001this evening i'd like to welcome you all here nice to see you on that one here at center road we have a mission statement and it reads as follows we develop knowledgeable competent and responsible citizens through inspirational and innovative learning opportunities and tonight before we do the pledge i would like to turn it over to uh dr arkanov who is a veteran we'd like to say something thank you mr russell um i would ask if you wouldn't mind if everyone would take a moment if we could stand and just take a moment of silence for the tragedy now today we lost 11 marines and one maybe four men so if we can take a moment assignments i would appreciate it thank you thank you we'll now say please i pledge allegiance to the flag of
002the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice [Music] as you notice we're looking around the room you can see where the tvs are so hopefully wherever you're sitting you're going to see uh as we put things up to the extreme might not be where you can see it so our next order of business is the adoption of the agenda mr president i move we adopt the agenda as presented thank you mr alexander do i have a sentence follow some favors behind all right all those opposed motion passes 5-0 thank you thank you our next order of business is public comments regarding agenda absolutely mr president of the procedural order tonight i'd like i i move that we extend the time allotted
003for public comments from 15 minutes to 30 minutes for the tv's meeting thank you mr alexander do i have any i'll say i'll say mr cover all those in favor say aye aye close the code motion passes by though thank you our advantage is the action items but there are no i'm sorry public comments thank you uh mr russell we'll say they're doing a little different time yeah before we start um we'd just like to uh remind everyone this evening and we thank everyone for being here and really appreciate the calm and quiet demeanor that we have it's why i love center grove we're responsible citizens just like we have our mission statement so thank you all very much for being here um this evening we're asking that we have decorum it's going to be
004an opportunity for folks to stand up and speak we are live streaming it so it is hard to hear so if there is clapping or cheering or noise from the crowd it will be hard for people online to hear so we're asking that folks please refrain from doing that those that get up and speak tonight there are a few guidelines you can see them on the screen here you know the whole idea of this public input is to provide input about the plan and about the presentation so we ask that it's not personal that's not directed at anyone that is employed by the district or any other board members if there are comments they all should be directed to the board president for the policy so we just asked for that decorum during the public
005speaking portion of of our evening without reading too much to you as i assume everyone can see this and understand if for some reason uh we lose control of the meaning we'll recess and we'll uh and more and meet uh so i appreciate everyone uh understanding that and knowing taking responsibility for yourselves as we go through this public comments this evening we have tried to organize it what we believe was in support or in opposition of the proposed plan some of you may have been able to watch the coffee chat yesterday morning where we presented the plan so hopefully you you felt that you were able to understand it and could address it tonight with some of your concerns we have received over a couple of hundred emails some folks three or four times so
006thanks for those emails i'm not done responding so i apologize um i do have an another job too besides answering emails but we're going through them we have read 99 of them they may have read all of them i've not through them all yet so i was beginning a meeting and we're continuing to read them we have had some parent meetings as well we've met with parents who've taken time out of their day to meet with myself mr russell and members of my team so we also appreciate that folks taking their time to do that this last couple of weeks as i said uh on the document tonight where you signed up we had asked for you to put in your first and last name your street address and then to check the box a
007lot of times people ask me why is that well first and foremost it's important to the board to hear from people who live in the community people that have kids in the district first you may may or may not be aware but there are people who travel around that have nothing else to do but to sign up for school board meetings that have nothing to do with the district and they get paid to do it and this is one way that we look to try and prevent that from happening fortunately we've got a good community that we know most everybody so it's pretty rare that we might have a stranger get up and speak so that's one reason why we do it secondly we just want to ensure that we hear from folks that have
008kids in the school so so tonight uh we have gone through the list and what we've done is just went by first come first served and we are going back and forth between the green and the red and hopefully that represents and you understood that represented what you wanted to address today if for some reason we don't get to you this evening please please please feel free to email us if you haven't already if you have you don't have but if you have have not please feel free to email us so that we can get your comments i also like to remind folks every chance i get a school board meeting is not a public school board meeting is a meeting needing help in public the purpose of the major purpose of the meeting and
009the public being held in public is for you to observe the business of the school the board allows for public comment it's it's an option school boards have they don't always have to do it our school board has done that for many many years and so while they would love to sit here all night long and hear from hundreds of people on tour um you know we want to be respectful have a certain amount of time this evening and get the get folks in because i'm sure after a while we would have repeat comments or similar comments so that's why they've extended it to 30 minutes and we will try to get through each person will have three minutes for a total of 30 minutes so we may get to more people tonight if you
010don't go too long and we haven't turned on so i think that's the majority of everything i have to say yes and you'll come up there and mr alexander is going to be the time keeper and he will give you a heads up when you are i will i will start the time when you begin your comments and i will give you a one minute warning and then i will tell you when your time is up and i will say your name and your address and and the box you checked and you do not have to say that so your time will just start with you know just start talking you don't have to say your name or any of that since i'll do that um this way doesn't mean [Music] okay our first speaker
011tonight is aaron webber at 10 28 silver creek court greenwood community member i'm actually going to be here yeah um is that a live light it might have shed itself off [Music] i'll be using my time to dr carly carville [Music] thank you for allowing me to speak today my name is dr carly pavel md and i am a parent to a center for a student and a board certified family medicine physician practicing in the area and i've also taught undergraduate microbiology both in person and more recently online at a local university i stand before you today to represent many medical professionals and many concerned parents in the area i do not wish to go with division on this issue nor do i have any political motivation i do however have a public health motivation
012in what i will say i ask the community as a whole to stay respectful of each other and remember we are humans first i do understand this is difficult for the board so i ask that you follow established guidelines in regards to bosnia as set forth by the cdc american academy of pediatrics and american academy of family practice the large number of experts involved in these guidelines reviewed vast amounts of data and made the recommendation that children should mask irrespective of the number of cases two percent case benchmark is too high for a number of infections to start using methods that have been recommended by medical experts as mass can help to mitigate the script in spreading covert to not follow experts in this area truly makes a mockery of medicine and science that is
013genuinely astonishing we all want the schools to remain open and overall allow children to be safe and have in-person learning however if the common cases continue to rise as we are seeing then that will not happen given what i have seen in the dashboard percent growth absences are becoming overwhelming in this state the pediatric hospitals are filling with human-related admissions and in all honesty no child should need to die for the school district to try to mitigate the spread the principal ways this can be done for science are social distancing and mass wearing my child wears a mask to protect others all children and teachers should wear masks to protect each other i do understand that this is controversial and that this is truly the part that is hard for medical professionals to understand as
014i ask that we look after each other and listen to science and medical professionals please follow the recommendations given by the medical experts i do not have any hidden agenda nor do i seek to take anybody's autonomy away but i can say that corbit is significant in our community and i ask that changes be made in line with science to protect our school judiciary and if we do not that would be a big mistake if children do get significantly sick this is something that we would not be able to come back from thank you for your time and i do appreciate you listening to what i have to say thank you our next speaker is linda this is linda meyer thank you and i love it it's 1247. is that stupid [Music] those against [Music]
015those against the mass mandate want to work together for a resolution that all center for parents students and personnel can live with no one sign should have the absolute say-so in the decision and there should be flexibility from all points of view before you reach your final vote tonight we're asking you to seriously consider our position against mass mandate when the pandemic began nearly two years ago our life of knowledge arguably justified extreme measures of safety mass mandates and social distancing hopefully we've learned how to manage our fear and uncertainty through the availability of a vaccine to teachers parents and children who choose to get vaccinated and the use of mass to those who choose to use this and in all of this the operative word is choice members of one group here tonight want
016to exercise their constitutional parental right to choose what they believe as parents is in the best interest of their children they adhere to the fundamental belief that americans have the right to be sovereign over their own bodies and we will refer to them as group one members of another group you will hear from tonight they have chosen to wear a mask and to ask their children and we will call them group two the issue before us is whether or not group two has the right to infringe upon group ones constitutional and parental rights to try to pressure this board to mandate mass for all children in the centerville schools please note that group one is not trying to force its beliefs on group two group one respects the constitutional and parental rights of group two
017to choose and women and we believe those parents are in the best position to determine what is right for their family and it is apparent though that group 2 has no problem trying to force its opinions and choices on group 1 which is contrary to our beliefs and our rights fruit 2 relies on medical advice we've heard for the last year and a half how different medical advisors differ on their opinions and whether masks are even effective they are little incubators for bacteria and so are they really effective to keep our children safe nelson mandela famously said there can be no keener revelation of a society soul than the way in which it treats its children we don't have any long-term scientific data to determine the impact but the cycle social impact of these results
018time [Music] all right our next speaker is david is it boseman bowser thank you uh 36 86 and barry lane parents parkersville [Music] committee good sir thank you mr chairman uh members of the board i appreciate this opportunity tonight to address the school board i know this is a challenge a challenging situation for all of you and i'm certain a situation none of you ever expected to be in while there does seem to be a lot of division here tonight there's also a lot that unites us here we want in-person education for our children we want a safe learning environment for our children and i believe all of us here truly deeply care for our children the different laws the different slides however and how we get there in any other area of life where
019we don't have the expertise we seek the advice and recommendations from experts in that field if we need financial advice we seek counsel from a financial plan if we need legal advice we seek the counsel of a lawyer the indiana state department of health strongly recommends masks in k-12 and making that recommendation based on the cdc american academy of pediatrics the johnson county health department and many other reputable medical experts have all made clear and unanimous recommendations about wearing masks in case of all schools while i support the revised plans that the board has before it is a step in the right direction i believe it is still the reactions that proactive so why do we wait until we have a situation at hand the data is clear that the virus is spreading among our
020children the delta varying in particular is starting to take a more stronger toll on our children as evidenced by the hospitalizations and expecting those that riley than the previous periods however we are not in the same place that we were in march of 2020 when the pandemic first started we know more about the virus and we continue to learn more about it how it affects people of all ages how it spreads and most importantly how to stop it from strength until that teams are available for our younger children masks and social distancing along with other sanitary procedures i probably stop it [Music] i appreciate the board responding to the data and making and proposing that will provide a framework for in-person education to occur in a safe manner i hope this more will be done
021to better protect our children by following the medical recommendations and as an attorney i would say in response earlier this discussion that there is no constitutional right schools have had a long history of being able to provide safety methods in place as well as vaccine requirements for the safety of children at hand thank you very much [Music] our next speaker is greendale drive parent parker's bill thank you i'm karen cecil experience in the city school system also graduate i'm also the doctor of a different kind of drph who's the doctor of mental health and a master's in public health but here i'm here today to share some stories and experiences from families and parents who have children in this business that can't be here to share them on their own many of those who favor
022mass mandates even though so-called experts claim that masks don't bother our kids the reality that for many females in our district this simply is not true mass present problems for children with sensory issues asthma anxiety auditory disorders dermatitis and other skin disorders just to name a few let's take for example aubry a first grader in center of the district she is a high-risk child because of a health condition causing scarring in her lungs she is pneumonia and requires hospitalization two to three times a year if there is a family in this district who wants to prevent their daughter from getting coded this is that family but the truth is audrey's already had coded thankfully she recovered from it just fine what has caused aubry's family far more common than hope it did was the requirement
023for her to wear a mask you see aubry is autistic she like many children in our district have sensory issues she chews on everything she physically cannot help that although her iep specifically stated she could wear a face shield rather than a mask the school refused to permit this knowing she would have to be masked when she got into the building aubrey became so hysterical that most mornings she would be carried into the school by her mother landon a third grader began having headaches and stomach pain last year after hours of wearing the mask at school adding to the anxiety and landon's class if the mask fell below their nose or they pulled it down momentarily they would lose recess time one of the very few mass breaks they had during their entire school day
024last i want to tell you about fenway family is a kindergarten student born with a collect palette and she has difficulty with her speech and it became hard to understand her when she is not hearing that after masculinity is nearly impossible for her to communicate effectively with her classmates she got into the car at pick up most days crying because of her frustration and no one being able to understand her one time made fun saying she needed to learn to speak english her dad says it took her most of the summer to return to her normal happy self a mass requirement will be a huge setback and obstacle for friendly frankly she had enough setbacks enough to overcome without this those are just a handful of stories from our district there are many many more
025statistically a child recovers from code within about 10 days usually less than that but the stories we have shared with you tonight and stories just like them from all over our community tell us that maths do have consequences consequences that last much longer than 10 days wearing a mask for seven plus hours a day is not a denial issue it's not a no-brainer as many would have believed there is a high cost to mass mandates for many of our children we don't actually know how effective mass are preventing the spread of hope is we don't know if they help a little a lot or even if they help at all the experts on this do not agree but let me tell you what we do [Music] thank you our next speaker is teresa lockhart 4650
026hickory ridge road grove i'm sorry apparent greenwood i wanted to start by saying thank you dr arkanov your team and the school board you made a decision to invest in the education of children which is a critical role in any community i know none of you chose a path having to make mental filled decisions for him pandemic that being said the statement county has passed mandatory authority to you as you see fit using the stands only mandating that which state and county mandates is not viable strategy any longer in less than three weeks it is clear weaker language like recommended or strongly recommended are not strong enough it allows opinions to be debated against the public-minded advice of health experts i think all of us in this room can agree that we have a common
027goal provide the best education for our students in a safe environment and keep them in in-person learning the difference lies in our opinions on how best to achieve that goal i for one not a medical professional i'm an engineer who has a good problem in gathering data to provide a comprehensive solution i enjoy the swiss cheese model using the coffee chat because that's often used in aerospace product safety training as well you may add many layers of risk reduction reduction or slices of swiss cheese to reduce the opportunity of your defined problem whether that be an engine shutdown on a plane with a spread of highly contagious viruses wool all the layers have different strengths and weaknesses and while that are perfect the important part is that each layer improves the effectiveness of every other
028layer prominent medical organizations such as the american academy of pediatrics and cdc have laid out prevention methods that when combined give the best reduction for risks in schools vaccination masking physical distancing i will not name them all i'm happy to see that center grove has implemented many of these recommendations but they work best but they're all used unless questioning why is one of the least expensive and most readily available options not the one mandated masking is only effective if everyone participates it's not a choose your own adventure option for this swiss cheese method to work masking is proven to drop infection rates by over 70 in multiple collegiate studies i questioned how many even got to space where masking was optional for the unvaccinated population in the first place infections at center for school are
02933 times higher compared to last year than this time and yet we're implementing less measures to keep kids in school well i'm glad the district has made the back to school policy more robust it still uses the policy of reacting to an event once out of control rather than proactively reducing the risk we should all want to use the available risk mitigation items presented to us by the medical community to keep kids in school in person by not using all the options that are readily available i do not believe the boards that holding or common goal providing the best education for our students by keeping them in school i ask that you be brave and make an educated decision as the leaders of an educational board instead of making a decision based on misinformation and
030pleasing people who aren't medical health professionals i urge you to follow the guidelines of medical professionals just as school band-aids all sorts of other things to provide safe learning environments that reduce risk of students hold up your end of the deal and do it right not just what you need our next speaker this evening is mary graham tim brooke way parent parkersville so before i speak um i would just ask before we start the time too i was just absolutely not video i know this is live stream which i'm fine but i have a minor here so i ask that we don't video and have it be posted on facebook instagram or any of that okay i am a respiratory therapist um i've been respiratory therapists for 26 years and as a healthcare provider we
031have mandatory this pit mass fit test yearly every year we have to be properly fit tested with our masks because there's so many different types they come in different fabrics they come in different sizes and with our combi patients we mask we gown we glow and with our coded patients we um place our coded patients in negative airflow rooms to prevent the spread of an airborne disease why because we all know that mask wearing alone does not spread the spread of copic this is my daughter she attends center grove high school i don't have her here to exploit her but i want to put a face to her story she's always been an honor student she's always made aids she's never had any mental health issues but last year rachel was quarantined three to five
032times we lost track due to contact tracing she did all the right things rachel wore a mask she washed her hands she did everything she was supposed to but yet she was quarantined again and again and she never had a sniffle all this unnecessary quarantining caused her to have anxiety caused her to have fear because not because of this disease but it's because she was forced to stay at home and learn all by herself which is a lot of pressure to put on any young person fear of failure falling behind her peers even though she's academic she's a hard worker she has supportive parents that are home to help her and despite all this her mental health began to suffer and for the first time in her life she was failing school and at the
033end of last year all of this manifested into ticks physical and i'm sorry physical and verbal tics rachel began this school year and she's been it's been somewhat normal for her she's not been quarantined she almost doesn't have to wear a mask and guess what it's for the first time her grades are up her anxiety is down and she her grades she's her grades are up for anxieties now she's a different child but listen if masking is what it takes to put the extra measure of protection most of us will agree here that we will do what it takes to keep our child in school but this is what i ask of you on your end to add an extra level of protection to keep our kids healthy would you please allow antibodies wipe on
034school they allow their students to return from school from quarantine with antibodies my hospital allows antibodies being in the same county why can't we allow antibodies to this insane quarantining of healthy children for their emotional it's got to stop for their emotional health and well-being and for all their overall education rachel is not alone she was just one of the few brave young students that were willing to stand up here and tell her story [Music] greenland so i am a parent and a member of this community and all of us in this room are here to do what feels the best of the students the center group this is the first pandemic for all of us and information changes as we learn more about kobe 19 regarding the use of mass warranty and other changes
035related to the pandemic and the health and welfare of everyone i ask the board to follow the science listen to the medical experts that are connected with the school system if they don't have answers then listen to the county and state medical communities listen to medical experts you trust and be willing to modify plans based on the science if the science and experts say mascara benefit which they do then actually be acquired among the changes i realize there's more to this plan than mass again if the science is followed i do not see this planet as a draconian action i see the planet as one that benefits our community for the help of welfare all students and employees please make educated well-informed decisions do not make decisions based on pseudoscience or humanity fear rely on
036the experts no one in this room wants to hear about another preventable death thank you [Applause] our next speaker is emily montgomery chelsea or i'm sorry what does that say chelsea terrace thank you chelsea terrace parent greenwood [Music] thank you for the opportunity to speak here this evening i'm asking that you keep mask wearing a choice as an industrial hygienist and certified safety professional i could be the most qualified person in this room to comment on that for those that do not know industrial hygiene is the science of our devoted to the anticipation recognition evaluation and control of those environmental factors or stressors rising in or from the workplace which may cause sickness impaired health and well-being or significant discomfort among workers our amount of citizens and communities presently most of the people talking about
037exposure and exposure control of medical doctors certainly these are intelligent individuals they are not ihs whose goal is to control and the exposure and select appropriate ppe to where and when doctors treat people i just protect people no one is talking to the subject matter experts one of the core concepts of ih is hierarchy of controls this shows what one what to do is trying to control a hazard should do elimination or substitution is not applicable to viruses so we move down to engineering controls options here dilution through ventilation and destruction technologies ventilation systems administrative controls are things such as written policies and training with the goal of reducing frequency and severe exposure ppe could be many things but for this conversation inflation and earth concern therefore respirators are the selected compete with the last
038line of defense and least desirable option masters are not respirators and are not ppe so they don't fit within the hierarchy of control masks are not respirators because you cannot seal the edges of a medical mask and do not connect a fit test on a mask while osha recommends a mask they acknowledge that astronaut respirators and cloth-based coverings are not an acceptable substitute for respirators thereby refusing the public the cdc has issued similar recommendations yet it acknowledges that mass are not a reliable level of protection from inhaling smaller airborne particles the fibrous particle is so small that it will easily find its way in or around the mast if you were to take a hair from your head could you slip that between your face and mask this is what we put people who are
039doing asbestos work in and asbestos fiber is five microns and you expect this to block a particle that's 0.14 microns study after study have done health care workers comparing no mass to mass and mass in 95 filtered face visas so there's no benefit health care workers wearing an aspirin in 95 to our dependent respiratory influences like illnesses to suggest a community at large that have no training on dawning storage cleaning or replacing the benefit from such as no scientific back pain talk to the experts use engineering controls dimension and destruction and keep your promised appearance that we have choice please do not yell out good [Music] parents who chose not evening be here tonight this meeting itself closes risks they weren't willing to take i request that the disease is held virtually whether there is
040abortion giving both sides of the debate equal opportunity to be represented the only real revision i noticed during this cognitive presentation was the change to requirement if the infection rate in any school reached two percent while this is a step in the right direction it's not sufficient to keep kids healthy and in school learning in person research shows that face coverings are far more effective if they are used preventatively and proactively as opposed to reactively why do we need to allow so many children to become ill and possibly end up hospitalized or lose their lives to enforce a very simple protocol that kept kids in elementary schools learning all in person all year last year and does them no harm i'm having trouble understanding why the board doesn't seem more concerned with the health and
041safety of children who don't even have the option to protect themselves or another in any other way right now masks are the solution and last year's last school year proved that now here we are in a new school year with a much more virulent transmissible strain of the same partners as hospitalizing indiana children at rates exponentially higher than last year and we're not requiring that with all due respect there is no logic in this many surrounding suburban school districts have instituted this mandate regardless of socioeconomic status or political affiliation this is not a political issue it is a public health issue i've had the pleasure of communicating with several local medical professionals about this issue and i personally work in behavioral health in an integrated care setting and i can assure you the majority of
042us the unified front are in support of mass we want to keep our kids in school we have jobs we'd like to continue working and without disruption we like to see our kids academic instruction be carried out by the professionals who are educated and trained to do so skillfully we are not teachers and many of us humbly acknowledge that we're not skilled or patient enough to teach our kids at home as you've left us no virtual action this year we're left with no choice which way the importance of our children's physical versus mental health and well-being as we know they need pure interaction with specialized instruction but something this is cool means potentially jeopardize jeopardizing their health not only now but in the future since we don't know what long-haul symptoms will look like for
043children having worked through this pandemic as a therapist treating all ages i can attest i've never once dealt with a child adolescent or teen who struggled with masculinity although i'm very sorry for the young ladies they are all adapted they all adapted in my experience i also had a kindergarten sign whom i had to remind frequently removed his math when he was home from school because he got so used to it i can also test that i treated kids who had posed 19 or had friends or teachers or parents or busters or other relatives suffer or die from copen and this is what we processed this is the trauma of covet not masks my kindergarten is now in first grade struggling to keep his mask on because so few of his friends and peers wear
044one i hear that stories of kids being bullied and ridiculed and the irony is that math is protecting those kids doing bullying this is unacceptable after the fact that social destiny measures aren't being compared to properly if you're unwilling to pre-consider your plan and mandate massively surrounding school districts with similar infection grades are doing i'd like to offer a different solution please consider our plans to call it um 5763 saddle club road barbersville where are you aaron thank you dr arkansas school board you're making decisions that affect thousands of children we understand that a certain amount of this is out of your hands and in the normal world the public schools take their cues from the higher powers and go on down the road but this is not a normal world this is a world
045split upside down especially for our kids i want to point out some things that we as parents have been told from your administration just this week and hope that it encourages you to ask yourselves if you really consider what you're asking us to accept we were told in the coffee chat that at most three percent of close contacts are actually getting sick in other words you know at least 97 of the students you're trying to stay home are completely healthy respectfully do you hear yourselves and have you questioned the authority that is mandating this we're told that vaccinated students are exempt from quarantine and we're told in the same breath that you know that vaccinated children are still contracting and spreading the virus but they're intent from quarantine because they're vaccinated do you hear yourselves
046we're told that a positive coca test in the last six months is accepted because having coping produces antibodies that make you immune but antibody tests that show you have antibodies are not accepted do you hear yourselves a copy chat is supposed with the idea that we will get to have some of these hard questions answered but they're met with no response week after week questions like if you're seeing positive cases with vaccinated individuals knowing they can still spray coping why do they not have to quarantine it was asked several times it was met with silence it doesn't exactly inspire confidence in our decision makers we get it you take your recommendations from the state and from the professionals you hired but this is unprecedented time why aren't you taking unprecedented measures to seek truth and
047facts why aren't you asking the hard questions and why are you answering our hard questions respectfully you're making decisions as the last year never happened we've already lived through 18 months of this we know that we're keeping healthy children at home we know that it is having horrific effects on their mental health and you're still making the same decisions that you made last year when all of us when all this was unknown why because the health department told you to how many hard questions have you asked the health department instead of growth administration where's the leadership that says this up and this isn't good for our kids that we have to do something that is the leadership that we need that is the leadership we thought we elected protect our kids you can't protect them
048from comfort it's here and it's not leaving anytime soon but you can protect them from the complete nonsense that is having far more adverse effects on this than the vipers with a 99 pediatric recovery rate kids deserve better than we the community demanded 30 minutes for public input so at this time we will close the public public comments on regardless mr russell thank you dr arkham thank you to everyone i also uh speak to the board and saying we appreciate the calmness of listening to you and having respect to listen to you speaker we will now move on to our next agenda which is the act nine month tonight thank you uh this evening i'm going to have a presentation let me bring up the information here i apologize so this evening mr jason taylor
049assistant superintendent of human resources technology and health services along with amy norman director of health services will be presenting to you revisions to the 21 22 return to school plan i'm recommending that the board approve the plan this evening and we'll have the terminal to provide you with a presentation thank you thank you [Music] what we'd like to do tonight is provide an updated plan that we presented back originally in july to the school board parker is going to be our navigator on the presentation i threw a couple pair of balls at her but uh i think she'll be through it for us so i just want to start by making a comment that michelle and i both are also parents in this district we have children throughout the schools um you know we were
050both trained to come here to support schools students in an educational environment this is not the type of presentation we have a before commission but we are going to present the recommendation that we've worked through from guidance from the state from the county from the cdc and from here to our school that's what we've appreciated with all that being said this has been very a very compassionate and purposeful goal of our school board to keep our students in our schools in traditional marketing that's what we feel like is best for our students that's what we want to do we want to keep all of our schools in our schools all our students within our schools as much as possible this school year next time we're going a little further into that goal we believe that
051in personal learning provided by our exceptional teachers is the best way for our students to learn unfortunately in the past three now almost four weeks that traditional mode of learning has become undergrad and it has significant risk risks at a scale we did not see last year some of those risks have listed here we have currently more positive cases in three weeks than we had in the last three months that's just a glass friday when we look at this week it's going to be even longer last week alone we saw 594 quarantines in isolations from the field and prior year in the prior year school year we moved to the blended model learning just above and then between 400 positive pace or 14 isolations and unfortunately something we we didn't see as much last year
052but it's happening very quickly in our buildings this year is we're reaching that 20 absolute key rate and that's something that's been around for a long time well beyond government um it's something that's normal team track typically we only have to track into making through major influenza seasons or 8201 or something like that but this year we're seeing our schools getting off the close to that 20 mark and why that's so important is that that requires mandatory reporting to the state and then we investigate why we're at 20 with our county and you've probably seen the news there are schools who have hit that mark and have been recommended that they close those schools and move to a limited model we don't work today and finally our staff warranty and isolation numbers are rising each
053week these are vaccinated and unvaccinated staff members as we mentioned actually folks are testing positive for cocos and so we are getting concerned that our ability to maintain that traditional learning environment is slipping away from us and so this evening we'd like to make a series of recommendations and summary each summary in summary of those changes i have a slide here and then we're going to uh get a little more in depth with the data and recommend these changes the first one would be a recommendation and a change to our base recovery policy at this time we currently operate as face everything's optional at all times we'd like to change that and recommend that we look at all individuals wearing fixed membranes indoors and normal school bus we will use what the johnson county health
054department has recommended to us [Music] a threshold of one percent in our school buildings of positive cases would trigger a strong recommendation from the corporation we would communicate that to families and ask them that they wear a face covering so that we don't go up to the next bullet point which is a two percent threshold at two percent we would then require base coverage for all individuals in the building and it would remain our environment until we get back below that one percent threshold for about a week so we want to make sure if we see a spike we can mitigate that and we can return back to a level that we feel like we can continue with our traditional education we do want to point out a bullet here that entire classrooms could be
055quarantined and moody learning with three or more positive cases some of the some of the guidance would proceed here is to start throwing out of one or two cases after speaking with the county they feel comfortable and we would we would continue to use three and i say continue because we've had to close in classrooms already this school year and close is a great word but it's a short decision what it means is we pointing all of those students and most of them could return on that a8 as a class or day 11 or 14 depending on their choice but that's really what that means as i mentioned on the last slide we are getting close to where we hit that 20 and we may have to pass the state and let them know that
056we may need to close the building they may tell us we need to close that bill we may not have that choice they may ask us to move to move our students to key learning instead of a traditional mode of learning and this is all total illnesses and so this isn't just coping illnesses that might factor into this and that's one more reason to kind of think about what the face term may help us not just double some other spread of we would also make a change for the indoor activities taking place after school in those buildings we would require face coverings for all spectators and non-participants in that activity further near the department of health the antibody testing is no longer allowed to avoid voiding they never allowed us our county did recommend it
057at one point and they removed that recommendation we appealed to the state we've asked them to allow this and they've said firmly [Music] finally we will make a change to our school day visitors and volunteers who would like them to wear their face coverings at all times as long as johnson county is outside of the food advisory status and once a building reaches a full two percent of positive cases we might limit our volunteers and visitors to only the essentials miss norman's gonna share some of the data she works in this every day this is what she does for us so much and her team does and supports and she's gonna share so we can get a feel for what this really looks like in our schools [Music] um as you can see beginning with
058uh our first case occurred on august 6th august 5th was a great day because we knew everybody was going to be in school that wouldn't be a problem um but we've been trickling up um in fact we've spent more than a trickle we've kind of been jumping exponentially each week as you can see we started with two hit 34 the second week school the third week of school we were at 99 and this week as of this evening at five o'clock we were at 97 pieces so it would be well over 100 likes tomorrow [Music] because of that you know obviously there's clearly related absences that go into that there are quarantines that occur i know that that is frustrating for families now that's upside down i would like to say that when we quarantine
059we're looking at a three-foot area for closing our mind what that has equated to is approximately two to three on average students who are quarantined there are some areas where we just can't win the quarantine issues okay lunch is one of them as you can see sitting at these tables you sit closer than three feet no matter what you do it's just part of the process you can go to the next slide and this is kind of a look at where we stand on the farm is that we are right there it's our current positive cases that we're sitting at as a five o'clock today and and this are not mistaken this is where we are looking at that one threshold um these cases when we have a positive case it will sit as a
060current positive case for 10 days according to the county we look at that isolation period that that person is under until they can return to school that is that's what you know we've been instructed by the county health department to be able to determine these types of things so that's the calculation that we're using um on the left that shows the threshold of cases or where we would be to hit those marks of that one and the two percent this is kind of look at just our daily absences um this takes into account not just coping this takes into account just parents calling in because their kids are sick which i greatly appreciate that you do that whether you test or not whether you believe in testing or not please keep your children home if
061they don't feel well they don't learn at school when they're not feeling well whether they have a fever or not if their head is full it's not they can't function in school so we appreciate it when we keep them home so thank you i would greatly appreciate it please continue to do that but as you can see we are having difficulties with the number of absences that we're experiencing whether it be covet whether it's the rsv whether it be just a random cold whether it be whatever is out there in the community that's going on these things affect our ability to teach kids in school this kind of gives us an indication of where we were last year versus where we are this year looking at week three there we were up to i guess
062this week two years or week three now we were at 99 cases at the end of the week week three last year a year ago we were at three cases we've been you know at the rate that we are going i think we're currently 232 total cases for the school district last year we had 744 for the year our battle is not quarantined our battle is that this is something that is spreading it's something that's making people sick and making it so that they can't come to school i heard some people in their comments talking about close contacts and things like that and that might be the next slide done last year at this time we had quarantined 418 kids on three cases and one of the things i want to point out is at
063that time we were doing a six foot distance for contact tracing um when we went into second semester the state reduced that distancing to three feet and part of that was because of data showed close contacts were not contracting this and so they felt comfortable allowing that distance to come down which i applauded and was excited about because i was very frustrated this year you know we've had 500 north 94 warrantings but we've also had dramatically more cases but that goes to show that we're trying to keep those quarantines so that they're where we as i said we're following the guidelines that have been issued by the county health department which is freezing so that's what we're working towards by doing that our numbers for quarantine are very similar to what they were in the
064spring our issue this year is we just have so many more cases we're working tirelessly to just try to keep up with it just kind of shows you know that average of you know last year we would have about 33 ounces this first semester whenever we had a positive case this year we've gotten that broken down to it's about three kids generally speaking at the elementary level these are the kids your kids are hanging out with these kids all day you know we've tried to pot them they eat lunch together they're sitting together you know we've done everything you know the teachers have done a magnificent job trying to get their rooms so that we keep these things so that they're not taking out entire rooms they're not taking out entire rows they're not taking
065out nine pins for one which was where we were at last year [Music] um one of the things i think that is most disturbing for me is that last year i had approximately i had 18 students that i could say were close contacts who tested positive that was for the entire school year that was part of my frustration with a little bit of the quarantine because you know it didn't seem to necessarily affect the other students as we said we were keeping healthy kids at home this year just in these three weeks i've already had 15 students who has positive who were close contacts um that's you know that right now we're running at about 6.7 that's positive if they come in contact with other students who have been coping that's part of the reason
066why we're doing the quarantine the problem that we're running into is can't get them out fast enough that it doesn't make more quarantines um this variant that we have is a lot more contagious last year it was estimated to be one person with coded would probably infect three people this year it's one person with this delta variant it affects about eight people and that's alarming and i'll be honest when i check attendance you know i i know that there's been some things posted on facebook where there have been some mistakes made in regards to contact tracing and you're right we're human we do the best that we can and it is difficult it's difficult to find it's difficult to make sure that we have the distances correct it's going to help to make sure we
067have the seating chart correct but we do try to correct those if that happens and i also think that we're doing a pretty good job with it unfortunately one of the trends that i noticed that's really disturbing is a lot of times when i pull these things up those kids have been absent within that same need so whether they test it or not it tells me they potentially could have a problem that potentially could have gotten infected school or they could have come to school and infected other people with whatever it is i wanted to kind of throw a slide in here that summarizes and takes a positive where we're at so our recommendations tonight are to start as tight as we can and try to mitigate spread in pockets and so the recommendation we
068made earlier you noticed would be on a building basis where we make a change in the mixed governance we've also tried to be even a little more closer to the case by looking just in the classroom and and that's what the slide then represents something i talked about earlier is that we would look we would look to forge you in a classroom before we were to close it or continue to school unfortunately that could happen in three or four positive cases it has happened already this year and then the twenty percent of you saw the chart as something we're approaching very quickly many of our schools are at the 15 threshold uh at the end of last week and we continue to watch that daily um and this part so um and this is the
069moment of logical place so if you would like once more i appreciate it this is a model that someone enjoyed earlier and mentioned this that's okay sorry about that it's okay the items in the light blue are things that we're already doing or things that are under the school corporations kind of control uh you'll see we've we've kind of layered these pieces of swiss cheese together so that we could maybe stop that infection from reaching the individual at the other end no seal layer itself will protect us from the virus but with all of these layers stacked upon each other we have our best chance to fight against the spread across the top physical distance needs to help your sick teaching students proper hand hygiene um if crowded we're limiting our time we're trying not
070to create any currents um ventilation outdoors and air filtration is something i'm so proud of what our corporation's done what dr long and his team have done if you look above you in the cp you see these fixtures that are not lights these are air purifiers they do have uv light inside of them they are cleaning the air in this room where our students eat every day we're adding these throughout the corporation and have a plan to add them in every learning space through our upcoming construction projects beyond that some of the air of the schools is already being turned over in a way that's much more cleaner than you've ever seen in a household or residential setting the final blue blue teal where the toolbox across the top is a quarantine isolation and that's
071a strategy we've employed to try to mitigate the spread um at the bottom we have two gto boxes where it's avoiding touching your face again teaching the kids and then the use of tracing there are three items that we don't have a lot of control over and that's vaccinations well we have a great rate in our county we don't have control over that we have not mandated that for students or staff we have listened to the government messaging we have received financial support that we put into these things like the air filtration and to help our teachers uh hone their skills and provide learning into different modes we've done that and then unfortunately fast and sensitive testing is something that's slipping away from us quickly i know as norman said right now when she makes
072her phone calls and when she talks to a parent and they're interested in returning on page she purges them to schedule their appointment today because there is a significant slowdown in backlogging investing earner memory and even to get an appointment so finally the last box there in green is something that we've not uh employed this school year it's something we did have last year uh and that's what we're talking about this evening is the addition of face coverings yeah an added layer of protection we feel like all those layers together really could help us stay in this traditional learning mode which is what we want to do it's talked a little bit about our vaccination rates in the county very proud of these and the way they've grown since we started looking at these in
073june and july where i'm almost seven to eight to ten percent in one of these inputs these are the three zip codes that represent center of schools and beyond uh but we look at all three of these um and you'll see some really impressive um protection in our community unfortunately we know that these values don't hold true when we talk about school-age kids um just the county average alone is not anywhere near this we don't get school level data on this as easy as we'd like or as well as we might i also can't tell you how many students in center grove high school have actually this normal technically stab at it but honestly this is what published out there this is what we know to be true so let's talk a little bit more
074about how we will communicate these changes to parents and for what improves these changes this evening when we hit the one percent positivity in the building that's where we'll send out a parent squared notification so the folks know that's not something that's going to happen overnight that quickly a lot of times we don't have our final case counts in until six seven o'clock after our principals and this woman and her team worked through all of the reports and contact phrasing for the day and so the next morning we'd actually uh um send out some communication on this and let folks know we also posted for the district national you see some changes to that where we kind of put those caller codes out there so folks can understand the situation in their building um when
075we do get two percent that's where uh again i've kind of had myself there but that's where it'll be we will find that out on say tuesday evening we communicate that out on wednesday morning and the recommendation or the requirement will start the following school day on thursday so that we give parents students and staff a chance to prepare for this our our staff to inform the students that when they get on the bus in the morning when they arrive that's the expectation and then finally dropping below one percent is something that could happen um we hope it does we hope that um once the face coverings are on and these other things are in place that we don't have long long time for about two percent we hope it spikes and comes back down
076so we can return um where we're at where we're at this one's a little bit different on communication if a building is found to fall back below one percent we've watched that for a period of time we're saying one week and then that's where we would stop that um that option we can return back to optional at that point if we fall back below that one percent and so there's a little bit of a delay there just to make sure we truly came down off that spot some of the graphics you'll see online try to make some of this communication a little bit easier miss conrad does a great job with our team and putting this together of course you'll see a lot of this on our website moving forward this plan is adopted and
077this is where in green uh cases are below one percent ability masking will remain optional when we get in between that one percent and two percent threshold we strongly recommend base coverage and then once we hit two percent or more that's when we move to the requirement again we have a federal mandate that still requires the maximum of us and then our visitors and then our school clinics and anyone returning all those enhanced precautions would still have the national uh requirement all of this information will be available um on all of our web pages at the very top you'll see go to 19 as a choice and that will take you to the entire code 19 web page where you also see the dashboard and some great tips on how to teach your student to
078protect them and what symptoms to look for we also have then we will continue to publish our cases daily again we'll move to that color code system as well so folks know what percentage we're in and then we do absences that are related to government on a weekly basis sometimes that heaven flows we kind of draw a line in the sand at the end of the day friday we put that number out then on on sunday so the folks would see what happened that part of the weekend again a summary of kind of what we've covered and this is what you'll actually see on the website uh would be the the face covering recommendation that we talked about earlier uh classrooms with derby three foot of social distancing um that will be something we'll see
079more classes even spreading out uh beyond that if they're able to um we talked about that changing the visitors as once we reached two percent or as the county's not in blue if i every status are enhanced blaming since last year our high-touch areas our air filtration all those things will continue um we'll be looking at you know the water fountains and bottle fillers and those types of things extracurriculars are going to align with the school building so when a building moves above two percent that's where we have that additional protection in the evenings for our spectators and our non-participants and then finally we'll continue to contact creation quarantine um for the guidance that we've received through the governor and the department of health i think we'll pause there this is the website where all
080that information will be published um and i want to thank you ford for listening and uh your attention here any questions sure thank you thank you very much members of the board you have any questions for a little [Music] person i'm sure people have questions questions as usual they can send questions to myself to uh mr tanner or even mrs norman they do that through their website on our emails they can also do that through our communication email which we have uh as well appointment on the state stamp store communications so those are some ways they can reach out thank you surprise this is an action item our next order of business would be to see if we have a motion on this presentation from mr terry mr president i moved that [Music] thank you
081mr daniels are there any questions or comments the one thing i didn't see in this flyback we would like to begin this on monday that give us an opportunity as you saw in this life we have a couple levels that are in the red status as of today i would like to communicate that tomorrow clearly other questions discussion i guess my next the next things i have aren't necessarily questions but more of a more of a comments or observations i i want to i want to thank you and mrs norman both for the effort and the hours and answering the board's questions [Music] dr arden off your team has put a lot of thought and energy into this plan as we have moved forward i think as i commented in the july meeting this is
082going to be the plan's going to evolve over time we were hoping that as we got into the school year that maybe some of the things we had in place we could begin to relax a bit and think our numbers within the building show us otherwise i think the the plane is presented as good appropriate responses to where we are um i honestly you know don't always agree as i've stayed stated with our health department on things and we're going to continue to work on those things as we go with our with the health department i just have a few things to add and i want to start again by thanking the two of you for all the efforts you put in as people know you know no one in here likes code no one
083in here likes the position the community's put in we've got friends we've got neighbors we all passionately want to keep our kids in school we all passionately want to keep our kids safe we all passionately want to do what's right i want to thank each speaker tonight because you could have came up here and you did it the right way you gave us very informative information you came up here and you spoke from the heart you came up here you spoke from the information that you hadn't provided so thank you for all that this is the way a community is supposed to do something like this we're not always going to agree we're going to be able to sit down and have a civil conversation about it i said it at the last board meeting
084i'm going to say it again so i thank you all for that last year we had a quarantine problem we fought we got quarantine reduced to three feet from six feet this year we have a copic positive problem so now with the layers that have been presented i believe our administration i believe our health folks here within within the corporation are doing everything they can to try to keep our doors open i had a senior last year she hadn't asked god all year i didn't want to have a masculine year she got quarantined because i thought i didn't want to get quarantined it wasn't a fun way to spend the senior year she made it through it she's in college he missed what they've got a mask on her there too and i wish they
085didn't but you know sometimes we have to do things we don't want to do with all that being said i think any chance that any move we can make that increases the chances of keeping our kids in person learning is the step i want to take at this point but as i said the meeting in which we coding i have not proved covered i'll prove the quoted plan at the meeting in which we approve the code plan i said everything that we have done from day one is always subject to change we talk and question and constantly push as you know the five of us up here don't agree on everything but we respect each other's opinions as you know the community doesn't agree on everything but i ask you to respect each other's opinion
086so we're not done this may not be our last move i hope the numbers go down i hope masks work and we go in the right direction but i thank you thank you thank you for everyone tonight showing up everyone tonight expressing their opinions in a very professional and very civil manner thank you i uh i know i spoke up the last board meeting as well and and i guess i i'll start by saying that what i say is my opinion this doesn't necessarily reflect the opinions of everybody that you see here my fellow board members but as as rob said we do not all agree we do not all agree and with everything in this presentation but i will tell you the one thing that we do agree on is the fact that i
087want my kid in school i have two kids i have one in elementary and i have one in middle school and i do not want my sixth graders sitting home um learning about accounting i just i don't want that are my kids wearing masks today no they're not um that's my position like i said that this is me this is my family this isn't them but at the end of the day i want my children in school so that means that i need to compromise and i need to put a mask on my child so that they can continue to stay in school then that is exactly what i'm going to do but again i appreciate all of you coming out i appreciate the emails that you send i walked through schools this week i
088wanted to see for myself what our teachers and our principals are going through and so i took time out of my work day and i walked through schools and i listened i didn't i didn't i wasn't asking a ton of questions i just listened i listened to the principles i listened to you know a principal talk about the struggles with you know certain students that may have issues wearing those masks and i understand that but at the end of the day i think that we need to find that compromise as a community and i feel like this plan is a good compromise and it's a start and it is an ever-changing plan and if like i said in the last board meeting if you do not think that s5 6 actually do not talk daily
089you are wrong and if you do not think that i do not care about your children you are wrong because i care about every single one of your children including my children and i want what's best for all of our kids and i want them to be in school so this is my seven months on the board i'm super emotional i've not slept well all we please understand that we are trying to do what's best for our kids and while we may not agree we have to respect each other's opinions and keep this going for our kids and thank you for everything that you've done and i know that this has nothing easy for you either and and what you go through on a daily basis i'm sure thank you to start with you guys
090um i appreciate you taking the time to put all this together and um amy i want to address you specifically i want to apologize if you have a lot of people in this community that you love on emails um i've watched you handle this with a lot of patience and a lot of grace over the last uh couple weeks and even meeting up with this bb um even i even noticed you can answer emails back at four o'clock in the morning a few times so um and i was up to it you know because like thinking you said it's a stressful like something i i'll drink about and i'll wake up um we're lucky not only to have you but everyone said over there at the school honestly to my fellow board members every one
091of you has handled this with a lot of grace and a lot of patience um like you guys all said you know you definitely don't agree on certain things and i appreciate the conversations they've been meaningful i appreciate you guys helping me understand your concerns and understanding mine it does upset me that this decision is built on the shoulders of school boards as far as i know none of us here disease experts you should have to make those kind of decisions for people's families and your your children now lastly i want to thank everybody who came here tonight take time out of their evenings to express their concerns to us it does really mean a lot to us we've had tons of emails lots of opinions lots of data from medical field professionals all the
092way to just a mom or dad that wants your kids to stay in school but for what it's worth of honor to represent for what i feel is the majority of the community and how i work tonight and lastly i do want to pray for the safety of our brothers and sisters horses thank you mr federer i too make the administration as president i am in conversation with them pretty much daily basis i also observe how much time this particular issue subject has taken part and taken up their day time when we still have a school group we still have other things that could go on and we must keep going in the midst of all this they have done just an outstanding job and we told we really do appreciate we not say it
093all the time but we do we do feel that we do need and i want to thank the community uh you know it could be worries when you have a larger crowd like this i'm very proud that we have this involvement we've had board meetings where it was echoing out there that this particular issue has has hit the community from many different angles and it is hard to find where is that medium where is that little ground where is the right thing to do because it could be the right thing to do this week and then all that dark pandemic that then darn virus decides to do something else so we have to react to it we have to figure out okay how do we stop this apartment i have an instance of respiratory therapist
094who went through all last year and this year and it was just about crying on my shoulder telling me uncle jack every 72 hours we get new information on how to work with this how to handle this and many times the new information totally contradicted the original treatment so you can imagine how you feel when you get that kind of thing and think what did i do something wrong you know before but it's a fluid situation we go through that we get information you have all of you have sent emails i do my best to read them all to my eyes get crossed and i get medical advice you shouldn't ask them i get medical advice they don't do any good i have to put that together the board has to put that together where
095is that medium where is the you know not not happy medium that pleases everybody but for the students because i can guarantee you everyone up here the kids come first that's why our challenge is keep them in school as a former teacher and some i've served kindergartners to honor senior students and loved every minute but the important thing is to keep them in that classroom because i do not believe each learning is good for hybrids not the best but at least they're seeing each other once in a while they're getting in a classroom once a while so we have to figure all that out along with this so as you can see it's a challenge it is a challenge that keeps us up at night i know this guy and i have texted at 4
096in the morning and it does hit you you lay them try to go asleep and think which way do we need to go here with these kids because the kids are the main thing so um i don't need to repeat a lot of what the others have said here but again i do want to say i appreciate your integrity tonight to make this a good meeting understanding you believe in your point you want to get your point across it makes me so proud i grew up in this community and it makes me so proud that you are figuring out a way of having civil discussion you are figuring out a way to create and disagree when we see what's happening in the world and around our country so thank you for that i know that
097there uh you're seeing some other schools doing different things from us uh i don't mean simplify it but there's that old saying well if johnny says jump off the bridge you're gonna do it you know johnny goes jump off the bridge and say you need to do it we have to look at that you know they're making decisions that they seem fit for their population for their school their kids we have to do that here what do we feel the best for our community and our kids i've said it before because i'd be tired of hearing it but please deal with the state the federal government the state the county cbc looking at all those different things that sometimes coincide but many times don't go inside and as mr hubbard alluded to they've all figured
098out how to throw it down onto the backs of the school board so none of them have to make the decision if you can imagine them that's hard there's another way around if it's hard well mr russell to that point my son who's a senior as a c9 and we were notified from c9 earlier this week that master now required at c9 because they felt that was the appropriate response to what was going on within in the central nine building with 11 different schools feeding into the building i had a conversation with him about it he wasn't thrilled with the idea believe me but he understood it and got it at the same time and it helps keep them in school and keeps them learning he's willing to put on a mask and do that
099so it's we got some of our students who are going to be departing we're about to central nine and that's just gonna be the way it's gonna be for now come on thank you i really don't think i need to go on or say more is there any other comments by any others before i call not further uh yeah just one last thing i really appreciate all of you and your work on this as as they've shared this is probably the most stressful thing i've ever seen a board go through obviously the community and everything else going through but your dedication and care to doing the best that you can do is obvious your commitment to the position that you've been elected to is really impressive quite honestly um because you're not doing it for
100the big two thousand dollars again a year so um you know so it's a it's really just admirable all the efforts and work you've done done as you all share can't say enough about my entire team of course amy you know if we could just all everyone here give her a hand some of them are here tonight to be [Music] just i appreciate that people just people be civil with us as we're trying to work through this i know it's hard and i'm just very thankful to be in this community i've grown up here and i appreciate what you guys have done tonight and being civil with one another i hope it continues but more importantly it's it's not just me it's my whole team so so please remember that thank you the last thing
101i'll say is uh as you pointed out our country for eight years united states army uh part of that and the oath that was defending the constitution and the laws of our country and this and this forum that we have today and what i appreciate most about that is that we've all come together and no matter the vote that what we have here in this country is a process so however it turns out we'll respect the process and we'll carry it out if the board approves the plan we'll carry it out the board does not approve the plan we understand and that's the process so i just want to thank you all and everyone here tonight and how you handle this and that i know that all of us will respect the process so thank
102you thank you dr um for another discussion mr alexander would you repeat the motion please yeah sorry um mr president i move that we adopt the return of the school plan for the changes that the return to school plan has presented okay so mr alexander made the motion mr daniels seconded all those in favor say i i was opposed i'm opposed one announcement is september 21st the next regular board meeting and we are done thank you