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president joe biden's also set a carbon-free electricity date of 2035. however dte's target date is 2050. about 20 years past what the ipcc tells us is uh the minimum to reach in order to avoid the most catastrophic impacts of the climate crisis and dte doesn't really even have a real plan to reach that 2050 timeline uh they plan to continue to operate on 12 coal-fired generators until 2040 which is 10 years past when we need to get off of coal and they're also continuing to invest in fracked gas infrastructure in fact they seem to believe that they are going to be able to make fracked gas carbon neutral which is pretty unrealistic according to a lot of the science on this topic which probably don't need to go into a ton of detail with all of you but generally we consider this technological wishful thinking they believe that there is going to be some sort of magical technology in the future that is able to make fresh gas carbon neutral which is definitely yet to be seen and so what do we think is the solution to this problem and what is the reason for our existence and why we're here talking today is we believe that through municipalization we'll be able to achieve our city's energy goals so what is municipalization essentially municipalization is just the process of taking something that is privately owned and putting it under the ownership of a city right so there is plenty of other municipal owned utilities in the country in fact our water and sewer comes from municipal utility most water and sewer it comes from amnesty municipal utility and there's actually a lot of communities across the united states over two thousand that gets their energy from a municipal electric utility and over 40 of those are in michigan alone and there's not really a big wonder as to why that is it's explicitly protected by the state constitution to allow cities to municipalize their energy grid you can see here a map of the different municipal utilities across the country or across the state some of the big ones lansing holland chelsea traverse city um holland uh they and why is it that we believe that a municipal utility is going to be right for ann arbor what is it about a municipal utility that uh outcompetes this iou model this investor owned utility model right well there's five main areas that we identify reliability affordable affordability local control the fact that it invests in our community and finally and i think probably most important to most of the people here listening today is the environmentally responsible choice so reliability on average a public power utility loses power about half as often as their iou counterparts nationwide right the average uh outage for public power utility per year is about 74 minutes um and the average outage for an iou uh an investor in utility nationwide is about 136 minutes but that doesn't exactly tell the whole story in michigan in fact in michigan it's considerably worse dte uh in 2017 where we pulled these numbers and i guarantee you that if you looked at some of the more recent numbers they'd probably be worse um dte lost about a little over a thousand minutes back in 2017.

good evening dr robert tosi members of the board of education fellow members of the clifton community as i said i'm a certified nurse from school 11. i'm here tonight along with several other certified school nurses from various schools within our district we would like to speak to everyone regarding several issues that have been happening to the nurses within our schools there are a total of 20 schools in this clifton public school system educating nearly 11 000 students currently we have 20 20 certified school nurses in the district however there should be 24 26 if you count our floating positions there is a discrepancy because there's been a trend not just in clifton but of hiring non-certified school nurses we understand this is due to the nursing shortage these non-certified nurses however have not been trained and educated in the same manner that the certified school nurses have been in order to become certified we have taken two years of additional classes completed 21 additional credits completing nearly 90 hours of clinical experience we have trained not only in our certification but we have received an educational endorsement when we were hired to work with clifton this was a requirement while we understand these new nurses they are intelligent they are very caring and they are kind however they're non-certified they need to be trained by us the certified school nurses however with the trend of the nursing shortage these nurses are commanding a much higher salary they are coming in sometimes fifteen to twenty thousand dollars more a year than the certified nurses that are currently employed in your district we are certain that everyone would agree that not only is this not right but it's also insulting to your nurses that are already employed we would also like to point out that non-certified nurses are not legally able to perform certain tasks that we the certified nurse can we are essential members of the inrs 504 teams coordinating health screenings and assessments and accommodations we complete mandated reports in timely manner we have repeatedly reached out to the administration in the union with no avail we are exhausted frustrated and left feeling unappreciated sometimes the bottom line is teachers would not be hired counselors would not be hired child study team members would not be hired without certification and proper credentials so why would we want this for certain for non-certified nurses when you hire the non-certified nurses at higher steps and salaries it's very disheartening and also demoralizing it is for this reason that six nurses have left the district or are leaving the districts in the past six months the resignation of these nurses there have been a lot of voids in our district in one school no nurses were available so the elementary school nurses were put into a rotation where they had to cover the schools then leaving their elementary school uncovered for that day this left a burden on the secretaries and the principles to make decisions that we would make if we were there yes it is very important to actively recruit and fill the empty positions left by the nursing shortage however it's more important that you fill these positions with qualified school nurses who will be able to educate and provide the same type of highly skilled care that the current certified school nurses and the certified school nurses before us provided the students of the clifton school district and the families of the clifton community that they have all come to expect we would like to end on this note it is most important that the members of the administration and the board of ed focus their attentions on the retention of your current certified school nurses this would make the clifton school district more attractive in retaining your highly qualified certified school nurses in the city of clifton we thank you for your attention [Applause] good evening everybody my name is wendy scradato i'm a certified school nurse for school 12.

you foreign mm-hmm you um you so [Music] do [Music] i would like to resume this meeting of the eastern township board of education can 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 at this time board member janice noel will read the mission statement of the eastern township school district the mission of the eve sham township school district is to promote excellence in an environment that engages students in meaningful learning experiences in partnership with students dedicated staff families and community the district provides a strong educational foundation that will empower our students to achieve their unique potential embrace self-directed lifelong learning develop the skills necessary for appropriate risk taking and responsible decision making respect themselves and others problem solve individually and collaboratively and become contributing members of a diverse global society thank you mrs noel at this point we're going to be moving on to presentations dr smith the floor is all yours there we go there we go we have a packed house tonight this is absolutely fantastic so exciting so we're going to start off with our elks our 2020 our 2022 elks essay contest winners and so i'm going to have a few people come up and join me here first off from the elks david and diana madges come on down they they they run the contest you can and rob mcdonough is there too if you can come on down thank you so much our board president leah ryan and vice president anish kanthan are going to join us as well we're going to go by school marlin elementary school and if our teachers are here too you can come down with your student if you don't mind so we have luke carson with teacher shannon mclaughlin first winner [Applause] [Music] [Applause] hey just hang here and just enjoy all the uh positive attention from everybody all right and what we're going to do when the next person comes down is we'll get the handshakes out of the way first and then we'll fill your hands with all the prizes and recognitions all right so next person is adriana de bartolomeo with teacher emily atley thank you and our next student from martin elementary is ishaan nandy with teacher kelly durnam jones [Applause] next up now we're moving on to the middle school we've got de mesa middle school newport huawei with teacher sandy groff [Applause] next up after that we've got shrina velmalu konda with teacher wendy metzger and last but certainly not least from demacy middle school alexa dolores with teacher wendy metzger congratulations congratulations and let's if we can have all of our award winners kind of pivot and move here in the middle let's get let's get some uh photos if parents want to come down and take a picture of everybody yeah yeah yeah you can all kind of squeeze in make two rows me see is awesome job congrats again to all our students i noticed there was like gift cards paper clip to those plaques and other stuff mr mrs madis thank you so much for thank you so much thank you thank you thank you thank you very much thank you having the pledge right before that was perfect i mean that there it's been i think this is the largest turnout we've had since um certainly my time here since coveted and to hear all those voices saying the pledge together was really powerful and i think a perfect lead into that essay contest so um thanks to all the families from those winners who came out and again congratulations to all the students and thanks to the elks for that contest we're going to move on to our next group of change makers and these are yeah that's how we do it here okay lots of kids 57 57 so 63 students total tonight 57 student council students all fifth graders five of six of our elementary schools involved the only school that's not i'm just calling it out because somebody will notice beeler only involved because they were doing other amazing things with their student council okay so what we're going to do is call students down by school and their teachers if they're here to please come down when they do and if we can have so do a little background on this and and our uh yves shin police is here and if uh representatives chief miller captain reinhold if you want to any i see uh captain burdette there if you want to come down um to be with us as we recognize the students that'd be awesome and i don't know are there dogs here too do they uh we have we have actual canines here okay because that's what this was about so the background on this was our student councils raised money for a canine memorial that's going to go outside the township building their target was 2 000 ish dollars they came in at 4 000 raised so absolutely fantastic [Applause] i don't know if they're like our uh you know we we do a great program called literacy and leashes and those dogs are trained to be absolutely perfect with kids and uh canines are um i'm going to pass off the mic to jarelyn covley one of our awesome kindergarten teachers to say a few a little bit about the fundraiser hi good evening so my husband is a retired sergeant from the township and he saw a really cool idea with a canine memorial in gloucester township and we thought what a great thing to do for eve sham so jaggard's supervisor for the student council reached out to the other student councils and we thought could we do this well together we raised three thousand seven hundred eight dollars and sixty eight cents with all the kids of the queen more [Applause] so hopefully this it'll be worked on and um will become a reality so i'll give this back to you and if it doesn't work we they can we can we can they can go back outside but let me grab let me grab these all right so this and this is the largest handshake line we've ever had as well i have to say up here so um so we're gonna go by school we're gonna start with des robert beinecke if he's here [Applause] okay right and then we've got aaron gallagher [Applause] daisy lysa [Applause] congratulations avery raymond [Applause] madison tiermann [Applause] and holden tribe or military [Applause] and if barbara militch is here too that oh cool cool [Applause] if parents want to from ds want to stand up and take pics here okay thank you all right we're going to move on to jaggard and if teacher hope phillips is here and you come on down please please do oh good awesome awesome all right first up we have marcus boyd [Applause] then we've got sydney carroll abigail escalante gonzalez [Applause] riyansh kajati [Applause] anya and antelozio telizano [Applause] chloe genovi [Applause] and carly ridley [Applause] this is jaggert elementary schools fifth grade student council [Applause] awesome congrats to jagger's student council thank you thank you [Applause] we're moving on to rice now and i want to add that if i get anyone's name wrong while i'm reading it truly is because the name is beautiful able to pronounce it in the right way so the fall is with me my last name is smith it's i have no practice um so um but apologies in advance um so we've got first up from rice matthew achiani jr if he's here grace bouchard [Applause] luke cheeseman [Applause] carly dougherty [Applause] and if stephanie doofey and lindsey mcleod are here come on down come on down these are the two teacher advisors for the fifth grade student council at rice olivia franks [Applause] gavin johnson gavin kimball [Applause] skylar lord lorenzo musto [Applause] isaiah santiago [Applause] ryan schultz [Applause] madison smith [Applause] these are our rice fifth grade student council champs [Applause] congrats again to rice [Applause] all right we're going to move on to van's zandt and mes i didn't forget about you there's a there's a reason why i skipped over uh christine keltos and cheryl narath if you're here and you want to come down and i saw mr de blasio here too you're good okay all right all right so let's start off with kaden bussarello [Applause] dylan [Applause] coburn congratulations gianna deangelis [Applause] angela feeney [Applause] congratulations tristan hall [Applause] congratulations ellison kennedy [Applause] charles liu [Applause] congratulations kaylee moore callie moore [Applause] brinley rogers [Applause] paige rosenkowitz [Applause] and henry swain that's our vans and fifth grade student council [Applause] and thanks mrs cotos for being here so last last but not least mes i i kind of saved them for the end because they're the largest student council of all the schools okay so if emily atlee kelly durham jones or shannon mclaughlin are here the teachers come on down awesome thank you thank you [Applause] and we're going to start off with nadia alaba [Applause] nicholas alaba [Applause] lucille lamotto [Applause] get so much applause aaron benjamin [Applause] alabetz [Applause] lucy brennan [Applause] adeline christensen [Applause] jocelyn cohen [Applause] adriana de bartolomeo [Applause] ava guerini [Applause] nicholas hopp asher miller [Applause] benjamin nettleton [Applause] ryan niederberger [Applause] congratulations ryan gavin quinn [Applause] congratulations carter reeve [Applause] rebecca shapiro [Applause] congratulations and jack thompson [Applause] this is the mes 5th grade student council representing [Applause] so all right if we can give a last round of plus for all of our student council winners and thank you to eve shannon police department for coming tonight bringing the dogs we're so grateful for all of the collaboration and support we get from our youtube police and it's it's so feels so good for our students to be able to be change makers and give back in this way so again thank you so much to our schools [Applause] oh you know what um i'll send it to him uh we'll send it to him though thank you okay yeah yeah do you know lee and i are both like definitely like jumping all right that's why we're so we're going to take a to take a quick two minute recess to let folks clear out if they want families that came for the awards thanks so much for for being here you don't need to stay for the whole meeting if you don't want to [Music] do [Music] um [Music] item five on the agenda um our solicitor mr will donio would like to say something order order thank you very much mr donio floor is yours yes uh thank you madam president uh board members i appreciate you indulging me for this just very briefly uh at the last meeting there was a member of the association who was speaking on an item i can't remember who the exact member was but interrupted him to direct him that the first public session was only about agenda items and while they talked about a number of items that weren't on the agenda one of the items they talked about was on the agenda so i do owe him an apology uh for you know trying to insist that what he was doing was either clever or what have you i wasn't totally right i wasn't totally wrong but i wasn't totally right and i think it's very important as a professional especially representing a public entity that when you get it wrong you admit it and you apologize for that in addition i just want the public to know i am absolutely a first amendment absolutist i had that's the council i give my school districts it's the freedom speech petition government for redresses is essential of freedom guaranteed by the first amendment it's not given to us it's guaranteed for us and um so i just wanted to express that um because you know when i'm when i'm interrupting or doing something along those lines it's not because i don't want to hear what somebody has to say it's the best way to treat people fairly is to treat them equally so if you're going to have a rule that applies has to apply uniformly for everyone and that's important regardless of whomever is coming before the the podium so again i just wanted to just to state that publicly you know someone goes off the agenda you know with the next public meet session i'll interrupt again i'm not going to say i'm not going to do that because that's an orderly approach to a public meaning is the most essential way to ensure transparency uh and to ensure that the public has the ability to to believe that their government is acting in their best interests so thank you okay and i was going to also make a little statement so one of the main goals of the eastern township board of education is to make decisions which are in the best interest of our children whether you agree with us or not we have policies and procedures in place to afford us the opportunity to make important decisions without impedement from the public boards use the public comment period as an opportunity to listen to community concerns not to debate issues or enter into a question and answer session not all issues brought before the board will be resolved on the same day we want to hear what the audience has to say any concerns to the residents of the school district as evidenced in our agenda permitting two public comments we do not however want our policies and procedures mocked by the public by speaking out of turn while not at the microphone or by those choosing to speak and offering fake names and addresses like those of fictional characters we will ask for name and addresses and if you choose not to disclose please state that at this point i'd like to open the meeting to public comment just in case anyone is not aware we have two public comments first public comment is for what is on the agenda and the second public comment which happens later in the evening is for anything you wish to discuss the meeting will now be open to the public referencing agenda items only however if your questions pertain to student or personnel items or negotiations we ask that you see the superintendent after the meeting since we do not discuss these matters in public we ask that you limit your comments to three minutes per person it's also crucial please for you to give us your name address before you speak up and also to limit your comments to one time per public comment period is there anyone who wishes to speak on agenda items okay seeing none we are going to close that portion of the meeting there will be another public comment section at the end at this point we're going to move forward with the approval of minutes i need a motion to approve item 6.1 and 6.2 do i have a motion mr fizzicaro second miss capello any questions or comments regarding the minutes okay seeing none roll call please mrs cappello yes this is everhart yes mr fizzicaro yes mr canton yes mrs noll abstain miss lee yes mr megan abstain mrs ryan yes motion carriage thank you at this point we're going to move on to item 7 superintendents report and administrative items do i have a motion to approve item 7.1 through 7.5 ms noel seconded mr cantham before we get into questions and comments i'm going to give the floor to dr smith for superintendent comments thank you president ryan and after all those wonderful student presentations i will try to keep my remarks short and sweet but i would be very remiss to not mention a few other change makers in our in our district recently that go along with the students we recognize tonight these are amazing kids earlier today six abc news aired a segment about a project created by one of our fourth graders natalie rogers to raise funds for the non-profit refugee strong and that was after reading the book when this when stars are scattered she and her friends sold their handmade loom bracelets at the school's book fair and raised a total of i'm gonna get this say this exactly 501.79 because their motto is every penny counts and if you want to see that segment this is my plug for our evesham twitter just go to etsd twitter and you can see the link that we tweeted out earlier today it's a really great uh inspiring segment with the help of the vans amp pto the author of the book omar muhammad visited the school for all of the fifth grade all the fourth grade the author was a refugee and created a refugee strong and the book is his story and when stars are scattered as a core literature book in our fourth grade curriculum speaking of staff change makers i would like to recognize teddy bear academy and tba director leah perlmuter for two recent accomplishments teddy bear academy was approved for a sixty thousand dollar new jersey american rescue plan stabilization grant and the funds can go to past present or future operational costs and they applied for that that was through their initiative their desire that they applied for that and they earned it furthermore 26 tba staff members each earned a one thousand dollar retention bonus grant by completing voluntary training through a grant for licensed child care centers in new jersey so that makes eighty six thousand dollars in alternative funding secured by teddy bear academy staff this spring miss palmer and our tba staff have been working hard all year to support our families and this grant is a deserved support for them in turn [Applause] i'd like to briefly just reiterate a few key points about a couple of our current topics health curriculum will be updated this summer per the most recent new jersey curriculum standards our district will share that updated curriculum with all families in the second half of august along with the annual information from our curriculum office regarding the option to opt out for our number one district goal of full day kindergarten our district will be forming a stakeholder committee in late summer that will begin meeting after school resumes as we work toward the goal of full-day kindergarten for all students no tuition and we thank our community for bringing that that voice to that goal as we certainly you know want to work and make it happen and lastly tomorrow our middle school graduations are at the cherokee football field and mrs rominelli and mr hoffman are here and we'll we'll be with them tomorrow night looking forward to that weather still looking good dms 5 30 p.m mms 7 30 p.m everyone is welcome to cheer on our awesome eighth graders as they cross that threshold no tickets required and lastly since it is our last board meeting before the end of the year i just want to recognize the work of every person who has been integral to supporting our students this year and so i propose that we had so many students here a student-centered board meeting just like we encourage a student-centered classroom from our dedicated staff and all roles who went above and beyond each day to our dedicated board of education our pta's pto eve sham education foundation township leadership local community organizations and all of our parents and families it took and it takes a village and ours is called eve jam our district welcome wishes all of our staff and families a wonderful and well deserved summer thank you mrs ryan thank you dr smith any questions or comments about the superintendent's report okay roll call please mrs cappello yes mrs everhart yes mr fizzacarro yes mr catherine yes mrs noel yes miss lee yes mr megan yes mrs ryan yes motion carries thank you moving to item eight curriculum and instruction i need a motion to improve items 8.1 through 8.5 do i have a motion miss everhart thank you second miss capela thank you any questions or comments to curriculum and instruction okay roll call please mrs capalo yes mrs everhart yes mr fizzagaro yes mr canton yes mrs knoll yes miss lee yes mr megan yes mrs ryan yes motion carries thank you moving to item nine finance and operations i need a motion to approve items 9.1 all the way through 9.28 do i have a motion mr canthan mr fizzicaro thank you any questions or comments pertaining to finance and operations mr cantham thanks president ryan um yeah as we can see there are 28 finance items this month so even though the budget has passed the finance committee has been hard at work so i just wanted to applause the finance committee for all of their efforts throughout this process again just because the budget has passed the work doesn't stop and that's indicative from the 28 line items we have here i also wanted to applaud uh inspira health of haddon township in summerdale which is now accepting new patients for advertising on 25 of our buses we've been creative as we can with uh advertising to find new funding for the district so thanks to inspire health for putting their logo on 25 of our buses you any other miss everhart so i'm going to be a little debbie downer here i i applaud the finance committee for all the work that they're doing and i'm going to implore them to work judiciously hard in preparation of the next budget because i'm dismayed by the information regarding 9.28 i was i was talking to another board member that sits on the finance committee and i was dismayed to hear the incredible increase that was given to us by the uh service provider for transportation now if you remember historically about two years ago the same thing occurred we had a double-digit increase to have our children on busing it was on it was unconscionable then we had kovid and it was double-digit but it was much more palatable and i was fine with that i am not fine with this double-digit increase yet again and i'm being told by the representatives from our board that it's due to the rising of uh you know gas and whatnot well everybody's experiencing that and in no way should this contractor be asking us who's already fiscally challenged to bear this incredible unreasonable increase i i know her hands are tied and i'm frustrated by that so i implore the finance committee to be creative and think out of the box and find ways that we can give this contractor less of our bus routes and we do more of it ourselves we need to disengage with these people and so that we are not put in this circumstance they have further tied our hands for this next budget so i'm sorry for the rant but i'm very very frustrated by that thank you that's it thank you mrs everhart mr fizzicaro i'm going to go off of those sentiments by miss everhart i i do sit on the finance committee and there was pretty much that kind of dismay all around and you're right your hands are virtually tied i think the recommendation really is and what we are trying to do is to get as many hires in as possible and unfortunately that bus driver shortage that exists really nationwide is at our doorstep too and i i recommend to anybody who's listening who is thinking about that as a as a profession or something that they wish to do to fill it out because it's it can be an extraordinarily rewarding uh field of work it can be it can be wonderful and also on top of that yeah it also saves us from this because we get to put that money into our hard-working transportation department instead of something that we leaked out so i think the best way to do that is to continue to promote and i think this is a community thing to promote the idea that um go out get your get your license to be a bus driver and um and be a part of the team yeah i agree i see the signs they're a little little but i do see the signs out there to to go out and get your cdl that's been put out by our township so um by our school district so you know that's the first step and i applaud that but i'm just concerned that this board is now going to have to struggle with balancing you know programs and and staff and and transportation and walking routes and they've just further tied our hands and i'm just very dismayed that's it i'm frustrated thank you okay anyone else wants to speak miss noel yes uh sitting on the finance committee i want to add something and yes we are we are all very frustrated we have been looking at as the board knows areas where we can pull back on the courtesy bussing and we've discussed that and we are going to be looking towards more communities and working with the township to then make more communities with cross guards so that we can pull back on some of those bus runs we i mean we have to hit it at every turn we can so um i would say all throughout next year we'll be discussing with the township again um which other neighborhoods we can convert to walkers and i trish i think you were in that meeting with the township where the engineer and with the township they applied for the grant through the state safe routes to school and they did get that grant money for rice to put additional sidewalks in so fingers crossed that that's going to come soon as well so we can convert more neighborhoods to walkers other than that you know we're getting competitive anish can talk about and leah the compression of you know the different salaries and all that so that we could be more competitive and with offering i think it's almost like 13 times the cpi that's their increase it's just it's unreasonable it's just and i'm just so frustrated that it's sort of a monopoly you know it's been like this for 20 some years where a certain contractor works for our district another contractor works for the lenape regional and you know i just i was just as frustrated two years ago as i am today so do what we can here and and i hope some people go out and get their cdl and we can have more bus drivers for our district that do the runs i'm not saying everybody should walk but you know i'm just i'm just so frustrated and i want to be less and less beholden to that outside contract yes trish we are trying and that was what we were trying since 2020 when when we were in demacy with joe and joe said they have won the battle but they will not win the war if i can just add if anyone is interested in becoming a driver with our district please contact me directly we will pay for your training any licensing and you will have our eternal gratitude so thank you okay any more questions or comments all right seeing none roll call please mr vichindi mrs cappello yes with abstain 9.4 okay this is everhart yes to everything but nine point two eight mr fizzy caro yes mr canton yes mrs noll yes miss lee yes mr megan yes mrs ryan yes to everything but 9.4 abstain okay motion carries okay moving on to item 10 personnel i need a motion to approve items 10.1 through 10.10 do i have a motion miss noel second ms capello thank you any questions or comments regarding personnel okay roll call please mr cynthia mrs cavallo yes mrs everhart yes mr fizakara yes mr catherine yes mrs noel yes miss lee yes mr meegan yes mrs ryan yes motion carries thank you moving to item 11 policy i need a motion to approve items 11.1 and 11.2 do i have a motion mr fizzicaro second obviously oh nice thank you okay any questions or comments pertaining to personnel even though most of these are mandated mr physicara i just wanted me i mean obviously i could do this with myself most of these policies are mandated sorry yes thank you um i just wanted to make that clear i just want to make that clear um just going to my committee report ahead of time most of these policies in here are mandatory policies as per uh what we've been working with in the last several months uh so these are you know when you see these mandatory policies just for the audience at stake to know that when you see these mandatory policies these are coming up down from the state and they're giving us the guidelines on what to do and we are following we're following the directions of what they uh what they wish uh so mostly what we've been working on has been that and this is just another run at that so just want to put that out there thank you any other questions or comments okay roll call please mr cindy mrs cappello yes mrs everhart yes mr fizzy cara yes mr canton yes mrs noel yes miss lee yes mr meagan yes mrs ryan yes motion carries thank you moving on to committee reports does any committee chair i'm sorry oh does any committee have a report they wish to share miss noah okay a quick update on technology we do meet quarterly so we met in june uh early june to discuss all of the summer projects which there are many mr case miss mcgoulick they listed everything out for us and of course it's the usual bringing in the new chromebooks and please forgive me i did not write a speech so i'm just winging it here so um the the summer projects would include moving chromebooks up from grade to grade um also the new chromebooks for the sixth graders coming the incoming sixth graders uh we have ordered 30 active panels which i'm not sure if they came in yet no but they'll be here soon so 30 active panels and with that the classrooms that they'll be going into the teachers will get professional development on how to use those active panels so the technology committee discusses both the hardware and then any of the curriculum and training that goes along with that so we discussed both of those aspects in our meetings and um anisha if i'm forgetting anything feel free to jump in at the end so we discussed the summer literacy and math projects where the technology team would be working on the padlets and um also we talked about the writing the the finishing up the writing of the curriculum for the new technology standards this summer so it would be updating our existing technology curriculum and mr case will be working hard continuing on some of the switch replacements also the wireless access points that need to be upgraded also continuing on installing or up grading new security cameras outside and inside he's giving me the nod like yep you got it all right so those are some of the things there's going to be a lot going on this summer and we're going to meet again in the fall to see how well they both did that's all you can always email if you have any questions thank you miss noel miss everhart okay if you're missing out here i'll give a curriculum committee report so i just want to say that this was uh the last time that we will be doing uh the safe return plan we won't be adding anything more to the plan it will still be on the website but that is now just a thing of the past it's there to look at historically but there'll be no more fingers crossed there will be no more uh changes to the plan uh also ms mcgulac updated us with all the project status that was going to be going on starting monday probably uh with curriculum and tech so mrs noel covered the tech aspect i'm just saying there's a they're just going to be busy aligning several curriculums uh to the new standards we will be getting several curriculums to review in august and september for us to vote on in the fall so that's an update from curriculum is there anything you would like to add ms cappella or miss lee okay all right thank you thank you mrs everhart sure can miss real quickly curriculum department thank you i received um two emails one from elementary and one from marlton middle for the summer um literacy and math projects so of course i went right to the summer reading pdf so thank you all on the curriculum committee for working so hard in helping to select that theme courage counts you anyone else okay i have a question for i just have a question uh for the finance committee i guess can we have some update if it's all possible on the um this vacant land situation absolutely i'd be glad to update on that so um we are um mr shinty and i had a meeting last week with the township manager robert corrales and with the township business administrator alex davidson as we talk about the properties we have a number of appraisals appraisals that we have had historically and appraisals the township has had done since then and we are working out um next steps as far as what you know what the actual details will look like okay that's that's all still being discussed yeah all right thanks appreciate that thank you okay moving into old business we don't have any old business and we do not have any new business so now we're going to move into open public comment the meeting will now be open to the public referencing any items of interest however if your questions or comments pertain to litigation student or personnel items or negotiations we ask that you see the superintendent after the meeting since we do not discuss these matters in public we ask that you limit your comments to three minutes per person and also that this section is meant for one comment per person if you would like to speak please come on up to the microphone one one one okay john janks 39 carlton avenue marlton thank you permanent teacher of science certificated by the state of new jersey tonight's lesson is biology and a little bit of psychology of course most of you know that there's 46 chromosomes 23 pairs sometimes though there are some abnormalities there there's a trisomy 21.

all right moving on to it 3.06 board of trustees communication and comments um i'm going to go ahead and call you as i see you and so here's your opportunity to speak uh what member chava is uh to save time i'll just pass all right uh you guys switched on me by doing something give me a second uh board vice president yes thank you mr president uh you know i'll just say it's been quite a year uh you know so i thank everyone uh teachers or janitors and families for uh being with us uh you know in this year uh though we were able to uh see every see our kids back in the classrooms it's been a bumpy ride but in alan rock fashion we we made it in one piece and we look forward to uh seeing you know seeing all our kids come back in the fall i'm glad that we're able to have uh our students uh have the opportunity of summer programs once again this year and i hope that it's something that we can continue to provide especially in these times where we are coming out of covid and the learning losses related to coven on a lighter note uh i'm glad that uh you know we're you know this summer we're able to start the process of renovating our schools paving the blacktops replacing the marquees uh opening the conversation on workforce housing um you know i also want to take this opportunity to thank mr renee sanchez for all his uh all his work uh for the allen school district we're gonna miss him we're gonna miss his presence and i i wish him uh the best of luck in whatever he does in the future and uh with and so with you know uh one last thing it was very heartening to see our kids at adelante deliver those letters to senator padilla and congressman lockrun it speaks to uh you know we are we are pro you know uh we are providing our kids the uh opportunities to uh see the big uh the wide wide world and that the sky is the limit and that they can do big things if they put their efforts to it so with that thank you very much mr president board member uh yes thank you president cutero just pretty quickly obviously we've been experiencing um some elevated temperatures recently and we're all feeling feeling the heat um but i want to thank our our team our allen mark t milomark staff um at the end of the school year and you know even at this current time for responding to the needs of each classroom of each site of each um you know request for accommodations with regards to temperature and things like that in each room it's it's very known that alum rock you know we are in many ways challenge have our hands kind of tied as to what we can do with with the resources that we currently have but our team our alum rock team continues to you know kind of work miracles and and am i saying that everything is always perfect all the time no absolutely not um but it's with the facilities that we have with the resource that we have our team has done i think an excellent job in to the best of our ability as a district making sure that students and staff have an environment that they are able to work in again improvements we as a board and as an allen rock team we've been working diligently over the past several years to get things lined up to do things very methodically and strategically so that we can address the the bigger issues that we all want to address uh with regards to facilities and and all the different things that are needed and trustee um fam already mentioned some of that work already starting with our asphalt work and the marquees and that's just you know what we can do now but as i mentioned as we continue to work as a board you know the resources that we actually need to be able to really make the difference that we all want are hopefully in the on the horizon and we're continuing to work in that direction but for the time being again i want to appreciate our staff for making the best of what we can do as a district um with the resources that we have and also acknowledge that you know this is not the issue of during these hot times and and whether it's hot or cold it's not an issue exclusive to alum rock many districts have challenges that come up any particular units and things like that um you know have lifespans and have issues that need to be addressed and so it's a it is a you know a very typical common um phenomenon that occurs in any school in any district but like i said we're working towards addressing a bigger issue because we know that it is something that is brought to us quite often we know it's there and we are trying to do it in a way that will be long-standing and sustainable and not just um you know to kind of put a band-aid on something we're trying to do it in a way that is going to have long-term impact on our learning community so thank you allen rock staff for for doing that work that's all my comments poor clerk thank you board president uh i just like to acknowledge um our community for coming together on june 11th um as family members community members angered by the gun violence um and so we came together in front of uh the hillview library so just uh want to give thanks for everybody who showed up um and um those of you who also sent uh your thoughts um it was nice you know to see our children um just playing with chalk drawing pictures um doing activities um and really taking our communities back right i'm saying enough is enough um and with that too uh i've submitted the resolution for safe safer schools um that will be coming to us at our next board meeting um so i look forward to um you know making sure that we're doing everything we can to keep all of our children and all of our staff and teachers safe here in our district um and also you know as a proud trustee but most importantly a proud mom uh you know highlighting the atlanta students for taking the the letters out to washington dc um and you know i want to acknowledge all of the teachers all of the students you know that it wasn't just adelante um you know that group that did the work it was many students that took the time to write a letter very thoughtfully um ensuring that you know our representatives know what we're feeling here in the east side and alum rock elementary school district so thank you to all the students thank you to all the teachers for making that happen um and then coordinating efforts to ensure that uh zoloftgen you know and alex padilla were there to receive those letters so very proud very proud of our district um and then just uh last but not least you know we're doing so good at ellen rock you know as a parent that's been here now my daughter's going into the eighth grade so you know all those years i'm really seeing you know the journey that we've taken um directly as a parent right in those eight years um i'm just so happy and um you know the summer programs um this week and she's loving it um and she's like i'm calling my friends to see they want to join i'm like well find out if you they could still join you know so it's really good to hear that feedback from children um and you know with that as parents of maybe younger ones if you have younger ones that are you know pre-k um tk um you know call call the district and find out what the options are find out um you know what's available um don't wait right because we as a district prepare ahead of time um and so not that there won't be a spot but we want to make sure that we plan ahead um that we have the curriculum ready that we have the materials ready so um you know if you or maybe somebody you know within our district um have somebody you know a student that's younger that maybe you haven't enrolled yet um now is a good time to you know give us a call and ensure that we get um the students enrolled so we can make sure to start our next uh your school year um with all the materials we need all the teachers and administrators um so that we can have a great year so thank you so much and that's it for my report all right well uh for my comments just wanted to touch on upon the i know that we talked about promotions that took place um but there was a promotion took place after our last board meeting i had the opportunity to stop by media uh by hubbard uh the media arts academy and uh very excited to see the that the development of that site that at one time was in a you know situation that was precarious and helen brock went ahead and made some changes so we could see it flourishing so i'm very excited to see the work that's being done there i especially want to recognize those staff that show up day in day out and do their job uh and and are fully committed to serving our students those staff that you know give it all give it their all i want to especially recognize those staff that uh uh really really uh do they do an effective job by being there on a regular basis with their children by serving those those kids that they work with i want to thank those folks in particular uh thank you um with regard to uh alum rock i want to recognize something that kind of just goes unrecognized because it's just seen as a normal course of matter that is done in areas that are id uh but uh the fact that we have a summer lunch program we saw what alum rock did that we were a resource for the community as a whole uh throughout the pandemic and i'm just very very grateful uh that i'm part of a district that isn't just uh showing up and we're at you know what is it 8 30 whatever the school hours are um uh that that our district goes above and beyond to uh meet the needs of our community uh for all children uh what is it uh dr fire reminder i think it's up to 18 that any child within uh our community can go and pick up lunch at our sites and so i want to showcase the fact that our school district is a resources for our is a resource for our community as a whole not just for children that are enrolled because that's exactly what we are we are the district for all of san jose and i'm very very grateful for that um we don't have never mind i'm not going to continue on on that path all of our children are welcome and we don't uh we don't say maybe uh your home school district is your is your best option you know we you are you are all our are our students so please come back bro so um with regard to a matter that's been it was somewhat addressed by one of my colleagues um but i i think it's important to to speak to this matter and be very clear because alum rock has been basically attacked our staff are very hard working uh units that maintain our facilities members of uh teamsters local three fifth giveaway um hard-working people that uh have been [Music] under attack on the district as a whole has been under attack by a series of uh uh statements that have been made and so dr bauer i i know that you spoke and you gave uh some clarification but i think it's important to provide a complete clarification so there's absolutely no question about what's going on many people think that uh they're being driven by this particular story and so if you can please specify what's going on with our air conditioning units uh and uh and if you can elaborate on that i think it's important that we understand that that our our staff goes out there fixes things and if they sometimes there is user error and that needs to be addressed i think it needs to be clarified so that our staff isn't being vilified as not being able to to repair you know items uh yes for president um our for the most part our air conditioning is working and is working properly and we have been giving all of us the direct very specific directions about how to how to manage because those are machines right and they have their limitations throughout the the whole this year with the spike of covet in so many ways we have had two open doors and open windows and we have been given directions including myself because you know i'm not an air conditioning technician so i have to follow directions right and we have been given very specific directions saying if you want to keep your windows open and your door open the air conditioning is not gonna work the way it's supposed to work because these systems were not designed to up to work when there are doors open and windows open and there have been staff who prefer to keep and i understand that we all understand that when we want to make sure we're safe we have decided to open doors to open windows and therefore the machines have busted you know because if you keep the ac on and then you open the window and open the door they're gonna break so in spite of that mlt has been very diligent always coming back always addressing the situation we i i think trustee vegeta said it perfectly it's not perfect we still have some other machines that once in a while are not working properly we have face you know the the the system the the materials delays the part delays that everybody else in the world has been experiencing in per in terms of parts or things that don't arrive on time but in addition to that with this specific the specific series of comments there has been a choice by staff to leave the door open we fixed them the air conditioning the the weekend before and i asked personally i want to know i want to be updated i want to make sure that this is addressed we paid overtime to our air conditioning staff to make sure that that air conditioning was working to make sure that the kids and the staff are fine well monday comes back the ac is working and then it busts again because the door was left open so those are the kinds of things that we adults make as a choice and we know that the consequences are the machine is not ready to work appropriately so that's what's been happening um i hope that one day people design an air conditioning unit and a heating unit that may be able to work with open windows and open doors but as of right now we don't have any of that in our district and so that is even with the window units and even with the the smaller machines that we have to cool off or to warm up a place those machines have been designed to have a closed environment to work properly so no matter what uh system we use in the in this in the classrooms right now they are designed to work with windows that are closed and the door that is closed thank you for the clarification i think it's important that the public and all stakeholders know what the situation is rather than be driven by one particular story or one particular narrative so thank you for that um move on to item 4.01 uh 1.01 approve a superintendent's master's degree stepping up got a motion from member chavez or second uh there's a motion by foreign second by board member do you have any public comment no public comment and on mr board president all right um all right i'll go ahead and i'll call you as i see you unless there's a further discussion from the board remember travis aye board member aye president aye uh board member aye my sophomore night motion passed unanimously item 4.02 discussion consideration of uh approved resolution 64-2122 motion all right uh give me a quick uh is there a second second motion by programmer chavez second by foreign no public comment mr board president further comments members of the board uh board vice uh yes thank you mr president uh question to dr bauer i believe uh i believe at the last uh uh at the june 9th board meeting i i had asked uh administration about uh a road map to bringing the board back to the board room in in a high in a hybrid uh configuration uh you know is there any uh updates or consideration uh you know considerations that the board needs to uh think about uh at this time or uh you know uh you know or should we or should we wait until um july at the regularly scheduled meeting for july to check in so you requested this last board meeting on june 9 trustee fam and quite honestly uh one of the major concerns that that was that was highlighted if you recall the last time we had the board in the board um room with one trusty um you know outside the sound system is still not what we need to do so i haven't had a chance to follow up with i.t to address some of those sound concerns that were written when we had that closed session in the boardroom so i'm just letting you know that because this has been kind of fast you know we had a uh the board meeting two weeks ago yeah and the majority of believe it or not the majority of staff district office staff support staff are on vacation either this week or we're on vacation sometime last week so um just so that you know what's what's going on for us because my you know if that's the case i mean if if we had all five i maybe i was hoping that the hybrid would work better because we wouldn't have that you know issue of the uh you know i well i'm not electronics expert but you know we could better manage the sound here uh you know in the boardroom you know as opposed to having uh you know it's kind of like electric wires right it works best of all these houses are connected with electric wires underground and you know not like the old the old overhead where you have one wire going to each house like some of the older houses in the city you know that creates a uh a lot more variables to deal with but you know but i i you know so i guess i i do hope that i t has a better idea for us so that we we so that the board has a uh good idea of what it what what needs to happen to have you know all the board members back in the boardroom you know hopefully by you know as i mentioned the goal would be by september of this year uh board member [Music] uh yes thank you president keep that i just want to um clarify at least how i recall what what my kind of question or concern was at the time is what whether or not um one individual board member or several for that matter or anybody that was in the zoo meeting was in the room at that time my experience on my end and was that the audio issues would have existed whether or not there was one or two people that were not in the room and so those issues with um the volume and the the feedback and the echoing and the muting and all those kinds of things i think um you know as as vice president fam has requested this roadmap i think those are the things that i would want um for our it team to consider just because from my perspective from that experience it would still be a challenge to provide um you know transparency and access to the public if those issues existed and like i said i believe based on how i experienced it that whether or not one or two or three people were in the room at the time those issues um were independent of that so that's just my thought but that you know that again that's as the team works on developing this roadmap those are the things that i would want them to consider being that you know i want i think we all want for the public to be able to obviously access our meetings and be transparent and all those things so that was just my experience that i wanted to share with that further comments from members of the board and uh uh dr barr i was just gonna reassure trusty fam that i i will follow up and we'll take care and i agree with trustee pejerano that was my other concern that the sound for the audience it's also appropriate all right um i believe i already called the public comment earlier on correct was it yes correct all right thank you for the reminder um all right look we have a motion in a second uh walrus president you're gonna get your road map and you're gonna work on that with dr power um and so we'll go ahead and move on which is that i'll call you this to you board member travis hi foreign hi where was president hi board member board clerk this is the adoption of resolution 62-21 mostly 22 the order of election uh do we have a motion for that item motion have a second second do you have any public comments mr board president i see no request for public comment uh further comments for members of the board or member of the board vice president thank you mr president well here we are this is uh you know this is what we mean by democracy so here we have it this is uh vice president trump am i the only one who's having trouble is it sounds a little lower i i hear you all right can you hear me okay what about others are you hearing a board vice president i can hear i can hear both of you fine i can hear both fine too if you can uh yeah right keep on going okay well yes well here we are we are you know this is democracy at its finest yeah you know uh uh as a school district uh that is community-based uh we are you know our terms are our terms are you know for those of us up this cycle our terms are uh coming to their expiration date so uh you know this is the you know this is the moment where we you know go back to the community and you know ask them you know our performance evaluation right or report card so uh this is where we go to the residence of this district and uh you know ask them to whether or not they approve of the job we do or not and to choose accordingly and you know i you know it is my hope that i you know all of us have done our best to to earn the trust and the respect of the voters and so is uh with this uh you know it's it's time to uh was it it's time to take our year-end report card you know what whatever grades they they may be so i you know uh you know got no you know uh i believe in democracy it you know we've got to [Music] publish this order so with that good luck to everybody in the upcoming election thank you president quintet i just want to um also provide some clarification for the public that may not already be aware um but this particular election cycle coming up is a little bit different than what typically would happen at this time and so um just for the purpose of clarity so there are if you look at the board book it's it's provided they're in the board book but there are three seats that will be up that are four-year seats so the people that run for and are elected into those seats will be on a full four-year term each one of them and then there's also a two-year seat which was is the remainder of one of our current seats as well so the person who runs for and is elected into that two-year seat will serve on the board for two years and then they will need to you know if they were interested they would need to run again which then that will become a four-year seat just as it normally is and correct me if i'm wrong anyone on any of this but that person that wins the two-year seat in this upcoming elite election in two years would need to run again for what would then be a four-year seat um and anybody who did not run this current upcoming election for the two-year seat would then that seat would be up again in two years and it would be four years at that time so to try to make it a little more clear there's three seats that are four-year terms and one seat that is a two-year term and the person that wins a two-year seat would run again if they so choose in two years um and then run for a four-year seat at that time that would get us back to our normal cycle of three three seats one election and then two seats the next election so if anything that i just said is inaccurate dr bauer or anybody please correct me but i believe that is what we will be um have on our ballot in this upcoming election just for the purposes of clarity for the public any uh anybody else up comments in the center want to further elucidate that's good i think it's important to really thank you all for for letting the public know because they might see this and say well what is this elections and stuff that sort and we have to take this action in order to ask the county to hold the election and then also to consolidate it if not then we'd have to hold one special election that is solely underwritten by al mock which would be prohibitively expensive and so therefore we have to attach it to your regular election uh general election uh that's taking place in november so um hopefully that that uh lets people know what's going on so some of these esoteric or strange things that take place in the school um while we're on this topic i forgot to mention in my comments i want to congratulate tony alexander former alum rock school board trustee uh who served here years uh you know some time ago and uh who was just recently appointed to the san jose evergreen community college district board of trustees and so we were on the subject of elections trustees and stuff that sort of just i i slipped my mind i had it in my notes and i didn't mention it so i just wanted to congratulate notes out of order but if you'll indulge me uh i wanted to congratulate um now trustee board member alexander um all right so we have a motion in a second i called the public comment earlier and uh if there's no further comments from members of the board i'll go ahead and move forward with the votes as i see you we'll remember travis [Music] um all right we're going to move on to it approval of the ar usd strategic plan um i trust that um everything got worked out uh in all the uh items in the edits were taken care of between the board meetings so this point um if uh is there any comments from members of the public mr board president at this time i see no request for public comment all right uh board member chavez you raise your hand i i think i did it by mistake but i was but now that you called on me i guess uh when they're done with their comments i just wanted to make a motion to approve okay uh board board member yes thank you uh just briefly i wanted to thank dr bauer and thank the committee the team that's been working so hard on the strategic plan i know uh myself and and trustee herrera had some specific feedback at the last meeting and so i believe we both provided that i know i provided that and i believe trusteer and i did as well um to the team and i want to thank them for doing um a good job of integrating um the feedback that we had um and i think we both we were able to do it in a way that at least as far from my perspective um still keeps all of the integrity of the work that was previously done by the group by the committee um and just kind of adds a little bit more onto that um to to to create what i think is a very comprehensive um plan that we can work with going forward and i believe as all as many of these kinds of things as is the case with them it is a living document i believe i'm open to being corrected on that but if so then you know as the environment changes as our you know the realities of the district change we can always modify and improve upon it but i think we have a good product now and i just wanted to um express my gratitude to everyone for not only developing the plan but also integrating some of the feedback that they received so thank you yeah i i also wanted to thank uh the staff um and the team for uh listening to our feedback and you know um kind of back and forth you know we had a couple conversations uh i especially want to thank um the superintendent you know because there are some things that i'm like you know i had to have drawn for me to understand and you know i think vice versa so that we can get to a point where you know um we all feel good you know and i feel a hundred percent about this uh very again proud of the work that has been done especially having been you know a part of the strategic planning team um before i become a trustee is the um very grateful for you know especially the parents you know that sat um you know i know staff get paid but you know as parents you know we do it voluntarily and so um you know really uh feeling grateful for for their involvement especially um and you know i thank you dr bauer i did see the edit on page four um to have a metric system that uh we can you know at least work off of so that you know we can see the improvement year by year um so yeah thank you so much uh board rest president yes thank you mr president uh you know thank you thank you to everyone uh you know more you know fellow trustees the administration staff parents who work on this thing you know uh it's quite a journey you know i think that we we kind of started this off early in 2021 uh working you know in partly with the glenn price group to kind of start laying out our you know our own core principles and you know to see you know where there was common ground and you know we we have a document that you know wow while it will be ever changing it's the framework that this district is going to take to uh provide in a a quality education to the children we serve so you know it is uh you know uh i'm optimistic that this uh strategic plan will serve us well you know in you know as we move forward you know as uh you know and it's sort of fitting that in the 90th anniversary uh year of our district that we are putting in place a strategic plan to uh provide a 21st century education uh an education for the you know next century of students so with that uh you know i'll be in favor of this strategic plan and with that thank you very much uh board member travis yeah um i'm just thankful that it we had finally have a strategic plan and if we can vote on it thanks all right um i want to thank all those involved in strategic plan we know that uh staples as was mentioned but i also want to recognize all the stakeholders parents and all the other groups uh staff and everybody who's who was instrumental in putting this together and ensuring that it was a product that came from the district that's going to guide us and serve as a north star as we move forward to ensure that we've provided a quality and dignified education to all of our children here in alamo and so thank you all for your work um particularly my colleagues that uh went ahead and took out the red pan and started really digging uh digging indeed those of us who you know uh i i was comfortable with the work that was done by the body had a couple of uh slight modifications here and there but i do appreciate um the extra effort that was put on by my colleagues who went ahead and really you know had a significant had some very substantive uh um additions that are gonna be that are making that much stronger remember thank you for your work uh former travis i want to recognize your diligence and ensuring that uh this stayed on and that we moved on it so appreciate your um your work on this as well uh remember ben i know you had a comment yeah i forgot to say this sorry during my comment but i wanted to um i guess propose this for my colleagues and and dr bauer see what you think but you know sometimes in my experience working with mission statements or strategic plans or things like that it's a lot of work goes into creating them and then they get put in a nice binder or a powerpoint or whatever and then they just put it up on the shelf and five years later seven years later it comes up again and we create a new one and so i was wondering um what the thought might be as to setting an agenda item annually um i'm thinking and just as a like a review or a report on how the work that the district has done during that particularly year has aligned with the strategic plan and or what modifications or shifts may be needed as we move forward in you know in the work in a dynamic environment and everything going on so basically it's what i'm i guess proposing i guess i'll propose it as part of the motion maybe and it would maybe be an amended motion would be to include a yearly agenda item just a report back on um how the district has worked in that that preceding year to align with the um the work of the committee and the strategic plan itself good idea uh board member travis do you have random if it's gonna hold up the strategic plan now i would i would like to maybe ask uh trustee pejerano if we can do that in the next meeting but for now i think um because it has been developed if we can go ahead and vote on it today so that we can have the strategic plan start laying out and then maybe add to it uh like he said annually or semi-annually but i think that's a good idea what trustee behrano said thank you uh so your idea was to approve this strategic plan and then direct staff to come back within six months or a year from now yeah i don't my intention was not to hold back in any way like starting to move forward with what we have currently tonight um it was just to add on an annual um review of the work and how it aligns with the strategic plan so i'm saying annually as a repeating item every year you know we could select whatever month that may be in but um maybe you know maybe this time of year or something like that might be a good time um next year from from today's date or something like that so that's what i was proposing but my intention is not to hold back the approval of the item tonight yeah i don't i don't think that is something that's going to hold it up because you know if you go to the challenge or the city everybody already incorporates an assessment 20 policy so this would be basically that a year you know a year from now assess whether or not so is that a motion or do i have a motion motion please the motion by removing that uh the item be approved along with a uh in a year from now come back staff come back with an assessment of the strategic plan yes can i just tweak that a little bit not just what i'm saying is not just in a year from now but annually so a year from now but then annually after that as well you can do that but right here what we're doing is saying come back in here for now all right whatever like yeah sure let's go ahead a yearly basis yes all right so my motion is annually on a yearly basis thank you so you're approving it and asking for an annual review sounds good we need a second now second second okay i think uh remember give it a second excuse me so when i changed it we didn't need another second well you accepted the you you made the motion correct the second one the first time the second and you're gonna move more annually so okay thank you just for clarification thanks so we got the motion there's a second any further comments from the board seeing none then i'll go ahead and play as i see you i had called for public comment earlier so we'll move forward with uh the votes whatever child is hi foreign uh member of behalf aye for vice president trump aye for uh clerk anybody wish you a comment please indicate by mr board president we have no request for public comment on this item all right uh any further comments members of the board see none i'll call you as i see you remember chavez no board member uh aye board rice president yes okay you know man it sounds really loud yeah now now okay because i can hear the rest of you really well so uh um man i think if you can figure out if that microphone is covered up or something or or something going on can you hear me now cause it's getting really difficult to hear or if you can uh mute yourself and i mean yourself the last time it worked really well can you hear me now it sounds like you're really far away like you're talking like a tube or something give it a try or maybe you log off and lock back on okay oh that sounds better okay you can hear me now i think when you're moving the the screen or something it messes with the microphone okay now i can hear you just keep it that way okay don't move it don't breathe [Laughter] um i'm in the boardroom so this is this is not a good you know another area to have um all right moving on to item 5.01 this is the adoption of the district's proposed 2022 through 2023 budget uh dr bauer um i'm assuming that mr chang is going to go ahead and provide a presentation yeah he's he's about to speak yes good evening board president members of the board and dr bauer um there is no presentation up with this item uh the presentation was done last last on june 9th and so respectfully um staff is is is requesting approval um for the budget that was presented on june 9.

let's start and just say that uh welcome to you all this is the june 23rd 1922 electron meeting of the environmental commission of ann arbor this meeting is in accordance with the executive orders of the governor to affect social distancing and mitigate the spread of covet 19 virus we intend to conduct this meeting similarly to an in-person meeting however we're asking you to be patient if there are technical issues since we just resolved some public comment will be by telephone only to speak during any of the public comment opportunities please call i'm going to read a different number here 8 seven seven eight five three five two four seven and enter meeting id nine one five uh i think that's eight three four three nine four seven six and let's see this information is available on the published agenda and the public notices section of the city website and on the broadcast of this meeting on the ctn channel 16 a t at t channel 99 and online on www.a2gov.org watch ctn uh that is the kickoff to our meeting uh and with that i'd like to call this order and ask alan to read the land heritage statement all righty heritage statement i acknowledge that the land the city of ann arbor occupies is the ancestral traditional and contemporary lands of the anishinabe including ottawa ojibwe and bolton rodney and wyandotte peoples i further acknowledge that our city stands like almost all property in the united states on lands obtained generally in unconscionable ways from indigenous peoples the taking of this land was formalized by the treaty of detroit in 1807 knowing where we live work study and recreate does not change the past but a thorough understanding of the ongoing consequences of this past can empower us in our work to create a future that supports human flourishing and justice for all individuals and that is the land heritage statement thank you galen um and now i'd like to ask you to call the role please okay all right uh commissioner needham council member dish president from evanston illinois all right uh commissioner graham commissioner graham councilmember griswold president from ann arbor right commissioner kylie ward here all right chef person brown steven brown all right vice chair person uh rita mitchell here in ann arbor uh commissioner vandenbroe thanks for watching wait a minute um yeah no one's in the queue all righty uh commissioner i believe that he won't be here you want me to leave him as absent and present absent please okay um commissioner oriole here in ann arbor commissioner gibb randall commissioner gibb randall commissioner morrison commissioner here in ann arbor right commissioner gruber here in ann arbor commissioner uh nedritz commissioner nederitz all right we have a quorum we do are you sure one two three my name wasn't called in ann arbor hey what was that i'm oh juno so sorry i gotta check that yeah i'm sorry about that she used to be on a legislator commissioner juno here in ann arbor all right we have a quorum that feels better good um great so i would like to ask for approval of the agenda um commissioner councilmember griswold seconded by councilman commissioner callaway thank you and next um like approval of the minutes from our may meeting any comments on the minutes any concerns not may i consider them approved i'm hearing nothing i'm going to say yes okay griswold executive by gruber thank you sorry for using just your last names um our next item of um business is public commentary and galen would you please check to see if there are anyone callers to make comments there's no one there for public comment okay i'm gonna just because i think there was a problem for me reading this and i'm just gonna say with that number again it's id is 877-853-5247 it was hard for me to read that first time so just for sure okay with that um i would like us to move on to our um first presentation and i i really appreciate professor dick um norton for um i'm sorry wrong i got it in wrong order we're starting with the municipal utility uh electric utility presentation by greg woodring who's president for ann arbor for public power we were to have this presentation at our last meeting in may and it was we ran out of time so mr woodring was kind enough to join us again tonight and i wanted to say that that i am an active advocate for this particular program i just want that out there in the open for us all um and i work as a volunteer for it myself um and i see it as it's being included in this discussion because we had a presentation on the city's proposal for a sustainable energy utility that is potentially a compliment for this kind of program and so i thought it was worthwhile for the commission to hear about the ann arbor for public power presentation and and its options and it is also involved with a feasibility study along with the scu so with that um i'll stop talking and ask mr woodring to proceed with his presentation thank you so much rita um i appreciate the great introduction my name is greg woodring i'm president of antarctic public power and uh we have a presentation here for you tonight um i'm probably going to move through some of it a little bit quicker because i expect you all to be a little bit more up to date on some of these things based off of the previous um oh that didn't work uh slideshow based of the previous presentation that you got um as well as just your general awareness for being commissioners but if i slide over anything that you are more interested in hearing about feel free to just ask me to go into more detail i'm very open to that but uh without further ado um we are ann arbor for public power so who is ann arbor for public power what is ann arbor for public power well we're a coalition coalition of members from various local organizations we have representation from dsa sunrise indivisible climate action movement washington 350 ann arbor beyond bernie geo friday's for futures we recently got an endorsement from our revolution michigan which was very much appreciated so we managed to build a decent coalition of people doing work in and around ann arbor and fundamentally what we believe in is a green and publicly owned future we want to democratize decommodify decarbonize and decolonize our energy sources and so what is it the problem that we're facing right the problem in ann arbor uh is that dte is not transitioning to renewable energy fast enough to meet our global or local emissions targets right dte is actually the third dirtiest major utility in the country uh this uh is their most recent fuel mix that they published um for last year they burned about 58 coal that's up eight percent from the year prior about 10 fracked gas um they got about 23 percent of their power from nuclear and about 9.5 from renewables and that renewables in fact is a little bit misleading because some of that renewable energy actually a decent portion of that renewable energy is actually burned garbage which i don't think many of us would consider exactly uh eco-friendly um and so you know just to kind of illustrate that point right ann arbor has set an ambitious but i believe reachable carbon neutrality date of 2030.

city of lansing by comparison the city's largest municipal utility lost just a little bit over 250 that's about a four times less outage right which means their power went out less often and it came back up quicker affordability it is also cheaper uh so you get better service for a cheaper rate on average nationwide a municipal utility tends to pay about 14 less than their iou counterparts and once again that is not quite the uh same extent in michigan uh ann arbor under dte and it's actually gone up since uh these numbers were pulled um but when these numbers were pulled we're about 17.51 cents per kilowatt hour it's about 18-ish now um chelsea our next door neighbor by comparison spent about 10.15 cents per kilowatt hour that is a 40 less that they are paying for their energy and really the reason is because they're municipal on utility right in fact chelsea uh doesn't buy different power than we do right they write a check to dte every year to buy their power but they're able to collectively bargain on it right and they're able to uh buy energy at a considerably cheaper rate because of the uh advantageous position that they're put into by buying this in bulk as a city now we don't just believe we should do this because it's cheaper better power though many might be able to argue that that's enough of a reason but we have more to it than that a municipal energy utility will give us local control right with the municipal energy utility we have pretty much control over everything that we do with our power we would control our rates we would control where our power comes from and we would control when our infrastructure is updated right a recent uh state um study showed that dte's infrastructure a large portion of it was about 40 years past its functional end of life which means that it should have been replaced back in the 80s and yet it's still in operation here today right that is a large contributing factor disease by liability concerns that we have and it's simply a decision that we wouldn't need to make if we owned it ourselves also it invests in our community right and i can get into the details of pilot versus taxes and how uh municipal utilities actually contribute quite a bit money more money back to their community uh through um what's called a city fee then uh investor owned utilities typically payback and taxes but it also means that we're going to be investing in good jobs in our local community right jobs that would be protected by our responsible contracting policies right that we'd be able to build in union protections to it would allow us to build a modern and reliable uh infrastructure right in a modern reliable energy grid we know that the future of energy is not these large investor-owned coal-fired power plants or large centralized power plants right the future of energy is the distributed network of reliable infrastructure that is able to stand up to the ravages of climate change right these storms and outed uh things that cause these outages are only going to get worse and we need to become more resilient if we want to overcome that right and finally and what i think is probably the most convincing to personally us and likely many of you it's the environmentally responsible choice in short it allows us to reach our climate goals on our own terms we do not need to rely on what dte decides is profitable for them to invest in we are able to seek out our own reliable our renewable power and buy that power instead right there's two basic ways that we would be able to get power with a municipal energy utility right we'd be able to obviously use as much power as we pop generate as much power as we possibly can within the city right we can invest in rooftop solar we can provide uh programs that will help incentivize rooftop solar and make it affordable to people right things like on bill financing many of these same policies that the seu is looking to implement the uh muni would also be able to implement them and it would have the advantage of being able to do it at a larger scale because it would be the entire city that would be involved in this rather than subscribers um and it would also allow us to get over many of these restrictions that dt have uh put on us right dte currently puts a one percent cap on local distributed energy generation that is at the discretion of your utility right if we had our own municipal owned utility we'd be able to eliminate that cap also dte since we made this slide has started lobbying to try to put a tariff on every homeowner with rooftop solar estimates are that our homeowners with rooftop solar are going to be paying about a hundred dollars extra per month in their energy bills just for having rooftop solar we wouldn't need to do that right that would be that is at the discretion of the utility and that's something that we'd be able to overcome with our own municipal energy utility and also just to prove the point there are exactly six utilities in america at the moment that have a 100 renewable fuel mix all of them are publicly owned utilities either cooperatives or municipal utilities and so let's talk about funding this is obviously one of the big issues right how much is this going to cost is it going to lead to increased taxes is it going to bankrupt the city and there's serious questions to ask however thankfully i think we have a good answer for you on that one so typically the way that you fund uh municipalization is that you do it through a revenue bond right so the city which they're currently working on at the moment will fund a feasibility study and that will evaluate exactly you know at least within the ballpark how much is it going to cost to buy out this infrastructure right then it's going to estimate how much money is it going to take to run this utility and how much money will we get back in the rates right you dte is already charging us quite a bit in rates instead of that money going to dte that money would then be going to the city uh and there's going to be almost certainly money left over and pretty much every single city that has undergone this uh procedure there is considerable money left over and that pays for the service on the debt for the bonds right so you the muni pays for itself and in fact in most communities there's actually even more than that and that's money that's able to go back to the city and be reinvested in any programs that the city wants right it can go towards more sustainability or parks or water oh i don't know if it can go to water but that it can go to a lot of whatever the city wants um so yeah it doesn't raise taxes provides additional funding in short it's the cheapest way that we possibly could reach our climate goals because it's going to make us money um and you know here's a graph that kind of illustrates how that works out for other communities across the state right all of these communities are of very different sizes but i can assure you that this is a decent amount of money for each of them traverse city back in 2020 where i pulled these numbers from their financial statements made 1.6 million dollars holland made 7.6 million dollars and lansing made a whopping 23.1 million dollars money written back to the city um so now i've got a bit of a thing on the legal history i'm going to go through this a little bit quicker because i think that many of you are up to date but essentially this outlines the details of the foot act right so back when electricity was new and people were trying to electrify it some cities went down the path of creating their own municipal utilities most of the municipal energy utilities you see in michigan nowadays come from this era where they stood it up themselves and built out their own infrastructure many communities couldn't afford to do that right and they relied on private funding to be able to do it and if someone's going to provide private funding they're going to expect a return on their investment and that makes a certain amount of sense so they the cities would agree to what's called a franchise agreement and they would say for a set amount of time 5 10 20 30 years we will only buy power from you however in 1905 there was an effort to standardize how these contracts were being done right every city had their own contract and it was a bit of the wild west and the state wanted to say that there is a standard way to enter into these contracts and they rewrote all of them now foot is the last name of a man who sat on the board of a company called consumer's energy and it just so happened that there was applause within that foot act that when they rewrote all these franchise agreements they happened to leave out the expiration date on all of these agreements so now we pretty much every city in michigan not all of them but most of them had these contracts back in 1905 and they became footage franchises that were indefinite um and they provided an indefinite uh franchise agreement to that utility forever um in 1907 people got really mad about this they passed a amendment to the state constitution saying that no franchise agreement can last more than 30 years the supreme court then uh heard a case brought to them challenging this amendment the supreme court of michigan found that yes this amendment will apply to all future franchise agreements but it doesn't apply to previous ones which is a bit frustrating because they kind of just rewrote all the contracts and they said well you can't modify a contract but over the next uh hundred some years this was held up time and time again and it's become rather established law in fact they actually expanded this to say that a company buying another company that holds these franchise agreements actually inherits them so ann arbor signed a contract back in 1895 i believe to a company i think it was called the michigan electric company a small little company and it was providing power to 26 different electric light bulbs in ann arbor that agreement became a foot act franchise agreement which then got bought by another company that got bought by another company that eventually got bought by dte and to this day dte now has a perpetual franchise agreement in ann arbor and nobody is allowed to compete with them for providing power except there is one exception to the foot act franchise and that is that a city can always have a right to its own franchise a city is able to provide power to itself so if we ever want to get out from under the boot of dte and their deceptive business practices and their corrosive uh impact on our state legislator and the fact that they are undermining renewable efforts across the state and even the nation there was a recent report that showed that they're heavily lobbying to influence energy policy within the state of california then we're going to need to do it ourselves we're going to need to break away from them so how do we do that how is it that we municipalize well luckily we already did the first step uh the city council commissions a feasibility study and this feasibility study evaluates many of those key metrics that i mentioned before such as the cost of acquiring assets and how much money it'll make and if it will be able to cover the price of the bonds with the money that it makes then it goes to the ballot the state constitution requires that this be done on the ballot by a vote of the people and it needs at least a 60 vote in that election right so it is sixty percent yes uh in the election that it's held what that will do is it establishes the governance structure and the authorizes the city to begin negotiations with dte to purchase out their infrastructure now dte is not exactly likely to be very friendly to this idea and they probably will not agree to the price that the city offers so what that means is it's going to have to likely go to court and a court will decide what is the price of these assets once the court has decided what the price of the assets are there's one more vote where we authorize the funding to actually purchase out the infrastructure and after that we've got our muni right we're able to start moving aggressively towards 100 renewable electricity in ann arbor and you know i wanted to throw this in uh because a lot of this conversation is centering around a lot of the exciting stuff that the city is doing with a sustainable energy utility i just want to say that ann arbor for public power is excited about the sustainable energy utility we see it as a good first step at moving towards 100 renewable power it allows us uh hopefully at least to get started quickly on getting more resilient local power generation but there's always going to be a bit of a bottleneck here right it's a subscriber-based program people are going to have to opt into it the city's rfp that they recently released estimated at its highest a 50 buy-in rate on the seu right so we can get started on the seo we can start to uh get people installing their own home solar and in the same time we can work towards municipalization right which is going to be able to get us that 100 mark right the seu also is not going to have access to um buy power from outside of the city right it's not going to have access to those power purchase agreements that would allow us to buy power from other renewable power generation sources outside of the city uh municipalization would open that door for us right so i see and i think that this is a general opinion of ann arbor for public power we see that these are complementary plans right we can get started quickly on doing whatever we can without buying the infrastructure and then once we get that infrastructure we're able to move quickly and do the rest of the job and i just want to leave you with a few successful examples of municipalization from across the country so along island new york back in 1998 initialized their energy utility they now serve well over a million customers and they managed to reduce their electric rates by an average of 20 percent winter park florida uh they actually gave us a fantastic presentation to the energy commission back in october of 2021 and i highly recommend that people go back and look at it they municipalized their power back in 2005.

all right mr mcconney we're ready to open mr paris thank you okay good evening everyone and welcome to the regularly scheduled meeting of the clinton board of education thursday june 23 2022 if you all would please rise for a salute to our flag followed by a brief moment of silence i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all thank you roll call please mr abdrabo mr awad miss beltran mr canova here dr danny mr paris here vice president daley here president smith uh here we have a quorum i am so sorry miss basford [Music] um miss dr danny uh will not be here this evening it is her graduation at the school that she works at so she had to be at graduation so uh she apologized she would not be here uh i heard from both uh mr abu drabo and mr awad that they are running late from work but they should be here shortly okay yes yeah appropriate for you i'm just going to read it just okay just save some time do you want to read it here i'll just do it uh our mission statement of the clifton school district in an open and reciprocal community partnership is to provide all students with a quality education to develop the skills necessary to become literate lifelong learners who are responsible and productive citizens contributing to a democratic society in an ever-changing world new jersey open public meetings law was enacted to ensure the right to the public to have advanced notice of and to attend the meetings of public bodies at which any business affecting their interest is discussed or acted upon in accordance with the provisions of this act the board of education has caused notice of this meeting to be publicized by having the date time and place thereof posted at the city clerk's office clifton public library administration building senior citizen nutrition center on cable tv in the local press on the district's website and mailed to presidents of parent teacher organizations this meeting will be tape recorded in accordance with policy zero one eight the board will uh take a motion to executive session to um discuss the superintendent's evaluation so moved by mr vice president daley second second by mr canova roll call please miss bassford yes mr canova yes mr paris yes vice president daley yes and president smith yes uh please note for the record that mr paris uh is uh will not be coming into executive session due to conflicts that he has okay uh we hope uh the board will be back at uh 7 p.m uh to uh start our regular uh schedule mr president yes just want to know for the record that misspell transfer oh yeah okay so you're officially a record okay [Music] all right let's go [Music] okay the board of education met an executive session um to discuss a personnel matter um roll call back from uh executive mr abedrabo here mr awad here miss bashford here miss beltran here mr canova here dr danny mr paris here vice president daley here president smith here we have a quorum uh dr danny um is um she is a school teacher and her school is graduating tonight so she had to be at the graduation and apologizes that she is not at the meeting tonight okay we're going to start off with public recognition this portion of the meeting is open to the residents and non-residents of the city of clifton for the purpose of addressing any subject matter pertinent to and or directly related to the operation of the clifton public school district residents and non-residents are requested if in person to sign the registered provider for this purpose all speakers are asked to state their names municipality in which they live and subject matter before speaking comments are limited to five minutes per person issues raised by members of the public may or may not be responded to by the board all comments will be considered and the response will be forthcoming if and when appropriate your request may or may not be answered by board members the board asks that members of the public be courteous and mindful of the rights of other individuals when speaking specifically comments regarding students and employees of the board are discouraged and will not be responded to by the board students and employees have specific legal rights afforded by the laws of the state of new jersey the board bears no responsibility nor will will it be liable for any comments made by members of the public members of the public should consider their comments in light of the legal rights of those affected or identified in their comments and be aware that they are legally responsible and liable for their comments okay so we'll start uh do we have anyone on the uh calling they're calling it out there is no one in the um in the okay motion to close the virtual motion i missed our okay we'll now open the public session uh for in person if you'd like to address the board please come up to the podium and address the board you'll have five minutes thank you good evening everybody mark brunsiak holly street clifton this is in recognition of the high school seniors about to graduate clifton high school congratulations congratulations graduates tomorrow is a great day it's a day to celebrate with your family and friends a day you've been waiting for since you entered kindergarten those 13 or more years ago for some it's waiting to get out of school and forge ahead with your life for others of you high school graduation is just the next step in your education you're headed to a community college a university an apprenticeship training or possibly enlisting in the military to the daunting task of preparing for the career you want to pursue but for all of you as you return the caps and gowns you're wearing tomorrow and take your tassels and diplomas home remember this the diploma you receive today essentially is your insurance policy with the premium paid in full by your hard work over the 13 plus years the value of that policy depends on how much effort you put into your education and what you do with it as you go on use it take advantage of what it offers a multitude of studies show that your high school diploma is your passport to a potential of higher earnings and protection against tough economic times it's not a guarantee but it will always be an asset your diploma also represents an education system that attempts to ensure all young people here in clifton even the neediest have access to the same experiences that have shaped you and me in education and exposure to the diverse beliefs and traditions that drive an ever more independent interdependent and complex world and a chance to experience the joy of learning take those experiences with you keep close the student and teacher friends you've made at clifton high school and do well wherever you go and in whatever you do you've earned your passport use it well congratulations again to each of you and i wish you continued success in the years ahead thank you for your time and god bless america have a good night everybody [Applause] thank you anyone else wishing to address the board let's go to tv my name is nicole zaretsky i'm a certified school nurse at school 11.

i've been there for 23 years i live in clifton my whole life my i raise my family here myself and my children are all products of the clifton public schools we constantly hear about one clifton but as school nurses we are starting to feel clifton divided one clifton should mean clifton is a family and a team we feel divided because we have staff members that have been true to clifton and have been practicing nursing in the clifton district for years in this room alone with the few nurses that we have there's over 200 experi 200 years of nursing experience and education and skills uncertified nurses are starting at a higher step and salaries causing discontent and a mass exodus of skilled certified nurses as nicole said before six in the past six months that's going to leave us very short come september my colleagues and i here are in support of nicole's comments and we all agree we urge the members of the administration the union and the board of education to reconsider earlier proposals as way of retaining certified school nurses thank you for listening [Applause] good evening uh al dubois clifton um first thing i like to bring up is the children now use their chromebooks a lot and i don't know if he's already looked into this or not i just wanted to bring this to your attention has there been anything done about their uh the strain on their eyes uh are you hearing anything about kids maybe having because they do go home they do homework and then they do their other stuff so i was just just a suggestion if if there is maybe have them at the end of a period that's pretty intense especially if they're using the chromebook the whole period to have their cup to take a minute and cup their eyes i think that relieves some pressure but i'm not sure and i'm leaving it in your hands i just wanted to mention it because it looks like it's going to be the trend of the future i saw the clifton merchant magazine and it was excellent and it's it really does represent what we have here is a lot of beautiful things in here written and it is true a lot of it is true and let's keep striving for this um president smith you have a nice picture in here happy birthday during this month i'd like to bring up the mission statement real quick it says in the mission statement we have an open and reciprocal community partnership and at the end it has we're lifelong learners who are responsible and productive citizens contributing to a democratic society in an ever-changing world i i mean if you have time sometime in the near future can you review this statement and maybe add in there and i know you don't want to add certain um phrases like god and country but maybe if you add it in there just the general thing of the pledge of allegiance because in the pledge of allegiance it talks about what our country's the republic and it mentions god because it's just too vague in an ever-changing world and a democratic society means that our children are really just pawns for whoever may come in and decide to make whatever changes are necessary and sometimes they have to make a stand and say wait a minute i have beliefs and i have to hold on to these beliefs at least the pledge of allegiance if it's incorporated in there or something else i mean you know you have time to reflect on that can make it where there's some kind of a solid belief in something um the other thing i'd like to bring up is the resolution that you are going to adopt tonight for the lgbtq uh there's some good statements in there that are that are definitely needed for any any person no matter who it is but there is a lot of exclusions while you're recognizing a certain group of individuals you're also excluding other individuals who may not think so much in the terms of their beliefs especially people who are of a certain religion so by do your resolution which gives it a whole month that you're going to incorporate programs and classes and indoctrination you might want to include in there you know about there's other people that we also need to be careful of and respectful of also at the same time who may feel and if somebody's belief conflicts with somebody else's belief well then you're going to have to figure out how to resolve that in the most peaceful way but it does exclude other avenues two meetings ago vice president daley brought up about the budget and he had stated that there was a he wasn't happy with the way that meeting had went and that there was a a lack of public trust and i believe he was addressing the board members ms bashford also brought up at the same meeting that there's no transparency amongst the board members so you have two board members who are pretty much on the same level of saying that there's issues i would love to hear more about that transparency public trust i think those are important issues to be discussed i mean if there is a mal administration going on we and i'm not saying with administration i mean with the board members i would like to know more about it but it's hard to when you're sitting back here and there's a discussion going on one person on this side says something the person on that side says something votes seem that they're saying good stuff and it's a ping-pong match you know you don't know who it would be nice to have meetings where we can sit and reflect and hear more about it but i do have a concern about all that i was at that budget meeting and the way it was presented the last minute the way it went i agree with you mr daly that there was an issue there but i think you should go further and miss bastard if there is no transparency i'd like to hear more about specifics of where there's not transparency thank you [Applause] good evening my name is jan hagen i'm from roxbury township in morris county i'm here to talk about the sex education and uh a little bit about the budget i was here a couple months ago when you guys had that budget meeting and i find it i found it actually quite interesting um the teachers had given a presentation of the sex education that they were gonna um the curriculum that they were using and at first i thought the response was appropriate showing you know highlighting i think sir you said you had young children you didn't like uh vagina and penis used for uh first and second graders i agree okay i don't understand why that has to be done but let me ask you are you comfortable with a lesson for your young daughter your fifth grade daughter on masturbation does that make you comfortable that doesn't make me comfortable okay um do you want her to start thinking more about sex than she does about playing soccer or swimming or math why do we have to highlight these things for such young children are you comfortable with advisors telling your daughter how she can get an abortion without you knowing about it when she's in high school throughout the presentation there were recurring themes the first one is that children have been taught this for 10 years we've been teaching this for 10 years oh really well guess what now everybody knows okay enough why have you been doing this the second point raised the hair on the back of my neck okay they mentioned that if children kids in the school are uncomfortable with what's going on there's a trusted adult that they can talk to who is this trusted adult okay uh who determines that they are trusted i'm sure that 99 even 100 of your teachers are wonderful and that they really have the well-being of the children at heart i'm sure they do okay but it only takes one across this country 135 teachers and aides have been arrested and charged with sex crimes just in 2022 okay uh or a year or so ago there was a a substitute teacher in nutley that was arrested for masturbating in front of his high school class okay the school board let him back in two months ago that man did the same thing and was arrested again so you know we can't trusted adults the only trusted adults are the parents we would like you to stay out of the children's bedroom it's the parents job to teach morals not the schools they are not your kids they're your students okay i wanted to touch a little bit on the budget because i was really surprised i was here at that budget meeting as well and you talked about the esser funds which really surprised me i i was i didn't know you would mention them you said that you got 11 million dollars in esser funds um actually it was 10 million 249 i believe i have the print out of all the esser funds for the state of new jersey all right of that 11 million dollars give or take you said you spent six million dollars okay where's the other five you didn't mention that okay uh new doors and windows that's really good where um did you tell the tax taxpayers in this school district that there's that was s or two funds that 10 million dollars there are also s or three funds that's 23 million dollars have those funds been allotted who negotiated these allotments what are the strings attached to these funds you knew you were getting more in federal as for funds it's not state funds it was federal funds you knew you were getting more and still you raised their taxes two percent you're going to get another 24 million in closing you may think ma'am you're gonna have to end your comments now your five minutes are up thank you oh okay thank you well thank you it's not just these five people that keep coming and talking about this it's a statewide movement thank you [Applause] good evening marcia miller clifton i will continue to bring forth the next five points of the harmful effects on children from the comprehensive sex education standards of 2022 number 11 teaches abortion and contraception presents abortion as a safe or positive option while omitting data on the many potential negative physical and mental health consequences may teach children they have a right to abortion and refer them to abortion providers may encourage the use of contraceptives while failing to present the failure rates or side effects 12 promotes peer-to-peer sex ed sexual rights advocacy may train i'm sorry may train children to teach other children about sex or sexual pleasure through peer-to-peer initiatives may recruit children as spokespeople to advocate for controversial sexual rights or to promote abortion undermines traditional values and beliefs may encourage children to question their parents beliefs and their cultural or religious values regarding early sex sexual orientation or gender identity may instruct children that they have rights to confidentiality and privacy from their parents may teach children about accessing sexual commodities or services including abortion without parental consent may instruct children not to tell their parents what they are being taught about sex in school and 15.

i would like to call this meeting of the eastern township board of education to order pursuant to the open public meetings act adequate public notice has been given by the secretary of eastern township board of education in the following manner posting written notice on the official bulletin board at the board of education office emailing written notice to the burlington county times and courier post filing written notice with the municipal clerk of eastham township may i have a roll call mrs cappello here this is everhart here mr fizzicaro here mr canton here mrs noel here mr lanzalotta miss lee here mr meegan here this is ryan here we have a quorum okay at this time i would ask for a motion to go into executive session and a motion to approve items 2.1 through 2.4 whereas njsa 10-4-12 allows for a public body to go into closed session during public meeting and whereas the board of education of eshim township has deemed it necessary to go into closed session to discuss certain matters which are exempted from the public and whereas the regular meeting of the board will reconvene following the end of the closed session at approximately 7 30 pm now therefore be it resolved that the board of education will go into session for the following reasons as outlined in njsa 10-4-12 items 2.2 through 2.4 do i have a motion mr physic hero miss noel roll call please mrs cappello yes mrs everhart yes mr fizzakaro yes mr catherine yes mrs noll yes miss lee yes mr megan yes mrs ryan yes mission carries okay see you at approximately 7 30.

most of you know down syndrome but there's also trisomy 23. 2306 chromosomes they are the the abnormality would be xxy or xxx happens in about 1100 live bursts um or so the physical symptoms these people of course are not physically normal at birth the testicles are not typically uh in the scrotum and uh they typically will have some latent female characteristics there's a low chance of these people producing enough sperm and having children this is not a new condition of course it's been written for the last three thousand years um it's recorded in the bible and and so forth and so on uh specifically in matthew where you could be a unit from your mother's womb or without testicles you could be castrated um fast forward to the 60s in the modern science with the advances in surgery and hormones and these children could now be helped with surgery and hormones so that they would look more male-ish but by the 70s modern medicine could also make these folks look female and of course that's where we go to transsexuals i'll look up dr bieber in uh in uh colorado the father of uh transsexualism uh by the 80s the medical community could go to the roughly 4 000 uh xxy people in philadelphia or the 300 000 people in the united states and say look um you can we can make you look male or female well you have a choice well choice is something that uh the didn't take long for the homosexual community to say we want that choice also okay so and by the turn of the century we we have a lot of transsexual uh people so that's a biology lesson how about how about the uh psychology lesson on these folks so the transsexual people are they happy and well adjusted some are some are very well happy and well adjusted and i suppose there are a lot of x y's that are okay perhaps maybe some boys who have been abused by their parents clergy or friends who may be saying to themselves you know what i'd rather be a girl or i'd rather be if the girls may abuse girls they may want to become males maybe to avoid abuse maybe for those folks who have gender dysphoria some of you probably half of you are at least familiar with the following scenario your 12 year old daughter comes running down the stairs crying i'm bleeding i hate it i hate it i hate it and so what do most concerning parents do i'll leave that up to you um but virtually no parents want their children to become permanently have a permanent gender change but in the second fourth or maybe even the eighth grade research shows that the eighty percent of the transgender children have considered suicide and 40 percent have attempted suicide can you indulge me for just about another minute or so yeah just uh well yeah just as quickly as you can thank you thank you i'm almost done okay i'm almost done here yet you plan on implementing a curriculum in september that encourages gender choice for normal children you can see why parents that as the rather the 99.6 of the normal gender heavy children are horrified somewhere between 20 and 40 percent of the gender dysphoria children will attempt uh suicide do you think parents want that would you encourage and let me give you a quick analogy it has to be quick because you're real would you encourage your 17 year old child to buy a motorcycle knowing that the death rate is 29 times higher than cars are you going to encourage your teachers to twist the minds of the young children incurring gender dysphoria and make them miserable and abnormal dogs and cats know better we would love wait we would love to um if mr jenks thank you for coming up to the microphone but if you want to send us that in an email we'd be more than happy to read it in its entirety thank you okay anyone else wish to speak for public comment now come on up to the microphone okay that's right yes can i make a suggestion that uh to ensure that the public comment moves in the normal fashion yes that people who are going to speak it would be appropriate to queue up oh and stay as far away from each other as you feel comfortable yes but to actually queue up so that you don't oh so we have an awareness coming we can do that yes so if you would like to speak we would love for you to queue up so we have an idea of like how many people are going to speak okay sir name and address please sure erin just a little bit closer to the microphone okay is this acceptable aaron rubin 109 kettle run um i want to say a couple things first of all um myself and co-workers had the opportunity to to support uh science day and the science spectacular at dimacey and vanzant and that was an absolutely wonderful experience and there is either something in the water or you guys are absolutely doing a lot of uh great things with the the kids they uh they were so well behaved and so engaged and it was it was fantastic additionally we received a lot of letters from demacy which was a big lift emotionally and just just kind of want to point out how wonderful that is to receive letters um i do want to make sure that the the voice of most people in our community who are at this point very well adjusted and welcoming an understanding of people of all different types and backgrounds genders both uh who who have realized that they are a different gender than what was assigned at birth and those who [Music] don't want to identify with a particular gender it is very important that we accept people and adopt practices especially that do not make them feel marginalized in the classroom and that includes recognizing them for who they are so i would like to voice support for those types of policies and just making sure that everybody feels included as they came to the school thank you mr rubin do you want to give a shameless plug for your science topic and your company we would love to hear what you what you told our kids about well um actually uh in dimacey we did polymerization uh two different types also known as cloud slime i like to uh kind of give overly technical information to help suppress the level of excitement to kind of keep the things so that's why i'm like you know say polymerization say these complicated chemical names and uh the kids kind of have a blast as they do that and and do the slime within uh vansant uh we kind of split so that the company's name is mixed media arts and we we split they did slime and i did emergent behaviors which is a computer science topic it is a lot of fun to act out the simple behaviors that when composed together produce apparently very complex behaviors as it goes and it is important computer science and biology research and a lot of things that we see in in science uh uh so but most of all it's it's fun uh and i get to kind of come in and do this uh like grandparent teaching i i i call it i like to sugar up the kids and then send them back to their their their teachers kind of sugared up and excited um and uh and leave [Laughter] but again thank you so much thank you and i'm sure miss romanelli will pass along her thanks as well next up name and address please um marty connelly a little bit closer to the mic okay i'm mari cantoleo i live in kings grant um i'm wearing a shirt tonight that says protect trans kids and what that means is protect my child i have a transgender child i have a bisexual child i'm bisexual myself for an lgbtq family my child came up through cherokee high school was bullied every day consistently there were some great teachers some great counselors that helped her when i listen to someone take the science that we as parents who've been educated by doctors by other scientists psychiatrists psychologists and twist it and say that because our children are under a legal age of 18 that they shouldn't have health care that affirms who they are it's the reason why i'm here and why i have advocated for my children for years if you haven't read a suicide note from your child because the world doesn't understand who they are i hope you never do i hope you don't know anybody who does because i have and i read that note late because if she if something hadn't happened for her i would have found the note a year later when i found it i wouldn't have known i wish that i knew and that she knew who that she was trans earlier because she knew that there was something different about her for years and had no idea that there was a community who would support her and that who would affirm who she was i wish that my child knew this earlier because her doctors her psychiatrists and psychologists and medical professionals in the trans community would have helped her earlier and she wouldn't have irreparable changes from puberty that make people look at her and think that she's not who she is so thank you for letting me speak but i really wish that there were more people here in our community in malton who looked outside themselves and outside what they think they know and actually speak to us speak to families of lgbtq people trans people because all she wants as an amazing person is just to find her way in life and what she wants to do as an adult in a career in love in everything she has us she has my family and she has a community of support but she shouldn't need it she should be allowed to just be who she is without listening to people who don't know what they're talking about thank you thank you very much next up [Applause] good evening name and address please tracy fox a little bit closer to the mic tracy fox 330 overbrook we hear a lot of words thrown around words like grooming indoctrination words meant to elicit fear from the masses with no real facts to back them up let's start with grooming according to rahul bayer a former sex crime and child abuse prosecutor and founder of the bayer group which works with schools to prevent sexual misconduct and child abuse one of the biggest pieces of abuse prevention is to teach children the correct anatomical names for their body parts and not attach any type of shame or embarrassment to them when kids think there is something shameful about down there they are less likely to come forward because they are afraid of getting into trouble grooming preys on fear shame and silence indoctrination the process of teaching a person or group to accept a set of beliefs uncritically what is it that we are teaching them to accept bodily autonomy consent that sometimes we have feelings we aren't sure about and that's okay no one is forcing alternate lifestyles on our children i fully trust in the board and the teachers to disseminate this information in a healthy and age-appropriate way despite the hysterical outrage by some i do not believe there will be actual demonstrations of masturbation or anal sex in the classroom not even when they get to high school we hear things like my kids don't know what that is trust me your kids do we here but the children then we see posts bemoaning the facts that these hateful people feel they raised their children better than to wear a mask to accept homosexuality or befriend transgender children to live and let live it seems the only people that are attempting to indoctrinate the children are their parents members of these hate groups that fear they are losing their roles as sole influence in their children's lives the kids have proven time and time again they are okay a curriculum focused on inclusion and diversity is something many of these adults could have greatly benefited from when they were in school as an aside with all due respect to scientific quotes nobody chooses homosexuality or transgenderism as someone who has been told i have an improbable number of non-binary and bisexual and transgender people in my immediate family you can read all the textbooks you want until you see firsthand the effect that these kids what what social their surroundings does to them when they feel that they know they are not who they present as and they do not get the support they need school is supposed to be a safe place for everyone and without actually putting into effect a curriculum that includes them definitively they're going to continue high rates of attempted suicide and you're going to have parents dealing with this on a regular basis thank you thank you [Applause] hey what's up guys eric spirazza 701 mount vernon court thank you so during the day i'm a corporate trainer for a pretty big company my job as a human resources trainer it's what i do i teach adults in a much less thrilling environment than our teachers teach but here's what's funny what i teach is yearly compliance annual compliance what i have to teach to adults every day how to act how to behave in the workplace how to get along with others because if you cannot if you cannot be inclusive you lose your job i challenge anyone to walk through the main concourse of my company thumping a book talking about how some people shouldn't exist biologically you're getting fired you're getting a box party carried right out the front door the world is changing go on linkedin once just see that the world is changing the world is promoting inclusivity it starts in our communities it starts in our schools if we start by making people feel like they can't come to marlton because they have a special needs kid or a gay kid or they're minorities because the school isn't making inclusivity a priority then there's no reason to be here and for all of you voted volunteered servants of the world on this board here today it's your job to make sure that these kids can walk out into this world as an adult into my training room where if they do not play by the rest of the world's rules not from a book from the 1960s they're going to lose their job and i'm the guy that's gonna make sure they do so let's start from the very beginning let's start with how people are included in the schools first how about we i don't know consider more special needs classes again we went from like what six to two in our district great job and now we're still entertaining conversations about grooming this is our responsibility this is our community you're all sitting here on this board this isn't a stepping stone for other political endeavors guys you have a responsibility to our community and to our kids and if you don't want that job step off let someone else take it because as far as i'm concerned you're just as much a part of raising my children as me and i'm not liking what i'm seeing thank you is there anyone else that would like to speak public comment no oh no oh okay come on up name and address please hello everybody my name is ryan john i'm not going to give you my address just for personal reasons but some of the comments that i have heard at some of these past board meetings have been horrific and i know this isn't on you and i know a lot of you personally and i love you guys but i want to say that i was a student at cherokee high school and i was bullied for being gay and i was told by a student in the locker room that i should be dead that i should be murdered that i don't deserve to live and this is what and this is basically what we're accepting here that all these alt-right people that's what they want to instill in all of us well i'm still here and i was raised with a sister who didn't end up being gay we were raised by two heterosexual parents and in that case look what happened i'm still here i'm still gay i didn't choose it so i am hoping that this board of education will eventually that we can that we can work towards doing more for our children for our gay transgender non-binary lesbian bisexual children that we are all just like everybody else and and for all those so-called christians out there who say that it's wrong jesus loves the little children he loves all the little children of the world thank you good night thank you [Applause] anyone else wish to speak oh okay thank you name and address please hi my name is robert just you can pull it out if you you say not the best should be okay okay um 62 mill park lane what was your name i'm sorry i interrupted you okay thank you and i think it's nice that primary seasons are over and things kind of look like they've gone back to normal right no circus here uh i do want to say one thing though the board of ed has to follow njdoe code of ethics and there's a specific member of the board who seems to have broken that code of ethics and the board should look at removing that member or we should look at doing a recall effort and that member is dennis you know he has been colluding with the circus and it should be addressed as soon as possible thank you okay [Applause] any other comments okay seeing none i'm going to close public comment at this point we're going to go into board member announcements seeing none okay um we actually have to go into a second executive session so um let me just read you this whereas njsa 10 colon 4-12 allows for a public body to go into closed session during a public meeting and whereas the board of education of eastern township has deemed it necessary to go into closed session to discuss certain matters which are exempted from the public and whereas the regular meeting of the board of education will reconvene following the end of the closed session probably at about 9 30ish now therefore be it resolved that the board of education will go into closed session for the following reasons as outlined in njsa 10 colon 4-12 and there will not be action taken after this executive session just to let the public know this is for personnel and attorney clinton communications only there will be no action taken at the conclusion of the executive session that is correct okay so at this point i need a motion to go into executive session mr canthan second miss capello okay we'll reconvene at approximately 9 30.

all right um we'll go ahead and move on to uh item uh 1.01 call this meeting order uh will you call the roll today is a regular board meeting of june 23 2022 at 5 30 pm members of the board in attendance president andres quintero president vice president mim pham clerk corrine president member linda chavez president member ernesto vegeta here members administration superintendent dr bauer present all right um given that we have uh perform we'll go ahead and move forward with atlantic acknowledgement uh the board of trustees of almighty elementary school district does hereby acknowledge that the district schools and facilities sit on the traditional lands of the molecular alone people and the board of trustees further acknowledges with respect to reverence the moekma alone people tribe of san francisco bay area for their students for their stewardship of these lands go ahead and proceed with the pledge of allegiance please find a flag that's nearest you pledge allegiance i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands indivisible with liberty and justice for all all right uh moving on to item 1.02 is there any uh interest from uh members of the board to modify the agenda see anybody raising their hand so at this point i'm gonna go ahead and call for a motion to go ahead and adopt agenda as this motion motion by uh board member chavez 30 second the second by board member any uh public comment with regard to this item hello board president at this time we have no request i'm sorry we do have one person um carlos moran first speaker is or our only speaker is carlos moran mr moran you have two minutes please admit yourself when you begin speaking the timer will begin [Music] all right good evening i'm hoping everyone can hear me uh good evening president quintero uh trustees dr bauer and cabinet this is carlos moran uh you know it's been about a year a little over a year since i left the district uh but i wanted to jump on tonight to uh [Music] because i heard uh that um mr renee sanchez is leaving uh elem rock and so i wanted to make sure that uh i jumped on tonight uh to just say thank him before he left uh you know in 2015 i was fortunate enough to be hired by dr bauer in the role as director of state and federal uh prior to me interviewing with her i actually interviewed with mr sanchez who at the time had gone promoted to assistant super academic services so he was my supervisor and so you know i just wanted to jump on tonight thank him for his support of me as my wife and i moved up to the bay area and i found my job there with all of you and i learned a great deal of information especially about the lcap uh all the state and federal uh responsibilities so uh you know that was a purpose for me tonight to come on board tonight just to thank mr sanchez for his work and his support as i moved from director of state and federal and then i moved over to hr and then eventually assistant soup of hr and i joined him and dr barron her team as a cabinet member so uh with that i just want to wish uh mr sanchez and his familia the very best uh on his departure to his next next destination and and and also uh uh just wish him the best and we'll stay in touch so again thank you for allowing me to speak tonight have a good night all of you all right thank you for your comments mr moran uh mr board president at this time we have no more requests for public comment uh all right i'll go and call for a vote as i see you guys uh unanimously all right the agenda is our adopters is um all right 1.03 there's a welcome solution to the audience um all right it's uh 1.03 welcome explanation to the audience and it speaks to the fact that there's an opportunity to provide public comment within this meeting um both in a particular section that is coming up shortly in uh in 2.0 2.01 as well as within the items themselves if you do not have if you're here to speak on an item it's not on the agenda and you would speak on item 2.01 and if you are going to speak to an item then you can speak to the item itself if you want to learn more feel free to read that item on the agenda itself 1.03 uh moving on to item 2.01 uh members of the public who wish to address items of the agenda items that are matters that are not on the agenda but that are jeremy and that are within the jurisdiction or allah school district if you have any members of the public wish to speak so please indicate by raising your hand mr board president looks like we have no request for public comment at this time all right uh moving on to item 3.01 uh do we have alum rock administrators association i don't see anybody raising their hands for president all right and we'll go ahead and move on to uh 3.02 teamsters anybody from teachers mr board president we do not see anyone raising their hand all right moving on to csca 3.03 do we have somebody from cse uh no board president sharon said she's out of town gotcha all right all right um ariel is area in the house i don't know if jocelyn left somebody she's also out of town all right yeah it was going to be a light uh light presence from the stakeholders yeah because of many of you now um all right uh well we'll go ahead and move on to item 3.05 dr barty thank you so much i just wanted to let the board know that we started our summer school this week and we have six of our sites um holding summer programming for all of our children we have had um a little bit of you know of a challenge with hiring enough staff but nonetheless our parents are bringing the kids the kids are back in school and we are continuing with the programming that we said we were going to offer thank you very much you know for another year and i want to tell the audience that um we are closing this very very difficult year um with with very with a lot of gratitude and a lot of admiration for all of our staff members that had a very rough you know from custodians to admins to principals managers teachers everybody had a a very challenging year and we're wrapping it up with grace with perseverance and endurance so thank you to everybody and thank you to all board members for your support throughout this very very challenging 21 22.

all right um any comments remember to the public no no request for public comment on this item mr board president all right uh moving on to um thomas remembers the board uh more turkey i was just excited to see clover come on because i thought maybe he was gonna tell us we were gonna get additional millions he didn't tell us on the ninth um no i i don't know do we have a motion yet and if not i'll motion to approve yeah i'll accept the motion uh there's a second second but i have a second vibe i can't hear you or we can't hear you uh it's very difficult to hear so you mess around with that screen do something to it or if need be log out log back in to make that thing work you know what you want to do is go to the uh to the little arrow on the side of your microphone and start uh working on your on your mic to see if it maybe you have a different mic or something out of curiosity trusty fam do you have uh earbuds or earphones or anything like that not with me you know usually that i want to try to troubleshoot it but okay well you sound good now though he sounds real clear now all right yeah i think it's when the screen moves so okay so i second i just have a question from mr chang okay okay mr chang so with with 99 percent of the vote in so are uh do we should we expect uh you know even nicer i i shouldn't say night but a updated uh budget uh in you know with the inclusion of the property tax parcel tax revenues going forward yes and thank you for that question um yeah when the county certifies the election itself to make it official then we'll we'll be making the necessary um revision to the budget itself and so that'll be reflected in the next cycle okay very good thank you so much all right um there was a motion and second theory further discussion for the board all right see none then let's go ahead and uh i'll call you they see you board uh member chavez no board member yes board vice president yes world trade connector hi my sophomore night motion passes four to one with travis working right now so uh man you're on youtube no no no i i'm here it's just the the uh the uh technician is here i believe you should mute yourself now um 5.02 approved contract with erc alternatives for energy consultant services move to approve what's up move to approve all right motion by the uh board member i don't have a second sec second board uh a second by board clerk do you have uh comments from the public i see no requests for public comment on the side of mr president all right um board member yes thank you president quintero so i just want to um you know say i'm i i'm excited about moving forward with this contin now making continued um consistent progress on this and to try to find out what opportunities may exist for the district um you know i think that as a board at least for myself i think that we not only owe it to the community and to the district but are obligated to look for opportunities to either decrease expenditures or increase the resources that come into the district and so for that reason i'm very happy that we are moving forward with this um and it's just kind of seeing it on the agenda this month and obviously again this is just furthering the work but as we continue the work i get more excited because i know you know the challenge that we've had to get to this point and and i had even forgotten um because we had so much other big stuff that we've had to address between when i first brought it to now there's been a lot of work that we've done in other areas but i also did forget that at some point it was it at least seemed to become a very um a political topic or or i mean for maybe for lack of a better term um and i'm just glad that at this point that hope i'm hoping that at this point that my colleagues are um you know together with me in this motion which again just continues the work of looking at the opportunities that may exist for us so you know this is not a commitment necessarily to any kind of work or any kind of project or anything like that it's a commitment to looking into what the possibilities may be and so the journey that it's take that it's been to get to this point and the fact that you know we are seeing now because we've worked to strategically implement everything that we've done to this point i'm excited about the momentum that we're making so i'll be supporting this tonight and i'm hopeful that my colleagues will as well thank you the only thing i'll add to that is um you know also um thank you uh trusted because you know we are um making decisions now that are affecting our future right we just passed our budget if we don't have a budget how can we pay our teachers or anything else i mean and this you know is is not just to ensure that you know we start like in the long run saving money you know and looking at different um opportunities and ways that we can get our energy but also you know being mindful and intentional right when when we um use energy um and you know that the energy that we use today you know however we use it right whichever way shape or form um that it comes in and that you know is being used that it is impacting future generations and so um also you know ensuring that as we're making these decisions as we're getting our consultants to you know come and tell us right things i mean because i'm not in that area but um that the questions you know we get to ask now um are also inclusive of that in those thoughts um of what we're doing now that will affect our future generations i'm just excited you know i know um you know in regards to that you know there's um already schools that have implemented programs um that are already saving them money so um thank you verano i look forward to you know continuing to um to learn about this area um you know because i myself don't know much so i'm having this consultant will really help me um in moving forward and asking the questions and making sure that we got all the eyes and cross all the t's so thank you uh board vice president yes well to give credit where credit is due to uh thank trustee bay hirano i know that this this was his bug bugaboo so he you know for to bring us to the you know to to the board's attention and i think you know i'll just put it in simple terms this is about taking taking what is a cost and turning it into something where we can use uh use our grounds to generate additional revenue to take a liability you know and turn it into an asset that you say and so in the process not only saving us on energy but also uh taking the you know the deadweight cost of uh our buildings and our parking lots and use you know uh the ability to sell that energy right back to the utility company you know and uh to strengthen our budget down the line uh for future years and you know this is something you know that you know we should we should all be excited about as we begin that process of you know now that we have a uh advisor to eventually get to the point of selecting the contractor who will you know hopefully uh you know what uh bring local jobs along with it but also yes to put in the infrastructure where we can use our bed we use our buildings to benefit this district even when they are not in use so it is with that i you know vote intend to vote yes on this item thank you uh board member travis um i'm not against solar and never have been but i also know that we have a decline in enrollment and we just close some schools and maybe in the future we might in the very near future we might be having to repurpose other ones so i don't see the logic in putting a solar system on something that we made as alan rock educators not have students there so i will be voting no on this thanks all right um thank you for your comments um i'll wrap up with my workbench where the phone do you have your comments you need to mute yourself i know it muted by itself so i i think i wanted to answer trustee chavez's concerns he you know i think and i as i allude to we still would own the property so the thing is it would still be under our ownership you know and the whole point of solar is to make use of those properties when they are not in use you know as those solar panels collect solar energy and converts it into electricity and uh you know when they're in use of course it will you know we would be supplying our own facilities with power but you know but the good thing about solar is it's to take take that energy convert it into that electricity and again you know as i mentioned sell it right back to pg e and you'll you know uh revenue for a district you know and so that's you know that's the huge benefit of solar you know by owning the facilities we have we own the platform we're not you know i i've said it you know many many times since i uh taken a scene on this board which is not to sell any property of the district and this is an opportunity for us to is a uh take a liability and make it into an asset to you know uh to sell what people are wanting which is energy and you know adding to our district's bottom line so we can continue to provide quality education for our children provide them new and better opportunities in the future years and also to pay our teachers and our staff what you know they are really worth so you know i you know i just for the life if we don't see any downsides where you know instead of paying cutting checks to pg e this is our chance to have pg e cut checks to allen roth thank you all right bob borman roberto uh thank you yes i i just wanted to um i guess say that trusty travis question is a valid one i think and you know we if if there are as you mentioned variables that we may not be aware of at this time with regards to our facilities and how they will be purposed you know then it is valid i think to question um you know the the potentiality of moving forward with some type of a a solar energy program however i want to remind trustee chavez and everyone else that this item here in front of us tonight is precisely that really it's for a consultant to come in and tell us hey you know it's not a good idea for you right now because x y and z purpose purposing may happen and and you need to hold off or they may say now is the time to do it you know costs are are rising and and you have these sites that you can you know whatever it may be the point of this item tonight is is just that so we can have an expert who can take a look at our current situation the sites the facilities our strategic plan our budget everything and then provide us with some expertise about what the next best steps would be that are most beneficial to the district so this is not tonight again and to move forward in any particular direction it's to get the the expert on board who can actually answer the questions like those that trustee chavez has and trusted mentioned that you know she's not an expert i'm not an expert so this is bringing the person who can give us that expertise so that then we can make an informed decision one way or the other on what is best for the district with regards to solar uh what member drivers um i do want to clarify something because i've said it every single time in no way have i ever said sell any property nor will i ever that doesn't have to be mentioned every single time especially since i don't mention it but i do like the fact that yeah we are going to bring somebody but i'm just saying that with declining enrollment and the fact that we need to consolidate um other schools to me this is not a good idea and this is a middleman in between because if you do buy it outright then you're gonna actually get a bigger check but if you're going to have a middleman in between that is going to make their profit allen rock is not going to profit as much that's it thank you all right um i'm going to wrap up with my comments we'll go ahead and move on to the item i haven't spoke yet so um this item has a long time coming and i want to do i appreciate board member behind in pushing this item forward and keeping on it uh because it has been a difficult process other people may have given up and said i forget it i appreciate your diligence and making sure that this decided to move forward it was unnecessarily politicized at all levels attacks against personal attacks against my integrity uh board member behind those integrity all based on a desire just to simply learn whether or not this is even feasible in all my study to tell us if we if it's going to work i remember somebody calling in specifically begging us saying please don't move this item forward until december because they were concerned about i'm assuming they were concerned about the november elections it just makes absolutely no sense and i'm very saddened by the fact that we possibly have lost out on significant amount of savings that could have gone directly back into the general punch because people hyper politicize this issue unnecessarily um a couple of things that i am very proud of is that while we went ahead step back and get our due diligence which i'm you know proud of um a little frustrated but i'm still proud of the fact that we went back and redid everything and now we're looking at it and once again to reiterate this is for a consultant who has already told us that in certain instances he comes back and he's not here to say yes move forward i'm gonna you know support you in the great land they don't work with uh energy companies all they do is child public agencies whether or not it makes sense to move forward with an injury with their project and they've given us examples of places where they've gone they said it just doesn't cancel out for you it doesn't make any sense and so i'm comforted by the fact that they're very independent and that they're not tied to any energy company i'm looking forward to seeing the results um hopefully they will i'm being honest this is just my position hopefully they will a result in findings that allow us to save money and allow us to move forward and return that money to the general fund so we can invest it back into our children so um looking forward to seeing this move forward move forward any um if there's no further comments i'm going to go ahead and i'm going to call for a vote as i see you i believe i called for public comments item earlier we'll say uh can you remind me yes yes thank you i just want to make sure um all right board member child no or remember yes or where is president from yeah your mic is you at least i can't hear you i don't know feel it all right we'll take that thumbs up uh and board uh board clerk aye all right thank you for that uh motion passes president quintero did you vote well i said yeah with myself 49 motion sorry um oh i said with myself 49 motion passes it's actually not unanimously sorry about that it's uh 4-1 with chavez vicente and you know what i i forgot to mention that uh in between that all that time we're able to move forward with the policy on on power purchasing policy that ensures that any program that does move forward uh guarantees that will the jobs will have to go to um to local people first so i'm very proud of that because uh as part of that work it was required general counsel was very thorough and demanded that we bring back a thorough report about the differences in income uh so that we can uh sustain the policy if we're ever challenged and uh it was dark um we saw that uh berryessa is twice the amount the wealth uh ever bring twice the amount of wealth we're surrounded by wealth is in a different situation and for that reason we are able to pass a policy that uh guarantees that jobs will go first to people who live within the zip codes that encompass alumni and so thank you for indulging me i just want to make sure to add that before we move forward from this item um moving on to it 6.01 approve uh universal pre-kindergarten planning and implementation plan at ala martin elementary school district uh doc uh board member travis is that a motion yes i got a motion from board member travis do you have a second second uh second by uh do you have any comments from the public mr board president uh no public comment uh for this item um and i'm assuming there's going to be a presentation by dr barcelona laura's yours hi um well you have in front of you it's no presentation you have the summary plan it's a sixth place plan so this is about our upk if you remember in the last board meeting um for this uh california department of ed ellen rock had to prepare a upk plan a tk plan so that's what you have in front of you there are six pages that summarize the full 66 page template that you also have in front of you and basically we had focus areas that we had to answer from a to e and all those answers are in there and you can look at all of the plan and i'm available if you have any questions it also gave us a place for non-competitive points from the california department of vet so that we get the plan so the most important thing is that we present this to our board of trustees and that's why you have it here in front of you all right see now that i'll go ahead and call you as i i'll make some comments i'm really excited about uh us moving forward with this item it's been a um when i got onto the board one of the things that was very important after doing my further inquiries and the passion was to extend the school day that was kind of the theme how do we get to extend school day how do we keep kids uh continue to learn longer um and so um in addition to that i'm very very excited to see that now we're bringing in the children at an earlier age to ensure that they now are um having a pathway towards uh academic success we know every study study after study demonstrates that those children that are in preschool will usually um do better and academically and go to college and stuff that sort so excited to see this uh taking place i see that my colleagues are excited as well i'm assuming and i'm going to call them as i see them uh board vice president phone oh uh yes uh are we voting or i i can make my comment uh i would make your comments but go ahead and make your comments okay afterwards okay yes i mean uh you know uh as they say a dollar invested in education provides more returns than a dollar invested in uh the criminal justice system so uh this is an opportunity to you know uh reinforce what's taught in the classroom fill in gaps uh in learning and also uh you know uh find you know in a sense uh creating new opportunities for our district to have more children in our district so it is what with that spirit that i intend to vote yes on the item thank you uh board clerk for president i see dr brower's hands up is it okay to have her say something because it might add to my comment oh okay dr bauer go for it thank you board president this is a very exciting time and i just wanted to thank dr valesteros uh for her incredible leadership in our district to um help us writing this plan and diana you know that we are ahead of that game right did the other districts are just catching up to us we have been ahead of this game since 2015 when we accepted the first four-year-olds and um people were like well how can you afford i remember i had to answer that question so many times how can you afford bringing this four year olds and then we push the the birthday all the way to the march 31st the first district in the state to do that and i'm very i'm very proud and i'm very proud of the support trustee quintero has been there from the very very beginning and this is about not only which is very important planting the seeds because every child who has an opportunity to go to preschool has an opportunity to be on grade level by third grade that the the numbers don't lie right and that is part of why we have some huge challenges in alum rock because that opportunity has not been equitable for all of our our four-year-olds in alumrock so very excited about this very excited about being a pioneer district very excited about moving forward with this plan and by that remember the state is catching up to us so that's how wonderful this is and thank you uh dr valesteros for that leadership that you have provided for this thank you dr brown thank you so much yeah yeah alam rock practices the science i always say when i'm talking to colleagues you know we know the science and so we have practiced it since 2015 and now everyone is catching up thank you um so i'll go ahead and go over that's okay doc president yes thank you um yeah i just want to add to that you know dr baesteros you know when i'm in uh different meetings um your name comes up and you know always honored um to have it come up you know in the ways it does and so i'm like you know don't take her so we're very blessed to have you here leading these efforts ensuring that uh we're you know making sure that we're implementing um the best of the best here at alum rock especially for our children um at the pre-kindergarten level you know as um and this was talking about you know my my passion you know and one of them has been to end that school-to-prison pipeline and as uh trustee fam mentioned right when we invest in our children at a younger age um that shift happens we change the narrative and so i'm happy that you know we don't just talk about it but we put our actions behind it here at alum rock um that that narrative you know for for youth who grow up in certain ways you know that here at alum rock all of our youth are um being exposed to numbers and colors and you know learning and like dr brower said that at third grade they're at grade level and that you know they're talking about which college they're going to what career they're going to have and that we're providing those spaces and places and conversations um so that our children can end up there and then come back you know it's um it's just a uh [Music] i'm grateful and you know it makes me smile every time i hear our alumni you know i know we have many here on this board you know that say i went to allen rock union elementary school district i graduated from there you know and they're coming back to give back and so that you know continue to help that process um so thank you for your leadership and i look forward to you know having more babies coming through those doors as we continue to move right towards that zero age um i never thought right it's like oh school you grab your backpack you walk in line but to be able to you know get them earlier where you learn songs and you know what it even means to you know walk in line and and you know and also play and thrive and um you know get rid of some of these boxes that we have our children and you know i just i look forward to like you said putting that science in action right we know we know what works we know what doesn't work for our children so how do we work to eliminate those things that no longer serve our children maybe they served you know 50 years ago or 90 years ago when alan rockford started but no longer right and so how do we put knowing that action i'm sorry knowing the science putting it in action and erasing some of these boxes that maybe were created before so thank you for leading the efforts and i look forward to also supporting this item thank any you comments members of the board all right i think we're going back to our roots i was a product of a state-funded preschool there out of san antonio elementary and uh some of my most fondest memories are during those formative years were right there in that uh little playground uh whether it was the playground whether it was a nap time how all those things come back to really really influence and affect the way in which you develop as a child and then into adulthood and so it was unfortunate that for many years the state chose to step away from that because it was i was here and i was there as a preschooler the state funded preschool um and uh but i'm glad that we're we're getting back there we're gonna we're gonna do right by the kids moving forward um yeah just to not be misunderstood this wasn't alan rock's choice the state took away the resources to fund preschool finally bringing it back and doing the right thing um all right i'm going to go ahead if there's no further comments for members of the board i'm going to call you as i see you uh board member chavez hi board member hi for board vice president hi board member if you can hear me hi uh with my sophomore night motion passes unanimously all right 6.02 approved california state preschool program contract just quickly um president quite sorry to interrupt but i am having technical difficulties with my camera so i'll be working on that so um hopefully my audio comes on and i'm still able to vote but if you don't see me we can hear you perfect thank you all right uh motion on the uh motion motion by travis john ii second second board vice president do i have any comments from the public no public comment on the center mr board president all right see no public comment uh if there's no further comments from my colleagues i'll call you as i see you board remember travis aye ward clerk aye worldwide further fun hi uh where board member i played software united motion positive uh 6.03 approved think together uh designation california state's pre state preschool program facility motion uh that's right there one have a motion by board member chad is there a second second or second by a board vice president you have any comments remember to the public no request for public comment on this item a support president all right and it's nearly the identical motion the identical item with the exception that it is for the month of two do i have an uh do i have a motion for item 6.04 approval violence 6.04 motion second by board member chavez second by board vice president do you have any comments from the public no public comment on this item mr board president all right um if there's no further comments from the board for my colleagues i'll go ahead and call you the cu board vice board member travis hi ward clerk hi board vice president hi board member hi all right motion pass unanimously 6.05 is the pathway to seal by literacy achievement rewards student recognition this is my information only dr bauer is there anybody here to present on this item i believe so board president this is very exciting and i i wanted to i think uh miss gutierrez or miss martinez very good ms gutierrez is here to present on that thank you ms gutierrez yes thank you so much for having me good afternoon board members superintendent bauer parents and community members i am lupita gutierrez and it is my great pleasure as the principal of adelante dual language academy to recognize our students for earning the pathway to the seal of biliteracy adelante's vision is to graduate students with bilingual proficiencies and multicultural competencies that will open the doors to opportunities in our global economy one measure towards reaching our vision is to prepare students for the pathway to the sealab literacy starting at tk and continuing through eighth grade currently our district evaluates our adelante academy students towards the pathway in 5th and 8th grades and those students will be honored today so in front of you you see the list of the honorees and i want to recognize them individually so we will start with 8th grade our first recipient of the pathway to the syllabi literacy is guadalupe regis aileen santos jovan seragano moreno enrique hernandez juarez ophelia mares andrea padilla diego escobar victoria fierro paredes anais frias barajas miriam guzman and now honoring our fifth grade students that achieve the pathway we have christian marine camilla martinez polanco liliana we are very proud of their accompli accomplishments wonderful job adelante students all right um any comments from members of the public mr board president i see no requests for public comment on this item all right i'll call you as i see you board member uh thank you um i just want to say congratulations to each and every one of the students their parents um and also the teachers you know that supported um each and every one of those students to get there as a spanish major myself you know i know um it's it's uh you you know one thing is to learn spanish and grow up in spanish and be born and speak at home another thing is to keep up with that you know at school and be able to pass these tests which are not easy and so i'm just wanting just really want to highlight um their efforts and their work um you know the students and the support that they're getting um from home and and the teachers um and keep you know keep it up keep spanish going um you know you as you all know um you will be able to you know help help the world you know many places other than even uh the americas speak spanish and so um thank you and uh i look forward to continuing to hear your names the fifth graders when you become eighth graders and then the eighth graders when you go to you know high school and you also have that opportunity to keep that going um and then when you go to you know work wherever you get to go to work right you get to get paid um additionally and so just continuing that and then um you know many many many years later when you have your own children and families that you get to continue to um speak the language and you know teach them um the importance of making sure that uh you know we we keep the language going um and the culture right behind all the um countries that speak that language so thank you and um very proud of you all um as a trustee and keep up the good work and thank you uh mrs gutierrez i haven't been able to you know acknowledge and congratulate you here publicly um on your appointment as a uh uh principal there at the lente thank you so much it's an honor where vice president yes uh so first i i too would like to extend my congratulations to uh principal gutierrez on her appointment to to analogy but you know well done i think that you know it goes to show that uh you know our adelante program is second to to none in regards to uh the spanish dual emergent programs so i want to uh thank uh you know uh a little bit of an anecdote you know on i believe uh prior just prior to memorial day weekend it was my uh immersion program theme for school vid school visits and i think that was the day we uh dr bauer and i got to see if one of the fifth graders practicing for their uh seal of bi-literacy exam so i'm you know so just as i said then you know i knew she was going to pass the test and she certainly did pass the test so i goes to show uh you know we've got great teachers a great uh great team at uh you know a great team of educators and families at adelante one and two uh congratulations to the fifth grade all all our seal of biliteracy winners uh you know you showed all of us that even in uh very challenging circumstances that you have uh overcome obstacles to succeed and i wish all our uh seal winners uh you know the you know for the fifth graders i hope that uh they will continue to work on their spanish so that they win it at the eighth grade level and to our graduating eighth graders uh you know i hope that they continue to work on it in high school and they can win the seal at the 12th grade level as well as the uh advanced placement exams in spanish language and spanish literature uh you know the sky is the limit so uh again uh thank you to this thank you to the adelante one in adelante schools and congratulations our winners all right for the comments members of the board all right if there's none then i'll go ahead and wrap up with my comments um congratulations i know that it's a very very rigorous test and that um the process is from one when i was uh hearing about it and observing it it reminded me of the ap uh the ap um advanced placement test that i took in spanish in high school and so i was like wow you know it's pretty heavy-duty stuff for kids that are in in middle school um so it's great to see that we have so many kids on their way towards us so um to the violent person and so uh congratulations on your appointment to principal and i have to work uh looking forward to seeing the great what they're going to do there that you're already doing but to continue the work um if there's no further comments from my colleagues that will go ahead and move forward this is uh for information oh you know what and i i'm not sure if i called public comment if i didn't uh let me know yes okay may i add one more thing please yeah definitely yes um i have not recognized the teachers and i really want to take the time to thank the teachers and the parents this is such a community effort it really does take a village so it's uh thank you parents thank you students for your hard work and our other teachers are amazing so thank you so much all right moving on to item 6.06 review and approve the 2022-2023 i'll cap 2021 2022 i'll cap annual updates and the 2022 2023 budget overview for parents and the el capitan um motion looks like we all right we have a motion by board member travis about a second a second by our board clerk do you have a public comment no request for public comment on this item mr board president all right um do we have further comments from members of the board um and uh all right i'm assuming that there is a presentation that goes along with this item not have a presentation this evening just like the budget we uh presented our presentation at the june 9th board meeting and so i've just been checking in with the county office of ed back and forth making some little minor adjustments here and there but it is now ready to be approved and approvable by the county office of vet as well gotcha all right well since there's no further comments from my colleagues i'll go ahead and call them as i see them or remember chavez hi uh board vice president bomb aye foreign uh we got the i'll cap um [Music] plan for uh for aptitude for information only okay all right then um if there's no is there any public comment what's that no request for public comment at this time mr board president all right um 6.08 progress of local performance indicators this is for information only do we have any public comment on that item no public comment at this time for that all right see none then dr bauer do we have uh any uh presentation on this item yes all right i'm assuming sandra's the floor is yours yes thank you okay good evening board president quintero doctor superintendent dr bauer members of the board public um i am here this evening and uh barbara campbell will be co-presenting with me i think she's been maribel can you make sure that barbara is if not i'll go ahead and do it um we tag team on this one there's some local indicators that are under her jurisdiction and some that uh i support and norma flores is also here to answer any questions um related to um some portions of the the um presentation so um as part of the lcap development we're required every year to measure progress on local indicators it's just another data point that we use to um develop the lcat so um we are to report the results as part of the non-consent item um at the same time that we bring the lcap for adoption which is in june um the second part to this is reporting the results on the dashboard the california dashboard in november so you all know this we have state indicators and we have local indicators the state indicators are given to us by uh the cde and those results like for sbac results and attendance and chronic absenteeism those are all provided to us by the state because those are all held in their their database based on information we provide to them this evening is about the local indicators and those are data based on what we collect locally so this is just a side by side of which each of them include so the state indicators include the academic indicators the suspension rate indicator english learner and indicator chronic absenteeism rate and then the local indicators are those that are basic service services and condition of learning which is priority one implementation of state academic standards which is priority two parent engagement which is priority three school climate priority six and broad course of study which is priority seven and that's what this presentation is based on tonight this is just a sample of the dashboard and you can find ours on this this website um california school dashboard.org and this is what it'll look like uh very quickly i just want to remind you that the dashboard in the past few years um we have not been able to update um information on that are related to uh student test scores due to the fact that we hadn't given the test in two years so we're this spring we were able to um give the s back one more time so next time that we present our information onto the dashboard we will have information again on student achievement this is just some information as a reminder of what happened during the pandemic when we had to pause and the state had waivers for pausing all of the reporting on the dashboard so we will resume again with what is expected to be placed on the dashboard um starting in november so local um indicator district performance this is state priority one and this is basic services this is basically um the the items that are also included in the williams settlement requirements um and we have to um report on what how well we're doing in this area and so there are three different sections and the first is has to do with teachers and their assignments and so this year we had two teacher miss assignments when it came to english learners we had three total teacher miss assignments district wide and then we had to start the year we had 18 vacant teacher positions which were worked on throughout the year but these are the numbers that are reported at the beginning of the year we had zero students that did not have access to their own copies of standard online instructional materials every student had access to that and then we had when it comes to the fit reports um the facilities um oops i'm sorry facilities reports for each site there were 10 instances of that different schools didn't meet good repair and there are a variety of areas that are measured in this so 10 district wide state priority 2 um is barbra's is barbara on i'm here yep absolutely turn it over to you thank you so state priority 2 is really tied to the implementation of academic standards uh and it really reflects on the teaching curriculum the curriculum we provide professional development some of those areas in order to prepare our teachers and what we've done over the last various years is i surveyed teachers we send them out and they have to rate and and this is a self reflection rating scale that the state gives us so as you can see the teachers are to degraded exploration beginning development initial implementation full implementation or if we are in full implementation and sustaining so as you can if you want to go and this this year every year i have a different if you can go back one every year i have a different level of response from teachers um from anywhere from 200 to 50 to 75 every year just it just depends on where everybody is at that moment in responding so state priority two though if you look and see the first the the first square talks about how we are providing professional development around the common core state standards and the frameworks if you see a star next to a number that indicates that the rating went up this year so as you can see they feel like ela eld and math are we're pretty um we're we're pretty um in full implementation and ngss which is our science um is a two and our history and social science is uh two also the second part is do we have instructional materials that are aligned to common core and are they available for them doing their teaching and classroom and as you can see they all feel ela eld and math is there science is there and again history and social sciences has gone up this year from last year the last part the number three is around identifying areas that we can improve in delivering instruction and providing you know collaboration time teacher pairing things that help the teachers teach better and support and us supporting staff and as you can see ngss and history have a two and three because those pretty much were even we had a same number of people that gave it a two and the same number of people that gave it a three so we we did get twos last year across the board we did get some threes this year on that area so really looking at what kind of support we're giving them strategically on being able to implement the standards curriculum next slide please save priority 2 also includes implementing the progress in implementing academic standards in some additional areas that have been brought in from the state career technical education health ed physical education visual arts world language we got ones on these um visual art visual and performing arts went down from last year so did physical education and showed a career technical education um not sure really why but i think um you know it was a very tough year for everybody we did continue to provide the same levels of support and the same level of tools especially especially in visual performing arts we had a lot more outside agencies that provided trainings and providing lessons for students um so but again this is just honoring what our teachers felt the last one is the success in engaging the following activities for teachers and administrators so identifying professional learning needs for for teachers and staff identifying the needs for individual teachers and then providing support for teachers that haven't yet mastered it and that we um got twos and ones on that area one of the things and one of the things that um we did talk about we did is that i did ask teachers are there additional things that there was just kind of one open-ended question and it was you know what are some additional things that they need and a lot of them were coaching for edtech obviously that's still tied to having to do a lot more technical uh teaching a lot of online teaching uh providing opportunities for students to do more things on technology so teachers we're feeling that we need to um do a bit more of that and that is something that we are putting in place this year with the support of jackie montejano here in academic services around really looking at how can we better support not just our teachers on using technology but our students and also our parents in order to support their own students in the work they're doing next slide sandra oh this is mine this is state priority three and this um this priority measures our progress in um parent engagement so when it comes to parent engagement there are two um there are several things to look at when we give ourselves the self rating the first are the results from the panorama survey uh and the second are um the results from the self assessment tool that is provided to us by the state so this is the the piece from the panorama survey these come straight from the survey and um we pull out the pieces that do deal with parent engagement and this is what parents um reported on the the spring pan around the survey in terms of strong sense of belonging 95 feeling connected 95 welcome to participate in school 93 staff treats them with respect and then the staff welcomes their suggestions 94 this is the um the rating tool that is provided to us by um the california department of ed um as a way to look at three areas the first area um in parent engagement is building relationships and what um what i've done is um look i've taken this to the advisory groups and we also built it into our lcap forums this year into the input sessions and asked these three specific questions you know how are we doing in our district on building relationships and then the following two and then also what are some of the examples what are some of the things we are doing really well what are some of the things we still need to work on and so um you know some of the things we're doing well are you know copies with the principal workshops with the community liaisons for parents the parent score app is talked about favorably by a lot of parents the district website and that we have welcoming and friendly staff um one of the topics that um was brought up by various parents in different groups this year was was the whole um multicultural and and just um have this sense of uh the need for us to really expand on the opportunities for students to learn about various cultures and so these are just some of the examples that were mentioned but um it was brought up by by several parents and so that i thought it was important to add to this um slide and also the need for more communication besides parents were some parents um feel that there are parents that are still being left out of communication because they are not on the app they they don't have phones that can support the app and that some parents are just resistant to it and still need other forms of communication between home and school the second area in this tool is the building partnerships for student outcomes and this is around the partnership piece you know do we provide professional learning to our staff on you know the their capacity to partner with parents do we provide families with information and resources to support student learning and development and then the implementing policies and programs to discuss student progress and then supporting families to understand and exercise their legal rights and advocate for their students and there were a lot of really favorable comments in general parents are very appreciative of everything we do you know the parent university the the workshops we provide the interpretation services again the parent square app but searching for a little more in terms of really guiding parents like on how to understand their legal rights and how to advocate for their students doing more on that and possibly expanding the parent university and providing many workshops throughout the year because you know a lot we're mentioning that you know it's a great event and they get a lot of it out that day but throughout the year they would like to have similar types of workshops that respond to some of these needs and then the last section is the seeking input for decision making and this has to do with building capacity of staff and family members to be part of the the whole decision making process and then also again the policies and programs and implementing stretch to reach and seek input from underrepresented groups and the whole working together like having groups um involving the different stakeholders in the community to come together and really design and implement uh family engagement activities um so um many parents i mean again parents are very um appreciative of everything we do in terms of providing leadership training providing opportunity for them to be involved bringing them to the table and one of them comments or several comments were that there's inconsistencies between schools and um how well it's done there so there are some schools that are really um do a really good job of getting their parents involved and other schools just need some work so just just a comment that um brought our rating down a little bit so that was the parent engagement piece this uh priority six is school climate and uh where the requirement is to give a local climate survey at least every other year we give the survey every year twice a year so we definitely meet this requirement and here are some of the results from that survey and this all this information is information i have shared before but just putting it in this slide is part of the priority presentation so in terms of school safety and connectedness when it comes to parents um 91 of parents believe that schools are safe 94 believe their child feels welcomed by school staff and then 95 percent have a fair feel a sense of belonging in our district and then when it comes to uh school safety and connectedness for our um our students um i broke it down between elementary and middle and its students feel that schools are safe a strong teacher-student relationship feeling a strong sense of belonging and positive school climate thank you barbara i'll turn it back thank you so the last state priority that we report on in the local indicators is the broad course of study and this is really tied to our do our students have access to a variety of course courses that are um that they should have access to next slide please so this really just kind of gives you a general idea around our first through sixth grade and then our seventh and eighth grade so looking to see what what our students have access to uh in the standard classroom and some of our middle school classes so looking again what i did is i look to see what for example in our middle schools what are some of the additional because a lot of our middle schools provide electives some electives so looking at the visual performing arts some have career technical education classes like mesa um and then what are some of those pieces in elementary that they have so a lot of teachers tie in health to the physical education so it just kind of gives you a broad idea of the core courses that we have to have next slide so what it talks about also and this is again this these two questions are tied to this the survey that we gave the teachers one is what do they think are the barriers um from that are preventing us and providing a broad course one one thing that i did see continuously is just really honing in on our differentiation strategies that our teachers know how to use in order to make sure that our students at all language levels or all levels have access to the curriculum in the class it's not additional classes it's how to how we're presenting the curriculum so we had a lot of people wanting more support on differentiation techniques the need for a health program that is something that's come up the state does not have one yet and i know that is one of those ones that they are looking on coming up with an adoption of a framework and that is something that people feel need that is a need technology problems and then they're saying that books are computer access at home and they were talking about books to read at home so um that is one of the areas they thought was a barrier some revisions and decisions based on what the feedback that we received is that we're building out additional electives where possible we are creating master schedules that have more focus on providing access for electives for all our students so we're having providing opportunities for our students with disability to be able to be mainstreamed and participate in the elective classes we're providing um we have one of our educational platforms have a has a full college and career exploration models modules that our teachers can use to to do some college and career planning and exploration with their students there was quite a few teachers talking about wanting to have a universal design learning it's a technique that's out there that's very focused on differentiation and how you present um to your students for them to have a better access to the curriculum a lot of the items that they had told us that they thought we needed to do fortunately for us got included in our educator effectiveness grant at the begin when we that we adopted in the middle of this year so we kind of had already listened to them a bit and also just looking at providing using this information to plan our beginning of the year professional development that we have going on starting august 1st through august 9th and that's really a lot of them around the curricular basis the curricular uh instructional pieces and then planning forward on providing learning opportunities for teachers to come together and collaborate and learn from that so this information has helped guide the work that we're planning moving forward next slide please so just to kind of wrap it up that our next step is to take all of this information and upload it on our dashboard in november and then the public release of the dashboard is in december of this year all right um any any question any uh questions from my colleagues comments thank you i apologize i'm i'm not going to risk turning my camera on the rest of the night because it gets like unstable so i'm doing you a favor you you just have to see a picture you don't have to see me but um so the couple questions as always first of all thank you uh for the report and so um number one how do we know or do you recollect how many teachers responded last year because this this year i think we got the number was 50.

president joe biden's also set a carbon-free electricity date of 2035. however dte's target date is 2050. about 20 years past what the ipcc tells us is uh the minimum to reach in order to avoid the most catastrophic impacts of the climate crisis and dte doesn't really even have a real plan to reach that 2050 timeline uh they plan to continue to operate on 12 coal-fired generators until 2040 which is 10 years past when we need to get off of coal and they're also continuing to invest in fracked gas infrastructure in fact they seem to believe that they are going to be able to make fracked gas carbon neutral which is pretty unrealistic according to a lot of the science on this topic which probably don't need to go into a ton of detail with all of you but generally we consider this technological wishful thinking they believe that there is going to be some sort of magical technology in the future that is able to make fresh gas carbon neutral which is definitely yet to be seen and so what do we think is the solution to this problem and what is the reason for our existence and why we're here talking today is we believe that through municipalization we'll be able to achieve our city's energy goals so what is municipalization essentially municipalization is just the process of taking something that is privately owned and putting it under the ownership of a city right so there is plenty of other municipal owned utilities in the country in fact our water and sewer comes from municipal utility most water and sewer it comes from amnesty municipal utility and there's actually a lot of communities across the united states over two thousand that gets their energy from a municipal electric utility and over 40 of those are in michigan alone and there's not really a big wonder as to why that is it's explicitly protected by the state constitution to allow cities to municipalize their energy grid you can see here a map of the different municipal utilities across the country or across the state some of the big ones lansing holland chelsea traverse city um holland uh they and why is it that we believe that a municipal utility is going to be right for ann arbor what is it about a municipal utility that uh outcompetes this iou model this investor owned utility model right well there's five main areas that we identify reliability affordable affordability local control the fact that it invests in our community and finally and i think probably most important to most of the people here listening today is the environmentally responsible choice so reliability on average a public power utility loses power about half as often as their iou counterparts nationwide right the average uh outage for public power utility per year is about 74 minutes um and the average outage for an iou uh an investor in utility nationwide is about 136 minutes but that doesn't exactly tell the whole story in michigan in fact in michigan it's considerably worse dte uh in 2017 where we pulled these numbers and i guarantee you that if you looked at some of the more recent numbers they'd probably be worse um dte lost about a little over a thousand minutes back in 2017.

they were primarily concerned about reliability they were being hit by a lot of hurricanes and their power was being knocked out and they were being left in the dark for weeks because typically the power utility would uh prioritize the coast so they municipalized their energy utility and they aggressively started to underground their wires they're on track to get to a hundred percent of their wires undergrounded at the time of the presentation last year that they were at about 84 um and they did this well paying off the debt on the infrastructure right so they were able to uh pay off the debt of acquiring all the infrastructure and has excess revenue that was able to go back into infrastructure investments in jefferson county washington in 2008 and i think that this is probably one of the more impressive ones uh voted to uh establish the municipal electric utility they negotiated with their utility for two years and they were eventually agreed to a 103 million dollar buyout and then they were able to get to a 97 carbon free electricity mix which is one of the cleanest in the country hopefully soon to be beaten by ann arbor though at 100 uh and finally and i think that this one might be surprising to some people boulder colorado a lot of people think of boulder colorado as the boogeyman of municipalization right boulder colorado fought a very hard battle for about 10 years during their municipalization fight and they eventually ended up settling and not going through with municipalization but that settlement came with some significant benefits of them uh an assurance of an 80 statewide greenhouse gas reductions by 2030.

good evening dr robert tosi members of the board of education fellow members of the clifton community as i said i'm a certified nurse from school 11. i'm here tonight along with several other certified school nurses from various schools within our district we would like to speak to everyone regarding several issues that have been happening to the nurses within our schools there are a total of 20 schools in this clifton public school system educating nearly 11 000 students currently we have 20 20 certified school nurses in the district however there should be 24 26 if you count our floating positions there is a discrepancy because there's been a trend not just in clifton but of hiring non-certified school nurses we understand this is due to the nursing shortage these non-certified nurses however have not been trained and educated in the same manner that the certified school nurses have been in order to become certified we have taken two years of additional classes completed 21 additional credits completing nearly 90 hours of clinical experience we have trained not only in our certification but we have received an educational endorsement when we were hired to work with clifton this was a requirement while we understand these new nurses they are intelligent they are very caring and they are kind however they're non-certified they need to be trained by us the certified school nurses however with the trend of the nursing shortage these nurses are commanding a much higher salary they are coming in sometimes fifteen to twenty thousand dollars more a year than the certified nurses that are currently employed in your district we are certain that everyone would agree that not only is this not right but it's also insulting to your nurses that are already employed we would also like to point out that non-certified nurses are not legally able to perform certain tasks that we the certified nurse can we are essential members of the inrs 504 teams coordinating health screenings and assessments and accommodations we complete mandated reports in timely manner we have repeatedly reached out to the administration in the union with no avail we are exhausted frustrated and left feeling unappreciated sometimes the bottom line is teachers would not be hired counselors would not be hired child study team members would not be hired without certification and proper credentials so why would we want this for certain for non-certified nurses when you hire the non-certified nurses at higher steps and salaries it's very disheartening and also demoralizing it is for this reason that six nurses have left the district or are leaving the districts in the past six months the resignation of these nurses there have been a lot of voids in our district in one school no nurses were available so the elementary school nurses were put into a rotation where they had to cover the schools then leaving their elementary school uncovered for that day this left a burden on the secretaries and the principles to make decisions that we would make if we were there yes it is very important to actively recruit and fill the empty positions left by the nursing shortage however it's more important that you fill these positions with qualified school nurses who will be able to educate and provide the same type of highly skilled care that the current certified school nurses and the certified school nurses before us provided the students of the clifton school district and the families of the clifton community that they have all come to expect we would like to end on this note it is most important that the members of the administration and the board of ed focus their attentions on the retention of your current certified school nurses this would make the clifton school district more attractive in retaining your highly qualified certified school nurses in the city of clifton we thank you for your attention [Applause] good evening everybody my name is wendy scradato i'm a certified school nurse for school 12.

referred children to harmful websites materials or outside entities may also specifically refer children to planned parenthood or affiliates or partners for their lucrative services or commodities examples are sexual counseling condoms contraceptives gender hormones sti testing treatment and abortions etc i continue to urge you to reject the 2022 sex education standards for september garwood jackson montague and many towns are more to come to reject the standards it is a iologic ideological not educational along with race-based gender fluid curriculum it is indoctrinating our children and misleading them by graphic sexual material this past saturday i was out in the community i wound up speaking to an arabic gentleman about this issue and he said he and his wife are appalled about these new sex education standards and i asked him why will you not speak forward what about your community his response to me was because i will be called racist and i will be blacklisted so there is such a fear today in our community and in the united states that people are not speaking up because when they do they get knocked down and they get called names and it's really out of control and we as a community need to speak up and there are people on this board that i know do not agree with these standards and i wish they would take a stand within themselves and their community to come against this because this is not appropriate for our youth thank you [Applause] good evening samantha basford i'm coming to you today not as judy basford's daughter but a clifton alumni and a citizen of clifton what is pride and why do we celebrate it lesbian gay bisexual and transgender pride month is celebrated annually in june to honor the 1969 stalwa stonewall riots and to work to achieve justice and equality up in equal opportunity for lesbian gay bisexual transgender and questioning americans now i need some audience participation in this and i hope people feel comfortable especially the young people raise your hand if you know someone who is lgbtq in this in this room raise your hand if it's someone who's close to you someone you know raise your hand if you know someone who has been bullied because of their sexual identity and their gender orientation exactly so why do we make why is pride important visibility is crucial to fighting shame and social stigma marching in the face of threats and violence pride events inspire celebrations of difference and show that lgbtq plus communities will not be intimidated and will continue demand equality that is why there is a resolution about pride in celebrating if you notice the hands in this room many of them young high school students when i was in high school maybe there was two to three people who were out openly but they couldn't be when i was in high school in 2008 because they were bullied somebody might have faced physical harm and now you see students who are in this audience and even adults who you may or may not be a part of the community who feel this shame and the embarrassment of even having to hear these comments at the board meetings of what sex education is going to turn someone into being queer that's not how this works you don't choose to be hated you don't choose to be bullied you don't choose to have a threat to you because you walk into a restaurant and you want to sit down with your loved one but you cannot that is why we celebrate pride and as a cis woman which if you don't know what that is that's probably part of the problem because you're not educated enough to understand what i am saying to you educate yourself don't be ignorant because yes we may be scared of what teachings can do but it's really what is in your household and the hate that is actually coming more forward than it is protection thank you [Applause] well good evening my name is lori lallam and i'm the president of the cea before i start i want to thank the board that showed up for the dinner that was very kind thank you again we had a good time more than two years ago clifton public schools along with the remainder of the world experience an unparalleled change during the covet 19 pandemic amid the many adjustments to our lives our schools shifted from in-person to virtual learning amid so many social distancing guidelines that changed every day when you decide to work in clifton public schools you couldn't have predicted on pending your years of training to figure out how to reinvent the specific practices that you've adopted and honored the transition was unexpected uncertain and unfamiliar turning to a new virtual environment menu had to contemplate and learn instantaneously and you did this with elegance courage and resolve within a couple of days you revised your job expectations to new platforms and technology tools that you beforehand had no knowledge of using you reached out to your friends and colleagues for guidance and support as well as foreign personal networks within the school community to make sure our students and their families felt understood and supported but your hard work and perseverance made solid contributions to clifton public schools through late evenings reinvent what our district should look like we have passed the largest referendum in new jersey we have received the sr-12 and three funds which are the arp which has provided many improvements to our district we still have work to do we need to understand the acculturation and the assimilation of this community look at our similarities and respect our differences connections and networking are important but it must be done through collaboration negativity tearing down one another hinders the betterment of such a wonderfully diversified district as a school community we have so much to be thankful for coming out of a pandemic we had pillars and committees and voices were heard which made such a horrible situation seem more tolerable to get through for all of these reasons and more i want to thank you the clifton public school community for going above your call of duty thank you for creating as much as possible the environment of safety and regularity during these past two and a half years thank you for communicating with the staff the kids and their families beyond your normal working hours thank you for your selflessness empathy patience and perseverance in addition congratulations to the class of 2022 as denzel washington said dreams without goals are just dreams they fuel disappointment you only live once so do what you feel passionate about it take chances enjoy your summer thank you very much [Applause] anyone else wish to address the board uh motion by mr abedrabo second by mr awad okay next we have um some great presentations to our senior students of the month so if we start with miss bassford and then we can just work our way around good evening this award goes to senior jada rivera jada rivera has participated in many extracurricular activities at chs including pre-med club heroes and cool kids national honor society and yearbook jada also volunteers at the clifton animal shelter her teacher mr giordano has been the most influential because she has challenged her academically but is also supportive and encouraging jada's role model is her mother because of her strength and guidance jada is a jada will be attending valley university for biology with plans to become a pediatric orthopedic surgeon so this award goes to jada rivera is jada here [Applause] no jayden not here okay we'll get that to uh thank you thank you mr paris yes i'm presenting to jaylee borcello jaylee burcello's favorite class while at chs was cast with mr mcconney and when she attends the university of new hampshire in the fall she plans to study communications jaylee enjoyed being an intern for mr mcconney this past school year and credits him as being her most influential teacher because he ensures his students are successful inside and outside of his classroom additionally jaylee's parents have been very supportive and a big influence in her life by showing her how to become a better person jaylee is motivated hardworking and respectful student who is not only successful academically but also extremely involved in extracurricular activities both inside and outside of school congratulations jaylee jaylee here no okay we'll get that to jaylee mr canova uh next up we have senior michael corpus michael corpus would like to thank his parents for teaching him the values of hard work and inspiring him and his siblings to be the best they can be michael's favorite subject is math because he likes how he can apply what he's learned to the real world and also has motivated him to study accounting at montclair state university this fall michael's favorite teacher at ces may have may have been mr lester and mr orlando because he learned critical thinking and respect for people's opinions is michael he turned here tonight congratulations michael we'll get that too okay tonight i have the honor of reading about kevin arroyo moreno kevin royal mourinho is a member of the boys cross country team indoor and outdoor track team and has earned multiple all league and all county awards kevin has also served his community and volunteers his time at the keystone program at the boys and girls club kevin thanks his older brother for being a positive influence in his life and also acknowledges miss fabricant for all her support uh kevin will be attending pccc next year and then plans on transferring to a university kevin aspires to be professional bodybuilder is kevin here [Applause] please thank you congratulations [Applause] so okay next we have a uh special presentation um recognition an award presented from the women's club of allwood scholarship dr robertosi thank you mr president is miss fran powers here tonight ms powers would you mind coming up to the microphone as the board may remember at our last meeting um we had one of our wonderful clifton parents come up and she was very upset that her daughter wasn't recognized at this local scholarship night so we wanted to uh we found out what happened and uh you know we apologized and we reached out to miss powers and miss powers uh is here tonight to give um the recognition that uh emily deserved in the first place so miss powers i'm going to turn it over to you to present the all wood uh scholarship well i'll look at you but um this old women's club is 90 years old not me but and every year we we'd have fundraisers and different ways to bring in money and we give it away we support the school system we support people in need saint peter's haven there's a lot that we do and it was brought upon me to give these awards out that we give every year uh scholarships for various things uh only uh emily is one that that i miss them all because of a family matter i could not make it so i wanted to give this to emily now oh along with a check because she was chosen for us by the counselors at clifton high school um i can read this and i think i'll do that dear emily ciao silagi you received three hundred dollars from the women's club of olwen scholarship from allwood based on your academic achievements your gender and residential neighborhood you should be proud of receiving the scholarship or award show that you appreciate having your achievements acknowledged by sending a letter of thanks that's to us uh we wish you the best of luck um emily's going to keen university in september and this is uh book money or money for her to uh to use whichever way she is her education is she here yes you please come up [Applause] thank you so much i got to see and hug them all i tell them all i'm sicilian i hug i don't think emily but i missed it all except please oh yes i'm just representing the home thank you so much i'm so glad to have the opportunity to do this because you know this is it this is my only chance i haven't seen the other ones they just got the checks it was also nice meeting you thank you thank you thank you just stand right up there i'll take a picture with all yes go ahead watch your step yep watch your step mom you too good mom pictures will be on our social media so you can grab them thank you congratulations [Applause] okay next we're going to have um recognition and award presentation to the clifton high school unified club mr gengaro if you'd like please um mark we're struggling with this here it's not loading mark it's not loading sorry i can't get it i can't get the browser to open it's shared with me the certificate is not letting me open any browsers i don't know what's wrong with the machine it's something that eric has to troubleshoot okay why don't we just uh we'll just read them again thank you ladies and gentlemen the board of education our commissioners of course our superintendent and on behalf of coach carla rodriguez who could not be with us this evening as she is with her friends families and colleagues celebrating her retirement but knowing carla i would venture to guess that at some point in fact multiple times this evening as she's celebrating the successful career that she has had her heart and her thoughts are with us this evening as we honor and recognize our student athletes so i was for the opportunity and privilege to read this on her behalf on the weekend of june 10th through june 12 2022 the special olympics new jersey was finally able to resume summer games competition at the college of new jersey where athletes from all over the state come to socialize celebrate and compete over the course of the entire weekend summer games provide many of the athletes with independence confidence and the opportunity to build lifelong friendships this is just not a sporting event but a coming together of friends and family filled with endless smiles laughter and memories for the past nine years i carlo rodriguez has had the opportunity to coach and mentor many of these young athletes from grade six and up through high school and even a few into college when i began this program back in 2013 i could never have imagined how being part of special olympic play unify would change my life for the better this program has not only become an important part of the lives of so many of clifton students and families but has nestled itself in the hearts of the coaches and the coach in the clifton athletes the following clifton high special olympic athletes lorenzo ahmadi leila carrasquillo jason hinton and david mondina as well as former clifton students alexa petty and michael shimabukuro competed in track and field events renzo ahmadi won a gold medal in the men's shot putt leila carrasquillo won a silver medal in the women's 400 meter dash and fourth place in the standing long jump jason hinton won a gold medal in the men's shot put with a throw of over eight meters and fifth place in the men's 200 meter dash david mondia won a silver medal in the men's shotput alexa petty won a gold medal in the woman's 400 meter and the silver medal in the woman's 800 meter in a rainy downpour and michael had an incredible performance a gold medal in the men's 200-meter dash leaving competitors in the dust and the men's running long jump he almost jumped clear out of the pit it is clear that our athletes are not just excelling in their respective sports but their social skills as we the coaches and families watch them congratulate and encourage their fellow competitors if you saw the pictures you would see that this program culminating in summer games builds confidence teamwork and truly brings out the best in all of those who are lucky enough to be there i could speak endlessly about the lessons that i have learned and the moments that have moved me to happy tears the sport activities have led to a community for not just the athletes but the athletes families and all of the coaches there are so much more to this initiative that competitions and shiny clinking medals if i could leave you with one thing i would say get involved and be ready to be motivated and amazed so on behalf of the board of education coach rodriguez and the entire one clifton learning community we would like to celebrate honor and recognize the student athletes with these certificates when i call your name please kindly come to the stage and remain here until all athletes are called up i'd also invite our our superintendent and board of ed commissioners to come forward too for everybody come on should hand it to them we just got the thumbs up from renzo so we are ready our first student athlete laila carrasquillo [Applause] david mondial [Applause] congratulations [Applause] jason hinton some of our student athletes are actually celebrating with coach rodriguez at her retirement party and last but certainly not least the man the myth the legend lorenzo ahmadi [Applause] you want families in the picture you want parents you want to go in the picture thank you [Applause] it's a good thing i checked yep there we go thank you and as our commissioners are making their way back to our seats and before we turn the board of education meeting over to president smith uh one of our recognized student athletes would like to say a few words for coach rodriguez it's all yours [Music] my name is laila cara i am a student at clifton high school and i have been in clifton's autism program since kindergarten i love school and my school community my teachers and coaches are like family to me today i want to say that even though i am so happy to be here i am so sad that my coach mr rodriguez is retiring mrs rodriguez is one of the best in education that clifton has to offer she has been michael since 2016.

you foreign mm-hmm you um you so [Music] do [Music] i would like to resume this meeting of the eastern township board of education can 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 at this time board member janice noel will read the mission statement of the eastern township school district the mission of the eve sham township school district is to promote excellence in an environment that engages students in meaningful learning experiences in partnership with students dedicated staff families and community the district provides a strong educational foundation that will empower our students to achieve their unique potential embrace self-directed lifelong learning develop the skills necessary for appropriate risk taking and responsible decision making respect themselves and others problem solve individually and collaboratively and become contributing members of a diverse global society thank you mrs noel at this point we're going to be moving on to presentations dr smith the floor is all yours there we go there we go we have a packed house tonight this is absolutely fantastic so exciting so we're going to start off with our elks our 2020 our 2022 elks essay contest winners and so i'm going to have a few people come up and join me here first off from the elks david and diana madges come on down they they they run the contest you can and rob mcdonough is there too if you can come on down thank you so much our board president leah ryan and vice president anish kanthan are going to join us as well we're going to go by school marlin elementary school and if our teachers are here too you can come down with your student if you don't mind so we have luke carson with teacher shannon mclaughlin first winner [Applause] [Music] [Applause] hey just hang here and just enjoy all the uh positive attention from everybody all right and what we're going to do when the next person comes down is we'll get the handshakes out of the way first and then we'll fill your hands with all the prizes and recognitions all right so next person is adriana de bartolomeo with teacher emily atley thank you and our next student from martin elementary is ishaan nandy with teacher kelly durnam jones [Applause] next up now we're moving on to the middle school we've got de mesa middle school newport huawei with teacher sandy groff [Applause] next up after that we've got shrina velmalu konda with teacher wendy metzger and last but certainly not least from demacy middle school alexa dolores with teacher wendy metzger congratulations congratulations and let's if we can have all of our award winners kind of pivot and move here in the middle let's get let's get some uh photos if parents want to come down and take a picture of everybody yeah yeah yeah you can all kind of squeeze in make two rows me see is awesome job congrats again to all our students i noticed there was like gift cards paper clip to those plaques and other stuff mr mrs madis thank you so much for thank you so much thank you thank you thank you thank you very much thank you having the pledge right before that was perfect i mean that there it's been i think this is the largest turnout we've had since um certainly my time here since coveted and to hear all those voices saying the pledge together was really powerful and i think a perfect lead into that essay contest so um thanks to all the families from those winners who came out and again congratulations to all the students and thanks to the elks for that contest we're going to move on to our next group of change makers and these are yeah that's how we do it here okay lots of kids 57 57 so 63 students total tonight 57 student council students all fifth graders five of six of our elementary schools involved the only school that's not i'm just calling it out because somebody will notice beeler only involved because they were doing other amazing things with their student council okay so what we're going to do is call students down by school and their teachers if they're here to please come down when they do and if we can have so do a little background on this and and our uh yves shin police is here and if uh representatives chief miller captain reinhold if you want to any i see uh captain burdette there if you want to come down um to be with us as we recognize the students that'd be awesome and i don't know are there dogs here too do they uh we have we have actual canines here okay because that's what this was about so the background on this was our student councils raised money for a canine memorial that's going to go outside the township building their target was 2 000 ish dollars they came in at 4 000 raised so absolutely fantastic [Applause] i don't know if they're like our uh you know we we do a great program called literacy and leashes and those dogs are trained to be absolutely perfect with kids and uh canines are um i'm going to pass off the mic to jarelyn covley one of our awesome kindergarten teachers to say a few a little bit about the fundraiser hi good evening so my husband is a retired sergeant from the township and he saw a really cool idea with a canine memorial in gloucester township and we thought what a great thing to do for eve sham so jaggard's supervisor for the student council reached out to the other student councils and we thought could we do this well together we raised three thousand seven hundred eight dollars and sixty eight cents with all the kids of the queen more [Applause] so hopefully this it'll be worked on and um will become a reality so i'll give this back to you and if it doesn't work we they can we can we can they can go back outside but let me grab let me grab these all right so this and this is the largest handshake line we've ever had as well i have to say up here so um so we're gonna go by school we're gonna start with des robert beinecke if he's here [Applause] okay right and then we've got aaron gallagher [Applause] daisy lysa [Applause] congratulations avery raymond [Applause] madison tiermann [Applause] and holden tribe or military [Applause] and if barbara militch is here too that oh cool cool [Applause] if parents want to from ds want to stand up and take pics here okay thank you all right we're going to move on to jaggard and if teacher hope phillips is here and you come on down please please do oh good awesome awesome all right first up we have marcus boyd [Applause] then we've got sydney carroll abigail escalante gonzalez [Applause] riyansh kajati [Applause] anya and antelozio telizano [Applause] chloe genovi [Applause] and carly ridley [Applause] this is jaggert elementary schools fifth grade student council [Applause] awesome congrats to jagger's student council thank you thank you [Applause] we're moving on to rice now and i want to add that if i get anyone's name wrong while i'm reading it truly is because the name is beautiful able to pronounce it in the right way so the fall is with me my last name is smith it's i have no practice um so um but apologies in advance um so we've got first up from rice matthew achiani jr if he's here grace bouchard [Applause] luke cheeseman [Applause] carly dougherty [Applause] and if stephanie doofey and lindsey mcleod are here come on down come on down these are the two teacher advisors for the fifth grade student council at rice olivia franks [Applause] gavin johnson gavin kimball [Applause] skylar lord lorenzo musto [Applause] isaiah santiago [Applause] ryan schultz [Applause] madison smith [Applause] these are our rice fifth grade student council champs [Applause] congrats again to rice [Applause] all right we're going to move on to van's zandt and mes i didn't forget about you there's a there's a reason why i skipped over uh christine keltos and cheryl narath if you're here and you want to come down and i saw mr de blasio here too you're good okay all right all right so let's start off with kaden bussarello [Applause] dylan [Applause] coburn congratulations gianna deangelis [Applause] angela feeney [Applause] congratulations tristan hall [Applause] congratulations ellison kennedy [Applause] charles liu [Applause] congratulations kaylee moore callie moore [Applause] brinley rogers [Applause] paige rosenkowitz [Applause] and henry swain that's our vans and fifth grade student council [Applause] and thanks mrs cotos for being here so last last but not least mes i i kind of saved them for the end because they're the largest student council of all the schools okay so if emily atlee kelly durham jones or shannon mclaughlin are here the teachers come on down awesome thank you thank you [Applause] and we're going to start off with nadia alaba [Applause] nicholas alaba [Applause] lucille lamotto [Applause] get so much applause aaron benjamin [Applause] alabetz [Applause] lucy brennan [Applause] adeline christensen [Applause] jocelyn cohen [Applause] adriana de bartolomeo [Applause] ava guerini [Applause] nicholas hopp asher miller [Applause] benjamin nettleton [Applause] ryan niederberger [Applause] congratulations ryan gavin quinn [Applause] congratulations carter reeve [Applause] rebecca shapiro [Applause] congratulations and jack thompson [Applause] this is the mes 5th grade student council representing [Applause] so all right if we can give a last round of plus for all of our student council winners and thank you to eve shannon police department for coming tonight bringing the dogs we're so grateful for all of the collaboration and support we get from our youtube police and it's it's so feels so good for our students to be able to be change makers and give back in this way so again thank you so much to our schools [Applause] oh you know what um i'll send it to him uh we'll send it to him though thank you okay yeah yeah do you know lee and i are both like definitely like jumping all right that's why we're so we're going to take a to take a quick two minute recess to let folks clear out if they want families that came for the awards thanks so much for for being here you don't need to stay for the whole meeting if you don't want to [Music] do [Music] um [Music] item five on the agenda um our solicitor mr will donio would like to say something order order thank you very much mr donio floor is yours yes uh thank you madam president uh board members i appreciate you indulging me for this just very briefly uh at the last meeting there was a member of the association who was speaking on an item i can't remember who the exact member was but interrupted him to direct him that the first public session was only about agenda items and while they talked about a number of items that weren't on the agenda one of the items they talked about was on the agenda so i do owe him an apology uh for you know trying to insist that what he was doing was either clever or what have you i wasn't totally right i wasn't totally wrong but i wasn't totally right and i think it's very important as a professional especially representing a public entity that when you get it wrong you admit it and you apologize for that in addition i just want the public to know i am absolutely a first amendment absolutist i had that's the council i give my school districts it's the freedom speech petition government for redresses is essential of freedom guaranteed by the first amendment it's not given to us it's guaranteed for us and um so i just wanted to express that um because you know when i'm when i'm interrupting or doing something along those lines it's not because i don't want to hear what somebody has to say it's the best way to treat people fairly is to treat them equally so if you're going to have a rule that applies has to apply uniformly for everyone and that's important regardless of whomever is coming before the the podium so again i just wanted to just to state that publicly you know someone goes off the agenda you know with the next public meet session i'll interrupt again i'm not going to say i'm not going to do that because that's an orderly approach to a public meaning is the most essential way to ensure transparency uh and to ensure that the public has the ability to to believe that their government is acting in their best interests so thank you okay and i was going to also make a little statement so one of the main goals of the eastern township board of education is to make decisions which are in the best interest of our children whether you agree with us or not we have policies and procedures in place to afford us the opportunity to make important decisions without impedement from the public boards use the public comment period as an opportunity to listen to community concerns not to debate issues or enter into a question and answer session not all issues brought before the board will be resolved on the same day we want to hear what the audience has to say any concerns to the residents of the school district as evidenced in our agenda permitting two public comments we do not however want our policies and procedures mocked by the public by speaking out of turn while not at the microphone or by those choosing to speak and offering fake names and addresses like those of fictional characters we will ask for name and addresses and if you choose not to disclose please state that at this point i'd like to open the meeting to public comment just in case anyone is not aware we have two public comments first public comment is for what is on the agenda and the second public comment which happens later in the evening is for anything you wish to discuss the meeting will now be open to the public referencing agenda items only however if your questions pertain to student or personnel items or negotiations we ask that you see the superintendent after the meeting since we do not discuss these matters in public we ask that you limit your comments to three minutes per person it's also crucial please for you to give us your name address before you speak up and also to limit your comments to one time per public comment period is there anyone who wishes to speak on agenda items okay seeing none we are going to close that portion of the meeting there will be another public comment section at the end at this point we're going to move forward with the approval of minutes i need a motion to approve item 6.1 and 6.2 do i have a motion mr fizzicaro second miss capello any questions or comments regarding the minutes okay seeing none roll call please mrs cappello yes this is everhart yes mr fizzicaro yes mr canton yes mrs noll abstain miss lee yes mr megan abstain mrs ryan yes motion carriage thank you at this point we're going to move on to item 7 superintendents report and administrative items do i have a motion to approve item 7.1 through 7.5 ms noel seconded mr cantham before we get into questions and comments i'm going to give the floor to dr smith for superintendent comments thank you president ryan and after all those wonderful student presentations i will try to keep my remarks short and sweet but i would be very remiss to not mention a few other change makers in our in our district recently that go along with the students we recognize tonight these are amazing kids earlier today six abc news aired a segment about a project created by one of our fourth graders natalie rogers to raise funds for the non-profit refugee strong and that was after reading the book when this when stars are scattered she and her friends sold their handmade loom bracelets at the school's book fair and raised a total of i'm gonna get this say this exactly 501.79 because their motto is every penny counts and if you want to see that segment this is my plug for our evesham twitter just go to etsd twitter and you can see the link that we tweeted out earlier today it's a really great uh inspiring segment with the help of the vans amp pto the author of the book omar muhammad visited the school for all of the fifth grade all the fourth grade the author was a refugee and created a refugee strong and the book is his story and when stars are scattered as a core literature book in our fourth grade curriculum speaking of staff change makers i would like to recognize teddy bear academy and tba director leah perlmuter for two recent accomplishments teddy bear academy was approved for a sixty thousand dollar new jersey american rescue plan stabilization grant and the funds can go to past present or future operational costs and they applied for that that was through their initiative their desire that they applied for that and they earned it furthermore 26 tba staff members each earned a one thousand dollar retention bonus grant by completing voluntary training through a grant for licensed child care centers in new jersey so that makes eighty six thousand dollars in alternative funding secured by teddy bear academy staff this spring miss palmer and our tba staff have been working hard all year to support our families and this grant is a deserved support for them in turn [Applause] i'd like to briefly just reiterate a few key points about a couple of our current topics health curriculum will be updated this summer per the most recent new jersey curriculum standards our district will share that updated curriculum with all families in the second half of august along with the annual information from our curriculum office regarding the option to opt out for our number one district goal of full day kindergarten our district will be forming a stakeholder committee in late summer that will begin meeting after school resumes as we work toward the goal of full-day kindergarten for all students no tuition and we thank our community for bringing that that voice to that goal as we certainly you know want to work and make it happen and lastly tomorrow our middle school graduations are at the cherokee football field and mrs rominelli and mr hoffman are here and we'll we'll be with them tomorrow night looking forward to that weather still looking good dms 5 30 p.m mms 7 30 p.m everyone is welcome to cheer on our awesome eighth graders as they cross that threshold no tickets required and lastly since it is our last board meeting before the end of the year i just want to recognize the work of every person who has been integral to supporting our students this year and so i propose that we had so many students here a student-centered board meeting just like we encourage a student-centered classroom from our dedicated staff and all roles who went above and beyond each day to our dedicated board of education our pta's pto eve sham education foundation township leadership local community organizations and all of our parents and families it took and it takes a village and ours is called eve jam our district welcome wishes all of our staff and families a wonderful and well deserved summer thank you mrs ryan thank you dr smith any questions or comments about the superintendent's report okay roll call please mrs cappello yes mrs everhart yes mr fizzacarro yes mr catherine yes mrs noel yes miss lee yes mr megan yes mrs ryan yes motion carries thank you moving to item eight curriculum and instruction i need a motion to improve items 8.1 through 8.5 do i have a motion miss everhart thank you second miss capela thank you any questions or comments to curriculum and instruction okay roll call please mrs capalo yes mrs everhart yes mr fizzagaro yes mr canton yes mrs knoll yes miss lee yes mr megan yes mrs ryan yes motion carries thank you moving to item nine finance and operations i need a motion to approve items 9.1 all the way through 9.28 do i have a motion mr canthan mr fizzicaro thank you any questions or comments pertaining to finance and operations mr cantham thanks president ryan um yeah as we can see there are 28 finance items this month so even though the budget has passed the finance committee has been hard at work so i just wanted to applause the finance committee for all of their efforts throughout this process again just because the budget has passed the work doesn't stop and that's indicative from the 28 line items we have here i also wanted to applaud uh inspira health of haddon township in summerdale which is now accepting new patients for advertising on 25 of our buses we've been creative as we can with uh advertising to find new funding for the district so thanks to inspire health for putting their logo on 25 of our buses you any other miss everhart so i'm going to be a little debbie downer here i i applaud the finance committee for all the work that they're doing and i'm going to implore them to work judiciously hard in preparation of the next budget because i'm dismayed by the information regarding 9.28 i was i was talking to another board member that sits on the finance committee and i was dismayed to hear the incredible increase that was given to us by the uh service provider for transportation now if you remember historically about two years ago the same thing occurred we had a double-digit increase to have our children on busing it was on it was unconscionable then we had kovid and it was double-digit but it was much more palatable and i was fine with that i am not fine with this double-digit increase yet again and i'm being told by the representatives from our board that it's due to the rising of uh you know gas and whatnot well everybody's experiencing that and in no way should this contractor be asking us who's already fiscally challenged to bear this incredible unreasonable increase i i know her hands are tied and i'm frustrated by that so i implore the finance committee to be creative and think out of the box and find ways that we can give this contractor less of our bus routes and we do more of it ourselves we need to disengage with these people and so that we are not put in this circumstance they have further tied our hands for this next budget so i'm sorry for the rant but i'm very very frustrated by that thank you that's it thank you mrs everhart mr fizzicaro i'm going to go off of those sentiments by miss everhart i i do sit on the finance committee and there was pretty much that kind of dismay all around and you're right your hands are virtually tied i think the recommendation really is and what we are trying to do is to get as many hires in as possible and unfortunately that bus driver shortage that exists really nationwide is at our doorstep too and i i recommend to anybody who's listening who is thinking about that as a as a profession or something that they wish to do to fill it out because it's it can be an extraordinarily rewarding uh field of work it can be it can be wonderful and also on top of that yeah it also saves us from this because we get to put that money into our hard-working transportation department instead of something that we leaked out so i think the best way to do that is to continue to promote and i think this is a community thing to promote the idea that um go out get your get your license to be a bus driver and um and be a part of the team yeah i agree i see the signs they're a little little but i do see the signs out there to to go out and get your cdl that's been put out by our township so um by our school district so you know that's the first step and i applaud that but i'm just concerned that this board is now going to have to struggle with balancing you know programs and and staff and and transportation and walking routes and they've just further tied our hands and i'm just very dismayed that's it i'm frustrated thank you okay anyone else wants to speak miss noel yes uh sitting on the finance committee i want to add something and yes we are we are all very frustrated we have been looking at as the board knows areas where we can pull back on the courtesy bussing and we've discussed that and we are going to be looking towards more communities and working with the township to then make more communities with cross guards so that we can pull back on some of those bus runs we i mean we have to hit it at every turn we can so um i would say all throughout next year we'll be discussing with the township again um which other neighborhoods we can convert to walkers and i trish i think you were in that meeting with the township where the engineer and with the township they applied for the grant through the state safe routes to school and they did get that grant money for rice to put additional sidewalks in so fingers crossed that that's going to come soon as well so we can convert more neighborhoods to walkers other than that you know we're getting competitive anish can talk about and leah the compression of you know the different salaries and all that so that we could be more competitive and with offering i think it's almost like 13 times the cpi that's their increase it's just it's unreasonable it's just and i'm just so frustrated that it's sort of a monopoly you know it's been like this for 20 some years where a certain contractor works for our district another contractor works for the lenape regional and you know i just i was just as frustrated two years ago as i am today so do what we can here and and i hope some people go out and get their cdl and we can have more bus drivers for our district that do the runs i'm not saying everybody should walk but you know i'm just i'm just so frustrated and i want to be less and less beholden to that outside contract yes trish we are trying and that was what we were trying since 2020 when when we were in demacy with joe and joe said they have won the battle but they will not win the war if i can just add if anyone is interested in becoming a driver with our district please contact me directly we will pay for your training any licensing and you will have our eternal gratitude so thank you okay any more questions or comments all right seeing none roll call please mr vichindi mrs cappello yes with abstain 9.4 okay this is everhart yes to everything but nine point two eight mr fizzy caro yes mr canton yes mrs noll yes miss lee yes mr megan yes mrs ryan yes to everything but 9.4 abstain okay motion carries okay moving on to item 10 personnel i need a motion to approve items 10.1 through 10.10 do i have a motion miss noel second ms capello thank you any questions or comments regarding personnel okay roll call please mr cynthia mrs cavallo yes mrs everhart yes mr fizakara yes mr catherine yes mrs noel yes miss lee yes mr meegan yes mrs ryan yes motion carries thank you moving to item 11 policy i need a motion to approve items 11.1 and 11.2 do i have a motion mr fizzicaro second obviously oh nice thank you okay any questions or comments pertaining to personnel even though most of these are mandated mr physicara i just wanted me i mean obviously i could do this with myself most of these policies are mandated sorry yes thank you um i just wanted to make that clear i just want to make that clear um just going to my committee report ahead of time most of these policies in here are mandatory policies as per uh what we've been working with in the last several months uh so these are you know when you see these mandatory policies just for the audience at stake to know that when you see these mandatory policies these are coming up down from the state and they're giving us the guidelines on what to do and we are following we're following the directions of what they uh what they wish uh so mostly what we've been working on has been that and this is just another run at that so just want to put that out there thank you any other questions or comments okay roll call please mr cindy mrs cappello yes mrs everhart yes mr fizzy cara yes mr canton yes mrs noel yes miss lee yes mr meagan yes mrs ryan yes motion carries thank you moving on to committee reports does any committee chair i'm sorry oh does any committee have a report they wish to share miss noah okay a quick update on technology we do meet quarterly so we met in june uh early june to discuss all of the summer projects which there are many mr case miss mcgoulick they listed everything out for us and of course it's the usual bringing in the new chromebooks and please forgive me i did not write a speech so i'm just winging it here so um the the summer projects would include moving chromebooks up from grade to grade um also the new chromebooks for the sixth graders coming the incoming sixth graders uh we have ordered 30 active panels which i'm not sure if they came in yet no but they'll be here soon so 30 active panels and with that the classrooms that they'll be going into the teachers will get professional development on how to use those active panels so the technology committee discusses both the hardware and then any of the curriculum and training that goes along with that so we discussed both of those aspects in our meetings and um anisha if i'm forgetting anything feel free to jump in at the end so we discussed the summer literacy and math projects where the technology team would be working on the padlets and um also we talked about the writing the the finishing up the writing of the curriculum for the new technology standards this summer so it would be updating our existing technology curriculum and mr case will be working hard continuing on some of the switch replacements also the wireless access points that need to be upgraded also continuing on installing or up grading new security cameras outside and inside he's giving me the nod like yep you got it all right so those are some of the things there's going to be a lot going on this summer and we're going to meet again in the fall to see how well they both did that's all you can always email if you have any questions thank you miss noel miss everhart okay if you're missing out here i'll give a curriculum committee report so i just want to say that this was uh the last time that we will be doing uh the safe return plan we won't be adding anything more to the plan it will still be on the website but that is now just a thing of the past it's there to look at historically but there'll be no more fingers crossed there will be no more uh changes to the plan uh also ms mcgulac updated us with all the project status that was going to be going on starting monday probably uh with curriculum and tech so mrs noel covered the tech aspect i'm just saying there's a they're just going to be busy aligning several curriculums uh to the new standards we will be getting several curriculums to review in august and september for us to vote on in the fall so that's an update from curriculum is there anything you would like to add ms cappella or miss lee okay all right thank you thank you mrs everhart sure can miss real quickly curriculum department thank you i received um two emails one from elementary and one from marlton middle for the summer um literacy and math projects so of course i went right to the summer reading pdf so thank you all on the curriculum committee for working so hard in helping to select that theme courage counts you anyone else okay i have a question for i just have a question uh for the finance committee i guess can we have some update if it's all possible on the um this vacant land situation absolutely i'd be glad to update on that so um we are um mr shinty and i had a meeting last week with the township manager robert corrales and with the township business administrator alex davidson as we talk about the properties we have a number of appraisals appraisals that we have had historically and appraisals the township has had done since then and we are working out um next steps as far as what you know what the actual details will look like okay that's that's all still being discussed yeah all right thanks appreciate that thank you okay moving into old business we don't have any old business and we do not have any new business so now we're going to move into open public comment the meeting will now be open to the public referencing any items of interest however if your questions or comments pertain to litigation student or personnel items or negotiations we ask that you see the superintendent after the meeting since we do not discuss these matters in public we ask that you limit your comments to three minutes per person and also that this section is meant for one comment per person if you would like to speak please come on up to the microphone one one one okay john janks 39 carlton avenue marlton thank you permanent teacher of science certificated by the state of new jersey tonight's lesson is biology and a little bit of psychology of course most of you know that there's 46 chromosomes 23 pairs sometimes though there are some abnormalities there there's a trisomy 21.

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all right moving on to it 3.06 board of trustees communication and comments um i'm going to go ahead and call you as i see you and so here's your opportunity to speak uh what member chava is uh to save time i'll just pass all right uh you guys switched on me by doing something give me a second uh board vice president yes thank you mr president uh you know i'll just say it's been quite a year uh you know so i thank everyone uh teachers or janitors and families for uh being with us uh you know in this year uh though we were able to uh see every see our kids back in the classrooms it's been a bumpy ride but in alan rock fashion we we made it in one piece and we look forward to uh seeing you know seeing all our kids come back in the fall i'm glad that we're able to have uh our students uh have the opportunity of summer programs once again this year and i hope that it's something that we can continue to provide especially in these times where we are coming out of covid and the learning losses related to coven on a lighter note uh i'm glad that uh you know we're you know this summer we're able to start the process of renovating our schools paving the blacktops replacing the marquees uh opening the conversation on workforce housing um you know i also want to take this opportunity to thank mr renee sanchez for all his uh all his work uh for the allen school district we're gonna miss him we're gonna miss his presence and i i wish him uh the best of luck in whatever he does in the future and uh with and so with you know uh one last thing it was very heartening to see our kids at adelante deliver those letters to senator padilla and congressman lockrun it speaks to uh you know we are we are pro you know uh we are providing our kids the uh opportunities to uh see the big uh the wide wide world and that the sky is the limit and that they can do big things if they put their efforts to it so with that thank you very much mr president board member uh yes thank you president cutero just pretty quickly obviously we've been experiencing um some elevated temperatures recently and we're all feeling feeling the heat um but i want to thank our our team our allen mark t milomark staff um at the end of the school year and you know even at this current time for responding to the needs of each classroom of each site of each um you know request for accommodations with regards to temperature and things like that in each room it's it's very known that alum rock you know we are in many ways challenge have our hands kind of tied as to what we can do with with the resources that we currently have but our team our alum rock team continues to you know kind of work miracles and and am i saying that everything is always perfect all the time no absolutely not um but it's with the facilities that we have with the resource that we have our team has done i think an excellent job in to the best of our ability as a district making sure that students and staff have an environment that they are able to work in again improvements we as a board and as an allen rock team we've been working diligently over the past several years to get things lined up to do things very methodically and strategically so that we can address the the bigger issues that we all want to address uh with regards to facilities and and all the different things that are needed and trustee um fam already mentioned some of that work already starting with our asphalt work and the marquees and that's just you know what we can do now but as i mentioned as we continue to work as a board you know the resources that we actually need to be able to really make the difference that we all want are hopefully in the on the horizon and we're continuing to work in that direction but for the time being again i want to appreciate our staff for making the best of what we can do as a district um with the resources that we have and also acknowledge that you know this is not the issue of during these hot times and and whether it's hot or cold it's not an issue exclusive to alum rock many districts have challenges that come up any particular units and things like that um you know have lifespans and have issues that need to be addressed and so it's a it is a you know a very typical common um phenomenon that occurs in any school in any district but like i said we're working towards addressing a bigger issue because we know that it is something that is brought to us quite often we know it's there and we are trying to do it in a way that will be long-standing and sustainable and not just um you know to kind of put a band-aid on something we're trying to do it in a way that is going to have long-term impact on our learning community so thank you allen rock staff for for doing that work that's all my comments poor clerk thank you board president uh i just like to acknowledge um our community for coming together on june 11th um as family members community members angered by the gun violence um and so we came together in front of uh the hillview library so just uh want to give thanks for everybody who showed up um and um those of you who also sent uh your thoughts um it was nice you know to see our children um just playing with chalk drawing pictures um doing activities um and really taking our communities back right i'm saying enough is enough um and with that too uh i've submitted the resolution for safe safer schools um that will be coming to us at our next board meeting um so i look forward to um you know making sure that we're doing everything we can to keep all of our children and all of our staff and teachers safe here in our district um and also you know as a proud trustee but most importantly a proud mom uh you know highlighting the atlanta students for taking the the letters out to washington dc um and you know i want to acknowledge all of the teachers all of the students you know that it wasn't just adelante um you know that group that did the work it was many students that took the time to write a letter very thoughtfully um ensuring that you know our representatives know what we're feeling here in the east side and alum rock elementary school district so thank you to all the students thank you to all the teachers for making that happen um and then coordinating efforts to ensure that uh zoloftgen you know and alex padilla were there to receive those letters so very proud very proud of our district um and then just uh last but not least you know we're doing so good at ellen rock you know as a parent that's been here now my daughter's going into the eighth grade so you know all those years i'm really seeing you know the journey that we've taken um directly as a parent right in those eight years um i'm just so happy and um you know the summer programs um this week and she's loving it um and she's like i'm calling my friends to see they want to join i'm like well find out if you they could still join you know so it's really good to hear that feedback from children um and you know with that as parents of maybe younger ones if you have younger ones that are you know pre-k um tk um you know call call the district and find out what the options are find out um you know what's available um don't wait right because we as a district prepare ahead of time um and so not that there won't be a spot but we want to make sure that we plan ahead um that we have the curriculum ready that we have the materials ready so um you know if you or maybe somebody you know within our district um have somebody you know a student that's younger that maybe you haven't enrolled yet um now is a good time to you know give us a call and ensure that we get um the students enrolled so we can make sure to start our next uh your school year um with all the materials we need all the teachers and administrators um so that we can have a great year so thank you so much and that's it for my report all right well uh for my comments just wanted to touch on upon the i know that we talked about promotions that took place um but there was a promotion took place after our last board meeting i had the opportunity to stop by media uh by hubbard uh the media arts academy and uh very excited to see the that the development of that site that at one time was in a you know situation that was precarious and helen brock went ahead and made some changes so we could see it flourishing so i'm very excited to see the work that's being done there i especially want to recognize those staff that show up day in day out and do their job uh and and are fully committed to serving our students those staff that you know give it all give it their all i want to especially recognize those staff that uh uh really really uh do they do an effective job by being there on a regular basis with their children by serving those those kids that they work with i want to thank those folks in particular uh thank you um with regard to uh alum rock i want to recognize something that kind of just goes unrecognized because it's just seen as a normal course of matter that is done in areas that are id uh but uh the fact that we have a summer lunch program we saw what alum rock did that we were a resource for the community as a whole uh throughout the pandemic and i'm just very very grateful uh that i'm part of a district that isn't just uh showing up and we're at you know what is it 8 30 whatever the school hours are um uh that that our district goes above and beyond to uh meet the needs of our community uh for all children uh what is it uh dr fire reminder i think it's up to 18 that any child within uh our community can go and pick up lunch at our sites and so i want to showcase the fact that our school district is a resources for our is a resource for our community as a whole not just for children that are enrolled because that's exactly what we are we are the district for all of san jose and i'm very very grateful for that um we don't have never mind i'm not going to continue on on that path all of our children are welcome and we don't uh we don't say maybe uh your home school district is your is your best option you know we you are you are all our are our students so please come back bro so um with regard to a matter that's been it was somewhat addressed by one of my colleagues um but i i think it's important to to speak to this matter and be very clear because alum rock has been basically attacked our staff are very hard working uh units that maintain our facilities members of uh teamsters local three fifth giveaway um hard-working people that uh have been [Music] under attack on the district as a whole has been under attack by a series of uh uh statements that have been made and so dr bauer i i know that you spoke and you gave uh some clarification but i think it's important to provide a complete clarification so there's absolutely no question about what's going on many people think that uh they're being driven by this particular story and so if you can please specify what's going on with our air conditioning units uh and uh and if you can elaborate on that i think it's important that we understand that that our our staff goes out there fixes things and if they sometimes there is user error and that needs to be addressed i think it needs to be clarified so that our staff isn't being vilified as not being able to to repair you know items uh yes for president um our for the most part our air conditioning is working and is working properly and we have been giving all of us the direct very specific directions about how to how to manage because those are machines right and they have their limitations throughout the the whole this year with the spike of covet in so many ways we have had two open doors and open windows and we have been given directions including myself because you know i'm not an air conditioning technician so i have to follow directions right and we have been given very specific directions saying if you want to keep your windows open and your door open the air conditioning is not gonna work the way it's supposed to work because these systems were not designed to up to work when there are doors open and windows open and there have been staff who prefer to keep and i understand that we all understand that when we want to make sure we're safe we have decided to open doors to open windows and therefore the machines have busted you know because if you keep the ac on and then you open the window and open the door they're gonna break so in spite of that mlt has been very diligent always coming back always addressing the situation we i i think trustee vegeta said it perfectly it's not perfect we still have some other machines that once in a while are not working properly we have face you know the the the system the the materials delays the part delays that everybody else in the world has been experiencing in per in terms of parts or things that don't arrive on time but in addition to that with this specific the specific series of comments there has been a choice by staff to leave the door open we fixed them the air conditioning the the weekend before and i asked personally i want to know i want to be updated i want to make sure that this is addressed we paid overtime to our air conditioning staff to make sure that that air conditioning was working to make sure that the kids and the staff are fine well monday comes back the ac is working and then it busts again because the door was left open so those are the kinds of things that we adults make as a choice and we know that the consequences are the machine is not ready to work appropriately so that's what's been happening um i hope that one day people design an air conditioning unit and a heating unit that may be able to work with open windows and open doors but as of right now we don't have any of that in our district and so that is even with the window units and even with the the smaller machines that we have to cool off or to warm up a place those machines have been designed to have a closed environment to work properly so no matter what uh system we use in the in this in the classrooms right now they are designed to work with windows that are closed and the door that is closed thank you for the clarification i think it's important that the public and all stakeholders know what the situation is rather than be driven by one particular story or one particular narrative so thank you for that um move on to item 4.01 uh 1.01 approve a superintendent's master's degree stepping up got a motion from member chavez or second uh there's a motion by foreign second by board member do you have any public comment no public comment and on mr board president all right um all right i'll go ahead and i'll call you as i see you unless there's a further discussion from the board remember travis aye board member aye president aye uh board member aye my sophomore night motion passed unanimously item 4.02 discussion consideration of uh approved resolution 64-2122 motion all right uh give me a quick uh is there a second second motion by programmer chavez second by foreign no public comment mr board president further comments members of the board uh board vice uh yes thank you mr president uh question to dr bauer i believe uh i believe at the last uh uh at the june 9th board meeting i i had asked uh administration about uh a road map to bringing the board back to the board room in in a high in a hybrid uh configuration uh you know is there any uh updates or consideration uh you know considerations that the board needs to uh think about uh at this time or uh you know uh you know or should we or should we wait until um july at the regularly scheduled meeting for july to check in so you requested this last board meeting on june 9 trustee fam and quite honestly uh one of the major concerns that that was that was highlighted if you recall the last time we had the board in the board um room with one trusty um you know outside the sound system is still not what we need to do so i haven't had a chance to follow up with i.t to address some of those sound concerns that were written when we had that closed session in the boardroom so i'm just letting you know that because this has been kind of fast you know we had a uh the board meeting two weeks ago yeah and the majority of believe it or not the majority of staff district office staff support staff are on vacation either this week or we're on vacation sometime last week so um just so that you know what's what's going on for us because my you know if that's the case i mean if if we had all five i maybe i was hoping that the hybrid would work better because we wouldn't have that you know issue of the uh you know i well i'm not electronics expert but you know we could better manage the sound here uh you know in the boardroom you know as opposed to having uh you know it's kind of like electric wires right it works best of all these houses are connected with electric wires underground and you know not like the old the old overhead where you have one wire going to each house like some of the older houses in the city you know that creates a uh a lot more variables to deal with but you know but i i you know so i guess i i do hope that i t has a better idea for us so that we we so that the board has a uh good idea of what it what what needs to happen to have you know all the board members back in the boardroom you know hopefully by you know as i mentioned the goal would be by september of this year uh board member [Music] uh yes thank you president keep that i just want to um clarify at least how i recall what what my kind of question or concern was at the time is what whether or not um one individual board member or several for that matter or anybody that was in the zoo meeting was in the room at that time my experience on my end and was that the audio issues would have existed whether or not there was one or two people that were not in the room and so those issues with um the volume and the the feedback and the echoing and the muting and all those kinds of things i think um you know as as vice president fam has requested this roadmap i think those are the things that i would want um for our it team to consider just because from my perspective from that experience it would still be a challenge to provide um you know transparency and access to the public if those issues existed and like i said i believe based on how i experienced it that whether or not one or two or three people were in the room at the time those issues um were independent of that so that's just my thought but that you know that again that's as the team works on developing this roadmap those are the things that i would want them to consider being that you know i want i think we all want for the public to be able to obviously access our meetings and be transparent and all those things so that was just my experience that i wanted to share with that further comments from members of the board and uh uh dr barr i was just gonna reassure trusty fam that i i will follow up and we'll take care and i agree with trustee pejerano that was my other concern that the sound for the audience it's also appropriate all right um i believe i already called the public comment earlier on correct was it yes correct all right thank you for the reminder um all right look we have a motion in a second uh walrus president you're gonna get your road map and you're gonna work on that with dr power um and so we'll go ahead and move on which is that i'll call you this to you board member travis hi foreign hi where was president hi board member board clerk this is the adoption of resolution 62-21 mostly 22 the order of election uh do we have a motion for that item motion have a second second do you have any public comments mr board president i see no request for public comment uh further comments for members of the board or member of the board vice president thank you mr president well here we are this is uh you know this is what we mean by democracy so here we have it this is uh vice president trump am i the only one who's having trouble is it sounds a little lower i i hear you all right can you hear me okay what about others are you hearing a board vice president i can hear i can hear both of you fine i can hear both fine too if you can uh yeah right keep on going okay well yes well here we are we are you know this is democracy at its finest yeah you know uh uh as a school district uh that is community-based uh we are you know our terms are our terms are you know for those of us up this cycle our terms are uh coming to their expiration date so uh you know this is the you know this is the moment where we you know go back to the community and you know ask them you know our performance evaluation right or report card so uh this is where we go to the residence of this district and uh you know ask them to whether or not they approve of the job we do or not and to choose accordingly and you know i you know it is my hope that i you know all of us have done our best to to earn the trust and the respect of the voters and so is uh with this uh you know it's it's time to uh was it it's time to take our year-end report card you know what whatever grades they they may be so i you know uh you know got no you know uh i believe in democracy it you know we've got to [Music] publish this order so with that good luck to everybody in the upcoming election thank you president quintet i just want to um also provide some clarification for the public that may not already be aware um but this particular election cycle coming up is a little bit different than what typically would happen at this time and so um just for the purpose of clarity so there are if you look at the board book it's it's provided they're in the board book but there are three seats that will be up that are four-year seats so the people that run for and are elected into those seats will be on a full four-year term each one of them and then there's also a two-year seat which was is the remainder of one of our current seats as well so the person who runs for and is elected into that two-year seat will serve on the board for two years and then they will need to you know if they were interested they would need to run again which then that will become a four-year seat just as it normally is and correct me if i'm wrong anyone on any of this but that person that wins the two-year seat in this upcoming elite election in two years would need to run again for what would then be a four-year seat um and anybody who did not run this current upcoming election for the two-year seat would then that seat would be up again in two years and it would be four years at that time so to try to make it a little more clear there's three seats that are four-year terms and one seat that is a two-year term and the person that wins a two-year seat would run again if they so choose in two years um and then run for a four-year seat at that time that would get us back to our normal cycle of three three seats one election and then two seats the next election so if anything that i just said is inaccurate dr bauer or anybody please correct me but i believe that is what we will be um have on our ballot in this upcoming election just for the purposes of clarity for the public any uh anybody else up comments in the center want to further elucidate that's good i think it's important to really thank you all for for letting the public know because they might see this and say well what is this elections and stuff that sort and we have to take this action in order to ask the county to hold the election and then also to consolidate it if not then we'd have to hold one special election that is solely underwritten by al mock which would be prohibitively expensive and so therefore we have to attach it to your regular election uh general election uh that's taking place in november so um hopefully that that uh lets people know what's going on so some of these esoteric or strange things that take place in the school um while we're on this topic i forgot to mention in my comments i want to congratulate tony alexander former alum rock school board trustee uh who served here years uh you know some time ago and uh who was just recently appointed to the san jose evergreen community college district board of trustees and so we were on the subject of elections trustees and stuff that sort of just i i slipped my mind i had it in my notes and i didn't mention it so i just wanted to congratulate notes out of order but if you'll indulge me uh i wanted to congratulate um now trustee board member alexander um all right so we have a motion in a second i called the public comment earlier and uh if there's no further comments from members of the board i'll go ahead and move forward with the votes as i see you we'll remember travis [Music] um all right we're going to move on to it approval of the ar usd strategic plan um i trust that um everything got worked out uh in all the uh items in the edits were taken care of between the board meetings so this point um if uh is there any comments from members of the public mr board president at this time i see no request for public comment all right uh board member chavez you raise your hand i i think i did it by mistake but i was but now that you called on me i guess uh when they're done with their comments i just wanted to make a motion to approve okay uh board board member yes thank you uh just briefly i wanted to thank dr bauer and thank the committee the team that's been working so hard on the strategic plan i know uh myself and and trustee herrera had some specific feedback at the last meeting and so i believe we both provided that i know i provided that and i believe trusteer and i did as well um to the team and i want to thank them for doing um a good job of integrating um the feedback that we had um and i think we both we were able to do it in a way that at least as far from my perspective um still keeps all of the integrity of the work that was previously done by the group by the committee um and just kind of adds a little bit more onto that um to to to create what i think is a very comprehensive um plan that we can work with going forward and i believe as all as many of these kinds of things as is the case with them it is a living document i believe i'm open to being corrected on that but if so then you know as the environment changes as our you know the realities of the district change we can always modify and improve upon it but i think we have a good product now and i just wanted to um express my gratitude to everyone for not only developing the plan but also integrating some of the feedback that they received so thank you yeah i i also wanted to thank uh the staff um and the team for uh listening to our feedback and you know um kind of back and forth you know we had a couple conversations uh i especially want to thank um the superintendent you know because there are some things that i'm like you know i had to have drawn for me to understand and you know i think vice versa so that we can get to a point where you know um we all feel good you know and i feel a hundred percent about this uh very again proud of the work that has been done especially having been you know a part of the strategic planning team um before i become a trustee is the um very grateful for you know especially the parents you know that sat um you know i know staff get paid but you know as parents you know we do it voluntarily and so um you know really uh feeling grateful for for their involvement especially um and you know i thank you dr bauer i did see the edit on page four um to have a metric system that uh we can you know at least work off of so that you know we can see the improvement year by year um so yeah thank you so much uh board rest president yes thank you mr president uh you know thank you thank you to everyone uh you know more you know fellow trustees the administration staff parents who work on this thing you know uh it's quite a journey you know i think that we we kind of started this off early in 2021 uh working you know in partly with the glenn price group to kind of start laying out our you know our own core principles and you know to see you know where there was common ground and you know we we have a document that you know wow while it will be ever changing it's the framework that this district is going to take to uh provide in a a quality education to the children we serve so you know it is uh you know uh i'm optimistic that this uh strategic plan will serve us well you know in you know as we move forward you know as uh you know and it's sort of fitting that in the 90th anniversary uh year of our district that we are putting in place a strategic plan to uh provide a 21st century education uh an education for the you know next century of students so with that uh you know i'll be in favor of this strategic plan and with that thank you very much uh board member travis yeah um i'm just thankful that it we had finally have a strategic plan and if we can vote on it thanks all right um i want to thank all those involved in strategic plan we know that uh staples as was mentioned but i also want to recognize all the stakeholders parents and all the other groups uh staff and everybody who's who was instrumental in putting this together and ensuring that it was a product that came from the district that's going to guide us and serve as a north star as we move forward to ensure that we've provided a quality and dignified education to all of our children here in alamo and so thank you all for your work um particularly my colleagues that uh went ahead and took out the red pan and started really digging uh digging indeed those of us who you know uh i i was comfortable with the work that was done by the body had a couple of uh slight modifications here and there but i do appreciate um the extra effort that was put on by my colleagues who went ahead and really you know had a significant had some very substantive uh um additions that are gonna be that are making that much stronger remember thank you for your work uh former travis i want to recognize your diligence and ensuring that uh this stayed on and that we moved on it so appreciate your um your work on this as well uh remember ben i know you had a comment yeah i forgot to say this sorry during my comment but i wanted to um i guess propose this for my colleagues and and dr bauer see what you think but you know sometimes in my experience working with mission statements or strategic plans or things like that it's a lot of work goes into creating them and then they get put in a nice binder or a powerpoint or whatever and then they just put it up on the shelf and five years later seven years later it comes up again and we create a new one and so i was wondering um what the thought might be as to setting an agenda item annually um i'm thinking and just as a like a review or a report on how the work that the district has done during that particularly year has aligned with the strategic plan and or what modifications or shifts may be needed as we move forward in you know in the work in a dynamic environment and everything going on so basically it's what i'm i guess proposing i guess i'll propose it as part of the motion maybe and it would maybe be an amended motion would be to include a yearly agenda item just a report back on um how the district has worked in that that preceding year to align with the um the work of the committee and the strategic plan itself good idea uh board member travis do you have random if it's gonna hold up the strategic plan now i would i would like to maybe ask uh trustee pejerano if we can do that in the next meeting but for now i think um because it has been developed if we can go ahead and vote on it today so that we can have the strategic plan start laying out and then maybe add to it uh like he said annually or semi-annually but i think that's a good idea what trustee behrano said thank you uh so your idea was to approve this strategic plan and then direct staff to come back within six months or a year from now yeah i don't my intention was not to hold back in any way like starting to move forward with what we have currently tonight um it was just to add on an annual um review of the work and how it aligns with the strategic plan so i'm saying annually as a repeating item every year you know we could select whatever month that may be in but um maybe you know maybe this time of year or something like that might be a good time um next year from from today's date or something like that so that's what i was proposing but my intention is not to hold back the approval of the item tonight yeah i don't i don't think that is something that's going to hold it up because you know if you go to the challenge or the city everybody already incorporates an assessment 20 policy so this would be basically that a year you know a year from now assess whether or not so is that a motion or do i have a motion motion please the motion by removing that uh the item be approved along with a uh in a year from now come back staff come back with an assessment of the strategic plan yes can i just tweak that a little bit not just what i'm saying is not just in a year from now but annually so a year from now but then annually after that as well you can do that but right here what we're doing is saying come back in here for now all right whatever like yeah sure let's go ahead a yearly basis yes all right so my motion is annually on a yearly basis thank you so you're approving it and asking for an annual review sounds good we need a second now second second okay i think uh remember give it a second excuse me so when i changed it we didn't need another second well you accepted the you you made the motion correct the second one the first time the second and you're gonna move more annually so okay thank you just for clarification thanks so we got the motion there's a second any further comments from the board seeing none then i'll go ahead and play as i see you i had called for public comment earlier so we'll move forward with uh the votes whatever child is hi foreign uh member of behalf aye for vice president trump aye for uh clerk anybody wish you a comment please indicate by mr board president we have no request for public comment on this item all right uh any further comments members of the board see none i'll call you as i see you remember chavez no board member uh aye board rice president yes okay you know man it sounds really loud yeah now now okay because i can hear the rest of you really well so uh um man i think if you can figure out if that microphone is covered up or something or or something going on can you hear me now cause it's getting really difficult to hear or if you can uh mute yourself and i mean yourself the last time it worked really well can you hear me now it sounds like you're really far away like you're talking like a tube or something give it a try or maybe you log off and lock back on okay oh that sounds better okay you can hear me now i think when you're moving the the screen or something it messes with the microphone okay now i can hear you just keep it that way okay don't move it don't breathe [Laughter] um i'm in the boardroom so this is this is not a good you know another area to have um all right moving on to item 5.01 this is the adoption of the district's proposed 2022 through 2023 budget uh dr bauer um i'm assuming that mr chang is going to go ahead and provide a presentation yeah he's he's about to speak yes good evening board president members of the board and dr bauer um there is no presentation up with this item uh the presentation was done last last on june 9th and so respectfully um staff is is is requesting approval um for the budget that was presented on june 9.

do we know how many responded last year ballpark if anything i am going to i'm going to say last year we had about 90 teachers respond okay um so roughly of yeah half ish dean and do you know when this when did the survey go out when it went out in the springtime because again we had to kind of time it around the time that we were working on the elk cap so it went out around i think march okay march april yeah okay so um i don't know i guess and your and your expertise and your opinion for that particular part of the information given that roughly half of the resp that's half of the response as last year is how how much validity do you take or or what how do i ask this question in trying to compare last year to this year just in terms of the response rate is it can we as board members um you know assume that it's fairly accurate or would you say that based on the response rate maybe it may have diluted the accuracy of that comparison um i think i do think that the response weight was was pretty low um remember this was you know after january and february which were a very tough month for our teachers and our staff and everything with the pandemic the the the resurgence of of covid and people just at the stress level i mean i think it was um i think it would we had we done it at a different time if we had had the opportunity to do it later if we probably would have getting a lot more responses it was i might personally feel okay so is it is it's not necessarily then um administered like in a regular manner every year it's kind of based on the environment of the everything going on at that time yes and we used to be we used to be we used to do it in the fall but just last year was the first year that the state changed it to where we have to do this piece during the adoption of the loc of the lcap so that changes uh you know changes i think everybody i think everybody responds differently depending on what's happening and in their lives and their worlds at that moment okay um thank you for that and then i might have missed this do we know how many parents were surveyed i think i saw the students i don't know if i saw the parents yeah i did it was in there let me give you the correct number i must have missed it 1 567 parents and that was less than last year um the students and staff that responded were actually more than last year um but this year has been a tough year for getting parents to respond to surveys um so that'll be a goal next year is to get that number back up okay and then the last couple of questions thank you for that um so the the information all the data that you're using to pull from um how does that come to you i think you presented on this a while back about the the platforms that we use and how the reporting looks but i i don't quite recall is it like in the spreadsheet format or do you need to have access to the platform to see the full data set or how how does it come to you so are you talking about the results yes the results of the all these different surveys the results are are on a platform panorama they have their own platform and um the results are generated there and then there are several reports that we can pull um from that platform to um to analyze um and so there's reports for the teacher survey there are i mean the staff survey there are reports for the parent survey and for the student survey there are reports um for schools every school has their own report that they can also look at and analyze um so it is actually very informative so i wonder and this might be a question for dr bauer i'm just wondering um for you know sometimes i'm kind of a little bit of a data nerd or i enjoy looking at that kind of stuff and so in order for the board to have access to the full data when we get these results um would it be something as easy as sending us like a spreadsheet version of the results or whatever kind of report i don't know if they allow you to export it into some kind of format but i particularly would be interested just as you talked about miss garcia and in those different areas parents teachers and students and also at the site level those would be interesting for me to look at and would inform me a little bit um i think so i guess the question is what would be the best way for the board to have access to the full data set or the results we can send i can i can work with sandra to see to send the raw data okay awesome okay well thank you both once again um and yes that's it thank you and i just wanted to uh share with everybody that once i like i always do when i share with one of the trustees the rest of you are gonna get the copy soft copy please remember travis um in the so i noticed that they had technology so thank you sandra and barbara for the presentation and all the work um what measures will the district be taking to improve the technology for the students like for example this week in our area the internet was off and on um is this a conversation that i should ask offline or is there something new that the i.t department is going to try or should i address this question to dr bauer yeah i i will follow up with you specifically about technology travis this one if you notice it's very focused on school climate it's very focused on kind of the feelings of our audience right in terms of our schools in general so access to technology specifically you and i can have that conversation and i will definitely share that with the rest of the boards um we are just so that you know and so that the public knows we're standing in a very good way right now every we have a a device per every student in the district uh at connectivity we are in a very good place as well sometimes what we cannot control it's kind of like what you were experiencing it earlier on right and during our one-on-one when you said you know my the internet in my house is not working uh trustee vegeta shared that with me the same day so those are things that are not something that the district can control because those are uh provider issues but in terms of access and and providing um these kinds of resources for our students and our families we're very um proud that we are able to to support our families and our students on that further questions comments all right i'll wrap up with my comments i just want to thank you for the work uh that goes into these reports i know that um getting the attention of people while so many things are going on it's very difficult and i appreciate the work that's been done you know that was like parents although the number is less than last year it's still a significant number um if we were to add completely randomness to that it would be way over what was necessary to get a validity or uh within like three percent margin of error uh so you know it's it's a big chunk of the people and um i'm very appreciative of the information that we're getting because i know that it it it's given us a clear picture um all right thank you very much uh we're gonna go ahead and move on china 7.01 i just wanted to say one more thing so i know that we are all hopeful for the end of the pandemic but i am very hopeful for the end of the plan democrat which is something that my colleagues are calling it we have written so many plans this past two years it's like can we please be done with all these plans but i just thought it would end with a joke that no child left behind me thank you all right um 7.01 uh approved classifies those two pay rates do we have a motion for that item motion to approve motion by vice president bomb do i have a second have a second for our subject okay all right uh by vice president found second by board do we have public comments no public comment in the senate mr board president all right um there's no further comments from my colleagues and i'll go ahead and call you to see you board vice president fun aye board member she excused herself for a little bit all right um you know how long maybe we could just wait i don't want to move along with that the substitutes are very important to our district and we have uh should have everybody's input on this item i think she went to the ladies room trustee you know what i'll go ahead and call for a break because i've been meeting to take a bio break so we'll be back at uh 54.

city of lansing by comparison the city's largest municipal utility lost just a little bit over 250 that's about a four times less outage right which means their power went out less often and it came back up quicker affordability it is also cheaper uh so you get better service for a cheaper rate on average nationwide a municipal utility tends to pay about 14 less than their iou counterparts and once again that is not quite the uh same extent in michigan uh ann arbor under dte and it's actually gone up since uh these numbers were pulled um but when these numbers were pulled we're about 17.51 cents per kilowatt hour it's about 18-ish now um chelsea our next door neighbor by comparison spent about 10.15 cents per kilowatt hour that is a 40 less that they are paying for their energy and really the reason is because they're municipal on utility right in fact chelsea uh doesn't buy different power than we do right they write a check to dte every year to buy their power but they're able to collectively bargain on it right and they're able to uh buy energy at a considerably cheaper rate because of the uh advantageous position that they're put into by buying this in bulk as a city now we don't just believe we should do this because it's cheaper better power though many might be able to argue that that's enough of a reason but we have more to it than that a municipal energy utility will give us local control right with the municipal energy utility we have pretty much control over everything that we do with our power we would control our rates we would control where our power comes from and we would control when our infrastructure is updated right a recent uh state um study showed that dte's infrastructure a large portion of it was about 40 years past its functional end of life which means that it should have been replaced back in the 80s and yet it's still in operation here today right that is a large contributing factor disease by liability concerns that we have and it's simply a decision that we wouldn't need to make if we owned it ourselves also it invests in our community right and i can get into the details of pilot versus taxes and how uh municipal utilities actually contribute quite a bit money more money back to their community uh through um what's called a city fee then uh investor owned utilities typically payback and taxes but it also means that we're going to be investing in good jobs in our local community right jobs that would be protected by our responsible contracting policies right that we'd be able to build in union protections to it would allow us to build a modern and reliable uh infrastructure right in a modern reliable energy grid we know that the future of energy is not these large investor-owned coal-fired power plants or large centralized power plants right the future of energy is the distributed network of reliable infrastructure that is able to stand up to the ravages of climate change right these storms and outed uh things that cause these outages are only going to get worse and we need to become more resilient if we want to overcome that right and finally and what i think is probably the most convincing to personally us and likely many of you it's the environmentally responsible choice in short it allows us to reach our climate goals on our own terms we do not need to rely on what dte decides is profitable for them to invest in we are able to seek out our own reliable our renewable power and buy that power instead right there's two basic ways that we would be able to get power with a municipal energy utility right we'd be able to obviously use as much power as we pop generate as much power as we possibly can within the city right we can invest in rooftop solar we can provide uh programs that will help incentivize rooftop solar and make it affordable to people right things like on bill financing many of these same policies that the seu is looking to implement the uh muni would also be able to implement them and it would have the advantage of being able to do it at a larger scale because it would be the entire city that would be involved in this rather than subscribers um and it would also allow us to get over many of these restrictions that dt have uh put on us right dte currently puts a one percent cap on local distributed energy generation that is at the discretion of your utility right if we had our own municipal owned utility we'd be able to eliminate that cap also dte since we made this slide has started lobbying to try to put a tariff on every homeowner with rooftop solar estimates are that our homeowners with rooftop solar are going to be paying about a hundred dollars extra per month in their energy bills just for having rooftop solar we wouldn't need to do that right that would be that is at the discretion of the utility and that's something that we'd be able to overcome with our own municipal energy utility and also just to prove the point there are exactly six utilities in america at the moment that have a 100 renewable fuel mix all of them are publicly owned utilities either cooperatives or municipal utilities and so let's talk about funding this is obviously one of the big issues right how much is this going to cost is it going to lead to increased taxes is it going to bankrupt the city and there's serious questions to ask however thankfully i think we have a good answer for you on that one so typically the way that you fund uh municipalization is that you do it through a revenue bond right so the city which they're currently working on at the moment will fund a feasibility study and that will evaluate exactly you know at least within the ballpark how much is it going to cost to buy out this infrastructure right then it's going to estimate how much money is it going to take to run this utility and how much money will we get back in the rates right you dte is already charging us quite a bit in rates instead of that money going to dte that money would then be going to the city uh and there's going to be almost certainly money left over and pretty much every single city that has undergone this uh procedure there is considerable money left over and that pays for the service on the debt for the bonds right so you the muni pays for itself and in fact in most communities there's actually even more than that and that's money that's able to go back to the city and be reinvested in any programs that the city wants right it can go towards more sustainability or parks or water oh i don't know if it can go to water but that it can go to a lot of whatever the city wants um so yeah it doesn't raise taxes provides additional funding in short it's the cheapest way that we possibly could reach our climate goals because it's going to make us money um and you know here's a graph that kind of illustrates how that works out for other communities across the state right all of these communities are of very different sizes but i can assure you that this is a decent amount of money for each of them traverse city back in 2020 where i pulled these numbers from their financial statements made 1.6 million dollars holland made 7.6 million dollars and lansing made a whopping 23.1 million dollars money written back to the city um so now i've got a bit of a thing on the legal history i'm going to go through this a little bit quicker because i think that many of you are up to date but essentially this outlines the details of the foot act right so back when electricity was new and people were trying to electrify it some cities went down the path of creating their own municipal utilities most of the municipal energy utilities you see in michigan nowadays come from this era where they stood it up themselves and built out their own infrastructure many communities couldn't afford to do that right and they relied on private funding to be able to do it and if someone's going to provide private funding they're going to expect a return on their investment and that makes a certain amount of sense so they the cities would agree to what's called a franchise agreement and they would say for a set amount of time 5 10 20 30 years we will only buy power from you however in 1905 there was an effort to standardize how these contracts were being done right every city had their own contract and it was a bit of the wild west and the state wanted to say that there is a standard way to enter into these contracts and they rewrote all of them now foot is the last name of a man who sat on the board of a company called consumer's energy and it just so happened that there was applause within that foot act that when they rewrote all these franchise agreements they happened to leave out the expiration date on all of these agreements so now we pretty much every city in michigan not all of them but most of them had these contracts back in 1905 and they became footage franchises that were indefinite um and they provided an indefinite uh franchise agreement to that utility forever um in 1907 people got really mad about this they passed a amendment to the state constitution saying that no franchise agreement can last more than 30 years the supreme court then uh heard a case brought to them challenging this amendment the supreme court of michigan found that yes this amendment will apply to all future franchise agreements but it doesn't apply to previous ones which is a bit frustrating because they kind of just rewrote all the contracts and they said well you can't modify a contract but over the next uh hundred some years this was held up time and time again and it's become rather established law in fact they actually expanded this to say that a company buying another company that holds these franchise agreements actually inherits them so ann arbor signed a contract back in 1895 i believe to a company i think it was called the michigan electric company a small little company and it was providing power to 26 different electric light bulbs in ann arbor that agreement became a foot act franchise agreement which then got bought by another company that got bought by another company that eventually got bought by dte and to this day dte now has a perpetual franchise agreement in ann arbor and nobody is allowed to compete with them for providing power except there is one exception to the foot act franchise and that is that a city can always have a right to its own franchise a city is able to provide power to itself so if we ever want to get out from under the boot of dte and their deceptive business practices and their corrosive uh impact on our state legislator and the fact that they are undermining renewable efforts across the state and even the nation there was a recent report that showed that they're heavily lobbying to influence energy policy within the state of california then we're going to need to do it ourselves we're going to need to break away from them so how do we do that how is it that we municipalize well luckily we already did the first step uh the city council commissions a feasibility study and this feasibility study evaluates many of those key metrics that i mentioned before such as the cost of acquiring assets and how much money it'll make and if it will be able to cover the price of the bonds with the money that it makes then it goes to the ballot the state constitution requires that this be done on the ballot by a vote of the people and it needs at least a 60 vote in that election right so it is sixty percent yes uh in the election that it's held what that will do is it establishes the governance structure and the authorizes the city to begin negotiations with dte to purchase out their infrastructure now dte is not exactly likely to be very friendly to this idea and they probably will not agree to the price that the city offers so what that means is it's going to have to likely go to court and a court will decide what is the price of these assets once the court has decided what the price of the assets are there's one more vote where we authorize the funding to actually purchase out the infrastructure and after that we've got our muni right we're able to start moving aggressively towards 100 renewable electricity in ann arbor and you know i wanted to throw this in uh because a lot of this conversation is centering around a lot of the exciting stuff that the city is doing with a sustainable energy utility i just want to say that ann arbor for public power is excited about the sustainable energy utility we see it as a good first step at moving towards 100 renewable power it allows us uh hopefully at least to get started quickly on getting more resilient local power generation but there's always going to be a bit of a bottleneck here right it's a subscriber-based program people are going to have to opt into it the city's rfp that they recently released estimated at its highest a 50 buy-in rate on the seu right so we can get started on the seo we can start to uh get people installing their own home solar and in the same time we can work towards municipalization right which is going to be able to get us that 100 mark right the seu also is not going to have access to um buy power from outside of the city right it's not going to have access to those power purchase agreements that would allow us to buy power from other renewable power generation sources outside of the city uh municipalization would open that door for us right so i see and i think that this is a general opinion of ann arbor for public power we see that these are complementary plans right we can get started quickly on doing whatever we can without buying the infrastructure and then once we get that infrastructure we're able to move quickly and do the rest of the job and i just want to leave you with a few successful examples of municipalization from across the country so along island new york back in 1998 initialized their energy utility they now serve well over a million customers and they managed to reduce their electric rates by an average of 20 percent winter park florida uh they actually gave us a fantastic presentation to the energy commission back in october of 2021 and i highly recommend that people go back and look at it they municipalized their power back in 2005.

so they were fighting to get 100 renewable power within boulder much the same reasonings that we want to do this here right they didn't get that but they got 80 percent statewide which is a much bigger impact than one city and they also established check-ins where if the utility was not meeting their obligations they were able to restart the whole process and go back towards municipalization they also got um agreements that allow them to upgrade their grid and be able to do more to distribute energy generation and underground their wires to enhance their reliability so this is really the way that you put pressure on a utility right obviously in our public power we're looking for the whole enchilada right public power is a better system it would lead to more reliable cheaper and more cleaner energy for ann arbor but even just fighting this fight is going to force concessions out of dte so we think that it's a slam dunk uh very excited to present it to you and i'm very interested to hear any questions that any of you had i moved through things a little bit quickly because i wanted to be able to give you some time to be able to ask questions but happy to go into more detail on any of this that's our website right there in our publicpower.org we've got a lot of different info on there so please check it out if you have any questions as well but yeah i want to turn it back over to you thank you greg that was really excellent and um i would like to offer um the opportunity for commissioners to ask questions let's see commissioner marcin's hand up please proceed wow i have thanks for the presentation was wonderful i have two questions the first is what's the estimated time frame for me for municipalization in ann arbor and the second is do you have any examples of municipalities that had their own uh power utility and decided to sell it back to a private company or a public company but not run by the city yeah um so first off estimated timeline um so we're hoping to be able to bring this to ballot in 2023 it's going to rely on the feasibility study finishing in time but we are currently working with our lawyers to draft that ballot amendment language and we'll be collecting signatures hopefully starting here in august to be able to put that on the ballot um you know i can't give you an exact estimate of how long it's going to take to fight the battle to acquire the assets like i mentioned many communities they look at about two years and the most extreme you know you see like 10 years obviously i'm hoping we're going to be able to move as quickly on this as possible but you know even if it is ten years i remember a quote uh from jeffer when uh state senator jeff irwin when we first started this and we were talking to him and he said you know we were talking about this 10 to 15 years ago and we're like well yeah it'd be great but gosh it could take 10 to 15 years um so you know certainly don't want to be sitting in that position uh as in terms of communities that have decided to sell their municipal utility back um well i can give you one and it's ann arbor actually had a municipal electric utility um back into the early 20th century and they decided to sell it off um but it's it's not an uncommon thing uh cities end up into budgetary trouble um it's a very profitable thing for a private investor to be able to own um and they tend to pretty aggressively try to go after cities uh going up uh to pressure them to sell off their municipal energy utility uh dennis kucinich famously fought a battle against privatization effort back in cleveland uh and it was pretty it's pretty uh dirty in fact there's uh there's an art plenty of articles that are right about how fast face assassination attempts throughout that process um so yeah i mean this is this is serious business it's big money here uh and private utilities want to own these things because it is an absolute cash cow for them it's one of the most reliable investments you can make because it's state enforced there is a percentage that the state guarantees a private utility will get in profit right and one of the reasons why it's just so much easier for municipal utility to perform better than these ious is because they simply don't have to shave off that money off the top to go to shareholders right they're able to take every dollar that people are paying for their energy and put it back in towards into making a better energy utility for their community uh commissioner gruber thank you that was very informative i i wonder if you know you brought you mentioned the example in jefferson county and that they're at 97 percent renewables do you know if that example or another another example where they were able to put a source from a lot of renewables but also reduce the cost to the consumers i um you know off the top of my head i don't know exactly what the cost breakdown for jefferson county washington was um certainly you know there is a balance there right um can i guarantee that if ann arbor municipalizes especially with their ambitious climate goals that they're going to be paying less for their electricity out the gate no um there is a very good chance that ann arbor is going to be paying similar or more rates out of that especially if we're going to aggressively pursue our climate goals however over time pretty much in every single case municipal energy utilities end up paying less right the rate of rate increases is much slower with municipal energy utilities um and you can look at examples all over the country in the state for that right there's a a lot of these utility uh municipal energy utilities well pretty much every single municipal energy utility in michigan pays less for their power they're also fairly well established so uh you know there may be a bit of a ramp up but you also got to look at this of what is the cost of climate change right what is the cost of inaction on climate right um so you know i'm very excited for a feasibility study to be able to lay out some of the cost breakdowns i definitely believe that we're going to be able to stay competitive to dte just because of how much that they pull out of our system but if we want to aggressively pursue reliability and aggressively pursue renewable energy we might end up paying a little bit more the great thing though is that this is something that the voters would be able to have a say in right it's suddenly under democratic control and we get to choose our own priorities rather than have them handed to us by a company that's really only interested in making money [Music] are there questions greg i have one um if anyone else has one please join in um i guess i'd like to hear a little bit of your discussion on um some of the legal issues that might come up and complexities related to that uh legal issues related to municipalizing uh certainly yeah so we in our public power when we first started going into this this is kind of the thing we cut our teeth on for uh to begin with right we really uh the legal history of this was pretty hard to untangle um and we were getting conflicting answers from different uh people about exactly how legal was this we decided to commission a legal report from the law firm obh up in traverse city um the partner that worked on this was chris bisdock former mayor of traverse city and also served on the traverse city board of power and light there very experienced utility matters and also a very well accomplished environmental lawyer and they did a legal analysis that showed pretty concretely that this is a legal path for us right it is built into the dna of the state constitution as crisp as doc put it and he did a really excellent um explanation of this in a round table that we held a few months ago which i'd be happy to share with the commission um but there's certainly dte is not going to take this rolling over right they may not be able to oppose our ability to do it but they certainly are going to try to slow down the process as much as they can on um trying to get the valuation of the assets right now it there are there are formulas uh for how you value the assets right there are going to be a few things that people squabble over right one of the big ones is typically stranded costs right stranded costs are essentially the utility is going to claim that there is so much infrastructure that they used to support ann arbor that we aren't buying that we need to compensate them for right um this is something that tends to be pretty fiercely negotiated within municipalization battles uh winter park florida gave some really good insights into this in their presentation to their energy commission they did not believe that they should have had to pay nearly the amount of stranded asset costs that they did they ultimately ended up agreeing to pay um some of them because they just wanted to end the legal battle so these are the considerations that have to be taken into effect certainly and you know the city has some fairly well accomplished lawyers uh that will be able to fight this battle out um but yeah it's it's certainly there are issues that are going to come up and it's also been the first time in about 100 years that this has happened in michigan right the last uh city to do this was traverse city back in about 1920s um and so there's going to be a little bit of figuring it out uh for everyone involved at the state level you know in the courts and things like that uh which we see as something that it is a challenge right but it also is an opportunity if ann arbor is able to municipalize we will have established a legal roadmap for it we will have shown everyone in the state how it is that you can break free of your municipal or of your investor owned utility and that will open up the door for other communities across the state to follow in the same pathway that's going to be very scary to the investor-owned utilities and that is going to force them to either come to the table and meet the demands of these communities or face the prospect of the same thing that happened in our order is going to happen across the country right across the state which we see is very exciting right it's a way for us to both uh find something better for our community as well as help everyone else in the state to reach uh you know their goals and to build towards that renewable energy future that we absolutely need to move to right there's no real choice in the matter we've got to get off of these fossil fuels and this is just the most effective way to do it thank you commissioner gruber has another question thank you uh that that conversation there just made me think about uh you gave some great examples from florida and washington and um other colorado were the state laws in those states comparable to what we have here in michigan were they also going over this hurdle of 100 years it's been 100 years since they've municipalized can you share some similarities or differences between those yeah definitely so some communities have it easier some communities have it harder boulder um in colorado they had it harder there was a lot it's not built into their state constitution that they're allowed to do this and also um there was ways that they did it they made a few mistakes along the pathway of you know how they were structuring these proposals that left them open to legal liability earlier in the process and probably should have been able to be done right this utility was able to sue before they actually started trying to acquire the assets um in communities like winter park florida uh it was a bit easier right they didn't have these perpetual franchise agreements that we have which allowed them to be able to essentially just cancel their franchise agreement rather than having to go through the condemnation process the same way um so yeah it's it's a different you know every state's going to be different legal uh case you're going to have your benefits and pluses in your law um we're certainly not in the easiest state to do it but we also are in a state where it is not really a question of whether it's legal right sometimes you go down these pathways and it's like it's pro it's it might be legal right based on the interpretation in michigan it is in the state constitution it outlines the mechanism by which you do this right so that's a huge advantage that we have right thank you um i think this should be our last question just because of the time um so thank you kathy commissioner kristoff council member gracelaw uh yes greg i just want to thank you and say i have heard this presentation a few times and every time i hear it uh i learn something new and it's equally interesting so thank you very much thank you so much thanks all right thank you very much greg i appreciate your being patient with coming back a second time and um thanks and we'll stay in touch we'll have this um presentation on our um in our minutes and available for everyone to view at any time fantastic thank you and feel free to reach out with any questions that any of you have great thanks um we're going to move on to our second presentation which is professor dick norton um who will be talking about uh tree ordinance in canton michigan um can downshift michigan and the effect it had on their preservation of trees and some legal aspects of it it's a complicated story and i really appreciate um this discussion this opportunity to talk it through because we're trying to protect our trees here in ann arbor and we we need to have a good approach to move forward so um i'll turn the screen over to professor norton and thank you for being here and thank you councilmember dish for arranging this in the first place okay um i'm going to start off by confessing right away i haven't done my homework to go back and look at ann arbor's tree preservation audience or what you're proposing to do so i can't speak to the particulars of ann arbor but i was asked to come in and talk about kent township's experience and i think it's very relevant to what you all are facing let me just quickly explain i teach in the urban and regional planning program at the university of michigan i'm a planner and a lawyer so i teach our planning law planning students the law that they need to know to become professional practicing planners and i've been studying michigan law since i've been here for 20 years i've also been a member of the michigan association of planning for about that time and i'm on the maps planning law committee so over the course of the past 20 years i i actually helped draft what are now the michigan planning enabling act in the michigan zoning enabling act of consolidation of those acts and i've also written front of the court or amicus curie briefs to the michigan courts and now the federal courts on behalf of map speaking to issues that are of great concern to communities in their planning and zoning efforts and that's how i got involved in this canton township work i'll explain in a minute cl township has a tree preservation ordinance they have some property owners who didn't want to be subjected to it they cut down a lot of trees and they ended up in litigation um they lost in both state court and federal court and then they approached map and asked if we would write an amicus carry brief or the case going up to the u.s sixth circuit court of appeals and that's where i got involved and wrote that brief and that now the state case is in front of the state court of appeal so i just filed a brief on behalf of that case so i'm in the thick of the legal arguments that are going on here and so i'm going to focus on the law in my presentation i see there's a question that i'm happy to address yeah i just wanted a clarification who lost in the logic loss several times yeah so i'll explain i'll explain the history here a little bit i just wanted to explain to you who i am why am i here talking to you okay let me see if i can share my screen you'll see that okay so there are two cases involved here the one that's been resolved up to the sixth circuit court of appeals was ftfp development versus canton township we made that i made this presentation along with emily palacios and mark wyckoff um to for a webinar for the map membership and then we were emily and i gave a similar presentation to the state bars government law section and i'm drawing from that um going from that presentation so just to give credit where credit's due so let me give some background there is a set of property it was owned by a property owner who uh his business name is fp development he split the property and sold it part of it to a smaller lot to a neighboring property owned the company name is 44650 inc so the two cases are fp development and both property owners basically went in and clear-cut their properties they they bought the they bought the land puppy development bought it and then when he split it and sold it they both knew about the tree preservation ordinance because the township told them about it multiple times but they went ahead and clear-cut pretty much the entire property nonetheless by the time township found out about it that all the trees or most of them were down so kent township was put in the position of having to go back after the fact to enforce its ordinance which it did against 44650 which is the smaller parcel but they cut down way more trees so they were the the larger offender if you will when the fp development saw what was happening he filed suit in federal court trying to preempt the township from going after him so now we have a state court case where the city is suing the property owner and we have a federal court case where the property owner is suing the see it can't touch if it's a township so two it's a little bit confusing you can kind of keep straight what's going on here this is just the before and after this i got this from that township attorney so i i think both of the properties are in that section and you can see they pretty much took out all of the trees so a couple thousand trees i think all told so let me explain the ordinance the purpose of can't township's pre-treservation audience is to maintain and enhance the tree canopy and certain landmark trees it applies to what are defined as regulated trees and the ordnance itself they're large mature trees over six six inch dph or trees that are in a forest um which is canopy exceeding a half acre in size and then they also have special provisions for landmark trees which they define as trees of 24 inch dbh of certain species so they lay out the species that all this applies to as well procedurally a property owner is supposed to obtain a permit from the township before cutting any trees and is part of that process they're to confer with the staff and then they're supposed to take steps to mitigate any harms that the tree cutting would cause and they basically have a choice the the ordinance makes clear the preference is to well first of all design your project to avoid taking trees as much as possible if you have to take trees you can mitigate ideally by replanting new trees on site if you can't do it on site because the nature of the project or the site itself you can replant elsewhere in the township on your own or if you don't want to do that you can pay into a tree replanting fund that the township uses to plant trees elsewhere and it is no one contested that the township is collecting those funds and using them strictly to plant trees it's not a revenue generating source for the township at all it's it's a mitigation process um they do include some penalties too but they're trivial and the township didn't exercise them oh really what's the issue here is the replanting costs for mitigation um the ordnance does bake in some pretty substantial exclusions the biggest one from my mind is that it excludes all smaller lots smaller than two acres that's actually a substantial portion of the township that this doesn't actually apply to they also exempt uh if you're cutting in a in an area that you're allowed to do civil culture or farming that you can cut to put in nursery trees or agriculture and you don't have to subscribe to the ordinance okay so fp development took preemptively the township to court in federal court alleging some different things first he alleged that you're taking my trees in violation of the fourth amendment the constitution you're seizing property that you shouldn't be able to seize he also alleged that the fee replanting the replanting fees they were assessing amounted to excessive fines in violation of the eighth amendment and then he alleged that this is a regulatory taking in violation of the fifth and the fourteenth amendments the fifth amendment states north shore excuse me private property be taken for public use without just compensation provided um i'll explain this in a few minutes that's become part of the regulatory takings doctrine it's applicable to states and townships by virtue of the 14th amendment um and he alleged both facial and has applied takings i'll explain that in a minute and he also alleged this strange thing called an unconstitutional conditions test which i'll explain in a minute i'm just running through quickly what happened here the u.s district court for the eastern district of michigan which is in detroit dismissed the unlawful seizure claims and the eighth amendment claims um didn't find that they had merit but the trial court federal track court did find an as applied regulatory taking and he did that both by applying an ad hoc balancing test and by applying the unconstitutional conditions test this case then went up to appeal on to the six second court of appeals and this is again where i got involved with this case along with my colleagues on the planning law committee and this was argued in front of the court um last june the sixth circuit court of appeals affirmed the trial court so there's no live claim here that that this ordinance affects an unconstitutional seizure or unconstitutional fines and the court noted that this nolan dolan conditions test may not apply but we're going to apply it anyways because the parties didn't contest that and i'll explain where that came from in a minute and then in a form it affirmed the taking on this reproportionality test and because of that it it specifically set aside the other theory for regulatory taking so all of this has some implications that i'll explain before i get there though now i want to step back and explain what the heck is a regulatory taking and i honestly don't know if any of you have been exposed to this this is really arcane legal doctrine so let me just kind of quickly explain whenever a property owner is unhappy that they're being regulated in a way that they think is unfair they almost always bring a due process claim you're violating my due process rights under the federal and state constitutional protections they often will bring equal protection claims and they'll almost always bring a regulatory takings claim your regulation is so harming what the value of my property you should compensate me for it where is that coming from well we do have a constitutional protection against the taking the unfair taking of private property that's again in the fifth amendment and then there's a parallel clause in the michigan constitution and nobody contests that the government has the authority to take your property what they have to show is they're doing it for a public purpose and that they're providing just compensation so all of the litigation has boiled down to is are they taking it for a good reason and are they paying just compensation to do it that's pretty well settled law it's actually more stringent in michigan than in federal law but it's pretty well settled due process and equal protection are really getting at this question of is the government being fair is it treating the property owner fairly and that's usually assessed in the context of a means-end calculation what's the harm they're trying to avoid and is the way they're getting there a reasonable way to get there is the government does the government have a good reason for why it's doing what it's doing is it a legitimate purpose and is it a reasonable way to get there most due process claims typically fail especially when the government has a good reason for why they're regulating to protect trees or whatever they're doing and they've laid out a pretty clear reason for why we're going there so most usually when you um when a government loses a due process claim it's because it's really being abusive there's just something really wrong with the process they use or it's just clear that they're being unfair to a particular property owner i don't i don't think the property owners here even brought due process claim there was no question that the township had a reason for why it was to protect entries and how it got there it was really it was really the takings claim that became important so now let me talk about a regulatory taking the idea behind a regulatory taking is that is the argument that a property owner makes that you're using your regulation to so control my use of my property you're really effectively taking it from me through a regulation and if you're going to do that you should have just condemned it and taken it as a park or whatever it is you want me to use it for and pay me for it take entitle to it instead of regulating away all of the viable use of the property i'm looking at rita because i can see your face is that making sense i always like this is making sense to you as i explain it so so the idea that courts are very suspicious that sometimes governments they know they don't want to pay for a piece of property well let's not pay for it let's just regulate it to get what we want and avoid having to take it and when when a famous case in 1922 kind of articulated this regulatory takings doctrine this is justice holmes who is famous for making quips that sound great in theory but are really hard to figure out what they mean he famously said when a regulation goes too far the courts will deem it a taking if you go so far in your regulation that you're just abusing a property owner and you're basically taking it through regulation instead of taking title to it you should just take title to it okay so now the phrase that's commonly used by all the courts to explain the takings doctrine is that it's all about making sure that government doesn't force some people to bear alone burdens which in all fairness and justice should be borne by the public as a whole in other words if you want somebody to turn their vacant lot into a butterfly farm for everybody to enjoy and you're going to tell them you can't do anything except grow butterflies on your property just buy the property and turn it into a park don't force them to bear the burden of having a public park for everybody else's benefit that's that's the logic behind the regulatory taking the problem now that we've dealt with this this case came down in 1922 it sat quiet for about 50 years and then government started to regulate to protect the environment we started to realize oh my gosh we're doing all this destruction through the environment we're going to start adopting regulations to stop that and then property owners started to say wait a minute you're regulating all of my use of my property you should just pay me for it we've had tons of litigation now that have tried to clarify in justice holland's famous quip what does it mean to go too far so here's why i'm stepped through this taken and this is an arcane doctrine so there are some preliminary things if it's just a temporary regulation if you put a moratorium down to say we're not going to issue permits for a year while we refigured our planning documents the courts will probably tell you that's not a taking that's okay so you got to get through those preliminary steps and you also one thing to bear notice or note is you look at the whole parcel so if you have a regulation that justify affects a strip of the land say along a buffer along a stream you don't just look at the buffer and say did you take that buffer you look at the whole parcel and say well you you have your whole parcel of land we're telling you to keep a buffer there we're not going to just sever off that buffer and tell the city to buy it you kind of have to look at the whole picture that'll make more sense in a minute i think okay so now we ask a series of questions the regulatory takings doctrine really vindicates two key rights that we own when we own private property one right is the right to exclude and the other right is the right to use if the government adopts a regulation that compels you to let somebody onto your property that you don't want to let onto your property the courts call that an ouster you've taken away their right to exclude the paradigmatic case here was a new york law that required property owners to let the cable tv company drape a cable across the property they weren't using the cable tv they didn't want to have it they didn't want the cable but the city said you got to let them do it the court said that's a taking you're forcing a physical occupation of their land you have to pay for it by the way the remedy in that case was a dollar it was a pr it was a case to make a point so if a regulation compels an ouster it's a taking if it doesn't compel an ouster the next question you ask now we're getting it your right to use your property the second categorical rule the courts have articulated is the total economic deprivation case if the regulation takes all of the economic value of the property there's literally nothing you can do with it or nothing else you can do with it the courts have said categorically that's a taking accept kind of weight maybe they put on a qualifier maybe there are background principles of state nuisance and property law that wouldn't let you do what you're wanting to do in the first place and if that's the case and all the regulation is doing is codifying that rule then it's just codifying um things that you couldn't do before you never owned that right so that here's the paradigmatic case as a nuisance you don't have the right to use your property in a way that creates a nuisance for your neighbor right i can't put a fig pig farm in my backyard and have lots of pigs and and drive my neighbors out the door because they can't stay in the smell anymore because that's a nuisance if the city adopts an ordinance it says you can't have a pig yard in your back farm well i never owned that right in the first place so being regulated and being told you can't do that didn't take anything from me it's not a taking does that make sense so there's that qualification on a total economic deprivation [Music] most cases nowadays do not compel ousters or total economic deprivations because governments have learned don't do that give you know don't don't force somebody to take someone on their property that they don't want to have and make sure you give them something they can do with their property so now you end up in the category of cases that are usually litigated and it's this is the penn central ad hoc balancing test ad hoc means case specific or site specific and basically the court laid out some factors the courts are to look at the supreme court laid out these factors what's the economic impact on the property owner what are their reasonable expectations when they brought the land and why is the government doing this and that the courts are to balance those factors and figure out is this an unfair burden to put on this individual property on earth is it one that should be spread out across everybody else and if the answer is this is an unfair burden it's just asking too much for this property owner to do this given what the government's trying to do it's a taking [Music] if it's not an unfair burden it's not a taking so you're done all right with me so far those are the three basic tests for what constitutes a regulatory taking [Music] now we've got this weird situation called this unconstitutional conditions doctrine and this really came to the fore in the fp development regulation and basically what the courts are ruling is well sometimes government doesn't just flat out tell you you need to give me an easement you need to give us ann arbor and easement across your back lot because we want people to be able to get through instead the developer says i want to build something here and the city says well we'll let you build we'll give you a permit to do the building project you want to build but you need to give an easement to the city in exchange because we want to create a path for the people to get through now if the city went to this property owner and said you need to give us an easement that would be a taking right you're forcing a physical occupation what if the developer's asking for something in exchange the courts have said well maybe that's still okay we'll apply this unconstitutional conditions test and now that's raising um two questions well first of all if if it's a flat out regulation you need to give us an easement or you need we're regulating your property so much that you don't can't do anything with it and that has nothing to do with a permitting decision it's a taking or down if it's in the form of a permit condition you can build your project but you need to give us the city something in exchange the first question the court asks is is there an essential nexus is there some relationship between what you're demanding from the property owner and what what um they're proposing the paradigmatic case here was a california case where a property owner wanted to build a bit taller house the california coastal commission said you can build a taller house but you need to give us an easement across your property the court said there's nothing about a dollar house that's creating a hardship for people to get across your property that's just that's abusive you're demanding something from this property owner that's not in any way related to the project that they're trying to develop okay there's got to be in a relationship a later case said okay if you have an essential nexus it still also needs to be roughly proportional so this is the tiger oregon case where a hardware owner wanted to build on her hardware shop that city said you can build but we want you to give us an easement it turns out the city's trying to build a greenway along the riverscape and they basically were using this property owner to get that last piece of easement behind her property to finish off you know to add to their greenway and there was really no evidence that the people using the hardware store were going to add that much more traffic to the bikeway to make it roughly proportional the court basically said yeah maybe some people will bike there's an essential nexus but you're asking way too much from this property owner for what you're trying to get at if you want to have your greenway buy the easement from the property owner don't force them to give it to you in exchange for a permit that's the unconstitutional conditions test if you can pass both of those questions yep there's a you know we're issuing a permit we're asking for something in exchange it's there's a reason for why we're asking for it and it's roughly proportional it's not a taking so in any of these situations if you find out if a court says your government are abusing this property owner you've got to to a taking then the government really decides they're either going to go ahead and condemn the property pay for it or they'll rescind the regulation and just let the property earn do what they want to do that's the basic logic of a regulatory takings doctrine i've explained it in about what five ten minutes it takes me a couple sessions in my planning law class to really get it across to my suit so if you're feeling confused don't worry this confuses a lot of people i've tried to simplify it as much as i can but it's a pretty arcane doctrine that's the background that we went into this court case um in front of the sixth circuit now so let me go back to this what happened in fp development and specifically the unconstitutional conditions doctrine there's been some confusion about what exactly should this test apply um if you think about it most of the time when you apply a pen central analysis and ad hoc balancing tests usually the government wins because usually what they're demanding from a property owner is pretty reasonable and yeah it puts a burden on the property owner but it's not overwhelming and and so and nowadays it's pretty hard for government to lose a takings claim i mean usually we develop the regulations well enough that that doesn't happen but if you think about it if you have to ask these extra questions is there an essential nexus and is there a proportionality that's the course looking more closely at what the government's doing here and making it more likely that they're going to find a taking and so i think that's leading to some abuse of this doctrine the key thing to keep in mind is that the unconstitutional conditions doctrine only applies if what the government is demanding would clearly be unconstitutional at space all of the cases that have involved the creation of this test were cases where the government was telling a property owner give us an easement across your property if you're demanding an easement from a property owner and telling him or her she's got to let people walk across their lawn that's a physical invasion that's a taking you're you're taking something from them that's when you start to say well but maybe that's okay because they're being able to do something with their property they wouldn't otherwise be able to do maybe there's some benefit here that's coming back so usually what's happened is theoretically this test should only apply when you first realize that the demand being made by the government clearly would be a taken [Music] and then you apply these two-part tests the problem we're running into is in canton township's case the property owner alleged that an exaction a demand on a permit is anything that the government asks for whenever they ask for it whenever they demand a permit so stop and think about this basically what they're saying is if you have a permit condition on a site plan approval you're not giving anything to the property owner you're just checking to make sure that they're complying with the law but because it's a permit now the court's saying well that's an execution we have to apply this heightened level of judicial scrutiny the unconstitutional conditions tests if if this decision keeps going it's going to open up communities to a whole lot of litigation that they haven't had to face so far that's what got me that about dropped me off my chair when i first realized what was going on the better definition of exaction is that it's a demand being made under the color of law for something that you don't have the right to demand right it's a really burdensome onerous thing to demand and it's only when you've shown there's a taking happening here that you should apply this test okay what happened the trial court nfp development applied the test and they found he found it was a taking based on um his assessment of the townships test and and what happened was the township um i'll talk about this in a minute but they had what the court perceived to be old information they didn't have an individualized assessment to figure out is the benefit that you're getting or the harm you're trying to prevent roughly proportional to the demand you're making on the property owner it was just a mechanical application of a replanting scheme and the court did not like that when it went up to the sixth circuit we the map amicus brief for the first time pointed out to the court wait a minute this test doesn't even apply because canton township is not making a demand that's an exaction the trial court got it wrong [Music] this is where the court said an interesting question has been raised by this amicus franklin that we shouldn't even be applying this test but the parties didn't raise it and so we're not we're going to set that aside and we're going to go ahead and apply the test having done that the court affirmed the trial court's ruling and and held that there was a taking oh my gosh that's really bad precedent the interesting thing that happened two months or so after the six circuit came down with its ruling the um ninth circuit court of appeals answered a question it took up a case that addressed exactly this question and the way the ninth circuit ruled on it was exactly the way that we were arguing in our brief this is the way you should treat it so there is some federal circuit precedent out there now to say the sixth circuit went the wrong way fortunately for us the six circuit made it clear we're not answering this question we're setting it aside all that just to say there's some room here to move in a way that um maybe wouldn't have been the case but having said that now that the federal court cases have been resolved now the state court cases are back up after the property owner won his case the federal court the state courts proceeded the state court basically found for the trump priority and are following the same reasoning it's even more egregious in a sense this was a smaller lot this is now the second case the state case smaller lot but they cut down way more trees so instead of being assessed a forty thousand dollar tree replanting fine or fund requirement they this property owner was hit with a four hundred thousand dollar tree or planting fee they just took out so many trees the trial court um people had this i'm not going to read this all word for word for word but basically the trial court was very unsympathetic to the idea that township had any reason to be protecting trees and found that this was a overly burdensome regulation and um pretty much followed the federal district court's ruling in the fb development case and and found against the township so now the touch township has lost its um litigation in both federal and state court they lost an appeal at the sixth circuit they're currently this the state court case is up in front of the court of appeals right now as we speak not good precedent for um thinking about tree preservation in michigan at least so far we'll see how the court of appeals rules um we did talk briefly about another case that's been in litigation that's relevant this is ann arbor charter township again just quickly they've got a much more developed regulatory scheme to protect natural features there was a proposal to build at the corner of plymouth and 23 ki properties the planning commission denied their site plan that was upheld by their zba it went up to on litigation the trial court reversed ordered the township to issue the permit that got appealed up to the court of appeals the court of appeals reversed it's going to back down so now it's in litigation again on the merit so that the i think it's going to trial or it may be his country i'm not sure i don't checked on these questions about well does it constitute a unlawful constitutional claim the important thing about this case was that the way that i neighbor township did it was much better than the way that canton township did it they did a plane they did playing studies they really documented the resources they're trying to protect they folded them into their planning documents um and just did a much better job of documenting why they were doing what they're doing and then justifying why they made the decisions they made and how that's preserving natural features and that pretty clearly persuaded the court of appeals that there was much more merit to what was happening here in terms of the governmental regulation than what any of the courts in the kent township cases were doing so again and this is all just details saying that don't just spent the time to do the studies it needed to do to justify what it was doing and to make sure that the burdens it was imposing were reasonable for a particular property owner so this all leads us to some thoughts on how you ann arbor might think about what you're doing as you move forward with your pre-preservation ordinance the bottom line we keep arguing is do your planning studies do your work up front make sure you're documenting where your natural teachers are why they're important all of the ways that they're important fortunately for you there's lots of good and growing evidence about how important trees are for things like water quality and air quality and temperature mitigation and carbon sequestration all of those things none of that was done by canton township they hadn't documented anything along those lines so document document document layout goals and objectives that are clearly related down to the studies that you've done documenting important supernatural features link those objectives to your zoning code so make it really clear in your zoning ordinance or if you have a separate tree preservation ordinance or however you're doing it make sure you draw that link between the actual regulations you're adopting and the planning studies you've done and that if you're going to require mitigation you've got a pretty good process laid out for why you're doing it and why you're requiring the mitigation that you're requiring and then when you actually administer the permitting process um make sure that you do have tree experts some cultural experts somebody with some specialized knowledge on treating natural features do the analysis to be able to really document with the best current literature about what's going on here why this is important be prepared to be flexible make sure that you're accounting for the benefits that trees provide one of the quirks of canton township's ordinance was you have to replace dead and dying trees as if it were a live and healthy tree well that's not really fair at that point the tree's not providing natural features benefits and yet you're making the property and our fully mitigate for that maybe that's not so fair so kind of take a kind of site conditions in fact maybe sometimes good civil cultural practice calls for thinning out trees to allow the existing trees to grow better so there may be good reasons to allow cutting make that part of a good civil cultural ecological study and then tailor as much as you can but make sure it's reasonable the trial court i'm going to finish this off and includes my slides so that i can talk to you more one-on-one instead of to my screen um the trick here is to strike the balance between having really good analysis and preparation going in and then having really good process laid out so that when you're dealing with an individual property owner you're doing a particular assessment for that property to really justify why you're requiring what you're doing and why it's important and why it's needed and and you're able to tweak it as appropriate given site conditions there may be extenuating circumstances where you don't need to apply the ordinance as strictly as you did so let me just finish off by saying that canton townships i'll say this diplomatically i think what happened in canton township was the communities have been adopting tree preservation preservation ordinances for a while because we all know it's good to preserve in trees and i think somebody in the township just found an ordinance on the web that was out there that was offered as a model ordinance and they tweaked it a little bit and they adopted it and they never did any planning studies they never really documented what they have they didn't really think through carefully how they were going to administer it they didn't have they just had a staff planner on site who had no particular training i don't think in silver cultural practices or tree forged practices they might have gotten one involved but the person who normally administered it apparently didn't do that so in a way kent township did everything it could do to make it really hard to defend its ordinance and then it made it really hard for the lawyers to defend the ordinance when it got litigated so it was really hard you know this court of appeals and the trial courts were like why are you protecting trees we don't see any benefit because the township never pointed out all of the things that trees do all they heard all the courts heard was you're worried about aesthetics you want to keep it pretty you know keep some free trees and you're going to force this property owner to pay 40 000 to keep your athletics going that doesn't sound reasonable so they didn't document all of the reasons the trees are important and then they the courts just really felt that the process for assessing why are you demanding this from this property and i was too mechanical and in fact on on that deposition of the township planner basically said yeah we don't really think about it we just apply it well that's probably the worst thing he could have said um because it just it just hit the court like you've got this really unfair requirement that you're mechanically applying to these property owners and there's just nothing to take account of the site conditions or why you're really doing this to justify it so no good planning studies to justify where they were doing up front and really limited procedures to to apply it in practice and make sure it's working the way it's supposed to work for a particular property owner it's defendable so i am hopeful that the courts you know the nuances of what i talked about on the unconstitutional conditions test i hope the michigan courts don't go there even if they do it's not the end of the world for communities like ann arbor but it's just going to force you to be even that much more careful when you do your tree preservation work to make sure that it's justifiable and and that it's being applied in a reasonable way i hope i didn't lose you all i'm more than happy to answer questions um to better explain what i've tried to present thanks for your attention thank you very much for that review of a really complicated situation um i'm sorry to hear about that for canton and their loss um does anyone want to kick off some questions i usually means i flummoxed everybody so much it's pretty dense uh councilmember jish yeah i have two questions so one is going back to the point that knocked you off your chair you said so is is the idea that um did i i think i i have to have misunderstood you because otherwise this would be so broad but is the claim that was being made in the state case the state level case that went up to the sixth circuit court that any permanent any permit requirement is an exaction that's where you could read it that you could read the case to have established that that would be impossible that would be really bad yeah that and that's what has me sort of frightened about what's happened with this case and and how it's gone up to the sixth circuit fortunately there are better there are u.s supreme court cases that have pretty clearly said that's not the case and the sixth circuit in its decision said we know that question has been raised but we're setting it aside because the parties below didn't so they have the they have the ability to say well they didn't get briefed below so we're not going to entertain that case here having said that they went ahead and applied the test anyways and they still found it to be a taking so now the property owners are arguing in the state case state court case look they've applied it in the federal court you have to follow that so i'm really worried about that the other thing that happened was the ninth circuit which which addressed a question that was just right on this question does any permanent trip does any permanent requirement trip constitutional conditions and the ninth circuit said no there's got to be a real it's got to be an execution it's got to be a really unconstitutional demand to trip that extra taste so if this gets litigated hopefully the courts will go follow the ninth circuit and they won't follow the sixth circuit but we don't know for sure where that's going to go and it's kind of a mess if you have them treating in practice as if we're not going to address the question if it tripped it or not but we're actually going to act as if it did that's a mess so and then you've got the ninth that's good that's better than not having the ninth but it really does seem like an incredible mess i mean and it i mean there's just no way that per that that it's not okay for governments to require permits about things i mean that just can't that that doesn't make any sense so but it would save the city a lot of money i guess to get rid of all the departments that we have um reviewing permits yeah it would force cities to i think it would mean you'd stop issuing permits you'd just enforce your ordinance if someone's violating it you go after them and you tell them what the rules are and you don't do a permitting check process because that could trip a regulatory taking so you just put people on notice if you don't if you violate the law we'll prosecute you there's so many ways that this is actually harmful to property owners yeah be harmful to property owners but the courts weren't thinking that through because that wasn't the way it was framed as they looked at it yeah that's yeah there's a lot of loose discussion out in the literature about what an execution is that that these property owners picked up on and used and the court just took it without thinking about it and the township attorneys just didn't pick up on it either and they let it slip and that that created this condition where the sixth circuit said well they didn't brief it we're not going to consider it i thought courts were supposed to be smarter than that um so the um okay yeah so a concern that we have in ann arbor uh and currently is going on in my ward one of my constituents is that um our tree preservation ordinances don't affect what individual homeowners do on their property and so this is definitely a problem but it's really a problem when you're dealing with trees that are in a sense shared right there are lots of trees that are on the property line or that provide benefit to two property owners and so the feeling is that they are a shared tree and right now we don't have any way of of encouraging people to work out disputes over shared trees in a neighborly manner and uh so i'm raising this because and i and i'm kind of seeing that there's no point in asking this question because the law that you've just presented is such a mess right now that it would be it would be hard to say how far we can go with something like this do you think that we can take an ordinance path around this or do we need to try to think of a process path some way of of supporting and encouraging cooperation rather than doing anything that would look like we were affecting and taking so this is where i'm regretting that i didn't look at what you guys are up to so i can give you better advice um i think what i want to suggest is to go back at least in the terms of a regulatory taking go back to that phrase that the courts almost always recite now the regulatory takings doctrine is designed to ensure that some people are not forced to bear the burdens that everybody else should share right so the more that you design an ordinance that's hitting only a small number of people in a pretty big way the more likely you're going to get hit with a regulatory taking claim that could win so i would think carefully if you've got a tree preservation ordinance that carves out all out of the city or a lot of the part of the city and says it doesn't apply to you that starts to raise bing ding ding in my head the more that you can think about the applicability of this doctrine and really say this is a regulation broadly applied everybody who has trees has to comply with it in one way or another to a reasonable extent you can't claim if your property know that this is hitting me in a way that nobody else has to do it's not fair to hit me you should just pay me for it so i don't know exactly i think right now because i've had to deal with the city right if you do something on a tree line you've got to get a city permit but if you're in your own lot you don't is that the way the ordinance is structured is that correct have you thought about expanding the applicability of the ordinance beyond that or is that just off the table some people have and there is work going on right now but i have many many trees my neighbors have many trees they overgrow our property lines and we have a very cooperative environment i would say so we haven't had any problems but wouldn't a tree fall under the same category as a brick wall or a fence or you know a non-living object uh in terms of a requirement to maintain the property or well i'm just thinking if it's on one person's property and but its roots are growing on another person's property and branches are growing say and so for example and this hasn't happened my neighbor's tree is is getting very large and it's shading and threatening the bushes that i have underneath it that need more sun and so you know i don't mean to add more complexity oh sure putting on the complexity yeah that's i i don't think the taking neighbor to neighbor that has nothing to do with the taking sector right that's a neighbor dispute and and it it would probably be a private nuisance claim you're you're using your property in a way that's creating a nuisance i'm i think you'd probably have a hard case winning that let me come back and try to connect that back to um lisa's question could you build into your ordinance some way to try and prompt that kind of negotiation i honestly don't know i haven't thought about that that's a really good question to ask i don't think i can give you a really well-reasoned legal answer without giving it some more thought okay uh i guess my last question then would trees be a separate category i mean i think that if if a tree is growing onto someone else's property i wouldn't see that being any different than like a stone wall that's just sort of falling down on someone else's property you know or a driveway slab that sort of sliding so you so again two two bodies of law here one are conflicts between neighbors that that are is private law nuisance complaints you know if your neighbor doesn't maintain a seat a wall that caused falls onto your property you might be able to litigate to get where i'm eating for that i don't honestly know if the city's ordinances have protections in place you could argue that's a nuisance that rises to the level of being regulated at a city level so i think you're supposed to maintain your property in a way that's not dangerous or harmful to others by city ordinance so you can regulate through that approach the way that trees are different that i'll point out is trees have this amazing ability to provide environmental benefits that other things don't provide like sequestering carb carbon the shade they provide the water quality impact so they are a little bit different i think you can make a credible case in terms of the natural features they provide kind of like wetlands are their own unique type of habitat that's really worth the extra protection i think you can put trees in that same category as a natural feature that merits some extra protection that might then justify the city adopting ordinances that or protections that are a bit more stringent in protecting trees than say it would for pachysandra or you know other kinds of iv ground cover or something like that but you want to be able to document that and you know justify why are we picking out trees is something that we're going to take extra steps to protect and how will they work that out and then you would want to fold that in to make sure what whatever you're doing is consistent with the kinds of conflicts that you're talking about so that there are moving parts here and interconnections that you need to be careful of and mindful of as you plan out your revisions oh okay thank you and yeah that's given me some ideas in terms of water flow and wetlands protection if trees are are classified in that area rather than just a sliding cement slab then that makes sense yeah there are natural features that provide some real benefits that kinds of features don't necessarily provide thanks yep um i'm gonna call on myself for a second um i really wish that chris graham was here because he is our lead on the natural features ordinance and um would be best equipped to answer some of the the details that or the questions that you have on our ordinance which does not provide much protection on private property um but the the one another issue that i think you touched on a little bit but is tree roots crossing property lines and the effect that um action on uh neighbors property could have on the um potential life of a tree that's thriving on a border and and how to address that kind of thing is is a big kind of potential problem um and i want to just mention two other things um the i would be great to have a conversation with you about the potential for future solar blocking of trees since we are moving into a lot more solar panels on houses and the potential is that i'm worried that some people might remove trees in preparation for solar panels or complain about a neighbor's tree that might be shading their their panels over time and how we would deal with that is yet another complexity i think that's so let me show a personal experience we have solar panels on our garage we had to take out a pear tree because it was blocking almost all of what where the solar panel now is so we lost a tree but um this really i really resonated on the prior presentation we're not paying electric in the summer anymore because we're making all of our own and we were able to do this before dt got rid of net metering so we're not paying for electric could be the winner too um so there are going to be trade-offs where there are definite environmental benefits from different things and there may be times and places where you hate to see a tree go but it's actually maybe the appropriate thing to do which is to say your ordinance probably should be have a balancing mechanism or approach in there to think about the other features that are at play or the other environmental issues that are at play that may actually warrant in some instances losing losing trees [Music] i hate to cut down a tree i planted a bunch of trees on my property but sometimes we couldn't have solar if we had left if we but that left the tree up um about tree roots i don't have a definitive answer but i think you know you can regulate you can regulate how people treat the trees on their lawns right you um you can't go out and cut down a tree on a tree line i don't think can an arbor it's prohibited those are public trees yeah so if if a tree root is naturally growing into a neighbor's lawn i think you could reasonably and you're going to regulate trees to protect them you probably can reasonably regulate someone so that they can't cut that you know do damage enough to the roots of a tree that it would kill it but again you're going to want to think that through carefully um you know i can think of parallels you can't let water run off of your property that would create a nuisance for neighbor the water is a natural thing it's there it's moving groundwater moves underneath our properties just because it happens to be under your property in one moment doesn't mean you conclude it because you know it's going to be on your neighbors the next minute so the fact that tree roots are crossing property boundaries i don't think is insurmountable to the idea that this is a natural living feature that we still can regulate that's the off-the-cuff thought in response to that right i do like your idea of building in some mechanism that encourages um discussion between neighbors and and negotiation or whatever it is you know so that there's something to rely on as opposed to the cold knock on the door you know with somebody who's got a plan or someone waking up and saying hey there's a chainsaw next door that i didn't know anything about um that kind of thing i think would be really good for us you have okay you have a parallel in that with your backyard chicken ordinance which requires people to check with neighbors i know that too because we have chickens and i haven't heard that as well so i mean there may be some precedent for setting up mechanisms you you can maybe cut a tree down but you got to get if it's on if it's within so many feet of of a of a lot line you need to get your neighbors permission or something i don't know i mean just off the cuff i think the mechanisms you could create to try and encourage that kind of communication right good i like that uh i i saw um commissioner marzian's hand up i don't know if you still have a question sorry no i i i had one and then i'm retracting it okay all right um did anyone else like to ask a question while we're here well professor norton i just want to say thank you very much for providing some really deep questions for thought um and kind of a warning for us in terms of how we move forward and how to do it more carefully so yeah i'll just say i know kevin mcdonald is a really good landis attorney so you know be sure to consult with him sure and i'm more than happy to chat with you more answer questions that you have then this this is a topic that's i'm quite interested right super i'm glad to hear that yeah and once again thanks for at least for making this connection you're very welcome all right thank you thanks and good night um right uh so we have finished with our presentations we do not have any um new business or old business that would require us to um proceed to a vote on anything and so i'm going to move to the reports from committees and commissions so um i'm going to start with who i'm going to just go around what i see as my circle so um and could i ask you to talk about parks is there anything that we would like to present to the i don't mention i don't have anything new to report from parks because our meeting this month uh actually is next week um yeah so um yeah no no no no no right right thanks um and um john caliber anything on would you be um solid waste right uh circular economy no uh lots of things continuing to go on uh with that project we were at the green fair uh earlier this month top of the park uh we i think last at a previous meeting we shared our website we continue to update that there is now a map of circular economy businesses on that website and we're improving the functionality of that based on additional information and sorting features helping people you know find the information we've got three kind of pilot projects going on this summer with our students who are working with us uh one is collaborating with recycled ann arbor one is recyc collaborating with the anniversary shop and the other one is with the ann arbor district library and with each of those we're kind of taking a little bit deeper dive in terms of how might we best define circular economy around our metrics of decarbonization resiliency and equity and how to best kind of promote and lift up different efforts across the communities because there's kind of so much going on and i think our kind of belief or kind of mission with this is that that can be very impactful in terms of a20 that that's kind of the driving force with all of this uh tomorrow we've got a meeting with about a dozen partners who've been with us for about the past year different county city uh community organizations university to kind of give them an update about where we're at and talk a little bit more about how we might best partner particularly around creating a circular economy uh business incubator to help promote the creation of new businesses with that spark is a key partner in that and then later in august we are planning a community outreach so for broader uh kind of community discussion around what we're doing with circular economy we should have a couple of videos ready soon and we've got all our fingers and toes crossed for a state grant that we've been waiting on for about a year that will bring in a little bit more money uh hopefully help us really focus on working with uh bipod communities in this area lisa miss anything that was excellent and the only thing that i would want to add is just to remind everyone that there was the we we have under the zero waste working group we have the circular economy project and we still have a zero waste uh sector and uh there was another zero waste challenge um the i think was the first full week in june i was gone for that week but um there were 500 people 500 new people who participated in that challenge which again was led by samuel mcmullen who is uh boarded and raised in ann arbor uh lives in new york now but runs this challenge um and and one of the great things that came out of that was there were a number of circular economy i would say call them circular economy he would call them zero waste businesses at the fair and they looked at each other and said hey didn't know you were doing this and so that goes back to what john was talking about our efforts to promote connections which makes resiliency which also creates momentum and uh and and enlarges the circular economy and so we are we're just really um things are happening so fast that pretty soon it's not going to need us to be pushing it anymore we're going to run us over right it's exciting i'm happy to hear it um okay let's see um edie would you like to report on energy happy to do so uh and excuse my voice i have laryngitis um we in last uh meeting at energy commission there was a presentation by the washington um on the washington county climate action plan um which provided a great overview of where they are where they're going with that plan which is slated to be presented to the board in november um and so that's available um legislator if you're interested in looking at it and missy also gave an overview of the a20 program now that it is turning two and um walked us through some of the accomplishments on what is much to be done and what's coming in the nature so also available for review okay um this is kind of pretty oh john go ahead i just wonder edie if i could ask a question and this is just kind of things i've been hearing is there a move to add uh from dte to the energy commission is that anything that you can speak to just i've been seeing that on social media um i missed the latter portion of last month's meet um and i have not heard that myself so that's not something i can speak to at this time but um i will um update next month if there are any changes thank you i believe that is the case that's that is what i've heard as well but it didn't get addressed during this most recent council meeting um well it's not a i mean it's not a wrap it's a it's an ann arbor resident who works for for dte but who has uh and of course we have had investor owned utility people on the energy commission before and um there's no expectation that they either are like their employer or that they will advocate for their employer but rather that they bring the perspective one of many perspectives that they can bring is that they do work for dte there's also a rep from or there is a member of ann arbor public power on the energy commission so yeah so yeah and that didn't come up at council because there were so many council members who got confused about the schedule and didn't make the meeting that we couldn't bring it up um bridgette would you feel comfortable talking about the youtube pollinator network and if not i'll jump in sure i don't know that there's a lot to update since our may meeting but we have met again to kind of debrief on nomom and um just the pollinator network in general and you know maybe define more solidly defining our mission and our path forward and some lessons learned and how we can think about next year's no moment and i i think just as of yesterday we've i have not but other members have put together a survey that we'll send out to residents that participated to get their feedback so we can use that um to inform our plans going forward did i miss anything arena yep that's good yup uh thank you uh and i guess i want to just bring up one thing that is um we haven't had a meeting of the water quality group but i just wanted to raise the issue that maybe some of you saw today in the news about some new testing that identified some groundwater plume and some that has is flowing towards um the human river within a thousand feet even of of that area um so i'm raising it as an issue of concern for all of us um and we know that there is um some effort to um looking for the epa to get involved with cleaning up the galman gloom and um this is just yet another reason to indicate that shows that there is urgency i think the area in of concern is inside township um and it is an individual well that at low low concentrations but still something that wasn't known before uh kathy uh just a a couple of other things that um recently happened regarding gelman uh there was a court hearing uh judge connors did not hear the case however uh i think it was significant that in uh gelman preparing their brief they outlined the work that they have been doing or claimed to have been doing and are doing now so that's a positive there will be oral arguments in the gelman appeal in two weeks and i don't know the exact date yet and also congresswoman debbie dingle uh announced today in an email that she did uh meet or communicate with at least um epa region five so i think that uh while it is very disturbing that we have found dioxane so close to the huron river we are at least the good news is we're using a more sensitive i think would be the word uh testing method and so we can detect at smaller levels of dioxane and we have everyone's attention attention now from the uh township all the way up to the federal government i would recommend that uh everyone read the mlive article today if you are a subscriber uh and you can simply google gelman and the article article will come up there's a lot of technical information about the testing so anyway there's there's at least significant movement and activity even though we can't say yes the epa is going to be in here cleaning it up anytime soon uh i think a lot of progress has been made in the last few weeks thank you kathy um is there a report from council on either council member griswold or dish i just want to report on a couple of ordinances that the environmental commission passed and referred to council one is the u of m workforce housing resolution which really was a long shot but uh momentum is continuing to grow on that uh i talked to garland gilchrist the lieutenant governor and he said take a look at governor whitmer's may housing plan which um would would have a section in there that is consistent with what i'm doing i talked to a number of community leaders and the response i get is usually can you give me more information or have you talked to so and so because i think they'd be very interested in it as well so it's going to be a long process to build the community support that we need and um so i'll just stop there the other one is uh chapter 40 which is a vegetation ordinance i did talk to kevin mcdonald after the council meeting and staff is looking at it and they want to do a thorough review of it so those two resolutions are continuing to be worked on and and i don't know uh lunia if you want to mention anything about student support for u of m workforce housing we haven't talked recently but i'm hoping that we can build that support in the coming months certainly once um when school uh begins in september i anticipate that that'll be a good time to initiate student engagement oh okay great that sounds good uh okay did i miss anything that i would like to report okay that's the case and um galen could we maybe this isn't the time yet for future agenda items is should i wait in the agenda or it's it's coming up oh okay after this one so let's do it galen and that than that galen any reports from staff uh nothing at this time uh however uh last week we just completed a successful uh 820 week so now we wrapped up all the activities congratulations okay kathy now we're on to items for next agenda oh okay um i'm very interested in stormwater management and it i think it would be interesting to get an update from staff on what they are planning to do and i believe we had a sorry i'm i had ice cream social today and i've been baking in the sun i'm not thinking straight uh we had an update in that small water subcommittee meeting by uh larson who talked about a program where they're going to evaluate stormwater and do a comprehensive study is that true or did i hear it somewhere else anyway i don't mean to take up a lot of time but i i think that there is a study going on and that uh stormwater is going to become a a bigger issue with climate change and so i i think that uh it would be good to discuss what the city is doing now okay so you're talking about jen larson particularly yeah john larson had mentioned that to me okay all right uh we can investigate that um any other items that anyone would particularly like for next meeting or a future meeting council member dish isn't it jennifer lawson did i say yes you're right thank you she she heard the work of two people so i guess she could have two names i just didn't want you to be looking up someone that you couldn't right thank you um okay um back to my list here okay our next scheduled meeting is july 28th 30th of the at the end of the month the fourth thursday as usual and we are now at a point excuse me on our agenda for additional public commentary and please excuse me while i get to a script that i have to do okay um this is an opportunity to speak for up to three minutes um members of the public can call one [Music] 877-853-5247 and enter meeting id 915-8343-9176 the information is also on the meeting agenda in the video feed city staff will select callers that have raised their hand one by one using the last three digits of your phone number in order to electronically raise your hand to indicate your desire to speak please press star 9 on your phone you'll hear an automated announcement that the host is allowing you to speak when speaking please move to a quiet area and mute any tv or background noise so that we may hear you clearly please state your name and address at the beginning of your comments and be patient if there are any delays we'll work with you to get through um and the the prompt to unmute yourself is star six i believe so galen do you see anyone who would like to speak with us there are no callers okay we'll give at least 15 seconds wait [Applause] oh there is one caller okay let's welcome them um i only see the last three of his uh or her number but uh caller zero five three please go ahead and speak uh we need this star six right is that to unmute um yep i'm acting them to unmute thank you caller go ahead and speak call of zero five three please go ahead and speak it looks like they're still muted according to the screen is that anything that you can undo gaming i'm asking them to uh unmute now i'm hitting up extra on mu button thank you and then john has his hand up as well let's see that okay let's let's continue to try and um john you have to comment sure i was just wondering if there's been any information shared about future meetings if we're going to continue in zoom or meet in person or i cannot i i do not know that i haven't heard any change um i know that city council is meeting in person um with masks in city council chambers but i haven't heard that for us yet thanks i'll put that on a note to investigate the caller hung up oh i'm sorry sorry caller uh i asked you perhaps write your comment to ec a2gov.org and my apologies to getting through so i would ask for a motion to adjourn all right thank you very much i appreciate your and i learned some things and going good night

i've been there for 23 years i live in clifton my whole life my i raise my family here myself and my children are all products of the clifton public schools we constantly hear about one clifton but as school nurses we are starting to feel clifton divided one clifton should mean clifton is a family and a team we feel divided because we have staff members that have been true to clifton and have been practicing nursing in the clifton district for years in this room alone with the few nurses that we have there's over 200 experi 200 years of nursing experience and education and skills uncertified nurses are starting at a higher step and salaries causing discontent and a mass exodus of skilled certified nurses as nicole said before six in the past six months that's going to leave us very short come september my colleagues and i here are in support of nicole's comments and we all agree we urge the members of the administration the union and the board of education to reconsider earlier proposals as way of retaining certified school nurses thank you for listening [Applause] good evening uh al dubois clifton um first thing i like to bring up is the children now use their chromebooks a lot and i don't know if he's already looked into this or not i just wanted to bring this to your attention has there been anything done about their uh the strain on their eyes uh are you hearing anything about kids maybe having because they do go home they do homework and then they do their other stuff so i was just just a suggestion if if there is maybe have them at the end of a period that's pretty intense especially if they're using the chromebook the whole period to have their cup to take a minute and cup their eyes i think that relieves some pressure but i'm not sure and i'm leaving it in your hands i just wanted to mention it because it looks like it's going to be the trend of the future i saw the clifton merchant magazine and it was excellent and it's it really does represent what we have here is a lot of beautiful things in here written and it is true a lot of it is true and let's keep striving for this um president smith you have a nice picture in here happy birthday during this month i'd like to bring up the mission statement real quick it says in the mission statement we have an open and reciprocal community partnership and at the end it has we're lifelong learners who are responsible and productive citizens contributing to a democratic society in an ever-changing world i i mean if you have time sometime in the near future can you review this statement and maybe add in there and i know you don't want to add certain um phrases like god and country but maybe if you add it in there just the general thing of the pledge of allegiance because in the pledge of allegiance it talks about what our country's the republic and it mentions god because it's just too vague in an ever-changing world and a democratic society means that our children are really just pawns for whoever may come in and decide to make whatever changes are necessary and sometimes they have to make a stand and say wait a minute i have beliefs and i have to hold on to these beliefs at least the pledge of allegiance if it's incorporated in there or something else i mean you know you have time to reflect on that can make it where there's some kind of a solid belief in something um the other thing i'd like to bring up is the resolution that you are going to adopt tonight for the lgbtq uh there's some good statements in there that are that are definitely needed for any any person no matter who it is but there is a lot of exclusions while you're recognizing a certain group of individuals you're also excluding other individuals who may not think so much in the terms of their beliefs especially people who are of a certain religion so by do your resolution which gives it a whole month that you're going to incorporate programs and classes and indoctrination you might want to include in there you know about there's other people that we also need to be careful of and respectful of also at the same time who may feel and if somebody's belief conflicts with somebody else's belief well then you're going to have to figure out how to resolve that in the most peaceful way but it does exclude other avenues two meetings ago vice president daley brought up about the budget and he had stated that there was a he wasn't happy with the way that meeting had went and that there was a a lack of public trust and i believe he was addressing the board members ms bashford also brought up at the same meeting that there's no transparency amongst the board members so you have two board members who are pretty much on the same level of saying that there's issues i would love to hear more about that transparency public trust i think those are important issues to be discussed i mean if there is a mal administration going on we and i'm not saying with administration i mean with the board members i would like to know more about it but it's hard to when you're sitting back here and there's a discussion going on one person on this side says something the person on that side says something votes seem that they're saying good stuff and it's a ping-pong match you know you don't know who it would be nice to have meetings where we can sit and reflect and hear more about it but i do have a concern about all that i was at that budget meeting and the way it was presented the last minute the way it went i agree with you mr daly that there was an issue there but i think you should go further and miss bastard if there is no transparency i'd like to hear more about specifics of where there's not transparency thank you [Applause] good evening my name is jan hagen i'm from roxbury township in morris county i'm here to talk about the sex education and uh a little bit about the budget i was here a couple months ago when you guys had that budget meeting and i find it i found it actually quite interesting um the teachers had given a presentation of the sex education that they were gonna um the curriculum that they were using and at first i thought the response was appropriate showing you know highlighting i think sir you said you had young children you didn't like uh vagina and penis used for uh first and second graders i agree okay i don't understand why that has to be done but let me ask you are you comfortable with a lesson for your young daughter your fifth grade daughter on masturbation does that make you comfortable that doesn't make me comfortable okay um do you want her to start thinking more about sex than she does about playing soccer or swimming or math why do we have to highlight these things for such young children are you comfortable with advisors telling your daughter how she can get an abortion without you knowing about it when she's in high school throughout the presentation there were recurring themes the first one is that children have been taught this for 10 years we've been teaching this for 10 years oh really well guess what now everybody knows okay enough why have you been doing this the second point raised the hair on the back of my neck okay they mentioned that if children kids in the school are uncomfortable with what's going on there's a trusted adult that they can talk to who is this trusted adult okay uh who determines that they are trusted i'm sure that 99 even 100 of your teachers are wonderful and that they really have the well-being of the children at heart i'm sure they do okay but it only takes one across this country 135 teachers and aides have been arrested and charged with sex crimes just in 2022 okay uh or a year or so ago there was a a substitute teacher in nutley that was arrested for masturbating in front of his high school class okay the school board let him back in two months ago that man did the same thing and was arrested again so you know we can't trusted adults the only trusted adults are the parents we would like you to stay out of the children's bedroom it's the parents job to teach morals not the schools they are not your kids they're your students okay i wanted to touch a little bit on the budget because i was really surprised i was here at that budget meeting as well and you talked about the esser funds which really surprised me i i was i didn't know you would mention them you said that you got 11 million dollars in esser funds um actually it was 10 million 249 i believe i have the print out of all the esser funds for the state of new jersey all right of that 11 million dollars give or take you said you spent six million dollars okay where's the other five you didn't mention that okay uh new doors and windows that's really good where um did you tell the tax taxpayers in this school district that there's that was s or two funds that 10 million dollars there are also s or three funds that's 23 million dollars have those funds been allotted who negotiated these allotments what are the strings attached to these funds you knew you were getting more in federal as for funds it's not state funds it was federal funds you knew you were getting more and still you raised their taxes two percent you're going to get another 24 million in closing you may think ma'am you're gonna have to end your comments now your five minutes are up thank you oh okay thank you well thank you it's not just these five people that keep coming and talking about this it's a statewide movement thank you [Applause] good evening marcia miller clifton i will continue to bring forth the next five points of the harmful effects on children from the comprehensive sex education standards of 2022 number 11 teaches abortion and contraception presents abortion as a safe or positive option while omitting data on the many potential negative physical and mental health consequences may teach children they have a right to abortion and refer them to abortion providers may encourage the use of contraceptives while failing to present the failure rates or side effects 12 promotes peer-to-peer sex ed sexual rights advocacy may train i'm sorry may train children to teach other children about sex or sexual pleasure through peer-to-peer initiatives may recruit children as spokespeople to advocate for controversial sexual rights or to promote abortion undermines traditional values and beliefs may encourage children to question their parents beliefs and their cultural or religious values regarding early sex sexual orientation or gender identity may instruct children that they have rights to confidentiality and privacy from their parents may teach children about accessing sexual commodities or services including abortion without parental consent may instruct children not to tell their parents what they are being taught about sex in school and 15.

mrs rodriguez introduced me to special olympics and has changed my life mrs rodriguez and special olympics has instilled me a desire to improve to listen and to learn i know when i work hard i succeed especially makes us taught me a lot much more than i can ever say i am afraid that when mrs rodriguez leaves that miss cutler the other best coach in the world his killer will not have help my coaches are special people they believe in me they encourage me they challenge me they accept me and all my teammates the way we are they make me a better person and athlete it takes a special person to be a special olympics coach because the special olympics and the two best coaches in the world my family and i have friends who are like me and i feel accepted i am saying all of this because i don't want to lose my coach and the special olympics too mrs rodriguez who want me and all of my friends in the program to keep going and to never give up representing our families ourselves the best special olympics in new jersey the clifton mustangs i cannot think mrs rodriguez and ms keithler enough they have made me a better person and i prayed that the clifton board education continued the special olympics program so generations of students like me can experience clifton pride my teammates and i love what we do from practices to competition and this is so important to all of us it is a huge part of our lives thank you for your time and for listening [Applause] great job uh to all of you for the wonderful job that you've done all year long with your coaches and for that great great presentation tonight so congratulations to you to your parents and to your coaches for an outstanding season congratulations [Applause] okay next we're going to do the recognition award presentation to imagine math national school excellence award who's doing that one take care very nice good evening commissioners ladies and gentlemen i'm so excited to be here today to introduce one of our highest performing imagine math teams and in order to do that i would like to bring up aaron's muta our supervisor of mathematics k through eight and mr dan savarese from imagine math so that they can do their magic with our amazing school three group thank you good afternoon everyone imagine math is our adaptive program for mathematics that we use in the district for pre-k actually through geometry we have 9 000 active students on the program as we speak i'd like to say that imagine math is like the guided reading for mathematics what it does is it takes a child from where they are and teaches them math on their own level for each individual child and it differentiates for that child based on how they're answering questions or how they're going through the program we have all subgroups of students on the program so special ed esl they're all on the program they're all working at their own level um we have done some truly amazing work this year in all our clifton schools um we're going to talk about school 3 and their national award of excellence but we also have woodrow wilson and school 2 and they are both beacon schools for imagine math to give you an idea of how well the kids did this year they take three benchmarks one levels them and then they take two more throughout the year to gauge their growth on the standards of the state of new jersey and then it adapts the kids started benchmark one at a 21 proficiency rate they ended with a 40 proficiency rate across the district from pre-k through geometry that is huge growth i would like to thank the administrators the teachers the parents and most importantly the students for all their hard work their diligence their buy-in and their support to make this program succeed and help the students learn at this time i'd like to introduce dan savarese who is our rep who's going to tell you a little bit more about what we've done in the district thank you good evening everyone thank you for having me thank you to dr verbertosi for the invite um today was a great day selfishly as a former new jersey teacher and administrator i got to hang out some really cool kids a really great teachers and and spend some time with them at school three and see the great work that the department and ms park has done at the building uh the school of excellence is not something that's given away lightly uh out of the thousands of schools in the country uh there's only 280 schools that have received the award that school three did and it's a combination of innovative use tremendous growth but also engagement um with the platform and as mr voter said it's it's a combination of leveraging a tool to help drive instruction but also that instruction your teachers are providing is top notch so we're really just proud to be a part of it um one of the things i'd like to add is i spoke to the students today selfishly i like to talk to kids whenever i can uh we talked about one of the biggest and uh best things about imagine myth and i know dr robitazi loves his part too is students can donate their points to charity so your students they gain thing points as they're doing the program and they make the conscious choice to say i want to donate these think points to charity so i spoke to your students today and i said your conscious choice to give to charity help clothe students help clothe kids they've helped students combat bullying they've reached out and supported some of our veterans and things like that so all these different charities your students have contributed to last year uh clifton was obviously number one in the state of new jersey in terms of charitable giving and number 21 in the country when uh when we look at a country all in charitable giving imagine math we'll have some updated numbers he's got to found his face because i already he knows i spoiled it for him um as of this year clifton is still number one in jersey but you went from number 21 to number nine in the country in terms of charitable giving for imagine math so that's just it's wonderful it's wonderful and uh you know it's it's it's great to see the students make that choice it's a conscious choice and imagine learning is approaching one million dollars donated to charities on behalf of students in the nation so clifton is a huge part of that uh it was such a great day thank you for letting me be a part of that uh and i just like hanging out with the kids they're cool so this is the time you want to buy ice cream we're all biased for yeah sure sure but uh i'd like to thank this park too for her leadership in her building uh leveraging it engaging everyone with the staff um and the fun thing part was you know the rumor i'm not gonna say who was saying the rumor that i traveled from all the way from texas to be here today i told them i traveled from exit nine on the turnpike to come up and see them today yeah what's that yeah a little bit and if we can have ms park and miss krasinski um and any other school three representatives please come up i'm gonna put up the banner come on step up that way show off the banner so we can have a nice photo op i'll go up there with him in just a minute i would just like to thank each and every one of you who are here tonight and all of our clifton school number three teachers and students for this amazing achievement there you go better better thank you [Applause] so for the um last time as a graduating senior our student representative andrew will give his final and last report andrew [Applause] good evening everyone and for my last report i want to bring up the people who will be giving the next report in september so please tiffany alone come join me i am truly ecstatic to officially introduce the public and board of education the student representatives for the 2022-2023 school year senior representative you already know is tiffany guerrero tiffany has already frequented board of end meetings i've missed uh serving as a junior representative this past year she's also one of very few people to ever serve a position on also the junior student council this year she was the recording secretary that's not something we usually allow but just speaks to how incredible tiffany is she's also a football manager and member of the cheerleading squad very active in our community the junior representative is a new face here lillian shaw [Applause] this coming fall william will also be serving as the treasurer for the clifton student union and as vice president of girls learn international two great organizations at clifton high school she's also a member of the tennis team here's in cool kids key club pre-med club and athletic training club truly congratulations to both these fine students something i want to note as far as records show this is the first time that both student representatives are young women from clifton high school [Applause] and truly as i pass the torch over i wish you nothing but the best as you take on this incredibly important work [Applause] now i have my final words uh before i graduate tomorrow first a huge thank you to president smith dr robertosi all the commissioners of the board principal mr honda and student council association advisor mrs van saters for their unwavering support since i took this position in october i've been amazed and humbled since day one at the level of trust you're willing to place in me however i also want to thank another incredibly important group that's a student's chs without them i would have no position my classmates my friends even the kids i've just seen in the hallways and never spoken to before that point for helping me with my duties though i may have faltered along the way i strive to be vessel for your voices the issues and celebrations i've discussed are not just mine they are all of ours finally i have a call to action not just for tiffany lillian here but for any student that may watch this any point tonight or in years to come you have the most important voice in your education you are the most important thing in the classroom never forget that if you want something changed talk about it talk to your teachers talk to your vice principals talk to your principal come here to advocate for yourself talk to one another as one of my very favorite teachers has said for years organize for power and never give up change is entirely possible as long as you work together communicate and take charge if i've learned anything this year is that you're capable of fixing so many more of the problems in our schools than you realize no topic is too big take them on head first and never step down thank you so very much for your time not just tonight but for every night you've been here since october i truly appreciate it [Applause] mississippi andrew i cannot emphasize enough how enjoyable it was to have you each and every meeting here representing the great students of uh clifton high school um you were right on target on on everything you brought to us you were passionate you were articulate and just a fine young man that i know we're going to be reading a lot of good things about in the future just so everyone knows a little bit about andrew besides his student government he is uh one of the best tuba players in the state of new jersey and has played for uh the mustang band all four years he was here uh and i've just been told he won a spot in the new jersey all-state wind ensemble tuba section [Applause] on top of that those are his extracurricular activities on top of that he kept his studies up and he is in the top 10 percent of his graduating class andrew is attending the eastman school of music in at the university of rochester and um i know you're going to do great things there and i'd just like to present you with this uh plaque of our appreciation uh for your service uh so in appreciation for your dedicated service as student representative on the clifton board of education for the 21 22 school year we extend our sincere congratulations for a job well done and wish to acknowledge your personal and academic excellence as well as your leadership qualities and wish you continued success in your future endeavors the clifton board of education june 23 2022 congratulations andrew there you go thank you so much congratulations get a nice picture of mr smith you want to come up and get a picture great thank you [Applause] and lillian and tiffany welcome and and continue and you know uh you'll do we know you'll do great things because you were taught by uh andrew who does everything so great so thank you okay if we could move on with the business part of the meeting with adoption of our minutes of june second meeting regular meeting so moves to move by mr kanova second by mr abedrabo any discussion or amendments seeing none roll call please mr abadrabo yes mr awad yes miss basford yes miss beltran yes mr conova yes dr um mr paris yes vice president daley yes president smith yes motion carries okay now to uh turn it over to our superintendent for the superintendent's report thank you mr president good evening commissioners members of the public faculty staff i can't believe that the school year is over tomorrow it's our last day of school for students and our high school graduation is tomorrow at 3 p.m at clifton stadium and thank god the weather is looking good a little warm but i'll take warm over thunderstorms any day tomorrow there will be 654 students marching on the field and receiving their diplomas of the class of 2022 21.9 percent of students plan to attend two-year colleges 49.7 percent just under half plan to attend four-year colleges four percent plan to go to trade or technical schools one and a half percent plan to go into the military and another 23 percent are going into the workforce or undecided i think i'm still in that category too i'm not sure what i want to do when i grow up and that's okay because who knows what they want to do with 17 18 years old right i want to publicly congratulate our valedictorian abigail loeb who will be attending harvard in the fall i drove by there one time and our salutatorian uh mariam rukaya who will be attending nyu in the fall i had the opportunity to have breakfast with these two young women a couple weeks ago and to say that i was just impressed is is in complete understatement um just amazing amazing human beings who represent clifton um you know the best of the best uh represent us very well i'd also like to congratulate kyle vellis who was recently named uh for all of passaic county the passaic county coaches association scholar athlete of the year yeah congratulations to kyle kyle kyle was a three sport varsity athlete um and one thousand points a thousand point basketball player was our quarterback and our our point guard on on the basketball court on top of all that i think is i didn't look at the final gpa but i know one point i looked at his gpa it was like 98 something so four years all four years yeah amazing just a great student so congratulations to kyle on that scholar athlete of the year for all of passaic county i also look forward to celebrating with the class of 2022 tomorrow and i'm really excited that tomorrow about 450 students are signed up for project graduation and as you may remember project graduation will be taking place at the american dream mall and it's going to be really a fantastic fantastic night i'm so excited for the kids um i want to address something from earlier tonight i normally don't uh address public comment unless there is something that um really is just a you know easy to answer and something like that but um you know two of our outstanding nurses spoke up tonight and um listen i have a tremendous amount of respect for our nurses tremendous amount of respect foreigners particularly both nurses that spoke tonight nicole and wendy love them they're amazing um so because of my respect for them i'm not going to get into all of the reasons why just giving extra money to us to certain employees is is problematic it's very difficult and i personally have spent countless hours along with laura la lama and union leadership my executive team trying to figure out a way to do this and to do it the right way but i do have to clarify something for the public i want to make sure that the public understands that we we're hiring qualified nurses that are rns registered nurses means they have a college degree their nurses many of the nurses we've hired have uh you know numbers of years working in hospitals the the people who spoke to are absolutely correct they might have a school nurse certificate that is that is true the problem is when we hire when we post for jobs for school nurses there aren't any out there and it's not a clifton thing it's not even a new jersey thing it's a national thing we cannot find school nurses so our options have become leave a building vacant or hire an rn and for us the choice was easy and supply and demand comes in into play when it comes to salary so it is a real complicated issue um and i i know it's words but i just hope that our nurses understand we have been trying to figure out a way to um to help them and i'll leave it at that but i want our parents to know that we have qualified nurses in our buildings i'd like to give an update on our referendum i don't think i did one at the at the last board meeting but since our last board meeting our team has continued to meet with our construction management company epic and our other service professionals as we prepare to send out our bids for our referendum the state comptroller has delayed things an awful lot but i'm happy to say that just today our attorney and architect met with the state comptroller and finalized the details in bid package number two in addition packages three and four will be going out shortly and from what we heard after this meeting today with a comptroller we're anticipating a quicker turnaround than the first two bid packages so the first bid package was clifton high school that was approved and we've completed a successful bid cycle the final price came in at twenty three million two hundred and thirty three thousand dollars which is slightly higher than what we budgeted for initially in the referendum however much cheaper than what we anticipated after doing a cost analysis earlier this year so we're actually very pleased with that price and had a big sigh of relief when we saw we were very concerned that with the lack of supplies with inflation that it was going to be much higher the bid is currently under attorney review uh just to make sure all the documents meet the requirements of the specs and uh simultaneously our attorneys are reviewing the second and third place bids just in case there's something wrong with the first bid and finally a real important piece of news on the stadium and the athletic field scheduling these two projects are time sensitive and they're also two of our very public projects people the ones that people tend to ask you know when is the field getting done nobody's really asking so much about the air conditioning except that one day it was 100 degrees so we've determined that it's in the district's best interest to take these two projects the stadium and the athletic field out of the the bid projects and to bid them separately our professionals believe that it'll allow us to get a much fairer price and it will allow us to bid immediately without having to wait for the state comptroller which as you know has delayed our other projects the reason why it doesn't have to go to the comptroller because it doesn't meet the fiscally the amount of money that's required for the state to to review it um and speaking of extracting projects we uh we bid out the boiler here at school six and it was a project we felt that could be done to alleviate the workload for next summer and the bid came in at 280 000 which was 57 percent less than our anticipated cost so that extra money will be rolled into the remaining packages so that's kind of where we are if you have any questions about the referendum i'll be happy to answer them later on congratulations to our students of the month congratulations to all of our fifth graders who had moving up ceremonies this year i know several of our uh commissioners were at the moving up ceremonies um i'd also like to give a shout out to school nine that celebrated their 100th anniversary on june 10th that event was attended by several of our commissioners our mayor central administration many alumni i think there were five former principals there and many former employees were there to celebrate the students we learned from the students taught us a little bit about the history of the building and we watched them perform perform songs and dances and it was a wonderful event so congratulations to principal rosetti for doing an outstanding job finally i want to wish all of our faculty staff and students a very healthy happy and safe summer please be careful please read to our students read read read read read read i can't say it more it's the most important thing you can do for your brain read read on the beach read on the bus read in the park read in your room read whenever you can and please please please be safe have a wonderful summer and that completes my report mr president thank you uh superintendent um yeah i just wanted to remind everyone um that graduation is tomorrow uh starting at 3 p.m at the stadium those that are attending please try and get there early as uh the area will be congested um so uh and as dr robertosi said the uh weather forecast right now is looking good so hopefully uh it'll be a great afternoon for graduation i'm sorry okay so on our main page of the uh clifton schools website there will be a live stream of the graduation ceremonies so if you're unable to make it you can watch the live stream on our main page of the school's website the district's website okay moving along uh first reading of policy uh we have zero one three one bylaws and policies is there any uh comments or uh suggested changes okay seeing none we'll move on to we don't have any presentations we'll move on to committee reports and mr canova if you would take finance and technology please okay the finance committee met um mr daley mr abu drabo myself mr smith dr robert tosi mr john garo mr uchi mr shada start time was 4 30.

most of you know down syndrome but there's also trisomy 23. 2306 chromosomes they are the the abnormality would be xxy or xxx happens in about 1100 live bursts um or so the physical symptoms these people of course are not physically normal at birth the testicles are not typically uh in the scrotum and uh they typically will have some latent female characteristics there's a low chance of these people producing enough sperm and having children this is not a new condition of course it's been written for the last three thousand years um it's recorded in the bible and and so forth and so on uh specifically in matthew where you could be a unit from your mother's womb or without testicles you could be castrated um fast forward to the 60s in the modern science with the advances in surgery and hormones and these children could now be helped with surgery and hormones so that they would look more male-ish but by the 70s modern medicine could also make these folks look female and of course that's where we go to transsexuals i'll look up dr bieber in uh in uh colorado the father of uh transsexualism uh by the 80s the medical community could go to the roughly 4 000 uh xxy people in philadelphia or the 300 000 people in the united states and say look um you can we can make you look male or female well you have a choice well choice is something that uh the didn't take long for the homosexual community to say we want that choice also okay so and by the turn of the century we we have a lot of transsexual uh people so that's a biology lesson how about how about the uh psychology lesson on these folks so the transsexual people are they happy and well adjusted some are some are very well happy and well adjusted and i suppose there are a lot of x y's that are okay perhaps maybe some boys who have been abused by their parents clergy or friends who may be saying to themselves you know what i'd rather be a girl or i'd rather be if the girls may abuse girls they may want to become males maybe to avoid abuse maybe for those folks who have gender dysphoria some of you probably half of you are at least familiar with the following scenario your 12 year old daughter comes running down the stairs crying i'm bleeding i hate it i hate it i hate it and so what do most concerning parents do i'll leave that up to you um but virtually no parents want their children to become permanently have a permanent gender change but in the second fourth or maybe even the eighth grade research shows that the eighty percent of the transgender children have considered suicide and 40 percent have attempted suicide can you indulge me for just about another minute or so yeah just uh well yeah just as quickly as you can thank you thank you i'm almost done okay i'm almost done here yet you plan on implementing a curriculum in september that encourages gender choice for normal children you can see why parents that as the rather the 99.6 of the normal gender heavy children are horrified somewhere between 20 and 40 percent of the gender dysphoria children will attempt uh suicide do you think parents want that would you encourage and let me give you a quick analogy it has to be quick because you're real would you encourage your 17 year old child to buy a motorcycle knowing that the death rate is 29 times higher than cars are you going to encourage your teachers to twist the minds of the young children incurring gender dysphoria and make them miserable and abnormal dogs and cats know better we would love wait we would love to um if mr jenks thank you for coming up to the microphone but if you want to send us that in an email we'd be more than happy to read it in its entirety thank you okay anyone else wish to speak for public comment now come on up to the microphone okay that's right yes can i make a suggestion that uh to ensure that the public comment moves in the normal fashion yes that people who are going to speak it would be appropriate to queue up oh and stay as far away from each other as you feel comfortable yes but to actually queue up so that you don't oh so we have an awareness coming we can do that yes so if you would like to speak we would love for you to queue up so we have an idea of like how many people are going to speak okay sir name and address please sure erin just a little bit closer to the microphone okay is this acceptable aaron rubin 109 kettle run um i want to say a couple things first of all um myself and co-workers had the opportunity to to support uh science day and the science spectacular at dimacey and vanzant and that was an absolutely wonderful experience and there is either something in the water or you guys are absolutely doing a lot of uh great things with the the kids they uh they were so well behaved and so engaged and it was it was fantastic additionally we received a lot of letters from demacy which was a big lift emotionally and just just kind of want to point out how wonderful that is to receive letters um i do want to make sure that the the voice of most people in our community who are at this point very well adjusted and welcoming an understanding of people of all different types and backgrounds genders both uh who who have realized that they are a different gender than what was assigned at birth and those who [Music] don't want to identify with a particular gender it is very important that we accept people and adopt practices especially that do not make them feel marginalized in the classroom and that includes recognizing them for who they are so i would like to voice support for those types of policies and just making sure that everybody feels included as they came to the school thank you mr rubin do you want to give a shameless plug for your science topic and your company we would love to hear what you what you told our kids about well um actually uh in dimacey we did polymerization uh two different types also known as cloud slime i like to uh kind of give overly technical information to help suppress the level of excitement to kind of keep the things so that's why i'm like you know say polymerization say these complicated chemical names and uh the kids kind of have a blast as they do that and and do the slime within uh vansant uh we kind of split so that the company's name is mixed media arts and we we split they did slime and i did emergent behaviors which is a computer science topic it is a lot of fun to act out the simple behaviors that when composed together produce apparently very complex behaviors as it goes and it is important computer science and biology research and a lot of things that we see in in science uh uh so but most of all it's it's fun uh and i get to kind of come in and do this uh like grandparent teaching i i i call it i like to sugar up the kids and then send them back to their their their teachers kind of sugared up and excited um and uh and leave [Laughter] but again thank you so much thank you and i'm sure miss romanelli will pass along her thanks as well next up name and address please um marty connelly a little bit closer to the mic okay i'm mari cantoleo i live in kings grant um i'm wearing a shirt tonight that says protect trans kids and what that means is protect my child i have a transgender child i have a bisexual child i'm bisexual myself for an lgbtq family my child came up through cherokee high school was bullied every day consistently there were some great teachers some great counselors that helped her when i listen to someone take the science that we as parents who've been educated by doctors by other scientists psychiatrists psychologists and twist it and say that because our children are under a legal age of 18 that they shouldn't have health care that affirms who they are it's the reason why i'm here and why i have advocated for my children for years if you haven't read a suicide note from your child because the world doesn't understand who they are i hope you never do i hope you don't know anybody who does because i have and i read that note late because if she if something hadn't happened for her i would have found the note a year later when i found it i wouldn't have known i wish that i knew and that she knew who that she was trans earlier because she knew that there was something different about her for years and had no idea that there was a community who would support her and that who would affirm who she was i wish that my child knew this earlier because her doctors her psychiatrists and psychologists and medical professionals in the trans community would have helped her earlier and she wouldn't have irreparable changes from puberty that make people look at her and think that she's not who she is so thank you for letting me speak but i really wish that there were more people here in our community in malton who looked outside themselves and outside what they think they know and actually speak to us speak to families of lgbtq people trans people because all she wants as an amazing person is just to find her way in life and what she wants to do as an adult in a career in love in everything she has us she has my family and she has a community of support but she shouldn't need it she should be allowed to just be who she is without listening to people who don't know what they're talking about thank you thank you very much next up [Applause] good evening name and address please tracy fox a little bit closer to the mic tracy fox 330 overbrook we hear a lot of words thrown around words like grooming indoctrination words meant to elicit fear from the masses with no real facts to back them up let's start with grooming according to rahul bayer a former sex crime and child abuse prosecutor and founder of the bayer group which works with schools to prevent sexual misconduct and child abuse one of the biggest pieces of abuse prevention is to teach children the correct anatomical names for their body parts and not attach any type of shame or embarrassment to them when kids think there is something shameful about down there they are less likely to come forward because they are afraid of getting into trouble grooming preys on fear shame and silence indoctrination the process of teaching a person or group to accept a set of beliefs uncritically what is it that we are teaching them to accept bodily autonomy consent that sometimes we have feelings we aren't sure about and that's okay no one is forcing alternate lifestyles on our children i fully trust in the board and the teachers to disseminate this information in a healthy and age-appropriate way despite the hysterical outrage by some i do not believe there will be actual demonstrations of masturbation or anal sex in the classroom not even when they get to high school we hear things like my kids don't know what that is trust me your kids do we here but the children then we see posts bemoaning the facts that these hateful people feel they raised their children better than to wear a mask to accept homosexuality or befriend transgender children to live and let live it seems the only people that are attempting to indoctrinate the children are their parents members of these hate groups that fear they are losing their roles as sole influence in their children's lives the kids have proven time and time again they are okay a curriculum focused on inclusion and diversity is something many of these adults could have greatly benefited from when they were in school as an aside with all due respect to scientific quotes nobody chooses homosexuality or transgenderism as someone who has been told i have an improbable number of non-binary and bisexual and transgender people in my immediate family you can read all the textbooks you want until you see firsthand the effect that these kids what what social their surroundings does to them when they feel that they know they are not who they present as and they do not get the support they need school is supposed to be a safe place for everyone and without actually putting into effect a curriculum that includes them definitively they're going to continue high rates of attempted suicide and you're going to have parents dealing with this on a regular basis thank you thank you [Applause] hey what's up guys eric spirazza 701 mount vernon court thank you so during the day i'm a corporate trainer for a pretty big company my job as a human resources trainer it's what i do i teach adults in a much less thrilling environment than our teachers teach but here's what's funny what i teach is yearly compliance annual compliance what i have to teach to adults every day how to act how to behave in the workplace how to get along with others because if you cannot if you cannot be inclusive you lose your job i challenge anyone to walk through the main concourse of my company thumping a book talking about how some people shouldn't exist biologically you're getting fired you're getting a box party carried right out the front door the world is changing go on linkedin once just see that the world is changing the world is promoting inclusivity it starts in our communities it starts in our schools if we start by making people feel like they can't come to marlton because they have a special needs kid or a gay kid or they're minorities because the school isn't making inclusivity a priority then there's no reason to be here and for all of you voted volunteered servants of the world on this board here today it's your job to make sure that these kids can walk out into this world as an adult into my training room where if they do not play by the rest of the world's rules not from a book from the 1960s they're going to lose their job and i'm the guy that's gonna make sure they do so let's start from the very beginning let's start with how people are included in the schools first how about we i don't know consider more special needs classes again we went from like what six to two in our district great job and now we're still entertaining conversations about grooming this is our responsibility this is our community you're all sitting here on this board this isn't a stepping stone for other political endeavors guys you have a responsibility to our community and to our kids and if you don't want that job step off let someone else take it because as far as i'm concerned you're just as much a part of raising my children as me and i'm not liking what i'm seeing thank you is there anyone else that would like to speak public comment no oh no oh okay come on up name and address please hello everybody my name is ryan john i'm not going to give you my address just for personal reasons but some of the comments that i have heard at some of these past board meetings have been horrific and i know this isn't on you and i know a lot of you personally and i love you guys but i want to say that i was a student at cherokee high school and i was bullied for being gay and i was told by a student in the locker room that i should be dead that i should be murdered that i don't deserve to live and this is what and this is basically what we're accepting here that all these alt-right people that's what they want to instill in all of us well i'm still here and i was raised with a sister who didn't end up being gay we were raised by two heterosexual parents and in that case look what happened i'm still here i'm still gay i didn't choose it so i am hoping that this board of education will eventually that we can that we can work towards doing more for our children for our gay transgender non-binary lesbian bisexual children that we are all just like everybody else and and for all those so-called christians out there who say that it's wrong jesus loves the little children he loves all the little children of the world thank you good night thank you [Applause] anyone else wish to speak oh okay thank you name and address please hi my name is robert just you can pull it out if you you say not the best should be okay okay um 62 mill park lane what was your name i'm sorry i interrupted you okay thank you and i think it's nice that primary seasons are over and things kind of look like they've gone back to normal right no circus here uh i do want to say one thing though the board of ed has to follow njdoe code of ethics and there's a specific member of the board who seems to have broken that code of ethics and the board should look at removing that member or we should look at doing a recall effort and that member is dennis you know he has been colluding with the circus and it should be addressed as soon as possible thank you okay [Applause] any other comments okay seeing none i'm going to close public comment at this point we're going to go into board member announcements seeing none okay um we actually have to go into a second executive session so um let me just read you this whereas njsa 10 colon 4-12 allows for a public body to go into closed session during a public meeting and whereas the board of education of eastern township has deemed it necessary to go into closed session to discuss certain matters which are exempted from the public and whereas the regular meeting of the board of education will reconvene following the end of the closed session probably at about 9 30ish now therefore be it resolved that the board of education will go into closed session for the following reasons as outlined in njsa 10 colon 4-12 and there will not be action taken after this executive session just to let the public know this is for personnel and attorney clinton communications only there will be no action taken at the conclusion of the executive session that is correct okay so at this point i need a motion to go into executive session mr canthan second miss capello okay we'll reconvene at approximately 9 30.

all right um any comments remember to the public no no request for public comment on this item mr board president all right uh moving on to um thomas remembers the board uh more turkey i was just excited to see clover come on because i thought maybe he was gonna tell us we were gonna get additional millions he didn't tell us on the ninth um no i i don't know do we have a motion yet and if not i'll motion to approve yeah i'll accept the motion uh there's a second second but i have a second vibe i can't hear you or we can't hear you uh it's very difficult to hear so you mess around with that screen do something to it or if need be log out log back in to make that thing work you know what you want to do is go to the uh to the little arrow on the side of your microphone and start uh working on your on your mic to see if it maybe you have a different mic or something out of curiosity trusty fam do you have uh earbuds or earphones or anything like that not with me you know usually that i want to try to troubleshoot it but okay well you sound good now though he sounds real clear now all right yeah i think it's when the screen moves so okay so i second i just have a question from mr chang okay okay mr chang so with with 99 percent of the vote in so are uh do we should we expect uh you know even nicer i i shouldn't say night but a updated uh budget uh in you know with the inclusion of the property tax parcel tax revenues going forward yes and thank you for that question um yeah when the county certifies the election itself to make it official then we'll we'll be making the necessary um revision to the budget itself and so that'll be reflected in the next cycle okay very good thank you so much all right um there was a motion and second theory further discussion for the board all right see none then let's go ahead and uh i'll call you they see you board uh member chavez no board member yes board vice president yes world trade connector hi my sophomore night motion passes four to one with travis working right now so uh man you're on youtube no no no i i'm here it's just the the uh the uh technician is here i believe you should mute yourself now um 5.02 approved contract with erc alternatives for energy consultant services move to approve what's up move to approve all right motion by the uh board member i don't have a second sec second board uh a second by board clerk do you have uh comments from the public i see no requests for public comment on the side of mr president all right um board member yes thank you president quintero so i just want to um you know say i'm i i'm excited about moving forward with this contin now making continued um consistent progress on this and to try to find out what opportunities may exist for the district um you know i think that as a board at least for myself i think that we not only owe it to the community and to the district but are obligated to look for opportunities to either decrease expenditures or increase the resources that come into the district and so for that reason i'm very happy that we are moving forward with this um and it's just kind of seeing it on the agenda this month and obviously again this is just furthering the work but as we continue the work i get more excited because i know you know the challenge that we've had to get to this point and and i had even forgotten um because we had so much other big stuff that we've had to address between when i first brought it to now there's been a lot of work that we've done in other areas but i also did forget that at some point it was it at least seemed to become a very um a political topic or or i mean for maybe for lack of a better term um and i'm just glad that at this point that hope i'm hoping that at this point that my colleagues are um you know together with me in this motion which again just continues the work of looking at the opportunities that may exist for us so you know this is not a commitment necessarily to any kind of work or any kind of project or anything like that it's a commitment to looking into what the possibilities may be and so the journey that it's take that it's been to get to this point and the fact that you know we are seeing now because we've worked to strategically implement everything that we've done to this point i'm excited about the momentum that we're making so i'll be supporting this tonight and i'm hopeful that my colleagues will as well thank you the only thing i'll add to that is um you know also um thank you uh trusted because you know we are um making decisions now that are affecting our future right we just passed our budget if we don't have a budget how can we pay our teachers or anything else i mean and this you know is is not just to ensure that you know we start like in the long run saving money you know and looking at different um opportunities and ways that we can get our energy but also you know being mindful and intentional right when when we um use energy um and you know that the energy that we use today you know however we use it right whichever way shape or form um that it comes in and that you know is being used that it is impacting future generations and so um also you know ensuring that as we're making these decisions as we're getting our consultants to you know come and tell us right things i mean because i'm not in that area but um that the questions you know we get to ask now um are also inclusive of that in those thoughts um of what we're doing now that will affect our future generations i'm just excited you know i know um you know in regards to that you know there's um already schools that have implemented programs um that are already saving them money so um thank you verano i look forward to you know continuing to um to learn about this area um you know because i myself don't know much so i'm having this consultant will really help me um in moving forward and asking the questions and making sure that we got all the eyes and cross all the t's so thank you uh board vice president yes well to give credit where credit is due to uh thank trustee bay hirano i know that this this was his bug bugaboo so he you know for to bring us to the you know to to the board's attention and i think you know i'll just put it in simple terms this is about taking taking what is a cost and turning it into something where we can use uh use our grounds to generate additional revenue to take a liability you know and turn it into an asset that you say and so in the process not only saving us on energy but also uh taking the you know the deadweight cost of uh our buildings and our parking lots and use you know uh the ability to sell that energy right back to the utility company you know and uh to strengthen our budget down the line uh for future years and you know this is something you know that you know we should we should all be excited about as we begin that process of you know now that we have a uh advisor to eventually get to the point of selecting the contractor who will you know hopefully uh you know what uh bring local jobs along with it but also yes to put in the infrastructure where we can use our bed we use our buildings to benefit this district even when they are not in use so it is with that i you know vote intend to vote yes on this item thank you uh board member travis um i'm not against solar and never have been but i also know that we have a decline in enrollment and we just close some schools and maybe in the future we might in the very near future we might be having to repurpose other ones so i don't see the logic in putting a solar system on something that we made as alan rock educators not have students there so i will be voting no on this thanks all right um thank you for your comments um i'll wrap up with my workbench where the phone do you have your comments you need to mute yourself i know it muted by itself so i i think i wanted to answer trustee chavez's concerns he you know i think and i as i allude to we still would own the property so the thing is it would still be under our ownership you know and the whole point of solar is to make use of those properties when they are not in use you know as those solar panels collect solar energy and converts it into electricity and uh you know when they're in use of course it will you know we would be supplying our own facilities with power but you know but the good thing about solar is it's to take take that energy convert it into that electricity and again you know as i mentioned sell it right back to pg e and you'll you know uh revenue for a district you know and so that's you know that's the huge benefit of solar you know by owning the facilities we have we own the platform we're not you know i i've said it you know many many times since i uh taken a scene on this board which is not to sell any property of the district and this is an opportunity for us to is a uh take a liability and make it into an asset to you know uh to sell what people are wanting which is energy and you know adding to our district's bottom line so we can continue to provide quality education for our children provide them new and better opportunities in the future years and also to pay our teachers and our staff what you know they are really worth so you know i you know i just for the life if we don't see any downsides where you know instead of paying cutting checks to pg e this is our chance to have pg e cut checks to allen roth thank you all right bob borman roberto uh thank you yes i i just wanted to um i guess say that trusty travis question is a valid one i think and you know we if if there are as you mentioned variables that we may not be aware of at this time with regards to our facilities and how they will be purposed you know then it is valid i think to question um you know the the potentiality of moving forward with some type of a a solar energy program however i want to remind trustee chavez and everyone else that this item here in front of us tonight is precisely that really it's for a consultant to come in and tell us hey you know it's not a good idea for you right now because x y and z purpose purposing may happen and and you need to hold off or they may say now is the time to do it you know costs are are rising and and you have these sites that you can you know whatever it may be the point of this item tonight is is just that so we can have an expert who can take a look at our current situation the sites the facilities our strategic plan our budget everything and then provide us with some expertise about what the next best steps would be that are most beneficial to the district so this is not tonight again and to move forward in any particular direction it's to get the the expert on board who can actually answer the questions like those that trustee chavez has and trusted mentioned that you know she's not an expert i'm not an expert so this is bringing the person who can give us that expertise so that then we can make an informed decision one way or the other on what is best for the district with regards to solar uh what member drivers um i do want to clarify something because i've said it every single time in no way have i ever said sell any property nor will i ever that doesn't have to be mentioned every single time especially since i don't mention it but i do like the fact that yeah we are going to bring somebody but i'm just saying that with declining enrollment and the fact that we need to consolidate um other schools to me this is not a good idea and this is a middleman in between because if you do buy it outright then you're gonna actually get a bigger check but if you're going to have a middleman in between that is going to make their profit allen rock is not going to profit as much that's it thank you all right um i'm going to wrap up with my comments we'll go ahead and move on to the item i haven't spoke yet so um this item has a long time coming and i want to do i appreciate board member behind in pushing this item forward and keeping on it uh because it has been a difficult process other people may have given up and said i forget it i appreciate your diligence and making sure that this decided to move forward it was unnecessarily politicized at all levels attacks against personal attacks against my integrity uh board member behind those integrity all based on a desire just to simply learn whether or not this is even feasible in all my study to tell us if we if it's going to work i remember somebody calling in specifically begging us saying please don't move this item forward until december because they were concerned about i'm assuming they were concerned about the november elections it just makes absolutely no sense and i'm very saddened by the fact that we possibly have lost out on significant amount of savings that could have gone directly back into the general punch because people hyper politicize this issue unnecessarily um a couple of things that i am very proud of is that while we went ahead step back and get our due diligence which i'm you know proud of um a little frustrated but i'm still proud of the fact that we went back and redid everything and now we're looking at it and once again to reiterate this is for a consultant who has already told us that in certain instances he comes back and he's not here to say yes move forward i'm gonna you know support you in the great land they don't work with uh energy companies all they do is child public agencies whether or not it makes sense to move forward with an injury with their project and they've given us examples of places where they've gone they said it just doesn't cancel out for you it doesn't make any sense and so i'm comforted by the fact that they're very independent and that they're not tied to any energy company i'm looking forward to seeing the results um hopefully they will i'm being honest this is just my position hopefully they will a result in findings that allow us to save money and allow us to move forward and return that money to the general fund so we can invest it back into our children so um looking forward to seeing this move forward move forward any um if there's no further comments i'm going to go ahead and i'm going to call for a vote as i see you i believe i called for public comments item earlier we'll say uh can you remind me yes yes thank you i just want to make sure um all right board member child no or remember yes or where is president from yeah your mic is you at least i can't hear you i don't know feel it all right we'll take that thumbs up uh and board uh board clerk aye all right thank you for that uh motion passes president quintero did you vote well i said yeah with myself 49 motion sorry um oh i said with myself 49 motion passes it's actually not unanimously sorry about that it's uh 4-1 with chavez vicente and you know what i i forgot to mention that uh in between that all that time we're able to move forward with the policy on on power purchasing policy that ensures that any program that does move forward uh guarantees that will the jobs will have to go to um to local people first so i'm very proud of that because uh as part of that work it was required general counsel was very thorough and demanded that we bring back a thorough report about the differences in income uh so that we can uh sustain the policy if we're ever challenged and uh it was dark um we saw that uh berryessa is twice the amount the wealth uh ever bring twice the amount of wealth we're surrounded by wealth is in a different situation and for that reason we are able to pass a policy that uh guarantees that jobs will go first to people who live within the zip codes that encompass alumni and so thank you for indulging me i just want to make sure to add that before we move forward from this item um moving on to it 6.01 approve uh universal pre-kindergarten planning and implementation plan at ala martin elementary school district uh doc uh board member travis is that a motion yes i got a motion from board member travis do you have a second second uh second by uh do you have any comments from the public mr board president uh no public comment uh for this item um and i'm assuming there's going to be a presentation by dr barcelona laura's yours hi um well you have in front of you it's no presentation you have the summary plan it's a sixth place plan so this is about our upk if you remember in the last board meeting um for this uh california department of ed ellen rock had to prepare a upk plan a tk plan so that's what you have in front of you there are six pages that summarize the full 66 page template that you also have in front of you and basically we had focus areas that we had to answer from a to e and all those answers are in there and you can look at all of the plan and i'm available if you have any questions it also gave us a place for non-competitive points from the california department of vet so that we get the plan so the most important thing is that we present this to our board of trustees and that's why you have it here in front of you all right see now that i'll go ahead and call you as i i'll make some comments i'm really excited about uh us moving forward with this item it's been a um when i got onto the board one of the things that was very important after doing my further inquiries and the passion was to extend the school day that was kind of the theme how do we get to extend school day how do we keep kids uh continue to learn longer um and so um in addition to that i'm very very excited to see that now we're bringing in the children at an earlier age to ensure that they now are um having a pathway towards uh academic success we know every study study after study demonstrates that those children that are in preschool will usually um do better and academically and go to college and stuff that sort so excited to see this uh taking place i see that my colleagues are excited as well i'm assuming and i'm going to call them as i see them uh board vice president phone oh uh yes uh are we voting or i i can make my comment uh i would make your comments but go ahead and make your comments okay afterwards okay yes i mean uh you know uh as they say a dollar invested in education provides more returns than a dollar invested in uh the criminal justice system so uh this is an opportunity to you know uh reinforce what's taught in the classroom fill in gaps uh in learning and also uh you know uh find you know in a sense uh creating new opportunities for our district to have more children in our district so it is what with that spirit that i intend to vote yes on the item thank you uh board clerk for president i see dr brower's hands up is it okay to have her say something because it might add to my comment oh okay dr bauer go for it thank you board president this is a very exciting time and i just wanted to thank dr valesteros uh for her incredible leadership in our district to um help us writing this plan and diana you know that we are ahead of that game right did the other districts are just catching up to us we have been ahead of this game since 2015 when we accepted the first four-year-olds and um people were like well how can you afford i remember i had to answer that question so many times how can you afford bringing this four year olds and then we push the the birthday all the way to the march 31st the first district in the state to do that and i'm very i'm very proud and i'm very proud of the support trustee quintero has been there from the very very beginning and this is about not only which is very important planting the seeds because every child who has an opportunity to go to preschool has an opportunity to be on grade level by third grade that the the numbers don't lie right and that is part of why we have some huge challenges in alum rock because that opportunity has not been equitable for all of our our four-year-olds in alumrock so very excited about this very excited about being a pioneer district very excited about moving forward with this plan and by that remember the state is catching up to us so that's how wonderful this is and thank you uh dr valesteros for that leadership that you have provided for this thank you dr brown thank you so much yeah yeah alam rock practices the science i always say when i'm talking to colleagues you know we know the science and so we have practiced it since 2015 and now everyone is catching up thank you um so i'll go ahead and go over that's okay doc president yes thank you um yeah i just want to add to that you know dr baesteros you know when i'm in uh different meetings um your name comes up and you know always honored um to have it come up you know in the ways it does and so i'm like you know don't take her so we're very blessed to have you here leading these efforts ensuring that uh we're you know making sure that we're implementing um the best of the best here at alum rock especially for our children um at the pre-kindergarten level you know as um and this was talking about you know my my passion you know and one of them has been to end that school-to-prison pipeline and as uh trustee fam mentioned right when we invest in our children at a younger age um that shift happens we change the narrative and so i'm happy that you know we don't just talk about it but we put our actions behind it here at alum rock um that that narrative you know for for youth who grow up in certain ways you know that here at alum rock all of our youth are um being exposed to numbers and colors and you know learning and like dr brower said that at third grade they're at grade level and that you know they're talking about which college they're going to what career they're going to have and that we're providing those spaces and places and conversations um so that our children can end up there and then come back you know it's um it's just a uh [Music] i'm grateful and you know it makes me smile every time i hear our alumni you know i know we have many here on this board you know that say i went to allen rock union elementary school district i graduated from there you know and they're coming back to give back and so that you know continue to help that process um so thank you for your leadership and i look forward to you know having more babies coming through those doors as we continue to move right towards that zero age um i never thought right it's like oh school you grab your backpack you walk in line but to be able to you know get them earlier where you learn songs and you know what it even means to you know walk in line and and you know and also play and thrive and um you know get rid of some of these boxes that we have our children and you know i just i look forward to like you said putting that science in action right we know we know what works we know what doesn't work for our children so how do we work to eliminate those things that no longer serve our children maybe they served you know 50 years ago or 90 years ago when alan rockford started but no longer right and so how do we put knowing that action i'm sorry knowing the science putting it in action and erasing some of these boxes that maybe were created before so thank you for leading the efforts and i look forward to also supporting this item thank any you comments members of the board all right i think we're going back to our roots i was a product of a state-funded preschool there out of san antonio elementary and uh some of my most fondest memories are during those formative years were right there in that uh little playground uh whether it was the playground whether it was a nap time how all those things come back to really really influence and affect the way in which you develop as a child and then into adulthood and so it was unfortunate that for many years the state chose to step away from that because it was i was here and i was there as a preschooler the state funded preschool um and uh but i'm glad that we're we're getting back there we're gonna we're gonna do right by the kids moving forward um yeah just to not be misunderstood this wasn't alan rock's choice the state took away the resources to fund preschool finally bringing it back and doing the right thing um all right i'm going to go ahead if there's no further comments for members of the board i'm going to call you as i see you uh board member chavez hi board member hi for board vice president hi board member if you can hear me hi uh with my sophomore night motion passes unanimously all right 6.02 approved california state preschool program contract just quickly um president quite sorry to interrupt but i am having technical difficulties with my camera so i'll be working on that so um hopefully my audio comes on and i'm still able to vote but if you don't see me we can hear you perfect thank you all right uh motion on the uh motion motion by travis john ii second second board vice president do i have any comments from the public no public comment on the center mr board president all right see no public comment uh if there's no further comments from my colleagues i'll call you as i see you board remember travis aye ward clerk aye worldwide further fun hi uh where board member i played software united motion positive uh 6.03 approved think together uh designation california state's pre state preschool program facility motion uh that's right there one have a motion by board member chad is there a second second or second by a board vice president you have any comments remember to the public no request for public comment on this item a support president all right and it's nearly the identical motion the identical item with the exception that it is for the month of two do i have an uh do i have a motion for item 6.04 approval violence 6.04 motion second by board member chavez second by board vice president do you have any comments from the public no public comment on this item mr board president all right um if there's no further comments from the board for my colleagues i'll go ahead and call you the cu board vice board member travis hi ward clerk hi board vice president hi board member hi all right motion pass unanimously 6.05 is the pathway to seal by literacy achievement rewards student recognition this is my information only dr bauer is there anybody here to present on this item i believe so board president this is very exciting and i i wanted to i think uh miss gutierrez or miss martinez very good ms gutierrez is here to present on that thank you ms gutierrez yes thank you so much for having me good afternoon board members superintendent bauer parents and community members i am lupita gutierrez and it is my great pleasure as the principal of adelante dual language academy to recognize our students for earning the pathway to the seal of biliteracy adelante's vision is to graduate students with bilingual proficiencies and multicultural competencies that will open the doors to opportunities in our global economy one measure towards reaching our vision is to prepare students for the pathway to the sealab literacy starting at tk and continuing through eighth grade currently our district evaluates our adelante academy students towards the pathway in 5th and 8th grades and those students will be honored today so in front of you you see the list of the honorees and i want to recognize them individually so we will start with 8th grade our first recipient of the pathway to the syllabi literacy is guadalupe regis aileen santos jovan seragano moreno enrique hernandez juarez ophelia mares andrea padilla diego escobar victoria fierro paredes anais frias barajas miriam guzman and now honoring our fifth grade students that achieve the pathway we have christian marine camilla martinez polanco liliana we are very proud of their accompli accomplishments wonderful job adelante students all right um any comments from members of the public mr board president i see no requests for public comment on this item all right i'll call you as i see you board member uh thank you um i just want to say congratulations to each and every one of the students their parents um and also the teachers you know that supported um each and every one of those students to get there as a spanish major myself you know i know um it's it's uh you you know one thing is to learn spanish and grow up in spanish and be born and speak at home another thing is to keep up with that you know at school and be able to pass these tests which are not easy and so i'm just wanting just really want to highlight um their efforts and their work um you know the students and the support that they're getting um from home and and the teachers um and keep you know keep it up keep spanish going um you know you as you all know um you will be able to you know help help the world you know many places other than even uh the americas speak spanish and so um thank you and uh i look forward to continuing to hear your names the fifth graders when you become eighth graders and then the eighth graders when you go to you know high school and you also have that opportunity to keep that going um and then when you go to you know work wherever you get to go to work right you get to get paid um additionally and so just continuing that and then um you know many many many years later when you have your own children and families that you get to continue to um speak the language and you know teach them um the importance of making sure that uh you know we we keep the language going um and the culture right behind all the um countries that speak that language so thank you and um very proud of you all um as a trustee and keep up the good work and thank you uh mrs gutierrez i haven't been able to you know acknowledge and congratulate you here publicly um on your appointment as a uh uh principal there at the lente thank you so much it's an honor where vice president yes uh so first i i too would like to extend my congratulations to uh principal gutierrez on her appointment to to analogy but you know well done i think that you know it goes to show that uh you know our adelante program is second to to none in regards to uh the spanish dual emergent programs so i want to uh thank uh you know uh a little bit of an anecdote you know on i believe uh prior just prior to memorial day weekend it was my uh immersion program theme for school vid school visits and i think that was the day we uh dr bauer and i got to see if one of the fifth graders practicing for their uh seal of bi-literacy exam so i'm you know so just as i said then you know i knew she was going to pass the test and she certainly did pass the test so i goes to show uh you know we've got great teachers a great uh great team at uh you know a great team of educators and families at adelante one and two uh congratulations to the fifth grade all all our seal of biliteracy winners uh you know you showed all of us that even in uh very challenging circumstances that you have uh overcome obstacles to succeed and i wish all our uh seal winners uh you know the you know for the fifth graders i hope that uh they will continue to work on their spanish so that they win it at the eighth grade level and to our graduating eighth graders uh you know i hope that they continue to work on it in high school and they can win the seal at the 12th grade level as well as the uh advanced placement exams in spanish language and spanish literature uh you know the sky is the limit so uh again uh thank you to this thank you to the adelante one in adelante schools and congratulations our winners all right for the comments members of the board all right if there's none then i'll go ahead and wrap up with my comments um congratulations i know that it's a very very rigorous test and that um the process is from one when i was uh hearing about it and observing it it reminded me of the ap uh the ap um advanced placement test that i took in spanish in high school and so i was like wow you know it's pretty heavy-duty stuff for kids that are in in middle school um so it's great to see that we have so many kids on their way towards us so um to the violent person and so uh congratulations on your appointment to principal and i have to work uh looking forward to seeing the great what they're going to do there that you're already doing but to continue the work um if there's no further comments from my colleagues that will go ahead and move forward this is uh for information oh you know what and i i'm not sure if i called public comment if i didn't uh let me know yes okay may i add one more thing please yeah definitely yes um i have not recognized the teachers and i really want to take the time to thank the teachers and the parents this is such a community effort it really does take a village so it's uh thank you parents thank you students for your hard work and our other teachers are amazing so thank you so much all right moving on to item 6.06 review and approve the 2022-2023 i'll cap 2021 2022 i'll cap annual updates and the 2022 2023 budget overview for parents and the el capitan um motion looks like we all right we have a motion by board member travis about a second a second by our board clerk do you have a public comment no request for public comment on this item mr board president all right um do we have further comments from members of the board um and uh all right i'm assuming that there is a presentation that goes along with this item not have a presentation this evening just like the budget we uh presented our presentation at the june 9th board meeting and so i've just been checking in with the county office of ed back and forth making some little minor adjustments here and there but it is now ready to be approved and approvable by the county office of vet as well gotcha all right well since there's no further comments from my colleagues i'll go ahead and call them as i see them or remember chavez hi uh board vice president bomb aye foreign uh we got the i'll cap um [Music] plan for uh for aptitude for information only okay all right then um if there's no is there any public comment what's that no request for public comment at this time mr board president all right um 6.08 progress of local performance indicators this is for information only do we have any public comment on that item no public comment at this time for that all right see none then dr bauer do we have uh any uh presentation on this item yes all right i'm assuming sandra's the floor is yours yes thank you okay good evening board president quintero doctor superintendent dr bauer members of the board public um i am here this evening and uh barbara campbell will be co-presenting with me i think she's been maribel can you make sure that barbara is if not i'll go ahead and do it um we tag team on this one there's some local indicators that are under her jurisdiction and some that uh i support and norma flores is also here to answer any questions um related to um some portions of the the um presentation so um as part of the lcap development we're required every year to measure progress on local indicators it's just another data point that we use to um develop the lcat so um we are to report the results as part of the non-consent item um at the same time that we bring the lcap for adoption which is in june um the second part to this is reporting the results on the dashboard the california dashboard in november so you all know this we have state indicators and we have local indicators the state indicators are given to us by uh the cde and those results like for sbac results and attendance and chronic absenteeism those are all provided to us by the state because those are all held in their their database based on information we provide to them this evening is about the local indicators and those are data based on what we collect locally so this is just a side by side of which each of them include so the state indicators include the academic indicators the suspension rate indicator english learner and indicator chronic absenteeism rate and then the local indicators are those that are basic service services and condition of learning which is priority one implementation of state academic standards which is priority two parent engagement which is priority three school climate priority six and broad course of study which is priority seven and that's what this presentation is based on tonight this is just a sample of the dashboard and you can find ours on this this website um california school dashboard.org and this is what it'll look like uh very quickly i just want to remind you that the dashboard in the past few years um we have not been able to update um information on that are related to uh student test scores due to the fact that we hadn't given the test in two years so we're this spring we were able to um give the s back one more time so next time that we present our information onto the dashboard we will have information again on student achievement this is just some information as a reminder of what happened during the pandemic when we had to pause and the state had waivers for pausing all of the reporting on the dashboard so we will resume again with what is expected to be placed on the dashboard um starting in november so local um indicator district performance this is state priority one and this is basic services this is basically um the the items that are also included in the williams settlement requirements um and we have to um report on what how well we're doing in this area and so there are three different sections and the first is has to do with teachers and their assignments and so this year we had two teacher miss assignments when it came to english learners we had three total teacher miss assignments district wide and then we had to start the year we had 18 vacant teacher positions which were worked on throughout the year but these are the numbers that are reported at the beginning of the year we had zero students that did not have access to their own copies of standard online instructional materials every student had access to that and then we had when it comes to the fit reports um the facilities um oops i'm sorry facilities reports for each site there were 10 instances of that different schools didn't meet good repair and there are a variety of areas that are measured in this so 10 district wide state priority 2 um is barbra's is barbara on i'm here yep absolutely turn it over to you thank you so state priority 2 is really tied to the implementation of academic standards uh and it really reflects on the teaching curriculum the curriculum we provide professional development some of those areas in order to prepare our teachers and what we've done over the last various years is i surveyed teachers we send them out and they have to rate and and this is a self reflection rating scale that the state gives us so as you can see the teachers are to degraded exploration beginning development initial implementation full implementation or if we are in full implementation and sustaining so as you can if you want to go and this this year every year i have a different if you can go back one every year i have a different level of response from teachers um from anywhere from 200 to 50 to 75 every year just it just depends on where everybody is at that moment in responding so state priority two though if you look and see the first the the first square talks about how we are providing professional development around the common core state standards and the frameworks if you see a star next to a number that indicates that the rating went up this year so as you can see they feel like ela eld and math are we're pretty um we're we're pretty um in full implementation and ngss which is our science um is a two and our history and social science is uh two also the second part is do we have instructional materials that are aligned to common core and are they available for them doing their teaching and classroom and as you can see they all feel ela eld and math is there science is there and again history and social sciences has gone up this year from last year the last part the number three is around identifying areas that we can improve in delivering instruction and providing you know collaboration time teacher pairing things that help the teachers teach better and support and us supporting staff and as you can see ngss and history have a two and three because those pretty much were even we had a same number of people that gave it a two and the same number of people that gave it a three so we we did get twos last year across the board we did get some threes this year on that area so really looking at what kind of support we're giving them strategically on being able to implement the standards curriculum next slide please save priority 2 also includes implementing the progress in implementing academic standards in some additional areas that have been brought in from the state career technical education health ed physical education visual arts world language we got ones on these um visual art visual and performing arts went down from last year so did physical education and showed a career technical education um not sure really why but i think um you know it was a very tough year for everybody we did continue to provide the same levels of support and the same level of tools especially especially in visual performing arts we had a lot more outside agencies that provided trainings and providing lessons for students um so but again this is just honoring what our teachers felt the last one is the success in engaging the following activities for teachers and administrators so identifying professional learning needs for for teachers and staff identifying the needs for individual teachers and then providing support for teachers that haven't yet mastered it and that we um got twos and ones on that area one of the things and one of the things that um we did talk about we did is that i did ask teachers are there additional things that there was just kind of one open-ended question and it was you know what are some additional things that they need and a lot of them were coaching for edtech obviously that's still tied to having to do a lot more technical uh teaching a lot of online teaching uh providing opportunities for students to do more things on technology so teachers we're feeling that we need to um do a bit more of that and that is something that we are putting in place this year with the support of jackie montejano here in academic services around really looking at how can we better support not just our teachers on using technology but our students and also our parents in order to support their own students in the work they're doing next slide sandra oh this is mine this is state priority three and this um this priority measures our progress in um parent engagement so when it comes to parent engagement there are two um there are several things to look at when we give ourselves the self rating the first are the results from the panorama survey uh and the second are um the results from the self assessment tool that is provided to us by the state so this is the the piece from the panorama survey these come straight from the survey and um we pull out the pieces that do deal with parent engagement and this is what parents um reported on the the spring pan around the survey in terms of strong sense of belonging 95 feeling connected 95 welcome to participate in school 93 staff treats them with respect and then the staff welcomes their suggestions 94 this is the um the rating tool that is provided to us by um the california department of ed um as a way to look at three areas the first area um in parent engagement is building relationships and what um what i've done is um look i've taken this to the advisory groups and we also built it into our lcap forums this year into the input sessions and asked these three specific questions you know how are we doing in our district on building relationships and then the following two and then also what are some of the examples what are some of the things we are doing really well what are some of the things we still need to work on and so um you know some of the things we're doing well are you know copies with the principal workshops with the community liaisons for parents the parent score app is talked about favorably by a lot of parents the district website and that we have welcoming and friendly staff um one of the topics that um was brought up by various parents in different groups this year was was the whole um multicultural and and just um have this sense of uh the need for us to really expand on the opportunities for students to learn about various cultures and so these are just some of the examples that were mentioned but um it was brought up by by several parents and so that i thought it was important to add to this um slide and also the need for more communication besides parents were some parents um feel that there are parents that are still being left out of communication because they are not on the app they they don't have phones that can support the app and that some parents are just resistant to it and still need other forms of communication between home and school the second area in this tool is the building partnerships for student outcomes and this is around the partnership piece you know do we provide professional learning to our staff on you know the their capacity to partner with parents do we provide families with information and resources to support student learning and development and then the implementing policies and programs to discuss student progress and then supporting families to understand and exercise their legal rights and advocate for their students and there were a lot of really favorable comments in general parents are very appreciative of everything we do you know the parent university the the workshops we provide the interpretation services again the parent square app but searching for a little more in terms of really guiding parents like on how to understand their legal rights and how to advocate for their students doing more on that and possibly expanding the parent university and providing many workshops throughout the year because you know a lot we're mentioning that you know it's a great event and they get a lot of it out that day but throughout the year they would like to have similar types of workshops that respond to some of these needs and then the last section is the seeking input for decision making and this has to do with building capacity of staff and family members to be part of the the whole decision making process and then also again the policies and programs and implementing stretch to reach and seek input from underrepresented groups and the whole working together like having groups um involving the different stakeholders in the community to come together and really design and implement uh family engagement activities um so um many parents i mean again parents are very um appreciative of everything we do in terms of providing leadership training providing opportunity for them to be involved bringing them to the table and one of them comments or several comments were that there's inconsistencies between schools and um how well it's done there so there are some schools that are really um do a really good job of getting their parents involved and other schools just need some work so just just a comment that um brought our rating down a little bit so that was the parent engagement piece this uh priority six is school climate and uh where the requirement is to give a local climate survey at least every other year we give the survey every year twice a year so we definitely meet this requirement and here are some of the results from that survey and this all this information is information i have shared before but just putting it in this slide is part of the priority presentation so in terms of school safety and connectedness when it comes to parents um 91 of parents believe that schools are safe 94 believe their child feels welcomed by school staff and then 95 percent have a fair feel a sense of belonging in our district and then when it comes to uh school safety and connectedness for our um our students um i broke it down between elementary and middle and its students feel that schools are safe a strong teacher-student relationship feeling a strong sense of belonging and positive school climate thank you barbara i'll turn it back thank you so the last state priority that we report on in the local indicators is the broad course of study and this is really tied to our do our students have access to a variety of course courses that are um that they should have access to next slide please so this really just kind of gives you a general idea around our first through sixth grade and then our seventh and eighth grade so looking to see what what our students have access to uh in the standard classroom and some of our middle school classes so looking again what i did is i look to see what for example in our middle schools what are some of the additional because a lot of our middle schools provide electives some electives so looking at the visual performing arts some have career technical education classes like mesa um and then what are some of those pieces in elementary that they have so a lot of teachers tie in health to the physical education so it just kind of gives you a broad idea of the core courses that we have to have next slide so what it talks about also and this is again this these two questions are tied to this the survey that we gave the teachers one is what do they think are the barriers um from that are preventing us and providing a broad course one one thing that i did see continuously is just really honing in on our differentiation strategies that our teachers know how to use in order to make sure that our students at all language levels or all levels have access to the curriculum in the class it's not additional classes it's how to how we're presenting the curriculum so we had a lot of people wanting more support on differentiation techniques the need for a health program that is something that's come up the state does not have one yet and i know that is one of those ones that they are looking on coming up with an adoption of a framework and that is something that people feel need that is a need technology problems and then they're saying that books are computer access at home and they were talking about books to read at home so um that is one of the areas they thought was a barrier some revisions and decisions based on what the feedback that we received is that we're building out additional electives where possible we are creating master schedules that have more focus on providing access for electives for all our students so we're having providing opportunities for our students with disability to be able to be mainstreamed and participate in the elective classes we're providing um we have one of our educational platforms have a has a full college and career exploration models modules that our teachers can use to to do some college and career planning and exploration with their students there was quite a few teachers talking about wanting to have a universal design learning it's a technique that's out there that's very focused on differentiation and how you present um to your students for them to have a better access to the curriculum a lot of the items that they had told us that they thought we needed to do fortunately for us got included in our educator effectiveness grant at the begin when we that we adopted in the middle of this year so we kind of had already listened to them a bit and also just looking at providing using this information to plan our beginning of the year professional development that we have going on starting august 1st through august 9th and that's really a lot of them around the curricular basis the curricular uh instructional pieces and then planning forward on providing learning opportunities for teachers to come together and collaborate and learn from that so this information has helped guide the work that we're planning moving forward next slide please so just to kind of wrap it up that our next step is to take all of this information and upload it on our dashboard in november and then the public release of the dashboard is in december of this year all right um any any question any uh questions from my colleagues comments thank you i apologize i'm i'm not going to risk turning my camera on the rest of the night because it gets like unstable so i'm doing you a favor you you just have to see a picture you don't have to see me but um so the couple questions as always first of all thank you uh for the report and so um number one how do we know or do you recollect how many teachers responded last year because this this year i think we got the number was 50.

five minutes okay [Music] just giving us a 754 since that's what i stated before we left give me a second all right i see our colleague right here she's going back so give us a second all right uh moving back to another we're all back let's move back to item 7.01 where we were in the middle vote correct and uh i'm gonna go ahead and call you as i see you board member hi uh board member travis hi board member hi board member hi all right i'm going up to 7.02 approve new position and job description occupational therapist move to approve motion by border rights president phones second second by board member travis uh do you have public comment on this item no public comment on this item mr ward president okay um so there's no further comments for our colleagues and i'll go ahead and call you guys as i see you or remember hi board member you're like really i can't hear you [Music] and something's up with that like but i can i get it yeah i see the thumbs up so motion passes unanimously um 7.03 appropriate position job description for behavior intervention supervisor you have a motion motion uh motion by board member chavez second second second by board right president have any public comment on this item those should you speak please do so by indicate by raising your hand no public comment on this item is for prison all right so you know uh public comment and i'm gonna go ahead and call you as i see you as there's no further comments from members of the board member chavez hi um there's a resignations item please uh reviewed it at your leisure for information only uh is there any public comment on this item no public comment on this item support prisoner all right um we're going to go ahead and move on to the endpoint 8.01 so i have a motion for an approval of the item 8.01 move to approve is there a second second uh there's a motion a second is any public comment no request for public comment see that there's no public comment uh if there's no further comments or questions from my colleagues i'll call you as i see you board member but i don't know hi uh board member travis hi or clerk hi and board by senator bob hi i saw 49 motion pass unanimously do you have a motion for item 8.02 motion second motion by board member child ii by board vice president job public comments those wish to speak please indicate by raising your hand see no request for a public comment of this item um all right 8.0 um all right if there's no comments from my colleagues now call you as i see your board member chavez hi you have your hand up still sorry oh more member hi uh hi where was president i myself 49 motion passed unanimously adam 8.03 do you have a motion uh motion i have motion by war western i found out a second second there being a motion in a second is there any public comments no public comment on this item mr board president all right see no public comment then i'll go ahead and call you as i see you if there's no further questions or comments my colleagues remember but i don't know i i'm bored uh war member travis uh item 9.01 do i have an equal proof motion to approve one second second by board member chavez is there any public comments no request for public comment on this all right so you know public comment and i'll go ahead and call you as i see you board member aye remember travis aye clerk aye vice president the entire balance of the consent calendar items 10.01 through 06.

they were primarily concerned about reliability they were being hit by a lot of hurricanes and their power was being knocked out and they were being left in the dark for weeks because typically the power utility would uh prioritize the coast so they municipalized their energy utility and they aggressively started to underground their wires they're on track to get to a hundred percent of their wires undergrounded at the time of the presentation last year that they were at about 84 um and they did this well paying off the debt on the infrastructure right so they were able to uh pay off the debt of acquiring all the infrastructure and has excess revenue that was able to go back into infrastructure investments in jefferson county washington in 2008 and i think that this is probably one of the more impressive ones uh voted to uh establish the municipal electric utility they negotiated with their utility for two years and they were eventually agreed to a 103 million dollar buyout and then they were able to get to a 97 carbon free electricity mix which is one of the cleanest in the country hopefully soon to be beaten by ann arbor though at 100 uh and finally and i think that this one might be surprising to some people boulder colorado a lot of people think of boulder colorado as the boogeyman of municipalization right boulder colorado fought a very hard battle for about 10 years during their municipalization fight and they eventually ended up settling and not going through with municipalization but that settlement came with some significant benefits of them uh an assurance of an 80 statewide greenhouse gas reductions by 2030.

referred children to harmful websites materials or outside entities may also specifically refer children to planned parenthood or affiliates or partners for their lucrative services or commodities examples are sexual counseling condoms contraceptives gender hormones sti testing treatment and abortions etc i continue to urge you to reject the 2022 sex education standards for september garwood jackson montague and many towns are more to come to reject the standards it is a iologic ideological not educational along with race-based gender fluid curriculum it is indoctrinating our children and misleading them by graphic sexual material this past saturday i was out in the community i wound up speaking to an arabic gentleman about this issue and he said he and his wife are appalled about these new sex education standards and i asked him why will you not speak forward what about your community his response to me was because i will be called racist and i will be blacklisted so there is such a fear today in our community and in the united states that people are not speaking up because when they do they get knocked down and they get called names and it's really out of control and we as a community need to speak up and there are people on this board that i know do not agree with these standards and i wish they would take a stand within themselves and their community to come against this because this is not appropriate for our youth thank you [Applause] good evening samantha basford i'm coming to you today not as judy basford's daughter but a clifton alumni and a citizen of clifton what is pride and why do we celebrate it lesbian gay bisexual and transgender pride month is celebrated annually in june to honor the 1969 stalwa stonewall riots and to work to achieve justice and equality up in equal opportunity for lesbian gay bisexual transgender and questioning americans now i need some audience participation in this and i hope people feel comfortable especially the young people raise your hand if you know someone who is lgbtq in this in this room raise your hand if it's someone who's close to you someone you know raise your hand if you know someone who has been bullied because of their sexual identity and their gender orientation exactly so why do we make why is pride important visibility is crucial to fighting shame and social stigma marching in the face of threats and violence pride events inspire celebrations of difference and show that lgbtq plus communities will not be intimidated and will continue demand equality that is why there is a resolution about pride in celebrating if you notice the hands in this room many of them young high school students when i was in high school maybe there was two to three people who were out openly but they couldn't be when i was in high school in 2008 because they were bullied somebody might have faced physical harm and now you see students who are in this audience and even adults who you may or may not be a part of the community who feel this shame and the embarrassment of even having to hear these comments at the board meetings of what sex education is going to turn someone into being queer that's not how this works you don't choose to be hated you don't choose to be bullied you don't choose to have a threat to you because you walk into a restaurant and you want to sit down with your loved one but you cannot that is why we celebrate pride and as a cis woman which if you don't know what that is that's probably part of the problem because you're not educated enough to understand what i am saying to you educate yourself don't be ignorant because yes we may be scared of what teachings can do but it's really what is in your household and the hate that is actually coming more forward than it is protection thank you [Applause] well good evening my name is lori lallam and i'm the president of the cea before i start i want to thank the board that showed up for the dinner that was very kind thank you again we had a good time more than two years ago clifton public schools along with the remainder of the world experience an unparalleled change during the covet 19 pandemic amid the many adjustments to our lives our schools shifted from in-person to virtual learning amid so many social distancing guidelines that changed every day when you decide to work in clifton public schools you couldn't have predicted on pending your years of training to figure out how to reinvent the specific practices that you've adopted and honored the transition was unexpected uncertain and unfamiliar turning to a new virtual environment menu had to contemplate and learn instantaneously and you did this with elegance courage and resolve within a couple of days you revised your job expectations to new platforms and technology tools that you beforehand had no knowledge of using you reached out to your friends and colleagues for guidance and support as well as foreign personal networks within the school community to make sure our students and their families felt understood and supported but your hard work and perseverance made solid contributions to clifton public schools through late evenings reinvent what our district should look like we have passed the largest referendum in new jersey we have received the sr-12 and three funds which are the arp which has provided many improvements to our district we still have work to do we need to understand the acculturation and the assimilation of this community look at our similarities and respect our differences connections and networking are important but it must be done through collaboration negativity tearing down one another hinders the betterment of such a wonderfully diversified district as a school community we have so much to be thankful for coming out of a pandemic we had pillars and committees and voices were heard which made such a horrible situation seem more tolerable to get through for all of these reasons and more i want to thank you the clifton public school community for going above your call of duty thank you for creating as much as possible the environment of safety and regularity during these past two and a half years thank you for communicating with the staff the kids and their families beyond your normal working hours thank you for your selflessness empathy patience and perseverance in addition congratulations to the class of 2022 as denzel washington said dreams without goals are just dreams they fuel disappointment you only live once so do what you feel passionate about it take chances enjoy your summer thank you very much [Applause] anyone else wish to address the board uh motion by mr abedrabo second by mr awad okay next we have um some great presentations to our senior students of the month so if we start with miss bassford and then we can just work our way around good evening this award goes to senior jada rivera jada rivera has participated in many extracurricular activities at chs including pre-med club heroes and cool kids national honor society and yearbook jada also volunteers at the clifton animal shelter her teacher mr giordano has been the most influential because she has challenged her academically but is also supportive and encouraging jada's role model is her mother because of her strength and guidance jada is a jada will be attending valley university for biology with plans to become a pediatric orthopedic surgeon so this award goes to jada rivera is jada here [Applause] no jayden not here okay we'll get that to uh thank you thank you mr paris yes i'm presenting to jaylee borcello jaylee burcello's favorite class while at chs was cast with mr mcconney and when she attends the university of new hampshire in the fall she plans to study communications jaylee enjoyed being an intern for mr mcconney this past school year and credits him as being her most influential teacher because he ensures his students are successful inside and outside of his classroom additionally jaylee's parents have been very supportive and a big influence in her life by showing her how to become a better person jaylee is motivated hardworking and respectful student who is not only successful academically but also extremely involved in extracurricular activities both inside and outside of school congratulations jaylee jaylee here no okay we'll get that to jaylee mr canova uh next up we have senior michael corpus michael corpus would like to thank his parents for teaching him the values of hard work and inspiring him and his siblings to be the best they can be michael's favorite subject is math because he likes how he can apply what he's learned to the real world and also has motivated him to study accounting at montclair state university this fall michael's favorite teacher at ces may have may have been mr lester and mr orlando because he learned critical thinking and respect for people's opinions is michael he turned here tonight congratulations michael we'll get that too okay tonight i have the honor of reading about kevin arroyo moreno kevin royal mourinho is a member of the boys cross country team indoor and outdoor track team and has earned multiple all league and all county awards kevin has also served his community and volunteers his time at the keystone program at the boys and girls club kevin thanks his older brother for being a positive influence in his life and also acknowledges miss fabricant for all her support uh kevin will be attending pccc next year and then plans on transferring to a university kevin aspires to be professional bodybuilder is kevin here [Applause] please thank you congratulations [Applause] so okay next we have a uh special presentation um recognition an award presented from the women's club of allwood scholarship dr robertosi thank you mr president is miss fran powers here tonight ms powers would you mind coming up to the microphone as the board may remember at our last meeting um we had one of our wonderful clifton parents come up and she was very upset that her daughter wasn't recognized at this local scholarship night so we wanted to uh we found out what happened and uh you know we apologized and we reached out to miss powers and miss powers uh is here tonight to give um the recognition that uh emily deserved in the first place so miss powers i'm going to turn it over to you to present the all wood uh scholarship well i'll look at you but um this old women's club is 90 years old not me but and every year we we'd have fundraisers and different ways to bring in money and we give it away we support the school system we support people in need saint peter's haven there's a lot that we do and it was brought upon me to give these awards out that we give every year uh scholarships for various things uh only uh emily is one that that i miss them all because of a family matter i could not make it so i wanted to give this to emily now oh along with a check because she was chosen for us by the counselors at clifton high school um i can read this and i think i'll do that dear emily ciao silagi you received three hundred dollars from the women's club of olwen scholarship from allwood based on your academic achievements your gender and residential neighborhood you should be proud of receiving the scholarship or award show that you appreciate having your achievements acknowledged by sending a letter of thanks that's to us uh we wish you the best of luck um emily's going to keen university in september and this is uh book money or money for her to uh to use whichever way she is her education is she here yes you please come up [Applause] thank you so much i got to see and hug them all i tell them all i'm sicilian i hug i don't think emily but i missed it all except please oh yes i'm just representing the home thank you so much i'm so glad to have the opportunity to do this because you know this is it this is my only chance i haven't seen the other ones they just got the checks it was also nice meeting you thank you thank you thank you just stand right up there i'll take a picture with all yes go ahead watch your step yep watch your step mom you too good mom pictures will be on our social media so you can grab them thank you congratulations [Applause] okay next we're going to have um recognition and award presentation to the clifton high school unified club mr gengaro if you'd like please um mark we're struggling with this here it's not loading mark it's not loading sorry i can't get it i can't get the browser to open it's shared with me the certificate is not letting me open any browsers i don't know what's wrong with the machine it's something that eric has to troubleshoot okay why don't we just uh we'll just read them again thank you ladies and gentlemen the board of education our commissioners of course our superintendent and on behalf of coach carla rodriguez who could not be with us this evening as she is with her friends families and colleagues celebrating her retirement but knowing carla i would venture to guess that at some point in fact multiple times this evening as she's celebrating the successful career that she has had her heart and her thoughts are with us this evening as we honor and recognize our student athletes so i was for the opportunity and privilege to read this on her behalf on the weekend of june 10th through june 12 2022 the special olympics new jersey was finally able to resume summer games competition at the college of new jersey where athletes from all over the state come to socialize celebrate and compete over the course of the entire weekend summer games provide many of the athletes with independence confidence and the opportunity to build lifelong friendships this is just not a sporting event but a coming together of friends and family filled with endless smiles laughter and memories for the past nine years i carlo rodriguez has had the opportunity to coach and mentor many of these young athletes from grade six and up through high school and even a few into college when i began this program back in 2013 i could never have imagined how being part of special olympic play unify would change my life for the better this program has not only become an important part of the lives of so many of clifton students and families but has nestled itself in the hearts of the coaches and the coach in the clifton athletes the following clifton high special olympic athletes lorenzo ahmadi leila carrasquillo jason hinton and david mondina as well as former clifton students alexa petty and michael shimabukuro competed in track and field events renzo ahmadi won a gold medal in the men's shot putt leila carrasquillo won a silver medal in the women's 400 meter dash and fourth place in the standing long jump jason hinton won a gold medal in the men's shot put with a throw of over eight meters and fifth place in the men's 200 meter dash david mondia won a silver medal in the men's shotput alexa petty won a gold medal in the woman's 400 meter and the silver medal in the woman's 800 meter in a rainy downpour and michael had an incredible performance a gold medal in the men's 200-meter dash leaving competitors in the dust and the men's running long jump he almost jumped clear out of the pit it is clear that our athletes are not just excelling in their respective sports but their social skills as we the coaches and families watch them congratulate and encourage their fellow competitors if you saw the pictures you would see that this program culminating in summer games builds confidence teamwork and truly brings out the best in all of those who are lucky enough to be there i could speak endlessly about the lessons that i have learned and the moments that have moved me to happy tears the sport activities have led to a community for not just the athletes but the athletes families and all of the coaches there are so much more to this initiative that competitions and shiny clinking medals if i could leave you with one thing i would say get involved and be ready to be motivated and amazed so on behalf of the board of education coach rodriguez and the entire one clifton learning community we would like to celebrate honor and recognize the student athletes with these certificates when i call your name please kindly come to the stage and remain here until all athletes are called up i'd also invite our our superintendent and board of ed commissioners to come forward too for everybody come on should hand it to them we just got the thumbs up from renzo so we are ready our first student athlete laila carrasquillo [Applause] david mondial [Applause] congratulations [Applause] jason hinton some of our student athletes are actually celebrating with coach rodriguez at her retirement party and last but certainly not least the man the myth the legend lorenzo ahmadi [Applause] you want families in the picture you want parents you want to go in the picture thank you [Applause] it's a good thing i checked yep there we go thank you and as our commissioners are making their way back to our seats and before we turn the board of education meeting over to president smith uh one of our recognized student athletes would like to say a few words for coach rodriguez it's all yours [Music] my name is laila cara i am a student at clifton high school and i have been in clifton's autism program since kindergarten i love school and my school community my teachers and coaches are like family to me today i want to say that even though i am so happy to be here i am so sad that my coach mr rodriguez is retiring mrs rodriguez is one of the best in education that clifton has to offer she has been michael since 2016.

end time was 5 27 items of discussion end of the year deposits mr uchi represent presented the tenant event new year's surplus that will need to be designated to reserve accounts prior to june 30th the actual number numbers will be calculated until after they it won't be calculated until after the audit of the fiscal year 21 22. anticipated additional revenues of approximately 430 thousand dollars because of the state finally released the alyssa law security grant reimbursement the district was approved for in prior years anticipated additional surplus in the appropriations of approximately 860 thousand dollars it was noted this is lower than previous budgets administration explained the following reasons as to why there was more spending this year hiring of staff new positions powers etc larger than anticipated retro from prior year significant increases in transportation routes specifically private schools special educational routes various maintenance projects including emergency projects boardroom renovation potential increase in extraordinary aid of 1.35 million recommendation by the administration and committee to maintain the 4 maximum fund balance and deposit all other available surplus into the cap reserve account current reserve accounts fund balance was seven million one hundred and forty thousand sixty eight dollars the maintenance reserve is seven hundred and seventy four thousand eight hundred and fifty nine thousand the capital reserve is now four million to seven hundred ninety five thousand three hundred and two this includes banfield tennis courts renovations school 14 parking lot expansion and chs hallway led renovations referendum bid one the winning contractor was paul auto building the bid amount was 23 million 233 thousand bid one a school six boiler awarded to united plumbing the bid amount was 280 thousand dollars st cathy's st john canty rates a 10-year lease one year would be 373 thousand 198.

do we know how many responded last year ballpark if anything i am going to i'm going to say last year we had about 90 teachers respond okay um so roughly of yeah half ish dean and do you know when this when did the survey go out when it went out in the springtime because again we had to kind of time it around the time that we were working on the elk cap so it went out around i think march okay march april yeah okay so um i don't know i guess and your and your expertise and your opinion for that particular part of the information given that roughly half of the resp that's half of the response as last year is how how much validity do you take or or what how do i ask this question in trying to compare last year to this year just in terms of the response rate is it can we as board members um you know assume that it's fairly accurate or would you say that based on the response rate maybe it may have diluted the accuracy of that comparison um i think i do think that the response weight was was pretty low um remember this was you know after january and february which were a very tough month for our teachers and our staff and everything with the pandemic the the the resurgence of of covid and people just at the stress level i mean i think it was um i think it would we had we done it at a different time if we had had the opportunity to do it later if we probably would have getting a lot more responses it was i might personally feel okay so is it is it's not necessarily then um administered like in a regular manner every year it's kind of based on the environment of the everything going on at that time yes and we used to be we used to be we used to do it in the fall but just last year was the first year that the state changed it to where we have to do this piece during the adoption of the loc of the lcap so that changes uh you know changes i think everybody i think everybody responds differently depending on what's happening and in their lives and their worlds at that moment okay um thank you for that and then i might have missed this do we know how many parents were surveyed i think i saw the students i don't know if i saw the parents yeah i did it was in there let me give you the correct number i must have missed it 1 567 parents and that was less than last year um the students and staff that responded were actually more than last year um but this year has been a tough year for getting parents to respond to surveys um so that'll be a goal next year is to get that number back up okay and then the last couple of questions thank you for that um so the the information all the data that you're using to pull from um how does that come to you i think you presented on this a while back about the the platforms that we use and how the reporting looks but i i don't quite recall is it like in the spreadsheet format or do you need to have access to the platform to see the full data set or how how does it come to you so are you talking about the results yes the results of the all these different surveys the results are are on a platform panorama they have their own platform and um the results are generated there and then there are several reports that we can pull um from that platform to um to analyze um and so there's reports for the teacher survey there are i mean the staff survey there are reports for the parent survey and for the student survey there are reports um for schools every school has their own report that they can also look at and analyze um so it is actually very informative so i wonder and this might be a question for dr bauer i'm just wondering um for you know sometimes i'm kind of a little bit of a data nerd or i enjoy looking at that kind of stuff and so in order for the board to have access to the full data when we get these results um would it be something as easy as sending us like a spreadsheet version of the results or whatever kind of report i don't know if they allow you to export it into some kind of format but i particularly would be interested just as you talked about miss garcia and in those different areas parents teachers and students and also at the site level those would be interesting for me to look at and would inform me a little bit um i think so i guess the question is what would be the best way for the board to have access to the full data set or the results we can send i can i can work with sandra to see to send the raw data okay awesome okay well thank you both once again um and yes that's it thank you and i just wanted to uh share with everybody that once i like i always do when i share with one of the trustees the rest of you are gonna get the copy soft copy please remember travis um in the so i noticed that they had technology so thank you sandra and barbara for the presentation and all the work um what measures will the district be taking to improve the technology for the students like for example this week in our area the internet was off and on um is this a conversation that i should ask offline or is there something new that the i.t department is going to try or should i address this question to dr bauer yeah i i will follow up with you specifically about technology travis this one if you notice it's very focused on school climate it's very focused on kind of the feelings of our audience right in terms of our schools in general so access to technology specifically you and i can have that conversation and i will definitely share that with the rest of the boards um we are just so that you know and so that the public knows we're standing in a very good way right now every we have a a device per every student in the district uh at connectivity we are in a very good place as well sometimes what we cannot control it's kind of like what you were experiencing it earlier on right and during our one-on-one when you said you know my the internet in my house is not working uh trustee vegeta shared that with me the same day so those are things that are not something that the district can control because those are uh provider issues but in terms of access and and providing um these kinds of resources for our students and our families we're very um proud that we are able to to support our families and our students on that further questions comments all right i'll wrap up with my comments i just want to thank you for the work uh that goes into these reports i know that um getting the attention of people while so many things are going on it's very difficult and i appreciate the work that's been done you know that was like parents although the number is less than last year it's still a significant number um if we were to add completely randomness to that it would be way over what was necessary to get a validity or uh within like three percent margin of error uh so you know it's it's a big chunk of the people and um i'm very appreciative of the information that we're getting because i know that it it it's given us a clear picture um all right thank you very much uh we're gonna go ahead and move on china 7.01 i just wanted to say one more thing so i know that we are all hopeful for the end of the pandemic but i am very hopeful for the end of the plan democrat which is something that my colleagues are calling it we have written so many plans this past two years it's like can we please be done with all these plans but i just thought it would end with a joke that no child left behind me thank you all right um 7.01 uh approved classifies those two pay rates do we have a motion for that item motion to approve motion by vice president bomb do i have a second have a second for our subject okay all right uh by vice president found second by board do we have public comments no public comment in the senate mr board president all right um there's no further comments from my colleagues and i'll go ahead and call you to see you board vice president fun aye board member she excused herself for a little bit all right um you know how long maybe we could just wait i don't want to move along with that the substitutes are very important to our district and we have uh should have everybody's input on this item i think she went to the ladies room trustee you know what i'll go ahead and call for a break because i've been meeting to take a bio break so we'll be back at uh 54.

second posted by board number four worldwide for their function second by board member travis do we have public comment on consent calendar no request for public comment on the consent calendar mr board president all right there be no public comment and i'll go ahead and call you to see you unless you're further comments or questions to my colleagues seeing none then uh board member aye board a member of uh trust former chavez aye foreign aye vice president fund i myself 49 motion passes unanimously all right uh moving on to uh item 11.01 will be recess we will recess to close session uh at approximately 8 o'clock and or 802 or shortly thereafter we'll resume after closed session dr bauer do you want to go ahead and announce the items that will be discussed in closed session item uh conference will with legal counsel one potential case 1104 an update and as referenced in the agenda conference with legal counsel existing litigation and 1105 public employee appointment uh title assistant principal all right uh at this point i'll go ahead and call for a public comment anybody wishing to speak on items will be heard in closed session please indicate by raising your hand at this moment we have no requests uh for public comment mr president all right uh there you know yeah could we take a 10 minute recess i'm sure it's uh 803 where we will reconvene and close the session at uh 8 13.

mrs rodriguez introduced me to special olympics and has changed my life mrs rodriguez and special olympics has instilled me a desire to improve to listen and to learn i know when i work hard i succeed especially makes us taught me a lot much more than i can ever say i am afraid that when mrs rodriguez leaves that miss cutler the other best coach in the world his killer will not have help my coaches are special people they believe in me they encourage me they challenge me they accept me and all my teammates the way we are they make me a better person and athlete it takes a special person to be a special olympics coach because the special olympics and the two best coaches in the world my family and i have friends who are like me and i feel accepted i am saying all of this because i don't want to lose my coach and the special olympics too mrs rodriguez who want me and all of my friends in the program to keep going and to never give up representing our families ourselves the best special olympics in new jersey the clifton mustangs i cannot think mrs rodriguez and ms keithler enough they have made me a better person and i prayed that the clifton board education continued the special olympics program so generations of students like me can experience clifton pride my teammates and i love what we do from practices to competition and this is so important to all of us it is a huge part of our lives thank you for your time and for listening [Applause] great job uh to all of you for the wonderful job that you've done all year long with your coaches and for that great great presentation tonight so congratulations to you to your parents and to your coaches for an outstanding season congratulations [Applause] okay next we're going to do the recognition award presentation to imagine math national school excellence award who's doing that one take care very nice good evening commissioners ladies and gentlemen i'm so excited to be here today to introduce one of our highest performing imagine math teams and in order to do that i would like to bring up aaron's muta our supervisor of mathematics k through eight and mr dan savarese from imagine math so that they can do their magic with our amazing school three group thank you good afternoon everyone imagine math is our adaptive program for mathematics that we use in the district for pre-k actually through geometry we have 9 000 active students on the program as we speak i'd like to say that imagine math is like the guided reading for mathematics what it does is it takes a child from where they are and teaches them math on their own level for each individual child and it differentiates for that child based on how they're answering questions or how they're going through the program we have all subgroups of students on the program so special ed esl they're all on the program they're all working at their own level um we have done some truly amazing work this year in all our clifton schools um we're going to talk about school 3 and their national award of excellence but we also have woodrow wilson and school 2 and they are both beacon schools for imagine math to give you an idea of how well the kids did this year they take three benchmarks one levels them and then they take two more throughout the year to gauge their growth on the standards of the state of new jersey and then it adapts the kids started benchmark one at a 21 proficiency rate they ended with a 40 proficiency rate across the district from pre-k through geometry that is huge growth i would like to thank the administrators the teachers the parents and most importantly the students for all their hard work their diligence their buy-in and their support to make this program succeed and help the students learn at this time i'd like to introduce dan savarese who is our rep who's going to tell you a little bit more about what we've done in the district thank you good evening everyone thank you for having me thank you to dr verbertosi for the invite um today was a great day selfishly as a former new jersey teacher and administrator i got to hang out some really cool kids a really great teachers and and spend some time with them at school three and see the great work that the department and ms park has done at the building uh the school of excellence is not something that's given away lightly uh out of the thousands of schools in the country uh there's only 280 schools that have received the award that school three did and it's a combination of innovative use tremendous growth but also engagement um with the platform and as mr voter said it's it's a combination of leveraging a tool to help drive instruction but also that instruction your teachers are providing is top notch so we're really just proud to be a part of it um one of the things i'd like to add is i spoke to the students today selfishly i like to talk to kids whenever i can uh we talked about one of the biggest and uh best things about imagine myth and i know dr robitazi loves his part too is students can donate their points to charity so your students they gain thing points as they're doing the program and they make the conscious choice to say i want to donate these think points to charity so i spoke to your students today and i said your conscious choice to give to charity help clothe students help clothe kids they've helped students combat bullying they've reached out and supported some of our veterans and things like that so all these different charities your students have contributed to last year uh clifton was obviously number one in the state of new jersey in terms of charitable giving and number 21 in the country when uh when we look at a country all in charitable giving imagine math we'll have some updated numbers he's got to found his face because i already he knows i spoiled it for him um as of this year clifton is still number one in jersey but you went from number 21 to number nine in the country in terms of charitable giving for imagine math so that's just it's wonderful it's wonderful and uh you know it's it's it's great to see the students make that choice it's a conscious choice and imagine learning is approaching one million dollars donated to charities on behalf of students in the nation so clifton is a huge part of that uh it was such a great day thank you for letting me be a part of that uh and i just like hanging out with the kids they're cool so this is the time you want to buy ice cream we're all biased for yeah sure sure but uh i'd like to thank this park too for her leadership in her building uh leveraging it engaging everyone with the staff um and the fun thing part was you know the rumor i'm not gonna say who was saying the rumor that i traveled from all the way from texas to be here today i told them i traveled from exit nine on the turnpike to come up and see them today yeah what's that yeah a little bit and if we can have ms park and miss krasinski um and any other school three representatives please come up i'm gonna put up the banner come on step up that way show off the banner so we can have a nice photo op i'll go up there with him in just a minute i would just like to thank each and every one of you who are here tonight and all of our clifton school number three teachers and students for this amazing achievement there you go better better thank you [Applause] so for the um last time as a graduating senior our student representative andrew will give his final and last report andrew [Applause] good evening everyone and for my last report i want to bring up the people who will be giving the next report in september so please tiffany alone come join me i am truly ecstatic to officially introduce the public and board of education the student representatives for the 2022-2023 school year senior representative you already know is tiffany guerrero tiffany has already frequented board of end meetings i've missed uh serving as a junior representative this past year she's also one of very few people to ever serve a position on also the junior student council this year she was the recording secretary that's not something we usually allow but just speaks to how incredible tiffany is she's also a football manager and member of the cheerleading squad very active in our community the junior representative is a new face here lillian shaw [Applause] this coming fall william will also be serving as the treasurer for the clifton student union and as vice president of girls learn international two great organizations at clifton high school she's also a member of the tennis team here's in cool kids key club pre-med club and athletic training club truly congratulations to both these fine students something i want to note as far as records show this is the first time that both student representatives are young women from clifton high school [Applause] and truly as i pass the torch over i wish you nothing but the best as you take on this incredibly important work [Applause] now i have my final words uh before i graduate tomorrow first a huge thank you to president smith dr robertosi all the commissioners of the board principal mr honda and student council association advisor mrs van saters for their unwavering support since i took this position in october i've been amazed and humbled since day one at the level of trust you're willing to place in me however i also want to thank another incredibly important group that's a student's chs without them i would have no position my classmates my friends even the kids i've just seen in the hallways and never spoken to before that point for helping me with my duties though i may have faltered along the way i strive to be vessel for your voices the issues and celebrations i've discussed are not just mine they are all of ours finally i have a call to action not just for tiffany lillian here but for any student that may watch this any point tonight or in years to come you have the most important voice in your education you are the most important thing in the classroom never forget that if you want something changed talk about it talk to your teachers talk to your vice principals talk to your principal come here to advocate for yourself talk to one another as one of my very favorite teachers has said for years organize for power and never give up change is entirely possible as long as you work together communicate and take charge if i've learned anything this year is that you're capable of fixing so many more of the problems in our schools than you realize no topic is too big take them on head first and never step down thank you so very much for your time not just tonight but for every night you've been here since october i truly appreciate it [Applause] mississippi andrew i cannot emphasize enough how enjoyable it was to have you each and every meeting here representing the great students of uh clifton high school um you were right on target on on everything you brought to us you were passionate you were articulate and just a fine young man that i know we're going to be reading a lot of good things about in the future just so everyone knows a little bit about andrew besides his student government he is uh one of the best tuba players in the state of new jersey and has played for uh the mustang band all four years he was here uh and i've just been told he won a spot in the new jersey all-state wind ensemble tuba section [Applause] on top of that those are his extracurricular activities on top of that he kept his studies up and he is in the top 10 percent of his graduating class andrew is attending the eastman school of music in at the university of rochester and um i know you're going to do great things there and i'd just like to present you with this uh plaque of our appreciation uh for your service uh so in appreciation for your dedicated service as student representative on the clifton board of education for the 21 22 school year we extend our sincere congratulations for a job well done and wish to acknowledge your personal and academic excellence as well as your leadership qualities and wish you continued success in your future endeavors the clifton board of education june 23 2022 congratulations andrew there you go thank you so much congratulations get a nice picture of mr smith you want to come up and get a picture great thank you [Applause] and lillian and tiffany welcome and and continue and you know uh you'll do we know you'll do great things because you were taught by uh andrew who does everything so great so thank you okay if we could move on with the business part of the meeting with adoption of our minutes of june second meeting regular meeting so moves to move by mr kanova second by mr abedrabo any discussion or amendments seeing none roll call please mr abadrabo yes mr awad yes miss basford yes miss beltran yes mr conova yes dr um mr paris yes vice president daley yes president smith yes motion carries okay now to uh turn it over to our superintendent for the superintendent's report thank you mr president good evening commissioners members of the public faculty staff i can't believe that the school year is over tomorrow it's our last day of school for students and our high school graduation is tomorrow at 3 p.m at clifton stadium and thank god the weather is looking good a little warm but i'll take warm over thunderstorms any day tomorrow there will be 654 students marching on the field and receiving their diplomas of the class of 2022 21.9 percent of students plan to attend two-year colleges 49.7 percent just under half plan to attend four-year colleges four percent plan to go to trade or technical schools one and a half percent plan to go into the military and another 23 percent are going into the workforce or undecided i think i'm still in that category too i'm not sure what i want to do when i grow up and that's okay because who knows what they want to do with 17 18 years old right i want to publicly congratulate our valedictorian abigail loeb who will be attending harvard in the fall i drove by there one time and our salutatorian uh mariam rukaya who will be attending nyu in the fall i had the opportunity to have breakfast with these two young women a couple weeks ago and to say that i was just impressed is is in complete understatement um just amazing amazing human beings who represent clifton um you know the best of the best uh represent us very well i'd also like to congratulate kyle vellis who was recently named uh for all of passaic county the passaic county coaches association scholar athlete of the year yeah congratulations to kyle kyle kyle was a three sport varsity athlete um and one thousand points a thousand point basketball player was our quarterback and our our point guard on on the basketball court on top of all that i think is i didn't look at the final gpa but i know one point i looked at his gpa it was like 98 something so four years all four years yeah amazing just a great student so congratulations to kyle on that scholar athlete of the year for all of passaic county i also look forward to celebrating with the class of 2022 tomorrow and i'm really excited that tomorrow about 450 students are signed up for project graduation and as you may remember project graduation will be taking place at the american dream mall and it's going to be really a fantastic fantastic night i'm so excited for the kids um i want to address something from earlier tonight i normally don't uh address public comment unless there is something that um really is just a you know easy to answer and something like that but um you know two of our outstanding nurses spoke up tonight and um listen i have a tremendous amount of respect for our nurses tremendous amount of respect foreigners particularly both nurses that spoke tonight nicole and wendy love them they're amazing um so because of my respect for them i'm not going to get into all of the reasons why just giving extra money to us to certain employees is is problematic it's very difficult and i personally have spent countless hours along with laura la lama and union leadership my executive team trying to figure out a way to do this and to do it the right way but i do have to clarify something for the public i want to make sure that the public understands that we we're hiring qualified nurses that are rns registered nurses means they have a college degree their nurses many of the nurses we've hired have uh you know numbers of years working in hospitals the the people who spoke to are absolutely correct they might have a school nurse certificate that is that is true the problem is when we hire when we post for jobs for school nurses there aren't any out there and it's not a clifton thing it's not even a new jersey thing it's a national thing we cannot find school nurses so our options have become leave a building vacant or hire an rn and for us the choice was easy and supply and demand comes in into play when it comes to salary so it is a real complicated issue um and i i know it's words but i just hope that our nurses understand we have been trying to figure out a way to um to help them and i'll leave it at that but i want our parents to know that we have qualified nurses in our buildings i'd like to give an update on our referendum i don't think i did one at the at the last board meeting but since our last board meeting our team has continued to meet with our construction management company epic and our other service professionals as we prepare to send out our bids for our referendum the state comptroller has delayed things an awful lot but i'm happy to say that just today our attorney and architect met with the state comptroller and finalized the details in bid package number two in addition packages three and four will be going out shortly and from what we heard after this meeting today with a comptroller we're anticipating a quicker turnaround than the first two bid packages so the first bid package was clifton high school that was approved and we've completed a successful bid cycle the final price came in at twenty three million two hundred and thirty three thousand dollars which is slightly higher than what we budgeted for initially in the referendum however much cheaper than what we anticipated after doing a cost analysis earlier this year so we're actually very pleased with that price and had a big sigh of relief when we saw we were very concerned that with the lack of supplies with inflation that it was going to be much higher the bid is currently under attorney review uh just to make sure all the documents meet the requirements of the specs and uh simultaneously our attorneys are reviewing the second and third place bids just in case there's something wrong with the first bid and finally a real important piece of news on the stadium and the athletic field scheduling these two projects are time sensitive and they're also two of our very public projects people the ones that people tend to ask you know when is the field getting done nobody's really asking so much about the air conditioning except that one day it was 100 degrees so we've determined that it's in the district's best interest to take these two projects the stadium and the athletic field out of the the bid projects and to bid them separately our professionals believe that it'll allow us to get a much fairer price and it will allow us to bid immediately without having to wait for the state comptroller which as you know has delayed our other projects the reason why it doesn't have to go to the comptroller because it doesn't meet the fiscally the amount of money that's required for the state to to review it um and speaking of extracting projects we uh we bid out the boiler here at school six and it was a project we felt that could be done to alleviate the workload for next summer and the bid came in at 280 000 which was 57 percent less than our anticipated cost so that extra money will be rolled into the remaining packages so that's kind of where we are if you have any questions about the referendum i'll be happy to answer them later on congratulations to our students of the month congratulations to all of our fifth graders who had moving up ceremonies this year i know several of our uh commissioners were at the moving up ceremonies um i'd also like to give a shout out to school nine that celebrated their 100th anniversary on june 10th that event was attended by several of our commissioners our mayor central administration many alumni i think there were five former principals there and many former employees were there to celebrate the students we learned from the students taught us a little bit about the history of the building and we watched them perform perform songs and dances and it was a wonderful event so congratulations to principal rosetti for doing an outstanding job finally i want to wish all of our faculty staff and students a very healthy happy and safe summer please be careful please read to our students read read read read read read i can't say it more it's the most important thing you can do for your brain read read on the beach read on the bus read in the park read in your room read whenever you can and please please please be safe have a wonderful summer and that completes my report mr president thank you uh superintendent um yeah i just wanted to remind everyone um that graduation is tomorrow uh starting at 3 p.m at the stadium those that are attending please try and get there early as uh the area will be congested um so uh and as dr robertosi said the uh weather forecast right now is looking good so hopefully uh it'll be a great afternoon for graduation i'm sorry okay so on our main page of the uh clifton schools website there will be a live stream of the graduation ceremonies so if you're unable to make it you can watch the live stream on our main page of the school's website the district's website okay moving along uh first reading of policy uh we have zero one three one bylaws and policies is there any uh comments or uh suggested changes okay seeing none we'll move on to we don't have any presentations we'll move on to committee reports and mr canova if you would take finance and technology please okay the finance committee met um mr daley mr abu drabo myself mr smith dr robert tosi mr john garo mr uchi mr shada start time was 4 30.

canty is 392 square feet so the annual rent for 22.23 would be 373 thousand 198. they also proposed a 2 annual increase which is consistent with the terms at sinclair's cla and we have advised the diocese that the those terms are acceptable subject to formal to bid approval of the lease any questions on that uh i i looked down to technology first and i read your name so mr daley was quite capable of reading those but um mr canova did a wonderful job in filling in i'm sorry mr daley so i'm just sitting would you like to read technology all right joe if you do technology all right uh technology uh board members president mr smith myself mr daily uh mr paris administration president mr jangaro and mr mountain meeting time is 505 to 5 35.