the professor in the first lecture will show a slide of the economy and it looks very impressive you know raw materials extraction process manufacture wholesale retail with arrows going back and forth and they try to impress you because they think they know damn well economics is not a science but they're trying to fool us into thinking that it's real science is not economics is a set of values that they then try to use mathematical equations and all that stuff and pretend it's science but if you ask the economist in that equation where do you put the ozone layer where do you put the deep underground aquifers of fossil water where do you put topsoil or biodiversity their answer is oh those are extra analogies but then you might as well be on mars that economy is not based in anything like the real world it's life the web of life that filters water in the hydrologic cycle it's microorganisms in the soil that create the soil that we can grow our food in nature performs all kinds of services insects fertilize all of the flowering plants these services are vital to the health of the planet economists call these extra analogies that's n directors at our next meeting so i'm looking forward to introducing our returning school board member and our new school board and member ok so now i just need to read out of closed session i'll start with the  claims claim number one one zero six zero one three three slash i in one four three six a motion by him pilin a second by a pell the board voted five zero except staff recommendation settle we had for student readmittance for student case oh d one two one three zero nine two four zero two the board is holding over discussion of that student's case until the next board meeting with directions to staff to do some follow up which i can talk to delia about separately and then delia sorry dr craig about supply but i think you know what we had in mind then for student case abstaining we voted to readmit the student for student case one one one two one five zero five two five nine six on a motion by daniels and a second by i love you cutler the board unanimously decides deny readmission and student cases one zero one one two one zero four two eight nine seven and a motion by l on a four zero one vote with daniels abstaining we voted to readmit the student with the stipulation that he complete his rehabilitation plan and la i would like to the only other issue was a thing caller comes to us highly recommended by our previous evaluation director directing the pale i program missing claire is a graduate of the pale i program received her master's ten education she recently served as a summer administrative intern and was for the summer education program she has twenty four years of teaching experience in southern california and northern california most recently in albany  was a member of the site's instructional leadership team and also a superintendent's appointee on the district's equity task force so with her background and with dr chung's recommendation we look and i had a couple questions for three point one school benchmark can we follow that ok we do the high school and then the school benchmarks and then we can deal with all the other stuff that's bored  handle i have one more change i'm sorry on item number three one see the field trips there is an error in the board packet it states the trip is to petaluma it actually has to applegate which is in placer county it's just a minor correction the trip all of the things about that trip are the same and i'm sorry two point one i would like to have a brief presentation about that our public comment i am forgetting that our new superintendent this is his first public meeting and our vice president just kicked me in the shit if you  say something because you we've kind of gotten used to already well you know i've been here almost two months and is really a pleasure to be here and i'm looking forward to working with everyone of course the board of trustees as well as the community and in the future you'll hear about some of our town meetings that we will be conducting and so with that being said i'll leave it at that but i have a whole lot more to say trust me on that but anyway it's good to be here thank you thank you as it's been two months so it's kind of that new to us but this is his first publicly televised meeting and just just so you know we have thousands of people watching us every meeting and usually we have more people than this in the audience to see so and a lot more cards here so i have two cards from the general public and then we have with us today laurie cupp a tele our council member from district five who wants to come see if you want to come first at this point it goes so i what i want to know what you know i'm not here as a council member tonight i'm here as a parent and a grandparent and also i realize as i was sitting making some notes that now a resident of berkeley for almost fifty years it'll be fifty years next year i've been working for the past year and a half with the alcohol tobacco and other drug task force and later on the seedling ralph cantor is going to be giving a presentation on the impacts of marijuana on adolescent development in the adolescent brain and i really know some of you of her seen that presentation prior to tonight i think it's an important that he has important information to share with you in july second the city council passed an item on consent eight to one requesting that the city manager and the berkeley police department work with  and i want to just read two of the goals because i think they're important and i hope you will encourage your staff to to work collaboratively with the city part of this comes from the fact that i've now been in office for eight years and i'm lucky enough to have a parking space  over there and many times when i pull in the morning or i leave in the late afternoon or i'm going to lunch there's a lot of activity and our part in civic center park and much of activity is  around using marijuana using tobacco and using alcohol and and it became in an increasing concern of mine because i felt by ignoring the situation over there that we were basically sending the message that it's ok and i don't think that's a message as a community that we want to send to our to our teenagers to our adolescents so the two points i just want to emphasize now are that that that the u s t and the city create policies and procedures to more actively discourage marijuana smoking tobacco smoking and alcohol consumption by minors particularly in the environs of civic center park and to when there is an opportunity for discretion to emphasize intervention and recovery rather than enforcement and discipline and i want to emphasize that that no one many of these policies were evolving out of the a t o team meetings and it was very clear from everyone in that group that participates including dr craig who actually leads that group and that is that we're not looking for punishment we're looking for restored of programs to encourage kids to come to school ready to learn and it's difficult for kids to come to school ready to learn when they're high so that's all i have to say for tonight i look forward over the next couple of years to move this forward and i thank you for your time  compare my daughter as one of two up to carnegie mellon she went to a top rated institution she has graduated and she is received so much from berkeley high so for me to complain at that and receive enough would be silly but i do know that some kids i have not who have been in her saying situation we came here before about the and i seen people speaking about it before mrs jones who is a great hire mrs jones she is such a beautiful and bubbly person but i will say this she's been working in the mccann event before she came here for both four or five months when i had jumps four or five months is not enough time to really get an understanding what happens to people under the mccan great but as a district you can't do anything about homelessness you can't this is a problem that is all over america you cannot give how do the people cause your budget is limited but what you can do is when a student comes here make sure that they have their needs met for example much of the work done in this at berkeley had to do you have to do it on the computer if you're living from place to place and house to house and you can run from this place to this place how can you do your homework and i've seen students to say i can't do it i seem to do is the same when you are we have math analysis three or you our b s l one you need a calculator if you don't have a calculator you can not do your work many of your african american students do not have the resources to get these things so you cannot do anything about them being homeless you can try to alleviate it in some ways but what you can do is you can create an environment here would you will lessen those burdens because students feel if they weren't working here for four months hopefully we can have an open and honest discussion about work homes people need and whatever can american students need in order to advance in this school district and th however to realize this right is pretty difficult especially for those who have just android my two daughters were enjoying not too long ago i was able to only move here in june i did not get the accurate information i had to take time off from work to go to the office to get information after getting the information wasn't accurate finally the only person who returned my calls was jenna from the superintendent's office yesterday and the not not just that the information release was inaccurate but i have right now no idea what to do th children got a placement not in the schools that i applied for that is walking distance from my home but for the really right so i know that you may not be violating this particular human right however you are restricting this right for children to enjoy so in concluding this i would like to tell you that can you please let the office respond to our requests i'm not the only one who did not receive requests responded to the second is that lead the information that we received be accurate because i did not get that and i am not the only one because i have spoken to other parents and the th you can we make sure that we follow up with family to perhaps explain to her our student assignment policy or transportation policies  busy with different committees and and working the this summer attended a meeting that council member just had on homeless students and it was interesting because it's something that we can possibly can do more evans welcome thank you very enthusiastic to have you here and has been a joy and wonderful experience just meeting with you over the last six or eight weeks however many weeks is spent also just want to welcome everybody back and the kids my daughter is excited to go to registration tomorrow at berkeley high and also you know it seems like a summer has been a nice break but at the same time it's been really busy so we have a lot on our plate and the next fall is going to be a really huge challenge i think for all of us so it'll be really good to dive in and move forward around all the different things we need to do with common core and the twenty twenty vision and you know basically really looking at how we can best serve our kids and i look forward to ralph's presentation tonight to look at how we're really going to deal with those issues also so thank you and i do want to thank i know council member capital he left but his staff is here and if you could thank him for the leadership that he has provided also in this city and building that bridge is really important and i'm glad he's been champing at the city level thank you i want to join the chorus of welcoming dr evans to to the district and it's great to have you sitting there and i'm really really excited i've just come back from vacation and i'm really excited about this this new i have a kid starting my daughter tall years starting in longfellow and in seventh grade at longfellow and my son's starting tenth grade at berkeley high so no no new schools this year and i just feel i'm just really excited about being both part of the parent community and then also helping to work with the whole community and our teachers our educators are classified staff and the rest of our district to help move us even further forward towards our goals and working together with you dr evans of the rest of my colleagues up here to do that i wanted to say that i do agree it's going to be a big year and one of the things that i've thought a lot about this summer is my commitment in this this year which will be my second year up here serving to really be accessible and avail to to the parents and to the community and so i'm really looking forward to coming up with opportunities to to hear from you and to work with you to make our district even stronger than it is now dr evans so excited to have you here i've spoken to a few folks who've also met with you and they're also very excited so there's a good buzz about your superintendency already so pretty exciting it's going to be a good year and that's it that's again welcome and new school year my youngest son just graduated from berkeley high yeah think you are our children went to school together were on the wrestling team together and so we're taking him to college this saturday in a couple of days so that's a definite transition and you got to wonder educations at berkeley high so it's kind of redoubles my dedication to making sure that the opportunities that they received and support that they got to be as successful as they've been my oldest and as at fisk university as a junior he just transferred that that is that is something that other students have access to so welcome back to a new school year you'll be hearing a lot more about what we have planned as this meeting goes forward we're going to be looking at our calendar we're going to be looking at our board retreat so you'll really get a sense of how what we really have been doing this summer is working with our new superintendent to kind of start our planning to make real our priorities for this year and to start looking at what our priorities for the coming school year will be as well so with that your first superintendent comments and well i just want to say thank you board is truly an honor and a privilege to be here i just want to thank everyone for this wonderful great opportunity in thank you for the trustees for meeting with me trying to catch me up on everything that's going on is so much happening you know i'd like to consider berkeley the land of plenty we have lots of resources but with lots of resources there comes a lot of expectations and so with those expectations i'd like to say that we're going to try to do everything that we can to meet those this is going to be a great year for all of us and i'm looking forward to working with my great team my cabinet and with all of you out there so i'm really excited but that and i just want to say that monday and tuesday are teachers we had over eighty percent of our teachers here for common core training around math and that was great so we're doing some great things we got a lot more things planned and we plan to be out there to serve because we're here for you and for the kids thank you so we have a consent calendar so there was a just remind everyone that there was a correction to three one c in terms of the location of the overnight field trip and we also added to close to the consent calendar four point one a five point one and that was it so do i have a motion a second to pass the  we have an eight thirty we have eight thirty we've got four minutes or so before we can do that four point when oh sorry that was four point two way  mandate cost me a verse of an options is that i think that might be is that going to be a discussion i think i think we don't have enough time to do that when the time we get there we can do ok let's do before we start i just wanted to before mrs rose talks about that i just want to say that there has been our percentages have dropped drastically  in terms of our evaluations and i know we're going to do everything we can to improve that and we have talked about improving our our evaluation performance we know that performance is something that is a goal of ours and we are doing everything that we can to increase that and in terms of increasing that we also are going to be doing some benchmarks and so forth throughout the year and give you some presentations to you periodically so that you're kept abreast in terms of what we are doing in terms of performance evaluations because that is a goal of ours and we are using that in terms of our own evaluations so with that i'd like to turn it over to his roots as you're aware every august we bring you the annual report of employee performance evaluations basie annual performance evaluation some employees are probationary and have more than one evaluation but we only count the annual ones and as you will see we divided we divide to report into all classif personnel how many evaluations were due for that year how many we've completed and the percentage in as you well know that we did have a significant increase in prior years and we'd like to return to a higher percentage than the one from from twenty eleven twelve we like to go higher than eighty six percent for classified so that is our target for this year first certificate it b f t personnel there was a decline but it was not a significant we believe that with the f t because of the set definite evaluation timelines which are pretty standard like with classify personnel where it varies by anniversary date and anniversary by position it's harder to remember when the deadlines are and for you again there was a drop and we are committed to bringing the percentage up some of the systems that we have put in place to remind the evaluators is we send lists every month for classified  evaluations and for they be f t because there are set timelines we have reminders through google calendar for b f d we also do a made year check and we will also be starting that for classified employees so  when we collect the f t evaluations to look at them in december we will also be doing a interim summary report for january with classified evaluations who will also be using technology the google calendar to send supervisors monthly reminders that their evaluations for that month may be too and again cabinet will continue to look at where we need to focus support and continue to encourage supervisors to stay on track and the last two years for new administrators i have also had sessions where i meet with them and mary does the certificate  classified evaluation process we look at the forms we talk about the process and we will also be making that available to any administrator will also be offering you know one on one sessions to any evaluat may need for us to provide more direct support so again we are committed to giving employees feedback timely in writing and providing a support necessary to the employees who  e evaluating and also to our employees who may need support and also providing commendations to those who are doing well so that they can continue to provide excellent service with we can can we can commence with our time certain which is a presentation of the impact of marijuana on our use and to kind of frame this presentation and put it into the larger context of what our district's efforts good evening board members and superintendent i do want to say could because there were jokes there are not thousands of people watching us on t v tonight however i believe my father is and i want eighty nine years old next week anyhow i wanted to introduce ralph kantor to you who is an educator with expertise in the effects of marijuana on the adolescent brain and he is a member of the task force the alcohol tobacco and drug task force we meet monthly where a collaborative group of district and city staff and community members and we do have a couple of members from the task force here this evening who i wanted to acknowledge would you please stand up so we have lisa sterner who is the director of the school based health centers at berkeley high school and and pamela gray who is the i don't know your official title but what lori right hand woman yes so we really appreciate their participation and we are very concerned about the marijuana use in berkeley particularly by high school students at berkeley high and be taxed as a board members are aware the california healthy kids survey which we give every two years shows that our students have a much higher marijuana use rate then what we see in other districts in california and we also see a strong correlation when we have our sorry pairings that we see that truant students often do have issues with chronic marijuana use we also see that often with our students who are in need of credit recovery who are failing classes who are having engaged in risky behaviors there often is an element of marijuana use so it's very very prevalent and pervasive in our community and we want ralph cantered to provide you with some information about really the way in which this impacts our teenagers in the community and  believe that one of the reasons that the other reason we're having rough count you're here was that in berkeley i think sometimes we have as adults a difficulty in talking about marijuana use to our our students  berkeley has a reputation for having liberal views on on the issue of elites adult marijuana use which sometimes makes it more complicated on how to discuss it with with your children and i know that i've had the opportunity to hear cantor's talk a couple of times now and it really helped me to kind of have a better understanding of what to say that you know was that sounded like something that my son would listen to as opposed to maybe i just say no which i think is difficult for many of our students in berkeley to to respond to and i know that the council city councils already had him come and speak in front council that was one opportunity for the just for the council to have that information but also for that information to be disseminated out on the t v so this is another opportunity for those on the board that's not had that opportunity for audience of that opportunity and for i hope the thousands of people who are nonprofits can use because i personally and and hopefully will get some response after you present it's a very powerful information that does make it easier in a in a in a city that has the views that we do to be built to differentiate and talk about marijuana use around use as opposed to what we're while the way in which some of us may view it for a don't use or for medical uses so with that roth cantar thank you really an excellent show it's last for an hour and i think what's going to get some notoriety about it is that doc to change his mind about marijuana a lot and it probably forty five minutes was devoted to its medicinal value and positive things about marijuana at the same time there was about fifteen minutes that had to do with adolescence and marijuana that was really jim with all the latest research on it and that's a big concern so part of what i'm getting around doing this talk is that it's right on what we're looking at it is that it's different for teenagers than it is for adults and that's the big concern so with that's over that the second thing i want to say is that it's fifteen minutes ok and when we were talking about it with the task force this morning i was saying you know in fifteen minutes well you know this stuff is more nuanced than that it's not black and white and so thirty minutes would have been better but it doesn't need to be it it does need to be simplified and i here's my best shot for tonight so what the talk is about number one rising use of marijuana and alcohol with teens amongst the highest here and by here i mean berkeley berkeley high and simply said number one it's really available here is that kids can buy what they call a nickel bag a purple but it's a five dollar gram of marijuana that some of the strongest men i want to you can buy anywhere and it's cheap if you  on the east coast and you had that you could get fifteen or twenty dollars for it but out here this is where it is and secondly it's not seen by not only the students but by the community at large and it's having any any harmful value as a matter of fact and the it i'll kohol is seen as having many of them harm as far as the teenagers are concerned but marijuana is perceived as having low harm so that's  third is that it's an environment here and has a lot of mixed messages about about marijuana and i think those mixed messages go on to the kids and it's the last one that i want to say this is the polarization around this whole subject around marijuana the politicize the politicizing of it it really it interferes with everyone just being able to put aside their proposer constant prejudices to just be open to learning something new everybody has such a strong attitude around it that becomes very difficult to teach about it and so that's the part i play as a teacher doing drug education without the charge second thing that's so that any of those four are the reasons why it's more used here than it is in other parts of the state or other parts of the country second i want to talk about the difference between the teen brain and in the dope brain when it comes to using marijuana there's biological differences and some of them are pretty straightforward that that make it much different when teenagers use marijuana as opposed to adults of thing i'd like to talk about don't with me because it's the driving force around a lot of this stuff fourth i'd like to teach a little about marijuana particularly how does marijuana affect the brain in learning and last know what the research basically is saying and this is the message that i give to the parents is wait if we can get to somewhere between seventeen and eighteen before they start getting into marijuana or alcohol the prognosis is so much better so that's the talk simply said on this eleventh graders in the last thirty days that i've smoked marijuana this is not ever but in the last thirty days in california thirty three percent tranq alcohol and twenty one percent smoked marijuana in the last thirty days in berkeley it's a forty five percent and thirty seven percent forty five percent drank alcohol the last month and thirty seven percent smoke marijuana in the last month and i want to say as far as alcohol is concerned kids are not having a glass of cabernet that's not the way they drink alcohol the second thing that's of note is that the perceived harm for alcohol is medium compared to the perceived harm of marijuana it is low and the third thing is easily or fairly easily obtained look at ninth graders i'm sorry it's not lined up right sixty three percent of ninth graders say it is easy or fairly easy to obtain alcohol seventy three percent of ninth graders say it is easy or fairly easy to obtain marijuana so part of what i want to say around this is that the availability is really there it's not seen as as being a problem so it's no surprise that the usage is so high and t is the nontraditional school so that would be tech sixty four percent smoke marijuana in the last month year so the second thing is so why is an adolescent brain different than adult brain and two things one that this is a conglomeration of the m r i zur pet scans of adults and of of teenagers doing different kinds of tasks and basically what it's saying is that an adolescent biologically is not at the same place in terms of their prefrontal cortex in their thinking ability as an adult is which is somewhere around  twenty two twenty three years old and so just biologically i want to say that there's a lot of adults that use drugs and alcohol and it's but it takes a level of sophistication that i don't think teenagers really have they are not they're not thinking about the future or whatever they're not processing the information the same way and the second thing that i want to so the catch phrase on it is that the parents the adults need to be the prefrontal cortex for their kids it's the first one was a i got this recently i think it's great this is the way i want to describe an adolescent brain it's got it highways that are going all over the place and it changes to this i love it but it's two things on here that have really changed from here to here one is that there's less highways so really what's happening in the brain is that a lot of neural connections get pruned away they they literally lose gray matter the stuff that they work gets what's called myla needed in those are the big highways and so it's a very crucial time when teenagers are trying to figure out teenagers are trying to figure out well how do i deal with stress how do i deal with with pleasure what are my interests what highway am i taking and which ones am i not and those that they're not are dropping away and those that that they are are really getting hardwired in it's a very crucial time and it's called  purpose so this is this is the end of one period so in the beginning of the next brain cell and what happens simply in the way the brain works is we get input into the brain right now i'm giving information somebody might be thinking about something something's coming into everybody's brain when it gets to a brain cell the brain cell does two things one it's a chemical factory so it makes a chemical and the chemical is called a neurotransmitter and secondly it there is an electric of natural put coming in there we introduce marijuana tetrahydrocannabinol or alcohol or another drug and if the drug and it works differently on people and different people's brains but if it works well what it does is it fires with teachers say what the kids brain says is this good ok and kids i don't think had the sophistication part of what i teach at berkeley high is that it's a trick used a drug to trick t brain to fire off dope in me it's not the real thing and so my message for four kids you know when that type of mean fires off it's not just this feels good but it's this is important is important to me and for some kids that drug works so well it becomes very important it becomes the what's important filter and at this time kids need to help figure out what am i interested in you know how do i deal with my boredom where do i get my pleasures now it's not in lego's and darren's anymore ha ha experience pleasure how do i deal with stress social skills who am i and what's important to me that's what teenagers really need to figure out and the problem with with th drug is they smoke the weed it fires off the dope me and it takes care of all this in one shot so really the sudden partying is a good times is totally hooked up with drugs what's the main interest men are going to happens with it with everybody but with some people biologically their brain is firing off that kind of dope and mean it becomes it takes care of all of these tasks that they really need to figure out these are the highways that i want to see them develop that can that can get detoured through doping me so my message for kids is get a life we should juice we get wet what interests you so we talk about weed in there and then you know it's really like a finger pointing to something that they are interested in well they fall over to the finger instead of going after what is what is your interest where is your juice get it what makes you feel alive i don't mean sarah tone and i'll skip it but it's the number of us went over there and smoke free or smoke marijuana over there it was a totally different set up of marijuana and the reason was it wasn't the city of it was in the gut and had five to ten percent t h c i m let's say one is two percent the other is eight percent that was four times stronger than the we did people smoked in the states and hippies in san francisco rolled a joint pass it amongst everybody it worked this is a totally different that you grow just the female plant it doesn't do it without the male plant around the female plant doesn't get fertilized by a male plant so the female plant doesn't make seeds so the potency of the plant instead of going into the seed goes into the bud that bumps it up to ten to fifteen percent t h c and we're not in berkeley two thousand and thirteen nowadays the common nickel bag of purple bread that kids buy on the street across from berkeley highs fifteen to twenty percent tetrahydrocannabinol and the one that i want to talk about is the book campus and it's tied up in learning and here's the here's the way it works so first of all it's not in the conscious thinking part of the brain  unconscious part of the brain and it's connected with memory and i have an memory over here but it's really all throughout the brain and the hippocampus has a couple of really important things number one it's like a google search engine on  a memory banks and pulls up exactly what we need to know at any one moment in time for example let's say we're in math for grade math and the teacher says ok class i want to start teaching about percents i want to start teaching about fifty percent what the hippocampus does first as it pulls up the knowledge that that student has in math all i know about fractions i learned that i know what a half is not only that i have decimal knowledge i learned about principles i know what five tenses and so those things get pulled up by the hippocampus the teacher teaches the new thing about fifty percent that rattles around the brain along with the information that it in the hippocampus or the child says i got it now i know what fifty percent means the hippocampus knows the second thing which is it puts the nation into memory and it also discriminates in a lot of times it's going happens is this it doesn't work well so the first thing is it doesn't pull up off a long term memory very well so example you pick up an apple and you take a bite out of the apple you expect it to taste like an apple  great we have apple knowledge if it tasted like anything else you would be shocked ok but it's so huge you expect it to taste like an apple but if i cut out the if i had if i cut out the piling up for so it doesn't work well then all of a sudden i take a bite out of the apple and i go oh my goodness i had a thousand apples in my life but you got to taste this apple because this apple taste special it's kind of like i'm eating an apple for the first i cut out the memory stuff for a while like like you want to say oh i get more creative or i think outside the box well in the sense they do not locked into their memory so thoughts can come and go much more easily without being logged that's why people can say that they feel creative around it's like the same mind beginner's mind ok the other part is that it also doesn't put stuff to memory very well either so you have somebody who's thinking  history we have these deep thoughts and then we go what was i talking about i can't remember because it and so interferes with putting information into memory as well and it also makes it difficult to distinguish between what's important and what isn't s might be looking at somebody's shirt or whatever ok now this can be you know whatever the first thing i want to say is that information doesn't integrate it doesn't put stuff into memory marijuana figures with learning and it takes a number of detainees for that hippocampus to clear up so that child is processing information pulling up what they know and putting new information in and it takes a few days to recover and what i see with parents a lot is they might say oh my kid's doing ok get nice and b s and stuff but they had the emotional maturity of a thirteen or fourteen year old they really think that they're a lot of their social skills a lot of stuff is not developing their passions as to what's really interesting for them and it's ok so the balance slows people down this is wipe kids that are eighty or particularly attracted to it and so for a couple hours it slows down their they're thinking ok which can feel really good you know for somebody who say to be with thoughts rushing around the problem is once the drug wears off you get the opposite from the drug that you expected here the kids get more weighty than they were before they get to campus is now at the field with think kids get duller and there's a lawsuit don't mean so afterwards they feel burnt out and so on of these graphs where you know the bottom line is when the beginning drinking or using drugs and the top line news you know what kind of problems they get into always between seventeen and  in the wizard of oz they are on the road to get a life to get a brain to get a hard to get courage dorothy wants to get home they get to the top of the hill they look down and they see where they needed to go to the wizard but between them and the wizard was poppy fields and they had a walk through the poppy fields and i want to say that our our kids are walking through poppy fields at berkeley high and i don't know if we can you know we i don't think we can get it all all out it's all around us and part of us what what date in the movie they went to sleep and what glenda said was listen you want to get a brain you want to get a heart you get out of the poppy fields and stay on the road and in a way i look at us as being glenda having these kids not to fall off into the poppy fields but stay on the road and get a  life yeah these are what i like partnership for drug free america there's and i think night is good and the one that i would really suggest that i don't have written on here because it  for the time appreciate it you know how many of these presentations are given in our schools and communities so far a lot i really enjoy going into the classrooms and doing it with the kids a lot a lot i retired for a retired i left the county office four years ago and so it's been four years and and a perfectly hype coming a lot it's nice now to see kids that live you know because you never know what you do and like the feedback that you gave me tonight you know to hear all wow that really you know that was useful for you you know but my thing is people need to just say no k n o w you know and i want and the kids are hungry for the information i think the community is hungry for the information and i think we're not on marijuana want to one anymore you know this has been around a long time and i think we need to kind of raise that discussion to be able to recognize certain things that that are an issue and teenagers an issue you know and with adults i think it's i think it follows a lot of the same things that alcohol does where alcohol can enhance a lot of people's lives and some people it really is you know and and does it pack people's lives in relationships absolutely maybe more subtle than alcohol but i think a lot of a lot of the parallels are there and we'll get a chance to see it in colorado  and washington and doubt this this the recent one is this thing about dab's which is in the community which is eighty percent t h c that's snorted off  of of oil that's he did it and i mean it reminds me a little bit of the change between when people were doing powdered cocaine what happened when they started to smoke it you know and now what's happening between what marijuana was and  where it's going and the cancer on top of that the electric east cigarettes and stuff that they can use that to smoke with the whole technology is there and i think that the thing that we're asking and i think the more that the leaders get that that it will filter down because honestly a lot of the teachers the counselors the parents don't really know how to respond to the kids you know and some of it coming into our schools and on going and how do we this presentation i know i've heard it once before but how do we do this presentation or has it been done in spanish spanish speaking families yes it's been done it's been done for spanish speaking families with the translator we did it three years but it would be nice to have somebody who i'm embarrassed honestly that i speak one language and that i can't speak spanish to be able to present this  i think that we ought to have you know there's not a lot of people that are giving this message and i think it's that's the reason why the kids are really listening to it in some ways this is dicey i parents you know from middle school particularly you know say to me what did you tell my kid about marijuana that it's going to make the appetites better or that it's going to fire off top of me and i don't want my kids to know that you know so in some ways it's you know it's you can get it from both ends you know you know i'm hoping that we could host some some workshops or some meetings for parents and i definitely know something that would be great and i would like to train some people to be able to do it  so how does aspects of this presentation also get down at the elementary school level and to the parent community there and have you looked at reaching into that level of community so that the education actually doesn't wait until it gets to berkeley high because it starts obviously before berkeley high end and i kind of want to go back to director live a cutler's question is what is it we actually need to do do we have recommendations from the a t o taskforce for steps that the district in the city can do together because i think the issue of being on the same page and a common message is critical and we haven't had that and and so i don't know whether there's actually recommendations that have come come forward that we could begin to entertain so taskforce members feel free to speak up so we're in the planning stages and we're very clear that we don't want this to be a method for  criminalizing students who are using but to give them education and support but where we're looking at we're hoping to have more surveillance surveillance isn't the right word but more supervision is th correct word that can include you know district staff administration and say for example at civic center park from berkeley high doing more frequent walk through and same with from the cities and if there can be a little bit more of a police presence is something that we're hoping for anything else that the task force members want to add go up to the mike come copies of those that we can provide to all of the school members that are very specific recommendations that are immediately actionable that can be implemented both in partnership independently through the school district independently through the city and in partnership together so so i'll make sure that we get copies of that report to all of you it's a place to start and the second actionable item is the council recommendation that was passed in july and i know can you know like council member said a lot of us walk through that part and have blinders on or don't know what to do but there's actually a number of other parks where we've got issues so that's where you know there's we don't have jurisdiction over the other parks in the school district or any of the parks for that matter but we could still look at how do we partner with our community as well as the school district in the city i do us say we have some comprehensive support that includes foundation and where we have a couple of gaps we don't have that level of support at berkeley high school or at king middle school and we are looking at beginning the beginnings of  perhaps a partial implementation of a curriculum in the fifth grade because we do see a big in our california helping kids survey starting at seventh grade they use but tween fifth grade seventh grade goes up quite a bit  and the middle school science teachers are doing some drug curriculum and all of the seventh and eighth grade i know  thank you very much for the presentation it's the second time i've seen it and i i really appreciate the i really appreciate the information and the kind of the takeaway the message and i can see how it can it's just really effective i think will resonate resonates mor than others with young people so i had as i have to incoming i have two students in berkeley unified and so we received two big packets in the mail and both of them included a big thing a big thick inaccessible to parents so that they might not be as much information but perhaps would be more more of it would be read and so i wondering what if that's part of the conversation i know there's always a balance between what information we provide and and i'm just wondering if there's ways and maybe also through the plus news and other ways that we can help get the its information not just in spanish i think also in spanish and also just at a kind of it at a level that can be understood by a more of our parents and you know and read by more of our parents i'm just wondering dr craig what what the conversations have been around that and do you know the packet i'm talking about i believe i do and we  in high school they got the same we worked on a document a year ago and we really spent a lot of time going back and forth about editing and refining and what what should be in there and what shouldn't be in there and i mean we were always open to improving and that was specifically for high school so i'm not sure what you got from the middle school i have to re at look like the same things i didn't actually ok second time i got it so that i might have been if you i'd actually like to see it because certainly we're always looking for ways to get information out to parents around this and i don't mean to be critical i know that there's a lot of important information it was excellent information i'm just wondering if maybe in either in addition to that or maybe there could be some graphic representation the other way i just was concerned that maybe you know sometimes more is not more you referring to the parent student handbook or something in addition to that are you referring to the parent student handbook or information i'll double check i just i guess the main thing it's not even that i'm so it sounded very critical i didn't mean it to be i just think that there might be other ways of presenting information that might be more here also those packets are pretty thick and if you're kind of looking to find like the emergency card in how you sign up for classes you know something that it's great information but two or three pages is not necessarily the first use it well you might put that aside to read later and maybe not read it so i think we're just talking about something that maybe is a little bit more grab your interest as something to not put aside but maybe it is there i don't know  i just maybe they get it we get it at different times i just i think i just want to encourage that i love the message and i will and i know it's a little we're going to say now it's also controversial i just want to help see what i you know i think that's great because that i think that's some of the basis for the parent education is that the parents can understand it and it just makes sense to them that then it becomes much easier to be able to talk to your kid about it so just one quick comment about that that you know that's a great example of something that is done by parent volunteers so you know the task force is stuffed you know by staff and also parent volunteers and karen hughes who's the in charge of the sub group that's doing parent support and resources and she's the one on a volunteer basis doing a monthly support group up berkeley high for parents that are just recently coming in to terms with the fact that their kids have a substance abuse issues so it's her and her group of volunteers that assembled all of that information so you know it's something definitely to address a great example of if we actually had some real resources to do a more professional type of you know education we'd be able to do that so thank you for telling us that that's so thank you to those paragraphs thank you for this is so i guess the next steps really is to  get the recommendations from the a t o de taskforce jonna as action item and and also i really am interested in in talking a little bit for the cause i gree that we a lot of this work has been done with volunteers or on very limited budget and you know to describe the the the issue of a t o d of particular marijuana use that we have heard at this district for several years you know you gotta walk the walk and talk the talk and you know write the checks and so i think you know to build on the work that you're doing but as you say you know parent volunteers are doing this desi professional brochure on their resources you know i think your slideshow is great information but certainly you know someone who's a professional person could put that information with your input in a way that you know again is just you know a bit more accessible or catchy so to speak than just hearing the information it's a i mean you know what we're about is trying to change a norm in berkeley and a lot of it is framing and yes selling exactly it's like i really see this as a campaign yes and i don't want other guests that is i'm glad you mentioned the new bridge foundation at some of the schools and that s philanthropic we funded with a grant and it would be good for us to hear the outcomes of that grant and what evidence there has because the other issue well there's education the community lacks treatment for adolescents there's not a lot of resources especially for someone who doesn't have insurance or doesn't have access to health care and so it be good to know whether that program is effective and whether or not it's something that we want to pursue other funding for an order to get it over to berkeley high and king but it's hard to say let's expand it if we don't have evidence that it's actually working and so i'd like that to be on the agenda on the effectiveness of that program  yeah i do think that this is maybe something that we start talking about board priorities for if not this year since they're a bit set but for next year that this might be something that that i think it might be time to raise it to the level of of it's not that's not a priority now but one of our three priorities so to speak for a year as opposed to be one of ten priorities for the year karen given that this is coming in jan you're there students  especially with law enforcement in the mix and how it's message i think is really important so now we are back to action items and four to a determination of mandated costs reimbursement options for fiscal year thirteen fourteen and if we can have a just a short staff report on kind of what  legislature passed this in as part of the twelve thirteen but is giving districts an option instead of doing a traditional claiming methodology for mandated claims that all districts are required to do mandated programs such as collective bargaining where we would give me inverse that the district could opt in to a block grant and get funding now versus waiting to  process was in two thousand and seven two thousand and eight and even though we've claimed every year we have yet to see any of those funds so fortunately the state is giving us less money through the block grant process than you would receive under the claiming process so it makes it a kind of difficult decision last year i made a decision not to opt in that was a first year that we had the option we we made the  decision i recommended in the board approved that we would not opting in because it was a greater difference between two hundred fifty thousand dollars and a block grant vs eight hundred thousand dollars than the reimbursement process we didn't know who would opt in or who would not put in at that time so we felt like we didn't want to give up that big of a difference in funding just to get the money now we had an eight million dollar reserves so we felt like there was no need to go ahead and  get a smaller funding level but the reason why i am i'm recommending that we opt in this round is seventy five plus percent of all school districts have opted in so i don't think that there will be much focus on giving appropriating funding for their own reimbursement process given this only a few districts that didn't opt in the largest districts in the state have opted in of course were are losing millions of dollars that they can get if they ever received in on the claim in methodology but they were willing they it was a situation where the state budget was being cut every year and so many districts felt like o were in a situation where they needed the money now so they opted in including long beach in l a u s t so so that's one of the reasons i think if we don't do it we probably would never see the funding for the reimbursement process it's really unfair to really force districts that because this is something that districts are it's in the state legislature that we actually get this funding even under the reimbursement method if it's appropriate in the budget but it hasn't been so my recommendation is that says the dollar figure did go up from two hundred fifty thousand dollars for berkeley school district to three hundred thirty six thousand dollars for opting in that the district had an opt in this is a one year opt in so each year you have the opportunity to opt in to get three hundred thirty six thousand dollars for thirteen fourteen school year and i just don't think we'll ever see the funding for the reimbursement method so every year that we claim reimbursement we've submitted our report for x amount of money for these that just goes away no it doesn't go away the money's the prior year claims the state still owes us that funding for the prior years including twelve thirteen so that's not going away we've claimed it we will claim fiscal year twelve thirteen we haven't done it yet because you claim it out to the years it has ended but we will claim it and we're still entitled to and we're still do the funding that we claim the governor hasn't proposed and the state legislature hasn't passed any funding for the old claiming method methodology so you do the sitting and waiting it's not in the budget it's not in the budget or gee only thing that's in the budget is monies available for those who opt in to the block grant funding and it is a lot less i mean so what they're doing unfortunately is saying if you want some funding you need to opt in going to get less or one day maybe probably not since seventy five percent of the districts have opted in you're going to wait for that funding so it's kind of unfortunate situation but i don't see an option for us i think if we just hold out there's not even the larger districts have opted in so we don't even have the kind of disappointed there are other districts because if we all had decided not to do this i think we would have a ground the stand on incur these costs in terms of our time you know to to prepare the documentation board into district transfers our time and collect the bargaining we're going to do that because we're mandated by law to do it ok so yes we have to continue doing it for less money than what it's costing us to do it it's what i what the state is giving us as an option but this is essentially money that in a way we've already budgeted to do because we have to pay those costs up front in hopes of being reimbursed that's correct and we can say we may get reimbursed for the prior years i don't know when i you know one of the situations director sign a bill so i mean i actually think the presentation has been helpful because i think that we need to understand that while we could potentially and we could ask for the reimbursement it hasn't ever so i mean  i agree with you yes ok so now we're on the board retreat so the purpose of this really was to have a little more discussion one to set a potential date i do have a suggestion and to get a little bit of feedback from the board members of my fellow board members of the format for the debate of the debate of the retr live ready for friday and slip i felt that it was something that while i have a kind of a general proposal of what i think we could accomplish i didn't want it to be something i felt it was something that  entire board should have an opportunity to weigh in and provide some feedback in talking with the superintendent a potential date at least we said was forget what i said now you know i think we're looking at september twenty fifth because we were talking about that being a c t e not having a whole lot to update to twenty fifth was was the date that i thought we could do it and but you know i wanted to get feedback the reason for that was that my thoughts were what the outcome this meeting was so what we did last year and which of course we've already set a lot of the work that we're expecting to take place this fiscal year that we have outstanding an african american achievement  those i think as we did last time those three to five things that we as a board are kind of saying is is can buy purdie issues which with then potentially feed into our later discussion of our superintendents evaluation in terms of the degree that progress is being made on those items and then i thought second only we would we could discuss next fiscal year fiscal school year fourteen fifteen because i do think that we need to kind of look at goals and objectives two years out and then come to a re circling and so you know so this year well we're kind of taking what we've kind of discussed which really is part of the budget process in a way in terms of what our priorities are kind of taking all the work that's being done to one of the three to five things that we're kind of committing to to prior tries and then so if we then  projected for the second year come next september let's say that we would do the same thing because when you're in what we were able to achieve this year you might you know change some of what you're expecting to get done in year two and then next year you're also then look for the next year or so we're always doing kind of a two year cycle in my opinion in my proposal in which you're checking in each year so you can make adjustments every year but there's been some thought for two years so you're not concerning from scratch every year because i think it's very difficult for staff to kind of not getting direction to the middle of the school year for that school year in general so that's my general  proposal but i wanted to have some opportunity for the board to discuss that another decision point is whether or not to get the it was whether or not to get some outside  facilitation and also the other question was is that we talked about governing board governance and bylaws and whether or not to kind of full that into this retreat as well as is spending some time and it's a lot to get done in one session but those are the kinds of things that i thought i would throw on the table but i wanted to hear from best to pre board to get some general direction of what question so september twenty fifth is a wednesday if we wanted to do it during a board meeting the recommendation was that but in fact to do it as a half a day or retreat i think is prefer rable but then we would have to set aside having a board meeting so i found the saturday retreat really helpful last year and i think having the time that's not because always going to be business and other things that are going to come up during a board meetings i think that this is valuable and important enough to set aside time specifically for the retreat and i would prefer i personally would prefer to do it when we have more time than during the board meeting and i do feel like we had a lot of discussion last year about the protocols of the board and about the bylaws and how we wanted to kind of taking a look at some of what's in the bylaws what's not in the bylaws how we want to run meetings and that i think it would be great to take the opportunity of this retreat to do that and i would be i would volunteer to do some work before hand to help prepare us for that because i think it's a great opportunity with the superintendent and you know this being a year when we're having this retreat a little bit earlier and when there's not going to be any new brand new board member so i'm i just so i would rather have my input would be to hopefully have it on a week and day and even if it's a half day or a little bit more and to take the time i also really i'm a strong believer in in and outside facilitator so i think it's worth we don't have to get only had a really high end person last year it was a really unique situation we maybe don't have to do that but i do think i agree i think we should have i would prefer and we think better after a full day working in coming in to talking about some very deep and important issues in matters of our president the vice president work on kind of putting the retreat together working with staff to do that and i guess i just smiled and told you  president i agree with a half day concept on a weekend would be great i think trying to do it on a evening on a work night is is not conducive i kind of bounce back and forth so i maybe just want to throw it out there around doing a retreat before we kind of set superintendent evaluation focus and outline so i kind of think that  because i also think that part of you know i don't know how you did it with the last with the last time with the outside facilitator but you know i think also kind of the question of what the superintendent's role is and also helping to define your recommendations and the like around priorities but you know there's a part of me that feels like having the discussion also with the superintendent evaluation process before going into a retreat also has some value and they're defining kind of two different but related things in one is that we've not really discussed the superintendent evaluation and that's really a matter of closed session but part of but there is but  really there's been discussion about having programmatic pieces to the valuation so you can't really include that in discussion or an evaluation if you don't know what your program priorities are so really that's kind of the wing is as to our boards birdie's and that will feed into when we discuss the superintendent evaluation what part of those priorities would be included as part of the evaluation process but we're not really talking with the evaluation process in the retreat because that's a matter of the board of director of health so i just want to be just want to get some clarification as i'm a little confused so there's two things one of them is putting together the agenda for the retreat and so that's what i think i heard you say that the president and vice president are going to work on as far as this content piece that has to do with governance and via laws and protocols that something that this that the policy community actually had taken up and then our policy committee goes through it was ok and half of it left and then we were kind of busy last year so i would i just think that that's another place that some of that preparation could get done as as if the president and vice president decide that that something upon the recommendation of some of the directors that we do agree address that maybe the policy committee can take up you know some of the questions we would ask and looking at that so that it's not all sitting with director so i know that agreed to be on the policy committee yeah i think that's a great idea i think it makes sense for the president the vice president not to be making that initial kind of discussion but to have two other board members to do that so if the two of you are willing to as a policy to kind of come up with something to frame our discussion that would be very helpful and then just and i can look at the agent at the hole and thinking i mean i actually would like to bring back the if if everyone is comfortable fact who is the president facilitator for our last retreat i thought he did a pretty good job but whoever it is in thinking back to that day we spent four hours we spent the vast majority of it on setting our priorities and we ran out of time and so if we're going to do another four or five our thing i not that i don't think that setting priorities are important or that kind of bylaws and procedures are important but i think it is probably difficult for us in four or five hours to really tackle both  in a really deep way and so whether that means doing that additional day or intern doing one or the other additional way i just would caution us to take on too much because when i first read this i thought to be the priorities and that we didn't want to focus on the bylaws of the procedures but that that this refusing to focus on that and i'm more than happy to switch i don't have a strong preference one of the other but i don't if i were if we take on too much then we won't get much out of either one so i'm open to doing more than one day or you know doing a longer day but i just would caution answering half a day when we pick one of the other i was is that we start with the boy pretties in the second thing is the byelaws i think that the fact will be some work already done may make it as a easier discussion and i think that if we don't finish that discussion then that might be something that we could we could  complete at a subsequent board meeting and i think that's a really good point that you make director daniels and i think last year's retreat also there was a lot of other it was a unique make a point in time also so maybe we can here's a proposal that we have a little slightly longer retreat maybe not too long but a little bit longer and and that we see that we put aside a period of time that we will address start addressing the byelaws of the governance questions and what i would suggest that the policy committee do is come with a set of questions that are specific questions that we don't have the the goal of trying to resolve all of them during that day because i don't think we'll be able to do that but i think we can get we can identify what the questions are and have some conversations that we can then bring  would it would it be important to have it at the same day as the retreat or could we for example put aside some time on september twenty fifth to how to begin or would you prefer to have  frequent discussions of this i want to make sure that we that we get out of that time what you want to get what we want to get out of that how about if we have an even director sign and i have a plan being kind of the kind of you doing kind of a first to kind of come up with a set of questions we have an issue discussion but you're right i mean it was kind of given to the policy committee to come up with a proposal so i think if you come up with the initial just structuring how the does kind of structuring what might be in the byelaws what or what are some of the issues that you know been raised in the past we can then kind of talk about that maybe it could be a could our discussion not to settle them but to at least all to agree on what should be included in the policy committee kind of works on it and then it comes back to us i think that that that is do since it seems that there's universal interest in having one i think we can figure out who makes sense and three basic upon what we see is kind of the framework for the retreat will probably help us decide you know kind of will work but will poll the board members of both those saturday and get some suggested dates and maybe ninety three is a one to three with lunch and last time i think we had it so we'll be working with staff to kind of discuss with the consultant what we have in mind and how the day goes will set the agenda and really for the that's going to be the bulk of the meeting and they'll be then from the policy committee  something the presentation kind of these are what we see are the issues that we need to address do you agree it's anything else and then based upon that little further on that great so john  i guess the action items is that staff will pull the the board to come up with a saturday date and which is saying from nine to three with lunch at bonior street and  that vice president daniels and i will serve as a subcommittee to really look at the edge and work with death about setting the program for that day selecting the consultant and then the policy committee as part of that agenda will do paperless agenda there's no oh no sorry there was that we only have two more that got that was they don't school benchmarks followed by the berkeley high school phase two and three so they don't and really the question that i had when i was reading this was it i didn't pull it rather i wanted to ask questions about it it seemed that this was kind of given to us is this is kind of the money that we're getting based upon the benchmarks that we made but i was kind of looking to see is it because it seems that from two thousand and nine to two thousand and thirteen fourteen we've gotten more money every year and the staff report talked about that you get money based upon your performance so it was kind of like it's kind of the dots were there but i didn't see the specific connection so maybe if you can just talk a little bit about that connection between how we're doing in terms of the benchmarks how that relates to the money that we're getting and maybe even in comparison to other adult schools that would be relevant let me start and just give a very basic explanation that what we're talking about here is a federal grant so this is not the state money that comes in for adult education this is over and above and what this sets out is the amount that the district is eligible to receive based on the number of other adult schools that are also meeting bent benchmarks so in other words there's a certain amount of money set aside it's approximate that this is what the district will get but have lots of other adults schools also meet those benchmarks we would get perhaps less than this amount this is the maximum that the adult school is eligible to receive now that the data they do look at benchmarks related to english is a second language related to high school diplomas and related  to civics and those are the three primary areas that are tested students can test in all three areas they can test a number of times and each benchmark is tallied and kept track of through a system that has been set up by the federal government so you can see in general the performance on these benchmarks has risen year after year after year which i think is a testament to the adult school in the work they're doing so i don't know what else you want to say how this relates to the rest of the adult school and other funding that the adult school receives certainly another important point that i think you should be aware of the award we anticipate receiving this yours for the work that was done two years prior so the work we did last year twelve thirteen will be an award and i really think it reflects the work of our staff the prior administrative team was there margaret kirkpatrick to some extent and then for one year sterling burner and really the vice principal john lehman had really restructured how we measure their performance for this grant  in creasing the testing cycle and we've used that template that i really think john lehman gets credit for setting up and we do five test throughout the year starting with  a pretest this time of the year we test again in october december march and then again in may and what we submit to this state in the fed's out of those five test and it's done automatically through the database system they pull the highest and the lowest score and they consider that a paired score and then they look at performance and benchmarks are based on that  d it's really quite amazing that the trajectory of this grant despite the big cutbacks that started really in two thousand and eight two thousand and nine the following year after that the adult call in many adult schools around this state instituted very nominal enrollment registration fees and what we saw what i've been looking at for the last three years is our persistence so when the classes were free we had phenomenal attendance and enrollment numbers but well another thing we see in adult education is we use the term stop out as opposed to drop out adults can they they vote with their feet in class doesn't meet their needs they leave but they usually will return and there they are there because a realize need they're motivated a nominal fee our program is our biggest program last year we served a little over twenty two hundred students and that's where most of this money is being earned i think one change that our vice principal around tomorrow and i have made is that our basic and secondary education departments weren't really participating in this and we're stepping it up and that's really reflected for the last three years we've been there on that last chart where each adult secondary in ged is substantially lower so we're trying to grow that program because we feel it's really important so i want to give you some information but you may have some more questions too so we're maintaining our testing cycles and working with as neal said it is a federal grant but it's administered through department of ed so we work very closely with them and we use the standardized tests that use nationally and also and in philippines it's called casas comprehensive adult student susman system it's a standardized literacy test and also mention the civics component and that is entirely classes citizenship classes were cut so when i came on board in the fall of two thousand and ten we didn't have citizenship and we aspired to add that to our program we did last january and  we have been contacted by forgotten the name of the local organization in berkeley that does naturalization services and they want to partner with us so we have an ob we're we're part of a consortium grant that's in right now despite how that grant turns out we're going to offer citizenship because we feel there's a need with immigration reform and we've been getting requests for the classes so that's that's new fairly recent that we have a couple of citizenship preparation classes  talent so yeah appreciate this opportunity so i want to thank you all for having me here and welcome dr evans another thing i wanted to mention about this  granted it's it's as neal said it's really a testament to our staff and the work and dedication they put into serving students it's changing a little bit this year so the way they award payment points they also talk refer to them as benchmarks is changing a little bit whereas in the past we could deliver we could earn payment points on any number of students up to and  civics tests this year you can only do five but the value of those payment points paid to go up there also starting this year going to be measuring payment points on more specific outcomes retain a job get a new job enter post secondary education ged or high school diploma completion so those are logical indicators and we're going to kind of change our accomplishments in the graduation that have gone you know the students are extremely proud and you know each year it seems to be a big crowd of family members graduate so congrats everybody is part of that make educational grants is that it must be you must use it to supplement and not supplant we can a good portion of it is used in teacher salaries that supplement our program for example the civics  and it has to be used in a way that touches students so we've used it to incorporate technology learning materials instructional materials professional development is going to be a big push for us this year i think it's kind of a quality problem every spring it doesn't carry over so the quality problem is how we're going to spend this money one thing we did last year that we did differently in previous years as we worked with our budget analyst to work on a spend down plan starting in august rather than waiting till january how we're going to spend this money and move it around so we're being a lot more thoughtful how we use it and we're really fortunate before for ana cavaleri moved over till a cot that she trained our secondary department just as teachers with common core so where we're trying to stay stay with the district and school and so i would that's a great thing because then you're lining the curriculum that they were receiving and common core we will be receiving yes you know other adult schools do a lot a lot more credit recovery and cunt current enrollment and we've got a handful but we've got capacity i know a lot of the credit recovery has been happening at the tech but we've got capacity and we're ready to work with the current miners and to serve our best we can we can set up a new section that meets their needs so you really one of the things i really want to do while i'm here is be a value added service to the district i think before chair three flexibility the adult school was kind of an island and i've made a lot of efforts to be integrated and part of the district and aligning our goals with district halls and to really be a value added service and i think it's starting to happen warehousing that p d department got a couple of requests to for these we have funded programs at elementary schools we're talking about getting something started right away so i'm lou i can i can save you the presentation i don't know other others have comments my main reason to pull this as it has been in the past is simply to know whether we're on time then under budget so building and actually the concrete floors some of them have started in the morning and gone on to midnight and fortunately i haven't had any noise complaints around and we're pretty much past that now but it is there's a it's a very complicated building to build and you can also when you go around the site so the building or the project actually has five separate phases on it the first was the school board which was done in time the second phase is the visitors bleachers which was a held back a little bit because of we had some hazardous material that was uncovered over there has or soil was uncovered over there the overall project is still on schedule the next phase of completing the building is slightly behind schedule because of again we've had all the expenses problems that we talked about previously but the overall project because of the different components is not is still on schedule to be done essentially a year from now that's when the completion date is in terms of the clash of the classrooms is that pushback or is that still on schedule the classrooms were pushed back along with the rest of it we haven't yet identified an exact moving date and we started talking to high school we start talking to them before the end of last year is saying during the school year we need to plan it out it won't happen certainly during the first semester but it may happen in the end of february or may happen the beginning of march two thousand and fourteen thousand and fourteen and then when that phase is done then the portables will be moved off softball field we worked on and then the final phase is actually working bancroft and doing doing work improving cost way the all of the comments i make on it is this is also an important project from our on our project labor agreement and the contractor is meeting the local hiring goals actually a little update from what i had in the packet he actually has hired a total of four first period apprentices although one of them actually was injured is not on the site right now so he but he's got three that are working there in the packet i said one with two coming on all three of them are actually working right now and then kind of a side comment on the p l a tonight we passed our first first completed project under p l a which was the derby or mauling fiel project and the contractor did exceed our goals on that and part of our appeal lay says we're supposed to acknowledge the contractor when he does that so i just want to make the comment while we're here tonight that he not only exceeded the goals one of the ways he actually managed to exceed the goals was even though he was not required because of the scale this is on the derby project he was not required to hire any first period apprentices in berkeley because this project was small he found that he was getting behind on meeting his local percentages and he gets double credit for hiring the first period premises so we actually hired three first spirity printers so in terms of budget the project is still within budget it has been you know was challenged very early by that large change order related to the a this actually in a building layer in between a portion of the building so it was not something we could discover at the time but the project is still on budget and so even though we had an increase in cost from that aspect of it we've had we've been have basically savings and other aspects so that on net more and more lessening but you know i would put a little differently than that i would say that we have we have not exceeded the continuously that we had to fight as part of projects so every every project we set aside a portion of our actual budget costs for contingency for things like unexpected especially this change orders and so all while we have used a portion of that we've not exceeded our originally planned budget that's great thank you