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all right thank you for coming [Music] public all right right along the superintendent okay so in the package we have governing board meeting dates for 2022-23 so we had talked about moving meetings to tuesdays after the new year which would give us more time to finalize the agenda and give time for us to answer questions and stuff on monday to better prepare for tuesday's meetings so there's the calendar proposed calendar dates they are mondays in july through november and december 5th and then january 10 and february 7th we also moved some because of the holiday being that like christmas break we did move that december day because right when we come back that january date would be that monday after a holiday so there is the proposed calendar october 18th i thought we were moving a bunch to tuesday they are so all the um january through june are tuesdays october is a tuesday because of fall break so um the the 17th is is the monday after fall break so that we made it for the tuesday on october 18th so give everybody a day an extra day to get some questions answered and need me huh yes it gives us another day to get all the agenda items in and budgetary items that need to be updated and finalized at that time and just uh february 7th is the first tuesday so we moved it up in the month we moved that one up in the month and we did it because of we were going to do valentine's day yeah because february 14th would be valentine's day on that tuesday so we moved it to morning shouldn't it be oh yeah it's the seventh the week before on a tuesday prior prior to march one is due to um spring break okay so what we'll do is um we'll submit it for next board meeting for approval okay but we wanted to just let you know so you could check out the dates and make sure it was okay um next thing we need to do is look at um we need approval for the 301 payments for 2122 so that we can get it in with the next payroll to have it done before the end of june that's our shortest consent agenda for the 301 you guys should have gotten the five page thing sorry just just a couple of questions almost everybody was the same except for two people is there any reason why the two people were different they didn't meet the uh the standard or the qualification for the full payout there were certain aspects of the year that they failed to complete okay so our total 301 disbursements this year a little on average at least a little over 12 grand per per teacher they got the first half first december and that's when we hire teachers and we tell them our 301 monies are not built into their salaries and so we can give a ballpark figure that it'll be anywhere from four to six thousand dollars per semester is what it's you know because that money fluctuates depending on the number of teachers that we have the number of teachers that we have who participate in 301 funds does that make it harder to in the hiring process not being able to give them like an absolute figure well i know when we compare our um teacher salaries to other districts we want them the 301 funds to make us more competitive right and that's where we are competitive but if you look at it and don't know that the 301 monies are additional too you get the salary um from potential teachers we do but when we explain it and the reason why we don't put it into salaries is because the funding that we receive from 301 monies fluctuate so let's say we just a lot of districts either say this is going to be the max and bank the rest and use the rest for other funding but what we've done is we give all the teachers the 301 buddies that we don't keep any for our financial reserve because what some districts did do is hold back some 301 monies but then they used it as their signing bonus for this school year which is still their money that they're earning but it looks different when you have districts out there saying we're going to give up you know 1500 signing bonus to every employee that signs on but it's out of this bucket of funding yeah that we give to the teachers up front so when we you know we just have to explain it to them because it could be more or it could be this i i love that we give it all to the teachers but i guess it's just something to keep in mind moving forward as if it's harder and harder to be a competitive employer we want to give you everything they need to know that everything and they do everybody when they meet with christina yeah when they meet with christina we lay out what the salary is what the benefits coverage is what the 301 monies could be they look at where the steps salary if they have experience in flood joints as well so we show that that guide um benefits i did say that what else do we have oh we let them know if they want to sponsor clubs or tutorials that extra money that they can make per semester so we let them know total of what cozy earned for signing on a lot of times it's you know they're like okay it makes sense how many other districts are given like a sign-on bonus well the larger districts that like tusd i believe is giving five five thousand signing bonus um yeah it's one time and it's not going to be every year well because it's coming out of the esser funds for retention that they wrote in to their to their esser grants buying bonuses going towards retention yeah retaining teachers so you're not retaining them you're oh are everyone that came back and resigned to you signed contract getting that one-time buddies or is that throughout the month it goes to teachers but it also is um i mean when you're a larger district yeah a lot more money to a lot of wiggle room sure and districts do their 301 monies very different um we still do it where teachers have to sign on to committees and still do that other district it's um a little bit's tied to your performance pay and then you collaborate on wednesdays and you submit your collaboration notes and you get your money so districts have committees who have lobbied to do it differently and because we are small we do need our teachers to help with these 301 committees to help operate the school which in turn they have to sign up they chose i think that's something for us to brag about that our teachers we don't want the has to be school by 70 of the teachers yeah before it can even go to the board so that that's what they're willing to do because it the school benefits the most really that's where we talk about you know compliance versus commitment because a lot of teachers in other districts they're filling out the form for compliance purposes but is it actually making a difference or not steve did you say the 301 committee is has made their proposal for next year it's on earth it's on june's board meeting okay june 13th june 13th meeting is their proposal okay yeah it's only six pages yes mrs yeah mr mcgivern yes mr ellery yes and mr oscar yes all right we get to go into our study session we are going to talk about the governing board very exciting but before we do that on your way out be sure to check out our bright and shiny buses right pick them up uh thursday last week four four six are up front our special travel bus is for our long field trip is in the barn and our speculator will be here middle of june so the guy even said that the exhaust coming out of these newer diesels it's cleaner than the current air it's not hearing anything about diesel but it's kind of the air going in most major cities that's great and the windows are tinted oh okay so we've been talking about right we've got uh you know the superintendent goals and all that stuff we haven't really addressed we've talked about it a lot never really did it so i'm hoping we can at least maybe get a template for some school board goals or governing sport goals um i don't know if any of you guys surf i mean there's enough stuff out there that's published that you certainly don't have to reinvent the wheel one of the things that roxanna and i discussed was having asba come down and help us so we thought we'd take a crack at it first who come down aspa either via zoom or in person um but we thought we'd you know see how far we get um also michelle phillips of the greater green valley community foundation is really good at putting this kind of stuff together and i talked to her so she'd be more than happy to help review tweet comment um maybe even come in if need be um and you know we have to then also tweak the superintendent goals to kind of help make everything jive you know you know we can do that too because i think they're all meant to be living documents right um so the one that i like the best i mean it needs you know our flavor on it um there's this one from lewistown montana thanks to uncle google and it's got one two three four five six goals maybe [Music] yeah and some of them definitely need some additions for example the facilities section you know we need to add the secure environment right since that's kind of top of mind right now even though it's implied um in some of the stuff so roxanna what do you think you want to start just let me just kind of say what these goals are and then it's up to you guys so there's um chart paper here there's markers so if somebody wants to be the recorder and you want to brainstorm um we're here to just be part of this dialogue exactly what we need and you guys can just take it away so however you team is best let's hear those so i'll just give you the quick six just really high level right um so the first one goal area one is measurable student achievement right kind of already has that the next one is facilities um you know to make sure that they're safe to address the needs of the students um and of course we build in their the whole safety program and things like that um the community and parental engagement and it's self-explanatory through this one in here for our the uh you know technology to keep the technology infrastructure current and sound implements steps to leverage better teaching learning experiences etc five is a highly qualified staff and they're in no one's certain order and goal number six is uh financial management responsibility here as i could tell that pretty much covered most things that we've talked about i don't know real quick i was thinking about rich while i was looking up some other school board goals and this one has a similar layout that i think you would appreciate or kind of what um you were wanting to get out of the district goals how it lists like this is our goal and then it has um uh like sub points under each goal is the strategic objective like this these are how we're going to do it this is how we're going to measure it and um instead of having multiple documents that have all of that it's it's kind of combined what minor bullet points inside the goals especially for us because they have to do those certain i mean like the light the lapse in the site well that's required i mean steve i like what you just laid out yeah i mean i would put some different priorities but they're not necessarily certain you know i actually participated in the six webinar series on school boards by put on by heritage foundation over the past month oh fascinating excellent but one of the statements in there that i that really triggered me was um what they deemed to be the absolutely unqualified signal objectives that every board ought to have and there's three of them okay now there's a lot of sub things that you would put under those things right like you said but one was academic excellence that was the number one this is if that's not the number one goal of your school district then there's something wrong number two is financial accountability responsibility and the integrity of your financial statements basically the fiscal responsibility and the third thing was none of the other matters if you don't have a safe school for the kids to learn it and those were the three now you can put a whole bunch of things underneath every one of those as to how we want to you know achieve those specific goals but those were three that were number three on all my lists and and you know that that safety thing is in the facilities from that um i think that the highly qualified staff to me is part of academic absolutely yeah it can also be under the safety thing too the highly qualified staff the shorter the number the better yeah you said we can expand on yeah did they give you any handouts or anything or is there no this was all uh um you know i'm trying to figure out how everybody could do this if uh if you could look at it because it was pretty good stuff it got into open meeting laws and some of the some of the stuff that the usba does but um what was the foundation heritage i almost think we need to take it bite by bite start off with student achievement yeah i've had no problem with having the three and then you know adding the sub so things could pretty much cover as years i and all could his other transportations markers hmm so [Music] yep and then under those i'm assuming there's going to be a few bullets right um yeah i would offer one re-secure in a rating as a school it should be really picky here since that's a district goal could we refine our goals like what are we non-teachers non-admin what are we going to do to secure any rating we're not in the classrooms thankfully but what what can we do administrators as a board to get us to an a rating other than providing the school the tools they need to get that done right that's kind of the way we our contribution yeah i'm trying to i was trying to think back to what shelly said once about she she can you hear us she put our scope into really simple terms back the facilities and because we are not directly hiring and firing anybody but we expect the team to make that happen right i think so i think we're responsible for making the resources available uh to achieve the goals that we've sat that that to me is our responsibility um if it's money it is money yeah um so here's one that i read through water wall of public schools um and the goal one is increased student learning and performance and then it has ensuring high levels of learning for all students is the school board's core mission to that end the board has established high expectations for increased student performance as identified by the strategic plan indicator indicator targets to ensure improved outcomes for all students the board will so it says prioritize and focus the efforts and energy on the strategic plan goals and indicators which will come after this regularly monitor student performance trends which when we present data at the board meetings hold themselves the superintendent and staff accountable for improved outcomes and advocate and support the need for improved learning to internal and external stakeholders so i kind of like those it was there are five bullets that are under the increased student learning and performance so i don't know based on our conversation it sounds like it sounds less worthy than yours is kind of saying the same thing yeah less works good yeah we set the expectations and and hold everyone accountable i think that fits into our scope of our abilities you know i just want to make sure that what we do is measurable and that's to me when it says hold themselves the superintendent and staff accountable for improved outcomes while you usually have some outcomes to know whether you've improved here's one it's really really similar they probably could have talked with each other in this other school district um goal one increase the level of student achievement for all students throughout the district with the focus on closing the achievement gap which is just a really long way of saying that and then under that the goal of going to objectives need to exceed state and federal standards for all students every year to create rigorous classrooms at all sites which support best instructional practices yeah as long as we don't say that we're we simply want to meet the standards of the state of the expected uh average 40 percent of whatever it is that to me that we have to be shooting far past that that would be our expectation far far exceeding whatever the states have required yeah i don't think we want to model ourselves to the mediocrity but i do think that if we established like we've talked about a certain point improvement in the state assessments whether it be three points or five points that we go from 40 to 45 or we go from 38 to 43 or whatever that be that that to me is at least showing progress against the recognized state standards i think there was another one that i thought was really interesting that can also pull math growth into it and that's that a high percentage of students and this was like 80 or 90 of the students showed growth from the beginning of the year to the end of the year so you can have both of those as as very measurable objectives one against state standards one just on the student's own progress within the map growth standards i totally agree with that absolutely yeah roxanna and deanna this stuff isn't measurable let us know right so i'm just wondering are the governing board goals the the measurable outcomes are usually in the strategic plan that's developed from the governing board goals not necessarily stated in your governing board goals you can have the expected outcome but the actual strategic as measured by and with the increased expectation in in i've seen it in the strategic plan not in governing board goals and i know you saw different in your training well they saw in that nogales thing they had specific point improvement on the board goals in in the mcallister district i believe that was the district goals there's let me look because i think theirs were it was that's where the only place i've ever seen them state a ratings like their goal is to increase all their schools to an a rating but if they didn't have as measured by you know like the measures that we use the state assessment where it depe was it in that actual document do you have that one there yeah well i mean this is back two years ago yeah but it has uh high school this school will earn an a-letter grade as defined by the state board of education um nusd will increase the number of students who are proficient or highly proficient in ela and math by 5 measured by this was ag merit um and those are the governing portals these are district goals i don't know i don't know what's the difference between a district goal and a governing board goal yeah so so the governing board goals support the district goals the strategic plan is based on your districts okay but if we say that num the one number one goal of this board is academic excellence what do we mean by that i i don't think we can just say that's our goal uh superintendent rico and you do all the things underneath that it means like what kelly was saying that your level of support for curriculum assessment so i have collaborate and support the efforts and resources to achieve the a rating or whatever we're we we have nothing to do with the a rating you guys do that's your jobs it's our job to give you the resources you need to do that i the right resources the right facilities the right security the right basic tool checks that you need to do it because from your well from from the district goals that i mean from the board goals then we can work on the detailed district goals which will guide our strategic plan with the specific measurable objectives why would the district goals be different than the portals because the board the the board goals are general the district goals have to be specific to all the indicators on how we get to that board goal the district the board goals are one thing the district goals are the other and they should align they should be this that's why it's like a pyramid it's a tear but we're we're coming at it from one direction you guys are coming at it from another direction exactly we're working towards the same thing so from the board goals go the district goals that have our strategic plan so what you're saying is that it's sufficient for us just to say academic excellence is the number one forward goal and then we're going to wait to see the strategic plan and the district goals and to see if they align with that and that's where we would see the metrics and the measurables that because it would say you're going to prioritize and focus your efforts and energy on our strategic plan goals and indicators which would be you holding us accountable to you know like the columns that they'll find us to increase where are you guys at with this when we do our district plan with we're going to do these check-ins at these dates and you hold the district accountable and they'll hold us accountable for reaching our deadlines and goals that we need to achieve so it's accountability holding us accountable for what we've got to get yeah i just want to make sure that we we know what you're being held accountable to in all fairness normally we have our board goals first and then they come up with the district goals okay how can we do this but we kind of have not made district goals or four goals in a long time so they were just you know um not for nothing but um trying to read our minds so once we have our board goals there's half to align with ours so they don't get to deviate so from the board goals like today we could establish board goals and then we could collectively go to the specifics of the district goals okay right but i know we've been trying to not have so many documents which is hard to do you know what i mean because it is a pyramid type you know you don't like we want to be able to put it on our website governing board members here's the governing board goals continental school district here are the district goals hence moves into the school's strategic plan or the district strategic plan with the with the school goals and indicators so each level gets more detailed yes so in that case you focus on the main aspects that are important academic rigor and excellence one facilities top-notch facilities that support that that are safe and comfortable and adequate the right science classrooms things like that well what rich deck was fiscal i mean with some specifics underneath it was well the way rich had said was academic experience two was sound fiscal and accountability and then third was safe school but you if you you want to flip-flop drew i'm not taking it in whatever a safe secure uh working campus i don't know what you want to call it but that oh come on just spread something cute um and then you know when you look at our mission and our vision right our board goals and our district will should align with our mission statement safe and orderly learning environments how you've got the crisis community this is a pretty short and sweet one district 149 forever they were with that number one academic achievement we will ensure our students need or exceed academic standards and enhance technology we will enhance its use of technology to ensure our students short students i don't even think that needs to be honest i think that's the job i i think that falls under so many every tier below in my opinion technology well it fits into everything else absolutely so rich when we talked about okay so we're ready to do bullets under the increased student learning [Music] responsible for making resources available the tools that the school needs to accomplish that measuring nwa map growth student growth data from start to end school year monitoring state growth of students collaborate and support the efforts of the district and school to achieve an a rate does it capture but i think some of those things are in this the but i think this i really like because this doesn't have the specific specific measurable five percent three percent increase that we talk about right that will fall into our district goal will be to increase student achievement by whatever if we can establish this and then you will provide the board with the actual metrics how how we're going to gauge success i think that's that's fine and i just i agree i like this with the way you stated this collaborative support the efforts of the district and school to achieve it in a rating that's our ultimate goal right to increase and then responsible for making resources available which is what we'll do measuring nwa macro student group data from start to end of school year so that's again our formative assessments and when we do our work reports and we talk about monitoring state growth of students which is the state assessment i think that sort of blends into number two so we could make it one here and then collaborate collaborate and support the efforts of the district and school to achieve an a rating oh yeah so then if we get what time is it okay good because if we can do the same thing for goal two and three and then we can start to look at the district goal and how we're gonna use these with measures right and then we could maybe combine it into two short documents but i think it'll be three bullets you're saying this is something that you want on the website that's bullet points like one two and three each one has two or three bullet points and that's what i what in the winnings go to other district websites and see um board goals are usually listed by one to five goals per like you were saying three or four with some specific bullets two to three bullet points underneath each one so that when anybody comes to our district website they can see gallery board goals here's our gummy board members and these are the three goals people can print ours off and take to their meeting yes and then then we can have a link to when they click on the district all right so we have the academics we have the now we're on the stage facilities are our finances facilities safe secure and orderly learning environment do you like how that's ordered or just safe and orderly safe and orderly learning environments or safe and orderly environment yeah safe and orderly learning environment which because we're about learning teaching and learning yeah and yeah facilities securities and technology um we will provide all resources available to ensure that our students have a safe and worthy environment one of the things obvious for the school safety's kind of getting the news lately and i'm looking forward to the discussion at the board meeting with regard to this and i know we've done some remarkable things in what we're doing here um one of the things that was also brought up was there are some quite professional firms that do security audits of a school um that determine and they can look at they come and they look at your school and they're thinking of all these things that are going on at the other schools where these shootings are occurring and what is it that a school can put in place in order to limit to the maximum extent possible those things happen um i think it's something that we ought to we ought to think about but i don't know what it costs absolutely even just from a pr yeah they try to break down the system do they know that's their job to try and find the weaknesses so when you think from my um for my banking days we should not advertise all security measures we have in place because that's just showing people that's why we're how detective i'm part of our emergency committee does remember but we talked about that we don't we're not we're not advertising anywhere where our entries are and all of that that's why it's an allowable topic for um executive sessions yeah um but perhaps a town hall meeting would be very cathartic for the community i've been reached out to um nothing too extensive yet but i can't get i'm going to email you guys and tell tell you all of my ideas that i have so i think providing two platforms in the next coming months well in a letter we wrote we steve and i were discussing we'd like to have a before school start so probably that at the end of july before we come so that way we can tell the parents not all of the security thing because we don't want it out there like you said but to let them know these are the things that we this is this is what our teachers are trained on this is what our staff is trained on this is what we would do this would be our steps yes just and then take their feedback and things so that we can continue on in the following weeks as we prepare for school to start to modify and adjust because they'll have great ideas too when you read the first bullet we will provide all resources available to ensure all students have a safe environment in which to learn so going back to like you're saying a safety audit or whatever i know that every little university at least three years ago had a grant with a federal government to go out and do this and they have you know law enforcement professionals they have a navy seal on staff that actually go through and doing awesome so i can look at it okay so they do emerge with this group of people yeah they knew no every rental has hired the you know this former police officer this former navy seal and they go through and they'll come in and they'll kick our doors so they'll punch out our windows it says i need security on it it could be i uh id security on it it would be upgrading or additional cameras i don't know it could be a lot of yeah so the resources like where that says we will provide all resources available i think that falls into the security it increase the cameras the whatever we decide but i don't know if that would be existed so that first bullet is great for the board goal and then we could still add you know i.e those few things but then in the district we could maybe refine out what resources available like we're gonna do everything to keep someone like albert on staff because the internet is the most dangerous place in the world and a large part of his job is making sure our chromebooks are used appropriately um working with the the community to have a full-time school resource officer on campus all the time i think that's that's that's huge because my personal opinion looking back at the last week or two you can monitor all you want in terms of kind of security protecting people on campus doing bad things security you can have all the cameras in the world if someone's not there to take care of the problem you're just done of honor so is that the only bullet that we need under this goal two does that state at all or can you think of i think that's opportunity i a safe learning environment i mean i'm i'm thinking of diwali i'm thinking of i think with this actually comes because you think of the social emotional piece of what our kids need nationwide and i don't know like you say resources says a lot of things to me that the human resource of having people who can help with these social emotional learning yes so i don't know that it needs to be you know social emotional learning do we need a bullet point under that that would mean we're gonna address i i don't think we need it on this i just think we need to talk about the next couple months that's right so that would be something that would fall under the district a district goal right but i don't want to forget about it dana so if you want to just write on there just the whole the social emotional providing resources to address the social emotional needs of that's where it our students we talked a lot about like in our conversations with superintendents and stuff on this topic has been just our mental health system like we say and how long it takes to get an intake or how long it takes to get help when you have grandparents who are needing help who are raising grandkids and you have kids who are exhibiting extreme behaviors in kindergarten and first grade and you know us trying to turn the behaviors around um but needing additional resources within and in our community like there's counselors who work in our community who are self-providing and they're booked like you know has increased their counseling services but they're at capacity and you still have to wait you know because i think it's in all kinds of industries i mean the suicide rate and agriculture enormous i mean you've got everything on the line the last couple of years have been truly scary yes and unfortunately it's not like a lot of industries and so resources to tend to that i think are spread confident so that's just the nature of the beast i i was having a conversation with sri pd today and um told them i feel like this issue is so huge and the part that falls under the school's responsibility is probably like five percent of it and it's really that's something i've been working on personally the last week or so is trying to keep my scope on what we have control up here yeah right here right now and when you talk about safe schools like your feeling about your school that you either went to or you should be the safety net and it should be the last place you think of going to hurt people yeah it's but it's just like a church you know that's your you feel like those are your safe havens right your schools and your churches and yet it's hard to fathom why that would be a go-to place for someone to go hurt innocent people because their experiences obviously in those places have not been but i think it's moved unfortunately it's moved to the next level and when i say that it's moved to the next level where just putting up security cameras doesn't do it it does not cut it um well you know what probably not the time and place to talk about it but the reality is it's far more than just saying wow there's somebody that's going to do harm because you need somebody that's going to take care of that issue and it's sad that we even have to say that it is what it is they're talking about limiting entrances and things of that nature and i know you know you gotta buzz to get in the front door and all but i'm also thinking of graduation date i mean the gates are wide open anybody can walk through those gates to attend a sporting event or a um or a graduation or promotion ceremony um it's the minute you got your card down like in london they had um diana was just sharing that it was the day of their awards in the morning in the morning they had their awards and all these people coming in and out and families they had left on the payment and there was one door i know i thought that too i thought about our events and i'm gonna have to get and so these are these are some of the things that i think a security audit could really identify for us yeah right because one of the things we were discussing when we were sharing with rico today is how our pod doors are open throughout the day one of the doors to each pot is unlocked and i was talking to elf about i said you know sometimes we have kids that are going in and out but too bad we don't have like a door like a one two three button so when they come back they know my teacher is in this career that's number one they buzz and this group can okay somebody goes and unlocks the door for them but we we have to come up with something because we don't want to have our pot doors unlocked they're only unlocked because of the well you let the kids go and then they're stuck outside you know we need to come up with a plan to have them secure someone else may already have that problem figured out and so well albert had an idea because i told him yesterday we're gonna have to come up with something to make sure that those doors are locked okay good so we have i think that one can be short and sweet because i think there's so much there's so much underneath it that we don't put on there there's a whole lot to that skin yeah well that's where you allow it to be short and sweet and make us do the work and make it oh all the better yeah we'll figure it out third one's finance right yes do you want it titled physical accountability or fiscal accountability you can name this anyway accountability responsibility integrity transparency you're gonna need to have them all what do you guys want your portal what sounds good to you fiscal management and responsibility professional yeah fiscal what shelly financial strength okay yeah that's good support improving efficiencies and accountability in our financial processes while reducing if possible staff frustration so that's what it says finding a good [Music] i could see these smiles find ways to improve efficiencies and accountability in our financial processes while reducing only if possible step frustration read what we get into that um find ways to improve efficiencies and accountability in our financial processes the one-on-one goal for through transparent operations shared accountability and best practice procedures the board will maintain sound fiscal steward stewardship of financial resources consistent with work policies [Music] when you look at it what do you expect as a complete outsider who's paying taxes to run this place what would you expect it was cool so would it be maintain sound fiscal stewardship of financial resources consistent with foreign policy sure yeah yeah i mean they're meant to be broad maintain sound fiscal stewardship is a good word for that because you're taking care of something you've got to do a good job managing it taking care of it not throwing it out the window of financial resources that all includes operating in our meetings consistent with board policy appropriate application of funds like that making sure this is the chinese i've ever seen a company's two of us out there and then i'd like where this says to monetary through ongoing fund balance analysis in addition to a comprehensive district community that's like well that's attitude survey what does that mean like a climate survey i think that's more of how you're going to do it yeah okay yeah i mean there's a there's a lot of things that can go under that uh that they're probably going to be part of the district so can you just jot them down now as well i mean obviously one of my big things is a clean audit or and clean is you know how you how do you define that but but at a very minimal level no material weaknesses in angular one of the other things that i think we need um is a capital budgeting strategic plan um and i say that because i started thinking about this after we had the whole discussion about school buses [Music] and and i i think we made the right decision in doing the school buses but we don't know what we might have to give up in capital budgeting needs in future years or in the next year because we've committed a hundred and thirty five thousand dollars per year uh just to fund this this bus lease there there's what is the capital out now the capital outlay yeah they're just kind of logical no no no there was kind of a list that we saw a while back that had kind of a a priority of little projects and yeah but that was kind of a laundry list of the various things we need it didn't say you know we would like to do this in within the next 12 months this is a 24 month kind of priority this is a 36 sauna from the strategic budget committee from the budget committee and how we did that list and now going back to prioritizing for you know your money what are our capital needs over what time period and and as best as we could project the cost you projected costs on school buses of what was going to happen over the next several years and and that drove our decision to to go on this lease program but again we kind of made that decision in isolation of other capital budgeting needs and i think if we had a capital budget strategic plan then as these things come up we will know whether they fit into the strategic plan and it won't be kind of one-off uh discussions so we could put in there um ensure ensure resources to support the capital needs strategic plan right is that what you know i mean just so that it's one of the it's wonderful we need to actually to provide that that falls under that district resources would it be providing resources to support the capital moon's strategic plan budget what if we provide support as well right so okay provide support to the district's capital lead strategic yeah don't say too much support then the board president has to write a check provide support reasonable yeah i still have my santa rio ranch bus that's all you're getting buddy in fact i might need a pack okay i gave it to you and you gave it to us what did you give away like my donation it was a very nice policies and these are ideas for our district goal and strategic plan clean audit devise the clear definition of what clean audit means for us so that's something we could talk about even before we go and help with that short term long okay then the next bullet will say provide support to the district capital needs strategic planned budget so those will be our two broad fair yes clean audit by definition in prenaut it means there are no material weaknesses that is that is the definition okay so is that our district um our district goal to be zero material weaknesses yeah i mean but yeah otherwise you get a battle of what clean means right okay um i've been through hundreds of federal audits for different agencies and they always have like a point system different levels of uh findings we're worth so many points your material weaknesses were worth like five points people minor stuff was one you had to fall into like a certain they would tally them all up and you had to fall into a certain category before you got in trouble keep it below a step it's just they tell you what it is you fix it yeah don't let it happen again so they don't identify it again the following year yeah which they will find again next year because you're halfway through the year when you get your so it's kind of like a it's always a tail under your jeans aren't you yes because albert remember when you were in mama kimari and what happened in with the audit over there 90 days later but that was based on how many extreme negligence so extreme negligence then the district got a otherwise stating everything that needed to be corrected and if you did not show progress and correcting them then the state would take over exactly so and when we tried to ask them remember that it would really get screwed up yeah remember when we tried to ask them what is considered like if you were to give us a letter grade on how the audit went and they moved it's basically when you're looking at school audits it's basically are we going to recommend the ag's office give you a 90-day letter or are you okay that's when you get us that's that's what it is it's either that or that that's it that's the only thing they'll do so maybe well i mean they're even worse than a 90-day leveraged receivership how do you feel so there's an actual group of folks show up and say yeah yeah ade comes in they ate in the house so um so here's the three oracles financial strength you guys think and so much more can fit under those right yeah because the other thing is is in the recruitment of hype and retention of high quality staff and and that's that's really in a lot of the areas up there uh but specifically in in the first goal of you know i've always felt in some way shape or form we need to financially reward superior teachers so somehow we've got to recognize that there's some teachers are better than others and they need to be financially rewarded high performing staff i think that that could follow your goal one and even two a safe and orderly learning environment is first police facilitated by attempting to pretend you're saying like a retention stipend for high performing staff but when i look at the move on when reading data that we submitted kinder and third grade students kinder and third grade teachers knocked that data out of the park for how well our kinder kids did and how our third grade teachers and they ought to be rewarded for and so retention or stipend for high performing staff some type of incentive for maybe it's time to rethink redoing this this is uh now six years old teacher evaluation system so we have the same system that's evaluative what changes is the formula that we plug in and how we determine that that teacher performance level that gets put in at the end and we talked about it two years ago remember about raising the bar then covet it and we're like okay this is not the year to do it and then they we gave the a.z merit um last year but they said we're going to give it but it's not going to count anywhere just for your baseline so then this year we said okay we're not going to move the bar this year but we are going to move and raise the bar for next year so then you'll see a difference in that score for teachers where they get like max points is four and so they received 3.6 this year but if we raise the bar they're gonna go from 2.5 to probably three points which will probably move some people from highly effective to effective the effective teachers might fall to developing okay so but we knew because we had had this conversation about changing the formula because we can do that piece there's different ways to do it the evaluation of the daniels in itself is a good evaluation but what ends up is the growth so you could tap into what each teacher's individual growth is and that will overall affect exactly what you're talking about because then we could add the ones that are getting these high growth things are going to see that in their final email and that is true when that individual number is plugged in because how do you show like the social studies in science so what happens is and what we've done collectively across the district is every teacher gets credit all the reading of the elective teachers math as social studies and science teachers that's why we take a school average of the growth because they get those points but if we wanted to do additional points for just the reading and the math teachers who are reaching this certain level and let's say we add two points to just them that's where it gets tricky that's where it gets tricky because then but that would be how we could give them an incentive because but for math growth we needed to look into including science so we would have everybody doing science but we don't have social studies assessment in interviewing that so that's where we have to talk about how do we give points to and then you have your specialty teachers and you have your special ed teachers so it would have to come up but it could yeah it would be additional to like the overall school mean and then how do we give the teachers who actually there had that individual class success april and maybe we should hold back a certain percentage of 301 money so we could do some of those things that'll be what our charge would be is where to free up in the budget the money for that yeah but that would have to come from the three or one committee with the three of them right and that would take collaboration on our part with the teachers to say we could tell them we would like to see this we'd like to see this we've been talking about it with them so it's not going to be a surprise because we've talked to our teachers about it we talked about this a couple years ago yeah yeah the problem is you just gave them the whole cake and you say i don't know right yeah i don't know how you address that they've already got like so many hoops to jump through to get the 301 money it's like we're just taking away a couple hoops and now they're over here substituting groups substituting groups the goal is everybody's going to be getting everybody's going to want to be i mean everybody is going to want to reach that he's going to that's when the trash takes itself or we talked about schools that do um grade level competitions for meeting and exceeding then the whole grade level gets uh yeah so there are three classes in a grade or like third grade competes with fourth grade it's like friendly competition for friendly competition each other meeting that exceeding standards in your but yeah i mean if we could even think about like the number of companies and people that sponsor things for us like if we reached out to baja sports or to somebody and said you know what we'd like to give even if it's a 100 gift card to a teacher or the top achieving teachers in our school it doesn't have to be tied to something as extreme as our budget right now or the 301 but if we could get some companies to support us and donate the top teacher in each grade level gets a hundred dollars you know when we go to conferences they love those hundred dollar visa cards that are being wrapped up so that could be something we could look at so keep throwing out the foundation oh see the foundations um one of the other things i thought was intriguing that came out of this webinar they highly recommended that a board member sit on every committee so a board member would sit on the curriculum committee a board member would sit on the finance committee uh a board member would sit on the 301 committee i think that would probably benefit us more than it would then because it would give us a better and more intimate understanding of their their mindsets and their psyche and this year things and how things operate so when we know there are all of these boards until people like we have a schedule because all those committees meet once a month so deanna steve and i albert we attach ourselves to those committees also but it would be if you felt like you wanted to attach yourself to anyone or just drop in on what some of them are at 7 30 in the morning some of them are at three after school um but that would be a good time to come sit in and listen and support i would love for one of you to come sit in on the 301 committees so you can see how they their checklist and how they look at what teachers have done how they determined who had it um so that would be good you could put board attendance in committee meetings okay so i'm going back to arcade audit button so as a district goal when you think about the number of material weaknesses that we had i mean we know our goal is zero right but what is truly doable to the board would it be decreasing them by i don't know 3 a year all of the things that they look at or just the uh are just the ones that they deem to be material weakness materials well i don't know that's why i'm trying to think well i would say that we should have an absolute goal of zero material weakness now all of the other things that i mean some of those are duplications and and and other things like if if you and greg wanted to come up and say you know okay we had 45 of these things and our objective is to cut that in half next year or something like that okay so that's what i want to say what is doable to cut the material weaknesses um decrease by half i think it would also be toward benefit if you could put a list together like he said some things weren't fixed until about halfway through the expected completion so when you expect it to change that we know we'll be on there because they weren't fixed you have to go into two-year cycle if you're gonna have if you have an audit that splits in school year the reality is you have to go on a two-year two-year cycle to your cycle of improvement you're not going to change the second part even if you've addressed it yeah yeah even if you've addressed it during the audit right yeah yeah they're still going to audit that same time period the following year that's just your technicalities but we know this year the material weaknesses that were supposed to be corrected from the year before that we're still on the audit because we thought we corrected them but they weren't in the way that the auditors expected so that still stayed there so we could somehow well it was a different material weakness it went from nothing's been done to it was done incorrectly can't wait just do it correctly did you do the way that kelly told you okay that's good but that helps so you can maybe just put um and then everything like our goal would be to do is obviously decrease the number of material weaknesses yeah the auto paints the picture whether we like it or not it paints the picture so that's that's a big part of this yeah um you don't keep how debt service was reflected um that didn't get like an eight hundred thousand dollars you miss uh misinformation on that financial statement okay sorry say that again is that another no we were just talking about we're going back and remember what the uh so we put under here just looked like thinking of a district goal is to put a list together via two-year cycle of improvement monitoring to be reasonable keeping in mind the areas that already what would it be that already being addressed but are working their way through the cycle i just have a gut feeling if you two sat down and said how would we like to do this yeah what kind of approval we'd like to see yeah and and here's what we think it would be a stretch but achievable and it'll be acceptable to the board okay so on going back to my evaluation when we talk about measurable objectives um for my performance pay remember it was a three percent increase in reading and math in the year and then it was ten percent increase in reading and math in our formative assessment and waa and we ha so when we talk about a measurable objective for the the district and the teachers i feel like you've already set the parameter for me which i think would be what could be right because it was three percent um increase in state assessment from year to year in reading and math and it was three points well it was but it translated to three um it was 10 it's 3 of 20 points the way we wrote it so because remember this was mine and that we're going to look at next week so when you look at the assessment piece right so we talked about three pers if it's if there's a three percent increase in ela then i get 20 points right if there's three percent in math then i get 20 points if there's a 10 growth in the formative from the pre and the post and ela it's 20 points and then it's again growth gives you 20 points for that so is that a good district goal should be the the superintendent the superintendent's goal should match the district's goal sure right so um this is how that's what we would put in the district goal three percent increase of state assessments in ela and math from year to year and then we have the ten percent growth in formative assessment and pre and post and so yeah again i think we can this says three percent um i you know i think it was at least intended to be it would be three point if you go three percent let's say you've got forty percent of your students are meeting grade level standard in math uh three percent would be increasing that by 1.2 points so it would go from 40 to 41.2 as opposed to three points would be 40 to 43.
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[Music] i'd like to call the uh a regular meeting of the brookfield board of education to order for june 1st uh 2022. uh will everyone please join me in rising for the pledge of allegiance i pledge allegiance of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all okay we have four members of our board of education uh here tonight this is a really interesting time of year because as as parents we also have a competing thing so we actually have two of our members off doing other family things with schools uh with their children um and uh we have one out in quarantine from covet so so there's the four of us you got the best four for tonight and i would say that on whichever four showed up on any given night you have the best four um this is a really fun evening for uh for us as a board and because the biggest part of our agenda is recognition and as a board we are so proud of the educators and the staff and the students in our district that we look forward to this event every year to recognize our teachers of the year recognize our staff members of the year and to meet the top 10 students face to face and get to ask them some fun questions so so i thank you all for coming tonight this is probably the biggest crowd we've had for the year um so we're going to start uh with recognition and we're going to start with the teachers of the year so um dr brill why don't i turn it over to you and let you do introductions and then we'll have the uh the teachers come up and uh get some recognition absolutely so um first i'd like to recognize excuse me um uh mr conklin and uh mrs gordon who is here tonight with us for all the work they do on teacher of the year and staff member of the year there's a lot of coordinating a lot of organizing of meetings and committees and surveys um and so we're just greatly appreciative of their work to make all of this happen um so i would ask when it's teacher of the year and staff member of the year time come on up we have scrolls we have certificates come shake the board member's hands we'd love to see you up here we're going to start with the high school the teacher of the year from brookfield high school stephanie vivas can you come up stephanie [Applause] congratulations wisconier middle school kylie evans kylie come on up congratulations our teacher of the year from huckleberry hill kim garcia [Applause] kim's taking it all in it's beautiful is garcia and not only the center school teacher of the year but the brookfield district teacher of the year sarah doherty come [Applause] on congratulations hold on so i just want to say a couple of words and i'll do this with the families and the students that are here um we're recognizing the teachers of the year who are elected by their peers as the cream of the crop in teaching for this year teachers are the heartbeat of what makes schools what they are right i think every student here probably remembers their favorite teachers whether it was as a kindergartner all the way up through high school and and teachers make such lasting impacts on on that they've made lasting impacts on all of us all of the adults in the room all of the students in the room and they are what makes our district what it is and uh and i'll talk about the staff in a second because they're the unsung heroes that make the district of what it is the uh but the um but the teachers i think we're recognizing the teachers of the year and all of you well done right i think it's so cool but the but you're representing all of your peers and uh and uh and i'm very proud and the board is very proud of the teaching staff we here have here in brookfield schools and this recognition is very well deserved and is a indicator of what the quality of our schools are so thank you all thanks bob [Applause] and now it's time to recognize our staff members of the year and we we started this a number of years ago because we have so many uh various staff whether paraprofessional secretary maintenance our nurses whomever it might be that to bob's point many times are either behind the scenes or just unsung and we wanted to make sure not only folks from the schools but even staff from central office have an opportunity to be recognized among their peers which is how they're nominated and then recognized publicly here at the board meeting so we're going to start this time i'll reverse it and that we don't do a district staff member of the year we recognize by location so our center school staff member of the year who isn't with us tonight is mr cordero so a round of applause for frank oh craig [Applause] thanks frank cordero from huckleberry christian ramos there he is mr ramos [Applause] from wisconsin middle school officer sean flynn come on up congratulations from brookfield high school you see her in the front office karen howe come on [Applause] thank you congratulations this is how congratulations and from the central office our special education secretary kristen lanice come on up kristen thank you mrs congratulations i'll also say a few words about our staff members of the year it's an organization like our school district is a lot more than just our teachers as i said the teachers are the heartbeat because they're the front of what is going on every day but as all of us have seen whether it's special education security janitorial office staffs and administration it is a it's to make the organization run well for all of us requires a lot of skills a lot of different skills and it is so great to see the staff members here who are also representing the other staffs um and have been recognized by their peers um you know get this recognition so congratulations to all of you and you are also the heartbeat of what makes brookfield school district as a district as an organization really run and run smoothly so thank you all [Applause] so next up we're going to recognize the top 10 graduating seniors who've been sitting here patiently in front of us and saying are you going to get to us one of these days so so are you going to do this dr brilliant actually actually mr belton if you could turn it over to me and i'll bring it over to mr belanda to bring it up here to work with his uh eight of his top ten that are here this evening and uh the opportunity for the board that i know you look forward to all right so welcome everybody uh thank you for coming out tonight we celebrated a little bit earlier around six o'clock we had uh eight of the top ten as a parent uh which is eighty percent of the uh top ten which a parent commented would not make the top 10 happy that they scored 80 percent they would certainly like to be 100.
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all right i was just reminded it's one o'clock so we'll get started test test yep we're good okay we'll call this meeting to order on june 2nd 2022 at 1pm uh with that i'll do a roll call uh dennis bender here christopher nunez here maria okpara yeah wilson so he's absent and rick rawley i'm here maria could you lead us in the pledge please ready begin i congratulations to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty thank you okay public comments um before we go into closed session kylie do we have any we do have one and we have a handout for each board member as well the mr zakal you're up and these are the these are much more yeah it's fine go ahead no problem i'll never would cut you off the police aren't here to remove you no that's what the rangers are for okay right now each board member should be receiving a copy of the memorandum of agreement from the district dated 26th of may and a copy of the eluded counter proposal dated the 26th of may by the way both of those documents are online in public so we're not going to be discussing anything confidential good afternoon school board members superintendent nelson assistant superintendents i'm mr zakao the chief negotiator for apple valley unified teachers association also known as avuta today i bring news from the negotiations front i will call this talk to you the good the bad and the ugly first the good for the first time since avuta and av usd entered into negotiations with the avuta sunshine being presented on the 10th of february av usd finally put some money on the table and offered us a seven percent raise and three thousand dollars towards the health insurance package for the 2022-2023 school year that equals a pr approximately 10 percent coal or arrays whatever you want to call it okay av usd and avuta agreed to that after it was placed on the table and you could see their proposal to us and our counter proposal to them that was agreed to so that is positive movement that is now on the table that's a good thing in addition article 19 money issues we've also had firm and consistent conversations and positive movement on language so all of that is good however let's talk about the bad on the 26th of may last thursday the district handed me a memorandum agreement and placed on the negotiations table at 1 pm there was no prior discussion that i'd be receiving a memorandum of agreement now in 22 years of negotiations in education i never had an mou or moa placed in front of me without prior discussion specifically of what would go in it there were several items in it that again i had not seen before since the district never placed any written counter proposal to avuta on the table prior to the 26th of may last thursday okay i feel that was very poor negotiations procedure in the past the way mou's and moa's are one side calls the other and says i'd like to do an mou or an moa then you discuss what's going to go in it then you put some stuff in writing you just don't hand someone a document with your signature block when you've never discussed it previously and i felt that was not negotiations procedure good negotiation procedure additionally i feel that had the appearance of an adversarial situation and i did not appreciate it okay i'm not going to go into every aspect of the mou but i am pursuing the moa but i am going to discuss a few if you would please look at the moa from the district to avuta bullet won the first bullet they did not number anything so we'll have to go buy bullets and i'll give you bullet numbers bullet one states that avuta will accept the mandated increase in employer contributions of 2.5 percent decal stirs the district has been paying contributions to calstrs to increase the rate towards employers and employees pensions for 10 years now when this first happened approximately 10 years ago i believe in when the state told um the calstrs that they told the district and the employees that they would increase contributions of calstrs the teachers had an amount that they had to pay additional and our amount was raised and the district's amount was raised and they told the districts over the next 10 years approximately one percent a year for the next 10 years it is the district's cost the mou clearly states that it is mandated it is not a pay raise to avuta 12 years ago when the head negotiator attempted this i told them the same exact thing and i guess history repeats itself because here i am now 10 12 years later the same thing that is that is the cost of doing business that's why the district will pay the increase and if you want proof of this since we don't have a ta signed or any sort of agreement signed at this time on the first of july the the district will make the payment and yet there's no agreement it is not a pay raise what if avuta came to the district and said the following you know teachers have costs driving to work and going home from work and we want to bill you for those costs in that time what you would say is that's the cost of doing business you took the job so you have to pay the costs associated with getting to work and from work we don't try to put things that are going to cause roadblocks negotiations we seek to make negotiations smoother and 2.5 percent that's mandated cost is a district mandated cost it is not a pay raise if you go to the last paragraph of the mou it states excuse me moa the last paragraph states this agreement closes negotiation on compensation for year one of the 2022-2025 successor contract so by accepting the seven percent and three thousand dollars towards health care we are supposed to give up our rights to continue to negotiate again i would say that appears to be very adversarial why should we give up our rights to negotiate that's what the process is all about and what this is saying if we take this offer basically all article 19 is closed down for the rest of this year it also states that again or excuse me it it also is the belief of avuta that that's a very restrictive language and we feel a support negotiation strategy it's not a negotiate it's a dictate matters of great concern to avuta that we've communicated repeatedly over the last five negotiation sessions counselors need help slps need help coaches need help and we picked those specific people out because they're the forgotten people in many contracts they were completely left out of that moa we're not going to leave our forgotten people behind we're going to make sure that the the groups that we pick that need that help are going to get it and by the way the stipends for those small groups are so insignificant in a budget process it's just amazing that you would leave them out completely and if you go to bullet nine again i believe it's this on the second page of the district mou it states that um once we would agree to this that negotiation would be reopened in the second and third year of the contract well that's contractual law okay that always happens but the way that avuta interprets this is the district does not want to do a multi-year deal there's a reason why it's a three-year contract not one one or three one-year contracts so that we can negotiate money in advance so that we can achieve what i like to call labor harmony and we don't always have to be in contentious negotiations year round year after year now in the past i've been negotiating since the year 2000 i have written language into six of the seven previous contracts so therefore i know the background very well we have always achieved if we haven't gotten a three-year deal we've always gotten at least a two-year deal okay and again if you look at our counter proposal at least we put a second year back on the table again now imagine imagine you had a business and you had a delivery package business and you tell your messenger take this package to the top of that mountain you have two packages would you only have him take one package to the top of the mountain and then he comes back down and say now take the second package to the top of the mountain you would have them take both packages to the top of the mountain and that's what negotiations is it's like climbing a mountain and when you go to the table we're at the table now why close negotiations down and just settle for one year and then reopen and go back into negotiations for a second year then close negotiations down and then reopen and go back in for a third year the reason we do a three-year contract is so we can settle as far in advance as possible and then if adjustments need to be made we make the adjustments i can remember years we didn't even open a third year because there was nothing to do it was already taken care of and again that creates labor harmony now just to be again completely honest we did not turn the district's mou down we didn't say no we said let's talk about it and we went to caucus and in approximately 90 minutes if you look at the avuta counter we produced a counter in approximately 90 minutes we offered that to the district again our counter said the seven and the seven percent and three thousand we accepted that we also said we want to continue with what we put out the sunshine of five percent and i believe 1500 for the second year and then various things that are too complex to solve in one day and by the way again let me remind you the av usd counter came on the last hour of the last day of the last week of last month of the school year i don't think that's very well thought out negotiations it creates a situation where you really can't get very much done and if you look at the substance of what they put i believe there's approximately 20 things in there 20 things how do you honestly expect to negotiate 20 things on the last day of the school year but a vote to counter to the best we could and then what the district told me was we can't counter your counter we have to go back to the school board so we didn't shut the process down the district did they couldn't counter our counter and negotiations ended for that day that's the bad now let's get to the ugly i told the chief negotiator for the district last year that we did not negotiate over the summer that is our policy and yet on may 10th chief negotiator started bringing up well maybe we should negotiate over the summer i shut it down said that's not our policy and again it came up and i said okay in all fairness you want to negotiate over the summer a thousand dollars per negotiator per day that's what i said they didn't accept my offer so when again we go when you end a closed session it wasn't a vuta that completely refused we told them it was our policy nine months ago not to negotiate with the summer so somebody gives you a counter offer on the last day of the school year doesn't it look like they really want to negotiate over the summer and it came up on the last negotiation session and again i said hey we're on 184 day contract we're not on a 205 or 220 day contract my teacher is already a vacations plan right now three of my negotiation members are out of the state and on monday i'm joining them i'm driving out to texas okay so again once teachers start planning their summers it's very very hard to negotiate i couldn't even negotiate we don't have enough for a quorum right now but again it shouldn't be brought up that or implied that avuta wasn't willing to negotiate over the summer and we are holding up a deal okay again the district was informed our policy is not to negotiate over the summer the second issue that is kind of ugly joint communicates in the contract it says the negotiators will will put out joint communicates it doesn't say how many it doesn't say how often i do not believe in joint communiques i've expressed this to the chief negotiator of the district now the joint communique that went out last week was a mess it included in the joint communique approximately nine language of draft article language that had nothing to do with anything about the joint communique and thursday afternoon i started getting all these calls what does that joint communicate mean and then i looked at it and i said okay they put some extra information in there and i i see how that completely confuses everything because it wasn't supposed to go in i got a text from the head to go share say hey we put out all this extra information blah blah i said there's nothing you do about it now it's done yeah you can put out more information but then that's just going to muddy the waters even more it's already done i expect when a joint communicate goes out that it goes out properly and attention to detail is paid to making sure it's put out properly zach i'm going to cut you off are you about wrapped up i am okay i only have one last thing to say one more okay the last thing is i've pointed out the problems i've pointed out the good the bad the ugly and i would like to state i look forward to working with the district when we come back in the fall i want to work in a good faith manner i don't want deals dropped on us at the last second and i want to work in good faith and i hope the board takes my words to heart as well as the district because i know we can get this deal wrapped up because i've done half a dozen of these before we can get it done but we need a little bit more cooperation with that i will say have a good day have a great afternoon and have a great summer thank you for your time thank you thank you okay kylie is that the only one we had then for before closed session okay all right so we're going to move on to closed session but before that we have quite a bit to go over here so i'm going to read this off [Music] item one personal expulsion cases exp number 30 21 22 through exp 31 21 22 stip 7 through 10 21 22 ar 7 21 22 through ar 15 21 22 item two conference with litigation government code sections five four nine five six point nine current 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is that correct so this is a really a long-term project so how do you see the the timeline working out for example before you're actually able to dispense some of the funds well i think that's all to be determined i mean ideally we'll be able to dispense the funds sooner rather than later um you know we heard tonight you know one of the messages is make it easy on people make it easy on people and that's kind of our hope too we don't want to be overly bureaucratic i know that's our reputation but we're trying to avoid that we do want to create something that's actually useful for people and something that is accessible to people so i don't have an exact timeline to be specific about answering your question um the hope is sooner rather than later i would add to that we are required to have determined how we are spending it by the end of 2024 the dollars don't have to be fully expended by until 2026 but we have to sort basically know we have to have a contract in place or have to know what that is gonna how those dollars will be expended by the end of 2024 but then the dollars can can lag up until the end of 2026.
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so we have yeah so so this year just so you know as we looked at preliminary data because it's still in drafted it's not finalized the state assessment we we did have a three percent increase in our state assessment in ela from last year we did have and we had 11 increase in math so you know that's just to give you an idea of where we found this year and we're looking right now at analyzing the nwa the formula from the pre and the post because the nwa gives it to you in the writ and the mean score so we have to go back and look at actual teacher meeting and exceeding standards in order to translate it to a percent so that's what we're looking at right now and typical typically school goals are written from you know that 10 percent three to ten percent growth but you're right if we have you know if you're at thirty forty percent being exceeding and you're going to increase by three percent so we can talk about that also at our retreat and next week after or when you need to go over this for me then you can better clarify what you want to do as the district goal okay okay anything else are you guys okay with these then what um we can do is type them up and send them to you as a draft and um see if there's any other changes and then we can when do we have to upload for the play um and then um we can put them on the board agenda for approval for the next week what would be what would be your timetable in putting the meat on the bones as far as the metrics that we've had like i said in my meetings i'd like to have this our district polls and our strategic plan all approved for the july board meeting so we have it ready to go for august so that's my plan and so we also planned one to make sure for our next week on the 8th we are meeting we are meeting with generation network schools who's been working with us and this is all the posters and stuff that are up here and we're doing a lot of the work already for our district goals our school goals and um and then on thursday the ninth we have our administrative team retreat where we're gonna so we want you know the timing we want to do this first so we could get our school and district goals done by next wednesday thursday and then i can plug them into the strategic plan with the specifics and then we'll have the draft of our strategic plan will be ready for our july board retreat is july 11th so then we can be ready that's the third date i've seen july for the board retreat oh wait our board's retreat because it was originally it was originally scheduled for july 1.
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um but we'll take 8 out of 10 is certainly not bad but we had a nice uh recognition where students came up uh they're presented with a gift from the board of education i was able to share that a little earlier uh today they talked a little bit about some of their teachers their plans for college uh and one of the things that i think is resounding that uh came through and these are our top academic achievers but each one of them had something to say about the teachers that they had and i think the the one overwhelming piece was engagement and caring that these teachers cared about them they could tell they created engaging lessons that had them really connected with the content and then another part that most of them mentioned and i think they'd all agree is that they liked that they were pushed to go above and beyond what they needed to what what they had so whether it was differentiation in a classroom where kids were at a higher level and they were pushed a little bit harder or just the content in general was just continued to be challenging for them um so it was it was great to hear and i think our teachers uh well i don't know all of our teachers of the year that are here today i do know miss vivas over there and that's definitely a characteristic that she has which doesn't surprise me one bit that our students recognize that's the important part in teaching so now i'll turn it over to our students i'll introduce them one by one in no particular order uh they are ready to go uh so first i'll introduce shree who will come up and tell a little bit about herself where she's going to school and what she's planning on majoring and then we'll turn it over to the board so shruti come on up [Applause] um so hi um i'm shrewdy um i'm gonna be attending case western reserve university which is in cleveland ohio um and i chose that school because it provided me an opportunity that i probably wouldn't have gotten anywhere else they have a direct medical admissions program so basically even though i'm a senior in high school i've got a guaranteed spot in case western's medical school and i've always wanted to become a doctor so that was just like a dream opportunity for me so i'll be studying biochem for the first four years and then going on to medical school there and yeah i'm really excited for all the opportunities um and you know getting my getting involved and like different things on campus and um exploring as much as i can so yeah yep cool so we've we haven't talked about what order we're going to go in as a board but we're going to kind of spread around questions i think we should expect two to three questions from the board for each person we'll try to make them fun and light who wants to go first anyway okay go ahead okay i have a i have a few for all of you guys but um what was the most meaningful assignment that a teacher ever gave you oh um i think um the most meaningful assignment i've ever had to finish is probably this year in ap lit we made a personal theory paper that was like our last assignment it was like a seven to ten page essay and it was um basically like we have the freedom to choose any topic and write about your thoughts about that topic so it felt like a very like sophisticated assignment to give seniors and it felt like very um i guess accurate to give to like seniors because it's um we're kind of like talking about all of our experiences throughout high school and you know presenting it as a cohesive you know piece of writing um so i thought i learned a lot about myself so i was writing about morality so i was using a lot of the stuff that i've learned you know throughout my years of high school and just like you know living and it was it was really insightful to um just like put that down all put that down on paper and it was i mean it's definitely a piece of um writing that i'm proud of that's great thank you so i'll go next i guess so um so how many years have you been and this isn't the question this is just to give me context how many years have you been in the brookfield district um i've moved here in fifth grade so that's great so you've experienced so all pretty much all of middle school and high school so you know we're we're a board of education so we're always always interested in the views of the students on what it is that either you think makes brookfield district special that we need to keep making strong or things that you think that we ought to be working on right to make it you know to improve it and i was wondering if you had any thoughts for us on things we ought to be working on right that is what is important for brookfield schools or you alternatively you know what made the schools just special for you yeah um i mean starting off with what made the school so special i moved here in fifth grade and you know i was scared as a new student um you know making friends and stuff but i think brookfield like it's a small district um but the beauty of it is that you end up having classes with someone um at some point in your life and i think by the end of our senior year i think i can speak for all of us when i say that we're all like very cohesive as a grade um and i think just like the environment that it creates like we have so many great teachers and um everyone's like kind of like pushing each other to do better um like i definitely don't think i would have like strived as much if i didn't have like so many peers who you know were challenging themselves just as much and you kind of like you just kind of like build off of each other's energy and it makes you a better student um in terms of like improving i think the district is already working towards this but a lot of like working towards like making everything a lot more like equitable i know we have a subcommittee relating to that on the board and you know the involvement of like different things about human rights and stuff i think the board of education the district is all already making strides towards that which is really amazing and i think that'll just make our students even more you know capable um as like citizens and like society so thank you so i'm gonna let you sit down thank you so much congratulations [Applause] it's my pleasure to now introduce nora so norah come on up hi everyone um i'm nora gravgaard i'm going to the university of michigan next fall and i'm studying biochemistry so because you're such a great athlete how has sports shaped you as an individual or as a student definitely um so i've been part of the brookfield swim and dive program since i was in fifth grade and i can honestly say the coaches and the team um really made me the individual i am today i've learned about perseverance and how to work towards a goal and definitely time management and then just some of the girls on the swim and dive team are some of the best friends i've made in my whole life we're all pushing each other in the pool and in the classroom so definitely that and i've also been a competitive gymnast my whole life since i was 2 years old so i definitely spend a lot of time in the gym so sometimes it is hard to balance my schoolwork and to balance my sports but it's definitely taught me that if you put in the time and effort and um you really practice and work hard you could do anything thank you speaking of like how busy you were how do you how did you manage that like the sports and the like what did you what would you say was your best like coping skill or support that's definitely um that's a good question i would definitely just say the people i surround myself with especially these people up here we're all very involved we all care a lot about our academics so just having other people to go through it with you and to motivate you is definitely a factor and then my parents they've always been super supportive of me they've always pushed me to do my best and they've also always told me that it's okay to be stressed out it's okay to say no to something if you have too much on your plate so i think just really finding that balance of academics and fun and extracurriculars awesome cool thank you thank you congratulations [Applause] next up is mr fox uh hi my name is william fox i will be studying biological sciences at cornell university okay um i have a fun question for you okay what is the most outrageous thing on your bucket list every single bucket list could be a place you want to go or an activity you want to do but yeah so um recently uh over the weekend i saw a top gun maverick it was very good by the way um and it really made me want to skydive either okay either skydive or um just be in like one of those small planes while having um someone else fly it um it's not really outrageous because i feel like that's like the common answer um but definitely after seeing that movie it's definitely moved up there on my bucket list so i'd have to say that yeah all right so my question for you is a little more serious so thinking about college versus high school right you're coming from a small town in in western connecticut and you're going to a pretty good size university what what is it about brookfield's education program especially at the high school that is preparing you for your college experience um i definitely feel like um the rigor of the courses i was one of the kids like the people here at the top 10 who kind of started that ap class track early and they had like a plan kind of going through high school um and i feel like the staff um were definitely very capable in their ability to teach these very hard subjects like ap calculus ap chemistry um and kind of just going through those classes with um just having a good teacher and you know going through a hard curriculum but also being able to kind of conceptualize it and just go through it kind of made me realize that i'm not really afraid of taking on kind of that more harder um class mindset like cornell is a very rigorous university and i know it's not going to be like a cake walk but i know that um kind of my time here and just going through these classes i'll be able to manage it okay thank you congratulations thank you [Applause] and well i don't know that i could help you with anything on your bucket list but i can share that i believe dr brielle is an experienced skydiver i think he's gone twice uh i believe mr bolando you're an experienced guy i went once but his son uh never again okay um but i believe you might have a flight instructor in the family and but if you ever want to get that steak we can you know it was good steak at the prom we agree on the food so up next is bailey mahoney come on up bailey [Applause] uh hello everyone my name is bailey mahoney and i will be attending vassar college in the fall what club did you find most valuable at the high school um i think one of the clubs that i found most valuable like throughout my time at the high school was probably peer counseling i actually didn't realize that the club existed my freshman year so i didn't join until i was a sophomore but i think the peer counselors were such a group of individuals that were really kind and compassionate and just being in that group i could tell that they really wanted to make the school a better place so it was amazing to be able to bounce ideas off of those individuals and we all had different ideas of how to make the school a better place and how to reach out to individuals and something i really liked about that was that we didn't just focus on larger groups like we did have big events like st baldrick's which happened recently where we raised a lot of money for foundations but we also focused a lot on individual which is something that i really valued we had people that if you saw someone at lunch that was looking a little sad or that the teachers knew was having a harder time like adapting to the school environment we'd have someone specifically go and talk to them and make sure that they were having a good time or if they needed any help so i think just being in a group that valued the individual so much and that really cared about the students was something that i valued a lot great thank you why did you choose vassar and what are you going to major in or if you're undecided what are you considering uh yeah so actually i was considering going a lot further south just because of the warmth because i don't exactly like the winters in connecticut but i chose vassar college just because it's a really small school there's only 2 500 kids because it's just undergraduate there's no grad students there but something that i actually really value about brookfield that i was hoping to continue at vassar college is just like how personable the professors are and how much like here at brookfield i really felt that i could go to my teachers and that i really had close connections with them individually not just in the classroom itself i a lot of times would go to extra help with my teachers or i would ask questions after class and that's something that i really value because one of the best ways that i learned personally is by asking questions and by staying after and making sure that i really have that understanding and that's something that vassar has that i think is really important is having the small school so the professors have office hours all the time the president's house is open at all times they said that she gives you chocolate if you come visit her and i also i really like the location because it's close to my home but more than that just vassar is known for it's a liberal arts school so it's known for a lot of people double major in hard science and also in art which i think is something really cool because those are both things that i value at the moment i'm planning in majoring primarily in biology because i'm interested in veterinary sciences i was actually a veterinary assistant over the summer which was really cool so that's always been my passion that's my goal right now i definitely could see it changing as i go through all the different classes but yeah that's where i'm at at the moment great great great congratulations congratulations [Applause] i i will say that when my daughter started applying to college her first four applications were to colleges in mississippi and alabama for the exact same reason she says i'm done with the winter and she's now living in burlington vermont next up we ironically have somebody that's going to a warmer climate so uh samina come on up [Applause] hi everyone my name is samita and i will be attending the university of texas as a national merit scholar in the fall and i will be majoring in finance okay what do you feel is the biggest need for students at brookfield high school okay yeah that's like such a like there's like so many answers i could definitely give um but i feel like the biggest need right now um i feel like so as our top 10 um fellow students have mentioned i feel like our grade is very cohesive um but i've noticed that like especially in the younger grades it's like because of covid i think there's been a lack of like connection and like just human conversation um and just like a development of friendship and interest in extracurriculars which i feel like is essential to the high school um experience and just like wanting to take that um first step and get involved in things i feel like just motivation to do that i feel like is lacking for some people so if there was any way to like just encourage more um like community involvement i'd say yeah that's really helpful thank you thank you so i get to do the more fun questions this time so um we just recognized the staff members of the year so other than teachers right who who in the schools has had the biggest impact on you personally and you can go back to middle school or high school or whatever whatever age group you'd like to um so i think this is like um this is a good question i really relied on the guidance counselors this year for a multitude of reasons i think the opportunity and like the process of applying to colleges is extremely stressful and overwhelming and i think that my guidance counselor just made the process so much like it was it was so much smoother and like you could always know like you could turn to her for guidance um and even um this year like i experienced death in my family and so i experienced a lot of grief on going through that and so like just having someone to turn to and like talk through my feelings and like even if i wasn't ready to go to class that day i'd be able to go to her and just like have someone to talk to about um experiencing hard feelings so yeah that's great congratulations on your national merit scholarship thank you wait i was going to ask to meet a very important question it's a hard one but now you could stay there who's your most favorite neighbor and what will you miss most about her my favorite neighbor is joy and i will miss your very cool care thank you up next is uh future husky so greg come on up [Applause] oh i'm supposed to say first and last name yep and what college you're going through all right major all right all right i can do that um my name is greg friedman uh i'm going to yukon stores and i'm also i mean i'm on the side as of now just general engineering but like i don't know i'm thinking maybe linguistics maybe computer science a lot of cool stuff out there you know very cool so i'm glad i get to go first because you'll be greatly missed on the youth commission i must say in addition to having a great sense of humor i thoroughly enjoyed our talks and value your opinion and all the input you have on many topics and i really feel like you have so much to offer this world so what impression do you want or how do you want to be remembered at brookfield because i think you have left a great impression on a lot of people i'm thinking okay you're never at a loss of words true but i don't know i guess as someone who um did things that weren't done before i guess like you know someone i don't i think trailblazer is a bit corny because you know it's a high school i'm not like you know going through the bushes you know whatever but like i feel like i carved out a distinct niche for myself that would be remembered okay i'd like to ask i don't know if it was rose or bob asked someone else but the same question i'd like another perspective on what you think brookfield does really well as a district and what you think could be improved on i feel like i mean i i mean i feel like there's there's obviously you know a few teachers that really like you know i think of in particular but you know um that really hold the school together um although i will say that the school is often constrained by bureaucracy um and i think that's something that very much like could be changed but it's something that could just in terms of a rigidity um if that makes sense um that you know i'm all for rules but i think they should be you know seeing whether they're useful or not whether they're helpful to education or not um i mean i'm a more flexible person or you know i like i prefer less structure um but you know there's yeah that's that's about it thank you congratulations go huskies [Applause] up next is trump come on up trump [Applause] hi my name is trem emplokio and i'm going to new york university in the fall i'll be mine or majoring in data science and minoring in biology trem as a leader yourself and you are one in so many ways um what do you feel the leaders of today and tomorrow should prioritize um that's a great question um i think the leaders of today should um focus not just on themselves but focus on motivating uh members of their team i feel like it's important to have have done something meaningful yourself but what's even greater than being a leader is being able to lift others up and help others out when they need it and i think that's really what being a leader is at the end of the day so yeah thank you you're welcome so um trim one of the things we stress in uh in brookfield high school for our leaders is community involvement um has how have you been active in our community and how do you expect to be active in new york city which is a big place oh yeah totally um there's there's many ways i'm involved in our community um i'm in i do cross-country indoor track tennis in the fall i'm in student government um i'm in national honor society we do i feel very connected to our school and i feel very proud of that and i i'm very happy with all the connections i've made and all the people i've gotten to know in these different lenses um in at new york university i kind of hope to continue the things that i've been doing here i want to get involved in in sports and and things like that i want to meet new people um i know we don't have too many like cultural clubs here but i'm hoping to get involved in like asian asian cultural union um up in new york university um just more opportunities to meet people and and get to know more perspectives about people's lives that may may not um be available here in brookfield um i think that'd be a great lesson to learn great yeah thank you congratulations thank you and our last student doesn't really need much of an introduction because i think the board knows him well uh he will embody once a bobcat always a bobcat realistically um so he's going to come up and talk but i do want to let the families know as well i did promise you you've been here for a while now so when you're done here you do have my permission to leave and i think the board would agree once we're done here that you you know you did a great job sitting up front but i'll turn it over to uh mr bogus [Applause] so in case you didn't know i'm going to quinnipiac university and i'm majoring in mathematics with a four plus one dual degree to become a like high school teacher basically so so do you think um you're fully prepared for college given the impact of covid um i think yes i am and partially because of like the way that the teachers stuck through things even when it was difficult and we were online um but also just like individually how i um handled things when that happened because i made sure to stick with what i was doing and like just thinking like in terms of mental health obviously we all took a toll with that um so keeping on top of things and making sure to stay like connected with friends and not lose those connections just because you can't necessarily see each other and especially going into college where you're not going to see somebody every single day so you need to like learn how to can make those connections on a more individual basis you've accomplished a lot so other than your service to the board what are you most proud of um i think one of the most one of the things i'm most proud of is the 20 000 grant that i got through voice for change recently because obviously like my main goal has been to improve education and obviously that's why i'm going into education um and like money isn't always something that's easy to get when it comes to education but when it's there i think it's important to take it so um there's so many different things that could be done and i think like my proposal in general just kind of compiled a whole bunch of different aspects to help everybody so okay congratulations thank you [Applause] and i i would be remiss if i didn't mention the two students that aren't here uh tonight unfortunately you'll be with us uh one of those students is jackson sharp who uh will be attending dartmouth uh in the fall and then the other student is samuel cotran who at this point i believe is still undecided that was the last that i heard but he made made a decision by now but i want to recognize those two as well so congratulations to that congratulations to all of you you've got some great futures ahead of you i love the involvement and the aspirations that you all have and i just will say one thing stay involved right no matter what you do whether you're in computer science or in the medical profession or even arts you know stay involved in your community it's what all of us have done and it is about the most rewarding thing you can do no matter what you do in life and and i'm looking forward to seeing you at awards night next monday and at graduation the following weekend so congratulations to all of you round of applause you're okay so that's uh that's uh our recognition for this evening and we're going to move on to the regular part of our agenda but i'm going to give it a pause right to let the room clear for those of you who aren't going to stay for the rest of our agenda thank you so much bye everyone congratulations bye tram oh yeah i feel like we could ask ben one more question he's still here he's still here we can ask him one more question all right so we're gonna uh we're gonna start up again so uh thank you for the pause for those of you who are watching next up on our agenda is the student representative report so ben you've just had a chance to talk at this podium and so we'll give you this is your last report right yes as far as i know i mean i don't know he may show up on the 15th depending on what there is to report so um just upcoming the we have a bunch of stuff going on for seniors obviously graduation is on yeah graduation on june 18th that's a saturday and the rehearsal the day before and then the grad walk is thursday of that previous week so that's getting the chance to go back through the schools that we like have gone to um since we're like little and seeing all those teachers so then before that we also have the senior trip to six flags which is wednesday and then also the grad party semi-formal at candlelight in on tuesday so it's a nice week of like events for seniors for clubs recently national honor society just had our induction to introduce the new members into the club so that was around 45 members we had and then also we had a retreat the other day to camp sloan which is a ymca camp and that was just doing a bunch of different team building exercises to kind of get to know each other and then also bond because i mean i won't be there but the juniors will be there for next year so and then peer counseling we had a very successful st baldrick's event so we had a few people come out shave their heads and then also a lot of donations were made in efforts of supporting the research for childhood cancer and then also we had an ice cream social today for students to grab a little bit of ice cream since it is pretty hot this week so and then future teachers we've had a successful word of the week program for this year this is our second year doing it which was kind of taken from dr ruby's program that she had for the district and is still going on so that was kind of our way of taking it and making it something that's more applicable to high schoolers because obviously the words that are complicated for kindergarteners don't always work for high schoolers so we made sure to help in that way because also like with the sat that was a big one where all these words help people not only understand what they mean but how to like the process of understanding what they mean and they can use that for other things and then also we participate in a community conversations program at the brookfield library discussing different topics around the field of education and then finally for the brookfield youth commission um i just wanted to say we're looking for more youth members because so looking for more youth members because a lot of the seniors are leaving and um just taking people to take over um and it's a great program for people to get involved in government before the end of high school so that's what i got good questions no i think we're good i just want to thank you this has been great having you at our board meetings keeping us up to date on what's going on in the schools especially at the high school my microphone's not on so just want to i want to thank ben for everything he's done with the board here this year i hope it was a good experience for you yeah it's been nice because like again going into education this is like my first step of just being involved so yeah i get a chance to see a little bit about the different levels of education you know with the board operates maybe at a different place than the in the classroom teacher so but you've been great so we wanted to give you a little bit of a gift so this is from the board and thank you congratulations like i said it's my favorite meeting of the year we get to give away presents um okay so next up on our agenda is written correspondence okay deborah spinickia ara yapoogian and nick schmidt wrote regarding the new statewide standards for health curriculum jen zen wrote regarding a letter to the connecticut general assembly and ray distefan wrote regarding school security okay uh next is approval aboard minutes i'll move the board approve the minutes from the regular meeting on may 18th second okay any comments or edits there was just one little thing um the executive board the executive session minutes i would just um move towards this present this doesn't mike marcus might not be super important go to the next line oh yeah oh yeah there you go um so that's the word superintendent needs to go to the next one yes so okay um so okay any other edits okay so um i'll uh propose that we approve it with a small amendment that uh uh that that that joyce recommends do we need to second okay that's fine all in favor all right okay um all right next up on our agenda is the uh superintendent's update so dr perot we'll turn it over to you thank you mr belton uh i'll be brief tonight i'm gonna talk a little bit about school security um give a brief update and also strategic planning and where we're at with things there so in terms of security it's very important that we recognize the school district stands in solidarity of course with evaldi texas and everything that happened in the tragedy last week security is on everyone's mind security is all of our responsibility um i mentioned i think the last couple of superintendent reports we talked about the work the ongoing work in some newly initiated work with the connecticut center for school safety and department of homeland security and emergency management services so we continue on that and specifically we've been working on the threat assessment module recently and i have to thank the administrative team and and everyone who's been involved and really being dialed in and engaged in that work uh and dr anne-marie bernhardt from western connecticut who is uh leading the work with the connecticut center for school safety to help us and uh assess our plans um and the work he is doing is is likely to be modeled off of the work we're doing right now with him so um we take it very seriously and it's important for me to note that this evening the other part there in reflecting on security i asked mr belden last week if we could put on the agenda to re-establish the security task force so that's on our agenda we'll talk about that under new business really with the essential question of is there anything we're missing and is there anything else we should be doing so those are those are big pieces that i want to stress for everyone the other part is working with middle and high school and our technology director and the youth commission we're working with sandy hook promise grant and we're going to be instituting at some point next year we don't know that it'll be ready for the beginning of the year but to say something apt which is 24 7 monitoring for emergencies anonymous reporting et cetera so we're working on that and uh making sure we're in concert with the police department on that as well uh in addition to that last thursday i met with the first elect macar who's actually here this evening and chief puglisi and we talked a little bit about security talked about the presence of the cruisers on campus for the remainder of the year at least as we um work with the manpower that the police department has at this point so we continue to work on that uh in addition to that uh today for candle with lake planning and i know rosa will talk about that a little bit later we actually spent three hours in a key meeting working on master keys grand master keys all the way through every one of the spaces in the school and a lot of security conversation of course happens happens there so it's really important to to let everybody know that it's always on our mind it is now obviously first and foremost on our minds since last week of course in addition to that we have some capital funds i think it's almost 350 thousand dollars and i can't get into every little detail about working on doors and windows uh in uh at the schools uh for the coming year and met actually with mr post and mr caldwell our facility director uh today uh in fact talking about a little about the giddy up and getting ready for for the work that has to be done there so um it's just important to put that there uh let everybody know that we're very serious about it we're doing a lot so that was the first thing and we could always look to be better and do more and we're never sitting on our laurels and if there are issues we are not necessarily always happy to know that we might have an issue or a concern with security or safety or wellness for that matter but we want to know about it so we can address it and it's important people come forward and that's why we talk about see something say something or any other concerns so i wanted to make sure everybody knew how serious we took that tonight the other piece i want to jump to is this will be very brief strategic planning last week we did hold our formation meeting with the entire group was about 25 strong a lot of parents a lot of teachers other educators board members et cetera and talked about expectations process and really getting ready to kick off mid to end of august working through about a four or five month process hopefully having a finished product for december so it could be in service to budget development over the course of next winter as part of that eric conklin our tech director was up a couple of weeks ago talking about future ready which is a grant program through tech with technology and innovation and technology technology integration and it really has a similar strategic planning format of process uh to be looking at that and those will be parallel tracks and obviously a lot of overlap and what we're looking at uh that we anticipate so that's my superintendent report so out of curiosity this technology work that's kind of more sounds like more of a regional or state level is that um does that time out on what schedule i believe that's a that's a five-year program so it's a five-year plan yeah well when will we have the plan to look at um well we'll we'll have we'll have inputs they're they're meeting monthly already all right so we'll start having inputs during strategic planning that's my question and with something we can incorporate into our strategic plans absolutely okay timing's perfect okay great and that is all i had okay i don't know if there was anything any questions for john we're going to talk about security again on the agenda all right so um all right there's no subcommittee reports i think that's a first um in my six years on the board that we have no subcommittee reports um and so next up is our consent agenda i'll move that the board approve the items on the consent agenda which are transfers resignations and retirees second okay so moon second john any uh discussion items well we always uh honor and say goodbye to those who are moving on um sometimes there's people who put in a great deal of time that we want to make sure we acknowledge and mrs gullich the secretary uh over at wisconier has been there for over 20 years and we had a chance to go speak with her last week when we learned of her her retirement and she's very excited to spend time with the grandkids and family and so it was great to see her uh talk to her a little bit and i just wanted to give her a shout out that we're really proud of her happy she served us for that long and really wish her well in her time uh time and retirement cool yeah cool thank you okay all unfavor of approving the consent agenda okay it's unanimous okay up to new business uh first item up is item a which is flexibility for implementing the ct guidelines for educator evaluation for the 2022-2023 school year i will move that the board approve the flexibilities for implementing the ct guidelines for educator evaluation for the 2022-2023 school year as recommended by the cape subcommittee and assistant superintendent dr maureen ruby second okay we're moved and seconded really uh you there dr murphy gave a report on this uh a couple of weeks ago um they really it we're moving forward in the same direction we are now there's really not much more to add to that report so there isn't any questions based on last week's report yeah we did get a good report from him on that so any questions okay all in favor unanimous okay next is re-establishment of the security task force i will move that the board moved to re-establish the security task force committee the dissolution was on july 15 2020 as recommended by superintendent dr john burrell second okay it's been moved and seconded um if you don't mind i'll make a couple of the brief statement on it um security is really front of mind right now and uh and security is very multifaceted and i think rosa and i what was our third on that was it collapsed colette was our third when we last did it and then we had members of the public the chief of police uh the administration right um so we had a very multifaceted group and it dealt with everything from physical security to monitoring to threat assessment we came up with a lot of capital projects that needed to be done we had a lot of hardening of school things i remember one was fixing a certain uh speakers right in certain schools where there were sound spots that were dead um the recent news in uvalde texas has that's brought this right back up the front of mind the good news is we did a lot of work already right and i would agree that the procedural stuff we put in place and that as part of that task force was strong right what we do in terms of what we do in our schools is good but as john and i spoke it is time to set back say what can we do better right are we missing anything is there anything that needs tweaking right so the thought here is it may not be a year-long exercise like the last time it might be six months of regular meetings talking through certain issues but it's time to just have a renewed focus on security to make sure our plans are solid right so that nothing like that ever happens in brookfield i mean that's all that's got to be the objective it's happened too close to home a number of years ago in sandy hook and it's happened again on i hate to say it a little sloppy in terms of some of the security procedures in that school and and so um i think it's good for us to be self-examining this way um there are things that should be first on that agenda and i think john you mentioned it earlier the first is about physical presence right up front in in the schools right now right and we you've been handling that fine i don't think you need a committee to do that but how do we take that and think about it for the next phase and and and and work on that and it needs deep cooperation with town and school to pull some of that off so um so the remit for us is a do we agree we putting it back together and then b who should our three board members be right and i know we have two of us have been on it before we could either have new members they tend to be daytime meetings i think that's important to remember because they do involve the police department because we have to bring in the police department in particular um and uh um i'd be very willing to be on it again i don't know about you yes you'd like to do it again either of you want to be on it i know sharon has said she would like to be on it too she and i thought i would but not just during the daytime yeah i know that was why i brought it up i know you have some interesting challenges with daytime meetings you'd like me we were doing it at 10 10 30 in the morning okay um sharon said she's available and we can make make her the third um member if that's okay yeah and uh she's a little light on committees anyhow but because uh one of her committees is kind of in hiatus right now so she's raring to go so i did want to add to this to uh this discussion though because i think it's important that we establish at least some rough charges for this committee because we had that the first time going around and i think when we dissolved that we had specifically said in the motion having met those objectives right so i think going into this kind of without a plan um you know just sort of might it might assume what we're going to do or i just don't want this committee becoming you know something that we um it's kind of like a rubber stamp committee for for some other agenda we don't want to have it be a rubber stamp right so i think this committee has to be responsible for what security actions were that are being recommended to the board and advice to the administration uh for the next set of actions for our uh for security in our schools so we'll be reviewing protocol right yep at least at the very least right um and what did you you said i was i would i would take all the topical areas that we had the last time and revisit them well with a very simple question are we do we think we need to take another step right that i would actually ask that the committee maybe after their first meeting they come back with a here's what we'd like to go look at and it and after no more than three to five meetings right come back with here's our recommendations right against that and you know i think john we had uh or rosa we must have had like seven topical areas yeah i think they ought to go through each one of them and say are we doing the right things or we do we need to do more right whether that's you know physical security capital type physical security or staffing or threat assessment or protocols or drilling right you know we went through you know how we do drills another piece i'm not saying this is one of the items but another piece that often uh isn't discussed and we're doing a lot of work on this already cyber security yeah it's another piece yeah but i think the remit of the committee is to take the structure we had before and make recommendations for the what we do in the fall right i mean i don't want this to be dragging off into something you know two years from now we're coming out of a committee this ought to be very focused on um uh are we you know i think john you would have you know our team bring in take each of the topics and run through them right and and then make a decision on are we going to recommend any changes right because in the end we're responsible for what goes on in these schools and i don't want to be that guy exactly where something happens in our schools right i'm sure there's others in this town who feel exactly the same way so but in the meantime can we say because there's a sense of urgency can we have assurance that at least there's an immediate message going out to staff and members of the school staff that you know little things like wearing your badge um you're not letting somebody in behind you um keeping the door shut right not propping doors things like that a memo that will go out maybe that's already happened i don't know it's something more immediate yeah and i could talk with each principal on that we they've had faculty meetings i think the faculty meeting was last week and they they i know they talked about security at each of those faculty yeah i think it has to have personal urgency personal urgency have some assurance too um and i think we ought to have a discussion at some point about what are we talking to students about right in terms of their role on security right because that's always a i hate to say it students are students right they're young people that are trying to find a way to skirt security sometimes so we heard bureaucracy as a concern tonight sometimes that's security right and so we better think it's important that we stress that so and figure out when the when and how is the right time maybe in our freshman forum type of you know session we have a module on that it really it takes us all that includes the students yep it takes us all okay um so we have a motion on the table any other discussion by the way okay it's a motion on table to reset the uh the security task force and i think with members of rosa myself and sharon um all in favor okay it's unanimous we will proceed with doing that john let's get uh could you reach out to the other members of the public we had on the last one and ask if they'd like to be part of that and uh tomorrow i think we have you and i have our one-on-one let's figure out and you know what the makeup it is so we can start social life chief get his schedule get everything exactly okay okay um next up is old business board of education budget estimate uh oh it's just an action item so we might have a motion um but the uh um but the the um we need to finalize the uh the budget um that we uh we have last approved our budget in january right and a lot of water's gone over the dam in the last in the last five months right including you know reviews with the board of selectmen the first selectmen the board of finance uh town uh a public hearing town meeting and a referendum in which it was approved at the referendum um we need to app we need to adopt that budget formally as a board right so that it becomes in the record that that's our that we've adopted because that budget number is different than what we had to do and it's different so i asked ken to um do a summary which he's uh kindly put here ken would you like to say just a couple of words about um what's changed for the public so that everybody can hear and then we can vote on i'll put a motion on the table sure so we had to add 208 000 onto the budget excuse me for the revised health insurance estimate that was back in march february march when we got information from the state which has since changed so we have to deal with that also and then we were also charged with finding fifty thousand dollars of reductions based on estimates refining estimates so we went back and look at our energy consumption uh at the um at huckleberry compared with the projections for energy at candlewood lake and believe we can reduce that estimate by 19500 uh copiers we finally had a full non-coveted year of copier use so i was able to refine that estimate down fourteen thousand dollars reducing the extended duty line at the high school for guidance counselors their contract permits up to 10 days per counselor and that's what we budget for but looking back at history we don't use nearly that much so we're scaling back the estimate similarly with the team mentors reducing the estimate on that based on history that was five thousand four hundred forty dollars and then eric got some firm quotes on some of this technology software so that was another one thousand four hundred sixty dollars which made our net adjustment an increase of a hundred and fifty eight thousand five hundred twenty seven dollars which gets us to the budget that was approved at referendum eight million six hundred and sixty six thousand one hundred forty eight dollars and these are all items we've talked about through the last five months right so these i don't think any of those are a surprise to me so these should be just things that we're approving the line items in our budget correct any questions for kev okay then i'd like to put a motion on the table to approve to for the board of education to adopt the budget that was approved at referendum with the line item adjustments as presented by mr post second moved and seconded all in favor aye aye okay it's approved say next up on our agenda is public comment but i don't think we have anybody to sign up for public comment okay um so we'll go and do the um candlewood lake elementary school building project update no i'm just going through it dr burr is going to say a few things and then we have a nice some photos yeah this is uh this is going to be for those of you watching and and uh from home the uh we have some photos of what's going on at the school which is kind of fun yeah so i wanted to share a couple of things that have happened over the last uh gosh ten days and um or since our last report two weeks ago and then rose is going to share a little bit uh the project manager rob tenza put this slideshow together um working with uh mr checko and uh mr pelton and myself to make sure we got this out for the board tonight we'll try to do this periodically uh if we'd like to do once a month we could do it every meeting we'll try to do it every meeting um when we meet more than once a month but it's just a lot is happening and it happens quickly you know you walk away from the project for a couple of days and things happen and there's even a picture in here that is not current uh that i was actually able to witness today uh some pr progress on but i did want to share that the planning team i share this in the weekend update but it's important for the public to know we have gosh about 25 people on the candlewood lake planning team uh from we have custodial representation secretary representation pera teacher administration we have we have the whole team uh a representation of everyone we have fifth grade representation from wisconier as well as obviously huckleberry and center school so we had a meeting we worked with the consultant from ed advanced jonathan costa he gave us a nice hand on facilitating the day and we work through really focusing on what do we want the mission of this school to be what are the value statements belief statements that we want for the school and worked really hard on that came up with a strong draft the admins brought that back and the teachers brought that back to staff on faculty meeting last week on wednesday as well as on a little bit of time on the plc day last friday we meet again on june 13th to go through the hot and cool feedback that we're going to get from uh from everybody and from there uh get to near final if not final draft of that and that is the foundational document that is what we stand on as we move forward with candlewood lake so we're really excited about that and then there's all the other things that we need to do we're going to have action teams on arrival dismissal action teams on the handbook i have a communication out to our pto leaders about joining forces as one pto at candlewood lake i mean there's a lot of things that are going to be happening simultaneously and don't forget the changing of the start times in another year not next year but the following year 24.25 23 24 when we when we have everybody uh enrolled there so there's a lot of great things going on 500 boxes arrived thanks to the nbc over to huckleberry one of the things the staff and faculty wanted to do was start packing units that they're teaching now because they won't teach them again until they're in candlewood lake so they wanted to start packing as they had materials out and not having to pack twice uh so dr pepsoski was to take ownership of those boxes and get those out to the staff so just a lot of exciting things going on rosa turn it over to you yeah so um these photos that i'm going to share um they came from from the municipal building committee and from our colleagues at tecton and arcadis who are working at the construction site daily um you're going to see a lot of progress in these photos and it's going to be very familiar to those who have gotten a chance to walk through it and dr brill it's probably changed even because you've walked through it through it the more recently we used to call it all this morning so when you see the gym floors yeah yeah so there's a lot of progress but it's interesting to note that we that these photos have been um taken throughout the entire construction process so we have um a nice archive of photos that will show what's behind the walls and so future maintenance will hopefully be aided by a lot of these very very well documented photos so here's the some of these schematic or the the representation drawings you'll see those on the on the left side and then where the construction site stands currently on the right um so this is the the main entrance you can kind of see do i have a pointer on this uh no rosie no okay so um yes i do okay so so um on this you'll see sort of this uh little ravine that is um still underground right now there's still construction vehicles that's still under this road right here but all of that will be exposed once you know the large construction vehicles don't have to be in that space anymore right here is the entrance to the cafeteria that's where this large machine is right now that's the main entrance which you'll see a little bit farther here and then there's the further entrance way down there that's the pre-k and nk entrance here it looks it looks like it's really coming along like i can really envision it you see all the windows have gone in this is where the the large handicap accessible play space is going to be all the glass that you see here that's starting to go in so um yeah this is going to be a really exciting space and rosa that's the cafeteria where you were pointing to the glass and then yeah all down here yeah fifth grade on top and k one two second grade on the uh look at that this is the main entrance hall so this is what they were calling the grand staircase it's just a very large staircase that you don't see the stairs yet but they're going to be going right about here and then right in this space which you don't see in the drawing that is the lower level of the media center the upper level is here so we have remember we have a two-story media center so this whole open space is really very big when you're standing in it and you can clearly see where this nice walkway is going to be there's light throughout i think i mentioned this before there's so much light pouring into this building you can see directly through the building pretty much wherever you're standing so it's really impressive this is the multi-purpose space so you can see how it's kind of looking really big here the large cafeteria is away in the background you can also see the stage so this higher floor level that's the stage there which you can kind of see in the in the drawing there this is the large cafeteria also a lot of light coming in through these front doors straight out to the back and you can see in the drawing there's sort of like a bistro they could they call it like a bistro uh type of um serving line or serving area where the kids will actually walk in and kind of pick out all their things for lunch and come out a different entrance or exit so that's going to be plenty of space for all of the kids at least the two through five kids we have another cafeteria on the other side uh the administrative area you can kind of see we don't have at least when we were walking in there we didn't have concrete floors in there just yet but that's probably going to be one of the last things in the coming weeks to go in the gymnasium dr bill was saying that the concrete floors the base was poured so it looks a lot different than even what you see in this picture here but when we stood in this space it felt um it felt quite big i'm interested to see how it'll how it'll really feel once you know the wood and the bleachers and the hoops and stuff are in gross motor area so this is another space that can be used for gym classes in addition to the multi-purpose space so there's a lot of space for a lot of activities as you can see just a ton of open space what you kind of are seeing in the background over there and what's kind of over here is the other smaller cafeteria so this is where the little kids uh pre-k um k and probably one will will eat so that'll be in that space right there and here is that cafeteria so if you um look a little bit closer you can see kind of it borders that gross motor area so you see a lot of the design carrying over it's really fun and whimsical and it's going to be really nice for the kids the entry into each of the neighborhoods looked pretty much the same and as i mentioned in one of my previous updates so each neighborhood is going to have a theme that corresponds to a different ecosystem so if we're looking at let's say like the grasslands over here the color is yellow so a lot of those yellow accents are going to be down that particular grades hallway that's their neighborhood they're going to have this sort of presentation area where there's going to be these beautiful sculptures sort of hanging in that space that correspond to that ecosystem those sculptures are being designed by the same person who designed um the horses that we see at town hall um so a familiar artist um rosa one of the things we also talked about was we don't always have to have a teaching space in a classroom that's right so this this presentation station over here so at the the entry to all of the neighborhoods we have a teaching area we also have a teaching area at the end of each of the neighborhoods where where the you see the curves and the outer walls and they fan out and there's another teaching area there yeah so lots of space and what's really cool is that you can kind of see it goes all the way up to the second floor so when you're on the second floor you can see down into that space and when you're on the first level you can see up into that space so it really joins it's a very big school but it really joins every neighborhood together very nicely this is a typical classroom we felt that they were they're a really good size nice big bright windows um and most of the ones that we toured at least looked like this so the sheetrock is is up which is very exciting um and you know all of the the stuff that's underneath or above the ceiling is in place so that's really important i'll just add when we walked through that that we learned a lot about the fact that there's full air uh handling you have to refresh external air very regularly and very close it doesn't go through some big handling it's local to the classrooms in and out and filtered and then secondly um though that blue thing there is what did they call it that was a chilled beam so cooling is not done through blown air right it's got a what they call a chill beam up there that then will cool the classroom there and there is there is also by the windows there's a curtain of heat that's currently coming down by the windows as well so it really tries to balance the roof yeah so it's a it's a very uh energy efficient approach to uh building heating and cooling and air refreshment which is really important that circulation yep and we have um also wanted to point out because i remember joy had pointed this out too a lot of the rooms um are adjoining the the classroom next door so there's um always opportunity for teachers to collaborate work together with other classes and some of the classrooms that are at the end of the neighborhood at least there's one classroom i think in every neighborhood that has like a giant um the wall that is bordering their the hallway is kind of like a giant door that raises so if you really wanted to expand the classroom and make it this really really big space that sort of pours out into the hallway you can do that and kind of have um sort of multiple classes learning simultaneously or a small presentation or a guest speaker and when you couple that rosa with that the room with the we're calling it a garage door yeah concept that comes up you've got the larger space at the end of the neighborhood as well so you really have an opportunity for flexibility and collaboration yeah it's really exciting and i think that's it yeah that's the last one it's fun to see it come together i am right i just uh i we ought to we ought to do this i think they told us that the front the front sighting on the on the schools it was going i think late june they said they would start that so it'll start looking like those schematic diagrams and i'll tell you these walls are going up all the last bit of steel structural steel they told us was in so now they're working on getting things all the fittings in and getting the walls up and i think the next time we do this presentation we'll start having real visions of what the spaces are going to look like so [Music] okay thank you thank you um and thank you to the mbc for uh organizing this uh the show and tell here because i know that takes some organizing to do and they did a really nice job um so next up is our three main points um debbie's not here but she's watching but she's watching so we ought to uh we ought to come up with the three main points here teacher staff yep top ten the top ten yeah yeah i think that's a good i think the combination of john's update on security and the security task force would be a really good thing to feature yeah okay do we do maybe all the kids as well so we could do recognition as well recognition security and school i guess to school yeah yep i think those are yeah cause we can share this yeah yeah when we share this link yeah okay done did you get that debbie oh poor debbie all right upcoming events is a parents thursdays microphone microphone thank you at center school tomorrow is play day friday june 3rd is the pto spring fling tuesday june 7th is the first graders visiting huckleberry thursday june 9th is the smart's fair at huckleberry on friday june 3rd a pto sponsored circus is coming to the school on wednesday and thursday june 8th and 9th is field day monday and tuesday june 13th and 14th the fourth graders visit wiscons and wednesday june 15th is the fourth grade end of year celebration at the y at wiscons thursday june 2nd is the arts fest monday june 6 is the school-wide quasi-trip saturday june 11th is the eighth grade dinner dance monday june 13th is the eighth grade moving up at the town hall pavilion and wednesday june 15th is a fourth grade parents night and at brookfield high school this friday through sunday is the hershey park trip right the music department to hershey park monday june 6 is the celebration of excellence and awards night tuesday june 14th is grad party at the candlewood inn wednesday june 15th is the senior trip to six flags thursday june 16th is the grad walk saturday june 18th is graduation and of course friday june 17th is the last day which is a half day no lunch served at the high school in the middle school that's all i have all right thank you all right so next up is an executive session i'll move that the board enter into executive session for the purpose of discussing the superintendent's evaluation and contract second okay it's moved in second and all in favor and for those of you who are watching uh this is the end of our broadcast and uh the board will be moving into a executive session at this point and thank you thank you for uh joining tonight and i hope you enjoyed uh hearing our teachers and staff of the year and the the top ten or top eight students that we got a chance to meet tonight and listen to so thank you all [Music] you
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if if needed it doesn't have to happen right hopefully not uh john please go ahead thank you uh let me make a couple of observations first um the passion we are hearing is so exciting i mean if we could put petals in a bottle i mean we could make a fortune selling petals in a bottle on the street uh so uh hats off to everyone that's kind of come in and shared their passion the second thing that strikes me is there's far greater a need than we have resources for so um so i think how we strategically or how the city strategically uh uh shapes it uh is going to be important um and um third i think the thing that that should come out of this certainly uh resonated with me is the importance of the creative community i mean we just we had a ton of ideas and they were all great ideas and uh it's important to uh to invest in those um art makers you know in our community uh let me reflect on the four questions uh what's the best way to access people um i i think that um uh i think that what we have done this forum is great um that in some of us are members of art organizations i'm not one of them uh but i think really the best way to access those people and it's been discussed tonight is through our organizations and uh i think the the the city might see this process for this particular covet grant as helping build a network or the start of a network how uh you know the city should have uh some way of getting to artists and and art organizations so that maybe um i think the best way to to to find that i think something needs we need the inventory needs and the best folks to do that are probably our organizations uh as i think darius and and and and jerry mentioned that they all work through either collaboratives or something like that some kind of an organization as opposed to our commissioners i mean i have friends i know but i don't really know uh the kind of strategic information the city should have so um i think that investing a little bit of of this money in art organizations to to inventory the needs and would in effect help build a network that then um veneta would have access to or the city would have access to so that you wouldn't have to come back to this thing if we ever need to do that again um the how to prioritize art projects versus uh trauma it strikes me that this money is coming from the covid recovery and so i think it's intended to be addressing trauma and so um i think that all of these projects could be shaped through that trauma lens so that if um whoever wanted to bring a specific project or something like that if if that could be the lead how is it going to address uh trauma uh either trauma in the creative community itself or trauma in the larger community through art um and but i think that trauma it i don't think it should be competitive i don't think it should be one over the other i think it should be um together and there should be a collaborative nature so the the the trauma addressed in individual projects um and then um uh the um individual versus uh the art organizations um i i think um we're hearing you know today i mean from some people that had some really strategic ideas they came from art organizations so that you know but i mean the passion you know and maybe pedals is a part of an art organization i think you might be uh but in any event i i think those folks it shouldn't it shouldn't be competing one against the other uh possibly um i think someone mentioned it that you go through an art organization to get an artist so you task the organization with ensuring that artists get this kind of money um visual work versus performance art i mean i'm a recovering artist i did installation work there's literally to me nothing no difference it's like you know the difference between realistic and and and abstract i it's it's it's it's the same uh and it's it's it's it's a false comparison for me i mean other people have you know sort of different approaches to it so um that would be um my sense about it but i applaud everybody that has has come to this and it was very exciting and um all of our meetings should be like this so thank you thank you all right it's almost 20 after i see we have another hand raised which is jerry so let's go to jerry and then i'm going to try to do a quick um summary and let you move on with your meeting because i know that you have other things to get to um so jerry go ahead and i'll do my wrap up and again i'll just echo the words that have been said already that this has been great hearing from everybody tonight okay jerry please hi um again i just want to thank you especially john for um getting us back to reality um in terms of what me what what a task it is for you to have to do this so i just wanted to acknowledge that um i just wanted to again echo also i mean the idea of this is coven money the idea of covid is a trauma uh that has been upon us and it's it's a mark in time and artists like know on other performing visual sound groups there is no delineation of what an artist is spoken word silence a hole in the wall whatever it is um maybe i'm just putting it out there maybe starting with the premise it is trauma what we have done to our society and how can how can this 500 000 best express it through giving agency to all the artists in the community possible thank you okay great all right just checking to make sure we have no other hands raised because i want to be able to make sure that people are able to get out any final thoughts uh lauren is it lauren or laura laura just really quick i i know you want to wrap up but i had two thoughts one is there um if someone has thoughts they wish to share is there like an email or something that we should be using to send written comments in is my first question and my second question is just a complete brainstorm i had when listening and i don't even know if this would be possible but one idea i had was when i was reading the the slide about uh has to be non-recurring and there's all these reporting requirements i'm wondering if again it's just complete brainstorm but what if there was some event that sort of celebrates coming out of this trauma or something like that and then the way it was executed would be that you know you somebody who's organizing it would just pay all these artists to participate you know the performers the the visual artists whatever like every like you could have a big festival event or something and it would be simplified how the payments would go because the artist would just be paid to participate in some sort of big festival event that would be a one-time thing so just a brainstorm idea i understand it might not work at all but just want to throw that into the mix so yeah my other question was just like if we have more thoughts who should we email yeah that is a great question i think you can email any one of us staff but vanita might you be the best person because i think your name is on the arts commission website but i am also happy to receive emails i can share my email address and and heather if you want to share yours as well um that would be v harrison a2gov.org i'm the public art commission liaison so whatever you uh forward to me i normally share out with the commission as a whole so that they're aware of what's coming in we did have a few public comments that came in prior to this meeting so i want to recognize those folks who did send on their information to us ahead of time those items have been shared with the commission if there's anything additional that you'd like to include um v harrison at a2gov.org and my email is similar in the sense that it's my first initial and last name at a2gov.org so that's h cipherth a2gov.org and sarah i see that you have your hand raised yes i just wanted to say thank you again so much to the members of the public that have joined us and um again all of our public art meetings they are public and you can join anytime any of these meetings and you can find the schedule on the ann arbor public art commission website um so please feel free to join if you have ideas uh to come to these meetings this is the my most favorite meeting i think we've ever had uh because we have members of the public we have such a great energy this is such a special community and um you know something that really resonated with me tonight is that artists want to create artists want to perform so when we're talking about new projects um that's really something that kind of came to the forefront whether that's an individual artist or an arts organization but um to echo again what people have been saying artists know how to rebuild the community right when there's devastation there's a time for renaissance and artists know how to lead the way so a lot of these ideas have centered around new projects and revitalizing our arts community here and i'm just so thankful um for all of your comment and um we are definitely going to take all of this into consideration and please email additional ideas thank you so much everyone and sophie did you have that yeah i just wanted to thank deb bullich for her work in making sure that the arts community was recognized and received funds because i think she definitely made a difference yeah and that's one of the things that i wanted to um oh deb you have your hand up if you wanted to respond i'm sorry hold on hold on that are you still there sorry it's weird because you can't just hit the unmute button you gotta wait for another thing um thank you sophie there's very kind of you um as we all know none of us work alone and um you know we have a team here at creative washroom and then there's the team of people throughout the community um i think what you'll know that that in the early process of this arpa funding and how to spend that original 2.200 i'm sorry 24.2 million dollars the arts community and people that were consumers of the arts as well jumped in so um petals and i uh you know we rallied troops for sure but everybody else rallied their troops too and the fact that there's a half a million dollars to be spent um from the arpa funding on this very important sector um that does all the things you guys have talked about tonight i think everybody should pat themselves on the back and applaud each other for everything that they do to make this happen thank you yeah and with that i do i do think you should applaud yourselves right now because you were influential over this process and you did change the trajectory of it so um oh it's never enough money but um but we it's a starting point so yeah take a moment to applaud snap sing whatever you want to do um so you can rejoice in that again i know it's not enough money but we are we are starting something here and this could eventually be a model program um some of the themes that i heard tonight i started doing a little ad hoc flip charting i just can't help myself it's kind of a throwback to the pre-cover days when i actually used to write on paper in front of a group of people but um i started writing some notes about some important themes one of the themes is elevate the importance of the artist community and that this process can it can be a really important step in that um historically art has been central to ann arbor's identity so it's kind of getting that back reclaiming that and really uplifting the artist community don't be overly prescriptive about this allow for the artist community to drive this effort allow for joy that was a theme that came through in various ways with what people said um not only um allow for joy but in fact let it thrive like really foster it um don't kill the spirit of artists basically um you know we want a program that's not you know squashing people's spirits um build bridges is another theme um address trauma throughout everything and that's something that art can do um go through art organizations to get to artists and avoid false comparisons that there's no real delineation of what an artist is um and then do the most bang for our buck which is in fact what we're hoping to do and there were some ideas and this is not an exhaustive list so i apologize if i missed some of the ideas here but one is to do a memorial community build is another idea cultural ambassadors build a network do an inventory of needs shape projects through a trauma lens and do a celebration of coming out of covid so those were just a few of the ideas that were shared tonight and we do have this meeting recorded so we will certainly capture all of the ideas that were shared um so we are just about at 8 30.
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no it's in july 8th according to the board meeting on may 9th that's what was decided on your phone oh okay july 8th is fine i just originally had it on july 1. on my campaign june 1 for this so that's that too the santa rita experimental range they have a conference center so we're having at the santa rita experimental range we're having our meetings wednesday thursday we're going to see how it goes we tentatively well we reserved it for our board retreat but we want to make sure that you know the air is working well and that is conducive to what we need something canyon it's up behind saturday and what we will do is meet here and we'll drive up together because it's like a 15-minute drive and it's dirt road but i think it's a pretty neat place we drove up there and took pictures and stuff so um so then my plan is to have the draft to you before our retreat on that friday and then we can make um vote on it on july 11 and have it ready to go one of the other things just crossing my mind like it is it would be great and i and i understand some of this is just not possible because you don't get the information necessarily on the timely basis but on the stuff that really entails a lot of research on our part to maybe get something as an informational item at a board meeting that will be discussed and set up for action at the next board meeting and and and some of the things i'm thinking about with the like the gifted uh scope and sequence that that thing uh the benefit package was just massive and here you go you know let's uh you know does it have your approval um and if you were able to do that um as an informational item on on the month before that would give us a chance to review that in detail get questions answered and then it's set up as an action item for the following month we typically did that historically we always had a month prior okay when i first came on the board without a standard procedure do you did they get the copy of the 301 proposal but it's on our board this will be for tuesday to go out with the agenda so that would be something we if we could send that to them now we'll be sending to you today and that way you'll have a chance to mull it over before the tuesday board meeting is that the only major duck that's on there um i believe so because we'll go into executive session to talk about my performance pay and then come out and it'll be an item for approval based on what you've decided in executive i think that's the only report right yeah i'm looking at the draft a lot of it's under consent she's like hiring they're like our new channel we just have school safety as an item client survey will go over those the arizona academic standard assessment results 301 plan and then the government that was presented today okay items beside the transcendent agenda okay good so we'll get that real one proposal out that the teacher's work done and then we'll be ready great okay good mr president are we ready to adjourn so um you guys got that email from um monica on upcoming events yes and i want to thank monica for her service to all of us well thank you all for having me wait best wishes to you thank you next week tuesday is her last date which she is going to be working and training the new person um that hopefully we'll have someone for board of people on the 13th but we're running out of time that we don't have any might better fire up the pen interested parties though yeah yeah yeah yeah he really liked doing it last time you were fortunate there wasn't stuff written on the back and up the side probably some stuff all right a couple of chocolate smudges thank you okay take care we'll talk soon [Music] so if you guys can think of anybody that would be good here 12 months you know what you're homeless yeah all right yeah we're trying to think of we've never said we how many buses are we putting up for action we have not had that gun i want to keep five between this spare unit and then four backups this might not be a legal discussion that
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5.0 vote and finally least but not last on a motion by wilson seconded by maria the board of trustees approved the following appoint michelle poncey principal on assignment apple valley virtual academy preschool range 14 column 2 on the certificated management salary schedule 210 base duty days effective july the first 2022. will you people please stand up take a hand mr bender it's really an honor to have that kind of type of candidates it really is thank you and mr bender in the audience is sabrina poppick who in a short time you will take some action um moving her from a dean at phoenix academy on the hr report to um assistant principal and so she's in the audience as well so if we could cheer her on i'd love that so sabrina thank you we took things out a little bit a little bit out of order here so because we knew we had a lot of people waiting and we're going to be here for a while more so we don't want you guys to sit here but we appreciate you guys showing up and supporting one another and look forward to working with you guys come august thank you and before you all exit we're about to do a presentation so i'd love for them to have an audience because we're going to celebrate some other things so moving on to adoption of the agenda the board may approve the agenda as is or add or pull items from the consent calendar for action um do i have motion maria second by dennis all in favor aye [Music] hearing any opposition hearing them that'll be the order okay recognition presentation recognize apple valley unified school district and sycamore rocks elementary school as a california pivotal practice district and school so that's going to be trine and if the organization surely come up front i thought we were dancing maybe i would like to have theta smith come up to the podium and theta you probably should have brought jessica with you huh is she around but it's okay you can tell her that we talked about her so um i'm gonna hand this to theta because it's been sitting in my office and it really does need to be hung here in the district office and it's a certificate of excellence for the apple valley unified school district in recognition of a pivotal practice that was applied for by ms smith and i said her sidekick and i'm just going to say that jessica i know did all of the cleanup for the application and made sure i had a copy of it before it went and what i want to tell you is is in the middle of a pandemic um theta and her team pivoted with teachers and got training done and accomplished things that we didn't know we could accomplish i'm i just i'm going to say that right when you don't know what the next barrier obstacle is you don't know what's going to be expected of you and to turn this around that quickly and get teachers the needed practice they you know things they were desiring help with identifying training on best practices online it all occurred and so i just want to have the board be part of this recognition because it's a big deal and we are one of just a few districts across the state that were awarded this pivotal practice and only a few in san bernardino county so congratulations and then i am going to give it to you we'll decide where we're going to hang this and then if i can have chanel and her team come up here too yeah no i think he changes it so that he can hear when somebody's calling him right um chanel benitez um adrian lord and laurie katera the team from um sycamore rocks also applied for a pivotal practice for the school site and i'm gonna let you hold this and what i want you to know is that pivotal practice was how to coordinate and keep families engaged during school at home and what they turned around during the almost 18 months of this with celebrations on campus where picking up items at school became a time for teachers to celebrate with kids and engage with them they flipped their arts attack in different not arts attack at year school but art celebration um into something that was virtual with like 50 how many 1500 um online it was it was huge pieces of art it was virtual everybody could see it but they did drive throughs they did things that every holiday where students were used to having celebrations at school they made it happen and their families would come out like crazy i the line you know just to get into the parking lot to drive through to say hello to their teachers and be part of the celebration and so i know what has happened some of those have continued right there's some of these things that last after a pandemic and so the pivotal practice of engaging families even during a pandemic they absolutely deserve this award and i know other schools in the district did it but they just decided it was going to be their thing and they just didn't turn back so i appreciate you i appreciate engaging the families and how hard you work to make sure that they have an experience so thank you foreign [Music] thank you so much congratulations [Laughter] class dismissed we'll see you guys hey congratulations though have a good summer okay now we get down to the meat and potatoes here discussion information proposed budget presentation matt we'll let him uh everybody clear out and you've got the mic you're the man man thank you mr rowley never fails i i seem to clear the room [Laughter] we all stay though i appreciate that um you do have a copy of this presentation on the at your seat uh paper copy i also have the slides up on the screen if you'd like to watch those this is in preparation for the upcoming you'll see later in the agenda we have our mandated public hearing on our proposed budget for the 22-23 school year just to remind the board this is a three-year cycle you'll see a budget budget year is 22-23 and then of course we have the 24 and 25 school years as part of our multi-year projection so in preparing this proposed budget business office staff and when i say business office staff i mean mainly cindy kunkel the director of fiscal services utilizes some generally accepted information consisting of our own estimated actuals which are prepared in uh in may the governor's january budget proposal and any changes that come out as part of the may revise the ficmad lcf calculator that is the fiscal crisis management assistance team local control funding formula calculator that's why we use acronyms for that one the school services dart board and of course the san bernardino county superintendent of schools common message first a quick trip through our estimated actuals this is our current year that we're just wrapping up now these are estimated you will see the financials for the current year again when i'm in front of you in september presenting the unaudited actuals and of course our auditor visits and conducts our audit and then we have our audited financials but as of may this is where our estimated position is in our current year you'll see we have unrestricted restricted and combined and you'll see in those particular columns i'm just going to bring your attention to the excess deficiency line you'll see on the unrestricted side we're projecting about a half million dollar deficit spend on the restricted side we're estimating about a two million dollar surplus now those are restricted funds and there's lots of puzzle pieces behind this on the restricted side and the unrestricted side with a lot of the pandemic relief money we've received we've received over the last couple years from both the federal government and the state of california we've been utilizing some of that one-time money for some of our ongoing expenditures so we we move things around and some of our federal revenue is what's called deferred revenue so if you look back at second interim you'll see our revenue numbers were higher now we get to estimated actuals our revenue numbers are lower and that is mainly because of that deferred revenue we booked it as a revenue and expense earlier in the year but it has now been determined that not all of that federal deferred revenue is going to be spent therefore you reduce both the expenditure and the corresponding revenue and we move it into budget year 2223 so it it uh we are trying to most accurately reflect the revenue we are actually gonna receive in 2122 and of course trying to accurately predict the expenditures with with only about a month to go just a little more detail in the current year uh 65 and a half million dollars on certificated salaries that is certificated including teaching and administrative staff classified salaries again that includes classified bargaining unit and classified management staff employee benefits that includes health and welfare benefits and all of our mandatory contributions to retirement systems unemployment and you'll see the other expenditures and we're predicting at this point about 198 million of expenditures but then down at the bottom i've also provided a little detail on a couple transfers out the first one to 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again i want to thank everybody who came out tonight to share your thoughts um we are really happy to have you here um and it's always exciting to me to see um civic engagement work so again thank you for being here and sharing your thoughts tonight so i guess but if there's no other final thoughts that people want to get out there on this topic i'll let you move on with your meeting thank you thank you heather thanks a lot thank you right so i'm not seeing any hands so we're going to move on to approval of our minutes from our may meeting and those have been delayed those will be presented at the august meeting and we will go over those so um we will move on then to old business vanita do we have anything i don't have anything for old business yeah okay so then we are going to move on to another special presentation that we're having tonight um from heather martin who is joining us um tonight to talk about the reclaim courthouse presentation again heather martin was the founding director of youth arts alliance heather you have the floor and thank you for joining us heather i'm here i'm just clicking through buttons thank you so much um for sharing some time hello everyone um hi mary um it's wonderful to be here with you all and i have to admit it's my it's my son's birthday today and i'm here to talk about an exciting um project with a lot of organizations involved and it's also very exciting that he's asleep right now despite a piece of chocolate cake the size of his head and um laser tag and video games but i'm here we did it we celebrated um so um if it's possible i could share some slides with everyone um i i can pull up my screen here that will help me kind of if the host could give me permission does that stole me yeah sorry um hold on just a i'm moment you to panelist and then i think we might have lost her oh there she there she is all right one more step in here um sorry you know what it's okay oh no it's it's coming you should be able to do it now okay let's see okay can everyone see that awesome so um to tell you a little bit of history about this project um about a year ago um uh judge vandenberg at the washington county court approached approached me about displaying some artwork in a hallway there at the court and of course knowing all of the incredible organizations that are tied into arts and advocacy and music and culture makers here in town i knew that there would be potential for a much larger project which led to a presentation to all of the judges in washtenaw county who unanimously approved what is now a multi-layered multi-disciplinary um project titled reclaim which is a takeover of the municipal court building on main street on each level of the court building reclaims that stands for rooted exhibition um community love abundance intergenerational multiplicity so you can imagine that this town loves acronyms and of course with that mouthful we need one and really the values of this project are around being inclusive of organizations who are doing work to mitigate the harm of the criminal legal system and also artists activists culture makers who are tied into uplifting visionary ideas of what a system of care and healing could be and so as um the founding director of youth arts alliance i've been doing work in what i call healing centered most folks say trauma informed worked for the last 15 years in the county and in southeast michigan and michigan at large we have a organizing body of folks let me take a breath a second it's been a day i mean you all are very kind and you smile in your profile pictures and you're still attentive so um i've been running okay so this is a really exciting project that um uh your colleague commissioner um jamal bufford is involved in representing my brother's keeper and formula 734 jenny jones is joining us here in this meeting and she will be offering um some insight to questions who is a local musician co-executive director of title track an organization of youth empowerment water equity racial equity rod wallace who is the co-executive director of amplify project as well as a visionary over at groves studios and also managing director of upward bound at eastern michigan university so in january we began working on the structure of this project and the multiple layers of involvement for community organizations and artists we just had a gathering of over 35 organizations artists um performers um and this is just the initial layer of interest for folks who want to be a part of this exhibit so i think i always like lose my breath um talking about this because um most for the most part of the last year i was whispering about it this is truly unprecedented this is an arts and culture and advocacy activist takeover of a municipal space in our county um the intention is to to really complicate um narratives um around the court building understanding the complexity of that space beyond criminal legal action but also thinking about all of the activities that happen at the court you know there's the abuse neglect docket there's um there's folks um approaching benches around guardianship there's all sorts of reasons that folks come into that building and for any of you who have spent time in the building um it's a pretty cavernous um space with lots of marble and wood and it really invites color and art and immersion and so what this looks like is a series there are three layers there's the first layer of what will be fixed and permanently installed for the the two months that we are exhibiting and and sort of activating the space so we will fill the walls we will hang luminaries and three-dimensional works from the ceilings of court rooms we are also coordinating a series of concerts and performances and movement um sort of gorilla theater alongside so that's a secondary layer which is what will be performed and have concert in this municipal space and then the third layer is around programming workshops civic education um engaging the general public in the act of making or learning or growing alongside of some of the efforts of organizations and artists and community and so um we have really big um goals here we'll be running the project we'll be installing the project at the end of august running the bulk of programming concerts in the month of september and then october we'll have some quiet events and and keep exhibited works up the intention of this project is that we're having a transparent budget process which means that the money that we've secured for the project so far is coming from the michigan arts culture council math um and arts midwest as well as ann arbor area community foundation um so right now we are um we are seeking additional funds because the only thing that's preventing us from bringing the project the scale of involvement of those interested is resource for the project so we will be paying artists for their efforts alongside this project musicians audio visual we will be having installations for example of local organization black men read will have local leaders reading children's books outside for example the abuse neglect court the courtroom that sees those cases they'll be streaming that on a wall outside of the courtroom with wireless headphones there are many different layers the amplify project is doing a 16 um sound recorded sound library that folks will be able to mix and listen to of different leaders talking about issues and his their own personal histories the list goes on and on so essentially what happens as you enter the court building as many of you know is that your phones are removed your keys are put into the locker along with your belongings and you enter a space without any distraction right and so there's a lot of possibility for full engagement because if there's one thing that folks are doing at the court um universally it's waiting it's sitting and waiting for very big and often dramatic news right or um transitional news in folks lives so so we're thrilled about this project you know this idea of rooted exhibition has to do with the fact that all of the organizations and folks involved are rooted to the values of the projects that everyone's who's who is contributing is paid equitably for their contributions so what does that look like in the landscape of washtenaw county it means smaller organizations with smaller budgets will get a bigger piece of the pie folks who have grants that they're enacting through their involvement of the project will use the resources they have on hand to continue to promote their mission but i think you know oftentimes in youth arts alliance um we put equal value in the process and the procedure of doing something together as the end product so this will certainly be a remarkable exhibition um the curation of artwork um coming from artists and organizations will be incredible the audio visual installations the immersive installations in this space um are going to be like i described before unprecedented in a municipal space like this um but i really think that the most healing centered part of this project is the collective of organizations which really for our initial meeting at 35 organizations and artists is the first layer of folks who are interested in being involved and it just it it makes a lot of sense you know i spoke before with sarah and sophie about some of the the needs beyond resource are what does it mean for a project like this to be coming across the radar of national news outlets right we're getting a lot of different attention on this project and to be honest with you um me and every and the sort of leading group we we're no strangers to um publicity for the work that we do as artists or organizations i'll say that we need help local help through um the commission through other resources to make sure that while we're amplifying this this project that we're doing it in the best way possible how do we share about the power of washtenaw county to have such a diverse array of organizations and artists who are attacking a very important issue right so how is arts and culture interwoven into our exploration of how systems change can happen in a really restorative way for community um i think that they are directly tied to one another i think the folks who are who are coming together as part of this project um are remarkable and and really long vetted community members here um i think i think i had too much chocolate cake and i'm sort of also feel my blood sugar dropping and i'm not quite sure what else to say i i can say that um i can say that it was remarkable to gather with everyone just last week knowing that everyone who came into the space with ideas and vision in this project also articulated another handful of people that they would like to see come into the project and be involved we have local school districts who are interested in doing tours okay so this is another so think about this like deeply right so a classroom comes into this space they have exposure to multi-disciplinary arts right multimedia arts they're coming into civic education and knowledge about what this building is what happens here what are ideas circulating in the creative community around it and i'm in the position alongside jamal rod jenny and desiree simmons who's the co-executive director of interfaith council for peace and justice who's also a lead organizer on this project um you know we're all in the difficult position of truly the only thing preventing us from expansive involvement of the project as a whole is resource and we're scrappy we're artists you know we always figure it out um but the ease of having folks involved in a way that's that has enough people power to run docent tours to make sure that there's bridges between audiences these performances that will happen in music are intentionally driven in partnership to have intergenerational audience difference of audience who would show up to see one group versus another group in this county how do we bridge that gap and have both audiences come into space to see multiple performers how do we do call and response to encourage dialogue between creatives and mediums so um just stop me and then i can answer questions maybe here i'm just gonna mute myself heather i don't want to cut you off at all i um no please i've never met you but please cut me off no no it sounds super exciting and um i love your passion about the project um the more you talk about it the more cool it sounds um and all you did was sell me online to be a part of it um i work for the guild of artisan artisans which puts on the ann arbor summer art fair and we do a2 arctoberfest which happens in october on the streets that surround the county building so our gallery space is on fourth right behind the county building there so we would be a cultural ally for you within that neighborhood to spread the word you know give you more spaces for engagement more events where we could potentially engage um so i'll definitely be reaching out to you after today's meeting don't have any money to offer you unfortunately but can give you some more manpower and potentially some more organization power to make the project happen yeah i just want to make sure i can be heard can anyone hear me can everyone hear me all right awesome so i appreciate the energy that heather has brought even though she's had a full day with her six-year-old enjoying so many things so heather i appreciate you um being on here and i also i appreciate this entire commission's ability to listen and be excited and i cannot say enough about pedals just as a former discussion point but just amazing but with regard to this particular project the other aspect that um is kind of alluding to but not necessarily mentioned i will say is that particularly on main street there are a lot of things that go on um you know people are having cocktails people having dinner prom prom dates are happening you know people are riding bikes eating ice cream all this stuff and all these lives are changed almost at the end of this street and i feel like people just don't have a realization they see it as a courthouse it's a marble building there's a lot of different things going on but i uh just as a side note i am a board member for amplify project but also a board member for the arc and they have been wanting to do and be of use in some way and they are also an organization on main street and so to bring um a realization to lives changing in a building that is to me very sterile and just needs definitely needs some more love and some more art but also needs to um have a story told within it and just to know that there are a lot of organizations um in ipsy in ann arbor in washington county that were just jumping out of their skin last week to just try and figure out like the dream was just so big and the idea of i think there was one of the artists who came who said i just i just need to leave right now because i just need to go home and dream and plan because this is just amazing to be able to to think of all the things that could be done and all the stories that could be told because of something like this i think it is imperative and important that as many community people know as possible people that are just visiting for the week in september or october um to have people have a realization that this is going on i think is almost maybe not almost as important as as funding um but i i'm kind of getting tired of hearing all these people say you know what did you do this weekend and it's like well i went to this exhibit and all these things happen and they're like well i didn't see anything about it i don't want to hear that about this project like i really do want to make sure that people are aware of this artistry that will be happening this connection that's happening within this county it is so important um because it's just an endless it's such a huge idea but i want it to come to fruition because i want people to be aware of the struggles that people have in this community that aren't being acknowledged but also the artistry and the giftings that they have it's tremendous and to see that small group of people last week come together and just be so copious with their note-taking oh my god and just so willing to just collaborate it is a blessing and it's a gift and so um even if the the finances may not be there within this group i totally understand i really want um there to be awareness of this art that will be happening in this space so that's what i wanted to say thank you jenny that starts an idea that um i just want to connect you guys with the main street area association um sandra runs that group and they are doing saturday i don't know if it's just saturday morning or saturday during the days when the streets are closed through the summer activations of the space or arts groups yoga whatever so that might fall within your timeline as a way to activate and kind of promote what's going on down at the courthouse on main street thank you allison sophie i think you had your hand up uh yes yes i was going to say that there are there are some many unique aspects to this projects uh three of the most extraordinary perhaps are the um the fact that it's inside the courthouse which must be pretty rare i mean you might get a statue of some old white guy probably but in most courthouses but nothing much beyond that in terms of uh let alone live contemporary art that challenges the actual events of the courthouse so that's incredible and the next unique thing an amazing thing is the unanimous support of the judges which is um pretty mind-blowing in itself and the third thing which i found extraordinary unique and wonderful was the fact that the artist receiving payment um uh let alone equitable payments so those are all wonderful things um an amazing thing so i really applaud you for getting this this going having the idea and getting it going it's really really incredible um but one aspect i was just thinking when uh jenny was talking about how to make sure people know that it's happening which is obviously if if something is amazing is happening clearly we want people to know about it and i was just looking at that photo of the the slide with um the washington or county courthouse and it has this huge pale wall which just cries out for some sort of sony lumiere um some slide projection something moving so that people can can be aware that there's there's a thing happening there so i wonder if something like that could be maybe added again yeah we have soy pasted dreams we're planning on um adhering something to the exterior we'll also thank you sophie we're also planning to have a lot of vinyl stickering in the windows so um works of poetry from local youth um artists um the untold stories of liberation and love poetry group based in ipsy is interested in putting some poetry on on windows as well we we have the capability with vinyl and different adhesives to to go on the marble walls but we also are going to be taking a lot of advantage of sort of the cavernous overhead space of the building and suspending things from the ceiling thinking about immersive um of i realized that i only showed the first slide of the multi-slide presentation so i'll be sending it on i'll just i will circle back with that but thank you sophie um and and thank you alison i think this is about you know that's the beautiful thing like um case in point in this meeting folks you know this is the piece about multiplicity right you know which is one of these values is all the roles we hold in community that you all are on the commission and you also hold a multitude of roles as artists yourselves as affiliations to galleries as connections to organizations and i think that's what has driven the success of the project so far and i think that the scale of the project will be determined by resource i will say that i'm not as understanding as jenny around financial support um i think it would be a really big miss for the the city of ann arbor public art commission to miss an opportunity for investment here um i think that would be noticed um and um and i think i think this is about public art because this is about municipal space and i think that when we think about public art and um and where it's installed or and who has access to it and we think about placing immersive art in a municipal building where so many of our neighbors and so many folks in community are coming into this building for so many different reasons i mean what an opportunity for engagement with public art but an opportunity for multi-disciplinary and mixed media um and so um i just i feel like this is a really um expansive and generative opportunity for so many artists and orgs and so many people and school age kids who can come into the space and engage with all of this thank you heather and lynn i think you had your hand up and then mary i wanted to share i don't know if folks saw um a political article that came out last summer after ann arbor the city council had passed a resolution supporting an unarmed crisis response program um and then that we ended up funding it with arpa dollars um once that resolution was passed april of last year there was an article that came out in political following a local family and how they've been in and out of the justice system it was how a liberal michigan town is putting mental illness at the center of police reform and it follows cynthia harrison and her son anthony um i got to know her after that was published and uh ann arbor resident now running for city council but what was really moving was how she called me the day that um the judge was signing has released papers at that court and like when you when you're saying that um there are these decisions that impact generations um [Music] and just that that anxiety and that weight to make sure that her son would get the treatment that he needed um and then and having the support of different community advocates to get to that point and meeting a national um spotlight on these struggles um that particularly affect black men in our community was really revealing you know it's and and to hear that um you know there can be artwork that can really express that kind of turmoil um but also hopefully uplift communities in a way and give comfort um would be really i mean it's it's it's i'm hoping that it's a reflection of how um we can respond in in in uh in the manner that um i guess acknowledges what kind of what happens at the courthouse um so i i've been hearing a lot about this work i know judge vanderbilt really well and and judicial uh attorney greene moore um she was on the line i recruited her to the library board um so you know i i mean it really it really shows when you have uh a judge with an msw who is rallying around this project because she understands intimately what what um trauma what a trauma-informed approach to um justice work and look like how what it should look like so um i'm it's this is really this is a really difficult project you're you're tying together community engagement um you know innovative approaches from individual artists um tying together different funders so you know kudos for you for straining this all together that i haven't heard of a project like this in our community in a while so um but maybe it's because i'm just new to to the art world so i'm just really impressed i'm really proud to be able to go back to my friend cynthia and say like hey you know maybe in the next should should there be a time and hopefully not soon you know you're back in this courthouse they'll be you you won't be alone you know there'd be there'd be something for you so i'm really moved by this project and i'm really thankful that you you're working on it thank you lynn and uh mary yeah hi um heather i wouldn't expect anybody else but you to be spearheading this dynamic opportunity it's pretty awesome um good to see you here and um to hear comments from everybody about this um i'm new to the council again um after a few year hiatus and i'm actually just to the council do we actually have money to give out um this was something that we did not have before um we had a lot of people that would come with proposals and petitions but do we have financial dollars we do we do we voted on it twice reality that we had to vote on it twice all right all right sorry all right well someone will fill me in because um there's there's lots of questions well and that's actually something i wanted to ask about because we do have some funds i believe that we put aside for marketing um we were thinking of marketing the golden paintbrush award so we have some funds and vanita please correct me if i'm wrong that we've already pulled out and are potentially ready to disperse somewhere very good uh yeah so people about specifically for marketing and told the community foundation that's what we're using them for okay we could get creative with how that happens but that's what we told them we were using it for well and we could help with marketing this event i mean it this doesn't have to necessarily be marketing for golden paintbrush but part of i think you know what what we're trying to help achieve here is getting the word out um as well as funding um and you know kind of networking to see if there are additional funding opportunities outside of this commission but i do think personally that it would be great to help in some marketing efforts with with that money that we've set aside for that purpose the the second point i wanted to touch on is documentation is that a barrier for this event that you can't have cell phones video with anything going on inside the courthouse um what what does that look like in terms of like getting the word out sharing what's happening um while this event is happening yeah that's a great question so i will say i think um mary also thank you so mary was one of the first muralists to work with youth arts alliance back in 2014 um uh so uh just to say a little bit more about my history we've been doing youth arts alliance has been doing programming in carceral spaces um since 2013 and so really taking sort of carceral or untraditional spaces municipal spaces enacting arts culture music um programming activity workshops exhibition performance is sort of what um um what my career has been and and sort of still is and so um documentation is actually we have a re we have really beautiful opportunities so as sophie mentioned you know um i'll tell you um presenting to all of the judges in washington county was a certain um anxiety and you could really say to yourself that they're not judging you but you would be lying because that's what they do and um so in that part of the unanimous support is also i think reflective of the people power and the amount of institutional partnership and frankly trust around the work that we've been doing in community um what we've been given access to and what we plan to do is we're partnering with um culture verse um locally who is going to do like a full building scan of the of the courthouse prior to installation and then a full scan once the installation happens now obviously permissions on live um video and all of those things are lining up we do have permission to have access to the closed caption footage of just for capturing the before and after um of sort of the blank building and then the after with everything in it um because court proceedings have been throughout the pandemic live streamed um by and large and and folks have been given access through zoom um the judges have given permission for live streaming to audiences for specific events in terms of documentation around um you know in the day-to-day operations of the court the business hours 8 30 to 4 30 we're going that's going to be a real challenge when it comes to the evening events that we're coordinating um the specific general audience engagement um i think we'll be able to capture that with ease and media permissions where we're holding this delicate you know there's the benefit of having so much so many folks involved in the project is that we are thinking deeply and intentionally every step of the way around ethics humility in space understanding the complexity of the space and also offering a lot of narrative a lot of counter narrative and and sort of vision within that space if that makes sense so this is this is delicate and we're thinking through every every sort of stage and documentation is critical throughout this because the intention of the collective of folks who is involved you know i think this is i mean i'll say i think this is arpa eligible i think that this collective of folks working on this project is also interested in collaborating in this way in perpetuity i don't think i think this us coming together in in and having integrated and multi-layered engagement with one another as organizations as artists as musicians i see this folks have expressed interest in moving forward with this in different ways what does it mean to take over a dmv you know what does it mean to do a immersive public library installation how do we enact how do we enact um community and audience for all of the things happening that are so positive resources that are available um but it's 905.
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a few years back the board took action on a resolution to commit funds to fund 14 to commit them for deferred maintenance routine restricted maintenance and custodial uses we had been making a 600 000 deposit to that on an annual basis but we're unable to do that the last two fiscal years so we used this year as a catch-up and we have made up those deposits into our deferred maintenance fund the transfer out to fund 40 is restricted revenue we receive our rda revenue you've heard me mention that in the past that's from our local redevelopment agency and that is slated for facility use only hence why we transfer that out to fund 40 our special reserve for capital outlay now as we look at our budget year you'll see we have budgeted for our ada at the three-year average now that is part of the governor's proposal that is not what is actually in place but we received direction not only through ficma in the county schools and school services that advised districts to use the three-year average we are currently projecting our ada in the multi-year projection year two and year three to increase essentially our enrollment this year has reached and slightly exceeded our pre-pandemic enrollment so we are using the assumption that our enrollment will continue to reflect that slight increase as we were experiencing pre-pandemic and our ada yield will rise back up to more normal levels in the 24 and 25 budget years we are using the statutory cola of 6.56 percent in the governor's proposed augmentation so we're budgeting our lcf revenue you'll see just a little over 156 million and budgeting federal revenues at 53 million the majority of that being one-time coveted relief revenues that were allocated in previous years but not received and not spent so that's some of that money that moved from the current year into the budget year we're also assuming we'll meet all of our class size requirements and receive our grade span adjustment revenue i'm sorry that should read tk through three grade span adjustment we're budgeting for our normal where our statutory required contribution to routine restricted maintenance and i would like to call your attention to the transportation add-on the state does fund us at 1.4 million dollars to run our 6 million dollar transportation program and we do now have a transitional kinder add-on as part of our lcff funding that will start in the budget year and we are allocated about 400 000 on our expenditure side we of course do accommodate step and column for all of our units we have accommodated the increase to both the stirrers and the pers contribution rates as part of the budget we are still offering transportation so we still have to replace our fleet we have our lcap expenditures in the budget and of course we have our ending fund balance we have to deal with in the 2223 budget year due to several things happening at the state level we are limited to a unassigned unrestricted ending fund balance of 10 percent of total expenditures and transfers out so you'll see there at the bottom of that particular slide two of the items that you will see as part of this budget package on our meeting on june 9th is a resolution to commit some of our ending fund balance to expenditures that we know are coming we are proposing to commit 3.6 million of our ending fund balance for our pars retirement program payments if you recall in june of 21 we offered a supplemental early retirement program we had over a hundred staff across the district take advantage and we have payments to the tune of 1.2 million dollars a year for five years in the current year we had a payment in the budget year we have a payment this 3.6 million is for the following three three payments which will fully fully pay for that that commitment and of course we have a retirement benefit that we have negotiated with some of our employee groups so we're committing we're proposing to commit some funds aside to pay for those retirement benefits in future years and right above the commitments you'll notice we have an assignment that's uh we have assigned a portion of our ending fund balance for our proposed compensation settlements the the uh proposal that had been recently passed to our teachers and some other compensation settlements and so we've identified that in our ending fund balance and on this next slide i'll talk a little bit about the mechanics of that so here is the first budget year projection that you'll see we're looking at a combined revenue next year 246 million dollars now again that is inflated due to that federal revenue that fell out of the current year and was moved over to the budget year when you take a look at that you'll see i would like to bring your attention to the unrestricted column the excess deficiency line you will see currently a 5.4 million surplus this is where that assignment for bargaining unit settlements comes into play because right now it's assumed that money is not budgeted so it's part of our ending fund balance when and if settlements are reached with our bargaining unit members that assignment will then be budgeted as an expenditure and we have about an eight million dollar assignment so you take eight million dollars out of our ending fund balance budget that as an expenditure and that five million dollar excess turns into a three million dollar deficit when we budget for those settlements so that will change the picture of the budget can we still afford it you'll see that in the multi-year projections when i when i talk about year two and year three but this is a our first blush of year one year two we're projecting ada at 12 725 again this is based on pre-pandemic enrollment trends and a normalization of our ada yield if our ada yield in the 22-23 year does not materialize and when we get to first and second interim in the budget year we of course will have to revise these projections the statutory cola 5.4 percent which does net us an increase in our lcf funding of just about 17 million dollars but of note in the budget year we are assuming the expenditure of all that federal revenue and of course the governor has proposed a large one-time revenue for for school districts in the budget year so of course that does not continue into the second year so we have to eliminate those state one-time funds on the expenditure side uh very uh very consistent assumptions to the first year step and column it says no budgeted compensation increases so i want to be sure and clarify that we have not budgeted for additional compensation increases in year two of our multi-year projection but in our multi-year projection we are assuming that the assignment i spoke of previously is then moved up into the expenditures in year two and year three of our multi-year projection so when we get to june of 2025 the ending fund balance you'll see is reflecting those expenses based on our proposal that well our current proposal to our teachers and future compensation proposals [Music] here's a first blush at 2324 again this is not budget year this is year two you'll see we are currently projecting a deficit spend on both the unrestricted and restricted side of our budget so we are projecting a combined ending fund balance of about 25 and a half million dollars in june of 24.
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so i'm just like time checking myself and also i know that you have had public comment and everyone's been really grateful the whole time for all of that but i also know that there's an end of public comment you know like a necessary end so i don't want to keep you past your time and i'm happy to i you know um jamal jenny is here i'm here you know rod and and desiree and other community partners are interested in talking further we could follow up with questions i'll share the presentation um that would be fantastic heather if you want to send that presentation to venita she can share it with all of us and you know thank you so much for your time tonight especially after your son's birthday party and thank you don't ever tell him like like don't tell him i'm playing it like it was like a punishment you know how these things go listen i enjoyed the whole day it's just very busy you know we did the whole thing we just did the whole thing i mean like i love him and his birthday is joy but we were bike riding you know laser tag you know anyway yes thank you thank you heather yes this is thank you perfect thank you all right so um we are going to move on to report from staff vanita you have the floor yeah i just had the two staff updates there um nothing additional for them just giving you some updates on where we are for those two items yes those are exciting updates yeah venina can you verbalize the two items for those of us who don't have the agenda in front of us and those that are joining us um so i don't have it in front of me either but i have to apologize i had an update from 365.
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for the third year again we are budgeting a slight increase in ada the trend the pre-pandemic trend that we were experiencing again subject to change the statutory cola of 4.02 percent which does net us an additional 7.9 million in lcff funding no adjustments to our federal or state revenue because all those appropriate adjustments were made in year two of our multi-year projection very standard assumptions in year three of our multi-year projection again no budgeted compensation increases is specific to no additional compensation increases in year three of our multi-year projection but we are assuming the compensation increases that are assigned in the budget year [Music] so really the important part the the most important piece on this particular slide is june of 25 ending fund balance unrestricted 22.1 million that means we can afford what we're assuming based on the assumptions we know today my standard disclaimer this is subject to change and it will change based on the state adopted budget because if you've recently read and compared the legislature's budget proposal to the governor's budget proposal there are some major differences so the legislature i'm sure will pass their budget by june 15th their statutory deadline they will hand it to the governor and then the governor of course he has the power to do some line item vetoes and they will negotiate for a final budget package to be adopted by the state by june 30th it's just some highlights and concerns that we have to keep in mind as we move forward of course any economical and political fallout from the continued covet 19 pandemic our enrollment trend i spoke of we'll have to continue to monitor that but based on our enrollment this year the kids are back in school and we were open for 180 days every day and it was wonderful our lcff funding of course we're assuming the statutory cola and augmentation as proposed by governor newsom which may change with the adoption of the state budget and of course we are assuming increased retirement system costs for all of our employees i mentioned the the difference or just to mention that there are differences between the legislature's plan and the governor's plan and one of the biggest what-ifs we're dealing right now is record inflation um economic turmoil the last quarter gdp was negative so if we have a negative gdp at the end of quarter two this particular year that by definition officially puts the united states into a recession so we don't know how that may affect specifically the state of california and revenues that flow to the state because currently revenues are flowing into the state of california at record pace and uh we we do benefit from that but when those revenues stop flowing to the state at a record pace um we'll suffer some of the consequences of that as a as a school district so i do imagine you will see me in august with some budget adjustments based on what the state actually adopts uh by the end of june any questions i i have one matt real quick yes um with the you mentioned the inflation um how is that impacting the budget such as like transportation with the price of diesel i mean it's found up over 50 and price electricity and everything else so is that a significant hit is it a significant hit to the budget it is a hit to the budget and we are assuming increased expenditures in those categories and in the budget year in the multi-year projection um we don't quite experience the retail effects of some of these inflationary adjustments as we buy fuel in bulk uh but we have seen a price increase not the same as the price increase that the the end consumer has seen at the pump i'm sorry we pay no taxes on the people that's correct we do not pay sales tax um and then uh with the utilities of course energy of course is getting more expensive that's that's something we have accommodated in our budget for several years now but we are definitely watching those expenses if you were to compare this this 2223 budget to prior years let's go back just three or four years how would you say that this budget compares is it is it not numbers wise but is is it is it good is it strong is the output better than what we've [Music] uh in short yes with the record revenue at the state level rick we're seeing revenue levels that we have never experienced in apple valley unified ever under the revenue limit or the lcff model the per student funding numbers continue to increase the one-time money that governor newsom has proposed the legislature is supporting that and actually proposing a little more one-time money to come to the school district so yes we are in a good situation in terms of our budget it's very strong um but keep in mind um 85 this is an estimate 85 of our budget tends to be on people and people are ongoing expenditures so we have to balance the ongoing expenditures with the one-time resources that the governor has proposed and making sure that we can um oh gosh i'm at a loss for making sure that we continue to pay all the folks that do the great things for the students in apple valley unified and continue and continue on those strong programs at our schools okay thank you uh any other questions maria yes obviously i do i do have a question and that has to do with your page three of your uh presentation which was the 20 22 23 budget assumptions so my question is you are going you did budget uh for transitional kinder so i think it's your page three this is not the patient so you budgeted for the transitional kinder and the question that i have is because of the age of those children um are you going to make any adjustments if the numbers appear to grow and now you have to put additional transportation to be able to pick up those children um at a safe location because now you have to think about their different bus stops to keep them safe from their home to school well at that age yeah at that age i would like to remind that we currently do have transitional kinders already on our buses that utilize the same stops as our kindergartner through six for our k-6 schools or our kindergartner through eighth grade students so we will continue to structure our transportation and our stops at the best we can to serve all of our students understanding that we we anticipate a slight ridership increase in transitional kindergarten but we're not anticipating that all of them will ride our buses because not all of any grade level rides our buses but of course we will continue to adjust transportation specifically as needed and in the budget we will make make appropriate adjustments to our expenditure projections based on those those services that we have to adjust so with our buses um gauging out yes did are you putting any cost into purchasing younger buses instead of those um antiquated diesel buses and bring in the electric buses two questions first are we budgeting for the continued uh fleet replacement yes um i don't remember what slide that was on but i did call that out on one of my assumption slides um about fleet replacement right there in the 2223 budget assumptions on the expenditure side so yes we will continue to buy buses um you might have noticed there's a poster back here i think it was 2014 we made an incredibly large purchase of buses about eight years ago and some of those buses are getting what what some people might say long in the tooth they're they're getting miles on them and they're being used which is what they're for um but we don't want all 20 of them to quit the same year so we are working on yes buying newer buses electric buses the second question we are not budgeting to buy electric buses the standard diesel or gasoline transit bus runs right about two hundred thousand dollars an electric bus is a little over half a million dollars right now so um and the electric buses up here we do have two that we received through a grant um that are in service in apple valley unified and they serve one route because one of the buses is able to drive the morning route and then it has to sit on the charger and then the second bus drives the afternoon of the same route so there i know there's some advancements in technology coming and the governor has proposed some economic support for school districts on electric buses i believe they better serve more urban areas not so much the rural areas with the length of our routes i have one question yes sir what bulk tax do we play on on fuel we have a fed or state tax when we buy it involved you know mr bender i i would uh not want to answer that incorrectly so i will get that information for you and um and address that question uh to the entire and address that answer to the entire board thank you when i can find that i've got one too um in regards to yes sir oh in regards to um the commitments for 2022 2023 um if you could clarify are the funds to cover those coming balanced forward from 2122 or those just in the projected budget for 22.23 no those funds are not part of 2022 i'm sorry the current year 2122.
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um she's working with tay onna i believe it's the right way to say her name to um work with our building department to get some additional ideas of where she should start and how she should move that forward they want to make sure that they have the ability to do the things that they need in the space that they the location that they want to use um and what was my other item i'm sorry i've been engrossed in all this other stuff i have something centered alley project yeah oh yeah ali project um i may have mixed those around ali project is the same that was just an update that we had gotten from the building department to say that we received some information from the a ann arbor arts center that they were having some stumbling blocks with what they were working on but they've been forwarded over to staff and community services to help them move that forward um i that update was probably about uh maybe a couple weeks ago i hadn't reached back out to get an additional update but i i could share something back out with you all later on that too that would be great thank you vanita you're welcome yeah all right and then we have you banana yeah you're welcome um report from committees um so the capital improvement project working group um that is myself and allison right now and um if anyone else wants to join because david has uh you know has resigned um from the commission uh we have an open spot so uh i don't have anything additional to add um besides you know what we discussed um last meeting about getting some of those budget items approved um which is wonderful from council um and we're going to continue to work on that and john i see that you've unmuted yourself if you have something to add no okay no no i have nothing to add thank you though accidentally unmuted myself well and so again if anyone would like to join the capital improvement project working group please do because we have an open spot um and then i'm going to move on to the outreach working group which is sophie peggy and marionetta anything to report um i i guess i can um maybe go kind of go very very quickly um and then i'll have to leave i have to pick up someone from from the bus station um the outreach group decided that uh we wanted to explore um some potential partnerships with art related organizations um like the library and uh parks and rec and also to build uh connections with kind of upcoming uh events that might be happening in ann arbor for instance we found out that monument lab of the museum is hosting a residency for two years for the founder of monument lab and we thought you know might be a good idea to to have some conversation so we've started a series of conversations with uh various arts related organizations um in ann arbor and our first conversation was may 17th we met with eli nyberger who's the director of the library to talk about ways that we might build bridges between the arts commission and the library and he was very excited about the idea had lots of ideas about um ways that we we might um partner um he he offered the uh the notions that the library itself could be sites for projects or performances or exhibits it could be venues for public meetings so for instance non-profits or any city or governmental entities could meet uh in person at the library if we found we needed to meet as a big group he also said that he would the library would be very happy to help us in promoting uh and publicizing any of our events particularly helping us this he says they do call for artists all the time so um as we think about this new funding for instance if we've got a call out um he said that the library would be very helpful i'll be happy to help us with things like that one of the things that he also brought up in terms of thinking about partnerships is the library hosts these summer games every every summer uh it's a very very popular event it's uh participants of all ages from adults to to children and it's it's basically uh the participants get a set of clues um and solve puzzles and as you solve these these puzzles you're able to kind of cash in on on prizes from the ann arbor library and so he was suggesting that perhaps we might think about ways the art commission might think about ways um they've already got plans for the for this summer but for summer 2023 that uh and they'll start planning for that in the fall that there might be ways that we might um highlight arts uh in the city um maybe in some of the clues in the summer games so um but we are actually in this summer's summer games that was going to be nice okay i don't know so we're finalizing the copy for the script for the clues but we have um some spots including one of our manhole covers or oh i'm not supposed to do this oh no you wasn't supposed to say that anything um so we're gonna we're gonna be in it i'm glad that i'm glad that we're we're already uh way ahead of ahead of us so so we left the conversation uh both on a very very positive note uh what we decided to do was um eli was gonna identify a library liaison and um he asked that we identify a liaison from the arts commission just to kind of keep the communications open so there's molly bickley who's on the staff and she's in charge at the library of public events will be their liaison and then once we identify someone as a liaison eli will put the two together so i'm very excited uh about building these bridges and peggy and sophie are also working on building bridges with parks and rec and having a conversation with them and also having a conversation with monument lab so we are very excited about reaching out to our community partners and figuring out ways that we can help each other i i can send vanita i will send you the the notes from that outreach meeting thank you marionetta i'm sorry you got to go and pick up someone but this was a great meeting nice to meet you marianne oh nice to meet you i look forward welcome welcome to the to the commission thank you um all right so next uh we are moving on to the special projects working group which includes sophie peggy myself and jamal um do we have anything to report would anyone like i i think we haven't met since our last meeting but if you have anything you'd like to add sophie yeah well generally at the the meeting we were talking with uh heather um jeremy never uh about the the thing when we're just hearing about the reclaim project so we talked about that a lot but one of the things we've been talking about on the um on the commission uh is about something which i'd like to connect up with the uh upper money discussion which is the two main things one is having somewhere on our website where people can just simply propose things and clearly we've heard that it needs to be very simple and that people should be able to propose their own specific project they want to do as an artist or as a group or maybe somebody should be able to propose someone else as being a chicken or court jester or whatever it happens to be that they think should be supported so any proposal we should make it clear that it's totally broad and just try and gather some information so we could take it somewhere and the other idea that i think again would fit in with uh with what we were just talking about on the apple money is the idea of a residency a residency could be a very traditional thing um where you know an artist comes in this equipment they can use and they do something inspired by the community they've they're in while they do the residency but it also could be something completely different um so you know i think we should we should try and make clear that we want people to be able to think broadly uh one of the the aspects we've been looking we've been talking about all the time is trying to make things connect with the community and be collaborative so i think those should be kind of something that we would look to specifically but without again rejecting some if some individual artist has an amazing idea sure why not so i think being broad and open and easy to apply to and then you can find other ways of figuring out whether it would work for us whether to take it further whether it's through a phone interview or whatever it is um so to make it make it pretty simple and not involve too much box filling thank you so much sophie um correct me if i'm wrong vanita but we already have on our website a place for people to put proposals is that correct does that still exist i was looking at that we've done some changes to the the home page for the city we did at one point have um a line item within our page where folks could actually submit proposals i can't get there just yet right now and i have to double check but i think there's something some changes to our page in general just because of a new sharepoint platform but i'll have to double check but we did have it available once yes and i'm not sure if i'm not sure we'd have to redesign it just a little bit if you want to include that there um and if that's still okay with the way that um heather and skye want to move the arper funding up forward yes well i think sophie correct me if i'm wrong you're just saying in general you want would like that to be on our website for people to apply not necessarily specifically for arbor funding but in general if they want to engage with us and put together proposals we should have a spot for them to do that is that what you're saying sophie or are you saying specifically for arpa i was i would say that we need both and whether you start in the same thing and and drop into the right funnel later or whether we you know we need to have a discussion about how to make it something that people think oh i could do that uh how to make it very visible and obvious and you know hey this is here and then publicize it so that you know people know to go look for it um but these are all things that we need to to talk about specifically i think that to how to make it work both for the upper funding and in general thank you sophie um all right we can move on to the communications working group which is myself uh marionetta and allison and we do have another opening um on the communications working group so if anyone is interested please join and um yeah the only piece of news was we are going to participate in the summer games so uh that's great and uh allison do you have anything else you'd like to add well maybe i could just be a little bit more descriptive about what that means is like through our participation with the summer games we're hoping to get people to visit at least four of our public art pieces and learn about those pieces um they just sent us language during this meeting which we have not reviewed um to get people to those um sites and we'll be charged with maintaining the signs so as you participate give us a heads up if those signs go look bad or need repair or whatnot um but all of them are close to venita's office as a hint so she will be able to check in on them routinely i will be able to check in on them routinely as i'm around the corner um my office is around the corner so hopefully you guys will all participate and it'll be a good experience to get our feet wet participating in the summer games and thank you lynn for bringing that idea to the table and we've put it together so hopefully it'll be a great way to get people engaged it's great it's a great pr move so good work you guys and it's free well i mean the library will cover it but that's that's that's that's our locally collected taxes um um that goes to the library so yay library yay local library taxes thank you for doing that they're they're such a great team um and there's so much good wealth at the library they're always looking for partners publicity partners first as well we should use that yeah so enthusiastic and this is going to be really fun so yeah librarians are good friends to have and and for everything for civic engagement democracy arts um awesome work you guys is it dude do you want me to report in my counsel stuff out or are we yeah i'm just gonna go down the rest of the list and then yes lynn if you wanna we would love to hear um about uh about the council updates as well um so our leadership working group that's myself in jamal we have not met since our last meeting um unless jamal you have anything to report well obviously we have mary who has joined us so that's part of it and we're reviewing more applications um to fill david's thoughts but we're so happy to have you married um and then we have the fundraising and development working group which is myself and allison we have an open spot so if you're interested in joining that working group please do alison and i have not met specifically to talk about um fundraising and development although it seems from tonight's meeting that we perhaps have a few things that we can certainly uh talk about um so that would be great and then our annual chair vice chair review and election um project which is john and allison do you have anything nothing to report fantastic ben lynn please take the floor sure um thank you i think the big update from the council world is that um the housing commission voted earlier today the board of directors for housing commission approved their partnership with avalon housing to co-develop a 68 unit affordable property at 121 east catherine um that's the development that's across the street from the people's food co-op um it's currently a parking lot um so 68 units affordable housing uh to individuals exiting homelessness as well as income qualified artists so this is this is um the space that was in discussion the the art space came in and did the community engagement for so it's it's nice to see that there's actual sometimes bureaucracy is very very slow um and it's it's really nice to see that there's community engagement that's already been done on this and to hear that the housing commission has signed that partnership with our housing partner it just brings us that much closer to um artists being able to live downtown um yeah i'm really excited that's going to be really interesting yeah john did you have a question we're also going to be a gallery as a part of that whole project so there's talk about um so one of the our one of the budget considerations that we passed at the last meeting um that i unfortunately wasn't able to attend that's like my most favorite meeting of the year this is the what is the budget meeting my son had covet at the time and i didn't want to inadvertently expose folks but um uh one of the considerations that i really rallied hard and advocated for uh was a money from the marijuana excise tax revenue and having some of that um which is sizeable that was 900 thousands and it came back um uh actually it was 1.2 million and then some of that had already been allocated towards deflection work through our city prosecutor's office and then we gave additional money for that another half million um but i had asked for uh kind of like um like a business a generator incubator kind of space for um uh in support of bipac businesses and that that would reflect the history of that that area being a historically black community um so that passed so we'll see what the community engagement will look like to that end um and there was talk about potentially having that in this building in some form so if it's an incubator gallery i'm all for it so there's there is room on the first floor for um mixed use um i guess let's see yeah other budget considerations gosh there's so much going on that night i called in at the very end too um there was uh additional money that went to um barrier busters uh uh i went to a child savings account program at the county level to kind of speak to the impact on the war on drugs um and vulnerable communities there's a lot of work that went into that night but we now have a budget we also affirmed the hiring of our up until then our interim city administrator so mr milton de honey is officially official now um i'm really excited to to have him on board um as for arts work oh i have a the update from um shache duckworth and the parks folks so initially when trishay came to the commission last year when travis was here um the plan was to have a black lives matter mural on the streets and and i think public works came back and said like oh there's all these things to consider uh the color of the paint and um uh the the type of paint because it's a it's a busy street um also we're planning road prepare and we're bonding out for additional road repair so instead of just waiting for this to be scheduled out depending on when we're going to fix the roads i asked the parks to step in and um our parks uh head of parks came out and met with trishay um and and community community folks who who did the painting in ypsilanti uh at um gosh wheeler park and then the discussion went on to say like well can we think of other areas in the community that um could really benefit from from seeing this mural and uh parks folks said well we're already doing this exhibition with um liz margolis and uh that's already out in gallup park so they went out to gallup park and looked and scoped it out and the now the plan is that the painting will start in july in gallup park um but i think parks and shea just pretty much thought that it would be it's it's the most well attended park um and there's already artwork there and they can tie the mural together with programming so they can also do that with um community groups um and do like an educational series around it so yay parks parks uh they're really and they'll do maintenance on this too so um they're finding the budget and they have staff who are dedicating themselves they said this is really important to them to to see it through um so we'll be able to turn that out around from i guess i think planning to painting and programming in probably a month so beginning of july to end of july we should have something we should be able to meet each other in person actually maybe we can think about that um maybe the august meeting is actually meeting for the first time in person and seeing actual artwork in the in the park um so there's that update what was the yeah what was the site for that what was the parks location so they're looking at gallup i don't know where exactly in gallup park um because i i couldn't bring my um potentially cove itself to that meeting either um but they did me and they were really happy they said it was a really productive meeting um i'm assuming it's still on a street i think it's the pathway the walkway okay yeah cause i think the worries that you know the cars um i mean it's such everywhere it's it's so busy in ann arbor you know they just didn't they wanted people to be able to actually see it instead of waiting for cars to clear you know um and then also cars would damage the mural so um the thought was that if it was on a walkway it would be more visible and more protected very smart easier to maintain well that's what they did in italian right in the in the park um so let's let's see we're only we're only catching up to ypsilanti like i think three years later so we will get it done um so i don't know if it was really smart versus just i don't know connecting all the dots in a different way um what else has happened i think that's oh the the flag thing came up and i'm live i didn't have a comment from ryan stanton i said uh i actually am not quite sure where it stands with this commission or where the conversation lies uh the mayor has sent me this ted a ted talk on on the power of flags or something and truthfully i still haven't watched it maybe i am not the best person to be involved in this whole flag uh i don't yes so i leave that all up to you um as actual artist and for me as to what you would like to do with that i i think ryan stanton wrote a really amazing article in the history of ann arbor flags so he he's already dug deep into the archives uh i guess the challenges for this commission to revisit what the process would be like if it was i guess in the past they had a a contest with students to redesign it and council remember song the commission just still needs his approval to move this forward we haven't started to do anything with the project because he hasn't really given us permission to do it just yet wait he hasn't given you the tedx the ted talk came from john yeah yeah we submitted a resolution and we we we needed that and okay yes clarify the ted talk a student sent a ted talk to the mayor okay the ted talked to me okay and presented it to the commission okay said great if you will then just task the art commission with the project and the parameters and what you want us to do we would be glad to do it so now he gave you the ted talk so i think i think what we were hoping for there was some kind of an official uh resolution task memorandum that the council would ask the art commission to take this on with the parameters with the budget the timeline okay people want to come up with that without knowing what he wanted well i asked him and he's like yeah i definitely want to do it let's do it but then i had no instruction so john i mean just be mayor like that wouldn't have we could have escaped this whole path of the ted talk and then uh it could have been done um i will commit to it i'm so sorry it's good well in the redesign of the flag we went as far as to assign it to a working group and it's in our annual plan i think for the last two years that i know of and i forget which working group if it was outreach or special projects or youth outreach that had existed so we can definitely revisit that conversation maybe we can recline it and once we all watch the ted talk okay i will tell christopher taylor it's like christopher taylor these are details that you did not share like how we we can't really i can't really go back to commission say like he said okay so uh okay thank you veneta thank you john um i will press on him to see where this resolution is because i've never seen it so i apologize i didn't realize i had to ask for a resolution i just he just said okay so this is very helpful thank you well it was craig hoopey's idea that we should get some clarification from council we just shouldn't act on our own in fact you know so that the student that sent it to christopher sent a a proposal for a flag that was brilliant frankly but the idea is should it be a wide open inclusive how is it going to happen uh is where's the money coming from for the flag and the question was we wanted to make sure that council was totally on page for us to to follow up on this so we wanted some assurance and craig hoopy thought this was the best way to do it was to ask the mayor okay and then crack blue and then craig cooper left the building buildings now we're back to you getting that ted talk and uh okay um i can do this i will do this uh thank you for the more detailed instructions my goodness uh and thanks to ryan stanton for all that homework too so uh that was a great great article it really was um i don't have other updates so um yeah so maybe you're hand raised if you have a question or comment yeah i i had a question about the black lives matter thing um just to go back to that for a minute uh which was is this part one instead of having one dance tunnel as well as um right so i mean i said you know what harm is there if we had more than one mural uh and um and public works was just like sure i mean we'll just keep it in mind until we figure out you know this the schedule for the streets because i really didn't want it to be laid down and then torn up again um i just you know versus lay down and then um maintained um so so there's a there's a process going on that where where somebody at some point will say yes this is the right street or do we have to do something they already identified the streets uh i think it's on catherine and for fourth and catherine was was what um where we left it before i came on board and that's what public re public works had reviewed so um it's really i think it's just a matter of once we get a schedule of what the repair would be like and then we can then we can circle back like with the timing of the repair for those streets and it might coincide with this development you know it's on the cip list that project so you know as it becomes more reality we'll probably tag it with our cip efforts to say hey there's this project let's make it happen okay well i'm glad to hear because i feel like several other cities seem to have managed to paint their street so you know it seems to be possible to do yeah there's their efforts other cities have um like ferndale has a rainbow cross like a rainbow pride pride flag kind of crosswalk um there are things that folks paint to slow traffic down to so um [Music] i don't know if that's something like the interim public works rep can can really engage on but i think it's really interesting how folks can use paint to to make streets safer for for children and families especially i don't know if you all were following how um this past year was really difficult for uh animal public schools to hire enough bus drivers and there were bus routes that were cancelled so more kids were walking to school farther away from i think the cutoff for uh bus transportation is a mile and a half so there's there's more interest in pedestrian safety and and building sidewalks we passed that sidewalk millage in 2020 so maybe there's a way where we can kind of integrate um art to make that walk a little bit more safe and more interesting i know there's a i organize a a walking bus from king's school so we have about 20 families that meet from my front yard every morning and we kind of rock paper scissors who actually wants to walk with our children to school not all the parents want to do it because we have people to get to work or meetings um and uh some of the art that's right outside of king school that's etched in the sidewalk is eat your vegetables um and the kids always yell eat your vegetables as soon as we get to king school so uh there's a more permanent way to do something goofy that'd be maybe we can talk to the schools about that too because they have um i mean they have their billion dollar bond and uh um you know there's some infrastructure that would be it it'd be really interesting if there's some artwork involved in that that that that plan too so besides vegetables you know and mary you have your hand up yeah just quickly lynn and um anybody here representing the city i'm happy to advise on best practices for street painting it looks like jerry's still on the call here but in in 2021 we did the the giant mandala at the intersection of like and it was not meant to be permanent but i i have a lot of lessons learned and there's definitely things that can be done to make it permanent so just check in with me if i can thank you mary yeah i think um that might be something that we would probably have to collaborate with um transportation commission too so they're the they're the transportation nerds they felt all sorts of ideas of cities around the country um so maybe that might because i see some collaborations between commissions lately like um police oversight i'm also on police oversight the chair collaborated with the human rights commission and transportation commission and bringing together a resolution asking the police to make traffic data more publicly available and on the angle that it's a public safety issue and the human rights council as a human rights issue in case there's bias involved in um in in who we who we um take it and who we pull over um maybe this is a project for uh you know art and streets that we can work on with the transportation commission and saying you know can you give us ideas of what you see in other cities and we can do a joint resolution council can't say no to during joint resolutions that's a lot of people uh working together so i offer that up to you for your consideration selfie i'm sure everybody wants to go home but i just wanted to mention i guess it's connected with public art that schools have had to cancel their trips to the museum the university of michigan museum of art because of not being able to get a bus because there wasn't a driver yeah is transportation is so difficult right now um i mean there are kids who i mean yeah it's been really difficult the the areas where the routes have been canceled it's it's not the fault of schools it's you know labor shortage um but i i thought the museums are doing something virtually for students i think to make up for yeah that you but it's not i mean it's nothing not the same right right and they generally have to cancel really close because they were hoping so you know the point is that they see the actual artwork so it's very different [Music] yeah we're still in a pandemic unfortunately um [Music] yeah i don't know i don't know how to fix a labor shortage i met mac and i could ask the folks here who have more authority than me and city government so maybe um i can ask them to do something more i'll ask the governor and say like the kids need to see art so they need to be fed educated and they need to see art um yeah i'm here until friday so that's the other thing i should offer you all if there's something that you would like me to ask our state reps our congressional reps are here to pledge fudge can you bring you want me to bring back no no um i love this group uh i don't know if that was very helpful in my report out too i am just really excited about the potential for affordable housing for for artists to live in the city very um i'm super excited about that project especially since then it's in the neighborhood of where i work and it's going to be an awesome creative sector over there and you have a gallery included that's awesome and it's always very helpful lin thank you for all of the updates and thank you for the offer for us to send you some questions um while you're there so uh that is wonderful and um yeah i already chased down peter peter yeah and he asked him about bike lanes his security detail was uh kind of nervous but you know i mean if i can i will be relentless so i can chase folks down um yes we need to go out i love it it's a great spirit thank you so um before we adjourn if anyone has any last-minute comments announcements things that we should know because we will not meet in july we will adjourn again and or come together again in august art hot shop this weekend this weekend this weekend the following yes next weekend the 11th the 12th yes is that backwards or the right way around i don't know anyway it's on do you want to send us an email with the dates as well sophie sure okay so you send it to vanita share the flyer okay yeah great all right well thank you guys so much for hanging in there we had a really lively meeting this is great and uh what's the august date the august the august the first wednesday and first wednesday yeah but it's always going to be the first wednesday and um and we do skip a couple of august third august third thank you vanita thanks danita and welcome back mary thanks john yes let's cause some trouble exactly good trouble all right so with that i am going to ask uh for a motion to adjourn thank you john in a second thank you allison and sophie thank you guys so much this was a fantastic meeting have a great june and july see ya thanks everyone welcome buddy bye you
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the expenditure for the pars retirement program was made last july so it already was part of the budget and in the 20 20 20 i'm sorry in the budget year the payment is budgeted the commitment at 3.6 million is for the 25 and 26 fiscal years and i say 24 25 26 that's the june of 24 so the 23 24 year the 24-25 year and the 25-26 year at 1.2 million dollars a year so that money will sit there in our fund 01 ending fund balance and when those invoices come in you'll see that commitment reduce it'll reduce by 1.2 million in the 23-24 year then it'll reduce by another 1.2 million until those expenditures are completed okay great thank you wilson i don't have any oh okay okay great thank you thanks kylie do we have any public comments okay great superintendent comments trenay okay uh board member comments uh wilson i just have one comment i want the fortune to know that being on camera and i want the board to make sure we tell your friends to support ted allen hunter ted is with me the wonderful county superintendent the gentleman that ran against him is is a crook i'm sorry to say that mr larson it's not a club so anyway make sure that we support the county superintendent thank you wilson maria i just want to congratulate all the people who who were selected today and to thank matt for putting together this um presentation every time he puts it up we have questions and he has answers um i'm really appreciative of the information to tell us what is going on and how the funds are being expanded i will have my next comment when the next one comes up okay but i just wanted to be sure that i thank the people as they go thank you so much thank you marina christopher no comments dennis i just want to express my pleasure with the quality of candidates we had tonight for the positions that is that's great that's awesome thank you i have no comments at this time so we'll move on to public hearings we'll conduct a public hearing 2022-2024 local accountability control plan and uh open the public meeting at 250 hours and we'll leave it open for uh one minute kylie if you could let me know in a minute and while we're waiting i'll just make a couple of brief comments on the lcap process a couple of things to note important this year for the lcap and what what's in that document is also the budget we had no carryover for the supplemental concentration grant funds what we what we were required to expend in those areas we have expended it's very important we monitor that because we're supposed to spend this year's funds on this year's students and we were able to do that if we had not we would have to carry that those funds specifically over for those actions and it becomes an increase in the concentration grant percentage so that's a an area of note in the budget expanding the types and the accuracy and information regarding student performance will happen as we go into the report on the lcap in the fall as you know students had not been able to participate in things like the california assessment of pupil progress last year so this year they have just completed that and will have that data along with the other data points for attendance discipline enrollment etc finally next steps the next board meeting will be the approval process for the lcap we are in continued discussion with the county as we go through the process of approval awaiting your next step in june so thank you very much for your support of this effort great thank you uh kyle we have any public comments on this uh issue this public not pertaining to this public hearing nope okay i believe that um we'll close it at 252.
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so moving on we'll conduct a public hearing on item 2022 2023 budget and again we'll open it at 252 and was there any comments matt that you wanted to make on that no mr raleigh i have no further comments if unless there's any other questions from my presentation okay thank you so we'll leave it open um for a minute kyle is there any public comments on that item we have not received public comment um regarding the budget okay and it is now 253 okay thank you okay we'll close the public hearing at 2 53.
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okay so we think we have a public comment card that just came in yes mr raleigh just just for backup understanding um in in light of student voice um we have been working with alexandria ortega who is a student that just graduated from granite hills high school and um in error we told her that the public session would start at 3 pm and so i wanted to be sure that we didn't miss her opportunity to give her feedback of a situation that um i think we want to hear so great okay thank you [Music] members of the board superintendent train trenay nelson superintendent assistant superintendent and the few that are in attendance including my mom who's recording me [Laughter] today i stand here before you to speak on behalf of high school students as a recent grant graduate of granite hills high school throughout my years in high school i have experienced something a disturbing and disproportionate amount of students have i have gone through two periods of disordered eating this is not as uncommon as you may think it is unfortunately athletes those in larger bodies those on the lgbqt plus spectrum those on the neurodivergent spectrum and those who just generally have access to media are all at a higher risk than the general population there's a culture on social media and surrounding bodies that projects this ever changing ideal of the perfect body onto teenagers what i have come here to ask however is not that you address the societal implications of popular youtubers endorsing 1 200 calorie diets or the social impacts of students bragging to peers about a 15 pound weight change in two weeks both of which are prevalent enough to mention i can assure you but rather i'm asking you to provide students with a more widespread and focused access to nutritional information beyond the scope of a food pyramid through high school and pe curriculum according to a study published by the national library of medicine and outlined on the paper that i showed you that has some metrics and statistics they found that those who have or display eating or feeding disorders are more likely to commit acts of self-harm including suicide so there are clear and permanent damages that can be done to students while education may not entirely prevent this unfortunate occurrence i firmly believe it will help to mitigate it and in fact is already within the health and safety standards as well as the pe curriculum itself set forth by the state it just needs to be integrated this can be found in the standards for mental emotional and social health as well as nutrition and physical activity of the health and safety standards curriculum pages 45-47 for reference i also have that outlined on the piece of paper that i gave you as well as within the pe curriculum for course one standards two and three as well as course two standards two and three on top of this i believe it would also be beneficial to point students to counselors and on-site therapists to address issues or concerns they may have specifically regarding relationships with food members of the board i want to tell you that from my personal experience the pain and suffering that this brings into a young person's life is immense as i am not an educator or a person in administration i cannot affect the change that i believe needs to happen but i can bring this issue forward to you and you can if these actions can prevent even one student from believing that they are worth only 700 calories a day or less i will personally consider this a success as this issue is complex and requires likely more than a few minutes to understand i would be more than happy to come back and address the board further regarding this issue thank you so much for your time [Applause] well very well written and very well spoken so we appreciate uh especially since you just graduated and you're really taking the time to push come forward and you present this commend you so thank you come back any time we'll be back next august june 9th june 9th but then august yeah back back in august so we're always here so you're always welcome thank you so much good job great okay so moving along with discussion session item is recommended the board of trustees discuss and take action on the following items approve the certificated and classified personnel actions as listed we have a motion motion by maria ii by dennis is there any discussion okay hearing none is there any uh all all in favor all right any opposed hearing then that'll be the order approve the recommendation of the administrative hearing chairperson effective immediately on expulsion case exp 30 21 22 do we have a motion motion chris second maria all in favor all right any opposition hearing none that'll be the order expulsion case exp 31 21 22. through emotion bender maria all in favor aye any opposition hearing them that'll be the order expulsion case stip 7 21 22 the motion chris motion chris second maria all in favor aye any opposition entering them that'll be 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vendors maria ii all in favor aye any opposition nearing them that will be the order expulsion case st ip9 2021-2022 ocean chris wilson second all in favor aye any opposition hearing then that'll be the order explosion case stip 10 21 2022. second maria second bike okay chris okay all in favor all right any opposition during them that'll be the order okay annual review ar number seven 2021-2022 motion maria was the first second was vendor uh all in favor aye aye any opposition during the leading order annual review ar 8 2021 2022.
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motion maria second wilson yes okay all in favor all right any opposition hearing them that'll be the order annual review ar number nine 2021-2022 motion defender second maria all in favor any opposition hearing them that'll be the order annual review ar 10 10 or 20 21 2022 motion okay i'm sorry chris okay we got to get this down for kylie to get it too so that's why i repeat it uh the second was from um marina okay all in favor any opposition hearing none that'll be the order annual review ar 11 2021 2022 motion maria dennis second all in favor any opposition during then will be the order annual review 12 2021 2022 motion second maria and second vendor all in favor aye any opposition hearing then that will be the order annual review 13 2021 2022 motion chris second second bender all in favor any opposition during them they'll be the order annual review ar 14 2021 2022 motion second maria ii chris okay all in favor all right any opposition hang them that'll be the order annual review ar number 15 2021 2022. ocean mariah all in favor aye any opposition hearing the middle of the order okay moving on to j consent calendar approved consent list item we have items uh 1 through 17 and does anybody uh want to pull any um to 17.
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