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Nagori we have so few questions for you what is your job here at big hollow I'm the district tech director when you're a kid what was your favorite subject in school I enjoyed math and physics what did you want to be when you grew up I wanted to teach management coach across country most important question bears or Packers the Bears if you see mr. McCawley in the Hall give him a silent hello Thank You mr.
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McCoy for joining us today thank you girls and now we will observe a brief period of silence or them the duck duties of the day we all stand for the Pledge of Allegiance I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all have a trust were they Tuesday and remember kind of times every day everywhere thanks for watching bye [Music]
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good morning big Hollow today is November 7 it is the 52nd day of school this is whe news I am Ben and I am Jack today for lunch there will be mini waffle sausage patty cucumber fresh potato orange juice and milk tomorrow for breakfast there will be cornflakes graham crackers oranges apple juice and milk we have some friends celebrating birthdays olya pecan taylor disco please go to the office to pick out a birthday book yesterday's fun fact question was what color family is in the Canuck canary the answer is yellow the winner is jeremy team smith come to the office to pick out your prize today's question is what is the capital city of illinois remember to write your answer neatly and include your name in class and now we will observe a brief period or sense to reflect on the anticipated activities of the day please stand for the 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 therefore wonderful Wednesday and remember penance counts every day everywhere thanks for watching
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good morning big Oh today is November 8th is the 53rd day of school this is wbh Tina's I am Kara and I'm Carly today for lunch there will be Domino's Pete just finished cherry tomatoes bananas and milk tomorrow breakfast therapy breakfast bagels graham crackers fresh vegetables and milk we we have no friends celebrating birthdays today if we missed your birthday happy birthday please go to the office and pick out your birthday book this today's fun fact question was what is the capital city of Illinois the answer is Springfield the winner is he and a team Lucas come to the office and pick out your prize today's from pop question is what type of animal would a pelean paleontologists study remember to write your answer neatly and include your name in last today we have a special guest please welcome mr. t mr. Z we have a few questions for you what is your job here at big Hollow I'm the fourth grade resource teacher what is your favorite subject in school math what sports are cooked were you interested in in place love thank you what did you like to be when you grow up well the teacher and a firefighter the most important question bears our backers always the Bears fans if you see mr.
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Z and mom give them a high Arwen Thank You mr. Z for joining us today and now we will observe a brief period of silence and activities of the day please stand for the pledge I show 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 have a thankful Thursday remember kindness comes everyday everywhere thanks for watching bye
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welcome to the November 7th 2018 Planning Commission meeting it's one of our rare occasions that we do a Wednesday meeting so welcome I'd like to call this meeting to order and start with a roll call good evening Commission Commissioner Ackerman Commissioner Briggs Commissioner give Randall Commissioner Mills yeah Commissioner Milstein here Commissioner sauvé Commissioner Trudeau yeah Commissioner Weatherby here commissioner was a full house excellent moving on to approval agenda before us we have the agenda for our meeting this evening do you have a motion to approve move back mr. mill seconded by Commissioner Trudeau any changes to the agenda all those in favor please say aye opposed moving on to introductions to giving any introductions this evening nope all right moving on to minutes of previous meeting we have no minutes for us to review this evening and then reports from city administration City Council Planning Manager Planning Commission officers and committees written communications and petitions we'll begin with our city council representative Shrek ermine Thank You mr.
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glassing good morning big Hollow today is November not it is the 54th day of school this is w vh e news I am Jack and I am Ben today for lunch there will be baked ravioli tossed salad celery sticks fruit salad garlic Burnett milk tomorrow for breakfast there will be mini pancakes graham crackers oranges apple juice and milk we have some friends celebrating birthday today Riley Thompson Michelle paddock Oliver Wade this weekend autumn nailing Dylan Schmidt Jackson food owl Rachel Rodriguez please go to the office to pick out a birthday book tomorrow for breakfast there will be many pancake graham cracker gorges and apple juice where are you doing this I wasn't sure what she was good morning big ho today is November 9th it is the 54th day of school this is wbh genius Gemma good morning big Hollow today's November 9 it is a 54th day of school this is wbh genius I am Jack 9 been today for lunch there will be banked ravioli tossed salad celery sticks fruit salad garlic bread up milk tomorrow for breakfast they'll be mini pancake graham crackers Andrei's apple juice in milk we have some friends celebrating birthdays Riley Thompson Rochelle paddock Oliver wait this weekend autumn Ely Dylan Smith Jackson food owl Rachel Rodriguez yes our dates go to the office to pick out a birthday book yesterday's fun track question was what type of animal when in paleontology paleontologists study the answer is dinosaurs the winner is Jaden Tim Conley come to the office to pick out your prize today that question is on Sunday we will celebrate the men and women who served in our military what is the name of the holiday remember to write your answer and neatly and include your name in class and now we will observe a brief period of silence to reflect on the anticipated activities of the day we stand for the pledge 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 have a fantastic Friday and remember Congress counts every day everywhere thanks for watching
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Board of Education to order we could all please rise for the Pledge of Allegiance I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic okay we have five of our board members here tonight Bob is out of town on business and that was called away extenuating circumstances so first on our list we have the student spotlight for huckleberry Hill dr. booth they have principal Irish I know from huckleberry he'll come to the mic and get ready to present the student spotlight on the Socktober work that they did [Music] so my initial reaction was alright I'm good evening we are so proud of our third graders this year they have organized and participated in a fantastic community service project and we are so happy to tell you all about it the idea for this project started back in August at convocation while we were listening to dr.
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chair I have nothing to report in terms of council action because of yesterday's general election the council meeting was moved to tomorrow November 8th be held at 7 p.m. in these chambers yesterday was a general election as I mentioned Washtenaw County had some incredibly high voter turnout nearly 63% of voters turned out yesterday just short of 2016 s presidential election by four percentage points which is pretty incredible for a midterm proud of city clerk for running a fair and free election enabling as many people to vote as possible as efficiently as possible one item of note on our particular note on yesterday's ballot to this body was Ann Arbor city proposal 8 which involved the library lot as become affectionately known the prop a amended the city charter to ensure the development of an urban park and civic center Commons on on that property as well as ensure that any public land owned in the blocks bordered by Liberty Division v in William to be held in public ownership this body would have been heavily involved in in seeing the alternative plan pursued while we'll learn more about what the ramifications a proposal a are and the weeks to come I think for now our work on that property is unpossible Thank You mr.
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Maria Alcock dr. Alcock spoke about connecting students to their community she spoke about connecting the learning that was happening inside our classrooms to what was going on outside our classrooms and this idea really resonated with us a few weeks later while while planning for our social studies community unit we revisited the idea and talked about how we could use the social studies community unit to do just that connect our students to their community that's when we stumbled upon a community service project called Socktober Socktober was mostly made popular by kid presidents YouTube videos kid president talks to kids teachers and families about how to be awesome he encouraged people across the country to join together during the month of October to donate socks to homeless shelters and community members in need he calls the project's October in October and we are now going to show you that short clip that inspired us I don't think the volumes connected yes technology [Music] um so hi everybody so we had some reasons about why have you wanted to talk to her but really it all started with that video that just like Heather was saying it was so important for us and it really got us focus on our own research progress in class cuz we really learned from that that it really mattered that we could donate socks to our community in there or support our community which was really the driving question in our classrooms to make sure the students understand that they can have an impact in the world not just their community so we wanted to find a center in our community that could distribute socks for people who need them and that's why our research really came in we said in our recent research around some questions that really helped us identify the potential scent terms that we can give our donations to and these centers were really helpful for the community we wanted to discover what that really is that they do all the times and and we wanted to see if our donations could actually help them do a better job at their job so since our purpose was to explain why they were choosing one certain center over another we also have to persuade people to continue supporting that Center in the long term do lots of other similar projects and service that the students Transcom brainstorm together and so two of my students are here today Jack's in Quint and they're here to share all about what that looks like in our question here our classroom so Jack Oh Thomas and Caitlin are here to tell you about our class therefore we would like to avert into math and write [Music] as you can see the news October this October news sock track project was much more than just donating socks to community members in need it really was so much more than that thank you so much we're so proud of our third graders organizers have any questions or the teachers are for the students before they step down I just want to say thank you for doing a wonderful job and helping our community thank you thank you so much will this be the annual event to them do you think what was your favorite part socks at the end I think for Heather myself we just really love to work with our students and I know for myself getting them to really work together and really discuss their ideas I thought that was kind of amazing just so you didn't see them like really kind of almost shove me hey did a really great job that was really great I think bringing together having something that brought together the writing the reading the math in the social studies was really meaningful to be able to use one topic across the curriculum and something that the kids need was meeting fallen hmm thank you everybody my question where did you donate them and how did you get the socks there in my classroom or the two classes were there and we had that students explained to her what project was and kind of how we incorporated it into all the different subjects so that was actually invited for a tour as well so out of the two classrooms you received 677 pairs of socks are what the was this good the whole school [Music] because it ties to our I am so proud of you I really am that and you did terrific work thank you [Applause] [Music] this is Chloe aware of this I have no idea what happened no I don't know what this is okay so next we're gonna wait one minute for our very students [Music] next on the agenda we have public comment we have one person signed up for public comment of Oba Weitzman paraeducator could you please state name and address oh I'll go Iseman three hearthstone Drive Brookfield Connecticut if I bum fur I didn't know I was reading this till I walked in para educators their patience creativity organization ability to accept and understand the differences in each of our children and their ability to motivate identify appreciate and celebrate small victories or what make them different from the rest few things are more rewarding than knowing you have made an impact on the lives of children who were struggling to reach their full potential I'm sorry your gist we have a lot of kids who are struggling two years ago I wrote this poem for Sam's life skills teachers and paraprofessionals printed it framed it and gave to them as a gift it was written from Samantha's perspective I hope you like it - I McDevitt you grieve me every morning with a great big smile help me out of the car even if it takes a while I am a little girl who cannot hear or speak but still you understand me week after week I have more challenges than most other people you know but you never give up on me even if my progress is slow you helped me with my daily life skills helped me to succeed teach me how to sing and play adapt it to my special needs I am strong and happy I went to giggle and tease sometimes they may even drop down on my knees you work very hard every day help me learn and grow you are patient kind and loving this I wanted you to know it takes a special person to be a teacher and a paraeducator like you and my mommy and daddy are grateful for everything you do Micha McDevitt and to all our parents thank you is there anyone else public comment that would like to speak okay moving on then we have those students hello everyone since I last taught me about student cyberfield I've been very busy as the new month of November comes upon us occasions already says you cyber even a lot and let us join us coming from all set up in time the you guys this is each other's face this is something everyone in school to watch the game will be played right before I think now that everyone meant for a lot of involved in community given the term disallows need and then it all for a great cause that's our universe while I Drive over here the American Red Cross and we're able to to donate what to do or say and a lot of these you know giving up for the winter seasons overall thank you man you it's not like you to share your your minute ecologies gonna be giving their appreciated I'm summer so I recently asked that Providence College [Applause] - to give everything response came a day to do personís one from proceeding a request for an America study and victory little glance fragment a notion that the board approve with a minute is listed below I was recommended in 1718 and thank you sir I'm sure the project last month right after to all our people on earth this is our personal message that they really provided a great deal of information we have a new review for me prior to the calling in this new project this is this is for almost two years and we do page which is just numbers the news full right and like you're sort of leaving a lot of communications and they know I have the pleasure working here let's do the back one of our technology make sure that that's happening for everybody so Aaron Wallis really some of the attitudes what we have a communication first thing is we need the communication of 17th the morning after we had whatever five minutes meeting we should by Jeff from a Pecha context when I say minutes we also have the ability to watch on the end the livestream all the actual meeting and these are we also share that out the email the best news school project River field of ps4 work where anybody can email questions comments basically these questions they're answered and I'll share with you in a minute is so in any communications regarding in the music school project our markup abilities chatter we also shared out the website with the FAQ page as well as our Facebook page that we share in communications with which kind of include a take you fastest about the project in anything related to that it's a new school project the community we need to tell which again I said as opposed to this is why I'm saying this is what I say they started it now as the teacher to facility committee when we share the work of the strategic facility community couple people in the former standard presence of Lisa's YouTube videos immediately videos live trainings putting information about any to the schools all of the amenities that are under this project it was a student on a fugitive still use community to their and with home team and the update is from QA from we also share presentations that may be done all the way back all the way through to that superintendent is given that the board is given and anything anything needed to project is the archive to a point where the folks that were conducted prior keep running attack on with the teachers custodians ministers that information got out a school this is all from others again this is all related to the facilities community these were done by on all shared out ministry and then anytime we can have a particle video related to project I've been posting in it here on find everything they knew the society sure all shared over here on our Facebook page we choose the BSU school project and then book post regularly in fact we have our most recent one poses it with a fact about the originally a road map accessible design different facts again you're just back to the Q&A you're just a post about finding an NX q a so just creation out there this is website and Facebook page able circle through my site so you can go to work revealed OPM org I'm gonna be the Board of Education we are project for us doesn't rate because that website through there you can like like look follow along and uh this is we or these we are too many sources as a communication and it we didn't have any questions email so the departments and preparing getting prepared for that it was all use and we make sure our this was health three years the their parent frankly and or the presentation here with and very positive open and really impress with far really bored helping whining really [Music] we and we get an immediate weekend and then everybody one of those those clocks I think yesterday we had our day this incredibly high schools giving feedback to your team Fitzgerald thankful that the and then the next one is high school 12 some members were made the building plans are really happening individual for the agriculture high school at that time Brookfield like the neighboring districts here because of location had agreed to be a part of sending students to ship hog we continue to look into that in 2016 on when I was on board I was working with the board and we continued there was an updated resolution to make that agreement so we engaged in that the high school was sapote we were supposed to send kids for this fall but that part of Chef hog high school is not ready so our students went to Gnana as they typically do and it will be the school will be ready for fall of nineteen so next year's students can go there so our current eighth graders who are interested in agra agra science for high school will go to ship hog the students who are at an analogue right now our grandfather and we'll be able to stay at not a walk so just it's important for the board to know that i want to make sure that got out in public for everybody there is the tuition will remain the same but one thing that's that is going to you'll see in the budget on the December 5th and Ken is working on this is while we're still transporting students to not a walk and we share transportation with New Fairfield now we you may remember we say we achieved a lot of savings last spring with that and making that arrangement now we're also going to be sending some students to Shafak so that's gonna increase our transportation there a little bit and we're analyzing exactly what that might cost and we'll bring that to you next month and then the final part of my report excuse the length is our very lengthy almost 200 page state security plan which is called the All Hazards plan is due this first week of November and so then Caldwell has really been the spearhead on that and he's going around chasing down a few signatures police chiefs signature fire chief's signature First Selectman and like so we're getting those together and hopefully by the end of the week that's submitted to the state and that is all I have is there any questions well the students that are attending manaoag have the option of ship hog or not a lager will they stay my understanding and my understanding is is probably 98.5 percent on this one that the students who are in analog now while their grandfather's to stay there there isn't a choice they need to stay at not a walk and though who are in eighth grade now moving on to ship hog there is not a choice they have to go to ship hawk that's the way it's the the agriscience system pressing that out through the state resolution thank you okay thank you moving on we have subcommittee reports we can start with Kate okay so the Cape committee met on October 16th and one of the main items that we discussed was a pilot for a new text that would be used in grade 9 science and this would be for Earth and space science and it's exciting part about it is first that it would be of no cost to us which is exciting but the really important part is that it provides text but it also is going to provide a lot of materials for teachers to help them develop their curriculum and lessons within the classroom and mark Blanda presented to us and really shared the fact that there really the need for sort of resources and activities for the teachers to help fully develop that curriculum that this text would supply a lot of that so we were excited by the idea that we could use that for one year at no cost and then evaluate it and decide if that would be an appropriate text going forward dr.
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Leonard do you have a report for us yes bear with me first of all a quick update on the letter that was provided we've issued we've notified by requirement and just by practice adjacent jurisdictions and public utilities and other entities of upcoming intentions to conduct planning efforts one is the capital improvements plan which happens on an annual basis that's not technically a master plan but since we were sending out the letter anyhow I thought it wouldn't hurt to include that information and the letter we also sent out a notice of intent to plan of the transportation plan the city is in the process of starting a transportation planning process that will is intended to replace our current transportation plan which is a component of the master plan just getting started with that the Transportation Commission has been heavily involved in no word and notable to that effort is a strong emphasis on a vision zero approach which is eliminating fatalities and improving safety for all users of the transportation system so we'll be a long process that's the first step from a planning perspective but that's been shared with you in a letter this evening also so along those lines I want to give you a quick status update and aware the capital improvement plan process stands right now you would be presented ultimately with the cap one proposed capital improvement plan for the year fiscal year's 2020 through 2025 as you'll recall or maybe not recall from previous presentations that plan is broken down into a series of categories around facilities utilities and service and transportation each of the sub areas of those go through a very deliberative deliberate process first identifying projects then prioritizing them and then going through a programming effort to link the prioritization of those projects with anticipated available fiscal resources and look at coordination for example when a road project has done how does that relate to utilities might that might be done in that as well the capital improvement planning teams have completed that project identification and prioritization work on all of the categories the outstanding ones from a programming perspective are heavily involved in utilities active transportation and streets that work will be happening over the coming weeks I anticipate the draft being posted to the city's website around the end of November no later than November 30th we are scheduling this for a working session with you this group on December 11th at your regularly scheduled December working session and gearing up for a official public hearing and consideration of adoption at the January 2nd 2019 Planning Commission meeting so look forward if you have any questions on that in the meantime please don't hesitate to contact me lastly or not last I get a request to maybe touch on how the state adopted proposal 1 might impact a lot of work that this Commission has done over the past year keep in mind that please keep some of this with a grain of salt um this is not a legal review of the proposed legislation it's just kind of my first cut at it for those that aren't aware the this is the Michigan regulation and taxation of marijuana Act sort of more commonly referred to as recreational marijuana the Act both accomplishes a lot of things and does not accomplish a lot of things it sets up Authority essentially for any adult over 21 to possess and consume a limited amount of marijuana or store a larger amount under some specific provisions in a locked secured place they individuals can cultivate up to 12 plants I believe more more noteworthy as it relates to for a land use perspective is that it sets forth a lot of steps that municipality municipalities can or can't do we can prohibit or limit the number of establishments that are allowed we cannot adopt laws that are unreasonably impractical whichever that means that do not conflict with the act some of those might they give examples in the proposed legislation such as sign restrictions time place and manner of operation of establishments municipalities cannot prohibit the transportation of marijuana throughout through the municipality municipality we cannot prohibit a grower process or retailer from operating within a single facility we cannot prohibit the establishment of recreational marijuana facility operating at a location shared with a medical marijuana facility if we limit the number of establishments it has to be done through a competitive process and if the state doesn't promulgate their rules within the specified time frame applicants can come right to the city to seek approval to create an establishment and in that case we have only 90 days to act or it is considered to prove in that 90 days if it's not approved we have to inform the applicant why doesn't meet a local ordinance or a rule that we've established so after if rules are promulgated by the department Department of Licensing and regulatory affairs they will start accepting applications within about 12 months of the effective date of the act after that time period for two years a Class A grower or a micro business can only submit applications to the state if you are a Michigan resident micro business for lack of better term sort of like a microbrewery for medical marijuana then a retailer processor Class B or Class C grower or secure transporter can only be applied for the first two years by somebody holding a medical marijuana license and then for a safety compliance facility any applicant can apply once that window opens up or if the state determines that additional licenses are necessary to minimize the illegal market for marijuana to efficiently meet demand or to provide access in rural areas they can accept licenses from additional providers as well within that two-year window and then it also will add a ten percent sales tax to any marijuana that is sold through this process so in short there's a lot to happen that is going that we're gonna learn as these rules are developed I think my my initial projection is that they will be closely related with our medical marijuana facilities in fact I think there's a possibility that we might have relatively little work to do with our ordinance depending how close they they're linked but I'll certainly keep you as the Commission updated as we learn more about it going forward mm-hmm and then lastly due to a lack of business and frankly I'll be out at a conference I am proposing cancellation of the working session scheduled for next week on the 13th so barring any course through the course of this evening will be sending out notification of that thank you do we have planning commission officers and committees they'd like to report this evening seeing no one I do want to acknowledge that we do have some written communication so please take a look at that I mean you have a chance now we come to audience participation at this time if there's anyone in the audience who wishes to address the Planning Commission regarding an item that is not on this evenings agenda you may do so right here at the podium so if there is anyone that would like to address the Planning Commission you'll have three minutes to address us regarding an item that is not on our agenda this evening anyone seeing no one I will close this public hearing and move on to public hearing scheduled for next business meeting public hearing scheduled for the November 20th Planning Commission meeting include an application for a site plan for an addition at Zeta Tau Alpha Sorority like fraternity or sorority I guess I don't know a proposal to construct a small addition at the rear of the house and then we also have a applic hearing for 2001 devarnè Road this is the expansion of the current electrical substation located in that site the petition is by International transmission company for improvements at a DTE owned facility at that location then we have two public hearings for proposed text amendments that have received some blessing by the ordinance revisions committee to move on to full Planning Commission consideration the first is a code to allow to establish requirements to allow mobile food vendors and defines circumstances on privately owned property in the city many of you might think of this as the food truck ordinance and then a proposed amendments to chapter 55 article 4 development standards that would provide some allowances for the encroachment of covered front porches decks and platforms into a required front setback and then those are the new public hearing scheduled for that meeting thank you we are now going to move on to item 9 regular business this evening we have three petitions before us the procedure for this evening will be that we will allow the petitioner ten minutes do a presentation followed by a staff report and then I will open it up for a public hearing so our first item is 9 a which is 309 North ashley streets I plan for City Council approval good evening my name is Brad more but jibra have the Bourne Associates Architects I'm gonna do a brief explanation about the project and just get back to the beginning of the slides here so here's the first slide this is the existing conditions on the site the project is located in the northwest corner of Ashley and Miller it does not include the corner most property that's a single story building that has been painted white around the outside our property is this l-shaped parcel there are two fairly rundown houses on it and the surface parking lot it's a little hard to manipulate the mouse with my broken wrist this is the lower level the site actually slopes down to the west as you go down Miller so we're taking advantage of the slope of the site by accessing the basement parking level about a half the ramp starts about halfway down from the first floor so we have a very short ramp into a basement parking level there'll be a bike room and then normal circulation stairs elevators and mechanical spaces this is the first floor plan no we also have a curb cut on Ashley on the north into the site which will allow access to another garage open the air garage is opened on the north and the west sides a little bit but it's underneath the buildings with a it's covered from the weather the primary entrance to the building will be also off of Ashley here and the Opio patio act right here for the this unit here the plans I'm going to show you tonight show a seventeen unit configuration we're also working on alternate configurations so that we can adjust the number of dwelling units in the project based on market demand so we we figure we can get to 24 possibly 25 if we use a real small unit so we're looking anywhere from 17 to 25 dwelling units so this is the next level above grade large outdoor balconies or decks for every unit next floor up now we're above the third floor so there's only one arts requires we step back those floors and so you'll see some additional balconies both on the ashley side here and on the miller side here so here's some 3d renderings this is looking from the south side of miller towards the project so it's looking north you can see the ramp at the low end of the site that leads half a level down to the basement now you can see outdoor balconies and patios this is on the ashley side so here you can see the surface parking entrance and then the primary entrance the pedestrian entrance adjacent to it over here and then this is across the street and ashley looking slightly southward and this is standing in front of the parking structure farther south and actually looking north we've kind of go stood in that single-story existing building here so aren't building wraps around it in the two directions and i have our civil engineer here if there's any questions about stormwater utilities we plan to store our required storm water detention on the roof as part of our green roof system so there'll be baffles that hold the required volumes during storm events it'll infiltrate into the media and then if it's a largest revenge it'll overtop the baffles and go down the drain we hope that that also clean the water filter it before it gets in with it that's the storm sewer system and if you have any other questions we're here answer thank you will now go on to a staff report mister Bo I'll go get the if needed I can grab the keyboard and flip back over to the PowerPoint but mr.
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Ruby and mrs. Farias also updated us on all the curriculum writing that's been going on that a lot of teachers have been collaborating on the curriculum in all of the buildings a lot of work went on over the summer as well and there's a process in which that curriculum is submitted to missus various and to dr. Ruby and then dr. Alcott continues her work with that group it sounds like part of that was done just yesterday correct which sounds great and then dr. Ruby also updated us the work that the district is doing in terms of standards aligned assessment and really it's kind of part of the deep work that the district is doing to guarantee that our curriculum is aligned to assess to standards and then we're also assessing clearly those standards and really the next step from that would be how do we grade according to those standards as well and then what might the reporting look like and so this is we're in the initial phase of this work where we're really aligning standards for the k2 for literacy and math and that's kind of our first step but I think as that work progresses it would move up through the middle school and eventually the high school so that's a lot of important work but it takes time to do it correctly and then lastly dr.
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Morris did a great presentation thank you not awkward at all it's a new process so the staff we have reviewed the proposed site plan I would reiterate that the site is a fourteen thousand five hundred fifteen square foot site proposed site plan is for a thirty nine thousand square foot five-story building proposed F IR is two hundred sixty nine percent that includes some premium floor area with the by way of the residential use option there regarding landmark trees there are two laboratories on North Ashley one of it will be removed for the driveway no other land row twos are on the subject site but there are some adjacent one of those has its critical root zone that extends onto this site that we have done all the calculations for the mitigation of that tree should it be impacted by the development the tree is not being taken down but it's critical root zone will be impacted we've done the calculations and it will be mitigated if necessary I have noted in the staff report that the applicant has offered to provide by coops and a bench in the public right-of-way an ace $5,000 parks contribution this site also they have applied for a brownfield plan the site is adjacent to a former gas station and the soils underneath are contaminated with materials associated with gas stations the site plan complies with all the applicable development review standards the plants have also been reviewed by a variety of staff from departments such as planning the DDA fire marshal forestry and so and so forth and we are recommending approval of the proposed site plan just letting you know if need be I have some street view shots of the site and as you just saw the development team has the site plan and in presentation form and some boards great thank you at this time I will open up the public hearing is there anyone in the audience who wishes to address the Planning in regards to this petition if you please step up to the podium please state your name and address for the record and you'll have three minutes to address the final Commission yeah it'll be like 30 seconds I'm Dave Sylvester resided I don't reside if we owned property across the street at 2:09 miller i just curiosity as much as anything as just what's the timing on the project or likely timing great thank you I'm sure one of the commissioners will ask that question when we get to our discussion is there anyone else in the audience who wishes to address the Planning Commission and regards to this petition seeing no one I will close the public hearing and read the motion the Ann Arbor City Planning Commission hereby recommends that the mayor and city council approved the 309 North ashley street site plan and development agreement do I have someone that will move move by Commissioner Weatherby seconded by Commissioner Mills we are in discussion commission recommend Thank You mr.
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Ruby reported on a project she is working on with her yell yell fellowship and change making in social-emotional learning and she's reached out to local community preschools and she's going to provide them professional learning opportunities which was that was that just yesterday that was just yesterday introduced them to the ruler program so it's a great wait for our kids in preschool in the different preschools including our own to be prepared for that social-emotional learning as they enter into our district so I add to that it was a full house in the curriculum room at TSO because the we had teachers from Prince of Peace st.
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chair would possible to get the 3d renderings back on the screen it's a very three-dimensional site and plan so it's a little easier to see based on those thank you I want to start with perhaps the largest question which is around your environmental assessments so the adjacent property was at one point in its life a gas station is that correct and I understand that the tanks are likely still on that property but I was just I knew that at least at the time of the citizen engagement meeting environmental assessments were still in the field and then last time we spoke which was about zoning hearing for that for that property can you remind us of the current status of your environmental assessments and their determination well I'm not sure that the tanks are on that site they have done a phase one phase two B ei as part of their process before the Planning Commission I know that they've proposed a due care plan I haven't reviewed that thoroughly to see exactly what their proposed and I do know that I believe their proposal for their site came in in February and went before Planning Commission and I have not heard a word since then what's happening we've been trying to find out but where is in the dark is as you are at this point so I'm not sure I answer that question fully but I what's happening in the ground soil on your property we have completely analysis on our property yes yes we yeah I'm sorry great thank you could you speak to that sure our site is contaminated we have done phase 1 phase 2 B EA and twice going out and do it done initial additional analysis on the site with additional soil borings the concentration of contamination is mostly on the South portion of the site which would be directly behind the old gas station we have found contaminants down to 15 feet and so as part of the EEA she's making it's part of the brownfield process which we've met with city in the county we are proposing to basically dig down and clean up our entire site our our footprint of our building does not quite cover the entire site in fact on the Miller frontage were set that 15 feet but we have offered to go all the way out to the street and go down as far as as necessary we think that could be 18 feet so that essentially the entire site we would be digging down and cleaning up to do that we're proposing basically on the entire boundary of the property doing an auger cast pile system which means we would be as basically be drilling and filling concrete obviously we can't be at the sidewalk or a neighbor's property and goes straight down 18 feet without some sort of soil retention system we'd kept cadence so where we've had working with the geotech company and starting philemon engineering on how we would do that as far as excavating but that is that is the current plan is to dig down and remediate and remove all of the contaminated soil on our site understand so you've detected down to 15 feet but could be as deep as 18 feet because that's that's correct okay and do we have any sense of how I mean is it to your property lines to the north and west does the contamination extend all the way to those property lines so is this a regional environmental consultant here to answer some of these questions and again that's why I believe the tanks have been removed and this is contamination that has happened it's not something that we we believe is is continually ongoing in in a major way today but the the contamination that leaked on our property appears to be contaminated directly to the west of that gas station building the soil borings that we've done we've taken sweater borings we took three in the street right away they were fine there was no contamination there we took several to the north side of our our site and those were also good so the main contamination is basically directly behind that gas station building directly to the west it was where that sort of plume I guess you is what you're calling is and so that's what we know so far the natural gradient is from Ashley down to first to where the historic Palin Creek was and so that's the path for surface flow and subsurface flow is due west okay and I understand you're not the cause of the contamination nor can you clean up other property owners properties I just this is the best opportunity we have to better understand you know a public health concern so I appreciate the information could camara Mike could I jump in on so since you reference the other petition I wanted if I could maybe just add a couple more points to that as you'll recall from the other petition we were we'd receive conflicting testimony in the consideration of that petition as to whether or not the site was appropriate for use or inappropriate for use you had directed us to do what we could get some sort of determination in that regards from the Department of Environmental Quality who is the state arbiter of such decisions as the petitioner indicated they we we have not we have not received that documentation but it is anticipated that that property owner owner is going to have to follow some some the due care requirements that is the state mandated requirements that they do not operate that property in such a way that would exacerbate the contamination or caused any threat to public health I think that the primary impact to that site is going to be some to the primary result of that is likely going to be some removal of source material and some mechanical system to ensure that there's no vapor intrusion into that building as part of any residual contamination for that site but I think the petitioner did a great job in summarizing into your point they are excavating basically within the full dimensions of their property the source material where it's been indicated again it's not the full extent of their property but it is from east to west property where that plume has indicated in addition I wanted to make it sure it was clear that the auger past auger cast piling wall that was referenced not only is going to provide the physical ability to do that excavation and in close proximity to the right-of-way and adjacent properties but that will remain and it will be applied with a surface to provide the same vapor intrusion protection to this building and any future occupants similarly to any treatment that might have on the adjacent property so so it's a couple more to your point of sort of the the global picture of what's happening I appreciate it and could you remind us of the address of the neighbor where the source material may be it's 202 Miller I believe 202 and then this is this is 309 this actually is the one where we're discussing - right okay so just there are a lot of these involved so I want to make sure we're discussing the right yeah party certain to clarify the Miller property we'll be removing source material and likely putting in place a shield to prevent further mine spread again nothing finalized yet but I am anticipating that ultimately the Department of Environmental Quality is going to communicate to them that they are they have due care responsibilities just like this property owner has for this property I believe that they will we have not gotten that final approve final share confirmation we haven't gotten their final response to that but based on preliminary conversations we've had with them it will involve remove some removal source material I don't know all it generally will be a less volume than what's being proposed on this site and the installation of a vapor mitigation system in their building to ensure that that building is safe from any remaining contamination okay again all speculative we haven't got any of that confirmed either by that petitioner or DEQ but that is conversations that we've been part of so I haven't comfortable sharing the sort of progress along those lines understood and as the plume is moving from east to west towards the Allen Creek what is the sequencing of our Miller property in removing their source material and the sequencing of the petitioner tonight in removing theirs they'll I don't know this specific timing or if there is an impact they will both be independently conducted most likely if I had to speculate I might guess that the 202 Miller could potentially happen sooner because of just the level of approval of that petition stops with the Planning Commission as opposed to going on to City Council but it again if this project moves expeditiously it might be able to move to demolition an excavation relatively quickly as well so I don't know for sure which would occur first but once the excavation happens on this site rest assured by its it's in their interest and by their plan to ensure that if any residual contamination exists through the use of that wall and applied surface it's not going to further impact this property any further I don't know what that means to the right of way or other directions but I would say and again I'm not an environmental engineer but they were dealing with a lot of source material on this site and I wouldn't be surprised in fact that there's more source material on this site now from the migration historically then on the smaller site to the east okay so more on the ashley site then on the other side yeah I understand detective okay lady so I appreciate the background the history and what the current state is I'm curious as to how the contamination you have interplays with your stormwater management plan so I I noticed the the Green Roof facility can you just talk through stormwater management and any interaction it could have waited tration or i believe i understand it but Kathy can correct me if I'm wrong so our storm waters is being held on there on the roof and then as it finds its way whatever overflows finds its way to the roof drains but then goes into the city's storm sewer so it doesn't pass through the contaminated soil going from the clean rough material into this storm suit so hey we wouldn't have any contaminate it's a lesson I have to do the remediation and be it's not routed through our soil let's run it from the roof into the storm okay thank you and are you required by storm water regulations to history it's the 72-hour window or right now are you required to go above and beyond 100 percent of we're just doing bankfull so we're not doing the full hundred years volume okay I'm not sure that time we can discharge into the sewer after their rain available so we're less than 15,000 square on being so it will all be stored on the roof there is an overflow and there's a structure outside of the building before the roof drains flow into the city system it has a baffle in it that controls a release rate so that we're meeting the requirements for the bankfull and not exceeding the release rates that are allowed okay thank you [Music] I'm curious about the curb cuts but I think I'll defer to other colleagues for now and I have imagined someone else will bring up curb cuts as well mishenka Brandel I will bring up curb cuts but I also just want to understand a little bit more about the stormwater um so first of all I'm really happy to see you all employing the green roof I think that's great it's gonna function for you on so many other levels too in terms of heat island for the city and insulation for your building it's huge actually and I wish more people did this and I know you kind of have to because you've got these contaminated sites but I would just encourage you for the future that like I really love seeing this that people are doing this because it meets a lot of our sustainability goals in other ways so kudos to you for doing this I know it solves your problem but I think it also solves some of our other larger problems for which we don't really have regulations I'm curious do you is it like a six inch what is your what does the roof media because like the 3 inch doesn't hold a whole lot of water the 3 inch section what tell me what you guys are using I'm just curious to see how you're and I'm assuming here you're doing the 1 inch like the first flush I presume you or thankful thankful in the plans there was a detail on the the detail sheet that showed it I believe we were starring four and a quarter it's the depth is the depth is the depth of the media that will be on the roof okay one thing to consider is that um with some of the droughts that we've had over time it's somebody who is designing some of these things there can be portions of them that can die because of the drought that happens and so it would be great to hear about any kind of for all the other kind of vegetation stuff that comes to the city you're guaranteed to you know if the tree dies you need to replace it what kind of plan do you have in place in terms of maintaining this over time to make sure that it stays alive because a lot of the work that is doing in terms of cooling things and storing things and stuff like that it's not just the soil immunity it's the plants working with them too and I'm just wondering if you all have a plan in place because that's somebody up there it's either a rail or somebody that's tethered in its deal you know so I'd just be curious to know what your plans are for the ongoing management of the green roof to make sure that it's functions over time so it's not a tree in the way that we can see where their tree dies or not it's gonna be like you know Google Earth view of oh look there's a brown patch it's not gonna happen in the same way so I don't know if you've been up to the green roof we did I'm not big George's mm-hmm but we always put hose bibbs on the roof level because for the first year or two it's a good idea to keep watering it so it gets well established as you know we plant the trays with a variety of different sedum species here because some are going to love it up there and some we're gonna like it less and manufacture that does the installation comes up with a management plan which will be part of the condominium responsibility to maintain that road according to the manufacturers installers okay yeah that's that's great so getting back to the curb cuts though I noticed that that northeast corner is all paved and I didn't hear any mention about dumpsters or anything like that and just seems like there's a whole lot of pavement there and I'm just wondering what what's going on with that area I didn't see anything in terms of obvious like that's where exterior bike coops are or whatever I just would like to know what the plan is for that I see some scenery kinds of things screening something but it doesn't seem very clear it doesn't look like it's over your main contamination area so I'm just wondering what what you have going on over there so you can point it there's the driving a partisan and there's other areas that aren't during the yeah during the time we were designed this project the solid waste people came up with a new standard in terms of how much space and clearance and turning radius is that they need to have for their trucks they they do not want any more situations in town than they already have where a truck during its collection period is securing the sidewalk so they want to be able to pull the truck completely onto the site and then they have new dimensional guidelines requirements for the amount of area the truck has to sit on in the amount of vertical clear distance that the truck needs to tip it so what will happen is that the rollerball 4-yard recycling and trash dumpsters which sit in a corral will be rolled out and staged here so that the truck can pull up tip then back and continue on its way and then the maintenance person knows that so that's why it's there I think you'll see a big impact in a lot of the facades of new buildings in downtown because of this yeah I'm either of gaping maws in the front of the building or these kind of landing zones sir way to extend some of the green you have a couple of things there but the way the movement you were describing doesn't mean that the truck has to kind of go over I'm just wondering if there's a way to sort of extend that that green because there's not a lot you know that that far end has a according to your elevation here has a couple of you know little windows up but it's not like it's some big place where the public is going to meet interacting with people you know in the building so since it's kind of a blank facade over there in that corner is there a way that you could bring the landscape you know across so that we don't have to gaze into more impervious surface than is already there or is it part of the truck movement that you need that clear no go over to the other side yeah is there any reason that can't be extended there so that it can just be a little bit more green from the street side in terms of you know just a little less pavement that we all have to we can't plant anything here these are planters I see so those those are planters or planters that we could extend down here I see so because the building extends over the top of them is that what you're saying the lower level grass oh I see takes up the whole footprint there I get it okay forget it I get it I get it okay all righty um let's see what are you predicting in terms of the market like you were saying depending on what the market like are you thinking that it's gonna be bigger units smaller units like what what what what are you seeing right now are you leaning towards one thing or the other in terms of how this can play out well the last three projects that we've built in this area we've started with a pretty much even mix of smaller and larger units and we've ended up having to combine units more often than not so when we went through when we admit initially submitted this project we did have some more unit a larger unit mix in the building and then we had to move the ashley facade back seven feet four because of the whole solid waste issue so we've redesigned the building right now to be flexible and we don't know but we're ready for whatever you know comes our way we have the ability to sell 900 to 2500 square-foot units and to have a mix that is equal of small and large or more large which is good because right now I feel the market is softening a little bit i as some Realtors I talked to say it's a stable but flat and interest rates are rising and so we don't know what's gonna happen when we start marketing this so to us saw being able to be flexible in the the size of the units and potential price points is is the biggest win we can have going forward okay thanks what's your mils I'll just follow up on that then so the 17 units are the 25 like when you we have the number of 17 that's the 2500 square foot units so at 17 we have units ranging from 1,800 to 2500 square feet this building is designed such that the floor plates line up four units per floor and we've already gone through the process of designing essentially each of those larger units could be split into smaller units now we didn't necessarily split those straight down the line for example on our north west corner of the building what I call the C units it's a 2,300 square foot unit and we we already have it reconfigured to a 900 and a 1400 square foot unit so essentially that would be if those old split would be 17 to 21 units and right now we we've worked on enough of the units we could be 17 to 25 which allow us to be from 9 900 to 2500 square feet so we're really we'd like to pre market as much as possible honestly from this point forward once we get through City Council the time it takes to get construction drawings done permanent unbidden done which is kind of a nightmare with construction process right now next summer would be our earliest start date so we have a nice window of time to begin marketing and we want to do that as soon as possible and and see see what that tells us got it thank you one of the questions that I had on my list I will ask about project that's that's my list too but had to do with the parks contribution and it was pointed out that the parks contribution according to our formula like at least what is being suggested right now is half of what the parks contribution according to the formula is and so that formula though was based on the number of units and so I'm trying to figure out like what that is either way if we get more units than that then the parks contribution as we calculate it ought to be more than what is you know the ten thousand that's currently in there so I'm just curious about why why right now the plan is not to provide a parks contribution equal to what our formula calls for the perks contribution also allows you to account for furnishings that you're providing in lieu of the actual dollar amount being contributed so we are providing bike hoops and a bench out in the right-of-way and so that is also factored in as part of the parks contribution so it's those items plus the dollar amount got it come to a total value of the whatever the calculated was for the 17 minutes does the city set what the what each bench in each bike hoop is worth in that parks contribution because no that just seems like a really expensive bench and bike coop well it's the bench the bike hoop the improvements that we're making out in the right-of-way which you my last parks contribution for North Main Park at $14,000 got us a tire swing so I mean we don't we don't set these and we we go along with what city staff tells us to do and I like the reason I stayed up here is I thought you said it was based on unit count I'm not a hundred percent sure while I was gonna say is if unit count does change the engineering staff is pretty diligent about that we've again also be our fourth project we're a unit count has changed for the project which has changed certain formulas as far as footing drain disconnection cost and other fees they're due and that all gets wrapped up and and and figured out and paid for before they started to us any see of OHS yeah I was going to say that that I guess is a question for staff is if the unit count changes from here to there does that will that be changed accordingly because it sounds like this is the floor of the unit comp that it would only get more and and I'm happy to bring more residents down it's just we have a formula based on what every residents ought to be contributing to the parks so that we maintain the right ratio so if you can tell us how it works we typically do not change the contribution amount the contribution amount is usually a number based on the proposed number of units there's an amount that is requested and and developers typically say yes or here's an alternative that usually goes into the development agreement with that number so we don't usually follow up with any changes it's also somewhat rare for unit count you're talking about all the projects that we do it's somewhat rare for the unit count to flux I think we take it as if it does change higher or lower we we don't go back and follow up with those that's not to say we couldn't change the amount the development room it could be written a little bit more flexible also it is a request it is a request and we also recognize that some developers say this is what I propose to contribute and we typically also say thank you for that as well aspect so it this this caught my attention in reading the staff reports just that that what is being requested or what is the recommendation what is the request based on this formula and what is being offered right now is different and so especially knowing that the number of units increase and so that differential is going to be larger I would encourage that the monetary contribution to be increased to make that less or make that more balanced where is the perk bench I look I mean I've walked by this not as much now but used to all the time so which side of the right over is it a Miller and Miller there's a bus stop there her that's where it's at super great placement and that makes me think too I really appreciate that on the Miller side that there is a grand Fleur unit and that there's some presence there I think that is really great like that that Street gets used by pedestrians a lot and having that be pedestrian scale and not just all you know entry to the garage is really fantastic so thanks for having that patio there it'd be great if there were front door there too but you know okay get everything you want can you talk to us about project timing what you were planning on if you get through us tonight what's your ideal timing as soon as possible and the reason I say that is we just learned that we get through here tonight and then we go to City Council we get approval there we're the schematic design phase everyone's super busy it's taking us twice as long to bid projects than it used to we have to get through city council make sure our architect and engineer are not too busy have them complete the plans and then bit I want to get in the ground in the spring but I just don't know if that would be May 1 or July 1 at this point we talked about we actually had a meeting a month ago talking about how to how to fast start projects and we've done that before where we don't necessarily complete the construction drawings on the whole building but we do what's called foundation only unfortunately a lot of the structural design has to come top-down so with there's a lot of people involved in that process we have to essentially have the structural engineer complete all their calculations then get the foundation design done at that point we go to the city and pull the foundation only permit and go so my goal is still to get in there in the spring there's no we have no reason to delay but it'll be up to just getting getting all the ducks in a row so to speak and from the time that you start how long do you anticipate it taking and the and then the second question is how long will the sidewalk be closed right I don't know the answer to that question yet because we have to get into that when we get into sort of the pre-planning or pre-construction phase how long that will be these buildings are typically taking about a year and a half to build so if we were to go on the ground in the spring we would be starting to move people in at the end of 2020 we have two sidewalks there I think our main construction access is going to be Ashley Street and that will be the sidewalk and possibly a lane closed for most of that project whereas Miller with a steeper slope will probably keep open as much as possible plus we have the bus stop there right okay thank you yep it's your honor just for reference quick calculation that the distinction between a 19 unit development which is what the original calculation was based on and 24 units would be from the 19 was 11,000 875 applying 24 units would increase that requests a contribution to $15,000 so that gives you a sense of the scale of difference Commissioner so they are just reading through Design Review Board comments and then the kind of reviews comments back and then the renderings presented tonight I'd like to get some clarification on some of how that was followed through on one was the one consideration when it's considered folder called accent colors and be careful not to overuse brown tones and then the response letter said that was suggested to change the light gray panel material to a wood tone so as part of the design review comments it said no brown tone and it converted to wood and then it looked like the rendering here this evening was a bit more darker in tone so could you speak to what is proposed at this point the material palette filling that had brick base Nenita cement Isha's panel siding and then a corrugated metal above that and so we've replaced the corrugated metal with a project a product called wood mode which is a synthetic wood product and it has a richer warmer orangie brown tone to it like a cedar siding would have except it doesn't have the problems that cedar has with the carpenter bees you know burrowing holes and I kind of stuff in it so it adds the warm tone of wood having an orange e red brown tone that replaced the gray metal siding those so just like so and the elevations that we have in the renderings that were provided tonight are matching and we are going to a brown top after a design review board request yes mr.
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Joe's and Christian Life Academy and I think they had to end our own school of course and we invited each of the teams from the four schools to also bring parents so we had 34 people yesterday for PD and they were it was great because I think that we have strength in numbers if we if we're all working with preschoolers and they're the majority of those children that are in free schools that are not our setting are going to come to us and so to really set the foundation and help the schools not only implement social-emotional learning strategies to build children's skills and teacher skills in preschool but also have that filter up through their their grades so it was it was really good day and just hope you folks know we regularly invite the private schools to our PD some of the stuff that we do that's grant funded it's a illegal requirement but we invite them to come to whatever PD we're providing as long as there is a limitation if it's an outside provider on the number of people that come and that's it for the cape committee any questions for Joe moving on we have policy communications and there's two meetings associated that Rosen yeah yeah so our first meeting was on October 17th and we really are continuing our work with the 3000 series a couple other policies again if there's if there's any policies that sort of need immediate sort of attention to the word we sort of prioritize those first so dr.
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Moore if you could just speak into that I don't know if you know but we moved to closed captioning so if you could speak in the microphone for the service so for example this is the two dimensional output of the same three-dimensional model and and you can see here that it it renders you know no more warm orange tone than it does on that computer rendering so it's just it's just a difference between the output devices and whether it's rendered in two dimensional or three dimensional products so the Nietzsche is citing is below the wood tone on the top and then the base is the brick we have a few places where the brick rises above the base but the idea was to have a pedestal of masonry and then layer it as it goes up in the brick color it's medium iron spot so it's a purpley orange okay uh whether any other explorations done with facade tones after that design review board meeting we looked at both scarlet and gray and maize and blue and decided against Touche I mean there there is a concern for me with this we've had discussions about Brown buildings in town and when we start to think of the city as a pallet and we talk about public or private nuisance a visual nuisance of consistently Brown five-story buildings in town depending on your opinion could be a visual nuisance and so I think there was a there was a heavy request in very direct clear requests from the design review board for tones and not brown tones and so yeah so we're trying to design the nicest building we can design here and at the initial design review board meeting we had basically corrugated metal is the is the top of their building very similar to what I just built on 410 North first Street the darker material is an itchy a cement floor panel and so we took design review board to heart however ant design review board that was a little bit of a tongue-in-cheek comment they said Oh God don't give us another Brown building and and I don't really think that we're designing another Brown Billy in fact what we've done is is essentially trying we've looked through a lot of new modern buildings being designed and come up with the essentially upper floors to look like a high-end wood product with it has actually quite a bit of variation in color it's not just a straight painted Brown panel so I think the in my personal opinion and obviously everyone has a different personal opinion the variations and the colors and we've worked with a marketing department for last six months on this also between the flying buttresses we have on this building and the niche gia and the brick base and the the would look alike and the reason I call it would look like which is actually a lot more expensive than just to do actual wood for longevity purposes I personally think it's gonna be a very attractive building another plant want to bring is the we didn't just do just applied balconies on this building we're not just designing a box and hanging balconies off the side we have a lot of articulation every single facade with very large patios so once the building is built in 3d I think it's gonna look a lot different than buildings you've seen downtown and I personally think it is gonna be a very attractive building but again just my opinion I'm just saying it for the record because we have had the background discussion before and for it to recur I don't think it's tongue-in-cheek so Commissioner whether me can you describe a little bit how the east-facing facade or the east facing side right now it's looking out over that one-story building but there's no guarantee that that's going to be a one-story building in the future so one of the you know kind of recurring problems we have is you build a building and you sell of the condos and then the people who come in next are really upset that there might be a building built next door to their condos so how are you these buildings are quite close together how how are you have you thought about that it looks like there's balconies that look right hundred percent okay when I when you say the the east facing facade I'm assuming that's the the facade behind those one-story gas station building a case right so the way those are what I would call our eight units and in the way those units are designed are such that they've actually front Miller so that unit is sort of a long narrow unit with its main balcony and living space fronting Miller the windows that you see along that facade are our bedrooms which many people downtown are you know keep blinds on anyway the other thing we did on that particular facade when I talked about not just hanging balconies off the side is in that corner we took that back into the building another 10 feet 12 feet and have an actual covered patio off the master right there that is a eleven by fourteen so similar to what you know many tight buildings do in bigger cities is we didn't just build to the proper line right and go straight up now we're offset we have the main living spaces looking out over Miller and on that facade we've carved out of space so if someone does go up its you're not going to be right on that blank facade you're gonna be offset and you actually would have a nice private outdoor space off of your master bedroom even if something got built five stories there okay great thank you okay commissioner brakes as a different perspective I'm I actually don't have the UM the concern about the brown beaten buildings that some do I think this is a nice facade and I think it's gonna be a good look for the hood the Carey town area so I appreciate what's being done there and the neighborhood I was curious if you could just talk a little bit more about circulation around the building in terms of is that space that's designed for the garbage trucks intended to serve double duty for like an uber and lyft drop-off or kind of some of those bump outs is there where's the bike parking gonna be placed as their bike parking internal to the building as well just some of those elements around circulation well I'm not sure that we designed that that space for uber or lyft pickup or drop-off but it certainly would be a great spot for it as well as any other service or delivery vans that came in we do have a large bike room in in the lower-level area so beyond that I'm not sure how much more information I can give to about circulation again the building was designed on a ashley is much flatter Miller's got a steep slope there so we knew that we had to initial working with the city staff and and saw the ways design that to be the pickup point for trash so I know you have anything to add on that it's also the circulation pattern for this level of party here so there will be some there's some comings and goings from these parking spaces here but it could easily serve as one of my concerns when we had when we ended up doing this revision was that it'd be problematic in a in a situation where we have this now trash pickup point right next to our main entrance and all that pavement and conflict and so on and being really relegated to doing planters but we looked around it I guess for lack of better urban hotels that have this sort of similar situation where people are pulling in there's a lot of car traffic you slow the main entrance to the building and that's kind of what we were trying to design here a nice a nice facade a nice entry for for the residents there even though there's so much hard scape well the pavement look different there at all I hats yes what is our plan for the pavement in that area right now it's it's proposed to be concrete we're a little limited because as I said before the garage level the lower level is underneath there so the section we can put on top we're a little limited with what we can do we did put in the detectable warning strips to kind of delineate where pedestrians should be versus where cars are at the entrance and of being colored or textured differently than the sidewalk so it's not just that brilliant white you asked about the bike room there's a bike room configured a lockable bike room configure down here in the below grade basement it has 19 internals parking spots in it and then there's an option for the condominium purchaser to get a single or double stack spot in front of their parking garage the parking space in the garage as well so that the example places for bugs so I just want to add to what we were saying about the outdoor space that that area also has to be able to take the turning movements of a garbage truck so putting pavers there they move around and so if we were to do anything it still needs to be some sort of concrete we can maybe color it or put a little texture to it but you know we're a little limited on the material that we can actually put there because of the turning of minutes that it's gonna have to be able to stand up - yeah it seems like maybe something interesting could be done with color and I mean I would suggest that you might want to even advertise that as you know put up a couple signs that say you know temporary lifted uber or you know temporary drop-off you know I've been discussing this recently with uber and lyft drivers they they're they're noticing that some of the buildings are easier to drop off at than others yeah honestly we're getting into some details we just haven't gotten that far the design yet so I appreciate that the comments because the goal is to not only have a safe building but the most attractive one we can't for that entry Thanks Fisher woods area can you talk a little bit about how the building's construction will will fare in terms of noise and here I'm thinking about the fact of you know it's not being that far from railroad and trains going by that sort of thing it's about that is there some standard that you pretty much have to adhere to or because I I live fairly far from here and I can hear the trains going by at night and there are other other parts in the downtown area where people kind of talk about the trains and the whistles and I'm thinking this being fairly close to the railroad I'm sorry so it's not the construction noise this actual post construction for most constructs yeah well we have not had a single complaint about em noise from the outside because you do hear things such as the trains or ambulances or heavy traffic I just moved into 410 first Street so I live across the railroad tracks and I have two facades that are all windows and I really don't hear that much it's a brand new building it's steel wood frame and I haven't had any issues like that myself at all in fact with the type of construction we're doing with a 2x6 wall and the insulation I'm thinking it might take my furnace out because I haven't turned it on yet and at the coolest that it's gotten a 72 degrees and in my unit even with all the windows I have so we don't go through a LEED process but but with the quality of materials were used in the cloudy and the type of windows we're using we seem to be we seem to be hitting it right as far as the the quality construction the price points so I can only speak actually as someone who lives across there from now because having moved 23 times in the city of Ann Arbor and having lived in seven old houses when my house used to shake my first house at 543 first Street and where I live now it's solid as a rock I don't hear the train at all okay and the building does look nice I don't have a problem with the grounds either and I was going to vote for your project until you indicated that you just said thumbs down on maize and blue I kind of did it for me but maybe you can do something with the color on the inside sounds like plans right Commissioner tree down so the questions I had my only question is about parking you're required ten spots you provided 34 I'm just curious what your calculation was there in terms of hitting that number so so that's sort of an internal business decision that we've had since day one when we started building back downtown in 2004 going forward that larger units essentially our parking ratio that we've come up with it works well for us is about one parking space but one thousand square feet of living space and so it's 17 units all larger we we felt we needed to offer 34 parking spaces on this the thing that's nice about that is if we do split units if we ended up with splitting every single unit and do smaller units we'd be able to give one parking space per unit so the ratio doesn't change and that's just how we've gone into every single project parking is is expensive downtown people who live downtown you expect to drive less but we just feel from a marketing point it's it's extremely necessary for us to be a law for that kind of ratio because of our environmental contamination we had to take out the dirt anyway so rather than bring you back more dirt we used it up use the volume and and for the record I don't mind the brown either all right so I have just one brief question um in regards to 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Benoit one of those policies through which was student assignment to classes for students that have been home school or that are coming from another district the committee had a couple of questions on that particular policy as well as another policy from the 3000 series sex offenders on school property which we currently we asked our legal counsel a couple of questions in terms of both of those policies they're coming through to firfer Street tonight so I can come in a little bit more on those later the rest of the 3000's there are I think six of them well there's three of them including the other two so there's gonna be six that are coming through for a first read tonight and then we took a deeper dive into the the rest of the and the special meeting was again to come back to those legal questions that we had regarding the sex offenders policy as well as the student assignment of classes so that work is ongoing in terms of communication we finalized the brochure actually we finalized it sort of at our retreat but that looks good and I think that'll be available community-wide there's some there if anybody wants to pick it up anything that I missed during the report we got the electronic communication that's out there on social media I got that piece out there no can't think of anything sure sure looks great yeah yeah a lot of work and Lisa was very happy when I stopped making Corrections at about 4 o'clock yesterday yes thank you Lisa thank you the only other subcommittee was the security task force which met on October 18th and really we kind of just went through two main things we we discussed a availability of grants for things that might happen there is a school Connecticut school security grant that's out there but really doesn't fund physicians or people that fund specific projects it's a competitive grant it's not a not a guarantee and we have to actually approve and expend the capital before we can even apply for the grant but we're looking out there for everything we can do as far as that that we anything we can fund via grants we're trying to shake every tree we can there otherwise I last time that based on all of the interviewing and discussions we had with administrators we identified some themes of areas that we thought might need addressing as far security during this meeting we took those and tried to formulate Alma's prioritized what we thought we needed what we thought didn't where we thought we were okay and where we needed to improve and then from there decided what might be built into the budget coming up for next year so we will see some of those recommendations yes December's presentation said unless there's any questions all right next we have the consent agenda recommend a motion that the board approved the items on the consent agenda is recommended new hires and resignations retirements any questions just like to congratulate the high school for hiring a world language teacher that was quite a struggle we know that in special education world language and some other areas are shortage areas and we were able to do that and we continued to look in a couple of other areas and have some pending interviews and we're really excited about opportunities there and then I just like to wish both Rachel okati and Bonnie Vogel a longtime teachers for us they are moving on and we're just really pleased with their performance and and their impact on the community over the last gosh looks like about 15 years each so we're really we're gonna miss them we're happy for them and wish them well 22 years of service in Brookfield all right any other discussion all in favor aye proposed right new business we have a class size report the way it's presented is the same way we presented it in the past couple years by school giving in the general education classes audience Center within we don't have any under or over the guidelines we have class size guidelines and 85% are within class ID guidelines and then four of the twenty six classes at the school are above the class guidelines which goes from 19 to 21 students and four classes have 22 students and the breakdown for each grade level is provided for you whisking here you can see the way we've presented it we have the guidelines up at the top for different guidelines we're fifth and sixth grade and seventh and eighth grade we have broken down by grades how many of the sections are above the recommended class size guidelines and then Dean and his team prepared more detailed information which you can see on the bottom of that second page of the report on to the third page he's without the sections all of the different content area domains eh all of the courses that we have in their bands physical education and health education and then the final page of the whisky near section has a chart where you can see exactly where detailed look at how many students in each grade are in the sections and what the percentage and percentage and sections that are above the target and this is giving you a historical look from 16 17 17 18 18 19 so you can see how things have trended over the past three years and of course Dean is available if you have any questions about wizkid here any questions following a sheet has the 453 and then the cork or and world language how many sections and this is once again looking at the data historically over the previous two years and the current year social studies in there's a lot of data there and sorry any time to have a look at it I mean we can always take questions by email right Dean seventh grade is the current seventh grade is the bubble class was that sort of always a bubble class since like just looks like in 1617 but it wasn't as dean that happen to be a big move in this summer - I think it was that was happen to be our big class and more kids moved into that grade level as well so there's water and then we certainly could get time to go through this in more detail they have questions we're happy to answer and then the final report is the report from the high school where the number of sections we have 57 sections of English 51 of math 55 a social studies 58 a science and then 32 a World Language and moving on down through the data is also are also presented there for career business are in music and mr. Blandon provided a chart on the second page of that report where you can see the historical data current year in the previous three years with the number of the change whether we went up and down in the number of sections so you can see just looking at the data particularly from the middle school in the high school I mean this is like takes a lot of management on the part of our administrators and those two schools to make sure that they're working with their guidance Department on creating classes to try to make things equitable that changes from here to here question with the business classes is it just that we have more students now taking the business class yeah it's really business classes because we have personal finance as a an actual requirement for goods to take that's why our numbers are higher okay and social studies is also higher on that end just so you know because what ends up happening is well we have the same number of teachers we have ten teachers you know senior year students sometimes have to double up and so it's the only course they have to do that because they need that semester of civics so often times kids will double up in let's say they'll take their senior year they might take ap psychology which is a full year plus they'll take another section of them to take American government so to do that so that's where the numbers are higher because often time kids seniors take two classes when they're seniors so that's why that number is higher than other sections because we just have to put more kids in it what I'm sorry I should have kept you up there exercise with them with some of these classes like math and social studies of language when you're pushing twenty nine thirty how many I mean you have how many are above but how many normally how many do we have of that class size approximately do you know I don't have that right with me I can whip that up thank you do we think that any of the class size information would have budget implications that we that would reveal that we need additional staff in any of the subject matters or we're meeting with Mr bland tomorrow so we'll find out a lot it for me sees that the numbers are any budget implications for that as far as we talked about the one we met today we talked about doing some creative things to you know utilize human resources in different ways to take care of some needs that we have particularly in providing remedial reading services we didn't have any requests for there's there's always gonna be some classes that are and if it's a Bob good one student we still call that above this wings to be on the guy yes Lina I to my recollection gene we don't have any classes where we have like five and six students above the guidelines in the class not in a court class not in a core class a court class yeah you know where those be some of the ones where we may have a paraprofessional scheduled or co-teaching going on special ed teachers that kind of thing once you come up team get that answer I don't have the numbers in front of me but I think I want to say I know our advanced math class and a couple the upper grades my feels the higher and there may be there may be a science class or two that's a little bit higher also and if you could think of it it's with certain schedules with with the way it is only is able to be a core three for an advanced math class so then that obviously it falls out in other places where you have to have a student in another class like if it's a French class we only have one French class for seventh grade or eighth grade so that's they're stuck to that so it only leaves these a couple up a couple other spots that are open so but it's not anything they're giving constraints where you see that it wouldn't warrant another teacher ya know so you know you have to look at the whole picture you wouldn't have a higher a whole new teacher because schedules required them to that they only fit into these classes so where one is at 28 on that team that court may if someone else is a 22 but it's a different subject again you know so it doesn't it wouldn't more a new teacher or another teacher for those the class size is when you look at all four schools it's a little it's not a little it's a lot different when you're looking at the class size of children in k or where as a self-contained classroom as opposed to in the middle school in high school where you're gonna see one class or two classes where you're you know three four maybe five students above the guidelines but that's not going to change your staffing on all of these where the numbers say target is that the target that's within the range or is this above the maximum of the range that we are aiming to be in at the target it's the tar so we're still with the number range but above target correct okay yeah within the guidelines yeah thanks T good you have like specific questions and email us except at the high school where we say when they're above the guidelines then we're actually above the guy then you're above the guy that's oh yeah yeah I'm getting the terminology straight yeah any other questions at this time okay that will move on to the eol by grade report okay and we're gonna invite Kevin to come up because she really has her finger on the pulse of everything that's going on and provided us with these data here we go so I'm chemin halle department chair for world languages and English language learners and I'm here to bring a little color to this black and white document a little context right so here as you'll see I did a comparison of our al population from year 1718 to 1819 and with regards to total elves in the district we had 98 as of October 2017 and October 2018 now we have 111 which is about an 11 percent growth I know I received questions as to you know what are the factors that are impacting this growth and luckily I've been in meetings with many parents many families of potential al students where I'm able to ask that question and from the qualitative data that I've collected a number one reason and I think I'll be pretty pleased about this is that we're gaining a reputation for being one of the best districts around here in terms of providing individualized instruction to our students so parents hear this great news and they want that service for their child so they're coming from surrounding districts to our district for that reason also they have families that live within the district that encourage them to come they want to live near their families there's also job opportunities housing opportunities last year we also had students that were unfortunately displaced from the Hurricanes in Puerto Rico that we have them in our district so these reasons overall are not any different than from any person that would want to move to Brookfield also we're fortunate enough to have pretty comprehensive Yale team with our k12 TESOL teacher and our ell tutors currently we have two which we're gonna grow to three Yale tutors so we're able to more quickly identify else don't panic we're getting another PL tutor because we got our title three grant which is to support else and after talking to Kevin about the needs in the district it's not a lot of money we get a little over $12,000 but when we looked at our needs and where we could better support students we decided to write that grant and it was just approved earlier this week to hire an additional part time tutor so now this will be our third leatherhead to their board approved so it's just in why anybody say oh wait am i know where you got it wrong I'm just really excited about that so now if we take a look at person the data per school at center school in October 2017 we had 26 students where now we have 24 identified ELL students and if you take a look at the languages there's a difference there particularly because there's a difference in the demographics of the incoming kindergarten class this year so that's where that language increase came from at huckleberry we increased by 8 students and we decreased by 4 languages at Wizkid ear increased by 3 students increased by 3 languages and at the high school we increased by 4 students and decreased by 1 language so now we're at total languages spoken at 22 so that's a one language decrease from last year that's where we are in addition I wanted to share some data so as part of the next-generation accountability report which if those of you who might not know what it is it's pretty much a set of indicators that tell a story of a school of how well a school is preparing school students for college career and life so it you know it's actually quite refreshing that the state of Connecticut is now adding less links data lost links is the Connecticut summative assessment the testing window is January to the first week of March here at Brookfield in in the wintertime we gave it at the end of January and we concluded at mid-february that's through collaboration with building administration we want to make sure that you know we're not interfering with of their testing and we're preparing our students well to ensure the best results so it's pretty refreshing that this is these results are going to be part of the next generation accountability report for our district and pretty much it's not being included in the 1718 data because the state recognizes that there is a shift in data which we will see because k2 students went from a paper-based model to a computer-based model which caused a dip in some scores so of course districts were like hey it's not fair so but we're gonna see the results anyway so pretty much what I did is I went on that site and I took a look at you know not only our district but the state of Connecticut derby districts and districts with the same amount of students the the same amount of the cohort that was tracked so pretty much what the state of Connecticut needs is at least 20 students in order to track this cohort and we had students our data is from huckleberry and whisk in year and as you can see because you know the demographics change sometimes they're else with our ELLs is somewhat of a revolving door with families moving in and out of the district so the fact that we had 68 students where we could track their data was pretty pretty good so if we take a look at the last links participation mastery trend just some highlights compared to the state of Connecticut surrounding districts and like I said Derby districts districts with a comparable number of cohorts we had a ninety nine participation rate the state of Connecticut had a ninety six point eight participation rate only three districts had higher rates than us Southington Bethel and Danbury but they also have their district cohort number was totally different than ours we ranked fourth highest in the percentage achieving mastery however our participation rate was higher than the top three districts so Brookfield had a higher participation rate than Glastonbury Avon and Cromwell so that being said and if you take a look at our students at mastery 18.3% compared to the state of Connecticut at nine point nine percent we were pretty pleased with those results next the state also broke the data down to literacy and oral growth reports so to put this in context the last links measures English language proficiency skills among the four skills which are speaking listening reading and writing so the literacy score is an average of reading and writing and the oral of speaking and listening so in terms of literacy when we compare ourselves to the state of Connecticut and similar school districts we had the highest growth rate and the highest average of target achieved for literacy growth so we were pretty pleased with those results in terms of the oral growth report compared to the state of Connecticut and surrounding districts Derby districts we had the sixth highest growth rate and highest average percentage of target achieved but if you take a look at the state of Connecticut according to and you compare it to us the state of Connecticut has a thirty four point two percent growth rate and aural growth and we had a forty three point three growth rate and so we're pretty excited about those results and overall I want to just remind everyone that the oral scores were affected by the transition from the computer-based English language proficiency testing so that's why speaking and listening scores and particularly went down with the last Lynx achievement so in order for students to exit the Yale program they have to have a four or five because you could get a level one two three four or five in each of those skills they need to have a four-hour five and reading writing and overall so if you take a look at reading Brookfield was the second highest and even though Glastonbury was higher had a lower rate of participation for writing we were also the second highest same thing Avon was a bit higher but a lower participation rate and overall Brookfield was the fourth highest and the three other schools had the three districts I should say had lower participation rates and once again compared to the state of Connecticut for reading we were at forty three point three percent whereas the state of Connecticut was at twenty point seven for writing 31.7% where the state of Connecticut was in nineteen point three and then for overall we were at thirty three point seven percent whereas the state of Connecticut was an 18 point two so that was pretty impressive for us so given this data I put together this action plan where I'm analyzing this data with principles and I was fortunate enough to analyze this data at the end of last school year which led to very careful placement of our else in the classroom so one of our weaknesses was that we had our ell population spread out amongst all the classrooms so we were fortunate enough to also sit down with dr.
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Maurya you know my feelings about that so I won't say more than that thank you for making our city brown but please stop with regards to the elevation so currently what we're looking at from the exterior is how many units just because if you all of a sudden are going from 17 to 24 25 units how's the exterior gonna change from what we're looking at the elevations today my clients love to impose criteria like this design it so we can change but not change the exterior so in the way we've laid out the potential for the subdividing units it only involves shifting windows not eliminating windows so we might have a bank of windows say that square windows you see in there that would shift a foot left or a foot right but we wouldn't be wholesale eliminating windows or punching openings how about balconies again the balcony we the goal is not to change the exterior volume of the building even though we rearranged the interior we actually did this on the gallery which we got approved a little over a year ago my clients there found out that the demand right now is for a slightly bigger units and they had planned that so we ended up combining units but again the goal was not to have to change the exterior and we shifted windows a little bit left and right but and changed the material of effect of what the way the building would I believe every single unit currently has two balconies at least and our initial plans where we have some smaller units splits facing Ashley we have the large patios on the north and then all the belting station ashley and the way the units split one got one line got the other on the current plans that we have which is on the backside is it's very similar off of the as I mentioned before off the Masters we have large covered patios and then we have the large living area patios also our current what I call a sea split into a nine hundred and fourteen hundred square foot unit it doesn't change the exterior at all one gets one balcony and one gets the other at this point and then I had another question in regards to so the building at 202 Miller let's just say down the road it is developed this is something that you would be putting in the master Needham bylaws to disclose to potential buyers that there could be another building built right adjacent oh no because we're not building to our property line so we would never have to close up any of our windows our setback is far enough that that's why we have even on that setback east side those large windows once you get beyond five feet on a property line you have different building code restrictions on the amount of glaze and you can have and when you mention that building I mean it could happen on the north side and it could happen on the west side so again having been building downtown and single families up to billions of sighs that question always comes up and we're always honest we don't know what will happen in the future and and when it will happen but I am but we don't typically build to the building setback lines we're typically 5 10 to 15 feet away so that if ability knows bill it will certainly potentially impact a view but it would never block we'd never have to block up a window Thank You commissioner Gabe Randall kind of going down that road a little bit further let's just say as a hypothetical that the corner property the DEQ tells them they have to dig up their whole site and they're like I don't want to do this if this site were to become available would you change your would you acquire it and change your whole thing or do you want that open like what does your what would be your endgame if that thing because it's sold dicey with what's going on with the DEQ and what they'd be willing to actually do because they can just move in and sell their stuff then that's one thing but if they have to do some serious serious remediation they may be like this is just too much work what what would you want that endgame to be if that were to become a 1 to 2 story retail building new we you know we thought about that when we started designing this if we had a nice square site it would make underground parking easier other things but we're to move far enough down the road you know we start getting let's say six months down the road we're ready to go construction drawings are done we take a hard look at that and and I think it would be a great spot too in fact we talked to the owners I just didn't get very far like we'd be happy to put a green roof on your building be here but no and so if that comes up especially when we're marketing to people that that would be our goal I think would be a great spot for a small kind of like I think that was in on the plans for the parking structure maybe have some small retail along there too that would kind of be the goal for that spot right there okay so this is kind of winding back around but as I was thinking about this for the contamination if if the contamination does when you find out that it goes farther west will you also be doing the barriers all that you know it looked like the barriers were just kind of on the east side will you be well the the natural ground water or not ground works we don't have ground on our site sorry the natural way that the site slopes it's it's it's highly likely to impossible that it would come back uphill right however because again we're building to our property boundaries we have to put in this barbed cast pile system around the entire site so that essentially is going to is going to ring the entire perimeter of our site okay and then you talked about construction noise so construction noise for those any time you have the word auger it sounds a little ominous for construction what what is the construction noise do you think I mean there's gonna be a lot of taking materials out but well actually in this system it's not a it's not what we're driving piles we don't do that it we drill so you drill and fill so it's a lot less noisy than seeing there and listening to 195 piles being driven in the ground okay further discussion commissioners today one last one it's not about being brown but it is about north ashley in the condition that it might go to two way does the the trash turning radius or any of those drive approaches because the curb cut is asymmetrical for that loading has any of that been kind of worked out or are we assuming then in the future if it goes to two-way yes in fact the DDA went into this plan assuming that that's all gonna happen so we've been working closely with the DDA the beginning both Miller on the streetscape improvements and Ashley that it is going to go to a that is it to a in front of ours and so that's with that trash direction same spreading throughout it we were all ready to weigh in front right yeah Thank You mr.
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so Paula the principals and we talked about very careful placement of not only our ell students but our special education students so that was amazing we as an assault team were working to have a greater presence at each data team meeting as well as in our survey work and at ppts I was fortunate enough today to be part of two PB T's where we had translation services we made sure that the IEP s were aligned to the kelp standards so we're making sure that we're providing rigor to all of our Els regardless of their background like I said we're working with special education staff to align the IEP goals to the kelp standards we have the new is all team members k12 TESOL teacher and the soon-to-be 3l tutors we had a great PD day yesterday where we also analyzed this data and talked about our action plan how we're helping our students in the classroom we have a digital portfolio system where each pretty much each teacher each every staff member that works with each of our ell students has access to a digital portfolio system with this last links data with the appropriate linguistic supports for the students so and we also have this paper-based so we differentiate for our teachers just like we differentiate for our students we have an L progress monitoring system but I was fortunate enough to develop with the co-writer Margaret Stephens of the kelp standards because now that we have these anticipated growth targets for literacy and oral opponents on the lost links we want to make sure that we're monitoring their progress towards this growth target which we didn't have last year so that's the line to the kelp standards the Connecticut English language proficiency standards we're also making sure that the linguistic supports are tailored to each student's experience cultural and linguistic background and they're aligned to the cub standards it's very important we encourage you know we're a district that values by literacy so we encourage student learning not only in English but also in their first language and that really goes for all students not just seals particularly with the adoption I'll put a little plug in of the seal of bio literacy and then we have PD ongoing PD for our bps staff I'm working with each building principal to not just bring PD in terms of oh it's just an al you know aniele matter we're really working with case studies so for example if we bring PD on differentiation on chaired one instruction we have case studies we're planning to have case studies for special ed students what does it look like for a special ed student what does it look like for an ell student so we're really excited to integrate al PD in that way to make it really palpable for teachers practical for them so they don't see it as this is just another thing no this is just a natural way of teaching and best practice and last but not least we're strengthening our bonds with family and community members through outreach I know I'm working with principal diamond to bring a coffee with the principal and I'm gonna be working with the rest of the building leaders to provide these opportunities as well it's important to support our students not only inside the school but also outside of the school so really excited thank you thank you so you can see that since the past three years we've really like exponentially improved the services for English language learners and it's not to say that we you know if we had a wish list we wouldn't want to have another full-time certified TESOL teacher but I think that the decision that was made by the board last year when we had to make tough decisions to go with the two tutors instead of the full teacher has you know worked out very well and we have the data to prove it I can't you know this was just supposed to be you know the Elle report how many what languages but when I sat with Kevin and we had just gotten she's gotten all the data back and it just seemed like it was something that we've talked about so much as we've developed the program over the past three years that it was really worth having her take the time to share all this with you because it's all good news and we like good news so thank you so much thanks Kevin quema would it be possible to for the board to get a copy of the presentation just so we have the scores on there as well that'd be great thanks any other questions forgiven okay then we have the homeschool report so the home schools report just to be transparent it's the data that are presented in the homeschool report are data that represent our best efforts to produce a report parents are not obligated to respond to our inquiries and for new board members if you don't know you should know that the plans of study that are presented to us by parents are not something that we approve they basically just you know provide us with what they're doing some folks are involved in home-school networks where they're there's like a consortium of people that are working with an organization or a company but we don't have jurisdiction over what it is that is provided to home schoolers so what we do is we provide letters to we send out letters to the folks that we know or we think are homeschooling their children based on information that we have in our records and it's we send them a notice of intent for homeschooling form and that goes out annually and we request that they fill this form out return it to us and that wit has it's a suggested procedure we can't force people to do it so what we have is what I call currently available data which is I would not call the most reliable data but it's the data that we have so we have 13 students that are being homeschooled in our district according to the records that we have and they are identified as coming from eight field families and of these 13 students for whom we have information 10 Notice of Intent forms or returns completed parents do not have to complete the forms parents of 21 students that we sent out notices to did not respond to the notices and for three of the students parents did refute did respond but refused to complete the form so that all sounds like a lot of mumbo-jumbo it's very hard to keep track of to be honest with you so there is from the people who did complete an intent form we have the following data by grade level and so you can see the number of students that the 13 students that we have you know what rates their parents have placed them in we have information regarding to students being homeschooled but the parents did not provide us with grade levels so that's the honey school report I can tell you impressed you know please wait please let us know you know if you have your home schooling your child there's a form that they fill out for the curriculum and they they send it back in to us and then I sign it I look at it it's it's where I sign my name it says that this is not an approval it's just a basically an acknowledgement that we have it and we keep records on that and that's why the UM policy is so important because people decide to send their children back to school in high school to get a high school diploma Icicle Oklahoma actually means something and so it's very important that we have a policy that covers how we handle that questions to diffusion and the legal references are what covers this in our state standards are at the bottom thank dr.
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