so the ina alert proposal as present correct and honestly i mean it is a lot of money but that esser funding is is for things like this and honestly other than maybe you know when we did some of the retention bonuses and things like that we'll still have money to do that but it it would be a little difficult to spend all that money and this is something i feel is needed is this a one time yeah well this is esther so i say that one time we're buying this yes except for the yes i think you should passes and board approval for the district champions you have those uh in your what we've done we used to have wilsons and complains now we just have elementary in high school uh any changes are in red that you will see in each of those not gonna spend a lot of time going over those you've had a chance to look through them very few changes in any of those just a few here and there [Music] but i would recommend the board to prove those changes one question i had was do we need to correct the district office address yeah we got to get a p.o box i know it's 406 north main but we'll probably get a po box there so that'll be our match whatever okay perfect and we were just going to print the changes but i thought maybe you guys in my channel handbook i don't know how often you get a handbook and superman report a quick personnel update we still are looking for a math teacher here at central plains high school we are also still looking for a counselor at the high school here looking for a custodian at central plains elementary school you know i type something up for this and i forgot to print it off so i'm glad i typed it up because i'm remembering it we're also looking for a social studies teacher currently in wilson that is what we have open so far as always that can change we have one interested applicant for the social studies at wilson she would need to be in the transition to teach program at wsu so she's going to refuse from fort hayes so she's going to have to go through get that lined up before we can hire her oh no i didn't get them was it yeah that's the one yesterday yes she just doesn't have an educational education degree and i know a lot of people think that oh i've got a degree i can just go in there and teach it's not that way you've got to go through a program a teacher you know induction program and all that so she will is is applying and will be hopefully in that position we have some ideas and i think you guys know that on the counselor and possibly the math teacher we're just not going to talk about those right now what type oh well title two i'm sorry title one yeah title one as well i choose it as well instead of two i know you're not titled two what's that title one as well we have some options there we're just not allowed to talk about that right now due to state statutes uh i'm going to ask that we table the strategic plan until the last meeting i've not had a chance to update that and i apologize it is i've got it up and i started but things happened and i didn't get it completed but it will be done before i leave i will have an updated version that i will also give to whoever succeeds me uh you also received i want to talk to you here about our sr2 uh three you got me off on two diane sr3 application this is what was submitted you know the great thing about state is they've changed how you submit these applications each and every time which makes it really convenient for superintendents to not know what they're doing uh you will see um what i typed in and sent to the state how we had to have stakeholder engagement one of the things that they had asked us to do i believe i might have mentioned is we had to contact an indian tribe we had to contact the naacp and we had to contact the families children with disabilities and nobody responded to my email but i have the emails as documentation that i tried to reach out to the kickapoo indian tribe and and all all that needed to uh give input you'll basically see again funds set aside for learning loss how we would use that money and then sr allocations and then how that money will be spent [Applause] and we were on the phone with the state and there are districts that are just saying no we're not taking the money we don't want to do all this we need the money so we're going to do it and that's why i did it but there are districts that are said it's not worth the hassle and the headache of doing this so the reporting part of it because it is quite arduous the reporting back on a quarterly basis we had to do that true up thing with those numbers oh it was it's not an enjoyable time but the money is nice so we do it any questions on esser more discussion on end of year meeting date and time we usually do that one early in the morning um diane what are your thoughts 29th wednesday or do you want to try to do it earlier in the week the 27th or 28th 29th 29th or 30th let's do the 29th just in case there's something and i could you can be in person or zoom is what we usually do it's usually at seven o'clock 7 30. i'm trying to get earlier 7 30 end of the year meeting it'll be in hollywood it shouldn't take too long unless we have other things to add to the agenda any personality issues and we have a meeting also scheduled on that nine o'clock meeting 22nd is the um budget hearing at nine o'clock we'll try to get a zoomed link and but it is also an open meeting because it is a hearing so we'll have it open at holyrood at nine o'clock for anybody in the public that wants to come because that has to be open but the board members can zoom in and i will send you the document that you're going to be looking at to approve uh for the increase in the general fund so you'll have that to look at also just for dates you know we're supposed to meet on the 20th next monday special meeting with gary seacrest at seven o'clock and some of you are probably going to be right smack in the wheat fields so i'm not sure how that's going to work but that's the schedule for the special meeting with gary seacrest on the 20th and that he wants to schedule interviews 21st 22nd 23rd i don't know what your goal is there but that's going to take some time so i'll need to keep in contact and communicate if that's going to continue to go four of forward dates are currently not set they're just no ten to two the 20th is actually set for a special meeting with kim that's it that's for sure we'll do that one um correct yeah yeah yeah yeah so you guys just just whatever you decide to do let me know so because i'll have to do some stepping forward on carers and tours and you know i'm having a fun time here so anywho yeah okay is that something yeah i think this week was the deadline i believe all right and open agenda and it possibly could be but we'll all be there i'm going to assume that myself okay i can do the same thing yeah so we'll send it over with mr clark i don't know how to do it for both 22nd and 29th thanks appreciate all you guys keep up the good work for kids they're worth it i don't know i mean i think there's a few days left in this month that we could have a couple more special meetings for you to attend okay the rest of this week is open right i kind of was looking forward to tomorrow because i kind of felt like maybe then i'd feel a little less pressure but no well like i said for me personally i really appreciate it well thank you quality well i do everybody here cares for kids and that's important that's why you're on the boards i didn't even look at what the july agenda would be oh it's reorganization reorganization board president elections all that stuff or he or she and they will i'll try to make it as smooth as transition as 12.
so we'll keep in touch about this week with mr secrets okay so june 22nd reminder nine o'clock budget hearing we'll get the zoom link up for everybody we'll make that zoom length public as well and june 29th 7 30 end of the year meeting zoom as well and open two i will have it set up we'll be in hollywood we'll have some amazing donuts probably if you guys can thank my [Music] officers but we have to do all the other stuff designated newspaper designate the bank do all of that title 9 title 5 it'll be in hollywood yes there's nothing else i'll entertain a motion to adjourn thank you great job segment bye buddy nobody wants to journey can i make that now i'm not allowed passes you
it to order so good evening um my name is john mursky i am chair of the ann arbor energy commission and as chair i'm calling this meeting to order at 6 02 pm i am participating from my home in ann arbor welcome to the june 14th electronic meeting of the energy commission this virtual meeting is to affect social distancing and mitigate the spread of the covid 19 virus we will conduct this meeting similar to in-person meetings commissioners during roll call please indicate your current location during the meeting please remain on camera just as you would be visible during in-person meetings also mute your microphone when not speaking public comment will be via telephone only to speak during any of the two public comment opportunities please call one of the following two numbers eight seven seven eight five three five two four seven or eight eight 888-788-0099 and enter meeting id number 937-6751-6819 on your phone this information is also available on the published agenda in the public notices section of the city's website on the broadcast of this meeting on ctn and online at www.a2gov.org backslash watch ctn see would you please read the land acknowledgement i acknowledge that the land the city of ann arbor occupies is the ancestral traditional and contemporary lands of the anishinaabe and blind out peoples i further acknowledge that our city stands like almost all property in the united states on lands obtained generally in unconscionable ways from indigenous peoples the taking of this land was formalized by the treaty of detroit in 1807.
okay i hereby call the special meeting of the board of education to order roll call please brown is here mrs galbraith here dr hall here mr sawalis here mrs walters here vice president rube here president albrecht here please stand and join me for the pledge of allegiance of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all okay ms roop would you please read the mission statement sure our mission statement is to empower each student to positively impact the world for a bright new future thank you just for those of you in the audience first thing tonight we have a quick budget hearing and then after that we'll go back into our regular meeting including any public comment can i get a motion to call the fiscal year 22 amended budget public hearing to order moved second roll call brown is an eye this is galbraith aye dr hall aye mrs walters aye mr swanless hi vice president rue aye president albrecht aye motion kerry so ken i'll turn it over to you thank you mr albrecht good evening board dr cara and to the public and those in the audience [Music] this is the public hearing for the amended budget for this year i will tell everybody that we have posted the presentation online if you follow along i will not be showing it up on the screens board i've given you a hard copy of it that you can follow along with just because it's difficult to see up there and i thought it better that you have a hard copy so let me go through this you will see again this it's very similar to the format that we've had before on our budget in that a regular budget but uh on page two you will see all of the notices in that that we have met for the presentation of this tentative amended budget we are required to amend the budget just because of the bond sale that we have had so normally i am not as you all know a fan of amending a budget however we are required to do that because of the revenue that uh is generated with the sale of bonds so that is why we're having the amended budget on page three is again just some terminology and a glossary of terms that i may use during the time of my presentation so to just make you familiar with that page four and page five are the two uh main pages of the amending of the budget so what you will see on page four this is all of our funds not our operating funds but all of our funds and you will see the columns there both the revenue and expenditure categories the yellow column is the adopted budget from september of 21 for this year and then you will see in 2022 the amended budget the numbers there in the blue column and then the green column is the variance of all of those what you will see on all funds is a deficit um of approximately 7.1 a little over 7.1 million dollars that is just a lot of that has to do with capital projects a lot of that has to do with how we had to book the funds um the the bond sales and all of that so that number to be very honest with you is just off funds and doesn't really um well it's a deficit doesn't concern me what is of most important is the next page which is page five in our operating funds and you will see that i am projecting out a surplus of a little over 4.6 million dollars for this year in our amended budget that does not include the bond sale i just want to make that very clear that is strictly our operating funds and our natural expenditures you will see the variances and where we are down in areas a lot has to do with salaries and benefits you will see and also some supplies and materials so you know i would say it's a successful year from a financial standpoint the difficult part is i believe that there were some staff that we could not hire that we did not fill that was part of our our issue but again i'm happy to report that there's a 4.6 million dollar surplus i think that's going to be a little bit better this is this includes projected numbers for june it includes actuals all the way through the end of may so i think it's going to be a little bit better but again uh i'm happy to report that you will also see on page six our fund balances and again that's a chart of this fiscal year again it does reflect our actual amounts through may and june is projected but what you'll see on that page is the perforated line is last year which is the the dashed red line the blue line is what we are projecting and we're projecting a fund balance of for a little over almost 49 million dollars this year and again that's just in our operating funds um and i'm happy to report that which is an increase over last year of about 7 million dollars um so um it's a good financial report again i think the the difficult part of this is that we were not able to staff some positions and that's what led us to that um to that number along with again some savings that we had in certain areas and all of that so i'm going to open it up to questions to the board and see if you have any questions about the amended budget at all so so ken with those numbers that you just gave out to us i'm just thinking of our financial profile the five categories that four of those categories going to be a four the highest you could get right balance yes revenues or expenditures over revenues and short term balances short term borrowing and cash on hand over 180 days right so i would expect four in all of those categories yeah i i i think are in long-term borrowings yeah our long-term borrowing has always been like that i think that's what's going to bring us down but again i believe our financial rating is going to be recognition which is the highest rating i i believe that's going to be the case with those numbers i think the highest we have had was a 3.7 yeah about about a 3637 that's usually about the highest we can get because of because of the long-term borrowing brings us but that's weighted very low it's weighted very low so um i think we're in a good financial position the district is and um you know i think uh things look bright for us on the financial side so you're saying that's that certain surplus in a positive well surplus is positive and that's not predicated on working cash it's well working cash is in it but it's not it's not predicated on the bond sale that we just had that were working cash bonds this is that is under if you look at the chart on that let me see on page five you will see under other financing that's where the bond sale comes in and that so that is not included in the 4.6 million dollars so this is strictly operating expenditures and none of the essa money anything like that in this some of the sr money is in this i mean that's on the revenue side where we got reimbursed for things okay uh so some of that is all included in here and i think that's what makes us more positive also is some of that reimbursement that we received there were excuse me there are a couple of things if you remember i shared with the board that we were going to receive about 444 thousand dollars in additional evidence-based funding money um we received that in may that was because of the miscalculation that took place um from the state um so the i believe the city of chicago got 81 million dollars too much and everybody else in the state got less so our portion of that was 400 about 440 thousand dollars so that came in in may um in one lump sum so that was in addition that's in here also but we lost 600 000 there about the year before so we still minus in that category yeah we were but we were mr brown and that's because we went from tier one to a tier two uh you know district now um so and i and i i'm thinking we're gonna stay tier two um so again that's just but that that 400 000 though is will be added to next year's base also so we'll continue to get that money oh okay so that's that's that's a good news that's that's really good news in addition to any other tier two money that we may get next year so so that was a positive i think um because of our filing with fema we were able to get some more money from them also uh they reimbursed us for some things that we weren't planning on i think and now about in 150 thousand dollars more so there's a lot of little nuances that we were able to take advantage of and were beneficial for the district so is it fair to say is it appropriate that you do share with the with the public about i think it was three or four hundred thousand dollars that we abated back right yes well and we really i mean we could have had that as revenues but we chose yeah we could well that's that we would have that as revenue for next year that comes on our actually this year's taxes and all that stuff um and i to be clear on that too mr brown we didn't abate that back we just didn't take the money is is what it was we didn't debate it back but we we didn't take it and that so if i'm right on that am i right john i'm gonna turn to john on that i mean it's still it's a splitting hairs though but yeah the semantics yeah yeah it is just we have a lawyer whatever he says what is it [Laughter] but the public will see the change right the deduction um right so can when will uh the auditors come in sure thanks for the segway i appreciate that so that's on page seven um i want to share with you you know at the beginning of the year when i gave my budget presentation we had some goals and so let me share share our goals with you and where we're at to complete the fiscal audit by december 15 to 2022.
i pledge allegiance to the fire of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for help future board meetings um we're not going to do the one on the 28th that's listed there but we will do july 12 and july 26th [Music] so we'll skip right to public recognition we have a recommendation to approve a 180 donation from hoosier chiropractic llc to purchase a tent for the cross country norfolk cross country we also have a recommendation to approve a 375 donation dollar donation from wabash county sheriff's department for their february beard money for southwood elementary to purchase new books for the library and finally and i'm excited about this one a recommendation to approve a donation of from eisenberger wolf revocable living trust for msd at-risk elementary students that is list of deletions that's fantastic todd i wanted to approve it oh sorry motion in a second to approve the donations is read all the favor say aye next we have school recognition i'll turn it over to this key favorite yes um school's out we don't have typically the principals don't list anything right now and we don't have anything but i will go ahead and introduce tonya boone our director of the bridge program she's going to talk a little bit about that and while she's talking about that then she's going to go ahead and i'll flip through and get to the bridge handbook because if you recall when the other uh people were here doing the handbooks she was at regional uh as a coach there and so she was unable to come and present so we decided to move it back to one board meeting so mrs boone you are on thank you very much thanks for having me i'm always excited to talk about our program so just a couple highlights and i hope you don't mind i'm going to read a lot of it and the whole reason is because i don't want to start rambling because i do get excited and passionate about it which means i am talking too much so first of all this school year we have served 568 students as of today we still have 20 students on our on our list to that we're working through enrollment and the onboarding process so we are going to continue that in june we are going to shut down enrollment for a few weeks in july just to give my staff a little bit of a breather before we jump back in the end of july so we have great numbers actually that's their second highest we had that first year the pandemic we were up in we were we served over 570 students but we're within 10 of that this school year i will also note that this spring we actually had a waiting list we had to put students on hold because they were coming in to us so quickly that we actually had to tell them sorry enough to wait because we just didn't have ourselves overloaded and we shut down junior high enrollment completely in march because that program was full and our high school kids unless they were desperate unless they were seniors and desperate to get graduated we put the others on hold so that's just that's pretty exciting for us as a lot of students that's a lot of mobility in the school year our graduates we also at this point have had our highest graduation i won't say graduation rate because our that still looks that still needs some improvement when you look from a state standpoint but as of today we've had 115 graduates we still have 20 to 25 that we are working to get done hopefully within the next two to three months the goal is definitely before our the end of september so they would finish in their cohort so that again is our largest graduating class at this point we did have our largest actual ceremony here recently and that thank you mr bowman for coming to that and my superintendents that was a that's always a great time it's it's a time of celebration for our families and for our students and i just love it because it is about the students and through the things that we do and the opportunities we give them during the ceremony it is about the families and the students and i think they really appreciate that just a couple of things i'd like to highlight especially that i really can't say enough about my bridge team um this group of staff they are all in they are 100 in committed to the michigan vision of our program they are always going above and beyond and i know mr keith favor doesn't like those absolutes but they are they are always going above and beyond with their time and the efforts that they give to not only excel at their individual roles in their jobs but to make sure that our kids are being our kids needs are being met they are also very much willing to help and jump in and lend a hand to egypt to each other our jobs can kind of get chaotic and a little overwhelming at times because of our numbers and it truly is a team effort where we're all just pitching in and getting the job done so i'm just i'm super proud of our team and just want to say thank you to them and make sure that they understand my gratitude i'd especially like to at this point as we're coming off of graduation and we're still trying to finish up graduates that whole graduation piece especially with brad pathways has become monstrous in many ways our kids come to us with transcripts that look like swiss cheese just because of their background and the nature of their family situations and our guidance department call it department mrs lovato with lindsay lovato our guidance secretary josiana porn our academic advisor and mel boyer who works with the residential students has jumped in the last few months the three of them make up our guidance department and they they're they've just done a tremendous job over the last few months of helping pull together pathways making sure that we have everything that we need to get kids graduated with diplomas covering the whole waiver making sure that they either meet the waiver or that we can give them a pathway to give them that diploma and so i just really appreciate their efforts and their work ethic and their heart for these kids the one thing i i joke with mrs lovato about is i call her the hug of our the hub of our wheel and without her we don't keep rolling forward so that guidance secretary position is pretty critical and she does an amazing job so i just really appreciate those three and wanted to highlight them specifically are there any questions about that before i jump into the handbook say anything we can do as a board are you telling you the staffing is it adequate or are we going to get burnt out a little bit from too much for fewer people there are times during the school year where it's extremely overwhelming it's just the superintendent before and it's just it's kind of difficult to pinpoint because our numbers are continually fluctuating and so to be able to say we've got a hard and fast number of this so we need this many people is is difficult to do at times but that's something that they've been extremely supportive and working through with me and whenever i've come to them which i know you guys are supporting that too because when i've come to him and said we're overwhelmed i need more people they're like fine find what you need right now we have 11 msd staff outside of my 7 that are helping facilitate learning for students and we're supposed to try and keep their case lows between 15 and 20.
[Music] Now introducing the honorable mayor Dean Espazito, superintendent of schools, Mr. Kevin Walston, Assistant Superintendent Cara Cazmiro and Kelly Truches, members of the cabinet, members of the board of education, Danbury High School principal Daniel Donovan, and the faculty and staff of Danbury High School. [Applause] [Music] I don't see him at the top of the hill yet. [Music] [Applause] factory to get in. Can someone copy that? [Music] Get on up there. [Music] Here [Music] they come. I'll do them now till they get down here. [Music] What did you see? [Music] [Applause] [Music] Thank you. [Music] Huh? These are whatever they want. Figure it out. We usually label everything. That's all they're just fine. [Music] Again, [Music] I want to announce the graduates when they get up to the gate. [Music] How are you? [Music] Are they coming around the corner? [Music] [Applause] [Music] Come on. [Music] You ready?
all right good evening and welcome to this regularly scheduled board meeting for the azusa unified school district board of education we were in closed session earlier but we are back in open session and the time is 709 pm and we will begin with 4.1 hour flag salute we will move to 4.2 our roll call board member rodriguez pena president board member bo here board member cruz gonzalez here and i board member greer am also here board member arianes is absent for this evening we'll move on to 4.3 which is approval of the agenda is there a motion to approve tonight's agenda make a motion to approve 4.3 a second moved by board member rodriguez pena second by board member cruz gonzalez is there any discussion hearing none let's move to a vote and the motion passes four yes to one absent this brings us a 5.0 report action of closed session matters and we move to 4 5.1 specifically settle student matter final settlement for office of administrative hearing case number two 2022040524 student number twenty one dash twenty two zero one dash eighteen is there a motion to approve make motion to prove five point one by second moved by board member rodriguez pena second by board member beau as a closed session item we'll move to vote and the motion passes four yes to one absent this brings us to 6.0 recognition and awards and specifically 6.1 recognition of gladstone high school art student actually if you could use the mic so that everybody online is able to hear as well thank you thank you mr president my pleasure to be here this evening to uh proudly present um five of our uh winning art uh students this evening uh for the um us congressional art competition two of our students couldn't be here this this evening unfortunately so i'm presenting for them but i would like to proudly present and introduce to you uh miss angelina gonzalez beautiful beautiful honorable mention titled colorless plants also i'd like to bring up miss riley larue who is also an honorable mention winner with her photograph i'd like to um also say that uh absolutely this was a graphite drawing um riley has a photograph titled uh celestial sunset and it is a self-portrait i would like to present our um judges choice award miss abby sanchez who couldn't be here which i think some of you are familiar with uh titled smudged uh and again she was an honorable one of two honorable mentions i'm sorry judge's choice award my mistake judge's choice one of two judges choice awards uh and i would like to also uh one of three uh top prizes uh that went to miss kim lopez who couldn't be here unfortunately tonight because she is working uh but she also um uh submitted a photograph titled an apple a day and this is our second place winner and then lastly i'd like to present our first and grand prize winner of the competition miss alexa come on up here alexa and i am so excited because um along with their beautiful ribbons that they're they're presented from the congresswoman they also receive a monetary award each and beautiful certificates presented to them from the congresswoman women's office um but very excitingly another part of the first and grand prize is that alexa gets to go to washington dc [Music] part of her prize is a two round trip ticket and hotel voucher to attend to to attend a a huge banquet in washington dc where all 435 uh congress people gather to um celebrate all of the first place winners she'll be going in july mr demo um is it not correct that in our area for our congressional contest uh there were 11 i believe awards so uh in the competition there are 11 awards there are the first uh second and third place um grand prize winners and then there are two judges choice awards and then there are six uh honorable mentions so of the prizes azusa unified gladstone high school um competed and came in to win five of the 11.
knowing where we live work study and recreate does not change the past but a thorough understanding of the ongoing consequences of this past can empower us in our work to create a future that supports human flourishing and justice for all individuals thank you so we now come to the roll call um as i mentioned uh we got notice from larry kerber that he's in route to washington state so he will not be joining us and we have edie joining us from bonn germany she can tell us more about that maybe later in the meeting and um sharice when we um maybe are done with the end of the roll call you can introduce yourself um we're welcoming jerry smith to um the energy commission it's her first meeting and we're excited about her joining us and she's got a great background that i'm sure will enable her to make a big contribution to our work so missy i'll let you do the formal roll call and then now turn it over to um shari so perfect just remember please state where you happen to be occupying land at the moment chair john mursky president and participating from ann arbor commissioner here uh in ann arbor commissioner mccomber here in ann arbor uh vice chancellor garcia i'm here um from ann arbor i'm commissioner mccoy commissioner smith present in ann arbor excellent council member brings karen ann arbor council member regina here in ann arbor hey cherry evac great thank you um just to remind everybody uh commissioner hook um um uh gave um his resignation uh so that he could do consulting work for osi and we hope to welcome some new members soon to the commission but um we have a new member who you already now know at least by name and face on the screen but um sharish why don't you tell us a little bit about yourself um and um maybe we can also go around and just give a sentence or two about each one of us as a person so she at least has some background about each one of us great thank you so much um very excited to join you all uh and uh looking forward to working with you all my name is sheree smith i am a director with guide house consulting firm originally from the ann arbor area and have lived here most of my life i took some time outside of ann arbor to at cornell university when i left for school where i have my educational background is in civil and environmental engineering and then came back to ann arbor shortly after my graduate studies there to raise my six-year-old daughter here and looking forward to really engaging more deeply in the community during my career i started off with an energy services company as an energy solutions engineer really identifying energy efficiency opportunities in commercial buildings and actually during that time had the opportunity to work closely with ann arbor public schools and identify some of the energy efficiency opportunities and actually a behavior program to kind of educate the community around energy efficiency and the importance of it and then kind of moved on after a couple of years to what was legacy navigant now guide house and have been given this guide house some 10 years now and during that time i had the opportunity to oversee a lot of our client work with dte and energy efficiency or energy waste reduction program as some of you may be aware leading program evaluation understanding and validating the impacts and to validate savings customer research strategy and regulatory support so a wide variety of work in that space i've also had the opportunity to serve on the my green power community impact pilot as a subject matter expert focused on community solar within three you know communities within michigan here um also had some time to oversee some project work with the advanced customer pricing pilot so the time abuse pilot um also uh with dte um so have some rates experience and background as well um and most recently work on our guide house mobility solutions team which is really focused on ev programs again strategy regulatory evaluation type support so have varied backgrounds and again looking forward to contributing to our group here and working with all of you very excited to join and we are too as i said now you know why we were excited when we read charisses application so um i'm gonna go uh around uh what at least appears to me on the screen for me and if you can just introduce yourself very briefly um teresa and i uh have already met and talked with missy um so i'm not going to belabor my introduction um but um erica if you would introduce yourself briefly and then i'll call on people from there sure i'm erica briggs i represent ward 5 um city of ann arbor and um have served on city council since 2020.
uh we have already started that process brian and i have started that process already the auditors have started looking at all of our stuff already they're going to be doing their field work in august they have that set up already so we're way ahead of the game right now so we are in really good shape with our audit again um our financials our accounts all of that have been taken care of and are in really good shape so you know as i shared with them i look at this one as being pretty painless you know and that so i'm happy with that okay yes we're using the same company right using the same company miller cooper yes thank you um we did transition our business suite platform from skyward sms to skyward cumulative um that is just an ongoing process but we did we did transition that i will share that it has made a lot of our processes a lot more efficient as we as we move forward here and we're still developing those as we go so that we've completed the end of the month closing procedures i think we have that is pretty solid you'll see as you as you can see our new financial reports uh that you've been able to see now um we just may update our procedures every once in a while brian will do that but for the most part that that just continues um we have restructured the amazon business account now so that um every department has their own business amazon business account it has approvals in it uh budgets are in it and it's also all taxes and purchases so we've had that all set up and we're happy with that and again as you well know facility planning and capital projects is moving forward so okay okay so in the category there's no rest for the worry when we get the budget for next year there yeah well [Laughter] yes sure okay no um any other any other questions please annette okay okay thank you thanks again thank you and cheryl we did not receive any public comment for the amended budget hearing only didn't we okay so no public comment can i get a motion to close the fiscal year 22 amended budget public hearing i'll second whatever okay roll call brown isn't i this is galbraith aye dr hall aye mr swanless aye mrs walters aye vice president rule aye president albrecht aye okay the amended budget hearing is closed um so next up is back to our regular meeting and public comment and we have one from pat fogarty and the topic is can we get metal detectors in our schools pat you can come up to the [Music] well after the last shooting i was very upset and i was i had thought that after the sandy hook instance all schools would have metal detectors to my shock most schools do not thank you most schools including crete mone do not have them i think for the safety of our children and our students it's the least we can do we can't do anything about at least i can't do anything about mental illness or ak-47s but hopefully i can put some pressure on the school district to get some metal detectors in the school thank you okay and cheryl was there any other public comment okay next up any board updates hit okay okay um moving on to administrative updates i'll turn it over to dr cara and talk about safety plans great thank you so much this evening i have invited members of our administrative team both from the middle school and the high school as well as our central office team to come and share some updates uh regarding safety and security within our buildings of things that we're working on for next year it is not an ex exclusive list but it gives a good overview we have ms krisos mr hollyfield from the high school mr cerma will be giving a few comments and uh mr simpson from our uh director of security so may invite them to come on up and i believe they have just a short power point and then after their uh presentation there's certainly some time for us to discuss some of the items on the uh their presentation and one of those is certainly do you have a clicker detectors all [Music] good evening again i think one of the issues that has been neglected quite honestly on our part is residency checks and residency verification so later on during the business part i'm going to be given a detailed update on a recommendation that i have for verification of residency but i think as part of our safety plan that whole process needs to be looked at to make sure that we are verifying the residency of not only new students but also continuing students to make sure according to board policy that only the only students that are being educated by crete monet are creep money residents so um i'm just i just wanted to say a little bit about that um again i'm going to be given a more in-depth presentation during the business part of the um of the meeting but i just wanted to share that with you okay okay i just wanted uh first of all for those who do not know me i'm mr hollyfield the associate principal for the high school for the upcoming school year and we have looked into metal detectors i presented a proposal for eight to be installed at selected high traffic doors where our students enter and exit at the front door and the last quote i received for eight is in the range of forty thousand dollars definitely we wanted to look into that especially after the incident that occurred in texas and we recognize that it's a big problem so we wanted to bring that information to this committee of the whole so that is on our radar for now is that is that 40 000 per 40 000 total total yes did you say those are the overhead type the overhead the overhead tires yes so walkthrough walk through and it will also help because we've been doing manual bag checks so that will help expedite the process so that we get the students in so that they can get to class in a timely fashion the the metal detectors are a walk-through metal detector it's a garrett product that and they do have a what they call a school special on that that will include also battery packs and casters so they're movable so in the event let's say we have you know mr outfield has an event in the gym instead of having two he could also have four there and that's so they they are movable and they do have battery packs on them they also excuse me come with wands so you can one and check people that way too and that so uh it's it's a full package again it's about 5000 each that's fully installed also so somebody will be here to install them and all of that that's complete does that include maintenance uh there's a three-year guarantee on them warranty on them so i'm assuming that if something happens they're being repaired i can check into that but i believe there are there's no uh maintenance to them except you know keeping them clean and all that stuff i believe i did price it out with covers too i think so that you could move them outside actually and use them outside if you wanted to too so thanks ken i have a i had a question for mr hollyfield yes when you said eight in your high traffic areas i think you said right the doors where students enter and exit don't we only let them enter in the main door well because the buses uh come in the back we have two entrances one in the a hallway and one in the b hallway so just be at two doors right yes and then exiting those same two doors and the front door but would you be having them go through metal detectors on the way out also i guess i'm just trying to clarify well entering is the problem we want to manage what's coming in when they're exiting they may be there but we don't necessarily have to have them on i just was asking for the people at home who are watching yes got you they've been emailing the board seriously so there's a lot of questions out there about metal detectors great thank you thank you so i guess the question is are you thinking only high school are you thinking high school and junior high or all schools the other and the other question is i understand after what happened we all talk about it it's emotional but the only concerning thing is eight right let's think of the the the effect you know the logic of that there's only eight how many doors are here so the problem is if you do some of the research where did the person come in at that school they didn't come in through the front door so we have to be careful that athletic doors this is a high school we have athletic doors we have theater area we have a shop area we have kids coming in i guess the theory is i don't if we're gonna do it don't think small-minded uh because there's a lot of access points here in this building and and i know that middle school is a little bit smaller right but still how many access points they have sports they have theater three access points so i mean we had to think outside completely right i mean so so i would say i think that with the eight just from knowing high schools and he said high traffic areas those will be the areas where they're coming in and out now you could put it at door 17 where nobody comes really comes in and now it's not really monitored but if it goes off who's there to monitor it so that's one of the reasons you want to put it in the high traffic areas the eight that um that they see will be more higher volume than others where they may not naturally come in a door but they know that it's high traffic and they have security in that area so that that would be the reason for it otherwise i think the difference i think what bill is referring to i think you're talking more about the students coming in and out i think he's saying if there's an active shooter that's not a student they could enter through any door so i think that's that's the concern that's where procedures and rules though come in because the door was was propped open in that situation and they were not following rules and procedures so that's important i'm gonna i'm gonna speak on that that was a good point we had uh mr ken trump come in ken trump is a national security international security the the not a the he came in and spoke in this very room uh four days after uvalde happened uh we had him come in uh i had him scheduled before and he spoke on metal detectors and i've i've spoken he's done a hundred i think in 80 interviews about uvalde since it's happened that's how well respected this gentleman is one of the things i got out of his class about metal detectors was this and it really stuck with me it's a tool it's one thing uh one of the things he talked about is it's about people not products and miss roop going exactly what you said we could have a thousand metal detectors in this school if we don't have the proper training of our staff uh our security staff i'm gonna speak with mr hollyfield we're gonna meet on this because we could have these metal detectors but every person that's monitoring them needs to know what to do when they find something what's the policies and procedures going to be i had an incident recently where one of my security officers made a bad decision on something and those are the things i'm trying to avoid when we locate items so that's the first part the second part is the training on this it is a tool it is one tool but one of the things that i wanted to move forward on this is it's about understanding behavior and actions of by everybody because this is a community here and we need everybody's secretaries and teachers and everyone to recognize these things yes this is going to help us but it's only one thing and uh to prove that point is exactly what you said where uvalde was pretty secure i was just down in texas and i had five people from very similar school districts how they have their police department set up i was down there for the dogs and i was talking to him just about this and mr trump and it specifically goes to this so yes this is a piece but the training component of everybody involved is very important and that's what's going to make this effective not just the item yeah i agree with you pat i i read a very profound article written by ken trump regarding this topic and he was not really one that advocate or advocated metal detectives as a number one thing to stop this violence so there's a lot of things that we need to do equitable equitable policies enhancements and so on and many of the things that you mentioned so i guess i would like to see data that shows that none of the metal detectors does in fact stop violence you know what schools have installed metal detectors is it is it a combination of majority african-american schools with the demographics or or white students majority demographics or what because i can see this as being a barrier it has pros and cons to it but i don't want people to have a false impression that this is this is the end of all that this is going to solve all our problems and forty thousand dollars i definitely expect it to be more you know that's not a whole lot of money but i think on the surface we already got a trust issue here with the students with the teachers we heard our students come in our last meeting talked about behavior issues so on and so forth that's still going to be there so what do we address first what do we invest our money in first even again even though it's forty thousand dollars then i heard someone say about maintenance i that ken trump article talked about schools don't understand that there's gonna be train needs training and these detectors get outdated and what's the plan for that so on and so forth so i would like to see more of the data that you obtain your team your team obtained and the pros and the cons and what's justify what justify these metal detectors right now was it that shooting that just occurred could that have prevented it i'm not trying to answer questions or or throw answers out there or questions or whatever but i just at the end of the day want to see a very comprehensive plan myself and mr brown i think to your comments i agree and i think what you're going to hear as we move forward this is just one strategy which is why i'm proposing that we start with eight because it's not the end-all i can tell you that i've worked in many schools where there were metal detectors it does not alleviate the need for training and real conversations to occur with students and the adults that are in the building so you're going to hear about that as we move further but i do think that the eight will be a tool one way to help because we plan to continue the backpack searches i think this will relieve the burden of us using staff that could be strategically placed in other areas where they're not just stationed doing what devices have been created to do our everyone staff included have to go through a metal detector the staff included yes i want the staff to go security personnel as well other than those who are allowed to have a gun because again it's just not right yes can't bring in guns but that was my thing even with staff we know that various people due to the unprecedented times that we're living in may be going through something psychologically so i would not be opposed to everybody including myself going through because i think if we're going to institute it just like you're talking about to be equitable i think students need to see me walk through it as well to reduce this stigma that might be out there surrounding these devices yeah right absolutely i agree all right everybody right yes and and i think we have to do our part with dispelling uh the stereotypes why schools have these devices i think that these shootings are transcending like racial lines they're coming into all types of communities with this so i think we just have to be proactive instead of reactive we don't want something to happen here and then we have the conversation about the metal detectors when we could have put the strategy out there and we know it's not the only strategy i'm with you it has to be comprehensive and we're working on that and you will see some of the ideas that we will bring up tonight and as dr kaglini said it's not fully comprehensive we're still working on it but we will give you a very good idea of what the plans are okay okay thank you so um just to kind of reiterate what bill said is it something we're considering for all schools at this point we were looking focusing mostly on the high school there was some conversation about the middle school and we had conversation with the administration about the practical pieces of how they could do that and i think we're getting a little stuck on that so i think there's some more conversations to come with that we have not discussed it at the elementary buildings okay i think it's something that i mean is worth at least having those discussions these shootings have happened at elementary level schools as well so um i'd like to see that discussion as well i agree because it's not only the students and staff we have to worry about an outsider coming in and it's an outsider who did sandy hook it's an outside i mean you just go down the list it's not somebody who belonged at the school it's somebody who came to do damage so my theory is where if one gets it they all should get it because it's not all coming from inside the school it's coming from outside they're entering and they don't belong there i read all the cases from 2000 to 2000 to this latest i read a little bit of each case and there was one case where i believe it was a seven-year-old shot a six-year-old so i know we can't solve world hunger we have to start somewhere but again i would expect some short-term and long-term as far as as far as this you know this plan is concerned for strategies not just stop it right here metal detectors and the other things is added here but i would like it to be expanded to a really a plan this is what we're looking to do now this is what we're looking to do in the future and i think it's really important to hear from the board your your thoughts on this this is a difficult these are difficult decisions and uh and again it's not about the money it's about you know protecting our students number one and our staff and then again how are we going to operationalize this because there's logistics that will go through with how we're moving students through um does it add to the school day those kinds of things whose staffing those will be some things that will need to be considered in you know rolling out a plan as extensive as as it could possibly be so your input is very helpful i i don't know if there's maybe john our council can ask answer this is there some type of bill on the table down in springfield a house bill requiring metal detectors in schools or is that colleges i saw something out there pending 2019 or something like that the general assembly is done for the year so there's whatever was pending is that didn't pass there's nothing new on that okay but nothing come to your memory off hand about no not not requiring mandatory metal detectors in all public no no you might expect to see something introduced and proposed as a result of the last few shootings but remember all you know the legislature left early this year they usually finish up in late may and they were they were about a month earlier than that this year so um they'll come back for a veto session in the fall but that's always use a very limited agenda you'll you'll see a flock of new bills coming in in january okay do you know anything or they can or any one of you know anything with the president or the bill that's going to be sent to congress or something to that effect about gun control having money sent to the schools for safety i thought i heard the phrase metal detectors in that that's supposed to be coming hot off the press are we looking to get any money to offset some of these costs anybody know anything about that thanks don the the bipartisan agreement that took place in the senate part of that agreement does have additional funding in there for school safety um however that bill hasn't even been written yet they still have to write the bill and there hasn't been any amount or allocation given so we don't know where that's coming you know how much it's going to be what it's for they did mention that it could be used for metal detectors and things like that but i don't foresee that bill happening i mean john knows how the legislature works but he said it's going to be on a fast track i think it will but again i don't i don't think it's going to get passed until the fall at least okay but it's the congress can act quicker right now they're there right so just back pocket information i have a question um did you get to i don't know if i missed something did you go through everything that you were going to go through no okay okay that's all you want but we have more to say we have more to say um i just wanted to piggyback on what dr cara said and patrick too about you know i know the desire is to have them at all buildings but with that comes additional human capital that we have to hire to cover all of this as well so bear that in mind it's not just the cost of metal detectors but we would also need staff like you know male female to search people as they come in if they beep under the thing we would have to have training and every building would have to then have security officers or someone trained to do that work solely so just it isn't just about the metal detectors i just want to reiterate that it's not yes or no to the to the tool it's really around how we can best service getting in our building 1100 kids in at any point in time with having the additional staff needed or an elementary school as kids are staggering in at the times that they're coming in so bear that in mind as well as you're thinking about this because it is it's a big concern and it does add to the feeling of safety i think i think overall people feel better when they see a metal detector but there's a lot involved in the background of that too so just bear that in mind i think patrick's got the next part of the presentation if we want to move on to the next section unless you guys have something else about metal detectors well i just want to say what you said as far as having people and my understanding from the background i have that is that people are the number one deterrent um everything else is truly like you all said a tool so if somebody wants to commit a crime you can have a metal detector there they're going to commit a crime they're going to come in shooting guns but if some even if you have somebody at the door that could still happen but people are generally the number one deterrent uh over the tool so uh just some to add on to this a little bit we started doing daily random uh we were doing random bag searches at the high school and at the end of the year the last maybe two weeks we did it every day and we've seen a significant decrease in uh like kids bringing a large amount of snacks and they might have been selling them or what so is it is it illegal no is it contraband it's supposed to be in the school no water guns water pistols when they knew we were doing them every day it got down to to zero you know the first after the first date was 50 it was gone then 20 you know and it after that it went down to zero and that was mostly manpower here we also had a extremely high presence of both security and police in the parking lot that also helped us so it was it was that uh just what dr hall was was saying it was a massive amount of presence we had all hands on deck and then we were actually checking so they knew when they came into school every day that they were going to be subject to search so that that's what helped that actually was a recommendation from ken yep okay continue on um there's there's been some changes on our threat assessment we did we did do some training but this new this new public act 102.0971 that just passed recently we are doing everything that's in there we do have to do a little bit more notification but we did uh did some threat assessment training here with ken trump we have our district's threat assessment team and we're establishing our each school team we did do some this year we did a pretty good job but we want to move that out and make sure that our schools are a little bit more comfortable so we had a bunch of principals administrators as we have to by law uh psychologists our social workers some administrator staff members so we are moving forward on that and it is going to fall right into that new public act there there are a few other things in there but we we're we're doing everything already i think i have to do maybe make one or two more notifications one of the things that uh we that is not up there that i shared with dr cara is the sharing of information one of the things that i've done is create an intelligence group so i have two of them one is just school officials the other one's law enforcement so what we're doing is we're sharing information so hf and bloom and crete and whoever else just continues the growth is something that i'm going to expand on so if we know and it's it's usually either football or [Music] basketball so if i know that there was a large amount of fights at hf the hf security director who i invited to some of our training recently he's going to put in the group chat hey we had we hosted kankakee last week you guys have them next week just so you know the the you know the the players are mad or the you know they had a lot of rowdy uh you know rowdy crowd or whatever it is not a lot information but it's still information and that and this this this is something that was new that is continuing to grow and it's going to allow us hopefully to get ahead of a lot of these problems as we know a lot of these things get resolved from information that's where we're going to beat these things from intelligence developing relationships with our students partnering with our law enforcement partners sharing of the information now one of the unique things we have here is because we had something today that the fbi was able to share with me because i'm current law enforcement so we are getting information we are sharing this in a way and it is coming back to the school so that's that's definitely something positive one of the things we move forward on is our communication we're trying to get better on that so we're dr care is drafting safety alert letters that are going to be the same and we're going to send those out the principals will send those out immediately upon an incident that's happening we've updated our handbook with a lot of security stuff to reflect uh some of the changes in the law and also moving forward on a lot of other other the threat assessment stuff and a few other things uh we have a administrative national uh mass notification system it's our former cast notification system so anytime anyone calls 9-1-1 what happens is the people that are on that system they immediately know about it so if any person from any phone in the high school calls 9-1 it immediately goes to my phone it goes to dr carroll phones and lyle's phone and i'm not sure whoever else so that we know we know that there's a 911 call so generally what happens is when that goes off i see it i pick it up and i call the school if i'm not there and ask what happened so that's been a great help for us because sometimes it's accidental sometimes it's a it's an ambulance but what that is is that's getting information out very quickly now that's just simply uh a call that system can be used for a lot of other things we're still implementing it we're still getting used to it but we do have the system in place and we hope to use it if needed i think that's all going to happen patrick i have a question for you a parent asked me a couple weeks ago she said that her student came home and told her that his car had been searched in the parking lot and she was curious as to that i did explain that's on school of property but are we randomly searching cars are we just walking around and peeking in them or what's going on police officers or the security officers i believe i believe it was a security officer so she didn't really tell me who she just said that her son told her that he'd been told his car i'm not going to speak on what crete police police may or may not have did i would they have done that on our property without you knowing them well yeah they could have i mean i know that sometimes they do traffic stops and things like that they're right right right right um so i'm not sure i mean if you want to give me her name i can call her but i i hadn't heard anything about that yep well i think that's something we definitely should know even though these are police officers coming on our school grounds and randomly without a cause to search cars so that's something we definitely should know and the reason being if there's no probable cause why are they searching students i've never seen them do that mr brown and i i don't i don't know if that's the case i don't know enough about i don't know enough about it but i i can tell you right now i've never seen creed police department do something without probable cause they're they're very reputable police organization uh everything i'm not saying they are but yes they are i will right i believe i think that's why we need to find out the individual yeah right i'd like to yeah just say brother if you got that name and number out i'd be glad to call them now there was i mean there was a uh i think when we um [Music] we were walking the parking lots for a while but i'm i'm not i you know i don't want to speak on something i don't have enough information on so no no we would never we would never search anybody's car no we don't have no we don't have yeah no we we've walked the parking lots and looked in cars yeah but we haven't no we would never search we don't have the authority to do that but the parking lot is definitely an area that we need to do all we could before things come to the school you know i just see that as a gap but we can only do so much so we uh dr hollyfield and i are talking about current measures that we have in place for safety as well as some additional enhancements that will be going on for next year in the past backpacks if students wanted to carry backpacks in school not have to go to their locker every period but rather carry backpacks it was always required that they had a clear or mesh backpack this year we are requiring all students regardless to have clear backpacks we know that if we had to supply them that's at a significant cost and dr hollifeld has worked up a plan and a budget to present but that's probably one of the biggest issues is you know making sure that we have clear access right away to what's what kids are bringing in the building so that it helps to facilitate entry and making sure that all the kids and families understand that this is a safety piece at this point now i mean we realize that they might be a little pricier but it's going to be a required component of being at the middle and high school minimally and if we can if we can help support that obviously by having them purchased and on site so that the kids who don't have them can we can help out with that we would really greatly appreciate that in terms of behavior management because it this harkens back to something dr hall said earlier you know it is about the human beings connecting with the children and knowing what's going on in your building safety overall is really about knowing what's going on and then when you see something you say something that's i mean we talk to little kids about that all the time it doesn't change as they get older and between all of our buildings i know that you have very dedicated teams of teachers and staff and support staff and administrators who want the best for the kids every day and want to walk home every day to their own families and make sure that their buildings are secure and safe for our kids so understanding that that builds out from a classroom level first okay so we really have been pushing hard if you don't know the work of dr randy sprick he talks about safe and civil schools and that's part of the champs behavior management ideas and it's been around for a very long time we've implemented components of champs over time at the middle school and the high school is going to come in line with that by producing some more practices and it's really about training kids to be safe in an environment knowing the routines the rituals the procedures knowing what's expected so that everybody remains safe ids are a big deal so for the public watching if you i mean we we really hearken on this and like harp on the kids about wearing their id in school it's important for us it's important for us to be really available around the neck so that we can recognize who belongs and so that we can counter somebody who's in a building who doesn't belong there because as you've all indicated the people who are coming in and causing harm are people who don't belong in the building they're not necessarily members of the staff or the team or the children so the high school is going to work on getting earlier distribution we're pretty good at the middle school about getting them out pretty quickly first couple days of school kids have them around their neck this also requires some compliance from our bus company so that kids when they're getting on our buses are actually our own kids getting on the buses with their id on around their neck and then the other idea of this common language it really is coming down to universal procedures expectations for safety and then consistency with implementing those safety measures you know nobody should be walking to a door and propping open a door you should just never do that nobody should not be checking in at the main office there's a lot of things that we do on a day-to-day basis that we take for granted as our measures and our routines but we need to revisit them again and remind kids especially now that they you know some have been out of school for a long time and we had to change things up a little bit with our protocols due to covid you know we have to get back to that basic understanding of everybody's everybody's job to keep our building safe all kids all staff all individuals and then parents being compliant to that too so when we post an expectation or expect something from our families they need to be compliant with that as well to keep our kids safe and i just want to chime in on two things on the first slide one of the things that we were proposing is one thing to require a clear backpack but one of the things i was proposing is that we provide each student with the backpack the high school would like to have what we call passport days where the students come ahead of day one and they secure their ids their schedules the backpack we go over some expectations they would rotate among stations so that they're clear before day one of school the thing with the earlier school ids i feel that that should never be a problem uh so what we're proposing we have pictures from the picture day the previous year and we're looking to work with our photographer to have the ids ready day one they will do the sorting by first period teacher so we can hand off all of the ids to their first period teacher because i think we cannot afford to wait a week or two for every student to have an id one day is too many days so for those for whom we have pictures the photographer would deliver those to us to give to the students on the passport day they will provide a list of students who did not take a photograph so when we get our incoming freshmen the photographer will come out and we will invite those students who miss the picture day last year because number one priority i would like to see everyone uh possible with the id the first day of school so that's what the earlier id distribution is about uh the other thing just one question real quick so the policy right or the procedures right now for the students right now as i speak is that the students can come to school with a non-see-through backpack but they have to put in any locker and exchange that one for a clear one is that correct statement or no that's not no okay they are not to come to school right now presently without a clear backpack no they can come but they have to leave the backpack in the locker for the entire day that's what that's that's what i said oh i thought you said to exchange it for a clear one no i guess right right to exchange whatever oh no one does that if they come with a black backpack they typically will not exchange it for a clear one they want to try to walk around with the black backpack which is why we have to focus on making sure that everyone's enforcing the policy with fidelity so we're not changing the policy we're just going to enforce it we want to enforce that since we issued you a clear backpack don't bring any other color backpack into the building so we're saying again no other backpack is allowed in the schools unless it's the clear one that's issued by the district that's what we would like yes because currently we do not require clearer mesh we the current we don't have a current policy at least at the middle school i don't believe at the high school that it requires clear or mesh backpacks the kids can bring any backpack to school we just when they're in the building don't allow them to walk around with a backpack unless we can see in it does that make sense so they have it's never been an actual policy so they just have to carry books or notebooks or whatever they have in their arms yeah i think um mr brown and i um because we've had this discussion with the committee that we're on i guess it wasn't clear then because our understanding was they could come to school with any backpack but that they were required to leave that one in their locker and if they wanted to carry it all day they had to have a clearer mesh one that's correct that was what our understanding always has been so and i think that's what we would like to understand and to be but it's not policy we would like to have something written that the student needs to have a clear backpack start to finish to enter the door with a clear yes are you trying to implement this before the 2022-2023 school year yes and that's one of the reasons i'm proposing that we provide them because to expect that all parents will be able to comply may be unreasonable so in the spirit of equity i think give them the first one well then i think then you take away there's no excuse right absolutely you know otherwise you're gonna have excuses and like you said you'll be weeks in before so i think it's a great idea yeah no no pun intended but no gray area is a clear area right okay okay we're all good yeah okay uh additionally to address uh what dr hall mentioned we're looking to provide training and additional resources to staff at the high school i'm also sharing the resources with the middle school there's a pre-referral intervention manual with every thinkable situation that could come up give you 99 different interventions that you could try with students to help them address noted deficiencies also we want to implement discipline in the secondary classroom it's another book we want to share strategies via professional development led either by division leaders teacher leaders or teachers who are practicing these principles we want to share this with the entire staff not just teachers paraprofessionals all of the adults in the building and a third resource is the teacher encyclopedia of behavioral management it comes up with 100 problems and give you 500 plans that you can roll out of course these plans can be tweaked because as you know there's not a cookie cutter method that can be used in schools but this will provide our staff with additional think outside of the box strategies that they could incorporate in their practice i just would recommend that throughout this whole process and i heard this phrase used over the last since our last board meeting in some way shape or form towards me in an email by a staff member and i did not like this phrase i shared it with the powers to be within this district calling our students repeat offenders so throughout all of this verbiage and language that you are going to incorporate with these policies i ask that you do not use that phrase that's criminal when you use that phrase our kids are not criminals so if you thinking about that phrase in some way please think hard and not use that phrase right and that's another thing uh we don't have everything on the slide just addressing the way that we interact with one another teacher student student to student we are addressing those things as well in the upcoming school year one thing that's not on the slide i have proposed and talked to dr coghlanis about having great level meetings every quarter with the entire grade level sort of like a state of the school address because i want to allow them to know where i think we are and to hear from them because i think a lot of times we do planning around students without incorporating any of their ideas that has to be addressed as well because what you'll find is students are more prone to follow rules and policies that they had a hand into at least having a conversation about so we can't make things that are sort of saying you are the problem and i'm going to fix you we have to bring them to the table here's what i see going on can you give me some recommendations because this cannot continue so we want to address that via grade level meetings in addition i would like to have like a principal action committee composed of students parents the different stakeholders so that the communication that we're involving the stakeholders and decisions that we are making the other thing that i think is vitally important is increased visits and visibility to high school classrooms one of the things that troubles me if people are jumping when you come in it's probably a signal number one that they don't know who you are which is a sad commentary but we have to ensure that we are visible interacting with students so we're proposing a schedule where we division leaders deans administrators principal included during school day you have to be visible you can't just be in the office pushing papers making policy sitting behind the desk you have to roll up your sleeves if teachers are struggling to say here is what i recommend here's what it looks like let me come in and work with you and i think all of that is about building relationships and when students see you doing that they model and emulate what they see additional things too and i'm going to get out of the way we would like to continue the staggered dismissals that we implemented at the end of the school year what that means we did not release all students at one time we released by grade level so today it could have been seniors sophomores then freshmen and uh the juniors the next day you mix it up so they don't know who's going first and we found that the building cleared faster because you got the one great level out onto the bus prior to dismissing everyone at one time and then we would like to continue with the random locker searches just because of the climate we're in these are just some of the strategies that we've come up with we have many more but it would take up the rest of your time okay mr hollyfield you didn't give us your estimate on the backpacks because i want to make a suggestion okay after i hear that oh i know what the numbers are but i don't know the total but uh for the middle school we're looking to get the medium size which hold up to 42 pounds they run roughly about 16 dollars per backpack the larger backpack for the high school they are 1865 and they hold about 68 pounds okay many years ago this school district had solid business relationships we had businesses who were always there to help us we could go out and say prom is going to cost us a thousand dollars more than we have in the budget and we had that thousand dollars before he blinked your eyes i'm suggesting we take a good look at partnering with our businesses again i have local businesses little mom and pop shops that say i loved it when i was a part of the community at the school i loved being able to hear they're going to do this and they need my monetary help because the school district doesn't get the money seriously we need to start with these business partnerships again and i'm not talking just mentoring i'm talking having them involved they hear this they're gonna they're gonna have their checkbooks out they want to help but we have to ask them and we have to tell them what we're doing and why we're doing it so i'm begging you all to get together and start this and i'll be walking the streets right along with you collecting cash because it's out there and we need to involve our businesses with our children and that's part of the ongoing strategy because as we move forward i would like for my visibility to be more than in the school in the community as you indicated not only for mentorship but we need your help and here's what the benefit is to you to put out even promotional pieces so that we can communicate with them you've given us two thousand dollars this is an investment in students and here's the impact for the community at large and that's one of the things that we're working on once i'm able to get situated and roll up my sleeves what you just articulated is going to be more than talk you will see it and that's one of the reasons i think that you all and dr coghlanise have allowed me to function in this role for the upcoming school year i'm a firm believer that the community has to be involved for the school to move forward okay thank you uh ken i've got one question for you on just back to um uh metal detectors if we were to have them installed for day one of school next year do you have any idea of how long the delivery time is or we ordered you know i i honestly don't um conversation i had with the sales rep is they are available so you know but you know the sooner we we put the order in the better off we're going to be right um i just don't know that i i didn't ask that question um you know i just asked for a price and that's what i got so okay i can find it out though i think i think if we're we're thinking high school and you're going to put that budget together ken i got to tell you after this year's incident you got to think of the middle school there's no age there's no age at the axis of whatever they can bring in there's no age in that and where where it's coming in from and i think the other thing is if there's not a policy do we have to create one and we have to enforce it we have to enforce are we going to i mean we listen to what what a student said whether he was able to walk through there whenever he wanted with it with his backpack we have to enforce it which goes back to having the staff to do that but you know i guess we got to have a plan in place how this is all going to function without disrupting you know are you going to be able to hire more people or are you not going to be able to um are you going to have a budget line for it can because the other part of that is i think mr holyfield said it a little bit is walk in the hallways right right there increased visibility the teachers have been asking from that for the administration for for a long time for for administration to see what they see so they can come up with a plan on how to fix it in the same sense like mr stevenson said it'll be about training how to utilize the tool so i think there's a lot of unanswered questions here before we even make a decision on if we're going to do the high school that's great but we all seemed this year that it doesn't just stop at the high school it went lower you look at tv every day and you look at the news these people these kids aren't 16 17 they're 13 they're 14 they're 12 whatever they are so i think we need to look at all of it and i i agree bill we we owe it to all of our students uvalde was not a high school or middle school uvalde was babies and we went after somebody went after and i just like i'm part of that as well if we can if you guys can is there other high schools in illinois that have them if there are is can we have a conversation how effective everything is i mean it's anything we do we at least reach out like mr seaman said you know you asked that gentleman that came here and gave you training what it's what does he see i mean we're pretty much asking their opinion and what works for them kind of the same thing so if other high schools are doing it how effective yeah board i think you know i can create a budget line that that that's easy that's not the issue here i think the issue is as as these guys have said is you know i think we need to put a full plan together bill you're saying the same thing but we also have to look at logistics of implementing this if you put eight metal detectors in the high school what staff do you need to monitor them and what are you pulling away from in order to monitor them i'll give you an example when you go to the airport and you go through a metal detector there's a whole bunch of tsa people there and i i know it's not but i mean there's just a lot and so you can't just have one person at the metal detector there are also let's be honest there's also going to be some union issues here because if you're having staff monitor those things they also need to be trained appropriately and i think like was brought up you have to have males and females searching so and how and how many people will it take to get how many students do you say 1100 1100 1100 middle school to get through yeah and and so i think we have to look logistic and please i i'm not saying we should not have them i'm not saying that we can't afford them but i think bill i agree with you that there has to be a kind of a full plan put together so we know we can't rush through it and we have to do it right and let me let me just again on the elementary side you know again there's two or three entrances that we have kids coming in we're having staff maybe monitor that i don't think we can add enough security guards to handle all that but if they're doing that now they're not in the classroom when the kids are going to the classroom so you know again it's just things that we just need to think about logistically and how we're going to do this uh me if you don't mind no meaning instead of having it the first day if we take the time and do the research and we get everything planned out and we have a plan then let's just say maybe it's after winter break just you know or it's the following whatever but you have to have a plan in place because one we got to sustain it right yeah it's the same the training we have to sustain it all i just don't think that you know to try and do it the very first day in all of our schools is going to be realistic i just don't think that because again we're looking at putting a plan together we've got to order these things and that so i think you know again my recommendation is i think we you know we have to kind of progress this i think we start with the high school and get them set up and then start moving forward and you know you kind of you kind of learn as you go with the logistics of how this is working at the middle at the at the high school and then we have conversations with kokona her staff her leadership team okay you know maybe we come back in i don't know i'm just going to say october maybe we can put them in october over there and so we slowly start putting these in because i just don't think we have the resources here's the other thing all of our buildings are under construction right now i can't do anything as these guys will tell you back here well not all of you yes ken as we were saying you know that metal detectors is one tool so if it's something that we're saying that we're going to do you know let's get it done in the high school first then we just need to still know that there's safety plans that are continuing to you know to the highest level sure aside from that you know whatever else needs to happen over there i i agree with that and i and i think those things can easily be implemented the very first day and i think we've already talked about that i know dr kara and chantel and lyle and i have gotten together and we've talked about you know professional development before school starts and all of that so i think all of that and actually we had gotten an email too and you know i don't know how you fix something like this because of course we wanted to build the new schools we all know that didn't happen so we do have buildings where there's a lot of windows right you know they're almost like sitting ducks if somebody does come in so that's something else that we're going to have to figure out how we can address as well you're right there are things like shades on windows you know that's what i'm saying if we can at least start in those things at the elementary level we need to be doing something yes i agree and then another quick question um how when are we planning to roll this safety plan out to the parents to give them some reassurance that we are doing these things that they can feel you know because i know there's a lot of requests for metal detectors and what are we doing you know people want to know what we're doing so when and how are we rolling that plan out to the parents well actually we are working on a district newsletter to go out probably the end of july and we are going to be putting in these pieces in there and wherever we're at with the decision on the metal detectors that'll be in the newsletter as well as reminding parents about what the vocabulary is you know the hold and teach the secure building what does that mean when i get a phone call so we want to educate we have kind of a security campaign what we've talked about to educate everybody on the terms so people don't get nervous because they see a hold and teach it might mean there's a student that's having you know an issue or health issue in the hallway just because we have to move kids back to the classroom doesn't mean there's a shooter at the building right so we want to make sure that we are really educating not just our staff but our community on what we're doing here so that newsletter it's going to be going out before school starts and it will hit everyone's mailboxes so whether you have a child in our district or not you will know what is being done because certainly we've got a family and friends here this evening that carol very much and they may or may not have students here but maybe some grandchildren right and they care about what's going on and so we want to make sure that they're well informed of what we are doing yeah i think that's great because like i said it maybe will help ease some people's minds you know with all this going on i know parents are truly upset understandably and i just think that like you said educating them so there's a clear understanding of what's going on with these terms i think it's a great idea so um and then it'll also be on the website i'm assuming i'm kind of planning the website yes we just talked about some of this stuff today uh as far as the website uh okay as well so that people can see what's going on perfect thank you so bored i i think the one thing i'm going to ask this they may not but i will i i would like direction on two things i think one is metal detectors because i need to start the process now if we're interested in putting metal detectors at the high school that's number one because i can't wait until the july meeting to do that it's going to be too late i'll just say that and then number and that cost is about forty thousand dollars all right the second part are clear backpacks of getting clear backpacks for every student in the district that cost is going to be about 50 to 70 thousand dollars i will tell you that i i know that we we ran the numbers and all of that stuff in fact i know mr hallfield found a vendor that has them in stock and so that's why i want to jump on this right away it was achieved i'm sorry is that just per student or is that per student plus extras if they need to purchase i believe it's i believe it's per student i've added it's a few more extra in there you know that so that every school would have extras there in case a student you know needs one in that now or if we get transferring our transfers and all that um i will i i will tell you this i'm looking into our money and esther money to see if i can use that for some of these things i think i can so i think they'll be reimbursable for us and all of that so i just need direction on those two things i know they'll be happy that i'm asking this question so i and so well i'm gonna come back with one thing though for patrick mr brown asked if there were statistics on the pros and cons of metal detectors and is there anything that shows that they've assisted narcissist or whatever and i i think that you know that would probably help for sure mr brown and a few of us understand is there anything that you can give us that shows anything [Music] i'm not sure but i'm going to speak on two things i think i'll close this out with this if you think about abraham maslow hierarchy needs what's at the very bottom security right number two above that is learning self-accusation so we need to utilize everything we can to get that safety and security for our people for our students so that they can learn it's a it's a basic principle of learning you have to feel secure and safe and metal detectors are one thing i didn't get a chance to speak on this and everybody in this room including dr cara is going to hear a part of this for the first time i have two thoughts on how to uh and uh mr hollyfield had spoken on getting students involved now dr kara knows about one of my thoughts on this is have a student safety committee and and what's the purpose of that to bring them to the table to develop relationships to get information from them to have them be accountable and you know responsible for their own safety the second part is that is the parent safety committee uh dr kara is doing a lot of things with volunteers i think those would be excellent people to add to this along with other people for the community and bring all these people together because it's all stakeholders just like mr hollyfield so he stole a little bit of my thunder here about bringing everybody to the table but that's i think that's really important because when we have the students come in here they i mean their scientific data fbi uh bystander report they're gonna know about violence they're gonna know about a lot of things before we do why not have them involved with the actual safety of the school well i think it's also a deterrent you know if you know there's you know if they're here then they know they're not going to get away with it we have a lot of other committees that were you know that we're doing a safety and security committee and i think this is just one piece that's going to complete the whole circle here can my suggest for those two items uh sure given you need direction well we put it together and at least have them as agenda items next week for action items oh okay all right we can vote them up or down we can have more discussion about it but at least we're prepared to take action on it okay i can do that sure i can do that and again i'm a guy that like to look at numbers like to look at statistics and like to look at those driving points and parameters and key indicators that will help us make robust decisions such as this so i hate to say that i heard a lot of it's my opinion this is the way i feel i just want to see from out there what data do we have to say metal detectors is good in this environment or that environment that should be easily obtainable that's what i would like to see for next week wherever you get it from say yeah and let the chips fall as they may because i'm not going to be here talking about what i read and that added out of that you know it's going back and forth so just bring some information to say hey we talked to three schools or here's some data here's some information and say metal detectors definitely is the way to go given this scenario or not maybe it's somewhere down the road but we're going to put these measures in place first i i think that um not to like say that anybody's concerns or thoughts are bad but i think that it would be we you may be hard-pressed for somebody to say well the metal detectors were or not because a lot of times you know we don't know what a kids actually bring into school or not right so they don't know ahead of time they would have had to done the study ahead of time before they can get it get numbers and data um it's kind of like we're like the federal government so my background my bachelor's is aviation management and they used to always tell us that the federal government doesn't do anything with aviation until somebody dies and i think that we understand we need these things for deterrence we understand that we need people we understand that for unfortunate that crete monet high school or middle school or whatever could be next we understand all of that so i don't really understand what's what we're splitting hairs about when it comes to whether or not we get metal detectors whether or not we add give the school what they need versus say well we we needed the data to see what was going to happen or we needed um to save money on this or that we needed and everybody has that each one of you would say you had your own opinion but i just really really coming working in the school being over safety and security being out working over the days being in charge of that every day we go home as board members and yeah we care but we don't come into the school every day like they do hoping that something doesn't happen and could it still happen with those measures in place like i said earlier if somebody wants to commit a crime they're going to commit a crime i worked in a prison i worked as a military police officer in the marine corps somebody wants to commit a crime it doesn't matter if we have metal detectors it doesn't matter if we have somebody at the door it doesn't matter what we have it was a sandy hook the place was locked they barged their way in they started shooting it doesn't matter but if we can have the deterrents i worked at cps schools we have metal detectors did we still have stuff happen yes we had stuff happen did it stop stuff yes to stop stuff at my school now we had a shooting right outside the school and after that shooting we we got it was no question we got metal detectors but what and not and i'm not saying anything negative about them but what i'm saying is something had to happen for us to do it so if we have a shooting tomorrow or there's no students but the first day of school and we didn't get them up we'll say well somebody people are going to come here and say you should have you should have and we we have the chance to get it you say that if you wait till july that that would be too late or would it oh or are you just trying to say that it will set you back or what i don't understand well if i what i'm saying dr hall is that if i wait till july there's no way that i can have the metal detectors here by the first day of school got it that's all i'm saying so let me ask you this and i know i'm just playing devil's avenue if you give the board members what they're requesting right you give them what they're requesting they don't get it the first day of school we still can move forward with the training until we get it correct sure okay sure and i think that's something that mrs walters brought up too is that there are a lot of things on here in our safety plan our full safety plan that still can be implemented even though we don't have metal that one deterrent that one tool there yeah i think that uh again i'm one person one opinion i'm more for giving you all what you asked for in this case um because i i see it as being important and so you're saying dr holland your opinion you're saying this is what i'm oh you got the opinion thing no no well that's what you said that's what you said you said you said in your opinion oh okay go ahead you said you said in your opinion in your opinion that the implementation of installing metal detectors is more of a pro than a con as our students see it that's our who our students you said our students feel safer there's there's no negative connotation with our students our demographics here is that no there's no negative connotation no um i think that dr hall yes i think we need to also take in this conversation tonight as far as we can take it we can pick it up next week if we have action items on the agenda maybe have some more information we can decide to vote it up or down but we've got a lot of a lot more on the agenda if i can just say real quick though we really need to consider the voice of parents as well and we've been hearing a lot of that and so as board members i think we need to listen to the parents and what they're feeling so i'll end with that thank you okay i do have two quick questions social media is that part of this whole process monitoring social social media yeah yeah we def we definitely do that we have uh yeah we do it every day every day okay continue on that track another question for ken going back to national investigation or investigators are we looking to do the same thing with them utilize this one firm to do the same thing that they did for us a couple years ago or in another capacity um i think um in the same capacity and enhanced some more and that's what i'll share that with you when i get into my presentation it's later on okay yes it is if i can make one point about metal detectors that dr hall made me think about everyone's thinking about people doing things with bad intents that intent what about the person that just because we see it at the airport all the time i forgot my gun was in my bag what about the concealed carry holder that's illegal to have a gun outside those doors but he's not allowed to have him in here what about someone who has a gun illegally has no intent to do anything here but has an on him or a knife those people may not have any criminal intent anything but we want those things in our school absolutely not so you see that these things are not only catching they've they've caught judges and everybody they're not only catching criminals they're catching good citizens that are making just poor mistakes or they forgot but that still doesn't mean we want those items in our school so there's there's other benefits to having these and i think that's really important and you see these all the time at courthouses you see it all the time at airports oh i forgot that was in my bag so that's that's definitely something to consider okay as you know pat reading ken trump article which i read he geared in on that very point you are going to catch some metal detectors but does that justify the installation of them as it impacts those minority kids as far as they see the implementation implementation of mr brown okay next up personnel and culture discussion regarding staffing well good evening dr cara just asked me to kind of rehash something that was in the fyi last week and that was to just kind of publicly talk about our higher status of hiring staff for next year and we still do have quite a few positions posted we have administrators working hard to fill them as we speak and we've had a number of candidates recommended today that will be on next week's personnel report we have a bunch coming on tonight's personnel report we also continue to have resignations come in i had two come in today so we do have kind of a mix of things going on throughout the summer right now as it stands we have about 45 of the vacant teaching positions filled that doesn't mean that we will not find the rest it just means that's where we are today and we have about 28 percent of our support staff positions that are vacant filled now big issue with the support staff right now is the settlement of the acme agreement once we know what the salaries are going to be we have some candidates waiting uh to take jobs they just want to know what they're going to make and they're not going to take what we were paying last year but they are waiting to see what we're going to pay next year so some of this is on track to improve pretty quickly but we do want to caution that we you know we may still struggle to fill some of the hard to fill positions i did look in today in the system we've been receiving approximately 20 applicants a week in the system now when you compare that to five years ago when we're receiving a hundred applicants a week this is pretty small and it's not going to be enough to fill what amounts to about 70 plus positions we have open however we do see about up to five to 15 applicants for a lot of our certified positions which is better than we've seen in the past years so i am hopeful that we will see some improvement in our ability to fill our certified positions and have a lot of hope for our non-certified positions as well once we get our acme agreement settled and we can actually tell them what they'll make and i think we'll get more people applying and coming on board so that's just kind of a general overview of where we are one last thing i'll mention we did just come off of a second round of a statewide job fair the online job fair that was run through the illinois association of school personnel administrators i believe about 25 candidates were talked to by our school administrators and i know we have some of those i recognize some of the names on that spreadsheet that are starting to come through the pipeline so we are we are seeing some results from that as well so our people are working hard we're trying to get this taken care of but just wanted to kind of let you know where we're as of june 13th or 14th or whatever today is okay thank you [Music] okay ken you're back up uh thank you very much i uh i'm going to start with uh capital projects so i did i want to share a handout with you um i wanted to give you an update of of our capital projects that are going on this summer behind me um and they're they're they're staying behind me hiding and i got to thank them for being here because as you may know they're probably starting at 5 4 35 o'clock in the morning our representatives are our general contractor um rl soho for our projects along with representatives from our architectural firm healey bender pan and bean so they're here to answer some questions as i go through this i ask them to be here they have graciously are here i want to thank them for that because this is a really really long day for them especially joe's at home somewhere doing whatever so um but anyway let me take you through this i put this kind of cheat sheet together so you can see the one thing i want to say before i get started is this we are opening our schools on time okay i just want to be clear on that our plan and they know this behind me is that we are opening our schools on time they may not be fully completed with their projects but they will be open on time and they will have occupancy through the regional office of education that being said let me walk you through this project number one temporary cooling rooms those have been completed those are done they were completed over spring break and optional and are operational in the spring so those are done we've made our final payment on that complete project number two is the demolition of the sixth grade center in dome that project is being a little bit delayed i i say that because originally the end time was going to be august of 22 however as we have talked with the board we're holding off on seeding that property until the fall so that we could have the proper moisture in order for the grass to take so it's going to be delayed until probably october i've been told you don't see unless it's a month that has an r in it so that's the way you do it so um so we'll be seeding in september everybody's going some time for october so we're doing september and october we'll be doing the seating on that and so that should be complete we are waiting on some real quick yes ask mr brown yeah are we going to need to bring in any type of feel feel any type of fuel there is um there is in the bid specification there is some fill that is going in there some topsoil that is done before the seeding uh in order to grade everything so that will be done yes and that's all compensated and paid for all right that's all within the contract okay yes all of that is within the contract okay thank you yep project number three the hvac and electrical over at elc in talala that project will be delayed because of equipment uh getting a lot of those are there some rooftop units that are going in along with our chiller we're being told that the earliest that they will get here is the end of september so what we are doing over there in that project is we are leaving everything in place that can be left in place before we put the new equipment in so i'll give you an idea things like the administrative center that rooftop unit i believe is coming in okay thanks joe so that rooftop unit is coming in so we're taking out that uh hvac old unit and we're able to replace it but there are other areas in there that the unit is not coming in so we're just leaving everything intact we're running the new ductwork and everything so when the new units come in we'll be able to we'll be able to put those in those units will be put in at night and on weekends so it will did not disturb the instructional time of our students either so that is our plan right now i foresee us being under construction probably through november i will just say that right out because of the time frame that's what they're quoting us right now on the units that could change tomorrow are we are we going to absorb any additional overtime for those weekend days or evening days we we should not do that um you know and that and that's something that i will monitor and see but we should not be absorbing any additional cost for that and the cooling rooms still are functional the cooling rooms are still functional yes yes and there are other areas within there that are cooling right now and we're just leaving those as as is too there are some other like special ed rooms that have air conditioners we're just leaving those right now okay uh project number four which is the life safety and hvac prep projects at balmoral creed and coretta again that project is going to be delayed there were some rooftop units there also that we're going in over there so those again will not be in until the end of september uh and again we'll be doing the same thing over there installing those things within uh on weekends and nights in order to get done so we don't uh interrupt instructional time the one area that we are working on bringing some portable units into is the there's going to be a new office area there and so um that will not have its rooftop unit there so we're going to bring in a couple with what they call cool spot units and portable units in there to provide air conditioning in that area he can wasn't these three project four only be the prep this year and then next summer they were gonna do the they were and one of the things we decided to do was was uh we learned from the previous two schools that we probably should have done some rooftop units in some areas like our big areas uh and do that along with the project so uh we still came in under budget and we'll be under budget on the second round of this so some of those yes you're right bill some of those were going to be done the following summer so next year we're still going to have some projects in these three oh yes we still will yes yes hey ken yes life safety issues you know at one point the board was looking to not open bore morrow but our last meeting we decided to move forward i'm sorry i'm thinking of nbc yeah okay yeah i'm sorry not bone marrow mec it's not on this list though but we have life safety issues with mec 2013 starts another survey for us for life safety 10 years from 2013.
most of them have been working between 20 and 25 throughout the school year some have gone up above that the nice thing is i know what teachers can handle it and do it and continue to do a quality job and they've been willing to at this point that would be something in the future that if we need to look at staffing and versus you know stipend maybe versus more full-time positions or what we expected them for the stipend that we paid them that might be something in the future that would be worth discussing one thing with our stipend physicians and we've talked about this before is that we compare it to a coaching position and it very much is except that it's it's the full annual year it's not just the school it's the calendar year not just the school year so they're they're on they're constantly on um they do slack off a little bit in july but they do still work to try and keep our kids engaged and stay connected with our students so that we don't lose them come august and the piece of that coaching most of us choose to coach because we love it and it's very rewarding for us this position is up doesn't always give you the reward that you get from coaching so even though it's very comparative with being a coach there's that piece of this is this is a tour it's a tour many times when we're chasing kids and trying to keep them engaged and keep after kids who come to us because they've been trying to avoid or they haven't been successful elsewhere that's why i hate to hear that some are good on the waiting list because you don't know if they're going to fall for a crap and just check the whole education thing yes and what if you could grab a hold of them and connect with their personality in some some ways you might be able to keep them that's our goal just it's growing with it i know there was some concern with coben hitting and other virtual programs popping up that ours might that our credit recovery program might not be as utilized that it continues to grow and other school corporations are finding out about us just by word of mouth and so we're becoming their go-to alternative when they've got seniors and juniors in trouble and in danger of not graduating or looking at us i think arie do you we give kids from here that's a good question i meant to pull up the exact numbers we serve kids across 44 counties in indiana our biggest populations are wabash huntington and johnson county this past semester johnson county south of indy so john's in hancock we have a large group down there because probation departments and the schools the probation departments work very closely with the schools down there center grove greenfield greenwood those bigger schools and the probation department departments work very closely with the administrators down there and they've been recommending us so we're they're good to and the we've become a go-to for four-way schools as well and so that population where we used to get a handful we're in the 20 to 30 range of fort wayne students coming to us where those schools are starting to utilize us i wish we didn't have the statute any other questions as far as the handbook there's just this will go really quickly on page five i updated the tiered system of support it's it's just revised and moved i moved it up higher up in the handbook under accountability to try and bring more emphasis and attention to it with our parents and our students because that is a piece that is becoming vital with our program and trying to improve our dropout rates and get kids graduated so we're just trying to place more emphasis on that also on page seven i addressed the tiered system of support once again by just listing an important note to parents i revised that and provided direct information about what they are to expect from us if a student if their child gets referred to our tiered system because of lack of engagement truancy concerns lack of progress so just emphasize the importance that if kids get referred to that they're expected to participate and engage with our staff in weekly meetings and also we need that parent support and we need the parent involved in that process as well on page nine i simply updated our assessments to match the 22 23 testing windows and i also added indiana code 2033.2 in an effort to emphasize to parents and students the importance of students participation and then that they show up for sat testing which we had a really good turnout this year which was very nice and encouraging page 10 i just whereas before i had all the staff listed out just to introduce our staff to the parents so that they could at least see a name i took out a lot of those names because we've had so much addition and with our numbers we never know who's going to be on staff and who's not so i just made a more generic more general terms in that our seven full-time staff and then our and then just listed that we've got highly qualified licensed staff to facilitate the student learning and finally on page 12 i updated the diploma requirements to include grad pathways just to help push that information out to parents one thing that we found out that with a lot of our students they they've either not been explained brad pathways or they didn't hear it or didn't understand it so just put it in black and white to help us as we talk through those things with parents to help them have something in writing those were the main revisions for this year and again of course this is just the first reading so if you have any questions between now and the next one let me know and i can forward those to mrs moon and i do want to say that she did there there are some other things that have come up uh recently that we may have to bring this back to you during the year if we can wait we'll wait but if we can't we may bring it back to you just to make more revisions uh during the year we don't necessarily like to do that but if that's something we need to do we can do and it would be the same process as a first and second question okay public comment agenda items only okay approval of the minutes from our last two meetings and we actually did not do a couple of minutes from the last game so may 24th and may 31st means okay so pretty close sorry i'm a motion and second to approve the minutes from our last two board meetings i'll ever say aye financials claims the great that's our math curriculum for k through 5.
What was that last? Yeah. Karina split off to her seat. She's listening. [Music] I don't think we have enough. [Music] I'm doing this. Okay. You ready? [Music] We don't have any more chairs, so [Music] sit in them. Just have them sit in any open seat. [Music] Ready? All right. Ladies and gentlemen, introducing you the Danbury High School graduating class of 2022. [Music] [Applause] Oh, [Music] heat, heat. Heat. Heat. Heat up here. Heat. Heat. Hey, Heat. Yeah. Heat. [Applause] Heat. Heat. [Applause] Heat. Heat up here. [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat up here. [Applause] Heat. Heat. [Applause] Oh, heat, heat. Heat. [Applause] Heat. [Applause] Heat. [Applause] [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. [Applause] seen. Yeah. Look, my turn. Thanks. No, like look at it. A remember [Applause] tell the staff to Welcome to graduation 22. Well, actually [Music] Don't counterl just grab the chair. So yes, tell them to come help you.
[Music] [Applause] that is a very a great honor very distinguished um a set of art students here but i don't need to tell you that i need to show you that [Music] i'm very proud of all of them all of them but i am so excited that we um we finally won first place yeah we have continued to win year after year i want to remind you of that uh for many years but this is the first year and we've come in second and third place uh last year we won second and third place i want to remind you of uh this year is the first year we won first place i'm very very proud [Applause] and isn't it also not true that um these um these particular art pieces will also be also be prominently displayed uh throughout the year is that correct uh yes and so thank you mr arturo another part of the prize the first second and third place winners for the first place winner um and i'm sorry we had her i tell you her her work was up on the screen because i don't have the original it is taken uh by the congresswoman to be there it is right there beautiful beautiful graphite drawing is photorealistic uh to be displayed in washington dc the um the tunnel so sorry i i'm at a blank the big the famous tunnel down there in washington see where all the tourists go uh you know um travel and people that work down there so it's um along with all of the other first place winners um hung for a solid year for watch right so i am honored um from the board of education and i'm wearing the right colors and it wasn't planned just the same right um i have this certificate if you can come up when i read your name students uh zuzia unified school district certificate of recognition is probably to present alexis mantell for placing first place in the 2022 congressional art competition then i have come one for kim lopez for placing second place in the 2022 congregation congressional art competition that's oh that's yours then we have abigail sanchez for receiving the judge choice award in the 2022 congressional art competition you can stand over here and angelina gonzalez for receiving honorable mention in the 2022 congressional art competition congratulations and riley riley leroux we're receiving an honorable mention in the 2022 congressional art company and i i have also went to um to see the art show many times and i'm so impressed seeing these students and their art you wouldn't believe that they're high school students they had art also from the um middle school students and i want to thank all the art teachers for showing the talents of our students from mizzou unified school district you know students at some time don't realize they have that art maybe dancing or singing and that's why i feel strongly of the arts and these look how beautiful these these portraits are i mean they can make some money off this but congratulations students congratulations moving on to 7.0 items from the for public comment on agenda or non-agenda items this is an opportunity for the public to address the board of education on agenda or non-agenda items individual speakers may be allowed up to three minutes to address the board of education on any agenda or non-agenda item when the public wishes to address the board on an agenda item they may fill out a blue card stand at the podium or raise their hand while in zoom attendance the board will take blue card requests first followed in order by speakers at the podium and then those in zoom attendant do we have it looks like we have a few uh blue cards here so first up we have noe falcon good evening board um president grier uh his team board um superintendent ortega uh assistant superintendent jamal and ankio i come to you tonight with a very important matter that has plagued our campuses as of late i know many of you know that we lost a student five days before graduation to gang violence following that that day we had we had to pull a student and removed him from campus for his own safety because of possible uh possible anything to um keep him from keep anything from happening to him um then the following uh tuesday right before graduation we had somebody on rockville with uh with a firearm um are the uh our campus safety on that and um unfortunately without having any type of training took it upon himself to call into the main office and have them call the police department what should have been done correctly was he called the police department uh giving them location description of the of the subject um fortunately they they caught the the person up by the 711 arrested him uh took him into custody uh the following day we had another incident where a car was driving into our student parking lot um with the four males in it with the had the light a paper plate uh paper plates on there which to us is a recently purchased vehicle they stopped they cruised the student parking lot with our students out in the uh pe area so i went out there i contacted the police they were there within three minutes they were turned out to be five of our students uh they were all questioned and they were released into uh the school's custody and they went to class um this was on wednesday thursday we had after school was done after kids were all gone home we had three males that did not attend our campus come on to look for classes uh that which we knew you know that was not uh that was not true so what i'm asking is board and management please look into uh training getting training for campus safety the reality is that we're the first responders on the campuses we we're there at everything that whenever whatever transpires we're always there on time we're always there looking out for our students our staff and our campuses um there's a lot more to be said but you know my time is running out but um this is this is a very grave matter that we need to really take a good look at this and get us get us trained in a proper way that we can not only save ourselves but save the lives of our students and our staff thank you mr falcon next we have melissa fajardo you hear me good evening i hope you and your families are doing well i'm apparently and i'm here in hopes that you can all help me with the challenges that our school faces when our children are in school first i would like to thank superintendent ortega for taking the time to speak with me and other parents about the future plans of our school your time is greatly appreciated our children families and staff are looking forward to see the changes happen and it's been a long a long way which brings me to why i am here today it's my understanding that our school plans have been submitted and i also understand that it is a long awaiting process and i understand that we have no choice at this point but to be patient we are but we unfortunately we are in times we're taking our children to school it's no longer a guarantee that they will be safe every day that i take my children to school it takes me about an hour to pull out of the parking lot because i am scared for my children our family teachers and staff are scared as you all know our school needs new fancy as our as of now our school has fencing that makes it easy for anyone to enter our campus our children are visible at all times when they are outdoors so i am here asking as a parent to another parent please if there's anything any of you can do to move this process along faster if there's anyone you can reach out to so that we can have proper fencing all around our school as soon as possible we have our own city our own city azuza pd if there's any way that law enforcement can go to all of our schools campuses from time to time anything to help keep our children safe of course i want to see progress at our school our children deserve that i want our school to look nice but there is nothing more important than our children's safety so if you can make that a prayer a priority i would appreciate it from the bottom of my heart thank you all for your time thank you miss fardo next we have robert uh carbohy corrabo i'm sorry caraballo thank you excuse me hello all you guys hear me yeah okay this is my first time doing this actually um i'd like to say first i'd like to echo what mr falcon says because i do campus safety at glasgow um we need better training you know sort of they just kind of put us out there you know here's the job this isn't that but uh sometimes things get you know certain situations happen and um you know if we don't make the right decision it could affect a lot of people myself my daughter my colleagues get what i'm saying and um i'd also like to see if maybe you guys can actually give us a certification where we're actually really considered campus safety instead of camp which is what we're hired on um i know that probably calls for more money or something like that i'm not sure but uh like i said i'm just here to tackle what he said we need we need we need more training because um i was i had actually the privilege of working with ortega uh thank god knock on wood was a good day didn't have any issues but you know one day it's great the next day you don't know what's going on you know luckily i have a good principal mr padomo you know and he's very helpful with a certain situation it's a good thing um that's about it i don't have much more echo what he says we need we need help you know anything anything that can help us uh help us help these students be safe would be much greatly appreciated thank you mr carvalho next we have alicia rodriguez i believe she is online hello hello we can hear you perfect um i'm gonna actually also echo on mr falcon miss fajardo and mr carabao um we spoke my husband and i spoke to uh superintendent ortega on may 27th and we do appreciate the time mr take i'm sure you remember me but we also wanted to emphasize the safety of our schools after the uvalde school shooting and technically a massacre we're very concerned at lee's school as parents we feel like we know there's going to be a lot of things taking place for lee but we also want to push for you the board and the superintendent to prioritize certain things for our schools especially maybe installing an anti-scale fencing um i know when i spoke to superintendent ortega he spoke to me about possibly speaking to the city manager minister sergio gonzalez and seeing if we can have pd come in and train with our staff and possibly even our parents we would love to see if our parents can be of support in a situation if something like that were to ever occur in our district um also we wanted to touch base and continue to push and while we don't always speak we want to let you the board know and the superintendent know that we are listening and so are a lot of parents from lee we want you to ensure that there's going to be programs for the school music arts earlier education for our students a lot of us have to seek to other programs outside of the district and we wish that these programs were offered within our school district um but i'm making it very brief again we just want to enforce police we're begging as parents to consider the safety of lee's school there are some changes that need to be prioritized over others we like ms fajardo said it's very unnerving to send your child to school and we would love to have at least some type of transparency with our parents coming up in the 2022-2023 school year so if there's um mr ortega has my email we would i know he said that he was going to reach out also to our principal but we would love to sit down either with the board as parents from lee uh and the superintendent and see what's going to happen for the 2022-2023 school year thank you all for your time thank you miss rodriguez and next we have cecilia ford hi can you guys hear me yes we can hear you great um hi everybody i'm here tonight to echo everything that noe and robert and the parents as well the safety of our campus campuses especially the high schools right now because i am a campus aide at classroom high school um we need to make sure that our students are safe we need to make sure our staff is safe um we need the proper training we need to we want to be certified and given the opportunity to do so um moving forward we're going to be combining schools at this point right now we do work noah and i are working summer school and we have a lot of kids on campus we've got the high schools we've got the middle schools and the adventures that we have daily today was just the first date um but the adventures we're going to have daily are going to be fun to say the least um but we need we kind of just go on a whim and do what we know to be able to survive every single day um we love our jobs we love our kids we take care of each other and we need to make sure that we have the um we have the proper training to be able to do so to protect everybody on campus moving forward we're going to have the middle one major middle school we're going to have one major high school we're going to need an sro on both campuses just to make sure the safety of our kids are there if we need to call pd we don't want to have to wait we want to make sure that we have somebody on campus and there to be available to us um azusa pd covina pd and just to make our school safer we need that support from the district we need the certification from the district we need everybody's support thank you very much thank you miss ford that looks like that is that exhausts the list of speakers for this evening we'll then move to 8.0 and 8.1 comments reports and requests by the board of education and we'll begin with board member rodriguez pena good evening everyone um i want to let you know that i attended the azusa glendora annual personal growth program an event for young ladies that have had obstacles in their lives simpson 8th grade students from azusa glendora and charter world unified school district i was so proud of our students from center ellington foothill and slauson middle school to hear all their stories we had a student from center middle school that's visually impaired and she sang such a beautiful song there and it was very touching so i want to thank the endorser optimus women a club that that hoses annually every year and this is the first time of course since two years ago and they had a great turnout uh i went to the azusa glendora sierra high school senior night award um over 40 scholarships are given out to the to further their education and i want to thank all the donors and their contributions to our students at this unified school district i went to the all all in for azusa community festival we had many great resources for the community azuza unified school district had a job fair and they gave samples of the food that the students are eating at the high school uh in the high school lunches and they had paw noodles grilled cheese peach buffet with granola and it was really good i tried all of them i even told them that she brings into the board so we can all try them out right and we also had the lee lion there taking photos so again i want to thank the azusa unified staff that made this happen they did it all a fantastic job and it was a great turnout also with the community and it's great to let community know what we're doing here at the zoo unified school district what programs do we have what food we're serving the students um and i went to the eighth grade promotion all the eighth grade promotions in high school graduations azusa adult school graduations and the medical opinion ceremonies so i want to congratulate i want to congratulate them all it's been a very challenging year a couple couple of years for all of our students and staff they had to learn in person then virtually online didn't have to go back to learn in person again with a mask and then take off your mask so i'm very proud how everything turned out and guess what students out of all this you did it so congratulations all the students thank you board member bo good evening everyone i just wanted to say how happy i was to attend the sierra high senior women's team a couple of weeks ago there were some amazingly inspirational speeches by both women leaders as well as our some of our alumni um one of the speeches actually almost brought me to tears it was so moving um it was my great honor to participate and attend that event for the first time and this year i was also able to attend the azusa high school and the gladstone high school senior graduation ceremonies and it's such an amazing opportunity to feel the energy of all of our students recognize them for their accomplishments and also celebrate with all of the teachers and staff that have made their success and their journey possible so just sharing out how great it was to see everyone and actually shake hands this time because last year we weren't able to shake hands so that that was a really good feeling so i'm very happy to have board participated chris gonzalez nothing tonight thank you i have have a couple one yes echo just the thoughts of my colleagues and extending just the congratulations to all of of our of our of our students and learners who are are celebrating success and advancement uh promotions graduations all of the above and more uh we are we are proud of you and and yes the ways that that you've needed to persevere in this particular season um is is just makes it that much more extraordinary and so i just want to say that we are are proud of you all um and and want to thank you for making azusa what it is and so with whatever you have next uh whatever that that is for you in your respective areas and categories we just want to wish you all the best in addition to that i do also want to um note that tonight is is also a very special and unique evening because uh there is a longtime member of our family who for whom this will be her last board meeting uh here with us and so i look out here to the audience and i do see dr dana mitchell who is sitting here on the second row and i do want to just take this opportunity to communicate to you how grateful we are for your years of dedicated servant the the ways that i have gotten to to know you and got to know your your story and the ways that you and your story is an inspiration to to those students who have who have learned under you and those who have learned around you and served in your team um i i i i can't say enough and and to to uh as we look ahead we we are are excited as at what the district is going to be continuing to do and we look to you because of the the tremendous amount of work um that you have done in these years here at azusa unified school district i want you to know that as i go around and i speak to people and and the the amount of times that you come up when i tell people that that i'm here or and what i do the number of times that you come up where people express uh just their appreciation for you in the ways that you have made an impact um i i i can't even count because of how many times it's happened and so as you move forward from this point into retirement we celebrate you we're grateful for you um we are just just cheering you on and grateful to have had you here in the family for so long and and you will continue to be in the family but but just not here every day um and so just want you to know that that we love you and we are so grateful for you and i will say digital to all that we'll move on then to 9.0 comments reports by the superintendent cabinet and student board members i don't imagine we have any student board members here with us this evening i'll take it as they're they're taking the evening off after uh they left after they're seniors they're gone that's true that's true we'll get we'll get back to you on our student on our student bar rivers we'll look to superintendent cabinet good evening everybody i also had an opportunity to attend all of our high school graduations adult ed graduations our um two of our middle school promotions and it was um you know it's just such a beautiful thing to see our students um cross that stage and move on to the next step in their journey i also want to acknowledge and thank all of the people who um do so much behind the scenes um to make that happen robert zamora and his team at mot um our classified staff certificated staff site admin parents um from you know getting things set up decorated um a lot of work goes into that and i just appreciate all of the work that everybody does to ensure that those are special occasions for our students and families good evening board president on board on community um i'd like to echo president grier's sentiments about dana happy retirement and this is a season for retirement to for so for all those managers classified employees certificate employees who will be retiring this year we just want to thank you for your service thank you for your dedication to our district i also want to thank the city of azuza for once again partnering with us to provide senior lawn signs for all of our graduating seniors was able to go out to all of the high schools and participate in that and also this year for the first time we gave out lawn signs to our 8th graders as well to let them know that we are excited that they're going to become azusa high school students and that we look forward to when they will be graduating i also want to echo the graduations and promotions specifically the graduations since tk or k we invest and dedicate uh quite a bit of time uh to evolve and grow students like the ones we saw today um and so just very very proud of our students and um what they're going to be doing uh next and then just lastly i want to thank uh the staff and the community uh for rallying and coming together um for our fundraiser for save the children uh we were able to uh bring together 672 change and so we'll be making that donation to save the children so thank you again to all the community and staff and students who participated in that good evening board of education community members and staff i want to thank all of our employees for helping us end the school year on a very very positive note like to echo the the comments related to our promotions and graduations i think they were very well done and i i can't say enough just how much work goes on behind the scenes to make sure that the event is uh well executed and memorable for families and i think um we we checked both of those boxes so thank you all who were involved with that um i before i i i wish everyone a very uh restful and um positive summer i also want to make sure i take a moment to congratulate dana for a wonderful career in education um her i i when we were i had the reception for dana here in the courtyard i made the comment and i'd like to share it now that uh it's a prayer to have students come to the retirement celebration of a district level person and comment with so much heart uh about the person who's retiring and the the heartfelt sentiment that was communicated really resonates and really speaks to the type of leader and educator that you are there congratulations um and to all have a wonderful summer find some rest find some some something to do that really rejuvenates you for a wonderful year next year good evening all i also want to echo um how i wonderful the promotions were with norma camacho and her team to make that happen and i also want to echo and congratulate dr mitchell on her time she knows she's touched me in more than one ways and she's been my support system since i've been here so i appreciate that but just also echo at the end of glaston promotion there were three students that came up to her and said i know you're retiring but you have to promise to come back just for my graduation and then they want to take a picture and not even knowing the story that just is a testament of everything and every part of your being of who you are so um i admire you i told you several times i strive to be you and learn from you and so i'm going to miss having you here now back to work okay so um i also want to just acknowledge to the board and to the community that i'm proud to announce that we successfully sold our final bond issuance which is our series d um bond um due to our strong credit rating um of a a minus um we which illustrates to investors that we are not a district of concern and not meeting our financial obligations so that is true and strong um we were able to sell our bond of the 14 million dollars at a lower interest rate than projected um it was projected to sell at 3.71 and it actually sold at three point six three percent and that savings go directly to our tax payer it was usually um the city of azusa and so that would be a savings of a hundred and thirty one thousand dollars um i know i was not a part of the bond work but i just wanted to publicly thank the community for entrusting us and passing this bond and hope that we do our continue to our efforts to make the community proud of what we're doing with our bond insurance so thank you moving on to area 10.0 general functions and specifically 10.1 public hearing of 2020 to 2023 proposed local control and accountability plan [Music] right so let's so with that let's uh for 10.1 is there a motion on the floor to open the public hearing to make a motion to open the public hearing second so moved by board member beau second by board member rodriguez pena any discussion then we will go ahead and vote we can do a hand vote and the motion passes four yes to one absent you open the public hearing and we'll be begin with mrs medina or president i'm sorry we open the public hearing and see if there's any input and if not then we close the public hearing and then we move to 10.2 thank you for the clarification is there anyone in the public who would like to add or make a comment here or online as well then we will go ahead and close this public hearing at 7 52 pm and now we move to 10.2 which is presentation of the zeus unified school district 2022 2023 proposed local control and accountability plan thank you good evening uh president greer board members superintendent ortega cabinet and audience i'm excited to be here today uh to present uh our 2022 2023 proposed local control and accountability plan in this new role for me um i am excited like i said and that today we're gonna go through an overview of the plan uh the different components of the plan uh we're gonna talk about uh the way the plan was developed and some highlights on our proposed plan okay to give the public a little bit of background uh the local control and accountability plan is a three-year plan that we often refer to as the lcap the alcap allows our district and other districts to spend supplemental and concentration funds at the district level that we receive from the state the this plan also outlines for the district uh what our goals are how our goals will be measured how much funding will be spent on each of the goals and what actions and services we will have during the school year to ensure that we are reaching these goals um additionally uh this elcap plan was a three-year plan that was presented to the board last year and span from 2021 to 2024 in back in january you also received an update um on the 20 20 21 22 plan and like i said today we're going to focus on the proposed plan for next year which has the different components that i will be sharing the first section uh that you'll find in the document that you have that's the actual lcap plan is the budget overview for parents and this budget overview for parents is for the 2022 2022-2023 school year and it outlines the budget for the year that is divided by funding sources this uh lcap plan is outlining the lcf funds which are the state's funding formula for our school sites um and you'll it's important for us to note that the base level funding is the uh the same for the district and the extra funding is what we often refer to as the supplemental and concentration funding and that's what we will be focused on as we go through the lcap the supplemental and concentration funds is targeted to rep to improve uh outcomes for our students specifically for our english language learners our foster youth and our low-income students our district receives the same base funding for all for per student but the funding for supplemental and concentration funds is calculated uh based on the district's enrollment of english learners foster youth and low-income student the additionally the budget overview you'll find an update which is called the annual update and this is uh specifically to 2021 and 2022 and it shows you uh last year's budgeted lcap with what we estimate to spend on actions and services that are specific to high needs students after that you will find the plan summary that outlines a description of our district the school and different schools and the students it also gives you a reflection of success successes that we've had identified needs and also highlights from the plan itself some of the successes that you'll find in the document are improved academic achievement improved graduation rate as well as increased academic achievement for our students that are english language learners and students with disabilities the next slide i'm sorry we yeah comprehensive support and improvement is the next slide that we're on this is a required component of the lcap plan and this section identifies which schools are identified as schools that receive comprehensive support and improvement and it also outlines the four-step process that was taken to develop each school's cis plans and the plans identify how we're going to monitor progress for each of the school sites and it evaluates the effectiveness some of the data points that we've included in the comprehensive comprehensive support and improvement plan are information from the california dashboard state and local assessments dnf rates for students and also data from the annual youth truth survey the next component that is a part of the lcap document is the process that we use to engage our educational partners in here in ausd that's very important that's a forefront of what we do we want to make sure that we're engaging our parents our students our families and that we're continuously seeking their input as we're creating uh services for our students and in this case how we're creating the lcap document some of the opportunities that we've used for engagement for our parents include the parent advisory committee plus which is the pac plus student advisory council committees we we've committee meetings we've also had the annual district survey public board meetings where we gain input in terms of uh services that we're providing as well as the school presentations of the january update the next section within the lcap document is the actual lcap proposed plan for 2022 2023 and this section is a section that outlines each of the five goals and every action and service that's associated with the goal as well as the metrics that are tied to each of the goals you'll also see in this section the progress for each of the metrics for year one as well as a goal analysis with areas of strength and areas of need the next slide shows us the final two components of the lcap plan which is the increased and improved services section and this section focuses on how our actions and our goals directly impact our foster youth our english learners and our low-income students for the 2022-2023 school year um additionally you'll have the action tables that uh summarize all of the planned expenditures that are contributing actions for both the 2021 and 2022 and 2022 2023 school year so this gives you all of the funding sources and the amounts that are tied to each of the actions the next slide uh continuous improvement it shows us here the cycle of continuous improvement that we are using as we're developing this plan we always aim to improve actions and services for our students we want to ensure that we're addressing any in equities that our students have as we provide any service to them we also want to make sure that we are implementing this process and that we're measuring growth part of that is done at the january update in the middle of the year and also it's reflected in the year one metric results we also want to ensure that we're engaging our educational partners throughout the process we want to give them opportunities not only to gain understanding of the actual document itself and the goals and services and actions but also an opportunity to give us input on adjustments that we might need to make as we're developing our lcap this is a living document that we have to reflect upon through the different meeting opportunities that we have and the different opportunities for input and we want to make sure that we're continuously revising the lcap based on needs that we see as a result of the metrics the 2022-2023 school year will be year two of our new three year lcap okay the next slide uh shows us the highlights uh from the actual el cap we do have the same five goals that were in the previous lcap um a summary of these five goals is making sure that we're providing students engaging relevant rigorous and innovative 21st century learning environment we want to ensure that engagement and leadership growth of our parents and students are happening third we want to address the unique needs and abilities of all students to provide high quality instruction and course offerings to ensure that students are prepared for college enrollment and career transitions we also want to ensure in the fourth goal is that we want to ensure that all students achieve at grade level on the california state standards and that achievement gaps are reduced while prioritizing the need of our emerging multilingual students like english language acquisition increasing by literacy reclassification rate and academic achievement for these students as well the fifth goal is to ensure that we're addressing diversity equity and inclusion for all students including diminishing any barriers and racism in our community and elevating culturally relevant teaching and learning next our metrics are aligned to improve equity the implementation of equitable practices is something that we continue to ensure we reflect on progress for all student groups to make sure that we are providing equity additionally our metrics also uh reflect both parent and student voices as we reflect on progress we want to make sure that we're maintaining our success in the district we want to provide high needs students with opportunities to continue to meet college and career readiness standards we want to ensure that we're increasing social and emotional wellness by providing additional personnel we want to also make sure that there's availability of the evidence-based college prep programs such as avid ib ap and ernie college just to name a few uh we want to also ensure that supplemental materials are of high quality and that we're providing our students with technology and then last our our fifth goal is specifically focused on diversity equity and inclusion we have metrics within our lcap that are measuring uh dei efforts in our district through various survey questions we're also ensuring that we have further training in restorative practices and trauma-informed practices for our staff to address some of the needs that were identified in our survey results and we also want to ensure that we continue to allow for purchases of supplemental materials that support diversity equity and inclusion our next slide outlines our next steps this shows us today june 14th in accordance with the state law and directives of la uh county superintendent of schools we're holding a public hearing and this must take place prior to the approval of the lcap on june 21st uh the local control and accountability plan will be up for board approval and we have to submit that to los angeles county of education before june 30th for approval we have been going through the process of pre-approval with l.a county where we're submitting our document and receiving feedback making adjustments as needed and in preparation for the june 30th submission that is an overview of the different components that are within um the document um if you would have any questions i'd be more than happy to try to address those any questions from my colleagues great presentation thank you thank you so much moving on to 10.3 public hearing of the proposed 2022-2023 adopted budget and the reporting of district reserve's pursuant to the requirements of sb 858 and so we will look to take action to open this public hearing is there a motion on the floor to open the public make a motion to open the public hearing a second well moved by boardman rodriguez pena second by board member beau any discussion and we will go ahead and take a vote to open the public hearing and that motion passes four yes to one absent and so the public hearing is now open is there anyone uh here in attendance that would like to speak on this particular item is there anyone online that would like to speak on this particular item we have no hands raised on zoom then we will go ahead and close this public hearing at 807 pm we will now move to 10.4 presentation of 2022 2023 azusa unified school district proposed adopted budget mr moan good evening board president um fellow board members of education at the board of education cabinet and community i am honored to present to you the proposed budget for the 22 23 um fiscal year um first i would like to start tonight by thanking our director of physical services miss steady norris and her team um this budget reflection of the hard work dedication long nights working weekends and holiday yes to get this done um so we are honored to be before you to give you our proposal for the 22-23 fiscal year so the adopt the budget is part of the california school district on physical operating requirements in compliance with ed code section 42127 we are required to present in the public hearing first adopted budget as proposal to receive input and feedback and then we will represent the budget again for adoption on next tuesday we're going to start with our budget assumptions these are the planning factors that were used for the 2223 proposed adopted budget so on may 13th governor newsom i'm gavin newsom presented the may revision to propose a state budget the proposal included a 6.5 6.56 percent cost of living cola this is cola was added to the local control funding formula which is the lcff this cola was also added to the special education program in front of you is a slide of all of the plating factories that were included that were included in this budget development um as we discussed before when we were doing second interim and that's also when we gave a january update we identified that there were still decisions um to be made by legislation on which ada factor should be utilized under the direction of big map they recommended that we use the three year average 88 and so our funding ada for this proposal is using the three year average which is equating to six a five seven increase in ada um what that means is that um as long as that government as long as legislation enacts in acts i think in acts the three-year average we will receive an increase in funding as proposing this budget based on an increase of ada of 805.806.57 the legislation has not identified which of the three funding that they want to use which is the three to remind us all is either one our current actual ada for 2122 or it would be a three-year average which is our what our budget is utilizing or they will pick and pick two of the years and identify which years the districts are supposed to use once the legislation has made that decision if there is a change in funding then the district will be obligated to do a 45-day budget revision 45 days after the budget is actually signed factors that are not included in this proposed budget is the eight billion dollar one-time discretionary fund that's estimated which is a place to fifteen hundred dollars per ada um also the 4.8 billion dollars of ongoing expanded learning opportunities program that will be a one-time discretionary ongoing of 2500 per ada and also the 1.7 billion one-time deferred maintenance allocation that is projected to go to each lea now once um we did not include those because these are still proposals they're still um language as far as if we receive them the criterias and standards to utilize them um once that legislation is approved and signed we will increase our revenue based off the new projections and it will be reflected during first interim or at a 40-day five-day revised budget if we actually have to do one any questions here on the planning factors yes ma'am or the one-time discretionary funds if they become a reality will the use of those funds need to be board approved yes ma'am yes and will it be not only in a revised budget but a separate that approval be in a separate um program approval yes ma'am thank you any other questions we're going all right so here's our projected enrollment the projected um tk through 12th grade enrollment for the 22-23 school year is 6810 this is a decrease of 274 projected enrollment from our current year of 2122.
noah excuse me uh welcome uh to the commission uh i i live on the west side of ann arbor and i have two kids that go to steam uh that are now going into uh fifth and third grade and i have uh when originally came to ann arbor uh to the school of natural resources as it was called at the time and i also now have a law degree from lewis and clark in portland welcome again hi nice to meet you my name is edie juno i also came to ann arbor to go to formerly snr now c's um for a master's degree in environmental policy and ecology um and i currently work for a non-profit the national wildlife federation on forest climate and energy issues um so awesome travis hi i'm travis rodina i am the anniversary council member from ward 3 or one of them also been in council since 2020 uh and welcome to the to the board look forward to working with you heck hi sharish i'm uh jonathan overpacker i go by peck and i also came to work at the school of natural resources in the environment now called c school for environment sustainability and i'm actually the dean very happy to have such amazing alums bridgette i'm trish welcome to the energy commission um i have served on the park commission in the past for six years and i've been on the energy commission for a while i'm the finance director at the ecology center where i've worked for over 20 years and i happen to have lived in ithaca in my college days so it's nice to hear of somebody else who's been to that area it's amazingly beautiful really interesting stuff happening in that city still so welcome and then finally carlene and i realized i'm not being very informal and using everybody's first name instead of commissioner and councilman but i think that's okay go ahead carlene hi cherise welcome to the energy commission it's really great to see you and be interacting with you more in person this evening my name is carlene colvin garcia i'm the vice chair of the energy commission i've been on the commission since 2017 and i've been particularly active with the um transportation electrification endeavor here in the city um i uh together with a team of visionaries co-authored the ann arbor evie readiness ordinance that was passed early in 21 and um i have been very active with the community with the schools with education and curriculum development for hands-on project based solar power curriculum um in particular k through eight uh grade levels um that is right now um being rolled out at the ann arbor steam at northside school and um i am right now uh building my business with ev charging installation consulting um focusing my efforts with multi-unit dwellings uh to support folks uh landowners and tenants to bring the charging to their multi-unit housing and i also am a licensed residential builder focusing on green building so nice to meet you so that's our team and welcome to the team thank you a pleasure to meet all of you great and we'll look forward to one of these days meeting um in person face to face and we'll figure out how to do that we might talk about that later in the meeting too so um so um i'm gonna just deviate real quickly because i got a text indicating that the meeting id number wasn't correct and i've been texting with missy and missy um do you have a correct number that we can share with people or well the meeting id is correct uh on legistar if anyone goes to the public legislature site under this meeting if you use last month's reading maybe they're looking at may it is a different because we have to upgrade the system but under this one june 14 you'll see the same caller number and the meeting id is different um and it is the right idea i touched and tested it while you know we're introducing yourself so on the agenda it's the same number that i read which was nine three seven yes the agenda listed here's the meeting id number and again anyone that's on registrar will see this the meeting id is 956 eight seven one eight seven eight seven six again personal registrar everything is up today with that number so it is nine five six eight seven one eight seven correct okay the same phone number just meeting id is different yep perfect great and i'll i'll mention that again in a second okay so um next on the agenda is approval of the agenda can i get a motion from um in a second from members of the commission to uh approve the minutes i've reviewed them and if you take my word for it or if you've read them to myself they're fine i move to prove the minutes so moved by uh vice chair calvin garcia and seconded by council member radina thank you very much all in favor say aye aye aye raise your hands very good so it passes unanimously don't have to ask about nays or abstentions so we're good to go on the agenda um oh i was actually talking about the me and minutes and so first the agenda that was the agenda actually now the minutes let's approve the minutes can we have an approval to our emotion to approve the minutes and a second sorry about that so a quotient from council member a second from uh commissioner juno all in favor say aye hi no one's opposed so it also passes so now we are at public input and this is an opportunity for members of the public to speak for up to three minutes if you are watching on ctn the numbers are correct please call 888 788-0099 or 877-853-5247 and enter meeting id nine five six eight seven one eight seven eight seven six this information is also displayed on the agenda actually that number is wrong don't use that number is the number i just read off and the video feed city staff will um call select callers that have raised their hand one by one using the last three digits of your phone number in order to electronically raise your hand to indicate your desire to speak please press star 9 on your phone you will hear an automated message indicating that the host is allowing you to speak when speaking please move to a quiet area mute any television or background sounds so that we may hear you clearly and finally state your name and your address at the beginning of your comments call our ending in one three four thank you dr stealth and tara mursky and for the corrected meeting id number ken garber 28 haverhill court i really look forward to tonight's 820 talk on the slideshow a huge list of accomplishments congratulations to city staff i just have a comment and a question strategy 2 action 1 of the 820 plan says quote promote home and business electrification unquote and assumes that quote all new residential and commercial buildings are designed and built to operate without the use of natural gas i track new building projects that use gas heating since june 1st 2020 the city has approved 487 residential units 275 000 square feet of new commercial space and 254 000 square feet hotel space all of which burn gas i'm not counting the few all-electric projects using standard estimates for gas emissions per building type and a conversion factor that takes into account upstream emissions i calculate that together these projects will produce 14 100 metric ton co2 equivalent emissions per year there will be some gains from reduced commuter miles but it's a small fraction for context you will hear tonight about the three megawatts of new solar from the solarize program and the four megawatts scheduled for city facilities great numbers for sure applying the city's dte electric emission conversion factor and assuming a 20 solar efficiency rate these seven megawatts of solar will prevent 7934 metric tons of co2 equivalent emissions annually which is great except that the 14 000 tons from heating new gas burning buildings wipe out those gains not just once but twice putting up solar panels is self-defeating when we construct buildings that will lock in gas emissions for the next half century the climate of course does not respond to good intentions or dollars spent the climate only responds to the actual physics the amount of co2 and other greenhouse gas emissions gases we dump into the atmosphere and we are losing ground there that's my comment my question is what do we do about it the 820 plan urges state passage of the iecc zero code appendix that's under review but even if adopted it won't go into effect for almost two years the appendix doesn't preclude gas and it doesn't apply to low-rise residential we often hear that state law prevents the city from passing a stricter building code than the state code for new construction as a categorical statement this is incorrect there is no clarity in state law on this question i think we should move forward with a natural gas ban like others have done most recently in new york city michigan is a strong home rural state and the courts here give cities wide deference in such cases i'm certainly open to other ideas anything but the status quo we need to stop the bleeding and fast thank you and thank you um that is all that's all okay very good so we can then uh get directly into the heart of the agenda and the first uh major topic is a an update on washington county climate action planning and missy eye you can see that it's elevated matt nod matt we're going to let you uh introduce yourself you are well known to most of us but there may be a few of us that don't know you and also um andrew dulu thanks for joining us as well um and like i said we'll let the two of you uh introduce yourselves and play team tag on your presentation well maybe i'll start and let andrew go because i'm going to be moral support and jump in when he needs me andrew's been a great client and awesome leader in this space and i think this is the second of three evening meetings with ipsy ann arbor and celine's various commissions so um for those of you that don't know me i'm matt naught i live in ann arbor on the west side and see my council member and so i'm waving hi um and i've lived in ann arbor since 95 i was the environmental coordinator for the city since 2001 to 2018 and uh had an opportunity to retire early but i joke that i still had a very expensive daughter at the university of champaign-urbana who did just graduate this year so um so i've been consulting doing a lot of work with a local firm called resource recycling systems uh doing work for the state of michigan and with um a really good team including elevate energy uh chip smith with wade trim ecoworks uh beth gibbons uh you know nationally recognized adaptation expert uh am i forgetting oh a cnt in chicago with elevate um we are working on the washington county climate plan and it's called brazilian washington so that's me and uh happy to be a resource if anything else comes up but i'm gonna pass it on to andrew and let him uh share with you where we are thank you matt uh good evening everyone my name is andrew dulu i am the director of strategic planning from washtenaw county i'm coming to you from eastern county we've got some broadband challenges here so if i have and sputter a little bit greatly um so i'm really excited to be here and speaking with all of you certainly you know the city's work and climate action is in this city uh tremendous amount of success but missy in particular as well as the other folks in lsi as we've worked to develop our plan and so i'm excited to talk to you tonight about what the county's plan like it's still formative um kind of the the end goal process is to go back to our board of commissioners by the end of the year um and we think we've got a pretty good at this point certainly there's a lot of work to do uh tonight i'm looking just to tell you about our project uh the scope and the the shape of that project uh we've recently released our draft project framework uh that framework is structured similarly to other climate action plans but i think there's some some things that will be in washington county just because of the the space and the communities that we cover uh and then finally we'd love to hear from all of you um either tonight or at some future date in terms of you know what what else we need to do uh we've been trying to think about ways that the county's plan uh can be supportive of the the local plans that are in place and can be very complimentary in terms of again some of those additional resources that we have uh and so would just like to be explicit in terms of asking that question i think you'll see a lot of alignment in terms of five percent but you know the the feedback's great but you know i don't certainly want to hear you doing things better so i had a brief presentation that was shared with you uh apologies use the content because you're breaking up and a lot of times we just see a frozen image of you anyhow and let me know if you want to share the screen are we doing that co-host or if you'd like me to share for brian reasons well i i hope that's better [Music] you're still coming in broken um is that any better you're um audio is good yeah okay um so i i can't tell missy are you able to share your screen i can absolutely do that let me do that okay thank you um and i'll i don't know if matt heard this but matt if you're if things get too bad for me i would appreciate if you could uh jump in and take over um so uh as i've talked about we're here to talk about our climate action plan um if you could please move to the next slide missy uh so our plan is really focused on both climate mitigation and adaptation uh that's important for a lot of reasons and i will try to touch on those over the course of this but the the base goals for the plan have are things that have been set by county board of commissioners through resolution uh these happened in the past couple of years there's been other actions taken by our board on climate um but the two that are really pertinent to this would be net zero county operations by 2030 uh and then net zero wash not county by 2035.
that was a test for you so even though that's not on this list that is a a cost for us how how do you plan on getting that done my i will tell you this my plan is not to do this is not to do those life safety issues because um you know again the addition should be ready by fall of 23 and so we should be able then to close that facility uh at the end of the school year in 2223 can you at least have the conversation with the regional superintendent uh i will have that i have not had that i apologize yet i'll have that conversation the earliest we could do those anyway would be next summer we would not be able to do anything right now i'm just trying to say that so ring a bell i was looking in bomb tomorrow i saw him on the golf course but i didn't want to interrupt his beverage to talk to him about that so yeah um meetings already so we're on track to close that we are on track and maybe delayed a year but we are on track to close that building we are yes so but i'll have that conversation i will yeah i think the 2023 survey kicks off somewhere in july and next year i don't know sure right around that time okay okay uh project number five led lighting at the high school the exterior lighting is done they are now working on the interior lighting our estimated completion date on that is august 8th so we're on track with that the addition at the high school uh bid documents are are to be published in june i just talked to scott over here that's probably going to be early july that will get those out the tentative schedule is to begin construction fall of 22 with the edition opening and fall of 23.
so he made a purchase for materials that's right uh consumable textbooks for every student in digital access and we were able to use special hours to kind of help supplement the schools let's see we have a membership for grow walmart's journaling that's well done continuation hopefully they'll be on board with all foreign all right hey well uh nothing different payroll um like i said you're going to see a little bit higher payroll just because we are finishing up the end of the year stipends and then obviously we're going into summer school so having summer school pay out of that as well which is okay that's not out of ordinary so it's okay financial summary so give you the end of the month balances there uh for you to take a look at nothing out of the ordinary i mean the big drop in the education fund is just the that white's rent rental payment that we paid annually but if you look at the education fund that was already factored into the cash flow for that so there's no change in impact on that i did go ahead and give you the cash flows since this board meeting was a little bit later in the month i was able to go ahead and get those completed so that you could take a look at them i should have within the next week or so a better idea of what our estimated revenue will be for our basic grant for uh july through december and again that is based off the estimation that we've given to the state as far as avm is concerned and then that all gets reconciled when you have your actual atm account in september that's not factored in right now like i said i should have that information hopefully in a week or so uh from the department of ed is the state chris their firm on their numbers as far as what they're bringing against the adm numbers the contribution yeah we should we'll have another increase in contribution uh based off of the last biennium when they um gave us the increase it was a two-year increase so this will be the second year of that dollar amount increase for a year and then operations cash flow with that as well when we hit july we'll start seeing some of those changes in expenses due to factoring in those races that you approved in the industry i always like to compare the year-to-year number and see how it's tracking versus the prior year so i don't really have anything to talk more about this i may talk a little bit more about operations fund in our next quarter in our july time that we're doing our budget stuff for 2023 so recommendations under resignation with josh moore athletic director of norfolk high school effective at the end of june varsity volleyball coach at northville high school effective immediately under employment chloe kendall sixth grade teacher at sophomore high school abby watkins kindergarten teacher metro north elementary clay herring summer custodian metro north elementary amy wilson special ed teacher at southwood high school nicole died paraprofessional southwest elementary landing paraprofessional southwest elementary jennifer jackson paraprofessional software elementary eden craig hunger mountain manager at southwest high school that's the coaching position transfer sarah gaylord transferring from a paraprofessional preschool teacher for the little knights of southwest elementary and meredith kelly transferring from ryan's room paraprofessional to primary grade special ed professional paraprofessional beginning and trisha ekman transferring from special ed paraprofessional to preschool paraprofessional also effective next year there's a couple comments here and we do have chloe kendall here sixth grade teacher southwood high school starting august 8th so congratulations well i can say that that started can't wait i'm a nobody now let's go i did that last time when we i talked to you earlier what did you do and i'll talk some more after this go ahead go first i moved to pretty big church oh second time mostly second to approve personal recommendations don't want paper say just graduated just a month ago or two months ago and uh becoming a sixth grade teacher and coming back to her alma mater so that's that's great i'm sure you're excited about that and just to mention uh amy wilson especially at southwood is taking place then of uh retired bat negan and so just want to point those out i guess and abby watkins will be the new um new position for kindergarten that we have at metro north elementary and she just got married this past saturday um to jacob walker jacobs she was sharp she was here yeah she was here that night right but she was not jacob watkins at the time kindergarten teacher because if jacob gets mid 6th grade then if they haven't learned everything they need to know by then he's going to blame her although from kindergarten to 6th grade there's a pretty big job so again congratulations so that's personnel just in time mr driscoll under reports we have partnered first on our report of course uh i had this news the last time that heartland has completely backed out on the project because without us being able to use the building during the day at all period uh we've completely backed out and they will have to find a new location for that little building and i think they'll have to reapply for their grant because part of that grant was to have an apartment with our ground but since that is not part of it we're gonna have to reapply so did any of the donated money collected yet that's the other sticking point that will come we want to write a letter to all the donors and say that you know this is you know they still donated to the project you know for adult education but we want them aware that partners not going to get any benefit for that but we're going to get quite a bit of pushback from people community foundations that we're having a meeting tomorrow that will come to a head all right superintendents report well the report i have today is just to let everyone know and i think if you're on any social media or anything like that um that the referendum webpage is now a living reading document that you can go and there's a lot of information on there so we just ask that um those people that are interested in that just to make sure that they go through that read the faqs read you know all the different things that are on there you can use the tax calculator it's very important that you use uh the correct figure that's all on there there's a nice video that laura created to help explain that so the big thing is to make sure they use the taxable assessment not the gross assessment when they do the tax calculator there's also a place on there where you can actually ask questions and if you ask questions it's a google drive document that will be sent to us and then we can reply back uh using that form so a lot of information there will still be like we said it's a living breathing document so there will probably be other things that when we add on to that but for now there's a lot of information if you read everything that will give you a very good scope of everything that's going on to start as a beginning and realizing that november 8th is still five months away a little less than five months away so there's a lot of there's a lot of time to absorb all that information msdwc.org backslash referendum or it actually will be on the very first home page uh top right hand corner will say referendum click that we'll find all the different information and there's several different links on the left-hand side that go to the different things that we talked about about the faqs and different things like that there's another part that says misconceptions um there have been some things that have been um on facebook social media that aren't correct so whenever we see some of those we'll put that on there so we can explain what the truth is what the factual information is so that's all that's and instruction report mr drake yeah we're wrapping up another round of i read here in a week or two for our kids that are in summer school so we're excited to give them a second shot at it and since i have mrs moon here i you heard all the counties that they work with and you know her talk about the sats and how well how many they got to do that like she reached out to all kinds of different facilities across the state communities like scheduling is so hard and her team did a really great job to keep us compliant with all of the testing s-a-t i learned the e-l students that she has tested so um just a shout out to me and your team they do a great job with that and you don't really appreciate it until mr harper's question of now what counties do we serve 40 some counties and where do they have to go and all of those kids have to be tested and they are given that opportunity so nice job we have the second reading and vote of the 2022-2023 elementary and so i did not receive any questions about uh the elementary handbook but if there are any more this is more is here so um but i do recommend that you approve the elementary handbook for next year i'm going to accept that elementary motion and second to approve the country handbook for next school year all in favor say all right second reading and vote of the high school handbook for next year mr lacey called me about maybe two hours ago now that he was planning on coming bringing his daughter he went to a harvey's after the meeting but he had some problems with his own air conditioning that kind of that was okay but then he had a problem with the battery and he was sitting getting a battery and he wasn't gonna make it so he won't be here to answer any questions well i said you've been looking on facebook live but i don't know but he could call or something but i do recommend there were no other questions from me or or for him for the high school handbook junior senior high school handbook so i will recommend that you approve that second i'll show you the second to approve the high school handbook here on february next we have the elementary and secondary school emergency room fund assert six-month requirement to review and and have a recommendation to approve no changes to the current re-entry plan and supplement which basically we were pre-coveted and nothing has really changed what we did six months ago this is a requirement that we have board meeting notes uh that we have discussed this or at least have just approved it so i'm asking that you just approved the same plan that we've done the last six months and actually six months prior to that awesome so question a second to approve the yes or requirement to review this every six months and that we approve that right that re-entry plan all in favor say hi all right okay recommendation to approve the teacher evaluation and development plan each year the school board needs to review this or approve this there's only two changes number one the date change and number two on teacher effectiveness rubric on scoring on core professionalism uh basically the only change and it's highlighted here but i will scroll to that though just a little bit with the three domain or with the domains on the teacher rubric they get a score and then for core professionalism you cannot gain points you can only lose points on them and so there are i believe four different sections of that three or four sections on that but for next year instead of a one-point automatic reduction evaluators will have the opportunity to do a quarter of a deduction in quarter increments so in other words if it's something that is for example i'll just use attendance attendance is one of those if it's attendance issue that maybe um an evaluator gave a warning or a written warning to someone that needs to improve and it happens again instead of taking a whole point away because it's only it's on a four-point scale that's a lot um it can be an incremental recorder and so this just gives a little more ability to be able to talk about those things and not be so critical for a one-point deduction i said exactly right that's that's what it is we have traditionally i do not remember a time that we have actually done a one-point deduction because there's other ways of taking care of some of those things but this does allow for the ability to do the quarter increment deductions this has been discussed with the administrative team also the teachers association and everybody's agreement so i just asked would you approve that i'm going to approve the teacher evaluation development plan so we were emotionally second to approve the teacher evaluation and development plan all in favor next is a recommendation to approve an extended out-of-state field trip for norfolk key club and national honor society to cedar point sandusky ohio ohio the date will be determined yet would be late july late june or july so second motion in a second to approve the out-of-state field trip for norfolk key club and the national honor society trying to say hi the recommendation to approve an overnight extended out-of-state field trip for solomon junior high music department for their students to go to chicago illinois education and performance [Music] music department to go to [Music] chicago that is new business we have no unfinished business it's very important there's no board policy any any items from board members i would like to just say um there has been some concern expressed to me about this petition thing that needs 500 votes i do want to just remind you watching on facebook that you are not indicating a yes or no vote by signing that petition you are merely stating that you would like to see that question on the ballot so if you don't plan to vote yes you plan to vote yes either way please sign the petition so we can get it so that's all i have to say about that and the other items have one question mike you said that you met with the sros yes what what uh [Music] different plans different things we're looking at some things when we when we meet actually um in our board for our administrative retreat in early august we'll talk about some of those different ideas some of them are very simple ideas but i know when the first thing one that sro said was you know make sure we keep our outside doors locked not propped open because there's a lot of other things that we do but there's a lot of other things that we do so we're looking at different i is nothing that's necessarily huge but i will say when we talk about this new project building a new school how that could actually improve some of the safety because of how it's being built and also when we repurpose uh you know southwood and northfield that's also the plan to make things to be safer that way too so that would be part of the project that would be part of the plans of the project when we built those buildings i just had i i talked to jay over there but you know just some of the thoughts of making sure that you know fish talked about outside doors being taught those are the things that people need to understand that's why we keep them locked and that staff needs to understand that because i know there's been circumstances that i ran into that doors [Music] you know why those i mean i think i don't think we can under train and pound them in their heads while we're doing that yeah we go through a safety training and then the principals sign off on that as far as some of that type of information that shared with that you could [Music] those are little things that can cause an intruder you know you know just like i told jay we have a door at northfield if you yank on it it'll come right open gotta get picked you know so it's one of those those are the things that you've got to be able to you know secure the knowledge i haven't been thinking about this today and if we're able to go to three buildings and be able to hire one more sro position we'd be able to have three full-time in a building a hundred percent of the time running to recover both of those which be really great yeah and even thinking about the five buildings six buildings we have now that makes it a lot more challenging because we know that it's hard sometimes just to get staffing uh sheriff's department's hard hard to get some of that staffing and so that would actually help that situation happen there's a new rule have to be you have to either be your own police department or you have to be connected through a sheriff's or city police department to have an sro and so the way we have it works because they're wallace county sheriff and that could be something we could look at later building a new high school and going down to three is having our own police department too but right now it's a good collaboration between the walters county sheriff's department the county council on ourselves i like that cheers the salary having a problem well it gives them more visibility on the road not school time right there's more kids around and more things going on too all right
Good afternoon. We are just waiting to help our staff out the tremendous showing today with chairs. We'll get with you in one moment. Am I going to do that? Yep, that's Welcome to Danbury High School and 2022 commencement ceremony. Danberry High School prides itself as having the best graduation ceremony in the state of Connecticut because of the number of students we celebrate and the dignity with which we honor their accomplishments. To continue with these traditions, please refrain from using noise makers, air horns, or inflatables at any time during the ceremony as that ensures all students are afforded the moment to shine for which they have all worked so hard. Thank you in advance for your cooperation. Hannah, see I got my hand here. Welcome. Hi everyone, my name is Hannah Corte, the senior class secretary, and I would like to introduce you to my fellow class officers, treasurer Reena Fernandez, [Applause] vice president Alexandra Salem, [Applause] and our senior class president.
this decline it continues to be attributed to the district's graduating class being greater than our greater than our larger incoming tk class in kindergarten any questions on projected enrollment [Music] i think so yes sir so just just looking at uh just looking at some of the rough numbers so we're we are projecting there was there was nearly a 400 student from which year to year so this year we projected um adopted a budget for 2122 we actually projected um a enrollment of seven zero six nine we actually only realized um our enrollment was fifteen students more so 7084 so we're projecting a decline from this current year to next year of 274 students and our enrollment is projected to be 6810 okay moving on to unrestricted revenues so here we're going to talk about the lcff um base um so we know that um our lcf revenue is based on our grace band so we have three i mean four great spans which is tk through three grades four through six grades seven through eight and grades nine through ten and we have our base funding and this base funding was increased by the cola of 6.56 additionally what we are showing is the daily equivalent which means on average anyone in these grade stands so for example tk through three if they're absent we lose about 47.91 per day so this is just to give us the picture of how much we actually student absence cost us per grade span any questions on the lcff based allocation um here is to give us our ident um i outlines our total um lcff projected revenue um our total allocation i'm sorry i just said about something we learned the absences yes so it's um we lose that most money but regarding what the situation is in other words if they're not i mean if they're sick or they're in the hospital that there's no um so no so the short answer is no so there are certain circumstance like if a student was hospitalized then we could switch them over to dependent study or there's other ways to recover that loss ada oh thank you yes ma'am so here's our projected lcf allocation so we're projected to receive 93.1 million um on here the difference between from what you see here in the allocation is the new transitional kindergarten add-on that's going to be added to the lcf calculator for as of july 1 for the 22-23 school year for azusa unified school district that amount equates to 570 000 additional um in addition to that we are still going to receive our base grant which is going to be 66.8 million dollars additionally to that we receive 24.5 million dollars in supplemental concentration as well as the concentration add-on and then we also receive 1.2 million dollars which is for our home to school transportation and our targeted instructional improvement block grant any questions on our lcff allocation yes ma'am yeah so i i want to understand what the implications are um um in terms of um now we're going to be getting state funding for tk i mean i know our our student ratio has to go down right but currently we're we're paying for extended tk out of our lcap dollars i'll say fifth dollars or supplement i should say supplemental concentration dollars so what are the implications for as that money comes in now right and backfills those expenses what are what are we planning on doing with those dollars sure so as we receive those funding what it will do is it will just swap the funding so where it was in the lcap that will now free up more funds to do more improved services for those targeted students right and so i guess my question is when do we have a conversation about those dollars when do we have a conversation about how those are allocated is that just wrapped into this current update to the lcap plan is this going to be reflected in the in a future plan and if it's in this current plan when did we have a conversation about where do those dollars go now uh adrian or norma i don't think it's reflected right now in that plan we are waiting for it to your point uh it will create a hole an opportunity for us to rethink about the op cap and what we're using we are in azusa way ahead of the state mandate in terms of what they're calling utk universal tk we have been doing it now for several years and we do fund it out of the outcap to be able to provide that tk to all four-year-olds and so through the process of the pact plus through the prop process of input and surveys i will determine how to utilize those additional funds that will become available because we now have uh state funding for that the only thing that we are not currently what we are supposed to be with the new uh tk is our um adult to adult to student ratios but we are currently we have a plan in in motion to be at those at those ratios that the state is requiring i think i would like to request at some point i think as the dust settles right in the budget past right that we have um um it can be an agenda item study session whatever makes sense around what does our early childhood look like right right so um because we'll not have the tk with the new ratios um there'll be additional like universal preschool dollars eventually right um um there's the whole p3 credentials specialist right so conversation about like what does our teaching force look like and are there opportunities for our preschool teachers to move into tkm so i think and i'm not saying like right now i think it makes sense in the fall to have this conversation but i think i think i'd like to understand as a board member what are we you know where where does where do language learners and multiliteracy i heard i love that i hear where does that actually fit into the programs that our students get um so i think i'd like to request that i know this sort of aside from this but i think it just there's a lot of moving part to that um you know cspp is that going to layer over for tk kinder and then we're going to not have to use supplemental concentration dollars to pay for those extra hours we think together i think there's a lot of pieces right just understand so here this is also just continuing with our lcf allocation but this has just given us a different lens to look at so it identifies the with the three year average the projected funded ada for tk3 funded projected funding ada for grades four through six um grades seven to eight and nine through twelfth i'm gonna also identify as the new increased space um with the attic cola as well as the gray span has increased um eight to 89 seven dollars um for additional funding for every tk through third student and then we also receive additional two hundred and seventy two dollars per every ninth through twelfth grade student um in addition to that we receive our supplemental dollars and then we also receive our concentration dollars what's included in the concentration is also the concentration add-on which the concentration add-on funding can only be used to increase certificated staff at this time so with that our total base funding is 91.3 million dollars and then we have our targeted instruction improvement grant of 467 dollars and we received 795 000 for home to school transportation and then the new transitional kindergarten currently is predicted at 570 000 any questions on the lcff um allocation you just clarify with the with the add-on right that's only for certificated or for classified for um it is educated is for educators um to um improve student learning um so we could do that by having smaller class size smaller groups but it has to be tied to some form of instruction and helping um the learning gap for our students and then do you like instructional aides get under the educator title or i would have i don't want to say yes but i will need to look and stuff okay so here this is just to give us another way to look at our unrestricted revenues so total projected unrestricted revenues is 94.5 million dollars um our lcf sources represent the main source of our general fund unrestricted coming in at of our general fund unrestricted revenues for the 22-23 school year this source of revenue includes both unrestricted state aid and local property taxes it is currently anticipated that 93.1 million will be received for lcs um sources from all the pots of funds allocated um this represents an increase of 1.7 million dollars from that that we have received for the 21 22 school year and that is primarily attributed to one the cola of 6.56 as well as the ada average any questions on our unrestricted revenues okay so now we're going to look at the total general fund revenue projections [Music] so here we see our total projected general fund revenues including restricted and unrestricted at 159.6 million dollars this again reflects the change in co on the increase in funding for the lcf is attributed to the 6.5 percent cola um the increase in projected federal revenue is primarily due to the accounting of the cobit funds that we receive and so as we talked about in sacred interim we showed a drop in funding and now it's because there was a change and how we account for the covert dollars that we had received during this current fiscal year 21 22 and we originally received it in as state funding and when we receive state funds you account for the revenue as soon as you receive it um and then legislation passed and said hey you can keep the money but we now need you to account for it as federal dollars and for federal dollars you have to account for the money and once you actually spend it they allow you to hold the money in your bank account but you cannot account for it as revenue until we have expenditures and so right now we are projecting um and accounting for all of our remaining covert dollars um and you will see that as the increase in our expenditures on our next slide but because we are accounting for all of those we are accounting to plan to spend all the dollars um for the upcoming school year that's why we see an increase in our federal revenue we also have a a reduction in our state um revenue and this decrease in revenue is primarily due to the removing of the elop grant because that is what was one time so we just have the remaining um funds to spend and so that is a reduction of 3.9 but we also have an increase for the educator effectiveness grant of 2.5 million and so you have the offset between the elop reduction educator effectiveness and the in-person learning grant has a net effect of 3.7 million dollar reduction in state funds um our decrease in local projected revenue is primarily due to conservative budgeting of what we anticipate to receive for interest income and also also our small which is our school-based medi-cal administrative activities and other misleadings revenues any questions on our total revenue for unrestricted and restricted for general fund all right so moving on to our unrestricted expenditures so we see here for our under um unrestricted expenditures 81 of our unrestricted expenditures are associated with our employees and it covers salaries and benefits 45 of our expenditures are attributed to our certificated salaries 15 is attributed to our classified salaries and 21 is for combined um employee benefits for both classified and certificated employees we're going to look at all of our projected expenditures for both unrestricted and restricted so here we see that for our proposed budget we are projecting to spend total combined unrestricted and restricted um 167.7 million dollars in expenditures and now i'm going to talk about the variances from the change from estimated actuals to the new proposed budget so this slide outlines the projected total expenditures um it shows um an increase i mean expenditures of 42 million dollars again this is attributed to us budgeting accounting for all of our cobit covert dollars if we do not spend those dollars again as we go to first interim and second interim then we will see a reduction in ex-planned expenditures but we will also see a reduction in plan and revenue because now that the cova dollars are treated as federal we can only account for the revenue when the expenditure is actually materialized we do see a reduction in certificated salaries and that's attributed to the plan on reduction of certificated salaries due to school reorganization for our classify salaries um we have an increase of 21 000 um dollars projected and this is um attributed to [Music] sorry oh this is attributed to extra hourlies that we extra hourly salary that we have for our employees um we have our employee benefits that are attributed to go up 488 thousand dollars and this is attributed to the increase in pers and stirs so when it may revise um governor newsom has increased the contribution um rate for both pers and stirs for stirs the 21 22 rate increased from 16.92 to 19.10 and the pers rate um which is the district contribution that we have to contribute for each of our employees is increasing from 22.91 to 25.37 percent we're also realizing the increase in books and supplies and this is where you're going to start seeing what we're actually budgeting on some of our planned expenditures for our cover relief dollars and this is also if you go to contract services um we see an increase of 14.1 million dollars and that too is also tied to um budgeting to spend our cobit dollars as well as our increase in funding that we receive for lcff and the lcap due to the cola any questions on our planned expenditures for the 22-23 fiscal year and this is unrestricted and restricted combined so here this is outlines our plan um contribution so we know we make a contribution to special education because it's grossly underfunded um primarily um the state contributes funds but then the federal government um does not i'm going to say identifies pay their fair share i mean that's been true for um several years um so we have a projected contribution for our special education program of 16.8 million dollars um we also have i'm sorry yes uh 12.9 million the total contribution is 16.8 million dollars um of the general fund going to other resources of the 16.8 million 12.9 is for special education um 886 000 is tied to transportation and what we do here is that um even though we no longer have to account for transportation separately we still continue to account for so we can truly understand the total cost for transportation so we do know we get some transportation funding from the state of california through lcf dollars but in addition to that to pay for all of our drivers in the maintenance and all the charges for our transportation costs which also includes special education um we have to have a contribution of 886 thousand dollars and then we also have the ret the required three percent um contribution to routine restricted maintenance for deferred maintenance national resource 8150 and that's where you'll see a 3.9 million dollar contribution and that is a required contribution each year any questions on our transfers and contributions so now we're going to go into our multi-year projection so here you'll see our combined general fund um we are maintaining for the current year in the two sub point years we maintain our required three percent reserve um if you re um if in the budget book we still continue our practice of showing a minimum of a six-year multi-year projection for the but for the purpose of the presentation we're showing which what is required which is the current year that's just two subsequent years we are showing that we um are deficit-spending projected for the 22-23 fiscal year but again that's because we are spending our carry over dollars which is our covet funds and so as long as we're spending funds that we're carry over from a prior year we will always show a deficit spending and we do have our restricted allocation we have a prepaid amount and we also have our assignment um we have our revolving fund of 25 000 and then that's just the revolving fund that we keep at the district which is a bank account in case that we have unforeseen or we need to cut a check to a vendor we're able to process that check and then we replenish it when we actually process the vendor payment and so that checking account maintains a 25 000 balance um each year our revenues are projected to increase and that is because we have a projected cola in the current year 6.56 percent then the out year it goes down to um five percent and then another four percent but we are currently projected to receive a cola for the next um three years um additionally um we have a projected um savings and 22.23 which is our projected um savings i mean 2324.
um we are currently in the process of updating our emissions inventory for the plan we're not yet done we ran into some challenges with data collection uh and so recently i've had some good progress on that uh but our we did an initial inventory in 2019 um and the estimates at that point were seven million metric tons of co2 equivalent uh at that point so we think that that's right and and still would certainly expect that to be the right order of magnitude um but we are working to update that and certainly know that we need to have good information in terms of the sources of those emissions inside of washington county the county um relatively is much tinier we don't have a water plant we don't have street lights we don't have you know a bunch of the other stuff that the city does uh it's mostly buildings and then vehicles for us and so our county number is about 14 000 metric tons um and so yeah still still good work to be net zero by 2030 uh but the one that i think will be much more challenging is certainly the county wide goal in terms of what it will take for us to reach there um and then our plan is going to look a lot like other plans for good reason you know it'll look like a20 it'll look like the city of ypsilanti's plan and to some degree it'll look like the state of michigan's plan that's intentional we want to align with those things and be supportive of them where we can we want to go beyond them where we need to um but but again trying to align with the other good work that's being done inside the county i think is important for us um i think the one thing i would point to in terms of what our plan will include that i think is very important in terms of the county's priorities is the vulnerability assessment and so we've been spending a lot of time trying to think about how we can best understand the communities inside of washtenaw county that will be harmed by climate change are the things that we're looking at right now the the most important things will be understanding uh folks that are vulnerable to high heat days uh folks who are vulnerable to flooding events and then trying to understand energy burden inside of the county and the thinking with that is that the county already provides services generally to the most that need inside of washington county uh and so by incorporating our those types of considerations under our climate action plan uh we can make sure that we are uh thinking about our actions helping the people who need the most help um you know washington county there's a lot of folks who are going to be able to do good work on their own and who don't need the county's support to take climate action but there are also people who won't be able to do this without our support and feeling like again those are those are going to be the places where we need to think first in terms of directing our work next slide please missy uh so generally we're doing this uh because it's a good government thing uh you know we think that government can play a role in addressing big social issues uh and so you know that's that's why the county is involved in this work um i think past actions have been insufficient certainly at the county level uh but pick your level in terms of you know the insufficiency to date size and complexity you know stuff doesn't stop at the borders of the city of ann arbor or washington county certainly but you know it requires all entities to get involved in thinking about how we can change our society to move away from fossil fuels the county has a bit of a unique role in washington county and in the past has helped work in in other similar issues of broader concern and think we can help in this place as well and then we've also got very strong direction from our board and the community in terms of doing this work next slide please so uh the key components of our plan there's both the organizational and the community goals we're trying to have those be seamless and well integrated where we can mitigation and adaptation are both really important the board has not set adaptation goals but again the the priorities of our organization are to think about how we can provide services and provide infrastructure to at need communities and so adaptation really goes along quite well with that we want to be in alignment with existing plans and services of the county and the county both as an organization and the stuff that happens inside of the county we have a very strong equity focus and you heard me speak to that in terms of the the need for the vulnerability assessment but we've been trying to think again about the the areas of greatest need and those most likely to be harmed by climate change and then collaborative you know trying to talk with folks and understand how we are able to do this work while being and this is a challenging balance but i think we want to be cognizant and aware of the other responsibilities and services that need to be offered while we work on climate change and and i can speak more to that but the reason for that philosophy is you know we're trying to get folks on board and and the county has quite a wide difference of communities in terms of where they stand with climate change what they've done to date and what they can do and so we think that we're going to be more successful through that type of approach next slide please missy thank you matt spoke to the project team they're great you know a lot of them uh and so i can speak to them for quite a bit and but you know you're probably already familiar with that work so i won't spend too much time there but i think we're very fortunate in in terms of the group that we've got working on this plan for the county um so in terms of engagement uh lots and lots and lots of engagement it's probably never enough but you know we need to keep on putting putting time and effort into talking to people about our plan understanding what they are concerned about uh as a means of making sure that we're addressing the right things inside of our plan so that includes local governments and institutions within county government we've spent a lot of time trying to work with staff and and the different boards committees and commissions just to touch on that i think the county through its boards and committees and commissions similar to the city of ann arbor you know gets involved in a lot of work that happens uh and from where i'm sitting i think that's really a great opportunity to to expand the reach of the county's climate action plan very preliminary but i think as an instructive example the road commission i think would be a good example of that or some of the transportation planning that happens through watts there's a significant amount of infrastructure spending that happens inside of washtenaw county the county is involved in that decision making there's not a single decision maker but to the extent that we can go to those groups help them incorporate climate considerations into their decision making help them set their own climate goals we think that again we'll be able to get more people involved in this work and through some existing channels that we already have a lot of discussion with community groups in the general public and then we also have two two advisory bodies that have been set up to provide regular check-ins on this we've got environmental council uh similar to some of the other groups that are out there working on this that's a subcommittee of the board of commissioners but then we've also convened a staff steering committee and that's made up of leadership from around the county our parks department our water resources commissioner our health department our emergency planning department a lot of the the functions of washnot county that are already responding to climate change and are really concerned with how well we do climate change planning going forward we've got a website set up it's a great website uh we'd love to continue to drive people to that website we have been using this to solicit feedback in the early stages we're in a little bit of a wall right now as we do uh some some more behind the scenes work but we'll be uh going back out there as we move into our our second big engagement push later this summer but we've got a great mapping feature we've been trying to to get ideas of what people like regarding climate projects or climate action what they're worried about and and what they'd like to see done differently so it's been great and i would suggest and that you check it out if you haven't already uh so our timeline um where we are right now is about halfway through a 12-month project uh and and i'll say right off the bat that we know the plan that we delivered this year will not be perfect uh and so we are trying to balance the urgency of addressing climate action uh and then you know the the challenges of pursuing perfection with this um just and i can speak to more on that we have just wrapped up and have released a draft [Music] mark [Music] we're losing okay matt matt can you happy to jump in okay thank you i think where andrew was was and if you go to the resilient washington website there's a a version of this um slide deck with the uh strategies and priorities uh that strategies and principles that the county is starting to focus on um so i think andrew was just running through this timeline in a perfect world um it did take a long time we didn't get energy data from dt until last week and i think that's seven months of uh waiting but we did get it and we did get it at the zip code level so we've got a little more granularity than we expected so hank and elevate are working on that um so we're hoping to have a draft version of this uh ready for public review comment in august with the idea that we would have a working session with the board of commissioners in september uh so that they could hold uh at one of their meetings in october have the plan be on the agenda uh with the hope that in november it would get approved uh so we'd be looking for any of your thoughts either formally as a commission um because you get to make recommendations to ann arbor city council or individually so i've told people feel free to give us good ideas offline and unattributed and we'll get them in the mix um next slide so uh there are seven strategies in the way we've thought about these are just how do you organize the county's climate story and the actions are going to be the important part currently we're thinking about organizing them around seven key areas what's different about the county is public health is one of their main uh service areas so health is front and center in that work uh currently talking about energy transition and we have some language associated with each of these that you can read on the website or in the if missy shares this slide deck um we think infrastructure investments uh is going to be really important uh water resources commissioner flooding that county-wide stormwater work um currently thinking about uh the kind of recycling waste world is circular economy uh and how do we really grow that circular economy here in washington county uh mobility and access uh gotta reduce transportation emissions get people out of their vehicles uh give people the modes of transportation that they're seeking and then again what's different about the county is working farms and natural areas and how do how do those fit as you think about climate change state of michigan climate plan um came out with a 30 by 30 goal preserved 30 of the land by 2030 currently we're thinking about how does the county fit in that um how would you balance that preservation around working farms versus natural areas is there an intersection with could you preserve land put solar on it sub-optimal ag land uh put solar on it and then put lots of compost and grazing and then 30 years from now turn that back into much more optimal ag land so kind of some interesting thoughts in that area um so those are the strategies how we're organizing the big ideas in the plan and starting to build the actions that go within and a lot of those are pretty well known you know we need to do energy efficiency and electrify everything and i think the key question for the county is what's really in the county's wheelhouse that they can help with directly and then how do they again the unique part of the county and i think if andrew didn't mention it i think this is the first county climate plan in the state of michigan um but a key part of this is how do you get 28 local units of government who don't always have to play nice together to work together to solve for climate and protect public health and environment from a changing climate so those are the strategies what's really important as well are the principles and the ideas there are these are county priorities county has a racial equity office they've declared race racism and emergency in the county so these are the kind of all of the actions will be how the priority is set will be based on how well they move the needle on carbon move the needle on adaptation but also racial equity and environmental justice the idea of just transition how do we there's real opportunities to create good jobs if we do this right uh resilient economy again there's an economic development opportunity by keeping money that was going to ship coal into michigan and keeping that here in washington county again health fits in both of these categories because many of these actions are going to have a public health benefit again because of the county's convening role what are the roles of the ngos the partners the local governments in kind of helping work together on this a lot of this is looking at opportunities to scale the good work that's already going on at the local units and how do we kind of work together and do that county wide communication transparent engagement um and so for each of those strategies we're really trying to focus on just big five ten actions in each of those categories we're hoping not to make this a hundred and fifty page plan but really focus on those high level move the needle actions lots of other work that's going to go on through the years and low-hanging fruit but that's the idea where we are right now next slide missy so um the the way we're trying to describe this and we've shared this with the public andrew talked about there's goals how to set the what what are the goals for the county as an organization countywide carbon neutral by 2035.
so that is still on target project five interior of the high school what what are they are they doing field house uh i believe they did i have to ask okay is it being done we have the fixtures for that we're doing it ourselves so we have that do we have it can you find a completion date on that for the next painting sure i can do that number six the edition yes starts fall of 22 finished fall of 23.
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