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Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, the September 25th 2019 meeting of the Anne Arundel County Board of Education, will come to order. Please stand for tonight's invocation, followed by the pledge to the flag, Oh.

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God we pray to administer that which is just in all educational policies. Being ever mindful of your guidance, Star us to action with love, wisdom and understanding.

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Welcome to this meeting of the Board of Education, this meeting is being televised, live on a ACPs, TV and live streamed on the Internet general information and protocols for the meeting are posted on the sign at the doorway. As you enter the room. So please make sure you read those if you have not already before we begin tonight. The board would like to welcome Boy Scout Troop, one from Severn Maryland to tonight's board meeting. They are here tonight working toward their achievement of the citizenship in the community and communications merit badges.

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So as an Eagle Scout I just want to say welcome to all of you.

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Item 2.03 is approval of the minutes. Is there a motion to approve the minutes.

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Got a motion in a second: are there any changes or discussion with regard to the minutes, seeing none all those in favor say: aye, oh no, the eyes have it. Thank you at this time. Item 2.04 is establish agenda order, miss Alvey, I, move.

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That the board consider item 7.02 immediately following public comment and that is biased, behavior and language policy code Jo. We.

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Have a motion: is there a second second there's a motion in a second discussion on that motion, see none all in favor, say: aye opposed no the ice. The ice Abbott at this time would any board member like to make any other changes to the agenda. Any other changes seeing none. The agenda will stand as revised item two point: zero five is recognitions and there are no formal recognitions tonight. Item 2.0, six is school and community highlights any board. Members wishing to share any school and community highlights seeing none item. 2.07.

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Is the policy committee update, mrs. Quirke Adal.

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Thank You president Gilliland, the board's policy committee met today, September 25th 2019 at 4 p.m. in the boardroom and I want to thank those who were in attendance. In addition to those who participated, and in summary, we have recommended that the review of policy G C and the policy of JP, which is employee, leave as well as student, sexual harassment and misconduct, be forwarded for board consideration with minor edits and in addition to that, we also reviewed policy.

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G C RA, a annual personal business leave, G C RA be sick, leave, G, C, RA, q, sick and safe leave for permanent and temporary employees, as well as KD RA visitors to the schools. We made minor recommendations and that is been moving along the board.

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The board policy committees schedule is, has been finalized and will be available on the website, and our next meeting is going to be I believe October, the 23rd. Is it the the one our our second meeting of Wednesday? Yes, ok, thank you at 4 p.m. and, once again, the public members are welcome to attend. This is an open meeting. However, we do not entertain public testimony during those meetings, but always appreciate extra eyes to that, and we will be continuing to move forward with the rest of our fall policy committee mmm on schedule.

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Thank you, sir.

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Thank you, mrs. Quirke Adele, any board questions or comments on the public on the policy committee update, Singh Nam will now move to item 2.08, Budget Committee update and will turn out to mrs. Ellis. Thank.

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You I have no update this evening. We did not meet this month, but we will be meeting for our October meeting and that too is open to the public, also no public input, but welcome to attend and observe so I'll update next month. Awesome.

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Thank you, mrs. Ellis item. 2.09 is the crash report.

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Good evening president Gilliland vice president Corps Cadell members of the board and dr. Earl Otto, my name is pretty cherry and I'm the cross secretary of education. At last week's meeting, we discussed the addition of new executive positions to our board. Some of our ideas include a marketing director and environmental liaison regional representatives and a secretary.

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Once the additional positions are created, we will amend the cross Constitution and ratify the changes and at the General Assemblies in the fall regarding the article published in the Capitol Gazette on September 5th about me at high school crass cos saddened and appalled by the way need was portrayed and we appreciate the efforts by members of the board and residents in need in the Meade community to attempt to repair the disparaging media coverage.

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As previously mentioned, we are scheduling, meetings around the county to increase accessibility for students, I'm pleased to announce that we will be holding our first off-site meeting on October, 2nd at Old Mill high school. A November meeting is scheduled at Savannah Park, High School and the December meeting will be at Glen Burnie High School on Friday September, 13th middle school coordinator, Brenton Meade represented the middle school voice and crafts.

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At the first meeting of the mental health task force, the task force is ice, identifying contributing factors to the mental health crisis in our county and Brenton established relationships with other members of the force. He is also restructuring the middle school Council, a subcommittee in crass, so that all schools that serve middle school students, including charter and contract schools, are represented and have access to crafts.

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Regardless of attendance at meetings, the middle school council has been busy communicating with students using Google classroom and connecting with middle school advisors on Saturday September, 14th, President, Connor, Quran, educational liaison. Caroline finn, and I had the opportunity to attend a masque student workshop presenter certification, training at thomas stone, high school. During the training we learned how to be an engaging presenter organization planning and the importance of respecting diversity. After a full day of training. The three of us are now officially certified to lead mask workshops at Fall.

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Conference legislative session and spring convention for the 2019 or 2020 school year, Kraske is challenging students to increase attendance at our Wednesday night meetings by implementing the cross cup schools with the highest representation, each marking period will be awarded the cross cup trophy to display for the upcoming quarter. We are excited at the many new students we have met and are hopeful that our off-site meetings and some friendly school competition will continue to increase participation. Thank you and I appreciate the time to give you an update about what's happening in crafts.

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Thank you so much for that update and I just also want to acknowledge Connor Curran who's in the audience. Noise. Crass president, thank you for being here. I love. The wave item. 2.10 is the PTA report. Miss Rivera, welcome.

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Good evening board members could evening.

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A lot of good evening, president Gillen, my name is Vanessa Rivera I am the Anne Arundel County Council PTA president I just wanted to provide you all with an update. Since the last time I was here, we have been very busy and during the summer conducting financial reviews for our local PTAs. In the early summer months, we've partnered with Maryland PTA and conducted a summer leadership financial workshop for new PTA officers that had the Carver Center. We currently have 92 active PTA units and are continuing to expand in our current schools.

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At the council level, we work with our local units on issues of compliance, financial reviews and even conflict resolution. We are happy to announce that PTA has been very fortunate to partake in many task force across pay a CPAs schools, most recently participating in the mental health task force. That came together for the first time a couple weeks ago. It was so exciting to see over 70 people from various backgrounds cooperating on working on ways to explore it to address mental illness in our county.

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With that I'm excited to announce that Anne Arundel County Council's, a PTA, was a recipient of the portion of the 18 point, 8 million in Awards announced for fiscal 2020 as part of the state mandated local program. This is an incredible collaboration between County school systems, a neuronal County, Council PTAs and our local development council with life. These funds will go to support the implementation of trauma, sensitive Schools Initiative in the meet cluster schools.

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We will also be holding our general membership meeting on Monday October 14th at 5:30 here at the board. Dr. Mann will bring lots of information on the current happenings in our schools. In conjunction with this meeting we will are, we will be hosting our reflections training for the schools. The theme for this year is look within reflection, encourages students to explore talents and express themselves for the arts. The categories for reflections are dance, choreography, film production, literature, musical competition, composition, photography and visual arts.

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Thank you for giving me the opportunity to come up here and give you an update.

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Thank you so much and as always, thank you for all that you do for the school system. Miss antwine. Thank.

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You miss Rivera. Thank you for the report. Could you please repeat the award that you all received? Please.

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Yes, we partnered with dr. Mittman and with the county school systems, and that was east and mandated funds with the casinos, and so it was awarded 300,000. But it's for the mead cluster systems. So the schools in that area will receive funds for to provide professional development also for classroom furnishings and the schools would be awarded that money that would be implemented to provide that.

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Wonderful, so it would be, it would be split equally amongst each of the theaters schools with the meet yes, Oh. Wonderful. Thank you very much.

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Thank you later this evening the board will be voting on the superintendent's recommended fiscal year, 2021 capital budget six year plan and state capital improvement plan which I will abbreviate when we get to that point later. But before doing so, we're now going to turn to the public hearing on the superintendent's recommended 2021, CIP and capital budget. This is a public hearing on the superintendent's recommended 21 FY 21 capital budget I have the sheet with names of those who have signed up to testify and each speaker will be allotted three minutes.

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Speakers who require an interpreter will be allowed extra time. I would ask their groups of point a spokesperson to deliver testimony with other members standing when that testimony is given I know. We only have one person on here so I'm going to skip the rest of what they've asked me to read, but copies of comments are welcome.

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I was supposed to acknowledge the line of people and, and certainly we have one person scheduled, but if there are other people after Miss brianza, who would like to speak they're welcome to come forward at this time, but you're you're up.

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Evening, doctor lotto president Gilliland members of the board, I, have to say I think this is a first for me to ever be speaking in a budget hearing of any kind and be the only person talking.

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My name is Jennifer Brianza and I represent the fund old middle school construction group, I'm sure by now. Those of you that have been around for a while are probably real. Tired of hearing me speak I apologize in advance. If some of my comments are a bit redundant, but the old male complex master plan is a critical undertaking, that's worth repeating more than once. I want to begin by thanking dr.

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our motto for the old middle school, south feasibility funded funding included in his proposed fiscal year 21 budget last year, the board and the County Council made great strides toward beginning the master plan, with the design funding for Old Mill High, School West, and the feasibility studies for quarter field and rippling woods.

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Elementary schools I can't emphasize enough how excited we are to finally see this project moving forward and the continued funding for these schools, along with the funding for Old Mill middle South under the proposed budget, is another great leap forward for the master plan. As you all have heard me say at nauseam the Old Mill area, schools are the last remaining priority from the 2006 MGT study, and the funding included in this proposed budget brings us one step closer to the light.

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At the end of this now 13 year journey the schools in the old mill area showcase some of the best and brightest internal County has to offer. We have three stem programs in the complex I mean three magnet programs in the complex stem at Old, Mill, middle South and the IB programs at middle north and the high school, not to mention we are the hub of Career and Technology education for North County.

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These schools deserve our continued focus and support, which is why the fund Old Mill School, Construction Group, is going to keep coming out here and keep emphasizing how critical it will be to keep this funding on track in future years. It's worth repeating and I apologize if it gets old, but it needs to be said over and over until it's done again. We thank dr. a lot--oh for the funding in the budget and we look forward to seeing the old metal complex master plan continue to move forward. Thank you.

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Thank you, miss Branson. We are never tired of hearing from you. Thank you so much any other public testimony on the FY 21 CIP and capital budget. Seeing none will now move to a very special presentation: item 4.01 meade high school, we'll invite forward the two deputy superintendents welcome tonight.

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Good evening, president Gilliland vice president Corchado members of the Board of Education and dr. are a lotta for the record I'm Monique Jackson, deputy superintendent for student and school support and I'm joined this evening by dr. maureen, mcmahon, deputy superintendent for academic and strategic initiatives, as requested by the board. At its last meeting, we are providing an update about the opportunities and supports that exist for students that meet high school, as well as the challenges that need to be addressed. During the last board meeting, there was a request for the 2018-2019 arrest data.

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We have requested this information from Anne Arundel, County police and we'll make that information available to you once we receive it. The me discipline data for the same time period, 2018 2019 school year, indicates that over half of the 900, which is 432 office referrals at Meade high school, were generated by ninth graders. We see the number of office referrals dropped to 92, which is 9.6 percent for the senior class, as students become more acclimated to high school and build relationships among peers, they are less likely to receive an office referral.

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In fact, in each of the last two school years, more than 90 percent of the Meade high school students received one or less office referrals and included in that number is the more than eighty percent of the total population that received zero office referrals of the referrals last year. Twenty seven thirty seven percent, which is 337, were for insubordination or disrespect.

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Thirty percent of the referrals are two hundred and sixty eight were for tardiness, truancy or leaving class or school without permission and 20 percent or 177 were for physical or verbal altercations and five percent, which equates to 44 were for either weapons, drugs or theft.

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We use data points such as these to provide sport support to every school, but to meet in particular. As dr. Otto mentioned, the key to school success is relationship building. This is critical at Mead, High School, where structures, culture and leadership support, building relationships.

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The aunt Ayano County, Public, Schools, executive, Oversight, Committee or EOC under the direction of the office of equity and accelerated student achievement has provided support to me through a very structured process where data is reviewed and strategies for success are embedded and monitored through their school improvement process.

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Over the past three years, Mead has been one of only a handful of schools that are part of this AOC process to assist with elevating all students, eliminating all gaps and providing opportunities for all students. Some of these supports include restorative practices and a focus on 9th grade achievement through a special 9th grade academy.

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The United Way provides professional development for staff that includes therapeutic breaks, focusing on 9th grade students and their teachers, staffing to support the behavioral and academic programs such as the counseling team to SROs, multiple student advocates and new community ambassador, and a partnership with villamaria have been added to the ongoing support for all of our students at need. The supports and successes of mead high school also permeate into the academic program. Dr. McMahon will give an overview of the academic successes at Mead, so.

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As we know, we do our best learning when we're physically cognitively and emotionally engaged. All students need to find their learning niche a place where they find their passion a place where they find the place to feel at home a place where they can fully engage made. Hi students are very fortunate and that they have many many unique learning communities within their high school from which to choose a home.

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So first, it's important to remember that Mead High is an International Baccalaureate, World School, part of the network of IB schools and a ace pS that makes up the largest contingent of IB schools in all of the Americas all students. It means hi, are IB students through 10th grade a hundred slots per grade level are available for IB Diploma students in the eleventh and twelfth grade. These students are open to me, North County, Arundel and Glen Burnie cluster students, because Mead IB Diploma program is a magnet program.

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This program offers students critical thinking, rigorous coursework, service-learning international travel and opens doors to college credits and college programming worldwide. In 2019, a hundred percent of IB Diploma students at Meade were accepted into four-year universities and all ended up studying at either two-year or four-year schools. These meet Ivy graduates at n places such as the University Maryland, Baylor, NYU, Drexel, Towson, Salisbury, WV. U and Georgia Tech, just to name a few now made students interested in engineering. They can enroll in the nationally recognized Project Lead, the Way pre-college engineering program.

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A hundred and ninety one need high school students are enrolled in this suite of engineering courses. This year the PLTW program engages students in planning and designing and prototyping computer-based in full-scale authentic environments. The program opens doors to renowned engineering college programs nationwide for those students who are drawn to military service. Mede offers army JROTC a hundred and sixty students have made their home in Meads JROTC community. That's a 31 percent increase over last year.

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Importantly, some meet high graduates annually choose to enter one of the military service branches or the military service academies after graduating, high school, their interest and passion to serve our country translates into their career choice of military service.

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Now, Meads homeland security signature program, a program open to all meade students, provides events, clubs, high school and college courses, job shadows, mentorships internships, all related to homeland security career, and it provides them to over 250 Mead students meets homeland security. Signature program is led by a large community-based team of government and industry professionals from the greater meat area across the Baltimore Washington corridor.

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Regular visitors to meet include those who come to serve on the integrated community stakeholder team that runs the signature program or simply to join the school to speak with classes, host clubs or host events.

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These visitors include professionals from the NSA US Cyber Command, DISA, DHS, CIA, FBI, F SIA, the US Army Lockheed Martin Northrop Grumman, Booz, Allen, leidos, l3, LG, Tech and I could list many many many more most recently one of our strongest partners, the Fort Meade alliance, an organization with over 200 member organizations dedicated to serving the people and businesses are on and surrounding Fort George Meade.

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They worked with us to submit a proposal to the local development council to build and implement a cyber center and virtual cyber range inside Meade hi. The 381 thousand dollar grant was indeed funded and the work has begun its beginning with a five-fold expansion of computer science course sections that meet hi during this school year. Not only the signature provide a learning community for hundreds of mid students. Many of these same students call Anne Arundel, Community College home, while they're still in high school.

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Tens of neat students earned for 15 to 40 college credits toward their homeland security college degree at AACC, while studying at Meade high last year, and many more will do the same this year. And then we have a rabid program advancement via individual determination, one of the most successful student support programs across all of a a CPS avid targets, students in the academic middle.

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But the program strategies are offered to school-wide to all meet students, as well as a full avid cohort immersion program serving 265 comitted Meade High avid students avid students learn how to study how to communicate how to plan for their future. They visit colleges and career fairs, seek guidance from tutors and career professionals and learn how to advocate for themselves personally and professionally. In 20, 1963 avid Mead seniors sought college admission and were offered over 6.5 million dollars in college.

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Scholarships avid has truly provided thousands of Mead students, a caring, yet very challenging rewarding learning community for over a decade. Finally, we all know that students don't live and thrive on academics alone, it's important for us to nurture well-rounded students at Mead. This translates into presenting students a diet rich with clubs and sports organizations, competitions and internships to complement the suite of strong academic offerings through our AEC PS operating budget. In concert with over a million dollars of Department of Defense competitive grant funds, we offer hundreds of Mead students opportunities to play.

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Three seasons of sports participate in competitions such as History Day, Science, Fair, CyberPatriot play and sing in our bands, and our courses learn and engage in stem, and cyber clubs and events travel to museums, attend professional conferences and meet with hundreds of community professionals annually. It really really is this intricate system of academic and co-curricular offerings and supports, and the amazing educators and community-based professionals who commit to offering these opportunities to our students that make mid-high an amazing place, simply hashtag a ACPs awesome school to call home.

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Thriving school with opportunities for all students, one of my favorite areas of Meade high school, is the media center in the media center. There are flags representing the national heritage of the students at Meade high school. This is a visual representation of what we all know to be true, that, although there are challenges at meet high school, a diverse student body, community support focus leadership and strong teaching and learning also thrive there. Thank you for the opportunity and we are open to any questions.

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You miss Jackson and dr. McMahon for a very good presentation and I know something that was just requested two weeks ago and you've gathered a lot of data and I think taught a a great story about a great school. We've got a couple of board questions and comments. Miss antwine.

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Thank You president Gulen I want to thank you, dr. Dalton, dr. Amato I, want to thank you, miss Jackson and dr. Eggman for this presentation. The requests a couple of weeks ago was to address the superlative article that talked to arrest and citation of our students across the county, and specifically, it mean high school I. Appreciate that you all brought up the security concerns there. You brought up the curriculum there. You brought up our commitment to the students and to the community at meet high school. This was very comprehensive and very appreciated.

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My question then, would be about what you shared earlier: miss Jackson about reaching out to the police for the Wreckers. Did they share a time frame when they'll get that back to us? Please no ma'am! They do not okay, so I guess. My next question would be then. If, when do those stats normally come back to us when one of those types of stats shared with us, I.

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Answer that, because this was the first time, the article was the first time that I became aware of those particular stats. Okay,.

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I guess my disconnect is that they there are their records at this. That are, there are arrests and citations that are occurring at the school and we have the dependents of the police to give it to us, but no no means incite to receive. So if we could at our next departmental reports, if you don't have it, could you let us know, and if you do, if you could share that with the board, please absolutely thank you so much yes, ma'am.

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Okay, thank you. Miss antwine, mrs. Ellis. Thank.

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You and thank you for a wonderful story because I've been to meet several times now and it is beautiful story there. My question the the thing that struck me very early on was: you talked about over half of office. Referrals are for freshmen, yes,.

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Of course, we know the challenges with that age at that time in life, but and I'm sure we're doing all kinds of wonderful things, you're already aware of that. But can you share for us what we're doing to reach our middle school students to help them into that transition?

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And then, secondly, I've been hearing reading a lot I learned at the at the conference for the National Boards of Education I, sat in on a wonderful session of a pretty challenged community that has home visits for their students in the summer and helps them transition into the school year. So that's two questions. If you could speak to the home visits idea or what might be happening, but also, what are we doing to reach our middle school students to help them? Let.

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Me start with you a second question for us: we absolutely implement home visits if there's a school who's who does it on a regular basis, it would be meet high school and several of our high schools. Our middle schools. I, cannot speak to the number of homes. I know that sometimes it's targeted I can't speak to the number or their process, but I do know that we're well aware of that research.

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That's been out for a while and and I can even speak to when I was a principal at Annapolis middle school about nine ten years ago, nine eight nine years ago, that that was something that we were even doing in the community based upon some of our high school partners and to speak to your first question, which was I forgot all right, I'm.

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Sorry reaching those middle school students- oh absolutely.

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Those really difficult absolutely.

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That's a really great question and we know that transition years 56 as well as six to I mean a 8th to 9th, are very difficult, especially when you are essentially taking two schools and bringing them together into one.

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You know what we call high school principals are essentially mayors of small cities and so what we implemented several years ago, even before my time as deputy superintendent, we implemented what we a tracking system in which we don't have a name other than our early warning systems in which we triangulate data for attendance referrals, and we try to create a list of students who may need extra attention. We provide mentor support for them.

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We make sure that sometimes, when we can, we do some compassionate scheduling for them as well, and then we make sure that we do if there are, as you mentioned a little bit earlier, some homeschool connections that we can make early on. We absolutely do so those you know.

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It's amazing to see principals I've been to every high school and I've, seen principals with their little clipboard walking around and when they do their walkthroughs, they are checking on those students as far up as the principal our professional school counselors as well they're checking on them to make sure that they have what they need. Sometimes it's school readiness, sometimes it's something that has occurred that got them off track in eighth grade, but amazingly, they turn around in ninth grade.

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So I absolutely appreciate those questions and we absolutely do those things to assist both our turn. Eighth graders, as well as our transitioning fifth graders into sixth grade, because as a middle school principal I can tell you again when you bring two or more schools together, they are eager to get to know each other, and sometimes it's not in a positive way.

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Just real quick back to the home visits.

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This one particular district that that I was really impressed by they. They have the it's a day in the summer. That's a community day and it's those teachers are in throughout the community and in it's a big celebration. They have like lemonade, stands and stuff like that, but they're making those connections, in other words they're, not singling out students who are necessarily identified as as needing more support but they're just reaching all those students and making those personal connections before they come to the classroom. Absolutely.

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I'm sure that you've, seen in the paper, for example, I, remember the front page of the Capitol I guess several months ago they focused on Mills parol, elementary school and they're a community event where the teachers weren't there I know that again, it's very easy to go places where their community centers and so many of our schools work with community centers apartment buildings. Things of that nature to do that, but I think you're, absolutely right going in the community and for all of the students to see you know they pass out popsicles.

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We have principles that go into the community. They pass out popsicles at the local pools and they talk with students. It's especially important, if there's a new administration so that they can get to know the administrator before the first day of school. So absolutely thank you.

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Thanks so much.

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Would you do me a favor, because I think mrs. Ellis really was hitting on something important there regarding the preparation through middle school, to get ready for high school? Would you talk a little bit miss Jackson about the middle school advisory program and that how we're using that to launch students into high school absolutely.

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So middle-school advisory is a essentially a small group of students that meet with a caring teacher wants to twice a week to prepare for whatever. So sometimes it's preparing for test taking skills. Sometimes it's you know how to reduce anxiety during advisory. Sometimes we talk about how to get along with others. Sometimes the personality inventory is taken, but right before high school, we do try to focus on those skills that we need for high school.

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For example, you know the balancing of the a day or B day schedule how to you know, for sometimes our students for the first time they are introduced to the world of sports and so extracurricular activities. Sometimes the the counselors from the high school also come down and chat with the students as well to talk to them about what's needed.

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um One of the things where possible is on the first day of school to help that transition I know we did this at Annapolis, middle school, you'll, see and I'll use, Annapolis, High School, for example, the eighth grade teachers from Annapolis and I'm, not for sure about Bates, but I, know Annapolis middle school greet the students on the first day to reduce anxiety and they're, frequently there for them throughout.

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So we really do try to focus on that transition from the transitions, because we know- and we also know a lot about the adolescent brain- and we know that during that time our students are making impulsive decisions, as you can see with that, but as they grow and immature and they become part of their community they're very proud of their communities. No matter what high school, our students attend, they're, very proud, and so they become part of that community and it becomes their family. They found their.

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You know we like to say we found that they find their people so whether it's the theater people or its band or its sports by the time they're really sophomores to juniors. They have found that that group that they associate with and can grow and learn.

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And we've you take advantage of that time. Between, as there are rising ninth grader between eighth and ninth grade for camps, we call them camps. Some are more academic, someone more co-curricular, but the idea is they come from. Macarthur I may come from Mead, and that is the first mixing that they do and whether it's they're studying a language like Arabic or they're in the CyberPatriot Junior Club, whatever it is, they learn they have icebreakers and they learn to get along and work in teams during those summer activities and.

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Thank you, dr. McMahon. That brings up another good part about the. We also have ambassadors and so typically they're upperclassmen that reflect the community of the eighth graders. So sometimes there are the athletes, sometimes again they belong to different clubs and organizations. Sometimes there are students that are aligned with a particular program of study. You know maybe their signature students or what have you, but so that they can ask questions because they don't want to ask adults questions. They would rather ask their peers questions, and so, but as I say frequently, is it perfect?

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Do we continue to research and and find best practices across the nation absolutely and at the same time, because something works in another part of the nation doesn't necessarily mean it's going to work here in Anne, Arundel, County or questioned, or because it works here in Anne, Arundel County doesn't necessarily for one school doesn't necessarily mean it's a secure fit for every other school, so we do a really good job I'm. In my opinion, of trying to meet the individual needs and interest of our students, especially in those transition years. Thank.

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Thank you. We have one more board, question or comment and that's for mr. granite.

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This is just gonna, be a quick, two-part question. Thank you very much for that presentation. Very, very informative, miss Jackson are you available if, if asked by anybody from the Capitol to sit down and be interviewed and provide details and further meat on the bones to everything that you were addressing tonight, sir.

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I would absolutely work with our team to provide as many details as I possibly could.

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Okay, dr. Mann, are you available for the same type of interview by.

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Can we make sure both of those answers are reflected in tonight's minutes? Thank.

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Absolutely thank you, mr. granite, we're any further board questions or comments at this point from the board seeing none. There may be some summary comments as we move to public testimony before we do that. I want to first acknowledge Fort main installation commanders here tonight. Colonel Eric, Sprague you're here with your life I just want to say thank you for your service to the country.

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At this point, we'll move forward with public comment: we've got five cards for people, who've signed up in advance, and certainly we've got six seats here. So if there's someone else that wants to join, they certainly can as well and then we'll have an open call for others that may wish to speak. We'll start with colonel Sprague, Sarah bow nice Marla level, Reverend, Samuel, Williams and Claudia barber.

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Evening, okay, okay, sorry I'll be speaking me good evening, president Gilliland vice president Corps kadal superintendent, dr. Elanna and board members, I'm, Sarah, Bernice and I am the school liaison for Fort Meade. Basically, our support military families in schools here in Maryland, especially in Anne Arundel County I, come to every board meeting just about recent press about meet.

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Hi has heard our hearts and communities as we and recently, as we have all noticed, the youth of the world are leading the way speaking their minds and asking questions so I'm able to share with you parts of letters written by young, meet hi alumni. I. Think you have copies copies. Are the letters?

Q

Okay, okay and I'm pleased to present this so the first letter, dear Anne, Arundel County, Board members, my name is Cameron Forman I'm, an alumni of meet senior high I work in the department of pharmaceuticals in Columbia Maryland, and would like to speak on a positive life on behalf of my alma mater. There has always been a negative limelight with the standing of meade high school meet high is provided a setting to prepare young teenagers for their future. Endeavors meet high, also offered a variety of different role.

Q

Models that helped shape me into the person I am today throughout my four years at meet high administrators were very adamant about strengthening not only my wisdom and life skills for life after school, but for all the students informing us about knowledge and how to avoid the wrongdoings that we may have done to minimize our mistakes, for the next situation, coming in to me have been identified as a trouble child insubordinate child doomed for failure.

Q

The very type of student named in this article, but with the constant persistence of teachers, administrators and coaches I graduated on time in 2014. The first letters from Cameron I would not change anything from my journey at Meade high school, the struggles, my naive actions, even my disciplinary consequences, all led me to make positive, powerful people that I would not expect to still have an impact on my life today.

Q

To conclude, meet high is not a negative school. There is nothing that occurs at meet high. That does not occur in any other and around the county school, but the limelight has not shined upon those specific schools just made.

Q

Let's unify and direct the energy to strengthen the already strong and Arundel County Public Schools, and you have the other two letters. I ran out of time.

A

Ok, those those copies and thank you for your testimony tonight sure.

R

Nice to meet, or we meet some of you as I've, been it all. The science fairs, PTA events asking for a new school for Jessup. Thank you very much. I.

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R

Had this beautiful world, what I thought was beautiful thing written in my car on the way in here, but I believe? Is it dr. McMahon? She covered almost everything so I'm, just gonna read through it and hope. I get an echo of sentiments good evening. Members of the board, with a special knot, of course, to miss LV 4 training is a suit representative and fellow Mustang mom Miss Candis antwine. Thank you so much for for echoing and teaching us a lot about your son.

R

He is quite a gentleman had the luxury of meeting him I'm joining here this evening, along with other members of the meet cluster community, to reflect on experiences, opportunities and areas that benefit the focus, meet, senior high school or benefit from focus. I would like to begin with the fact that my son Danny chose to attend Meade and he has been in private public and magnet schools, specialized university camps and other courses in his 15 years of academia.

R

He had so much support from staff that worked at both MacArthur middle school in the high school that he was certain. This was the best choice.

R

He surprised me in his freshman year last year, by making a very mature choice to opt out of the North County stem Lottery, because he saw a huge opportunity at Meade. He meant teachers. He liked programs, he loved, including Chinese Homeland, Security, Project Lead, the Way and the theater arts, it's something that was close to his heart, because his father had done very similar programs. In fact, he worked on the lighting board in the meet high school theater 25 years prior I, believe that is still there.

R

It might be the one that actually worked for their last theater of production. I should mention. You know that he was not great on paper, but had a wonderful academic, history and I believe he was even accepted into MIT. After years of being rowdy and having issues, I came from Howard County, but I moved to Anne Arundel and dug into the volunteering with gusto, advocating for programs that teach kids to be self-reliant, solve their own challenges and know how to critically think through roadblocks and peer conflicts.

R

As excuse me, I just got a little nervous there as a bonus. It would also be great if they had a really fun time doing it and got to know each other. These were skills. We realized that even large numbers of adults haven't quite mastered. It's a great hope that if we teach them common-sense early, maybe they could teach us later, I'm sure we've all had co-workers that could benefit from that.

R

Danni now has really cool highly experienced mentors from the engineering department, the Homeland Security signature program that Chinese language instructors, community partners, the chair of the English department and some really fantastic gentlemen who teach history. They have passion an interesting current versus historical events and definitely work with the tenets of teaching history. So we don't repeat history. Meat is definitely.

R

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R

Thank you. um I had a couple of suggestions for the fact that we have programs that maybe the community at large isn't familiar with, and I could summarize, with homeland engineering, theater etc. Is that these programs are there? They have budgets they've been given fairly large grants as the doctor had mentioned. But what we're finding is that they're kind of going by the the quiet side they're not being enforced they're, not, for instance, my son when he went to schedule his classes this semester.

R

He wanted Chinese and engineering and a number of other honors courses, but he was told that it would conflict with his IB cohort classes. So there are other programs of study there that are gaining a lot of grants and a lot of work opportunities, but they be more focused and also with our theater department. We lost mr. Cooper ski and mr. I just got a little nervous and forgot his name, but the music director that left they were so instrumental in in just focusing kids on all these great things and I.

R

Guess what I'd like to say is: there's a lot more there than people even really know about, and I'm kind of surprised myself at how much I've really grown to love it and thank.

A

S

Good evening, I am the second vice president of the a knurled, a County chapter of the n-double a-c-p, testifying on behalf of Jackie Allsop and its membership. I come before the school board tonight to address implementing a zero-tolerance policy for students engaging in biased behavior against other students. In the wake of a September 13 2009 teen incident involving football players at Arundel high and Severna Park High School's.

S

It is time for the school board to re-examine effective consequences for students engaging in biased behavior, which incites school disturbances and amounts to harassment and a racially hostile school environment. During the September 13 2019 incident, a player reported that he was called a racial slur by a Severna Park High School football player. It is insufficient to send a letter home to parents. Why wasn't the victim believed? Where is the effort to implement consequences such as removing such players from the football team for two or more games and suspending players for the entire season?

S

Where are the consequences, such as suspension from certain school activities or expulsion from school? These actions could well fall with the consequences of the of a timeout and temporary removal from class as a first offense, but during the course of the year the Anne Arundel n-double-a-cp receives many complaints of similar allegations of racial slurs being made against students of color or nooses found on school property. What we don't see are concrete consequences for this behavior. The time is now to implement a zero-tolerance policy with more concrete's discipline as a deterrent to this behavior.

S

The n-double-a-cp condemns this behavior and refuses to accept the letter home to parents as the sole remedy. Without further action it could be coaches, it could be referees. They should be given the authority to implement game suspensions to students engaging in biased behavior, because it ultimately leads to school disturbances and other harassing misconduct. You read about in the newspaper when and when it's happens, no consequences that we can see parents witnessing such behaviors should remain diligent about reporting these incidents.

S

Under your existing and draft Student Code of Conduct, a biased, behavioral offense, may result in a referral to the CL program or some interventions. That is not enough because most biased behavior incidents and cite a school disturbance and amount to a racially hostile school environment. The numerous complaints the in anne arundel n-double-a-cp receives are evidence. This problem is not being deterred, we want to see statistics and, but, most importantly, we want to see concrete discipline implemented against offenders. Thank you right.

A

Great thank you for that, and just just for clarity. We are going to have a general public comment session momentarily. This is specific to the mead high school presentation. At this point, so Dr Dee Dhoni.

N

Just a companion right now, yeah.

A

Excellent, any other public testimony at this point on the mead high school presentation. Yes, sir.

T

Good evening I'm Reverend Samuel, Williams, jr. and I'm the program development director at Mount, Olive, Community, Development Corporation, and that is our nonprofit arm of Mount Olive African Methodist Episcopal Church. Now we all know that the African Methodist Episcopal Church has a long history of social justice battles and when I read the article in the Capitol, Gazette and I gave mrs. Antoine a call. Now what I told her is what I'll tell you three months ago? We saw these same statistics now. I can I feel for you, because the stats don't exist.

T

I, look and I'm a pretty good researcher. It's really hard to find anything, but what I did find is that across the board and other high schools, maybe even middle schools, it's the african-american or the Hispanic kids that are chopped are at the top of that chart. Now what we wanted to do once we saw that was to do a pre diversion program when we say pre diversion program. We don't want the kid. That's already that you already have diversion programs and that's for kids who may be going to court.

T

We want to do a pre diversion for the kid that's getting suspended for truancy or whatever. We want that kid, because, where there's smoke, there's fire, if they're going to do that, I can guarantee you'll, see them soon enough in another area, and so that's what we're kind of looking at now. I spoke to two diversion pre diversion program people, one in New York, one in Chicago. They said a lot of times community-based diversion programs work simply because it's not institutionalized, it's a little bit more comfortable and they will listen. So what are my love?

T

Cdc is looking at it. Maybe possibly a referral partnership. I'll go get the money, but if we have a referral partnership- and we can show you what we're trying to do and maybe even tailor it to work a little better for the school district, that's what we want, because those statistics really really bother us. Our minority students, as I said not that chart, and we want to try to arrest that. But we won't. We don't want them. We wanted to do it before they get to your diversion program stage. Thank you good to see. Thank.

A

M

Leave for the evening, you just chat briefly with with miss Pelham, who is our associate superintendent, who.

Q

Is this Jennifer.

M

Kim for Student Support Services, okay, I'd like to get your contact information, because if we can develop a partnership and you've got some folks that ready work with kids. Yes, we can help identify students get their parents involved and get you involved. That'd be great.

T

Sounds good lessons.

A

We're going to have some summary comments from board members momentarily, but is there any further public comment on the meet high school presentation? Any further public comments seen none. Okay, we'll turn to board members, mrs. Hummer I.

U

Just want to thank the staff and miss Bernice and the others who spoke and talked about all the great things that are happening at Mead. We definitely have concerns and things that we want to address, but I don't ever want those challenges to overshadow the great opportunities and great students and the lives that are being changed at meet high school every day.

U

So I appreciate all that coming out and as a proud mother of a Mustang I, look forward to my next four years, working closely with the school to celebrate their successes and help overcome their challenges. Thank.

A

You mrs. Hummer, mrs. Shah I.

L

First, wanted to think miss Jackson and dr. McMahon for the presentation. I thought it was fabulous, I, also loved hearing from the public. Testimony about all the wonderful things that me does I've only been to the campus a few times and I I love the steel drum concert every spring, I love hearing about the cybersecurity programs, I think it's all very fabulous and and and those are the things that need to be in the paper.

L

But if there is data out there somewhere or or evidence to support a an uptick in referrals, especially for our students of color versus other schools or other situations, then I'm I'm hopeful that that those sorts of things will be addressed as part of the fabulous initiative that was just announced between our county government and our school system to help close the achievement gap and to help rain and some of those numbers so that some are not disproportionate to say the Caucasian community. So.

L

Yeah and I also wanted to applaud that effort. I was at the announcement the other day and and I think that's going to be fabulous and I. Just I really applaud dr. lado and all the staff for for recognizing the problem and for for working towards the solution and and some of the things that come out of that could definitely benefit Meade and other high school communities and yeah I just look forward to their work and I'm grateful for the presentations and I. Thank you very much. Thank.

A

You mrs. Shaw I'm, miss antwine.

H

Mr. bell and Pastor Williams just sincerely want to thank both of you for your community efforts. I know how hard both of you work in our community, especially at Meade, high school and I. Thank you also for the information she brought it for our consideration. These are programs that are readily available to our students, but there may be opportunities that are not so available to them or even discourage them when they don't know about them, so that in itself is, is something that we can utilize promulgating this information, as you did tonight.

H

Thank you all for that, and also ensuring that whatever may be interfering with taking advantage of those opportunities is eliminated. So thank you.

A

Thank you, miss antwine, any further board questions or comments on the mead, highschool presentation. Seeing none again. Thank you. Dr. Earle, Otto, dr. McMahon, miss Jackson will now move to public comment again. General public comment at this point. Anyone wishing to speak on an item not on today's agenda may offer testimony during this public comment. Portion of the meeting. Speakers are allotted three minutes and may not allocate their time to others. A tone will sound. The tone will sound when time has expired.

A

The board asks that comments remain civil and appropriate for the various audiences that may be watching or viewing this meeting. Students specific and personnel matters are confidential cannot be discussed in this forum. It's not the board's general practice to engage in a question-and-answer session with speakers. For the record. Please give your name before speaking and handouts should be given to the board assistant. We've got a number of cards and I'll just do a the first group of five. If that's: okay, Holly Clyde ER line, Kenneth Starks Jennifer masters, Tracy, Brennan and Eliza Byrd.

V

Good evening president Gilliland dr. lottery and board members, my name is Holly clatter, Line and I am the school counselor for 717 students at Oak, Hill Elementary I'm here tonight to help you and the mental health task force move forward to the action stage, because we already have a lot of information about what the problem is and what the needs are. The AE CPS Division of alternative education, strategic plan from August of 2017, identified two issues for elementary schools.

V

One there are limited elementary supports or interventions to support the behavioral health of our earliest learners to an increase in concerning behavioral health challenges, impact a significant number of those learners ability to experience academic success. The ACPs pre-k to two social-emotional learning work group identified eight outcomes to address the increased social emotional needs of our youngest learners. The first outcome is to establish universal, targeted and intensive supports, and the second is to establish school-based behavior support teams to effectively prevent intervene and support students. The community health needs assessment of an Toronto County from 2019 revealed.

V

The number of newborns found positive for substances, including methadone and opioids, has risen 144 percent. Since 2014 think about how old those newborns are today and think about, who is helping to take care of them, there has been a 70% increase in residents seeking mental health services since 2012.

V

The two highest increases are the early childhood population and those over 65.

V

The first six months of 2018 had as many reported incidents of domestic violence as all of 2017 there's a comparative lack of private mental health providers in our County, the number of crisis interventions in the public school system for social and emotional issues has doubled since 2013, one of the identified needs was an increase in mental health and behavioral services for all childhood populations, but especially the zero to five age group. Given this information, which the school system and the board already had, I am bewildered by the fact that Oak Hill was 717.

V

Students, including seven kindergarten classes, still has one school counselor a point for school psychologist. No learning lab or behavioral support. It's rather terrifying to faint Oak. Hill was xx on the list of schools needing additional mental health personnel. A lot of progress was made in this budget area last year, but clearly it's not time yet to celebrate. Thank you.

A

Thank you before we move on I'm, mrs. Sean.

L

Hey thank you for your testimony and I truly hope that one day you won't have to come and beg for another counselor. I I have asked about this a few times, and it was my hope that, with the additional counselors that were budgeted for in place that they that you would that Oak Hill would be the beneficiary of one of those they were placed in other places that that, according to have had were higher on the list I.

L

This is on my radar. I I I desperately want to see some relief given to you and your caseload and I'm I am I'm. Gonna keep fighting for you, I.

V

Understand that I would be here if I had a second counselor to I would still be testifying for all the other counselors. No.

L

I I I, don't blame me for that either cuz, even if you had to you, still won't be near the near to the recommended ratio of 259. Thank you thank.

A

You thank thank you very much. Yes, ma'am.

W

My freshman year of high school I was at Glen Burnie and during that time, I was in a program called Kat north, where I got to do. As we all know, Kat North is a program where you can do different things like hands-on work, first stuff like making a pastry or a Cisco or one of my favorites such as well, um but unfortunately, I couldn't finish. Kat North, because I transitioned to a necklace high school I wasn't able to join Kats up at all.

W

But during my time there for the last year, actually I think well. I think that um we should encourage more students to join these separate programs such as Kepler or have more programs at the school, because a lot of students aren't really fit for a classroom environment. Some students don't really like sitting in a classroom for any six minutes and be honest, livid.

W

Someone prefer hands-on work morally, and there are a lot of students that are deciding such as myself so join trade school because they are more interested in that a lot of kids don't go on to college because they prefer that I think that we have more programs that encourage students to you know, join these programs or its have a head start in life, rather than a select few. They get to go to Kat, north or Kat. Some and I also believe that we should have more programs such as FBLA.

W

You know where they can learn more things to do in the future, like being a business leader or having a lot of other things, just being able to do more physical activity and have fun and find something that they love doing.

A

Thank you very much. Miss antwine a.

H

What an incredible testimony! Thank you for that I had a question for you, I.

H

Want you to know that you are speaking on behalf of thousands of students and your boldness is commendable. I also want to understand from you. You shared that you were removed from that North, because you transition to another high school can help us understand.

W

That please and.

W

I really don't have any information on why I couldn't join Kent South, but I was that cat 9 and their cats all over at Annapolis. But nobody ever talked to me about being able to join the water program again understood.

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W

Didn't really have much of a chance to finish it, but I do plan on saying I do plan on still doing welding in my future. So yes.

H

Ma'am, thank you very much and so on doctor a lot of life happens for our students, as she needs testified, but when they accepted to our magnet programs like Kat North, could they be considered for the other cat programs when they transfer to another school or do they have to start the process over? They.

M

Absolutely cancel I can't I can't speak to this young woman's specific circumstance which I'd like to learn more about, but the way it works in animal counties. We've got cat Noir from cat cats out, so seven schools and five schools go respectively to cat north or cat South in terms of high schools in transportation. So the fact that she went from one school that was that that served was served by cat North transferred to another school that served by cat south. She then automatically becomes eligible to go to cat South.

M

Now was it the same program? I, don't know, we'd have to I want to talk more with you and find out more about it, but she certainly has should have that opportunity why she was not afforded that opportunity. I can't that now, but it is. She certainly has that option to go anybody that transfers, but we wouldn't be able to transport a student from Annapolis high school up to Kat North. We wouldn't be able to do that.

M

That's the reason we have the transportation schedule set to serve seven schools to one and five schools to another.

W

Encourage students, because some students may have a lot of talent and a certain job and one of these programs that they don't even know about. There are a lot of students that walk the hallways because they feel some students don't like having to sit down for a long period of time. They just you know they prefer to have hands-on work and to do more. You know rather than because for me personally, it doesn't really it doesn't really fit. My interest I need something that consumes my time.

W

That keeps me busy, but it's also good to do and I think voting is one that I just think. We should have more programs for students like that, so that they can go on and do stuff like that and find a like or maybe stuff like FBLA at the school, so that they can be more connected to the school's. You know meet more people and be able to do something like that. If you love or fun, you know.

M

Because you're saying, what's better than I, say, there's no question about it right. You know, speaking from experience, getting your hands on it and doing it. There's so much better than sitting sitting and listening about it.

E

I, wouldn't involve me.

M

And I'll learn right: you can teach me Benjamin. Franklin had the same. We said you could teach me and I may learn, but if you involve me, I absolutely will learn. That's not the quote, but idea right, don't really crush. That quote, but you get the idea. I do want to share with you and- and you may not be aware of this right. So certainly the cat centers are limited right.

M

They are only so many classrooms and so many programs in each, and so we do have to limit the number in their wait list unless every program at kat, north and cats out and much of that limit is because of safety right. You can only have so many students in welding.

M

You can have so many students in small boat repair, because the teachers got to be responsible for the safety of the students, because they're handling tools and chemical, those kinds of things, but you won't know this, but I'll look around the audience at folks that are more. My age will remember when tech programs were in the schools and that's what you're talking about right used to go down the hallway. Yes, sir, just go down the hallway to your CTE program.

M

We didn't come CTE back then, but I'm gonna use our language used to go down the hallway and it was at the end of the school and you could go to automotive repair or you could go to write in education. The pendulum swung such that we started taking them out of schools because we came up with this sort of college only focus around the country and we moved CTE programs into these central locations and that's the reason we built the cat centers.

M

Now our cat centers are the best in the state, they're award-winning, and there are people from around the state and around the country to come, see our pet sets because they're run beautifully, but is that pendulum swings? And we know that we really need to engage students I'm going back to your initial comments in hands-on? That's if that's what your thing is. We want to give that to you right. We want to give you those opportunities that is, we are reconstructing and building high schools we're starting to build those programs back into the schools.

M

So it's only it's not just you can access at cat north, but now Phoenix has a culinary program and Northeast has a Q linaria program and Severna Park, and so we're and and they've got some database management and print and design, and so, as we are designing into our new schools, some of these were trying to build some of those CTE programs back into the schools. So we can expand the access right. We talked about opportunities, those are opportunities for students that we want to take advantage of.

M

We are really glad you were here: Thank You, mr. Shaw I,.

L

Actually, don't have a question anymore because doctor a lot, oh, you just answered it beautifully and I'm really happy to know that the pendulum swung is swinging back and that those things are going to be more available. There's the program's, maybe more available in our individual high schools, and not solely, and only at the ducat centers. However fabulous they are. So thank you for answering that and let.

M

Me also add to that from the public that that we're focusing, because we're not going to get every child in every program, and so we're also really focusing and spending a lot of time, dr. McMahon and her team on internships right. Here's another place where you can do your academics at the school and then get out of the building and go do an internship really and that's another place. You can get your hands on the work that you might want to do, and so we've got about 40% of our seniors.

M

Now that are finishing with some kind of internship we'd love to have a hundred percent leave school with some kind of experience, and sometimes that experience is not great but there's a lot. You can learn from doing something you don't like right. You say you know what I, don't you spend more time doing that I need to focus my efforts somewhere else? Thank you. Yes,.

A

X

Good evening my name is Jennifer masters and I'm here tonight to talk about a transportation issue that I've been having on August 12 I contacted the Transportation Department I'm. Sorry.

X

About an issue.

X

With my daughter, so she started middle school this year and she's going to just riding the bus this year for the first year, and my husband is the one who takes her to the is to take her to the bus, stop and he's a wheelchair user.

X

So we contacted the department transportation department to see if um how close the bus stop was and I was concerned, because our neighborhood has denied walks I just see if there was any and it's ever an instance where we could either move a stop to Harvard at the end of the bird room.

X

So he could see her from our house or if even they could pick up at the earth or a driveway and I was told that that that couldn't be done when the book that they had one stop, and it was two blocks away so I caught this, the bus schedules came out and I noticed that there was two stops on the same road two blocks away. So we have two bus stops in our neighborhood.

X

All on the same Road I contacted I found out that we have three sixth graders on our road but alone and I tried. It made another attempt to contact the transportation department to see if maybe one of the steps could be moved to our road to help accommodate us and I never received a response back I HEA president even Reynolds.

X

She also contacted Sharon Witcher at the Transportation Department and Julie Hummer, who to help advocate for us and I've, never received any response at all from the transportation environment from Sharon which I've sent her to emails. I've received no response from either, except for she has responded to Eva Reynolds um on a couple occasions.

X

On the second day of school, we realized that we have the two bus stops and there's four students in our neighborhood that are utilizing the bus in our neighborhood one girl at one stop and the three children from our street on our utilizing, the other stuff, the bus driver, and we noticed that the bus driver travels down our road already. So we I again asked if there's a way to move that stuff over to our Road.

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X

And I and I basically wasn't didn't receive any responses. I finally received a response from Alex, that is, that new, it's from the Board of Education and he stated that they found a ad a compliant bus, stop, but it's in another neighborhood, so we would have to travel through get my husband and my daughter would have to travel through Pasadena elementary school cross, a major Road Pasadena Road just to catch the bus, so I just feel like I'm at a loss.

X

I submitted a complaint with a DA and I realized that the Transportation Department is swamped but I feel like we're just being told it I'm, sorry that your husband is disabled and you can't get your daughter to the stop, but can't do anything.

X

C

All this I like to direct the superintendent to please ask these stats and home accommodate for the situation as quickly as possible.

M

We're certainly glad to do that. This is not new to us. It's been brought to us by several parents, miss Reynolds, included. I know our transportation staff has responded to times, I know because I've seen the response and I know it's not the response you wanted, but I know that our staff has been out there to look at the stops. I asked them earlier this week. I think it was Monday.

M

It's all confusing to me to take one more look at it, based on what your request has been, and so the Transportation Department is taking another look at it. I met with mister scheck know which, this morning to ensure that that was going on so I know that there have been responses. I know the responses they're, not what you're looking for.

M

We believe that the current route and stops are safe and accessible. There is a sidewalk that I know: students can access on the upper side of the Pasadena elementary sagoo, but I've asked them to take another look at it to see. If we can't make the accommodation that you are looking for, there are no promises, but I ask them now for the third time to take a look at it and will so. We will do that. Yes, ma'am.

L

I just have one question: the bus, the bus already travels by your house on this.

X

And there's two stops on the other road and the only people at the second stop. We all they all live on our street, so they would be happy if they could just move to the stop at catalpa at chestnut over to spruce, like spruce, n' and hamburg, then the three students who were on our road can go to that stuff and they could eliminate one stop and she's already goes down our bird anyway. She.

L

Goes right past your house, so I guess I would just I would just encourage.

L

That's fine that I I would like to encourage an addition of you know. If the bus is traveling literally right in front of the house, why can't the bus stop I, don't know I I.

M

Really don't want to get into a debate and talk about transportation now, because I just don't think it's appropriate. I I want to look into the issue. Look further, I'm aware of it. We are. We've agreed to take another look at it, but a question like that: Michelle I'm, a bus travels in front of the house, and why can't you just stop because our buses travel in front of thousands of houses every day right.

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M

We get requests every year for, can you just stop in front of our house right and I? Don't want to please I'm, not trying to minimize the fact that your husband's weren't sure that's I'm, trying to say that we are operating 80 where we're transporting over 60,000 students and we get requests all the time.

M

Can you stop in front of my child's daycare center, my child's karate studio on the way home in front of my house, and we can't make all those accommodations particularly but we're looking at our transportation, try to be more effective and more efficient, more efficient as fewer stops. All.

L

Right I completely understand conversation, I didn't know if there was well.

L

You're saying thank you.

Y

Superintendent.

A

Of Schools you're able to appeal to the Board of Education and I just want to caution my colleagues on the board right now, by making too many comments showing partiality here, you would have to recuse yourself from the eventual vote. Should.

B

A

Appeal to the courts, I just want to caution the board at this time using dr. our ladders advice to not get into this debate here in public session. Mr. granite, okay,.

O

Thank you. Mr. president, with that advice in mind, I'm not going to comment other than to say I, think just as a point of clarification for dr. Otto's response back to miss Shaw I am at least as I understood it and I'm not kind of tipping my hand as to which way. I would you know, vote on this if it ever came before us, but the proposal was sort of stock neutral. If you will in terms it wasn't, adding a stop, it was moving a stop. So I actually would like to hear from mr.

O

Schack Novick tonight as to what what? What is the problem? Why there cannot be a stop here? Is it because there's a lack of a sidewalk? Is that the reason.

M

And we're gonna as I said we're gonna we're gonna, go back and take a look at it with the transportation team and then we're gonna make a decision about what the the parents request is.

A

Thank you very much. I and I've been waiting here from you all night, I just wanna say: we've got 11 days, go Navy, beat Air Force.

Z

Members, dr. Laura I mean my name- is Kenneth Starks I'm here to represent knotless Education Commission. We have several topics and I'll be brief with them. The first that we discussed in our previous meeting was the ability to have more than 48 hours for non-emergency bus, stop switches or changes that we can have that the parents can be notified within those within 48 hours through the mass communication that you use. The second will be come off my glasses immuno, the possibility for while eh bates middle school to have a student resource officer.

Z

I know that's a murky water, a murky conversation but being a staff member at Bates middle school and then one at a knotless middle I can see the need on the topic. Three very connected shoes for parents who just got on the original pair connect, and now it's changed the formats change. What can be done to assist those parents to adjust quickly? Some parents I know for a fact. It took five years for them to get on parent connect and that's going to start that whole process all over again.

Z

The kids will be in college or not by then I want to go for with it's. A different is a little. It has a couple columns in it, a couple of abbreviations or whatever would like bus tracking application and reliable transportation for students with disabilities.

Z

Long commutes up to two hours and forty minutes cause the students to miss 74 days of school and eight hundred buses already have GPS installed and other school systems do provide tracking system for parents, and can these things be done card for all of our kids? And thank you for your time. That's really all I have and thank you for your time. I appreciate it. Thank.

A

You mrs. Shaw hi.

L

Thank you so much for your testimony. I appreciate it um I guess this is a question I'm I just like to put out in the universe and throw to mr. Scheck Novick for an answer about next meeting, since we have the transportation report anyway, is why I know that our our own fleet of buses, you know we contract to and I think 19 some odd contractors and we I know we don't necessarily have GPS systems than those, but I know we do for our own fleet of buses.

L

Our own fleet of buses is only for special needs and I would like to know more about piloting at least a tracking program, an app to track where your buses for those for those for those set of buses and and I would just want to know more about white. We can't pilot that we have. We have the GPS system there and we know that these apps are readily available.

L

Then I want to know more about what that might entail in cost and and why can't we not at least pilot this to prove it's worth so that people don't stand out waiting for their bus and they, you know at the beginning the year. It's always a it's always a mess.

L

You know, and quite rightly we're transporting 63 some odd thousand kids every day, but it would just it would just take the edge off you know, especially for those populations, and then I'd also like to know back from staff, about the SRO question at Bates middle and if there's a list I'm sure, there's like a I'm sure, there's like a wish list and like where Bates might might be on that list and I agree with.

L

We can always improve our communication and on this and on everything and notification to to to parents about bus, stop changes, I think would be brilliant. I, don't even know that the bus drivers know who's on their own bus, but it could be like a. It could be just another reminder like make sure parents you check the the website, because changes are always happy and I know that we've started to do that and I just encourage us to do that. More and I'm really grateful for your testimony. Thank you. So much.

B

M

If I I'm sorry to jump in, let me let me address a couple of those things well for Michelle, okay and then, but you sit right there and listen because they were your questions right. Let me start with the SRO issue. Bates is not on the list for SROs, because Bates is inside the city limits, and so our animal county police department cannot be SROs in those buildings. They don't they don't have the same authority.

M

So we are in conversations with the mayor of Annapolis and I'll, be meeting soon with the new police chief I used to meet regularly with the previous police chief and I will meet. He and I were together in the same room the other day and we got a chance to catch up and officially meet, but he and I are gonna, have coffee or a lunch or something coming up and talk about what we can do into the future. But the initial response is there there inside the city limits, so it's a different jurisdiction. One.

Z

Thing I remember working at Bates like four or five years ago, and we had County sro in the building. What would changed? I guess.

M

I would leave that to to our police chief, but I've been in constant communication with our police chief would love to, and everybody knows it I'd love to have an SRO full time at base. I'm with you on that I preach I've got it. We got to work it out with police department here in Annapolis, in the city of Annapolis and and regarding the bus tracking app it's something that we're working on we're gonna, try and see. If we can conduct a pilot with our 50 buses, it's mr. Scheck, no bhishan's team has already begun.

M

The research I would caution you on saying that that it's out there that the apps work, because some of our initial research is telling us that they're, not all that, and so we have to find one that we find out from other school systems as big as us that work. But his team has already begun that process to see if we can pilot it on the buses that we own, because we have GPS on them. I am.

L

Thrilled to hear that, thank you doctor a lot. Oh and yeah I mean the purpose of piloting is to see not only if it works, but if it works for us and I'm grateful that you all are looking into. Thank you.

A

H

You that's her come on Navy.

H

So you mentioned parent connect, so I'm no longer an official parent in the system, kind of sorta I'm, in fact, but perronnette was a challenge for me from elementary on. So could you share some of these challenges that you're experiencing with the new system? Please sure.

Z

Just first I mean not even weaponary connect just staff in the schools. I noticed that in Annapolis high school we had to take several days to learn how to go to the new parent connect. This is all married and I. Think it's a great idea. It's just gonna take time like everything else. Right so with the parents is the biggest obstacle we're facing is reluctancy.

Z

You have a lot of parents who are reluctant to join a program to join this right and then they get on it and they get on parent connect and ironically, the kids grades improve, because now the parents engaged and that's the whole intention, then you are you switch the system and then you start the procedure all over again where you have to go and then the same hiccups occur, meaning you go to the perón and you say: okay, we're gonna.

Z

Have this training session learn how to do it and then the frustration sets in and then the computers close and I can't do this right now you know you get that and I don't have time, and then you almost you're starting over again and it's not I'm. Not it's not a blame piece, it's more of I! Guess: I! Guess we need better tutorials, I, guess on how to do it and more information to the parents on hey how to get on this for dummies kind of kind of format. You know what I mean like.

H

Really elementary.

Z

Because, unfortunately, I can't speak for all, some parents are, and some people are looking for a reason to say: I knew it wouldn't work, I knew it so then it almost gives them a.

H

Lot of when we bring on new software, such as parent connect, which there's a grand as supertunia, understand the grand dependency on that communication between the parent and the teacher are. We is a my understanding that the legacy system is stopped and the only the new one is being or is it a transition? Worse they're allowing those parents to transition off the old and into the new.

B

M

Is the new system the new system is up and running so.

H

With that, would that be in the case I believe is it. It would benefit the school system to put out more information about the use of parent connect, change and also some alternatives to the parents that, like me, it would throw me for a loop. I could tell you that if I had to switch up the pan Connect allowing the parents to have some kind of other alternative until they can get set up.

M

So certainly the second, the the your latter point, miss and I. Don't know that we can. We don't have the ability to maintain the old system and have the new system up and running, but point well made. Thank you. If the information I there was information that was sent out to parents there were. There is information on how to log on and how to create your new log on and do those things.

M

But if it's not reaching the right, people or people aren't able to understand our terminology, then that's good feedback and we'll sit down with the team and review it well.

H

M

Got the data team shaking their head so well, if that's that's good feedback, yes, but but I do know that we put information out, so the parents can say now what do I need to do to access grades. Thank.

H

You dr. Allon, oh I, would also request that there be a little bit of change management in terms of the transition allowing the parents and students and the teachers to kind of coordinate together more effectively until we get used to the new system.

A

U

Just want to say that we did did see it. Back-To-School nights and I saw it at our schools. My children's schools, but also saw it on Twitter that many of the schools are back-to-school night, had staff and members who were set up there that night to help parents to log in and help to teach them, so they are providing opportunities and I know. P TAS are doing it as well, so they're trying to reach out to parents and help them with that as they come on.

AA

And I'm here to talk about school resource officer, it's middle school I apologize that I was not seated before this gentleman, so that I could approach this prior to his list of requests and initiatives. But as a parent I have I have two students in Anne, Arundel County, Schools I have a son at South River in the stem. Graham and I have a son at Bates in the PVA program and so we're County residents. But my son does go to a city school I. Don't want to over speak to the issue.

AA

I know you are actually meeting now with the police chief, which I was going to give him a call myself. But the question I have is you know: Bates is in Anne Arundel County public school. Why wouldn't they have the same equity of resources so as a parent I would want to see all of my children to have the same sort of safety and security within the school you know from internal. You know. A resource officer offers a deterrent for internal and external threats to the students and I.

AA

Just feel at this point that you know it's a county school. What can we do for those students at mates, I'm happy to work with you I'm happy to meet with the police chief and provide any additional information at this point, but we're happy with the program, but we're counting folks- and we just were just looking for some equity of resources at this point. Okay,.

A

We have two more cards: Andrew Fox and Kevin Street.

AB

Hi, my name is Andrew Fox. Thank you for letting me speak. I'll, be relatively brief. I am a father of rolling those students, I'm speaking to rolling Knowles, the community, the new school and the traffic concerns and safety concerns. We have the original plan for rolling Knowles. If any of you are familiar was a very large project and it consisted of sidewalks and traffic calming.

AB

There was a huge push from the neighborhood to move the entrance further into the neighborhood so that there wasn't a large backup of of cars in front of about four houses that were the main main issue. Well, the school was built. The entrance was moved, none of the side. Well, none of the sidewalks on the south side of the neighborhood were constructed on the south side of the neighborhood. So before the bus, loop and no traffic homing was installed so for about.

AB

Since the school was opened, we've been really working with Shaira and other people in in the county and our representatives to try to bring light to this and say we don't have anything. So you come off generals Highway. You turn on Nova Drive. You come around the bend, it is a quarter mile, a court unobstructed quarter mile until you get to the entrance of the school. There's no stop signs. There are no speed bumps. There are no signs. There's one small sign at the beginning. That just shows like a school sign. There's nothing.

AB

We understand the budget concerns we requested sidewalks and we understand the money that goes into certain extending certain sidewalks.

AB

We were requesting sidewalks to the southwest portion in front of four houses, because that connects the old part of the neighborhood, where we have about seven, eight kids, elementary kids, that walk, but we have dozens of middle school when high school kids that walk that way. So presently we walk on the street to get up to the school or we walk through the neighbors yards depending on when it is and it's smaller than a normal width of a of a road.

AB

So the you know we work really hard with Shara to get some shed some light on this because a kid's gonna get hit. There's no doubt about it. We have an ongoing traffic study right now to clock, speeds and everything else, and uh you know we'll see where that goes, because that now is placed between the bus loop and the original turn to get into the neighborhood.

AB

So pretty much. The goal is to shed light on the effort. That's been going on for three years. We now have a new principal that came in very late she's very busy. We're gonna continue the dialogue with her. We have the County coming out doing another traffic study when I finally got with the county, and they said: okay, we don't have budgets for sidewalks, and the original plan was to put like this crazy traffic calming that had lights and electricity and everything else I said I, don't want any of that.

AB

I want to stop sighs I want to stop sign at the front of the bus loop and on the other side of the bus loop. It just cuts it in half, it's a simple fix.

AB

It fixes so many things, and you know it's it's it's it's dangerous every single day for and for three years it's just been trouble, so we're requesting that we have some sort of dialogue with the board to help us but pressure on the county to get us to stop signs and possibly in the future, consider sidewalks on the south side of the neighborhood.

AB

That's it thank.

A

P

Yes, sir, oh good evening, board members, dr. Lata everything I say tonight, is not to impress anyone but just express my observations and feelings. My name is Kevin Street I have a doctor, Medicine degree and an Executive MBA from the University of Maryland I moved to Anne Arundel County Arnold three years ago, my other duties, I coach boy soccer at Annapolis, high school I'm, a former professional soccer player as well and I'm very appalled with the the failure rates in the schools in it at Annapolis high school I was given a list.

P

At the beginning of school year we had 346 students that were ineligible to play sports just ineligible out of two. That's sixteen point. Five percent of the school population that to me should be unacceptable in any institution of education.

P

Furthermore, the population of that 346 over ninety percent represent the minority population Latinos and african-americans um myself I'm an immigrant. My mom came here. I came here years later, and some of these people just behind and a friend of mine, wrote a book and he says most sickness is homesickness. We need to understand.

P

What's going on in the home, we have kids with zero point: zero, GPA, 0.3, 0.5 I speak to these kids every day, I'm in the community I make my life so flexible between August 14th and the end of October I, just literally chop my medical practice, my work and everything and just dedicate to soccer and talk to these kids on Sundays I'm at the Spanish, the Latino leaks down at Bates and trying to figure out what's going on. One of these kids are running their houses.

P

They're not going to school I had one player who missed 74 days of school last year right there I have kids right now who can't play because they're working 30 hours a week. Where is the American dream? This is impossible. We need to do something much better to help these children to navigate through the system they have different needs. We talked I heard that young lady spoke eloquently about the cat program. It requires at least a 2.0 GPA most of these kids.

P

They want hands-on, so the hands-on stuff they are not getting the grace to qualify for that. What are we doing? It's an erosion of our society. You know, America is a great mouth. I lived in England of live in Spain parts of South America. This is the greatest country on Earth. It gives you the dream. My mom was a single parent with three kids living in Silver, Spring Maryland. Everyone knows what the rent is like they're all right.

P

She has a kid, was a doctor, a lawyer and a Wall Street trader and never took one dollar from the US government in aid all right. These people are just like me. They want to work hard, they want to contribute to society or failing them, I see them every day and I'm just trying to figure out what is it that we're gonna do? What can we do?

P

They're people like myself, who are willing to go into the school and help I have network of people that we can put resources together to help, but we we need your support or advice, and what can we do right? Thank you very much for your time. Right.

A

Thank you doctor mr. Shaw hi.

P

Thank you thank.

L

You for your testimony, I'm wondering just like the gentleman earlier in the evening. If, if oh I see you were getting up to talk to him yeah, no, that was what I was gonna ask.

L

So that's great I'm glad you guys are I'm glad you two are going to connect, but I also wanted I want to understand, maybe from from staff what the qualifications are to play sports and if there's room there to account for maybe, if they're not hitting a threshold of the 2.0 whatever, but if, if a student improves over time and and that that that, if that can be, though take the place of the of the this I just want to know more about what the requirements are to to play sports and how the eligibility or ineligibility works without an FIR cat or think at South.

M

Sure will certainly will address the sports since we've got.

P

The platform you know it's just a broad.

M

Floor right, but but certainly doctor Street knows that there are we're obligated by the state to have some minimum grade. Point averages to.

L

Play sport is every.

M

Jurisdiction all 24 jurisdictions in the state. Do it a little bit differently. We have probably I would say, is the most progressive methodology of declaring somebody eligible because you can be ineligible beginning of the season, and we give them a time period where there has to be some tutoring and they get a time to bring their grades up or then they can play correct coach, correct.

P

Right so we have, we just had some players reinstated.

M

Right get reinstated, but they can put pretty put on probationary status. They've got to meet with somebody several times a week and sign in they've got to see teachers and got to get some work done. I am being very short on my comments, but coach knows what I'm talking about most jurisdictions do not do that most jurisdictions. Are you hit the date of March 1st for spring sports I'm, making that up and you're either have the GPA or you don't in an Rowan County?

M

We are very proud of and have cultivated this progressive system because we know sometimes they all the students don't hit the mark at the same time, and so we try and give them some more time to build that if I could just say coach. Thank you, I think you know it makes the difference.

M

It's individual people like you right, sir, it's the individual teacher in the classroom or out on the ball field or is teaching the kids a club after school FBLA we heard or the the the the theater coach right getting the student connected to school of a sudden. They start showing up and they start taking their grade seriously because they get an adult in their life. That cares about them and says you can do this right and so I want to. Thank you for that. Thank.

P

You I just want one question: is there any way we can set up some type of after-school tutoring program? I, don't know something is in place already, but what I'm saying is that we can get people.

P

We have educators who are willing to lend time as a resource to do so, and that's something I think that would be important for some of these kids because there's you know the ones who are in school they're also struggling, but the first thing is to get them there right and that's what I'm trying to make sure it's, not just a student who plays for us, but for every student, because we want Annapolis to be much better.

P

I live in Arnold, my kids go to broad neck, but I'm dedicated to helping the kids who are being marginalized, all right. Okay, thank you.

M

So if, if and when we can find the staff or other volunteers, we got a lot of that in the elementary schools, which is great volunteers. I want to come and read with kids and do work with students, one of things that has been that has occurred over time in our schools and you're, aware of it at Annapolis high school with Panther our right.

M

So it's a time because many of the students that we're trying to kid that you're talking about are can stay after school for tutoring, correct right, once they're gone, they're gone for the day right and so we're trying to build more time in during the day so broad neck high school has Bruin Rock right and it's divided into maroon and grey and Annapolis has Peck third hour and South River has the nest nest hour right, and so these are times where students can not only attend clubs and hopefully get connected check in see a coach, I think Michelle, Haim and I went.

M

We were doing, we were doing the Brougham block. We were visiting, Annapolis I mean a broad neck high school. We just happen to go into the soccer coaches classroom during that time and guess who was in there.

L

It was packed with.

M

Students made of soccer players, but many not because this is somebody that kids connected to and so we're trying to find those opportunities to build into the school day, because the exact students that we want that you're talking about that we want to get in touch with aren't staying after school, so right if we even get them to come to school in the first place, you talked about the student that you had 74 absences right, you're, actually right, it's unacceptable, but we have to continue to build programs that attract students.

M

We have to continue to find what we call kid magnets right. Some of the kids are attracted to, and then that gets them better engaged in school, but those times during the school day like Panther or give them a chance to go back to the school I was at Panther hour today, when we got a chance to meet for an hour and they're out they're going to their classrooms to getting help from their teachers. Thank.

P

L

You for being there with regard to the requirements to get into cat, North and South. Is there any sort of to you know to reach those those kids and and improve their success in school? Is there any sort of minutes on a probationary status to then work up just like you're doing with something.

M

So the short answer is no: there isn't a there, isn't a progressive program like that, because we have so few slots and so many students that want to apply. But what we do do is we have exploratory programs in the ninth grade, and so we encourage more and more counselors, encouraging ninth graders to get into the exploratory programs. So we get the hook early, so they go for a semester and during that semester they're getting the transportation there and they are able to engage in four different programs of their choice.

M

It could be keulen arey and construction, trades and masonry or whatever it is, and that way we try and get them connected early. So they know hey. If I want to do this program, I got to work on my grades early so that I can get in the program some program. Most programs are two years. There are some that are three years like cosmetology is a three-year program, but we try and get them hooked early by doing exploratory programs in the ninth grade.

A

Ok we've got one more public comment: I'm, sorry.

AC

Always get stuck with that I'm just here for a second to say, thank you. I was unable to attend the day we ratified with you, because it was doing the day hours and, of course, I had to work. It did not have release time for that day and from our members we kindly wish. Thank you very much. We also like to thank the payroll department, HR Miss, Hughes, for being so expeditious in getting the compensation to our members and letting them know what their races are in step in.

AC

We have a lot of happy people, thanks to you all and, of course, the county and the executive for putting the money in place, and at this moment I just like to, if you have not received invitation, I just like to reinvade you and inform you about the say, ACK and the ACPs joint professional development day, effort that we're having for the first time, which will be at Brooklyn middle and Yap Oakland Park middle from 8:00 to 3:00 on the 15th of October.

AC

If you get a second we'd like to see you stop by and see what's going on, this is the really big we have full house 300 participants in about 70 on waiting lists. So we're really glad that we're able to do that this year and thank you.

A

Thank You mr. Shaw I'm, sorry.

L

What was that date again.

A

He's miss antwine.

A

H

Gillan I have a comment about earlier. Testimony could is now the time.

A

H

Wanted to address what judge Barbour shared with us about the the zero tolerance for for bias, language and behavior at our schools. I want to first say the incident that that was mentioned. I appreciate that the actions that were that have been taken so far by our coaches for our community and certainly by our students recognizing that wrong is wrong. The zero tolerance comes in the form of everybody, and it takes a sincere effort tonight will address by its behavior in language and I.

H

Think that an incident like this proves that such policies need to be updated and that our stance as a county as a County system as a state entity. Our stance on how we treat each other makes all the difference in how we do that together. So we'll start tonight with policy move forward from me,.

A

Well said, thank you. Miss antwine will now move again, as the revised agenda now has item 7.0 to biased, behavior and language. This is a third reading policy revision, so dr. our lotto. Can we have your recommendation? Please.

M

Yes, sir I recommend board approval a policy j/o subject to final correction for style. Excuse me, gun format.

A

Thank you doctor a lot. Oh, and this is crocodile on a I know. We have tabled this from the prior meeting, so what I know we already have a motion on the floor, so I'll turn to you.

D

Thank You president Gilliland and you're absolutely correct. As you recall, we did adopt language record that it was designed to mirror in similar for the bullying policy that we passed last time and if you also recall there was a a serious question raised by our policy attorney and in the absence of our our attorney being present, we decided to table it, although we did go through the the votes to vote in the amendment that was requested and sin so based on information obtained. Since then, with legal counsel.

D

I would like to formally move to rescind the motion that was originally provided and instead propose a motion that we that we adopt policy Jo as presented in the third reader, with the following amendment that nothing in this policy isn't, and this is going to be my apologies here.

D

Essentially, what we want to do is reference back over to bullying, based on legal definitions and state law and federal law, so I'm proposing a amendment in replacement that under Section C that we create a section, a subsection 6 that states the following. Nothing in this policy is intended to limit or otherwise affect the purpose position and implementation of board policy. Jccc. A title bullying, cyber bullying, harassment and intimidation that was just passed are during our last session.

D

A

So we've got two things: if I'm eight I'm, just using my cheat sheet, you're I, swear, make sure we do things right. So there's a difference between withdrawing and rescinding and in this case, because the vote had occurred, we need to rescind and rescinding requires a a two-thirds vote so and no no I'm, sorry I didn't have a cheat sheet in hand when we were so so. If I may ask you just to temporarily pause on the amendment that you'd like to make, we need to vote to rescind what would that previously passed.

A

So this mrs. Howe two-thirds vote required so six votes of the board required to rescind mrs. Quirke Adela's prior amendment. Would you please call the roll did.

AD

There need to be a motion, a second and.

D

I had already motioned it.

D

AD

You beginning with mr. Lyme.

AA

AD

Summer, miss Alvey mr. cork Adele mr. Brannon Michelle hi Mya, miss Ellis I, miss antwine I mr. Gilliland. I motion passes nine.

A

Zero: okay, so now we're formally rescinded and now we'll take the new motion. Okay,.

D

So to state again, I would like to present a motion that states that under Section C, a new subsection of six be created to state that nothing in this policy is intended to limit or otherwise effect, the purpose position and implementation of board policy JCCC a title bullying, cyber bullying harassment and in ten datian, and then I just wanted to make a couple commentary.

D

As I said in the beginning, we want to make sure that we get it right, and so I am proposing this because this will in effect, allow the intent of political affiliation to be carried out through art through through our policy in a manner that does not conflict with other intense and bias. Behavior fell under that category unbeknownst to me and so working collaboratively with our our advisement of attorney. This was recommended and I am now requesting adoption.

D

A

So now we have the motion and the second board discussion. Miss antwine I have.

H

A last meeting we requested the request came from you to introduce additional language. That's a language that you're introducing to us tonight. Does it align with with the motion or or is it something different so.

AE

This motion will take care I'm, sorry for the record, jeanette ortiz legislative and policy council, I'm so mr. cork adele's motion will take care of the concerns of glide on denying staff one hand with the proposed. The initial proposal is. Thank you. Thank you.

A

Okay, any further board questions or comments again. This is just on mrs. crocodiles amendment. At this point, seen on any public comment on the amendment only seeing none, mrs. Hollis is a vote on mrs. cork Adele's memo. Did you please call the roll mister.

AD

Lied I miss summer, miss Abbey mr. cork, Adele aye mr. Brannon I miss y'all I'm, miss Ellis I, miss antwine hi. Mr. Gilliland I amendment passes 9-0 great.

A

Thank you and now we're back to.

P

A

Right so any board discussion and comment on the the larger policy. That's been considered, seeing no board questions or comments public.

O

Is up here but to commend him is cork Adele for thinking about the concerns of all of our students and introducing this. This concern about political bias and politically motivated bullying and then also for being thoughtful and responsible enough to take the advice of legal counsel in terms of you know, being okay with implementing that change to the bullying policy and and and not to the to the bias policy. For the reasons stated so I just want to commend you for your thoughtfulness on that.

A

Thank You mr. Grandin, when I moved to public comment, we have one card on this Mary Jo Dhoni and anybody else that would like to comment on this policy. You're welcome to come forward at this time.

N

Hello president Galen dr. aloud, Oh members of the board staff of a ACPs, a senior leadership and representatives of the public, both present tonight and watching us online or who will be watching us online I, come before you this evening at the explicit direction of president jacqueline, also the Anne Arundel County n-double-a-cp and representing our branches members in our position with respect to the biased, behavior and language policy in regulation, as our second vice president Barbour testified.

N

The n-double a-c-p receives many complaints of biased, behavior and language each year most, but not all of these are explicitly related to racial and ethnic bias. Not all of these make their way into the complaint system, and then we hear of more than we receive I suspect, you've heard it too. The n-word and I know people Boulder would also use terms for young girls.

N

Hoses are thrown around regularly on the buses and in the school halls at least that's what we hear the Anne Arundel County end of Lacey Sprott strongly believes it advocates for pause. Passing of this policy.

N

It is in the spirit of community collaboration, which has been elevated by dr.. Our lotto and county executive Pittman that we come to you tonight.

N

We thank you for your commitment and we continue to offer ours in seen that this is enforced. However, and I don't know how Evers approach appropriate. In addition, the incident that second vice president Barbour presented is just one example of the type of biased language our constituents faced regularly in a ACPs @ @ a8, CPS events, the frequency of these events and incidents is known in the public. We echo I, echoed the sentiment that there must be a zero-tolerance policy.

N

It is why they accepted the most regular reason for referrals is.

N

Insubordination and I want to say disrespect with them. Thank you. We know the incidence with which those behaviors are punished, and we know the incidence with which bias language is not punished. It sends a terrible message to the community. We believe that the policies in place are sufficient. If we look at the Student Code of Conduct, we know that first offenses can receive a variety of interventions and consequences, but if all that ever happens is a referral to a parent, the message to the community is I believe unacceptable.

N

Thank you very much for hearing us thank.

A

You dr. Joe Donny, any further public comment on this policy: mrs. Hummer, sorry.

U

Thank you, dr. Tiffany I, just want to echo. We've been working on this policy for a long time and I think it's important. It's important to break out our bias paper and to emphasize how much is there and I would also say to the public what we say all the time. We cannot respond to what we don't know about. So if these incidents are happening, we need to know about them.

U

We ask for parents and students to report these things, because we can't address what we don't know about and we can't change cultures of schoolís if we don't know so, we need on our end to be enforcing, but we also need the public to be coming to us, and so we appreciate you speaking out and have that and I would share that up. Let us know of these things so that we can enforce these policies that we believe in so strongly. Thank you.

A

Okay, thank you, mrs. Hummer, any further board questions or comments, summary comments, seeing none policy, Jo, biased, behavior and languages on third reading for final approval. Mrs. Howe! Would you please call the roll Worcester.

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Miss summer miss Alvey mr. Cadell hi mr. Grandin, all.

L

Right Michelle.

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Ellis I miss antwine I mr. Gilliland hi.

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Passes 9-0 great.

A

Thank you and mr. Ortiz. Thank you. As always, we're now revert back to our consent items. We have two items. Is there a motion to bundle? Item six point: zero, one and six point: zero, two motions second unfair say: aye opposed no the ice have it. We now have an action item back to our ladder. Can we have your recommendation? Please? Yes,.

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Sir I recommend board approval of the two contracts listed on today's agenda. Six point: zero one and six point zero: two, their motion.

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Motion in a second any board comments or questions any public comment: I'm, sorry, miss antwine.

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I just have one culture.

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Integrated into the curriculum youngsters have access to it inside of their instructional period, inside of their instructional block. They have accident, that's part of the curriculum right. They have access to adorn their extended day. They also have access to it from home and from home. They can either use it. It can be assigned as a homework assignment or it can be for additional. You know for some of our you know, motivated students that have a lot of spare time on her hands.

AF

They can learn more math and science instead of some other electronic device, but yeah it's integrated and it's very easy to get to it's on our splash page, it's accessible to all of our students and stuff.

AF

Sure so I mean we've got a contract for a period, but the structure of the of that product is it's a catalogue of items. So it's a catalogue of problems and solutions and experiments etcetera, so that catalogue is being continuously updated and expanded by the vendor. It's not a. We buy it today and twelve months from now. It looks exactly word for word as it is today. That would be true for a textbook, but because this is the catalog of electronic items, it is continuously getting updated and added to and supplemented by the vendor.

A

Thank you, miss antwine, okay, any any other board questions or comments. Any public comment. Seeing then this is a vote on the consent calendar, mrs. Howe. Would you please call the roll.

AD

I miss work it out. Mr. Grandin Michelle Han I miss Ellis, miss antwine hi mr. Gilliland. Our motion passes 9-0 great.

A

Thank you item seven point. Zero. One is the administrative personnel appointment placeholder there are none tonight. I am seven point. Zero two is already been considered. We now move to item seven point: zero: three superintendents recommended fiscal year, 2021 capital budget, six-year plan and state CIP. This is an action item doctor or a lot of. Can we have your recommendation? Please?

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Sir I recommend board approval in adopting the FY 2021 capital budget, six-year plan and state capital improvement plan or CIP. It's.

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A motion in a second- and we do have a staff presentation at this time, so we'll defer to mr. Scheck Norwich and a seaman profit for.

AF

The record again l extract new chief operating officer, Lisa.

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Steven Crawford Director of Facilities and.

AF

Item 7.03 is brought to you this evening as an action item regarding the capital budget. It contains both the FY 21 capital budget six-year plan and the state's of component of the capital. Grooving plan is requirement of all L EAS to submit the plan today. Interagency commission school construction annually the date set this year is October 4th of 2019. If we want to become eligible for any state funding to support the CIP.

AF

The item was read into the record on September 11th as an information item and a workshop was held on the 12th of September 2019 again. The purpose of this action item is to allow us to remit our request to the state for state funding. There will be additional opportunities for dialogue and deliberation regarding the CIP that worker between the months of December of and February when we begin to march towards our combined operating capital budget requests of the county government, and with that, mr. president, we turn it back over to you and your colleagues great.

A

Thank you so much to both of you. Mr. Shaw.

L

Good evening, thank you again for this and for the workshop, which I found very informative and I'm grateful for that I. Don't remember! If I asked this question at the workshop or not, and just for my own personal knowledge, how's it going finding the land for the West County elementary school project.

AF

So we are in ongoing dialogue and discussions with the new county administration. Yes, we were with the prior County administration, as you may or may not know that land acquisition is not a function of a Board of Education. We don't have either the capacity or the tools or in many cases, the statutory ability to do that. So we are wholly reliant on the County government to do that within the county government. The Public Works Department is actually the entity that does that for all of county government.

AF

So we and we've had ongoing dialogue with with both the current prior administrations, but because there is negotiations and strategies and appraisals and offers and counteroffers we're not really at liberty to to give you the specifics. But it's being actively worked on by the UH by the appropriate individuals and the highest levels of county administration know the criticality of this acquisition, fantastic.

L

Do you foresee that piece of land being acquired and and and fall to then proceed with all the rest of the the project, including the design by I? Don't know is six months I mean which that sort of timeline the II participate.

AF

Unfortunately, I'm I neither have a direct answer to that with specificity and even if I would I'd be hesitant to do that, I.

L

Understood all right, thank you.

A

Thank you mr. Shaw I'm, and if I can just piggyback land acquisition question just for the public record, I know you. You answered this very eloquently during the the workshop, but the the questions that are coming in to the board and I think a a CPS in general about the old mill project, or at least what were tentatively labeling as old mill, West High School the land acquisition, as relates to Papa John's farm. We know the county has that Papa John's farm just closed officially about two weeks ago.

A

When will that, roughly, when will that d transfer from the Anne Arundel County government to the Anne Arundel County, Public Schools, so.

AF

In order we're asking for construction funding in the year ahead, which will begin July 1st of 2020, so we would anticipate that land transfer occurring relatively close to that it's been our posture. Mr. president, I did we tend to prefer not to accept the land too early. Once we accept the land, we have full ownership to it. We have to maintain it. We have to lock stock and barrel and cut the grass and everything out there.

AF

So it's our preference to allow others to potentially do that for us until the last moment when we actually need it completely.

A

Understood and I was betting money that you would say something about mowing the lawn. So thank you for for that clarification, any further board questions or comments on the CIP. We've already had public comment. So at this point, seeing no further board questions or comments. This is a vote on the superintendent's recommended FY 2021 capital budget six year plan and state CIP. Oh.

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I'm sorry, wood.

AD

Looking for a motion in a second.

A

We did so moved in second, so alright, just for clarity that.

D

Yes, so I move that we that we adopt the recommended capital budget as presented.

A

Second, okay: yeah: we asked dr. a lot of made the recommendation somebody makes it so moved. So what but we're officially on the record now with the you did say so move so now we have to so. We are perfectly safe at this point, so this is, how would you please call the roll? Yes thank you.

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Summer, miss Alby, uh it's quirk it down. Mr. Grandin miss chou-heung, miss Ellis, antwine I and mr. Gilliland I.

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All right item 7.04 is the FY 2020 comprehensive maintenance plan. This is an action item. Dr. alatar. Can we have your recommendation? Please? Yes,.

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Sir, yes, sir I recommend board approval of the fiscal year. 2020 comprehensive maintenance plan is.

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So move in second everybody heard that there's been a motion and a second okay. There is no formal staff presentation on this, but staff is here to answer questions and we do have some board questions and comments. Then will first turn to miss antwine and then mr. Shawn Thank.

H

You president Gillard, so my questions on page 19 of the package that was shared with us, the title of it is comprehensive maintenance planning five-year summary the second to the last line talks about water treatment.

H

However, when I went through the plan, it talked about an unfunded requirement for the led work that is being done in our water, so I was trying to understand the difference between the water treatment. That's that's here, and the cost of it and the the identification of the unfunded requirement, if it in here are, is this plan indicating that you guys are needing the money and is not there I'm a little bit confused about those things so.

AF

Let us all briefly introduce ourselves again: I'm a Love Shack, Nova chief operating officer, Lisa.

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Seaman Crawford director facilities like.

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Mccafferty supervisor the facilities maintenance so.

AF

This this water treatment line items. As you see here, we have a number of schools that are not on public utilities they're on wells and we have to extract that water. We have to treat it to bring it to potable standards and then deliver it into the building for distribution. So as a as a categorical item, we have to budget for windows, water extraction, the water treatments, the water, conveyance systems. We don't have a requirement.

AF

None of those systems are up for replacement in FY 21, but if you see from 22 to 25 there's about a million dollars worth of those items that would be scheduled for attention, so we're not asking for for funding in the current year. So it's it's unfun in the current year vet because we don't have anything do, but we will have things do in the next few years. So in the next couple years you see requests coming through for that.

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H

Separate from the lid sure.

AF

That's entirely separate. We actually just dealt with that while we don't that in a couple ways: one you just adopted the capital budget and during the workshop I think you may recall that we actually the very first item in the item that you just approved, is called health and safety 21. The requested value in that capital item was actually increased so that we could have additional capital monies to deploy towards that initiative.

AF

Concurrent with that, there was an additional increase in operations and maintenance funding in this current budget, the one that the county council approved last June to address that that was funded and there was a request for a physician, an additional position in this budget. It was just adopted this past June that was funded and that position has been filled so.

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Around place to.

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Address that specifically thank.

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Yes, I'm miss Shawn.

L

All of it and I have a few questions on page 14.

L

Well, the the title is additional responsibilities included. It's the fourth bullet down: analyzing schools, electronic consumption profiles via an LX demand response and insight programs, and then it states that the currently the system has 50 schools enrolled in this program. What is this and how can more schools participate.

AF

So there is, you have to have a certain level of consumption, so this is a program, that's managed as part of the PGM grid system, the grid system that maintains the mid-atlantic portion of the power grid.

AF

So it's a program that is put forward by them and managed by them, and they have eligibility criteria and the eligibility criteria has to do with both total consumption and peak demand, so they create each and every year the prior year's energy consumption on both a macro and peak level is analyzed and those schools that meet the threshold of being enrolled into the PGM program.

AF

The Excel demand response system is sort of the code word for it, but it really is a PGM mid-atlantic grid system initiative to basically do load shedding during peak times, so they don't have to spin up their code generation plants. It avoids brownouts and voids peak energy costs for us, but again those thresholds are established by them and each and every year we analyze so only about 50 verses was our small schools, don't even reach the threshold levels to which they would really so.

L

They have to be high consumers to start with. Yes,.

AF

Yes, bigger buildings, older buildings, fully air-conditioned building, I mean a lot of things that you think would drive up total consumption peak consumption because they look at it in both ways. As triggers and.

L

Then, what sorts of what sorts of things do we do to shed load? Is that just ticking up the thermostat, a few degrees.

AF

We one day issue a call: we have a very limited period of time, Auto, Schools drill on desks. We have to turn off air conditioning, we turn off lights. We turn off unneeded equipment, it's essentially a mandatory participatory programs. Our.

L

Students in the building, when we're turning off a.

AF

Potentially, but rarely these events typically occur in the latter part of the day when we know that that's occurring one of the things we do is we basically try to pre-cool. You know pre quota buildings. Again there is warning time with school snow. It's just not an immediate things. We've got strategies in place to sort of glide out the rest of the day, so, for example, that you know we'll know they will.

AF

Let us know that tomorrow is a a warning a potential day and then that morning, those sort of give us a sort of insider baseball like we think or maybe not, and then they'll tell us an approximate time. If it's more likely than not, we we get the ball rolling, confirm in terms of getting you know the things in place, but, for example, we could go in place at two o'clock and we'll run from like 2 o'clock to.

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5 o'clock by then.

AF

You know we can kind of coast out the rest of that day. So that's.

L

Great yeah I know they do this with residential, so that thank you for this.

AF

Is on a very, very big scale and again so this really came to be after, after not our grid, but just north of us. The grid that really covers New, York and points east and north of there suffered some large-scale brownouts and had a multi-day event. So the our grid- PGM Pennsylvania, Maryland Delaware, our section of the world, basically put this in place with all of the utility providers or silica us and Delmarva, and just all you know, pepero everybody, that's in the region.

AF

It's part of the PGM network is participatory in that and really it's prevent large-scale brownouts or blackouts. Awesome.

L

That's yeah, thank you for that explanation and then in the following group of bullet points. I just wanted to say that the third bullet point awarded to purchase power agreements worth over three megawatts of solar energy that can offset 50 v GE electric accounts for 20 years and translate to four million dollars in electric cost avoidance over the life of the agreements, it's awesome and so yeah. I just wanted to say how awesome it is.

L

I think it's really cool I'm, letting my energy consultant hat show a little bit, but I think that that really makes me excited I.

L

Had a couple more questions do so we I know we partnered with Parks and Rec for various stadiums surrounding Park, High, School being one of them and they you know they use the grounds after hours for their various things. Do they it's part of our agreement with them? Do they help offset the the cost of those two lighting? You know the electric, so we.

AF

We have an MoU with then this Reva more realized each and every year it's recalibrated each and every year and the county through rec and Parks, we invoice them. They provide us funding for both utilities. So that's a portion of the money as we get from the county through rec and parks, and a second piece says we get funding from them for custodial overtime, to able to unlock the buildings. You know turned alarms off things like that. Awesome.

L

And then I think this is my last question that the following page page 15.

L

Second bullet up at the top monitoring buildings to ensure maximum comfort within the guidelines. Can you just briefly describe what the guidelines are sure.

AF

So, for example, for most facilities, he'll be in the cooling season 78 and in the heating season, 68 we've got telemetry with the building's the network's the Boeing's are wired, with thermostats they'd go back to master controllers, so we've got energy management and building management systems within the building. We've got telemetry from the building out to our energy management system, infrastructure, Alvin, Ford Smallwood, so those are four. Is it working for most schools and offices? Those are the two temperature points, fantastic.

L

I'm, just flipping through I thought that was it, but I just want to make sure yeah. That's it for me. Thank you so much thank.

A

You mrs. Sean, mrs. Ellis thank.

E

You um can you help me understand very briefly years 22 to 25.

E

Do you have a more comprehensive list as far as what order you're going to do these projects and I'm, particularly interested in the Arundel middle school ceiling and lighting, because that was one of the things that struck me most when I visited that school? That could use sure.

AF

So the answer to that is the answer to that is yes, but none this document the this is a very this- is a formulaic Lea generated document, so the state puts out a guideline, so you'll see that this format does not really vary from year to year. It's you know it's, it's an its document that we've got to populate the way that it's presented, so your CIP, our CIP, is oh, is a one-year request and then there's a forecast for the out years and this companion documents that I almost worked together.

AF

Instructs us to basically explicitly define the one-year request and then to compile the next, the rest of the CIP request so and there. Unfortunately, the structure basically has some glommed glom together.

E

Top your head about the middle school lighting improvement well,.

AF

You'll see that it is in 220 to 225 right request. You'll see that on page 22, I believe right.

E

I'm just wondering the exhibit.

AF

I know we've already been out there and done some assessments of it and things like that. So it is not in the current year request, but we've already started swimming in that direction. Our.

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And electrical department and operations department have already been out: that's how we had to get it up. The price estimate that you see.

E

Here too, so, okay, all right! Thank you. Thank.

A

You mrs. Ellis any further board questions or comments. I I had one that I wanted to ask. That's just mostly a clarifying question, in particular when I was reading through the summary of the maintenance backlog. Just with the classification and the total estimated costs, we're looking at 119 million dollars for HVAC systems and I just went to clarity, clarify because I know the governor, and the Comptroller in particular have been somewhat critical of some other school systems that don't manage this well and I.

A

Think we do an awesome job and you and your team to an amazing job managing this, but for the public record, 119 million that's being asked for HVAC. Is that mostly preventive maintenance services, or is that correct air conditioning systems, heat systems whatever that may be already malfunctioning.

AF

So for the record, all of our instructional spaces I mean they're, already heated and cooled so we're not in the same situation as some others.

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AF

Is not our operating budget supports the maintenance and a preventive maintenance and the the scheduled water treatment and everything else that has to do with the existing systems, but every system basically has a planned lifecycle. I planned life expectancy when you buy a air-conditioning, chiller or a boiler. Essentially the manufacturer says this thing is essentially designed and attended to last X years. We know when we bought it. We knew when installed it, and we know what time X's is going to hit us.

AF

If you maintain a product, if the product was built very well, you maintain it very well. You do all of its preventive maintenance. Just like your car, you know change the oil change the filters, do it religiously and are lucky, and it was a good product to start with you maybe get it longer than that life expectancy.

AF

Conversely, if, if you know it didn't come off the assembly line, the waited everybody intended or you have bad luck and it gets it by lightning or any other thing like that, you could have less so that backlog did you see there is basically the amount of systems that either have or are expected within that time period 21 through 25 to have exceeded that predetermined, manufacturer's, estimated life cycle for that component. If that makes any sense, they.

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AF

But we know that they're getting near what the engineers and the manufacturers had intended for that piece of equipment to be.

A

Understood and I appreciate the the public clarification I. Just worry that for the naked eye that that's reading this someone may interpret that or misinterpret what what this is actually saying so for the record, our students and teachers etc.

A

As you said, instructional spaces are fine. Yes, sir. Okay, excellent. Thank you for that. Any further board questions or comments. Seen on any public comment, seeing none. This is a vote on fiscal year. 2020 comprehensive maintenance plan, mrs. Howe. Would you please call the roll.

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Mister lied miss summer, miss Alby, try just work it out. Hi mr. Brannon miss Shan I'm, miss Ellis mr. Gilliland. All.

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Most motion passes 8 0 thank.

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You will now move to.

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When I moved to item eight point zero one review items- this is a word of contracts, no presentation, but certainly if there are board questions or comments, we can hear those now. Mr. Shaw hi.

L

Number one I noticed that our MBE goal isn't being met. Is that? Because we tried to source, we tried to engage those particular contractors and they weren't available for that work, or was there another set of circumstances that so.

AF

This is another set of circumstance, so we basically have a goal of 15 percent for all of our architectural engineering services. Yeah.

L

AF

Is a this: is the design and replacement of one discrete item within a building? And it's an item that does not from a design basis really have sub components, doesn't rely on sub consultants. So, for example, if you're designing a building, obviously you've got. You know, lead architects, but then you have other opportunities. Many other engineering disciplines you have interior design, disciplines, etcetera, are opportunities to pick up, but.

AF

This is a very discrete item. You have to be on the to design this. You have to be on the county's approved list of Fire Protection engineers have to be rate list licensed by the state of Maryland as a fire protection engineer capable of doing this, and unfortunately it's such a small, discreet pool of potential candidates in such a discreet light on the work that we were not able to achieve 15%. That is still documented.

AF

So, even though somebody doesn't get it, they still have to go through a vetting process for our MSPB office to confirm that they, in fact did attempt got.

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AF

We're not able to legitimately reach that target. Thank.

L

You for that explanation, one more question involving awards: 2 &, 3 I noticed they were contract modifications. So I wondered: are these extra expenses predicted or foreseen, or were these unforeseen things that came up to warrant the contract modification and the additional?

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AF

Basically, so you as you, if you go back to the front of your cover, any modification, that's more than a hundred thousand dollars has to be brought to your attention. So essentially we, the contract, has a duration, but we load money into that contract each year. So this is the money greater than a hundred thousand. So for this particular contract on page five, the one that you referenced item two.

AF

This is the last year of that's of that contract. We put funding into it, so they can discharge this year as you'll see the next contract. Afterwards, the initial term expires March or may 31 2012.

AF

A to more times as we put if we put board $200,000 into the contract in 21 and then again in 22, and it eventually turns out and then we there's no more rental options.

L

Thank you so much appreciate it. Thank you. Okay,.

A

Thank You mr. Shaw any other questions or comments. Any public comment seeing none momentarily mrs. Quirke Adele is going to read a motion because we do have to rent a closed session to hear two appeals, but just to announce our upcoming meetings. The next general meeting of the Board of Education will be on Thursday October 10th 2019 at 10:00 a.m. in this room. The next meeting of the policy committee will be wednesday october 23rd 2019 at 4:00 p.m.

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here in the boardroom, and the next Budget Committee meeting will be wednesday october 23rd 2019 at 5:00 p.m. here in the boardroom, and with that mrs. Quirke, adela Thank.

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You, mr. president, I move that the board go into closed session, to consult with counsel, to obtain legal advice on a legal matter.

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There's a motion and a second all, those in favor say aye opposed no, we stand adjourned. Thank you.