[F. Appointment of Kindergarten Science Program Study Group, Ms. Heather Kutcher, Executive Director of Curriculum, Instruction, & Assessment, Mr. Andrew Renzulli, Director of Curriculum, Instruction, & Assessment, and Mr. Howard Eakes, Acting Supervisor of Science]

LINE HERE. NEXT RUN ITEM. AP APPOINTMENT OF KINDERGARTEN SCIENCE PROGRAM STUDY GROUP AND HEATHER KUTCHER AND ANDREW LAZULI PLEASE COME FORWARD FOR THE DISCUSSION. WE'RE GONNA LET THEM PLEASE STAY THERE. DISCUSS. THEY'RE FINE. THEY CAN PRESENT SO. JUST TO BE CLEAR IN THESE NEXT THREE AGENDA ITEMS. THESE WERE AGENDA ITEMS THAT WE PLACED ON THE CONSENT AGENDA. BUT ONE OF THE CLARIFICATIONS WE HAD FROM OUR LAST BOARD MEETING IS THAT ANY BOARD MEMBER CAN CHOOSE TO PULL SOMETHING FROM THE CONSENT AGENDA AND ADD IT TO THE, UM REGULAR NEW BUSINESS AGENDA. AND SO THAT'S WHAT HAPPENED FOR TONIGHT, WHERE THOSE STREETS THAT WERE ORIGINALLY PUT ON CONSENT TO JET. UM ARE NOW ON THE REGULAR AGENDA. EACH OF THESE THREE ITEMS. UH WOULD HAVE BEEN PRESENTED TO OUR GENERAL CURRICULUM COMMITTEE. WE HAVE BOARD MEMBERS WHO ATTEND THOSE AND ONE OF THE REASONS WE'VE WE'VE HAD BOARD MEMBERS WHO ATTEND THE GENERAL CURRICULUM COMMITTEE IS TO AGAIN ALLOW FOR SORT OF TRANSPARENCY, OBSERVATION OF THE PROCESS AND TO SEE THAT UM, BUT AT THE END, JUST LIKE ANY OTHER CONTRACTS.

WE DO COME TO THE BOARD. FOR APPROVAL OF THE RECOMMENDATIONS , AND THAT APPROVAL WAS BASED ON THE RECOMMENDATION OF THE GENERAL CURRICULUM COMMITTEE. UM SO. WHAT NOW MISS CULTURE AND MR MEN'S EARLIER HERE. IF THERE ARE SPECIFIC QUESTIONS I KNOW THERE WERE FULL PRESENTATIONS PROVIDED FOR THE GENERAL CURRICULUM COMMITTEE. WHO ATTENDED SO MANY OF THE BOARD MEMBERS WHO ATTENDED THAT COULD ALSO SPEAK A LITTLE BIT TO THE CONTENT OF WHAT HAPPENED IN THOSE MEETINGS,

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BUT WE DO PRESENT THESE AS ESSENTIALLY CONTRACTS TO BE APPROVED. UM BY THE BOARD, SO.

THIS COUNTRY IS GENUINE. ADD OR IF YOU WANT TO GO RIGHT TO QUESTIONS RELATED TO THIS WE CAN REVIEW FOR SOME CONTACT. WILL MARYLAND DID ADOPT THE NEXT GENERATION SCIENCE STANDARDS, WHICH ABOUT EIGHT YEARS AGO, THE OFFICE OF SCIENCE DID WORK TO ENSURE THAT OUR CURRICULUM WAS ALIGNED WITH THE STANDARDS, AND OVER THE PAST FEW YEARS WE DID NOTICE INSTRUCTIONAL GAPS, NOT ALIGNED TO THE NEXT GENERATION SCIENCE STANDARDS IN OUR KINDERGARTEN CURRICULUM, AND SO THAT WARRANTED SOME INVESTIGATION SO IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE SCIENCE OFFICE IN EARLY CHILDHOOD, WE HAD TWO PROGRAMS THAT WERE FIELD TESTED. 24 KINDERGARTEN TEACHERS FIELD TESTED PROGRAM 27 FIELD TEST ANOTHER, THEIR QUALITATIVE AND QUANTITATIVE RESULTS REALLY SHOWED THAT NEITHER PROGRAM ADDRESSED THE GAPS. SO THIS FIRST PIECE THAT WE'RE PRESENTING THIS EVENING IS REALLY REQUEST TO FORM A TEAM TO ACTUALLY CREATE OUR OWN CURRICULUM TO ALIGN WITH THE NEXT GENERATION SCIENCE STANDARDS. THAT WOULD BE A TEAM OF KINDERGARTEN TEACHERS TRAINED IN THE FIVE MODEL FIGHTING INSTRUCTIONAL MODEL, WHICH IS ENGAGED, EXPLORE EXPLAIN ELABORATE AND EVALUATE AND ALSO TRAINED IN THOSE SCIENCE STANDARDS. SO THE GENERAL CURRICULUM COMMITTEE DID APPROVE OUR MOVING FORWARD WITH THE REQUEST TO FORM THAT COMMITTEE. WE ARE HAPPY TO TAKE ANY QUESTIONS FROM WHAT WE'VE PROVIDED. SHOULD WE JUST START WITH MRS ALVAREZ? YES THANK YOU. AND THANK YOU FOR UM HOW? GRANTING MY REQUEST TO MOVE THIS TO THE FULL AGENDA. UM SO I HAD NEVER HEARD OF THE NEXT GENERATION SCIENCE STANDARDS UNTIL I SAW IT ON THE AGENDA, SO I DID SOME RESEARCH ABOUT IT.

AND, UM AND BASED ON THE ACADEMIC, UM, PAPERS THAT I'VE READ AND YOU KNOW WHAT I GOT FROM, YOU KNOW, THE INTERNET SEARCHES. BASICALLY IT'S A IT'S A LEAP FROM IT'S. NO LONGER USES SCIENTIFIC METHOD AND I HAVE SOME VERY SERIOUS CONCERNS. ABOUT, UM. NOT TEACHING OUR CHILDREN THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD. UM SCIENTIFIC METHOD IS A LOGICAL PROCEDURE. FOR STUDENTS TO LOOK AT THE QUESTION. TO DEVELOP AN EXPERIMENT AND COLLECT DATA. AND THEN TO DETERMINE WHETHER OR NOT THE QUESTION THAT THEY WERE ASKING OR THE HYPOTHESIS THAT THEY WANTED TO TEST UM, IS ACCURATE. UM, THEY AND I GRANTED, YOU KNOW I WAS YOU KNOW, JUST QUICKLY KIND OF LOOKED AT. WHAT IS THIS ALL ABOUT? AND IT SEEMS LIKE IT TRIES TO COMBINE. UM SCIENCE WITH ENGINEERING AND LEAPS. TO A MATHEMATICAL MODELING OF SCIENCE OR ALGORITHMIC OUTPUT WITHOUT ACTUALLY LOOKING AT THE EVIDENCE AND COLLECTING THE EVIDENCE IN AN EXPERIMENT. UM AND LOOKING AT FACTORS THAT WOULD GO INTO A MODEL. UM SO WHEN YOU CREATE A MODEL YOU HAVE TO FIRST TO DETERMINE WHETHER OR NOT THAT FACTOR. IT IS IMPORTANT IN THE MODEL THAT YOU'RE INCLUDING IT IN OR ELSE THAT MODEL IS JUST SOMEBODY'S WILD GUEST OF WHAT THEY WANT. AND ALL MODELERS WILL TELL YOU THE MODEL IS BASICALLY ALL OF THEM ARE FLAWED AND SOME OF THEM ARE USEFUL. A MODEL IS BASICALLY A REPRESENTATION OF WHAT THAT SCIENTIST THANKS IS IMPORTANT. PUT INTO MATHEMATICAL ALGORITHM. AND. NOT TEACHING THE CHILDREN SCIENTIFIC METHOD. DOESN'T TEACH THEY WILL. THEY WON'T LEARN HOW TO COLLECT EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT WHETHER OR NOT THAT FACTOR SHOULD BE IN THE MODEL AT ALL. SO I. I HAVE SOME PAUSE. AND YOU KNOW, SO I DON'T. MAYBE YOU CAN ANSWER MY CONCERNS . ABSOLUTELY. CERTAINLY MRS. ALVAREZ, UNHAPPY TO HELP ADDRESS THAT. I CAN ASSURE YOU THAT THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD IS INDEED TAUGHT VIA THE NEXT GENERATION SCIENCE STANDARDS. I THINK WHERE THERE MAY BE SOME MISUNDERSTANDING. HERE IS THE LANGUAGE THAT IS USED SO THE NEXT GENERATION SCIENCE STANDARDS THAT WERE ADOPTED BY THE STATE OF MARYLAND IN 2013 THAT GUIDES ALL OVER WORK TODAY INCORPORATES THREE DIMENSIONAL INSTRUCTION, PART OF WHICH INCLUDES THE SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING PRACTICES. AND THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD IS CAPTURED WITHIN THOSE SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING PRACTICES. SO FOR EXAMPLE, STUDENTS ARE TAUGHT TO ASK QUESTIONS FOR SCIENCE AND TO DEFINE PROBLEMS FOR ENGINEERING . THERE IS A PRACTICE THAT FOCUSES ON PLANNING AND CARRYING OUT INVESTIGATIONS, WHICH REALLY SPEAKS TO THE HEART OF YOUR

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CONCERN WITH REGARD TO THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD, ANALYZING AND INTERPRETING DATA MAKING CLAIMS BASED ON EVIDENCE AND BEING ABLE TO BACK UP THOSE CLAIMS WITH SOUND. SCIENTIFIC READING REASONING, SO WHILE WE MAY NOT USE THE EXPLICIT TERM SCIENTIFIC METHOD IN SORT OF AN OLD FASHIONED APPROACH TO TEACHING IN A VERY LINEAR WAY, IT IS VERY MUCH TAUGHT WITHIN OUR CURRICULUM ACROSS THE BOARD IN ARCADIA, 12 SCIENCE PROGRAM JUST DIFFERENT LANGUAGES USED TO DESCRIBE THE APPROACHES TO THAT METHOD COMPARED TO UM, PAST PRACTICES. WE DO HAVE MRS AMY RYAN, OR ELEMENTARY SCIENCE TEACHER SPECIALIST AND MR HOWARD EXACTING SUPERVISOR OF SCIENCE HERE IF THEY'D LIKE TO ADD ANYTHING AFTER THAT.

MR X. WOULD YOU LIKE TO COME TO THE MICROPHONE BECAUSE THE VIRTUAL LISTENERS MIGHT NOT BE ABLE TO HEAR YOU. I WASN'T TRYING TO INTERRUPT. JUST SO YOU CAN JUST SO EVERYONE CAN HEAR YOU. I APOLOGIZE. SO SINCE WE'RE SPEAKING ABOUT KINDERGARTEN, SPECIFICALLY, OUR PRIMARY STUDENTS DO ENGAGE IN CLAIMS, EVIDENCE AND REASONING. THEY MAKE A CLAIM. WE COULD CALL THAT A HYPOTHESIS QUESTION THAT THEY WISH TO ANSWER. THEY DO ENGAGE IN EXPERIMENTATION TO COLLECT THEIR EVIDENCE. THEY ANALYZE THAT EVIDENCE AND THEY ENGAGE IN ARGUMENT WITH THEIR PEERS THROUGH THEIR REASONING. THE REASONING. IT'S HARD FOR KINDERGARTNERS. I'LL BE HONEST.

IT BUILDS SEQUENTIALLY THROUGH THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL YEARS INTO THE MIDDLE SCHOOL YEARS. AND WE HAVE HEARD SINCE MISS RYAN HAS REALLY BEEN THE FORCE BEHIND THE CLAIMS, EVIDENCE AND REASONING.

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BASED SCIENCE, SO WE WANT THE STUDENTS TO KNOW THAT THEY NEED TO BUILD THEIR OWN CLAIMS AND PROVIDE THEIR OWN EVIDENCE, AND THERE MIGHT BE DIFFERENT ANSWERS . THERE'S NOT ALWAYS ONE CORRECT ANSWER. SO THAT'S WHAT I DID THOSE KINDERGARTEN TEACHERS HAD LEARNED FROM THAT WAS THAT SOMETIMES THEY WANT TO JUST GIVE ALL OF THE INFORMATION AND NOT LET THE STUDENTS ACTUALLY EXPLORE AND MAKE THEIR OWN CLAIMS ABOUT SOMETHING AND USING THEIR OWN EVIDENCE. SO. THE PHILOSOPHY. OKAY THANK YOU FOR ANSWERING MY QUESTIONS. THANK YOU. THIS IS BRUCE. THE ONLY QUESTION I HAVE IS, IS THAT NOW WE DO NOT HAVE THIS SCIENCE PART IN KINDERGARTEN. WE DO HAVE SCIENCE. THE SCIENCE PART IN KINDERGARTEN THROUGH OUR THEMATIC UNIT BASED, UM, I'LL CALL IT UP UNIT. IT IS SCIENCE BASED. WE HAVE HARVEST ALL ABOUT PLANTS AND THE THINGS THEY NEED TO SURVIVE. THAT'S ALL SCIENCE. WE HAVE POLAR ANIMALS. WE HAVE AN EXTREME WEATHER TUB UNITS CALLED A TUB UNIT, AND THEY ARE SCIENCE. OTHER TUB UNITS ARE SOCIAL SCIENCE. IT'S A SPLIT BETWEEN SOCIAL WE USED TO CALL IT SOCIAL STUDIES, SOCIAL SCIENCE AND SCIENCE. THIS IS GOING TO DO WHAT? IN TERMS OF WHAT YOU'RE DOING NOW, THIS IS GOING TO OUR LINE OUR KINDERGARTEN CURRICULUM WITH THE NEXT GENERATION SCIENCE STANDARDS. MRS HAN. SO MY QUESTION IS MORE SO I GUESS THE PROCESS OF THE COMMITTEE HOW, UM FROM FROM WHAT I UNDERSTAND, LIKE, HOW ARE YOU PICKING? WHO GOES ON THE COMMITTEE? BECAUSE FROM WHAT I'VE READ, THE BOARD IS RESPONSIBLE FOR APPOINTING MEMBERS TO THE COMMITTEE BASED ON THE RECOMMENDATION, UM OF THE SUPERINTENDENT. SO THE COMMITTEE THAT YOU'RE FORMING WHERE, UM ARE YOU GOING TO BRING THOSE RECOMMENDATIONS, THEN TO DR BOLSON SO HE CAN RECOMMEND TO US? UM, THE COMMITTEE MEMBERS. I DO BELIEVE THAT IS THE PROCESS FOR, UM, COMMITTEES FORMED. WITH THE BOARD. SO THIS IS WE'RE REQUESTING TO CREATE THE COMMITTEE. THEY WILL WORK WITH KINDERGARTEN TEACHERS WITH OUR BUILDING ADMINISTRATORS TO IDENTIFY MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE AND WE WILL TAKE THOSE TO THE SUPERINTENDENT. THANK YOU. AFTER HAROLD. THANK YOU. MY QUESTIONS HAVE ALREADY BEEN ANSWERED. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. MR PERRY. DR PHILLIPS. NO QUESTIONS FOR ME. THANK YOU.

THIS PROPERTY. AND I GUESS WHAT? FROM WHAT I'VE READ TO THIS IS GOING TO ALLOW MORE. THE STUDENTS ARE THE STRONGER ABILITY ARGUMENT TO DISCUSS WHERE THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD IS MORE LINEAR. IS THAT CORRECT? CORRECT? CORRECT. THANK YOU. BLANKET. UM THANK YOU FOR YOUR PRESENTATION. MS. ALVAREZ KUDOS. SHE IS OUR LIKE ENGINEERS, SCIENTISTS ON BOARD, SO HER QUESTIONS WERE WAY OVER MY HEAD, BUT SHE NAILED IT. THE ANSWER QUESTIONS. I DIDN'T KNOW. I HAD, UM, RECENTLY LISTENING TO A PODCAST WITH NEIL DEGRASSI TYSON , AND HE SAID THAT SCIENTISTS ARE JUST KIDS THAT NEVER STOPPED ASKING QUESTIONS, PERFORMING EXPERIMENTS, FLIPPING ROCKS AND INTO INTEGRATING THIS LOVE FOR SCIENCE EXPERIMENTS AND HYPOTHESIS AND CONTINUE TO GO BACK TO THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD AND RE PERFORM. AN EXPERIMENT IS SO FANTASTIC AND I'M SO EXCITED.

I LOVE AND MORE OF SCIENCE BRAIN THEN ANY OTHER TOPIC. SO THIS IS RIGHT UP MY ALLEY. I REALLY APPRECIATE THIS. THANK YOU. MR SILK, SO JUST REAL QUICK. THANK YOU VERY MUCH HUGE FAN OF SCIENCE. SO THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHING YOU DO TO BRING MORE SCIENCE TO OUR KIDS. THANK YOU.

I HAVE NO QUESTIONS. PUT ON THIS , SO I NEED TO ASK IF THERE IS A MOTION. AND A SECOND TO, UM.

APPROVED THE APPOINTMENT OF A SCIENCE PROGRAMS STUDY GROUP. FOR KINDERGARTEN KINDERGARTEN SCIENCE PROGRAM STUDY GROUP. CLARIFICATION I JUST SO THE MOTION THAT WE THAT'S ON THE BOARD IS JUST TO PUT TOGETHER A STUDY GROUP. TO LOOK AT THIS CURRICULUM, CORRECT. OKAY.

ALRIGHT JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE I UNDERSTOOD THAT THIS IS OKAY. THIS IS NO BLANKET. THIS IS NO BLANKET. I MOTION THAT WE CREATE THE GROUP. YEAH, BRUCE I SECOND . I'M SORRY. WE'RE ASKING THAT THE COMMITTEE IS FORMED TO REVIEW AND THEN REVISE AND UPDATE THE CURRICULUM TO ALIGN WITH THE STANDARDS TO BE IMPLEMENTED WAS READING THE WAY IT WAS WORDED HERE. UM CAN WE AMEND THE MOTION TO USE THAT WORDING? WOULD YOU STATE THAT ONE MORE TIME? WE WOULD LIKE TO

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FORM A COMMITTEE TO REVIEW AND THEN REVISE AND UPDATE THE EXISTING KINDERGARTEN SCIENCE CURRICULUM TO ALIGN WITH THE NEXT GENERATION SCIENCE STANDARDS. THANK YOU. CAN WE AMEND IT TO THAT, AND IT'S NOT THIS ISLAND. UM MY. THE MOTION THAT I WOULD LIKE TO DO WOULD BE FOR THE COMMITTEE TO BE CREATED TO DEVELOP THE CURRICULUM AND THEN TO BRING IT BEFORE THE BOARD FOR IMPLEMENTATION BEFORE IT'S IMPLEMENTED IN THE SCHOOL SYSTEM. SO OKAY? SO WE HAVE MORE THAN ONE MOTION OF FLORIDA. UM. SO SHOULD WE REVISE OVER THE AXIS? WEEK. WE CAN'T. I MEAN, WE CAN AMEND WRITTEN IF WE LOOK AT THE SLIDE NUMBER 17, MADAM. PRESIDENT. THE WORDING THAT SHE HAS ON SLIDE NUMBER 17 IS WHAT THEIR REQUEST. THANK YOU. THE OPPOSITE OF SCIENCE AND EARLY CHILDHOOD REQUEST APPROVAL TO FORM A KINDERGARTEN CURRICULUM WRITING TEAM TO REVISE AND UPDATE THE CURRENT KINDERGARTEN SCIENCE PROGRAM TO FULLY ALIGNED WITH THE NEXT NEXT GENERATION SCIENCE STANDARDS. THANK YOU. THANK YOU FOR GIVING ME THE CORRECT WORDING, BUT THAT'S NOT WHAT MRS HAN WANTS. BECAUSE IT IS THE BOARD'S JOB TO APPROVE THE CURRICULUM BEFORE IT'S IMPLEMENTED IN THE SCHOOL SYSTEM, SO IT'S OK TO CREATE THE COMMITTEE. SO, UM, THE. CREATING THE COMMITTEE COMING UP WITH THE CURRICULUM IS GREAT, BUT THEN AT THAT POINT, THE CURRICULUM SHOULD BE BROUGHT TO THE BOARD FOR THE BOARD TO REVIEW THAT CURRICULUM BEFORE IT'S IMPLEMENTED INTO THE SCHOOL SYSTEM. SO YOU'RE GOING TO BECOME. AND THAT IS OUR PROCESS , SO THAT'S ALSO ON THAT SLIDE THAT THEY WILL USE THIS SUMMER AND NEXT SCHOOL YEAR TO THE TEAM WILL DO THAT. THEY WILL TAKE IT BACK TO GCC AND THEN A GCC APPROVES IT. WE WILL RECOMMEND THAT TO THE SUPERINTENDENT WHO WILL THEN TAKE THAT BACK TO THE BOARD SO BEFORE THE CURRICULUM WOULD BE IMPLEMENTED, IT WOULD BE GO THROUGH THE SAME PROCESS OF GCC AND INTO THE SUPERINTENDENT TO THE BOARD. YES MR CURTI. IT'S OUTLINED ON SLIDE 16 AT THE BOTTOM OF SLIDES 16.

EVERYTHING. CORRECT THAT GIVES THE PROCESS POINTING IT OUT WHERE IT IS ON SITE 60 SEE THE SLIDE. THE RUN RIGHT BEFORE THE LIST. SECOND OF THE LAST SLIDE. GOOD. DID YOU FIND IT? IT'S BEHIND YOU ON THE MALL TO THE ONLY QUESTION THAT I HAVE IS THAT SAYS THAT THE GENERAL CURRICULUM COMMITTEE WILL APPROVE THE UPDATED CURRICULUM AND THE UPDATED CURRICULUM SHOULD BE BROUGHT BEFORE THE BOARD TO BE APPROVED. NORMALLY THEY LOOK AT THE GCC APPROVAL FIRST, AND THEN IT COMES TO THE BOARD. I UNDERSTAND THAT, BUT I'M JUST TRYING TO CLARIFY BECAUSE I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT THE PROCEDURES FOLLOWED THE PROPER WAY. STEP ON 16. IT DOESN'T SAY IT'S GOING TO COME TO THE BOARD AND I THINK THAT MOST SALONS POINT EXACTLY, AND I UNDERSTAND THAT THAT CLARIFICATION IN THIS WILL WHICH WILL BE ON THE MINUTES THAT IT COMES BACK TO WORK FOR APPROVAL. OKAY, THAT'S GREAT. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. WOULD YOU DO A ROLL CALL, THOUGH, MRS RALLO. I'M SORRY, WHO WAS THE FIRST MOTION? INITIALLY EMOTION? AND I SECOND CAROL BRUCE. SO DO I GET TO RECENT VOTE, WHICH IS GOING TO DO THE VOTE. ALVAREZ. YES.

BRUCE? YES. MISS HAN. I JUST WANT TO CLARIFY. WHAT IS THE MOTION ACTUALLY THAT WE'RE VOTING ON BECAUSE THERE WERE TWO MOTIONS THAT WERE BROUGHT TO THE RIGHT THERE. YES, I KNOW. SO DID SOMEONE EDIT THE MOTION TO SAVE THIS SPECIFICALLY? YES. OKAY? OKAY? THEN? YES. HAROLD YES.

IT'S VERY YES. DR PHILLIPS. YES. MR RICCARDI? YES. MR BLINKEN? YES. VICE PRESIDENT. SO YES.

PRESIDENT MUELLER. YES. MOTION PASSES. THANK YOU SO MUCH. UM NEXT, WE'RE GOING TO LOOK AT THE

[G. Expansion of Middle School Writing Curriculum, Ms. Heather Kutcher, Executive Director of Curriculum, Instruction, & Assessment and Mr. Andrew Renzulli, Director of Curriculum, Instruction, & Assessment]

EXPANSION OF THE MIDDLE SCHOOL SCIENCE. EXCUSE ME, MIDDLE SCHOOL WRITING CURRICULUM. UM.

GO AHEAD. IT'S BACK TO YOU. OH JUST A LITTLE BIT OF CONTEXT, AND WE ALSO HAVE AMERI STELTER, OUR SYSTEMS SUPERVISOR OF THE READING ENGLISH AND LANGUAGE ARTS OFFICE, SHE IS WITH US

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SPIRITUALLY TO ALSO ANSWER QUESTIONS OR ADD TO THE CONTEXT . UM OUR K THROUGH FIVE CURRICULUM FOR WRITING IS THE UNITS OF STUDY AND WRITING AND SO IN 19 2020. WE DID HAVE MIDDLE SCHOOLS WHO PILOTED THE UNITS OF STUDY IN THE SIXTH GRADE. THIS WAS TO ENSURE ALIGNMENT OF CURRICULUM KEY TO SIX TO ENHANCE OUR STUDENTS WRITING CAPACITY. WE DO HAVE A READING CURRICULUM IN THE MIDDLE SCHOOL GRADES THAT IS NOT UNITS OF STUDY. IT IS, HMM. H WHICH IS AN ANTHOLOGY PROGRAM, SO IT DOES NOT INCLUDE A COMPREHENSIVE WRITING CURRICULUM WITHIN IT, SO WE KNEW THAT WE WANTED TO ADD AND ENHANCE AND HAVE SOME CONSISTENCY IN OUR WRITING CURRICULUM FOR OUR STUDENTS, ESPECIALLY IN THOSE MIDDLE GRADES. SO WE DID PILOTED BELLER MIDDLE SCHOOL, EDGEWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL IN 2019 TO 20. WE ADDED TWO ADDITIONAL PILOT SCHOOLS THE NEXT YEAR. UM, WE'VE ALSO EXPANDED TO THE SEVENTH GRADE AGAIN WITH CONSISTENCY OF THE WRITING CURRICULUM FROM NOW KEY TO SEVEN, WHICH HAS GREAT BENEFITS FOR OUR STUDENTS, QUALITATIVE AND QUANTITATIVE DATA HAVE SUGGESTED. THAT THIS IS ENHANCING AND IMPROVING STUDENTS WRITING SKILLS. SO BASED ON WHAT WE HAVE FOUND OVER THE PAST FEW YEARS WITH THIS, WE WOULD LIKE TO EXPAND THAT WRITING CURRICULUM TO THE REMAINING FIVE MIDDLE SCHOOLS THAT DO NOT YET HAVE IT IN THEIR SEVENTH GRADE CLASSROOMS, WHICH WILL ALLOW US TO HAVE A VERY COMPREHENSIVE, SYSTEMATIC WRITING CURRICULUM K THROUGH SEVEN ACROSS ALL OF OUR SCHOOLS.

SO WE'RE HAPPY TO TAKE ANY QUESTIONS AND WE HAVE MISS STELZER VIRTUALLY TO HELP WITH THAT AS WELL. DID ANY BOARD MEMBERS HAVE QUESTIONS? UM YEAH . OKAY, SO I, UM. LOOKING AT THE DATA. THERE WAS SOME THINGS IN THE SLIDES THAT I'M NOT SURE I AND IT'S PROBABLY HARTMAN'S SHIP . UM BUT LIKE ON SLIDE 18. THE THERE'S NO KEY FOR THE FOR THE SLIDE AND. I WAS JUST HAVING A HARD TIME UNDERSTANDING THE IMPROVEMENT. UM, THAT WAS BASED , AND WE'VE BEEN DOING A LOT OF REVIEWS AND SITTING IN CLASSROOMS FOR THE READING PROGRAM. AND UM, YOU KNOW, HOW IS THAT DATA BEING USED WOULD HAVE. CAN YOU TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT WHAT DATA WAS COLLECTED? AND IN THIS CHART MANSHIP WHERE, UM, YOU KNOW, IT'S A B ONE. A B TWO. I DON'T I DON'T KNOW WHAT THERE'S NO KEY TO DEFINE THOSE UM ABBREVIATIONS. SURE I MISS STELZER. DID YOU ADDRESS THOSE ABBREVIATIONS? ABSOLUTELY GOOD EVENING. THIS IS EMERY STELZER AND THE ASSISTANT SUPERVISOR READING ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS. UM, AND IF YOU LOOK ON THE SLIDE FOR THE NARRATIVE UM, WITH THIS DATA IS FOR THREE OF OUR SIXTH GRADES WHO HAVE BEEN IMPLEMENTING THE UNITS STUDY AND WRITING FOR THE GREATEST LENGTH OF TIME. WE ASKED THEM TO ADMINISTER AND ASSESSMENT THAT IS IN THE CURRICULUM CALLED THE ON DEMAND ASSESSMENT. IT IS AN OPEN ENDED PROMPT THAT THEY RESPOND TO IN A GIVEN PERIOD OF TIME CLASS PERIOD. THE TEACHERS SCORE IT WITH A STANDARDS ALIGNED RUBRIC THAT IS PART OF THE CURRICULUM. AND THEN THEY ENTERED THAT DATA INTO PERFORMANCE MATTERS. SO WHAT YOU SEE IF I CAN. CLARIFY THE CHART . UM IN THE FALL, THE STUDENTS WERE ADMINISTERED, UH THE ON DEMAND ASSESSMENT 152 STUDENTS, UM, THAT YOU SEE IN THE RED HAD NOT YET ACHIEVED THOSE STANDARDS AND 87ED DEVELOPING. THOSE ARE THE STUDENTS IN YELLOW. UM THERE WAS ONE STUDENT WHO WAS PROFICIENT AND FIVE WHO HAD EXCEEDED. UM, THIS WAS 245 STUDENTS, AND IT REPRESENTED ABOUT A DOZEN CLASSROOMS ACROSS BELLAIRE, MIDDLE NORTH, HARFORD MIDDLE AND EDGEWOOD BATTLE. THE TEACHERS THAN TAUGHT THE PERSONAL NARRATIVE UNIT. IT'S A 4 TO 5 WEEK UNIT THAT IS STANDARD ALIGNED ITS COMPREHENSIVE WITH EXPLICIT LESSONS. MENTOR TEXTS. CHECKLIST UM, AND AT THE END OF THE UNIT. THEY THEN ADMINISTER THE ON DEMAND ASSESSMENT AGAIN AND WHAT YOU SEE IS THAT UM AT THE POST ASSESSMENT 19 STUDENTS.

HAD NOT YET ACHIEVED, UM UM 95 WERE, UM, APPROACHING A DEVELOPING BUT 100 AND 32 STUDENTS HAD WERE EITHER PROFICIENT OR HAD EXCEEDED. UM THEN THE TEACHERS ADMINISTERED

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AND ON DEMAND ASSESSMENT OR THE ARGUMENT. WRITING STANDARDS, AND YOU SEE AGAIN THE CHART THE PRE ASSESSMENT THIS WAS OVER 200 STUDENTS AGAIN. AND YOU SEE THAT THERE WERE 83 STUDENTS. FOR THE PRE ASSESSMENT GOING INTO THE ARGUMENT WRITING, UM, THAT HAD NOT YET ACHIEVED THEIR 107 NOW WHO WERE, UM, APPROACHING AND THEN 39 WERE PROFICIENT AND TWO HAD EXCEEDED. FOR THE POST ASSESSMENT. WHAT YOU SEE IS 100 AND 26 STUDENTS. 65 WERE PROFICIENT 61 EXCEEDED. UM FOR THE POST ASSESSMENT, SO WHAT WE'RE SEEING IS A TREND IN FEWER STUDENTS EVEN GOING INTO THE NEXT TYPE OF WRITING. MOVING FROM NARRATIVE TO ARGUMENT THAT THERE ARE FEWER WHO ARE, UM WHO ARE YOU KNOW APPROACHING? UM SO THIS IS INDICATIVE THAT WE ARE MAKING GAINS THAT THE CURRICULUM IS WORKING. I WOULD HAVE INFORMATIVE DATA AS WELL FOR YOU , BUT THE TEACHERS ARE CURRENTLY ADMINISTERING. UM THAT PRE IMPOSED AND NOW THEY'RE MOVING INTO RM CAP ASSESSMENT. TIME AS WELL. UM I HOPE THAT CLARIFIED A LITTLE BIT OF UH, THE DATA ON THOSE SLIDES. WHAT WERE YOU PROVIDED? THANK YOU PROVIDED A LOT OF INFORMATION THAT IS NOT INCLUDED IN THE CHART. UM AND I WOULD REQUEST THAT. UM WELL, FIRST, LET ME ASK, UM, IS THIS A REQUEST TO IT, TOO, FOR AN ADDITIONAL EXPENDITURE FOR EXPANSION OF THE CURRICULUM? THERE THERE IS AN EXPENDITURE.

UM IT IS WE WILL BRING THAT IT IS A LITTLE BIT UNDER $8000 FOR THAT COST. TO EXPAND TO THE FIVE REMAINING SCHOOLS. I WOULD HAVE. WE WOULD REQUEST THAT THE INFORMATION AND THE DATA THAT AND THE RUBRIC, UM, THAT IS USED TO MAKE THESE ASSESSMENTS THAT THAT BE PROVIDED. I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION TO TABLE THAT DECISION UNTIL THAT DATA CAN BE PROVIDED. WELL, BRUCE I SECOND THE MOTION. BECAUSE THEIR DISCUSSION. I PERSONALLY DON'T SEE A REASON TO TABLE THE PILOT PROGRAM BECAUSE OF THE USE PERCENTAGES INSTEAD OF EXACT NUMBERS. SHE DID GIVE YOU THE NUMBERS THAT YOU NEED. THE WELL . FIRST I'D LIKE TO LOOK AT THE RUBRIC OF WHAT WHICH WE'RE USING THE EVALUATE THE PROGRAM ON AND THE NUMBERS THAT WERE PROVIDED WERE REALLY A VERY SMALL NUMBER IN COMPARISON TO THE NUMBER OF STUDENTS THAT WE HAVE IN OUR SYSTEM. UM SO I'M JUST REQUESTING THAT WE TABLE IT. NOT THAT WE, YOU KNOW, NOT MAKE A DECISION AT SOME POINT, BUT THAT WE LOOK AT THE LOOK AT THE EVALUATION STRATEGY FOR THE REASON IT'S A SMALL NUMBER IS BECAUSE IT WAS A SMALL PILOT. WE'RE TRYING TO EXPAND IT. SO IT WAS A SMALL PILOT. THAT'S WHY THE NUMBERS WERE SMALL. IT WASN'T THE WHOLE SYSTEM THAT WAS USING THIS PROGRAM. IT WAS JUST A SMALL SAMPLE. IS THAT CORRECT? CORRECT, THAT'S CORRECT. THAT'S WHAT I UNDERSTOOD FROM THE PRESENTATION. CLARIFICATION UM MADAM CHAIR. I BELIEVE WE HAVE A MOTION AND A SECOND. I REQUEST A CALLED ABOUT I HAD THE REASON BECAUSE I WAS DISCUSSING. I APOLOGIZE. YEAH. THE ACTION THAT'S REQUESTED HERE DOESN'T INCLUDE THE DOLLAR AMOUNT. SO THAT'S MY CONCERN IT THAT THAT WHAT? WHAT IT SAYS IS THE SUPERINTENDENT SCHOOLS. RECOMMENDS THAT THE BOARD OF EDUCATION APPROVED EXPANSION OF THE UNIT OF STUDY WRITING CURRICULUM TO ALL SEVENTH GRADE LANGUAGE ARTS, CLASSROOMS AND ALL SCHOOLS FOR THE 2023 24 SCHOOL YEAR. I HAVE CONSERVED.

WHAT IS THE NAME THE TITLE OF THIS, UM CURRICULUM. IS THIS A PART OF LUCY CAULKINS READING? THIS IS THE UNITS OF STUDY AND WRITING THE WRITING FORCE WRITING PORTION. THAT'S THAT'S WHY I WOULD LIKE THE TABLE IT BECAUSE I'D LIKE MORE INFORMATION ON IT WITH THE COST.

MOTION ON THE FLOOR. UM ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY YES. YES. I APOLOGIZE. MRS. ROLLO, PLEASE DO ROCO. LET'S ALVAREZ YES. MISS BRUCE? YES. THAT'S FUN. DR HAROLD YES. MISS PERRY? YES. DR

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PHILLIPS. NO. MR RICCARDI? YES. LET'S BLANKING. NICE PRESENTS WILL KNOW. PRESIDENT MILLER. NO.

THIS MOTION PASSES. OKAY? YEAH ITEM H ADAPTION OF HIGH SCHOOL MATHEMATICS TEXTBOOK SELECTION.

[H. Adoption of High School Mathematics Textbook Selection, Ms. Heather Kutcher, Executive Director of Curriculum, Instruction, & Assessment and Mr. Andrew Renzulli, Director of Curriculum, Instruction, & Assessment]

LOOKS LIKE YOU'RE UP AGAIN. OKAY. THANK YOU. UM SO WHEN THE STATE OF MARYLAND ADOPTED THE MARYLAND COLLEGE AND CAREER READY STANDARDS, UM WE BACKWARD MATHARE MATHEMATICS CURRICULUM TO ENSURE THAT STUDENTS WOULD HAVE THE REQUISITE CONTENT AND GRADE LEVEL KNOWLEDGE TO ADDRESS THOSE SHIFTS IN EXPECTATIONS FROM MATHEMATICS, SO WE HAVE BEEN USING THE SAME TEXTBOOK.

UM, SINCE 2006 IN OUR HIGH SCHOOL, ALGEBRA ONE AND ALGEBRA, TWO COURSES SO OVER THE PAST YEAR, OR OFFICE OF MATHEMATICS CONVENED A TEAM OF OVER 25 HCPS EDUCATIONAL PROFESSIONALS. TO REVIEW VENDORS AND PUBLISHERS IN THE MATHEMATICS FIELD IN ORDER TO DETERMINE AN UPDATED ALIGNED TEXTBOOK TO USE IN THOSE COURSES. SO AT THIS TIME WE DO HAVE JOANNE MCCORD, OUR SUPERVISOR OF MATHEMATICS, VIRTUALLY WITH US WHO CAN ADDRESS QUESTIONS, BUT WE ARE SEEKING TO HAVE APPROVAL TO TAKE THE THAT TEAM'S RECOMMENDATION TO USE THE SERVICE, UM LEARNING COMPANIES PUBLICATION OF INVISION, ALGEBRA ONE AND ALGEBRA TWO FOR OUR HIGH SCHOOL ALGEBRA ONE AND TWO COURSES NEXT YEAR. WE HAVE ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS? YES, MCCURDY AND WHAT'S THE COST? I WILL SAY WE DID NOT INCLUDE THE COSTS BECAUSE THE PRESENTATIONS TO THE GENERAL CURRICULUM COMMITTEE OR AROUND THE PEDAGOGICAL VALUE AND INSTRUCTIONAL VALUE OF THE MATERIALS, THE GCC DOES NOT MAKE THE DECISIONS BASED ON THE COST , SO OUR PRESENTATIONS DO NOT INCLUDE THE COST BECAUSE IT'S THE IT'S THE INSTRUCTIONAL. THE ALIGNMENTS THE CURRICULAR VALUE OF THE PRODUCTS OR THE VENDORS OR THE OR THE PIECES AND THEN WHEN IT COMES FORWARD ON THE CONSENT AGENDA, TYPICALLY, THAT'S WHERE THE COST IS. EXACTLY SO WE NEED TO GET IT APPROVED BEFORE WE CAN SEEK A CONTRACT AND THAT'S THE THAT IS WHEN WE WOULD UNDERSTAND THE COST. WE COULD ESTIMATE THE COST OF THE UNITS OF STUDY WRITING MATERIALS BECAUSE WE ALREADY HAVE AN EXISTING CONTRACT FOR THE OTHER SCHOOLS. THANKS FOR THE POINT OF CLARIFICATION. ANY OTHER QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS, MADAM CHAIR A FEW QUESTIONS. OH MRS ALVAREZ FIRST AND THEN DR HAROLD UM SO. AGAIN THE RUBRIC I DON'T FULLY UNDERSTAND. AND, UM YOU KNOW HOW THAT THE READING WAS DONE FOR THIS, UM, LOOKING AT YOU KNOW, JUST TRYING TO FIND , UM, DIFFERENT REVIEWS FOR DIFFERENT MATH CURRICULUMS. UM, I GROUND CURATE, UM, REVIEW AND THE ONE THAT WAS SELECTED. THE E VISION ACTUALLY GOT A LOWER SCORE IN TEACHER USABILITY. UM THEN THE OTHER TWO. UM PROGRAM SO. I I'M TRYING TO UNDERSTAND WHY, UM WHY THIS WAS SELECTED WHEN THE TEACHER USED THE BILL ABILITY WAS ONLY PARTIALLY MET. MRS MCCARTHY IS WITH US. SO UM, MRS MCCOY, DID YOU HEAR THAT QUESTION. YES. GOOD EVENING. UM . PART OF THE RUBRIC THAT WE USE ALSO INCLUDED CRITERIA AROUND USABILITY. THE ADDITION THAT WE REVIEWED IS THE 2024 EDITION, AND I DON'T KNOW THAT THAT HAS BEEN UPDATED. WE DID USE EVERY COURTS AND WHAT WORKS CLEARINGHOUSE AS OUR INITIAL SCREENING OF PUBLISHERS THAT WE WANTED TO PURSUE, AS WELL AS TALKING TO OTHER. IN OUR STATE.

AND SO THAT'S WHERE THE SIX PUBLISHERS OR ACTUALLY, THE FIVE PUBLISHERS THAT WE STARTED WITH.

THAT'S WHERE THAT INFORMATION CAME FROM. SO THE USABILITY I'M NOT SURE WHAT WHAT REPORT? UM THE DATA, BUT IT MAY HAVE BEEN ONE OF THE EARLIER EDITIONS, THE ONES THAT WE REVIEWED THE 2024.

OKAY UM, IT WAS THE SECURITY WHO I GUESS REVIEWS. UM AND, UM AT A MASSACHUSETTS WAS THE REVIEWER.

I DIDN'T WRITE DOWN THE DATES, UNFORTUNATELY, BUT, UM SO, UM, BUT IT SAID THAT THE USABILITY

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WAS LESS THAN PERFECT. SO IF I COULD BE PROVIDED THE RUBRIC AND THE ANALYSIS THAT WAS DONE FOR THAT SELECTION. DR HAROLD. THANK YOU. MY QUESTION IS PERTAINING. TO THE COMPONENTS OF THE SERVICE CURRICULUM. I WANT TO HAVE A BETTER UNDERSTANDING AS TO THE HARD PROFITING. UM APPLICATIONS TEXT AND PAPER MATERIALS. VERSUS DIGITAL COMPONENT. CAN YOU JUST SHARE THAT WITH US, PLEASE? YES SO THE SATISFYING COMPANY FOR THE ALGEBRA GEOMETRY ALGEBRA TWO SERIES IS A COMPREHENSIVE PACKAGE, AND THERE'S BOTH THE TEXT RESOURCES THAT ARE AVAILABLE FOR TEACHERS. UM, BUT ALSO PRINT ONLINE. THERE'S ALSO , UM SOME DYNAMIC SOFTWARE THAT UTILIZES THE DEZ MOST PLATFORM, WHICH IS A VERY DYNAMIC SOFTWARE FOR EXPLORING ALGEBRAIC FUNCTIONS AND EQUATIONS. THERE'S ALSO. ONLINE RESOURCES AVAILABLE TO STUDENTS AND FAMILIES AS WELL AS A HARD COPY HARD TEXTBOOK FOR STUDENTS. I DON'T KNOW THE ANSWER TO YOUR QUESTION. INFAMOUS QUESTION. AND I SOLVED THIS IS THE APPROPRIATE KIND OF ALL THROUGH THIS. APPROPRIATE TIME. BUT I MEAN, I'M BRINGING HOW WE ARE UTILIZED AND THAT COMPREHENSIVE CURRICULUM. FOR THE AFTERNOON. UM. I FEEL LIKE THERE ARE LESS THAT'S THAT'S SOMETHING THAT I AM A TEXTBOOK. LESS THAN WHAT CLASSROOMS THEIR PROTECTIVE CIRCLE, BRING HOME MORE WORK. PROBLEM. I HEARD BUT AND JUST SAY THE FAMILIES WHO HAVE DIFFICULTY ACCESSING THE MATERIAL. THE PROBLEM IS THAT WHEN THINGS SO I'M WONDERING.

I'D LOVE TO HEAR SOMETHING ON THE FORM THAT WE'RE USING. ALREADY, UM. BECAUSE THIS IS PARTICULARLY AESTHETIC AS, UM CHALLENGING AS WE COME FROM. LOVELY UP THERE. THANK YOU FOR ANSWERING. BUT. THERE ANY OTHER QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS THIS TIME? SO I DIDN'T UNDERSTAND. HARDLY ANYTHING OF WHAT WAS HAROLD WAS SAYING DIDN'T DID? CAN SOMEBODY GIVE ME A SUMMARY BECAUSE DID ANYBODY ELSE UNDERSTAND WHAT SHE WAS SAYING? IT WAS IN AND OUT. IT WAS IT WAS A LITTLE BURNING UP. SO I'M NOT SURE WHAT HER CONCERN WAS. I HEARD HER RAISING A CONCERN, BUT I COULD NOT UNDERSTAND WHAT THE CONCERN WAS . APPARENTLY WHAT I HEARD WAS THE ANSWER THAT WAS GIVEN WAS SATISFACTORY TO HER. SO WHOEVER THE PRESENTER WAS, I MEAN, IF WE WANT THE PRESENTER TO REPEAT WHAT SHE UNDERSTOOD. THE QUESTION WAS THAT MIGHT HELP MISS HAN FOR A POINT OF CLARIFICATION. I DON'T KNOW WHO YOUR PERSON WASN'T RESPONDING TO QUESTIONS. DR. HAROLD HAS HAS SPOKEN WITH US ABOUT CONCERNS WITH ACCESSING ONLINE RESOURCES AT HOME AND MAKING SURE THERE IS A TEXT COMPONENT TO GO HOME TO SUPPORT HOMEWORK. SO I THINK THAT MAY HAVE BEEN SOME OF THE DRIVING FORCE BEHIND THE ONLINE. I'M NOT SURE THAT YOUR HAIR OUT IF, UM IF YOU CAN CLARIFY THAT BETTER NOW, MUCH BETTER. SORRY YOU HEAR ME BETTER NOW, IS IT? THAT'S OKAY. THANK YOU FOR LETTING ME KNOW THAT YOU COULDN'T HEAR ME. UM IF AT ANY TIME, UM I'M GETTING CHOPPY AGAIN. JUST LET ME KNOW. I'M SORRY FOR THE CONNECTION. SO I WANTED TO UNDERSTAND. UM THE TRANSLATION TO UM. FROM WHAT WE HAVE ALREADY BEEN USING TO WHAT ? WHAT? THE PROPOSAL IS IN FRONT OF US. I WANTED TO UNDERSTAND THE HARD COPY RESOURCES VERSUS THE DIGITAL RESOURCES. I UNDERSTAND FROM THE RESPONSE THAT IT IS A COMPREHENSIVE SYSTEM MUCH LIKE WE HAVE MORE EXPERIENCE IN THE SCHOOLS AND STUFF. UM, I AM. MY CONCERN IS. THOUGH NOT WITH THE CURRICULUM ITSELF. BUT HOW WE'RE ACTUALLY USING THE CURRICULUM. BECAUSE WE'RE WE'RE WE HAVE TO PAY FOR

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THE WHOLE THING IN TOTAL. I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE ACTUALLY USING THE RESOURCES. THAT WE'RE PURCHASING. I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE USING THE TEXTBOOKS. UM BECAUSE THERE I WANT TO. I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT OKAY , BECAUSE I HAVE EXPERIENCED AND, UM PARENTS HAVE SHARED WITH ME THAT TEXTBOOKS ARE NOT GOING HOME. THEY'RE NOT BEING UTILIZED . A LOT OF THE DIGITAL RESOURCES ARE BEING UTILIZED. UM, BUT THOSE ARE NOT AS USER FRIENDLY AS PARENTS, FRANKLY. BECAUSE IN ORDER TO SEE THOSE YOU HAVE TO LOG ONTO THE STUDENTS DEVICE AND BE SAVVY WITH THE SOFTWARE. SO I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE SERVING OUR KIDS WELL AND LIKE I SAID AT THE BEGINNING OF MY PREVIOUS COMMENT, I'M NOT SURE IF THIS IS THE APPROPRIATE TIME THEY'LL BE BRINGING THIS UP. BUT I AM ANYWAY AND THAT STAND IN MY COMMENT. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, DR HAROLD. HELLO QUESTION. WILL THESE TEXTBOOKS BE ONLINE AS WELL? LIKE IN THEIR ENTIRETY, ACCESS TO THE LIKE.

STUDENTS HAVE ACCESS TO THIS TEXTBOOK DIGITALLY. OR DID YOU WANT TO ADDRESS DOCTOR? HAROLD'S QUESTION? ALSO MISS BLANK INS QUESTION. I THINK THEY KIND OF GO TOGETHER. GREAT YES, AND DR HILL. I ABSOLUTELY SUPPORT EXECUTIVE. YOU WERE SAYING, AS DOES HARPER CANDLEBOX SCHOOLS SINCE WE'VE ADOPTED THE ENVISIONED MATH PROGRAM FOR FIRST WITH WITH OUR ELEMENTARY STUDENTS, AND THEN WITH OUR GRADE SIXTH GRADE SEVEN STUDENTS THE SYSTEM HAS PURCHASED SPEEDING CONSUMABLE AND IT IS THE RECOMMENDATION FROM THE OFFICE OF MATHEMATICS THAT THOSE MATERIALS DO GO HOME WITH STUDENTS, THOSE SCHOOLS AND THE ENTIRE BOOK HOME. SOME SEND DIFFERENT HOME. NOBODY TOPIC. IT REALLY DEPENDS ON THE STRUCTURE OF THE CLASSROOM. THE AGE OF THE STUDENT UM, BUT IN OUR THROUGH GRADE SEVEN, THERE IS BOTH A TEXT COMPONENTS AT AN ONLINE COMPONENT AS WE WORK WITH TEACHERS, PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND BEST PRACTICES, YOU KNOW, WE REALLY EMPHASIZED THE BALANCE. MATHEMATICS PROGRAM AS YOU SOME THINGS WE WOULD HOPE THAT THEY WILL BE WORKING PENCIL PAPER, AND THEN THERE WOULD ALSO BE OPPORTUNITIES FOR STUDENTS TO WORK ONLINE, SO WE REALLY WE STRIVE TO HAVE A BALANCED PROGRAM BETWEEN THOSE TWO DIFFERENT TYPES OF RESOURCES. OR THIS NEW TEXT FOR OUR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS. TEACHERS MAY AS WELL AS STUDENTS PERFECT FOR WORK. BIRD MORE ONLINE JUST BECAUSE OF THE AGE OF THE STUDENTS WHO ARE IN THAT COMMITTEE. UM THAT MANY OF THEM MEMBERS ACTUALLY SAID, YOU KNOW, MY SCHOOL STUDENTS. DON'T TIMES OR LESS ENTHUSIASTIC ABOUT HEARING HOLD THEIR MATH TEXTBOOK AND GONNA PLAY TECH SAVVY, AND SO SOMETIMES THEY BELIEVE IN JUST TAKE A PICTURE OF THEIR TEXTBOOK PROBLEMS, UM, AND SOMETIMES JUST HELPS THEM AND THAT THEY ARE RIDING ON THE BUS TO A SPORTING EVENT AND THERE ARE STILL ABLE TO WORK ON THEIR HOMEWORK. SO THE PROGRAM DOES OFFER BOTH TEXT AND ONLINE RESOURCES. THANK YOU FOR CLARIFICATION. YOU'RE WELCOME.

SO AT THIS TIME, I'D LIKE TO ASK FOR A MOTION. UM I'M GOING TO FILE FROM THE REQUESTED ACTION.

THE SUPERINTENDENT SCHOOL RECOMMENDS THAT THE BOARD OF EDUCATION APPROVED THE ADOPTION OF THE ENVISIONED MATH, ALGEBRA ONE AND ALGEBRA TWO, PUBLISHED BY SEBAS LEARNING COMPANY AS A SYSTEM WIDE RESOURCE FOR HIGH SCHOOL ALGEBRA ONE AND ALGEBRA TWO. DO I HAVE A MOTION? THIS IS NO A BLANKET EMOTION THAT THERE IS AN ADOPTION OF THE 2024 EDITION FOR HIGH SCHOOL ALGEBRA ONE AND ALGEBRA TO BE APPROVED. YOU COULD JUST SAY EXCEPT THE SUPERINTENDENT SUPERINTENDENT.

THANK YOU. OKAY. IS THERE A SECOND. SECOND THE MOTION. THANK YOU, MISS SAN. HE HAS SOME DISCUSSION. YES I'M SORRY. UM SO MY QUESTION IS, HOW CAN WE I ADOPT THAT WITHOUT KNOWING WHAT THE COST IS, WE WOULD HAVE TO PROVE THE COST AT A FUTURE MEETING. BUT THEY CAN'T GET A CONTRACT IF WE DON'T AUTHORIZE THEM TO GET THE CONTRACT. SO YOU GO TO THE PUBLISHER. YOU TELL THEM HOW MANY YOU WANT WHAT YOU WANT, AND THEN THEY'LL COME BACK WITH THE PRICE THAT WOULD BE BROUGHT FORWARD TO US AND WE WOULD HAVE TO APPROVE THAT EXPENDITURE. I WOULD LIKE MADAM CHAIR WOULD LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION TO TABLE THIS UNTIL WE CAN GET THE DATA AND NEVER WORKED ON THE FLOOR. SO SHOULD WE. CAN WE CALL FOR A ROLL CALL VOTE. WE CAN'T IS THERE MORE DISCUSSION? OKAY SO IF YOU WANT IT, MRS ALVAREZ, IF YOU WANT TO VOTE IT DOWN AND THEN DO A

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MOTION TO TABLE IT. YOU COULD, BUT WE NEED TO VOTE ON THE MOTION THAT'S ON THE FLOOR RIGHT NOW. MRS RELA, WOULD YOU PLEASE DO A ROLL CALL VOTE. MISS ALVAREZ. NO. MISS BRUCE? YES.

IT'S HAN. DR HAROLD YES. MISS PERRY? YES. DR PHILLIPS. YES. MR RICCARDI? YES. BLANKEN? YES.

NICE PRESIDENT. SCHOOL? YES. PRESIDENT MILLER. YES. THIS MOTION PASSES. THANK YOU. NEXT

[I. Decision on Transfer of Fund Balance, Ms. Deborah Judd, Assistant Superintendent for Business Services]

MRS DEBRA JUDD FOR, UM, DISCUSSION ABOUT DECISION ON TRANSFER OF FUND BALANCE.

GOOD EVENING. PRESIDENT MUELLER, VICE PRESIDENT SEWELL BOARD MEMBERS AND DR BOLSON. I'M HERE THIS EVENING TO REQUEST A TRANSFER OF OUR FUND BALANCE FOR CAPITAL PROJECTS WITH ME THIS EVENING IS, UM MR CORNELL BROWN AND VIRTUALLY MR DREW MORE TO ADDRESS ANY QUESTIONS THAT MAY COME UP RELATED TO THEIR AREAS. EACH YEAR. WE HAVE THE LAST SEVERAL YEARS. WE'VE COME BEFORE THE BOARD TO REQUEST TRANSFERS INTO THE CAPITAL ACCOUNTS BECAUSE OF UNADDRESSED NEEDS IN OUR CAPITAL. SO UM, WITH THE EXECUTIVES ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE BUDGET, WE WENT BACK AND LOOKED AT OUR CAPITAL NEEDS AND ARE COMING FORWARD TONIGHT WITH THE RECOMMENDATIONS TO TRANSFER UM, WE ARE ASKING FOR $1 MILLION TO BE TRANSFERRED INTO OUR RESTRICTED FUND TO FURTHER SUPPORT THE TALENT PATHWAYS INITIATIVE THAT WOULD BE THE RESTRICTED FUND AS OPPOSED TO THE CAPITOL. THE CAPITOL. DETAILS ARE $20.7 MILLION IN TOTAL. 1.4 MILLION OF THAT IS FOR HCPS SITE IMPROVEMENTS FOR THREE SPECIFIC PROJECTS. $500,000 FOR THE EDUCATIONAL FACILITY PROGRAM RELATED TO FURNITURE NEEDS. VEHICLES A TOTAL OF $4.1 MILLION FOR NON BUS FLEET AS WELL AS TRACTORS AND EQUIPMENT. TECHNOLOGY 10,654,640. RELATED TO ADDITIONAL ORACLE IMPLEMENTATION COSTS STAFF DEVICE REFRESH AS WELL AS. OTHER TECHNOLOGY PROJECTS THAT MR MORGAN TALK TO YOU SPECIFICALLY IF YOU HAVE THOSE QUESTIONS. LIFE, HEALTH AND SAFETY AND COMPLIANCE MEASURES. 2,127,000 FOR FOUR ITEMS. THE LOCAL MAJOR CAPITAL PROJECT. TWO OF THOSE WHO ARE A TOTAL OF $600,000. HTTPS FACILITY REPAIR PROGRAM $400,000 FOR THREE ITEMS. THE BLUEPRINT FACILITY PROGRAM FOR EDGEWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL, $250,000.

RELOCATED BALS $500,000. SENATE BILL 5 20. SOLUTIONS NOW ACT CONSULTANTS FOR $150,000. THOSE ITEMS ALL FOR THE MOST PART, ALL OF THOSE ITEMS ARE REFLECTED ON THE PRIORITY LIST. UM MR STILL WENT THROUGH THOSE DETAILS THIS EVENING SO WE CAN ADDRESS THEM AS YOU HAVE QUESTIONS, BUT WE ARE REQUESTING A TRANSFER OF $1 MILLION TO THE RESTRICTED FUND AND 20,681,642. TO THE CAPITAL PROJECTS FUND FOR JULY 1ST. IT WOULD BE INCORPORATED INTO THE BUDGET FOR JULY. 1ST. DO WE HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, MR CARTY? THANK YOU VERY MUCH. MISJUDGED, UM I JUST HAVE CONCERNS RIGHT NOW WITH THE STATE OF THE BUDGET. THAT IF WE TRANSFER, I'M NOT SUGGESTING WE. IGNORE THE REQUEST, BUT POSTPONED REQUEST AND NOW WE HAVE NORMALLY DONE THIS IN THIS CURRENT PROPRIETOR TO MAKE UM I DON'T KNOW WHAT. IT'S GONNA CHANGE IN THE NEXT FEW MONTHS. I HOPE A LOT WILL CHANGE. BUT I'M JUST CONCERNED, EXHAUSTING THE FUND BALANCE AT THIS POINT WHEN WE'RE NOT SURE WHERE WE'RE GOING TO BE, AND I DO AGREE WITH ALL YOUR CONCERNS. ARE YOUR STATEMENTS IN THAT? FUND BALANCE SHOULD NOT BE USED FOR OPERATING EXPENSES, AS IS THE SENTIMENT OF THE COUNTY EXECUTIVE. I'M JUST CONCERNED WHERE WE'RE GOING TO END UP AND YOU AND I HAVE TALKED ABOUT

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THAT. SO I JUST WANTED TO GO ON RECORD THAT I'M I'M CONCERNED MOVING IT AT THIS TIME. I UNDERSTAND TO RESPOND TO YOUR POINT ABOUT EXHAUSTING FUND BALANCES WOULD NOT EXHAUST OUR FUND BALANCE AND CORRECT. BUT IF WE, UM, END UP HAVING TO UM, SUFFICE THE BUDGET WE COULD BE EXHAUSTING OUR FUND BALANCE. WITH DECISIONS WE MAY HAVE TO MAKE LATER AND THAT'S WHY I'M SAYING POSTPONE THAT'S MY CONCERN, SO I JUST WANTED TO GO ON RECORD. MADAM CHAIR. I'D LIKE THIS SECOND. UM PATRICE 16 MOTION THIS THERE'S NO MOTION ON THE FLOOR DISCUSSION YOU SAID TO POSTPONE. I SAID, I'M MY, BUT IT WASN'T EMOTION. WE'RE JUST HAVING A CONVERSATION. OKAY, WELL, THEN, I THEN I MADAM CHAIR LIKE THE MOTION TO TABLE THIS UNTIL FUTURE DATE. I WOULD LIKE TO, UM, I AGREE WITH MS ALVAREZ AND MISS RICCARDI. I BELIEVE THAT SINCE THERE ARE STILL DISCUSSIONS THAT ARE GOING ON BETWEEN THE COUNTY COUNCIL, UM BETWEEN OUR KIND OF EXECUTIVE AND THE BOARD OF EDUCATION. UM I BELIEVE THAT IT'S IT WOULD BE THE RESPONSIBLE THING TO DO TO PUT OFF THIS VOTE UNTIL AFTER THOSE NEGOTIATIONS ARE COMPLETED. SO IT WAS THE SECOND PROMOTION. YES OKAY. I JUST THOUGHT WE WERE AT THE POINT OF MY APOLOGIES. I THOUGHT WE WERE JUST DISCUSSING IT. WE WERE BUT NOW THERE'S EMOTIONAL KIDNAPPED, CALLED FOR ONE, BUT THE MOTION IS TO TABLE, MISS JUDD. WOULD YOU TAKE A MINUTE TO TALK ABOUT THE IMPLICATIONS OF DELAYING. OF THE ACTUAL REQUEST TO DELAY. WHY WOULD WE? WHY WOULD WE BRING THIS TO THE BOARD NOW? SO IF WE BY BRINGING IT TO THE BOARD NOW, THE WE CAN SEND IT OVER TO THE COUNTY, AND THEY HAVE REQUESTED THAT THIS WAS BEFORE THE BUDGET CAME OUT, BUT THEY DID REQUEST TO HAVE THE ADJUSTMENTS TO THEM BY MAY 1ST SO THAT ALLOWS THEM THE TIME TO DO AN AMENDMENT TO THE BUDGET SO THAT IT CAN BE INCORPORATED INTO THE JULY 1ST BUDGET FOR THE COUNTY. I HAVE NOT TALKED TO THEM IN DETAIL ABOUT NOT MAKING THAT MAY 1ST DATE. MY I ASSUME A POSSIBILITY WOULD BE THAT WE WOULD HAVE TO IT WOULD NOT BE INCORPORATED IF THEY'RE NOT ABLE TO DO AN AMENDMENT IN TIME TO HAVE THAT PRESENTED AND VOTED ON BY THE COUNTY COUNCIL, WE WOULD COME BEFORE THE BOARD AGAIN FOR APPROVAL AND THEN GO BEFORE THE COUNTY EXECUTIVE AND THE COUNTY COUNCIL TO REQUEST BUT THOSE TRANSFERS WE MADE AT THAT TIME. SO I GUESS I WOULD ADD TO THAT. THAT UM, I DON'T. WE UNDERSTAND THERE'S ONGOING DISCUSSIONS, BUT MANY OF THESE ARE TIMELY AND MR SCHOOLS POINT EARLIER NOT FUNDED. UM. MANY OF THESE DO HAVE TIME RESTRICTIONS. AND IF WE DON'T HAVE THIS INCORPORATED INTO THE BUDGET IN JULY ONE, AND WE HAVE DELAYS. I MEAN, COULD MAKE IT DIFFICULT FOR US TO GET THOSE DONE IN A TIMELY MANNER. UM SO. THE CONCERNS ABOUT TABLING THIS ARE WE DON'T WANT THERE TO BE ANY EXCUSE FOR THIS NOT TO BE INCLUDED IN JULY ONE. UH, FINALIZED BUDGET. THE END AGAIN. THESE ARE. ALL APPROPRIATE THINGS FOR THE CAPITAL BUDGET, THEIR NON RECURRING EXPENSES. AND THESE FUNDS PARDON? BUT AGAIN, THESE ARE RECOMMENDATIONS THAT ARE HIGH PRIORITIES THAT WERE NOT OTHERWISE FUNDED. AND IT'S ONE OF THE REASONS WE WORK TOWARDS HAVING YOU KNOW. TO USE THE FUND BALANCE RESPONSIBLY, AND THIS IS WHAT IT'S DESIGNED TO BE USED FOR. UM I FULLY EXPECT THAT WE'LL BE USING MORE FUN BALANCE BEFORE THIS IS ALL OVER, AND WE'LL RECOMMEND THAT WHEN WE GET AROUND TO THE OPERATING BUDGET CONVERSATIONS, BUT I STILL REALLY THINK THAT IN ORDER TO ENSURE THIS IS DONE IN TIME THAT THAT WE ADVANCE THIS. BUT AGAIN, THERE'S A MOTION ON THE FLOOR. I JUST WANTED TO CLARIFY THAT I JUST WANTED TO RESPOND. I GUESS.

AND I HEAR WHAT YOU'RE SAYING. I GUESS MY CONCERN IS THAT WE'RE GOING TO END UP WITH IN THE SITUATION THAT WE WERE WHEN YOU FIRST CAME ON WITH NO FUND FUND BALANCE. UM AND THAT'S MY CONCERN. I EMERGENCY ABOUT THAT AS WELL. EMERGENCY OR SOMETHING HAPPENS. WE DON'T HAVE, UH, THE FUND BALANCE WHAT I WOULD SAY MANY OF THESE ARE EMERGENCIES WERE TRYING TO AVERT BEFORE THEY BECOME EMERGENCIES. AND UM, I AM LIKE I AM VERY AWARE OF. THE PRESSURE IS ON THE FUND BALANCE AND THE POTENTIAL DANGER OF SPENDING IT SO IT WOULDN'T BE BROUGHT THIS RECOMMENDATION WITHOUT CONSIDERING CONSIDERING THAT, BUT I MEAN THAT IS A UNDERSTANDABLE CONCERN. CAN I ASK ONE MORE QUESTION OR MORE SO COMMENT? NO IT'S NO WAS MIXED. WITH ALL DUE RESPECT, HOW LONG

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HAS THIS EXISTED? THAT IT WAS BROUGHT TO US ONE WEEK BEFORE THE DEADLINE TO MAKE A DECISION? IT'S THE PRESSURES. CRAZY HIGH. AS IT WAS THIS, UM UH, I'M SORRY. WAS THIS A TOPIC THAT WE POSTPONED LIKE? NO, WE WAIT UNTIL WE HAVE THE ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE FUNDING FROM THE COUNTY EXECUTIVE. AND THAT WAS LAST WEEK. THAT WAS LAST WEEK WAS PROFESSOR I SEE. OKAY I'M SORRY.

I DIDN'T UNDERSTAND THAT. THIS IS YES, THAT'S FOR A WHILE. I FEEL LIKE IT'S A TIMING AND IT'S ALWAYS CRUNCH TIME AT THIS TIME OF YEAR, SO WE RECEIVED THE INFORMATION AND THEN WE GO BACK.

WE LOOK AT THE PRIORITIES AND DETERMINE WHAT WHAT'S MOST CRITICAL TO BE FUNDED AND WE TRANSFER REQUEST TO TRANSFER FUNDS FOR THAT IS A LOT OF MONEY THAT IS JUST LIKE WHAT? WE HAVE TO DECIDE VERY QUICK ON A LOT OF PRESSURE, MADAM CHAIR. WELL IT WAS IT WAS MRS HAN FIRST AND THEN IT'LL BE MRS ALVAREZ AND THEN MISS BURST. UM, SO FOR FROM WHAT? I UNDERSTAND, THE TREASURER FOR THE COUNTY EXECUTIVE ASKED THAT WE, UM DELAY. VOTING AND PUTTING THIS THROUGH UNTIL THOSE NEGOTIATIONS . UM I GUESS KIND OF CAME TO A CONCLUSION. IS THAT CORRECT? YES. OKAY SO WHAT? UM WHAT DOES TABLING THIS NOW UPON THE REQUEST OF THE COUNTY EXECUTIVE AND THEIR TREASURER? UM WOULDN'T WE THINK THAT SINCE WE'RE TRYING TO NEGOTIATE WITH THEM, UM I THINK IT WOULD BE MORE OF A WISE DECISION TO KIND OF JUST HOLD OFF ON THIS AND VOTING ON THIS UNTIL AFTER THOSE NEGOTIATIONS HAVE COMPLETED, ESPECIALLY SINCE THERE WAS A REQUEST MADE THAT WE ALSO DO THAT. AND I WAS ON A RECORD AWARE OF THAT REQUEST, SO I JUST FIND IT CONCERNING THAT SOME OF US HAVE MORE INFORMATION THAN OTHERS ON THIS BOARD. I WAS JUST STATING IT FOR A FACT BECAUSE I'M CONCERNED ABOUT IT DEPLETED FUND BALANCE, SO I WASN'T AWARE THAT THE TREASURE MADE THAT REQUEST. SO I HAVE CONCERN. I'M JUST GOING ON THE RECORD THAT SOME OF THE BOARD MEMBERS HAVE INFORMATION THAT ALL THE BOARD MEMBERS TALKED UP. SO IT WAS MRS ALVAREZ AND THEN MRS BRUCE. SORRY, SO I. I ALSO I'M CONCERNED AS PATRICE THAT THAT THERE THIS IS A LARGE AMOUNT. OF THE FUND BALANCE TO MOVE OVER WHEN WE HAVEN'T INVESTIGATED ALL OF THE NEEDS, GIVEN THAT THE BUDGET AND WHAT WE'VE RECEIVED FROM THE COUNTY. UM I KNOW THAT THERE IS SOME, UM . SURVEYS THAT ARE BEING SENT OUT TO LOOK FOR EFFICIENCIES. UM YOU KNOW THAT, UM YOU KNOW, I THINK THAT IT WAS IT WOULD BE WISE FOR THE BOARD TO WAIT FOR THE SCHOOL, DR PAULSON TO COLLECT DATA FROM HIS LEADS AND SEE, UM YOU KNOW WHAT RECOMMENDATIONS ARE COMING FORWARD. UM YOU KNOW, LIKE NO ONE MENTIONED THIS IS WE JUST GOT THIS DURING SMALL GROUP. SO IT THERE'S NOT BEEN A LOT OF TIME TO REALLY INVESTIGATE, YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW, WHY ARE WE PUTTING FUNDS TOWARDS A TICKET BOOTH? UM WHEN WE KNOW THAT THE H VAC SYSTEM WAS ALSO ON THE LIST AND NOT FUND IT, UM IF THE H VAC GOES UP BACK CREATES A CRISIS IN THE SCHOOL, ARE WE GOING TO HAVE FUNDS? TO COVER THAT SHOULD THE H VAC NOT WORK THROUGH THE SUMMER OF THE CHILDREN GOING TO BE SENT HOME WHEN THE H VAC GOES DOWN, SO YOU KNOW I DON'T COMPLETELY UNDERSTAND THE RATIONALE FOR WHAT WAS SELECTED OVER OTHER ITEMS. UM AND I THINK THAT YOU KNOW, WE SHOULD LOOK AT WHAT ARE THE MOST CRITICAL IN TERMS OF MAKING SURE STUDENTS GET THE ACADEMIC. UM ENVIRONMENT THAT THEY NEED AND THAT THEY ARE, THEY COULD CONTINUE TO BE ABLE TO STAY IN THE SCHOOL. MR ALVAREZ BACK IN, UM, PROVIDE SOME CLARIFICATION. WE CAME BEFORE THE BOARD OF DECEMBER WITH OUR ORDER OF PRIORITIES, UM, FOR ALL OF THE PROJECTS THAT ARE NOT STATE FUNDED. SO WHAT WE DID WAS WE WENT THROUGH THAT LIST TO LOOK AT WHAT WAS FUNDED BY THE COUNTY, WHERE SPECIAL ED FACILITY IMPROVEMENTS IS OUR NUMBER ONE PRIORITY AND JUST GOING THROUGH THE ENTIRE LIST WE IDENTIFIED UH, PROJECTS ON OUR CAPITAL PROGRAM. UM YOU KNOW THAT ARE IN NEED. SO THE RECOMMENDATIONS THAT YOU HAVEN'T IN FRONT OF YOU CONSIDERS THE ORDER OF PRIORITIES, UM, TO INCLUDE UM, WHERE THE WHEN YOU LOOK AT YOU MENTIONED THE H V.

A. C, UM, PROGRAM. WHERE WE ASKED. FOR $4.1 MILLION FOR H V. A C REPAIRS. UM, THE COUNTY GRACIOUSLY GAVE US THE $2 MILLION. SO NOW WE'RE LOOKING TO ADD I'M SOME FUNDING IN ORDER TO

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ADDRESS THE NEEDS AND LIKE AND LIKE I SAID, I DON'T KNOW THAT I'M FULLY LIKE LOOKED AT THE LIST AND UNDERSTAND WHERE THE PRIORITIES HAVE BEEN MADE. AND I BELIEVE THAT THERE THERE ARE SOME EFFORTS WITHIN THE SCHOOL SYSTEM TO GO TO THE LEADS AND LOOK FOR SOME ADDITIONAL RECOMMENDATIONS. AND I THINK IT WOULD BE, UM WISE AND PRUDENT. TO TABLE THIS UNTIL A TIME THAT THAT INFORMATION CAN BE REVIEWED. JUST TO CLARIFY THE SURVEY THAT'S GONE OUT IS NOT A CAPITAL RELATED SURVEY. IT IS OPERATING BUDGET. BUT THE FUN BALANCE IS COULD BE USED FOR THINGS THAT COULD BE THAT MIGHT POTENTIALLY BE A SHORTFALL. I KNOW THAT THAT'S NOT THE RECOMMENDATION, HOWEVER. UM, IF THE STUDENTS ARE GOING TO THEIR EDUCATION IS GOING TO BE JEOPARDIZED. I I'M YOU KNOW. I WOULD THINK THAT WE WOULD WANT TO TAKE THAT IN CONSIDER INTO CONSIDERATION. SO A PROJECTED FUND BALANCE. WE HAVE NOT SEEN THE THIRD QUARTER FOR FINANCIAL CHEFS. YOU JUST TO GIVE YOU PERSPECTIVE. WE'RE LOOKING AT STILL HAVING ABOUT $40 MILLION OF UNASSIGNED FUND BALANCE AVAILABLE AFTER THESE TRANSFERS, SO RIGHT NOW, IF NEGOTIATIONS DO OCCUR, AND WE'RE ABLE TO GET MORE MONEY FROM THE COUNTY TO HELP BALANCE THE BUDGET, WE WOULDN'T NEED $40 MILLION AND, OF COURSE, IF NO MONEY COMES FORWARD, WE HAVE A STRUCTURAL DEFICIT THAT WE HAVE TO RESOLVE AND ALLOCATED. THE ENTIRE $40 MILLION WOULD NOT BE SOMETHING THAT WE WOULD SUGGEST TO DO. CERTAINLY THE BOARD MAY CHANGE THEIR MIND. BUT YOU KNOW, TO USE ALL THE FUND BALANCE FOR RECURRING COSTS AND LEAVING US WITH NOTHING WOULD NOT BE FINANCIALLY RESPONSIBLE TO DO SO. THAT'S MY CONCERN. CORRECT SO WE STILL HAVE FUNDS AVAILABLE TO SUPPORT THE CAPITAL NEEDS OF THE ORGANIZATION, SO I JUST WANTED TO CLARIFY THAT. MRS BRUCE YEAH, THAT THAT WAS MY, UH QUESTION. I SAID, I SEE THAT WE HAVE I LOOK AT 34 MILLION IF WE TOOK IT FROM THE 56, HE SAID. THAT'S NOT THE AMOUNT THAT WE WERE ADJUSTED TO QUESTION I HAVE IS WHEN WE LOOK AT WHAT WE'RE LOOKING AT IS SOMETHING TO PROVIDE TO THE COUNTY. IN REGARDS TO MEETING SOME OF THE UNMET. EXPENSES. IS THIS CORRECT? I'M SORRY. COULD YOU SAY THAT AGAIN? THIS IS A PROPOSED PLAN THAT WE ARE APPROVING. THAT WILL GO TO THE COUNTY BY THE MAY 1ST, UM, FOR THE FOR THE PROPOSED PLAN THAT WHAT WE'RE GONNA DO? UM IT ISN'T HARD AND FAST. WE'RE GOING TO GO OUT AND SPEND IT. THIS IS THE PLAN. IS THAT CORRECT? CORRECT? CORRECT. I MEAN, JUST LIKE OUR OPERATING BUDGET. WE HAVE TO BE FISCALLY RESPONSIBLE FOR OUR CAPITAL NEEDS. THOSE TYPICALLY TEND TO BE THE EMERGENT NEEDS THAT COME UP SO NOT HAVING FUNDS IN THE ACCOUNTS AND AVAILABLE FOR USE. PUTS US IN A REALLY DIFFICULT SITUATION. IF SOMETHING DID COME UP, SO BY MOVING THE MONEY OVER TO THE CAPITAL, IT IS THERE IF SOMETHING WERE TO HAPPEN. AND WE'LL BE ABLE TO USE IT OTHERWISE WOULD HAVE TO GO THROUGH THIS PROCESS. YOU KNOW VERY QUICKLY, WHICH DOESN'T ALWAYS WORK WITH, YOU KNOW, A BOARD MEETING AND ACCOUNTING COUNCIL MEETING AND HAVING ALL OF THAT IN MIND, SO IF THE CAPITAL HAD BEEN FUNDED IN THE PROJECTS, THEY WOULD BE AVAILABLE JULY 1ST AND WE WOULD MOVE FORWARD SO SOME OF THE AREAS WERE SOME PROJECTS WERE FUNDED. UM, BUT NOT NOT ALL OF THEM. SO THE MOTION ON THE FLOOR RIGHT NOW IS TO TABLE THE TRANSFER. SO FIRST WE NEED TO TAKE A VOTE ON THAT. I HAVE MY SECOND QUESTION. I'M SORRY. I'M SO SORRY. YOU COULDN'T GET TWO QUESTIONS, RIGHT? I MEAN, I GET TWO TIMES CORRECT. ROBERT C. U. S. UM THINK ABOUT THIS. SO DR BOLSON. WHAT YOU SAID EARLIER IS THAT THE CONCERN IS WE NEED TO GET THIS IF AND WHAT I'M SAYING IS IF WE DELAYED IT IF WE DELAYED IT TILL JUNE. DOES THAT REALLY IMPORTANT IMPACT OF JULY 1ST DEADLINE? OKAY AND THAT BLAZE IT. WHY? DEPENDING ON WHICH BOARD MEETING YOU TOOK A VOTE AND APPROVED IT. IT COULD NOT BE INCORPORATED INTO THE JULY 1ST BUDGET BECAUSE THE COUNTY WOULD HAVE ALREADY VOTED ON THEIR BUDGET IN THE MAY TIMEFRAME. TYPICALLY THEY'RE GOING TO VOTE MAY OKAY, I'M SHOULD KNOW THIS, BUT CORRECT SO WE WOULD IF IT COMES IN JUNE. WE WOULD HAVE TO THEN GET ON THE COUNTY COUNCIL AGENDA FOR A MEETING. AFTER THAT, WHATEVER

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THEIR MEETINGS ARE MR. BROWN JUST ASKED ME ABOUT THEIR SCHEDULE IN THE SUMMER. I'M NOT TOTALLY SURE OF THAT. SO WE HAVE TO LOOK AT THAT. AND THEN HAVE THAT APPROVED AT THAT POINT, SO THERE CAN BE A DELAY AT TIMES IN BETWEEN OUR BOARD MEMBER MEETINGS AND THEIR MEETINGS AND SO FORTH. SO THE OUR BOARD OVER THE SUMMER. WE HAVE MEETINGS ONCE A MONTH. IN THE COUNTY COUNCIL. THEY ADJUST THEIR SCHEDULE OVER THE SUMMER AS WELL ONCE THEY GO THROUGH THEIR SESSIONS, SO UM WHEN. WHEN WE GO TO THE COUNTY COUNCIL IN THIS WAY, THEY ALIGN THE, UM. THE TRANSFER OF FUNDS WITH ADOPTING THE BUDGET. WHEN WE MISSED THAT WINDOW OF OPPORTUNITY, THEN THEY HAVE TO, YOU KNOW, BOAT ON, AND , UM IT'S JUST IT'S JUST A LONGER PROCESS. SO WE PROBABLY, YOU KNOW, WE MOST LIKELY WILL NOT SEE THE FUNDS UNTIL SEPTEMBER ISH. BY THE TIME WE GO THROUGH THE ENTIRE PROCESS. AND THEN WE'RE, UM YOU KNOW, IT'S JUST A TIME FACTOR. SO WE DO A LOT OF OUR PLANNING OVER THE OVER THE SUMMER MONTHS, AND THIS IS ALWAYS AN ATTEMPT JUST TO GET INTO THE NORMAL CYCLE OF FUNDS BEING AVAILABLE JULY ONE AND FOR STAFF TO START DOING THE WORK IN THE PLANNING TO DO CERTAIN THINGS. UM SO IT WAS JUST A TIMING THING, YOU KNOW FOR US, AND FOR ALL OF THE, YOU KNOW, PROGRAM MANAGERS BECAUSE SOME OF THESE REQUEST I'M GOING ACROSS DIFFERENT OFFICES LIKE WITH PLANNING, CONSTRUCTION OR FACILITIES DEPARTMENT TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT, OUR TECHNOLOGY DEPARTMENT. WE ALL HAVE OUR OWN CYCLE, SO REPLACING VEHICLES. THAT'S GONNA TAKE TAKE TIME. SO WE WOULD LIKE TO, IF POSSIBLE, UM, TAKE CARE OF OUR AGING FLEET. UM. AND, UH, THIS IS A QUESTION YOU'RE NOT GOING TO BE ABLE TO ANSWER. BUT SINCE I'VE GOT NEW INFORMATION THAT IT WAS A REQUEST MADE THAT WE POSTPONE WHAT DOES THAT DO FOR A NEGOTIATION? IF WE IGNORE THAT REQUEST, ALSO SAID YOU CAN'T. YEAH, IT'S A BOARD DECISION TO NO. I'M JUST SAYING, YES, YOU CAN ANSWER THAT QUESTION. IT'S YES, MR SEWELL. YES. SO WE HAVE RECEIVED. ELECTING. MESSAGES FROM THE COUNTY EXECUTIVE. UM. YOU KNOW, HE'S CLEARLY STATED THAT FUND BALANCE SHOULD NOT BE USED FOR RECURRING COSTS. SO. WHAT THAT MEANS, FOR OUR FUND BALANCE IS THAT WE SHOULD NOT USE THAT FOR RECURRING COSTS. SO WHEN IT COMES TIME TO RECONCILE OUR BUDGET FOR NEXT YEAR. AND IF WE ARE NOT FUNDED COMPLETELY. FOR WHAT WE NEED TO DO TO RUN THE SCHOOL SYSTEM, THEN WE WILL HAVE TO ADJUST OUR RECURRING COSTS. TO BE IN MIND WITH THAT.

UH, NOTHING WILL BE OFF THE TABLE AT THAT TIME. EVERYTHING WILL BE LOOKED AT. NO ONE WANTS TO CUT TEACHERS. WE'RE STAFF. AH, WE WANT THEM TO HAVE THEIR RAISE. BUT WE WILL HAVE TO LOOK AT THOSE THINGS. THERE WILL BE ATTRITION. MEANING THAT. PEOPLE WILL RETIRE AT THE END OF THE SCHOOL YEAR. AND THOSE POSITIONS MAY NOT BE ABLE TO BE FREE FILLED. UH, SO THAT WE CAN BALANCE OUR BUDGET. SO THE COUNTY EXECUTIVES TOLD US NOT TO USE FUND BALANCE. FOR RECURRING EXPENSES. IT'S CLEAR IN HIS STATEMENT WHEN HE RELEASED HIS BUDGET. UM SO IF WE DON'T BALANCE OUR CAPITAL BUDGET. WITH FUND BALANCE. THESE ARE ONE TIME EXPENSES. FOR THINGS THAT NEED TO BE DONE. IN ORDER TO KEEP OUR SCHOOLS RUNNING. SO THAT WE DO HAVE A SAFE EFFICIENT WORKPLACE FOR OUR STUDENTS AND STAFF. THEN WHEN WOULD WE EVER DO THESE? BECAUSE IF THEY'RE NOT BEING FUNDED THIS YEAR WE'RE GONNA HAVE EVEN MORE NEEDS NEXT YEAR. DOESN'T THAT INDICATE THAT THERE MIGHT BE SOME CHANGES. FROM WHO . I MEAN, IF WE IF WE IF WE POSTPONE THIS WHAT POSSIBLE BENEFIT TO US WHAT HAPPENED? RIGHT WE WOULDN'T HAVE MADE MEET OUR DEADLINE MET THE DEADLINE TO GO TO THE COUNTY COUNCIL. AH, WITH THIS REQUEST BY MAY ONE. UM . WE WOULD STILL HAVE THESE

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NEEDS. AND WE CAN'T USE THE MONEY FOR RECURRING EXPENSES ANYWAY. SO WE WOULDN'T BE USING IT FOR TEACHERSSALARIES. MADAM CHAIR IF I MAY RESPOND TO BOTH PRESIDENTS, SOULS COMMENTS. I THINK THAT YOU'VE ALREADY COME INTO MORE BUT GO AHEAD. IT'S TWO TIMES RIGHT. I THINK ROBERT'S FARRELL'S ACTUALLY SAYS THAT AFTER EVERYBODY HAS AN OPPORTUNITY TO COMMENT THAN ANYBODY CAN COMMENT AS MUCH AS THEY WANT UNTIL THE UNTIL IT'S EXHAUSTED, OR AT WHICH TIME IT'S TAKEN TO VOTE. I DON'T THINK EVERYBODY'S COMMENTED, BUT THAT'S OKAY. GO AHEAD. THINK EVERYBODY'S HAD THE OPPORTUNITY OF FUNDS STEPPING ON SOMEBODY'S TOES. UM, YOU KNOW, I'M SORRY.

SO. TO MR SOULS. UM COMMENTS. WHAT PURPOSE WOULD THIS SERVE? AND DELAYING THE VOTE. UM SO. I BELIEVE THAT THERE, THERE'S SEVERAL THINGS THAT IT WOULD DO ONE. HIS IT WOULD ALLOW US MORE TIME TO MAKE IT $20 MILLION DECISION. UM, IN WHICH WE'VE ONLY HAD ROUGHLY THREE WELL.

BETTER HALF OF WEEKS SINCE THE SMALL GROUP WAS PRESENTED. I BELIEVE I WENT ON WEDNESDAY OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT. IT WAS LIKE WEDNESDAY. MAYBE TUESDAY. UM SO WOULD ALLOW US SOME TIME TO LOOK AT THIS. PRETTY SIGNIFICANT DECISION. UM AND. THE OTHER THING THAT MAY ALLOW US TO DO IS TO LOOK AT SOME EFFICIENCIES. AND AREAS THAT THERE COULD BE SOME OBTAINED THAT PERHAPS MAYBE . WE'RE NOT VIEWED AS NECESSARY WITH THE, UM AS WITH THE ASSUMPTION THAT WE WERE GOING TO BE FULLY FUNDED. SO WE WERE GOING INTO MAKING THE BUDGET. WITH THE ASSUMPTION THAT WE WOULD BE FULLY FUND FUND IT. WE GET A DECISION THAT WE'RE NOT FULLY FUNDED. SO I WOULD THINK YOU KNOW, I KNOW IN MY HOUSEHOLD WHEN YOU KNOW, SOMETHING HAPPENS SIGNIFICANT IN THE FISCAL AREA.

I HAVE TO GO BACK AND REALLY LOOK AT YOU KNOW, UM, MY BUDGET . SO HAVE WE DONE THAT? UM, YOU KNOW, AS ARE THERE SOME AREAS WHERE THERE COULD BE SOME EFFICIENCIES. UM. MADE AND WHERE IS THE DATA THAT SHOWS THAT WE'VE DONE THAT? I DON'T I DON'T FEEL AND YOU KNOW NOTHING. I KNOW. UM YOU KNOW, I'M NOT UM BELITTLING THE EFFORTS THAT THAT THAT MR BROWN AND UM AND DEBORAH JUDD HAVE DONE. UM BUT I'M NOT SURE THAT THIRD. I MEAN, THIS IS JUST BASICALLY NUMBERS ON A SHEET OF PAPER. AND TO ME IT DOESN'T REALLY SHOW AN ANALYSIS OF WHY THIS INSTEAD OF LIKE THE H I DON'T SEE THE H BACK ONE HERE. HONESTLY I KNOW YOU SAID THAT WE'VE GOT TWO MILLION AND WE'RE PUTTING INTO MILLION. I DON'T I DON'T SEE IT ON THE LIST. SO THAT'S WHAT WAS FUNDED BY THE COUNTY THAT WAS FUNDED ACCOUNT. I GUESS I GUESS I'M JUST LOOKING AT IT IN TERMS OF WHAT COULD CREATE CRISIS IN OUR SCHOOL, UM, AND THE AIR CONDITIONER SYSTEM GOING DOWN, AND WHEN IT'S WARM OUT, UM, COULD CREATE A POTENTIAL THAT THE CHILDREN GET SENT HOME SO I DON'T UNDERSTAND THE PRIORITIZATION AND I APOLOGIZE IF I WASN'T CLEAR, SO WHEN WE CAME BEFORE THE BOARD IN DECEMBER, ALREADY GONE THROUGH OUR EVALUATION TO PRIORITIZE AND YOU KNOW WE HAVE OUR PRIORITIES ALREADY LISTED. SO THAT WAS SUBMITTED TO THE BOARD FOR APPROVAL AND THEN FORWARDED TO THE COUNTY FOR CONSIDERATION. I THINK YOU KNOW, I'M JUST LIKE A LIKE I SAID THOSE PRIORITIES WERE BASED ON THE ASSUMPTION THAT WE WERE GOING TO BE FULLY FUNDED. AND I, YOU KNOW TO NOT REVISIT THAT, I THINK IS IT'S SOMETHING THAT I WOULD DO. I WOULD REVIEW REVISIT MY BUDGET. MAYBE SOMETHING WAS HIGHER PRIORITY. YOU KNOW MY TRIP TO YOU KNOW WHO I AM? THAT WAS PRIORITY NOW. ALL OF A SUDDEN, I DON'T HAVE THAT I MIGHT NOT GO TO HAWAII. UM YOU KNOW, SO I JUST AND I DON'T YOU KNOW, LIKE I SAID, I DON'T KNOW. LIKE I WOULD. I WOULD THINK THAT WE WOULD WANT TO SPEND A LITTLE BIT OF TIME TO LOOK AT THIS MAJOR DECISION. WHICH WE HAVE. AND WHEN YOU START TO LOOK AT WHAT WE'RE RECOMMENDING UM, WITH STORMWATER MANAGEMENT ROLES IN THE SEDIMENT CONTROL. THAT'S ONE OF THE PRIORITIES THAT'S ON THE

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LIST. SO WE DID SCRUB THROUGH AND WE TOOK A LOOK AT OUR AVAILABLE BALANCES AND THEN WE'VE PRIORITIZED WITHIN THE LIST OF PRIORITIES TO IDENTIFY. YOU KNOW THOSE THOSE CRITICAL NEEDS. SO WHEN YOU START TO LOOK AT OUR REQUEST FOR OUR, YOU KNOW , NINE BUS FLEET, WHICH WE, YOU KNOW, REQUESTED MORE THAN SIX MILLION. WE STARTED TO LOOK AT THE OLDEST FLEET. YOU KNOW OUR MOST CRITICAL VEHICLES. SO WE. ABBREVIATED THE PRIORITY LIST WITHIN SOMETHING THAT'S REASONABLE THAT WE COULD RELY ON FROM OUR FUND BALANCE. SO WE GONE THROUGH. WE'VE HAD OUR MEETINGS. WE LOOKED AT OUR PRIORITIES TO INCLUDE LIFE, HEALTH, SAFETY AND COMPLIANCE.

THE FIRE ALARM SYSTEM AT FOSTER MIDDLE SCHOOL. HAS BEEN DEEMED A PRIORITY. SO THAT IS ONE OF THE THINGS WE'RE ASKING TO USE FUND BALANCE FOR SO WE, YOU KNOW, WE SHORTENED THE LIST TO MAKE SURE THAT WE TOOK CARE OF THE PRIORITY OF THE PRIORITY ACROSS THE VARIOUS CATEGORIES AND I, YOU KNOW, AND I'M LIKE I SAID, I'M NOT DISCOUNTING THE EFFORTS THAT YOU'VE MADE. I'M SURE THERE'S A LOT OF THINGS THAT YOU DID BEHIND THE SCENES. BUT IT'S NOT PRESENTED TO THE BOARD. SO IT'S HARD FOR ME TO UNDERSTAND THE ANALYSIS THAT YOU KNOW THAT WENT INTO MAKING THIS ELECTION, AND I KNOW THERE'S ALREADY EMOTION ON THE BOARD TO TABLE BUT I WOULD LIKE, UM, YOU KNOW, TO MAKE A POINT OF INFORMATION FOR THE TECHNOLOGY PORTION, THAT IS A $10 MILLION. AMOUNT UM, NOT JUST COUNTING THE NEED TO KEEP OUR NETWORKS UP AND RUNNING. BUT DOES THE UPS SYSTEM REALLY NEEDS TO BE REPLACED AT THIS TIME? IS IT FAULTY? OR LIKE YOU KNOW WHY? YOU KNOW WHY? WHY WOULD LIKE IS THERE THINGS THAT WE COULD MAYBE LENGTHEN THE LIFE AS IT JUST REPLACEMENT CYCLE OR WHAT? YOU KNOW, SO I THINK YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT THE 6.5 MILLION. UM I WENT THROUGH 0.6. THAT'S THE TOTAL.

THAT'S THE TOTAL FOR THAT SECTION. BUT THE 6.5 THE RP SYSTEM THAT WE HAVE, WE WENT THROUGH THIS IN DETAIL IN SMALL GROUP. WE, UM BUT ACTUALLY, I WAS REFERRING TO THE ONE MILLION THAT'S ON THERE FOR AN ON INTERRUPTED POWER SUPPLY. I WOULD LIKE TO ADDRESS THAT. I WOULD LIKE TO ADDRESS THAT THIS IS DREW MORE, UM GOOD EVENING, EVERYONE. UM. THE ITEM THAT YOU'RE SPEAKING TO THE UNINTERRUPTIBLE POWER SUPPLIES IS NOT A SINGLE SYSTEM. IT IS NUMEROUS SYSTEMS. I BELIEVE THERE'S 295 UPS IS THAT ARE IN OUR WIRING CLOSETS. THESE UPS IS KEEP OUR NETWORK SWITCHES UP. UH WE HAVE MANY TIMES WHERE WE HAVE POWER AROUND EDGES. AND ONCE, UM , THE NETWORKS GO DOWN. IT IS A MATTER OF LIFE SAFETY. OUR NETWORKS HAVE BECOME A LIFE SAFETY INFRASTRUCTURE. NOW UM MUCH OF YOUR H BACK IS CONTROLLED THROUGH THE NETWORK.

UM SECURITY CAMERAS ARE CONTROLLED THROUGH THE NETWORK. UM OPERATIONALLY. YOUR PHONE SYSTEMS ARE NOW PLACED ON THE NETWORK. SO THE UPS HAVE RUN THEIR COURSE OF LIFE. WE ARE GETTING BATTERIES THAT ARE SWELLING. THEY ARE STARTING TO SMOKE. THERE'S A FEAR OF CATCHING FIRE. UM IN THESE DEVICES, UM, WE ARE PUSHING THE ENVELOPE. WHERE MUCH OF OUR INFRASTRUCTURE? UM WHILE I HAVE THE MIC, I WILL TELL YOU THAT OVER THE LAST 10 YEARS, THE TECHNOLOGY REQUEST HAS BEEN 122.47. OF WHICH WE'VE BEEN FUNDED 8.78 MILLION. THAT'S 7% OF THE REQUEST. I DARE TO, UM CHALLENGE ANYONE. TO SAY THAT HALF A MILLION DOLLARS A YEAR IN YOUR TECHNOLOGY INVESTMENT IS NOT WHEN YOU HAVE A HALF A BILLION DOLLAR COMPANY. IT'S JUST NOT. DONE UM, YES. CAN WE KICK THE CAN DOWN THE ROAD? ABSOLUTELY THE NETWORK SWITCHES THAT THAT I'M REQUESTING OR 10 PLUS YEARS. UM IF YOU LOOK YOUR AVERAGE NETWORK SWITCH, LIFE IS FIVE YEARS AT SOME POINT OF VENDORS DO END OF LIFE, AND WE RECEIVED NO UPDATES TO THE OPERATING SYSTEM ON THE NETWORK SWITCHES. THE FIREWALL. AND THEN WE'RE AT A CRITICAL UM, PLACE WHERE WE CAN'T EVEN PROTECT OURSELVES. THANK YOU. YEAH AND YOUR THANK YOU. THANK YOU FOR THAT. SO YOU KNOW, AND IT'S I'M NOT DISCOUNTING THAT WE DON'T NEED TO KEEP OUR NETWORKS UP AND RUNNING, BUT TYPICALLY, THERE ARE THERE ARE DATA POINTS THAT YOU KNOW. LIKE YOU SAID. MAYBE THEY'RE SWELLING AND THEY'RE SMOKING AND YEAH, THEN YOU KNOW THAT'S AN INDICATION, BUT THAT

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INFORMATION IS NOT AVAILABLE TO THE BOARD AND WHEN THESE WERE PURCHASED, AND IF THIS IS JUST JUST A MATTER OF, YOU KNOW WHAT IT'S TIME OR ARE THERE ARE THERE ? UM, YOU KNOW, RELIABILITY ISSUES THAT ARE COMING UP THAT ARE INDICATING THAT WE'RE AT END OF LIFE. I THINK ALL OF OUR CAPITAL REQUESTS ARE TYPICALLY BEYOND END OF LIFE. WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE VEHICLES, UM THE AMOUNT THAT'S HERE. THE MOST IMMEDIATE THOSE ARE THE ONES THAT ARE CAUSING US MORE EXPENSES ON THE OPERATING SIDE BECAUSE THEY NEED TO BE REPAIRED MORE SO BY NOT REPLACING OUR FLEET, WE ARE NOT ABLE TO REDUCE THE OPERATING COSTS BECAUSE THE VEHICLES ARE SO OLD. SO WE RUN INTO THAT PROBLEM AS WELL. MADAM CHAIR. MADAM PRESIDENT. I LIKE TO CALL FOR THE VOTE, BUT BEFORE I DO COULD I MAKE ONE COMMENT? WE HAVE PEOPLE THAT ARE HERE AND THAT ARE HIRED. TO PROVIDE ALL OF US THIS INFORMATION. IF WE ARE NOT. CONFIDENT THAT WE'RE GETTING GOOD INFORMATION, THEN YOU KNOW, WE WANT TO BE EXPERT. WE'RE NOT EXPERTS AND THE BOARD WHEN WE VOTE. WE VOTE AS ONE BODY. AND I THINK THAT FOR US TO KEEP KICKING THE CAN DOWN THE ROAD AND SAYING WE QUESTIONED THOSE PEOPLE. WHO HAVE THE CREDENTIALS IS UNFAIR. SO I CALLED FOR THE BOAT. UM MADAM CHAIRMAN. I PLEASE. UM. I DON'T THINK THE ISSUE IS THAT WE DON'T FEEL OR AT LEAST I DON'T FEEL THAT THESE THINGS ARE NOT NECESSARY. I FEEL LIKE IT IS IRRESPONSIBLE OF US TO TRANSFER THIS MONEY UNTIL THE NEGOTIATIONS WITH OUR COUNTY EXECUTIVE AND OUR COUNTY COUNTY COUNCIL HAS CONCLUDED SO THAT WE KNOW. I MEAN, I KNOW THAT IT'S NOT BEST PRACTICE IS TO USE OUR FUND BALANCE, TOO, YOU KNOW. FOR OUR SALARY OR OR BUT DO WE REALLY WANT TO SPEND $500,000 ON A ON A DOCK FOR HARTFORD? GLEN WHEN WE CAN USE THAT MONEY TO FUND A FEW OF OUR TEACHERS IS WHAT I'M SAYING. SO I FEEL LIKE IT'S IRRESPONSIBLE. I KNOW THAT THAT'S NOT COMMON PRACTICE OR BEST PRACTICES, BUT I'M SAYING OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD. I FEEL LIKE THERE ARE MANY THINGS. WHAT IS THIS? $1 MILLION TO BE TRANSFERRED FOR THE TALENT PATHWAYS INITIATIVE. WHAT IS THAT SPECIFICALLY USED FOR? I DON'T HAVE THAT INFORMATION. I DON'T FEEL COMFORTABLE. JUST VOTING ON THIS TO PUT IT THROUGH WITHOUT HAVING ALL OF THE DETAILS AND ALL THE INFORMATION.

UM IN REFERENCE TO THIS AND I FEEL LIKE IT'S IRRESPONSIBLE ON OUR PART TO JUST VOTE THIS THROUGH AND TRANSFER THIS MONEY WITHOUT KNOWING EXACTLY WHAT'S BEEN NEGOTIATED WITH OUR KIND OF EXECUTIVE IN OUR COUNTY COUNCIL , SO THE MOTION ON THE FLOOR IS TO TABLE. THERE HAS BEEN A CALL FOR THE VOTE. DO I HAVE A SECOND? I THINK I THINK WE HAD A SECOND TO CALL FOR THE VOTE. I'M SORRY. I DIDN'T HEAR THAT CALL FOR THE BOAT. THE CALL FOR A VOTE. IF YOU HAVE A SECOND ENDS THE DISCUSSION AND WE TAKE THE VOTE STUCK IN THE CALL FOR THE VOTE. OKAY, THAT'S FINE. MRS ROLAND, WOULD YOU PLEASE DO ROLL CALL VOTE NOW, REMEMBER, IF YOU VOTE? YES YOU'RE VOTING TO TABLE THIS. IT'S ALVAREZ. YES. BRUCE? NO. MISS HAN. DR HAROLD NO. MISS PERRY. NO. DR PHILLIPS. NO. MR RICCARDI? YES. THIS BLANKET? NO. VICE PRESIDENT SEWELL NO. PRESIDENT MUELLER. NO. THIS MOTION FAILS. DO I HAVE EMOTION? TWO. UM. SUPPORT THE EARTH TO ACCEPT THE SUPERINTENDENT'S RECOMMENDATION THAT THE BOARD OF EDUCATION FOR APPROVED. THE USE OF THE FUNDS IS DESCRIBED MADAM PRESIDENT. I MOVE TO ACCEPT THAT SECOND EMOTION. THANK YOU. CAN I HAVE A VOTE? MHM CALLED UP. YES PLEASE. ALVAREZ ABSTAINED. MISS BRUCE? YES. MISS HAN. DR HAROLD YES. MR PERRY? YES. DR PHILLIPS.

YES. MR CARDI? OH, I'M SORRY, MR RICARDO. THANK YOU. LINCOLN? YES. VICE PRESIDENTS WILL YES.

PRESIDENT MUELLER. YES. THIS MOTION PASSES. THANK YOU. OKAY NEXT IS A DECISION ON AWARD OF

[J. Decision on Award of Contract for Homestead/Wakefield Elementary School Replacement, Mr. Cornell Brown, Assistant Superintendent for Operations and Mr. Chris Morton, Supervisor of Planning and Construction]

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