Jan 22, 2025 January 22, 2025 - Business Meeting

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OKAY. THANK YOU. OKAY. WELCOME TO THE BOARD OF EDUCATION MEETING OF JANUARY 22ND, 2025.

[3. Public Session - 7:30 p.m.]

NATALIE, WOULD YOU PLEASE REITERATE OUR EXECUTIVE SESSION MOTION? YES. WE MET TO DISCUSS COLLECTIVE BARGAINING NEGOTIATIONS PURSUANT TO ARTICLE 14 OF THE CIVIL SERVICE LAW.

THANK YOU. NATALIE. OKAY. AS USUAL, WE HAVE A LOT TO COVER, A LOT TO COVER THIS EVENING.

I APPRECIATE EVERYONE'S TIME AND ATTENTION AS WE MOVE THROUGH OUR AGENDA.

FIRST, I'D LIKE TO EXTEND MY CONGRATULATIONS AGAIN TO PELHAM VARSITY ATHLETES.

YOUR EXCELLENCE IN BOTH SPORTSMAN SPORTS AND SPORTSMANSHIP CONTINUE TO MAKE OUR COMMUNITY INCREDIBLY PROUD.

WELL DONE. THIS EVENING, IN ADDITION TO OUR STANDARD AGENDA, WE WILL OF COURSE DISCUSS FACILITIES.

THE BOARD WILL FINALIZE ITS DECISION MAKING CRITERIA AND BEGIN UTILIZING IT TO PRIORITIZE INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS WITHIN THE PROPOSED PLAN.

JUST A REMINDER, INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS ARE CONSIDERED NEED TO HAVE ITEMS SUCH AS HVAC SYSTEMS, ROOFS AND WINDOWS. THINGS THAT ARE ESSENTIAL FOR KEEPING OUR SCHOOL FACILITIES OPERATIONAL.

WE MAY ALSO DISCUSS AIR CONDITIONING AND GEOTHERMAL, POTENTIALLY.

FINALLY, WE'LL REVIEW THE DATES FOR COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT ACTIVITIES, WHICH IS A VERY IMPORTANT COMPONENT OF THIS EFFORT.

DOCTOR CHAMP WILL ALSO BE PROVIDING HER MID-YEAR REPORT, WHICH I BELIEVE WILL INCLUDE INSIGHTS FROM OUR DASHBOARD.

WE LOOK FORWARD TO HEARING FROM HER. WE'LL ALSO TOUCH ON SOME BUDGET MATTERS.

THE FINANCE COMMITTEE MET THIS MORNING AND LATER WILL REVIEW HOW WE'RE TRACKING AGAINST OUR 2024 2025 BUDGET.

WE'LL ALSO DISCUSS SOME OF THE CONSIDERATIONS AS WE ARE IN FULL PLANNING FOR THE 2025 2026 BUDGET.

RECALL THAT OUR GUIDANCE TO THE DISTRICT IS TO IS TO BE MINDFUL OF STAFFING AND THE GROWING EXPENSES DUE TO THE UNCERTAINTY OF INTEREST, REVENUES AND STATE AID, WHILE MAINTAINING THE DISTRICT'S ROBUST PROGRAMING OF INTEREST IN THIS YEAR'S BUDGET CYCLE IS ALSO THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE THAT WE HAVE RETIRING FROM THE DISTRICT.

SO OF COURSE, WE LOOK FORWARD TO CELEBRATING THEIR SERVICE TO PELHAM SCHOOLS.

BUT WE ALSO LOOK FORWARD TO UNDERSTANDING THE PLAN FOR FUTURE HIRING AND STAFFING AS PART OF AS PART OF BUDGET SEASON.

FINALLY, AS WE DO EVERY YEAR WITH RESPECT TO BUDGET, WE LOOK AT A MODEL OF THE POTENTIAL BUDGET OVER THE NEXT FIVE YEARS.

WHICH HELPS THE DISTRICT UNDERSTAND THE LONGER TERM IMPACT OF THE DECISIONS WE MAKE TODAY REGARDING BUDGET.

AND THEN BEFORE I HAND IT OVER TO DOCTOR CHAMP, I JUST WANT TO TAKE A MOMENT TO SORT OF REAFFIRM THAT THE MISSION AND VISION WE SHARE FOR PELHAM SCHOOLS AND THE CORE VALUES OF COMMUNITY AND BELONGING, WELLNESS AND BALANCE AND LEARNING AND GROWTH REMAIN CONSTANT EVEN WITH THE RECENT CHANGES IN NATIONAL LEADERSHIP. THESE VALUES WILL CONTINUE TO GUIDE US MOVING FORWARD.

ALSO IMPORTANT TO REMEMBER IS THAT OUR DISTRICT AND THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OPERATE IN ALIGNMENT WITH GUIDANCE FROM THE NEW YORK STATE EDUCATION, NEW YORK STATE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT, AS WELL AS THE EXPECTATIONS OF OUR PELHAM COMMUNITY.

SO THANK YOU. DOCTOR CHAMP. I WILL DO THE MINUTES FIRST.

OH, YES. SORRY. BEFORE POINT ONE AND TWO. OKAY.

DO I HAVE A. WE CAN GO TO 4.1. DO I HAVE A MOTION TO APPROVE THE MINUTES FROM DECEMBER 18TH,

[4. Approval of Minutes]

CHAMP. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. I JUST WANT TO ECHO SOME OF THE SAME SENTIMENTS AND THOUGHTS THAT JACKIE DID.

[5.1 Superintendent's Report - Superintendent's Mid-Year Update]

MR. LLEWELLYN WAS HERE AS WELL. I JUST WANT TO THANK EVERYONE WHO HAD A HAND IN THE SUCCESS OF THOSE STUDENTS.

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COUPLE. WE ALWAYS LIKE TO KEEP THE BOARD UP TO DATE ON SOME OF THE SPECIAL AWARDS AND HONOREES THROUGHOUT THE YEAR.

SO THE PELICAN YEARBOOK STUDENT STAFF AND ADVISORS WERE OVERJOYED TO SHARE THE SHARE THE GREAT NEWS THAT THE 2024 PELICAN YEARBOOK, ENTITLED ALWAYS IN MOTION, WAS AWARDED FIRST PLACE IN THE SCHOLASTIC YEAR BOOK AWARD BY THE AMERICAN SCHOLASTIC ASSOCIATION.

IT'S A HUGE HONOR AND ONE I KNOW UNDER MISS WAHL'S LEADERSHIP, THIS PROGRAM REALLY HAS FLOURISHED.

SO WE CONGRATULATE THE 2024 EDITOR IN CHIEF RORY PANNUTI, ASSISTANT EDITOR GARY JEFFRIES, ASSISTANT EDITOR SOPHIA GRECO, AND THE ENTIRE 2024 PELICAN YEARBOOK STUDENT STAFF ON THEIR AMAZING ACCOMPLISHMENT.

AND THAT'S MR. BRYAN SANDS IS ALSO AN ADVISOR OVER THERE AS WELL.

SO CONGRATULATIONS TO THEM ON THEIR CONTINUED OUTSTANDING WORK ON OUR YEARBOOK.

OUR FORENSICS TEAM CONTINUES TO EXCEL. OVER THE LAST COUPLE OF WEEKENDS THEY'VE BEEN VERY BUSY.

SO ON THE WEEKEND OF THE 11TH THE HIGH SCHOOL FORENSICS SPEECH TEAM COMPETED AT THE 78TH ANNUAL CHAMINADE HIGH SCHOOL INVITATIONAL TOURNAMENT IN MINEOLA, LONG ISLAND. OVER 450 STUDENTS FROM THE TRI STATE AREA COMPETED AT THE PRESTIGIOUS TOURNAMENT, AND CONGRATULATIONS GO TO SOPHOMORE THOMAS SPADAFORA FOR WINNING 10TH PLACE IN CONGRESSIONAL DEBATE.

THE TEAM WILL THEN, AFTER THAT EVENT, MOVED ON TO COMPETE AT REGIS HIGH SCHOOL THE NEXT WEEK.

AND AT REGIS THIS PAST WEEKEND, THE FORENSIC TEAM AGAIN COMPETED AT THE RAYMOND MEMORIAL TOURNAMENT, WHICH WAS AGAIN HELD AT REGIS IN MANHATTAN. AND AT THIS EVENT, CONGRATULATIONS GO TO AARON BOURNE, FINALIST IN EXTEMPORANEOUS SPEAKING. THOMAS SPADAFORA, SEVENTH PLACE IN CONGRESSIONAL DEBATE.

AND CHRISTOPHER O'MEARA, THIRD PLACE IN CONGRESSIONAL DEBATE.

THOMAS AND CHRISTOPHER HAVE NOW QUALIFIED FOR THE NEW YORK STATE CHAMPIONSHIPS TO BE HELD AT BRONX SCHOOL OF SCIENCE.

MS. HOLTZ'S ALUM ALMA MATER. THANK YOU. THEY'LL BE COMPETING AT BRONX HIGH SCHOOL OF SCIENCE IN APRIL.

SO CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL AND GOOD LUCK TO THOMAS AND CHRISTOPHER ON THAT NEXT STEP IN THEIR JOURNEY.

ADDITIONALLY, JUST WANTED TO NOTE THANKS TO MISS SUZANNE SHORT, SEVERAL TEACHERS, A LOT OF PTA SUPPORT, AND OUR SCHOOL'S PRINCIPALS FOR ONGOING EFFORTS AT THE SCHOOL LEVEL TO PREPARE OUR STUDENTS AND COMPETE AT THE SCHOOL LEVEL FOR THE UPCOMING SPELLING BEE.

SO THAT IS SCHEDULED FOR TOMORROW. TOMORROW AFTERNOON IT'S GOING TO BE OUR DISTRICT SPELLING BEE.

SO VERY EXCITING EVENT. 3:30 IN ALUMNI HALL IF ANYONE WANTS TO COME WATCH OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.

AND THEN I DO BELIEVE WINNERS FROM THAT WILL MOVE ON TO THE REGIONAL SCRIPPS COMPETITION.

YES. AND JUST A NOTE TO COMMEND SUZANNE CIANI IN THIS POSITION.

AND ONE OF THE THINGS SHE'S BEEN WORKING ON SINCE DAY ONE WAS THE SPELLING BEE, BECAUSE THE REGIONAL HOST CHANGED TO A NEW HOST AND A NEW PLACE FOR OUR DISTRICT WINNERS TO ADVANCE TO.

AND SHE WAS SUCCESSFUL IN DOING THAT. SO THANKS TO HER AND HER TEAM FOR ORGANIZING THIS GREAT EFFORT, ALL THE FIVE B'S HAVE BEEN COMPLETED AND WE LOOK FORWARD TO TOMORROW'S DISTRICT B YES, VERY EXCITING.

ALSO, WE HAVE COMING UP THIS WEEKEND SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS MIDDLE SCHOOL THEATER PROGRAM.

SO THURSDAY IS A DRESS REHEARSAL FOR ANYONE INTERNAL BUT THEN FRIDAY, SATURDAY AND SUNDAY PERFORMANCES.

SO IT SHOULD BE A GREAT TIME. AND IT'S USUALLY A FLEET OF THOUSANDS, BECAUSE I THINK MR. BECK AND HIS CREW TAKE PRETTY MUCH ANY STUDENT WHO WANTS TO PERFORM FROM THE MIDDLE SCHOOL.

SO IT'S REALLY A WONDERFUL TIME AND HOPE FOLKS CAN MAKE IT.

JUST TO ECHO A LITTLE BIT OF WHAT JACKIE ALLUDED TO, CERTAINLY WE ARE ALL MONITORING, THERE'S LOTS OF POTENTIAL REGULATORY AND LEGAL CHANGES COMING OUR WAY. AND JUST WANTED TO REITERATE WITH FOLKS THAT WE'RE MONITORING THOSE, AS WE ALWAYS ARE, WHETHER THEY BE AT THE FEDERAL, AT THE STATE LEVEL WE MONITOR EVERYTHING THAT COMES OUR WAY AND WORK ALWAYS WITH OUR COUNCIL AS TO HOW AND IF THOSE CHANGES MAY IMPACT US.

AS JACKIE SAID, WE REALLY ARE MAINLY GOVERNED BY NEW YORK STATE, BY STATE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT REGULATIONS AND CERTAINLY BY OUR BOARD POLICIES, AND AS WELL BY OUR STRATEGIC PLAN. THOSE THINGS HAVE NOT CHANGED.

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AND THAT STRATEGIC PLAN IN PARTICULAR, WHICH HAS BEEN SHAPED BY A BROAD STAKEHOLDER OF STATE STAKEHOLDERS FROM OUR COMMUNITY, INCLUDING THE BULK OF THE BOARD AND PRIOR BOARD MEMBERS, HAVE SAID WHAT WE I THINK ALL BELIEVE IS THE VISION AND THE DIRECTION FOR OUR DISTRICT BASED ON THE VALUES OF OUR COMMUNITY, AS YOU SAID.

SO I JUST WANT TO REITERATE THAT AND KNOW THAT WE'RE, AGAIN, WORKING WITH LEGAL COUNSEL. A LOT OF US BELONG TO DIFFERENT PROFESSIONAL GROUPS THAT ARE PART OF INTERPRETING WHAT THESE CHANGES MEAN.

SO WE'LL KEEP THE BOARD AND KEEP THE COMMUNITY ABREAST OF ANYTHING AS THINGS CHANGE.

TONIGHT YOU'RE GOING TO HEAR MORE ABOUT OUR PROGRESS ON THE STRATEGIC PLAN. ONE CERTAINLY HOT TOPIC.

I WAS TALKING TO MR. LLEWELLYN ON HIS WAY OUT IS THE GOVERNOR HAS NOW PROPOSED HER PHONE BAN.

SO THAT IS NOT A DONE DEAL IN ITS FULLEST YET.

SO AGAIN, WE'RE LEARNING WHAT THE WHAT THAT MAY MEAN FOR US.

AND AS MOST THINGS, MOST THINGS DO WHEN THE LEGISLATIVE PROCESS PLAYS ITSELF OUT, THERE TEND TO BE SOME ADJUSTMENTS AND ITERATIONS ALONG THE WAY.

SO WE'RE GOING TO FOLLOW THE PROCESS AND WATCH AND SEE HOW THAT PLAYS OUT.

I THINK I AM THANKFUL THAT MR. LLEWELLYN HAS HAD THE DIGITAL DEVICE COMMITTEE GOING ON AT THE HIGH SCHOOL THIS YEAR, YOU KNOW, AS A FOLLOW UP TO THE BOARD CONVERSATIONS LAST YEAR AND THE POLICY DIRECTIVE FROM THE BOARD.

SO I THINK THIS CERTAINLY WE ARE WELL POSITIONED TO ADDRESS WHATEVER THE OUTCOME OF THAT FINAL LEGISLATION IS.

SO CERTAINLY THEY WILL THAT WILL INFORM THEIR CONTINUED MEETINGS AND THEY WILL BE COMING TO US AS THEY SHARE WITH THE BOARD, HOPING FOR A REPORT THAT A WRITTEN REPORT THAT WE'LL SHARE WITH THE BOARD IN FEBRUARY, BUT THEN DEFINITELY BEFORE THE END OF END OF THE SCHOOL YEAR. COMING BACK WITH AN UPDATE ON THE COMMITTEE'S FINAL FINDINGS, WE SHOULD KNOW BY THE END OF THE BUDGET PROCESS PROBABLY WHAT THE ACTUAL FINAL LEGISLATION IS GOING TO LOOK LIKE, SO THAT WE CAN THEN ADJUST AND PREPARE FOR IMPLEMENTATION OF WHATEVER THAT LOOKS LIKE FOR NEXT YEAR.

SO WE WILL DEFINITELY KEEP YOU ABREAST OF THAT AS WELL.

ANOTHER THING THAT THE GOVERNOR HAD PUT INTO PLACE THAT WE'RE GOING, THERE'S NOT A LOT OF DETAIL AROUND IT, BUT WE'RE MOVING FORWARD WITH PLANNING AND WORKING WITH OTHER DISTRICTS AND WITH LEGAL COUNSEL TO SEE HOW WE WANT TO SHAPE THIS.

AND THAT IS THE ADDITION OF STUDENT, EX OFFICIO MEMBERS TO THE BOARD OF EDUCATION.

EACH DISTRICT IS REQUIRED NOW TO DO THAT AS OF JULY 1ST.

SO I'VE BEEN WORKING WITH MR. LLEWELLYN TO DRAFT A POTENTIAL PROCESS FOR THAT APPLICATION PROCESS SELECTION PROCESS.

AND WE'RE HOPING TO HAVE TWO STUDENTS. OUR PLAN AS OF THIS POINT IS TO HAVE STUDENTS APPLY, GO THROUGH AN INTERVIEW PROCESS, HAVE TWO STUDENTS SELECTED, ONE BEING A JUNIOR, ONE A SENIOR IDEALLY EVERY YEAR, AND THEY DO TWO YEAR TERMS SO THAT THEY CAN JOIN AS A JUNIOR.

KIND OF LEARN THE ROPES AND THEN BE ON AS A SENIOR AND THEN MENTOR THE NEW UPCOMING STUDENT IN THE FOLLOWING YEAR.

SO AGAIN, THERE'S A LOT OF, LOT OF LEGAL PIECES OF THE LEGISLATION THAT ARE JUST EITHER NOT CLEAR OR NOT THERE.

SO WE'RE WORKING WITH LEGAL TO FIGURE OUT WHAT IS THE APPROPRIATE APPROACH TO THAT.

THERE'S A LOT OF DISTRICTS WHO HAVE DONE IT SUCCESSFULLY BY CHOICE IN PRIOR YEARS, SO WE'RE LEARNING LESSONS FROM THEM AS WELL. SO WE'LL BE COMING TO YOU MORE WITH THAT.

AND HOPEFULLY WE BELIEVE IDEALLY WE'LL PROBABLY WE WOULD LIKE TO BRING A POLICY TO THE POLICY COMMITTEE TO HELP SHAPE THAT AS WELL.

SO THAT SHOULD BE COMING TO YOU IN THE NEXT COUPLE OF MONTHS SO THAT WE'RE WELL POSITIONED FOR JULY 1ST.

ONE FINAL PIECE. IT'S NOT REGULATORY, BUT IT IS THAT TIME OF YEAR.

AND THE BOARD SHOULD HAVE A PACKET IN YOUR FOLDER.

WE NEED THAT TIME OF YEAR WHERE WE START LOOKING AT THE CALENDAR FOR NEXT YEAR FOR 2526.

SO WHAT I HAVE FOR THE BOARD TONIGHT IS JUST THE FIRST DRAFT.

IT'S MY RECOMMENDED DRAFT TO YOU. WHAT I WANT TO DO IS TAKE A LITTLE BIT OF TIME TO TALK ABOUT IT, HIGHLIGHT JUST KEY PIECES OF IT. AND THEN SHARE IT WITH THE COMMUNITY AS PART OF OUR BOARD WRAP UP WITH A SURVEY.

JUST LOOKING FOR FEEDBACK SIMILAR TO WHAT SOME OF OUR SCARSDALE'S ONE OF THE DISTRICTS HAS DONE A LOT OF CALENDAR WORK.

SO I'VE BEEN SPEAKING WITH THEIR SUPERINTENDENT.

SO AND THEN WHAT WE'LL DO, MY PLAN IS TO DO IS TO BRING THAT FEEDBACK TO YOU.

ANY POTENTIAL ADJUSTMENTS THAT COME FROM THAT IN THE HOPES OF APPROVING A FINAL DRAFT OF IT AT THE NEXT MEETING? AND AS THE BOARD PROBABLY KNOWS, EVERY NOW AND THEN WE DO COME BACK AND MAKE ADDITIONAL ADJUSTMENTS THROUGHOUT THE YEAR AS CONDITIONS CHANGE.

BUT WHAT WE HAVE BEFORE YOU IS A CALENDAR THAT'S LARGELY BASED ON THIS YEAR.

IT'S ALMOST IDENTICAL IN ITS STRUCTURE. ONE THING THAT DOES STILL HAVE TO HAPPEN IN ORDER FOR THIS AS PROPOSED TO BE ABLE TO BE APPROVED RECOMMENDED TO YOU FINALLY FOR ADOPTION.

THAT'S THE START OF THE SCHOOL YEAR. SO BY TEACHERS CONTRACT THE TEACHERS COME BACK AFTER LABOR DAY.

BUT THERE'S A PROVISION IN THE CONTRACT THAT ENABLES US TO ASK THEM TO WORK, COLLABORATE WITH THEM IF THERE ARE CERTAIN YEARS WHERE IT'S ADVANTAGEOUS FOR THEM TO COME BACK PRIOR TO LABOR DAY, THEY TAKE IT TO A VOTE OF THEIR MEMBERSHIP.

AND IF THE MEMBERSHIP APPROVES IT, THAT ENABLES US TO DO THAT.

SO THAT IS HAPPENED THIS YEAR. SO WE WERE ABLE TO HAVE TWO SUPERINTENDENTS CONFERENCE DAYS IN AUGUST BEFORE LABOR DAY.

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YOU HAVE A HALF DAY ON THAT DAY FOR K SIX. THAT'S ANOTHER CONTRACTUAL OBLIGATION.

SO THAT'D BE A HALF DAY. AND IT'S A NICE WAY FOR THE STUDENTS TO KIND OF BREAK THE BREAK THEMSELVES IN. FOR THE TEACHERS, GET ADJUSTED AND MEET THE STUDENTS.

ORIENT THEM AND THEN HAVE THE AFTERNOON TO THEN PREPARE FOR THE NEXT DAY BEING A FULL DAY FOR THEM.

YOU SEE THE STANDARD, THE STANDARD HOLIDAYS. EXCUSE ME, LABOR DAY, ROSH HASHANAH, MOVING INTO OCTOBER, YOU HAVE YOM KIPPUR, COLUMBUS DAY, INDIGENOUS PEOPLE DAY.

ONE SLIGHT DIFFERENCE. THIS YEAR WE HAVE ONE DAY THAT KIND OF TENDS TO LAND IN DIFFERENT PLACES FROM YEAR TO YEAR.

THIS YEAR, GIVEN THE CONVERSATIONS THAT WE'VE HAD WITH SOME OF OUR PARENT COMMUNITY AND THE WORK THAT A LOT OF OUR CULTURAL COMPETENCE COMMITTEES HAVE DONE, I'M PROPOSING THAT WE USE THAT DAY THIS YEAR FOR DIWALI.

NEW YORK CITY SCHOOLS ARE OFF ON DIWALI. A LOT OF OUR FAMILIES, IF THEY WORK IN CITY, HAVE IF THEIR TEACHERS IN THE CITY HAVE THAT DAY OFF.

SO I AM SUGGESTING THAT WE CONSIDER PUTTING THAT ON OCTOBER 20TH AS RECOGNITION FOR DIWALI.

I WILL SAY I CAN'T PROMISE THAT THIS WILL HAPPEN EVERY YEAR.

IT JUST HAPPENS THAT WE HAVE A DAY, THAT THERE WAS A LITTLE BIT OF FLEXIBILITY AROUND AND IN TRYING TO BE, YOU KNOW, MORE CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE. I THOUGHT IT'S AN OPPORTUNITY THAT WE HAVE.

ONE OTHER REASON FOR THAT IS BECAUSE LUNAR NEW YEAR, WHICH IS REQUIRED, HAPPENS TO FALL ON A NON-SCHOOL DAY ANYWAY.

SO THAT GAVE US THAT FLEXIBILITY OF AN ADDED DAY.

IF YOU MOVE INTO NOVEMBER AND I'LL COME BACK FOR THE RED SQUARES IN A SECOND, IF YOU MOVE INTO NOVEMBER, YOU SEE THERE THE PARENT TEACHER CONFERENCE STRUCTURED THE WAY THAT WE DID THIS YEAR, WHICH WAS THE FIRST TIME THAT WE SPLIT ELEMENTARY FALL CONFERENCES FROM SECONDARY FALL CONFERENCES.

WE DID THAT TO BETTER ALIGN WITH THE CONVERSATIONS THAT TEACHERS WANTED TO HAVE WITH PARENTS ABOUT THE CHILD'S ACADEMIC PROGRESS.

SO IF YOU REMEMBER, ELEMENTARIES ARE ON TRIMESTERS HAVING A CONFERENCE IN EARLY NOVEMBER.

STUDENTS HAVE BEEN IN SCHOOL FOR AT THAT POINT, ABOUT TWO MONTHS.

YOU'RE NOT AT THE END OF THE TRIMESTER, BUT THERE'S ENOUGH CLASSROOM CURRICULUM BASED DATA AND BENCHMARK DATA FOR TEACHERS TO HAVE KNOWLEDGEABLE CONVERSATION ABOUT A CHILD'S SKILLS, STRENGTHS, AND AREAS FOR GROWTH. BUT IT'S ALSO NOT TIED TO THE REPORT CARD.

WE WANTED TO SEPARATE THOSE TWO SO WE COULD REALLY BE A VERY CURRICULUM BASED CONVERSATION.

AND WE MOVE BACK TO IN-PERSON CONFERENCES THIS YEAR.

WE WANT TO CONTINUE WITH THAT AS WELL BECAUSE WE FOUND THAT TO BE INCREDIBLY EFFECTIVE.

SO THAT WOULD BE A HALF DAY RELEASE FOR ELEMENTARY, WITH A FULL DAY OFF ELEMENTARY AND EARLY NOVEMBER FOR PARENT TEACHER CONFERENCES.

END OF NOVEMBER, YOU HAVE THE THANKSGIVING BREAK AND THEN THE START OF DECEMBER, YOU SEE PARENT TEACHER CONFERENCES FOR SECONDARY.

SO SAME CORRELATE SECONDARY STUDENTS WOULD THEN HAVE THE HALF DAY RELEASE FULL DAY OFF FOR PARENT TEACHER CONFERENCES.

BY STARTING THE TEACHERS IN AUGUST LIKE WE DID THIS YEAR, THAT WOULD ENABLE ANOTHER YEAR WITH A TWO WEEK BREAK AT THE HOLIDAYS.

SO THAT'S WHAT YOU HAVE PROPOSED IN HERE AS WELL.

IN JANUARY YOU SEE THE MLK HOLIDAY MOVING INTO FEBRUARY, THE USUAL MUD WEEK, AS WE AS WE CALL IT OFF IN THE THIRD WEEK OF FEBRUARY, MOVING INTO MARCH, YOU SEE IN GREEN AND YELLOW.

THAT IS OUR PARENT TEACHER CONFERENCE FOR THE FOR THE SPRING COMBINED WITH A SUPERINTENDENT'S CONFERENCE DAY. SO WE'RE TRYING THAT FOR THE FIRST TIME THIS YEAR.

WE'LL ASSESS ONCE THAT'S OVER. CLEAR. WE'LL GET SOME FEEDBACK BACK FROM FOLKS.

AND WHAT THAT IS A HALF DAY EARLY RELEASE. SO FOR AFTERNOON AND EVENING CONFERENCES FOR ELEMENTARY, IT'S BASICALLY AGAIN AVAILABLE TO ALL STUDENTS.

SECONDARY. THAT'S THE ONE WHERE WE FOCUS ON JUST THOSE STUDENTS WHERE TEACHERS ARE CONCERNED AND ASK THEIR PARENTS TO COME IN.

SO IT'S A SMALLER NUMBER OF STUDENTS THAT GENERALLY PARENTS THAT ARE GENERALLY INVITED IN AT THE SECONDARY.

SO IT'LL BE A HALF DAY EARLY RELEASE FOR AFTERNOON AND EVENING CONFERENCES FOR ALL STUDENTS.

AND THEN ON THAT FRIDAY, THE MORNING OF THE 20TH, ELEMENTARY TEACHERS WILL ALSO BE GIVEN A LITTLE EXTRA TIME FOR CONFERENCES SO THAT THEY CAN SEE ALL THE ALL THE STUDENTS IN THEIR CLASS, AND THEY'LL BE OFFERING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT FOR SECONDARY IN THE MORNING AND THEN PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT FOR ALL IN THE AFTERNOON.

SO IT'S A MODEL WE'RE DOING THIS YEAR. IF IT WORKS WELL, WE'LL REPLICATE THAT NEXT YEAR.

SPRING BREAK WOULD THEN BE START THE LAST WEEK IN MARCH.

SO MARCH 30TH THROUGH APRIL 3RD. MOVING INTO MAY, YOU SEE THE TWO WHAT WE CALL COMPENSATORY DAYS.

THOSE ARE ANOTHER CONTRACTUAL OBLIGATION. IF WE TAKE WE HAVE FIVE SNOW DAYS BUILT INTO THE CALENDAR.

IF WE TAKE ONE SNOW DAY, THEN ONE OF THOSE BECOMES A REGULAR SCHOOL DAY.

IF WE TAKE A SECOND SNOW DAY, THE SECOND ONE BECOMES A REGULAR SCHOOL DAY.

SO WE'RE STILL MAINTAINING OUR INSTRUCTIONAL TIME.

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SO THOSE JUNE 24TH, 25TH, 26TH ARE WHAT WE'RE CALLING GIVE BACK DAYS.

SO AGAIN, IF WE DON'T USE OUR REMAINING THREE SNOW DAYS, WE COULD GIVE THOSE BACK.

STUDENTS COULD HAVE THE ELEMENTARY STUDENTS COULD HAVE THE DAY OFF. STAFF WOULD STILL COME TO SCHOOL.

IF WE DO USE SNOW DAYS, THOSE WOULD THEN ONE BY ONE CONVERT BACK TO REGULAR INSTRUCTIONAL DAYS BY TEACHERS CONTRACT.

THOSE AT THE K-6 LEVEL WOULD BECOME HALF DAYS 24TH, 25TH AND 26TH.

SO AND THEN FINALLY THERE'S SOME RED TRIANGLES HERE.

THOSE ARE THE PLC EARLY RELEASE DAYS THAT WE'VE DONE.

WE USE THE SAME NUMBER IN THIS PROPOSAL AS WHAT WE HAVE THIS YEAR.

AND I KNOW WE'VE HAD CONVERSATIONS IN THE PAST THAT IS CRITICAL PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT TIME FOR US, WHERE WE'VE GOT SOME TEACHER PLC WORK, PROFESSIONAL LEARNING TIME, WHERE THEY'VE GOT SOME CHOICE INTO THE WORK THAT THEY INVEST THEIR TIME IN LOOKING AT STUDENT DATA, LOOKING AT INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGIES AND WAYS TO IMPROVE STUDENT OUTCOMES.

THERE'S ALSO TIME FOR GRADE LEVEL MEETINGS, DEPARTMENT MEETINGS, FACULTY MEETINGS, AND PRINCIPAL LED INITIATIVES SO THAT TIME IS CRITICALLY IMPORTANT TO US. THE FIRST TWO SUPERINTENDENTS CONFERENCE DAYS BACK IN AUGUST IS A LOT OF LOGISTICAL SETUP FOR SCHOOL.

THERE IS OFTEN SOME PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT THERE AS WELL, BUT TO HAVE THOSE EMBEDDED TIMES THROUGHOUT THE SCHOOL YEAR GIVE US TOUCH POINTS TO CONTINUE TO GO BACK AND TO STRENGTHEN THE SKILL SET OF OUR TEACHERS.

AND THEN, OF COURSE, WE HAVE THE MARCH DAY WHERE WE'RE ABLE TO DO THAT AS WELL.

THOSE ARE THE HIGHLIGHTS. SO I JUST WANTED TO SEE IF THERE'S ANY QUESTIONS OR CLARIFICATIONS.

SO YOU KNOW, LAST YEAR WE HAD A LOT OF COMMENTS AND CONCERNS ABOUT THE CALENDAR.

SO I DO WANT TO THANK YOU AHEAD OF TIME BECAUSE I KNOW IT'S NOT EASY TRYING TO FIT EVERYTHING IN.

AND ALSO BEING AS INCLUSIVE AS WE WANT TO BE.

SO FIRST QUESTION WOULD BE THE REASON WHY WE HAVE TO DO THE TEACHERS TRAINING ON WEDNESDAY, I BELIEVE, IS BECAUSE THAT'S THE DAY THAT THEY CONTRACTUALLY STAY LATER.

YEAH, IT GIVES US THE ABILITY TO TAP INTO A CONTRACTUAL OPPORTUNITY THAT WE HAVE.

ON WEDNESDAYS, WE'RE ABLE TO KEEP TEACHERS BY CONTRACT UNTIL 430.

SO IF WE CAN TIE INTO THAT TIME, THAT GIVES US A SOLID THREE HOUR CHUNK, 3.5 HOUR CHUNK OF TIME THAT WE CAN DEVOTE TO PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES AS OPPOSED TO CHOPPING IT MORE UP AN HOUR HERE, AN HOUR THERE.

IT GIVES US A MORE DEDICATED CHUNK OF TIME. THE OTHER THING THAT I WANTED TO BRING UP IS THE HOLIDAY OF DIWALI.

WHILE I UNDERSTAND NEW YORK STATE HAS NOT ISSUED KIND OF A MANDATE THE WAY THEY DID WITH THE LUNAR NEW YEAR, WHERE THEY MADE IT INTO A STATE HOLIDAY, I DO THINK IN ORDER FOR US TO BE INCLUSIVE, I'M GLAD THAT IT'S BEING INCLUDED IN THIS YEAR.

I DO KNOW IT'S HARD TO INCLUDE IT, GIVEN THAT LUNAR NEW YEAR NEXT YEAR WILL BE AT A DIFFERENT DATE, AND SO WILL SOME JEWISH HOLIDAYS AND SOME, YOU KNOW, EASTER.

AND WE'RE DEPENDENT UPON WHETHER THEY'RE FRIDAYS OR SUNDAYS OR MONDAYS.

SO I DO WANT TO EMPHASIZE THAT. I DO THINK WE SHOULD REALLY CONSIDER PUTTING THAT IN THE CALENDAR GOING FORWARD.

YOU KNOW, I THINK IN THERE ARE A LOT OF HOLIDAYS, LIKE GIVING BACK THE EASTER THE MONDAY AFTER EASTER.

IT'S GOOD FOR ME. I MEAN, I, I'M SPEAKING FOR MYSELF BECAUSE WE ALREADY HAVE A SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF HOLIDAYS ON THE CALENDAR.

SO I FEEL LIKE THAT DAY WAS REALLY IT'S A GOOD DAY, RIGHT? LIKE, IT'S ALWAYS A GOOD DAY TO HAVE AN EXTRA DAY TO COME BACK FROM VACATION OR WHATEVER, BUT I WOULD RATHER SEE IT BEING USED FOR ANOTHER.

YEAH. ANOTHER IMPORTANT HOLIDAY THAT IS NOT MENTIONED IN THE CALENDAR BY NEW YORK STATE.

I WOULD LIKE TO JUST SPREAD THE WEALTH, HAVE EVERYBODY HAVE A DAY OFF WITH.

THEY FEEL THEY NEED IT FOR THEIR RELIGIOUS YOU KNOW, CONSIDERATIONS.

SO I WOULD JUST LIKE TO SEE IF WE COULD DO DIWALI IN FUTURE YEARS.

YEAH. AND ONE OF THE THINGS WE LOOKED AHEAD NEXT YEAR I THINK DIWALI FALLS ON A WEEKEND.

SO YOU KNOW, SO IT KIND OF WORKS ITSELF OUT. BUT YEAH, WHENEVER WE CAN I THINK WE I THINK IT'S WORTH US TAKING THE EFFORT TO DO IT.

YEAH, I THINK I THINK JUST TO NATALIE'S POINT AS OPPOSED TO A SECOND THOUGHT AND OH, IF WE CAN, I FEEL, YOU KNOW, LIKE, IT'S LIKE IF WE HAVE A COMMITMENT TO DOING IT WHEN WE NEED TO DO IT.

SO IT WORKS OUT. I THINK THAT WOULD BE A GREAT THING FOR CONSIDERATION.

YOU KNOW, ANOTHER PIECE AND I FORGOT TO MENTION IT'S.

AND THIS IS ONE OF THOSE I SPOKE AS I SAID, I SPOKE WITH THE SUPERINTENDENT FROM SCARSDALE BECAUSE THEY REALLY DID A LOT OF WORK ON THIS, AND THEY ACTUALLY MAPPED OUT TEN YEARS TO SEE WHAT IS POSSIBLE TO DO WITH INTENTIONALITY.

AND ONE OF THE THINGS STRATEGIES THEY USED, AND IT IS ACTUALLY IN HERE A LITTLE BIT, BECAUSE WE DON'T HAVE ENOUGH DAYS TO BE ABLE TO REALLY HONOR EVERYTHING WE MIGHT WANT TO.

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SO IT'S A DAY OFF SCHOOL FOR STUDENTS, SO THERE'S STILL PARENT TEACHER CONFERENCES, BUT THERE'S THE OPTION FOR THEM TO COME ON THURSDAY.

SO IF THE FAMILY WANTS TO HAVE FRIDAY, YOU KNOW, AS THE FAMILY CELEBRATION ON THAT DAY, IT'S A KIND OF A DIFFERENT APPROACH TO GIVING THEM BACK THAT TIME TO BE ABLE TO HONOR THEIR FAMILY.

YOU KNOW, FAMILY, CULTURAL TRADITIONS. DOCTOR CHAMP, YOU SAID THAT THE DIWALI SORT OF FELL, OR YOU COULD USE THE DAY THAT WAS OTHERWISE FLOATING AROUND FOR DIWALI. WHAT WAS WHAT WAS THAT DAY LAST YEAR IN FEBRUARY, THIS SCHOOL YEAR, THAT DAY WAS ADDED TO SPRING BREAK.

SO IT WOULD HAVE BEEN THE MONDAY AFTER EASTER.

OKAY. AFTER HAVING A COMPLETE WEEK OFF, LET'S SEE, IN SOME YEARS THAT HAD WORKED, SOME YEARS, SOME YEARS IT DIDN'T. AND NOT EVERY YEAR WE'RE NOT WE'RE NOT GOING TO HAVE TWO WEEKS OFF AT THE HOLIDAYS EVERY YEAR.

SO PART OF IT JUST IT REALLY JUST DEPENDS ON WHERE LABOR DAY FALLS, WHERE REGENTS RATING DAY FALLS, HOW THAT ALL SPREADS OUT IN BETWEEN. OKAY. WELL, I MEAN, I APPRECIATE ALL THE INTENTIONS THAT HAVE GONE INTO THIS CALENDAR BECAUSE IT IS HARD, RIGHT? WE'RE TRYING TO FIT IN 100. HOW MANY YEARS? 185 DAYS. RIGHT. 185 DAYS IN BETWEEN HOLIDAYS IN BETWEEN, YOU KNOW, TRAININGS AND CONFERENCES AND EVERYTHING ELSE THAT NEEDS TO BE INCLUDED WHILE MAINTAINING SOME SENSE OF, YOU KNOW, BREAKS EVERY COUPLE OF MONTHS, WHICH I BELIEVE ARE VERY IMPORTANT AS WELL, BECAUSE, YOU KNOW SO I DO APPRECIATE ALL THE INTENTIONS THAT HAVE GONE INTO THIS CALENDAR.

YEAH. NO, I SECOND THAT. I'M SURE IT'S A LOT MORE WORK THAN WE CAN EVEN IMAGINE.

CURIOUS TO THOSE THE PLC DAYS, ARE THOSE COMPARABLE TO THE NUMBER OF TIMES FROM THIS YEAR? THEY'RE THE SAME THIS CURRENT YEAR AS NEXT YEAR.

WE'VE I THINK WE DID AN ANALYSIS LAST YEAR. I THINK WE VARIED ANYWHERE FROM LIKE 4 TO 8.

OKAY. YOU KNOW, IDEALLY, WE'D LIKE A LITTLE BIT MORE.

I THINK IT WAS GENERALLY MORE LIKE SIX, SIX, SEVEN, EIGHT IN MY FIRST COUPLE OF YEARS.

WE'VE ALSO WE'VE CHANGED A LITTLE BIT HOW WE'VE DONE PARENT TEACHER CONFERENCES. AND I, YOU KNOW, I AM SENSITIVE TO THE CONCERN THAT THE PARENTS HAD BROUGHT UP ABOUT THE HALF DAYS AND THE CHALLENGES THAT THAT PRESENTS FOR CHILDCARE.

SO I THINK THAT'S WHY WE DIDN'T ADD. WE'D LOVE TO ADD, BUT WE WANTED TO BE COGNIZANT OF THAT, THAT PRESSURE ON FAMILIES. AND I WILL SAY, TOO, WE DO USUALLY WE GIVE THIS CALENDAR TO THE RECREATION DEPARTMENT, AND THEY DO THEIR BEST TO PLAN RECREATION PROGRAMS ON THOSE HALF DAYS.

I THINK I SAW SOMETHING, TOO, IN ONE OF OUR I GET ALL OF THE PARENT SQUARE NEWSLETTERS.

I DON'T READ THEM ALL THE TIME, BUT I TRY AND I SAW, LIKE, SIWANOY DADS CLUB WAS DOING A MOVIE DAY ON ONE OF THE WEDNESDAYS.

SO I THINK WHERE OUR PTA IS, OUR DADS CLUBS, OUR REC PROGRAMS HAVE BEEN REALLY CREATIVE IN TRYING TO FILL THAT GAP.

THAT'S AGAIN PART OF THE COMMUNITY. WONDERFUL COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS THAT HAVE BEEN HELPFUL TOWARDS MAKING THAT A LITTLE BIT MORE MANAGEABLE FOR FAMILIES.

THAT'S GREAT. THANK YOU. OKAY. ALL RIGHT. WELL, THANK YOU.

AS I SAID, WE'LL SEND THAT OUT AND BRING YOU BACK SOME FEEDBACK ON THAT.

OKAY. WITH THAT I'M GOING TO MOVE OVER TO THE OTHER MICROPHONE FOR THE QUICK MID-YEAR UPDATE.

OKAY. SO. THIS YEAR, INSTEAD OF DOING A PRESENTATION, I THOUGHT IT WOULD TAKE THE OPPORTUNITY TO MAKE USE OF THE NEW DASHBOARD THAT WE BROUGHT ON AS PART OF OUR STRATEGIC PLANNING APPROACH THIS YEAR.

I KNOW THE BOARD CERTAINLY REMEMBERS THAT WE WORKED WITH HAZARD, YOUNG AND ATTEA TO DESIGN THE PLAN LAST SPRING.

AND NOW, THIS SUMMER, THE ADMINISTRATORS MET AND WE CRAFTED THE WORK PLAN TO THEN CARRY OUT THAT WORK.

AND WHAT WE'VE BEEN DOING SINCE THE SCHOOL YEAR STARTED IS DOING THAT WORK.

I WOULD SAY, AND I THINK MY CABINET WILL PROBABLY AGREE, IT'S BEEN A HEAVY LIFT.

IT'S BEEN A LOT OF WORK, BUT WE'VE BEEN SPENDING A LOT OF TIME AS A CABINET, REALLY TRYING TO ALIGN OURSELVES TO DEVELOP REALLY STRONG COLLABORATION AND A STRONG TEAM AT THE CABINET LEVEL SO THAT WE CAN LEAD AND WE CAN ALSO SUPPORT THE ADMINISTRATIVE TEAM AS THEY DO THEIR WORK BECAUSE THEY'RE IT'S REALLY BOOTS ON THE GROUND, A HEAVY LIFT AT THE BUILDINGS AS THEY WORK, THEN WITH THEIR TEACHERS AND THEIR PTAS AND THEIR STUDENTS TO REALLY DELIVER ON THE PROMISE OF THE STRATEGIC PLAN.

SO I WANTED TO START ON THE HOME PAGE SO THAT FOLKS CAN SEE HOW TO NAVIGATE TO THE DASHBOARD, AND THE BOARD HOPEFULLY WILL BE PLEASED AT WHAT YOU SEE, BECAUSE WORKING WITH CLAIRE, WE LAUNCHED SOME NEW PIECES OF THE DASHBOARD JUST YESTERDAY.

SO IF YOU WANT TO GO TO KNOW WHERE THIS IS, YOU GO TO THE DISTRICT TAB.

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IF YOU SCROLL DOWN, YOU WILL SEE THIS LOVELY YELLOW BUTTON PROGRESS DASHBOARD.

YOU CLICK ON THAT AND IT TAKES YOU TO THE EXTERNAL PROVIDER OF THAT DASHBOARD.

SO IT'S A DIFFERENT LOOK. BUT THIS IS THE DASHBOARD.

SO THE FRONT PAGE JUST REVIEWS THE PROCESS GIVES YOU OUR CORE OUR MISSION, OUR VISION, CORE VALUES, STRATEGIC PRIORITIES, THE OBJECTIVES AND THE MAIN ITEMS THAT DEFINED THE WORK OF THE PLAN. MORE OF MORE INTEREST IN THE NEW STUFF REALLY IS WHEN YOU GO TO THE INDICATORS PAGE.

AND THIS IS WHERE IN LOOKING AT THE DASHBOARD AND METRICS THAT THE BOARD WAS LOOKING TO HAVE BE ON THE DASHBOARD, THIS IS WHERE YOU WILL FIND THESE THINGS. SO SOME OF THESE WERE HERE BEFORE WE HAD OUR DEMOGRAPHICS UP THERE BEFORE. SO, UPDATED ENROLLMENTS.

MOST OF THIS IS BASED ON THE 23-24 DATA, WHICH IS THE MOST RECENTLY PUBLICLY PUBLISHED INFORMATION.

THIS WILL BE UPDATED AS WE GO THROUGH EACH SCHOOL YEAR GOING FORWARD.

SO THERE YOU CAN SEE OUR ENROLLMENT, ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNER PERCENTAGE, ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED PERCENTAGE, STUDENTS WITH IEPS AND THAT STUDENTS WITH IEPS.

I WILL SAY IS LOWER THAN THE COUNTY AND LOWER THAN THE STATE.

SO WE'RE PROUD OF THAT. THEN YOU MOVE INTO THE THREE DIFFERENT PRIORITY AREAS.

AND WHAT YOU HAVE THERE ARE TILES THAT SHOW SOME DATA ON THE ON EACH OF THOSE PRIORITY AREAS.

AND THE NEWEST PIECES ARE PRIMARILY FOUND HERE IN PRIORITY AREA ONE, PERSONAL GROWTH AND ACHIEVEMENT.

BEFORE YOU WOULD HAVE SEEN ABOUT 2 OR 3 TILES.

AND A LOT OF THEM SAID COMING SOON. SO NOW WE'VE GOT SOME ADDITIONAL DATA OUT THERE, AND I WILL SAY WE ARE IN THE MIDST OF FINALIZING ANOTHER BATCH THAT ARE RELATED TO THAT HAD TO JUST TAKE MORE TIME TO DEVELOP GRAPHS FROM SOME OF THE STUDENT PERFORMANCE DATA.

BUT THE FIRST TAB HERE THAT'S I THINK, WORTH NOTING FOR THE BOARD, IS THE FULL SET OF THE STUDENT PERFORMANCE DATA THAT WAS PRESENTED TO THE BOARD BACK IN NOVEMBER. SO THIS IS SOMETHING THAT SHOULD LOOK FAMILIAR TO YOU.

THE SITE IS A LITTLE WONKY. SOMETIMES THINGS YOU DON'T REALIZE ARE HYPERLINKS ARE ACTUAL HYPERLINKS.

SO WHEN YOU GO THERE, YOU'VE GOT THE FULL STUDENT REPORT THAT MISS COMERFORD SHARED WITH US BACK IN NOVEMBER.

SO THAT'S HOPEFULLY EASILY FINDABLE TO FOLKS LOOKING FOR THAT.

BUT THEN WE'VE GOT HERE WE'VE ADDED OUR ATTENDANCE RATE. GRADUATION RATE. THOSE ARE UP BEFORE OUR GOALS THAT WE THE METRICS THAT WE HAD DECIDED ON A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO WAS TRYING TO INCREASE THE NUMBER OF STUDENTS IN EXTRACURRICULARS AND ATHLETICS, MOVING 100% OF OUR STUDENTS TOWARD THE EQUIVALENT OF GRADE LEVEL PROFICIENCY, WHETHER IT BE ON STATE ASSESSMENTS, PASSING OF REGENTS EXAMS, ETC..

SO WE TRIED TO LOAD SOME OF THOSE NUMBERS HERE TO GIVE YOU A SNAPSHOT.

SO THE NUMBER OF STUDENT ATHLETES AT PELHAM MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL, 557.

THAT'S OUT OF JUST ABOUT 800 STUDENTS. SO IT'S A LARGE PORTION.

AND THIS IS JUST AS OF NOW. WE WILL LIKELY ADD TO THAT NUMBER BY THE END OF THE SCHOOL YEAR.

SAME THING WITH MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS. A NUMBER OF STUDENT CLUBS AT PELHAM MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL HAVE 48 CLUBS.

IS PRETTY MAJOR FOR A HIGH SCHOOL OF OUR SIZE, WHICH I WOULD SAY IS A SMALL TO MID-SIZED HIGH SCHOOL.

SO THAT'S REALLY EXCITING. WE STUDENT VOICE IS WHAT DRIVES THOSE STUDENTS FEET IS WHAT DRIVES THOSE.

WHEN WE CAN GET STUDENTS WHO HAVE AN INTEREST, THEY CAN FIND AN ADVISOR AND THEN THEY CAN DEMONSTRATE VIABILITY OF ATTENDANCE.

WE THEN ASK THE BOARD, AND THE BOARD HAS ALWAYS, OF COURSE, SAID YES TO FINANCIALLY SUPPORTING THOSE CLUBS.

NUMBER CLUBS AT THE MIDDLE SCHOOL, TYPICAL FOR MIDDLE SCHOOL TO BE SMALLER.

BUT THAT'S 22. YOU START TO GET THE STUDENT AREAS OF INTEREST SHOWING UP THERE AND STUDENT EXPLORATION.

SO THAT'S EXCITING TO SEE THERE TOO. YOU MAY REMEMBER THIS FROM SOME OF CLAIRE'S REPORT.

THE NUMBER OF AP SCHOLARS, PERCENT OF STUDENTS WHO TAKEN ONE AP EXAM, ET CETERA.

SO YOU SO YOU GET A BIGGER SENSE OF SOME OF THE SOME OF THE ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND INVOLVEMENT THAT OUR STUDENTS HAVE IN THEIR ACADEMIC AND EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES.

THE NUMBER OF AP EXAMS EXCEEDING NEW YORK STATE AND GLOBAL AVERAGES, WE GET REPORTS ON THAT EVERY YEAR TO SEE WHERE WE ARE COMPARED TO THE STATE, WHERE WE ARE COMPARED TO THE NATION. AND I THINK WE OFFER 19 AP COURSES.

SO THAT'S TELLING YOU, IN EVERY ONE OF OUR AP COURSES, WE'RE EXCEEDING STATE AND NATIONAL PERFORMANCE STANDARDS.

WE HAVE TILE HERE, OF COURSE, FOR OUR REGENERON SCIENCE TALENT SEARCH.

WE HAD OUR TWO STUDENTS RECOGNIZED. WE'RE HOPING TO ARE HOPING TO INVITE THEM PROBABLY TO OUR ONE OF OUR FEBRUARY MEETINGS TO COME AND BE RECOGNIZED AND HONORED HERE AT THE BOARD OF EDUCATION MEETING. THE NUMBER OF STUDENTS AT THE REGIONAL WEST, WHICH IS THE WESTCHESTER COMPONENT OF THE SCIENCE RESEARCH FAIR, NUMBER OF THREE STUDENTS. MOST RECENTLY, WE LOOK AT THE NUMBER OF STUDENTS ENROLLED IN DUAL ENROLLMENT COURSES, WHICH OF COURSE THEN IS ADDED TO ADDED TO THE AP ENROLLMENTS.

AND THEN HERE WE'VE GOT JUST SOME SUMMARY STATEMENTS WHERE ON THREE THROUGH EIGHT STATE ASSESSMENTS,

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OUR AVERAGE SCORE OVER ALL AP EXAMS IS 3.5. AND THAT'S OUT OF FIVE.

FIVE IS THE HIGHEST YOU CAN GET. AND THE GOAL IN MOST CASES WITH AP, IS TO TRY TO GET STUDENTS TO AT LEAST A THREE, THREE, 4 OR 5 HAS TRADITIONALLY BEEN THE LEVEL THAT COLLEGES MAY CONSIDER GRANTING COLLEGE CREDIT OR WAIVING STUDENTS FROM TAKING CERTAIN REQUIREMENTS. IT DEPENDS ON THE COLLEGE. A LOT OF THAT'S SHIFTED OVER TIME, BUT THE GOAL HAS ALWAYS BEEN TO TRY TO GET STUDENTS UP TO AT LEAST A THREE OR BETTER.

WE STILL BELIEVE THAT IT'S A GREAT EXPERIENCE FOR ALL KIDS, REGARDLESS OF THAT EXAM SCORE, BUT THIS IS ALWAYS SOMETHING THAT WE'RE STRIVING TO GET THAT NUMBER AS HIGH AS POSSIBLE.

AND THEN HERE YOU'VE GOT JUST SOME, SOME GRAPHS ON THE THREE THROUGH EIGHT STATE ASSESSMENTS COMPARATIVE LAST YEAR TO THIS YEAR.

AND THAT IS. NOT IN THAT ONE. OKAY. AND THAT IS REFLECTIVE OF THE SAME DATA THAT WAS UP ON THE FULL DATA REPORT AT THE TOP. YOU SEE THE SAME THING FOR MATH.

OKAY. WE'VE GOT SOME DESCRIPTIONS ON THERE THAT ARE REALLY IMPORTANT TO TO UNDERSTAND THE CONTEXT BEHIND THE DATA, ESPECIALLY BECAUSE THERE'S BEEN A LOT OF CHANGES IN STATE ASSESSMENTS OVER TIME AS WELL AS AND I KNOW THE BOARD KNOWS THIS, BUT I WILL REITERATE IT AS WELL. THE BULK OF OUR EIGHTH GRADE STUDENTS TAKE ALGEBRA.

SO THAT'S WE HAVE OPEN ENROLLMENT. THE STUDENTS WHO HAVE THE READINESS, INTEREST, STRENGTH IN MATH TEND TO TAKE THE ALGEBRA COURSE.

SO WE HAVE A VERY SMALL PROPORTION OF OUR EIGHTH GRADE TAKING MATH.

AND THEIR STUDENTS THAT DON'T HAVE MAYBE THAT READINESS LEVEL.

SO WHEN YOU LOOK AT OUR EIGHTH GRADE SCORES, COMPARED TO DISTRICTS WHERE ALL EIGHTH GRADERS TAKE THE STATE ASSESSMENT IN MATH, YOU'RE GOING TO SEE SOME VERY DIFFERENT RESULTS. BUT YOU REALLY ARE COMPARING APPLES AND APPLES AND ORANGES IN THAT CASE. SO IT'S JUST REALLY IMPORTANT TO KEEP THAT DIFFERENCE IN MIND. AND THAT WAS AN INTENTIONAL CHOICE THAT WE MADE BECAUSE WE DIDN'T WANT TO DOUBLE TEST OUR STUDENTS.

IF WE WANTED HIGH SCORES ON MATH EIGHT, WE COULD GIVE ALL OF OUR EIGHTH GRADERS A TEST AND GIVE THEM ALGEBRA, AND WE WOULD HAVE EVERY BIT AS COMPARABLE AS OTHER DISTRICTS.

BUT AGAIN, IT'S A PHILOSOPHICAL CHOICE ABOUT HOW MUCH TIME YOU WANT TO SPEND WITH OUR STUDENTS TAKING TESTS, PREPPING FOR TESTS, VERSUS DOING MORE AUTHENTIC WORK WITH THEM.

IF YOU MOVE INTO THE PRIORITY AREA TWO BELONGING IN WELLNESS, WE BEFORE WE HAD UP THERE THE TEACHER ATTENDANCE RATE, EXPERIENCE AND RATIO. WE HAVE 64 SENIORS WHO GOT THE SEAL OF CIVIC READINESS.

WE'VE EXPANDED THAT THIS YEAR. SO THAT NUMBER AT THE END OF THE YEAR IS GOING TO GROW EXPONENTIALLY.

ONE PIECE THAT WAS ADDED HERE THAT SPEAKS A LITTLE BIT TO CULTURE IS OUR SENIOR EXIT SURVEY.

THIS IS SOMETHING THAT'S DONE EVERY YEAR, HAS BEEN DONE EVERY YEAR FOR AT LEAST TEN YEARS, IF NOT LONGER. YOU DO HAVE TO CLICK ON THE DOWNLOAD IS A PRETTY BIG FILE, BUT WHAT YOU SEE THERE IS JUST A SUMMARY.

IT'S STANDARD QUESTIONS THAT HAVE BEEN GIVEN TO STUDENTS OVER TIME.

AND AS YOU READ THROUGH IT, IT WORKS ON MY COMPUTER.

IT'S JUST NOT WORKING ON THIS CHROMEBOOK RIGHT NOW. IT GIVES YOU SOME DATA ON CLIMATE, CULTURE, STUDENT EXPECTATIONS, RELATIONSHIPS WITH TEACHERS, ETC.

SO I APOLOGIZE IF THAT'S NOT DOWNLOADING. IF YOU I THINK IF YOU WERE TO DOWNLOAD THAT AT HOME, YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO DO THAT. DOWN HERE WE HAVE THESE ARE IMPORTANT DOCUMENTS FOR OUR FACILITIES CONVERSATION FOR ANYONE IN THE COMMUNITY WHO'S LOOKING FOR THOSE DOCUMENTS.

WE DO HAVE OUR BUILDING CONDITIONS SURVEY, CAPACITY STUDY, DEMOGRAPHIC STUDY ALL LINKED HERE.

AND WITH THIS WONKY SYSTEM, YOU HAVE TO CLICK ON THE LITTLE EYE IN THE CORNER FOR MORE INFORMATION THAT SHOWS YOU WHERE THE DOCUMENTS ARE EMBEDDED, AND THEN NOT EVERYTHING THAT IS HYPERLINKED IS UNDERLINED.

SO CLICK ON WORDS AND YOU'LL PROBABLY GET SOMETHING.

BUILDING CONDITION SURVEY. AND THERE IT IS. CLICK ON WORDS.

JUST CLICK AROUND ON THINGS AND YOU'LL PROBABLY HIT UPON SOMETHING. SO THOSE THINGS ARE AVAILABLE THERE BECAUSE THOSE ARE EMBEDDED IN OUR WORK PLAN AS PART OF OUR STRATEGIC PRIORITIES. AND OF COURSE TRIPLE A BOND RATING.

I DID UPDATE MY LAST COUNT WAS ACTUAL BOARD POLICIES THAT WE HAVE REVIEWED AND APPROVED AS A BOARD SO FAR THIS YEAR 13.

THERE'S PLENTY MORE TO GO. GOT THREE MORE ON TONIGHT ON SECOND READING AND LOTS MORE IN THE PIPELINE.

SO WE'RE EXCITED ABOUT THAT. AND IF YOU KEEP GOING DOWN THIS STRATEGIC PLAN DOCUMENTS, I WILL SAY GOING BACK UP HERE TO THE ACADEMIC INDICATORS, WE'RE STILL WORKING ON A COUPLE OTHER ONES. AS I SAID, THERE'S STILL SOME TWEAKS TO DO WITH SOME OF THE GRAPHS ON MORE OF THE ACADEMIC DATA TO BE LOADED. AND THE OTHER THING WE HAVE THE STUDENT CLIMATE SURVEYS FROM BOTH THE MIDDLE SCHOOL AND HIGH SCHOOL FROM THE FALL THAT WILL ALSO BE POSTED IN UP HERE.

THOSE WILL LIKELY GO IN THE BELONGING AND WELLNESS SECTION.

SO BEFORE I MOVE TO THE NEXT SLIDE, I WAS GONNA SAY YEAH. ANY QUESTIONS ON WHAT'S HERE? ACTUALLY I'LL WAIT.

OKAY. OKAY. SO THEN THE OTHER TAB OF INTEREST IS THE STRATEGY SECTION, BECAUSE THIS SPEAKS TO KIND OF THE WORK PLAN.

AND WHERE ARE WE ON OUR PROGRESS ON IT. THAT WAS ALL OUTCOMES BASED.

THIS IS MORE THE INPUT SPACE AND THE PROCESS SIDE.

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50% WERE IN PROGRESS, 75 IS NEARING COMPLETION, 100% IS DONE.

A LOT OF THIS WORK WHEN I WHEN COMPLETING THIS, I KIND OF WAS THINKING ABOUT THIS YEAR'S TIME FRAME.

SOME OF THIS WORK WILL BE ONGOING OVER YEARS, BUT IN LOOKING AT WHERE WE ARE WITH WHAT WE HOPE TO ACCOMPLISH THIS YEAR ON THESE INITIATIVES, THAT'S HOW I SCORED THESE. SO WITH THIS, YOU CAN SEE AN OVERALL FOR THE OBJECTIVE AREA.

BUT THEN IF YOU GO TO THE DROPDOWN WHERE IT SAYS THREE STRATEGIES, YOU CAN SEE THE UNDERLYING STRATEGIES EMBEDDED IN IT.

SO ESTABLISHING CLEAR GOALS AND OBJECTIVES FOR ACADEMIC GROWTH REVIEWING KEY PERFORMANCE DATA.

WE'VE DONE THAT INTERNALLY. WE'VE DONE A LOT OF THAT OF THAT INTERNALLY. WE'VE DONE THAT WITH THE BOARD. SO WE'VE ACCOMPLISHED WE CHECKED THAT BOX OF WHAT WE WERE HOPING TO DO WITH THAT FOR THIS YEAR. OBVIOUSLY, THAT'S AN ONGOING PROCESS TO WHETHER IT'S LOOKING AT OUR WINTER, FALL AND SPRING ASSESSMENTS, WHICH WE'LL BE DOING, WINTER WILL BE ON.

I THINK IT'S ONGOING RIGHT NOW. THE ASSESSMENTS THAT WE'LL BE REVIEWING, THAT DATA, WE'LL BE REVIEWING END OF YEAR DATA AS WELL.

SO THERE'S DATA REVIEW. THERE'S DATA TEAMS THAT REVIEW THAT THERE'S MTSS TEAMS THAT REVIEW THAT, CLAIRE AND HER TEAM REVIEW THAT, PRINCIPALS REVIEW THAT.

WE REVIEWED AT THE CABINET LEVEL AT TIMES. AND THEN END OF THE YEAR, USUALLY IN JULY, WE TRY TO PROVIDE THE BOARD A BIT OF AN UPDATE ON THAT AS WELL.

IT'S NOT AS COMPREHENSIVE AS THE NOVEMBER UPDATE, BUT SOME KIND OF END OF YEAR REPORTING.

SO WE HAVE A SENSE OF HOW STUDENTS HAVE DONE.

SO WE REVIEW THAT ON AN ONGOING BASIS. THOSE PROCESSES ARE IN PLACE.

DEFINING TARGET METRICS. WE'VE ALREADY DONE THAT IN OUR PRIOR YEAR'S GOALS.

AND THEN REVIEWING THE MTSS FRAMEWORK. CLAIRE AND TRACEY ARE WORKING TOGETHER ON MTSS.

CLAIRE HAS HELD THAT COMMITTEE. ONCE THIS YEAR, SO FAR, TWICE THIS YEAR.

THAT'S RIGHT. WE'VE GOT ILLNESS GOT IN THE WAY OF NUMBER TWO, BUT THAT'S BEEN RESCHEDULED AND BE UP AND RUNNING.

SO PART OF THEIR WORK THIS YEAR IS TO REVIEW THE PLAN THAT WAS DRAFTED AND PRESENTED TO THE BOARD LAST YEAR.

AND WHAT THEY'VE DONE IS THEY'VE REVIEWED THAT AND THEY'VE FOUND SOME AREAS THEY WANT TO GO BACK AND DO A LITTLE BIT MORE WORK. AND ONCE THAT WORK HAS BEEN UPDATED AND COMPLETED, THEN THEY'RE GOING TO BE MOVING TO THE STEP OF HOW ARE WE GOING TO COMMUNICATE THIS AND MAKE SURE THAT THE ORGANIZATION REALLY FULLY UNDERSTANDS THIS. AND ONE THING I SHOULD ADD RELATED BACK TO THE CALENDAR OUR SUPERINTENDENTS CONFERENCE DAY ON MARCH 14TH OF THIS YEAR, WE'RE LOOKING TO REALLY FOCUS ON DEEPER UNDERSTANDING OF THE STRATEGIC PLAN, SPECIFICALLY THE MTSSI PROCESS, ITS MULTI-TIERED SYSTEMS OF SUPPORT INTEGRATED.

THAT'S THE I IS KIND OF NEW FOR US. BUT THAT IS THE FRAMEWORK THAT WE'VE BEEN WORKING ON.

THAT REALLY IS A LENS FOR THE WAY THAT WE LOOK AT EVERYTHING.

WHAT ARE THE DIFFERENT MULTI-TIERED SUPPORTS THAT WE PROVIDE ALL STUDENTS SO THAT THEY CAN RISE TO THAT LEVEL OF EXCELLENCE THAT WE WANT FOR ALL STUDENTS.

AND THIS IS A DATA DRIVEN PROCESS THROUGH WHICH WE DO IT.

SO MORE TO COME ON THAT. SO YEAH, THERE ARE ABOUT 75% BECAUSE THEY WILL BE MEETING AGAIN THROUGHOUT THE YEAR AND MORE WORK TO DO THERE WHEN WE GO TO IMPLEMENTING DATA COLLECTION ANALYSIS SYSTEMS. SAME THING. WE HAVE THE SYSTEMS. WE'VE BEEN DOING THE COLLECTION. SO THAT IS IN PLACE TRAINING NEW STAFF AS WE'VE GOT A LOT OF ADMINISTRATORS WHO ARE NEW IN THE PROCESS AND TEACHERS.

SO WE DO SOME TRAINING AND NEW TEACHER ORIENTATION, SOME BUILDING LEVEL TRAININGS.

AGAIN, WE'VE GOT MARCH 14TH TO DO SOME ADDITIONAL TRAINING, AND CLAIRE HAS BEEN WORKING TO SET UP WITH VENDORS TO COME IN AND DO PARTICULAR TRAINING TO CONTINUE TO GROW OUR KNOWLEDGE IN THOSE AREAS.

CREATE SCHEDULE FOR DATA COLLECTION AGAIN. THAT'S DONE. WE'VE GOT OUR TESTING WINDOWS THROUGHOUT THE YEAR, BE IT AT THE ELEMENTARY.

AS I SAID BEFORE, SECONDARY IS YOUR CERTAINLY YOUR MARKING PERIODS, MIDTERMS, FINALS, ETC., AP EXAMS. AND THEN CREATE A REPORTING CYCLE THAT PARALLELS THOSE ASSESSMENTS.

SO AGAIN, WE'VE GOT THAT INTERNAL PROCESS IN PLACE AND WE'VE GOT THE JULY AND NOVEMBER FOR REPORTING UP TO THE BOARD.

AND ALSO WE'VE ADDED THESE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS A LOOK AT SOME OF THAT DATA AT OUR DECEMBER RETREAT AS WELL.

SO THAT CALENDAR IS IN PLACE. DOCTOR CHAMP REMIND ME THE CIRCLES.

THE CIRCLES ARE AN AVERAGE OF YEAH, THEY'RE AN AVERAGE OF THE SUB POINTS.

YEP, YEP. THANK YOU. AND IT'S A LITTLE BIT OF ESTIMATION TOO I MEAN IT'S, BUT I DID GET THE CALCULATOR OUT.

YEAH I DIDN'T DO THE MATH. JUST ABOUT RIGHT. I DID ROUND UP AND DOWN DIFFERENT TIMES DEPENDING ON HOW I FELT WE WERE WHERE WE WERE ON THAT.

ANYWAYS, ASSESSING CURRENT BUILDING AND DISTRICT PROGRAMS. SO THIS IS ONE WHERE WE AGAIN, WE'VE MET WITH THE SCHOOL CULTURE AND BELONGING COMMITTEE THIS YEAR.

WE'VE HAD ONE MEETING SO FAR. WE'VE GOT UPCOMING MEETINGS TO GO, AND THAT'S WHERE WE'RE GOING TO CONTINUE TO DO SOME WORK IN THIS AREA.

SO REVIEWING THE CLIMATE SURVEYS AND ANALYZING THE STUDENT DATA FOR IMPROVEMENT, THE BUILDINGS HAVE DONE THAT WORK.

THE PRINCIPALS AND ADMINISTRATORS AT THE BUILDINGS HAVE DONE THAT. AND THEY'RE USING DIFFERENT CLUBS, DIFFERENT INITIATIVES TO RESPOND TO THE DATA THAT THEY SAW IN AREAS THAT THEY WANT TO FIND IMPROVEMENT.

THINGS LIKE STRENGTHENING THE STUDENT AMBASSADORS AT THE MIDDLE SCHOOL IS A BIG ONE THAT I KNOW MISS SABEY HAS BEEN DOING A LOT OF WORK ON, SO THEY'RE DOING THAT WORK AT THE BUILDING LEVEL WITH STUDENTS AND FACULTY.

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SO WANTING TO CONTINUE TO RECOGNIZE AND SUPPORT AND CELEBRATE THE DIFFERENT SOCIAL, CULTURAL, ACADEMIC, ATHLETICS. WHAT ARE ALL THE DIFFERENT AREAS OF DIVERSITY AND STRENGTH THAT WE WANT TO CELEBRATE ABOUT OUR STUDENTS AND OUR FAMILIES AND OUR COMMUNITY? WHAT WHERE ARE WE HITTING THE MARK AND WHERE MAYBE SOME THINGS THAT WE MIGHT BE MISSING THAT WE WANT TO THEN ADD. SO WE'RE GOING TO ASK THAT COMMITTEE TO PUT THEIR LENS ON THAT AND HELP US IDENTIFY THOSE AREAS AND THEN PLAN WAYS TO FILL GAPS GOING FORWARD.

DOCTOR CHAMP ARE THE ARE THE CULTURE COACHES PULLED INTO THE REVIEW OF THE CLIMATE SURVEY AND THE CULTURE COACHES ARE PART OF THE SCHOOL CULTURE AND BELONGING COMMITTEE.

THEY'RE ON THE THEY'RE THE MAIN TEACHER REPRESENTATION ON THAT COMMITTEE. SO ANYTHING WE'RE DOING THERE THEY WOULD THEN DIRECTLY BE INVOLVED IN. OKAY.

AND THEN I KNOW THE PRINCIPALS TAP THEM IN DIFFERENT WAYS AT EACH BUILDING TOO.

SO I VERY MUCH I KNOW THAT THE CULTURE COACHES ARE INVOLVED IN THE SCHOOL LEVEL INITIATIVES AS WELL.

OKAY. AND THERE'S A BIG INITIATIVE WHEN WE GET LATER DOWN THAT I'LL MENTION THAT'S BEEN REALLY DRIVEN BY OUR SCHOOL CULTURE COACHES.

SO WE'RE EXCITED ABOUT THAT ONE. SO CONTINUING TO PROMOTE INCLUSIVITY, INCLUSIVITY THROUGH INITIATIVES THAT FOSTER A SENSE OF BELONGING AND RESPECT FOR ALL STUDENTS. CONTINUING TO STRENGTHEN OUR IMPLEMENTATION OF RESPONSIVE CLASSROOM TRACY HOLTZ HAS BEEN WORKING TO, YOU KNOW, GET SOME COACHING IN PLACE FOR THE BUILDING SO THAT WE'RE GETTING SOME FOLKS FROM RESPONSIVE CLASSROOM.

NOW THAT WE'VE BEEN FIVE YEARS OF COHORTS TRAINED, WE'VE BEEN IMPLEMENTED FOR A FEW YEARS.

THEY'RE GOING TO COME IN AND DO SOME JUST SOME ANALYSIS UPDATE, AND THEN GIVE OUR PRINCIPALS SOME STRATEGIES FOR HOW TO COACH AND CONTINUE TO STRENGTHEN THEIR IMPLEMENTATION. WE'LL DO TWO SCHOOLS THIS SPRING AND THEN TWO SCHOOLS NEXT YEAR.

CONTINUING TO CELEBRATE DIVERSITY THROUGH DIFFERENT EVENTS AT SCHOOLS.

THIS HAS BEEN OUR PTAS HAVE BEEN WONDERFUL PARTNERS IN THIS TO EXPANDING OUR ABILITY AND OUR CAPACITY TO HAVE EVENTS, TO CONTINUE TO MAKE SURE THAT CULTURE IS REPRESENTED AND HONORED AND CELEBRATED THROUGHOUT ALL OF OUR SCHOOLS, BOTH IN THE SCHOOL DAY, BUT ALSO EXTENDING THAT WELL BEYOND THE SCHOOL DAY. SO WE'RE THANKFUL FOR THAT PARTNERSHIP.

AND THEN CONTINUING TO SUPPORT STUDENT LED INITIATIVES, CLUBS AND ORGANIZATIONS THAT RELATES BACK TO SOME OF THE WORK THAT OUR BUILDINGS ARE DOING, ESPECIALLY AT THE SECONDARY WITH STUDENT LED INITIATIVES CONNECTING SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES.

SO THIS IS SOMETHING THAT A COUPLE OF DIFFERENT WAYS THAT WE'RE APPROACHING THIS ONE, PROVIDING OPPORTUNITIES FOR PARENTS TO ENGAGE IN COORDINATED LEARNING EVENTS.

THIS ONE WE ARE IN PROCESS OF WE'VE GOT WE'RE PUTTING TOGETHER A PELHAM UNDER THE WE ARE PELHAM WHAT'S YOUR STORY THEME FOR THE YEAR? WE'RE TRYING TO PUT WE'RE IN THE PROCESS OF PUTTING TOGETHER A PARENT EDUCATION SERIES.

SO WE HAVE OUR FIRST ONE SCHEDULED FOR FEBRUARY 4TH AT SIWANOY.

AND THAT IS KERRY WEAVER, THE SCHOOL PSYCHOLOGIST, IS DOING A SESSION ON GROWTH MINDSET.

THAT'S OPEN TO ALL PARENTS IN THE DISTRICT. SO THAT WILL BE HOSTED AT SIWANOY IN MARCH.

WE'RE GOING TO HAVE A SESSION ON HOW TO HELP YOUR CHILD WITH MATH HOMEWORK AT HUTCHINSON HOSTED BY TEACHERS THERE.

AND THEN WE'RE IN THE PROCESS OF GATHERING TEACHERS TO DO HOPEFULLY TWO MORE SESSIONS THIS SPRING, IDEALLY ONE AT PROSPECT HILL AND ONE AT COLONIAL, SO THAT WE CAN HAVE SOMETHING IN EACH OF OUR ELEMENTARY NEIGHBORHOODS ACCESSIBLE AGAIN TO ALL PARENTS IN THE DISTRICT. BUT TO HELP SHARE THE WEALTH AND TO STRENGTHEN THE TIES ACROSS THE PARENT COMMUNITY.

SO YOU'LL SEE AGAIN, AN UPCOMING EVENT. WE'RE TRYING TO DO THINGS TO STRENGTHEN STUDENT CONNECTIONS, AND THAT'S ACROSS GRADE LEVELS. THAT'S OLDER STUDENTS TO YOUNGER STUDENTS.

BUT ALSO HOW DO WE STRENGTHEN OUR PARENT CONNECTIONS ACROSS THE COMMUNITY AT THE ELEMENTARY LEVEL? AND THEN EVEN IT'S NOT IN HERE, BUT I'LL SAY IT BECAUSE IT'S ANOTHER INTENTIONAL MOVE BY MOVING BACK TO IN-PERSON PARENT TEACHER CONFERENCES, STRENGTHENING THAT IN-PERSON CONNECTION. AND THIS YEAR, IN OUR GRADE LEVEL MEETINGS, IT'S THE FIRST TIME SINCE THE PANDEMIC WE MOVED BACK TO HAVING SOME OF THEM IN PERSON, WHICH I KNOW SEEMS I DON'T KNOW IF THAT SEEMS GOOD OR BAD OR CRAZY.

IT WAS VERY EFFICIENT TO HAVE THEM REMOTE. BUT WHAT WE REALIZED TEACHERS SITTING IN ONE ANOTHER'S CLASSROOMS, BEING TOGETHER, SEEING EACH OTHER. IT BRINGS A WHOLE PERSONAL CONNECTION AND THEN PROFESSIONAL CONNECTION ABOUT BEING IN SOMEONE ELSE'S SPACE THAT REALLY GET IT REALLY CREATES STRONGER BONDS BETWEEN PROFESSIONALS AND REALLY GETS THE KIND OF THE CREATIVE JUICES GOING.

HOW DO YOU DO THIS? HOW DO YOU DO THAT? OH, WOW, I SEE HOW YOU'RE DOING THAT. I NEVER THOUGHT OF IT DOING THAT WAY. CAN I STEAL THAT IDEA? SO WE'VE STARTED TO BRING BACK IN-PERSON, GRADE LEVEL MEETINGS ACROSS THE ELEMENTARIES TO STRENGTHEN THE FABRIC THERE.

I ALWAYS THINK OF I'VE ALWAYS THOUGHT OF SCHOOLS IN TERMS OF A PIECE OF FABRIC.

IT'S PROBABLY BECAUSE I'M A SOWER. BUT IF A PIECE OF FABRIC, YOU GOT FIBERS GOING IN BOTH DIRECTIONS,

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AND, YOU KNOW, JUST LIKE GOOD COMMUNITY BUILDING.

AND SO THAT'S GREAT THAT YOU'RE BRINGING THAT BACK TO THE DISTRICT FOR TEACHERS.

I THINK THE STUDENTS WILL BENEFIT FROM THAT. AND THE PARENTS. ABSOLUTELY. YEAH. YEAH, ABSOLUTELY.

SO YEAH, SO THAT'S WHAT WE'RE DOING. YOU KNOW, FOR THE PARENT EDUCATION SERIES, CONTINUING TO WORK WITH PELHAM TOGETHER THROUGH A PARTNERSHIP WITH THEM. THEY'VE BEEN BROUGHT ALREADY IN SEVERAL PARENT WORKSHOPS, WORKING VERY CLOSELY WITH TRACY AND WITH THE HIGH SCHOOL IN PARTICULAR, A LOT OF TRYING TO SUPPORT A LOT OF GOOD DECISION MAKING AND GIVING PARENTS, EXCUSE ME, SKILLS AND RESOURCES AS WELL AS OUR STUDENTS.

AND THEN MR. TOOMBS, WHO, AS YOU SAW EARLIER WITH OUR AWARDS CEREMONY.

HE'S ALSO BEEN WORKING TO TRY TO STRENGTHEN THE TIES BETWEEN RECREATION AND YOUTH PROGRAMS WITH OUR VARSITY PROGRAMS, AND EVEN GETTING TEAMS TO GO SUPPORT ONE ANOTHER IN NEW WAYS.

I WAS ABLE TO JOIN HIM. IT WAS REALLY FUN. I GOT TO JOIN HIM FOR A IT'S A STUDENT.

IT'S A STUDENT CAPTAINS COUNCIL. SO THE CAPTAINS OF EACH SPORT FOR EACH OF THE TEAMS, FOR EACH OF THE SEASONS.

HE'S MEETING WITH THEM OCCASIONALLY TO DEVELOP A LEADERSHIP GROUP AND DEVELOP THEIR LEADERSHIP SKILLS AS CAPTAINS ON THE TEAMS. AND ONE OF THE THINGS THAT HE STRESSED TO THEM AS PART OF THAT WAS THEIR ROLE IN MENTORING YOUNGER STUDENTS AND ALSO IN SUPPORTING ONE ANOTHER AS PEERS.

SO HE TALKED ABOUT HOW IT WAS JUST GREAT TO SEE.

THERE WAS I THINK IT WAS A NAIL BITER GIRLS BASKETBALL GAME GOING ON IN THE GYM ALREADY.

ANOTHER TEAM WAS THERE, AND THEN THE BOYS TEAM GOT BACK FROM AN AWAY GAME AND LITERALLY RAN OFF THE BUS INTO THE GYM TO SUPPORT THE GIRLS.

SO STRENGTHENING THOSE TIES AND CONNECTIONS AROUND COMMUNITY IS SOMETHING THAT'S EMBEDDED IN WHAT WE DO.

SO I MENTIONED EARLIER THE SEAL OF CIVIC READINESS.

WE'RE EXPANDING THAT TO MORE STUDENTS THIS YEAR.

AND WE'LL BE HEARING MORE ABOUT THAT AS THE YEAR CLOSES OUT.

FACILITIES, EFFORTS AND OBJECTIVES. THIS IS EMBEDDED IN THE BOND WORK THAT WE'VE BEEN DOING AS A BOARD TOGETHER.

SO THE CROSS DEPARTMENTAL COMMITTEE THAT'S OUR, OUR JOINT FACILITIES AND FINANCE COMMITTEE HAS REALLY BEEN FILLING THAT GAP FOR ACROSS THE MIDDLE COMMITTEE ACROSS THE CROSS DEPARTMENTAL COMMITTEE AS WE DID LAST TIME.

I ANTICIPATE AS WE GET FARTHER DOWN THE BOND PROCESS, WE MAY EVOLVE THAT INTO WHAT WE CALL A BOND STEERING, WHERE WE TAP SOME COMMUNITY MEMBERS WITH PARTICULAR EXPERTISE TO HELP US WITH OUR PROJECTS AS WE MOVE INTO ADDITIONAL STATES OF DESIGN AND EVENTUALLY, HOPEFULLY, CONSTRUCTION. UPDATING CURRENT POLICIES.

WE'VE ALREADY TALKED ABOUT THAT, SO I THINK I PUT 50% THERE, EVEN THOUGH WE'RE ALREADY AHEAD OF PACE WITH EVERYTHING WE'VE EVER DONE BEFORE.

WE'RE ABOUT HALFWAY. WE'LL BE ABOUT HALFWAY THROUGH THE AUDIT.

I THINK, WITHIN THE NEXT MONTH. SO THAT'S WHY I SCORED US AT 50%.

WE'RE HOPING TO GET TO THE END OF THE AUDIT BY THE END OF THIS YEAR, ANALYZING MASTER SCHEDULES AND ROOM UTILIZATION THAT WAS PART OF LEADING INTO THE UTILIZATION STUDY, BUT ALSO THAT WAS PART OF WHAT WE DID THIS SUMMER IN WORKING WITH THE BUILDING ADMINISTRATORS TO SEE IS THERE WAYS THAT WE CAN MORE STREAMLINE OUR MASTER SCHEDULE SPECIFICALLY, I'LL BE HONEST, THIS ONE WAS I WAS REALLY THINKING DEEPLY ABOUT THIS WHOLE LUNCH ISSUE.

AND THAT WORK TOGETHER WITH THE BUILDING ADMINISTRATORS IS HOW WE ARRIVED AT TRYING THE SEVENTH PERIOD LUNCH FOR OUR NINTH GRADERS.

SO WE GOT THERE. WE DID A REALLY GOOD JOB FOR A FIRST STEP.

WE'RE HOPING TO GET EVEN FURTHER DOWN THAT PROCESS NEXT YEAR, BUT I THINK OUR BOND WORK AND OUR BUILDING FACILITIES WORK IS GOING TO INFORM THIS ONGOING EFFORT HERE AND THEN ESTABLISHING PROCEDURES AND ROUTINES AND EVENTS ACROSS SCHOOLS TO MAXIMIZE PERSONAL AND PEER INTERACTION.

THAT GOES HAND IN HAND WITH CREATING SPACE, LIKE HAVING ALL THE STUDENTS IN LUNCH TOGETHER.

BUT THEN ALSO PAIRED WITH THAT. AND I THINK WHEN YOU WHEN YOU HEAR THE WORK OF THE DIGITAL DEVICE COMMITTEE EVENTUALLY, I KNOW THAT'S SOMETHING THEY'VE ALSO BEEN THINKING ABOUT, BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT WE ASKED THEM TO DO IS PAIR NOT JUST THE PRACTICE OF WHAT TO DO WITH THE PHONE, BUT LET IT ALSO BE ABOUT HOW DO WE BUILD PEER TO PEER CONNECTIONS IN MORE IN-PERSON OPPORTUNITIES FOR CONNECTION.

SO THAT ONE'S IN PROCESS. I THINK WE'VE MADE SOME GOOD GAINS A LITTLE BIT MORE TO GO THERE.

SO THAT'S KIND OF AN OVERVIEW THAT'S, YOU KNOW, NOT EVERY SINGLE THING THAT'S IN THE STRATEGIC PLAN. BUT THESE ARE THE ITEMS THAT WERE IDENTIFIED WITH STRATEGIC INDICATORS THAT WE WERE GOING TO BE REALLY WATCHING FOR THIS YEAR.

SO I WILL PAUSE THERE TO SEE IF THERE'S ANY ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS RELATED TO THIS.

YES. KATHRYN. SO THERE'S SO MUCH TO REALLY LIKE AND APPRECIATE ABOUT THIS

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I THINK THAT MAKES IT REALLY EASILY DIGESTIBLE AND UNDERSTANDABLE.

LIKE WHAT DATA GOES INTO EACH ITEM AND HOW TO SORT OF THINK ABOUT IT.

A LOT OF THIS DATA IS LIVES, OTHER PLACES, RIGHT? LIKE A LOT A LOT OF THIS DATA LIKE I YOU CAN GO TO NICE DATA, RIGHT.

AND PULL UP ALL THAT THE STATS LIKE I CAN LOOK AT THE ELA SCORES, CHARTS AND GRAPHS.

I CAN COLLATE THAT DATA THROUGH THE DATA ANY WAY I WANT TO SEE IT.

RIGHT. AND THEN WE CAN SEE IT HERE. YEAH. SO I'M WONDERING HOW ARE WE, HOW ARE WE MEASURING.

UNIQUE CLICKS OR ACCESS. LIKE HOW ARE WE MEASURING LIKE THE USE LIKE HOW MANY HOW MUCH TRAFFIC THIS WEBSITE IS GETTING SO THAT WE CAN MEASURE TIME AND EFFORT AGAINST USE. BECAUSE IF THIS IS A REALLY HEAVY LIFT AND IT'S TAKING UP A LOT OF YOUR TIME, EVEN IF IT IS SOMETHING THAT'S REALLY AMAZING AND WONDERFULLY THOUGHT OUT AND ORGANIZED REALLY WELL, IF IT'S IF IT'S NOT SOMETHING THE COMMUNITY IS GOING TO FOR THE INFORMATION, AND IF ALL OF OUR STRATEGIC PLAN GOALS AND THE CLAIRE'S LOVELY PRESENTATION THAT YOU PULLED UP AND ALL OF THOSE CHARTS LIKE THOSE ARE ALSO ON OUR WEBSITE AND OTHER SPOTS.

SO HOW WHAT'S THE PLAN FOR MEASURING? THAT'S A GREAT QUESTION.

AND I THINK THIS IS OUR FIRST YEAR WITH IT. SO I THINK THIS WAS KIND OF OUR LET'S TRY IT OUT AND SEE KIND OF EXACTLY WHAT IS THE WORKLOAD ON IT TO A DEGREE, I THINK ONCE IT'S BUILT IT'S GOING TO BE EASIER TO UPDATE.

WE ALREADY EVEN HAD SOME CONVERSATIONS. YOU KNOW, ONCE THE GRAPHS ARE THERE AND YOU'VE GOT LIKE YOUR STANDARD TILES OF WHAT YOU WANT, IT'S GOING TO BE A LOT EASIER THAN JUST GO IN AND UPDATE IT EACH YEAR.

BUT IT IS A HAND WORK. SO IT IS OPEN TO HUMAN ERROR AS OPPOSED TO SOMETHING THAT'S PULLING DIRECT FROM A SYSTEM.

I THINK WHAT WE WANTED TO DO WAS GIVE IT A TRY, SEE IF IT WAS WHAT THE BOARD WAS LOOKING FOR, SEE IF IT WAS KIND OF THAT VISIBILITY TOOL TO HELP THE COMMUNITY SEE A LITTLE BIT BETTER, AND THEN GET AN ASSESSMENT OF HOW MUCH WORK IT WAS.

I WILL HAVE TO ASK THE QUESTION OF THE COMPANY.

IF THEY HAVE ANALYTICS, I IMAGINE THEY MUST. I THINK ANY TOOL LIKE THIS PROBABLY DOES.

SO THANK YOU FOR THE SUGGESTION. THAT'S WHAT WE'LL DO.

I THINK WE'LL WE'LL LOOK FOR THEM, LOOK TO THEM TO SEE WHAT KIND OF METRICS WE CAN GET ON WHO'S ACCESSING IT AND HOW OFTEN TO GAUGE WHETHER IT'S IT'S DOING THE JOB THAT WE NEED IT TO DO AND UNIQUE ACCESS. RIGHT. LIKE IF IT'S THE SAME TEN PEOPLE WHO ARE LOOKING AT IT 50 TIMES A DAY, THAT'S DIFFERENT THAN IF IT'S 50 DIFFERENT PEOPLE LOOKING AT IT EVERY DAY.

YEAH. SO THAT WOULD BE INTERESTING TO KNOW. AND THEN MY SECOND THOUGHT WAS UNDER THE, THE, UNDER THE STRATEGY SECTION WHERE YOU HAD THE BUBBLES WITH THE PERCENTAGE, MAYBE ADD A QUALIFIER TO JUST TO JUST MAKE IT KNOWN THAT THIS IS YOU'RE LOOKING AT IT IN RELATION LIKE IT'S 90% DONE FOR THIS YEAR, LIKE THE GOALS WE'VE SET OUT SPECIFICALLY FOR THIS YEAR, NOT OVERALL JUST BECAUSE OF LIKE THE NEARING COMPLETION.

YEAH. SO THAT SOMEBODY IS NOT LOOKING AT THAT AND THINKING, OH, ALREADY OUR WHOLE STRATEGIC PLAN.

YOU KNOW THAT'S TRUE. THAT'S A GOOD POINT. GREAT.

THANK YOU. DOCTOR CHAMP, I'LL JUST ECHO CATHERINE IN SAYING THIS IS FANTASTIC AS FAR AS JUST THE VOLUME OF DATA. SO THANK YOU FOR ALL THE WORK THAT YOU AND YOUR TEAM HAVE PUT INTO THIS.

I KNOW IT'S BEEN A LOT. CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG, BUT THIS IS THE FIRST TIME WITH A STRATEGIC PLAN THAT WE ACTUALLY HAVE DATA TO BACK UP WHAT THE PLAN REALLY NOT WHAT IT REALLY MEANS, BUT TO KIND OF PUT SOME NUMBERS AND QUANTITIES AGAINST THE PILLARS.

I WOULD SAY SORT OF TO CATHERINE'S POINT, ABOUT LIKE HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE USING THIS.

I THINK WE JUST NOT JUST WE NEED TO PUT IT OUT THERE.

RIGHT. LET PEOPLE KNOW THAT THIS EXISTS. YEAH.

SO THAT THEY KNOW TO GO AND LOOK FOR IT, BECAUSE I THINK THE MAYBE THE AVERAGE COMMUNITY MEMBER IS NOT GOING TO OUR WEBSITE EXCEPT TO LOOK AT THE CALENDAR OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT, YOU KNOW, CALENDAR AND LUNCH MENU AND LUNCH MENU ON THE WEBSITE.

YEAH. YEAH. I WOULD ACTUALLY ECHO THAT. I WAS ABOUT TO SAY THE SAME THING, BECAUSE THIS IS REALLY ONE YOU CAN DIVE IN, BUT IF YOU REALLY JUST WANT TO HAVE THE VISIBILITY OF LIKE, WHERE ARE WE AT? I MEAN, THE EXERCISE IS PROBABLY LIKE AS YOU WERE DOING, IT IS PROBABLY A GREAT EXERCISE EVEN TO BE LIKE, YEAH, WE'RE THIS CLOSE, WE'RE NOT THIS CLOSE. SO YOU CAN REALLY SEE THE PROGRESS.

WHAT'S MOVING SLOWER, WHAT'S, YOU KNOW, WHICH MEANS, YOU KNOW, WE'RE JUST WORKING THROUGH SOME THINGS. BUT WE'LL NEED TO COMMUNICATE AND PUT IT OUT THERE. AND PEOPLE JUST NEED TO START TO GET USED TO, LIKE, HOW ARE WE DOING?

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BUT I THINK YOU'RE RIGHT NOW THAT WE'VE GOT THE DATA IN THERE AND IT'S LIKE SORT OF DRUMMING A LITTLE BIT, IT WOULD BE GREAT TO START TO TEST IT OUT AND REALLY HAVE PEOPLE, YOU KNOW GIVE IT UTILITY, YOU KNOW. RIGHT. I IMAGINE NEWCOMERS TO PELHAM PEOPLE INTERESTED IN MOVING TO TOWN OR WOULD USE THIS QUITE A BIT.

YEAH. AND I WOULD SAY THE CONSULTANT THAT WORKED WITH US ON IT SAID IT OFTEN DISTRICTS VIEW IT AS A PR TOOL.

RIGHT. EXACTLY. IT'S A CHANCE TO HIGHLIGHT. EXACTLY.

YOU KNOW, SOME OF YOUR REALLY GREAT OUTCOME. YEAH, YEAH.

AND IT'S EASY. IT'S EASY. LIKE, IT'S VERY CLEAR.

IT'S VERY EASY. YOU CAN THE DATA. YOU DON'T NEED TO HAVE TO KNOW SO MUCH TO UNDERSTAND WHAT THE STRATEGIC PLAN IS AND WHERE WE'RE AT AGAINST IT AND OUR PRIORITIES, YOU KNOW, OF A DISTRICT. SO THERE WAS ONE THING ON THE, I THINK, INDICATORS.

IF YOU COULD JUST GO BACK TO THAT. AND I THINK IT WAS MAYBE LIKE WITH APS WHEN POSSIBLE.

ONE SUGGESTION WOULD BE TO SAY LIKE OUT OF HOW MANY? LIKE I THINK YOU SAID SOMETHING LIKE THERE'S 19.

I DON'T REMEMBER WHAT IT WAS. AP COURSES OFFERED.

YEAH. YEAH. AND RIGHT, LIKE AT THE TEXT AT THE BOTTOM THAT SAID, YOU KNOW, 19 OUT OF 19 EXAMS OFFERED.

YEAH. YEAH. THAT'S A GREAT SUGGESTION TO GIVE SOME CONTEXT.

YEAH. I ALSO WONDER, IT'S MORE OF A QUESTION BECAUSE THIS ONE, IT'S CLEARLY SHARING INFORMATION.

BUT AS WE UTILIZE IT THE STRATEGY PIECE. RIGHT.

LIKE THE DASHBOARDS ARE MEANT TO BE LIKE, OH WAIT, WE NEED TO EITHER CHANGE COURSE OR SOME THINGS ARE RED FLAG OR, YOU KNOW, WE'RE SOMEWHERE. I'M JUST CURIOUS, HAVE YOU UTILIZED THIS IN THAT WAY, LIKE AS YOU WERE GOING THROUGH OR UPDATING IT WHERE IT SORT OF ALLOWED YOU TO YOU TO KIND OF LOOK AT SOME NUMBERS OR SOME INFORMATION TO SORT OF RETHINK A STRATEGY OR RETHINK SORT OF SOME TACTICS.

I THINK PROBABLY THE BEST EXAMPLE WHERE THAT HAS THAT HAS KIND OF BEEN PART OF OUR CONVERSATION IS, I WOULD SAY, THE STUDENT INVOLVEMENT IN ATHLETICS AND EXTRACURRICULARS, BECAUSE WE REALIZED WE DON'T HAVE A GOOD SYSTEM FOR TRACKING THAT.

SO WE'VE TRIED DIFFERENT SYSTEMS SO FAR. WE I DON'T THINK WE'VE LANDED ON ONE THAT WE'RE FULLY CONFIDENT IN, BUT IT'S GIVEN US KIND OF THAT. OH WAIT, LET'S HOW CAN WE DO THIS AND GET MORE ACCURATE INFORMATION? BECAUSE THE THOUGHT BEHIND THAT IS IF WE BELIEVE THAT ALL STUDENTS WILL DO BETTER.

I MEAN, RESEARCH SHOWS US THAT WE BELIEVE IN IT, THAT STUDENTS DO BETTER WHEN THEY ARE CONNECTED TO EXTRACURRICULAR.

THEY'RE CONNECTED TO THEIR SCHOOL, WHICH IS USUALLY THROUGH EXTRACURRICULARS IN ADDITION TO THE ACADEMICS.

SO THEN HOW DO WE HOW DO WE, YOU KNOW, GET ALL KIDS DOING THAT AND HOW DO WE IDENTIFY THOSE THAT ARE NOT CONNECTED? AND THAT'S WHERE WE WERE LIKE, WE NEED A NEED A BETTER DATA SYSTEM TO DO THAT SO WE CAN CAPTURE WHO IS WHO ISN'T, AND THEN WE CAN FIND THOSE STUDENTS AND WORK MORE TARGETED IN A MORE TARGETED WAY TO GET THEM CONNECTED.

THAT'S GREAT. THIS IS NITTY GRITTY, BUT WITH THE SURVEY, LIKE THE STUDENT I CAN'T REMEMBER WHAT IT'S CALLED NOW.

THE CLIMATE ONE EXIT OR EXIT? YEAH. I DON'T KNOW.

WITH THE SENIORS. RIGHT. I DON'T KNOW IF WE ASK AND THERE I CAN'T REMEMBER IF WE ASK, WERE YOU IN A CLUB IN SCHOOL? YOU KNOW, IT MIGHT BE IT'S NOT CAPTURING EVERYONE, BUT AT LEAST AT THE SENIOR LEVEL, YOU'RE CAPTURING WHETHER OR NOT A STUDENT WAS PART OF A CLUB. THAT'S A GOOD POINT. IT'S JUST I DON'T THINK IT ASKS THAT, BUT I CAN MIGHT BE A WAY TO AT LEAST TO START CAPTURING DATA UNTIL YOU CAN FIGURE OUT ANOTHER WAY TO. YEAH, IT'S INTERESTING BECAUSE WE LOOKED AT A COUPLE DIFFERENT TOOLS.

SOMETHING LIKE THERE IS A STUDENT VERSION OF PARENT SQUARE, WHICH HAS GOT SOME CAPACITY FOR SOME DIFFERENT THINGS.

SO WE THOUGHT ABOUT LOOKING AT THAT. IT'S A COMMUNICATION TOOL, BUT IT'S GOT SOME CAPACITY.

BUT WE'VE PAUSED ON THINKING ABOUT THAT BECAUSE OF THE CONVERSATION ON DIGITAL DEVICES.

RIGHT. WE WANT TO BUILD A STRUCTURE THAT'S CONTINGENT ON COMMUNICATION WITH OUR STUDENTS AND ORGANIZATION AND TRACKING.

IF WE'RE THEN GOING TO BE TAKING A STEP BACK AND REMOVING THAT TOOL RIGHT IN THE SCHOOL ENVIRONMENT.

SO BUT YEAH, SO THAT'S, I THINK PROBABLY THE BEST EXAMPLE OF HOW IT'S SHAPING OUR SOME OPERATIONAL STRATEGIES TO FOLLOW UP ON CATHERINE'S COMMENT EARLIER ABOUT COMMUNITY USE, I GUESS, AND NOT TO GET TOO IN THE WEEDS EITHER, BUT I GUESS I WOULD SUGGEST IF WE WANT TO MAKE IT A PRIORITY FOR PEOPLE TO USE THIS, THAT HAVING IT, LIKE HAVING TO SCROLL DOWN THREE PAGES ON THE STRATEGIC PLAN WEBSITE TO GET TO IT, TO GET TO THE BUTTON, PUTTING THE LINK UP AT THE TOP OR SOMEWHERE WHERE IT'S MORE PROMINENT IS GOING TO HELP GET IT USED MORE.

PELHAM YELLOW. RIGHT ON THE FRONT IT IS PELHAM YELLOW, BUT RIGHT ON THE FRONT OF THE MAIN PAGE.

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ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU, DOCTOR CHAMP AND CLAIRE, THANK YOU FOR DOING THIS.

I KNOW THIS HAS BEEN A FEW YEARS IN THE MAKING, AND I'M LAUGHING BECAUSE I KNOW SOMEONE WHO PREVIOUSLY SAT ON THIS BOARD WAS VERY MUCH DASHBOARD, AND I'M LIKE A DASHBOARD.

I KNOW, AND I'M LIKE, HE MUST BE. I HOPE HE'S WATCHING THE DASHBOARD.

THIS IS THE DASHBOARD. I DO KNOW IT'S STILL YOU KNOW, THIS IS THE FIRST PRESENTATION.

AND I DO FORESEE YOU CONTINUE TO WORK ON THIS WITH YOUR TEAM AND IMPROVING IT.

BUT I DO LIKE WHAT I SEE. AND I DO LIKE I'M DOING IT RIGHT NOW.

AND I'M LIKE, OH, LOOK AT ALL THIS INFORMATION AND DATA.

SO I DO APPRECIATE THAT. AND THEN TO GO TO ANNE-MARIE'S.

AT ONE POINT, WE DISCUSSED THE CORRELATION BETWEEN STUDENTS IN HIGH SCHOOL WHO PARTICIPATE IN A CLUB DO BETTER ACADEMICALLY THAN OTHERS, SO IT WOULD BE GREAT TO SEE IT ON THE DASHBOARD AS WELL.

YEAH, YEAH. AND THAT'S WHAT WE'VE GOT. WE'VE GOT SOME DATA HERE TOO, THAT WE'VE GOT THE WHEN YOU LOOK AT STUDENT ATHLETES AT THE HIGH SCHOOL, STUDENT ATHLETES AT THE MIDDLE SCHOOL, NUMBER OF CLUBS, NUMBER OF CLUBS.

SO THAT'S SOME OF IT. THE ROSTER IS WITH PHYS ED WITH ATHLETICS IS WHERE WE CAME UP WITH THOSE NUMBERS.

BUT WE KNOW THAT IT'S NOT FULLY IT'S NOT THE FULL PICTURE BECAUSE WE HAVEN'T FOUND THAT REALLY GOOD DATA TO CAPTURE THE CLUBS.

BUT WE'RE WORKING ON IT. SO YEAH, AS WE GET BETTER SYSTEMS IN PLACE, WE'LL BE ABLE TO CONTINUE TO STRENGTHEN THAT DATA PICTURE.

BECAUSE THE WAY THIS IS STRUCTURED AS WE CONTINUE TO BUILD IT, TO ADD RESEARCH, YOU KNOW, TO ADD THE RESEARCH THAT SUPPORTS THE DATA THAT'S BEING PRESENTED.

SO THE CLUB DATA WE CAN ADD CONTEXT AT THE BOTTOM THAT CITES RESEARCH THAT SAYS THAT STUDENTS WHO ARE CONNECTED TO THE COMMUNITY AND ENGAGING IN EXTRACURRICULARS ARE MORE LIKELY TO HAVE ACADEMIC SUCCESS IN HIGH SCHOOL AND BEYOND.

SO WE CAN KIND OF ADD THAT AS WE CONTINUE TO BUILD IT RIGHT.

AND YOU COULD EVEN AND THIS IS REALLY GETTING IN THE WEEDS, BUT YOU COULD EVEN IN THE CLIMATE SURVEY YOU CAN SEE THE SENSE OF BELONGING STUDENTS HAVE RELATED TO WHETHER OR NOT THEY'RE IN A, IN A CLUB.

AND YEAH, COMPARE THAT DATA. YEAH. YOU KNOW, AND TO THAT POINT, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I KNOW, TRACY AND I MET RECENTLY WITH LAURA CARUSO FROM PELHAM TOGETHER EVERY TWO YEARS WE DO SURVEY STUDENTS ON THE SRS. THANK YOU. STUDENT RESILIENCE SURVEY. IT'S GETTING LATE, AND I HAVEN'T HAD ENOUGH WATER.

STUDENT RESILIENCE SURVEY, WE WILL BE SURVEYING OUR EIGHTH, 10TH, AND 12TH GRADERS THIS SPRING.

AND WE DID ADD THEY GAVE US THE OPPORTUNITY TO ADD A COUPLE QUESTIONS RELATED TO THE STRATEGIC PLAN ABOUT SENSE OF BELONGING.

I THINK ACADEMIC PRESSURE FOR THINKING ABOUT THE BALANCE ASPECTS OF THE PLAN, AND I CAN'T REMEMBER WHAT THE OTHER ONE WAS.

I THINK IT WAS ABOUT STUDENTS, HOW STUDENTS TREAT ONE ANOTHER, BECAUSE THAT CONTINUES TO COME UP AS A CONCERN ON OUR IN-DISTRICT CLIMATE SURVEYS.

THEY HAVE STRONG CONNECTIONS WITH THEIR ADULTS. THEY HAVE THE ADULTS HAVE HIGH EXPECTATIONS.

THE PEER CONNECTIONS ESPECIALLY POST PANDEMIC, HAVE CONTINUED TO BE AN AREA OF FOCUS FOR THE BUILDINGS.

SO WE'VE ADDED THAT TO THAT. THAT ALWAYS PROVIDES US SOME GREAT CLIMATE DATA, IN ADDITION TO GIVING US A SENSE OF HIGH RISK BEHAVIORS AND PRO-SOCIAL BEHAVIORS. AND THAT SURVEY FROM PELHAM TOGETHER.

CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG, BUT I THINK I'M REMEMBERING THAT IT IS A LIKE IT.

IT'S IT DOESN'T ORIGINATE LIKE WITH PELHAM. THEY DON'T CREATE THE QUESTIONS.

THEY GET THEM FROM RESEARCH-BASED PROGRAM RESEARCH BECAUSE LIKE, THERE'S A LOT OF THERE'S A LOT OF LIKE RESEARCH ON HOW TO ASK A QUESTION IN A SURVEY TO GET THE MOST ACCURATE ANSWER. YES.

NOT THAT LIKE PELHAM COULDN'T DO THAT, BUT LIKE, NO, IT WAS JUST BROUGHT ORIGINALLY BY PELHAM TOGETHER YEARS AGO AND THEN PARTNERED WITH THE DISTRICT, AND THEN THE DISTRICT TOOK IT OVER. BUT PELHAM TOGETHER STILL PARTNERS. YEAH, BUT IT'S THROUGH A THIRD PARTY, CORRECT. CHAMP AND I MET WITH LAURA CARUSO. THE PEOPLE FROM WHO DEVELOPED THE RESEARCH TOOL THE RESEARCHERS WERE THERE WITH US BECAUSE WE HAD ASKED THEM, CAN WE ASK THIS QUESTION BECAUSE THIS IS ALSO A TOOL WHERE WE COLLECT LONGITUDINAL DATA.

SO IF WE ASK TOO MANY VARYING QUESTIONS, WE'RE NOT GOING TO GET THE DATA WE'RE HOPING TO CAPTURE IN THE TRENDS.

SO THEY GIVE US PARAMETERS OF WHAT WE CAN AND CAN'T ASK, AND HOW WE CAN ASK A QUESTION AND MODIFY A QUESTION.

BUT THEY WERE WITH US IN THAT CONVERSATION AS WELL.

YEAH, IT'S VERY COOL THE SCIENCE BEHIND HOW TO ASK A QUESTION.

SURVEY QUESTION. OKAY. WELL, THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

AND REALLY, I HAVE TO SAY AGAIN, THANKS TO CABINET, THANKS TO THE ADMINISTRATIVE TEAM WHO HAVE DONE JUST A MASSIVE JOB OF TAKING THIS PLAN AND

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THE VALUES, THE PRIORITY AREAS I THINK ARE JUST SO REFLECTIVE OF PELHAM.

SO THAT MAKES IT EASY TO GAIN BUY IN. SO JUST THANKS TO EVERYONE FOR THE HARD WORK, AND WE LOOK FORWARD TO GIVING YOU THE END OF YEAR UPDATE.

AND THANK YOU. THANK YOU. YOU'RE WELCOME. THANK YOU.

THANK YOU. DO WE WANT TO BRING UP? YEAH, I THINK WE'LL MOVE UP PUBLIC.

WE'LL MOVE UP PUBLIC COMMENT. IS THERE ANY COMMUNICATIONS AND COMMENTS FROM THE PUBLIC.

OKAY. YOU WANT TO WAIT? OKAY. ALL RIGHT, THEN I WON'T.

THANK YOU. OKAY. WE'RE UP TO COMMITTEE REPORTS. WHO WANTS TO GO FIRST? I KNOW THERE ARE A LOT OF.

[5.2 Board of Education Committee Reports]

BUT JIM WILL COVER WHAT WE DISCUSSED. OKAY. WE ALSO HAD FACILITIES COMMITTEE MET LAST WEEK.

YEAH. LAST WEEK ON WEDNESDAY THE 15TH, I DON'T KNOW.

WE'RE GOING TO COVER THAT AS WELL WITH THE FACILITIES CONVERSATION.

WE'RE GOING TO COVER THAT DURING THE FACILITIES CONVERSATION. SO.

OKAY. WE HAD SAFETY COMMITTEE. TO COVER THAT AS WELL.

ALL RIGHT. SO WE'RE NOT. AND WE ALSO HAVE PERSONAL GROWTH AND ACHIEVEMENT.

YOU DO. I DO. OKAY. SO WE MOVE STRAIGHT TO THE SUPERINTENDENT.

THE ASSISTANT SUPERINTENDENT. SO WE'LL MOVE TO 5.3.

[5.3 Assistant Superintendent's Update on Personal Growth and Achievement]

SO ONE OF THE THINGS THAT MAKES OUR LEARNING ORGANIZATION SO SPECIAL IS HOW WE LEVERAGE THE TALENT OF THE COMMUNITY AND ALUMNI TO ENRICH STUDENT LEARNING.

DOCTOR CALLAHAN AND HIS TEAM ARE PARTICULARLY DEDICATED TO CONNECTING STUDENTS WITH REAL WORLD EXPERTISE TO INSPIRE INNOVATION AND FUTURE SUCCESS.

AND YOU KNOW, TO THIS POINT, ALUMNI KYLE BIRO OF THE CLASS OF 2017 RETURNED TO PELHAM MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL ON FRIDAY TO SHARE HIS JOURNEY WITH STUDENTS IN OUR DATA SCIENCE AND AP COMPUTER SCIENCE CLASSES.

KYLE IS A GRADUATE OF HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY AND CO-FOUNDED AI, A COMPANY FOUNDED TO POLICE SECURITY VULNERABILITIES IN TECHNOLOGY PLATFORMS USING AI. SO THAT'S JUST ONE OF THE HIGHLIGHTS THAT I WANTED TO MENTION TONIGHT.

WE DID MENTION QUICKLY IN OUR LAST BOARD MEETING ABOUT OUR REGENERON SCIENCE TALENT SEARCH SCHOLARS, AND I JUST WANTED TO TAKE A MOMENT TO HIGHLIGHT THEM TONIGHT.

TWO SENIORS HAVE BEEN RECOGNIZED IN THE 2025 REGENERON SCIENCE TALENT SEARCH.

IT'S THE NATION'S OLDEST AND MOST PRESTIGIOUS SCIENCE AND MATH COMPETITION FOR HIGH SCHOOL SENIORS.

IT PROVIDES A NATIONAL STAGE FOR STUDENTS TO PRESENT THEIR ORIGINAL RESEARCH AND CELEBRATES THE HARD WORK, CREATIVITY, AND INNOVATIVE THINKING OF YOUNG SCIENTISTS TACKLING SOME OF THE WORLD'S MOST PRESSING CHALLENGES.

AND SO WE HAVE SENIOR MADELINE PATELLA RECOGNIZED FOR HER RESEARCH IN ANALYZING B CELL CLASSIFICATION, CHANGES IN CEREBROSPINAL FLUID AND BLOOD INFLUENCED BY OCRELIZUMAB TREATMENT IN MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS.

AND THEN AXEL ROBINSON WAS RECOGNIZED FOR HIS WORK ON INSOMNIA PHENOTYPES AND THEIR ADVERSE HEALTH EFFECTS.

SCHOLARS ARE SELECTED ON AND ARE SELECTED BASED ON THEIR EXCEPTIONAL RESEARCH, LEADERSHIP, COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT, ACADEMIC COMMITMENT, CREATIVITY IN ASKING QUESTIONS, AND THE REMARKABLE POTENTIAL THEY DEMONSTRATED THROUGH THEIR INDEPENDENT RESEARCH PROJECTS, ESSAYS AND RECOMMENDATIONS. MADELEINE AXEL AND PELHAM MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL WILL EACH RECEIVE A $2,000 AWARD. THEY ARE AMONG AN ELITE GROUP OF 300 SCHOLARS CHOSEN FROM 200 SCHOOLS ACROSS 33 STATES, WASHINGTON, D.C., AND INTERNATIONAL LOCATIONS SUCH AS HONG KONG, MALAYSIA, SWITZERLAND.

AND WE'RE INCREDIBLY PROUD OF THEIR ACHIEVEMENTS AND GRATEFUL FOR THEIR ADMINISTRATORS, EDUCATORS, AND MENTORS WHO SUPPORTED THEIR JOURNEY. WE'VE ALREADY TALKED ABOUT THE SPELLING BEE, SO THANKS TO EVERYONE INVOLVED IN THAT.

COME 3:30 TOMORROW IN ALUMNI HALL, JOHN SEBALOS, BLESS YOU, OUR DIRECTOR OF TECHNOLOGY AND ALICIA DELMASTRO, OUR K-12 INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNOLOGY SPECIALIST, CAME TO OUR PERSONAL GROWTH AND ACHIEVEMENT COMMITTEE LAST WEEK AND SHARED THE WORK OF THE DISTRICT'S ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE USER GROUP HERE IN PELHAM.

THE COMMITTEE ENGAGED IN THOUGHTFUL DISCUSSION ON LEVERAGING AI TECHNOLOGY IN AN ETHICAL AND RESPONSIBLE WAY TO ENSURE THAT IT ENRICHES AND ENHANCES TEACHING AND LEARNING IN PELHAM. WE WILL CONTINUE TO REPORT ON THAT COMMITTEE AS WE AS WE CONTINUE TO MEET.

AND THEN ALSO IN PERSONAL GROWTH AND ACHIEVEMENT, WE ARE JUST CHANGING THE NAME OF A COURSE OFFERED AT THE HIGH SCHOOL ON ECONOMICS

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AND THEN THIS WEEK, AS WE ALL KNOW, I THINK THIS YEAR ALL NEW YORK STATE ASSESSMENTS AND PELHAM IN GRADES THREE THROUGH EIGHT WILL MOVE TO A COMPUTER BASED PLATFORM IN ALIGNMENT WITH ALIGNMENT WITH NEW YORK STATE REGULATIONS. AND STARTING THIS WEEK, WE ARE BEGINNING OUR SIMULATION ASSESSMENTS FROM TODAY UNTIL JANUARY 31ST. DIFFERENT SCHOOLS WILL SIMULATE THE COMPUTER BASED TESTING ASSESSMENTS TO ENSURE THAT STUDENTS ARE COMFORTABLE.

TEACHERS ARE COMFORTABLE WITH THE PLATFORM AND THAT EVERYONE IS SET UP FOR SUCCESS IN SEPTEMBER.

THE SIMULATIONS ARE PROVIDED BY THE NEW YORK STATE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT.

TAKE APPROXIMATELY ONE CLASS PERIOD, ARE NOT SCORED, AND ARE DESIGNED TO HELP STUDENTS BECOME MORE COMFORTABLE WITH THE FORMAT.

STUDENTS WILL ANY INDIVIDUAL EDUCATION PLANS, OR 504 PLAN.

ACCOMMODATIONS WILL BE PROVIDED TO STUDENTS WHO HAVE PLANS FOR THOSE, AND WE'RE HOPEFUL AND CONFIDENT THAT THE SIMULATION WILL HELP OUR STUDENTS BE PREPARED FOR THE ASSESSMENTS IN THE SPRING, AND IT WILL NOT DISRUPT REGULAR TEACHING, AND STUDENTS WON'T MISS VALUABLE LEARNING IN THE TIME THAT THE SIMULATIONS ARE TAKING PLACE. THANK YOU.

THANK YOU, CLAIRE, FOR THE UPDATE. I JUST WANT TO GO BACK TO THE TO SAY ONE THING ABOUT THESE THE REGENERON.

YEAH. SCHOLARS. THIS IS THIS WAS SUCH A COOL THING TO READ ABOUT.

LIKE THE TO BE, YOU KNOW, THEIR AGE AND TO COME UP WITH THIS ORIGINAL RESEARCH IDEA AND THEN TO DESIGN A STUDY TO THINK THAT WHOLE PROCESS THROUGH TO GO THROUGH THE IRB PROCESS.

I MEAN, THIS IS NOT LIKE A SMALL FEAT, RIGHT? THIS IS A HUGE LIFT. AND THEN TO READ ABOUT, LIKE I READ ABOUT HOW THEY THOUGHT OF THESE AND THE IMPORTANCE AND WHY THEY, THEY DECIDED TO FOCUS IN THESE AREAS. AND YOU KNOW, WHAT THEY WERE HOPING TO ACCOMPLISH AND ACHIEVE.

AND YOU KNOW WHY THEY DESIGNED THE STUDY IN THE WAY THEY DID.

IT WAS SO INSPIRING TO READ ABOUT, AND SO COOL TO KNOW THAT THESE ARE KIDS IN OUR COMMUNITY, AND THEY'RE ALREADY DOING AND HAVING THESE ORIGINAL THOUGHTS AND IDEAS, AND THEY'RE GOING TO GO OUT INTO THE WORLD.

AND, YOU KNOW, I THINK ALL OF THE KIDS WHO GRADUATE WILL CHANGE THE WORLD IN SOME WAY.

AND IT WAS JUST SO COOL TO READ ABOUT, LIKE THESE TWO KIDS.

AND YOU JUST WANT TO RECOGNIZE, LIKE, THEIR HARD WORK AND DEDICATION AND THE TEAM THAT'S SUPPORTING THEM AND REALLY JUST SAY, LIKE, THIS IS NOT LIKE AN EASY THING TO CREATE AND DESIGN A SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH STUDY AND THEN EXECUTE IT. SO THIS IS SO COOL THAT I'M JUST SO EXCITED FOR THESE KIDS AND LIKE HOW WHAT AN EXPERIENCE TO HAVE FOR THEM.

YEAH, ABSOLUTELY. SO YAY FOR THESE. YAY FOR THESE KIDS.

LIKE THESE STUDENTS ARE AMAZING. ALL OF OUR STUDENTS ARE AMAZING.

BUT THESE THIS WAS A REALLY COOL THING TO READ ABOUT.

SO THANK YOU. THANKS. THANK YOU.

IT'S SO COOL. OKAY, WE CAN MOVE TO ASSISTANT SUPERINTENDENTS.

[5.4 Assistant Superintendent's Update on Belonging and Wellness]

SO, SPEAKING ABOUT CONNECTIONS AND GETTING STAFF TOGETHER.

JUST THIS AFTERNOON DOCTOR GREG LAU AND I HAD OUR ANNUAL REVIEW KICK OFF, AND IT'S ONE OF THE FEW OPPORTUNITIES THAT WE GET TO GET THE ENTIRE SPECIAL EDUCATION AND PPS DEPARTMENT TOGETHER K-12.

SO THAT WAS EXCITING TO HAVE EVERYONE IN A ROOM THIS AFTERNOON.

IT GIVES US THE OPPORTUNITY TO SET THE STAGE FOR WHAT ANNUAL REVIEW SEASON IS GOING TO LOOK LIKE.

WE QUICKLY GO OVER SOME OF OUR HOUSEKEEPING ITEMS, BECAUSE THERE'S JUST A TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF THOUGHT AND PLANNING THAT GOES INTO GETTING READY FOR THESE MEETINGS. TALKING TO THE STAFF ABOUT, YOU KNOW, OPENING OUR DRAFTS, UPDATING DOCUMENTS, THINKING ABOUT GOALS, MAKING SURE THEY'RE COLLECTING DATA.

SO IT WAS A GREAT OPPORTUNITY TO CATCH UP WITH THEM.

ALSO IT WAS AN OPPORTUNITY. I TRIED TO LEAVE THEM WITH AN INSPIRATIONAL MESSAGE BECAUSE IT'S A LOT OF WORK, A LOT OF WHAT WE ASK THAT THESE TEACHERS AND STAFF MEMBERS TO DO, IN ADDITION TO WHAT THEY'RE ALREADY DOING, IT'S A HUGE PULL OF THEIR TIME. SO I WAS ABLE TO SHARE WITH THEM A TED TALK BY A SCHOOL PSYCHOLOGIST.

HIS NAME IS DOCTOR ADAM SANDS, AND IT WAS CALLED THE POWER OF THE TEACHER.

AND IT WAS REALLY A GREAT TAKEAWAY FOR THEM THAT FOR THEM TO UNDERSTAND THE TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF IMPACT THAT THEY HAVE ON OUR STUDENTS LIVES,

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SO THEY UNDERSTOOD HOW IMPORTANT THEIR ROLE WAS. SO THAT WAS GREAT.

JUST ALSO, I HAVE TO IN ADVANCE THANK LOIS MICELI, MY SECRETARY, ONE OF MY SECRETARIES IN THE DEPARTMENT.

WE WILL BE PLANNING FOR JUST OVER 600 OR SO MEETINGS ALONE IN TERMS OF ANNUAL REVIEWS FOR CSC, 500 FOR CSC. THAT DOESN'T INCLUDE ANY INITIALS OR PROGRAM REVIEWS THAT WE DO.

SO A BIG THANK YOU TO HER, BECAUSE THAT'S A LOT OF PLANNING PAPERWORK AND COORDINATING BASED ON SIX BUILDING SCHEDULES AND PARENT SCHEDULES.

SO THANK YOU TO HER. I WANT TO TALK ABOUT A GRANT THAT I HAD WRITTEN IN THE FALL TO THE PELHAM EDUCATION FOUNDATION. I JUST FOUND OUT OFFICIALLY YESTERDAY THAT THE GRANT WAS APPROVED.

WHICH IS SUPER EXCITING. IT IS ON THE BOARD FOR YOU TO VOTE ON THIS EVENING.

THE GRANT IS FOR COMMUNICATION BOARDS, WHICH WILL BE INSTALLED IN ALL OF OUR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL BUILDING PLAYGROUNDS ALONG WITH JULIAN'S PLAYGROUND. THE COMMUNICATION BOARDS ARE A FORM OF ADAPTIVE COMMUNICATION.

IT UTILIZES SYMBOLS, NUMBERS, LETTERS, AND ENABLES INDIVIDUALS THAT HAVE CHALLENGES WITH VERBAL COMMUNICATION TO EXPRESS THEIR WANTS AND NEEDS.

THEY ARE INVALUABLE TOOLS FOR STUDENTS THAT HAVE COMMUNICATION CHALLENGES, BUT ALSO VALUABLE TOOLS FOR OUR ELL POPULATION. FOR STUDENTS WHO STRUGGLE WITH SOCIAL INTERACTIONS, ARE YOUNGER, DEVELOPING LANGUAGE LEARNERS.

SO IT'S JUST A GREAT OPPORTUNITY TO SHARE THE MESSAGE FOR ALL OF OUR STUDENTS AND STAFF ABOUT INCLUSION AND NAVIGATING A WORLD WHERE THEY'RE GOING TO ENCOUNTER INDIVIDUALS THAT ARE DIFFERENT THAN THEM.

IT'S ALSO AN AMAZING TOOL FOR ALL OF OUR STUDENTS TO FOCUS ON SOCIAL EMOTIONAL COMPETENCIES, BECAUSE IT PROMOTES RELATIONSHIP BUILDING AND SOCIAL COMMUNICATION AND EMPATHY AND SUPPORTIVE RELATIONSHIPS AND RESPONSIVE DECISION MAKING.

SO I THINK IT'S A WIN-WIN, BUT I TRULY WANT TO THANK THE FOUNDATION FOR THEIR GENEROSITY AND SUPPORT IN, IN APPROVING THIS THIS GRANT. THE NEXT STEPS IS TO WORK WITH JIM HRICAY AND JOHN CONDON TO TALK ABOUT AN INSTALL DATE WITH THE COMPANY THAT WILL PUT THESE INTO OUR PLAYGROUNDS.

IT'S ACTUALLY THE SAME COMPANY WHO DID OUR NEW PLAYGROUNDS, SO IT'S GREAT AN OPPORTUNITY FOR US TO WORK WITH THEM TO MAKE SURE THAT THE COMMUNICATION BOARDS WILL BE INSTALLED, TO LOOK LIKE THEY WERE ALWAYS MEANT TO BE A PART OF THE PLAYGROUND, SO THAT'S EXCITING. ALSO GOING TO BE HOPEFULLY WORKING WITH BUILDING BRIDGES IN THEIR STUDENT EDUCATION SERIES THAT THEY DO IN THE SPRING AND UTILIZE THIS POSSIBLY AS AN OPPORTUNITY TO JUST LAUNCH IT FOR ALL OF THE STUDENTS.

AND I'LL BE WORKING WITH THE BUILDING PRINCIPAL, SPEECH PATHOLOGIST, AND OTS ON HOW WE'RE GOING TO TRAIN ALL STAFF MEMBERS ON WHAT THESE WHAT THE BOARDS ARE, HOW WE COULD USE THEM, AND HOW WE CAN ENCOURAGE STUDENTS TO USE THEM.

SO AGAIN, HUGE THANK YOU TO THE PELHAM EDUCATION FOUNDATION FOR THEIR GENEROSITY.

JUST ALSO IN TERMS OF SWITCHING TO COUNSELING WE'VE HAD A COUPLE OF REALLY EXCITING EVENINGS THAT WERE HOSTED BY OUR HIGH SCHOOL COUNSELING DEPARTMENT.

WE HAD ON THURSDAY, JANUARY 9TH, IT WAS THE EIGHTH TO NINTH GRADE TRANSITION NIGHT THAT MR. YUVANE HOSTS WITH A PANEL OF FRESHMEN. IT'S ALWAYS A GREAT EVENING.

IT WAS PACKED WITH STUDENTS AND PARENTS OF OUR RISING FRESHMEN.

MR. YUVANE AND MR. FARRELL WERE THERE ALONG WITH THE PANEL, AND THEY DO A GREAT JOB JUST TALKING TO THE INCOMING EIGHTH GRADERS ABOUT WHAT TO EXPECT IN HIGH SCHOOL, WHO TO GO TO FOR SUPPORT, HOW DO YOU BALANCE YOUR TIME? YOU KNOW, WHAT ARE THEIR FAVORITE CLASSES? THINKING ABOUT CLUBS, JOINING CLUBS, GETTING CONNECTED TO THE HIGH SCHOOL.

SO IT WAS A GREAT EVENING. AND THEN ALSO LAST TUESDAY IN JANUARY 14TH, MR. FARRELL, ALONG WITH HIS STAFF, HOSTED THE JUNIOR COLLEGE INFORMATION NIGHT.

SO THEY ALWAYS BRING IN A PANEL OF COLLEGE ADMISSION OFFICERS.

WE HAD SOMEONE FROM NYU, SMITH COLLEGE, SUNY BINGHAMTON, IONA AND THE CUNY SYSTEM.

AND, YOU KNOW, MR. FARRELL TAKES A COUPLE OF SAMPLE TRANSCRIPTS, AND THE ADMISSIONS OFFICERS EXPLAIN TO THE STUDENTS AND THE PARENTS HOW THEY

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AND THEN AFTER THE PANEL SPEAKS, THERE WERE BREAKOUT SESSIONS THAT PARENTS AND STUDENTS COULD USE TO GO TO.

SO THAT WAS A GREAT EVENING. BOTH WERE VERY WELL ATTENDED.

MR. FARRELL, RIGHT NOW IN THE HIGH SCHOOL, STAFF ARE PLANNING ON THEIR JUNIOR MEETINGS.

SO THEY'LL BE IN THE PROCESS OF DOING ALL OF THAT WITH PARENTS AND STUDENTS OF JUNIORS TALKING ABOUT THE COLLEGE PROCESS.

COLLEGE COURSES FOR THEIR SENIOR YEAR. AND ANY QUESTIONS RELATED TO THAT? AS WELL AS ALSO MR. DUVANE PUSHING INTO THE EIGHTH GRADE CLASSES TO TALK TO THE RISING FRESHMAN ABOUT HOW TO PICK COURSES FOR NINTH GRADE.

ALSO MR. FARRELL WORKS VERY CLOSELY, AS IN YEARS PAST, WITH CIVICS ON HIS ON THE CAREER SPEAKER SERIES, THEY HAD SOMETHING ON DECEMBER 6TH WHICH FOCUSED ON CAREERS AROUND DIGITAL AND MARKETING.

THE NEXT ONE UP ON JANUARY 31ST, WE'LL HAVE CAREERS RELATED TO LAU, SO LOOK FOR MORE INFORMATION AROUND THAT.

IN TERMS SWITCHING AGAIN TO NURSING. OUR BODY MASS INDEX SURVEY, WHICH WAS DUE AND REQUIRED FOR THE STATE, WAS SUCCESSFULLY SUBMITTED. THANK YOU TO ALL THE NURSES FOR THEIR WORK ON THAT.

AND JUST ONE LAST MESSAGE IN THE IN TERMS OF THE NURSING REALM WE ARE SEEING SOME SMALL SPIKES OF CASES OF LICE IN SOME OF OUR ELEMENTARY BUILDINGS.

FAVORITE TOPIC FOR EVERYONE? WE KNOW THIS IS SUPER DIFFICULT, DISTRESSING FOR FAMILIES THAT HAVE TO DEAL WITH IT, BUT JUST WANT TO JUST REITERATE WHAT OUR POLICY IS REGARDING THIS.

SO OUR POLICY, DISTRICT POLICY, IN CONSULTATION WITH OUR MEDICAL DIRECTOR, DOCTOR LEGUE, IS WE DO NOT DO GRADE LEVEL OR CLASS LEVEL LICE CHECKS. THE PURPOSE OF THAT IN IN THE RESEARCH WITH THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS, THERE IS NO BENEFIT IN PULLING CHILDREN OUT OF CLASSES AND THE AMOUNT OF CLASS TIME WE WOULD HAVE TO PULL THEM TO CONTINUALLY DO CHECKS FOR, TO GET AT THE ROOT OF IT. SO WE SEND A LOT OF INFORMATION HOME TO PARENTS ABOUT HOW TO DO CHECKS.

AND YOU KNOW, AGAIN, DUE TO THE LIFE CYCLE OF HEAD LICE, DOING 1 OR 2 CHECKS WOULD NOT BE SUFFICIENT.

WE'D HAVE TO DO CHECKS ALMOST TWO WEEKS. THAT'S PULLING KIDS OUT OF CLASSES.

SO THE BENEFIT AND THE RESEARCH SHOWS THAT IT IS BETTER TO HAVE FAMILIES WORK WITH YOU KNOW, ON THEIR OWN IN DOING THEIR LICE CHECKS AND BEING DILIGENT ABOUT THAT GETTING INFORMATION FROM OUR SCHOOL NURSES AND HOPEFULLY WITH DILIGENCE THAT COULD BE ALLEVIATED QUICKLY. THANK YOU.

QUICK QUESTION. YOU SAID THAT YOU WERE GEARING UP FOR 600.

OVER. OVER 600. AND THOSE ARE 600 REVIEWS OF REQUESTS FOR SOME FORM OF INTERVENTION OR SPECIAL ED? NO. SO WE ARE REQUIRED BY LAW FOR EVERY CLASSIFIED STUDENT EACH YEAR TO DO AN ANNUAL REVIEW.

SO, WE HAVE OVER 350 CSC STUDENTS. WE HAVE ALMOST 60 CPSE STUDENTS.

AND THEN FOR 504S, WE ALSO CAN DO ANNUAL REVIEWS.

THE LAW ISN'T YOU DON'T HAVE TO DO THOSE YEARLY.

WE HAVE BEEN DOING THOSE YEARLY. SO IF PARENTS REQUEST TO DO A YEARLY 504 ANNUAL REVIEW, WE ARE REQUIRED TO DO SO.

BUT WE COULD ALSO ROLL THOSE OVER. SO WHEN YOU PUT ALL OF THOSE TOTALS TOGETHER, THE AND THOSE ARE JUST ANNUAL REVIEWS.

THOSE ARE BUILDING THE DOCUMENTS FOR THE NEXT SCHOOL YEAR.

AND WE'RE REQUIRED TO DO THAT BY LAW. I MEAN, THAT'S IT.

UNLESS I'M SORT OF MISINTERPRETING THAT. THAT'S LIKE 20% OF THE STUDENT BODY, ROUGHLY JUST UNDER 14.

SO FOR CSC, IT'S WE ARE A 12% CLASSIFICATION RATE.

OKAY. 504 YOU DON'T INCLUDE IN A DISTRICT CLASSIFICATION RATES BECAUSE 504 TECHNICALLY IS GENERAL EDUCATION.

THOSE ARE ACCOMMODATION PLANS. SO I'M JUST GIVING YOU TOTAL NUMBERS.

WHAT WE HAVE TO PLAN FOR. HOW WE HAVE TO PULL STAFF FOR MEETINGS.

BUT ADD TO THE 12% SPECIAL ED. BUT I THINK YOUR POINT WAS KIND OF.

MY POINT IS JUST THAT IF THERE'S. A MAJOR NUMBER.

YEAH, THERE'S A IF YOU'RE INVOLVED IN 600 INDIVIDUAL CASES OF NEED, SOME FORM OF NEED, THERE ARE ABOUT 2800 STUDENTS IN THE DISTRICT. THAT'S JUST LIKE OVER 20%.

THAT WOULD IMPLY THAT OVER, YOU KNOW, JUST OVER 20% OF THE STUDENTS IN THE DISTRICT ARE GETTING SOME KIND OF ACCOMMODATION OR SERVICE THAT REQUIRES YOUR DEPARTMENT.

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THOSE? NO, THOSE ARE FOR ANNUAL REVIEWS, I THINK.

OR PROGRAMMATIC REVIEWS. NO PROGRAM REVIEWS. SO THAT WASN'T THE PROGRAM THAT WASN'T INCLUSIVE OF PROGRAM REVIEW NUMBERS, WHICH WOULD BE ADDITIONAL, ADDITIONAL OR NEW REFERRALS TO CPS FOR CPSE.

BUT I THINK, MR. CHIEF, I THINK IF I'M UNDERSTANDING, IT'S THAT'S THE AMOUNT OF STUDENTS WHO ARE GETTING SUPPORT ON SOME LEVEL, WHETHER IT'S CSC OR 504 IN THE DISTRICT. CORRECT.

SUPPORT ON SUPPORT ON SOME LEVEL. YES. ABOUT 20% OF THE STUDENT BODY IN THE 504 IS ALONE.

I THINK WE HAVE SHARED WITH THE BOARD THE TREND.

THE NUMBERS HAVE INCREASED INCREDIBLY FOR 504S.

YEP. AND WHAT WE'RE SHOWING ON THE DASHBOARD BECAUSE THAT WAS THE ONLY CLASS I WASN'T.

SORRY, I WASN'T THE POINT. I WAS THE POINT I WASN'T MAKING IS, IS LIKE A DISCREPANCY BETWEEN WHAT TRACY WAS SAYING AND THE AND THE DASHBOARD.

YOU WERE JUST. YEAH, I UNDERSTAND QUANTIFYING.

THAT'S JUST A GIGANTIC NUMBER OF INDIVIDUAL CASES.

AND WHEN YOU LOOK AT IT AS LIKE WHAT PERCENTAGE OF THE STUDENT BODY.

IT'S VERY LARGE. 20%. YEAH. TRACY AND HER TEAM HAVE A LOT GOING ON, ON THEIR PLATE.

YES. AND JUST TO CLARIFY, THE DASHBOARD IS CSC ONLY SCHOOL AGE, NOT EVEN CPSE.

SO THAT'S ONLY REFLECTIVE OF SCHOOL AGE. AND JUST AGAIN, I KNOW CHERYL HIGHLIGHTED IT, BUT OUR CLASSIFICATION RATE IN COMPARISON TO THE COUNTY AND THE STATE IS STILL LOW. I THINK THE COUNTY IS ABOUT 616% AND THE STATE'S ALMOST 19%.

OKAY. OKAY. THANK YOU. SO I HAVE ONE THING ABOUT WHAT TRACY SAID, THAT I WANT TO HIGHLIGHT IS SOMETHING REALLY EXCITING. ANOTHER REALLY EXCITING THING THAT, YOU KNOW, TRACY TALKED ABOUT THIS PF GRANT APPROVAL.

AND, YOU KNOW, WHEN SHE WAS TALKING ABOUT THAT, I THINK I WAS REALLY EXCITED TO HEAR THAT PEF, YOU KNOW, CAME ON BOARD AND SUPPORTED THIS REALLY IMPORTANT INITIATIVE FOR OUR SCHOOL PLAYGROUNDS AND OUR LEARNERS.

AND WHEN SHE WAS TALKING ABOUT IT, WHAT CAME TO MY MIND WAS THE PRINCIPLES OF UNIVERSAL DESIGN.

AND FORGIVE ME, FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE FAMILIAR WITH UNIVERSAL DESIGN, I KNOW THAT MANY OF YOU MIGHT BE FAMILIAR WITH UNIVERSAL DESIGN AS IT RELATES TO LEARNING, BUT THIS IS LIKE UNIVERSAL DESIGN AS IT RELATES TO LIKE ARCHITECTURE AND LIKE THE ENVIRONMENT.

AND SO I'M JUST GOING TO BRIEFLY LIKE, SAY, WHAT UNIVERSAL DESIGN IS, JUST IN CASE YOU'RE NOT REALLY FAMILIAR WITH IT.

BUT UNIVERSAL DESIGN IS A PRINCIPLE THAT CAME OUT OF THE NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY BACK IN 1997, AND IT'S SINCE BEEN ADOPTED GLOBALLY. BUT THE GOAL OF UNIVERSAL DESIGN IS TO INCORPORATE THINGS MEANINGFUL, LIKE MEANINGFUL INCLUSION. SO IT'S CENTERED ON MEANINGFUL INCLUSION FOR PEOPLE WITH FUNCTIONAL LIMITATIONS THAT ARE WOVEN INTO THE FABRIC OF OUR ENVIRONMENT. SO IT ALLOWS PEOPLE TO USE THE ENVIRONMENT WHO OTHERWISE MAYBE COULDN'T.

BUT BECAUSE IT'S BUILT IN, IT'S NOT AN INDIVIDUAL ACCOMMODATION AND IT BENEFITS EVERYBODY BECAUSE EVERYBODY USES IT.

AND SO THIS. THESE COMMUNICATION BOARDS ARE VERY MUCH SO A ELEMENT OF UNIVERSAL DESIGN. AND IT'S VERY MUCH SO ALIGNED WITH THE BELONGING AND WELLNESS ELEMENTS OF OUR STRATEGIC PLAN.

AND, YOU KNOW, UNIVERSAL DESIGN. WE COME INTO CONTACT WITH PRINCIPLES OF UNIVERSAL, UNIVERSAL DESIGN DAILY.

WHEN WE THINK OF LIKE WHEELCHAIR CUTOUTS, YOU KNOW, OR CUTOUTS IN SIDEWALKS WERE ORIGINALLY PUT THERE FOR WHEELCHAIRS.

BUT WE CERTAINLY ENJOY THEM. AND I KNOW AS A PARENT PUSHING A STROLLER, I WAS REALLY GRATEFUL WHEN I CAME ACROSS THOSE.

AND NOW WE SORT OF EXPECT THEM. LEVERED DOOR HANDLES ARE UNIVERSAL DESIGN.

AND NOW, BECAUSE THE BARRIER OF A DOORKNOB FOR PEOPLE WHO COULDN'T TURN IT AND NOW LEVERED DOOR HANDLES ARE STANDARD COMMERCIALLY AND THE PREFERRED DOOR HANDLE FOR MOST RESIDENTIAL RENOVATION PROJECTS.

AND SO IT'S ELEMENTS THAT ARE IMPORTANT TO THE BELONGINGNESS AND ACCEPTANCE OF ALL DIFFERENCES. AND THE BENEFIT FOR ALL STUDENTS TO JUST HAVE THESE SORT OF THESE ACCOMMODATIONS OR THESE ELEMENTS JUST IN THEIR ENVIRONMENT SO THAT THEY CAN GET USED TO SEEING THEM AND GET USED TO PEOPLE USING THEM AND USE THEM THEMSELVES AND UNDERSTAND,

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AND THEY MIGHT REALIZE THAT THEY APPRECIATE SOMETHING THAT THEY OTHERWISE WOULDN'T LIKE I NEVER THOUGHT ABOUT CURB CUTOUTS UNTIL I HAD TO PUSH A STROLLER, AND THEN I THOUGHT, OH MAN, LIKE, THIS IS GREAT.

AND I COULDN'T IMAGINE BEING IN A WHEELCHAIR AND NOT BEING ABLE TO GET ON THE SIDEWALK AND BE SAFE.

SO THIS WAS SO EXCITING. I'M SO EXCITED THAT PF SUPPORTED THIS REALLY IMPORTANT INITIATIVE FOR OUR SCHOOLS AND THAT THEY THAT THEY FUNDED THIS FOR US. AND I CAN'T WAIT TO SEE WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE ON OUR PLAYGROUNDS.

THAT'S VERY NICE. THANK YOU. OKAY. ANY ADDITIONAL COMMENTS OR QUESTIONS FOR TRACEY? OKAY, OKAY.

WE CAN MOVE TO EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR'S UPDATE ON HUMAN RESOURCES AND LEADERSHIP.

[5.5 Executive Director's Update on Human Resources and Leadership]

AND SO IN AN EFFORT TO ATTRACT A DIVERSE AND REALLY TALENTED POOL OF CANDIES, WE'VE ACTUALLY STARTED THE RECRUITMENT PROCESS ALREADY, ESPECIALLY AT THE SECONDARY LEVEL, WHERE CERTIFICATIONS ARE REALLY TAILORED TO THE COURSEWORK THAT THAT IS THE TEACHERS TEACH.

SO WE'VE ALREADY POSTED ON OLAS, WHICH IS SORT OF OUR NEW YORK STATE WAY OF GETTING OUT RECRUITMENT EFFORTS ACROSS THE ENTIRE STATE.

THE OTHER THING WE'VE STARTED TO DO IS ALSO REACH OUT TO COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES AND POST ON THEIR JOB BOARDS AND GET THE INFORMATION OUT THAT WAY.

AND THEN THIS WEEKEND IN THE NEW YORK TIMES, WE WILL RUN THE AD AND THEN IN EDWEEK IN A COUPLE OF WEEKS, WE'LL ALSO RUN AN AD AS WELL. SO EDWEEK WILL REACH ACROSS THE UNITED STATES.

SO THAT'S A WAY TO CAPTURE PEOPLE WHO MAYBE NOT IN THE TRI STATE AREA FOR SOME OF THESE POSITIONS.

AND THEN OBVIOUSLY OUR POLICIES TYPICALLY WHAT, WHAT NEW YORK STATE USES AS OUR RESOURCE.

SO THAT HAS HAS BEGUN. WE ARE GOING TO BE PARTICIPATING IN SOME JOB FAIRS, BUT UNFORTUNATELY THEY DON'T HAPPEN UNTIL MID TO LATE MARCH.

AND WE ARE HOPING TO GET A HEAD START ON SOME OF THESE REALLY HARD TO FILL POSITIONS AND START LOOKING OVER RESUMES IN FEBRUARY, SO WE'RE HOPING TO GET IN THERE QUICK AND FIND SOME FANTASTIC CANDIDATES.

THE OTHER THING I JUST WANT TO BRING YOUR ATTENTION TO IS YOU'LL SEE LATER ON IN THE AGENDA THAT WE ARE PROPOSING A NEW STIPEND BASED ON STUDENT NEED, AND I'M HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS ANYONE MAY HAVE ABOUT THAT.

BUT WE ARE FINDING A NEED FOR A TOILETING STIPEND.

IT'S NOT A WIDESPREAD NEED ACROSS ALL BUILDINGS ON ALL LEVELS, BUT IT IS SOMETHING THAT IS THAT IS HAPPENING IN A VARIETY OF OUR BUILDINGS, AND WE ARE LOOKING FOR A WAY TO INCENTIVIZE THAT WORK FOR OUR FOLKS.

OKAY. AND THAT'S IT FOR ME. THANK YOU. OKAY. NEXT WE HAVE ASSISTANT SUPERINTENDENTS UPDATE ON

[5.6 Assistant Superintendent's Update on Facilities and Sustainable Learning Environments]

THANK YOU. YES, ALL THE COMMITTEES. AND I GOT A NUMBER.

I'VE GOT, I'VE GOT MY LIST OF NUMBERS HERE. SO I'LL TRY TO GO KIND OF GO THROUGH OUR LIST HERE. OVER THE LAST WEEK WE'VE BEEN BUSY.

WE STARTED OFF WITH SOME COMMITTEE MEETINGS OVER THE LAST WEEK TO EIGHT DAYS.

ON JANUARY THE 14TH, OUR SAFETY COMMITTEE MET AT PELHAM MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL.

SOME OF THE ITEMS THAT WE TALKED ABOUT ARE THE NEW IMPLEMENTATION OF OUR UNIFORM CONTRACTING SECURITY.

THE EARLY FEEDBACK HAS BEEN THAT IT HAS BEEN A POSITIVE RECEPTION WITHIN THE BUILDING.

AND WE'RE BUILDING ON THAT AGAIN. WE'RE STILL LOOKING STILL LOOKING TO RECRUIT PEOPLE INTERNALLY.

SO WE ASK THAT IF ANYBODY IF ANYBODY IS INTERESTED, PLEASE REACH OUT.

WE ALSO TALKED A LITTLE BIT ABOUT A DEBRIEF OF THE DECEMBER 16TH HVAC UNIT FAILURE, WHERE WE HAD TO DO AN EARLY DISMISSAL AT THE MIDDLE SCHOOL AND KIND OF THE STEPS THAT TOOK PLACE, THE TIMING, THE COMMUNICATION, AND THEN OUR DEBRIEF AND OUR AFTER ACTION OF WHAT WE MAY LOOK AT DIFFERENTLY SHOULD SOMETHING LIKE THIS HAPPEN BEFORE. THERE WAS ANOTHER EVENT THAT DAY THAT THE ABUNDANT LIFE SCHOOL IN I BELIEVE IT WAS IN WISCONSIN. AND CERTAINLY WE DON'T HAVE A FULL REPORT ON WHAT HAPPENED IN THAT SCHOOL, BUT WE TALKED ABOUT THOSE, YOU KNOW, THAT INCIDENT AS WELL. AND AS A SAFETY TEAM, WE WANT TO WE WANT TO LEARN FROM ALL THESE INCIDENTS, THESE UNFORTUNATE INCIDENTS AND TERRIBLE INCIDENTS THAT HAPPENED. WE WERE ALSO INVITED AND WE INVITED OUR, OUR SAFETY MEMBERS AND OUR BOARD MEMBERS, OUR PELHAM MANOR AND PELHAM MANOR.

PELHAM AND PELHAM MANOR POLICE DEPARTMENTS ON MONDAY CONDUCTED ACTIVE SHOOTER TRAINING AT OUR HUTCHINSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.

THIS IS SOMETHING THAT THEY DO ANNUALLY. THEY WERE KIND ENOUGH TO PROVIDE AN OPPORTUNITY FOR OUR SAFETY COMMITTEE AND FOR OUR BOARD MEMBERS TO OBSERVE

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AND I THINK SOMETIMES WE THINK, WELL, THESE ARE THESE ARE SMALL VILLAGES.

YOU NEVER KNOW, YOU KNOW, IS THIS IS THIS REALLY SOMETHING THEY NEED TO TRAIN FOR? AND I WOULD HAVE TO SAY, AS SOMEONE WHO OBSERVED IT, I'M VERY IMPRESSED BY THE PROFESSIONALISM, THE TRAINING AND THE DISCIPLINE AND THE, AGAIN, THE SERIOUSNESS WITH WHICH THESE OFFICERS WERE CONDUCTING THEIR TRAINING ON MONDAY.

AND IT'S AGAIN, IT'S THEY DO THE TRAINING, WE SHARE IT, WE SHARE OUR BUILDING WITH THEM BECAUSE IT'S, YOU KNOW, IT'S THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY. AND THIS IS THIS IS SOMETHING THAT COULD HAPPEN ANYWHERE, REALLY.

I MEAN, THEY'RE SAYING THEY PRACTICE IN A SCHOOL, BUT THERE'S OTHER BUILDINGS WHERE THESE INSTANCES AND THESE TACTICS AND TRAININGS ARE VERY HELPFUL FOR, FOR THESE OFFICERS. SO WE'RE I THINK WE'RE FORTUNATE TO BE ABLE TO PROVIDE THAT FACILITY IN OUR BUILDING FOR OUR LOCAL COMMUNITY.

THAT WAS ON TUESDAY LAST WEEK. ON, ON WEDNESDAY WE HAD A FACILITIES COMMITTEE MEETING.

THERE WERE REALLY TWO ITEMS ON THAT COMMITTEE AGENDA.

THE FIRST WAS ABOUT THIS BUILDING, THE MIDDLE SCHOOL HVAC UNIT UPDATE.

JUST TO KIND OF BRING THE EVERYBODY'S RECOLLECTION BACK.

TWO BUDGET YEARS. WE PASSED IN THE BUDGET $2 MILLION TO REPLACE THE PLAYGROUND AT COLONIAL SCHOOL.

AND THEN WE FIGURED ABOUT $1.75 MILLION FOR THE REPLACEMENT OF FIVE ROOFTOP UNITS AT THE MIDDLE SCHOOL.

WE WERE ABLE TO REPLACE THE COLONIAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS PLAYGROUNDS, IF YOU SEE, THEY TURNED OUT BEAUTIFULLY.

WE WENT INTO DESIGN AND GOT APPROVALS FROM THE STATE FOR THE UNIT REPLACEMENTS IN OCTOBER.

AT THAT POINT IN TIME, WE WENT BACK TO A CONTRACTOR THAT WAS ON STATE BID, ASKED THEM FOR UPDATED BID NUMBERS SO THAT WE COULD MOVE FORWARD WITH THE REPLACEMENTS, HOPEFULLY FOR THIS SUMMER. WHAT WE LEARNED, REGRETFULLY, WAS THAT THEIR PRICE INCREASED ABOUT 40 MORE THAN 40% IN ONE YEAR'S TIME FROM THE $1.6 MILLION THAT WE HAD FROM JANUARY OF 2024 TO THE NUMBER THEY PROVIDED TO US IN DECEMBER.

SO WE'VE DONE A LITTLE BIT OF WORK. WE'VE REACHED OUT TO TWO OTHER VENDORS TO SEE IF WE CAN FIND MORE COMPETITIVE PRICING.

WE'VE ALSO LOOKED AT OTHER ALTERNATIVES TO SEE WHAT WE COULD DO TO MOVE FORWARD, BECAUSE WE KNOW THESE UNITS.

THEY NEED TO BE REPLACED OR THEY NEED SERIOUS WORK.

SO ONE OF THE THINGS IS ONE OF THE VENDORS. THE VENDOR WHO WE WERE INITIALLY WORKING WITH PROPOSED REPLACING FOUR OF THE FIVE UNITS AND REHABILITATING THAT THE ONE UNIT THAT WOULD NOT BE REPLACED AND THAT THAT'S ONE THAT HAS QUITE A NUMBER OF NEW COMPONENTS.

SO, IT WOULD BASICALLY BE A RE A REBUILD OF THAT, A RECONSTRUCTION, A REBUILD OF THAT UNIT.

SO IT WOULDN'T BE AS GOOD AS NEW, BUT IT WOULD BE MUCH BETTER AND MUCH NEWER THAN IT, THAN IT CURRENTLY STANDS.

AND THEN WE'D HAVE FOUR BRAND NEW UNITS. I THINK THAT THAT RIGHT NOW COULD BE OUR, OUR PATHWAY.

IF THE OTHER TWO VENDORS THAT WE'VE REACHED OUT TO COME UP WITH PRICING THAT WE FIND JUST ISN'T TENABLE.

SO JUST PROVIDING AN UPDATE WITH WHERE WE ARE, I THINK REALLY WHAT WE WANT TO MAKE SURE, THOUGH, IS WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT THESE UNITS THAT WE HAVE MORE UNITS, NEW UNITS OVER THESE, SWINGING OVER THIS BUILDING OVER THE SUMMER SO THAT WE CAN REPLACE THEM AND HAVE THAT RELIABILITY THAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR THE NEXT SCHOOL YEAR.

SO, JIM DOES THAT THEN KEEP US WITHIN BUDGET THAT WOULD KEEP US WITHIN THE BUDGET.

THE VENDOR IN THIS INSTANCE SAID, YOU KNOW, THEY WOULD REPLACE THE FOUR BUDGETS, AND AS PART OF THAT, THEY WOULD REHABILITATE A GOOD PORTION OF THAT ONE UNIT THAT ISN'T BEING REPLACED, WHICH AGAIN, THAT THAT IS THE ONE WHERE WE HAD A FAILURE IN DECEMBER, BUT ALSO ONE THAT WE JUST PUT A CONSIDERABLE AMOUNT OF RESOURCES INTO.

SO A NUMBER OF THOSE COMPONENTS ARE COMPLETELY NEW IN THAT UNIT.

SO YOU KIND OF HAVE YOU HAVE FANS, YOU HAVE COILS, YOU HAVE COMPRESSORS.

THOSE ARE THE THREE MAJOR THINGS. AND WE HAVE NEW FANS AND WE HAVE THE COILS.

THE COILS ARE IN GOOD SHAPE, HALF OF A COIL AND THE OTHER ONE'S IN GOOD SHAPE.

AND THEY WOULD PROPOSE REPLACING ALL OF THE THOSE COMPRESSORS AS PART OF THAT WORK.

SO THESE ARE ALL THE THINGS THAT WE'RE CONSIDERING.

YOU KNOW, WE HAD A COUPLE OF MEETINGS OVER THE DECEMBER BREAK TO DISCUSS EXACTLY WHAT OUR EXPECTATION WAS.

AND YOU KNOW, WE AGAIN, WE THOUGHT WE WOULD WE THOUGHT WE WOULD WE HAD THE RIGHT NUMBER AND WE HAD THE RIGHT BUDGET FOR IT.

AND THIS WAS, THIS IS SOMETHING THAT, AGAIN, WE, WE DID NOT EXPECT.

AND I THINK THEIR WILLINGNESS TO COME FORWARD WITH A LITTLE BIT MORE WORK ON THAT UNIT SHOWS US THAT THEY'RE EAGER TO MAINTAIN THAT WORK.

AND AGAIN, WE HAVE WE HAVE TO DO SOMETHING. SO THAT'S WHAT HAPPENED WITH OUR FACILITIES COMMITTEE MEETING THE FIRST HALF. THE SECOND HALF WE TALKED ABOUT BOND FEASIBILITY. OUR ARCHITECT, WALTER HAUSER FROM KG&D WAS PRESENT AT THE MEETING AND WE DISCUSSED ALL OF THE THINGS THAT THE BOARD HAD DISCUSSED AT THE PRIOR MEETING THE WEEK, THE WEEK PRIOR. PROVIDED SOME OF THE FEEDBACK FROM THE DISCUSSION OF THE BOARD'S MEETING AS WELL.

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IN THAT MEETING WE TALKED ABOUT OUR THE DISTRICT'S LONG RANGE PLAN, WHICH IS ATTACHED TO PART OF OUR TREASURER'S REPORT TODAY.

THIS IS SOMETHING THAT WE DO ANNUALLY. AGAIN, WHEN YOU LOOK AT A LONG RANGE PLAN, IT'S KIND OF ONE OF THOSE IT'S A PLANNING DOCUMENT.

IT'S NOT A DEFINITE DOCUMENT. AND I THINK WHAT YOU SEE IN A LONG RANGE PLAN IS IT'S VERY AGAIN, IT'S VERY STATIC AND IT CAN LOOK VERY CONCERNING BECAUSE WHAT YOU CAN SEE OVER TIME IS YOU CAN IF YOU, YOU IN THIS PARTICULAR INSTANCE, YOU CAN SEE DEFICITS THAT COULD GROW OVER YEARS.

AND I THINK THE PURPOSE OF THIS AND THE STATE REALLY ENCOURAGES BOARDS TO DO THESE LONG RANGE PLANNING DOCUMENTS, IS TO MAKE THAT TO MAKE YOU AWARE OF WHAT YOU COULD DO OR WHAT COULD HAPPEN WITHOUT ACTION.

AND IT'S JUST IT'S PART OF ONE OF THOSE PLANNING DOCUMENTS.

THINGS CHANGE EVERY YEAR. WE KNOW NEEDS CHANGE.

WE KNOW REVENUES CAN CHANGE. AND THIS IS JUST ONE SNAPSHOT IN TIME WITH DIFFERENT WITH A NUMBER OF ASSUMPTIONS AND ASSUMPTIONS CAN CHANGE AS WELL.

BUT AGAIN, THAT WAS PART OF OUR DISCUSSION AND THAT WE DISCUSSED OUR CURRENT YEAR FORECAST.

AND AS PART OF THAT DISCUSSION TOO, WE TALKED ABOUT THE PRELIMINARY BUDGET, KIND OF HOW WE'RE WORKING THROUGH OUR PRELIMINARY BUDGET THIS YEAR.

A NUMBER OF THINGS ARE FALLING. THE INFORMATION PIECES THAT WE NEED ARE FALLING INTO PLACE.

WE HAVE OUR BENEFIT NUMBERS. WE HAVE OUR PENSION NUMBERS.

YESTERDAY, THE GOVERNOR DROPPED THE PROPOSED STATE NUMBERS.

SO AT THIS POINT IN TIME, THE GOVERNOR'S FOUNDATION AID PROPOSED AN INCREASE OF ABOUT 4.7% FOR THE DISTRICT, WHICH IS A PRETTY FAVORABLE NUMBER CONSIDERING COMPARED TO PRIOR YEARS.

SO THAT WAS THAT WAS NICE TO SEE. BUT IT'S STILL BUDGET.

SO THERE'S ALWAYS MORE WANTS THAN, THAN WHAT WE'RE ABLE TO DO.

AND IT'S A PROCESS THAT THAT DOCTOR CHAMP WORKS THROUGH AND WITH US, WITH THE CABINET AND THE REST OF THE SCHOOL COMMUNITY.

AND THEN THAT WILL COME FORWARD IN FEBRUARY. TIME PERIOD.

PERIOD. AND THEN AGAIN, YOU KNOW, IN THE BUDGET IS DISCUSSED PLENTY IN THE FEBRUARY MARCH TIME FRAME FOR THE MAY VOTE, WHICH IS WHICH IS WHAT, WHAT WE'RE GOING TO DO EVERY YEAR.

AND WE'LL HAVE PLENTY OF INFORMATION AND WE'LL BE MEETING WITH THE FINANCE COMMITTEE OVER THAT TIME PERIOD.

ALSO, WE'RE SCHEDULING THE WE WERE VERY FORTUNATE.

WE FORTUNATE. WE HAVE ASSEMBLYWOMAN AMY PAULIN, WHO WORKS VERY COLLABORATIVELY WITH THE DISTRICTS THAT FALL UNDER HER DISTRICT, AND SHE'S ALREADY REACHED OUT TO MEET WITH THE HEADS OF THE BUSINESS OFFICIALS AND THE SUPERINTENDENTS OF THE OF THE SCHOOL DISTRICTS WITHIN HER DISTRICT TO TALK ABOUT WHAT TYPES OF THINGS WOULD BE HELPFUL TO SCHOOL DISTRICTS IN THE FINAL STATE BUDGET AND VERY IMPRESSIVE.

ASSEMBLYWOMAN PAULIN KNOWS THE NUMBERS. PEOPLE LISTEN TO HER, AND SHE HAS A VERY GOOD SENSE OF WHAT'S GOING TO WORK.

AND MY OBSERVATION, OBVIOUSLY, IS THAT SHE'S GOT A VERY GOOD SENSE OF WHAT'S GOING TO WORK AT THE STATE LEVEL.

SO WE'RE GOING TO WE'RE GOING TO KIND OF PUSH ON ALL OF THOSE DIFFERENT AREAS WITH, WITH OUR ELECTED PEOPLE.

OUR STATE SENATORS. AND THIS IS JUST THE PROCESS WE GO THROUGH EVERY YEAR.

THIS IS JUST THE BEGINNING OF THAT PROCESS. I WANT TO JUST SAY A QUICK THANK YOU TO OUR CUSTODIANS ON MONDAY.

IT WAS VERY COLD AND THERE WAS SOME SNOW WHEN THEY CAME IN AND THEY GOT EVERYTHING READY.

SO AGAIN, IT WAS A DAY OFF. IT'S ALWAYS INTERESTING.

SNOW SEEMS TO FIND ITS WAY TO COME DOWN ON THE WEEKENDS AND ON THE DAYS OFF IF WE.

IT ALWAYS SEEMS TO FALL THAT WAY, BUT CERTAINLY THANK THEM FOR THEIR FOR THEIR WORK.

THEY GOT THEY GOT THE BUILDINGS READY FOR TUESDAY.

BUT ALSO WE HAD THINGS HAPPENING ON MONDAY. I CERTAINLY I MENTIONED THE WORK OF OUR POLICE DEPARTMENTS ON MONDAY, BUT OUR SPORTS TEAMS WERE IN THE SCHOOLS AND OUR FACILITIES ARE CONSTANTLY USED AS WE CAN HEAR THE BASKETBALL SHOTS HITTING THE RIM DOWNSTAIRS.

WE KNOW, YOU KNOW, THERE'S GREAT UTILIZATION OF OUR BUILDINGS AND WE THANK OUR TEAM FOR TAKING CARE OF THAT.

ON TONIGHT'S AGENDA, YOU'LL SEE, AS THE GREAT YOGI BERRA WOULD SAY, IT SEEMS LIKE DEJA VU ALL OVER AGAIN.

THERE'S ONE ITEM TALKED ABOUT 611 GRANTS. THIS IS SOMETHING THAT THE BOARD APPROVED BACK IN AUGUST FOR, FOR ITEMS FOR FISCAL YEAR 20 2324. WE WERE WE WERE LATE LAST YEAR AND WE I THINK I SHARED THAT WITH THE BOARD AT THE AUGUST MEETING. WE'RE ON TIME THIS YEAR. AND THAT'S WHY YOU'RE SEEING IT TWICE IN ONE YEAR.

USUALLY WE ONLY ASK YOU TO APPROVE THESE GRANTS ONCE A YEAR.

THESE ARE PASSED THROUGH FEDERAL GRANTS ENTITLED TO FOLLOW OUR STUDENTS THAT ATTEND DIFFERENT SCHOOLS.

PELHAM STUDENTS THAT ATTEND SCHOOLS OUTSIDE OF OUTSIDE OF PELHAM.

AND THIS IS THE PASTOR OF THOSE FUNDS. AND THE REQUEST FOR THE BOARD TO MAKE THAT APPROVAL.

OTHER, OTHER MINOR THINGS. WE HAVE AN INCREASE IN MILEAGE REIMBURSEMENT, WHICH WE DO.

ONCE THAT'S UPDATED BY THE BY THE FED, AND WE DO HAVE A TRANSFER OF FUNDS FOR TO COVER SOME STUDENT NEED AND TO COVER AN ADVERTISEMENT FOR THE NEW YORK

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THANK YOU. THANK SO WITH THAT, YOU WANT TO TRANSITION INTO A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT FACILITIES.

[5.7 Facilities Discussion]

OBVIOUSLY WE DID NOT HAVE THE ARCHITECTS HERE TONIGHT.

BUT WE ARE. THEY WILL ARE PLANNING TO BE IN ATTENDANCE AT NEXT WEEK'S MEETING.

WE ARE ADDING A WORK SESSION NEXT WEEK RIGHT HERE AT 7:00.

SPECIFICALLY FOR THE PURPOSE OF AN UPDATE ON FACILITIES FROM THE ARCHITECTS.

SO SINCE THEY DID NOT HAVE UPDATED RENDERINGS, WE'VE BEEN PROVIDING A LOT OF FEEDBACK TO THEM. THEY WANT TO COME BACK WITH UPDATED RENDERINGS. SO THAT'S WHAT WE TOLD THEM. LET'S WAIT UNTIL WE HAVE THAT REALLY READY TO GO.

SO WE'LL BE TALKING MORE ABOUT THAT SPECIFICALLY NEXT WEEK.

BUT WE DO HAVE SEVERAL ITEMS RELATED TO THE FACILITIES PROJECTS THAT I DID WANT TO RAISE TO US TONIGHT.

IN THE PACKETS THAT WE GAVE YOU A COUPLE OF THINGS. FIRST OFF, I THINK YOU SHOULD HAVE A BOND ENGAGEMENT PLAN.

YES. IF WE CAN MAYBE START WITH THAT. I JUST WANTED TO RUN THROUGH THIS AGAIN WITH THE BOARD.

AND ALSO, WE'RE GOING TO BE SHARING A LOT OF THIS WITH THE COMMUNITY, AS YOU SAW TODAY. WE DID LAUNCH SOME ADVERTISING ABOUT A COUPLE INFO SESSIONS THAT ARE COMING UP. SO I JUST WANT TO TALK THROUGH A COUPLE ITEMS WITH YOU IN GENERAL.

WE'RE GOING TO OBVIOUSLY BE SHARING USING OUR BOARD MEETINGS AND THEN THE FOLLOWING WRAP UP SESSIONS TO COMMUNICATE ONGOING CONVERSATIONS TO THE COMMUNITY ABOUT THE WORK ON PROPOSED BOND PROJECTS, HOLDING COMMUNITY EVENTS.

WE'VE GOT THREE COMING UP VERY SOON, ONE AT THE HIGH SCHOOL, ONE VIRTUAL AND ONE AT SIWANOY SO THAT WE CAN START TO EDUCATE THE COMMUNITY MORE THOROUGHLY ON WHERE WE ARE WITH THE DISCUSSIONS.

EVEN THOUGH FINAL DECISIONS HAVE NOT YET BEEN MADE, IT'S AN OPPORTUNITY TO GET FEEDBACK FROM THE COMMUNITY ON WHAT THEY VALUE, CONCERNS, QUESTIONS, THINGS THAT NEED CLARIFICATION.

SO WE'RE LOOKING FORWARD TO THAT. THE ARCHITECTS WILL BE AT EACH OF THOSE INFO SESSIONS.

I WILL BE THERE. JIM WILL BE THERE AS WELL. SO AND MR. JOHNSON IS GOING TO BE AT THE SIWANOY EVENT. SO WE'RE HOPING TO PROVIDE MORE INFORMATION AND GET SOME REFINEMENT OF THINKING AROUND THOSE.

AND WE DO EVENTUALLY PLAN TO SEND A WINTER FOCUS TO THE BROADER COMMUNITY WITH MORE INFORMATION AS WE GO FORWARD.

THOSE INFO SESSIONS I WAS TALKING ABOUT THE FIRST WEEK IN FEBRUARY.

SO ON MONDAY, THE THIRD WILL BE AT THE HIGH SCHOOL AT 7:00 IN THE CAFETERIA C.

AND THEN WE'LL DO A VIRTUAL ONE. THE LINK WILL BE FORWARDED VIA EMAIL 7:00 AND THEN THAT'S THE FIFTH.

AND THEN ON THE SIXTH WILL BE AT SIWANOY. AND WITH THAT ONE, WE WE'RE DOING WHAT WE DID BACK IN THE PRIOR BOND WORK WHERE WE RECOGNIZED THAT NOT ALL THE NEIGHBORS WHO WILL BE MOST DIRECTLY IMPACTED BY THESE CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS, ESPECIALLY THINKING OF SIWANOY NOT ALL OF THEM ARE SCHOOL PARENTS THAT ARE CONNECTED TO OUR SCHOOL EMAIL. SO WE'VE IDENTIFIED THE RADIUS AROUND THE BUILDING AND WE WILL BE HARD MAILING INVITATIONS TO THOSE NEIGHBORS.

SO FOR ANY OF OUR INFO SESSIONS ABOUT SIWANOY SPECIFICALLY, AND THEN AS WE AS WE GET FURTHER INTO PROJECTS, YOU KNOW, AND CONSTRUCTION, WE WILL WE USE THAT STRATEGY WITH HUTCHINSON.

WE FOUND IT VERY EFFECTIVE FOR THE IMMEDIATE NEIGHBORS WHO ARE MOST IMPACTED BY ANY OF THESE DECISIONS? SO AS FAR AS BOARD MEETING UPDATES, I JUST WANTED TO HIGHLIGHT A COUPLE OF THESE TONIGHT. OBVIOUSLY, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT SOME THINGS AS PART OF THIS DISCUSSION NEXT WEEK, WE'RE GOING TO HAVE A WORK SESSION ADDED TO THE CALENDAR FOR THIS PURPOSE.

THE 26TH IS A PRIOR SCHEDULED BOARD MEETING. SO WE'LL BRING YOU UPDATES FROM ANY OF THOSE SESSIONS THAT WE'VE HAD BETWEEN NOW AND FEBRUARY 26TH. I'VE ASKED THE BOARD TO CONSIDER A SPECIAL MEETING ON THE THIRD, ANOTHER WORK SESSION FOR US TO, WITH A GOAL OF COMING UP WITH A DRAFT SCOPE AT THAT POINT.

SO THAT REALLY IS DECISION MAKING. WHAT DO WE WANT TO THEN PUT FORWARD TO THE COMMUNITY? AND AT THAT POINT, I WILL LIKELY PLAN ANOTHER ROUND OF, YOU KNOW, GOING OUT TO THE PTA.

BUT REALLY IMPORTANT EVENT THAT WE PLAN FOLLOWING THAT AS A WORLD CAFE.

IT'S A MODEL THAT WE'VE USED THE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS TO GET SOME IMPORTANT CONVERSATIONAL, QUALITATIVE FEEDBACK FROM THE COMMUNITY. SO WE WOULD SET THAT UP FOR MARCH 11TH, AND THAT WOULD BE I WOULD LEAD THAT FACILITY.

AGAIN, WE COULD HAVE THE ARCHITECTS THERE. WE WOULD BE THERE TO HELP FACILITATE CONVERSATION.

AND THE GOAL WOULD BE TO GET FEEDBACK ON THE DRAFT SCOPE TO HELP THE BOARD REFINE THAT.

WITHIN THIS WE'LL ALSO BE LAUNCHING A SURVEY TO THE COMMUNITY TO HELP ASSESS WHERE THEIR PRIORITIES ARE AND WHAT PROJECTS SEEM MOST IMPORTANT TO RESONATE WITH THE COMMUNITY.

WE HAVE A REGULAR BOARD MEETING SCHEDULED FOR THE 12TH.

ONE CHANGE FROM WHAT I COMMUNICATED TO THE BOARD OVER THE WEEKEND.

AND WE'RE GOING TO BE VERIFYING THIS TOMORROW.

VALERIE, OUR DISTRICT CLERK, HAS BEEN WORKING WITH THE BUSINESS OFFICE AND WITH OUR DISTRICT OR OUR COUNCIL ON WHAT IS WHAT ARE THE DATES FOR LEGAL NOTIFICATION OF ANYTHING

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THERE WILL BE NO BOARD ELECTIONS. WE'RE ALSO HOPING TO, IF WE CAN STAY ON TRACK AND IF WE FEEL THE COMMUNITY IS SUFFICIENTLY EDUCATED AND WE'RE AT A DECISION MAKING POINT. WE'RE ALSO HOPING TO PUT FORWARD THIS BOND VOTE ON THE MAY AT THE MAY BUDGET VOTE.

BUT THERE ARE REGULATORY TIMELINES FOR LEGAL NOTIFICATION.

SO WE'RE MEETING TOMORROW WITH THE ATTORNEYS, WITH VALERIE AND ALISON FROM JIM'S OFFICE AND JIM AND I AND ALEX TO REALLY BACKTRACK TO THOSE DEADLINES AND SEE CAN IS IT REALISTIC FOR US TO MEET THOSE DEADLINES WITH OUR CURRENT PLAN TO APPROVE THOSE ON MARCH 26TH? THERE IS LITERALLY NO ROOM FOR ERROR, AND WE'RE NOT FEELING SUPER COMFORTABLE ABOUT THAT.

SO WE'RE GOING TO TALK TOMORROW TO SEE IF WE CAN AT LEAST BUY OURSELVES AN ADDITIONAL WEEK TO HAVE MORE TIME TO MAKE SURE THAT THOSE REGULATORY PIECES CAN BE MADE. SO WE MAY BE THEN ASKING, WE'RE LIKELY TO BE ASKING THE BOARD TO COME BACK AND ADD IN A SPECIAL MEETING ON THE 19TH OF MARCH. SO I'M SORRY. THAT'S I DIDN'T MEAN TO SURPRISE YOU ON THAT ONE, BUT THIS LITERALLY JUST CAME TOGETHER THIS AFTERNOON.

OKAY. IF THAT DATE DOESN'T WORK, WE CAN LOOK AT SOMETHING ELSE. BUT THAT'S WHAT WE'RE GOING TO VERIFY TOMORROW WITH THEM IS WHAT IS WHAT IS THE DROP DEAD DATE.

AND THEN HOW DO WE MAKE SURE THAT WE GIVE OURSELVES A LITTLE BIT OF FLEXIBILITY? BECAUSE SOME OF THIS HAS TO BE DESIGNED. IT HAS TO BE PROOFREAD BY LEGAL BY BOND COUNSEL.

WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO HAVE IT TRANSLATED AND GET IT JUST AND GET IT TO WHATEVER THE BOARD APPROVED.

THERE'S JUST A LOT, A LOT OF PIECES OF THE PUZZLE.

SO WE'RE TRYING TO BUY OURSELVES A LITTLE BIT OF TIME SO WE CAN, YOU CAN LET ME KNOW IF THAT DATE WILL WORK.

WE ORIGINALLY WERE LOOKING AT THE 26TH, BUT WE'RE AGAIN TRYING TO GAIN THAT.

SO I THINK THOSE ARE THE BOARD MEETING MILESTONES THAT WE HAVE COMING UP. IN ADDITION, WE'RE, I'VE SET UP A MEETING WITH THE SIWANOY FACULTY, STAFF AND FACULTY TO GET A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF THEIR BUILDING, GIVEN THAT'S ONE OF THE BIGGEST PROJECTS THAT WE'RE CONTEMPLATING.

I'LL BE ATTENDING A FACULTY MEETING FOR MIDDLE SCHOOL, HIGH SCHOOL ON THE 12TH TO TALK TO THEIR FACULTY, BRING THEM UP TO SPEED AND TO HEAR FROM THEM.

AND RIGHT NOW, STILL JUST SETTING UP A MEETING WITH THE ARCHITECT TO MEET AGAIN WITH OUR SECONDARY ADMINISTRATIVE TEAM TO BETTER UNDERSTAND THE NEEDS AROUND SCIENCE LABS, CLASSROOM SPACES, BUILDING UTILIZATION. AND OF COURSE, WE WANT TO GET SOME STUDENT INPUT IN THERE AS WELL.

SO SETTING THOSE THINGS UP. SO MY QUESTION TO YOU, I GUESS REALLY IS IS THE 19TH VIABLE FOR A MEETING? CAN WE AT LEAST GET A QUORUM OF THE BOARD THERE? AND THEN ALSO, ARE THERE ANY OTHER PIECES OR QUESTIONS YOU HAVE THOUGHTS ABOUT AN ENGAGEMENT PROCESS? AND WE HAVE, OF COURSE, A COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AND ADVOCACY COMMITTEE ON FRIDAY WITH OUR COMMITTEE.

BUT I JUST WANT TO SEE IF THERE'S ANY OTHER THOUGHTS FROM THE BOARD ABOUT THINGS YOU'D LIKE TO SEE MISSING PIECES.

SO IN SUMMARY, THREE SESSIONS WITH THE ARCHITECT.

SO IN SUMMARY, FOR PEOPLE WHO WANT TO HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO EXPRESS THEMSELVES OR ASK QUESTIONS, THERE'S FEBRUARY 3RD, FIFTH AND SIXTH INFO SESSIONS WITH THE ARCHITECT.

AND THEN THERE'S ONE, TWO, THREE, FOUR, FIVE, SIX ISH.

BOND, SORRY, BOARD MEETINGS AND OR SORRY, THAT INCLUDES A WORLD CAFE EVENT.

YEAH. AND A SURVEY. AND A SURVEY. AND A SURVEY.

SO THERE'S A THERE'S. YEAH, THERE'S A LOT HERE. IT'S ON THE PIECE OF PAPER THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT. HOPEFULLY ALEX CAN PUT A BIT OF GRAPHICAL DESIGN LOVE ON THIS AND PUBLISH THIS WENT OUT TODAY WITH THE GRAPHICAL DESIGN. SO I THINK YOU'RE GOING TO PACE OUT.

OKAY. ALL THOSE OTHER PIECES AS A REMINDERS. OKAY.

WE WANTED TO REALLY PUSH OUT THE INFO SESSIONS IN PARTICULAR AS WE WANTED TO HIGHLIGHT.

I JUST I JUST WANT, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE TO BE REASSURED THAT THEY THERE ARE A NUMBER OF OPPORTUNITIES TO EXPRESS OPPORTUNITIES BASED ON SCHEDULE.

AND SO, YEAH. WHEN THE HUTCHINSON BOND WAS THE FOCUS, I KNOW THAT THERE WERE A LOT OF THERE WAS A TOUR. I WOULD ALMOST SAY THAT YOU WENT ON.

YES. YEAH. OR AND MANY OTHERS. SO I KNOW IN THESE SITUATIONS, THIS IS THE COMMUNITY WOULD BE ATTENDING THINGS THAT WE'RE PUTTING OUT THERE, AND CERTAINLY THERE'S QUITE A BIT. I THINK YOU MENTIONED VISITING THE PTAS AND TALKING TO THE PTAS.

ARE THERE OTHER GROUPS THAT WE MAY WANT TO CONSIDER PRESENTING TO? WE BEING YOU PRESENTING TO? SO, YEAH, AND I THINK THERE'S DIFFERENT PHASES OF THIS ENGAGEMENT.

AND ONE THING I SHOULD ADD WITH THE SIWANOY EVENT ON FEBRUARY 6TH, THERE IS A BUILDING TOUR PLANNED FOR 6:30.

OKAY. SO ANYONE WHO WANTS TO SEE AND WALK THE BUILDING AND SEE FOR THEMSELVES WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT, COME AT 6:30, MR. JOHNSON AND I WILL GUIDE TOURS THROUGH THE BUILDING, AND THEN WE'LL HAVE THE INFO SESSION AT SEVEN.

SO THAT'S TO KIND OF GET AT THAT. A LOT OF THAT LEVEL OF ENGAGEMENT COMES WHEN WE'RE A LITTLE FURTHER IN THE PROCESS.

OKAY. KIND OF LIKE WHEN YOU'RE BRINGING THE BUDGET AROUND TO INFORMING, YOU'RE INFORMING THE COMMUNITY.

ONCE WE KNOW MORE WHERE THE SCOPE IS AND WHAT WE'RE DOING, THAT'S WHEN WE'LL.

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NO, I WAS JUST GOING TO SAY. AND WE. I'M ASSUMING WE HAVE THAT LIST FROM BEFORE WHERE WE CAN ALMOST SORT OF INSTEAD OF REINVENTING THE WHEEL, REVIEW IT, LOOK AT IT, KIND OF ENGAGE AND THINK LIKE, ARE WE MISSING ANYBODY THIS YEAR? YOU KNOW, LIKE THIS TIME AROUND? YES. RIGHT. WILL GO AHEAD.

RANDOM IDEA. I'VE, I'VE ALWAYS FOUND, LIKE, SEEING THESE BUILDINGS IN PERSON, OBVIOUSLY INCREDIBLY INFORMATIVE AND VALUABLE FOR FORMING AN OPINION.

AND THE WORLD CAFE, CAFETERIA. SEE WHICH ONE'S CAFETERIA SEE IN THIS BUILDING.

WOULD IT BE WORTH HOLDING THAT IN SIWANOY? IN THE GYM? COULD YOU DO THAT? OUR FEBRUARY 6TH SESSION IS AT SIWANOY IN THE GYM.

WE WERE TRYING TO KIND OF I GUESS WE COULD. I DON'T KNOW IF IT'S AS BIG AS CAFETERIA C, I DON'T KNOW.

YEAH I'D HAVE TO LOOK AT IT. IT COULD BE CONSIDERED.

YEAH. JUST NOT. YEAH. AND YOU. BECAUSE YOU COULD POTENTIALLY INCLUDE A TOUR PRIOR TO THAT.

IF THE WORLD CAFE IS AT 7 P.M., YOU COULD DO A TOUR OR A WALK AROUND AT 6:30 TO 7.

RIGHT, RIGHT, RIGHT. OKAY. SO. WELL, YEAH, I WAS THINKING THE SAME THING, LIKE A LOT OF THINGS WE SAY PEOPLE DON'T NECESSARILY SEE THE IMPACT UNTIL THEY GO THROUGH AND SEE THE CLASSROOM SIZES OR, YOU KNOW, TAKE A LOOK AT THE BOILERS, THE WINDOWS KIND OF GET A FEEL WHAT IT'S LIKE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE KINDERGARTEN CLASSROOM.

RIGHT. AND I KNOW IT WAS GREAT. IT WAS GREAT WHEN THE AT THE HUTCHINSON BOND WHEN PEOPLE ACTUALLY WENT THERE.

AND SO THE SCHOOL SO I DO THINK KIND OF HAVING SOMEONE SEE THE FACILITIES AND BE INSIDE THEM.

YEAH. IT'S A DIFFERENT STORY THAN US JUST SPEAKING ABOUT IT.

YEAH. ALONG THE IDEA OF RANDOM OR CRAZY IDEAS.

WITHIN THAT, DO WE HAVE THE CAPABILITY OF DOING SOME TYPE OF LIKE THIS, LIKE A VIRTUAL TOUR OR A RECORDING OF THE TOUR FOR FOLKS THAT DON'T HAVE ACCESS OR THEY CAN'T, THEY JUST CAN'T MAKE IT. THERE'S ONE VIRTUAL OPTION HERE ON THE FIFTH TO, I THINK, TO PARTICIPATE, BUT I WONDER IF THERE'S OTHER YEAH.

SO, IF THAT'S EACH OF THOSE SESSIONS, WE WILL BE STREAMING AND RECORDING FOR EACH OF THOSE THREE SESSIONS.

THERE'S NO ENGAGE LIKE RIGHT. PEOPLE CAN'T RAISE.

CAN THEY RAISE THEIR HAND OR ASK? NO. THAT'S WHAT IT'S LIKE FOR THE VIRTUAL ONE ON THE FIFTH.

THAT'LL BE INTERACTIVE. SO I GUESS MY QUESTION IS, IS THERE JUST ONE MORE BECAUSE THAT'S ONE LIMITED.

SO IS THERE ANOTHER POTENTIAL OPTION TO CREATE OR ADD A VIRTUAL COMPONENT FOR FOLKS THAT HAVE A HARDER TIME PHYSICALLY GETTING TO SEE WHAT DATES ARE AVAILABLE? OKAY.

I THINK IT'S TOO, I THINK IT'S LOGISTICALLY TOO CHALLENGING TO TRY TO TIE THAT INTO THE TWO IN-PERSON EVENTS.

YEAH. IT'S JUST YEAH. NO, I UNDERSTAND THAT. OKAY, BUT WE CAN ALSO TAKE A LOOK AT THE CALENDAR AND SEE IF THERE'S ADDITIONAL DATES AVAILABLE, BECAUSE PART OF THIS WAS TRYING TO GET AS MUCH OPPORTUNITY FOR SOME OF THE FEEDBACK IN BEFORE WE GOT TO THE INITIAL DECISION POINTS.

AND I THINK THAT WE'RE TRYING TO ALSO BALANCE WITH ALL THE OTHER EVENTS GOING ON AT THE SCHOOLS.

YEAH. HOW TO KEYHOLE INTO THE SPACE THAT'S LEFT.

OR WE CAN TAKE A LOOK AND SEE IF THERE'S AN OPPORTUNITY FOR SECOND. JUST A THOUGHT. YEAH. JUST ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE DID AT LAST TIME, TOO, WHICH AGAIN, WE DEFINITELY WOULD THINK ABOUT DOING FURTHER DOWN THE PROCESS IS A VIDEO TOUR OF LIKE A VIDEO TOUR OF SIWANOY THAT WE COULD JUST POST, RIGHT? YEAH, I WAS JUST GOING TO SAY THAT. YEAH.

SO THAT'S WHAT I WAS. YEAH, THAT WAS MY OTHER I.

YEAH, OBVIOUSLY SIWANOY IS THE BIGGEST PROPOSED PROJECT, BUT ARE THERE OTHER THINGS WORTHWHILE FOR PEOPLE TO SEE AND TOUR THE SCIENCE LABS OR. YEAH. YOU KNOW I'M SURE.

YEAH. YES. OKAY. YEAH. IT CAN ALL BE DONE. IT JUST TAKES TIME FOR THE BOARD.

ARE WE COULD WE AGREE? DOES THE 19 WORK? I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE WE PUT THIS ON THE BOOKS.

IF IT WORKS, IF IT DOESN'T WORK, JUST RAISE YOUR HAND IF IT WORKS FOR YEAH, THAT WOULD BE HELPFUL IF WE GET AT LEAST A QUORUM.

ONE. TWO THREE. OKAY, LET ME CHECK HIS CALENDAR.

CHECKING THE CALENDAR. YEP. TWO SECONDS, TWO SECONDS.

THIS IS NOT A VOTE. THIS IS JUST AN INDICATION OF YOUR AVAILABILITY.

YEAH, YEAH. THUMBS UP. AND WE HAVE A BOARD COFFEE THAT MORNING.

ARE YOU THINKING 7:00? YEAH. YEAH, WE COULD DO A 7:00 WORK SESSION.

YEAH. YOU KNOW, IT MIGHT. THE HOPE WOULD BE THAT BY THAT POINT IN TIME, WE HAVE ENOUGH FEED.

WE'VE DONE A DRAFT SCOPE DECISION, WE'VE GOTTEN FEEDBACK.

WE'VE HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO DISCUSS THE FEEDBACK, TAKE THAT INTO ACCOUNT.

GIVE ANY LAST GUIDANCE TO THE ARCHITECTS. AND THEN NIGHT IDEALLY WOULD JUST BE COMING IN AND VOTING ON THE FINAL SCOPE.

SO IT COULD BE A VERY LIMITED, VERY HOPEFULLY VERY BRIEF MEETING, BUT WE'LL SEE.

OKAY. THANK YOU FOR THE FEEDBACK. AND WE WILL GO AHEAD WITH THE 19TH.

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THANK YOU FOR THANK YOU FOR PUTTING THIS TOGETHER.

YOU'RE WELCOME. THANKS TO ALEX WOLFF. THANKS, ALEX.

JIM. IN THIS COLUMN, YOU DON'T HAVE TO ANSWER NOW, BUT IN THIS SORT OF CALENDAR OF EVENTS AND DISCUSSIONS, DO YOU KNOW, AT WHAT POINT DO YOU THINK WE'LL HAVE SOME INDICATION OF LIKE TAX IMPACT? BECAUSE THE NUMBERS THAT THE ARCHITECTS HAVE PROVIDED ARE JUST LIKE RAW NUMBERS AND THEY DON'T INCLUDE ANY KIND OF FINANCIAL ENGINEERING IN TERMS OF LIKE BONDS ROLLING ON OFF, YOU KNOW, BORROWING, ROLLING OFF, BONDS ROLLING ON.

IT DOESN'T INCLUDE ANY SORT OF ASSUMPTIONS AROUND STATE AID.

AND I THINK IT'S GOING TO BE IMPORTANT AT SOME POINT TO GIVE VISIBILITY INTO.

ALL RIGHT. SO THERE ARE THESE BIG SCARY NUMBERS HERE FOR THESE DIFFERENT OPTIONS.

BUT WHAT DOES THAT ACTUALLY MEAN IN TERMS OF INDIVIDUAL TAX IMPACT. SO WHEN DURING THIS KIND OF ORDER OF OPERATIONS, DO YOU THINK WE'LL BE ABLE TO PROVIDE SOMETHING INDICATIVE, EVEN IF IT'S NOT LIKE, YOU KNOW, TO THE DOLLAR? YEAH, I APPRECIATE THAT BECAUSE I DON'T THINK IT'LL BE DIFFICULT TO GET EXACTLY TO THE DOLLAR.

BUT WHAT WE DO IS WE'LL REACH OUT TO OUR FINANCIAL ADVISOR TO GET A TO GET AN UNDERSTANDING EXACTLY WHAT WE CAN EXPECT, HOW LONG WE COULD BOND FOR CERTAIN THINGS, DEPENDING ON WHAT THE IF IT'S A RENOVATION OR AN ADDITION.

SO OUR TERM AND THEN WE'LL GET AN UNDERSTANDING OF, OF WHAT KIND OF AID WE CAN EXPECT ON A ON DIFFERENT BUILDINGS, SAY SIWANOY WE MAY GET A DIFFERENT LEVEL OF AID VERSUS HERE AT HERE AT THE HIGH SCHOOL, MIDDLE SCHOOL CAMPUS.

AS THE NUMBERS ARE REFINED AND WE SEE THE SEE THE NUMBERS.

THE ARCHITECTS CONTINUES TO REFINE THOSE NUMBERS AND THE PROJECTS BECOME REFINED.

WE'RE GOING TO BE ABLE TO DO THAT. AND I THINK WE'RE GETTING VERY CLOSE TO BEING ABLE TO REACH OUT AND SAY, YOU KNOW, LET'S GET THAT MODEL TOGETHER. LET'S LET'S SPIN IT UP AND SEE WHERE WE ARE. WE HAVE AN IDEA OF WHAT OUR ASSESSMENT LOOKS LIKE.

WE KNOW KIND OF WHAT THE TAX CAP MODEL LOOKS LIKE THIS YEAR.

AND WHAT A, YOU KNOW, WHAT A PERCENT ON THE TAX RATE WOULD BE.

AND I THINK WE'RE GETTING WE'RE GETTING CLOSE TO THAT POINT. WE'RE ABLE TO PROVIDE THAT IN THE NEAR FUTURE. WOULD IT BE FAIR TO SAY THEN THAT BY THE WORLD CAFE, YOU FEEL COMFORTABLE OR CONFIDENT TO SAY THAT WE SHOULD HAVE SOMETHING? I MEAN, THAT'S A FAIR TARGET. ABSOLUTELY. IS THAT.

YEAH, I THINK THAT'S MORE THAN A FAIR TARGET DATE.

AND IN IN ADDITION, I THINK WE NEED TO BE CLEAR ON WHAT THE TIMING LOOKS LIKE.

IT'S NOT THAT WE WOULD GO STAGING A PROJECT. YES.

THE STAGING OF THE HOW YOU KNOW WHEN THE WHEN THE IMPACT OF LIKE YEAH, YEAH.

LIKE IF THE PROJECT DOESN'T START IN TWO YEARS, YOU MIGHT VOTE NOW FOR AN IMPACT IN 3 IN 3 YEARS.

SO I THINK THAT IS ALSO WITHIN THAT. I THINK THAT WILL BE REALLY HELPFUL FOR FOLKS TO KIND OF HAVE AN UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT THE IMPACT IS AND WHEN THAT CAN KIND OF WHEN YOU'RE GOING TO WHEN YOU'RE GOING TO START, IT MIGHT START OUT REALLY SLOW AND THEN RAMP UP IN YEAR FOUR, YOU KNOW, LIKE YOU MEAN FROM A FINANCIAL PERSPECTIVE. YES.

I MEAN, I THINK THAT'S USEFUL FOR PEOPLE TO KNOW. YEAH.

FROM A, YOU KNOW, IF YOU'VE GOT KIDS IN ONE OF THE BUILDINGS, STUDENTS IN ONE OF THE BUILDINGS BEING AFFECTED, YOU'D LIKE TO KNOW, AM I, YOU KNOW, WHAT IS THE DISRUPTION LOOK LIKE FOR MY KIDS? I, YOU KNOW, THIS HAS COME UP. I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE ANSWER IS.

AND SO THE SOONER WE CAN GIVE PEOPLE A SENSE OF TIMING ON THAT. YEAH. I THINK FOR PEOPLE IT MIGHT FEEL LIKE IT'S HAPPENING NOW, BUT I THINK HELPING TO FRAME THAT, TO LIKE THIS IS HAPPENING IN THREE YEARS OR THIS IS, YOU KNOW, AND WE NEED TO MAKE TO MAKE DECISIONS.

I AGREE, I MEAN. AND I THINK THIS IS ONE OF THE CHALLENGES OF THE POINT THAT WE'RE AT.

AS JIM SAID, WE'RE GETTING CLOSE. IT'S ALMOST WE'RE GETTING TO THAT A LITTLE BIT OF A CHICKEN EGG POINT.

YEAH. WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO LIKELY MAKE SOME INITIAL DECISIONS IN ORDER TO GET THE FUNDING ANSWERS AND THEN TO THINK ABOUT THE STAGING OF THAT, BECAUSE AS WE TALKED ABOUT WITH THE BOARD, WE KNOW THAT WE'VE GOT A $10 MILLION DROP OFF OR WE HAVE A DROP OFF IN DEBT THAT GIVES US A $10 MILLION TAX NEUTRAL OPPORTUNITY.

AND THEN A COUPLE OF YEARS LATER, A $55 MILLION TAX NEUTRAL OPPORTUNITY.

THOSE CAN HELP US. THE ABILITY TO KEYHOLE INTO THOSE CAN HELP US TO MITIGATE THE TAX IMPACT.

RIGHT. KNOWING THAT THERE'S GOING TO BE ADDITIVE ON TOP OF THAT.

BUT THEN WE'VE GOT TO WORK WITH THE ARCHITECTS TO FIGURE OUT, OKAY, WHAT IS A 10 MILLION PROJECT STARTING POINT LOOK LIKE? YEAH. AND YOU KNOW, SOME THINGS ARE GOING TO BE FASTER TO FROM VOTE TO IMPLEMENTATION.

MAJOR PROJECTS ARE GOING TO BE MORE DESIGN, LARGER APPROVALS, LONGER TIME FRAME TO KEYHOLE.

SO YEAH ONCE WE GET A LITTLE BIT CLOSER. YOU'RE RIGHT.

WE NEED ALL THOSE ANSWERS BEFORE THE FINAL DEADLINE TO GIVE FOLKS, BECAUSE I KNOW THERE MIGHT BE A LITTLE BIT OF A MOVING TARGET, BUT. ABSOLUTELY. AND DOCTOR CHAMP REALLY TOUCHED ON THAT, I THINK.

I THINK THE BOARD UNDERSTANDS THAT, TOO. AND WE'LL TRY TO AGAIN, PART OF THE PART OF THIS IS ALSO TO SHARE ALL OF THAT INFORMATION WE WANT.

[02:10:03]

YEAH. YEAH. OKAY. TO THAT POINT. SO MOVING INTO THIS CONVERSATION I DID SHARE WITH THE BOARD A GOOGLE DOC FOR YOU TO I DIDN'T GIVE YOU A COPY OF THIS, BUT A GOOGLE DOC FOR YOU TO PUT QUESTIONS ON.

SO I ALREADY STARTED WRITING DOWN SOME OF THESE QUESTIONS AS WE WERE TALKING. AND I THINK THAT WAS PART OF WHAT I WANTED TO DO TONIGHT IS TO START TO REALLY CATALOG THOSE QUESTIONS THAT THE BOARD HAS SO THAT WE CAN GO OUT FROM HERE TONIGHT.

JIM AND I CAN GO OUT AND GIVE THESE TO THE ARCHITECTS, REACH OUT TO BOND COUNCIL, REACH OUT TO RICK YANCEY FROM CMA AND START TO ANSWER, GET WHATEVER INFORMATION WE CAN. IN, ESPECIALLY WITH THE ARCHITECTS COMING NEXT WEEK.

IF THERE'S ANYTHING THAT THEY CAN START TO ANSWER TOWARDS STAGING, TIMING, SCOPE, ETC., THE MORE THEY CAN GIVE US, THE BETTER. SO I'M GOING TO START WE'RE GOING TO WORK ON ADDING TO THIS TONIGHT THROUGH THE DISCUSSION.

BUT YOU HAVE ACCESS IN CASE YOU THINK OF QUESTIONS AFTER THE FACT.

SO THE MORE QUESTIONS WE HAVE IN ADVANCE, THE BETTER PREPARED THEY CAN BE.

SO ANOTHER ITEM THAT I SHARED WITH THE BOARD IN YOUR PACKET WAS AN EMAIL THAT WE JUST GOT TODAY FROM THE ARCHITECT, WHICH WAS AN UPDATE TO THE PRESENTATION FROM JANUARY 8TH.

I PAIRED THAT WITH JUST THE RELEVANT SLIDES FROM THE PRESENTATION.

SO YOU KNOW WHAT THAT WAS IN REFERENCE TO. SO I JUST I WILL, YOU KNOW, SOME READ PORTIONS OF IT JUST TO SHARE WITH FOLKS IN THE, IN THE AUDIENCE AND WITH THE BOARD. SO WE HAD ASKED THE ARCHITECTS TO GO BACK AFTER LAST TIME AND TO START LOOKING, WHAT WERE THOSE AREAS WHERE THERE MIGHT BE DUPLICATION OF COSTS.

SO SHARPEN THE PENCIL AND SEE ANY ANYWHERE THAT THERE WAS DUPLICATION.

SO WE CAN TRY TO GET A MORE REFINED, ACCURATE COST.

SO WHAT THEY WENT BACK THERE IS A TYPO ON HERE.

THEY WENT BACK AND LOOKED AGAIN AT SIWANOY. OPTION B IS THE FIRST ONE AND OPTION C IS THE SECOND ONE.

THAT'S WHERE THE TYPO IS. IT SAYS OPTION B TWICE, BUT IT'S MEANT TO BE OPTION C RIGHT.

SO WE ASKED THEM TO LOOK FURTHER INTO THOSE TWO OPTIONS BECAUSE THEY WERE THE MORE COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTIONS FOR THE BUILDINGS.

SO LOOKING AT OPTION B, WHICH IS BASICALLY KEEPING THE CURRENT FOOTPRINT OF THE BUILDING AND ADDING AN EXPANSION OUT BACK TOWARDS THE PLAYGROUND AREA.

AND THEN THE SECOND PAGE IS THE FOLLOWING PAGES WERE THE COMPARISONS OF THE WHAT THEY HAD ORIGINALLY PRESENTED WITH US AS FAR AS INFRASTRUCTURE WORK, AIR CONDITIONING COSTS AND OVERALL BUILDING COSTS.

SO LOOKING AT OPTION B, THERE WAS NO MAJOR CHANGE IN COSTS FOR WINDOW REPLACEMENTS AS THEY HAD ORIGINALLY PRESENTED NO MAJOR CHANGE IN BOILER REPLACEMENT COSTS, NO MAJOR CHANGE, NO CHANGE IN UPGRADING TO THE HOT WATER HYDRONIC SYSTEM.

NO CHANGE TO THE AIR CONDITIONING COSTS THAT THEY PRESENTED WITH US.

BUT THE AIR CONDITIONING WITH THE DUAL TEMP HYDRONIC.

AND JIM, CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG, IS THAT THE GEOTHERMAL? THAT'S JUST HOT WATER. NO, THAT'S JUST THE ADDITION.

NO CHANGE TO THE COST OF THE EXISTING BUILDING ON AIR CONDITIONING, BUT REPAIRING THE HOT WATER WITH THE AIR CONDITIONING.

WITH THE NEW BUILDING ADDED, THE NEW EXTENSION ADDED WOULD REDUCE THE OVERALL COST BY ABOUT $750,000.

SO THAT'S NEUTRAL. THAT'S IT'S A SMALL GAIN. SORRY I JUMPED IN.

YEAH RIGHT. I LIKE THE BIGGER NUMBERS. YEAH. SO YEAH.

SO GOING THAT OPTION B WAS ORIGINALLY PRICED OUT FOR US AT 28 MILLION.

SO THAT WOULD DROP THAT BY $750,000. SO MINIMAL SAVINGS THERE BECAUSE YOU'RE BASICALLY PRESERVING THE OLD BUILDING ALL THE ALL THE IDENTIFIED INFRASTRUCTURE FROM THE OLD BUILDING STILL HAS TO BE COMPLETED. THE ONLY SAVINGS WILL BE A LITTLE BIT OF GAIN FROM THE HEATING COOLING SYSTEM ON THE EXPANSION.

I'M GOING TO OPTION C, WHICH WAS THE REMOVING OF THE TWO WINGS AND THE LARGER ADDITION.

SO WINDOW REPLACEMENTS THAT WOULD REDUCE THOSE COSTS BY 400,000.

BOILER REPLACEMENTS WOULD BE REDUCED BY 2 MILLION.

UPGRADE TO HYDRONIC HEATING WOULD BE REDUCED BY 500,000.

BECAUSE AGAIN, YOU'RE ONLY DEALING WITH THE CORE OF THE BUILDING NOW, NOT THE WINGS. AIR CONDITIONING OF THE EXISTING BUILDING WOULD BE REDUCED BY 3.6 MILLION, AND THEN AIR CONDITIONING WITH THE DUAL TEMP HYDRONIC.

SO THE AIR CONDITIONING WITH PAIRED WITH THE HYDRONIC UPGRADE WOULD BE ANOTHER FIVE.

ANOTHER HALF MILLION DOLLAR REDUCTION. SO FOR A TOTAL IDENTIFIED SAVINGS OF 7 MILLION FROM WHAT THEY ORIGINALLY PRESENTED WITH US.

SO THAT MEANS THEIR ORIGINAL OPTION C COST. ESTIMATED COST OF 75.5.

I'M SORRY, 35.5 MILLION WOULD BE REDUCED BY 7 MILLION.

AND MORE CLASSROOMS RIGHT. THAT WAS A BIGGER FOOTPRINT.

THAT WAS A BIGGER EXPANSION. ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE ASKED THEM DID WE HAD A REALLY I THOUGHT IT WAS A REALLY GOOD ELEMENTARY, EXCUSE ME, SECONDARY, BOTH ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY, MEANING WE HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO MEET WITH THE ADMINISTRATIVE TEAMS WHO REALLY HADN'T

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EVEN SOME OF IT WAS JUST BASIC LABELING OF LET'S BE SURE THAT WE'RE SHOWING THE FULL ACADEMIC PROGRAM.

WE'RE SHOWING THE LIBRARY, WHERE'S THE ART ROOM, WHERE'S THE MUSIC? LET'S MAKE SURE WE'RE PRESERVING ALL OF THAT PROGRAM IN BOTH MODELS, GET THEM LABELED.

BUT THEN ALSO, YOU KNOW, WE TALKED ABOUT THE ADDITION OF SPECIAL EDUCATION CLASSROOMS. WE CAN'T JUST BE SHOWING ONE. WE NEED TWO IN THERE.

THOSE ROOMS NEED BATHROOMS. YOU KNOW, THE KINDERGARTEN ROOMS, THEY HAD BATHROOMS, THINGS LIKE SECURITY ENTRANCE ON THE SIDE AND THERE WERE SOME THOUGHTS ABOUT THAT. WE GOT INFORMATION, FEEDBACK FROM NEIGHBORS ABOUT THE PARKING AREAS AND SOME CONCERNS AROUND PARKING AREAS.

HOW DO WE HOW CAN WE MINIMIZE THAT AND, YOU KNOW, PRESERVE SOME OF THE CURRENT VISIBILITY OF OR, YOU KNOW, THE CURRENT LOOK OF THE BUILDING? I'M THINKING OF OPTION B CONCERNS ABOUT THE OUTDOOR CLASSROOM AND PRESERVING THAT.

SO WE WENT BACK WITH A LOT OF FEEDBACK. SO THAT'S WHAT WE'RE EXPECTING THEM TO COME BACK WITH NEXT TIME.

WHERE WAS I GOING WITH THAT? AND I THINK OUT OF THAT CAME THE QUESTION ABOUT CLASSROOMS. WE NEED TO MAKE SURE, OKAY. IF WE'VE GOT ART, MUSIC, LIBRARY, SPECIAL EDUCATION, HOW MANY CURRENT CLASSROOMS DO WE HAVE? HOW MANY CLASSROOMS DO WE GAIN IN OPTION B? HOW MANY DO WE OPTION C? WE WANTED A REALLY ACCURATE ACCOUNTING OF THAT.

SO YEAH. SO HOPEFULLY WE'LL GET THAT NEXT TIME.

OH YEAH. WE DON'T HAVE IT NOW BUT THAT SHOULD COME BACK OKAY.

SO WE'RE STILL WORKING ON THAT. WE SHOULD REALLY BE ABLE TO HAVE A VERY CLEAR PICTURE.

AND YES AND THAT'S TUESDAY OF NEXT WEEK. THANK YOU FOR THAT BECAUSE WE'RE NOT HERE ON WEDNESDAY.

SO IT'S A TUESDAY MEETING NEXT WEEK. SO YEAH.

SO YOU'RE TAKING 35.5 MILLION REDUCING 7 MILLION OUT OF THAT.

SO NOW YOU'RE DOWN TO 28,500,000 AS COMPARED TO WITHOUT THE 27 MILLION.

250. IT SEEMS LIKE A NO BRAINER. YEAH. YOU'RE BASICALLY DEALING WITH A NEGLIGIBLE DIFFERENCE IN COST BETWEEN OPTION B AND C.

AND OPTION C GIVES US PROBABLY ONLY PRESERVING THE FRONT ENTRANCE TO THE ORIGINAL BUILDING.

YEAH, IT GIVES US BRAND NEW BUILDING, ALMOST AN ENTIRE ADDITION, WHICH IS WHY WE'RE LIKE THE SYNERGY BETWEEN BUILDING NEW VERSUS REFURBISHING GIVES US THE SAVINGS. YEAH, AND IT WOULD EXPAND BECAUSE I KNOW I THINK OPTION C DOES GIVE US IT [INAUDIBLE] .

YOU KNOW THERE WERE QUESTIONS OF WHERE THEY GO.

CORRECT. BUT IT DOES. WE ACTUALLY GAVE THEM FEEDBACK. WE ASKED THEM TO CONSIDER LOOK AT IT.

YEAH. WE ASKED THEM TO CONSIDER FEEDBACK FROM THE ADMINISTRATORS WHERE TO PUT SOME OF THESE THINGS WITHIN THE WITHIN THE BUILDING DESIGN.

BUT IT WILL GIVE US THAT. SO YEAH, I MEAN, I THINK OF MY BOOK, RIGHT.

I, I WANT SQUARE FOOTAGE. I WANT US TO HAVE MORE BECAUSE WE DO HAVE, YOU KNOW, THE SPECIAL ED WHICH CONSOLIDATED ALL IN ONE BUILDING WOULD BE A GREAT THING TO DO FOR THAT PROGRAM. YEAH. AND PLUS GIVING AN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL A CAFETERIA AND A GYM.

IT'S LIKE A WIN-WIN. I MEAN YEAH YOU KNOW OF COURSE I KNOW IT DOES, CAFETERIA GYM, AND I GUESS AUDITORIUM ALL IN ONE SPACE. IT'S A SMALL PLACE. IT'S JUST ALL THERE.

IT'S JUST. YEAH. IT'S BAD. AND ONE OF THE THINGS WE DID ASK THEM TO REVERSE THE POSITION OF THE GYM AND THE CAFETERIA ON OPTION C, TRYING TO THINK ABOUT NEIGHBOR PERSPECTIVE. YOU KNOW, THE ELEVATION OF THE FRONT OF THE PROPERTY IS LOWER, SO A GYM IS NOT GOING TO FEEL AS HIGH ON THE FRONT AS IT DOES ON THE BACK.

AND THEN IF YOU HAVE THE CAFETERIA ON THE BACK, YOU COULD THEN FLOW LIKE AT HUTCHINSON.

THEY'VE GOT THEY BUILT THE PATIO, YOU HAVE THE CAFETERIA, THEN YOU GO OUT RIGHT FROM THE CAFETERIA, STRAIGHT OUT ONTO THE PLAYGROUND. SO WE ASKED THEM TO DO SOME, SOME RELOOKING AT THAT.

SO WE'RE EXCITED ABOUT SOME OF THE CHANGES. I THINK THAT WE'LL SEE. COMING BACK WHEN WE WERE TALKING ABOUT THE SORT OF WITH THE REDUCTION IN COST KIND OF SEE BECOMES, I DON'T KNOW IF I'M QUOTING YOU EXACTLY, BUT LIKE A NO BRAINER.

I HEAR YOU FROM, FROM MANY ANGLES, BUT I THINK THAT THERE ARE SOME PEOPLE WHO HAVE REAL ATTACHMENT TO THE TO THE WINGS, TO THE EXISTING BUILDING.

AND I FULLY AGREE. AND I HAPPEN TO I DROVE PAST IT THE OTHER DAY.

IT IS BEAUTIFUL. THE MASONRY IS AMAZING. THEY DON'T BUILD THEM LIKE THAT ANYMORE.

AND I'M I JUST THINK EVEN IF, EVEN IF THOSE CONCERNS DON'T WIN THE DAY AND EVEN IF WE DO GO TO OPTION C, I THINK WE NEED TO ACKNOWLEDGE THOSE CONCERNS AND WE SHOULDN'T DISMISS THEM WITH A WAVE OF THE HAND, BECAUSE I THINK THAT PEOPLE DO HAVE EMOTIONAL ATTACHMENTS TO BUILDINGS. YOU SAID

[02:20:04]

YOU KNOW, THE, THE, THE PHYSICAL BUILDINGS MATTER, YOU KNOW, AND WHAT THEY LOOK LIKE.

AND PEOPLE FORM KIND OF BONDS WITH THOSE BY LIVING IN THOSE COMMUNITIES.

SO I THINK WE NEED TO EVEN IF, LIKE I SAY, EVEN IF, WHEN AT THE END OF THE DAY, IN THE FINAL RECKONING, WE DON'T KEEP THE EXISTING BUILDING. I THINK WE NEED TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE CONCERNS OF THOSE PEOPLE WHO FEEL UNCOMFORTABLE WITH LOSING THE EXISTING STRUCTURE.

YEAH. AND LIKE VALIDATE THOSE CONCERNS, BUT ALSO MAYBE SPEND A LITTLE TIME, MAYBE THAT IS AN ACTUAL GROUP WHERE IT'S LIKE JUST ALSO BEING ABLE TO REALLY ENROLL THEM INTO WHAT IS POSSIBLE THOUGH, LIKE DO YOU KNOW, LIKE IN REALLY ENROLLING THEM INTO THIS DECISION IN A, IN MAYBE LIKE A MORE INTENTIONAL WAY WHERE YOU KNOW, THEY'RE A PART THEY'RE, YOU KNOW, ABLE TO BE A PART OF THAT AS WELL.

AND THAT IS A LOT OF THE VALUE OF THE COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT SESSIONS. YEAH.

BECAUSE PEOPLE DO HAVE VERY IMPORTANT PERSPECTIVES TO HEAR.

AND I KNOW, I MEAN, THINKING BACK TO THE HUTCHINSON DAYS THAT HELPED TO INFORM SOME OF WHAT THE OUTSIDE LANDSCAPING LOOKED LIKE.

AND I KNOW WE'RE STILL NOW THAT ONCE SPRING COMES, I THINK WE'RE GOING TO FINALLY COMPLETE LIKE THE POCKET PARK IN THE FRONT, BECAUSE THERE WAS I MEAN, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WAS VERY CONCERNING TO PEOPLE, THERE WAS THERE WAS A LOT OF DIFFERENT MONUMENTS AND MEMORIALS, PLAQUES FOR DIFFERENT PEOPLE THAT WERE VERY IMPORTANT TO THE COMMUNITY.

AND PEOPLE NEEDED TO KNOW THAT, THAT HISTORY WAS UNDERSTANDABLE.

YEAH. NO, I TOTALLY AND I THINK THAT'S WHY THERE ARE SO MANY EFFORTS TO TRY TO DO WHAT IS POSSIBLE AND ALSO ADVANCE THE EXPERIENCE.

AND, AND THAT ACTUALLY REMINDED ME. I'M SORRY TO CUT YOU OFF JUST ONE PIECE. BEFORE I FORGET, THOUGH. WITH THE COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT EVENTS, ESPECIALLY THE ONES IN FEBRUARY, THE MORE AS BOARD MEMBERS THAT YOU CAN BE THERE IN ATTENDANCE JUST TO LISTEN, THAT'S CRITICALLY IMPORTANT.

I THINK THAT COMMUNICATES EXACTLY THIS MESSAGE THAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT WANTING PEOPLE TO BE HEARD, BECAUSE I THINK THAT THE HISTORY OF THAT BUILDING IS GOING TO BE PROBABLY ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT PARTS OF THIS DECISION.

AND DO WE HAVE GOING BACK TO THE ENGAGEMENT PLAN, DO WE HAVE SPECIAL OUTREACH TO THE PEOPLE.

WHO? THE FAMILIES WHO LIVE AROUND. YES. YES. YEAH.

AROUND THE POST BOARD? YEP. HARD MAILING. YEAH.

HARD MAILING. THEY MAY NOT HAVE KIDS IN SCHOOL. YEAH.

YEAH. AND I WONDER, TOO, IF WE CAN JUST SORT OF ZERO IN ON SORT OF THOSE SOME OF ITS DESIGN TO LIKE WHAT THAT WHAT WILL BE PRESERVED IN THE DESIGN, THE LOOK THE FEEL NEW IS NEW.

BUT IT COULD ALSO, YOU KNOW, LIKE WHAT THE ARCHITECTS ARE PLANNING ON DOING TO REALLY PRESERVE THAT.

YOU KNOW, THE ESTHETIC OF IT. I AGREE. AND, AND A GOOD CASE STUDY FOR THAT.

THAT WAS IT. RUSS OR WALTER MENTIONED IT IN THE LAST MEETING.

THE ADDITION TO PROSPECT I THINK, WAS DONE WITH REAL SENSITIVITY AND LIKE IT'S REALLY WELL DONE.

VERY WELL DONE. YOU KNOW. SO. OKAY. ALL RIGHT.

SO GREAT CONVERSATION. AND I THINK REALLY IMPORTANT ISSUE.

SO KEEP THAT IN MIND WHEN WE GET TO THE DECISION ANALYSIS AND A LITTLE BIT JUST A COUPLE MORE UPDATES FROM WALTER.

AS FAR AS PELHAM MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL, THEY WENT BACK AND TOOK A LOOK AT THE AIR CONDITIONING HOT WATER UPGRADES TO SEE IF THERE WAS OVERLAPPING COSTS THERE.

AND THANKFULLY THEY DID FIND SOME. SO THEY'RE FORECASTING A $6 MILLION REDUCTION IN THE COST FOR AIR CONDITIONING SO THAT AT THE HIGH SCHOOL SPECIFICALLY. SO THAT IS THE LAST PAGE. AND WHAT I GAVE YOU.

SO FROM 23-5 DOWN TO WHAT WOULD THAT BE 17-5 TO FULLY AIR CONDITION HIGH SCHOOL MATH, MENTAL MATH ON THE SPOT. DO THEY SAY WHERE THAT SAVINGS WILL GO FROM THE I SEE WHAT THE SAVINGS COULD HAPPEN AT SOURDOUGH.

WHERE WOULD THE SAVINGS COME FROM FOR THE LIKE THE HIGH SCHOOL? I THINK IT WAS JUST OVERLAPPING COSTS. IF THEY VIEWED BY VIEWING HYDRONIC UPGRADES SEPARATE FROM THE INSTALLATION OF AIR CONDITIONING, LISTENING. OKAY. THERE WAS SOME DUPLICATION. OKAY. YEP. SO $6 MILLION WORTH OF DUPLICATION THAT WE THOUGHT THAT WAS.

I MEAN, WE KNEW THAT THERE WAS GOING TO BE SOME CHOOSE ONE VERSUS THE OTHER. BUT IF YOU CHOOSE A C CENTER, YOU HAVE TO DO THE HYDRONIC. YEAH, YOU HAVE TO DO THE HYDRONIC TO, TO REALLY BE POSITIONED FOR, FOR AC, FOR THE AC. SO YEAH, THE HYDRONIC COST WOULD REMAIN THE SAME IF YOU ONLY DID THE HYDRONIC.

BUT IF YOU'RE ADDING THE AC ON TOP OF IT THEN THAT COMBINED TOTAL COULD REDUCE ALL THE PIPES 6 MILLION LAID IN.

YEAH. YEAH I'M SURE THAT'S WHERE IT COMES FROM.

WE'RE STILL I KNOW THAT WE WERE STILL LOOKING FOR MORE INFORMATION ON GRANT POTENTIAL FOR CONSIDERATION OF GEOTHERMAL UPGRADES. SO I THINK THAT'S A QUESTION THAT WE CAN ADD TO THE SHEET.

[02:25:02]

YES. SO BASICALLY THAT WAS BECAUSE OF THE CURRENT SYSTEMS IN THE MIDDLE SCHOOL.

THE CURRENT SYSTEMS DON'T LEND THEMSELVES FOR CONVERSION, AND THE INTEGRATION OF GEOTHERMAL WOULD BE COMPLICATED AND COSTLY.

WAS THERE ASSESSMENT OF THAT QUESTION? RIGHT.

YEAH. I THINK THAT, YEAH, THOSE WERE BASICALLY THE UPDATES ACROSS FROM LAST TIME.

GOOD UPDATES. YEAH. THE NUMBERS MOVED IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION FOR SURE.

YEAH. SO WITH THAT, YOU KNOW, THE KNOW, THE OTHER PIECE OF WHAT I HAD HOPED TONIGHT IS FOR US TO SPEND A LITTLE BIT OF TIME. I KNOW IT IS GETTING LATE, BUT THIS DECISION ANALYSIS PROCESS. AND I THINK YOU CAN KIND OF SEE, EVEN AS WE'RE TALKING THROUGH SOME OF THESE PROCESSES, SOME THINGS MAY JUST KIND OF BE DROPPING OFF THE PLATE AS PRIORITIES SURFACE.

BUT THIS WAS THE LAST OF THE HANDOUTS. AND I DID PUNCH HOLES IN CASE YOU WANT TO PUT THEM IN YOUR BINDER. YOU BROUGHT MY BINDER TONIGHT.

BUT WITH THIS, THE WAY THIS PROCESS WORKS AND I KNOW AND OUR BOARD RETREAT, WE TALKED ABOUT THIS IS A DECISION MAKING PROCESS JUST TO HELP DEFINE WHAT ARE THE CRITERIA BY WHICH WE'RE GOING TO MAKE THIS DECISION, SO THAT WE GET CLEAR ON THOSE.

AND THEN WE DON'T GET INTO EMOTIONAL DEBATES AND THINGS, BUT WE REALLY TRY TO STICK WITH THE FACTS, STICK WITH CLEAR CRITERIA. SOME THINGS ARE GOING TO BE VERY OBJECTIVE.

YES. NO, IT IS OR IT ISN'T. IT HAS IT OR IT DOESN'T.

SO ONE EXAMPLE. SO LOOKING AT THE SHEET THAT WE'VE DEVELOPED AND THESE ARE JUST MY SUGGESTED DRAFT PRIORITIES, BOARD CAN ABSOLUTELY CHANGE ADD, DELETE HOWEVER YOU WANT TO GO.

BUT ANY CRITERIA ANY PROJECT THAT PROJECT THAT WE LOOK ON, LOOK AT ONE CRITERIA AS A MUST NEEDS TO MEET OR EXCEED ACCESSIBILITY REQUIREMENTS.

SO SOMETHING LIKE AIR CONDITIONING I MEAN THAT'S PROBABLY AN IRRELEVANT CRITERIA BECAUSE AIR CONDITIONING IS AIR CONDITIONING.

IT'S NOT GOING TO CHANGE THE ADA ACCESSIBILITY OF OUR BUILDINGS.

BUT SOMETHING LIKE ANY WORK AT SIWANOY, WE'RE NOT GOING TO DO A PROJECT THERE.

I'M MAKING SOME ASSUMPTIONS, BUT YES OR NO, WE'RE NOT GOING TO DO A PROJECT THERE THAT DOES NOT ADDRESS THE ACCESSIBILITY ISSUES.

SO IF WE IF WE WERE CONSIDERING AN OPTION THAT HAD THAT DIDN'T DO THAT, THAT WOULD BE A NO.

SO THAT OPTION WOULD BE OFF THE TABLE BECAUSE IT'S NOT MEETING OUR CRITERIA.

SOMETHING LIKE I'M TRYING TO GIVE YOU SOME EXAMPLES OF WHERE THERE'S LIKE SOME BLACK AND WHITE, BUT OTHER AREAS WHERE THERE MIGHT BE SOME JUDGMENT CALLS.

SO I'LL USE A LOWER ONE. AND THIS IS PART OF THE PROCESS IS ALSO DEFINING TO DEFINING TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE UNDERSTANDING THE CRITERIA SIMILARLY.

SO PROVIDING SUITABLE PROGRAMMATIC SPACE FOR CURRENT PROGRAMS AND ENSURES FLEXIBILITY.

FOR PROGRAM NEEDS AND GROWTH. THERE'S A LOT THERE THAT'S NOT A HARD AND FAST THING.

THAT'S KIND OF WHAT DO WE HAVE NOW? WHAT DOES THE SPACE THAT WE'RE CONSIDERING LET'S, FOR THE SAKE OF ARGUMENT, USE OPTION B, OPTION C FOR SIWANOY. DOES IT PROVIDE SUITABLE PROGRAM SPACE FOR CURRENT PROGRAMING AND DOES IT ENSURE FLEXIBILITY IN THE FUTURE? SO WE'D HAVE TO LOOK AT WHICH WHAT ARE THE CLASSROOM SPACES? WHAT ARE THE SMALL GROUP INSTRUCTION SPACES? WHAT IS THIS GOING TO GIVE US FROM A SPACE PERSPECTIVE.

AND THEN WHICH OF THESE TWO OPTIONS MIGHT BE MIGHT BETTER FIT THAT CRITERIA.

AND THEN YOU WEIGH ONE AGAINST THE OTHER. SO IT COULD BE THAT OPTION C MIGHT GIVE US MORE SPACE MORE FLEXIBILITY THAN MAINTAINING OPTION B.

THE CURRENT FOOTPRINT WITH AN EXPANSION. DOESN'T MEAN B IS OUT AND C IS IN, BUT WHAT IT MEANS BASED ON THAT CRITERIA.

ONE OF THOSE OPTIONS IS BETTER THAN THE OTHER.

SO WHAT YOU'RE DOING IS YOU'RE WEIGHING THE OPTIONS AGAINST EACH OTHER IS ONE PART OF THE PROCESS.

AND THEN THE OTHER PART OF THE PROCESS IS THE WEIGHTED CATEGORY.

NOT ALL CRITERIA ARE PROBABLY THE SAME WEIGHT OR VALUE IN A DECISION.

THAT'S WHERE AGAIN, WE ALSO KIND OF AS A BOARD, THE IDEA WOULD BE TO COME TO CONSENSUS AROUND WHICH THINGS ARE MOST IMPORTANT IN A DECISION. RIGHT. I'LL USE THE EXAMPLE THAT WE HAD IN WE WERE TRYING TO DECIDE WHERE OUR NEW SPECIAL ED PROGRAM FOR NEXT YEAR IS GOING TO GO BECAUSE OF SPACE ISSUES, AND PROGRAMS ARE IN DIFFERENT BUILDINGS. SO ONE OF THE EXAMPLES IS GETTING TIRED.

SO I'M GOING TO FORGET MY EXAMPLE. WHAT WAS IT? OH, I SHOULDN'T HAVE SAID THAT. WHAT WAS, YOU GUYS WERE IN THE MEETING YESTERDAY.

IT IS GOING TO BE TOO LATE. NO HELP! ALL RIGHT, IT'S GONE.

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BUT SO IT'S FINDING EXAMPLES. YOU COMPARE ONE THING TO OH I KNOW IT IS THERE IT IS, BUSING.

SO IN THAT KIND OF DECISION WE'RE LOOKING AT THINGS LIKE CONTINUITY OF PROGRAM, DISRUPTION TO FAMILY, HOW MANY, HOW DO WE KEEP KIDS IN THEIR HOME SCHOOL AND MINIMIZE THAT IMPACT.

BUT THEN THE COST FOR BUSSING WAS ONE OF THE CRITERIA.

THAT'S A THAT'S A REAL THING. BUT THAT AS A GROUP, WE DECIDED WAS NOT THE MAIN DRIVER IN THE DECISION.

SO WHEN YOU WAIT, YOU KNOW, ON A SCORE OF ONE OUT OF TEN, WHAT'S MOST IMPORTANT IS GOING TO GET A TEN. BUT WHAT'S NOT AS MUCH IMPORTANT IS GOING TO GET A LOWER SCORE. SO, YOU KNOW, THE COST OF BUSSING, WE MIGHT GIVE IT A TWO COMPARED TO, YOU KNOW, MAKING SURE, BELIEVING THAT, YOU KNOW, WE WANT TO HAVE DIVERSITY, HAVE SPECIAL EDUCATION PROGRAMS IN ALL SCHOOLS MIGHT BE THE INCLUSION PRIORITY, MIGHT GET THE TEN OR THE TRANSITION OF FAMILIES FROM ONE SCHOOL TO THE OTHER.

SO THAT'S KIND OF WHERE THE WEIGHTING. SO IT'S REALLY WHAT ARE THE CRITERIA.

HOW ARE THEY WEIGHTED. AND THEN HOW DO EACH OF THE OPTIONS COMPARE TO ONE ANOTHER AGAINST THAT CRITERIA.

RIGHT. I THINK A GOOD PLACE TO USUALLY START IS CLARIFYING THE CRITERIA.

SO ARE THEY CLEAR? WHAT DO THEY MEAN? ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS? HOW DO WE, YOU KNOW, GET COMMON UNDERSTANDING? WE CAN TWEAK THE LANGUAGE BY ANY MEANS THERE.

AND THEN I HAD A QUESTION AND I THINK YOU ANSWERED IT AND I'M SO SORRY.

I PROBABLY HAD ALSO A BRAIN FOG AS WELL WITH THE ANSWER TO THINK ABOUT HOW TO LIKE THE IMPROVE SAFETY CONDITIONS FOR STUDENTS, LIKE WHAT IS THAT? I MEAN, CAN WE TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THAT? LIKE IN MY MIND IT'S LIKE, OKAY, THERE'S THE VESTIBULE, WHICH IS SAFETY, RIGHT? YOU KNOW, LIKE JUST THE BASELINE OF LIKE SAFETY. AND THEN THERE'S THE IMPROVED SAFETY, WHICH WOULD BE LIKE, OH, WELL, THIS WOULD BE GREAT. BUT WE HAVE, YOU KNOW, SOME LEVEL OF SAFETY.

SO LIKE, HOW DO WE CAN YOU JUST TALK TO ME ABOUT THE DEFINITION OF HOW WE SHOULD BE THINKING ABOUT IMPROVE SAFETY AS A CRITERIA VERSUS.

YEAH, I HAD A SIMILAR QUESTION, WHICH IS, YOU KNOW, WHEN I THINK OF SOME OF OUR OLDER BUILDINGS.

THEY MAY BE CRAMPED AND THEY MAY BE AWKWARD. THEY MAY BE SUBOPTIMAL, BUT ARE THEY LIKE, UNSAFE? SO YEAH, I DON'T REALLY KNOW WHAT SAFETY MEANS IN THIS CONTEXT.

YOU KNOW, AND THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT THE GOAL IS, IS TO TALK THROUGH THE CRITERIA SO WE CAN GET CLEAR ON WHAT IT IS.

WHEN I PUT THAT IN THERE, MY THOUGHT WAS AROUND ENTRANCE SECURITY.

SO VESTIBULES. YEAH. IT COULD ALSO SPEAK TO AIR QUALITY.

SAFETY OF AIR QUALITY. BUT WE SEE THAT IN ANOTHER ITEM.

RIGHT. SO YEAH, I WOULD PUT THAT A LITTLE I WOULD THINK MORE SAFETY OF THE VESTIBULES.

AND I THINK BACK TO THE BUILDING CONDITIONS SURVEY. AND THEY HAD SOME SUGGESTIONS FOR SIWANOY ABOUT WE DO HAVE KIND OF THE DOUBLE DOOR ENTRY AT SIWANOY.

BUT BUT IT COULD BE IMPROVED, BUT IT'S NOT ACCESSIBLE.

SO YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE TO BUILD RIGHT NOW THE ONLY ACCESSIBLE ENTRIES TO THE BUILDING THERE ARE ACCESSIBLE ENTRIES TO PARTS OF THE BUILDING, BUT THEY DON'T HAVE A DOUBLE DOOR SECURITY. SO IF YOU'RE THINKING ABOUT WHETHER IT'S AN EXPANSION TO THE CURRENT FOOTPRINT OR A NEW FOOTPRINT, YOU'VE GOT THE OPPORTUNITY TO BUILD A MORE SECURE SECURITY VESTIBULE.

SO THAT'S KIND OF WHERE THAT SAFETY PIECE CAME FROM, I DON'T THINK.

ASIDE FROM THAT, I WOULDN'T CALL ANYTHING ELSE A SAFETY ISSUE IN THE BUILDING.

I THINK THAT'S WHERE I WAS. SO MAYBE THAT ONE NEEDS JUST A LITTLE MORE CLARITY ON THE LANGUAGE.

YEAH. AND WHEN THE ARCHITECT GAVE US THE KIND OF BUILDING CONDITION, YOU KNOW, OUR BUILDINGS ARE OLD, BUT THEY'RE VERY WELL MAINTAINED. THEY DO PROVIDE SAFETY FOR THE KIDS THAT ARE HERE.

YEAH. COULD YOU MAYBE BECAUSE IT'S LATE, CAN YOU GO OVER THIS CHART AGAIN? LIKE, AS I'M. I'M NOT CLEAR ABOUT. IS IT JUST ME? OKAY. WHAT WE'RE WEIGHING. YEAH. ARE WE WEIGHING CRITERIA? NO. SO, LIKE. YEAH. IF YOU COULD JUST EXPLAIN.

I'LL TRY TO BE, LIKE, MORE DIRECT. SO THERE'S LIKE THREE DIFFERENT PHASES TO IT.

YOU'RE CLARIFYING THE CRITERIA. YES. TO SAY THESE ARE THE THINGS BY WHICH WE WANT TO MAKE THE DECISION.

RIGHT. AND THEN YOU'RE GOING TO ASSIGN THEM WEIGHTS.

HOW IMPORTANT IS EACH CRITERIA. OKAY. ONE OUT OF TEN.

SO ADDRESSING LIKE ACCESSIBILITY. YEAH. ACCESSIBILITY IS LIKE A NON-NEGOTIABLE RIGHT.

YES OR NO? YEAH. YEAH. BUT ASK A QUESTION JUST BEFORE YOU MOVE ON.

YEAH. ARE WE ARE WE WAITING IT ONE THROUGH TEN IN THIS COLUMN, OR ARE WE WRITING IT LIKE A SCALE OF 1 TO 10? OR IF IT'S A MUST, IT'S A YES OR A NO. OKAY. BUT IF IT'S NOT A MUST THERE'S ANY LIKE VARIABILITY IN IT.

SO I'LL SAY ADDRESSING ALL IDENTIFIED INFRASTRUCTURE NEEDS.

WE COULD DECIDE IF THAT IF IT'S LIKE THE BOARD WANTS TO SEE A NEED IDENTIFIED, THEN WE COULD CHANGE THAT ONE TO A MUST.

YES OR NO? EVERYTHING ON THAT BUILDING CONDITION SURVEY MUST BE END, END OF STORY.

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BECAUSE IT COULD BE THAT IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT THAT WE THAT WE IDENTIFY THAT WE ADDRESS AS MANY INFRASTRUCTURE NEEDS AS WE SEE AS WE DECIDE ARE IMPORTANT. BUT IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE EVERYTHING.

YEAH. SO AND I'M GOING TO ACTUALLY SOME OF OUR CONVERSATION AND PLANNING FOR TONIGHT, WE TALKED ABOUT YOU KNOW, COULD WE LOOK AT WHAT ABOUT THE THINGS THAT ARE MOST URGENT LIKE THE 3 TO 5 YEAR THINGS.

WHAT BASICALLY WHAT'S NEAR FAILURE, WHAT'S EVERYTHING THAT WAS ON THE LIST AND WHAT'S PRIORITIZED SOMEWHERE IN BETWEEN.

SO JUST SO THAT WE HAVE WE'RE ALL ON THE SAME PAGE.

IF A TEN IS NOT A MUST. WHAT IS A WHAT IS A TEN? AND THEN LIKE WHAT IS A ONE AND WHAT'S A FIVE.

MAYBE A BETTER EXAMPLE IS AND I'M NOT SUGGESTING WE DO THIS, BUT I'LL USE IT BECAUSE I THINK IT'S A PRETTY BLACK AND WHITE ANSWER. IF WE SAID THAT YOU CAN'T SPEND MORE THAN $30 MILLION ON THE BUILDING, IF THAT WAS A CRITERIA, THAT'S A MUST, BECAUSE THAT'S A YES OR NO. THERE'S NO GRAY AROUND THAT.

IF YOU SAID WE NEED TO FIND THE MOST COST EFFECTIVE APPROACH TO DESIGN THIS TO HAVE 18 CLASSROOMS, AN ART ROOM, WHATEVER, THAT'S A DIFFERENT ANSWER, BECAUSE THERE'S A JUDGMENT CALL, BECAUSE YOU'RE DECIDING WHICH IS MOST.

YOU'RE NOT SAYING WHICH IS THE CHEAPEST, RIGHT. YOU'RE SAYING WHICH IS THE MOST COST EFFECTIVE, WHICH COULD TAKE IN FACTORS OF GEOTHERMAL.

WE'RE GOING TO IT'S GOING TO PAY FOR ITSELF IN TEN YEARS. SO THERE'S A BENEFIT THERE.

SO IT'S WHERE IS IT A BLACK AND WHITE YES OR NO CONCRETE OBJECTIVE VERSUS WHERE IS THERE SOME JUDGMENT CALL.

IT'S PROBABLY THE BEST WAY TO EXPLAIN IT. AND TEN WOULD BE A JUDGMENT CALL.

ALMOST IS LIKE IT HAS OR IT DOESN'T. AND WE'RE COMPARING CRITERIA TO EACH OTHER.

YOU CAN THERE CAN BE MULTIPLE TENS. OKAY. THERE CAN BE MULTIPLE.

YOU COULD HAVE SOME OF THE SAME NUMBERS FOR WEIGHTS. AND YOU DON'T HAVE TO GET TOO HUNG UP ON IT. IT IS A LITTLE BIT OF AN ART. IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE TOO MUCH OF A SCIENCE, BUT YOU'RE DECIDING WHAT'S MOST IMPORTANT COMPARED TO WHAT'S MAYBE NOT AS IMPORTANT.

SO THAT'S ONE WEIGHING OF THINGS. THEN THE OTHER THING YOU DO IS WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE OPTIONS.

SO IN THIS CASE WE'VE GOT OPTION B AND OPTION C.

SO ONCE WE DECIDE THIS IS OUR CRITERIA THEN WE'RE GOING TO GO THROUGH AND DEBATE.

SO LET ME SEE IF I JUST THIS IS JUST ME. THIS IS NOT THE BOARD.

THIS IS ME JUST GIVING YOU BALLPARK. SO LET'S GO TO SIWANOY.

THAT MIGHT BE AN EASIER ONE TO, TO BE MORE CONCRETE ABOUT.

SO OPTION B AND OPTION C, YOU KNOW, A MEETS CRITERIA, SO IT HAS TO MEET OR EXCEED ACCESSIBILITY REQUIREMENTS.

BOTH OF THOSE ARE MAKE IT FULLY ACCESSIBLE BUILDINGS.

OKAY. OKAY. ONE DOES IT WITH AN WITH AN ELEVATOR THAT GIVES YOU ACCESS TO THE FULL BUILDING.

THE OTHER ONE HAS AN ELEVATOR AND A CHAIRLIFT, BUT BOTH ARE FULLY ACCESSIBLE. SO YES, BOTH MEET THE NEED.

THEY BOTH. YEAH, THEY BOTH NEED IT. SO THEN IF OKAY, THIS ONE I LISTED AS A MUST.

WE COULD DEBATE THAT. SO IT ADDRESSES MOST CRITICAL AND URGENT INFRASTRUCTURE NEEDS.

SO THOSE THINGS THAT ARE GOING TO BE A FAILURE WITHIN THE FIRST NEXT 3 TO 5, 1 TO 3 YEARS.

SO DOES DO WE FEEL THAT OPTION B MEETS THAT CRITERIA.

THIS ONE SHOULDN'T HAVE BEEN A MUST. ACTUALLY LET ME ASK IT THIS WAY.

WHICH OF OPTION B VERSUS OPTION C DO YOU FEEL BETTER.

ADDRESSES MOST OF THE CORE INFRASTRUCTURE NEEDS THAT HAVE BEEN IDENTIFIED.

AND BY INFRASTRUCTURE. BY INFRASTRUCTURE WE'RE TALKING ABOUT WINDOWS ROOFS AND BOILERS.

YEAH. BUILDING ENVELOPE. I MEAN DON'T THEY BOTH.

THEY DON'T THEY SHOULDN'T THEY BOTH TO WHAT DEGREE? THIS IS WHERE YOU GET TO MAKE A JUDGMENT. DO YOU FEEL LIKE ONE BETTER ADDRESSES THOSE CONCERNS THAN THE OTHER, OR DO THEY EQUALLY ADDRESS THOSE CONCERNS? I THOUGHT THERE WAS. I THINK THEY EQUALLY DO, WOULDN'T THEY? WELL, I THINK SEE, IF I WERE YOU WERE IF A C FEELS LIKE IT ADDRESSES IT BECAUSE IT'S LIKE A WHOLE NEW, YOU KNOW, LIKE IT DOESN'T IT WON'T NEED TO BE REPLACED OR REPAIRED FOR PROBABLY YEARS TO COME, BUT B WAS B WILL PROBABLY NEED SOME WORK. IT SOUNDED LIKE THERE WAS SOME OLD THINGS THAT NEED TO BE ADDRESSED, OR DECISIONS THAT NEED TO BE MADE THAT MIGHT NOT BE INCLUDED IN THE IN THE OPTION B FOR MY I THINK IF I REMEMBER THAT IT WASN'T LIKE ALL NEW.

SO THERE WERE SOME OLD. SO I WOULDN'T SAY THERE COULD BE SOME CRITICAL NEEDS THAT ARE MISSED IN OPTION B, BECAUSE IT'S GOING TO BE AGING. THERE'S A LOT OF THINGS THAT ARE GOING TO BE AGING.

THAT WAS MY INTERPRETATION OF HOW I THOUGHT ABOUT URGENT.

THAT WAS ALSO HOW I THOUGHT ABOUT IT. THAT OPTION C BETTER ADDRESSED THE LONG TERM INFRASTRUCTURE NEEDS WERE LIKE THOSE 1 TO 3 YEAR INFRASTRUCTURE NEEDS.

THEN OPTION B BECAUSE OPTION C WAS MORE. I COULD SEE HOW ONE WOULD ARGUE BECAUSE IF THERE'S LIKE A 1 TO 3 YEARS,

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SO YOU CAN, YOU KNOW, IF WE WERE IN A COURT OF LAW, ONE COULD ARGUE THAT.

RIGHT. SO THIS IS SO THIS IS WHERE AS, AS A BOARD WE NEED IDEALLY, YOU'D COME TO CONSENSUS AROUND OKAY.

IF C IS THE BEST OF THE TWO OPTIONS WE GIVE IT A TEN.

AND THEN HOW DOES B COMPARE. YEAH. IS IT A NINE.

IS IT A FIVE. YEAH THAT MAKES SENSE. YOU KNOW IN THIS CASE IT IS YOU KNOW IT'S COMPREHENSIVELY ADDRESSING.

YOU'RE JUST YOU'VE GOT NEW VERSUS RENOVATED. YEAH.

SO THEN YOU'D GIVE IT A SCORE FOR THAT CRITERIA.

THEN YOU GO ON TO THE NEXT THE NEXT CRITERIA.

I'M JUST GOING TO WRITE IT DOWN FOR THE SAKE OF ARGUMENT. NOBODY IS TIED TO THIS. I'M JUST DOING IT TO SAVE THE PROCESS.

IT'S LIKE NO DECISIONS ARE BEING MADE. SO ANOTHER ONE I ADDRESS IS I'LL IDENTIFY ACTUALLY, THIS IS A DUPLICATE. OH. I SEE I SEPARATED OUT WITH MOST CRITICAL.

OH, WELL, THAT'S WHERE YES. AND THAT'S WHERE THAT WOULD OPTION C WOULD BE VERY CLEARLY ALL THE ALL.

ON MOST CRITICAL OR ON THE ADDRESSES. ALL ON THE ADDRESSES.

ALL ADDRESSES. ALL. SO THAT WAS A LITTLE BIT OF A DISTINCTION. THAT'S WHERE THE ADDRESS MOST CRITICAL.

YEAH. BOTH. YEAH. BOTH PROBABLY ADDRESS THE MOST CRITICAL.

YEAH. BUT WHEN YOU'RE LOOKING COMPREHENSIVELY ADDRESSES ALL IDENTIFIED INSTRUCTION NEEDS.

AND JUST SO I KNOW THE THINKING OF LET'S SAY DARRA WHAT YOU'RE SAYING, IT'S BECAUSE OPTION C IS ALL NEW AND OPTION B IS, IS PART RENT WILL BE AGING AND SOMETHING. EXACTLY.

YES. JUST IN TERMS OF THE PROCESS. WHEN ARE WE COMPLETING THIS? BECAUSE THERE ARE HUNDREDS OF CELLS HERE AND IT'S 1015.

YES. TONIGHT, WE'RE DOING AN OVERNIGHT EXERCISE TO LEARN THE PROCESS.

I THINK WHAT WE WHAT WE MAY HAVE TO DO IS KIND OF WE COULD DO IT ONE OF TWO WAYS.

WE CAN GO BUCKET BY BUCKET. OR WE COULD KIND OF, YOU KNOW, WITH THE ARCHITECTS COMING BACK NEXT TIME, IF WE'VE GOT A SENSE OF, YOU KNOW, WE'VE ALREADY GOT A SENSE WE'RE DOWN TO B AND C, WE'VE ALREADY SAID, YOU KNOW, HIGH SCHOOL, WE'RE LOOKING AT A AND B, I THINK WHEN THEY COME BACK PERSONALLY, I THINK WE MIGHT WIND UP SEEING AN IN BETWEEN MODEL BASED ON THE FEEDBACK THAT WE GAVE THEM THERE.

I THINK IF WE CAN NARROW DOWN WHAT WE'RE LOOKING AT, THEN EITHER WE LOOK AT POTENTIAL PACKAGES.

YES. AND THAT COULD BE ONE BIG FRAMEWORK AROUND DIFFERENT VERSIONS OF THAT.

SO SHOULD WE TRY TO COME TUESDAY? THAT'S A GREAT IDEA.

WITH THIS. FILL THIS OUT ON YOUR OWN. YES. WITH YOUR THOUGHTS.

AND THEN THAT WILL PROBABLY JUMPSTART THE CONVERSATION.

OKAY, SO I STILL NEED HELP WITH THESE COLUMNS THOUGH.

SO OKAY, SO CAN WE LET'S DO A COUPLE MORE. YEAH, LET'S JUST DO A COUPLE MORE SO YOU CAN FEEL A BIT COMFORT AROUND CITY HALL.

SO I NEED ACADEMY. I NEED TO GO TO ACADEMY. EMORY CALL ME LATER.

I HAVE A COUPLE QUESTIONS ON THE SIWANOY ONE.

YEAH, YEAH. I WAS GOING TO GO BACK TO THAT. THAT'S PERFECT. OKAY.

SO ONE WAS. DOESN'T FEEL TO ME LIKE THE PROVIDES AN ADEQUATE SPACE FOR DISTRICT OFFICES AND DISTRICT OWNED DON'T APPLY.

THIS IS REALLY APPLIED. YEAH. SO LIKE WE COULD TAKE THAT ONE OFF THE TABLE BECAUSE IT DOESN'T APPLY TO SIWANOY.

IT SOUNDS LIKE, YOU KNOW, BASED ON WILL'S COMMENTS EARLIER, WE MIGHT WANT TO ADD SOMETHING ABOUT ARCHITECTURAL INTEGRITY THAT RETAINS THE ARCHITECTURAL FIRM. SIWANOY. THAT'S A GREAT POINT.

SORT OF DESIGN, ALTHOUGH IT'S HARD TO GIVE MUCH FEEDBACK ON IT BECAUSE WE HAVE CONCEPTUAL DRAWINGS THAT DON'T HAVE ANY DETAIL ABOUT WHAT THE EXTERIOR WOULD ACTUALLY LOOK LIKE. BUT I DO THINK IT'S A CONSIDERATION THAT IS IMPORTANT TO A LOT OF PEOPLE.

YEAH. YEAH. AND WE ARE ASKING SO IN THE IN THE SURVEY THAT'S GOING OUT, WE'RE ALSO ASKING THE COMMUNITY SOME OF THESE SIMILAR THINGS.

RIGHT. LIKE WHAT'S MOST IMPORTANT TO THEM. THERE COULD BE I DON'T WANT TO COMPLICATE THIS DECISION MAKING THE DECISION MAYBE.

BUT LIKE PRIMERS LIKE MAYBE SOME QUESTIONS AFTERWARDS OR SOMETHING THAT LIKE COMMUNITY, YOU KNOW, LIKE THIS DOESN'T ADDRESS COMMUNITY DISRUPTION OR, YOU KNOW, LIKE DESIGN OR SOMETHING.

I DON'T KNOW, THAT COULD JUST BE LIKE THOSE LITTLE PRIMERS THAT YOU CAN JUST MAKE SURE, LIKE WE'RE TAKING THOSE THINGS INTO CONSIDERATION THAT AREN'T LIKE REALLY ADDRESSED WITH THE DIRECT DECISION. YEAH, YEAH.

YOU KNOW WHAT I'M SAYING. LIKE, YEAH. SO I MEAN IN THE GRAND SCHEME, THIS PROCESS, IT IS IT IS A BIT TEDIOUS, BUT IT DOES KIND OF FORCE YOU TO THINK ABOUT WHAT DECISION YOU'RE MAKING AND WHY AND IDEALLY COME TO CONSENSUS SO THAT YOU'RE SUPPORTING IT.

YOU'RE SUPPORTING A DECISION, A COLLABORATIVE DECISION. AND YOU ALSO HAVE THE RATIONALE FOR THAT DECISION ALREADY LAID OUT.

WHICH THEN REALLY BECOMES YOUR COMMUNICATION TALKING POINTS THE COMMUNITY.

WHY DID WE WHY DID WE DECIDE THIS OPTION VERSUS THAT OPTION.

WELL, WE WENT THROUGH AND CLARIFIED OUR CRITERIA FOR THE DECISION AND WHAT WE VALUED.

THIS ROAD, THESE ROADS AS ROSE TO THE TOP AS BEST FITTING THAT CRITERIA.

SO IT BECOMES YOUR TALKING POINTS, YOUR RATIONALE. BUT THEN THE OTHER THING YOU DO WITH THIS IS YOU DON'T JUST TALLY EVERYTHING UP.

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AND I REMEMBER, YOU KNOW, DOCTOR FITZGERALD AND I WHEN THE DECISION HAD BEEN MADE ABOUT HUTCHINSON, I WENT OVER WITH HER AND WE SAT WITH A COUPLE OF FACULTY REPRESENTATIVES FOR A FEW HOURS.

WE HAD TO RETHINK EVERYTHING ABOUT WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO FOR A RIVAL? WE'RE GOING TO DO A DISMISSAL. HOW ARE WE GOING TO DO FIRE DRILLS? WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO WITH RECESS? HOW ARE WE GONNA DO WITH, LIKE, EVERY LITTLE THING ABOUT HOW THIS WAS GOING TO CHANGE LIFE AT HUTCHINSON DURING CONSTRUCTION.

AND THEN SHE HAD TO GO THROUGH THAT WHOLE PROCESS TO THINK ABOUT HOW AM I GOING TO OPEN A BRAND NEW BUILDING AND DESIGN EVERY SINGLE PROCESS ABOUT IT? SO, I MEAN, THAT WAS KIND OF THE AFTER EFFECTS, BUT YOU DO HAVE TO DO SOME OF THAT.

LIKE IF WE MAKE A DRAFT DECISION, WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO STOP AND THINK, OKAY, WHAT ARE THE POTENTIAL PROBLEMS THAT ARE GOING TO COME OUT OF THIS BECAUSE YOU WANT TO PROTECT YOUR DECISION? IT WAS A GOOD DECISION.

YEAH. AND THE OTHER THING THAT COULD HAPPEN IS YOU MIGHT MAKE A DECISION THAT BEST FITS THE CRITERIA.

BUT WHEN YOU START TO WEIGH OUT THOSE OPTIONS, YOU CUT TO A POTENTIAL PROBLEM THAT'S LIKE, WHOA, TIME OUT. THAT'S JUST TOO, TOO BIG OF A RISK.

YEAH. AND GOING WITH A DIFFERENT OPTION MIGHT BE THE BETTER MOVE.

I GO AHEAD. NO, I WAS JUST GOING TO ADD JUST IT SOUNDS LIKE THE DESIGN AND YOU KNOW, LIKE THAT'S JUST SOMETHING WE DON'T WANT TO LOSE.

I DON'T KNOW IF IT WOULD GO INTO THE CRITERIA, BUT IT DEFINITELY SOUNDS LIKE SOMETHING YOU DON'T WANT TO LOSE AS A POTENTIAL PROBLEM OR, YOU KNOW, WE'RE NOT THERE YET OR EVEN LIKE THAT DISRUPTION.

I JUST SAY, I DON'T THINK WE WANT TO LOSE THE DESIGN FACTOR.

I DON'T KNOW, I DON'T I'M NOT 100% SOLD. IT WOULD BE A CRITERIA, YOU KNOW, IN A DECISION.

BUT MAYBE SOMETHING THAT IS, IS REALLY CONSIDERED SIMILAR TO LIKE COMMUNITY DISRUPTION OR, YOU KNOW, LIKE THOSE OTHER THINGS. SO IT'S LIKE WE JUST DON'T.

YEAH. WE DON'T WANT TO, LIKE, PUT IT IN THE BACK BURNER UNTIL WE GET ALL THE WAY DOWN THERE, I ADDED, I ADDED ONE ON THE SHEET. I'VE GOT THE SHARED VERSION OF IT.

DESIGN RESPECTS THE HISTORIC CHARACTER OF THE SCHOOL, SOMETHING ALONG THOSE LINES, BECAUSE THAT THAT COULD SPEAK TO EITHER MAINTAINING THE CURRENT BUILDING OR IT COULD SPEAK TO IF AN OPTION C THAT WHATEVER IS DESIGNED HAS TO BE RESPECTFUL OF.

YEAH, I THINK THAT THAT MAKES SENSE. THE NATURE OF THE HISTORIC DESIGN.

SO IT COULD GO WE CAN TWEAK THAT. THAT MAKES SENSE THOUGH. BUT I THINK I THINK YOU'RE RIGHT. I THINK IT'S AN IMPORTANT DECISION CRITERIA.

YEAH. YEAH. SO THIS ISN'T A FULLY FORMED THOUGHT, BUT I DON'T I DON'T HAVE A LOT OF EXPERIENCE WITH THESE SORT OF MORE FORMAL DECISION MAKING PROCESSES. BUT I DID FIND THAT THE STRATEGIC PLAN DISCUSSION, THE FIST TO FIVE, WAS ACTUALLY PRETTY EFFECTIVE. AND I DON'T KNOW IF THERE'S A WAY FOR US TO SORT OF INTEGRATE OR COMBINE THOSE TWO IN A WAY THAT I CAN.

I CAN SEE US EXPEDITING SOME OF THIS USING THAT.

YEAH. I GUESS MY INITIAL THOUGHT IS, I THINK YOUR SUGGESTION OF HAVING EVERYONE KIND OF FILL THIS OUT ON YOUR OWN IS A GOOD FIRST PASS, BECAUSE THERE IS, I THINK, ALMOST LIKE A MENTAL DISCIPLINE OF FORCING YOURSELF TO GO THROUGH THE CRITERIA AND THINKING HARD ABOUT BOTH BUILDINGS.

I THINK IF WE GOT THOSE NUMBERS, WE CAN COME BACK TOGETHER AND SEE IF THERE'S SOME ALREADY, SOME ALIGNMENT WHICH IS GOING TO EXPEDITE. AND THEN MAYBE IT'S NOT FORMALLY GOING THROUGH EVERY PIECE OF IT, BUT THEN WE CAN TALK THROUGH WHERE ARE THE DIFFERENCES AND HOW DO WE GET THE HOW DO WE GET TO THE CONSENSUS AROUND THAT? YES. LET'S PURSUE LET'S CONTINUE DOWN THIS PATH AND THEN PUT IT TOGETHER AND JUDGE THE OTHER.

THE OTHER THING I WAS THINKING ABOUT, WHICH MAY BE TOO TECH HEAVY, BUT WHETHER THERE'S A WAY TO TURN THIS INTO LIKE A SURVEY THAT GETS I COULD DO THAT.

YEAH. AUTOMATED SO THAT YOU GET JUST AN AVERAGE RESULT, LIKE A WEIGHTED.

WEIGHTED. YEAH, IT KIND OF DOES THE MATH. YEAH, I CAN I CAN DO A SHARED GOOGLE DOC AND SET IT UP SO THAT EVERYONE CAN ENTER THEIR SCORES AND IT CAN TALLY. THAT ALSO IS A GOOD WAY TO EXPEDITE YOU DON'T SHORTCHANGE THE CONVERSATION.

I'M GOING TO ENCOURAGE YOU TO DO THAT BECAUSE THE PROCESS IS REALLY IMPORTANT IN THIS CONVERSATION FOR THE PUBLIC IS REALLY IMPORTANT.

YEAH. BUT I THINK TO EXPEDITE AND SHOW US WHERE IS IT ALREADY AREAS OF ALIGNMENT? IT WOULD BE VERY HELPFUL. AND THEN WE CAN THEN WHERE DO WE NEED TO DIG IN IF THERE IS CLEAR NON ALIGNMENT AND SPEND TIME DOING THAT AS OPPOSED TO.

YEAH THAT'S EXCELLENT. OKAY. SO I CAN DEFINITELY PUT SOMETHING TOGETHER FOR THAT WHEN I SEE THIS DOCUMENT.

MY ONLY CONCERN IS BECAUSE OF THE WAY IT IS STRUCTURED.

IT'S YOU KNOW TAKING THINGS ONE AT A TIME. RIGHT.

LIKE INFRASTRUCTURE DIFFERENT BUCKETS. RIGHT. AND TO ME IT'S LIKE EVERYTHING THAT DOESN'T ADDRESS THE ADA COMPONENT IS NON-NEGOTIABLE TO BEGIN WITH.

RIGHT. SO IT'S YOU KNOW, IS GEOTHERMAL UPGRADES A MUST?

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IT'S ALL RIGHT. EVERYTHING'S GOING TO BE HIGH.

BUT BECAUSE IT JUST TO ME, IT'S LIKE, YOU KNOW, I'M NOT GOING TO PUT IN LIKE, YEAH, WINDOWS.

WE MUST HAVE WINDOWS, RIGHT? WE GOT TO PROTECT AGAINST THE ELEMENTS. BUT IT CAN COME AT THE, AT THE EXPENSE OF NOT HAVING ADA. THERE'S ALSO AN OVERALL SCOPE ONE.

YEAH I DID THERE IS A IF YOU GO TO THE BACK PAGE BACK TWO PAGES, THERE IS AN OVERALL SCOPE, ONE WHICH I MEAN THAT COULD BE ARE WE USING THIS LIKE YEAH, I WAS GOING TO SAY, WHICH IS WE'RE USING THIS AS A STARTING POINT.

AND THEN WHEN WE'RE HAVING THE DISCUSSION, WE CAN LIKE WE HAVE TO WE HAVE TO PICK A PLACE TO START FROM SO THAT WE CAN LOOK AT LIKE WHAT WE HAVE ON OUR LIST AND SAY, OKAY, WELL, WHERE WE'VE WAITED. ALL OF THESE THINGS.

HERE'S WHERE THEY ALL LAY OUT. MAYBE WE I'M JUST GOING TO MAKE IT UP.

LIKE, MAYBE WE CAN'T GET EVERYTHING BECAUSE THAT BUDGET'S GOING TO BE TOO BIG AND WE'RE GOING TO WANT TO CUT. SO THEN HOW ARE WE CUTTING? BECAUSE IF WE'VE WAITED, ANYTHING ADA ACCESSIBLE RELATED IS A MUST. LIKE WHERE DOES GEOTHERMAL LIE IN THAT? OR REPLACING THE WINDOWS OR LIKE, HOW ARE WE GOING TO CARVE OUT THE THINGS THAT WE MAYBE DON'T NEED TO DO THIS YEAR OR AREN'T A PRIORITY BECAUSE OTHER THINGS LIKE IT'LL JUST GIVE US LIKE, THAT'S HOW I'M VISUALIZING OR LIKE THINKING ABOUT THIS DOCUMENT.

YEAH, LIKE IT'S GIVING US A STARTING POINT. AND IN AN IDEAL WORLD WE WOULD DO IT AND IT WOULD BE EVERYTHING WE WANT IT TO BE, AND IT WOULD BE WHAT WE WANTED, AND IT WOULD BE LIKE THE MOST AMAZING THING EVER.

AND THEN WE'D BE LIKE, GREAT. BUT PROBABLY WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN IS IT'S GOING TO HELP US HAVE THE CONVERSATION TO LIKE, YEAH, CHIP AWAY AT WHAT WE WANT. I THINK THAT'S EXACTLY IT, BECAUSE WE'RE NOT GOING TO BE ABLE TO DO EVERYTHING WE WANT.

THAT'S THE REALITY IS GOING TO BE TOUGH DECISIONS. SO IF WE'RE THINKING ABOUT WHAT IS MOST IMPORTANT, THAT'S GOING TO HELP STEER US TOWARDS IF WE'VE GOT TO MAKE TOUGH DECISIONS, WHICH CRITERIA MAY OUTWEIGH OTHER CRITERIA, RIGHT. BECAUSE I THINK SOMETIMES WITH THESE THINGS, YOU KNOW, WE THINK WE THINK WE FEEL A CERTAIN WAY OR WE THINK WE'RE THINKING ABOUT IT IN A CERTAIN WAY, BUT THEN YOU ASSIGN SOME KIND OF VALUE TO IT OR NUMBER, AND YOU HAVE TO JUSTIFY THAT NUMBER TO YOURSELF.

AND THEN IN THAT JUSTIFICATION, MAYBE YOU'RE CHANGING YOUR NUMBER BECAUSE YOU GO, OH, MAYBE WHEN I FILL THIS OUT, I WAS LIKE FEELING SOME KIND OF WAY ABOUT IT. AND NOW I'M REALIZING I FEEL A DIFFERENT WAY OR LIKE, YOU KNOW, IT REALLY, IT REALLY HELPS ME THINK ABOUT LIKE IT HELPS FACILITATE THAT CONVERSATION THAT LIKE, WE REALLY NEED TO HAVE. AND THAT'S THE PURPOSE REALLY, REALLY TO STRATEGICALLY THINK ABOUT IT AND USE IT AS A TOOL TO GET TO CONSENSUS.

SO I WILL DEFINITELY WORK ON TRANSFERRING THIS TO ELECTRONIC.

I'LL SEND IT TO EVERYBODY PRIOR TO NEXT WEEK'S MEETING.

TO THE DEGREE YOU CAN FILL IT OUT AND WE CAN.

THEN WE'LL PUT IT ALL TOGETHER. I THINK I HAVE AN EASY QUESTION.

YEAH. THE FIRST COLUMN WE'RE PUTTING EITHER MUSTS OR NUMBERS.

THEY'RE THE WAY THAT THIS IS DRAFTED. THERE'S REALLY NO MORE MUSTS ON THERE.

OKAY. RIGHT. SO, YOU PUT THE MUST IN THERE ALREADY, BUT.

RIGHT, RIGHT, RIGHT. YEAH. YOU'RE RANKING ONE OUT OF TEN FOR HOW WEIGHT IS HOW IMPORTANT IS IT.

RIGHT. AND THEN EVERYTHING ELSE IS A YES OR NO? NO. EVERYTHING ELSE THEN THIS IS SO YEAH. LET'S GO BACK TO OUR EXAMPLE.

EVERYTHING ELSE IS HOW THAT OPTION COMPARES TO THE OTHER.

SO LET'S GO BACK TO THE SIWANOY EXAMPLE. I LOST THE PAGE NUMBERS.

I ACTUALLY HAD IT HERE. SO THE SIWANOY EXAMPLE, WE WERE LOOKING AT OPTION B AND OPTION C.

SO PROVIDES ADEQUATE AIR QUALITY AND LEARNING CONDITIONS FOR NOT A GOOD ONE.

PROVIDE SUITABLE. WELL, A LOT OF THESE ARE GOING TO BE SOMEWHAT COMPARABLE.

SO ADDRESSES ALL IDENTIFIED INFRASTRUCTURE NEEDS.

I THINK WE WERE SAYING C WOULD BE THE TEN THERE.

OKAY. OPTION B IS. THE SIWANOY ONE MAKES SENSE TO ME, I WOULD.

FOR SOME REASON THAT SAME KIND OF PRINCIPLE. SO LET'S LOOK AT INFRASTRUCTURE.

MAYBE THAT ONE. CAN WE USE THAT SIWANOY EXAMPLE AND TAKE IT ACROSS THE ROW LIKE SO.

SURE THE 1 TO 10 AND THEN ALL NEEDS IDENTIFIED YES OR NO PRIORITIZE ITEMS. SO LET ME REAL QUICK.

HEAR HIM. SORRY. IT'S UP TO, DO YOU WANT TO TAKE A QUESTION?

[02:55:03]

MY NAME IS ADAM MILKOVITS. YOU RECEIVED AN EMAIL FROM ME A COUPLE OF WEEKS AGO, SO JUST NOT GOING TO BELABOR THE POINTS THAT I PUT IN THERE.

BUT WHAT I WANT TO SAY IS I THINK THERE WAS A MISSTEP WITH THE COMMUNITY HERE.

AND THE REASON THERE WAS A MISSTEP IS YOU RELEASED VERY DIFFERENT PLANS THAN WHAT THE COMMUNITY WAS EXPECTING TO SEE.

WE AS A COMMUNITY WERE EXPECTING TO SEE ADA COMPLIANCE.

AND YOU CAME WITH A RATHER LARGE AND IN SOME WAYS INFEASIBLE PLAN B AND C AND SOME OF THOSE INFEASIBILITIES IT SOUNDS LIKE HAVE BEEN ADDRESSED.

AND I'M GLAD I STAYED TO LISTEN TO WHAT YOU SAID. IT SOUNDS LIKE SOME OF THOSE THINGS ARE UNDER CONSIDERATION, SO I DON'T WANT TO BELABOR THOSE POINTS EITHER. AND I KNOW THAT THESE ARE PRELIMINARY PLANS, BUT THE PLANS WERE INSENSITIVE TO THE COMMUNITY.

THEY WERE INSENSITIVE TO THE WAY SIWANOY WORKS.

THEY WERE INSENSITIVE TO WAY THE CAMPUS WORKS.

THEY WERE INSENSITIVE TO THE WAY THE PLAYGROUND STRUCTURE AND THE OUTDOOR AREA IS THE ONLY OUTDOOR AREA ANYWHERE IN THE IN THE AREA.

AND SO I WOULD REALLY, REALLY URGE YOU TO GO BACK TO THE ARCHITECTS.

AND BEFORE YOU COME IN FRONT OF SIWANOY COMMUNITY, REALLY THINK ABOUT HOW IT'S AFFECTING THE COMMUNITY, NOT JUST THE EDUCATION SIDE. YOU WILL NOT GET AN ARGUMENT ABOUT THE NEED FOR UPDATING.

I'VE GOT A FIFTH GRADER AND A FIRST GRADER RIGHT NOW WHO BOILS IN JULY AND JUNE, FREEZING RIGHT NOW.

SCHOOLS OLD NEEDS TO BE FIXED. NOBODY WILL DEBATE YOU ON THAT, BUT YOU HAVE TO TAKE THE COMMUNITY'S NEEDS AND WHAT THE SCHOOL REPRESENTS, NOT JUST AS AN EDUCATIONAL FACILITY. NINE MONTHS OF THE YEAR, BUT AS A COMMUNITY FACILITY.

12 MONTHS OF THE YEAR. AND IF B OR C WENT FORWARD, YOU WOULD DAMAGE THE COMMUNITY SIGNIFICANTLY BECAUSE OF THE LOSS OF PLAYGROUND SPACE, BECAUSE OF THE LOSS OF OUTDOOR SPACE. AND I FEAR THAT IF YOU DON'T LIVE THERE AND DON'T INTERACT WITH THE PEOPLE WHO DO LIVE THERE, YOU WON'T UNDERSTAND THE USAGE OF THOSE FACILITIES OUTSIDE OF SCHOOL.

AND YOU SAY PROGRAMMATIC, THE AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAM THERE THAT PLAYFUL WONDERS RUNS SERVES THREE SCHOOLS.

AND IF THERE'S ANY DISRUPTION TO THAT, YOU DO A TREMENDOUS DISSERVICE TO THREE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS WITH THE PARENTS.

AND SO IF THAT'S NOT BEING CONSIDERED AS PART OF THIS PROCESS, YOU NEED TO START CONSIDERING IT NOW BECAUSE 5075 KIDS ARE THERE AFTER SCHOOL FOR TWO HOURS TILL 6:00 SO THEIR PARENTS CAN WORK. AND IF YOU'RE NOT CONSIDERING HOW NEW SCHOOL WILL SERVE THAT NEED OR SERVE THE NEED OF TWO BASKETBALL COURTS THAT ARE ALWAYS BEING USED, TWO PLAYGROUNDS THAT ARE ALWAYS BEING USED AND A FIELD IS THE ONLY FIELD WE HAVE REALLY BIG ENOUGH TO DO ANYTHING.

THAT PLACE IS FILLED FOR THE SUMMER AND I LIVE RIGHT NEXT DOOR, SO I GET A LOT OF I GET A LOT OF BALLS THROWN IN MY BACKYARD SO I CAN ATTEST HOW OFTEN IT'S USED. SO I THINK THERE WAS A LITTLE BIT OF A MISSTEP.

PLEASE COME TO THE COMMUNITY. PLEASE ASK US HOW IT FITS INTO HOW THE COMMUNITY ACTUALLY WORKS.

THERE ARE A LOT OF OTHER LITTLE THINGS THAT MAYBE YOU'RE NOT EVEN THINKING ABOUT. LIKE THE SPECIAL ED, YOU HAVE ONE SCHOOL BUS DROPPING OFF KIDS THERE IN THE MORNING RIGHT NOW. IT BLOCKS MANOR LANE FOR TEN 15 MINUTES, WAITING FOR THOSE KIDS TO GET OFF THE BUS.

YOU'RE NOW GOING TO INCREASE THE NUMBER OF BUSSES.

WE HAVE A ONE WAY STREET. BOTH WAYS. YOU KNOW, WE MADE THAT SACRIFICE AS A COMMUNITY FOR THE SCHOOL AT SOME POINT FROM THE NAME OF SAFETY. AND THEN YOU PUT A PARKING LOT RIGHT IN FRONT OF WHERE PROBABLY HALF THE SCHOOL WALKS ONTO THE CAMPUS.

LIKE SOME OF THOSE THINGS ARE JUST INSENSITIVE TO HOW THE SCHOOL WORKS. AND I DON'T KNOW IF THE ARCHITECT IS AWARE OF THESE THINGS, BUT I REALLY THINK HE SHOULD OR THEY SHOULD. WHOEVER HE OR SHE ARE SHOULD REALLY CONSIDER THE FABRIC OF THE COMMUNITY AND THINGS THAT HAPPEN OFF CAMPUS, BECAUSE YOU HAVE THAT PATH TO ESPLANADE AND YOU HAVE THE PATH TO THE FRONT THAT COMES FROM PELHAM DALE.

THAT'S HOW THE CAMPUS MEETS, HOW THE COMMUNITY MEETS THE CAMPUS.

AND IF YOU CHANGE THAT, IT'S GOING TO HAVE A BIG CHANGE ON THE FACE OF THE WHOLE THING.

SO I'D LIKE TO KNOW WHAT'S ON YOUR CRITERIA SHEET.

DON'T EXPECT TO SEE IT, BUT I WOULD HOPE THAT YOU START TO CONSIDER SOME OF HOW THE OUTDOOR SPACE THERE, NOT JUST THE OUTDOOR CLASSROOM, WHICH OBVIOUSLY IS PROBABLY A HANDS OFF SITUATION, BUT THE PLAYGROUND SPACE, THE OUTDOOR SPACE IS CRUCIAL TO THE COMMUNITY'S SURVIVAL.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME. ENJOY THE REST OF YOUR EVENING.

YEAH. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. APPRECIATE IT. FIRST THING. THANK YOU. HAVE A GOOD EVENING.

THAT'S GREAT. AND I ADDED SOME OF ADAM'S COMMENTS INTO THE SHARED DOCUMENT FOR THE ARCHITECTS.

THANK YOU. THAT'S EXACTLY THE KIND OF FEEDBACK THAT MAKES ANY PLAN BETTER.

SO. OKAY, GREAT. JUST REAL QUICK THEN TO, TO WRAP THIS UP, TO GO BACK TO COMPLETE A LITTLE BIT OF THAT TO MAKE SURE FOLKS UNDERSTAND.

SO OPTION C, IF WE'RE TALKING ABOUT ADDRESSES ALL INFRASTRUCTURE NEEDS.

[03:00:05]

IN THIS CASE, PROBABLY SOMETHING LOWER. SO LET'S SAY I CALL IT A SIX.

IMPROVE SAFETY CONDITIONS FOR STUDENTS AND STAFF.

I WAS SAYING EARLIER IN MY MIND THAT WAS SAFETY SECURITY VESTIBULE.

IN THIS CASE, YOU'RE BASICALLY ADDING AN EXPANSION OUT BACK WITH A ACCESSIBLE ENTRANCE.

REGARDLESS OF WHETHER IT'S B OR C, YOU COULD PROBABLY WEIGHT THOSE TWO EQUALLY.

YEAH, BECAUSE IT'S REALLY ABOUT THE SAME. WE DID HAVE SOME SUGGESTIONS FOR THE ARCHITECTS ABOUT THAT BECAUSE THERE'S CONCERN ABOUT IF IT'S GOING TO BE A SECONDARY ENTRANCE OR IS THAT GOING TO BECOME THE PRIMARY ENTRANCE TO HIS POINT? WHAT'S THE FLOW OF THE CAMPUS? AND IF THAT'S NOW A SECONDARY ENTRANCE, DO WE NEED A SECONDARY MONITOR.

BECAUSE NOW YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE PEOPLE COMING THROUGH THAT ACCESSIBLE ENTRANCE ALL THE WAY THROUGH THE BUILDING TO GET TO THE MAIN ENTRANCE. SO THINKING ABOUT FLOW.

SO THEY SEEM EQUAL. SO FOR THE SAKE OF ARGUMENT, I'M CALLING THEM EQUAL. PROVIDES ADEQUATE AIR QUALITY LEARNING CONDITIONS FOR STUDENTS AND STAFF. YOU'RE RENOVATING THE WHOLE THING. AIR CONDITIONING OF BOTH.

THEY'RE PROBABLY EQUAL IN THAT FRONT. AND IN THAT SENSE.

PROVIDE SUITABLE PROGRAMMATIC SPACE FOR CURRENT AND PROGRAMING AND ENSURES FLEXIBILITY FOR PROGRAM NEEDS AND GROWTH.

IF THEY CAN BUILD ADEQUATE, YOU KNOW, ADEQUATE, EQUAL FACILITIES, THEN THEY WOULD BE EQUAL.

I GUESS THAT WOULD BE WE'D HAVE TO SEE B AND C TO SEE IS THERE EQUAL IS IT REALLY EQUAL PROGRAMMATIC OPTIONS ONCE THE RENOVATION IS DESIGNED COMPARED TO A NEW BUILDING? I THINK OF THINGS LIKE MAYBE NOT PROGRAM, BUT TOILET ROOMS, BATHROOMS THE OLD BUILDING DOES NOT HAVE. IT'S LITERALLY GOT ONE STUDENT SET OF STUDENT BATHROOMS AND ONE STAFF BATHROOM.

IF WE'RE MAINTAINING THAT BUILDING YOU'RE GETTING, YOU'RE GAINING BATHROOMS IN THE EXPANSION, YOU MAY GAIN MORE BATHROOMS OR MORE SMALL GROUP SPACE IN THE NEWER MODEL.

SO FOR THE SAKE OF ARGUMENT, LET'S SAY THAT. SO THEN YOU WOULD AGAIN YOU WOULD SCORE C IS HIGHER.

YOU'D HAVE TO DECIDE WHAT NUMBER YOU GIVE B, CALL IT SEVEN ALIGNS WITH AND SUPPORTS THE STRATEGIC PLAN PRIORITIES OF BELONGING WELLNESS. YOU KNOW THAT'S TO ME THE SPACE OF THE ABILITY TO ADD IN TO THINK ABOUT INCLUSION AND BELONGING, BEING ABLE TO BRING THE SPECIAL EDUCATION PROGRAMS MORE FULLY THERE.

AGAIN, SAME THING. IF WE CAN ONLY GET ONE CLASS IN IN OPTION B, BUT WE COULD GET TWO CLASSES IN AND OPTION C, THEN C WOULD BE TEN FIVE. DID YOU SAY THAT THE ARCHITECTS WERE WORKING ON ALTERNATIVES FOR. I WASN'T SURE WHICH. YOU SAID THERE MIGHT BE, LIKE, A MIDDLE GROUND PROPOSAL FOR THE MIDDLE SCHOOL.

HIGH SCHOOL? YEAH, THAT'S WHAT I WASN'T SURE.

YEAH. I THINK THE NET RESULT OF OUR CONVERSATION WITH THE ADMINS WAS THEY NEED THE CLASSROOM SPACE MORE THAN US.

SO MAYBE LIKE DOING THE SMALLER ADDITION OF DISTRICT OFFICES AND INSTEAD OF TURNING CLASSROOMS INTO DISTRICT OFFICES, MAINTAINING AND RENOVATING CLASSROOMS, AND ADDING THE WING.

YEAH, WOULD BE LIKE A POTENTIAL WIN, WIN. OKAY, SO THE SUSTAINABILITY EFFORTS IN A FINANCIALLY RESPONSIBLE WAY THAT WAS TRYING TO SPEAK TO THE GEOTHERMAL. SO I DON'T KNOW. WE'D HAVE TO ASK THEM AND JIM, I DON'T KNOW IF YOU REMEMBER IF WITH OPTION B WAS GEOTHERMAL VIABLE VERSUS OPTION C. I DON'T KNOW IF PROHIBITED EITHER.

OKAY. ALL RIGHT. SO MAYBE THAT'S AN EQUAL ONE.

AND MAYBE THAT DOESN'T MATTER. AND THAT'S WHAT I'M REALIZING.

SOME OF THESE CRITERIA MAYBE AREN'T GOING TO MATTER FOR SOME OF THESE PROJECTS.

MINIMIZES DISRUPTION TO LEARNING THAT IS PROBABLY GOING TO WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO TALK WITH THEM ABOUT THAT, BECAUSE BUILDING A NEW WHAT WE'VE LEARNED IS BUILDING NEW CONSTRUCTION OUTSIDE OF THE CURRENT FACILITY IS LESS DISRUPTIVE THAN RENOVATING.

RIGHT. SO. BUT BY THE SAME TOKEN, IF YOU'RE GOING TO TAKE DOWN ONE OF THE WINGS AND BUILD A WHOLE NEW EXPANSION, YOU'RE LOSING A GYMNASIUM FOR A SCHOOL YEAR. SO NOW YOUR PHYSICAL EDUCATION IS OUTSIDE.

YOUR LUNCH IS IN YOUR CLASSROOMS. TO WHAT DEGREE IS THAT DISRUPTIVE VERSUS.

YEAH. YOU KNOW, BUILDING HALF AND HALF SO THAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT WHAT STAGING THEY MIGHT BE ABLE TO DO ABOUT BUILD THE BACK HALF.

RIGHT. HAVE IT BE AVAILABLE AND THEN TEAR DOWN FRONT.

RIGHT. RIGHT. AND MAYBE WE EVEN THINK ABOUT WHAT MR. OAKOWITZ WAS SAYING IN TERMS OF LACK OF PLAYGROUND.

YOU KNOW, THE DISRUPTION TO THE OUTDOOR SPACE.

YEAH. YEAH. AND THOSE ARE ALL THE POTENTIAL PROBLEMS. SO WE'LL JUST AGAIN, MAKING UP NUMBERS, LET'S SAY C IS THE TEN AND MAYBE THEY'RE BOTH KIND OF NEAR EACH OTHER, BUT MAYBE IT'S AN EIGHT ON OPTION B.

BUT THEN YOU GET TO RESPECT THE DESIGN RESPECTS HISTORIC CHARACTER OF THE SCHOOL.

I THINK THAT'S WHERE B IS GOING TO WIN OUT, RIGHT? AND THEN AGAIN, DEPENDING ON THE DESIGN OF THE NEW OF C, YOU COULD DEBATE ABOUT RESPECT.

[03:05:04]

YEAH. SO THEN WHAT YOU DO IS YOU WOULD THEN GO BACK AND WEIGHT YOUR CRITERIA.

HOW IMPORTANT IS ADDRESSING CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE VERSUS ALL INFRASTRUCTURE WHICH IS MORE IMPORTANT OR IN SOME WAYS ANOTHER WAY TO DO IT IS WHAT OF THAT LIST OF CRITERIA IS MOST IMPORTANT.

RIGHT. THAT'S YOUR TEN. AND THEN YOU. YEAH. AND THEN YOU COMPARE EVERYTHING ELSE TO IT.

YOU FORCE RANK THEM. YOU COULD YOU CAN IF THAT'S HELPFUL TO THINK OF IT THAT WAY.

AND THEN ONCE YOU'VE WEIGHTED THAT, THEN WHAT I'LL DO IS I'LL PUT THE SPREADSHEET TOGETHER. THEN YOU'RE GOING TO WIND UP MULTIPLYING YOUR, YOUR WEIGHT BY YOUR CRITERIA TO GET LIKE A. YEAH, IT SEPARATES US AND TALLY IT ALL UP AT THE END OF THE DAY.

THAT'S THE NUMBERS. I THINK I WAS CONFUSED BECAUSE OF THE FIRST.

THE FIRST TWO BEING MUST AND YES. NO. I DIDN'T KNOW IF WE WERE DOING YES, NOS OR NUMBERS AND I GET IT.

OKAY. SO I WILL SHARE WITH JACKIE. WHEN SHE TURNS IT INTO A FANCY SURVEY, SHE'LL JUST HAVE OPTIONS TO PICK FROM.

SO YOU WON'T BE ABLE TO. YEAH THAT'S A GOOD POINT FOR THE NUMBERS OKAY.

YEAH. SO THAT'S KIND OF HOW IT WORKS. SO THAT'S WHAT WE'LL DO.

WE WILL DO OUR BEST I'LL GET YOU A SPREADSHEET YOU CAN EVALUATE I WILL DO IT BUCKET BY BUCKET AND HOLISTIC.

JUST BECAUSE I KNOW SOME IS GOING TO RESONATE MORE WITH OTHERS. AND I'LL TRY TO WEED OUT MAYBE A CRITERIA THAT JUST DON'T MAKE SENSE FOR SOME OF THE OPTIONS.

JUST TO MAKE IT SIMPLER, HOW ARE WE THINKING ABOUT I FORGET SOMEONE OVER HERE MENTIONED LIKE THE WINDOWS, FOR EXAMPLE. SOMEONE OVER HERE DID IT. LIKE, THERE DOESN'T SEEM A SPOT IN HERE YET.

AND MAYBE THAT'S OKAY, FOR WE HAVE FIVE DIFFERENT TYPES OF INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS.

SOME OF THEM MAY BE REALLY IMPORTANT, LIKE PROSPECT NEEDS A NEW ROOF.

THAT'S LIKE KEY. THE ARCHITECTS HAVE SORT OF SAID WE COULD PUT OFF DOING THE $10 MILLION OF WINDOWS, OR MAYBE WE SELECTIVELY DO SOME SUBSET OF THAT, AND THEN WE HAVE $10 MILLION TO REALLOCATE TO OTHER, MORE PRESSING. YOU WERE TRYING TO GET OUT HERE WITH ONLY THOSE ITEMS CLOSE TO FAILURE.

PRIORITIZE. YEAH. AND ALL IDENTIFIED. I WAS THINKING KIND OF THAT FEEDBACK ABOUT MOST URGENT.

BUT JACKIE. BUT THE YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT ACTUAL COMPONENTS OF INFRASTRUCTURE BUT INFRASTRUCTURE.

I CAN SEPARATE OUT THAT ARE ROOFS. NO. BUT I DON'T KNOW THAT THAT'S WORTHWHILE NECESSARILY.

LIKE IT MAY BE TOO GRANULAR FOR THIS AS LONG AS WE COME BACK TO THAT DISCUSSION AT SOME POINT.

OKAY. I THINK SO. AND MAYBE THAT'S IF WE SEE THAT.

LET ME THINK ABOUT IT, BECAUSE I'M THINKING IF MAYBE THE MIDDLE COLUMN OF KIND OF KIND OF THE PRIORITIZED THINGS.

IF THERE'S CONSENSUS AROUND, LET'S SEE IF THERE'S A WAY TO PRIORITIZE, THEN WE CAN DIG DEEPER INTO WHAT DOES PRIORITIZE MEAN.

IS THAT WINDOWS? IS THAT THE WORST MASONRY GETS DONE NOW AND YEAH.

YOU KNOW OR YEAH, EVEN MAYBE THERE'S A LINE FOR PEOPLE TO TAKE THE FIVE THINGS IN INFRASTRUCTURE AND PUT THEM IN.

WHAT'S THEIR PRIORITY. YEAH. YEAH. SOMETHING.

YEAH. YEAH I WAS AGREEING LIKE IT FEELS LIKE THERE'S JUST THAT ONE PIECE THAT'S A PIECE OF INFORMATION THAT IS MISSING RIGHT NOW.

I KNOW THAT THEY'RE WORKING ON IT AND WE'VE REACHED OUT, BUT IT'S LIKE IT'S JUST THIS.

IT'S JUST LIKE THIS BIG INFINITE OF INFRASTRUCTURE.

AND I THINK TO BE ABLE TO SEE WHAT'S THE MOST URGENT, WHAT CAN BE PUT OFF.

AND MAYBE IT'S LIKE YOUR POINT, LIKE IT'S BUCKETS, MAYBE IT'S NOT ALL THE WINDOWS, MAYBE THERE'S LIKE CERTAIN WINDOWS THAT HAVE TO BE DONE BECAUSE THEY'RE FURTHER ALONG. I DON'T I MEAN, I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE ANSWER IS, BUT IT'S THERE'S, THERE'S PROBABLY A DIFFERENT WAY, YOU KNOW, THAT WE CAN LOOK AT IT OR UNDERSTAND.

YEAH. OKAY. OKAY. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU FOR PUTTING NUMBERS IN EVERY COLUMN.

SHE'S GOING TO SEND YOU A SPREADSHEET AND SEND YOU A SPREADSHEET, AND IT'S GOING TO BE NUMBERS.

OKAY. ADA IS THE MUST. I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU'RE ASKING THAT QUESTION.

ANYTHING ELSE THAT YOU THINK IS A MUST? PUT A TAG.

HOW'S THAT? WE'LL KEEP IT SIMPLE. THANK YOU. I KNOW THIS IS TEDIOUS, BUT AGAIN, IT'S ABOUT PROCESS.

IT'S ABOUT CONVERSATION COMING TO CONSENSUS AND DOING IT IN A TRANSPARENT WAY.

SO IT IS GOING TO BE TIME CONSUMING, BUT WE'LL TRY TO MAKE IT AS EFFICIENT AND USE SOME OF THESE TOOLS TO, TO HELP US ALONG THE WAY. NO, IT'S US. IT'S AN US THING, NOT A YOU.

FOR SOME REASON, WE ARE HAVING TROUBLE. YEAH.

THANK YOU FOR TAKING US THROUGH THAT EXTENSIVELY.

YEAH. YOU'RE WELCOME.

YEAH, WE HAVE MORE. WE HAVE MUCH MORE OF A MEETING.

YOU CAN DO A FULL CONSENT AGENDA. YEAH, THAT IS AN OPTION.

A FULL, FULL, LIKE ALL THE WAY. ALL THE WAY. AWESOME.

YEP. WELL, MAYBE OKAY, SO WE'RE AT 6.6. WELL, I NEED TO DO THE DONATION, AND THEN LET'S JUST TALK ABOUT THIS FOR A SECOND.

[03:10:05]

OKAY, SO THEN I CAN'T DO IT FOR. OKAY, DO YOUR USUAL.

OKAY. DO A QUICK ONE AND THEN A LITTLE ONE DO A BIG I'M GOING TO DO BIG ONES AND THEN.

AND THEN STOP OKAY. ALL RIGHT. WHERE ARE WE. SEVEN.

[7.1 Motion to Accept Treasurer's Report for the Period Ended November 30, 2024 including Long-range Financial Plan]

[7.2 Motion to Approve 2024-2025 Budget Transfers]

[7.3 Motion to Approve the 2024-2025 Flow Through of Funds (Idea Grants 611 and 619) Agreements for Pelham Union Free School District Special Education Preschool and School Aged Students]

[7.4 Motion to Amend the Authorized Mileage Reimbursement Rate]

[7.5 Motion to Enter into an Agreement with Center For Responsive Schools, Inc.]

[7.6 Motion to Approve Pelham Memorial High School Travel Study Trip to France, February 11 to February 18, 2026]

SO MOVED SECOND. SECOND IS A RACE. YOU CAN HAVE IT.

SO OKAY, SO JIM TALKED ABOUT JIM TALKED ABOUT ALL OF THESE EXCEPT FOR 7.6 WHICH IS THE TRIP TO FRANCE FROM FEBRUARY 11TH TO FEBRUARY TO THE KIDS.

YES. OKAY. ARE THERE ANY COMMENTS OR QUESTIONS ON 7.1 TO 7.6? NO. OKAY. SO, ALL IN FAVOR? AYE. NO OBJECTIONS.

OH, I SHOULD HAVE WENT TO 7.7. ALL RIGHT. MOTION, MOTION.

[7.7 Motion to Dispose of Equipment]

SECOND. ALL IN FAVOR? AYE. NONE OPPOSED. OKAY, NOW WE HAVE A MOTION.

[7.8 Motion to Accept a Donation]

SECOND. OKAY, SO THIS IS THE DONATION WE TALKED ABOUT EARLIER FOR THE COMMUNICATION BOARDS.

YES. THANK YOU. THE COMMUNICATION BOARDS. I'LL JUST, I'LL READ IT.

RESOLVED THAT UPON THE RECOMMENDATION OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS, THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF THE PELHAM UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT DOES HEREBY ACCEPT THE MONETARY DONATION OF $23,363.75 FOR GRANT 2503 ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS, COMMUNICATION BOARDS, AND THAT GRATITUDE BE BESTOWED UPON ITS DONOR, THE PELHAM EDUCATION FOUNDATION.

SO THANK YOU TO THE PELHAM EDUCATION FOUNDATION FOR THE VISION AND HARD WORK.

CAN I JUST SAY FOR TO THE PELHAM EDUCATION FOUNDATION IN THE LAST COUPLE OF WEEKS, LIKE PROBABLY THE LAST 2 OR 3 MEETINGS WE'VE HAD, THEY'VE APPROVED SEVERAL GRANTS. ONE OF THEM WAS TO HAVE ALL THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL KIDS KIND OF GET TOGETHER AND HAVE AN OUTING.

THEY NOW HAVE APPROVED THIS. THEY'VE APPROVED SEVERAL.

SO WE REALLY LIKE TO THANK THEM. THEY'VE BEEN SUCH SUPPORT BY KIND OF GIVING US THE PUSH TO START SOME OF THE PROGRAMING THIS YEAR THAT WE COULD THEN ENABLE TO PUT INTO OUR BUDGET CYCLE FOR FOLLOWING YEARS.

SO THEY'RE COMING UP TO THE 30TH YEAR. PLEASE SUPPORT THE PELHAM EDUCATION FOUNDATION BECAUSE THE MONEY COMES RIGHT BACK TO US, TO THE TO THE COMMUNITY. SO PLEASE. THANK YOU.

THANK YOU. YEAH. THANK YOU. YEAH. OKAY. ALL IN FAVOR? AYE. NONE OPPOSED. OKAY. MOVING ON TO 8.1 TO 8.3.

[8.1 Policy 3291 - Parking (Second Reading)]

[8.2 Policy 5140 - Administration of the Budget (Second Reading)]

[8.3 Policy 6130 - Evaluation of Personnel (Second Reading)]

DO I HAVE A MOTION TO WAIVE THE THIRD READING FOR EACH? ALL OF THEM. FOR EACH OF THESE POLICIES? SO MOVED.

SECOND. NO CHANGES. RIGHT. NO CHANGES. OKAY. ALL IN FAVOR? AYE. THANK YOU FOR CONTINUING. SO NOW WE HAVE TO MOVE A MOTION TO ADOPT NOW.

OKAY. SO THEN I'LL TAKE A MOTION TO ADOPT POLICIES 32915140 AND 6130. SO MOVED. SECOND. ALL IN FAVOR? AYE. SO NOW I'LL THANK 60 FOR GOING THROUGH THAT. KEEP WORKING ON IT. I KNOW YOU GOT YOU GOT A BUNCH TO LEFT TO DO.

AND LIKE WE SAID, WE PAID YOU BY THE HOUR, SO.

YEAH. SO 9.1. YES. I'LL TAKE A MOTION

[9.1 Motion to Approve Schedule C - Instructional]

[9.2 Motion to Approve Schedule C - Non-Instructional]

[10.1 Motion to Approve Schedule D - Committee on Special Education (Confidential)]

AND 10.1? SO MOVED. SECOND. OKAY. I DID. DARRA.

DARRA. SO ANY COMMENTS OR QUESTIONS ON 9.1 OR 9.2? OKAY. ALL IN FAVOR? AYE. OKAY. NO. OKAY. NO OPPOSED.

DOES ANYONE HAVE NEW BUSINESS? JUST A TEN SECOND PERSONAL TRIBUTE.

[11.1 New Business]

[03:15:02]

AND SHE WILL BE VERY MUCH MISSED. THANK YOU. WILL.

OKAY. ANY OTHER NEWS? OKAY. THERE'S NO COMMUNICATIONS.

I'M SORRY. I WAS JUST GOING TO MAKE A PLUG FOR THE SAFETY MEETING NEXT WEEK.

I GUESS WE'LL HAVE A BOARD MEETING BEFORE THEN, BUT I THINK IT'S THE 30TH AT 7:00.

CLOCK VIRTUALLY TO DISCUSS THE THE PEDESTRIAN AND CAR SAFETY BY GLOVER AND FROM THE HIGH SCHOOL TO GLOVER.

SO SORRY. WHEN WAS THAT? IT'S VIRTUAL. I THINK IT'S IN PARENT SQUARE.

THERE HAVE BEEN ANNOUNCEMENTS FOR IT AND STUFF.

YEAH, YOU CAN REGISTER ONLINE. AND IF ANYONE'S LISTENING, WE'RE HAVING BOARD OF EDUCATION COFFEE TOMORROW MORNING IN A FEW HOURS.

YEAH. TOMORROW MORNING AT J CAFE. WE'LL BE THERE FROM WHEN THEY OPEN.

08:45, 9:00. WHO'S GOING? IT'S 8:45-09:00.. SO YOU TWO.

ARE WE GOOD WITH ME OR DID YOU WANT TO GO WILL? HANG ON, LET ME CHECK. I HAVEN'T BEEN THIS YEAR.

HANG ON. GIVE ME ONE SECOND. YOUR CALENDAR. CAN WE ADJOURN? OH, YEAH, WE CAN DO THAT. YEAH, I'LL TRY TO ADJOURN.

SO MOVED. SECOND. ALL IN FAVOR? AYE. THANK YOU EVERYONE.

THANK YOU. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, CABINET. THANK YOU.

THANK YOU. THANK YOU.

* This transcript was compiled from uncorrected Closed Captioning.