come on good evening welcome to the regular meeting for September 22nd 2014 of the Dyna School Board we do have a quorum this evening with all our members present they'd like to call a meeting to order uh first I'm on the agenda is the approval of minutes we had an August 18th work session and regular meeting and also September 8th special meeting had a motion to approve those uh mids it's been moved and seconded any addition or corrections to those minutes as written see nine dollars in favor of approving those minutes please signify by saying aye opposed motion carries uh we have uh two modifications tonight's agenda before Dr Dresden reviews their full agenda uh the first item uh is to replace a proposed Levy which Had A Minor error in it and a motion to insert that I move that we insert the corrected document for the levy second under action item a under action item eight thank you any discussion signature and all those in favor of inserting that item please signify by saying aye aye opposed motion carries uh and the second item this evening is uh action item e e is going to be moved to discussion because we did not get through those items at tonight's Workshop related to the Strategic guiding change plans and Mr chair we're not walking in any change from what's proposed okay and there's no change to the guiding documents as they were inserted into the original agenda uh do we have a motion in a second clarification was the calendar guiding document in the original yes packet yeah there was a version of it the original version of it uh any discussion see now I was in favor of moving the getting change documents uh to the discussion portion of this evening meetings all those in favor aye aye opposed motion carried uh deck addressing can you please walk us through our agenda sorry ready to give Awards already man okay so we're back um so we do have uh accommodations and some recognitions to give some of the good work happening in the school district we'll have an opportunity for hearing from the audience and then we will um learn more about the world's best Workforce this is new legislation that uh is coming forward and we'll have a presentation by a team we'll be sharing that information and then we'll again pause for another public hearing that public hearing will only focus on the world's best Workforce presentation this is required by a state statute so we would have two opportunities for public participation but the second would be focused on the world's best Workforce from there we'll move to some reports around some of our state assessment work our tax levy that is payable in 2015 that works being presented we'll then give an update on our leadership in the facilities planning that is going on in our school district we have a variety of consent agenda items related to Personnel expenditures transfer of funds we have a minor changes in the board agenda based on our law our big picture board agenda items based on work session in September from a consent agenda we'll continue on through some other items the action items again the big action item relates to the proposed tax levy for the upcoming year we have some District committees and advisory councils that we use on a regular basis and approving those memberships we have an improvement of the EAC work agreement this is the administrative work agreement we've got an agreement with the city the Strategic guiding change plan those have been moved to a discussion item and then we'll move into a variety of policies the policy committee we can update the board at the time of that meeting again we'll take a first step on the world's best Workforce more policies and then we'll move us into information and that would conclude the agenda for tonight uh thank you Rick we have our accommodations if we do perfect ECT scores everything I want to welcome Jamie Bowden up to the front of the room successful ACT score of 36. so tell me when you went online and checked in what was your first emotions when you saw that number um I was really surprised I didn't think that I was going to get that and it already happened I had prepared a lot for the one before but then I just kind of took this last one as maybe I'll do better but got it that was good that's good so Taco would too I mean you've been a high achieving really focused on academics what what part of learning really interests you and excites you um I really liked it well in school I'm really interested in math I took calc last year and that was one of my favorite classes I've taken at the school and then biology really interested in bees I'm a beekeeper so yeah that's that's good and now you're in the exploratory of where to go next once we get that diploma signed at the end of the year talk a little bit about some of your interest areas things you might study the schools that you might be looking at I hope to follow my brothers and go to Yale um I'm pretty familiar with there and it seems like a great place although it's kind of a crap shoot getting in so I'll do my best that's good um Jamie it's uh it's it's an honor that you've worked that hard what advice do you have we've got students of all ages you've kind of come through the system here what are some highlights you see what are some advice you have for those students still walking their way through the system and getting closer to that senior year involve yourself in lots of activities um and try really hard on your homework because it makes a difference fantastic congratulations and best wishes we've got some teachers who've done some great things over the past several months and I'm going to ask Mike Walker and Tracy Purdy and Steve to come forward we'll learn more about this program and then we'll invite our teachers up to it for their recognition Steve buettner our director of Technology Steve talk a little bit about this program well I'm so proud of this this program because it really demonstrates lifelong learning so here we have teachers who are passionate about continuing to learn continuing to explore and what uh Randy smallsel likes to say is that that challenge and keep pushing us forward to learn and I'll have Mike and Tracy talk a little bit about the project cohort as it is now and what it might look like in the future it was my pleasure to facilitate the cohort with my colleague Molly Schroeder and focus on digital age learning with our four courses that the teachers took and this is the second time we've run this particular cohort and just amazing work by this group they they really push themselves and have done some phenomenal things and I looking forward I know that many of them put in proposals at the ties conference coming up in December and I have a feeling that many of them are going to be presenting and sharing all of their learning with with the rest of the community at that time and it's just been really neat to see them connecting online with each other and with others around the world and really growing as educators so we'll get a chance this year to offer this again to make sure that the teacher other teachers who have seen the teachers come back we had representatives from every single building so now they've gone back and some people have started some iPad User groups which is wonderful and are testing out some other technology products in their classroom so that's really fun so other teacher teachers are getting excited about it so we'll be offering it again this year which is great and we've had a lot of other districts be very interested in our model and so we look forward to looking at what that might look like in the future with collaboration or sharing with them so and Tracy and Mike are real involved as far as getting technology integrated into the classroom and work on a daily basis with teachers along with uh Molly Schrader so why don't we bring our guests up if you come forward and just kind of line right in here please are you doing first is betny Osborne and maybe I'll hand it to you betney and you can kind of pass along and share where you teach and your feelings about the cohort all right I'm at Southview teaching French grades six through nine and I liked the cohort in the fact that it forced me to really dive in and try new things and within the first four weeks of school um I've definitely tried things that I've never tried before and there have been some hiccups and some successes and that's part of what you do when you try something new so it's been great to kind of push that um into the classroom and keep up the momentum I'm Mary barateron I'm in sixth grade at Southview and probably the cohort has given me confidence to do a lot more in technology than I ever would have done without that so I'm Sherry Clare and I'm also sixth grade at South View and um I can Echo what betony and Mary were saying and just working with each other and trying new things in the classroom Molly gave us a speech early on and I know it was in one of our plans about living in beta so it's sort of a an excuse to dive in even though you can't figure everything out you the kids help you and um it the confidence is unbelievable so I'm Leslie stegerberg I teach kindergarten at Highlands and my one of my best moments was when my kindergarteners were trying to problem solve and had amazing solutions to an app problem we were having and it turned out it was actually the app it was having technical problems that we didn't know about at the time and they were using words like well maybe we should try to go into edit mode and we should try it this way and then they were building off each other's ideas and so what I thought was a wash of a lesson was actually really a beautiful lesson because we were probably following together hi I'm Brit thies I teach first grade at Creek Valley and this Tech cohort has really rejuvenated my teaching it's made teaching easier and it's been so much fun watching my students get excited about sharing what they've learned with other first graders and other people around the world so it's really gotten my classroom connected beyond the classroom walls which has just been invaluable I'm Angela gadke I teach kindergarten at Countryside and I think a couple big takeaways I think it was just amazing in terms of transforming my teaching in that I am not a giver of knowledge I'm in the process with my students and there were so many times that the kids were so engaged and excited and they're like well let's try this and let's do this and I was sitting right along with them learning and problem solving and just um doing that and they were much more engaged and now I'm actually someone from that's designed one of my favorite apps contacted me and said hey what what do you think about this should we try this what you know can we do this and so I'm working with them and giving them some ideas of what might actually work in the real world so my name is Kristen Powell I teach fourth grade at Creek Valley and I think one of the the big takeaways for me was how engaged students are with technology and things that you know I did in a different way before um just the ability of the kids to kind of own it uh was was beautiful and also the way that they have an authentic audience that really makes it feel purposeful to them when they're creating a product or sharing something with other other places other people I'm Sandra Powell and I'm music at Countryside and this class coincided beautifully with my getting an iPad Grant so I had 10 iPads in my classroom now so it things like that I would learn about in this class I could go back to my classroom and hit the ground running it was fantastic I've always thought of myself as techie but I learned so much I learned so much from this class so it was really fabulous and I tell other people they should take it you know several other colleagues couldn't make it tonight but again on behalf of the board and the community we thank you for your continued commitment to new learning during a very busy time and we know it's going to impact our young people for years to come so thank you very much and we wish you congratulations there's no question where he's going one two three thank you all thanks for stopping by tonight to share your thoughts foreign s for members of the audience we invite members of the public to share their thoughts with the school board we ask that you limit your comments to three minutes and John fischbach has requested to stop by tonight and share a few thoughts welcome John thank you if that was a requirement or not first of all thank you everybody for my three minutes and part of the board we had a real interesting occurrence that took place today and yesterday a year ago I'm talking about school year starting times both on the clock and in the time of year the time of year last year a petition went around with the idea that school would start prior to Labor Day and the petition uh I got a copy of it for you here the petition uh included 426 names uh people that responded opposing to the early start date did again in less than 24 hours we got more than a 70 percent equivalent response opposing the early start compared to the previous year and we were we printed this that the Ink's still wet but the names are still coming and coming and coming um the Board address it and other things that the start date has been established prior to Labor Day also but that for 17 and ongoing there isn't a creep where that's going to continue and there there's a lot summer is important as well and believe me everybody would rather have the last month of August off than the first week of June off around here we've all had wet cold June Etc but whether it's a trip to Mount Rushmore that last week at the cabin the parents that have limited vacation time they can tag on a couple days to that three-day weekend and make it the last family outing of the summer we'd like the board to know there's a growing number of people out there that don't favor the early start my second topic is uh this the title says that all pediatricians group says school should start no earlier than 8 30 A.M I'm sure some of you have seen I mean there have been literally dozens and dozens of these articles in the past 30 to 60 days I don't know what the proliferation was cost I don't know where that came from but but it it's everywhere and I've got two friends that have schools had kids starting school at 7 30 that have gone to 8 30. and they say the change is incredible and kids both their General attitude during the school day test scores athletic performance etc etc for that little bit of extra sleep and some people will say well just put your kids to bed earlier you know what when we were all 13 trying to go to bed at 7 30 just didn't work and so we're hoping that the school board could put the idea that this extra bit of sleep is more important than school bus schedules or revenue from school bus rental or whatever it happens to be but we'd appreciate some way of addressing that in the future as as a topic that we think is really important from a performance standpoint I think that's about three minutes thank you thanks Sean thanks John appreciate your input uh next up we have Randy or uh presentation world's best Workforce welcome Randy good evening chair Meyer superintendent Dresden school board members and community I'm joined this evening By Carolyn Jackson one of our community members that sits on our world best Workforce committee and by a student Madison CV who is in 11th grade over at edine high school and will be jointly presenting our world's best Workforce report and then we also have um Consulting from the the back of the room Dr Chad Schmidt as needed who is our director of research evaluation with Edina Public Schools so first of all the world's best Workforce legislation was passed in 2013 the intent of the legislation is to identify those factors that best prepare students for college for career for life and it's really about districts having a strategic plan to ensure that all students have the skills and the preparedness to succeed in life so it looks at benchmarks like kindergarten Readiness reading well by third grade math reading science grade level standards being met by the Minnesota comprehensive assessment our state assessment plans being in place for students regarding college career life or wherever they're headed Beyond High School it looks at graduation rates to to ensure that students are graduation graduating on time and these components are to be laid out in this report so we'll we'll describe this in in just a moment as we go through this report we want to just outline some key components of the world's best Workforce legislation as part of this presentation describe how this legislation is Shifting accountability from a state level to more of a community level and then we'll share some of the main components that we defined in our Edina world's best Workforce plan as presented on our website so I'm going to turn it over to Madison to talk about a couple of elements here yes all right so I served as the student representative on the world's best Workforce last year and I'm intending on continuing this participation into this year I would like to start out by saying it's such an honor to be on this committee uh every single member works so tirelessly to achieve such noble goals these goals specifically are highlighted on this slide so the world's best Workforce is intending on striving towards having all students meet School Readiness goals as touched on uh and it includes all third grade students achieving grade level literacy on top of that there are academic achievement gaps that the world's best Workforce is intending to mitigate among racial and ethnic groups of students between students living in poverty and students on the wealthier side as well as students receiving special education next to those who are not obviously the end goal is to have all students graduate from high school with adequate College and Career preparedness moving on uh how are we going to measure whether or not these goals are actually being met we're going to rely on the student performance on the national assessment of Education progress uh hopefully looking at the reduction of the academic achievement Gap by student groups looking at the student performance on the MCAS which is the state assessment College and Career Readiness as defined under the legislation as well as other locally utilized assessment measures if applicable so thank you yes so as Madison said we have several people on the committee who are working representing across schools across ages across things and one of the things about that is that this legislation turns the accountability to schools on the world's best Workforce to the local community so we have like I said parents we have teachers we have a student we have administrators and we're adding people from the University of Minnesota we have the executive director of college readiness and we have the director of advising and counseling from Normandale Community College on the they're going to be joining our committee so we have people looking at where we are now and where we want to go and that's supported by the Department of Education is giving guidance but it's really up to us to create it and go forward so some of the things that we're doing is we're going to have a clearly defined district and School site goals for the benchmarks for instruction and student achievement on all student subgroups what we've done is this was formerly the student achievement committee so we're taking elements that already exist in the district and aligning them with the state goals so some of the resources we have that we're going to be using are the qcomp plan where the alternative delivery of specialized instructional Services the school Improvement plans the integration plan the education educator Effectiveness plan the district integration plan the District staff development plan and continuous Improvement monitoring plan so we're looking at performance pay and teacher evaluations we're looking at using resources that we've got to improve reading and math aligning with this the school Improvement by site and also with special ed so these are things that are already in place that we're aligning with the state standards the school board will advise and advice will establish an advisory committee and that's the world's best Workforce committee to ensure Community engagement in the development and review of the plan and we began that earlier this month we reflect the diversity of the district and its School sites and make recommendations to the school board regarding rigorous academic standards student achievement goals and measures in order to make sure that we're doing this there are some accountability elements one is to publish a report annually on the district plan's results and I believe that will be published through our website right Randy and the school board will hold an annual public meeting we'll have the first one tonight uh periodically survey constituencies about the connection to schools and level of satisfaction and Chad will be handling that and the school board will submit then an electronic summary of the report to the commissioner so this is very different it's going to be a very short document that will go to mde so instead of the school the Department of Education going through well as Edina meeting its goals and where we're at that's up to us the community members and to the school board to look and see how are the Edina schools doing with these external measurements of student achievement and it's a very different change rather than having the state look down on us we're going to be in charge of our own results and I think I'm really excited about that because it brings it accountability really close to home to the people who it affects the most and that's what I'm most excited about on this part of the plan so I think that's it and then you've got are you pulling up the website so I'll do a brief tour might be very brave it was there a minute ago I saw it I'll just back up here a second so what we have done is the state has granted us great flexibility in the format of the report so we have chosen a website as a way to demonstrate how we have these components of the legislation in place in our district so the way the website works it is the www.dinaschools.org address forward slash and then just wbwf right now it's not live on our website it's found through this link but it will be under the academics tab regarding world's best Workforce information so we'll be placing that after this evening so the way the site works is the landing page refers to the legislation and then the left-hand margin has some guiding pages that go into more depth with some of the plan components I won't go through all of these but I'll just kind of highlight a few of these with you so first of all the landing page under district and school achievement we'll talk about our district goals as a system and then underneath that we would have specific goals for each of the schools across the district I'm going to close that one and add under student progress and growth we would have list our assessment calendar when these assessments are given in the school our assessment plans involve the type of Assessments that we give throughout the year which really Define how we know students are on track or how students are growing from year to year Etc I'm going to ask if Chad will speak to this link around data results but I'm going to click on it yes so we put a couple of different links here the one that I want to point you to is Randy will click on it in a second It'll point users or website visitors to the Minnesota Department of Education report card website and this link takes them directly to the Edina schools information on that page so we've been able to preset that so we'll let this load here for just a second but on one half of the screen we'll see measures in math and on the other half of the screen we'll see measures in Reading uh the one of the things about this site that we like is it's highly user friendly and people can go in and find personalized information and find what they want to find from it so you can look up a specific School you could look up a specific grade level you could look at different content areas all of that is available on this website so we want to want to direct people to something that's existing and in the public domain and available for everyone to use Randy if we go back to that site then on here we've also got some information that I'll be presenting later in my state assessment update and so it's links to some of the information that the board will see here in just a few minutes we also have links to academic standards as published by mde and then a variety of committees that we have established as a school district that help continue to move the work forward and it also lists the members of those various committees both School District members community members students Etc we also have tools that we use for improving instruction curriculum and student achievement they include our new teacher evaluation system which we're implementing this year for the first time our principal evaluation system our curriculum review cycle so folks can see when different curricular areas are up for review and they see that there's a cycle to that and then we have resources around best practices and other resources that we tap into when we're trying to determine what interventions do we put in place in schools we're looking for evidence-based interventions and so these are some resources that we look at when making those decisions programming to improve student achievement there are various programs that we have in place and just organizing these links in one place early intervention our El program our GT program so each of these links go to some of those programs that there's information already on the website but it's coordinated in a way that articulates how this fits the legislation our e-learning squared we heard from our Tech cohort group how technology integration has changed their experience has empowered them has has grown the passion that they already have and that technology integration is is such a great lever for helping personalized learning throughout the district and then lastly we have a link for our community satisfaction so when we do surveys of the community regarding satisfaction we'll be able to place those results here in the world on the world's best Workforce site in addition to other locations so again the intent of the site is to provide the information required by the legislation so folks can see what the school district is doing that meets the legislation and if they have questions this is a a summary place to go and so that is the format that we decided to use to organize it again as Carolyn said there will be a summary that will be created via a template that MD has shared with us and we will be submitting a summary of this site to mde and we'll also post that summary on the site when that's complete and that will be due in October at this time we would like to turn it over to the school board to see if there are any questions so this isn't so much a change so if I was a pink now I have my microphone on new system so as a parent or student in the school I'm not going to see huge differences in the way we're delivering services this is more a way of the district organizing information about what we already do so that we can look at it and make sure that we're meeting State mandated goals would that be correct that would be correct okay this is this is about just how we report what we do so MD has that format thank you the thing goes an effort on mde's part to coordinate all their various reports and put it under one umbrella and that lines very nice with our strategic work of Next Generation correct it's a great resource for parents that's just really One-Stop shop to really if you're curious about how things are how your school is doing and a great place to go just uh just curious sense of history is this something else other states are doing is there a federal push towards this uh or is that really not the case I'm just if you don't know that's fine too I won't make one up but uh definitely Minnesota obviously this is this is a big push in Minnesota I think many states are trying to figure out what is our what is our bar what are our benchmarks to make sure our kids leave our educate our public educational system being prepared for college career and life so whether it looks exactly like this many states are pushing to raise the bar and make sure that all students are best prepared for their future thanks and if I can add a lot of the resources that are on that last thing are national resources so research that's done in other states we're drawing from and you can refer to what other people are doing through that way it's like and I commend you on the website it may not be live for everyone in the community yet but certainly for those of us who have it on our board book and we can pull it up and click on all those that's just a wealth of information that is that is available there and it was very easy to navigate so I commend you on that I just want to thank Madison and Caroline Randy and your team for all the work you put on put into this program and Echo Kathy with the clarity of the information and the ability to look at it from so many different points of view it's really valuable thank you and I'd like to just publicly thank our our presenters and definitely our committee for all their thinking and questions and debate and suggestions and just overall hard work and really our our communication Department who worked very hard to help us organize the information in a way that is easy to find answers to questions and do some inquiry as well thank you very much not everybody gets a hand for showing up next up uh does that conclude the public hearing uh we would have to officially call for a public hearing questions what's that any questions from the public thank you all State assessment report thanks Susan it's a tough one Chad Schmitz our director of research and evaluation comes stops by uh regularly to update the board on just the data world that we live in and uh it plays a key role in helping us not only take a look at the data but help how we can use the data to help instruction welcome Chad thank you good evening board members and superintendent Dresden and the Edina Community I'm here to give you an update and the state assessment results from the 2013-14 school year and you can see from this slide we're going to cover a broad range of results including so not only just MCAS but also act and AP results advanced placement results so I'm going to get started with that the slides are going to go in a similar pattern and so we're going to look at reading first math second and then science third and then we'll jump into act and AP so so what I see here is Elementary level Middle School level and high school level results trending over a three-year period of time and what we see is a pretty flat level of performance from 2012-13 to 2013-14 I want to point out the color coding on the screen is indicative of same tests relative to same standards so we can compare the two darker colored the 2012-13 and 2013-14 results but we shouldn't look back to 2011-12 and say wow results really dipped from 11 12 to 12 13. it's a new set of Standards with a new assessment so at the 12 13 year really served as a new set of Baseline data for us and so again we see results are pretty flat in the last year when I look at it by grade level I can see that in just about every grade level we're approximately so here's how this works the black bar on the right hand side is Minnesota Statewide averages the green bar is edina's 1314 averages and the yellow bar is edina's 12 13 averages so when we compare yellow to Green see some grade levels where there was a slight dip from 12 13 to 13 14. you see some grade levels where there was a slight increase all in the at the end of the day that averages out to being a pretty flat a flat result from our flat change from year one to year two and consistently Edina students are about 20 points or so above the Statewide average in terms of being grade level proficient in Reading as measured by the reading test this one shows our our gap between student groups and so we look at our performance of a variety of student groups and the this is some that we've been tracking over time and what I see on this slide is when I compare the highest performing student groups to the lowest performing student groups we see a pretty consistent space of about 30 to 35 points and so that's a that's a concern that we have that's something that we've been talking about and working on and it is our our effort that this Gap shouldn't be there and we're making efforts to say how do we close this for each of our students okay so that was reading performance I'm going to switch over to math the one thing that's different here as you can see there's only one blue square at the high school level that's because this is the first year of a new assessment for them so that's 78.9 is really just the start of a new Baseline and we'll wait to see what happens next year similar to what happened in Reading it's a pretty flat level of performance from 12 13 to the 13 14 school year both at the elementary and the Middle School levels by grade level again we see some grade levels where there was a slight decrease other grade levels where there was a slight increase and consistently about 20 or so points above the Statewide average if you're curious you'll see no yellow bar on the grade 11 one and that's because again the 1314 is a new test in the start of a new set of Baseline data the trend in math looks very similar to the trend in Reading in that there's about a 35 or 40 point gap between our highest performing student groups and our lowest performing student groups so that's something that's consistent across reading measures across math measures and also across science measures looking at science performance um the this is one place where we saw a fairly sizable increases from uh 2013 from 2012-13 to 2013-14 and that's at the middle school level in grade eight we jumped from I think 54 up to 60 proficient and at the high school level we jumped from 74 proficient to almost 79 proficient so both nice gains and increases due in part to some very focused work that those teachers and and staff were doing relative to uh their content what they're teaching alignment with the with the state standards and and the measurement of the MCAS and um at at the high school level you can see 25 points above the state average at the middle school only 15 points above the state average and that's pretty similar to where it's at at the elementary level as well all right so I I didn't include a picture of the Gap here in science but I can confirm for you it looks very much the same as it does in math and reading all right I'm gonna let that be the MCA results through the federal notepad Left Behind accountability system that MCA results are used to calculate something called adequate yearly progress and what you see here are a bunch of y's which are to say that we met the Targets in every one of our categories so meeting proficiency and reading meeting Proficiency in math participation rates in both reading and math and then attendance or graduation rates and the ends are just to say that you have to we have to have at least that many students in the group or in the cell to be counted so the American Indian rail you see that our student count Falls below that 20 or that 40. so that's why those are blank and again in the graduation rates for our Hispanic student group and our limited English student group that's true as well there is one part of Minnesota's waiver to No Child Left Behind called the Minnesota the multiple measurement rating system and I don't have a slide here in the Public Presentation for that just because we're waiting on results from mde that will come out October 1 so about one week ahead of when those results will come out and I'll report those back to the board when we get them so I'm going to move on away from Minnesota specific tests and look at some national level tests so this is a slide of our act composite averages and the red bar is the U.S average over time basically a trend a 10-year trend the blue line is Minnesota state average over time and the green line at the top is the Edina High School's average so you can see our average composite score is 26.3 that's a full three scores above the Statewide average and the other thing I want to point out is that I gave just a couple of samples of how many students take the test back in 0506 we had 446 students taking the test this last year we had almost 600 students taking the test so even though there's about a third as many students additional students taking the test the the composite scores have remained about the same and about the same Gap over the Statewide averages so that 595 is out of how many eligible students do you know uh so you know what ballpark yeah ballpark of 650. so it's a it's about 85 or so of our graduating senior class so these are just the scores of seniors not Juniors who are also taking the test thank you Kathy good question and that's true yes these are our graduating seniors in the class of 2013-14 so Chad if oh sorry for our students who are taking the tests more than one time it's reflecting the tests they choose to report or the final test or which one question again this is It's the highest score on that highest score that's right and and in a minute I'm going to link you to what's going to happen this year in 2013 or 2014-15 sorry well we're going to be administering the ACT to every one of our Juniors so I'm going to let that come back in in just a second Chad can you talk what the next side is appropriate as well is act becoming more accepted around the country as far as it increased Trend in the number of students taking or is it more of a Midwest is the wrong term but you know it is not favorite by all states that's true Randy it still is not favored by all states and all colleges and universities so yes particularly towards the coast the SAT is the favored college entrance exam but I know that universities can do some linking between an ACT score and an SAT score and do some connection points that way so many of our students who will pursue College on either Coast either the East Coast or the West Coast we'll probably end up taking both exams and and so that's not a totally uncommon experience I think um we had about 150 students take the SAT exam if I remember right if I remember the score report I saw curious from a national U.S perspective we're really should that red bar be it's really distorted is it not because of the population who's taking the test uh so not every student takes the test right so if this were If This Were an examination administered to every student the Red Bar would probably be in a little different place just as much as the blue bar and the green bar might be in a little different place but at the end of the day when we have 85 of our students taking the test I think it's a pretty fair representation of of um students and the other thing I can comment on is I believe the blue bar is only reported for states that have at least 50 percent of students who take the test across the state so the the blue and the red are indicative of that as well that if they're looking for large groups of participation okay yeah and what I was referring to more is from the U.S basis because oh because some students are taking the SAT and not yeah sorry thank you I think you're self-selecting in some ways I got it yes and that's that's true too yeah thanks uh-huh all right advanced placement exams so I've got a five-year Trend here and the thing you see on both the number of exams taken and the number of students sitting for exams is it's increased considerably in the last five years so this is um one of the reasons we've got some space concerns around administering it is is um right now students have come to the community center mostly to take the test we've done a little bit of work with Southview and some work with the high school last year but going from uh basically 2100 students to over 2500 students sorry 2100 tests to over 2500 tests that is a lot of both time and space concerns in terms of getting students through that and um and up from 900 almost a thousand students to over 1200 students taking exams now the good thing is the results basically haven't changed and so while we've got more students taking more tests we still have approximately 85 percent of tests with a score of three or higher and in almost 60 percent of tests with a score of four or higher and so traditionally that the languages that colleges a college acceptable score is a score of three or higher some universities have shifted that bar up to a score of four or higher so I wanted to report both of those for you so more students taking more tests with very similar rates of performance all right so then my summary of what you've seen tonight so a couple of spots here overall strong performance about 20 or so points above the Minnesota average at really any given grade level and and for the various content areas what I called Flat growth from 12 13 to 1314 that's true for most subjects and grade levels and it matches the pattern at the state level the pat across the state of Minnesota we saw again very flat levels of growth middle school and high school science proficiency were increased by about five percent that's one of the spots where we saw some growth some sizable growth the ACT composite score was at 26.3 again a little over three points higher than the Minnesota average 1200 students taking almost 2500 AP exams with scores 84 percent of scores three or higher and 58 of scores four or higher the achievement Gap has been persistent over time it's about 40 percent from highest to lowest from our highest performing student groups to our lowest performing student groups no Chad Left Behind regulations we met ayp in all areas for all of our student groups and the Minnesota multiple sorry multiple measurement rating system is expected to be released next week so we'll have results for that and finally a note about what's coming so uh in 2014-15 Minnesota Department of Education has said that the MCAS will only be administered online so in the past few years we have selected to administer that test in a paper pencil format where we can it allows for a little ease of administration we can basically do it over a two-day window and testing is is tight within that window with this online it allows us some flexibility but it also prevents some provides some challenges in that we've got to have computer lab space and basically every student has to run through those computer labs for that testing so we've got some challenges that Steve buettner and and principals are working with in terms of scheduling that and finally a new part of legislation in Minnesota is that the ACT will be administered to all 11th graders across the state on April 28th at no cost so this is one where Edina High School we're building a plan for what that day is going to look like for all of our students and we've got some options in place but we haven't necessarily finalized each the option but what we do know is it will be administered on April 28th again to all 11th graders and so with that I'm going to take your questions the acts that are offered on April 28th can students use those for college app great question money yes they are college reportable scores and uh there are I think a handful of States four or five right now that are doing Statewide ACT Testing and so act has been down this road with a few other states and so they've brought that history and information to Minnesota and so yes this is a college reportable score colleges X Y and Z or not reported okay so our school districts on the Department of Education working so that the act that all Juniors would take in the state of Minnesota would replace some of the other standardized tests that high schoolers take since the ACT tests you over all the different subject areas that's a great question Kathy the rate of legislation is written right now the assessments the accountability assessments have to do two things one they have to measure Minnesota's academic standards and two they have to be linked to College and Career Readiness measures so there is no College and Career Readiness measure like the act that would also measure Minnesota's academic standards so the short answer is no students will be students in 10th Grade will take the MCA reading test students in the 11th grade will take the MCA math test students after they complete a biology course will take the MCA science test that's typically 11th grade in Edina and then 11th graders will also be taking this act so it will be a busy spring season and then you add on AP testing coming shortly after this April 28th ACT Testing date and that's part of the schedule that we're working on and trying to finalize at the high school wired online connection or can a laptop wireless connection suffice good question so it can be done on wireless there is and so with dmts with Steve's Department we've worked very hard around reliability of that wireless network but that we wouldn't want to put a student in a situation where they're part way through the test and something happens to it so it would be a little more of a guarantee to be on a wired setting than to be on a wireless setting but yes we have that option to explore thanks anything to learn from our from our jump in science that we could use in math or reading yeah I I think and so this is some of the work that Randy might comment on but the um science teachers have been very focused about unpacking their standards so so what are the academic standards that are expected in that course or in that sequence and then prioritizing them and unpacking them so what does that mean from a student um a student perspective and what kinds of evidence do we need to see that students are mastering those standards and so it's work that has been happening in math particularly at the elementary level and it's work that's going to be that's ongoing this year in the rooting level I'm going to turn to my colleague to see if there's anything he wants to add to that but that that's the work that the science teachers were engaged in the last couple of years and I think that's some of the results that we're seeing here today we actually got a report from Jim Wood at mde that listed each of the science standards and whether Edina was above or below the state average on a specific standard and then we looked at what we were teaching we looked at our curriculum through middle school and found that there are many places where we really weren't focusing on some of the standards and we're spending too much time on maybe other areas and so it was really looking at some of the alignment and I think it's stronger than it has been before we still have a lot of work to do but it's progress in the right direction thank you additional questions well done Chad thanks thank you I'm the tax levy Margo good evening hi Margo I'm just looking forward to the tax levy it's that time of year again it'll be back in December to talk about it so as far as the process goes this is a proposed tax levy and we will have an opportunity to revisit it again in December in um July and August we submit a lot of data to the state they process it and we actually receive the um all the formulas all the limitation information within the last 10 days finance and Facilities committee we reviewed it and took a look at it on the 16th and administratively and with financial facilities we made a considerable change to the original limitation which was 12 0.9 percent increase and we've lowered that to just under seven and a half percent uh 7.49 by spreading uh abatements over a couple years and also revisiting our alternative facilities which I'll explain more in a few minutes a recommendation tonight which is typical part of the process for the proposed Levy is to approve the maximum what that does is allow the greatest flexibility for the board to be able to revisit the Levee as more information becomes available between September and December we also want to be sensitive at this time though when we are approving the maximum that we have looked as much as much as possible at the information we have right now which we have we have done in the last 10 days between finance and Facilities committee and myself because in between September and December the truth and Taxation notices are sent out to property tax owners in November so we want to try and have that try to reflect the most accurate picture that with the information that we know about at the time what does uh is possible to occur because there is such a short time frame at this time and is that the state department is continuing to review information between now and September 30th the legal timeline that they have to continue to keep the um the formulas and website open and because our board meeting is early and this is typical I know boards that were approving it last week there can be changes as they continue to work with all districts and state formulas so areas that the state is saying they still have to review and double check there's some integration funding changes legislatively and to double check some of that Career and Technical Lobby and possibly some Tiff attacks increment financing adjustments I'm not anticipating any major changes the only area of question I might have would be tax increment financing but I will keep everybody apprised of any potential changes but as I know of it today all our district data is in and correct and we've double checked it and they've also made the revisions recommended to financial facilities committee so what is included in our district levy certification most notably and what everybody thinks of it are the voter approved referendums whether they're operating Tech Levy or Capital um referendums or Bond referendums but there's other levees set by state formula for example we have a funding source for Capital funds this that is based on students and square footage the state and therefore in the list determines how much is paid by local property taxes and how much is paid by the state and that can legislatively change maybe it stays the same many years in a row and and then they'll change the formula a little bit they did a couple years ago so things like that can change levees authorized by the state based on local need a good example of that is our health and safety revenues even our alternative facilities where we submit to the state a need based on that type of funding and receive approval and we have there's a specific process for that and then the process for us all with our taxpayers to inform that of them to of that need and the levy is at the December meeting we have an opportunity for the public to give feedback call truth and Taxation so that we share all of the components of our tax levy at that meeting in which we are tonight too but it's a requirement at the December meeting so factors contributing to this year's Levy change most significantly were the abatement changes after the adjustment where we'll take the total non-abatements over a two-year period instead of the one-year period it's still a percent and a half increase on the abatements a variety of legislative changes just under a percent which would be um some adjustments based on the 2013 legislative session for referendum and Equity revenues with the major changes in the funding funding formula last year by the time the levy formulas came out the state was making some assumptions in how that would impact overall Statewide in all of us so there's some adjustments there and certainly our local enrollment kindergarten additions in terms of leases inflationary increases and then finding more of the alternative facilities projects through the annual Levy versus bonds and this is also an area we made an adjustment to have more of the funding go back towards the bonds but still are keeping an increased dollar amount through annual Levy for a variety or a couple of reasons one that it it helps when we look forward to create some stability all other things equal in in the levy ongoing which is a priority it's balancing the needs of of the annular pay as you go or on a long term 20 to 30 year District finances in terms of bonds and taxes and and looking and so I think it's appropriate recommendation long-term and short-term and also being cognizant overall in all the levies of our taxpayer needs and trying to balance all of those needs as we bring a recommendation forward areas of reduction there were some adjustments from prior years where the levy might have been a little higher we have a negative adjustment there's also the debt excess adjustment the levy automatically requires for debt which is our the equivalent of our principal and interest payment similar to a personal mortgage it's payment for our buildings they require us to allow the 105 percent extra five percent so that we never ever default on our bonds but then there's a form systematic formula in place to make sure that we just don't accrue fund balance you know after two three five ten years and so we did have a reduction in that area this year also just to note um X's are based on the 2013 market value and tax capacity data which had increased in values for that period of time um so that we'd try to compare because the city just came out last week with information on their uh tax Libby moving forward theirs is on a calendar years and Iris is on a July or a fiscal year but it's all on the same tax year for tax payers which would be coming up in 2015. so you can see there's some similarities and differences between the city of Edina and our school district and and the difference would be that there are components of this or areas of the city of Edina which are not in the in a public school district and and so like again you can see some similarities and differences the major difference would be the 2015 tax capacity you see a ten and a half percent increase for the United public schools in a 14 increase in the city of Edina this is where a property outside of the school district boundaries is coming off tax increment financing and overall will help the community members within the city of Edina when they look at their tax statements and see County city and School District that's going to be favorable to them because as you see in any case here whether it's under the school district or the city when you see average home value increases of between eight and eight percent for the school district and ten percent for the city Edina but the market or the tax capacity values increasing 10 and a half or fourteen percent you see a difference there between what's happening to the average home owner and what's happening overall in our tax base that difference mean there's growth there's more homes or there's more business or there's more tax entities paying for those taxes so it's distributed amongst a larger base which is helpful to the overall community average home values with from 2014 and 2015 and if the property values remain the same for both years versus so no increase when you receive your personal tax statement in the your property value of your home or your business then the district's recommended increase of 7.49 percent would actually show about a two percent decrease in the property taxes now understanding and working with the city that they're eight at point four percent uh recommended increase all other things equal with no increase in market value would result in a three percent decrease and that's where where the um that what I just talked about the difference between what home values are going up and that increased tax capacity from the previous year how you can see that reflected data is showing that on average for in our school district they're going up uh eight percent now I would just like to note that overall the values um that the market values in the school district property still are below the 09 and 10 values so the homes and properties are adjusting to the change in the market which is good that's you know it shows that the economy is turning around because we saw several years of a decline there and now we're going to see some Market adjusting coming back but we still aren't quite back to that 09 and that 2010 level so uh yes sorry on this slide since it's not obvious to to probably the average viewer um the home value is the same in terms of the showing the increases there the 400 to 438 8 on both City and EPS so why the difference of the eight percent versus the ten percent does that have to do with the larger tax base versus the borders of eps yes yeah it's a larger tax base which is the information I had at the time so yeah it's the larger tax base is my but I could clarify that with the city okay because it just I understand what you're saying it's right likewise no I understand it it might be how it's the information may be drawn from different segments of the Year we're looking at uh July uh June 31st and July 1 they're looking at a calendar year as my guess be thanks Randy they could follow up with them yeah typically also um we'll have more hard-coded information in December but because of the increase I gathered more information from Hennepin County and the City as much as I could get now in September which is really hard because everybody's doing the same thing right now and it takes October for the county to process it and we have more information in November but because of the increase I want to be able to give you some comparison information and and what was going on and also tax impact information which normally we don't do that this time of year but I'll make a note so that a follow-up and double check that for the December truth and Taxation so the annual estimated tax impact of the proposed Levy certification here tonight if you can see in this chart on the market value on the left hand side if there's no change in a property's value the estimated annual change in some properties than you would see actually a decrease in that case and other properties once they get above a certain point based on the state's tax law and how they tax properties once you're above I believe it's a half a million property is taxed at a little bit higher rate then again then in column three if the market value increases with the average increase of eight percent and you combine that market value adjustment then the estimated annual tax increase in in all cases are reflected there with the school and this is just a school district it does not include the city or county since we wouldn't have that information yet at this time so that eight percent uh increased calculation somebody looking at this presentation couldn't assume that that is the same amount of dollars in your third column there as the city would be no no thanks because that would be calculated differently and also if there's any County taxes within that same tax statement that is all I'm just looking at you know if they looked at the slide before and then looked at the next one could they make that assumption but it's this isolating the school district and what the process now the city's submitting their information to the county we as by law have to submit it by September 30th and then the county takes and processes all of that in the throughout October and that's how we receive our November truth and Taxation statements where then as taxpayers we can see it all combined together question questions finance and Facilities members we had a lengthy discussion in terms of the adjustments being made and the recommendation we brought forward and anything I missed we did have a lengthy discussion in committee about this in terms of the ramifications of the increase being larger than it's been in the past as well as you know reflecting as a group on on this change with the city and the changes and increased property values that they're you know just just anticipating the the reaction of the average taxpayer when they get their statement and their estimated statement in November as Margo alluded to and the bulk of the change here I mean the biggest difference from prior years is the alt facilities money which is just a as a practical matter a realization that if we're going to spend 10 million dollars a year on you know catching up on deferred maintenance that we've got to pay for it right yeah this was the responsible way to do it the way that had the least impact on the taxpayer and that it's money very much stronger any support and our discussion centered short-term and long term and yes what was the how did we balance uh responsibly that all of those considerations taxpayer District facility all of that into a recommendation we could bring forward yeah yeah I think I think the key thing was you know if you look at it this just as your personal finances it's how much do you keep riding on in debt versus how much do we you know pay as we go through the process so that we don't end up with a larger amount of debt later on that then would not be very stable for the taxpayer so this seemed like a more as as you put a responsible way to manage the funds going forward any other questions on the agenda later and their approval then next up uh recognition is going to provide us a leadership in facilities update good evening everybody here we go just uh that kind of that monthly check-in on how we are moving forward with our work as it relates to our strategic work I will not uh hit on all of these items because some are being addressed the personalized learning for all for example I think uh this whole world's best Workforce does a nice job stepping into that uh the all-for-all initiative we saw that Gap coming into play and we're concerned about that academic Gap that all for all initiative how all of us supporting all Learners I think we'll be coming back to the board in October with the report of some of our action plans around that our facility study you can learn a little bit more about under our coherent programming please know that all these studies that we continue to advance the actually the implementation team for the birth through grade five they meet for the first time tomorrow and our Partnerships we continue to seek new Partnerships as we continue our grow our efforts are on all for all just a couple hiring updates um our district controller Scott Brown will be coming on board the first part of October also Jen Carter who was a teacher in our world language Department moved into the dean position um also I'm guessing at the report time we may hear something from the board about a very Dynamic visit to the West Side school district which is in the Omaha Community was you know this school district September 17th through the 19th and had some great engaged discussions facilitated by Dr Jim rickabaugh on how we can advance our work and leadership as school boards very exciting times and later this month the 21st century Benchmark Consortium is joining our district these are superintendents assistant superintendents high school principals taking a look at our work learning from our work and US learning from their input again we continue to Champion them bring bringing hope and happiness into our future getting deeper into the research around this and trying to use it in a regular setting at the school sites as a district learning more about the power this can have for the success of all learners I'm going to shift our work discussion over to facilities and how we use the space that we have and planning forward with the space Susan Bratt who's our director of communications has been doing an amazing job of working with our very committed task force members over the past several Tuesdays with two more to go and I asked Susan to give us an update on this thank you as uh Dr Dresden said we've had uh so far I'll just kind of give you a brief update for you and the public a lot of you and sit around the board table have actually been present at these meetings but we wanted to make sure the public was aware of how the task force is going uh recall that we did a call for applicants back in July and seeking a wide representation of people to serve on this so again the purpose is to analyze all of the data and consider some options and really bring that Community representative voice into the room as we looked ahead to what our facility needs are both short and long term we're focusing a lot on the short right now but we know there's some questions coming up about long-term facility needs we obviously if you've heard numerous times before have aging facilities and we need to figure out what our long-term plans are as well and we look at prioritizing those options for administration that we could bring a good recommendation to you as well but as we know those meetings have been open to the public and several of you have attended those meetings as well so as we did as I said we did a call for applications back in July and you know initially we were worried about how many people might hear it but we got an overwhelming response more people than spots that we had to fill we wanted to make sure that we had good representation so we do have students and we have parents representatives from every school in the district as well as our early childhood programs we have some staff members on there we have some Community stakeholders representing different interests and then we have a lot of just residents at large as well so there's 25 people total as you can see the names there it's been a really Dynamic group and I would say from the very beginning they have not been shy so it's been very good um so just we kind of go through this every time and sort of roles in responsibilities so that we understand what it is the role of the task force itself we started actually before we went to the task force as you recall we went to get some data for ourselves as Administration and board so we looked at what kind of financing options we might have as we look to the Future a potential referendum in 2015 we did a facilities assessment with our Architects we've done a community survey with in back in May and June that we presented on earlier Dr Bill Morris presented on just sort of saying where is the community sitting at this point in time with a potential referendum and then obviously we had a demographic study as well just kind of talking about what our enrollment will look like in the next five to ten years on the task force role at this point is to support us as Administration and to support the board in terms of analyzing what the needs and priorities are and then we would again use those recommendations in providing a recommendation to the board so this has kind of been our roadmap it's been a tight timeline six weeks so we've had four meetings so far and the first meeting we really did want to set the stage and as we've been trying to say a lot with our next generation of Edina Public School strategic plan we've been trying to talk a lot about how learning needs to drive a lot of our resources or to drive a lot of our decisions and so resources like space and time and funds should really be variable to what is best for learning so we spent the first meeting kind of bring everyone up to speed on what our what our strategic plan is I'm focusing a lot on personalized learning and the three outcomes that Dr Dresden just went through we the next meeting was a lot a very large data dump through a lot of information at them about what kind of what are our current facilities like what was the survey what was all that information that we had previously mentioned and maybe what are some of the little pockets of innovation Innovative spaces that we have around the district we then spent the third meeting I'm looking at a lot of those spaces and really trying to start processing then so we've been processing that and valuing those um where were their values at first with all the information they had then we came back last week and we started really kind of drilling down to get some information on what where recommendations might be going with them so again they're not you know they're not coming back with a recommendation for a referendum question they're helping us prioritize what our needs are so uh tomorrow night we'll be meeting number five and we'll be further refining those options with hopefully by next Tuesday we'll be having some consensus to bring forward at this point I just wanted to update that at this point we seem to be having some pretty good consensus around some basic Improvement needs that we need at the K-12 program level to include um we need some basic classroom updates we need some and also some more improved and flexible learning spaces we have a very rigid older model of our schools and so we're looking for some more improvements there to include a lot of media center Renovations and things for common collaboration spaces also in that K-12 General plan we're looking at some Safety and Security updates that we know that we need to do some specialized learning spaces whether it's for art music gym special ed some other specialized learning spaces and then continuing that ongoing maintenance because we know that our wall our alternative facilities plan is helping us get up to date with some of that backlog of Maintenance we know that we have a lot more maintenance needs as well we have some additional discussions that we're going to be continuing that we need to dig a little bit deeper on around Wellness maybe a Wellness Center Athletic spaces we're looking at potential adult learning spaces Community Ed spaces training spaces a continued conversation that we are having with the city as far as an alternative transportation department site and then we've also been exploring as it actually it came up through the task force itself they said have we looked at private fundraising for any of this sort of things and so we've been exploring that a little bit but that was a an interesting um topic that kind of came up from them so we want to be honoring their work with that so just sort of next steps on this is that they conclude their their work on September 30th we will then compile a report to present to the board for acceptance on the sixth we'll then be using that information after discussion with the board to sort of develop some potential recommendations for a possible referendum in 2015. we would be looking at some sort of a public forum to sort of talk about what that recommendation might be sometime after that meeting on October 20th in a tentative board decision on November 17th and just a reminder for the public that all of the facilities task force meetings are open to the public we've been trying to do a lot of sharing with the community in our weekly e-newsletters on social media and some updates to in our weekly media alerts as well as just what the progress is because we really do want this to be open and transparent and then we are archiving all the meeting materials on our website so Edina schools.org fatf will get you right to the facilities task force page with all the materials there so any questions I just want to thank you Susan and the members of the committee for the hard work that you're doing the meetings have been informative for me just exciting to hear about some of the options that are being considered in the priority weight being placed on the items thank you fun to watch them at work and I look forward to seeing you yeah yeah it has I mean there's a lot of different opinions and and that's what we wanted you know so it's good for them to work together and for us to observe that and hear that and hopefully get them to move to some consensus next up we have our consent agenic I had a motion and a second to bring that to the floor please it's been moved and seconded uh Rick you want to walk us through please I certainly will we have our Personnel recommendations that's false or Personnel hiring process is slowed a little bit but we do have some action items there to take our expenditures for September we have some fund transfers again these are all typical things that we do in the fall of the year to write our funding we have a few minor adjustments in the board agenda as I mentioned nursing care contracts these annually have been supported by the administration for approval we felt it's important to take board action and so we've added this again the administration is supportive of these these are all services that are companies that we've used in the past we just want to formalize it through the board process we have some field trips that are occurring or have occurred remember our times when due to the timeliness of the trip that sometimes is superintendent by policy is allowed to sign off on some of these reports we have a variety of gifts from our very generous community and that would conclude the consent agenda items uh on the Valley View Orchestra there's just a date the middle date is uh incorrect unless we're doing some time travel on that uh trip so it's from the 24th to the 27th just a minor motor typo uh any other uh consent item comments or anything you'd like removed from the consent agenda absolutely without pay for an entire school yearson um when they come back to the district that does that displace another teacher or how does that work I'll refer this to Dr Jackson HR um it possibly displaces another teacher because we will then hire a one-year long-term substitute for the person usually typically done with it long yes with the one year contract thank you and that we've discussed this in the past but what's the cycle as far as uh how how long will we knew that have we standardized that now is it still on a case-by-case basis because we had some concerns about too many of them coming back at one point not having spots for them all Yes it depends on the type of lead so um there are some that are Mobility leaves and they can last up to five years at the discretion of the teacher and then there are others who we have been going on a year by year basis and we have been limiting them so that we don't have a large group coming back at one time for example okay excellent and Mobility you said was at the discretion of the teacher or the superintendent the mobility is up to the teacher once the once the leave is approved they can have a Mobility leave up to five years okay thank you our Mobility means for example we have some teachers who are now in Vietnam we have some teachers who have gone to Saudi Arabia and they are teaching um overseas we have another teacher who just returned from China and India wonderful thank you thanks Gwen questions comments all those in favor of approving the consent agenda as with one minor Amendment please signify by saying aye aye aye opposed motion carries uh next up we have our tax levy uh create a motion to bring the proposed 2014 Levy that's payable in 2015 to the table still moved second been moved and seconded we did hear a presentation on us earlier this evening any discussion question comments it sounds like the facilities task force has had a strong discussion on this Finance the surprise for serious Community yeah hopefully we didn't take it to the task force sorry I meant facilities all the apps all those apps the facilities and finance party discussion yes yes and and all on all matters and trying to figure out you know was this amount the right amount you know is it is it the right decision you know looking at from the taxpayers perspective from The District's perspective of being responsible with their funding yeah I feel we had a rather Hardy discussion would you agree additional discussion see none all those in favor of approving the proposed tax levy for 2014 payable 2015. please signify using aye aye aye opposed motion carries next up we have our district committee's councils and teams for 2014 2015. there were some updates to this can any motion to bring it to the floor please so moved second it's been moved and seconded to approve the district committee's council and teams for 2014-2015 this is always a work in process but it appears that we've nailed down most of these any discussion go ahead you typically not have a board member on that that's correct okay um and then my next question was around the world's best Workforce um just wondering how long the because it looked like we had a current group of um parent Representatives on that and and but I think previously it was a different version of a committee and just wondering how long they have served and if we have um they have you know limits on on that service so this would be my third year in Edina Public Schools and these are members for the most part that were here when I started two years ago so um they've been on here for that amount of time and it was the student achievement Committee in the past so we've kind of morphed this committee now to be the world's best Workforce committee and we'll be looking at expanding some membership down the road I think three-year terms is what has been established in the past good just as a comment can we add that to this so it's so it's maybe a little clearer well yeah just what it is so to all of them yeah if it's convenient their term is if it's convenient so um the next one was around the student Support Services committee um I understand that committee hasn't met a lot lately and so I'm wondering if they're going to start meeting now with our new leadership yeah so that would be a would be confirming that that was part of the Strategic plan so last spring if you recall strategic plans presented with the revisions Jeff Jorgensen who's our director of student Support Services has already have all that motion in place and so we'll be having that and redesigning that function as it aligns the services we provide Lori had finished her term and so Concord does have a new member Lori's still very actively involved but she did not reapply to be on the term and and is working within the new the new person so thank you and I see on several of these there's