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C
Good
afternoon
today
is
Tuesday
October
4th
I'd
like
to
welcome
everyone
to
our
work
session
board
members
present
in
the
boardroom.
Our
members
Wilson
lessons,
Jacobs,
Holloman,
Donnelly
and
Bellamy
joining
us
online
will
be
member
he's
not
there
yet,
but
remember:
Higgins
will
be
joining
us
electronically.
We
also
have
Dr
Bryant
and
several
staff
members,
along
with
Amanda
Foster,
our
executive
assistant.
C
So
with
that
we
will
go
to
Item
B,
which
is
our
board
member
request
for
information
whenever
you're
ready,
I
think
we
have
just
one.
C
C
The
one
item
we
have-
and
it's
just
for
member
Holloman
is
an
update
on
the
Vera
Health
Clinic
and
we
it's
not
an
emergency,
but
we
will
get
to
it
as
soon
as
we
can
remember.
D
If
I
remember
correctly,
prior
to
the
pandemic,
we
were
going
to
get
detailed
reports
on
how
the
clinics
have
worked
out,
as
opposed
to
not
having
the
clinics
and
just
a
general
idea
of
how
well
we're
doing
on
health
care
costs.
Overall,.
C
E
Quite
a
while
ago
and
I'm
not
sure
what
the
felt
from
us
or
not,
but
I
was
under
the
impression
that
the
administration
was
going
to
do
a
survey
of
schools
regarding
compliance
with
the
Pledge
of
Allegiance
administrative
regulation.
That
that
says
it
would
be
done
in
the
morning
over
the
loudspeaker
and
to
identify.
Is
there
any
other
schools
other
than
the
ones
we
already
know
of
which
are
greeting
and
Polaris
that
aren't
doing
it
and
I?
Don't
remember
if
we
got
something
back
on
that
or
not.
C
C
So
we
will
Dr
Bryant,
did
you
want
to
speak
to
it
and
tell
them.
F
C
F
Good
afternoon
board
in
ASD
Community
this
afternoon,
we'll
continue
our
months-long
conversation
on
ways
to
address
our
looming
Financial
deficit.
We
are
joined
by
school
efficiency,
expert,
Shannon
Bingham,
who
will
brief
the
board
on
the
considerations
behind
school
consolidations
and
reprogramming
I
know
that's
an
incredibly
difficult
topic,
but
it
is
an
important
one
to
have
as
part
of
our
research
phase
school
consolidations
as
we've
shared
in
the
past
would
be
a
very
small
piece
of
the
budget.
F
G
Okay,
as
they're
flipping
slides,
everyone
should
be
familiar
with
the
fiscal
cliff
slide.
G
G
So
we've
we've
shown
this
slide
a
few
times.
We
used
the
same
agenda
slide
you'll,
see
in
Gray
all
the
things
we've
talked
about
before,
but
necessarily
didn't
come
to
closure
yet
and
you'll
see
in
dark
blue
underlying
bold.
That
tonight,
we'll
be
talking
primarily
the
bulk
of
it
will
be
on
school
efficiency
studies,
School
closure
repurpose,
as
as
we
prepare
for
18
October's
next
briefing,
and
then
we
will
also
be
talking
about
sports
and
activities
and
the
cost
per
student
side.
G
G
So
when
you
look
at
this
slide,
if
you
look
across
the
bottom
from
left
to
right,
I
put
four
scales
and,
as
we
come
close
to
reaching
a
decision
or
make
a
decision,
we'll
start
grouping
all
of
the
different
possible
solutions
onto
the
scales.
So
we
can
start
seeing
how
much
money
fits
in
each
category.
I
know
the
board
has
not
voted
on
board
memo
24
or
the
substitute
amended
board
memo
24,
but
just
for
briefing
purposes.
G
I
did
put
the
one-time
money
for
this
FY
from
the
state
under
likely
reduction,
because
that
did
get
us
to
a
68
million
dollar
start
point
and
also
you'll,
see
over
on
insurance
coverage.
We've
looked
at
all
the
layers
of
insurance
and
what
it
came
down
to
after
discussions
with
legal
Personnel
that
we
could
cut
ninety
seven
thousand
five
hundred
dollars
and
on
one
incident
of
something
horrible
happening
in
the
district
losing
that
10
million
dollar
Gap.
G
G
You'll
also
see
I,
put
sixth
grade
to
middle
school,
middle
school
model
and
sixth
grade
band
and
Orchestra
I,
intentionally
colored
them
and
and
kind
of
separated
them
from
the
group.
Just
to
start
the
concept
of
there's
going
to
be
many
things
that
we
bring
up
that
are
tied
to
other
other
choices
and
like
school
closures,
you
may
see
a
school
closure
name
come
out
next
week
or
next
briefing
and
there's
a
lot
of
impacts.
G
If
people
want
to
randomly
replace
a
school
that
was
going
to
close
after
the
transportation
analysis
was
done
after
we've
looked
at
spend
programs
and
other
Pre-K
Academy,
and
all
these
other
choices
that
go
into
how
the
plan
fits.
If
you
start
randomly
changing
to
make
it
better
from
from
a
constituent
perspective,
it
really
will
skew
so
many
other
things.
So
I
thought
this
was
a
good
example,
because
sixth
grade
moved
to
Middle
School
will
actually
cost
us
more.
G
If
we
don't
do
the
Middle
School
model
change
and
we're
still
working
on
what
that
change,
might
look
like
and
you're
not
going
to
be
able
to
reduce
sixth
grade
band
and
Orchestra
easily
unless
the
Middle
School
model
changes
in
sixth
grade
moves
to
middle
school,
we
did
the
math.
We
looked
at
the
number
of
students,
1823
I,
think
it
was
that
that
took
band
and
Orchestra
in
sixth
grade
elementary,
and
the
vast
majority
of
them
took
seventh
grade
band
and
Orchestra
this
year.
G
G
We
have
put
a
lot
of
effort
into
looking
at
immersion
programs
and
I
I
did
want
to
point
out
to
the
board
that
at
this
point
the
staff
has
refocusing
their
efforts
to
912
and
modifying
the
way
that
that
program
is
delivered
and
are
no
longer
actively.
Looking
at
K8
and
I
know
there's
a
lot
of
people
talking
tonight,
but
initially
we
we
started
looking
at
it
from
a
cost
savings.
G
It's
it
was
incredibly
complicated
to
try
to
really
look
at
redoing
all
of
the
district's
immersion
in
elementary
and
middle
school
in
the
next
two
and
a
half
months.
So
we
are
focusing
our
efforts
on
the
the
model
of
delivery
for
high
school
and
then
you
can
see
the
rest.
So
next
slide,
please
will
be
Mr
Shannon
Bingham
and
he
will
take
over
from
here.
H
Thank
you
Jim
well
good
evening,
Dr
Brian
and
members
of
the
board.
It's
a
privilege
to
be
here.
My
name
is
Shannon
Bingham
I
own
a
company
called
Western
demographics
I
have
been
a
school
planning
and
operational
consultant
for
almost
40
years
now
and
have
about
a
five-year
history
working
with
Anchorage
School
District
on
various
issues
and
have
worked
elsewhere
in
Alaska.
H
I
have
prepared
a
brief
presentation
that
shows
a
national
perspective
on
school
efficiency
studies
and
what
those
steps
and
potential
benefits
can
be,
as
you
consider
this,
as
a
portion
of
your
strategy
and
addressing
your
budgetary
challenges,
hopefully
I'll
be
able
to
inform
you
as
to
what
some
of
those
benefits
might
be
districts
all
over.
The
country
have
really
accelerated
their
interest
in
school
efficiency
studies.
H
During
the
last
five
years,
I
have
probably
conducted
eight
or
ten
of
them
over
the
last
36
months,
post
pandemic,
a
lot
of
districts
have
discovered
that
they
lost
about
three
percent
of
their
enrollment
and
a
lot
of
those
children
did
not
return,
and
so
a
lot
of
districts
have
been
left
with
some
budgetary
challenges
and,
as
they
see
covid
money
ending
they're,
looking
at
every
concealable
strategy
to
try
to
continue
to
deliver
a
consistent
level
of
service
to
the
children
in
their
districts.
H
So,
as
we
look
at
this,
a
lot
of
it
has
come
to
pass
as
a
result
of
other
factors.
Birth
rates
and
family
creation
rates
have
declined
during
the
past
decade.
We're
looking
at
current
Generations
having
significantly
fewer
children
than
in
the
past.
Housing
costs
quite
frankly
have
affected
a
lot
of
young
couples,
decision
making
regarding
having
a
family
or
how
big
a
family
might
be,
and
what
sort
of
a
dwelling
they
would
like
to
raise
a
family
in.
So
a
lot
of
those
decisions
have
become
rather
complicated.
H
As
I
mentioned,
some
districts
have
lost
about
three
percent.
Others
have
lost
five
percent
and
a
lot
of
those
families
evaluated
online
education
or
other
non-neighborhood
School
opportunities
and
decided
to
stick
with
those.
H
It
may
have
fit
their
child's
learning
style
a
little
bit
better
and
I
like
to
refer
to
online
as
kind
of
the
Star
Trek
model
of
of
learning
and
a
lot
of
families
during
about
an
18-month
period,
went
that
way
and
stayed
with
it,
and
if
we
had
not
had
the
pandemic,
that
would
have
been
a
10
or
15
year
evolution.
H
It
really
happened,
because
so
many
families
tried
a
different
mechanism.
So
that's
one
of
the
things
that
has
happened
to
us
there's
been
a
lot
of
competition
from
those
online
providers,
because
a
lot
of
them
were
created
as
a
result
of
the
pandemic,
and
a
lot
of
them
grew
as
a
result
of
the
pandemic,
so
they're
a
larger
component
of
the
Education
Services
Market
than
in
the
past.
H
A
lot
of
the
districts
that
have
approached
me
during
the
last
two
years
have
also
been
economically
challenged
and
have
really
looked
at
their
communities
which
have
other
economic
challenges
and
have
stepped
forward
as
an
institution
to
say
we
want
to
be
part
of
the
effort
to
become
more
efficient,
so
they've
chosen
the
efficiency
study
mechanism
in
order
to
achieve
that
end.
H
As
far
as
the
level
of
service
approach,
most
of
the
districts
I've
worked
with,
have
really
tried
to
make
level
of
service
to
the
student
as
one
of
the
primary
considerations
or
the
primary
consideration
as
of
considered
efficiency.
So
the
goal
has
been
to
deliver
the
same
or
a
similar
level
of
service
than
what
we
had
before
and
just
try
to
become
more
efficient
as
an
institution
in
delivering
those
programs.
So
a
lot
of
what
I
look
at
is
very
much
focused
on.
H
How
do
we
do
that
when
schools
begin
to
be
smaller,
a
lot
of
the
services
that
are
not
the
Gen
Ed
classroom,
experience,
meaning
general
education
become
challenged,
so
art,
music
and
PE
all
throughout
the
western
United
States
are
becoming
more
challenged
as
partial
FTE
teachers
come
in
to
deliver
those
services
and
other
issues
associated
with
costs
start
affecting
those
programs.
H
In
addition
to
that,
the
average
elementary
school
has
about
35
percent
of
its
faculty
is
a
non-classroom
specialist,
meaning
they
teach
some
sort
of
a
supporting
service.
So
basically
that
would
include
specialized
education,
teachers
and
their
assistants,
who
may
be
non-certified
teaching
assistants,
some
districts
call
them
teacher
on
special
assignment
or
tosa
or
something
to
that
effect.
It
also
includes
Librarians,
School
psychologists,
occupational
therapists,
physical
therapists
speech,
language,
pathologist,
instructional,
coaches,
ESL
teachers
and
so
on
and
so
forth.
H
Modern
education
is
very
much
composed
of
not
only
the
Gen
ed
teacher
as
the
anchor,
but
a
lot
of
Specialists
that
serve
each
child
and
a
lot
of
children
may
have
five
adults
on
their
team.
So
a
lot
of
these
districts
that,
as
they've
looked
at
how
they're
structured
they
have
tried
to
figure
out
a
way
to
how
do
I
continue
to
have
five
adults
on
that
child's
team.
H
So
that's
been
at
the
root
of
my
approach
to
school
efficiency
is
to
try
to
figure
out
if
there
are
ways
that
we
can
save
money
but
keep
five
adults
on
every
one
of
those
kids
teams.
So
to
speak
at
the
secondary
level
course,
offerings
and
master
scheduling
become
a
big
challenge
in
addition
to
all
of
those
specialized
Educators
who
also
serve
middle
and
high
school
children,
but
course
offerings.
When
you
become
very
small,
especially
when
you
have
maybe
400
children
in
a
7-8
middle
school.
H
As
far
as
the
process
goes,
we
always
start
with
this
level
of
service
concept,
try
to
figure
out
a
way
to
deliver
to
each
student
more
or
less
the
same
thing
that
they
were
getting
before,
but
do
it
using
different
a
different
mechanism,
so
we
tend
to
start
looking
at
this
consolidation
process.
If
we
have
small
schools
that
can
be
joined
into
one,
we
start
looking
at
pairs
of
schools
that
are
adjacent
to
each
other
and
figure
out
a
way
as
if
to
see.
If
there
is
a
way
we
can
serve.
H
A
group
of
students
currently
served
in
one
thing:
two
schools
with
one
school
and
have
it
serve
a
larger
service
area.
Sometimes
we
expand
that
to
serve
three
or
four
areas
in
order
to
make
the
boundaries
work,
but
for
the
most
part
we
try
to
affect
is
view
adjacent
schools
as
possible
in
order
to
get
to
a
Consolidated
location.
H
When
we
look
at
those
schools
we're
almost
always
looking
at
the
smaller
schools,
because
if
you
have
a
couple
of
one
and
a
half
section
per
grade
level,
meaning
not
even
two
kindergartens.
Two
first
grades,
two
second
grades:
when
you
have
a
pair
of
those
together
a
lot
of
times,
you
can
combine
those
into
a
single
three
section
school.
H
H
As
far
as
let's
see
what
else
is
on
this,
we
try
to
identify
in
this
research
process
the
best
possible
scenarios
and
if
we're
going
to
Broach
a
proposal
we
try
to
see.
This
is
the
best
proposal
that
we
could
bring
forward
for
consideration,
because
we
don't
want
to
alarm
people
unnecessarily.
If
we're
looking
at
something
that
wouldn't
work
from
a
transportation
standpoint,
it
wouldn't
work
from
a
special
services
standpoint.
It
wouldn't
work
from
a
pedestrian
standpoint
if
we're
unable
to
deliver
transportation
in
an
area.
H
The
stakeholder
process
generally
begins
with
the
experts
that
know
how
each
of
those
segments
of
our
service
model
work,
and
then
we
move
forward
with
showing
you
a
group
of
candidates
as
a
board,
and
then
you
endorse
an
overall
School
efficiency
strategy.
If
you
choose
to
move
forward-
and
you
pick
a
set
of
schools
for
us
to
process
with
stakeholders,
then
we
move
on
to
principles
and
then
faculty,
and
then
parents
and
I've
done
an
alarming
number
of
these
in
the
last
36
months.
H
A
lot
of
them
have
been
virtual
before
the
pandemic
and
prior
to
that,
I
was
doing
quite
a
few
of
them,
with
either
open
house
meetings
or
with
just
a
standard,
in-person
community
meeting,
where
we
propose
a
change
of
of
School
service
pattern
in
a
specific
area.
H
Let's
see
this
next
slide
shows
how
repurposing
candidates
are
identified.
I
mentioned
some
of
that.
In
my
comments
previously,
you
can
see
that
we
are
looking
at
schools
that
are
small
that
are
forecast
to
continue
declining
Alaska
does
not
develop
a
school
attendance
area,
birth
data,
but
we're
able
to
watch
our
enrollment
volume
at
the
kindergarten
level
and
kind
of
do
some
forecasting
as
to
how
many
additional
children
we
would
expect
to
decline
in
an
area.
H
A
lot
of
this
has
to
do
with
housing.
Affordability
is
an
issue.
A
lot
of
our
more
affordable
neighborhoods
tend
to
have
the
most
children
and
I
think
there
were
55
new
homes
for
sale
in
Greater
Anchorage
today,
so
we're
not
exactly
booming
from
a
housing
standpoint,
as
we
were
back
in
2018
the
last
time,
I
took
a
long
hard
look
at
the
district,
so
I
think
that
we're
probably
going
to
decline,
which
makes
the
school
efficiency
process
a
little
bit
easier.
H
If
you
will,
because
we
know
we
will
continue
to
have
small
schools
on
this
next
slide,
you
will
see
my
preliminary
forecast,
which
shows
us
declining
by
about
two
percent
per
year
for
the
next
five
years.
Now
again,
the
world
can
turn
on
a
dime
depending
upon
a
variety
of
factors
in
the
energy
sector
and
the
military
sector.
H
We
know
we
may
be
looking
at
some
increase
in
Force
at
Jay
bear
and
that
may
have
some
effect
on
us,
but
fundamentally
we're
looking
at
those
five
factors
that
you
see
there
really
resulting
in
a
confirmed
and
probably
certain
decline
in
our
enrollment
in
Anchorage
School
District
on
this
next
slide,
you'll
see
our
age
distribution
back
when
I
started,
helping
the
district
in
2017
versus
where
we
are
this
fall,
and
you
can
see
those
blue
bars
which
are
2017
enrollment
by
grade.
We
were
a
lot
bigger.
H
This
next
slide
shows
from
a
birth
standpoint
where
we
stand
in
the
state
of
Alaska
from
2015
through
2019,
which
was
the
last
year.
I
could
get
data
for
the
state
overall,
and
you
can
see
that
with
declined
substantially
during
that
five-year
period
And.
This
is
affecting
all
of
the
big
districts
and
all
the
small
districts
as
well.
It's
not
cleanly
in
one
part
of
Alaska,
but
for
the
most
part,
everybody
is
having
fewer
babies
throughout
the
state
in
the
Municipality
of
Anchorage.
H
On
the
next
slide,
you'll
see
that
we
have
also
declined
rather
dramatically
through
2020
and
those
vectors
are
all
downward.
Now,
eventually,
we're
going
to
stabilize
we're
going
to
hit
some
sort
of
a
flat
Point
that
rate
of
decline
will
diminish
and
will
level
off
a
little
bit.
But
at
this
point
we're
still
pointing
downward
and
expecting
to
have
fewer
children
coming
into
those
Elementary
grades
and
moving
on
into
the
intermediate
age
grades
and
then
on
into
middle
school.
H
So
we're
expecting
fewer
babies
if
we
go
out
and
pull
the
birth
centers
and
there
are
or
big
ones
and
three
little
ones
in
the
Anchorage
bowl
and
we're
looking
at
all
of
those
declining.
A
lot
of
these
are
moms
from
South
Central
Alaska
that
may
be
coming
to
Anchorage
to
address
a
complex
pregnancy
in
a
larger
hospital.
H
So
this
is
more
than
that
Anchorage
total,
but
you
can
see
every
one
of
those
birth
centers
is
showing
a
declining
annual
birth
count
and
we're
expecting
for
20,
21
and
22
for
that
trending
to
continue
based
upon
what
we've
seen
this
next
slide
shows.
Well,
how
are
we
structured
at
the
elementary
level?
H
I
H
Have
nine
ones
one
section:
schools,
meaning
between
0.8
and
about
1.4
sections
per
grade
level?
So
that's
what
we
call
a
one
section
school
one
class
per
grade
level.
H
We
have
19
two
section:
schools
where
we
have
between
1.5
sections
per
grade
and
about
2.4
and
then
at
the
three
round
level,
between
two
and
a
half
and
above
sections
per
grade
level.
We
have
11
of
those.
Our
average
is
about
1.9,
there's
a
little
bit
of
volatility
in
there
because
of
where
the
brakes
are
and
when
you
have
one
and
a
half
sections
worth
of
children
a
lot
of
times.
You
go
ahead
and
staff,
two
sections.
If
you
don't
you
do
a
combination,
class,
a
blended
class
or
a
combo.
H
It's
a
lot
of
districts
call
them
and
we
have
quite
a
few
of
those,
but
in
general
those
are
the
break
points
that
most
HR
people
use
when
they're
looking
at.
How
do
I
describe
a
school
so
we're
mostly
two-round
now
that
may
sound
small
but
we're
pretty
comparable
to
a
lot
of
our
Urban
peers,
who
are
also
doing
school
efficiency
studies
so
on
the
next
slide.
H
You'll
see
that
as
we
look
District
to
District,
you
can
see
that
our
our
Urban
peers,
we
have
about
350
children
at
our
average
elementary
school,
and
then
you
can
see
kind
of
three
types
of
District.
In
this
graphic
you
can
see
Portland
Seattle
Tacoma,
which
are
definitely
Urban
school
districts
and
we're
very
comparable
to
them.
You
can
see
Lake
Washington
Spokane,
who
have
about
430
to
450
students
per
grade
level.
H
Those
are
bigger
districts
that
have
a
lot
more
or
they
have
younger
families
in
them,
they're
what
I
call
higher
yield
school
districts.
All
of
these
districts
have
between
36
000
and
42
000
kids,
with
the
exception
of
Matsu
and
Fairbanks,
which
are
smaller,
which
are
in
the
graphic
because
they're
Alaskan
districts,
but
you
can
see
that
relative
to
our
Urban
Partners,
including
Portland
there
we're
pretty
much
on
a
par
at
that
average
of
about
350,
something.
H
When
you
look
at
this
next
graphic
you'll
see
at
the
middle
school
level
there
we
are
with
why
I
can't
read
that
on
this
monitor,
I
am
I
wearing
my
computer
glasses.
There
you
go:
oh
okay,
so
basically
what
we're?
Looking
at
there
at
the
middle
school
level
is
653.
H
So
if
you
look
across
to
Spokane
a
comparable
for
us
they're
at
6.50,
as
you
look
across
to
Portland
there
at
5,
38,
so
they're
actually
a
little
bit
smaller
and
then
the
other
grouping
which
includes
Salem
Kaiser
at
8,
38
and
Idaho
2,
which
is
Ada
County,
which
includes
eagle
and
Meridian,
and
the
west
side
of
Boise
they're
bigger.
Now
every
school
in
those
districts
is
going
to
be
bigger
than
us
because
of
the
age
of
the
housing,
the
jobs
that
are
available
in
those
communities
and
the
student
yield
that
those
families
actually
enjoy.
H
You
can
see.
Matsu
is
smaller
at
600
and
Fairbanks
is
yet
smaller
at
372,
and
that
was
prior
to
the
recent
grade,
reconfiguration
and
school
closure
cycle
that
we
did
last
year
in
Fairbanks.
Those
changes
are
were
effective
for
the
start
of
school
this
year.
So
we're
about
four
weeks
in
to
the
changes
that
we
made
in
Fairbanks
from
a
school
efficiency
standpoint
on
this
next
graphic
you're
going
to
see.
Well,
how
does
that
break
down?
As
far
as
who
is
six
eight
and
who's?
H
Seven
eight
throughout
the
United
States
68
is
not
at
a
hundred
percent
phenomenon.
So
there
is
a
mixture.
I
have
worked
with
a
lot
of
districts
to
do.
Middle
School
grade
reconfiguration,
moving
from
seven
eight
to
six,
eight,
a
lot
of
that
for
not
only
efficiency
reasons,
but
also
for
curriculum.
A
lot
of
the
districts
just
decided
they
wanted
their
sixth
grade
students
in
middle
school,
and
that
was
a
model
where
those
children
would
get
more
exposure
to
electives
and
they
made
a
choice
from
a
curricular
standpoint.
H
So
that
was
the
breakdown
in
Fairbanks
until
this
year
and
now
we're
a
hundred
percent
six
eight
and
zero
percent
seven
eight,
and
you
can
see
that
Matsu-
that
Idaho
District,
which
is
Ada
two,
which
includes
Eagle,
Meridian
and
West
Boise,
is
a
hundred
percent
six
eight
Beaverton
Portland
Salem,
Kaiser,
Lake,
Washington
and
Seattle
all
at
a
hundred
percent.
Then
Spokane
has
four
big
middle
schools
that
are
still
seven
eight,
so
they're
about
80,
20
and
then
you
can
see.
Tacoma
is
also
a
hundred
percent
six.
Eight.
H
This
next
slide
shows
just
a
little
summary
of
what
we
did
up
in
Fairbanks
now.
Keep
in
mind
that
we're
about
third,
the
size
of
Anchorage
in
Fairbanks,
so
smaller
District,
similar
circumstances,
though
Alaskan
District
Alaskan
values,
two
big
military
bases
from
a
family
profile
standpoint.
H
We
have
a
lot
of
the
same
values
and
a
lot
of
the
challenges
with
schools
that
were
built
during
the
beta
boom
Echo
and
are
now
underpopulated,
and
so
we
went
through
and
we
closed
Anderson,
which
is
on
Eileen
Ben,
eielson,
Air,
Force
Base,
and
we
Consolidated
that
into
a
k-6
school.
And
then
we
moved
the
sixth
grade
into
Ben
Allison
Junior
Senior
High.
So
we
did
a
grade
reconfiguration
for
the
eielson
Air
Force
base
area
in
conjunction
with
Closing
one
school.
H
We
closed
Joy
Elementary,
which
was
our
oldest
school
and
needed
a
5.5
million
dollar
roof,
and
that
was
an
older
cost
estimate.
I'm,
not
real
sure.
We
could
do
it
for
5
million
bucks,
but
oh
one
of
our
oldest
buildings,
58
59
year
old
building,
and
then
we
closed
nordale,
which
is
in
an
area
halfway
between
Fairbanks
and
North
Pole
and
restructured
that
for
a
best,
homeschool
augmentation
location,
where
families
in
their
homeschooling
location
could
come
in
and
have
specialized
Services
provided
for
the
children
who
would
be
in
homeschool
services.
H
At
the
middle
school
level,
we
took
Randy
Smith
Middle,
which
was
running
at
400
students
Ryan,
which
is
the
newest
school
there
in
Fairbanks
and
Tanana,
which
is
at
the
one
at
the
gate
to
the
army
base
there
and
we
reformatted
restructured
those
to
be
grade
six
eight.
H
So
we
did
a
combination
of
three
closures
and
a
middle
school
grade,
reconfiguration
and
recreated
three
significantly
larger
middle
schools
and
really
believe
that
the
course
offerings
and
richness
that
those
sixth
grade
children
will
have
available
to
them
will
be
worth
it.
H
So
that's
what
we
did
up
in
Fairbanks
as
far
as
the
high
school
level
we're
at
an
average
of
about
13.50
and
our
Urban
peer
districts.
You
can
see
that
our
Urban
peers
are
really
Tacoma
Seattle
at
12
1307,
Tacoma,
1270
Portland
at
1323.
H
So
we
don't
really
have
a
size
issue
at
the
high
school
level.
We're
we're
we're
well
positioned
within
our
peer
group.
On
the
next
slide.
You
will
see
how
many
combination
classes
do
we
have.
We
have
eight
schools
that
are
Blended,
including
Bowman,
should
have
two
gadgets
and
Susana
and
then
Denali
and
two-door
are
actually
Montessori,
which
is
built
upon
Blended
grade
levels
within
sections.
But
you
can
see
that
beyond
that,
in
our
district
we
have
quite
a
few
combination
classes.
H
Now
I've
been
beaten
up
all
over
the
western
United
States
and
Michigan
over
combos
by
individual
parents
who
want
their
child
in
a
section
with
one
grade
level
and
I've
also
been
beaten
up
by
teachers
all
over
the
western
United
States
who
do
not
want
to
have
two
preps.
They
don't
want
to
teach
two
age
groups
in
a
classroom
and
they
don't
want
a
heterogeneous
group
of
kids
sitting
in
the
chairs
in
front
of
their
teaching
stations.
So,
however,
the
majority
of
Western
U.S
districts
are
using
the
combination
approach
in
order
to
survive
financially.
H
H
The
next
slide
shows
another
thing
that
we
look
at.
This
is
Northeast
Anchorage,
with
a
one
mile
radius
drawn
around
the
11
schools
that
serve
that
10
square
mile
area.
We're
pretty
dense
there.
So
that
is
the
kind
of
thing
that
we
look
at
when
we
consider
repurposing
schools
and
taking
a
few
schools
offline
for
Gen
Ed
delivery
purposes.
H
H
Most
of
those
are
in
the
70s
meaning
from
an
efficiency
standpoint
they're
not
in
the
90s
they're
in
the
70s,
so
we're
looking
at
10
schools
that
are
running
at
70
percent
efficiency,
so
in
the
business
world,
people
would
say
well
and
maybe
you've
got
too
many
stores
in
a
dense
area.
So
that's,
unfortunately,
kind
of
one
of
the
main
things
that
we
look
at
is
this
clustering
concept.
H
The
next
slide
shows
at
the
middle
school
level
and
what's
our
percentage
utilization,
and
you
see
our
three
schools
that
are
six
eight
and
the
rest
that
are
seven.
H
Eight
there
and
you'll
also
see
a
lot
of
schools
that
are
in
the
70s
and
as
our
Middle
School
enrollment
drops,
I
believe
that
in
the
next
36
months
we
would
be
able
to
do
a
middle
school
grade
reconfiguration,
along
with
some
boundary
changes
and
acknowledging
the
fact
that
these
capacities
were
figured
at
25
to
1,
and
we
may
be
unable
to
deliver
middle
school
education
at
that
kind
of
a
staffing
ratio
anymore.
H
So,
theoretically,
these
buildings
will
probably
hold
more
kids
if
you
discount
the
effectiveness
of
their
core
areas,
meaning
cafeteria
the
hallway
student,
Commons,
gymnasiums,
libraries
and
all
the
other
things
that
children
share
within
a
building
but
I'm.
Looking
at
this
and
based
upon
the
Dozen
Middle
School
reconfigurations
I've
done
elsewhere,
I
see
within
a
36
month
period
that
Anchorage
School
District
could
reconfigure
within
this
group
of
buildings
and
go
6-8
with
some
changes
with
some
tiers
with
a
lot
of
hand
ringing
and
a
lot
of
stress
but
I.
H
Think
from
a
budgetary
standpoint,
we
could
wind
up
with
those
10
or
11
buildings
being
in
the
mid
90s
from
an
efficiency,
standpoint
and
I
think
there
would
be
a
lot
of
victories
for
individual
students
who
are
looking
for
richer
elective
program,
who
are
looking
for
more
opportunity
to
explore
things
that
they
may
not
may
be
interested
in
during
their
middle
school
years
before
they
move
on
to
high
school
and
start
thinking
about
a
career.
So
so,
at
any
rate,
that's
that's
my
presentation,
Kathy.
H
What's
this
last
side,
that's
transitioning
to
Jim,
so
I'll.
Thank
you
for
your
attention
and
be
delighted
to
respond
to
your
questions
at
the
end
of
the
presentation.
G
Okay,
before
Marty
starts
talking,
this
slide.
I
would
just
like
to
remind
everyone.
We
are
still
in
the
research
stage.
This
is
not
a
recommendation.
We
had
started
in
Late
July,
saying
we
would
put
all
of
the
cost
drivers
on
the
table
for
the
school
board.
We
knew
that
many
of
them
would
be
unpopular
even
to
be
viewed,
much
less
decisions
that
may
follow.
G
However,
at
the
end
of
the
day,
getting
from
68
million
to
zero
is
probably
a
lot
of
unpopular
decisions
to
be
made,
but
this
is
this
is
our
attempt
to
provide
a
view
of
sports
in
ASD
and
I'll
hand
over
to
Marty.
A
Thank
you
Jim
good
afternoon
board
Marty
Lang
secondary
director,
one
of
the
things
that
I
help
oversee
for
the
district
is
our
Sports
and
activity
program.
So
today,
I
just
wanted
to
spend
a
little
bit
of
time,
giving
you
some
participating
in
that
and
kind
of
what
the
costs
are
that
are
associated
with
our
secondary
sports
program.
So
on
the
right
side
of
the
slide,
you'll
see
just
kind
of
some
high-level
stuff
about
what
we're
seeing
in
terms
of
participation.
A
Right
now,
last
year
we
had
over
4
000
high
school
students
participate
in
at
least
one
sport.
Many
of
those
students
ended
up
participating
in
the
second
or
third
sport.
We
even
had
a
few
who
participated
in
up
to
five
Sports
during
last
year.
They
filled
about
6
200
seats
on
rosters,
that's
down
a
little
bit
from
where
we
were
pre-pandemic.
A
We
would
historically
see
about
8
000
participants
across
our
rosters
in
a
given
year,
so
we
know
we're
down
about
25
percent,
but
we're
still,
we
still
are
seeing
about
a
third
of
all
high
school
students
participating
in
at
least
one
sport
or
activity
during
the
year.
This
fall.
We
have
just
over
3
000
students
who
are
participating
in
a
fall.
Sport
fall
Sports
season
is
our
largest.
We
offer
nine
Sports
in
the
fall
overall,
we
offer
22
sport
opportunities
to
high
school
students.
A
We
operate
17
of
those
and
we
have
five
sports
that
are
sponsored
or
managed
by
outsourced
organizations
the
cost
of
that
program
at
the
high
school
level.
If
you
roll
up
all
the
costs
for
officiating
facility,
Rentals
equipment,
hiring
coaches,
all
the
things
associated
with
those
Sports
is
about
4.4
million
dollars.
Last
year
we
are
able
to
offset
that
a
little
bit
with
some
of
the
revenue
that
we
collect
primarily
through
gate
at
our
sporting
events
and
then
also
through
the
sports
fees
that
we
collect
from
students.
A
We
charge
students
a
participation
fee
of
200
to
participate
in
a
high
school
sport.
We
charge
that
200
fee
for
their
first
and
second
sport
of
the
year
and
then
any
sports
they
participate
in
beyond
that
we
don't
charge
them
any
further.
We
do
offer
a
waiver
program
to
students
who
are
part
of
the
free
and
reduced
lunch
program.
A
Level
last
year
we
had
3
200
Middle
School
students
participate
nearly
50
percent
of
all
the
middle
school
students,
which
is
a
really
good
positive
thing
that
they're
involved
in
those
activities.
They've
always
had
real
high
numbers
and
we're
continuing
to
see
that
this
fall.
We
have
just
over
1300
students
who
are
participating
in
a
fall
sport.
We
run
fewer
Sports
programs
at
the
middle
school
level.
Currently
we
run
10
sports
programs,
and
then
we
have
two
additional
ones
in
recent
years
that
we
added
baseball
and
softball
that
are
run
by
an
outsourced
organization.
A
A
High
school
they
pay
for
their
first
two
sports
and
then,
after
that,
we
don't
charge
them
for
further
participation
over
on
the
left
side
of
the
slide.
You'll
see
kind
of
a
cost
breakdown
by
Sport,
and
we
also
included
the
number
of
students
who
participated
in
that
sport
last
year.
So
you
can
see
that
cost
broken
down
on
kind
of
a
per
student
or
per
participant
basis.
A
So
it
runs
the
gamut
from
252
dollars
per
student
to
run,
cost
cross-country
running
at
high
school
all
the
way
up
to
almost
Seventeen
hundred
dollars
per
student
to
run
hockey,
boys
ice
hockey
so
wide
range.
There
next
slide
a
couple
of
things
as
you
think
about
potential
cost
savings
through
sports
program,
Cuts
or
reductions.
We
do
have
a
federal
obligation
under
Title
IX
to
make
sure
that
we
are
providing
equal
participation,
office
opportunities
for
both
male
and
female
athletes,
so
any
reductions
that
we
make.
A
We
just
have
to
make
sure
that
that
that
impact
is
balanced
across
those
opportunities.
This
year,
you'll
see
or
last
year
we
had
a
little
bit
higher
participation
at
the
high
school
with
males
versus
females.
It
was
flipped
at
Middle
School
from
year
to
year,
that
does
fluctuate
so
kind
of
doing
a
five-year,
Trend
analysis
on
average
we're
pretty
pretty
balanced
in
our
numbers
and-
and
we
certainly
have
strived
to
provide
a
balanced
opportunity
for
students
to
participate.
Another
thing
that's
kind
of
interesting
when
we
think
about
sports
and
involved
movement
and
activities.
A
Our
assessment
evaluation
department
at
the
time
did
an
internal
study
where
they
looked
at
students
who
participated
in
one
or
more
Sports
and
compared
to
their
academic
outcomes
to
their
peers,
who
did
not,
and
we
found
that
pretty
much
every
metric
that
we
measure
they
performed
better.
So
we
saw
higher
graduation
rates
better
attendance,
higher
gpas,
lower
discipline
incidents.
A
So
we
know
that
Sports
have
a
a
powerful
connector,
a
connecting
opportunity
for
kids
that
they
help
students
kind
of
create
a
sense
of
belonging,
they're,
more
engaged
in
their
school
community
and
as
a
result,
they
they
perform
better
academically.
So
that's
certainly
something
to
consider.
As
we
look
at
possible
reductions
to
our
Sports
and
activities
program,
we
were
tasked
with
just
kind
of
thinking
about
you
know
where
we
could
possibly
make
some
reductions
in
our
Sports
programs.
A
One
possible
reduction
would
be
in
our
contract
with
the
Dome.
We
spend
220
000
a
year
on
that
contract.
Currently,
that
does
afford
US
the
opportunity
for
our
spring
Sports
to
it
to
get
students
practicing
and
participating
about
four
weeks
earlier
than
we're
able
to
typically
get
outside
when
the
snow
is
melted
off
and
those
tracks
and
turf
fields
become
available,
but
it
does
come
at
a
pretty
high
cost.
A
The
Dome
contract
currently
is
split
across
four
of
our
Sports.
We
have
Middle
School
track,
High,
School
track
and
boys
and
girls
soccer
that
all
utilize,
the
dome,
but
we
do
know
that
that
could
be
a
potential
cost
savings
without
reducing
the
opportunity
to
participate
in
those
Sports,
because
prior.
A
Existence
we
know
that
those
Sports
were
able
to
operate,
and
so
that's
one
possible
consideration.
The
next
two
bullets
we
kind
of
looked
at
what
are
the
highest
cost
Sports
and
what
are
the
sports
with?
Where
we're
seeing
kind
of
the
lowest
enrollment
and
so
you'll,
see
swimming
and
hockey
are
are
two
most
expensive
sports
per
pupil
and
that's
because
they
are
associated
with
pretty
high
contract
costs.
A
We
also
have
at
least
one
program
right
now:
that's
seeing
historically
low
rates
gymnastics
only
had
53
participants
last
year.
That's
fluctuated
a
little
bit
over
the
last
five
years,
but
they
haven't
seen
more
than
100
participants
in
the
last
five
years,
and
so
that's
a
possible
sport
that
we
could
look
at
at
eliminating
the
last
bullet
point
there.
A
We
could
investigate
further
the
possibility
of
Outsourcing
Sports
to
programs
in
the
community,
where
there's
already
a
corresponding
comp
program
to
the
sport
that
we're
offering
I'll
pause
just
there
a
little
bit
and
talk
about
our
outsourced.
Sports
I
mentioned
earlier
that
we
have
five
in
high
school
and
two
at
Middle
School.
Currently,
when
we
Outsource
a
sport,
we
partner
with
an
outside
agency-
and
they
take
over
the
majority
of
the
management
of
that
sport
for
us.
A
So
we
still
do
a
lot
of
the
processing
in
building
in
terms
of
determining
student
eligibility
processing.
All
the
students
paperwork,
helping
you
know,
build
a
roster
of
interested
students,
but
then
we
hand
that
off
to
the
outsourced
agency
and
they
they
collect
the
feed
from
the
students
and
they
hire
coaches
and
pay
the
coaches.
They
absorb
the
costs
associated
with
offering
that
Sport,
and
so
it's
in
our
current
Outsource
opportunities.
It's
it's
worked
out.
A
Well
so,
for
example,
emerging
American
Legion
has
managed
baseball
for
us
for
a
number
of
years,
and
so
we
haven't
had
any
other
outsourced.
Agencies
come
forward
and
kind
of
volunteer
to
pick
up
a
sport,
but
those
are
conversations
that
we
could
potentially
enter
into
with
organizations
in
our
community
where
we
know
strong
comp
programs
that
exist
to
see
if
there
would
be
an
interest
there.
That
would
likely
not
be
an
immediate
switch
that
we
could
flip.
A
A
There
was
one
additional
bullet
point
that
didn't
make
the
slide.
Another
thing
that
we
could
consider
in
that
other
districts
in
the
lower
48
have
looked
at
this,
and
that
is
not
providing
transportation
in
support
of
Student
Activities
when
those
activities
are
taking
place
in
the
in
the
acreage
municipality.
So
we
would
still
potentially
bus
students
if
they.
D
A
Out
of
area,
because
it's
a
safety
concern,
there
would
still
be
travel
costs
associated
with
sports
because
we
participate
in
state
competitions
that
are
sometimes
out
of
our
area.
They
sometimes
take
place
in
June
or
Fairbanks,
and
we
have
an
obligation
to
get
our
athletes
to
those
competitions.
But
we
could
look
at
potentially
reducing
the
scope
of
our
transportation
within
the
Anchorage
Bowl
itself.
So
a
couple
things
for
the
board
to
consider.
We
do
find
a
lot
of
value
in
our
Sports
programs.
A
A
C
And
in
these
costs
that
you
have
on
here
for
the
sports
is
that
that
the
transportation
is
included
in
the
cost.
C
E
Thank
you,
madam
president,
Chan
five
years
ago,
when
we
talked,
we
discussed
options
of
K-8
schools,
also
at
the
time
you
advised.
That
was
something
you
had
been
working
on
with
quite
a
few
other
districts.
E
Having
that
option
on
the
table
or
I
would
like
to
have
that
option
on
the
table
for
consideration
here.
Also,
it
gives
us
more
options
to
consider
and
I
think
it's
a
very
positive
model
and
very
successful
model
for
kids.
My
memory
at
the
time
is
you
said
that
there
was
kind
of
a
national
movement
towards
that
at
that
time,
are
you
still
seeing
that.
H
I
I
am
especially
in
the
charter
world.
The
majority
of
Charters
that
are
created
are
K-8.
The
the
only
challenge
with
k-8s
that
I've
experienced
directly
is
their
size.
So
if
they
wind
up
being
one
section
per
grade
level,
you
wind
up
with
a
secondary
student
body,
meaning
the
sixth,
seventh
and
eighth
graders.
You
have
75
of
them.
So
if
you're
going
to
deliver
math
science,
language,
arts
and
social
studies,
plus
an
elective
program
in
extracurriculars
to
75
kids,
you
have
to
wind
up
with
a
bunch
of
unicorn
School
teachers
and
I.
H
Think
the
averages
I've
seen
for
dual
certification
range
from
seven
to
ten
percent
of
teachers
are
dual
certified.
So
it's
very
difficult
to
find
the
teachers
that
can
cover
that
kind
of
ground,
and
so,
if
you
can
get
150
or
200
students
and
secondary
students
into
a
K-8
in
grade
six
through
eight,
you
can
do
a
little
bit
better
and
maybe
even
wind
up
with
two
Academic
Teams,
but
I.
H
Think
the
only
constraint
to
K-8
as
a
structural
solution
to
school
efficiency
is
the
size
of
the
secondary
faculty
and
being
able
to
cover
content
plus
electives
with
a
small
group
of
professionals
other
than
that
I've
seen
K-8
be
fairly
effective
in
being
a
tool.
It's
just
that
during
the
since
we
spoke
a
lot
of
the
ones
that
I've
seen
created
are
single
section
k-8s
and
they
have
a
lot
of
Staffing
subsidy
in
order
to
deliver
Core,
Curriculum
and
electives
to
the
secondary
age.
Kids,
the
sixth,
seventh
and
8th
graders
foreign.
C
Higgins
joined
us
at
about
4
20.
He
had
his
hand
up.
B
That's
a
little
better
I
I
appreciate
the
data
when
trying
to
look
at
this
sort
of
thing
and
when,
as
I'm
looking
through
it
I
look
at
the
source
of
data
and
how
that's
coming
out,
and
some
of
it
was
a
little
bit
surprising,
the
number
of
districts
without
the
middle
school
or
not.
But
then
I
looked
at
the
list
that
were
being
used.
Lake
Washington,
that's
an
unusual
to
me.
Why
select
that
one
I
went
and
I
started.
H
I
was
selecting
them
just
based
on
size
that
I
was
trying
to
get
four
comparables
for
Washington
State,
so
those
were
the
four
biggest
Tacoma
Spokane
Seattle
Lake
Washington
and
I
work
for
Bellevue
School
District,
but
we've
only
got
19
000
students,
so
I
was
trying
to
get
up
into
the
size
range
of
Anchorage,
School,
District
and
I.
Think
Lake
Washington
has
33
000
students,
or
at
least
they
did
as
of
the
data
vintage,
where
I
had
data
for
everybody
from
their
State
Association,
so
I
was
trying
to
get
the
four
biggest
districts.
B
That's
Council
of
great
City
Schools,
like
Washington
according
to
this,
was
15
000
when
I
pulled
it
up,
but
maybe
I
just
didn't
see
the
figure
right
but,
like
I
said
I
would
be
looking
at
the
Council
of
great
City
Schools
a
little
bit
if
you're
looking
for
comparable
size,
and
that
was
a
little
bit
I
I
just
I'm
sure
we
could
probably
Identify
some
in
that
group
that
have
middle
schools
and
that's
an
issue
I'm
looking
not
so
much
on
what
everybody
else
is
doing,
and
that's
not
the
big
issue
to
me.
B
The
big
issue
is
what's
going
to
have:
what's
what
selections
we're
going
to
make
is
going
to
have
the
least
impact
academically
on
our
kids
at
a
time
when
we
need
to
improve
it
and
that's
going
to
be
the
driving
force,
not
a
not
a
I
can
find
how
many
places
don't
have
it.
So,
therefore
we
don't
need
to
do
with
it.
I've
seen
the
studies
in
the
90s
in
2000s
on
Middle
School,
it
was
pretty
positive
on
retention,
Dropout
rates
and
and
some
of
the
other
issues,
that's
my
concern.
Thank
you.
C
Thank
you,
member
Higgins
member
Wilson,.
J
I'd
have
two
I'm
sure
they're
fairly
simple
questions.
What
is
there
a
cost
to
the
district
with
the
sports
that
we
Outsource
I?
Wasn't
there
on
that.
I
A
Is
not
currently
a
cost
associated
with
the
sports
that
we
Outsource?
Those
agencies
have
picked
up
the
the
management
and
the
expense
of
those
when
we
Outsource
girls
hockey
the
Scotty
Gomez
Foundation
that
stepped
forward
to
pick
that
up,
there
was
I
believe
an
agreement
where
we
did
some
cost
sharing
for
the
first
couple
of
years
until
they
could
kind
of
examine
the
viability
of
what
how
expensive
was
it
to
operate?
Could
they
find
sponsorship
and
other
funding
streams
that
would
help
support
it.
J
A
A
C
Okay,
we
are
almost
at
time
overtime
actually,
but
I
saw
a
member
lessons
hand.
K
We
spoke
a
little
bit
about
English,
we
Dr
shock
spoke
a
little
bit
about
insurance
and
they
need
to
Mr.
Anderson
is
insurance
and
I'm
thinking,
specifically
with
respect
to
brain
trauma
or
traumatic.
Brain
injury
is
that
factored
into
the
costs
of
our
athletic
sort
of
expenditures
or
insurance
is
its
own
thing
regardless
of
I'm.
Trying
to
ask
here
is:
is
the
cost
of
insuring
students
against
traumatic,
brain
injury
featured
or
factored
into
these
figures,
or
is
that
its
own
separate
thing.
G
We
we
do
all
of
that,
we
insure
the
district.
So
it's
it's
the
traumatic
brain
injuries,
sexual
trauma
and
school
violence.
Those
are
the
three
things
that
Nationwide,
regardless
of
whether
ASD
has
had
a
lot
of
incidents
or
not
that
they
spread
the
increased
cost
of
insurance
to
all
districts.
G
Obviously,
there's
travel
insurance,
there's
other
things
that
go
along
with
with
transporting
students,
but
but
as
far
as
District
liability,
it's
not
broken
out
from
Sports.
It's
just
personal
injury
and
liability,
foreign.
K
H
C
Thank
you
so
I'd
like
to
thank
the
staff
and
also
Mr
Bingham.
You
gave
us
a
lot
of
thoughtful
information
and
you
really
do
know
how
schools
operate.
I
appreciate
that
I
recognize
that.
So
thank
you.
Thank
you
and
I'd
also
like
to
thank
the
staff
for
preparing
everything
for
us
today.
C
I
Been
a
president
I
moved
to
enter
executive
session
for
the
purpose
of
contracts,
legal
updates
and
Personnel.
I
C
Yeah
moved
is
moved
in
second
to
go
into
our
executive
session
for
legal
contracts.
Personnel
matters
is
there
any
opposition
to
the
motion
saying
hearing
none,
we
are
moving
into
executive
session.
Thank
you.