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these scholarships are awarded to students who have exhibited exceptional ethical and moral traits engaged in volunteer roles within the brookfield lacrosse club and demonstrated leadership roles [Music] [Applause] and this time i'd like to invite kelly martone to come up for the booster club community spirit scholarship [Music] the following student is very active in the brookfield high school athletic community whether it's an athlete team manager spectator or fan overall high school experience has been enhanced by various roles in our athletic community making her the winner of this year's bhs community spirit scholarship clean it up tonight bella check out [Music] [Applause] at this time i'd like to invite kristen bach to come up and help present the award for the class act sportsmanship scholarship provided by mr norah [Music] this award recognizes students that actively demonstrate the principles of the ciac class act initiative brookfield strives to follow an established set of guidelines for behavior at sporting events and has a student-led group to monitor and address sportsmanship concerns within the school the ciac serves as a sponsor program which aims to provide a framework enabling schools to promote encourage and monitor positive sportsmanship within their departments congratulations to this year's recipients ruby capone [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] congratulations now we move on to the remainder of the class of 2022 scholarships we transition from athletics back to academics and other characteristics started with the principles awards know a little bit about this one each year i recognize two students that have proven themselves to be productive reliable and hardworking members of our school they are role models for how we expect students to conduct themselves in the school and the community it is my pleasure to present this year's brookfield high school's principal awards to carolina vicali and benjamin she's [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] next up are the bobcat character for life scholarships what qualities are considered when choosing the recipients of the bobcat character for life we look for students that possess a strong work ethic model exemplary citizenship consistently keep a positive attitude and are role models for their peers during their time at brookfield high school congratulations go out to haisa and [Applause] moving on fern and kate would you come on up next up is the dex maniac memorial scholarship the dex maniac foundation scholarship is presented in honor of dex meniac a former brookfield high school student dex was known for his good nature friendly disposition and his ability to be a great friend this year's recipient is someone who embodies those traits these distinguished characteristics deserve to be recognized and rewarded sometimes all it takes is one friend one caring soul to make a difference ferns magnet dex's mom and kate cheering his dear friends would like to congratulate isabella checkout [Applause] this [Applause] next up is the united states marine corps award scholastic achievement is designed to recognize noteworthy academic achievement and leadership in high school students nominees are exemplary young citizens and role models for their peers congratulations to carolina [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] next up is the united states marine corps award the semper fidelis award for musical excellence it is sponsored by the united states marine youth foundation a non-profit organization established to provide incentives for achievement in our nation's schools the foundation has provided an award for musical excellence for student musicians throughout the country this year's recipient is linda [Applause] [Music] we'll continue with the united states marine corps this is the athletic achievement awards the athletic achievement awards are designed to recognize high school varsity athletes who display courage poise self-confidence and leadership on and off the field and who are exemplary citizens and positive role models for younger students award recipients inspire others or display the greatest determination and will to win all of which are essential marine attributes this year's winners are kathryn really and matthew [Music] [Applause] [Music] next up is the ben jordan memorial scholarship ben jordan was a beloved member of the brookfield high school mathematics department by the pleasure of knowing him for two years my first three years here as principal students and staff alike enjoyed his teaching appreciated his collegial contributions looked in for advice laughed at his comedic timing and missed him dearly dr jordan worked with students at all levels from ap calculus and differential equations to algebra and geometry he took joy in watching a student persevere through to a solution of a problem they found difficult this award will begin to a student was overcome challenges to succeed in mathematics this scholarship recognizes hard work and persistence not just achievement although it recognizes that as well this year's recipient of the ben jordan memorial scholarship is christopher brooks [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] next up is the fayette overhaul memorial scholarships mrs fayette overhaul was a former teacher in danbury and at western connecticut state university prior to her passing she established a charitable foundation to provide scholarships for area graduating high school seniors this is the 15th year brookfield high school students will receive this scholarship i am pleased to present the fayette l overhaul memorial scholarship in honor of high academic achievement to julia roberto and gregory [Music] [Applause] i can give you a 10 out of my wallet all right up next the bhs longmeadow players scholarship mr lomondo you want to come down as we start to describe this particular student i'm going to do my best to paraphrase mr lomandola this year's recipient of the bhs drama award was the stuff of whiskenier legend mr lamandola had seen the student down wisconier and was excited for him to join our theater squad at brookfield high school as a freshman the student auditioned for the spring musical the wedding singer rarely does mr lamadol encounter a student with such poise on stage from a 14 year old the student was classed as was cast as glenn julia julia a lead role another rarity for a freshman the student's acting abilities and terrific singing voice led them to the next lead role as jb bigly in how to succeed in business sadly did not get to see this student perform on stage that year i was in that one too right first time ever you get to see it or the next because of the pandemic finally returning to school in person this year our award recipient was cast the musical grease for the lead role of danny what a performance the student led the cast to one of the most successful shows in mr la mendula's 15th year tenure as theater director here at brookfield high school he would like to thank the student for all he has given to the bhs drama club and choir and will miss seeing him on stage let's all wish miles snyder [Applause] up next is the bhs choral award again from mr la mendola this year's recipient of the bhs choral award is a person who has become synonymous with dedication and success in our district's vocal program mr lamadou has seen the students grow throughout their vocal career and is excited for them to join both our choral and theatre squads at vhs the leadership roles from the student over the last four years especially this year's growth have been amazing the return to public performances has been a renewal of our collective love for the arts and this student worked harder than ever to ensure not only a display for audiences but ones of such quality as to move audience members emotionally through passionate interpretation of both their choral and theater roles this year the students serve as the president of our honors special chorus program received the performing artist award from the connecticut association of schools and was cast as a lead role in sandy in greece truly one of the best performances mr lamadoula has seen on the bhs stage we want to thank this student for all she has given to the bhs choir and drama club and we'll miss seeing her every day but we wish her the best of luck next year she plans to ascendancy attend saint joseph's college in brooklyn congratulations to jamie lomando [Music] okay [Applause] because he's shaking his daughter's hand at this point in time i'd like to welcome gary blue of black and blue fame also the uh our sound engineer for our graduation ceremony in a few weeks to come up for the brookfield arts commission friends of the arts scholarship the brookfield arts commission arts scholarship is given each year to a student or students who have clearly demonstrated a commitment to the pursuit of a future in the arts either through studies practice or involvement in community arts activities students pursuing an education and a career in the arts are eligible for this award the funds for this award are raised with the work of the brookfield arts commission primarily from donations to the brookfield film festival shorts and to the point which held its 14th anniversary of the brookfield playhouse in april no public funds are used for this award the brookfield arts commission is pleased to present award with two thousand dollars to elizabeth grossman [Music] i'll make sure up next is the robert warren lundqvist memorial scholarship robert lundqvist attended longmeadow junior high and danbury high school and in 1968 graduated from western connecticut teachers college he was a veteran educator who taught mathematics for his entire career to robert teaching was not a career but his passion he truly cared about his students and was well respected by them to preserve the undone gamora memory and legacy of robert warren lundqvist this scholarship was established to recognize outstanding and successful mathematics students who exemplify good citizenship citizenship traits as well congratulations to benjamin bogus [Music] [Applause] childhood ships are fully funded by the faculty and staff the brookfield public schools if you've been here on a payday on a friday you might have heard mr brenna talk about a pool thing it's an honor to announce this year's three recipients two of the recipients will receive five hundred dollars and the third recipient will receive one thousand dollars so the two five hundred dollar recipients jackson sharp and parker iu and haley morales will receive thank [Applause] [Music] the next scholarship is one of my favorites in terms of names [Music] the dq grill and chill brookfield scholarship this is not a shameless plug for the soon-to-be dairy queen that will be located at whenever whatever federal road but the first annual dairy queen scholarship will be awarded to an all-around hard-working student this senior is dedicated to his academic performance involved in athletics and gives back to the community by volunteering his free time to help others the senior has found the balance of hard work and determination to reach its fullest potential congratulations to ryan scribner [Music] thank you [Applause] in there too next up is the goddard school scholarship this is the first annual goddard school scholarship is awarded to a deserving senior with an interest in attending an establishment of higher education in the field of education the recipient of the scholarship will demonstrate them work ethic and perseverance that exemplifies their commitment to their career and community we are very proud to offer this year's scholarship to jamie spagnum [Music] [Applause] [Music] next up is the daniel burkhart first generation scholarship the daniel burkhart first generation scholarship is a work to a senior who's a first generation college student and demonstrates natural aptitude for learning and critical thinking as a first generation college student we are proud to announce that the student will attend western connecticut state university in the fall congratulations to nicholas pachuca [Music] [Applause] [Music] next is the robert j khan memorial scholarship this scholarship is designed to acknowledge a graduating senior who demonstrates the commitment of volunteering to help a person or a group of people who've had some type of special need and require help navigating everyday tasks since mrs khan and her husband were in high school they both gave up their time to help individuals with special needs as well as raising their children to follow in their footsteps congratulations and a well-deserved award for jack queen [Music] [Applause] [Music] fight to remove the barriers and biases that stand in the way of gender equity they train women to negotiate for pay and better benefits and pursue leadership roles and they advocate for federal state and local laws and policies to ensure equity and discrimination it is with great pride that the aauw danbury branch is awarding sophia kemp with his first year [Applause] [Music] [Applause] this is not a name that i've given them this is the actual name of the group the danbury old timers athletic association scholarships in memory of harry shushner and ann coffey choppy the danbury old-timers athletic association is an organization that was founded by the athletic communities of the greater danbury area and an effort to raise money for school teams and to award scholarships to local high school students this year scholarships are being provided in memory of harry shushner and anc chaffey and the recipients of this year's scholarships are bailey orvin and benjamin bogus [Music] yes [Applause] [Music] moving on to the robot judith boudreau scholarship i'd like to invite dottie dory oh and katherine i know yep that's youtube so the judy boudreau judy padre was a dedicated register of voters in the town of vernon during the nearly 30 years she served as a registrar she served not only her town but also worked with robac which is the registration registrar of voters association of connecticut to provide training and resources to her fellow registrars throughout the state when she passed away in 2014 roback started a scholarship fund in her memory the scholarship is awarded annually to students who work as election officials since there are so many names are chosen by lottery at the rovack annual meeting dotty dory democratic register for our voters and mount utau republican registrar voters are pleased to announce that carolina vicali has received [Applause] all right like to invite carol zinser and joanne williams to come to the front as we start to talk about the dorothea angstrom scholarship i have been asked a special request which i'm happy to acknowledge i'm going to ask the following students if they're here to please stand up who all participated in scouting girl scouts so if you hear your name please stand up this is the request of mrs zinzer not me so you have to answer her if you don't alexis gosden riley adams abigail lutzy bailey orban caitlin sternhart warren huffer jamie spagnolo gary birdsall catherine carvel skyler chaletnik paulie steffen olivia lutzy madison powers hayley ray chloe ray kayla rushforth and olivia steffen if you're here please stand [Music] congratulations [Applause] on to the award the brookfield girl scout partnership is presented in honor of dot angstrom who was a beloved girl scout leader for 50 years this evening's recipient has been a girl scout for 13 years she presented her project for the gold award the highest award in girl scouting this past weekend her project focused on disability awareness and in specific invisible disabilities she worked with her team to author and illustrate a book on the topic the college coalition against pediatric pain has agreed to sustain the book on their website she will be attending the university of hartford in the fall to study research biology we are proud to award the scholarship to anna keith [Applause] [Music] hmm up next is the robbie sharpener memorial scholarship robbie sharpener graduated from brookfield high school in 2013 on november 9th 2016 the fall of his junior year at manhattanville college he was walking back to school when he was tragically killed by a drunk driver robbie was friend to many and remembered as always smiling he personified kindness and was known to say never leave your smile at home this scholarship is to be awarded to the senior with the most welcoming smile and kind way with peers as recognized by the staff at brookfield high school take a look at this smile and how could you forget tremendous [Music] thank you [Applause] [Music] next up is the new newtown's savings bank scholarship the newtown savings bank foundation traditionally provides college scholarship donations annually within each of the bank's primary communities that it serves their goal is to invest in the health of the communities where the bank branches do business and provides support and financial resources that benefit social services affordable housing initiatives education community economic development health and human services as well as arts and culture congratulations to this year's recipient vicky [Applause] [Music] next up is the genetic association of schools fine arts awards the kinetic association of schools fine arts award program and elite honors honors two seniors from each of the member schools in the state who excel in performing or visual arts these students must also possess the supporting qualities of scholarship and leadership they've already received their certificates and their plaques at a dinner i think in eight well it was but congratulations to elizabeth grossman and jamie lomando [Music] up next is the kelly martone scholarship for outstanding leadership i wonder what i want to have come up kelly loves every year the committee has so many impressive applications this year's recipient was especially remarkable during the pandemic he put his stem robotic skills to use spending 180 hours making face shields for our first responders and his own warrants he stated as i've grown older and more so through covet i've learned that leadership is truly about taking action when is needed my philosophy about leadership is built around assisting others in aspects that a community is lacking in and others had this to say a record of achievement in leadership and an exceptional sense of community an intelligent focused poised and mature his character is of the highest caliber self-motivated diligent and hard-working he demonstrates grit and tenacity the kelly martinez scholarship for outstanding leadership goes to christopher villanueva let's see [Applause] [Music] [Applause] next up is the jade sierra lewis memorial scholarship mr tyrell i'm not sure if you're here he is great all right the jade sierra jada sierra lewis memorial scholarship on december 27 2002 jada's life ended prematurely by way of violence this memorial scholarship is mr lewis's way of healing and giving back the recipient of the scholarship is pursuing a college education focused on a career that encompasses working with children and may include but are not limited to social work education mental health and or any other field that involves working directly with children we're thankful for mr lewis for being here today and congratulations to benjamin bogus [Applause] [Music] [Applause] i'd like to invite grace chery to come forward please for the women's club of brookfield awards the women's club is a non-profit organization whose mission is to promote interest and pride in our community to stimulate participation in civic and cultural activities and to encourage friendships the women's club is recognizing several well-deserving students in their annual award thanks to the commitment to supporting the community congratulations to isabella checkout benjamin bogus [Music] yes [Applause] next up is the american red cross high school scholarship the american red cross high school scholarship program recognizes graduating seniors who've been active participants in the school's blood drive program their involvement builds goodwill and improves team spirit by working together to help others for a good cause this year brookfield high school collected 56 units of life-saving blood potentially impacting 168 lives and appreciation for these students efforts the red cross is proud to award a scholarship to each of the two blood drive coordinators congratulations to olivia paul and trudy calvin [Applause] next up is the nephews scholarship the j s kaiser foundation is offering a scholarship to a brookfield high school senior in loving memory of their sister nafisa who's a graduate of western western connecticut state university this year's recipient is also planning to attend western connecticut state university and the foundation is very happy to award christian mangini with this year's scholarship so [Applause] [Music] next up is the empathy awareness and compassion the empathy awareness and compassion grant was established by the dads against depression foundation this award is attendant intended to help a graduating senior as they pursue higher education this year's recipient is the ambassador of the psychology and mental health awareness club here at brookfield high school she organizes all aspects of the club and presented the proposal to our school principal to create this club the club focuses on topics in psychology invoking positivity and self and others and encourages learning about careers in the field it's a great pleasure that the dads against depression foundation is presenting this scholarship to caitlin sternham [Applause] so [Applause] [Music] next up is the cave student leadership awards students who receive the connecticut association of boards of education leadership award exhibit skills including willingness to take on challenges capability of making difficult decisions concern for others ability to work with others willingness to commit to a project diplomacy and the ability to understand issues clearly and honor a commitment congratulations goes to this two years r2 of recipients this year benjamin bogus and julia roberta [Music] [Applause] [Music] next up is the connecticut association of public schools superintendents western connecticut superintendent association certificates of excellence i like your titles you like your acronyms dr barrel um it's not really his fault he just has to be part of that organization but on behalf of our superintendent dr perrill we like to congratulate two students for receiving certificates of excellence and special recognition from senator richard blumenthal based on community service and service to others academic prowess and leadership service in the school community we recently attended a event in may where these two students were recognized were supposed to get their certificates but uh mr rhonda forgot them so they're here tonight hopefully oh they are there they're nice and i'd like to welcome tremendous [Applause] now we transition to some world language awards so the brookfield spanish honor society scholarship each year in spanish we our world language teachers nominate high achieving senior members of the spanish honor society for the shs scholarship after the scholarship committee evaluates the nominees on their academic achievement throughout high school their performance in the national spanish contest their attainment of the seal of by literacy and their commitment to a lifelong language learning journey the committee votes to choose an award recipient congratulations to picking he wasn't even looking [Applause] okay [Applause] the next several slides we're going to talk about the connecticut seal of biliteracy and so we have some students that received it in spanish and english but other students that received it in other languages so we're going to start with those the connecticut seal of by literacy recognizes the value of students academic efforts and the tangible benefits of being bilingual and bi-literate it prepares students to be 21st century global citizens in a multicultural multilingual world the seal acknowledges that mastery of two or more languages is a valuable asset for both individuals and their communities it also provides recognition to english learners for the great value of developing english and maintaining their pride their primary language so we have a couple to award tonight we have steve zhu who got it for chinese and english we have julia roberto for french portuguese spanish and english that's four wow and kylie went for french portuguese and english if you're here [Music] that's impressive [Applause] we also have several students who receive the connecticut sealab by literacy on their diploma for spanish and english now there's a significant number of students that are going to receive this award which is pretty impressive uh given the size of our language program uh so i'm gonna read so it might be hard to see and cursive up here i know we don't teach that anymore um so you might not be able to read it but i'll read the name slowly so pay attention to see if your name is up here tremendous parker au puja baskar ben mogus jackson grewell matthew carosa gianna castrani isabella checkout also skyler chaletnik ben cohen mahidohi totally are you come on up like come on up we've got plenty of stuff to give mommy [Applause] samuel cotrane lea lampear andrew lynch joanna ma bailey mahoney andrew arricchio olivia paul zane kaiser chloe ray andre ruiz larreira rivera excuse me aidan sarmir jackson sharp samina sherstock and octavio zebra [Applause] let me count that number [Applause] that's 32 students that are considered [Applause] [Music] we are getting closer to the end a few more scholarships and we lead into department scholars up next is the ronald reagan leadership medal and the words of our nation's 40th president ronald reagan there are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence imagination and wonder this prestigious award is presented to a graduating student who best exemplifies the characteristics of drive humility and service before self the recipient of this year's award is an outstanding high school student whose drive integrity and citizen citizenship qualities are emblematic of our nation's 40th president this award is provided by john highbush the executive director of the ronald reagan presidential foundation and institute congratulations to this year's recipient christopher villanueva [Applause] [Music] next up we have some renewable scholarships to talk about this one is the viola martini wide lick scholarship the viola martini widely violated martini wylink became brookfield's first town clerk in 1931 her office was in the basement of town hall which later became the joyce memorial library and is now the brookfield museum and historical recipient should intend to pursue an education in healthcare have a good work ethic and show enthusiasm for taking care of others this year's recipient will receive a five thousand in five thousand dollar annually renewable scholarship congratulations to who's about [Music] okay [Applause] [Music] moving on to the raymond g widely scholarship uh seen here looking like my fifth grade math teacher when he caught me talking when i wasn't supposed to go over his glasses but raymond g weiland was the son of george and viola wildling was born raised and lived his whole life in brookfield during his working years he was an accountant tree farmer and held the position of brookfield town treasurer for 30 years many of grey's stories about growing up in brookfield are documented in his book titled the ironworks district which can be purchased at the brookfield historical society the raymond g wildex scholarship is presented to a student who plans to pursue education aerospace research scientific research or mathematics this recipient must have a good work ethic and possess excellent critical thinking skills this year's recipient will receive a 5 000 annually renewable scholarship congratulations to our seawolf michaela lavery [Applause] [Music] 16.
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doesn't happen i also remember one of the biggest fears as i was the junior high school principal that i remembered most of all hearing from an incoming seventh grader it was regarding combination locks everyone was so nervous about lockers to the point that some of you actually came in the week before school to continually practice your combination so that you had it on the first day of school we often refer to those first two years or those two years in junior high school as the crucible the unavoidable path that you have to travel and conquer on your quest to complete your educational marathon it was during two years of junior high school that some of the lessons that you learned in kindergarten were really put to the test there were many guardian angels over there that helped you navigate your way there was schwartz and monroe and stoner and cook and eaton and zuk just to name a few during this time you were involved in many activities some of them were athletics yearbook concessions possibly relay for life dances some of you were even in the talent show and almost to the day four years ago many of you ended your junior high experience with the eighth grade washington dc trip i don't know about you but i still remember that long bus trip during these two years there was a lot of laughter and yes even a few tears but in the end you all survived and moved across the parking lot to begin the final leg of your marathon four years at the high school and it ends today on this field at bill sharp stadium i personally want to congratulate each of you for completing your 26.2 mile educational marathon you will take with you the knowledge and lessons that you have gathered like pearls along the way please understand this is a big deal we are so proud of you for all the accomplishments along the way in closing i really truly only want to ask you one thing to be a good person to be kind treat others as well as yourself with respect also please remember your friendships sadly life gets in the way and today just might be one of those last times that you ever see some of the classmates that are sitting beside you here today so i ask you fight hard hold on to your old friendships and relish the opportunity to make new ones remember that mr pletcher continually reminded you each and every day to learn something today jimmy's as well as to always do the best you can until you know better then do better in other words never stop learning and always do your best class of 2022 graduates hang on because you're in for a while ride but i caution you enjoy the journey along the way it goes way too fast and last but not least never forget the lessons that you learned in kindergarten most of all that any day with warm cookies and cold milk is a good day jimmies work hard to make this world just a bit better simply because you are a part of it let me be one of the first to formally congratulate you and welcome you as the next group of gemtown alumni do great things jimmies i will truly miss you all [Applause] thank you mr sal we appreciate you very much at this time i would like to invite excuse me invite mr matt margraf our 2022 valedictorian to the stage for his address [Applause] good afternoon honored guests administration teachers family friends and of course you guys the class of 2022 my name is matthew margraf and i am honored to be the valedictorian we made it 13 years of school have led up to this day today we say goodbye to everything that was familiar everything that was comfortable we are entering the fabled real world armed with all the knowledge gained in high school to prepare us for it like graphing sign analyzing 18th century poetry with gina identifying mitochondria you know things adults do all the time in their daily lives first i would like to take some time to thank the people that got us here i truly believe my parents are the only reason that i'm speaking here today our parents and guardians shape our character and have supported us through everything in our life so far thank you to my friends for always being there thank you to all of the faculty coaches and staff at gemtown high school and i would also like to thank the school board members who last fall made a bold decision so that we were not required to wear masks there are 135 of us graduating today i feel as though i barely know some of you something that i regret regret i also regret knowing far far too much about some of you just look at the group chat in the coming months each of us will go down our own unique path whether it is college a career the armed forces or something out of the ordinary for most of us we will be on our own for the first time we will be meeting new people in a noble pursuit of new skills and knowledge this journey of making choices truly on our own will inevitably result in us making mistakes we must we must remind ourselves that making mistakes is part of the learning process and that mistakes can often lead us to success in ways that we can't imagine we will have to make our own decisions like who we want to be and what we stand for the speech would not be complete without a few words of wisdom theodore roosevelt once said do what you can with what you have where you are it doesn't matter who you are or what you choose to do in life you will you will decide how you impact the world to some people we are just a bunch of kids from elkhart the rv capital of the world but that does not define who we are or what we can become i'll leave you with this quote from the movie coach carter our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure thank you [Applause] as we prepare for the moment we're all here for the awarding of diplomas i would like to introduce the members of the deus and the people who will assist with the awarding of those diplomas when i call your name please stand and remain standing until all are recognized in attendance today up here we have mr byron sanders superintendent of schools mr michael stout assistant principal mr chris seymour president of the board of trustees mr troy bontrager vice president of the board of trustees mr chris carrithers secretary of the board of trustees mr eric ott member of the board of trustees and mr caleb pontius member of the board of trustees thank you for joining us today [Applause] and as a quick reminder just remember to be considerate and respectful of others and make sure everyone can hear their graduates name when it is called at this time will the class of 2022 please stand members of the board of trustees mr sanders honored guests parents and staff by the authority vested in me as principal of gemtown high school i now certify that the names you will hear this fifth day of june 2022 have met all course requirements set forth by the state board of education the state of indiana's department of education and the bago community school district's board of trustees at this time mr stout will step forward and announce the names of the seniors as i have entrusted you my friend following the calling of each senior i will ask each board member to stand and join me in congratulating each senior as they come across the stage and audience please again make sure you hold your applause students you may be seated row one nathan daniel adams abigail marie alfie sophie rylan adams raven lorraine anderson renee lynn anderson [Music] natalie priscilla arius riley alexis armor kevin mccauley augustine jc elizabeth baker [Music] beauregard andre barhams kirsten nicole bernard [Music] braelyn cheyenne blaylock [Music] deepa blasquez yerbaz [Music] tyler james borders lucas emmett bottom [Applause] congratulations neely may bryant so row two landon wayne buchanan caleb john bumpus brianna jade burkhardt braden michael campbell cali lynn campbell [Music] connor vincent campbell [Music] nicholas maddie elizabeth carlisle sean william cartwright [Music] congratulations ethan charles holder casey kyle robert clements [Music] madeline andrea clements jacob bradley contreras brianna lynn cook jackson robert cook [Music] ethan dale kopp row three malachi david crocker aaliyah star crossland manuel cuevas [Applause] trenton joseph daniels aaron david de la luz mancia david ali delgado congratulations deacon maddox dillon back michael doan brianna nicole doan sarah dominguez noah benjamin eberhart may egnor mckenzie rose flick javiel vertis flowers jacob kenneth ford row four dylan tyler thunderberg [Music] madison faith garrett cassidy murdis lee gates to leah marcel gates liam josiah get us [Music] ashley michelle genovese darion tate gillespie taylor scott goff micah aaron gorbix [Music] [Applause] caitlyn jean gower mccalebs [Music] anthony emil gretzel [Music] jonah charles griner [Music] leah sophie grouse connor clinton heck christian michael edward hancock [Music] row five maddie lynn height orion jared hill bryce alexander holloman [Applause] [Music] janae horvath [Music] tyson germain house emily sue hummel ashley maria jimenez [Music] gavin michael kelly elijah baxter king austin dale kohler hunter douglas conrad abigail rachel marie lange cassie lynn laith tebow olivia ann lee so row six come on sean michael lowe [Music] samuel lancer maldonado [Applause] nolan rhys malik [Applause] matthew william margraft camden john mckee kylie jean mcmasters [Music] lydia esperanza mejia [Music] allison page molina caitlin leanne miller mckenzie marie miller [Music] blaine david joseph miner [Music] mimi nakata [Music] courtney renee lynn nasmik samuel curtis kenyange nanga [Applause] ortega gutierrez [Music] [Applause] to leah petsumpu [Applause] row seven uh cadence nicole phillips macy nicole pickerell connor austin pollard william dylan pontius [Music] alba narissa ramirez [Applause] john 2 darmain reed jr [Music] braxton david rice reece wayne reinhardt [Music] cameron andrew rink [Music] mckenna nicole rink josephine jane robin karina rubacaba kelsey ann samulski [Music] [Applause] jocelyn raeanne saunders [Music] jade lynette scott [Applause] zane freddie seegers [Music] well eight mitchell dean shearer darren lee shirley louis short bailey nicole schalp elizabeth rose zigler [Music] anderson micah slaybaugh camara nicole snyder [Applause] brennan kelly sparks [Music] zachary michael tabor zachary robert taylor kayla jane thompson lucas richard thornton payton charles tribble marie wax [Applause] madison elizabeth waldron [Music] gage dylan ward let's go row nine music tabitha nicole waterson nicholas ray watson chloe jasmine wise hop brendan k wu kendra joy yoder bianca esther zelaya emma lou zellers paige mckenzie zellers elizabeth [Music] wow row nine you may be seated [Music] on behalf of the senior class of 2022 i would like to present this key as a symbolic gift to the class of 2023.
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[Applause] [Music] [Applause] now we move on to the class of 2022 department scholars these are nominated by or selected by each individual department we'll start with cte which is career and technical education this year's graduating senior department scholar is gavin cardino [Applause] thank you next up is the humanities uh we have the english department scholar this year's english department scholar is sanvita suresoft [Applause] mix [Music] next up the amenities department is a social studies department scholar and that goes to jackson sharp [Music] up next is our physical education department scholar congratulations to matthew destefano [Applause] [Music] next up is the stem department the math department scholar this year is benjamin bogus [Applause] [Music] also the stem department our science department scholar this year is bailey mahoney [Music] so [Music] next up in visual arts our department scholar is brooke garbowsky [Music] in world languages she's quad literate i guess julia roberto [Music] [Applause] our salutatorian valedictorian already know what they are and most of people here already know what it is but we certainly want to recognize the two people who are number one and number two in the graduating class of 2022 so congratulations to nora gravgaard and jackson sharpe [Music] the metal you get kind of looks like that you have to wear [Applause] maybe next year no and congratulations to jackson sharper so this does conclude our program for the evening uh what i will tell you is i want to say a special thank you to the people here tonight that attended our scholarship providers uh for getting through it was 93 plus slides in a little over an hour and a half uh that's pretty impressive we call this a celebration of excellence because you truly are excellent and we are so proud of all you accomplished whether you be an undergraduate or a soon-to-be graduate from the class of 2022 uh i have to give another shout out to the flowers shawn they're rated what the highland palani as well number one [Applause] [Music] [Applause] and then i'll leave with these quotes these are some of mr genevieve's favorite quote she likes to put them up there uh again i say congratulations seniors i'll see you tomorrow right worst kept secret ever the worst kept secret ever who told me they're all worried who told them tomorrow's senior skip day enjoy listen i know what i will do for everyone else that's here i will bring it back to that first slide that says uh celebration of excellence that first slide you're welcome to come up take pictures uh with your family with your rewards some of our presenters are still here feel free to do that thank you to everyone for attending tonight and have a great evening [Applause] where you going man okay [Applause] ah what's up i think it's
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it is now the responsibility and honor of the class of 2023 to lead and model our code of ethics and represent gemtown high school in the entire gemtown community may god bless the class of 2023 all the best [Applause] uh [Applause] on behalf of the members of the board of school trustees certainly my pleasure to introduce to you one final time the class of 2022. [Applause] princess [Music] okay [Music] [Applause] [Music] so [Music] so [Music] um [Music] you
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okay it's so quiet i don't even have to bang the gavel that gets cool yeah do it ceremonial all right good evening everyone welcome to our board meeting for tonight june 6th uh start with a reading of our open public meeting statement which says the new jersey open public king's law was enacted to ensure the right of the public to have advanced notice of and to attend the meetings of public bodies at which time any business affecting their interest is discussed and acted upon in accordance with the provisions of this act and board of education policy 0162 the board of education of the borough of bound brook has caused notice of this meeting to be hosted in the board office and at bound brook high school and mailed or faxed to the courier news brook borough clerk southbound brook board of education and any person who has requested individual notice and paid the required fee please stand for the pledge of allegiance i pledge [Music] and to allegiance republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice before we take a roll call this evening oh i do need to very good so i can continue with the procedure so number 1.4 is to appoint an acting board segregated there you go so we are on pause until our next number arrives number six [Applause] you made us official yes yes you missed the pledge of allegiance but we'll redo that later i'll do something okay so with our sixth number now at the tables that's okay move uh item number one point four which is to appoint uh mrs taran snell as the acting board secretary i have a motion motion thank you sid a second second thank you mr zipko all in favor aye aye yes mrs snow can you please do a roll call mr ball here miss jackson or mr dawson here miss lima mr minhas here miss massan here mr zepco here mr januzzi here and i'll do mr defazio right here and miss cazino and mr simano correct okay thank you you got it all right my president's comments in brief priority continues to be given to uh negotiating with our teachers union to try and find an amicable resolution to extending their contract i do think we're making significant progress both teams are meeting now on a weekly basis our next meeting joanna keep me on this is wednesday at 3 30.
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[Music] discussion of personnel items [Music] we've also hired her husband her husband would be a special ed teacher here uh we'll be having her in middle school social classes organization and we hire the you until you know what we're going to do okay the next personnel is the employment of another teacher maria fernandez interviewed very very well uh and she will be uh placed in five six uh combination program at this time some some um staffing parents make items may change depending upon availability teachers or someone leaves here after and that pretends always happen um we have we're going to recommend the hiring of a teacher named christian gonzalez for music he's a vocalist we've considered four four music teachers this year none of them had significant amount of instrumental but they're all vocalists that will not be an issue in my opinion for k-k-a or k-6 at least and some some high school kids and some high schools are obviously successful with choral programs that'll be a little bit different it'll be a choral program but at least we have music um the next boss those are the hirings um we'll have one on the agenda for um the one we interviewed uh last week that was three of women ria fernandez should be on there yes and so uh that wasn't posted uh for tonight i'm so glad we're not going to be we have 24 hours for action on wednesday night she is an experienced teacher she's from the philippines she taught for seven years in the philippines and she's been in australia for the last 13 years so her accent's intriguing he's got a hint of both cultures and very experienced she's a college professor at one time has three master's degrees very very well um dr truboltz is not here to address the next items next item is extended employment of mercy airing and mr babu casey their contract ran out on friday they had five days before and after their teaching contract but this this school year they did a lot a lot of times studying and that's sort of dr jabul so there's things that didn't get accomplished what he wants to do is work with mr casey and mercy on looking at student data and going back to more data driven decision making and we haven't had time to do that with the short time they had last week plus uh time summing they they fell behind because of that so i'm recommending another five days and not necessarily all five days maybe five days somehow between now and the start of their new year uh the next item on under personnel this is a very similar approval of additional workdays from library staff dr uh connolly and ms leon her her prayer pro um i'd like to bring him in she was going to report to work july 1 uh she being dr connolly i'd like to bring them in the 13th um dr jim boltz is going to use some rearranging classrooms classroom 22 is at the end of wing 3 on the north side that we want to put closer groupings of students by my grade that room right now is like an overflow room for library materials and so dr conley needs to work on that plus she's been leading the library and as a young principal i encountered that with one of my life friends and i said what's all these books they're all in good shape when you look at someone who hadn't been checked out for 20 years sort of taking space so she getting rid of books uh she maybe dr colleen is giving her books that are not um have not been used for 20 years or 10 years or more and just taking up space and some of them are just deteriorating so she needs to pull those books and enter them into a take them off the inventory so we can approve and discard those books so that's very timeless and she wants some extra time for that plus she taught classes since the april 4th that vacancy she's been teaching classes half the day so she hasn't been able to at least have that she hasn't been able to do some of the library work she'd like so i recommend her to come back the next personnel item is the employment of four prayer pros uh to work with june summer school which is sammy hernandez mrs debbie house miss raphael durant and miss sherry simpson they'll only work if they're they're one-on-one paraphrase for special education if their if their student doesn't show up they won't work but if they show up and want to have them prepared to help those kids out in the cases of all four of those people the students they're working with are fairly severe fairly high on the spectrum and so it would benefit them to have um the next personnel i have is extra pay positions these these are hiring coaches hiring this whole categories hiring coaches hiring class sponsors so on and so forth and we're asking to approve charlie beer kelly erin khan as inspect director marichu has resigned she's going to unified school district so that should be two million dollars i'm sorry yes and charlie you're right not sure thank you um and sherry is going to be teaching special ed also she was involved in starting special education program in her last school in the philippines i was very nervous we've got some good candidates good we thank good special ed teachers but all three were going to be brand new to school and to make one of those the director's special ed made me real nervous so i was relieved a little bit of pressure from dr boltz and i to be honest with you to talk her into doing this and so she's going to be teaching special ed and doing the director just like merits who did uh jose diaz in york pardon me he's a young man has impressed me in the last few years he has been asked to be english language director roughly i hope i'm pretty accurate here of our ell student of our students that hispanic students about 100 those students qualify for ell support at one time in our state we can teach kids bilingually you could teach them the concept in their language a law was passed in about 2009 2000 doesn't allow that so we have to teach students in english we can explain in their native language we can't teach it directly and then what's frustrating for those young people is typically within a year they're tested in english and i tell people to be like saying germany to be tested in advanced physics they have two problems advanced physics and the language but um mr mia senor is a second language learner he's got a good rapport with kids so we think he'll be he'll be a strong one there we have another another extra position as basketball coach and basketball coach doug sing mr sane has been hired by the board previously to be a uh secondary um i think he was language teacher his wife is the art teacher they've moved here already from [ __ ] guy um he was a teacher at yonkers high school last in buckeye he came in last week and i talked for probably an hour um i like his belief system might i may come back and tell dr sotero that i may come back and walk around once a month i think we have some good people coming in i'd like to see them work i think he'll be good and that concludes personnel okay the next item is discussion of business [Music] ideas um so we want to ensure that we propose the highest budget and get our taxes calculated so we should make sure in july [Music] um um [Music] our tax um are correct for next year um the reports that i have let them off so that we have all the backlash events um here [Music] is and then this year our calculation is going to be lower which is always the population [Music] and so the downstream the main thing i want to point out tonight that this tax rate has fallen down um nine sixty one and the employee twenty three plus is two point one percent higher at three million seven hundred thirty two dollars one hundred seven thirty two thousand one hundred forty one so this is the main revision that that extra budget capacity was placed in the classroom dollars for southeastern government so [Music] um [Music] [Applause] get much more [Music] is [Music] um [Music] uh do you have any particular points uh i was giving folks a chance to look over things to see if they had anything sure [Music] thank you very much well hold on for a little while before coming up later on yes oh you're not off the hook yet okay this is the same document with some very slight changes that were approved by the board last year and i hope uh simply involves changing dates at the bottom of page two um we clarified the blackout days they're in both both agreements that's something that uh the first two weeks ago the last two weeks of school policy on the section i'm sorry on the third page holidays we had a thanksgiving break thanksgiving the last this the year we're finishing and come following year including wednesday uh people have to travel we did this in my former district we did here when i first came we got away from it but um people asked about last year's have been put in so there's three days wednesday thursday friday it's like this thanksgiving break on page three that's addressed page four there's no changes page five item i under eight is leave days i says to use fmla this is straight from fmla employment's been employed at least 12 months and we're at 1250 hours for the district fml flyer is located back in the agreement so when in doubt you read the document then down to number 10 we change the title or add to the title maturity and return maternity and turn you leave we had i mentioned the fact again this is recognized at the end of the uh in the handbook uh with the fmla the last line of maternity and fraternity leave no exceptions about fraternity show conflict with family medical leave actually added part-time fml a part-time employee fmla is referenced in the fmla flyer at the end of the agreement then on page six one change after leave item 14 item c um you talk about par for vacation leave the changes in the must be approved by the employee supervisor that could be maintenance food or principal however in my office i have classified employees i get approved or disapproved we like to have the changes made in the week before the day for someone to call in the day it happens when it could have been sometimes seven there are no changes uh page eight no changes page nine no changes and page ten there's no changes so yes no i'm sorry this is once you want me to join it's effective i'm sorry on page 10 on page 10 put in dates july 1 through june 30th page 8.
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[Music] so [Music] [Applause] [Music] you're going to get us agenda so we can see oh look at this whoops workshop does not say james says we're ready to go i called to order the workshop for bullhead city elementary school board on monday june 6 2022 at 5 30 p.m roll call corey burgess here amanda ayman here charlene diaz here anna boyd here melinda sobreski all present uh item 1.3 capital and other projects dr stork mr president and board members we have a number of projects going on and a couple to discuss for uh approval and so i thought it was a good opportunity to do this in a workshop especially if the public wanted to see and be part of it i also thought it was a good opportunity to introduce to you mark scott who is our construction project manager and so he's here also to answer questions and that i can't answer because i will tell you he knows the answers so it's a good thing so the first thing is bullhead city middle school sewer project and kim if you'll get that okay so we've had sewer problems all year on the west end of this main building next door and the last time it was the sewer was scoped it's the original sewer lines cast iron collapsing corroded all of that so you can see the blue line which is the current sewer sewer line so you can see it initiates or starts in the boys restroom goes through the music room you know underneath the girls restroom and then it turns and it goes through the west end of the gym part of that building over to the mechanical room there in the concession stand there is a toilet and a sink they don't get used very often and so in considering this we thought we don't really want to cut through all of those floors that would be a hugely expensive project and so the proposal is to replace the line from excuse me starting in the boys restroom come outside the building go on the west side of the building and then down to the sewer line and mark told me today that actually where it says on the top part where it says 245 degrees we don't even have to turn there is that correct mark would you come up to the podium please because i'm sure there will be other questions thank you the top one's going to actually go straight uh where it says 245 and there's a little arrow it's actually going to go straight right there straight out and there's a mainstream that runs this way this direction so will it be still connecting through that maintenance so we're not even going into that maintenance room at all so it's just gonna go straight okay my question on this drawing though locker rooms they all have several restrooms is this gonna tie over to the locker rooms no they'll so that's part of the main line not an offset line right so we don't have to worry about that um now with the concession having that restroom in there i know it only gets used during very few times even even when there's stuff in there the toilet is rarely have ever used but it'll still be usable because we'll still have we're not taking out or collapsing that we've got a cap right here to clean out right here so we're going to cap right here so if we needed to we could snag from near that direction and pick up this restroom right here i wouldn't stay in here and he would jump into that line here okay and the locker rooms are fed off the main line and there's no issues there this is the only line we're having an issue with here that ran down through here and tied it over here okay right here all right so we we put out an rfp jenny sent sent it to 12 plumbing companies we have only one response today hundred and fifteen thousand dollars yeah and it will take five to six weeks which is one reason that we do not want to wait for sfb because they will not meet again until the end of june number one number two they have indicated they are out of funds already for fiscal year 22 and don't know yet what their funds will be for fiscal year 23.
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it was a lot of fun good evening everyone i welcome you to tonight's board meeting it's going to be a short one maybe maybe not we also have a nice presentation we'll have um but with all of that would you mind standing for the pledge please i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all thank you item four is adoption of agenda this evening do we have a motion for that please okay next is call to the public i do not have any cards in front of me does anyone like to speak on anything before we get started okay scene then we're going to move on to item six which is our information and discussion items um first up is the ycef grant presentation that's what's coming up from virtual nice [Music] hi everybody um oops i'm getting some feedback um so my name is rochelle harvey and i am was the um architectural draft and design instructor for this past year so um and this is my guest kelly burns this year she's here from the yeah county educational foundation so first i would like to thank you so much for the grant i believe sorry shall i believe mr carter is probably in the room as well hi i don't see you i see the board members but um yes mr carter thank you so much for coming today so um i have a presentation today to talk about the grant and the awesome things that my students did so um this is our bitmojis of all of my students they were required as an assignment to make a bit emoji unfortunately i have one student that didn't make it but this is my great group of kids so um as you know i applied for a grant through the albuquerque county educational foundation and it was a 500 classroom grant and i'm just going to read you um quickly what um what i submitted for that grant so lessons in architecture are most strongly taught with hands-on learning architects and directors are visual by nature having the necessary equipment to measure out as built projects as students can then draft in a classroom is invaluable students here begin to understand what they are drafting when tangible factors are in play instead of just dropping lines that represent walls they begin to comprehend that the lines begin to develop into 3d facets collecting varied data aids and the comprehension of what is around them daily opening their minds to drafting and the environment surrounding them i'm requesting a classroom grant to purchase the necessary equipment for my students to measure out and then draft their high school campus these are the buildings they are interpreted in where they begin to grow and will hold great memories the result could potentially be a great display for the school and amazing documents that students can use in college applications trade applications and beyond they will have the opportunity to not only develop their skills showcase their work and be afforded experience they can take with them in use in their future in one form or another additionally this will allow them to prepare for an exam to attain an industry standard standard certification this equipment will be used throughout the year for additional learning experiences also beyond this course this equipment will be used by other cte programs at cvhs for years to come i thank you for your consideration so this was my um application that i went to apply for the grant and luckily it was approved so um i asked for equipment for the students to go out and do is what we call an asphalt so um then we got crafting paper i printed out in google earth all the buildings on campus they we purchased um colored pencils so that they could draw out measurements what made sense to them so that they could come back into the classroom and then draw their buildings in reddit so you know the equipment was purchased and we got busy so um the students like i said went out each student was responsible for a different building on campus um they each were responsible for taking those measurements they did help one another um and then after they um pulled that data they came back into the classroom and drew their buildings in right so what i'm going to show you next is each individual building of the student of what each student was responsible for so the software that was implemented was autodesk autocad which was used by mr foster of the year before um they also in the year before used autodesk autocad level 3d my course focused on autogas revit and then um after we put the buildings into revit we put into a program called spin motion which we'll see shortly i have a short video of the whole entire campus that they drew in spanish so my operation with us last year was last year in mr foster's class they drew the topography of the entire campus and that was this first images so they do that in autopad in um an auto pad and um civil 3d so it was three dimensional so i took that assignment that they did last year and i pulled that into reddit and then i had each of the students draw their buildings and i put those buildings onto the photography that they drew the year before and then this last image here is the campus in three dimension and if you overlay that with a google earth image you can see that it's pretty on par so they did a fantastic job um everything that i threw at them they stepped up and just did amazing work so we'll go through each building this is clinton he was responsible for the gymnasium and administration building so each student had to do basic floor plans outside of the building not particularly the inside we don't have so much time and elevations and then in the end they had a 3d model um evan drew the english spanish and math building and again he had to go out and take the measurements and then basic floor plans elevation plans and a 3d model in the end um eric did the science and math building um braden did um sports medicine choir and band and you can kind of see you know as we're going along um you know how they had to go through the process from beginning to end um kendall did the culinary theater and biology building and um in the at the very end they were learning about materials so initially their buildings were very basic kind of like what you're seeing initially materials was the last part of the lesson so miguel is the gentleman on the right and he drew the art agriculture building andy did the art and ceramics building um did the cougar center which um miss davidson appreciated because that's where she lives you're saying tucker drew the library um country lane did the history and special education building um ally did a computer labs on special education and she kind of went above and beyond i have a feeling she's been in that building a lot because she did a lot of the inferior walls which was not a requirement but was appreciated that she kind of took that extra step um thomas did the english show student council building matthew did the weight room so you can i kind of see two of their hand sketches they were responsible for making their hand sketches who got so these kind of their own methods um hunter did the west campus and the district office which is the building you're sitting in right now so um i don't know if the apple pie county education foundation knows but i taught this virtually so i only came up there three times in person um this was kind of one of the funny moments we had fire drills probably four times over the semester so there were times i'd just be there um on um chino valley high schools in miss davidson was the one that was in the classroom she was very instrumental in the success of this class so we had a lot of um you know after the class chit chatting her only regret was she wished she would have taken the class along with the students so um thank you to chino valley mr priya was of course very instrumental in this um ulbert as well and mr heart grows at it so he was helpful as well um i worked here at tucson at pima college and my dean mr wilson allowed me to use a room on this end and he was very supportive mr gardner is the italians and mr marsh is um a tutor here in the lab and he helps me with the twin motion and of course most thanks to the practice education foundation because without your funding this wouldn't have been possible so um it was a lot of work for them i think they were a little overwhelmed initially but it actually worked out really great and i think that they learned a lot so these are my great students so this is how they saw me i was always joke about um so um very great group of kids i i want to thank the board for letting me teach this because it was a great experience i had three students while i was teaching that worked in industry during the semester and i have one student that actually is registered for classes here at dmx semester um i also had another student that said he was considering architecture and after this class that's the route he wants to do so um real quick i'm going to run you through twin motion twin motion is another program so i took our end result of all the students buildings that were taken into revit and we put it into twin motion and then this was the result of transmotion so this was kind of fun because um especially for the kids that uh being there on campus this is a building that they're walking through on a regular basis [Music] presentations [Music] so this was the um final result all these feelings worked on by the students um we here at chemo in motion about all the work of the buildings was strictly done by the students and the topography that you see also was done by the students and that's their foster's class so i'm not making any changes to the topography or the building so this is all student work we just put it into a program called twin motion so um it was it's kind of fun to in and showcase not only showcase their work but be able to take them through a building that they're familiar with and know you know like whether it's right you know what i'm saying by them to be able to walk through the building virtually um also i guess while this is playing um again on a side note i just wanted to thank the board for um hiring me and allowing me to do this i know it was a big leap of faith um the concern of teaching us virtually um so i appreciate it i had a great i had a great time um i told them not to call my college students but i liked that more than my um so abby um during the class you um we took the industry standard exam that i had mentioned in um by proposal for this grant 13 students took the exam and all 13 students passed so all 13 students have an industry standard certificate they could go in a lot of them were like well now what do we do with this they can use it to get a job they can use it for job applications it is an industry standard certificate in reddit essentially um in autodesk so um i had a lot of people that were even here at the college going oh you're not going to get all 13 kids to pass but we worked really hard they were a great group of kids and all of them asked um real quick too um we took the state standard exam as well um i'm very competitive in nature which mr korean access to um so after they took the state standard exam this is me and uh and ms davidson um i showed him these results so um we took the stage standard exam i only had my students for a year and one of the other schools so not that you're ranked but we placed seconds in ratings of how high they scored the other school is here in tucson i'm very familiar with that program that teachers have those students for three years so i'm pretty i'm pretty happy with the results of that and none of those kids have a industry standard certificate so um you know i broke it all down into how high they scored in certain aspects and um if you look here the utilizing of the software and the hardware which is really what i focus mostly on is three and four so ninety percent is what they scored on useless utilizing the software and seventy percent on uso utilized in the software tools too so they did a fantastic job i was really really really proud of them so um i gave them an incentive to change your grade by doing all that so um i didn't agree who again i had a great year um these kids have been great so i really had a good time and thank you so much to that um educational fund i really appreciate that just to brag briefly on sorry about that just to brag briefly with that the only other thing i wanted to add there was two schools two schools that scored their average test score for the state test was 67.
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june 6 2022 can i have a roll call please mr cyrone here miss doyle here mr gatewood president miss johnson miss simonton president miss swanson here please stand for the pledge of allegiance i pledge allegiance of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god and indivisible with liberty and justice for all so now we will have a recognition of our student ambassadors for their time of service you guys would join um mr gatewood up front here please you want to get the microphone what about that one you know testing there we go the student ambassador's role is not about self-promotion or serving yourself but it's about serving your peers by giving them voice and providing them providing the board a student's perspective that helps us govern this is what student leadership i'm sorry this is what servant leadership is all about robert greenleaf the founder of the modern servant leadership movement once said the first and and most important choice a leader makes is the choice to serve without which one's capacity to lead is severely limited servant leadership servant leaders value others by not just listening but empathizing in a way that they feel heard your willingness to listen and to be the voice and to drive compassion to actually get things done and be the catalyst to make a difference was absolutely amazing so colton and anya thank you for your communication being a representative of student voice not for just sharing but doing so in a way that brought value to the conversation thank you for your commitment on top of all of your schoolwork your extracurriculars and preparing for college colton uh and i as well you put in hours for meetings for research and for preparation lastly thank you for your courage it is not easy to speak truth to power but you did so with grace with integrity and with intellect so thank you for setting the standard and blazing a path for all of the future sd 308 student ambassadors and the superintendent advisory council and on behalf of the entire board dr sparlin and dr waller we want you to know that this is just we know that this is just the beginning of what you will do in servant leadership positions congratulations and thank you [Applause] so it's just a small token of our appreciation um this is for anya rory thank you so very much [Applause] and colton the same thank you so very much and we have another car from the board to say congratulations on your graduation so thank you so very much [Applause] if the board would come up we'll take some pictures um oh stay there here we go [Applause] uh [Music] 5.1 public comment on behalf of the board of education i would like to thank the public for attending tonight's meeting we value the feedback we receive from our residents and encourage everyone to take an active interest in their public school system residents interested in speaking to the board this evening are asked to have completed a comment card and presented it to the secretary to the board when the secretary calls your name i ask that you come to the microphone state your name for the public record and provide your feedback please note that comments are limited to five minutes per person and that no discussion of personnel matters or responses to questions are permitted the board does not participate in discussions during public comment follow up to your questions or concerns will be addressed by administration through the contact information provided on the comment card thank you john kellogg nihao hello my name is john kellogg and i will be entering my sophomore year at oswego high school tonight i would like to tell you about the benefits of our district's chinese program when selecting classes for my freshman year i was excited to join oswego's chinese foreign language program i was drawn to the chinese program because i've always been fascinated by non-latin script languages as a young child i learned how to read and write egyptian hieroglyphics and so the transition to chinese was an obvious choice for me as it is an important language in today's world i also decided to take chinese because it would allow me to interact and communicate with the 1.1 billion people in the world who speak mandarin the main chinese dialect chinese has taught me to be a better student because it forces me to study for a long period of time every night something i had not done before during this time of studying i must learn uh and practice three things at once i must first learn the english meaning of a certain character then i need to memorize the pinging which is the latin script and pronunciation of the character finally i have to memorize how to write the character using the correct strokes even though i have only spent one year in the course i know i want to keep practicing and studying chinese in the coming years i will miss my teacher leola as she retired at the end of the school year but i'm looking forward to learning who our new teacher will be i want to thank you for the ongoing support of the chinese program in our district it means a lot to me and my fellow classmates and i hope it remains a foreign language option for students in the future years thank you very much good night why not [Applause] that's all for today thank you now 6.1 board member comments does anyone have any board member comments tonight i just wanted to share that we had the opportunity once again to hand out diplomas to our recent graduates and it was an honor and a privilege to once again stand before them and honor them i continue to be amazed at what happens in this district and um being able to watch colton uh graduate uh this past couple this couple weeks ends ago was was quite an honor so thank you very much yeah you know all of the the challenges that we have as board members and and this is what we signed up for and so i don't regret that at all but it's so rewarding when you have you get to see the results and the fruits of all that we've done in the efforts that we put in to see them walk across the stage it's emotional and it's exciting and you just anticipate um the great things that they're gonna do and you know that we're in great hands because if anyone attended graduation and you you heard the speeches and the music and i mean so amazing right in everything they do and they do it with such excellence so um i so enjoyed it having the opportunity to um present the class and um and their their abilities to um you know be ready to be recognized um for their for their for what they've done and to be um to be recognized by the state of illinois and our board to be to honor them for their achievements it was such an honor for me so thank you all i just wanted to say ditto but just to add one more uh having the opportunity to participate um because dr sparling mr grays and the administration over at oswego high school we have students who participate in in athletics and they were competing on the day of graduation so to give them the opportunity to actually have a small graduation ceremony where their their parents and their families could you know see them walk across the stage and be presented with their diplomas i think it's a priceless service to provide so kudos to dr sparlin mr grayson and the athletic director and the staff for um having that opportunity for the families and the students and i was just an honor to to be a part of that so again ditto board committee reports we'll start with financing facilities we began a pretty broad overview of some of the concepts surrounding finance in our district um and it kind of went off on a few different directions basically where we were talking about um the tax levy in our historic um situation where we had chosen not to to capture the increase in cpi um we had talked through some of the opportunities that we have for our forecasting of our budgets and um in general dr petsky kind of went through and just gave some more like not maybe 101 school finance but maybe 102 school finance to some of our finance committee members so that we can kind of be prepared to start talking about the budget next pretty pretty good conversation it was more theoretical than we usually get it was kind of an interesting change okay and now our policy and legislative committee um i thought our final meeting of the year was gonna be um light and easy and uh we were just gonna walk right on out of there but um val kept us right on target and we went through um a lot of policies that day the few that i'd like to point out that i thought were um had incredible discussion around them were policy for colon 180 pandemic preparedness management and recovery we had a really robust conversation around that policy and what was lacking was bringing evidence of reflection um to the forefront and requesting that now that we've been through a pandemic not to say that it's over but now that we've been through a pandemic what have we learned and how are we going to reflect and what would we do differently moving forward and requesting that administration ensure that the learning that we have um gone through and we've experienced be utilized should we find ourselves in any other sort of pandemic preparedness i'm still praying that monkey pox does not find its way into a pandemic the other policy that um we we talked heavily about was um uh transparency uh fiscal and business management uh four colon uh 10 and trying to make sure that as budgets get approved and information gets approved that we have a direct line to the community and to our parents and showing them what the budget is and making sure those are on the website in a timely manner so that um and in envision 308 and making sure that that stuff is done in a timely manner and then the third one was policy uh six colon 290 and that one's on instruction and homework and uh we talked about the lack of consistency across buildings across grade levels and then the transitions from elementary to junior high and junior high to high school and where some principals may not feel that homework is important but others do it really puts our students at a disadvantage because of uh managing expectations and so uh we did ask that that policy go back uh to teaching and learning and to the administration to look at it so there is some consistency for our students but we also when you guys take that one back there there was a couple of us who who recognize the importance of being able to not give homework if you don't believe in it like there has to be some kind of autonomy within the teaching profession like if i have 10 minutes at the end of class and my kids can finish it with me as compared to being forced to give someone an hour's worth of homework we were yeah we were kind of on both sides of the fence if i may i i look forward to having that discussion and teaching and learning for sure but um yeah i'm sure that we do that homework's a big deal to me i think it's really important for our students um especially when they're transitioning from say elementary to junior high if they've never had homework for all of elementary and then all of a sudden they're in junior high and they're they have a couple hours worth of homework at night that's a tough transition for students and and families so um just making sure there's some consistency but also to ali's point making sure we're not giving busy work to create homework because it's a district expectation so there was a lot of just robust conversation about it and i really appreciate the opportunity to be able to send it back um valrock suggested we send it back to teaching and learning and i think that was just a really great way to um bring full circle everyone into the discussion and you know we don't have on that committee kids well i was just going to say yeah and that was their student survey yeah then their number one very high a very highly uh polled question on the student survey so i would recommend that feedback be added to whatever research is being done and routinely is so that's not new from this survey i was thinking actually about student surveys that we've sent out for years it always comes back that homework for the sake of homework has been the concern but i the piece in there that we kind of jumped right into homework instead of that i'm curious to see what happens is that that concept of the consistency especially between our buildings this has come up several times that there is inconsistency in our practices between buildings in terms of grading and homework and quantity and quality to achieve different things and we want to make sure that we include opportunities there not just in the homework category itself i could see a lot of a lot of branches to this um all right hit it with you move on well three days without any homework in any classes and then all of a sudden you get eight hours in one day you know things like that you know because every just a lot has been there more recently mr cerrone um but i'm sure you had homework too um so oh yeah but um i think on the topic of inconsistency it's not like limited to you know inconsistency between buildings there's inconsistency between classes and of course you know teachers teach differently that's what makes it such i guess like a a variable profession to go into and you have to be very careful in deciding you know what are you going to teach how are you going to teach it but it's to the extent and colton if you have something to say on this too but i've seen that like the level of student success or student understanding is so different among like for me like the same honors pre-calculus class like some kids are learning completely different things or understanding something in a completely different way or they'll have a completely different grade and will be in the same unit and it's just that's also not limited to just homework whereas i might have homework of five problems someone else might homework have homework that consists of 20 problems maybe 20 problems would be more helpful but again maybe it's just busy work so having that like teacher communication between not only like the same buildings or different buildings but the same classes as well that's just so important and i think that's been something that students have been concerned for a long time not just the amount of homework but consistency of homework and class work and even test administration among students which is also not the same yeah my my mind kind of went the same way with that it's like you know yeah it's easy to see the inconsistency amongst you know however many elementary schools we have going into middle school and then middle schools into one high school or two high schools but when it comes down to classes i mean individual subjects i mean ap classes if it's you know an ap government class or anything there's inconsis inconsistency amongst if it's two teachers teaching the same subject same class but it's a matter of it's a matter of i don't know if it's miscommunication or just or just lack of expect but still and and just because this is a fun conversation i won't get too far but i'm enjoying what you have to say so how in your minds then just to to branch off of that it is sometimes inconsistent between teachers because perhaps there's um different learning styles in the classroom that they're trying to accommodate so how do we keep it what would you suggest having been there recently on how to differentiate the education for what people need and still provide a similar experience i think to some extent there are things that have to be kind of they have to be unified and there are other things that don't that's the obvious answer but to kind of elaborate on that um things like homework having some degree of freedom in your homework for students say these problems are mandatory because one they'll be on your test and they reflect what we learned these problems are for if you need to practice this or if you need to practice this having some freedom for students with that that's extremely helpful and be finding a system that unifies that with all teachers in a certain subject somehow that would be so helpful because of course things are going to be taught differently or understood differently but in the end homework that prepares you for your test that shouldn't be that different the only variable differences should be if the student themselves need to expand on a certain topic but that's like my view on it that's a good way to put it yep and i i get that the only thing that i see on how to put this book with any kind of like ap or you know college college board course there's already required curriculum that a teacher needs to go over a teacher needs to cover where so um you know other classes they have more so that freedom to kind of accommodate to different learning styles whatever the case may be in each classroom um but with ap and honors courses it's it's kind of i mean it it's an external test right i mean it's they have to make sure that these students are prepared for someone else coming in and and evaluating them not the same teacher that's been with them for the entire school year that's true thank you for that very good all right 6.2 superintendents report well good evening board uh tonight i start my comments on a very sad note this past weekend joshua mears a student who was to be a senior at ohs this upcoming school year passed away we are all deeply saddened by joshua's death and our hearts and support go out to his family and friends as they grieve his loss he will be greatly missed by his friends teachers staff at ohs and throughout our community i would ask that you join me in a moment of silence in his memory thank you please keep josh's family and friends and your thoughts during this incredibly difficult time as we all know on may 24 2020 2022 there was another mass shooting in the united states at rob elementary school in uvalde county texas people from all around the world mourn the deaths of students and staff from this horrific event when things like this happen it causes us to pause it causes us to think and it causes us to reflect on our own practices and procedures so tonight i'm going to highlight some of the things that we do on a regular basis to help ensure the safest environment that we can for our students and staff we partner closely with our police and fire districts with regular communication that includes ongoing safety meetings and trainings between their leadership in ours alice which is an acronym for alert lockdown inform counter and evacuate training institute has been hosted by the district since 2015 to certify instructors in every building the administration who are certified as instructors instructors then work with our sros to plan and conduct building-based training with staff followed by training with students and staff together in drills and exercises throughout the year this summer we have two two-day trainings scheduled this summer we host annual crisis safety meetings which include our first responder agency partners in administration we work very closely with plainfield kendall county oswego montgomery and aurora to review and update emergency response plans share ideas and provide training through joint tabletop exercises we just had one such training on june 1st and school emergency plans incorporate first responder feedback and contain key responses for varied and potential potentially dangerous situations which are specific to each building and each building administrator participates in those trainings each year each year at the beginning of the year our schools are secured and we have secured entrances and a monitored single point of entry schools also have the ability to lock all doors out exterior doors immediately and alerts are sent to the district staff as well as first responders in event of any threat or a violent situation or to a recur to reduce response time we have two full-time school resource officers with the oswego police who are assigned to our high schools who also work with our feeder schools and our junior highs in our elementary schools to assist with training and safety drills and the districts added a new position for the 22-23 school year a school safety security coordinator this position includes a requirement successful first responder background to ensure effective coordination of safety and security training for a broader range of staff assisting with best practice safety drills and collaboration with our sros safety planning for large indoor and outdoor school events and daily egress and ingress assessments to improve safety related to rival dismissal and traffic flow it's important to note that safety is the upmost importance here in school district 308 and that's why we are also hiring the additional position of the safety coordinator within our school district once that happens one of the first jobs will be to audit the facilities in our current procedures as we work over the summer getting ready for the 22-23 school year it's unfortunate that we have to do these things in schools but as unfortunate as it may be it is necessary so that when situations do occur we are prepared as best prepared as we can be on a separate note i would like to remind our high school students that the deadline to apply as a student ambassador for the 2223 school year has been extended to june 29th so for any students who are interested in applying more information can be found on the district website or they may contact my office for additional information as well that is my report for this evening thank you 6.3 student ambassador reports thank you um i guess i want to start by saying we send our condolences to josh's family and to the families of those who had to mourn during the texas school shooting and sending condolences more than once this year just once at all was it felt impossible it felt like it was more than enough but having to do it several times is a lot and i guess hearing from you dr sparlin that there's a way that our students can feel safer in this learning environment it's it's really important and i guess i wanted to thank you for that um on the topic of promoting a safer school environment um just building off of our last student advisory committee meeting we conducted research using the different model policies that we talked about at our last meeting in order to best address sexual harassment in our school district to provide a student-friendly way to talk about the sexual harassment policies that we've administered here as we recognize that some of the language that's been utilized in the text discussing these policies is not extremely easy to understand we use different models like title ix aaron's law we even use different district policies to get a better understanding of how we can implement that into our schools and how we can show our students that this district does prioritize the safety of its students regarding sexual harassment as an issue as a whole dr waller is also going to be conducting a presentation later tonight on the sexual harassment action plan that we've been working towards this entire year and we hope that it embodies sd308's prioritization of student safety and then i just want to take my time to first say to dr sparlin and the board of education thank you for this opportunity it was amazing i was honored to be selected for it it was it's so great that you know there's districts like us and across illinois across the country that you know start these roles for uh for student voice to be heard at a district level um and i i know for years to come this will be an example to any other school that you know wants to or school district that wants to implement this um i can't thank you all enough you were all so welcoming to me and anya and and you know as this was the first time and you know we got started everything it was a little uh a little uh maybe overwhelming at times but it was it was definitely a great opportunity and we had a great time and it's it's bittersweet to leave but i know that it's being left in great hands and and i know that um this committee and these roles will grow with time and uh i just can't wait to see the impact they have on future classes so thank you all thank you it's been an honor to work with you as well so thank you all right item 7.1 is an equity presentation uh dr waller and mrs dolquist are here to present to the board as dr waller makes her way in and gets set up there i just wanted to say while it is the two of us doing presenting and mostly dr waller it does take a whole team of people to address equity uh diversity and inclusion so while we're the only two people speaking it is a regular topic across esd and at all of our admin meetings and it's truly a team effort uh to improve if you wouldn't mind going to the next slide we have our actually statements and really there are so many things in envision 308 that address equity we talk frequently that really everything we do uh is around creating equity if you go to the next slide this is one of the highlights uh from envision 308 where we talk about having choice challenge and success for all of our students and some of the highlighting of the work in there the fourth area of our climate for learning framework is around having uh responsive and engaging instruction and we've spent many many many hours and training and walking classrooms to see just that some of the examples here are the training that was had for our junior high all staff and then all of our administrators around engaging instruction some of the highlights also that we've done with the literacy framework in the math framework is having some choice in instructional materials we utilized a lot of our essa funds to expand our libraries both in the classroom and at the school level to include works from authors and as well as protagonists from diverse backgrounds and then we've really worked on having our student voice be part of that where we had our high school students surveyed on how we were doing on meeting their needs so we have a baseline so that we know if our work in the future is increasing that or not and then finally just the new adoption curriculum process it had been quite a while since we'd had one of those here in in 308 and we worked together to create that and one of the lenses that all of our curriculum committee councils and advisory committees need to do is go through and look at an equity lens and you probably remember as we talked about our elementary social studies curriculum and making sure that choice and equity were part of that even our junior high math selections as we brought those materials forward really highlighted on what that would look like and how do we bring that choice challenge and success there and then finally looking forward to our high school social studies work dr waller has done quite a bit of professional development with them and you'll certainly see a lens of equity when we bring those materials to you dr walt awesome thank you so much mrs dalquist i'm very excited to be here this evening this is uh it's been quite the school year um in a very fun overwhelming challenging and exciting journey um and so as we shift into the support for student learning you know we started off with the equity statements being approved and really sitting down and having conversations about what those statements actually mean in action and so i was able to have the opportunity to provide and support pd with administrators and their staff on what those equity statements look like what they look like in a scenario how do we respond and so in doing the journey and tour throughout the district that was the one piece that we felt we really wanted to start with our ability to actually recognize inequities so that we can then respond to them and so we started that journey using the equity statements furthermore um i've had the honor and the privilege of working with both anya and colton and monica and zoe and um ariana on this process and their brilliance and their brains i always talk about it have been it just it's a feel it fills my cup fills my cup and so um we definitely bonded through that process and um just truly understanding their ability to even break down like listen we really still care strongly about mental health and so we're gonna go this direction of sexual harassment but what does it look like with mental health what does it look like for students to have at educational awareness what does it look like for students to have safety okay that is interesting okay furthermore um not only did i have the honor of working with these brilliant minds but i've also been able to create the coalition of students both from oh and oe and even within that coalition it was important that i was able to find students from various backgrounds and so even within that group we had students with ieps we had students who were not always a stellar we had students who were passionate we had students who just really brought out all of these amazing human loving moments and so um being able to work with that coalition of students we came together several times they were able to also receive pd and what it looks like for them to be co-conspirators in today's space um as equity champions how they can utilize their voice how they can stand up for others and most importantly love themselves and who they are and amplifying their voices and so as you know we had the amplify event april 7th and then we met again in may and they have created these ideas of this visual presentation that they would love to see in both of their schools as they do also recognize from that original survey that was created that students wanted to see more representation of bipac and lgbtq culture within their schools so they work to address what they felt that would look like visually within the schools and we also have planned our first amplify event for the fall which would be november 3rd and we want to amplify mental health so very excited about that and the journey with those students in addition to that i've shared we've done a gazillion pds at least at least 60 and and ally anderson she couldn't be here tonight but she has been amazing and partnering with me and pulling work that had been done previously so that we can make sure that we're building on the work that was already done um and then continue to expand on that um so working with ali working with andrew there were a lot of different people who were like we're down let's do it and so um their insight and perspective and an educational background and i have one as well but even that elementary pool or those strategies are pulling in the literacy framework and ally always made the teachers stand up and walk around in circles and then you know and i'm like i'm high school you can sit down so you know those were really really fun um and meaningful and impactful and challenging but ultimately we found that we walked away from those experiences making sure that equity was equivalent to love because that is what we truly believe and so furthermore we were able to add microaggressions to the bullying policy which is extremely important because in a lot of the presentations that i do i discuss microaggressions and its impact on trauma responses and triggers and so it's important that that language is there so that we can begin to address some of the racial trauma identity trauma religious trauma that does actually exist within our communities so here is a list of some professional development topics that we have done throughout this year as you can see there's a long list there and there are also some linked pieces just in case anyone wanted to go back and receive more information but we started with those narratives and perspectives personal identity that is a phenomenal space to begin because that is the place that highlights our similarity similarities as well as our differences and then shifting into that cultural proficiency continuum and the equity literacy continuum and the equity literacy continuum was the recognize respond redress that continuum so that's where we started the school year in addition to some of the things listed here i tried to break things down within three different dimensions one being that personal dimension so that's a lot of time spent this school year where we looked into ourselves and we reflected and then luckily for some of the different schools like boulder hill and southbury we were able to then kind of transition over into more of an instructional dimension which allows us to address you know that cultural responsiveness and those pieces that are happening in the classroom um and so as you can see on the left side these are the individuals who in departments that receive professional development um as you can see we made it to most schools and we made it to several schools more than once um and so we're excited about um the consistency and the systems that we're going to create for next school year to make sure that we're all moving forward so as we shift into the recruit and retaining piece this school year i was able to work with the recruitment specialist as well as well as the executive director of hr and the assistant director and we really wanted to begin looking at and having personal conversations about what it actually means to retain people of color um what is that safe space etc and um it's it's been an honor to to be able to have those type of conversations with dr sparlin and um mrs douglas in in being able to say hey here's an idea what do you think about just reaching out to so and so and so and and understanding that sometimes that retention is very simple it's just personable and so we've started on that way we've worked with the rrc and um faith has done a phenomenal mrs douglas has done a phenomenal job um with leading those action steps and where we want to go to make sure that we have consistency within the interview questions um but also providing some autonomy um so and able to do that creating different categories so that people can pull what they need but so that we make sure that we're getting the equivalent of candidates from one school to the next and so in addition to that we created a culturally responsive flyer that has the coalition students on front that they've we've shared at job fairs as well as um different spaces for our potential candidates so that they recognize that we are a culturally responsive and excited district to have all these different perspectives and backgrounds um and so that is the work thus far with um recruit and routine so i wanted to share a few pictures from amplify because they're so adorable and they are powerful and insightful and courageous and braver than than so many adults that i know and so i just wanted to make sure that um i highlighted them because they spent a lot of time creating the questions they spent time reflecting on what they wanted to share um they shared personal experiences um that had to do with their religion with being bilingual with um you know racial background with identity and the the part that i love the most about amplify is that it it as i start off all of my pd's i tell people that races equity is not race equity is not just about race it's not just about culture it's really about all of these different um facets of who we are and so these students were able to say okay we understand the assignment and we're going to do it and they did and so i want to thank everyone who was able to be there and i'm excited about what they'll do in the future but these are my babies and i love them alrighty so i have shared with you about the coalition and the work that's to be done with them we did have five seniors graduate um and so we have already had some some recommendations at the junior high level for students who are going to be coming up into the high school as well as some students who are just like oh hey what is that we would like to be involved and so i'm like okay well we'll get you through a process so that is really exciting as well because again it's important to me that um those students who don't necessarily feel that they have a space in here or if they see something that they love and they're like i'm passionate we want to make sure that we we honor that and so skipping down to the student ambassador committee we've shared a lot about the work that they have done we have an action plan in place i have worked with the assistant principals of student services at both high schools on the steps that they'd like to take the student ambassadors and the advisory committee overall have provided a lot of feedback on what they feel would be most beneficial and so we are prioritizing making sure that our structures are very clear that students have access we are developing a brochure qr code we're being transparent about mutual grounds and the topics definitions we have i created my first qr code i know and um it has like live information about you know sexual harassment the kids said oh this is really good information and so we want to be able to create the space to put those you know in the washroom or you know in the student services space on that wherever we can in the google classrooms of social workers so we've also communicated with them in addition we've had teachers already begin signing up to be a part of the safe space committee um where they will have these um decals that will be in their window so students know that they can go to them to get more resources to get direction it's not necessarily a space for them to begin to divulge information but ultimately just knowing oh you're safe and you're going to give me where i need to go um and so initially we were saying oh 10 per school and so thus far there's been more than 10 um per school with teachers who are like i'm down so that's really exciting um so they've there's just been this nuance of work and i will say that the assistant principals at the high schools are also very excited about pushing this work forward and lastly uh we have the survey for the high schools that uh mrs dalquist spoke to um where we administrate administered that um to get this sense of belonging and and have an understanding of where students are with sel as well as with cultural responsiveness and so um there were some plans in place for that and i plan to work with the new director of sel on how we um will implement the work with that and supporting students and so this is my little two-minute clip from of amplify who decided they were going to take down the confederate flag after dealing with the individuals at the church in north carolina so my next question for you all is ally how can we as a people strive to become spears for each other for our classmates and for our community joseph um for me at first i didn't know what the term conspirator was um here it's not really meetings for me when i view ally versus code scooter ally has the positives of supporting the marketing group of um step to staying with them okay um [Music] all right so i just wanted to share just a little clip of that it is on youtube um and i the wonderful thing about amplify um is that we really tried to honor all of the different perspectives we did a land acknowledgment for indigenous people this was during ramadan so we made sure that we broke um so those who were fasting could eat we made sure they had water and dates and like that's just that is what this is about it's just about filling the cups and thinking about those perspectives um and even my niece was able to speak to her perspective of having food allergies and what she thought well what does that have to do with equity it does and so her even being able to share that story was um pretty powerful so thank you all right so equity indicators of success for june 2023 and i apologize from overtime i'm super excited to do this at the elementary level we will have elementary dei trainings for all we're looking at doing different clusters i do kind of break things down into safe space brave space and create space depending on where everyone is in their equity journey to make sure that people are receiving exactly what they need um in addition to that we are going to have dr goldie muhammad who is a waubonsee valley grad she has a phenomenal text called cultivating genius and she looks at these five pursuits of learning and i did add a sample there but she is going to come and we've created a cohort of all 13 schools with individuals who will come and who will virtually get together and debrief and break down and be trained so then they can go back and then train everyone else in this work so we're really really excited about what we'll do at that elementary level especially since they are already transitioning with some of the curriculum at the junior high level um we are going to be doing obviously some dei training we're looking at content though for junior high um especially within ela and social studies in order to begin to shift into that instructional dimension um i'm also collaborating with those junior high instructional coaches and then we will have four staff meetings for all based on personal and instructional dimension in addition i will also be doing some trainings with elementary and junior high admin we want to make sure that we continue that work so i've been working closely with dr allen and mrs leuters to join their meetings continue that equity process and for the high school um we are going to be um really digging into that dei curriculum work there's so much happening in those spaces i also will be doing all staff but when i'm working with them specifically i share the powerpoint that i did for the social studies committee where we delve into that personal dimension got into some brave space and then we were able to then shift and transition where i went through and i broke down one of the units that they had and showed them where all of these other equity pieces could exist um as well as the the women's suffrage march because there was like a whole decade missing and i was like hey this is what we need so um the part about it is that even in having those conversations with the committee they are also extremely passionate about talking about those things too so for them to see it in the powerpoint they were like yes this is what we want we just want to make sure that we have the support to be able to do the work and this summer i'm keeping busy i am going to be facilitating two dei trainings for the sweet 16 group i harass with love 16 individuals to come and to be a part of this committee they're from various schools and various spaces as well as teachers on special assignment and so we're beginning i'm going to train them on how to facilitate for equity we're looking at common language we're looking at understanding the root of inequity so really kind of breaking it down so that they have a larger understanding and then i'll also be doing teacher staff dei summer trainings as well on those following topics we're making progress making lots of progress i want to thank dr waller you have an unusual gift of being able to show a lot of love while pushing change and to use your phrase that you've taught me thanks for all the things thank you questions not a question but just um dr waller thank you for your passion and i can see how you draw students and staff and that's awesome and i think you said equity is equivalent to love and when i think of love i think of love is the act of benefiting another at the expense of self yes so it really resonates with me and thank you for the work that you're doing thank you um first and foremost uh thank you for coming to d3 to st 308 and bringing this type of work to our district and to our students and staff it's one of the most brave things that i've seen you have received a lot of um hate and non-love and you continue to always have a smile on your face and so i just wanted to thank you for that amplify was uh one of the most incredible experiences for me i didn't know what to expect so it was a little little overwhelming um and what i wish everybody could understand is this type of work is is beneficial to everyone it's not just beneficial to a certain sections of students or staff it's a benefit to everyone so i hope we can all approach it like that from a board perspective i'm interested in how can we or could we possibly in the future have some training around policy making and equity and anti-racist policy making um i i don't know what that looks like i don't know that anyone here does i'm not speaking for anyone but i think it's very important for us to understand that i think we did there was a lot of movement made when the equity committee brought forth an equity statement and that took a many many months over a year and a lot of work by a lot of different people and i think that's very important but i think at the board level especially when we're charged with policy making i think we need some sort of parameters around that so that would be very helpful and i hope we can do that in the future i would love that it's my third dimension that i didn't mention the the institutional dimensions so that personal instructional and institutional um i i would love to look at policy and figure out you know different ways and even you know starting with even though i know there's different views but starting with that dress code policy is is one one start and adding microaggressions is another piece and um it's it's definitely i think starting from the ground up with those kids and utilizing leveraging their voices is really going to help us with some of these policy pieces and i would love to support whenever you all are ready that would be actually we have we have sent several policies to the equity committee we are very imminent this year we had the opportunity to bounce things over to the equity it's just it can be a little clunky too because we don't really have i don't want to call it formal training but just some sort of training we're all coming at it from our own perspective and so we're our starting points are all very different so i just think a little bit of consistency would be helpful from everything that you've brought to the equity committee and since i've been a part of that is um it's well well done it's it's already going through committees it comes to us with lots of different perspectives um student input so yes the the committees themselves um you know might have varying and non-expert you know um opinions or perspectives but it definitely uh you you're answering all the questions you know why is um why was uh why was this put in why wasn't it so it's it's been a great experience there um you know when i when i look at equity and i i feel it's necessary um if we really want a great school district we want all of our students to do what do the best that they can achieve the best that they can we have large achievement gaps um and so so we're we're not there we need to get this um if i've done lots of reading everything that i've read um everything that you can do and that you've discussed just helps bring up those kids it doesn't draw anything from the other kids it brings up everybody so this to me is um it's necessary to have a great school district so you know hearing and i haven't been on this board very long hearing that you've heard hate um it saddens me um if we want a great school district this is work that needs to get done um so that's a statement as well as showing appreciation for everything that has been going on so thank you um the microaggressions you said that that's kind of one of the next um big hurdles you know i love the dress code um you know equity is not just race it's abilities it's you know male female it's it's everything um this but yeah so i'd like to hear more about what you're where you're going with microaggressions um okay so from a like from a professional development standpoint um when i am discussing microaggressions and um there's this really awesome mosquito video that i show where it likens microaggressions to mosquito bites and helping people understand that some receive more than than others and so if you are being bitten all the time then when something happens there may be a trauma response um and it happens to adults and so that's really the biggest part with the professional development because i'm having conversations about well when are you all going to get married when are you all going gonna have kids because it's important to understand that microaggressions are anything that goes against the dominant norm that's been established which is the the husband and the wife and the two kids and the picket fence and the dog and so anyone that strays from that um they tend to get attacked with those type of comments and it's not always ill-intended which is why microaggressions are very difficult um because we've all been programmed in the same space in the same communities um and we've been raised in the same you know in society to have those same dominant norm thought processes and so when i'm able to break it down from that lens and again pulling away from anything that has to do with race right um it kind of evens that playing field was saying oh wait like i have experienced that oh wait i have felt that um and so as we then begin as adults to truly understand how we are impacted by microaggressions then it should also then allow us to understand that our babies with these underdeveloped brains though brilliant don't always make the right choices um when is the trauma response and so we still need to consequence if necessary but we need to restore and we need to teach and we need to support because we can't have students that are sitting in an in-school suspension for having a trauma response no matter what the topic is about and they're not that that trauma isn't being addressed because it's going to continue to just trigger and they're not going to be restored from that and so that is kind of where i'm going with that kind of that's where i'm going with the microaggression piece does that sound good i appreciate these man no sorry awesome i won't go into anything long and deep but that illustration is exactly what i wanted to talk about what i wanted to recognize you for what you bring is that people are are feeling as though they are seen and heard because of the work that you're doing and you're creating an inclusive environment which i think as we continue to focus on climate and culture is the the foundation for for anything else that we're talking about to be able to happen and so thank you for that thank you very much you know when i think about equity and then these words like you know hate and all these things that people don't understand no i just wish they would realize that equity is like it's not a zero-sum game you know it's not a pie that you cut up and there's only you know there's only enough opportunity to go around or there's only enough access to go around or there's only enough voice to go around you know no it is infant what is the word definitely infant it is yeah it's it's it there's so much of it and you don't have to there's enough for everyone right and so when we when we look at equity it's that's what i would hope that people would take away from it that we're not trying to take things away from some to give to others absolutely it's it's about understanding who you are and leveraging the access that you may have in order to provide and support others and having access as well which is the whole purpose of education and i think what's very powerful is again student-led with amplify with talk with so so much that's happening in our district parents i often see on social media or guardians or families or community members well that doesn't exist or that doesn't exist yet our students are telling us that um they are experiencing racism they're experiencing sexual harassment they're experiencing so it's not really our place to say it's not happening it's our place to listen and it's our place to support and i think as we become more student-led and focused that we just become a better district in and of itself so i know that i'm a better board member because of our student ambassadors and the teams and the team that's behind them so i think if we listen more we will uh we will grow more they have a lot to say all the way down to our calendar and ap tests falling on specific religious holidays and you know how that impacts them so i mean they they are the catalyst for all the things i've learned a ton from them as well so and i would just like to say to you faith that when you you know you always say that equity is you know everyone's work and so you know there's that saying that what gets measured gets done and so how do we make sure that equity is measured and that it's about uh in everyone's um evaluations include some aspect of equity because when we were when i was a part of the equity committee that was the that was the thing they were drilling into us like who who is accountable for this work and what does it look like and how does it get into the evaluations of everyone who's supposed to be doing the work which is everyone and really equity work is almost all of our work so when we write school improvement plans and we say we want this percentage of students to you know meet it's about looking into data looking into the different demographic groups looking at that but those are sometimes slow moving outcomes that it's going are not measured in five months at a time or six months at a time you have to do that over years i think one of the most telling pieces is when we do our classroom walkthroughs and we look for are we having choice are we having success are we having a challenge are the materials engaging for all of our students as we look you know on those pieces we have classrooms that you can tell are further along in creating responsive instruction than others and this coming year the principles are going to be giving us what their what percentage of their classrooms do they think are doing what we are wanting within the literacy framework in the math framework and then we're doing classroom walkthroughs with that to kind of monitor and support those pieces another piece is how well are we doing as that high school student survey on you know when they've are we getting that right degree of challenge and success this year we are at 50 with our efforts and things next year when we give that survey will it go up um i could go on and on on some other pieces on what that looks like even how we have conversations at budget level discussions you know what does that look like and are we asking about um equity and are we looking at we are approaching that when we design our courses when we send out information to parents you know all of those pieces we have to ask is everybody at the same opportunity to be able to access the resources and the curriculum and the communication that we have and we have so much work to do but the different groups are asking those questions is a measurement for me of how we're progressing in that journey i would like to add because that is not on here something that faith and i have talked about which i felt was important for me is the work that we do within esd and so um creating our equity goal or equity activity that we're going to do once a month whether it's visual but anything that's going to start to bring us into those type of conversations more often since i know that esd directors are those who evaluate principles and so they're being equipped to having those conversations as well is going to be important because as we know when we're looking at those evaluation pieces and and even that the danielson framework equity is implied and there's only one small component that's explicit and so we've just talked about um how we can continue to come together and grow as an equity esd team and um that i think is also going to help in that piece with what what gets measured is what gets there so thank you so much for your time thank you okay all right so are there any questions on the consent agenda 8.1 if not can i have a motion to approve the consent agenda please i make a motion to approve all items under consent including 8.1 minutes from the board of education meeting on may 9 2022 open and closed session and the public forum on may 16 2022 8.2 to acknowledge the foia requests received by the district 8.3 the acceptance of gifts and or donations received in fiscal year 22 8.4 to approve the illinois high school association membership renewal for 2022 2023 for both oswego east and oswego high school and 8.5 to approve the following board policy references and legal updates section 3 3 colon 70 section 4 operational services 4 colon 70 4 colon 180 section 5 general personnel 5 colon 40 5 colon 70 5 colon 5 colon 140 and speci and section 6 instruction 6 colon 70 and 6 colon 80.
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join us in the pledge of i pledge allegiance welcome to our monday june 6th school board meeting and we'll start off with our agenda approval deletions editions mrs mucha who's filling in thank you very much you will see under one number eight under mine for certified appointments under two you'll see some of those changes under um personnel thank you do we have a motion second by dr medlin any discussion hearing none all in favor motion passes thank you is there any correspondence mrs kelly none to report this evening all right we'll move right into our liaison committee updates mr marshall i have nothing reported this time thank you mrs kelly i have nothing for the redevelopment commission for cherylville cherylville parks department the splash pad construction has been pushed back a little bit due to all the rain we're looking at hopefully ribbon cutting july 20th and the improvements at rorman park are either finished or any day now and that's all thank you dr medlin nothing to report thank you thank you dr malcolm um i have something to report sorry something to report about um lake central education foundation from mrs talent the board president they're going to meet on monday evening this coming monday if any of you are interested in joining they will be discussing additional fundraisers the 5k race which is in november and looking at another fundraiser more details in the future a reminder to everyone that that grants can be written by lake central school corporation staff members and they would be due september 26th thank you and i have nothing for legislative and nothing for dire parks except that they have changed their meeting now to the third tuesday of the month if anyone is interested thank you and uh for the saint john redevelopment commission i have nothing for dollars for scholars we are gearing up for homecoming 2022 if you're interested reach out to mrs rana resnick and we'll let you know when those meetings are so we'll move on to our official school board business topics consent agenda mr mojo thank you i am seeking approval of the minutes from the special board meeting of may 16th in the regular board meeting of may 16th also approval of claims payroll and extracurricular expenditures i move to approve both sets of minutes and the claims payable and expenditure second that motion we have a motion by dr medlin in a second by mr marshall any discussion all in favor aye aye motion passes thank you there are no public comments regarding action items so we'll move right into our official school board business topics regular agenda mrs mucha thank you we have some exciting recognitions this evening and we're going to first start with mrs tucker and with home in school thank you for allowing us to be here tonight um we would like to take a moment and just recognize the holman math bowl team and before i we start the recognitions i would like to call the coaches up that help this team excel in the competitions and that is mrs lynn mello testinic and miss tina miljevic [Applause] on april 12th holmen participated in the elementary math bowl competition that was held at kahler middle school the team of 16 fourth grade students was led by our two coaches mrs lynn melissa nick and miss tina milduvik and holmen placed eighth in the state out of 64 teams we're so very proud of them and now i'm going to turn the mic over to the coaches and we'll we will call the team down for the recognition [Applause] lauren broome [Applause] victoria bustos kamora conwell emily zado logan gorlick zoe hemphill johnny jordan iii [Applause] you patel kyler richards aubrey rozick violet sante preston scorbina anderson smith [Applause] lucas treasurer and gage weber thank you very much yeah you guys come here also [Applause] now one from kaler middle school we have miss barb kepchar the present for this excuse me parents before you leave home and parents would you all stand so we can give you a round of applause because we know you're a big part of this success home and parents thank you you first of all i would like to invite our coach mr david sidler up here [Applause] our academic super bowl team scored first place at regionals and third place in the state in english they also scored first place at regionals and the top 10 place in state in social studies i will have coach zidler go ahead and announce our team and present the thank you so certificate ivan kerry couldn't be here today so keep that for him madeline mcnabby [Applause] jocelyn mcnabby [Applause] attira neckway [Applause] alexis grosskirth [Applause] good job that's it um thank you very much appreciate your recognition oh i'm sorry that's yours i know this is not working thank you very much [Applause] and not to leave out the high school mrs reagan would you like to introduce our skills usa team good evening each year some of our students qualified to compete in skillsusa skillsusa is a partnership of students teachers in industry working together to ensure america has a skilled workforce a non-profit national education association skillsusa serves middle school high school and college and post-secondary students preparing for careers in trade technical and skilled service occupations skillsusa is recognized by the u.s department of education and the u.s department of labor as a successful model of employer-driven workforce development this year six of our students won medals in the state skills usa competition held april 8th and 9th in indianapolis some of these students attend our hammond area career center that we partnership with and we do have some students that went to skillsusa through their class here at lake central so the first one is joseph hubiger who won gold in cabinet making i got the pleasure of seeing him tote that cabinet around during our bring anything but a backpack day to school it was very nice the next one is caleb bracey who won silver and criminal justice [Applause] the next one is vincent villa who received a silver in automobile maintenance and light repair [Applause] the next one is dylan derringer who won bronze in precision machine [Applause] the next one is cadence kissinger who won bronze in digital cinema and our last one is hunter helsin who also won bronze in digital cinema thank you [Applause] so that must give you a good feeling mrs castaneda to see these students perform like that with all the energy and effort into that skills classes that we have same thing to the high school staff good job so ready um i'm also seeking approval for the school board policies a through l that were in your packets that you have discussed at the work session previously i have a motion by mr marshall second second by miss kelly any discussion hearing none all in favor aye aye aye motion passes thank you thank you we'll move right on to our director of human resources well here we are i'm recommending that the following personnel be approved that was in your packet motion to approve a motion by ms kelly second second by dr medlin any discussion hearing none all in favor aye motion passes thank you i also included the 2023-24 school calendar in your packet that had already been approved by lcta so moved we have a motion by mr marshall second second by dr meddling any discussion i just wish we didn't start so early that's all i wish but i know that's the trend that's out there so uh we just go with it thank you i think the high school teachers were also interested in finishing before christmas all right um we had a motion in a second all in favor aye aye any opposed motion passes thank you and we'll move right on to our director of secondary education mrs castaneda thank you for my first item i am seeking your approval for the professional leave requests that were in your packet move to approve the professional leave requests we have a motion by dr medlin second second by mrs kelly any discussion all in favor aye aye motion passes thank you for my second item i am seeking your approval for the field trip request motion to approve the field trip request i have a motion by mrs kelly and i will second that any discussion hearing none all in favor aye aye motion passes thank you and then for my last item i wanted to inform the board of a change that we're going to be making with the high school core 40 diploma requirements when the core 40 diploma was started in the state of indiana many high schools including lake central set our requirements above 40 because of the opportunities that students have to earn credits if you think about it whether on a block schedule or a typical traditional high school schedule students have seven classes every semester so if they have eight semesters throughout their entire high school career that's 56 opportunities for credit which is why a lot of high schools felt like raising the bar a little bit above the 40 minimum that the state had put out however as i've shared at previous board meetings we're now under a new model with graduation pathways if you recall that went into effect in 2017 and it's fully into effect with this year's graduating class of 2023 and that brings some extra criteria to the table for our graduates if you recall from that there's three different things they have to accomplish the first is achieving that core 40 diploma at minimum the second one is demonstrating uh the employability schools through project work based or service based learning and then the last one is the post-secondary competencies and they can demonstrate that through either test scores ap courses cte courses and a couple of other different things so all those things now land on our students place and what we're starting to see then is a trend amongst the other area high schools in northwest indiana and around the state where they're backing down back to that core 42 requirement so just for a little perspective over the past few years crown point munster valparaiso portage laporte and michigan city are now requiring only 40 credits because students have those additional graduation pathway requirements to achieve chesterton out of the doomland conference is at 42 but they're actually looking at walking that back in the next year or two and then maryville's at 45 but they're on trimesters so every year their kids have more opportunities for credit even than our students because they have three different sorry grading periods so we're currently sitting at 46.
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okay great and for that i'd she taught me how important it is and help them connect to the rest of the student body all right so congratulations ms iverson
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[Music] good evening i'd like to call the june 6 2022 meeting of the dartmouth school committee to order would you please rise for the pledge of allegiance to the flag of the united states of america into the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all i'll ask if you have any cell phones pagers beepers electronic devices things of that nature if you would kindly put them on silent vibrate shut them off i would the committee would greatly appreciate it uh just like to let you know that this meeting of the david school committee is being accessed live the public is able to access this meeting live via live stream at youtube.com backslash dhs tv media it is also being will be rebroadcast on dc tv channel 9 on wednesday and thursday at 5 p.m friday at 6 a.m saturday at 8 a.m and sunday at 2 p.m and then also on dc channel 18 on monday and saturday at 12 noon and thursday at 3 o'clock and other times that they're able to squeeze us in and we appreciate all the media that they give us uh roll call please miss kanta john nunes yeah mary waite yeah kathleen ameral here shannon jenkins chris oliver here thank you okay at this point in time we have allocated 10 minutes for public comment for anything that is on the agenda tonight and i stress on the agenda uh at this point in time i'll invite you up anybody up to the podium please state your name and address good evening members of the board thank you for this opportunity to speak my name is ray oswalt and i've on may 10th or rather may 4th at 10 11 approximately a.m i had a discussion with jonathan galishaw and to re-quote steve kerr when are we going to do something about it i am a consultant for a company called skypath and we offer a technology that can lock down a school building remotely in seconds and it can be offered free to the school and it can be offered to offer the school and any buildings within the school district a 25 savings on their liability insurance we have been they have been in existence since 2019 alex's law down in florida was passed for all public school buildings to be mandated by a date certain to have the technology that we offer the technology is patented it was copied and pasted from a construction management software and it is a technology that i think every public building should have and especially every school should have it is personal to me i've been in a lockdown you never want to be in that position as a teacher or a kid i have a niece in this school in 1992 i had a long-term subposition and i was across the hall from when jason robinson gets stabbed i was out that day but i know who was involved it shouldn't happen if we had this this discussion on april 4th um i am going to tell you there are some high very high level discussions going on right now between our ceo in the state of texas dartmouth can step up and be the first one on the south coast i came through dartmouth public schools everyone in my family came to a doctor public schools it's time the schools in the state stepped up and did something about it i'm happy to answer any questions if you have any for me from the standpoint of a union we operate on on bluetooth every teacher would get an identification tag and when they leave the building they are no longer identified as to where they are in the building instantly an app fires on the teacher's phone they can take an instant inventory of every kid in their in their classroom with a number and a security code and the technology fires to first responders instantly administration instantly if there's a 9-1-1 call somebody was hurt or god forbid you had an incident like texas that's all the time i'll take if nobody has questions what was the name of the company again sky path thank you thank you hello lynne turner here i'm here to talk about the dei topic i don't know what you're going to be discussing about dei but i'm guessing it's about the committee and setting up the committee if so i would just ask that you please consider having various viewpoints on that committee so it doesn't look like it's cherry picked to be a far left leaning agenda that's just being thrust upon all of the school children so you might have you know some with politic republican orientation independent orientation and democrat orientation i ask you to consider that when you form your committee thank you if i may re-close jonathan was kind enough to set up some dates where he said he was going to meet with our people down in warwick our main office is in warwick we're happy to do a full presentation i'm reoffering that let's take the lead in this town thank you thank you mr oswalt anyone else okay okay now a student rep nanya [Applause] hi everyone to start off last week was senior week at dhs with events such as the senior stroll scholarship and awards evening the prom after prom and the senior sunset this week culminated with the 150th graduating class the class of 2022 is truly exceptional with graduates set to head off to some of the best colleges in the country including brown university emory ucla and the naval academy the spring athletic season is wrapping up with several teams having qualified for the tournament play spring teams qualifying for the tournament include the girls and boys tennis teams the baseball and softball teams as well as the girls the class teams the junior class will host the junior banquet at white's westport on friday evening we are looking forward to a fun night with the class of 2023 freshmen will take the biology mcas tomorrow and wednesday an infrastructure test was conducted last week to identify any bugs or glitches and the freshmen are ready to go tomorrow we wish them the best of luck on their exams also this is my last meeting as your student representative as the school year comes to an end and i just wanted to say it's been such an honor and such a fun experience getting to be a part of these meetings and this is something i really hope to be a part of next year and it's been really great getting to meet you all and thank you guys so much for this opportunity thank you any questions for thank you thank you so much for your presentation for being here good luck with your final exams enjoy your summer and be safe thank you everyone we'll see you in the fall see where is the happening say see you in september good job good job yeah okay all right uh next on our agenda is the approval of the regular session and executive session minutes of may 23rd we'll take the regular session first so moved second moved by mr oliver second by miss waite on the motion any discussion you're hearing none all in favor aye opposed dr jenkins i'll abstain dr jenkins will abstain hope you're feeling better i know you were ill at the last meeting so thank you feeling better i am thank you glad to hear that okay the executive session minutes of the same date let's try it okay you go ahead we'll pull it in all right well thank you mr news uh so moved um with the requirement that they be oh help me john with the stipulation of the deal until the matter for which they were intended is complete exactly so well said thank you so that's so moved second got a second kathleen miss amarillo miss amarillo did on the motion any discussion chair hearing that all in favor aye aye opposed motion carries unanimous abstention what abstention one abstention my fault 401 my fault all right uh next on the agenda do you want to introduce jonathan go right ahead where'd he go where'd he go he disappeared so we have chief technology officer jonathan galashaw as we call him jg in the district and provide an overview of what's been happening in technology this year couple of um that just came up mr oswell i talked to him uh he is he represents a company that has some security ideas i said i'd be happy to hear his products i also explained to him some of the security updates we've done over the years which i'll share to you with you tonight so uh i will be talking to him over the summer as well as probably other companies too because i know that's you know always reviewing what we've dedicated a lot of time and effort into um is important to always keep and and also our student representative mentioned the the infrastructure test we had last week she was kind enough to mention we did have technical issues uh which was great to have um uh the infrastructure test it's a trial it's a dress rehearsal for the test that's coming tomorrow so it's always great to do that and i appreciate the schools that put that together so uh welcome this is the technology update the state of technology for the department the the dartmouth public schools so uh what have you been up to lately what have you been up to let me take you back the date is december uh march 12 2020.
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we're hoping to actually begin to move towards agreement in terms of things that were both sides are happy with starting with this meeting and then continuing to work through those until everything's been resolved so i think everything's positive we're continuing to make progress um otherwise i mean i think we're approaching the end of the school year at this point everybody's just kind of getting done with the end of the year exactly hold on for dear life um you know and we're in the same shape so uh uh dr freeman is here again with us tonight his transition continues um he's getting more comfortable with the staff i think on a daily basis getting more involved and more immersed absolutely expect that beginning on july 1st he's really going to hit the ground running very excited about that and then i think just in general for everybody's awareness whether it's the end of june or the beginning of july just want to tentatively plan for uh goal setting meetings so to make sure that we start off the next school year on the right foot we have alignment between new administration and the board and so that we all going eyes wide open in terms of what we want to achieve and what we think those measures of success will be so just stay tuned for a little bit more hopefully we can schedule some dedicated time to do that okay any questions no very good um our superintendent is actually not here with us this evening um mrs fisher i'm not sure if you have any comments that you would like to offer or if we want to just skip that section at this point you can skip that section very good moving on to committee reports i do not believe we have had any committee meetings uh since our last meeting short of human resources which i think i covered in my president's report are there any comments that any of the members of the committees or the chair people want to offer at this time all right hearing none we are up to item number 4.1 which is open to the public for agenda items only do you happen to know if we have any questions online or you don't have access to those forms probably come on that's right all right yeah i think at this point um i will check for items in either of the two buckets offline after the meeting if anybody has some questions online i apologize that we can't get to them right now but we'll make sure we address you via email afterwards no questions from the room that i see so we will move on to item number 5.1 resolve that the boundary board of education approves the minutes for our regular and executive meeting on may 23rd i have a motion thank you mr powell a second second thank you mr mithas any discussion hearing none can we have a roll call mr ball yes mr dawson yes miss lima apologies mr minhas yes miss moussan yes mr zepco yes mr januzzi yes okay we are up to item number 6.1 resolve that the superintendent recommends for approval the resolutions as outlined in personnel resolutions under district and heist high school this is 6.2 through 6.10 i have a motion motion thank you mr zepco a second second thank you mr manhattan any discussion i have a question on this and then i'm scrolling through the difference between the butcher that we awarded the bit to what the difference between this is correct so i would think the answer is they are complementary not overlapping yes any other questions okay hearing none can we have a roll call please mr ball yes mr dawson yes mr minhas yes miss moussan yes yes item number 7.1 resolved that the superintendent recommends for approval the resolutions as outlined in personnel resolutions under middle and elementary schools this is 7.2 through 7.8 i have a motion thank you miss muscle a second second thank you mr minhas any discussion all right hearing none can we have a roll call please mr ball yes mr dawson yes mr minhas yes let's give yes a second just to get settled that that's okay with everybody [Applause] okay we are up to item number 8.1 resolve that the bamboo board of education approves the resolutions as outlined in education resolutions under district and high school this is just 8.2 i have a motion motion thank you mr dawson in a second wow all right mr minhash it any discussion god bless those kids taking calculus over the summer sounds like a hoot they will be well prepared going into their freshman year yeah all right can we have a roll call please sure mr ball yes mr dawson yes miss lima yes yes mr zepco yes mr januzzi yes item number 9.1 resolve that the boundary board of education approves the resolutions as outlined in education resolutions under middle and elementary schools this is 9.2 and 9.3 i have a motion thank you mr bowell a second second thank you mr zupko any discussion robotics today robotics all right can we have a roll call please mr ball yes mr dobson yes miss lima uh that's elementary zone mr minha yes miss nassan yes mr zepco yes and mr januzzi yes we are up to item number resolve that 10.1 boundary board of education approves the resolutions as outlined in financial resolution this is 10.2 through 10.15.
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there's just one word that looks like the word schedule was agreeing are you ready thank you uh paid 19 mr hopkins frankfurt class compared to parapro's workday scheduled to be considered perspective week's program what we mean by that sometimes a head start i said start preschool may have some different needs because they don't have children on friday or if a child is um needs a one-on-one parapro sometimes they do some different arranging for them so most parapros reportedly 15 but sometimes if child schedules different we may change their schedules we just want them to be aware of anybody have any questions about them so i would like to see two changes made before we ratify it one on page four it says requires uh sorry section eight weekdays d if an employee has an injury or illness our environment missed more than two plus consecutive days of work i to strike and just make it three well just more than two more than two because yeah two plus is the same thing so you strike the classes is in the classified in the certified agreement we struck the 60 days so section a maternity leave 60 days after the birth of a child employees should be expected to return to work i'd like to see that sentence struck so it is in accordance with fmla and also is the same as okay so now we're on to the cheek heads as you recall is an umbrella district for 12 districts within a county aho voters approved of that in about 2006 2007 in fact we had a very good response in supporting that we have our program has changed significantly because the program tends to be communicating the teaching jj we have several teachers to do that now but to do jt you have a iga international agreement with another governmental agency which is the joint technical education district which is the deaf district in tucson and our attorney already takes a look at it and he's approved an agreement for the the j-ted and the iga with the dj so we recommend approval about this um the best you know a really strong program we've had for dual enormous with i had like one of the vice presidents years ago um at least nine credit hours of college um grand canyon college has been involved i frankly they haven't talked to me so i don't know what they're approving the visit the intergovernmental agreement with we haven't seen one from grand canyon college so grand canyon they're not a governmental agency they're a private university but we don't know what we want to push we uh lance wants to push um a community but we can't do that without any government agreement so they had sent us the government government reviews and again ben looked at this and proved it so he said so we we're thinking lance is saying if we approve this and we can have someone work with the district as well as um the vice president did a few years ago we might be able to provide another dual education opportunity which we would like to do if we have i think seven students enrolled in tucson the same class when that vice president was above our kids didn't get charged one class we had to pay for we didn't even share it typically they took speech classes they took english sometimes english class things that it's necessary for an aaa degree or for moving on to bachelor's degree and the speech class have been elected for some other classes from this camp we have the equipment um about a year before we did this that's in capital money and i'd seen um another school of rural schools in the state do this with a nearby community college so i bought the equipment fantasizing about doing this and it's about 50 larger than that screen combined with a split screen so the students can see their class and the professor the pima community um i was over there for a meeting one day and i i knew when the class has been a few so i went by the west peter county campus and so i was in the lab where that was being taught there and like your kids say oh they're good so i can see my kids our kids and they can see me but it works out pretty good so because you can see the person and i think this is long before we did a lot of the online learning that we're doing now but when the kids can see a person and hear a person uh get direct questions they seem to be pretty attentive and i'd like to see that confused i'm glad she can't they hadn't really been until they reached out to me at the learning center about partnering with the ged program but now this since i started working with them i've had multiple people in town asking about what are the chances of penis setting up some sort of small cell life and i said i would love it especially if you do like health care classes because they need to train health care givers in town and that would be the the administrator that broke the ice for us years ago is now the president of a community college who could carry new mexico i wouldn't need tucson for junior kerry but he's happy i talked to him maybe once a year and in fact his wife was a professor she was the first one that came out and our kids because their program starts three weeks after ours so our kids all signed up ready to rock and roll then the longer the way the more they kind of got nervous about it so i talked to him about it and he sent beth and she met with the kids personally she was really an apple lady and the kids felt comfortable and they were very successful i watched them in class and i happened to be able to see them over there so i was you know [Music] what you were talking about when i was talking to jeff peck the other day and we had a conference on aging and part of that they were talking to pima community college about healthcare a home health care providers and they went for a grant and they got that grant took like a year so they haven't been they have positions open for seven students the only bad part about it is it's going to be in cells but it includes the educational part of and lodging wow you might be the perfect person to get a little judge packing and you might have people that that are interested in doing that thank you my next business item we have and there's a rumor that you're going to change superintendents this year and i'm a signer on the checking account and so is dr jakols and so is venus galrani if if i leave and i'm not a sign after june the 30th it's going to potentially put the district between a rock and a hard place so we're asking we need to have board approval to have the bank accept this and uh recommending dr zotero's name that list will be proving dr zotero and dr jabalts and bien scalarani and for and they'll get signing cards and so on and so forth and thanks so we should be ready to go and that's yes the book and the this information from this is the odd book that bill bridge puts out and the two of the documents we keep on file i've gone for 20 years in my office we had a preview documents i recall whenever you're ready laura [Music] [Applause] [Music] which can never tie to any district records and the reason why is the auditor takes a full fiscal year expenditures in the drama line on june 30th at the end of the so any money we received after that time like reimbursements for grants or j-10 or any bills we paid after june 30th which is still legal because the year so if you look at these pictures in this book and try and tie it to any report that they have provided you they will never match up this section here [Music] the terms that they use later every year the auditor general puts out what's called the uniform system of financial records compliance questionnaire it's actually called the usfr i've heard people thought it was [Music] [Applause] and basically what this is is what the auditor tested it for and they always find things we are not proceeding and we set up all the coupons the and said there's always mistakes so we have our draft audit given to us on april 22nd and it had 16 items and one spending and i think i argued about 20 45 percent of those away because because it just takes research and every the most important one to the governing board and to me is to look at the single audit report so if you all have one um [Music] uh [Applause] last [Music] um [Music] foreign can i say a couple things laura um this this is this the audit guides half of what half the decisions we make in a district office and it's different than one of us dealing with our own personal banking accounts we make a mistake there we pay for it but when we're talking about taxpayers dollars and members of this community and across the state with equalization funding it's a big deal and so i imagine sometimes staff see us being a little cranky because we have to use the word no more than we'd like to but we have to follow usfr universal system and finance and i see internal internal controls and if we don't then we get one of these findings like laura mentioned and looks bad lately i've received emails from attorney general's the auditor general's office on two districts i know up in state and one of them is in yellow pike county and one's in i believe pima county and their terrible findings either went from mistakes or in one place it was corrupt operation where a business manager and a superintendent were trying to make more money and we're not smarter than auditors about money and so in both cases they were caught and it's embarrassing and those type of auto reports go to every board member probably at least every superintendent of state and one does not want to have that as a part of their reputation so i appreciate the fact that leanne did a good job laura followed up um venus galirani can get really intense about finance but she knows what she's talking about she's paralegal and so she follows the legal letter to the to t so that's one of the reasons we've got a good daughter it's the best one we've had for a long time so i appreciate it thank you laura thank you laura okay now the next thing we have is a report on upcoming professional development and elaborated for dr satira moving targets already um well first of all thank you for giving me this opportunity mr hopkins and honorable members of the board i just want to give you a brief overview if you have a hard copy to pass out and so um what i'll do first is i'll just ask angelina to go to uh to the first handout um regarding the conference that the sessions that i'll be attending this friday and saturday it's part of a uh it was first contacted by dr mark orangevad the executive director um any uh regarding arizona school administrators and this is this is a a very critical opportunity where uh all the new superintendents in arizona are taking part in this it's called the aspiring superintendence academy for latino and latina leaders and so what it's going to be is pretty much it's a year-long cohort and outside of this first session on a monthly basis will be a zoom session the chord will take place via zoom 3 30 to 5 30 starting in in in july august so that's good in the sense that i'll be here at the district i will not have to leave but this first session is going to be a very intense uh june 10th this friday from 8 to 4 and saturday june 11th from 8 to 2.
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so if we want this done while schools are closed which we do we do have funds in capital if you recall when we did our adjusted budget last month we have some additional funds in capital outlay that we can in fact pay for this that's why i had mine turned on so so i'm you know when we get to this item in the in the agenda uh i'll recommend that we go ahead and do this so that ended up being a better bid than we had somebody who came and looked at it early on who scoped it and and estimated it would be 135 but that was with the thought that it was going to run we were going to have to cut through all those floors and all of that so this saves us cutting through the floors and whatever and and so the room the music room has been emptied of everything the carpet's been pulled up this will probably be our first room to to determine what kind of flooring we're going to be putting in everywhere when we rip up carpets because we'll need to do something to this floor when it's done so if you have any other questions mark can probably answer them for you are we in line with that bed yeah that's what's nice with that we don't know this you do so that's what's great so with one bid and if it's as deep as the uh as the sewer line was at uh desert valley that was seven feet deep so that would i mean that's a that's a long ways down now we don't know i mean we don't really know how deep this is but if it's anything like that one it's going to be a lot of digging and a lot of hauling of dirt okay any other questions okay next one kim please okay this is at diamondback excuse me and this is one of the esser approved projects currently there is no way for students to come into the main office at diamondback without going through the health office and that's never been a good situation but in the past two years when we had really sick kids in the health office was not a good idea for students to be coming in that way so we wanted to make a a different entrance for students to be able to stay on campus and come in we have we have different entrances at both fox creek and coyote which were built on this same plan but that's never happened for this one so what you're looking at right here is the current situation so at the top you can see the two doors and then they have windows on either side and and that's that covered entry portico and then we have the existing sidewalk that goes down and it's kind of in it's not so much in bad shape but part of it has settled and so there's some of it that's not very safe and then over on the left side you can see where the current fence and gate are take before students to come onto campus so kim if you'll show the next one scroll down there we go oh nope wrong one there we go scroll down okay so our proposal then is simply to and it's not that simple but to flip the the windows and the doors so in other words the two windows will be in the center where the doors are now and the doors will be on the on the outside of those windows then we can put a gate there between the is closes between across between the windows and then this allows us to have the kids come in and then it's moving this gate moving this fence out just far enough to be on the outside of that sidewalk and moving the gate out so this gives us then entrance for students from campus so that they do not have to go through the health office to get to the office and is this this will of course be successfully accessible yes yeah the the sidewalk there mark has mark was looking at it and it's very it's very clearly got it's settled and so first of all right now the the gradient is not particularly ada but partly because there are places that have shifted and so we're looking at just replacing that and making sure that it's just one one smooth run up up there and then there would also be a gate here between this pillar and that front wall so that if there were times when we needed to let people in that way it gives a it gives us some flexibility with entrances and um exits from from the facility so the main entrance to the school is the same location just splitting it so kids can now yes come in that way instead of having to go through the nurse's office yes yeah that's really all it is um and and um the public would come around the east end of that wall and come in that door right there we don't have much of an idea of what this will cost this is uh this would be put out as an rfp and you know for us to get bids and this is this is an s are funded this is s no it's not sfb but it's esser it was in our s or grant plans okay any questions for me or for mark on this one okay then we have the fox creek plan and if you recall fox creek does not have any public access to the main office for no public ada to the on the right side that you can't see here when the campus was originally built there is a ramp there i'm not quite sure that it's ada i'm not quite sure it meets ada regulations but it is inside the fence so right now if somebody comes and who has a walker or crutches or a wheelchair they'd have to call in advance and ask somebody to come let them in through the gate where we ordinarily let students in so our original idea was to get a ramp that came from the parking lot through that whole east side area but because of the ada requirements of one inch for every 12 inches right one inch change in elevation for every 12 inches in distance we don't have enough real estate out there to do that so mark suggested and what you're looking at here is the current arrangements so you can see the sidewalk you can see these steps that go down and by the way one of the things that we learned is that those steps are the width of the steps is not code and the risers on those steps are not code which is why it is so awkward to walk down those steps i've always wondered why it was so awkward to walk down those steps but to the left of that from this sidewalk there is an embankment that goes down to this low area at the bottom and and you can see there's river rock and whatever and so abm has really worked hard to make make sure that water does not run you know run into that entryway unless it's really really really raining hard and then it still will because it can't drain fast enough but that gives us some real estate to put in an elevator so kim if you'll show the next one scroll please our proposal is just to the left of those steps to put in a wheelchair elevator and so it would mean moving some of that embankment putting up a block wall to create you know create a i don't want to say a tower because it isn't really a tower but to create a space for that elevator and then the elevator goes down and then there would be the concrete sloping slightly down to meet the other concrete the wall on the left would be varying heights so it would start high obviously because we're up at the sidewalk and then it would it would drop down as well so that it is not way high around there it would also then direct some of the rain from the roof or you know the moisture away from this area as well this is also an esser project because it was an ada you know we wanted to be ada so cory's frowning so i know he's got some questions you know it's a lot it is a lot this is a big thing i can see where you're going with it but it is a lot to take in it would have been nice if we could have done the other ramp but we just didn't have enough real estate to get you know get what we needed in the property that we have available to do it carolyn the the elevator is going to be something similar to what they have at the stage where it's kind of an open you know yeah it's kind of open with uh with a wheelchair or whatever they can roll in roll in and then um a button push a button push a button and it goes down yeah and it's on it's on tracks isn't that right yeah it's tracks it's not a it's not a pulley system like elevators we think of in tall buildings no wheelchair ramp elevator yeah yeah okay no it's not enclosed at all no there would be there would be a gate at the top so it's closed most of the time and and but in the day time the ga the gate would be open so that if somebody comes up they don't have to call anybody they don't have to contact anybody they can go in and then of course on the building side there's a gate so that when they roll in they're going to stop they're not going to go over the edge and then you know and then at the bottom it opens and and that kind of thing so we've talked with um mr eastman about this and about you know in the morning and and making sure that we just teach kids that this is not a playground equipment and this is not something for them to be messing with when they're arriving and that kind of thing but it can then be locked the gate can be closed and locked when the school is closed so it doesn't become an attractive hazard now these last two were both uh esser this is esser is this part of the money that we set aside for repair pressure yes jen has already uh jen's already yeah it's already in there yeah and we had to file the we had to file assurances any of these bigger projects we had to file assurances with the ade that we were following federal procurement guidelines federal payment you know salary guidelines and those kinds of things we had to do that up front before they would give us the final approval to be to be doing these things so yes we've done those things any other questions and by the way the i didn't put the esser projects on the agenda based on things you'd told us in the past that if it was already approved as part of esser you were proving us to proceed with those so for newer board members i wanted you to understand why we didn't put that these on the ones that are s are on for specific approval by the board okay and okay one of the things that we built into esser also was a shade structure over our fuel tanks and pumps as the as the weather heats up like it is now uh the fuel gets hot the tanks get hot the pumps get hot and then they lock up and that's not real convenient when you need to put fuel into your bus or into a car and you can't get it to pump so this would be a metal structure it would not be a full building it would it would look more like more like a carport kind of thing but there would be sides down did we say six feet is that what we said about six feet yeah right so there's plenty of room to walk under but it still provides more shade additional shade and the other thing that mark told me was that it also helps stabilize the building so with the winds that we have it's less of a less likely to be a parachute if we've got sides down a little ways on the sides because it stabilizes that structure so so this is one that's ready to go out for an rfp and i think this is one of the ones that we advertised in the paper we've we have advertised the rfps in the paper and then we're also putting them out to specific vendors as well so this is an esser project okay okay this one is not an esser project so a month or so ago pat frazier sent me an email and said could we really please finally do something with the restroom situation at transportation and sent me some photographs and ultimately mark went over and took some additional photographs and i and he and i went over and walked through it the other day this is the restroom on the southeast corner of the big building that the bus barn building and you can see that the entrance from outside uh that hallway is only 24 inches wide certainly not ada accessible and it's up six inches so can't get in there with a wheelchair or a walker well maybe maybe with a walker but it's only 24 inches wide so it's certainly not the way a hallway should be from the inside of the building it's not much better it's 28 inches and once again there's a step up this restroom is not in too bad a shape in the restroom itself the access is the issue and it really needs to be accessible we must have one restroom in that building because we have four people who work full-time in the building okay and so so the proposal is and you see the the storage here this storage area where we have employee files and things so kim if you'll scroll up you'll see what we're talking about here and in fact after we walked through this the other day we decided that we're we're not even going to use that little short or that narrow hallway we're going to close that off and they can use that as storage if they want from the outside or whatever but close it off the employee storage area now becomes longer and narrower and the hallway there becomes wide enough for ada access and there will be a ramp built in to that to get to that restroom we will also add a urinal in that restroom to replace the one that's in another part of this building where it should never have been placed so so we're talking about mostly the hallway thing here and the installation of a urinal the sink in there is one that most of us would think about in a laundry room and so it takes up quite a bit of space so we would want to replace that so there is room for a wheelchair to be in there and that kind of thing so we would replace that and just do some finish work in there besides the walls um okay kim the the other side okay on the northeast corner of that building there's a little area that has a water heater that's not functioning it needs to be either fixed or replaced and next to it is a urinal and next to that is a sink and then right next to that is the is are all the main electrical parts that come into the building for the building should not be a sink next to the electrical should not be those no we would propose to move move a sink over replace that sink but move it over to the right remove the urinal move the sink over to the right closer to the water heater drivers use this when they come in from driving or whatever just to wash their hands and that would make sure that the other restroom is not getting you know has lines of people at times we have 50 or 60 people in this building so we need access to some of these things that temporary plywood wall i'm not sure what we're going to do with that [Music] it was only put up a couple of years ago and transportation now uses it the the the big room side as a big bulletin board kind of thing um but we're gonna have to figure out what we can do about that we may not even need it there since we're taking out the urinal okay and then the other part of this project the trailer has one restroom it is ada accessible that's the restroom that we would prefer that the drivers use because they can use it at any time they can use it you know daytime or when they come back at night and the main building is closed and with as many people as we have who work in that facility we really need three restrooms so so what we're proposing is in the trailer to add a restroom and back to back with the current restroom so we have two ada accessible ones in there and then some cosmetic things the floors and the floor tiles are in bad shape the building is it's a trailer so it's not as energy efficient as it should be to install that additional restroom one of the windows on the east side would be removed and the other one could be should be replaced with a low e window to help with energy and this is uh they've never done anything to the roof of this trailer it really needs to have some a foam roof to insulate it better so we're proposing that we add a restroom we do a couple of cosmetic things like the floor and then energy things the wind replaced that one window and put foam on the roof then this would be the restroom that the drivers use all the time not that they can't use the one in the main building but this would be the one that's accessible to them uh all the time it's only our transportation uses that it's only uh that's not what other staff no no so other than these few that are working in that building all the time right it's drivers it's drivers and they're there sure earlier sure so only my thought here is if we already have we're building another ada accessible one does this one have to be ada accessible it would be because if we had somebody one of the four if one of the four people in that office needed ada access we would need it to be isn't the other one well but they'd have to go out yeah not every restroom you make correct is true accessible um for example if we had four restrooms we were building in this building all four of them would not have to be wheelchair accessible just one so we're we already have one that is if we add in a second one that is i'm just thinking then instead of doing all of this now if we need some of this space for other storage that's another that's a whole other discussion but rather than doing all this we could make that a much smaller restroom not have it all ada compliant that actually gives us more storage for other things and um makes it a little more usable space because to put in all this we use up a lot of space to to make it ada accessible um so if we can put this together am i right or am i wrong well we're kind of trading what kind of trading space but this one would be the one oh no i was just thinking if we make the restroom smaller that gives more room for storage more room for office more room for all the others but if we have to then that then i understand that yeah you know i'm not saying scratch it all together i was just thinking making right more out of the space we have um yeah and we're not this way we're not changing the size of this restroom at all all we're really doing is taking some whitening walls and taking out that entrance taking out that entrance which is worthless anyway i mean for you know it could be used for storage from the outside but it's not helping this restroom any and um and and the way he's got this design for the storage on the left side it's just it's about the same square footage it's just longer and skinnier to give us some hallways so we're not we're not looking for additional storage here we're looking to make sure we've got a legitimate restroom absolutely get out of the money we're putting out absolutely absolutely you have to have a such a large restroom right that's space that we can get it's not really very big i will tell you it's not very big it's really only about the size it's a little different shape but it's really only about the size of these restrooms that we use over in this end of the building that you guys use sometimes it's not much bigger than that okay okay um so it isn't you know that's all i was thinking is going that route yeah sure well that was that was one of my thoughts and and in fact i went looking for because we really do need restrooms for the drivers okay now the transportation uh uses the their there's um the room where we would add the second restroom is a little bigger and they use it for training if they have like 10 people they're training there's a smaller office there that they use if they've got five to six people they're training okay so now we would end up we would still have two training rooms there's also an office on the other end that they use to store all of the things that they use for training and i thought that the i thought that that trailer might not be in such good shape it's it's really not in bad shape at all it just needs a couple of cosmetic things but if you all want to say okay let's do let's at least do the restroom and not do the other things okay you know we just won't do those other things let's break down what we're looking at to do it and we won't know until we do an rfp so what it's going to cost it's kind of hard to make that judgment yes exactly and and melinda i did i did look at because there are modules restroom modules and i thought okay why don't we just replace the trailer with one of those restroom modules that has like two ada accessible things in them and and they range depending on what you're looking for anywhere from twenty dollars a square foot to 250 dollars a square foot so so that was one reason we went out and looked at it because i thought if this trailer is in bad shape then maybe that would be a good a good plan is just to get rid of it and replace it but it isn't in that bad a shape the the trailer itself is not in that bad of shape uh just cause the cosmetic things and adding the restroom so but i knew i wanted to bring any of this to you all to discuss before and it is on the agenda so you know you can table it you can do you can change the plan whatever it is you all want to do because i didn't want to go anywhere with this this one would be out of capital money our funds and we could not apply to sfb because it does not involve students so this would be purely a district project are other items on the agendas also uh hvac's those that is the employee neighborhood the hvac is not that's uh that's an esser one we just wanted you to know that that we are looking at putting out an rfp to replace 62 hvacs the oldest hvacs in the district which we did yeah which you'd already approved and i think that's certainly i know is that isn't that was that the last one was district employee neighborhood engineering okay and we're putting out the uh the rfp on that and that's an esser project so any questions quickly on those because we got to get on with our regular meeting all right okay so at this time we need to uh have a motion to adjourn the workshop i'll second that amanda amen all in favor aye corey burgess i'm amanda amen aye charlene diaz aye anna boyd i'm melinda workshop is adjourned so at this time i'd like to call to order a regular scheduled meeting of the bullhead city elementary school board on monday june 6 2022 at 6 00 p.m roll call corey burgess here amanda amen here charlene diaz here anna boyd here melinda here you all join me for the pledge i pledge allegiance to the life of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible citizens president if you please sign in in the back uh call to the public do we have any calls of the public none at this time uh adoption of the agenda can we get a motion to adopt the agenda i'll motion to adopt the agenda as presented amanda amen i'll second that motion and a boyd all in favor aye corey burgess i'm amanda amen aye charlene diaz i'm anna boyd so moved item 2.7 donations uh our community once again has stepped up huge to help us out as they always do for mckinney-vento a good samaritan group has from the united hope methodist church donated 100 with gift cards for food supplies jenna smith donated diapers and an estimated amount of 200 a good samaritan group of united hope methodist church donated 150 worth of gift cards for food and supplies desert valley received a kona ice donation an estimated value of 172 uh box top program donated 23 emanuel solomon and kyle kabid donated 80 towards the trampoline uh bullhead middle school gonzo pummeling donated camera work for the pipes the boys and girls restroom at an estimated value of two hundred dollars uh thank you community for all you've done for us that is greatly appreciated item 2.8 superintendent reports dr stewart mr president and board members excuse me you have my general report document and the three budget reports as well as the building report and then the other reports and i don't have any miscellaneous updates today and so i'll answer any questions if you have them any questions on the reports yes i do um when we hire when we hired the new principal at the middle school it was part of her direction to improve the disciplinary because it seems to yes fully neglected yes for this coming year yes the same absolutely working on in fact at our uh leadership meeting on friday we went through all the handbooks because we want to make sure we have some real consistency and one of the discussions had to do with first of all we're going to be updating the the matrix or the rubric that we use for consequences and those kinds of things that needs to be updated but we want to make sure they're consistent we will also be doing professional development for all of our administrators in july on restorative justice practices which may and may result in some changes in our handbooks after that but primarily it is let's be consistent let's deal with issues let's make sure that whatever we have in our handbooks that we are in fact using those things so yes it has been a topic of discussion are we effectively using the counselors i think we are middle school has not had a counselor this year that's been the one one position that we've been unable to fill the counselors have been pretty busy this year and we all know that kids have some extra baggage this year for lots of reasons but yeah i think we've been using them i think some of the other things that have just been some inconsistencies in in how discipline has been dealt with i will mention to you that in the administrative reports i noted that there were no discipline actions reported from diamondback for may and i realized that that's just impossible so i did contact the principals mr garcia has been gone for a couple of weeks and he is in fact updating getting things into the system he did not have them in synergy so we will have an updated report from diamondback we got it okay you all got that today okay good um so yeah i was concerned about that because it struck me that it's impossible that we would have a month of school without disciplinary action at any of our schools so and and we're we're making sure one of the points of discussion last friday also was making sure that the correct things actually get entered into synergy for the report that gets gets distributed to you all and to the public and we had some inconsistencies in how those documents were being either put in or not put in at our site so we're addressing that okay my other question is in the last year i wasn't on the moon we had a couple schools that came in low as far as the abcd f thing oh thank you as far as the abcdef thing from the state are and i was looking at the dibbles report like from sunrise these are looking pretty bad are we going to have that same thing happen to us again this year actually our letter grades for our school sites are the same ones we had in uh they were not they were not distributed in 20 or last year so things have so things you know just kind of floated along yeah we're very concerned about our assessment scores our in-house assessment scores and our state scores so academics and progress and not not so much because we really love the state grading system of our schools but because we are not even seeing in our own assessments both dibbles and galileo we're not seeing the results that we want to see so a heavy emphasis will be on teaching what needs to be taught teaching what's supposed to be taught and good instructional practices and one of the things that i will be sharing with all of our sites i've already shared it with our administrators you all approved our capacity our classroom capacity and right now our class size is anticipating for next year are what most teachers would consider ideal and even with open enrollment they are ideal so my thought is we have ideal class sizes for another year partly because we have the esser funding we have we have we've had lots of and will continue lots of instruction or professional development on instructional practices and as far as i'm concerned we are postcovid problems we need to address our students learning and that's going to be a very heavy focus for us what what's the chances of the state actually stepping in um there are there are some uh things that could happen uh but it has to be a three years in a row kind of thing all right and it's kind of crazy because uh uh for instance we have right now two f schools um and they have been f for three years because there's not been a new score uh and uh so but we're a little concerned jen and i have discussed this we're a little concerned about what our scores what our grades will be this year and we won't know that until another what six weeks or so month or six weeks something like that so there is a possibility and that's been part of the discussion as well we don't want someone to be coming in and and the way the the way the legislature has talked about it is that it would be a charter that would take over that's a very scary thought to me and a very sad thought to me so um we don't want this to be we don't want where we're going or our discussion about where we're going to be a hammer you know we need it to be okay we need everybody on this bus if you will as a as a a metaphor we need everybody on the bus we need everybody in the right seat on the bus and we need everybody doing what they're supposed to do on the bus and and and all of us moving along as opposed to uh you know threats and those kinds of things threats don't work very well but we've created i think a pretty ideal situation for next year which should reduce any chances of whining and excuses that doesn't mean they won't happen it just means that we're not giving any of our employees any reasons to have excuses are we still looking at a lot of in long-term subs or anything like that it's very much a possibility our our folks have been filling positions right now i will tell you that the only real applicants we've had are filipinos and we have filled a number of our positions with filipinos that doesn't mean that we're giving preference it just means you look at the people you have applying and so right now we still have a number of vacancies but we're on top of it all the time so yes it's entirely possible and i'm thinking melinda that one of the things that we're going to want to look at when principals return on july 5th is to look at where we are with hiring where we are with positions and talk about okay we have these ideal situations in terms of class sizes right now but we may be looking at long-term subs is that the alternative we want or do we want to think about changing our class sizes so that we have certified people in those classrooms so i think those are some serious discussions that need to take place when we see where we are on july 5th um with the long-term sub situation which i understand um are we providing any kind of an additional instruction for those people who have not received any educational background or don't have a real educational background are we providing any of that jen they can come to our pd's can't they long-term subs i'm thinking that maybe we we should add something on top of that that if you're going to be a long-term sub for us that you come to a bi-monthly meeting or something where we teach you some management skills or we teach you some of the the skills that go along with actually teaching good ideas don't throw them in i've written it down we will uh throw that it's just an idea that i came up with we like any of our good ideas trying to get rid of this cold so um that was just an idea to piggyback on that um i've i've thought about that with like even just the individual subs um i don't know how much training that they're receiving at the beginning of the year but even just going over bell schedules fire drills lockdown procedures bringing them in for a training because we find that at the high school district that some of our subs that are in there that come every day we have them subbing in different classrooms but they're not as well versed in obviously our classroom teachers or maybe a long term sub that went through the training same thing like lockdown procedures especially with what's going on saw the coolest thing on facebook tick tock whatever you want to call it where you stick the chair in the door and those one handles it works like we went around trying it indoors we have the little fire hose sleeves and you could open a door you know an inch to two inch you could still get a weapon in there but you put that door that chair in the door and you twist in there and um i was going around with um with our our principal right now miss osuna and when we were walking around she was like i can't even reach the sleeve i need a chair to put the sleeve on but anybody could put a chair the leg in the door and twist it and then you could attach the sleeve for extra protection we did it we went around we tried on those doors we tugged so going along that same line do we have any threat assessment training for like our admin especially with our turnover and admin our teacher leads that are coming in like a team on each campus for um like threat assessment training we did uh we did the ic save training for absolutely everybody in the district last july 30th we now have turnover part of my conversation with police chief tribes and captain harms the other day had to do with us doing some updated training because we know we have a turnover of staff so we're going to be looking at that we'll be looking at any kinds of threat assessment kinds of things we have in fact also directed and we had this conversation on friday with our leadership team they all updated their emergency plans last year however the piece that none of us have reviewed none of us has reviewed is what happens after the 10 minutes of the actual emergency you know where what do we have set up for our re reunification of families and students and that's not to say they don't have it in their plans but we recognized last week that not only does each site need it in their plans the administrators at the other sites need to know what are in the other schools plans and we need to know what's in their plans so that's one of the that's one of the items we have a long list of things that are going to happen and be addressed in july to make sure that we are up and running and ready to go and then as i uh noted to you all uh in my uh memo we we are setting up a dem we're going to get set up a demonstration for the uh mutual link um that connection um and in fact i ask you at down at the end of the agenda when where we're talking about the meetings coming up for you all to give us some dates and then have them come but the police department wants to be there the sheriff's department people want to be there we'll invite the superintendent and the board members from the high school district if they want to be there and from malc because ideally within this community uh the first responders would love it if all three school districts that are in bullhead city are in the same you know have the same thing going on and um and they can choose to or not but at least we can just have one big presentation one big workshop and have everybody there to ask the questions and to make some considerations of that and that's a project that is funded with a grant that the county sheriff's office has from from the governor's office so we're very conscious of it i i will tell you that we were all extremely conscious and reactive to what happened in texas and you know we've had these events before but for some reason this one seemed to hit us all of us really hard emotionally in terms of that could be any of our schools so um yeah we're we're going to be all over it good i know that with the icy safe and the stop the bleed that we've done i actually was speaking with don lozada whose sister-in-law um helps with the stop the bleeding stuff about even just getting the presentations into the classroom i mean the kind of thought is is the the adult in the classroom will be able to handle the stop the bleed kit what if it's the adult in the classroom that's down yes so or it's a substitute in that matter so i'm just getting the kids familiar with what's in the kit and how to react as well and having those trainings throughout the entire school so and we need to move and we need to move that down to the kid level as well yes absolutely we do the drills we do the drills but some of the things the kids don't know and and we need to move that down and we were very conscious of the fact that some of the children in texas survived because they had had the drills so they knew some of those kids knew exactly what to do which is a good thing it's a good thing any other questions on the reports no all right moving on to uh 3.9 consent agenda uh any 2.9 sorry i like that point nine uh board member updates do we have any updates okay then we go on to she spikes i know right uh 3.9 approval of the consent agenda get a motion to approve i'll make a motion all second amanda amen all in favor aye corey burgess i'm anna amen uh charlene diaz hi anna boyd i'm melinda sabrasky so moved item 4.1 revised 2022 23 school year calendar mr president and board members this is pretty easy the calendar that you approved in february i had incorrect dates for kinder camp in july and for summer school in june so the only changes in this calendar are those those items on for june and july so i recommend that you approve the revised calendar any questions all right can i move we approve the uh updated calendar melinda zabraski i'll second that all in favor aye corey burgess i'm amanda eamon aye charlene diaz aye anna boyd hi i'm melinda sabroski so i moved item 4.2 asba service agreement dr stewart mr president and board members if you recall last month excuse me that's okay oh i have been tested i last month you i presented to you the asba agreement four-year agreement and you all decided that you wanted us to see explore if we could get something for a shorter period of time i've shared with you in the memos and things that i've worked with the folks at asba and this has been standard we might not none of us at this at this counter would have known that because it would have been approved in 2018 the last time and none of us were here but they have changed it to be still the four-year agreement full price but if the board if the next board decides to not continue the agreement that the the buyout fee would be 50 instead of a hundred percent for the remaining years i will tell you that it makes me nervous to think about us not having these policy services um forty eight hundred dollars a year for the policy services and us requesting any of those kinds of things from asba we couldn't begin to do that for that for that price with any attorneys there are a couple of other options out there the trust is putting together policies they don't have them ready yet but they could in four years they could yes yes or less so it's your pleasure i'm not okay with a 50 buyout it's just not um and then in the memo they sent uh remember we're a non-profit well so are we so that's not really a good selling point to me there are as dr stewart said there are other programs now i wasn't going into this wanting to get rid of asba that wasn't my goal i just am real hard-pressed to be tied into a four-year agreement and if the next board comes in and doesn't want to do this we basically tied their hands and i don't like it mr president if i could add one more thing we have multi-year agreements for a number of things we do but they don't have a fifty percent buyout oh they all have some kind of some they all have something into a fifty percent um so they all have something so i just wanted you to be aware that we have multi-year contracts with other such in other situations and uh and they all have some kind of a a payoff you know if you exit earlier to that that level a 50 percent buy-up have i looked at all of those specifically no i mean on the top of your head can you think of any that are that high usually it's a penalty fee yeah there's something for canceling early not 50 of what you owe us for the continuation of the contract i mean that would be the greatest deal in the world for a business if they could just say oh think about your cell phone oh i'm going to switch okay you've got to pay us 100 of what's left on your on your contract no there's an early termination fee and that's early termination fees are customary but a hundred percent and a fifty percent that's that just seems a little steep to me um a couple questions so first and foremost how long have we been with asba oh i've been in the district for over 30 years and it's as long as i can remember so so pretty much we've always been with asba okay and how much is the cost 4 800 a year so for all i mean for for not just policy services that is our total fee that is our total fee and uh only on rare occasions if we i mean we can get training from them we can get all kinds of things from them most of which do not cost us any additional fees have they ever let us down in my knowledge no so i don't see the problem with four years um if they've never let us down and it's forty eight hundred dollars and i don't know about your cell phone but when i first my first year of the contract it was really high it wasn't quite 50 percent but it was really high court yeah i understand i'm not getting that but our first one we got was a hundred i don't know maybe i'm just a little okay i'm i'm definitely not a person who believes that just because we've always done it that's the way you should do it type situation but unless there is someone who decides to come with a better offer before this contract is due i mean i don't think it's a bad deal we've had them for a long time they've never let us down they're pretty consistent and reliable i will tell you i've never had an issue with aspa and i've so i i that's why i said i'm not trying to get rid of asp all i'm saying is guys we're going to have a whole basically a new board yeah well i could say with my personal cell phone that it probably is about 100 i would end up paying if i decided because then i'd have to because i get the free phone right that you'd have to pay in full of whatever so i have no problem with getting into that two-year contract with them because we've been with them forever they've always been reliable they give me a teacher discount all sorts of good stuff right so i i i don't think it's a bad deal just do we do we need emotional nice questions it's you know you got to give up something to get something else and what asp provides to us i think is worthy and yeah it's four years but you know unless somebody else comes up with a better and like i said i have no problem with espn but like like anna said what's going on in the past doesn't mean it's going to be in the present no and that's all and that's the only thing that makes me real gun shy is that's a big if you have if you have an offer like you know att versus verizon is this a movable thing yes i move that we accept the asb policies agreement as written uh to be redone in four years so before you're you're moving to accept the new contract as a percentage yeah i'm sorry so we need a second i second them okay all in favor aye corey oh sorry go ahead no no i'm a nay yes go ahead you can go first all right um hi amanda amen charlene diaz yes i anna boyd hi melinda sabrasky so i moved okay thank you item 4.3 our new logo dr stewart um well i haven't had time to talk to anna but i did play with this and played with a whole lot of things and then i thought let's go back to our current colors and so these are the current colors the colors that are in our current logo and used exactly the same colors and thought i would oh and you're right james it did pixelate on here didn't it so anyway i sent it to you for your consideration i will tell you i realize that in the attachment that you all got that the letterhead page you couldn't open okay and um did we james did we get the name tag one yes we could open that thank you carolyn i want to tell you i i really appreciate the new colors thank you for getting for getting away from that maroon this is this is exactly this looks like us this looks bright and beautiful so thank you good thank you i ended up really liking it when i got done with it i'm going this is this is pretty cool and taking the dome off you know we were i was kind of in this thing about a circle um and then when i was working on this and trying different colors before i got to this first of all i took that dome thing off but the other thing is i looked at the logos for all of our surrounding districts and the only other district in the area that does not have some kind of a circle is milk and so when you look at all of those together you kind of go which one stands out the one that's not a circle so i was glad that i had done away with the dome to begin with but thank you for that melinda i thought this might work for you and i noticed that you've got my name on here i did i did it for you because i said because i said where's my name that's right it'll be just another one that ends up on my refrigerator and i forget it anyway do you need a motion on this then too yes i move that we accept the logo as colored and as presented to us i'll second that motion adam boyd all in favor aye corey burgess aye amanda ayman aye ayanna boyce i'm melinda sabroski and miss and mr president i'll put a footnote on that uh we are working on the home page and the for the new website and one of the things they're waiting for is our colors so i'll be able to tell them tomorrow that this is our logo and these are our colors so thank you okay item 4.4 superintendent's performance school update dr stewart i sent you the information i'm not ecstatic about how i did or didn't meet my goals but i'm hopeful that you'll recognize that we were at 50 and maybe i can have 50 of my 10 all right questions no questions wait a minute wait a minute okay wait a minute because she dinged herself really badly here on something i can't remember what it was goal six what was number one i didn't meet any of the i didn't meet that goal we didn't meet that goal at all maybe maybe goal four were you talking about goal four i thought it was number four but maybe it was number five what was it what was the other one you dinged yourself on i just went by the rubric we had established okay oh yeah here it is number six um being a math teacher 89 becomes a 90 actually come on if you're going to give a kid a grade 89 go to 89.6 definitely the 90.
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um our school was 67 and the other school that mrs harvey was referring to they also scored 67 so we have the highest average in the state uh and the average our average score was the same they tested overall a little higher than we did but like i said considering that i gave them a lot of information in a year and that teachers had them for three years give us another year and i think we would i told the kids about being with me so anyway um i really appreciate it mr priya has all this information if you guys foundation if you need any of this um i'd be more than welcome to share it with you so thank you you would really like to have it i think if you yeah great job that's phenomenal thanks mr carter do you want to say anything if i may good evening everyone so it's a pleasure to be with you as i was sitting there watching it this thought went through my mind and i i'm sorry i'm even saying this in a public meeting but that's how impressed i was so you folks all know that you're a part of a capital lawsuit against the state of arizona for facilities whatever you do don't let the state legislature or the state facilities board see this video because they will swear you have a brand new campus that's how good those kids are thank you very much yeah it's funny that you said that because i was saying i was like hey look what a little pink will do yeah you're absolutely right it's um i think they did an amazing job that was phenomenal and you are the reason that the board members worked so hard to get funding for those excellent job thank you thank you very much and thank you to the board i appreciate it hey miss horns harvey i know you kept thanking the board but i feel it's our obligation to thank you um it was absolutely our pleasure and our honor to have you teach this to our students so thank you thank you i appreciate it [Music] thank you thanks rachel all right item 6b mr schultz all right legislative update really is not much to update things are still in limbo but there's stuff happening behind the scenes um they did issue the budget forms um that came out friday the reason why we have a special meeting later in the month one reason is that the forms came out so late second reason and hopefully we'll have a budget that we can actually do something that's um realistic but um the current budget forms use the current year 20 21 22 numbers not what would be 20 to 23 numbers so um we'd have to do a september revision um if if not you know then then at least the december but um we're hoping that we can actually give you some real numbers um before the 23rd so we'll see that's a week before the you know things closed down so you never know we've gone that far before at a minimum it'll be what we got last year i would hope um well on the budget yeah there's there's um some automatic increases like two percent to the to the mno and stuff like that that um i don't think i don't believe are in the current budget forms um so they'd have to revise those eventually anyway so anyway not much taking place um i know there was some talk a little bit ahead of time before the meeting but i want to recognize heidi wolfe congratulate heidi wolfe for her asa distinguished administrator for secondary division which is high schools um so she is accepting that award a week from today down in tucson at the asa annual conference so i'll be down there i know cindy's going to go down there and we'll see her accept that that award so i'm well deserved 92 graduation rate um works her tail off i was here often on fridays working with kids to get them graduated and so um well deserved honor we appreciate what she does um track update we have some pictures hopefully um let's see the construction's in progress this is them actually paving so that half the track is paved and half is not um most of these were taken about one o'clock today so um you can just kind of go through you can see there's some concrete that we added and so that's what that new concrete is and we have two change orders one is to um they're actually going to add surface to that concrete area so that it's consistent that separation will be the lines but they'll be um you won't be able to tell the difference between the high jump area and the track except for the the line at the lines we do have a second change order that that came out last week on the north east corner there was a lot of that's where the water tends to go and they had to take the sub base down to 30 30 inches 36 inches or so and then tall that dirt off and bring in some new base and so that was another change order to make sure that the cracks that we get don't happen that's basically why we're doing that but is there drainage ponding there or in other words just changing the base it's not good right there i think they're also sloping it so that it's appropriate more drains more positive right right yeah i'm sure they knew that yeah um so with everything it looks like that we're on on track to finish by the end of the month which is before the our remaining season so um we're excited things are moving ahead it's nice because you can actually see things happening um teach update um i've met with a couple different groups um on possibilities for a teachridge which is teacher housing um west of del rio and the property that the district already owns uh both groups that went out there think it's a fantastic location um we are um working on the possibility of identifying through a state contract an engineer that can do a like a plan for us there's some um that isn't a flood plain so there's some some things like that that would have to um be worked out but um we've got water we would do septic electricity goes right back past there we had i had kind of thrown out there the possibility of buying something it's going to be much more economical to do something there than it would be to buy something we can probably get um you know three to four times the number of bedrooms that we would get otherwise how many acres are there i'm some of it is not usable um there is a big hole and a big hill and the archery range is in the hole but i'd say maybe at least a third of it is nice flat land and things like that so we're not subject to town zoning not subject to zoning right but there are some other things we still need a fire lane there's things like that and so we want to we want to be good um partners and you know make sure the town um approves things the fire department needs to prove things things like that so we'll book with that but um we are moving forward with that um and i assume you have not heard any any news on the grants they're supposed to know by the end of june okay there is a grant that the county esa has applied for um in conjunction with coconino county and correct me if i say anything wrong please um where for three million dollars that would be used for matching grants and the whole project could be a million dollar project and that would be half of this is strictly for teacherage and this is a grant through the arizona department of education um and you know once that's we find out we could come up with a plan submit it to a committee that would evaluate it to whether it's something that they would be willing to help us find is that fairly accurate yes sir all right thank you that's great so we're excited about that because that could that could you know take our our money and make it go twice as far so we're excited and um moving forward now did i hear the deadline to spend the money is june 30th of 23 um we do not know that for sure one of the documents said 23 1 said 24.
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miss doyle hi mr cerrone aye ms simelton aye mr gatewood hi miss johnson aye ms swanson aye motion passes 6-0 item 9.1 is information on financial statements does the board have any questions on what's been presented this evening item 9.2 is information on board policies for first read does the board have any questions on the policies that have been presented this evening ellie did you have a question there no i don't know if i'm on a different version of this or not no all right item 9.3 is information on an intergovernmental agreement between yorkville uh this school district 115 and sd-308 are there any questions regarding this agreement i have some on this one um particularly as it relates to the extended school year programming um i'm just verifying we do have in place uh like for example this year we weren't able to offer our complete extended school year programming because we were low on staff that we would not be required to participate in providing services to other districts at the expense of our own students should this continue same with eva stars dhh that would be correct right dr pesci yeah that's correct uh in the in the contract that's presented it specifically states that uh as room space and resources are available we will allow student attendance right but for things like esy i think i wonder if we shouldn't be taking a look at this a little bit more in depth because as room space allow might look one way in march in an entirely different way in may and at what point do we then have to tell our own students uh you know what we don't have the staff we were hoping to get hired so we've already made this commitment to other districts so now we can't have it for our own students so what what specifically does this look like when we're doing an intergovernmental not just at some random spec unspecified time if space allows but what can the expectation be for families in other towns as well that is there a date by which we will make decisions on these things we do hear we do say by april 15th of each year so that's something i can i can talk and have some more clear information about the process and how we make some of those determinations based on attendance that might happen after that april 15th thank you right because i took this because the little x was by dhh i thought that it was just the deaf and hard of hearing program that was coming not all of the other ones i thought that's what this contract was it is however we do offer this as skills east view academy deaf and hard of hearing stars programming and extended school year are explicitly stated as options and i know that we do utilize these for some other ones i believe as well as space allows like we'd said um it seems like while dhh is the most common it it i don't think that that's the complete story yeah i mean on the first page of the contract it lists those uh four programs and we do have an x in there for the dhh program but if there is interest in the others then we can open that up and accommodate i did uh going back to 2018 we've had from yorkville we've had seven kids in the program in 2019 we've had five kids and to the 2020 we had three kids 20 21 last year we had five or this year we had five kids and now next year we're expecting three kids so it's a pretty good program it's a smaller group of kids and something that i feel uh dr hillebrand can keep uh can keep us informed on sounds good the only i guess not it's not really a question but it's just something when i start looking at insurance coverages i know that this is likely to be industry standard to have the 1 million 2 million and 1 million and then 3 million umbrella but i'm just thinking that given everything is starting to become more expensive and liability uh and of course litigious society i just think that we should start at least considering is this enough and and and what would it cost us it could be inconsequential to require just the next level up for this for the insurance sometimes you have to prove why why it's um why there's assets to protect that amount being raised and we uh we meet quarterly with our insurance provider and we get quarterly updates on where we stand with all of our claims and protections and things of that nature and uh and other districts uh the potential for liability from other districts so we review that four times a year okay all right item 9.4 is an informational presentation regarding a kindergarten orientation pilot program that we'd like to try this year for for next school year i should say associate superintendent faith allquist is here to present to the board yes uh we have a new orientation uh pilot that we are going to try at boulder hill uh in lakewood creek and just a kind of a reminder on how we currently screen our kindergartners from may to august we have staff available and parents bring in their students to be accessed on academic and sel skills and then we balance so we have heterogeneous classrooms and that takes quite a bit of staff time but it also doesn't give us great data if you think about assessing a kindergartner in may around their academics that's kind of like buying them a pair of long pants in may and assuming and knowing that it will fit by september and they have cognitive and physical growth spurts like crazy when they're this age so sometimes that data isn't really useful by the time school is in session so what we're really looking at for those two schools is not having the students assessed over the summer having them in all of the kindergarten classes and having a very unified how do we do kindergarten at this school what does that look like being in with many different uh classrooms and teachers and then having a team there the reading teacher the instructional coaches and the teachers doing the assessments and observations there within the first few days and then making those really balanced class lists so that there is assurance of resources and trying to do what we've always tried to do over the summer but in a much more timely and efficient manner and so this just talks about what soft placement is that they'll all come to kindergarten they'll all be doing things to learn about the school learning about routines learning about behavioral expectations but then we will place them in classes after we've had some more chances to give them orientation and some exposure to school so the expected outcomes of this pilot is we want to have more balanced classes to better meet the needs of students we want to have more equity in the screening process because not all parents bring their students in over the summer or some of our students register so late in the year that there isn't time to do that and then we really want to have all of our teachers you talked heard the students talk about it tonight the need to have teachers at a course all working together this allows some of that and this also will save a lot of staff time and stress as well when we went through and talked about this and i do need to really give the teams at the schools the accolades they came with this idea of how best did we do this and this came from kindergarten teachers and principals but when looking through our own envision 308 it aligns with so much of what we are trying to do to reduce time on assessments to have equity to increase differentiation for literacy and math so we are excited about this we're going to have to do a lot of communicating to the parents of these incoming kindergartners as they come in and then what we plan to do is get teacher and principal interviews talk to some parents as well and then make a decision next year on whether we need to change the pilot and the pilot or move forward with more schools um so yeah let me just understand the mechanics sure so first day of school the the kids they all come in they're in classroom settings and differing functions are evaluating them so uh there'll be teams of people that would pull students out in small groups or individually to do assessments while the teachers are reading books to the class while the teachers are teaching about behavioral while they're doing all of those pieces so students will still go in to different classrooms but the groups are going to be changing throughout the day and teach all kids would have experiences with all the kindergarten teachers okay so it seems like the kindergarten teachers themselves will be able to provide the most input because they'll be seeing them in their more more comfortable environment um i understand that you don't get the best information and one of the things that um i've heard over and over again is you know my child was assessed they didn't say anything or do anything because they were in a weird environment um so i i like it for that it's probably better data but do we have enough staff to do that for all of our schools um and within like a day or two of first day of school so um a kindergarten assessment to know some really basics about letter sounds and about counting doesn't take a huge amount of time to look at those basic skills and if you every single one of our elementary schools has an instructional coach has at least one reading teacher sometimes more sometimes an interventionist and then that first week of school you usually don't pull out for speech services for some of those other pieces and you have a lot more hands on deck to be able to go in and do some of these assessments so that's about uh 80 to 100 kids per school right something like that it varies greatly from yeah i know some schools are much smaller the two schools you're looking at that sounds about right okay maybe yeah i don't know and if these are building level experts um and teachers teacher experts sure then i can see it because teachers are usually getting into doing all their own new assessments anyway when they come in to do those same pieces so now we'll really minimize that amount of time and give support to those teachers well but here's my question and this you dominic you hit on it it how do we have enough staff when when the expected outcome is a reduction in staff time and stress but i'm looking up above and our current staff hours are the cost is eight thousand dollars in staff hours of 810 hours for al's screenings that's 810 hours who does the assessments now and where will those people be so those are staff members that we paid to come in during the summer to sit with students while their parents bring them in to do these the same kindergarten teachers that'll be in the classrooms sometimes it's kindergarten teachers sometimes it's other teachers or reading specialists that are brought in to do those assessments so when we talk about adding this piece and i know that teachers often will do their own assessments if something doesn't seem quite right in what they're seeing based on what the current assessment they were given is um i i guess i i wonder how this reduces the stress when all of a sudden and i hate to to say this after we've just had this lovely equity presentation but 10 days in and teachers are now saying yeah i don't want that one that kid i i don't want that kid he's got a lot of behavioral problems she's got a lot of behavior problems how do we how do we he look at at this as reducing stress when and how does the selection process work with this balancing right so that's my question right so if we're assessing all these kids are we then splitting the high need kids amongst three teachers or are you taking all the higher ed kids and putting them in one class not creating a high class and middle class in a lower class so how does this current trend so how does this help then what's the difference between this and differentiation now you know where they're at to start because within a week a t most the teachers probably know where each of those kids are so like my bigger concern for me is here i've got a kindergartner who's afraid to go to school and now wait a minute i don't have one teacher i have three but i might get this one but i really like this one but that's not the one i got so i feel like it's creating it's going to create a lot of anxiety with kids and parents i mean i'm willing to try it but i but i think it's that it's gonna create a lot of anxiety i think it's a lot of how you sell it if it's you've joined the kindergarten team here it's definitely different from how i went to kindergarten where you went outside the door and you saw who your teacher was and you were either excited or you didn't know or you were like oh i've heard you know and but you have one face to and one person that is kind of your comfort person and it is hard at the kindergarten level and i know it doesn't have to be and for some kids it's not but for for the kids that are the least the most likely to need that kind of security of that one person i really get concerned that that will skew results also that that will create an unintended problem and so i wonder just how that will be addressed well i i well yeah yeah no i yeah so you're asking how will we avoid that they really liked this teacher but they didn't get no um i'm asking you've got a high anxiety kid that comes into class and needs to know who do i ask for things and the answer is five people you haven't met three four of them yet but this is the one for now and then in about half an hour we're gonna switch it so how does this look for that student and and that's not a small number when it comes to you know elementary and kindergarteners especially right now when many many many more haven't had the luxury of preschool education and even within our regular you know kindergarten program you have many teachers that are coming in and out of the classroom or taking them for music for art for a reading teacher for student teacher we even have kindergarten classrooms already that switch students within that and i want to emphasize that this idea and how we do this came from our teachers and a principal on a better way to do things that they're talking about how this will balance classes and be better service to students one of the things that happens as you try to balance and you put them you have classes in and then seven or eight students move out and then all the move-in students go to one classroom class yeah and in general not always for sure but the students that are last in are sometimes our media students and you get a very unbalanced classroom well and that was actually my follow-up on this is that i do know especially at the schools that have been selected for this pilot and my suspicion is that's part of the reason they were selected because there are a lot of first day of school drop-offs with absolutely nothing to say that they were going to come to class that day and sometimes it can you know be dozens especially at that kindergarten level um so how how will that be happening now you've taken in the first week or two of school students and and very carefully balanced what will happen for everybody else who comes in after that first week so i just want to back up to one thing you said that okay we selected we didn't select um schools to do this they came to us okay and said that's good to know we we want to try this okay um you know how how do we make this work okay in fact uh lakewood creek came a couple of months ago and then toyah came a little bit later from boulder hill i was like have you two talked and they hadn't even talked yet about there are other districts and places that are doing this that they're excited about when you asked about you know what happens you know on the fifth day after we already have classes made then you would have balanced classes and you're going to assess that student which we sometimes do when they're coming in and seeing you know where they go now one student coming in isn't going to unbalance a class but as you're having frequent move-ins and we do i believe this year in the fall we'd had i i i know for sure at one of these schools we routinely have throughout the fall move-ins i'm assuming it both but i know the one absolutely that's a challenge today it's a challenge today and and what i just heard was well you know this ends up being some of our neediest students that are placed in just a classroom so if we're doing assessments now you know i guess my point being i would i would be very hesitant even even though i totally get behind the concept and i actually think this is a pretty cool thing to be able to give our families there are some very specific things that i want to make sure are protected for our students sakes that they're not then just well we already did the assessments and balanced them so we're just going to keep doing the same thing we were doing before with the next set of kids that move in so i'm just to clarify did you just say faith that the the teachers and the administrators that brought this to you they saw this in another happening in another district yeah there was a semblance of this and said how can we do this this is a current problem for our incoming kindergarten so is it possible to also talk to them about all of the questions that we are bringing up now in order to to get some um real world real live solutions on what they're doing and then perhaps we can um well more than that i would like us to have a solution for how we will do it here no that's what i'm saying if we find out from them how they're doing it then we can determine if that's a best practice that we would like to adopt or if there's a way that we would like to amend it before we implement it so what's the downside to our students with this choice because there's always a plus and a minus even if the minus is not going to be uh that big a minus there's always a downside so what's the downside to our students of switching to this um i think there will be an adjustment of you know not knowing when you come in the door who is my teacher um it'll have to be a here's where do an orientation and your your first day with your assigned teacher is after some more orientation time and what that looks like to do that but that will be an adjustment for students we anticipate that some of our students perhaps that are in special education and have ieps that knowing that you have that structure and that peace and that need already going in we may say you we already know that you have anxiety you have this piece you're in this classroom already how will you know that well for some of our students they're already here for broca and with early learning and we know some of that about our students already or if parents come in with you know if they're have coming in with an iep from a different district from another early learning center we would have that but sometimes we don't know and as you just said that's the don't know is that tend um in your experience you i think you'd said to be some of the needier students for services and making sure that they get to have the benefits of the balanced classroom is that correct correct so what anything else what does this do to to staff uncertainty i know staff do love to get everything lined up ahead of time i often see number lines and things with students names on their desks that's a pretty traditional back to school experience for a teacher one of the things that the kindergarten teams have been talking about is having said number lines or name tags and things on desk to welcome people but everybody has the exact same one and then when you move classrooms and move those around those move with you or those pieces you're still going to have welcoming things with kids names on them as they come in but class won't start like with your class roster and all of those spaces until we've had some orientation days so the teachers at this grade level in both of the pilot schools have requested this their building principles also support the teachers in their request to provide this as a better opportunity to try for their students and they're aware of those those things that would need to be different already like right now today yes okay and they they came to us with the principles of the principles or the teachers so the teachers through the principles i don't know which chicken and egg but they'd had lots of conversations and then sought our approval to do this to eugene's point i would feel better if i knew another district who did it and if we had some more i mean like i appreciate a concept of what we would like to happen but i think the practical nature of actually getting it done is so i actually um i've done this in another district uh kindergarten readiness camp and it's typically done prior to the start of school and it's a two-week um period of time or they run the kids the students come to and run through a normal day of kindergarten the teachers are allowed to assess it includes the specials teachers my biggest concern is that why we're doing this at the start of school um in in essence um i i appreciate the kind of guided observations and i think teachers i think they'll make better decisions in class placement with this my concern is starting it on the first day of school instead of that time being used to develop norms and or to explain norms and classroom management especially when we don't have preschool for all students you know everybody's coming in at a different place so i i'm very concerned about that i think it i think it could possibly set back our students so that's something that i would like to see addressed um i i hope we're not doing this because of the 110 hours during the summer because this is such a critical time for assessing math and and reading for students and i mean i remember taking my kid in to sit down and had a reading assessment with someone and so forth also um right fit makes me very cringy um i just i don't understand that i guess maybe if it means meeting students where they're at i can understand that but who's the right fit for the student or the teacher i guess or both i don't i don't know um i i i just feel like the start of school is not the time for this maybe you know in august early august or end of july um which wouldn't make it really work this year but i just don't understand why we would do that at the start of school can we when you find out all those questions can you send it out to the whole board just so we kind of sure sure and i just i mean it will still be a lot on classroom management and and farms but it's this is right hill kindergarten and this is how we do boulder hill walk down the hallways and and bathrooms and all of those but it's with a specific teacher and then two weeks later we're going to say no mrs smith isn't your teacher it's actually isn't it like two days yeah it's only four days but uh oh okay so it's not a huge amount of time and it would be great if we could extend the school year but one of the issues as we you know talk about whether to do that in august is getting all students in to have that experience because you're not never going to 100 because during the during assessing them now anyway yeah and i think i have less concern about that because if ever there were people that protected their academic minutes it is kindergarten teachers because they want every minute they can to pump the brains full so this is this wouldn't be brought up i trust that if there wasn't a need my concern is that it's june and i presume um that this had already been determined that this is just what's going to happen this year for these kindergarteners so there haven't been plans made to do it in any other way so really this is truly informational and and not a anything that we should be weighing in on is that i mean am i understanding the purpose of the information item correctly yes we've already communicated you know some of these things that have this product this was informational this is a pilot that we're doing that i think this sounds like an improvement at the very least of our current practices and i think what i've heard about right fit is um it's it's sometimes and maybe maybe maybe faith um can uh help me because i probably i'm not gonna explain it very well but it's it's when one teacher ends up with a bunch of kids that are hard and then the rest of the kids so there's not equity in that classroom so the rest of the kids suffer and aren't getting you know the proper instruction and help from the teacher you probably could say it's about we for the other grade levels you know in elementary school there were teachers are good at assessing students seeing what groups of students mix well together and creating those classes kindergarten we're not so great at it because we haven't seen right yeah the students and but to that point though i i do know though that creating those right fits in classes as you get to know the students often can lend itself to you know kind of tracking putting kids into specific tracks where they end up in the same classrooms with the same students year after year that might not be the right fit for that student but that's just you know the right fit so to speak so i'm concerned with where we are as we're looking at we're making slow progress with some of our professional development that we are not placing more on our students and more on our staff then we can reliably tell the parents that we can provide for real i really want to see this be a right fit if even in a pilot for these specific kids in these specific schools this is their only kindergarten year even though we can have a lot of different years of pilots so what will we do if this doesn't work for these kids this year so they don't miss out on an educational experience in kindergarten we're only talking about changing you know taking those first few days yep to then assigned totally hard yes and my i would say it's stronger than i hope my our our efforts to do this are that we create classroom lists that are even be better at providing inclusive classrooms that can have success and challenge for all so it's really just those four days of orientation that we're giving up it'll still be the same teachers providing quality kindergarten instruction that it's always been we're just providing more orientation to that group to get them started so when you say they miss out on their year of kindergarten well if they're not put in a right fit classroom after those four days we're going to do this to get better than providing the right video ideally absolutely i'm asking for because it's important to understand what all the unintended consequences can be what i'm asking is do we have a plan for these students should unintended consequences arise that mean that come november what you thought was great not in august because you put all this extra in actually isn't as good as missing out on those first four days of creating the relationship one of the things that we also push very very hard dr sparlin talks about it every year is that significant 72 hours that first 72 hours to create trust and that's what i wonder after this first four days of assessment norm's evaluation what will be the strategy in place for them the assigned teacher to create that so that those students don't miss and what we have said is a really important time in order to get buy-in from students to learn so the significant 72 can be delivered by one teacher can be delivered by a team of teachers yes when they start their you know classes there there will probably be even some more team building and to know you types of things but this is a team of now how do we do kindergarten at this school instead of one teacher so they'll all continue to work with the students more commonly throughout the rest of the year too somewhat okay i like it because it builds more opportunity for students to um gain these places of trust you know it can absolutely i like that too it's it's the difference between the it can and will it here right now that i'm curious about yeah i think the main thing that the reason why i like it and from what i heard from the core was that there's an assessment that's happening during the summer and then there's a reassessment that that still happens excuse me happens in the fall and so when the assessment happens in the summer and the kids are placed when we talk about right fit for the kid there's still a reassessment that has to take place in the fall to determine if you know where that kid is or where they progressed during the during the summer or not and i think that doing the assessment in the fall gives us a a true picture of where the kid is at that time as opposed to doing it twice and then potentially have to change uh the class or make an adjustment based on the adjustment for the fall versus what we what we adjusted for in the in the summer and if i'm if i'm hearing correctly that's the primary reason why why they're totally great i i hear the same thing eugene and and i think that this is probably a good plan but i do need to ask the questions because this isn't necessarily a slam dunk i'm not i'm not speaking to you i'm just speaking from my perspective yeah no i hear you and i've i've heard that this is a good idea and a lot of people like it um i don't know that i'm i'm sold on it but i also don't know that this matters because i don't think that this is necessarily a decision we are being asked to make in which case where are we at on that kind of thing can i ask one more sciency type question so you talked about some of the reading specialists and some of the other um people in the building who were going to be assessing these kids so a concern for me is how one person would assess may not necessarily be the same way that another person would assess so how are we saying six today yeah how are we innovative reliability is that yeah i'm trying to say it nicely right so um sure on testing protocols for example of you know do you know your letters or not there are you know how much assist you can give but the um you know the the protocols aren't somebody's handwriting or somebody there right but sometimes it's in delivery sure and there can always be a little bit of that even with and we our teachers are great and they try hard not to do that but even with teachers on how how much of an assist they might give even within the same 25 students within their class so there's always a little bit of that but these are people that will be you know assessing and have been doing the assessment even in the summer time with those same concerns but now even outside of their school the person that might be assessing them wouldn't even be at their school i don't want to believe the point i'm not i'm up in the air about it but i'd like to like to see some answers to some of my concerns and see how the we will be addressing them here and what steps will we be taking to train our teachers to be able to successfully evaluate them in the first week of school faith on the expected outcomes for each of those points how are you going to assess if a balance if a class was more balanced how the screening process provided more equity how it promoted more team efficacy and how it saved staff time and reduced stress what how are you gonna i guess what are the um factors that are going to prove those well right now we don't have all of our students that are in part of the screening process so by waiting until school starts we already will know that all of the students that are there as laurie pointed out there still may be some students that move in but every year we don't have all parents that are able or equipped to bring their students in so they miss out on that possibility so that's part of that equity piece and then also having it given by staff at that school as part of that process at the same time of the year if you can imagine a student that's assessed in may and a student that's assessed in august and we use the data the same way they sometimes have huge cognitive growth spurts that that whole time delay doesn't account for so i can already speak to the equity piece with more balanced classes the kindergarten teachers have worked with their principles of here's what classes look like and they assess their kids at the very beginning of the school year and sometimes there's already half of a class that is well below grade level and really stands out for whatever reason that they were much lower we'll know than comparing this year to last year whether they're you know more balanced after our four day assessment because we already have the information to show year after year that sometimes we don't do very well because we based it on data that was that old since may um with the team efficacy within kindergarten teachers that we're going to have to interview them and talk about how well do you feel like you're matching and moving at those pieces and then we're going to have to talk to them about staff time and stress that was involved but since this is coming from then i i i guess i i just think putting those up there is i don't i don't know i just it's going to be interesting what happens if this doesn't work then where do these then we don't right but where do these kids stand that what's that that's what i was asking how are we going to i guess when you're saying it doesn't work you're saying that there were students that were really stressed out during the first three or four or the classes weren't balanced so they didn't when they and they're already not they haven't been balanced so it would be like repeating like if we don't do a good job of balancing out because of this then we'll be right back so except for the fact that now in the first four days of school the reading specialists and other stuff that usually are used between all of the grade levels have now been specifically taken up by the kindergarten students so it can have potentially some impacts on students at the other grade levels as well um i'm concerned about where all of a sudden this 810 extra hours is going to come from because if it takes 810 extra hours to do this yes some of them might get reassessed but those 810 hours don't go away that still needs to be extra so who will who will provide those extra hours and where did they come from that there's a few different things i'd like to see some more answers on but but to be perfectly frank if if we're being asked to look at this in june for something that's already been decided to be implemented in about two months um i'm a little concerned about that whole concept also that it is this an information item or is this um a decision that had been made previous and now we're just being informed of it then i will let you use your hours to prepare to succeed at your pilot rather than to answer my questions i will reserve judgment until i hear what happens in the fall i guess all right thank you for the conversation great conversation um item 9.5 is a discus information and discussion item in regards to the prescott mills subdivision and students parking there as you all know we've had the homeowners association uh who have spoken to the board in public comment on a couple different occasions um in november the school year mrs johnson and i attended a meeting of the homeowners association in regards to the issues that they're dealing with with students parking in davao uh drive and those in their neighborhood and on may 11th mrs simonton ms johnson i attended a a meeting at village hall that was attended by the village administrator village president chief of police a village trustee and the presidents of the three homeowners associations for prescott mills we took we each took our turn addressing the issue the village talked about what they've done i shared what we've done as a school district regarding this issue as a school district i shared that we you know we've made announcements at the school about parking in prescott mills and being respectful following the speed limit parking signs uh we've had our we've had engineers look at the feasibility of adding parking to oe and ask the architects to include any possible additional parking spaces into our comprehensive facilities plan something that i found out after the meeting on may 11th at village hall it was i believe to be true but i wasn't sure so i checked into this was i looked into the question if we've added additional spaces at uh oehs since the school opened 16 years ago and the answer is yes we've had we have added approximately spots during that time as the population here at oe has grown one of the questions that mrs bankowski and i addressed at the may 11th meeting with the homeowners was if adding the additional spaces would fully address the issue and i shared that i believe it could help but that we could not guarantee to the homeowners that by adding additional spots would solve the problem this is due to the fact that by adding additional spots we still have more students that are 16 and have driver's license than the number of spots that we could add to our property and so this is where we are currently at as a school district i've done what we've what we know what i've said we would do we've made announcements at the school we've had engineers look at our property we've um you know to see if we if we could add additional spaces uh that project has been added to the comprehensive facility a list of projects um it's important to note that we currently don't have the full funding to complete and uh so with that said i wanted to open this up to the board to have a conversation ultimately i would like the board to provide me and the administration any direction on any next steps regarding this issue because this is something that we you know three of us are three of us have attended meetings at and uh and the homeowners have presented to us on a couple different occasions so i open it up to the board have we asked the village if they could put up no parking signs from eight to two or whatever it is yeah we did we did that did come up that was uh not only brought up by us but it was also brought up by the homeowners association um i think uh at one time i believe there was parking on both the east side and west side of davao and right now uh the parking is only on the east side but there's no limitation monday through friday or during any times so the when our students are parking over there they're they're legally parking for the most part and those students who aren't legally parking uh we have re you know received tickets so i i just i i failed to see where with a declining enrollment this is going to continue to look the way it looks right now and the several million dollar investment for a short term maybe sort of kind of solution feels way more expensive than throwing up a few no parking between eight and two signs this has been a problem for all towns that have high schools since cars came in and high schools began paying for stu er letting students pay for parking spots it is not a new problem it is not something that only oswego works with and in our own community it's it's not limited to student parking we have similar issues with parent pickup lines and things in some schools also all of these you know are incidental things that can happen but if these were to happen because say a business got very successful or a restaurant got very successful and so all of a sudden a lot of people wanted to park you might put up a parking garage if it benefited the entire town to do that right however if it would just benefit one business for a year you might not choose to do that you might instead throw up something temporarily or have something else that would be far less costly to the community as a whole than to put in a permanent structure that's not going to be able to fix it anyway i i'm i just i i'm very concerned that we would contemplate even the cost of having a parking lot built and i know that that did cost money to have our architects complete that study as well um i'm a little concerned about all that so i i'm not interested in entertaining anyone's time with this further since we do know that our enrollment is going to be declining and that this is likely not going to stop it as much as a great big super sticky sticker on the window and then some good enforcement would do yeah at the meeting i did talk about the declining enrollment and yeah just so happens that meeting was right after we had the project you know the five-year projections by rsp so i did i did speak to that and the homeowners to give examples of other school districts of other areas you know high schools that have neighborhoods around that the uh they have you know that those neighborhoods have that limited parking that you're referring to they did give some other examples to the village yeah to the village and the uh that seems to be how most areas tend to handle it rather than asking the school to build additional structures well i i appreciate the fact that we have been good citizens and have added 500 additional parking spaces over and above what the ordinance requires yeah that was uh mentioned that our the number of spaces we have at this lot exceeds what the ordinance current ordinances they did talk about it it's a it's a very old ordinance from i believe it was 1970.
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as i said some other schools in the state like carmel west lafayette center grove schools that we try to mark ourselves against they also have dropped to 40. so we believe with the rigor of the graduation pathways that we want to follow suit and drop down to that core 40 true 40 credit requirement so that way our students can then focus on meeting those additional criteria from graduation pathways and so that's how we're going to move forward starting next school year i know it's a lot of information do you guys have any questions i'm sorry i didn't hear what the first criteria was with the graduation pathways what did you say the first one is the diploma itself the diploma okay okay if we're dropping down to 40 will that impact have an impact on staffing needs no it should not we talked to the other school districts who have already dropped down and they said they haven't seen a change in students um graduating early which i think is kind of the big concern that everybody has most students want to stay in high school for four years before they have to make that decision about what they want to do after they graduate and so they really didn't see a huge uptick in the early graduates okay and since you're talking about diploma do you mind if i ask you a question um there's the core 40 and then there's the technical diploma there's the core 40 with technical honors and the core 40 with academic honors and so students will still have to go seven credits beyond the 40 in order to achieve those seven credits beyond correct okay okay and to achieve the technical endorsement so many classes that are required they have to take so many classes within cte in order to get the technical honors and there also are some requirements for what their gpa is in those courses okay all right sounds good thank you you're welcome any other questions thank you all right thank you thank you we'll move on to our director of student services mrs gramala okay my first item tonight is to just give you a little update on some professional development we've been doing um and this is funded through our american rescue plan grant which was designated for designated funds to support students with special needs so we had a group of teachers spend a lot of time this school year and i wanted to bring this to your attention we had four teachers complete 14 hours of independent study and coaching through pcg and those were teachers in our applied skills program and it was called a teacher boot camp to help them work on inclusive practices and strengthening their curriculum then we had two teachers who were completing the second year of that program so this was their second go-round in that and the second year really focuses on inclusive practices and those teachers also completed 14 hours of education throughout the school year and then we have a group of four teachers who is giving up time in the summer to work on curriculum mapping and so that's specific to the content connectors for our applied skills population so we're partnering with crown point to do that which is nice so it gives them an opportunity to work with a larger group of teachers and we have teachers from each developmental level we're going to start focusing on english language arts but then hopefully be able to take those skills and carry on to our math also we've also the other thing we've done so far with our american rescue plan grant is work with our occupational therapy staff and our resource teachers to provide more sensory materials to our schools so we let the teachers and the ots work together on that purchasing things like flexible seating light filters for the classrooms fidgets trampolines sensory pathway activities so that's where we're at and some of the things we have going on right now any questions of course just because that's who i am not because just because it's it's me but now that you have a year under your belt where the students have been back in school in a somewhat normal environment um could you and i don't want to put you in the spot if you don't want to answer this but what what are you seeing and maybe that would go to mrs dr bracey too what are you seeing with student needs after the pandemic and the issues that have occurred i think all of us would agree that we are still seeing some pretty significant effects for our students we've all had conversations about things we need to do differently moving forward a lot of need for social emotional supports for students in particular academic gaps that we are still trying to fill i think part of what we're doing with summer school this year is trying to continue to close those gaps i think we have the largest group for summer school we've had in a long time so there's there is a lot of need and we will continue to talk and plan together to work towards addressing that but it's definitely not um normal by any stretch of the imagination i think we're still still in recovery mode wow yeah i was reading some grants for an agency out of maryville today and i saw reference to the covet pandemic and the impact has had on their family units and the drug and alcohol abuse that has surfaced so i know we're not exempt from that i mean i mean we're going to be affected and of course i will say just as i say every year i would love to see us add an additional program at the primary level be it developmental kindergarten or transitional or something to help those children but thank you both for sharing did you have anything else and that's actually a conversation mrs castaneda and i have had even with our middle school students where we're seeing gaps in phonetic awareness they're not right so we're talking about ways we can address that with our older students as well well good luck on it i mean that's a big project phonemic awareness is so important we have a great team too we have a great team yeah yeah and i know that i speak i believe for everybody on the board that you would have our support with anything that you would come forward with to augment and try to get those positions a little bit more defined for our students thank you thank you appreciate the support nice i'm sorry can i ask just a quick question it's actually with regard to the um professional leave request which which is of course is fine but um i i had to google it i'm augmentative and alternative alternative communication so i'm just that i have to do like with pragmatics of language first aac which is what the augmentative and alternative communication is those are um communication devices and methodologies for primarily non-verbal students okay um so we use primarily what's called the lamp protocol which is language acquisition and motor planning but they are computer-based devices that students select picture icons and then the device speaks for them so it gives the student a voice what we find is that when we start that early it really helps to develop spoken language as well so this particular conference is one that is in my professional leave request that i'm going to ask you about next that is uh specific to indiana and it's some speech language pathologists in indiana that have really been supportive of slps across the state and developing those skills thank you i didn't mean to i could have emailed you ahead of time about that so that is my next item to seek your approval for the professional leave request motion to approve motion by ms kelly second second by dr malcolm any questions hearing none all in favor aye motion passes thank you thank you thanks becky we'll move around to our director of facilities mr ledger ah thank you uh tonight i have uh five items three i'll be seeking your approval on on the first one is to seek your approval award and execute the contract for the coleen west parking lot and the south end of the west lot by the gym for resurface and paving we did i had three people bid the project milestone which is formerly walsh and kelly and wreath riley and site services and site service was the low bidder at 116 465 dollars so i seek your approval award them that work to approve we have a motion by mr marshall second second by dr medlin any questions bill did you say walsh and kelly changed their name yes they did they went into a larger group and a larger group bought them out so they are now milestone contractors i was not aware of that thank you that's recent yes all in favor aye any opposed motion passes oh thank you my next item is to seek your approval award execute the contract for the clark middle school west entry drive and parking lot milling and resurfacing as well the same three bidders bid that work and site services was low on that as well for one thousand four hundred five dollars so i seek your approval award site services that work as well so moved motion by mr marshall second second by mrs kelly any discussion all in favor aye motion passes ah thank you my last action item is uh to seek your approval award the contract for the east exit drive actually i will second that any discussion hearing none all in favor aye aye aye motion passes thank you and all that work will be completed this summer so i'll award those contracts uh tomorrow wednesday uh my next item is just a brief update on the vivid project um the drawings are completed uh the advertisements are out for bid we are getting bids on june 28th um i was at the town of dyer last wednesday and we got approval from uh the storm water management board as well as the planning commission so all the approval process for the for that has been done with the exception of the permitting process but without approval now we can go for our permit right now we are in for a we have a site permit issued to the town we've got the drawings are in for all that we have the state design release for that portion of work so hopefully here in the next couple weeks we'll be getting the permit and we're hoping to start probably right after the fourth of july holiday breaking ground and such so um with that um we are i'll send you some options for the oac meetings we're going to start having those it looks like the week of the june 20th so i'll i i have your email i know what dates are good and bad so we'll be talking about that my team and i this wednesday uh so so we're moving right along with that so i'll report to the next next meeting i'll let you guys know i did not have on here because there wasn't really anything to report but just to let you know on the summer projects as well the grimmer hvac project um the town called today and i my permit's ready for that so we're going to start that work this week too so i'll give you guys an update on that next uh next board meet as well but that's going to start this week so we've already kind of started doing floor protection everything for that as well any questions on three of those projects sure lots going on in the region i see that uh they're adding down to timothy ball over crown point also and then they got the big project at hanover crown point crom point is adding on to almost they're doing something almost all their schools if their bond holds out with the money because with the inflation and costs i will tell you just uh we did do some bids last week for the project and the market's real tight right now um there's so it's it's very weird market right now with the stock market falling the inflation soaring but construction is and the workforce is very very low so it's it's really it's a hard it's a hard market right now it's very competitive very much so okay very much so you know you mentioned that the drawings were done from bibbid school may we see them or may i stop by and see them well there's really hard to i can what do you want us i mean i'm just talking a bunch of electric and mechanical and oh you don't have the exterior framed out no i i if the next i'll i'll bring the elevations you want to see elevations i'm just curious about the design yes it pretty much is trying to match the existing okay and then you mentioned something to cindy about an a or oacb what's that stand for owner architect contractor meeting uh cindy's the board liaison so okay got it thank you bill on on the summer projects can i ask you a question that was my next item oh so yep okay so as you have the three columns here awarded started and completed so if they're awarded that means that basically you've decided who's doing the work right some of those are just annual maintenance which we did back in january right okay i just want to make sure i understood this thank you and i was back on that to dr malcolm i'll segue into that uh probably i have 98 of stuff awarded uh the good news is the only really item i'm having an issue with is probably gonna be postponed is the replacement of the kaler pa um that's lots of electronic uh chips and stuff and as you guys all know that's hard right now it looks like i'm not going to be able to get all the parts and components for that almost labor day but they've worked with me and we're going to work it out he's going to he's going up his labor for me over the winter break and we're going to be able to replace that winter break so that's one item that's not gonna get done this summer because of the supply chain issues uh we started a whole bunch of stuff today i mean this was our big day today because the last week was short give the custodians some room to clean out but we've got all the landscape mulch done all the playground mulch is already done we started the concrete replacement work today at grimmer um i said we started the hvac work i've got um we were going to start paving holmen today but with rain we did not so that will start tomorrow and i've got fence repairs starting the high school wednesday at the athletic fields so things are going to be going all summer long so that's the update hang in there thanks thank you our director of business services mr james thank you um first i just want to give the board an update on the financing for our vivid project uh the bonds um so prior to going out to say a lot to market we go through a bond rating with s p standard and poor's and i'm happy to report that s p increased our rating from an a to an a plus and i was not necessarily expecting that but i was very glad to see that as well in this volatile market as bill indicated with economic uncertainty um the fact that s p had um more faith in us that was great and so i just want to uh hats off not only to my staff but to the board because one of the things if i included in the report was that they like that we have strong reserves and in case of a downturn and the fact that we haven't over extended ourselves by adding personnel adding programs that aren't being funded so you know dr malcolm you mentioned the k thing but we wouldn't get any money for that so it is a problematic where if you want to add something like that what do you want to cut it and so it's always been an issue but s p really likes our reserves they like we don't extend to overextend ourselves so i just want to bring that to your attention got the great bond increase rating on may 10th we went out to market and we sold the bonds um capital one came in and in essence bought all the bonds at 3.55 percent and we it was about a half a percent less than what we were kind of guesstimating it was looking because the market and rates have gone up uh steadily since january and things that we're seeing in the market were over in the four percent range so uh we're happy that capital one took a interest in us and uh we will be closing on those bonds this friday on june 10th so um things are looking good then we'll get the bond proceeds and i'll let bill continue on with this project so any questions on that you know i think i just want to make a statement about the cutting something to add something that we might need that made me think about the operating referendum balance and where we are with that will you be giving us an update on that soon in july at the end of the quarter okay because it'd be nice to know where we are with that operating referendum money well if yeah we are pretty much running at the margin we were running in the positive on that account since we started it at first but we made the conscious decision to pump a lot of that money into teacher salaries this year that's why our teachers are able to get the pay increases they did so in essence we've maxed out we're pretty much running at the margin for our revenue in is what we're spending out of our uh referendum at this point there is a cash balance it's probably about one year's worth of expenditures but we have that you know just in case we'll see what happens in in six years but um i will say there isn't really much wiggle room in there to add things to we just we working with the team over here look at things that regarding you know as they mentioned hey we need to put more money into adding these things that we already have where we need to put more focus on we look to see that because if assessed values go up we get a little more money in that fund and therefore we try to see okay we have a little more dollars where can we best put that to serve the kids that we're already serving so okay moving on uh my next time is to seek your approval for the professional leave requests in your board packet move to approve motion by mr marshall second second by ms kelly any discussion hearing none all in favor aye aye motion passes and my final line was to seek approval for the donations that were listed in your board packet move to approve the donations we have a motion by dr medlin second second by ms kelly any discussion all in favor aye aye motion passes thank you thank you and we do not have any public comments this evening so we'll move on to board comments and consideration of future agenda items mr marshall uh i have nothing in particular however i've been thinking about this in light of what's transpired in our society over the past well it's been happening for the past decade i just want to make a short comment we have to get ourselves together and get this corrected we can't have children adults people being massacred on a daily basis i know this may not be the appropriate forum for discussion on that but i have some very strong feelings about control and i hope our congress gets off their duffs and gets something passed thank you thank you miss kelly uh no comments this evening dr medlin no comments thank you dr malcolm well you know i wasn't going to comment but howard you you're right on that and and i think about at our local level the gun controls that are in place it occurred to me while driving the other day teachers have to go through correct me if i'm wrong mrs mucha but teachers have to go through security every once in a while right every so many years they have to be updated they have they have security things that they'd have to do every year yeah does a go no gun opener are they periodically required to update themselves on guns yeah the teachers no no no no no howard was talking about guns right so what so my point is that teachers if you remember not too many years ago they started that cycle where the teachers have to be what reissued a new license or based and all those security questions have to be asked are you talking about background checks yes yes that's that that we are on a cycle with that and mrs patterson takes care of that and they have to complete those background checks on so is is that true with owners of gun i mean it's a rhetorical question but that's where i'm going with this but anyway maybe it's not the right format so i'm going to be quiet now thank you i just want to say it was a nice graduation ceremony so thank you to all at the high school i know we had some some new newbies and they did a great job so thank you um our baseball team i understand they lost to penn the other days so they are done and our softball team they went pretty pretty far also so congratulations to them and that's all i have for this evening and we'll turn it back over to mrs mucha for board calendar future activities we will see everyone back here on june 20th for our next board meeting thank you do we have a motion to adjourn motion to adjourn do we have a second second all in favor all right
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i'm pondering i'm thinking okay we should have about 10 percent of our teachers on google classroom and the kids we should be there and maybe within three to five years we'll have a one-to-one program for our chromebooks and i also read about this company called zoom i'm not sure what they do but and then the next day hit as you remember um the pandemic i know it's done so much to all of our uh our lives uh it it it affected technology in a different way it was the the boom of technology it hit like a hurricane yes that's me and my family on the causeway down in we were uh there's a picture of us we made the the newspaper and a quick technology story uh the uh the gentleman took the picture it was a local paper that they took it for but it was so representative of neglect of family that it was picked up by the associated press and went all around the world and our phone was ringing all the next morning i was afraid that child services would call it really is not as bad as it looks i'm that immovable object there and that's my family surrounded around me but that's the gratuitous picture there so the pandemic changed everything and it made an explosion for technology here in the schools with the help of miss kylie a lot of funding a lot of grant funding esther funding we're able to get quickly into one-to-one mode and with the help of the instructional technologist we'll just speak of in a minute uh we were able to get our teachers online and teaching as best we can for the past two years i wanted to express how technology is represented here at dartmouth and educational technology in general and it's a vision of a clear division there are two elements of technology one is the operational side of technology the nuts and bolts the physical hardware and such and the other one which is always been there but really up and coming in and the age of instructional technology is upon us and will be the future of technology and that's the digital standards for the children that use it the classroom use of technology as well as digital citizenship for the kids uh what kind of digital footprint will i leave on the internet that i will have to answer for in the years ahead of my life as well as the information they give it's very important to educate them help them guide them through that process first the operational side this is what we do with computers and hardware we acquired a grant this year of about a half a million dollars to to buy more chromebooks thank you federal government we also doing some updates to our servers and our structure we have here as well as through esser funds we acquired about electronic whiteboards the very clear boards that you see around you here and over there as well all around the classrooms in the school uh in all the schools we also uh maintained our network and wi-fi and made changes to filtering and blocking of information bad stuff we are looking in the horizon to do updates to those using e-rate grant funds in the future probably in fy 26 or so i'll be working with mr kyle again on the capital improvement budget to look to the future we've created a software library so we know what software we can use and which software is safe to use that doesn't share our information i'll talk about that later and also security and safety as mr oswalt has passionate about and we are as well changes to cameras we have about 320 cameras around the district adding about 20 more in key areas around the district those have about a 90-day retention so they're able to hold on to information for about 90 days we're able to export information in case we need it also we have an intercom system and a good phone system and also walkie-talkie system that works throughout the town what's exciting about those features too is they work in conjunction with the police department so we may we connected through the fiber that's in town the the old fiber that we've used the inet as called we've connected the intercoms as well as the cameras so the police department can have eyes on the schools and also take over intercom systems or communicate with classrooms uh through that system so the same thing and as always we will do tests and updates this summer and look at where we can improve efficiencies and and also [Music] more practice for the police department working with that but the police department has been great working with us and doing that the people that run that opera operations department are mr branco chris branco who does servers mobile device management uh accounts integration assistants and backups and backups are key to you know we all hear about ransomware and such backups are really your best defense against viruses and ransomware because it keeps inc we keep incremental backups so if a virus were to hit we could go back to a certain time in history and find files from that time so backups are critical when doing that our networks and security and phones are handled by mr jesse martin a dartmouth resident who uh is amazing about networking and what he knows about the networking as well as filtering and also kind of closing the back doors and side doors of networks to make sure they're safe we have our data person tom faraz uh he does aspen he also does chrome management and all data that interacts with the software that we have pam king we stole her i mean we acquired her from the high school here is she's absolutely amazing um i pam just is i almost described her once as a workhorse but i thought that was a little bit derogatory so she's a unicorn she's a work unicorn because she's amazing and she just it's unbelievable how how efficient she is how organized she is and how smart she is tracy bourgeois runs the office does work orders accounts she's a little pretty much the contact to the to the public and a person we acquired this year through esser funds trish leary who was working on a special assignment this year in software safety and digital standards someone i will talk about she has a cross crossover responsibilities i'll talk about her in a second when i get to integration so in regards to instructional technology that's where we have the teachers in the schools the instructions instructional technology specialists just to let you know who they are we have at the high school here jennifer thomas at the middle school temple mitchell at cushman and demel liz vosey at potter sandra chika and quinn kate powers these are the people that got us through the pandemic when it came to helping our teachers uh many other districts were not as fortunate they said good luck to their teachers our teachers guided trained came up with with quick training classes and constant uh helping the teachers integrate they've come out of the pandemic busier than ever because the teachers who got a taste of that technology during the pandemic want to use that technology to be more efficient in their classroom and get used those tools as i mentioned trish leary that additional instructional technology specialist we've been dealing with something a three-prong approach this year for an area of technology integration that'll be invaluable what changed after the pandemic with an uh where everything was pretty much anything we had to do to get through that pandemic a lot of companies that caught the other side and concerned about privacy and and uh protection of data so trish has been working all year at vetting all of our software both the free and the apps and the websites and so on to find out which sites and companies are using how they're using our data if they're using our data and they're having them sign agreements through a company called the data privacy alliance so these companies are working with schools to say that we're going to protect your data and not give it out to advertisers or vendors for profit she's also working on digital standards with the instructional technology specialists every grade level every discipline we have standards for technology across the board and we're implementing those and a big one for students and for teachers really safety and security in the form of digital citizenship and again that what that is what do you do on the internet uh these students we have have access to technology at home they have access to their personal cell phones their personal computers we are have to train them on how to act and use and and process information the librarians are part of it the tech teachers of course are part of it the whole technology is dedicated to this i think it's the most important piece of technology that we have so as we come out of this we regroup we reassess and we react we have the need we know we're doing the need we have the desire these teachers all the all of our teachers are pushing the edge of the envelope in regards to use of technology as i've mentioned before there was a teacher here that took parts of technology that she's using her classroom and she says and i don't know embarrassed service uh miss church she said it's changed the way i i teach and i'll never go back the other way and i thought that was the biggest testament to technology if it can make a more efficient way of doing something its goal has been reached we have the technology thanks to the grant funding that we've acquired through miss kylie and other sources we have the technology and we have the ability these tech teachers are teaching how to use this working on technology as i've always said is like trying to build a plane in flight especially during the school year um we that's why we love the summer the summer's great because you all go away and we are we remain to get some work done i i tease i tease but you know what i'm saying um but it's exciting because we get so much done and and so many and so we have a list of things so long uh to do and they you know they include uh updated wiring more efficient wiring update of a website uh increasing server capacity cleaning of chromebooks and kind of organizing and processing those again looking continuing the vetting of software and my number one priority which is something that i'll be working on oh i'm almost done i just wanted to i'm just uh i'm talking fast because i know that i don't want to i'm nervous and and i don't want to this to go on too long as we usher in the new era of technology my priorities are policies procedures and protection as i mentioned about digital citizenship i think we have a renewed commitment to protect the students from the internet the information on the internet how to process it properly policies and procedures will enforce those or guide those and that's really where i'll spend my summer working on some of those things like updating plans or acceptable use policies or things like that and uh the rewriting of those policies and those procedures to make it more efficient how to place work orders how if something's broken how to get acquire new technology show us where the needs are and that's it questions thank you thank you sir questions chris go first go ahead thank you mr galesha for your presentation and um for you know for all you've done for the past two to three years during cove but it's certainly has been a very difficult time um yeah i would certainly agree with you in your statement up front where you said you know you were kind of half joking where you said you know and maybe in two to three years we'd have a one-to-one program um and who would have thought it would happen within a couple of months over the summer so um you know i i think that's great i think everything you know that your department does um it's very well thought out it's constantly a moving target certainly in the air while you're building it for sure as far as uh obviously security we heard a little bit about security this evening um and i know that in the past you know we we've certainly talked about it and i know you've working with mr kiley has done a tremendous job with our security cameras access control and everything else that goes along with it as well as the interoperability i think the interoperability with all the departments without saying too much i think is a huge piece right do you do you think in your opinion that there there is some more room um to to improve on that yeah um or do you think that we're you know we're we're at an okay level and we can stay status quo well i think the improvements come for we have security as i mentioned 320 cameras what i'm uh what i'm doing this summer is literally walking from end to end of every building to make sure there's no crevice that's on on you know without coverage if you will the other thing that helps a lot too is the changing of cameras we maintain the existing cameras for cost efficiency but as cameras come down in prices and and quality comes up we're able to replace analog cameras with digital that are so clear that allow you to get license plate numbers and far away information i think the other thing we can always improve upon meeting with the the police department getting on a testing schedule of trying the intercoms as well as seeing that because we gave them that ability and they're using it they know how to do it but i want to feel comfortable that they're very proficient in it because i think that's how we can always improve going through with principals to walk through buildings to make sure the coverage is what they need there are some dead spots on the perimeter uh it's just a matter of taking the time and we have 20 cameras that are planned for for additionals so um but we will be part of the review that we're looking at for for other avenues but as you mentioned mr kiley and mr ferreira over the years the man traps the walkie-talkie system the the swipe uh badges the uh security doors uh sure amazing improvement no i think that's all great and you know unfortunately you know it it takes an incident like something like happened in uvalde in order for us to really our ears to perk up and i believe correct me if i'm wrong but the you know the man traps or the double doors was a direct result of sandy hook um it happened shortly those happened shortly after um so i i agree with staying ahead of the curve um you know we owe it to our to our students we owe it to our um our faculty but um you know at the end of the day all the technology in the world is not going to you know help if someone leaves the door propped open or um you know through through human error so there's there's a lot to be done and you know maybe at another meeting we can talk about that but as far as going back to technology um i i say this every year and i'm gonna i'll say it again this year i think for for the amount of responsibility um that your department has and that you're um you know you're tasked with with working on um i think it's safe to say that you could easily use someone else um and i would i said it last year i think it was cut right as we were talking about this as covid hit um it was in the budget and then covet hit and get cut out of the budget i am i'd like to see this um put into the budget again maybe next year um for an additional piece because we when you look at when you look at the private sector when you look at health care um education is substantially under um understaffed when it comes to technology no i appreciate that you and you know the business um so you understand i really appreciate the the sr funding and the dr gifford allowing for miss leary which alleviates some of that pressure allowing for shifting of responsibility and it also helps a lot to the right to hire the right people um the department's dedicated dedicated to a fault um don't tell them that but uh no uh they are they truly are i mean you anyone that's dealt with them knows they'll go to the ends of these they just do nothing but positive yeah they're just really positive nice people and um yeah i appreciate you i have two quick questions um one is trish larry is that that was us or funded is is that position going away and she'll be back to her regular duties next year for fy23 no that one no we we decided as a team um kate powers who was the quinn started off as a librarian right took over in the school part librarian but part of the its so jonathan kept advocating for us to keep it another year because of the work that's kind of half done and the product that's being developed so we we decided we're going to keep it one more year at least and as he said it takes some of the burden off the tech department itself but also just watching that work that's going on with the its teachers yeah and then they bring that into the classroom we just hated to the creation of the standards the creation of the digital citizenship the implementation is coming now we're on the brink right it's a break so i would i would do my all call to just dr gifford at four in the morning and say this is a message from mr galasha i really need miss leary and apparently after four or five of them she she gave she gave in okay so that's good excellent well last question is uh for redundancy purposes do we currently just simply have one um one isp for the entire district or do we have a secondary fiber backup uh because as we all know when the internet goes down we can't hate him nothing can be accomplished yes um thank you for mentioning that it sounds like you have my playbook mr new i mean um mr uh oliver sorry yeah no um but yes we've been re-examining that mr oliver in regards to doing we have a single point that comes out of here right correct and we're looking at um the fiber that goes through town as well as a different route out we do have one route out that comes out of bush street yes but it's a smaller cable modem fiber's becoming cheaper i also can e-rate it so i'm looking to do a fail-safe going either direction so that's part of the rebuild i mean the redesign of the the network which will probably come in the next two or three years great thank you very much mr kalashnikov dr jenkins thank you um i'm going to try to talk to my microphone and not look at you because i know mr perrotti will be yelling in your ear if i lean away from the microphone i was hearing it when mister oh it was like lean forward um i want to say i think you know you're popular with half of the house the parents who and unpopular the other half the kids who have the chromebook who can't do things which is great right they're frustrated they want to do more stuff but the stuff is not always good and i i want to tie that into our conversation about security because i think we've done a good job with physical security but i think in a certain sense right there's we we always need to be doing the best we can and looking for more but at the same point in time that concept of digital citizenship um and misinformation and learning and for kids when they see something to say something online there are almost always in these situations signs that are missed and so i think as we talk about this in technology we need to think about where our best investment is is it a more hardening of our schools or is it in the training and the i don't want to say monitoring right because so much of kids digital life is outside of school but in nearly all of these cases there are some signs there's something going on in their digital life that are signs of this for so many of these kids and so i think we need to think about we need to be constantly thinking about what we're doing but in terms of the technology it's that balance because man traps are easy to see and they're they're good i'm not saying they're bad but they're easy to see and they're easy to point to it's much harder to say we've invested in this education program that teaches kids about misinformation so hopefully they don't get dragged into this or teaching them about when to say something to their teacher or their and so i think we as a committee and working with you have to really think about right and the administration where we invest our money in these sorts of things because what we like to do is to prevent these things before we even need to go to the hardening of schools and so i want us to keep that in mind and that's why i appreciate your priorities talking about that at the end it's talking to kids and teaching and and thinking about that about what we do and so i appreciate that very much and you know i think we all look forward to you know talking with you and and learning more and working in this to make sure we keep our kids safe and just uh to speak on that too that's why the definition of the clear division between operational technology and for 25 years of my career operational was the most important thing i the wi-fi is too slow i can't print it's all the tangible things of technology but the intangibles are the most important and the age of the its is upon us and that is the the truly understanding knowledge we have to go deeper and it's all you know out there it's not it's not hard it's not as easy as a broken printer it's a lot more difficult it for me yeah i just quickly um my two colleagues sort of covered some of my i was one patricia's position i was wondering the future of that in terms of you know sustainability but that's really great um and i was looking over to my colleague when you were talking fiber this and that and i think john had the same sort of dazed look that i had i have it too yeah yeah i just really appreciate you bringing this to us and just having you know lived through what your team uh under your leadership in the district's priority of it uh through the last couple of years um phenomenal thank you yeah yeah uh yes so you know jack and my colleagues yes thank you i mean the tremendous amount of work i mean just the last few years it's you know it's it's volumes and volumes of time so we really appreciate that i had a couple questions um mr oswald alluded the fact that it sounds like you are also going planning to meet with him absolutely so just because i you know again it was a very quick presentation and to mr oliver's point like you know that's something we certainly need to follow up when he spoke about like kind of a digital lockdown of the school was he talking about internal doors as well when he talked about that like a lockdown on the schools like if there was a digital would that lock down individual classroom doors i'm just kind of concerned about i know we have problematic doors within the building some that open internally versus externally so i'm kind of curious like how you know when we have these antique well i say antique buildings but kind of i mean when we think about like cushman and demeli's problematic buildings how updating technology works with the physical structure and how that would be part of the conversation you're going to have with mr oswald if if that or a similar um yeah for mr allswell's sake he had called um mentioning about his product and i said yeah i'd love to because anything that i can acquire to get gain more knowledge and it's it's kind of closer to my home in c-conc to go to warwick it's just i said i'll go to warwick yeah so um but i'm curious i mean but it's not just his well no no no exactly i mean that was just like as a so in regards to digital lockdown yeah it's looking at all of it because it's it it is one of those concerns that uh you know tech and mr nunes gave me an example of a friend that had a general ledger a computer and he had a general ledger book and when his computer died he lost his general ledger information and his general ledger paper lived on for legend but it is concerning because we do depend so much on technology and as mr oliver's point of having redundant systems whether it be fiber because we become when we have a blip in the in the internet it's as if the world ended uh from cell phones to and i totally understand so to have a 99 up time with technology is what you're looking for and that includes the the security right you don't want security to what will security do if power goes out right now will doors unlock will doors uh not be able to get out uh both are concerning uh from whatever so i think it's it's adding that to the the review as well okay absolutely and then my second question is i know that we had talked um just briefly over time and i know mr tebow was looking into the you know something as a digital pass system um is that something that i because again i i know there's been a lot going on at the end of this year and uh so i'm curious how would that impact like your department and like implementing something like that that would you know be a digital past system that would go into you know for the students because again and of course that's another reason why we need to make sure our fiber is updated and everything else is so that we have those backups if we are depending on a virtual like e-pass it sounds like something like that would be as i mentioned to the principles and i'll reiterate always when we have our admin retreat in the summer time uh i like to preach technology first because only because it may i may have to be called in to get it to be compatible with the system right so i'm not there to be red tape or slow the process i more want to make sure it's compatible so yeah with mr tebow's thought there it's amazing that you talk about the the digital pass i want to shout out to during the pandemic i don't know if you noticed but the people here the its and the other tech made in a barcode um on the the tables i know and they use the kids use their phones i had nothing to do with that okay this is this is this is the the rock stars that we hire um and for close contact so if i it automatically went to a google sheet so we could see that i was sitting next to mr oliver sitting next to it so that when you had to do close contact we had it was all homegrown it was amazing so but to your point yes i will check with mr tebow and make sure any of those systems are compatible as i talk to mr kylie when we have uh the the maintenance department they work in conjunction with my network person jesse all the time they get they're really close okay well thank you very much for everything you do my turn okay uh a couple of simple questions you talked about having uh 180 of those electronic white boards correct yeah are they system-wide are they all here in the high school or are they all systematic spread out throughout what we did was we make a when we had semester funding we made a pass and then we had the its's would regroup to make sure where there might be holes and this last press covers the elementary schools completely and a good amount of the high school and middle school but more we need more for them but we will as needed in the high school it's kind of a divide and conquer model i look at the departments and see how the what what could better the better utilize the boards uh we've done those boards upstairs in the language department the these large television screens are what the english department uses the short throw annotated right on the whiteboard is what the math department uses the labs downstairs have their own projection system with the labs they have so they don't use those boards as much so i found it easier to do divide and conquer model because funding sometimes would come in smaller pockets as opposed to doing a large capital improvement i could probably one thing i will be working on in the year to come is the capital improvement to now that all the chromebooks are in place and all the machines are in place through these now we can get to a cost cycle replacement as we project out for the next 10 years so that'll be exciting not for mr kylie but it will be exciting for me to at least put my sights on those uh those recruitments okay and i can give you numbers mr nunes about who got who has what but they're mostly in every classroom at the elementary school okay that's good thank you uh you were talking about uh you know ushering a new era of technology what are our priorities and policies and such and it almost sounds like you're trying to what you're trying to do and which is really great is to protect the students from themselves from going off wherever they shouldn't be we could lock down their chromebooks both here and at home but i can't lock down their personal computer or their cell phone and i would imagine most children students in the high school have a cell phone i mean am i naive to think they don't or maybe even the middle school kids but they can go anywhere on their cell on their cell phones we have to educate them on what that means because the digital footprint what they're projecting will make it difficult to run for office in 25 years because they're leaving a trace of what they do that's it and my my last comment just is just a general one is it's obvious that what goes on in technology now is just not working on a computer or the computer doesn't work the print is not working that there's more to it than just you know the the computer and the printer type of deal in the software so yeah thank you very much for a wonderful presentation oh thank you thank you very much thank you jonathan all right okay next you want this one yeah okay next we have uh on our consent agenda is a request from smack the southeastern mid uh mass educational collaborative to request the permission to lease a classroom space you have the paperwork in front of you it's the high school the quinn school there's no change from previous years to three percent increase chris thank you mr chair uh just uh just to confirm uh well aware of the smack the classroom that's being leased here at the high school for their program the the classrooms that are leased at the quinn elementary school are those for our programs um specifically um i actually i was just with cat with mrs cooper um or do we take in students from outside as well into those classrooms because i know it was it was originally the the classroom that we opened up and then we converted it uh we turned it over to smex so just to confirm that we are um it's accepting they're taking we're taking on our own students as well as outside students through smac okay statue i'd like to make a motion that we approve the uh three smet classroom leases for fy23 second moved by mr oliver seconded by dr jenkins on the motion any discussion hearing none all in favor hi hi opposed motion carries unanimously all right here we go all right old business diversity equity and inclusion subcommittee what do we want to do this is something that goes back no disrespect just the way everything has been all right this goes back to uh april so all right we're finally getting to it no and again no biggie huh a year ago a year ago yeah or before that yeah yeah so dr jenkins i do want to continue the diversity equity and inclusion subcommittee at the same point in time i recognize that we have two new um curriculum coordinators that will be starting in their roles in july one and i don't i i see them as sort of playing a a somewhat large role in this in part because i know the superintendent doesn't have room under my head to do anything but also because they're the ones who are coordinating across classrooms across schools and part of that conversation and so i don't wonder whether we don't want to wait until they're on board and they can be here at a meeting with us whether that be a working meeting or a regular meeting but provide some input onto this because i think they i think they are the people that should be sort of leading this um with i mean the last time it was me chair i'm not really sure that's the way it should be i really feel like ross and katie should be maybe leading this as part of their work i don't know if the superintendent would agree with this and that we are sort of partners on it and you know integrating other viewpoints and that sort of thing so i would be okay with waiting for them to come on board and i don't necessarily want to keep kicking the can down the road but the other hand we want to do it right no no total totally understood you know i mean and i think that was a comment that i made too with way back was the fact that especially once we approved the positions was you know they're going to be very much involved with however this is wherever this leads us type of deal this way no i you know i agree with dr jenkins i think though you know just as we think through this and again this perhaps is a conversation for us to continue like once those folks are here is again revisiting what is the mandate for this committee like so again certainly when it comes to curriculum those are the folks who should be driving those conversations i think if we're talking about facilities you know and access those are you know certainly like conversations with mr kiley and the rest of us so so again i think it makes sense to delay for those reasons because they'll be homing the curriculum piece and which is you know certainly a huge chunk as you know we look at you know each of our grade levels k through 12 but i do think that those other pieces i think you know we need to maybe once they're here we can kind of reconsider our mandate and what we want to do let's see once they get once they get in and they get their feet wet and see what's makes more sense what's going on i'm good with that okay okay so we'll we'll just hold on that until the good janet i just want to make um you know one other sort of comment about this i literally don't care what political party identification anyone has i am open to republicans democrats independents or what but you have to be committed to diversity equity and inclusion that is a minimum qualification for being part of this committee all right you have to be committed to making sure all of our kids feel welcome and all of our kids are treated fairly and justly after that if you have a commitment to that i don't care who you believe in who you vote for it doesn't matter to me that's the fundamental that's what this is about it's about creating an environment for our kids to be successful and to thrive and there has to be a fundamental commitment to that aside from that i don't care open-minded yep right and i think that should be a you know qualifying piece as we you know it should be a conversation when we're you know speaking to people who want to be on the committee that that should be a commitment that they have that they're that they're open-minded as you said yeah dude mr nunes they're they're gonna be you know they're gonna answer the words because we're the ones we're the ones that's gonna appoint them right so okay thank once again thank you we'll get down that road and then we'll get something people on board right okay how's that does it that makes sense yep it's good thank you that's good i agree all right cool very good thank you everybody okay next on under old business smet quarterly report mr oliver thank you mr chair so we had the art we had the opportunity to meet last week uh the smack executive board um it's our second last meeting of the year it's the meeting in which we have the first reading of our budget budget is looking good based on expected revenues and expected expenditures um we're well within our means you know i will always say that chris the business manager there as well as catherine does a phenomenal job with their budget always keeping us up to date on the finances and continuing to grow the program we're looking at right now expanding the program by um two classrooms i believe we're looking at a um correct meal from mr nunes a speech or a language based program we're looking at adding two language based classrooms because the need is is there for it and just please remember for the for everyone on the committee um that just a reminder that really you know member districts of smeck just like of southeastern collaborative the members it's they're looking to us for their programs right what are the districts the member districts need in order to succeed with the student population that they have um so there's always conversations with the member district special education directors and that's where these this new program is coming from there's been a great need i think especially due to the pandemic for the um language based program so that is something that um we're we're going to offer this year we're going to see how see where that goes in addition for the past three years smack has been i think it's been at least three years we have been working or i shouldn't say we but mrs cooper and her her assistant has been working diligently trying to find a property that would fit our needs to expand the program because right now smek owns a building down the north end of new bedford in the sasequin area that is a behavioral i believe behavioral classroom we also have i believe a small building in for haven but our large campus is at the old king lumber in south dartmouth and that is where most of our program you know that is where the arts the offices are now there our adult day health programs take place um so we're really looking to grow the program um especially the behavioral uh medical looking at uh medically fragile um so we tentatively i don't want to say for sure but um we we certainly have made an offer the board has made an offer um to the fall river diocese um for the which is actually perfect and i think this is a big deal so i'll share it with everyone right now the um the facility in the north on a new bedford at butts the now closed um the parish um is it a lady of lourdes our lady of fatima so that's made up of the rectory it's made up of a significantly good size um hall with classrooms in it for sunday school as well as the church itself smek has made an offer we're waiting to hear back from the four river diocese um it's it's been quite a road we've also we've tried to um you know work with the haven public schools or the town of haven with a property there um that fell through we've also looked at um a formerly uh now closed charter school in new bedford um so they're really trying to do their due diligence because there's certainly a need for it and b and for the viewing public you know for those of the people watching at home is that certainly a benefit to this community and to the school district to be able to have collaboratives to work with um versus um private placements you know a typical collaborative placement can be anywhere between fifty and you know seventy thousand dollars versus a private placement which is significantly more um and it certainly feels that it fills the need um and you know smec as well as um south south coast collaborative cape cod collaborative reads collaborative in the area they all do phenom they all do a phenomenal job um you know working with school districts so i'm hopeful and i think that um this is a great opportunity for for the school system if we can ex if smet can expand on their program so that that's really all i have i'd be happy to answer any questions thank you mr oliver any questions no just thank you uh mr oliver thanks for the update chris you all much appreciate it all right moving on to a new business year in fy 22 year-end mr kylie thank you mr noon so each year around this time it's hard to believe we're we're here already having had grad beautiful graduation ceremony and uh wrapping up the school year we're also wrapping up our fiscal year so at this time what i ask the committee is the latitude to move funds from one functional area to another so that we can conclude our spending for the year and wrap it up so during the school year what we do is if for instance we needed money in textbooks or versus instructional supplies we can authorize those transfers and we regularly do that's within the instructional umbrella of you know of what we do but when we need to move money let's say from utilities to instruction that is what i'm asking you for now is is the authorization to really you know move funds from from one major area to another so that'll help us move forward wrap up the fiscal year we're in pretty good shape um definitely solvent so that's a good thing uh and we're you know we're approaching you know approaching the end and trying to get all our estimates together for our final uh final expenses and and try and uh you know expend our monies in in the most thoughtful way possible usually if we did have any funds remaining at the end of the year what we'd focus on is priorities that are part of our strategic plan which um generally would focus on technology mr gallishaw and instructional materials and other ways to enhance instruction are usually our focus for this time of year so we hope uh we're still in the sort of process of of getting there but um you know we always hope to be able to support um support activities and that meet with our strategic plan so any questions okay so the chair will entertain a motion to authorize the budget transfers as uh adopted by us on the file dbj so moved second move by dr jenkins who's second on the motion eddie discussion one quick question mr kylie i just thought i should have asked you earlier and i didn't think of it i apologize uh have we heard anything from i know a few every once in a while we get some money from town hall because of solar credits and things of that nature have you heard anything on that well we so we participate as part of the town in part of the town's solar program and usually it's one of the last things that we find out often we find it out after june 30 june 30th which is always a juggling act because obviously we can't buy anything after june 30th so traditionally we're right down to the wire trying to figure it out estimate based on prior years and sometimes that's can vary quite a bit so um that's always a juggling act right at the end no problem thank you sir okay all right so chair hearing none all in favor aye aye aye opposed motion carries unanimously thank you all mr chair i'd just like to say thank you to mr kylie as with technology it's been a little bit of a wild fiscal ride over the last two years i can remember some of us having pits in our stomachs when the pandemic started about how we were going to weather this financially so thank you for for for all that you've done learning about supply chains air filtration all that all that fun stuff thank you thank you you're thinking about all the chromebooks over the summer right figuring out how to source and get those right that was it's been i'm sure you've learned a lot of interesting things so we appreciate that thank you i have it's been a juggling act but i think we've done our best it's done a great job thank you it's been great thank you very much okay next on under new business is a discussion of a proposal made by the town to form a town school committee standing committee to want a local native american history and culture so i think i i followed you an email that i got from uh mr tattlebomb chairman of the board of selectmen uh i apologize that i sent it i think i sent it friday only because of the you know it sat in my inbox and i totally blew by it so i apologize for the you know length of time it sat in my box dr jenkins so i'm totally in favor of this and the only reason why i asked to for us to discuss it was because i believe as in you know in transparency fairness that we need to put it before the public on our agenda so that if the public does have anything to say about it they have that opportunity but i think this is a good idea and that that's the only reason why i think i wanted for us to discuss it um so yeah i'm in favor of that okay thank you and i would just say like you know if there's an opportunity i would really like to serve on this committee i've done a bit of work around it so you know we'll get there yeah okay dr giffett so we'll talk about our meeting yep go right ahead yep we can so um i don't remember last week mr mr nunes mr oliver mr ventura and i met with um chairwoman from the aquino tri tribe and chris barrera oh yeah yes that's right um we couldn't see him so no we couldn't yeah so then anyway we had to see a very um informational meeting that finally i learned about a lot of the things that i've been struggling with we've talked about so many things a town committee a school working group you know all of these things and and really was stuck in a conundrum of how to proceed most appropriately and effectively so what again the chairwoman is so knowledgeable on everything governmental about the tribe itself so the way she described it to us what was that her suggestion and i think we agreed as we listened to everything was since and it really helped me understand that whole thing as we talked a lot about federal leave uh recognized etc um as a federally recognized tribe they have the authority if you will to form a governmental body with another governmental body meaning us so what would happen is in essence is we would we've already voted mr oliver had that vote the last time about engaging them in the discussion etc what basically would happen is we would then send a formal request to start um this formal body um we would then come together and and discuss about with an moa an moa would be put in place and because they're federally recognized and it comes from the council we would form the decision-making making board of however we proceed with curriculum ideas those kinds of things whether it's plaques in schools etc so we would agree on a board let's say we kind of discuss the idea of nine members which is kind of always a good a good number um four perhaps from the tribe itself five or so from the school department or community member but people with expertise that then have the decision making authority on anything we might want to vote on whatever it might be but throughout the process as we meet with this formal decision-making body the thing would be to invite other folks that have expertise could it be from other tribes from people that don't particularly live in dartmouth or just folks that have other expertise in various areas out of that might come as we've talked about before as i keep using plaques in school or events in school let's just say that we decide um a day in particular we're going to have people come in uh to discuss the culture or the artwork that that the native tribes do which she said she did a few years a number of years ago many years ago remember she mentioned that about having done that in the past so that's what we took away from it was really informative i finally had some clarity on a way to move forward with the school side um aside from and again you could have uh since again mr tattlebaum's been so enthusiastic about it he could be one of the members if this group decided on our side um what folks could be included so that's kind of the essence mr oliver mr newman you were there if you have anything to add that i've missed but that was generally what i took away from it yeah i would agree doctor yeah mr nunes yeah no i i found it uh very helpful as well um obviously to me i thought my takeaway was that the decision-making body from uh from the town side would be members you know whether it's a school community school committee member select board member it can be anyone but what chairwoman andrews you know specifically said essentially this is an agreement from one government to another government and however that does not mean that other tribes cannot come during these meetings to present and have in in to share their views and their opinions but at the end of the day is the way i understood it was just simply as though it's one it's an intergovernmental agreement from from the dartmouth schools to to the equina tribe but no i i thought i thought it was very very informative yeah the government the government education deal yeah so i have a couple questions i guess um so then if that's the case because you know if we have this agreement with aquina would we then be planning a separate meet committee that would meet with i mean this is where i think it becomes very problematic a little bit if we're saying that we have four formal members of the equina who would sit are we then inviting for formal members of the match you know so again and that's where i'm i'm really like right that's that's exactly what she said that the the governmental relationship would be between us and them as an moa but folks would be invited as part of discussions offering advice offering resources but we would vote to have a particular group that is the decision-making body but that would just be the limited to the decision-making body in that case would just be the aquina as our if that's what we have in moa yes it does not have to be that way i study government governmental relations i have a phd in political science we may form a multi-governmental alliance it is done all the time right interstate commerce intertown compacts all of these things happen across sovereign governments there is no reason we cannot strike structure a compact between the mashpee the equina and the town of dartmouth it is 100 percent possible it is 100 possible i i would just simply i i would be open to to your what you're saying dr jenkins um you know in the spirit of things um i i don't have a problem with that i i would honestly i would defer to to chairwoman andrews um and that that's not no disrespect shannon that's not how i walked away from that meeting with all due respect that's not how i walked away from hang on okay don't we'll have a decent conversation they will okay i'm i'm just going to note that there has there are very different opinions across the two tribes about education relations and all of that and we must also there is no historic claim of the equina to the town of dartmouth we have two federally recognized tribes if we're going to go with federal recognition there is no reason why we should favor one tribe over the other is them and mashpee yeah and i will also note that as as a governing body right we get to vote on that the moa correct yeah yeah yes we can direct you about what to do so the decision about who to engage in with that with lies with us okay i think okay kathleen no i was just with the mashpee and and the aquina i i did have a conversation with um chairperson um andrews and um and i i really appreciate shannon's expertise in in perhaps sort of coming to some consensus around the two federally recognized but my understanding when talking to her i had a really nice conversation with her was because at the time we had a lot of stuff right going on in our community about this and uh it was in the paper all the time or whatever that she was she was very open to other but i i i like what shannon's saying in terms of the two federally recognized uh but she was sort of saying hey you know she wasn't i don't i want to say the right thing very welcoming um the way i i'll very sophomorically explain is i understood it to be her talking about that federal recognition aside from what shannon's point is um sort of like uh i work for a state organization myself and we have small bodies that utilize our non-profit status say so i understood her to say we will take the hit come to the table that's how i understood her when speaking to her one to one like not take the hit that's a bad thing but but um utilizing our federal status but we're not um the table is set for everyone that was sort of my understanding but i would love to sort of see if we could oh let's combine that so i also i mean i think we all have separately it sounds like had conversations with miss andrews and i i did as well you know as well as mr rancher several times like just to kind of go through this and it sounds like again the federally recognized status is certainly critical and that they were willing to have other people sit at the table who had and be voting members this is my understanding from that conversation if they also shared that status other people could come this is again my impression of and we can discuss this this doesn't like limit us other people could come and attend but their request was if they are not do not have that federally recognized status and others if they're outside of the equinox or mashpee recognizing our state then they would not be voting members this was like my understanding of their request now again how will we like sift through that they're also my impression was speaking to mr renter is that they requested that we make those as we make an individual agreement moa with the quinna we also make that separately ourselves and they're not involved in ever any other separate agreement that we make with the mashpee but then those sep then the town themselves the mr tattlebomb would have to go out and make his own separate agreements with each of those bodies so that that was my impression when i went through this but i guess my question is as i'm like understanding are you suggesting now that we have one meet one committee that we're running solely and we're inviting mr tattlemon to serve on it or are we still sending it having that formal represent that we're sending someone there as well as our own separate committee i guess that that's another thing i got muddled through in this conversation that we're having right now like um because i get the impression from mr tattlebaum that he you know that their plan is to have a town wide committee and then again we're dealing with a whole host of things but understanding that the curriculum is our when i say our i mean the school's domain and that would be separately hosted by ourselves in this separate community that you seem to be alluding to and again i just want to make sure i'm understanding the measure of the conversation okay that's that's the way i would see it because i couldn't make sense of it any other way okay it was too big it was it's too random um people i've i've reached out to mashfi i i mean even it's like who do you call what do you it's so trying to streamline it in this way was helpful for us to try to do some work um whether the town then set something up separately or as we talked about at that meeting was and i just used mr taliban because he's expressed a lot of enthusiasm about it that our group says from our school district you know let's just say we have the director of teaching and learning um maybe a school committee person maybe mr tattlebomb and maybe one a teacher or something i'm i'm just you know throwing that out she talked about their educational leader that they have in the tribe and a couple of other folks so yeah i think that's the only way we could make sense of it but so whether the town then goes ahead and has us and this group gets on board with that okay it was just too big yeah okay okay all right i don't know yeah where we go from here yeah so go ahead i'd like to make a motion that any group that we that we form includes representatives from both of the federally recognized tribes in the state of massachusetts the mashpee and the aquina okay so we've got a motion by dr jenkins a second by miss waite that any any those two federally recognized tribes that's fair okay we have a second any discussion mr oliver i can certainly appreciate the collaborativeness and we're trying to work together with both of them it's been divisive enough in my opinion the whole the whole process um you know i want to be inclusive i have no problem with that um have we received i i actually quite honestly i like mashbee's model and what they do with the curriculum and having him a pointy i believe on school committee i certainly can appreciate everything that mashpee does um you know so from that perspective i think it's great my question is have they reached out to us and wanted to engage us in forming a partnership no i i reached out to the person that was given to me the name of the educational person from mashfi from the superintendent i connected with her and she was going to get back to me last week and did not that's as far as i got so far so so so here's my concern but she was another educational person which sure again cheryl mentioned about it helping with that i'm okay with with to some extent to dr drenkin's motion but what if they're not interested in forming a relationship with us a partnership with us and if it if if they're not interested then they can send us a letter yeah and and anyone who anything of that nature says we're not it in interested in and we're good yeah that's how i would that's how i would take that i mean dr jenkins motion is valid you know we've gone out and we've reached out to the two of them if only one wants to participate right so be it that's all we can do dr jenkins so my understanding of the rules of order is if if that so happens anyone who would vote in the affirmatively has the chance to sort of reconsider that right so like if there's a yes and a no vote and it passes the per the people on the yes side can bring that motion back up and we can change that vote yes so we can change that if if if that comes to pass or we can just sit or we can come back later on and make a motion and just either rescind that or just say yeah we're going to have it's not something that we can undo we can't we can we can undo it yes and i will also say that i have been in communication with some people from the mashpee tribe i will follow up with them i will follow up with my contacts on that and i will um do my best to get dr gifford in touch with them the only thing i would just suggest also is there's a difference between individual people from a tribe and the council that's one thing we learned i have contacts on the council and etc and other people official employees of the tribe great yep great just make sure we don't have splits in the truth so so the other thing though i don't know if you finished voting no we have emotion we're still discussing so just just i know you'll make the vote but also then i guess the discussion on what to do with the town thing you know because we're talking kind of internal right now mm-hmm so anyway i'm going to tell them you know we'll put the ball in his court oh that could be we'll put the ball in okay time out all right so on the dr jenkins motion any other discussion hearing none all in favor aye aye opposed mr oliver passes four to one that's fine we'll move on with that now with regards to what mr tattlebaum is is is looking for mice this is my two cents for what it's worth is to let him grab that ball let the let them grab that ball and run with it agreed okay and see where to see where it goes and we'll work at it from there we have enough right now yeah yeah to deal was we got plenty on our plate right now okay okay pretty good all right okay next item of the new business is the proposed school committee meetings were july through september 2022.
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