3-28-2022 School Board Meeting

001gosh everything uh i think she's just perfect all right good evening it is now seven o'clock all right we'll call this meeting to order roll call will show that all five board members are present and both of our student representatives are here this evening has this meeting been posted dr midsick yes it has all right and i invite you to stand and join me in the pledge of allegiance of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all all right dr mindset is there communication that you'd like to share with the board and the community tonight yes there is greendale students and staff return from our 2022 spring break today we're excited to welcome students back for the final months of the 2021-2022 school

002year since the last equity update we have had fewer incidents of hate speech in our schools this is a celebration of all of the work our stakeholders are doing to increase inclusion and belonging in our schools we are proud of our students and their advocacy for themselves and their friends students are using the techniques learned as part of our character education and our anonymous reporting tool stop it in response to each instant incident the school follows the policy and the students who use hate speech participate in restorative practices and are given appropriate consequences to hold them accountable for their behavior this process is a way for students to reflect learn and acknowledge the harm they have caused this work allows all students to grow and learn from their mistakes and move us towards creating a

003school environment where no student has to hear hate speech greendale village manager todd michaels has announced his retirement michael hawes has been announced as the next village manager i look forward to meeting and working with mr mr hawes on initiatives that benefit our community many thanks to mr michaels for his collaboration with the district and work as treasurer of the greendale education foundation for many years the greendale marching band performed as green yale's pep band during the first round of the nc2a men's basketball tournament that was held at pfizer forum in milwaukee this opportunity received a lot of media attention with stories in the news on all four tv channels and the milwaukee journal sentinel the greendale high school choir and orchestras are preparing for a trip to washington dc next week to perform at

004a celebration in honor of the centennial at the lincoln memorial on sunday april 10th the student music groups have been invited by music celebrations international and muriel elizabeth bowser mayor of the district of columbia while visiting dc students will perform on the steps of the lincoln memorial as part of the events commemorating the centennial and take part in other musical and educational activities there are three upcoming opportunities for our community to visit and tour several of our schools this thursday march 31st here at greendale high school a community facilities planning event is scheduled self-guided school tours begin at 6 p.m the meeting begins in the school library which is right here in this room at 7 00 p.m on monday april 18th mr mitchell will host mr mitchell and i will host school finance 101

005at canterbury and school tours are available at noon that day and the presentation will take place at 1 pm the same school finance 101 will be available on wednesday april 20th in the evening at college park self-guided school tours begin at 6 in the meeting begins in the school library at 7. we hope community members will come out to see our schools and hear those informative presentations and finally a donation of 50 was received from richard and julie johnson to support the high school softball team and we appreciate their generosity that concludes my communications all right thank you kim um first up on the agenda is for informational purposes we're going to be hearing a panzer pride moment and uh at tonight's meeting uh mr weiss from the greenville middle school is here to share

006some information it looks like he's got some a group with him this evening all right thank you very much i want to start by saying thank you to the school board for allowing us to be here tonight to share our gms panther pride this is always a nice opportunity to share something positive that is happening in our school and i want to start by thanking bridget brown and two other eighth grade students bailey and naima for joining me tonight so our topic tonight is on student leadership at greendale middle school we talk a lot about the importance of being leaders in our school and the impact that each student can have on our school on our school community excuse me these leadership opportunities come in many forms it can be engagement and participation in the

007classroom we all know that the lessons and activities that our teachers provide our classrooms are much more beneficial and productive if the students are willing to participate and take risks leadership can come in the form of participation in service learning or other school or community activities so identifying in the community and taking the action to address that need students can be part of group organizations such as sources of strength these are students that want to be leaders that have an impact on a larger community and are willing to put in the work that's needed to be successful and then finally it's leadership that comes through individual student voice so students that want to take the initiative to be individual leaders in our school and being a leader means that you are willing to set an

008example for others to follow hopefully encouraging others to do the same and get the most out of their school experience and contributing to creating a positive environment this is something that we talk a lot about so tonight we are specifically going to discuss two specific leadership opportunities that miss brown has coordinated this year and engaged our students these opportunities include the illinois holocaust museum student leadership day which i had the pleasure and was very fortunate to be part of this year as well as our sixth and eighth grade mentor program so i'm gonna stop talking and i'm going to turn it over to miss brown and let her share a little bit about our programs and let you hear from two students that participated in these leadership opportunities thank you so we can talk about

009the student leadership day at the illinois holocaust museum and education center first so every year in the spring they put on a leadership day people especially from northern illinois but here in southern wisconsin as well schools send a small group of students and typically the 8th grade teachers talk about students who have opinions they're not afraid to share their opinions in class that show a passion for making their communities better and those students are nominated to then participate so i've gotten to go in person in 2020 and they had a guest speaker there who was talking about plastic use and making environmental changes last year in 2021 it was virtual completely they had dr bettina love present and then this year they had a both in person and virtual option we were supposed to be

010in person but it was our ice day so we got to then do the virtual one a couple days later um and heard from chazy um who was speaking about transgender rights they really focus on human rights when you're in person you get to explore the museum some which is very cool so we took the opportunity to take the kids who participated in the leadership day down to the museum after the virtual day because not only does it have amazing things about the holocaust but they spread it to being an upstander in general and standing up for human rights in general they have rotating exhibits that come in that talk about people who stand up for other people and for human rights so i'm very glad we're able to not only participate virtually but then

011also take those students down and see hands on the museum because it's an amazing place so naomi and bailey can talk a little bit about what they got out of the virtual day or the actual leadership day and then share what you liked about the museum for the virtual leadership day it was very nice to see all different perspectives of people and different stories that everyone had to share uh for the leadership day i think it was very nice that we were able to work with some of the other students and faculty from other school districts and it was a bit nerve-wracking to work with people that you don't know however i think it really helped build team working skills and leadership skills as that's the point of the day and one of the ones

012like one of the activities that we did that stood out to me the most was we created a social media campaign with other students from different schools and teachers and i think that you know working with other people and communicating with them even if you don't know them that well i think that stood out to me because we don't obvi do that often in a school that we have a pretty tight community with and i appreciate that we were able to have that experience when we went to the museum they had a stonewall exhibit and it was um [Music] we saw how it was back then for gay people transgender people and it's nice to see how far we've gotten even though those issues aren't solved yet it's nice to see that we've moved away

013from some of the hate that they used to get and the thing that i liked at the holocaust museum the most was probably the upstanders exhibit and some of the like they talked about other acts of genocide besides the holocaust which was obviously very important but they talked about the rwanda genocide as well as other instances which i think is important because you don't always talk about things that happen more recently and for the upstanders it was really important to me because they brought up upstanders from the holocaust like aaron essler and some of the people who are more modern or current thank you uh like malala yafasu and i think that that was really inspiring also the stonewall traveling exhibit was really cool for me too because in humanities i did a project on

014them and it was really nice to see it represented in a different way yes sorry both eighth graders um so if you ever get a chance to go to the illinois holocaust museum in skokie it is amazingly well done and they have now too it blew my mind there was a virtual reality like you put on the goggles and it was oh my goodness i was crying inside my head said it was a mess but it's very very moving and they do a very very nice job and we've been able to partner with them too to get some survivor stories and artifacts and things to use in our eighth grade classes as well so it's been great um so the other thing we're here to talk about then is sixth to eighth grade mentoring so

015i attempted to pilot this in the um faded 2019-2020 school year and it started really well and then we got shut down um so with it every single eighth grader is partnered up with one sixth grader trying to foster those cross-building connections so that hopefully sixth graders new to the building can see a familiar face somebody that's older have somebody to kind of look up to in the in the building and then eighth graders regardless of your academic achievement um if you're a super engaged student if you're in all sorts of clubs whatever it might be you have the opportunity to be a leader so the goal with the mentoring program is kind of twofold building those relationships but also giving every single eighth grader the chance to be that role model for somebody else

016um so right now we meet monthly with our sixth graders we do all sorts of different activities with them some like get to know you things we just did some games um we did a service project so we try to do all sorts of different things to build communication and in between there we send emails to each other to try to keep the communication going so it's a another program that i'm in the process of piloting this year right now it's team inspire eighth grade with the north star north star sixth graders hoping that it will expand so that every eighth grader and every sixth grader is matched up with um a peer so both of these girls actually got to be on the sixth grade side of it two years ago and now naima

017is also on the eighth grade side of it so they'll just share some of the activities that they kind of that have stood out to them from the mentoring program so when i was in sixth grade i had an eighth grade buddy and it was actually pretty cool because she gave me all sorts of advice even though we weren't in the same grade she knew like everything that was gonna happen she knew my schedule she knew about all the different weekend changes and it was just nice to have some advice from someone who's also been through it and one of the activities i remember a lot of it was a blur but there was like spaghetti straps and yeah noodles and marshmallows and the eighth graders could only touch the marshmallows the sixth graders could

018only touch the noodles and we had to work together to build the tallest tower and that was actually a great source of teamwork because um we had to learn like how to communicate and work together well uh as bailey said a lot of it's a blur from sixth grade but one thing i remember is we had taken a trip up to the eighth grade wing and i saw some of the classrooms and i think i fell in love with one of them uh miss mccarthy the eighth grade social studies teacher her classroom is filled with all different kinds of flags um from different countries or groups and i think i was like oh my god this is where i really want to be in eighth grade um and i was actually lucky enough to be

019there now and i go in there every single day which was really awesome and i think being able to communicate with people from different grades um build a bigger sense of community within the school because i don't really talk with people outside of 8th grade or without my outside of my friend group as it is and i think that you know being able to communicate and talk about struggles or maybe even just experiences within the school is important and it you know keeps us together um does does the field trip is it is does it is it tied to um coursework at all or um so it does have curricular connections to the eighth grade social studies curriculum okay thank you well thank you for coming yeah let's give him a round of applause i

020just wanted to thank you guys so much for coming and i know when i was younger i was so excited to go to greenville middle school and i love miss brown i love mr weiss they're great leaders and yeah stardom young we always need leaders thank you paris thank you for what you're doing um young ladies thank you for coming tonight and sharing your experience i think what i heard and i think what's key for greendale is building that sense of community making sure that students belong because we know students are students are more successful when they have a feeling of belonging and are excited about coming to school and are excited about themselves their classmates and and their communities so thank you for finding opportunities to let them flourish that way i was just

021gonna quick ask did you have a chance to meet any survivors i've been down to the skokie um holocaust museum and there are not many of them left and it's really a great experience we didn't get a chance to meet anybody when we went down there but um again they sent the trunk of like uh artifacts for us that we ended up using in kind of a combined english and social studies project and the students were floored by it we saw um we watched a documentary or like an interview with um a couple of guys who talked about their childhood um we had like photographs and letters and things like that so we were able to get that survivor perspective in that form but we didn't get to actually speak with somebody except i take

022that back there was a hologram you could speak to a hologram of a survivor which was very interesting so that's there's another experience if you haven't had the chance to actually interact with and talk to a hologram and have it talk back to you there's that at the museum down there i guess yeah we did get to talk to a survivor she answered your questions if you talked to her and miss brown how many students went on the trip uh there were six of them right six because they fit in my van six all right thank you thank you all right we'll continue on uh and like you said john uh mr weiss yeah these are all it's always important to make sure that we celebrate the successes that are happening the good things are

023happening in the schools and that we return to you know student learning and and our students and some of the successes that they're having both inside and outside the classroom so thank you for coming here tonight continuing on we'll hear for any comments from visitors this evening and welcome to those who will be speaking this evening we would like to remind you that school board meetings are for the purpose of carrying on the business of the school district and they are official businesses i'm sorry there are official business meetings held in public and through school work school board policy the board allows citizens to make comments by scheduling two opportunities on the agenda to receive citizen comments in accordance with the intent of the open meetings laws please be aware that although the board of

024education welcomes comments from visitors it does not discuss or debate items brought up during public comments in order to hear from all citizens who wish to speak and to ensure that the official business of the district is addressed board policy sets time limits for citizen comments and we'll be adhering to those board policies at tonight's meeting persons wishing to address the board are asked to come to the podium and state their name and address for the record comments are limited to one time per meeting and individuals will be speaking will be limited to three minutes citizen comments are limited to the period not to exceed about 30 minutes thank you anyone that would like to share comment good evening hello uh rob koluska dawson court you may know this already but i'm running for school

025board i just wanted to let everyone know that in person voting is currently going on through april 1st that's from 8 pm or 8 a.m to 4 p.m the last day to request an absentee ballot is march 31st if you haven't talked to me again please feel free to reach out i should probably use the last two and a half minutes to talk about why you should vote for me but um i decided that i would use this time to talk about tony and event nobinska he is somebody that i have had the opportunity to get to know over these past three months i've met him throughout volunteering in the community and i can tell you that i have met quite a few people in my time my 10 years in greendale and i have

026never met anybody that cares about this community as much as tony does this is a man that deserves her boat he truly truly loves greendale he wants the best for greendale every community should be happy or it would be lucky to have a tony novinska living there if you've attended a festival village days you name it downtown there's a good chance that tony nominski played a role in [Music] making it happen i've met a friend these past three months we've never just we've never planned on running together it just kind of happened that way and i've learned a lot about greendale about what it means to give back to your community and about how truly special even though i already knew he really hammered at home on what an amazing community this place is so

027if you win you're going to do a great job and a true honor to to get to know him and he deserves your vote if you haven't talked to him please there's one week left voting is next week tuesday april 5th he deserves your vote he's a great guy he will be an amazing addition to the school board and i wish you the best of luck thank you for your time all right thank you rob i need to remind you about a school board meeting or a school board election i'm sure you completely forgot about it between me coming up here and rob leaving thank you rob i was not expecting that at all i'm i yeah please vote on uh you just state your name i mean we know tony novinska talia lane thank

028you for candidate oh i'm kind of shook up here anyway um i'm going to focus on academic integrity i'm going to focus on fiscal responsibility and i hope i can earn your vote that's all i want to say thank you rob thank you tony thank you joe it was just a lot of thank you so i just thought i wanted good thank you everybody's thanking everybody today there you go it's all about a thank you day um mrs k greendale um yes please go out and vote april 5th vote for these two wonderful candidates back here rob and tony i think they're going to be an asset to this community um i have known rob probably about a year now i've known tony much longer both great guys i think they're going to be an

029asset to this community they do volunteer work i also volunteer in the community you can see me at village days for the july festivals band mom things like that i wanted to come today to just speak of what i think this next school year or future school years should entail for our children with two years being behind i think our next school board needs to concentrate on classes that i feel i read a great article a great article about um from a student not from here but from another part of the country of the united states that said classes that he felt should have been provided for high school so that it could better prepare him to becoming an adult and these are the eight classes that he said he wished they would have offered

030basic psychology and mental health maintenance i think at this time of uh with the ending of a pandemic i think this is a perfect opportunity for our district to bring something like that to the classroom for our high school kids basic sociology and human behavior i think is very important media literacy so that our students understand what is real and what is not real um as we adults of my generation like to call fake news the stock market and other investments these kids need to learn what a 401k is what a roth ira is i don't think they're prepared for that in the future it's never taught to them how the banking how banking works how to balance a checkbook credit and credit cards how those things work these kids just think that you know

031flashing a you know discover card and going oh yeah i'll put four thousand dollars on there and then they get the bill and go oh crap i have to pay that yeah you do taxes i think our kids need to know how taxes work in this community and then finally first aid safety and self-defense i think all kids should be be heard things like that of course you already know about my i think we have to go back to basics i think we need just basic you know teaches kids math um cursive writing because these kids don't know how they don't know how when you are born your social security card comes unsigned you have to sign that when you get a driver's license you have to sign your driver's license you don't get to

032print your name you know spelling i know that i read that i think one of the great schools is now providing a spelling list for our students and i think that needs to be done here so i hope that this is something that our board looks into not only this board not only these board members i just have to quick finish and but our future board members so i hope that you all take that into consideration because i think that would help our students the future thank you doc doctor maybe maggie didn't dpi just issue a financial literacy standard financial literacy um to be implemented in the next two years or so one of our required courses for graduation is economics and there's a three-week unit on personal financial literacy thank you yeah i remember

033my kids taking that here all right any other comments this evening all right seeing none we'll continue on with the agenda first item on the agenda is our board meeting minutes from march 7th i move approval of the board meeting minutes for march 7th as outlined in agenda item 1.1 second there's been a motion a second to approve the board meeting minutes from march 7th 2022 any discussion and look for a world called vote yes yes yes yes and i am yes motion carries uh financial report so this is our monthly financial report um with information on the the from uh our director of business services as well as checks and disbursements anything you'd like to highlight jonathan so through the month of february 2022 we were at revenues of 36.3 percent of what is

034budgeted compared to 42.62 in the prior year it's a little bit lower because we got a larger portion of state aid so you remember there was an allocation for additional state aid but not new spendable revenues in this year so our aid number went up and those dollars came in a little bit sooner so we're a little bit um behind but we will catch up as we get into the springtime so we're still on on pace for our projected revenues and then on the expenditure side we were at 48.5 percent and that compares with 47.08 percent in the prior year and then we'll talk a little bit later about some ester funding as we review the um some of the capital expenses at highland view so any other questions i just had one question when

035i was looking at sr3 and i know you said we'll talk about it later but it's in here um did that number for robotics go up again because i know i thought it was 10 000 now it's 15 did that change no that's that's correct that was the original allocation that was okay robotics yes okay all right and if you take a look at what's inside the the lab robotics lab now you'll see that they'll quickly get to that fifteen thousand dollar number so it's put to good use good thank you all right is there a motion to prove this month's um checks and disbursements i motion to approve checks in the amount of seven hundred eighty three thousand seventy one dollars thirty four cents and disbursements in the amount of two million seven hundred

036and seven thousand six dollars and four cents for a total amount of three million four hundred ninety thousand seventy seven dollars eighty cents as outlined in agenda item two point two second there's been a motion a second to approve total checks and disbursements of three million four hundred ninety thousand seventy seven dollars and eighty cents any additional discussion and look for a roll call vote yes yes yes yes and i am yes motion carries next item on the agenda is personnel where we are bringing forward the current school year the 2021-2022 agreement on the salary structure with our greendale education association not the salary structure the base wages percentage increase for those outside of the salary structure thank you for that clarification so anything that administration like would like to highlight or summarize otherwise it's

037all in the report any questions from the board i'd just like to comment that we did we had three closed sessions i mean we spent a lot of time um discussing this so the residents can feel rest assured that we really you know [Music] thought long and hard about the decision um a starting you know the starting salary structure for a new teacher is just for the record forty four thousand five hundred fifty five and at the top of the pay scale is eighty two thousand with a middle salary being around sixty thousand and that that process that we follow is typical that we've done in previous years we when we negotiate um a contract um it's done in post session so to clarify 4.1 is the current year increases for those outside the structure

038and um that means that they've they have longevity in the district 4.2 is the compensation model which is part of what you're doing so um oh sorry i jumped ahead yeah you did but that's okay um it's important to highlight that so 4.1 will be retroactive salary increases for those outside the structure any other questions or clarification and it kim if you could just again i know we all know this but just for the good of the group there are a certain number of teachers who are not part could you do that a quick summary on that just for anyone listening in sure you have already approved increases for administrators paraprofessionals and other support staff this will be an increase for teachers who are outside of salary structure so the salary structure that you're looking

039at in 4.2 has teachers advancing throughout their career once they reach a certain level then they no longer advance within that salary structure and we determine increases from their percentage of teachers in outs beyond the structure because of longevity within the district and quality performance it's about 30 percent so this is approving increases for about 30 percent of the teaching staff who have not yet gotten an increase for the 21-22 school year all right any other questions okay i'm looking for a motion to approve the the compensation uh wait i'll go ahead and agreement the agreement okay um i'll move approval of the 2021 or 21 22 agreement with the greendale education association as outlined in agenda item 4.1 and i'll second there's been a motion a second to approve the 2021-2022 agreement with the

040greendale education association any for a discussion can i call for a roll call vote yes yes yes yes and i am yes motion curious i think this is another good example where we have strong positive relationships with our our teaching staff and i think one of the things we've always talked about is we want to attract and retain top staff and and i think that relationship is key to to that ability and i think some of the salary structure that exists also is a strong component for that relationship all right continuing on um we are here to approve the 2022-2023 teacher compensation model as well so just to clarify what we just did was for the current school year what we're looking at now is the salary structure to be in place for the upcoming

041school year we are not asking the board this evening to take action on approving those increases for staff within the structure we're approving the structure as it is when we look at budget and come forth with additional budget information in the coming months at that time we would be looking for approval of advancement within the schedule right now we're just approving the schedule as it's presented which is the same as it was it is the same as it was last year yes there's no change this is annual action so we're proving that this structure is a structure that we will use in the upcoming school year but we are not yet approving advancement within the schedule just just to be very clear about that because that has a significant budgetary impact so we want to

042wait until we have a more solid budget proposal when we would take action on that thank you julie appreciate that clarification i will move approval of the of item agenda item 4.2 the 2022-2023 teacher compensation model second there's been a motion a second to approve the 2022-2023 teacher compensation model any further discussion and look for roll call vote yes yes yes yes and i'm yes motion carries um then the next item on the agenda is the 2022-2023 school fees so this is something we talked a little bit about at our previous board meeting and it's anticipation of it's a key component of part of the overall budget and we are bringing it back at tonight's meeting to actually approve so is there anything that you'd like to highlight jonathan anything just that we provided additional

043information per the request of the board of what are those budget line items that are included in those fees so we provided some summary detail of paper supplies textbooks and workbooks what we have budgeted and what we've spent to date so the board has greater detail of what those fees encompass those offset a portion of those items listed and what we're looking for approval on tonight is what the board requested which is no increase and no change in fees for students for the 20 to 23 school year so that's what you'd be approving and the detail that jonathan's referring to is we are only allowed to charge fees for the amount that we pay for consumable supplies so that's what the detail provides with regards to the school lunch i know that that's awaiting detail

044do we have an idea when that usually happens we we do not know because we're in a different situation the usda was advocating and school nutrition team was advocating that the free lunch program be extended and congress at this point has made the decision through the federal budget that that will end as of june 30th and so the last i spoke to cindy our food service director was they were waiting for additional guidance from dpi school nutrition team to understand what the next steps will be it's possible that we will get a calculator as we would have in prior years for paid lunch equity and if that's the case we will run through that tool and then show the results of the board and talk about changes to lunch prices for next year understanding the

045feedback the board already gave in regards to fees that families that are facing inflationary costs and may not have wages that are keeping pace may be challenged with any increases they're seeing in fees whether they be school fees or lunch fees but we what we need to do is come up with a balanced budget for the food service program for next year so we're working on that with the team and just to clarify something you said the free lunch program is something that's happening right now and happened last year as well for all students this is not talking about the free and reduced lunch changing that still will be around it's just now there will be a charge for lunch for non for students that are not part of the free and reduced lunch program

046we were not sure what that looks like yet correct okay thank you pandemic the timeline was that we would approve in may but what percentage of our students in a normal year so thinking back to would qualify for free and reduced lunch about 26 percent okay that's right it varies through out the schools and typically you see higher levels at the elementary school 25 to 30 percent elementary school sometimes a little bit higher but overall as a district around 25 26 okay all right i'll move approval of agenda item 4.3 2022 2023 school fees as outlined in our agenda second let me just there's been a motion a second to approve any further discussion yes sorry no that's okay um for the school fees when it comes to textbooks has the district reconsidered how much

047is paid towards textbooks just for me personally i have a few in some of my classes but they're not used often and especially considering the virtual environment we've been in there's been access to online textbooks as well just for consideration in the future yeah online textbooks are not free the key for textbooks is actually very minimally different between online delivery and paper delivery because what the cost is is copyright costs so all those textbooks that you're accessing online are textbook costs that the district like you're required to buy both the paperback and you don't have to buy the paper um we have in our last several adoptions we've purchased a class set of paper for people to take home and enough subscriptions to the online textbook for six years so that students can access it

048in a virtual environment so we have transitioned many of our texts to be purchasing a license for every student but there's still a cost associated with the text that you use online okay thank you yeah i just wanted to comment on being a graduate of the district and so forth i was a little saddened when i saw the outdoor ed um on on here is something that they're not going to be able to proceed with i did have a chance to talk to mr weiss about that and and i know the costs just are you know not even necessarily able to be calculated right now with busing and food and the venue that they go to so i um i would love to support that continuing in the district i think it for anyone who's

049ever gone through outdoor ed in this district it was a definitely a high point of middle school i don't know if this student would say that if there is such a thing no just kidding again hey where is covenant harbor like geneva oh okay and it's just that the costs have just risen astronomically that there's no way to predict it sounds like there was a lot of volatility and scheduling based on travel conditions et cetera at the time that that trip would have normally been planned any other discussion did i look for a roll call vote to um approve school fees for the upcoming school year yes as is oh sorry yes yes yes yes and i am yes motion carries um then next on the aidem on the agenda we talked a little bit

050about this and we talked about this during some of the esr funding is approval of the highland view uni event project yeah so we will be speaking about the unevent project this evening i have lauren waner from performance services here this evening and we were talking in the chat here just to get the presentation straight i think to make sure that we can see it in the library i'll present the presentation and then your team lauren can walk through that but as a little bit of background on this project the team from sitelogic has gone through and done a inventory of assets and a walkthrough of mechanicals within the district over the last 12 to 18 months and one of the highest priority items that's listed is the need for replacement of unit ventilators that

051date back to the late 1950s so near your original to the building itself and so as we're talking about our investments in improving indoor air quality and strategic investments of esser funds that were made available this was a higher priority project and so the team from performance services has worked with us on um on taking a look at how we could get that project completed in summer of 2022 and so they are here to present the scope of work the progress to date and what the recommendations are to move forward with this project knowing that it's above that 150 000 threshold and would need approval by the board jonathan thank you so much for that summary could you do a quick uh recap on the merv levels in each building do you have that at

052the tip of your fingers without the the air quality was it merv that so one of the things that we've done in improving indoor air quality has been increasing merv ratings of air filters that we use within equipment so that equipment due to the age it dates back to we utilize the highest level of merv filter that's available in other areas of the district newer equipment we're able to go up to a merv 13 filter due to the age of those equipments it's at a lower level currently and so that would be an item that we'd be able to address with the project and just highland view is in that situation at this moment in time at every one of all the other buildings are at the merv 13. [Music] oh the perhaps the vast

053majority of equipment in the district is at merv 13. there's i think about five to six hundred filters so offhand i wouldn't answer that question universally we could go through because there are a small number of pieces of equipment beyond those unit ventilators that have a limit of their merv rating and so we would have to go through you know each of those pieces of equipment to answer that question but once this unit event is complete what mirv level will highland view be at i'll be able to answer that question it was part of the presentation oh okay i'm sorry i'm getting ahead of myself again yep so let's get that set up and then hopefully lauren you can see that on the screen and then i'll be able to drive i'll be able to

054drive here okay great can everybody hear me okay can you put the microphone down yep why don't you try it one more time i just wanted to uh take one minute and thank uh mr mitchell for helping our team and really just uh ensuring that this project is a success he's been a tremendous help along with mrs flater from highland view so we thank you board and superintendent for inviting us here this evening to go through this presentation my name is lauren wanner with performance services as mr mitchell said i also have jason angelus and ben huberty which are two of our senior engineers and project development engineers that have been working on this project specifically in addition to keith ralph who is the project manager who's been um also on this project so jonathan

055if you want to move to the next slide just to recap we were with the board a couple months ago the objective of this project is the design to design optimal indoor air quality in the replacement of the highland view unit ventilators the timeline timeline of this work this year starting on november 15th district reached out to performance services to assess this project on november 18th we conducted a preliminary walkthrough to assess the equipment next slide on december 2nd psi reviewed the estimates for the district for the vertical classroom units versus the horizontal unit ventilators on the 20th of december we met with the district to discuss the bid pricing and equipment authorization for the vertical classroom units on the 22nd the equipment authorization was signed by the district for the unit ventilators we met

056with the board on january 10th for the unit replacement next slide on january 17th our team conducted a constructability walkthrough on the 18th the engineers verified the piping conditions on the 24th of january we discussed the piping and cabinetry recommendations with the district on february 8th the dis we advise the district on pipelining cabinetry solutions on february 16th art met with principal claytor and the district administration to walk through the classrooms and discuss the best cabinetry options on february 21st and 24th our team met with the teachers and the district team to review the best cabinetry options on march 2nd our team conducted the subcontractor walkthrough with the bidders on march 23rd we reviewed the bids with the district so currently we are at the march 28th board meeting to share the final pricing and

057tentative schedule with the board for approval the aerial calculations that you see here are going to be the new calculations of the vertical classroom units so our engineering team wanted to show the board um what the what the space currently will be once the new vertical classrooms are installed so before where you had the current unit ventilators that were horizontal the airflow would push just up and uh right about next to those horizontal unit ventilators the new vertical classroom units will push and disperse the air throughout the space which give it a better throw and disbursement of air so any additional airflow calculations that the board may have our engineering team is more than happy to to address with you next slide we wanted to go ahead and take a couple of the photos after

058we did our constructability walk through our team of engineers and project management noticed that the piping conditions again original to the building may not be conducive in some of the heat loss was because there's no real controllability in those piping in the piping operations currently so our engineers did an investigation by classroom to assess those conditions so that we could provide our observations and recommendations for moving forward next slide so some of the piping conditions and observations currently behind the cabinetry they're poor in accessibility they're hard to get to the pipe itself is not insulated there is some rigid insulation on the board on the exterior wall to try and keep some of the heat within the building there's fin tube radiators that are piped in series with current unit ventilators which do cause issues

059with temperature control next slide so as you can see the current piping configuration is on the left each classroom pod is currently divided into two separate pipe loops so with the fin tube radiators piped in series the first room in each piping loop receives the warmest water but then the water temperature does drop after each radiator so when you get around to the third classroom there's definitely a drop in temperature next slide by the time the water reaches the last room the water will be much colder approximately three to five degrees fahrenheit drop in water temperature per radiator so currently there is trouble maintaining a comfortable temperature in the classrooms as there is no real way to control the heat output from those radiators next slide so the first option that we provided to the

060district we did have a few different options um the first option is shown here and i'll get into a little bit more detail on the next slide um the option that the district thought would be most beneficial to this project is to add a new hot water piping above the first floor ceiling only this piping will down feed into the new vertical classroom units on the first floor and feed up to the vertical classroom units on the second floor the existing piping behind the cabinetry will not be modified the cabinets will not be touched as part of this project as that will be a future cost so lauren to touch on that for a second the that means pulling out all the cabinetry in each of the 22 classrooms and the library area is included

061in those 22 unit ventilators all of the cabinetry in those rooms and the piping and that cost lauren was in the neighborhood of an additional million dollars to this project that is correct okay when we first provided the budget to the board um our estimate was between 1.2 and 1.5 million dollars and so that was not taking into consideration doing anything to the current piping but again as we started our constructability walkthrough we noticed that the piping definitely needed to be addressed in some fashion but to make sure that we were still staying in a budget that we provided to the board being fiscally responsible and also providing a very positive solution that was going to address the indoor air quality issues and also provide additional comfort control and heat control this was the best

062option that the board or that the district decided to go with and just a question on that piece so you'll essentially abandon those in place for the time being the the current piping so lauren for your team to clarify that piping will still be utilized that is inside the classrooms what you're talking about replacing just the hot water is in the shared area so it's going to go from middle boiler from the boiler room area to those classroom pods that's the suction place are you are you going to be adding insulation to those outside older pipes so so there's a question lauren about insulation on those outside pipes do you want to address the insulation on the outside pipes please yes so we will not be touching any of the insulation currently as that would

063require us to remove all the existing cabinetry to access them so there's no way for us to barely insulate it without ripping out the cabinets so we tried to come up with a solution that could potentially fit within the budget to give us much greater control over that temperature because essentially if we're talking a million dollars we're talking about doubling the cost of this project if we wanted to get that all done but at this point and what's proposed that would be a future cost yeah and i'm i mean thor would be more of an expert than me but i'm just wondering if they started off by saying what bad shape these pipes are in and is it wise to you know just put in a few other newer pipes and hope those old pipes

064just last another 50 years or i mean i realize there's hot water going through them right so they're not as likely to freeze even though they're outside pipes and it doesn't sound like they're insulated well but the the quality of the pipe i they i think copper pipes what kind of pipes are they so lauren is your team able to hear all of that otherwise i can try and repeat that okay so the current piping in the building is a mixture of copper pipe and then also steel pipe so for the smaller diameter it was about around an inch or so in diameter or smaller it was copper or anything larger was black steel pipe and can you touch on the existing conditions and of the piping yeah the existing conditions were not the greatest

065but they weren't terrible so it wasn't something that we felt needed to be touched immediately it was something that we felt that could potentially last until you do replace all the cabinetry in every classroom and at that point we would recommend you replace the pipework what type of lifespan are you looking at for the pipes uh if the water system is chemically treated we can see lifespans of around 80 years and the building's roughly 60 years old i believe at this point so there is still some time left on its expected life in addition to that um this next slide does touch on what we would be doing to the existing piping um nope if you can back one there it is um so we will be addressing some of the heating issues and what

066the team thought would be a very viable solution and option right now instead of replacing all of the existing piping and all of the existing cabinetry would be to add a new control valve to each loop of the existing radiators so the strategy would be if you have that control valve on each of those um loops you would be able to adjust and the valves would be able to open um and modulate the setpoint of the room so you will have better controllability over the heat from the first classroom being so warm to the third classroom not being warm enough um so we did feel it was a great solution and then if there's any additional comments that you want to add to that please feel free yeah we will also be uh having a

067lower flow rate in that water piping the exterior so that should help with the longevity of the pipe so the water speed will be slower we won't be causing as much friction on the interior of the pipe so this will greatly um improve the climate it sounds like you know where some rooms are too hot and other rooms aren't warm enough especially in the winter correct you're going to have greater consistency and going with this option as an option of what you can do temporarily with the piping and then look at a long term capital plan and make a decision on when you want to do that work with the rest of the piping the team here from psi can probably answer in greater detail but essentially you take on the risk that you could

068have failure in some section of the pipeline that's that one and then that would have to be repaired but the alternative the other option we looked at has the financial component that wasn't within the budgetary dollars that we had available to do this work in addition to the control valve for the loops are you adding shutoffs to each individual unit from the new hot water as a mechanism to maybe shut that down if something does happen a little bit easier i didn't i think i heard most of it so all of the new vertical classroom units will be on the new piping system and you'll be able to disconnect those from the hot water separately from the radiators that are currently in the classrooms so if you do have an issue with the radiators you

069can close that valve and then you'll still have your heat in the vertical classroom units so you should have an issue with heating the classroom unless you do get a negative 20 degree where you really need that exterior or the perimeter heat okay and that's what i was just curious about if you shut that down and go into the new yeah to each of the different units that's right so the new hot water pipes you'll have shutoff valves so you can do at least something new piping old piping you're left with whatever we have yes do you and how will this uh affect the quality of the air i understand the climate but does it have any impact on the quality of the air so with the new air distribution you'll be getting better air

070circulation within the classroom and then you'll also be able to use higher rated filters so you'll be able to go up to the 13 filters okay good that's good and jonathan remind the yes we're going to be using we intend to use funding from the sr3 on this project and that funding has to be spent by what's time period sr3 is september of 2024. okay so so in order for us to take advantage of the funding that's available from the federal government for sr3 it needs to be incurred by 2024 our time frame for addressing any other longer term costs are probably be this is the question are they beyond that 2024 time period if we were talking about having a capital project for full replacement of that piping what i'm hearing them say is

071you would definitely have to have it within a 20-year time frame but typically a long-range capital plan would be five to ten years so that may be the time frame that we would have that project listed and we would be trying to find another source of funding that would support that next phase of the work this would be phase one getting those unit events replaced and then phase two may be dealing with the piping so really it becomes a funding issue to do it in phases that we can afford to accomplish this as opposed to waiting to be able to accomplish everything we everything that we see that needs to be addressed correct so are you saying joe your your summary is we should adjust address the venting right now and then maybe at a

072later time the piping is that what i hear you saying that was what i was asking yep you know that i think what we're hearing and and facing some of the questions i think we're recognizing the fact that long term we need to addre address the pipes are an issue yeah these other questions um and there's no chance of an s or four coming with this big surplus at the state level i think to just to be clear here we are replacing portions of the piping right where it gets the amazed approach yep well no this pro this project is replacing portions of that piping the most expensive piping to replace is that which is behind cabinetry because once you take out cabinetry you have to replace cabinetry and that is going to be the

073most expensive piece and that was the great that was much more expensive portion of doing option two we're not looking at here is the cost of the replacing of that cabinetry on the back end so i just want to be clear that we there we are replacing portions of that piping in option one and that is included and what is being proposed by psi and holding off on everything because we have these sr3 funds available to do it in a phased approach and to replace some of the piping one other i mean this is also just focused in on the universe i mean the reality is that building's 60 years old and the piping lasts 80 years it's not just for this it's for other parts of that building too you're going to be looking

074at so it's so all things considered it's just a reality of construction although the copper and steel that sounds better than we're talking 60 years so right yeah so so i think that that plays into some of the conversations that we've had as part of the strategic planning is that we want the facilities i know jonathan you've already started some of that and so i know you were instrumental in getting some of that um set up so i think it all plays into that bigger conversation that as a district we need to continue to look at that capital improvement project modeling okay so can we proceed yeah i just have one more question at what point in the timeline are we sort of past the point of no return with regards to the piping behind

075the cabinets i mean if if this surplus budget somehow you know [Music] comes you know comes to fruition and we could find the money it just obviously i'm not we're going to be tearing everything up at highland view we're tearing up this classroom area anyway it sure would be nice to replace everything if we could um is there a point at which timeline wise that we really you know might be able to add that on if we found the funds or no it's not a small amount of money so that's the that's the biggest challenge if it was a hundred thousand dollars one way or another that would be something to discuss but it's too large of a sum of money that i'm not going to find that in a budget variance that we would

076find an additional million dollars or reconfigure a budget to find it in the time frame that we want to get this work done because the biggest the biggest immediate impact is improvement of indoor air quality and so we want to see that the piping will be a potential deferred maintenance item that will create costs for us but it won't impact indoor air quality in those classrooms that if we can get this work completed that part of the project will be there i would agree with you 100 percent that we would prefer to do it all at once but it's not reasonable that we would find that amount of money between now and the middle of summer okay thank you thank you we wanted to show the board what a rendering of the new vertical classroom

077unit with new cabinetry would look like so if you can imagine the existing uh horizontal unit vents are on the back wall we will be replacing that taking that out as jonathan said replacing that piping and the new ducted system will run a top across the top of the ceiling uh coming out of that new vertical classroom unit and because there is additional space that will be created from removing that horizontal unit vent we are able to add additional cabinetry for the teachers and after our meetings with most of the teaching staff they agreed that having a taller shelf cabinet style with a door would be the most beneficial and they would get the most use out of that so this is a close-up picture of what the classrooms will look like and the next

078slide is a little bit further away so that the board can see um what that space will look like so the new vertical classrooms in addition to just the states uh the space they are magnetic so the teachers campaigning and in the budget that we provided can provide a magnetic whiteboard so that they can use that vertical classroom unit kind of doubling up on that space also the improvement to indoor air quality we are also going to be improving the noise control whereas you will virtually not be able to hear these units and if anyone has been in the classrooms would be old unit ventilators you know that they produce quite a significant amount of noise so in the attempt to optimize the environment and or air quality is first priority and noises uh just

079a really great secondary the noise reduction i should next slide so in the improvement list and price this just goes again through the scope of work um we had phenomenal bidding it's a little bit tricky when we're this late in the season a lot of our subcontractors that we reach out to have their books filled for summer but our our team of engineers and architects and project management staff really kind of pulled together our engineering team and architectural staff designed the entire project to completion which allowed us to reach out to a number of subcontractors that were willing to bid this so we definitely wanted to ensure and make the board feel comfortable that this was put out to a number of different vendors from each subcontractor category and that they had a phenomenal scope

080to bid off of so again just to reiterate the scope of the work is replacing all the old horizontal unit ventilators reducted vertical classroom units which improve the comfort and air distribution install new hot water piping upgrades to all pneumatic controls to ddc so that's another addition to this project we are going to be removing all pneumatic controls in the existing elementary school upgrading those to ddc and replacing the new casework as needed for the new unit ventilators this slide does show who the selected subcontractors were we went through the subcontractors with the district earlier last week so it shows that for mechanical and piping dilip mechanical was selected the electrical subcontractor is uline electric testing and balancing is accustar temperature controls and balancing is trained the vertical classroom units and the equipment vendor is

081also trained and general trades is hunsinger so performance services we guarantee no change orders so the total price that you see which came in at one million one hundred fifty two thousand and one hundred and thirty nine dollars ensures that that price is not going to go up in order to guarantee no change orders our team designed and developed the scope of the project before bidding it out to the subcontractors to ensure 100 customer satisfaction our cost that i will go through below is not based on percentages but based on the actual cost to run the specifics of this project so psi's general conditions for this jobs include project management project supervision third party safety warranty and additional costs not carried by the subcontractors that total is ninety three thousand nine hundred and seventeen dollars

082the psi architectural cost specific to this design is thirty one thousand fifty nine dollars nearing cost specific to this project is eighty thousand one hundred and fifty two dollars per performance services profit is four percent of the construction cost which is thirty eight thousand five hundred and thirty five dollars next slide this is the complete bidders list so as you will see we list out all of the different subcontractors that were invited to bid on this work you will see if they did in if they intended to bid and if they did and then also if they submitted a bid or did not if somebody did not submit a bid the response that we typically received back was that based on the scope of the project once they saw what that was either they didn't

083have the time or the capabilities to perform this work over our timeline in the summer months but all of these subcontractors were reached out to and did attend the walk through with the intent to bid next slide a tentative schedule for this project this is hinging on the equipment being shipped everyone's fingers are crossed that because we were able to authorize and go ahead and put in the purchase order for the new vertical classroom units and the controls that we should have a ship date hopefully before the end of school no construction will start until we actually receive that the units have shipped and are on their way to be delivered so currently the tentative schedule is if those uh vertical classroom units do ship on time that we would demo uh that we would

084start demolition of the unit ventilators after school ends which would be about the second to third week in june and the work would be done over the summer months with substantial completion by mid august testing and balancing to be completed uh the third week in august so that everything would be returned to normal for the first day of school on 9-1 i see punch list on the does so this price doesn't does include whatever punch however long the punch list is that's a great question so in addition to that pricing um what our team does this includes punch list that cost really uh incorpora incorporates the project from um conception through completion and then a year beyond so there is a warranty period but what our team also does is we ensure um that the

085equipment is going to be running and that everything that we say as far as outputs testing and balancing commissioning is meeting our standards that we set forth so we do something called a four season optimization where our team will actually come back out for an entire year after the project is completed so if that project is completed on 9-1 we will be coming back out through site until december of 23 to ensure that it's optimizing the way that we said this cost includes punch lists again we do not we guarantee no change orders so project we open up the walls piping is not in the condition that we originally saw we have ensured that we will take on that price so the price that you see is what it will be and that includes everything

086in the project including punch list warranty and the optimization in addition to that our team does send over to two team members which would be mr mitchell and mr coombs he will send over evaluations and ask that they evaluate the team five different times during the during the project so there are surveys that will be sent out and by completing those surveys our team will provide the district with a thousand dollar gift to use for any charity or fundraiser of the school's choice thank you so before we get to other questions if you were wondering what the pneumatic to ddc controls means because i used to not know much of anything about hvac and so i'd learn that basically going from a pressure controlled device and that's how those operate right now at highland view

087is pressure and in the redesign as we complete this project those will be fully digital so you can pull up your laptop and then monitor you know how much outdoor air are we getting on those universe that's part of the work and as an extension because there is equipment within the boiler room you need to have if you still have pneumatic controls there is a univent for the gym area which is also going to have digital controls added so that we will end having any pneumatics within that building wow sounds like i'm really excited for the the students and the teachers at highland view because their air quality and the climate and the storage in the classroom and the noise level is all going to be better um by next fall well and that was

088my uh are we on questions now yes we're at question okay so um the million dollar question is with the supply chain issues that there are and so forth we're coming right up to the beginning of the school year so what what will be the plan or will teachers be asked to go to different spaces if they're working in the room or in the event that this timeline gets pushed back so there are multiple options we can look at if the delivery of the equipment is going to be manufactured in canada and then delivered and they will deliver it immediately after it's built those univent units so we will be waiting for the day that they actually say they're on the truck and they're on their way if that timeline is delayed the team from

089performance services has talked through a couple of different options and it's going to really be dependent on how far back that timeline is pushed out of what we may be looking at so i i wouldn't come to the board at this point with models on what that would be instruction is going to need to come first as the priority if there's anything we're trying to do to catch up time so at this point based on the timing that we got that order in we are trying to be hopeful that we will be able to get the equipment in time to line up with our june demolition timeline for the project and i heard performance say that they're not even going to start any construction until all of the supplies are here which is very wise

090as well i think in the past you would start you would just get going because you were you could rely on the supply chain nowadays you want to make sure all of your materials are present right before you start working and i heard them say that's their plan so we would not we would not be able to take out any unit events until we knew we had new ones to put in their place otherwise we wouldn't be able to open those classrooms back up i did want to comment too i appreciated i don't remember her name presenter but um that there is usable space with these events i was kind of as as an educator myself one of the first things i was wondering is how is this going to impact the learning environment and

091just to hear her say that there's going to be magnetic walls that can be used and so forth i think you know it's not a blank space in the room then lauren and i talked to some vendors at the state education convention in the vendor hall and they were introducing the concept of sliding white board kind of closets and walls and really the units are magnetic in nature so there was a much more cost efficient way to do that which is if if the teacher would so desire some may want it some may not in the discussions we've had thus far we can put a magnetic whiteboard unit over the vertical classroom unit when they need to do maintenance they can pull that off and do the maintenance it's then useful because we don't want

092them just having to stare at that unit right all day if there's space that could be used instructionally and i also think it's great that the staff was involved in the discussions too i think that's really important so ms flater picked out representative team members from each grade level and department level to engage in the conversations they listed listen to this presentation to understand the why of what we're doing and then to give us feedback on different options we had specifically with the cabinetry and so this incorporates that so we're i feel like we're very lucky that we added the cabinetry component and the partial work with piping and we're able to do that within the low end of our original budget was 1.2 million and right now we're below that and how many classrooms

093exactly is this impacting i know you said the gym as well but how many classrooms so there are 21 classrooms and then one unit that is going into the library and how many classrooms total are is that how many are at highland view 21 also we have um two classrooms at fifth grade that will not be impacted by this and then our new third and fourth grade wing that's all brand new oh sure in that wing so those six classrooms won't be impacted at all all right any other questions the only comment that i wanted to share is i think we've done this in the past when we did some of the referendum at the schools the referendum work at some of the schools is as opportunities present themselves how do we get students who

094are involved with some of this construction carpentry hvac work how do we get them some experience or some opportunities to see behind the scenes what's happening you know if there's opportunities that way i would encourage us to define those those opportunities so that students can actually see firsthand what some of the work is happening summer school summer school i hear a summer school pitch okay class construction so we are posting to approve yeah i'm i was going to move approval of action item 4.4 the highland view unevent project is there a second i'll second any other further discussion do i call for we'll call vote yes yes yes abstain i am yes and motion carries thank you all right great um so much everybody we appreciate um all of the board the superintendent and again

095mr mitchell um mr coombs and mrs slater for just helping us and really making this such a successful project thus far and we look forward to hopefully the board coming and seeing the final product once it's all in and seeing what the benefits the students and the staff will receive so thank you for choosing us and working with us all right thank you now go place those orders so that we have it by jude first yeah i'll get that order in quick jonathan your excuse no get back all right continuing on thank you continuing on with the agenda so we're here to um get an annual report on academic and career readiness um and career pathway updates so i see mr lotus back there and he's got a team that will highlight some of the

096work that's being done in this area yes tonight's presentation is relevant to our strategic plan around career pathways and um mr lotus is going to present uh the updates based some of it is related to his short cycle goals so while we didn't present everyone you're going to get a mini presentation of mr lotus's short cycle goal for the first two trimesters of the year it is important to note that there is some student voice that will come forward that will complement this at next week's work session paris and wes have conducted a student survey and we're going to be compiling those survey results and repo getting that report prepared from the student perspective that reacts in response to some components of what mr lotus will be presenting tonight with his team okay thank you

097for this chance to talk about pathways and also our academic and career planning program here at greendale high school i'm joined by a few co-presenters i believe they're still awake back there yes mr herman tom herman's here he's the consortium coordinator for whitnell greendale franklin greenfield and saint francis and mr mitch chris mensch who is our ghs counselor who takes as one of his major responsibilities the dual enrollment uh program and uh they'll all have a voice along with maggie olsen tonight talking about some of the things that we consider improvements and celebrations and other things that that we are going to try to focus on to get better in the future so i'm going to do a much too quick highlight on just a few areas of this lengthy report and then obviously give

098time for any any questions um at the end if you could switch the slide please so really dealing two premises uh that will guide the the structure of this report one is that all of our students deserve an engaging standard-rich coursework and instruction to guarantee they have the knowledge and skills to be successful um when they leave greendale high school and the other premise is that we'll use the no explore plan go framework which you've heard over the years as part of the acp report in order to have students explore coursework and opportunities that will help them do one very important thing which is make informed decisions while they're in high school and also after they leave greendale high school so at its simplest our mission here at ghs to refer our graduates with the

099knowledge and skills to be able to proactively and effectively navigate a personalized journey through our high school and also for available post-secondary options and i think that from this base students can create a flexible vision of their future and develop individual goals on how to get there next slide please the two premises will be the format of the presentation but of course this work is tied in uh in part to the district priority number two um which is uh uh most directly manifested as as dr mitzik said in the high school of short cycle goals the board has been reviewing throughout the year and the two the in simple terms the two goals um that i'm highlighting on the slide are that um we'll uh we'll know the readiness indicators a very simple task of

100knowing what we're measuring students on and that's for staff and students and then also to take a look at what our top five pathway interests are for our students and so we re-surveyed i'll be talking about that and then what are we doing to develop programming that will complement student decisions in those in those areas next please so for premise number one all students access to engaging standard rich instruction the greendale high school bases the metric on a successful greendale graduate as one who meets or exceeds the following adapted redefining ready model which was researched and created by the school superintendents association next slide and um premise number one is the academic indicators and we use several of these redefining red indicators to define if a student is college ready that they have a gpa

101of a 2.8 at least a 2.8 proficiency on the subject area proficiency scores on the act exam and also that they exhibit one or more of the following academic indicators that they've taken and had a three or better on an advanced placement exam they've taken an advanced placement course they did some sort of other college-like class and they've also um have met or exceeded algebra 2 while they're in high school so those are the academic indicators and if you could switch the slide and then for the career ready indicators we look at 90 or more attendance and then performance or not performance but involvement in our organized co-curricular activities if you if we also um talk about additional factors that contribute to college success and we've built these into our guidance counseling and academic and

102career planning service delivery model assistance with fafsa completion guidance on course selection for a chosen career pathway formal yearly opportunities to work with the counselors and other professionals in the district individualized post-secondary advising and finally that second that senior year math class that i talked about earlier we could switch to slide again so here's a current snapshot of how our students are doing with data current to the act that was given in march 2000 um current to act given in march of 2021 which is five weeks after the students returned from eight months of either hybrid or fully virtual learning and looking at some of the data there the act composite the in the standard is that or the proficiency standard is a 22 or better on the uh score and uh that getting to

10322 or better puts students in the top third of scores in the state of wisconsin um our students our current seniors last year 35.4 percent of them met this standard and when they took the test back in [Music] in march and then that score will go up as they continue to take the test over if they choose to retake the test but that's compared to 48 percent the previous year when the students took the act last year seniors who took the a.c.t one week before school is shut down in march of 2020. looking forward to the reading proficiency you can see that 41.6 percent of our our current seniors from last year's act test met that proficiency that's compared to 33 percent statewide but down from 46 percent in greendale and then the act math

104proficiency this year senior is 33.3 compared to 25.5 statewide but down all the way from 55 percent uh the year before obviously um a large drop we maintain great percentages in our other two indicators um 92.2 of our seniors currently have achieved the algebra 2 or higher and then 94.9 percent are on track to uh take a post-secondary light course so uh i'm gonna i'm gonna pause for just a second um as we're talking about those changes uh we have talked about the the fact that there has been some slide that happened before the pandemic act was not one of those spots we actually saw growth and improvement between the march 2019 test and the march 2020 test we actually saw improvement and so this uh decline is strictly based on the context of the

105pandemic so while at other levels we saw a slide pre-pandemic we actually saw improvement pre-pandemic at the high school level on the a.c.t and this slide is is based primarily on the context of the test administration and the conditions that were in place during last school year we do expect to see a rise the students who will be measured for next year's 12th grade took the test two weeks ago three weeks ago yes march 8th eighth yeah it was the ninth yeah yeah okay so it was right and based on some of our other indicators we do expect that to rebound um pretty quickly this is absolutely a coveted score sure yeah but also i mean it as as dr mitzik said i mean we did have we're on a gradual upward trend across these

106indicators uh previous to that and but most of our work either right now or that we're planning on this summer and into the future really squarely is is based on uh the instruction that will allow students uh to have these percentages um rise so thanks for helping to point that out one thing that you'll notice that's not on here and i pulled it last second thanks sue is the uh was the data on the um activity involvement um the the data that i got where i'll just simply say is that we're working um with our ic contacts to make sure the information is accurate i didn't want to put information out in front of you that wasn't accurate and so what i what i intend to do is uh is we'll get that right and

107it's part of what dr mizik said earlier one of our short cycle goals and we'll report that out to you at the end of the year so you have that information too um that's always a good new stat for us because our students are involved across multiple activities most often but we'll i'll include that in the short cycle that's coming up next slide premise number two is helping students make informed decisions uh from aside from the redefining readings research on college and career readiness other current national research indicates that activities that are part of academic and career planning processes have a number of positive outcomes for students which is improving their capacity to persist in school and stay engaged in school and their activities in order to meet these goals improving students sense of belonging

108and connectedness to the school kind of answering the why am i here uh question and improving students understanding of post-secondary options and long-term planning and then finally not only the students but also the families understanding of the range of options available to the students after high school and the supports and decision making skills available to help navigate these options so premise number two is helping them to make informed decisions next slide and uh so one of the things that we did is uh um we use zellos which is the software we use in academic and career planning at times we use the matchmaker assessment again this year provide us with school-wide data on the careers that have the highest areas of student interest um the the areas basically reshuffled themselves it's the same five but

109with human services moving up to first uh moving up uh one place to the top health science up and then uh arts av technology and communications dropped down to so the way they're listed on the slide is in order right now and so once we look at that we want to take a look at what we're offering not only here within the walls of greendale high school but in our comprehensive programming which we'll be talking about for the rest of this report here and on pages five through seven of the re of the report um i think you'll see that we are in different stages in these five pathway areas of building that programming and continuously improving what we have if you go to the next slide to better read these uh the pathway charts

110that i included i'll just quickly talk through one of our more developed pathways which is health sciences and the way to read it is you know health science you know what are the different career pathways it gives some examples and then it asks if we have a capstone program here at ghs and uh and in this case we do we have the project lead the way uh biomedical sciences program and biomedical innovation is the fourth year class for that um we also have high school credit options besides our core classes which include obviously all the related core science classes for health science pathway we also offer some things that could help being in this field american sign language program um also a variety of social of psychology and sociology courses that students can take but

111if you look at the high school and post-secondary credit options that we provide here at the high school you see classes like the science class of biology chemistry you see statistics you see psychology as an ap offering another language in ap spanish but then you see the biomedical sciences four-year program also the matc healthcare certificate which really at the high school has really only caught on with the medical terminology at this point which we still offer and then also some cna certifications that mr mensch may or may not talk about when he gets up here and then we also obviously have the dual enrollment academy opportunities when the students that it's an additional to these opportunities and those are obviously outside of the high school and at wctc or matc so some have pathways some

112of these five areas they have a they have a capstone course here but and you'll see a number of them don't and that really makes our dual enrollment programming even more important you know be it that we need a highly qualified teacher in the area or technology or other equipment that we could never keep updated an industry standard here within the building or simply provide students with a real world workplace experience we just can't replicate that here and so ghs student interest in dual enrollment at the matc and wctc definitely continues to grow and these programs provide hands-on college experience from which students can choose to either further their education in that chosen pathway or they can go in another direction with confidence that they had that experience and and learned from it so here

113to give you an update on the program for the dual enrollment academies is ghs counselor chris mench we can go to the next slide i'm actually going to have to go to the next slide first um just to give you a nutshell on what dual enrollment is this is what we're talking about right here these are the fields that we have this year 29 students attending both milwaukee area technical college and wctc these are the fields that we're talking about and i guess the biggest thing i want to stress is that right now we have a very good working relationship with both wctc and matc to the point where they will sit with tom and i to ask us what we want for further dual enrollment programs we just talked with the inner circle there

114about getting some more construction work and through the milwaukee program and they're willing to listen to the point where they're working with their instructors to try and develop program because we just have so many kids interested in plumbing hvac as you can tell from your prior presentation kids who want to get into the trades and we just have kids that are applying and not getting accepted so we're looking for for more homes for them now can you go back to the slide previous um just to give you the basic process of this the counselors here meet with every junior so we have a pretty good feel for what they want to do and then from there that kind of starts our cohort of kids who might be interested in one of these this year we

115also did some work in acp to get a feel for kids who may not even know what some of these are if you tell them tool and die they're probably not going to know but if you show them some pieces or have presenters from the technical schools come out here they can see it feel it see what the salaries on these positions are and how in great demand they are and that might get them hooked um all these kids it's triple check they go out there they have to be completely invested before we send them out there because we want them to be successful and overall our numbers are sensational out there we should also note that we have more kids than schools double or size like we have more kids out at waukesha than

116brookfield central kettle moraine places like that so they like us here they like having our milwaukee county kids go out to waukesha and our milwaukee guys as well so i can answer any questions after time speak you'd like to know about that i i have a few questions but i can wait till the end is what's your preference sure fire is that okay okay so it it sounds like you've got a great pipeline for the um for the matc and wc wctc but what about could you talk just a little bit about ap versus dual enrollment versus start college now programs um sure i can do start college now ap i would put somewhere else because that's not this this is technical based stuff star college now would be taking a class that we don't

117offer here so that could be something in floral design we have a student now taking some basic real estate courses we'll use that when a student goes through our math curriculum and needs something higher than that that would be early college credit program so these are a pre-packaged set of courses so within let's take fire for instance they're going to be taking fire one and paramedic courses i mean they're climbing ladders and chopping cars up with saws that are on fire they're doing the real stuff so each semester they'll take four or five classes that first year technical students would take um they're pre-packaged they know what they're going to do sure yeah it's all it's like they take place from eight until noon on each campus and then they come back to the school

118if they have to for english or econ or gym sure maybe i'll rephrase my question how many students i would imagine you have you have a percentage of students that are juniors and seniors in this program but then how many students are doing early college credit programs like dual credit or start college now or the ap courses we have 20 let's say we have 29 dual enrollments this year this year start college now early college credit combined we might have six or seven okay so this is a bigger program yes okay um so actually that's that's important and i think we've had this conversation a couple of times at the both at the board level as well as the high school level and and chris you know with your team um a four-year university is

119not the right choice for every student so i there's there's sometimes is a stigma with saying that out loud or with expectations but i think as a community we have to understand that these certification programs that an matc or wctc are value valued valuable programs that could be the best option for for a student that could be what they aspire to be so i think it's great that you continue to highlight that for our students so that everyone finds a sense of you know feels fulfills that sure i mean i i don't i i wasn't trying to don't play it yeah yeah no i was just trying to get a sense from that perspective of your yeah of your senior class what you know and then i'm sure there's some students who don't participate in

120either program they just they stick with the regular high school program and that's what they want to do what percentage of your seniors filled out the fafsa at this point in the year i don't know if i could give you an exact number i hope um the majority who are attending the school they should fill that out i'd have to talk to uh door number two and guidance would oh okay just different okay so that what has evolved over time is that senior year of high school has turned into a transition almost first year of college for some students the dual enrollment academy means they're completing their first year of their two-year technical degree before they graduate in other cases through ap through project lead the way through other cap credited courses within high school

121they're entering the university with nearly a year of credits earned before leaving the high school so um part of the work that we've done is we've created pathways for students to use their senior year as their first year of post-secondary and that's what that overlap is um and so it is important that we have established these partnerships with higher ed to ensure that there's pathways not just to university which is what ap was but that we've evolved robust programs that give them pathways into technical schools into trades and into university environments um so i actually also had a question on the the dual enrollment so obviously you need a transportation to the waukesha county technical school and matc and that takes time out of your day and does that like hamper your ability to take

122normal classes as well like would you need to have a smaller schedule to be able to fit all of this into your welfare travel yeah good question yeah you bring up the biggest hurdle dual enrollment is transportation so right now we do not have transportation out there so if you're a dual enrollment or a start college now you have to get yourself there and back um with the dual enrollments they're all over by around noon so those guys can take a sixth and seventh hour they would normally those guys wouldn't be back in time for fifth hour so now i would say over half of those students are done with their core requirements so they don't have to come back now they can come back for electives or band or whatever they want to do

123but you're right you mentioned the biggest hurdle to the whole program and that's just getting yourself safely out to pewaukee or oak creek or downtown milwaukee whatever you're saying i would imagine some of these courses though are also offered online now right at these at the college level over the past past few years they had to have a few of those but it's intended to be in person more hands-on you're working hands-on the dual enrollment programs at the technical schools are really intended to replace your core academics within the high school because the so it replaces some of the some of can you flip to the next slide i don't know who's doing that some of these program oh not that one back one there um so some of these programs have the english course

124built in some of these courses have um some of these programs math standards are all they have and yes so they they have achieved what they need to achieve here and so this becomes predominantly elective courses but they're elective courses that are aligned to their post-secondary so essentially students who are enrolling in this program have completed 90 of their requirements by the end of their junior year and are beginning college that's what this is sure yeah and i mean obviously some of these basic courses a lot of students do take two years at matc and then transfer into a uw too i mean that's an option for them correct some of these programs though that you can complete a degree in one year after the dual enrollment sure right they're just ready to go then

125right yeah they're all certified a lot of students are getting snapped up even after their dual enrollment year i can tell you many stories of some tool and guys who they they take them and they train them they they have the basic skills where they can operate machinery numeric control and they'll train them the rest and they make more than what our starting teacher was when i heard the salary that we haven't had a few students that start over 50 000 wow so that's good yeah any other questions tom do you have a presentation or i'm sorry thank you and we can answer any questions at the end of the report also but the uh um so if you want to look further into it um in your report um that you received electronically those

126are all live links into the the two page flyers so if you you can spend a lot of time there looking at some of the different things there but doctor mitzik um you know said it well some students choose to um you know to further prepare themselves by taking what we have here at our school in the form of ap and cap classes we have some students that are going um and doing the dual enrollment but there's also important uh um opportunity for students which is the consortium offerings um which we've which we've had but uh tom herman's been doing a great job of growing those opportunities and he's gonna talk about that for a little bit thank you steve hello everyone and uh thank you for having me here i'm going to spend if

127you want to just flip to the next slide i just want to basically talk about youth apprenticeship opportunities but on the left side some of the career experiences that we've had within our consortium are on the along the left side those are things that involve our students going out to various schools that we have all partnered with to do a variety of different things some regarding the trades health sciences manufacturing transportation and we're looking forward to june here right around the corner our summer trades camp but on the right side is another opportunity for that many of our seniors are looking into and our juniors are looking into right now as well and that's youth apprenticeship what's past being passed around is i have two students that are current seniors at greendale here both of

128them are youth apprentices in health sciences that worked at walgreens one's going to be a badger and one is going to be a golden eagle in the fall both great students it took that as an opportunity so in addition to the dual enrollment opportunities the ap opportunities uh and these opportunities our kids really do have a lot of experiences that they can get really what it comes down to is we've had a lot of new business partnerships we've had an uptick in participation by our greendale chamber of commerce and what that allows us to do is give our students paid work based learning experiences in a variety of things health sciences marketing finance hospitality uh the trades manufacturing advanced manufacturing and so forth currently we actually have three greendale chamber of commerce businesses that employ

129our students more broadly we have 80 plus employers in our group right now we work with the greenfield chamber south shore chamber hills corners rotary the franklin business park and the greendale lions and they emphatically love our greendale panthers okay i mean they they absolutely love our kids our kids come with them with a a strong work ethic a desire to learn just great habits they're very polite they're willing they want to learn and they i cannot brag to you enough about how much they love our students in addition to you know what they get they get job training they get mentoring which is very important as they are beginning to figure out what they want to do um they build on their work ethic and they're all built and they're building their professional networks

130uh which is something that you know i have to talk to them a little bit about just in terms of you know you're starting your professional networks just by talking to different people money wise uh this is their biggest motivator of course um in total our consortium y a students will earn over half a million dollars this year and that is just from june 1st to july 1st to june 30th and that does not intake in consideration any scholarship monies that they get the several thousands dollars worth of tuition reimbursement that they get and signing bonuses um and yes i just said the word signing bonuses our students are getting somewhere between 1250 and 3 000 to sign on uh to work for various companies um for an 18 year old kid that's not bad

131for anyone that's not i i only i tell them i only take 10 you know i mean i think that the house should get something you know um on top of the money you know they're getting high school credit they're getting louty points uh resume writing interviewing they get a state certificate um their confidence goes up the resilience goes up this is an invaluable experience and a chance for them to really do what we call define your future and that is to determine whether or not this you know career area is exactly what you want to do before you go off to school and waste time or money uh in something that you find out that you don't like because of the y program growing i mentioned on their goal of 99 students that actually

132allows us to bring money back to our consortium schools to pay for classes like the dea classes so as our ya programs get bigger more money can actually come back to school i want to echo the fact that we were able to add chris match to a group that is building a dea a dual enrollment academy for the building trades at matc like the one at wctc because there's so many kids who want to get into that one there's only 30 spots there's usually about 75 applicants that leaves 45 kids in the area some of which are in our consortium that don't have an opportunity so we're hopefully banging on the right doors and hopefully getting something like that nearby that doesn't solve the transportation issue entirely that was brought up but at least it

133minimizes it because it would be over at oak creek um last but not least um we are looking forward to dan kalenberger uh and myself and a couple of our students here actually a couple of students on those pages that are going around we're going to look at making a production quality youth apprenticeship video to inform the next generation of prospective students their parents and to certainly record recruit more businesses so we're looking forward to that thank you guys for your time appreciate it thank you tom any question please steve wasn't there a mr herman as a middle school principal to it because they felt differently i worked with charlie i did oh yeah charlie herman no relation two more slides um so the uh switch our attention out of the future and the ongoing

134work that's going to help us provide all students uh with engaging standard rich coursework um in order to graduate with the knowledge and skills we've been talking about to be successful so specifically want to further address what's happening our classes around uh universal instruction and increasing that will help to increase the act efficiency percentages that we talked about earlier but also it's going to help give high quality instruction to all of our students and keep providing an accessible opportunity for students to earn honors credit and some of their core courses so to update you on that and to do somewhat of a happy dance is miss megan i'm very excited about this work um and in past presentations we've shared with you how many more students are having access to the honors curriculum and so

135we are continuing to reflect on that process and also um we will at the high school be launching embedded honors opportunities in english 9. we also will be sending a team of administrators and teacher leaders to the sale academy which is the school administrator institute for transformational leadership where it's a three to five year plan to really take the strategic plan and put it in action our elementary school principles have been part of that and now we're bringing it to six through twelve and we're going to be focusing on instruction aligned to grade level standards assessments aligned to those grade level standards and systems to reteach to the mastery of those grade level standards and it is really exciting work and it's really about ensuring that all of our kids get to be what they

136want to be when they grow up and that's the work that um all of you are supporting every day so thank you that's my dance steve that's exciting okay uh the uh and one more slide please and uh premise two um continuing work here um is we're always looking to better communicate um all the great stuff we've heard tonight about how students um can prepare themselves to uh access these things and so do the students know the difference between ap classes cap classes ccihs classes which is the green bay offerings do students get more in-school opportunities to explore those stated interest areas and the students and families know to best position themselves for a senior year youth apprenticeship or dual enrollment academy or whatever opportunity that they're looking for so some of the things that

137we're able to do this year um is we they've been kind of a little bit mentioned i think chris mentioned one of them we created advisory lesson on the pathways to our sophomore class i'm hopefully catching them in time to start thinking about what classes and what they're thinking about for the second half of high school we also used more of our advisory time this year to let students explore the the course handbook and and the scheduling process and get additional information in a controlled setting um as far as all the things are available them for the next year and we created lessons based on the offerings of the year that they were going into um and then also finally i think you heard a little bit about this uh in a previous report but

138uh tom herman and chris del ponte and chris mench did a great job of taking student interest areas and creating career panels um that we uh used advisory time for and brought students into the auditorium uh to hear from industry professionals and uh um in the in the different pathway areas so um we're we're growing what we have here and and we're continuing to try to add as many things as possible for one purpose only is that so students and families know what's available so at this time that ends the formal report and we can answer any additional questions that haven't been asked so far i'm wondering mr lotus how many what's your uh student school counselor ratio well how many school counselors do you have and three and so and there's a little over

139900 students so it fluctuates on on the alphabet coming in and things like that but generally around 310 300. okay and are they um participating in these acp classrooms or do the students have every student has advisory which is where acp is delivered okay and the counselors are responsible for a grade level yeah obstruction of the counselors has a grade level and linda jarvis german teacher has a responsibility for the ninth grade and that was because she was the lead on the transition resource period that we had in the past and so she uh has a lot of inherent knowledge and skill around the transition of ninth graders and she also has certification and credentials around administration which is why she takes the lead on that sure yeah no i'm it's it's impressive to see

140how many career pathways um students have access to at greendale high school i'll make sure any other questions or comments from other board members i just wanna make sure everyone i was just curious and maybe chris could answer this um just how often do guidance counselors typically meet with students is i'm assuming it's required coming in as freshmen but you know i mean i just remember myself from back in high school it wasn't very often but i i would assume that it's more nowadays sure you caught us right now we're right in the middle of freshman we call it freshman conference season so that's current eighth graders who are coming up okay and it's kind of everything the transition to high school here's the courses we have put in and you know soon we'll have

141a schedule talk about the room and just a map of the school and how things work and courses credit everything so right in the middle of that we have a formal meeting with juniors as well and then it's kind of as needed i mean you could ask paris she's laughing right now um she's in there every day or no no we went to parents mr mentor counselor yeah i was lucky to get you know i can um i go visit mr minch two to three times a week and i email him like three times a day and i will miss him so much i have a few jokes planned for that now there are certain things that are planned like you said you have the freshman conference there's you know software we try to build

142in certain checkpoints and obviously some students are going to need us a little more than others and that's just fine and you know a lot of our job is you know of course academic and there's a lot of personal social we do and then um this is a big piece too trying to find you know what career is going to fit and there's so many different options it just doesn't have to be four-year school and that's that gets me excited knowing that there's so many good options for a tech partner so yeah it's great to see all the different options yeah it did thank you so to be clear there are two individual one-on-one counselors i would say parents we hit with eighth graders juniors and seniors and then the sophomores we kind of do

143a big group with sophomore two and up which and then there's no amy's going to be running shortly and then there's touch points in terms of delivery of group lessons through acp around scheduling et cetera absolutely the zello lessons yep thank you so i just wanted to make sure i was just going to say it's great to see all the different options and everything that's going on i'm always impressed to see how many different things there are for students one of the things i know i've talked about in the past just a little bit of broken record which i think is worth exploring further around designing your life i was blown away by what that was doing for the transition from high school to college and i've seen some high schools now try to implement

144that as an eighth and ninth grade transition period which uses design thinking it's it's based out of stanford course that was initially to launch stanford grads into the world and then it became the number one elective course as their freshman offering to help them make the most out of their stanford experience and explore the millions of different options that students have and they use design thinking as that prototyping tool to kind of dive in and try to figure out does this make sense to me to explore so it really fits into the frameworks that that you already have and i think it'd just really be a bolstering opportunity to help people navigate our students navigate that journey in a really effective manner i know we're going to talk a little bit next week around advisory

145and i think that could be even an opportunity in tapping into some of the students that are trained around here in design thinking so like msoe has university innovation fellows that go out to stanford get trained in design thinking so you could have a near peer even in running some of that stuff for for your students around what design thinking looks like so that was just a comment um and then on a selfish standpoint uh mr minch i'll be reaching out to you because i'm very interested in the construction side so we'll take as many students as you give us [Music] one of the things that i want to bring up and dr mitzik brought it into my mind is that not all students um are like paris or like wes who who can really

146know how to and and choose to advocate for themselves so i think as we look at advisory and what we're doing in advisory is we have the we have a potential audience of every kid in the in every student in the school and so some of the things that counselors in the past might have said you know i wish i had time to get this information out to the students they can think about it a little more large scale now and get some of that information out and complete uh complete some of those loops that we weren't uh getting at earlier so one of the things that i heard i think tom you mentioned it is some of the video that you're going to start sharing with with families and other students and i think

147that type of communication is important because it allows for families and parents to be supportive of some of these options and and you know play that family role and you know have you thought about this and i think it's also important to be able to share and communicate those options because i think as we heard from dr mitzik by time you're a senior some of those students already have their core classes accounted for so that takes a fair amount of planning so if you're not thinking about it as a ninth grader or a sophomore you kind of get tied up with some of that that maybe it's not going to work out because i still need to be at greenville high school you know for three four hours so any type of communication that we

148can do to the students as well as their families and parents i think will be instrumental that reminds me of another question do you have an option for students who do want to graduate early they've got their 22 credits by end of their junior year and they just want to be done how many have we seen this year how many have we signed this year that's an increasing pathway that yeah yeah okay so they are with with as as long as they're 18 or an application permission and it has to do with the courses they're currently in and what they've already satisfied and uh it goes through me and then ultimately uh joe signs that and kim reviews it and uh and i think a lot of the mainly now it's it's kind of about

149either starting college earlier or um some of the um financial difficulties or they want to work for a little while so those are the two main reasons we see i always look at those um forms and i think are there but rather alternatives that they're not thinking about that would maybe keep them in high school but allow them to take college-level classes because once they graduate it's on that family's dime then to take their classes and are there other opportunities but some just want to be done they just they don't it's not necessarily they just absolutely you know but you know it's it's you know i'm graduating early because i want to work here or because i want to take this class or stuff it's you know are they really but i think i mean

150the state of wisconsin if you have 22 credits and a certain you know most schools do perform policy on early graduation yeah all right thank you steve thank you thank you all right continuing on then we have a a report about esl and special education this is again an annual report i want to rem i want to just remind the board i'm kind of keeping time here we're at 905 we have two reports and policies to review so i will turn it over to rachel odesma who will present some information about our student populations identified as special education and english language learners okay good evening everyone am i to project up my slideshow okay let me just calibrate myself here is it high school mobile tv okay perfect okay so i'm here this afternoon to

151share a report around our english learners and our special education programming in the district the thought around this report was that we would start with a really broad overview touching on a few points around some of the legal requirements for these programs there are complex programs that serve a variety of student needs we have staff that are dedicated to supporting the student needs in these programs but there's also a whole body of legal requirements and best practices related to them so i'm thinking that i'll give a really broad overview and then save some time at the end for you all to give feedback around what you're looking for in the future from this report so we'll start by just grounding ourselves in some of the legal requirements so when we think about our english learner

152programs the main federal law that kind of overarches the program is title iii and the purpose of that is to help ensure that our english learners attain english language proficiency as they're working towards those state academic standards so it's two goals for our english learners within the program we also have at the state level another set of laws and regulations related to our english learners and that's really around how we assess them to see what their levels of proficiency what their proficiency level is and then what services we need to provide there's also a monitoring component when it comes to supporting our english learners so this first slide really talks to that requirement around screening and identification it starts by us delivering the home language survey for all students that are enrolled in the district

153so every student receives this and then once we've completed that some students may get flagged around some of the questions that are asked in the survey so it may be something like have you do you speak a language other than english in your home do you personally speak a different language and if that's the case then it gets flagged and then the next step in the process is our el staff would then conduct a family interview they would if they need to deliver a shorter assessment related to access testing to see if the student is indeed english learner and if that's the case the parents will be notified the students have a classification around their english language proficiency and then we would develop an individualized plan for that student around how to support them gaining

154english proficiency at the end of the flow chart the final two years or so that a student would be with us once they've attained a certain level of english proficiency we then still need to monitor those students to ensure that they maintain a level of proficiency so i just wanted to share a little bit about the screening and identification process since this is one of the legal requirements around our programming little snapshot around the students that we serve it's important to recognize that english learners kind of come in and out of the program we have students that are enrolled throughout the year we have students who gain a certain level of proficiency they will exit the service but we will still monitor them so this is really a snapshot in time we're looking at our

155third friday and september numbers and based on those numbers the english learners made up about six percent of our school population so you can see the breakdown 159 el students out of 2671 at last count this was early march when i put together the numbers we were up to 170 students so again that number ebbs and flows over the course of a school year you'll also notice that the majority of our multilingual students are at the elementary level so for k-5 about 57 percent of our multilingual lingual learners are at that grade level just wanted to share how the enrollment has ebbed and flowed over time you can see that that number has moved a little bit but it stayed relatively stable at that about the six percent of our total enrollment these were some

156other um important data points i wanted to share the top language spoken in our district is arabic and then that's followed by spanish serbian and urdu and then one other thing to know is just that we might have students that are identified as english learners and they may also qualify for special education services so that second pie graph really highlights that when we look at our english learners as a subgroup even within that subgroup we have about 14 percent of those students that would qualify for special education services as well i already shared that the majority of our english learners are at the elementary level highland view is the school with the highest number of el students and then we see a peak in fourth grade for some reason this year when i pulled the

157data that's where we had the most english learners and then the majority of our english learners are at a english language proficiency of a three or four and i'll talk a little bit about those proficiency levels think in the next slide here or in the next couple of sides so you can kind of see how that ties in this is another one of those legal requirements that we have for our programming and it's really around access testing so what the access test does is we deliver this to all of our el students who have been identified annually this year i think we did it in i want to say we did it in december i feel like we did it before winter break but typically that's administered between december and february we get the results

158over summer but again what the test does is it assesses the four domains of language being the students proficiency levels when it comes to reading writing speaking and listening and then the most important part of the test is the data that we get from it it allows us to determine the student's proficiency level but then also to measure growth over a year's course so how much did the student grow in their english language proficiency since the last time that they were tested so there are six levels of english language proficiency this graphic kind of shows that continuum level one would be a student that's a newcomer so they're coming to us and they have very limited english language proficiency all the way up to a level seven which would be a student who would be

159a native english speaker or a student who was exited out of our el programming and they now have that they've attained that level seven of proficiency again i pointed out that the majority of our students fall between that three and four so if you know when they reach a four we start to develop an exit plan for our english learners and then we would monitor them for two years after they've reached i think the level six so the majority of our students are kind of in that three to four range we have many different service delivery options is important because our english learners come from very cultural backgrounds they're coming in with different levels of english language proficiency as well as different educational experiences so we need to have a service delivery model that can

160meet the needs of all those students so this graphic just highlights that we're able to deliver the services in many different ways it may be pushed in where we're having our english language teachers push into a classroom to support our our english learners and then pull small groups if they need to we also have some and that would be the ideal as well as our co-taught classrooms where we will have our el and classroom teachers working together to co-plan and co-serve i'm going to share an example of two of our exceptional staff who share they provided an exemplar for me to present to you all tonight around what that co-teaching can look like and what the goal is of the programming when it's appropriate and then on the bottom we also have the option of

161pulling out and this is where we would pull students out of a classroom typically this would be the win time the what i need time so that they're not missing any of those core academic areas and they're able to really get that different differentiated support when they need it again not many students will receive this pull-out service this would be more for our newcomers or our students with a english language proficiency of a one or two and then i mentioned once stu students hit a certain level of proficiency then we would just work on monitoring them to make sure that they're continuing to maintain that proficiency after we've exited them from the program all right so with that i just want to raise up and highlight the work of two of our staff members i

162thought it was important to bring before you an example of what this could look like so we have a seventh grade co-teaching team i like to think about a good co-teaching team as a marriage when it works well it really we have this symbiotic relationship where the staff are working together to plan they have the mindset of co-serving and delivering the instruction to the students together so our staff sarah she's a english teacher at the middle school and then dana evers is one of our el teachers at the middle school assigned to support seventh grade so what they did did is they had a common weekly planning time and they worked together on all the lessons to develop those together ensuring that the language strategies are embedded so again going back to that symbiotic relationship

163we have our english teacher coming with that content knowledge we have our el teacher coming with the knowledge around language development working together to design a unit that's aimed towards mastery on the standards and able to reach and support all students but being sure to hit on the needs of our english learners so some of the key components to reach all the students that they made sure they included in the unit was that they had mentor texts that were culturally responsive and diverse the content standards were the focus of each lesson they had those language strategies as part of everyday instruction so it wasn't something that we're pulling a certain group of students away we're embedding that into the instruction that all students are receiving and then the lessons for this unit followed a format

164of i do we do you do and then from that they also have some exemplar templates so that again another way to model for students what they need to deliver in the lesson and the universal design for learning which is really about making sure that students have multiple ways of having the information represented to them multiple ways for them to engage in it and then multiple ways for them to show that they've learned the standards so that is just one example that i wanted to highlight i thought it would be good to bring some data here around performance just to share with you all how our english learners are doing there are lots of data points out there but this is one that i wanted to capture and bring to you so really what it

165is is at the state level the state takes a group of students at a grade level who would have two years worth of access test scores so knowing what their english language proficiency would be they would then scale those scores and then we're finding that mean of 50 which indicates that the students showed a average growth of 50 over a two-year period so when we look at our schools of our schools when we look at the el students who have at least two years worth of access scores they're all above average so just one data point around how we're performing as far as continued improvement goes a couple of the things we're looking to do is just continue to focus on co-serving and co-planning and making sure that our staff are collaborating for that inclusiveness

166in the classrooms and in the instruction the second thing that we're really looking to do is that wida put out new standards in a new framework in 2020 our staff are still working to digest that much of the standards and framework is a carryover from previous versions but they're digesting it and looking for ways to employ that within the district and then as always we're centering on equity and looking to identify any achievement gaps as well as work towards closing them so this is the report around our english learner program as i shared i know that this is the first opportunity i'm coming before you all it's pretty broad but looking for feedback either now or later around what you would like to see in the future what questions or comments does the board have

167so i'm very thorough thank you so much first of all um how many languages are spoken in our schools total i know i quote that data point i want to say at least over 20 i can definitely get that for you because i feel like that number is higher right and i i think that's you know an important thing for our not only our school population to understand but our community to understand that there we do have a pretty diverse um community here um the one thing i was gonna mention you talked about win being one of the times um intervention times when um el students are pulled out um how do does that impact them in terms of like the support that they would need in that part because i don't know how they

168do it here in greendale but we we do like a rotating thing for subject areas and i was just wondering does that take away their opportunity to get reteaches or work with their classroom teachers i would say not necessarily because that time is really focused on what students need so it might be that reteaching pre-teaching or it might be that enrichment for students so this would be something that if our el teachers are pulling because again we're talking about a variety of needs so it doesn't mean that every student that receives el services will be pulled during this time but our staff will be working together around what that looks like okay and that would be part of their el plan as well do you remind the board how many el teachers we have and

169and are there any additional needs that you envision coming forward yeah we have one two three it's a count of seven yeah seven and they're not all full-time fte yep yep so about seven ish so we have about three at the elementary level we have a full-time at the middle school plus a portion of fte at middle school and then the same thing at high school one full time and a portion of fte at high school and and we envision any budgetary changes there or anything that you need from the board and to support this program yeah at this point we are in the process of having conversations around budgetary needs we're looking at kind of what those workloads look like for our english language teachers as well as how we're meeting the student needs

170so those are conversations that we're in the process of having i would say i'm just kind of to your point earlier recognizing the diversity of the students the value that they bring they bring assets and they help to enrich our school community and that our staff are working really hard to support not only our english learners but all you know the strategies that as i highlighted from that seventh grade team as they're working together and they're talking about the strategies to support a particular group those strategies are going to help all the students in the classroom so the strategies that our el teachers have expertise around is going to support everyone outside of maybe translation they're going to be bringing a value add to that team so i would just say the continued recognition of

171the variety of needs these programs meet and how how hard our staff are working to support them and i think just to echo or to elevate you know the comments that kathy you made earlier this is something our community needs to understand is that when we speak about diversity in our schools this is a prime example of the diversity that exists in our schools and when you have you know six percent of your student population speaking another language we do have an obligation to make sure that we we support those students as well as well as tap into the the richness that they offer did you say six percent joe six percent six percent and now along to piggyback on that point uh since arabic obviously we offer spanish but arabic is our number one

172um spoken or language that's in the community in the school community and serbian is number three are there any thoughts about offering um some you know language experiences around those particular language since we have that resource you know we have that resource i don't know if jackie's going to touch oh yeah oh she is okay we have some opportunities through park and rec all right one one thing just to note i know um i thought this was great information thanks for putting it all together and sharing you know kind of an extensive overview of everything that's going on in yell one question i got from a community member was that her her family is multilingual so they speak both spanish and english in their house and she noted that she got flagged like multiple times

173for the el when she first joined the district because of the way that i think some of the questions are worded where they highlighted that they were speaking spanish also in their household so then the assumption was it just that they don't know how to speak english i'm not sure how those questions are worded but just something that just a point of information from one source and just something to think about because i know that that can also be a frustrating conversation to have when you're just trying on a form and then you have to have more conversations around that those are those questions are developed and recommended through the state to make sure that you identify all students and that's why step two is talking with the family because that conversation eliminates any thought

174that you might need english as an english learning support but um we i understand that like the first year and maybe the second year you're going to get flagged but once the teacher knows and the school knows then yeah even if you answer those questions positively it should be known well and you don't i mean obviously they have the option to not answer that and type you know because you know it was just one of those things right now that person particularly was frustrated because oh yeah because she said yes that they speak spanish it's all of a sudden that they can't speak english yeah that's a good point so something to take care of i want to move us along as we um take a look at the time so okay thank you for

175you to talk about the thank you okay and thank you for the feedback too i'll make sure that we take that back to the team okay so then when we think about our special education programming that large overarching um body of law is really around idea and the fact that we provide a free appropriate public education to all of our students who have been identified as having some type of special need we will provide the special education related services for those students and then at the state level we have again a huge body of law procedures guidance that comes out of our department of instruction around special education programming just a few data points that i wanted to raise up here the majority of our students and we're proud to say this are educated in

176an inclusive environment at the state level we have 14 indicators which are really around performance of our special education programming and one of those indicators is how many of our students are educated in an inclusive environment so that is a point of pride for our district the next one is that the majority of our students participate in the general education curriculum very few of our students are participating in an alternative curriculum so we're working all students towards meeting mastery on those state standards the goal post is the same for everyone how we get there may look a little different and then about 13 percent of our total enrollment would if we broke that down a disaggregated fat that would be students with special needs you can see here over time the identification of students with

177special needs has increased slightly this is a five-year snapshot of that and then there are 11 different areas in which students can qualify for special education services again the snapshot is coming from the third friday in september and at that time we had about students that qualify for special education services so that's how we got the 13 percent and what we see as the top areas in which we're serving students would be around speech and language specific learning disability other health impairment and then students with autism could you rachel could you read through the acronyms just because even as an educator i don't know all of these okay sure no problem so i kind of highlighted them on the bottom too so we had when we did that snapshot on the third friday in september

178of the 338 students 72 will be students that qualify for speech language services 66 students will be students who qualify under specific learning disability 62 would be students who qualified under other health impairment and then 55 would be autism followed by 35 for emotional behavioral 31 for significant developmental delay i had to remember them all 10 would be students with intellectual disabilities and then six would be deaf and hard and deaf and hard of hearing and then um three would be orthopedic impairment rachel just a quick question um so this would be their primary disability or for counting the number 72 it's just 72 kids have speech and language they don't have uh there's they're not going to fall under autism as well as speech and language is that correct so that is a good

179point that sometimes students qualify in more than one disability area but this is unduplicated right now so this is their primary capability yep but it's a great question though thank you for that um just wanted to point out that within our district in any district we would need to have a continuum of special education services and really what that is is making sure that we're able to meet all student needs so i just highlighted a snapshot of what our continuum looks like currently at the end of the day we need to have a continuum that's robust enough and nimble enough so that we can kind of shape it to meet a student's individual needs so kind of at the start we might have students that are all they may need are accommodations and modifications and

180some level of specially designed instruction and that can be happening through a co-planning and consultation process between our special education or regular education staff and then we see as we move along the continuum towards the right that the level of services increase so i just wanted to highlight that we do have a continuum but this is one of our area areas of continuous improvement how we can work towards enhancing our continuum so that we can meet all of our students needs within the district so i won't talk through that for the sake of time i think the graphic highlights it pretty well i also wanted to just bring some data around performance to you all and what this depicts is this is also one of those 14 indicators that i said earlier on that were

181monitored by the state around for our special education programming is our graduation rate so how many of our students with ieps are graduating with a regular high school diploma so when we look at it from a four-year cohort we see that our students with special needs are graduating at a rate of 82.6 percent it's important to note that some of our students would benefit from transition services so they're able to continue on in their education from the age of 19 to 21 based on their needs and based on what they need they're able to do that up until the age of 21 so we do see when we pull that seven-year cohort they were able to graduate 100 percent of our students with special needs so i thought that was important to come and highlight

182since it is one of the indicators and we are able to do that successfully all right so then just around what we're looking to improve in our programming right now is we started enhancing our program support structure last school year we added some staff around that so we're looking to continue to enhance that so that we're meeting all the procedural compliance requirements within special education programming and to be able to support our staff in the field we'll continue to provide professional learning opportunities the support cult planning co-teaching co-serving and making sure that every student has a college and career ready iep developed for them and then the last bullet point is just around we share i shared information previously with you all that this year we've started a special education advisory team in which we're

183looking to just build capacity with our staff and our families around our programming in the district and seek input from them and engagement from them around the needs of the students in the program but how we can enhance it so that is the end of the presentation so if you all have any questions i would be pleased to answer them any feedback around what you're looking for in future reports i would love to integrate that feedback so question um going back to my question about the different areas or kids have their primary disability as i'm thinking about resources and budget and everything else if they're more most kids have more than one disability i'm wondering if we broke that down would it help us to find the resources that are needed in in that area

184so if they're autistic and have an emotional behavioral issue different resources are needed in some cases would that help us as we look to budget either staffing or something like that i don't know yeah when i think about just the process we look at to identify students individual needs we're using that five-step college and career ready process so we have a good handle on what the student needs are and it will really go back to what do we need for the program because we know we're taking into account what individual students need what staff need to be able to move the program forward and make sure that we're moving in the direction we need to move in okay thank you all right thank you very much thank you thank you thank you very informative all

185right then we will continue on um we are here here to have our annual park and recreation report jackie miss jackie schweitzer and then she has her new team member of course you saved the best for last i know that always right always right thank you mary but um real quickly i was not going to address but rachel um and her arabic all of you probably know rajwa who teaches in our school district what an asset park and rec has been offering arabic language classes for between 18 and 22 kids who have registered it's a paid program so it's not free and um but she really helps promote and engage them and so this semester we are also doing an esl program for the parents and we haven't had as much of a response but

186one of our other educators in the system with the esl program step forward to help us with that so we're going to continue to help support what we can but after two semesters of classes we've just seen our numbers increase i'm sure part of it is because of rajwa's enthusiasm for her culture but we're also working on a yoga well sorry zumba class for some of the adults so again you create those opportunities you look through them and we'll continue to help you into their okay rachel yes and i just want to say that she is a value-add because she's also a special education teacher in our district too nice people who didn't know that wow so anyway i just want to quickly say that i thank you again for the opportunity to present and

187reflect on you the act with you the activities and events of park and rock for the 21 22 school year and you continue to see the difference park and rec can make and that we do make in our community for our residents the department has continued to monitor all programs and activities we offer for the safety of our participants and our staff continuing to follow all we learned from the 2021 year with covet 19. we've continued to create protocols of some of which some were unpopular with the parents in particular our youth after school basketball program was saturday games which did not allow spectators due to limited space issues with the installation of the bleachers at the middle school and playing half court games i'm not sure if you heard anything but we had many

188parents very unhappy worked through it we did take pictures and posted them on our department website often from the saturday games showing that the children are having fun i'm sure parents would have liked to have been there it just wasn't going to work we had 60 some kids and at one time we'd have 48 kids in the gym and there was just no place to put a bunch of parent spectators um we're proud to report that there were no covid19 outbreaks due to participation in our programs and parents should also be recognized for their diligence in reporting absences due to covet or quarantine due to close exposure so it's been truly a community working together to provide all of the park and recreation opportunities this last year as london 2021 we continued to realize during

189the pandemic the significance park and recreation could have for families regarding their physical social and emotional health we worked diligently last year in navigating our way through the pandemic and so we have used the 21-22 year to continue again what we learned and provide programs and activities that the community has come to expect as we have moved onward and upward so the most significant increase in realizing parents if you want to flip will return to the office and looking for child care opportunities for their children was noticed within a tick at the end of 2021 in the bridge for kids child care program seeing the remote interest the department planned for a greater increase in the summer adventure club program however it was a blast off by families as to the interest in registration for

190this particular center child care program in the 23 years since the inception of the program we've never had to limit the registrations for this program however 2021 became the year we had to do so with the tremendous interest from families consideration of the land covered guidelines for safe health sanitizing disinfecting hand washing social distancing and the actual space in greendale middle school for the number of interested children continued to be guiding principles based on making that decision we didn't make it lightly a previous good summer would have between 70 and 80 children registered per day this past summer we were averaging 100 children a day while also trying to maintain social distancing and some of these other issues so with the increased response at the end of june the department discontinued accepting new families into

191the program but we already had 257 children and 180 families registered by that date and to be fair to family and to the staff it was just the best decision to limit um the registrations at that point and we had been accepting them since may so it was a month that families had to decide if they wanted that or not the children were able to attend the school district summer school they went on field trips they attended park and rec swim lessons and the department offered open swim for the older children at the high school even though we didn't open up the general public open swim but our staff were very good about spending most of their time outdoors as they could um because then they could more socially distance and we're very appreciative of

192the weather which we don't control to allow our staff to spend most of the summer outdoors it wasn't too hot and it wasn't too rainy our care for kids child care program this was our second year or this is our second year providing care to families that have a child in either the am or pm time for learning and we have finally hired the second lead staff member and so that program is very solid and a lot of people have used it the details are in the report we're currently accepting registrations for the 22 23 school year i believe if you have a child in a.m we have three spots left so again family are coming back and taking care of that our bridge for kids has continued to sowing usage and needs by the

193family even at this time more families are continuing to be called back to work and now need the before after school for their children we are still currently averaging two to three families per week coming in to register their children for care yet this school year so um that's i'm glad we're here to make that happen we're also excited to return the full days off of school during the school district breaks for the holidays or for professional development again we open one site at granddale middle school and we've had a couple of those break times we've been averaging 40 to 50 children compared to 25 to 35 in the past on the staff in all three of these child care programs continue to work carefully for the safety of the children and themselves while planning

194many fun and creative activities for them staff are recognized for their caring nature for all the children they service for the work and efforts this was my christmas gift to all of them we treated them to i treated them to an igloo party it's a picture of all the staff there there were 22 of them um at mosquito lakes for an evening that was very windy and very cold but it was my thank you to them because they do work very hard and um so they continue on we continue on and child care is just a very strong component of our program the department has continued to move forward uh you can click the next slide to move programming onward and upwards step-by-step whether through general programming for toddlers youth teens adults or seniors for

195sports instructional or educational opportunities or through special event programming in the community the summer of 2021 saw substantial registrations with most classes opportunities filled and many with waitlists which we did our best to accommodate but couldn't do all due to staff availability and or location and space issues i listed all of the programs that we offer in the annual report and we have a lot going on at park and rock summer program planning is currently underway and we'll have some new programs introduced with the hiring of our new rec supervisor so we are looking forward to another positive summer programs and activities for the community members we continue to look forward to summer programming special events we've submitted and received approval from the village for a new easter egg hunt we're not doing that bunny

196hop this year that was way too much but we will have an easter egg hunt on saturday april 9th at gazebo park from 10 to 1. our perennial plant exchange the big truck bike safety day movies in the park the downtown markets and gazebo concerts kites over greendale festival halloweens and the pumpkin checking event at the high school so those are just the extra things we do we also had a tremendous increase in the interest in our bloom and girl and they're really hard to see the pictures they're at the bottom that is our preschool program for three-year-olds the night of registration for this school year we filled all spots in the tuesday thursday so we had to go back and negotiate with mrs flater if we could get another monday wednesday and so we

197have now two sections of the blue and gold program um and they were filled to our maximum we have super staff that continue to provide those families exceptional learning and social experiences for their children this is the 26th year of the program and um we are also looking to consider putting in a friday program in the morning for kids that are already in the blooming goal program for next year we also need to say we appreciate having a dedicated classroom in which the staff can plan prepare organize and provide a positive learning environment for the children and that's all possible because of the referendum work at highland view so that's our community thank you but our thank you to the school board for recognizing we could use the extra space the department can next slide

198continue to look at how to safely raise our senior social club the community theater and the community band back to their pre coven 19 status as of july 1 2021 the senior social club due to their diligence of slowly opening two hours a day twice a week are now back to their full five hours as of july one and our brown bag discussions have returned but again unless you've seen it it's really a program that's all about the social mental health of our seniors and they are so grateful to be back and we're glad we can do that our greendale community theater known as gct returned with their performance in january 2022 of the production of little women there's a smaller than expected attendance at this production however it provided gct the opportunity to follow

199protocols from the professionals downtown milwaukee which we're glad most of them are gone now and we look forward to our summer 2022 production of mary poppins and we hope by the time the show opens we'll have paid for our flying mary poppins on the greendale village concert band is grateful to be back in rehearsing at greendale high school they just started this month as they prepare for their summer sunday gazebo performances these are just a lot of promising opportunities we have achieved our up up and we go for the bounce back of these particular programs next slide this was always my difficult one the last two years as you know this is the buildback of the department financial status yeah and um as you can see last 1920 year we had a deficit of um

200well where did that go anyway it's a lot of money and then the school board i'm grateful to you gave me another 150 to the fund balance and we still didn't quite make it but i am really proud to stand here tonight and tell you that we are on goal to end this year in the black and that's without any additional money from the school board so hey it's our family's participating and looking at the things we're doing i did add on here and i think this just tells you again we were on a billback process the opening weekend so i'm only talking we start online registration on a saturday so i'm talking a saturday sunday opening our summer registration we had 283 families register with 30 almost 35 000 wow that's a lot the

201fall registration we had 226 families register with 20 dollars and our winter spring we had 228 families register with twenty five thousand dollars so we were the main money machine okay and it just feels good to know that our families are back because they're signing up they're interested and we will continue to do the things that we do and that's again thank you to all of your support in october of 2021 the park and recreation department does have a financial assistance program recreation assistance program called wrap and it was implemented in 2007. we um oh can you flip the next slide maybe is that or no oh no sorry go back so anyway um that program was funded by our roundup for recreation when you sign up to register for a class in our benefit

202auction which we discontinued a few years ago and um but it's based on income and we base it basically on the free and reduced we haven't had a lot of applications but in the recent year we've had a couple situations that we wanted to just go back and revisit to make sure we were on course and so we made a few tweaks actually the old policy didn't include our open enrollment families as qualifying we accept them as residents to register for classes but not for the rap and so we've updated that now and um we're very excited to kind of promote it out there and try to get more families to sign up to use the program next slide with the resignation of the department's recreation supervisor in summer 2020 the department decided to postpone

203replacing the position due to financial situations created with covert and the uncertainty for families and also our limit to after school programming for the children due to uncertainty in september twenty twenty so from september 2020 until january 2022 our administrative assistant alexander gates and myself along with a great staff of after school staff have continued to program and operate after school programs and our youth in adult sports we've observed through our work that with more limited activities the schedule programs have primarily had enough so we haven't had to cancel classes um a couple but not many and those include basketball chess mad science down 60 minutes of play and taekwondo and we do continue to program in all three elementary schools mr jonathan mitchell our director of business services assisted with one of the tasks

204of that recreation supervisor position which is the scheduling of the junior panther girls and boys basketball program or practices starting in august of 2021. i have been doing it last year and with the increase in our summer participation i just knew i didn't have the capacity and so i talked to jonathan probably very emotionally and said hey i just can't do this and he's like i'll help you out i'll help you out and so i'm very grateful for jonathan stepping forward however november came and jonathan's like we need to get that rec supervisor position hired so um he knew i was gonna say that but once you do that job you know it's a very tasking position and so um that was good and so alexander gates and myself worked with our human resources director

205ms groteforce thank you to get a job description redone get it posted and that happened in december and our goal was to have somebody hired in february of 2022 we had four candidates we interviewed in january and i'm pleased to introduce he has sat here through the whole meeting our new rec supervisor joe us [Applause] joseph joe and um so he's been very busy since he came on because i've had this list of things so i really believe we have reached the top of our goal for 21 22 in doing our park and rec activities my last slide is just to say thank you for allowing us the opportunity to share our journey through this past year and we've continued to learn and grow with the ever-changing pandemic so we believe 22-23 will be an

206even more positive and successful year for everyone so even with lots of extra work to offer programs and events it was to a very grateful community park and rec extends our thanks to our superintendent dr amidsic and to recognize our business manager jonathan mitchell for their careful oversight of the department and they've both been highly supportive of the department's work within the school system and as always your value your valued your guidance and your experiences that you share help make our work just a little bit easier so thank you for that also real quick i just need to say noelle george yanish thank you for being our um and for misco for being noel our school board representative to the park and rec committee she was on the committee before that thor he was on

207the committee as a resident and then um i just know you guys support what we do i know we'll see you around but i need to this will be my last time to say thank you for the engagement that you've allowed okay thank you and then the village of great deal as you know is a place of great opportunity and the park and rec department works to contribute to all of those opportunities working with the staffs of the school district and the village and our community members and so i just want to say park and rec is truly a steward of life in greendale here benefits are endless but you've all made it happen so thank you well well done jackie well done i thank you jackie i think it's it's important we all take

208pride um and i think you're the face of the park and wreck department yeah and i i have to add i would be remiss my my mother uh patty grogan rest in peace um had the good insight to hire jackie schweitzer her and bob rundle uh were some of the original park and rec people over at ambrester here in greendale i also had the good fortune to work as a playground leader and i went on to be a playground supervisor in other walks of life and so jackie you're you've i mean there's a lot of experience and wisdom and love and heart that we wish you a happy retirement but you will be greatly missed what about bocce ball you didn't mention bocce ball it was pickleball that's one of joe's new challenges we are

209starting up a backyard boxy ball program on tuesday and thursday nights over in daffodil park and um esports what else do oh how's that um going pickleball instructional program for kids um we have it for adults to play already now i know the village is not repairing the tennis courts on college avenue they're taking them out i think is what i read in the the last newsletter does that impact you at all or it's to the community people i was not aware of it either until i read it in the same publication um but they have been in bad shape i years ago had done a spent the money to have a cost analysis done on what it would take to fix them i had hoped that we could find the money to invest to

210make them into pickleball courts because that is the hot commodity in the community we have six courts at the community center courts but again they have to be shared with tennis we have one here at the high school courts when we put those in the school district line one of those for pickleball so um yeah they're asking if you have any ideas of what they could do with that small area but it's kind of difficult yeah the tennis courts seem to be a good fit for that small space yeah i mean it was almost three quarters of a million to read through the courts and then there was still the problem because it's eroded it falls off into that drainage ditch that's there so to store up that corner of the tennis courts because it's

211going to be way too expensive so that's unfortunate if we come up with an idea too small for a skateboard park or for dog park which are any other comments or questions i just want to say thanks jackie for all you you've done in our community um i see you here on sundays at the the concerts at the gazebo i see you at the market day i mean you're always in this community and you really are a face of greendale and so for everything that you've done and the programming that you've offered these years i i just want to say thanks you're very welcome thank you yeah likewise and i have a really important question on the previous slide did you photoshop joe in there [Laughter] i noticed that the top of the mountain is

212joe we hired him alex and and he worked on that when i was gone on friday so that's awesome that is our joe he is here to help get us through the next year jackie there's a senior the senior activities take place at st luke's or what is that the area that we use for that yep okay we rent it for a whole 1200 a year wow but and it's yeah very popular and they're helping stuff the egg hunt bags right now so you know volunteer opportunities they don't shy away from it and they get very protective don't you get my space to do those bags and um you know it's a great program and i'm glad we can do it that's one that's funded through the community development block grant from the village ten

213thousand dollars covers most of it not all of it but i i get i hear a lot of feedback from residents who take part in that and you know obviously we'd love to have our own space in the community but i think it's great that you were able to secure that resource so they they really enjoy it so they had a flood in the roof and we were down in the basement for the first six months this year but um it's been it's fabulous and we have you know coach murray but supervisor mary miscode running that program she's got such a great rapport with the seniors and um what's very interesting and joe actually made i'm just putting words in joe's mouth but we took him over there for the first day of a man

214and um to meet the club and see where it is and um he was highly impressed with the exercise program that mary has implemented they get that free as part of their membership and so many of the seniors have said it to mary that they've either gone to therapy or they've gone places and when they tell their therapists what they're doing at the senior club and exercise they're amazed that um that's the same stuff they would be telling them and yet they keep that recovery writing at senior class so yeah a good healthy program but again it was really good mary kept in contact with them when we were closed over covet and out to just see if they needed little things and just that little bit of plc hearing and was very mentally and

215emotionally positive for them but they really wanted to get back with their friends and all about socialization and that's what they've and thank you again jackie i mean um it's easy to support a program that's so successful and one that i think we all take pride in and again you're the face of that program so thank you very much jackie i just want to say thank you as well i know everybody's kind of think you're on the table but i'll take my turn i want to say thank you i really enjoyed working with you all these years and enjoyed being on with community this year as well thanks and thank you for staying through the pandemic and and leaving it in everything in such good shape all righty um we'll continue on with the agenda

216i think everyone got a chance to say thank you right we'll continue on with the agenda the next item on the agenda is the policy committee uh there's a first reading on a single policy there's been a handful of them that have been reviewed no changes to most of them but policy 411 is one that has been revised and you see that in your packet small modifications yeah small modifications on classifications and i was reviewing this with the team and there is on that policy 411 we struck sex and changed it to gender and gender identity but legally title vii has expanded to include sex gender and gender identity so we will remove the strikethrough on sex okay any questions or comments about that specific policy or the fact that there are a number of

217policies or handful of policies that there are no changes to there was one and i mentioned it to kim today and i'll just let sue know the word not was missing and i cannot remember which one it was from but it obviously changed the meaning of what what i think what meant to be said and i i can't i thought it was for 411.1 but i can't seem to find it now well and i don't i don't know if noelle wants to comment since it was her official last policy committee but we did have um you know these are open meetings these committee meetings and we did have um you know a community member who attended so that it always helps to have residents nearby as you're working on policies if a policy can't be

218done with fidelity you know if it can't be carried out then and integrity then you know policy work is some of the most important it's it's difficult and and boring to some people but um it's some of the most important work we do so all right and i'm going we i was going to have a discussion about policy management software but i'm going to table that and bring that back okay uh at a future meeting given our time would you say software so to help you oh yes and like every minute or something and yeah i'll table that and bring it back to the board for the future date nope everything looks good okay then and we have to table 5.5 as well don't we so our student board members went and if i could

219just with that okay are we done with um 5.4 yeah we're awesome so we'll bring that back i'll just figure out where that there was one word missing we'll bring this back at our next board meeting so 5.5 as you noted mary our student board members um i have left this evening legislative update yeah well with the student board member thing i just wanted to say if there's a way we could move them up in the meetings in the future i i feel that their voice is important and we miss it when you know this was a long meeting again tonight so i would like to propose that we put them you know after citizen comments or some somewhere you know after our payment they have a full meeting and they are one of the

220two items on the agenda for next week okay we'll hear the voice next week okay um so legislative update i'm going to just keep it real brief and in uh dr mizik i don't i'm assuming you're aware of this but there's the get kids ahead initiative mental health funding uh deadline is this friday so i don't know if we're participating in that but there's uh like ten thousand dollar minimum that's available so i that was just one of the things i saw and um we already are doing a great job with our sr3 so i think the fact sheet that they put out is is just additional information so i don't really have anything else tonight okay um any board committee updates go ahead go ahead i don't think so i last i had my

221last policy committee meeting last week two weeks ago and i do have one more park and wreck but i probably won't be here for the report because it's after next week is there anything you'd like to say before i don't save my comments for next week anything else well i just want to mention that uh board clerk um weed vincent is heading off on friday right i don't know if you want to speak to them i'm going to be heading to the national school board uh nsba convention in san diego on friday and looking totally forward i looked at the pre menu and there's like four or five sessions in each offering that i want to go to so i'm going to be trying to narrow those down but and i'm hopeful to be at

222our meeting next monday but i'm due to arrive at 7 15 that night so i might be coming from the airport a little late otherwise if i can be excused it'll be my first meeting i've missed it's okay um alrighty and from the ed foundation they're they're going through scholarships right now um to award at the end of this school year and then the ed foundation will be engaged with some of the community events this summer both running some events during the fourth of july festival the village days and in the end of the year jj's summer batch i think it's referred to as as well as the schools out event that's happening in early june all right and we do have um i mean this is coming up but there is a governance um

223meeting coming up may 10th for wasb so with our new school board members hopefully we can get all of us at that i saw a couple here this afternoon this evening and i mentioned to them and they said they had that on their calendar yeah but that's a really good point is there's there is a new school board in april i shared that with all four of the candidates the new board member meet and greet and the governance the governance workshop very good any other calendar reviews anything else that's coming up either in the community that we should be aware of we have the um facility team on thursday evening and the chamber of commerce has their annual banquet this thursday as well and we are interviewing for canterbury uh principals this week administratively and

224we'll be forwarding those to committees shortly all right and then we're at the end of the agenda any additional comments or questions from visitors seeing none um everyone's asleep we are adjourned and i'd be remiss to not mention stolen ensemble oh yeah very good um we are adjourned our next board meeting is next week monday um april 4th at 7 pm