we're going to bring them next time and show show them off no they're they're amazing teachers that have been selected thank you all right miss smith well i was going to ask the question about the local match and i looked over at dr nan and she's hiding under her desk so i wanted to know i wanted to know how she did she okay this one third in kind or cash that's a hunk of money yes so nancy could you please give us an okay on that she's she's saying yes i yeah well it's it's been referred to okay all right oh you got the okay from mike all right mr o'neill i think most of the questions have been asked i had one the uh the faces have a room on the campus right now how was that going to interface with what you're proposing now is it is it the same room are they separate facilities or how does that work the great question um the model right the model let's talk about sycamore junior high school sycamore junior high high school is the model there is a family community community center on campus where the faces resides community liaison is interacting with the students and the families internally they're working on you know school-wide workshops around family education the community school center is off right off the parking lot and it is a direct um connection from as the parent walks into drives or parks into the parking lot they walk right into the community school center they don't have to come to the security check in with the office and go to the whatever the facility would be that really is is the vision there's two buildings two modules that they have one is an open floor plan to have a workshop one is a individual um session workshops there's three two rooms and and one of the rooms is separated that's the the model uh the challenge as we know is that not that's not what is currently in existence you know at other places anaheim high school has a room community school center and they have a family and community center separate separate rooms so so the vision is they're separate um but i know that that presents them some facility um challenges okay did you say that sycamore has two separate ones also uh sycamore it has the faces center on campus and then they have a community school center that includes two modules it's actually two modules and a restroom gated and secured um right off the the the boundaries they've got that configuration the same as anaheim high school then there's this um a little different anaheim high school has a room like a classroom separate faces you're taking up my time i'm sorry i just wanted to clarify it i want to understand you have to wait i just want to clear that this is not anaheim city council so i'll go ahead and give you time oh i got [Music] yeah that anyway i was just trying to be clean you know you know clear so that we know so so go ahead when we open our doors for the new school year in august what campuses will have the two separate rooms available and what ones are still going to be struggling so that's part of the assessment as the our principals and our staff come back so we know that our facility master plan has initially assessed what is um what what's available currently i i know now that we have the grant that's going to be step one is where will our community school coordinator reside how will it work if you know if they don't have an additional classroom uh initially because we we need to be creative on the with those campuses does it seem like we'll be 50 successful by the time we open the doors i think so i think that's close i think maybe maybe maybe 40 but more than two campuses have yeah okay um on the um the community school coordinators that you're looking to hire now what are their uh qualifications you're looking for what has to be on their resume yeah so so the two significant pieces are do you have experience working with community agencies community nonprofits um you know bringing in services grant writing those are the things that are as part of the grant where we're wanting to be able to sustain that and the other is you know in terms of education you know it's it's an uh it's now a um it's a 12-year position is it aaa or bachelor's did we what is it so a is a it's an associate's degree however right now the the the competition i mean the folks that are being brought into interviews they're they're sitting at bachelor degrees they're just there's a wealth of experience with student with those staff members but aaa with experience and grant writing and experience with nonprofit work what about their their need for being able to relate with the community and with the students yes as well um i know that you know that by link it's a bilingual position so with language in terms of supports to be able to interact with in terms of the language for our students and our families is part of that um position expectations or requirements as well when you say bilingual we have a plethora of of languages throughout the district what what is considered bilingual in this case with these uh community school coordinators there's a spanish position okay um for the different positions across the the 13 sites okay is it spanish only the the bilingual expectations spanish only well if they're trilingual that would be wonderful but spanish is what is the primary spanish preferred preferred because i could see where korean or vietnamese might also qualify it says bilingual and i don't think it has the name when we interview we will be interviewing and looking for the spanish language and obviously that's preferred but um in terms of other languages well you said you already done the interview sorry i we uh we have applied they've applied first wave okay that position closed on sunday so now they're doing the uh screening the eligibility the testing which gets us to so that's a consideration that we want to probably bring right and obviously not only spanish we will have asian and pacific islander population as well i have a question to what agency were these grants uh written to what other partners were written to the state department of education it was the state yeah state department of education that's where this grant is it is a state grant so that's and i want to suggest at some point when you're comfortable i would love it if you would let the board know that you would be welcoming them to come and observe i think it would be very healthy because we're going to have questions out in the community and if you see it you really can get a tender what the heck is actually going on this is so huge and has so many different components it's not an easy thing to explain to the people that pay the taxes here yes we had a few of them visit um us at cantella high school and and sycamore um this year and so they know the work um again because of the relationships and partnerships that we have and yes we will continue to invite them in um we're proud and the board of course yes and there is a ribbon cutting for the sycamore community school center september first that will should that will be or should be on your calendar and uh trustee smith i also we had um trustee jabar came to one of our steering committee meetings and was able to see what was going on and how we were working that way all will get the dates of our monthly steering committee meetings out and once we establish the site committee meetings i think it would be great for board members to see what is going on during those meetings and understand what the parents and all of the other education partners are talking about and trustee jabbar i just want to say thank you to all of you for being on that steering committee um i mean it's been months now that you've served so we as a board really appreciate your time and energy this is exciting thank you mr alter okay so i have a few questions um well let me start off with the sustainability right so i'm looking at the uh community school funding for five years and i'm assuming obviously if you take a look at ball junior high 1.4 million which says sycamore junior eye 1.9 million the difference is based on attendance and enrollment enrollment they took the unduplicated pupil count and there was a range and if you fell under a thousand it was one thousand amount you know 100 so going back to the sustainability uh question it's a five-year uh you know commitment right i know we have to probably make an effort and work that out to include in our lcap for beyond that but so here's my concern as a trustee is that i know it will work because of everything that we've heard but i also want to make sure that that's a commitment that the board makes that we are going to fund it because you know if you run into in two three four years if you run into budget issues at the state level then when it comes down it trickles down to us then we make choices where ultimately we're going to take a look at some of these positions and say like well we have to cut here we got to cut there and then you know these are the positions that sometimes are in the chopping block um so this goes out to the parents in the in the audience right uh to make sure that i'm only going to be here till end of november but then i become a parent uh outside so i'm going to be part of this [Laughter] so so you know part of it is going to be us as parents uh warning you know making sure that we hold the system accountable and the rest of the trustees accountable i will be on that side um to make sure that we do make that commitment to have that included yes mr mitsuda i'd like to address and answer that question if you look on page eight there is uh measures of success right and i would i don't we this is something that another building the airplane while flying it we're very aspirational we're um we hope to see improvement uh across the board and i would argue that if there is a substantial improvement this would be something that future boards would support communities would support but at this point i think it's premature to to commit beyond this i personally feel that way because we don't know right it's going to be accountability on all of us to make sure that we can meet this aspirational goal so i made some notes on page eight right so that precisely what i wanted to get at is because if you take a look at what auhsd is really doing right now with all the work that we're doing in the classroom level right improve attendance reduce suspension you know a through g numbers ct pathways all that we've improved it right so the note that i made right here is that we need to distinguish it to make sure that it's the community school model that we implemented which has then had an extra trajectory on these numbers right that's where the data is going to be crucial that is where accountability is going to be crucial right and that is where we could justify at that point like mr matsuda said is to say hey it's not all the other things that we are doing it's specifically community school model and the approach that we've taken is the reason that we had a reduced five percent of it you know whatever or you know increase a through g by 10 because of that so i want to make sure that we have a system which we are able to hold or as board members able to take a look at and see that that's the reason that we improve these numbers absolutely now i have one of my questions was on page eight so can someone give a and i think i have the answer to this but i'd like to see if you um have thought this through in terms of on these measures of success how might this model improve cte pathways dual enrollment internships or mentorships what do you see on the ground the the teacher that's released doing to improve these numbers if you could write if you could read my question right here mr masuda you just read my mind there there's an example that um i've given um from time to time you know we could see um a development say in the the brookhurst savannah feeder where you have an arab community that over the course of a year with parents and students on the site committee decide you know what we'd like to see a dli program in arabic and we work over the next year to develop something like that and now we see participation from a community that wasn't part of any dli program before that's now joined up and participating at this level and you may see higher levels also of of dual enrollment courses or ap courses or a through g courses that are taken from a group of of students through their voice and their parents and a new pathway committed and that's one example and i think it's important that we're we're trusting a process of collaboration we're not sure what new pathways might come out of this or when we have things in position that we're incredibly proud of that we see as a huge opportunity but there could be more that we have no idea because we haven't done the needs and asset assessments yet and once the parents and the students and i think to to your the numbers we're looking at and how we're gonna to judge the success of this i for the needs and asset assessment our goal is not to interview a thousand students in the district or two thousand students in the district our goal is to have input from 75 percent of the parents and 75 of the students at every site we want to hear from 25 000 people in the you know partners in the district talking to us so we get an exact understanding of what the needs and assets are in our community how we can align them together what we're going to do then to create programs that can sustain meeting all of those needs and so i think that we want to look at a whole nother set of measurables besides what we've traditionally looked at because part of the goal of this is the participation and the feeling of community on every campus of having the involvement of all those education partners and if i may add a board president javar i think too with with our community school teacher leads when they're connected closely with our 5c coaches and they're really hitting hard the instructional piece the cpsf that mr hernandez referenced you're going to see student voice the cp elements of cpss elevated in the classroom and when we empower student voice and also the work they're doing with our families and empowering their voice these issues are going to be brought to the forefront which is again bringing the things that we're already seeing in our district uh rise them up so we can address them so as our students are asking for more opportunities of a or b that's going to come through the communicable model that make them more in the in the forefront so it's going to impact the way that we instruct in the classroom which is as carlos has always told our staff team that's two-thirds of the community school model that is really the bread and butter of what we do we start with our students empower them and we also filter out with our families and the larger community so that that student voice at civic engagement connected to first best instruction is going to matter most okay so the well i'm glad that you answered that one so let me just kind of jump to your initial um example that you gave right carlos you gave the example of a you know obviously a parent in the student and then exacerbated issue with covet the from the time you identified it to time where you actually made success with that family how long did it take uh i said you want to you want to share the it's it's society's work and i'd like to i think success with this family may look different um i would say every time that this child comes to school is a success every time i get a text message or an email from from the student or from the family because they're so isolated that to me is a success that this kid is doing all right you know she's coming to school she's doing her work and when she has a week of going to most of her classes or connecting with her counselor her case carrier her social worker or reaching out to me to me that's a success because we've kept her no absolutely i mean those are metrics right so what is the like what was the turnaround the the timeline is and then the reason that i'm asking that eric not to kind of put like a timeline on hey this is how you should do it reasonable expectation versus how are we looking at gaps and how we improving those right this is just the beginning right yes so what i'm looking at is for future from the time we do it what have you learned in terms of gaps in how do we mitigate those and how can we mitigate those to make it easier for the next student that comes out of that a teacher identifies i think communication the emt process if i'm understanding your question correctly so strengthening um also what is available so the gaps in services so i don't know where the student would be if i wasn't case managing them and i'm not saying that to give me credit but they could have very easily fallen through fallen through the gaps so having that additional layer of support and having those partnerships that we could leverage in the community bringing them on site and then having the staff that's there to support the student so i think that's what i'm getting back to the question is you mentioned something that i probably would have mentioned after it's if you were not the case manager right if there was a somebody else who was a case manager because i know the work that you do i can be confident that happens but we are hiring a lot of other community schools coordinators i want to see a system established which will allow us to then say you know regardless of what happens if it's arsely or you know person a coming into that position that we have a system established that would go through in a certain way to get that done i think too the five-star uh app that um carlos mentioned that's one way that we're gonna be able to progress monitor and track the data for every family you can see who's attending and what needs or gaps may exist within a student so that's gonna help us identify if certain families are having a challenge we know this is where we can support so all right and and then just there's a district system that that's supporting the the new the new staff that are in that position right so our community school teacher lead so as the director i'm working directly with our 5c coaches with diana fujimoto next to the 5c coaches are aligning their work on community school teacher leads we have community school coordinators that are going to have be managed by our community school manager our faces is managed by our face manager our coordinator faces uh renamed um okay so i'll ask uh another quick question because i know i want to be uh cognizant of time too uh what is the role like i know i've introduced be well in healthcare agency what is their role that you envision in terms of partnership from the county level be well as a social services agency the cal optima um uh orange county healthcare agency what is their role in our community schools model and maybe the community school coordinator wants to add to it so so in essence the the first step is to understand the needs and assets of each in the individual communities so as we know that as we make recommendations we are certainly seeing needs around this area strengths here that could be filtered so those strengths are the partners are our strengths in the community that are able to fill those gaps in in needs so as we look at a social service need that is you know uh present right now for our community based on those recommendations we know that that's something that we need to move quickly on so be well you know as an example could be coming in we quickly respond by meeting with them to understand what services can be provided create an mou process get them board approved to get them to be able to engage with our families at the site and perhaps at others based on their needs and assets so that that you you got the point where i was getting it right i think each school is going to have different needs but what i wanted to see was a process established right away because we're new right maybe getting through that mousse earlier on i know ssa is kind of taking a look at how they could do eligibility and they're trying to go into school sites maybe that will be an opportunity for us to invite them on a weekly basis where we have an mou established i think we already have but inviting them on campus which allows us to then get them on a regular basis where we can provide those support services for our families right uh the other part is orange county healthcare agency how can we get them to be a part of it so that we could not only tap into maybe some of the grants that partnerships later on right so those and that goes back to the businesses too local businesses small businesses who are in the area who are probably maybe more connected to a local school site might be somebody that you could bring in which might allow to establish those partnerships right so the reason that i asked that question is each of our we have 13 community school coordinators who are probably going to do different things in their particular site my interest is more than anything is to create a system where they will when they come in they know that they are able to tap into those resources right and establishing that do we have that in place and i'm sure you do but i just want to be make it public yes in terms of asset mapping in terms of the community asset mapping to understand what our assets are in our community that are our local people what he's talking about is a system kind of like the aim program where we sort of um based on the assets right the intake person determines what level of support and where that can go right because the aim program has that sort of system that in place i don't know if that's what you're getting that that is yeah i mean that's why so i i'm fairly confident that that will get through the second question relates to what mr o'neill brought up before which he touched on but i wanted to kind of emphasize on it is our faces right i'm looking at this document which has faces community liaison and then community school coordinator what they're supposed to do right although i don't see a direct overlap obviously you're going to see some kind of overlap between the three right correct so the other systemness is to make sure that these three folks are working very closely that we don't duplicate services and waste resources right yes so what have you have you thought about that part yeah i think that the touchpoint and they're they're obviously working weekly and and and and collaborating weekly the the emt process is i guess the most concrete example as the family comes into the emt process the faces maybe made the initial interaction as we go deep into the the needs of the family the faces understanding those needs you know welcome the community school coordinator to the picture and i'll be there they're part of that case management um you know next step for our family so so i'd like to add to that too and i brought this up earlier with speak louder well no i just want to make sure that okay because we we have an opportunity to hire these people and um to ensure that we have language and cultural competency with our asian pacific community because you know i work with a lot of our parents and our uh like cocapica our community stakeholders if it's you know we really need to ensure that there's a diverse system of support and be mindful of that because we're going to be in a weak position if we only have spanish speakers in all these positions so mike you touched on that one but you can continue on the uh answer that you were trying to give me on the preview yes so the so then so then the emt process so the warm handoff happens from our faces to our community school coordinator if there was no community school coordinator at that site then the faces would have to say here are some services i know that i've done a little bit of asset map and here are some services and family good luck we hope that you can you know make the connection but that their job is not managing of that particular case our community school coordinator can take on that you know that that ongoing role um of welcoming them connecting them to the service and ensuring that they are receiving services the faces is more tier one they're working on family education workshops there they know they've done they do a little bit of ensuring that they know what resources are available ensuring that they can meet those needs um but a community school coordinator is individualized triaging around tier two three uh type of a student so family a little bit more so for example there was a student that reached out to the face student reached out to the face in need of a refrigerator right so the face reached out to me i was able to connect with some of our community partners we were able to get that family of fridge and then from there just being able to case manage right what else is it that this family is in need of we found out that dad had some health problems brother had some health problems mom had passed away a year prior so they were they were struggling so i was able to really be able to follow up a little bit more with that student being able to call out that student out of class meeting with them after school speaking to the brother speaking to the father and really being able to figure out what those needs were and how we can address those needs so that's a great answer right tanya but for me as a as somebody who was very familiar with our faces i thought that they were doing that already right so for me i'm like looking at it and going so where is that that delineation at that point so are we going back to kind of make sure that we have that conversation with our faces so that we get them more involved in other activities and now community school schools coordinators are picking up that because just talking to both of you being fake i mean i know sally being a face is at sycamore right everything that you just mentioned i know she was doing it at one point right she would do that call and take care of it so for me now i'm saying okay we have a community schools coordinator where does that line go away or maybe is does that mean that the faces are now going to be uh taking a little bit more of a role of just contacting the parents and doing that aspect of it so i'm you don't need to answer it right now but what i want you to do is to kind of understand those aspects of it so that when we hire these new people that they're just not going to be sitting there and going like hey i thought you're doing it you thought so i'm sure you thought it through that but the reason that i'm bringing it up is i also want our parents to be aware of it right parents need to be knowing okay well if i have this situation i'm going here or if they come to a faces now the faces is going yeah you know what it's it's kind of like saying no don't come to me go to the uh coordinator it's like i'll take it but the back end work with the faces coordinator get that done right so that we're not frustrating the parent who's coming to ask for information um i know on the on the positions we talked about the building technician and i i think you answered uh mr pierce's question we just said one for all three of the grant rights what are we envisioning them doing because i could just imagine if you're going to be coordinating billing information with the state or even with the county right one i doubt that is going to do the job and just based on experience with the county right so i want you to think about that in the future in terms of maybe incorporating more i mean obviously evaluating with the one but just make sure that we are looking at those positions uh social worker lead again i think you mentioned we're tapping the existing social workers right social work leads the ones that are sitting at the district office not the social workers sitting at the site at the site yeah social work leads that um are working directly so they're going to manage your world the reason that i say that is again i i want to make sure that they're the leads who are working at the site so i mean at the district office rather than the site because i i know that the social workers are already overburdened right so that's why i was looking at saying i thought when i looked at i thought we're getting three extra which is going to be great but now i'm understanding is that we're tapping into the leads that we have correct okay yes well we want to evalua i want to evaluate that too at a future meeting right um in terms of i think i talked about that the data tracking so um i think i want to dive into a little bit more but not not today because we don't have time so we'll talk a little bit more about that in terms of the five-star students uh what is it is it a scanning right yeah the family id each of the families members connected that student has a bar code it's called a family id that lives in the in aries that ties um the student or the family that shows up to that student when we when we send it to aries okay so i wanna i think i mentioned this at the last board meeting right evaluating the programs that we bring in on uh to our district and see what they're doing and how effective they are and this is a great tool if we are going to use it i want to incorporate that aspect of it in it too because i think it allows us to then figure out the best programs to bring on campus so that we're not just doing a program because we've been doing it you know having that program for 10 years on our district right we want to see what kind of outcomes that we're having with these programs so we can evaluate them and then need be you know take them out of the contract system and bring in new blood um i think we talked about the measures of success okay so the last one that i have is i i just read i'm sure um grant ready too is that there was an article which came out um because they were going for another extra funding from the state there was article which came out criticizing um what the you know uh community school models could do because i think the governor wanted more money and the state legislator just kind of punted it a little bit because of criticism that they were getting i think we've got a good model here and i know we've brought in some folks from the state to take a look at it i i think us being more vocal on how our system works because we have two success stories at anaheim and sycamore to be really more vocal about what we are doing and get the community more involved maybe take them through the like ms smith said bring us folk bring us and show what's happening so that we could really talk about the success story of the implementation process because i think we were getting a lot of state was getting a lot of criticism on implementation itself so that's it okay to make a comment uh grant when you said that you wanted all this input and you said you number 75 000.
busy busy busy that's it yeah that is it for just riding in your spare time i'm working on stuff in my own house which means that's not getting done [Laughter] thank you mr putnam is there any questions for mr putnam okay we will go directly to comments from the audience regarding items not on the agenda just a reminder board may not discuss or take action on any items that are not on the agenda the speaker will have three minutes and i do have one uh howard ballard good evening everyone thank you for letting me uh speak here this evening i just wanted to reiterate i spoke at the last board meeting and i it wasn't a regularly scheduled meeting i realized but i was provided the opportunity and i brought up the safety and security of it's not on yeah okay you want it lower i see um i brought up the safety and security of the students and facilities which i think is paramount in light of the incident that occurred last month in texas and i wanted to be sure that this board takes into consideration all matters relating to that subject and ensuring that we as a community and this district this board the staff does everything conceptually possible in order to maintain the safety and security of our students one thing i brought up was i i think there should be more of a public face to that and i brought up the fact that the trent rivers school district police department when they first came on board had a representative that spoke at each board meeting and i think that to me as a community member and if i i don't currently have children in the district but if i did i would feel a lot more comfortable paying attention to the board meetings and what and the going ons of the district in hearing a report from that organization as to what is taking place to ensure the safety of my child in the school so i hope you take that into consideration thank you very much thank you mr ballard um mr putnam when is the first a safety be starting to do meeting again in uh probably august um and just uh based on the comments at last meeting we have scheduled for an updated our august 17th meeting and we'll cover a lot of the stuff we're doing and the trainings we've been to and the relationship between rivers so i think while we're doing a lot we can always do more and do it better so i think bringing it more public can only help us so anyway so august 17th there will be a report on that for sure mr clara the school safety plans available to the public to look over at the district office that they wanted they're actually in every school office and they're also posted online and they're also in the board packets so they are accessible now the public ones are redacted for some uh things like where we evacuate and stuff like that because we don't want to give right potential bad guys fine lines yeah so it is it is out there and there's a template that we use that's from the state that actually was updated again this year uh that we do and then the safety plans are all approved by in march or by march thank you thank you mr lair are there any comments um online or comments nothing okay we will continue to consent agenda oh yes i think this is public comments okay okay we are going to go to consent agenda do i do i have a motion to approve the consent agenda as presented so moved thank you miss kelly do i have a second second thank you mrs anderson thank you um roll call vote trustee lee aye trustee kelly aye trustee anderson aye and president bruno aye and chair votes i business items uh miss pope i'm sorry before we move on can i just acknowledge that we do just mrs kent uh is the principal that you just approved for wilson ryles just want to acknowledge that she's in the room but then while we have a long list as miss mason said of new employees just to acknowledge the two center high school vice principals that you also approved miss nicki strong and rogelio jaime and so we're looking forward to the three of them coming on uh two are new to the district one has come up through the district so i just wanted to acknowledge that and appreciate that and thank you miss kent for being here we look forward to uh you leading riles so thank you well thank you for saying that and a little fun fact my son matthew was home and i mentioned him hey do you know miss wiggins do you remember her because prior to miss kent she was miss wiggins and he goes yeah yeah absolutely i said well now she's the riles principal so he says congratulations and i just mentioned to miss kent that she was one of the original teachers at riles when it started with at that time mrs duplissy so nice to have you back okay business items um business item a do i have a motion to bring business item a second reading of policies and regulations and exhibits to the floor for discussion actually i'd like to move to approve the entire packet uh as presented i would like to have discussion first so we can have discussion with an approval okay i understand but i'm asking for a discussion first and then we're going to do the approval can i have a first for a motion to discuss okay yeah so moved thank you miss kelly do i have a second all second thank you trustee bruno is there any discussion is there any public comment okay may i have approval for business item a thank you trustee lee roll call vote trustee lee aye trustee kelly aye trustee anderson aye president bruno aye and chair votes i business item b declaration of need for fully qualified educators 2022-2023 school year do i have a motion to bring it to the floor for discussion thank you mrs anderson do i have a second second thank you miss kelly is there any public comment nothing is there any board discussion okay may i have an approval for business item b a motion for approval thank you do i have a second thank you mrs anderson second roll call vote trustee lee aye trustee kelly aye trustee anderson aye president bruno aye chair votes i business item c 2022-2023 local control accountability plan do i have a motion to bring it to the floor for discussion so moved thank you miss kelly do i have a second second second thank you trustee lee is there we had discussed this um in depth with miss coronado is there any other comments you'd like to make miss coronado so this is the el cap so what we did was uh last week we did present it for the public hearing so if i know i did receive some feedback and some suggestions we've made those changes we've also now taken it to uh scoe for kind of pre-approval because before we get to the sacramento county office of ed they actually do the final approval so we try to get to them before this meeting and they signed off on it as well oh very good is there any yes i'm sorry was there any public comments miss carol okay any board discussion i just want to say thank you again to all the people that are involved because wow that's such a huge report and it's it's a lot of thought and a lot of collaboration with the budget and it's just really thank you i do know what miss kelly said yeah yeah a lot of work okay we're going to jump to business item d budget for fiscal year 20 22 20 oh that's cake yes see mr bruno you're not the only one that that has mistakes do do i have a motion to approve business item c thank you mrs anderson thank you miss kelly she's second may we have roll call vote trustee lee aye trustee kelly aye trustee anderson aye president bruno and the chair votes i now we will continue with business item d budget for fiscal year 22 23 do i have a motion to bring it to the floor for discussion so moved thank you mrs kelly do i have a second thank you trustee anderson and there were no changes to the budget or no um suggested changes to the budget no public comment so it is the same as last week and again i will make changes after the state adopts their budget so in august i'll bring the 45 day update to you very good thank you is there any public comment carol thank you any board discussion same comment same comment thank you um okay do i have a motion to approve business item d the budget for fiscal year 2223 so moved thank you miss kelly do i have a second second thank you mrs anderson roll call vote trustee lee aye trustee kelly aye trustee anderson aye president bruno aye and chair votes i will continue with the business item e resolution number 31 2021-2022 resolute resolution of the board of trustees for the center joint unified school district oh i thought you were going to say something school district adopting the proposal to limit the number of consecutive terms a member of the governing board may serve ordering an election on the proposal establishing specifications on the election order and requesting consolidation of other elections occurring on november 8th 2022 do i have a motion to bring it to the floor for discussion i motioned to bring it to the floor for discussion because this item was requested by my constituents in our previous meeting we did not honor their request to consider it thank you trustee lee do i have a second i'm sorry i didn't hear what she said about she she she said yes she motioned i'll second it okay thank you is there um miss trusty lee did you want to make a comment on this are we in discussion yep now we are oh okay so um yes i did want to make a um comment on it um yes can you hear me yes better thank you yes i wanted to um bring this back for reconsideration um because you know it was requested by constituents in my office hours and it was brought to the board with that in mind and i really wanted to make sure that we're we just honored uh their opportunity to be heard because there was a lot of technical difficulties when this item came up at our last meeting so in the research of it it was discovered that we have about 10 million dollars of funds that we can spend a one-time funds that we can spend any way we like and the cost of this to our board to put this measure on the ballot to bring it to the voters to let them tell us what is their will in terms of term limits would be about two thousand dollars so two thousand dollars of a ten million dollar budget that we have to spend any way we wish and i think it's some really important that um one of the my backgrounds is in civic engagement and in civic education and when term limits are not in place democracy becomes at risk it's super important to have a turnover of ideas perspectives ideologies on any governing body when someone sits in a position for too long it leads to stagnation and i think we've seen that in some ways so i'm really just hoping that we can consider this in a meaningful way thinking of it in terms of cost benefit analysis what do we lose 10 million dollar budget that we have two thousand dollars of it that gets it to the voters then they tell us yes we want term limits for this board or no we don't i don't think we lose anything by just looking at some basic principles of democratic governance thank you dr lee is there any public comment please state your name mr ballard uh howard bellen member of the community um uh i heard about this at this last meeting um i think i'm the only member of the community here so i can't speak for the community but i can speak for myself i am not one who believes that the will of the people should be circumvented in any way so with that said i would not be in favor of this resolution people have a right to elect whom they choose and i think this could well perhaps as trustee lee stated allow some fresh blood it would also prevent the ability of some people many in the past who have served on this board for at great lengths of time who donated their their time their blood their sweat their tears as an example trust former trustee bender i believe was almost 30 years as a trustee who devoted his all his free time to this community into the school district that kind of dedication you're not going to find in a lot of people and by and implementing uh this resolution you would uh be preventing those kinds of people from you know uh contributing to this to this district and to the children and parents and families of this district thank you thank you very much point of information i'd just like to clarify that this resolution does not instantiate term limits instead it puts the measure on the ballot and lets the voters tell us whether they would like to see term limits implemented or not miss carol is there any public comments there is not is there any board discussion no i will um i i have a little bit to say um i agree with what howard is saying as far as um you know the will of you know the voters voting for who they want and and yes i understand that term limits can be um damaging in some cases uh particularly like with the senate the legislature but at all at a local level when we have a board of five people and we struggle to fill those five seats every election limiting it would could potentially cause a problem obviously anyone who wants to run for the board is is is able to do so and i i can only speak for myself i love this job but if somebody else was voted in i would be happy to relinquish the responsibilities so um just and i don't think it's necessarily a given that people who are on the board for a long duration of time are are dead blood like i just don't agree that that's necessarily that they're they're not uh mutually exclusive i will add the people have their voice every election with their vote every time pure and simple they vote you in or they vote you out trustee bruno i forgot to look at the tv did you have a comment he did yes i do um first of all i want to apologize um i missed the public comments on this issue because my internet cut out i had to relocate slightly but i wanted to make the comment that in my limited experience on the board i've found those who have more experience to be tremendously helpful helping me learn how to do the job learn the ropes giving me guidance and i've really appreciated that and i do think that experience in this position is quite beneficial i think term limits in some cases are incredibly beneficial particularly when it's a position where you can use your influence to help change the elections or do something to help keep you in power for instance if you're going to be changing voter districts or things like that well then term limits are very useful to help prevent that power from being abused but on a school board i don't find the same necessity for them additionally looking back at the the election history through 2000 um we often have only a couple more candidates than there are seats available on any given election and 2020 is was the biggest margin of um percentage margin of candidates to seats where we had five candidates for two seats also in 2002 we had six candidates for three seats however three separate times within the past decade in 2014 2016 and 2018 we had exactly as many candidates as we had seats if we start excluding qualified candidates through term limits we may not be able to have a full board additionally in 2020 when nancy was appointed to the board she was the only applicant for that position if we had excluded her due to term limits we would have had an incomplete board and additionally in 2006 if we had instituted term limits um instead of four candidates for three positions we would have only had two candidates for three positions in 2008 and 2012 instead of three and four candidates respectively for two positions we would have had only two candidates for two positions i don't think that taking candidates off the ballot in any way benefits the district i think that quite frankly when we're having trouble getting qualified candidates to apply for vacancies and to run for board seats i don't see limiting the candidate pool to be beneficial at all thank you thank you trustee bruno this is puff oh go ahead um i was just going to say in in view of you know our thoughts as far as that term limits may be limiting but yet at the same time two of us have expressed that we understand term limits are beneficial i feel that if we brought it to the voters there would be confusion people who are in favor of term limits at a very high level senate or legislature or whatever would vote for it not really understanding the dynamics that happen in a school board and so my concern is that they would pass the term limits and it would be detrimental in the long run saying that they wouldn't understand yeah i mean i don't mean to be condescending to our voters but at the same time confusion if if it had been me prior to being on the board and i saw term limits i would have been like yeah that's a great idea and i would have voted for it so i would just like to add that just because we have a covert windfall of money in one time money in the reserves right now does not mean that we can frivolously throw it away that same two thousand dollars could buy band equipment or uniforms for a team or any number of things that are needed in the district we know that we don't need an election to tell us this none of the other districts in sacramento county have term limits none of the lower offices in sacramento county have term limits that i'm aware of even though that was stated in a meeting i just don't see us needing to go there at this point or needing to spend the money at this point for that action and i'd like to just add that we could spend money on many things but we're not the money's just sitting there so the point was to think of this in terms of a cost-benefit analysis uh to the community i disagree with trustee bruno's analysis of it i don't think this is uh this action is meant to look retroactively to what could have happened in the past the term limits wouldn't take effect until and if they were approved by the voters and they would be for eight years for folks who've been in place would still have eight more years to effect a change in this district i see our black and brown racialized students struggling here they have been struggling for years nothing has changed in the ways that it needs to and i think it's important that we look at that data and if the number one priority of this board is the achievement of all students then why are our racialized black and brown students continually to struggle it must be something with leadership and vision how can you fix that potentially new people i have faith in the voter voters i don't think that they wouldn't understand a measure put before them and i also think that if every single member of this sitting board here today was to unfortunately perish that people in this community would stand up and this board would continue and the district would continue i don't think we're the saviors i don't think the answers are all up to us and that's why i continue to support this resolution to put it to the voters and let their voices be heard your comments are so wrong bruno's has the floor go ahead trustee bruno thank you um i just want to say that while this policy would you know doesn't affect the past i was trying to show in the past what the pattern is for the number of candidates that we tend to receive and use that to extrapolate what is likely to happen in the future we can't know for sure what will happen but by looking at the history we can extrapolate what is likely to happen um and as far as policies to help any demographic of students by all means let's bring forward concrete ideas on how to help these students but this frankly i don't see benefiting students in any way shape or form thank you mrs anderson i would just like to point out that wilson ryles was a black man we just named another school after rex fortune a black superintendent who was in this district for 15 years who has gone off and started his own teaching academy and schools for children a man who's dedicated his life to education and has brought teachers into our district for many many years i don't think dr lee knows the history of this district i don't think she knows what we have done to bring teachers to this district from minority groups i think that her whole purpose here is just to cause a problem for the district i don't know what she has against me point of privilege with the personal attacks you're violating board policies responsibility no this is yesterday stop mrs anderson i think her time would be better spent trying to point the privilege of the board mrs anderson please please control uh the negative comments towards them so i remember in this office i do have a comment to say okay thank you mrs anderson i didn't mean to interrupt um you were talking about a cost breakdown analysis if you have that available i would like to see the cost breakdown please okay um that was my only comment is there any i was speaking on a cost benefit analysis and pointing out that the amount that we would spend and the benefits the potential benefits to the community were important and i also want to comment on this whole performative understanding of racial equity and equity in general it's a big problem naming a school after a black person or a a street or a placard or anything else is performative it doesn't do anything to impact the achievement of black and brown racialized students and we see that in the data and in the numbers um so can i still see your your cost your analysis if you have the figures in front of you or can you send them to me via email the 10 million dollar budget that that was given to us by miss corman well you said you had a breakdown so there was you've got the 10 000 you got 2 000.
thank you oh yeah um so how much how much of what we're looking at in the plants or in the plan was existing or everything was existing on that plant except for the staircase that would we are we are proposing that the staircase was a really tight wedge-shaped tread and it was built in 1940 we proposed to come in there and put a new winder stair that's fully compliant with the 2015 building code so we were doing that and the owners pulled a permit and is now proceeding with that work we saw that as as an you know means of egress and so we wanted to make sure that that was acceptable so and you said the exterior wall with the windows to those bedrooms well the exterior wall on the on one side was the car part of the community block grant program was that the exterior wall on the west side of the house was replaced a part of the community block plant program also had those basement windows on the east side of the house as damaged and broken and they were to be repaired or replaced so we don't know what exactly happened at that time period so those windows were they look existing or from the 1980s when the work was done in 1982 so that's all we can tell at this time so so the window weld the window wells were existing the window the wall with the window wells is what would it what actually is that is it a concrete wall a block wall it's a eight-inch cmu wall they didn't see okay reconstructed window miles doesn't matter what uh the window wells currently the existing ones were pressure treated to timber and i believe the owner is going to go back with a pressure treated timber but currently it's 20 inches deep from the face of the building and we're going a full 36 inches out into the yard can you describe the section at the egress windows what is the sale height the egress sill height is uh it's meets code it's 44 inches to the top of the cell for the clear opening with the windows are a vinyl double hung window they have a upper and lower sash the bottom sash raises up the clear opening width is 39.5 inches and the total clear opening height from if you push raise the sash up from the sill the window is 19 and a half inches um code requires that it'd be 24 inches tall that's where we come into problems with climbing we've got the the width because the width is 39.5 inches hot long so you can easily climb through it it's just not tall enough yeah is there an obstruction that you can't go up well so the window is at the top of the joist so it starts from the floor line and goes down and the basement itself it's 44 inches off the floor so we could go down further but we'd have to dig out and and cut concrete wall and all that other stuff so concrete water cmu cmu wall so the easy fix is a casement window well so casement window we looked at that casement window will work it's a 36 inch wide it's it's um we'd have to reduce the size of the opening um it'd still be a vinyl window it comes close to not applying to the 303 code where it's is for the front bedroom because of the area we need eight percent square feet of light opening and so a 36 by 40 window that fits in that opening is borderline for the light requirement as far as natural lighting so as far as clear glazing area so that we kind of wanted to keep the amount of glazing that we had in there and then we also cited that section appendix j if we would have put a window in there appendix j says that we're allowed to put the same style and use in that window opening so technically we're allowed to buy code to put in the double hung and that's where we thought well if we're going to replace the window we're entitled to the same type of style why can't we just keep the style that's there are these winners are 1980 these are your windows as far as we know they're they're from the 80s they're solving near the end of their useful life probably are they vinyl are they it's a vinyl window yes you're not replacing them the point was just to keep them everything's existing and not to not to take them out not to touch them we have the same issue upstairs but you know we have vinyl windows up there and they're we're not looking at those issues they don't meet the code as well but because the basement wasn't permitted and the house dates from 1940 upstairs there were they're allowing the upstairs windows but not the basement windows but they're trying to rent this base as a different unit which they didn't before that's what's triggering this yes because he's trying to rent it yeah that was sighted up in the housing report and it currently meets the housing group the window the way it sits meets the housing code so and the door is due and the hallway does so we looked at the item the only thing that didn't meet the housing report was the staircase and we're correcting that and then as far as the building code we thought that the window well if we correct that would make it easier use out of that window to climb out of so that we're trying to correct that as well here's a real test to see if the owner can get out the window can i can i come on on that um that emergency escape and rescue openings are not only for somebody to get out of they're also for a fully equipped firefighter to get into so probably but i'm saying that the the intent of the code in there is not only direction yeah yeah so the outside window helps in that provision deep is the window well um as far as off from gray down to the cell it's roughly i think 20 inches okay what's the lighting in these spaces you said that if you were changing the window out you'd be worried about the lighting but i know those mechanical makeups for that you can make up for the artificial lighting yeah so i mean the lighting's pretty good right now with the windows but the coat says you know in section 303 that's eight percent we currently have about um uh it's uh 10.5 percent right now with the existing window and if i were to put a smaller window in there there would be a casement i would be right at that borderline with the glazing area so that's kind of what we didn't want to reduce the lighting the natural lighting in the space at least the front bedroom the back bedroom if you look at the plan there's the back bedroom it's got two windows and that has a substantial amount of lighting in there so you have a section where the doors are and it looks like there's space underneath there for the two doors you have an 85 inch ceiling height and then you got six foot five door but it looks to me like you got four by four well there's a floor beam in that right below above the door and so i have what i measured on site it looks like to be about an inch at the most from the floor beam to the top of the head of the door there don't know exactly but we didn't want to have to tear the doors out and try and we weren't sure whether we were going to be able to raise those doors just an inch to get that clearance to meet the building code when it meets the housing code currently and so the the floor beam goes up from front to back of the house and it's the wall is right below that floor beam and that's for bedroom one and bedroom four uh yeah both both the basement bedrooms in a bedroom is there a reason why this isn't going in front of the housing board of appeals because it was unpermitted work i see so that falls under the building department's jurisdiction not housing okay it seems like a lot of it they're addressing the housing code issues so they're waiting to variants um well it's all because this isn't permitted and if you look yeah so housing code is for you know dwellings that haven't been altered so that they can be used in a different manner this dwelling was altered and then is trying to be used in a different manner so i think that that's where the difference is and here again it wasn't part of our the owner purchased the property after this what work was done this is pre you know it was done prior to the owner ever purchasing the house the owner the original owners were his parents the original owner was his parents they purchased the house in 94.
um and uh those two have two of them have accepted and uh and we're looking we're working on adding a third and that's still underway um i think we've had like three or four people who have brought their names forward so that was the first step the second step and it's on the agenda for later so i'm going to be short on this we did talked about the asso and uh and heard from chief paglucia and dr barrell about their thinking on that process and since that's on the agenda that's really all i'm going to say about that tonight and then we'll come back to it later and then uh we agreed that we process wise we're going to go through all of the aspects of security right and um mr giuliano mentioned a number of different things you have to think about so it's not just staffing at the schools it's physical security it's prov it's uh threat identification you know there's a lot of approaches and software on that there's protocols protocols with the kids protocols with the police department um there's training of various especially when you get to staffing you've got a lot of discussion on training matters so you know we had a list of five to six topical areas and we will very diligently go through those topical areas the administration will bring us the approach that we're using today with thoughts on where we might enhance we will discuss that as a committee um and then we're going to prioritize you know the actions we should take right so it'll take five six meetings i think to get through the first round of all of these reviews we do understand there's urgency on this one staffing item on the asso so we're prioritizing that uh the staffing item as early as we can and we'll talk about that tonight a little bit more but but in in the whole it's about making incremental decisions on how to improve things so that's the approach we're going to adopt um and uh and so that's kind of the net of that first meeting you're going to nod your head for me since you were there that's pretty much what we covered right um so so that's it any uh let me start with any questions from the board members on my summary okay uh rosa or sharon would you like to add anything yeah i would like to kind of jump back to talk about the the security task force that we had formed a couple years ago but before i do that i'm sure he won't object i do want to sincerely thank the brookfield police department and i'm looking at chief police over here but they have always been a very critical tool in the development of our safety protocols over the years they've been an excellent partner in that and as you all know they've placed their officers at our elementary schools where we currently don't have any or normally have police presence through the end of the year and that's that was something that that was a challenge that i know you guys had to work through but that you're doing it because our kids are um the utmost importance to you so um you all too often don't get the things you deserve so um just as a formality thank you very much um in terms of the last security task force i did want to just kind of remind everybody that um of course the tragedy in uvalde was very much a tragedy but we didn't need another one of those to really look at security we have been doing that and we looked at it the last iteration was a couple of years ago and a lot of really good things came out of that we changed we saw a lot of weak areas and we did a lot of changing for that so i just wanted to kind of maybe go through some of those just so you have a very sort of high level overview of some of the improvements that we've made over the years the then chief of police purcell was a part of that committee along with parents and administrators and what we did was is scrutinized building security safety protocols and all of the staff training to find out where our specific weaknesses were and then we prioritized the investments that would significantly enhance our safety and kind of close those gaps so some of those things and we accomplished a lot and i don't think really at the time we took enough time to really recognize all of those achievements but one of the big things that came out of that was our sro program we did consider other forms of armed security at the time and for a myriad of reasons we chose actual sworn officers so now as you know there's one at wisconier in addition to the one at bhs where there is also an unarmed security guard who's responsible for checking penetrability of the building throughout the day and these are things that we didn't have prior to the security task force we've installed things like panic buttons that sends a direct signal to the police department and we ran practice drills with the police department to see their response times and in most cases they were there within two or three minutes so we have a fantastic force that is always in the quadrants of brookfield we upgraded our intercom system so there was no longer any silent zones within the building we're always on lock out so obviously all the buildings are locked down in those double locked doors but we now have given teachers the capability and the training to call a lock down if they see one so sometimes it's it used to be where the teacher would have to call someone in the main office and then the main office would do something and now it's immediate teachers have the capability of doing that we installed raptorware which is a secure building access system so this is something that can alert staff immediately if someone with a criminal record or a registered sex offender tries to enter the building and we've already seen a lot of success with that um and then there's a lot of other ones and i know that i think we maybe could take some other opportunity to kind of walk parents through this because i think it's really important for everybody to know all of the different things that we use but i did want to kind of mention the new school because that's something to really really be proud of the design itself which of course was post the new sandy hook elementary the design itself was created with safety as a top priority so when you're thinking of those long driveways that are headed straight to the building those were intentional to provide clear sight lines of anyone trying to get near the building as you know there's we call it a moat but it's not really a moe it's sort of like a big ditch right there's only single access points to the building you could never drive a car up close to that building at all there is intruder resistant glass not the film um actual different glass that's about this thick you could walk on it if you were to lay it flat um yes not ballistic film right single entry points ballasts the list goes on and on but the new school is honestly a marvel for school security so i just hope that that kind of provides a little bit of relief for some of the parents that we had this amazing opportunity to build this new school with state-of-the-art security systems um so in summary you know i don't want to take up all the time here but the security task force did a lot of really good things to shore up our security um and there's there should be another forum to kind of go through all of those um but in terms of this new iteration i think it's really important that we go through that same thoughtful approach that we did before we need to prioritize any new findings that we see and make appropriate proactive not reactive uh recommendations to the board and i think that really worked well the last time i think there are some things that and maybe that has something to do with personnel maybe there's other things that are really more critical right so we have to look at everything and i think that thoughtful approach is going to serve us well again thank you sharon anything you'd like that rosa pretty much said what needed to be said i'm a big believer that when you're instituting anything to do with the children you need parent involvement on whatever level they're needed so i would like to see more parents come to school activities or actively supervise and dismissal which is always very hectic and just in general make sure that you know what's going on at your child's school it's important okay um you know along this journey that getting this reorganized i've had a couple of interesting uh chances to meet people i actually had a i spent a couple hours with mr checkout who's the head of the mbc and he walked me through all the security things and you mentioned many of them but a lot of the sight lines in the design are built around security as well so and i think there's an opportunity for us to have more of a public forum share share with people you know what is the design of all of our schools and uh and i i just wanted to get the opinion of the board about whether we ought to kind of have a forum right let the principals talk about what they're doing let uh let the designers of the new school not in enough deal detail that threatens the design because i know i i had exactly the same pause with my finger in the air my heart palpitates bob i get a little nervous but but if you've told me the trade secrets no no no no i understand that but but enough so that people understand that their schools are safe right i mean to me as a parent my number one concern is i want my kids going to a place that's safe right that's uh and that's in this day and age it's a lot different than when i grew up um and in fact and the second person i had a chance to talk to was the person who was in the chairmanship of this board in 2012 in december when sandy hook happened and and i asked him how did you work through you know your process at that time because it was much more supercharged for those of you who were in brookfield i mean that that we had four speakers tonight he says that first night we said five hours of uh public comment in that first meeting after sandy hook you know build moats build walls you know i want i want uh i want next week i want you know uh you know safety wire uh fences around every building and he said the motion was extraordinary and the way they worked through it was they started with public discussion right they you know have a chance to share with what we do do talk about what you know get a group going on how could we do it and you know do better they involved uh the families and parents in it we actually had you know one of the parents come tell us that they were on that group man our first uh security task force meeting and that was it was important um out of that if you kind of go back the the he told me he says we only had single doors in the front of our schools right it was you and they were unlocked all the time you'd walk right in the front door of any school so the first thing they had to do was physically secure the buildings then they had a long discussions about assos and and armed presence in the schools and actually this he said the standard with a lot of input was to go to full fully trained police officers right who were part of the police force they were incrementally funded we didn't actually steal them from the what we did in the town so you said something uh mr giuliano that actually i want to make sure we're clear on we didn't lower the number of police in the town because we put a uh sros in he told me at the time the sro role was a well-defined role and it was only aimed at the high school really at that time and we did it at the high school in middle school it was never aimed at the elementary schools but now there is a elementary school soro well defined role at the state level ssos i've learned are less defined each of the towns has to set up their own standards and training and things like that so but he told me says the long discussion we had actually led to a plan that wasn't implemented overnight it was implemented it was a that was a whole training program we had to run a series of officers through to get them trained up to be in schools and and today we have those sros um in the two upper schools and there's much less traffic in and out of the lower schools which is why elementary schools generally didn't have sros in the first place and i learned a lot going through that the thing that i walked away from though which was good was the group the board at that time thought about it got a lot of input was very deliberate about it and chose the higher standard right and uh and i like that i like that that's how they made that decision they chose the higher standard um so i've learned a lot with some of the side discussions we've had that i think will be part of everything that we do so i just wanted to share that with the board i think that was it was really useful to have some of those conversations and bob if i may um be very brief here the one thing we no one's mentioned tonight i don't think is we also have a highly trained youth officer here in our community that spends a lot of time between senator and huckleberry that was with officer gary grambling prior and then he retired now it's officer heller and has great relationships with the kids and everything else and they love him so that's important for people to know that that presence is it's balanced and it and it's back and forth that is not 100 and when we get to when we get to the single elementary school they'll be pretty much they should spend a lot of a great deal of time of the percentage of their work time at the school yeah effectively another sro yeah yeah i will also say was heartening to me when we did the recognition at our last meeting that our sro at the middle school was named the staff member of the year by this by his peers at the middle school so obviously not just um there but very appreciated and loved by peers and students alike i got a lot of cheering when he was the vision with anything we do the individuals if we go in that direction that are chosen will become part of the fabric of the school that's an automatic the way we work things here in town so uh so we're underway right um we'll have at our next meeting we'll have our three members of the public um finalized they'll join us and we will be off and running with this routine of of driving so that's kind of not during the meeting maybe come back at the end if you're still here i just want to say i i really like the idea of having some other kind of forum to go over the safety and security measures like rosa just recapped because i mean even i mean i've been in all these meetings and i still learned things tonight that either i forgot or didn't know so i think that's a great idea and thank you for doing that recap yeah and and there are some things we didn't even mention like cameras over ever aimed at every entrance you know you know so that we can keep you know we have radios that connect directly to the police department um and i like what uh um what mr giuliano mentioned about training because we did run through a period where we made sure every we had the formal training for every teacher but we may need to revisit that as part of our thing and just uh drill you can send me some of the information on the program so that would be helpful so and we have regular drills that we run for the students and the staff so it's you know a lot of these are mandated by the state but we have you know faculty meetings where we talk to staff and interact with the the administration staff points out weak areas we have uh law enforcement and and first responders at our um drills so we can cite the strengths but find the weak spots as well and continue always always looking to to layer and continuously improve it's never good enough they're always looking to improve that's cool okay any other comments or questions when would you like to do a forum is that a summertime event or do we want to do it in the fall i would maybe think september early october like sort of towards the beginning of the school i was year earlier i know i just think summer people are away and so september maybe if we could get it on it's just tough with open house and all the things that you know happen in september july 20th board meeting schedule these are just the regular dates i mean we always pick different dates and i think it's an august 17th board meeting or schedule now so that's i would want to do it in a place where we advertised it to parents and they could have a chance to go which means i think if i remember our summer board meetings because of the air conditioning situation in this room we're going to do them over in the auditorium why don't we do our august 17th meeting and and then by and and put out a blast notice to parents and we'll record it right if people can't come and and john we could work up an agenda but i think it's let each of the principals talk about how i run security in my school right and then let's add let's think about what they might not be talking about like the new school would be a good section of it um and i think uh um you know maybe something on how we're managing training and things like that so maybe even a recap of the security task force work yep you know throughout the summer yep which will be on which we are we'll have something on each board agenda i think on the security task force i think in the near near future or a separate before or after what do you think maybe it depends how much we have on the board agenda oh i guess the august meeting is usually really light um we can maybe do a brief on the on the administrative things we need to do as a board and then spend our time on the board meeting you know to you know let the so we don't have to drag the staff in because they're also coming in off of um some you know summertime activities juggle their vacation the 17th is good timing in the sense that that's the time that most people at least in administrative ranks are starting to close out and you know if they get their week vacation here or there we we're formally supposed to be back for the 18th of august so some people could be enroute on the 17th but if they're available you know how dedicated they are they'll be there i'm wondering if it should be the following week then if people are still away do it maybe as part of the opening of school you know do it that one of those evenings we don't have to decide tonight okay we can think it through a little we'll try and aim for we have our meeting tomorrow i i don't i think if we're gonna end up not doing it in september because it's so busy for parents so it's gonna it's kind of doing doing july august or do it in october right is gonna be what it's gonna be okay okay we'll talk again tomorrow at ours one-on-one okay why don't we move on we spent some time on the security task force because i know it's an important topic for everybody next up is consent agenda i'll move that the board approve the items on the consent agenda which are new hires and transfers second okay it's been moved and seconded uh dr brewer any comments on anything this week yes just uh tremendous pride it's great news for the high school we had an open special education in open math and an open chemistry position we have signed contracts and hired teachers very early mr belanda was jumping for joy and we were able to pick the cream of the crop and we had great candidates so we're really excited that we're signed and have those people ready for the fall so those are shortage areas so it's very difficult to get certified people at the high school level in those areas so to land those folks now is tremendous and all veteran people who are very experienced and really looking forward to becoming bobcats so we're excited about it excellent any questions okay all in favor of approving the consent agenda all right thanks unanimous uh okay so we're moving on to new business the next topic is open choice um this has been floating around the area for a while um and uh we've organized the presentation tonight uh by uh dr uh chip du mat du may good morning and uh um i'm sorry eric from that question i forgot your last name eric thank you and eric quest um to come give us a uh an overview of what this open choice program is about and i've asked them if they would also just help the board understand what decisions we need to make and when relative to that but it's mostly informative for tonight so thank you for coming up to the podium and i'm going to turn it over to you sir great thank you very much chip dumay executive director at cooperative educational services which is not your risk it advances your arrest but since we operate open choice in fairfield county this is something that we can do very easily in picking up the danbury area school so we're doing that for at advance and i have with me eric nyquist eric in addition to being the principal of rca the regional center for the arts manages the open choice program for the bridgeport schools as well as what would be the danbury program so 1966 the state put project concern in place and this is to reduce racial ethnic and economic isolation in the state and it essentially started in hartford in 1997 the through legislation if you're a policy walk it's 10-266-a-a and in in in that legislation they identified hartford new haven bridgeport and new london in which they would fund the open choice program new london is no longer part of the program there are currently about 50 districts that participate in open choice where students come from either hartford new haven or bridgeport and go to school in a neighboring town there are about 300 or so students from the bridgeport area that participate in open choice in the towns that surround bridgeport and the about 3 000 students total in the state this is a funded program by the state it is a voluntary program by the state districts would establish how many seats they have available in general a district would take on students in the kindergarten or first grade and so the recommendation is that it wouldn't be a single student in any particular school it just makes the whole situation a little complicated and difficult from a social perspective so students would start there you receive so one of the questions oh by the way uh i have a number of questions and answers right here that i'll leave with you that cover a lot of these issues um but a lot of the questions that we get are uh chad what about uh discipline what about test results what about uh graduation what about school activities the answers to all those questions are really easy once an open choice student becomes a student here they are treated as a resident of brookfield in terms of their education access to programs and everything else the one exception to that is funding for special ed funding for special ad reasonable costs come from the sending district uh the reason i say that is reasonable is the words it's used in the in the legislation the and districts frequently ask us well chip what if we have a special education cost and there's conflict i've checked with the state we've been doing this for a long time there might be a little bit of hey we need to get a couple people at the table but there's never been a we refuse to pay the other funding piece is ecs funding so you get funding from the state for students so the way the ecs funding works under open choice is the sending district and your sending district by the way i'll get to ecs in just a second last year 2021 legislation the state said we're going to put money into funding seats for open choice expansion to norwalk and danbury they identified the towns where students could end up brookfield is one there wasn't enough interest in the danbury area last year in order to run this now i mean uh eric does a fantastic job part of what he does is he organizes all of the transportation for students that's paid for by the state it would not make any sense to transport two kids from bridgeport uh i mean from danbury if we were on that program there no we did have one district that wanted something here thank you we did you know me as eric by the way hi um we did have one district that did want to participate um but we only had they were only able to provide two seats and it it was not going to be um it was not going to be a good start to the program so we talked to the state and decided we would postpone to give districts a little more time to figure out what they were going to do and hopefully have some more participation for next year norwalk will be running and again you don't have to read much in the news to know that not every town surrounding norwalk is participating the state agreed and this is the interesting part it's not all that often that the state puts a program in place and puts the funding behind it and the funding is guaranteed whether you're talking anything that you do um they put aside 50 seats for danbury in 50 seats for norwalk we will not be using anything near that and so getting back to ecs funding so ecs funding the the sending district gets ecs funding they get 50 of what they would have gotten for that student you get fifty percent for what you would get at your rate fifty percent of the brookfield rate for an open choice student here danbury would get fifty percent of ecs funding for a danbury student at the danbury rate even though the student's not there you also there's a stipend associated with this and the stipend varies anywhere from three thousand dollars per student to eight thousand dollars per student of the fifty districts or so there are about ten districts in the state because of the percentage of students who participate in open choice compared to their enrollment receive eight thousand dollars per student fairfield last year had a huge increase in the number of open choice students because in addition to a per student stipend there is an opportunity if you increase by greater than 50 the the stipend goes up significantly for that year so um go ahead so while there is a financial piece where the state does give you an incentive to participate the other real incentive is that you're bringing in cultural diversity and diversity into a classroom and you know every study and i could share study upon study with you says that diverse classrooms are are much better for students and it prepares them for the real world it prepares them for college because they're getting to hear different perspectives and different backgrounds and different cultures brought to life right there you know i i remember when i was growing up they showed us film strips of other cultures and we may have had a special day where where we ex we had some special food from but when you have students from another culture in your classroom that live that culture every day that's another part of the open choice puzzle that's a real benefit to districts and so it's not just the funding that that happens but it's also that cultural diversity that is a big part of it they want a timeline i can give them that your timeline um so normally um a district that's already participating in going through the process and has been with us for years we ask for their numbers in april that almost never happens because as you know as a board of ed april is budget time and you're still figuring out enrollment and things like that so more likely it's somewhere in may that our districts let us know how many open seats they're going to have and dr dumay did say most districts do prefer to start in kindergarten or first grade that way they're yours for the entirety of their education and they know the brookfield way however we do have districts that say hey you know what we have some fourth grade classrooms with lots of open seats we will take some some fourth graders in so we that does happen or some seventh graders or even sometimes at the high school level some 9th graders but so we're talking about april or may however i'm going to ask that because this is a new program this is a pilot program and we're we're needing to tell the state whether we're going to run i would ask that you um you tell us whether you're going to participate by november which still gives you plenty of time we're in june now so thank you for inviting us early to speak to you but if you can let us know by november that you're planning to participate hopefully and an approximate number you know an idea 2 10 20 50 that would help us to be able to talk to the state as they want to know where things are in the danbury region so november if you can let us know and then certainly april and may is when you're going to tell us the number of seats that you would have and then we go about my office goes about coordinating transportation professional development for your teachers that are going to be participating uh arranging for all of the things and then we have a family and community outreach coordinator who works with our families that are going to participate so that the students are ready one of the things that she does is she looks into what software programs you you all run in brookfield so that she can help families get ready for that so that they're starting the on on good solid footing on day one so that nothing's a surprise um she also helps families to know when your open houses are and things like that so um we try to help the families get acclimated as as quickly as possible through that so that's an approximate timeline um we of course um if you if you uh decide earlier than that what you'd like to do we'd be happy to know but november and and april would be your two dates do you mind if i ask you a question um you seem to be very close to the families and students that are that participate how does it feel from a a student who's participating in it they live in one town they go to school in a different town what's been the feedback from from the experience from the students is this then i can see it being both positive and and challenging in some ways sure um i will tell you a couple of things first of all we have about 800 applicants in bridgeport every year for about 20 seats wow that doesn't change that is about the same every year we don't advertise we just get applications because people want their kids in the program one of the big ways i know that it works is because every sibling of somebody who's already in the program they want the parent wants their other sibling as they come through to be part of the program that tells me it's working and listen i'm going to be honest we have some kids that are on longer bus rides because if you're getting picked up all around the city of bridgeport and then brought on 95 in traffic to another community say westport that can be a long bus ride and i'm telling you that every year the parents who have siblings that are in the program want their kids in in the same school district or in any school district because they believe that it's helped their child when that child is surrounded by the other kids who are all goal oriented and moving forward the parents see the value in it we the only time we ever have anybody leave the program is if they move out of district so say a danbury family is is participating in open choice in brookfield but then they move to new milford they are no longer allowed to be part of the open choice program that's the only time we lose people if they move other than that people don't want to leave they love the fact that their kids are in these schools and their the parents are generally very very positive participants so with those 800 kids who apply and you only got 20 slots is it is it like a lottery or something is that how do they actually select there is a selection process and the lottery is part of it um but we also want to make sure that the the students we're sending represent the the basic demographics of the district in other words it would not help the racial makeup of anybody to to send a group of say all white students from bridgeport to fairfield that it defeats the point of the program so we we do a whole selection process um and the lottery is one of the steps of that process but we want to make sure that the the values of the program are met as but you're doing that not the sending district that is correct we do that we do that in my office and we coordinate as i said transportation for the students um and uh and any of those times when there is a question on uh say a student needs some extra special education um they may call us in but very rarely almost always the sending district just says sure we understand um when a district i will tell you this when a district believes that that might happen they generally invite the sending district to the ppt so that they can be part of that process and that usually solves the issue right there okay do any of our neighboring towns such as bethel the milford newtown ridgefield maybe participate in this this is this past year was the first year they they could have easton participates in easton reading region 9.
our goals are to get 75 of our all of our students our parents yeah yes and i just want to tell you when you said that i went numb because who filters all this information that you want people to give and i this came into my memory a community mother called me and told me that she spoke to two ladies i think she said they were at gilbert regarding the community schools and she said one woman was very rude to her and the second woman was professional and i'm looking at all the outlines of what people are their jobs are going to entail and i'm thinking mental health for these people i mean i just this whole thing just and look we're really this this team that we're putting together i mean we're all in on this as well we actually got another grant from the nea for next year so we have a we've negotiated with an mou with the district and have a full-time teacher pulled out to help support all of the teacher leads and the teachers that are going to work on this committee there's such a large group of people that are involved in this and supporting it we're going to be able to address those things and bring the community in and make this a really positive experience and program for the district i wish you well okay can i say something here because as a previous teacher i would hope and and as i i want to think more narrowly as an educator this whole program of community schools is supposed to help us get those students who we would lose one way or another because they are not being fed they're not coming to school well you know and they're they're you know calm and they're not at home studying so we're trying to solve help solve a lot of community problems so that our students will be successful isn't that what we want because if our measurements of success have to do with our kids are they coming to school now and is that because they needed food is it because they needed uh some help or or any to solve their anxiety because they're they're not getting enough food or or mom is overwhelmed or mom is sick or whatever and that they are coming to school and they are learning and they are getting their atg requirements and they are or they are in a cte pathway because they've gotten some help in other words i'm thinking not so much as a social worker you know solving all these problems but but as an educator who wants those kids to succeed now the other thing is if we're doing all this our teachers are going to have to be you know those who maybe see a child in the classroom in other words if they're if they're doing more of capturing kids hearts where we get to know these kids can tell this kid is not happy something's something's going on and then they maybe refer that child to the community school lead or whatever teacher lead and say you know talk to this kid and find out what's going on or whatever but it's going to have to be all teachers not just the teacher lead not just the coordinator that maybe you know thinks a little bit more about why is this kid not you know succeeding i'm thinking of it as an educator we want our kids to succeed and so we're trying to help by solving other problems in their home life or whatever so yes systemic approach i i listen to al and a lot of his questions have to do with social work in other words that whole you know social network but i'm thinking of the kid and that you know and that this is all for him that's what we're here for we're here to educate and we're trying to help you know solve the problems that are keeping that kid from learning and succeeding yes okay thank you okay all right um thank you to the entire team for being here and actually i want to give a special thank you to both the parents too i know uh both of you have been part of the program for since it was inception right the steering committee so thank you for your time and thank you to all of you i appreciate it behalf of the board i know we're going to have a great model for everybody to crow about so thank you thank you lorena all right so well i guess a study session comes to an end so we'll go ahead and start off with our public comments for closed session items is there anyone that wishes to address the board of trustees regarding closed session items since everybody laughed [Laughter] doesn't look like it that's right uh the board of trustees will now hold a closed session for to discuss items 5.1 through 5.8 on the agenda it is now uh 402 and we will adjourn to closed session thank you
2000 is the cost that mr lehrer indicated okay okay is there any other figures associated with this breakdown no okay just the ten thousand and the two thousand two thousand dollars is the cost to put this measure on the ballot to bring it to the voters to decide of the ten million dollars that we have currently to spend any way we wish miss kelly yeah i i don't mean to speak for mrs anderson but my interpretation of what she was saying is that dr lee specifically spoke to the leadership in this district and what leadership has done to try and resolve disparities racial disparities etc and i think the point made was that we've had leadership throughout the history of this district that has worked on that specific topic we are working on that specific topic we we're not stagnant in our in our opinions or our methods at all we want to move forward we know what we need to do we're implementing several measures we're taking equity training we're training the staff on implicit bias we are move we have curriculum that is that is being revised on a regular basis to include uh communities of color and i i just i find it to be very insulting to say that that the leadership is not focused on an issue that we all agree is an issue we are all working on it and doing the best that we can to make sure that the changes that need to happen will happen we are not stagnant we are not blind to the issue and we are not ignoring it trustee bruno okay first of all i want to say that discussing the performance of our students and what actions we are or aren't taking as a board quite frankly is irrelevant to the topic of whether or not we should have term limits i don't think we should go down that road i think we should focus on the issue of term limits themselves and not as a reflection of individuals and additionally as far as a cost benefit analysis my personal opinion is that having a negative benefit and a positive cost results in a negative cost benefit but one thing that i want to make sure that we factor in um superintendent layer i'm hoping you might have an answer for this and i apologize for springing this on you last minute um if we had an insufficient number of candidates for uh board vacancies what would be the additional costs we would incur at that point for having an incomplete board it i don't have an exact answer but it depends on when that uh filling of that vacancy would occur if we have just it's all outlined in board policy so if we have a regularly scheduled election as this uh measure being put on as a regularly scheduled it the cost is much uh more reasonable if it's an out-of-cycle type election the price is more i know we did an out of cycle oh gosh 05 i think it was and it was uh i think about 50 or 60 000 as an out-of-cycle election when we did it was a recall election back in the day so i don't have a specific that's something we could certainly look into i don't know okay so i want to make it clear that the cost of this isn't just what it would cost to put it on the ballot but the potential additional costs down the road if we are unable to fill board seats this could result in an ongoing cost for each election that we have to do okay i'm going to call for the vote do i have a motion we don't have an action question i'm going to motion okay question real quick how long did the dire spin on the board um i don't know about dyers but gould has been on the boards their family was on the board over about a hundred years about a hundred years and i think the dyers were the same it's a very proud history that center has yeah okay so um do i have a motion to approve business item e resolution number 31 2021-2022 so moved do i have a second okay motion dies on the floor board and superintendent should that have been i'm sorry a point of parliamentary inquiry should that have been a vote and not um on the resolution we i asked for a motion for approval and we didn't get a sense of approval so should it have been a vote or unless there's a second yeah there wasn't a second i see okay so it goes to the floor so then it doesn't go on record what the different perspectives were okay thank you yeah because there was not a vote um board and superintendent report dr lee yes um all right happy pride month everyone uh this is the time we commemorate the stonewall uprisings and the ongoing struggle for lgbtq plus equality this is also the time when we celebrate the many contributions from lgbt lgbtq plus people to make america great also happy immigrant heritage month everyone this is the time when we recognize ourselves as a nation of immigrants and all of the things immigrants have done to make america great as we continue to navigate covid and other uncertainties in our world including wars between nations and rampant school violence here at home i just want to note and extend my heartfelt understandings to the people who are negatively affected and often disproportionately negatively affected by this global pandemic people who look like me and who look like you for some of us this pandemic has been a mere inconvenience or interruption to our privilege that we are happy to get along with our lives as quickly as possible about but for some of us who have family members and friends who have lost their lives who see our loved ones and friends struggling with long coved or have family members and friends whose lives were forever changed in so many ways by this pandemic i offer you grace and kindness and understanding our district is aware of these complex needs and so i appreciate the mental health and wellness supports that the district is offering to our staff and students and the extra steps we are taking to check in with everyone as we move ahead sometimes you cannot tell by looking at someone or their test scores or their outer appearance just how much much they may be tormented or struggling inside so thank you mr lair and the district staff for caring for all of our members of our community great and small i recognize that for some of us hopping into the streets and the events and the ceremonies and the getting back to normal is perhaps not an option yet and so i appreciate that the pictures mr lair and the staff shared of our graduation ceremonies i really enjoyed viewing those and seeing our students in their moments of celebration and i really appreciated the opportunity to experience the magic of those events last month in a way that was safe and healthy and i appreciate that my colleagues were able to be in attendance at those events last month in the ways that were best for them [Music] thank you to my constituents who dropped into my office hours whether you found the link on my personal website or on the board website or however you found me it's been amazing being in community with you during these most uncertain and strange times as we look forward i will continue to hold my virtual office hours to best serve and connect with all of you and i'll see you again on august 1st none in july that falls on independence day from four to five on zoom august first four to five drop in any time during the hour i'm here and there to hear from you in the meantime be safe be well and be kind to one another and that concludes my report thank you trustee lee trustee kelly thank you mrs pope um really not a whole lot to say other than that the graduations were fantastic since we didn't have board reports last week i was unfortunately unable to join for the riles graduation due to work uh obligations but the uh mcclellan as always is such a tear-jerker i mean i mean it's a joke in it with among this board how much i cry but um there's not a dry eye in the room at mcclellan's graduation those peop those kids really work hard and those staff and and teachers are just amazing with those kids and i just want to say thank you for that and congratulations to all the graduates and then for the high school it was really fun to get back to a normal graduation one of the observations i made was that the students were all so mature and respectful and of a certain you know it's like each class has its own personality and this one was just unbelievably mature responsible efficient we got done in like record time 45 minutes and it was great so it was a really great graduation congratulations to all of our graduates that is it thank you mrs anderson i agree graduations were wonderful and they are very emotional i wouldn't miss one the rose ceremony oh the rose ceremony is great i wish we could do it at all of them i really do but anyway um i repeatedly sit up here and end up getting attacked in one way or another and i'm tired of it and the board's tired of it somehow we end up with board members once in a great while that seemed to just want to attack they don't want to help they don't want to attend meetings they don't want to do anything for the district they just want to cause a problem and sometimes we end up there so we do the best we can and we get through it mrs anderson let's us try not to make personal attacks on other board members please okay thank you so um i look forward to the summer break i think we can all use it and we'll see you back at the next board meeting thank you trustee bruno looks like we lost trust i want to kind of reiterate what trustee kelly said the graduations were absolutely wonderful um yes we we do joke about uh how much she prized uh-oh you froze did you freeze well luckily you didn't freeze in an awkward position oh no um i was just saying that the graduations i'm going to accelerate my board report here um the graduations were wonderful i enjoyed being a part of them and i was really honored to be able to sign the diplomas that's been the highlight of my time on the board um but i also wanted to say uh at the last meeting it was um suggested that the public should draw their own conclusions about why the board acted or voted a certain way and i would actually recommend that if you have questions about why we act or vote certain ways at meetings uh please send us an email we are literally the most accessible level of uh government that there is and if you reach out and contact us we'd be happy to communicate with you so rather than reaching your own conclusion please send send an email and ask it i would be more than happy to explain any of my votes or uh motions or anything like that anytime also i do want to give uh a hearty thank you to eugene and lauren for all of their support with the meetings and with zoom and everything you guys are doing a great job i know i that i tease you guys but i really do appreciate you and i also wanted to give a great thank you to carol for making changes to this meetings agenda at the last minute we really are lucky to have you supporting us and i thank you for all that you do thank you thank you mr bruno superintendent lair i will uh also probably keep it a little bit brief but i did want to acknowledge um trustee lee thanks for bringing that up about the photos mr grimes uh thank you for taking those photos and then he put him in that great album so i thought that was great that was one way we're able to celebrate and get those pictures out but also the live streaming so lauren uh we'll show you the lauren love fest here but thank you lauren and to the department for for making that accessible for you know people who couldn't make it to the event so i think that was well done and they're always getting better and better so thank you um additionally summer school is going very well if you can believe it tomorrow is the end of week three and then we have one more week and then summer school is done and we're officially in summer um and with that i'm going to wish everyone a wonderful and hopefully relaxing summer i hope we can take the time we need to rest and recover and we're already gearing up for next year so i know we'll be taking some time as well so anyway thank you and that concludes thank you superintendent lair i just have a couple comments i was going to say the same thing mr bruno about um our constituents if you have any comments concerns um anything that you want brought to the agenda or you have a question um you know please do email each and every one of us it's very important that we do hear from you i do want to say congratulations to katie edwards who is the teacher of the year she is from oak hill i didn't mention that last time like everybody said graduation was amazing the rose ceremony does bring tears to everybody's eyes um mrs hunt i want to reiterate what mr bruno said thank you for adjusting the the agenda for this month but not only that the several calls and the texts and everything i do to bother you out throughout the day multiple times and um i don't mean to be a pest but you are a wealth of information and i appreciate you as well happy summer everybody and that's my board report so advanced planning our next meeting will be august 17th at six o'clock in the board room right here at the district annex 3243 center court lane is there any suggested agenda items i do yes i think we need to take a peek at the times for the meetings so that we allow we're regularly going right to six o'clock for the club session and not having a break in between yes i see we need that 10-minute break right so we could talk about that or when uh trustee bruno and i uh sit down to go through the agenda early on and we might have lost them i see my there okay good i don't want to see me um we can we can adjust accordingly am i hearing trying to build a little bit of time in there just for you know breaks between if somebody needs to use the rest restroom between closed session and open session mr bruno and i can when we're putting the items together can try to build in a little time as a question for me if we i try to keep it at 5 30 with work schedules if it ever did go to a five does that work for people is that hard for okay so we'll we'll try to keep to the 5 30 if we can i know mr vernon goes 6 15 with open okay so we could or just stand early so we can look or we can always come back so we'll we'll try to work on the schedule with that does it need to be on advanced planning or would you guys just talk about yourself and you know we could we could talk amongst ourselves and then schedule we we schedule and vary whether we have closed session or not based on the items six o'clock is a standing time um so i would want just for the public perspective so i would want to try and back it up just because they get consistent with that i wouldn't want to change that around for people but uh president bruno and i can sit through it and then we'll get word out to all of you but i'd like to keep the six o'clock as the start time i just think that's the pattern that people follow third wednesday six o'clock i think it might throw people off if we were starting later or earlier then they could have the courtesy not to start the meeting before you're in the room you know that's all it takes okay any other suggested board items then i call this meeting adjourned at 6 53.
he inherited the property after they passed away so the work seems to be done that was done in the 80s from what we can tell so it was prior to them owning their house so if you reframed the door the head of the door so that it was right up to the underside of that joist would you get your six six um up to the beam yeah it's questionable whether we could do it or not we might be able to pull them out and reframe them um there's a section in appendix j that says that um doors being replaced too i think it's what is it um [Applause] good i'm looking at 10xj401.2 where it says that if you replace the door with a material that's slightly different you're allowed that discrepancy as far as what is considerable minor reducing in width and so if we take this door out you know we're allowed we're entitled to our appendix j to maybe reduce that width or height just slightly so we thought well if we have to do this anyways then why can't we exercise appendix j in this case uh what's the fire what's the smoke detection fire alarms uh there's interconnected smoke detectors in every sleeping room and on every floor that we can tell they're there um they're working is this space currently occupied uh it's not occupied currently because the work's being done right now what work is being done right now the replacement of the staircase okay and this um one unit in this house or they're running the basement something in the rest of the house or so it's 740 square feet the first floor has got a living dining and one sleeping room in the rear um bathroom in the kitchen upstairs the downstairs has got two sleeping rooms a bat a bath downstairs and a kitchenette in the basement as well so so this will be a regular okay it would be a regular single family rental it's my understanding renting the whole house that's my understanding but it's not being set up that way um i don't you know it's it's set up as a single family rental i think that's what the my owner the owner is planning on doing i think that's what it's always there's no there's no division between the upstairs and the downstairs so there's no two forms of entry way or anything like there's a there's a side entry and a front entry and uh you could um there's a door at the top of the stairs but it's not lockable or anything so it's not like it's for the handle being switched out well yeah i don't know right now it's not lockable it's not it's they're connected together the spaces what is the hardware on the bedroom doors the hardware that's this knob right currently i mean is it a are they lockable no that's a passage it's a piece of attention this is just a quick question that is not so much code based in a case like this where you have an egress windows right that you're really relying on and it's a double hung situation and it's a day like today what's the likelihood that someone's going to stick an air conditioning unit in there so that that window doesn't become functional as an egress window if it's a say if it's a casement is that what you're asking for oh if it's a double hung i mean it could happen so ahead of making a motion i don't see any reason why any of these things couldn't be rectified i mean there it's not a voluminous amount of work in relation to what's already been done it it all looks eminently doable um the wall itself would be problematic in the hallway um with the tile cart tile in the bathroom in the floor yeah the tile in the bathroom and moving that hallway to move that wall two and a quarter inches is seems a little um difficult as far as turning into the space and having them move that's that wall over the hallway itself is 20 feet long and it's shorter at one end um and it makes it uh what's this you is it land ceiling or is that a diploid ceiling it's a drywall ceiling in the whole space but it's not it's only not to code in front of the bathroom yeah that's what i i stated that though you know that hallway area there leads to not have little spaces um and then the space where the exit is for the bedrooms is actually got a wider corridor there of four foot three so so your only problem is from that bedroom door back to the laundry room so that is the kitchen oh it gets kitchenette down there yeah there's a kitchenette yeah and you're not able to move that small part of wall well over it to help here again it's existing and it meets the housing code and we're trying to avoid tearing into the tile and and having to replace the whole bathroom floor and all that why would you live towards the bathroom i'm talking about the bedroom oh the bedroom can't go into the bedroom which would rectify the door and the hallway issue all at once um well i had to move it substantially into the bedroom area as far as you know so there's a lot of it's a lot of work there to tear that wall down in four inches isn't it 36 minimum it's 36 minutes 36 minimum yeah yeah we're two and a quarter inches short it's uh if if i may it's a section r 311.6 always the width of a hallway shall be not less than three feet three feet i i almost tend to agree with almost the comet which sounds like they just don't want to do the work well they're saying that this was existing and it wasn't there yeah i mean this wouldn't have come up unless they were trying to get get it approved through the housing and it it comes up not necessarily it passes the housing code and it's it's now we're they're being forced to say that this is not wasn't permitted and we don't know whether this was actually what the state of this was done under and um to have to go through and get this all permitted understood but there isn't anything here that's an insurmountable or technically infeasible thing to do yeah that's i mean i think that's the point you know and and i mean it's i think it's it's obviously it's admirable that you're rebuilding the staircase but equally good or better than the code is just a minimum yeah right so we looked at all these issues as a as a kind of a whole and we tried to pick out the things that you know the major violations and try and improve that to make everything equally or better but it sounds to me like you chose the stairs well that was the main that was the major violation that we saw but the firemen going into a unit is not a major violation uh well there again we most firemen will destroy the window if they get into the house um within but it's still short right it's it's 19 and a quarter inches high or 19.5 inches high yeah so you got four and a half inches there you got two and a half inches then you got one inch that's i just don't i me personally i just don't see the there's not an inept ability to change out some things to say yeah you're right you can't do it okay you know there again it's just that we thought it meant the housing code the client meant to help you know and he would like to not have to go back and fix something that wasn't his responsibility and um saying that it wasn't um you know he seemed to think that this work was existing prior and didn't require a permit that you know it was already permitted or done by someone else he he took you know he inherited the house and now he's being burdened to have to fix things that he hasn't had a renter who's been living there hasn't been rented he's been living there uh his parents were living there i don't know if um he was renting it out after that point period after you inherited the house from his parents so inherited the house now he wants to try to make it a rental i just it just to me it just doesn't seem like get a couple doors try to move a couple walls it's not like there's a a beam right there that he can't break through where there's a solid beam underneath top bottom it's masonry wall okay well there is a beam underneath the doors currently but you can move that wall two inches in well the beam is like seven or eight inches wide so if i move that wall i'm still underneath the beam um but if you move the wall six inches you would clear the beam it would be more than that probably have to be at least a foot just to get but you're talking in it for that for the door part of it it sounds like we're talking fractions of an inch i mean if the door went directly to the underside of the beam would you have the six foot six i don't know for sure we didn't we didn't tear into it and i don't then you have the issue if you get that door to work the hallway's not wide enough right outside that door well i think i know what you're talking about i think actually moving the the door is one thing but the wall is something else and however the moving of the wall and the door and that particular bedroom might work out right it would solve two things two things i agree with you all right so here again we're like i said we're talking about fractions of an inch for these things and it meets the housing code and the owner felt you know if it's better than most of the houses in the city that um you know it comes down to that i'm sorry yeah i'm really sorry that that's not relevant i understand okay a lot of the other houses in the city are super questionable how they ever got passed for for what is being presented here again i don't see that it's such a tremendous burden out of what they're going to get for this to do this work as a matter of construction feasibility costs what you know and improved safety i mean i'm very well familiar with the limitations on a double hung window in terms of egress because i have the same existing situation from 50 years ago in my house i can believe it or not i can get out of a one foot nine inch window opening but it's not easy and it doesn't have to be that way and they have the wherewithal to fix that by just changing out the window um yeah but there again that section j allows us to keep the same style it was compliant the time it was built but it may not be compliant on time it was built because it didn't get a permit yeah and we don't know if i mean those windows were there from the time it was built in 1940 so they were replaced at some point in time so yeah um you know if they were replaced with lifestyle back then why isn't it acceptable now today there's never been 19 inches clear opening though i know but you know j the section j is there for replacement i don't know what style what window was there when it was replaced in the in the 1980s so there again it's just we go back in there we're allowed to replace this window keep the same style and function of the window under section j so technically we could put that back that window back in there again and it would still be code compliant its existing window i may not have been in bedroom before i don't know well so i got documentation from that that people were living there back in the 80s based on the permits that were done through the community development block program program so we know the people were living down there so it's all in the city archives so those windows were there prior to probably when the house was built now they were replaced at one time and so those you know it's the same it's the same situation that happened back then they put new windows in there you know that would have been the same issue that if it happened back then they'd be looking at the same issue we have today so i just don't see it as that much work yeah and i know everyone has a different you know yeah we just see the windows as a new point if i'm if i'm entitled to put that function back in there um why can't the you know why can't i take the exception j and just use those windows that are currently in there as a as the window itself so is there a period of time that if it hasn't been ready for a period of time that's a concern i mean something that hasn't been rendered prepared now they want to re-rent it into some of those things you know what they're going to bring back up the phone because he hasn't rented it for i don't know how long it's been vacant there's a rental in that dominant level i don't know for sure he you know multiple years possibly i don't know for sure how long he's he's had the property i mean his parents had the property in 94 and he inherited it was his last rental inspection i guess that would be a trigger this was effective no he hasn't had a rental inspection uh january 11th was the first time he's had a rental inspection because he was looking at renting the parks the property okay so people living down there with all housing inspections that's what it sounded like yeah people are living down there prior to that it seems i think all those things adding up together that that hasn't been inspected for housing stuff the things that are to be applied on the housing the housing code dates to like the 70s i mean it just hasn't kept up with the building code for life safety issues doesn't address the same level of egress concerns and i mean those those windows are probably near the end of the useful life probably gonna have a seal failure and they're gonna put a same window back in and versus the window that would be you know uh well so i don't the windows seem to be functioning fine you know the way they are i don't know if they're at the end of their life but um like i said if if we go and put back in the same window we're entitled to that under under section j yeah why can't we just it'd be nice just to keep those windows the way they are right now they're functioning and um permitted at least those windows if we we could possibly you know try and see if we can investigate raising the doors and an inch that can accommodate the six foot six clearance or which is what's required in basements but if the owner inhabited the house and does remodel he wouldn't in this clarification he wouldn't have to update the window because of section section j if if the building department was in and saw that the basement had been finished without permits we'd be in the same place it just so happens that it was a rental inspection that triggered the um observation of something that was done unpermitted so so you sort of end in the same place is that does that answer your question it does it just no matter what something would have had been fixed at some point but now he just wants to rent it out and that's what yeah he doesn't want to spend the money to update yeah i mean ultimately i think we'd like to just keep the windows i mean that's the crux of it is what um and avoid having to tear into the space but we're going through the with the city right now on permitting making the we're trying to make everything permeable we pull the building permit we're going through there inspecting all the electrical and everything else and so we're we're trying to do you know our due diligence on our end to do that um we just didn't want this window fail that inspection which inspection the you know trying to get a new permit and they would have would they have to update the windows um there's so the windows were put in without a permit so i think that that section in appendix j is for an existing home where somebody just wants to put in replacement windows where they didn't have the same requirements of the time if we look back and if we accept that this remodel happened in the 80s i have the boca codes as the appendix right they are pretty much the same requirements as they are now so if it was done improperly then yeah it doesn't make it okay to keep going with it doesn't make it okay now right had it been you know had the requirements been different it had been permitted in the 80s and remodeled then they would be able to replace that window but because of the way that it happened in the situation it doesn't i don't think that um emanuel j or not manuel j appendix j right is is um can be used in this situation if they were to go four inches lower is there a maximum height for egress out of a window to make this a new window work is that florida um cell height is 44 inches they would go below that so they couldn't give it a caller they want to keep a double home yeah so but i mean again i don't know the exact measurements but putting a casement in there might yeah resolve the issue and we don't know if a casement window would actually work uh i mean 36 inch casement would work it would work it would be 6.3 square square feet yes a 36 inch casement it just reduces the currently the it would it would fit inside the opening but it would reduce the amount of you'd have to build it build it in we'd have to build it down he's going to rebuild the window well just make them four inches deeper know what the sales warrant is well we got i don't want to have to cut the concrete wall out that's the cme though yeah cmu but yeah and you got one more course and put a sale in there and yeah yeah so i mean uh i guess the easiest solution would be to change the function but if we're allowed like i'm saying is if we're allowed to replace the window that was it's an existing window um with like use i i was my impression that we could claim appendix j for the new window but you can't right because it wasn't compliant when it was built well i mean this window the opening was there since the 1940s since the house was permitted originally so but you don't know what the use was this is uh there's probably a change of use involved here as well it's a single family residence it's always but now it's gonna be rental it'll be a rental yeah but it's always been a single family residence up to this point you have a moving forward yeah you're changing the use from a residential to a rental it's the same use but it's just it's same news right residential can rent it triggers other stuff well i mean there's bedrooms upstairs too right there there's a bedroom and a kitchen i mean the basement could have been unfinished in 1940 small basement windows down there that he made bigger than her put the windows in the 80s well so the basement according to the documentation that i see from the city from the community block grant program when it came in inspected that that basement was subdivided so that there were people living down there so the information that i found out says that it was being used it wasn't it wasn't unfinished but it was being used because they replaced the electrical down there and they wired those rooms with new switches and stuff so it shows in the community block program that they fixed up those rooms down there that was in the 80s that was in the 80s so um it's it says that in the work description of that work so i know that those rooms were being used down there um there was a letter to this city um from the owner at the time saying that her family was living there at the point so i've got that documentation that the the resident that was living there was um using that space as well so whether it was in the same state i don't know it was it was being used as a living space down there emotion or answer all your questions i move in the case of bba 22-2001 the appeal of the building officials decision that the work to be performed at 1299 herpst is denied and the building board of appeals affirms the building officials decision for the following reasons number one the true intent of the 2015 measure residential code in sections 310.1 311 r311.2.1 and r311.6 governing the construction 1299 herbs have been correctly interpreted by the building official two the provisions of 2015 michigan residential code section r3 10.1 r311.2.1 and r311.6 applies to the construction at 1299 herbst and three the applicant has not proposed an equal or better form of construction the second on the motion the second that any other discussion on the motion you take a vote those in favor say aye aye aye those opposed i was just a denial so it's yeah so it's i'm gonna vote in favor so it's three a's zero nays so the denial motion passes okay [Applause] next item on the event agenda is old business nothing listed there next item is new business any new business discussion we have a new person on board welcome welcome thank you and uh do you have a motion for a german leave to adjourn german passes we are adjourned at 303
they participate in the bridgeport region um but uh the the state legislation defines very specifically which towns are allowed to participate you are one of the towns that is allowed and so in let me ask the question differently for the danbury region are there any committed seats at this point or no from any town no yeah not food so we had some committed seats um but not enough to make the program right off so we started off for a year so you're pushing it off to 20 23 24 it will be the first year yep okay you gotta come close chip i'm sorry newtown is not one of the towns identified by the legislation sometimes the legislators don't put forth the best language for addressing the programs and we had a lot of peripheral interest but without changing the legislation newtown can't participate can you just be a little more clear about who incurs you know potential special ed costs because as we all know those numbers can be quite high the the first three thousand dollars which essentially would be the stipend that you get would be your responsibility beyond that it is the sending district regardless of the amount eric you mentioned that uh there were some towns around norwalk that didn't participate is there any reasons for that or uh yes uh the there was a highly publicized one that was in the newspaper um and the the board was very evenly split on it they could not they could not decide and so they um they voted five to four i believe not to participate but to talk about it in the future um you know i can't i can't speak for a board of education as to why they particularly didn't want to participate um but we we also we don't consider ourselves sales people we're not here to sell you on anything we're here to give you information um and provide you some some insight into how the program works and again i we're putting together a pamphlet with some testimonials from some of the kids that have participated we just had a kid who was a valedictorian of his class who grew up who who lives in bridgeport and the the parents you know are just beside themselves and the opportunities that the child has had and the impact that he's had on the community that he went to have been really really tremendous so um you know we're we're we're not trying to sell anybody on it and and which is why some of the districts have decided you know we need we need more time to mull it over um but that's why i'm glad you called us here now because now you have the time um and we can provide you the information and if there's anything else you need from us we can certainly get more information for you and we're going to leave you as dr dumas said some information tonight okay any other questions from the board yeah uh do you what what's like the annual funding for the the open choice program throughout the state or is there is that the fluctuating number there the i don't know the total funding but again the the reimbursement so ecs is one piece the reimbursement is anywhere from three thousand to eight thousand most of them are three thousand uh per student and then there's a supplemental fund and the supplemental fund is divided based on the number of students across the state last year the supplemental fund was around 200 per student additional that a school district received plus they pay for transportation right so is so what was the number that this program spent last year like statewide is that i do not know it's it's a pretty substantive story it is a pretty substantial number because hartford is a huge region in terms of open choice they are sending school to lots of small schools and and some of those small schools you know by just taking a few kids that brings their percentage way up and so therefore they're getting the four or six thousand per student because even though it's only a few students that they're taking um so the hartford region it it's really substantial but i don't have the exact number for the whole state fiscal year 2017 was uh 19 million orders 67 726 what he said so wilson higher than 19 million 20 million yeah is there a minimum number to get this started i know you had said like there was only two seats so say like brookfield says we can take four and bethel says we could take three is there a minimum number for all the towns to get it going i i i would say as long as we can do it with fidelity we're we're we're going to jump in this state very much wants this program to work and so so we just have to make sure it's it's done with fidelity um putting two students randomly at one school in one school we just didn't feel like that was gonna that was gonna start the program the way it needed to be started but no there's no pressure on a district to say well you better come up with certain number um yes we're hopeful that several districts will jump in the water and then we can we can get the program going and if i heard it correctly amy and eric correct me if i'm wrong it's this danbury region there's a total for new fairfield ridgefield brookfield the the several towns 50 seats total to be split among if everybody was interested correct the max we would be able to use that yes that is correct it's 50.
i like that oh yes let's do that move to adjourn thank you do i have a second second thank you let's do a roll call vote as well trustee lee aye trustee kelly aye trustee anderson aye president bruno hi chair votes hi thank you everybody we are adjourned and thank you to everybody who's here tonight enjoy your trip steve have fun steven thank you very much you
um now i i'm telling you that if you did if we got 50 this year the state would be jumping for joy and would i'm sure i can't speak for the legislation legislatures but i believe they would increase it for the following year because again they want this program to to work um what are the other towns that are in the danbury i know you mentioned new fairfield um obviously brookfield did you say ridgefield houston bethel and that's for danbury i thought you said easton was in so easton and reading are an interesting community yeah so it comes down to uh the amount of time that's involved in travel so it just so happens that easton is close enough to bridgeport that it doesn't go beyond that limit reading is not the easton schools do the students go to the high school so okay so sorry what were the other that's okay it's new fairfield brookfield bethel ridgefield and reading were specifically named in the legislation for the january did you see milford not new milford so one small note as you're considering this is that something that we hear come up frequently in board conversations is per pupil expenditure and how it compares to what you make it reimbursed i would i would ask you to give that a lot of thought before you use that comparison because it adding one student to a classroom does not increase your expenses by your pure pupil expenditure and and so a little bit more on that would probably be a healthy discussion uh and i just give you that as a primer because a lot of people go there first now i'll say one of the challenges we've had as a district is we've been in a kind of the opposite position in many suburban districts we've actually been having to add staff to our elementary classes especially kindergarten for the last three years i think because we have a just a burgeoning enrollment coming in it's at the younger levels and it's going to just stay you know continue through the schools so part of us part of the between having a new school coming online and then having uh having the situation where we've been uh we've been struggling just to staff our you know for the students in town i would say it's kind of just had us in a pause mode right we hadn't decided to participate or not participated just we've got other things we're working on so so i think this was good to at least plant replant the seed right and we can use that in our next in our next budget cycle and our next enrollment planning and see where that takes us so i just want to ask one more question um how are districts that have participated or have been participating for a while how what was their sort of like rollout did they start with like two seats and then increase to three or four or did they sort of like jump in with 10 seats or something the short answer is it really depends so for the most part a couple of seats per grade level at the low grades and i know eric said that you can come in at ninth grade as the former superintendent of a district that participated in open choice coming in uh later makes things more difficult for students it's it's just a cultural shift that it's like somebody moving from any other town and and coming to the school district late so um it's um a couple of students per that kindergarten classroom or that first grade classroom per school so thank you okay so look for the board i'll make sure this is uh we'll have another chance to talk about this right and uh where we were i want to thank you both for coming tonight and uh giving us your insights and look forward to some of the handouts here um and uh and we'll i'll take your you know need some directional statements by november and we'll see what we can do to tell you yay or nay right by then thank you all for your time appreciate it appreciate it eric chip thank you so much for coming the november year the november is for two reasons eric noted that our efforts to get everything in place a huge part of that is that the state funding for this includes professional development for the sending community as well as the receiving community a lot of logistics thank you gentlemen john there's another thing to pass around i'll keep that one okay um shall we move on everyone that was useful um should we put them out for the public the leftover sure yeah yeah so there's i'll just say for those of you who are here if you have an interest there's extras of the handouts you're welcome to them sharon if you want to go back to your teacher days you could pass them out to everyone or leave it at the end of the day yeah why don't we continue on and sharon can listen and then the next two items and amy one i just suggest you combine them are the approvals of field trips for the next school year and sports field trips for the next school year so and just for those of you listening um we used to have them come up each time that they came up and we agreed a number of years ago we would do for the ones that are calm and we will do to try to do them on mass and uh and do them early so that you know the the teachers and the the coaches know that they're approved so and these are really big trips at the house these are good size trips so so okay yep i will move that the board approved the attached list of field trips for the 2022-2023 school year as requested by brookfield high school principal mark vallanda and that the board approved the attached list of sports field trips for the 2022-2023 school year as requested by athletic director steve baldwin second it's moved in second and we all got a copy of what those uh trips are um do you want to talk about them or just just if there's any questions we could just uh you know give the mr belanda and mr baldwin aren't here this evening so you know any questions questions afterward if you're curious about anything and i can but there's i went down the list they're all the same lists we had this last year so they're all pretty well known and just for for the people listening there's a there's a deca trip that's not every year but it's a couple of school days there's a music department trip there's the eighth grade washington dc trip which is a beloved tradition in uh we got back this year got it back this year um there's a couple of other deca conferences there's a key club robotics odyssey of the mind world championships um the on the sports side there's a new england number of new england tournaments on different sports there's a training session in florida there's cross big cross country uh overnight meet in uh warwick rhode island um and there's some cheer cheering competitions so and i skipped a couple because they're new england's uh you know general normal competitions that tend to be overnight the board needs to approve any overnight trip funding and out of state in particular the funding is usually fundraised by the uh the students themselves so it's not usually a board-funded event although i think with sports we do cover certain items so um but the uh but usually there is a whole funding mechanism that is built as each trip does but they need our approval formally for the overnight trips and the out of state trips i think another thing that needs to be noted given the community involvement of tonight's meeting specifically is one i want to i believe i said it in the last superintendent report the trip uh the athletics uh spring training trip was incident free with the exception of an injury where there was a emergency room visit other than that uh the kids were outstanding the adults that volunteered to go were outstanding i mean these are not only our coaches that have personal lives and work lives but also our uh parents who go on this trip or athletic director et cetera and um so the effort's unbelievable just like the washington dc trip when you go on multiple day trips the other piece is a number of parents um and they all want to remain anonymous which is fantastic um and staff people just donate and they'll tell a principal or an athletic director here's extra money put it towards somebody who you know is having a hard time coming up with the funds and so um that's just the community we're in and it just needs to be mentioned because people want to be anonymous but that goes on in this town and it's really important to say yeah that's cool so any questions before we approve okay all in favor aye aye it's unanimous all right next up on our agenda is his armed school security officers and our action is to receive an update from dr burrill so why don't i uh we've talked a lot yeah yeah why don't you give us a little bit of insight on the specific topic of ass on the exploration that you've been on with with the chief sure and and i honestly don't know how much more i can add we did go into some great detail but i'll add what i can and then we can obviously have a discussion like we can in any other item so i think it's really important to note not only the good discussion at the um formally at the security task force meeting but working directly with chief puglisi and prior to that chief uh purcell on a collegial individual basis as an advisor and working together and actually sitting down with chief police publician our first select woman as well um so so that collaboration to be quite frank is probably four or five days a week we talk or text or whatever the case may be on all kinds of issues but specifically recently on on uh armed school security officers or armed officers in general security in general and so the things we talk about what are other districts doing what are best practices including training management certification what's the law telling us we've done a lot of work with security task force but also chief puglisi has been fantastic in supplying literature and data on what are the studies with sros and schools asso's and schools unarmed security guards in schools and have we stopped assailants have we had issues has it been less has it been a deterrent so we're going through all that and that's part of this whole vetting we're talking about the one thing we did talk about is assos has become a thing and from what the literature tells us in working with the chief sros school resource officers are you know there's a national it's called nazro there's the national group um and the national standards for training there isn't necessarily that requirement for asso's from a state or a federal level however chief puklesi and i talked about a vision that if we if the board ultimately through its vetting process decided to go in that direction we would want our asso's trained up to that level that national standard um critically important um the other thing kind of relating to what rosa talked about from security task force through um to recent times is kind of a status quo positioning to where we're at right now and it's no secret we have an unarmed security guard here at the school we have an sro here at the high school we have an sro at the middle school our youth officers between both schools and as we all know we have extra police patrol presence since uvalde for the remainder of the year at the elementary schools thanks to the chief um that hasn't been easy to schedule given the time of the year and and the officers time and so forth some of the things we've talked about is uh kind of a um a spectrum a an arc of status quo where the security task force last left off that what i just talked about people were comfortable with that our parents were very comfortable that then we talked about is there a way because we have the technology to have an officer monitoring the security cameras that we have or a special guard monitoring security cameras is there a need and we need to explore unarmed guards that are door checkers and greeters perhaps up through more sros which was discussed earlier going with the full officer under uh command structure adding sros and asso's so there's a lot of a lot of pieces that we need to explore what we need to do and what the chief will help advise us on is is best practice specifically and a few people came up and defined it already that the asso um and i believe it's by law here in connecticut and of course we're going to double check all of this needs to be a retired police officer that's a enormous piece that has to be there so this this is we have already i think i can fairly say decided we wouldn't go with necessarily a private security company in any way we would want our police trained employees of the police department being our armed school security officers if we went in that direction the vision if we went in that direction would be an armed school security officer at each of the schools in addition to the sros we already have and it would follow similar to the newtown model that the person would serve as a greeter helping with identifying and getting a view of people who are entering the building signing them in but also when there's less crowd control issues and access control issues checking doors and doing things like that and becoming part of the fabric of the community knowing the students etc being someone to deter and hopefully delay should there ever be you know a tragic type issue the other piece we're looking at is our high school and the activity it has every single night and do we need and we've explored this rosa i think you may have mentioned it a a guard of some sort armed or unarmed whatever the case may be in the afternoon because there's so many activities whether it's sports music drama meetings like this where we have people here the doors are open you come right in we all experience that just now so we're exploring all of those pieces the key is and it was already talked about by some of our parents you know kind of the difference the school resource officer will be involved in investigation the school resource officer is connecting with students the school resource officer is directly under a command structure for the police department with all the benefits that some of the parents discussed the asso is typically a retired police officer and and the job the compensation is definitely less than a full-on police officer the sro is not a security guard they're not what they're not walking around you know checking every single door that's not their role whereas a guard would be you know armed or unarmed that would be part of their role so i just wanted to get out kind of the vision there and a little bit about the process so much has been talked about tonight so i want to step back and not go on and on and certainly continue the conversation any questions or further thoughts on some things i may have said we also have the chief here too if we want to have the chief come to the podium has the committee talked about a timeline as far as specific to asso's that's a that's a great one joy and i left that out and saw my little note here one of the things we talked about is the urgency to move at the same time being thoughtful and measured and really vetting things so chief and i talked about kind of a stop gap what could we do so we don't have to feel rushed in terms of can we get a patrol or office or presence to start the school year in addition to what we already have that we've talked about numerous times tonight already where we have that full police officer presence in september even into october if we needed to do that while we continue if it takes us a little longer than because getting someone on board trained up even if we decided on something tonight and started a hiring process we still may not meet a august 30th september 1 deadline and some of the things we need to do the other thing chief could share directly because he talked first person to the new milford chief the pool is becoming thinned out because a lot of schools are moving in this direction the majority of our neighboring districts have some form not necessarily asos at every single school but they have some form of afsos either on their own or in addition to sros um and now new milford over the past year has been gearing up for this through their budget process and so they're working and they're having trouble getting a deep pool right now uh given the circumstances so we have to consider costs and pay and some of those things as well to draw people and benefits uh et cetera when you say that that pool is thinning out are you talking about those retired police officers who would be qualified as assoc that's my understanding from a conversation with the chief i think it we talked so often it may have been this morning or yesterday but he could speak specifically to that so due to the potentially delaying the chance you know or the opportunity to hire you know either at the start of the school year or shortly after um that's why i have reservations about waiting um our pool of candidates lessens you know the longer we wait i don't see it as a reactive movement but as a proactive movement um i don't i believe that you know bringing in police for a board of ed meeting that was reactive and there was a sense of urgency um and which is much less warranted than you know protecting the lives of our students in our district so um you know i would like to put it out there that would make a motion to you know approve asso's immediately you're making that motion i am okay is there a second a second okay so it's been moved and seconded um would we like to discuss that i'm not comfortable moving on this tonight i'd like to give this some more thought and i feel like this is a big change putting armed guards at the front of the schools and i can't hear you amy i'm not ready to vote on that tonight or vote before that yeah tonight i think the one expert in the room is chief gleese right he's the expert in the room and if correct me if i'm wrong but he recommends it correct he's talked about the best practice and the balance in the layered approach so he can certainly speak to that i will invite some chief up to speak thank you i did recommend it but i was recommending it on the discussions i had with the superintendent to move forward with something we need to move forward with a plan the plan we had in place was a timeline dealing with the enrollment in the new school and uh the closing of the other schools um that being said the uh like it was already discussed with the new youth officer a plan was to have the youth officer dedicated majority of his time not his full job description to being in that school to serve as a police officer in the schools because of the way that the sro program was designed and in discussions with other schools and and and the sros it was never designed for the um the younger kids it was more of a program set up for middle and and high school kids so i think the police department will support the board's decision on on whatever you decide to do just understand that we can't continue without approval from the board of finance to provide the officers some of whom are not there because they want to be there we're ordering them to be there um to to fill that gap right now till the end of school so there is um going to be if we were to continue like the superintendent said with status quo um we're going to be looking for some help with with funding as it is now with the way the program is set up i believe the direction that we were given from the first select moment was to uh supplement not replace the sros it would be at the added level of security in every school so yes i do support the use of the armed school security and this board and and what the committee is that we decide to do for the hiring process can set a a very high standard it doesn't just have to be a retired officer with you know uh 15 years or car you can set the standards a little bit higher which is why when i discuss with my colleagues into milford um about how they were doing with their you know their hiring process and they were saying that even though they've been at it for a year and they just ramped it up to to add the additional schools that nobody was knocking down their doors so we talked about making it more attractive and so the higher you put the standard you know the less people you're going to have and that's what i think we meant when the poll was shrinking was that it was more that um it wasn't as attractive as we thought it was not because there aren't police officers retiring who are qualified it's just making the job attractive to the right person because you could have a retired officer who i would never recommend to you know to be in the schools and and maybe they're just looking for a part-time employment that's not who you want so this board and whoever the superintendent sets up to sit on the committee for the selection can set those standards i mean yes in the schools armed security have to be retired police officers okay other than that there isn't a standard like like the superintendent said you know nationally so we can set that you can set the bar a lot higher you can set the salaries you can set the benefits you can set the the training requirements um you can you can set what their job description is going to be most of that with the job descriptions and and and their uh training has really already been done our neighbors have already done the work and newtown for example has been very successful in the program they have a lot of people working for them uh almost to the level they have their own police force basically just for the schools both armed and unarmed as well as the sros but um so i i do support the assos but we will support whatever the board decides to do if you decide to tell us that you want to go with an sro or you want to go with you know status quo it's just going to require time and if you make a decision to go one way or the other the time is of a factor to get it for this school year because we didn't plan for it this school year in the one thing i'd like to add to what the chief brought up is because it harkens back to his predecessor chief purcell who was on the security task force and i presented back in november on the new school and some of the staffing implications when i was talking about in november and one of the things that chief mentioned is the thought was and i talked about this earlier that the youth officers spent a great deal of time not not every waking moment of their work hours but a great deal of time at candlewood lake and then really frankly because of the size of the school and what we anticipate the amount of visitor traffic in and out that will happen with parent visitors and other visitors that we would have an asso um as another layer at candlewith lake elementary so that was the plan for the 20 when we get everybody there fully enrolled which now that we've been delayed a little bit is 23 20 for 24 next school year not the one uh adjacent to this uh calendar year so that was something chief purcell was also um thinking about and recommending going forward that chief publishi carried on so just everybody that was in the works anyway um but we're given we've got this year that we're thinking about right now and the incident that happened a few weeks ago so i i struggle a little bit because you both use the same kinds of words around it we can go define these things and as a board this board has done the one thing we've done well has been to say write it down define it and then we will approve what's right right and that i feel like we're inventing on the fly right we're willing to go have people go approve something that has four letters a-s-s-o but what that is is completely undefined and i i do understand that other towns have done some work on it but i'd like to know what kind of training they're going to have for dealing with kids right that's uh that's to me a very unique identif uh the differentiator i'd like to know what specific kinds of training they're going to get about firearm use in the in the in a confrontation situation i'd like to know what extra security we're going to put on around you know the fact that these are firearms near kids right these are all questions that people have raised but we haven't defined our proposal yet right and i before we before i could vote on it i'd like to see that fleshed out i really would and that's something we could put and i just i find it really difficult to go approve something on the promise that we'll we'll go to find it at some future date right um we're gonna go on higher what are the standards for hiring right is it are we gonna go for that special person right that we need but the pool is really small we're gonna up the pay so that we can go attract the right kind of people we haven't made that decision yet right let's go make those decisions and then let's bring it here to approve i have to say i agree um i wouldn't be in favor of this motion tonight um and let me be clear it is not because i am against on up against armed people in our schools i'm not against that at all but we have not decided what is best for brookfield we're not in milford we're not newtown we're brookfield and we're going to go through our process that has worked well that's going to involve parents not just the seven of us and it's going to involve the police chief and we're going to make the decision that's best for brookfield whether we go sro or whether we go asso or if we go asso what does that look like we have never voted on something that like you said bob was not completely flushed out i need to know exactly what i'm voting on and that's just not here at this point i agree we i mean we've spent more time deliberating much simpler challenges with data research multiple meetings special meetings and this is a huge thing to consider i i can't vote tonight so maybe i maybe i misunderstood the motion maybe i didn't but we i understood as we want to move forward with hey we like this idea and we're gonna and we're going to tease it out and there are state asso standards as i understood i think john you mentioned there is state asses there's a requirement for armed officers in your schools whether they're whatever you want to call them in order for you to have armed officers in your schools they have to be retired police officers because of the level of training that they had received prior so you can't hire private security and give them guns and put them into schools right i don't think anyone's proposing that that's that's what i think the uh the discussion on what the training or the requirement was for sso's other than that there isn't to my understanding and i can't find any uh literature on it that there is a requirement uh by the state for uh asso's like the national standards for sros and and the advanced servos they meet my misunderstood earlier uh but you know to joy's point i do think time is isn't is is a factor in this and there needs to be some kind of you know i think urgency around this topic so i think maybe that's what's your motion to approve so to to armed officers at each of the buildings so four officers correct that's what you're specifically proposing correct at what pay rate what's the budget we're asking for what training are they going to require well we're making a motion to go through with the plan to and then we'll iron over but we don't have a plan that's the problem but i i don't know what plan well in order to go through the plan we have to i'm making the motion to make that suggestion to go through with the plan to iron out all the details but we established essentially what you're doing is you are making a motion to i mean what is the point of the security task force right this is not the be-all end-all the security task force is many layers of security but your motion wants to make that that committee's priority no that's your motion is to represent yes right right i still feel like i'd like to know if maybe when we want to go with sros like i just don't so ready though so if we go ahead with the motion and it passes we're approving asso's without the input of the school security task force what if they come to a consensus that that's not what they want right that's what we would be approving separately i don't think that's right we have a process for a reason we establish this task force for a reason we have very well respected members of the community and the schools and the town i think we need to let them do their job and and to me there's some missing things in the motion which is what the budget request is what are we asking for approval on specifically and uh i mean because this does if we go through this if we just approve it as you put the motion through joy the it could be approved and then the board of selectmen or the board of finance could say well you don't have any additional funding so you'll figure it out you made the decision right and so we have some work to do on making sure that if it's a request we're making of the next committee that that's part of a motion right that we would do and then to do that we need a specific dollar amount so my next question is what we're currently doing right now should that be still approved or we're just going off of because right now we didn't approve the the security level right now uh yeah yeah we did sexually we did so there was approved in various different boards including the boards that proceeded all over the world i think mike are you talking just to be clear are you talking about asking about we've just done oh yeah yeah that's operational that i have talked about it the funding isn't in the budget for that stop gap concept i was talking about if you know we're still working on a board security task force decision as to are we going to do acsos or go for more with more sros whatever whatever ends up being the decision september you know going in there school year starts that's overtime for officers and so we have to you know as a town figure out how we're going to pay for that is that correct chief right it seemed to me that the board of selectmen and the board of finance were pretty clear in their meetings last week that they'll do whatever we need them to do so i don't think obviously i can't approve it for them but i don't think there's going to be an issue i i will beg to disagree uh because at one of those meetings mr dunn in particular said oh and we never know if the maybe we should ask the the board of education to fund it right they they always find the opportunities to go fund he went on for about four or five minutes right and we have a very tight budget so i'm not i'm not taking it for granted i do think they're supportive of whatever we decide to do in general but i don't think the budget discussion is a done deal and it will also create a budget problem for the next year which the finance will be very worried about so but we don't have enough to go bring them something to say here's the dollar amount i don't know whether we're bringing them uh um you know i've heard everything from uh okay we need four one per school and then i hear oh maybe we should have five maybe we should have six and those have all been common to the part of the company on a sick day and like john said do we do we have them only during the school day or do we have them beyond the school day when we have all these activities at school i don't know it's not defined yet yeah so we're approving we can approve this motion we can approve this motion it's just not defined it will lead us into a undefined period where we had approved something but we don't have funding we don't have definition we don't have a lot of things and it'll be the same as go go do that work and bring it back in at our july meeting in whatever a task for whatever the task force recommends to the full board or whatever the full board decides i certainly could work with the chief and my team and come up with a proposal on the various iterations we've talked about tonight ultimately whatever whatever we have to work through anybody else want to say anything because we have emotion on the table yeah i i think we we have to put this plan together and i think we have to define the terms and and i think that should be a priority uh before obviously the next the start of the next school year i would think that i think i would agree with that so i i wouldn't agree with nothing but a comment i'd agree with that right last time last chance for a comment because i'll take it to a vote okay all in forward all in favor of approving the motion as stated please raise your hand and say aye aye two votes all against no obscenity undecided okay uh so we're uh we're four against two four and one abstaining so now let's talk about what do we do here right do you think it's fair to bring back a more fleshed out proposal at our july meeting yeah or to have a special meeting to go deal with this because i think we would all agree there's an urgency to making a decision here would would everybody agree to that one way or the other yeah and i think the task force is that entity that will flush that out that should flush that out that's what we target to charge them to do so we can charge the task force to bring us a formal recommendation with the support of the chief and dr burrell at our next meeting is that fair for everybody specific to armed school security officers specific to armed school security officers um and the the find the the security committee can decide if they want to bring other things in amongst that right but that would be we would have this we actually asked for a presentation and here's what the proposal that we would bring is and i would i personally would want to have a dollar and cents proposal here's the training and the standards on which we're going to hire and i'm going to make that public i'd love to hear from the public on there after they've had a chance to see that and uh and have it actually published in advance so that we have a chance in public comment for people to give us input i think there's a lot of pieces on how you we make decisions here and part of it is being deliberate and listening well and and looking at the facts well and i think we just gotta we got some work to do so we'll bring it back to the next meeting because the next meeting is july 20th so the security task force meeting prior to that we need to have one prior to that correct at least once at least one yeah at least one i think it's going to take at least maybe two yeah so okay next stop are you guys ready to move on all right um next up is the secretary's contract um i will move that the board approve the successor contract between the brookfield board of education and the brookfield secretary's union second okay i have a uh brief summary um that um that i stepped over that i get from mr post so thank you because i was going to look at it on my phone and then i couldn't get the internet um the uh we had a we had a negotiation that went for a number of months uh back and forth with the secretary since then the contract ended up being very similar in structure to the nurses contract that we approved two meetings ago it was the same negotiating team who did that on the board the contract extent is from uh july of 2021 through june of 2024 we've moved them on to a step schedule which is what we had done with the nurses because remember the issue with both of those contracts is they you know there was just a range and once somebody was in in the middle of the range they were always in the middle of the range they didn't have a chance to progress like other bargaining units would do so in the first year of the contract there was zero gwi but they there was gains because they were moving on to the step schedule the overall increase is 2.93 percent and then in 2022 and 2023 there's two and a quarter and two and a half percent gwis respectively the overall yield over three years is eight point seven two percent which is consistent with under nine percent that we have agreed to as a board that's three percent per year basically less than three percent per year um we had a couple of other smaller items we agreed uh for something that's relatively consistent with other union contracts double time for work on legal holidays or sundays sick time could be used to care for an ill parent child or spouse we did improve the language on the bereavement leave they would get three days for immediate family or one day for other family with the same definitions as on the nurse's contract and the pre insurance premium share goes from 16 to 17 percent over the three years of the contract um it's 16 flat for the first couple of years and then 17 in the last year of the country so very consistent with what we did on nurses in fact it was the same negotiator on the other side um and i believe they've now signed with the the uh the bargaining unit for the paris has gone with the same union representation so we i expect we'll be seeing some of this yet again so um so that's a summary any questions on what was in that contract it was a good it's actually a positive energy negotiation we did go to arbitration on this one so because the first request was a lot of asks when we had to narrow that down okay all uh all in favor okay it's been approved by the way it's already been approved by the secretary's representatives so so that's it for new business um on old business uh we have the subcommittee meeting schedule that we had tabled um a couple of meetings ago um i believe we've all received all the committees have had a chance to give their input and you all have a chance to look at the final report of that and is everybody satisfied from their respective committees okay so let's put the motion on the table i will move that the board um sorry the board continue its discussion and approve the subcommittee meeting schedule from july to december 2022.
second okay moved in second in any further discussion all in favor aye okay i'm glad that one's behind us so we're back to public comment again uh this is not about the policy we have a policy to approve i'm sorry there was an update to the agenda and i'm looking at the first one so there's a new policy item on policy number 5125.11 health medical records hipaa i will move that the board approved the new policy number 5125.11 health medical records hipaa for a final reading as recommended by the policy communications subcommittee first reading was on may 4th second okay it's been moved in second and any uh any inputs nope we got no changes no additional comments okay any other further discussions by the board okay uh hearing none all in favor aye all right it's approved unanimously now we're at a public comment so this is as i mentioned at the beginning of the meeting we're having two phases of public comment the second phase is for items that were of general interest to the board or anybody else who may have spoken the first time around would like to come back up it is not open for people who didn't sign up in the first place so the first up is mr lasser and if name and address to start you know the drill [Music] thank you howard 116 tower road uh but i'm here tonight not so much as a citizen of brookfield though i am for 41 years um here is the executive director of the brookville craft center as you know dr ruby acquired a grant for the schools and the brookfield craft center and the y to collaborate on after school programs uh this past school year we did it with the high school kids uh they did while there was initially some good interest in it this next year we're planning to do it with the middle school kids and i just wanted to recognize dr ruby and her efforts really an amazing job and amazing [Music] enthusiasm for bringing arts to the kids and bringing this program and i think she's i know she's leaving at the end of this year and it's a great loss to brookfield i won't say she's going on to greater things because nothing is greater than working with brookfield schools and the kids in brookfield but i wish her well in moving on to other things and i also wanted to mention that the woman who's taking over running this thing sarah sarah lynch has also brought a lot of great enthusiasm and we look forward to creating a really great program for the kids thank you all right i will open the floor to any of the four speakers we had before mrs orban mrs columbo mr giuliano or mrs lopez or any of you like to do a follow-on comment okay adam juliano 16 will run um i i'm not quite sure why i understand why you didn't want to go through with the motion what i don't understand is why don't you come up with a deadline for this school year make a deadline you have a task force which i would like to throw my hat in the ring for that do you to my understanding you're missing a third person i'll be that third person happily i have 15 years experience in the nypd combat experience you name it i got it i'll give you a resume counterintelligence counterterrorism i have all of it um either way you look at it you're going to be paying for someone to watch our kids with a gun whether it be one of our cops or an ss or whatever whatever it is it doesn't matter you're still paying so why not start the hiring process because a qualified person is a retired cop so start putting it out there and come up with a number it's it's fairly simple if you do the math with the overtime you're paying cops you're probably gonna wind up paying the cops more so why not set a deadline make a motion set a deadline and have something in writing on paper the first week of july you still have what three weeks left in june it's a bit of a priority because judging by what i just heard nothing's going to be done this for this school year so what i heard you're going to have cops and what the chief said was there's no budget it's not budgeted in so either way you're going to have to find the money so why not do the work do the legwork you have a task force i will happily donate my time and come and help thank you i will give you whatever you need you know as far as that i still have a couple of connections here and there and and hash it out you know there's a deadline is the only way to go you you you're paying someone regardless it doesn't matter so why not pay a permanent position and four is not enough that is correct you will need at least six because there are sick days injuries you can't just hire four people because you're still gonna have shortages and then you're still gonna need a police officer to come and do it you need a cop on your board on your task force somebody that can tell you the politics the funding and the logistics of it i i offer my services when this is over somebody i'll talk to somebody thank you just let's get your resume to dr burrell and we'll uh we'll we'll get into the next just so you know send me an email okay i'll give it to you okay yeah yeah all right thank you very much thank you um elena lopez nine summer pasture lane um so i actually didn't have anything prepared when i spoke during the first public sec segment because um part of the reason why i attended the subcommittee i've watched these meetings i've attended these meetings and i'm sometimes confused as to how we end up where we end up with votes and i thought it would be helpful to go to the subcommittee to find out the debate and discussion process the reason why i wasn't prepared to speak um was because i thought that the conclusion of that committee was in favor of asso's and i and i understand that i obviously took that um took that view incorrectly after after hearing the vote um but you know listening during the subcommittee meeting listening to the expert hearing some people's hear personal opinion on the matter there was actually someone who was upset that felt that the decision had kind of everyone else in the room had kind of come to a consensus about it already so to me as a citizen just observing the process i'm actually surprised you know i do understand how this can be scary however if you vote that you can't vote on it or if you vote to abstain you're voting now i mean we have cemented tonight that this does not happen for our kids in the fall um it would have been nice to have i don't know if this is possible would have been nice to maybe have something like let's open the position let's interview candidates and if we find wonderful people let's move forward i don't know if you have that flexibility or if you come to a motion you have to hire for and then i agree we don't want to rush to hire four people we don't like aren't qualified doesn't make sense but if there were any kind of flexibility to set the motion forward to try to gather to try to interview to find out what you know the salary is we may not have made it to full staff this year but now we're a year behind on this process if this is something we even want to do next year so those are just some of my observations after watching subcommittee and then coming here and once again thank you thank you carrie colombo 29 huckleberry hill road i just wanted to thank you for taking the positions you did on the vote this evening in that you did not move forward on something that has not yet been researched and addressed by the task force as was mentioned by several board of ed members there is a um procedure that's in place it's in place for a reason there hasn't been a decision whether we should have assos in our schools there hasn't been a decision whether sro should be increased and the task force hasn't had the opportunity to do that research yet so it's premature to cast that um to uplift that vote in the first place tonight when that research hasn't been done so i appreciate that you're continuing to use the process as it was intended so that we can make thoughtful choices for our schools and ensure that they are safe for our children because now you know if we're talking about in increasing to six additional positions in for a position of asso that we don't even have research to indicate that it makes our schools safer from gun violence then you know we're just putting window dressing on and spending a heck of a lot of money to do it so i'm glad that you're being thoughtful about this process and i thank you all right laura you're the only one still here you're done all right good all right that's it for public comment um we're toward the end of the meeting here so uh next is an update on the candlewood uh lake elementary school um i actually don't have a whole lot to report on um i know i talked a little bit tonight about some of the really cool security features in that building um and you know i hope that mr checkout maybe and maybe somebody from tecton could come to that that meeting where we have some of that security overview because that would be really good um but i really i don't have any do you have any yeah rose i have one one uh it's not little we talked about small wares before staplers for the new school the flags that are going to go in the classroom the the shape and size of garbage bales i mean all the what are called small wares not only in classrooms but nurses office secretarial desks etc um custodial uh equipment you were part of the hilliard discussion we talked about that that there's going to be an afternoon meeting like we've done with all of our other user group meetings where representative groups the administration brings on representative people from the different groups and they sit with they're going to sit with the project manager and go through kind of a standard list that tecton provides ong provides and then from there they'll see visuals of it and i mean down to the stapler people are going to have an opportunity to know what kind of stapler that's available or what they would like to pick um so that's going to happen on the app when we have the staff in on monday when we don't have the students there's an afternoon meeting where we're going to rotate people through that process so you know the buildings is very exciting of course but the the process not only the mission statement and what we stand for that's the critical process but the program and then the supplies that people need in the building the furniture whatever what have you is incredibly important so those steps are also going on in parallel to everything else we're doing when is that afternoon meeting coming up the 20th may the 20th and please tell me you're bringing staplers from the other building there's mr checker will tell you we have it in the budget if you could shake it should just be like clean and new well then we have to have a tag sale well what we have is actually mr and mr bolanda already are ready for the the first part of the tag sale so we've tagged the things we need to bring they're specialized and then they'll be able to go through and and uh you know work on what they need for whisking here and so forth and then we can open up a process uh for um you know our neighboring towns and things like that great to take a look oh man i'm picturing the tag sale you know i'll go over to the stapler table yeah i don't know dev you could be in charge i i i don't want to do a tag though all right thank you uh three million points david um definitely the presentation about open choice and definitely the discussion about school security and then i guess the discussion about staplers can always say something about the candlewood lake elementary school update is there anything i think i think if we're going to do the security stuff we have to have both discussion on the security task force and the sick and and the isso discussion well it's the same decision but it's two parts of the meeting right right yeah but it's not number two and number three right no one item yeah yeah maybe for the school we can add in the part that i talked about during superintendent report as well as what rose and i just talked about yeah put that lump that together with it okay thank you okay everyone okay with that yep all right uh upcoming events okay the last day of school for brookfield high school is tomorrow for whiskenier huckleberry and center school it is friday there's an early release lunch will be served at the elementary schools but not at wiscons the brookfield library summer reading kickoff event is tomorrow night from 5 30 to 7 on the library lawn and monday june 20th is the septo meet and greet with the new special ed director it's here at brookfield high school it's seven o'clock tomorrow at center school is the last community meeting spirit day and the first grade grad walk which is really adorable and at brookfield high school tomorrow is the grad walk for all the students through their former schools friday june 17th is a graduation rehearsal and saturday june 18th is the graduation at 11 15 and the car paradise state starts at wms at 10.
i've had mine open since the study session so i'm not a good person to ask yeah there it is am i good then yeah sure all right good evening at this time i'll call this special meeting of the dysart unified school district governing board to order um the purpose of this meeting is to just discuss and review the adoption of the proposed budget for the fiscal year 2022-2023 let the record reflect that all board members are present with the exception of crystal shopping and if you please rise for the pledge of allegiance i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all we'll move to action discussion item uh d1 recommendation to approve the 2022-2023 proposed budget dr dean thank you and good evening madam president members of the governing board cabinet and community members um just as a reminder to the board both mr hicks and ms bedell are off on uh actually they're both on planes as we speak i'm starting vacations this next week and so you get me for information on the proposed budget i'd like to thank the governing board for making time for this special meeting the state approved budget forms were not available until very late last week and i would like to publicly acknowledge and thank miss podell for working through the weekend to make sure that our proposed budget was completed and on time for this special board meeting the proposed budget is required to be approved at least 10 days prior to the adopted budget and by july 5th of each year this allows the community to be able to review the proposed budget before it is adopted i would like to note that the the proposed budget this evening will be the same budget that will be brought forward on july 14th to be adopted as the adopted budget cannot be greater than the proposed budget as a district we have always brought the same budget back to the board for approval following the proposed budget this proposed budget is based on 22 340 adm it includes the 2 percent that is statutorily required to increase the base level and we are using the same special education weights as last year all of the iba recommendations that were approved by the governing board have been incorporated into this budget i do want to know and make sure that the board is aware that this budget does not include any of the discussions that are currently being held related to various increases that our legislative our legislature is considering the adopted budget will not include any of these increases as well since the adopted budget cannot be more than the proposed budget should the legislature provide additional funding beyond the 2 percent that is statutorily required then the iba process would be used to make a recommendation to the governing board and a revised budget would be brought back for consideration at a later time as it relates to mno the six percent increase to our classified staff is increasing various budget lines but the two biggest increases are transportation and special education transportation increase is driven by inflationary costs mostly being related to fuel we're currently paying substantially more in fuel now than we were previously and special education is also experiencing inflationary increases to services that are driving the increases involved in the budget the capital budgets are down just slightly from last year federal and state projects include all estimated carry forward and known allocations the other federal project which is our esser budget line is down as we continue to spend our esser funds other funds are all in line to previous years and are slightly adjusted to this proposed year again we want to thank you for allowing just a quick overview here once the proposed budget is approved we will follow all the requirements for posting and submitting to ade and once again this proposed budget will be presented at the public hearing on july 14 2022.
charleston i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which its chance one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all so we will remind everyone that we are live streaming the board meeting tonight and we do have one board member who is joining us virtually so we will be calling the role susan will be calling the role for any votes so we'll start with consent agenda consent agenda items do we have a motion to approve motion by earl do i have a second check second by pat any discussion okay all those in favor season we call the rule chelsea there's a delay chelsea a vote for motion on consent agenda items tony yes pat yes travis yes amy yes earl yes chelsea and she here chelsea can you hear us we have a we have a motion and a second for consent agenda and we're calling the roll chelsea um so i did not see any um community members who are here to speak on some items that are not on the agenda um so just to make sure that we touch base on that so we'll move past that old business neola yeah so we have several policies that we're bringing forward for approval as a second reading asking the word to approve those as presented okay we'll take those as a group do i have a motion motion motion by pat do we have a second here okay second by susan um and then we'll call the roll chelsea yes tony yes pat yes travis yes amy yes yes myself yes okay and then new business it looks like we have a we have one policy for a first reading the budget preparation it's actually returning it to an original format so that's just for your consideration and every ticket for vote next time okay and then under programs nikki asking for approval for an addendum to the 22 23 student handbooks there are impacts for considerations concerning student environment and safety so they are through the dress code both one is examples of inappropriate and unacceptable dress include but not limited to the following appearances that cause cause distractions in the educational setting examples piercing hairstyle face painting inappropriate revealing clothing jewelry chains costume ears and or costume accessories such as tails and then two headgear or hats not specifically required by the instructor of a lab class so asking for approval to add that as an addendum to student handbooks k through 12.
twitter 604 sites and facilities for june 16th um welcome everyone thank you for coming committee members board of ed members and everybody else in the district um i'm going to start off because we have quite a few things we need to get to tonight so i'm going to uh turn it over to dr selig who's going to start us off with um i believe you're going to take item number one yeah actually i wanted um carrick dr cazmaro to speak to that one so if you don't mind starting with two and then when she's able to jump on okay um so starting with item number two is the ghs gym floor which i am what's that kevin sorry oh there she is okay casper's here she's just having a problem getting in okay okay we'll just hold and then we can go in the order no problem hi everyone hey kara for the delay um so one of the um items coming up at the next board meeting is going to be the um the placement of the updated ed specs on the agenda for board approval so that the city can then um take that approved app uh approved ed specs and uh send it off to the state for the next uh round of scrutiny and so one of the things um actually luis did you get did everybody get sent a copy of the updated specs uh in this group i just want to make sure that everybody has a copy if not ali al shaking his head so al you received something great okay um and if not we can certainly send it out again just drop it in the chat and we'll we'll get get it out to you um but the only real difference is in this ed spec from the last one that went out are two things one it's an updated programming matrix and i can show you what that looks like in the back of the packet so actually let me let me go in order just not to make it dizzy uh with the pages so can everyone see my screen okay just see the upper corner of it can you see it it's just zoomed in real tight on the upper corner of a word document yeah and if anybody wants to follow it is attached to the meeting invite okay sorry about that um so if you look um under the long range plan and project rationale there were there were two items in the packet that needed to be updated one had to do with enrollment and the other one had to do with the updated uh planning specifications for the new building everything that was written and the square footage and the rooms and the sizes were based on the summit version with the architect and so that blueprint had to be done over again the programming is is the same it's just that the uh the specs around the programming matrix had to be update updated to reflect the cardis location plus the boe side including the offices and the space that the board would occupy in that new location so there was just a few small things that were changed in here um in the first line where it said over the last 10 years danbury public school enrollment has increased that was recently changed to 15 percent i believe it said 17 um as just as of this morning we did have to send out and do a refresh on the enrollment projections um because there was a slight uh decrease uh and and we needed to to update that now the reality of the enrollment is that um you know the the numbers are are drawn from the october first collection so when they count the when they count the projected enrollment it's drawn off october 1st um i think mike has the updated number of how many students we have since gained since the october first collection um i believe was a couple hundred students that accounted for and so already in the projections we we know or were off in that in that case so we did meet with the demographers this morning just to make sure that we understood their methodology and how they calculated um the students um by and large it wasn't a a huge discrepancy but we wanted to make sure that that they they knew that we had a few extra students here than what they had accounted for and some of the projections and we just wanted to understand how that may or may not impact um this the specs and then the subsequent reimbursement and so um turns out it's just a it's a small dip in in terms of the fluctuation so i don't think it's going to have any impact but certainly antonio and dan petrovic would know a little bit more about how that may or may not affect the application um but overall not not much of a change but we did note those changes in the enrollment here on this first page okay and then you can see the remainder of the project rationale with division mission and i'm not going to bore you with the whole thing because you could read through it and again most of the meet in the middle did not change i have been presenting a more updated version of this chart that you may have seen me present in the board meetings and when the commissioner came and it's i think the newer one is a little bit prettier but because uh we we started off with this chart we didn't want to change too much because so many folks have already seen the application so it was best not to mess with any of the graphics in there um to make sure that that folks were confident that not too much has changed and so when you scroll down to the i believe it's on 32 or 33 you'll see the design the program design matrix which was updated right there starting uh in section six program matrix and you can see the square footage and the number of rooms that are associated with the pathways that are based on the new footprint in the new building and you could take a look at that at your leisure and this was just a swap out from the the grid from the summit site so other than that really not much changed but we were waiting for those last minute nitty gritty enrollment uh numbers to come in so that we make sure that we presented something that was was accurate and the most up-to-date we had started this almost i think almost two years ago so those needed to be updated um and if there's you have any questions on this at all um i recognize i'm not sure if anybody here so luisa you were not here uh originally when we first kind of went through this your son was so he was quite familiar with this document but certainly if you wanted to take some time to look it over we recognize we just sent this out to to everybody today um certainly you can email me with questions and if i don't have the answer i can certainly email the architect with with any questions as well and mike is the most up to date on the enrollment issue so he can help with that too so unless there's any questions um we can move on to the next agenda item this will go out to the board in the friday's packet for everybody to look at over the weekend for approval on the 22nd great anybody have any questions let me say i think you're on mew if you're asked if you're speaking you know can you hear me you're good okay any questions from the committee board members luisa can you hear me are you off with your father oh she's fine louisa you're fine i can hear you all right okay hold on sorry luis they're having some technical okay i couldn't hear anything yeah okay we're good yep okay um any questions from the committee members or board members no all right let's move on all right thank you dr casmiro thank you next item on the agenda uh is in regards to the gym floor um i'm sure most of you have seen it at this point um the floor and the old gym developed to humps um that were directly related to a burst water pipe in january um to give you a little back story uh if you know where that elevator is there's a water pipe it froze it burst water went down the elevator it damaged the ceiling of the weight room it went down the hallway it traveled into the gym and got under the wood floor and as a result that water when it heated up uh due to the weather or got humid the floor popped up so now there's these two humps that look rich as uh described it as a skate park so it has these two humps in the floor right now we've tried to remediate it a couple times by having the flooring company come in they cut it open they dry it out it sits back down but then just a few weeks later the moisture moves underneath the floor because it's all it's all shellacked the moisture doesn't have a chance to dry out it moves under the floor and the humps pop up somewhere else so we've had to go ahead and uh address this issue with our insurance company and we are going to um file a claim for the gym floor the uh ceiling of the weight room and repairs to the elevator and a few other little things but in order to do that we're going to have to pay our deductible uh which is 250 000 and um john spang is going to tell us a little bit more about how that's going to come together you mike um if i could just uh take a quick minute um you'll for folks who are new and um you'll hear us use the word kerma a lot um kerma is our insurance company and um a little about their background back in the mid 1980s there was a liability insurance crisis in this country premiums tripled coverages were reduced [Music] cities and towns just couldn't get coverage in in many many places so a lot of different solutions were bandied about including one right here the um just the same way um boards of education have cabe as an organization uh cities and towns have what's called ccm or the connecticut conference of municipalities it's it's really the same thing as cave but but for town sides and uh back in the 1980s when this happened uh they created a captive insurance company to provide some coverage and cities and towns were free to join if they wanted to or they could keep trying to get their insurance some other way probably more than half the cities and towns in connecticut today get their insurance through kerma and for all intensive purposes although they're a sub-organization of ccm they are an insurance company the city of danbury has one insurance policy for both uh the city and for us and that's pretty common to have one policy for all of of the city or town buildings and that's what they have as as mike said um the deductible in the city policy is 250 000 so what that means if if we had a loss of for example three hundred thousand then uh kerma would pay above the deductibles so they in this case uh they'd pay fifty thousand dollars we'd be responsible for the deductible uh just the same as uh your car or homeowners it's it's the same kind of thing um so that that's just the background now um we definitely don't have uh 250 000 it's unplanned at this point nor do we have um plans that we could defer um if even if we wanted to at this stage so what we're proposing is uh something uh according to the city charter and in the city charter there's a section 7.9 called expenditures and accounting and if you were to look you you'd find it on page 38 i'm going to read it to you it says section f additional appropriations over and above the total budget may be made from time to time by resolution of the city council but upon recommendation of the mayor and after being certified by the director of finance uh that the money is there uh in excess of what's being asked for um and what that all means is uh the city has a um sometimes it's called a surplus um an undesignated balance a fund balance last time it was tallied in june of 20 it was 25.1 million dollars and what we're proposing is that we asked the city to release uh 250 000 to be used as the deductible on this loss so once uh everything's paid um we'd have that money for the deductible the kerma money above that for any excess and uh finance the loss that way so we think things like this would require a formal board motion perhaps next meeting if you agree uh and then it would go on to the the mayor's office from there so questions um what is the total cost to repair the floor in the gym i rich correct me for my it was about 295 000 for the floor alone so we're going to be adding again the weight room ceiling and uh some of the elevator repairs to that as well so we think it's going to be probably close to about four when it's all done that's correct mike the gym floor the price we uh we received from daily and flooring was 295 000 i believe sean uh from public works spent 30 000 on repairing the elevator and i'm waiting for a price on the repair of the weight room ceiling sorry uh real quick that was a total of four hundred thousand give or take yeah and uh mike if i could just add one thing so our first um step of course was to call the insurance company kerma uh they assigned an adjuster to the loss just like if you had a loss on your homeowners uh the adjuster came over met with mike met with um rich um and suggested that a particular vendor delane as rich said be brought in to give us some ideas uh make some recommendations they are a company that does a lot of emergency report repairs in gym floors in connecticut when kerma has losses like this and the uh the estimate has come from day lean which we like to think is the city's insurance company recommending it so any questions yes just one of the deductibles that could be coming from our reserves or another fund what we'd like to do is ask for it to come right from the city surplus so no not from the reserves okay thank you anybody else questions louisa is it okay absolutely rachel absolutely uh when was insurance contacted initially rich do you know that initial contact day roughly i do not off the top of my head i'd have to uh go through my emails that's all right just it was january february i mean as soon as it happened did it was it it yeah i i know one thing it was shortly after it happened it might have been a day or two but when we uh the first conversations we had uh they reminded us that our deductible was 250 we didn't think the loss was uh that big at the time so they knew about it we talked to brian caraba the adjuster it was later when we realized uh the full extent that we converted that into a formal claim i think that was a couple months ago thank you um i have another question how soon after um after this all gets um figured out with the deductible do we anticipate the work being done and completed mitch can you speak to that timeline sure um as as soon as we have the the funding i would expect uh you know pending the the uh supply you know the availability of the materials to be able to get it done by uh august possibly going into september um i've spoken with uh chip the athletic director and he has a plan uh if we weren't to have the gym ready for september i think the um the x factor here is how long it's going to take for it to dry out underneath um because that if it's a hot humid summer that could that could extend the timeline are we doing all repair simultaneously are we doing gym floor one then weight room and working through the projects i think there will be some overlap but we're definitely going to start with the gym floor okay thank you any other questions no okay i'll um i'll entertain a motion uh to approve a special appropriate request to the full board of education and to the city for 250 000 the insurance deductible needed to repair the gym do i have i'll make that motion okay first by al seconded by michelle motion passes okay mike right so next up uh is a brief overview of uh what's happening in our security practices um i put together a little presentation here so i'm going to share my screen everybody see it yep okay great so um before diving into all the details of security i wanted to sort of step back and just talk about security sort of in the broader context of schooling um i i feel like i'd be remiss if i didn't talk about the sort of delicate balance in which security sits so i'd like to use this analogy of sort of gas and break and you know schools you put a bunch of young energetic kids together with you know smart thoughtful adults and you know people are curious people have energy they're you know things are going to happen in a school and it's up to really the educators and the programs that are put in place to make sure that all that energy is sort of guided and channeled in the right direction and that typically comes in the form of like i said programs and systems right and we see these things are appropriate you know counselors and nurses and the academic program social emotional supports welcoming schools when there's a sort of bigger change that's happening right when the systems that are in place in the school are sort of no longer effective at mitigating all the other things happening with students and in society more broadly that ability to channel a lot of that energy right it can start to sort of spin out of control um and that's when you sort of need to apply the break which is something you know more of like a behavioral control right a safety advocate a police sro emergency response security things like this you know and if you think about schools and systems these these systems can you know they can grow obsolete right if you think about technology everything changed uh with a lot of school policy the minute everybody had access to the internet and on their phone and in their pocket um needs changed immediately for students uh during covet and we had to go to distance learning um you know sometimes uh you know systems just fail right if um you know they they just stop working or too many people are called out sick the systems aren't in place there to to do what they're supposed to do so it it's it's helpful to think about this sort of gas and break and when you put this sort of behavioral control on it really is a break ideally while you go back and sort of recalibrate the systems that you have and then you get things moving again in the right direction and then you can sort of take your foot uh take your foot off the brake so i i want to keep this sort of idea in mind because when we talk about security um you know we we always want to think about it in the context of really what are the needs of students what are we going to do to support them to make sure they have what they need and that they come to school ready to learn ready to you know participate ready to you know sort of take charge of their own lives um and not need that sort of constant um you know force of a behavioral control so we've i think we've done a really good job with this um right now our security staff our total staff is about 41 and that's across our 20 schools so in our primary center we have well we had two now we only have one primary center as of this week so we have one primary center safety advocate we have 13 elementary safety advocates one in each school we have three middle school safety advocates again one in each school and then at the high school level we have 12.
[Music] all right thank you very much welcome everybody and we're going to go ahead and reconvene our meeting today we'll go ahead and start off with the pledge of allegiance please stand and place your right hand over your heart and join me in the pledge of [Music] to the allegiance for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all all right just please join me in a moment of silence i know uh last last meeting i actually talked about gun violence this this week we actually placed a resolution on our board agenda but as you know yesterday also we we faced gun violence close to home with two police officers from el monte being gunned down so let's keep everybody who lost their lives due to gun violence in our memories and take a moment of silence thank you all right we'll move on to our closed session report mr o'neal yes thank you 5.1 no reportable action taken regarding public employee performance evaluation superintendent 5.2 the board of trustees unanimously approved the settlement agreement of oah case number 202204070 resolving all issues and students due process complaint by providing compensatory services and other reimbursement 5.3 the board of trustees unanimously approved the settlement agreement in oah case number 2022040569 resolving all issues in students due process complaint by amending students iep providing assessment and reimbursement 5.4 no reportable action taken regarding negotiations 5.5 no reportable action taken regarding personnel 5.6 the board of trustees unanimously voted to rescind the non-reelection of employee hr 2021-22-10 for the next school year 5.7 this item was pulled prior to the adoption of the agenda 5.8 the board of trustees unanimously voted to make the following appointment effective july 1st 2022.
thank you any questions or comments from the board i too want to thank mary spidel and her team for getting um working through this and getting it to us right away in order to get this taken care of um i did have one question but it had to do with compensatory instruction and so i can wait until i speak with um dr montano thank you madam president members sorry sinkhill might be the best approach uh and and i would echo again your your thanks to ms biddell and her team we are fortunate as a school district to have an absolutely outstanding financial team who do a great job of providing a very conservative approach to budgeting and keep us in compliance with all laws absolutely anyone else this time i move the board approve the 2022-2023 proposed budget motion made by christine pritchard seconded by dawn dunsmore did it go awesome um mine must still be documented because it says change vote at the top there we go did it take yeah all right motion carries next we move to a german i move that we adjourn the meeting exactly motion made by christine pritchard seconded by tracy sewer sink bill and we're enjoying the fastest meeting ever
okay motion by travis do we have a second second second by earl any discussion okay call the roll susan chelsea yes tony yes pat yes travis yes amy yes earl yes susan yes okay and then on down to textbook rental and fees asking for approval for the 2223 textbook rentals and fees corporation-wide a quick summary update as elementary fees are consistent no changes we are asking for a five dollar stem fee corporation wine that allows us for all students to create sustainability with our stem program and some matching grant dollars as well the middle school had no significant fee changes either the high school the fees are steady i will say that we're seeing an increase in fees in college level courses dual credit cte so next year we're working to find a way we've already been talking with philip too to hopefully bring down some of those costs for our students and parents with some collaborative planning so we'll be working on that but their study for this year's comparison last year so asking for approval of the 22 2223 corporation textbook rentals please okay do we have a motion motion by tony do we have a second okay second by pat any discussion okay susan we call the roll chelsea yes tony yes pat yes travis yes amy yes yes susan yes okay down under professional staff recommendations for your approval jamie kelly will be the high school will be a high school guidance counselor kirsten lutz will be nbe special education teacher and macy rigby will be a high school english teacher asking for approval on those okay do i have a motion for those three recommendations motion by susan do i have a second second by travis any discussion [Music] okay under support staff recommendations yes bringing ryan burdell as a tech for termination mandy davis is going from a 205 day admin assistant position at the high school to a 260 day admin assistant position dylan eaton a high school summer custodian sierra eisenheimer will be a summer school tutoring um i hope it was summer school tutoring talina hearn an nve custodian is moving from 30 hours a week to 20.
alternative schools have two and we also have one at our central registration office so it's a total of 32 advocates uh just fy some of these positions are vacant we had some late uh in the year resignations that we'll be filling over the summer and then at the high school we also have or at the middle school and the high school we also have sros at each school and then at the high school we have five uniformed police officers and then mr torres who's also on the zoom today i'll be happy to field any detailed questions is our coordinator of district security so he's he's uh one district coordinator and that brings us to 41 total security staff in the district so we've done a lot in the last few years um and these are just a few of the sort of high level items uh we put vandal resistant security film on our entry areas and exposed windows so this is a film that you know instead of being able to smash a window the film keeps the glass together and it would take a lot more force and time to break through a window we also have a raptor system for id checks for guests so you can put in somebody's name and it'll flag them if they're seen as potentially dangerous or shouldn't be let into the school uh we've installed a lot of double door they call them man traps um so if there is an issue the person would ideally not be able to get out from between the two doors and we have these in broadview rogers park uh king street primary and ace uh and we've re we've done a lot of work in uh routing uh foot traffic uh through single points of entry just to make sure there's only one door people come in come out that's where the advocate is and we can keep track of everybody going into the school so those are things that really have happened since about 2018.
juan alvarez assistant principal sycamore junior high school all right well we appointed a few administrators last meeting as well and i'd like to invite uh all three of them to come out and say a few words and introduce their family so i'll start off with jennifer cessai principal walker jr hi thank you so much board president algebra i appreciate it i first would like to thank our board of trustees and our cabinet for this amazing opportunity when i was an 8th grader at walker junior high school i told my home economics teacher that one day i wish to return and be the home economics teacher at walker junior high little did i know at the time that i would return and become the home economics teacher there but later would return as both an assistant principal and now as the principal so this is truly a dream come true for me and i thank you for this opportunity um i would also like to thank jennifer brown the uh the amazing jennifer brown who has been uh just a force at walker and will be huge shoes to fill so i'd like to thank her and wish her the best of luck at cyprus high school i know she's gonna do amazing i would also like to thank dr rene bryant for all her support and encouragement for um pursuing my dreams my mentor ron hoshi is also in the audience he's been my mentor since i was 14 years old so i'd like to thank him for being my choir teacher and really just pushing me throughout my life um i'd also like to thank colin pohn who's here i'm so fortunate we sat across from each other in miss van honick's word processing class and i thank him for our support as well as my parents who have been actively involved in the anaheim union high school district as parent volunteers so i want to thank my parents as well i look forward to going back to walker and serving the community and just being part of all the support and love there so thank you so much for this opportunity thank you jennifer jennifer are your parents in the audience okay i would love them to stand up and get recognized all right let's give him a big round all right thank you very much jennifer and next is edgar cartagena assistant principal at anaheim high school [Applause] thank you everyone for having me here today i really wanted to say thank you all for this uh privilege and honor it is going to be for me to serve the anaheim family i'm looking forward to an awesome school year myself i grew up in englewood california i served a very similar population as going to school in the center valley school district and then also the words you mentioned sir earlier really spoke to me because uh coming from el monte serving there as a counselor i have keep in touch with the families and my co-workers over there so i've been helping to continue to serve them and uh get to this tough time as well so i really want to thank you for that recognition and like i said i'm really looking forward to starting the the school year i have my my lovely wife and family here to support me on this new mission that i'll have here stand up there we go they've been with me throughout this journey and i really want to take the moment to say thank you them for your support i look forward to seeing you uh very soon thank you all right thank you edgar all right last night but please uh warren alvarez come on down and he's going to be the assistant principal at sycamore junior high hi everybody good evening board and cabinet i am so thrilled to be here and uh speaking to you on on this topic of you becoming the assistant principal at sycamore junior high uh most of you don't know the origin of my family actually starts at sycamore uh my cousin that went to sycamore when we were kids went to school with my wife jesse and they met there and then the rest is history we met eventually right so there's a there's layers of complexity within the story of sycamore uh my older son rowan i just promoted from sycamore junior high this past may so i'm really excited for him to join the anaheim family he's going to anaheim high school next and i've been teaching at sycamore for a few years i've been the dual language coordinator there and have had an amazing experience there uh serving our community and so what's really kind of uh special to me is that it is my community right i live here uh my kids go to the school i have a future child coming to sikkomer he'll be a bucky as well in a few years five years he'll be in the dla program as well and so it just it's just it warms my heart to know that i can serve and serve the people that i live with and my community and everyone around me so it's a really special place for me to continue serving at and i look forward to that and it just i'm just really thrilled uh you don't even know you don't even know so uh here with me today i have my wife jesse who's right here stand up does he stand up jesse's currently going to be the ptsa president for anaheim secondary council and then uh my son wrote rhys is here he's a younger one he's seven he's a student at horace mann he's coloring in the dinosaur book that's sorry very good my older son rowan is actually being a teenager right now he's at magic mountain uh with his cousin whose birthday is today so shout out to emma if you're watching emma's actually the future pts i'm not the future asb president at sycamore too so another uh kind of connection to the school her mom was the cousin i met my wife right so all connected all right and i also have uh my brother jesus here and then i have he doesn't want to stand either i have my sister adriana here and i have my dad here [Applause] so obviously i wouldn't be here without my immigrant family right so i'm sure this is a very special kind of moment for us to be sharing um we don't have my mom here anymore and so i would have liked her to see this as well but uh life goes on right we have to we have to push forward and do what we can but yeah these this is my family currently right now minus rowan who's at magic mountain i see you okay all right so i i really do appreciate this opportunity to grow and collaborate and move our school forward and work with community and community partners to see what we can do and what kind of special place we can keep continue to create sigmoid and what it can become so the possibilities are endless and that makes me really excited and really kind of thrilled to be part of the community and continue to be part of that community right because i was teaching there and now now i'll be in a different capacity so i really do appreciate your your faith in me and this opportunity right so that's appreciated thank you so much and we'll talk soon all right thank you juan all right well congratulations to all of you and uh we expect you to raise the bar keep raising the bar thank you very much all right next item uh is uh our recognitions and we're going to start off with our donations and i believe we got both of them here and i'll go oh they're not here okay if they're not here so on behalf of the board of trustees we'd like to thank the following foundations for their generous donations to the district we have samuel lee foundation which donated 250 000 dollars for euhsc special projects let's give them a big round of applause and we also have stewart foundation which gave 150 500 to the auhst for special projects and i i want to highlight not only thank them but there it also shows the confidence that these organizations have in our district and the work that we do so that credit goes to all of the amazing people who are sitting at this table so thank you very much and everybody who's sitting out there who are doing the work so thank you all right so we go to 7.2 classified employee of the year and am i passing this on to you or just going ahead and naming the folks okay perfect so we don't have anybody here then right because we already recognized all right so the board of trustees would like to recognize the anaheim union high school district 2021-2022 classified employee of the year nominees listed in the agenda the 27 classified employees of the year nominees were recognized during the virtual event on may 17 2022 for their exemplary service to the district students and community board of trustees of course this statement of appreciation and recognize the efforts of these dedicated employees and acknowledges the value of their contribution the board of trustee trustees applauds these employees and their contribution to the district i just read that in a script but i just want to say i think all of our board members would agree that without you the employees this district will come to a standstill so we want to thank you for everything that you've done especially the amazing folks who are recognized i'm going to mention their names and where they're from so let's hold the applause and then afterwards we could go ahead and applaud them susanna baborza instructional assistant at adult transition savannah high school rocio compost translator interpreter at catella high school adrian castro plant manager 2 at kennedy high school maryam um dagian human resources technician human resources classified marcella diem senior administrative assistant at anaheim high school timothy tim erickson a graphic production manager at graphic arts leticia escalara instructional assistant of behavioral support at orangeview high school junior high school carlos garcia campos a safety aide at cypress high school theodo ted gorkin plant manager one at south junior high school ramon guerrero equipment operator at maintenance and operations norma hernandez nutrition services production assistant with food services miguel ibarra rodriguez plant manager one at walker junior high school juan carlos lopez campus safety aid western high school nancy macedonia alonso licensed vocational nurse at lexington junior high school marcella marci mendoza secretary registrar records at cambridge virtual academy marissa ortega senior administrative assistant at oxford academy janev ramirez senior administrative assistant at hope high school george ramirez miranda custodian at ball junior high school laura rodriguez senior administrative assistant at plural lingualis services carlos rojas a plant manager two at magnolia high school yesenia salgado credential technician at human resources certified marco tran technology services technician at gilbert high school brenda vasquez senior administrative assistant at brookers junior high school kwang wo at technology uh tech services technician at laura high school role laurie williamson information system analyst at educational information technology ivanovic yvonne wilson plant manager one at sycamore junior high and celeste zimmerman senior administrative assistant at dale junior high let's give them a big round of applause all right like i said i don't know if the board members want to say a few words just to acknowledge if not i said it for you right all right perfect thank you thank you all right perfect we'll go to our reports um do we have any student speakers i don't think we have any student speakers who want to address the board seeing none i'm going to go to reports of associations and do we have i don't think we have anybody right i don't think we have any association presidents who are here to report i think they all took a summer break early all right perfect grant left yeah what about pte all right so 8.3 parent pta pdsa report i don't think i know jesse or incoming so i don't think you have a report for us yet right all right we'll go to public comments and uh on open session items we have one speaker but uh opportunities for public comments occur at the beginning of each agenda item and at this time for items not on the agenda persons wishing to address the board of trustees should complete a speaker request form that's this one right here available at the informational table at the back of the room and submitted to the executive assistant prior to the meeting each speaker is limited to a maximum of five minutes and each topic or item limited to a total of 20 minutes board members cannot immediately respond to public comments as stated on the speaker request form having said that we have john nguyen john come on in john go ahead yep yeah we're waiting for you yeah it's uh it's um oh my gosh it's it's such an honor to be back as you know i am a student of this great district and i went to savannah high school my freshman year and then transferred to oxford academy graduated there in the first graduating class of 2003.