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and highly impacted students there at
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» Um, is there any does the board want to
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celebrations, I open it to the board so
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they'd like to speak to that. We feel
like that was our first major decision

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as a board. So, so to see it come to
fruition for me was very

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just yay, we're doing it. we're we're on
the right track to to provide a a place

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a safe place for those students who are
highly impacted is I think it was a good

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first move for us.
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talked to, they look at it as an
upgrade. They have more space. The

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building is full of light and it's just
going to be a great place.

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that was key, right? Because the last
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was what would happen to the

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if we lost those right facilities that
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was just
waiting that be your first act that

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really calmed a lot of some of that that
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a tone well for you know how we're going
to how we're going proceed.

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wasn't fighting until the principal
why he liked the name of silver uh

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silver key because silver is a metal but
is refined and it looks brighter and

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brighter and that's kind of what they're
doing with these young kids. And yeah,

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and it's hard to go through what they're
doing just like it is when you're

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refining silver and reaching your peaks.
and they just made me love the name

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more. It's hard for me to get away from
it being Sharon El. So, if anybody can

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Great.
Um, okay. We also signed our

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transportation memo under memo of
understanding with the absentee school

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district. um that was done at our last
board meeting and that was brought to a

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short-term end the discussion about
where to place transportation

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facilities. So, we we're thrilled with
that. It's a three-year agreement with

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the potential to extend. Um we think
it'll be great that we have our

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transportation folks and their
transportation folks working side by

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side and um and working through those
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interesting how that came about because
initially there it was kind of this

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nogo. But as we hired people and these
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they were able to see a need and come
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was really really great. So um we're
excited about that. Any any board member

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» Um I've had some questions. Are you what
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guys still going to be able to dictate
your start time and Yes. How

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» do you want to talk to that at all? How
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the the trans transportation center
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» ownership of our our own schedule?
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of inventory in parts. We have any
interest in that a portion and for the

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first two years there's about equal
value for it. We and we didn't even know

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where to start. We looked up the value
of a parking space that's electrified

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for a bus and took the bottom end of
that. And so we're giving up our

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interest in those parks.

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onto the property for because there's
more office staff. So turn that into

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office space and then over that last
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what the rent would be for that last
year. So we really don't pay any other

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than interest in the parts and giving up
the ownership of that trailer over the

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three years we're there. So it's it's
great for both. They're getting a little

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value out of the space they have plus
the trailer they training in. If we

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uh the other talked about is as we
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perhaps we could even build a training
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continue they can continue to take
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the next decade but it may last for
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and forth just value for the parts and
building. Renee tell me if I

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misunderstood your question but she was
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dependency
independent of the

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» we'll get two we've hired our own
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take over two and a half bays and we'll
just be independent

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uh the only thing that we'll share is
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will share it doesn't make sense

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there and then there will be a service
full of service center people that will

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share those duties so they'll We ask
them each employees but we'll share 40%

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about of their contracts. The rest we're
apart from them. So we have our own

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mechanics, we have our own
administration, our own routers that

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will work independent from that.
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for those service people in that
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» Yep.
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introduce this is Dave Mau is our um
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operations. Was he were you at county?
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» Um, yeah. So, any any other board member
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This is a win-win. This is this is this

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is something and that I hope that extend
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have our own if right location wise
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well. There's enough space.
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» It's three block. Yeah. I mean, you
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» it it just I mean, it just is a it's a
win-win. So, we're hopeful that we got

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any good things.
>> Were your wise to do the

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this particular is a big deal but I
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is high levels of trust between us and
Aspen Peak and they've been fantastic to

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work with if you watch the board meeting
tonight we do another that's we've

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already signed one for the alternative
schools we're going to sign another one

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tonight for the online portion of it
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» adult ed
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huge difference that we have a great
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things. So um the other thing we have we
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vision and values and um we'll be
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So, I'm not going to spend a lot of time
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that with you guys to to be able to
review. And also, uh, in starting our

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discussion regarding school boundaries
and consolidations, we did a I think

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we've done a really great job in
involving our public early in this whole

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process. We started a we did a cluster
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of the high schools to um solicit
feedback and understanding and really

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have a conversation at tables with um
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administrators,
um my uh at large constituents about

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what they would like to see the schools
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constitutes a robust and thriving
school. So, we have kind of we've used

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AI to make this cute little graphic. Um,
so this is kind of what what we've come

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up with in conjunction with our our
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approximately 500 North State Street in
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that will it will it will allow us to
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have done here, right? You have this
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services. We recognize the value of
having the value of proximity and so

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having all of our departments in one
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phenomenal. If if you watched Alpine
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had to um space things out. They have
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is where we're doing our board meetings.
That's in Lynon. They have the port.

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They've got CTV and American sport now
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looking forward to a campus that will
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I think it's going to be a reduction in
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There's not going to be as much time
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meetings and stuff. I could see it it it
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» collaboration as well.
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» collaboration?
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working together. Um
you're I mean in in their own little

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pockets and also collaboratively as as a
district. That's what we want to

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um model for our schools is
collaboration. So we're hopeful that

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this is going to be excited about that.
Also, I just wanted to mention we have

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done both of our hiring from Alpine
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hires that we've done from outside the
district, but um the way that things

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were set up, it it was a benefit to us
to hire and we had a willing pool of of

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people to draw from that needed needed
jobs. So, um I would say we're 80 or 90

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Joe 80 to 90%. Um, and these these
employees who are concurrently um,

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working for Alpine School District, we
have them for one day a week or about

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20% of their time right now. And then at
the at the turn of the quarter, we'll

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get them for an additional 20% or
another day and then we'll just get at

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each we get an additional amount of
their time and their jobs at AS are are

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winding down and things with us. So
um to kind of get the folks at Alpine

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School they are paying out.
Yeah. So that's kind of fun now. Yeah.

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And kind of this is kind of a a more of
a shout out than a direction. Um but I

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feel like the last few years the ORM has
done really well and this person right

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back here Carrie has done a great job of
this is um always looking for

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efficiencies. Just recently, we had a
manager um quit and

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we split up her job to three people to
just see if that will work before just

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We've done that a few times. Sometimes
it works, but it doesn't.

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But if it comes through more of these
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well and I think we did that I mean
early days Joe did that with his

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creating his cabinet team. We recognized
the the value of having our assistant

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superintendent uh have more direct
contact with the school. So we

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eliminated the layer of supervisors.
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reactive. So, so we are that also um in
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the other districts about actually doing
our own print shop and in our district

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um in Alpine, they've had a a higher
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that so we will house that under a
different department and so those admins

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will handle that and you can hire um
less high operations there like that say

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I didn't I didn't I didn't want to say
that we're very aware of any because I

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have seen you doing that but I just
wanted to kind of more of a shout out to

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some of our folks
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with our budgets
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» yeah I was just going to mention on the
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funding from that is coming from a
building fund that Alpine has kind of

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built up. So, it's not from any new bond
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capital that we're utilizing from the
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» Good point. Thank you.
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» Thank you.
>> We're not having the bond for that. It's

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great.
>> We're going on to the next item.

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Um just because I know almost everybody
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Okay, let's do quick introductions.
Let's start. I'll start and then we'll

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just go around and then

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I'm car by the mayor

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at school district assistant
superintendent over teaching and

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learning secondary and communications.
See, we're combining.

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» There you go. I knew it.
Karen Carter,

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» Joe Jensen, superintendent, Tempogus.
>> Jason Sunberg, business administrator.

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» Excuse me. Tyler Bigu, director of
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» Pete Wley, city of board communications.
>> And Dave Mau, operations,

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» Rex, school board. I represent form
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» David Smith, school board, and I
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and all of Vineyard.
Wilson, uh, school board. I represent

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kind of the Mountain View area and the
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board member representing South

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school board and I represent

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[clears throat]
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um board president and I represent all
of Lynden and RPG that guy doesn't

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represent South
>> Jon Myers assistant fire chief for fire

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community services for lawy
>> Steve Earl, city attorney.

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» Brandon Nelson, CFO
begin, director of community.

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» Harry, deputy city manager.
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I took a bite. So did I. [laughter]
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» Yeah. Actually, we're going to change
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value. We're going to turn the time over
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sorry, Teresa.

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» So, we're gonna have um Sterling Hilton
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document over present values and we just
think it's worth taking a minute or two

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to share with you
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content of this vision of value because
it really is

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more than just a document that is nice.
It's really guiding everything that we

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do, how we approach things and what
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um it might just be worth noting that we
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over
how long months, seven months. Um we

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board members actually started talking
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That was actually one of our first
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Um, we realized that we needed some kind
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we were looking to who were we going to
hire as our superintendent and as our

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business manager.
We we didn't have anything nearly as

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well developed together, but we did
start talking about what's important to

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us. What where are our commonalities?
Where do we go? How are we going to be

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working together? And we had the luxury
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creating something. So we really aren't
like or city coming into having a vision

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that's already been established or that
sort of thing that adopt. We we have the

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responsibility but also the luxury of
saying who are we? What do we want to

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be? And so that's that's what this
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nicely about how we see ourselves and
what we want to accomplish and what's

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important to us. Um it wasn't just us.
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draft, um we then went out and felt that
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all of our stakeholders. And so we met
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we went to those schools. We met at four
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parents. Um we met with the students. We
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the administration and we spoke to them
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give a badge to share what them did that
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took all of that information and revised
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then through study sessions finally came
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it's approved, but it is living. So,
we're not it when we when we find things

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that we want to add to or tweak or
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described um really represents and shows
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the values, I think it illustrates that
we truly do value the perspectives and

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experiences of students, educators,
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illustrates that these values aren't
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who we are and how we operate and how we
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it's not just us as a board. This isn't
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» So, it's a collective. I think it'd be
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before I open up to any questions that
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each of our board members, they wouldn't
mind to just quickly, and I know I say

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that quickly because I've been in study
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but if you would quickly identify
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[clears throat] that is that resonates
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this really is important and it captures
valuable. Could we do that?

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» Yeah. Grace.
>> Grace, do you want to start?

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» Um, I really like the joyful, thriving
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to be happy and joyful and but it means
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because like some teachers, we got some
feedback of, oh, you can't make somebody

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be happy. But if they're really learning
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is is something that just goes a long
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works.
>> Uh I'll take two if that's okay. The

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sixth bullet point at the bottom the
back end of that sentence always assumes

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goodwill. I think it's so easy to make a
judgment in your mind and

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» assume goodwill. That's going to be a
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the rectangle.
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no. I'm a former math teacher. It
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Have a little tickle in my throat, so
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really love continuous learning and
improvement. I think when whenever we're

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standing still, um it's not a good place
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we're interested in continuously finding
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professionally and for us.

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My value that stands out to me is we
value collaboration and accountability

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and uh with our and especially with our
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within our boundaries. That's why we're
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I I'm going to speak. I I love the high
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is an articulation of something that we
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towards for our students. It's all about
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belonging. That's a new that was a
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each. see what

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» I really like the fact that yes,
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but we're really working to help them
become and um these uh character traits

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and citizenship
um traits are going to help them in

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their lifelong learning and um lifelong
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» [clears throat]
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because I was afraid you guys were going
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ones.
>> Mine is together. We That's That's my

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favorite part of the whole vision and
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we recognize as a board that this is a
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just us. It's not together, but it can
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it's also together. We our district
together. we are community and together

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we um and so I've really embraced that
idea that education is a community

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effort and needs to be um supported by
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shaped by our community. So grateful for
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» and Joe and Jason and anyone else. Now I
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comprehension

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and I've been here for a couple of
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to watch this started before me and it
hasn't changed a lot. They might feel

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like it changed a lot because they were
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as new people have joined the team, you
know, really in some cases because they

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made a commitment to join the team
later. But I reflect on these with them

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because what I make sure they know is
that this group believes it and lives

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like they actually do. I try to
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think in public service, right, you feel
the same thing. Sometimes people move

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out. They're like, "Oh, who are these
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us?" And we are saying together we and
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always assuming goodwill and
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impressive like I said to join later in
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text right they live by these values and
all the meetings and interactions I've

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had with them.
>> Great. Yeah. So any questions around our

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vision and values or comments? We'd love
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collaborate with you around.
>> Um it's it's very impressive. I I can

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tell how much you care about it and I I
just think setting that intentionality

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right up front uh has all kinds of
positive music

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that been happening with you. I
particularly love the motto the

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My question is um with that process of
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multiple purposes I'm sure but one of
those purposes was to receive feedback

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and to change uh things for that um what
changed because all that

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that's where I stumbled genuine
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learning. That's what he added and
belonged and that our

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visit to those schools and the students
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the students that that they
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student and educator safety and
well-being. safety was not a word there

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through a lot of the other things wasn't
there and again that was another thing

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that came from students and stakeholders
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to us and so that came into it and then
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» yeah and then we then if you want to
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several things that um changed several
there were things that changed there we

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added selfmastery that was there we
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» this was it it was interesting because
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there's not kindness that's here
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what we were what
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especially the students. I think the
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sessions were
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and I have to tell this just funny
little game. did junior high. My kids

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when they first went, my oldest, we were
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be a little packed between classes,
right? And I went in the office to check

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out one of my kids and the the aid the
the office staff um said, "Well, I'll

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just go out and watch for said to me,
oh, I don't think you want to go out."

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other and not saying excuse me, you
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empathy for for just those simple little
things. And I see this reflected in your

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goals here, right? To teach that
kindness. And I love it because yeah,

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you you have to learn that sometimes you
forget. So, thank you.

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» And I liked that you went to 28 schools
and talked to the students. Okay. I'm

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picturing and I'm going I know a
kindergartener isn't going to say a

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whole lot now just but but the idea of
how respectful that is even if

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[clears throat] the students were
younger junior high and high school I

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you talk and that's very respectful
recognizing who you truly serving and

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and I really appreciate that you took
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with student or maybe did I okay
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each school
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out who was there
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» well they started to talk and it became
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bring back true moo milk [laughter]

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» fruit moo milk did not make it to our
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our
>> so we pass that information we'll pass

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that information along
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pizza or Chick-fil-A nuggets
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you taking the time to engage the
students as well thank you

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» and Joe, this had you written. I worked
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Tim. I really appreciate I can see I
mean I know it was the board for

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» make it clear it was the board for the
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who was eight or nine
we were sworn in.

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» I guess I feel like I guess I [laughter]
>> like you'll mesh well because I see a

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lot of Joe in this too and so I think
you hired the right guy then for for

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what
>> I think you did the I think we did.

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Okay, I'll let you discuss that after.

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» Thank you. This you can hold us to this.
This can inform you. This is this is who

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we are. This is what we're about and it
is living and as we improve and find

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ways that we can improve upon it, we're
going to change it as well. But it will

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guide us.
>> All right. Thank you.

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Next item is uh Jansen Robust School.
>> Okay. Uh Len, it's it's interesting you

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say that because I only applied for one
district. Um and that's because of this.

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I I hired was kind of amazing. But I
only I only applied for one district

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because of who was elected. Um, and this
board genuinely lives these. I'll echo

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what Tyler said. Yeah, I what I've
observed it really is together we. Not

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just together we the board, not just
together we keep in schools, but

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together we that's why we're here today,
right? It's why we're trying to make

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sure we have great relationships with
all four horse cities, but also with

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parent as well that that parents, you
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that kind of thing. So, I'll just point
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three uh inherent transparency, open
communication, and valuing the

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perspectives and experiences of
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community members because that's what
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document, we after we did the 28 visits
during the summer, we started to say

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we're not going to start our massive
boundary study, right, with asking the

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question, what schools need to close.
We're going to start our boundary study

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by saying, what do we want our schools
to be, right? What do we want each

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student to experience in their school?
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community again. We did a cluster
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and we had great attendance. There were
upwards of 250 people between those four

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cluster meetings. And really it was
workshop style. It was not us telling

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them what they want. It was us asking
what do you want in your schools? Right?

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And this is kind of a compilation of
that. We also then took it to our

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principles and said, "Okay, what do we
really want our schools to be?" Um, and

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so with all that feedback, it came back
and we we divided it into two parts. And

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we've represented this here as a as a
building, right, of a school, but on the

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bottom is kind of the foundation, you
know, teacher quality, effective

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leadership, school culture, and then
school safety policy and operations.

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Those are things that have to exist in
every school no matter what in order to

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be robust and effective. And then
everything above the foundation were the

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things that are related to size and
physical facilities and and those types

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of things that are more related to a
boundary study type thing. And so we're

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obviously going to pay really close
attention to the foundation.

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us are these things. Um, when a school
gets too small, comprehensive offerings

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become difficult. At the elementary
school, it's hard to have four

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specialties if it's a tiny school. At
the high school, it's hard to have a

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full array of AP and all the other uh
offerings if it's too small. And so,

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and then you can kind of look through
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really tiny elementary it's it's hard to
have an assistant principal from a from

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a cost standpoint. It's much more doable
if the school's 600ish rather than

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300ish, right? And so these are kind of
proxies for size, but the it's not

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necessarily about size. It's about
getting to truly robust schools. And

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over on the left or the right hand side,
you can see there kind of where we we

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got to with optimal school sizes based
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Jason's going to then talk about kind of
where we are with our massive boundary

419
00:34:26,480 --> 00:34:33,760
study. Um, but this is really what's
driving those questions. And today's a

420
00:34:30,960 --> 00:34:38,480
big day because uh well and I forgot to
mention there we actually split into two

421
00:34:35,599 --> 00:34:44,480
parts because there were really two
distinct parts and they wanted to not

422
00:34:41,839 --> 00:34:50,560
be confused with the public. So in in
July already the board has voted to put

423
00:34:47,760 --> 00:34:56,560
in study the configuration funds which
is the newly nth graders to the high

424
00:34:53,599 --> 00:35:01,280
school and then if we do that likely
moving the sixth graders to the middle

425
00:34:58,320 --> 00:35:06,240
school and having 85.
Um so there's that part. That part's

426
00:35:03,839 --> 00:35:12,480
officially open already. Today in our
board meeting, uh we anticipate that

427
00:35:08,640 --> 00:35:18,960
we'll vote to study the actual schools
that would be affected significantly by

428
00:35:15,839 --> 00:35:24,800
um any kind of consolidation or closure.
Um again, one one thing I would point

429
00:35:21,200 --> 00:35:30,320
out as far as the transparency part,
we're approaching this different than

430
00:35:26,800 --> 00:35:35,599
normal. uh normally
one school is named as a closure

431
00:35:33,680 --> 00:35:40,079
and we don't name any other schools that
are affected heavily by that closure.

432
00:35:38,240 --> 00:35:44,400
So, you know, the the most obvious
example of that is Sarah Park and

433
00:35:42,880 --> 00:35:52,079
Hillrest.
When that happened, only Hillrest was

434
00:35:48,640 --> 00:35:56,160
studied as a closure. But for those of
you who are familiar with that

435
00:35:53,040 --> 00:35:59,760
situation, did Sarah Park close?
>> It was renamed.

436
00:35:57,839 --> 00:36:04,240
» Oh, but it was it no longer exist.
>> But if you think about it, it was a new

437
00:36:01,920 --> 00:36:09,119
building. It was a new name. It was a
new student body. they were they were

438
00:36:06,400 --> 00:36:14,800
affected just as much as Hillrest. And
so we're we're saying we're going to

439
00:36:10,560 --> 00:36:20,000
name Sarah Park and Hillrest situation.
Um, one other thing that's I think

440
00:36:17,839 --> 00:36:26,720
valuable about looking at the whole
district is it gives us better solutions

441
00:36:24,800 --> 00:36:31,680
because sometimes we think of closures
in terms of this school and this school

442
00:36:29,440 --> 00:36:36,000
coming together. by looking at it
holistically, we actually have a lot

443
00:36:33,440 --> 00:36:41,760
more options to make better decisions
long term. So with that, I'm probably

444
00:36:38,880 --> 00:36:45,920
stealing a little bit of
um anyway, so that's robust school

445
00:36:44,320 --> 00:36:51,280
criteria. That's what's driving what we
do. You can obviously see the echoes

446
00:36:48,000 --> 00:36:55,440
from from the vision of values in what
we've done and how we

447
00:36:53,440 --> 00:37:00,240
» is that is this document available on
your website? I'm just thinking people

448
00:36:57,040 --> 00:37:04,720
who might be watching. Yes, this this
document looked a lot like this document

449
00:37:02,000 --> 00:37:08,079
just this week even. Um we're working on
making this one more than just text.

450
00:37:07,520 --> 00:37:12,240
» Okay.
>> But this you posted it yesterday on

451
00:37:10,640 --> 00:37:15,119
» our Facebook page. I saw it online.
>> Tyler, is it on our website?

452
00:37:13,440 --> 00:37:20,079
» I haven't added to the website.
>> We do have a um boundary study

453
00:37:17,200 --> 00:37:23,280
frequently asked questions web page.
>> Um so please go to that with any

454
00:37:22,880 --> 00:37:26,880
questions.
>> It's not this. It's the text one I think

455
00:37:24,880 --> 00:37:30,880
is there right? The robust scroll.
>> We have access. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

456
00:37:28,640 --> 00:37:36,640
and and that frequently asked questions
page might be a good thing link or

457
00:37:33,520 --> 00:37:42,560
provide a QR code in the in the ORM city
communications those types of things so

458
00:37:38,880 --> 00:37:45,680
we can get out to more than just people
who might be following

459
00:37:44,079 --> 00:37:49,680
» okay thank you yeah I just want to make
sure that those who might be tuning in

460
00:37:47,599 --> 00:37:52,640
have a place they can go to look at the
document that we're talking about

461
00:37:51,520 --> 00:37:56,480
» and I appreciate you saying that mayor
because I I actually had a list of

462
00:37:54,560 --> 00:37:59,520
questions people gave me to ask y'all I
don't think it's necessar I've asked a

463
00:37:57,760 --> 00:38:03,200
few of them just so it would get out on
the airwaves, right? Not necessarily

464
00:38:01,359 --> 00:38:06,320
appropriate right now, but I appreciate
you're referencing that because that's

465
00:38:05,200 --> 00:38:09,640
kind of why a lot of people are
listening in.

466
00:38:12,480 --> 00:38:16,800
» Well, thank you.
>> Joe, can I ask you a question about

467
00:38:16,160 --> 00:38:20,079
number two?
>> Yeah.

468
00:38:17,920 --> 00:38:23,040
» Um, I mean, we all want healthy
environments. We all want collaborative

469
00:38:21,440 --> 00:38:27,359
environments, but I I guess I'm not
entirely sure how you're measuring. Uh

470
00:38:25,839 --> 00:38:33,599
you've indicated here that you would
like to have three five classes per

471
00:38:29,760 --> 00:38:38,160
grade. And I can understand reasons why
being able to make students of as they

472
00:38:35,520 --> 00:38:45,440
go through classes might make a lot of
sense, but um

473
00:38:42,320 --> 00:38:50,960
so much of learning is relational.
Um, and so I have to imagine that in

474
00:38:47,440 --> 00:38:55,040
that bucket you care about the quality
of relationships that students have with

475
00:38:53,599 --> 00:38:59,200
each other, that they have with their
mentors and their instructors.

476
00:38:57,680 --> 00:39:04,320
Um,
and I I know sometimes as size gets

477
00:39:01,920 --> 00:39:08,000
bigger, it's easier to fall through the
cracks

478
00:39:06,000 --> 00:39:13,280
and that some of those relationships
that

479
00:39:10,560 --> 00:39:18,960
might feel fractured or fragmented over
time. And so I was wondering um if you

480
00:39:16,320 --> 00:39:24,000
could speak a little bit how you measure
that healthy collaborative environment.

481
00:39:22,000 --> 00:39:29,359
» Yeah. So and what you're talking about
really is the bottom left as well,

482
00:39:26,400 --> 00:39:32,320
right? It's it's high quality teaching,
right? And right in the middle of that

483
00:39:30,720 --> 00:39:38,960
it says ability to build relationships
with students. Um so so I think you're

484
00:39:36,880 --> 00:39:43,599
exactly right. That's one of those
foundational pieces that that can be

485
00:39:41,599 --> 00:39:49,359
related to this somewhat, but really
what we're talking about regarding

486
00:39:46,320 --> 00:39:56,160
five classes per grade is that when you
get down to one or two classes per

487
00:39:52,480 --> 00:40:00,480
grade, it's much harder. It the student
experience actually suffers a little bit

488
00:39:58,079 --> 00:40:03,280
because sometimes there's a group of
students you need to break up and if you

489
00:40:01,839 --> 00:40:09,280
have nowhere to put, you know, if you
can't break them up, it's hard. Um it's

490
00:40:06,320 --> 00:40:14,960
a same thing for teacher collaboration.
Uh we believe that that teachers are

491
00:40:11,599 --> 00:40:19,359
much better when they're collaborating
and it's hard to collaborate with

492
00:40:16,320 --> 00:40:25,040
yourself on a team of one or maybe a
team of half. And another way that

493
00:40:22,079 --> 00:40:30,320
starts to look is sometimes if you don't
get to that three to five classes, the

494
00:40:28,240 --> 00:40:35,359
class sizes get really wonky or you end
up with grade splits, which are not a

495
00:40:33,599 --> 00:40:43,280
it's not ideal to have a second, third
grade split. Um, and if you have 38 kids

496
00:40:41,359 --> 00:40:49,359
in a class and that's all you've got for
your first grade, then we have schools

497
00:40:45,839 --> 00:40:54,160
that that are in that situation.
Logistically, it's really hard to split

498
00:40:51,920 --> 00:40:59,040
into two classes of 19 from a financial
standpoint, right? And so then you end

499
00:40:56,720 --> 00:41:04,640
up with with
you have enough students to justify at

500
00:41:01,920 --> 00:41:11,040
least three teachers. A lot of those
things get in and out. But to your

501
00:41:07,520 --> 00:41:15,680
point, it's still every student needs to
have those types of relationships with

502
00:41:13,280 --> 00:41:20,880
with and when it's not just teachers.
It's also that a teacher fosters a

503
00:41:18,000 --> 00:41:24,079
culture of connection between students,
right? And even a connection between

504
00:41:22,480 --> 00:41:28,160
what they're learning and the student
and all of those kinds of

505
00:41:27,119 --> 00:41:34,800
» Yeah.
I just want to point out that school

506
00:41:30,640 --> 00:41:39,680
size does not necessarily translate to
large school size doesn't translate to

507
00:41:36,720 --> 00:41:46,560
large class size. As a matter of fact,
we have more options uh with a bigger um

508
00:41:43,119 --> 00:41:54,400
overall enrollment to reduce class size.
So the we're still targeting the same

509
00:41:50,079 --> 00:41:59,280
numbers of per grade per classroom. So
this is not about increasing class size.

510
00:41:57,040 --> 00:42:04,720
when we're talking about perhaps
increasing this size as this

511
00:42:02,079 --> 00:42:11,119
is I was going to also add when Dr.
Jensen visited with us, visited all 29

512
00:42:08,079 --> 00:42:17,359
um schools. This is feedback we got from
parents who probably want a choice

513
00:42:13,599 --> 00:42:24,720
between teachers and students and uh
principles of the the elementary saying

514
00:42:21,119 --> 00:42:28,079
we 300's hard. We need 500 600 and
teachers who said we want somebody to

515
00:42:26,480 --> 00:42:31,359
collaborate with. We want to be able to
have a learning partner or several

516
00:42:29,839 --> 00:42:37,440
learning partners. That's where we got
kind of this this what we're thinking is

517
00:42:33,599 --> 00:42:41,440
from that group saying this is
maybe just on this one more comment. I

518
00:42:39,760 --> 00:42:49,440
appreciate those responses. I think
they're great and um it makes good sense

519
00:42:45,119 --> 00:42:53,280
to me. Um,
one of the things that's not here, it

520
00:42:50,960 --> 00:42:57,119
doesn't necessarily belong here that
becomes a really big issue whenever we

521
00:42:54,880 --> 00:43:03,920
start talking about consolidation
is um, identity and a person's identity

522
00:43:01,839 --> 00:43:07,440
is so wrapped up in the school they go
to, right?

523
00:43:05,839 --> 00:43:11,760
um
schools, good, you know, good schools

524
00:43:08,800 --> 00:43:17,359
that foster community also foster an
identity around that school and pe

525
00:43:14,000 --> 00:43:20,800
people grow up. I still of course have
an identity of the elementary school I

526
00:43:19,040 --> 00:43:26,720
went to
um because it shaped much of who I

527
00:43:23,760 --> 00:43:33,200
developed uh into. And so I just
encourage you as you start thinking

528
00:43:29,680 --> 00:43:39,200
about this tonight and and beyond
that there is an identity track here is

529
00:43:36,800 --> 00:43:45,040
how do we ensure that all of that great
identity work that has gone into schools

530
00:43:41,119 --> 00:43:47,760
over time is maintained in some way and
celebrated. I just don't want that to be

531
00:43:47,040 --> 00:43:51,599
neglected.
>> Absolutely. And maybe Jen and Grace can

532
00:43:50,319 --> 00:43:56,480
talk to this because they've both
experienced a consolidation.

533
00:43:54,160 --> 00:44:01,520
Um, and one of the things we've talked a
lot about and we'll we actually have

534
00:43:58,560 --> 00:44:06,960
scheduled some focus groups with patrons
that will be in any of these schools

535
00:44:03,200 --> 00:44:10,800
that are involved is the transition. How
we go about that transition matters,

536
00:44:09,359 --> 00:44:16,560
right? Being really intentional about
bringing PTSAs together, bringing uh

537
00:44:13,839 --> 00:44:23,839
SEC's together, doing any kind of
consolidation. Um making that student

538
00:44:20,400 --> 00:44:28,079
experience, uh even allowing for time
and space to both celebrate and mourn

539
00:44:25,680 --> 00:44:32,960
the school that that might be actually
shuttering its doors. We've talked about

540
00:44:31,359 --> 00:44:37,920
what's going to be our policy. do we
rename or no or why or do we like leave

541
00:44:35,440 --> 00:44:41,839
that up to those community members and
all of those types of things because it

542
00:44:39,440 --> 00:44:46,240
does matter how and you guys have both
experienced it.

543
00:44:43,119 --> 00:44:50,319
» Yeah. So, um with the valid you know
there was um

544
00:44:48,480 --> 00:44:55,599
the time there was a time issue and
there was a lawsuit against the district

545
00:44:53,200 --> 00:44:59,760
about it and so every they couldn't
officially do things until I think it

546
00:44:57,680 --> 00:45:03,680
was June 1 or June 51. I don't remember
when it was, but it made it so that

547
00:45:02,160 --> 00:45:07,280
every
knew we were closing, but we couldn't do

548
00:45:05,680 --> 00:45:12,240
anything that the district wouldn't
support us in any type of celebration.

549
00:45:10,480 --> 00:45:18,880
The teachers couldn't move their
classrooms until the middle of the

550
00:45:14,880 --> 00:45:24,960
summer. And it it to me it just it it
cemented in my in my mind that we need

551
00:45:21,359 --> 00:45:30,000
to we need to mourn. We need to honor
that identity. you will even if your

552
00:45:27,520 --> 00:45:34,800
school closes, you will I my kids are
still Valley View Hawks and the the ones

553
00:45:32,880 --> 00:45:38,400
that have graduated from there and I I
don't imagine that that's going to

554
00:45:36,160 --> 00:45:41,680
change that they can have that identity.
Just because the school is closed

555
00:45:39,599 --> 00:45:48,560
doesn't mean that that is gone and we
need to celebrate it and and and

556
00:45:45,440 --> 00:45:53,760
mourn it and move on and recognize that
we can take what's good

557
00:45:51,119 --> 00:46:00,079
and let's let's let's bring that and and
create something great.

558
00:45:56,640 --> 00:46:05,200
Yeah, I my kids were at Sarah Park when
it was combined with Hillrest to make

559
00:46:02,000 --> 00:46:09,359
Centennial. And I would say the majority
there might still be a few people who

560
00:46:06,880 --> 00:46:14,400
really didn't like the combo, but in the
end it was a really good school to be in

561
00:46:11,760 --> 00:46:21,200
a a better facility. There were severe
safety issues with his part and and also

562
00:46:18,000 --> 00:46:25,200
having more grades and kids and more
options have been something that parents

563
00:46:23,040 --> 00:46:29,760
overall have really liked. What didn't
go over well was the transition. And

564
00:46:28,319 --> 00:46:35,520
that's where I would like to see things
go differently. And a lot of that was

565
00:46:31,599 --> 00:46:40,000
because um I think
the district, bless their hearts, really

566
00:46:37,760 --> 00:46:44,319
tried to do things well and do it right,
but they didn't get enough community

567
00:46:41,599 --> 00:46:47,680
input of what the community wants. And
they did a lot of and it was just kind

568
00:46:46,240 --> 00:46:51,760
of thrown in this is how it's going to
be and this is how it's going to be done

569
00:46:49,119 --> 00:46:56,480
and we just swap off and I think that
can be done differently and the

570
00:46:54,640 --> 00:47:01,880
community coming together and likening
each other before they come together

571
00:46:58,880 --> 00:47:01,880
when

572
00:47:05,599 --> 00:47:13,920
» um I just want to kind of explain to
them I lived here 35 years ago there

573
00:47:11,839 --> 00:47:17,680
people lived here my whole life but I'm
just going to tell you my impression

574
00:47:15,040 --> 00:47:24,240
from having been here 35 years something
I truly appreciated is the identity of

575
00:47:21,359 --> 00:47:30,720
the areas of forum
I knew that when I was by Windsor

576
00:47:26,960 --> 00:47:34,240
Elementary, I could find Windsor Park, I
could find the Windsor softball fields

577
00:47:32,400 --> 00:47:41,200
when that was the assigned play place
for my child to go do their wreck um

578
00:47:37,359 --> 00:47:45,760
games. Um and that was one of the the
things that we have these regional

579
00:47:43,680 --> 00:47:50,400
whoever set that up years and years and
years ago I thought was so wise to put

580
00:47:47,760 --> 00:47:57,760
the facilities next to the community
acres of the schools. So, we've had

581
00:47:52,800 --> 00:48:02,800
these these women builders and um
so to me, and I've voiced this before,

582
00:48:00,400 --> 00:48:08,800
but to me, those names are really almost
sacred. We have congregations that are

583
00:48:05,200 --> 00:48:13,200
also recognized. If I know that someone
tells me the predominant religion,

584
00:48:11,520 --> 00:48:17,680
someone says, "Oh, I'm in the the
Windsor the Northridge stake. We're

585
00:48:15,839 --> 00:48:23,280
we're meeting in Northridge Park. We're
going to Northridge Elementary." I know

586
00:48:19,920 --> 00:48:26,960
exactly where that is because of those
things that were set up years and years

587
00:48:24,800 --> 00:48:33,040
ago, that identity, that community
identity. I kind of um mourned the loss

588
00:48:30,319 --> 00:48:37,119
of Sarah that we're doing our heart of
Orum at the Sierra Park. So, I would

589
00:48:35,599 --> 00:48:41,760
have loved to have had that school
continued to be called Sierra Elementary

590
00:48:39,680 --> 00:48:47,839
to keep that community anchor there
because we as a city are going to really

591
00:48:44,160 --> 00:48:54,640
be improving that area. Um, so I guess I
throw that out there to say, um, I

592
00:48:51,760 --> 00:48:58,960
understand the morning of one, you know,
if you have to do it, you can only have

593
00:48:57,200 --> 00:49:06,319
one name. Maybe you could hyphenate, I
don't know, but that's for you to

594
00:49:01,680 --> 00:49:11,200
decide. But, um, it is okay to keep
tradition

595
00:49:07,839 --> 00:49:16,160
and to just become the new the new. We
know that some of the people can become

596
00:49:13,359 --> 00:49:21,280
the new, the new
you keep the mask out of one but keep

597
00:49:17,680 --> 00:49:27,440
the name. That's kind of my almost um
what I find valuable to take here in ORM

598
00:49:24,640 --> 00:49:31,440
is that identity
know right here Cherry Hill Park. I know

599
00:49:29,680 --> 00:49:34,880
where to go and wow I know that school's
right there.

600
00:49:33,040 --> 00:49:38,480
» Anyway, that's just from an or
perspective something I've valued. So

601
00:49:36,880 --> 00:49:42,400
I've moved here because I haven't seen
it anywhere else. I would just say you

602
00:49:40,400 --> 00:49:47,160
could pass as a Norm native and the
reason I know is because you called it

603
00:49:43,680 --> 00:49:47,160
Sierra Parker

604
00:49:47,200 --> 00:49:53,520
has been coaching me. You've been
coaching me for the past month. Every

605
00:49:50,559 --> 00:49:55,680
time I say Sarah, it's not Sarah.
>> Sarah,

606
00:49:54,000 --> 00:49:59,520
» it's not hurricane. It's hurricane.
>> And really the the whole history there,

607
00:49:57,599 --> 00:50:05,200
right? That was a community gathering
place. Surah the center for Yeah. So

608
00:50:02,880 --> 00:50:09,559
history that I
focus

609
00:50:06,559 --> 00:50:09,559
» impressive.

610
00:50:09,680 --> 00:50:16,880
Oh, can I ask one more thing about this
paper? I don't uh because I've had

611
00:50:13,520 --> 00:50:22,880
questions. Um feeder schools is that
part of your conversation

612
00:50:19,760 --> 00:50:27,119
» outcome that would be an outcome of of
things

613
00:50:25,040 --> 00:50:29,040
is aligned with your school pattern.
>> Okay. I just didn't see that on here.

614
00:50:28,640 --> 00:50:31,680
So,
>> Jason's going to talk more about that.

615
00:50:30,800 --> 00:50:37,040
» Okay.
>> That goes along with identity, right? I

616
00:50:33,680 --> 00:50:40,880
mean, I I identify probably more with my
elementary school than my junior high

617
00:50:38,880 --> 00:50:43,875
just because I kind of want to forget
some of the [laughter]

618
00:50:44,720 --> 00:50:52,240
» uh but cub.
>> I am an or cub. I can sing you still.

619
00:50:49,920 --> 00:50:54,319
» You're a Jaguar. Jaguar.
>> I am.

620
00:50:53,040 --> 00:50:57,839
» You remember that?
>> Huh? [laughter]

621
00:50:55,599 --> 00:51:02,079
» I I but I am a Mountain View Bruin.
Definitely that. So I think the

622
00:50:59,760 --> 00:51:07,440
identities are a lot stronger with those
high schools and as we look at um

623
00:51:05,680 --> 00:51:11,680
keeping those relationships. I think
that is a priority of the board to keep

624
00:51:09,680 --> 00:51:14,480
those true feeders which we don't have
now. We have I mean

625
00:51:14,000 --> 00:51:18,480
» split
>> I was split from my elementary. I went

626
00:51:16,400 --> 00:51:24,559
to elementary
here 35 36 years ago. Uh but we yeah

627
00:51:22,880 --> 00:51:29,839
half of our elementary went to Lakeidge,
half to ORM Jr. And then [clears throat]

628
00:51:27,920 --> 00:51:34,559
half of my worm junior experience or
half of us went to well all of us at

629
00:51:32,079 --> 00:51:37,920
Mount View but then Tibanogus came our
junior year right Jason and then that

630
00:51:37,200 --> 00:51:41,119
split
>> two times over

631
00:51:38,640 --> 00:51:47,680
» and if you look at Tibonogus that's
>> literally three rivers feed into that

632
00:51:44,640 --> 00:51:53,520
» and so it I think that's the priority of
the the board to say let's keep these

633
00:51:51,599 --> 00:51:58,160
communities together there might be some
ident like identity changes for those

634
00:51:55,680 --> 00:52:03,599
middle schools. But as far as high
school boundaries, it'll be interesting

635
00:52:00,240 --> 00:52:09,720
to see what the board decides um on how
they're going to make those work. I'm so

636
00:52:05,440 --> 00:52:09,720
glad doing it.

637
00:52:11,119 --> 00:52:19,680
» Well, you one thing that has become
apparent as we've really been studying

638
00:52:16,319 --> 00:52:24,480
this really since April. Um in the north
you can see that there's consolidation

639
00:52:21,920 --> 00:52:28,160
when Sharon closed
Valley View

640
00:52:25,839 --> 00:52:35,520
» and then there's been fairly significant
consolidation in the south and east

641
00:52:30,800 --> 00:52:41,280
right with Sharon Geneva and Hillrest.
And so really what you'll see tonight

642
00:52:38,640 --> 00:52:47,839
likely depending what the board does for
sure is really we're addressing that

643
00:52:44,720 --> 00:52:52,319
center part where you can actually look
there's a there's a circle of I think

644
00:52:49,920 --> 00:52:56,160
six schools within a mile and a quarter
of each other. None of them are more

645
00:52:54,400 --> 00:53:03,440
than a mile and a quarter from each
other and they're all in the 300s soon.

646
00:53:00,319 --> 00:53:08,720
And so it's it's partly just an
evolution of the city of Oram as well,

647
00:53:05,839 --> 00:53:12,240
right? And we can talk birth rates, we
could talk affordability, we could talk

648
00:53:10,480 --> 00:53:20,240
charter schools, all of those affect
that, but um it's it'll be a fascinating

649
00:53:17,920 --> 00:53:26,240
study moving forward.
Mayor, may I may I just uh throw out

650
00:53:22,480 --> 00:53:32,720
there, please see uh ORM as a resource
for trying to figure out how to use any

651
00:53:30,160 --> 00:53:37,359
properties that are consolidated. We can
be helpful in in

652
00:53:35,119 --> 00:53:42,319
making sure they maintain identity,
community gathering, park, recreational

653
00:53:39,920 --> 00:53:46,400
uses. Obviously, we've done that really
really well with

654
00:53:44,960 --> 00:53:50,400
» I I need to go I need to go view that.
I've heard that time and time again and

655
00:53:48,079 --> 00:53:56,640
I'm like yeah that's what I'd love for
us to because we we are looking at some

656
00:53:53,280 --> 00:54:00,559
maps as we as we are just um I wore
makeup today so I can't rub my eyes but

657
00:53:58,160 --> 00:54:06,720
I've been rubbing my eyes a lot um
talking about this is that concern about

658
00:54:04,079 --> 00:54:11,040
h that's kind of that's leaving a large
area without something. So that's what

659
00:54:09,599 --> 00:54:15,119
we would love to do is be able to
partner not just with you but like I'm

660
00:54:12,880 --> 00:54:17,760
thinking United Way. There's a lot of
community partners that we

661
00:54:16,697 --> 00:54:22,319
[clears throat]
um

662
00:54:19,359 --> 00:54:26,800
I mean not just not just us us but
multiple people that we could bring

663
00:54:24,000 --> 00:54:33,760
something to a community that will
continue to serve um and maybe address

664
00:54:31,040 --> 00:54:39,440
other needs that that those areas have.
So we're excited about that.

665
00:54:36,559 --> 00:54:43,607
If you can spell or several times with
all the letters in here [laughter]

666
00:54:51,920 --> 00:54:58,559
» always visionary
as the communications team says ORM is

667
00:54:57,040 --> 00:55:03,912
very cool.
>> Warm gives you more. You rearrange ORM.

668
00:55:01,892 --> 00:55:03,912
[laughter]

669
00:55:05,359 --> 00:55:11,520
» All right. I'm just looking at the
clock. We've got about 25 minutes.

670
00:55:10,000 --> 00:55:16,640
» I told him we had five minutes.
>> And so just we're good. Just so you know

671
00:55:14,400 --> 00:55:20,160
that we we'll just [clears throat] just
we're shooting end at two, but it looks

672
00:55:18,319 --> 00:55:26,800
like we might don't want to cut anybody
short. And so we'll just move right

673
00:55:23,599 --> 00:55:29,040
along. And to Jason, steady.
>> Thank you.

674
00:55:27,440 --> 00:55:32,720
» And
I told you five minutes.

675
00:55:30,640 --> 00:55:36,559
» Five minutes to start the clock. First,
um, President Lman and I are going to go

676
00:55:34,880 --> 00:55:40,593
check out the Hillrest Park. We're going
to play pickle ball there tomorrow,

677
00:55:37,760 --> 00:55:40,593
right? [laughter]

678
00:55:41,040 --> 00:55:47,599
» Pickle ball. It's great.
>> I'll come watch it. I'll come I'll come.

679
00:55:46,079 --> 00:55:53,680
» Um, one thing I wanted to point out here
with those optimal school sizes, um, to

680
00:55:51,119 --> 00:55:57,760
see the K6 and the K5 are different. So,
if there is some movement of 912, 68,

681
00:55:56,160 --> 00:56:01,119
it's not to be able to say, well, now
there's more elementaryaries to close

682
00:55:59,200 --> 00:56:04,559
because it's not having to do with that.
It's the 3 to five. So, there's going to

683
00:56:02,960 --> 00:56:09,920
be one last grade if that's the way it
goes, but it's still looking at the

684
00:56:06,720 --> 00:56:15,040
optimal sizes there. Um, a little
background on why we're looking at this.

685
00:56:11,839 --> 00:56:18,400
Some things we've shared before, but the
elementary number of elementary students

686
00:56:16,799 --> 00:56:22,319
we had in our schools. There's 20
elementary schools

687
00:56:20,880 --> 00:56:28,799
in the area right now of the four
cities. So, the total enrollment last

688
00:56:24,799 --> 00:56:33,520
school year was the same as in 1980.
In 1980 there were 17 schools. There's

689
00:56:31,119 --> 00:56:39,520
20 of those schools now. So that kind of
helps a little bit seeing that. Also,

690
00:56:36,000 --> 00:56:43,440
um, going back to 1980 is really when
enrollment in the area started taking

691
00:56:41,119 --> 00:56:50,079
off. So, elementary enrollment peaked in
1988 and has gone down since 1988.

692
00:56:46,640 --> 00:56:55,280
Junior high peaked in 1992 and has now
gone down. And then high school 1998

693
00:56:53,599 --> 00:56:59,839
with the overall when you put them all
together was in 1996.

694
00:56:57,440 --> 00:57:03,599
So declining enrollments since 1996
overall. Um and so that's what we're

695
00:57:02,319 --> 00:57:08,640
we're looking at. That's why there's
been consolidations closures already. Um

696
00:57:06,880 --> 00:57:13,920
when we're looking at these numbers,
even the K6 numbers to get to the three

697
00:57:11,599 --> 00:57:20,559
grade three classes per grade, it's
about 590 students. So by this last

698
00:57:17,760 --> 00:57:27,599
year, there were seven schools of the 20
that were above that mark. Um in 27

699
00:57:23,920 --> 00:57:34,240
there's uh five and in 2030 only five.
So 15 schools are below that mark of the

700
00:57:31,359 --> 00:57:38,720
having the three on average. So a lot of
them have two or one and a half like Dr.

701
00:57:36,400 --> 00:57:44,079
Jensel was talking about. Um some other
things to note um as we've started this

702
00:57:42,480 --> 00:57:47,280
boundary we've had boundary committees
which have been really great. We've

703
00:57:45,200 --> 00:57:50,400
brought in principles. So the elementary
and the secondary ones have had four

704
00:57:48,880 --> 00:57:54,640
principles that have been consistent
throughout with staff with three board

705
00:57:52,559 --> 00:57:58,880
members in each as we've just been kind
of planning this for many months of

706
00:57:57,359 --> 00:58:03,599
different brainstorming sessions
figuring those things out the cluster

707
00:58:00,559 --> 00:58:08,240
meetings focus groups. Um one one option
for the high schools was brought is it

708
00:58:05,839 --> 00:58:12,160
more favorable to have to close a high
school and have three high schools that

709
00:58:09,920 --> 00:58:16,319
robust size or to bring the nth grade
up. You can probably imagine the

710
00:58:14,160 --> 00:58:21,760
reactions there. people want their high
schools, their identity up there. So

711
00:58:18,880 --> 00:58:27,680
that I think is a big reason as the 912
is being considered and is felt pretty

712
00:58:24,640 --> 00:58:31,440
favorable from the community along with
the transportation of students that are

713
00:58:29,520 --> 00:58:38,240
on main activities trying to get from
the junior high to the high school. Um

714
00:58:34,880 --> 00:58:42,640
let's see what else. Uh so yeah, we're
looking at many different options

715
00:58:40,240 --> 00:58:46,400
tonight. We'll just present
um a little bit about some of the things

716
00:58:44,640 --> 00:58:50,960
we've been looking at in the boundary
committees looking at numbers as

717
00:58:48,559 --> 00:58:56,000
different configurations. Um we have a
couple different secondary options.

718
00:58:53,520 --> 00:58:59,119
Uh and those we do want to try and get
to as much possible pure feeders. So

719
00:58:57,760 --> 00:59:03,040
right now there's four high schools and
five junior highs. If a junior high were

720
00:59:01,200 --> 00:59:07,280
to close it would be four and four which
makes it a lot easier to get that pure

721
00:59:04,799 --> 00:59:11,760
feeder. Um, and then even with the
elementaryaries to be able to see if

722
00:59:08,880 --> 00:59:16,240
there's a possibility to get it's it's a
pretty pretty difficult to get

723
00:59:14,000 --> 00:59:20,319
everything, but there's some that we
looked at where maybe one school that

724
00:59:18,000 --> 00:59:25,119
already is split does that and if there
is a split between it. We're trying to

725
00:59:22,240 --> 00:59:28,400
get as close to a 50/50 for that to be
able to make that,

726
00:59:26,640 --> 00:59:31,040
» you know, they're going with friends and
then it doesn't where they come back.

727
00:59:29,760 --> 00:59:34,640
So, if they split the elementary,
they're going to two junior highs, two

728
00:59:32,720 --> 00:59:40,559
different feeder systems, and staying
together from there on out. So, anything

729
00:59:37,680 --> 00:59:44,880
I missed or any questions?
>> Instead of like splitting the junior

730
00:59:42,960 --> 00:59:48,559
high, splitting the high school. Yeah,
>> the the we've been looking at is that

731
00:59:46,880 --> 00:59:52,319
the junior highs and the high schools
have identical boundary.

732
00:59:50,319 --> 00:59:55,839
» Some of that makes it a little difficult
because

733
00:59:54,000 --> 01:00:00,240
» but but it should work, but some would
need to be a little bit larger than

734
00:59:57,200 --> 01:00:04,640
others. Um, Oram High is the smallest
square footage of the four high schools.

735
01:00:01,839 --> 01:00:10,400
So, trying to keep it um a little bit
smaller, but even that with having 912

736
01:00:07,040 --> 01:00:16,160
high schools and in 2030 they're all
under 2,000 for the number of high

737
01:00:13,200 --> 01:00:22,119
schools with ORM around 1,600. Uh
there's another thing why we're looking

738
01:00:18,079 --> 01:00:22,119
at that too. So the

739
01:00:22,319 --> 01:00:29,119
Pleasant Grove High School in 2020 was
at its highest and it was about 2200

740
01:00:26,720 --> 01:00:34,480
students. They're now at 1,800 and
projected to be at 1450 in 2030.

741
01:00:32,799 --> 01:00:39,599
So that's where we're seeing a big
decline right now in that area where

742
01:00:35,920 --> 01:00:44,160
where ORM Lynon have had that also. Um
looking out to 2030 if there were no

743
01:00:41,359 --> 01:00:50,319
changes. I mentioned the elementaryaries
where there'd be 15 of the 20 less than

744
01:00:47,200 --> 01:00:56,160
about 530. So they'd be anywhere from
230 students to 520. But the junior

745
01:00:53,200 --> 01:01:01,280
highs in 2030, the five of them there
would be three of them less than less

746
01:00:59,040 --> 01:01:06,880
than three of them less than a thousand.
Next one at right around 1,000 one at

747
01:01:03,920 --> 01:01:12,400
1,200 and then the high schools all
around uh averaging about 1350 or so.

748
01:01:10,880 --> 01:01:18,799
So the high schools right now to have
that robust program, Alpine has has put

749
01:01:15,599 --> 01:01:24,160
a lot of extra teacher FTEEs to the
schools to be able to have that where

750
01:01:21,760 --> 01:01:29,440
that works for a district of 85,000
students. It will it'll be more

751
01:01:26,559 --> 01:01:33,839
difficult for a smaller district um
unless there's more revenue through

752
01:01:31,680 --> 01:01:38,160
property tax increases. So that's some
things we've been asking too like we can

753
01:01:35,920 --> 01:01:43,040
get to some of these robust things by
just raising taxes or we can this way or

754
01:01:40,880 --> 01:01:46,319
combination. So that's really what we're
studying is is how that can all

755
01:01:44,880 --> 01:01:49,200
together.
>> Can I say speak to that?

756
01:01:47,839 --> 01:01:55,200
» It has been amazing to me because you
know we are doing a truth in taxation.

757
01:01:52,079 --> 01:01:59,440
is that um
it as I've had those conversations with

758
01:01:57,839 --> 01:02:05,200
people, it has been very interesting to
me to have people be against what ORM is

759
01:02:02,720 --> 01:02:10,160
doing trying to raise taxes and yet at
the same time saying they're willing to

760
01:02:07,440 --> 01:02:16,160
support education if y'all went out for
a bonus some kind. So, I think that

761
01:02:13,520 --> 01:02:20,000
speaks a lot to what our I don't want to
say what our community values, but kind

762
01:02:17,680 --> 01:02:24,079
of that but that they value children is
what the point is, right? So, just I

763
01:02:22,640 --> 01:02:27,680
wanted to make sure I communicated that
to you today. That was very interesting

764
01:02:26,079 --> 01:02:31,200
for me to hear back because some of the
people I talked to are just anti-ax no

765
01:02:30,000 --> 01:02:35,839
matter what.
>> But, um yeah, I just want to acknowledge

766
01:02:34,079 --> 01:02:42,160
that we're both dealing with the same
pocketbook, you know. Um so we need to

767
01:02:39,760 --> 01:02:48,559
be cognizant of your needs as well and
not you know put the pressure on unduly

768
01:02:45,280 --> 01:02:52,559
and that's I think this is not our main
purpose but certainly one of the

769
01:02:50,480 --> 01:02:57,599
purposes to demonstrate to our public
that we are doing what we can to uh not

770
01:02:55,920 --> 01:03:01,799
be a burden
>> right and to you

771
01:03:02,559 --> 01:03:09,359
» Jason do you ever feel like you're
living a giant story problem

772
01:03:07,280 --> 01:03:15,000
One lives in a green house, one has a
purple house. And who owns the parakeet?

773
01:03:11,599 --> 01:03:15,000
» Jason loves

774
01:03:15,768 --> 01:03:21,200
[laughter]
>> I was talking to Dr. I was working on a

775
01:03:19,039 --> 01:03:24,799
bunch of stuff this morning. I don't
have a lot of time where I have three

776
01:03:23,119 --> 01:03:28,640
hours all open and I did this morning,
but really didn't come up for breath and

777
01:03:27,200 --> 01:03:35,039
just get into Excel and it's
>> he was into it. [laughter]

778
01:03:31,920 --> 01:03:37,760
» Wow. Well, thank you. I just I don't
know who owns the parakeet and I don't

779
01:03:36,400 --> 01:03:42,000
know who lives in the houses, but I'm
I'm glad that you you all [laughter] are

780
01:03:39,599 --> 01:03:52,280
going to be figuring that out. Thank
you. Um all right, next item. John,

781
01:03:46,079 --> 01:03:52,280
you're up. Safe routes and bus routes.

782
01:03:54,720 --> 01:04:01,599
» Could I just give you handouts? I would,
but

783
01:03:58,160 --> 01:04:05,200
I'll show you some of here.
Take Pete's chair.

784
01:04:13,119 --> 01:04:20,640
Um,
a few things have changed just in the

785
01:04:17,599 --> 01:04:25,839
last few days of talking with David and
a little bit with Joe. Um, the last two

786
01:04:22,720 --> 01:04:30,079
years I've been working on establishing
um, what bus stops will be closing. And

787
01:04:28,480 --> 01:04:35,039
this is the Alpan School District
website. Really good about showing kind

788
01:04:32,240 --> 01:04:40,400
of the school boundaries. Um we'll take
Lacorage for an example. There used to

789
01:04:36,960 --> 01:04:45,839
be a a layer that talked about in the
bike routes. We removed or as a city

790
01:04:43,039 --> 01:04:50,400
because if you look at the marquee down
here in the bottom it says students come

791
01:04:47,920 --> 01:04:54,880
first.
And that's kind of how we approach it

792
01:04:52,720 --> 01:04:59,280
from a traffic transportation point of
view. busing that we want them to be

793
01:04:56,880 --> 01:05:05,680
first in safety to get to and from
school. So that

794
01:05:02,640 --> 01:05:11,599
link no longer exists. However, the last
couple years I have actually taken some

795
01:05:08,079 --> 01:05:15,520
screenshots and shown
what those are and it was a little more

796
01:05:13,680 --> 01:05:18,480
alarming literally up to a couple days
ago where I thought, "Oh man, the school

797
01:05:17,359 --> 01:05:23,599
district's going to close all these
routes." And I have all this data of how

798
01:05:21,280 --> 01:05:28,799
many. We had a table that's saying
there's 70 not routes, I should call

799
01:05:25,280 --> 01:05:34,000
them bus stops. There's 70 stops you're
now going to have to walk.

800
01:05:31,119 --> 01:05:38,559
What I'm finding out is that when the
boundary changes

801
01:05:36,799 --> 01:05:44,510
Dave that we're not going to make kids
walk across State Street and so it's a

802
01:05:41,119 --> 01:05:44,510
motive to run. [laughter]

803
01:05:46,480 --> 01:05:51,715
» Delete that part. Okay. David [laughter]

804
01:05:54,240 --> 01:06:01,520
So this slide here lot there's a lot of
data in there but what I wanted to point

805
01:05:59,359 --> 01:06:06,240
out with my praise the laser if I don't
steal somebody's eyeballs work up there

806
01:06:04,400 --> 01:06:13,119
each one of these little dots represent
a bus stop and this is last year's

807
01:06:08,799 --> 01:06:17,920
school um not this year not this is the
25 26 scene and so we were kind of going

808
01:06:15,839 --> 01:06:22,400
forward going how do we get all these
kids across to lacage how do we get all

809
01:06:20,160 --> 01:06:25,520
these kids across
Lacorage and

810
01:06:23,920 --> 01:06:30,640
» is that University Park? Yes.
>> So, I I added um these roads for State

811
01:06:28,240 --> 01:06:36,000
Street, University Parkway, I15. There's
actually two two stops west of I-15 that

812
01:06:33,680 --> 01:06:42,240
are closing. I say were because I think
that you as a district now have the

813
01:06:39,280 --> 01:06:46,799
option to it's a little closer to me. Um
but the previous organization of the

814
01:06:44,240 --> 01:06:51,039
school district published this. So, it
kind of got blurry. Um, and our biggest

815
01:06:49,280 --> 01:06:56,160
thing is safety of the kids and how do
we get them there? And you know, this

816
01:06:53,359 --> 01:07:03,280
from here to here is about 1.3 miles and
there's another score is 1.79 1.8 miles.

817
01:06:59,760 --> 01:07:06,160
» So, it's pretty far
away.

818
01:07:04,240 --> 01:07:10,480
» And so,
um,

819
01:07:07,680 --> 01:07:16,160
what we want to do is remind the school
district we're here to help. Um, we've

820
01:07:13,359 --> 01:07:20,799
met with community school community
councils. Um I have a meeting with ORM

821
01:07:18,480 --> 01:07:27,760
junior high assistant principal um
coming up. Um what happens is I think I

822
01:07:25,440 --> 01:07:32,319
have UD do
what happens isn't even correct me is

823
01:07:29,599 --> 01:07:36,000
that this safe routes to school program
is kind of managed through the state

824
01:07:34,240 --> 01:07:41,440
grants you can get to to do
improvements. This is what they put out

825
01:07:38,079 --> 01:07:46,480
there. Um I only showed
nine bus stops. Um over here they

826
01:07:44,000 --> 01:07:51,119
actually have 19 and 20. I think I had
nine and 10 or nine and 15. This is the

827
01:07:49,280 --> 01:07:57,200
most current safe route to school for
Lake Range. Um, and so there's

828
01:07:54,559 --> 01:08:01,480
potentially a lot of stops and a lot of
kids and families. And so,

829
01:08:01,599 --> 01:08:07,280
um, we can go through other schools, but
I think you get the point. I've got all

830
01:08:05,359 --> 01:08:11,440
the other four or five schools. They're
all junior highs, right? The elementary

831
01:08:09,520 --> 01:08:14,640
um,
then we're going to take any of the of

832
01:08:13,119 --> 01:08:19,440
the buses from the elementary and high
school. So, um, I really wanted to get

833
01:08:17,679 --> 01:08:26,520
the point across is that we're here to
help. We're here to work together. I do

834
01:08:22,000 --> 01:08:26,520
have other versions of of other schools

835
01:08:26,880 --> 01:08:34,000
records here
as John finds that just to we talked

836
01:08:32,799 --> 01:08:38,880
yesterday and we were concerned that
maybe there were some stops going. I've

837
01:08:35,759 --> 01:08:44,400
confirmed with the current director that
in Oram no stops have been is the same

838
01:08:42,239 --> 01:08:50,400
stops as last year year
>> and so nothing's been taken away. Now

839
01:08:46,799 --> 01:08:56,000
caveat to that is we have we're short 20
to 30 bus drivers. So there's actually

840
01:08:53,279 --> 01:09:01,040
buses that we're not driving
and that's creating some double runs and

841
01:08:58,159 --> 01:09:05,920
some differences in timing but all the
stops are in place in Orum Vineyard.

842
01:09:03,759 --> 01:09:12,319
There's a couple that have been taken
away and DG1 and Lynon one but Orum

843
01:09:10,560 --> 01:09:16,960
remains the same.
>> So that was [clears throat] comforting

844
01:09:13,359 --> 01:09:21,440
and yeah we um two years ago is when I
started this process and the direction I

845
01:09:19,679 --> 01:09:26,239
received was that the school district is
going to close these. So it's going to

846
01:09:24,000 --> 01:09:31,040
happen this month and now it hasn't.
>> This is an example of the this is like

847
01:09:28,239 --> 01:09:37,040
from the school down to the bottom is
seven miles. This little green line

848
01:09:34,080 --> 01:09:40,319
represent it's this is the safe route to
the current safe route to school plan

849
01:09:38,719 --> 01:09:44,400
here.
You were to take that school and

850
01:09:42,960 --> 01:09:49,679
superimpose it there at the same
location. This bottom line is this

851
01:09:47,359 --> 01:09:54,320
bottom line which shows you the current
boundary of the safe route program for

852
01:09:51,679 --> 01:10:00,320
this school. That means none of these
areas and none of these stops currently

853
01:09:57,760 --> 01:10:05,760
have a safe route. Now we thought it was
going to happen August but it's going to

854
01:10:01,679 --> 01:10:12,560
be next August. So I propose correct me
if the steps are wrong but once you

855
01:10:09,840 --> 01:10:18,400
decide on a boundary in which schools
stay in which change you have I believe

856
01:10:15,760 --> 01:10:23,679
access to age of students when you talk
about by 20 30 or 40 these things will

857
01:10:21,520 --> 01:10:28,480
happen based on ages. I'm sure you know
of clusters of students population and

858
01:10:26,000 --> 01:10:32,719
where they live. That's not public. Once
you decide upon that, it's the school

859
01:10:30,960 --> 01:10:38,159
community councils to establish these
safe routes. And each

860
01:10:35,679 --> 01:10:42,000
um
school has a what do they call them? A

861
01:10:39,920 --> 01:10:45,840
safe route to school administrator that
works with them. And then that's item

862
01:10:43,440 --> 01:10:49,360
three, work with the cities to
physically walk

863
01:10:48,320 --> 01:10:53,674
or drive or both.
>> I'll make David run it. [laughter]

864
01:10:55,199 --> 01:11:00,640
Who said David? Not Dave.
>> Believe you're David.

865
01:10:57,840 --> 01:11:04,960
» I'll run her. She walked the paths.
You'll get the feeling what the kids do.

866
01:11:02,239 --> 01:11:08,880
And sometimes it's it's uh evergreens
growing way out on Northridge on there

867
01:11:07,360 --> 01:11:13,840
was these bushes that you literally
couldn't walk down where there's sight

868
01:11:11,199 --> 01:11:19,600
distance or vehicles that can't see the
kids. So, we really need to figure out

869
01:11:17,600 --> 01:11:23,040
what that safe route is. We want to work
with you to do it. will help to do it.

870
01:11:21,440 --> 01:11:28,400
There's tripping hazards, there's sight
distance. Um, and the important thing is

871
01:11:25,520 --> 01:11:32,960
the timing of improvements. We did a I
think it's Bonavville

872
01:11:30,640 --> 01:11:39,920
school. We did a a hawk signal, right?
Push button hawk $160 $170,000. It took

873
01:11:37,199 --> 01:11:44,239
months to get it designed, get it built.
So, we need to get ahead and work

874
01:11:41,840 --> 01:11:50,560
backwards from we have an August 1
deadline of kids not being bust. We need

875
01:11:47,280 --> 01:11:54,080
to start in December this year to get
stuff designed. And we do a lot of

876
01:11:52,159 --> 01:11:58,960
design in house. So you're you're
getting a a deal there. You'll we'll

877
01:11:56,080 --> 01:12:02,880
design most of the stuff if we can. And
we even construct some of the concrete

878
01:12:00,560 --> 01:12:06,000
if we can and do that. We do have a kind
of an ongoing I don't know if it's

879
01:12:04,080 --> 01:12:11,120
written, but it's usually a 50/50 split
of improvements with the school district

880
01:12:07,840 --> 01:12:16,800
in the past. So we've had we usually
have small, medium, and large projects.

881
01:12:13,120 --> 01:12:23,360
20,000 60,000 about 100. So depending on
the crossing type [clears throat]

882
01:12:20,640 --> 01:12:27,600
kind of range from that
um and then once the administrator

883
01:12:25,920 --> 01:12:31,600
updates the website UD do looks at it
and approves it and it goes to the

884
01:12:29,520 --> 01:12:37,199
website. So
I just encourage that we work together

885
01:12:34,080 --> 01:12:41,440
and we get ahead of it so that we don't
show up August 1st. We have this unsafe

886
01:12:39,760 --> 01:12:47,840
» and John that will be a fairly tight
timeline for us. On December 2nd, the

887
01:12:44,880 --> 01:12:52,080
board will decide which schools will
change and then hopefully close to that

888
01:12:50,320 --> 01:12:56,239
time, we'll have some boundaries ready
and then it will be up to the existing

889
01:12:54,159 --> 01:13:00,800
school community council to look forward
to instructing the routes and about

890
01:12:59,360 --> 01:13:05,360
December. So that'll be a very tight
>> well in in a perfect world if it was a

891
01:13:02,800 --> 01:13:10,480
very large infrastructure usually hawks.
>> Yeah, that would be good. Clearly we can

892
01:13:08,400 --> 01:13:14,159
do other things faster. Um, but the
sooner the better to help us get ahead

893
01:13:12,000 --> 01:13:17,440
of it and whatever mechanisms of
monitoring and you know taking a walk

894
01:13:15,679 --> 01:13:19,040
and saying if I was a kid in this
neighborhood, how would I get to a

895
01:13:18,640 --> 01:13:22,080
school?
>> Yes.

896
01:13:19,520 --> 01:13:27,199
» Well, let's keep talking as we say one
thing right down to Cascade. Remember

897
01:13:24,159 --> 01:13:30,960
John? So Cascade was designed for two
drop off an hour, you know, later

898
01:13:28,719 --> 01:13:35,199
gators, early birds. And when it was
consolidated with Sharon and it was a

899
01:13:33,280 --> 01:13:39,280
one drop off there there were traffic,
there were safety issues. I saw John I I

900
01:13:37,760 --> 01:13:44,800
went to the school community council
watched our traffic team handle those

901
01:13:41,120 --> 01:13:49,520
just expertly and quickly but truly to
do that before school started would be

902
01:13:47,199 --> 01:13:54,400
ideal [clears throat] signal there
you'll see pylons you'll see red curb

903
01:13:52,320 --> 01:13:57,840
you'll see crossing guards just the city
does pay for the crossing guards too

904
01:13:56,080 --> 01:14:05,600
that happens I don't know what they cost
per year but that's on us 100%

905
01:14:03,040 --> 01:14:07,440
» and you'll see the Friday bike bus
>> Friday

906
01:14:06,719 --> 01:14:12,800
Yes.
>> And we we I was I was really happy when

907
01:14:10,719 --> 01:14:16,400
I asked Dave about um bus drivers
because we do have these double routes

908
01:14:14,239 --> 01:14:20,239
and I said, "No, do we not have enough
bus drivers?" And he says, "We're fine.

909
01:14:18,080 --> 01:14:24,480
We've got enough bus drivers." And then
I I said, "Well, with the double

910
01:14:21,600 --> 01:14:28,960
routes," he's like, "Oh, ASD doesn't
in a bad shape." And I think that speaks

911
01:14:27,440 --> 01:14:32,640
to people want to work for this
district. And so I I'm hopeful that that

912
01:14:31,199 --> 01:14:38,800
means that we'll be able to have enough
bus drivers. Now, that being said, they

913
01:14:36,159 --> 01:14:42,320
the state only reimbures us for eligible
routes. So, everything that's an

914
01:14:40,239 --> 01:14:47,520
ineligible route that we're paying for
100%. That's going to impact our our

915
01:14:45,600 --> 01:14:49,520
budget and our bottom line. That's a
>> priority eligible and not eligible as

916
01:14:48,880 --> 01:14:55,120
far as
>> distance is 1.5 miles for a elementary

917
01:14:52,560 --> 01:15:00,480
and two miles for secondary.
>> What Jen's talking about was

918
01:14:57,840 --> 01:15:06,800
people asked where they wanted to be.
lion share of the bus driver wanted to

919
01:15:02,159 --> 01:15:12,346
be a lot of these communities but
because it's the student counts. So we

920
01:15:09,360 --> 01:15:17,239
got all the bus drivers pretty short 30.
[laughter]

921
01:15:13,520 --> 01:15:17,239
You got any buses liner.

922
01:15:18,000 --> 01:15:24,080
» I'll just say John and transportation
and traffic

923
01:15:22,480 --> 01:15:28,159
are
the line. So

924
01:15:26,640 --> 01:15:35,760
we want to be creative. We want to look
at things from all angles. We want to be

925
01:15:30,800 --> 01:15:40,239
as helpful as we can. um even to other
uh cities in the district if we don't

926
01:15:37,360 --> 01:15:46,320
have the same kind of
rationale and sophistication that we do.

927
01:15:42,560 --> 01:15:51,280
So we just see this as a resource. We
get the solutions that you perhaps

928
01:15:49,040 --> 01:15:55,840
wouldn't be able to just on your own. We
can address we can't say by August 1st

929
01:15:53,520 --> 01:16:00,719
we got everything done you know we can
we can react stuff and help stuff. Just

930
01:15:59,040 --> 01:16:05,080
was curious. Do do you have an idea of
how many crossing guards we have?

931
01:16:05,679 --> 01:16:11,400
» I Yeah. Through the
>> police 2030.

932
01:16:14,400 --> 01:16:22,080
» Just noting how important they are to
our communities. I mean, we value them

933
01:16:20,159 --> 01:16:24,000
so much [clears throat] and appreciate
training. And

934
01:16:23,199 --> 01:16:27,600
» thank you.
>> Didn't realize the city footed the bill

935
01:16:25,840 --> 01:16:30,239
on that. I thought the school district
did. city history.

936
01:16:29,520 --> 01:16:32,719
» What happens?
>> Thank you very much.

937
01:16:31,199 --> 01:16:38,640
» So,
I live in Oram, west of the freeway, but

938
01:16:36,960 --> 01:16:43,360
the school that's closest to me is
Vineyard Elementary, which is in

939
01:16:40,000 --> 01:16:48,480
Vineyard, and uh I I've seen the
crossing guards, and the c one of the

940
01:16:44,960 --> 01:16:53,840
crossing guards uh is in Oram crossing
over to the sidewalk that goes right by

941
01:16:51,360 --> 01:16:58,320
Vineyard. One of them's in our soccer
park that's crossing over to Vineyard

942
01:16:56,239 --> 01:17:03,120
Elementary which is in V. How do you
guys do that with Vineyard? Is it you

943
01:17:01,600 --> 01:17:06,480
pay for the morning they're coming from
or worm to vineyard [laughter] in the

944
01:17:04,880 --> 01:17:12,360
afternoon that they're going from
vineyard to ORM or how does that work?

945
01:17:09,199 --> 01:17:12,360
» We just

946
01:17:12,640 --> 01:17:16,853
give them a few library cards.
[laughter]

947
01:17:17,760 --> 01:17:24,000
» Been here is building us a new signal at
the Lakeside Park. So

948
01:17:20,880 --> 01:17:25,760
» Oh, yes. I I've been here for that 100%.
So I think

949
01:17:24,480 --> 01:17:30,080
» it would have been great to have that
done and the other construction in ORM

950
01:17:28,000 --> 01:17:34,719
done. I can't get out of my neighborhood
without I mean it's there's two ways out

951
01:17:33,120 --> 01:17:36,239
without going all the way down to
>> but that's another issue another

952
01:17:35,920 --> 01:17:40,480
meeting.
>> Oh, [laughter]

953
01:17:37,840 --> 01:17:43,840
you know the arms were on
>> that the signal arms were on back order.

954
01:17:42,400 --> 01:17:48,400
That's the delay. I just learned about
that

955
01:17:45,199 --> 01:17:51,120
» coating. Huh?
>> Thanks John L. Are you here for chief?

956
01:17:50,640 --> 01:17:55,320
Yes.
>> All right. You're up, Chief.

957
01:17:56,719 --> 01:18:00,880
» Well, that's the guy who puts out the
dumpster fires.

958
01:17:59,920 --> 01:18:05,323
» Y
>> 65. I can see over the top [laughter]

959
01:18:05,520 --> 01:18:08,520
video.

960
01:18:14,159 --> 01:18:17,159
» Sure.

961
01:18:18,960 --> 01:18:24,000
Welcome back. Students in the Alpine
School District have always learned

962
01:18:21,840 --> 01:18:28,880
math, science, and history, right? Well,
now a new class will teach students how

963
01:18:26,080 --> 01:18:32,560
to put out fires and save lives. It is a
new partnership with the ORM Fire

964
01:18:30,560 --> 01:18:35,760
Department. New specialist Alex Guerrero
live for us at the ORM Fire Department

965
01:18:34,320 --> 01:18:41,600
tonight. And Alex, this is an
opportunity for those imagined to get a

966
01:18:38,080 --> 01:18:44,800
head start on a potential career.
>> It sure is, Mike. You know, it is one

967
01:18:43,120 --> 01:18:49,280
thing to learn about firefighting in a
textbook. It is something else to go out

968
01:18:46,719 --> 01:18:52,480
on actual real calls. It's what some
high school students in the Alpine

969
01:18:50,640 --> 01:18:55,679
School District are doing with the ORM
Fire Department. But for as much as it

970
01:18:54,320 --> 01:19:00,400
helps them get experience for a
potential career, it could also help the

971
01:18:58,080 --> 01:19:03,520
fire department in the future.
>> You ready for this?

972
01:19:01,520 --> 01:19:04,719
» Even though it's an easy part of the
job,

973
01:19:04,080 --> 01:19:07,679
» you got it.
>> Leila Bonum still wanted to be perfect

974
01:19:06,960 --> 01:19:10,480
at it.
>> Okay, go.

975
01:19:08,480 --> 01:19:16,480
» Meaning putting on all this firefighter
turnout gear in less than 60 seconds.

976
01:19:14,480 --> 01:19:20,640
She had no problem with it and couldn't
wait to do more and learn more about

977
01:19:19,199 --> 01:19:25,199
being a firefighter.
>> I love it so much. Just like everything

978
01:19:23,199 --> 01:19:29,280
about it, putting my life out for other
people, saving them, comforting them

979
01:19:27,440 --> 01:19:33,040
even. It's just so amazing.
>> Bonum is still a junior in high school,

980
01:19:31,120 --> 01:19:37,120
but thanks to a new program between the
Alpine School District and the ORM Fire

981
01:19:35,280 --> 01:19:40,960
Department, she's getting a head start
in her future career. I think that like

982
01:19:39,760 --> 01:19:44,880
more kids should know about these
programs cuz I didn't know about them,

983
01:19:43,040 --> 01:19:49,440
but it's truly amazing.
>> This is only the second class. There's

984
01:19:47,120 --> 01:19:53,600
one each semester. Students get credit
for it.

985
01:19:51,360 --> 01:19:56,640
» They even go on fire and medical calls,
learning about what it takes to be

986
01:19:55,120 --> 01:20:00,560
successful in this career.
>> On my left shoulder,

987
01:19:58,239 --> 01:20:05,560
» even learning tasks seemingly as simple
as getting a water line off the fire

988
01:20:02,560 --> 01:20:05,560
train

989
01:20:05,600 --> 01:20:09,920
of it all.
>> Really tough. And I'm I love a good

990
01:20:08,159 --> 01:20:13,920
challenge, so I'm willing to work for
it. And it cuz it's really hard, but

991
01:20:12,880 --> 01:20:16,000
it's going to be a great reward in the
end.

992
01:20:14,239 --> 01:20:18,640
» Blood pressures, heart rates, oxygen
saturations.

993
01:20:16,880 --> 01:20:22,880
» For the ORM Fire Department, the class
is a great way to help with recruiting.

994
01:20:21,040 --> 01:20:26,239
Departments have had challenges with
recruiting since the state changed the

995
01:20:24,719 --> 01:20:30,480
retirement plan covering first
responders back in 2011.

996
01:20:28,320 --> 01:20:34,800
» The numbers just aren't there um the way
they used to be. prior to the change in

997
01:20:32,239 --> 01:20:38,000
the uh retirement system. It's really
thinned out.

998
01:20:36,000 --> 01:20:40,960
» Classes like this one can help.
>> We'd love to hire these kids at some

999
01:20:39,600 --> 01:20:46,159
point down the road.
>> Bonum would sign up now if she could,

1000
01:20:43,520 --> 01:20:49,600
» but she's excited to know when she can
she'll be better prepared.

1001
01:20:47,760 --> 01:20:54,000
» It's just so amazing and I love the
adrenaline rush.

1002
01:20:52,400 --> 01:20:57,520
Now, both Bonum and Anderson, the
students we interviewed, say after high

1003
01:20:55,920 --> 01:21:02,080
school graduation, they're planning on
going to the firefighter academy at Utah

1004
01:20:59,840 --> 01:21:06,159
Valley University. They say though that
the skills they are learning now will

1005
01:21:03,760 --> 01:21:09,920
only help them in college, ultimately
leading to this kind of a career. Mike,

1006
01:21:08,320 --> 01:21:13,679
» it's fun to see how excited they are
about the whole thing and hopefully more

1007
01:21:11,520 --> 01:21:19,440
will be just excited. All right, Alex,
great story. Thank you.

1008
01:21:17,120 --> 01:21:24,560
» Start with company and a conversation
worth waking up for. We love our

1009
01:21:21,920 --> 01:21:30,080
cadetses. We love the program. As you
can see, it's got energy, right? It's

1010
01:21:26,800 --> 01:21:34,880
it's a true symbiotic relationship in
that we both mutually benefit. As Chief

1011
01:21:32,239 --> 01:21:38,159
first talked about, numbers have been a
little lower than they were back in the

1012
01:21:36,400 --> 01:21:43,600
day when when I was testing 30 years
ago. We'd have 60 70 people show up for

1013
01:21:41,199 --> 01:21:47,520
one one career firefighter position.
These do these days, the numbers are not

1014
01:21:45,440 --> 01:21:51,360
like that. And so our intent through
community outreach is to target these

1015
01:21:49,199 --> 01:21:55,440
these kids, these students and to offer
them this cadet program where they can

1016
01:21:53,040 --> 01:22:00,159
come and they can smell the smells of
the smoke on the turnouts and put them

1017
01:21:58,000 --> 01:22:03,920
on and we put them in uniforms and put
them on the fire trucks on the

1018
01:22:01,679 --> 01:22:06,159
ambulances and it is just it's amazing
and it's a hoot and I think

1019
01:22:05,001 --> 01:22:10,800
[clears throat] you could see by the
interviews of both Ila and Ben they're

1020
01:22:08,320 --> 01:22:14,960
they're very excited and and that's what
we're after.

1021
01:22:11,840 --> 01:22:19,679
» When was this last semester?
this video was this last winter. It was,

1022
01:22:17,600 --> 01:22:24,080
I think, two semesters ago going last
fall. So, we've had to that point, we've

1023
01:22:21,920 --> 01:22:27,840
had uh
>> the fall of 24 was our first class.

1024
01:22:26,080 --> 01:22:31,760
We've run four. We're about to start our
fifth. We usually try and get between

1025
01:22:29,600 --> 01:22:35,040
eight and 10 students per class in
there, so we keep it manageable. But

1026
01:22:33,600 --> 01:22:39,360
these students are assigned crews.
They're they're assigned um just like if

1027
01:22:37,600 --> 01:22:42,639
they're if they're working. And they get
to go out and they get to know these

1028
01:22:40,719 --> 01:22:46,560
people. You saw firefighter Whipple in
there talking to some of them. And so

1029
01:22:44,560 --> 01:22:50,719
it's it's really a lot of it's about
coaching. It's about mentorship. And I I

1030
01:22:49,199 --> 01:22:55,840
don't know your name, but you you talked
about with regards to the development of

1031
01:22:53,520 --> 01:22:59,679
these students to become. I love that
because that's what we're doing for

1032
01:22:57,600 --> 01:23:04,000
those students that are that have an
interest in firefighting, we that this

1033
01:23:02,239 --> 01:23:08,719
is a physical manifestation of that
path. We bring them on and they and they

1034
01:23:06,000 --> 01:23:14,000
continue to grow and they develop. And
what we get from it is

1035
01:23:11,840 --> 01:23:19,440
candidates that we can hire. And in
fact, some of these these cadets have

1036
01:23:15,920 --> 01:23:21,840
actually already received jobs in uh on
fire departments and surrounding areas.

1037
01:23:20,800 --> 01:23:25,840
And so they're they're still really
young. And so it's going to take a while

1038
01:23:23,600 --> 01:23:31,280
to ramp them up because um they're
they're they're 17 and 18 years old. So

1039
01:23:29,440 --> 01:23:39,000
as far as the high schools go, just to
kind of give you some

1040
01:23:34,000 --> 01:23:39,000
uh quick idea, we we have them

1041
01:23:39,440 --> 01:23:45,360
Participating high schools have been
Orm, Tempenogus, Mountain View, Pleasant

1042
01:23:43,120 --> 01:23:51,280
Grove, Cedar Valley, Skyidge, and Carl
Maer. And this fall, students are coming

1043
01:23:48,400 --> 01:23:56,159
from Provo, Lehi, American Fork, and
Pacin high schools. And so we're we're

1044
01:23:53,679 --> 01:24:01,280
pulling back from that. Uh program costs
a student $200, which we do a physical

1045
01:23:59,199 --> 01:24:08,400
down at workmed, and we out them with
some basic uniform needs. Um and we

1046
01:24:05,760 --> 01:24:14,560
invite the graduates, the alumni back to
help us with fire prevention night and

1047
01:24:10,320 --> 01:24:17,840
and programs that we do. And uh
that's it. We think it's a wonderful

1048
01:24:16,080 --> 01:24:22,560
program. Like I said, it's we love
community outreach and we we love our

1049
01:24:19,840 --> 01:24:27,199
students and we it's it's a way that we
can really tap in and and provide

1050
01:24:24,880 --> 01:24:30,480
resources for them. You guys have any
questions for me?

1051
01:24:28,719 --> 01:24:37,760
» Are the classes taught during the school
day or is it after hours? It's it's they

1052
01:24:33,840 --> 01:24:42,719
they show up in the afternoon and they
go into the in later on that night and

1053
01:24:40,800 --> 01:24:44,400
they and they get credits as well. So
it's

1054
01:24:43,280 --> 01:24:46,560
» Yeah. I'm just wondering it's part of
the internship.

1055
01:24:45,360 --> 01:24:49,560
» Yeah, that's exactly what it is.
>> Internship.

1056
01:24:50,000 --> 01:24:56,840
» And so they get to come and hang out and
get school credit. So any other

1057
01:24:53,840 --> 01:24:56,840
questions?

1058
01:24:57,120 --> 01:25:05,120
» It's fun. I went to the graduation of
the last one and and I same group I

1059
01:25:02,639 --> 01:25:09,360
believe in January. I met them like on
their first day and to just see the the

1060
01:25:07,520 --> 01:25:12,639
difference and confidence.
>> I don't think you know what I'm talking

1061
01:25:10,480 --> 01:25:16,239
about. I do. Yes. And they're all kind
of sheepish. You want to do this and

1062
01:25:14,880 --> 01:25:19,840
then by the April they're ready to
conquer the world. So yes, thank you.

1063
01:25:18,800 --> 01:25:22,719
It's a great program.
>> Dumpster fire.

1064
01:25:21,360 --> 01:25:27,280
» Yes.
>> Sorry. How do you recruit quick?

1065
01:25:25,199 --> 01:25:33,120
» Social media these days, right? We get
the we get the word out and um these

1066
01:25:30,080 --> 01:25:37,040
kids they're they're um it travels like
wildfire. They they hear about this

1067
01:25:34,880 --> 01:25:39,199
program and we we get we get a lot of
response.

1068
01:25:37,679 --> 01:25:44,360
» I see what you did there with your
description.

1069
01:25:40,480 --> 01:25:44,360
» Wildfire. Okay.

1070
01:25:44,719 --> 01:25:51,679
» All right. Thank you. All right. Last
item on next to last item on the agenda

1071
01:25:48,880 --> 01:25:54,880
is our police chief, uh Chief Robinson.
We're going to talk about school

1072
01:25:52,560 --> 01:25:59,600
resource officers. Welcome. So
tremendously proud of our program and

1073
01:25:57,199 --> 01:26:04,159
the community uh relationship that we
have with uh our current principles um

1074
01:26:02,239 --> 01:26:09,920
and what we do with our school resource
officers. We have five full-time uh

1075
01:26:07,520 --> 01:26:14,400
school resource officers, a sergeant and
four detectives uh that are permanently

1076
01:26:11,760 --> 01:26:17,840
assigned to our three high schools and
our three junior highs.

1077
01:26:16,080 --> 01:26:23,360
» We met the one at Lakeidge. Very
impressive.

1078
01:26:20,800 --> 01:26:27,840
» Is it Loridge?
So they're I would say excellent

1079
01:26:25,920 --> 01:26:32,719
examples of who you want in school of
being that blend of uh Mr. Friendly but

1080
01:26:30,239 --> 01:26:39,360
yet being able to be there when the the
worst happens. And so uh my child uh

1081
01:26:36,239 --> 01:26:43,040
goes to one of these schools and I'm
very confident with the people that we

1082
01:26:40,880 --> 01:26:47,679
have in these. I feel comfortable with
my own kid going uh there with the the

1083
01:26:45,120 --> 01:26:52,719
type of officers that we train and these
schools. So um we take that

1084
01:26:50,000 --> 01:26:57,600
responsibility very seriously. Um they
follow the national NASRO uh national

1085
01:26:55,840 --> 01:27:02,400
association school resource officers
model. Uh first and foremost they're law

1086
01:26:59,760 --> 01:27:07,440
enforcement officers. Uh secondarily
they are uh educators. Uh many of them

1087
01:27:05,760 --> 01:27:13,440
all of them in the high school teach a
class. Um uh as wanted by the high

1088
01:27:10,560 --> 01:27:17,520
school and then informal mentors. And so
making that a you know you talked about

1089
01:27:15,520 --> 01:27:22,800
kindness and empathy and things like
that. uh building relationships with the

1090
01:27:20,239 --> 01:27:27,120
the students so that we hear about
problems before they are problems. If I

1091
01:27:25,360 --> 01:27:30,880
feel uncomfortable enough to go to the
school resource officer to say, "Hey,

1092
01:27:29,280 --> 01:27:36,400
this is this fight's going to happen
behind uh uh the

1093
01:27:34,639 --> 01:27:42,639
what are they called now?
>> Yes. I was thinking of the uh

1094
01:27:40,400 --> 01:27:48,400
the
>> um and so

1095
01:27:44,960 --> 01:27:53,600
back to uh Bren's uh initial we are
innovative. We we do things good. We're

1096
01:27:51,920 --> 01:27:57,760
always looking to do things better. And
so our our school resource officer

1097
01:27:56,159 --> 01:28:02,239
probably
more than a decade ago found a weakness

1098
01:28:00,159 --> 01:28:06,000
in our ability to communicate inside
these schools. And you go into a hot

1099
01:28:04,560 --> 01:28:10,800
scenario and you're like, "Hey, I'm at
Mr. Mr. Wilson's math class. Well, our

1100
01:28:08,719 --> 01:28:16,239
officers don't know where Mr. Mrs.
Wilson's math class is. Or a mass uh

1101
01:28:14,320 --> 01:28:19,600
officer response. Pleasant Grove
officers, county officers don't know

1102
01:28:17,760 --> 01:28:24,000
where that is. And so came up with like
a grid system. Um imagine

1103
01:28:22,286 --> 01:28:30,480
[clears throat] battleship if you're old
enough to remember battleship. Uh B3 U.

1104
01:28:27,840 --> 01:28:37,040
That's where we're at. And so, uh, that
was, uh, codified in state law, uh, and

1105
01:28:33,520 --> 01:28:42,080
that's now a state, uh, mandated thing
that came from one of our officers and

1106
01:28:38,800 --> 01:28:45,280
looking for ways to to be better.
>> Um,

1107
01:28:43,600 --> 01:28:50,159
I
it's just beginning of the new year.

1108
01:28:47,040 --> 01:28:54,239
Your your school year starts next uh,
you know, a year from now. And so I

1109
01:28:52,400 --> 01:28:58,480
would just say let's get together,
figure out what your expectations of

1110
01:28:56,159 --> 01:29:04,880
school resource officers are be so we
can meet those and we can uh be prepared

1111
01:29:01,760 --> 01:29:09,360
to meet those uh from personnel and a a
budgetary standpoint so we can make

1112
01:29:07,120 --> 01:29:14,400
those things
>> questions.

1113
01:29:12,000 --> 01:29:20,480
Your your training has that been on an
alpine district visible or is it bigger

1114
01:29:17,199 --> 01:29:27,280
than that? your where your SRO training
>> meaning what so are every officer goes

1115
01:29:23,280 --> 01:29:32,480
to the NASRO class uh it starts in June
so everyone goes to that are you talking

1116
01:29:30,320 --> 01:29:35,840
about the grid system search or just
their initial training

1117
01:29:33,600 --> 01:29:40,560
» just just training over in general
>> so every one of them attends that class

1118
01:29:38,560 --> 01:29:44,560
uh that's offered every June uh
>> is there any type of collaboration with

1119
01:29:42,000 --> 01:29:48,719
the other SRO's throughout ASD
>> yes so they're they've got their own

1120
01:29:47,600 --> 01:29:53,600
little network. They got their own
little group chats, uh, communicating

1121
01:29:51,120 --> 01:29:58,080
and doing that training. So, like in the
summer months, we utilize your buildings

1122
01:29:55,440 --> 01:30:00,800
to train all our officers in the police
department.

1123
01:29:58,880 --> 01:30:03,440
» I walked accidentally into one of your
trainings and I was like blown off

1124
01:30:02,502 --> 01:30:10,719
[laughter]
>> blown away. Now, do we have

1125
01:30:05,920 --> 01:30:14,800
» a good not a good description like
>> but I just didn't know if you'd have the

1126
01:30:12,320 --> 01:30:19,199
conversations about whether it's they
continue training in on that level after

1127
01:30:17,920 --> 01:30:23,280
the splits.
>> Uh let's talk about what your

1128
01:30:20,719 --> 01:30:27,920
expectations are. My intent would be to
continue that and if there's room that

1129
01:30:25,679 --> 01:30:32,880
we can improve then yeah I'm always open
for that. a different model that you

1130
01:30:30,480 --> 01:30:41,600
want to follow or something besides
NASRO. Um, I'm open to those as long as

1131
01:30:36,880 --> 01:30:45,760
it's moving us forward better and safer.
>> So, I have two questions. The first when

1132
01:30:43,679 --> 01:30:50,159
they're so one to one at each of the
secondary schools, do they also have an

1133
01:30:47,600 --> 01:30:57,600
elementary they're over go to?
>> Yeah. So if something a request those

1134
01:30:54,320 --> 01:31:01,840
there's assignments that those
so that the sergeant and the other

1135
01:30:59,840 --> 01:31:07,199
detectives split their time amongst the
three junior highs and then the 11 or 12

1136
01:31:05,600 --> 01:31:11,920
uh elementarymentaries they're all
assigned to that and so if there's a

1137
01:31:09,360 --> 01:31:16,239
request that come in uh that officer
that SRO would respond there unless

1138
01:31:14,080 --> 01:31:20,080
they're unavailable then somebody would
uh fill

1139
01:31:18,159 --> 01:31:23,760
» and the other question is during the
school year is they their time that

1140
01:31:22,239 --> 01:31:28,400
they're working is it 100% at the school
or is it 90% and they're doing

1141
01:31:25,679 --> 01:31:33,440
» 40 hours they work 58s they're they're
from 73 and and after dealing with these

1142
01:31:31,520 --> 01:31:39,199
are parent problems or teacher questions
or principal questions and they're 100

1143
01:31:36,480 --> 01:31:42,719
those five are 100% dedicated to
>> and in the summer have more help with

1144
01:31:41,440 --> 01:31:48,159
the department then
>> they come back that's usually when they

1145
01:31:44,159 --> 01:31:52,080
take their vacations the teachers um so
yeah

1146
01:31:49,600 --> 01:31:55,040
» you Do you work extracurricular events
as well?

1147
01:31:52,560 --> 01:31:59,920
» They do. The high school like football
uh games is probably the most apparent

1148
01:31:57,920 --> 01:32:04,560
one. Um trying to think of some of the
other ones where the overtime pages come

1149
01:32:02,080 --> 01:32:06,800
out are usually for the football uh
games.

1150
01:32:05,440 --> 01:32:12,159
» You don't have time to teach an
internship class, do you? [laughter]

1151
01:32:09,440 --> 01:32:15,360
» Personally, no
to uh

1152
01:32:13,520 --> 01:32:19,520
» I'm just thinking of the fire
department. They do have the law

1153
01:32:17,600 --> 01:32:24,400
enforcement class at the high schools
that that the green force officer

1154
01:32:21,280 --> 01:32:27,520
generally teaches. It's a four credit
>> usually first period TET

1155
01:32:27,199 --> 01:32:32,560
class.
>> Oh, I didn't

1156
01:32:30,239 --> 01:32:36,400
I'm not just bragging. This is reality.
Our school resource officers are

1157
01:32:34,400 --> 01:32:42,719
literally award-winning
as part of this national association.

1158
01:32:40,800 --> 01:32:48,239
» I forgot about that. In 2024, we were
recognized as the what's the term?

1159
01:32:46,239 --> 01:32:51,920
» Good.
>> Very cool.

1160
01:32:50,239 --> 01:32:57,679
» One of the one of the things too I think
you can't you can't measure is what

1161
01:32:55,040 --> 01:33:03,600
doesn't happen because they're there.
That's right. It's it's a huge support

1162
01:33:00,639 --> 01:33:09,440
as a secondary principal especially to
have them there in certain things that a

1163
01:33:07,600 --> 01:33:13,440
little bit tenuous
but it also prevents so many things from

1164
01:33:11,840 --> 01:33:19,199
ever happening. I
>> mean View we we don't have to imagine

1165
01:33:17,120 --> 01:33:22,560
the worst case scenario. we we
experienced the the worst case scenario

1166
01:33:21,040 --> 01:33:26,000
and so
>> um

1167
01:33:23,440 --> 01:33:28,320
» yeah the model agency award is what they
received in 2024

1168
01:33:27,520 --> 01:33:32,880
» right
>> um so proud of our officers and the work

1169
01:33:31,360 --> 01:33:37,960
that they do in school it's important
it's needed

1170
01:33:34,960 --> 01:33:37,960
dedicated

1171
01:33:39,040 --> 01:33:46,880
gladly send my kid to the school
>> thank you thank you

1172
01:33:43,920 --> 01:33:51,920
» yeah thank you
>> leads us to our Last item that is to

1173
01:33:49,360 --> 01:33:55,520
adjourn. So I don't know when our next
meeting's scheduled, but I I imagine

1174
01:33:54,080 --> 01:33:58,520
» Aaron probably knows
>> probably.

1175
01:33:58,719 --> 01:34:04,400
» There we go.
>> And eventually we're going to host you.

1176
01:34:02,880 --> 01:34:09,760
» Yes. In our new district office.
>> New district office.

1177
01:34:05,679 --> 01:34:13,679
» We'll have room to host you.
>> Your course you're always welcome here.

1178
01:34:12,639 --> 01:34:16,400
» Thank you. Thank you all for coming.
It's good to see all of you. And

1179
01:34:14,960 --> 01:34:20,280
» thank you for all of you and
>> take care. Good luck with

1180
01:34:23,679 --> 01:34:26,920
» my support.

1181
01:34:36,400 --> 01:34:40,360
Great meeting. Thanks everyone.

1182
01:34:49,600 --> 01:34:52,600
name.

1183
01:35:16,080 --> 01:35:18,800
Yeah. Yeah.