001It's six o'clock so I would appreciate if you could take your seat oh yeah yeah okay it looks like people are just going to be sanding there there are a few seats up here if people want to take a seat okay well we will call the meeting to order this is the regular Board of Education meeting for February 25th and the first item of business is the resuscitation of the vision statement every school will be a thriving school that prepares every student to graduate from high school college career and community ready next item on the agenda are public appearances and as notice for this meeting the first public appearances will be with regards to the proposed Swan Creek petition and after that we will have general public appearances so for those who have not been
002here in the last few months we want to thank you and everyone for coming to speak tonight and as you recall we have made some improvements to boardroom protocols to ensure the meeting run smoothly thank you for signing up in the front hall thank you for helping us keep our aisles clear to ensure safety and thank you for helping us ensure that every speaker has an opportunity to make their comments we also want to remind you that because of clear feedback Rena regarding mispronunciation and names and we apologize for any time that this has happened in the past we are using a new system whereby each speaker can introduce themselves speakers are welcome to speak on any topic at a regular board meeting but we would like the speakers in the audience to know that
003board action and conversation is limited to the items on our agenda which means members of the board will not be able to engage in conversation with speakers we are here to listen carefully we'll take your comments into account in our decision-making and follow up with you who are appropriate each speaker is given up to three minutes to speak you must be registered to speak and cannot give your remaining time to someone else the lighting system will turn yellow and then red so that you know when it is time to wrap up if you've gone over your time I will ask you to immediately wrap up your comments speakers who require language interpretation support in order to speak to the board will be given up to six minutes to speak which should generally provide sufficient time
004for the interpreter to convey the speaker's message individuals with disabilities who require accommodations in order to speak to register and speak to the board will be granted such accommodation upon request other extensions may be granted only by the approval of the board thank you again for participating in our meeting tonight tonight we have 46 speakers signed up for public comment we will start with speaker 1 speaker 2 please make your way down either aisle and towards the front and wait by the stairs to be ready for your turn to speak and please be sure to introduce yourselves okay first speaker good evening my name is Erica Haas Gallo and I am a mother of a fifth grader at Leopold Elementary School and I'm also a resident of the Swan Creek neighborhood in Fitchburg tonight I'm
005sharing my opposition to the petition seeking detachment of Swan Creek from the Madison School metropolitan school district when we relocated to Madison from Chicago we intentionally looked for housing in the MMSD the MMSD was extremely valuable to us both as a place offering very unique programming such as a dual language immersion program but also offering a diversity that we felt didn't reflect what we wanted our our daughter and our community to reflect we don't have those opportunities at the Oregon School District and as we've not been presented with a petition in our neighborhood there's been no public meetings so I don't know exactly what they are petitioning and all of the rationale that they think it provided but I don't think that this petition reflects the majority of the residents and I request that you
006reject this petition and I want to thank you for your time especially in light of all the other very important matters tonight thank you good evening do you hear me yeah you can raise the microphone yeah better okay good evening my name is Joel Charlie I'm a current resident of Swan Creek and I oppose a petition to detach from MMSD before you tonight is a petition signed by many residents of Swan Creek that requests that our neighborhood become part of the Oregon School District I asked that the board not be persuaded by the number of signatures on the petition the signing campaign led by petition organizers over a two and a half month period last summer was based on misinformation as how to the origin of how Swan Creek became part of MMSD promises of
007students being grandfathered into MMSD post-attachment and the lure of higher property values while it's true that a number of households do open a roll out of district a majority still attend Madison schools we moved to Swan Creek in 2013 with a full knowledge that we were zoned for the Madison School District not Oregon every property owner here tonight made the same decision when they purchased a home in Swan Creek my son plans to attend West High School along with many of his friends in fall 2021 a reorganization takes that away that option away from us and forces us either to move or to open and roll to Madison with no guarantee that enrollment and West will still be available to us the history of house Swan Creek became part of MSD is well documented in
008the public record in October 2002 Swan Creek at the time and development property with no registered homeowners was transferred by Oregon to Madison as a result of a boundary agreement negotiated between the districts over a two-year period an appeal was filed in March 2003 by the developer at the appeal which was affirmed Oregon officials testified that they lacked the capacity to accommodate us that is still true today and that it is in their best interest to have Smart Creek attached to Madison another petition in 2006 brought by property owners was denied by both school boards I also draw your attention to the boundary agreement itself that clearly states that attempts by third parties to alter the current boundary must be discouraged and if necessary opposed the Oregon school board has already indicated by email to
009some of us that tonight they will deny the petition and urge you to do the same doing cell will send a clear message at Swan Creek will remain in Madison School District for now and the foreseeable future I thank you for the opportunity to speak and for your continued service to our children and the community at large thank you thank you the third speaker and if the fourth speaker could come down the aisle and be ready to speak next sorry for the delay thank you for serving on the school board my name is Sarah and I am in favor of the Swan Creek petition I own in Swan Creek my kids swim in Oregon mice kids go attend lots of sports in the Oregon school district and we just want to be a part of
010their community more we are physically surrounded by Oregon School District and the land you see to the north on a map is actually DNR land that might look like Madison School District but it's all DNR land that won't be built on and that will not have Madison school kids going to your schools so we were just hoping we could be more part of their community and be accepted to their school district so if you could please let us be released from the Madison School District and be added to the Oregon School District that would be great thank you thank you for speaker and if the fifth speaker could make their way down good evening my name is Christina and I'm Atia I've been in Swan Creek for about ten years now I have two sons
011that open a roll to Oregon School District and I yep and I am in support of the petition thank you for your time and consideration thank you the fifth speaker and if the sixth speaker could make their way down okay six speaker please hi my name is dawn Clement and I am a resident of the Swan Creek neighborhood and I'm here to support the petition to be released from the Madison School District and be entered into the Oregon School District I currently am a teacher in the Oregon School District my children attend the Oregon School District many of the students that I currently teach are from Swan Creek and our open enrolled to the Oregon School District there are a lot of kids in our neighborhood who do choose to open enroll just based on
012boundaries that were really close to the schools there and with the new school that the school district has already passed a referendum to build will be right next to our neighborhood it just makes more sense geographically that we're part of the Oregon school district and although I do value the MMSD I do think that it just makes more sense for our kids to all be closer to the school district in which they their boundaries are closest to so I would appreciate your support in this petition and letting go of our neighborhood and allowing us to be part of Oregon thank you for your time thank you good evening and thank you very much for your time tonight my name is Amy Dewald and I'm here I opposed the petition to detach Swan Creek from the
013ORAC from the Madison School District I acknowledge that the city of Fitchburg is complicated with students being split between three school districts and when living on the edge of any school district boundary there will always be a point where one side of a road is assigned to one school district and the other side to another any discussion about how the neighborhoods alongside Swan Creek are already assigned to the Oregon school district is a futile argument for this very reason despite the petitioners claims that Swan Creek is an island it does still meet the MMSD border at the northeast corner of the neighborhood the construction of a new Elementary School in the Oregon school district is part of what is fueling this petition but I would like to point out that this new Elementary School will
014be about a mile and a half away from the edge of the Swan Creek neighborhood it's difficult to get a precise measurement at this point since neither the roads nor the school are actually constructed yet this may be about a mile closer to Swan Creek than Leopold elementary school is but it will be across Syene Road US Highway 14 and County Highway mmm certainly not a school that is in a neighborhood that is adjacent to Swan Creek the drive time from Swan Creek to Leopold or from Swan Creek to the new Oregon elementary school will be fairly equal at five to seven minutes the Swan Creek neighborhood is a small community nestled behind DNR land and undeveloped green space which separates the neighborhood from the traffic and nearby business district of Fish Hatchery Road while
015also being connected to a school district that is rich with diversity and opportunity in the metropolitan environment of Madison as the land in the Swan Creek neighborhood has been developed over the past 16 years every resident that has purchased a home in Swan Creek has knowingly chosen a home that is in MMSD yet some are putting forth this petition to say that they are unhappy with what they chose there are homeowners like myself who have chosen to live in Swan Creek and remain in Swan Creek for its connection to MMSD and not in spite of it I want my property tax dollars to continue to support MMSD and I want to continue to be able to actively participate in the election of the MMSD school board members you've heard testimony from the past from supporters
016of this petition say that Swan Creek children deserve to go to the same neighborhood school as all of their friends I agree wholeheartedly but what they're failing to acknowledge is that all Swan Creek children already have the opportunity to go to school together some families have chosen not to include their children in this neighborhood school environment this is their prerogative but to claim that they are unfairly burdened by their own choice is wrong I acknowledge that there are difficult experiences for some students in MMSD and for that reason we all as parents teachers community members educators and school board members need to remain vigilant and prepared to make appropriate necessary improvements and changes in our schools I am happy to send my children to our neighborhood schools in MMSD I welcome and value the diversity
017and language socioeconomic class and culture that my children experience every day I applaud MMS sees foresight in establishing a rich - a language immersion program that extends from kindergarten through 12th grade to prepare students for life and work in a global and multicultural society and I worry about the very real potential to exacerbate racial and socio-economic disparities at Leopold's specifically if the detachment is approved I urge you to vote no thank you thank you the sixth speaker actually I think it's dawn dawn are you hello members of the board my name is Heidi Luba now I'm a parent volunteer substitute teacher property owner and Swan Creek and supporter of our MMSD schools my family and I are actively involved in Leopold Elementary where we participate in our innovative - a language program musical sports fundraisers
018car pools celebrations and so much more this is my community when the petitioning party began collecting signatures to move their agenda forward some homeowners mentioned reasons to change our assign school district based on low grade performance less attractive prep property values for families bad experiences and safety concerns I personally feel that a proposed district change like this is inequitable for our assigned school and ultimately perpetuates and accentuates a cycle of social and racial disparities that exist in our cities our elementary school is richly diverse and my family supports equitable experiences and outcomes for each student we are motivated to help our children thrive in school and we actively work towards creating a positive community culture that embraces diversity school choice gives families the opportunity to stay or opt out and it is my request that
019our Swan Creek neighborhood remains within MMSD as you evaluate your decision please consider the impact and message that is sent to our community of MMSD students teachers families and friends please use your vote to build and empower an inclusive school community advance educational excellence and diversify our views and experiences thank you for your time and consideration thank you ix speaker okay hello can you hear me okay Mike Trapani er 5200 t very lanes Wan Creek neighborhood a couple weeks ago I was here and I spoke in favor of going to the Oregon School District and leaving the Madison School District still believe that today my opinion has not changed I think that we have you're never going to reach a full consensus ever on decisions like this it's very clear we have people that feel
020that they should stay in the school district and I think all of us respect that but last time I checked we're in a republic and I would think that the majority rules here we've laid out arguments we can pitter patter on square footage and talk about how we're not an island but more or less we are we are geographically closer the new school will definitely be closer the meth sorts that out so if anyone took math class they would know that it's closer geographically for us so it's by far none the majority of the people in Swan Creek want to move to Oregon and I think that you should respect that open Thanks thank you hi my name is Jean Suzuka I'm here to speak in opposition the of the petition for brevity I'm going
021to just read the letter that I sent to the Oregon School District and I'm gonna skip all the wonderful things that I we have done for the Madison school districts and that our children has received from their and get to the elephants in the room with one exception I want to say that the DL I value that our children's received cannot be overstated as evidenced by the relative ease in our opinion that our 7th grader is now learning a third language this would be lost if we are forced to transfer schools in short we're heavily invested in our children's schools and education and will continue to be even if that means fighting efforts to unwillingly eject them from their own schools our children have many friends in the adjoining neighborhoods and naturally seeing their friends
022every day is part of what makes our kids school days school days enjoyable these friends live just across Fish Hatchery McKee roads from us and since those children are not targeted by the current expulsion effort our children would share this effort against them succeed no longer even see their friends during the school days we find this prospect to be in a word heartbreaking when we purchased our home in Swan Creek eight years ago we did so knowing what every single residence in the history of the Swan Creek neighborhood also knew that we're a part of the Madison metropolitan school district this is a fact and with no disrespect to the Oregon school is whatsoever was most certainly a factor in helping us select a home we absolutely wanted our children to attend Madison West High
023School this was a choice we actively made and we stand by now there's a petition to dismiss our children against our wishes and the OSD MMSD boundary agreement that every single Swan Creek resident bought into but exposed from MSD is a petition that on its surface seems to have an impressive number of signatures with little opposition however let me explain a few facts that led us here at the beginning of the process I stated my support for MMC and remaining part of it sadly the attempted discussion rapidly devolved into an anti MMSD rants and turned rather distasteful what's worse is the assurances that accompany the petition my neighbors were promised that fish Burke's property assessments in Swan Creek would increase but my own conversation with the Assessor office confirmed there is no such plan and
024that assessments rise and fall home sales as one would expect my neighbors were promised property tax reduction reductions if they side but again that is at best rosy speculation and more likely something far less innocent it would also put forward that MSD agreed to grandfather II and all existing Swan Creek students again that has not happened that is not the case there are claims the original Swan Creek neighbors were presented with a missing I'm sorry my neighbors were presented with a mystical mythical win-win scenario that our children and parents would welcome which is obviously fiction what was most disturbing however was the blatant anti MMSD conversations that centered around the undesirability of the Leopold elementary student body and neighborhood I don't have enough benefits of the doubt to put that in a good light please
025reject the petition and please do so in a way speaker 12 Toni next speaker will be speaker 13 good evening saw you a couple weeks ago basically gonna stay the same thing but do you want to address a couple things there are certainly some wonderful attributes of Leopold one of them is the dual language program unfortunately not all students can actually take advantage of that I'd like to point that out the other thing is to is I think that the folks that including myself that did this petition are being at somewhat disparaged tonight I would specifically call out Jason Strauss who has been very upright on social media letting everyone know what we're doing being forthright and transparent I appreciate the passion of the neighbors that did show up but it will tell you that
026I too went around door-to-door with my wife and talked to many many residents and spent our time for many months and got great turnout we did have a handful of people who did not want to sign the petition I respected that one of the gentlemen tonight about wanting to have his children go to West High School I certainly understand that as well but the bottom remains that when I moved into this neighborhood 14 years ago there was not all this development around us there wasn't going to be an elementary school that by the way not a mile and a half it's gonna be like a mile from the border of our neighborhood I mean and and again I honestly came here not because I expect you to vote for this because I really don't because
027they're absolutely right because I've read the contract myself I totally understand that you're bound basically to vote no solos Oregon School District the whole point of the petitions far as I was concerned it's let you know that though we have a passionate number of people who are dissenting tonight the first I've heard of it the majority of the residents of Swan Creek would be fed in fear of that in favor of getting a consistent congruent boundary that makes sense that can make potential sense for the Madison School District as well as Oregon School District now I would assume that the Oregon School District would be in Scent eyes considering that they're building this new Elementary School a mile from our neighborhood so I'm very passionate you can tell I'm a lot more emotional tonight because
028I don't like being disparaged by my neighbors but you don't get involved in you know get your own petition together I mean we spent months we were totally open on social media over and over and over you know made aware over and over and over again it's very just it's just disheartening and it just said here you know it's a sad you hear anyone could have contacted me personally messenger if you wanted to have a discussion that's all I've got to say I just beware that if it if you can make a sense for the Oregon School District and for you from a boundary and financial perspective and your growth perspective I know you've got growth concerns as well for Madison and Oregon now obviously does well the majority of the neighbors clearly would be
029in favor of you using us if need be if it would benefits please finish up that's all I have to say thank you thank you hello my name is Jordyn Schmitz I'm the resident Swan Creek on the glue Stone Parkway I'm coming to support the resolution in favor of detachment from Madison in attachment to Oregon I support this petition despite the complex history of the the school of district boundaries in our neighborhood just by plain geography I think looking anyone looking at a map of the school district boundaries sees the complexity and the fact that we are in fact surrounded by Oregon School District in the past that hasn't been much of an issue recent development though has really exacerbated this and made clear the fact that we are an island we have a situation
030now where students see in our neighborhood separated by only a fraction of a mile from students all around them are attending not only different schools but different school districts this is as I mentioned before exacerbated by the the fact that we have a new school building very close to us which will not be able to attend I realized the complexity of this especially given the 2002 existing agreements over the situation the ground has changed dramatically from 2002 the constraints nonetheless remain I realized that that means the Lord is a session essentially destined to vote no due to the legal constraints placed upon them however what I would ask is that this board would Burke collaborated with the Oregon School District Board to possibly consider modifying or rescinding that agreement in a way that is supports
031not only the interests of the Oregon enrolled students but also those from Madison that couldn't Glee include clauses such as grandfathering in that would protect the rights of existing children but really in a way that would further the benefits to both Oregon Madison and most important the children of the neighborhood from both school districts and with that I would just ask for the board's consideration thank you thank you speaker 14 good evening I would just like to agree with the petition to move from the Madison School District to the Oregon School District I've done a little bit of research and I'm not really sure why it was done but in 2002 I don't believe anybody on this school board or in this audience was privity to this transfer I mean we're talking 17 years ago
032signed in August 29th of 2002 it was a five million dollar land transfer between Oregon and the school district and for right now I would fully agree to move forward with this I believe I purchased my property in Swan Creek knowing full well that I was going to go out of district there was no question in my mind so I support this and I believe that's the right way to go again if you do look at the map we're the doughnut hole we're the island with no place to go so I agree we should move forward thank you thank you hello the names Kevin Foster I was here last meeting as well along with a lot of the supporters I continue to support the petition to move to Oregon School District along with the vast
033majority of the people in the Swan Creek neighborhood as evidenced by the petition it's a mile away for the school it's gonna be built in Oregon it's being built the current time we have one mile away and as someone that used to as a child that used to walk to school each day or bike I know how much independence that can build I would love for my future theoretical children have the opportunity to do something along those lines and that's really kind of the the end of it ultimately there's been a lot of arguments about that other things are said on social media those really are the result of some of the opposition commentary realistically at this point it's a it's a geographical issue and that's all it's ever been it's I would love to
034be able to go to a school that's a mile away and a potentially a middle school that'll be a mile away in the Oregon School District also from that I'm a CPA from the CPA standpoint I have a hard time seeing as across the street where there in the Oregon School District and they have direct access to a school that is less than a mile away from them and we do not have access to that school district that could have a impact on a property value scenario so again ultimately I'm in support of the petition to move to the Oregon School District I very much appreciate your time make sure to give this attention this issue attention also the attention of the very important issues that the other individuals here have today as well all
035right thank you thank you thank you we are looking for a solution that everybody can find acceptable we are not looking to maintain the status quo voting down the Swan Creek petition will not make the problem going away voting it down in 2006 did not prevent another group from bringing a petition ten years later the percentages have become more skewed with less than fifty percent of the students in our neighborhood attending Madison and this will continue to decrease when the Oregon schools are built how many Madison neighborhoods have brought two petitions for detachment within 12 years voting now will not prevent another group in the future for bringing another petition for detachment when the Oregon schools are building not a single speaker has come up here and said how this boundary makes sense you have
036an illogical boundary and is causing an open enrollment in balance unless you fix this boundary this problem will continue I love public education well my biggest flaw is I can't keep my mouth shut when I see something that doesn't make sense in education the goal of the Master Agreement was to enhance the number of the students attending Madison is that what happened is the second largest School District really enhancing the number of students you've increased by 71 students k4 through 12 0.2 percent increase is this what the drafters originally intended imagine for a moment that Oregon never transferred Swan Creek does anybody in this room honestly think that right now in 2018 Oregon would be contacting Madison asking to transfer Swan Creek away the fact is 15 years ago Oregon didn't know what to do
037with sahn Creek they knew they weren't ready to build a school for another 10 years Madison was caring enough to take in the kids and we appreciate that but 10 years have passed the situation has changed if this petition has voted down nothing is going to change the reality on the ground in three years I'll be willing to bet that either the hundred students in our neighborhood 30 will be attending Madison and 70 will be open enrolled does it really make sense the current situation is only working for a small number of families choice is good and I'm sure that all parents would agree the choice is good but in the future we'll be back here with the same situation we have a neighborhood where the majority of students do not attend your district does
038that make sense as educators we serve the needs of students we do not exist for students to serve our needs listen to what the majority of property owners want you are going to be going to referendum very soon for large amount of money I want your referendum to succeed but you're going to be asking people to support schools that their children don't even attend regardless just whatever happens tonight I really do appreciate your service to education very much thank you thank you hello I am I am Toya Weston Hagan Kristen I am in support of the Swan Creek petition for mostly for Geographic reasons and what makes sense again I am a graduate of MSD I have nothing against MMSD I succeeded well and I enjoyed my education time with them MSD however I chose
039my property and for my family based on Geographic reasons with the hopes that I would get into Oregon School District and if we did not we would go elsewhere we would have selected a parochial school at that time we did not want to attend MMSD given our children's personal issues and situations that we are dealing with an Oregon School District has been able to embrace our children and my particular family's needs again the geographic location which you've heard about we are in fact an island surrounded by Oregon a brand new neighborhood going up literally three blocks away is all Oregon School District that does that that neighborhood allows for busing to be hand my son is unable to ride the bus directly from his neighborhood and we are forced to drive him to school that
040is something we are willing to do and knew we would have to do because of the district lines it's what makes sense being able to look out my front door and see a school going up that my children are unable to attend does not make sense another person here mentioned riding bikes to school there's no way my child would be able to ride his bike too late Leopold elementary school that is a very long drive on a bike however this new school is across the bridge over 14 and there will be a lot of obvious restrictions in place as far as traffic a bike ride could be a legitimate possibility at this point again the schools that are nearby in Oregon are what makes our goal in Swan Creek I urge you to select and
041support this petition for the obvious reasons of just looking at a map and seeing this isolated circle that just stands out as saying well what's this it doesn't make sense what makes sense here for that that particular neighborhood and the people of Swan Creek thank you thank you that's the last speaker for the proposed Swan queen creek petition and so now we will start with the general public appearances so the first speaker Lila could make her way forward followed by the second speaker coming down and being ready to speak next hello my name is Lila I'm here again at the school board meeting I've seen a lot of you before there's a lot of us here tonight there's a lot of people watching there's a lot of people that are concerned about the way things
042have been happening for a long time in the Madison School District we have seen more than eight I think instances of obvious racial violence perpetrated by Madison teachers or Madison staff this year one this week has been especially concerning and I think has brought a lot of people out but it doesn't mean that this started now we are here because we've seen this this is a pattern this is an example that is set by this school board by the system by the school district with these teachers and staff are following because they know they can get away with it because I know that's a culture of white supremacy and white violence against students of color that's been supported and defended by the school board there have been youth that have been coming here for over
043a year and telling you we don't feel safe in our schools when you advocate for having police officers in schools we don't want police in schools we want community control we want excuse me we want community control of restorative justice we don't want this brand of restorative justice the teachers that are assaulting students are apparently trained in we want students to be listened to to be able to come to you and speak without being shut down ignored having their names mispronounced saying that they have to stop after a certain time limit when they're coming here and taking their own time to tell you that they aren't feeling safe and we've seen that happen we've seen this pattern and you all are responsible for that this is a system built on white supremacy that continues to
044benefit from white supremacy so if you are doing nothing if you're just waiting to see what happens if you're just putting a teacher on leave you're benefitting from that system your inaction is violence and it's excusing the violence of these staff members and teachers and police officers and school security that are directly harming these students and the community is watching you we care about it we're going to keep showing up here here and other places wherever this impacts our students and our youth I'm proud of them all I'm really glad to see a lot of them here tonight and I hope you listen to them I hope you make them feel heard not only through your actions here but your actions going forward because you're all responsible for this and we're all going to be
045watching my name is brandy Grayson I am a community activist I have been I was a student of Madison School District and I'm 38 years old I have grandchildren I have treatment foster children I have all kind of children in my life so you know why we're here a little girl a black baby was brutalized and violated by one of your administrators your response to the violation was not good enough you're you're like denial of it by not addressing it immediately until eight days later when the community started talking about it is not good enough your dismissal of the experience of the children that show up week after week is not good enough you can see the privilege in this room when you had these white folks come up here and talk about a boundary
046and they use other ways as it relates to being inclusive and equitable right and one to be for the people but I didn't hear you say nothing about the buter is a shit violation and we know these meetings are just formalities we know that there's deals that happen in the back room we know you ain't really listening to us we've done this forever right living marching and talking shit and demanding shit and liberation and justice forever your system is rooted in white supremacy racism rooted in capitalism where you have a rich white woman when did your board and her money and her influence but somehow y'all forget the destruction and violation two children's bodies that's taken place under your watch and because it's under your watch you are accountable each and every last one of
047y'all and I don't care if you put a black face on your board a white face on your board a brown face on your board Asia it doesn't matter because by the very process and system and procedures they have to uphold racism and you continue to create these committees with the same faces and the same voices denying the voices in the back denying the legitimacy of our experience and destruction and white people like to use coded words inclusive you're worried about a boundary you're worried about your language our children don't even have access to that in your school district we don't even have access to safety in your school district we don't even have access to opportunity that is what privilege looks like and that is the root and foundation of the destruction of our
048children under your watch and we just ain't gonna keep talking to you I'm tired of talking to y'all but at this point what we are going to do is create a Rapid Response Team for y'all asses y'all will not be able just allow the destruction and abuse of our children we see you and we won't stop seeing you and we won't stop looking for you and we will also form a legal team for that ass so that our children can have protection and our families don't feel alone unless is enough and we're tired and we're sick and tired of being tired know that I speak for the people all day every day all power to the people hello my name is Shelly delfield I'm a sixth grade teacher at Velma Hamilton middle school I am
049a co-creator and organizer of a grassroots group called educators actively working towards anti racism mostly for white teachers community members this is kind of our call to action to the board that for the white board members this is your chance to come and join us in conversation our mission statement is that we are committed to holding our district schools and staff accountable to anti racism we're committed to collaborating as co-conspirators to move the work of anti racism forward across our district we are meeting again this Wednesday at Dream Bank we'd love to see you there 6:00 p.m. every time we meet we create personal goals we all need to work on personal goals around anti racism if we are white so show up six o'clock this wednesday dream bang hello my name is Kevin and
050I am a nine-year-old kid the teacher at Whitehorse middle school heard a black 11-year old school and school should be a place for learning knowledge and safety it is not Monsieur I that a teacher heard a kid teachers should teach kids knowledge and math and stuff and you as a district should work really hard to make sure kids are safer in school I'm nine years old and I know black lives matter why oh my god I guess I yeah so I saw Michael Johnson back there and Ananda Marilla and anti-mafia and I asked them are they going to encourage calm are they going to encourage all getting all the facts are they going to rush to judgment and they said these people are going to do what they're gonna do I know that the police
051report is not in I know that the teachers had not been allowed to speak I think we should see what the situation is one of them said one as I said we have to hold the school board accountable for not teaching our children I agree with that but we also have to hold the teachers accountable we have to hold the parents accountable and we have to hold the children accountable because we're all accountable to say otherwise is to say you're a victim and therefore you have no agency now I wonder now what now I want to read something that was given on to my Facebook page by Jennifer Drake Figgy my husband historical all started and ended as surely middle school due to a student's physical violence against him amazing what a traumatic brain injury
052can do to a person they're helping to make my point Jill sterner glia my grandson was so bullied that he had to be escorted from the car through door after school he's no longer ethical and lives out of Madison thank God we need someone that's going to take care of the violence in our schools respect same respect it is sad that the schools and decisions of not making kids responsible for their actions have led to this kind of discussion on your agenda today as the behavior education plan margaret javadi's Benbow said i won't be voting for Blasco but he is correct that after the adoption of the behavior education plan which did away with consequences for violent student behavior there was a huge upswing in violent and unsafe incidents this included bullying classmates attacking teachers
053loudly disrupting lessons and a chance to study young learn ensuring that the solution is beat kids with the board at the very least the so called BEP should be abandoned as a failure it is and the former standards of behavior and consequences should prevail this should happen as soon as possible pencil action said children should be taught respect in the home and reinforced in the school not enough parents take the time to be involved in their children's education plan Toronto they take more responsibility for their children's education behavior by the way this is I just want to say this is what we've got in our schools I've said before that if this school board cannot keep order in its own meetings imagine the chaos in the classroom there's a reason why I think the whatever
054frequence Swan Creek wants to lead this is the problem we have in our schools right now thank you very much please continue Wow I looked out and it's amazing because when I look out I see some of my brothers and sisters who ain't never been out of school board me before salute see y'all turn me up a little bit yeah I wanted to come and I wanted to be radical because I'm kind of upset and I wanted to be loud but my spirit is super calm right now because I want to talk to y'all I want y'all to look don't act like y'all not listening give me some eye to eye contact here okay because I come into spirit on tonight so I'm not in my flesh so right now y'all fighting with some real
055power okay Cheatham you know the deal you know what's going on you know why we're all here you know why we're hurting because you've expressed your hurt with me you know that you're even afraid for your own child to attend MMSD because these are your words from you to me remember remember yes remember so I want to look you out of a because me and you we develop something really really special when we say amongst each other when you guys did what you did to my baby so I'm not looking at the little dogs I'm not looking at their because you to make a decision you you have to choose your job for life for you now here okay because you've got position all of this you hold it you hold it our babies your
056babies your african-american child let's talk deep here okay all right your baby is up against what my baby is up against because he's an african-american okay so I want you to go home tonight I need you to do this for me and you because remember we vowed that me and you were gonna work together to change this remember do you remember remember when you asked me to be your right hand because God put me and you together remember that's what you said to me remember remember okay so now I need you to think about what you're doing here you hold the power shorty it's yours I'm talking about them they don't matter you know you to think I'm not Mary money don't matter she ain't she don't even matter she might got the dollars but
057that don't mean nothing it's on you think about it tonight Maddi this evening I am honored to stand in your shoes so thank you thank you folks this evening I am astonished to be here I don't take pleasure in this but it has been a long time coming your community has been serving you and showing up here and they've been met with lip service and false promises while the people that you put into positions of you know principle are feeding on children it's completely unacceptable what took place at Whitehorse and what is taking place this isn't as Blasco talks about an upswing this isn't an upswing this is the norm right this is a constant failure that's been taking place y'all have allowed an environment to continue under your jurisdiction that completely dehumanizes students and
058i come here this evening as a resident and worker of the madison metro area why would i show up here as white upper-middle class individual this is astonishing to me I wish so much that this wasn't a story of two cities where we have on one side individuals who are concerned with which is fantastic concerned about their the safety of their students bike ride whether it's going to make theirs make their children more independent and more successful and grow into fantastic adults and here we have a completely different tale folks that are concerned about whether their students are gonna come home in one piece split completely different between color lines it's under your jurisdiction and you you haven't done the work you've got you failed your community and this community is not going to succeed
059without you taking the reins on this and taking ownership for the power that you can have now folks are giving you a lot of respect by showing up here and I think that needs to be understood every time folks come up here and choose to speak to you they are showing you respect but what's disrespectful is that you allow individuals that are essentially sick heiling in the room to continue every time that you meet so alright so I asked you to imagine a Madison that doesn't have those distinctions those clear color lines where folks are on one side one color skunk color tone is concerned about their kids bike ride and one is concerned about the principle that you have put in place beating a child all right get to work hi I'm Heather uh
060it's actually Heather D not either B but I'm speaking a trying opposition of spending thirty thousand dollars on special duty officers we can't afford to spend one more dollar on policing our students there are many reasons to choose to spend our budget on other things like more counselors rather than police enforcement currently our district is not meeting the recommended ratio of one counselor for every 250 students to meet that ratio we need about four or five were counselors and it's very important I spoke a couple months ago about my daughter experiencing bullying in her public school and it's still ongoing today I went to a counselor outside of school and she shared the reason why she hasn't been wanting to go to school is because of the bullying we need more support in the schools
061another reason is you know force is not the answer spending money on police I graduated with a degree in psychology and my first job outside of college was in a psychiatric center as a mental health technician and my first week on the job there was a 15 year old black girl who was in the center and she was really upset because she wanted she didn't want to go to her room and she refused to go to her room when it was time at bedtime and I went over to go talk to her and I heard a nurse walk away and set say this little bitch is gonna get it and she went and got a team of people and while I was talking to the girl she told me that the reason why I asked
062her why don't you want to go to your room and she said the reason is because I'm tired of being told what to do all day long and she's just tired of it and she just refused then she said I'm not going to my room and I we talked for a while and she calmed down and she said that you know I said the reason why we wanted you to go to your room is there's adults in here and because of your safety and she was we're on the same page and we were coming to an understanding and out of nowhere the nurse back with a team of white people grabbed her and gave her a shot in the arm to like help calm her down it sedate her even though she was already calmed
063down and we were on the same page she flipped out she grabbed a chair and she threw it against a window and she broke the window if you look at this girl and you think oh look she's showing violence why is she showing violence because she was being forced to do things she don't want to do and because people were putting her hands people were putting their hands on her and they were harming her so how else do you think she's going to react to poor she's gonna be really upset and act out so I just think having police in the schools is just escalating things and it's making things worse and it's creating problems and people our kids are acting out in response to being treated with force and being asked to be obeyed
064in orders all the time and being told what to do this is a natural response so I just asked no more spending on police in schools thank you hi my name is Christina Draven yo Murphy I'm an alumna of MMSD I won't list all the schools and it was a really positive experience for me it set me up to be really successful I went on to UW with the full scholarship I still have good relationships with many of my teachers I loved it and so I was really excited to have the opportunity when now as a PhD student when people keep telling me I spend too much time on teaching and not enough on research I took a job as a sub and it's been a really life-changing experience in a lot of ways it
065is truly a privilege and an honor to care for our children in our community and it's a real burden it's because at the end of the day what happens when someone is fired after using racial slurs which that happened in the classroom that I took over as a long-term sub who do we call on after a child has been abused and that staff member is removed its substitute teachers and we're a group that not many people think about very often but we are the glue that holds together the ecosystem that helps teachers take breaks when they need them that help staff take care of their personal needs when they need them and when these snow days happened which like you know what it's Wisconsin we all chose to live here may-maybe not it happens but
066I can't tell you how disappointed I was to find that after I'd been scheduled to work for weeks and while I spent my snow days just like most other teachers planning my lessons for the upcoming weeks and grading I didn't get paid and the rest of staff and teachers did and the professional development days where I'm supposed to get training because I've had frankly barely any I just happen to be lucky enough to have a degree in social work barely any training we've lost these professional development days which means that I have now lost half of the day that I was supposed to be working at the long-term sub rate which means I might pick up a shift at another school but I'm not gonna get to build the relationships with my coworkers that helps
067the school function well that helps maintain stability I had to tell my students kind of one by one that the teacher that they used to work with that they used to know and have relationships with it she wasn't coming back and that's not an easy thing to do and when we're creating under classes of workers the conditions that we work in are the conditions that our students learn in like this is our community the more stratification we have the more disparities we have like we're never gonna be able to see the kind of justice that we need so it might seem like a small issue it's a small number of people who are affected but it makes this job sustainable it makes it something more than just you can pick up a little extra cash
068on the side it makes it something that I feel worth investing the time into doing more training hunting down the appropriate staff member to get all the IEP is for my students which I didn't have for the first three weeks like it's a hard job we deserve to be paid okay wait can't hear me you all are you all are supposed to be protecting us from harm but you keep letting us get hurt you should be ashamed of yourself and the way you think about and the way you think about black kids y'all are racist and y'all don't deserve to be our school to be on our school board there have been so many incidents lady lately in your response to all - it all proves that you don't care about us and shouldn't be
069allowed to make decisions that affect our lives I said it before and I'll say it again you can't claim you care about black excellence and have policing schools and you can't claim you care about black as excellence and keep having teachers called black kids the n-word and put their hands on black kids okay so y'all you know he's gonna do a call-and-response okay mama mama can't you see what the school board's done to me they beat us up and kicked us out ain't no justice in this town mama mama can't you see what police have done to me they lock us up and shoot us down ain't no justice in this town okay y'all got a say over more energy this time mama mama can't you see what up the school bus gone to me
070baby they beat us up and kick us up ain't no justice in this town mama mama can't you see what police have done to me they lock us up and shoot us down ain't no justice in this town what the school was done to me they beat us up and kick us out mama mama can't you see what police have done to me good evening my name is Sambo I am a mom of two kids and a grandmother my youngest son is four years old I thought when he gets older like in high school I will worry about his safety but with a brutal attack on a child a child a baby at Whitehorse I am heartbroken that this may happen to my son soon no offense to the white woman who spoke about being
071worried about the kids are on how they are going to school while the black and brown moms have to worry about their kids safety it is not enough the police are attacking our black and brown kids now a teacher in a classroom full of with other kids can bleed beat a black child knowing he will only get a slap on the wrist how are you not hurt and angry that an 11 year old child was beaten beaten bloody at a school by a teacher where she was supposed to get her education as a parent of a brown child I should not have to worry about anything but that my son is getting the right education if you are hurting our children now imagine the damage you will cause for them in the future are you
072ready for the consequences consequences of your actions and their decisions I am here today to speak for the available lives of black and brown and stop these Asian children you all know why I am here today why we continue to show up you have your threatened by that ideas and collect the power we project because you are no damn bad that you only care about how much money you put into your pockets and Nam you what color who's harmed in schools these you've are telling you that they are scared for their own damn lives telling you there are stories and telling you about their about other children their friends who's been harmed by a euros there was an incident at Whitehorse middle school 11 year old black girl brutally beaten by the Dean of Students
073Rob Mueller Owens and I don't care what the situation is no one should ever lay a hand on in anybody a violence is not the answer especially children but there's but where was help for her nobody helped her not even cops these are weights you for holding on to their backs like chains and it convinces me that the school board of Madison is racist as hell because you all are upholding my supremacy you are responsible for black children's safety if you think of putting more euros to increase the safety of black and brown children you should think again police themselves are made to punish black folks from escaping slavery murder from white supremacy even being black is dangerous they're invincible chains to put on to children let's go to jail pipeline so let us know
074who actually cares because we are glad to we are glad to have the whole community to kick you out of your seat you all are threatened by the tone of our loud and brave voices but where we aren't damned or harm we're just telling you what's up and what and we want to express our hurt we are telling you what's up but you all are just up there sitting speaking in soft professional voices but you all are doing to harm and no download are sneaky as hell oh and I also voted for the school board election of course y'all weren't voted by me but you want true diversity then y'all sure we considered the economy accountability we give it to you all every school board meeting if you feel comfortable let yourself feel comfortable because
075you should be listening to us and growing we always have room for improvement that's just how humans are please have God and humanity either way y'all kicked out even if y'all make decisions today we all can just kick the system's ass and I bought abolish er OS for the next school board members we'll be taking these seats and we will continue to demand these three demands one take cops out of schools invest three thousand sixteen hundred dollars into youth of color students and family and community members have power over school safety so um I'm gonna try not to crista cuz I'm trying to be a good child so five days out of the week I'm forced into an environment that does not love and care about me and other students of color and why do
076I say this is because I'm a nerd well of course I have many reasons stories but you I don't listen but whatever but today I'll only share four so firstly over the course of just a few months November 2018 to January 2019 there had been six reported incidents of school staff using racial slurs not much happen because of few letters besides a few letters here and there those school staff not being allowed back there was no real work put in transforming the school environment no real effort to make sure that black and brown students feel safe or welcomed we loved secondly on February 11 year-old african-american girl was being up to the Dean of by the Dean of Students there is no reason you can give me to justify a grown man putting his hands
077all over an 11 year old child no reasons even parents aren't allowed to hit their own children thirdly last week Tuesday in my area China study class there were questions about the China wall and that jokes came afterwards bitch about the wall between Mexico and United States and yes I'm looking you Gloria um people laugh including the teacher it was a very uncomfortable moment when the five Latino kid students in the class finally brought up the issue of how inappropriate and races this joke was and why the teacher did not address it the teacher simply said I did not hear him I won't interrupt the in the lecture so I guess the lecture is more important than the safety lastly the school were voting to pass a contract to keep cops in our schools even
078when we have been showing up every time for the last two years to share stories of why cops should not be in school and how we can better use our school money to create and make programs that will actually have that will actually help development transform students of color in their school environment just know that you all who said up there are responsible for every one of these incidents I brought up and there are so many more you're responsible because you continue to ignore the experiences of black and brown students you continue to put money into the police and put money into policies that harms black and brown students because of you school staff get away with using racial slurs because of you an 11 year old was being about a grown man because of
079you why students and teachers feel like they can make jokes about black and brown people the school board superintendent are responsible for all this same black and brown students have been showing up and telling you that we want better and I want you all to say this with me okay all of these school board meetings we've been to clearly shows like Norns you have towards people color at the last school board meeting for school members voting for cops to be in schools and to voted for no cops in schools this is such a big disappointment disappointment how can you all say that you truly care about our safety when you are putting badges and guns in our schools where we are supposed to learn the police are trained to use deadly force that is their
080job the police are a violent institution why are you allowing allowing such violence between our schools I hate the fact that you guys said that weirdest being disrupted when there was a white man recording minors and making them feel comfortable so I trying to make our voices suffered in silence we are still standing here today just because I am young doesn't mean I don't have a voice my voice matters to you putting clubs in our schools is just preventing us from our education apparently education is free but why does our parents still paying for throat supplies first school supplies yearbooks bus card and so many things of all you could have invest that three hundred sixty thousand dollars towards them we want investment in students of color not the police we want the school district
081to stop harassing students of color we want our education not criminalization so invest now is not criminalization right yeah nobody got no experience school violence this is the force that we got this is our people I am freedom my woman orphans genocide survivor refugee child a single mom a person of color I am a human being just like you I am a leader a teacher and an advocate I know that it is like to live in a world of authority and power the Khmer Rouge was a leader who thought they knew what was best for our people with their own authority and greed of power they made decision that harm and kill 1.75 million my people I'm experiencing this today here with all of you each of you are authority figures with power to make
082changes you may not kill millions of people but you are harming thousands of blacks and brown student each day because of your decision today we had an immigration lawyer who came and talked to our communities about our rights and our protection from ice I want to address you all your police is the same as ice they have the same job description and that is harming and separating families we don't want ice in our city the same goes with the police we don't want them in our schools I separate families and police destroys youth lives by entering them into the criminal justice system we need to take police out of school so we can protect our futures of our blacks and brown youth to better and to have a successful experience in school I also wanted
083to repeat on what had happened at Whitehorse elementary school where a Dean of Students beat an 11 year old black girl 11 year old you see that little boy who just came up here he was 9 years old this was 11 year old girl no tire should be treated this way how about if it's your daughter how would you feel he should be charged for chai endangerment for harming this 11 year old girl black girl if you are willing to criminalize black girls the way you do criminalize him punish him for the harm that he has done all of us are here continue to come here and voice our self and demand the following completely remove police out of schools invest resource in education that promotes leadership wellness learning and creativity for youth of color
084give communicant role over school safety students families communities need decision-making power in our schools give built transform is just model instead of punishing youth please whoa okay don't start my time yet all right my name is Joshua and today tonight I actually just want to talk about two things the first is a child is a child and a grown-ass person is a grown-ass person and the second thing I want to talk about is silences condolence of white supremacy so the first thing is I've an eleven-year-old who goes to Whitehorse she's Hmong and I can tell you that she has also had run-ins with Owens and has talked about being scared of him any man who terrorizes 11 year olds this has nothing to do with parenting as races Laska said it is not about parenting
085it is about adults terrorizing children if you can see his humanity then you surely can see her humanity she's 11 years old iwell 11 year old who wakes up every morning and sprays perfume all over the house now if I had beaten her like he had beaten her I would be in jail waiting for you I have to sort out what the crime was so my request is simple lock him up let's sort it out while he's locked up make sure that the bail is high enough because I'm unsure how safe my kids are with him in the school now what white supremacy looks like is this grown-ass man can be seen as somebody who lost it or we're not sure what really happened it doesn't matter what happened what happened was a grown-ass man
086lost his temper and took it out on an 11 year old now let's see what he does at home because if he could do that in public let's what he does at home the other pieces white supremecy looks like left I'm seeing all our kids photos and my organization all over his blogs and I'm telling you anybody gets harmed it's on him and it's on you all allowing him to continuously videotape these young kids that's what white supremacy looks like and so why am i as among mother among women a refugee kid here to support an 11 year old black girl is because her humanity is tied to mine and until you can see her as it as a human being I know you can't see me and so I'm saying to all of you
087whatever it is lock him up wait until we can figure out the details because I'm unsure we're safe with him out here because that's what we will do to anybody out here so no cops in schools and invest in children I am a hundred percent against the contract with MMSD and MPD I've said that dozens of times at this point but you all continue to ignore me it's been a while since you've seen me and I have a lot to say I am honestly tired of the lack of respect you all have not only for me but for this community we have been coming to these meetings for almost two years and I've watched as you all act as if you've been listening to what we've been saying then use our language to ask the
088exact opposite of what we want I am tired of reading about teachers abusing our black and brown bodies tired of reading about teachers pulling braids out of an 11-year olds head tired of having to come and defend on why we should feel safe tired of crying after seeing so many children committing suicide because of what's happening at schools I'm tired I want to be able to wake up to see more black and brown kids graduating / dying y'all contribute to our destruction instead of building us up you continue to sit back and watch as we are harmed and come up with bogus solutions instead of listening to us we know best how to help our people if you can sit here and listen to a racist ass white man who's been exploiting and harassing us
089for months then you can listen to these black and brown youths tell you why they don't want people like him in schools every day we demand that this contract is ended immediately we shouldn't have to keep coming to these meetings to prove why we don't need them because you can see on your TV screens at home we've been getting tossed around like ragdolls and you seem not to care but if the tables were turned and we were white we'd get what we want immediately if white kids were to be getting thrown out of desks or missing chunks of what y'all call hair it would be hell white kids can continue to come in here and speak and you actually engage and thank them for being courageous why when we do the things we're reckless and
090disrespectful stop making us feel threatened and your meetings will go back to how they were before you started attacking us thank you and no cops in school my name is Amaya I'm a youth leader at freedom Inc I've been here long enough where it was from that conference room to this odd it was just us a fire folks to a million people behind me giving our testimonies about how we felt about having cops in our four high schools but yet you all decided not to listen annoy us I am upset on your decision you made at the last corporate meeting but yeah I knew you score board members wouldn't change your minds even if we came here months after months you all are too you all are too privileged to see that police only protect
091white skins and not people of color I'm tired of seeing us getting treated badly I'm tired of you all sitting sitting in your own your seats peacefully and happily write us down here the people of color are getting harmed at these past school board meetings I came to realize that you guys up there weren't here to protect us instead of taking action you will rather sit in your seat and care about yourself than caring about what was happening in the audience you all made the decision like keeping the cops in schools today so from now on when you see a person of color get hurt in school you all made this happen it was all you guys fought for deciding on making this decision to destroy all these kids lives it isn't about me and
092the people behind me it was because of you all allowed this to happen just because you all made the decision or keeping the cops in our schools doesn't mean that we will stop showing up our fight isn't over you all will continue continuously see us come here until we get what we want no cops is goal and an invest youth of color they got about 14 microphones over here who's going on okay yeah so at this point everything pretty much has been said over months and months now you know I'm still not clear if y'all know why these people are here if y'all know why I'm here I mean do you I know I'm here I know why these youth are here I know why my people are here not just in this room but
093in this situation in this time in this place in Madison I'm here because you all choose to have whole white supremacy time and time again you apply it's like I don't know like it's butter or some Lowery's or to everything any situation y'all slap some white supremacy on it and you haven't learned yet that it doesn't work it only harms even you I'm sure y'all are tired of sitting here I'm sure y'all have anxiety over coming to these meetings I know TJ say he do I'm saying y'all keep applying upholding it as a value you want to line up you want us to speak quietly to keep time why you beat our children down every day it doesn't take aggression to be violent y'all have taught me that more than anything more than any studying
094or any political education I've ever had y'all have taught me that as many times as we have said this to you remove cops from schools investing youth of color give community control over discipline you still choose to double down on white supremacist policies and procedures as a board you all set the tone for the rest of the district you all set the tone for the over-policing and criminalization of black children and other youth of color as school board members you antagonize us you just you are responsible for any harm that comes to black and brown children in our schools you I don't want to hear oh I don't know how to fix this I don't want to hear thoughts and prayers I don't want to hear none of that you're responsible for it because you
095have not taken action and Accord as to what the community has told you about what's going on you all are responsible for the brutal beating of an 11 year old black girl an 11 year old black girl an 11 year old black girl at Whitehorse middle school earlier this month you can no longer claim ignorance no longer claim you have no solutions what more do you want I know what I want I want you to take responsibility for the criminalization of black girls in your schools in our schools I want you to take actionable steps towards divesting from police and other harmful discipline policies I want you to invest in creating environments where black children feel welcome can learn and grow I want community control over discipline because it's clear to me that what you're
096doing is broken well a lot has been said I would love to say the same things over which I do think a lot of things need to be reiterated for the school board members obviously after the two years we've been here and nothing that we've said has gotten to y'all's brain first off it's February yes talk about that Black History Month what a wonderful way for the masses school district to celebrate Black History Month wonderful we got black excellence we got 11 year old black girl who who got brutally beaned by this grown-ass fucking white man yeah your black lives matter week right which by the way you all cut off the last demand which was clearly about taking cops out of schools so this is the environment and the black excellence set our school
097district talks about it's disappointing right Black History Month is supposed to be a time to honor the contributions of black freedom fighters who struggle to make a more just society for all people but you all don't care because you all don't respect these black youth that have been coming here right these black youth organizers who are carrying on this legacy y'all don't care and it's it's disappointing right you've heard these stories you've heard of people being really upset so what are you going to do you need to be doing more you cannot just sit there and listen or pretend to listen right so I know you've all have heard our demands but if you need a little bit more understanding what that really means I can I can like tell you right now and then
098we should also set up a meeting so I am requesting a public meeting with you know a public meeting you all come to our community our folks will be there you bring some food okay so we demand we demand you dismantle our policing systems school districts must end their relationship both formal and informal arrangements with local county and state police departments school districts must dismantle their internal school policing forces and departments and give control of school safety to us local community members right we didn't man that you divest from law enforcement it's cool merit ization right so that means this arming all school personnel including school security staff and right we also demand that you invest in students supports that create real safety for students of color fairly find and implement restorative justice in all
099schools invest in culturally reflective and responsive counselors so I remember perhaps it was four or five years ago I was animating similar to this except there was the mayor and then female mayor's cronies and I said look your police are out of hand you need to get them under wraps and the group of people says something like we're not as bad as in the places not like good cops killing people and then a year later if that months later Tom Robinson was shot and killed and murder and then months after that cierra Finkley needed help from police but they arrested her when she had to fight her life well then a month couple months later Janell language we were able to get on video was getting beat and tossed by a grown man police department
100police officers and we were there to say we told you that this would happen because this is the result of white supremacist racist policies now here we are whore 5 years later and I'm in a similar setting right when we were here two years ago said you have White's to prevention policies and these policies are forcing black kids to not have good education terrified morale of black children not supportive of black families want to support their black church within the schools and people sellable it's not that bad because we're not like other places where our black children are being beaten by teachers and here we are there you got a windless happy to get video of this one right we just happen to get many on this one and my 10 years of domestic violence
101expertise teaches me about how violence happens and so I think about the violence that he did that we can report and record but I also think about the amount of abuse advice and is done yeah before you put hands and so you all are charged figuring out how are you want to prepare to complete harm caused by him so how is she as a black as a young black student going to be brought back to her illness based on that violence and not just her what about every other student this person I think about every other student this person has come into contact with I think about all the possible decision-making they had over any policy over any decision of any rule this is how white supremacy manifests and so we actually we demand repair
102harm but we follow the footsteps of our reparation of our start by investing in black youth but it will not impair and so we are here to assert and to demand to make for to make possible what is deserving of us first and foremost more cops in schools does what we know if there was a police officer there he probably would have arrested her for getting their ass voyage that's how the police function here that Madison Wisconsin the second is investment in black youth there is clear harm done to black youth there was if you are wanting to come up with the black excellence program problems and issues happening with black kids and I want to say very quickly it does not matter how many black friends you have it does not matter how many
103relationships you have with black people doesn't matter how many collection of the songs you like you will be measured by the success of black students that is how we know this is white supremacy community control because we know that the success of black students is in the hands of black people and so we are going to use our black leadership to give our students what it is that they deserve because we know that you can't do it so really what we're saying is get the hell out of our way so I'm not feeling well but I saved up just enough energy to come here today okay so first of all I just want to address a few things TJ if you want to stop being called a patriarchal white supremacist then stop fucking being one
104marry if you want to stop being called the liberal racist and stop using the police don't black people yes we know about that a lot of people are pissed at all right now and rightfully so y'all are directly responsible for this incident you're directly responsible for this young black girl being assaulted by this white man you all set this home for the districts and y'all lead by example y'all don't give a fuck about black cute students so why should this white man why should other school administrators this is just one of many incidents that have happened to Bailey to our children we work with so many families that are scared to come out right now but they're on their way from being called the n-word to being kicked out of class for chewing gum to
105teachers tugging on black girls skirts telling them to stop being sexually inappropriate from officers elephant sitting on black children to this girl being beat y'all are responsible in this community no longer trust you with the safety and wellness of our kids you all have a half assed black excellence agenda that will not work unless you fucking hands off our kids our communities don't need officers to motivate us which was presented in a few minutes a few meetings back we need housing we need black center education we need health care we need healing we need transformative justice and we need power and we don't take that shit that is how you get rid of the harm that y'all are so worried about not by investing more money into police not by investing into medical metal metal
106detectors that's the work that I do every day and that's what we're demanding of y'all so we're gonna avenge the suffering of black youth in this city avenge of the suffering of black youth in the city but any fucking means necessary again we demand that you end the contract completely remove police from schools not in our high schools not in our elementary schools not in our middle schools create accountability processes for people that harm the harm our kids directly and that you law enforcement to harm our kids invest in learning wellness and creativity of youth of color divest from police and we demand community control over school safety we don't trust you with the safety and wellness of our kids we want real decision-making power not no fake-ass community review board with police officers and
107hand selected black students on it call a response y'all we demand a man all right start the time over please thank you I have three kids in Madison schools I have one daughter who is a seventh grader at Velma Hamilton middle school she is black shy and very concerned about the deep-seated racism in our schools I have a lot to say tonight but mostly you should listen to all the people who spoke before me I do want to say two things one is that I am I'm not an educator and I don't always like to be an educator I'm not a person of color and I don't have those experiences and I don't know what that is like but I do know that I as a white person I'm going to keep fighting against the
108silence of racism in the white community I know that my daughter has been going to schools where the general curriculum ignores the history and the culture of people who look like her I know the kids say racist comments in the hallways I know the one of her teachers called another student the n-word she goes to a school district where a child who looks like her was beat up by a teacher by the acting principal that day and we all know about the statistics on the gross racial disparities in this school district a school district that touts itself as being national at national excellence this board must take concrete steps now to address these issues not next week not in six months not when everybody feels ready to do it but now and as you prepare
109that work and as you do that you need to rely on not just listen to you need to rely on the people in this room the people that have come here today the organizations like freedom Inc like the Boys & Girls Club the parents the youth that have come here and apparently have been coming here for a long time it's been speaking to you you need to rely on that this board cannot solve this problem on its own you need you got an invitation for a community meeting you need to say yes you need to go to that meeting and you need to listen to folks my good go yeah okay um good evening this I'm Mara Ostrander I have long been watching board meetings at my computer on evenings and I've been watching the
110conversations of our black and brown youth and the idea of having police in schools I have never stepped forward at this public mic until now I have forever been a teacher dedicated to our black and brown students in the past 18 years in the Chicago Public Schools and for the last 10 years I have been dedicated to these students in the Madison schools I have advocated I'd asked for help I have let people know we need more resources I have watched the same things come from this audience asking you to hear them and I steal them waiting to be heard along with them a quote we may be uncomfortable talking about race but we can no longer afford to be silent we have chosen a profession that like parenting requires us to put our comforts
111second to those of children I need to say to the audience I am a teacher at Whitehorse middle school and I support your black and brown students I have been told in my past advocacy that my passion and my emotion is strong and maybe too strong to take on leadership roles to take our district forward and here's what I say I have always been a real person I have never been able to walk that line of what it looks like to say the right things in the right places but with those black and brown children that sit before me in my classrooms I move every single one of them emotionally socially and academically until they go on to the next classroom beyond me yet nobody hears me nobody listens I ask how I can be
112a part so just as these people say come to a meeting I say please come to a meeting comes to whitehorse not two days after an incident has gone public but because you know right now it's needed and to the people that aren't feeling heard in the audience I want to be a part of the change with you find me Lara Ostrander find me I'm on that side I will work with you and if we need to do this together I'm in it yeah Sarah here it was not planning I'm going right now I'll power to the people I speak in the place of a parent who is here tonight he was too shaken by the lack of response about incidents at Whitehorse and your stoic and polite smiles today at this board meeting hearing
113these stories wow their eleven-year-old child's lips heal and stop bleeding I have a question and my question for you Mary for the rest of the board is whether or not you see us as human when your daughter with blond or brown hair when your son or the white skin is upset and does something destructive you love them you love her you don't rip three braids out of your daughter's scalp you don't continue to punch her you will make sure the teacher who perpetrated these violence is worth the career was destroyed a young girl who could be my daughter had her hair ripped out from the rest of her scalp and I will not stop repeating that description when cops are in schools cops are trained to see potential threats a hand movement is a potential
114threat a hairbrush then is transformed into a potential gun when your child moves suddenly does she or he experience a cop grabbing her by the arm because their job is to see threats and not children's hands $30,000 needs to go to contractor counselors tutors and instead of the police department or security firms and none of that but he'll also serve constituents like Speaker 5b who see us as irrational beings who need police officers in our classrooms I want to know what your personal investment in that scenario is what is your personal investment in seeing us and treating us as if we were not human like your daughter I'm here because there is a parent at Whitehorse who has talked to you specifically I'm here because there are many people who have worked with you specifically
115I don't need to repeat what was just beautifully said up here before I need to know what your investment is in not seeing us as human beings who are entitled just safety because with that decision on the 30000 for security forces and cops and metal detectors I've been a teacher who has had to have a metal detector in my hand to wand down middle school students in Louisiana have you ever seen the literal life and joy disappear in your daughter's eyes I'm no longer a teacher there it was mandatory protocol that we did I want to know what your investment in seeing the life drained out of these students as you jail them in schools I know I'm speaking over time yeah I appreciate you listening but the truth what shit is do you even
116yes I'd be happy to set up a time to talk I think of you yeah you know this is the public appearances and as you said we did No if you need to take a break take a break students seem to have little power in their educational system the students of this country want more power to make decisions on policies that affect them we as a whole will be a more unified nation in the field of Education when students work together with the administration to make policies they equally benefit them both students demand a voice and a change in the curriculum to include people of color and women because diversity is the cornerstone of democracy and in Madison Wisconsin West High School is the most integrated of them all democracy and diversity supports the equality
117and with equality every student has a greater chance to succeed administration shall always consider student demands and concerns that are reasonable - solving conflicts and power struggles within our institutions students will split your school administration put in policies in place that affects us students with us without us knowing until during the time they're being enforced it makes us feel that we have minimum control over our education and that our ideas and suggestions are being repelled it's that taking things into consideration and into action part that speaks louder to us than the words of mischief we storms at West High School want to contribute in voice and the policies that affect us for we are the primary beneficiaries of these policies we students are already contributing positively to our schools growth by being the factor that
118makes the schools run but and being the factor that makes the schools work having a stupe having a student board that is actively involved in the decision-making processes will also make us the main factor in improving student discipline and overall student performance and and outside of the classroom democracy is freedom the freedom to speak out the freedom to be heard the freedom to be included the freedom to teach the freedom to learn the freedom to lead and the freedom to make a change and be change and I'm standing here before you today because I want to see that change and make that change and speaking for all students I want that freedom to be heard and that freedom to be included especially if it's going if it's for something that's going to affect me and
119my my abilities as a minority student in any institution is Heidi here okay next speaker Amy Castro y'all I was just thinking about how nice it must be to have your issue be separated from public comment as it was earlier this evening Oh Houma how nice it must be to feel heard last week an 11 year old girl was physically abused by an MMSD employee how can you commit to black excellence and allow one of your people to put his hands on a baby how can you justify not firing him and instead putting him on leave we all know what happened how can you expect police in schools to behave any better when they've treated youth the same way outside of schools you all become completely surprised when stuff like this happens you demand proof
120numbers that prove racism and inequality exists yet when students who face these issues every single day like the students behind me who repeatedly come to these meetings to tell you they exist along with recommendations of what would make them more successful in schools you shut them down and you write black and Southeast Asian students off as aggressive and unruly which we all know is extremely racist this is a catch-22 and is rooted in white supremacy you ask that students bring proof of what happens to them and when they bring their experiences statistics and proof you say that it's not enough or it's a minority and as Brandi said we're sick of we're sick and tired of being sick and tired we're sick and tired of being sick and tired for people of color we didn't
121come to the u.s. the u.s. came to us it's time for reparations as M said no cops and schools use the money to fund programs that promote leadership and the well-being of students of color that's three hundred and sixty thousand dollars I can think of ten better uses off the top of my head but I have a minute left so I'll keep going and the third demand is let the community have control over the discipline of students we all know that this isn't about people for you all it's about it's not about money it's about not about students it's about money and maintaining the status quo and white supremacy but for us this is about the people SSR Chavez said the fight was never about grapes or lettuce it's always about people no I poetical
122men poder de la gente porque el poder there are Hinton nursery cleaning next speaker Liam okay next speaker Kim I have so much to say I guess I have three minutes first thing I have to say is that there is an 11 year old girl who's had three braids pulled out of her hair which I can't even begin to imagine the pain who needs $30,000 you got $30,000 that little girl will never be the same you take your thirty thousand dollars you know how much therapy $30,000 buys you almost nothing this child will suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder for the rest of her life because 850 some year old large white principal beat her in front of other people and got away with it got away with it it's important that this little girl was
12311 and petite I think that's that's important but I'll tell you what I have a 50-pound tall black 15 year old just as important principle to beat a little 11 year old girl you have to make this stop we are going to make this stop we are going to make this stop we are going to make this stop because you know what they are not going to make it stop really working together make it stop you know Malcolm X said so long as we have capitalism we have racism and we know what this is really about this is really about defunding public education ultimately it's about we talk about the three hundred and sixty thousand dollars for funding the police you know what a tiny drop in the bucket three hundred and sixty thousand dollars
124is give that little girl three hundred and sixty thousand kids you touched my kid and I will sue you and it will cost you millions of dollars an education they deserve respect they deserve what they deserve a decent way and you know what our anti-racist teachers are stepping up and our anti-racist teachers with our families and our all I'm going to say is for as frightened as our community is of police and of 52 year old white men in positions of power within our education system you better be afraid at all of them of all of the faces who are looking at you right now because like the speaker before me just said we will keep ourselves safe we will keep our children safe at any and all cost we're not asking no cops we
125are telling you no cops in schools my name is my name is Becky Ryland and I'm embarrassed to say this is my first school board meeting I have two daughters one is 12 and one is 8 they are biracial when my wife and I decided to have kids 13 years ago I never thought I'd be standing here being embarrassed to be a white person I look at you all up here tired you look tired some of you did some of you dipped up to go to the bathroom one of you isn't even looking at me in the goddamn face right now and these people out here have to work three jobs to make the amount you guys do Beau tired they're tired it's 8 o'clock tonight and they're tired and they're here to fight for
126their lives my babies I pulled them out of school I switched schools three times last year in the Madison School District three times in an elementary school and in a middle school because I was scared to death for my children my eight year old is brilliant she has autism she has Asperger's I asked for an IEP four times and was denied denied because my black daughter obviously had behavioral issues my diagnosis of autism in their face four times turned her away my daughter was called an effin n B every single day by two white boys when I went in to have meeting after meeting with this school they told me she provoked it she provoked them attacking her verbally and physically because she didn't know the power in silence the power in ignoring to me
127in my house that sounded like the power of ignorance my daughters are taught that they can be anything they want to in November I pulled my daughter's I'm homeschooling them now these people behind me we they don't have the the white privilege of of not working and I'm white here my wife makes a great salary and I have the privilege of staying at home with my kids the people who need the love and the support can't afford to do that you are failing these people they deserve to feel like decent people this 11 year old girl got up and got ready to go to school in the morning to come home and tell her mom when she asked how was your day baby she wanted to say I had a great day I saw my
128friends I learned but instead she got to come home and talk about her hair being fucking ripped out of her head these kids aren't safe when we talk about that we are I have hair now and this doesn't look like the web but when I hold my baby's eyes schools three months ago my hair start going back I was so anxious and worried that my my baby's eight years old and had a panic attack they were gonna call the police I wasn't fight-or-flight every day I dropped my kids off at school because I didn't believe you guys are my kids you're not keeping me safe my hair fell out of my goddamn head because my baby's your family know somebody who has been hurt by our schools how do you expect these kids to learn
129the police in their face do you want a fucking police officer in your face every day waiting for you to mess up so the next week oh I want to talk about the metal detectors I'm from Milwaukee and we have metal detectors and Milwaukee public districts and the experience was shit because we woke up from 6:00 to 6:30 a.m. to catch our bus right and then to be lined up and stuffed into the cafeteria with metal detectors we're trying to be set so we had to wait instead in the middle in the cafeteria until the fucking armed metal detectors were said we were present in our cafeteria every day we went through the metal detectors every day we felt like prisoners and out of all the checks who do you think got check the most
130or who do you think I check the most black students with the targets of metal detectors anyways the waste is not very bad shape no never if you vote for metal detectors you better not say it's for safety because everyone feel unsafe when they had metal detectors to go through everyday and to be honest just say you fear black people and you feel threatened by blacks children you do not care about black children safety cuz when we went to those metal detectors we didn't feel safe at all you got black youth and the Southeast Asian you from Madison coming here every meeting telling you what they need and you keep them missing them and then you vote for the fucking um the the police to be in the schools and then you want to add
131metal detectors that makes no sense this is enough evidence to tell us you fear you hate and you want the death and violence of black children so just say yeah stop saying that you want the safety because that is not the truth it is truly appalling that the school board continues to spend money and direct efforts to systems that have proven more damaging than helpful to their students it is clear that you have the funds and efforts to positively influence the educational experiences of your students yet you do not instead of continuing to fund the more or less criminalization of young black and brown children invest in your education provide services that will help promote students leadership provide services that will better students mental health and wellness provide services that will invest in get creativity
132instead of spending money on maintaining debt threatening and violent presence of police officers in your schools invest in your students it is your duty as the represent ators of this district to invest in your students that that's the end of public appearances the board will be taking a short recess moron no I'm just saying we're coming back into session now you can start okay the next item on the agenda is the report on items that proceeded through the instruction workgroup held on February 11th 2019 I'd like to move that we take item 12 one Swan Creek petition out of order okay any discussion on that I'd like to hear from legal counsel just about basic understanding of the limits of our current agreement and we have to take a vote I vote I'm sorry I'm
133sorry my mistake my mistake all in favor aye opposed okay okay so with regard to the Swan Creek petition as many of the speakers mentioned tonight this is subject to a boundary agreement entered into between the Oregon School District and the MMSD when it was originally entered into there was multiple purposes one was to increase enrollment in the MMSD but also I would say this has certainly worked for the school district of Oregon it was to stave off having to build new schools and referenda and they hadn't had a referenda I don't believe they've had multiple enough referenda as they had in the past after that Swan Creek detachment again as was stated by a number of the speakers and is included in your packet there is a clause within the agreement that we basically
134have to oppose any attempt to annex or detach the property under Chapter 117 which is what has occurred here with the petition my understanding is Oregon is also aware that provision and will comply with it and while they don't know the results of their board meeting they were meeting tonight well they did send an indication that they would be voting no because of the legal obligation so in addition to the legal obligation I think from Madame's Madison's perspective it is a territory that provides us with about two million dollars in property taxes on an annual basis at this time of the public school students who live in Swan Creek and I can only speak to the public school students because we don't have great data on private school students but of the public school students
135the majority around 60 to 65 percent do continue to attend MMSD the remaining students most of them believe open and roll out to the Oregon School District in terms of its location can can we put the bosses in people's pockets yes yeah people have specific questions on the on the boundaries there is a map in Europe and your materials okay that's okay so my certainly my recommendation based upon all the statutory factors that were required to consider those being the educational needs of the children in the the district topographical characteristics of the territory the travel time is a factor to be considered and in travel time is really particularly right now travel time is fairly consistent between districts there's no significant travel time to one district versus the other if there's any adverse effect on
136programmatic issues which I do see that happening within Leopold particularly for the DLI program there's also a significant impact based upon the fact that the Swan Creek neighborhood is a middle to upper-class neighborhood and almost entirely white that would have a significant impact on Leopold in particular in terms of the socio-economic balance as well as well as racial diversity of Leopold so in most instances it's it's a negative for the Madison metropolitan school district to to have this territory be detached barb can you go to I think it's a last exhibit I'm sorry further there we go so this is the Swan Creek territory this area right here this area that States Capitol State Recreation Area it is true it's DNR but it is also MMSD and so when back when there was an appeal
137in 2002 the school district boundary appeal Board determined that the fact that there was a corner shared between MMSD property and the Swan Creek that led to a contiguous property so they did not believe that it created an island even though so this territory here this territory here in this territory here what happened there would be Oregon Oregon school district sorry so the white area here Oregon School District this upper area Oregon School District and then again the contiguous corner between Swan Creek MMSD would be over in this area this entire area here and just so those that aren't particularly filament familiar with Fitchburg this would be Pro mega a grace primarily commercial property in this area here any other questions just one quick question which is um if if in the scenario that some
138people describe which it is there any further discussion on the swamp rapier for the discussion on this aisle moved at the Board of Education denied the petition to attach the swine Creek property from the MMSD second any further discussion imide your advisory vote all in favor Ryan's host:i passes 6-0 James I didn't hear your vote on Swan Creek say that again can you repeat your vote on the Swan Creek detachment take a brief recess whoever's responsible really have to see the bounce-back thing on their Armando I didn't even see you here I don't even see that haha Armando I'm really happy to see the box back on there and and and you feel that's like 14 of course for the beating yeah because it is you know I mean people are calling for we're not
139doing the best we can okay we had three significant updates and just to be clear they were really updates because each item English language learners special ed and advanced really deserve we will get down the line so there's updates where essentially this is what we're working on you're gonna get full reports down the line Monday coming up we're gonna be talking about opportunity youth and I've requested specifically information on how we're gonna expand these opportunities in increase the number of slots so that's what's coming up okay thanks Dean next item is the report on items have proceeded through the operations workgroup held on February 18th 2019 kate yeah so we had two different items on the agenda on March 11th the first was an update on budget that will be a standing item on the
140ops workgroup through the rest of the year and and then the second was the two policy items that were gonna vote on later tonight one is on welfare and our emergency procedures and then the second one was on screenings our next meeting is March 11th and we have two items on the agenda two or three budget is is on they're particularly focused on our priority actions and it's kind of the first probably more fleshed out view that we'll see there and then we have Capital high and and one more policy piece thank you the next item is the action items that proceeded through the operations workgroup since there were no action items that proceeded through the instruction workgroup and so that is with regards to revisions to board policies forty four hundred and forty one
141forty seven are relative to safety so these have been discussed at the Operations workgroup and so I will move that the Board of Education approved the changes to board policies forty four hundred which is investigation interrogation arrest and search and forty one forty seven students employees safety as set forth in the documents provided for the February 25th 2019 regular Board of Education may be effective immediately okay so discussion brief I hope number of people tonight brought up the issue of metal detecting and winding that that's in this policy and I'd like to just clarify a couple of things both for the board and for myself - Ihnen is that if we do not add this language to this policy Juan Dean could still go on in our schools and with no guidelines and no protections
142sorry Matt I'm looking at union of a microphone it's one of the reasons why I believe the board requested the policy is that if if we're going to do it at any point in time we want to have some parameters and and protections for students and so you're you're correct that if we were to do it without a policy that would be against kind of the guidance that I've given in terms of metal detectors and then then just to be clear that there it would be an option to board could pass a policy that said that we would not met metal that we would not use metal detectors at all that would be a third option sure and and so and so so if we are accepting that there will be metal detectors then the
143idea of having what we're trying to do is put protections in for our students and and through through this policy correct yep thank you and I just want to point out in 44-hundred that additional protections and expansions of the current expense protections for students from searches and investigations have been added to that policy and some of those are based on the recommendations of the RO ad hoc committee and so thank those people for that work also and since we're doing all three at once the employee safety again I also thank the EAS that will follow it for their work on bringing the issue of the need for safety protocols for employees forth and how that has been incorporated and thanked the board for incorporating that in the policy questions I mean maybe while we're thinking
144folks Matt I'm just gonna think oh yeah that's what I think I mean look I think while obviously a policy is very complex around wanting or or any sort of screening that I'm really happy that you made the effort to talk to folks around what's the right way for us to handle LGBTQ youth I handle gender issues etc etc and so I just I think it's we're doing quite a I hope she didn't urge I guess that you put into helping us in terms of bringing in my joy-buzzer ball i all in favor opposed okay that passes 7-0 okay next on the agenda is the consent agenda so I will move that the Board of Education adopt and approve all the motions set forth in Section ten the electronic agenda prepared for the February 25th
1452019 regular school board meeting exactly as said motions are written by voting affirmative ly on this motion a board member expresses his or her affirmative vote on each of the motions consolidated hereby subject to any express separations that had been made by any member of the school board second okay any separations tj8 8 & 8 15 any others okay then so back to the main we have a motion and a second two separations in my chair advisory vote aye all in favor aye opposed okay that passes 7-0 okay so eight eight agreement with the city of Madison for special duty officers this is yeah this is probably just for questions and I'm guessing that it's probably Karen but I'm not a hundred percent sure and we're gonna have to get Karen a microphone these officers
146are primarily for things like sporting events and dances and and other ones they're not for day-to-day school day activities might the question I had the big question is in and Joe is what's the chain of command on approval for for hiring these officers is it the person who controls the budget line or does it have to go up to your level before it's approved its debt is generally at the school level okay and it's pretty routine for instance a football game on a Friday night at Mansfield or Bri Stadium it's usually just two officers basketball games is two officers homecoming dances I mean the whole array of extracurricular extracurricular school sponsored activities but it's pretty routine it's using a couple officers with we're expecting a great big crowd we may add some extra staff okay
147is the back and forth with either of your officers when when these are done or I'm just trying to figure out I'm trying to look at what happens I mean there's dozens right no it happens all the time yeah right everything like that but if there's information that comes forward that there's a concern about absolutely the school's me and Jeremy atletic director will too and I guess the last question is that the expenditures for these come out of the individual program budgets the school budgets or if it's if it's an MSc our thing would come out of an MSc our activity budget we haven't gone yeah just just you know kind of trying to get it I mean I knew this was going on I just didn't have a feel of kind of the flow
148the work flow around it and since it was on the agenda this seemed like a good time to ask some questions all right thanks thanks YUM thanks go ahead okay so then I will move that the board approve entering into a recurring annual contracts with the city of Madison for payment of special duty police officers to be signed on an as-needed and as available basis to provide safety security and crowd management at school events the payments will be made from the requesting schools operating funds with the total from all schools not to exceed $30,000 in any given school year during any given year okay all in favor aye opposed okay that passes 6:01 okay 8:15 8:15 we have approximately three million dollars worth of school hardening and related technological purchases on the agenda this evening
149approximately 2.25 million of that is from DOJ grant funds and approximately seven hundred and seventy five thousand dollars of it is from local funds either did or fronting or related funds fund 41 I'm not quite sure which which local funds I kind of went through all these and I think in general these investments are excessive I understand that's pending the DOJ grants for what the DOJ grants are is is what we should be doing I picked out eight 15 is the one which has three hundred seventy nine thousand dollars worth of local expenditures in it as one that I will be voting against and so not going to try to convince anyone else to vote against it but I will be voting against this and with the idea that we should you know that definitely
150spend the DOJ grants but we should be very very careful with our local investments in this area Joan do you have any so what would happen if those funds aren't spent a knows that we budgeted for this yeah this was all what we planned on in the June budget and so I appreciate the reminder they you didn't love that idea in the first place but this is the commitment we made to the public we're not expanding that plan in any way we're just following through on the plan that was created and the plan being the security yeah the security plan yeah okay any further questions or discussion okay I'll move that the Board of Education Award Tri City Electric of Iowa a bid in the amount of three hundred and sixty thousand one hundred and
151forty five dollars for contract a and Furion Auto audio/video security a bit in the amount of three hundred and thirty one thousand one hundred and sixty dollars for contract B for total of six hundred and ninety one thousand three hundred and five dollars to complete phase three facility security improvements at select schools using the Department of Justice grant of three hundred and eleven thousand seven hundred and eighty three dollars and 38 cents and 2018-19 local security funds of three hundred and ninety three hundred seventy nine thousand five hundred and twenty $1.65 second okay imaginable all right all in favor aye opposed Mary okay that passes five to okay so that completes the consent agenda and the next item would be other reports to the board starting with the city of Madison education committee finally Wow
152let me pull up my notes that the show also took it forwarded me but I'm just thrilled we have forums we save the committee both of which are considered major accomplishments because there was struck at what struck consensus that it wouldn't be what we're going to do meetings will be held in May July September the next meeting is May 8th we're also creating a survey it said to get it out sending it out now to ask individuals what they want the committee to do what they think is the most important and to rank them we're also asking what role do they see the city had educational committee take on what should be the city of the city Education Committee and what should what and what who should vote and who should be on the committee
153should the committee be formalized in the respectful guidelines of government because the city doesn't have to notice that only the school board has to notice and the city would like to notice it and what should the city and school board do sorry I'm trying to read the same school board do to work on routine related issues and problems in the of restorative youth of opportunity youth mm-hmm and that is it okay thank you I'm just blessed that it happened these questions because I can I consider this committee to be pretty useless as it is right now and I think a much higher level discussion needs to be made if two board members are at a committee or in errata on a committee with to count City years and to County Board supervisors I think we're
154missing an opportunity and the in the conversation that goes on is really worthless unless it's higher level and and the types of questions that were being asked here gives us an opportunity to perhaps consider a much higher level discussion among all three governing bodies in this community where we can actually talk about sharing resources and creating partnerships that our budget that are attached to budgets that that bring meaningful discussion about how we can deal with restorative justice practices how we can deal with opportunity use and collaborate with governing agencies that takes our kids that we work with here during 8:00 to 3:00 and then hand off the City and County programs that can help that can continue and collaborate together so that's where I see this city education committee really needs to go and I
155don't even know if it needs to be called the city education committee it needs to be what we need to be consider is how can we collaborate at much higher levels with city and county governing agencies to collaborate on programs that we can then share resources share conversations and share budgets that to me is something that I think it would be worthwhile to consider and at that meeting to board I think the President and Vice President is city council and the chair of the County Board should be there along with super the superintendent or or the chief of staff and someone from the mayor's office and someone from county exact offers if not the mayor and County exec themselves okay um Thank You Dean I don't know make sure we stick to the agenda here
156and this is an update from the meeting I think these are really good points and I think we should not get on the topic of discussing this I think it's a relevant topic I just don't think it's part of getting I wanted it on the table yeah I appreciate that this is relevant to the update Nicki who is the server being sent to community members in two teachers they're being sent to staff they are being sent to County Board members the County Board executive Jen you should get one of the superintendent all of all school board members are getting in all come and all those okay thank you that's that was thanks Vicky and Dean I think I'd be good if you could maybe put in writing your things so we don't lose that and
157that can be incorporated into the feedback on the next you know including that from the survey and as a reminder we did agree to agenda is a larger discussion about the city had committee oh great later on this year oh great can we include the term childhood education one in that or no I mean you guys could discuss it but just the sit the Early Childhood Education Committee oh we certainly confirm it consider there one covers earth - mm-hmm really some of it's like five six seven even okay okay I'm so I'm at a student Senate so Student Senate had a meeting on February 13th and then during that meeting we had a discussion around the bet I'm similar to during the instructional work group we especially highlighted the three goals and had a discussion
158around them and as well as dress code um because a lot of the students were passionate about some of the m's in the dress code and had things to say about those we also began working on presentations in our committees so we have an AP honors committee facilities class sizes and in phone technology our four committees and we begin working on presentations um so that we can hopefully present to the students and as a whole next meeting and possibly the board in the future and then we will likely have another round of guest speakers that spring just to gather more information and streamline our goals for this year next year okay thank you shrim but is there anything on the BEP that can you bring anything from the Board of Education and there changes that
159there was a consensus among the Student Senate around from our last draft and himself you can share them the board either at our next meeting or wherever that would be appreciated okay thank you okay um glorious student behavior ad hoc committee sure our next meeting is scheduled for March 11th that our ad hoc committee so we've had you know we've made a lot of progress we're moving along as everybody knows this is a really tough area and I think we've covered a lot of ground work here in our next meeting we will be discussing how we incorporate opportunity youth and the recommendations and policies and budget really focusing on those students who are high needs in our schools oftentimes we build policies for which you know we have to write for the entire student body
160and but I think we have to this is an opportunity for us to really focus our efforts around those students who are in need of a lot of resources so that we are not leaving them behind and figure out a way that we support them whether it be alternative schools whatever that looks like but I think we have to spend some time in energy around this appreciate our staff and listening to our concerns and that's what we'll be discussing further we wanted to be further along on this but I think it is worth our time and spending our time on this and I don't cave gems if you guys have any comments okay I'm Nikki just one quick one comment one statement thank you for including that I think that's very important but just one
161reminder that on the alternatives that when you do it alternative you have to have ten day ten days notice or cuts to choose a change replacement we had that with the alternative school and they'll follow it and it wasn't done and we ended up almost having to give compensatory services and so I just want to avoid that problem so that'll be great for our next meeting of the that'll be covering that we didn't last month we neglected to get an update from the estate meeting of the Wisconsin association of school boards and James I wondered if you could give us an update from that meeting none of them passed because the one basically why don't know that word another resolution at this point but basically it was the southern schools and that were in favor
162of the changes that we recommend recommended and as you know that that was about 300 people that's in those meetings that that constitute about three people look back at that because I can't remember the back whether Luther now we can revisit it next next month James I should have given you a fair warning that I was going to call on you here yeah thank you James okay so I think that is the last item on our agenda since we did move up the Swan Creek and so if there is no other old or new business I will move to adjourn all in favor all in favor aye opposed or German