options and this is a consultant that typically the district will contract with directly um and you know there are various options about the best way to retain a consultant that we can work with both the board and superintendent ortega and his team on how best to retain a consultant we want to make sure we avoid any potential conflicts of interest in retaining that consultant and to really pick the person that best suits the district the district needs to that uh to that end um one so number one as it was stated this is a recommendation uh this is not a legal requirement [Music] but this is a recommendation that we're bringing forth uh for a consultant to come and help us right understand what are all the possibilities uh with these properties right there's the what seemed to me i'm not speaking for the board but the the the more common ones right lee sell repurpose but there's other things that we might want to consider and think about in this realm something that the board might consider um csba the california school boards association uh recently uh partnered uh with a uh consultant a development consultant group uh called dc dcg strategies uh and this partnership and this relationship between dct strategies and csba uh has made has been made public and they are working not only with csba but other districts as well right close to us here they have been working with pomona unified school district uh just to give you a sense of somewhere that's close um in addition and that's the question about that is it um are they working is a partnership just to um to look at educator housing or is it burgess development services in general uh yeah they offer a wide range of services in this particular case we would be looking to retain their services to to help us understand what the possibilities are now uh to uh board member uh cruz gonzalez's uh point um as we're going through this process maybe there's something creative or you know out of the box that we want to think about they definitely have a full suite of services that they can that they can assist and they can help with in terms of that so that that might be something for the board uh to consider a we have a partnership with csba um i i was uh i was able uh to um attend one of their breakout sessions uh at the csba conference um and did feel at the presentation that they were very thorough and seem to be very well versed in this arena um and so that's something that the board may consider obviously they're not the only development consultants out there but the fact that they have a partnership with csba might be a good launching point for again for the board to consider that this might be an objective um you know um partner uh for us as we're moving through this through this process i i also wanted to highlight um some of the other things that a development consultative of this nature can help with um i think one of the biggest things in this initial phase and we'll talk more about the 7-eleven committee as we move um as we move forward but the development consultant can do the initial assessment of the value of these properties so at some point we would recommend that you do an appraisal and we'll get to more detail about that as well but i wanted to highlight um to give the board as much information about these particular properties and the assets that they have getting an initial understanding of their value can be done through um an initial assessment done by the cons right so they they can look at other similar properties and kind of give us a range and that's information that we would want to provide as a part of the 7-eleven process as has been mentioned before i think one of the great values with a development consultant is their ability to explore options and solicit information from the community about interesting or creative uses for the properties that um you know we may not otherwise think of they can engage with the community as much or as little as you would like as the board and then they can bring forward some of these interesting and creative ideas to give you as much information as possible when you decide so speaking of options um our next slide so this is a list of examples potential possibilities it is by no sorry it is by no means exhaustive um it's a list of examples potential possibilities of what we may do with some of these surplus sites and there wanting to walk us through just generally a few of these on sure um so these are really kind of like the general group or like categories of things that you can do with the site and then within each of these categories that you know we can identify you know who would be the lesbian or what would you sell the property for um but i want to walk through some of these um there are pros and cons to each of these options so for example for a sale it's a bit more of an extended process to get to the point of being able to sell because of the legal requirements but you can you know structure a large like payment of a lump sum at the sale of the property as opposed to a lease for example where you retain ownership and you can have that small lease payment over time so if we wanted some some income from that property for some time that's something we look at with elites they're you know of course in that on in that option the board acts as a landlord and so there's some additional administrative um duties that will happen internally with the lease option um going down to joint use lease or joint use grant projects this is a great option if the district wanted to partner with another public entity or a non-profit to use one of the site for for a creative uh community benefit use for example exchange is a relatively uh unique option but it's kind of a carve out in the ed code that allows the district to exchange their property for another property and so if there's you know some other site that the district is is looking to acquire for some other use that's uh that's an option that allows us to get around some of the more difficult um parts of the procedure in the ed code um finally i want to talk a little bit about the waiver and the license agreement options um so there there is a process in the code for disposing of property but there's also the potential to apply for a waiver with state board of education and that gives districts the more flexibility for example to negotiate with developers or other for or profit entities that may have an interest and could offer a great benefit to the district in in buying one of those sites um so again this is not an exhaustive list but i just wanted to kind of introduce some of the most common ways that we expose a property so can i set the question on of course on the waiver so the waiver is um like is there a deadline date that they need to sell it or release it or i mean when i'm going with those sort of if there's a certain date a waiver is you can extend it or what is the waiver how does it kind of work that's right so um so the process for a waiver is generally uh the state board requires that we submit all that documentation um about 10 to 12 weeks in advance of of a particular board meeting where the waiver is going to be heard um then generally we've seen in in past experiences that if they agreed to grant the waiver it has a term of between two and three years depending on how we argue and what we ask for um so that would be the initial term of the waiver and then there's always the option to extend you have to file a new application to ask for an extension but that is always an option depending on how fast the transaction is going and how much time we need those of the site or they solve this thing understood yes okay next slide along with a development consultant we also want to retain an environmental consultant now this is a legal requirement and the purpose behind this is the district will want to continually be in compliance with the california environmental quality act or you also might know it as what and so this is a consultant that usually we as f3 law enter into an agreement with and that you know the reason for that is you know there are work product privileges and other things that really help us through that process and speak was purpose is to address any environmental impact that we might face in the process and i think the reason in retaining a consultant at the outset is we really want to be ahead of this provide community input where necessary and so we can address any um potential environmental impact then respond accordingly so so just to clarify so you want to hire this consultant not as we have the project you have to do that you know to do the determination about the review you want to do it you can do at the beginning because normally i mean in my experience you usually hire i mean you do the sql review once you have a project writer or some direction you're going yeah so um so yes that's true so under sequa the district as a public entity is only required to do an analysis of a particular situation when it meets the definition of a project um and usually you know like reorganization of schools for example would be a project for or you know just really depends on the particular um type of action at play but like a redevelopment of a site could be a project um and so we like to bring the consultant on at this point in order to get ahead of those things so we can anticipate what things will be projects and then have a better plan in place about what type of what level of environment environmental review do we need to do for each project can we coordinate those to help um you know to help administrate costs in a way that that can build inefficiencies um so it is very project based but we like to get ahead of it so that we're not you know chasing the tail of the dog on these these issues we can we can have the consultant kind of come in do a wholesale review of these potential projects and then we we work with them as they come to play and then i think the other thing is we would like the environmental consultant to also work hand in hand with the development consultant um so they're aware of what are the potential options that we're talking about and if the scope of work will vary through time so we might get an environmental consultant on board um and maybe they don't really start their work for a few months into that so a lot of that's dependent on how the consultant process works and some of it is flexible but prior to determining what we're going to do with these specific sites we will want to engage an environmental consultant to ensure that we're compliant with sql and then so do you so in the past right when we did this process it was the same thing we had the attorney have the agreement with the with the um with the environment so do you already have an existing relationship so you already know who this is going to be or this is a process deal both to determine who it's going to be so we we work with various environmental consultants and we have a few prefer just based on our experience and working with them um that we can either present to the board we can present it to super attendant superintendent ortega and his team or you know if we're given the direction you know we can also select the consultant so that's really a process for us to decide you know together as partner okay [Music] okay so i think moving on to the next slide um we talked a little bit in the context of the development consultant about wanting to make sure the board has all the information about the value of the property um and up front it does make sense to do uh the broker's opinion of value but then once we get more serious about trying to decide how to dispose of the individual sites we will work with an appraiser directly with a professional appraiser that you know will will use their process to identify a very specific number so it's no longer a range it's no one specific number about the value of the property um and we we usually wait to do this process with the appraiser because you know there uh there is some expense so usually between seven thousand and ten thousand dollars that can vary depending on the appraiser um but we like to uh to tailor the assumptions that are within the appraisal to uh potentially the highest and best value of the property so it's all um we use this not only as a tool to identify the value but also to help support a particular value that the district wants for the property depending on on the plan for sale or for others is this cost or sorry sorry yes cost per site or is sick site yeah so this is a per site cost some some appraisers if they're doing you know a large number of sites and can help provide a better cost per site but this is just in just an estimate based on some projects that we've worked on with appraisers before thank you and this appraisal process can depending on the path that we use um can implicate legal requirements and then also is oftentimes the best practice and i'm sure that's something if we move forward with the development consultant that they're really going to advocate for as well i just wanted to add that we do have kind of a set of appraisers very similar to the environmental consultants that we work with kind of based based in the area so we can certainly provide a recommendation and are happy to work with the board to identify the best appraiser for the okay moving forward um the next particular type of document that we would recommend and this is something that we'll talk about more as a next step here very soon is obtaining a preliminary title report um and these these are a bit less expensive and cost between 750 to 1200 each for each site and what we do here is we engage with a particular title company and then they do a search of the documents that have been reported against the property and they can give us more information about um you know potential issues with the site we can uh we can help to clear up before we think about disposing or selling um it it it gives us a a lot of very uh property specific detail about the parcel and history things like that that we would also want to convey to the 7-eleven committee uh when we get to that process um and this is something that we do really early because um because it gives that much history they don't change all that often and unless you know something else gets recorded but it gives us a really substantial background about the property where we can start to work clear any issues that may be and obtaining a title report in that process you know also implicates legal requirement because people want to have free chain of title if we you know choose to transfer um any one of these properties and there are select title companies we work with or if the district you know work specific title company those are also options that we can explore as we get into the process next slide please so you've heard sarah spoiler alerted you know mentioned the 7-eleven committee a few times so this is a legal requirement as part of this process that the district will need to form and appoint a 7-11 committee and generally what the 7-eleven committee is going to do is participate in the process of determining and reviewing the options about what we'll do with these surplus property sites and i think you know whether or not it's a legal requirement i think this is a really important step in getting community feedback having stakeholder buy-in and what we're going to do with these properties so sarah's going to walk us through a little bit of what the 7-eleven committee looks like what do they do how often do they meet yeah so first i want to address probably the main question in your mind right now which is why is it called the 7-11 committee does it have to do with the slurpee or the gas station um it doesn't uh the reason we call it a 7-11 committee is that the statute requires that it have between seven uh between seven and eleven members so no less than seven but no more than eleven um and uh the statute also lays out in the education code that what it really should do is the membership should be kind of a cross-section of the community it should represent the economic um age ethnic um you know all of the different factors that we see in the community they should be present on this committee to be able to guide the board with regard to uh you know ideas and recommendations for uses of these properties um in particular you know in a way that is similar to the cboc for example the statute requires that we have administrators and teachers and landowners and and renters um and parents and guardians of students for example and then also professionals in you know law or real estate um or like city or or county zoning knowledge so the goal is to get a good cross-section of people that are um you know both familiar with the operations of the district and of these sites but also um real estate law and you know other professions that will bear on the decisions about what to do with these sites um so generally the district will uh solicit applications from folks that meet these qualifications in the statute um then the the board will select the membership of the committee and then assign the six properties for the committee's review at that point uh we hold a series of meetings usually between three and four uh um at which the the district staff presents information about the individual site their size their value information about the number of students that attend the district and really anything else that the committee could ask about from a data perspective to help the board or i'm sorry to help the committee identify whether these sites are plus um and so the result of those four meetings is that the committee will draft reports uh that comes to the board that provides their recommendation about the use of the individual properties um and then the board you know can review and consider the report it's just the recommendation the board is not bound to the of the identified use that's brought from the committee within the report but it does give lots of information you know from the community from the committee to the board to make that decision about how to dispose of property and the idea would be that we wouldn't just throw the committee out there without any information you know the development consultant would be a part of that process and we make sure that the committee is informed before they prepare their recommended report yeah some of the other things that i've seen committees do is they take a visit to the site i mean they get to go and you know um and walk around these these particular district sites that are being considered and really um you know they're there to get a physical sense for what the site could be and what it could mean to the surrounding community they often solicit comments from from folks in the public they talk to local community groups and identify ideas for what the site could be used for and then of course the development consultant helps to bring some of that data and those options that they can consider so this is another legal requirement that we may consider as we move through this process and depending on the specific disposition of each property yeah so there um there's a relatively new legal requirement um that that requires that before a district disposes of surplus property that it it makes an offer to certain affordable housing entities um however for school districts there's an exception if the district doesn't want to use its property for that particular purpose as long as it's gone through the 7-eleven committee process the the board can approve a resolution finding the property as exempt surplus and then that resolution gets gets filed with an explanation to the department of housing and community development um hcd and they uh they usually send a response within a couple weeks just um affirming that they agree with the board's determination that the property is exempt surplus and this again gives the board a bit more freedom to decide um what to do with the site and i will highlight that we've already gone through this process with the the former sierra high school site it's relatively quick and painless and so this this step has already been completed for that particular property [Music] okay next slide please so in this final slide we're just showing some of the other steps that may be involved depending on as we take this journey what fork in the road we go did you have a question yes did you just say that we that you have already filed for resolution yes yes so the board uh the board passed a resolution for the former sierra site and then we did the filing with uh with hcd to have them reaffirm the finding of exempt or blocks when would you we did get the results they approved it yeah they uh they reaffirmed the boards uh the board's decision that it is exempt surplus [Music] so that will hopefully be our first of many victories in phase three um okay so this final slide really shows us the other steps that may or may not be involved depending on what we what we decide to do with each of the sites um these are potential possibilities they may happen they may not um but it kind of just gives you an overview and sarah's going to walk us through in a little more detail um what this involves yes okay so if we start at the green box um send so there there's a legal requirement in the education code and the government code that requires that before we um sell surplus property that we have to make a series of statutory offers they're called and it really just means a series of letters that go out to other public entities and non-profits that are listed in the code to give them the head start or a priority if they have interest in buying the district site if they do have interest they respond we negotiate for a period of time and then we can decide to either agree to sell to that entity or not but they just get a head start with notice to get in an offer if they have interest in a particular site um moving to the dark blue box to prepare um so one of the additional things that we can do and i mentioned it in the context of the waiver is that we can help to prepare the waiver that goes to cde if for a particular property or a number of properties the board decides that it would be more advantageous to do a direct sale to a particular party to do a request for proposals for example as opposed to the process that's laid out within the education code that just requires that we solicit the highest offer for the property at a board meeting sometimes that's a great process sometimes there are particular entities that can come forward with a higher offer outside of the context of a public meeting or it also gives the the board the ability to negotiate based on terms outside of price if there are other factors that are important to the board outside of just getting you know the the highest vote at an at an open board meeting um the the the waiver process allows us to use um an alternative process to the highest bid um moving to the orange box engaged so one of the other options and this is this is this is optional but we've seen it be a benefit for some districts is to uh to engage a commercial broker to help to post these properties on a site called loopnet it's like the mls for commercial properties um they have access to you know some of the marketing materials and um they can do that work to get the word out about the value of the property and solicit interest um they're also great at negotiating with developers um so we've seen that happen and in some cases they're able to use the market to push the price up for a particular property so working with a broker is certainly an option we have some that we've worked with before and it's certainly also a space for um you know the the board to do interviews or to review uh you know additional materials from from brokers that are interested in being a part of the process and i'll just time in that any consultant we engage broker development consultant um we can really decide what process works best for the board and for the district we can have an rfp process we can develop a district board subcommittee to handle that we can delegate authority to superintendent ortega and his team but we can certainly develop a process for all of these options and of course we have recommendations but um you know those are all things that we can address as we get to each of those steps absolutely okay so moving forward to the yellow box uh to notify there are a series of requirements in the education code that require that the district notify the prior owner of the property and we are certainly happy to assist the district with preparing the uh the letters and notices and the publications that are required within the code to comply with the procedure before before we move forward with the sale and then finally the light blue box here negotiate once the district decides a more specific route for a particular property you know we are are skilled in assisting the district with with negotiating the transfer document whether this is the purchase and sale agreement or a highly specialized lease for a particular use this is a this is an important um part of the process where we can assist the district in ensuring that you know whether it's a short transaction or a long one we can we can build provisions into those documents that will lead to a successful transfer of the property and then hopefully avoid some of the risk in those transactions as well [Music] so from an immediate next steps um i know we really appreciate everyone focused and you know providing us the stage to go over this with you we know talking about real property transactions at 8 30 at night after long days can be challenging so thank you everyone for your time um but immediate next steps you know we heard all this what do we do now and really the next immediate steps are you know moving forward to identify consultants the consultant process to obtain them um selecting a title company to proceed with the preliminary title report process and starting to form our 7-eleven committee because as we know um informing committees like 7-11 and cboc you know it can be a challenge where we try to get members and the sooner we start that process the better so we are so looking forward to supporting the district on this journey and we thank again superintendent ortega for all his support any other question my colleagues do you have questions for our f3 team thank you all so much and we look forward to seeing you soon thank you so much good night thank you mr t i do have a question related to a collection of consultants are we considering an rfp or an rfq process to select consultants um that's definitely up uh for um direction discussion uh uh from the board um our first immediate one would be do we want a consultant group development group to come and again help us understand all of the different possibilities that we have with these properties as you heard jessica and sarah also say they could be very instrumental with the 7-eleven um and so again i would recommend it for uh i think um i think uh i don't know if sarah jessica said as you can imagine with a process like this there there could be potentials for [Music] conflicts of interest or different kind of avenues because this is going to be a lengthy process and so a recommendation would be if we move with the development i think a way to be super objective we have a development consultant that has a partnership with csba um it to me it seems like a good recommendation to um if the board if the board is agreeable and and gives that direction that we bring forward a contract with dcg strategies to be the the group that's going to help us again they're not they're not the decision makers but they're going to help us understand what we can do with these six properties and help us with uh the 711 committee as we're moving in that in that space but of course as was stated today that could be decided a different way that could be an rfp it could be an rfq it could be an ad hoc there's a lot of different ways that we can do that as well um again just a recommendation just because of that that partnership that was csba seems to me like like uh like uh like a sound choice yeah that was my next question regarding so um can we go out for a bid and and look to retain a developer consultant or do you want us to directly go to the csba or do we do we have an option i mean financial i'd like to know what is the cost yeah we definitely have the board definitely has uh that option um if they if the board desires again to be more like an rfp rfq and put it out there for folks to respond board my recruiting zealous do you have any thoughts um so i'm okay either way i'm like arthur i've heard the um the principal for the working with csba he presented at the csba delegate assembly last year i was very impressed um sort of the grounding of his work and equity right and um and the work they've done the examples he showed um but i also think i mean we do have a fiduciary responsibilities i'm okay if we decide to go for an rfq process i just want to clarify it would be our q right we're looking at qualifications not like lowest bidding price right i'm i'm finding remember honest yeah i'm also fine either way um but rfq would would be best um just uh be able to go ahead and open that up um listeners are better so we can move forward with this i mean they feel that you know if they're selected then they will be selected out of the rsp but at least you'll have the option of looking at others so it sounds like we have consensus among our four board members that we are giving direction to the superintendent to proceed with an rfu request for qualifications for the selection of the development consultant so at the same time are we going to move forward with to have f3 f3 look for the environmental consultant as well colleagues would you like an rfq process for each of the consultants in this process both the development consultant and the um and the sql consultant the environmental consultant yes yeah vice president yes so mr ortega is that clear about what the board's direction is yes so i just wanted to chime in on the rfq piece for the environmental consultant that might work a little bit differently because typically legal enters into that contract we can certainly still hold a formal rfq process we can also accept multiple proposals so one of the good things here is these are all very specialized services so we have a lot of leeway in how we determine the process but if the board is more comfortable doing a formal rfq process that's fine as well but that's a nuance usually um specifically with the environmental insulted that we don't see all that often but certainly you know the environmental consultants want to work with the district so they'll participate but we can also as another option i just wanted to propose the other option was obtain proposals from we can pick a number we can get as many as we can um various environmental consultants for the board to review and then from there we can make a determination so i just want to say i i mean i think um i prefer that approach and i also i'm not sure that the board needs to be engaged in determining the environmental consultant um i think you probably work there our attorneys probably work with a lot of them and have an understanding of where their expertises are and would have a better understanding of who would fit where so i'm not sure that i would want to be feeling like we have to make the decision when they probably have a better understanding of those expertise which we know can be very specialized right and one of the things we're extremely conscious of is we want to work with consultants that are supportive of public agencies both in the work that they perform and in the pricing that they give us so we really try to be mindful of that as we navigate which consultants to reach out to to obtain proposals from and if i can put a little bit of context if this was the pleasure of the board we do have experience with f3 in a similar situation uh with a consultant and i think in partnership they can get proposals that's what happened last time we were able to look at them ask questions uh do some some ranking and some kind of uh point system and then reach out to f3 and say okay we'd like to go with this person a question question so but so am i hearing you saying that that there could be a potential that you would have um more than one consultant just based on what where we go or it would just be one for one beauty proposal then it would be one consultant we would use for the whole for all of our work ideally we didn't want to use the same consultant right the continuity there i think it's pretty invaluable so we'd want to select a consultant and one that we you know we want to reach out to consultants that we know are competent to perform this scope of work can you explain a little bit the difference between an rfq and just listening proposals so an rfq is typically like when the district is seeking you know an outside vendor we're not we aren't required to do uh what we're used to as a you know low bid going like putting our bid out on the street and we have contractors bid on it so the rfp a request for proposal request for qualification which is pretty much used interchangeably um that process what it does is instead of just allowing the board to choose on lowest price we're really looking at it more through best value and in terms of that value is of course price is a factor but also who's going to provide the best services for what the district is looking for the board often does you know rfp rfqs for legal services for design services and maybe engineering services your auditing services so it's usually a specialized service and there are various exceptions in the ed code and public contract code where we do that for certain projects but um it's a more formal process and sometimes we couple an rfp process with interviews um sometimes you know the board of the district elects to do that sometimes we don't and so we're asking proposers to submit basically a packet of information detailing you know why they're the best for the job [Music] yeah i just say one more thing so i just recall when we had this initial conversation around a development consultant that adrian had very particular opinions about the process so i i just want to say i want us to be um inclusive i know he's not here tonight so i'm not to say that we don't i don't want to move forward but i do think and you guys might remember both of you like he was um you know he he very much stepped into the process as we were discussing a consultant a couple years it was a while ago it was probably when it was probably like three or four years 2016.

we must also take the time to thank those who enabled us to be here today so thank you to our amazing teachers including those that have passed on and to our tremendous staff we couldn't have done it without you liberty high school faculty and staff please stand to be recognized [Applause] thank you you may now be seated hello everyone my name is hannah bazoo and i have the great privilege of introducing the class of 2022 i am so honored and grateful class i'd like for you to look to your left and now to your right and truly soak in everything you've done to get to this moment we each have different stories different high school experiences but no matter the highs or lows you have earned this graduation ceremony and today is all about you these four years were sure something for this class as we know copen19 hit and we suddenly went from naive sophomores to virtual juniors then came back as stellar seniors that sadly hadn't been at the school in a year and a half some of us lost sports seasons lost school plays we had to sit and watch the world break down and try to come back together we are one of the very special classes able to have proved our parents wrong we did get everything done from our beds that's why we're here this is an amazing class of students somehow after everything we went through we were able to still come back with the most spirit and excitement to be seniors and bring the pet back into the empty school halls i expected nothing less i know everyone will miss certain parts of high school whether that is our unforgettable first day of school grilled cheese thursdays robert the horse or the doubletree where we not only busted out some sweet dance moves at prom but we were all able to share the most important people in our lives with our fellow classmates at senior breakfast there will always be these memories we will continue to hold on to and never forget this class is truly unforgettable at this time i'd like to take a moment to recognize this iconic class of students who's really been through it all please stand class of 2022 [Applause] you may be seated good afternoon friends family and faculty my name is kylie smith and i am the student body president at liberty high school it is my pleasure today to introduce liberty's salutatorian mackenzie woodhead earning this accomplishment is no small task and when looking at mackenzie it's easy to see how she truly deserves it in the course of her four years at liberty mackenzie has taken 10 college level classes and five advanced placement classes because of her love for these programs she works steadily with the talented and gifted students to help them be prepared for these opportunities her work with the classes of 2023 and 2024 ensures a bright future at liberty mackenzie's involvement at liberty is not only impressive but inspiring by devoting her time to latin club she has been able to serve as latin club vice president last year and the president this year for three years she has run on the cross country team and has been video lead for robotics club for two due to her hard work and commitment in the classroom mackenzie was invited to join the national honor society and has been a member for two years now in her underclassmen years she even participated in scarborough fair outside of school mackenzie has many admirable accomplishments she spent a semester interning at izaguere law firm she was operations manager of the youth champion ambassador program and she is a colorado student leadership institute board member when asked what her greatest accomplishment is she said that she is proudest of the 10-page research paper on space tourism she spent an entire semester on after high school mackenzie plans on attending arizona state university's honor college barrett and she plans to study political i have had the privilege of working with mackenzie in many different capacities it is rare to meet and work with someone like mckenzie as her hard work and dedication to her academic career is evident in all that she does in the classroom mackenzie leads the conversation and encourages her peers to participate and to learn she is kind to everyone she meet and is quick to make connections i can't think of anyone more deserving of such an honor mackenzie to recognize you for your many accomplishments the class of 2022 would like to award you with this salutatorian medal ladies and gentlemen it is my pleasure to introduce mackenzie woodhead thank you kylie for the wonderful introduction the weather is a little rough out of course you know i wanted it to be sunny today but that didn't happen and i think that's really representative of our high school experience there's a lot of things that just happen unexpectedly so i want you to imagine a day like today where the weather is a little bit unexpected it's thursday after school the thursday before thanksgiving break lots of people are getting out of town it's freezing outside starting to snow and i'm outside in anticipation to watch watermelons be catapulted despite the fact that none of my friends wanted to come with me to the event and not a single person i knew was going i was still excited to go to liberty's first ever watermelon launch so i was prepared for snow or shine i ended up being the only one there well technically there were student council kids who were running it of course mr vasnellis but i was essentially the only one there of free will we all waited to start the event hopeful that maybe people would show up late but nobody else showed up and most sane people probably just looked at the snow and decided it would be much more enjoyable to be doing literally anything but stand outside in the cold despite my preparations i was freezing but undeterred i intentionally decided this watermelon launch was going to be the best moment it could be at some point my friend mark small who i had only known from english my english class in latin classes comes out of the school into a t-shirt and t-shirt and shorts keep in mind it's snowing i barely knew him but there was no one else there so i waved to him and he came over and together we watched the watermelons epically soar through the sky and guess where they would violently explode bursting into red and green pieces as they collided on the pavement when we were miserably cold we peered into the cte doors like sad cold puppies until a nice robotics kid veronica mastalis saw us and let us in and we watched more melons launched from inside initially i left that day with a good story to tell my friends a story of incredible fun in hindsight the experience reminds me of the ending of my favorite poem by taylor swift and yes it is a poem not her lyrics without your past you could have never arrived so wondrously and brutally by design or some violent exquisite happenstance here for so long my experience felt like the most random event in my life some violent exquisite happenstance which is quite fitting to a watermelon massacre but simultaneously i chose to be there by design such a fitting elegantly simple duality by design and some violent exquisite happenstance that exquisite happenstance brought me a good memory a realization and a friendship you've heard the good memory now for the realization it wasn't until the next year that i was actually excited to watch watermelons be catapulted because i was actually a physics kid at heart nowadays one of the most exhilarating experiments in physics is a monday slapper which is basically just two marbles falling to the ground at the same time but trust me it's awesome that memory continues to remind me of why i love physics now even the mundane monday slapper is the highlight of my day it's a joy everyone can experience learning beyond the classroom now the friendship i had known mark before but that watermelon smash was the day we actually became friends it is important to remember that friendships can come out of the most unexpected occurrences knowing this helps me to appreciate the experiences that seem out of place in my life at the time and there will be many ordinary moments that will blur together as time goes on yet there'll be moments of exquisite happenstance that become the start of something much more meaningful these moments are only possible when we let go of the expectations of our reputations and explore what is inexplicably compelling to us i am so grateful for that unique experience it was one of those times i felt in the moment because i did not care what anyone else thought of me i chose to enjoy chaos and chance i realized we don't always have to know why we want to go to an event or why we want to go do something it is enough just to be curious even if it's going to a watermelon launch and the freezing snow thank you [Music] i will you like a bridge or troubled water i will [Applause] [Music] when you're [Music] is [Music] oh [Music] like a bridge [Music] [Applause] [Music] my [Applause] [Music] [Applause] i will lay me down [Music] i will come forward [Music] darkness [Music] i will lay me down [Music] [Applause] i will lay me down [Music] when you're down [Music] [Applause] [Music] your time has come to shine all your dreams [Music] [Applause] [Music] look around [Music] is [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] i'll be your [Music] [Applause] when you're [Music] of down [Music] [Applause] [Music] bye [Applause] [Music] [Applause] could we give our fabulous choir another round of applause for that beautiful rendition of bridge over troubled water hi kid good afternoon honored guests liberty faculty parents families friends and most importantly the graduating class of 2022 my name is leanne thiessen and i'm an assistant principal and the activities director at liberty high school i have also had the incredible privilege of overseeing the fantastic class of 2022 for the past three years at this time it is my pleasure to introduce our 2022 commencement speaker who was selected by a panel of students and staff first a little bit of background in the spring of 2019 shortly after i was hired to be an assistant principal at liberty i came to campus one evening to attend a parents liberty meeting unbeknownst to me the meeting has been had been cancelled so i wandered into the commons and stumbled upon the end of the year student council induction ceremony this soon-to-be sophomore ran from across the room and exclaimed miss thiessen i know you from fifth grade high trails and i'm so excited you're at liberty i realized that i had been the high school supervisor and a counselor when he was a camper at fifth grade out high trails outdoor education camp from that point we shared a connection and i have since had the privilege of watching him grow into an accomplished graduate this young man has certainly made his mark in his four years at liberty he has been a member of student council for all four years and served as the student president for the chassa student leadership committee this school year he previously served on our principals advisory committee and currently serves on the school's accountability committee he is also a member of our national honor society our forensics club and was a national qualifier during his sophomore and junior year his strong involvement in our performing arts department has landed him roles in six different shows a selection as a student choreographer in our dance program and a place in our chamber singers choir he also earned a spot on the chassell all state choir group and performed a solo at the all-state performance in denver this year after graduating from liberty he plans to attend cu boulder and major in dance class of 2022 i am proud to introduce your commencement keynote speaker camden sharkey i'm a little tall hello everyone my name is camden sharkey and i am honored to have been chosen as a commencement speaker for the class of 2022.

[Applause] once again everyone to the softball field i'm kidding i'm kidding back to mr alvarez jacob's fired up tonight for sure welcome to the 40th annual commencement exercise of rampart high school please let me begin by thanking the air force academy for providing us access to this wonderful facility [Applause] i'm not sure if i missed the football field yet or not it's a little hot in here tonight but uh this is an awesome facility and it's good to be back i also please let me extend a great dep a gratitude uh to those who have bravely served and who are currently serving in all branches of our military especially those parents tonight who are currently deployed if you could please ask our staff members who have served in any branch of the military and any of our guests here tonight to please stand and be recognized [Applause] thank you members of our audience and members of our staff and board for your service to our country now it is my honor to introduce the distinguished group who joined me on stage tonight mr thomas levalley president of the board of education [Applause] aaron salt director of the board of education former rampart parent and vice president of the board of education mr will tembe [Applause] future rampart parent this is heather cloninger treasurer of the board of education [Applause] and current and future rampart parent this is nicole khan's board of education director [Applause] board members pick well mr tom gregory superintendent of academy school district 20.

so it is a it is a bit more but it's not like radically it's not double when we're not slashing in half what they would want what they would typically build for something like that commissioner weich i have a couple questions so the first one is um trying to understand the comment from brian chambers around the parking structures and um the changes in the code that he was concerned about so when i looked through the coat there's lots of strikethroughs on the parking structures and it seems like it was only 5 19 7 that seemed to be close to what he was concerned about the design of vehicle parking facilities um but that just seems to be discussing how not the pushing into parking structures as the solution for not having the surface lots available and i'm trying to make sure i understood what he was commenting on as it relates to the code changes um i'm not sure what i guess what i was presuming is that you could i think i think the conversation here is about the tension of the evolution of land use we have a we have a very auto centric pattern of development we've rezoned it to try and shift that tide one way you could do that is um and this could be where i i can't speak from but this could be where it was going is that to allow parking even at a rate of one per 330 square feet which even it might be in parking structures you're dedicating volume in this area that could otherwise be put to a more productive use could be housing could be office could be retail so i guess what i was interpreting is that whatever we can do to use to maximize the volume of productive space used by people rather than cars is better than dedicating space for cars presuming i think i would i think this is it's a really interesting conversation sort of on the heels of our previous petition where i think about a restaurant like that you don't get much more pedestrian oriented than that um and even there we hear about how important it is for the parking adjacent to their restaurant for their business model and so what i suspect commissioner dish is sort of getting at is there is an evolution going to be happening here it's probably as it's constructed now there will be parking associated with it it will not be a hard line to say that the only way you can build 200 new units is if those 200 units are built without any parking so i think that i think what commissioner edition what commissioner ricky brando are sort of hinting at is we're making it hard already by form to provide cheap car storage but if it is core to the business model to have the residential or retail or office space or whatever it is there that some parking is provided we've heard in the past about office users coming to the table wanting i will sign this lease if you give me one you know i need x spaces per square feet the maximum says that you can provide costly parking up to that maximum if that works for your business model eliminating the maximum would allow you to provide whatever that parking ratio it is to get that forma to work but it has to be structured so it's still limiting the impervious surface it's still impacting what i would say it's shifting from a more to a more urban form from a more suburban form but i think you know i think as christian abrams is talking about and commissioner dish are going from i part of this is where is the commission in the city's comfort level and seeing this evolution max the max i think the maximum is reasonable i don't i think that there is going to be some limiting factor just by the nature of it has to be structured so if there are no maximum unlike surface parking i think that there is going to be little incentive for people to provide more than they can absolutely get away with because it's very costly so can you clarify something you said at the end which was it has to be structured and are you using that in a technical term meaning it is a parking structure versus a parking lot a vehicle so the vehicular use area is a surface parking lot open to the sky yep parking under a building in a parking structure that is either incorporated into a building or separate on a site with a development those are not going to be vehicular use area okay okay because you said in i'm assuming in the tc1 the parking with that sentence meant was that the parking has to be structured so it has to it can't exceed we know it can't exceed the form and all of that because of the lot so i think i have that in hand but i just want to be clear that what i thought i heard mr chamber say was the changes that we're making in the code is going to force people into building parking structures and that is what is problematic or lyles right them too yeah and that the citizens of ann arbor would would be surprised that that's the trade-off that's happening here and and that's the thing i'm trying to clarify like is he correct is it well without us assessing correctness to him is is what his comment is conveying a correct assessment of what we are changing or is it an incorrect assessment of what we are proposing a change for is what i'm trying to grasp i i am i'm presuming we all are um well just based on his previous comments i think mr chambers is very um i would say pretty aggressive as it relates to sustainability yes he wants he wants and so i'm interpreting where we can put it uh perhaps he would be more comfortable that you get a vehicular use area no bigger than the building and that's all you get okay so that would be the that would be the trade-off otherwise what what we are allowing is that you would be able to incorporate the parking into the building structure so you could go underground or come up a few levels and then build your building on top of it as long as it didn't exceed the or again next to it could be a parking structure that is adjacent to your building remember you know one of the things about that form um if you have a 10 000 square foot two-story building or a 10 000 square foot 10 story building that vehicular user is going to be the same calculation right yes so so the sort of the notion of the maximum is it says you only get so much surface area right but we recognize as investment gets more intense larger you there might be a legitimate need for more parking but it has to be done in a more sustainable compact fashion so we're not giving up as much land ala the current patterns in that area that might preclude it from other new development okay commissioner dish did you have something else that you had okay yes i wanted to what i was i think i was not as clear as i was trying to be but i was trying to convey that what people want out of this district is multi-fold and one of the things that has been consistent is people talking about mixed use so the desire is not just to put residential where there has mostly been office but it's really to see the development of cities apart from downtown right or downtowns outside of downtown not cities that would be strange so um and for that to be the case we either need to set if we want to set parking maxims we either need to delineate them according to you so if you have a restaurant we're going to let you have more or if you have a grocery store we're going to let you have more or we need to come up with we need to hit the sweet spot the right number the one that will give enough flexibility so that yeah we know you don't need as much for residential but you've got some office so you know we've left you enough room under our maximum and and you can do that and so staff has recommended a three per 1000 square foot of far maximum and people like um people who who very much value this development being transit supportive and it being it it increasing ridership and increasing transit service right i think that's what we mean when we talk about transit supportive is we're trying to do both increase ridership and increase service those folks are saying no three is too high uh and so you should make a two because we really want people not to have their cars but then i have to raise my hand and say but then what's going to happen to my mini downtowns because if you limit it to two we might you know developers might just say you know what i can't a bank i can't persuade a bank that to loan me money to have a restaurant in here or a grocery store in here and it is such a bummer to live on the north side because you have to drive five miles to a grocery store i mean you know and it you know you just you have to drive out on plymouth and i wish we had an argus in our neighborhood um uh you know and so i think what i'm trying to say is that these aspirations that we have for tc1 are many and they pull against each other they speak differently to that question of how big the maximum should be and we also don't have a clear model anywhere else telling us what to do a lot of the other places we looked at didn't set a maximum some set them but differentiated them by use and so i don't see that we have a lot of data for this and i think that it is not a bad idea to i mean either we leave the more generous maximum of three um or we and not just three yes three per thousand i'm always afraid i'm going to say the thing wrong you have three cars ten story building three cars um or we don't regulate this because we're we're working in an area where there's a lot of things changing here there are there are not models elsewhere and we don't really know what this one size fits all right number is and uh so i'm sure that you know mr chambers and mr westfall will be quite a bit more unhappy to see all maximums removed rather than to have the maximum reduced but i am not i i would really need to oppose strongly reducing this three per thousand square feet maximum because it it really does not it doesn't comport well with the mixed use desire so are we going to get a million of these projects right away and will we have made a big mistake if we you know if we leave it at three if we take it away and see how the developers themselves with their financial institutions calculate how much parking they can afford to to build i don't really know commissioner clark um i guess i just want get a little closer um i guess i just want to be cautious especially with the um parking structures especially that we're not just going to be adding permanent dead zones to something that we're hoping for people to take public transit into things like that um parking structure isn't something easily undone and a lot of the developers that are coming in working they might i mean ann arbor is one of the most walkable cities in the state most the developers especially that are coming from other areas are maybe going to have a skewed view of what is possible and there's no sure i guess the banks can have a preference on what they're going to fund but if there's a policy in place that requires them to push the limit a bit i guess i don't see what else could be effective in pushing developers and nudging them towards lower parking maximums or lower parking ratios because if they're headquartered in more like you know in suburban detroit area their status quo we're just going to keep getting the status quo um and so i guess pushing that a little bit on parking and especially the structures just uh i guess makes me nervous i've never been to a transit accessible area with a lot of parking structures on it i'm a little bit confused about so if the parking structures would that still if we were to remove the parking maximums could they build unlimited parking in a parking structure just to be clear like unlimited height or whatever the limit to the zoning yes without the maximum they would not have a maximum so if they wanted to provide four spaces for every 333 square feet they would have that ability um i don't anticipate that happening because um it's pretty expensive and i would um and to your comment there there are many buildings downtown that have structures integrated into them we have the public structures but we also have many residential buildings that have structures integrated into them as well so it can work um it can fail we have both examples in our downtown but i think one of the things that the tc1 has going for is all the attention to the streets the street frontage design requirements um you know the mixed use within the proximity to the corner so we've insulated ourselves to an extent i think to some of the more terrible manifestations of parking structures so it's a parking just to clarify parking structure doesn't have to be in conjunction with another use in a building it could just be a completely like a five-story parking structure with that as part of the tc1 use um let me check this but i think it's not a principal use it can only be done when it's accessory to another primary use okay and i think the other thing just to kind of follow up my understanding commissioner clark is that it can't really be suburban because the because of the form-based piece of it where you can't get any bigger than the building so they can't build acres and acres of parking because they're automatically limited by that and so you can really only go up or down and it's incredibly expensive to do that and i don't know that the rents are ever going to support that kind of expense for the zones that they're in if it was downtown that's a whole different story because they can charge those kinds of premium rents it could evolve towards that i think the thing that is really tricky about this is something that you talked about mr leonard which is like how this is an evolving use we want to see it to be we want it to become transit oriented but we're not totally there yet right now and so we're in this awkward space of being able to try to incentivize towards it but not make it so that nobody does it because it just doesn't work um in terms of bank lending in terms of the markets whatever and so i think that's like the really tricky part of trying to figure out all these different mechanisms we have a couple of them with the footprint business with the structure business and all that kind of thing i frankly i think the structure thing is probably not going to happen in these areas because we just can't charge enough it's not premium enough i mean who knows maybe you know commissioner dish one it will become a little node and will become like super successful and you know it makes sense to put structured parking there but right now it's just it just can't happen in terms of what um what people can actually charge for rents in the far-flung areas that are not this the the downtown um so i think the crux of it for me is how we can hit this sweet spot of incentivizing towards it still allowing though for some flexibility for kind of what people need now and where we want to go and i think that's for me that's the tricky part is kind of knowing which lever we pull or which levers we pull to be able to kind of push in the direction we want to go but also have it happen i mean that's i guess the thing that i would be concerned about is is is uh like will people if are we limiting it too much so that we're basically just getting residential and and i agree with your commissioner that's like better than nothing for sure um but i think we're all hoping for it to be a little more vibrant in that way and not just kind of apartment buildings and and nothing underneath them like commissioner abrams who had something to say yeah i wanted to just maybe return to commissioner dish's comment about the lack of data which i also feel in this in this decision and in this deliberation and but i again i think one the one data point or one of the data points that we do have is the existing amount of parking at arbor hills and here on village which is the whole foods on washington so i just want to return to that for a moment because i think what we have to remember is like if these are mixed use three three per thousand is really high for residential use and so if you have a building that is eighty percent residential and twenty percent grocery store at three per thousand you may be able to get there for your grocery store so i i don't think in other words uh three per thousand gets you 384 spots at whole foods they built 411.

[Applause] now before i go i'd like to answer a question that several people have been asking by quoting the esteemed writer and musician kanye west who once said a lot of people were wondering what i would do if i didn't win i guess we'll never know [Applause] on a more serious note though uh nolan ryan once said enjoying success requires the ability to adapt and i believe that heartfelt thank you [Applause] again another hand for our speakers tonight [Applause] on behalf of the staff and administration of mountain view high school i would like to congratulate the graduates of the class of 2022. these young men and women through their hard work and diligent efforts have achieved have achieved an important milestone in their lives however this should be remembered as one of those milestones that they will achieve admiral william mcraven gave the commencement address to the university of texas class of 2014 in that speech he highlighted 10 lessons to help change the world we shared this with the seniors a few weeks ago his thoughts were if you make your bed every morning you have accomplished the first task of the day it will give you a small sense of pride and will encourage you to do another task and another task by the end of the day that one task completed will have turned into many tasks completed making your bed will also reinforce the fact that little things in life matter if you can't do the little things right you'll never do the big things right and if by chance you've had a miserable day you'll come home to a bed that is made that you made and a made bed gives you encouragement that tomorrow will be a better day if you want to change the world start off by making your bed we see an amazing group of students and graduates that represent our school our district and our community and our families that will in fact change the world over the last 13 years they have faced challenges never known before by a graduating class learn the true meaning of grit of perseverance tenacity overcoming obstacles in ways they did not think or ever wish on themselves but they did it we are so proud of everything that you've accomplished in your four years here at mountain view high school tonight i am requesting that each of these individuals is given the respect they deserve and we reserve excessive cheering until the end of the ceremony the class of 2022 has requested that each student's names be heard when the ceremony is over i will invite you down to the field to visit with and celebrate with our graduates tonight's students names will be read by members of the mountain view cloud mountain view staff as selected by the class of 2022.

i recall so there's also a publication requirement usually attached to a formal rfp process we might post it on our website or post it in our local newspaper of general circulation or trade journals things like that and sometimes we don't necessarily want to do that in instances of specialized services so there are ways we can maybe have kind of an rfp light process where we're you know requesting proposals we're holding an interview process and we're making it all a very open transparent process but we're tailoring it to the specific consultant and the needs of the district for that specific scope so one of the i was just gonna say so one of the options could be for example for the member that's not present you know we could we could review some some options and we could provide a uh kind of a brief summary right of their their cost structure some of their prior experiences we could you know be helpful in trying to draft kind of a an abbreviated summary of those that we've that we've found or identified so that the board's not feeling overwhelmed maybe by having to administrate a full formal rfp or rfq process um and you know that would give all the members the ability to kind of uh you know review the details of those options and then decide forward you know it can't the way you guys are explaining it correct me if i'm right it's kind of like the same process for the rfq i think it's important that we continue with the rfq um and i would like to hand that over to cabinet um you know to be able to go ahead and board member chris and sellers shared that she did not want to be part of the process i was talking about the environmental oh pennsylvania i mean i'm fine either way i mean i would still like to continue with that um this is going to be a big big project and um i i would like to be in the know maybe i can summarize where i think we're at right now um so what i what i'm hearing the board uh say is that for the development consultant that that would be an rfq process we would request for these qualifications we'd go through a more formal process for the development consultant um and we would do and we do we do that many many times for many many different things for the sql process and the sql consultant which is different and apart from the development consultant um we would work with f3 internally and i think this is what remember cruise gonzalez is saying um we would mimic uh a process that we went with through with them recently they would uh send over to us some proposals to look at and then we would reach out to them and say okay you know we we like this person or we worked with them before we got some good recommendations and then they would uh start that part partnership uh with them and and and then we would have we would handle that as staff and f3 to uh to obtain a sequel consultant but the rfq development consultant i'm sorry but the development consultant would be through an rfq process so i'm still asking the same question so board member arianes you are saying you wanted to be included i mean i'm not i want i'm not understanding what you're saying about that just the fact that um we're going to go ahead and open this up to the rfq i think that the superintendent summarized it correctly um kind of what cruz board board member crews gonzales shared uh board member bow you shared i shared it falls into the you know the two things which is we can do an rfq for the development consultant for the sq we can go ahead and trust the process with our three f's uh um and so that that's okay just be in the know that we're gonna be informed of all okay thank you i think we have consensus yes thank you um if i can just clarify one more thing i just want to make sure that that we our objective was done uh was that it or did we also what are we also seeking for um the title or that can happen later um sorry uh we wanted some just like general direction from the board about uh two additional items whether we wanted to move forward with engaging a title company to do the preliminary title reports for each site um and then also whether the board wanted us to move forward in um in combination with staff in doing the initial solicitations for folks that want to be part of the 7-eleven committee to reach out to see um it you know it's an application process we would make the applications available and then um you know start to see if folks from the community are interested in forming that committee so just just some general direction on whether we should move forward with with those two those two items as well and with the title company it will work similar to the environmental consultant you know there's not just one title you know we can talk to a few title companies make sure we're getting best value that they can really support us because when we select the development consultant environmental title company that's usually who we stick with um of course if something um goes awry we always have the option to pivot but ideally we want to really you know we're adding these people to our team um so we all want to work together with them remember board member rogers pin your thought no oh yeah i i agree i think appreciate it forward selection of title company with e711 yes yes so we're in agreement that we'd like to move forward with uh retention of the title company as well as the process for 7-eleven um can you share with us what that's what that process will look like to the community sure sure for the 7-eleven specifically yes yes um so the district will um and actually we can assist with this process uh so we have applications um it's kind of a standard form that will ask particular details about the individual to make sure that they fit um in the categories that are there in the education code and then usually we make those applications available on the district's website at the district office we can have additional events to try to solicit some interest and make those available also if there's particular members of the cabinet that or the board that are aware of folks in the community that might have interest we can hand those out to folks directly um then at that point once we feel like we have a good group to review we usually assist the the cabinet in reviewing those applications making sure we check the boxes of the required folks from the community that are in the code and then we'll bring forward a recommendation to the board with the resolution that names those folks that um that the cabinet and the council is recommending for selection of the committee um the board will then review that resolution uh decide if they're happy with the composition of the committee and then at that point they'll approve the membership and then assign those particular properties for review by uh the committee members um so the initial step with the community is really just a solicitation of interest for folks that want to be um a part of the committee yeah i'm just gonna so they can fill them out online and submit them online also but they'll be able to fill them out online and then submit them to you yeah so i'm sure we could set up a process on the website where they can submit that way but also certainly however hard to comment yes okay great whatever is easier and so this process can take a little bit of time as we see with our cvoc and getting the comm committee members together and we also might gather the committee appoint them and then they might not meet let's say for a few months out because we need to have them to have materials to review so that's all going to come as we engage these consultants and start the process we of course will have a preliminary welcome meeting and things like that to explain their role and responsibilities but there might be some lag time before their formal work gets done if we're lucky enough to get the committee formed quickly i guess i'm sorry just one more question so um how many days are you doing it's like for 30 days is it you know is there a deadline date that the community will know where the cutoff is and everything yeah so there's um there's no particular timeline in the statute for how long we have to solicit interest um with with most districts you know we can kind of feel out whether we we feel like we have a good group or a good crop of folks that are interested and then at that point uh we'll be sure to you know the um the item where the board will see the resolution will be on the agenda and we'll know in advance you know we could certainly even do an announcement on the website for example of the folks that are part of the committee so that the community knows that they've been selected um and then all of the agendas for the board meetings are for the committee meetings will be subject you know to the brown act those will be made available to the public in advance we have time for public comment on all of the things that happened during those committee meetings and so the goal really is to engage the community not only through the selection of the members but through the entire process of those meetings as they decide and they form the recommendation report board member annis and then chris gonzalez i i would like to to see this actually um be able to go ahead and partner up with the city like the library uh you know the post office uh i would like the community engaged in this um since they are our you know our residents we are the residents um and they're they're the ones that live right next to these properties they expressed you know some of them did come to our meeting and that they would like to be part of this process so how how uh superintendent how do we other than email right because we have our parents email our students email how do you see uh partnering up with the city and being able to access the community to have access to this application if interested yeah we can definitely make sure our senior center library right those high traffic kind of areas that we can drop off applications i do frequent the city council meetings and so i definitely can also make announcements there in public and then also partner with the city manager to explore other avenues where those could be highly visible i had um another request to the city um i do i i i understand that with when we bring out a consultant and we have the committee they're going to be able to think about what what what opportunities we have with the site um but i do think um there's value in maybe reaching out to the city manager or sooner than later because i know for example with the healthy communities initiative in the city right they have funding to put in a health clinic someplace um they may have other ideas in terms of like the master plans they're adopting for you know so i think that there's some space to and that that kind of that kind of like brainstorming takes time right so i think if we front load those conversations the better so we can think about some really interesting things that we could do with our really our community space yeah a thousand percent and um like board member cruz gonzalez [Music] one of the and again not that this has to be this way not advocating but the development uh consulting groups can also partner with us in those conversations so they have a really good sense right and so definitely uh looking forward to that all right moving on to item 10.2 approval of resolution 21 22 38 declaring the month of may as national mental health month attention to approve 10.2 we have a motion to approve by board member rodriguez pena do i have a second a second second by board member cruz gonzalez any discussion yes i i would like to to think um this means a lot that this right here seeing this on our agenda really means a lot mental health um you know we we have uh not only did we just go through covid now we're going through you know what happened this last weekend um in buffalo and and what not and so mental health is near and dear to my heart as a a acsw i fully support this and again you know anything that has to do with mental health our students our staff um i'm really happy and proud that we can have this resolution um on our agenda today and that we will vote thank you any further discussion let's have a vote and the resolute resolution passes four to one absent moving on to item 10.3 approval of resolution 21 22 39 declaring the month of may as asian american and native hawaiian pacific islander heritage month may i have a motion to approve to make a motion to approve second moved by board member cruz gonzalez and seconded seconded by board member arianes i just wanted to make a comment here on this item that um i'm happy that this is the first time our district has brought forward such a resolution and um as a member of the aapi community i'm i'm proud to to be sitting here before you and i wanted to take just 30 seconds to share um some history uh trivia brought to us by our city clerk and hometown historian jeffrey cornejo that um i am not the first asian american to serve on the azusa unified school district board of education that honor goes to mr tom okey who was born in azusa in 1916 and served on the azusa unified board of education for several terms in the 1960s and 70s any further discussion i just want to add one thing um as many of us say during black history month or hispanic heritage month right um api um celebrating epic culture should not be a one month thing of the year so i you know for us to think about how do we ensure that we're inclusive with with all of our work that we're doing in our schools throughout the year not just one month although it's great to highlight it you know to call it out during this let's have a vote thank you for sharing that history with us thanks to jeffrey jeffrey and the motion path the resolution passes four yes to one absent moving on to item 11.0 approval 11.1 approval of the consent calendar do i have a motion to approve 11.1 consent calendar make a motion to approve 11.2 through point sixteen second moved by board member rodriguez pena and seconded by board member arianes let's vote and the motion passes four to one absent moving to item 13 business and finance mr mall 13.1 i'm sorry approval of the allowable piggyback contracts for the 22-23 school year do i have a motion to approve moved by board member arianes and the second by board member rodriguez pena discussion i have a question regarding um how long have we had the contract with piggy bank so this is a list of piggy backable contracts and i'm not certain if i'm saying i work right but this is a list of piggybackable contracts that we can utilize throughout the school year so it's not that we're going to use every one of these contracts it's just a list to give us authorization so that throughout the school year if we find that a contract is already in place of something we want to purchase based on the price um we would be have the authority to utilize them even if um we utilize them we will still be bringing that contract to board to identify the item that we're purchasing with this piggyback full contract so what they exactly do is they look for a better price on an item or what what exactly does piggyback do yeah it's a great question so um what this does is um case in point let's say i want to buy chromebooks and so if i went to dell directly that chromebook maybe 500 um but santa anna may have just purchased a fleet of chromebooks and maybe they had um a price point of 250 per chromebook if that contract um was piggybackable then we would after having board authorization could actually buy the same chromebook at that price to santana bought it thank you you're welcome any further questions or discussion by the board let's vote thank you moving on to item 13.2 approval of the contract between ausd and laco for the best system do i have a motion to approve 13.2 and a second second moved by board member ariana and seconded by board member rodriguez pena any discussion let's have a vote and the item pass is four to one absent moving to item 14.1 approval of the consultant agreement between ausd and clarissa iliff do i have a motion to approve promotion to approve 14.1 and a second moved by board member rodriguez pena and seconded in by board member arianas any discussion hearing none will vote and the item passes four to one absent four point two approval of the contract between ausd and the sawdust factory may i have a motion to approve ocean to approve 14.2 and a second second moved by board member arianis and seconded by board member rodriguez pena any discussion hearing none let's vote and the item pass is four to one absent 14.3 approval of the consultant agreement between ausd and crisis prevention institute may i have a motion to approve motion to approve 14.3 and a second second moved by board member arianes and seconded by board member rodriguez pena any discussion hearing none we'll call the vote oh i'm sorry i did i didn't have a question oh no i'm starting the next one i'm sorry where unfortunately you're okay to vote 14.3 all right let's vote and the item passes four to one absent which brings us to our last item 15.0 adjournment i have a motion to approve motion to adjourn 15.1 and the second move by board member ariana seconded by board member rodriguez pena any discussion hearing none will vote and the motion passes four to one absent and this meeting is adjourned at 902 pm thank you

to start i want to thank and acknowledge those in attendance our superintendent mr gregory our principal mr timming our d20 board members other honored guests our parents but as miss season said most importantly the class of 2022 this is day one now i bet you're thinking you are about to hear another cliche speech about the start of your life but what i bet you don't expect is that yesterday was day one tomorrow is day one and every subsequent day that follows is day one see when you start a new job you are most excited for what's to come on day one when you start a diet day one is when you are most dedicated this idea is not new just the subject of the book this is day one by drew dudley dudley writes about how we need to be living every day as though it is the first day he also touches on how to be an effective leader for yourself he explains that that personal leadership presents itself through your edge of the bed advice let me set this up for you imagine it's the final night your son or daughter is living in your house this is going to take some imagination for our graduates you walk by their room and they call you in you sit at the edge of your bed at the edge of their bed as they ask what is your best life advice some things that i have learned in high school that could be my edge of the bed advice are one always live to the east of where you work so the sun is never in your eyes driving to and from work be careful on ladders but if you do fall make sure you get yourself some lightning mcqueen crocs to keep your speed up three sometimes the only way to sing the show-stopping note is upside down and what i would say is the most important is to live a lifetime as often as possible living a lifetime as often as possible does not mean rushing into major life events but rather living life as though every day is day one working to get the most from every day that you can and taking every opportunity possible making sure that in the future you don't look back and think about every opportunity that you missed think about every opportunity you could have filled your time with but rather filling your time with everything you needed in the moment or might need in the future to make it feel like a lifetime from my first day at liberty there have been few days where i was not busy every day i worked to fill my time with opportunities that could have just passed me by to those who know me they would tell you that i might have taken on a little too much all i can say to that is who would i be without those experiences those stories the people that i've met along the way every opportunity i took gave me something in the moment and many more opportunities to take in the future i lived every day as though it was day one during my four years in high school i tried to pack a lifetime into every day i could so that when i inevitably looked back i know i did as much as i could sure i could have sat back and relaxed maybe i could have studied a bit more but years from now will i remember what grade i got on an essay or will i remember the fun and crazy stories that i gained along the way will rogers once said half of our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time that we have rushed through life trying to save from the day that our extra week of spring break back in 2020 turned into us starting our junior year life has never been the same yet thinking back to freshman year feels so long ago on new lancer day we all wrote letters to our senior selves thinking that it would be so long until we received them since then we've gone through homecoming games dances virtual and hybrid learning our class absolutely dominating every class competition to win the spirit stick every year and having lived through the days before construction on campus when the senior hall ended with the rocky room remembering all of that feels like so long ago but isn't that such a great feeling knowing that you worked to pack as much in from the beginning of your high school career to now that the beginning feels like so long ago so my final wish to all of you is to live a lifetime as often as possible spend your life focusing on day one instead of saving live your life thank you but now it's time for the last joke of the day why do most smarties want to go to college i said it backwards why do most m m's want to go to college because they want to turn into smarties thank you so much for the past four years hello everyone my name is nama magnus wakuna or inna or noma whichever of those i'm feeling that day i am the president of spanish national honor society and liberty student union the club i co-founded with my best friend kaylee reed today i am honored to introduce our superintendent of schools mr gregory mr gregory has been a part of the d20 team for over 30 years starting as a math teacher at challenger in 15 minutes i learned that he is passionate about math traveling woodworking embracing different challenges celebrations the turbulence of his job and has been an integral part of shifting d20 toward an environment of belonging and inclusivity like mr gregory i have been passionate about bringing a culture of diversity to d20 kaylee and i started liberty student union recognizing a dire need for acceptance and a culture of diversity at liberty in the short two years that i served as lsu president liberty staff and students celebrated every heritage month every awareness month and introduced student-led staff development trainings on topics such as microaggressions the black indigenous poc experience and how to actively be anti-racist often i think of how while lsu not only reshaped the culture at liberty it also redefined my ideas of friendship my definition of diversity and taught me most importantly that my voice and yours is powerful and we must use it to inspire change without lsu without mrs cook mrs harris and kaylee i would not have found the one place i have always felt seen safe and unapologetically me i cannot thank you three enough for the impact you've had on me while lsu is only one aspect of the hard work students and staff have directed towards learning about what it means to be an ally understand the value of inclusivity and celebrate our differences it is people like mr gregory who provide for students the opportunity to reimagine the world and its many peoples like myself he is an exemplary example of the good that comes out of change and is looked up to for his unwavering support and dedication to not only imagine but to act on creating a more accepting d20 without further ado please join me in welcoming mr gregory well thank you very much and congratulations liberty high school class of 2022 please take in this very special moment in celebration of your accomplishment capture the sights the sounds the smells the heat the support the pride everything you're feeling today and use that to help propel you forward into the future before i get into this i would like to celebrate two students or recognize two students from liberty high school if i could ask alexis dubose and jordan mckay to please stand alexis and jordan participated on my student advisory panel this past year i just want to let everyone know their honest feedback insightful input and engage and energetic engagement represented the liberty high school student voice admirably and you should be proud thank you alexis and thank you jordan today as we gather with family and friends to recognize and celebrate you i want to tell you a little bit about my uncle mike it has been nearly 40 years since i sat in your seat and nearly that long since him and i had a casual conversation yet his words of wisdom from that day stay with me in fact i believe his words have shaped at least part of my life but before i share his wisdom with you it is important for you to know for you to know a little bit about my uncle mike first my father was the youngest of five siblings and the difference between my father and his eldest sibling uh sister was 15 years and my uncle mike who married into the family was 12 years older than my father's eldest sister so why do i say all this my uncle mike by age was born in 1912 felt more like a grandfather than an uncle uncle mike lived through the depression the great depression and experience the same poverty and hardship so many others faced during those days this experience left him a no-nonsense no frills hard-working sometimes brutally honest strict but gentle man his nickname was froggy i never learned exactly why he had that nickname but it stuck with him his entire life he grew his own fruits and vegetables in a in a garden that occupied almost all of his one-acre property in canyon city colorado when you visited his home you knew to follow his rules if you didn't he had a very special voice that demanded conformity it was gruff direct and short on words he had an innate ability to intimidate me he loved to fish and hunt not necessarily for sports but out of necessity for food he had a non-negotiable rule when fishing you had to eat what you caught there was no such thing as waste if you caught four fish you had better be prepared to eat for fish as a result i learned to be very aware of how many fish i was catching and may have secretly released a few back to the water out of both fear and respect as a result of living through the great depression depression my uncle mike had no trust in the banking system he was reluctant to deposit money did not use credit and refused any kind of debt he operated solely in cash if he wanted to invest or earn some interest on his cash he bought gold and he hid that gold throughout his house and throughout his property my uncle mike was never one who liked having a boss he was not of a personality to accept oversight or being told what to do as a result he and my aunt opened a drive-in restaurant in canyon city this is years ago remember he opened a restaurant called froggy's poor boy in canyon city colorado after a few years and some success they opened froggy's poor boy drive-ins in several other cities including walsenberg colorado durango cortez and the last one in moab utah he operated these drive-ins until he retired until they retired in 1963.