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thank you mr kiwi heard recommendation to prove to waive the second reading adopt policy 9150 is there a motion to approve second any questions or comments for uh mr akua all those in favor signify by saying aye aye come on vote side opposed motion carries 4-0 at 4.2 back to mr kiwa for the student handbook revisions and additions yes thank you mr president i want to thank our building level leaders for having much dialogue in this particular area for updating our handbooks as stated there's quite a few updates regarding directory information spelling descriptions terms that bring us to the current year uh to make you know all of our handbooks up to date in regard to language uh we've outlined uh specific areas of focus though for some of the changes for each of our levels there for you uh to see the high school the mission the vision sixties definition tardy policy smart watches were added into some of our technology language and courses were updated uh middle schools also added smart watches into their technology language uh there were some grading period and semester language that was updated and some vaping education that was added into our handbook as well at the middle school level elementary schools some of the changes we implemented there would be attendance dress and grooming homework and makeup work and finally and our bulldog buddies uh updated some dates and allergy information there so we wanted to present the handbooks to you this evening so we can get them updated for the 2022 2023 school year we are recommending that you approve the updated handbooks across the board for us here at the crowd point community school corporation ifrid recommendation to prove to waive the reading of the handbooks and approve handbooks with suggested additions and adjustments do we have a motion to approve so move with the approval of the waiving of the reading second motion by mr angel in second by mr hoffman any questions or comments from mr handbook on the uh the handbooks if not all those in favor signify did i say mr hoffman yes i miss mr sorry no okay mr q uh if that was in favor signify by saying i opposed motion carries 4-0 thank you mr akiwa and to all that were involved as well so yeah i mean i really do would like to pass along thanks to all of our staff members that really put in some time in a collaborative effort to get these things updated so correct superintendent discussion groups do we have any any information to uh relay or discuss anything tommy hear anything new nothing really new to report from either crown point or winfield rdcs if not let's move to uh our director of elementary education mr mears thank you mr president and board members i would just like to take this opportunity as we were able to welcome brett munden as principal of lake street we will also be welcoming ashley bach as assistant principal at timothy ball and i would like to thank all who have participated in a very rigorous interviewing season and it is great to see that we continue to get the best of the best and really everybody is dedicated to seeing the success of our students be a top priority aligning our elementary schools and i believe that the newest leaders coming on board will help really move our district in the direction that we want to go so i thank everybody for their participation excuse me director of exceptional education is pascus good evening president morning members of the board last week we had four out of five days of really great training for the first two days was programming for students with emotional disabilities we had dr rick van acker who's a national expert on working with students with emotional and behavioral disabilities work with us our school teams on monday and tuesday and then on wednesday and thursday we worked with dr leanne young on our lead inclusion project with our school teams we are still looking to fill one teaching spot in the exceptional ed department and we have several openings for paraprofessionals if you happen to know anyone looking for a part-time job please send them our way thank you miss pasquis and chief academic officer mr hartman thank you mr warney members of the board um before we meet again in august we will be in school almost two and a half weeks august 10th is that first day that our children will be coming back to school at this time of year uh things really start preparing for their arrival to be able to have as smooth of an entrance into school as possible and there's a lot of things that go into that from all the departments from curriculum instruction i know that sabrina and heather and mark and i are working to make sure everything is in place as far as materials resources professional development so that we're ready to embrace the students being able to embrace students by any training that comes forth from our teachers and with those as mrs paskus has said continue uh now and will continue up until the start of school bringing on our new staff and maybe artie will comment on that uh we're in a pretty intense period of time over the next two weeks acclimating staff so that they can be ready to to come receive students and engage and help our students to adapt um i think we we want to promote a uh an environment for our families knowing that uh that we're ready that we're ready and uh there's no wasted time but there is a lot of work that takes place between now and the beginning of school for that kind of a start to to occur which has been a tradition here in crown point school so uh we're excited about that we're looking forward to the arrival imported looking forward to seeing the buses roll parents dropping off the kids being out at those at the buildings and seeing uh the 2022-23 school year begin so just know that there's a lot of a lot of things that are happening uh right now in preparing for that to have to occur thank you thank you mr harvin and chief human resource officer mr akiba thank you mr president board members um several things i just want to mention here uh briefly first is yes we had our new teacher academy kicking off this morning some of you are present thanks so much we had a great breakfast and uh just an initial session today to review our schedule that will uh take us through this week and all the way into next thursday uh with different topics i think we've got a great group of individuals that have joined our school community um to help you know provide an amazing educational experience for our for our students and families um i'd like to especially thank though there are people that are going to be taking place in this two-week experience that are from within our schools there are people in this room and and others that are dedicating their time to host and speak and share and engage with our new staff members on a number of topics so for all of you that are participating in and and um sharing your wonderful knowledge with our new staff members i'm just going to thank you in advance for for uh stepping up for those great leadership roles and lastly i spoke this morning at our breakfast about the big four as i call them and that would be transportation food service technology and buildings and grounds and i think many times it goes overlooked at how much incredible hard work is taking place all summer long by all of these individuals to get ourselves ready and support a great school year not just to start it off but to you know sustain it through those 184 school days and and beyond so to our food service staff to our transportation staff members and drivers that are getting ready for routes out there right now to our buildings and grounds folks and all of our custodial staff and all of our tech staff thank you for all the hard work that you've done uh as we prepare to open up the 22-23 school year thank you thanks mr cuba and uh a great job hosting that breakfast this morning we all sat at the table and said why you gotta could have a whole nother career in uh game show host thank you thank you um how about mr reese from the business office uh the business office has nothing this evening i'm about uh dr terrell superintendent schools thank you uh mr akiwa don't get any ideas in the near future i want to start off by thanking those in our community who attended our state of the schools address had a great event and was had the opportunity to speak to many of our local leaders and those who are very interested in in our schools and we appreciate them being there the second one already mentioned our new teacher academy that kicked off today we want to welcome all of our new teachers here to crown point schools i want to thank those that are involved in the process of getting those teachers to this point many principals many of our secretaries and executive assistants and the amount of time that they spend processing and getting those people ready as they go through this two-week onboarding program and then the last one i'd like to mention is our administrative team just want to thank them for the work they've done over uh the summer we just finished our summer leadership series today we've been doing several book studies with different groups and it's just amazing to see the creativity of our administrative team and how they look at things and bring things to each other continuing to always challenge each other also we had our admin retreat a couple of weeks ago where we had three two full days and then finished on the third day with the state of the schools address i want to thank cabinet members here and our directors of support services has already mentioned the big four for the amount of work that they put into those two days had the many comments from new administrators to our district but also those who had been here for a long time just what a great opportunity that is to prepare them and get information to them so we continue to thank them for the work that they do all summer long had someone asked so over summer you guys just kind of relax and chill no actually it's some of the most intense work that we do and we appreciate all of our cabinet members here and our directors of support services for leading our administrative team and preparing them for the school year thank you doctor how about other business of the board board of school trustees um is there anything floating around that we'd like to discuss comment on are we final stages of working out the arrangement with the city for the extension of the bulldog park slash wheeler concession stand yes so we're still in the process of trying to ironing iron out the building plans of that facility and getting all that finalized hopefully we'll be able by next board meeting to come to you and say we're ready to move forward with it thank you the only thing i want to say is thank you for the statement tonight david regarding the incident and dr gold thank you for coming and speaking on that issue regarding policies and how we can revisit things to make them improved so i'd be interested in speaking with you for a few minutes after the meeting time if you have a few minutes to stay around my only other suggestion possibly would be at some point in time if we could get mrs paskus and her staff to maybe put a 10-minute presentation together or less just with the maybe the initials of the different types of students we deal with because we hear the referral to emotional speech all that we kind of get a general idea but i think it would just be as we're continuing to improve that department maybe give the board a little crash course just so we understand the next time something's brought up about what specific individuals we're dealing with so once again it doesn't have to be uh you're teaching a few older gentlemen here at least i'll speak for myself so it could be as basic as possible just to give us an idea of you know the vocabulary used to describe our students with disabilities great idea thank you thank you anything else mr hoffman like to discuss any any other business this evening i have nothing okay let's move forward to the board statements of appreciation and recognition uh mr smith anything i'm just regurgitating what dr terrell said i thought the state of the school's address was phenomenal an opportunity to go so first one got it kicked off and went really well it's impressive so thanks for all the people who worked hard on that uh i think we had another issue come out with the magazine which i was just blown away so brook and her staff i thought it was phenomenal and just so helpful to get that information out there into the public and uh really pleased with that and how professional it looks it looks it looks great so um and then the last thing i was speaking to mr molaskey and dion cusaurus of skillman and everywhere you go there's building and construction it's moving so um but i'm glad to hear that the progress is on schedule and they think everything's going well so i know they have a lot of balls in here juggling but it's exciting to see all the different construction so i just want to commend all those people on the ground doing that work during the summer and if i might jump in here so i'm trying to look at the name of the award um we just received a national award for that publication as well so um brooke is unable to be here with us this evening but she's done a great job with that and really upped the game here for crown point schools and i'm not finding it i think she did share it with us as a group if you're looking through it yeah that's where i'm trying to find it right yeah it was uh amazing to see the progress and she was uh rightfully proud of the work from the publication she showed us from a few years back to what we're working with now so it is the publications excellence award from the national school public relations association inspra is the name of it and i might also mention since brook's not here we're throwing compliments her direction she has just been named the president of the indiana chapter of that for this coming school year so has jumped right in and is making impact even throughout our state as well mr angel uh nothing direct but since mr smith brought it up with that publication and dr terrell for those of you that are watching online and those in the audience there is some great information in there including the hot topic in our community which is redistricting after all these projects get complete so it is it explains the basics behind decisions being made obviously nothing's been made to date and explains the timeline that we'll be looking at as that moves forward but in case people missed that and i did the first time through so when i saw it on the front cover never looked at it and it does give a very good description of how that process works so great that's all i have this evening uh see for for myself i just want to kind of tag along to um dr tell you said in the summer time the work that's done and you know i don't think that we were quite aware of how much work is being done until you sit down and have a five minute conversation with someone is what's been going on and um i think uh you know other team building experiences like the bowling night i wasn't able to go um you know we were out in michigan at the time but you know the feedback from it was excellent sound like people had a good time to bring their families out um and those little things along the way like the book series you're doing um i'm just like from it's happy to hear it it seems like really you know productive team building experiences and um i said nothing specific as mr angel said it to for a statement of appreciation recognition this evening but if anybody could have been at the breakfast this morning and everyone kind of gave up and came up and gave a few words but the one thing i personally took away from it and was most proud of the community corporate the corporation was when dr terrell just stood up there and spoke from his heart wishing like all 8 000 plus of the corporation could have heard him saying that the number one focus is or these relationships with your children with the kids and working on those relationships within the classroom you know to move forward with what comes later and you know the way you said it was very eloquent and i hope that everybody was really listening during that part because i think that getting to know our other board members that's what's very important to us as well and we think that we've seen success in other aspects of life through what you were drilling home to it's like you know form that relationship don't worry about this that or the other that'll come along the way so thank you for those words you had i like i said those meant a lot to me to hear to the new teachers and everybody present so um mr hoffman i didn't mean to skip over you but uh do you uh have any statements of appreciation or recognition this evening i do not okay um any last call one thing already are we going to hit over 9 000 students this year then in the district close i know i don't need to hold your number but i would think we're approaching it and oh yeah it would be the first time correct approaching yeah yeah okay we'll maybe get a follow-up then when will uh what's the term called like concept thank you when's that september okay we'll be into september all right so the october meeting we can probably announce that we officially hit 9000 students all right thank you and if you add in all of our preschool students who don't count in the adm number we're right there last year so yeah okay last thoughts anybody if not look for motion to adjourn soul moved moved by mr angel sacked by mr smith all is in favor signify by saying aye aye opposed motion carries 4-0 thank you
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removed and seconded that we call for public hearing pursuant to ars 15-905 all those in favor please vote by saying i wireless yeah it's on wireless mic okay [Music] we'd like to begin our regular board meeting thank you for joining us tonight is tuesday july 26 2022.
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um i will call this meeting to order followed by a moment of silence and then a pledge of allegiance led by dr santa cruz if you'll please join me for a moment of silence please join me in the god pledge with liberty and justice for all thank you mrs wilson could you please call the roll for me dr charles santa cruz here mr bill parker here miss laurie wood here miss jill humphries here ms sheila eugetti here madam president alba members are present you have a quorum thank you very much thank you and welcome again to those who are here and those who are joining us online and welcome to everyone back to school it was our first day of school today and heard that there was good things and appreciate all the efforts that went into to getting us back to school today and the students for being there and being ready and parents for supporting that let's move to the approval of agenda 2.01 board members may have a motion so moved thank you dr santa cruz is there second second thank you mr parker it's been moved and seconded that we approve the agenda is there any discussion seeing none i'll call for a vote all those in favor please vote by saying aye aye any opposed with name passes 5-0 thank you we will now move to the superintendent's report and i'll turn the time over to dr mccord thank you madam president governing board members good evening everyone and thank you for joining us tonight in person and online as ms wood said today was our first day of school for students and we had a little over thirty three thousand students on our campuses and approximately forty two hundred staff members uh working with those kiddos uh the energy and the excitement on the campuses uh were very special and everyone was pumped up and ready to get the year started i had the opportunity to go to all the campuses east of power road today and everyone i was at was filled with a lot of energy a lot of smiles and a lot of people very eager to educate kids so it was really exciting to see i want to say a big thank you to our operations department for taking such good care of our facilities this summer our director of operations is here wave at everybody albert albert and his crew we had some sort of project on almost every campus and operations and the contractors worked extremely hard to accomplish as much as possible we still have to finish up some projects on some campuses but i'm incredibly proud of what has been accomplished during the summer so thank you again to you and your folks appreciate it albert i'd also like to give a shout out to a few people in our community education department rose gonzalez tyler newman and holly morales which are all specialists for the vik program put together a job fair last friday evening and ended up hiring 13 individuals who came to the fair they wanted to make sure and this was what's special about it it's as everybody knows it's hard to find people to do certain jobs these days and these three got their heads together because they wanted to make sure that all of our vik programs on all of our campus were staffed appropriately and so they put this together and again ended up hiring 13 people that came to the door and they said they're all quality individuals so i want to just thank them personally for going that extra mile and making sure they're doing everything they can for our kids in our programs and lastly uh coming up on saturday august 13th we'll hold our annual v-net kickoff training and vendor expo this event begins at 8 am at gilbert high school and for those who don't know v-net stands for volunteer network and the kickoff training is designed for ptsos and booster clubs and what they'll do and what they'll get is training related to fundraising ideas as well as properly running meetings and how to handle finances in their specific areas v-net has been around for several years now and they are a huge help to all of our ptso and booster clubs as well as our district and so i want to say thank you to them and we look forward to seeing you at the training mrs wood that concludes my report for this evening thank you dr mccord that takes us to item 4.0 request to speak to the governing board and we have one request so i will ask that we play the admonition please the board may make an open call to the public during a public meeting subject to reasonable time place and manner restrictions to allow individuals to address the public body on an issue within the jurisdiction of the public body at the conclusion of the open call to the public individual board members may respond to criticism made by those who have addressed the board may ask the staff to review a matter or may ask a matter be to be put on a future agenda however members of the board shall not discuss or take legal action on matters raised during the open call to the public unless the matters are properly noticed for discussion and legal action during the open call the board requests that speakers refrain from voicing complaints against school personnel or any person connected with the district as it may impact due process rights policy k-e b and k e d are provided by the board for disposition of legitimate complaints including those involving individuals forms required for use of these policies can be obtained from the gilbert public schools website thank you our speaker tonight is chad thompson if you'll come up you have three minutes thank you board members dr mccord i want to address the issue of transparency or rather some holes in the transparency in gps there's no place where parents can go and see exactly what materials their children's teachers are using in the classroom this board voted to purchase a literature program a language arts program called saabas although saabas has technical capabilities to aid in teacher success there are very questionable supplemental materials within this office curriculum that are inappropriate and potentially damaging to the developing minds of our students i'm going to share a couple of examples and unfortunately there's no way to discuss what's in this these materials without using words and language that may be shocking to some here and some viewers online so i don't know if if i should just keep going or if we want to pause what's online okay the first book titled the perks of being a wallflower this book is about a boy that is sexually abused by his aunt and includes scenes of sex drugs multiple incidents of homosexual sex abuse of a minor pedophilia and bullying another book on the supplemental reading list is called looking for alaska this book is the fourth most banned book in the u.s because of the extreme sexual content content like three pages dedicated to how to give a [ __ ] promiscuous teenage sex teenagers watching pornography masturbation drugs profanity underage drinking drinking and driving suicide and detailed language describing various sex acts these are just a couple of the thousands of supplemental materials available to teachers although i believe gps has amazing teachers and i suspect they would not intentionally do anything to negatively impact students or infringe parental rights supplemental materials like this and the lack of transparency leaves opportunities for some of these very questionable materials finding their way into the classroom without com without parental knowledge or consent i would think complete transparency would benefit and protect teachers as much as it would students something as simple as a portal where teachers can where parents can click and see what materials their child's teacher is planning to use in the upcoming weeks teachers can update this as the year progresses and everyone including parents will know exactly what is being taught and what materials are being used this would require minimal effort on the part of teachers and the benefits would be enormous i encourage this board to find ways to be more transparent with parents so trust can be maintained and even increased thank you thank you mr thompson i would ask dr mccord or that we could either address this i don't know that we can address it tonight but how can we address the concerns because i know that we have many of those things actually in place and have addressed some of those concerns so i appreciate them bringing up but i would like to address that we will talk to dr newman will address those issues and i'm sure that it was vetted through the committee in the process so um we'll be able to have answers for those questions should we like at the next board meeting or how do you or what would you like to do well let me get with dr newman first and then i'll let you know okay thank you all right that takes us to 5.01 a monthly budget report mrs betts or dr mccord i'm just going to throw it to mrs thanks i saw her smiling over there good evening dr mccord governing board members president wood as usual at this time the second board meeting we always present the monthly financial reflective of the prior months activity so let me connect so and this is a very short presentation today so this is a report representing year to date june 30 of 2022 please recall that this particular time frame we are in that 60-day encumbrance period from july 1st through august 31st so truly the june 30 transactional information is not complete until the encumbrance period is over but this is our status as of june 30. so we're going to share a couple of reports a couple of the reports with you so we're going to look at the operating funds and specifically the enterprise funds so that's nutrition services and community school so again we always share the maintenance and operations as well as the classroom site fund and unrestricted capital those are our three main operating funds here in gilbert so note that the available balance under the maintenance and operations is 25 million dollars but no two that you just approved the budget the fiscal year 2023 budget that has an estimated budget balance carry forward and that estimated budget balance carry forward is about 29.9 million which is more than that 25 million so we are expecting that over the next two months we will disencumber some of our purchase orders that were not spent that will realize an additional available balance in addition every summer we have normal normal planned scheduled expenses that we move out of maintenance and operations into the other eligible funds as an example dual credit instructional improvement for our instructional aides that help with class size reduction and then jted as well so we are expecting by the end of this encumbrance period that that available balance will be very very close to that budget balance carry forward that we estimated in the adopted budget for fiscal 2023.
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in addition classroom site fund you will see that that available balance has increased from from the may report and the reason for that is we have made it a practice to encumber the pay for performance monies for the whole year these are estimates of course based upon all the teachers that we anticipate will be eligible and so based upon that and the act and the fact that we've already completed all those pays now prior to june 30 there is some money that's unencumbered leaving an increase in that available balance also recall that that of that 14.4 million dollars over seven million dollars of that is due to that one-time money that the legislature allocated to us at the beginning of fiscal 2022.
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so not trying to make sure that we're dutifully using that money we have been holding it in in reserve not understanding what the one-time money really means as it relates to classroom site fund and then finally unrestricted capital outlay the available balance is showing at 26.6 million this also has increased from the may report we also estimated over 28 million dollars in budget balance carry forward in our fiscal 2023 budget and so therefore again the same thing due to supply chain issues as well we've went ahead and ordered a bunch of things so the purchase orders are open and encumbered but we are obligated to receive those items before we can pay for them so you will see encumbrances going into the 2023 school year and so therefore that that available balance of 26.6 million dollars we do expect to increase after the encumbrance period so before i move forward are there any questions on any of those details i i didn't want to go over the classroom site fund we've had some changes this year due to statute could you just remind us of what those are because we're putting more into salary and leaving less for the performance that's correct so the effective fiscal 2022 so effective july 1 of 2021 the legislature approved the collapsing of the three funds associated with classroom site fund so whereas prior to 2022 we had fund 11 12 and 13. now they're all collapsed into fund 10 giving us total flexibility on how those monies are allocated if you recall pay for performance was obligated to be spent at a level of 40 percent on the pay for performance component that has been eliminated except that statute still maintains the requirement that we have a pay for performance element so we are definitely keeping a pay for performance bucket but much of the pay for performance that we normally had allocated out has now been put into our base salaries so that's the biggest change in addition statute was changed to allow us to use the classroom site fund monies that was formerly designated for classroom teachers to include our support services personnel so these are individuals such as social workers psychologists speech pathologists occupational therapists and physical therapists as well as behavioral counselors all of that so we we have taken advantage of that and and moved many of those allocations into those groups as well all right thank you dr santa cruz that's just for clarification uh the available balance in the encumbrances because we have already ordered materials and can only pay for them once we have received them when we reflect the expenditure that expenditure will be reflected in the 2122 budget and won't impact the 2223 budget so if we if our projection was correct and we unencumber and move those expenses to the tune of that four to five million dollars then you will not see a change in budget balance carry forward so if there is an increase or a decrease in budget balance carry forward it will impact our fiscal year 2023 budget okay and that's true of unrestricted capital as well thank you i just wanted to make sure that was clear to those who are viewing okay great and it will not stop the spend so any organization within gilbert that has already ordered whether it's classroom furniture or library furniture or whatever the case may be if it has not come in yet that purchase will roll over into 2023 in preparation for when the materials are finally received but it will then be expended in 2023 not in 2022 okay you okay good so moving forward this is just the details i just shared this is for you to look back and for the public to review and then these are our enterprise funds details we thought it was important to share this because our year-to-date revenues for nutrition services and community schools have been very positive through june 30.
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so you can see nutrition services has received over 20 million dollars in revenues recall that because we were on universal free for all of 2022 and all of 2021 the revenues because everyone's being able to take advantage of free breakfast and lunch so the revenues from the federal government have increased substantially in talking about community schools the year-to-date revenues are about 8.8 million dollars which is a great increase from the prior prior two years due to their achieving near 100 operations except for the lack of staff but they've been working on that too as dr mccord shared so in addition i wanted to share that the 20.5 million dollars on the year-to-date revenues for nutrition services at the end of the encumbrance period that will likely go up because we have a receivable from the federal government from the national school lunch program so we are submitting those claims right now to be reimbursed for all of the activity in june we would not receive those revenues until throughout july and maybe early august just to make sure that that's clear and that's all i have about these two funds are there any questions about these two funds okay then that's the end of our report today thank you thank you miss betts i appreciate that that will take us to 5.02 report on phase 2 energy project led lighting upgrades smart irrigation and artificial turf dr mccord thank you madam president governing board members um this report tonight is something that we wanted to present to you and to get some of your thoughts and ideas from this meeting as well and we'll be taking it to our um why am i drawing a blank the master capital appointment yeah master capital planning and our that committee and get some thoughts and ideas from them as well and we'll determine whether or not we talk about this again so turn it over to ms betts you bet so um just to share the process so we are presenting the high level project overview to you tonight we will be taking the particular project asking for questions and more details to the master capital planning committee on the 8th of august and then take that back to make a final recommendation to all of you at the governing board meeting on the 9th of august so that's our schedule tonight mr brandon woodward of schneider electric he has worked with us in the past he was expecting to be here tonight to present he was unable to do that however i'd like to make sure that you knew that tyler dalela is out in the audience if you'd stand up for a second tyler so he is here to make sure that he can answer any of your clarifying questions this evening and then also as albert is the person on the ground and has been working closely with schneider electric on this project for the last six months we are going to allow him to make the presentation that mr woodward was going to present so with that i'm going to hand it over to mr dutch over thank you miss fitz madam president dr mccord members of the governing board um just as misbet said tyler i apologize brandon couldn't be here so i'm going to present so hopefully i could do him some justice i think he's watching so hopefully i don't ruin this for him um as she noted we're going to review this the the phase two of the lighting irrigation project as i go through skim through feel free to ask questions if needed this is a quick overview just as of our partner uh snyder electric this is their makeup and and some of the the history and their their projects that they've worked on in the past phase one of the energy project was lighting upgrades to our gymnasiums and one multi-purpose room we saw there was a deficiency definitely with our interior competition lighting in in our gyms as well as this is one multi-purpose room at gilbert elementary that was truly depleted the lighting deficiency was was high i think it notes there we did a it previously had uh lighting levels were at 12 we increased to 30 foot candles in in that mult in that area so as we got into this project um you know we talked about it it was definitely something that was that was really thought through rather than just thought of so it wasn't something we just jumped into um misbet said yes we've been talking about it uh inception for the last six months but we've we've had discussions for over a year just to see what best fit see if this would be a best fit situation and we we mapped out these four high level objectives you know we wanted to save energy save water save money increase emino uh staff efficiency modernize the district facilities as well as high visibility to to the community as what we are doing and where their money was going to maintain that transparency so this encompasses our goals um sports field lighting as well as exterior led lighting that's parking lot and perimeter lighting at the facilities that we we are uh touching smart irrigation as well as some uh artificial artificial turf pieces or some xeriscape landscaping pieces we would be implementing so the sportsfield lighting one current challenges are limited control uh of the system there there is there is some remote access some individual on-site uh manual access uh but this would give us a greater control monitoring or management piece to to our our lighting excessive run times inefficient fixtures again with most lighting systems now they're they're either up the equipment's obsolete hard to get or there's a high maintenance piece that goes along with it um poor lighting quality again that noted with our previous project foot candle deficiencies and other pieces there so the biggest item necessarily is safety and maintenance that we're looking to try to try to curb or try to get more efficient at cost regular maintenance again there's pieces to sports lighting and this was one of the drivers to it not necessarily for the sports piece but it was to reduce and become more efficient as a maintenance team um what we do is we do we do do preventative maintenance on the lighting but with the height of the sports field lighting namely in the in the stadiums um that we don't we don't carry a lift to to access that lighting so we have to rent the lift so five or four out of our five comprehensive high schools we take 135 foot lift mesquite high school is the largest we got to go up to 150 foot lift so i wrote down some numbers so our 20 21 22 lift costs uh was 7 500 per week and we only rent it for a week so that was per week now we need two lifts obviously i told you the 135 and the 160.
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uh six sights again we touched six sights and that's secondary so junior high lights uh sport field lights um high school lights with that with that lift within that week's time the 150-footer is for mesquite high school that's a one-day rental the 135 foot boom is 4 800 for the for those for that week the 150 foot boom is 2700 for that one day that we rent that these these are growing costs obviously that's fuel costs we have delivery costs we're looking at 130 dollars per move per site um we utilize two electricians eight hours per day for five days we have three electricians within the district currently i have two i'm down one so i'm using them at the site and we're in we're having to manage time and working standard work orders and things like that around it so we do make this a a true scheduled event again like i said because the time is time consumption cost what we do is we schedule it we may have five lights out in one stadium we get everything going it looks beautiful we get it fired up we get to football season soccer season i got four more that are out so i don't turn around and buy get a lift we kind of just manage that back into the system and currently we do utilize some muscle lighting again uh only those are um the majority of those those sites are out of contract at this point are out of warranty um moscow covers a 10-year warranty that's up technically really up to two years so 10 years is deficiencies with craftsmanship or product that doesn't cover the bulbs that doesn't cover the drivers that doesn't cover receivers we do that in-house maintenance ourselves now this project would entail and include a fully maintenance free 10-year warranty we lose a fixture they're out there they're taking care of the fixture they're supplying the lift they're doing they're they're doing that work for with within that 10-year period so not only craftsmanship maintenance and product coverage for for 10 years albert i do have a question about that um once the 10-year warranty is passed what what would be required for us to address um if a light went out what would we then need to do um what would be the procedure if we had some lights that were out it is so it would be similar back to the to the same um protocol that we're utilizing now again we would probably change a fixture at that point to to address that that issue or that deficiency within that that cluster of lights again 10 years down the line depending on where technology is i don't have the true details i mean potentially just like other pieces of equipment i'm assuming we would have a warranty on that piece so coverage may be there but again i don't have the answer beyond that 10 10 year okay so i appreciate that thank you would we just have if at that time would our all of our football fields have the same uh height of polls so that we'd only have to rent one lift this project so with this one we're still utilizing the same same poll uh basis okay so they'll still be different they will still be different the majority will be able to get touched by the 135-footer the 150 and we've been asked in the past about a lift this is a pretty sizable lift it's uh pulled by a semi and flat bed and it'd be fun to drive but not cost wide cost efficient so okay thank you um again this is a modernization uh of those sports lights um definitely significant improvement we're gonna get more efficiency uh more light distribution on that field it's more of a controllable light a directional light so we can reduce our light pollution focus mainly on that competition piece um this is something that again we could help relieve some of the the shadowing or shading um become and create more of a safe playing environment one thing we did add into this is what that would come with this project is rgb technology which allows for color changing um pieces so we could the venues could be more of a functional or controllable venue we can incorporate school colors or or band events controllable pieces for ceremonies such as graduation commencement speeches or other rentable um events that allow our venue it basically enhances the interaction of our venues so albert before you go on to the video um today if we lost power or something and the lights went out in a stadium didn't you say that we have to they have to cool down get warmed up again before they can go back on yeah so currently we run metal halides um again it's the two device piece we got a ballast we got a light bulb or we got we gotta have the bulb so as many know once those go down whether it's a power outage whether somebody forgot to schedule the lights um you got a 10 10 to 20 minute warm-up period then they got to cool back down once power comes back up um they got to warm back up again so this is more instantaneous on and off um less likely sometimes what happens is when you do have that that in rush with with some of the metal halide or incandescent bulbs you do tend to lose one or two um from time to time i mean that's rare but it does tend to happen this is a little bit different um technology so we have more of a efficient uh infrastructure piece now our wood do we have an idea of how long these light bulbs themselves might last i i honestly i do not um i know that just similar with other led products more likely i would assume they would have a an hour's life but i'm just outside of that 10-year warranty but we could get into some more of that detail down the line though as far as specifics to each individual fixture um i could defer that question to tyler if tyler does no if not that would be awesome um thank you madam president dr mccoy members of the board uh to answer your question uh leds last much longer and with the run times with these uh you could you could expect 20 25 years out of these so um the the technology these days compared to the metal halide is night and day so all right thank you i appreciate that and so we'll get into a video that kind of shows the the function of of the lights and their capacity of the of the controllable system one thing i do i would note too like i said with some of the controllability or management we're able to do that um similar to some of our pieces we have in play like our ems were able to use a a tablet we could function lights we could control lights individually it gives us another maintenance piece or maintenance management piece that we could interact with or interface with i'll play the quick video and go from there [Music] so [Music] uh one thing i want to note real quick although you know we i did talk about the the stadium lightings and things like that or kind of show to showcase what that would involve um the stadium lighting is a is a piece of this project overall project is was to get better um was to get better with technology so the large a larger piece of that project is truly the led upgrade of both perimeter and parking lot lighting at nine facilities um all five comprehensive high schools two junior highs desert ridge and highland junior gca and canyon valley that was something at those facilities again the largest quantity of lights are at our larger facilities those those comprehensive high schools they those two are do have technologies that are failing so we're having problems finding fixtures fixtures are obsolete i believe at highland high we have walkway lighting i have about eight poles that are out we have the poles but the fixtures we can't match up so we could put hodgepodge poles i wouldn't go back to the high pressure sodium lighting that they that they have in those lights i'd go led but then i again i wouldn't have a consistency the uniformity of lighting would be off so when we were holding events um we would have shadowing we would have just a true inconsistency in inconsistency or poor areas um again with anything else like anything else there's other pieces to to lighting so not only enhanced security enhanced safety and those are the pieces that we really you know i i really wanted to go off of as well as not only the sa the maintenance pieces that we're gonna gain out of out of those lights in the in the stadiums um so here's some of the efficiency with the retrofit as a whole you can see um a couple areas that we're looking to to touch are gca's north lot that has when we plan that school we we put in a parking lot for student parking not knowing how much it would grow that does not have a true it's a lit parking lot not only for the students at night early mornings later mornings but for events so it's it's a dark area you can see they technically have zero foot candles um in in that area gilbert high school the other another big piece for me and and i noticed that going through just my time driving around um was that north drive their north drive that's not only us utilized by parents and staff but toy box so parents are bringing their kids in as early as 6 a.m and i mean we're talking november it's pitch black out there and and we're trying to take little ones out that was kind of a concern to me for that safety piece as well as uh parents pick up and drop off that it's basically their dead of night in a sense when they're dropping them off for picking them up so those are pieces that we want to we want to nail and hopefully get get better at and then again as we add we want to make sure we're becoming efficient across the board and we're uniform so when i when a head goes down on the other side of campus it's going to be the same one on the north side of campus is so so that again in itself helps us from a maintenance standpoint because we're not buying multiple pieces to put in at the same location or same spot we we become more uniform or efficient in that sense again we're also adding lights and to so to those entrance pieces um but we've just uh built uh multiple sand volleyball courts again those are those are venues that have no lighting currently we would add additional lighting not to the not to the scope of what i just shown you for the stadium pieces but we would add new improved efficient lighting for those areas another piece of this project again it's it's it's largely encompassing of quite a few things is smart irrigation that that's another thing that we want to get better at um not only scheduling for events uh it's a good management piece again it's something we could use our guys could use from our tablets we're looking we're looking at sites that i mean i jotted down a couple numbers but mesquite high 77 acres that entire sites roughly 70 70 acres 77 acres desert ridge is 66 acres now it may be a hundred yards from a controller from a valve box and when our guys are out there um trying to test sprinkler heads or our troubleshoot with this it gives us the capability to do it within the palm of our hands not having uh using utilizing two um two technicians one on one side talking with radios or whatever it may be um they're able to do this on their own operate um operate valves check heads check the facility for water and we can monitor it eventually we could build out capabilities for for leak management you know isolation points things like that that this will give us the base infrastructure to build out to um as well as um scheduling i talked about events that we've had in in the past where somebody forgot to schedule uh sprinklers and and it may have been a parent camp out at an elementary school and what happens sprinklers go on everybody goes into panic mode they start getting into valve boxes turning off valves and doing doing whatever they need to get the water off again they go on with their weekend they have a good time and we forget about it well it usually happens around this time so what happens it's 115 out grass dies within two weeks we don't know what's going on find out somebody turns the valve off so things like that helps us manage it mitigate it expedite um response one thing i wanted to know i wanted to to read the comment from johnny gutierrez who is our athletic ground supervisor and he's been in on this process with me every step of the way this is kind of his baby in a sense because he he's on the ground there for those pieces he said adding smart irrigation systems with remote access would be a huge win for our facilities our facilities team we spent close to 16 to 18 man hours a week manually adjusting controls that we'd be able to remotely in a matter of minutes um and that's true like i said we may be 100 yards 200 yards if not further from multiple zones or multiple controllers um and the guys have to go in there and manually input each one where we could do that from an office we could do that from the palm of our hands um this would totally in it enhance that efficiency no question is there a separate software license required for controlling the lighting and the irrigation this one um let me defer to tyler again on that one we did discuss it he's got all the details better details i should say uh your question was in terms of software and controls uh yeah so that with the system that we selected that uh with the rain bird uh there is a software that is applied with it uh the software itself is a free of charge uh in order for the online access and everything that with everything that we're currently looking at we're looking at doing cellular so there's a cellular charge on an annual basis but that's it there's no um there's no other software charges for that no annual fee or anything no just just for the cellular service which is directly from rainbow okay thank you and again benefits of the modernization i apologize i should have put that slide on ahead of time is just again monitoring that times i was um i mean right now we've had a couple storms nothing drives you crazier i mean we're trying to work on these fields it's arizona we don't know it they say it's going to rain 100 chance it won't rain five percent chance it's going to come down you know five inches so it's it drives us crazy to see that knowing that we just have we have the sprinklers running so the sprinklers are running and running running some of these pieces like i said we could build out to a larger infrastructure this gives us our base to start off um to improve but things like saturation rates or or rain monitoring things like that that will hold those back so we're not watering during those times or watering when we don't need to and potentially watering only when we need to depending on that the saturation of those of the soil so pieces that we could eventually get to i do have a question on this so does this mean that we would need to replace the current irrigation system completely or just add in these smart controllers just add in the smart controllers so so not only was rainbird a good product we did we did vet a few products high level rain bird i know rain birds uh a common name and and it kind of like what do they bring they do have a pretty intricate system and it's literally just about as plug and play as you could get um it's it has front end pieces that are familiar with our guys already so they don't have to learn a new piece um language friendly so we could alternate languages as well so it's there's pieces in there that are just gonna the guys are just gonna hit the ground running when they get into them so um really it's just the control piece we don't have to dig up any of the systems or any of the infrastructure pieces any of the valves they it works with them um pardon me the valve some of the valve pieces we may need to change but as far as a hole this we're gonna we're this front end piece is gonna be the biggest change out and will we use this when we try to use this across all of our campuses or start with some campuses what is the plan for that yeah so the irrigation piece again yeah we are going to start with some of the campuses and like i said the secondary obviously is the larger need the larger acreage pieces for it we are going to touch those areas and hopefully build out to the rest of our facilities this is again it was the the other part of the part of this like i said was was trying to establish something that works and that's why we wanted to partner with schneider uh we could have did this separately there's there's some brainstorming sessions and things like that trying to find what the best use is and what's best for our facility and what's the best what's the best product that we could ease into and hopefully have limit any any bumps in the road or any errors along the way but definitely the smart irrigation like i said there's some there's over 50 controllers at five high schools just the five high schools alone some of those high schools have up to 54 stations um so so this this helps us operate each one of those stations so imagine a guy just being there in front of one going through 54 stations when we could utilize him you know somewhere else or or taking care of his day-to-day work so so the time frame of maybe completing the smart irrigation might be a multi-year time frame or just a couple years one year what as far as from the standpoint of these nine facilities or i i guess if you're starting with nine i would that be this year then yeah this year and we'll move forward with other campuses then we'd move forward again this would give us that process we could we could vet that we could vet the system how do we get better as we move into you know potential future projects things like that okay thank you but the cost is just for these nine facilities the cost is just for these nine facilities okay thank you mr dutch over yeah you mentioned the term build out curious about the actual hardware and mechanisms both for the irrigation and for the lcd lighting should we expand is it flexible enough so that those expansion pieces are readily available or do they turn over just like every technological piece every 18 months and what we buy today will not be available 18 months from now uh yes or no so um definitely in the lighting again as we see as as we see um advancements of course of you know what we buy today is is going to be something different than what we could buy tomorrow we're actually with this system um we're putting ourself i feel in a good position where we're not buying that base level um we're actually looking looking forward um progressively in a sense that we will be within those few years we will still be running with the pack um getting close to that life you know that through that life cycle of the led now the the smart controllers that that one was more a true large caveat of this of of that selection our current system can work with these controllers and it's integratable in a sense that um there's things in there that that allow us to function and grow like i said you we could when i talk build out there's flow sensors that are that are currently in in production that we could eventually use with these systems or we could build to that so we could keep our what we've just purchased and add other pieces that are coming out to that to help like i said help that management piece so if i if i get a call that has sprinklers on a valve won't shut off or have a line break um we could isolate that main valve so we're not wasting water through a long weekend through through a vacation um or a break again those are pieces that will be able to integrate down the line as they you know they're they they come forward or they they get to um completion phases as far as they build them out and grow these systems you answered the second part of my question i'm getting a sense that the system is flexible enough that as it enhances from year to year from a company standpoint that it may still fit with the existing system so that there is compatibility with the new and the existing yes okay uh some of the artificial turf solutions or landscaping pieces again this is this is mainly based on curb appeal curb appeal in use i shouldn't say mainly based um as you look here to the left we have um we have a wrought iron fence next to a small strip of grass there at at gca which again we have to water so we water water and metal obviously we're going to deteriorate that fence at the cost of um iron these days we're putting ourselves at a large expense the the goal is to try to mitigate any of those areas or relieve any additional cost of that we're taking on unnecessary costs um by putting in artificial turf that way we could we could do away with the watering at that point similar to what we did at neely which is to the right there for their pickup and drop off area now we also looked at a couple high schools desert ridge and mesquite high school they have some large frontage areas curb appeal areas that that are high use again have some nice shade trees some some other things that from time to time we we lose that those we lose that those landscaping pieces so those are our curb that's our curb appeal so trying to maintain that sometimes comes at a struggle this would help us alleviate some of those worries with maintaining that uh curb appeal year round um and then to the far right you could kind of just see some more deteriorative damage that this is a um prolonged watering and um hitting the fence and and block is is done over time at another one of our facilities here's our saving opportunities again here's a uh here here's a breakdown of what facilities would be touched and and what's being done at at each facility like i said it's nine facilities uh multiple pieces are being being hit and you can see like i said the larger piece is that exterior retrofitting parking lot perimeter lighting all nine of those facilities would be done throughout with all their exterior lighting building lighting and parking lot lighting if i could add um to this slide so note the project cost at the bottom 6.7 million dollars for all these projects and it says in self-funding district modernization so remember that albert introduced this as an energy project so generally speaking when you do an energy project you are leasing back the equipment that you're going to add to the organization in this particular case albert and i knew we had all of these needs but we asked schneider to come forward and say hey we know we have all these needs we know that we're going to capture energy savings and water savings and m o savings can you quantify those savings for us and give us an idea and guarantee that we will see these savings over the life of the project and so that's what they've done here so we're not going to borrow money twice we already have the bond dollars but i hope if if there's anything that you gained from the pre from the presentation today is that we're not trying to find projects to fit we're trying to capture projects that we know we need to do and then just ask our partner to quantify what those savings could be so that we can share it with the community to say hey not only are we making upgrades that we need to to make but we are realizing savings that in the long run will actually pay back those costs so just wanted to make sure that was clear i just had one question on the led retrofit for the volleyball you've got that at gilbert high school and mesquite high school do we have volleyball lighting at those other high schools no there's no so those two would be true retrofit so we're pl head replacements um they currently have the lighting infrastructure but we would again maintain that consistency we just upgrade those lighting those lights there as well um yes those other so those other facilities uh desert ridge high um highland high school and campbell verde high school do not have currently do not have any lighting infrastructure there okay all right thank you um again obviously after this presentation this this is just uh our following steps preceding this any additional questions one i know there's been some discussion with gca on their athletic field is there any plan to provide lighting for them so this this is the one we've we've gone um and i may defer back to miss pets uh we have so so i will say i will i do want to make a point to say this is something we did look at as part of this project but the proximity pole placement some other things kind of left us vulnerable for true lighting pollution just because of the the tight proximity of where the homes are to the the field it wasn't glanced over definitely we did look at it we did schneider helped us out there and did some photometrics and some other things um to to see what what that would look like and it did have some pollution implications um again i'd probably defer to miss betts uh for some additional inputs dr mccord do you want to take this one you betcha this is something that you know we've talked about over time and more than any i'd love to have lighting there so all of our facilities had the most appropriate lighting for whatever events they had there that evening but it's difficult because we have a community that has been well established for a long time and that school has been there for a long time and the last thing we want to do is encroach on their privacy in their backyards with light pollution and so we're looking at some other alternatives to be able to utilize some portable lighting to be able to help out with specific events but ensure the community knows that those aren't permanent and that we could turn them on at any time so we're kind of exploring some of those options for them because we're trying to we're trying to please everybody at once and we don't know if we actually can but we're going to do our best thank you you're welcome any further questions miss you jetty do you have any questions no i got all of mine answered earlier thank you i'm i i thank you for that i did i'm sorry i do have one more question because um oh gosh it's been a while since those automobile um dealerships were built on gilbert road but there was a letter to the editor at that time someone who was saying that you know they were putting too much lighting in and when it was built it seemed like they had excess of lighting how can we be sure that we're providing the lighting that we need and not adding to light pollution or providing more lighting than in is necessary for the circumstances that we'll be using the lighting for so so with these led led lighting is more directional we could focus more especially in those stadium areas more towards the the actual field of play right now we're looking at at the surface some of our lighting has uh 30 foot candles um that's because you're losing some lighting in some other areas it's again with the technology we're going to provide we're trying to target that 50-foot candle range directly onto that surface allowing us to pull whatever we're losing to the outside back into into that contained area so that was i'll be honest with you even speaking back to the gca project is like we i i can't say one thing about one area and not focus on that potential with other potential pollution in other areas so that was a main main goal to capture as much pollution do not add any more pollution if anything reduce light pollution um that's bleeding off to the neighborhoods because again there's quite a few of these schools neighbor neighborhoods so housing development so we wanted to make sure we did not um exceed we got better in our or any potential light pollution that was out there so we we did definitely look at that okay thank you i appreciate that that that's really an important issue um and we just i you know we need to be aware of it and when those dealerships went in i was like yeah that guy was kind of right um suddenly it was really bright on gilbert road and not necessarily all on the dealership so i really want us to make sure we do a good job of of keeping that light pollution down as much as we can and snyder did like i said they did a good job um like i said as we developed this they did every site they did a photometric study at what these fixtures would produce where they were what their range was and how much would hit the surface and how much would hit the outer areas so we they did focus quite a bit on that in those studies so and then the other good thing is like i said we'd be able to manage it better so when we get that someone forgot the lights on at the football field we just turn over and hit the lights and go on all right thank you i had a just two quick questions one um have other have we seen this in other districts or other schools have we seen this kind of thing going on um led lighting yes i believe so i i'd actually defer again to tyler we we have in other districts maybe not to this capacity our neighboring actually one of one of the areas i i went to look at the demo for one of the products was santan high school which is next to highland high school so which is a charter school right next to highland they have a different style of fixture than we're looking for but they have an led lighting upgrade there for their football field and then a few other high schools that do have them i know there wasn't i'll let tyler speak to it but i know they there was i believe chaparral high school and then there was some things there that he may want to talk to you thank you madam person uh a good question uh uh for football fuel lights you know that it is becoming more and more popular to go with led um so this is what's really awesome about this project is it's not you just guys are getting ahead of the curve you guys are going extra with the rgb lighting and controls so uh to go back to your question about you know the longevity or you know the uh flexibility you guys are setting the new standard for for high schools in the area so yes it is led lights are becoming the thing for football field lights it's just the technology evolution overall uh but you know and this this not only matches it but it does exceed it does that answer your question yep that's good thank you awesome dutch over so do you feel like if we change changing out these lights that we have do you feel like we've got the life and use out of the lights that we are that have originally been in place and that we've maximized you know the use of the lights that are already there like is there a reason that we would feel like you hadn't you know how old are these lights that you're looking at replacing especially like the stadiums and and even around the schools so the perimeter lighting we'd have to look at each high school but you're looking at maybe uh 15 to 30 years um actually 30 years plus because we're talking gilbert high school so some of those fixtures are are life of the building some in some of the remodel areas maybe a little bit newer but highland high school that's those fixtures are have been there since 93.
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um and again stadium lighting as well i can't i mean we're looking at you know 15 to 20 years on some of these lights like i said out of all our facilities only three sites still carry a muscle warranty south valley which we're not touching at this time in highland junior there are two that have them there so so areas we're not touching still carry it but like i said they were a 10-year warranty and we're well with outside of that warranty so we're we're like i said we're um probably 20 years plus with some of these lights the infrastructure pieces are stained like the poles and things like that so okay albert on the highland junior lights refresh my memory we did we installed those or was that the city of mesa and then they ended up after so much amount of time they gave them to gilbert public schools uh those ones i'm that that maybe have been been before my time i don't know exactly how that went because they are one of the few like i said south valley and highland junior are the few that have um or highland junior has our yeah the only one with stadium lights on that field so i think we took control of those over like 2005 or six and uh yeah because when the fields were rented it was an interesting deal because we would do the field rental but if they wanted lights we had to work through the city of mesa and i think when they were originally built when the school was built in order to light fields more fields for youth sports the city of mesa put that in with i think after a 10-year commitment they rolled over to our control so yeah so to answer your question i feel we've gotten plenty life out of the out of the fixtures and technology okay and so i heard so maintenance um safety um what are any other deficiencies or benefits that have made these a priority these changes that have made these a priority for you um just to that i can't speak enough to the maintenance piece i'll be honest not only the man hours but but again we i mean nothing nothing happens in the middle of the summer when nobody's there i got five lights that end up going out in a walkway or or whatever it may be then all of a sudden we're scrambling to try to find uh you know during an event we're trying to find um i'm drawing a blank now we're trying to find uh obsolete fixtures we're trying to find a retrofit piece we're trying there's other pieces that we're trying to find and we're trying to just work from scratch i will you know i'll you know one story i could give you is uh highland high school what we did in the past and it was right before the start of school and it was it was going to be uh um somewhat a meet the teacher night or something like that we lost the large uh walkway poles um that are in in the in all the walkways throughout the campus so i had i had our guys still heads from about off the field so we could get those going so we basically rob peter to pay paul um and it's just become harder so like in some of these storms some of the areas where um where light poles have been hit with water and then they've fallen over and and the head's broken so now we don't have nothing to steal from we're trying to find heads and we gotta this was even a conversation prior to this this um discussion of the project was okay what we're going to do is we're going to buy the the 10 heads we need and then we're going to take the 10 heads from the back and we're going to take those we're going to put those over here we're going to put those heads over here and then we'll have you know efficient lighting across the board so you where we get creative we're trying to get creative but this will help us in that case this will give us a newer technology um like i said even just some of the the those fixtures being obsolete um that tells you how much life we've gotten out of them you know that technology and and i'll be perfectly honest that taking some of that technology at the time may have been on the cusp of of being obsolete at the within that five to ten year time um that is why when we look to it we look for something that will put put us in that mid-range like we don't want to start from behind we want to start ahead just as tyler said we want to be ahead of the game we want to set the standard because that only benefits us that creates efficiency pieces ease of replacement and things like that and lowers those maintenance costs so um to add to that mrs wood um i in my talking with brandon about the project and tyler maybe you could help me out here but i do believe he said that our lighting level in our stadiums is deficient so i think the target is what 50 foot candles or something and what are we what are we at we're at we're at 30.
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so there is some um some level of getting us up to the standard for stadiums that goes to safety as well of our athletes and those using our fields thank you dr santa cruz mine is not a question but a comment and that is having spent a good portion of my life on a high school and junior high school campus safety is an important feature and let's just not talk about athletics at at the moment let's talk about an evening event at any one of our high schools a concert dramatic production a meeting of some sort and our customers our parents are going into the parking lot to their vehicles and a good number of the lights in the parking lot are not functioning it's pretty dark out there and we have had more than one situation where uh an elderly person or maybe not even quite so elderly a person tripped on a crack in the concrete because it was dark and they couldn't see those drop-off points for the younger kids particularly toy box those become a hazard for us so the safety feature is is really really an important one albeit you know we're looking at an expense to be sure but we're also looking at the safety now moving into the athletic realm of those young people who play on those fields and shadowing on a night baseball game could be deadly uh shadowing on an evening football game could hurt someone pretty severely so those pieces are there and then lastly the efficiency of upgrading and the ecological impact on consumption of energy and the expense that we would incur by not updating really provides a great deal of food for thought for me thank you dr santa cruz are there any other questions or comments thank you very much mr dutch over we appreciate it ms betts thank you thank you and and we have the timeline as we go forward to continue looking at this so thank you very much that concludes our reports and will take us to the consent agenda items 6.01 approval of consent agenda items board members may have a motion i move that we approve the consent agenda items as presented thank you miss humphries it's been moved as our second second second thank you mr parker we it's been moved and seconded that we approve the consent agenda items as as presented and i will call for a vote all those in favor please vote by saying aye aye those oh bye thank you those opposed with nay that will pass 5-0 thank you board members that takes us to the request for future agenda items is there anything at this time please as always let myself dr mccord miss wilson know there's something to be put on the agenda that you would request that will take us now to board committee reports beginning with the gilbert education foundation we are meeting this week to plan out the year so i'll have more next month that's my report 8.02 city of mesa liaison and legislative representative miss humphries i have nothing to report tonight thank you 8.03 town of gilbert liaison dr santa cruz i have nothing to report 8.04 finance and audit committee mr parker nothing to report 8.05 insurance trust representative mrs eugetti we haven't met yet so i have nothing to report okay we will i will expect more next next month from all of us as we meet again um dr mccord could you please go over our meeting dates thank you madam president board members august 9th we have a board work study and a brief board business meeting august 16th we have a board policy committee meeting and august 23rd we have our regular board business meeting thank you very much that takes us to 10.01 for adjournment board members is there a motion i move to adjourn thank you ms humphries is there a second thank you dr santa cruz it's been moved and seconded that we adjourn all those in favor please vote by saying aye i think she hung up oh she disconnected okay thank you any oppose with me okay we have adjourned and we appreciate your attendance tonight thank you very much you
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good evening everyone and thank you for attending our board meetings we're going to get started uh there has been adequate notice of this meeting provided by the board of education june 23rd 2022 notice and the co-star setting for the date time and place for this meeting similar notice has been posted in the town hall the brielle school website and the borough clerk has in november pearl caucus mr becker dr d ambrosio mrs jones president dr lavelle mrs mcdevitt here mr melancelidge here mrs reed here mr vitale mr wolverine i'll second that mr becker yes dr kimbrough here mrs jones yes mrs mcdevitt yes mr melance yes mrs reed yes mr walter and do we have any presentations no presentations there's a big fairy matter you know visitors are permitted to discuss to comment on agenda items only at this time and uh any correspondence yes we received a letter from mrs jane lohmann dear mrs jones and the board of education members i can't express the gratitude i feel for the recognition at our last board meeting i am so proud to be honor for my service to brielle school i have had the most wonderful teaching career and celebrating my time with brielle is the closure i could only dream of the clock gift is beautiful and will remain on my mantle please know that i appreciate all the opportunities i've had over the years teaching so many brielle students even though i worked so hard it never felt like work because all of because of my love of teaching all the best sincerely eugene loven thank you and we'll move on to committee reports just for generations we did have a meeting this month it was just the other day on the 26th it was intended by myself mrs jones mrs reed in the full body of the administration chris and jen although i took extensive notes as you will see i did not have enough time to fully prepare an official report and i will do so before this week's up we spoke about a number of subjects including uh the blazer and esy all the way to social emotional goals reach programs including different uh curriculum infusions such as civics and what have you we also called at length to diversity and inclusion and to what extent equity still fits into that in relation to policy 24-22 again i'll have a full report that's public and everybody in the next few days but for now that's it as you've heard um i would like to add kurt during our meeting we talked about um that the policy 2422 doesn't have the word equity and there was some question about that so i contacted on uh phil in the castro and peter salerno the attorney said uh strauss esme and i asked the question and so their response just okay so i'll just read to you their response they said the reason for the word equity not being included in policy guide 2422 is because we use the title of the statute section to identify each curriculum item listed and policy guide 24-22 the title to the statutes section njsa 1835 436 a is curriculum to contain instruction on diversity inclusion so to answer your question there was no change to the statute or the policy guide in which the word equity was removed we hope this clears up any confusion as always feel free to reach out to us um so of course i needed a little recovery so i asked him i asked him you know i wanted to make sure that legally equity is to be included in the curriculum um so he said so he attached um he attached the controlling statue and so that and i could send that to all the board members um so you can see so in there he highlighted that it says here the instruction shall highlight and promote diversity including economic diversity equity inclusion tolerance and belonging in connection with gender and sexual orientation race and ethnicity disabilities and religious tolerance so um i understood it um and andy's here maybe he could um speak on this the way i understood it is that even though it's not on the title it's still included in the curriculum any questions or comments on for her okay i do want to add that it's important to uh remember that it's not that we're teaching equity diversity inclusion per se it's more that it's infused into everyday curriculum whether it be math or science or civics or social studies so you know it's i think personally i think it's tough to teach someone how to be ethical either they are not or be inclusive if you are not infusing it into the curriculum those three topics is important is there in terms of uh the actual detailed curriculum we've been doing a lot of work this summer on well that piece will not be made the general stuff will be made to the public that stuff is for the teachers and we're going to do like uh in september we plan on we talk about this the other day and we plan on doing an open house for parents to talk to them about the health curriculum because they're concerned so you can't see the entire curriculum you'll see the entire curriculum but the actual lesson plan that is not gonna that does not make the public that is okay any other questions and sean if anyone if you ever wanted to see the curriculum you can always talk with jen and she'll share the curriculum lately because um she and i have sat down and she shared you know the curriculum with them now lesson plans is different because each individual teacher creates their own lesson plans and that's something that they use in the classroom too so that's a little different i mean i'm not thinking about a lesson plan per se but i think there's i was planning there's a difference on the section of our website that has many more detail in terms of what's being covered in a particular particular module or i don't know the exact wording and be published in the past like oh this is what they're going to be studying this week here's four concepts right so i don't know necessarily a lesson plan so much as here's the course outline like facilities taught at that particular time that's probably the pacing gun maybe you want to see the pacing guide and that i asked her for that at the meeting she's still working on that so her and her and her team they're still working on the pacing guide and also the framework of what the teachers will be using okay and we know this whole process is going to take us at least two years because it's not something that's going to be ready in september this is a process a very pleased process so we don't have any other questions for her human resources joe we met [Music] tonight from 6 45 where we cover the items on the agenda if anybody has any questions any questions for john so uh we'll move on to policy sean sure thank you um yes apology committee did meet on monday at 5 pm um i thank really represented the administration president jones uh myself and uh dr davio representative ward um apologies for this report being late we had to reschedule this number of times um i also do of course need to cancel the august 18th policy meeting uh now as we're meeting the board meeting is new to 17 so fall after it so we will meet again in september tonight the majority meeting we spent going over policy modifications that will be read first reading this evening um that came from strauss estimates alert two to eight fairly late policy updates here most of it was updated to modernize the phrasing of certain policies uh there was a couple notable ones so policy due to legislature changes strengthens requirements for ada and 508 requirements on our website um and typically our website we're using third parties that go through these 508 uh compliance audits before they're able to sell their platform so for instance blackboard and atlas now board docs uh the platforms themselves tend to be 508 compliant but as we start to use them we will put our own content onto them and one of the ones i just want to point out that we need to be particularly aware of is that if we post a pdf that's just a scan and it's not ocr readable um we're supposed to have to include an html version because otherwise a screen reader wouldn't be able to read that content so as we publish documents to the to the website um we need to keep that in mind uh policy 5517 requires any student id cards that are provided for schools seventh grade and above contain the new jersey suicide prevention hope line or the nj hope line and also the contact information for a crisis text line uh i was told the time we didn't currently have id cards but we will be having id cards for seventh graders um then there was a final policy in here which discusses uh student media and goes to great lengths to explain that uh students that are producing media from school whether it's written video media or social media have a right to freedom of speech however there are limitations and defines what those limitations are that the school has discretion over and it's the things that you would probably expect in terms of slander or liable provocation incitement those types of things that are prohibited but it does outline a if the school makes a determination that a student was making uh was doing something that was against those rules that there's a appeals process that has to be formalized so that's it for those uh those eight policies that are going across um i also want to thank the board and the policy committee for approving the board docs platform we are in the process of scheduling required training um to be able to convert our policies to board docs and looking to try to get that set up for august that primarily will lead diane and myself for for the training but we'll also need it support as well for administration of the platform and the final piece is that all the board is welcome to that training if you want to attend it uh particularly the last hour which will cover how the platform works including how a policy approval will move from we get the update from strauss esme we bring it to the to the policy committee meeting and we push it through the first and second reading so that's all i have thank you questions and i'm sure everyone's going to sign up for the training all right and so we're moving on to community relations uh the committee did not need this last month we'll resume as we re-enter the school here thank you so much okay um administrative report well it's been a very busy summer and i want to begin by thanking uh colin savior jen love murray president alexander lombo and lisa mata for uh working with us in the interview process tonight we're hiring a number of amazing people some of who are here tonight uh i want to point out um those who are here it's um catherine terestina is right here we are so fortunate to have her join us reena is at the end everything's in the middle and also uh marina is also going to be our uh interventionist and kelly jack woods is going to be our fifth grade language artist as well as uh we're hiring ot tara healey some of you with her and colleen we're hiring as a teacher aide but we still have many more to hire we have interviewed well over 50 people for the eight positions that we have available so it's been our entire summer doing that the process is um is not easy but we always pride ourselves that brielle is always hiring the best teachers and uh the three people that are here with us tonight are every three of our clients and teachers are not building so i want to welcome them and uh i i feel very fortunate that they'll be working with our children in uh this building uh and also i i am overwhelmed um i sent that a little letter last week and the amount of board members uh present and past teachers president pass especially children who have ridden their bikes here or see me here at wrecker extended school year academy um their their response to my retirement uh they i think many thought i was going to be here a lot longer but in the letter that i wrote my family right now wants to see me start a new chapter and i'm rather excited i'm bittersweet but i'm rather excited to be starting a new chapter come next year so it's been my pleasure serving here for 15 years let me remind you because i said it's personnel that in 35 years there have only been three administrators here so that says a lot about this district and the board of education and the community that three people have led this community for 35 plus years and i hope that continues that in the next 35 that you only have three superintendents that would be my wish that that happens here because it was a great place and the children most importantly and teachers deserve that so thank you thank you you're welcome any comments or questions so we're the policy the number of hivs that were adjudicated not to be hits throughout the year i'm sorry i you didn't like this on monday so basically history policy 2512 requires us to report annually to the board the number of hiv incidents that were educated not to be hivs and we picked july the july movie for that we'll get those even more so we're going to move on to action items um curricular programs kirk thank you dolly i would like to go for the motion action items day one through day seven on [Applause] yes and for district operations that's not your date i have a question about this what do they do with these computers many years past that nothing has released the disability and they take things apart to use it for other pieces and if you want to see what their office looks like they'll take you for a trip of course jessica's here i'm telling and then as far as this other the remote learning that is that that's just the contingencies in case we had to do that again and they require that retirement so i like to put forth items b1 through v6 for approval yes mrs jones yes this is mcdevitt yes mr milan no this is me yes mr wolfe yes the board approves uh the following policies and regulations for a first reading see one second [Music] yes and next is human resources but before before you um make a motion joe i'd like to um just have a little something i wrote that's okay so today when i asked joe to make a motion to move human resources it comes with great sadness to me because of my d22 motion that the board of education approves the resignation of christine carlson superintendent for the purpose of retirement effective descending december 31 2022 mrs carlson has dedicated 15 years to our community and more importantly our children her signature closing on all of her letters is keeping children first and for the last 15 years she has done that our brielle learning community has been fortunate and blessed beyond pleasure to have had someone like chris carlson with her years of experience commitment and unwavering determination to create an environment where our children feel safe thrive and excel i must also mention that she has beautified this building everyone who comes here is very impressed lastly for me personally chris has not just been a superintendent when i first joined the board 11 years ago we had a board member superintendent relationship that soon evolved into a mentor-mentee relationship as i also worked in education i recall when she encouraged me to seek an administrator's position when i was a teacher and i did our relationship evolved and became a friendship and as with all friendships there are differences and disagreements but it was always handled with respect grace and love there is a scripture in the bible that says well done good and faithful servant chris you should feel proud because you have served our children and the brielle community well as you always close your letters with keeping children first the time has come my friend for you to keep your family first your leadership and friendship will be greatly missed i pray that you will enjoy many beautiful well-deserved years thank you [Applause] [Music] [Applause] so now joe if you could human resources yes yes it's the wall yes [Applause] is congratulations any discussion yes i want to um we had back in the navy um brought up the policy change for 75-10 which was um the need to have uh security packets or workbooks for folks operating the building other than teachers such as mid monmouth or rec department and want to thank spaldino for following up from that meeting with an example go packet that her district used um so thank you so much for following up with that that policy did pass uh in the june meeting i just wanted to know have we developed anything for that purpose for the coming school year for uh midnight or other folks in the building correct et cetera [Music] it won't be the extensive packet that we go through with the staff it'll really just be the part of the packet that needs to be involved for those that are going to appear post hours thank like you or just says yes [Music] notion that the board authorizes payment on the following june 30th 22 and july 22 bill's list and if the secretary is authorized to draw warrants that treasure in the total amount of six 844 sixty one thousand ninety one cents all the second time thank you mr beck mr banker yes dr dan brosher yes mrs jones yes yes and this evening there won't be an executive session and someone make a motion i'd like to make a motion yes [Applause] [Music] i
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okay um so i call this meeting to order um welcome to the july 28 2022 electronic meeting of the environmental commission this meeting is in accordance with executive orders from the governor to affect social distancing and mitigate the spread of the covet-19 virus we intend to conduct this meeting similarly to an in-person meeting however please be patient if there are technical issues public comment will be via telephone only to speak during any of the public comment opportunities please call 877-853-5247 and enter meeting id 989-2851637 [Music] again uh the phone number to call is eight seven seven eight five three five two four seven and the meeting id is nine eight nine two eight five one one six this information is also available on the published agenda in the public notices section of the city website and on the broadcast of this meeting on ctn channel 16 at t channel 99 and online at www.a2gov.org watch ctn one word okay let's see um galen do you want to read the land heritage statement i sure will land heritage statement i acknowledge that the land the city of ann arbor occupies is the ancestral traditional and contemporary lands of the anishinabe including oduwa ojibwe and boldawadmi and widened out peoples i further acknowledge that our city stands like almost all property in the united states on lands obtained generally in unconscionable ways from indigenous peoples the taking of this land was formalized by the treaty of detroit in 1807 knowing where we live work study and recreate does not change the past but a thorough understanding of the ongoing consequences of this past can empower us in our work to create a future that supports human flourishing and justice for all individuals the land heritage state hey thank you galen um do you want to go to the world call sure all righty commissioner needham commissioner needham council member dish council member desh commissioner graham councilmember griswold here commissioner kylie ward here chairperson brown i'm president here in ann arbor commissioner marsky vice chair person mitchell hearing ann arbor commissioner vandenbroe mr vandenbrook commissioner oriole commissioner oriol commissioner morrison and the president okay commissioner gruber here in ann arbor commissioner nedrich all right we have a quorum all right thank you galen um so the next item on the agenda is the approval of the agenda um see uh do i have a motion to approve the agenda um okay uh shannon raise your hand um who had a second kathy um any suggestions for changes i don't hear any so um all who approve the agenda as submitted now raise your hands or say aye aye right okay looks like it's unanimous so um the next item on the agenda is approval of the minutes um might not interrupt real quick i miss uh commissioner gibb randall president yes um we got to fix that on legistar okay let's see how long that takes so um [Music] let's see so let's move on to the approval of the minutes on the last meeting do i have a second um bridget gruber seconds in me seconds um i'll who uh approve the minutes as written raise your hand or say hi any opposed i'm abstaining because i didn't attend the last meeting okay and uh john morsky okay thank you john so uh let's see the next uh item on the agenda is public commentary so this is uh the first of two opportunities for persons to speak for up to three minutes please call one eight eight seven eight five three five and enter meeting id 989-2851-1637 [Music] this information is also displayed on the meeting agenda and the video feed city staff will select callers that have raised their hand one by one using the last three digits of your phone number in order to electronically raise your hand and indicate your desire to speak please press star 9 on your phone you will hear an automated announcement that the host is allowing you to speak when speaking please move to a quiet area and mute any television or background sounds so that we may hear you clearly please state your name and address at the beginning of your comments and be patient there is a delay of up to 30 seconds before a connection is established so again the meeting the uh the numbered call is eight 877 three five two four seven and the meeting id is nine eight nine two eight five one one six three seven so is there anybody on the line yet galen there's no one for a public commentary at this time okay let's wait another 10 seconds or so okay meanwhile let me um share my screen okay can everybody see this yep okay well then speaking i would like to uh i would like to transfer my duties as chair to the vice chair rita mitchell is that okay rita i'll do it thank you okay so um let's see is there anybody still on the line galen there's no one okay all right well thank you this ends the public comment period we will have another one at the end of the meeting oh thank you so um i thought it was high time like i i have been following contamination for several years um as a member of the sierra club and i thought it was time for me to maybe present some of the information to the commission and the general public here in ann arbor um so pfas uh what are they well they are a set of compounds and this this is an acronym for either and perfluorinated alkyl substances and polyfluoridated alkyl substances they used to be called pfcs which stood for perfluorochemicals but then nomenclature has been replaced by pfos pfas for the last 10 years but if you go back through the literature you can sometimes find references to pfcs but they're talking really about the same thing um now let's see first thing is let's um just get some basic definition definitions and key facts and figures straight um pfas is an umbrella term uh for some 10 000 synthetic chemicals uh they have multiple chemical flooring bonds there are several definitions worldwide right now the european union officially has the most stringent um definition uh the epa is one that's um almost as stringent it's very close to it um but uh the basic the basic uh problem with pfas compounds is their persistence in the environment and the body these are chemicals like pcbs pvds that can be absorbed uh they can enter into synthetic pathways by they can enter into biochemical pathways in mammals and implants and they are are not they're not able to be detoxified um some of them are not able to be excreted readily and all the ones that have been investigated so far do have health risks so however they've not been well studied um they've been these compounds have been made in large quantities since 1948 um they've been in their millions and millions of times have been released into the environment mostly through consumer products um for decades however nobody uh nobody chose to fund any um any health care consequences for chronic exposures the thing is that these compounds are not that toxic for acute exposures meaning a large exposure in a brief period of time but uh the chronic exposures of small amounts over a long period of time definitely perturb metabolism in people and various other organisms in the environment so the traditional pfas compounds were called pfos for pf octal sulfate and p and pfoa which is pf octal acid and these um these are what are called legacy ppos compounds because for example pfos pfloss will be used for uh firefighting phones since the 50s um especially in airports and by the military and uh for tank farm fires michigan recently the empire program here in michigan which was founded in 2018 by governor schneider empart is an interagency task group that was uh tasked with uh with uh looking for pfos contamination in michigan and uh and trying to mitigate whatever pollution uh sources are recognized so they went out for drinking water first and then for wastewater treatment plants and then for via solids uh they so the state investigated the majority of the drinking water supplies in michigan first of all and then the second of all they went to wastewater treatment plants that had industrial pre-treatment permits because um industries in the new michigan can apply uh for a permit to release their industrial wastes to a municipal wastewater treatment plant they're only they only need to report hazardous substances that are in those but uh pfas and pfoa were not listed as hazardous substances until last year even though their health effects were known in the industry as early as the 1960s but there was no requirement that they report on their health data to the government so um so this all became public when um a lawyer was visiting his mother in parkersburg west virginia and noticed and heard that a local farmer his cattle were getting black gums and dying um you can you can um there's a good documentary film that can be found online uh called the devil we know which is a quote from one of the dupont executives there was some manufacturing pfos pfoa at this plant in parkersburg west virginia on the on the banks of the ohio river so pfos and pfoa this was discovered and publicized um by this lawyer rob bollock which he lives in say he lives in cincinnati and that resulted in finally resulted in public and increased public awareness and and a consent decree that was agreed to by dupont because um you know they had contaminated some 60 000 people in that region uh for many decades and so um the results of those studies were published only a few years ago um it was called the committee of eight um which makes it very hard to find but there are online resources um just google a committee of eight and you will find their public report um however the epa was aware of these data back in 2010 i am aware of the problem and so they initiated conversations with industry and there was an agreement made that by um american companies in america could not produce either pfos or pfoa however they're still allowed to import it for making products um the epa has not acted on this until uh two years ago when uh joe when president biden appointed michael regan who had formerly been the director of the department of environmental equality in north carolina which has the other major which is another major contamination of the cape fear river in north carolina and some 12 counties surrounding this plant this premorse plant which was a spinoff of dupont um there are 12 local counties whose groundwater was contaminated with kethos with a different kind of pfas called gen x however there are many other compounds that were made in the least in that at that facility in fayetteville north carolina so um so michael regan i was aware of the problems of fifa and what north carolina had to do to deal with it these multiple widespread contaminations and so he has gotten he has put epa into gear and uh our local delegation here in michigan debbie dingle um and kildee and uh and uh fred upton and uh which are all uh congress persons from michigan have been uh principal actors in drafting and submitting bills to congress for the last four years about getting the congress to pass legislation that will make it much um which will fund the studies that are required and some of the remediation that's required but you'll see that there's no way there's enough money in the world to clean up the environment yeah after some so much of these compounds have been made and released for such a long time so um so in 2015 the epa public established public health advisory levels which are non-regulatory they're just advisory levels of 70 parts per trillion each for drinking water of pfos and pfla however uh michigan uh through its impart um activities enacted mcl's with maximum contaminant levels for seven pfos including these two in august 2020 and these values are about 10 fold lower so other states have acted since and um and they have all set limits at various levels but they're all in the single digit in the single digit of parts per trillion the part per trillion the 70 parts per trillion is basically a drop of water in um 20 olympic sized swimming pools so that's the level of contamination that's considered a a a health for chronic exposure um and so the epa just uh in june on june 15th announced new health values for ppos which are a thousand times lower there are 0.2 parts per trillion and pfoa is even lower at 4 parts per quadrillion and that's based on more comprehensive emerging health data epa is going to go through its review process and include public comment and there they plan to set mcls this year um for uh pfos and pfoa however the regulatory process you know is very slow and um it will take given that there are some ten thousand synthetic chemicals that are classified as ppos that all share the property persistence um most of whom have not really been studying for toxic effects and uh they are uh and so the regulation of those compounds uh will take quite some time uh many lifetimes um using the uh you know given the current system uh that's used for regulating synthetic chemicals so these two chemicals have been manufactured and sold since 1943 and they can be measured in blood worldwide including in arctic inuit populations um they're because they've migrated into the ocean they've been absorbed by fish the fish have been eaten by seals and they've been they're also uh deposited by uh aerosols you know and um through i've just been dispersed through the air as well as the water they are principally used in consumer products um so some of the major consumer products are that are used for fast food wrappers um the fda actually licenses and permits some 12 pipos compounds to be used in food packaging a major contamination in food packaging was recognized to be microwaved popcorn bags so you know these uh michael these popcorn bags that you can put in the microwave um those were contaminated with high levels of fifos which were taken off and those were changed i think i've heard that the pfas was taken out of out of those on products several years ago but they still exist in fast food wrappers mostly um wendy's has pledged that they will remove fifos in all their packaging um by the end of last year however um it's hard to tell if that's really happened or not mcdonald's for example wants to wait until 2025.
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thank you good morning thank you I like to call the regularly scheduled meeting of the Clifton Board of Education to order uh July 28th somebody's in the window must be me [Music] July 28 2022 if you'd all please rise for a brief moment of excuse me I pledge allegiance to our flag followed by a brief moment of silence [Music] one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all thank you Mr shahada roll call please Mr Roberto here Mr Awad here miss basford here Ms Beltran is a virtual present Mr Canova here Dr Danny Mr Paris here vice president Daley here president Smith here we have a quorum uh mission statement vice president daily if you would thank you Mr President the mission of the Clifton School District in an open and reciprocal Community Partnership is to provide all students with a quality education to develop the skills necessary to become literate lifelong Learners who are responsible and productive citizens contributing to a Democratic Society in an ever-changing world the open public meetings act in New Jersey open public meetings law was enacted to ensure the right to the public to have advanced notice of and to attend the meetings of public bodies of which any business affecting their interest is discussed or acted upon in accordance with the provisions of this act the Clifton Board of Education has caused notice of this meeting to be publicized by having the date time and place thereof posted at the city clerk's office Clifton Public Library administration building senior citizen Nutrition Center on cable TV in the local press on the district's website and mail to presidents of parent-teacher organizations this meeting will be tape recorded in accordance with policy zero one six eight uh just to add commissioner Beltran is attending this meeting uh virtually so um just so you notice that she's not on the days but she is uh in the meeting um we'll start with uh public recognition this portion of the meeting is open to Residents and non-residents of Clifton for the purpose of addressing any subject matter pertinent two are directly related to the operation of the Clifton Public School District residents and non-residents are requested if in person to please sign the register provided for this purpose all speakers are asked to State their names municipality in which they live in subject matter before they speak comments are limited to five minutes per person issues raised by members of the public may or may not be responded to by the board all comments will be considered unresponsible be forthcoming if and when appropriate your questions may or may not be answered by board members the board asked the members of the public be courteous and mindful of the rights of other individuals when they are speaking specifically comments regarding students and employees of the board are discouraged and will not be responded to by the board students and employees have specific legal rights afforded by the laws of the state of New Jersey the board Bears no responsibility nor will be liable for any comments made by members of the public members of the public should consider their comments in light of the legal rights of those affected or identified in their comments and be aware that they are legally responsible and liable for their comments okay we'll start with in-person uh recognition and then we'll go to Kohler's Inn good evening everyone Mark brunsiak Holly Street Clifton many have agreed that the implementation of the 2020 njsl Comprehensive Health and physical education standards should be paused reviewed Revisited and Rewritten for a multitude of reasons they are not age appropriate they are not content appropriate here is one specific standard that is not age appropriate nor con content appropriate which has been referenced over the past few months 2.1.5 point pgd.4 explain common human sexual development and the role of hormones EG romantic and sexual feelings masturbation mood swings timing of pubertal onset students are mandated to learn this standard anywhere from the third grade until fifth grade ages 9 10 and or 11.
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all right at this time i'd like to call them meaning to order um i'd like to note that member sawyer sink bell member joe grant and crystal chaffin are present absent are christine pritchard and don dunsmore we will start the meeting with a public hearing for the fiscal year 2022-2023 expenditure budget revision dr dean thank you madam president members of the governing board members of cabinet and our community this evening mr hicks will provide information to begin our public hearing good evening madam president pro tem members of the board acting superintendent dr dean colleagues and community members i am before you to present our first revised budget of 2223.
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the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all good evening everyone um there is only four of us this evening amy counts as a prior commitment so she will not be here um first on the agenda is to adopt the agenda mr president i move that we adopt the agenda as presented second mr russell the motion has been made a second to adopt the agenda all in favor say aye aye aye anyone opposed motion passes four reports thank you uh this evening we have a report on student performance data and dr nora hoover will provide you with that report this evening so norah floor is yours yeah thank you um tonight i'm going to share both current and historical data with you regarding our student performance and just a quick brief history on some testing um first and then we'll look at comparative data so center grove from year to year over the last few years and then also i want you to see some peer school data not only johnson county but our peer what we consider our peer cohort schools schools that seem a lot like us so i'm not going to run through all these changes because there's we could spend a lot of time talking about this and probably the most important thing though is that in red and that we are schools continue to react to changes in testing measures and accountability requirements in our state you'll see because we only have a few years of our ilearn data because it's a new test we're in our third year of that and so there's lots of changes that happen to us and we we react to those so not only the standards change but sometimes the format of those tests the other big example would be the change this year in our high school for graduation requirement of all of our students taking the indiana version of the sat so to look at some comparative data and this is just center grove looking at itself compared to the state i'm going back to 2017 for i read three this is a foundational test certainly not the standard of a not that it's it's not difficult but it's meant to gauge kids are at the foundations of learning by the end of third grade as required by the by this date we do very well here and you'll see there has been a dip a lot of that probably due to cobit impact and learning loss in the last two years but we're working our way back up to having more students pass that this year's data is preliminary that 91 percent is more likely to go up i underestimated because summer school numbers and those kids that pass summer school after having attended summer school they get to take ire 3 again and we don't have all those numbers and we don't have the new state number yet so that's why that that's a approximate at this time this is our ilearn data so this is for kids for students grades three through eight math and language arts and there's our data for the entire third grade um across that top line center grove versus the state average a couple things to note you'll see right away particularly looking at that 2019 the first year of the test giving that new format more rigorous testing and standards being assessed in that i learn um compared to this year for example and you're like we're gaining ground we've made up from us a slump in that cove year of 2021.
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um other other other businesses such as burger king don't recognize that it's a problem and have not pledged to do anything about it until they're forced to so um um so the other consumer products um that contain fifa cosmetics like lip gloss especially lip gloss mascara [Music] and other uh lotions some creams other uh other consumer products such as glide you know glide dental floss contains defos um you know it's basically teflon tape but there is residual pipots in that teflon tape the teflon itself is a polymer um but it will it will degrade into a microplastic and eventually become some kind of a fluorinated organic compound then they have toxic properties as well but there's no immediate risk to chronic exposure from from dental floss from the tape itself that there are additives that are in there that can be leached out now the key thing to understand about all these compounds is that they persist in body tissues and they're unlike other toxic chemicals that tend to accumulate in fat these compounds accumulate in blood and the liver muscle so foods such as liver and they contain blood could possibly attain and possibly have much higher levels of ethos than muscle meat and uh and the legacy compounds pfos and pfoa they also have the property of bioaccumulation that means that if the water has say one part per trillion pfos the fish will accumulate up to a thousand parts per trillion of pfos so the concentrated the biological concentration factors of pfos and pfoa and other larger compounds like of that same size which have eight carbons in them they um they will all bioaccumulate and they take many years they will take they take many years to be eliminated from the body um some on the order of uh uh five to ten years and they're very in these compounds all of these compounds are also very difficult to destroy um there is no industrial scale facility that demonstrates proper destruction of ethos it requires incineration temperatures of greater than 1100 degrees centigrade and plus some assisted oxidation properties there are a couple of um there are several technologies that are in development but only on the laboratory scale it's very difficult to uh to destroy these and most of the most of the uh so the the recommendation from environmental ngos from all of them is that incineration is not a proper means of disposal or treatment of ppos contaminated materials because there just is no process to considerably destroy them without releasing them widespread into the air and have them get deposited in the ground to contaminate groundwater so i'm happy to take questions as i go along um i should have said that earlier but anyway moving on here um so the industry responds to the uh revelation public revelation that pfoa and pfos with toxic um was to do what we call now regrettable substitutions because for example pfoa was replaced by gen x which is the compound that's contaminated in the cape fear river for decades as you see it's chemically very similar the only difference here is that there's uh an oxygen here but they uh they still have the common pcos properties of the polychlorinated carbons each of the nodes in the stick diagram is a carbon now i think most of you are familiar with seeing chemical structures but the o is oxygen the h is hydrogen f is fluorine and then these nodes here are all carbon atoms so when they say it's polychlorinated octal acid that's what you see here is eight carbons with an acid function here at the end and everything's fluorinated all the hydrogens have been replaced with chlorine and similarly with p or instead of an acid here um a carboxylic acid function that's called you have uh what's called a solid sulfate or a sulfur sulfonic acid um function so and um and so pfbs was created as an alternative to pfos so this compound is just as persistent it's also toxic the epa recently released toxicity data for pfbs so they're on the pathway to having a having a mcl regulations in place through the clean water for this compound as well as gen x and pfoy and pfos but right now these are the only four compounds that epa is considering for uh for regulatory action at this point so um as i mentioned before they've been circulating in food and water supplies for decades and they're found in blood um everywhere every every every person that's been looked at um where do they come from um they start from industrial and um aff point sources aff is a firefighting phone it's been used um as i mentioned by the military in the airports uh the impart program i thought they uh one of their first initiatives was to collect all of it because um most of it's of course been used in training exercises even in municipal airports even in small municipal airports and um and so impart sent a letter to all the fire marshals in the state asking for all their existing stocks of uh aff um to be uh to be declared and transported to a facility in detroit so uh the state thought it would collect maybe 30 000 gallons but they ended up collecting 60 000 gallons of affi and they chose to dispose of it by shipping it to a landfill in idaho so where it's claimed by u.s ecology that it's um it's um encapsulated in some form um like perhaps in concrete or something like that and then put into a hazardous waste landfall which is about a mile from the uh snake river you know upstream of the columbia river so um uh hopefully they're secure at least for my lifetime but we'll see what happens in the future because these are persistent these will not degrade not not for millennia so the other source is um and we don't have any manufacturing facilities that i know of that i've heard of for industrial sources here in michigan um but again these point sources contaminate both service and ground waters now the uh now in michigan um because the state regulates this not the federal government is several of uh industrial sites that don't manufacture but they use p faults are allowed to send their send their pre-treated supposedly waste to a municipal wastewater treatment plant wwt please are you know that's a that's just an acronym for a wastewater treatment plant by most of the republic there are some private ones especially around paper mills paper mills sometimes have their own privately owned wastewater treatment plants but there are some 70 wastewater treatment plants in michigan that had um industrial pre-treatment permits on file with the state department of eagle now um so the impart chess group tested the waste waters from these plants and discovered um the uh one of the things they discovered was a contamination coming from these uh chrome plating facilities in wixom they're owned by a company called tri-bar there's three of them in wixom they had a pre-treatment permit to send their waste to uh to the wixom wastewater treatment plant and so the pfas contamination that got into the huron river and into our drinking water came from these um industrial facilities they were using um they were using these pfos and other pfos compounds and uh releasing them into the uh both into the huron river and the river rouge by the way and uh for uh it's hard to tell how much time this has been going on but probably for decades um so that's how the contamination of the huron river was discovered uh but that was mostly discovered because the epa is part of its ongoing activities against pfos and pfoa included pfas compounds within their um uh unregulated contaminant monitoring role uh which was uh an update to the clean water act where um epa tests uh any epa every couple of years tests for unregulated compounds that they think may be contaminating waterways in the united states so this ecm r3 the third study that was done and it was initiated in 2012 and it ended and the data was reported in 2015.
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why is this even a standard does this standard make any of you feel uncomfortable if it doesn't then it should the physical education health teacher can teach our students about sexual feelings about other standards just quoted nine out of 13 extremist Commissioners at the Department of Education agreed with the teaching our children this particular standard there is nothing appropriate about this standard if anyone spoke about the contents in the above standard in any other setting it would be deemed sexual harassment again why do nine of the Commissioners down in Trenton feel it's educationally appropriate for an adult to have the very same discussion with children that are in the third fourth or fifth grade it's grotesque it's inappropriate why is this acceptable in the realm of Education why did nine grown adults prove and advocate for other adults to speak about these things of a sexual nature to children I've recently listened to the acting Commissioner of Education answer questions from our legislative body particularly particularly Senator Michael Testa she stated that the resources circulating are not linked to the New Jersey Department of Education that is false it took me 30 seconds to click click click within the New Jersey Department of Education website to find the resources she stated that weren't linked she also stated they vetted the resources and if that's the case then they most certainly approve of advocates for youth 3r's curriculum and a maze those resources lesson plans and videos are not educationally appropriate in a school education setting from what I've witnessed around the state of New Jersey is not just my opinion it is the opinion of those one that want to protect their children step children grandchildren Etc from inappropriate topics some of these topics should be left for parent and or Guardian who chooses to discuss them that's called parental choice no entity has the right to overstep their boundaries The Narrative of your children have seen more than is one number one not applicable to all kids number two does not give educational organizations and institutions Carter Blanche to override parental rights and responsibility I am urging the State Board of Education at the bare minimum to pause implementation of the 2020 njsl standards and to Omit sensitive subject matter the sexual education standards have always been to stress abstinence which one of you at this at the State Board wanted to remove the word abstinence from the standards from the written minutes in July 2020 while much of the country was still in shutdown there were members on this state board who wanted to completely eliminate the word abstinence from the standards no names were provided in those in in the minutes to the nine Commissioners Donald Trenton who supported this garbage shame on you all of you are a detriment and a danger to public school children throughout New Jersey to the fourth state board of education members that released a statement recently denouncing these standards I could only assume it was the four of you that voted for these standards down in the first place and the Clifton Board of Education Commissioners In This Very Room who have also denounced these standards I thank you for taking a stand against those standards that do not protect our children but harms them I continuously urge this board to reject the 2020 Comprehensive Health standards thank you for your time and God bless America have a good night everybody [Applause] anyone else wish to address the board Marsha Miller Clifton I want to protest the passing of the Proclamation of June being Pride months I believe that shows prejudice why are we giving a small group of people recognition we then should give others the same recognition such as disabled individuals American Indians and people with special needs Etc I'm continuing to voice my concerns about the new sex education standards we are one nation under God social emotional learning and critical race theory is not the purpose of the school system the schools are to teach children how to think not what to think the current Administration is also aggressively pushing America's schools to adopt a radical anti-america anti-family anti-god curriculum Public Schools Across America are teaching curriculum they call critical race Theory which brainwashes children as early as kindergarten to believe America is racist and Evil CRT is woven in all the textbooks the public schools are also brainwashing America's children as young as kindergarten into the lgbtq agenda even encouraging young children to go through gender and transformation surgery if they don't feel comfortable with their gender the left is using the public schools to indoctrinate our children and to brainwash them into becoming activists for Socialism or worse make no mistake Democrats now openly say their goal is to replace Freedom with socialism they no longer even try to hide that they are socialists now which really means communist we have to stop this rhetoric and turn it around for the sake of the children our community and the country the math story sorry the math scores have declined we need to focus on academics not on social and alternative lifestyles I have a question I would like to know what organization is providing this new curriculum and what are the Publishers that are promoting this curriculum thank you [Applause] anyone else wish to address the board John manicone from aquatic I've heard it said blessed of the poor in heart the pure in heart when I was a boy about 10 or 11 I used to be out after school playing ball or whatever nothing's sanctioned by the town or anything but just having fun I come home for dinner each night about five o'clock my mom already out to work and she left dinner for us and so much fun pretty much every day after school I remember one night walking up the stairs into the kitchen saying to my dad dad I have so much fun it's so great being young but I don't see you other grown-ups having fun why is that do I have to stop at some point he laughed and said Joey we have fun too don't worry it's just different you know in reference to the sexual education that we're all talking about tonight I can assure you that my dad did not have in mind the poison that's trying to be put into our children's Minds today all healthy children are on a quest for fun for happiness and as we grow that search goes on if we're healthy if we're not poisoned that message spoke to my heart I kept looking for what Dad meant good clean fun I found it all my life I've heard people call me like the most joyful person they know what if my mind was poisoned at that young age instead given some toxic thoughts to go over repeatedly in my mind it's a trauma to a child's mental state it torments a formative young mind it digs deep gets planted and a life is forever changed a crippled mind a crippled life stolen innocence I believe it opens up opportunities for medicinal prescriptions we all know that kids are so described and then so often that life is over as we know it its potential for the fullness of life God what could have been is never known that life can end up being the next mass murderer what's going on right we're all wondering what is going on don't fool yourselves they're all on medication it's a dirty little secret you know this undertaking that they're trying to force is an experiment you're treating our children like mice or rats you're invading their innocence their childhood don't think you're not you're ripping it from them and leaving them with haunting and tormenting thoughts thoughts that corrupt that intoxicate I'm concerned for their souls I can hear the sounds the screams of future lost souls and that's haunting to me and I hope it may be haunting to you and by the way I'm I'm concerned for your souls too I really am you've been given this position of power to make your decision don't be fooled before you are curses and blessings life and death right in front of you choose widely my dear ones because your soul will forever be responsible for your choice thank you so much for your time [Applause] Ray Little 59 Stevens Road Clifton New Jersey I'm here tonight to speak against the curriculum changes are being instituted throughout the state we would like to thank you for all you have done as a board and we believe we have elected you to do the best for our children having said that is this the curriculum the best for our children teachers have retired because they do not feel comfortable teaching these subjects they are leaving the job before they have to we are facing a shortage of teachers and time where the standards to become a teacher are being lowered to encourage more people to the job things like this are turning away the very people we need for our children we all know this I am here tonight to say that should we all just give in to what the state and the government is saying I feel that the board and the majority of the people in this room agree that these subjects should be taught at home what is the supposed penalty for not instituting this curriculum we need to stand up to the state and the federal government government and see what the penalty is if so we must have a right to sue and defend our beliefs many towns smaller than us have stood up and said no so we must do the same in closing there is nothing more important than the innocence of children we must do everything we can to preserve that and let our parents do determine when the appropriate time is I would like to say to the people that are in the outside could they please come in and be inside with us the one standing in the hallway also the people that are here tonight you came for a purpose please come up to the microphone and make these people understand why we're here tonight don't walk away like We Do stand up and be heard this is the most important thing that's going to come about for our kids this is just under unbelievable really unbelievable that we're standing here tonight talking about this I can't believe it God bless you people God Bless America [Applause] foreign Father David Monteleone Valley Road and Saint Phillips church I'm the pastor there before I was a priest I taught ninth grade English and we went over Huckleberry Finn we went over to Kill a Mockingbird we went over Greek gods and goddesses we stuck to a curriculum that uh gave the children an imagination to let them run with it to see the rich history of our literature I was on the phone today with someone from the superintense office and she was assuring me that the guidelines can be interpreted in certain ways um that it would be more towards the letter of the law than the spirit of the law is there any guarantee that this would actually be followed through uh with some of the topics in the sexual education component of the health curriculum you know I read it online and there are some things that I found very disturbing that young children should not need to be exposed to I know what and kindergarten and second and third grade I was not exposed to any of these topics and I think I turned out all right right I fear for the over sexualization of our children and I may not have children of my own and you may say father you may not you should not really speak regarding this however I do have a niece and nephew who are 11 and 12 years old who I loved yearly I would never want to see them exposed or um jaded or turned off or turned on to something that is beneath their um level of education and certainly emotional stability as well this should not be just looked at as a religious point of view but certainly from a moral point of view the moral fabric of our society has deteriorated greatly in the past two years and I do not want to add to that Clifton is my home and it is your home as well too I would encourage you to please look at these standards again and maybe if we can pause them for a while or reject them as other districts have I know there is a penalty for the money but nonetheless I think children's lives are more important than a few dollars um I thank you for your time and I know you're this is a unpaid position that you have you're in my prayers and I pray you will do the right thing thank you [Applause] Steve Goldberg Charles Street anyone who has heard me speak about the Clifton school system in the past and testify to the fact that I have had nothing but praise for the education my child received there I was amazed at the wonderful education she received in school nine Christopher Columbus to high school was president of the marching band parents Association and you know she's now a fourth year medical student that's why it's so painful for me to be up here for it seems that with then and this is now the Clifton Boe seems more obsessed with advancing some kind of Middle East agenda than they are with advancing test scores and keeping all children safe I'm honestly so happy that my children are no longer of school age because the sad fact is a Jewish parent I could not send my children to a system that consistently allows my Heritage and that of my children to be attacked and denigrated over and over again the Clifton Boe might as well have signs up saying Jews are not allowed especially those that believe in the Holiness and sanctity of our homeland and you know what this is not only Steve Goldberg talking two major Jewish organizations one dress this week said this about the Clifton Board event the state of New Jersey had an obligation to assure that members of local school boards lawfully and ethically use their platform to create an unbiased educational environment for all students in their District said Roz rosting to stand with us instead respondents use their official platforms to promote bias and hate there is no legitimate place for anti-israel and anti-semitic rhetoric by school board members at public meeting they were talking about the Clifton Board of Ed I'm not here to debate the efficacy of Israel I'm not here to do that I'll gladly do that if someone wants to do it with me but that's not why I'm here for I'm here to debate the inappropriateness of advancing a geopolitical agenda whether it's at meetings whether it's with stickers or whether it's a a graduation when members decided to work fears to give out diplomas and one member even said it's time to represent my people I'm a retired educator I've been to 35 years of graduation never once did I feel children's graduation was about me and my people and representing them it was always about the children and should always about be about the children and it's not any longer it really isn't and it you know something needs to be done look and look I know what you're going to say everyone has the right first Free Speech absolutely and I'm not talking to those that are spouting this haters are going to hate I'm talking to the other people and I leave you with words of Eli wazel who said I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings adore suffering and humiliation we must take sides neutrality helps the oppressor never the victims silence encourages the Tormentor never the torment find your voice people you can't choose to be neutral on this issue and Eli Wiesel said I certainly won't be again you know this has to be addressed the two biggest populations growing populations in Clifton are the Arab population and the Orthodox Jewish population let me ask you how do you think this is going to work out if you don't address this people are going to get hurt people are going to get humiliated people are going to feel alienated no one no child should ever feel alienated in the school and it saddens me that if my child was of school age she would feel alienated I've spoken to her about this this is the school system she loved so again I keep hearing one Clifton one Clifton one Clifton well I guess is that one Clifton if you're Jewish or do I have to take a seat in the back because I won't take a seat in that thank you God bless [Applause] hello everybody my name is Milagros I'm a mother of 12 years old girl standing here in the podium talking from The View it's very difficult and I know behind me it's a lot of people uh probably is against what I'm going to say I don't try to move their sense but move their hearts and your hearts too and um believe me is very difficult standing here because my English is not good I am from Peru uh when we start this meeting I show you all of you I'm not married well I'm a citizen right now but I everybody of you standing here and I saw that you respect your flock my flock now and you turn and say this I pledge it Allegiance and my English sorry to the flag of the United States of America and the Republic to the Republic for which its stance of a nation under God under God if you say that all of you did you know this is my religions it matters religion but you talked about God so it's very important all of you respect the flag of God so in the name of God I'm standing here it's not me right now it's him I feel him please think about it think about your children I I want to say something when I was a girl I was a child molester for probably nobody I I say I'm a friend you know I was child molested and I had the what experience in my life it was so horrible but you know who was the person who told me how defend myself for that person was my parents and my priest very important priest and our life in our family don't let the parents are so important families are so important no more families in this country you know you don't want a third world country United States you want to be great America like used to be I wasn't here when I was born I was in Peru I'm from Peru but I want the children be a great you cannot pretend to take a bottom of the Rose and make a blossom if not ready yet to be blossomed don't do that with the children please so pressure so pressure creation of God please so make a more uh be a focused and sports and and academic choices more involved with that and they will they grow up they won't think about you know uh and crazy stuff you know like preparation and pornography and believe me I was all of you you you you you we were we know about this we know about that we we taught you probably a pornography or so something when you know curious but known that way try to reach out be innocent don't please please focus in families very important parents they have to be involved please thank you very much and I hope you touch your heart foreign my name is Carol galentine this is the book It's Perfectly Normal that may or may not be in your libraries in school and it's anything but perfectly normal the material is pretty obscene and if you'd like to take a view of it this is in regards to the curriculum that's being promoted this September I'm just going to read a few words from the 2009 New Jersey Code titled 2C it's the New Jersey Code of Criminal Justice obscenity for persons under 18.
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uh first i'd like to start out with thanking miss maridel spidel and her amazing team as this was all additional work from what we call a typically normal year they are amazing and i'm very thankful and honored to be working with them as i said as i've said in the past just as a why are we having a public hearing any time that we're revising the revenue control limit which normally typically always happens during a budget adoption and or revision we have to have a public hearing this is the first time ever in my career that i've had back-to-back public hearings in two successive meetings so it is a little bit unusual year but that is a-okay so knowing that you've all heard this really recently uh really the only changes in the budget is the changes that we receive from our legislature so before you we have increases in our m o fund so we did receive the money from the passage of the state budget we have done what we can to calculate as much and for our estimate i say that because we did leave out one tiny little formula so when we revise our budget december we'll add that in and that's more because we don't have the specifics of exactly how to increase that budget the budget for that part of it but we've proportionately increased all areas of mno for the compensation that was going to be identified and talked about in more specific nature in the iba recommendations part of the agenda but they have all been embedded into this budget capital fund's a little different so we had a slight increase this i will share also during our um during the iba recommendations as we just shared with them but just um the additional funds we have were addition we're going to address some safety and security measures that have been talked about many times by dr dean and we are also going to give schools an increase in their allocation in their capital allocations and then we're going to hold some for reserves for the future so that is the capital unrestricted capital portion of it the building renewal grant because we're only doing what was mainly changed in the adopted budget by the state this obviously on this agenda and consent you can see a lot of other awards going from the azfob so this obviously is higher than a million i hope it tracks over three million dollars but it also determines on the arizona school facilities oversight board or the division of schools from the adoa the classroom site funds did change a little bit and that's because we moved from projected to actual so we moved it down a little bit it does not have any impact on what the board has previously approved for our certified staff from our classroom site fund for the special project funds nothing has changed because nothing was in the budget regarding that as always we try to put as much information on our website so i try to push as much to that information and i will stand for any questions or any comments made by the community members thank you mr hicks at this time we will open it up for public comment hearing none we will move on to dysarts instructional time model for the 2022-2023 school year dr dean thank you madam president pro-tem members of the governing board members of cabinet and our community this evening our second public hearing is a requirement by law to have two public hearings on dysart's instructional time model as it relates to our our alternative instruction the board will remember that we had a public hearing at the last board meeting on this subject and we want to provide information to our board and to our community on our mastery-based learning opportunities for students at sundown mountain students at sundown mountain have the opportunity in their elective courses to work through those courses at their pace and test out of them as as they demonstrate mastery through assessment and that allows our students the opportunity to a quicker pace and to get back on track to graduate and so that is the the public hearing information from the district this evening on the instructional time model per state statute we have this item as an approval item later in the agenda thank you dr dean at this time i will open it up for a public comment hearing none i would like to move on to our regular meeting i would like to start with the pledge of allegiance please to the stand of the united states thank you now we will move to item c1 celebrations and recognitions dr dean good evening again madam president pro tem members of the governing board members of cabinet in our community this evening we are incredibly excited to announce and recognize one of our district directors who has been in the school district longer than i and i'm starting year number 18 and i tell the story about this particular director that when i came to the school district and i was hired to open sunset hills elementary school as principal this particular director was a teacher at the time and he chose to be part of the sunset hills opening staff and contacted me because i was coming in from outside of the district wanted to have breakfast so that he could get to know me a little better and so this particular director and i had breakfast a few days later and the following day he transferred out of sunset hills elementary school and never taught from with me i remind him of this often but that decision was a good decision because it set him off on a nice career path in which he is now our cte director and we are very excited and would ask the governing board to please head up to the the front steps we would like to recognize the arizona career and technical education administrator of the year our very own director jim gresaber come on down jim she said [Music] uh [Applause] um madam president pro 10 members of the board cabinet and guests we continue with our celebrations tonight uh each year the association for career and technical education arizona is pleased to offer an opportunity for their members to become more involved in the professional association those selected to become a fellow attend a variety of conferences and professional development events designed to increase the understanding of the policy making processes associated with career and technical education at the local state and national levels through this specialized program our candidates developed the leadership skills to become effective members and advocates of career and technical education the hope is that with this training the fellows advance into positions of leadership within all their affiliates and and their districts so we are awesomely proud to recognize two fellows this year and one of them is with us tonight that is mr clint martinez mr martinez come on up congratulations on being a fellow mr martinez is the tv tv media production teacher at valley vista high school so congratulations mr martinez very nice job and while we're taking the picture our second person miss amy mctag is also a fellow so we want to congratulate her she is not here this evening but we will congratulate her and and on a job well done so smile great job thank you [Applause] i'm sorry and that concludes our recognitions and celebrations for the evening thank you dr dean thank you dr croto and congratulations next we have item d1 audience with individuals this is a time for the public to comment members of the board may not discuss items that are not specifically identified on the agenda pursuant to ars 38-431.01 action taken as a result of public comment will be limited to directing staff to study the matter responding to any criticism or scheduling the matter for further consideration and decision at a later date in order to facilitate accomplishing the business business of the district in a timely manner a time limit of three minutes will be imposed for each individual or group addressing the board when you approach the podium please state your name for the record first we have marcy hessler good evening madam president pro term or whatever that fancy latin word was that jim used um members sawyer stinkville member joe grant dr dean and the rest of cabinet my name is marcy hessler i'm the former principal of countryside elementary and a former employee of the dysart schools my mother passed away a year ago at this time and she was a very strong and stubborn woman i know where i got it from and she's instilled in me to stand up for what is right when i see something wrong and tonight i'm here to do just that silence is the residue of fear and while i was an employee i was not able to speak about certain things and tonight i'm here to share my unextraordinary experience with the majority of this board during my last four months in this district on january 12th i stood before this board to share my support for social workers in the dysart schools and their great importance for all of our communities i reminded board members with factual information about how they were connected with that decision that they were making that evening i expected backlash from my comments but wow did i hit quite a few nerves and a few thin skins throughout the semester the very morning after the board meeting i received a phone call from my supervisor about an anonymous board member who had an anonymous parent contact her overnight about concerns at countryside this was the first of many anonymous concerns over four months it was like a circus actually no it's more like junior high mean girls telephone game for seven and a half years at countryside the district office always had concerns addressed at the lowest level whether it was with a teacher or with a principal and they directed everyone who called to contact those people first this was not the case in my last four months at countryside i was never able to have a discussion with this so-called anonymous board member or board members i don't even know and i was never able to try to found find some common ground and resolve issues with the people who had problems with me i was never able to speak to the anonymous parents about their concerns and to find that resolution for what they had to complain about instead i had to play a very immature game and was not able to address this concerned board member directly nor the parents i'm going to save my comments for president pritchard when she is back in attendance because i do have some comments that are for her and i will be at every board meeting so i'll wait it out however this board i just want to remind you promised to many newspaper agencies that they promise transparency for this school year it is a lofty goal since the majority of this board chooses to hide behind their anonymity and executive sessions to do their business in stepping away for as a dyson employee i am now able to work to get rid of the dirty politics thank you mrs hessler next we have sarah rivera good evening madam president pro tim members of the board and dr dean my name is sarah rivera and i am the president of the newly formed dysart special education ptsa i would like to first thank dr montano for all of her help her support for running ahead of me and getting approvals and finding the people that i needed to talk to in the district to get the ball rolling last may she's been there this whole time cheering me on and doing all that she can from her position to make sure that this becomes a reality and i so much appreciate her help with that i'd also like to thank miss densmore for attending our organizing meeting yesterday evening as well as all the words of encouragement and support that other board members who were not able to attend the meeting sent on through email the meeting was a huge success i was very pleased with 20 members in attendance via zoom as well as in person as and as of last night we had 28 paid members and at the rate that our facebook page is growing i feel like that paid membership has probably increased today quite a bit this ptsa as its name suggests will focus on supporting teachers and students in special education as well as creating a community of support for families i know from first hand experience how isolating it can be to be a family with a loved one with a disability i also know firsthand how valuable and empowering it is to have other families in the same situation who stand alongside me in support understanding and encouragement i want that for every family in the dysart unified school district dysart special education ptsa will be a community of families students teachers school staff community members and really anyone who wants to work together to create a more inclusive world our meetings will be held the first wednesday of every month which means our next meeting will be held on wednesday september 7th at 6 pm and i hope to see you all there thank you thank you miss rivera next we have william koniam good evening members of the board dr dean and members of the cabinet um let me preface this by saying i apologize i wrote these comments expecting uh other members of the board to be here so it is what it is for too many years arizona has ranked at or near the bottom of the entire country for teacher pay recent gallup polls showed that k-12 workers have the highest burnout rate of any industry nationwide the burnout rate was double that of construction or social service teachers were leaving the state and the profession and we were left with far too many vacant teaching positions as all business owners and managers know if you want to recruit and retain high quality employees you have to treat them right and pay them appropriately otherwise they will leave you for another position that will appropriately compensate them for their skills a recent poll of arizona voters show the supported raising teacher pay another poll showed that 78.2 percent of voters believe k-12 teacher salaries are too low clearly teacher pay is important to voters previous fiscal year 2023 budget would have had the average salary for all teachers increasing 47 dollars per year even if you included the increase of a thousand dollars for classroom site fund additional eligible compensation that's only an annual increase of one point six percent one point six percent after a year where we experienced eight point five percent inflation imagine how that would impact your family during the last two board meetings the budget was passed without any meaningful discussion from the board i understand it could be difficult you feel your hands are tied by the state legislature the money just isn't there to properly compensate our staff but on the agenda for this evening there's a revised expenditure budget to be discussed because the state legislature finally passed the fiscal year 2023 budget in that budget the state legislature provided an increase in base level funding of point eight percent however this budget only provides a five percent increase in average teacher salaries and that's again including the thousand dollar increase from the csf as mentioned before so it's really only providing an extra 3.4 percent beyond what was already planned before the new budget was passed i hope that any board member that considers themselves to be a conservative will not repeat the inaction of the last two budget meetings and i hope to hear a lengthy discussion from the board regarding their ideas and how to put more money in the classroom and the teacher's paychecks thank you thank you mr conium next we will move on to item e1 superintendent update dr dean thank you madam president protem members of the governing board members of caba and our community we are excited to welcome our staff and get ready for our students to return to school the district is waking up and that's an exciting component in in this time of year we have our schools are starting to buzz with staff returning we welcomed all of our new teachers earlier this week and all district teachers will return tomorrow and so we're very excited about welcoming all of them back next week we'll have all of our staff return prior to the first day of school which is coming very quickly ready or not next wednesday august the 3rd additionally we have meet the teacher events that are scheduled next week and the following weeks at some of our high schools as well and we'll be excited for our parents and our students to meet their teachers and get ready for the first day of school we just want to remind the board as well this evening just a couple of reminders on our coveted protocol we provided some information earlier today and are sending information to our principals assistant principals today and with all of our staff tomorrow our covered protocols are the same as they were when we left at the end of last school year masks are completely optional vaccines are not required and if if any of our students or staff uh contract covid they should isolate for five days and return when symptom free and so we just wanted to remind our governing board that we are continuing with those protocols from last year and those protocols that we used all through the summer with summer school and all of our staff we're excited to announce that the west point street light project is complete and that light is now operational and so we're very excited to see that project come to fruition and to see a more safe opportunity for students across greenway that live in litchfield manor additionally the countryside bus loop uh project is also complete paved and ready to use uh so we're excited for that as well and the last thing that we'll say is we're just ready um for a start of a great school year and we just invite all of our community to come and experience dysart it's going to be a great school year thank you dr dean next we have the governing board update well i will go first um apologies for not being here at the last board meeting i was down in tucson soaking up all of the cte goodness and great stuff but i'll get to that in just a second um july 7th i attended the dysart leadership meeting it was the kickoff for the administrators and the directors who were ready to take charge for this new school year so i was uh very um very excited to meet the ones that were coming in that didn't get the chance to shake their hands when they came in to sign their contracts july 8th i attended the arts and healing reception that was at west valley arts council it was a fantastic viewing and please make sure you get a chance to get over there and see all the wonderful art there done by surprise residents july 14th i had the privilege of being part of the ace writing prize patrol i think dr dean was in there also this had to do with the arizona council of economic education and they were honoring ashlyn lucier a recent graduate and she won the invest right contest and she had to actually play with the not real but had to play with a hundred thousand dollars worth of stock and had to track it and write a report on it and everything and so she to me she was the best oh mom already left so she was the best one and they actually congratulated her so way to represent uh like i said attended the 2022 c a c t e a z summer conference in tucson um i always knew what cte was all about but quite honestly sitting into some of the breakout sessions and everything i didn't know the depth and um which was literally mind-blowing um also attended michelle bohan and lori lucier shadow ridge and valley vista's lead counselors they did a breakout session and it was even deeper so thank you ladies for doing a wonderful job awesome to witness jim griezhaber receiving his cte administrator of the year award my heart swelled with pride and congrats also to cj martinez and amy matigue they did an awesome job uh let's see july 26 attended the new teacher orientation at the vista i always love to be a part of this because of the energy in the room as well as the excitement and the anxiousness of becoming part of the dysart community so welcome teachers um this was a little bittersweet one because this was my last orientation but i was glad to be there and finally with recent events and the shootings and everything that's going on that have happened across our country i know parents are probably apprehensive teachers are anxious please no please know that dysart and the surprise and el mirage police departments are doing everything and everything possible and beyond to ensure the safety for all teachers and students and other staff the board will continue to make sure protocols are in place and refined if and when necessary so please have a wonderful start of the new school year next week i'll have to wait for them congratulations again to mr grishaver and mr martinez and to ms mctigue you guys really deserve this and more i mean i've been on the tours of cte programs and it's pretty amazing what they offer for our students so thank you very much and ms rivera thank you for setting up that program this is going to be something new and it's always nice to see something new and innovative in dysarts so thank you and i apologize i wasn't able to come to your setup meeting but i will be at future events and the only thing i attended was the grand opening or reopening of the i guess it's grand opening of the library in el mirage where they took an old an old fire department it was a fire department but then they built a new fire department so they took the old fire department made it into a library you would never know going in there that had that had been a fire station and uh well deserving the students in dysart are going to thoroughly enjoy that library and that's it thank you we will move on to item f consent agenda items i will move that we approve the consent agenda items as presented oh thank you motion carries thank you we will move on to h1 dr dean madam president pro-tem members of our governing board members of cabinet and our community this evening mr hicks will provide information regarding the recommendation from the iba team as it relates to salary and benefits and the structures related to the additional funds received by the state legislature in their fiscal year 23 budget mr hicks thank you good evening madam president pro tem members of the board acting superintendent dr dean colleagues and community members i'm proud to present our iba recommendations for this school year so first i'd like to just quickly begin i know i feel like i'm thanking everybody for everything but thanking everybody that's involved with this recommendation that starts with the governing board it goes on to our iba team hr payroll team there has been a lot of work that has been going into this revision and recommendations in a very short period of time so i just wanted to say thank you to everybody for getting some wheels in motion although we have some existing iba items that we addressed first we spent a few hours with the team just finalizing all the recommendations and also meeting with the board so i just appreciate everybody's interest and dedication to doing something so i'll jump into there's a lot there's a lot in this and so as we've already heard and already stated with the the legislature on june 25th approved a state budget that provided additional funding for schools if you remember we had our proposed budget on june 16th and i appreciate the board for making time to do the proposed budget but as by law you're not allowed to increase your budget from proposed to adopted so we were not allowed to do anything by law until this meeting so i just wanted to make sure i know i've told the board many of the times about some of those but that is the law so this is now we're talking about just to be clear this is everything on top of the recommendations that were previously so this is not instead of and replacing this is on top of the previous recommendations so we'll start with and these are in just random order i apologize for that but we'll just start with our athletics high school band activities high school activities pre-k 8 activities and stipends per our mou that's in our appendix we are looking at we've had those amounts those current amounts have been there from the beginning and i believe have not changed in over a decade but i believe it's been close to 20 years so what we're looking at is starting this year is let's try to provide a little bit of experience for people that are in those positions and receiving those stipends and so this is the the breakout that we have is zero to three years we're going to keep the current amount and then four to five years it will take the base amount times five percent six or more years we're going to take the base amount times ten percent so just to clear we're going to start providing some experience and those stipends that are related to those activities we're also looking to reward some coaches for some very successful seasons and so we're going to be providing region champion stipend of one thousand dollars we're applying it only to the head coach and then also a stipend for the um state champion at two thousand dollars madam president pro tem members of the governing board i would add here as well that we will include national championships with the state championship level as well thank you very much dr dean now something that's also been discussed um in our previous and actually for years is support for our schools for student behavior to help assist with that we did we have used some of our esser funds for our student support technicians that it helps a little bit with some of the behavior but this is going just a little bit farther and we're going to be providing a school aid a five hour per day aid which is a point 749 fte at each eligible school site which is our k-4 in middle school so every single one will be given one this will allow those sites to then now create an ocr program at every single one of the schools to help our teachers and our schools deal with some of the behavior issues that are happening in our schools so there's some good support and then also we looked at our security guard staffing ratio and are moving that up to once you get over 2 100 students that you get an additional one so this will provide two additional for this year's budget for two of our high schools we're also looking at increasing and modifying our classified longevity so this is adding a new one for those with six to ten years experience in the district will receive a three hundred dollar stipend and for those eleven to fifteen years we'll move up to five hundred sixteen to twenty years to a thousand and twenty one or more years up to fifteen hundred dollars similar but not the same is to create a new level for our certified longevity and that is to add the 11 to 15 year band and provide a 500 stipend all other tiers in this will remain the same next we have to provide a special education hard to fill in ess htf hard to fill stipend up to three thousand dollars from the fifteen hundred dollars now so doubling that stipend and then at the may recommendation the governing board accepted a couple of areas where we took certified work and moved it from 23 to 30 an hour this is taking the rest of that certified additional work staff direct curriculum professional development all of those and moving them from 23 to 26 so taking what was left for the certified work to move it up to 26 dollars per hour we are also increasing our daily sub rate we're currently at 110 it is pretty low in comparison to a lot of our competing districts and move it up to 150 and increasing our long term sub rate up to 175 this has additional ripple effects as we have other stipends that are based on coveraging covering misprep coverage and other things that is taking the sub rate and uh spreading it out dividing it um and providing the teachers so they'll receive a little bit more it's very minimal but really the objective here is to be more competitive in the sub market so that we're able to bring in the subs so that we're not missing out on other districts getting subs before us here's the big one that a lot of people are what is the permanent base pay increases going to all of our staff and here is the breakdown this is uh four percent for certified classroom four percent for certified non-classroom so certified getting four percent are classified hourly moving up to seven an additional seven percent classified exempt um seven or um classified exam three percent and in administrators uh an additional three percent so this is all on top of what was given before what was provided before as a reminder was the one percent for the certified six percent for classified and one percent for administrators so this is on top of that so our classified hourly will be getting a 13 pay increase which is if you're looking at our vacancies and how many people are turning down positions right now we're hoping that that will help and also maintain and retain our current staff if you add this onto our certified previously was given one percent four percent on top of that so you're getting over five five percent we do have if you also remember all of the compensation that the board approved back in february which was for certified staff was an additional five percent retention stipend which is a two percent greater than was the previous year if you add that on to the five percent you're at seven percent plus the classroom site fund which is over eight percent our average teacher will be receiving an increase so we're doing a lot in that and trying to address all of our needs as we're going through see my notes as this has been a lot mr hicks would you just please expand on the classified hourly how that this will allow us to provide thank experience for thank you very much um sorry dr dean didn't mean to talk over you but thank you very much for catching that one of the biggest things that we need and what we're seeing um and that has been brought up by previous board members is being able to provide experience to our incoming and so by moving everybody in the class fight over we're able to now provide one year's experience for new hires coming in up to five years so they will can get an additional five where previously everybody came in at step one so by moving all existing over we could bring in a step one and not have anybody very upset of you just brought somebody in greater than i have and i've been here longer those type of situations so we're creating we're trying to decompress some of what has happened so thank you very much dr dean for putting bringing that up that has been something that has been on iba for a period of time but it does take a lot of money to be able to provide to be able to do that and so this moving this up to seven percent now provides in the worst case scenario it means that existing staff would move up 13 percent and anybody coming in no matter how many years experience would get an eleven and a half percent maximum rate so then you have that one and a half percent cushion to prioritize our current staff for being here and retaining them thank you very much mr hicks if i could add um that larger increase is also helping offset the rise in the minimum wage we expect in january which is set on inflation thank you very much dr poling we still don't know what the increase is for minimum wage we know that inflation the last year at least in the maricopa area for the last 12 months rolling 12 months was in essence of 9 it would not surprise me if minimum wage went up to 14 so this also gives us a little cushion of getting way out and not way out in front but getting out in front of that and not having to make any mid-year adjustments that we have in the past so this also helps in that situation as well so thank you very much i feel like we have a team effort going on right now of i don't even know why i brought up notes i feel like i got a team here to cover me if anything i miss while i'm talking but thank you very much i will also on this one i'm going to read this slide exactly because i spent a lot of time with hr and i appreciate dr poling and his staff spending time with me so that we read it properly so that they could implement it effectively and so to answer all the questions so hourly staff increases to begin august 8th also the eighth pay period eighth is a monday the pay period actually starts on a saturday so uh it will start august 6th um i just deviated from the slide sorry about that um all other groups hired by july 29th will receive the full base pay increase after that point employees starting on or after june july 30th will follow the new higher placement schedules as with all of our previous increase increases that we recommend to the board we're also asking that the board increase all those salary placement schedules by half of what is provided in the base pay increase so for example the classified hourlies all those schedules will go up three and a half percent because the current staff are getting seven percent so we'll be bringing up those salary schedules as well those all go into effect starting july 30th and just a summary i know we've talked and sent updates about some of this we've left off a couple of revenue calculations because we're not exactly how sure how to calculate the poverty i have an estimate in there so the the revenue might look a little light at this point but it does balance for the most part we are talking about current year funding so everything is an estimate at this time but just breaking down what we just went through the base pay increases the stipend increases additional positions the subpay leaving some money for reserves so not spending all of it we do believe there's a recession whether we technically earn one right now depending on who you listen to although the state funds are very strong right now that is not going to continue they're not going to have 11 percent year over growth in the revenue at the state and that's not going to flow through and right now they have just we just have the two percent increase that will probably hit us for next year so we do need reserves just to insulate against some of that future um uncertainty as well as and i've already mentioned this our capital increase will be moving increasing our schools allocation that they receive that was cut a few years ago so we'll be restoring all that back and then working on some safety and security projects around all of our schools and then setting some aside for some reserve funding to just to insulate ourselves in our capital projects as well this all that was presented tonight on this which is a lot i know we've talked about a lot so i know the board is aware of most of this these are for our current employees the new hire schedule is for them and not for our contractors this is just for our employees so i will stand for any questions with the board thank you mr hicks and to your entire team and department for constantly revising the budget and the iba process i appreciate all of your hard work because it has to be very meticulous it has to be incredibly accurate so thank you it's all the team but thank you very much do we have any questions i do go ahead thanks um thank you mr hicks and the iba team for all your hard work i know it's juggling a lot and waiting for the legislature to give us the money and then have to do that so quickly um and thank you so much for giving the years of service to the classified employees i know i asked that for a future agenda item back in may and it was like you got to wait you got to wait got to wait and it's like i waited come on so i was just as anxious as everybody else was for the legislature but i believe that this will help to not only recruit but retain employees this is going to be a key factor i just had one quick question when you talk about the special ed stipend for the hard to fill positions does that include the licensed classified employees who i see all the okay the team okay who's gonna whose head's gonna nod um because from what i understand they i mean i know we have some other certified hard to fill but for the classified licensed employees and special ed that are under would they get that stipend as a hard to fill because we have my understanding i could be around there are some that we have some contract employees and we pay a whole lot more for contract employees than we do for dysart employees madam president president pro-tem members of the board certified yes we don't know about the classified i think dr croto or dr poling are pulling up their handy-dandy computers to try to look really quick and easy to see that well you can get back to me i'm just curious if that heart would that be included in the hard to fill i don't think definition because my initial guess is just looking at the data we pulled for the projection of the cost was certified and considered receiving it um no classified so we just got confirmation that the classified or not in that at some point i think we need to look at that because that group of employees i mean we have some that are under contract and so we've heard that we pay more for contract employees than we do for advisor employees so classify because we already do it if we're doing it for certified the classified licensed ones in special ed is what i'm asking thank you very much julie noted until next year it's on the list you're welcome of quick questions um sub rate thank you for increasing that um uh because i know that uh 110 and or even 120 is is just a little too low considering other districts are doing more i'm just curious we did we do a comparison on what the districts around were paying for sub and long term imagine president pro tem members of the board um saw that about six months ago have not seen it recently i could tell you there's two districts that are once 200 on a sub rate and one's 175. there were a lot that were at the 150 140.
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um but one thing i want you to note while we're working our way back up in 2019 we were accountable for the students who were in our district for 162 days and the scores reflect that um the last two years the those percentages or for all students in our in our district no matter if they enrolled the day before we started i learned testing we have to test them and so there is a difference so it's really not com i would not say it's a true apples to apples it's as close as we have um but if that's the way we're going to be measured now at least we have that baseline starting in 2021 that it's all students but there is a difference between 2019 and 22. i'm really proud of this and while i don't like that um those numbers aren't in the we're used to seeing nine eighties and ninety percent with istep um this is a very different test for students um and so you can see we're well above the state and you're gonna see in a minute our cohort data how are we doing compared to those schools we often compare ourselves to we're doing very well and the whole goal is to just keep getting better and better at making sure our students are getting what they need um to be by state requirements ready for that you know um mass or being proficient at their grade level so that they're ready for that next grade level content i would say not i'm not a lot more than probably closer to 100 i would say we get kids that come in you know basically that means that magic dates usually in october-ish isn't it early october and so any kid that comes in after that those families that move um between christmas and new year's for new jobs that start january 1st those kids would not have counted in that 2019 number yeah yeah and and that's nice to know the impact we can see the impact we have on the kids we have long enough to make an impact on so so the date is a little different but but at the end of the day we still get every kid's data so when that kid didn't come to us until february the score is in there but we have the data so when they start with this the next year we know what they need or where their their lagging skills are so it's good we're testing them because that allows us to see a baseline but at the same time you're just reminding us that it may skew the data it may spew the data it's definitely not exactly we're not looking at exactly the same thing as you were from 2019 okay thanks you're welcome um this was the first year for all 11th graders taking our indiana version of the sat and so i broke it down by math language arts english and those passing both um well above our state average certainly not where we want to would want all of our kids to be but this again is only one qualifier for getting a diploma and we know several kids will need those other buckets we've talked about dr henderson and jen perkins were here earlier this spring to talk about how we're trying to make those other buckets expand upon and make them more robust not only for career opportunities for students but also for that graduation requirement and so this slide every year we'll just get like all these others we'll just get more and more data we'll just add the new stuff it's a pretty lonely little chart right now here's our comparative data so first johnson county and so here's where and this is all of our combined students k through eight excuse me three through eight on ilearn that's our percentage of students who passed both parts math and language arts um compared to our other county schools and again just like us they have those those asterisks and the double asterisks for that data being different that doesn't work and then the last one this is our peer ranking and i didn't the table would be a little expansive so it said you get the plate of spaghetti right but these are our 14 schools including us that we are very similar to both in size and demographics and you'll see our number that's our state ranking against all public schools in the state so this year when you look at our ilearn data we were 15th ranked in the state for percentage of students passing math and language arts as compared to all the other public schools in the state the other districts and across the bottom then you can see on our thick orange line where we're at um or have been in the past which is better than last year at 18 on the year before 16.
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but this is when our wastewater facility became aware of the contamination and and began to initiate actions to uh to remediate it what you know as you know was done with the addition of some granular activated carbon heads um that are good at absorbing that pfos and the pfla they're not so they're not as effective in in some of these smaller pfos compounds um now another source of contamination is um commercial distribution um because uh scotchgard was a major uh product that contained pfos you know we all saw those ads in the 60s i think many of us were old enough to have seen these uh where you could buy a can and spray scotchgard in all of your furniture and the drapes so that um you know you wouldn't will be easier to clean from a grease spill or a wine spell so scotchgard was almost pure pfos this was a source of contamination another major site of contamination in michigan was by the former wolverine manufacturing site where they made hush puppies the such puppies being suede were sprayed with um scotch bark before they were sold to repel greece keep them looking good so there's been a major contamination of groundwater uh there in rockford and other other communities there in kent county near grand rapids so you can go look at the impart website which is full of data if you're if you're interested in more details about what fifa's contaminations have been found in michigan and what the state has done to remediate them and what it plans to do so because um because uh pfas has been in consumer products for so long especially fabrics this commercial distribution all these products end up in landfills and waste water so landfill leachate is a major source of contamination in the groundwater so you know the ann arbor legacy landfill is no um you know there's no abortion here um it's likely that this landfill is um reaching pfas and ps uh various ppos compounds um into the leachate and going into our wastewater treatment plant um there are many others um the major landfill that ann arbor's using arbor hills has been recognized as a source of default contamination by impart it is contaminating groundwater it has been for decades and so that is an official investigation site implies um the ann arbor legacy waste landfall because it's been retired a while back has not um has not come up as higher than the priority because it's not an active landfill but eventually we're going to get investigated um now the wastewater treatment plants as i mentioned before they will all all of them whether they have industrial pre-treatment plants or not will contaminate surface waters and biosolids just because there are so many consumer products that contain these there i don't know what you would recognize point sources as there are on the recognized manufacturers or major users of pfos products here in ann arbor but because um you know because of the uh consumer products um these end up in our water wastewater treatment plants um as well and get discharged to the human river and so the other thing is biosolids and compost so these are both these are there's widespread contamination of biosolids and compost um kathy griswold raised your hand yes i took a tour of the water treatment plant i don't know a few years ago and there was a discussion about how we used to sell or give our bio so solids uh to farmers they would come with trucks or tanks and haul it away and i'm wondering if that's still being done and they would they would get it to to put on their uh on their fields um it's still being done it's a common practice and as far as i can tell it's still being done oh okay as of last january um actually council approved the contract with um to the provider and i can provide that information to you uh if you like do we have to test to determine how much pfas is in the biosoil before they go out well um there are no there is no regulation as yet either at the federal or the state level however um impart has ration guidelines about what you should do with it if you measure pfos because you're not required to measure ppossible biosolids and you're not required um um and you're not required and there are no requirements legal requirements about what to do with them but there are guidelines just like there are these health advisory levels that the epa has issued for drinking water there are impart has done that and epa is working on that as well and they may have some um more detailed guidelines and some regulation later this year or early next year because they're moving quite fast as fast as i can but i have information about what ann arbor does with inspire solids who the contractor is in part the state of michigan has been really good compared to many states because this information is all publicly available if you go to mywaters.com the state has registered for many years which wastewater treatment plants go to which agricultural fields have yeah we have sent their biosolids to which agricultural fields um so in uh ann arbor did measure its compost its municipal compost from three years ago i've mentioned this before at the environmental commission but it does have compo it does have the thoughts contamination of other composts and both municipal and just uh yard waste have been tested by principally by a professor at purdue university uh named linda lee so she's she's published scientific studies uh of um of pfas levels and biosolids and compost so our compost ends up you know somewhere around the median of what's seen nationwide here so of course when these biosolids and composts are spread on agricultural fields plants will take up some of these pfas compounds they'll take up the shorter chain ones they're regrettable substitutes and you'll absorb them or the cattle that are feeding on them will absorb them and uh then they'll let they'll end up we'll all end up getting exposed through that way and um the longer chain legacy uh p costs tend to bind to soil more than water so the wastewaters are not as contaminated by the older comp uh they're in the soil but they don't get taken up by plants as readily and they don't get uh discharged into the wastewater into the ground water as readily as these newer smaller thousand compounds so rita you have your handout and then sharing i wonder if you know the source of contamination in the compost is there any way to determine that well um yard waste comes out much lower than food waste so because it's been contaminating the food supply for years there's a basal level there but the really egregious part is the fast food wrappers you know like contaminated pizza boxes contain you know fast food wrappers that have cheese stuck on them you know people will compost those you know instead of throwing them in the trash if they ended up in the trash they'd just end up in the landfill you got leached out eventually um so they end up in the compost that way mostly so that's why um i think the most important policy prescription right now to prevent um for well i'll get to this later i'll get to this later um does that answer your question yeah i guess one thing that i think of though is um there are some compostable containers that have some kind of lining and i just wonder if that is a pfas product the liner yeah there are ways of testing that that's very hard to find any information about that what i've done what i have done is i've um you know when the family goes out and gets takeout i uh i look at the uh i look at the label and i look up uh you know what's i google it and i look at the patent literature as well and see what's in there and many of these lining most of these paper products that are substitutes um are our copolymers for example polyethylene something like that that's been combined with some oxygenated um other polymers that none of which contain p flats so most of the ones that you can look at i mean the industries known about this problem for a decade now you know it's got word has gotten out that yeah the epa is going to do something eventually so uh most of the stuff i've seen in ann arbor here outside of the you know large fast food companies is relatively clean you know things you get at whole foods like amazon for example unless you go pfas free um five years four years ago five years ago so whole foods um supposedly has had no fuss in their packaging for five years four or five years um so shannon you have your hand up yeah two questions um one just following up on what you just said it would be great if it could because i'm sure you know it's been a long time since i've had chemistries stephen i'm sure many of us in the in the in the zoom room are feeling the same way um and so i'm really grateful that you have this expertise because i i i am so far from that um but i think what could be really practical for our city is to have somebody like you make recommendations of compostable takeout products that could be like a safe list that a a restaurant could like look up and say oh these three from you know these three manufacturers or whatever that they they don't have to have a degree in chemistry to understand what the issues are so that we can just have kind of a quick and dirty like we know these are relatively safe um and they're doing the right thing and you can order from these um outfits and you're gonna you know you're you're doing the best that you can within the confines of you know which i'm sure there's all kinds of like nothing nothing seems like is completely you know fine but um they're certainly less bad than than others so that would be like a fabulous thing i think for just our local restaurants um things like that to be able because you know i i certainly put the compostable stuff in the compost bin and i mean boy it would just kill me if i'm like putting fifa stuffed into the compost bin so i would just put it in the trash you know but it would be great to have some sort of easy resource um for for places to be able to to kind of order from so that's one thought the other thought is that um sometimes i've worked alongside phytoremediation which are plants that can break down complex chains of chemicals and break them into kind of their component parts and i'm wondering uh and and there's certain plants that work with certain kinds of um pollutants and i'm wondering if there's been any research done on that with any of the family of pfas chemicals um you mentioned you know some stick and soil more some sticking water more but um there's really been some exciting things that have been happening with some of that um on some projects that we've worked on and i'm just wondering if if any of the research or industry or there's been any kind of exploration of um of that field in relation to this issue yeah i'm aware of that kind of technology but um you know the the what do you have time what the the bottom line is that uh the carbon flooring bond is unnatural oh it does not exist in nature nothing has evolved no living creature has evolved any means of detoxifying it or changing it interesting these compounds i should have been clearer about that earlier yeah so you know you can do things like so you can um sure because plants will take it up you can do that but then what do you do with the trees no no obviously right right it's more like that they will break in some of the other fighter remediation projects that we've been kind of alongside of it breaks them down into component parts but what i hear you saying is that this doesn't exist in that world and so there's been nothing that's evolved to be able to make that strong of a disconnection between the fluorine and the carbon yeah there's no there's no natural means of destroying these compounds that's why they're so persistent the other the other useful uh thing that makes phyto remediation a useful tool sometimes is that you can bio concentrate concentrate on the toxin you know like that's not for arsenic i know and selenium and cadmium like that but uh again i mean these are things that will you know those are kind of metals that will show up in the ash but the fifas will uh get volatized in the smoke oh interesting and just get this first elsewhere wherever it's burning yeah so are you advocating then that biosolids should really just like go to a landfill is that like is that what you think should happen well that's what um that's what several states in new england have done already um it's what the environmental community advocates for it's going to present a substantial uh you know cost increase for the city to do so right because those landfills are not cheap to dump stuff in that's for sure and you know the shame is that it is very a very good soil amendment and now it's oil amendment so uh you know and the the companies that uh deal with this there's so much resistance in denial because they don't you know they don't want to lose their business but on the other hand um what are you going to do everybody has to if enough people protest um so that these synthetic chemicals are regulated more properly we just there's not much you can really do about the pfos this that's distributed at a basic level now but at least we can maybe pass legislation that will prevent it from happening again yeah that's what the european union is doing right now so kathy thank you um yes i hate to be this specific but my family used to have a hog farm and all of the manure and waste products would um fall down and then be uh taken away and spread on farms and so i'm wondering if is that a source of p bass as well as well um not nearly as high as the virus solids from wastewater treatment plants yeah it's been that's been looked at um oh okay yeah many cable operations i mean the maneuver that even comes out of cable operations they're not uh they're not significant um sources of fifa's contamination compared to wastewater treatment plant fire solids but they have other problems they have nutrient pollution problems from the phosphorus and the nitrogen john you have your hand up and then rita yes uh the problem with sending biosolids and compost to landfill is that it turns into methane and methane then is a greenhouse gas so you're sort of damned if you do and damned if you don't um i'm interested in the next part of steve's uh presentation about the comprehensive solutions and shannon to your comment um about you know conforming local businesses my hope is that we would um take any efforts um that were any resources that we have and apply them to efforts that are hopefully more broad-based and have an equitable impact not that we're just protecting ourselves and rich little ann arbor but we're protecting people also in you know other parts of the state that are probably not anywhere near as well informed about this as we are and i'm interested in hearing from from steve maybe at the very end of this what specifically the environmental commission and city council can do um as groups and as individuals to address and promote some of these comprehensive solutions that he's talking about so i'll wait for that anxious okay yeah i'll move faster yeah i hope i'm not putting anybody to sleep rita well this is a micro version of that question um is anyone working with dentists to um suggest that they move away from glide uh dental floss um yeah yeah of course so i'll get to this later there's a couple of you know of course because there are no disclosure requirements you know you need to test these products so there are several environmental ngos that have been spending money for years including like the ecology center here in ann arbor and the environmental working group so i have urls to those websites um at the end of my presentations so anybody can look at those and get the latest um information about what products have been tested um and so uh i'll talk more about that later so what are the comprehensive solutions here first of all you need to define defaults as any chemical having at least one carbon atom fully fluorinated so this targets the general ppas property persistence this is the definition that the european union has settled on and you know most of these chemical companies there's only some seven chemical companies that manufacture ppos worldwide but because they make products that they sell worldwide you know joining the european union will which is roughly a third of the world market is in the european union and roughly a third of it's in the united states where it used to be so um you know china is a different story entirely but um but uh we can at least um you know control uh what ends up in the environment in the in the united states and the european union so um and then the second thing to do is to eliminate all non-essential uses of phos so this turns off the whole spigot because because these compounds are cumulative they're you know they're because they're persistent they accumulate they don't maybe no don't concentrate in your body but they accumulate they accumulate and in fact when we the sierra club i was working with a sierra club group that issued a report called uh sludge in the garden a number of years ago about commercial uh soil amendments that you can buy at big box stores we tested nine uh products that you can buy in the big box store and they all have pfos so you can look at the sierra club report just google uh sludge in the garden sierra club sludge in the garden and download the pdf and look at it the thing is that um they all contain um and they uh and uh and you know uh and and we used this standard um epa approved assay for this but we also did something that i've been recommending is where you do a total organic fluorine analysis there's a point here is that um there are some ten thousand feedback compounds that are registered some 200 or 300 of them have been made in large quantities for a long time but it's hard to tell that data is not publicly available it's hard to tell which ones were made and where they ended up um in what quantities however we use this total organic flooring test which really measures anything that has a carbon fluorine bond in it so it's basically a comprehensive test because you have so many chemicals you cannot test for all of them in any given acid so however total organic fluorine assay which is available finally here in the united states um can give you an upper bound for how many pvas compounds are in a particular sample and uh we did that with these um nine you know uh soil amendments and we came up with part per million my parts per thousand or parts per billion the parts per million biosolids and composts tend to be in parts per billion range drinking water and waters tend to be in the parts per trillion range they can be in parts per billion ranges um the biosolids can be in the parts very generally in the low parts per billion range but if you look at total organic fluorine it's in the parts per million range now then the next question is what is this and probably a large amount of it are polymers near there like teflon that's degraded the microplastics that are in the virus so those won't be absorbed in themselves but they're already in the environment they will break down eventually over millennia and uh who knows what products they'll be creating you know just through say uh low-level natural processes so how bridget do you have your hand on yeah i'm just wondering if you can give examples of what essential uses of pfas might um the european union basically defines that and everybody there's general agreement outside of industry is what that means what that means is that you don't use it you only use it for medical devices and you may use it occasionally for in manufacturing processes not where it's deliberately added to a product but where it's a minor contaminant of things like uh teflon bushings and other things i mean these b peephouse compounds are used in almost any uh a plastic molding device so this is another problem to see the tfos any any plastic product that's made uses is sprayed with pea pots to help the product release from the mold so this will also mean it's also a generic problem with any plastic product on the market so um so you'll need to uh you'll need to get rid of that sort of thing in manufacturing and find some other way of releasing you know if you want to release if you want to do low molding and things like that you will need to find some other product besides p-files um and you have your handout yeah just curious what's the like it sounds like an industrial setting they they act as a lubricant kind of in that capacity but in consumer products in cosmetics in food wrappers what is it about the classes that make them use like what's their compelling feature well for example uh mascara it won't run um because it won't uh the fifa resistance repelled you got grease and water you know so if your eyes tear up or or you know if you get some kind of oil or the oils from your skin that will not cause the mascara it's a similar thing with uh lip gloss you know it won't get it'll repel water and grease um if you're eating or something you know or lipstick but it's in um you know it's in it's in it's hard to tell what else it's in but these are the products that uh are where they're usually found so non-essential uses means everything except a medical use where there are no substitutes sometimes some material is used for research purposes like there are some research equipment that needs to have plastic components that are basically a pfas polymer but they generally don't have anything that can reach out of them but if you you can look at the european union website to get their draft list they published their draft list a few months ago and so everybody can look at that and see what they've defined as non-essential the nordic countries in europe are are more strict than the european union as a whole but what the eu recommendations are are things that you know every member of the eu has approved but uh the nordic countries are generally stricter um and so um and the most important thing is that we need to reform tosca which is stands for the toxic substances control act uh to invoke what's called the precautionary principle mean that um you should not be allowed to make anything in time quantities until you've proven that it's safe both for acute and chronic exposures to people and you know and organisms in the environment as well so zebrafish for example are a good model for fifa's toxicity and fish this is also part of the eu reach program for regulating chemicals but in the united states you can still manufacture anything and sell it and i'll just say just declare that it's generally regarded as safe without disclosing any data or very minimal data so you know it's really an open spigot and so uh and so uh the executive branch only has the authority that's come through tosca through the toxic substances control act which was first passed in 1976 uh but it's been diluted you know since then um the last major revision were the frank lautenberg amendments that were completed in 2016 which um you know finally allowed uh which finally said well the original tosca did not um permit the government to regulate any legacy chemicals so for example one for dioxane was not regulated um you know which is another source of contamination locally here and that was not regulated it still is not regulated because uh yeah it was um it was grandfathered into tosca in 1976.
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