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and this was all before the empire the state impart program was started so um i i'm not sure exactly when the city uh began to install uh um you know granule or activated carbon uh beds charcoal beds basically to absorb the pfos that's coming in tonight i'm not exactly sure when uh tribar uh stopped uh releasing pfos to the river but again there's a fish advisory uh because pfos will bio accumulate up to a thousand times higher concentrations in body tissues a thousand times more concentrated than it is in the water that they're swimming in so even though the pfos concentrations in the water were roughly equivalent to what the epa existing epa health level advisory was those numbers dropped dramatically and uh they dropped dramatically since then on the epa last june i dropped them from drop them down to sub parts per trillion for pfos and pfoa these are the legacy launching pfos compounds that bioaccumulate and so uh so it may be another and eaglet continues to test the fish every year they collect the fish samples and store them and then they're analyzed by the michigan department of health and even services over the winter and usually around march first is when they update uh the fish advisors statewide and so that's when the community when you can see uh what the fishing what's changed in terms of the fish advisors from the year before around march first um so sarah you have your hand up yeah hi i'll just chime in um so i am involved so i worked for eagle actually and um i've been involved in pfas on the heron and i'm sorry that i missed the last meeting um steve where you talked about pboss um but yeah so like the pfos and surface water in the huron has dropped significantly since the remediation at wixom um but we're still finding concentrations you know above like what you should be eating and fish um so part of our ongoing studies is looking at pfos as a source to fish and sediment so we have ongoing research where we're actually looking i like food chain studies with sediments collected from um like around the huron river watershed um so i just wanted to provide a little update on that that the state's still working on that um and hopefully that study will help inform um if sediment remediation is needed within the watershed okay all right well thanks sarah um and uh it's our you know with the chromium six i'll just mention in this context the chromium-6 means that it's a high oxidation state of chromium um and so it's the high oxidation state of that of the chromium makes it a very strong oxidizing agent which is probably what makes it carcinogenic however various natural processes when it's in the environment even in water or soils or in your body will fairly rapidly it converts because it's so reactive it's oxidizing agent it will oxidize whatever a lot of a lot of compounds will come in contact with it and so it's pretty quickly reduced from chromium 6 to chromium 3 which is um not recognized as a as a toxic substance it's in fact an essential nutrient um that's involved in um a lot of central um metabolic processes and mammals at least and so um that chromium three the epa is recommending that recommends a surface water limit of 120 parts per billion and a drinking water limit of 100 parts per billion but those are that that's for total chromium because of this fact that the chromium sex reacts very quickly um it seems like the epa has not really established a you know a drinking water criteria for chromium sex they just specify one for total chromium because i think that the assumption is that whatever chromium sex might come in from the intake uh through the standard water treatment form processes gets reduced to chromium food and so you just want to measure you want to use an assay that measures all the chromium if this chromium 6 would be there for chromium so um you know the way these things are regulated is these npdes i've forgotten what that stands for but um if somebody has a permit to release uh any substance from an industrial or commercial enterprise so they're supposed to have an ndds i believe i'm sure sarah knows more about this than i do um but again there are uh and ann arbor and the city of ann arbor it has npgs permits as well um and the university of michigan for example has a permit on its waste through the ann arbor wastewater treatment plant and uh there are various other um enterprises within the city here that have their individual empty des moines of course the wastewater treatment plant itself has an fpdes permit so uh some of that data can be found on on the internet um and the question there is uh is where it's hard to tell what other non-mpdes sources may exist as for example uh it's come to the attention through various ngos nationally that have done some testing that uh that actually uh car washes use and so you know it's probably in the extra special deluxe you know detailing treatment that you get where you can make your tires look like new so they're probably spraying something like uh this is just a supposition speculation on my life but it's something like that like displaying some product on your car probably on the tires and uh it contains pfos that it's it's hard to tell what kind which pbos compounds there are um that are being used for that purpose but um i think a lot of car washes recycle um their waste water my understanding is that some of them do but i'm not exactly sure where all that goes whether now it goes into the sanitary sewer or whether it goes into the groundwater or maybe both depending on the location that this is going this is ultimately going to present an issue where car washes are going to have to stop using phosphorus they're going to have to probably acquire an mpd and yes permit if they choose to use ethos or other chemicals so um the testing programs are pretty minimal that's why i personally am a big fan of citizen testing because you know prices have come down quite a bit like for example you can get a reasonable uh pfas measurement of drinking water uh for eighty dollars by mail order and um so i've used it i've used it for my water coming out of my faucet both here and a few other homes and uh the results i get compared to what the city posts on its website so uh but um the the 80 test is not an epa approved as yet test so you know it's not legally defensible uh but it's a very simple test that anybody can use uh you can order it from a company called cyclopure that's in illinois so um so uh another major source of agricultural so of course pesticides and nutrients are the major pollution uh pollution sources so the haran river watershed council has had a great program um that our rick rick lawson over the heron river watershed council has done outreach to uh various agricultural enterprises upstream with us they're all upstreamless in the huron river uh they're mostly in the arms in boyden creek um and mill creek um which is around dexter and davis creek and portage creek so those percentage numbers on the slide just reflect the amount of land in these drainages that go into the caron river which uh which are devoted to agriculture and of course most of it is uh corn and soybeans because of the farm bill some subsidies and uh as commodities so uh you know a lot of farmers use quite a lot of pesticides for corn and for uh soybeans and uh i can uh there's some information that uh like we can look that anybody can look at on here under the watershed council website about that study and about what the results were uh so rita you have your hand up actually that's all i needed to know is uh the information on what's found in the testing so i'll look it up thank you yeah okay and pesticides you know of course because if they're growing corn and uh and soybeans uh both of those plants have been bred um uh over a decade ago to be resistant to glyphosate or roundup so they use it or um many farmers use enormous amounts of roundup you know to raise these crops these commodity crops corn and soybeans so and and so much roundup has been used uh of course that there are native plants that have taken up that gene and that have resistance to uh glyphosate some some some very uh very invasive ones as well so it looks like this practice may be ending soon uh just because there's a lot of invasive native plants that have glyphosate resistant so they'll move on to some other pesticide but of course some uh the classic ones like dialdrin and other things that were used on these commodity crops contaminate most drinking water nationwide and they do have accumulative health effects um so but the human river watershed council has been doing a pretty good job at testing for these things within the watershed and they've reached out to farmers to try to get them to manage the nutrient releases in the river which besides the pesticides of course the nutrient pollution becomes is uh we're mostly talking about phosphate here in nitrogen well the focus is usually on phosphate because phosphate uh encourages harmful algal blooms and in stagnant waters um so this is a contributing to the uh harmful algal blooms that appear in the summer uh downstream of us and they are over at uh ford lake and velvet lakes behind those dams the river the water is not flowing it gets amazing from the sun and you get uh and you get um harmful algal blooms uh which create toxins which in fact it's a big problem in western lake erie and the city of toledo had to shut down its water system drinking water system for uh a week a number of years ago and uh because of the global warming that we experienced through the climate crisis this is becoming a much more serious problem uh also because there are more of agricultural operations like capos especially that are spreading they're allowed to spread their manure now manure from animal farms is generally um pesticide free compared to uh composts and biosolids but the nutrients are are at a very high level phosphorus and nitrogen so those contribute to the pollution um within the state now especially when they're spread on frozen more snow-covered ground in winter as the state allows that and this has been a major point of contention most of the ngo community in the state here is trying to prevent farmers from spraying their manure on frozen agricultural land because there's not enough big enough buffer it's not a big enough natural barrier between the agricultural fields and the river to try to absorb some of these nutrients before they went off the surface and enter the river so another another thing to consider here is a lot of the agricultural lands are you know were reclaimed swamps so they have tiles uh there's a tile system that underweighs the soil flavor cultural um fields and those drains generally drained into a pipe that goes directly into a surface water stitch and so that does not help to matter at all either so um this is this just serves as a reminder that you know the city has signed the content judgment consent judgment that we discovered uh a year ago with the state of the state had seen the city of ann arbor and a few other permit holders for discharging too many nutrients in the river so we're under consent judgment to try to reduce uh the nutrient pollution that comes out of what wastewater treatment plant and that's going to be a topic for discussion that a uh uh that they can another environmental commission meeting sometime within the next year so um another source for drinking water is so sarah you raised your hand again yeah i just thought i'd circle back on the pesticides um so the state right now is uh working on recreating water quality standards for a class of pesticides known as neonicotinoids so if you guys have heard of like the bee colony collapse disorder neonicotinoids are the type of pesticide that that led to that issue um and we're also finding that they're incredibly toxic to organisms living in rivers um so like mayflies like ept taxa if you're familiar with that term um so yeah the state's working on water quality standards for that class um so far they've passed uh for amid a club grid which is the one that's most toxic of the six um and then um yeah there's plans for other pesticide projects and in following years so we do have a small program to help address some pesticide issues and i have nothing to add for nutrients thanks steve okay and what about chlorophyrus uh oh um no no plans to study that is that more of a human health or an aquatic health issue yeah it's neurotoxic control uh really you have your hand out yeah i was just to ask sarah when you say um some actions to be taken could you describe this a little more pesticides right yeah so we um so for the neonicotinoids we conducted a um a sampling plan for the saginaw river watershed and that was just completed last month um so we did monthly samples for all six neonicotinoids comparing like monthly one-time sampling to a passive sampler so a problem with monitoring for pesticides is that they're really flashy right so you get a rain event you get this huge pulse you know if you sample at the wrong time you miss it so we were comparing different strategies for sampling for um for neonicotinoids then also trying to understand if concentrations refining the environment exceed you know what we know is toxic to aquatic life um so our results from that study showed that we were getting experiences of chronic values so that means long-term exposure for like 30 days to that concentration could cause you know a crash in the population of mayflies and chronomeds so it wasn't good news um and yeah there'll be more to come okay yeah thank you sarah yeah so the third category would be residential because uh you know and this mostly of course comes through consumer goods and what nutrients were sending down the drain so um you know like your garbage disposals you know not just toilets the garbage disposals sinks kitchen sinks um and so this is where a lot of the people's contamination comes from because you know it's been all the legacy pfos compounds like pfos and pfoa especially they've been circulating with food supply for decades so estimates are still that you know on average worldwide basically 70 percent of your exposure to ppos comes through food or cosmetics um five percent roughly comes through dust you know through household dust you know through carpets and uh draperies and other things clothing that's uh coated with pfas then of course there's pesticide residues as well so and the reason i started with drinking water is because of course um most of the regulation here in the united states of course is not focused on human threats to human health much more so than threats to ecological health so drinking water the regulations for drinking water tend to be stricter and and be taken more seriously than with other um with them with toxicities to the ecological community and wildlife so um the next category would be storm water so where do the threats from storm water they're um most of them come through impervious surfaces so the city has the city owns on a lot of impervious surface with their roads and sidewalks um every home owner has a roof every building has a roof every building people have driveways so um because the storm water is running off an impervious surface directly through the storm sewer into the hung river it washes a lot of um nutrients and pollutants into the river along with it uh because they don't have the opportunity to be absorbed in the uh uh you know in the uh [Music] you know through the soil through the natural uh soil and in fact i was shocked to hear this because i'd always assume that you know while lawns grass uh is is pervious but it turns out that compared to like a forest floor uh grass is about uh was only about fifty percent um impervious so you know even if you have a good lush lawn a lot of the rain that falls on your grass about half of it's going to run off onto the sidewalk into the stream you know no matter how how soft uh you know the soil is underneath uh you know compared to a a well mulched garden or native or you know native planting so um you know a major a major problem is road salt and it's mostly the chloride rather than the sodium or potassium so i'm sara did you mention something about this yeah sure um so yeah chloride really um became a huge issue with some pretty recent research showing that it can be quite toxic to fresh water mussels so in 2018 water quality standards for the state of michigan were established since then you know there's been a lot of work trying to understand well how do we actually implement these standards and get chloride levels down when road salt obviously is so necessary for our safety in the winter so there are some states that have these they're like smart salting programs to help you know municipalities and public works offices you know learn different strategies for using less salt with still the same safety standards and things like that so that's exciting and hopefully something like that can can happen in michigan um part of you know i guess some work that i'm working on is i've been collaborating with heroin river watershed council they provided me with a data set with chloride data for the entire watershed so i'll be analyzing that to understand where the sources are coming from and then with my work in the state of michigan i've been i actually proposed a project for next year to focus specifically on the huron river watershed to look at fluorides so that would include you know runoff from roads and collection by the adjacent river to see what the connection relationship is and another issue is um road brine so using um oil and mineral well brine to consolidate roads that aren't paved is a really common practice in michigan and those products not only have a lot of chloride but they also have high metals um and other contaminants in them so we're also looking at a project to understand uh runoff from those types of roads as well so that'll be coming in the next year and hopefully i'll have time to present to this group on the findings of those because uh yeah those research things okay thanks sarah one of the things i've heard is that these brines are often times they're like fracking waste water fluids from fracking yeah anything about that i'm not sure like the fry if we're allowed to use fracking um i know mineral well-brine as well as oil gas field brine is allowed with certain restrictions but yeah i'm not on the fracking theme so i can't speak to that okay well that's something that i think we ought to look into um you know what what priority what practices are allowed and which are are just not reported because i've heard i'm not sure about michigan but i've heard that that's a big problem in california for example um because um in some other states uh where fracking fluid you know has been used um it's contaminated groundwater but but i i heard that a lot of states are either not aware of it or uh or don't really care about it um about you know fracking fluid waste because you know it's it can be hazardous because of the chemicals that are used but also you know you leach out a lot of radium and things like that there are these substances called 10 worm uh ten and orm which are you know toxic uh metals plus like a radioactive radium and so uh you know the states that you know the states where fracking is more prevalent like ohio southeastern ohio pennsylvania they uh they're not allowing you to inject uh or to to uh you know to uh you know to bury these uh these fracking fluids and landfills hazardous waste landfills anymore so the state of michigan has been petitioned to uh to get these fracking fluids from other states have them you know disposed of here because they're no longer allowed in these states where it's become much more there's much more public awareness about it so that's something i think to look into as well um so then of course there's nutrients coming off the stormwater as well um and this is uh estimates i've seen i don't know what of course what the number is for ann arbor but i've seen various studies that estimate that maybe half of the nutrients uh that went off in municipalities are coming from stormwater and the other half come out of the wastewater treatment plant so we should look into this in more detail during a commission meeting over the next year um as we you know address uh you know the consent judgment for uh because the city has to come up with a plan for reducing um it's uh it's uh you know releases of phosphorus to the hunger within a year or two so um so what other threats are there there's of course petroleum products and coal tars i mean this is recognized so the city of ann arbor has banned full tar spreading coal tar in the driveway to sail your driveway uh coal tar has been banned here i'm not sure what the state's done about it because i think it's still done in the more rural areas in town here but the thing about coal tars is they don't you know they're carcinogens and uh but they don't they don't they're not very soluble in water usually so they do migrate but they'll migrate slowly off wherever they're applied so i don't know if anybody knows more about that you know please raise your hand okay then of course there's miscellaneous chemicals like window washing fluids yadda yadda um and then um one of the things that's uh a growing or recognizes a growing health threat worldwide are micro and nanoplastics while the iron river watershed council looked at microplastics and they found it's coming from everywhere you know there are no point sources of microplastics because academic studies on the west coast usually uh published by people on the west coast have indicated that you know half about half of all the microplastics come from a tire well or rubber tire wear and that gets airborne and so those microplastics are spread by the air and then that's how they get into the ground water and how they get into the diameter because um somebody measured microplastics in various rivers in ann arbor and in the state of michigan and it was discovered that the iron river had have the highest levels of microplastics statewide so and i i i'm sure a lot of that comes from my worn tires that have been spread around but of course there's plastic bags and other plastics that deteriorate and microplastics are defined as something less than i think five millimeters but basically it's defined as being sort of out of sight out of mind you know there it's plastic pollution that's macro and we see we pick up that litter but once it gets down to half a centimeter in size roughly it's nobody's going to pick it up anymore so it becomes a microplastic even though you know it's not so micro but all these compound all these uh plastics these polymers will eventually degrade down to nano sizes where um the size of the plastic particle is smaller than the cell and a cell in your body and so what happens of course is that uh there's two things first of all these plastics will absorb and concentrate various toxins from the environment you know the water the a lot of um a lot of pollutants who are more attracted to binding to the plastics and they are the water so as water passes around these plastic particles uh they will absorb and take up many pollutants such as pfoss and um pesticides endocrine disruptive chemicals things like that and so the major problem of course is you can drink them you can get exposed to them you know there's an estimate that's spread around or that we all have about a credit card size amount of plastic in our guts um it's still like a microplastic so it's not absorbed into your body but the pro the major problem is once they become nanoplastics they will get absorbed both through your guide and through your lungs so there's uh there's an estimate that uh you can definitely measure [Music] so you uh measure uh [Music] losses in lung function in people depending on how much nanoplastics they've been exposed to as you inhale these particles they stay in your lung you know just like smoke particles would if you're a smoker and uh they gradually leach out these toxins but they also in themselves they they interfere with proper lung function and so so they're out there they're getting smaller and smaller so uh it's even if we stopped you know making plastics and having them out in the environment it's going to become it's going to become an increasing problem worldwide as they exist plastic that's out there gets more into the smaller and smaller levels and becomes airborne so um you know this is a principal uh spur on people to try to to try to ban plastic to try to just stop especially creating disposable plastics and just try to stop um um you know getting it out of the environment personally i think it's hard to see where we're not going to be using plastic anymore because it is such a cheap malleable construction material you know it's in dashboards of cars it's uh in all of your household appliances you know we all know how widespread plastic is in consumer products you know our computers our cell phones so i don't think we're going to get real plastic but this is where the circular economy is going to be especially important if we can get plastics that are made that will degrade cancer molecular levels like uh you know the newer generation greener plastics like uh poly lactic acid pla and uh there's other there's other plastics that come from that are used from biological monomers which degrade down to non-toxic natural products so we can get plastics um made to those materials instead of petroleum or if we can um handle the waste the plastic waste more responsibly that's another thing that you know as i said before you know half of them half of these plastics come from more tire wear so in my mind this like uh speaks to the need for uh i mean and it also comes from brake pads you can definitely measure uh you know break that particles coming from on standard um you know disclaims um that are in the environment as a nanoplastic so um you know this is something that's a distinct threat it's a growing threat even if we stop making plastics now and throw them out and so we've got to really be pay attention to this so the third category was groundwater so the threats to groundwater come through pervious surfaces so it's the same same compounds but instead of washing down directly into the river through the storm water it'll get absorbed into the soil and into the ground water which as i mentioned before that's where a lot of the microplastics and however come from uh as far as what it's known so far so you know what do we have here we have the galamon white four dioxane plume we have of course there's plumes from uh light from legacy dry cleaners they're various uh chlorinated solvents that are used like uh um tetrachloroethylene and trichloroethylene and then there's uh of course uh pfast contaminations of compost and biosolids so um i'll expand on this a bit because as you know um because p-files have been circulating in the environment for a long time uh they are in the biosolids they're in their wastewaters and they're in the compost now the cities the city tested its compost in 2019 i believe and we have measurable values of all the pfas compounds the sum 47 that are tested standard through the standard high level tests on 47 different pfos compounds that are located here that are existing part pavilion levels in our municipal compost um uh i think our biosolids were tested but i don't recall seeing that data um um also they probably tested the wastewater effluent to try to see what ethos compounds are coming out from there but those haven't been uh they've probably been tested by receiving the reports so i think that's something that the commission should look into as well because regulations are going to be coming in the future that are going to make an impact on the city's budget i mentioned this um last month when i talked more about so i won't i won't go over this in any detail but i think um this should be a focus for what we're doing that's trying to do our our community budget for pfas and see and see what our existing levels are and what remediation technologies might be available um but of course the ultimate the only real solution is to just turn off the spigot and get the uh debbie dingle submitted a bill in congress for the last four years called the pfas reduction act um and so of course um and it's in committee and she's been very resourceful and trying to get it attached to the national defense authorization act and other such bills that you know have to be passed by congress because their budget bills and the filibuster doesn't apply and so um so i think i'm hoping that within as soon as possible that that her intact fifa's you know product protection reduction act will get passed and so we'll stop getting these toxic compounds released into the environment and into our consumer products and food supply so uh just moving on to wastewater and biosolids um it's the same story i mentioned before that uh that uh generally um you know it's the uh from the point sources if they have industrial pre-treatment permits and go through a wastewater treatment plant um that's a potential problem uh for the city because it's getting a pass through just like the wastewater treatment plant in wixom a pass through from the tri-bar industries they contaminated both their biosolids and their wastewaters so their wastewaters ended up in the liver and contaminated their drinking water uh but the pfas compounds also ended up in their biosolids they were spread on agricultural fields they were spread on farms and there was a family-owned farm in heartland if you recall was contaminated the gentleman was raising beef cattle and he was donating the beef to various charity organizations and youth events and he feels terrible about this so i don't know what the state legislature is going to try to do about this but this is a very common problem all over the united states and so um i think it's where it's i think we should take on this responsibility of maybe looking at it in a disinterested manner and trying to collect information and evaluate it and try to see what um what remediation uh and you know update uh the residents here and uh city council about what um about what regulations are coming down the fight and what uh and what remediation technologies might be useful and do a cost benefit analysis follow them so and then of course those consumer goods i'm not sure what the city can do about this you know we the city did pass a law um when nutrient pollution was originally um discovered to be a problem back in the 70s and uh and uh because the soils in michigan are naturally fairly rich in phosphorous the thinking was well you shouldn't have phosphorus in your uh in your in your detergents you know because phosphorus is a common additive to dishwashing detergents and other consumer products and so on the state the city banned the use of phosphorus fertilizer and also the use of it in uh and selling here in the city in this community banned selling consumer products like dishwashing detergent that have added phosphorous to it and um and they were successful in getting a lot of the local businesses to not do it but my understanding is that anybody can walk into any of these box stores and if you ask a clerk for their fertilizer that has phosphorus in it now they will sell it to you they're just not allowed they're not allowed to put it on the shelves but anybody can walk up and ask somebody if they can buy it and they keep it they keep some in the back and so yeah yourself so so um so there's that as an example i'm not sure how far the city would go in trying to ban some of these other toxic substances like sunspoons endocrine disruptors because it's definitely going to damage the marketability of our municipal compost and our biosolids because the alternative to spreading our biosolids on agricultural fields is a way you could spread it in in forests or something like that and maybe get away with that um uh but um the alternative that's been um they've been done in new england is most many new england states have banned uh the spreading the land application of any biosolid because of pfas contamination so the cost of the city is going it generally costs about four times as much to put these sewage sludges into a hazardous waste landfill versus you know on one on natural land which is a tragedy because um you know because uh that soil amendments biosolids and composts are are about the best soil amendments you can have for growing anything so this is a this is definitely a threat to the city's bottom line and there's also regulatory job as well so um so i just um summarized at the end here i just listed some informational resources i mean i'd recommend anybody to go and explore the haran river watershed council for those of you who do not may not be aware of this um i think it was created in 1965 or so and includes representatives from local governments such as ann arbor uh jen lawson is a regular uh participant uh in the meetings he's a city staff member um they're represented out of the county train commissioner evan pratt attends these meetings as well um the dream that the state of michigan a lot of the regulations come through the county through the drain commissioner or the water resources manager i think they changed the title from drain commissioner the water resources manager but evan pratt is the current person who holds that office in washington and so a lot of the a lot of the basic regulations and monitoring is done through the county county water resources commissioner formerly called the drain commissioner and then there's a local organization of governments called semcog the southeast michigan council of governments and so if you look at this website you'll see what they uh what they have on water and then eagle of course has a couple of websites there's mi waters is where you can find a lot of data so i put here the site map explorer uh this is where you can find information about mpdes comments and wastewater treatment plant ipt permits so you see those are all under the water resources um file system structure and they're wet on the mi waters website so that's a good place to look for information and then of course uh for pfas only uh there's the impart website is um is very comprehensive they talk about where contamination has been found what their plans are or what sites are under investigation uh and what the regulations are that's where they talk about the uh uh pfas fish advisors as well and they point you to the uh dnr the department of natural resources webpage which has all which hosts all the fish advisories and then on a bigger lot a higher level i'm going from the local level up to the higher level so there's another entity called the great lakes commission of the study that spends a lot of money this is an international commission so it includes all the states which border the great lakes plus the uh provinces in canada the board of the great lakes so this is a larger regional organization that is tasked with um regulating water quality in the great lakes so and then then of course at the uh highest level we get the epa and so this is where you can find out information on the clean water act and the safe drinking water act you know which are the major authorizations of the congress has given epa to regulate on water quality so uh so then the question is well what um what initiatives um would we consider well just around water quality um so we can consider a resolution to support h.r 4314 which has been submitted every year by yusuf ravi our local uh state representative um it's uh it's a bill that's was drafted to re-empower michigan polluter payloads michigan used to have uh reasonable really uh good polluter pay laws but governor engler in 1995 neutered them completely so um so this is a bill that's been sitting in the legislature the current uh legislature does not um will not even let this come out of committee for or hold public hearings on it or anything so because of you know um because of lobbying and sense of lobbying they get from the account on chemistry council and the michigan chamber of commerce so these are the major powers that are prevented by political pay bill from getting passed by our state legislature then of course there's the for gelman plume cleanup that we got involved with just last year because in october because this was all under a consent order that was sealed to the public and so that seal was broken last october and so the environmental commission had four um four sessions public meetings on this and so we issued a resolution to council uh recommending that the epa consider it as a superfund site because uh you know this was this plume was discovered in 1984.

um the lower middle is 39 and the lower huron river is 51. so if ann arbor and its creek sheds is in the low 30s it's the worst of basically all those all those areas um and i think if if we're serious about uh improving water quality including a lot of the contamination issues that we talked about here then it really makes sense that we have a smart goal and metrics and we trend chart it and we define goals and we get entities like the city and the watershed council and industries to get together to work on actions to improve our water quality so that's something i think we could do and have an influence on that would be at least somewhat value-added compared to say writing resolutions on something that is either ongoing or is unlikely to get any action at the state level that's my three cents okay so are we saying john that we could get the data that iran regular watershed council has collected and try to do trend analyses and suggest some smart goals yeah and maybe even ask the watershed council to set goals and to trend chart and to to do a calculation um for this city i mean all it all it is is basically um an update of any time data changes um and i don't like i said i don't know how that is done um and then update that and trend chart it whether it's you know once a year or once every two years or once every x years but at least see you know is is what's the overall quality of the watershed what is the water quality of the creek sheds in ann arbor and around ann arbor and what can we do to act on that i mean just one little thing shannon will remember this shannon and i made a proposal to put signage um in ann arbor in various places along the iran river where people frequent somebody some other john's nodding his head i remember that too and uh just just to raise public awareness and to to indicate what the water quality is and motivate people to do something about it and that proposal also went nowhere so um hopefully um times have changed and composition of council has changed and things like that and that might be something that this group could do or at least influence yeah well thanks for bringing that up yeah it's um yes it turns out it was the county health department for example is responsible for putting up that fish advisory signage and so uh i in in my capacity in the sierra club we asked to help we said we can we can recommend places to put them because uh you know where we've seen people fishing and we volunteered to help put them out but we were just kind of put off we said yeah okay that's a good idea but nobody ever you know contacted us so okay so but it's worth following up on that's a good suggestion well anybody else here to add anything at this point [Music] yeah sarah you've got your hand up yeah i am i actually am sort of thinking in line with john um with the chloride project that i i talked about earlier um you know to understand different sources within the city and then you know with the idea that eventually you know we might have some outreach to parties that maybe are adding more chloride than they should to the watershed um so i kind of started with chloride because you know you got to start somewhere um but john like if you have um like the presentation that the huron water river watershed council gave um you could send that to me i would review all that data and you know you can prioritize based on what they said maybe a little better than just picking chloride so yeah i would be really interested in that that's all thanks i i'd be happy to do that it's still posted on legistar or i may i think i have a copy of it saved to on my hard drive so i'll get it to you one way or the other yeah that's great yeah even if you know the date i think a lot of these are posted on youtube or something like that so i can go back and watch it just just 30 more seconds on the topic um some of you have heard me say this before so i apologize um but um there's a cycle called the plan do check act cycle and planning means setting a goal and defining actions and then you do the actions and then you monitor the results and if the results are good then you keep on doing those kinds of things if they're not good um when you check them then you adjust um at what your actions are and then repeat that cycle and if you're not measuring and you're not trending then the whole continuous improvement cycle breaks down you're here rita you have your hand up an area i've been thinking about is um outside of pollution is flooding and risk for flooding that we might want to consider looking at um so i don't have anything prepared or thought through definitively but i think it's something we might want to consider yeah flooding um yeah i got a personal tour from evan pratt without the crap for a few hours last march i think it was where he showed me uh some of the basins of the cities you know the city has some major in terms of green infrastructure the city has built some rather large basins um you know there's one down by the uh bryant community center and malletts creek there was uh excavated uh big excavation with a um a number of years ago to contain wastewater and there's also another one upstream and now it's great upstream of that and uh you know if you if you ever drive by if you've been driving by sire church road near maple road lately you'll see this huge excavation project down in the latin neighborhood you know it's down south of sire church road so this is a huge uh you know uh excavation that's being made to create like a a retention pond for storm water uh to try to help uh alleviate flooding in the water neighborhood so the city has got projects going on and um i think we should have a meeting on that you know we'll talk about that and uh another thing i when i was um um traveling to new england i was spent a couple of nights in new haven and i was i was walking around the neighborhood and i discovered the city of new haven for example was putting in curb cuts uh with retention small retention ponds and natural plantings you know between the sidewalk and the street this is in an urban neighborhood where they're where they're putting in these curb cuts or maybe every other block and so this has been something that i was intrigued with for years that you know you could you could do this and um the city's tried this on miller avenue you know going northwest out of town because miller as you recall is a really long grade it's almost straight downhill you know straight down the gradient so they've they've put in a few curve cuts in there but you know they have it's harder for them to maintain these some disperse individual sights harder than you know having a big project where they put in a big hole in the ground and run in as much water as they can a few big projects um or more of their budget into their liking than a lot of small projects but this is something that uh we can see what other communities have been doing and what they're budgeting and how successful it's been and we try to help city staff and city council you know be updated about those efforts in other communities you know what the parameters look like um shannon you have your hand up yeah the city has actually done a lot of that work um i've worked on some of them um and so there's there's actually more than i think you realize that's gone on around town um there were also some uh there was one that the heron river watershed council tried to do um on the southeast side of town that was a total failure where they kind of started putting things in and the neighbors really rebelled against it so it's a tricky business in terms of what happens out in front of somebody's house people kind of think of it as their own um and there's a lot of utilities and things like that and there's the city actually has a green streets program or anything any new improvements that they do they have certain standards that they um use to try to make storm water um you know managed in those areas um more than they do you know because right now a lot of the streets that are out there don't have any controls on them so the city's actually done quite a bit in terms of infrastructure in the ways that they can um uh it's not you know not perfect but they they've actually been a pretty big leader in a lot of this too so i don't you know there's there's a lot of things around town as well it's we don't have great soils for some of this stuff too which makes it a little um harder as well um but um i i would like to support what john was saying about um being able to have some better data and for people to um yeah i'm kind of maybe hopeful some ideas that we said last time could possibly advance a little bit further but one thing that has steadily increased probably not even steadily but exponentially increased is the amount of um people getting in the water in the huron river my office is right above the cascades and all summer long we get to listen to people whooping and hollering and having a fantastic time going down the cascades people do it from ann arbor people come from all over the area going to it and additionally there are a number of spots along here in river just upstream of there where people are just hanging out in the river on docks and swimming and things like that and whether the city likes or not in terms of people putting their bodies in the water they kind of don't officially say that they're swimming areas people are using them as such and so at the very least in those areas even if we just want to sort of start small um to try to get some sense of you know water quality in those areas and and like john was saying we don't really know until it gets kind of tracked over time sarah i'm thrilled that you like are are excited about punching data that's like music my ears um because it feels like uh it's and i think it's tricky because you know the city doesn't want to sort of alarm people at the same time um uh so it's a balancing act i think of not sort of freaking people out about things as well but um i feel like like it's something that we can kind of do in our town it feels like it lets people know what's going on um and also speaks to kind of larger patterns and issues that are going on out there at the you know for many communities so um uh maybe this time around if we can get that strike and we'd have some better luck with it um and i know the composition of the water group has has uh really shifted and there's a lot of expertise on there too which is very exciting um so uh again the heron river watershed council i think has shifted quite a bit too in terms of who was involved uh at that point i don't know that was probably good four or five years ago john i'm trying to remember exactly when that was um but it feels like that just really that area um that is so intensely um interactive between people and the huron river feels like a zone that could be very rich or being able to have some sort of awareness and education um and you know could even extend into things like microplastics like you know i know there's things that you can put in your washing machine that that kind of help with that maybe they could sell them at the argo you know delivery you know i mean there may be ways to kind of extend out some of these other things on a smaller scale to be able to um use uh that that nexus of people in water interaction as a as a potential way for us to be able to have both education and raising awareness and things like that so well thanks shannon yeah um yeah does that um it sounds to me like it would be good to uh have a public hearing at least one public hearing on down the storm water topic you know i'm gonna invite people in like um as the dream commissioner who's kind of in charge of that sort of thing and uh people from the iran river watershed council and we should just talk about this because this this has been like a big goal for us for a year now at least um you know trying to make the river healthier healthy enough to go swimming you know so let's see what we can do about that oh yeah at least have public hearings and and talk about you know the benefits of the green infrastructure and you know because one of the things i heard from evidence you know the cities also did an experimental thing where they put a previous pavement down but unfortunately it was um it's where there's a bus turn around and so it only took it took like a year for it to all get broken up yeah and then they sanded it by accident too because it's very difficult to have one different place in the city in terms of all the processes and maintenance and things like that that they have so sure um they've done they but they have really done a lot too i just i don't want to give the impression that they've been negligent because they really have done a lot of things for that as well and it would be a way for them to kind of say what they they've done but also for us to be able to talk with them about you know identifying what our next steps and what are areas that they haven't taken on that we might be able to assist with because i think advocacy is something that we can do and frankly a big piece of it are people's own downspouts uh that are running under their driveways and running straight down into the into the storm sewer so um there's a lot that the city is doing but there's a lot that homeowners can do too and so um you know that's a whole other dimension to this as well yeah i mean i think we can we can develop an outreach activity as well you know to neighbors and friends family members here in town and try to see what we can if we can raise reach and we can raise awareness in the community try to see you know how much you know we can at least make people aware of you know what they're about rain barrels and things like that because i know the city has done quite a lot of outreach efforts with that but you know it's like everything else you need to develop a sustainable momentum that might go on for years before you really you know it's it's the kind of cultural change that takes sometimes takes generations right but um anything we can do to accelerate that i think both for this and for any of the other more progressive interests that a lot of residents support you know like uh like day two zero like the whole way to zero plan i think that's there's quite a lot of support here among the residents but there's there are gaps in knowledge and what people can do on their own so i think we can help we can help with those campaigns i think okay well i think uh we're running out of time here so um john you have your hand up and then if anybody else wants to make a comment please i'll put your hand up yeah i wanted to offer a few insights or observations about the tribar situation if i may um so for context for those that don't know me that well i worked in industry um my old career i work for the german conglomerate bosch among other things it's the largest automotive supplier in the world um so i have some insights in to the situation there um so first of all um tri-bar is clearly um responsible for what it did but the oems in other words the the companies that buy their products are also responsible tri-bar makes mostly trim kinds of materials and then they plate them and a lot of that goes into automotive products and the automotive companies obviously have a hand in approving the design of those products and those products um are designed with hexavalent probe with chromium sticks in the products and as steve pointed out um the hexavalent chrome was banned in europe he i put that i think in his email the other day and um i think it was banned in europe in 2017 so just to put that in broader context um or a specific context in the mid 90s bosch uh banned the any new products with hexavalent chrome in the mid-90s and uh bosch didn't go belly up the automotive industry in europe didn't dissolve because you couldn't use that that product so it's it's really um shared responsibility here in terms of regulation in terms of the oems and in terms of what tribar did um another thing that i wanted to share is um and steve knows this because i had steve look at a draft of the email that i sent um you can get on the tri-bar uh website and use their contact us form and i wrote an email to the ceo of tribar and admonished him for what the company did and said it's basically a failure of leadership and it's a failure of culture and it's an indication that they have systemic problems that they've had the kinds of issues that they've had with pfas and now this this this thing and it it doesn't take long for any one of us to get on their website and look up online and say dear mr so-and-so and write a three-liner and put pressure on the company um but we should also like i said we should also be putting pressure on the oems the customers and also on the feds to to do something about this and let's see i have something else written down i think um no that's it so that's just wanted to share those insights and um in that regard from the ecology center was circulating a petition to be sent to the major car companies asking them to you know please donate yep i've signed it and everybody else should too yeah okay well let's see i'm gonna stop the share here so let's move on to the next item on the agenda if that's okay all right report some committees um how about natural features from actual features here i know criticism here okay um i'm on the group um i think steve i told you nothing has changed in last month since you and i talked we have not had a meeting on um some of the ordinances that are being drafted um related to landmark and heritage trees in probably three months and we should really push chris and me and and and others to to really um get this in front of the environmental commission my concern is is that we're trying in this in this case perfection is the enemy of the good um and um having a perfect product doesn't really make sense anyhow because this commission is likely to change things in whatever the draft is and that's likely to be changed again when it goes to the attorney's office and the city council so this is really something we need to get across the finish line and i realize chris is you know we're depending on his expertise um and he's very busy at this time of year but we we really should as far as i know nothing has been done in the last since maybe may yeah i think we'll start a big fish in november okay because when um now that's when when everybody's uh when the natural world is folding up for the year of the season so let's let's go for november um all right uh uh zero waste um john um lisa sure i can get that started uh so a couple weeks ago i think several of you joined us for the a2 collaborators meeting where we gave an overview and kind of shared some thoughts and got some really good feedback from folks we also launched our first video in telling the stories of circularity that now is on the circular economy website for the city and along with uh an enhanced map that we continue to work with um we finally got the ten thousand dollar micros grant that we applied for over a year ago to advance some of our work uh we still kind of charged ahead with things so we're hoping we can kind of shift that to focus that on some very uh specific uh stakeholder engagement work we'd like to do particularly with the bipod community thinking about engagement around circularity defining it opportunities uh business development opportunities so we're hoping we might be able to use some of that plus or also working primarily city staff is working on a another grant proposal to the usdn the sustainability directors network um to kind of advance that work to i think what else oh and then in about six weeks we'll be presenting our work uh for the state support we've been given through i2p3 uh kind of talking with them almost a little bit like a competition we're going to be presenting against the other teams who have been involved in this there will be a judging panel so uh lisa's been drafting that up and then we're going to turn that over to some folks at the city to kind of put a final touches on that i think that's all i had lisa anything else you wanted to note well i think the only thing you could add is the work with the seas team and how that's yeah so we've also had a team from u of m from school for environmental sustainability working with us um been focused on a lot of things over the summer around community engagement and some of the videos and the map and the whole thing and then we're meeting with them tomorrow to kind of map out where we want to go with them for this academic year because we have them through april of 2023 so we're thinking about how to best position their efforts in light of where we're at with things like one of the things we hoped we do with them was create a map but the map was already created and it's already very popular and going gangbusters so we need to shift some of our work with them to current priorities i think that's it okay all right thanks so thanks for lisa um uh next up pollinators yeah while you're commuting thank you um we uh have just come through our first newsletter that um bridgette wrote thank you very much and um uh sent that out to the community of people who participated in noma may we've been talking about what our next steps will be and actually preparing some communications for fall that will support um uh the the pollinators for next year instead of sending them off to compost um working on leaving the leaves um so that's a project that that is kind of just starting um and that's mostly it i think that although i would say that what came to mind as we were just now discussing is that some of the things that we're working on including encouraging people to reduce their turf grass and increase their gardened space with native plants could assist with some of the stormwater things that we talked about and bridget i don't know if you want to add something to me this i guess the only thing i'll add is i have the same thought rita that there is a little crossover even with the you know we're having conversations about using less fewer pesticides and fertilizers so that outreach that might happen as we get more data and information about water quality could kind of work through this group as well yeah yeah okay thank you um next up is uh well water quality but uh we've discussed that quite a bit um so does anybody want to add anything to that sarah okay so um planning next up is uh other commissions planning commission update um i would say we're moving on to our next tc one zone in on stadium um and we had um we passed that on the city council i personally would like to see a few other tweaks to it um as as it continues to evolve um but that was a big effort um and let's see i'm trying there was one other thing that we had here um oh i know we had a um a pud come through um on on 721 forest and something that occurred to me while i was commenting on that which it's a site that has zero environmental resources on it it's totally paved and they're taking down a building and putting up another one um but they're right next to one of the only oak groves that are still within the city and um one of the things i brought up with them was the issue of oak wilt which i don't know if you all know about but is a really big issue that's starting to happen um in throughout the state and it's affected a couple of projects that i've worked on and um and and a new ordinance which might be actually helpful which i know some other communities around detroit have done where they actually have an op world ordinance that limits when you can take down oaks um it's pretty simple and straightforward so that might be something to put on our agenda um just to be able to have some and it's not it's not super strict but it brings awareness and it's something you can kind of hand to a contractor or hand to developer to say oh you really actually have to plan around this um so it's just a tragedy to see what's happening in other areas with oaks so and they're such an important um organism for so many other organisms pollinators included so um uh that's something that struck me as i was bringing that up is that that might be a kind of a crossover thing with the environmental commission um to think about okay great thank you shannon energy committee a few things we did not meet this month um but um next month we have a meeting on the 13th of september and as a sort of a pre-meeting for that uh shannon and i and brett and missy are meeting on the 30th to talk about um where there might be overlaps between energy commission and planning commission related to the issues of construction affordable housing and sustainable construction and what if anything we can do in that space and at least tentatively i've arranged for uh someone who is um the president and ceo of an architecture and development firm um that operates mostly in the northeast that um does a lot of net zero uh affordable housing that is also passive house certified um and there is now a substantial amount of data that indicates that good design practices combined with a collaborative approach you can actually build a highly sustainable multi-family affordable housing for the same or lower cost than for traditional construction and he's agreed to make a presentation at our meeting on the 13th with the possibility that brett might attend that meeting and possibly even that there's at least a partial joint meeting on that day and that's what we'll talk about on the 30th but i think that might be a topic of widespread interest in the community yeah thanks john uh i'm ian's not here today so we will get a report from the clarkson advisory so move on to council um lisa any reports on council activity yeah i'm trying to think if there's anything of particular interest to the environmental condition um i don't think so i was assuming kathy would be here so i wasn't even thinking about that um if you want to move on somebody else i'll look and see if there's anything in my notes okay so then there's the chair report i have a few things i want to mention the first thing is that we're going to have the second annual trash talk tour um on september 18th so the entire day of september 18th it's going to be divided to a trash talk tour i will personally be leading a bike tour to visit a lot of these sites but uh they're pretty open there's going to be a meet-up um and uh eventbrite um sites for uh for for logging in to visit at various sites you know they're going to include um so far we're going to go we're going to start at the bike tour is going to start at uh common cycle you know and uh downtown we're gonna go to viridian and then down to the uh you know to the complex down near the worth we care um the landfill the uh drop-off center and then come back up uh through um let's go by by the pound um on south industrial and then there's going to be an afternoon ride out to uh um how to bring your own container downtown um ibroad elementary and then along leg out west um to um you know to where the kiwanis recycle center is where youth center is and so they're going to be a couple of booths there that um let me talk about later but it's going to be before the next commission meeting so it's on september 18th so look google it i'll look at the website there'll be a website that will be up that you can google ann arbor trash talk tour and find most of the information before that so all these sites will be manned um outside of the bike tour they're going to be manned by people and so people can go visit there anytime during the day and uh check out check on what's going on at these different sites um steve you should mention that to participate in the tours or the tour of the murph you have to sign up uh and register on the website so you just can't show up at the murph or show up for the bike tours yeah that's correct uh the bike tour i want to restrict that to 25 people so there's a sign up for that but also the murph you know they need to continue they need to predict and control the number of people will show that they're up there at any time so the bike tour has the mark from like 12 15 to 12 30.

i believe our our committee chair sent invitations to the board and we would like you to all to join us uh it's a night of remembrance and awareness for the lives lost to overdose and understanding how addiction affects everybody uh and on a personal note i want to thank dr robitazi for all he's done to help us put this together as well as jessica tremble and jennifer bergman who work very closely with our organization thank you and i hope to see you next wednesday night eight o'clock clifton city hall thank you anyone else was to address the board excuse me pardon me of course my apologies so thank you good evening everyone mark bernsach holly street just have a couple of questions about the presentation from miss kusalevich i want to know if the district could be more proactive in notifying the parents about these education standards and possibly reach out to them and send a blast email to them regarding some of the most controversial topics about that to be more transparent so so i'm asking the board for that maybe post it on social media because i i could say with almost certainty that not a lot of people still know about this and a lot of these questions have been asked about those and i think uh a lot of these a lot of these items that we've discussed in the past are referenced tonight and they're still in these you know within these uh standards that are being demonstrated for these grades also that the opt-out forms that a link be sent to the parents as well i i urge the board to consider that also my message to the students in the district the school year in clifton is about to commence and i would like to take the opportunity to wish all the students continued success education can be likened to a great canvas and this year i hope our students throw as much paint that they can on the canvas of their education i appeal to the students the parents teachers and staff to value and uphold the importance of motivation this year i have no doubt that most of our students will propel themselves into their education they will make the most of the canvas of opportunity that they are offered and they will achieve the goals that they aspire to attain to i have no doubt if they remain motivated in the classroom then they will realize their dreams education should be sound creative and innovative and clifton school district together with the parents and the students themselves will help make this a reality help four letters that can mean so much four letters that could be seen as dynamic planned action or as a plea i feel confident that the teachers in clifton high school will take action and help the students to achieve their academic sporting cultural and lifelong learning i want to take this opportunity to thank the teachers for their continued professionalism excellence and dedication it is your motivation in the classroom that will help to create a year that is ripe with opportunities however even more importantly the students themselves will have to take action to further their education i hope most of our young ladies and gentlemen too are beginning to realize that they cannot merely sit back and expect the greater school community to do everything for them they should realize the importance of motivation and be prepared to help themselves it is an appeal i make to our young children today i urge you to help yourselves as well make the most of the fantastic educational opportunities that you have throw as much paint as you can on the canvas of your education this year if you can do that then one day you will be in a position to respond to the plea of others who may need your help help four letters mean so much you must help yourself so you ultimately can help others each young lady and gentlemen in our district in their own way will need help you will need to help your family you will need to help the environment you will need to make a sense of the world when sense and reason sometimes goes missing you will need to help solve problems through innovation and invention and you will need to help turn indifference into action i believe this is our goal at the cliff i believe this is our goal as the clifton schools school years commences let's continue to work together to help each other to be the best for our families for the city of clifton passaic county the state of new jersey and our country thank you for your time and god bless america have a good night everybody [Applause] ray little clifton new jersey i was totally impressed with the new new things that they came up with tonight beautiful programs beautiful job beautiful presentation with the new curriculum but i am not for the curriculum and i think there's a lot of people not for the curriculum and i would like to know why we can't opt in instead of opting out from the ladies presentations she said we got things going on all over the place telling the people how they can opt out why can't we do the same thing to opt in give them the option to opt in let's see how many people really want this program the people i talk to don't want it so i don't know who you're talking to but if you read the paper on monday wayne does not want it belleville has already stopped it so i mean i don't know who you're talking to this is supposed to be the city that cares do we really care about these kids are we opening a can of worms i think we're opening a can of worms that's my personal thing what is the penalty if we don't do this did we ever find out superintendent that's a question sir we don't we don't have a question and answer period back and forth okay when you get back to us because the last meeting i came i was very disappointed because we got up we spoke and then after we spoke you spoke and we walked away like we were ignorant people like we didn't know what was going on but apparently one of the commissioners knew what was going on and he agreed with us so if he agreed with us he didn't know what was going on neither i didn't understand that and i understand there's other people on the board that don't want this neither so how does this work out they were ignorant to i guess because that's the way it sounded to me like we didn't know what was going on now tonight we're fully aware of what's going on god bless you people god bless america thank you anyone else wish to address the board the hello president the president smith uh commissioners dr patosi administration and citizens uh it's good to see you again this is a new school year um i am proud to say that i've been re-elected president of the clifton student union um so i just want to say that i'm happy to be back thank you let everyone know who you are elias ragsdale um i'm happy to be back and i plan on working together with you to ensure that every student has the best education experience possible and i just thank you for all you do thank you thank you good evening everyone my name is samantha basford and i'm from clifton new jersey although i'm not new to this room or this podium tonight i'm going to say something that i never thought would have come out of my mouth a few years ago tonight i'm announcing myself as number eight on the ballot as candidate running for clifton board of education on november 8th before i go into my background i want to get a formality question out of the way yes if you didn't know i am the daughter of commissioner judy bassford however that is not the only part of my identity and who i am i'm a proud first generation college graduate with a bachelor's degree in communication studies with a minor in dance class of 2012 and i obtained my master's in 2014 studying media and communications arts from pace university i attended grove hill nursery school school number five highlighting being on the toughest corner of valley road as safety patrol with crossing guard miss t and if you're from that area you understand what that means i attended woodrow wilson middle school and i graduated from chs in 2008 where i was on the varsity gymnastics team and a proud student of the cast program where i even hosted my own tv show on channel 77 before youtube was cool i consider myself a forever college student and a forever learner because i never left i work in student affairs since being in college being an r.a orientation leader student government senior president and the list goes on to say that i've had many leadership roles working with all different types of leadership styles would be an understatement just look at my linkedin page as i progress in my student affairs career i learn how to be a resource for both professionals and students participated in many diversity equity inclusion trainings learned facilities in custodial management property management oversaw multiple budgets worked with faculty and residents became helpful became mental health first aid certified trained others in conflict resolution crisis management implemented professional development trainings advised two multicultural sororities sigma lambda upsilon senoritas ending sorority incorporated delta sigma theta sorority incorporated incorporated as well as other student organizations and advocated fiercely for the buy puck and lgbtq plus community student success is a passion of mine i understand the student experience and the development they need for life beyond 12th grade these transferable skills i mentioned are a touch of who i am and i'm committed to anything i do with and ten percent i'm currently in my second position on the executive board of northeastern association of colleges and universities housing officers giving back and making impact on housing professionals in our region i work at columbia university irvington medical center as the assistant director of residential experience where i supervise a multi-general staff sorry multi-generational staff including three unions a mail room an athletic center six medical student ras and anything that happens to be community experience of the day i believe my qualities and background are unique as a candidate i seek to give staff faculty and students the holistic experience as i can hit the ground running in this position as i understand this commitment for me it's not just tossing my hat in the ring i'm an active member who comes to meetings observes and is consistent when speaking not because i'm influenced to what is said or what needs to be heard but because i truly believe it i stay very until each end of the meeting even if it's really late and if i'm not attending here i'm watching on youtube live just ask my nail tech who thinks this is a bravo tv show i want to make sure i'm a part of financial decisions today that are not going to be an oopsie in 5 or 10 years that make impact on another board because maybe we were rushing or there wasn't close attention to detail i want to make decisions in our district that are equitable and i don't want to see any students specifically students in here who film so upset and hurt because they're not accepted by the people who who are in this room i'm not being pushed by political party or an agenda i feel based on what i've witnessed in this room in public that i'm a strong woman who cannot only impact today or three years but impact the future of clifton i am authentically who i am if you watch this meeting or have had a conversation with me you know who i am and it's not my intention to otherwise convince you differently after all who wants to spend more forced time with their mom if you want to engage with me online tinyurl.com backslash sam bassword board of boe or just grab me on the go i hope i made it this far with five seconds to go so remember vote vote for the better basford on november 8th who graduated in 2008 and is number eight on the ballot any great good evening my name is anthony santiago you can call me tony i live in the lakeview section of town and i'm a candidate for the board of education i want to start by saying thank you to the board the teachers the administrators and the staff for all your work the last couple of years it's been challenging to say the least you had to adjust on the fly i'm sure at times you're even looking around for locus so i just want to say thank you especially to the teachers and staff again i just think it's not said enough thank you guys a little about me i've lived in clifton over um going on 28 years now my wife and i raised our kids here their the products of clifton schools they graduated they went on to college and graduated from college we were involved parents from the hsa to participating and supporting school events myself i've always been somebody who wanted to try and help and serve in any way that i can so i coached little league i taught ccd or religious instruction i was a member of the late few lakeview civic association before it dissolved i'm currently a member of the clifton ada or disabilities committee in the city which is a volunteer community my professional background is in human resources i'm also a real estate agent in town as an hr professional i've recruited various roles and i've led internship programs and management training programs so you know my background experience there i think can apply and help students prepare for the workforce as a real estate agent i work with buyers and i see that they are constantly looking for good school districts and i see how that correlates with property values and thriving communities people ask me why i'm running and sincerely the reason i'm running is because i care and i want to serve and i want to help the school district and the students that's the approach um i believe that the board and anyone in a government role should take is that of a public servant it's not a political job it's not a government job you're there to serve the public and all of the public one of the the issues facing the city is i believe spacing and crowding and it's been an issue for years since my kids were young i've seen and witnessed many catholic schools close and uh other entities that are not the school district or the city end up getting those schools and i always thought why you know they're literally schools with classrooms i i know that more recently we've obtained some of these schools and we're using them for pre-k which is great but now we have we would have pre-k to contend with right which is even more classrooms that you need and i just think that when those schools are available we have to capitalize and take advantage of those opportunities if i'm lucky enough to be elected to the board and represent the clifton community i want to get things done for them i know that being on the board i cannot do that alone as i do now on the disabilities committee i would work as part of a team if i want to change something or implement a new initiative or solve a problem i would have to do that with the rest of the board the board votes on things collectively i can't just do that on my own so um i personally am somebody who is collaborative i'm a relationship builder and i have to do that in my work experience as well as my volunteering that's a little bit about me and what i hope to bring to this to the board of education in the clifton school community i look forward to getting to know more people and students sorry i look forward to getting to know more people and students in the upcoming months and sharing more about uh where my position is on the issues my name again is anthony santiago i'm number four on the ballot for clifton board of education thank you so much for your time have a great evening [Applause] good evening my name is lori lalama and i'm the president of the clifton education association there's a couple of things i'd like to go over i would like to see people contact their legislators for the federal waivers for the child nutrition program we need to extend the usda school meal flexibilities for all children here in the state of new jersey president biden through the u.s department of education has put out the student debt relief and if you could go online you'll be able to see the program and see if you will be able to save money from your student loans next i'm here to combat disinformation and dangerous rhetoric in our district these claims are blatantly false but this hateful rhetoric also has the potential to jeopardize the safety and mental health of new jersey students our district provides a safe nurturing and inclusive learning environment for every single student in the district the resources here maintains the integrity and honesty of our schools janina kusalevich gave an excellent report tonight and i'm very proud of all the work that that janina does as well as our staff now um i just heard that wayne did not pass the curriculum i just reached out to my counterpart there and that's not true they passed it last week so i just want to make sure that people understand what the truth is and i just want everybody to understand what's going on generally in the united states most americans are unaware of a decline in individual liberty and the reason is obvious the decline rarely takes the form of sudden personal deprivations but instead takes the form of unnoticed erosion and thus we've come to regard whatever state we are in as a normal condition leonard reed so i really want the public to understand that we have phenomenal teachers we have a great curriculum staff and most of us here are parents and we wouldn't do anything to jeopardize our students and their welfare thank you very much [Applause] anyone else wish to address the board marsha miller clifton i'm going to promote a book it's called battle for the american mind uprooting a century of miseducation by pete heggseth this was on the bestseller list for a number of weeks i think it's worth looking into i'm expressing the need to reject the new sex education standards for the 2022 academic year we need a resolution being not to teach these new standards the option to opt out does not work because the new sex education standards is sprinkled in throughout the year it's a misnomer to opt in or to opt out by the way it's extortion to cut funding to the schools if they reject the new sex standards we need transparency not the way these new standards were erected in the middle of a pandemic according to dr meg meeker a pediatrician for 32 years and teaches at michigan state is opposed to the new sex standards she states the disconnect is striking to separate the child from the parent the parent is the child's advocate not the teacher or the school system the child is forced to choose between the parent and the teacher great psychological damage is being done the child will doubt their ability to form opinions and damage their psyche and damage their ability to reason teaching sexuality at early ages is traumatizing we need independent hearings on new sex education standard mandates these standards are putting tremendous pressure on teenagers to identify as straight gay or bisexual not who they are as human beings but puts emphasis on their sexual being this misleads them and psychologically damages them genetics is an actual science genetics is a predetermination not cultural intuition irene erickson a researcher stated there is no evidence to support these new sex education standards and no medical data the transgender trend is skyrocketing by social influence why are we normalization normalizing a sexual agenda between children and teachers a change needs to be made to protect the children and this goes along with megan's law as governor younkin of virginia stated in education everything through the lens of race we need critical mass we need critical history we need critical science not indoctrinating our children we need to have faith in education not politics in trenton parents and teachers need to be united as of tuesday 17 plus schools have rejected the new sex education standards and many more to come if you support the sex education standards for new jersey government schools academic year you are destroying our schools and you should resign tonight thank you anyone else to address the board seeing none motion closed motion second hi mr abu dravo second by mr awad okay we'll move along we have adoption of the minutes of our uh regular schedule meeting of july 28 2022 motion by mr abu drabo second by mr awad discussion seeing none roll call please mr abedrabo yes mr awak miss basford yes ms beltran yes mr paris yes vice president daley yes president smith yes motion carries you ready to go yeah yes sir okay okay our superintendent will now have his report thank you mr president good evening commissioners members of the community faculty and staff tuning in from home i apologize for my phone ringing earlier i have my uh i usually have my phone off and i have my children on do not disturb but they have the emergency breakthrough so if i don't answer the first time they call again and it rings so it's okay everything's great got a lot of kids everything's okay but thank you um i have some prepared comments in my report but i i certainly want to answer uh the gentleman's questions sir thank you very much for um for addressing the board tonight you asked if i remember you asked two questions one was about the possible penalties for the district not following through or not teaching the new sexual education standards and then um why don't we allow parents to opt in instead of opt out so this this the second one let me take first because i actually know the answer to that the reason why it's an opt-in versus an opt-out is because there's a statute there's a law that allows parents to opt out and i just like to read you part of that statute there is no there's no mention of an opt-in in the law the law says and it's new jersey statutes annotated 1835-4.7 any child whose parent or guardian presents to the school a signed statement that any part of instruction in health family life education or sex education is in conflict with his or her conscience or sincerely held moral or religious beliefs shall be excused from that portion of the course so that is the opt-out provision of the law and we can't have parents or students opting out of an entire curriculum however a parent can opt out of a particular lesson a particular piece of instruction about one subject and as you saw tonight from miss kusalevich's presentation i think the the items that were deemed controversial are maybe three or four 20-minute lessons throughout the whole entire k-12 sequence i mean in like 20 minutes in second grade and maybe another one lesson in fifth grade maybe another lesson in eighth grade and if a parent deems that that is in contradiction with their moral beliefs or they don't think it's the school's job to be teaching that and we're going to make the opt out readily and easily available but we cannot make it an opt-in the second question is is a little more difficult because when you ask what is the penalty for a school district if they do not teach the standards the only thing that the department of education has publicly stated and i'll read the quote i have a quote from the department of education's communication manager her name is laura frederick who was quoted as saying districts that do not teach the standards will be penalized for instruction and program in the appropriate curricular area what that means is every three years the new jersey department of education evaluates school districts through a process known as cusack just so happens of course that clifton will be cue sacked this year and there are five categories that we're evaluated on and one of the big categories is instruction and program so for sure what would happen is we would be penalized under the instruction program requirement of cusack which would mean the district would be put on an action plan the communications manager goes on to say we we can't speculate excuse me so the nature of the penalty might vary we couldn't speculate because it would be a fact-specific issue and the severity of ramifications could vary as would be the case for other statutory regulatory violations so it could just be that or it could be that in addition to what our biggest fear is and what has been uh threatened although it's i've never seen it done i don't know if it's ever been done a withholding of state aid so that specter is always out there that hasn't been publicly threatened in particular to not teaching these standards but that is always an option that the state has i can't see them doing that but it's an option so sir i hope i answered your questions to the best of your ability to best of my ability um and certainly if you have any questions you want to meet with me you can call my office we'll set up a meeting yesterday i was proud to welcome over a hundred new staff members to the clifton public schools at our new teacher a new staff orientation at clifton high school we had a motivational morning for them to get them excited for the new school year later on that day they had a wonderful lunch in our high school our brand new high school cafeteria the kitchen area and they got to see the you know i told them that they've never seen a kitchen like this in any high school ever and it's true they were overwhelmed at how beautiful our kitchen is there's the stations there was an asian chinese station there there's a mexican station that we call chipotle uh clifton chipotle there's a pasta station a substation and they got to experience what the students are actually eating on a daily basis now normally most schools if i said we're going to feed you what we give the students most adults would be like no no we're good you know all right we'll get something we'll go out on our own but it was so good they were so very impressed um and it was just a nice way to welcome them into the clifton school district mr smith was able to be there and welcome them mr paris was able to be there miss miss judy basford was was available to be there and the support from the board of ed was nice to see to see you there today they learned spent most of the morning learning about our district safety protocols also about harassment intimidation and bullying our counseling procedures learning about pbsis our student database real time and and they had a variety of curriculum updates tomorrow they'll be going to their home base where they will participate in psyop training that's sheltered instructional observational protocol thank you just gonna lean over to my curriculum person make sure i was doing well and they also received cultural awareness training which i think is not only necessary in a place like clifton i'm just so happy that we do it so we we provide all of our new staff some cultural awareness training let them know that some of the students that you have in your classroom from different cultures you need to be aware of it and i love yesterday when janina gets up and talks to the new staff she speaks in polish to them for the first couple minutes and she at the end she asked him so who's happy to have a job here in in clifton and about five people stand up out of a hundred i'm just like oh and then she starts speaking english so none of you really want to work here and then everybody stands up but the point was that on your first day of school if you're a teacher your first day of class and you have this great thing prepared and you're welcoming your students and you're enthusiastic there's a very good chance in clifton that you're going to have children in your class that don't have don't understand a word that you're saying and that's something that you need to be cognizant of something that you need to be conscious of and i think it was it's a great way to welcome i thought you're going to bring out the spanish too because i'm giving your secrets away janina speaks polish fluently spanish fluently english we're working on she's doing pretty good so welcome to our new staff all of our staff will return next thursday september 1st and our students first day of school for our students is tuesday september 6th tomorrow principals will be sending back their welcome sending out their welcome back emails to uh all of the parents with building specific information about you know the obviously that school starts on september 6 but what doors to go in through and all that stuff student schedules will be available for parents and guardians to view on our parent portal on monday august 29th the letters with login information for newly enrolled students were mailed already on august 19th so a new student gets a letter mailed with their login information parents who've already had students in our district have their login information if they lost it or they forgot it there's a mechanism for them to reset their password and so a parent logs in they're able to see their students schedule see their students bus stop the times and they get to sign off on all the millions of forms that we all used to sign on the first day of school now it's all done electronically 90 of it is done electronically also we're going to do a big push to remind parents about the meal applications for the last year and a half maybe it was almost two years due to the usda waivers all students receive free lunch that waiver has expired so we want to remind parents that students will not be getting free lunch unless they had qualified for free lunch in the 1920 school year but only then they get lunch free for september so they have to reapply and any parent that didn't have free or reduced lunch excuse me it's only free now there's no more reduced any parent that didn't may apply so we're encouraging all families to apply the it's on the parent portal it's i believe much easier to fill out the application now than ever before so we're encouraging uh parents to to apply it's going to be a little complicated with remembering who was you know free in 1920.

now therefore be resolved that this resolution be voted to his bereaved family to serve as an expression of the great regard and mr mcgraw was held by the board of education the administration employees and pupils of the clifton board of clinton public schools and be a further resolve that the content for the resolution be noted in their entirety in the official minutes of clifton board education for future generations to peruse dated august 25 2022.

do i have a motion by earl do i have a second second my path any discussion i guess i just want to confirm that her original contract called for the 25 extra correct any additional discussion okay all those in favor of then amy i need to be the stem sponsors too perfect we'll go next page so one to bring the stem sponsors to you for approval and we have them all listed there brush creek would be stephanie puckett hayden bailey kradock graham creek courtney christ john sand creek daniel wiley nve judy white sippio vi davis the middle school tara kelly and the high school charles will asking for approval for this okay i have a motion by travis do i have a second second by her did you i'm sorry i'm gonna say susan i thought you raised your hand susan i got susan so i have a motion by travis i have a second by susan any discussion no all those in favor seven uh um now down under support staff shannon we have recommendations yes recommending teresa brandt for the janice county high school cook position sally emily for sand creek parapro 29 hour position randy hill jr for jennings county middle school 7th grade assistant football coach bridget jagger for sand creek elementary sped paraprofessional penny jones jennings county high school cook justin koontz jennings county high school maine office student worker dianna marshall hayden elementary cook stephanie rain brainer sand creek elementary esser parapro holly rose hayden elementary paraprofessional catherine safely jennings county middle school cook and she's moving to a james county middle school music paraprofessional theresa short sand creek elementary paraprofessional move from full-time to part-time kennedy vance scipio elementary parent professional amanda walt jennings county high school cook and connie wilson moving from scipio parrot pro to scipio librarian asking for approval so if it's okay with everybody we'll take those as a group so do i have a motion to accept that's right travis motion my travis drive a second second by pat any discussion sorry we have an enrollment update it's going to update the board on enrollment for this school year as of the first week of school we were down 99 students to the previous year's beginning of school enrollment we are currently as of last friday we were at 3877 students and we will say we updated the numbers a little ahead of this friday because we were curious and we have gained 19 more students since that number so we are seeing an upward trend on enrollment that does usually happen each year all the way up to october 1st um and so then in addition to that with the potential loss of 99 students across the district we really want to dig in on what's what those 99 students have left us to go to where they're at so we've asked each principal by september 15th to contact those families and those kids and find out where they have decided to enroll and what the reasoning is for that things that they experienced in jennings county that they thought were wonderful things they experienced in jennings county schools that maybe they had some comments for improvement but that's information we'd like to know so the principals are contacting them individually i already have three principals have their data back in um but they can't reach them by phone they are going to mail a letter and i include it in your board packet a sample of what that looks like that survey we're sending for exit data for k-8 and then the one that we're looking at for 9th through 12th graders so that's information by mid-september that we'll be able to discuss and have back if this was an informed item does anybody have any questions or comments i have to give kudos to susie webster and dustin roller for developing those and being willing to help out with that i also agree i think that's fantastic i would like to encourage you to try to figure out if there's a way that maybe these surveys or that touch point could be it be via text this generation is just very connected to phones whether it be students or parents a lot of people what i find even when i'm looking at interviewing and hiring people even in healthcare is they will not answer a telephone but they will respond immediately to a text so anything that we can do to make sure that we're reaching out and getting this feedback would be ideal and i'm you have a great it department i'm sure that there would be an opportunity for them to offer suggestions but um it's just you it's very interesting you'll call to set up an interview they won't answer but if you text them man it they're right so it's just the way it is we we have students leave during the year like moving if we can catch them in the guidance office when they're pulling out on hey give us a couple minutes why are you leaving i'm really fine down there mr roller's developed a plan for that this year he's going to personally talk to each kid who's withdrawing and then if they do choose to withdraw part of that exit form is helping them create a plan for what they're going to do after they're out of school if we're unable to convince them or help them with staying enrolled any additional discussion okay down to finance help ask asking approval on quite a few donations here so i hope i don't butcher this too bad campbell township volunteer fire department a thousand dollars to brush creek for stu snacks the masonic lodge 219 500 dollars to brush creek for student snacks bar cons 150 value and playground uh balls for the rush creek school coffee creek christian church 250 dollars to graham creek for student needs westin baptist church 500 to grand creek for student needs decatur plastics 500 to sand creek for student needs ebbing auto parts and fresh prints shelving for the jennings county high school supply shop modern woodman 700 in snacks to the jennings county schools bee lee family dentistry two totes of school supplies to the jennings county schools lowe's a hundred dollars to jennings county high school for the school supply shop and the 2023 2022-2023 hope mission hope food drive program jackson county bank five hundred dollars dennis and sheila cockrell 225 christ baptist church 200 simcoe 225 grayford road church of god 225 dollars helix polly donating bags warren hall 225 the eye care group 500 and expert eye care 225 asking for approval i got a motion by tony do i have a second second by pass any discussion all those in favor it's fantastic so next on the list i have capital projects finance plan presentation seth you can pull that one up please thank you this is the first presentation of this next slide please schedule for that is there'll be a second presentation on the 8th with the request to advertise we will advertise on the 9th and then the public here will be set for the 22nd and adoption on the 6th and again this is like the other one there you're advertising on gateway and we'll put it on our school website so it is no longer required to be in the newspaper next slide please basically what we're what we've got here is the 2023 2025 capital assets this is items that we're buying like potentially buying a uh it vehicle or we're having to get a zero turn mower it's a three year window and i'm just trying to anticipate working with roy on where the vehicles stand and it's about 332 thousand dollars last year this was 508 because we had three buses on that window but we're looking i have one bus on this list just in case something happens we're not we won't be looking at a lot more buses for a while from that standpoint because we're currently setting so they'll probably we'll probably add more buses next year for the next three year window for 2023 capital projects coming in around 1.4 2024 2.0 and 2025 7.8 you see a pretty good size jump there bigger than what we've had in the past also and that is because roy has worked the last month or so trying to look at our the really bigger picture 10-year plan and with that we went ahead and threw items on here that have the potential to be needed in the next three years so that's why the 2025 project looks so tall and looks quite as quite a big jump there but it's things that um there's a variety of things between safety items and hvac seems to dominate the list when you when you look at those type of items that's going to be your heavy hitters within that answer any questions on the capitol and this is a report basically that has to be filled out with the state filed the state so when we turn around and actually have to spend some of this there you guys have already looked at the detail of it and looked at what's on there so when it comes up it's not a surprise so this was an item for inform so just our information does anybody have any questions for philip we'll move down to food and service prices asking for approval for meal prices for the school year these are the same numbers that they were we kept the prices the same as they were pre-coven this year the universal provision federal government grant they gave free breakfast and lunch has expired so we are back to all of our policies and procedures that were in place prior to coven um worked hard to not change that price for families of what we were paying prior to covet so the student breakfast price would be a dollar fifty for paid lunch 30 cents for reduced and then there's free of course lunch would be 275 and 40 cents for reduced so asking for approval for those prices motion by earl do we have a second second by chelsea any discussion just a comment to stay like you have there in this inflation is remarkable so thank you any additional discussion all those in favor oh moving on to operations we have a food service student program update yes so stacy green is here to offer an update on how this is working for our students we have made a committed priority to providing food for all of our students whether they have a negative lunch balance or not they'll receive a free meal i'm sorry a full reimbursable meal meal at breakfast and lunch so how we're going to make that work and be able to offer that stacey's going to share information thank you hello everyone it's nice to be here as nikki said free and free meals have expired for the school year as you know and thank you for approving the meal prices as they were we know it's a hardship for everyone so we'll make we'll make try to make it work with that being said is inflammation re-implementation of the meal policy and these are things stated in the mill policy but i just wanted to share with you again how we're going to implement that so all and you have these i think in your information as well so all k through 12 students will receive a full reimbursable meal if they do not have money in hand and that's a full reimbursable breakfast and or lunch they won't receive a separate meal or a different meal it's the same meal all the kids get and it's the reimbursable meal as always they can't charge all the cart items after that you know if they don't have money in their account it's going to be an iou or a charge we will then contact the parents through a daily text message is currently sent to the parent or guardian for each student who owes meals and also a text through skyward so it's an email and or a text every day it's daily and that's already been implemented and in place k through k through six after the second week of school um which we've already done iou letter notifications go home in the student newsletters and the teacher writes a negative balance from the list from the school secretaries the school secretary will give it to the teacher that she'll put in the student information the newsletters that go home with the students in their folders grades k-12 notification letter one two and three is sent via email and the parent or guardian notification through the skyward portal so it's sent via email as well as through the portal and you have those copies as well um currently after 10 student days any student who owes 10 or more a phone call to the parent from the school secretary just to make it a little lighter and it's informational that they do owe 10 or more currently any student who then owes 25 or more a phone call to the parent from either the secretary and or the principal those schools know their parents the best on whether or not that is a secretary phone call maybe the parent just forgot or maybe it needs to be from the principal because of the amount now owed and or um just they know their parents best per ido as i mentioned no student or all adult a la carte adult a la carte purchases are permitted that your chips and your drinks and your extras and things like that so that won't be permitted and per idea we no adult meal charges are permitted so we ask our adults not to charge their meals so any questions yes um so if a child has got a negative balance of twenty five dollars what their parents seem to be struggling to pay is the window open for them to apply for free absolutely yes that that is available all school year long we have sent multiple applications out we will continue to do so so with those newsletters that are sent home with those students an application with the letter is in there with if they and also if they need assistance because we do have some non english speaking households they can reach out and we will get that to them in spanish we do have spanish applications as well and we can get other verbiage and other for that but anyway yes we will get applications to them and help them as well do you have a general what's our pre-launch percentage running as a corporation um we don't get that number till september because august isn't finished yet but i i would imagine it's around the same around 55 50 yeah high 50 percentage so and our principles when they reach out to individuals if they would qualify for the application that maybe want help filling it out we do invite them to come in the building and we assist people personally if they just need help getting that filled out some of the information on there and maybe um maybe i read it wrong but why is milk 50 cents and then the whole meal is 30 cents is that did i misread that no so a reimbursable meal the milk comes with the meals so if they want an extra meal say it's a lunchbox student or whatever whatever it's considered an a la carte purchase so it's an a la carte pricing or a calculation from the ido so we pay around 25 28 cents for carton of milk and with that calculation it comes out close to 50.

and we can see how far the state's gotten in remediating and controlling the migration of this groundwater plume uh as it's advancing to the heroin liver and through our allen brain as well so um and then again i mentioned earlier about i don't know what we can do to ban peoples and consumer products but at the state level we can ban the ban on bands because washington county a number of years ago banned plastic bags or they didn't actually ban them they just put a five cent fee on them and uh and so uh within 24 hours or so the michigan chamber of commerce uh met the year of the state legislature and so the state legislature passed a law which would ban any local bans categorically so any local government entity is not allowed to ban anything with states not banning themselves so this is another law that could be uh if there is a change in the state legislature this is another thing that could uh uh that could happen on the state level so um and in terms of ordinance drafts i'm not sure what um what ordinances the city could put in a place to uh you know to help protect the residents of the city um you know absent any state action or federal action uh but of course we can always do exploration and public discussion so um one of the recent things that's happened is uh i had not been aware of this personally but the heroin river watershed council has bi-monthly meetings you know where they have where as i mentioned before there's a county drain commissioner uh various representatives from the governments uh that are within that river drainage uh there's a there's a representative from igloo there from the water quality working from the water quality group and so um i became aware of this bi-monthly meeting and so i had a number of people a number of commissioners that are on the water quality working group are invited to attend that so you should be on the email list i think i am i know kathy griswold is um sarah are you invited are you on the invitation list yes and bridget gruber should be as well so bridget are you on this list are you invited i think the next meeting uh the last meeting was held a few um last week and so the next meeting is in mid-october so uh bridgette are you there yeah i'm here yeah i am on that list okay good so these are the commissioners that are uh un invited to attend this meeting online uh it's also uh in person as well but you can also attend that one so we can begin we're we're we've started attending this year uh and so we can report back to our full commission um you know in a timely manner and so then of course there's the city responsible lawsuit so i'm not sure where the what role the commission should be playing here in terms of uh helping advise council and the uh and city staff on the consent judgment for nutrient pollution well this is coming up rather quickly because they're supposed to have come up with a plan in april of 2023 i'm sure they're very active on it but i think i'd like to invite them to come and talk about what their plans are and then hopefully we'll have i have some information of our road to uh to add to the discussion and then another thing that's of course would impact the community is the stormwater utility lawsuit uh which of it uh where if there's a judgment made in court uh would be about a 13 million dollar hit to the ann arbor's annual budget because this is basically um basically the city has been using um uh the stormwater millage in order to pay for green infrastructure and there's a lawyer in southfield or birmingham or somewhere that's uh uh you know that's more or less an ambulance chaser that's going around looking for communities where they can get residents to um you know to uh to add their names to the lawsuit and so this they approach the number of communities in southeast michigan because they think they have a case that the city should not allow this kind of thing so lisa you have your hand up uh you're i think that lawsuit is dead i it keeps coming back from the dead it has twice before so i'm not sure how dead it is last i heard yeah it's uh yeah this happened last year i think uh where you know the this law firm or this attorney found a resident in ann arbor who was willing uh to uh you know to join the lawsuit as a as a as an affected party you know because you can't sue if you're not if you if you're not uh you know if you're not uh a victim uh you know a victim of the practice so they had to find a city resident would sign on to the lawsuit so as far as i know that that kind of died again but i'm not sure um i'm not sure whether it's totally dead i guess the city attorney should know that but all a lot but i know the look i know the regional ngo communities are concerned about this so they're you know so i'll i'll go through my network and see what i can find out so um does anybody wish to add anything to this list or see what we might consider in terms of resolutions with drafting ordinances or topics that we could focus on over the coming year that would help the city both the residents and the council members and city staff i don't expect any answers right now but john you have your hand up i appreciate the perspective of council member dish in terms of what she and other council members think would be truly value add um you know we could write these three resolutions past them um and the question is would they change anything um so i i'd like to do something or there's a return on our time invested and so i'd like to hear the perspective of council member edition and others on the commission as to what really would have an impact you know i think we'd all like to feel we're all volunteers here except for uh our city council members but i would hope that uh you know we all so what's our uh you know what's our compensation it's feeling like we're making a contribution we're making an effective contribution to make life better here for everybody well for example i'm not sure that i'll just take the second bullet point under resolutions that the environmental commission writing a resolution spending a meeting debating it and passing a resolution is going to have any impact whatsoever on what happens with um calm and plume remediation and related activities i'm not sure that i'm taking action on the band the band is going to also be meaningful in terms of really having any impact outside of maybe getting an article in him live and until maybe there is a change in the composition of the legislature i'm not sure a resolution would be meaningful in terms of anything related to glute or pain laws so i i'm all i'm saying is let's let's not grant it our time is free um but i think there's things that potentially have a greater return on our time invested than passing resolutions that will have no impact on what happens um in terms of changing any of the dynamics on any three of these three these three topics for example i just appreciate other people's opinion on that yeah i mean i share that concern so um i don't know i think it's something worth considering i'm not sure you know what value what value can we have so lisa you have your hand up i mean i don't want to i think people should if people feel that these that this is something they want to invest their time in and these issues are important to them i don't want to quash that um i can say that the gelman plume cleanup is indeed ongoing and there's nothing that council can do at this point to speed it up it's not going on two tracks that are both out of our hands one is a court track locally and the other is the epa and there's really nothing that council can do to you know council has done everything to support both of those so there i don't know what role the environmental commission can play in terms of the other two um the other two issues i think those are on our legislative agenda council's legislative agenda so we have asked our lobbying firms to work on those at the state legislative level and certainly um every time uh uh representative robbie or senator irwin sponsor an environmental bill the council typically passes a resolution in support of it um i think as john mursky has just stated short of changing the composition of the state legislature those bills aren't going to go anywhere no matter what resolutions the city council passes so that would be the you know it i think these would be symbolic which is not necessarily bad um but you're talking about areas that are out of council's hands i believe okay i mean we can still provide a public forum for residents a lot of these issues you know i think that's valuable i mean i've spent a lot of time researching all this stuff that's why i've kind of monopolized the conversation i think but um you know because this is a personal interest of mine if you want to do something more like an educational forum i think that would be super interesting and probably more powerful than a resolution because i don't know that the public closely follows the resolutions that are passed by this commission but i think that my experience on the planning commission is that when there is a webinar hosted that addresses something that they're worried about they get really into it and so if we wanted to do some kind of a water webinar and talk about the activities that um you know that that our representatives are working on and our lobbyists are working on and explain to them the importance of these you know it might get some people out knocking on doors for the november election and we do have some close races and that would be an incredibly excellent incentive i think okay well thanks lisa yeah yeah we do uh we do have the power to schedule extraordinary public music public hearings okay john you have your hand up thank you uh one area that i suggest we take up again is um the water quality issue uh i had an email exchange with rita i don't know about a week ago on this topic um some of us not very many shannon for sure will remember back in maybe early 2019 we had a presentation from the watershed council about water quality in the ann arbor area so as steve mentioned the watershed council site is really great it evaluates the water quality of each creek shed and then major sections of the huron river um based on 13 different criteria one of which is contaminants so that ties directly to what we're talking about here and um what we did is we took the data or water the watershed council took the data at the time and evaluated the water quality in the city of ann arbor looking at the relative size of each creekshed and the water quality for each creekshed and then for the river and then did a weighted averaging and um rita remind me or steve somebody else might remember i think ann arbor ended up at 30 it was 30 or in the mid to low 30s and the concern that i have is that and maybe um bridget this is something you can address um but it's something also the city should address um to my knowledge that information is first of all not trend uncharted so you can't see um how it's changing over time there are no smart goals in terms of a target that is time-bound or a series of step-wise targets to improve that um you can't find anywhere um on the ann arbor website or the watershed council's website of anything other than snapshot values and they're not time based so you can look at allen creekshead or the lower middle huron river and see what the value is but you don't know if the data was taken within the last year or if it's still using data for certain quality or certain um parameters that may be three years old so i mean i think that's something that we should take up um i i looked up um prior to the meeting some some scores um so there is no calculation on the website for ann arbor um as i mentioned in 2019 or so it was um or it was probably based on 2018 data was in the 30s um the um as i had written down the upper chiron river is 61.

but other than that there'll be slots and there's another there's uh an event right i think uh thing that uh that was set up by live zero waste you know by sam mcmullen of live zero waste and there's also a meet up um that man ezekiel and myself and sam are working on or signing up to join the bike tour so you can join either the morning or the afternoon tour and then in the morning outside the bike tour there's an event at the university of michigan stadium where we'll get to see people cleaning up after a football game it's quite an operation and it's all volunteer and there's entertainment and food so uh if you want to show up at the michigan uh stadium something like i think it's like eight o'clock in the morning uh it'll be it'll be a fun event uh it's not officially on the trash talk tour it's not on the bicycle tour of town um but i think that's available for the public to show up as well um and then the other thing is um i i think in october there's going to be another fall like uh uh an 820 uh fair like an outdoor fair on main street i think it's in october but i'm not sure exactly what the date is and whether um we want to have a table there you know um uh chris vanderbrock and lunia and myself um you know manned uh a table last year and it was in late september early october it was a main street fair it used to be called the mayor's green fair uh but now 820 is running and it's uh it's got us it's got a different name to it but it's basically the same thing it's friday october 7th okay and it's called the autumn green fair 6 to 9 p.m so i'm going to look into getting a table there so for the environmental commission so let's see what uh we had quite a few people show up last time and it's a great uh you know it's a great event for the commission to participate in i'll send out an email about uh asking for volunteers to the table and once i've talked to the organizer okay um and then the last thing is that you know chris vandenbrock has resigned from the commission so we're looking for another regular member so um i'd encourage people to apply to to be on the commission and we'll be going through the applications in the next week and uh trying to get somebody else on the commission to try to get crystal's replacement on the commission by september by our september okay that's all i have to say so the next item on the agenda is uh is a staff report from staff feeling yes um i just wanted to let everybody know that um the fourth cohort of our 820 ambassadors will be starting on november 2nd um and then also i wanted to open up the opportunity you know um you know uh brian weiner from recycle ann arbor isn't uh participating this year so we have jenny patowski hamill office and there's a another uh open slot and i wanted to you know open that up to maybe someone from zero waste or circular economy to teach that session the two-hour session with uh jenny and hannah loftus this year we're asking folks you know for those uh instructors that we do choose we ask them to record their presentations so that the participants can look at it the week ahead so when they come in it's not they're absorbing information they're you know it's more of like a give and take you know more feedback you know and uh more action oriented items so um if you're interested uh i can send you the syllabus that we've used but you know it's gonna change a bit you know because we're you know pushing the circular economy and whatnot so um and that's all and then one last thing next month will be my last meeting um i'm moving on to the michigan environmental council so uh uh october 23rd to be my last day with the city so well galen it's been it's been fun having you with us so you know best wishes and we gotta we're gonna have a party or something oh yeah definitely i'll let everybody know when it's gonna be okay congratulations and boohoo thank you thank you okay thanks kayla anything else no nothing okay um so items for next agenda does anybody want to suggest an item for discussion at the next agenda at our next meeting okay we'll all develop the agenda um in the next week or two or we'll areta and uh galen and i will um or a couple suggestions we talked about so you can consider those those may be true too short of notice but at least something to consider yeah okay i mean we haven't we haven't talked about solid waste so it would be good to have a um something on solid waste um on circular economy zero waste um sometime this fall like october um yeah and so uh okay and uh all right so uh let me know you know email me rita and gail and if you have any suggestions for topics for uh next week um within the week and uh so the next scheduled meeting is going to be october [Music] is anybody gonna hit their calendar first get to their calendar first and then write this down it's gonna be october september 22nd okay at 7 00 pm so uh the next item on our agenda is public commentary so this is uh the second opportunity for persons to speak for up to three minutes please call 1-888-788-0099 and enter meeting id um 915-8343-9176 this information is also displayed on the meeting agenda and video feed city staff will select callers that have raised their hand one by one using the last three digits of your phone number in order to electronically raise your hand to indicate your desire to speak please press start on 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 need any television or background sound so that we may hear you clearly please state your name and address at the beginning of your comments and be patient there may be a delay of up to 30 seconds before a connection was established revealing is there anybody on the line right now there's no one on the line okay well let's wait uh let's wait 30 seconds okay okay is there anybody on the line yet um there's no one on the line okay well thanks kayla so uh this ends the public commentary period so um all right join this meeting at 9 10 p.m thank you thanks everybody good night good night bye for now you

i want to reiterate what mr whittle said earlier about next week's candlelight vigil uh i will be there all albeit i might be a little late i have an appointment um but the vigil is organized by casa mr jingaro we'll be uh speaking we'll have some members of our some student members of our band playing some music and uh it's it's the international overdose awareness day to remember those who have died without stigma and acknowledge the grief of the family and friends left behind so please i hope board members can join if you can and anybody in that community is also welcome to join [Applause] i don't get a chance to talk to all the board members all at once so while you're here i need you to give me some feedback on what you want me to do with all of the things that we had in this room prior to renovating it if you remember we had a couple more than a couple we had several shelves of plaques memorials congratulatory letters and things like that and right now everything's sitting in boxes upstairs the idea that administration had but i really don't want to do this because this is your room this is the board's room was to put a display in the welcome center upstairs and display all those things we could display some down if there's some things that you want displayed down here we we could do that but if anybody has any thoughts please tonight during your comments if you could address that to me and give me a suggestion or if you're okay with me taking all that stuff and doing a nice display up in the welcome center some of that stuff is very um old but that's history and that's stuff that we want to keep we want to display for uh for future generations we give a brief referendum update since our last board meeting um we've been preparing to send out the final two bids for our referendum projects we have sent out bid package 2a and 2b that is the woodrow wilson middle school baseball field with the field house and the clifton high school stadium weight room in addition when we award those projects to the vendor we will have a groundbreaking ceremony that all members of the community will be invited to an update on bid package one that's the clifton high school project the asbestos company has been working all summer at clifton high school in the south wing remediating eight sets of bathrooms and that was finished on schedule on august 19th if you've driven past clifton high school you may have noticed that there's new trailers outside of the building and those trailers are host housing the contractors and the contractors supplies we decided for all the supplies that are going to be needed to renovate the bathrooms we didn't want due to supply chain issues we don't want to be ordering them at the last minute so we ordered them and those supplies are going to be stored in containers on the clifton high school campus and the other trailers are actually for the workers to utilize so if you see them that's what those are there for the asbestos removal at school 4 in school 11 has been completed and thankfully all the air sampling came back and was reported good the bids for the stadium and the athletic field bids 2 a and b were opened on august 3rd and there is a resolution on the agenda tonight to award the contract thankfully the lowest bidder came in at 17 below our budgeted amount which is almost 800 000 dollars in savings we're very very grateful for that that's another 800 000 that we can use for other projects we believe that the baseball field they're still telling us the the new varsity field at woodrow wilson will be ready by the spring not the field house but the field and weight room construction will take place during the fall so as not to interfere with football season we're looking to conclude all of the bidding in the near future and have all of the projects beginning shortly at the suggestion of or really was a reminder of miss beltran who reminded me last week somebody went on the website and didn't see our referendum page and i had told the public and i had told this board that we would be updating that website to keep abreast of what's going on so that website is now up and running it is updated and every week every two weeks we'll have pictures of the projects we'll have the progress of the projects and everything that's going on with our referendum so everyone can see the progress that is being made we'll also be putting that on our social media platforms too for people to see if anybody has any questions about that or anything please feel free to ask what's up drama dr robertos the only one other thing you didn't mention um or maybe you didn't i just glanced over it uh can you give a update on um the tennis courts and the banfield yes please um a lot going on at clifton high school right now despite the asbestos removal the uh if you've driven by the back where the new banfield is being um constructed they're moving really fast and i think they're actually ahead of schedule the turf has not been laid down yet but do we have an idea of is it next week the turf is going to be laid down next week which is great um i actually had a conversation with miss lucas yesterday who's the principal of school too who by the way she said the band's very happy at school too they might not want to come back but i said well i think when they see their new field they're going to want to come back so there's that and then along with the tennis courts it's progressing do we have an anticipated end date of that project guys anybody know at the top of their head by let's say november to be more realistic by november that project should be done and that's moving lightning fast that's my report for tonight commissioners if you have any other questions i'll be happy to ask them answer them dr rotozi if you could just give a brief update uh or if you wish me to do it about the tent removal and stuff that's gonna be done i'm i'm happy for for you to do okay mr smith so as everyone knows uh clifton high school um graciously uh housed the vaccination process um last um winter into the spring and many of you may see that big dome that was in the back of the uh the high school um that dome that that big dome has been taken down the city will be utilizing that at their uh garage and um the city will be uh paving that back area where they had to sink that tent in about 13 feet in the ground and um so the understanding is once the um macadam and everything that's laid for the banfield and the tennis courts um after that's done then the uh the city will come and do the uh the back area there with the paving uh regarding that president smith is it going to be a uh pave over are they gonna do a rip out and reap and revive i don't know i don't know i i presume it's going to be a rip up because most of it is ripped up okay just wanna make sure thank you okay uh just briefly um there's gonna be so many different things going on in the district um so the best thing to do is to go to our website you'll see everything that's happening in our district and especially to the peach jar section where they post all the things that are going on um in the district so um as they mentioned uh next week with the the casa candlelight vigil then um august 30th 12 pm to 1 30 is the police the community policing division it's called cops and cones come chat with us in the clifton community policing division free ice cream treat uh they ask you to register that'll be at school 12 uh from 12 to 1 30 on august the 30th that's always a pretty neat uh event where the kids get to uh just meet the police and then they get uh some ice cream so uh i know last weekend um i attended the uh car wash at woodrow wilson um and i think there's car washes going on just about um every weekend at that location so for five bucks you can go and have your car washed by our kids and um and the parents that help them out uh and that that helps them in their organizations uh tremendously with the funds that they raise so they don't do the inside just the out um so if you get an opportunity um just about any weekend if you if you pop up to uh woodrow wilson i believe it's 9 to 12 and you can get your car washed um i was given this uh flyer there's a pancake breakfast sponsor supporting our high school cheerleaders uh it's at applebee's on route 3 on september 18th 8 a.m to 10 a.m so hopefully we'll get this on the on the website as well um and it's 12 per person and you can go and have some good pancakes and support our cheerleaders on september 18th so there'll be a lot more information coming all the sports programs will be starting so our band has been practicing and working very hard as we mentioned over at school two uh preparing for uh the opening season uh which is thursday uh september 1st is our opening football game normally we're on friday nights but that is a thursday night opener and it's a quite a different event than some of the commissioners might be telling you about that in their comments so i don't want to give it all away but it's a pretty exciting event um that you'll you'll really want to get to so the only thing i want to uh emphasize on that and again other commissioners will comment um the normal ticket purchasing like you come up to the gate and you get pay your three bucks and you come in uh for this game that's not being handled that way you must get your tickets prior to coming to the game so they expect a very large crowd um we are playing east orange the uh the team that still i mean the uh team that won the uh uh last year um so it's a rematch against them uh so we anticipate a large crowd but you can't get tickets the day of the event you have to purchase them prior um and i understand that's going to be put on our our website and all of our social media outlets i know samantha will do a great job on getting that out there so please make sure you look for that i don't want people to be disappointed um and come to the gate and they can't get into the game because they didn't purchase their tickets this organization that's running it with all the exciting things they're handling the tickets so again others will tell you a little bit about it going forward and all the sports programs will be getting over the next couple of weeks so we hope that you'll go out and support our kids and go here are uh and go here and see our fantastic band that will do a great job as they always do and our cheerleaders as well uh so please go out and support our kids so that's it under the president's announcements all right we'll move on if i can get back okay uh next we have uh first reading of policy yes all right so um i wish we could just put those up there is there is there a way we could put those up on the screen um from our agent from their agenda can you could you get the agenda on there on the board the burdocks yeah it's easier than me reading them all there's quite a lengthy amount of them you got it it's item number 11 sam so again just just to remind the board the uh those that have the m next to them those are mandated policies you know i just wanted to see the so i don't have to read all of them uh mr smith just a small comment um on page 21 of the large document that they're not going to see um hsa is spelled h-a-s just because it's one of the bold always the autocorrect always does you have to pay attention to them okay which one did you want upstairs well i have a correct number 11 uh first reading of policy it's number 10 number 11 on mine i was looking at your size i'll refresh august 25th right yep right above that right there here yep one more one first reading there we go now i'll just stand here and scroll if you want is that what you want yeah if you could just move it up uh just to where they list the policy so the public could see those policies i don't know if we'll get them yeah we should be able to get them all in there yeah i can probably what's that so again uh where you see the m parentheses that is mandated policies all right so any discussion on first reading mr um um mr ross is here this evening as well to answer any questions we may have on them uh vice president daley thank you mr president on the quorum issue um it it it details if we don't have a quorum you wait certain amount hours to if it doesn't seem to address and maybe i'm wrong because i did a quick read and maybe mr ross can opine on that if you know that the members are not going to show why don't why can't we have the ability to resist the meeting at that particular time yeah that's great don't play the drum or something is it mandated okay where was that it's a policy zero one six three quorum and the way it's written it seems to you know you wait certain amount of time yeah right but if we know the members are not definitely not showing why can't the meeting be called at that time i'd have to look through that just to to make sure this was more the changes here prior compared with the uh with our products yeah i mean if we don't know if the members are showing i i would get that but if the president or the secretary knows that we're not going to have a quorum for whatever reason uh we should be able to call the meeting at that point we can make that change if we could send that back to policy the changes here were more to address um the conflict of if there's conflict with one or more board members there's a doctrine of necessity the change but you can always have the other caveat yeah but we could always uh amend that okay that's not really a substance changes it's just a clarification that could be it yeah yeah yeah so you know you don't take it back to policy you guys can make that come back for a second reading with that yeah yep you can make that change is there any other questions on any of the policies for mr ross i'm not alone or mr uh abu drabo chairman no okay thank you mr rose thank you you're welcome to stay or you can get out actually actually all right thank you stay with us for yeah thank you um all right we did 11 right up okay so we're going to move to uh board committee reports um and we'll do policy mr abu drabo president smith thank you mr ross always thank you for aiding us on this committee uh minutes of the august 15 2022 meeting the policy committee began at 3 10 pm attendees where president smith vice president james daly myself as chair person and commissioner dr lucy danny administrators present with dr uh daniel robertozzi and lewis ross esquire also president where was jordis gutierrez esquire from the law office of adam gutierrez and not door uh the following pauses are being put forward for adoption with no changes as recommended by esme number one 143.2 high school students representative to the board of education which is mandated number two 163 quorum inserted number inserted five to indicate the minimum board members of fort quorum number three fifteen eleven board of education website accessibility which is mandated 2415.30 title one educational stability for children in foster care which is mandated number five three two seven zero professional responsibilities number six five five one three care of school property which is mandated number seven five seven two two student journalism which is mandated policy 2415 every student succeeds acts as a mandated policy with the only change being the selection of both school-wide or target assistants on page two policies 24 15.04 and 2415.50 through 2415.57 are presented with proposed additions as per district and school-based administration policy 2416.01 postnatal accommodations for students is recommended for adoption with the added highlighted section policy 5517 school district issued student id cards is recommended for adoption by indicating that the policy applies to middle school and high school students policy 80 8550 meal charges outstanding food service bill was requested to be put on the agenda as it is a mandated policy with the recommended selection on page one bylaw 174 legal services based on recommendations at the last meeting the committee proposes the following change in language for the previously proposed paragraph three any board member who wishes to speak to or contact the board attorney must first advise the board of education president on of their intention to contact or speak with the board attorney the board member may advise the board president via email booking phone communication excuse me or a text message if the board member is unable to reach the board president via the above methods then the board board member may contact and advise the board vice president via the same communication methods if they are unable to reach the board president or by board vice president they should then contact and advise the superintendent or designee in his or her absence followed by the ba or the designate in his or her absence policy 2432 school sponsors publication is to be abolished as per staff's esme is most of the information this policy has been incorporated into new policy 5722 which is included for first reading policies 3216 and 4216 dress and grooming and 10167 public participation in board meetings will be further reviewed at an upcoming meeting excuse me as discussed previously the policy committee will review existing policies to see if they need updating or changes we begin with the 1000 series and will progress in numerous numerical order the committee review the following policies all adopted prior to 2015 and recommended no changes to be made to them number one eleven hundred district organization number two eleven ten organizational chart number three eleven twenty management team number four eleven thirty staff liaison committees number five twelve ten for superintendent relations number six twelve sixty in capacity of the superintendent number seven thirteen twenty duties of school business administrators board secretary number eight 1330 evaluation of school school business administrator number nine 1331 evaluation of board secretary number 10 1350 inc in capacity of school business administrator and board secretary number 11 1400 job descriptions the meeting was adjourned at 4 37 p.m respectfully submitted lou ross esquire any questions several quick comments yes dr robertosi i just uh want to point out and i want to congratulate the board you see that it is now mandated that the board has that every board of education in new jersey has a student representative and clifton has been ahead of the curve on that i mean way before me so that's i think that's something to be congratulated on mr ross if you could just explain what the committee is doing with the policies yeah yeah going on yeah just briefly let the board know that okay thank you it was the recommendation of the policy committee to start a review of all our policies going forward starting with the 1000 section obviously the bylaws are more for board purview but this would be more to go from the 1000 section that administration can opine on as well or advise and we'll just basically go through and i'm looking at the ones and bringing forward the ones that are that have been no changes since let's say prior to 2015-14 along those areas so it's not to re-adoption it's basically those are the ones that we've looked at there's no recommended changes on these so we're just you know going forward and to progress through if something needs updating or changing then at that point we would bring those recommendations to the board yep thank you any questions no yes one question oh i'm sorry allen okay thank you paris thank you um when when you um when we review these older ones and there's no changes uh in the policy manual will it say um that it's been revisited or whatever the right word is uh reviewed and have an updated date on it so that we go in the future we'll know the last time it was looked at we can do that if that's the uh the wish of the board i know at the reorganization meeting every year all the policies are re-adopted by resolution um this was sort of a review the ones that they're going to be changes we would that would have a new adoption date with those changes the others it wasn't my intention but again if the board wishes oh absolutely if the policy committee wishes you to keep track of things no if i may that's that was the whole point the whole point was to have its original date of adoption and then when it was renewed so that's the whole point of actually going through the one that one series and so we could do i'll have uh the the business office then just put you know adopted the original date re-adopted correct we did actually discuss it during policy so okay but excuse me a re-adoption requires a vote right correct you just want a reviewed by reviewed by correct or another word other maybe better than review review is good lots of views last review that way you don't need a two two votes again yeah i mean the idea is that if all of us are not here tomorrow the next set of set of board members can just pick up and move forward and know when it was last touched and don't know the date correct it was reviewed and you know it's sometimes you find a you know as miss beltran found the grammatical error but sometimes you find something that should have been omitted and for some reason it was kept in there so that's the whole idea of doing this right and a lot of them that are not mandated do go back to the early 2000s absolutely um and there have been a lot of changes obviously from that day to five and just the rest of the board as well the standing meeting i think it's every second monday so i think uh september 12 six is tuesday yeah september 12 at 3 pm will be our next meeting so if there's anything that want to be put forward uh particularly if you happen to go through the 2000 series or the next set of series and you said hey you know what can you guys pay attention to this we just let us know please yeah we're still in the thousand seconds i'm sorry a thousand series yeah so i i credit the uh the committee because you know you don't have to do this um it's extra it's going to be extra work but i think it's important for the board yet okay mr president yes i'm sorry mr haley yeah just one quick thought further from mr ross amending the uh the policy it you should also have in there uh who who calls it i mean if the board president is pre is there or the vice president if not you don't really have a presiding officer then it should be the board secretary possibly to make that call if if we know there's not going to have the show so just to clarify the procedure there of course somebody says well who's going to call the meeting you should have that designated in the policy understood okay anyone else all right um residency and security mr paris uh the residency and security committee meeting met on thursday august 18th at 4 p.m uh president or mr jingaro mr dr ms conte mr constantino mr rose mr mecca myself ms beltran mr smith and mr abhijava mr doctor began the meeting by introducing introducing miss conte and explaining her history within the district while mr gingaro followed up with her experience dealing with school security and her role moving forward mr doctor discussed the lower number of residency investigations during the summer the department is quite busy now dealing with registration however registrations have been manageable and parent wait times for registrations have been reduced considerably mr jangaro discussed the monthly security drills for july and august and explained that although it is summer if students are in the building during any point of the month a fire and emergency drill must be performed this was accomplished during the summer summer months and all drills ran smoothly mr jingaro discussed the meeting that he and miss conte had with a former threat expert for law enforcement who volunteered to share some of his expertise the meeting was very informative and mr gigaro stated that he and ms conte would utilize this person as an informal resource for security issues ms conte discussed the trainings that the school security specialist will be receiving prior to the start of the school year and additional trainings that will occur after all school security specialists will receive cpi aed and cpr training prior to the beginning of school and additional trainings will occur throughout the school year and next summer mr jagara discussed the fact that he and miss conti will be presenting information to the community concerning security and how it affects clifton public schools this will be a detailed presentation but will not disclose any sensitive information concerning our security plans the committee was provided with a presentation concerning technological advances which could be utilized for district security the committee agreed to have the presentation made to the committee and clifton police to see what their thoughts are on the technology mr paris inquired as to grants which might be available for safety and security it was explained that while grants do become available from time to time our ability to obtain them is minimal however we still apply when we are qualified to receive a grant thank you any questions thank you mr paris okay uh we'll move on uh any unfinished business i don't see any uh 15 uh expression of condolence uh mr abu drabba would you read that please thank you president smith express of condolence whereas on august 20 2022 the community noted with sorrow the passing of mr aiken and whereas mr mcgraw had served the board of education and the children of clifton faithfully and conscientiously as a highly respected head custodian in various elementary schools for 23 years before his retirement in 2015.

okay motion by uh mr avigrabo second second by mr awad any discussion roll call please mr abby drabo yes mr awad yes miss bassford yes ms beltran yes mr paris yes vice president daley yes president smith yes motion carries um as um as mr whittles had said before um the city lost um a former councilman someone very dedicated to the city um just an outstanding person um by uh by don cowell um and our doctor danny on the board is uh dating don's son so uh we'll have a resolution prepared for next meeting while miss danny could be here and read the resolution so i just wanted everyone to uh to know that and uh we uh we send our condolences uh to the coal family um on the loss of don i keep losing this okay next we'll move on to uh education administration we have uh e wait a minute let me look first ada's no okay so we have ea one through ea 13.

um the lower middle is 39 and the lower huron river is 51. so if ann arbor and its creek sheds is in the low 30s it's the worst of basically all those all those areas um and i think if if we're serious about uh improving water quality including a lot of the contamination issues that we talked about here then it really makes sense that we have a smart goal and metrics and we trend chart it and we define goals and we get entities like the city and the watershed council and industries to get together to work on actions to improve our water quality so that's something i think we could do and have an influence on that would be at least somewhat value-added compared to say writing resolutions on something that is either ongoing or is unlikely to get any action at the state level that's my three cents okay so are we saying john that we could get the data that iran regular watershed council has collected and try to do trend analyses and suggest some smart goals yeah and maybe even ask the watershed council to set goals and to trend chart and to to do a calculation um for this city i mean all it all it is is basically um an update of any time data changes um and i don't like i said i don't know how that is done um and then update that and trend chart it whether it's you know once a year or once every two years or once every x years but at least see you know is is what's the overall quality of the watershed what is the water quality of the creek sheds in ann arbor and around ann arbor and what can we do to act on that i mean just one little thing shannon will remember this shannon and i made a proposal to put signage um in ann arbor in various places along the iran river where people frequent somebody some other john's nodding his head i remember that too and uh just just to raise public awareness and to to indicate what the water quality is and motivate people to do something about it and that proposal also went nowhere so um hopefully um times have changed and composition of council has changed and things like that and that might be something that this group could do or at least influence yeah well thanks for bringing that up yeah it's um yes it turns out it was the county health department for example is responsible for putting up that fish advisory signage and so uh i in in my capacity in the sierra club we asked to help we said we can we can recommend places to put them because uh you know where we've seen people fishing and we volunteered to help put them out but we were just kind of put off we said yeah okay that's a good idea but nobody ever you know contacted us so okay so but it's worth following up on that's a good suggestion well anybody else here to add anything at this point [Music] yeah sarah you've got your hand up yeah i am i actually am sort of thinking in line with john um with the chloride project that i i talked about earlier um you know to understand different sources within the city and then you know with the idea that eventually you know we might have some outreach to parties that maybe are adding more chloride than they should to the watershed um so i kind of started with chloride because you know you got to start somewhere um but john like if you have um like the presentation that the huron water river watershed council gave um you could send that to me i would review all that data and you know you can prioritize based on what they said maybe a little better than just picking chloride so yeah i would be really interested in that that's all thanks i i'd be happy to do that it's still posted on legistar or i may i think i have a copy of it saved to on my hard drive so i'll get it to you one way or the other yeah that's great yeah even if you know the date i think a lot of these are posted on youtube or something like that so i can go back and watch it just just 30 more seconds on the topic um some of you have heard me say this before so i apologize um but um there's a cycle called the plan do check act cycle and planning means setting a goal and defining actions and then you do the actions and then you monitor the results and if the results are good then you keep on doing those kinds of things if they're not good um when you check them then you adjust um at what your actions are and then repeat that cycle and if you're not measuring and you're not trending then the whole continuous improvement cycle breaks down you're here rita you have your hand up an area i've been thinking about is um outside of pollution is flooding and risk for flooding that we might want to consider looking at um so i don't have anything prepared or thought through definitively but i think it's something we might want to consider yeah flooding um yeah i got a personal tour from evan pratt without the crap for a few hours last march i think it was where he showed me uh some of the basins of the cities you know the city has some major in terms of green infrastructure the city has built some rather large basins um you know there's one down by the uh bryant community center and malletts creek there was uh excavated uh big excavation with a um a number of years ago to contain wastewater and there's also another one upstream and now it's great upstream of that and uh you know if you if you ever drive by if you've been driving by sire church road near maple road lately you'll see this huge excavation project down in the latin neighborhood you know it's down south of sire church road so this is a huge uh you know uh excavation that's being made to create like a a retention pond for storm water uh to try to help uh alleviate flooding in the water neighborhood so the city has got projects going on and um i think we should have a meeting on that you know we'll talk about that and uh another thing i when i was um um traveling to new england i was spent a couple of nights in new haven and i was i was walking around the neighborhood and i discovered the city of new haven for example was putting in curb cuts uh with retention small retention ponds and natural plantings you know between the sidewalk and the street this is in an urban neighborhood where they're where they're putting in these curb cuts or maybe every other block and so this has been something that i was intrigued with for years that you know you could you could do this and um the city's tried this on miller avenue you know going northwest out of town because miller as you recall is a really long grade it's almost straight downhill you know straight down the gradient so they've they've put in a few curve cuts in there but you know they have it's harder for them to maintain these some disperse individual sights harder than you know having a big project where they put in a big hole in the ground and run in as much water as they can a few big projects um or more of their budget into their liking than a lot of small projects but this is something that uh we can see what other communities have been doing and what they're budgeting and how successful it's been and we try to help city staff and city council you know be updated about those efforts in other communities you know what the parameters look like um shannon you have your hand up yeah the city has actually done a lot of that work um i've worked on some of them um and so there's there's actually more than i think you realize that's gone on around town um there were also some uh there was one that the heron river watershed council tried to do um on the southeast side of town that was a total failure where they kind of started putting things in and the neighbors really rebelled against it so it's a tricky business in terms of what happens out in front of somebody's house people kind of think of it as their own um and there's a lot of utilities and things like that and there's the city actually has a green streets program or anything any new improvements that they do they have certain standards that they um use to try to make storm water um you know managed in those areas um more than they do you know because right now a lot of the streets that are out there don't have any controls on them so the city's actually done quite a bit in terms of infrastructure in the ways that they can um uh it's not you know not perfect but they they've actually been a pretty big leader in a lot of this too so i don't you know there's there's a lot of things around town as well it's we don't have great soils for some of this stuff too which makes it a little um harder as well um but um i i would like to support what john was saying about um being able to have some better data and for people to um yeah i'm kind of maybe hopeful some ideas that we said last time could possibly advance a little bit further but one thing that has steadily increased probably not even steadily but exponentially increased is the amount of um people getting in the water in the huron river my office is right above the cascades and all summer long we get to listen to people whooping and hollering and having a fantastic time going down the cascades people do it from ann arbor people come from all over the area going to it and additionally there are a number of spots along here in river just upstream of there where people are just hanging out in the river on docks and swimming and things like that and whether the city likes or not in terms of people putting their bodies in the water they kind of don't officially say that they're swimming areas people are using them as such and so at the very least in those areas even if we just want to sort of start small um to try to get some sense of you know water quality in those areas and and like john was saying we don't really know until it gets kind of tracked over time sarah i'm thrilled that you like are are excited about punching data that's like music my ears um because it feels like uh it's and i think it's tricky because you know the city doesn't want to sort of alarm people at the same time um uh so it's a balancing act i think of not sort of freaking people out about things as well but um i feel like like it's something that we can kind of do in our town it feels like it lets people know what's going on um and also speaks to kind of larger patterns and issues that are going on out there at the you know for many communities so um uh maybe this time around if we can get that strike and we'd have some better luck with it um and i know the composition of the water group has has uh really shifted and there's a lot of expertise on there too which is very exciting um so uh again the heron river watershed council i think has shifted quite a bit too in terms of who was involved uh at that point i don't know that was probably good four or five years ago john i'm trying to remember exactly when that was um but it feels like that just really that area um that is so intensely um interactive between people and the huron river feels like a zone that could be very rich or being able to have some sort of awareness and education um and you know could even extend into things like microplastics like you know i know there's things that you can put in your washing machine that that kind of help with that maybe they could sell them at the argo you know delivery you know i mean there may be ways to kind of extend out some of these other things on a smaller scale to be able to um use uh that that nexus of people in water interaction as a as a potential way for us to be able to have both education and raising awareness and things like that so well thanks shannon yeah um yeah does that um it sounds to me like it would be good to uh have a public hearing at least one public hearing on down the storm water topic you know i'm gonna invite people in like um as the dream commissioner who's kind of in charge of that sort of thing and uh people from the iran river watershed council and we should just talk about this because this this has been like a big goal for us for a year now at least um you know trying to make the river healthier healthy enough to go swimming you know so let's see what we can do about that oh yeah at least have public hearings and and talk about you know the benefits of the green infrastructure and you know because one of the things i heard from evidence you know the cities also did an experimental thing where they put a previous pavement down but unfortunately it was um it's where there's a bus turn around and so it only took it took like a year for it to all get broken up yeah and then they sanded it by accident too because it's very difficult to have one different place in the city in terms of all the processes and maintenance and things like that that they have so sure um they've done they but they have really done a lot too i just i don't want to give the impression that they've been negligent because they really have done a lot of things for that as well and it would be a way for them to kind of say what they they've done but also for us to be able to talk with them about you know identifying what our next steps and what are areas that they haven't taken on that we might be able to assist with because i think advocacy is something that we can do and frankly a big piece of it are people's own downspouts uh that are running under their driveways and running straight down into the into the storm sewer so um there's a lot that the city is doing but there's a lot that homeowners can do too and so um you know that's a whole other dimension to this as well yeah i mean i think we can we can develop an outreach activity as well you know to neighbors and friends family members here in town and try to see what we can if we can raise reach and we can raise awareness in the community try to see you know how much you know we can at least make people aware of you know what they're about rain barrels and things like that because i know the city has done quite a lot of outreach efforts with that but you know it's like everything else you need to develop a sustainable momentum that might go on for years before you really you know it's it's the kind of cultural change that takes sometimes takes generations right but um anything we can do to accelerate that i think both for this and for any of the other more progressive interests that a lot of residents support you know like uh like day two zero like the whole way to zero plan i think that's there's quite a lot of support here among the residents but there's there are gaps in knowledge and what people can do on their own so i think we can help we can help with those campaigns i think okay well i think uh we're running out of time here so um john you have your hand up and then if anybody else wants to make a comment please i'll put your hand up yeah i wanted to offer a few insights or observations about the tribar situation if i may um so for context for those that don't know me that well i worked in industry um my old career i work for the german conglomerate bosch among other things it's the largest automotive supplier in the world um so i have some insights in to the situation there um so first of all um tri-bar is clearly um responsible for what it did but the oems in other words the the companies that buy their products are also responsible tri-bar makes mostly trim kinds of materials and then they plate them and a lot of that goes into automotive products and the automotive companies obviously have a hand in approving the design of those products and those products um are designed with hexavalent probe with chromium sticks in the products and as steve pointed out um the hexavalent chrome was banned in europe he i put that i think in his email the other day and um i think it was banned in europe in 2017 so just to put that in broader context um or a specific context in the mid 90s bosch uh banned the any new products with hexavalent chrome in the mid-90s and uh bosch didn't go belly up the automotive industry in europe didn't dissolve because you couldn't use that that product so it's it's really um shared responsibility here in terms of regulation in terms of the oems and in terms of what tribar did um another thing that i wanted to share is um and steve knows this because i had steve look at a draft of the email that i sent um you can get on the tri-bar uh website and use their contact us form and i wrote an email to the ceo of tribar and admonished him for what the company did and said it's basically a failure of leadership and it's a failure of culture and it's an indication that they have systemic problems that they've had the kinds of issues that they've had with pfas and now this this this thing and it it doesn't take long for any one of us to get on their website and look up online and say dear mr so-and-so and write a three-liner and put pressure on the company um but we should also like i said we should also be putting pressure on the oems the customers and also on the feds to to do something about this and let's see i have something else written down i think um no that's it so that's just wanted to share those insights and um in that regard from the ecology center was circulating a petition to be sent to the major car companies asking them to you know please donate yep i've signed it and everybody else should too yeah okay well let's see i'm gonna stop the share here so let's move on to the next item on the agenda if that's okay all right report some committees um how about natural features from actual features here i know criticism here okay um i'm on the group um i think steve i told you nothing has changed in last month since you and i talked we have not had a meeting on um some of the ordinances that are being drafted um related to landmark and heritage trees in probably three months and we should really push chris and me and and and others to to really um get this in front of the environmental commission my concern is is that we're trying in this in this case perfection is the enemy of the good um and um having a perfect product doesn't really make sense anyhow because this commission is likely to change things in whatever the draft is and that's likely to be changed again when it goes to the attorney's office and the city council so this is really something we need to get across the finish line and i realize chris is you know we're depending on his expertise um and he's very busy at this time of year but we we really should as far as i know nothing has been done in the last since maybe may yeah i think we'll start a big fish in november okay because when um now that's when when everybody's uh when the natural world is folding up for the year of the season so let's let's go for november um all right uh uh zero waste um john um lisa sure i can get that started uh so a couple weeks ago i think several of you joined us for the a2 collaborators meeting where we gave an overview and kind of shared some thoughts and got some really good feedback from folks we also launched our first video in telling the stories of circularity that now is on the circular economy website for the city and along with uh an enhanced map that we continue to work with um we finally got the ten thousand dollar micros grant that we applied for over a year ago to advance some of our work uh we still kind of charged ahead with things so we're hoping we can kind of shift that to focus that on some very uh specific uh stakeholder engagement work we'd like to do particularly with the bipod community thinking about engagement around circularity defining it opportunities uh business development opportunities so we're hoping we might be able to use some of that plus or also working primarily city staff is working on a another grant proposal to the usdn the sustainability directors network um to kind of advance that work to i think what else oh and then in about six weeks we'll be presenting our work uh for the state support we've been given through i2p3 uh kind of talking with them almost a little bit like a competition we're going to be presenting against the other teams who have been involved in this there will be a judging panel so uh lisa's been drafting that up and then we're going to turn that over to some folks at the city to kind of put a final touches on that i think that's all i had lisa anything else you wanted to note well i think the only thing you could add is the work with the seas team and how that's yeah so we've also had a team from u of m from school for environmental sustainability working with us um been focused on a lot of things over the summer around community engagement and some of the videos and the map and the whole thing and then we're meeting with them tomorrow to kind of map out where we want to go with them for this academic year because we have them through april of 2023 so we're thinking about how to best position their efforts in light of where we're at with things like one of the things we hoped we do with them was create a map but the map was already created and it's already very popular and going gangbusters so we need to shift some of our work with them to current priorities i think that's it okay all right thanks so thanks for lisa um uh next up pollinators yeah while you're commuting thank you um we uh have just come through our first newsletter that um bridgette wrote thank you very much and um uh sent that out to the community of people who participated in noma may we've been talking about what our next steps will be and actually preparing some communications for fall that will support um uh the the pollinators for next year instead of sending them off to compost um working on leaving the leaves um so that's a project that that is kind of just starting um and that's mostly it i think that although i would say that what came to mind as we were just now discussing is that some of the things that we're working on including encouraging people to reduce their turf grass and increase their gardened space with native plants could assist with some of the stormwater things that we talked about and bridget i don't know if you want to add something to me this i guess the only thing i'll add is i have the same thought rita that there is a little crossover even with the you know we're having conversations about using less fewer pesticides and fertilizers so that outreach that might happen as we get more data and information about water quality could kind of work through this group as well yeah yeah okay thank you um next up is uh well water quality but uh we've discussed that quite a bit um so does anybody want to add anything to that sarah okay so um planning next up is uh other commissions planning commission update um i would say we're moving on to our next tc one zone in on stadium um and we had um we passed that on the city council i personally would like to see a few other tweaks to it um as as it continues to evolve um but that was a big effort um and let's see i'm trying there was one other thing that we had here um oh i know we had a um a pud come through um on on 721 forest and something that occurred to me while i was commenting on that which it's a site that has zero environmental resources on it it's totally paved and they're taking down a building and putting up another one um but they're right next to one of the only oak groves that are still within the city and um one of the things i brought up with them was the issue of oak wilt which i don't know if you all know about but is a really big issue that's starting to happen um in throughout the state and it's affected a couple of projects that i've worked on and um and and a new ordinance which might be actually helpful which i know some other communities around detroit have done where they actually have an op world ordinance that limits when you can take down oaks um it's pretty simple and straightforward so that might be something to put on our agenda um just to be able to have some and it's not it's not super strict but it brings awareness and it's something you can kind of hand to a contractor or hand to developer to say oh you really actually have to plan around this um so it's just a tragedy to see what's happening in other areas with oaks so and they're such an important um organism for so many other organisms pollinators included so um uh that's something that struck me as i was bringing that up is that that might be a kind of a crossover thing with the environmental commission um to think about okay great thank you shannon energy committee a few things we did not meet this month um but um next month we have a meeting on the 13th of september and as a sort of a pre-meeting for that uh shannon and i and brett and missy are meeting on the 30th to talk about um where there might be overlaps between energy commission and planning commission related to the issues of construction affordable housing and sustainable construction and what if anything we can do in that space and at least tentatively i've arranged for uh someone who is um the president and ceo of an architecture and development firm um that operates mostly in the northeast that um does a lot of net zero uh affordable housing that is also passive house certified um and there is now a substantial amount of data that indicates that good design practices combined with a collaborative approach you can actually build a highly sustainable multi-family affordable housing for the same or lower cost than for traditional construction and he's agreed to make a presentation at our meeting on the 13th with the possibility that brett might attend that meeting and possibly even that there's at least a partial joint meeting on that day and that's what we'll talk about on the 30th but i think that might be a topic of widespread interest in the community yeah thanks john uh i'm ian's not here today so we will get a report from the clarkson advisory so move on to council um lisa any reports on council activity yeah i'm trying to think if there's anything of particular interest to the environmental condition um i don't think so i was assuming kathy would be here so i wasn't even thinking about that um if you want to move on somebody else i'll look and see if there's anything in my notes okay so then there's the chair report i have a few things i want to mention the first thing is that we're going to have the second annual trash talk tour um on september 18th so the entire day of september 18th it's going to be divided to a trash talk tour i will personally be leading a bike tour to visit a lot of these sites but uh they're pretty open there's going to be a meet-up um and uh eventbrite um sites for uh for for logging in to visit at various sites you know they're going to include um so far we're going to go we're going to start at the bike tour is going to start at uh common cycle you know and uh downtown we're gonna go to viridian and then down to the uh you know to the complex down near the worth we care um the landfill the uh drop-off center and then come back up uh through um let's go by by the pound um on south industrial and then there's going to be an afternoon ride out to uh um how to bring your own container downtown um ibroad elementary and then along leg out west um to um you know to where the kiwanis recycle center is where youth center is and so they're going to be a couple of booths there that um let me talk about later but it's going to be before the next commission meeting so it's on september 18th so look google it i'll look at the website there'll be a website that will be up that you can google ann arbor trash talk tour and find most of the information before that so all these sites will be manned um outside of the bike tour they're going to be manned by people and so people can go visit there anytime during the day and uh check out check on what's going on at these different sites um steve you should mention that to participate in the tours or the tour of the murph you have to sign up uh and register on the website so you just can't show up at the murph or show up for the bike tours yeah that's correct uh the bike tour i want to restrict that to 25 people so there's a sign up for that but also the murph you know they need to continue they need to predict and control the number of people will show that they're up there at any time so the bike tour has the mark from like 12 15 to 12 30.

now therefore be resolved that this resolution be voted to his bereaved family to serve as an expression of the great regard and mr mcgraw was held by the board of education the administration employees and pupils of the clifton board of clinton public schools and be a further resolve that the content for the resolution be noted in their entirety in the official minutes of clifton board education for future generations to peruse dated august 25 2022.

motion by mr abedravo second by mr awad any discussion seeing none roll call mr abaddraba yes mr awad yes miss basford yes miss beltran yes mr paris yes vice president daley yes president smith yes motion carries okay next were um p and p 12 are pulled for executive session those are personnel matters okay so uh we'll uh we'll have the rest of the group uh minus p9 and p12 worship what's your pleasure [Music] mr paris any discussion seeing none roll call please mr abu drabba yes without standing on a p-39 name only mr awad yes uh upstating on p miss passport yes uh standing on p-39 name only miss beltran yes mr paris yes i'm standing on p-32 and p-39 my name vice president daley yes statement on the friday president smith yes and abstaining on p39 my name only motion carries okay next we'll move to oh i'm sorry yes i'm sorry we have dr rutozie if you could thank you mr smith uh thank you for supporting my recommendation tonight we have two staff members who are being appointed a a new vice principal at clifton high school and a new um leave replacement vice principal at woodrow wilson so maggie why don't you come up first good evening president smith commissioners dr robert tosie mr levitt mr granger gingaro sorry a little nervous um i wanted to thank you all um for giving me an opportunity and putting your trust in me to serve our clifton public schools uh in my new role as the woodrow wilson's interim interim vice principal years ago my husband and i chose clifton to be our home not only because we fell in love with the community but because we wanted our children to attend clifton public schools we have wonderful staff members who are dedicated and our children and our students have so many opportunities to grow and thrive i'm also starting my 16th year working here for our wonderful public schools i've spent 14 years teaching third and fourth grade at school 13. the last school year i worked with keita too's staff as one of the elementary math coaches and i also worked as one of the coordinators for ic program for the past two summers i feel very fortunate to work in such a supportive environment all of the administrators principals and supervisors with whom i had a privilege to work with in the past years have played a pivotal role in my career as an educator and educational leader i'm very grateful for that i'm looking forward to working with woodrow's amazing collaborative team and i'm eager to contribute in whatever way i can to our schools and our students success i'm also looking forward to working with woodrow's students administrators and staff as well as all community stakeholders to make this truly an amazing year for our students thank you again for this opportunity it's a great day to be a mustang and as they say at woodrow mustangs are all in thank you again sam is that mic on didn't sound like it was it is okay basketball player good evening so um i would i want to first start off by thanking a lot of people oh my name is james kozier i'm going for vice principal at clifton high school i want to first start off by thanking principal honda principal gaba principal yeager superintendent dr robert tosi assistant superintendents mr gingaro and mrs kucilewicz i've been practicing all night for the insightful and thorough interview process i truly enjoyed meeting with all you discussing your mission and vision for clifton and how it can best support you in that process your passion for clifton and the students is is inspiring so thank you for that i would also like to say that i am truly honored humbled and ecstatic for this opportunity to be able to work in a school as high highly regarded as clifton is really a dream control i've been a part of many different schools within newark public schools and some charter schools but clifton's special 15 special so i'm truly again humbled honored and very excited to get started i can assure you that i'm going to do everything i can to be the most effective administrator and help our young people in clifton uh and finally i just like to close out by saying how special place clifton is to me my wife and i we found our first home here in clifton um years ago uh we had all three of our children living in that home in clifton we developed some pretty wonderful memories met a lot of wonderful people and just to be able to come back to clifton and serve the community is just an honor and i'm very excited to be a part of it congratulations thank you and uh to both of you welcome to clifton and we wish you all the best success in all that you do we know we know you do a great job for our kids so congratulations all right we'll move on to um financing facilities we have f1 through f7 motion motion by ms basford second by mr abu drabo discussion we're seeing none roll call please mr abedrabo uh yes but abstaining on list bills number two mr awad yes miss bassford yes i'm standing on number one please f1 miss beltran yes mr paris yes abstain on d6 six i'm sorry can you repeat that uh staying on six six vice president daily yes president smith yes motion scary okay well next move to uh board member comments dr danny was first so she's not here so mr paris here next thank you mr smith covered a lot of ground this evening thank you to mr doctor for the presentation on the say something application and program i think this is a wonderful opportunity to up safety in our in our system and get staff and students involved um also to miss ragosa congratulations especially on the national recognition and actually the point where we're an example and teaching other districts i think that's fantastic um to the to mrs kusalevich thank you for a very thorough presentation on the health and phys ed standards i've every confidence that our staff will be able to present the content in an age-appropriate way i'm also very confident we'll have a strong opt-out message delivered to parents and the ability for them to opt out anytime during the year they seem necessary and i would just like to make a comment to one of the speakers or several actually over the past few weeks that have referenced what other school districts have been doing resolution wise i've gone back and read those resolutions and there's so i've read about 12 of them out of the 599 districts that are in new jersey none of them refused the standard most of them talked about the curriculum that they saw online that some people found inappropriate and that they would not adopt that curriculum and that they would be making their own this is exactly what we're doing here in clifton um and i just wanted to uh to mention that to the public that out of almost 600 districts uh about a dozen or so have made any kind of resolutions but they nobody has rejected to stand there nobody has said to my knowledge that they will not teach uh to the learning standards the state learning standards that have been presented thank you uh mr abhijava thanks president smith um i just want to start off by the letters that were given to us dr robert tosie um just recently can we also include ld 34 and ld27 the new ld27 which is the subway mckeon and senator cody this way we're able to include them on there will be clifton's new reps coming in in the new district yes i'd be happy to i i thought i'm happy to talk about it now but i thought maybe we could do this in new business okay that's fine um the international overdose awareness was spoken about august 31st 8 pm at city hall for the vigil uh then you know i've been really uh contemplating the past few weeks of how flag raisings have been happening in our clifton it just shows how how great and it translates or what our student population is all about and how diverse clifton is so that is just phenomenal school starts soon um hoping to get out of summer mode and back into school mode uh i know our teachers are phenomenal getting back into that it's more of the students than anything else because there's always that lagging gap um there was a calendar input committee that just happened and i want to thank all the stakeholders uh teachers well hopefully we can get more teachers involved and students involved but to stakeholder parents who are in the district either with students currently or parents of former students of the district i'm going to agree with them if we can see something coming out with the opt out kind of just put it out there instead of just putting it on our website just letting people know and more more importantly it helps us debunk the myths that people are thinking about with the information that we're presenting and proposed or presented today uh i'm no don't know anybody else but i'm excited for september 1st sam thanks for putting out the stuff today i saw that about the football game that just made me more excited and also allows people to know that you're getting what you pay for the ten dollars that is paid for i know it was ten dollars then this saturday was supposed to be 17 with the fees thanks to dr robertosi going back um uh some of the administrators and mr malahi i'm making sure it's ten dollars till the day of so that's seven dollars that we get to save in our pockets if somebody does forget to pay the day of are going forward too um dr apotozy the awards and plaques i think that if we can um put maybe the past five years up and then have them move into perhaps the trophy case or something upstairs and then just rotate them out as we get more i think they'll allow also the people to know uh what this great thing you know what our community thinks of their our district excuse me um car wash as um uh president smith spoke about but the cheerleaders one person smith is going to be seven dollars for the car wash and ten dollars for the trucks on september 10th from 9 a.m to 1 p.m over at woodrow and before my last comment mock trial i'm very proud of mock trial going over to maryland as a mock trial alum myself for chs i am very proud of them matter of fact one of our students was here today who's on the team and i know he's very excited as well um so good luck and go get them um and last to don and mary well to mary john tim and our colleague lucy danny i was over at the wake yesterday and our prayers are with you anything we can help of be with you please let us know and i'm sorry one last thing a quarter legislative meeting in october want to have our fourth quarter meeting with our legislators we still need to do an ld27 but we do need to do an ld 34 legendary district 34.

okay motion by uh mr avigrabo second second by mr awad any discussion roll call please mr abby drabo yes mr awad yes miss bassford yes ms beltran yes mr paris yes vice president daley yes president smith yes motion carries um as um as mr whittles had said before um the city lost um a former councilman someone very dedicated to the city um just an outstanding person um by uh by don cowell um and our doctor danny on the board is uh dating don's son so uh we'll have a resolution prepared for next meeting while miss danny could be here and read the resolution so i just wanted everyone to uh to know that and uh we uh we send our condolences uh to the coal family um on the loss of don i keep losing this okay next we'll move on to uh education administration we have uh e wait a minute let me look first ada's no okay so we have ea one through ea 13.

saw something giblin yesterday and uh kind of give a quick heads up and one of the things on there i wrote down are the register waiver meal programs uh lori so thank you okay mr awad no comments tonight okay miss belchon okay um mr dr roberto sorry um i would say for us to hang at the very least down here forever the board member of the year plaques um because those are kind of rare there is only one every year so i mean worst case scenario we have like a hundred plaques down here but i i doubt we'll get one you know every year um i think those are important too hang even if like if possible we can go back in time and get the photos of the people who have won in the past so like maybe a little picture of them and their plaque i think that would be nice for the walls because that's something that you know is rare um so i've been saying for years in the finance committee and now as the chair of the food service committee the importance of free and reduced lunch uh it's extremely important for our students to have at least one good meal a day and many families who would qualify simply do not understand the forms or afraid to fill out the forms there's a lot of stigma around the forms people are afraid the forms are going to go to some sort of child services investigation there's always rumors about anytime you have to fill out some sort of form stating your income it would be greatly appreciated community members could also reach out to legislators including federal registrators because the usda was who was paying for it which is a federal com a federal organization so hopefully they'll extend it like they did for the summer uh we're getting kind of close to the deadline but even if they don't i'd be interested in maybe taking it to the committee to see um if there was a way for us to pay for the other half because i know about 52 percent um is covered already so if we could figure out some way of covering the 50 percent i'm just not sure how many students actually do eat lunch if there's we have a percentage of how many students bring from home maybe we could figure out it might not be another 50 it might be another 25 or something like that um so i'd like to discuss the obviously the hot button issue um i asked the question about the second grade and personally i disagree with the second grade teaching um i personally feel if i had children i would be opting out of that portion the other ages i feel are appropriate but having to use exact scientific words that young to me is too young um if god forbid a child water to be solicited for molestation the attacker in my belief would be not using those scientific words and we'd be using more socially accepted words um so i think that the training that being offered to the students should be done at all grades even maybe younger than second grade um but be used in terms that the child maybe might be more used to because they might not even really realize if someone says as like a like a fun term i guess to say like you know touching of their body parts and then they might not correspond that to the words that are being taught so if someone says can i touch your something and they only they learn school vagina they'll be like oh they only asked to touch my muffin or something like that you know it's it's just i think the training is very necessary i just think the words um possibly belong more in a anatomy discussion versus a sexual discussion um i know some people are going to disagree with my opinion and honestly my opinion doesn't really matter that much because i know we're going to be approving this curriculum but if i were a parent i would be opting out of that portion um so that said i would just like to wish the staff and students a fun and safe start to the school year um hopefully this will be one of the last that will be hot uh because with the referendum hopefully by next maybe next fall most of the schools will have some sort of relief for that and have a safe labor day everybody okay miss bassford yes good evening um i would like to thank the band for the lovely drumsticks and i don't know i this is from the athletic department it's for the zone six i believe this is a thing that it goes around your wristband so i'll add it to the multiple bracelets that i wear that's your ticket to get into the game next week i i don't know what it was it was i think there was nothing there was nothing with it nope no it just was in the thing so i'm thinking it was something aware all the time so it's fine um thank you for giving me the opportunity to attend the new staff orientation it was good to see the many faces in the audience that they're all excited for the first day to school good luck to all the candidates that are stepping up to the plate i'm glad to see there is an actual election and not a free pass so bravo to everyone that put the name if anybody wants to get on the ballot i believe you should be on the ballot and let the voters decide whether you're worthy of sitting in the seat that's just my you know so anybody uh it's only 12 signatures here it's 589 on the other side of street which i think is ridiculous but um if you want to put yourself out there i think you deserve to to to run and and try for the office so good luck to you all i look forward to listening to all of you in the future and you see what you have to say um with sad passing on um august 27th my condolences go out to the enclave family on the loss of laura she was a teacher at woodrow wilson and clifton high school for 20 years and she was also an njea member so condolences to her family condolences to the colwell family and also to lucy i spoke to you last night when i saw you um and to john and the rest of his family my deepest condolences to the loss of your father it's a it's a hard loss and don was a very outstanding member of this community and to mary who served on this board my condolences to you as well and to dr tim and the grandchildren this is my personal view and opinion i do not speak for the board thank you to casa for the 31st i will be there i will be helping as with anything i can uh regarding the standards i would like to speak if with the permission of dr robitazi to uh mr kuchilevich we teach in um in the um curriculum of the babes program not to use the word secret it's a dirty word because when you say to a child i have a secret you said you're telling them that's okay to have so when that was up there i had a really hard time looking at that so if we could get a presentation beforehand either digitally or in hand my neck is like wrenched because i i can't see over there i can't see any of them and poor alan thought that i was staring at him all night but if we could get that it's really it's really rough to participate i had a lot more questions about that i'm not comfortable with the words in second grade as well i do agree with miss beltran's opinion on that i don't feel comfortable with some of the things and then when i ask the question about what personal safety is in second grade um i i i'd like to hear more of the other curriculum on that um what else did i get oh uh regarding the um the board member of the year the board member of the year was uh started in 2004.

motion by mr abedravo second by mr awad any discussion seeing none roll call mr abaddraba yes mr awad yes miss basford yes miss beltran yes mr paris yes vice president daley yes president smith yes motion carries okay next were um p and p 12 are pulled for executive session those are personnel matters okay so uh we'll uh we'll have the rest of the group uh minus p9 and p12 worship what's your pleasure [Music] mr paris any discussion seeing none roll call please mr abu drabba yes without standing on a p-39 name only mr awad yes uh upstating on p miss passport yes uh standing on p-39 name only miss beltran yes mr paris yes i'm standing on p-32 and p-39 my name vice president daley yes statement on the friday president smith yes and abstaining on p39 my name only motion carries okay next we'll move to oh i'm sorry yes i'm sorry we have dr rutozie if you could thank you mr smith uh thank you for supporting my recommendation tonight we have two staff members who are being appointed a a new vice principal at clifton high school and a new um leave replacement vice principal at woodrow wilson so maggie why don't you come up first good evening president smith commissioners dr robert tosie mr levitt mr granger gingaro sorry a little nervous um i wanted to thank you all um for giving me an opportunity and putting your trust in me to serve our clifton public schools uh in my new role as the woodrow wilson's interim interim vice principal years ago my husband and i chose clifton to be our home not only because we fell in love with the community but because we wanted our children to attend clifton public schools we have wonderful staff members who are dedicated and our children and our students have so many opportunities to grow and thrive i'm also starting my 16th year working here for our wonderful public schools i've spent 14 years teaching third and fourth grade at school 13. the last school year i worked with keita too's staff as one of the elementary math coaches and i also worked as one of the coordinators for ic program for the past two summers i feel very fortunate to work in such a supportive environment all of the administrators principals and supervisors with whom i had a privilege to work with in the past years have played a pivotal role in my career as an educator and educational leader i'm very grateful for that i'm looking forward to working with woodrow's amazing collaborative team and i'm eager to contribute in whatever way i can to our schools and our students success i'm also looking forward to working with woodrow's students administrators and staff as well as all community stakeholders to make this truly an amazing year for our students thank you again for this opportunity it's a great day to be a mustang and as they say at woodrow mustangs are all in thank you again sam is that mic on didn't sound like it was it is okay basketball player good evening so um i would i want to first start off by thanking a lot of people oh my name is james kozier i'm going for vice principal at clifton high school i want to first start off by thanking principal honda principal gaba principal yeager superintendent dr robert tosi assistant superintendents mr gingaro and mrs kucilewicz i've been practicing all night for the insightful and thorough interview process i truly enjoyed meeting with all you discussing your mission and vision for clifton and how it can best support you in that process your passion for clifton and the students is is inspiring so thank you for that i would also like to say that i am truly honored humbled and ecstatic for this opportunity to be able to work in a school as high highly regarded as clifton is really a dream control i've been a part of many different schools within newark public schools and some charter schools but clifton's special 15 special so i'm truly again humbled honored and very excited to get started i can assure you that i'm going to do everything i can to be the most effective administrator and help our young people in clifton uh and finally i just like to close out by saying how special place clifton is to me my wife and i we found our first home here in clifton um years ago uh we had all three of our children living in that home in clifton we developed some pretty wonderful memories met a lot of wonderful people and just to be able to come back to clifton and serve the community is just an honor and i'm very excited to be a part of it congratulations thank you and uh to both of you welcome to clifton and we wish you all the best success in all that you do we know we know you do a great job for our kids so congratulations all right we'll move on to um financing facilities we have f1 through f7 motion motion by ms basford second by mr abu drabo discussion we're seeing none roll call please mr abedrabo uh yes but abstaining on list bills number two mr awad yes miss bassford yes i'm standing on number one please f1 miss beltran yes mr paris yes abstain on d6 six i'm sorry can you repeat that uh staying on six six vice president daily yes president smith yes motion scary okay well next move to uh board member comments dr danny was first so she's not here so mr paris here next thank you mr smith covered a lot of ground this evening thank you to mr doctor for the presentation on the say something application and program i think this is a wonderful opportunity to up safety in our in our system and get staff and students involved um also to miss ragosa congratulations especially on the national recognition and actually the point where we're an example and teaching other districts i think that's fantastic um to the to mrs kusalevich thank you for a very thorough presentation on the health and phys ed standards i've every confidence that our staff will be able to present the content in an age-appropriate way i'm also very confident we'll have a strong opt-out message delivered to parents and the ability for them to opt out anytime during the year they seem necessary and i would just like to make a comment to one of the speakers or several actually over the past few weeks that have referenced what other school districts have been doing resolution wise i've gone back and read those resolutions and there's so i've read about 12 of them out of the 599 districts that are in new jersey none of them refused the standard most of them talked about the curriculum that they saw online that some people found inappropriate and that they would not adopt that curriculum and that they would be making their own this is exactly what we're doing here in clifton um and i just wanted to uh to mention that to the public that out of almost 600 districts uh about a dozen or so have made any kind of resolutions but they nobody has rejected to stand there nobody has said to my knowledge that they will not teach uh to the learning standards the state learning standards that have been presented thank you uh mr abhijava thanks president smith um i just want to start off by the letters that were given to us dr robert tosie um just recently can we also include ld 34 and ld27 the new ld27 which is the subway mckeon and senator cody this way we're able to include them on there will be clifton's new reps coming in in the new district yes i'd be happy to i i thought i'm happy to talk about it now but i thought maybe we could do this in new business okay that's fine um the international overdose awareness was spoken about august 31st 8 pm at city hall for the vigil uh then you know i've been really uh contemplating the past few weeks of how flag raisings have been happening in our clifton it just shows how how great and it translates or what our student population is all about and how diverse clifton is so that is just phenomenal school starts soon um hoping to get out of summer mode and back into school mode uh i know our teachers are phenomenal getting back into that it's more of the students than anything else because there's always that lagging gap um there was a calendar input committee that just happened and i want to thank all the stakeholders uh teachers well hopefully we can get more teachers involved and students involved but to stakeholder parents who are in the district either with students currently or parents of former students of the district i'm going to agree with them if we can see something coming out with the opt out kind of just put it out there instead of just putting it on our website just letting people know and more more importantly it helps us debunk the myths that people are thinking about with the information that we're presenting and proposed or presented today uh i'm no don't know anybody else but i'm excited for september 1st sam thanks for putting out the stuff today i saw that about the football game that just made me more excited and also allows people to know that you're getting what you pay for the ten dollars that is paid for i know it was ten dollars then this saturday was supposed to be 17 with the fees thanks to dr robertosi going back um uh some of the administrators and mr malahi i'm making sure it's ten dollars till the day of so that's seven dollars that we get to save in our pockets if somebody does forget to pay the day of are going forward too um dr apotozy the awards and plaques i think that if we can um put maybe the past five years up and then have them move into perhaps the trophy case or something upstairs and then just rotate them out as we get more i think they'll allow also the people to know uh what this great thing you know what our community thinks of their our district excuse me um car wash as um uh president smith spoke about but the cheerleaders one person smith is going to be seven dollars for the car wash and ten dollars for the trucks on september 10th from 9 a.m to 1 p.m over at woodrow and before my last comment mock trial i'm very proud of mock trial going over to maryland as a mock trial alum myself for chs i am very proud of them matter of fact one of our students was here today who's on the team and i know he's very excited as well um so good luck and go get them um and last to don and mary well to mary john tim and our colleague lucy danny i was over at the wake yesterday and our prayers are with you anything we can help of be with you please let us know and i'm sorry one last thing a quarter legislative meeting in october want to have our fourth quarter meeting with our legislators we still need to do an ld27 but we do need to do an ld 34 legendary district 34.

miss marie hakim was the third recipient passaic county actually has two recipients we're the only pers we're the only county in the state that has actually two um i sent the actual digital um article that new jersey school boards has of miss hakum it's a beautiful article it's three or four pages long i hope that you frame that and erect that in the boardroom because that is a board member function this is our boardroom i think the board was given a couple of trophies uh for actually board participation of different things they should be down here the student stuff should be up in the welcome center that big thing with the hands up in the welcome center um and the other thing is welcome back to school good luck to all the staff students and the um the teachers and parents take your time around the schools remember you may be late getting into the school stop park block away and walk quietly into the school the double parking somebody's gonna get hurt so please just go slow and when you integrate into the school around the schools please that life you could say save could be one of our students by double parking blocking traffic rushing please take your time so big deal you late it's the little things that matter in life right the little things getting your child and everybody else's child into school and the parents and the teachers and the staff safe please take it easy so you're late who cares thank you and good night vice president daley thank you mr president uh like to send my condolences to the coal family uh i know each member um very very well and it's uh it's a loss don's losses that lost the community but we remember his legacy too which is important that we take some solace in that um on on the issue of the boardroom it's pretty sterile in here to say the least uh and i think we could with all the stuff we have and even if you rotate some of this you know some of the stuff should be in it could be in here and some in the welcome center uh the fact that we just displayed this stuff shows our history and and our commitment and the individual contributions that have been made by various staff members and board members to to the sport uh we have a great district here and we have a lot to be proud of so you not only need to show what's currently going on you need to show how we've come here so uh we can get into the details later but we need to uh spread the information for lack of a description on on the curriculum um i do still do have some questions on the um on the certainly the lower grades but but we need to look at something and i and i like to piggyback on what mr paris said you hear all this stuff and unfortunately society jumps at the first thing they hear and that's that's the fact you need to be patient you need to listen no matter whether it's this curriculum or the other stuff and you need to do some investigation so if you look at the miss kruselevich did a great job with the presentation and it gives you a perspective now you might not be happy with everything but certainly what was came up in in social media and a lot of it at the podium here was not the case and so you need to be patient you need to evaluate it and uh i would also like to see uh and and opt in rather than an opt-out but i know that's not the law so we can't deal with that but it's up to the parents too i always i've preached on this for for as long as i've been up here you're right you're the student's education is three-legged stool it's the teacher it's the student and it's the parent the parent needs to be engaged if you're you're for your child you are you might not know how to teach or have all the information that our teachers have but you're there to be guidance and to support your child so parents get more involved look at the website there's a lot of information there's a lot of information about a lot of things you need to be more involved if you have questions and then you wouldn't ha but it's a it's very important that you're you listen and get down to the details and then you make your decisions from there um again uh i wish everybody a good labor day and opening of our schools and a safe year and a productive year for all our students and i know our kids as they usually do great stuff during the year and that will conclude my marks for tonight thank you um miss uh rogoza mr dr miss kusalevich um a lot of time and preparation go into these presentations and um we thank you for uh getting the information to the public and uh putting together these presentations we we hope that the uh the tvs would uh would help um uh the two here uh intended to be the big one big screens so that we could actually see them um but if we did that you'd be hitting your heads on them and uh right is that correct maybe we had to move them because of that so uh you know maybe we could do something but i understand what you're saying but that would have been big bigger tvs than the original uh plan but it is kind of difficult to see so uh let's see what we can work on that um we hope the public was able to see uh you got some of the big big screens uh uh on your area so uh we hope at least the public or but we we have to try and do something about that um you know those people that did not know don cole don was one of the first council people to reach out his hand to show me the way of what politics was about what clifton was about i spent many nights in his living room stuffing envelopes handing out sponges and wooden nickels he was very famous for the traditional wooden nickel um and it was funny at the at the wake i was actually uh speaking to his grandson max and uh i i was told max is uh nine years old going on 50 and if you spoke to him he he really was very intelligent and anyhow he was telling me about all the the great uh giveaways that he saw of his grandfathers um in in his basement and uh after each one that i said the max said yeah that was the good one that was the best one and uh it was just a great experience knowing don he was very dedicated to this city and um those of you that may not have known don he was a a big guy when don walked into the room you knew don was there um but not so much because he was a big guy in stature because he had the biggest smile don always smiled and it just made you feel better as a person so um clifton lost uh lost a good a good friend and i'm just fortunate that i got to know don uh and to call him my friend and uh we know donnie's in a better place now fishing with the lord and um uh condolences to his family and as i said next meeting we'll have a resolution that dr danny will be able to to read um someone else that that uh passed away in the city um mr ed plascon um if you're a city of clifton person and you go to bagel places and ed was was always at um a bagel place or a coffee place and he made it his business to come over to you and speak to you and tell a joke uh share uh share a cup of coffee um and talk about what was happening in clifton um he was one of the the biggest um spreaders of the great things that was hap were happening in clifton so uh to the placecon family uh thank you for sharing your dad your your your grandfather um and an outstanding clifton resident that passed away we send our condole i send my condolences to the placecon family to dr robertosi and miss kusalevich and um specifically in my comments here to um mr gengaro um i sure hope that we videotaped that presentation yesterday and that we could get it on the website so that the public could see what a phenomenal job our assistant superintendent did to motivate and to welcome our new teachers and staff um mr paris i know you were there to the end um the drumsticks were part of his uh presentation and just imagine all the new staff members taking direction from mr gingaro who had let his hair down so to speak um and put a cowboy hat on and was ready to rock the hall and to get all these people in the hall excuse me in the auditorium um following his directions with these drumsticks when i first saw him like where are they going with this and he just did such a tremendous job of of motivating people um it just truly was a a great um welcoming to our new staff and being able to hear the staff all say you know this by far was one of the best experiences that we had teachers that have come from other places said wow clifton really you know does things uh in a wild way and uh i know mr giguero is uh exhausted today but he did a great job and i wanted to commend him and commend dr robitozzi and your entire staff um for such a great job um and to end the end the day the first day to end the morning session um again you got to see the video dr robitosi gets up uh with the band um the mustang what do you guys call yourself the administration administration um so it was a bunch of administrators uh that that played some tunes and our own superintendent there was uh was on the guitar and i gotta say the administration uh group did a phenomenal job so i hope we'll see more of that going around the district but it really just motivated our staff and um for them to be able to come up and say thank you and and they had a great uh first experience um that made it all worthwhile so congratulations to you and your and we welcome all those staff members and we welcome all of our teachers and our paras and our bus drivers and aides and everyone back to the system uh including our most valued asset our students as i've said numerous times we you're always proud of your teachers and you'll always back your teachers but as mr lama will probably agree with we have the best teachers by far not maybe not only in the state but probably in the country they're very dedicated and devoted uh employees and um i'm proud to sit on a board um that has employees of of that magnitude and that dedication so uh please extend my uh welcome to each of them and to wish him a great year and we'll be hearing a lot of great things about our students and our staff and that's what makes one clifton all of us working together for the betterment of educating kids and uh that's all i have for tonight thank you we'll move on to uh new business no problem [Music] uh new business you want the uh yes mr smith if i may i just wanted to discuss every i was able to i emailed you earlier but in case you didn't check email before the board meeting it's a copy of a letter at our last board meeting the board had asked made to draft a letter that we could send to our legislator legislators um asking for an extension on the usda free lunch waiver or and or you know a universal free lunch for everyone so the letter was drafted here i will be personalizing the letter to specifically each of our legislators but i wanted to get any feedback or just at least we don't need a formal vote are you okay with it do we have a consensus that we can send this i have just realized i want to add one sentence and i want to add to this that to please also see and close the copy of the resolution that we passed tonight um and i'll include that with the letter does anybody else have any other feedback nope that's great um should we not send these to our federal uh legislators because that they're the ones that yeah yeah so uh pascagral and senator menendez and senator uh um yeah so yeah yeah tell me who i'm sending it to you that's not nice we don't know what prove this hernandez escarado [Music] pasquale menendez booker hernandez and then if i can add to that that's i was going to add too um we should send it to the governor's office and not just to anybody in government but we should be to a senior uh legislative director if you want to give me that name and email address anyone have any of the board have a problem with that anyone else we want to add the chief of usda there you go that's good somebody mentioned the state um committee chair for education uh yeah culpable pal yeah he's been he's been very responsive this summer meeting with a lot of school board members so he's really interested in someone's got higher aspirations if this is something that we unanimously uh agreed to is it appropriate or would it have made more impact if we all had signed this is it bored that's what i was wondering myself and that's why at the very least i wanted to include the resolution so when the board secretary does an official resolution it includes all the board members names um but i also don't mind saying that this letter is from the administration and the board right and the entire board if everybody's okay with that i just have one more ad not names but into the letter um i mean we have the best data that we can possibly use and that is our pickup lunches during covet and what those impacts had in terms of uh in terms of what those lunches you mean how many meals how many meals yeah we do have that information and we should use that i mean data's power and if we can use that and add that to support these 50 52 all these other numbers particularly mentioned coven and pandemic related um for the waivers i think mentioning those numbers at least a one or two liner in there giving quick stats or an addendum to the letter as an attachment i don't have any problem with that is everybody good agreement have those numbers objection and then just to continue what mr paris was suggesting i'll have this come from the board what you will have the certified uh we'll have the resolution certified resolution but so the letter itself though do should it be from me and members of the board of education well we'll include the resolution so maybe you just write the letter okay that's just how i say it do you want to write with that okay okay good thank you all is there any other new business all right um and then danny i'm sorry really quick you have ld 34 and 27 on that right okay we'll go over it mr president you need a resolution at this time a clarification uh i also have a contract matter contract matter okay um so we're gonna meet an executive session for um p9 and p12 which are personnel matters i'm just trying to get a legal opinion if mr paris is exempt or not well that's the resolution that we could just especially whether he can come an executive session or not yeah yeah that's right you just pass a resolution to go into it yeah yeah that's fine um and then uh a contract matter for mr daley um i'm gonna say uh action will be taken um so we'll come back out here and i'm gonna say a half an hour um and we're gonna hold to it so uh motion to go with executive session any objection seeing none okay hopefully we'll be back in a half hour and uh just if we can get a clarification from mr paris so john i have roll call back from executive session please mr abedrabo mr awad here miss password yeah here ms beltran here mr paris here vice president daley yes president smith uh here you have a quorum uh if i could find it a motion to approve p sorry motion second p motion by mr abu drabo second by mr awad uh just so the public knows we uh discussed uh these personnel matters um and a contract matter an executive session all right roll call please mr abaddraba yes mr awake yes miss bassford yes miss beltran yes mr paris yes vice president daley yes president smith yes and we thank uh mr john crew for being here this evening uh we must tell you when derelice is here we're past midnight so you you're you're welcome to come back now i can't wait to tell her motion motion to adjourn second second any objection meaning is adjourned you

saw something giblin yesterday and uh kind of give a quick heads up and one of the things on there i wrote down are the register waiver meal programs uh lori so thank you okay mr awad no comments tonight okay miss belchon okay um mr dr roberto sorry um i would say for us to hang at the very least down here forever the board member of the year plaques um because those are kind of rare there is only one every year so i mean worst case scenario we have like a hundred plaques down here but i i doubt we'll get one you know every year um i think those are important too hang even if like if possible we can go back in time and get the photos of the people who have won in the past so like maybe a little picture of them and their plaque i think that would be nice for the walls because that's something that you know is rare um so i've been saying for years in the finance committee and now as the chair of the food service committee the importance of free and reduced lunch uh it's extremely important for our students to have at least one good meal a day and many families who would qualify simply do not understand the forms or afraid to fill out the forms there's a lot of stigma around the forms people are afraid the forms are going to go to some sort of child services investigation there's always rumors about anytime you have to fill out some sort of form stating your income it would be greatly appreciated community members could also reach out to legislators including federal registrators because the usda was who was paying for it which is a federal com a federal organization so hopefully they'll extend it like they did for the summer uh we're getting kind of close to the deadline but even if they don't i'd be interested in maybe taking it to the committee to see um if there was a way for us to pay for the other half because i know about 52 percent um is covered already so if we could figure out some way of covering the 50 percent i'm just not sure how many students actually do eat lunch if there's we have a percentage of how many students bring from home maybe we could figure out it might not be another 50 it might be another 25 or something like that um so i'd like to discuss the obviously the hot button issue um i asked the question about the second grade and personally i disagree with the second grade teaching um i personally feel if i had children i would be opting out of that portion the other ages i feel are appropriate but having to use exact scientific words that young to me is too young um if god forbid a child water to be solicited for molestation the attacker in my belief would be not using those scientific words and we'd be using more socially accepted words um so i think that the training that being offered to the students should be done at all grades even maybe younger than second grade um but be used in terms that the child maybe might be more used to because they might not even really realize if someone says as like a like a fun term i guess to say like you know touching of their body parts and then they might not correspond that to the words that are being taught so if someone says can i touch your something and they only they learn school vagina they'll be like oh they only asked to touch my muffin or something like that you know it's it's just i think the training is very necessary i just think the words um possibly belong more in a anatomy discussion versus a sexual discussion um i know some people are going to disagree with my opinion and honestly my opinion doesn't really matter that much because i know we're going to be approving this curriculum but if i were a parent i would be opting out of that portion um so that said i would just like to wish the staff and students a fun and safe start to the school year um hopefully this will be one of the last that will be hot uh because with the referendum hopefully by next maybe next fall most of the schools will have some sort of relief for that and have a safe labor day everybody okay miss bassford yes good evening um i would like to thank the band for the lovely drumsticks and i don't know i this is from the athletic department it's for the zone six i believe this is a thing that it goes around your wristband so i'll add it to the multiple bracelets that i wear that's your ticket to get into the game next week i i don't know what it was it was i think there was nothing there was nothing with it nope no it just was in the thing so i'm thinking it was something aware all the time so it's fine um thank you for giving me the opportunity to attend the new staff orientation it was good to see the many faces in the audience that they're all excited for the first day to school good luck to all the candidates that are stepping up to the plate i'm glad to see there is an actual election and not a free pass so bravo to everyone that put the name if anybody wants to get on the ballot i believe you should be on the ballot and let the voters decide whether you're worthy of sitting in the seat that's just my you know so anybody uh it's only 12 signatures here it's 589 on the other side of street which i think is ridiculous but um if you want to put yourself out there i think you deserve to to to run and and try for the office so good luck to you all i look forward to listening to all of you in the future and you see what you have to say um with sad passing on um august 27th my condolences go out to the enclave family on the loss of laura she was a teacher at woodrow wilson and clifton high school for 20 years and she was also an njea member so condolences to her family condolences to the colwell family and also to lucy i spoke to you last night when i saw you um and to john and the rest of his family my deepest condolences to the loss of your father it's a it's a hard loss and don was a very outstanding member of this community and to mary who served on this board my condolences to you as well and to dr tim and the grandchildren this is my personal view and opinion i do not speak for the board thank you to casa for the 31st i will be there i will be helping as with anything i can uh regarding the standards i would like to speak if with the permission of dr robitazi to uh mr kuchilevich we teach in um in the um curriculum of the babes program not to use the word secret it's a dirty word because when you say to a child i have a secret you said you're telling them that's okay to have so when that was up there i had a really hard time looking at that so if we could get a presentation beforehand either digitally or in hand my neck is like wrenched because i i can't see over there i can't see any of them and poor alan thought that i was staring at him all night but if we could get that it's really it's really rough to participate i had a lot more questions about that i'm not comfortable with the words in second grade as well i do agree with miss beltran's opinion on that i don't feel comfortable with some of the things and then when i ask the question about what personal safety is in second grade um i i i'd like to hear more of the other curriculum on that um what else did i get oh uh regarding the um the board member of the year the board member of the year was uh started in 2004.

how is that even possible that's way out there i guess that's true um i'm wondering if you all would be open to doing a creative activity with an article that uh i wrote it was um it was it was the it was either doing this or uh a song that i but this to me i think can operate like a song but it's going to be our voices with some music and um it's set up like a little kind of like a play we need uh three narrators and then everyone comes in on certain lines you guys down to do something like this yes okay cool so let's just i'll go with half right there sometimes it's better not to ask permission and just to apologize later let's see where i'm at that works too all right so um let's uh let's get a few narrators we need narrator one two and three i'll be one you'll be one only two there's three the rest of us we are everywhere we come in on the everyone lines so what i'm going to do though uh if i'm still coming through here i'm going to give us a little bit of a track put your music underneath as we kick off all right so i believe we kick off with and i just need one of these no he's got a whole stack oh he does okay so and this is uh this is an article uh that was uh published about a couple years ago but the idea is i'm thinking about the golden rule and um considering how do we utilize the power and the the um the beauty of the golden rule and place it into our dimension of education and so there's a there's a platinum upgrade dimension of this work so as soon as the the music comes in the narrator begins what word would you fill in the blank space of the following sentence with if you were giving some somebody advice you should treat others as you would like to be treated how did you complete that thought if by chance you thought of the word you then you are in alignment to the tenants of the golden rule a philosophy referenced in multiple faith traditions we see it in the sacred writings of the quran wish for others what you wish for yourself it is rooted in the foundations of hinduism as it is articulated in the holy scriptures of the bible unto others as you have done to you it is quintessential to an understanding of buddhist teaching it is a profound jewish cultural tradition resounding from the torah what is hateful to you not due to your neighborhood it is beautifully referenced within the baha'i the lord faith would not wish to be laid upon you in all these diverse spiritual communities there is a common theme and threat of developing empathy by making social choices of how to treat others by understanding our own personal needs however what if we were to instead place the word they into the plain space above as in treat others as they would like to be treated with this pivot in language all shall shift us away from treating others based on our own personal biases and therefore be taught to find out how other people choose to be treated based on their vantage point in youth equity stewardship as we journey along the creative intergenerational process of fostering equity inclusion and excellence together we explore this idea the transformative impact of coming to understand how to treat people want to be how to treat people want to be treated by asking people how they want to be treated is perhaps a great way for people to be treated this idea a golden rule 2.0 so to speak we are calling the platinum now by no means then before a fence is taken is advocating the idea of the platinum rule intended to be an affront or insult to the wisdom of the great spiritual traditions since there are many healthy ways the golden rule can be manifested and has been useful as a model for compassion and creating peace between people and nations however the upgrade suggestion is based in the hope that we can avoid the potential harm that can be felt and damage done when assumptions are made about others because we are operating from our own individual lenses the plenum upgrade requires us to seek out a deep understanding of others so that we can be responsive to their needs here are a few paths to consider in shifting our language and way of doing things in school the first is shifting from rules to agreements the very nature of rules is about forming a conclusion of how people should be held accountable from the vantage point of authority whether it is an individual such as a teacher or principal or the an entire institution creating laws and policy ironically in spite of a power imbalance at play we can be governed by certain roles that in principle hold positive social and personal value for example there are the b roles such as be respectful be kind be courteous be present as well as the don't rules like don't interrupt don't don't put it down don't lose violence all these ideas and theory and intention would contribute to building a healthier community together the thing is as we humans develop our critical thinking abilities beginning at a very young age we become inclined to question the credibility of rules based on our perception of their relevance it is a testament to our cognitive ability and emotional maturity as humans to grow more hesitant to blind allegiance to disconnected rules and it is perhaps why the age-old adage suggests rules are made to be broken to provide an atmosphere that fosters collectively unity and builds on the human mind's natural inclination for social connection we offer agreements in our group process of youth equity stewardship community agreements within within a school setting ask the questions of each member young and old what would we each need to be safe to be successful and to be fully who we are collecting these ideas and responding accordingly with a set of agreements is being authentic accountable and equitable across a diverse range of unique needs when this happens to both the individual and collective ownership of these agreements creates the sustainable force every teacher longs for to maximize their positive interactions and educational impact in the classroom the increased sense of support respect empowerment and encouragement particularly across difference is a statement to our nature natural human proclamability to connect the second shift is from punishment to restoration the ongoing traditions of punishing individuals for infractions to the expectations and norms of the community has roots in a self-centered socially accepted idea that if it worked for me it should also work for you this is a harsher perspective on a golden rule dynamic of seeing ourselves and others generations have grown up in the school system with a common incentive for behavior being a fear of reprimand as a guiding practice many people have survived and perhaps even still thrived in this climate however this doing unto others what others have done to us policy has led to perpetuating tragic racial disproportionality and a national crisis that has been coined the school to prison pipeline in light of systemic acceptance of punitive approaches to discipline the research suggests only short-term impact and lacks evidence of positive social uplift the punitive and authoritarian measures have not shown value in addressing or turning around school behavior and discipline there is no indication that harsh consequences build community or carry weight in developing personal responsibility or community accountability just like newton's first law of motion the inertia behind ineffective traditions can carry on if there is not an external counter-force re-envisioning a new way of relating to one another restoration is the platinum upgrade we propose for a deeply humanizing common sense and research-based practice for visionaries looking to transform our educational institutions in crisis restoration is about bringing ourselves back into balance health and alignment to the best version of our personal and collective selves it is the and trans continental indigenous concept where people have found ways to accentuate the necessity of our inner dependence rather than pushing away and calling out those who stepped out of line restorative ways pulling closer and call in the circle of community to to develop a plan of action the irony is some of the criticism of restorative practice which includes being too soft and placing an unfair and impossible burden on educators whose job is to teach is that being restorative is more about what effective culturally responsive educators do anyway these ways can be summarized as simply holding the highest possible standard of accountability for equity inclusion engagement ownership collaboration cultural empowerment and justice for all members of our school community the final shift is from the concept of leadership to a culture of stewardship if you could live in a world where all people in key positions of leadership ascribe to a truly compassionate and ethical golden rule and they're carrying out of their duties would you choose that reality without a blink of an eye it is likely many of us would accept this there are great examples of people who shine brightly in their leadership roles but if we are truly to keep it 100 100 many of the authority figures in displaying multiple arenas of power are fraught with actions revealing the personal qualities we laced admire the short list would include greed dishonesty hubris intolerance corrupt ethics willfully endurance and apathy let's just say we have great room for improvement in the leadership category as the world at large leadership even in alignment with good intentions to a golden rule ethic can be subtly dysfunctional this occurs when a leader genuinely believes that they understand their constituents whether they be voters for a politician student or a teacher or teachers for a principal because they believe they can attach her personal views onto the people they serve and then make decisions based on that likely false projection this presumption of understanding which is misunderstanding can be remedied with a new vision for those in positions of critical responsibility the platinum upgrade is the vision of stewardship stewardship is commonly associated historically with environmental protection and preservation advocacy but has significant relevance in our school institutions a steward is committed to being informed in other words knowledgeable of those in the community and devoted to a caring that requires a deep set of listening skills that build the wisdom and insight through communicating with others rather than relying on personal experience a steward realizes the intersection of our cultural and natural spheres this wisdom is due to being involved staying connected and being concerned with people and all our relations and when we say all means all this must include all human beings animals plants the full spectrum of diverse organisms and the essential elements that compose our living planet using this definition there is no way to be an oppressive or authoritarian steward that would be a true oxymoron the through line to the platinum upgrade whether referring to stewardship restorative practice or agreements rather than rules is the ability to share power with others rather than having power over others the ra rara miri people who primarily inside in the barranca de la cobre copper canyon in the state of chihuahua mexico have a term in the content of their language the meaning is essentially that one has more power when it is shared but to truly share power in the educational arena we will not we will need to truly understand one another and the challenge the tendency to believe that anyone is likely to think and feel in the same way we do to reiterate that intentions from the beginning this writing is not intended to criticize anybody who advocates the golden rule the golden rule has a time-tested relevance and appropriate placement within various cultural dynamics and contexts plus none of us should criticize anyone's worldwide unless world view unless we have walked a mile in their shoes if we do that you're safe says comedian jack candy who continues because then you're a mile away from them and you have their shoes written by wade all antonio all right just a little something to chew on um and uh i think don't want to go too deep into like the processing of this but i'm just wondering if there is anything that kind of uh resonates it's something that's like uh stood out for you challenged you what's what's on your mind in response to them and i know it takes a lot of process you just read it right no okay so i i cheated because i have already read your article okay okay i did it was given to me um i am going to school for educational leadership and i get past a lot of articles and i actually read this article and it resonated so much with me um that when i started my school year we actually talked about that because the kids do know that golden rule and so i did teach them that they um because i always promote in my classroom like there's certain things that kids are automatically taught to do like for example respect your elders and i literally don't believe in that um i believe in you respect people because they respect you and so my role in my class is if i'm being respectful of you and you still am being respectful of you then then you will respect me in return so um i introduced this to my kids this year and i haven't i wasn't there for a long time so we will continue to talk about that but that article was amazing i've read it multiple times and um so reading this was a little bit more of a confirmation of some of the things that i had already read so it kind of resonated him it's a rewrite from the original article so there's some things i took out and said to me okay that's well i think like my first thought um you talk about rules verse agreements i think that's really powerful and i know everything's super complex but i also go back to the tangible and like when we're thinking of our teachers you know 10 years ago everybody had a poster from lakeshore that already had here are classroom roles on it and i know for me like i saw a shift in really bringing the kids into that that first day like this is a blank poster how do you think we should operate in our classroom how do you think we should interact with one another and i mean at the time like when i was teaching i was still call you know it still said class rules but it was developed from them with them um and for the most part they came up with the same things that anyone would make their poster from but they bought into it and they believed it and they they practiced it because it had meaning to them um and so like in hindsight i'm like i wish i had called them agreements when i was in the classroom um but that that was a shift and i definitely saw it changes everything about the dynamics of your classroom um because you're no longer saying it kind of goes back to like you know teacher as a facilitator and not pushing things at you is everyone starts to hold one another accountable down to you know teacher don't answer your phone like the kids will say that you know or like hey we need to stay on on pace um and you remove the possibility of power struggles which i think is huge and that is something that escalates a lot of behaviors with our students because of the experience they're coming from and the way people in their lives might have interacted with them um so i just the rules to agreement shift i think is really important and that's like a really that's an easy shift to make i feel the latest iteration of creighton district governing board expectations and consider it agreements i thought of that too i second that yeah [Laughter] one of the things about this report that really i'll use it as a plus is that we have i'm not sure how the other schools work but the creighton academy is one of the newer schools that we have and i think they really focus on these agreements the principal has a set of agreements and um that they have for the whole school and they even have the kids teaching them about agreements with nature as well so it's pretty funny because we're integrating and we're teaching these kids how to take care of the environment how to make things better but also how to agree to respect each other so the way that they do it is you know if kids are bullying each other or some situation is kids are actually taught to tell the other person like stop and my daughter does this so i know it works because my husband littered the other day and she was like you're supposed to take care of your environment would you like somebody littering on our front porch and i know that she gets that from school because they consistently talk about that at that school so yeah i'm really glad to see um this kind of article that was written even before you knew of our school and we're kind of in that alignment already so that's something that i am proud of the school district that we do take those things and we're starting to little by little realize not only that you know racial equity is important but our environmental equity i mean in our own i don't know if you guys know but in our own school district bpa area has three percent cooler than our south side of the district so the fact that we're implementing these things with the environment urban heat and how it impacts our kids and our community like we're already doing that at that school so i it was a really reassuring thing that we're moving forward and making strides in the right in the right way you can't um you can't extract racial equity out of environmental equity right it's it's it's beyond an intersection it's almost like a superimposition of one element of equity well since agreements tended to kind of was an angle how do y'all feel about creating some board agreements and doing our own version of that you'll be all right with that um absolutely i gotta say though because when i when i see just even in the expectations it stood out to me when i saw the word respect you mentioned it this morning right okay then we talked about like that sense of offering respect expecting respect i like that that that back and forth you bringing it up around you know do you um you know do you give respect when you're disrespected you know or do you mirror back to somebody you know or or do you perhaps refrain from offering respect you know like how do you deal with that and i think that's critical because um respect is one of these terms that could mean different things of different people right respect me and look me in the eye you know and it's like that's not my cultural background or like you know so just there's so so much and that's just that's an obvious one but i think there's many ways in which it can show up even in a board like this when you got you know 85 percent is that official 85 agreement in in all dimensions of who you are is that that that was a fact sophia presented that as a fact this morning that you you agree you are 85 percent i mean we're aligned in the end goal it's different approaches on how we get there and so in that process piece i think ensuring that we are navigating that respectfully because at the end of the day i i truly as sophia said believe that all five of us believe in the same outcomes like we're all on the same side yeah 85 to me is actually a little low i once heard that we have we shared like 99 of the dna of a banana if you're only at 85 you got to notch it up at least get to the level of a banana i don't know how true that is we hopefully there's no scientists uh watching this [Laughter] all right they're probably looking it up back you're a great fire uh starter you want you want to build a fire i don't know if i'd say that because you're buying a starter i don't know that he does have i told you my fire story well i want to hear it now is it uh i know right now who asked you no he gonna tell you all right supervisor i don't know you want me to tell you yeah right super fast um first job was teaching first grade oh you're doing it i'll start doing this okay and you know we tried to be super you know adventurous creative i actually had kindergarteners and first graders and one of the things that we did was we were trying to build hot air balloons and there's these kits you can get that are pretty pricey that have like crepe paper you know paper and you use light glue and you can build these things and you actually use real fire to heat them up and they slowly fill with warm air and then they float so my kids built but we didn't buy the fancy kids like we did it with we had our paper but we had staples masking tape scotch tape elmer's glue all the things we could do to build these balloons and they were massive and they were beautiful and each balloon was like you know probably from the floor about like that so the kids built him we had like six of these balloons we're like okay launched it so but it was windy and so we're like well we can't do it outside because that would be unsafe so we had my propane tank put it in the middle floor and we made a big circle oh yeah we're like okay all right so but they were huge little kids and so my job was to stand on the desk and i held it up i couldn't see anything and the kids had to hold it down here they wanted to fill with heat that's all we're doing the first one and these things probably wait 10 pounds surely it's going to float it'll just gently go to the ceiling and it'll come back down beautiful [Laughter] [Music] here and i was like so i dropped it well then it fell on the floor in the middle of the circle and the kids are looking at it and i'm looking at it and it's burning and i'm like oh my god so journals because we were writers back then got the kids journals everybody out so they all run out line up outside and they open i didn't have any windows in the classroom door opens kids run out smoke boom and we got out got the fire out they used their journals a little bit later the principal and the head of building maintenance came walking in all of the carpet was just gone what did you do and the kids are like well we're gonna do it again [Laughter] look at that drawing that was a great profile yeah yeah it's like a one-man performance so that's art i have another one from high school but i'll say that it's hard i'm already thinking about who do we have seen the way they want to buy it's the most natural thing to do all right so eric you want to start putting that those flames together and then i'm on it you know what it looks like i'm a little worried everybody check his pockets for lighters and bunsen burners all right so um here's here's the basic question and you can tell me if there's anything you want to add to it but the way that we've framed it is let's read it together in order to help build the community as well that's the idea right so that we're stepping into a place where we're thinking about our needs but we're also putting ourselves through that same uh kind of the same level of are we willing to give what we're asking yeah and and hopefully we can create an alignment in that there may be places where maybe that is not possible and that could be part of an agreement as well perhaps there's something i need that i'm not able to give that's okay so i think there's flexibility in there but if we can offer some thinking and um i think the depth of this question and what we need and we want to offer in the words that we place around this um is in the context for what it means when we put these words and so if if you feel okay with it um maybe we will ask some questions like when you say helpful what does that look like or you know respect what's what's your way of framing respect this right here is from monte vista this is the student so this is what this is what they put together um some of the things you may want or need from one another might be included here can you read something yeah let's just take this you got uh patience acceptance um authenticity respect i'm gonna save the best one for last love which is a good one too but believe teamwork polite trust hakuna matata helpful kindness support thank you there's one here that no one's been able to figure out i think it's a duco and if anyone can translate that it says from here right i think you're thinking of your own community ingredients that is a kitchen and bath wholesaler in fullerton california duco.com okay we need that honesty confidence responsible and dream and the last one i left out was this new word that was formed somehow and i'm like wow we got it we got it we got to call webster's dictionary communication it's a combination of commitment and communication i mean we found it a great communication it means respect it's driven from the uh history of or derived from the history of like duchess duke etc and the expectation of tabao wow so essentially it's in iligano it literally means respect or as a verb it means vow so it's probably like a high authority respect because on the mouth just like you know what they were thinking that's different wow okay well there it is google for the win google for the win um so in order to uh support the thinking and collecting and actually i'm going to defer to maybe any left-handers that's a problem you know left-hander on the board i used to be ambidextrous but that was because i broke my right collarbone and came in have you worked on your left lately are you not lately when i taught kindergarten i was still decent at it because i wanted to help kids but it's been a couple years with my left but i can't write with my left because if we had a if we had a lefty and a righty so here's what we're gonna do let's um and um take a moment to actually think about this question right so really if we're putting some things around a fire and hopefully there's something we can keep tapping into like a living community agreement we can take things off of it we can add things to it over time so it's a living agreement but to kick us off like what is it that you feel you need from others also willing to give that will help you to feel safe in a space where you could take risks be successful in your work here and be authentic if you wanna use um uh so a strategy if you want if you want to use it all right let's get our scribes up so many colors i think one of the words for community agreements that i like is accountability accountability and so heather and lindsay if if you want um you can put the words but i would say if anyone's curious about anyone's contact we can just put the words up and that's fine we can leave it like that we maybe we all understand accountability but if anyone has a question or wants to learn a little bit more let's leave that open so if you all want to ask what do you mean by that we can or can just let it flow so it's up to the group to kind of process so we understand what's underneath if we want that information right what comes to your mind when you say that i mean it in two ways i needed it as a self-reflection as a board member like how am i being held accountable and that i'm not doing the disservice and just taking up time on the basis um because there really isn't a way to hold us individually accountable right and i think the only way to do that is by listening to the community i guess but i think that a lot of a little bit more of that needs to happen and also um my role as a board member how am i holding others accountable and not rubber stamping stuff that comes in front of us as the board you know um am i doing my research am i asking the correct questions and sometimes that's hard because as a new board member i've only been here two years i don't know all the ropes and ends but that's why i try to take as many professional developments as school board members so you can start learning more about the budget how policy works what does it take to change a policy so i i really like that word accountability and i don't mean it in a negative way it could be something good i could be doing i could have a vision for gardens and not even know where to start but how am i being held accountable that i'm actually out there doing the research and seeing how we can make that go better or you know like with the remodel of the school how are we as school board members being held accountable that our community is actually having an input in that so just accountability and in a broader spectrum not necessarily negative or positive that being said sophia um i appreciate that context if there was anything in what you just shared again not offering the context that you feel would add additional support to that contract or if you heard something that you felt like okay that brought up something another word or anything so again and you all have the freedom to to if you feel like something now draws out new concepts you can add that to the fire as well so again every question everything that comes up can draw out uh fuel for the fire yeah and with that for me the way that i've been personally trying to find myself accountable is going into these nonprofits that already do the work in our community and being like okay how is this working how does it look like i i don't it's easier for you for us to connect with people who are already doing the work and then instead of creating your own thing you know i think a lot of the times we lose sight of that like um you know we have this one issue let's say teacher pay right and you have already major organizations working on that but then sometimes people feel like they can do it on their own and people start breaking up instead of coming together with already those strongholds that we have so that's how i've been having myself accountable is putting myself in those spaces even though they're uncomfortable and hearing really from those organizations that have the data that in the community because i really do believe that schools isn't just the school district it's a school and the community even if your kids don't vote here even if you don't have any kids you're still part of the community and your taxpayer dollars are feeding into our system so their voices and their their problems or whatever need to be accounted for as well one thing i heard as you were talking in order to be accountable on all spheres was like you mentioned research and learning so like i don't know learning maybe trying to think of the best word but i think if we as board members if we come up here and we sit up here and we haven't done our due diligence to understand either beforehand or during the conversation then we're not following through with that stewardship on the flip side i think community members and educators you know and all the people that we serve like there's also accountability for them to learn like why did why is your board why is your cabinet making these decisions because there are policies we have to follow there are funding limits you know so i think for everybody it's like taking the time to learn before jumping to a conclusion so maybe education that could be like an educational piece like a really educating harmony may not be the way that i hold myself right accountable so for you going into these organizations or something that you really love to do i don't have that knowledge of like where to start so that might be like education maybe that's something that we want to talk about at a meeting or maybe you want to take me along sometimes to shadow you so i think that's definitely educational because you've had collaboration with that yeah because i wouldn't mind doing that right no but it's just i haven't had that opportunity sometimes we don't have opportunities um you know we get so busy with other things in our lives that we don't think about that and that's usually how i am is like i'm busy with all these other things and i didn't have that opportunity but if you give me the opportunity i'll probably do it right yeah i i i'll stick to the one that i mentioned from the beginning respect for the reason that uh be respectful to people's time their money to the feelings to those decisions to the different perspectives on yours to the speech so sometimes uh for example i i'm not i'm not religious even though i'm a pastor but but i i have certain things very well rooted culturally probably but then you you see a different person from a different culture and respect their perspective respect uh [Music] when we talk about accountability and you touch that right now so let me put it from from from me like if it was my mistake because i think it's a mistake that because i do things one way and i like him that way and then my perfection is that way and then think of you as if you're wrong because you can do it my way and and i think there comes respect okay this is my way and i'm gonna input into this from my perspective from my time from my feelings from from from me and and and that's respecting that diversity we're different but we all need each other because again going back to the fact that at the end of the day we're all working for the same thing but our process and our ways of getting there are different and i think when there's been discord gotten out of hand not just with our current board but in boards over time and in other districts it's because people don't see that like they're not they're assuming somebody's voting a certain way with a personal because of something yeah i don't believe that any of us are but that requires everybody to stop and say okay they voted against her for this but but why they're coming from a certain place i might have different education about it but i don't like the word assume that's my only thing too just someone has a better way people are coming in their capacity of positive intention and then that leads into communication too right because with that that i think having the communication is one of the most important things because that's when we can start trusting each other and start hearing each other instead of assuming well she did it this way because because of this to understand right communication for understanding yeah so just uh so i'll offer just a little nuance that you can work with or not um sometimes the idea of a community agreement in a small group can be sometimes it can function well some but sometimes if you say you do a community agreement with a hundred students like we did we did community agreements at monte vista how do you get 100 students to agree on something again in a moment like this like how do you have enough conversations to make sure so in some ways you want to think of the idea of an agreement to be an agreement to understand what people need rather than an agreement that like like a rule like we we've kind of agreed to make this a rule for us there's another way that it can be looked at which is like these are some agreements that we are going to practice ways of being that support the needs of the people around us so what that means is you can have agreements and not agree with them so so there is if you want to have a little bit of flexibility a little flexibility where it's like you know maybe like i could perhaps say like i don't believe everyone has positive intentions but the fact that i could hear you say that i can agree to practice my ability to relate to your perspective kind of because you've added the part about respect perspective so again it can all work together without having to all agree that these are the things that we all feel passionate about they can be some understandings of what individually people need and we can still put them up there because each of us individually should be also because sometimes what if you're in the minority what if you have an idea that is very different from everyone else does that mean it doesn't get up there so again like just giving you some flexibility as to how you can utilize this as a so i'll start that one up i'll put disruption on there and i always talk about that well you're definitely alone on that one i know i am i'm a disrupter and i always say that vocally too because sometimes um these systems have been put in place for so long and you staying silent to them and trying to be respectful sometimes respect them and always work you have to be a disruptive not so respectful person for sometimes people to get out of that mentality and really be like oh crap this is what you really need so i'm a huge believer in disruption i don't believe historically the stuff that's been in place it doesn't work for all people and some kind of disruption has to happen and uncomfortableness has to happen for those changes to occur that i believe that there can be respectful disruption and i believe that there should be intentional disruption that's based on education and i also love my favorite word kind is i think you can have a disruption and be kind about about that and climb through all of these um kind is not me yes it's not like a lot of people a lot of people have told me you don't say a lot it's because i've learned to process things before i speak because i used to be very reactive to people and things and i would get really angry about things right off the bat until they would go and find out somebody else's perspective or this perspective and then i made a fool of myself like multiple times so that's why i am so quiet a lot of the time because i have to intake all these like this information and try to make the best choice that i think that i can make so it's not that i'm meek or quiet and i literally choose to be positive at board meetings even though that things might be in chaos because that's what i teach my kids is kindness does matter kindness is something that everybody wants and that doesn't mean that like you causing disruption doesn't mean you're not being kind to me but um and and also sophie and i have had multiple conversations about times that we've disagreed and we've both been respectful to each other so that has happened multiple times between us where we're talking sometimes like i don't agree with her she doesn't agree with me but it's been respectful and we understand and sometimes i see at the opposite i sometimes i see that respectful disruption is not the answer to though it's been happening nothing's happening and while our bodies are under attack and our family you know at least in my personal experience this is and this is what i say like this is why sometimes things get triggered because of my experiences and i get triggered by it and sometimes it's really hard for me to be patient with the process because it that's a that's one of the things that i struggle as a leader is like this is common sense to me why is it not to some and i'm like i i you know like i'm under attack like see but but but what is common sense but it also brings into like like perspectives of where you are sitting and where like maybe i'm sitting right i've been an educator for like over 25 years so i may have this one piece of knowledge right where you're coming from this other place that has another piece of knowledge that maybe i don't bring in and so sometimes it seems very frustrating i think because i don't think we talk enough about it like to understand each other's point of views but yet like sometimes it's attacking instead of having a positive discussion and actually listening to each other and what we're saying and i put trust on there because i feel like we have to trust each other um and i feel like my trust has been broken um sometimes um and i don't want to feel that way i don't my kids know at school like i don't like liars and i don't like no people not being trustworthy i just don't have respect for that when i lose respect for people that i tend to just put them off into a plane continuity congruence alignment predictability that goes with um and the unpredictable can be predicted it's predictable um so there's just the notion of goodness and clarity combining trust so when we were out doing all the community listening sessions and then when we were wordsmithing the various goals something that um there were a lot of conversations around with parents teachers um other outside organizations that are within the creighton school district community was this topic of disruption and how disruption is sometimes extremely necessary and like you were saying it doesn't always have to be respectful however then what um we kept hearing was well we don't want our school district to just be about disruption because if you disrupt something then you've left somebody's mind right that's not the right word for it um but it's been something's been disrepaired um and so then what came out of it was this idea of we want to disrupt what needs to be disrupted but then we need to make sure that we do repair because we want to prepare our children for the future we don't want to just disrupt something and leave them to pick to pick up the pieces so i just thought that i would add that because i thought it was a really pertinent piece of the conversation and um we we heard from over 200 voices when we were doing the strategic planning session and so that's something that came directly from this community and and all of your constituents well i was gonna say like can we add intentional districts like not disruption just for the sake of disruption um but like maybe intentional disruption and repair revolution [Music] cross it all out to me it sounds like you know when you bring a problem right but you also bring solutions i mean that's what it really is like you you have a disruption because there is some sort of problem so solution basically yes instead of just how are we going to solve this problem and if you don't know because i've i come across this multiple times or maybe something at school isn't working for me with my kids like asking people for like what can you what can we do to solve this because sometimes you don't know what you can do to solve problems you're asking people to that hope revolution because in mexico for example we have the mexican revolution what is it what is it it means that the government is not independent from spain revolution is within if we didn't attack the government wasn't doing right so there had to be a revolution so one of the to feed off of that and just a little history and the city of i think it's chiapas they have a whole indigenous government that revolution against the mexican government and they live by their own laws and everything and they it happened years ago they're like part of the sapistas yeah they were one of the originals of the mexican revolution and they actually lived by their own laws and their own systems because the mexican government wasn't doing what they were doing and it's just crazy because they live like this all separate word but that's where that comes it was a revolution and i think kind of what's funny is like i heard evolution is revolution but that is evolution is a part of revolution like yeah we need to evolve better we need to break down these systems we like and it causes disruption but it's necessary and it can be uncomfortable just like newton's first law of motion the inertia behind ineffective traditions can carry on if there is not an external counter force re-envisioning a new way of relating to one another so i'm hearing all this is like you know the role of the board is to be that counter force for productive change and community growth against systems and that's where the disruption happens i mean if we look at it a lot of this stuff and a lot of the progress we have we've made wasn't because the same people were sitting there being quiet it was because movements happened we just went through one two years ago when the black lives matter movement happened historically this has happened in our backyards and nobody was doing anything but a group of people disrupted the system and said enough is enough and has created this i want to say this new trend and i call it a trend because that's i feel like that that's what happened it was a trend that happened two years ago and now where is that where did we leave all those talks out you know that's still happening i mean around the corner we had people exercising their first amendment rights that were facing 80 years in prison just for doing that and it was all possibly charged so these are real life situations that are happening to our families in our community and unless we're being that disruption for them that are don't feel powerless or voiceless we're really not doing and i get that as a school board member we have to focus on academics we have to focus but the social worker inside of me always goes go back to the root causes and if we're not being disruptive in what we're doing and breaking down these systems then we're not gonna progress we're just putting on a show basically and like oh yeah we believe in this and where are the efforts behind it or where's the actual work behind it it's interesting in that i mean in your comments earlier about privilege i the word that keeps popping into my mind is responsibility sorry that's okay in your earlier comments about privilege and what you just shared the word that keeps popping into my mind is responsibility and it's also kind of in the platinum upgrade right because this is a level of responsibility you know to shift today from you um to have those agreements so yeah and and they gives you that lens of other people's experiences and it kind of ties back into what i said is like that we're not we need to validate other people's experiences even though we haven't gone through it um this morning i read this little thing and they talked about um just a racial disparity and somebody said well i don't know what it is to be black i don't know how you feel i don't know this but on the counterpart this other person said well you were there when your wife gave labor right you saw the pain you felt her pain so how are you gonna sit here and tell me that you don't see my pain all we're asking is that you feel the same things that we're feeling and you can you can say and you can't say i understand and i feel but this is why we got put in this position to disrupt those things and seeing how we can make that better because i do feel my community's pain i don't i have food i don't depend on people but i know other people in my community don't feel that so what am i going to do to make sure that their needs are being met even though that's not a need that i need or want or or need at the moment i'm wondering if the phrase inclusivity or inclusion or invitation is part of the surrounding agreement here because to be these things in isolation or just in certain groups and what we really seem to be saying over and over is of the whole i don't know if that's assumed or if there's a way for making our community agreement inviting or inclusive i like that because i think we don't talk enough as board members because we have you know we can only talk to one other person and then and there's not enough like times like this where we have open to like just open up and discuss things and i think like probably each of us have some ideas that are going on in our head constantly but maybe we don't bring it up with the board or maybe we just don't talk about it and when we're getting when we get in here and we just have this honest conversation then it's like a lot easier for me to like understand um like your intent and where like people are really wanting to go and i probably want to get there with you but when nobody talks about it is like i i don't know how to get there maybe you didn't know how to get there and then we just lose it and we kind of just fall into like this pattern right of not doing things so maybe we need like a commitment to meet more often like at these board retreats or something just so we can understand each other i feel like sometimes we come like ready for a fight when we come to a board meeting and then i don't feel like it's as productive as it could have been if we would have just had honest conversations with each other it feels kind of rushed sometimes there is one one thing up and and i i cannot avoid not i'm not planning to excuse myself from what i want to say but i'm explaining uh being the fact that i'm my mind is always thinking about the bible i usually for example when we were talking about uh positive intentions and there are some part of the bible says that think of others if you think you're doing good thinking but they're doing the same don't think oh no okay come down and and i will resume to a word that is there but it's love uh but when we talk about for example uh uh treat others as you would like to be treated and you change the word they but then i was thinking okay there's the second commandment as big as the first one the first one is love god in whichever perspective you see god above everything and then love your neighbor as you love yourself so uh here's a situation when when you see someone uh kids i i i was a crushing gun and and and and so i see the kids coming and good morning and then my friend tommy said but you tell them again and again if they don't answer to you well girls you don't know what happens at home for example that kid i know him his father left the house and he didn't want to say hi to nobody i know because i went to pray for his mother that's right so but it's okay and eventually after a week or two some girls that they did people need tell me how good morning you look beautiful this morning they look at you where does it come from but i'm trying to to input the love there and and when we do that if we're able to do that then because everything is a good attitude but the only thing that can bond everything together is love is the only thing that can mount i can be a oh he's a very educated person he's a very positive person he's a person of integrity but he doesn't love so sorry about that [Laughter] i wonder if there's also just to put out there too if there's any um words in spanish you know they don't translate you know but they have a certain just you know just uh or from other cultural backgrounds that we can put in there like the monte vista put hakuna matata you know so what do you mean because of the movie you know but take it easy so they may be like cultural terms it might be things that we could put up there that maybe could could could work well here we use it for everything right [Music] [Laughter] [Music] oh i don't know what that word comes from but we all use it right and it means that you you can mean that you're okay with it it can mean that even if you don't understand it let's pass around step forward and that doesn't really translate and it just means like an active person pushing mm-hmm but yeah yeah like in spanish like it's very common for you to say like meaning like given your own there's some good ones as i'm saying when you bring in other language and cultures like you get some i think i think a cultural word for us is paisano um and i love that because it's really interesting how at least from my perspective like with mexicans especially if i meet somebody that's from the same place we automatically consider that person like part of our like and that's a word that how do you i don't even know how you translate that in english but by no means like somebody from where i am some like you're from my home you're something around the country and that gives a sense of the like belonging right and i think that was a really important thing for me when i first came here yeah when i started meeting people who were from mexico like i was i was like they share the same experiences that i have they share the same you know traditions or whatever it is and we were going through it together so those were my questions there's a venezuela guy came through and we gave him to fly to florida i gave him my last hundred dollars and a friend called him from from orlando come i have a job for you so he spent fifty dollars to go and when he got there he got kicked out the wife didn't want him so he spent the other fifty dollars to go back to to miami nothing three in the morning he was sitting on outside of the airport and and and he was hungry nowhere to stay in venezuela and there comes a guy from chile he goes did you do anything he goes no no i'll teach you so he took him and he paid a hotel for three days and the only thing that i remember he was you know what pastor we're all migrants here even the gringos we're all migrants here some of us cross a river some across a huge ocean or some of us work right here as a slave without but everybody is a migrant and it speaks to creating harmony within your community and the interconnectedness of everything of all people throughout a community as well as our nature are it's based off of the navajo like the four sacred mountains um but i love that word i carry it a lot in my and knowing that harmony doesn't necessarily mean peace and sunshine and rainbows but that harmony is we are truly finding we're finding the beauty in everybody and what everyone brings to the table and we are creating balance and that sometimes you have to do disruption to create that balance and going back to that equity um but that words create a lot for me in my life and i see a lot of communities and students and families that it means a lot too and i think one good word too that might be a little controversial maybe would be reparations and reparations can be in any sense it can be how are we doing paying reparations to our teachers for all the hard work that they're doing to our classified staff for the things that they're doing how are we dismantling these systems that historically have affected our brown and black kids and or indigenous kids and how are we paying reparations and how our policies that we're even accepting in the district has a focus of reparations on repairing the harm that it's done for them to evaluate or elevate or get them to the place where they need to be i think that ties to this disrupting i'm just a disrupter guys sorry no but i think it's good there's a theme like if we're doing this to the systems that are traditional schooling or doing operations not just on a specific race or a group of people it's literally on the disservice that our american education system has done to old candidates like testing for 100 years beauty and balance you know um yeah so again this is uh this is something that and i i i'm curious if this is something i mean i guess everything you do is public right right so again like i i'm feeling like this can be something that can can live with us there may be words that we want to add more context there may be words on there that if it is in a public space they might wonder like revolution uh hello like what's going on you know uh reparat like you know some of these words that could again like trigger something like what's this word that i've never said like i've never seen something like that what could that be so again it's it's opportunities though i think for relational you know relationship building uh and i think it's i think it's powerful um just before we kind of pivot i think towards lunch i think that's kind of where we are so um just again i'll reiterate the question what do we need um to feel safe to feel successful um in our professional capacity here and to feel like we can truly be ourselves that's a key piece of it too right so those three things safe safe successful and to truly be ourselves authentic yeah so again if you just think does any word pop into your head when you think of these ideas um i would like um to make an edit to what you just put in on there um i would like to change it to hold space the spaces should be put in place already but how do we continue to holding those faces so these yeah because she put create space and i think um changing it and changing our perspective of already coming in into a place where we already have this space for these parents community members or students how do we hold that space for them instead of saying creating you know we don't that should be created already we should be focusing on how do we continue holding the spaces so we do have that constant communication so we could be found accountable you know to answer your question earlier i'm wondering if there's an i don't know where it was in a can perhaps best be protected uh when we are critical or disruptive of ideas and not the character or uh human being you know and you know you don't you you might want to say that idea is terrible to me because uh but you don't necessarily need to say you are terrible uh because you had that idea so i don't know what the phrase is to capture i feel like being kind to capture that phrase okay i'll go back to sophie and we've had talks before and we can be kind to each other and still disagree with each other when we see each other next time there's no hard thing yeah we've talked about that because it goes well it's like you said yeah we might put up some of these words our triggers but we're by by putting putting them down we're holding a space to have those conversations by changing our language when we disagree with somebody's idea we're holding a space to do that in a productive way that's not attacking a person and we're using integrity when we're having those conversations you know i will say and i'll be curious with eric and susan and jake if you've heard something that perhaps has been shared with with the board members that you feel like could actually come out come out as an additional agreement because i i've been holding on to one since the beginning which is uh you talked at the beginning when you offered the word respect you you listed multiple ways of showing respect that i felt all could be agreements in and of themselves you talked about respect of culture you talked about the respect of like perspective you know you you named it feelings right so like like there are maybe some spaces that we can build just a few few more a little bit more framework because i as i'm hearing you say attacking the idea but not the person to me that goes back to your reference to like respect perspective right so i don't know maybe if there's a way you want to incorporate the concept of the acknowledgement of respecting perspective because perspective does create that separation from the person i was thinking about what you're saying about safe embrace successful and being yourself you're from my perspective a lot of times i need to get out of my safe zone instead of oh yes in order to to to keep that uh identity being myself and it happens in in everywhere now so it is either okay i keep safe i keep it to myself and then being successful and this is my experience martin luther king he died he never see what whatever came out of so sometimes we feel unsuccessful because we're not seeing what we're pursuing but uh still keep be faithful to yourself on the mosaic is what i call that a tile on the mosaic you see the tiles over there i put one tile on there i have no idea what it did for the beauty of that entire project but i got one tile and you know which one is it no i and yeah but what i'm saying is that might be i don't know which one is i don't know if i made a difference and i have this tile that i worked so hard on this one tile and did that did it make a difference and i don't know until maybe i see it 10 years later and there it is on the mosaic or like when you affect a kid like you bring some positivity in their life and you didn't even know that you did that until maybe after they graduate and they come back and visit you and they tell you like what you did for them yeah and at the time you had no clue that you meant that much to them or you changed your life in that way there was a concert in tucson community center and and i see this kid playing the guitar like santana will be jealous so when he comes out and i'm a guitar player so i approach him on the side and go good job he will take your t-shirt wait who are you he goes don't you remember me i don't even know where you are he was you taught me how to play the guitar no i don't play like you because well you play me uh two or three tournaments heroes but you were my teacher in church what happened well my parents got divorced but the passion for the music comes from you don't tell nobody they don't want me to play i don't play like you do you much better so successful maybe when the kid left i felt sad because he left i never got to teach him nothing he wasn't even good i had all the kids that learned better than him had a point successful to what extent am i going to be able to see the success i think that's something as elected officials too you have to remember like people talk a lot about this like with the presidency because that's a big thing and like you can't blame or celebrate like a current president's like the state of things for the current president who's you're too in because really what's the state of things is from previous terms and i think that applies all the way down to the social level yeah but it applies all the way to the local levels too i think our school board members can be very impactful but don't always necessarily see that impact like the this is another funniness with the seeds we're planting with like the garden projects and all of these things like we may or may not be on the board when all of that comes to life um back all the way to reality yeah i mean like i feel really lucky because like an example is i when i was employee here like and i was a part of the committee making a decision about what school did we tear down and like i am starting to get to see the product of that and that whole evolution but a lot of what we're doing now is laying the groundwork for changes that will take time so it's just something to keep in mind yeah and i think even even without adding more words i think we've created so much story and connection you start drawing arrows but i think we're holding a lot of that right just hearing one another so you know um again thank you this let's offer a round of applause [Applause] um so the question now is like if we don't uphold these what should the punishment be get off the board well i think the question is you know that when i think about beliefs turning into actions and i think about how we say it well we just said it modeling is i think number one so we say it we model it we organize for it just the holding space piece we protect it so when it's not happening we go hey that's not aligned with our community agreements or i don't feel that that's aligned with my community our community and then we reward it like what a kind engagement or what a wonderful way for us to work on reparations or what uh you know or jojo i feel so you know so those are the five attributes that i attest to in terms of you know statements more than just words model organize for it reward it protect it we have to protect these when it's not happening with love and kindness so let's take a let's take a quick moment is this good time to break for lunch yes okay so let's do this let's like as just a quick like exit for everybody um let's think of uh let's take let's take on the reward yeah we should i think offered so let's reward ourselves with a lunch right now in order to do that um let's just go around the table and um pick one of these agreements that you feel like this morning we did a really good job of like collectively like collectively you felt the spirit of that agreement already in practice so so just pick one as we go around the circle i'll start with one and um i gotta go with it because even though not all of us knew it i felt like we had it going was that for me is what i mean i'm so glad it's on this the first time i've ever seen what i lay around the fire it just needs to be around a lot of fires you know so i'm going to say disruption but that's no shocker to anybody i'm going to go with hojo i just love it i felt it the second we walked in the room it was just a sense of goodness in the air no illusion i'm gonna go with communication for understanding because i think we've spent a lot of time on that this morning not just letting people say but asking clarifying questions i'm gonna go with kindness i think regardless of how disruptive something is or if it's even a revolution the difference in kindness is whether you're inspiring someone or shutting them down trust i feel like there's a lot of trust building happening i think the community is on trusting in the board and the board i was hoping we could also hear everybody's reflection on how this was an effective manner to do a self-evaluation as you kind of walked us through the attributes of expectations now agreements if we wanted to tweak it so what did you think about this as a method for self-evaluation i thought this method really worked because it gave us an opportunity to discuss with each other on why we do certain things or why our leadership roles or styles are a certain way and it gives us a better understanding on maybe some of the things that some of us were doing we thought that it was bad intent on it or maybe um some of us felt disrespected because they weren't seeing it the way that we were seeing it but having been holding holding the space with this communication i think really gives us a better understanding of the positive intent on why we're doing it and you know just even sharing you're hearing you speak that what really caught caught me is when you were saying that you know i say i'm not racist but sometimes that that stuff is like work and sometimes you have to reflect and that happens to all of us on the daily so even that and me and the retrospect this really helped me that maybe not everybody is at the level that i am and sometimes i get impatient with that and i like i said i want everybody to be like hello this is what's happening but it it if i'm not communicating and i'm not using the time to educate or take the or give the other people the same tools that i've been using then i can expect people to think or feel the the way that i am if those are not shared so that was a big reflection on myself too that on how to be patient how to know that just because you're not seeing it the way it doesn't mean that you're not doing it in bad intent it just means that maybe there's a little bit more education that needs to come from that to get to that point um we're all at different levels and i think that's what's hard for me um that i want all this to be at the same level right when you know kind of going back to i think what he said when i'm at the level i want all of us to be at that level and i know it doesn't work that way so for me really the communication and the um intent behind people um was a big thing and a takeaway and i think um my leadership will be better of it because we have these conversations i think like a take like a practical takeaway too for me i i think as a board we tend to have more discussion when there's something that we think we all disagree about but maybe something that we can kind of commit to is like when we agree with the direction of committee or whatever is going in explaining more like i know i try to do this but i'm like just reflecting and thinking well i could explain more on why i'm supportive of this instead of just kudos you know like i see that you've done this work and this directly relates to this like i think that would make a difference from the view of the public as well like um that no we're not just sitting quietly because we're like yes you know going back to like rubber stamping like we're not discussing it because we're not like well there's something wrong with it but having that transparency and being almost overly communicative about why we are supporting the direction this adoption this whatever it might do you feel about me be the word kudos on to the agreements i'm giving kudos well it just feels like it's the spirit of kudos like often of kudos is that something well i think it's offering the kudos and explaining why we're offering it instead of it just being a shallow like good job and we say that even when we're talking about professional development with our teachers like you don't want to just tell a kid like it's not authentic feedback or meaningful feedback to say great job awesome it's meaningful feedback to say i as a board member i am very much in support of this plan that you your committee has developed because you have targeted these needs you know you have taken these funds and stretched them in this way you know like being explicit about why we're giving maybe more intentional meaningful things yeah yeah this is what we do if there's a word you want to put up there no i think like meaning yeah like meaningful feedback because like i said i think we we only give we get kind of stuck in a we only give that feedback when we have tough questions to ask or kind of criticism you know but we don't offer the same amount of time and discussion when it's we recognize you're doing really amazing work how has this process been for you as a self-reflection for the board to evaluate itself well i think just thinking like i believe that and i have said this like i i always have believed that we've all wanted the same thing at the end i think there's been dysfunction in our communication on how we get there um so i think going back to like heather's point of just being able to to talk about it and being able to remind ourselves that you know my education my experience is different than on health is different than sophia's it's different than yours different than amy's and we're all coming to it with different layers of information and education as and i think that for me this almost feels like a recommitment of something i think we started with two years ago but not out of any purposeful means maybe just out of a lack of communicating we've kind of started to feel definitely disrupted yeah this has been like a rejuvenation of like these are the commitments that we made to one another a year ago two years ago and we need to be more intentional explicit in our communication to make sure that we don't steer away from it again are you going to say something sorry you know what i hear everybody saying but i don't see it up at the end of the day all we do is it all goes back to the kids yeah i i agree how are we being held accountable so it's easier for the kids you know how are we being disrupted so those systems are easier for the kids um how are we educating our parents so they can better assist their parents everything goes back to the kids because i hear it yeah but let's let's define it let's put it in neon and that's what child centered means is having all those aspects because we're modeling yeah heather what's your reflection on this self-evaluation method i would rather do self-evaluations like this on paper i have you know it's like when you text people when you have good intentions but then when they read it right it's like what do you mean like and then you get all upset right because you're like thinking one way right and then you're like no i'm just like joking like it doesn't translate yeah you say it went away in your head and it's really funny but you're like whoops so um i i like this self-reflection because it seems like a really safe place it's all like a safe place for me today i don't feel like you know when i get really like nervous or upset or you know i feel it like right here um and i felt like we were all open and honest and um that we all have maybe a little bit better understanding of like the places that that we come from like lindsay said with the different amounts of understanding of things and where we come from and i just i mean i enjoy doing this a lot and i think that because it's written down because we created it i think we will also be accountable to each other and making sure that this is something that we do and if we are not doing it that we will politely call each other out and say you know remember this i'm intending this or whatever so i like the agreement remember you can always call out by calling in and i think you are doing that yeah um i've heard you say the same word a few times it's not up there but perhaps it's just kind of embedded in your statement around trust but i've heard you mention honestly so that's like my number one like um like character trait is honesty because as soon as you lie to me i'm done yeah and i that's that i've experienced that multiple times like throughout my life and so that's what i mean i think it goes with for integrity uh i'm sorry but you're about to say i'm a person of integrity according to one rule but because i was trying i always struggled trying to translate from spanish to english and vice versa so accountability is stewardship with responsibility because uh but when i when i first came to the board and it was my appointment by uh being elected uh i remember when i was reading all the paper that i was agreeing it was scary reading that i was uh i needed to be uh to have accountability to the community to to everyone for for being selected to doing this job and and uh sometimes we think we're doing that the things good but accountability means that hey somebody can call you and ask for an explanation and and accountability is a big word it is it's not like i'm a heavy burden to have if they tell you if you're not doing your job you have to get down he goes make me no we don't have to make you that's why you have a country honesty integrity you need to get so that's a scary word for me i'm sorry but i like it i like it i'm grateful like at the beginning you ask like do we just want to put words up or do we want to clarify and discuss them and i i pushed for the discussion because going back to most of these words you can put up and if you asked any given hundred people they would have a very different definition of them so it's important that we not only have yeah not only have these words as agreements but that we have had these discussions today to agree what those words mean ongoing decisions yeah for us what we came up with does not apply necessarily to everyone listening um and that's okay but we as a board need to have a common language even though we have three languages at least orderly i don't know what it is that's what makes it so beautiful in the dictionary well before we take a lunch recess can we give way to a round of applause [Applause] [Laughter] yeah thank you so much for your insight i think you really the vision that i um when dr lewis and i were talking this is exactly the what i envisioned so i really appreciate the time i appreciate the hard conversations um obviously sometimes these words make us feel a little bit uncomfortable but i think it's for the better good and we're doing it out of good intentions for our kids and our community so i think that's the most important thing and now we can go have lunch thank you everybody thank you well first of all amanda and colleen have been our new partners in strategic planning this past 14 months or so hasn't it yeah um a yeoman's job of scrubbing what we've been through where we are you know strengths and weaknesses you know and getting the community input i think we've had over 200 voices this round i think just playing 400 last night and what was interesting is this has just been an interesting intensity of conversation i have so enjoyed the various uh speaking of information that hernandez brought to us you've had a couple of updates from amanda weren't you with us in january so actually when actually when we began this process the board meeting was the first meeting that colleen and i had and that yep last summer and then colleen came back and met with everyone i believe it was january and and now i'm here today so our objective last year was to create a strategic planning process that would re-fortify where we are especially after you know not a disruption by choice but you know you know we really have been in a hangover uh of sorts following and we're still bumping along but nevertheless the productivity was outstanding so amanda also two years apart just like they do yeah yep that's so crazy it would be hard to define who was there right [Laughter] you don't want to get into that one i'm so amanda share with us where we are and what you're thinking and where this ends up going is it becomes our goals as we break them down so the end of the hour and a half or so that we have together we'll have a sense of what this year will be about thank you um and i think i think where you started when you were mentioning the pandemic and things i think that as we have this conversation it is really important to remember the context of where where were where we were where we are now and therefore where we're headed um because of course the context is very important in keeping all of that in mind um and so initially you'll see on the printouts in front of you um i have this listed as the evolution of our tent but based on the discussions today so again more context that we're pulling into these discussions i have since revised this to the revolution of our tent uh yeah thank you yeah [Laughter] and when i'm talking about our tent i'm talking about the table tents right because the blue table tents that that we had at the table when when we first began this last summer um were was the result of the last strategic planning session it was the strategic plan that we had in front of us at all times and um so as we have these discussions it's really it's really looking at not so much abandoning what we had before not so much saying criticizing what there was before and saying we need to start over from scratch or build something new instead i i think that the angel you were you were saying in spanish revolution has a very different meaning even than than revolution in english right it comes from within and i think that that that philosophy revolution what's been coming from within and how it how we are using that as an impetus for change is so important to the conversation that we're having today because that's really what we've experienced over the last 14 months we got over 200 voices together we had community and i'll go through this in a moment but we had community listening sessions we worked with the strategic planning team who who drafted initial drops drafts we also worked then with the leadership council who who worked hand-in-hand to also write those drafts and so as we're going through this today they're not my words they're not any one of our words they really are the words of the community after going through this process of revolution so i just wanted to pull that in to the conversation that we're having um so as i said though it has been this this revolution um and and what we heard when we did those listening sessions is that the vision of the creighton school district the mission our beliefs who we are all of those align still and you'll see that the table tends that did emily create these okay you'll see that the new table tents that emily created they have the same words the vision the mission our beliefs who we are we heard from everyone these still very much um embody the creighton school district and they still very much um are fitting to who we are however let's continue to grow let's continue to move forward let's think about what we need now given the context of everything that's been going on so while these remain the same mission vision beliefs who we are adventurous thinkers collaborative learners kind-hearted leaders we need to think about how do we get from our past and hurdle to our future so you'll notice on the slide i have this this man jumping from from one cliff to the next you'll notice i'm using a camping theme as uh sort of inspired by the table tents that we had um and he's holding a compass right here and the compass is this the heart of who we are right it's our guiding light we've come to embody this so these are no longer our goals which is what the strategic plan was it was goaling us for these these are no longer our goals these are no longer something that we're working towards we are adventurous thinkers we are collaborative learners we are kind-hearted leaders so what are we going ourselves then with next and so the answer of course is it's time for a new adventure so what is that new adventure then we heard from everyone that we want a singular priority tai actually gave us taiwan actually gave us the the definition of priority that then everyone really got behind the definition of priority was there's only one priority right you can't have multiple priorities you have one and it's your focus and everyone agreed just like you did today when you were talking about the campfire that at the center of everything are the children and so then our singular priority is that children in creighton school district are empowered with foundational skills adventurous thinking collaborative learning and kind-hearted leadership for achievement in high school and beyond so we're still going to carry that who we are with us it's still our priority it's our north star but then we need to think about what does that mean for goals how are we going to get there how are we going to implement this over the next three years and what we heard from all of you at the very first board meeting was very much the same that this captures who we are and we don't want to lose this and now we want more implementation we want to better understand the how putting the thoughts into action and really understanding how do we accomplish this and how do we measure the progress that we've made and we heard that from parents we heard that from students we talked with kids congress we heard that um from the learning council or excuse me the leadership council rather we also heard that from other community members that came and joined us the strategic planning team we heard that really resoundingly from everyone we love this and so we put together these goals and i'm calling them the packing list and that is again keeping with the theme in order to get to that priority what do we need to pack what do we need to pack for foundational skills adventurous thinking collaborative learning and kind-hearted leadership we need academic excellence the creighton school district prepares and inspires students to graduate from any high school and be successful in their future endeavors we need health wellness and safety the creighton school district cultivates a safe and thriving community through healthy habits social connectivity and emotional nourishment we need to pack community and family engagement into that that backpack the creighton school district commits to building and maintaining relationships through trust engagement and investment in the community and then of course access diversity equity inclusion which really mirrors the conversation that you are all having today the creighton community advocates for equity and justice identifies and eliminates internal oppressive systems and ensures access to learning opportunity and success again these are not my words these are not any individuals words these are the words that came together um from hearing over 200 voices and then was actually committed to paper by the strategic planning team and the leadership council that actually um initially it was diversity equity inclusion um and then and then it was overwhelmingly um asked or or put to paper that that we needed to include access um and and interestingly enough to the conversation earlier disruption was inherent first and people felt really strongly about including disruption uh but then the point you brought up about that we just had so much disruption during covid some parents said to us we've our children have had so much disruption in their lives we understand within the context of this goal while why you're using that word but disruption right now we our children need to repair like i said and so then the conversation became how do we disrupt and repair what is then the end result of that and that's how they came up with this goal advocates for equity and justice identifies and eliminates internal oppressive systems and ensures access to learning opportunity and success it was really this concept of we disrupt and then we repair what do we want once we've repaired uh and so then i i know i've been hinting at all of this but if if we look back at the adventure since last summer we had the strategic planning steering committees we had three sessions uh one was was cancelled due to omicron the omicron variant um but we had three sessions we had now three sessions with the governing board four sessions with leadership council we also had nine listening sessions um which we held one session at every school and we also met with kids congress um then we um worked with the community and the district to analyze the input the data that came together uh you'll notice i added to this slide the platinum upgrade rather than operating with assumptions and talking with the board and administration and you know maybe just principles and just at that high level saying what what are you hearing is needed we actually went to the school sites and we asked the parents we asked the students we asked community members who um work in collaboration with with this school to say what do you need and what is important to you that way we're not operating with the golden rule we're and we're instead operating with the platinum upgrade um and then from there like i said we we worked to gain alignment around what's important for the next three years that that's where the idea of a priority and goals to get there came out of then we drafted and refined then we thought about indicators of progress and what we're calling adventure planning so we built a plan for the next year um and we thought about indicators of progress how will we know that we are making progress and then we are now um at the point where we are finalizing the priority in the goals with those indicators of progress and adventure plans and then also building out year one goals so then you'll see again the compass is right there as we look to summit the first peak the first year because there's three peaks in this analogy again inspired by the table ten what does our year one adventure planning look like and um it's my understanding that everyone has a printout yes the goals okay so everyone has a print out of the goals i didn't want to put those up on the slides because it's it's a lot of words um and so feel free to look over those adventure plans um but but really what i want us to what i wanted to focus on what i wanted to emphasize with this slide is that we are going to start initiating year one really we're there right maybe the year one has begun we're going to be reviewing our progress using those indicators of progress and then we're going to need to adapt review progress adapt then we get to the top of the summit and we will celebrate at the end of this year the reason that uh reviewing progress and adapt is so key is what i heard from all of you and from everyone else we talked to which again is yes this is us yes we don't want to lose this and we want to understand what progress we've made and then we want to be able to adapt and adjust to ensure that we are always relevant and responsive to the community that we serve if kovitz taught us nothing right it's that we have to be willing to adapt and adjust and so this this is building in that process the adventure plans that you have in front of you are not meant to be something that's set in stone but rather it's a living breathing document it it's it's actually a google doc because it's meant to be revised and adjusted as needed based on the indicators that we are going to be tracking so then our roadmap if you will for the next year is that today i'm here at this governing board uh meeting we will be meeting with goal leads so there will be a lead designated to oversee each goal there are four oversee each goal and ensure that we are implementing ensure that we are tracking our progress ensuring that we are adapting as needed who are the people who are who are those leads and who's choosing those leads who are those leads the strategic planning steering committee is the big body and that is a committee of staff who can sign up we also have all the community engagement and outreach specialists from each school and then we bring in at their invitation parents from each school so it's a real broad body and then people take operational leadership of the goals as administration so academic excellence that's myself and dr berg health wellness and safety that's emily and scott um child justice and advocacy that's chris hartsev and lyndon mckeever and then i know i'm missing the next one community engagement and outreach and that's yvonne russell is part of that as well so we've got like the volunteer and opt-in with parents and then we have some organizational alignment for staff and to be clear the goal leads are not the one not not the individuals responsible for doing actioning the item they're going to be the ones responsible for tracking and holding us all accountable to ensuring that we're doing it so colleen and i will be checking in with those goal leads um we've three set meetings but we can meet more as needed um and and they will also be reporting to all of you to let you know what progress and how things have been tracked you'll notice if you look at the adventure planning there's distinct measurement tools that we're using to track that progress and there there are distinct metrics that have been tied um we're trying to make it so that it is as objective as possible for us to track our progress um and and also build in that ability like i said to adapt as needed um the strategic planning um steering committee that we that we worked with to design all of these goals we will also be meeting with three times over the next calendar year more if needed um and and like uh dr duppin just mentioned um in that in that case it is parents it is other community members from um we have neighboring schools we have neighboring organizations um it's also um some pr principals and teachers and ceos who are also going to be there um community engagement no what would there community engagement and outreach specialists thank you um so that is generally the groups that we will be meeting with um and again there is going to be there are metrics tied to all of this for us to track and there is an open loop there's there's the intention to do the feedback loop once again so that we are hearing from folks in the community rather than drawing assumptions and so the next adventure begins um first of all i'd love to open it up to questions also i want us to spend our time today in thinking through as a board we will be we will be asking everyone who has a role in this district what they want to do for the next year in order to help make this a reality and so as a board i'd like to work with all of you today on thinking through what is our role in all of this and how do we want to commit to driving this forward for the next year but first i want to open it up to questions that was a really good one that you asked me yep so um as an example um academic excellence here if you look at it up here at the top academic excellence is the goal for the end of three years and then there's the desired results so what we want what what results we desire at the end of the three years then we worked backwards and we said all right if this is what we want to have accomplished at the end of three years what what do we want to have accomplished at the end of year two what do we want to have accomplished at the end of year one and then we asked if that's what we want to have accomplished at the end of year one what needs to be accomplished in quarter four at the end of year one quarter three quarter two quarter one and so then you can see this check boxes if you will are what um the commitments are to action and accomplishments for the next year and again these are not something that i designed they're not something that any one person designed it's something that was designed by the strategic planning steering committee and the leadership council and i colleen and i will be meeting here three times with you um and so we will of course be uh we are committing to to exactly that and then i also believe correct me if i'm wrong that the goal leads will be providing updates as well um we're looking at the academic um excellence and i see aggregate passage rates will increase by a certain percentage rate what data are we pulling that off of because just to go back to what he was saying about exact path i feel like the last two years because of covet we've been basing are we are doing better because of exact path but that's the problem that i've had with my kids too that it's all stuff that they've already known so we're showing an increase of potentially meeting this 8 to 12 but based off of stuff that they already knew okay so this is state testing this is not going to be like the internal no it's passage rates on state tests so i guess okay so i guess my question with this is we haven't been doing this or meeting our goals for the past five years so what are we going to do differently this time that's going to make a shift change in the next two i also find i guess i asked the reason why i asked who was leading those because it's the same administrators or people leadership that have been and we haven't gotten those results so why do we keep going to the same people who haven't given those results in the past past five years and we're giving it back to the same people so really really excellent questions i'm going to try to explain it was sort of a two-part question i'm going to try to explain both parts if i miss something call me out yeah i'll go back so um so part one what are we going to do differently well in part we've already done it we are already by building in this process we are not operating under assumptions we are actually building a what we were called calling adventure planning so that we're turning those thoughts into action and we're thinking through what steps are we going to be taking each quarter in order to make a difference here also um this this very process that we've now um that we began the adventure process here and that we are going to be continuing to do with this summit it's it's different it's it's unique it's something that that the district itself built through the revolution um as opposed to something that you know colleen and i or any other outsiders are putting on you to say this is what you need to do so so this was built by your very constituents to say this is the outcomes that we want to see and here's how we want it to be done and so therefore yes you are right to say that it is the same leaders in administration who are overseeing these however again they are overseeing them they are not responsible for actually making it happen the making it happen and those responsible for making it happen were included in writing these goals themselves that's why it was so important to have leadership counsel included in that so that principles and teachers could tell us what is realistic what is attainable also at the same time what will push us in order to be able to um ensure that we are closing this gap because like you said we haven't for the last five years um one thought i have with this academic excellence if this is is this written in stone or can we make editor changes nothing is written in stone we can make edits and changes i would i absolutely want to hear your input i want to record it it's not me who's going to make those changes though it's strategic planning team leadership council the very folks who are responsible for um actioning these items they are they are the very folks who are responsible for writing these goals so but yes i do want to hear the input well the one of the things is that i think the most important to have academic excellence is how we're um have involving our parents and i don't see that we're targeting anything with their parents or the you know we have 200 parents but how many kids do we serve we serve about 4 kids and out of those 400 4 600 kids that we serve hypothetically speaking we only have two parents or 200 community members involved our community is a broader spectrum than that so i guess tying it back to that how are we getting our parents to be more academically involved i think that should be a benchmark that we should focus on too just because the more parents we have involved in their children's education it's the more support that was actually a huge conversation with the strategic planning steering committee that was that we spent a very goodly amount of time on precisely this conversation um and it was actually parent-driven parents saying to us we want to and need to be more involved with our with our children um but we need to know how and so when they actually wrote this um while in the academic excellence in the goal it says that children are are prepared and inspired to graduate from any high school and be successful in their future endeavors while it's not here calling out every every person responsible for achieving that the sentiment of this is very much teachers parents larger community and you'll notice in the adventure planning there are pieces about what the responsibilities are for teachers for students themselves for parents because you're exactly right and i think we already have that some in place because i mean i know that our community ad offers even like high school diploma classes and that's a big important thing that we have because we're giving those tools for our parents and then eventually you know they they go on and see but i i just feel like um the parent participation is one of the things that we i mean not just so we i just in general absolutely in general and i would like to but now if you're saying that's integrated but i i like i would like for us to be a little bit more intentional of having and crack and line nights are starting which is awesome i know that for the past two years we didn't do that and that's a really great way to get parents involved in curriculum one night because they talk to us about the curriculum we have some input which is great but um i'm wondering like building off of that because i can see why because as soon as you said that i was like well is it mentioned in the community and family engagement piece which supports academic excellence right like i can i can understand why there's nothing in here that explicitly under academic excellence that says educating parents because all of these goals support one another that being said in the community and family engagement everything in here is amazing and wonderful but it's i do feel like there's uh like i see the word empowerment but it's like empowerment to decision making i'm not seeing as much about empowering parents to be academic partners if that makes sense like kind of going to what you're saying like empowering adults in the community to be educated themselves as well like there's a lot about relationships and helping make decisions but not necessarily about how are we educating families and so what parents ask for is that they want to have more open communication with their teachers um that was that was an explicit ask so you'll notice that that's included in there um and then they they asked to be now that um some of the coded precautions have been opened or adjusted a bit they're asking to be able to be on work on campus more um and so having family nights um there was there was an event that was that was discussed um that that parents would like to bring back um and then you're exactly right with the education piece it wasn't so much about parents weren't saying to us we want you to educate us it was more we want to understand how to advocate for our children um and so you'll notice that's built in there as well i added in power right here though to make sure that we um circle that back and have that that expressed conversation powerful word that you know regardless of topic like whether it's advocacy whether it's how i can reinforce phonics like but it's really empowering that they are partners absolutely and then to circle back again sophia you'll notice that this piece about parents participation with teachers is hinted at if you will with the academic excellence because that was a big piece of the conversation and then we really have it driven home with the community and family engagement okay yeah this is this is great though so keep firing away i want to collect everything that you all have to say i really like um just to give a positive feedback i really like access i think um the pandemic really showed us that just because we're offering the tools doesn't mean that everybody has the same access to those tools um and one of the things was wi-fi right one of that was one of the biggest things that people struggled with and i'm glad that we have those partnerships but really focusing on like the access like yeah we know this is expected from our families but do they have transportation that's access um are they being fed that's access do they have the money to buy the materials that's all access right and i think that goes back to our main goals of trying to be as inclusive as we can is knowing that not all of us have the same access to things so looking at that perspective is i really like that so thank you for that it's not me it needs to be thanked it's the strategic planning steering committee truly i agree with you what else this is all really great input i'm always drawn to anything that is a singular focus so i think when you've said priority having that single priority and having that statement and power as soon as you said that my uh my antenna was like okay wordsmithing yeah a little bit um i feel like the soul in the adventurous thing like there's there's like there's real power in this there's love in this kind hearted uh collaboration but then you end on achievement and to me that feels like a buzz kill honestly and um i'm wondering if there could be some incorporation of impact or maybe social impact you know some benefit to our world that's kind of beyond the confine of the idea of achievement that that's kind of just what caught my attention when you talked about a singular focus it becomes even more singular right down to the word achievement because all that is towards achievement in high school and beyond keeping it achieved achieve achieve you just i feel like maybe that's it i think that is such a key point um and i i will absolutely bring that back to the strategic planning steering committee i can also share with you just to give you a little more context on why that is there specifically is that what we heard and keep hearing from parents is we love foundational skills adventurous thinking collaborative learning kite harder leadership that's why we're here that's what keeps us here um you know that core of who we are that heart what the values the approach the philosophy that's what keeps us here that's what makes this school this district so unique and especially coming out of the pandemic we want our kids to read we want our kids to write we want our kids to be able to do math and to your point about the the gap right why do we have this gap how do we close that gap and so that's why the word achievement is in there um for high school and beyond because that's what we keep hearing um and again not my words um however i think that i think that your point is well taken and i wonder if there isn't some wordsmithing where we can still include that but like you said it doesn't become the heart and soul of who we are the spirit of that this the spirit and the kind of the natural i think tendency when there is something that's so tragic like the gap that you see is to eliminate the magic like so it just reminds me of like oh our kids are you know they can't do basic math so let's get rid of the music and get rid of the dance get rid of the theater and like they need more math actually what they don't need is more math what they need is more reason to be there more reason to connect them to the world so that they have more sense of ownership to do math right so that to me is kind of the in as a the motivation i think excellent point and and when we came in what we learned from all of you is that previous to this last strategic plan things were very like uh about how are we testing what are our scores right so we went from there to swinging the other end now with it with this very creative heart soul reason for being um and and how you know we went from one side to the other now we're really trying to strike that balance so we've figured out who we are we have that we've captured that truly that's why people are here that's that's what keeps them here and now they're saying we want our kids to read write and do math and so what we what we need to keep our eye towards is exactly what you're saying which is we don't want to go back that other way and end up just about the testing scores because if we swing too far with that pendulum then we're in trouble i think like when i read this i say and kind of leadership for growth to lead to achievement like i don't want to lose i don't want to be on the opposite end where we're only focused on growth and it becomes kind of a meh you know like but i don't want to go back to like and i know we have to use these metrics we have to look at the state tests um but i don't want to lose the growth either like both of those need to be so the concept of achievement being a potential buzz kill as was described is is makes it you know to me what's the synonym that more heartfelt connects for us i'm wondering if it's social and academic impact seems to be the hoojo because i think achieving like we sitting at this table we all know that achievement can look very different for every individual and that achieve the word achievement could apply to they've achieved their growth goals or they have achieved but we haven't used it that way for decades yeah um you know they they're coding and they can leave high school with a six figure you know career that i'll never have um without going to college like achievement looks different but it's a word like i get the buzzkill because i think it's a word that's just it became synonymous with testing state tests and it has the negative connotation and maybe maybe this is the task where we change the connotation of that word or is it a conversation of that connotation is so deeply ingrained that we're not going to change it and we need to find a better language in high school and beyond because at the end of the day we want our kids to succeed in whatever way because we know they can treat it right yeah but what access are we giving them to to actually succeed and fulfill that i think that's great yes i think i'll bring all this back to the strategic planning team i love the idea of of success i love the idea of impact i love what you're saying which is do we redefine the word or do we acknowledge that this this word is so rooted and yeah it has it i mean it's it's like a trigger because because the history that that right has such a stigma behind it so do we abandon that word and use another one instead i will say a conversation that we have been having is creating a word bank right because one thing that that we heard a lot was like yeah we we love this but could you define for us what adventurous thinking is so that we know if our kids are actually doing it can you define for us what is collaborative learning we think we know what that means but like what does it actually mean for the district and so you know regardless of whether or not we go with the word achievement or find a different word it seems to me like that might be another word that we need to to include in the word bank to to explain what it means for us just like today you've all been sitting around the table and with your your fireside chat defining a common language that we will all use that speaks to how we all want to work together how do we define that common language for the back district the piece where four or five years ago we said yeah we're doing this and then we didn't feel like we were actually doing it it was because we didn't define what that looked like not just what it looked like but what it doesn't look like right you know we use examples and non-examples with our kids our teachers need examples and non-examples of adventurous thinking of what that looks like in a classroom through photos through student work through videos like we have to define the language and we have to go beyond just a definition of a language but really define and that's why we're going beyond just the priority and that's why we're going to these goals because these goals provide more tangible distinct direction than the priority they help define that priority so that we know when we're going to get there and then that's why we have that adventure planning document that really provides us with the indicators of progress with measurement so we'll know how we are doing and we'll know if we need to adapt so if something's not working that means that we need to adapt the plan so that it does work in order to still achieve these goals somewhat related and somewhat totally different question because we have it laid out by quarters for year one do we have a plan by quarters for your two or is that a we're not going to because we're going to need to adjust this exactly we intentionally we intentionally don't have quarters for year two or year three because um what we know is that it will have to adapt if we built it in stone right now what we're gonna do two years from now three years from now we know it's not gonna work right because we don't know what's coming two years and three years from now we we we almost certainly will have to adjust even what we've put together for this year one this year one is this is our plan this is our plan of action and we have these indicators of progress to tell us when it's working and when it's not working and if it's not working we will be adjusting our action items because ultimately we are responsible for to use another word that you all use today we are accountable to these goals because this is what our community told us that they need from us so this is what we're going to achieve or let's do to create impact and succeed let's not use the word achieve um and so absolutely these action plans will have to change and we understood from all of you at this table and everyone else that we spoke with that these action plans are really important because we need to have a definitive road map and a definitive tracking device to know whether or not this is working and and i think not only to that too but i think that goes back to holding our positions accountable too yes you know i don't know of any other job that continually has something where things are happening and you get to keep your job or you get to keep it even though we're failing and then you get a raise out of it so right i think this is a good way and that's another question too like i i want to make sure these benchmarks and these things are actual things that we can look at him be like okay this is not working it continues not to work absolutely and so and so um when we put together these action plans we actually had each school so the principles were present and we asked each principal to bring what their plans are for their schools and we wanted to make sure that everything is aligned and that what is happening at each school site will help us get to these goals and if it's not if something's out of alignment that meant we had to examine it further and figure out if if there's something wrong with this goal or if there's something wrong with the actions that we're taking and so we've made it so that everything is very um married um and in alignment so that exactly like you're saying we can then from there tie everything that we do to this so that's why i'm asking we need to ask ourselves though is this a goal fixed it's it's not but we we so just like we need to adapt the just like we need to adapt the action plan if the action plan that we have set out is not getting us to where we need to be if we're hearing from our community that this goal doesn't serve us any longer then we would absolutely need to revise it the conversation seems to be centered around failure so i'm trying to get a sense of failure failure not no not failure it's just it's just about adjusting and adapting in order to ensure success okay so we're not talking about failing shame or direct we're not accountability to the person versus the idea i'm a little confused so we're not talking about we're not talking about accountability to a person what i am saying is that just like um each school site's strategic plan and their goals for the year are tied directly to this so that they're in alignment we want to ensure that everything in the district is in alignment with this i'm not i'm not saying we're not talking about people we're not saying for effectiveness again is this a gauge for effectiveness this is a gauge for effectiveness for the district i would say we want to ensure that the actions that we are taking with our action plan are getting us to these goals because this is what we hear is needed and if it's not getting us to those goals we need to look at why and we need to adapt and change now the question is for reality sake they're time bound for to be sure that we've got a sense of urgency about it absolutely i mean yes we need to have a sense of urgency to this because this is what we heard from our entire community that this is what we need and we want to get here at the end of three years so so they're absolutely time-bound from that perspective and they're absolutely urgent and so as we build these out that is why we also put together the action plans because we need to make sure that what we're doing is realistic and attainable i just don't want our kids or our teachers to feel failure yeah no i don't want to be lazy and again this isn't about i'm not asking for a retort i'm pontificating for a moment okay um i'm curious where heather and so forth i haven't heard you yet on you know philosophically when you think about a time-bound fixed action and then it doesn't happen in your classroom or with your team or at your school or in the district what's the sentiment in the district or among the teachers or i mean i worry so much that so many teachers are leaving the profession um in droves over um what i'm going to go back to the word achievement goals because it was it's beautifully intended it's beautifully intended to want kids to achieve what i want to make sure of is are we going to give a context for um you know the fluid nature of a kid who's out 10 days or the fluid nature of the technology not working or the wi-fi access still being worked on so as these these interdependent variables are moving what's the gauge of we're still rowing in the same direction and that still feels right but what's your thinking on that i'm just curious because i've seen your face over there and i can't quite tell so i have like this internal fight being a teacher and being on a board and just knowing the things that that go on so just bear with me and see if i can explain this so achievement we're in the business of making kids better to achieve right so we have to have some kind of something to see how they're achieving so as a teacher i know if one of my students is achieving i know myself but how can i show a parent that how can i show the community that so when we say that we're going to test their achievement off of and you know how i feel about the state test i think they're garbage and i get really tired of them because they're constantly changing and then yeah and then we do use them as punishment because then now we're labeling schools right and then those schools feel like oh my god it's an f school these kids are failing these teachers are filling these principles they're filling the district is failing and there's all these like intricacies going on like for example we started like in my districts we started a new reading curriculum and writing curriculum so i'm going to follow this curriculum it's going to be different than what i have been doing and my kids might not achieve because maybe i am not as effective at this point because this is something new right and we constantly have new curriculum so that's like something we're constantly dealing with um and i will try to do my craft the best that i can and my homework the best that i can but then at the with the students that i have and with the situations that each of my students have but then at the end they take a test and it's either like hey way to go or oh my god you suck and plainly that's what it is i i mean it is either you feel good about it or you don't feel good about it i like to see my students progress and so we do have something like um what is it that you guys use exactly exact path so we use something called my path which is like the same kind of thing right isn't i ready do i feel successful i kind of do like when i see the end when my kids like tested like at a kindergarten level at the beginning of the year and at the end of the year they're testing the third grade level to me that means i did my job because they they either i mean they move like so many grade levels if they're on a fifth grade level they start a fifth grade level they end on a fifth grade level like i still did my job right because they're still like getting the year's growth like beginning from end so i understand this word achievement and then when you talk about success well then i think achievement and success have the same connotations because success how do you how do you rate success and i always make that i always have that that talk with my kids because we i do a college career like day once a month because success doesn't mean you have to go to college success means you could go to a trade school and become you know a plumber like my people that just fixed my house and you know they spent like seven days there and they got like 32 right so that could be success so then now we're like okay achievement success like really like what definition are we going to give them and what is what is okay for the teachers to feel about this because if we're saying hey you guys suck because you got you know your school's an f and they feel horrible about it or i just have it's just like there's this like no win situation and then it ties in with the adventurous learning i just don't understand how we can have adventurous learning when you have a curriculum you have a curriculum map and you're supposed to follow this curriculum map and not deviate off this path so where is it where is it adventurous where do kids have that choice i mean maybe they have that choice in like the gift program where they're like hey you can choose this or this but really we're not giving any choice to kids we're doing what we have to do so i just get really upset at like the whole like achievement thing it's just very hard so and i think that this is where context really matters and i think that our philosophy and our approach really matters right this is the chord around this room yeah because we can't say we can't say no because we can't say like your school is an f let's change something to make it not an f but next year you're still an i i think we need to have that understanding you're right and so part part of this is there's some things out of our control right like schools are going to be assigned to this letter grade right it's not something that we and they have to take a test and they have to take a test right it's not something that we can control so we know that that's there that's right yeah let's let's disrupt that i love that idea yeah but but again so those are those are those are sort of outside of our purview it's outside of our control we can't control whether or not our schools are going to be assigned a letter grade and whether or not we have to take state tests we we know that we do it's nature of the beast now we could we absolutely could disrupt it now that that's fair um now if we look at the context though to go back to what you're saying about like the fail versus the a lot of this has to do with our approach and the core of who we are right when we were out talking with with families when we talked with all of you around the table i haven't heard anyone use that language of failing i haven't heard anyone use that language that it's gonna be okay so okay okay and i haven't heard anyone say i mean that we are going to use this as a uh weapon or a punishment um i mean in fact um you were talking about um the creighton academy what they use restorative justice for example right and so it is at the core of who we are that we don't approach things from that mindset and that context here is really important we're not saying that um we're creating these goals and we're creating this action plan in order to track our failure or success what we're saying is that we're creating these goals and we're creating this action plan because we're hearing that as a community this is what we want to work towards and we're all in alignment on that and we're going to track it so that we can catch it if something's not quite working like we thought it would and then we can discuss it oh that didn't quite work exactly like we thought why what do we need to tweak what do we need to do differently what else can we do but it's all going to be with that playful adventurous um right it's not as it's not as if suddenly it's going to change us at our core because that is who we are and it is part of this i mean it is it is literally pulled through this entire planet this is an important conversation for the board and i say that because when we started a year ago this was the body was honing in on foundation to start and it was actually a great ricochet across the district and the system and the community and it shows up now so we still have this restorative sense of the community agreements we just made about who we are and what the strategic plan is so i would really like to hear a lot more from the four of you on your statement of prioritization of gold1 in terms of fixed or flexible punishment or adjustment a sense of of context shifting as opposed to a flame orientation where are we as a group lindsay i think to me when we talk about all this i kind of approach it from and this has to do with like studying that culture and setting that tone when you're rolling this out two teachers two principles to the board as a whole thinking of it like going back to the context and framing this not as a fail or success but as we do when we have a child struggling with something we create a possible intervention for them we try that intervention consistently for three to six weeks we collect data during that point and at the end of that six weeks or whatever it might be we say this was working not as quickly as we want we need to continue this intervention or this did not work at all we need a totally new intervention or maybe we need a new human doing the same in type of intervention but it's not driving that right goal for that shot so i think you know i feel better from a teacher perspective from now a principal perspective from a board member perspective about these knowing that this is working a working document and that there is no year or two broken down this much because it's going to change so much and that might mean because like one of my i'll give you a concrete example one of my questions reading through the access diversity equity inclusion ones was why are there only why are we only expecting seo lessons twice a quarter for the whole year like i would have expected to see twice a quarter like three times a quarter four like i would have expected to see that expectation increase throughout the year as we get better at what we're doing and maybe it's not right now because we want we're trying to keep it realistic like i don't know because i wasn't in all those conversations um like i'm kind of looking at these knowing that the way that we approach it and know that we need to monitor and adjust the same way we do in education i don't feel a threat of failure as long as you know that everybody's language is that approach and in fact i would say that we're protecting against this this fear of failure because that's first of all that's not part of our philosophy that's not part of who we are we're not setting things up for failure second of all it's not how we're going to be talking about and looking at it it's going to be wow this is working really well so what does that mean how do we want to keep building this out or you know this one part though doesn't seem to quite be giving us the results we thought why not what do we need to change what interventions could we do differently how do we want to approach this so it's it's all about um the i mean it's it's all about the collaborative learning really right we're approaching this with adventurous thinking we are learning about all of this collaboratively in order to build foundational skills and we are using kind-hearted leadership as evidenced by what's in the fireside you you started with a question and that uh helped heather express something that you didn't talk about it was hidden to me but i can see it here exactly what she was saying it means try it view it that's exactly what what it is but what you were saying uh now the the only thing that i see very important is making sure that not only us but the teachers and everybody understands it because if let's say we we talked about it okay let's we want to feel very happy and if she's one of her teachers and she wasn't here in this meeting and she doesn't understand it she was oh my god so we we need to be very communicative with what we what we're understanding right now whatever we're understanding right now let's try to make it very clear to everybody i would like a teacher too why are you living together because i don't want to be dealing with failure so we talked about it in the meaning yeah but i wasn't in that meeting yeah and that's another thing that you bring up a really good point that we as a board i think and i'll speak for myself but i think collectively we do not want that culture of fear or retaliation because that's exactly what the opposite of what we think we're not doing these changes or we don't put our input to cause fear in our teachers or support staff or anything we're there yeah or anybody no anybody but you know we need tangible information to tell us what is happening what's not working and how we can move forward from that in any aspect but i don't ever want anybody to feel like they're scared or anything these this is why we have these open um sessions so people know and i really want that culture and i know it's gonna take some time but we're not here or when we show up to the classrooms or when we show up into the schools it's not because we're there to say you're doing that bad you're doing that bad it's to say how are we i don't know what i don't know i don't know how to help my biltmore score or my excellencia school if i haven't even had a tour of that school so i i can't help and i don't know what i don't know in those areas and the more integrated the more talks like we have the more parents i'm hoping that that's a big thing like going from 200 maybe raising that by like 15 next time like the more conversations we have the more we're working together and i know it sounds like a little you know like rainbows and butterflies but that's really how it works how can we blend then how can we come up to to uh to a point where we we can advance with this no fear without lowering the bar without i don't think you have to do that as a teacher i think as a as an individual teacher and maybe this is this is my when i say it it feels like it feels like a punishment because i feel that way myself like i feel that way myself that i didn't do the best for that student and so if it comes it it may not even come from the district it may just come from the state from the legislature right i mean that's where a lot of it comes from right so i already feel like a failure when you know the best of my students maybe you know are just proficient or maybe you know and so if you if you look at a lot of i think the majority of teachers wants what's best for their kids and they'll do everything that that they possibly know to make that happen i don't think you have a lot of teachers there are some you know a lot of teachers going out there like intentionally not teaching or intentionally not doing what they wanted to do as a teacher um but i think they feel that that's their ultimate judgment right there's that one test at the end of the year that's that ultimate judgment and then when you get those scores back as a teacher and i said that at the board meeting with when we had the presentation for the scores like those teachers are already beating themselves up those principles are already beating themselves up and then the district starts beating themselves up and then we're hearing a bunch of stuff from you know the legislature saying you guys suck right and what i would really encourage for us is to think about ways that as a board we can add to our community agreement supportive and encouraging because where the trickle is from the davis is on um either a lack of support or a lack of encouragement that every single person needs and that might be a community agreement we want to add so that that beating up culture that is subliminally dominant but i haven't really been hearing that though i i don't think i haven't been hearing that from my community that they feel like they're beat up or failing but i have heard that they don't feel heard which is opposite but not that they get a sentiment from us that no no we're beating on them or we're being i don't get that at all no i think it's really messed up the staff is just you know and whether it's subliminally by herself in her classroom but that aspect i do get i get i hear that from every teacher which but they just care so much yeah and i'm thinking as a board if we added support and encouragement agreement that would really permeate the culture of the staff and but then i think we also need to define what does that look like in action because we might then not just want to do awards yeah i mean we we might like have to think of ways that we can like like stop this like change this right like how do we talk about it as a whole group that's why i like the word success because that word already is setting up the sentiment of we are going to succeed our kids are both successful it just needs to go in with some tweaks but our kids will be successful when they graduate high school and above it's not that we don't want exactly and that word success i think sends that message achievement is saying that we're not at that level eventually we will how about we start looking at our kids and our parents like they can they have it we just need to work on these goals to provide them the tools to make it a little bit more easier to navigate because this education system is i've learned so much in education the last two years that i have ever happened my whole life it's a very complex um whatever you want to call it you know it's super complex there's a lot moving parts to it but i think success is like we're gonna succeed we might have to make those tweets and not necessarily achieve because i look as achievement because maybe it's so stigmatized on how we've been throttled to it but to me achievement it's like i'm not there yet but eventually i will achieve it no we need to show that we are our kids are successful right now we just may need a little bit more support but they will succeed and just to achieve on a test but they might be successful just getting a job and living and it might be successful but that one percent that no and that's okay uh i i want to make sure that i'm not speaking over anyone and that you all are getting the opportunity to speak i just want to discuss this and you've been living it yeah so i just wanted to make sure you guys are somebody yeah and so i i just something that i'm noticing is that i i think that this sentiment is captured in in the fire right i think that the sentiment is captured in our new table tents it was already captured before and so i want to make sure that that i reiterate what i did at the beginning which is we're having this conversation from a strength based perspective we are not having this conversation from the perspective of we failed and therefore now we have to do this that's not what's being said at all what's being said actually is we were so successful that this is now the very core of who we are and we don't need goals for this anymore now we're looking for what's next and so i want to make sure that that that's always in the back of our our minds that this is a strength-based conversation and i don't think that the word failure is something that i've ever heard in all the conversations that i've had um and and i don't think that anyone is is looking to [Music] set us up for that to be a conversation i really think that we are continuing with this strength based mindset and like i said i think that it's very much about we're approaching this adventurously and we're collaborating together to learn and we're going to learn as we go and then we are going to adapt and tweak in order to remain responsive and relevant to the community that we serve and in this case what we heard from everyone is that at the core of that community are the kids so we are going to adapt as we go to be relevant and responsive to our children so that they can be successful however it is that we define that whether it's getting the job or going to college does that sound right does that feel right yes and i think it's just going back to we're talking about like intentional feedback and stuff like as in order to not have anybody feel vilified or feel like they're being punished or whatnot like that is our responsibility as a board through every presentation every discussion we have getting you know quarterly updates on how we reach these and being able to recognize okay we reach these things are we ready for these actions and accomplishments in quarter two like is there something we need to adjust and just being very open with the public that like we're we're here to help monitor and adjust those interventions if they need to be and that is not a negative thing that is a monitor like that's what we need to do we need to monitor and adjust and that's growth and that's solutions based that's strength space that's not you didn't do this and the board's going to come get you and that just comes from us and our language and our attitude and that that's permeated in every meeting and conversation right you are not you are not the big bad board right you are kind-hearted leaders and we're learning collaboratively all together we are going to adjust as needed because this is an adventure just like the the mountain this is an adventure that we're all embarking on and we have this road map with that adventure plan for the next year to help guide us but that doesn't mean that it's set in stone it's guiding us to like actual action and accomplishment possible yeah um i did write them down because i was like we're gonna go 57 places um so like you brought up curriculum nights and events like one of the things when i look at the action accomplishments to me these are supposed to be measurable and it's not that these aren't but i feel like one measurable component on the family engagement piece could be like some a lot of the other ones all have some indicator that has a number a number of lessons a number you know a percentage and we don't have any numbers quantifiable numbers in this so just a possible suggestion to bring back would be could we quantify how many community events or family events are happening throughout the year because that's i feel like an easy measurable thing and that's this is the only one list of actions and accomplishments that doesn't have a single quantifiable quantifiable um my other thing was and maybe this is just an oversight but on the last on the health wellness and safety um quarter four says ongoing use of kerosele's referral system and expanded use of southwest behavioral but like that's not meant those two partnerships aren't mentioned at all in the first three quarters i think that can be totally quantifiable as well well and i it can be that the same phrase ongoing use of the referral system can be in every quarter so i was just curious why it's not how like why it's not an indicator because i did see like in some of the other ones you have some of those same ones that are yeah repeated i don't feel that southwest behavior on carousel shouldn't only live in fourth quarter great plane like yeah and maybe that was just an oversight and there's a lot going on here but those are just my like tangible really good suggestions really good point anything else like that and then i want us to turn to as a board um we were talking about you know being supportive i'd like to know how you want over the next year to work in support of this plan any other i have something that's just on my mind i hope it's within what you said certainly well no and and i want to i want to hear more about this too okay so um a little bit of a philosophical question so um working in auburn school district in washington they have a design for their equity work it's called equity mountain so you go on a hike you start and you loop around and um i like the analogy and then you you get to the top but what happens when you get to the top you gotta come back down and hopefully you're not backtracking you're not you know falling you're not you're not you know you're not you're not uh digressing you're you're still on an adventure so just a couple things that i'm curious about initiate review adapt review adapt celebrate at the top just wondering if there's a way to philosophically because i feel like the problem with this feels to me that you don't really get to enjoy it till you get to the top and that to me feels like it perpetuates this idea that equity is something that you achieve i think equity is something that you constantly have to stay reflective in and you have to sustain and to have check marks on equity benchmarks can be very powerful for accountability but it could also be counterproductive to sustaining a sense of equity so that people don't begin to think that it's just something that okay i'm done yes we did that and now we're on to the next it's like the next so like how do we stay in this like how do these check marks become less of something you check off and something that we maintain and so so so maintaining sustaining and how do we incorporate maybe more of the joy of the process and not just the end result because to me that's what's missing here is that we're on a constant hike and we're hiking all over that mountain and all around that mountain are waterfalls and caves and multiple things you can get into it's not just the top right you may get to the top that's another stop but then you come back down you go the other side of the mountain and there's more things and then you take another hike and you see other you take another trail so to me i just feel like can we add some of that nuance it may not be necessary because again because i'm not part of this process it's the context right but those were things that were coming up for me as like when you are always a trail you've come this far and you're continuing or you're revisiting yeah and like i added in like celebrate on all the review products right right right as you're reviewing your progress as you're adapting as you're doing this entire process there will be celebrations along the way there will be base camps um and we will be celebrating at every base camp no there isn't an end the reason excuse me the reason that we added the check boxes which interestingly enough this is the first time i've put check boxes on a strategic plan the reason that we put those though is that what we kept hearing from everyone is what do we need to do to action this how do we know that we are accomplishing this goal how do we know that we are accomplishing adventurous learning and so that's why we added the check boxes because we were hearing from folks we need something really tangible to say we're doing it however it's not to say once we've checked that box off we're done but absolutely not and especially when we're talking about equity it's not a box checking exercise ever um so so maybe we do need to adapt that maybe maybe we need to adapt and think of something else instead of that because i i hear you and i don't think that the box checking is the right sentiment but that that's the re i can i can tell you the reason behind it and i agree with what you're saying yeah i i really appreciate that perspective because i think that's where people become stagnant right you feel like you accomplished you did this you checked off the list okay i'm done it's all good we're all good gravy and then but it's a full circle especially when it comes to equity right actually is a never-ending issue never always going and we don't want to be complacent and i think that's where a lot of the times we're so used to doing the work we've been in it for many years that we start getting complacent so yeah thank you for bringing that because we need to make sure that we're consistently going yeah and that mountain hike right we're not just going to the top and like okay my job is done absolutely from a tangible like instead of a box can it be a little mile marker yeah like i know that seems silly but i think it it goes back to the context and the purpose of this and a visual image has just as much positive or negative connotation as a word i'm wondering if the four choices might be for every indicator we're in it we're revisiting it we're letting it go we're redefining it and then it's not a done it's a element of i think what we're all doing here is we're um we're providing an example of the fact that once you uh commit to having a frame of equity um everything is just way harder it's so much easier if you take the equity out of it we have check marks like why can't we just move on with check boxes like again so like congratulations everybody like great equitable conversation just getting harder and harder we're never going to get anywhere so thank you you're but you're you're right it's so true even like i was gonna use the analogy of like base camps right if you're hiking mount everest if you get to base camp one that's actually a huge accomplishment so you're not at the top of the the top of the mountain but you're gonna celebrate my dad that was seven people and only two made it to base camp sure and also we have to acknowledge the fact like if we're talking about equity and we're talking about hiking mount everest like that is you can't get any further from equity when we're talking about it yeah well and and who even has access i guess where i'm going with it is who even has access to mount everest right so like that is not a great analogy when we're talking about about equity at all so right but yes but metaphorically so there are going to be a lot of limitations to this analogy the reason that we selected the analogy is just because we had the table tense before and so we really wanted this to hit home that like we are building on our successes thus far we are building on the strengths we are we are looking at sort of like the phase two of where we've where we've been we're not trying to throw out what we did and start with something new so we also could after today let this analogy go we don't we don't have to use it fast today it was just okay but i want to make sure also that in that analogy that we're not creating another monster right being creating a situation where then we're questioning access and the leaves being development and growth of the tree and then the apples were the fruit of our fruit by no means the end because then the tree goes through the cycle again and that was kind of the metaphor we used in the old days who chopped the tree down my question who picks the fruit it's still living it's a mountain that's a whole other conversation yeah now it's found so right now it's an orchard so uh really really good feedback anymore before i ask all of you what is your role in supporting this work moving forward [Laughter] i'll talk to you offline about what it should look like instead of a box i like where you're going with this i'm just like you know like we got to this point and then mm-hmm and then and then and then it's a cycle i like someone's on the trail so then i usually tell you what is your role as a board i don't mean you as a person but you as a board what is your role in moving this work forward i'm gonna take off the stickers i think part of it is like hearing the progress that we're making because i think you have it written down by quarter but i feel like if we don't get a report quarter by quarter and we just get it at the end of the year then i feel like it'll be either a shock or a yay but how can we also be supportive in the movement through the quarters and so but that's my question is how can you be supportive well i mean that's what i i guess that's like what i want to get at so i want to know so based off of your your checklist um like what is like let's just say your quarter i just picked this one whatever it is um if it's to configure mass notification system create accounts and provide access and initial training i want to know how are you doing that how has it been done is it satisfactory where you are like has the training gone on uh complete review and updated safety plans then you should have some safety plans to show us right like we should see proof of these things happening and if they didn't happen that's fine but is that now being moved into quarter two like how are we going to make sure we get to this one next and so every school is going to have a different safety plan and every etc um and so just to set up the expectation we won't necessarily be coming to the quarterly board meetings with every safety plan for you to review what we will what we would what we would be doing though is saying like you said we accomplished this in quarter one or this is being rolled into quarter two and here's why you can also provide progress uh yeah yeah you could just say like all you know has a safety fully implemented their safety plan one school is working to revise theirs right done right just having those actual indicators like i agree like i i would like to see and it can be board updates some of these are a little bigger than that like more complex with that and maybe that's what drives some of those presentations versus which of these can be delivered to us in uh we've met this here so kind of as you're planning as we're planning the agendas but as different departments are planning presentations pull out you know which one of these can be just here's a report versus here's something we really need to discuss the ins and outs of how it's going on another okay let's get an update halfway through the quarter instead of at the end of the quarter we have a seven hour board meeting yeah like i don't want that either i don't want that either but i just want to know like you said yeah all the schools have a safety plan like that's enough for me to know but i don't want to be kept out of the loop because i feel like too often we get to the end of something and something has gone wrong somewhere and then we didn't get to that goal right i mean it's like with the kids when when we're doing goals with them we do it you know week by week or day by day or whatever and we have it written down and we modify it and change it as necessary and i think that's important at getting to this collaborative learning and making sure that we are supportive from the top down this culture of support it's going to be very important that there is transparency and that there is the progress throughout because like you said otherwise if you're just getting a report at the end of the year it's going to be really hard to be supportive of the process if you weren't part of it and understanding it so but so to refine my my question a little bit again i'd love to hear how you want to be a part of that process so that you can be the supportive active participants in this role so um with me what i realize really helps and i think i i am super privileged i guess in that area that i'm a parent and i'm a school board president and being in those curriculum nights seeing how it's working i'm not there telling anybody you're doing this wrong you're doing that right but part of being support is being there and having that communication with the board right so if one school's having a curriculum one night be like hey these are the curriculum nights that are going on that school wouldn't you like hands-on how that's looking like i said i at times when there's no communication or where we're not invited to these spaces the school board members we're all adults and we already know like when we carry our school board hats and when we don't but part of being a school board member is knowing what's going on hands-on i can only come back you give me the information and assume all these things but because i wasn't part of like when i was going on or invited to curriculum tonight or got invited to the soccer game at one of the schools you know like you just don't know what you don't know and i always go back to that so maybe having a little bit more of not so much involving the school board members a little bit more and things that are going on um just because yeah the calendar because like i drove by papago um earlier this week and there was a bunch of cars there and i was like oh i wonder what's going on there it was a curriculum tonight and i could have just run up there yeah things like that because then that gives us like uh because we're only ever invited to district-wide events we're only invited to community council to the district fan event it was amazing but that was a district event i would love to be given a list and especially because i am on multiple boards and i'm very busy i sometimes feel like i can't get to the schools as much but that's because i'm only given a choice of like these four things in this semester and if i have conflicts on three of those four nights i feel like i'm never there if you said lindsay here are all the events that happen in every school sports games is a great idea like there's athletic schedule here are the curriculum nights here's the family literacy night and i had all that on my calendar then i could sit and make it to every school at least once at least once and then the like building off of this like i know i know it can be like four members of the school i cannot work my schedule around here is when school board visits are on these two dates let us know if you can make it i can look at my calendar and say okay a couple weeks from now i can take this day off of work can i please request that i can go do school visits with or without anybody but if i can take a whole day off work i need to be able to build on my schedule it can't be here is the date what i think i'm hearing i wanna i want to be in the schools and i've been to like two in the past year and what i think i'm hearing and this is me checking for understanding because i don't want to make an assumption here and tell me if i'm wrong what i think i'm hearing is that at a board we're very high level and so perhaps if sometimes it feels like there's some pressure from the board perhaps it's because we get these progress reports right where we're where we hear where the school's at as compared to last quarter or last whatever and then we react and we respond on well that's great or let's improve this or you know what what have you um and then and then we sit down again i think what i'm hearing that you all really want to be more involved in although sophia i'm hearing that you are already very involved in this level but as a board um you want to be more involved with this table tent you want to be more involved with this this heart the core of the school you want to see the mission in action you want to experience who we are you want to have those experiences so that you are part of this versus just someone who from the outside looking in yeah it's literally am i am i hearing that right it's been asked of us teachers and staff and families and parents i mean board members like they never visit our schools or they're never there like they it's been asked not just of board members but of superintendent of all district leadership like so how can we break down those barriers because i understand like we need to post quorums there needs to be i can't just show up but i should be able to see two weeks from now i can take this day off work let your schools know i'll be popping in and out like and we can post if other board members want to join and i know that can be done because other districts do it so but you're right i want to feel this i want to see it i do want the reports i need the reports but even if we get reports as more frequently up to the quarter point instead of the year at the end of the day that's still a report of nine to ten weeks right and it's putting words on paper that may or may not fully express what's really half of that and and i'm not hearing anyone say we want to get involved in the nitty-gritty gritty in the daily operations and we want to micromanage something added on my plate right no thanks right what i'm hearing though is we we believe in this vision this mission beliefs the who we are just like you amanda heard from the parents from the students from the teachers from the principal but we're the only group that doesn't actually get too late because basically right we're not right we don't get to walk that talk because we're just here in this room and we might get to have conversations about how we want to interact and define what that's like with the fire but we actually want to be able to see the fire burning at each of the schools not lit literally [Laughter] like if we set up events where it's like come meet the world that is a very different tone and that's where you get the loud voices who may or may not be pleased versus that's not this culture-building piece exactly versus if we are just sprinkled in like oh hey they were able to show up at this soccer game oh hey they were able to show the visibility part i think it's the little things and then you're feeling it yeah i might be speaking out of turn tell me if this is a terrible idea i'm just kind of falling you committed to going to a certain number of events before the next board meeting and then brought a story back i talked to this parent i talked to this oh i already have a teacher i'm certain you knew because you know we're so involved um but i think that would be really interesting because i think that this gets to what you were talking about um with the we don't want this to feel like the big bad board is coming and talking about failures but rather we want this to be that the board embodies the very pulse of of who we are and that we are a part of this we are collaborative learners and we are supportive through this process so by going and being there in person at these various pieces it'll do two things one it's going to show that you're very supportive because you're showing up um and you're going to be able to have more informal conversations with your constituents and then then two it also enables all of you in real time to actually experience what it is that you're hearing others come and talk to you about at this table and i also one thing i think we mostly forget about it shows the accountability of us we were knocking on those doors and expecting them to show up for us where have we been the last two years you know and i think that builds a trust within the district too that we're not just looking at our parents as something that we're tokenizing at the moment for what we want but if we consistently are being visible consistently being seen consistently bringing these opportunities that builds the trust with it the trust will follow and it might take a long time and it might not happen even when we're on the board but if we're bringing these to light one of our students who decides to graduate you know and then runs for office this is what we have implemented and then people can just swing right into it i'm not it feels like it's a win-win because it feels like it's going to help all of you and it's going to be supportive of the school yeah so how does that feel to each of you what i've been asking for the last two years that's exactly how that feels how does that feel to everyone else yeah like i just wanna i i see all these great things on all the facebook pages and i'm like oh i wish i'd known about that i feel like i feel like you're less chatty oh no no i mean do you like that idea and i'm mindful of it yes i know we have ten minutes so how do you feel about that right yes okay so then they're going back to what you were saying which is so yeah we want to do support but i don't want to just write down the word because what does that actually mean i'm hearing that this is the first step and just like we are going to be reviewing progress and revisiting and celebrating as we go through the process and adapting as we go with the plan i would like to when i come in the three times over this next year check in with all of you on this too and that you're holding us accountable to that what we've told our community that we would do and we haven't been doing right we are going to support this strategic plan by supporting all of you and showing and by that we are showing up that goes a long way showing up can do major things to people that's sometimes all they're asking for they might be saying i'm mad at this i'm mad at this i'm at this when in reality all they're saying just show up so you can see so that was everything i had on the agenda for today i feel like we got through a lot in very little time are there any other lingering questions thoughts ideas anything that i need to bring back no i just think that this is a very great way and i know that not everybody sometimes changes they're not comfortable they're not anything but one thing that i always go back to this district and that i do love because i have a lot of communications with other boards other districts and we really do have this as our core values i mean sometimes we may forget about them we come complacent life happens we all have our lives but i truly do believe well i mean i just shared a story with her and i think i want to end the story um i do a lot of door knocking and i was out in tempe and knocking on somebody's door and long story short he goes we got into the conversation about me being the president here he goes creighton so he takes me back to his backyard and he has one of the original bricks from and it has the crayon from the original creighton school before it got redone and his story a part of it was like he's like i just found that and but he goes the fact that i found it it just gave me a sense of like you guys have been there forever you guys are one of you know the earlier schools i know phoenix l takes the president's over that 150 years but you know he's just like just that sense of community i guess you can say so it's obviously ingrained in us i just think that there's tweaks and things that we need to do and i also appreciate all the hard work that everybody does i know sometimes what we say it's not taken um very nicely but it still gets done and i'm appreciated of that because it it takes time and it's a growing pains for everybody it's been growing pains for me um and i know all of us but this was really great from how we started and how we ended and how we all do have the same vision of just showing up for people and i think when people start seeing that in the community and our teachers and our parents and our administrators start showing like oh they're at least coming and visiting and they must care i think that opens another realm of like trust and how we really can start working collaborating together um i'm very pleased with how productive we were this morning and i think kind of learning a lot more about each other and then um this afternoon i think we have like a plan for action um and ways that we can continue to move forward um so i thought overall it was a really great day yeah i mean i i want to be in school for um and especially because i think when we're only invited to these big events and it's like oh i have to carve out this three hours versus like okay i can stop by this on my way home like that's a very different culture and i want to have that culture i i ran for board because i wanted to still feel connected to this district and there are a lot of days weeks months where i don't necessarily um so i think we've we've recommitted to a lot of things like i said that we talked about a year ago two years ago um and i hope that we can continue to keep those relevant and in our faces and and make some actionable deliverable changes i think like this is going to help keep us more informed and um hold us accountable as well as help us hold others in the district accountable and just setting that culture for everyone we have a clear path we've defined it let's let's do it [Laughter] we were thinking the same thing to see everybody working together for for the same good this is going to be my last year i'm planning to go back to to apply for as a crossing guard do you have an opening she's ready to hire you yeah yeah tired i i i i love it i i it's something that i have a lot of kids that still remember me and i love them and uh but it's crazy because i became a us citizen in 2016 and and i knew nothing about anything of i don't know i thought that being a used citizen was being able to cross the border and say you're a citizen that you mean that's it i know there's a lot to it or the vote voting who is that guy you just read it you have to know who you're voting for and it's a lot and then becoming a governing board really all of that italian was only about fighting with the girls and trying to get something done anyways uh it's been a pleasure and i i've learned a lot and even as as a i'm going to the end uh i remember when it all started i came one day my neighbors come knocking on my door saying we need you to come and speak for us you became a youth citizen yeah because people know us that i talked to everybody and they go we need you to go and represent us and because they're trying to change the times for the kids to go to school that we want you to go you're good for fighting pastor they go no i'm a pastor i'm not a fighter i'm a lover but i i came to that meeting and after hearing everything i got very angry holy anger and i come to the to the mic and i said you know what this is unfair you guys already know what you want to do what is this meeting about you guys already are telling us what you're going to do and what do you think what do you think that does not bear and i fight him i get out of here next thing you know people come we want you to become a governor no i'm going to be sleeping on the other side oh man no no i'd rather be down so finally i coming to con fulfill my dream of being down again i've been able to fight them and they cannot reply they cannot say nothing back to me i'll be here every meeting girls [Music] yeah i i gotta do that you want a revolution here i am where i am so and anyways anyways i love this i love this and i i speak my mind you guys laughed but i is the truth i speak my mind that's it you know i think what's super helpful about this is the biggest struggle attending board meetings listening to conversations is trying to distill signal from noise right so because when you work with a governing board you have five individuals but you really only have one board so being able to figure out like where's board direction versus where's one person's opinion all of those types of things what was super powerful today for me was hearing where the board's unified because it creates a very strong sense of that signal right and so that it was helpful to me and not just empowering the work that we do but inspiring uh my reflections for today really is hearing the board and the support of the teachers and staff as well as the parents in the community to support our children and to support their academic success and their social growth and success with with the community and that that's inspiring and that reinvigorates me thank you for the harmony of ideas i also have gratitude for hearing all this work amanda from everybody you guys really brought us you know years plus you know 18 months worth of work easily for us to process and for us to work through and tumble with a little bit so sophia excellent leadership great agenda development great communication i appreciate everybody so much i hope you have a wonderful rest of your saturday thank you and with that we adjourn what you

so columbia typically gets it uh gets off on a good foot yeah and they're usually not even conference games so we're playing out of conference teams i remember back in the day uh i think whenever you were playing you would play teams like only um i think we did have moscuta like in the late game of the of the year but and some of the first we played teams like uh morton um i'm trying to thank other teams we played but the first game of the year you got to be ready uh you're not playing a team that you're usually like want to play or normal to playing so um you always get a little mix of athletes and a couple different formations and a whole lot of different things going on with it too so uh week one's always uh always fun for the eagles coach warner usually gets the teams ready to go for that week one he's 15 and six on home openers and uh i remember whenever i played we played sparta actually i had a guy send me some pictures this morning of that week one game and coach horner like i said those week one expectations he said i don't care if we got to win tonight three to two let's get a victory and uh we actually left that game a winner of seven to six so you know you come into those weak games week one games with sparta the scooter's a little bit different though coming in 1100 students and that's the highest enrollment that a uh hokia conference team is going to play this year so pretty neat that we're getting that big one out of the way and go back to the most recent meeting we had was in 2021 last season not good for the home team for the eagles losing that game 42-14 yeah they came in and they stomped us around a little bit i remember they do have a couple guys well i think they said coach trumaine said they have 22 players returning this year so that's equal to almost every player on each side of the ball so that's pretty special last year i know they had a receiver that had alan middleton he's a senior this year 10 catches for 208 yards yeah you think they're going to key on him tonight i think so i think coach tremaine's got a little tag on him so uh i think they'll be a little bit more ready than they were last season well last year it started off with the bang for the eagles big man owen brewer gets that 55-yard fumble recovery and we're thinking all right looks pretty good and uh well then after that it was a lot of moscuta so hopefully this year gonna have a little bit of a different outcome can't go too much worse we're down i think it was like 35 to 14 or something like that at half so hope for a different outcome tonight last time that the eagles were in indian territory though here in muscuta worked out pretty well for us on one of our first games i believe we did it was it was a i think it was actually our first game a wonderful game going back and forth back and forth close game comes down to that final field goal attempt that's blocked the eagles win it and we never hit the record button who didn't hit the record yeah there's no we in that i never hit the record button all right you're right oh man there's a reason i'm not in charge of the computer anymore so that was a fun game you like to come up here this place is packed and it's a beautiful complex you got here they just redid this all i think in the 2017 2018 area and uh you know the stands are full here for moscow to columbia's starting to filter in and uh it's exciting to be back here for week one football yeah and in moscow it's always a it's always a good environment no matter what sport it is i feel like whenever back when i was in high school you come to a volleyball game or you come to uh you're playing at a basketball game but i don't think there's anything i like playing in moscow for a friday night football game their fans are always have the most energy their band is great and they always uh they're just ready to go on friday nights well we get to this season now let's talk a little bit about our returners and uh it's all going to start we're going to start on the offensive side of the football and it's all going to start with number 12 at the quarterback position and dominic vegley yeah dom's dom's a player he's been starting on varsity for four years now three years as a quarterback so uh he kind of knows what he's doing back there coach horner has a lot of faith in him and as well as the whole coaching staff and his players and all of colombia because i think everybody knows that there's no denying how good this kid is how special he can be and one of the best athletes we've ever seen go through columbia so back with him in the backfield it's going to be a kind of a platoon if you will at the running back position hayden habermill and dalton rainwater will be coming in they'll be your running backs hudson bryant he's going to be in there as well and then at the wide receiver portion you never know sam denny's going to be out there zach wetzel um mike bike yeah they talked on the holton meets coaches corner last night not gonna run away from you but you better be ready to tackle he's a tough physical kid yeah brendan like he doesn't have the the most speed on the team uh but he's gonna lower his shoulder he's gonna hit you he's gonna let you know uh who's got the ball so then you go into the big uglies the guys in the trenches another guy that you're going to have to start the play with is going to be the special guy from last year was a skilled position player and brandon jackson this year he's going to move down to the center position yeah we got a lot i know coach baker talked on that coach's corner he's really excited with the depth that he's got this season um he's i think he said he's got almost what eight or nine guys he can substitute in and out on the offense and defensive side of the ball so uh i think that's that's really a plus for uh coach baker and the offense and the defense you look at a couple other linemen to be on the offensive side uh tom kenningstein coming in at 285 schnabel 235 kish at 260 and then you got the sophomore antonis at 240 so pretty good size across the board maybe not the tallest but they're going to be pretty thick so uh coach horner said in that coach's corner not going to have the most speed but we could be pretty physical this year yeah and carter hick is another guy we could throw in there too uh for the dn wise i think coach germain said he's going to hold down that d-line front and we can move him on uh offensive line as well we can move him in a little sniffer back if we want he can even go play right wide receivers six foot six throw him out there by on an island with somebody let him go up and get it so i think there's a lot of big guys up here that we're looking forward to this season so we're about five minutes away from kickoff here in the aces wild pre-game show let's flip it over to the defensive side of the ball again a lot of guys coming back returning from last season and uh once again it's going to be number 12 last year started a safety moved up to a linebacker he was your leading tackler and then they put him back again at safety this year so who else you got on that defensive side of the ball uh you got to start off up front i mean we already said carter hicks uh if you can win the battle up front it makes it a lot harder to win games so um for the other team obviously then you can throw guys in like zach wetzel who was all-conference corner last year uh started off the first two or three games he was struggling a little bit but towards the back end of the season he really picked up his game and started to be in the right spot at the right time so uh yeah i'd say zach wetzel and carter hicks will look out for on the defensive side this year and then like we said brandon jackson he's going to be alignment on the offensive side of the ball and then he's going to flip over be your linebacker and your sometimes it looked over here when we were doing scout defense he was even playing a safety position so kind of odd whenever you see a safety with number 54 on it but that's a guy that can do it all and like coach baker's been saying very unselfish of him to be able to do it all looks like the lights are coming on now alex everybody's starting to stand up i think both teams are about to or mosquitoes walking their way down now so the new thing with the lights is jared's saying and not really taking effect right now we still have the sunshine out but the new thing are these led lights that flash and i think this could get interesting by the end of the night if they're starting to score it could be kind of interesting to see so hopefully we see some zeros i don't want to see no scores up there on the mosquito side yeah we don't need that so the mosquito indians are taking the field right now they've got their cheerleaders holding up some signs watch out eagles indians coming through and uh colombia just got done taking the field they're going to be in their all-white uniforms pretty clean classic look that columbia is going to bring to you on a road game isn't that what coach remains said his favorite is all white he did i think coach remains or coach horner sometimes likes to go uh with the white with the blue pants but i think whenever coach ferman hears white unis you gotta go white pants you gotta go all white out well we're gonna head to one more break real quick we're two minutes and 30 seconds away from kickoff we will be back with kickoff and the end of the aces wild pregame show after this i'm not foundational welcome back into the aces wild pregame show captains are making their way onto the field right now and dominic vaguely and uh number 54 for the muscuda indians they're going to be recreating the coin toss and uh i've had a little bit of an honor here for a military personnel for a mosquito so kind of a good touch this week one getting things started on the right foot i didn't i think you were saying during that little break there we didn't see uh whenever they did a little meeting earlier we didn't see who was getting ball or who was kicking off first but i think they're doing that now still waiting here for the verdict of the ref i think the ref was ready to get things rolling and didn't know that the script was going to be read that long so jared we look in tonight what are your three keys into this game and what's going to get this season started off on the right foot i think you got to try to win the uh upfront battle with coach baker saying you got about eight or nine guys you can substitute in and out you're not going to have a lot of guys tired i know it's the first uh game of the year but um you got a lot of guy a lot of depth there um on the front line and then i also to break down and tackle i know they got a couple athletes out there um and last year i think they had three other three or four other touchdowns were 60 yard plus so and that those went off break broken tackles that us not breaking down and um wrapping up so i think that's those are two of the really big things and then i think uh coming here ignoring the environment but also embracing the environment you got to kind of block out everything whenever you're on the field but enjoy it and have fun because football's back and friday night football you can't there's nothing better man nothing better well the eagles will be returning the opening kickoff so we'll see what that offense is able to do and get kicked off with a bang here number 27 for muscuda we'll be doing the kicking tonight and that'll be senior braden christian back deep for the eagles looks to be number 21 hudson bryant and i believe that's number three zach wetzel back there deep for the eagles so ready or not ladies and gentlemen week one football is coming at you right now here we go it's gonna be a deep kick gonna be recovered at the five yard line by bryant he's gonna pick it up try to make something out of nothing now mosquito almost loses contain but they're able to keep it there and it's gonna be a good for about a seven yard return and the eagle offense is going to be brought out on the field and starting at the 13 yard line look like brian on that play didn't know if wetzel was coming over to catch it or not he kind of literally looked at him right when the ball was in the air and thought wetzel was coming over so it kind of went over his head lucky to pick it up and get get the drive going at the 13.

looks like east is going to win the toss and choose to defer to the second half so north will receive north will receive going away from the building facing north towards the scoreboard just getting ready to say dr roberts that uh number 51 coming off the field right now as a captain save savion miles yes he's he's a talented kid he's one to watch for sure former schmidt rocket former clifty creek cougar but uh savion will he will certainly play football at the next level he has a few division two offers um very nice kid kind of kid that's always got a smile on his face he'll uh he'll bury you on the football field but he'll pick you up and smile at you when he's when he's uh when the play is over so uh but certainly a talent out here tonight and one to keep an eye on yeah definitely looking forward to seeing savion play can wreak havoc in the backfield but as you said just a great kid it's exciting about ready for kickoff as he gets ready to tee it up and kick off to columbus north to start this east north contest number three nathaniel hedrick is the kicker for east he's going to move the ball to the right hash get the ball just inside that shadow of the press box a little bit daniel's a senior at columbus east high school he's going to kick away from the board from north to south my left to my right and back deep for the dogs i'm sure tyler blythe is back there looks like he is i'm going to assume that's damon edwards on the other side both of those young men seniors damon edward edwards former schmidt rocket doctor a few schmidt rockets out here tonight blight's going to receive that ball off the two-yard line gonna come up the left hash and he's going to be wrapped up quickly at the 17-yard line good coverage there by east high school credit that tackled to devon to colby number eight for east 6-1-165 senior that's where north is going to start with the ball 17-yard line left hash mentioned before that number 18 zack horn is a quarterback he's in the gun with a single setback edward's in motion the give is to blythe and he's going to get a couple of yards up ahead maybe not maybe maybe just one stacked up pretty quick looks like a gain of a yard so we'll be at second and nine conrad eggers credited with the tackle there for east high school number 56 also a senior second nine they will give him a yard of progress here the ball is on the 18 yard line just starting here zero zero 11 30 to go in the first quarter north with a tight bunch formation to the boundary the pitch to the boundary a little toss swallowed up quickly that time that's by number six brennan cohen senior for east high school bring up third down that's gonna be a loss of about four yards brett so that'll push us it looks like third and 12.

and i just feel so good about the communication sofia and i really picked up on we've really improved our own communication and um on hell i'm exhaling because you're here and uh and you're sticking around i know there's been a little chit chat about you maybe not sticking around so i'm really grateful for that uh and uh lindsay with your challenges uh in in a lot of layers of your life just so grateful to be around the table with you i couldn't have a better cabinet in the whole wide world i can't get over the stuff we're able to do the mountains were moving and right now how proud i am of each of this team members to um just to get the train on the track and keep the train on the track and that foundationally is kind of where we are just to stay and steady and wade you have just been such a gift to the district in terms of um being a shape-shifter for us and an eye-opener for us and a filter lens uh corrector or opener so we're breathing deeper and more humbly and i just this day is set up when sophie and i were planning it to uh she had she and i had almost a synergistic moment where we're like wade should be our guide today and so we are so thrilled to have you here wade and just to help us focus on a couple things we're geared to talk a little bit about how are we doing what's our self-reflection as a board what do you see in your own reflection uh and then as we morph that into the expectations that this board has adopted gosh was it 2015 or 14 it was before i came and they tweaked ever so slightly a word or two or three here or there uh and then as we hone in on our our desire to model and be leaders of equity uh we just didn't think there could be anybody better after our rally where wade just took us up as a as a true culture focused on equity so that's our morning then we're going to have a lunch break and we're going to have the opportunity to um work with alison amanda over there hello from our strategic partner team and focus on what we want to accomplish in the next three ish years two ish and then one and then one year's worth of goals so i hope everybody is appreciative of the let's stress casually and uh there's fruit danish coffee water and just anybody else want to co-welcome or co-start yeah i just want to thank everybody for being here i think with the self-evaluation this is why i had picked a way to um because i think we have a lot of um issues that i think together we can work at and a lot of it i think has been miscommunication between this because i think 85 of the time we're all on par on level on everything um and i really want to take this time for do some self-reflection also and really think about how um we take heed of other people's experiences and not devalidate them just because we haven't gone through those um because i know that there's a lot of stuff that's been going on in the district and sometimes we can get a little nope that wasn't me or brush things off so i think having his leadership here and because of the equity and all the work that he does will get us in that level for the next two years and really think about what it looks like for us um you guys because you guys have two more years um i just got reappointed so at least that's good at least i know that i'll have another four years but um to really look at that and do some self-reflection of what we've done individually as school board members for the district and how we're servicing our kids and our families heather you want to say anything to open the morning happy to be here doing the work and getting back into the new reality of my life and i appreciate all of you for supporting me and being there at my wife's celebration of life um he was happy to be here i thought i was leaving and i repeat some moves but then everybody in the house so i'm happy for that so i can complete and finish what i have to finish and i still live in this neighborhood and i love it not to be part of of a group of people that is trying to make it my better hasn't kicked in yet but i'm happy to be here um it's been a flurry of a start to a school year so i'm also happy that people are getting healthy again and i'm sure i know creighton's going through the same thing my district is where we started and then it was like people started dropping like flies so i'm just happy everyone that's here is here and healthy um i'm just happy to be here he's very good happy to be vertical it's did you say i'm happy to be vertigo [Laughter] the vertigo i'd like to finish going away the vertical is good so but you know it's been it's been a crazy start of the school year and you know it's funny because and getting ready to head out the door this morning like this brought me back into the routine because you know you typically have these at the beginning of your school year but this school year has been such a blur for me of getting getting sick and everything and all the challenges we've had as you mentioned and seen with you know people dropping like flies so but i'm just happy that we're functional and that and to be at the table with everybody wonderful group of people uh good morning i'm very grateful uh to be here this morning um you know been part of the creighton family for a long long time and it really does feel like family sophia when you said that at the board meeting the last time uh in support of heather and her loss it really did feel like one body uh coming together to support someone so that was a reflection um likewise grateful to be here grateful to be here with all of you um and i'm excited i i've been looking forward to this day for a while because it's an opportunity to bring a lot of what we're going to talk about is kind of like the fruits of a lot of work our equity progress while never finished has been a lot of learning for a lot of us and we've got some plans in place and we're excited about what that is going to bring for the year our strategic planning process has engaged hundreds of voices over the past year and you know you've been part of that a couple of times and so you know we're really excited for you to see where we've landed and then receive additional input so that we can chart the future together just just just super happy super grateful so wait i don't know if you want to take us outside as you talked about or if that if you're thinking differently at this point but your call well i i'll probably close that to the group but just as far as uh kicking off here i'm just also happy and grateful for everyone so happy and grateful to be here i mean i'm hearing that and that sounds like this is the circle that meant to be in in this moment in my life i'm extremely uh just thankful for my journey and my continued journey with you all and i also come into this space with a really strong sense that i'm a guest and i'm also part of the community as well so i'm i i'm really spirit that i'm sharing the resources that come from my background i'd like to have to be extremely uh flexible and and just open-ended and in fact i kind of made it a point to rather than start with an end in mind kind of start with the beginning of mine and just allow this conversation to move where it needs to move particularly because i really haven't had a chance to connect meeting you for the first time heather and lindsay and just you know and very briefly you know angel like the kickoff i want to make sure that i'm offering what you all need in this space today so even in the morning i know we have a whole day but um at any point if we feel like if anyone feels that we need to have an additional conversation or or tap into something that i'm not aware of that is critical for us to talk about that 15 i guess that we're talking about it's not the 85 percent where we if that's you know essential i'm so willing to um support you all in that so that's just i think how i want to set up the spirit of the of what i want to offer today but yeah there is there is the possibility of stepping outside and circling up and donna brought sage well you suggested it like um you didn't you didn't hesitate i didn't study session we did artwork and then now we're doing hippie stuff this is a mint i mean if we want now so i do have i do have a history with stage you know for about five years i was teaching in the tucson unified school district and i was a member of the mexican-american lasso studies department so many of our courses actually integrated the power of natural medicine so that you know the sage is something that we would offer and sometimes in classroom settings sometimes you know outside of school but it was a way i think for us to tap in to our best intentions to be part of a community and think about ourselves and be reflective so today as we think about evaluation and expectations and perhaps having a sage circle uh could put us in a good spirit for that um so i'm open to that i also brought my conch so i also have some experience in blowing that conch so if you want i could lead us in a i'd say it'd be pretty brief donuts i kind of feel like this is the space we want to kind of step back into but if we're open to it and i would and i would uh probably be most comfortable if we're all open to it and if anyone's not uh comfortable with it then we would just probably carry forward here in this space but anybody uh or how do y'all feel about stepping outside for a second and just opening up with sage that gone abroad and um it's not a um it's not a religious thing it's just really around concepts you know concepts of i'll speak to four directions and some uh aztec some now what terminology that ties us to those four directions and uh it'll just be i think a way to center ourselves so we all think i'm not opposed to it but i don't know how anybody feels i do to my faith i i wouldn't feel comfortable with it okay okay and i respect if you guys want to do it but absolutely and out of respect to your faith i think let's just all stay together absolutely [Laughter] we had a very long night we went to bed like around two in the morning in my family we were here in a praying at church but i know they're going to be hungry around that time so i i need to be i have to make a long lunch and take him somewhere maybe even a movie this is saturday family day so maybe after that but thank you for your respect absolutely thank you a gringo friend used to call me ac because he didn't say he couldn't say angel it was italian he couldn't say angel he called me angelico don't call me he called me a ac spoke however you feel i like him because you speak with spanish toaster yeah i've got one of the worst names uh that translates horribly not horribly wait wait oh that says wade [Laughter] can you please i might have to bring it back i have to bring it back but yeah but um it's just nice to nice to be in the circle beneficial part of the circle so would you like me to kind of carry forward yeah okay well let's let's get right to uh you know i think our um again and you all looking at the screens here so i i do want to you know carry forward i think in the tradition of naming the fact that we have an understanding of history as we come together in many ways when we look at our current reality in our district or just our national or global reality um it's often history kind of looking at us in the face you know we are part of a momentum of history and there's a certain natural inertia i think of energy that if we don't do something to be a counter force to anything that is unjust then it's likely it'll carry on so i think in that sense of understanding that it does require effort it requires energy um let's have that understanding as we kick off today and that we can incorporate our awareness of a past that comes you know um in advance of our work today and then just recognizing that we're part of a beautiful landmass a continent part of a global community as well as a local community and then also you know i think just the sense of time too reminds us that uh we've had many different versions of borders over time you know these uh these color groups here are our peoples they're first nations and uh and grouped mostly by language in this particular diagram so we know that you know language is something that transcends borders and barriers and i think in many ways perhaps we could think about how we have a borderless mentality around the possibilities as we venture into conversations of equity and inclusion and diversity in our in our district and um you know to name those nations you know also the upper pima you know that sense of homeland um and i believe the kickoff i think we talked about the homeland didn't we kind of have a moment to check in anybody have a reflection on that like where you went with that i'm curious because you know being up on the stage and then offering that to the group and they're not processing it because it's a kickoff i'm not sure how it was for everybody else but i really felt like a sense of alignment because as the board we had already decided that that's what we wanted to do is recognize and have a land acknowledgement so seeing that how that's one of the bases where this project goes it made me feel like the board is going in the right direction of making these you know changes that maybe people are not used to or comfortable with because it hasn't been done in you know ever but to me that was just like okay it was the reassurance like we're doing what we're supposed to be doing you know because you brought that up and you're an expert and you talked about it so to me it was just reassurance that we're headed the right way it deepened my reason for why and um not only the land acknowledgement but we're looking at the name of one of our schools as as having you know a feeling of derogatory and and so we're you know it's still a very important conversation for us to have i was also triggered by uh kind of the colonial based historical perspective when you said that it it really ricocheted with me that as a child that's all i've ever been taught is male eurocentric history and um just to deepen the sense of humanity was so much richer and kinder just it softened my sense of who we are rather than being border based i really appreciated it i didn't i didn't get to stay for the whole kickoff because i had to go to work um but i gotta catch up and i just appreciate it because i started my teaching career on the navajo reservation and then came down here and realized like how many native american students we have in central phoenix and i think it's it's really overlooked a lot and kind of like what you were saying like we don't see a lot of school districts and boards and a lot of organizations doing things like land acknowledgements and it's such a a small thing with a large impact so just that this is being woven in it's so important because i really feel like that's an underrepresented group of our kids and families so i think there's some unique attributes to our land acknowledgement the way it was developed with a lot of a lot of voices our land acknowledgement speaks to not only the historic but the present and the future of indigenous people as part of a vibrant community and so i think that's really inspiring and there is alignment there for the programming the services the support and the engagement of that community and it's inspirational for for staff and for our community to engage those among us who are part of those indigenous families so i i think that's pretty cool is unique as a result of our our engagement yeah do you have any acknowledgement i can yeah i can pull it up but you know the other thing too is i feel that um it's amazing how many things can be political right um just even kind of the atlantic knowledge acknowledgement or talking about borders and what are you saying are you talking about an open border are you are you anti are you you know it's like so easily can kind of put you in like boxes because they take it like that yeah exactly so you know i think when we perhaps step into a space of thinking about maybe like a borderless sensibility around possibilities that we think about homelands that they're um it's also critical that we recognize that um you know many people that are not from here maybe ancestrally call this place home that's really critical you know um just you talking about like your your professional work and how that's so tied to your your land acknowledgement to where your home is in the neighborhood like that's so critical and that we we honor that so i think part of this conversation of homeland is to just think about the concept of home and what are those things that give you a sense of home and so when we actually do this conversation because you know for the most part the schools that we work in around the country very i mean it's very rare that we have too many native american students in those classes in those sessions we go to uh auburn school district and like in one classroom you have like ukrainian somali and vietnamese uh marshallese you know palestine and israel in the same yeah and so like when you talk about like something like a land acknowledgement it's like how how am i part of this how am i part of it how you know are you saying that like should i feel bad should i you know like all these kind of things might be stirred up and i think those are great conversations to have with young people right i think we we can uh recognize that sometimes we don't give young people enough credit to have sophisticated and very wise contributions to these conversations questions and ideas so you know um just as far as the spirit in which we bring in the concept of homeland when we work with students because we will be working with students with a youth equity stewardship work it really is uh having more of a conversation related to you know what is it that gives you a feeling of home you know how how do we create that how do we make sure that we can draw that in so there's not a disconnect between what you consider to be home and what you consider to be school you know can can we draw in some of those dynamics that make you feel comfortable that make you feel alive make you feel yourself you know so that's a piece i really want to make sure that we attach to the concept sorry really quick and when we're talking if you can just move the microphone a little bit closer to you because people online are having a hard time hearing this oh i don't want them just kidding okay great thank you yes i do have it yeah yeah so maybe yeah since we're here at this point it says crane school district understands that our community of schools is located on the ancestral land of the odom jude akima odam people who descended from the hohokam and have inhabited these lands since the memorial the odem whose name translates literally to people are a vibrant culture and community spanning countless generations into the past continuing to thrive in the present and carrying a powerful legacy for generations into the future with this acknowledgement the corinthian school district formally recognizes that the traditional caring keeping of these lands by indigenous people is an aspirational model of community stewardship that we are committed to honor with practices policy and human relations not out for me with that land acknowledgement i think there has been a lot of collaboration in that and so it feels like a mic drop acknowledgement yeah that feeling that like you said that carrying forward not just acknowledging a past putting people into you know that box but to recognize that this is this is the vitality of like who we are today and moving forward in our vision so it's beautiful um as we're thinking about self-evaluation today um sometimes that can be a little heavy in thinking about um our own personal accountability what we've done what we have not done and so i wanted to offer talking about uh youth wisdom i want to bring in a quote that comes from a really um powerful uh voice activist a strict more isquist and i i'd say maybe one of us could volunteer to read it other than me anyone willing to read that quote lindsay ariel wants to read it i'm not self-made i'm community made i'm family made i'm land made i'm ancestor made i'm made up of everything and everyone that made me exist outside of just myself do you mind carrying forward and maybe just uh saying her name and uh strict male is is quest i was like i do not want to mispronounce um [Music] indigenous non-binary queer plateau pop artist i know you don't have a mic back there but uh what what is it that uh has you interested in that quote he was not surrounded by like people growing up and coming here and seeing some of my own students who live who are not surrounded by love like people just make you the impact that that had on me being surrounded by people who looked like me who grew up like me and educated me with me physical and emotional thank you yeah and so this word um so in many ways i'm hearing you really honoring honoring that connection you have to that your upbringing to your your family your community so as we're looking at our own self evaluation and um thinking about it slightly change some of the wording but i use the same words but these are the kind of the four general expectations you know leading for student equity operating with effective professionalism and respect authentically engaging in diverse community and then providing sound oversight um i had a hard time putting the fourth expectation into an equity lens but i think the concept of soundness and and oversight um even though it's more about kind of budgets and you know i i still believe that there's nothing that um should not have a an equity inclusion frame to so in these four areas as you're looking at the four um kind of similar an ariel right aria okay aria so it's similar to how ariel kind of um connected that quote to you know her upbringing um as you look at those four things and your own in your own self-evaluation i'm curious who comes up for you or what comes up for you in terms of not being self-made being community made being land made being family made who stands out for you as you just think about your own you know value in these in these areas what comes up who comes up and i think this could just be a an open conversation you know i mean my first instinct is us as board members fit that description because um the community is the one that got us selected here we had to build that relationship with the community in order for them to get us in this spot and they've entrusted us us you know s5 with the participation of one missing person with this so i would say us hypothetically because that's why we were put in this position and i think once we're put in this position it's either we grow in this or we stay stagnant anyone else want to speak to in what ways you are community made or family made or land-based made out of in these areas when i left mexico i was 14 i have my friends my school my perspective and my dad brothers he never said you want to go so we came so you have a new language i remember two shanghai i went to tucson hey you you survived it forever i'm [Laughter] area and i didn't know the culture of tucson so i walked to the anita barrio space yeah i didn't know that centro has a space evening and there's hollywood so i i walked through to the big two trees right there and these guys sitting there they look like me they look mexicans i walked to them and they didn't like it so one of them throws his foot at me and i kick him he went into the fight and i got into the uh principal's office and they said what happened was the problem well he put his feet to make istanbul he would he walked through his face what do you mean your space and then the principal goes campos that area belongs to anita where you go there's not a sign i go i never seen a sign there he was well it's been there since the beginning this anita barry is one of the oldest in tucson yesterday from mexico so they assigned us that that was the way of fixing things they assigned us but where that was a tennis court is and the bikes they gave us that for the for the mexicans and i said i don't want this all i want to is to be able to work to the shores from my class to lunch around the corner right around it i don't i don't want to have to go around but but that was it that that was the end of it so culture things and and and and then i come to the united states where things sometimes are like that the other one is is music my father is a classical guitar teacher and we play international music so when i become a christian and start writing songs people say what do you take your frames of music i go oh dude i'm made up of everything sometimes i take some music from brazil sometimes i think i don't know because i grew up with a music spain so i put that into my music because you you you they said you're not like on on a line it's like you go out of everywhere sometimes it sounds like classical like that and when when i read that over there i'm the mixture of my mom with my dad with my english teacher in tucson mrs sergwa remember i love that lady she used me she got because we were troublemakers and esl and she was and she realized that i play music so this is it she goes campus what's your favorite english music er egos justin the winner from cancer do you know what you're singing like i don't think them i just play them so we she used my music to teach us english so that lady made a a change in my life and and so uh when i read that i took a picture of it i said yeah man that's true that's that's something so real we're not uh i'm not like my mom or like my dad i'm like everyone that made an inquiry into my life yeah everybody who watered into you and then you blossomed into your own somebody pissed in and i like something from here something from there you become yourself unique from everybody else i think that's why one of the most important things and i think everybody already knows that ever since i ran and got elected my biggest thing has been being community focused because unless we're out there hearing them and being out there and and they're sharing experiences we're never going to know how to effectively change policy to make things better or to take down these systemic barriers that we have that we all historically know have been here for years so that's a huge thing and i think that's something that we are working on but we can definitely be better at because if we're not hearing the voices then we can effectively engage or know how that's working kind of like you i i came from mexico in fourth grade and it was just a culture shock to me just the process of getting lunch in the lunch order and lunch line like i came home and i was traumatized by that because in mexico you just go to the lady who's at the stand and we don't you don't have a cafeteria where the school that i went to yes it's the little snack bar just like the concept of trying to put in numbers to get a lunch like i didn't even know what that concept was or in fourth grade i was a product of peoria's school district and i went to a school a school office where if i wore a jersey i was considered part of a gang because i was brown so it's like all those little things you know and my school if three or more people of color were walking together we were considered it again because they literally would sit us down they're like nope either separate or you gotta sit down but then you saw my white counterparts they were wearing their seahawk jerseys or whatever team they wanted and we weren't allowed to do that so it's just a lot and i think those experiences ira murphy elementary in peoria so 75th avenue and peoria 72nd so um and not so long ago no that's what's mine blowing unless you hide your age really well sophia though i do uh i graduated from high school no five so that was middle school i you know i i'm really curious that maybe we can talk about a little bit more but you're talking about you know how do you have those relations with the communities that you can really represent a community voice but i would imagine that to be authentic may be challenging when you're a board member because you're holding some kind of different levels of accountability maybe there's guidelines there's certain barriers to that real authentic engagement like even now there's microphone right so it's like to what extent does that sense of like authenticity how do you tap into that when you're in kind of a role such as you know one that you've been voted into and so i don't know i just i to me that's a little bit of a curiosity i have never been a board member but you know how you can you know kind of still be real still be yourself and feel like you can be transparent but at the same time you're also holding a position where you have to represent other people it's not all about you anymore you know not like it ever was in the world but again it just feels like quite a quite a challenge it is a challenge because you try to fix that and then we all have our own personal lives right um but the way that i do it the most is i always say this i'm at the doors all the time um just because i got elected two years ago doesn't mean that my work stops so i'm constantly hitting doors talking to my community reaching out i think i know a lot of the small business owners around i show up everywhere i put myself in those spaces and i think that's what really creates this leading with effectiveness and professionalism is you putting yourself out there people will not know or have the opportunity to even be involved if you're not giving them the tools or the information you know and you know posting something online isn't enough you know sending a robocall isn't enough and the way that i've worked and seen it as a gruesome grassroots organizer is that you have to meet people where they're at if that means that you're going to the laundromat from six to eight because you know the majority of your people are going to be there that's where you show up you show up where they are at do you pretend to do laundry at that time or do you just no sometimes i take my kobe house here [Laughter] my washer does not have the capacity big those big ones are great yeah the big tiger blankets it's very important to for me two things number one uh maintain and keep my identity real and that includes what i've been through because my experience nobody has had it i never had his experience he's live what he has lived and that makes him so and the people that i'm with the people that i pastor the people that i deal with every day that makes me who i am and then coming to a table with different people and then leading in a community so diverse so it immediately it sends me a sign that i need to be respectful for example to to anything that is spiritual not everybody believes in what i believe and and uh i'm certainly not better than many people and not worse than many others so so i i need to be very respectful to everybody but that doesn't mean that i need to bend over of who i am and and that's very important to me as as far as i respect you and understanding that maybe somebody is not going to be respectful to me but i still need to keep my identity even if they don't like it even if they don't agree with me that's fine let's agree to disagree i'll be respectful that's very very important because i represent if let's say uh somebody that there's a quote about a world war two and they come to the western churchill they were trying to brave him and they said because you are so important in this and they tried to break him and they go if i go for your bravery i lose my value so you have to know who you are and and and you're a very valuable person in this i go and i want to keep it like that so yeah no bribery i continue to win my values and that same here i respect everyone and and i can uh uphold you even if i don't think like you because there was one time where somebody was bringing something about the lg tv community and there was a sense that i was going to be against it and in my side in my inside i was laughing i said god loves everyone god doesn't want anybody to be bullying anybody so why would i be against protecting anybody and i explained myself and said no it has nothing to do with religions it has to do with human beings and where do i sign so that that's what makes very important to me respect but keeping my values when i first read all these like i just started thinking about the families um in our community and because i taught here and i actually the first thing that came in my mind is it wasn't yesterday it's been a long week one day this week i was starting my day not at my office but at one of our schools and so i actually drove up 36th street and one of the crossing guards at papago now is a parent of one of my students when i was at kennedy and i rolled down my window and she was just like oh and you know like it's just it's all those little moments and um just knowing like i still have a lot of families a lot of parents that reach out to me and check in and not just from the creighton community i had one of my students from my first class reach out to me and uh when i'm from when i taught on the navajo reservation and she's at asu and she's graduating with a degree in engineering and starting her masters and i'm for my first reaction is okay i'm old um but uh the the second piece was just like continuing to have these families and these parents reach out to me year after year and be like you know hey they're in high school now they're they want you to come to the you know see their band concert they want you to come and like you had this impact on them and i mean that's why that's why i ran and um i mean no you know we ran together i'm like these these are still my kids like i might not teach in this district anymore but but these are my kids and my families and they always will be and um so i think that's you know i did not grow up the same as the families that i teach but being able to put myself in their shoes and listen to their stories and and hear and truly ask like how can i help you and and what do you need and i think like i was kind of thinking when you said you know the fourth goal is a little harder to put it in an equity lens but honestly i think that's one of the biggest ones on here is our budget like that is a tangible way that we as a board have the ability to reallocate our resources and i think very often with school budgets with government budgets honestly people tend to put money where they think the need is instead of putting the money where the community says we need this and um you know that goes down to every little supplemental curriculum program resource that that we are ensuring gets purchased for our district because let's be honest most of the things that are published are for a one size fits all child and so how are we you know how is our curriculum department really looking at where the gaps that our kids are saying this this is something i need more help with or the parents are saying this is something my kid needs more help with and and those are physical tangible dollars we can put in those pockets um you know or purchasing curriculum where kids do see themselves and hear themselves and and relate um so you said like oh that was kind of hard i was like that actually to me is the most like you know tangible it's a tangible it's a this is something we can do right now um but we need to listen to our kids too like listen to the kids because they'll tell you this is what i'm struggling with and this is why these books you know i don't like to read or you know i these concepts don't make sense to me i don't have this background knowledge um and those are all tangible things that we as a word have the power to say let's we need to allocate to this for anybody anyone else's kind as you're thinking about your community maintenance sorry i like to be very reflective so yeah i usually take a while to process things the first thing that i thought of was just growing up in my childhood how you know i grew up in a two-parent household and we weren't rich but we always had everything we needed um and so um i was pretty privileged uh i didn't really think about it until of course i got older and started reflecting on things things and things that happened um in life that make you reflect and continually reflect um and that happened to be one of my favorite things about my wife and i is that we could sit down and have have hard conversations with each other because we were safe with each other um so when i started teaching um i started in in mesa and you know in in some lower income schools so i kind of got a glimpse into you know um different families then i got a job in isaac and i've been there for 22 years and 97 of our students are hispanic students and so it really took me a long time to like listen to them and and i was blown away by like certain things one thing that just always stuck with me was like why are you tired oh i had to sleep like under my bed last night because there was a drive-by shooting and like things like that that they will tell me that i never understood because that never had happened to me like i never once in my life had to sleep on the floor because there was a drive-by shooting i never had to sleep on the floor because there are multiple families in the house i always had like my own bed so just like having that time to like learn and then being accepted by my families and most of you probably don't know this but there were there were some of my families at my wife's funeral and there was a lot of my ex-students there um because i have built those relationships with my families and this is one of the reasons why i wanted to be a board member is because i want to continue to build relationships with families and it has been a constant struggle with me to like really look at myself and say like your thinking wasn't right at that time like how can you reflect on that because we always say you know i'm not racist i'm not this but it's not it wasn't about that it was about like actually learning about people and about learning about myself and the things that i have had that other people haven't had and my kids have taught me that and like lindsay said it's powerful to listen to children that's why i've requested that we have more kids at our board meetings to let us know i want them to be open and honest and kids are like that kids will say what they they need to say yeah and that's not going to sugarcoat it that's what i want because yeah i want to know like what do they want what do they need my kids tell me at school there's a lot of times where maybe i go off track somewhere because that's where they're leading me and that's where they need it at the time so i think a lot of teachers have that natural ability to do that but i want to hear from kids i don't want to constantly hear from adults i want to hear from that's who we're serving we're serving our families and our kids and the kids are the important ones and we can learn from them so that was just kind of my reflection when they're going to be creative they're going to think of things that never would have occurred to us they're so smart so in maybe thinking through you know the time you've had together and as a board um how are how do you see that balance because you're really speaking to making sure that we're hearing kids you know to what extent do you feel like you have a balance of hearing from all constituents all stakeholders in a community are are we adequately you know just in a sense of kind of evaluating where we are you feel like we're having opportunities to hear from kids at the same rate we're hearing from adults is their balance in that because we're an intergenerational community so you know we can't just talk to kids but we need to so like we're just as you're kind of thinking back we're thinking where we are now where is that balance i don't think we've reached that balance at all yeah as a collectively we haven't i don't believe so they that's one of a big thing that i think we need to work on yeah like my you know we've kind of talked about it a little bit but like having kind of those sitting student board members you know having that council and and i know that our students meet in leadership groups with you and in other areas of the district but we need to have that space like i would i would have loved to have 12 kids around this table today too we all used to be kids don't forget and i've seen that happen in other districts and there is a lot of i mean when i was doing our evaluation i was like i was mean to us on our evaluation in some of these areas because i'm like we're not doing this and we've talked about it and we're not doing it yet so i think that's very important too because we need to look at our children they are our leaders tomorrow they're going to be our next teachers principals administrators school board members and unless we're opening up that space for them to grow in those leadership roles i mean we send them off to high school and by that time they're like oh forget it i want to do this no more and i only talk about because i'm going through that with my son i have a 13 year old and he's in eighth grade and right now he's going through some phases where he's like i don't want to do this no more because we're not engaging them he's like screw it like i don't want to do it no more and i'm like okay so it's that engagement of our kids i think that we really do have some kind of we need to work on it basically hungry i'm laughing because at one point i sometimes he just comes to me and i take my children this is back in june chuck and david both of them hey guys what do you think about exact path and then chat was a point of it well what do you mean unless you you you're more explanatory i cannot understand your point david jumps in it sucks [Laughter] and then i go come on come on make it clear give me more yeah why does it suck according to you and he goes well it only teaches you something you learned in the past or what you are learning now oh so it teaches nothing new correct is that what you're trying to say well it feels like teachers only use it so they can have time to prepare for for for what they are going to do next and i said next time i want to be more more prepared when i ask him something because the the answers are like that they're on sugarcoat yeah that's what she said let me bring it so uh and and but now i never had exact that so even though i was a kid one time i i don't understand what they're saying i go back come on dude give me more because i don't know i i wasn't done like that i was okay and you you okay i'm gonna dictate you're gonna write it down and then you're gonna memorize it by tomorrow that that was my school that's right and and and another thing they taught me was like a couple you need to clean tomorrow you need to clean the whole room for everybody and teaching now is so different that sounds like a very exact path yeah and anyways i just wanted to read that because when she said they don't sugarcoat it no oh no they don't i think that speaks to i think with our math curriculum adoption we did a better job of getting student input invoices more than we have in the past but just being mindful that anything you know even the supplementary pieces like getting the feedback from the kids you know yeah you know when it's relevant the learning is exponential and so i think what you're trying to do is what's relevant to me if it sucks or if it's terrible or if it's not the it's all about the past not the future what can they do to pivot that conversation with kids because then it will be more relevant to them it's not just an exercise in isolation that is a good chance maybe when we ask him in in a table like this or in the classroom they will try to fit in with the teacher or not hurt the teacher they threw it to me like that because i'm the daddy i think the teachers are saying the same thing on their texts but i think often we assume that kids are you know let's get feedback on this curriculum and we assume kids are going to be like oh it sucks because it's not fun like no he's saying it sucks because i'm not getting support and practice in new skills like that was a very insightful thing like this program that's supposed to be adaptive that we've done a ton of research on and you know experts created it and yet you have a child saying it's only having me work on things i've already learned that's powerful want to remind you all here is i'm your facilitator [Laughter] oh and the the basic way to think of a facilitator is just the um simplification of like conversation right so i kind of make it i smooth it out or i find ways i can help transitions or i keep keep it moving you know what i mean because like there's like an agenda so like how do you kind of keep it uh keep it pushing so to speak um and you know when we think of facilitation um you know i think in that same kind of idea of the i think the myth and and sometimes the the really the miscommunication i think that we come into our teaching with that we're there to like share our knowledge and our great wisdom of expertise when really it's more of you know how are we facilitating the growth uh not centering it on ourselves and recognizing that we're part of the learning process right and when we're part of the learning process as adults that's really what engages an intergenerational learning environment so um so in the spirit of kind of facilitation that is one of my goals here and the reason i'm setting it up like this because you know i'm a facilitator maybe like why would i put that there the reason is because there's another angle on facilitation and uh there's a man named augusto boa who had a method called forum theater and it was through a a theatrical work called theater of the oppressed and it was a way to engage communities in theatrical uh kind of structures but around real issues like it you know like so you know if if there was exploitation at a at a major corporation or there was things that were you know unfair or unequal he would come in and do these forum theater sessions where you give people an opportunity to kind of play out different options and possibilities so you know this idea of examining multiple paths is really the way of a difficulty so that's another i think way that maybe we think about teaching is you know to what extent are we facilitating and difficulty right to where we um step into the learning complexity to be adventurous is diverse yeah to be adventurous is to take paths unconventionally and i think this is beautiful difficult a difficult time this is yeah this is awesome um so there's actually a non-profit organization called fuerte movement and they actually do this so they hold um artist sessions sometimes they're open mic nights sometimes they're painting nights but what they do is they take real issues that are impacting the community and they open these spaces so like recently they just had a rent is too high paint party so people came in and took out their anger um and it was really moving because there was a family who recently just moved out of their house because their rent went up five hundred dollars so then their whole family came to this pain party and they took out their aggression on this so this is awesome because we do have an organization locally here that already does that and that i think that's they help navigate the community through their struggles or whatever it is they're going through different opportunities like this what a cool opportunity if there was a way to partner i i'm sure there is yeah that was high to win yeah it was called the rain the rent is too high paint party they just held it last two weeks ago but they're always doing like events like that and they they're an arts focused non-profit so everything they do has some kind of art involved whether it's music sports poetry whatever you name it they they do it it's really awesome and it it it sounds like almost like oxymoron to say that the rent is too damn high party because like rent being too high is like that's oppressive right and it's and it's and then to party around that and so like i like this idea of um being able to balance celebration and challenge you know thinking about how our work can still kind of be centered in a way of being joyful but not losing sight of the fact that we're dealing with pain and hurt and these struggles um and so i kind of in that spirit of both like facilitation difficultation um i didn't want to bring forward a conversation that we could um bring up again and it came up when i just recently did a session with the leaders of uh school so in school administrative leadership and you know donna eric you may want to remind uh us all kind of what the teams were that came from each school because i know it was the principal aps i think it was the there were coaches so as a way to kick off the year um the idea of like like what what do we want to carry forward you know and i think by saying what we carry forward we may also be uh tapping into what we want to leave behind as well but as you kind of as we think about an idea of moving into a new year and still in the spirit of self-evaluation because there may be aspects about just our own way in the work or our collective way in the work that are things to uh discard you know re reimagine or just carry forward because the other thing too is like let's not lose sight of progress and things that have been accomplished that's so critical so you know i'm just wondering if when you see this question of like what do you want to carry forward what does that make you think of from either your kind of individual standpoint or as a group so for me individual individually what this mean is breaking down the systemic barriers that we have in the school system to make it better for our kids and i think a lot of the times we're in the mindset of what can we do next year to make it better but we haven't even got to the root cause issues of why our kids are not learning why is this happening i mean we have some kids that are living at motel 6 because they just got evicted and we expect them to come wholeheartedly to school ready to learn so to me it's very at the bottom of the ticket i'm not thinking about like okay in the next five years yes i understand that we have tangible goals and we have to set stuff because we're you know the legislator basically controls us the state whatever rules we have but if we're not focusing on the whole child first then we're missing the mark i mean i remember when my son was in third grade there was he was going to build more prep and there was this dental bus that would come to the schools and that's something that we don't have anymore so like those necessities are those small things where some of these families can't take time off work it really it depends so looking more on the those things looking forward on how we can create those paths and make it easier for our families because eventually if that's taken care of i mean we just got funds taken away and we're not even offering free lunches to our family and communities that was something that they depended on for two years so things like that on how are we allocating funds to make sure that those needs that are necessities are taken care of first instead of going into buying a three million dollar you know whatever it is so i i look my forward kind of going backwards it's how do we get to the basics and that's where i feel a lot of the times we miss the mark we just expect these kids to move forward give me this a or give me this be school and we're we're messing it up we're missing the mark i think i'll put this back up again cause i feel like what you're tapping back into is your idea that like this fourth one probably should elevate to the top of like tangible yeah well i mean you brought up something that's i'm dealing with every day in my own district is we are getting funds taken away and i think something beautiful that came out of the last two years was how our communities and our government rallied around supporting the needs of our children of our families at a very basic level and now we are starting to very quickly see all of that be undone and it's it's breaking my heart honestly i know um in creighton the virtual academy kids are dealing with it in the same way i am for the online school that i run is i had to fight we bring them in person for testing next week and i had to fight to make sure that they have breakfast and lunch served because the government congress has determined that they don't qualify for that and the fact that i had to jump through so many hoops to make sure that while i have kids physically in my care from 8 30 to 3 30 that i had to jump through hoops just to make sure they had food during that time and that doesn't even begin to start the fact that they are no longer allowed to go to their home schools and pick up the five day meals the all of the resources that they have as you said have been depending on have just been pulled out from under them um sorry i get emotional about this because it's something i'm i'm talking to these families every day and i don't have an answer you know like i'm working with everybody i can in my district and our community partners right now to find something that's sustainable and not just you know i've had donations and that's great but that's not sustainable because these are things that they have come to rely on um and you know everyone needs to take their political views out of that whether people should be provided things um i know that gets people get very controversial about that but it takes so much you know when families have been through different circumstances it takes so much in our society to pick yourself up and to provide the basic means um we have so many families who are i have friends i have teachers who are being evicted because they can't afford to keep the apartment um and that's a that's a huge reality and i think we need to be really cognizant of that when we're thinking about our tangibles is because of the housing market because of everything that's going on in the area we live and the supports that everybody had the last two years that are now just being gone i think we're about to fall off a cliff honestly but that's why i feel like this is great that we're having these conversations because the community entrusted us to know how to navigate those systems and how we're connecting with other non-profits how we're connecting with the community how do we support our community resource center that we have right here that does all that for our family how are we supporting them so they grow so our community doesn't feel this hit you know yeah um our community resource center is a huge thing not many school districts have that and that's one of the things that i'm most proud of um but there's so much more that can be done there um but i think that's reprioritizing what we do as a school board and what how we can better serve and i this is why i wanted to have these card conversations because a lot of the stuff will get brought up right um and it just brings us back to why we started this why we ran and i did run with them too and i remember our biggest mission was the families and the kids everything that we do with policies any you know resolutions that we pass everything has to be geared and focused to our kids and to the community not to make anybody else happy sometimes that ruffles other people's feathers and i understand that but i am the biggest ruffle feather there is and i have no problem doing it but sometimes those things have to be done because nobody else is out there speaking out for them and this is a system that's for them not for us you know i already went through split and i went through it and those experiences as a child that gave me those that's why i fight so hard because i don't want another kid feeling what i felt you know i know how it feels to go through that come home and your parents are so busy working to maintain food on the table that you didn't even have your parents to talk about that i basically grew up in the school system all alone i didn't have anybody to tell me what fafsa was i didn't know how to apply for college i figured all those tools on my own or with people that i you know leaned on to or realized and that's not fair we're we're failing our kids when we're not offering those kind of things so i totally agree i mean i've helped my kids multiple times you know getting resources directing and i and i know we need it i think the problem the first thing that i think of is how do we how do we tow this fine line of things that we have to do as a district because government says we have to do it and what do we have to do as teachers so i'm coming from a teacher point of view is i'm being told at school like here's your curriculum right and you need to stay on this path you need to stay on the on this you know um push forward but one of my kids only comes to school every 10 days right so what am i doing for this kid but then i'm gonna get punished punished later on when this kid doesn't thrive when this kid isn't doing their best when this kid scores falls far below on a test because i didn't teach this child so there's like this fine line like how are we helping our families and then how are we also like having our teachers feel like they're not being punished and our families aren't being punished and our district is not being punished so i think it's such a tricky thing and i literally have no idea like how to fix it um and i love that sophia has a lot of connections with um like those things because i know a lot of other people like me personally don't have as many connections and so i love doing those sort of things but then how do we balance that out between doing our doing like the job of a teacher and and being an educator and benefiting our students but then also being someone that supports our students first and that that's a hard that's a hard like line to travel it really is and i know it's a struggle for everybody from top down i mean so i guess that's kind of what that's where i am i'm always like i feel like i'm always stuck in the middle of what's best for our kids i always want what's best for the kids but then when we take like you know the new asset test um for the state like our kids are falling far below and then now we're being punished again where it should be about the kids first like sophia said it should be about those kids and healing these kids and these families they're going through such a hard time and teachers that are going through a hard time i mean i'm a one income household now and i worry about keeping my own house but if i get kicked out of my house where am i going to go you know so i feel like there's just this constant battle right now and i think it got exponentially worse when covent hit and now things are just i think there's so many things that were brought to light that maybe were hidden before but now they're just so exponentially like out of proportion okay i'm curious about you because i'm feeling like if i'm thinking about carrying forward it seems like a strong carrying forward of like some mutual uh value in uh providing in a way that's you know not theoretical but very tangible and practical and based on offering like our basic sustenance for life and you know like offering that foundation and so yeah hearing them so far i'm curious what your thoughts are around just the caring for i just wanted to kept kind of just name the fact that i feel all that synergy happening and just we think of carrying forward there's a lot of energy around what we're what we're missing right and that's part of a caring forward too but as i'm listening to this it's kind of like new to me i've been very focused on on church there's been a very high level of drug addictions every morning i walk out i see young people with paper foil and blues and he's trying to help them and then we're hosting migrants every week and we have children i have to be careful that the drugs that the needles and special every every day i mean into that but i'm listening about the the meals for the children and uh i just texted a couple of my my friends that are close friends as in college and they always ask me about papa they grew up here and i uh and i'm just asking them about because i haven't made my my uh my contribution so i i think actually not only thinking and bringing ideas but actually being that that's what i'm thinking just using being the the the answer not only promoting other people to give but being the givers uh uh setting the example and uh so uh i i i was writing and i was texting as i was listening because it's kind of like hit me no it hit me what the heck i mean it's yeah it wasn't a god i mean my kids eat they love food if you invite them to your house i don't know what type of food they do they'll eat that's right if an italian invites them they said people says i want your kitchen my home lady say i your kids make me feel good like well why they eat on my food my children don't wanna eat my food and your children empty of the plate so so uh food is important uh uh and and uh that's what you have me right now and i don't think i'm sorry of that that i bring this but i remember you now from tucson high yeah [Laughter] and and uh you impacted my life you play football yeah and your grandpa is anthony quinn yes i know i know let me tell you we never befriend it watch this we never befriended i never hung up with you i i was a sophomore year was my first year in united states wow so my senior year she but every time i crash past with you and i saw you the football player you were i was a kicker you were a good kicker and you could hear it and i looked up to you because every time i crashed past with you i didn't know any english anytime i crossed out with you everywhere you had a smile you were kind and and and that's what i remember you and now i said wait okay hold on and then i said and i wrote something here he's been writing your name down yes yes yes i do that i said it says we never went out together we never were close friends but you were always kind and uh if we he football uh you know my kids say that they bought a shirt i have a game i didn't know what it meant it means that they can they have girls with pica games and i said here i look up to you but you never knew me probably but but every time i'm that one kid that was playing the guitar with my little brother and we were playing la bamba and people was just around the table in lunch maybe you you weren't there by that time but i remember you and i remember that antony quinn because we play international music over the greek it's a great music yeah you play it and i've seen that movie a million times with my father and so when when and somebody told me oh his grandpa is antony queen who is the other one so that's why you see me writing i'm writing about these i'm tasting about it i i'm one of those kids that you maybe you don't want in your classroom if i was your student i can be like yeah amazing things at the same time and you're still cool [Laughter] oh man well you know what when you said you knew me my thought was you're going to embarrass me but nobody actually just touched my heart man i don't know bro do these bites good do you mind if you take like a quick five minute break i gotta go to the bathroom me too yeah yeah i know everyone's like and i still drinking coffee after the reunion foreign i think he's just taking a phone call right yeah okay well um yeah i'd be really curious to uh support that specific orientation to what you're talking about which i didn't really have a lens on until now so but like it's imperfect right so let's let's make that happen um what i will do though is um introduce a little bit of language that i also think can be supportive even as we maybe get into some of those uh details and looking at the cumulative evaluation piece um this is a word that is part of the name of the process that we work with students with and it's youth equity stewardship and youth is really a way of speaking not just to the fact that it's for students but i really love to think about youth as something that is more of a spirit right so that i think any of us probably in this circle carry a certain youthfulness to even want to be with you right and if you don't you probably shouldn't be around some youth right so so youth i think in the spirit of like that just curiosity and energy and just wanting to grow and learn and then the the equity piece i'll talk to you in a second but the we've really felt that stewardship is a really key term and perhaps as we're kind of looking at speaking to the fact that there is that kind of punitive uh linking to the accountability in our work like how do we perhaps create a standard that's um not just centered in achievement but is centered much more in the way that we contribute to the wellness of the world right to our local national global communities so this idea of stewardship um here's the working definition it changes day by day but right we where we are now it's defined as action vitalized by creativity compassion cultural understanding and the well-being of our community so kind of four um four ways of thinking about how we root the concept of stewardship and if you kind of if we took more time with it we could perhaps think about what stewardship looks like without creativity or without compassion take any of those out and what are you left with um it's perhaps a personal agenda yeah i mean right seriously you take all these out then you're just in it for the personal agenda not the community that we were placed to serve yeah and you know i think and all of these i think dimensions really feed one another and i think beautiful ways and this thinking has come out of uh experience but also just in uh collaboration with so many people in our thinking like creativity recognizing that um you know the degree to which we uh value imagination over just knowledge right even einstein famously said that right that imagination more important than knowledge but do we really live that do we is that the way we engage our systems um you know rooting and care rooting in understanding of culture that is beyond it includes our racial ethnic realities but extends also beyond that right into all of our elements of identity and orientations and aspects that are the beautiful pieces of humanity and then ultimately like that standard of you know not just achievement because there's a i think there's an argument to be made that if you focus on achievement and you get achievement um what will those what will those well what will that learning development result in is it possible that you could be set up to wield that learning as a weapon to the world if you're not also centered in a sense of like responsibility to the people around us so that's you know the spirit behind the idea of stewardship and then with equity you know we brought this up with the kickoff we showed this and it's a it's a it's a cool natural image of what we could see quality and equity more of a distinction between the two right and and i think students do a great job of speaking to this like what does it look like in the classroom oh because you know we all learn different and you know i it's like if we all get the same thing you know we all get spoken to in the same language and if we all some of us like to work together some of us like to work alone it gets so clear as to why you would want equity and seeing kind of the um you know the flourishing the thriving of these plants when you give everybody and everything what they need however um i also want to speak to this idea which is that uh equality used to be a really powerful word still is huge uh historical and i think kind of ongoing significance for human rights and um and in some ways i was very suspicious how many years ago but there was a time where equity really wasn't a word that was being used in educational spaces at least that was my perception i i it came to me like early 2000s and i was like equity like do you do equity work and at the time i was working in schools like so what's your take on equity and i just had no clue that there was something called equity aside from uh equity like in your house or like real estate that made sense although you have equity in your house or something but i didn't know that it had a relation to something you know in the educational system so um equality i think is also something that i hope that we're not pivoting out of equality because in so many ways equality i think is a standard in the baseline that we need to i think particularly you're thinking about you know how different districts have very kind of disproportionate resources and and opportunities so like equality is like critical you know so so as much as like we keep talking equity equity equity let me make sure that the standard of equality is powerful and i thought this this quote here i'm not going to put it up too long but this quote when i saw this i was like yeah maybe this is why uh equality got shifted over to equity almost like felt like a pivot like yeah we don't want equality like let's try this equity thing you know we we get what we need so everyone the reason we are where we are is because maybe we're all just getting our needs met in a different way like there's almost a way to justify how things are today by thinking about well it's equitable right we we all have equitable consequences to the way that we live our life or our families or our cultures our communities have lived our lives so in some ways we kind of get you off the hook so it's kind of yeah like i like that you said like the baseline standard like you need equality in order to achieve equity yeah so you need equality to make sure we have those foundational like pieces but then we add the equity to help everybody get exactly what they need and so i want to put this quote up here this one felt like i know this when you're accustomed to privilege quality feels like oppression right and this yeah and you think about today kind of even in this work and you think about equity it's like who now is kind of feeling people who and a lot a lot of times people try to like quickly put this on race like it's white people you know like quickly like that's what we're talking about well no it's like i mean yes and it's like it could be any one of us that holds privilege like i hold multiple layers of privilege you know in my just being able-bodied right just being uh heterosexual you know like things that put me in kind of a dominant category i'm a man thanks for reminding me i was thinking yeah yeah football but you were the cool kid yeah yeah right what's up yeah yeah so um so anyhow i feel like there's still a there's still like an ongoing struggle and that uh importance of centering the quad i thought about student loans when i saw this because yeah because of people posting so much stuff about student loans and how people feel upset you know about fair share right i pay mine you know my parents paid mine yeah yeah and and even within that right like we know like that there's it's complex it's complex and i think that's like i think something really critical is that the more that we can build this work around the nuances of of the relations we have around us i think the more we can have a better discussion you know and not just because again it's kind of there there may be some very clear like reasons and and ways in which maybe somebody who just didn't have the means but just struggle to play pay those bills you know off that you could feel slighted you know what i mean in a towel now it's all you know i'm in a great position because i didn't pay any of my bill [Laughter] but i think i was in school too long ago so i don't think i i i don't think i'm even part of that anymore but i do think like just as we're well i think it's a shame associated yeah um right yeah yeah i think privilege is i think a great awareness to have you know spaces in which we carry power in the world and i think you all are speaking a lot to the privilege of being on the board and what that means and the the leverage that you carry the power you do have and also the limitations are part of it as well but there is i think a sense of how can we place privilege in a space where if you need to maybe process some feelings of shame or guilt around that that perhaps can be like part of anybody's journey i think the way that we make change in the world is to think about how we see privilege as a right yeah and i also i don't necessarily think privilege is a shame thing but i also do think that privilege should be seen as an upper hand and it's what you do with that privilege what really makes the outcome right because like you said as school board members i am privileged i have connections with other people that most people probably wouldn't have i'm very legislatively and politically involved too but it's what i'm using with that privilege that is gonna you know make it or not do it so um i don't necessarily think that we always look at privilege that way but we really need to start talking about what are we doing with that privilege that we have been offered and that we have and or choosing to effectively navigate the system and i think that's where sometimes we lose it we know that we come from a privilege a place of privilege and then certain things come up and then we want to get offended like no no no that's not what it is so we just need to accept people's experiences and what are we doing with that privilege that we have that many others don't and how we navigate it that way so it's privileged to be looked as like a tool because if there's a lot of people you know i i've learned to look at it that way because it really is it's a game changer some people there's people out there that have the power to make things happen or do things and they just choose not to so that's when it becomes uh a bad thing i think just making space for the complexity of privilege like building on that like kind of what you said like i feel like if you took you know any given sampling of people like somebody has a privilege of some kind in some area you know and so it's not just money it's not just race it's did you have two parents growing up you know did you even if you did were there 10 kids in the family and you felt like you didn't get the you know attention like you know or things like i mean there's so many layers and and going back to you saying like we have to really create space and accept other people's experiences and how they might have felt oppressed in certain ways how they have felt privilege like you said maybe they've had a journey of feeling shame or not knowing how to navigate things but it's so like this quote is so simple and so powerful but there's so much complexity underneath that yeah and i think even as we frame privilege to realize that sometimes privilege can if if you carry a certain privilege in a certain area it often makes you or can create a disposition or an awareness that makes you ignorant to are arrogant or arrogant or ignorant or unaware of so you know there's some lack of privilege to having privilege and there's some perhaps privilege to not having privilege that gives you a certain insight or so again i think just that nuance is not just like a negative positive but it's it's constantly a conversation constantly with relationships uh in different ways and i think there's an assumption that can be made that privilege is void of that in privileged suicide or hardships due to the complexity of whatever comes with their privileged lies and i think there needs to be a sense of awareness it's probably the right word rather than assumption what is privilege and why did i assign you privilege just because you're a white male so again um i i like putting some of these words here in up but i i will say like one of the tasks i think being a facilitator as well as a difficulty is realizing that often the equity work um sometimes people believe it's just kind of like a trojan horse to you know uh elevate a fight against white privilege you know what i mean and it's just not it's just not like i think the um the narrowness the the the the kind of minimizing of i think the power of conversations of equity and inclusion um you know i think really outweigh that narrative but i do feel like certain words we can normalize you know like we can we can normalize a term like oppression we can normalize a term like privilege in a way that doesn't cut it doesn't threaten it doesn't shame and blame and so that's kind of a reason to kind of even put this in here to say like no we don't have to steer away but it also i think speaks to the idea that as we think about our role public figures that we are thinking about um subtlety we're thinking about creativity uh re-languaging how you know how can we navigate language in a way that doesn't just trigger people you know like we don't kick off our equity sessions or conversations launching off with white privilege but if it comes up it can be part of a conversation just like any level of privilege that anybody might have and in so many ways people carrying one privilege are also carrying trauma caring so many other dimensions that are not privileged right so it's just like we we all kind of carry this storyline um i wanted to do a creative activity uh bringing in some kids these are so cute yeah right 2033.

for the last 12 weeks these boys have been running sprints running routes on air offense first defense games against each other for some of them it's been 12 years they've been working for this moment for their senior season and it all gets kicked off here tonight welcome into the asus wild pregame show presented by asus wild video game and parlor for the 2022-2023 high school football season jared germain and alex schlemmer here with you once again to bring you eagles football and jared pre-season's over it's time to get the regular season started yeah you're right alex and uh we got a pretty tough one here in muscuto to start the season off so hopefully the boys are ready for this game and hopefully they're ready for this season you got to be ready at this point i mean you've been working for 12 weeks and i talked to coach warner and jermaine and said how do you keep the guys ready but you've been working this long and this hard it shouldn't take you anything to get ready for tonight yeah especially when you you've been going against your buddies all summer long you're ready to go against somebody else for a change so um it's nice to finally get the week one and we're here alex it's uh it's week one of columbia football and i'm i can't be more excited talk a little bit about last season whenever we uh we came into last season we kept saying you know no ex no experience no experience well you know what this isn't the case anymore this year coach warner and coach remain both said last year about 70 percent of the guys were getting their first snaps at the varsity level and this year experience isn't going to be an excuse as this team went five and five last year uh lost to the powerhouse springfield sacred heart griffin who made it all the way to the state championship like we expected them to and you know you go into that game last year first quarter it's close second quarter it's close i think we had a turnover late and uh sacred hearts scored but that experience from last year's five and five teams got to be huge for this season oh most definitely um and in the season up at shg uh like you said on your coach's corner the other night uh drawing shg in the first round that's never uh that's never fun but i mean that first half almost first three quarters of the game we were in it and we had shg a little scared so last year yeah not a lot of experience but hopefully going on into this year we got that experience under our belt so you come into this season this week week one you got to have expectations obviously and you know you never know what to expect we're up here in the booth we've had our week one uh hiccups already if you will so we got them figured out when you come out and you're coach horner or coach jermaine you know you're going to have those hiccups but you just hope that you have yourself a good first week yeah and it's always nice when you have uh those coaches on your sideline coach baker coach jermaine and coach horner who've been doing it for a while and you had guys like coach stumpf and coach kendall to the mix so if the guys aren't playing well the coaches are gonna try to get them playing a little better well we're gonna head to a break real quick they got the national anthem about to get going and we'll be back with the rest of the aces wild pregame show after this um welcome back into the aces wild pregame show presented by aces wild make sure you head there throughout the week get yourself a an attempt at winning some money on some slots and get in on thursday nights where they have a queen of hearts going at 7 30 with those proceeds benefiting the columbia quarterback club who's done a lot for the football program and other programs at the school district jared you come into this season it's the 51st season for the columbia varsity program here at columbia 290 wins 198 losses in the program history and you look at the season openers 31 and 18.

looked like a lost play right there almost at the start to the way he was bouncing around but he was able to get a little bit of something so eagles are going to come out and they're going to have two tight ends two sniffer backs quarterback dom vaguely is going to be in the backfield by himself and it's going to be a quarterback run he's going to get back to the line of scrimmage and that's it nothing going there for the eagles on that first play of the game and that's something we're probably going to see a lot more this year than we did last year we're going to have a lot more up front guys losing mcconaughey who last year you could hand it off to him and he could get 30 yards anytime he wanted now we have vaguely back there uh by himself with which could be a major problem for defenses um having lead blockers in front of him hayden habermill's gonna be split out wide by himself to the short side of the field tight end to the right sniffer back right running back right bigly's gonna take the snap fake the throw to the right side he's gonna run left he's gonna follow his lead back get a couple yards there looks like about three and it's gonna bring up a little bit more of a manageable third and seven but still third and long it looks like moscow is just going to run man-to-man straight up with their wide receivers so far on the first two plays maddox stefan comes out along with carter hicks those are your two big guys that you're gonna have so it looks like now we're to go more with a wide receiver set [Music] running back hudson bryant in the backfield haberman down here closest to us brennan wike split out wide with two other receivers so we're gonna go trips right running back to the right side it's gonna be a snap to the right vaguely gets it looks across the middle of the field and it's gonna be picked off on the tip by brendan weick mascuta is gonna run it to the right side of the field and the scooter's gonna get in for a touchdown just one minute 30 seconds into the game looks like vaguely made the right read there just ball was a little too high tipped off eagle fingertips and right in the hands of the safety he was in the right spot yep like you said it was the right read it was the right throw it had to be high to get back there it was just a little bit too high and a little bit behind mike who tipped it and sometimes those tips are the worst kind of throws to have especially in the middle of the field too but you gotta bounce back new drive coming matt once again joins the eagles on the sideline with being the ball boy and uh typically he blends in with everybody but tonight he's got himself on a safety green construction vest over there he's got the hive is on so they know he's the ball boy tonight number seven on the hold for the indians and zayn timmin i believe he is their quarterback number 27 to do the kicking good snap good hold kick is up and it is good so after one drive of the eagles offense the pick six one minute and 34 seconds into the game sends the score to seven nothing and we will be back right after this welcome back to week one football here for the eagles down seven nothing on the mandy mcguire scoreboard good thing is there's a lot of time left to make that seven points up number 27 this time a little bit shorter of a kick and it will be fielded this time at the 15.

they're gonna play that oh ladies [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] so [Music] oh good evening welcome to max andrus field we're in week two of the high school football season for the 22-23 school year and it's the crosstown rivalry the no the host north bulldogs hosting their neighbors across town columbus east olympians coming to town for our first uh post no bad weather no covid encounter we've had here for a while i'm brett bozeman joined by superintendent of bcsc schools dr jim roberts fortunate to have a good sidekick here today dr roberts thanks for thanks for making time to join us and looking forward to a good ballgame tonight bret thank you very glad to be here tonight this uh crosstown confrontation going to be very interesting for us tonight as you indicated this is the first time with all the stuff that we've had over the last couple of years two years ago we were here but a more limited crowd with everything that was going on and columbus got the win that night and i think interestingly enough in my time here uh in columbus that's the only win columbus east has had against columbus north so interesting to see two years later what that looks like here at max anders field tonight it's always a good game regardless of who the who is on the field and throw the records in the history out the window as everybody in this town well well knows that this this game can can always go either direction even in a few years ago when east is winning state championships there were times where they uh they had their loan lost to the bulldogs that season so always a good contest and as you mentioned it's great to great to get back together and and have uh so many people from the community here here together you may remember last year we had weather matter of fact we had weather issues all all week last week or last year rather with soccer cancellations and lightning delays and so on and so forth and this game was actually played on on saturday morning so good to get everybody back together here and and fill the stadium up with lots of blue and orange yeah you mentioned the competition between these two and you just never know what you're going to get you know both teams going to play as hard as they can and it may come down to that last possession whoever has the ball last in terms of of getting the victory but you mentioned the the competition and how close it has been in terms of the the wins and losses and right now as we head into this game tonight it's 26 to 25 in terms of north leading 26 wins versus east 25 over over the period of years so that's about as close as you can get one team having one more win than the other i'd say so with an odd number of total games can't have any closer again can't be any closer that's a math teacher so it took me a moment to clearly figure that out yeah you may recall last year the the dogs defeated the the olympians quarterback luke hammonds and also center or a senior as well keegan caster caught fire in the second quarter cassette had three touchdowns in that contest and hammond's had uh 111 yards and and two throwing touchdowns in that 28-0 decision last week both teams had fallen to good opponents north was on the road to a highly ranked 5a decatur central team and lost 26 to 12 although that game was much closer than that school that score would have indicated north had a chance to actually take the lead in the third quarter of that contest and east also lost their home opener last week to whiteland in a case where they actually led that game at halftime and whiteland got the upper hand in the in the second half whiteland also a formidable 5a opponent ranked as well so hard to hard to predict exactly what team is where only on week two going into the uh the season here so far but certainly uh faced two good opponents in week one yeah it's certainly the case it hard to tell what we're going to get tonight as as we think back to last week i had a chance to be at the east game and they looked very good that first half and whiteland i think is ranked number five maybe in 5a and and you mentioned decatur central with columbus north ranked number two so both teams playing very quality opponents and holding their own in that game and we'll see how that carries over and what we picked up and learned each team over this last week getting ready for tonight bulldogs are led by quarterback zach horn he's a 6-3 195 senior looking forward to a good season without injury here he's a good athletic kid comes to north by way of central middle school by way of southside elementary tyler blyth having a majority of the carries last week 15 carries for 66 yards is long being 44 yards tyler you may recall played a lot of receiver in slot last season and had plenty of touches and was certainly a threat on the field so he moves her running back this year looking forward to see how those two connect and then the other standout so far at least cooper horn just a really athletic kid 63 185 senior dual sport athlete ball gets his hand and he he can certainly cause problems for for opponents you look at that as you cite the statistics from columbus north last week brett in comparison columbus east a little different in terms of several kids getting some carries and picking up some yards four different kids uh carrying the ball last week led by tyler weller with 61 yards but right behind him ethan duncan the quarterback with 59 and then receiving yards just just the three guys getting passes with with one chase zappy with two catches comparatively columbus north had four different kids with significant number of uh catches led by damon edwards with 10 and 100 yards so a little bit different styles of play perhaps on the offensive side of the ball we'll see how that carries out this evening looking ahead at some of the olympian starters they're led by ethan duncan who was the commander-in-chief last year as a junior this year he's a senior coming into the contest here he comes to east via northside middle school via rock creek elementary tailback javion smith last week you mentioned 18 carries had a uh heavy heavy dose of work there 51 yards jay the on former schmidt rocket dr roberts by way of central middle school don't ask me how i know these things but i i just do a few other few of the kiddos that will mention on the the east olympian starting crew chase harrison uh number 34 is a linebacker he's a good player he's he's uh he fills gaps well he's played that position for a while now had five solo tackles last week against whiteland certainly a kid that can that can play at the next level and and as we get in some looks and you mentioned chase zaffy he's a he's a senior uh wide receiver um he's a tough kid good athletic kid he's got good feet and certainly is a threat if the if the ball can get in his hands as well you mentioned ethan brett and very interested to see how how he looks tonight after not a lot of throws last year i don't know how many tosses he had last year but it seemed like last week that very first quarter he had about as many passes as he had during the last season a year ago so ethan was five for 17 17 attempts so columbus he's trying to get the ball in the air a little bit more perhaps this year so curious is how that will look tonight as as east approaches the offensive side of things coach eddie vogel leads the columbus east olympians it's his second season as the head coach of the east he's been a long time assistant and associate head coach at east high school as we all know for quite a while he was four and seven last year 15 and 30 overall in his fifth season as a head coach but if you go back to his previous coaching experience in evansville before he came to columbus uh jim you have to go all the way back to the 19s when he was at boston high school in 1999 and then uh was there for a couple years until 2001 before he came to luther's family to columbus so on the other side of the field wearing wearing blue is logan haston he's the first year coach first year head coach here in columbus north comes to columbus by way of fishers where he was the offensive coordinator for the past few years logan's a good guy he's full of energy and seems to be doing things the right way here at columbus north so far and the kids seem to be responding well to him he of course is owen won after just the one contest that he had last week so looking forward to um i know he's looking forward to this contest and probably doesn't know exactly what he's in for in terms of how many people here but it's certainly going to be a lot of fun and uh something to be memorable looking back yeah you mentioned those two coaches brett and quite the difference there in terms of uh 1999 coach vogel getting his first game as a head coach 23 years later luke getting his first one on the sideline of course first game last week second one here but this is uh this is a great environment great contest i'm sure um logan very very excited about getting things going and not only logan you um mentioning the columbus north athletic director brian lewis uh he hosted this game two years ago but again under very different circumstances so brian probably a little more anxious this week getting ready for tonight knowing he has a full packed house to prepare for and and whatever he did he did a nice job ordering the weather uh it is perfect maybe a little warm but uh nice weather this evening a slight breeze out of the north not enough to make any kind of a difference but yeah i had a chance to talk to brian on tuesday and and even on that day i had asked him i said brian how many people have told you that you don't know what you're getting into yet and he said far too many he's well well aware so uh yeah ryan being certainly doing a great job at columbus north high school and both these coaches and athletic directors of pete hughes at east high school they they do things well they do things the right way they do things in the best interest the kids and community and and the the the city's fortunate to to have the four of them uh leading athletic programs here i'll certainly second that bro very fortunate to have brian and pete in their positions and uh two positions that most people probably don't quite understand that role in the time that they put into it but it is a lot and particularly this week you know we both had a chance to maybe attend a soccer game or two and they're running those and by the way great crowds over those two nights at our new soccer stadium with three to four thousand people i think in attendance each evening and great contest in those zero to zero draws that we had for both the girls and boys games i'm not sure that's ever happened uh in the columbus east columbus north soccer series i would have i would assume not i i don't know much about soccer but uh i i can tell you i would i would hate to be a goalie with on either team either either team either either game of having that kind of pressure of having a zero zero game and yeah and they they locked them down both ways it was uh it was something else for sure yeah most games that we pay attention to you can make a mistake and probably get away with it based upon the number of minutes that are still going to happen in the game another number of other situations soccer maybe not so much so great great competition this week in this east north rivalry week number 50.

he's reacting very quickly to that one it is third and 12 on the board ball in the 15 yard line ball still in the left hash and north is going to come out with a two by two set with a tight end horn and the gun empty with no protection see if these will blitz they will blitz horn's got pressure the ball is thrown short and that's gonna be up fourth down yeah more olympians around that ball than uh bulldogs may be lucky to not have that picked off at around the 20-yard line fourth down not a good start for the dogs here that might have been a that might have been an upstairs uh called blitz there because they saw pretty quickly that zach horn had no protection was in an empty set and uh i didn't catch the player's number but outside linebacker was an automatic blitz put pressure on the throw and here we are fourth down back to punts end over end on the middle of the field and this is gonna let it roll and it's gonna roll well it's helpful for the bulldogs all the way down to about the 32 yard line excellent punt there that's that's cooper horn he can do a lot of things out there about a 50 yard punt certainly certainly helpful turn the field over flip the field a little bit absolutely so here we go ball's on the 32 yard line left task as we mentioned before javion smith primary tailback ethan duncan out of the gun here double tight formation for east to give is to smith he's going to barrel up ahead and be stopped nowhere by guess who save you on miles miles right into a bunch of uh black jerseys there and they are gonna give him one yard so he'll be at second and nine and he's right back right back to the line of scrimmage no huddle as you mentioned two by two set with a single back to ethan's left he's gonna look to throw this time looks left out looks right now looks back left he's got pressure but good protection yeah somebody down field and that ball is just wow sure that's chase zappy we talked about him a little bit in pregame if he gets the ball yeah he got behind coverage and was wide open but uh ethan scrambling there a little bit and a little difficult to get his legs underneath him with that throw gotta expect there's a little bit of butterflies both ways early on here wouldn't you assume it's a lot of buildup for this game for these kids not just this year this is this is a moment for all these kids especially seniors same formation for east here's third and nine balm of 33.

so columbia typically gets it uh gets off on a good foot yeah and they're usually not even conference games so we're playing out of conference teams i remember back in the day uh i think whenever you were playing you would play teams like only um i think we did have moscuta like in the late game of the of the year but and some of the first we played teams like uh morton um i'm trying to thank other teams we played but the first game of the year you got to be ready uh you're not playing a team that you're usually like want to play or normal to playing so um you always get a little mix of athletes and a couple different formations and a whole lot of different things going on with it too so uh week one's always uh always fun for the eagles coach warner usually gets the teams ready to go for that week one he's 15 and six on home openers and uh i remember whenever i played we played sparta actually i had a guy send me some pictures this morning of that week one game and coach horner like i said those week one expectations he said i don't care if we got to win tonight three to two let's get a victory and uh we actually left that game a winner of seven to six so you know you come into those weak games week one games with sparta the scooter's a little bit different though coming in 1100 students and that's the highest enrollment that a uh hokia conference team is going to play this year so pretty neat that we're getting that big one out of the way and go back to the most recent meeting we had was in 2021 last season not good for the home team for the eagles losing that game 42-14 yeah they came in and they stomped us around a little bit i remember they do have a couple guys well i think they said coach trumaine said they have 22 players returning this year so that's equal to almost every player on each side of the ball so that's pretty special last year i know they had a receiver that had alan middleton he's a senior this year 10 catches for 208 yards yeah you think they're going to key on him tonight i think so i think coach tremaine's got a little tag on him so uh i think they'll be a little bit more ready than they were last season well last year it started off with the bang for the eagles big man owen brewer gets that 55-yard fumble recovery and we're thinking all right looks pretty good and uh well then after that it was a lot of moscuta so hopefully this year gonna have a little bit of a different outcome can't go too much worse we're down i think it was like 35 to 14 or something like that at half so hope for a different outcome tonight last time that the eagles were in indian territory though here in muscuta worked out pretty well for us on one of our first games i believe we did it was it was a i think it was actually our first game a wonderful game going back and forth back and forth close game comes down to that final field goal attempt that's blocked the eagles win it and we never hit the record button who didn't hit the record yeah there's no we in that i never hit the record button all right you're right oh man there's a reason i'm not in charge of the computer anymore so that was a fun game you like to come up here this place is packed and it's a beautiful complex you got here they just redid this all i think in the 2017 2018 area and uh you know the stands are full here for moscow to columbia's starting to filter in and uh it's exciting to be back here for week one football yeah and in moscow it's always a it's always a good environment no matter what sport it is i feel like whenever back when i was in high school you come to a volleyball game or you come to uh you're playing at a basketball game but i don't think there's anything i like playing in moscow for a friday night football game their fans are always have the most energy their band is great and they always uh they're just ready to go on friday nights well we get to this season now let's talk a little bit about our returners and uh it's all going to start we're going to start on the offensive side of the football and it's all going to start with number 12 at the quarterback position and dominic vegley yeah dom's dom's a player he's been starting on varsity for four years now three years as a quarterback so uh he kind of knows what he's doing back there coach horner has a lot of faith in him and as well as the whole coaching staff and his players and all of colombia because i think everybody knows that there's no denying how good this kid is how special he can be and one of the best athletes we've ever seen go through columbia so back with him in the backfield it's going to be a kind of a platoon if you will at the running back position hayden habermill and dalton rainwater will be coming in they'll be your running backs hudson bryant he's going to be in there as well and then at the wide receiver portion you never know sam denny's going to be out there zach wetzel um mike bike yeah they talked on the holton meets coaches corner last night not gonna run away from you but you better be ready to tackle he's a tough physical kid yeah brendan like he doesn't have the the most speed on the team uh but he's gonna lower his shoulder he's gonna hit you he's gonna let you know uh who's got the ball so then you go into the big uglies the guys in the trenches another guy that you're going to have to start the play with is going to be the special guy from last year was a skilled position player and brandon jackson this year he's going to move down to the center position yeah we got a lot i know coach baker talked on that coach's corner he's really excited with the depth that he's got this season um he's i think he said he's got almost what eight or nine guys he can substitute in and out on the offense and defensive side of the ball so uh i think that's that's really a plus for uh coach baker and the offense and the defense you look at a couple other linemen to be on the offensive side uh tom kenningstein coming in at 285 schnabel 235 kish at 260 and then you got the sophomore antonis at 240 so pretty good size across the board maybe not the tallest but they're going to be pretty thick so uh coach horner said in that coach's corner not going to have the most speed but we could be pretty physical this year yeah and carter hick is another guy we could throw in there too uh for the dn wise i think coach germain said he's going to hold down that d-line front and we can move him on uh offensive line as well we can move him in a little sniffer back if we want he can even go play right wide receivers six foot six throw him out there by on an island with somebody let him go up and get it so i think there's a lot of big guys up here that we're looking forward to this season so we're about five minutes away from kickoff here in the aces wild pre-game show let's flip it over to the defensive side of the ball again a lot of guys coming back returning from last season and uh once again it's going to be number 12 last year started a safety moved up to a linebacker he was your leading tackler and then they put him back again at safety this year so who else you got on that defensive side of the ball uh you got to start off up front i mean we already said carter hicks uh if you can win the battle up front it makes it a lot harder to win games so um for the other team obviously then you can throw guys in like zach wetzel who was all-conference corner last year uh started off the first two or three games he was struggling a little bit but towards the back end of the season he really picked up his game and started to be in the right spot at the right time so uh yeah i'd say zach wetzel and carter hicks will look out for on the defensive side this year and then like we said brandon jackson he's going to be alignment on the offensive side of the ball and then he's going to flip over be your linebacker and your sometimes it looked over here when we were doing scout defense he was even playing a safety position so kind of odd whenever you see a safety with number 54 on it but that's a guy that can do it all and like coach baker's been saying very unselfish of him to be able to do it all looks like the lights are coming on now alex everybody's starting to stand up i think both teams are about to or mosquitoes walking their way down now so the new thing with the lights is jared's saying and not really taking effect right now we still have the sunshine out but the new thing are these led lights that flash and i think this could get interesting by the end of the night if they're starting to score it could be kind of interesting to see so hopefully we see some zeros i don't want to see no scores up there on the mosquito side yeah we don't need that so the mosquito indians are taking the field right now they've got their cheerleaders holding up some signs watch out eagles indians coming through and uh colombia just got done taking the field they're going to be in their all-white uniforms pretty clean classic look that columbia is going to bring to you on a road game isn't that what coach remains said his favorite is all white he did i think coach remains or coach horner sometimes likes to go uh with the white with the blue pants but i think whenever coach ferman hears white unis you gotta go white pants you gotta go all white out well we're gonna head to one more break real quick we're two minutes and 30 seconds away from kickoff we will be back with kickoff and the end of the aces wild pregame show after this i'm not foundational welcome back into the aces wild pregame show captains are making their way onto the field right now and dominic vaguely and uh number 54 for the muscuda indians they're going to be recreating the coin toss and uh i've had a little bit of an honor here for a military personnel for a mosquito so kind of a good touch this week one getting things started on the right foot i didn't i think you were saying during that little break there we didn't see uh whenever they did a little meeting earlier we didn't see who was getting ball or who was kicking off first but i think they're doing that now still waiting here for the verdict of the ref i think the ref was ready to get things rolling and didn't know that the script was going to be read that long so jared we look in tonight what are your three keys into this game and what's going to get this season started off on the right foot i think you got to try to win the uh upfront battle with coach baker saying you got about eight or nine guys you can substitute in and out you're not going to have a lot of guys tired i know it's the first uh game of the year but um you got a lot of guy a lot of depth there um on the front line and then i also to break down and tackle i know they got a couple athletes out there um and last year i think they had three other three or four other touchdowns were 60 yard plus so and that those went off break broken tackles that us not breaking down and um wrapping up so i think that's those are two of the really big things and then i think uh coming here ignoring the environment but also embracing the environment you got to kind of block out everything whenever you're on the field but enjoy it and have fun because football's back and friday night football you can't there's nothing better man nothing better well the eagles will be returning the opening kickoff so we'll see what that offense is able to do and get kicked off with a bang here number 27 for muscuda we'll be doing the kicking tonight and that'll be senior braden christian back deep for the eagles looks to be number 21 hudson bryant and i believe that's number three zach wetzel back there deep for the eagles so ready or not ladies and gentlemen week one football is coming at you right now here we go it's gonna be a deep kick gonna be recovered at the five yard line by bryant he's gonna pick it up try to make something out of nothing now mosquito almost loses contain but they're able to keep it there and it's gonna be a good for about a seven yard return and the eagle offense is going to be brought out on the field and starting at the 13 yard line look like brian on that play didn't know if wetzel was coming over to catch it or not he kind of literally looked at him right when the ball was in the air and thought wetzel was coming over so it kind of went over his head lucky to pick it up and get get the drive going at the 13.

number 21 hudson bryant's going to try to lower the shoulder but doesn't happen and he's gonna be good for about 12 yards when this eagle's offense is going to try it again see what coach horner does coming out here on first down first two plays there he kind of just wanted to get don vagley set in and get him the ball only got about three or four yards on those first two plays but see what he's got drawn up muscuta coming out white helmets purple jerseys white pants and they're only going to have three men down which kind of surprises me i think i throw more guys in the box and say you showed me that you're gonna try to run the football right now but i'm gonna make you beat me passing trips to the right side empty backfield sniffer back to the right time out on the field by the eagles that's not what you want whenever you're coming off of a uh a switch of possessions right there definitely not and i mean on that p-a-t there's usually not a lot of guys on that offensive squad they're usually on the sideline wrestling so they should should have been talking over there going over uh what they miss and what they're gonna formation they're gonna be in whenever they go back out there so um using a timeout not even two minutes into this game you know coach horner's got to be kind of furious over there and like we said this is that week one game that you're expecting to have some hiccups you just got to try to minimize those hiccups and uh not a good start right now but the scooters loving the start that they have they're going to come back out still with three down linemen three linebackers and it looks like it's just going to be man-to-man across the the wide receivers here i'm trying to figure out carter hicks in that uh uh sniffer position who's got who's over the top of him might be a linebacker motion man's number 11 for the eagles next yannick it's going to be kept by vaguely he's actually going to lose a yard did good job trying to get back to the line of scrimmage and it's going to bring up a second and 11.

looks like east is going to win the toss and choose to defer to the second half so north will receive north will receive going away from the building facing north towards the scoreboard just getting ready to say dr roberts that uh number 51 coming off the field right now as a captain save savion miles yes he's he's a talented kid he's one to watch for sure former schmidt rocket former clifty creek cougar but uh savion will he will certainly play football at the next level he has a few division two offers um very nice kid kind of kid that's always got a smile on his face he'll uh he'll bury you on the football field but he'll pick you up and smile at you when he's when he's uh when the play is over so uh but certainly a talent out here tonight and one to keep an eye on yeah definitely looking forward to seeing savion play can wreak havoc in the backfield but as you said just a great kid it's exciting about ready for kickoff as he gets ready to tee it up and kick off to columbus north to start this east north contest number three nathaniel hedrick is the kicker for east he's going to move the ball to the right hash get the ball just inside that shadow of the press box a little bit daniel's a senior at columbus east high school he's going to kick away from the board from north to south my left to my right and back deep for the dogs i'm sure tyler blythe is back there looks like he is i'm going to assume that's damon edwards on the other side both of those young men seniors damon edward edwards former schmidt rocket doctor a few schmidt rockets out here tonight blight's going to receive that ball off the two-yard line gonna come up the left hash and he's going to be wrapped up quickly at the 17-yard line good coverage there by east high school credit that tackled to devon to colby number eight for east 6-1-165 senior that's where north is going to start with the ball 17-yard line left hash mentioned before that number 18 zack horn is a quarterback he's in the gun with a single setback edward's in motion the give is to blythe and he's going to get a couple of yards up ahead maybe not maybe maybe just one stacked up pretty quick looks like a gain of a yard so we'll be at second and nine conrad eggers credited with the tackle there for east high school number 56 also a senior second nine they will give him a yard of progress here the ball is on the 18 yard line just starting here zero zero 11 30 to go in the first quarter north with a tight bunch formation to the boundary the pitch to the boundary a little toss swallowed up quickly that time that's by number six brennan cohen senior for east high school bring up third down that's gonna be a loss of about four yards brett so that'll push us it looks like third and 12.

ethan's gonna look to throw in the flat it's gonna be complete not good enough for a first down balls at the 39 should be about fourth and four it looks like they're gonna call fourth and two but certainly a punting situation in their own uh on their own 39 40-yard line seth lanky back deep to punt for east he's a junior devin tacova is the long snapper ball's a little low but good get it away a little short but it's gonna roll well also just about back where uh columbus noise starts what i was going to say series so second verse same as the first that ball is going to be punted down to right on the 18 yard line on the left hash you're right jim it's uh they started the 17 first one 18 this time so average starting position not so good to begin this this particular game 908 here on the clock in the first quarter no score yet one possession each way no first downs yet for their team north will come out in i think north is they might be missing a kid they only have 10 in the field and pitches to blyth and good pursuit there by east ball might be oh maybe all might be out and it is like and [Music] that is he says yep gonna be considered a fumble and picked up around the two three yard line brett it is it is signaled east ball and that would be first and goal inside the five that's a tremendous turn there yeah so great pursuit again by the columbus east line got to him quickly and i'm not sure who it was brett but uh popped the ball loose and were able to chase it down there was about nine kids on that ball so i couldn't really uh in white shirts trips with the tight end formation here they give us to smith he's going to look for room and he's going to be brought down in the backfield there by number 24.

looked like a lost play right there almost at the start to the way he was bouncing around but he was able to get a little bit of something so eagles are going to come out and they're going to have two tight ends two sniffer backs quarterback dom vaguely is going to be in the backfield by himself and it's going to be a quarterback run he's going to get back to the line of scrimmage and that's it nothing going there for the eagles on that first play of the game and that's something we're probably going to see a lot more this year than we did last year we're going to have a lot more up front guys losing mcconaughey who last year you could hand it off to him and he could get 30 yards anytime he wanted now we have vaguely back there uh by himself with which could be a major problem for defenses um having lead blockers in front of him hayden habermill's gonna be split out wide by himself to the short side of the field tight end to the right sniffer back right running back right bigly's gonna take the snap fake the throw to the right side he's gonna run left he's gonna follow his lead back get a couple yards there looks like about three and it's gonna bring up a little bit more of a manageable third and seven but still third and long it looks like moscow is just going to run man-to-man straight up with their wide receivers so far on the first two plays maddox stefan comes out along with carter hicks those are your two big guys that you're gonna have so it looks like now we're to go more with a wide receiver set [Music] running back hudson bryant in the backfield haberman down here closest to us brennan wike split out wide with two other receivers so we're gonna go trips right running back to the right side it's gonna be a snap to the right vaguely gets it looks across the middle of the field and it's gonna be picked off on the tip by brendan weick mascuta is gonna run it to the right side of the field and the scooter's gonna get in for a touchdown just one minute 30 seconds into the game looks like vaguely made the right read there just ball was a little too high tipped off eagle fingertips and right in the hands of the safety he was in the right spot yep like you said it was the right read it was the right throw it had to be high to get back there it was just a little bit too high and a little bit behind mike who tipped it and sometimes those tips are the worst kind of throws to have especially in the middle of the field too but you gotta bounce back new drive coming matt once again joins the eagles on the sideline with being the ball boy and uh typically he blends in with everybody but tonight he's got himself on a safety green construction vest over there he's got the hive is on so they know he's the ball boy tonight number seven on the hold for the indians and zayn timmin i believe he is their quarterback number 27 to do the kicking good snap good hold kick is up and it is good so after one drive of the eagles offense the pick six one minute and 34 seconds into the game sends the score to seven nothing and we will be back right after this welcome back to week one football here for the eagles down seven nothing on the mandy mcguire scoreboard good thing is there's a lot of time left to make that seven points up number 27 this time a little bit shorter of a kick and it will be fielded this time at the 15.

some with having a hicks in that position there um it's kind of hard for defenses because if you uh know that you're going to run the ball with don vaguely a lot you can lull your defense to sleep and then right over the top do a little play action to six five uh hicks there so be ready for that at some point in this game hudson bryant comes on carter hicks goes off trips to the right side it's gonna be a rollout to the right vig he's gonna throw it to number three wetzel it's gonna be good for about eight yards and a quick simple hitch but that's a good positive play for the eagles and get up to a third and three and that was a good rollout play there and wetzel just getting to his spot i think coach horner teaches on those outside routes you know you only got to go six seven yards create a little separation then break down real quick outside shoulder and get as many as you can and for little guys like me and little guys like zach wetzel gives me you can go down little confusion here now for the indians trying to get their linebackers set up the way they want them trips to the right side running back sniffer back right we're going to run it to the right dom gets up field he's going to get five and that's going to be good for the first first down of the year for the eagles and a good little response to that pick six on that first drive i think we're gonna see a lot of that this year i know i said that earlier but uh you're gonna see coach horner working the clock a little more this year we don't have a ton of athletes that we had compared last year but we do have number 12 back there and he can he can really set the tone and run his own game he's kind of like a point guard out there and he runs the show um so it's it's gonna be nice to see uh every we've got the third down every single play so we're gonna be running the clock a lot this year and letting vaguely do his thing on third down gonna be trips left fake it to the left side we're gonna run up the middle good job good hole there for vaguely and he's gonna lower the boom get an extra three yards and a 13-yard run getting into indian territory for another first down columbia that was just did you ever do any play like that back in the day just a simple quarterback power at the middle yeah it wasn't that fast good job by the offensive line that time getting a huge hole and it might have just been that pump fake that set that all up too yeah because you have those uh these slot receivers and sometimes even your running back running flare routes or bubble routes to the opposite side so you have to draw a linebacker out to guard them gonna be a handoff this time to the left side and it's gonna be another good run look to be on the play hudson bryant number 21 the southmoor good for five yards looks like brandon white coming in for uh hudson bryant coming out yep and we talked in the uh holton meets coaches corner and we've talked a little bit today already the depth for the eagles this year is something that we haven't had and uh it's already showed here tonight we're gonna run the ball up the middle here it looks like we're gonna have double stack out wide and it's gonna actually be a pass to the right side good move there by number 11.

he's reacting very quickly to that one it is third and 12 on the board ball in the 15 yard line ball still in the left hash and north is going to come out with a two by two set with a tight end horn and the gun empty with no protection see if these will blitz they will blitz horn's got pressure the ball is thrown short and that's gonna be up fourth down yeah more olympians around that ball than uh bulldogs may be lucky to not have that picked off at around the 20-yard line fourth down not a good start for the dogs here that might have been a that might have been an upstairs uh called blitz there because they saw pretty quickly that zach horn had no protection was in an empty set and uh i didn't catch the player's number but outside linebacker was an automatic blitz put pressure on the throw and here we are fourth down back to punts end over end on the middle of the field and this is gonna let it roll and it's gonna roll well it's helpful for the bulldogs all the way down to about the 32 yard line excellent punt there that's that's cooper horn he can do a lot of things out there about a 50 yard punt certainly certainly helpful turn the field over flip the field a little bit absolutely so here we go ball's on the 32 yard line left task as we mentioned before javion smith primary tailback ethan duncan out of the gun here double tight formation for east to give is to smith he's going to barrel up ahead and be stopped nowhere by guess who save you on miles miles right into a bunch of uh black jerseys there and they are gonna give him one yard so he'll be at second and nine and he's right back right back to the line of scrimmage no huddle as you mentioned two by two set with a single back to ethan's left he's gonna look to throw this time looks left out looks right now looks back left he's got pressure but good protection yeah somebody down field and that ball is just wow sure that's chase zappy we talked about him a little bit in pregame if he gets the ball yeah he got behind coverage and was wide open but uh ethan scrambling there a little bit and a little difficult to get his legs underneath him with that throw gotta expect there's a little bit of butterflies both ways early on here wouldn't you assume it's a lot of buildup for this game for these kids not just this year this is this is a moment for all these kids especially seniors same formation for east here's third and nine balm of 33.

that's a cyan guess he's a 511 200 pound middle linebacker senior for the dog second goal started the drive of the four at the five as you said second and goal and we're going to have a whistle flag illegal start it's going to move the ball back to about the nine or the ten here still be second down but it certainly changes things here a bit for coach vogel and the olympians 8 27 to go in the first quarter still no huddle hoes will line up and trips with the tight end formation single back duncan in the gun give us to the back he's looking for room good pursuit by the bulldogs and he's got a couple of yards out of it but the third and [Music] what do you say seven looks like third and seven placement yeah three pick up of three yards be third and goal from the they're listing eight on the scoreboard they're in the same play brett they're gonna run right before the flag was thrown it looks like it's just a flip formation now trips with the tight end to the field upon the left hash yeah and micro movement i think yeah false start of the center save the honest causing problems out there dr roberts yeah trying to understand where he is and where he's going if i were blocking savion i'd be having problems i'd be moving all over the place it's now third and goal from the 13.