001good evening today is tuesday november 16th we'd like to welcome you to our school board meeting uh for a roll call we have in the boardroom we have members donnelly higgins holloman i'm sorry jacobs holloman will be joining us virtually uh jacob's lessons wilson we have our student representative miss ellie shaw and myself along with the superintendent so we are all present we'd like to begin with our uh michelle would you lead us into the right salute and then the lent i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all [Music] and that brings us oh yeah okay before we begin i would like to acknowledge with gratitude the denying of people past and
002present who have lived on these lands since long before anchorage was here may we all be good stewards of these lands to none thank you we'd like to welcome everyone to our meeting and we'd like to thank you for supporting the anchor school district and supporting the school board the board wishes to thank students parents teachers our staff school business partners and the entire community for your investment in our district with your time with giving of your time your talents and your tax dollars so with that that brings us to item a3 on our agenda and that is the approval of the agenda [Music] madam president the move we approve the agenda is presented is there a second second all right it the it's been motioned and uh moved and second that we approve the
003agenda as presented are there any opposition to that motion any opposition seeing none the agenda is approved as presented and we move on to our student advisory report ms shaw okay so student advisory board or sab held their third meeting of the school year this past tuesday on november 9 2021 at 8 15 a.m in this board room at this meeting we were delighted to have representatives from the middle schools join us so we can work together for the rest of the school year uh to start off our meeting we began with a gathering activity where each table decorated a little board with the school names and their names um and we approved the agenda and the minutes from the previous meeting and we had one delegate from each school share something like community service
004wise that their school had done in the past month um we elected our new vice president in brooklyn stock who is a junior at diamond high school um and then we split up the middle schoolers and high schoolers into two groups um middle schoolers reviewed parliamentary procedure and high schoolers um went over like things that could be possible uh like resolutions to write about and then we had two resolutions that were brought to sab for their support the first one was written by chugiak high school student government and it was to show support for having sros in the school and how it makes the students feel more safe and comfortable um and it was passed by sab and our other resolution was written by diamond student government um and this resolution was about the canvas
005grade setting and this was also passed these resolutions this resolution was expressing the request from students to have canvas only show your semester grades and not your quarter grades like they do currently um and i sent both of those resolutions out to their requested recipients this morning um and yeah and we have our fourth meeting on december 7th 2021 at 11 15 a.m to 1 15 p.m in this boardroom and thank you very much and that brings us to uh i'm sorry are there any uh questions for our student rep from the board you guys have been busy thank you and that brings us to item c go monitoring and before we begin that conversation i'd just like to um make sure just read a few uh um [Music] guidelines uh and give some information
006regarding why we do what we do in this way uh so we're this tonight's monitoring gold monitoring or outcome monitoring is on college life and career readiness it's a new it's one of our new goals um it is um a very uh interesting and exciting goal and that goal reads beginning with the freshman class in september 2020 the percentage of high school students graduating life ready as well as college and or career ready will increase from a baseline to be announced because we're creating the data as we go in spring of 2022 to 90 and spring of 2026. so first of all i'd like to and then the indicator for tonight's uh conversation is our graduation rates so that at our last meeting earlier this month we received all the data that data was also
007available to the public and that indicator basically states that graduation graduating from high school is a strong indicator of success in life as well as in college and career four-year graduation rate will improve beginning with the baseline of 82 in the spring of 2020 in the spring of 2021 to 90 in the spring of 2026 so as we do with all of our reports from this from the superintendent i would like to assert that all four components are are present in the report when we go monitor we look to make sure that the report clearly shows what is being monitored with a specific gold and an indicator we also look to see that the report shows data for the three previous reporting periods the current reporting period and the target reporting periods thirdly it shows
008the superintendent's evaluation of performance and in this particular report for both year four and five they indicate the superintendent has evaluated the district's overall performance as near target and we will get into what the near target means and finally the report before us tonight shows supporting documentation that evidence is the superintendent's evaluation via the tables that are provided and it shows us the next steps so we will begin our discussion uh with questions that fall into various categories the who the what the why and then we'll try to end our discussion we we try to stay focused but sometimes we get ahead of ourselves but we will move on to the to the how category so with this um in mind i'd like to now open the floor to the board to engage in inquiry
009regarding our tonight's monitoring report and so i'd like to um dr bishop did you want to open with any comments or do you want me to just go into the question oh please go into the questions thank you i'll do my best to answer them and and i think um one of my questions i'll start and then we'll just go around if you could just talk a little bit uh to about the college career life readiness goals that whole concept it is fairly new and i know there's information on our website and i know people i know we get it but we've not always had them together so could you just give us a little sure that that would be great this actually comes from a body of evidence that has been uh studied over
010time uh as you know from destination um 2020 uh we had a graduation rate and just a graduation goal and the understanding in uh college career life ready is that there's so much more that graduation should basically you know getting your diploma be a floor uh not the ceiling and not the the highest aspiration and so uh the evidence around this uh that comes [Music] after studying is that really experiences that students have in school matters for what they do after school and uh when we did survey the community those types of experiences came up and one of them uh when we were looking into uh what the new goal should be specifically was around financial literacy that while we can take math classes and statistics classes algebra geometry and the like that just understanding
011finances and for college loans and other loans things like that that that was more in the life of and it actually came up in we need to learn adulting and so both from students as well as parents and so life ready uh really focuses on those uh skills needed uh to be able to be successful when you leave us that should be our look of success is how does the student do when they graduate asd so life ready is in conflict resolution uh it could be employability skills social emotional learning uh a big key change is definitely the financial literacy piece so that is going to be part of a graduation experience for students while they go through asd understanding loans understanding checkbooks understanding how to buy a house how to buy a car things
012like that for college and career uh we do know that uh while we want students to have choices not everyone will have the same choice uh so we are operating and performing uh and supporting children through college and career really looking at pathways and if you uh understand pathways for careers you could have a health pathway that has uh a cna a phlebotomist everything from a technical side to the professional truck side so trades and professions so that children learn about them and so it's really taking a broader look at what are the types of experiences what is the supports that we can give in high school for trial and error of what students like before they go to college or a career academy spend the money and realize they don't like it and so
013uh we're wrapping around core classes and experiences uh and um interest of children to be able to say that they've had uh whether it's counseling other experiences taking courses because one of the things just to remind the board when a child finds out something they don't like is just as valuable as finding out what they do like because both will help them later on in their career so it's just a more robust um documentation of uh asd students and their experiences while they're with us that will add to success later on and i thank you for that um so let's move on to the uh questions from the report um the community the the actual data that's before us tonight remember lessons sure i have a series of questions but the first one and i
014emailed you about this sort of discrepancy that i thought that i found i just didn't understand one of the questions that arose in my mind was um i'd like to understand how many of our students are taking five years versus four years and i was hoping to be able to do a basic subtraction and all of a sudden i couldn't figure out what happened with the data set between 2015 and the end of 2019 and i wondered if you and your staff had um gotten a chance to understand what the five-year cohort numbers actually may have looked like and why the number of five-year graduates was smaller than the number of four-year graduates are you on page five oh i am um i'm i'm moving between uh the five year on page six page six
015and page four okay and i wanted to understand how many graduate in five versus four years but found that the n and each of the five year cohorts in those first four years are smaller than their four year counterparts sure so i am looking this is the five year and so if we just take uh this year at 32 52 and then go to 2021 for four year 31. so the question is why is the five year great did that one work out for you or let's go to 2019 now so we have 34.56 and 33 12. um so yeah for 2019 and 20 i understand that there are more people who graduated over five years than over four years um and what 18 19 let's look at 18 19. but if you look at
0161819 you've got 34 30 in the five-year cohort and 34-94 in the the four-year cohort so just a a few more students um and there was a discrepancy that you had sort of referred to the state data correct and and and any one of these cohorts just so you know the cohort is actually the number that starts and some of the implications um that would change these numbers that we know of are students that would transfer out of our district into another district or simply drop out of school and so many students have left asd during that time and so the cohort is not the exact students just so you know it is a number that you start as a freshman and then what you end with but all during that time you have students
017coming in and out um depending a couple of things going on is a cohort that is decreasing every year since that time we've had a four-year cohort decrease uh and the students that would make up the five years are those that uh did their four-year but then needed to stay with us some of the five-year cohort could be students who are actually in their sixth year as well so a five-year isn't just five years anybody over four years and so um specifically look at those numbers we did not do a student to a student analysis but understanding that changes that could occur all of those different kinds of changes could impact that final number these are the numbers that are sent in identified by oasis at the state level and so these are audited numbers
018that the state created with asd enrollment data but an interesting thing is is that if five years in just five years anybody over four is considered as long as you have them continue to engage they could um a single student could be in the five-year cohort in 19 and 20. they could be with us six years as long as they don't turn uh 20 by uh the birth of the year the semester of their birthday that they turn 20 they can remain with asd until that time okay so that could have something to do we do we don't have specifics about studying exact students in that okay did you have another follow-up remember lesson i have a separate question okay great so give everybody i was particularly interested in understanding what's happening with our alaska
019native student outcomes um so the outcome monitoring data makes clear that the four-year graduation rate is lowest for our alaska native students we've got like a 30 more than a 30 point spread between the four year rates of white and asian students and alaska native students and my question the question that arose in my mind was when are we losing these students what's what's happening at some point on their journey what is the when's the moment when we're losing those those kids so i went to the data dashboard for students who are on track for graduation and i looked at each of our big eight high schools and i was astounded that um i looked at south i looked at betty davis east i looked at service i looked at west and the percent of
020students of alaska nato students who are on track for graduation goes up each of those years because the raw number of them goes down so at south there might be 20 students who start out in ninth grade and then we've got 13 down in 12th grade um at betty davis east we had 52 students and that goes down to 32 students this was data from last year um 47 9th graders at service going down to 24 12th graders at service 53 um at west going down to 23. so the proficiencies going up or the number of the percentage of alaska nato students who are on track to graduate goes up as we lose them and it looked to me as if we're losing them at ninth grade and i guess my question is if if
021that is is that a true do you have a sense that we're losing them at the ninth grade moment or are we losing them along the way as well so that's yeah that's a great question and really um above all we just need to know that every student um has a story about why they stay an adult but um the majority and and this is of all demographics are actually decrease in 11th and 12th grade that we do see a change in students they might just leave us but it doesn't mean they've dropped out or they might leave that school that school's population might be different in a certain year so uh when um dropouts the way that um i guess things count negatively towards us is when they're in a fifth year graduation rate
022they don't count for the four-year graduation rate um however having a child a fifth year is not a bad thing right so we continue to have them engaged or if they dropped out but many students do move and specifically in anchorage we do have the lowest rate for alaska native american indian but we also have they are some of our highest transient rates as well moving into back home to the village sometimes and back the alaska native culture has a large family support and you might uh hear students um you know they live with their aunties and uncles and and uh a whole big family uh culturally support system so specifically saying is it the ninth grade year or each of those schools um that is too much of a conclusion to draw that it
023happened here here or just looking at the schools because they could move from school to school and they're still with us um overall i would just like to to share that we are um as a district really addressing how are we welcoming people i mean that's nothing to do with these data about academics but it is and knowing that does everyone come to asd feeling like they have a space and a place and that they're valued as learners and so we'll continue to work on that um but overall the biggest uh dropouts that you can determine are 11th and 12th grade and 12th grade is certainly higher than 11th and one of those indicators is um by the time students hit those two older grades they turn into an adult where they can leave school
024on their own um they don't need a parent permission and so at um when they're over 16 they have that ability to walk away from school and so it it is upon us to continue to keep them engaged uh to find ways and means to uh serve their needs to be able to graduate kids because certainly a student with a graduation diploma uh is going to have a a better step in life if you will uh when they leave high school if they have that in their hands so um lots of many reasons why in their stories but um it isn't um necessarily just because we have a reduction in students over time doesn't mean that they were dropped out specifically but that's a great question because the data are tricky okay i'll come back
025because i know you have more uh let's see let's just keep going around remember darling did you have any questions at this time [Music] thank you remember jacobs thank you madam president i uh superintendent bishop i was curious if you could provide more context on the english the fifth year uh graduates the english learners subcategory increased significantly i mean the the rate increased significantly and was that just a population of a larger group or was there something else um um thank you that's a great question and actually remember lessons brought that up as as well just in conversation and um i we that the data that were most recently shared in the number is more accurate we are looking into the state has those other numbers and uh understanding if during the pandemic the um
026registration was different or they dropped off we're not understanding how the state moved those data forward but uh we did get confirmation from ell that the most recent data in 2021 mirrors almost every other year and so uh some type of a fluke in that one year is what they they shared but they're trying to identify why and the state can't help us either we're trying to figure that out thank you okay just go this side of the room okay none from okay remember wilson do you have any questions at this time okay so i'd like to go to page oh i'm sorry remember holloman questions um i was just going to add as an anecdote to uh member watson's question and and i consider anecdotes a form of data uh i had a couple
027of years teaching ninth grade science and one of the most frequent comments in phone conversations and parent conferences was everything was going great until the ninth grade and of course that's not the moment kids drop out but it is possibly the moment where being connected and feeling connected to the school becomes a lot more difficult part of that is the job that our middle schools do in creating a small community within a school building to where kids that don't deal well with a large population have a small group to turn to it's it's also worth noting that 10 to 12 years back we were trying at some of our high schools to sort of move the middle school model up not ex not exactly in the same form but in a similar way of creating
028houses in parts of the building with that same idea that that for ninth graders they might have some core classes with a with the cadre uh that there might be there might be an easier way for them to connect and feel part of the school rather than coming into something large like service or west or bartlett as one parent commented about middle school she said you know when i came here and went to service it was bigger than the town i grew up in and and it was just always incomprehensibly big to her the idea there could be smaller groups that kids connect to it helps keep those kids connected unfortunately it takes additional staff just because of the difficulties in scheduling and and whatnot so i i think you're [Music] looking at ninth grade
029is a critical year right now and again i think part of the reason is critical is that middle school's done a good job uh we need to give the resources into high school to be able to do something similar there thank you um um you know there's many different theories um and high schools especially uh when we say oh they dropped out of high school we we really generally know that students struggle all the way through and we can see that high school is the first time that you uh you have a statutory requirement to earn a credit and if you don't you don't graduate whereas other grade levels um you can be moved on um we don't have that type of thing um you know access skills are important and so one skill built
030on another and many say that dropouts are made in kindergarten when we don't um you know engage students and have them belong in school and teach them the necessary skills so there's there's lots of many theories of um the why um i do believe that uh we have spent time asking kids and there are many many stories about um what's been effective for them and what's what's made them successful so so i think i'm on i want to go to page five and it's just i don't know if it's a question or but we when we look at who's being who's graduating uh it's kind of similar to member lessons question um our agent students are graduating at 88.6 i mean they are above target so let's just say on target or above target those
031are our are our uh our black students are graduating they're they're on target so i guess my question has to do with [Music] what and what is your in looking at you know how some kids uh it looks like some groups of kids are doing really really well in terms of their graduating what do we attribute that to exactly do we know do we know that i know that their head at some school some students start with they have more um access more resource um but then when i look at our kids who are economically disadvantaged they're graduating but not at the same rates [Music] so what do we look have we looked at um [Music] what do we look at how do we look at that how are our principals kind of looking at
032that and getting information you know that they could that they could make changes within their buildings that's a good idea and that's um one of the things that um we're working on in really with all staff whether it's elementary middle or high to understand and learn about data so that they can do the same thing and say you know what are the groups that are doing well and who isn't and why wouldn't we and just engaging staff and what they called you might have heard data dialogue or this or that you know they have different names um but um that's what they do at the school level and that is the autonomy and the the the freedom to say what can we do at our school as far as economically disadvantaged you know there is
033um quite a bit of information and research on uh really uh something that mark stock has shared her headwinds you know like just the the things that students have to face in addition to going to school and there's lots of um that that poverty uh put some extra barriers in there and that is the reason why we have title one schools um they were called chapter one it was a study back in the 60s and that law became uh where additional funding was given by the federal government to schools that existed in poorer neighborhoods and it was to put in some of those extra supports at the school level um to even things out or whatever i want to say and share that um economically disadvantaged as a child who is that it is not
034a causality of not graduating there's a relationship or um you know a correlation if you will but it is not causal so we try to do our best to uh eliminate that um those barriers and do the best we can interestingly enough um i'm going to just share because the big significance is with alaska native and what we did years ago and i'm just going to share two schools uh i um in a leadership meeting celebrated them for oh my gosh you guys like changed the trajectory of your alaska native students what did you do and in two different schools they shared these stories and one was at south high and at south high they had under 100 uh in their whole school there and this was dnf rates primarily that we were looked at
035not graduation um but their d's and f's for their alaska native students which they had under 100 i think it was 82 at the time um was a certain percentage uh of those that were passing and then interestingly enough bartlett had almost the same amount of percentage but they had over 400 alaska native students and so when they had their data dialogue and looked at those they solved the problems at their school level and one of the things that um south did first was identify the kids and say who are the kids in our classes that aren't doing well and why aren't they and they shared with each other understanding of so the child wasn't invisible anymore the child was named you know be sure to reach out to this child we see that they're
036not graduating in another school they really triaged it because they had so many they had over 400 and so they worked on um different supports before during and after school and they called it triage they literally had additional staff work during their prep times if they wanted to to sit with students and assist in tutoring them to help them get organized to move forward and so they they created um interventions ideas you know innovations that work for their school um using and understanding data and so a lot of times whether it's assessment on reading or something else we're just saying you know sometimes we don't like to look at the numbers but the idea that behind every one of these numbers of a non-graduate is someone's name uh keeps us on target but um lots
037of different ways lots of different reasons but these are the this is why at the school level if you can think about how you're discussing it this happens in grade level meetings and teachers say oh my gosh how did you get this these kids to do this well how are you teaching and uh we want to engender that type of uh collaborative work because we can't do it alone yeah and so do schools get to share like what you just shared with those two schools so they get to share that information among other other schools um they do uh in working with their their supervisors and uh the principals and they share their ideas and and also through different departments um if someone has something to share they'll highlight them it's in zoom now but
038we used to do more face to face but right now it's just in zoom remember lessons sure i guess this is going to circle but continue to focus on our alaska native graduates um one question i had and gosh we just uh uh reex rechartered the alaska native charter school last meeting do we know whether the students who go through that program do they have is there a statistically significant difference in graduation rates between students who are sort of coming up through other schools versus a ccs thank you for that question we did look that up and know there is no statistical significance in their graduation rate okay um remember donnelly's question no okay anybody on this side okay so i want to go to page eight and it's just as uh um you know
039when we're looking at how how do we so when kids leave when they leave because i know some kids leave and they go back to their home to their village or they go do we just do we track them at all when they drop out do we just drop their record or do we sure do we track them we know where they go we know where they end up yeah if um we know where they end up they wouldn't be considered a dropout a dropout are just those students in grades seven through 12 and so this is really good that a dropout rate is not an inverse of a graduation rate um graduation is just about the four-year cohort dropouts is from seven through twelve uh like mr holliman said kind of in middle school
040more up through high school and it's a particular day of the year october first of the current school year um the denominator how many kids are enrolled in your school um and then the number of students who have dropped out in the current year you could transfer um but you have to have a receiving school or someone some evidence that they actually went to that school um you can't just take a call and say oh we transferred here you you actually have to make a connection with the other school that the student has arrived or uh some other documents uh that they are in some other type of program but you they're all coded for a different way but um just saying um you know what we're going on a trip if there isn't a
041schooling going on that would be considered a dropout okay i'll volley back to you all right great um so i'm interested in the return on investment from our summer learning opportunities and i noticed i mean it was a challenging year but for both the four-year graduation rate on page five and the five-year graduation rate on page seven last year's graduation rates were lower than their counterparts the year before do we have a sense of the magnitude you know to what extent are the the lower rates where they buffered by summer school do we know the sense do we have a sense of how how impactful summer school was on those graduation rates sure um so again summer school counts just until june 30th of that year so if they um we had two sessions of
042summer school but after the first session of summer school we were able to get 40 additional kids one or two credits to make it so we would like to say that that you know supported uh the graduation rate um and and really it was for all levels that we got them one step closer but the investment in summer school um i've shared the elementary but secondary is as well they uh have someone whether it's online or in class where they show up that um definitely smaller class sizes working one-on-one with teachers a lot of it is [Music] engaging with kids in a different level mr holloman talked about a big school with big classes and i would say our educators would say that summer school does matter and certainly the numbers demonstrate that we we
043do get kids to finish off before june 30th um and that's the cutoff even if they went to summer school july 1 they wouldn't count that cohort year okay let's move to mr holloman [Music] i'm good right now thank you okay all righty okay what i'd like to know a little bit more about is you know what are the you mentioned the pathways and i kind of i have the idea i mean i know what they are but for there's a pathway for college a pathway for career and both of them have a pathway to life readiness um so how what are the can you just talk a little bit about those pathways sure how they um yeah now not how they're reflected in the data but how how how are we thinking the data
044is going to improve yeah um actually if if you can remember the career um well now we're called career technical education but it was when it was um what is the uh vocab when i was spoken it literally was two tracks uh a pathway is actually an overarching construct like a health pass pathway an engineering pathway and what we've done are organized courses around those large-scale pathways so if you were in the engineering pathway you would take courses or courses were offered in both the trade and the college side the professional and the trades in one pathway uh what we want our kids to know is like in the state of alaska there's a lot of money to be made in construction but we want our kids to be able to understand this is the
045pathway these are the skills involved do you like the professional one do you like you know the trade and what are the courses that are needed to go to that next level and i always like to share that you know when you're in the building pathway the engineering pathway and you have building um you know you make good money but your body takes a toll so you want to be able to take the courses needed to get into management if you you know in 20 years after that if you want to experience um welding and you want to be able to do the skill but also be an engineer we want kids to be able to move within a pathway skills trades and the professional jobs so they experience that so we have a health
046pathway you have the building pathway you have sports and fitness pathways what we're talking about as we redesign our high schools is that the pathways are designed around careers that both allow you choices in career and college and what they look like for what you want to accomplish in your life you know you have our kids that they want everything they want a five-bedroom house and four cars and eight kids and that's expensive and so we bring in the reality of what kind of work do you like to do too well if you did this kind of work this is the pathway you would like but here are the kinds of jobs in this pathway and what would be needed for those jobs so we're bringing a little bit of that adulting in real life
047into pathways and so the goal of the career college life ready is to really begin to redesign our high schools around the understanding of those types of pathways not just vocad college but career pathways that offer both okay kelly um yeah so a couple last weekend the weekend before we went to the alaska association of school boards and i met a really great person from the alaska commission on post-secondary education which was new to me um and she let me know that there's some really wonderful resources on elementary kind of pathway materials and it seemed to me that our approach really right now begins in middle school do you see i guess this is a moving forward question all right but do you see benefits or obstacles with starting this career awareness earlier um i
048i would say that you know talking about um kids futures and experiences and what they like is absolutely essential that you know it could happen at any time our formative um where we're having kids you know um do interviews and write um what do you call it job applications and things like that and resumes begins in the middle school level with this program called access there are a lot of additional things right now because of our goals the resources are available for teachers but the alignment that we're asking in elementary school is to ensure those access skills first that we focus on reading so ubiquitously in the district yes they're offered is it an experience that we're saying in second grade we want you to do this no i and it's simply because i could
049not ask my elementary teachers to do one more thing like focusing on reading and math and getting us from four and ten kids proficient to the eight that we want and the six that we want is going to take time and effort and skill and these things are great programs that we can experience that we have access to because they're all free in the state of alaska it's wonderful their resources and teachers can use them to add into their curriculum but we haven't had a kind of an alignment of the curriculum to ensure that kids in second and third grade do that but it's open if folks want to kelly did you have a follow-up um sure thank you for that response i think the one but i had more questions but i'll i'll steer
050clear of all of them um i i'm the school board liaison this year to a number of our charter schools which has been wonderful but when we look at unpacket um look at their graduation rates they're pretty low and you know um both for four and five years it looks like some of the charter schools you know maybe they take they do a lot in that fifth year but it was still a surprise to me how different they are as far as those student outcomes and actually getting students across the finish line than our comprehensive high schools and i wonder if they're charter schools what oversight do we have to influence anything there sure if any yeah i mean that that is um and if you understand charters and we have a charter school here
051tonight that the influence is that charter contract with the board and the charter school and so understanding what we want to have happen so we can work with folks on a daily basis um the employees are are ours the principals are hired by um the apc or the academic policy committees the manner in which boards hold other boards accountable so you are basically as a board subletting your school to innovation and excitement and a different program which i absolutely support choice but you're saying okay we're giving up our responsibility to you now the manner in which you do that is through your charter in fact i mean there's a discussion tonight about 10 years versus five years or what are we doing and it was strictly based on these are the things that we want
052to see um but your your charter is how you do that you you don't go in and surprise anybody on the back end certainly everyone has to change for law but it would be unfair to the charters if they set up a plan and then um we come in and say well wait a minute we want to change the rules you know you would have to engage the charter back and stuff so um really you're held accountable through the charter yeah yeah okay but other questions any other questions i would like to also say though that i don't know of a charter school that doesn't want to do well so we work together and we're at meetings together so but specifically speaking technically it's through the charter but um the charters you'll notice the same
053as with alternative schools um these a lot of times like you said they are the students that weren't successful in a larger place or in a traditional type of education so they moved to different places just like the alternative schools charters you'll notice um you know the special programs are all like that okay remember jacobs thank you madame president i have a how question is this yeah appropriate okay okay so i was looking at the the what's next phase and the implementation stages and uh for career it indicates that the next step is beginning career pathway development at each high school what will i what does that process look like for the development and will do we know yet if it will include um a nod to increasing our internship opportunities um through the president
054um to remember james actually increasing um internship is is part of this big process and working with the pathway development um of the career college and life ready there's probably 60 different people i think we published the people involved in it and really establishing those different areas that we can [Music] place additional resources in in alignment of those courses to be sure that if we have you could have a law pathway or a political science pathway say you have political science pathway you would want law in there you know other things that would teaching history you know you know so you would have um government jobs you know learning things like that so the pathway establishment is really utilizing resources to the most effectiveness while giving kids those experiences and it's starting and um i
055think what we we could do is have a special work session just to hear about the excitement and what they're doing in that manner um but to the answer about internships yes and actually i would um you know one of the goals and what we had talked about is you know we would love for every child to have an experience of a work experience or internship while they're in school uh right now we do that for our gifted end but can we really do it for everyone is really our goal and we should be doing it for all those are great questions and um there's lots to add about the pathway but i would um really having um our career technical coordinator and secondary ad present would be a great work session topic high interest
056for you you'd be really excited about the work okay great remember wilson i just wanted to piggyback member jacob's question a little bit regarding the different pathways i i know at king tech they have advisory committees that are composed of folks that work in each of the industries depending on the classes is that going on around the district or is that the intent uh the that's a great question so the intent would have be for those advisory boards to inform all the pathways about that particular not just in one school so that if we have a technology pathway or a communications pathway you'd have um all different types of jobs under communications uh but we would then decide where's the interest where can we locate it utilizing staff that's there um you know already if
057you think about it uh asd you know what is that diamond project lead the way is that diamond um at chugiak and sirs they already have like a medical tech program stuff biotech and so we would yeah um then we have culinary arts at different places so culinary arts would actually fall under uh a tourism um tourism you know pathway where there'd be lots of different opportunities for that but uh being a chef in alaska is certainly under you know that that career and so um the community and the real work we'd look to continue to inform um years ago if you remember we um it was controversial because we shut down the technology pathway because when we worked with the people in that industry they said uh we're not splicing wire anymore folks we're
058moving to um you know we're moving to i don't know some kind of tarot whatever cloud stuff don't be you know don't kids don't need to learn how to cut wire anymore why are you still doing that they walked in literally to our room and said we haven't used those cables in 10 years don't teach kids to do that anymore and so uh we rejuvenated those uh to have the cisco and others um inform them um and so that's key what you what you brought up is key that our jobs change so much that the work that we do in asd needs to be informed by those committees so in terms of uh keeping kids in school so that they graduate what is that going to look like what are we going to i know
059we're going to we're creating the pathways but how are we going to keep them in school so they graduate what is that plan that overall plan sure so um keeping kids in school is is um having a school that engages them that is welcoming to them with uh this is brought up with highly skilled um engaging teachers you know we want the best teachers we we have to continue to invest in teachers uh and have courses that meet their needs for what their interests are and one of the things that i've been impressed with uh within our staff is that um the ability to quick change during the pandemic to meet student needs in careertech in you know traditional courses uh as well as other electives uh teachers to know how to keep them engaged
060how to how to do it and and really uh providing opportunities and not being stuck into always how we've always done things is gonna matter um but keeping them engaged and welcoming uh is one thing but i also think um excellent schools are those that provide competency what we teach has to matter to them and i think that goes back to uh what member wilson mentioned um what happens in school should have a connection to what happens outside of school and i um madame president i did just get a you know a shout out from dr johnson and here are if i might read some of the pathways that they're structuring around the work uh agriculture food and natural resources will be a pathway architecture and construction a pathway arts av technology and communications business
061management and administration education and training finance pathway government and public administration health sciences hospitality and tourism human resources information technology law public safety corrections and security manufacturing marketing science technology engineering and math and then transportation distribution and logistics so we are taking and organizing electives and courses around those and of course this is going to force um [Music] if we utilize our resources district-wide this is going to look like schools then are on the same schedule so that a child i'm going to maybe be registered at service and graduate with service but i might have a couple classes at another school because of that because that's what yeah yeah so we're trying to really use the um resources effectively so um and and really i would suggest some time a work session i think you'd
062be really impressed with what's happening in that area great okay okay so uh dr bishop i want to thank you um for that for the information for the conversation board members i thank you are there any final uh questions or comments on this report remember lessons oh one more and it's really moving forward and maybe it's a question for the board more than for dr bishop um so the indicator on this on this report is graduation we have a five-year calendar that we've adopted and future goal monitoring sessions for ccl are going to look at advanced placement and financial literacy course completion as well as the completion of these college career plans and attendance um could there's an array of things that we could measure and discuss and you know they might include apprenticeship utilization
063or students writing skills or sel because that's an employable skill set um is there a way that we could dive more deeply into some of these other metrics i think over the course of this five-year cycle you know that's a great question and what what happens is um there is a ton whether it's about the reading goal or the math goal there are even for those there are lots of different measures that you could take to know about progress uh what's presented in the monitoring is something that's doable and that data are easily accessible uh but once we say that we kind of check out graduation rate after a couple years see it's moving in the right direction we can say okay now we want to focus on this um something else like you know
064we want to take a look at um [Music] uh sel you know we actually um sel and students taking courses is in the goal and so if you look at the action steps there's a lot of steps taken and a lot of work being done but the board isn't being you know the monitoring isn't coming forward just because of the data so i don't want to think that because we don't take data on it it's not being done lots of things in schools are being done except for um what's presented here this is just kind of to keep you up to date um but but say you know after a couple years um when we're writing the interim goals because the interim goals are the ones that change over every two to three years or
065even every year um the board could in the discussion say hey you know what for um you know monitoring and for the interim goal could you look at this and write something around these data and then it could be done it's it's not but i i would hate to believe like have anyone believe that if not measured it's not done because there's just so much stuff there but actually the interim goals are just for that to take a look at different things for the board to keep up to date okay thank you i guess i just wanted to make sure that we're not just going to be measuring graduation data as the metric the leading metric of career and college and life readiness and actually on our website we have a really good um section
066on uh indicators of college life career ready and it gives a lot of those benchmarks it gives a lot of uh information so that's on our website uh counseling and guidance college career and life ready so i want to thank the board for that conversation and we will move back to our thank you dr bishop thank you thank you and i want to thank the staff for for supporting me on this one there's so much to it thank you all right that brings us to our public comment uh section uh of our of our meeting and i'd like to just give a few um read a few comments as far as decorum so first of all welcome to the school board's first opportunity to provide public comment we have two hours one in the beginning
067of our meeting one at the end for public comment the board uh will take testimony not testimony we we've changed it to cup public comment during this time you may comment on whatever you'd like so we welcome you to observe and contribute to our meetings but to be productive our meetings must be structured and civil asd conducts public meetings under robert's rules of order a set of rules for orderly meetings that have been used since the late 1800s these rules require the board and the public to be civil and respectful of each other's opinions and statements so here are a few rules under robert's rules do not attack a member or speaker's motives speakers may point out what he or she believes should be natural consequences of a board action but may not engage in
068speech that personally attacks others please refrain from disturbing the meeting or disrupting the meeting no cheering applause or outbursts unless you are testifying you must be polite to the board and other speakers attendees will not be permitted to interrupt the business or disrupt the business of the school board no profanity or foul language there is no place in our public in the public meeting in this board room for profanity or cussing please keep your masks on at all times including during your testimony your mask must cover your mouth and nose if you have a medical waiver please let the security person know no waving of signs flyers or posters if you have handouts that you wish to share with the board please give them to katie grant she's seated here to my left your right
069and she will make sure that they are distributed as president of the board it is my duty to enforce these rules of civility and decorum as such i have the authority to rule any speaker out of order for violation of the rules or disrupting our meeting further i will have removed from the meeting anyone who does not heed these rules and fails to conduct themselves in a civil manner there is also a handout on the table that you could have that is available if you wish to have a copy of most of pretty much what i just read and that brings us to our student testimony for the evening and we have is it hella crosby and friends come forward please welcome so if you can all state your name turn the mics on and
070i hope you want to pull them up a little bit great [Music] it's on they're on honey yes [Music] hello i am hella i am daisy and i'm kathleen we are fifth graders at inlet view and support the new school i have friends that will still be attending inlet view when we graduate learning isn't just what the school is here for it's here for the community take time to think about the future kids going to inlet view between the three of us we've spent more than 15 hours inside our school it needs help in that view isn't just a school it's a community there are many things i like about the old school like the stage i hope they have a place in the new school where kids can perform to build their confidence and
071some new heaters would be nice i would like to add that the quality of the water is questionable another big problem is the graffiti on the bathroom as a fifth grader i know very well that these problems need to be fixed thank you for taking the time to listen to us well thank you for coming thank you very much next in person we have hannah is it utic welcome hannah [Music] so um i'm hannah i was a student at family partnership charter school from kindergarten all the way through senior year i graduated in 2020 and i'm so thankful for family partnership and the experience that i have there they gave me incredible opportunities and unique experiences that i would not have had otherwise when i graduated i had 33 college credits and even though i
072only graduated last year i'll be graduating from uaa next summer with a bachelor's degree in political science people always would tell me you know homeschoolers people think homeschoolers don't get opportunities that kids in brick and mortar schools do well i can say from experience that's definitely not true not only was i given opportunities that anyone else would have i believe we're given more opportunities to form close relationships with teachers staff students things that you wouldn't normally get at a regular school i was hugely involved in things like national honor society student government not only did i gain skills that i can take with me in my political career but i also met people who have turned into some of my best friends to this day teachers and students i also had the privilege to serve
073on our academic policy committee which has two student seats which have full voting rights might i add something that you don't see really anywhere else um i serve for three terms so i'm quite familiar with the rechartering process and how extremely daunting that is um i believe that to only grant fpcs a five-year contract would be hugely detrimental when i first started back in 2007 as a kindergartner we only had a couple hundred students and now we have well over 1200 which is absolutely mind-blowing to me considering where we first started um not only is it important to grant sfpcs a longer contract um just because of how great of school we are but i also know that the rechartering process is so long we have to start several years in advance and as you
074all know and so to only grant us a five-year contract i think would be a huge detriment and just not one more thing that our board needs as we just they've just now finished up that um rechartering process now so uh basically i just encourage you guys to give full support to our school it's definitely changed my life given me a great head start thank you hannah next in person we have caitlyn renee parker caitlin okay i'm not seeing caitlyn we'll try to circle back let's try rose uh constant constant stein i'm sorry if i messed it up rosenstein thank you you have 30 30 minutes no you have three minutes hi my name is rose clensenstein i'm in fourth grade olympia is my neighborhood school and i've been going here since kindergarten inlet view
075isn't just a school it's a community and i don't just mean my class but the whole school i know so many teachers and staff and they know me i love our building but it's pretty old and needs replacement recently the girls bathrooms toilets broke and i had to alert the staff and then the next day there were a bunch of people and machines taking on the sewer line i think it may be related the german the gym cafeteria is small and has many uses we need a larger one in separate places for lunch and gym we also need a new library have you seen any other elementary school library they're so much bigger i personally love to read and know so many people who do too so i would love a new library we also
076need more new rooms for our specials a bunch of the specialist teachers have to share our rooms and since we can't use the reloads because they're covered 19 we have even less room but our orchestra is strong when we've done a lot in the building we have now and we've made so many memories but we will make more in the new school think of what we could do with the new school thank you next in person we have ava marie schroll welcome ava you have three minutes i am a sixth family partnership and i will be um [Music] stating my speech in german and then in english guten abend [Music] is [Music] zubekkelman better in northern city family and partnership charter field as bited space and creative and landmarkly hidden good evening i am ava
077schroll my dad is german and i am half we are first generation homeschoolers and my mom is our teacher i started speaking german last year and i use a program from talkbox.mom family partnership enables me to do schoolwork that challenges me my favorite part about family partnership is the library i love to read and my favorite subject is history because we homeschool we have more time to play outside and fresh air helps me clear my mind please renew family partnerships charter because it provides fun and creative opportunities to learn thank you ava next in person we have kaya ala neva [Music] welcome kaya [Music] hello anchorage school board and thank you for your service and time tonight my name is kaya alaniva and i'm a representative of bartlett student government the purpose of our class
078is to ensure safety promote change and make our student body voices heard for the past few years we have worked with the school administration to address the state of our bathrooms majority of the bathrooms at our school have only undergone minor changes or updates since 1973 when the school was established the conditions of our bathroom are unsafe unsanitary and overall unacceptable most locks are damaged or missing the doors do not properly close mirrors are broken and rusted lights have been out for years faucets do not match and some do not even turn on and the gaps between the stall and door do not allow for privacy the state of the bathrooms are not up to standard despite the end of the devious lakes vandalism trend the current state of our restrooms promotes littering graffiti and
079uncomfortable environment for all we asked our entire school community about how they felt about the conditions of our bathrooms the response was overwhelmingly negative staff and students referred to it as dingy dirty uncomfortable unsafe disgusting and one even said it resembles a prison bathroom we recognize that as a school graffiti is the problem but one teacher explained it as such bathrooms have not been maintained and repaired adequately which creates the impression that we do not care about the quality of our bathrooms it's sending the wrong message to students even at their clinics the bathrooms are still unsanitary and unwelcoming we have also surveyed throughout the district to compare the state of our other our bathrooms with other schools bathrooms and it is clear that they are not equal the bathrooms at our school other schools
080are aesthetically pleasing their stalls match they are clean and bright and appliances are functional overall the bathrooms and other schools allow for privacy and comfort we believe that this is a violation of the instructional equity policy that was passed in april 2021 which states the board believes that instructional equity involves increasing justice and fairness within the procedures processes and specifically the allocation of resources within the districts in its systems we implore the anchorage school district to take notice of the neglect and failing infrastructure at bartlett high school and we invite the school board into bartlett to see firsthand the facilities used by our staff and students we recognize the 2022 bond proposal includes money dedicated for earthquake recovery and repair however we feel bartlett students also deserve sanitary bathrooms doors that lock faucets that work
081cosmetic updates and uniform stalls we believe that these services are the minimum to provide privacy safety and comfort we look to you anchorage school board to help us create a safe and comfortable environment for all who enter our school by renovating all bathrooms thank you thank you next in person we have milo anderson welcome hi i'm milo anderson i'm in miss mendoza's fourth grade class at inlet view i think we need a new school because our classrooms can be cold enough to need winter jackets and so hot teachers decide we need to go outside the gym is also a cafeteria and assembly room sometimes gym needs to be cut short so their classes can get their hot lunch then band choir and orchestra all have to practice in the library there is no separate art
082room and the film is in a shed outside the building sometimes you get locked out of the building in the bathrooms the lights don't work and if you use the sink for too long the pipes start leaking the classrooms are too small for the number of kids so we store our stuff in laundry baskets in the hallway also the schools has no sprinkler system thank you for including an inlet view on the 2022 school bond [Music] you milo uh next we have uh kalyn shroe [Music] there you are welcome [Music] you have three minutes okay um my name is kalyn schroll i'm in fourth grade and i am a student for family partnership i will be [Music] doing my statement in in german and then in english i will be doing my statement in german
083and then in english gutenberg it's been kaelyn [Music] foreign [Applause] bibliotheque big common bitter ernorn zed family and partnership charter revealed as gibbs kingdom the moglicate of aaron [Music] good evening i am caitlin schroll i love homeschooling this is our second year homeschooling our family's goal is to become fluent in german one of our activities is piano we practice piano every day one thing i like about family partnership is that i was able to progress really fast in math i also love to read i have gotten many books from the family partnership library please renew family partnerships charter because it gives kids the opportunity to work at their level to work at their level thank you caitlyn and next we have uh jeremy parker it's kaitlyn here she's on her way she thought she was
084speaking later during the motion okay baby behind me here soon thank you so this is this section is for uh well go go go am i in the right spot should i speak later you actually you should speak later okay um and when caitlyn gets here just let us know give us a wave okay thank you so now okay uh mr danny uh consent stein i know i messed it up but you're rose is dead yeah thank you very much um yeah my name is danny constand stein i'm rose's dad and um yeah i'm here to speak in support of including the inland view school on uh in the inlet view school replacement on the 22 school bond proposal um i've lived in alaska for 50 years or so i've lived about 20 years the
085last 20 in the south edition neighborhood um yeah i've spent a lot of time at the inland view school since rose has been there since kindergarten so i've been in the classroom i've been outside um at the playground uh you know i've been on the sledding hill in the ice rink and walked the dog and talked to a lot of other parents and teachers and neighbors and um you know i think as you can tell the community is strong and it's been an excellent learning environment for the students at at inlet view um but i've also seen firsthand the need to fix the aging building and i have talked to neighbors i attended the recent south edition community council by zoom and i think most of us in the neighborhood recognize the need [Music] the
086major needs there i also understand the costs of a new building are high but i believe the cost of delay or or the cost of a remodel um maybe even higher um and and i'm not talking about just the financial costs but also the costs to the students um you know over the past 18 months many of us have had direct experience with displacement with disruption [Music] and i guess i'm just concerned that some of the other options of either delay or of a remodel would also increase the risks of additional disruption and we know what what disruption feels like and i think that's something to really keep in mind and i also believe there will be additional costs to taxpayers as a result of either delay or of a remodel of the existing building
087so um i i support funding for the school replacement in next year's bond and just uh thank you very much for the opportunity thank you sir next uh jenny jeannie jenny jenny schroll you have three minutes hi i'm just speaking in english today um my name is jenny schroel and i'm ava and caitlin's mom i am a second homeschooling parent and prior to the pandemic i had intended to homeschool my kids for middle school but that was it um because of the pandemic in my job i decided to homeschool earlier than i had planned to maintain my sanity the supports i've received from family partnership have made it easy for me to decide to continue homeschooling our sponsor teacher lori has been such an incredible resource and support her knowledge and experience of working with
088gifted children has been invaluable as both of my children are gifted and one of them recently qualified as highly gifted i've been able to challenge my girls and help them grow in ways that were not happening in the regular classroom even though one of them was already in ignite my husband has even noticed how frequently they talk about what they are learning in home school last year family partnership was not able to offer their enrichment classes in person so many were offered by a zoom bethany did such a great job teaching the cooking and math class my kids took with her and bethany was fun and engaging also family partnership began offering parent workshops on a variety of topics focusing on improving specific skills as well as introductions to various curriculums and programs it was
089through one of these parent workshops that i learned about the talkbox program that i've been using to learn and teach my kids german even now even my now four-year-old is learning right alongside his big sisters i ask that you vote to approve the 10-year charter for family partnership in order to provide the stability they need for long-term planning so that parents and children continue to have access to these valuable professionals who support the learning and growing of our future generation thank you thank you very much next seth anderson [Music] and you're with mimo good evening my name is seth anderson i live four houses away from in the view elementary school and have a second and fourth grader milo who spoke tonight in elias uh who's at home both students at mfu professionally i'm a
090structural engineer and real estate developer i'm here tonight to encourage the board to select a 2022 bond package that includes replacement of timber view elementary school the kids earlier tonight talked about issues that their school have with heating and cooling leaking plumbing pipes and crowded classrooms and just as important as safety the students know different drills for every kind of emergency and code words for different situations they are prepared as best they can [Music] for emergencies but what they don't have is a facility and grounds that are safe and can quickly protect them if a replacement school is not included in the 2022 bond package there is no current funding proposed and no projects are identified in the six-year cip to address immediate needs and safety improvements inside and outside the school you will likely
091be presented with a petition from some south edition neighbors with concerns related to design elements and location of a replacement school asd's design consultants have provided thorough responses to the design concerns and identified opportunities for the design to change in response to these concerns these responses are all conveniently posted on the school replacement website in addition several additional neighbors have been recently added invited to join the school design committee [Music] there's also concern in the community regarding the size of stability of the site as a structural engineer i'm often involved in projects in areas mapped as high seismic in high seismic ground failure zones the ground failure zone maps identify areas where ground slopes are steep enough to be a potential risk and they're also near areas where earthquake induced landslides have previously occurred the
092seismic ground failure maps do not mean that the sites are unsafe for high risk they indicate areas that are meant that meet certain minimum criteria to require further site-specific analysis the site-specific analysis performed by the design teams project geotechnical engineer and considering the the site slopes and soil profiles shows that this site is stable and has adequate safety factors against large ground movements during strong earthquakes again i thank each board member for requesting a 22 bond package from asd that includes in the view replacement inlet view replacement has been on this six year cip for over a decade and unfortunately has always been postponed i encourage you to finally put forward a bond package that includes replacement of interview thank you sir okay let's see is kaitlyn here caitlyn renee parker not yet okay let's
093go telephonically uh beth kemp [Music] can you hear me i can hear you beth you have three minutes hi good evening my name is beth kemp i've taught kindergarten and first grade for the anchorage school district for 13 years i feel for all teachers and staff right now these past few years have been extremely difficult and the pandemic has already has brought already difficult times to a head teachers and staff are worn out and i believe there will be a tidal wave of teachers leaving the profession this year i feel for the next superintendent and the current one the school board and for anchorage as well it'll be quite a mess if my prediction comes becomes reality tier one and two teachers have benefits i am a tier three teacher and we don't have a
094carrot to chase no pension no social security no health care after retirement we do have love for children in our community at some point however it's not enough my other main concern is behavior in schools our clientele has changed over the years but our school district hasn't changed as they should the state of alaska and the anchorage school district need to come together to support kids family and staff we need support more boots on the ground we need to support pre-k education our mayor needs to support this as well instead of cutting funds for pre-k and trauma response we need to stop investing in prisons and start investing in education and prevention by bringing forth a wave of counselors behaviorists and more staff to help with behavior and trauma for behavior many of our behavioral
095sports are either not staffed or they aren't in all the schools in the anchorage school district we only have four sites for extreme behaviors behavior schools within schools that is not enough for today's issues it's amazingly difficult if not impossible to get the kids the help they need we are trauma informed but we are not trauma prepared once we address these issues it will make it possible to teach no new math or reading curriculum in the world is going to fix behavior or trauma get to the root of the problem and change with the times and watch our test scores will go up primary teachers need more support i currently have 25 first graders and they didn't get a fair shake at kindergarten i have no ta i know i could find a ta for
096my class if one was approved i've done it before kids are behind it's hard enough to get them caught up while also managing challenging behaviors and these are the building block years for our kids i'm trying to get my back trying my best to bring in volunteers and parents and i'm working well into the night um continually our schools need better support systems in conclusion there are not enough programs to help these kids in our city and our state according to the school board's goals and guardrails we should not operate elementary schools without mental health services so let's stop kicking the can down the road please invest in more staffing behaviorists and counselors invest in smaller class sizes invest in keeping qualified and loving teachers because our community our staff and our kids deserve better
097thank you okay next david boyle star six to unmute david david boyle we see you but you're muted star six to unmute okay we'll circle back to you [Music] latoya brown [Music] hi my name is brown and i'm a member with abc i would like to simply testify from the heart tonight i don't know what needs to happen but i know it is truly necessary for us to provide better support to our teachers as we can't expect anything we want to accomplish without first dealing with the current need to resolve the contracting issues with our teachers and paraprofessionals it is not fair to hinge the improvement we wish to see in our children on teachers that we are not supporting in our district we need to make sure our teachers are allowed planning time to
098prepare for our students they are deserving of raising and they truly deserve a livable and fair wage there are several openings in our district and i imagine this will only continue to grow unless we can improve working conditions and show we are willing to do what it takes to truly support our teachers i would also like to urge the board to continue its efforts in regards to the recruitment and retainment of teachers of color mirroring the diversity we see in our student bodies within the staffing at asd should be mandatory thank you thank you very much next telephonically we have celeste hodge groudon star six to unmute [Music] hello yes we can hear you you have three minutes good evening members of the anchorage school board and superintendent bishop thank you for the opportunity to
099testify tonight or provide comments i am celeste hodge groudon president and ceo of the alaska black caucus we are a non-profit organization that advocates for the rights of black people in the areas of health justice economics and education i am urging a fair and just contract for teachers first of all and support staff that reflects their dedication and commitment to the mission of the school district i'm hopeful those remaining differences get resolved and a contract is signed our teachers and support staff deserve nothing less i also want to thank the anchorage school board and our superintendent dina bishop including several employees of the anchorage school district for the wonderful partnership for the betty davis anchorage east anchorage high school ribbon-cutting ceremony that was of course held during the betty davis african-american summit from beginning to
100end and everything in between the ceremony was absolutely beautiful i've heard nothing but positive comments and it just goes to show what can happen when community and asd come together i especially want to thank the entire school board yes every single one of you for showing up for being present i'm looking forward to getting the alaska black caucus plaque and the exterior sign of displaying davis's name i want to congratulate both rhianna gay and angela hunter for receiving the alaska black caucus black teacher and teachers assistance a teacher's assistant excellence in education award and recognize the bypass youth that participated in the panel discussion during the betty davis african-american summit lastly superintendent dina bishop although you weren't senator davis's pick in the beginning you were in the end and that's all that matters thank you
101for partnering with us on the successful betty davis youth leadership summit leadership summit no place for hate organized by none other than school board president margot bellamy and her team and we look forward to connecting with you this sunday on zoom during the alaska black caucus community conversation as we talk about the importance of vaccinations for our kids thank you so much thank you very much i think caitlyn renee parker is here and why don't you come up mr parker [Music] yeah and you guys can sit if you'd like i think there's chairs up there the mics appear to be on welcome caitlin hi [Music] you have three minutes [Music] okay hello everyone my name is caitlin i'm a student enrolled at family partnership charter school i wanted to come up here today and support
102for my school and show what family partnership has done for me i'm a newer homeschool student i started after my sophomore year of high school right when the pandemic hit at that time i wasn't very happy with my education because school said shut down in public school my grades were slipping i felt like i wasn't really doing anything at home and the online curriculum wasn't the best i was always skeptical of homeschooling i didn't know what it was or how it worked but the kova pandemic gave me the push i needed to give it a try so my junior year i became enrolled at family partnership charter school immediately i was exposed to new curriculum and new paths for my education i was given the opportunity to take college courses at uaa and uaf which
103is something i never would have considered before i always struggled with math but with homeschooling i found amazing math programs algebra two pre-calculus and ap statistics classes and they really boosted my math skills to get me back on track and now i'm proud to say that i'm ahead so family partnership allows me to dual enroll at service high school so i take two classes there and the rest i take with family partnership i work at my own pace on my own schedule with classes that i choose so that's something i really love about my school diversity and curriculum and the freedom to take charge of my own education homeschooling affiliate partnership has boosted my gpa from a 3.4 to a 3.88 and given me a head start in college i've only been at family partnership
104for a year and a half but by the time i graduate this year i will have completed 10 college credits so that's something none of my peers in public school can say being enrolled that family partnership has also given me the courage to take part in clubs and organizations that they offer my junior year of high school i decided to join family partnership student government that year i became the secretary and this year i'm now the president of the fed partnership student government it's an amazing club to be a part of and i get to work with wonderful with a wonderful group of students i don't think i ever would have been a part of student government had i not enrolled at this school family partnership has also given me the opportunity to join the
105student advisory board and interview for the student apc position which is a student position only offered here at family partnership so no other school has a student board position where you can actually vote so that's pretty cool i didn't win that position but it was a great experience for me to try out my school has given me so many incredible opportunities and being enrolled here has given me the courage to speak up here today at my school i'm surrounded by hard-working individuals who are passionate about their community and education my partnership is a school that puts their students first and i'm proud to be a part of it i want to thank the board for allowing me to speak up here today it's awesome that as a student i get this opportunity so thank you
106so much thank you very much yes and mr parker thank you [Music] good evening my name is jeremy parker i'm a husband i'm a father of three asd students a local business leader and a volunteer with an asd's charter school system it has come to my attention that asd is considering recommendations on why you should recharter with family partnership charter school in recent months our family like many others made significant changes to long-standing routines we adopted new work practices got comfortable with technology and we gave homeschooling a try after moving our three students from asd neighborhood schools into family partnership we were amazed at how well their a la carte educational offerings perfectly fit individual learning needs we were presented choices and options that we didn't know existed within traditional homeschooling or the asd and
107as other asd programs seemingly struggled to provide consistency our family partnership students thrived the question is why my daughter is a senior she was able to tailor her curriculum to meet independent learning styles and align with her personal goals while also maintaining a very high gpa and test scores she is now applying to colleges for pre-med my son is a sophomore he bolstered his math competency to levels we've never seen him achieve and where he used to shut down in school has excelled at family while also pursuing his passions in hockey culinary arts and language my other son is a fifth grader i'll be at the most rambunctious of our three children he too has thrived at family his reading comprehension focus communication and math have soared i'm astonished to read the current proposal to
108offer family an enrollment cap and a five-year provisional charter versus the full ten in my opinion this offer is short-sighted it lacks vision and is seemingly punitive giving family partnership is the fastest growing and largest asd charter school it is arguably the most successful in student outcomes and financial stewardship and have the highest growth potential anywhere in the asd at a time when revenues elsewhere are down i implore the board to offer family partnership a full 10-year contract so they can competitively secure necessary contracts for their building remove barriers to include the enrollment cap so they may continue to grow and innovate model families huge success elsewhere in the district and support family partnership by strategizing together on how to win back the nearly 5 000 students and 50 million dollars in anchorage tax dollars
109that were spent outside of asd on non-asd home school competitor programs so why recharter family partnership is getting the job done they are the modern school of choice within asd they are our future and if there was ever a low-hanging fruit option on the table this is it thank you very much and we're going back to the phone line uh david boyle [Music] star six to unmute [Music] can you hear me yes we can hear you you have three minutes uh good evening president bellamy school board members and superintendent bishop i'm david boyle and i'm speaking for myself i want to take this opportunity to discuss coven vaccine for children first please remember that none of these vaccines are fully approved they're only approved for emergency use second none of the vaccines work on this
110delta variant they only work on the original strain of the virus remember this virus like all other viruses mutates constantly to survive unfortunately that is why there are so many covet outbreaks in the vaccinated vermont the most vaccinated state in the nation was 72 percent fully vaccinated has had a 55 percent increase in cases over the past two weeks the next greek letter mutation will probably occur in the early spring in alaska so be forewarned especially with our very very low vitamin d levels as a prophylactic to the virus third let's talk about vaccine children children have a greater immunity to most all diseases unfortunately for us seniors including covet the chances of a child younger than 12 dying from covet is one in one million and by the way no alaskan under the age
111of 29 has died from covid per the cdc and the state of alaska but children have suffered serious side effects from the vaccines to include myocarditis which is an inflammation of heart muscle recovery may take a very long time and this inflammation causes scarring of the heart tissue remember the heart is a muscle which passes paths of electrical conductivity that must go in a specific sequence the scaling of this heart tissue can interfere with this sequential electrical conductivity one may have heart over arrhythmias and even death additionally younger girls have suffered fertility problems from receiving the vaccine we do not know at this time what the long-term effects on reproduction will be so let's keep the children safe the bottom line children have an extremely low chance of dying from kovac to their high levels
112of immunity to the disease one in one million so far more children have died in america from bicycle accidents in covent during the start of this pandemic and i do know that none of us wants to be responsible for inflicting damage on any of our children by the way i did note that the beacon consent form that the asd uses does not list the possible serious side effects of the vaccine listed on its form so it is not fully informed consent which it should be on the other hand the state of alaska department health social services has an informed consent form that does have the serious side effects of the covet vaccine listed as well as other serious side effects i recommend that the school district adopt the state's informed consent form because it does
113inform the parents and is more inclusive i would be happy to create a copy of the state's form to you thank you sir next in person we have uh and i'm gonna call two people up at a time so next uh thomas peace and susan ritter if you will just come up and [Music] one speak and the other will follow thank you welcome mr peace you have three minutes thank you my name is thomas peace and i teach at mayor's middle school first thank you for serving on the school board working in public education is exhausting but a rewarding pursuit and it's a pursuit that we all share [Music] but that's not all we share unfortunately as an asd educator i share the same frustration and even bewilderment that you sometimes do for being undervalued
114when we began this school year educators knew it would be tough made tougher by no contract but we took on the challenges of new curriculum new teaching methods new delivery platforms and even personal health risks knowing that we would get to work with students face to face again and hopefully that a satisfactory contract would be forthcoming as you know we have not received an acceptable offer from the district and employee morale has sunk to a level i have not experienced in 27 years i urge this board to take an active role in securing a contract with aea [Music] yes the board sets policy and the superintendent manages the process but the process isn't working to approve a six percent raise for principals and ignore educators defines undervalued to grant the superintendent six percent raise and
115offer educators a pittance is the purest definition of inequality in equity to experience 6.2 inflation but propose a one and a half percent salary increase for educators shows utter disregard for labor dynamics and for your employees the educational landscape has changed significantly during my career when i began teaching there were fifteen hundred names on the for hire list there was no turnover i was one of just four teachers lucky enough to land a job that year [Music] now the hire list is gone and asd has 140 unfilled positions vacancies result in underserved students and translate into added duty for educators filling vacancies is an ongoing challenge but keeping the exceptional employees you have will be an even bigger challenge without a meaningful contract i hear it and see it on a daily basis colleagues considering
116a career change contemplating early retirement resigning i witnessed more turnover in my building this past year than i ever have what's more telling i said goodbye to two colleagues who departed mid-year and unfortunately their students had to say goodbye to them as well up until then i had never seen a voluntary departure in the middle of the year what does it say about our work environment when a colleague tells me monday morning that over the weekend he had to talk himself out of quitting thank you sir your time your time myself thank you susan and andrew gray could you come up as well and sit to the side please welcome susan you have three minutes good evening to the members of the school board dr bishop and the members of the audience and our asd
117and aea members here so you see my notebook i've been rewriting and rewriting what i wanted to say to you tonight um i work at a service high school i'm a life skills teacher i've been employed by asd for over 15 years i started out as a teacher as a noon duty and then moved into ta and then teacher so this year has been a long year and thomas really clearly stated um in clear terms what we're going through as teachers uh i appreciate and speak only for myself i really appreciate the words of support what you're offering us but what i really want is a raise i really appreciate the fact that you're looking at many different ways to um negotiate with a union but i like my health coverage i had a health
118scare 10 years ago cancer survived it but the public health trust supported me because there's three people who work there i know them all they answered the questions that i needed and helped me so those uh health care and our contract phrase will be sorted out in the mediation process unless you all decide to side with aea and and go with what we like you to have us uh provide to us but more importantly now my i move to another topic um i'm a lester's teacher i use the curriculum it's called unique learning systems my students are life skills too really they don't read well they need a lot of hands-on cutting and pasting of materials and the other day when i'm at the copy machine i had my seven copies of 30 pages per
119copy that's it with a note on it saying stop using the copy machine there's no more toner i can't use ipads and i can't use my dying smart board because that has yet to be resolved the issue but you know that's just one more thing that we're dealing with we have no toner and i will still continue making copies until i mean service is huge we've got dozens of copy machines that need toner so to add on to the rest of the strife that is my piece of anxiety is that i cannot stop making these copies i don't know what my i don't know where else to do other than continue on uh and provide the best i can for my students but that is a simple little problem that is exacerbated by this pandemic
120by being exposed to covet frequently and not knowing you know what the next day is going to bring us thank you for your time thank you for the work that you do and please support the union thank you susan andrew you're up next followed by marnie harfield hartel sorry hello yes my name is andrew gray and i'm a parent of a child in the district according to apply track there are 285 open asd positions 17 classroom support tutors 71 teacher assistant positions 41 special education teachers 23 k through 6 teachers and 15 other positions staffing for next year could be even more of a crisis if this situation is not remedied i would wager this lack of staffing increases the workload on our educators and contributes in no small way to turnover according to a
121recent ram corporation analysis the national average for teacher and principal turnover is about six percent annually in alaska is 22 percent for teachers and 25 percent for principals a 2017 analysis by the uaa institute of social and economic research showed that the cost of teacher turnover in alaska is twenty thousand dollars per teacher which works out to be about 20 million a year but think about the even higher cost to our children's education what are they losing out on by not having experienced teachers my son has special needs and for him in particular we cannot allow our best teachers to leave the district how do we keep them well for starters we need to fill all these auxiliary positions our teachers cannot be expected to do their own difficult job and someone else's but beyond
122that we must fix our teachers retirement system a 2019 analysis by the state of alaska's chief investment officer showed that after a 30-year career in teaching only 31 percent of our teachers would have sufficient assets to last 30 years into retirement more than 70 percent of 30-year tier 3 teachers would run out of money after only 15 years that is unacceptable when asked for feedback educators spoke forcefully about the need to repair their retirement system the governor's teacher retention and recruitment working group found that fixing the retirement system was one of the most recommended solutions to our current crisis please advocate for our teachers by filling the unfilled auxiliary positions and lobbying for a new defined benefit retirement system that would adequately compensate them for a 30-year career in the classroom thank you for allowing
123me to testify [Music] thank you mr gray ms hartill followed by now sherwood williams that will be telephonic welcome you have three minutes thank you thank you school board members and administration for allowing me time my name is marnie hartill and i'm speaking on behalf of the anchorage education association board of directors recently aea pulled our members and 1638 responded which is an extremely large participation rate we asked the question how optimistic are you about the rest of the year 601 were so so 564 were not optimistic and 202 were very pessimistic over 1300 respondents are feeling negative or so-so and that was in early october aea assesses that number is increasing daily only 255 shared they were optimistic and only 16 felt exceptionally optimistic terrible numbers and again this survey was from early october
124it's fair to say that things have not gotten better when members ask the aea board what asd has done to improve the situation silence follows please act today your educators need your support aea encourages school board members to review the results from the alaska teacher retention and recruitment survey mentioned earlier from last spring and the subsequent action plan by the governor's task force on retention and recruitment education.alaska.gov trr according to that statewide survey these are the top ranked issues impacting retention number five is good healthcare benefits number four is retirement benefits number three is personal connections with students number two is positive workplace conditions and number one is adequate compensation for assigned duties such as salary looking at these top five issues we implore asd to take steps now to retain our current workforce asd
125currently has 285 open positions we are missing about 85 support professionals who would work directly in our classrooms we are also short 78 certified positions and of that number we are somehow working without 41 special education teachers and without 23 elementary k-6 teachers this summer as a new new employee orientations i had the pleasure of meeting new educators and new hires who were excited to join our district full of hope and optimism these educators who asd just recruited are telling aea and you this is not the experience or the district they thought they were joining many have and many continue to share they are leaving to return home or go somewhere else there's a lot of work to do so please do your part thanks thank you barney next on telephonically we have nile sherwood
126williams he's not on so polly carr [Music] star six to unmute polly hi there can you hear me yes we can hear you great my name is paulie carr i'm a mother of a student in the district and i would like to speak tonight about supporting school staff and students this has been one of the most difficult school years in history students are struggling to recover emotionally and academically from a global pandemic our district has reported an increase in emotional and physical behavioral issues and in fact we've had incidents last week and last night according to a march 2021 report by the rand corporation nearly one in four teachers said they were likely to leave their jobs at the end of last school year and it's not just teachers as you've heard principals support staff
127school nurses and more are facing their most challenging year many of our most struggling schools are facing additional harm due to a lack of staffing our special education students don't have enough teachers and teachers assistants to serve them so i have to ask what is the anchor school district doing to address and meet these staffing needs for students you have the workforce right now there are hundreds of people who have shown up every day despite not having a contract and you have money it's my understanding that asd has around 90 million dollars in unallocated federal funds i asked the school board to pass a resolution directly in the anchorage school district to settle these contracts and i'd like to see these negotiations negotiations acknowledge the need to hire and retain more black indigenous and teachers
128of color our student body is diverse and our educator community does not reflect that diversity the lack of diversity and asd staff contributes to some of the challenges students experience in our schools and finally as we head into the thanksgiving holiday break i just want to urge you to continue to be vigilant in centering equity and diversity in accordance with policies passed last year it's important that our students learn true histories of what have happened to indigenous peoples in our country and there are some fantastic teacher resources available like story of survival the wampanoag and the english from a native american perspective our students and staff are fragile and fatigued right now we should be doing everything we can to support and uplift them all the afp school board needs to take leadership to settle
129contracts for our dedicated hardworking and committed staff and we need to keep working and keep creating an inclusive and supportive school community for all thank you very much uh next telephonically we have dr paula williams star six to unmute oh good evening i'm dr can you hear me we can yes okay great good evening i am dr paula williams the member of the alaska black caucus and chair of alaska psychologist education committee and my heart is very concerned for our teachers as well as our students our most important job is the education of our young people and just as important are the hiring and staffing of qualified educators and paying them salaries worthy of their hire we are grateful to our teachers for their unwavering commitment to our students we have to ask ourselves though
130how does it profit our students when the confidence and enthusiasm of their teacher is lost due to a lack of pay feelings of not being valued or blatant disrespect of their profession it's not enough to say we care we must step up to the plate and show our teachers that we care by increasing their salaries providing you with adequate health benefits planning time and qualified substitute teachers when they have need to be out of their classrooms we are on the verge of a teacher strike walkout of both and that is so which our students education and morale cannot afford we must provide greater benefits for our educator and it is of the utmost importance i want to thank you this season for this opportunity thank you next we have danielle kemp star six to unmute
131hello can you hear me yes we can hear you you have three minutes okay thank you um my name is danielle kim oh good evening my name is daniel kemp i'm a retired army combat officer music teacher in the district and the parent of two asd students i'm also the president and co-founder of the alaska coalition of by park educators last week during veterans day week i taught music classes regarding 369th infantry regiment ban more commonly known as the harlem hell fighters ban for those who don't know the harlem hell fighters were the first all-black military unit to conduct on-ground combat operations in the european theater during world war one they were also they also brought their own band the harlem hell fighters band this band under the leadership of lieutenant james reese europe introduced
132this newfangled music to france called jazz and eventually the world they also kicked off what we know as the harlem renaissance the music lessons that i taught on this subject went unbelievably well so well in fact that earlier today one of my own students a little black girl came up to me and told me how happy and thankful her parents were that my music lesson was on the harlem hell fighters band that black american culture was taught and properly taught and properly represented outside of black history month that little black girl was so excited to learn and to know how black soldiers were just as brave and heroic as the white soldiers she learned about in her regular social studies books you should have seen the pride in this girl's eyes and the excitement of
133her voice it made a teacher's day this little black girl was not alone though kids from all races and ethnicities in my classes were hungry to know about the 369th infantry regiment and the harlem hell fighters band they were asking questions and making smart observations about the content these children's unique educational experience would not have happened though if the anti-critical race theory folks have had their way under them the music history that i taught would be labeled critical race theory this anti-crt nonsense has gotten so pervasive that before i even gave the first lesson on the 369th i was actively discouraged from doing so i even had administrative personnel questioning how the harlem health fighters ban fit into the asd music curriculum standards as a matter of fact every single time i've been questioned by
134administrative personnel about whether my lessons fit into the asd curriculum those lessons just happen to be related to black history go figure these instances demonstrate a pattern of racist microaggressions and it must stop i'm not alone though this happens to other teachers of color throughout the district which makes them feel very unwelcome look the district is already hemorrhaging teachers at an unsustainable rate you heard all about it tonight the teachers are exhausted mr camp your time is up and our last first uh testimony for this hour will be sarah davies the telephonic sarah oh you're in person okay welcome you have three minutes [Music] madam president members dr bishop thank you for this opportunity to speak with you again i'd like to circle back to my testimony a couple of weeks ago last session i
135asked that this board and all involved in staffing for the immediate increase staffing of no fewer than two additional security personnel totaling five to directly support the behavioral and institutional health of my bartlett family just prior to my testimony last meeting and more importantly yesterday at west high school this district experienced two perfectly encapsulated models of how any disruption to our communities peace small or large in our public spaces and in our schools can impact and even arrest the healthy functioning of our institutions and the individuals that operate them today my priority is to talk about the incident yesterday at west and its ripple effects this was a major outcry to our community and institutions to wake up to the reality that there is a critical mass of students who are reflecting the attitudes aggravations
136and belligerence of their environments they are angry if they aren't hiding they're arguing if they aren't destroying they're watching and most significantly all of them are suffering thank god that no one was seriously injured yesterday according to the reports however i am certain the behavioral health of the student body at west will be affected for some time but there's also a tsunami of consequences across the district as our socially connected students are telling many versions of the truth about what happened many videos and images are passed via phone hand to hand in the classroom in the hallways bathrooms common spaces it all contributes to distractions elevated emotions and disruptions to our peace yesterday isn't over and my instincts tell me something very serious is on the horizon and it might not be at west listen
137i cannot think of any other way to say this any more clearly than i did last session but we have hit a critical mass we are not able to be regular students anymore we are not able to be regular teachers we are not regular neighbors and none of us are on the right side anymore we must rethink our values character and most importantly our district systems immediately please give us two security thank you very much miss davies and that completes our first hour of testimony i have requests from the board for a five minute recess and then we'll come back here at 8 20. i'll just get started yes get started with debra wilson [Music] member lessons yes remember jacobs yes remember higgins remember donnelly yes vice president holloman yes and president melanie yes [Music]
138and the motion to approve the consent agenda passes unanimously thank you and that brings us to item f uh public testimony on action items uh remember how are we remember holloman do you have the motion list in front of you uh yes i'm sorry um move to approve asd memorandum number 25 charter school renewal for family partnership is there a second second thank you and we have some individuals signed up to testify and we will do that [Music] all these are okay yes they're all in order thank you in person we have uh jessica parker followed by oxana vocalic i'm sorry if i mispronounced your name welcome miss parker hello hi you have three minutes hello my name is dr jessica parker and i'm the principal of family partnership charter school tonight we have the
139vote for the recharter family partnership is a bridge between home school and formal education i know you're going to hear a lot of individual home school stories here today sorry i'm out of breath yeah called me right up to the front so i'm here to brag about our school [Music] we're the largest charter school in alaska we have over 1 200 asd students grades k through 12 and we're the seventh largest school in the district i need to take a minute to breathe okay so much to say though we're the second oldest charter school in alaska we were established in june of 1997. this is our 24th year we have the highest graduation rate of all asd charter schools we have the highest allotments in alaska 9th through 12th graders receive 4 200 6th through
1408th graders receive and k through 5th graders receive three thousand seven hundred dollars sixty-two percent of our budget goes straight to our families twenty-seven percent of our high schoolers take college courses eleven percent of our high schoolers take ap courses and 79 of our students test above the 50th percentile according to our most recent fall map testing 38 of our students take classes at our neighborhood schools and we're a year-round school so we service our families 12 months out of the year we have 100 enrichment workshops and clubs to our students we're the only asd homeschool program that has a full-time teacher dedicated to offering specialty classes that are difficult to teach in the home such as dissections experiments and stem activities we offer 50 plus parent workshops to our families we have over 10
141000 online views including college and career workshops for our high schoolers sponsored teachers guide our families and their educational decisions they're like a human search engine and 90 of those teachers homeschool their own children providing a true knowledge base of homeschool curriculum and know-how [Music] family partnership is a proven successful and thriving homeschool our greatest asset is that we're a homeschool option within the anchorage school district we're aligned in our mission we build the ideal student learning experiences and we look forward to continuing our partnership with asd we appreciate your vote of con thank you very much ms parker oksana and then followed by charisse bradley [Music] welcome oksana hello my name is aksana vakulic and i would like to thank you for your time to listen to us um actively involved parents my my
142husband and i have five kids ages 16 through 6. the older two have been in the public school for six years quite regularly after school my daughter would ask me to explain math or language arts to her while she was doing homework on the other hand my son was getting bored in class because teachers couldn't um couldn't occupy him enough he was placed in the ignite program but even that was not enough after much thinking i left my career and we started homeschooling through family partnership five years ago now throughout these years we witnessed great success the mentorship guidance support and resources we receive are all extremely important to our success both of our teenagers are highly involved in community work throughout alaska and even internationally we are taking classes they are taking classes at
143uaf participate at debate and public speaking groups and world enrolled at civil air patrol and expand their talents in music and serve with it for our community my teenagers volunteer at our local library and mentor young kids in our communities while our three younger ones throughout the resources which we receive from family partnership are all able to um [Music] they're able to learn cooking skiing robotics take private violin and cello lessons and others truly homeschooling provides practical active hands-on learning for my kids even with owning a small business you're aware of the current economy as never before their resources are crucial which we have from family partnership without family partnership we would have to relocate to another district maybe on behalf of my family and many other homeschooling families i urge the assembly to prolong
144the contract for family partnership thank you aksana charisse welcome you have three minutes followed by rebecca caldwell [Music] thank you my thirteen-year-old son recently wrote a paper on how he can be a good american i'd like to briefly quote him it's the small and simple acts we do that in life that define who we are i have come to do a small and simple act to share a little of my family's educational journey and with that hope to encourage the renewal of the 10-year contract with family partnership charter school my children have memorized the preamble to the constitution of the united states this year in that address it states in order to form a more perfect union promote general welfare and secure the blessings of liberty we establish this constitution the beautiful thing that our
145founding fathers realizes that our young nation will change and must change to become better it didn't say our perfect union it's set to form a more perfect union the freedoms we have been given to choose is one of the most amazing parts of our nation the ability to change as our country state or county changes who better knows our children than their parents having a global pandemic has certainly led to many changes my desire to home school began before having children the courage to homeschool didn't come until much later we are a military family our moves have given us the ability to see many different education options in different areas my oldest son had delayed speech as a young child as a young and new mom it was difficult to understand that i had options
146for my child's education many people are not aware of the options available for their children other than the educational experience that they had as a child as i had more children i realized how each child is unique and has different learning abilities and needs my oldest child was given an iep an individualized learning plan in kindergarten through third grade the terminology may be different here in alaska i have come to realize that not only my delayed learners need an individualized education plan but each of my children deserve the same a plan to fit their learning style their speed of learning their interests and the ability for that plan to change as they do while researching school options for our move to alaska i found the ability to choose what program fits best for my family
147which is family partnership i am now able to cater to each of my children's needs my middle school son will get high school credit for his algebra class that he is taking this year he is excited for his future and for college my sponsored teacher has helped me create individual plans for each of my children and their unique abilities to grow and learn i have been able to be guided on my journey and have help in the form of finance and resources needed to see my children all succeed as i their mom also get to be called their teacher my sponsor teacher guides me on asc approved curriculum and what can be financed on this journey and what cannot not everyone's journey will be the same which is why the ability to choose is so
148important many children need the gift of public educators when a parent asked me about my journey and what they should do for theirs how nice would it be to have an instruction manual when your child is born there's no user manual handed to you when your child is born though you know your children you've been with them and you know their needs you are capable of making decisions for their education you're more capable than you think we're blessed in america because of the ability to choose thank you for your time i feel blessed to have a family partnership to guide my children's education thank you rebecca and rebecca will be followed by jennifer mcmullen welcome you have three minutes rebecca sorry i recorded it nervous so sorry about that i do technical difficulties i'm sorry
149[Music] on november 1st you voted on the 10-year recharter with no restrictions for aquarian and alaska native cultural charter schools you showered them with compliments such as what a great alternative we could learn a lot from them and how well they manage their facilities those two charter schools fill a need in our community and we were delighted when they were renewed for a 10-year recharter with no restrictions put upon them to our dismay we were recommended for a five-year recharter and a cap on our enrollment family partnership is the first charter school created by the anchorage school district and from family partnership spawn frontier charter school in piodea family partnership has the largest student allotments in the state in fact we increase the student allotments this year the allotments are funding given to each student
150enrolled in our program to pay for their tailored non-sectarian curriculum and materials along with parent talk classes online courses vendor tutoring their neighborhood school king tech uaa courses which we have been offering for 20 years ansep enrichment courses and the countless elective options available their educational choices are limitless we serve asd's diverse student population with options not available at their neighborhood schools or even available at some of the other charter schools we are the anchorage school district we have the seventh highest student enrollment the largest allotments in the state and have a gold star reputation for servicing the needs of our asd students and families family partnership is as solid as a rock i'm here today to appeal to this board for the 10-year recharter and no cap on our enrollment the five-year recharter is
151unprecedented and has never been given to any asd charter school we witnessed the approval of a 10-year recharter for aquarian and alaska native cultural charter schools with no restrictions we are here asking for the same fair and just treatment that was given to them we have 24 years of experience being the alternative solution to our asd students we are the seventh largest school and we are the most fiscally responsible and sound charter school in the district we have earned and deserve a 10-year recharter and no cap on our enrollment this would show the community that you acknowledge our awesome achievements and recognize we are one of asd's most successful charter schools thank you very much for your time thank you thank you thank you very much rebecca jennifer followed by mary woods welcome we have
152three minutes thank you um hi my name is jenny and i work at family partnership charter school in the reimbursements family partnership charter school is the first charter school under the anchorage school district and is going on its 24th year serving students grade k-12 k-12 in our community from gridwood to chugiak we provide fast educational opportunities choices and schedules that are tailored to the individual students needs we offer students and families the flexibility to educate their students in non-traditional and unstructured study students have the freedom to choose curriculum that best suits their educational needs and pace the educational possibilities for a student whom excels in subjects is endless and the educational possibilities for a student that struggle in a subject is powerful and this is the need that family partnership to our school fills in
153this community family partnership is the outlet that our community plugs into when their neighborhood school cannot accommodate their unique educational needs we offer a program to those students who cannot attend their neighborhood schools students who may be experiencing bullying family struggles students injuries academic strife the wide range of academic choices and the out-of-state sports opportunities just to name a few high school students behind on credits will enroll into family partnership get all caught up with their credits so that they are able to graduate with their peers family partnership is an excellent choice for students and their families family partnership is an asset to the anchorage school district and our community please consider a full 10-year recharter for family partnership charter school thank you for your time thank you very much jennifer mary woods followed by
154happy chronister welcome thank you my name is marianne woods i work at family partnership charter school and i'm reading this letter from a family that was unable to attend tonight dr bishop and school board family partnership has been instrumental in allowing true student growth and realized potential for my family and it serves the full 10-year recharter that it seeks i have two highly gifted children that think learn and develop differently than their peers they both began their journey in the neighborhood asd schools but we know early we knew early on that they were realizing their potential in the standard classroom due to some quirky behaviors that they exhibit i was thrilled to hear that there was an option through asd that would allow me to keep them in the district but provide an at-home experience
155which i would be able to cater to their specific needs this is our third year with fpcs and both of my girls are thriving as evidenced by their standardized test scores however there are many more benefits to this learning option than their objective scores do not fully capture excuse me their love for learning has re-emerged they often spend their free time doing additional science experiments or researching more on the topic that they were exposed to during their school day they always complete their lessons in a timely manner and have no need for homework which frees up additional hours in their day for extra growth opportunities we have discovered an amazing stem program through asep and additional stem opportunities through the civil air patrol highly gifted students devour curriculum at an intense pace and are often
156stunted in the regular classroom by distraction pull out programs for these children are being taken away the dedicated highly gifted schools do not fit for every type of highly gifted learner they need a permanent and individualized home in order to develop and grow at their own speed just like every other child within the school district family partnership charter school has been this home for our family a 10-year recharter is necessary for the continuity and exceptional service provided by family partnership to the subset of children as well as to the other children that thrive in a home learning environment thank you for your time and service to our children please carefully consider the choice before you and vote yes on extending the time you recharter for our regards sarah denson thank you very much mary [Music]
157happy welcome you have three minutes followed by drew corbin thank you for this opportunity to speak my name is happy chronister and i'm one of the founding members of the very first apc and my brother along with brenda bray co-authored the charter so i've been involved for all 24 years i've served several terms as the teacher representative on the academic policy committee and then i worked as a certified teacher in this program for 22 years i got out quick before they had to do the rechartering i couldn't do it one more time as a sponsor teacher in our parent directed program i've helped thousands of parents craft a plan for what and how their children would learn i also homeschooled my own four children through family partnership and they benefited from studying at home with
158me by attending small group classes having private lessons getting tutoring taking college courses doing work experience and career and talent exploration it was an excellent education and they all went to uaa while they were in high school and they all graduated from uaa i love this program and the philosophies upon which it was built and now that i'm retired i have the privilege of helping homeschool my grandchildren through family partnership it's a delight to see a second generation benefit from our previous vision and our past hard work for 24 years we've been customizing individual learning plans we specialize in meeting the unique needs of students all students those who are strong academically as well as those who have special physical social emotional and learning needs please don't limit the number of students who can choose
159our flexible program no two student plans look alike i always have said if i could write a bumper sticker for this school it would be we cut the jacket to fit the kid not the kid to fit the jacket they won't let me make a bumpers it's too long all right tonight i'm here to encourage you to grant family partnership a 10-year charter renewal i believe we have worked successfully with asd and with thousands of families these past 24 years i would love to see you reward our success and long-standing partnership with a 10-year charter renew instead of a five-year provisional the rechartering process takes countless hours of time and energy away from the mission of educating our students let us continue to put our time and energy partnering with families to increase student achievement
160that's what we strive to do thank you thank you very much thank you very much happy drew corbin and then lanetta marcellus hello hi my name is drew corbin and i'm the business manager at family partnership one of the biggest ways we make a school successful is to allow for planning and growth the anchor school district has received approximately 1.25 million dollars over the last five years to help support us in some of the areas that are required to be part of the asd we are so thankful for this support our school is different than most schools in the district we're a homeschool program and we come alongside families that reside in the municipality who want to homeschool their children for whatever reason and there are many each child is different not all of them
161fit into the same brick and mortar school molds that's why i'm so impressed with the anchorage school district and its willingness to offer so many charter schools and optional programs family partnership has been very successful over the last 24 years managing our resources our operations are lean and we are very careful to watch our overhead and day-to-day spending that's why we're able to have the highest student allotments in the state of alaska we're not here to make money we're here to get our funding use only what we need to operate and give the rest to our students for their education and we look at our operation each year to determine our plan our program works well we currently have over 1200 students k-12 that's the seventh largest student body in the district we have a
162principal 19 full-time teachers six administrative assistants and we also house two migrant and coach ed coaches for the district we work together as a team to get our students your students to the finish line which is graduation a 10-year recharter is very important our building rent consistently has been the lowest of all charter schools in the district that pay rent this is the only area that a five-year rei this is one area that a five-year recharter will definitely hurt us we can only go into a facility lease for the length of our charter which is up june 30th of 2022 fewer years rather than more takes our negotiating power away the neighbors in our building are asking for a 20-year lease we can't compete with that with only looking five years into the future our
163staff is less secure in their jobs knowing that they're only a few years of complete certainty our families have to wonder how committed we are to them while we put so much energy into they put so much energy into educating their students fps is strong and we lose that commitment when we can't assure them that we'll be around for 10 years plus many more uh when a business plans for success can they only can they can only do their best knowing they have five years to operate no they can't and we request and would appreciate a 10-year recharter as every other charter in the district has received a vote for 10 years is a commitment from the board and the anchorage school district that you believe in us thank you thank you very much drew
164lynetta followed by chad chaupert shopper shelbert you'll correct me when you come up thank you hello uh good evening board members my name is lanetta marsalis and i'm a parent of a 2020 graduate from family partnership and soon to be a 2022 graduate of family partnership i'm also a teacher at family partnership i had previously had my kids enrolled with idea but chose to move to family partnership when my daughter was in third grade and my son was in first grade we've been there for a while we have been with family partnership through their whole education i've i haven't left family partnership because to me there is no greater program in the district than family partnership my son will be will have been with a family partnership for 12 years and for most parents they
165would like to have the confidence that family partnership will be here for their kids for longer than five years so i'm asking you to grant a 10-year charter my families have started their children with us many of my families i sponsor from kindergarten through 12th grade and if they have more than one child they could be in the program for more than 20 years i have some families with six to eight kids so they need stability um so and this is once these families um sponsor with us uh join our school and i'm their sponsored teacher you bond with these families you have a great relationship they are your family and they continue um with you for the endurance of their education so family partnership has given my children a support system that no other
166homeschool program could have given them i enrolled my children with family partnership when they had small group classes access to asd neighborhood classes and sports and student groups like national honor society and student government which aren't available in most of the home school programs my daughter graduated in 2020 as a valedictorian a uaa scholar a liberty university academic scholar and an army rotc scholar and it was a four-year scholarship which was very hard to get and she's at a division one school that scholarship was over valued over a hundred thousand dollars it wouldn't have been possible with fam out family partnership um i'm grateful that family partnership allowed my daughter flexibility in her studies during the stressful season of volleyball and track at eagle river high school because family partnership is a year-round school as
167able to lighten her load and let her take a few classes in the summer so that when the fall volleyball season came she would be able to be a little less stressed this um she also took classes at uaa and had a full year of college finished before she even stepped on the college campus many of the groups she was able to be part of at family partnership like national honor society student government aps apc board gave her great leadership skills to be successful in life my daughter's pursuing a law degree and i know she would not be here where she's at if it wasn't for family partnership um my poor son he isn't gonna be able to be talked about but he's uh he's getting an easy uh scholar too sorry son thank you
168lynette i love you [Music] thank you shad show her her show yes ma'am thank you yes you don't have it on good to see you is it on it is fine uh teresa's not kidding her daughter's uh smart as a whip um so uh good evening first let me just thank you um for taking your time uh to not just hear but to listen to several uh family partnership uh families uh parents students teachers faculty and apc members a good friend of mine say that says that words matter and that we should always craft our words to give the greatest impact and hopefully you will take away some of that impact tonight our school is unique um as you've heard we take a little bit different approach to teaching most of our parents choose our
169school because it gives them the ability to educate their kids in a different way not just with respect to their parental responsibilities and and social norms but also to educate them and prepare them like you heard from lynetta and other families for a future employment scientific endeavors ways to express themselves artistically and to take any and all opportunity that their adult future presents to them as a parent almost every action that i take um uh it isn't um is uh surrounds my uh choices and my choices um uh are directly uh tied to my kids their development their future their well-being and that's i think why we're all right here um right now um not just us from family partnership but you all as well because you care about our kids um we're here for
170our children my children are the reason reason why i care so much about this recharger i want them i want to provide them the sustainability that every other charter application applicant has been given [Music] as you all know i've emailed y'all um as a group throughout this recharter prop process i've kept you up to date on what we've been discussing in the progress that we've made as you also know it's no secret that i do not see a direct correlation between the violations that are documented in the recommendation in front of you and the proposed terms of our recharter with respect to the for the religious curriculum and sectarian curriculum prior to the pandemic family partnership um and i have some statistics for you processed and distributed um in 2020 uh 21 22 665 reimbursement
171requests for a total of over 1.4 million that's this school year 2021 20 000 3 million reimbursements um the documentation documented violations from 2017 and 2018 total about forty eight hundred dollars during that time frame we processed about seven thousand uh seven hundred thousand in reimbursement um with second with respect to the second violation we're taking process to document that ar into our bylaws so we won't we won't violate that again as well thanks again for your time we really appreciate it thank you very much chad next we have alma garcia tua t-u-i-a [Music] jennifer olette [Music] okay thank you i know i think it's a timer what just pause our time it's okay i am here speaking on behalf of family partnership and i am very lucky to be a sponsor teacher i am
172also a 504 coordinator for family partnership [Music] it's my birthday today so i would really like you to give me 10 years i would like to speak from my heart this is an important day for me three years ago on this day i am one of your special education teachers that resigned their position [Music] because of my own um feelings that the brick and mortar schools were not allowing me to do and help the special education children um i even came and talked to dr bishop and i thought me resigning was going to be this wonderful thing and it has been very i would cuss but i'm not supposed to cuss so it has been a very um trying time [Music] i did not feel heard so i guess this is also personal um our
173children in special education and those with disabilities are struggling i what dr bishop didn't know and what i didn't share is that i have anxiety [Music] and i see that i have 57 seconds to make my point thank you um and our children who have anxiety also and are struggling in our schools have the opportunity a family partnership to deal with this before they turn 48 years old and i'm helping them and the families so that they can get the support they need and also so they can access the school in a way that is not scary and not anxiety driven [Music] thank you for letting me speak thank you very much jennifer uh kurt next we have uh kirsten jackson and laurie matthews kirsten oh i'm sorry kirsten kristen i'm just going to rename
174you all over that's just what i do i just rename everybody but welcome you have three minutes my name is kristen jackson it has been my privilege to serve as a sponsor teacher at family partnership for over 15 years and throughout that time my understanding of homeschooling has grown i have discovered that there is no one typical family and family partnership but rather the common thread that leaves these families together is the desire to find the best educational fit for their children after partnering with hundreds of family partnership families over the years i would like to share some of the reasons why families choose to homeschool and a few of their stories many families join family partnership out of the deep desire to homeschool and integrate homes going into their everyday life however for many
175parents they never plan to homeschool these families seek family partnership for myriad reasons some families have had life throw them an unexpected curveball these students have been in an accident and cannot attend school they're suffering from a medical condition and cannot be managed easily at school they've experienced bullying or pregnant just have had a baby have crippling anxiety or have chosen to homeschool due to a worldwide pandemic one of my students was diagnosed with cancer as a freshman in high school the doctor suggested that this student may need to put school on hold this student joined family partnership for her sophomore year in the midst of out-of-state travel to the mayo clinic and treatment that left her exhausted she persevered through her classes following a plan that we tailored to her needs the flexibility of
176a homeschool program within asd afforded this student the opportunity to find curriculum tutors and classes that fit with her treatment schedule and still take vet classes through king tech following her passion this student graduated with the family partnership class of 2021. what a joy as a teacher to be a small part of her journey for other families they are searching for a schooling option that fits their unique family situation some families need to school on weekends or evenings to allow for family time or on job schedules many of our military families would like to provide continuity of instruction in the midst of moving some families adopted school-aged children and need time to bond one of my sponsored families that joined family partnership in the midst of a pandemic fulfilled their dream of taking a sailing
177trip for several months as a family for other families their students would like to earn dual college high school credit our athletes who excel at a level that requires intense travel schedules would like to be challenged academically at a much higher level or are far below grade level in one or more subject areas i need one-on-one instruction speaking as a moment as a parent my husband and i watched our daughter who has significant special education needs a flourish at family partnership she's much more confident and loves school now in addition to intense one-on-one instruction to work on iep goals and mini-speech otp sessions she also participates in enrichment classes and field trips with a family partnership teacher as well as pursues her love for art and science at home i would like to extend my
178sincere thanks to asd and to the school board for offering educational options like family partners thank you very much christian [Music] and laurie and after laurie we are amanda clifford welcome good evening my name is laurie matthews and i am a sponsor teacher at family partnership charter school i'm here tonight to share the unique role of the sponsored teacher at family sponsor teachers prioritize the relationships that we build with our homeschooling families many of our sponsor teachers have experience in the brick and mortar school setting and in homeschooling their own children our student numbers are kept at a low ratio to allow the sponsor teachers the availability to spend time getting to know our families in order to develop that meaningful working relationship with them we continue to support them throughout the course of the
179year to include the summer months we learn the strengths and weaknesses of each student and we take our knowledge of the wide variety of curriculum that is available and we support the parents in selecting the fit that they feel is right as the year progresses we continue to meet regularly with our families we prioritize taking the time to respond to our parents when they reach out with concerns or need support sometimes this is in the form of identifying curriculum that the parent or student is struggling with and finding alternatives we assist the parents in finding vendors to provide additional services such as one-on-one tutoring and small group classes we attend iep meetings and 504 plan meetings we proctor the map test and the summative assessments in spring we review the work samples that our parents
180provide each quarter and ensure that our students are continuing to progress with the curriculum and meet standards when i taught 7th grade language arts for the asd i met people who homeschooled their children and i did not understand the lens that i was looking through at that time was one of a public school teacher providing a phenomenal educational experience to my students i then found myself in the position of needing to make the same choice after my son requested to quote do school at home pretty much daily during his kindergarten experience it's important to note that he was in an amazing classroom with a lovely and nurturing teacher but this was a case of the child needing a different learning environment it had nothing to do with what his teacher or the asd was or
181was not providing so instead of returning to the middle school classroom as planned i became a homeschooling parent because it was what my child needed i share my experience to help you recognize that parents choose to homeschool for a wide variety of reasons many of them like myself put their careers on hold in order to do this as our school district's board will you continue to support our current families and those who will come in the future recognize that parents will choose to homeschool and maintain the strength and viability of family partnerships thank you very much thank you we appreciate your time and amanda is online amanda clifford [Music] it's star six yes we can hear you oh good um so i have kind of other things written family partnership has been amazing like first
182and foremost i homeschooled first i've homeschooled for six years and three of those were with a different school and um i've been more than impressed with how family partnership does everything that they do uh their first year the first three years that we were in were i don't want to say they were a joke because they were but it was a lot different than how family partnership does their i mean they really take it seriously um you know we have the whole staff available at the end at the other end of a telephone um but mostly my sponsor teacher our sponsor teacher uh kirsten she's just amazing there's never an answer to a question that she can't come up with and i i find that great because honestly i have a lot of questions as
183a homeschool mom um she's always right there ready and willing to help with whatever i need help with or whatever my daughter needs help with uh that that just you know that's really cool but homeschool has helped me and my kids we we started doing homeschool out of desperation um you know we're one of those families that we just came in for you know we needed another option and it helped it helped my kids excel in the areas that they were not excelling in while also allowing for growth in areas of interest allowing for fun and learning throughout their schooling career which i think is super important we we need to keep the fun and schooling has given me the ability to do that for them so it keeps their interest my eldest daughter graduated
184from home school with honors while getting a full four-year scholarship to uaa through the homeschool program that she was in and i'd really like to give my younger daughter the options of that as well [Music] but in order to guarantee or at least give her the option of doing it she's gonna have to be in longer than five years so that's what i'm asking is just that you would give him a ten year contract thank you for letting me share thank you very much uh next uh in person anna royce [Music] welcome followed by uh danielle kemp which is telephonic welcome thank you for the record my name is anna wilbur royce i'm the daughter of alaskan aviation pioneer joe wilbur i'm a teacher at family partnership so good evening school board members and dr
185bishop i'm going to slow down because i'm running the ones yeah okay first of all thank you for all your dedicated service for all of our asd families 10 years ago i was sitting here in front of a different set of bases having worked many many hours on the recharging process for our current uh charter that's about to expire so i would everyone has said just about everything i had written out to tell you so i'm going to go a little bit candid on you here basically give us 10 years again please and help us so that we can serve the families uh well with uh in terms of the building lease and not limit this that i'll go back to my script a little bit for you here i want to talk about not
186just supporting family partnership but about supporting homeschool in general in asd there are a lot i'm gonna skip my script and just talk to you hopefully i don't make a mistake um there are a lot of homeschooling families much like the ones you heard stories about out in our community that are not part of asd we need to work to bring those into asd they're municipality residents bring them in so that's another good reason to not limit our cap let us help all the people who have all their varied needs for homeschooling and try to throw away the old idea of what homeschooling like looks like that it's that you're in a bubble by yourself with your kids at home in a pandemic well it's it over the years it just trans transformed or morphed
187into something that's more like a modern home school and you've heard a lot of this i'm not going to repeat a lot of it but just in general there are opportunities for students to take classes at their neighborhood schools when that happens many comes back into asd for that when i just don't want to be a broken record here and tell you all the things that everybody else said but the main point i'm trying to say is that old school homeschooling and modern homeschooling are different please renew us again for 10 years we're good for it and let us be flexible in your consideration of the enrollment cap thank you so much bye-bye thank you very much jenna next online we have danielle kim oh okay thank you moving on uh brandi payne and sarah
188dunlap [Music] welcome thank you hello my name is brandi payne thank you to each of you for your service to our district into our community i would like to testify and support a family partnership and ask you to amend the length of the charter being granted to the customary 10 years i have had children enrolled at family partnership since 2016. we are currently in our sixth school year right now our journey with county partnership began after my son had been enrolled in our neighborhood school for kindergarten and we discovered it was not the best fit for him or our family family partnership offered our family a gentle transition into the homeschool lifestyle one i'd previously sworn off his first two years we participated in the group classes and since his third grade year we've taught
189all the subjects at home my two daughters are now also a family partnership so currently i'm a sixth grader a fourth grader and a first grader we have come to love the flexibility that homeschooling offers us and the resources that family partnership has provided while i started homeschooling to help my son with some of his challenges i found the greater benefit in recent years when i was working with my daughter and realized that something wasn't right with her reading and after some discussion with her sponsor teacher and later testing and diagnosis she was diagnosed with dyslexia because of our homeschool schedule she was able to get quickly get in with a reading tutor and in 18 months her testing scores have gone from 8th percentile to 80th percentile in some areas these metrics show me
190that the support she's been able to receive from home and her tutor reminds me of this has been a good decision for our family and i am so grateful for the resources and encouragement i received from my sponsor teacher most recently we've seen the benefit of homeschooling during this pandemic we were set up to adjust to the changes while some of our activities may have briefly changed i saw my children able to adjust quickly and we were able to continue last year with a more normal level school year and have been able to do the same this year likewise family partnership adjusted quickly to the onslaught of students and families over the last two years hiring additional sponsor teachers and support staff they have continued to manage operating under these stressful times and at an
191outstanding level they have earned the benefit of being granted the 10-year charter a significant change that has happened at failing partnership over the last few years and that could be in jeopardy with a shorter charter is the increased space the school has been able to lease and grow into without this space testing becomes more complicated enrichment classes are not possible meeting space with teachers is not as easy to come by and we have a great space for a library finally and there's one thing i've learned about homeschoolers we all love our books so now we get to share these amongst our families having a standard length of 10 years far charter allows us to continue leasing the space that is needed for our school to continue performing at a high level and offering academic success
192to our families i am asking you to reconsider the length of time you're currently giving for the recharter if the ultimate metric to be measured is academic outcome having teachers parents our principal and support staff available to support our families then having them start over the nearly two-year time-consuming charting process in just three short years is not an effective use of their time and resources due to the support of the teachers and staff at family partnership my students have thrived as have their home school peers at family partnership this school has shown the ability to increase thank you very much next sarah followed by john zimmerman welcome we have three minutes thank you can you hear me yes okay thank you so much for the time i really appreciate it um i [Music] graduated from
193family partnership back in 2013 and whenever i heard that they were rechartering i was like oh uh that's really cool because i was part of that process and i'll talk a little bit about that um so i'm really excited to be here and represent for family partnership and share come kind of that echo of all the things that you guys have heard tonight thank you for this opportunity to share my experience with an appreciation for family partnership charter school i spent six years as a student with family partnership and enjoyed many opportunities and advantages that the program gave me in preparing for my future i had the privilege of serving as a student member of the apc board 10 years ago so i was involved in all that rechartering process that they've been talking about
194um and that was a an incredible experience for me [Music] um it was a fantastic opportunity to prepare for community and district investment i went on from high school with family partnership to pursue an education degree through uaa and to intern with an asd school and to quickly join the ranks of a teacher and i'm proud to say i work in the blended program um right over like right up the road and i love it and it's amazing um i lost my place uh in the fast pace in the fast-paced adaptability of our current times with covid and everything else alternative education is on the rise and it's here to stay it's not going anywhere family partnership is a beautiful and experienced example of quality customized education it is a powerful asset to this edu
195to this educational approach included as part of asd's options so it gets to kind of wrap through what asd gets to do part of their motto of educating all students for success um i've spoken to members of the school board and a family partnership apc board members trying to figure out oh why is this only for a five-year charter and whenever i looked into it the answers that i was hearing were that those violations that were listed are being addressed and being addressed quickly family partnership worked hard to make to take immediate action and correct any oversight or errors that occurred they responded to correction with resilience and my question is what more could you ask from a school than that i asked the board i ask that the board value the school as a
196hard-working asset to the district and the anchorage community and that the board provide the stability of a 10-year recharter to the large er age to the larger asu population of families vendors and teachers who are relying on this school thank you so much thank you very much sarah mr zimmerman okay and you will be followed by amanda bush welcome you have three minutes i'm john zimmerman speaking on behalf of family partnership charter schools so i confess i was a reluctant convert to homeschooling years ago that was nine years ago when my older kids were involved in other excellent charter schools here in anchorage and why would we change that we only had two children then but now we're one of those large families lunetta mentioned earlier proud parents of seven one graduate from family partnership
197in 2020 four that are currently enrolled in two that will enroll as soon as they're old enough it'll be over 30 years of school age education by the time we finish so my children hit all points on the academic spectrum from highly gifted to iep and we've always been big fans of the charter schools and schools of choice one of the reasons we made the choice to try a family partnership was one of my daughters she was going into second grade at the time and she wasn't reading she was struggling with math and a neurologist said she would always struggle with math and would likely never read well she truly needed an individualized education once we came to family partnership we realized that this school provides the flexibility to meet the specific needs of our
198students combining this with a great special education advocate and the resources available through the anchorage school district make for a powerful way to help students achieve their best outcome since coming to family partnership my daughter's academic trajectory has changed instead of being behind in every metric she is now up to grade in several areas exceeding standards in reading and on track to graduate and complete the standards for math next year the doctor said she'd never do this and i can honestly say it's a result of the tremendous support the broad options and specifically tailored education that we have been able to provide her through this program in a family partnership it is all about students now some say it helps my wonderful wife was a high school teacher in the district for several years before
199undertaking this challenge but she speaks to the significant difference between conventional education and homeschooling often last year the district's response to covid specifically listed family partnership as a homeschool option to try and it effectively doubled the size of the school can you imagine suddenly having to serve 80 000 students in anchorage that's a little what it was like so to address the larger size family partnership hired a few extra teachers and one of them was my wonderful wife and she is now able to give back to all the great things the school has done for our family so i'm continually impressed with how the administration the staff the teachers everyone at family partnership comes together to thrive amid this challenge because it's all about the students i also signed on to help with the academic
200policy committee this year and it's a great honor to be there and i've seen everyone work very hard to carefully consider and appropriately address all of the needs of the school over this time through this expansion it's been hard for younger siblings because they have not always had the option to enter the school as we hit enrollment caps so please consider a higher enrollment cap and also consider the 10-year full recharter thank you it's all about students thank you very much mr zimmerman amanda and then current karen owens good evening i'm amanda bush i'm one of those families who did not desire to homeschool thank you for allowing me to speak public speaking is not my skill set but teaching my children how to fight for what they love is we love our school family
201partnership has been such a blessing to our family we began schooling from home like most in march of 2020 i loved our local school ocean view but after witnessing the online school from home debacle we quickly realized that it was not for us everyone struggled the teachers the students the parents i applaud everyone here tonight for surviving the 2020-2021 school year however it looked we sought out a new avenue somewhere in between home school and traditional school a friend of my sponsor teacher at family partnership came into came to the rescue she ushered me in she gave me hope and confidence she gave me resources and encouragement she became part of our lives no one can love or guide my children better than myself i see their needs quicker than any teacher with a full
202classroom could with the allotment money i can afford private tutoring for my dyslexic son a job that is way over my head in a condition that went unnoticed in the public school i'm not blaming schools are busy my boys have asthma kova could really take them down i didn't want them to be in a classroom with 20 kids i also didn't want them to miss out on all the social interaction that a traditional school provides again family partnership was the perfect blend for my family we can choose where we want to spend our time we can spend the long and extended stays at our cabin in isolation and we can participate in private classes in our community and when we fill up for friends we can take classes with our school and still be part
203of their community that's what this school is a community of families encouraging and building one another our allotment funds i believe we are boosting local businesses tutors music teachers gyms you name it we are able to tailor each kid's education to maximize their potential these days are long it's not easy but the years are short and i love that i get to be to raise train educate and grow my children please do not shorten our lease please do not rob me or any other family the opportunity of this beautiful system of education family partnership has provided to our anchorage communities if more families understood how charter schools work i believe and more families would choose to charter and our traditional schools will feel less pressure on the teacher-to-student ratio thank you amanda [Music] karen or
204is it carbon carbon welcome you have three minutes all right um i am a product of the anchorage schools i was born in anchorage i went to chinook i went to diamond and um when i had my children i thought well don't do schools or do homeschooling i decide to homeschool i have seven children uh ages four to twenty four so i'm doing this for a long time um four of my kids are family partnership students and when i began my homeschooling journey um i didn't start in the school district i didn't know about it i started with other school districts it was kind of uh most people come into homeschooling [Music] word of mouth they hear a little bit they talk to friends they try to figure out what's the best fit for their
205family and i was with i think alaska gateway then i there are districts that have um different schools and um so i was kind of going from one school to the next figuring out was the best fit working on curriculum at my home and i was with some parents and they mentioned family partnership and my ears kind of perked up and asked a few more questions i investigated i'm delighted that about six years ago we moved to family partnership it's been a wonderful fit for my family um the staff is very responsive everything from the business managers to the my sponsor teacher um i even got to know the principal very well because um i i'm a from a religious family we go to church often that's part of what we do is we can
206blend that well and i mentioned that only because i understand that part of the reason there's a possibility of a five-year charter was because there was possibly some religious curriculum approved and um so i just want to tell you my personal experience with that i don't know any of the details um about what the infractions were with family partnership but i do use religious curriculum but i always know i have to buy it myself and um one time i wasn't really sure i wanted to buy a lot of books that worked on um character development virtue that kind of thing and i wasn't sure where the line was what family partnership would pay for what would be my responsibility and so i contacted my um teacher and i said i have all these books i
207want to buy them for my kids what can you pay for the principal actually went through my entire box of books one by one and said this we can pay for this we can't it was that scrutiny they were that careful with money and um i think it's a fabulous school and i'm thrilled to be a part of it thank you very much karen and that concludes our testimony on [Music] in memorandum zero number zero two five uh i'd like before the board begins at the deliberations i'd like to um for the administration to speak to the recommendation sure madam president i can do that and i want to thank all the folks that testified today um the school is absolutely wonderful and so there's a lot of testimony about what our schools do for
208children and families and um i am right there with them um there are a couple of things mentioned charter schools and then maybe perhaps there was judgment on home schools and i just want to share my my past in regard to this i have taken a district school and chartered it to be a charter school in a district i have grown one of the biggest statewide charter or um school district statewide programs that are correspondents even though they're really not correspondents anna royce is right it is uh 21st century it's very different um i have taken a failing charter school in asd that was about to lose their charter due to enrollment from the state not from us moved it under the school district which is another correspondence-like program i have supported a charter school
209on a bond and also supported uh family partnership and so the the i think that the actions and the recommendations of maybe personalizing this are are beyond reproach because this is certainly simply a matter of [Music] supporting a charter and at the same time carrying through with the job for which i'm hired to do as a superintendent the education the enjoyment of kids the working with families has been tremendous um specifically since a change in not only abc leadership but also district um this the principle uh prior to that time there were numerous violations of your charter with this school and those violations weren't like opinions they were breaking the state of alaska's law and so you hire me to keep this school district running in the guidance with the state constitution and that's what
210i have taken my job and i take my job seriously so um the recommendations all the way from um [Music] they didn't come as a surprise you know i worked with the the principal in the apc chair and again since this leadership the items have been cleaned up um this recommendation came in that after two years we'd have a five-year period of you know no violations and let's go for the charter it is true that filling out a charter is um it takes a lot of time but so does correcting inappropriate behavior with the charter um so lots of staff hours here lots of staff hours at the school i do want this charter to be successful um it is basically just getting this on record that we're going in with our eyes wide open
211and um there is not a problem i do see this charter not only living for another 10 years but another 50 years um into whatever in fact um this is a type of model that most schools will turn to um in my lifetime um a a very integrated approach to meeting kids needs for the program somebody mentioned a jacket for a jacket kind of thing for parents to understand i need this for my child for this but i need this for my child and family saying this kid needs this program this kid needs this program because we're here to meet the needs of students so um it isn't holding anyone back for a building we could always fix those things it was literally to communicate not only to the apc board which is primarily it
212it's not staff it truly is a board that you have a contract with that broke your contract time and time again we don't want that to happen we don't want to have personnel issues or purchasing issues that are violated it is our job to hold those sound we take other people's money meaning the state of alaska and our own taxpayers and we spend it on other people's children that part of my job is serious to me and i believe in this school this school will prevail but you have a recommendation that matches past behaviors but i want everyone to know in the last three years with the principal the staffing and the apc those violations have ended thank you i saw a member uh jacob's hand thank you madame president i actually had a couple
213questions for uh mr schoper if he's still here or perhaps someone else from the apc they're present thank you so much for taking the time to write the board uh regarding uh the uh the family partnership charter renewal and all the information laid out i really appreciate it definitely provided some certain perspective and thank you for for volunteering yes someone who communicates with our board chair regularly the amount of work um is is no small feat so thank you for doing that as well for anchorage kids um i just had a couple questions in reviewing your bylaws um in the correspondence that you sent to the board at least some of the uh significant violations that were noted by the administration uh were in part attributed to a changeover as to who was on the
214apc i'm curious if you could explain to the board what the onboarding process looks like for new members who are coming on and elected to the family partnership apc so um a part of the onboarding process we rely fairly heavily on the aasb um training modules that the district um sponsors i believe and so um in fact uh your chairperson was at our last the last training so yeah um we rely pretty heavily on that process and those trainings don't really cover some of the very specific asd policies school board policies um like the one that was violated um for um in the um the letter at 4 5 6 15 or something like that and so um in order to we also go through a bylaw review process and then a charter review and
215so to kind of our approach to correcting that violation in perpetuity is really to um kind of hardwire that into our bylaw and so in the bylaw where it sec says um uh the principle where it addresses the principle review um our plan is to um insert the specific um a i forget the letter the ap or ar or bd whatever it is um insert that directly into the bylaws so it's there for the future chairs because really that's the chair's job is to kind of as you all know to kind of maintain that decorum in a meeting and make sure that folks that need to be excused are excused and so without understanding that specific policy um and knowing that it's there and that it even exists there's no way for me as the
216chair to be able to um to uphold that policy can i follow up on the president yes and so did the um have there been changes to the the bylaws which reflect uh the curriculum related concerns as well no those don't hit by laws those are more school board or school procedures those procedures really rely on the principal's review of all the curriculum and the madame president can i ask a separate question all right you may thank you so much uh so the other other question i had when reviewing the bylaws and then the apc committee it seems like that there's a um two individuals from one family serving at present i was curious yep okay so knowing that's true i was curious um how that works in practice and if you've noticed any complications
217from that and if how that experience has worked for the um i can only speak from my own experience um we've had that um historically throughout um the time that i've been on the apc and it's kind of an interesting dynamic watching because it's typically a student and a parent it's kind of an interesting dynamic watching that unfold where um the student will disagree with the parent and and watch the the parent and the student kind of dialogue as members and so it's it's um like uh lynetta said and we actually have another um person um in the audience today um that had a parent on the board besides lynetta at the same time and um they uh it's just like we would have like we all have on our boards um they are responsible
218for carrying out um what they believe is the vision of the school and and then that governance authority and so the students take that job pretty respect pretty um to heart i'm in my experience and it's been kind of a good opportunity for them to learn as well um and understand what governance is and then what robert's rules are and all of the laws and the parliamentarian procedures and different things uh oma and different different things so um it's been it's been really well uh well received from what i've observed thank you really appreciate it okay uh member higgins i didn't have any questions yeah i want to talk later but okay uh other book uh member wilson i i do have a question in regards to i i know that you had said that
219the ars the school district's ars are not necessarily covered by the training with aasb so what would be the future uh plan to make sure that that the school the family partnership um board understands that the district's ars is their work between the two or some sort of training on board i mean that's an interesting uh interesting question i mean we would certainly be amenable um to if there were more specific training for um charter apcs um [Music] without going through and reading them and i mean there's there's some it's a pretty exhaustive list um and and understanding then comprehending them um as a parent coming in to that kind of an environment it it doesn't have there's not a lot of context to really put the pieces together to understand the intricacies so um
220it would i would really think it would be helpful for not only our apc but the other rest of the charters to um to have that kind of a training and dr bishop maybe i should have directed that at you i apologize um absolutely training is always available and actually there's a specific advisor and supervisor and uh someone who all the charter schools have for any question they need uh that is actually paid through the indirect um so that they have their um advisor they have a resource agent they have someone that is a go-between so um anything um and for years whatever's needed it's it's created to support charters specifically to be successful and that's a very heavily used resource um within the charter schools um we rely pretty closely or pretty heavily on
221that individual staff member to to uh help us in those kind of um questions of i i've got a cell phone number and i text him and i appreciate having that resource because um we are just volunteers um we are not perfect we don't claim to be um we're learning um much like our students are um we're learning kind of to navigate through um some of those different situations and and we get we get some interesting situations from time to time [Music] member higgins and then i have a question thank you um what disturbs me mostly about these things is the repetitive nature of it over a period of time i mean uh 2018 there's the issue of bypassing the curriculum approval process and purchases being done 2019 in violation of federal and state laws
222and and uh asd policies in the contract is it's again purchasing uh issue of curriculum books materials that's the one with the religious bushes but it's in that same category then in 2019 we get to the issue about how the superintendent evaluation is done and just six months ago it was the same issue as you're coming forth with with renewal and it doesn't look like you know you would think that would be right in front of you kind of deal because it resulted both of them and findings and and significant findings i believe and and that's the part that bothers me it's not and maybe it's just a it i don't know how to describe it other than say it doesn't look like the whole thing's fixed yet because then six months ago we had
223the same problem and i think the administration is doing a good job of monitoring that night applaud the administration for their role in oversight with this this wasn't always the case 10 years ago i'll say it's been much better now than what i remember in the past but it's appropriate and these are federal funds and we've got all these provisions so it's concerning to me that type of issue i think everybody here wants family partnership to be successful and continue that's not an issue but it's the question is the reasonableness of going to five years rather than 10 is there isn't a pattern here yet established that when an issue comes up it is being addressed because you've got the four issues of really two issues repeated from my perspective is that pretty accurate are
224you you see what i'm concerned with six months only six months ago a repeated the same issue yeah so you're speaking of the number three and four three and four and one and two but remember at least a couple years back one and two kind of have to do with the same same issues same issue um the documentation that that dr bishop and her staff shared with us when we met um uh the the the violations and i have a copy in my and my my thing if you like um the violations that i have were from i believe july 2017 to october 2018. those are the purchasing of religious curriculum the memo was issued in january of 19. we had a meeting with with that same individual staff member different person because that person
225since retired um to uh the the folks at the time did and this is my understanding i wasn't involved at this time um they had a meeting to resolve that and i think it even in the memo um the the staff member addressed that he had full faith and confidence at the last paragraph that those things would be addressed and these they were through various different processes um uh at this at the administrator level the principal level and then also um with hiring additional staff to to uh reimbursements and then also hiring a staff member as a curriculum coordinator a dedicated resource for that and so we've we've taken those steps progressively to address those specific issues and to to to put things again hardwire those those things in so they don't happen again now
226now to the uh uh to the second three three and four because those are those are very similar as well right um i can't speak to the the one because i wasn't involved at the time um if i were i i would have probably known that right um and there was nobody on the board the apc that was involved in the 2000 i think the earlier one at the time of the the second violation and i think that's the problem um because they were oh no i was not aware until i got a letter from from uh the staff member at asd that this was even an issue um and so again we're trying to figure out how to hardwire that in to where it doesn't happen again in the future so i think that
227we've we've addressed i think somebody even commented on it tonight we've taken in each instance we've taken immediate action to figure out what the problem is and how we can address it so it doesn't happen again and i think that's the that's what all of our jobs are is to have a problem identified um figure out a resolution for it and address it because every school has problems it's not just family partnership but every school even every charter has problems and issues we've had them this week in our schools but the measure of success is how well you address those problems so they don't happen again thank you member holloman i saw your hand oh thank you um i do appreciate the explanations um [Music] but i think the board and the administration is kind
228of in the same shape as as what's been described for the apc when we see something like this we have to take action as well and i should say also for full disclosure i'm a former family partnership parent my son was there for a year sometime back and i don't think any of us doubt that family partnership is going to continue um certainly you know we all expect the the issues not to arise again something could but if it's addressed quickly we all understand that it'll go forward i i think the idea of a five-year charter makes sense um i know it's disappointing to folks in the room and folks that are looking um [Music] but this is not in any way trying to dismantle the school it is trying to continue it just with
229some closer oversight and the expectation and everything will go back to normal so i appreciate the testimony tonight it is a marvelous program it is something that keeps students in the asd system that otherwise wouldn't just not do well in our neighborhood schools and and i understand that as a former classroom teacher um but it also makes sense to me that the district be able to say these are the actions we took we're going to make sure the situation gets better and i don't doubt that it will so i do support the proposal that's brought to us by the administration hey thank you mr holloman remember listen i'd like to move to amend the recommendation to read um renew the family partnership charter school charter for 10 years through the 2031-2032 school year with an
230enrollment cap of 1850 students and period and then where it um it says where it says it's further recommended that um the that district leadership family partnership charter school administration and the abc board share meet at the end of the 2024 school year to review current enrollment needs and progress in having no charter contract violations pending a favorable review family partnership charter schools should could adjust the enrollment cap is there a second half [Music] it'll be just a minute for us to would you like to yeah she has a second [Music] dave was the second okay would you like to speak to your motion sure um well it's a privilege to be here to speak to that motion um i had the opportunity to attend the family partnership graduation ceremony uh back in the spring
231i've had the opportunity to conduct a site visit to connect with mr shopper certainly to hear and read testimonies tonight um thinking about our students and our families i deeply appreciate that the flexibility and adaptability supports students unique needs and their families goals i feel i respect your judgment and recommendations but i also sincerely feel that the past violations have been addressed and that new protocols are in place that's not something that bothers me right now moving forward um i think thinking broadly i recognize that there are long-term changes which you alluded to to education expanding interest in homeschooling here in alaska and nationwide and frankly i prefer that our local students stay enrolled in asd rather than a statewide correspondence school finally i'm concerned that a five-year term would hurt their ability to lease
232a space which in turn would have repercussions for those families who seek and genuinely need continuity and so the proposal that i have to extend it with this contingency with a 1850 cap um with that meeting still in place a few years down the line to review things i think that'll be a reasonable point in time to assess the situation but i feel confident speaking to a 10-year extension thank you member lessons remember darlene did you have your hand in um as i disclosed uh at our last meeting my my kiddos are just newly enrolled in family partnership this is our first year there i think it's a great program um um the five year is uh i think very concerning i mean the uh [Music] the superintendents um explanation was that things have been
233running well there for i believe she said three years and you know even criminals in this state many criminals don't serve three years probation so i i do think that uh it's a it it's going to be very problematic for them in the future um be faced with this and this you know my uh my children are going to be graduated within four years so i don't see any conflict myself this but i really do think it's unfair to go with a five years instead of a ten-year period um this is the future for asd i believe i think it is not wise to limit it this way um i think there's competition out there now we've gone from close to 50 000 students down to the 42 800 or so and we ought to
234be seeking ways to attract more parents to our district than to do these kinds of um things that's going to discourage more more parents coming into our district we need to get people back [Music] so i think the 10-year [Music] amendment as proposed by remember lessons is a really good idea so i would like to amend the amendment the piece that's missing the 10-year piece is not an issue for me but the accountability piece and we we need a plan we need more than a check-in i would like to see a you know when the district is found to have been out of compliance with any um in any thing either we conciliate and do some things which means that we're not doing business as usual the same way we have to alter what we
235do so i would like to amend to add it to the amend well amend the amendment to include a not a conciliation plan but a plan i just want to see the plan that's not that's going to prevent this from happening again so and i know what you say i believe you i absolutely believe you i was absolutely impressed with you and your board all of you were there for that training uh on a saturday which i thought was absolutely amazing um but for our you know our being accountable um i think i think we need to have a plan in place that addresses the violations so that they do not happen again and that that plan will come to the board for review um and so i would like to look is this the
236this is the amendment this is the amendment one right all right so where it says [Music] that yes so if this amendment passes [Music] i would like i mean the recommendation would be that you submit a plan that addresses the violations and what you are doing to so that they don't happen again which would include training which would include um not not just for your board but since your parents get to order their they get to make recommendations on purchases um i mean there needs to be some piece of training there for parents as well so that's kind of what i'm thinking [Music] i think just at the end and i guess uh in terms because in terms of yeah i think at the end and i would like to probably see i mean if
237we've gone three years without uh a violation that's great but i think uh for our as for for the board to be responsible and do because we are we will be in essence uh setting aside the superintendent's recommendation knowing that there were violations and i don't we can debate on how serious or not serious they were uh but we are responsible they're not gonna you know the funding will be cut but it's not your funding it's gonna be our asd funding and so i need a second for my amendment but so i might be just talking for no reason i'm trying to figure it all out dora said she's second okay so what did you capture katie [Music] thank you madam president and due to um comments that were made at the board level um
238i want to go on record as that my comments had nothing to do with any kind of criminal behavior or some kind of metaphor in regard to punishment um that did not come from me and i i i if a board member believes i insinuated that that that's not what i'm saying we're trying to work to get everything um you know the way the law was designed and uh it is tricky um you know because we do a million things a day but um [Music] the wait two more years was not in any reference to being a criminal allegations thank you thank you appreciate it okay so the new amendment i mean so the amendment [Music] yeah i need to get this right so can we take it at ease for about two minutes sorry
239[Music] so okay like to welcome everybody back [Music] appreciate your patience [Music] and i guess i'd like to hear um okay she's got a refresh but we think we got the amendment to the amendment [Music] so the amendment to the amendment will be added to the end of member lessons uh amendment and it would read the apc would include a corrective action plan approved by the asd administration and submit it to the school board that prevents to prevent furth future violations [Music] so the content of that plan dr bishop could you speak to that i mean would that be um thank you madam president well um all intentions are good and and really the end goal is to have a successful charter that um doesn't have violations [Music] with my experience with um reports i
240would hate um i don't recommend additional paperwork i i in another report [Music] that's presented to the board i just um you have a contract in your charter i think we can you know spell things out um that way um [Music] so they need it i mean i just in in thinking about the total outcome of this and what it would create um more work for administration and charters and more work for for charter people so um that's quite intense to just have another report on another report so um it is an apc board is responsible for the law that's what they're signing up for in their charter and just like board members you're new as well but there's times that it's going to be up to this principal who they hire um who you
241hire as the next superintendent to keep you out of trouble because as lay people sometimes when you not extensively you're you know you you are governed and the people that know the work and know the law and to a t are the ones doing the jobs and so i think we need to defer to um at the charter level principles more because we are educating them they are part of the team uh and and here and and my purpose was to share that the manner in which you hold people accountable through the charter and um i think the charter already has provisions for which you can hold them accountable i don't think an additional something needs to be written [Music] okay [Music] other comments i think andy you had your hand up [Music] i i
242didn't but i'll speak to it i just i agree with the superintendent in this case that the the charter renewal is the right way to do this it again isn't punitive it simply says there's a shorter period before we review again and in the absence of of the same kind of issues there's no doubt in my mind it will be an automatic thing that that it's approved i don't think i'll be here then but i'm sure the next board will do it but the the risk to me is if you did have another incident the question would be what what did the board do or what did the superintendent do um [Music] you want to be able to show that you took some definitive action we don't want to harm the school we we don't
243want to hobble it in any way but we do want to maintain clear control and make sure the same kind of issues don't arise in the future so i'll vote against the amendment um i would vote to return back to the original motion as we had on the floor thank you okay other comments member jacobs thank you madam president um i i what vice president hallman um [Music] stated just now has been i've been mulling over too is that there's a significant likelihood none of us will have an opportunity to weigh in um on this charter renewal again as board members um and so i think it's good that we're weighing the decision carefully and deliberating on it uh i had another follow-up question i guess for because it ties into this and i think
244we we heard that there's a potential training gap that is noteworthy that probably should be addressed in some form or fashion so i'm not sure if it's another question for mr schoper or dr parker but um hearing the discussion that we've heard today um i'm not going to to make a motion to do it but i'm curious if there's agreement that um whether it's working with district staff or even connecting with the board for the resources or the aasb that there would be interest in pursuing you know additional training specifically regarding administrative asd administrative regulations because i as a board member want the school to be successful um i haven't disclosed it yet i don't think it's necessary but i've uh my wife alicia and i have fostered a couple youth who have attended uh
245family partnership and had great experiences and so i think that's the goal is to get us there i'm gonna put the school in the best position so i'm curious i guess the question boils down to um do we feel there's a need for additional training regarding asda ours is that something that we could commit to [Music] we'd have to i'm trying to get something on the record from the apc perspective sure i mean we i think that would be welcomed um [Music] i i think uh like dr bishop said uh you know training in on something that's new that's not right now or currently available would be lovely um it's not to say that we don't value the support from our asd partners and staff but it'd be good to have a better understanding of
246the asd board policies too one of the most rewarding things that we have is a charter school principal cohort we meet almost monthly and this lovely gentleman over here who this is chris barr stand up chris can you put your name on the record please my name is jessica parker and and you are responding to [Music] regarding the the training and chris barr does he's the charter school director and he helps organize all of our trainings and he does a really great job and our cohort of charters we really rely on each other we ask each other questions and we're always looking we're always asking each other's questions we're always looking for more training we're always trying to improve so i think we have a really strong group of people that can provide that okay
247thank you all right so we are back to um [Music] the amendment to the amendment yes yes um thank you madam president i i want to say that um all the training in the world doesn't matter unless you actually follow and i think in the past it wasn't that you [Music] from the violations from what i've read it um it wasn't about not understanding them because there were warnings and discussions and to remember higgins point they continued to occur so um behavior matters and uh what's happened is that um there's been changes in your you know i think someone decided okay we're gonna do it a certain way or we want to get out of this and and then it and it had to do with personnel you know it had to do with really
248serious things and so um i i think that the the track record is moving in the right direction but training alone doesn't do anything unless we say yeah we're we want to do what's right for the students and families and employees of our school and and and that will make things very successful and there has been evidence of this thank you all right [Music] but we're still on the amendment to the amendment we are still on the amendment to the amendment okay and i'm going to call the question in a minute dora no i i just wanted to say that i had the opportunity to go visit the school um and actually had a wonderful tour got to speak with the staff um talk about the issues that had happened in the past and how
249the school has addressed them by hiring the curriculum coordinator so i i appreciate all the effort that's gone into trying to correct what has happened in the past to change that for the future i i would also um not sure how to i'm trying to figure all this out because i i would like to support the 10-year charter um i do support the different optional alternative programs within the district because as many of you have spoken here i've said in the past that every child um i would love to see every child have the opportunity to to find the best education that fits them whether it is the traditional program an optional program or not or an alternative program [Music] just trying to to figure out what process that is so that we can balance
250the wonderful program that you have the wonderful changes that you're trying to that you have implemented and and the accountability that we're responsible for [Music] and so for for me the having some kind of correct corrective action plan whether it's um i mean the intent was not to add extra work but to add extra accountability so that somebody is looking and paying attention and helping that's just what it does for the you know when the you know when when when we know better we do better and we try to make uh you know but we hold ourselves accountable and that and i'm not looking for a whole big um my my amendment to the amendment is just a you know basically what you've already told us but somebody maybe that's going to be um the
251liaison the district's person is going to be making sure that you have the training and you are conducting your meetings and manners that are consistent with the open meetings act and everybody knows that right it's not a surprise okay and then yeah we'll go i'll just do it real quickly you know my dilemma on this one is consistency we've got a number of different charter schools out there with you know when we run into problems along the way this one's pretty significant issue as the superintendent described and so it's not picking this you this charter school is picking all charter schools what are the what do we do how do we handle it and i think i agree it really falls back to the charter it has to fall onto the onto the commitment of
252the charter school to live up to that and follow it and not deviate from that and it didn't meet that standard this time within a short period of time and that's a concern and so it really falls into the issue of how we're going to treat all issues like this with any charter schools if we have this this is the first time i've seen this and that may have had in the past but my previous nine years we didn't have this type of issue of this level and so it's pretty significant to me and that makes it difficult this seems to be a way of saying the five years falls on you not us you've got the resources you can reach out to but what it needs to be a commitment it needs to be
253more than just training it needs to be a commitment to it i think the superintendent spoke to that i have a lot of confidence from what you're saying don't give me i don't want to misread that it just comes down to the point of as an organization accountability and and there needs to be some reassurance and i think it falls on you to decide you reach out for the training you do this because you have to meet the obligation so that's kind of where i'm coming from thank you member uh higgins member jacob thank you madam president so i guess uh an informal point of information i'm hearing at least some board members indicate that they are potentially interested in supporting um a 10-year charter but i'm also hearing concerns that you know concerns on
254commitment and follow-through and then dr bishop clearly stated that we want to avoid additional paperwork or reports and that this document the contract would be the place to make changes and so i'm wondering i guess if there's a time sensitive element it's 10 20 at night we still have significant business that's going to take a look it's not going to be quick and we turn into pumpkins at midnight illegally so i'm wondering if there is some sense or if there's a time sensitive nature to this item in particular where um taking some time to work through potential language and tabling this to our next meeting might make some sense yes you may through the um president to member jacobs may i ask um chris barr we do have a state um deadline that we want
255to make for the state board would it be march or is it december could you come up and say your name and then give us one sure my name is chris barr asd charter school director and i'm not too familiar with the process of who to say to go through to talk to so bear with me uh but uh yeah we do this we got some training for you that is true and um uh this is time sensitive however we want to get this done appropriately with respect to family partnership but we missed the deadline for the december meeting so now we're going to be moving into the march meeting i believe for the state to approve their charter renewal also um just to let you know the contract as dr bishop said in the
256charter contract it states that the apc members will have an annual professional development to be abreast of current happenings policies is all in your contract so like in reference to what dr bishop was saying like uh to have an action plan is great that could work through myself and the apc but ultimately it's the contract that you're binding with the the charter which lays it out in it and here's the contract may i yeah um [Music] chris yep if this was what was your timing thinking i wanted to get your answer yeah no i what i'm hearing i think is that we've at this point if this were tabled until our next meeting in december we've we've this we've already missed the december meeting so march two weeks you make a difference you would have
257time okay yeah december it's cutting it close but uh we would have time okay yeah i just wanted that out there for the the board to consider again as it continues to get later into the night okay so then we have a motion before us uh or do we want to [Music] um procedurally uh if we tabled if the doesn't measure the table wrap it up i think the motion to table would wrap up the discussion and it would table the amendments as well the time certain yes so uh is there a motion member uh jacobs is that what on your list um yeah i can do that for uh discussion purposes to formally get folks thoughts on that i'm trying to find the date of our next meeting maybe katie i'm sure hasn't oh
258yes december 6 december 6th okay so i would i would move to to table discussion on this item until to a date certain of 12 6. i'll second that it's been moved in second to table our discussion on memorandum number 025 until our um including out the amendment to the amendments uh until our december 6th meeting [Music] is there any opposition i know oh that's right we have to do a roll call discussion remember darling i just never mind all right so we'll call for the vote the the vote of the motion before you is to table this discussion uh until our 12 6 meeting remember holloman yes remember jacobs yes remember higgins remember donnelly yes member lessons yes remember wilson yes president bellamy yes [Music] okay so the motion to table uh to us
259december 6 passes unanimously at this point we need to make an emotion i'll accept a motion to extend the meeting past 11. i'd like to leave a motion to extend the medium past 11. is there a second second a point of information i think it would be better to identify a time certain in the motion past 11 doesn't identify a specific time we have to be out by 12. right which is fine i just i i think i object to the to the word past eleven i don't know how that means that okay past 11 p.m this evening just say tonight extended to the 16th yeah i would like i i would support extending till midnight and then we can adjourn if we so choose would you like to reservation i'd like to re rephrase
260my motion and motion to extend i moved to extend the meeting until midnight tonight thank you second moved in second to extend our meeting what's the charter required for a vote on this is there a super majority requirement or just a regular majority for extending the meeting i think it's i don't think it's a super it doesn't require oh is it a super we will check [Music] we've done it on a simple majority before yeah i think we've done it on a simple majority i know the muni does it different but we'll check [Music] i'm nothing to expect [Music] so we we've done a simple majority before and i think we can do that again limit or extend limits of debate is two-thirds okay all right so the same as extending the meeting time limit
261it looks like it's it looks like it's two-thirds remember donely all right so uh [Music] the motion who's sacrament it was kelly kelly and pat okay we have it's been moved in second that we extend our meeting until midnight call the question unless there's some discussion no discussion oh remember holloman [Music] yes amber higgins remember wilson yes remember jacobs yes remember donnelly yes remember lessons yes president bellamy yes okay that brings us to our next action item number three memorandum number zero four one um andy yes madam president i move ast memorandum number zero 041 approval of the april 2022 bond proposal is there a second oh second moved in second move to approve memorandum number zero four one we have testimony a point of order question on this one we've got all options here
262under this motion or we're moving with one motion or one one i mean we've got we're going to hear the public testimony before we do the options okay yes asking for approval i didn't know if he had to say he can't approve all the options so that's the reason why i assess [Music] yeah the motion reads to approve proposition one district-wide roof replacement and improvements security improvements deferred requirements and building life extension and safety improvements and planning design projects in the amount of 95.997 million as outlined in the memorandum it's moved by holloman and second by jacobs and so signed up telephonically we have some people do i have that list [Music] maura smith is mario there you may have lost it [Music] mara moira okay i don't see her bunny limbo bonnie are you
263here you've been so patient [Music] if you don't mind my standing no that is fine thank you yes so i'm addressing the inlet view elementary school uh replacement bond and i am asking the board not to grant the request of a petition by an ad hoc group of people who call themselves friends of inlet view elementary school the petition states quote we are interested in ensuring more of a community process with the design and building of the new ives we want the ives to be on the 2022 anchorage school bond but want more community involvement in the design process i'd like to express first public input the signatories to this petition must not have read the responses of the asd to those very concerns and suggestions which appear on the website of the project maintained
264by the asd i quote the process for public land and institutions district pli as required by the urban design commission was and is being followed by the district on the eyes replacement project the district is reviewing this process and made determined to change their own process to spend additional time and resources on this public process in the future however for this project there are processes in play that have gathered and will continue to gather public input that is above and beyond udc requirements there are two points made by this first the stated response is that the building design committee has complied with and exceeded the requirements for public participation required by the udc second the import of the response is that it is the prerogative of the udc to change their regulations to provide for
265more public input following their regulatory processes it is not the prerogative of the school board to add to or waive any of the present udc requirements of public participation for those who might suggest that the school board require that the bond language be changed to include a design change option to build a new school on the footprint of the old school i respectfully submit this this action itself would negate the bdc process which has chosen the site and the public input process which is overwhelmingly in favor of the design now described in the bond that's proven by emails to the alaska school board and votes at the south edition community council meeting on october 28th the issue of now technical studies at the end of this petition the document suggests studies that need to be
266done groundwater seismic shadow traffic etc so you all have the copies of this written statement i'll just say all those have been done and um some changes were made pursuant to public comment so there's no reason to redo any of those studies the bond is ready to go on the ballot thank you thank you bonnie next we have deborah hansen [Music] hi there this is lois but lois is i'll introduce lois but lois epstein she's not signed up to speak well she is she's sharing it with me is that not okay no that's not okay okay she may sit with you if you'd like okay then i'll read her apart okay cool um hello i'm oh i'm sorry okay i'm debra hansen i've lived next to inlet view school for 40 years next to me
267is lois epstein she's a civil engineer who lives one block away from me on west 15th where the official contacts for the friends of inlet view community school also known as fives we came together to address problems with the proposed school design and location we collaboratively wrote a letter from fives to present to the school district which i gave you it expresses our concerns about the south side location for the new inlet view school in just over one week we gathered 100 signatures which we gave you we didn't know each other but we came together to amplify and elevate our voices personally i've been alarmed at the transparency in the lack of transparency and accountability at the design process i should not have to officially request information on the ives building design and decision and
268locations this information should be available to the public i was one of the three people who contacted the anchorage ombudsman regarding violations of the state open meetings act he determined yesterday and i believe you all have the information that the private inlet view building design committee meetings violated the open meetings act as a 40-year resident of anchorage i'm not going anywhere i'm going to be here anchorage school district created the inlet view school design and location problems through the district's lack of transparency and accountability an anchorage school district can fix these problems i urge you to do so now lois was supposed to speak next i didn't realize we had to sign up separately because we wanted to share the time but i'm going to read her her part my role tonight is to discuss
269the concerns raised in five letters these concerns increase the cost of the school rebuild and or have adverse consequences for students and neighbors our concerns with the proposed design on the south side of this property relate to the water infiltration into homes south of the school constructing the school on less stable ground seismically including the subsurface pete having to be replaced traffic and walking safety on and near the main street entrance and exit to our neighborhood health impacts for students and others from school shadows on a large portion of the property's green space we requested the asd study each of these issues thoroughly and quickly before making a final building design and location decision we believe that through such studies the school on the north side of the property would make the most sense last
270i must emphasize that fives wants the asd to take our concerns seriously which has not been the case to date we were able to mobilize over 100 people to sign our letter in a short period of time we want to support the school ground we know broad community support is necessary for the bonds to pass we request that you reopen so we can fully endorse the school bonds thank you very much for your time i know it's a long evening and people keep talking but thank you very much for listening to us thank you very much both of you thank you and uh moving on in person we have david hansen followed by rebecca love welcome hello and good evening my name is david hansen and i mentioned previously this month during testimony that i'm
271a wildland firefighter i failed to mention that i also just received my master's in architecture and it is through this lens of architecture i'm about to talk i'm i'm looking at this proposal but first i'd like to take a moment on my testimony and sincerely thank each member of this board what you're doing right now is the purest form of public service and for that i truly salute you so thank you um i'm here like so many others to testify about the proposal for the new school and i'm here to ask you to reconsider the proposal placing the school on the south end of the site we agree that ives in lakeview school is a community school it is where my dad taught me how to ride bikes it's where my parents first strap skis
272to my feet and now as an adult it's where i walk my dog it's where i meet neighbors and it's the path i take when i go to vote placement of a two-story building on this the south end of a site effectively destroys the current community atmosphere that ives has so successfully fostered for the past 60 years so i'm asking the parents and staff teachers of inlet view to consider this as proposed ives is a 60-year project that many of you will pass through its halls before it eventually closes its doors but it is the surrounding community that will stay put is it worth one academic year that requires more planning and more gumption to be a success that maybe requires students to be bused to surrounding schools or educated and relocatables or some combination
273of demolition and construction that allows students to remain in place if ultimately the result is a building that serves the current students teachers staff of lives but also the future students and staff advise and the surrounding community if that building continues to foster the stewardship of ives that that that the adjacent neighbors have uh so effectively done for 60 years i am truly i am hoping that as we move into winter and the days become shorter the shadows longer that you will see we cannot make the same mistake that we have made so many times in anchorage by placing a building on the south end of the lot effectively shading the north of the the north end of the grounds i think at this point at 65 percent we could take a moment reconsider where
274we are include more community members and move forward with the school proposal we can all support as proposed now where the building stands it is not as a building i can support and there's not a bond therefore i can support and i will ask others to do the same thank you and good night thank you very much sir rebecca oh rebecca uh star six to unmute guys can you hear me yes we can hear you you have three minutes yes hello okay i'll i'll try and be brief it's so late um i'm rebecca linford love i was at the meeting in person for the first couple hours but as a working mom had to head home to call in so i apologize that you can't see me um but thank you so much for listening
275at this late hour i moved to south edition in 1986 i was in inlet view orca my siblings were orcas and my kids are orcas we all live within two blocks of inlet view along with our mom who supports this bond lives in south addition and is also a civil engineer between us all we have nine inlet view alumni including three students currently attending i'm here tonight to echo the chorus of voices that are in support of keeping the inlet view replacement project on the bond as i'm sure this board is aware the primary purpose of a neighborhood school is to be a school and students should come before people's preferences two weeks ago i submitted a letter to the board regarding the lack of safety at inlet view's current facility one of my children
276attended denali elementary school when there was a shooting on campus while students were in school in addition to the quick action of office staff the design of that school with its line of sight from the office to the front door kept the kids and staff safe that day that day has stuck with all of us who were involved it is totally unacceptable that inlet view is one of the only schools in the district that does not meet this standard this isn't about aesthetics or a fancy school it's about basic safety and function i remember being a kindergartner in libya in 1988 when the pipes burst and the school flooded i recall attending classes in the portables in the early 90s both the same plumbing system and the portables exist in the same school my children
277attend now 30 years later it is long past time for a replacement we can't afford to put this off any longer and it's already been determined that replacement makes more fiscal sense than renovation the momentum is here now and so much of the work has been done there were a number of years when south edition lost some of its family presence we are currently experiencing a wonderful return to the south edition of my childhood with kids all over the neighborhood ready to attend a fantastic neighborhood school who recently worked tirelessly to be distinguished as an ib world school we are all ready to support a healthy high quality neighborhood school we love the healthy and connected lifestyle that our neighborhood school affords we are involved and we are invested do not let these kids continue
278in a school facility that is light years behind most of the district we have done our part and now it's time for you to do yours please put inlet view on the bond and let's finally get this going for our kids and for generations to come thank you so much thank you very much next we have caleb and [Music] is she there followed by uh representative zach fields [Music] i don't see kayla unlined so representative zach fields followed by janine wilkins welcome uh thanks chair bellamy thank you school members for already asking the administration to put inlet view back on the bond package i'm here tonight that to ask that you pass the bond package which includes the replacement of inlet view and other other moving parts that package as you've heard inlet view parents
279and neighbors have worked hard for years to replace an obsolete building and at the same time those parents neighbors teachers and administrators have built a world-class learning environment in terms of instruction activities inlet view is the old school in the district it's a grossly inadequate space structure to serve student learning needs or to provide safety as the previous testifier mentioned inadequate entryway safety sewage leaks non-functioning heating systems totally inadequate space for instruction activities these are unacceptable at a school into which the principal teachers parents and students have invested so much when asd has an old facility like this your staff analyze whether major renovation or building replacement is more economical and provides better value to taxpayers asd staff has analyzed this and determined that replacement is more economical compared to renovation um and i've seen
280zero evidence that would need that would cause you to second guess that major plumbing mechanical upcoming roof replacement you would have to reconfigure the entryway you would have to expand the building there's no reason to think that renovation would be cheaper when in fact you would have significant new construction meeting the actual capacity needs for the structure moving on the issue of building design i think it's important to recognize that parent neighbor teacher and administrator's input has already informed the 65 design and the district has carefully analyzed a wide range of issues including location of the structure size and number of classrooms one story versus two-story most logical layout of playgrounds seismic safety drainage parking student drop-off and effective shadows all those have already been analyzed they will continue to be analyzed asd has done
281the right thing by bringing on additional neighbors to the building design committee including some critics of certain design features they continue to have an opportunity to weigh in and maybe they'll be persuasive and and get what they want in terms of aesthetics and layout by adopting the bond item with inlet view on it you're supporting replacing an obsolete building and maximizing neighbors input and that's the right course of action our community has weighed in with a community council resolution urging the school board to include inlet view on the bond and to add neighbors to the building design committee which you have done at that meeting community members specifically rejected amendments that would have added contingency language to the bond so to the extent that year anyone asked for contingency language just know our community council
282voted down contingency language it's very clear that the school board cannot possibly litigate every single design issue on this school or any other location on site the right height playground configuration etc that's why you have a building design committee and it's been expanded to maximize public input i think it's important to remember that this school is not merely aesthetic but it's purpose built to serve students that's the purpose of this school the bdc's composition ensures that that will happen while also taking neighbors views into account i know that each of you have taken a lot of time to study this visit the site talk to neighbors thank you for researching it thoroughly and for your action tonight thank you sir janine welcome you have three minutes thank you followed by jim renkert his was submitted
283in writing and then so mitchell column dear honored members of the anchorage school board i come to you this evening wearing many hats to advocate why you should keep lake otis elementary on the school board on a school bond for the 2022 school year i am currently an employee of the district and i am a close resident of the umed area to the school itself and this past week i've been serving as an administrative intern in the asd children um program educational administration program at lake otis i say this to offer up my perspective for my time sort of they're serving at the school why lake otas should remain on this year's bond lagota serves a diverse and widely spread out community whose voice of advocacy is limited i can tell you as a resident
284that when i step out of my house every year when the weather gets warm lively voices come from the lake otis playground and adjacent wendler track can be heard daily this school is a central focal point to the community in so many ways the safety of the playground is of paramount importance to keep neighborhood children safe lighting is also vital since there are homeless camps in the adjacent woods and waves of people moving through the area are common i have first-hand experience with this lake otis itself has been broken into by very the very windows that face the the playground in the life skills wing due to the windows being of thin quality speaking of the life skills area built in the 1970s as an addition i spent a lot of time there this week
285and marveled at the lack of handicap accessibility to the wing the corridors are narrow with sharp corners that make wheelchair access extremely difficult lake otis has 24 special needs students in their program and only two small bathrooms that are not big enough to handle the volume that that number of students generates sometimes only one student can be serviced at a time in one of those bathrooms due to wheelchair accessibility like otis was built in 1954 and has had two remodels but as you can imagine all of this comes with implications of life expectancy for various ages of roofing working throughout the building roof leaks are evident in all parts of the building one teacher's classroom i walked into strategically places his garbage can to catch the inevitable leaks he will have yearly in his classroom
286there's mold growing in the life skills wing no doubt to the water collecting from the roof over the years all of the installations have reached their life expectancy we all know that having a safe and clean environment to learn is critical for the success of any student this is a much beloved neighborhood school where the average longevity of its staff hovers around 20 years there are many dedicated stakeholders who make sure this school is running smoothly every day despite the challenges their building presents please show your support of their work by helping provide lake otis with the school they are worthy of thank you thank you very much janine jim winker oh his is your dragon thank you mitchell column welcome and then uh danielle kemp is he only madam president oh he's just writing
287one president in the past we had a policy that things that were submitted to the board um such as this would identify who authored them that's from the staff and that's coming up yeah well it'd just be really helpful if it's said on it or any other things that we are given who provided them i think we had that policy that was before most people were here i think these are from the building design committee uh documents who it's from [Music] point well taken mr donnelly thank you [Music] you may continue sir we have three minutes welcome thank you my name is mitch colum i'm a parent of a future student at inlet view and i'm also an adjacent neighbor [Music] i would like to inform you that there exists a replacement option that allows
288the existing school to remain operational during construction and also build the replacement on the north end of the lot this option was presented back on april 1st 2021 to the building design committee but not adopted there is no need to go back to square one in the design process and according to asd's building project team if the north end build option is adopted soon it can be advanced to the level needed for bond inclusion and summer 2022 groundbreaking i encourage the school board members by means of a resolution and also the addition of bond language to direct the asd building project team to adopt the north end build this is the best option to continue moving forward in the process it ensures both inclusion on the 2022 bond and support of the bond and also
289allows the existing school to remain operational during construction while adhering to the 2020 bonds language that referenced the replacement school being located on the existing schools site all while addressing water drainage issues shading concerns and seismic safety brought up by neighbors and community members with the currently proposed south end build i would also like to point out that after the adoption of the currently proposed south end build the estimated construction costs increased by 9 million from 21 million to 30 million a 42 percent increase as shown with the record turnout of community council members at last month's meeting that exceeded 100 people and the passage of the resolution supporting the replacement of the school yet asking for a more objective analysis of the building options and location choice we owe it to the next 60
290years of students the anchorage taxpayers and the community members that didn't get a say in this process to take the appropriate step back this step back will allow the opportunity to ensure compliance with the 2020 bond language and address many issues that have been brought up by the hundreds of concerned neighbors and community members that have signed in support of a recently delivered letter to asd voicing their concerns with the currently proposed plan [Music] please do not put the anchorage municipal taxpayers on the hook for an additional nine million dollars of unnecessary expenses all for the sake of one year's inconvenience reduction during construction of the replacement school [Music] it sounds like listening to the teachers earlier this evening that they would appreciate you use that 9 million for their raises thank you i appreciate
291you guys putting in the late night here thank you [Music] okay we have uh now we have in person misty nelson [Music] followed by lynn mayberry burke is that telephone okay [Music] well good evening this tired night uh misty nelson current librarian and former classroom teacher at lakota elementary and they wanted to take this opportunity to share my ask of the board and supporting the inclusion of lakotas elementary in the april 2022 uh bond proposal it's my understanding a number of colleagues and families have provided written testimony as to why our school should be included in the proposal so i just want to have opportunity to verbally share what has been expressed in written form so one of the greatest areas needed for improvement is our k-6 life skills pod area that you heard about
292it's home to over 18 life skills students of varying needs and at least nine staff members and it's also home to some safety and well-being concerns for one there is no hot or warm water available in that pod hand washing washing of dishes or fruit teeth brushing cleaning up after accidents etc is all limited to cold water usage another factor the windows would um excuse me the windows do not open properly and two out of the three classrooms in fact if the windows were to be open someone would need to push them closed from outside and someone else would need to be standing on the inside to latch them closed all while making sure their life school students are safe and secure currently staff would not be able to perform our safety protocols in a
293true lockdown if they choose to have their windows open one window in this pod was broken into pre-pandemic and now has plexiglas and that's that's how it's remained since the need for a light breeze on warm spring days or the need for ventilation during these times of covid and just the need for fresh air on any given day is real and not adequately afforded to our life skills students and staff another aspect of this proposal that is near and dear to me is the need for an updated playground portions of our playground have been broken and closed over the past several years due to wear and tear and safety concerns the students utilize all parts of our outdoors the blacktop the hill the field and the playground but even with the variety of spaces they're
294still limited in offerings our kiddos deserve a safe updated playground and one that has lighting for our long alaskan winters as it is currently not covered under any light this lighting would also serve as another component in keeping our school and community safe in the evenings we sure love our school our home away from home and we want to it to receive the tlc it so desperately needs so thank you for considering the addition of like otis elementary to the spring bond proposal good night thank you misty [Music] lynn [Music] then star six to unmute are you there hello good evening yes can you hear me we can hear you good evening thank you good evening anchorage school district board members and leadership i am lynne mayberry burke proud principal of lake otis elementary home
295of the huskies thank you for this opportunity to speak on behalf of the lake otis elementary school community and to advocate for our inclusion in the april 2022 school bond proposal lake lotus elementary was built in 1954 it is much beloved school needing some love and maintenance visitors need only to look up as they walk into classrooms and in our hallways to see the discolored tiles evidence of the leaks we experience after heavy rain and melting snow some of our teachers strategically place trash cans in the areas of their classroom that they know consistently leak our playground is aged and needing an upgrade it is not uncommon for our students to get splinters from the wooden structures one of our play structures needed a support beam reinforced after cracking this past spring the movable handrails
296of another play structure had to be removed a few years ago after children were getting hurt our playground is the place where many children in the area go to play not only during school hours but in the evenings and weekends as well we want to encourage our children and families to have fun and be active together in a well-lit safe and exciting place space many of our students refer to our playground as their park we are home to three life skills classrooms situated in the eastern part of our building which was constructed in the 1970s the space was not intended to support the needs of a life skills program however our staff to have a stellar job making it work the bathrooms do not provide enough adequate space and are known to have plumbing problems
297there is no hot water in this part of the building the classrooms are small and do not provide a lot of storage space and can seem crowded with a large staff the corridors in the life skills pod are narrow and can be difficult to maneuver with multiple children in wheelchairs wagons and or walkers the windows in each of these classrooms are single paned and have black mold around the edges one of the windows was pushed in a few years ago allowing a homeless person to gain entry to our buildings in in the evening the life skills pod is in serious need of being remodeled to create the learning space that is physically accommodating safe and supports the specific needs of our population of this population of students lake otis elementary unifies several individual neighborhoods into
298one it is a special place we have many children who represent a second or third generation of huskies attending our school our school is 67 years old and many other systems have extended beyond their expected life we respectfully request your consideration for lake otis elementary to be included in the april 2022 school bond proposal thank you for your service to our district and have a wonderful evening thank you lynn uh next we have amanda compton is amanda online yes amanda star six to unmute can you hear me can you hear me yes we can hear you you have three minutes good evening my name is amanda compton and i testified at the last meeting which was quite memorable not my testimony but the whole meeting itself you guys have a very very hard job and
299i am not envious but extremely thankful we have a very polarized situation right now as the daughter of an alaska supreme court judge and a criminal defense attorney i pride myself on being fair honest and considerate of various perspectives on issues regardless if they hold my own interest sometimes this means taking an unpopular stance which i'm sure many of you serving on the board can identify with i care about being fair and just i think publicly funded projects should be fair and just in the school board should only support projects that proceed fairly and justly this one has not and i speak to inlet view but it can start to the bbc participation guide given to members in the october 2020 kickoff meeting says this our intention is to facilitate an open process where information
300and feedback is forwarded through a refinement process that's both collaborative and cooperative how does an open process translate to the closed meetings the bbc held the guidance u the document is on asc letterhead gave the bdc was disregarded i don't live under a rock and there are over 100 other frustrated upset and scared people that found out about this project's proposed site just two months ago it is way beyond aesthetics do you want to support asd projects that disenfranchise parts of our communities and disregard your own guidance and principles to the best of my knowledge the bbc's outreach included a newsletter to parents or guardians of guardians of inlet view students and a postcard with a dead zoom link it should be clear that with so many frustrated people good people well-intentioned informed and engaged
301people taking off weeks of their time from work time away from their kids to fight for a better school location people who would have been wheeling allies had they been adequately informed it should be clear this is not the right design choice but what is the design that proceeded to 35 completion on the northeast corner that would result in no student busing no deleterious effects to the school's neighbors i want the bond language to support a new school and take this northeast design to completion we should all want this if we want to be a cohesive and neighborly neighborhood i would prefer to donate money for a better design school than legal representation you the school board members can create a project that doesn't pit people against each other or devastate part of a community
302this could be your legacy choosing to support a model for asd projects that's actually democratic and inclusive keep the school funding in the bond change the language to the northeast corner site that's already been partially designed thank you and good evening thank you very much uh next we have uh martin hansen and sarah osborne sarah yes sarah [Music] welcome mr hanson i have three minutes bishop school board members um my name martin hansen and i've lived next to in the new school for 35 years based on information i received from the school board website and from the yeah [Music] uh peter a piece in anchorage daily news a couple of days ago it's clear that we can save 10 million dollars that's 10 million dollars by replacing or rebuilding inlet view school at the north
303end of the property where it has been for the last 60 years [Music] this would cost 10 million less than building a new school at the south end of the property [Music] asd the anchorage school district selected the south end of the property as a building site so that parents staff and students would not be inconvenienced during the one year of construction that is the sole reason for selecting the worst possible site asd's plan destroys the open sunny playing field the two-story big box school will shade the children's play areas for most of the school year and it will be built in a high earthquake zone on an area that is known to be an old swamp covered with fill [Music] inlet view school should be rebuilt repaired or replaced where it is now the
30410 million dollars saved could be used for new roofs rehabilitation and safety upgrades at other anchorage schools and we've heard plenty of testimony about schools that could really use that money i think uh the young lady from bart was expired it was especially effective speaker this evening or let's save the taxpayers 10 million dollars and not put it on the bond or not didn't mean not that let's save the taxpayers 10 million dollars and just plan to spend what we need to put in the viewer belongs i've lived in anchorage for 44 years i love it here i'm not going anywhere i support good schools building the right location and at the right price thank you thank you very much [Music] okay sarah yes welcome yes we can hear you [Music] all right hi my
305name is sarah osborne and i'm an ast educator a parent of two and i'm calling in today from denying a land um i urge you to to include the inlet view replacement in the 2022 bond package inlet view is a highly successful school that is evidenced by the school's data it is evidenced by the recent accomplishment of earning an ib designation and is especially evidenced by the powerful and well-written testimony offered by the young inlet view student earlier tonight albeit now several hours ago the displacement and disruption that would result from not rebuilding the school would be detrimental to student learning and outcomes asd should be looking at inlet view and looking at what is working well so that it can replicate that across the district so why is inlet view so successful it is
306the dedicated loving and professional teachers and staff who have partnered with families to build a robust learning community the teachers are the heart and soul of inlet view and the school's success is largely owed to them specifically teacher turnover has been low at inlet view so please support the inlet view replacement on the 2022 bond to keep this learning community community together and thriving and please retain excellent teachers and educators at inlet view and all across asc by offering fair aea and totem contract thank you very much sarah and then david mccarthy i don't see him there [Music] so that concludes our [Music] looks like we have two more people is that arthur jensen i don't see author jensen what about mike schrader yes hi mike can you unmute yes good evening members of the
307school board thank you for the late evening um i won't belabor too much i think representative fields and a number of other speakers um eloquently summarize much of what i feel about the previous design process and all the work that has gone into the building so far in my daytime life i am a i'm an attorney and i've spent most of my career or much of my career practicing municipal law i one of the things i'd like to point out in my support of option three in your packet which is the the largest bond package is that municipal bond yields are at uh it's not a historic low very close to it um the longer projects wait the more likely it is that we'll be paying more for borrowing out of our property tax dollars
308as the years go by and we sit on things i think nearly everyone would agree that we'd much rather be paying our money for infrastructure rather than on interest as we go forward um i also believe as the parents of two future inlet view orcas um that building a replacement that keeps the momentum the morale the spirit of what is a high performing school in place um and avoid long-term disruption to two schools um you know wherever the children are bust and to uh inlet view itself into the community and everyone else whatever we can do to minimize that i think is important children have had enough disruption in their lives over the last two years and we should we should definitely focus on ensuring that children can have their elementary school experience um with
309minimal disruption um thank you for all your your hard work um and i think uh most of the board had the right ideas and the administration was directed to come back with additional options and i would uh strongly urge you to support option three for the april 2022 election thank you thank you very much okay so the motion before us is to approve prop uh proposition one uh bishop would you like to speak to your to the recommendation uh thank you madam president and i am requesting uh tom roth and his team from the cpnc uh who put this bond package together [Music] and i believe this we have a handout correct other than the memos we have so so madam president uh we did get a couple of information requests um over the past
310two weeks one one of which uh from member jacobs was a comparison uh between a full replacement for inlet view and a renewal so i believe board members have received that product also as a part of the discussion from the previous board meeting there was a request that the district would present options to the board and we provided some options one specifically would add inlet view to the bond proposal and a a value comparative [Music] movement of projects that we're on or are on the proposal would be moved to 2024 and that was the um the lake otis uh renewal and the chugiak high school roof and that kept the amount of the bond proposal under 100 million about 98 billion the other option was to add inlet view uh to the existing bond proposal
311in its entirety that's labeled option three and that amount i believe is around 126 million okay uh sorry mr jacobs yeah i guess i have more of a procedural question i appreciate i think i have a solid grasp and i've spent probably far too much time with each of you over the past month or two so my apologies but it's all always been good information um at this point we've made a motion um to improve the memorandum does that entail also having moved one of the proposals at this point as well or no and if so if not what is the appropriate procedural mechanism to actually move forward with one of them so the motion before you right now is to uh approve proposition one if you want to amend that you may [Music] may
312we amend it before approving it uh yeah yeah okay okay all right okay so is there any discussion on uh questions for the staff on the recommended the recommendation the recommendation is for it's for um option one or yeah bond option one that's the original meaning the original that we passed in 2020. correct that i thought oh that we saw two weeks ago yes uh pat did you have a i see your well you did somebody else to take lead if they wanted to i didn't okay all right to adopt option two for the 22 bond yes a second so you mean you you're mending you have to yes yes you are mandated an amendment so i moved to amendments can we see the other screen so so madam president i think what uh what
313i would propose to to member lessons if the intent is to to adopt what what the or what the administration presented as a potential option that you you would specifically as a part of your amendment uh request that the inlet view project be moved to 2022 and that the uh the lake otis renewal and the chugiak high school uh would be removed from the bond if that's what i'm understanding okay so i mean i think i think we have to be specific on the projects that you were you were requesting to add and the projects that you are requesting to remove from the 2022 bond proposition i um i think as it may have you may yes you may thank you um as a point of clarification i assumed that the we had option one
314and then we were given option two and then we were given option three and my assumption was that option two and three were each sort of separate suites so that we could then for the president so so the the the administration gave a very specific bond proposition to the board which had the the specific project so so what we were asked to do is to give you something to consider not that we are recommending or advocating for any of those other two because what the administration has presented is what our recommendation is so if the board wants to modify that proposal that was submitted to the board two weeks ago then it's really it's it's incumbent that it would be specific to the project projects that are on the bond now that they would be
315removed if you are recommending to do that and to add whatever projects it is the board would want to add but it would be specific okay so remember lessons yeah may i read the suite of well you you can speak to your motion because you got a second okay my intention is to generate a bond at 101 million dollars 101 9 101 million dollars 951 000 that does not add more debt than asd will retire so it's under the 102 million threshold and when it's averaged over two years we'll approve a bond debt of less than 51 million dollars per year which exceeds about only two of the previous bonds passed over the past 10 years specifically within that amendment of option 2 i would move to add a 12.9 million dollar lake otis elementary
316school building life extension moving it from option three to option two because we can't i mean i don't know okay right yes [Music] i don't know [Music] yeah you have come in option one that's the option before so you want to go with option two just read it you want to read the options i would recommend that you uh first of all she is she what she wants to do is go with option two but then there are amendments within option two and so she you can't do them all at the same time [Music] i can't apologize she can move by substitution um which would be i think the simplest way and i think what she's moving is option three and if you if you do it by substitution we have it in front of
317us [Music] you thank you member holloman i move to substitute proposition one with option two okay and there's this did you is there a second second okay do you have kdd can we be provided with a hard copy of option two uh it well we don't it's in your do you have your oh good thank you kelly [Music] um may um suggest further amendments yes okay uh what first of all now we've got a we've got a vote to um to substitute option two yeah all right any discussion remember donnelly thank you madam president yeah um first of all i don't support moving forward with building a new school tearing down an existing school i do support doing a major remodel at inlet view and i would even support moving that forward on the calendar
318somehow if it could be done in a way that didn't severely impact all these other projects that are long overdue also especially the school safety projects so my question is under option two mr roth is there any reduction in our school safety projects that are contained in the actual main motion before us through the president to member donnelly no uh the the security vestibule um and security improvement project proposal that you see in option two is the same as in the proposition that the administration presented to the board is that that 16 million yes ma'am so what the only are the only things that drop off mr roth then the lake otis project and the chugiak [Music] through the president that is correct and those projects we would propose be uh re um relocated on
319the 2024 bond proposition but that would take another separate vote on the six-year plan so that wouldn't be done by this particular motion [Music] yes i mean the the the board is going to to have the board will approve the the six-year plan i think though member donnelly that to be sure whatever the board votes on the um bond will reflect on year one and we would propose that that we would put those two on the six-year plan that the board would approve subsequently well madam president i really think this is going to make this bond very very hard to sell to this community um option two i i yeah option two i think moving forward with a full rebuild of this school it how are you going to justify not the other two schools
320that are on the six-year plan too then and i think it's a mistake i don't think it's it's the best and highest use of the money at this particular time if we had unlimited resources i'm all in favor i think it would be the most cost effective way to do this but we don't have unlimited resources in this community the i also don't know how to explain to people with our population down six thousand students over the last six or seven years and with this particular school being surrounded by schools with as little as 58 percent population i think if my memory might have been 68 uh how we can justify building a new two-story school on a site that's going to cost us an extra 9 million because we're moving it to the south
321100 yards because of the soil conditions there so it's just a real real hard sell that i think could put the whole bond proposition into jeopardy and i don't want to do that i mean i want to see these coupons pass because they've got really essential projects in here including the safety projects and i'm very concerned that this will be an incredibly difficult sell to this community okay let's see who hasn't spoken you just spoke to your amendment let's do that i will come back to you i remember jacobs any comments at this point no minimum i donnelly i mean i'm sorry holloman [Music] um i i think we're we're moving forward clumsily i also support the addition of like otis um which i believe would be option three but i think since this is
322on the floor i would vote for option two to be accepted and then we can amend it um as we wish in that case i i do support the motion by substitution thank you [Music] other comments pat you got your mic on or is that just to make sure yeah um i i support the option too i think that's the right way to go at this point i know the issue is there between north and south and i know there's some questions i have in my mind in that just to figure it out but i but the but the goal of inlet view is i think it's the right thing to do and i think uh getting it on the bond we can we can still review that question uh in line with it but
323i think we need to move forward quickly right now and we've got a time frame here that we have to meet and i think it's the right thing to do it's it's too much too much to be done otherwise so um i would hope that we get this through and then we'll deal with okay so the amendment is before you is to substitute option one with option two which reads differently and the amount would be 98.1 uh 98 million uh 163. [Music] so yes i would move to amend the proposed amendment to replace [Music] anywhere it advocates for doing a replacement school with doing a major remodel for endless in olympia elementary there's a point of order and a motion to substitute the substitution can't be amended until it becomes the motion it's not a
324regular amendment point well taken mr halloween um and so if you you got me sure remember remember remember donnelly if you could just hold that just one minute we'll we'll get to you so i'm calling the question on the the uh amendment the substitute amendment whenever you're ready katie remember higgins yes remember donnelly very much no [Music] remember holloman yes member lessons yes remember jacobs yes remember wilson yes president bellamy yes [Music] and that amendment passes six to one then president remember donald trump i would move to amend the new main motion to replace any references to the inlet view replacement school project with the an inlet view major remodeling project design and build using the location of the existing school i have a question man nope not not yet till we get a second
325[Music] and that that motion fails for lack of a second [Music] the most so are there any so now kelly did you have uh other amendments or did you have uh i do have a question um i have both a question and a series of amendments a series of amendments yeah i got a few questions okay quick question um is it there was a reference this evening to the cost of a north side development being in the ballpark of 21 or 22 million dollars is that [Music] it was during testimony and i believe it referred to earlier building design is there a significant price difference my question is is there a price difference based on a south or a north side build so and and if i might just just just address this uh you
326know it it seems to me that that you know and i understand i can i can certainly understand the the position of folks that live in that area but you know it it seems like there there is a kind of a misrepresentation of the building design committee that they have disregarded options that they've not done their due diligence uh in in this entire process and i think that's false that i think they have done their due diligence that they have received input and and they are doing their best to deliver a good uh design for for this school um so and and we're they're not here so i i can't i personally can't speak to your question i don't know but i'm sure that given the options that they had available to them that they
327did a very thorough job of looking at those uh weighed against criteria evaluated criteria and they came up with a recommendation so i as far as this cost disparity uh you know this discussion about being able to build and everyone knows that's a small space that site is small to try to build a new school where the existing school is and not affect the existing school i'm i'm i'm not so sure i can i can see why they probably uh did not go with that that option if it if it even was considered a viable option to begin with [Music] thank you may i afford an amendment sure thank you um i move i move to amend [Music] memorandum 41 to add 12.9 million dollars to add the 12.9 million lake otis elementary school billing
328life extension to the april 22 bond proposal sir okay it's removed in second to add legolas to the [Music] to the motion to the final to the red to the substitute proposition which is now option two to option two you want to add lego correct and it's been second discussion you want to speak to your motion yes thank you um there weren't nearly as many people here to testify on lake otis's behalf um i did take the time to travel and visit do a site visit on friday it's an old building it's older than inlet view it has leaky roof spots all over in classrooms and hallways it is beloved by its students and the fact that the teachers are doing an amazing job i was particularly struck by the condition of the wing that
329houses the life skills area which services a number of students the bathroom facilities they're not modern they don't they don't serve students needs and i was also struck by the safety needs with respect to the playground which doesn't currently have lighting which has broken playground equipment so the building life extension in my perspective is something that will serve all students it will serve the community uh an individual on the staff said yeah families in the neighborhood referred to as the park um and it will really serve the needs of the life skills students who will stand to benefit from functional bathroom access classrooms with adequate ventilation without black mold and without single pane windows so 12 12.9 million added to 98. what is that oh there it is 111 111 million hey uh other comments
330to the amendment yes um you've indicated you got more than one change and i'm wondering if we're trying to keep it down to somewhere closer to 100 can we put them maybe together uh in regards to it so that we know what dollar amount is and where we would end up cutting it from and putting it too i think that would be beneficial to me before we add something to kind of know what the game plan would be and then get a chance to for mr ross go ahead and respond and give us some sort of perspective where that comes in okay sure then i propose to amend my amendment so i'd like to keep what i have there yeah and add delete 1.5 million dollars for the facility support center delete seven million dollars
331from the 16 million allocated to security related projects delete 598 000 from the 3.525 million ad allocated to planning and design [Music] and i think that gets us to 101 million dollars 951 000. i think that's what remember higgins was suggesting yeah and and that gives a chance for us to give us some sort of response on how that priority cuts how that factors in and madam president uh i'm i'm going to ask that we um divide the question and take a vote on each of those separately but i do appreciate the information knowing where we're headed yeah we are doing one at a time remember higgins asked the baker the motion question and now uh i don't know um so right now we are we are the motion before you right now is to
332add 12.9 million for lake otis uh to memo zero four two that would be with option two which is now option two um madam chair i thought member lessons proposed an amendment to her amendment wouldn't the amendment to her amendment be before us at this time rather than going back to the the amendment did she move her amendment to the amendment she she [Music] so my understanding is that given based on the conversation that we just had that we would do and the in carl's um [Music] request that we vote on each one separately we were going to go go back here and do lake otis and take each one of her motions one at a time or amendments she says she has a series of amendments i completely agree the question is divisible but
333it's we have an amendment to the amendment so the amendment to the amendment the contents of it as i understand them are divisible but that doesn't that doesn't you can't go back to the amendment and then vote on that first unless you take the amendment to the amendment off the table would it be helpful if i took i believe that remember higgins wanted to hear sort of an overall picture it would be would it be helpful if i retracted the amendment to the amendment then i would like yeah okay [Music] thank you kelly so now we are at lake otis she's only adding mikotis right now okay is everybody clear all right can i speak to the amendment then sure thank you um [Music] i supported the lake otis project from the beginning i think
334it's on here because it is a higher priority than building tearing down a school and building a new one and it's what we should be doing it's what we've been doing in the district for the past six seven years is prioritizing these kinds of major remodels when they're needed they they take our money farther and more effectively for for the needs we have immediately if we had unlimited funds which we don't we could address the 800 million backlog now but since we don't have unlimited funds and this community can't afford to address these things and in addition the impact of the new bonds versus the old bonds being 100 percent anchorage taxpayer funded um i do think that this is the type of project that should be on the bond uh rather than what we're
335at right now with the with the adopted main motion before us so i do support the lake otis being on here okay thank you any other [Music] any other comments right [Music] dora i wanted to give mr roth the opportunity to respond before we voted we're able to do that [Music] uh through through the the president um so so i guess you know what what i would just offer i mean you know it's it's our our incumbent on us we certainly will uh comply with with the intent of the board but i i guess i just want to say you know we we did present a a a proposal to the board it's been modified and that's fine um adding adding back uh lake otis to be sure uh that that's a school that certainly
336has a need but what what i don't understand and we'll figure this out but if the intent is to cut uh seven million from the security vestibule i guess we'll we'll pick is that what i'm understanding that we'll pick the schools that we we choose not to see now she has not made that motion that's not she has not that has not gotten a second okay i just wanna i because i heard that we were also as a part of this emotion that we were reducing to like to the latest adding michael so so to be sure lake otis does have a need um i i do believe that that the board members did receive a copy of the the hayes research survey uh today um and and not to go down you know the
337the details of that but it does demonstrate that where where the bond amount is below the debt retirement amount that uh the the percentage of people that strongly support and and um and and generally support is very high [Music] where you uh exceed 102 million is where that enthusiasm uh does diminish some it's still in the positive it's above 50 i believe it's about 54 but again you start to take on risk when you exceed that 102 million so that's that's um you know one thing to consider when we look to add uh lake otis to option two okay right so uh can we vote uh you're voting to add like otis to option two remember wilson [Music] and we have about 19 minutes before midnight remember lessons yes remember jacobs yes vice president holloman
338yes remember higgins yes remember donnelly yes remember wilson yes president bellamy yes [Music] so i guess um that was a unanimous that passed unanimously and what i'd like to what i'd like to do is um oh remember donald did you have a you had emotion good you okay so i think um what i'd like to do is i'd like to really send this with what we've done right send it back and have the staff bring it in at about a hundred million dollars maybe a little bit more short of us sitting here telling them what to do and and we know that we want i don't i i don't want it i don't want the bond to go much over 100 million dollars because i think that is risky so um i would like to
339send the work we've done tonight back to the um we've got the big pieces in there now it's just a matter of balancing out the for me it's just a matter of balancing out the amount [Music] uh so i moved to send what the work we've done so far back to the staff and have them bring it in as close to 100 million dollars as possible yes [Music] that was a motion so i need a second before we decide that thank you i just want to know the time frame that we have to complete this in to make sure it gets forwarded on timely what's a deadline on that [Music] through the president to to member higgins so just to very briefly review the um the event timeline so again that the real key is
340we have to have it uh approved or acted on by the assembly by their second meeting in january and we we want to make sure that we we have some time so our goal is that they would approve it or act by the first meeting if they don't then that would give us a meeting to adjust so we we do have we do have some latitude we could act the board could act on the 6th of december and that would that would still give us time it cuts into it um but it's feasible be close [Music] all right so the motion do we need to breathe yes and we okay i'm going to read it here as soon as kd because i didn't write it out okay so i moved to send the bond package
341back to staff with the adjustments that we made and ask and have them bring it back as close to 100 million as possible under the under the hundred and two million dollar under the 102 million dollar [Music] amount for december 6th or december 6th yes please [Music] on the main motion they make a point of order yeah i have presented i have an option that gets us at 102 million dollars less than [Music] and i and i and i heard that you said that uh and i respect that and i i just uh sort of us try having to end our business at midnight i think the staff would know where those things are and i think they have your notes because you sent them so uh to bring it in at 102 at or
342below 102 million i think that that's my motion um and it was second yes so any other discussion remember donnelly thank you madam president um i'm very concerned that it'll put the staff in the position to have to at to suggest deletions in these badly needed safety upgrades to our elementary schools we know these type of remodeling projects are successful and work denali proved it the event at denali we need access and control over the entryways to our elementary schools we we know that when it comes to middle schools and and and senior high schools threats sometimes come from inside the schools that's not the case with our elementary schools we need to guard them from external threats i don't want to see the staff put in a position to have to be forced now
343to come back and do a proposal that cuts out these long overdue and very badly needed safety for our most vulnerable students [Music] thank you member donnelly remember jacob thank you madam president so i uh i think i i appreciate and i think i agree with what mr ross said earlier in that i think it's important at the board be the one to direct i i think it would be great to have a suggestion if staff want to draft something up um as this motion intends which is fine but i i think we need to continue this business i think the problem is we're running up against midnight i also don't want to wait till december 6th um i think we want to allow as much time as possible and i think we also still
344have at least one other action item pending so i don't think we've done our business i mean so i guess my question really boils down to should we be continuing our meeting to a specific date certain uh to just continue this current process um and then staff can prepare additional documentation if they want is that emotion well i i it's a yeah it's mine so you want to it's my preference and i'm speaking to your motion um i think i'm i would support the motion um which is fine because it doesn't bind the board from making further changes but i i do think we probably need to schedule some time before 12 6 to take this up okay [Music] other comments kelly i have a question with respect to the security um proposal so i
345was my intention with the proposals that i have drafted to get us to that target of less than 102 million was to revert to the bond because the cip that was passed a year ago for nine million roughly nine million dollars it was i have not been able to find any documentation of the exact schools that were included in that 9 million dollar proposal a year ago i was able to find in the materials we received this year that those listed schools now at 16 million include college gate chugach uh birchwood bowman fire lake government hill kincaid northwood ocean view spring hill trail siders minor and a suite of replacement surveillance surveillance systems which was not a part of the nine million dollar proposition a year ago um so so the discrepancy that i see
346between 16 million and 9 million [Music] potentially just comes down to replacement surveillance systems which i intend which i understand as systems that are already in place that i believe would benefit from upgrades but that the vestibules themselves are not changing are those assumptions correct [Music] so we have me so just to comment on member um [Music] jacob's uh because it's obvious that we need to have more time we already have meetings on the 16th out of that's today 17th and the 19th um and they're both two hour and a half wait yeah so we have work set we have a joint work session on friday we have a um [Music] prep a work session on with that's what friday's with the assembly [Music] so then uh so we we we would be looking at
347next week for a meeting madam president i i guess i'm curious i think having this um finalized we've been official before our meeting with the assembly on friday um so i'm wondering uh i don't doubts and inconvenience on members and staff how big of an inconvenience would it be to staff to continue this tomorrow after our work session tom i don't know i mean we we'd have to ask the staff that it's not even a tomorrow after the so we are meeting tomorrow from three to five from four to five it's right here [Music] madam president um we we can figure this out it is it behooves our district um today's a 15-hour day what's another one [Music] yeah well it's it's uh so tomorrow sure madam president we will we'll certainly come with a
348proposal all right so we meet tomorrow three to five four to five are we putting it before or after remember donnelly is i mean you guys who work you got other jobs yeah memphis i i suggested that we do it after our work session after okay all right so all right we'll just extend our work session tomorrow to have another discussion so um [Music] yes member donald thank you member lessons raised the issue of the upgrades to the security systems in the elementary schools this is something we've been working on for years it's really important those upgrades because they digitize the camera systems so they coordinate with the apd systems they could save lives oh and they're not interesting cars can see what's inside our schools when they're digitized this way that's why it's in
349this package that's why it's important for protecting our elementary school students [Music] thank you okay so we are we are going to move this discussion to tomorrow uh following our already scheduled uh work session tomorrow and i had a comment also sure mr uh holloman yeah uh thank you i just wanted to say i hope the administration can bring back something of a menu for us i personally am willing to go above 102 million i do understand the higher we go the less chances of passing but i agree with member donnelly about the importance of some of the security upgrades i do believe we're an atmosphere where the money is as cheap as it's going to be for a long long time um i i'm willing to push it a little bit so i do
350hope we uh kind of get a volume control knob where we can pick a level that that we're all comfortable with i would i would hate to see it get pushed all the way back to 102 million dollars thank you so you would like to see more is that what you're saying andy okay something graduated list so that we can can take it up to what the [Music] we're all going to have a different comfort level uh and i'm not sure exactly where that's going to be at but just so we can choose the items that uh get us to that level thank you so can we table this discussion can we just take can we table this discussion or do we have because we you have a motion to vote on no we do
351have a moment i believe i move to continue our meeting until tomorrow at right um at the end of our work session which i think is 5 p.m yes okay we would just continue our meeting tomorrow all right thank you which would include this motion vote in three minutes okay um [Music] we have like five minutes before we have to adjourn um if thank you staff so we are continuing are we continuing the whole rest of the agenda until tomorrow is that the intent that's the intent that is the intent thank you so that would be for um uh memorandum zero four one zero four three and zero five four we need to vote on that yes we do okay let's do it quick i'll move to recess until tomorrow afternoon after the work session
352thank you second second okay moved in second that we recess until tomorrow after our work work session uh all in favor just raise your hand so i can see that's everybody andy is your hand you yes i see your hand too all right so the rest of our agenda is non-action items you'll see those again um [Music] yeah we will do that yeah well the action items we will and probably uh the rest of the agenda we did not even get to the superintendent's update not that she has one [Music] all right so it is 11 55 we are adjourned