001[Music] and we do walk over you Victoria will answer Alex Backlund and jurina-chan where's your tongue [Music] represent the Jewish Mary [Music] thank you ladies and gentlemen what has mr. de for allowing us to recognize a winner of our writing contest here at the school board meeting I want to thank you guys because none of this strength no problem this would have happened without your support you came here a few months ago to try to promote our program after decades of not being utilized our post you see great help from Kara thank you very much for spreading the word and getting those candidates and today I would like to present to you our winners as verse Victoria wolf Anderson Alice Halton arena chef during the channel now it is a quick recap of our writing
002contest called the voice of democracy and the yelling basis of national provides us a team to distribute to our students I mean they can write an essay based upon that being I'm also dual reporting pretty much a speech of the essay as well and we judge the students based on the delivery for the speech the writing and the content and all the students here deliver we were grateful to receive it and to receive their the entries and we see their perspective last year's think what makes America great Victoria our first-place winner --whoa a Maine amazing essay about the process that she underwent to come to the realization of what it was life liberty and the pursuit of happiness and it was a very bold statement because it started after the controversial election in 2016 and
003she to her emotions and asking different ethnicities and friends from different backgrounds of whether they think America was great so she provided a perspective from different nationalities and it was again a very bold whoa approach especially since it was going to be revealed by mostly Vietnam veterans Korean War battle but we appreciated it and we were happy to say no where it's a state which you want third place at the district level second place winner Alice Hoffman providing a great essay revolt around 9/11 they have that one event told him that no matter how the body would main scenes Merrick America can come together and unite tours one cost and in a arena provided a great perspective from an immigrant background he told the story of her parents and how they came here and they
004were able to pursue their dreams and with that being said I would like I would like to present Victoria or family son with the first play plays black she was already given her $500 check at a previous event expected the details our providing second-place plaques to the Alice Walker as well as the $250 check for for second place winner and also I would like to provide third place flag to what happens when you win things you get lots of recognition which is low deserved before I recognize our winners here I do want to say something was 149 I've got to know folks there over the last year or so and one of the great things they do is a pancake breakfast every month and if you haven't been there and courage you to go because
005the proceeds go to their scholarship fund and the food is really good as I can but it is a wonderful our young people and I have to say to all of you that this is maybe your first big recognition but I guarantee it won't be your last and through life there are opportunities to really step up and and say something important to the community in this contest so we all appreciate that but we also I know that we're gonna go on into business time and time again we need you to so I'm going to start with the citation citations from the state of Connecticut and it is from the General Assembly and it's nine five members of the delegation from Danbury that's myself Julie Kushner representative Richard a Smith Steven party after God created our
006content rahiba event Brennan being hereby known to all the Connecticut General Assembly offers its Lucero's congratulations to Victoria wolf Anderson in recognition of your achieving first place in the voice democracy scholarship program at Danbury VFW plus 149 your audio essay demonstrated American values of democracy and patriotism best of luck in the district competition which we already know you have done well and heather's the entire membership extends its very best wishes on this memorable occasion expresses the hope for continued success and that's signed by the president pro tempore and the Speaker of the House Martin and moody and Joe aricema wits and secretary of the state Denis marrow language in this because people but Alex nonetheless I do want to read our congratulations to you in recognition of your achieving second place in the voice of
007democracy scholarship program met dancer ABF w+ 149 you listened and told our American story of democracy and theatre Tiffany Mercado is saying we you thrive in the next steps of your education and all of your endeavors now Tina jurina-chan and recognition of your achieving third place in danbury VFW post voice of democracy scholarship program you demonstrated our American ideals of democracy and action [Applause] anybody take a photo together it's be nice to get the flags this one first like it's just enough for some closing statements I just want to touch base book some more of our scholarship we as senator Julie Kirchner I've mentioned before we do hold a breakfast every month for our own personal post scholarship with the voice of democracy there's also a patreon spend which is at the middle school level
008and these are reoccurring themes each year so each year will will have a new theme to write on and so this will go on and on for years to come so it's just not at the high school level but also at the middle school level and in conjunction with our VFW Post 149 scholarship so it's our way of reaching out to the students and making a difference so that's all I guess I think that resumes getting built in [Laughter] I just wanted to mention that obviously congratulations to the winners but that the board should know members team at the port that's done who wanted this post is incredible relative to what they do with education of the students I can attest to that the one of the initial people that helped us kick off the
009playground project and make it a success and that constantly doing something to promote the education of network so thank you one to you true great job thank you first of all I just wanted to say Happy New Year and welcome all of the new board members we're so happy to see you and happy to have you here I'm here tonight because kahlúa at AI has noticed on the agenda that there is something about the AI of madness operations plan and I'm not really sure if this is the right thing we were wondering if this is the conversation about turning the magnet school in between in truck magnet school and if I just wanted to waste that we have some real concerns about that at our school our staff does many of us myself included have
010been at 14 years ago and you know we where is he in there we we work together constantly we're meeting you know before school after school during lunch times during prep periods were meeting with each other meeting with students there's constant communication going and we we kind of feel and we're sure that you didn't intend to keep us out of the conversation but we would really we would really welcome you to come and talk to us about this idea that you're tossing around before you make any decisions we might have some some food for thought for you and we would just really appreciate open lines of communication between you and and us because in the end whatever decision is made we're going to be there still and we're going to be implementing and whatever it
011is whatever decision is made so we really value communication amongst ourselves as a team and you're part of that team and we really would like to welcome you into our school into our home and and have have open conversations about that's all that I wanted thank you so much so I just wanted to first thank the board for the conversation of the last meeting and really for hearing the teachers who spoke about the calendar and for postponing that though until tonight I also know that they attack a Samara for her work and trying to also hear what the teachers had to say about the various issues it's a work in progress every year it's gonna change I know that dr. Styles at a meeting today with us when we were talking about the conferences again
012so it's good I just think that the more we work together and more we communicate better so that was good and then I also just wanted to encourage all of the board Manor members to make contact with their liaison schools I know you guys were all newly assigned I've heard that at the last meeting and get into the schools talk to us talk to the parents talk to the teachers talk to begin really get a feel for what the school is like and what is going on in the classrooms and at Mt PTO meetings attends over the social but on you can really learn a lot by visiting I know our last liaison lino at Sandra she was a ton of our events I've mentioned that I care before and it's just really nice to
013have that connection to the board and to have members of the community in each of the schools have those connections so I hope that everybody will take the opportunity it goes along to your job against that point that and I know you're trying to superfast but if you try to make it a time to get out to some of the events feel for what's going around this after all motion to approve the consent calendar just assume that I get a second mr. Rick are there questions and directions [Music] everyone uniting thank you for coming turkey says Vince damper of a few times this is a first at the border so just going to take us through the funding cycle and where money comes from at least how its distributed and do some comparisons because of
014that nature as well - it doesn't faster yep so how long is the reservation how long do you want me to because I will tell you I will lose through some of this quicker than others this presentation you don't want to know what I can move through it in 15 minutes you won't learn much it typically takes about 90 but you have a big agenda tonight so my target is roughly 50 minutes with that said some of what I do will be quick and feel free to ask questions or stop me and also know that I spend a lot of time in Danbury so I am happy with anyone on the board and with anyone in the general public and go through this in more detail so this is not a wedding time this is
015really as I see it's just part of an ongoing conversation can you hear now are we ready that we're going to do this quickly people buckle up I'm going to tell you first that this whole estate finance project was previously known as the Connecticut school finance project we started in really Gary to me is incredibly important community for the first community we worked in so to date I've had meetings with over 200 people in this community or interested in school finance pacifically we are nonprofit nonpartisan we are not a member based organization so we really strive for transparency our goals and objectives I'm going to summarize quickly we think it's important that people know how school or state finance works so that they can participate in civic process and that means having discussion and working
016from universe set of facts so that's what we strive to do basically we do this across the state I'm active in about 50 communities doing community engagement work and then we do additional work that's technical that helping both the state and communities we will not waver in our local issues so anything from your budget to policies we have no opinion on we want people to understand what what they're making an opinion or a decision about but we have no opinion we also don't endorse people candidates policies it's important we talk about school finance though to understand the state of the state first so very briefly what's going on in the state right now is that fixed costs are crowding out discretionary or non fixed costs at the state budget level this is important because as
017fixed costs grow essentially there's less money for discretionary spending and discretionary spending they're things like education doesn't sound very discretionary but if that is categorized as non fixed so as fixed costs continue to encroach and are now and 50% of the state budget it creates real challenges for education education funding makes up the largest portion of non fixed costs you're seeing right there education is museum education easier in libraries at almost 40% of the non fixed cost the state budget education is about 30% of museums and libraries being the other 10% nurse out state funding and we can break down even further when we drill downtown the most important thing is that huge blue wedge which is educational cost sharing and Alliance funding that's the funding for neighborhood public traditional schools a percentage of that
018education funding it's two districts and kids through educational precautionary so school finance for us is really about kids schools and communities and sometimes having five units conversations we lose sight of the kid so it's important to us to talk through the items of the tiles but to Alex who plays in dear Mary third grader who grows up who wants to become a doctor question is how much funding the decision to educate have honestly depends where he lives we're looking at similar school districts so what you won't see here are adjacent districts you are less similar to Bethel than you are to Norma or to Stanford that's why those are selected and when we look at just three similar school districts they vary from the state is getting 3,200 $11 per pupil the intermarry as the
019municipality contributing eight thousand nine hundred and seventy dollars and your other contributions are six hundred and sixty one dollars or five hundred sixty one dollars of charge which is both your federal funding for things like title one and ite a special education as well as the skills of profit dollars so grant said the district would get per pupil that's twelve thousand seven hundred and forty two dollars per child to be clear that yes it is the lowest in the state to understand the range of per pupil funding in the state the lowest is at twelve thousand seven hundred forty two and you have multiple districts covering quite close here and the highest is believe at this point right about 35,000 per kilo so there's incredible right there's an incredible range if we look at Norwalk
020the state is given in nineteen essentially normal walk contributes a little over 14,500 and they're getting about $550 and other contributions totally out at just under 17,000 per pupil and we know just fast-forward so you can see this comparison of state contribution at 3200 for January 1924 Norwalk and 2004 Stanford you're seeing this town contribution at January at 89 70 in Norwalk its 14,500 per pupil and in Sanford is 15,000 877 essentially in these three comparable communities what we're looking at is a range from twelve seven forty two ten eighteen thousand five hundred and seventy dollars per pupil this is problematic when you're looking at this and we're talking about Alex right he's the same child no matter where he moves to and the question is why school finance first of all the state little
021issue it's not a federal issue funding in Connecticut for education six point three nine billion so let's understand we're talking about billions of dollars here the total spent in education dollars we had it annually is 11 point 1 billion right now of that large blue edged is going through that concerning disco contributions so 169 different decision-making bodies determining how much they're going to allocate to education in the community the really top scheme are there at less than half a billion is your federal funding it's important to note that federal funding coming to the state does take into consideration seeing wealth so if the mo through the small now in Connecticut embarrassed another state and at 4.2 1 billion that comes from the state and the state legislature that's the decision-making body just to be clear
022we talked about school finance in terms of acne and specifically with students we look at equity in three different ways students with disabilities and to be clear students with disabilities Congress an incredibly broad range of children with unique needs for a very smaller time limited or low-cost needs to very high find independence that are staff expensive needs those put additional burdens on the state or the district frankly connected is one of four states that doesn't have any methodology for funding all of its special education students the next one I would point to as English learners English learners of which jamberry has a significant percentage those those children need additional support and resources to these are the most of these and children write learning learning content and master in any language concurrently and now again has
023a cost that's associated with it for the district and additionally students from the low-income family and there are additional supports that districts put in place to get kids who may not have the same exposure or experiences up to level question of does money matter short answer is it definitely does but we can talk about they about that some other time it's important to understand what's going on in the state to understand what's going on in Tina Mary when you're looking at you're seeing a tool decline in student enrollment of over 37,000 students over the last ten years and then again this is happening across the nation the number of students enrolled it's just simply lower Danbury is the sixth largest in the state with its largest district your enrollment has increased consistently over the last
024ten years so going exactly out of it from the state trend student need is also increasing so if you mentor a student out of low income and poverty or nominally disadvantaged students in the state of Connecticut that green line is special ed students and the red line is English learners and those numbers are growing at a relatively consistent but neither is predictable case way student poverty and every is increased by four percentage point but really what we're looking at as we talk about economic disadvantage again it's that number has doubled since 2008 women in the district you know certainly a you know you all know that the Great Recession of only nine had horrific impact not just on our state but I really had kids with families as the most vulnerable and insecure so in
025the rough number dairy serves a higher percentage of English learners than someone of districts you're at 26% you can kill with my home district of window which is just slightly larger resident centage that's a huge number and just her people to start thinking about that differently one in four kids in the classroom is learning English and in a classroom of 20 kids right take five minutes and they're learning English but they might be learning different mainly coming from different home languages so that's an incredible challenge Deary respect less per student than pure district and more than 4-thousand less than the state average i I know that the general public can see this really clearly that's small I would encourage you all this is my if I only could give you one graph this is it
026so I would encourage you to take a look at this because it really gives you an opportunity to look across subgroups you have the rain in Cornwall right now it's at thirty five thousand one hundred fifty five dollars per people the closest key you guys' gamer in at thirteen thousand sixty one dollars state-funded the state gives you three thousand two hundred and eleven dollars you were seeing less funding for people from the state but here are all the to Pierre towns so the question is what I would back trade first of all is important to know we have 11 different funding formulas so if you flash back to that first big pie chart where that big blue edge and at 68 percent of C education dollars were coming through education cost share into traditional educational
027settings and public school districts the others are for magnet schools culture all of it there's a myriad of funding formulas here that divided up the others ECS is what we're going to focus on there's a history to ECS it's helpful to know playing through that and moving into West last year in Danbury you've got a thirty two million three hundred four thousand three hundred five thousand will round up because of the new formula the basin moving forward is is ultimately going to land you at fifty six million eight hundred thirty seven thousand which hopefully sound much better number quicker but between now then it's incremental growth and we can look at it again I told you talking about finances in terms of education kids is really important so it's important to realize that kids in
028fiscal 19 when here very got that 32 million won't see full funding in the district from the state in 209 throat so what's with the deal with ETS they start with the foundation amount its legislatively set and set at eleven thousand five hundred twenty / people then we add weights to it there's a low income student weight of 30 percent so take your number of kids as measured right now at free and reduced-price lunch and that's the 30 percent we increase from the foundation there is a concentrated poverty way for districts above 75 percent of their students in low income and poverty there are three of those districts in the state Barry's not one of them just so you know that concentrated poverty week as an additional 5% per pupil but only above that 75
029percent threshold so at 76 percent it would be 1% additional 5% Monday and then an English Learner way of 15% we just new and exciting here's how it plays out essentially a general education 98 student I have four kids so I call this one my average they're all four these are very different I have an average share hooray and so that's funding the funding the state says she needs to get education is $1,525 but we look at a district where for instance here again a low-income English Learner and that happens quite often here in January you're changing what the state says is needed to educate and for sixteen thousand seven hundred and eleven dollars per pupil so week two matter and this weighted funding formula makes a difference as we start looking at what is
030going on in funding and what is needed essentially that it once the state says you know we've done all the calculations the number of kids you have four weeks of the needs we come up with a total amount of what it would cost rate essentially what they do then is say well how much can be a very packed what can your community afford two packs and the way they determine this is been looking at 70 percent of property wealth 30 percent income wealth essentially they're looking at what is your taxable property how much money can you raise through property taxes but secondarily can your community pay those taxes so the united that through both property wealth in the wealth and their waited at 70 percent property 30 percent in income wealth and essentially come up
031with a number that identifies how much can you as a community now part of this and this is new to this newer ECS funding formula is additionally looking at economically distressed communities and waving those a little bit heavier so every year the state measures not helping communities through the pink index on his floor of 0 to 500 if the test you don't want to do well on low is factor the higher the number the more economically distressed the community the state has determined that above 300 is a community and higher at risk or in need and so they have tweaked the base a great show to add percentage points to that based on the ranking of the pic index Danbury is not above 300 so you are not getting an additional meaning on this and
032then there's a reason schedule essentially counts receiving increases like jamberry are getting an additional ten point six six percent per year until we get to full Hyundai Alliance districts are health harmless meaning you don't get last money but that is not the case no matter how the hormone runs in DeBary rate so there are some challenges with this those they are free to just peruse at your convenience if you want to hit on special and that's an important piece school friends as well understanding that the total number of special ed students in Connecticut has increased by nineteen and a half percent but essentially that's the two percentage point increase in special and identification over the past five years at the state level special ed funding has been extremely predictable that is not most school districts
033experiences over the past five years the total per pupil spending across the state has increased by one thousand eight hundred and eleven dollars was special in spending per pupil has increased by seventy eight dollars I think this is a really important slide again this would probably be one of the second probably the second slide that I would say is incredibly important this kind of this data it doesn't lie it doesn't sit necessarily comfortably side by side with the narrative experiences that we've all heard through a district so I do think it's important to just see special education by source here's more pie charts a huge blue pie chart is 65% of all special education spending in the state is from local sources so that is your district your municipality funding special ed the state contributes
03429% and federal funding makes up 6% those percentages have been incredibly consistent over the last few years six years now so it totaled the state spent seven hundred and eighty four point six million dollars in special education it comes through three streams the first stream that you're looking at the tallest bar is as a portion of East es so in 1995 the legislature moved special ed from his own unique line item to be a part of education cost-sharing so now the ECS dollars you get includes special egg dollars from the state so that number in total is four hundred and forty eight million seven hundred forty eight thousand seventeen dollars excess cost to be clear about access cost excess cost are those unique students whose need to require such investment that it seems horn and
035half times the average per people cost of the district once you hit four and half comments so for an amount times year twelve seven in India very you can submit for reimbursement from the state under excess cost what's important to know here is that that's a capped fund so it is what it is right they aren't going to reimburse based on an extraordinary number especially in kids and everybody gets reimbursed so reimbursement once you once you hit poor enough times your per pupil reimbursement is roughly seventy cents on the dollar it varies year to year that's a Kaplan they said and then other state agencies through state agencies they also spend over on special education but the largest source is the ECX grant so according to the Connecticut State Department of Education and it varies
036year by year between 20 and 25 percent under education crosshair dollars are attributed to special education let's see important to know regardless of wealth districts really spend the same amount on the same percentage of their local to spend insurers on special ed so these are the district's reference groups that the State Department of Education infuses and the highlighted one which you refer to as a Turk is their age that would be varied but an across this factor of regardless of where districts fall it's about the same percentage of the education project but that changes when we talk about a dollar so when you look again from the state reference group a across addition reference group I essentially for those of you who are familiar with this reference groups this takes a lot of statistics and
037details about a district and combines them in districts that are most similar district during a dirt a is typically a smaller district and probably wealthier the income while average in the community and district group I is larger or in districts already in community that's a really rough summary in fact so again we could have a more expansive discussion but well you know this is that just district school districts are spending per people on the special ad endured a thirty five thousand into each 19,700 purview of all of their lot of reasons for that looking at the inter very much like Houston egrets special egg growth has been pretty consistent and constant and relatively consistent these costs that you're seeing here are hurricane al achieved non-tuition versus tuition expenditures with the total at the top and
038you know it is I think it's really important to know that tuition expenditure is being called out it's in the Challenger districts and that that's a line item that's a pretty big line man and what I would tell people in looking at this is looking at the amazing consistency with special ed as far as tuition our placements and keeping it really controlled and study which is hard when you're looking at the growth that we showed over those previous five that previous slide so I think it's really important to just focus on that perspective ultimately the story in here very about special ed is spending her people has decreased and I'm just gonna say that it's not easy to do so I think that as the Oaxaca budget it really is important to understand that with
039increased diagnosis and it's really important when we talk about special ed you can graduate from high school this year 100 kids who have a special that needs and get a hundred kindergartners who have special enemies and and they are nothing alike so a lot of times our art our reference point is just general education students so we think it's a one-for-one in special ed it really isn't so that's important to know to the percentage of special ed you guys couldn't have worked this better if you tried it has remained remarkably consistent and I will say that that isn't the experience across the state and it is a challenge so that is not a story a lot harder to do story of global funding I just want to touch on this briefly because I know there's
040been a lot of questions around the state and local funding in the district we're talking about this joining six point three nine billion that municipalities to contribute India very you're contributing eight thousand nine hundred and seventy dollars per student which is lower than all the one of your pure tax and essentially you know the the portion that Palisades which I will call it as trust when I'm in Danbury and helping folks understand this is that the the district budget is not a one-way process right you're working on it all year you're thinking about what is working or you know what it's not working and looking ahead so I will tell you that I absolutely consistently tell people that Wayman is important and it's important my consistent basis repeatedly and often to show up and Anita
041feedback we have to take folks on how that goes the minimum budget requirement is not an issue in Danbury but essentially just a now a municipality cannot contribute less to the school district in the current year than it did in the previous year basically you can't take away municipal funding so at Kasserine study your reliance districts there are millions of legislation that on how this may change for alliance districts but for nominal for our alliance districts is very clear and ultimately at the end of the day you have to raise taxes to pay for it right so helping folks understand that the municipal budget plays a role in this and people articulating priorities in the municipal budget because in fact your your education budget as well and that's done through obviously your property taxes just
042to just you know when we started talking about disparity of wealth than this team I do think it's important because you know part of this is looking at state funding for education part of it is understanding the environment that the state operates in the value of Grand list in the state of Connecticut that ability to tax property the property wealth part of the base a ratio that varies by forty eight point five billion between the wealthiest town and release wealthy town as far as ranked list so that's the challenge right equalizing that Grand list per capita just so you know that's the value of taxable property per resident in Danbury it is 120 1741 is lower than three getting all three of your pure house median household income refers to that even level earned by
043a Newton household were half the homes in the area or more hacker in less basically you guys fall right in the middle the comedian of the media so the median household income in theater is 68,000 Mill rates when we talk about Bill rates those also vary widely and I will tell you that it is not unique for me to go into a community and hear that everybody feels they have the highest memory I will put that to bed now Victoria Hartford is at seventy four point eight to nine but I've come out to that is that they have some assessment pieces that they don't have the same as the rest of the state essentially so if you look at the next closest one water Barry said that six sixty minutes that's the tax rate so
044that varies across the state dan Barry is in the middle of this carrier counts at 27 so again we're when you're looking at how are you able to raise revenue no mill rate matters and understanding fall in that matters so how this plays out is if you were to have a two hundred thousand dollar home Indiana Barry you're paying thirty eight hundred and sixty four dollars in taxes if you were to do that in Camden you're looking at 67 of their dollars in taxes cars we take a 2014 Honda Civic they're very tax on that we can put in between or in him then that would be two hundred and three dollars I'm not going to go into how other schools are funded just know it's way too many and you know at the same
045time I will say that I've been deploying the buggies were the best ones sure all right yeah five different Magnus formula so I will hit this every one of those is one single magnet school has this very own funding formula so it depends where a magnet school is located essentially in the shaft region which is fabrication region in our Hartford and surrounding communities or outside the patch fat chef region and who's operating it is it run by a host district like the intermarry public schools and AAS or is it run by rats for regional education service centers such as an advance those all play into what kind of funding you end up with for magnet school kids I will say that in your packet you have a chart that's in a detail this a little
046bit more it is on our website because this is an expensive I will ask you questions about is school funding that I can either insert directly now or get back to all of you here in none this is a lot to process this was a lot to throw out there and incredible period of time so what questions do you have in our being like I don't know if we have this convert like two minutes or so oh I don't I do a lot of time thank you for the presentation two questions the 32 million dollars that you say is pcs does that include Alliance money in there it doesn dollars if denry has challenges as enrollment increases or by property level in addition to non-english speaking students coming in why is it that the state
047going to give us three thousand dollars relative and I can't imagine fair like I said before our brand list is not Stanford why is it that we get so much nice so I don't answer that in broad brushstrokes and because I think I I can't get there on behalf of the state for some of that but I will say this what happened in school finance and I started in this role in 2016 when I started in this role we as the state had the end in the education cautionary formula that's incredibly important in a community like Dan Barry it's not necessarily a key piece of information everywhere but what happened is they they no longer took student population into consideration in previous iterations that formula who are also looking at student needs so what happened
048was they were they were giving out dollars for education as block grants as flat funded block grants and essentially what you got was based on years prior and this went back several years now when you look at that state demographic trend right of population declining that student enrollment declines if you're giving out block grants and student enrollment is declining your per pupil is essentially going up in a few districts typically our urban districts we saw population growth most of those urban districts did not experience a massive population growth there's only one other community that I can think of an experienced growth pretty profound rate so what's happening is in these districts where they're their population is declining and they're getting this Block Grant just by nature of that funding methodology their per pupil is gonna
049live in a community like Dan berry where your population is is increasing and increasing and increasing and year over year you're being held to flat funding that has no relation to your student population your per pupil just in that setting is going down so you know I would I would make the argument that part of the reason you are you know it's a cross for a lot of folks that dinner is last in per-pupil funding that dynamic is what got you to here and now this state is trying to play catch-up right and yet the state of the state is such that thinking of fix that over one year they can't fix it over five years and and so you're probably a more painful position than a lot of districts that are seeing increased contribution
050from the state there are significant number of districts that have their PCs going up but not in the same magnitude so basically what I would say in layman's terms the best way to describe it is now that they're in a formula and the formula started with where you were you you got a ride a rollercoaster ride to get to the end you can't get off and that's the pain that you're feeling from the state side of things there's nothing that state statute that requires the State Committee that over a 10-year period or not the season was was over ten years there's no one to the top department to the best of my knowledge well I mean I see you know I look at it it's too is there an opportunity that more earlier probably not
051can they have been done it probably historically over all of our experiences in education I think we've all probably seen different callbacks and times where that didn't happen so you know since this formula has been implemented I've told people absolutely as important every year to make sure that they adhere to it and has a top priority that stings looking at the slide about local contributions and only Bristol's first was different that's different challenges than everything I'm looking other towns that are similar we're the lowest different pupil funding and we're getting more from the state than let's ignore or stanford say i almost doubled um is it safe to say that these towns are are getting stood in our peer group area let's say Groton at Middletown are getting similar amounts from the state to Danbury
052is awesome I know when we ask you to dance for what I I'm not positive I would be happy to network with doctor South put together here it goes I think we've done some peppers for productor South but I keep copies yeah I mean this is kind of what we do when I take your hutchins and happily convert that into data because I think that would be useful to compare not just the local contribution what they're getting from the state so if Middletown is spending eleven thousand five hundred per pupil and they're getting a similar amount from the state we're spending significantly more per pupil and cookin and contributing in family on a local level we're family on a local level they're committing an emotion our way yeah I would say right so you know
053with the lift is because it's great if you see a community that's giving twice as much as as a local level than dear Koreans but you also need to know what's their mill rate to get all of our grants it should but it also you look at the date because some of that information still we're still waiting from this date for New Orleans so our data is probably behind what you have general public sometimes isn't realize that the Turner one is calculated tailored and so is the Commandant luck yeah everybody's thinking hits in addition to militia Jew is a categorical money especially that's not in there correct as we discussed that it's not to get to either the average first student expenditures there's somewhat misleading because all things being equal many of the districts their
054denominator drops it's going to give me a higher higher number as opposed to Danbury which is completely opposite you know it'd be good if we can get that fifty million dollars that they're going to give ten years to make it equal next year I mean that averages out that we get two million dollars a year this year we got a 1.2 in unexpected bomb it's opening day so you know covers that cost but it doesn't cover we have so much that we could when you use the word argument I guess it's a better word demonstrators are probably a better word as to why they need more money and what makes us different than other groups if you recommend we we do this I mean does fall on deaf ears or I always think the we're
055like squeaks allowed us gets the oil but who leave squeak - that's a tough question so there are a few things in there that I want to just share separately first yet it's important when you see a district that's spending 35,000 per cue-ball it's important for the general public to know where any pets that's not a target goal that's not what everybody should be and it's also important that the state average is that it's just an average not a target amount but you know like I said I'm active in close to 50 districts across the state I work in a district that has less than a hundred kids in its elementary school their cost per pupil is more not because they're investing more in that but simply because there's zero economy of scale and and
056so I think that's important for people to understand that small districts cause a lot to run and so you're seeing some of that and you think historically what you see is this wheel that squeaks the loudest get the attention first right however I would say over the past few years based on the fiscal state of the state that no longer holds true that the fiscal realities of the state and you know not included in this presentation are things like the Teachers Retirement System you know the birth of the pension systems both teachers and the State Employees Retirement System post employment benefits and bonding our luggage screening that encroach growth from fixed cost in our fixed costs and and that is increasing annually at a significant rate so that means at this point they're trying to
057come up with the funds to maintain what they've already committed here which is why it's important to advocate that a adhere to the formula and that's that's the challenge you know I think you know not that it's not to say that that there is a knee and they know there is and I also have had the privilege meeting with students with teachers I feel so fortunate to be involved in this community so deeply and I think there is me I think the problem is there is absolutely a lack of resources at the state level two keys back at this point that's not a ready answer it may mean that states collectively going to be Connecticut the other states because I haven't assumed may be improper I mean we're basically killing off Sophia the teachers are
058coming themselves and all the problems were having basically to come at the expense of the students than the expects the staff year after year we put together budgets and you know we understand the trials and tribulations municipality in the state but it's kind of heartbreaking to you then go back and scratch your head and say wow we got it you don't really hate this eliminate this you know they're not really moving in 20% for stuff they're offering the kids the students the best education we possibly can it's it's frustrating yeah it's just a very frustrating thing yes I want to believe that ugly at least we could take our story to the state and maybe educate somebody and somebody listen to us rather than to fall on deaf ears if you don't have that hope
059than to me and I think it's an exercise okay it's all saying this I don't think it ever falls on deaf ears I think that's really important because I think the more that people tell the stories beyond their kind of stories it really helps much like I tell residents to come here and talk to you all about their their experiences concerns with the budget both positive and negative to be a part of that ongoing conversation I think it is equally important for you as public officials to be a part of that ongoing conversation at the state level and I think that no rust is ever wasted in doing that and will say there's a unique thing that we do in New England and in New England what we do is we have a 169 we
060have over 200 school districts right if you look at a state like New Mexico last time you may have eaten and school districts many most states once you leave New England work on a County form of government I'm not advocating for that or not but what I will say is it changes how you manage and distribute and allocate resources and again when you think about you know when I compare a small district with a hundred children say there there is a loss of human you're running a small district our big districts are relatively small compared to what you believe New England with what districts are so there's an economy of scale that is out there and a mode of operating that is different than we do so fundamentally what I'm seeing is and the court
061how we operate the system that we have designed fragments resources in a way that creates a little more competition and a little more scarcity that you might feel in a system that allocates resources differently and that that's a challenge that's not an insurmountable challenge and we saw this year or Massachusetts revised their state funding methodology so it's not nice to medical challenge but that's you know understanding and that's why I start with the state of the state the core of the environment you live in and is so crucial to understanding how we can be successful West End the governor's brothers it's not looking at that you saw what happened yes it was an insurrection you know and I will say to share even I work across the state last year you're familiar with the bills
062that were proposed that looks specifically at back-office regional consolidation or district consolidation in a way that was not meant to move kids but to again capitalize on some of that collaborative opportunities that were missing being so pregnant I will say across the state there were different experiences so third there were regions of the state that are trying to do more of that and so that was seen as an opportunity and a road map and there are regions that were are happy you know with the way they are doing business with a cost of doing business and don't want that change I think what what I think and he well no we know I'm fairly optimistic I think conversation is really important we think what that did last year is pull that into the discourse in
063a way that we all have to start talking about how do we work together to actualize some of efficiencies thank you understand this charter school formula is just I know there's an additional $3,000 per student from the state obviously that comes from the same type of money that we use it does not so let me be very clear so in charter schools thank you so much for bringing this up a new effect this charter school proposal here so to be clear there's two different formulas for charter schools in Connecticut I leave 20 articles and again right now there is a state charter school formula and there is a local church or formula local charter schools there is only one it is in New Haven that's the only one that exists that is the only one
064that has received approval that is not the model that the proposed Hurst will be appearing would fall under so the funding model that that would fall under is the state church full funding model where they would get directly funded from the state at eleven thousand two hundred fifty per pupil so I will I will say this when we go money without making you know look at the screen or make you dizzy let me back it up here the most fun way I possibly have to just look at this slide of where education dollars are coming from right where we will get this drill down slide a state education funding here so the presumption a lot of folks may understandably so is that inner state education is kind of a bucket in front of it as
065education right we're giving you your education dollars and you all divide it up the way you want to divide it and somebody magically does that in Connecticut these are all feeling pendant line items that exist in the general fund so so education funded and we can take that charter school as an example if you were to eliminate charter school funding and just to be clear charter schools are 4% of all of our education dollars if you were to wipe that out tomorrow and that just didn't exist right there were no charter schools in Connecticut anymore the typical thinking is that will that revert to education those are education dollars and therefore it will revert to ECX or a little go what what would happen is those who would revert those dollars would revert into the
066general fund as a whole to be used in any way the state needs a priority so there be appropriate to education all the research it could but is equally likely that they would allocate that to tree-trimming on the merits it's just it may expense to us right to to kind of say well education dollars should go to education no matter how I move this entire allocation it should all be education dollars but that's not the way it works so it it kind of flies in the face of what you would expect there's a casino money I can send you a separate chart on that they told him enough knowledge to be would be speculation I know that for me I you know I was in I was it still just felt funky and I think
067it's because in our normal lives it's just such a strange thing I will say my colleagues who work in government relations don't see this as odd at all and we're surprised that people didn't know so I guess it's where you're standing question well it's not a block it's not thirty nine point six percent of the budget is education and just move it around that up into this pie chart but suffice to say if we increase magnet schools return to schools by one percent it either requires more money other than out of the budget general or it's going to require rearranging money on that budget what are they up it has to come from something so mad low funding goes from ten to eleven percent either the sixty-four has to go down one of the other
068things on your dad or the state needs to get more money in education because yeah and then this gives you a bunch of weird pedicels because you know it is there is that you and ECS doesn't exist and there isn't formula and so you you wouldn't have to not fund it and then create a separate statute typically growth and expansion in any one of those areas it is seen as a true growth and expansion that not take one he's the other sort of one grows it's got a new money it's got rearrangement so if there's no money there's no that's what's up the charters we've been funded that well there haven't been dating you but there have been any new charter schools that have and find it in years that's what I'm saying it's been
069like four years and corrected for proper didn't one of the charter schools are tried to close a dozen they may have although I will say with consolidated or one living with Hartford there's a lot it has Hartford has experienced the issues of your big experience tremendous student enrollment declines which have left I'll be expecting the chef settlement to have any effect on districts in the places on camera we are but that's not necessarily the same thing is whether that settlements going to be interpreted to apply so so for those of you who aren't familiar with chef chef is a desegregation and settlement essentially a lawsuit was brought against the state saying that Harvard Public Schools was segregated racially segregated and they're required to desegregate they have not been able to attain desegregation no matter what
070they try so every two years they go through kind of more stipulated agreements about how do we reach that and rely on a few things to do that there is the new settlement has been years in the making they're actually out by a couple of years there was a resettlement announced that he needs a visa and the fiscal protections of what that means most significantly in Hartford have not been run yet we don't know where we're monitoring it incredibly closely I will say they anticipated impact on that is is really a focus on I referred and it's a state obligation to desegregate Hartford Public Schools just to be clear is also not a party in that lawsuit I want to hear another so welfare in this weird place in acting on these desegregation settlements so
071it's right now I have the state but I do not confident yeah [Music] thank you thank yo reach out to all of you by the emails that if you have questions this is what we do so okay [Music] tonight eight separate servers you have nineteen on working results analysis to general immigrants and London would probably - sir what do you have anything regard to the operation budget my feeling is is it's good that you in the summary put the notation of the additional funding but I think also for a better understanding and for future references looking back at the statements that to be another column and on there that shows that 1.2 million dollars more pockets because when you're looking at the category that shows the deficit at 909 number thousand becomes a difficult had
072the data a footnote something on the model so again we all know whether this this year or two years from now three years we may not know that the other question I had was the athletic claims what created the problems that that boosted up these claims or injuries minor questions on the grant budget the budget the grants does that include our anticipated who's coming in or money's collected [Music] but the actual so you'll see that the earlier yes I have work so on the staff overloads you know it needs okay is this just formalizing the fact that Courtney is just an operation change that's why I thought [Music] so I'm just asking this just strike writing versus March 16 that raises money and has their those 15 was genius so we're taking out 16 per
073month just like Thank You Justin Oh portable chair so just a note exposed to you some turns previously first one did at the [Music] but under because at our professional photography much later Davis's his brute but we did leave the rotation of that violence that was consternation about where those days meant transition he's supposed so realized that is there will be a popular calendar the added still don't know that spring conferences orientation there is contractual language around teachers and astray for a psychic conference in the evening around but folks in for certainly any time a teacher can request American requested week we definitely yeah [Music] six really states no T Dow no time to hit really started to get out to ten days and that was a was relieved [Music] so that means we almost
074have the same amount of early dismissals as this year's with the one hour so we just went from the same number of earliest missiles but one-hour release missiles to have to increase time you may recall a board set to make book to achieve to do the work that you need to do so what we've done is we reduce the numbers increase the time so the time they spent their can do the work that were expecting teachers to do it this is right back into the into the question who saw what was up here you know that takes more resources to not only get subs with this loss of time the more time for people who do the work so anytime we can do the work of the day so in order to capitalize on it
075simply at least do another decrease to the number we were at 21 and went down to level 11 had a one-hour dismissal we reduce it down to six that was third that's not gonna be enough teachers said we needed some time to Ottawa and put that in and we had three days we had three more days to do the work and we're doing across the district for all of them and then Chris didn't know so the answer was reduced structural time this next year than this year and the goal of the calendar is to increase continuously the constructions or continuous days side-by-side wait you did it by going from going the way we did it by illuminating some really get under something once that we've done that was a goal they'd still be visited probably
076not achievable not to do the work that we have to do you know I said that last week I looked at you guys come back to us with scheduler works this should give us the kind of time your question is work to be done in America I mentioned last year school district did something really unique because parents were upset which it's Thursday they put these back to back Tuesday Wednesday they did that four times during a year I knew this the week where we're gonna have some disruptive time and then they go for a while resonate folks if you did the hours that didn't turn out to be as that's just making sure I understand the calendar we added back the change from the last meeting adds back in the half-day forty Val is that
077the only substance have changed to the early releases or there were other world release changes in three days in addition to teenagers and those were dates to try to get all the stuff we're asking the teachers to do the time and is this still less bad grammar is this still fewer early release days than let's say this year total a little girly by meaning not condition so this is basically and in those in that 11 ship but alternated or what was Apple was a in early life he never really released that it was first of all there so on day one day this time very consistent so whether you're releasing or bright berries stay tuned remembers their child care planning okay so we got rid of the one hour it's will continue working my sister
078already following us [Music] okay but this is about we're working the store working on some activities [Music] so students that we've redirected would be the assignment to about eight students thank you so that's what we also met with so we met with we never thought services which is one of the agencies that supports any of our students in town and we're talking about the way in which the partner to them and to bring that into the schools during the school day they traditionally an after-school support for counseling for families from all these certainly too late with our counseling staff at a school to provide continuity services we are going to look to see if we can bring them in with a parent to do some mediation stationing students and parents in the past dr. Tapia
079thought met with them literally and we're now in the process of bringing an additional folks into those conversations to keep our private like this and the goal here is to work with some of the students smaller the students at different actual that well sure and I recently had a meeting with Lisa Marcy and this is in reference to the community care team mom it's okay to the board about last year we have a fight for and I share an unfortunate you're not successful in that yet or the Arab Peace of innovation for this year and our hopeful that there's potential for $150,000 from the state and that would support social emotional needs for students from our base in the community care team model off of the model that has been very successful working with General
080Hospital may also be a partner in this Irish western town all network they're currently doing this with a homeless population where essentially they have all the social services agencies and with the individuals consent those agencies meet on a bi-weekly basis to talk about the cases and one-stop shopping I'm so everyone from for example housing to menopause clinicians to food services are all that the tables everything and I'm an individual and talking about the support that they can provide so we are looking to pilot it would be the first one to see a very similar model of our youth and to really do you know we're noticing with many of our kids that have increased behavioral mental health needs that is beyond the school rate they need support there and part of navigators community very cumbersome
081for families there's only us and so this would be a way to break group people together to get certain supports and services beyond the school the Department of this one place so you know keep me posted on the grant application there there is additional grant funding from the city to match that which would allow us to hire a clinician to coordinate the team on an official support the air conditioned on mentoring that I've gotten off the ground every strike someone was doing some research in Germany that asked the other thing that hasn't happened yet wasn't working with the Park District and if you were the organization sit down very particular kids together and waiting for someone who was out of country to come back that they're looking at and you're going to see in the
082budget to expand their alternative program Jack use their program take advantage of that but we can't across the space pathways Academy has not operated this year and been there for years so there is unused space that adult they can use it they went there and evaluated and it seems that they can use it if they can they move there if that all comes to fruition you can expand the program we'll turn it over to Jackie space for other students take the benefit we don't have a we have room for more students if we you don't want to put more students in the current area the businesses I think the Japanese doing is tremendous with and there is one thing but if we expanded that as a moral support services as of this mind we didn't
083know about that so therefore just I think one of the things that we've had as dr. looking about sin but be mindful that population is successful because a very small church processes you know expanding by some seats would be appropriate and making with additional staffing we do it or certainly not with us yeah then we'd have the ability to expand the program to that side drop down there he did some expansions that just happened this morning when evaluated the space yes it didn't because it was the first year of my keys apparently they're not [Music] we now have to pay we were sharing the rent over the adult day go anymore the Internet yep I'll keep you posted I'm excited about the recreation that we've talked about students we also things that we do have
084eight keep counting get up tonight and there was nine in the spring and we're going to have one more like next year budget so we'll have 10 staff so seven right now nation to pursue and essentially by December 20 21 December we are steering committee and I are back of you and Esther they're American they provide you some more context so about three years ago our to lead a very high school developed a portion of the graduates specifically today very high school and it's part of the asset foundation process they had to develop their own vision other graduated last year during a 1819 school year during out without work to teach plan we had decided to incorporate the American high schools portrait the Graduate and develop for the Graduate for the district we landed on
085six characteristics to help guide the work that frankly that Cara and Melissa presented to the board a few weeks ago and so we landed on a district vision statement and mission statement last year around this time that the board approved a mission statement sits on a matter of a district in every school but our teachers and administrators don't necessarily have guidelines on how to operationalize official statement and our eyes the portion of the graduates speech to was to how comes look like and then ideally would begin to look like the experience is that Kara presented a few weeks ago had one of our coordinates and so to help develop the course the Bar Foundation said listen if if you want to be awarded this grant we're happy that you guys you guys have been engaged
086in the process between Expo and so so give given the size of the award we said we will do just that and knowing that we would be resource in the way to help make this work get it done right we we applied for the grant in fact by playing in the strategic plan Cara is a group student Lee identified one of the goals and it was actually pursuing the grant himself and it was that we were awarded the grant we backed out of some of our initial commitments around taking that fortunately granted that we have developing coming up with what how come to look like what assessment of libel suit experience to look like and they partnered with experts in the field in his work and then we are part of what the center's will
087change there's actually a facilitator who has done this work the states around the district's around state so she's working with us we had a conference two weeks ago Wednesday night when I was not looking too well so we went to the went to the meeting in Massachusetts are they still convenient Massachusetts two weeks ago on Thursday morning as myself with dr. Andy dr. marks from high school two teachers who also on a steering committee that's the art committee will be built a little further it's going to operate more cakes well representation so something I need to make clear to the board this is about a nine twelve or thirteen graduate it's a damn very high proportion of the graduate and so the expectation is we'll be getting feedback initially from our school staff and students
088and so the steering committee will be made up of representatives from K through 12 and so we will have elementary in this representation on the steering committee the other committee which is a bigger committee in this committee I was recommended to us by the bar foundation will have the convening and in that community called a portion of the graduated coalition and so a little different for the process that we engaged in in September of 2015 instead of us asking multiple stakeholder groups nonprofit police businesses etc and we speak to them and elicit feedback a bulimic look like this time the coalition will be popped is simply an extended version of steering ISO steering committee with goals and mechanics in the background but that we will expand that group to a coalition and we will ask
089for representatives of nonprofit business community etc again thinking about that video that doctor cast marrow embolus and they did we presented weeks ago if we're going to get Jim we need to be partnered with dan Barry to help make those things happen so we will get feedback from that initial group then we will ask me is from our clergy community for example please take this survey that we develop go back to your community lean these conversations and break feedbacks in the group mr. Gianelli for the business community please go back as an example please go back out to the community take this survey and get feedback and everyone will be tasking leaders from respective groups to go back to their community beyond that can't necessarily reach and they will bring the coalition will be charged
090with bringing feedback to in addition to steering committee we have plans to get elementary school trying to think about what activities will look like to make sure our kids part of the process families a part of the process communities order process whether it's surveys the stakeholder groups again trying to inform what dan Barry graduate including should and you might recall do it during Cara's presentation so I talked about hey you want to talk about what a graduate would look like when a student is leaving elementary school or graduate when a student is leaving middle school and the same thing with the high school so in our eyes the portion of the graduates gonna be representative of all of those steps into we're really excited about the work in this time we've been resourced with expertise
091from it from a sense of school change in addition to two of our teachers will will be great at least to also be part of this support like I said not the markings of dr. B will also be one spirit to be with representation elements so we are excited we have to turn this around quickly and so like I said you know we a year sounds like a long time we also have the summer in the middle in steering committee you know we just have enough centipede but we were excited about the work ahead I'll probably have a moral piece as we move forward wherever that first big meeting Kevin you make reference to the grant time which is that a little over $200 and prescription unfortunately here did teachers body goes that's 200 so
092I for example the partnership is also requirement like you have apartment with some agency that will facilitate this process you need to get one year that's what they write off in it yes yes magnets cooperation plan when they funded the magnet school it is a magnet school which music surrounding its outside gave her intro would feel like there was a plan was submitted to the state being there and describe the operation of the building which was an her students next with six before he missed matches the goal stay within that person getting fun I did verify the funding it's about 2.2 many males here and that's why yesterday number you saw up there tonight it's inclusive in there in terms of political expenditure so we do receive that that's an offset which means for still
093contributes over above what you get about fifty thousand dollars and these are going to to make building the building was never paid for by local taxes and in 20 years of that building becomes a damper and read to you facilities committee and asking a question they don't if you were to ask them how to buy it they would but they know the precedent that in 20 years when they teamed up with let's say for the restaurants in the past they built the dishes on the buildings for special education purposes in 20 years those sites became school district sites same it's just applications here 20 years AAS becomes you still would receive if you operated the way the operating will still be still get same universe but we still have the same criteria operator to change
094the motto asking there is a process to go through if you would have to go do that but over time however you do it they need to the replacement of the 2.2 million dollars so what I suggest that you do is that as we look at we're looking at the demographic work you know we've had the big room look at the enrollment again because of the number of students that have come in they should go back to it because we're finding out that we're absolutely the elementary is not where the most challenging yet the Unison challenge has been on high school surprising who sold away revisit the number i've hired them to be consultants to the board and facilities group and the 20/20 and sharing expenses with the city for them to go back and
095get everything out again and charge them with coming to the board and to the 20/20 committees that they actually present the options to the thinking last ring you may recall one of the ideas behind was that kingship that was we were throwing out we thought we needed that we added the modules to the middle school two years ago next year we'll have them all fill in the first year so give them the options to come back to us and say this is what I think you could put in this idea the Magna school what if what if it becomes a district school what does it mean other than in fact your moment we know the charter schools been approved if it gets funded which is a possibility that gets done the calculations so that person
096can objectively bucket that the Newport members the people that we have hired have done all of their metrics already they have all the numbers that's why they could start pretty aggressively looking at some of my district temporarily or if we have to make some other adjustments I'm uncomfortable I've been uncomfortable because I keep getting this idea where's the 22 million dollar company though we've talked about it and we did there was a 2020 committee and then it became what I know is this that the Osborne stream was looked at as one possibility along with putting modules at other sites and the city came down on board need space this is a building space that we own we could produce a good seven classrooms they also looked at the same number about finding out they see
097a tremendous challenge at the minimum high school which was unusual and the money that was in his part of 20 to me would help us accommodate those numbers they've come up very aggressively number-wise terms of enrollment in addition so they thought it was proven to put this into the amount line now one word that the mayor said that first in one situation an elevator so they've cobbled in some things they need to be done that's all I know that's all I know and I think that the best thing to do is now is to get these consultants come to us and say this this is the moment this is a space that you have these are the space utilization we're collecting data from every principal how they're using the building's because the Ohio a population
098which is about 26% services has changed how we use our abilities through dramatic yourself so what are we gonna do so I've charged them with coming to us I've asked Joe tonight I think the best thing to do is bring the Facilities Committee and the 2020 diamond together and let me present that informations you know as to locate the same information ask the same questions and then get that clarified but whatever we build the board has to approve the specs the town can't go about they can just provide some spaces a disability so that's how that could work question we discussed it is an aside some facilities last week and even if we were to try to take it over during the state that's going to no EDID looking for its artists in five years
099ago anyway and correct me if I'm wrong you can only be phasing out grades anyway I would think the boy that's what the Lord would do with into play because would be just blatant unfair it up and pull the rug out where these students know if we're phasing in it in any way correct me if I'm wrong you wouldn't be picking up a meaningful number of seats for several years in terms of addressing our overriding we'd be picking on what twenty or twenty percent a year and by here hundred the figure would not at one time not incremental incorrectly the wrong by here too we're starting to jeopardize her money a year to you would jeopardize the money to question we'd be out of balance and then you have a year the fix and not
100pro rata if you just chip resolver yes so we're not 6040 to be able to here to fix it and then if we're not 6040 again in all of those that time that's what they have a disk that's the onlythe revenue source that you forget you get 3000 for each of our students so that it's 200 we get that money and you also get the 7200 almost 70% meters so what I suggested to do is before we move down on this road put it in the mix with everything else and have them look at it you know they might not make any sense financially whether or space-wise it was the Democratic side I was trying to suggest a date he wasn't thinking in two weeks we met with them today we did ask over the
101work and they said it would take about two weeks for them to saying that at least from our end though the site support this new consulting group split into two questions from the psych test to look at this look at this then evaluated in addition to what they could but they had missed the angle of this firm and they did all the work already so what I've said to them given the constraints that we have and they've evaluated all of our sites what recommendations can you come to the board about accommodate in the space and they will give us a presentation and then clarifying questions send them back to drawing board good better ideas it sounds logical do you think then that presentation should be made to both groups simultaneously so everybody gets the same
102oh maybe because of the confusion and remarks and it just you know just didn't feel right so I'm not sure which is the curtain which is the horse you know on both these committees what would happen a modified me selected something and he made sense the 2020 define what an issue I put investors when that happens then we said it 2020 this is what we like in the spaces they are men and if that moves forward then to prove and by statute to create that's they actually monitor with the city respect we then back out they take they take it over and when they're done they in the back and I've asked them to do something that we will stay funding for we will learn is up to eight years though these predictions [Music] I
103said do something continues some big some calories so that's when we charge the franchisor their consultation with you take into account we've discussed before these short term and long range planning projects I gave them all the information at the city giving their information stating evaluations of sites so that then you you know part of taking all the time is they go off through all this part some of it the city has done in confirms of government work and then Kevin and Courtney have been collecting of utilization so we've given him that [Music] a Pacific there was a tender take a look that if that's okay with everybody here so we can have it that they do with the city so that they can get the message out to different piece of taxi yeah otherwise well
104I'm just targeting a time frame they need at least two weeks so maybe following the warranty is a suggest maybe the 11th which they followed me to see counties and so I should check Joseph [Music] so we leave it at 10 into it let me talk the city into the two consultants there clear [Music] yeah yeah this way we're gonna get some information if you got some questions didn't think I should give the seven to me now federal refund and over to blended the physical evaluation he's also built some of the additions in the school so he knows as well the demographers but all of the work so if you got some ideas I've asked what if we have to do some redistricting where and should we do that if you ask the questions get
105it to me I'll fold it to them so they can at least have it in advance stress to all of you you know that lead to expulsion you ought to tell me about trying to make sense of your factory it doesn't so a factory we need people to do your observation please try to get your observation in because we only have certain people that have their to do the expulsion and I know stuff that feel work every day we try to you know Rangers different but experiment what he did those observation and what it really was valuable so that made it worth the trip all the way to the other side there was a workshop on best practices for alliance it was okay the conversation was okay but it will hopefully lead to more alliance
106district focus work from Kane so I hope to see more from them the handout last meeting just kind of outlined what is an alliance district was a priority district and things like that especially for new members also tended to know their lay public relations workshop done bank rec which I thought was well done and you can find in other handouts in website and then the Westside middle school Academy is volunteer judges for their science and engineering engineering fair which is happening on January 30th judging is from 7:30 to 10:00 a.m. that morning or you can come by and just view the projects from night volunteer to be a judge contact Jonathan Kozol I gave parroted information so you can reach out to characters and madam chairman you just clarifies the role of the PTO for
107liaison just so we all know what we're supposed to do there's to attend the meetings if you in the profession it's not good to go there and really jump into the conversation it's getting information and concerns that we want you to bring back to us okay and I say to people to be very careful well then you listening when the information back to us and at some time at some point yeah and just advanced I felt like if there's an event all members should be invited to attend it should be just one representing all of us thank you community Operations Section okay Community Relations we just had a meeting tonight was our first meeting and we basically discussed what the purpose of the the committee was trying to focus on the next meeting with some
108thought process as to how we could communicate to the outside world the the what's going on in the district and also looking at different sources of media to engage the public in our in our quest of disseminating the information projects one we had us Rajon therapeutic approach just that we just reviewed the series 1000 community relations again after Kay scented back with a few errors so we will rework that for me again on memory stick and that sort of push to take some extra responsibility and we all work together to thank the English lady Vargas in Sandy Hook about week ago and it was used to a centered around a lot of the computers around struggling teaching us and it just cost me valuable discussions and then the other thing they said I just wanted
109to remind both consumers had a panel discussion next Thursday and we all the boarders they survived icky Mary Castro report because they not have enough participation I don't think they have any specific agenda these possible I didn't [Music]