. GOOD EVENING EVERYONE. WELCOME TO BLOOMINGTON CIVIC PLAZA. THANK YOU FOR JOINING THIS EVENING. IT'S GOOD TO SEE OUR COUNCIL MEMBERS AND OUR SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS ARE TOGETHER IN OUR JOINT MEETING I WILL OFFICIALLY CALL MEETING OF THE BLOOMINGTON CITY COUNCIL TO ORDER THIS IS WEDNESDAY 28TH 2024 AND I WILL AND I WILL OFFICIALLY CALL THE SCHOOL BOARD PORTION OF THIS MEETING TOGETHER FOR FEBRUARY 28TH 2024 AT 6 P.M.. VERY GOOD. THANK YOU SO MUCH. A COUPLE OF ITEMS THE MICROPHONES IN FRONT OF YOU ARE OFF UNTIL YOU TURN THEM ON AND YOU'LL KNOW THEY'RE ON BECAUSE THAT GREEN LIGHT IN FRONT OF YOU WILL COME ON SO THERE'S A LITTLE BUTTON IN FRONT THAT SAYS PUSH TURNING MIKE ON AND WHEN YOU'RE DONE SPEAKING YOU COULD TURN IT OFF SO WE DON'T HAVE ANY HOT MIC ISSUES. WE'VE GOT A COUPLE OF TIMES THERE SO YOU CAN TURN YOUR MIKE ON AND OFF IF YOU COULD. WE'VE GOT A SERIES OF UPDATES THAT WE'RE WE'RE GOING TO BE TALKING THROUGH THIS EVENING AND AS I SAID WANTED TO THANK EVERYBODY AND WELCOME YOU TO CITY HALL THIS IS JUST IT'S ALWAYS A GREAT MEETING WHERE WE CAN GET THE CITY COUNCIL AND THE SCHOOL BOARD TOGETHER FOR A LOT OF DIFFERENT REASONS. WE ACTUALLY TALKED ABOUT IT DR. MELODY TALKED ABOUT IT THIS MORNING AT A CHAMBER MEETING HOW UNIQUE AND IMPORTANT IT IS THAT THE BLOOMINGTON CITY BOUNDARIES AND THE SCHOOL DISTRICT BOUNDARIES ARE COTERMINOUS THAT DOESN'T HAPPEN OFTEN IN THE TWIN CITIES IN MANY SCHOOL DISTRICTS IN MANY CITIES IN MANY SCHOOL DISTRICTS YOU'RE DEALING WITH FIVE CITY COUNCILS. IN MANY CITY COUNCILS YOU'RE DEALING WITH THREE OR FOUR DIFFERENT SCHOOL BOARDS. AND SO FOR US TO BE ABLE TO SIT DOWN LIKE THIS IS UNIQUE AND I THINK IT'S A IT'S A SOURCE OF OF STRENGTH FOR THE CITY AND I'M I LIKE IT WHEN WE GET TOGETHER WE CAN BUILD ON THIS IN A LOT OF DIFFERENT WAYS SO THANK YOU ALL FOR BEING HERE FOR ONE MORE MEETING IN YOUR WEEK. I KNOW EVERYBODY HAS SOMETHING GOING ON AND YOU COULD BE ANYWHERE ON THIS WEDNESDAY NIGHT BUT YOU CHOOSE TO BE HERE SO WE APPRECIATE THAT BEFORE I TURN IT OVER TO TO TO MATT, I DID WANT TO SAY SO EARLIER TODAY MR. JAMI AND I HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO GO TO THE MEMORIAL SERVICE OVER IN EDEN PRAIRIE FOR THE FOR THE OFFICERS AND THE EMT FROM BURNSVILLE WHO WERE TRAGICALLY KILLED LAST WEEKEND. AND I WANT TO SAY, FOLKS, YOU SHOULD BE ENORMOUSLY PROUD OF BLOOMINGTON POLICE DEPARTMENT AND YOUR BLOOMINGTON FIREFIGHTERS FOR THE WORK THAT THEY ARE DOING AND THE SUPPORT THAT THEY'RE PROVIDING AND JUST THE THE COLORADO RE AND THE EMPATHY AND THE OVERALL SUPPORT THAT THEY'RE PROVIDING FOR THE FOLKS DOWN BURNSVILLE THEY'RE DOING A LOT OF WORK DOWN THERE. OUR FIREFIGHTERS ARE LITERALLY OUT OF THEIR STATIONS. OUR POLICE ARE COVERING WHERE NECESSARY. WE'VE EVEN HAD CITY STAFF OUR COMMUNICATION STAFF WENT DOWN ON THAT SUNDAY AND HELPED WITH COMMUNICATIONS AND MEDIA ISSUES AND SO EVERYBODY'S BEEN PITCHING IN AND THEY'VE DONE AN OUTSTANDING JOB AND AND TODAY IF NOT WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THE OFFICERS THAT WERE ACTUALLY ON THE STREETS IN BLOOMINGTON, I THINK EVERY POLICE OFFICER, CIVILIAN EMPLOYEE OF THE BLOOMINGTON POLICE DEPARTMENT WERE AT THEIR MEMORIAL TODAY. SO IT WAS SOMETHING SPECIAL AND IT WAS A VERY, VERY NICE SERVICE AND BUT IT'S NICE TO SEE HOW WELL-REPRESENTED BLOOMINGTON AND THE THE DIGNITY AND RESPECT THAT THE BLOOMINGTON OFFICERS OFFICERS HAVE BEEN TREATING THIS WITH. AND AS I SAID, IF YOU SEE THEM THANK THEM AND CONGRATULATE THEM ON THEIR ON THEIR PROFESSIONALISM, THEIR EMPATHY AND WHAT THEY'VE BEEN DOING FOR OUR NEIGHBORS TO THE SOUTH SO WITH THAT I WILL TURN IT OVER TO CHAIR DIMMOCK AND HIM GIVE A LITTLE WALK HIMSELF. YEAH, I JUST WANT TO ECHO THE MAYOR SENTIMENT AND HOW LUCKY WE ARE TO BE ABLE TO WORK TOGETHER AND TO COME TOGETHER TWO BODIES PERIODICALLY THROUGHOUT THE YEAR TO TALK TALK ABOUT ORGANIZATIONAL BUSINESS AND SEE HOW WE CAN WORK TOGETHER AND GET UPDATES FROM EACH OTHER. SO THANK YOU ALL FOR SPENDING SOME TIME TOGETHER HERE ON WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND LOOK FORWARD TO WHAT WE'RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT TONIGHT. VERY GOOD. THANK YOU. OUR FIRST AGENDA ITEM OF THIS EVENING'S ITEM 2.1 THIS IS A 1970 RESOLUTION REGARDING HUMAN RIGHTS ASSISTANCE TO THE SCHOOL DISTRICT. FIRST THE SHOW OF HANDS WHO WAS NOT BORN IN 1970. OKAY, A LOT OF FOLKS HERE I SO THIS IS THIS IS A RESOLUTION REGARDING OUR HUMAN ASSISTANCE AND IT'S KIND OF AN IN THE WEEDS KIND OF THING AND I HOPE YOU'LL INDULGE US AS WE AS WE WORK TO CORRECT THIS. IT'S JUST THAT WE WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT WE HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO ADDRESS. MR.. ARE YOU GOING TO TAKE THIS OR ARE WE GOING OVER TO ERIC ACTUALLY, MR. MAYOR, WE'RE TO HAVE MELISSA MANDATORY THE CITY ATTORNEY TALKED THROUGH IT. WE'VE BEEN DOING CODE OVER THE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS AND SO THIS IS ONE ITEM THAT WE WANTED TO JUST MAKE THE THE DISTRICT AWARE OF ONE OF OUR BELIEFS IF THE CITY IS EMBEDDED AS PART OF OUR OUTREACH AND ENGAGEMENT PHILOSOPHY IS WE TRY NOT TO MAKE DECISIONS WITHOUT CONSULTING PEOPLE WHO ARE AFFECTED BY THOSE DECISIONS. AND SO THIS IS THIS IS SORT OF AN AWARENESS ITEM AND MELISSA IS GOING TO GET INTO SOME OF THE DETAILS. THANK YOU FOR TAKING THAT UP IN THIS MANNER. SO GOOD EVENING. WELCOME. GOOD EVENING. I'M MELISSA METRO, THE CITY ATTORNEY. I'M JOINED TONIGHT BY ERIC HOLTHAUS WHO IS THE HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION STAFF LIAISON. HE'S RIGHT HERE BEHIND ME AND HE WILL NOT HESITATE TO JUMP UP AND ANSWER OFF THE MIC IF IF I DO NOT KNOW THE ANSWER. SO AGAIN GETTING IN THE WAY BACK MACHINE WHEN PETROL WAS $0.36. JOHN LENNON LEFT THE BEATLE OR NOT JOHN PAUL MCCARTNEY LEFT THE BEATLES APOLLO 13 MISSION THE FIRST BOEING 747 COMMERCIAL FLIGHT TO LONDON WAS A BIG YEAR. THAT WAS WHAT HAPPENED IN 1870. SOME HIGHLIGHTS. WHAT ALSO HAPPENED IN 1970 WAS A RESOLUTION EVEN GOING BACK THAT LONG THE SCHOOL DISTRICT IN THE CITY WERE WORKING TOGETHER AND ONE OF THE THINGS THAT THEY ADOPTED WAS THE CITY COUNCIL ADOPTED WAS A REQUEST FROM THE SCHOOL DISTRICT TO PARTNER ON HUMAN RIGHTS EDUCATION WITH THE SCHOOL DISTRICT. THE RESOLUTION IS IN THE AGENDA. I WON'T GO THROUGH IT IT'S MANY PAGES LONG BUT ARE VERY SPECIFIC THINGS THAT I SHOULD SAY VERY GENERAL THINGS IN IT THAT WERE DETAILED IN A LOT OF WORDS BACK IN 1870 PROBABLY ON A TYPEWRITER AND UM WE CAME THIS BECAUSE WE WERE DOING AS THE CITY MANAGER MENTIONED SOME CODE UP AND LOOKING AT OUR FAIR HOUSING POLICY WHICH TRICKLED INTO LOOKING AT OUR HUMAN COMMISSION POLICY AND OUT OF THAT WE SAW THIS RESOLUTION AND WE HAD TO GET INTO THE WAYBACK MACHINE ON LASER FISH AND FIND THIS AND WE LOOKED INTO IT AND WE THOUGHT, YOU KNOW, WE WE'RE NOT GOING TO WE'RE TO WE KNEW THIS MEETING WAS COMING UP AND WE WANTED TO HAVE THIS CONVERSATION WITH YOU ALL MAKE AWARE OF IT. WE WANT TO HAVE OUR CODE REFLECT OF THE REALITY OF THE DAY AND A LOT HAS CHANGED SINCE 1970. SO BEFORE WE WENT AND TOOK IT OUT OF OUR CITY CODE WE THOUGHT WE'D PRESS PAUSE ON THAT PART OF IT WHEN WE WERE DOING THE OTHER CLEANUP MAKE YOU AWARE OF IT WE DO PLAN TO TAKE IT OUT OF OUR CODE BUT WE DIDN'T WANT TO DO THAT WITHOUT LETTING YOU KNOW AND THEN WANTED TO JUST ENGAGE IN A BRIEF CONVERSATION ABOUT ANY OTHER DIRECTION YOU MIGHT WANT TO PROVIDE TO STAFF IN THE AUDIENCE HERE OR OTHERWISE ABOUT NEXT STEPS IF YOU KNOW IT'S I KNOW THAT THERE ARE SOME ONGOING DISCUSSIONS AND WORK ON A WIDE VARIETY TOPICS SOME OF WHICH MAY INCLUDE HUMAN RIGHTS SO POSSIBLE THAT THINGS COULD BE DO NOTHING AND WE'LL TAKE IT OUT AND WE'LL CONTINUE AS WE DO IN 2024 THROUGH THE NATURAL EFFORTS THAT ARE ALREADY IN PLACE OR YOU MIGHT WANT TO GIVE US SOME OTHER DIRECTION. SO WITH THAT, ERIC, IS THERE ANYTHING ELSE YOU WANT TO ADD BECAUSE ANY PARTICULAR QUESTIONS LIKE TO BE ABLE TO LOOK BUT I APPRECIATE THAT UM GREAT TAKE IT UP AND THE OTHER THING I SHOULD MENTION TOO THE HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION BEFORE WE DID THIS CALLED CLEAN UP WE DID RUN THROUGH THE HUMAN COMMISSION THROUGH THEIR COMMISSION MEETING AND SO THEY WERE MADE AWARE OF THIS AS AND I BELIEVE ERIC ON THE WORK PLAN FOR 24 ERIC MENTIONED TO ME THAT THERE IS A PARTNERSHIP GOAL IN WORKING WITH THE SCHOOL DISTRICT IN 2024 SO THAT IS ALREADY ON THE BOOKS IN A PART OF THE WORK PLAN. SO WITH THAT I GUESS ERIC AND I WILL STAY ON FOR ANY QUESTIONS. THANK YOU MISS ANDERSON CITY COUNCIL ANY QUESTIONS SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS, ANY QUESTIONS? MR. FARUQUI THANK YOU MR. MAYOR. COUNCIL MEMBERS AND BOARD MEMBERS THE ONE THING I WOULD SAY IS JUST TO REITERATE THE LAST POINT THAT MS.. MANDER SHOWED MADE AND THAT IS THAT THE WORKING RELATIONSHIP IS NOT GOING TO CHANGE. IN FACT SOME OF YOU WILL REMEMBER THAT THE STRATEGIC PLAN THAT THE CITY ADOPTED IT WAS A POINT OF EMPHASIS IN THERE THAT ONE OF THE THINGS WE SHOULD BE DOING FOR THE COMMUNITY IS HAVING MEETINGS LIKE THIS EXACTLY RIGHT. AND SO THE BOARD AND THE CITY COUNCIL WORKING TOGETHER IS PART OF STRATEGIC PLAN AND WE'RE GLAD THAT YOU'RE HERE TODAY. SO THE FACT THAT THE LANGUAGE MAY NOT BE REFLECTED IN THE CODE IS IS NOT REFLECTIVE OF OUR INTENT TO MAINTAIN WORKING ESPECIALLY IN THIS AREA. THANK YOU, MR.. ANY ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS? SO IT IS MY UNDERSTANDING I DO UNDERSTAND IF THERE'S NO ACTION HERE THIS IS GOING TO BE PART OF THE CODE UP THAT YOUR OFFICE IS UNDERTAKING AND IF THIS GETS REMOVED THIS GETS REMOVED AND WE'LL MOVE FORWARD AND AND AS YOU SAID, MOVE INTO 2024 WITH THE LANGUAGE IN THE CODE FOR THE CITY, IS THAT CORRECT? CORRECT. MY AND MEMBERS AND SCHOOL DISTRICT MEMBERS OUR PLAN WE DO OUR NEXT BATCH OF CLEANUP WILL BE TO REMOVE THIS PARTICULAR PROVISION THAT'S BOLDED ON PAGE TWO OF THIS OF THIS AGENDA ITEM IT D CLAUSE D OF 2.80 3.02 AND SO WE'LL JUST DO THAT IN OUR NORMAL SORT OF CLEAN UP AND I WOULD ALSO THAT IF THERE'S ANY STAFF PEOPLE THAT HAVE NOT YET MET ERIC HE'S HERE AND IT WOULD BE A GOOD OPPORTUNITY FOR ANY CONNECTIONS TO HAPPEN SO THAT CAN HIT THE GROUND RUNNING ON ANY RELATIONSHIP BUILDING THAT CAN GROW OUT OF TONIGHT. VERY GOOD. ALL RIGHT. WELL, I THINK GIVEN THE LACK OF QUESTIONS OR INPUT, I THINK THAT IT'S THE DIRECTION AND OFF YOU GO. SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH. THANKS FOR BRINGING THIS FORWARD AND YOU AS YOU MENTIONED INTRODUCTION TO ERIC, I REALIZED OF THE THINGS THAT I HAD ON MY LIST. I WANTED TO MAKE SURE WE WENT AROUND THE TABLE, INTRODUCED OTHER SO EVERYBODY KNOWS EVERYONE BECAUSE WE DO HAVE A NEW BLOOMINGTON CITY COUNCIL MEMBER AT THE TABLE WITH US AND I JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE EVERYBODY KNEW EVERYBODY ELSE WAS. SO I WILL START AND WE'LL HEAD THIS WAY BUT I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE AS I SAID VICTOR WAS ON EVEN WITH EVERYBODY BUT WE'VE MET. THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE, VICTOR TIM BUSSEY. MM HMM. VICTOR I JUST INTRODUCED LOOK, GET USED TO THE WAY THE CITY DOES THIS STUFF AND MY MICROPHONE. I'M ERIC MELBY, THE SUPERINTENDENT. NICE TO MEET YOU WE'VE MET A COUPLE OF TIMES JENNIFER AT-LARGE COUNCILMEMBER MATT DIMOCK, VICE CHAIR OF THE SCHOOL BOARD. SOME MORE AT LARGE CITY COUNCILMEMBER HEATHER STARKS, DIRECTOR ON THE SCHOOL BOARD NELLIE COLEMAN SCHOOL BOARD DIRECTOR DUANE LOWMAN FIRST DISTRICT CITY COUNCILMEMBER REPRESENTING THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF BOYNTON BETH BEEBE THE SCHOOL BOARD CLERK DIRECTOR SAFA MERCER CITY COUNCIL SECRETARY MAYA OLSEN SCHOOL BOARD DIRECTOR TOM BENNETT SCHOOL BOARD TREASURER VICTOR RIVAS DISTRICT FOUR CITY COUNCIL MEMBER JAMIE FAROOQI CITY MANAGER WELL THANK YOU AND I APOLOGIZE FOR NOT DOING THAT AS KICKED OFF COUNCILMEMBER I WAS ON MY PLAN AND I NEGLECTED SO I APOLOGIZE SO I WOULD JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE YOU KNEW EVERYONE WELL THANK ALL FOR THAT. MOVING ON ITEM 2.2 ON OUR AGENDA THIS IS A REPORT ON THE JOINT CHEMICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH EFFORTS BETWEEN WITHIN THE SCHOOL DISTRICT AND I BELIEVE WITH THE CITY I HAVE ON THE AGENDA HERE JENNIFER MCINTYRE FROM STUDENT SERVICES ,IS THAT CORRECT? VERY GOOD. AND I SEE DR. KELLY MOVING AS WELL AS PART OF THE PRESENTATION VERY GOOD FOR MY STAFF AND GOOD EVENING DR. KELLY WE'RE FLEXIBLE. WE'LL DO THAT. UM, PSYCHOLOGY. I WILL BE RIGHT WITH YOU 1/2. OKAY ALL RIGHT. SO THANK YOU, MAYOR, FOR HAVING US TONIGHT. SUPERINTENDENT M.D. DIRECTOR OF DIMERIC AND MEMBERS OF THE SCHOOL BOARD AND OF THE CITY COUNCIL THANK YOU FOR HAVING US HERE TONIGHT. I'M JENNIFER MCINTYRE. I'M THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF STUDENT SERVICES FOR BLOOMINGTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND I WILL HAVE HANNAH INTRODUCE HERSELF VERY QUICKLY YES. GOOD EVENING AND THANK YOU FOR HAVING US. I'M HANNAH HATCH. I'M THE DIRECTOR OF SERVICES FOR BLOOMINGTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND WE WERE BEFORE YOU ABOUT A YEAR AND A HALF AGO TALKING ABOUT OUR INITIATIVES CHEMICAL HEALTH AND MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES WITHIN OUR SCHOOL DISTRICT AND THEN OUR PARTNERSHIP WITH DR. KELLY IN WORKING WITH THE CITY OF BLOOMINGTON AROUND THIS ISSUE AND WHAT WE WANTED TO DO AND WHAT WE WERE ASKED TO DO TONIGHT IS TO COME AND DO OUR UPDATE AROUND THE WORK THAT WE'VE BEEN DOING WITHIN OUR SCHOOL DISTRICT. AND THEN I WILL HAND IT OVER TO DR. KELLY TO TALK ABOUT WHAT WE HAVE PARTNERED WITH IN THE CITY. SO THE PURPOSE FOR TONIGHT IS TO TRULY GIVE YOU THAT UPDATE HOW BLOOMINGTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS IS WORKING WITH OUR LICENSED STAFF ALL THE WAY FROM OUR EARLY CHILDHOOD. YOU KNOW, AS WE START WITH OUR BIRTH WE WORK A LOT WITH OUR FAMILIES WITHIN THE COMMUNITY GOING OUT INTO HOMES, HAVING INTO OUR SCHOOLS AND INTO OUR PROGRAMS ALL THE WAY UP TO AGE 22 WHERE WE HAVE STUDENTS STILL COMING IN WORKING WITH AND WE'RE DOING A LOT OF WORK WITH OUR ADULTS ACTUALLY IN THIS AREA. HONESTLY BETWEEN 18 AND 22 WE HAVE QUITE A FEW STUDENTS WHO WE WORK WITH VERY DIRECTLY BUT AS THEY'RE THEN ENTERING BACK INTO A MEMBER OF OUR OUR COMMUNITY AND BEING A PART OF BLOOMINGTON AT LARGE SO HANNAH I WANTED TONIGHT AND AS WE SAID TO TALK ABOUT WHAT OUR EXTERNAL OR EXTERNAL OF SUPPORT ARE AND INTERNALLY WHAT WE'RE DOING WITHIN BLOOMINGTON SCHOOLS AROUND CHEMICAL HEALTH IN PARTICULAR . LAST TIME WE MET WITH YOU WE TALKED A LOT ABOUT DRAWING CONNECTIONS BETWEEN MENTAL HEALTH AND THE STATE OF WHERE OUR MENTAL HEALTH WAS COMING BACK FROM THE PANDEMIC AND COMING BACK FROM DISTANCE LEARNING FOR MANY OF OUR FAMILIES AND WE WERE SEEING SUCH AN UPRISE OR AN INCREASE IN THE NEED FOR STUDENTS AROUND THE AREA OF MENTAL WHICH REALLY LED US TO UNDERSTANDING AND HAVING MANY MEETINGS WITH OUR STUDENTS ARE SEVERAL MEETINGS WITH OUR STUDENTS HANNAH AND I AN OPPORTUNITY TO SIT DOWN WITH OUR FOCUS GROUPS OF STUDENTS TO UNDERSTAND THE CHEMICAL HEALTH OF NOT JUST OUR STUDENTS IN THEM COMING BACK AND WITH US IN OUR SCHOOLS AT THAT POINT IN TIME WE'VE LEARNED A GREAT DEAL MORE SINCE THEN BUT ALSO THE FAMILIES IN WHICH OUR STUDENTS ARE THEY GO HOME AT NIGHT AND LIVING WITH WHAT THE MENTAL HEALTH AND CHEMICAL USE AND ABUSE IN THIS CASE I WERE GOING TO TALK ABOUT A LITTLE BIT HAS BEEN LIKE AND SO FOR US WE'VE DUG DEEPER INTO THE THE REPORTS FROM OUR STUDENTS THE VOICES OF OUR STUDENTS TO UNDERSTAND EARLY ON WHAT STUDENTS ARE BEING TO AND THAT QUITE HONESTLY THE ACCESS THAT THEY HAVE HERE IN THE CITY OF BLOOMINGTON THAT HAS BEEN ONE OF THE CORNERSTONES THAT HANNAH AND I REALLY LOOKED ON EARLY LOOKED AT EARLY ON. AND NOW WE'RE LOOKING DEEPER INTO THAT CONNECTION BETWEEN MENTAL AND CHEMICAL USE WITHIN OUR SCHOOLS AND SOME OF THE PROGRAMS THAT WE'VE PUT INTO SINCE WE LAST MET. THERE IS A VIDEO THAT WE WORKED CLOSELY WITH RICK KAUFMAN'S DEPARTMENT COMMUNICATIONS. IT'S CALLED LET'S BE HONEST IT'S A VIDEO THAT WE SENT OUT QUITE BROADLY IN THE CITY OF BLOOMINGTON, BUT WE'VE SHARED IT ACROSS I'VE ACTUALLY HAD IT COME BACK TO FROM SOME OF MY PARTNERS ACROSS THE STATE IN A SIMILAR POSITION I HAVE THAT HEY I SAW THIS VIDEO AND THIS IS REALLY INTERESTING WORK AND GOOD WORK THAT WE'RE DOING JUST TO PUT THE MESSAGE OUT THERE AROUND CHEMICAL HEALTH USE WHAT WE ARE DOING WITHIN OUR DISTRICT AROUND ISSUE AND THEN ALSO AROUND MENTAL HEALTH AND THE PARTNERSHIPS THAT WE HAVE BROUGHT TOGETHER THROUGH DOING THIS VIDEO AND BEING SURE THAT WE CAN HAVE MULTIPLE PARTNERSHIPS AGENCIES COMING TO THE TABLE BECAUSE AS A SCHOOL DISTRICT WE UNDERSTAND EDUCATION WE UNDERSTAND STUDENTS AND WHAT'S HAPPENING ON A DAILY BASIS BUT REALLY NOW HAVING THAT LENS OF CHEMICAL HEALTH, MENTAL HEALTH AND HAVING THOSE SPECIALTIES COMING IN HAS BEEN VERY HELPFUL FOR US. WE HOSTED A NUMBER OF GUARDIAN AWARENESS EVENTS AND PROVIDING EVENTS OF THERE ARE LEARNING SUPPORTS DEPARTMENT FOR FAMILIES TO COME IN WE'VE HAD GARDENING AWARENESS EVENTS AND COUPLE OF DIFFERENT AREAS. CHEMICAL HEALTH USE IS ONE OF THEM. THE IMPACT OF TECHNOLOGY AND THE IMPACT THAT HAS ON BULLYING AND OTHER AREAS WE HAVE HAD THOSE GARDENING AWARENESS EVENTS THEY HAVE BEEN WELL ATTENDED. WE ALSO RECORDING THEM AND MAKING THEM AVAILABLE THROUGH OUR RESOURCE LIBRARY. WE WILL CONTINUE THAT WITH OUR CHEMICAL HEALTH PARTNERSHIPS THAT WE HAVE. WE DID HOST A LIVE COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT THAT WE FOCUSED ON SUBSTANCE USE A PHASE ZERO RECOVERY SERVICES IS AN AGENCY THAT WE ACTIVELY WORK WITH. WE HOLD A CONTRACT WITH THEM AND THEY ARE PROVIDING DIRECT SERVICES TO STUDENTS IN CHEMICAL HEALTH THEY DO ONE ON ONE GROUP ARE THEY DO GROUP MEETINGS WITH STUDENTS THEY DO A ONE ON ONE MEETINGS WITH STUDENTS. THEY DO CHEMICAL HEALTH ASSESSMENTS FOR US. HANNAH WILL GO MORE INTO DEPTH ON WHAT THAT PROGRAMING LOOKS LIKE. WE'VE WORKED WITH THEM NOW FOR OVER A YEAR AND WE WILL CONTINUE TO CONTRACT SERVICES WITH PHASE ZERO RECOVERY SERVICES BECAUSE THE OUTCOMES WE'RE SEEING HAVE BEEN VERY POSITIVE FOR THE RELATIONSHIPS WE'VE BEEN ABLE TO CREATE WITH STUDENTS WHO IN THE PAST HAD NOT COME OUT TO TALK WITH US ABOUT THIS WITHIN BLOOMINGTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS WE OUR SCHOOL SOCIAL WORKERS WE HAVE SCHOOL PSYCHOLOGISTS SCHOOL COUNSELORS, OUR NURSES, ALL FOUR OF THOSE GROUPS, THOSE DEPARTMENTS MEET ON A MONTHLY BASIS AND TALK ABOUT OUR MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES AND THE NEEDS IN OUR COMMUNITY AND THE NEEDS WITHIN OUR OUR SCHOOL DISTRICT. WE HAVE A DISTRICT WIDE MENTAL HEALTH TEAM THAT MEETS ON A I WANT TO SAY A BI MONTHLY OPPORTUNITY FOR THOSE GROUPS TO COME TOGETHER AND SHARE WHAT ARE WE DOING? WHAT ARE THE OUTREACH AREAS THAT WE'RE SEEING AND MEETING AND WHAT IS BEING EFFECTIVE AND NOT EFFECTIVE? SO THOSE ARE AREAS THAT SINCE LAST TIME WE MET WE WANTED TO UPDATE TO LET YOU KNOW WHAT WE'VE BEEN DOING WITHIN THE SCHOOL DISTRICT AND WHAT WE'VE BEEN DOING SPECIFICALLY AROUND THE AREA OF MENTAL HEALTH AND THEN CHEMICAL USE AND I HAVE TO TURN IT OVER TO HANNAH AND HAVE HER GO A LITTLE BIT MORE INTO DEPTH AS TO WHAT THOSE AREAS SPECIFICALLY LOOK LIKE AND THE STUDENT OUTCOMES. GREAT. THANK YOU. SO JUST SOME MORE DETAILED UPDATES FOR YOU ON THE WORK THAT WE'VE BEEN DOING OVER THE PAST YEAR IS THAT WE HAVE HAD CHEMICAL HEALTH SERVICES JENNIFER MENTIONED ACCESSIBLE FOR OUR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS AND STUDENTS THROUGH AGE 22. SO THAT MEANS OUR CHOICE OF ALTERNATIVE HAS SERVICES AND THEN OUR BETSY LEARNING CENTER HAS SERVICES FOR CHEMICAL HEALTH CURRENTLY SINCE JUST SEPTEMBER. SO THE 2023 TO 2024 SCHOOL YEAR ALREADY THIS YEAR WE HAVE OR THE AGENCY WE ARE WORKING WITH HAS DONE OVER 150 INDIVIDUAL COUNSELING SESSIONS WITH STUDENTS WHO ARE STRUGGLING WITH SEVERE CHEMICAL USE FROM FEBRUARY 2023 THROUGH JULY 23 THEY DID 63 INDIVIDUAL SESSIONS WITH STUDENTS. YOU CAN SEE HOW THAT IS INCREASING THIS YEAR AS THE PROGRAM GETS UP AND RUNNING AND AWARENESS GETS OUT AND STUDENTS START OUT FOR MORE SUPPORT, THEY HAVE BEEN PROVIDING CHEMICAL ASSESSMENTS FOR STUDENTS WHICH IS A FULL IN-DEPTH ASSESSMENT. IT'S ACTUALLY A HUGE ASSET TO OUR DISTRICT TO HAVE THAT BECAUSE THESE ASSESSMENTS ARE EXTREMELY EXPENSIVE USUALLY FOR PARENTS OR FAMILIES TO GET FOR THEIR CHILD AND THERE ARE VERY IN-DEPTH ASSESSMENT THAT THEN RESULTS IN A RECOMMENDATION FOR SERVICES. AND SO WHEN WE TALK TO OUR AGENCY THAT'S COMING IN TO DO THEM ANY STUDENT IN OUR DISTRICT WHO'S REACHED THE LEVEL OF HAVING A FULL CHEMICAL HEALTH ASSESSMENT DONE HAS ACTUALLY QUALIFIED FOR INTENSIVE OUTPATIENT OR A HIGHER LEVEL OF CARE WHICH MEANS THAT THE STUDENTS ARE GIVING TO THAT LEVEL ARE REALLY IN NEED OF THAT SERVICE AND UTILIZE IT. THE OTHER PIECE OF THAT WHICH IS AT THE THERE IS THAT THE STUDENTS WHO HAVE BEEN REFERRED TO TREATMENT HAVE GONE AND WE'VE HAD STUDENTS GO AND COMPLETE FULL TREATMENT AND BEEN RELEASED IN COMING BACK TO SCHOOL WHICH IS REALLY EXCITING FOR SOME OF OUR OUR STUDENTS WHO ARE GETTING THAT SUPPORT THE. ONE PIECE I WANT TO ADD TO THAT IS WHEN WE DON'T HAVE A SYSTEM LIKE THIS IN PLACE THAT HAS BEEN CREATED WITHIN OUR SCHOOL SYSTEM WE HAVE WAITING ON WAITING LISTS TO HAVE THE EVALUATION COMPLETED OR TO HAVE THAT CAMP HEALTH DONE. AND SO THEY'RE SITTING ON THAT WAITING LIST WAITING FOR PLACEMENT. WHAT WE'VE BEEN ABLE TO DO THROUGH WORKING WITH PHASE ZERO WHICH WE REALLY ARE GRATEFUL FOR THAT IS WE'VE BEEN ABLE TO GET STUDENTS ASSESSED, EVALUATED AND PLACED IN A VERY SHORT PERIOD OF TIME WHEN THE SUBSTANCE USES AS SUCH A CRITICAL OTHERWISE WE HAVE SEEN STUDENTS SITTING AND WAITING UPWARDS OF 6 TO 8 MONTHS FOR ANY LEVEL OF ASSESSMENT TO GET TO TREATMENT. THANK YOU. YEAH IT'S BEEN ONE OF THE GREATEST ASSETS WE'VE SEEN IS THAT WE'VE REALLY REDUCED A LOT OF BARRIERS STUDENTS IN BRINGING THE SUPPORT TO THEM. THIS HAS ALSO THE SAME FOR OUR FAMILIES. WE'VE HAD SEVERAL PARENTS REACH OUT FOR SUPPORT ASKING FOR GUIDANCE AND THE PHASE ZERO RECOVERY SERVICES HAS DONE SESSIONS WITH FAMILIES AND PARENTS TO HELP SUPPORT THEM TO HELP MAKE A SAFETY PLAN TO HELP THEM WITH CHILD WHO MAYBE DOESN'T WANT HELP OR ISN'T BEING HONEST. AND SO THAT'S BEEN A RESOURCE TO NOT ONLY OUR STUDENTS BUT OUR COMMUNITY AND FAMILIES AS WELL THEY ALSO HAVE DONE A CASE CONSULTATION FOR STAFF MEMBERS AND CAREGIVERS. SO THIS IS A LOT OF OUR STAFF WORK CLOSELY WITH STUDENTS AND KNOW MAYBE THEY'RE STRUGGLING OR KNOW DIFFERENT AREAS OF THEIR STRUGGLE AND THEY HAVE BEEN ABLE TO CONSULT WITH SOMEONE WHO SPECIALIZES IN THAT AREA AND GET GUIDANCE OR RECOMMEND ATIONS AND THEN THEY'VE ALSO BEEN PROVIDING MORE PROACTIVE EDUCATION FOR STUDENTS AND STAFF THIS YEAR SO HAVE MET WITH INDIVIDUAL GROUPS WHO HAVE MORE TARGETED QUESTIONS OR NEED MORE TARGETED AND THEN HAVE STARTED GOING IN TO SOME OF OUR HEALTH CLASSES THE HIGH SCHOOL TO DO SOME MORE PROACTIVE EDUCATION AND ALSO JUST GETTING THE RESOURCE OUT THERE FOR STUDENTS TO KNOW AND BE AWARE OF . SO THROUGH ALL THIS WORK WHAT ARE WE CONTINUING TO DO? WE'RE CONTINUING TO WORK TO CHANGE THE SYSTEM WITHIN BLOOMINGTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS. PART OF THAT IS BEYOND CHEMICAL HEALTH. SO OUR TEAMS JENNIFER, HAVE WORKED REALLY HARD TO DEVELOP A NEW PROCESS FOR RISK AND THREAT ASSESSMENT WHICH IS SCREENING AND DONE HUGE WORK AROUND THAT THIS YEAR WE ARE ALSO DOING MORE CHEMICAL USE AND MISUSE TRAINING OUR STAFF ON IT, EDUCATING FAMILIES AND PARENTS AS JENNIFER MENTIONED AND TRYING TO BE REALLY PROACTIVE IN THAT BECAUSE A LOT PEOPLE ARE JUST NOT AWARE STILL OF THE PROBLEM THAT WE ARE FACING TODAY AROUND IT. WE HAVE DONE A LOT OF WORK THIS YEAR MEETING CONTINUING TO MEET WITH STUDENT AND CAREGIVER ADVISORY GROUPS SO OUR PTA, PTSA COUNSELS BUT ALSO STUDENT ADVISORY GROUPS TO GET FEEDBACK FROM THEM AND IT'S BEEN EXTREMELY VALUABLE FOR US TO HEAR FROM STUDENTS FIRSTHAND WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING FOR, WHAT DO YOU NOTICE? WHAT TRENDS ARE YOU SEEING? WHAT WOULD HELPFUL AND HEAR THAT FEEDBACK FROM THEM? AND WE'VE ACTUALLY GOTTEN A LOT OF GREAT FEEDBACK AND STARTED TO MAKE CHANGES BASED OFF OF THAT WHICH HAS BEEN AWESOME ONE WHICH WE'LL COVER LATER HAS BEEN EASIER ACCESS DIRECTLY TO THE RESOURCE AND SERVICE WHICH BEEN AWESOME. WE ARE CONTINUING TO EXPAND OUR CHEMICAL SERVICES SO THIS YEAR THEY STARTED IN CHOICE. THEY DIDN'T HAVE SERVICES PRIOR TO THAT AND THEN THEY'VE ALSO BEEN EXPANDING TO THE MIDDLE SCHOOLS AND GOING THERE REGULARLY FOR STUDENTS IN NEED WHICH HAS BEEN GREAT WE BASED ON THE STUDENT ADVISORY GROUP WE ARE WORKING TO NOT UP AND RUNNING YET BUT WORKING TO FIND A WAY TO IMPLEMENT SELF OR OTHER REFERRAL SYSTEM. THIS WAS SOMETHING OUR STUDENTS CAME TO ABOUT OF IS THERE A WAY TO HAVE A FLIER WITH A QR WHERE WE COULD SIGN UP WITHOUT ANYONE KNOWING OR A FLIER WITH A QR CODE WHERE WE COULD SUBMIT SOMETHING THAT WE'RE CONCERNED ABOUT A FRIEND OURS. AND SO THAT WAS A BIG FEEDBACK FROM STUDENTS HEY I MAY NOT FEEL SUPER COMFORTABLE GOING TO MY COUNSELOR ABOUT THIS BUT MAYBE I DO NEED HELP OR NEED THE RESOURCE. AND SO WE'RE WORKING ON UP WITH A PLAN FOR THAT THAT THERE CAN BE REFERRAL REFERRED AND ACCESS THE RESOURCE WITHOUT NECESSARILY HAVING TO GO THROUGH SOMEONE AT THE SCHOOL AND THEN CAN JUST DIRECTLY GET SUPPORT IN IT. WE ALSO HAVE BEEN CONTINUING WORK ON INCORPORATING AND SHIFTING FROM DISCIPLINE TO ACCOUNTABILITY AND EXPECTATIONS SO CHANGING THAT MINDSET OF PUNISHING STUDENTS BUT RATHER REALLY BE YOU KNOW HOLDING THEM ACCOUNTABLE TO WHAT IS EXPECTED AND, EMPOWERING THEM TO BE THE BEST BEST VERSION OF THEMSELVES, BE MOTIVATED TO REACH THAT AND HAVE THAT INTERNAL MOTIVATION AGAIN. AND SO WE'VE BEEN WORKING AROUND THAT AND THEN LASTLY WE'VE DONE LOT OF WORK THIS THIS YEAR WITH OUR RESEARCH EVALUATION AND ASSESSMENT TEAM AND WE'LL GET TO THAT FURTHER . SO LIKE I SAID JULIO AND HIS TEAM HAS DONE A LOT OF WORK AROUND OUR RESEARCH AND EVALUATION BECAUSE WE REALLY TO LOOK INTO OUR IS WHAT WE'RE DOING MAKING A DIFFERENCE ARE WE ARE WE PICKING UP ON THE CORRECT TRACK TRENDS AND WERE WE RIGHT WHEN WE LOOKED AT WHAT WAS UNDERLYING SOME OF THIS AND SO WE JUST LOOKED THROUGH ALL THE DATA THIS YEAR OF OUR FROM DEPARTMENT AND JULIO DID A GREAT JOB SORTING THROUGH THAT AND GIVING TO US AND IT WAS SURVEYED OF GRADES SIX THROUGH 12 AND SO WE WON'T GO THROUGH ALL THE DATA BUT I JUST WANTED TO COVER SOME TRENDS WE NOTICED WITH YOU SO WE NOTICED IN THE RESULTS THAT THERE WAS AN INCREASE IN SUBSTANCE USE SIGNIFICANTLY ASSOCIATED WITH A LOW SENSE OF BELONGING AND LOW SELF EFFICACY. SO WE KIND OF KNEW THAT GOING IN WE SUSPECTED THAT WE KNEW THOSE WERE RISK FACTORS BUT IT DEFINITELY SHOWED UP AS VERY STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT IN STUDENTS WHO WERE REPORTING . SO WHAT THAT MEANS IS IF THEY DID NOT FEEL A CONNECTION AT SCHOOL WITH SOMEONE OR FEEL LIKE THEY REALLY BELONGED AND SOMEONE CARED ABOUT THEM THEY WERE MUCH MORE LIKELY TO REPORT A HIGH PERCENTAGE OF USE OF SUBSTANCES VERSUS THOSE WHO REPORTED THAT REALLY FELT CONNECTED AND LIKE THEY BELONGED AND WERE CARED ABOUT AT SCHOOL. THE OTHER TREND WE NOTED NOTICED THAT AS THEY GOT OLDER SO OUR 11TH AND 12TH GRADERS WERE REPORTING QUITE A BIT MORE USE THAN YOUNGER GRADES MAYBE NOT SHOCKING BUT THERE WAS A SIGNIFICANT JUMP IN OUR TWO OLDER GRADES. WE ALSO NOTICED THAT NOT ANYONE WHO IS IDENTIFYING AS NON CISGENDER THEY DID REPORT HIGHER SUBSTANCE USE AND ABUSE ON THE SURVEY AND THEN NOT NOT BEING CONNECTED AT SCHOOL. SO REALLY THIS WAS REALLY JUST AFFIRMING THAT WE WERE CORRECT IN SOME OF THE UNDERLYING CONCERNS AND RISK FACTORS THAT WE WERE SEEING WITH STUDENTS. THE OTHER REALLY BIG PIECE THAT STOOD OUT TO US IS STUDENTS REPORTED REALLY HIGH THAT THEY THOUGHT OTHERS WERE USING LIKE THEIR EVEN IF THEY REPORTED THAT THEY DON'T USE IT WAS PRETTY MUCH ACROSS THE BOARD THAT STUDENTS WERE REPORTING THAT THEY FELT LIKE THOSE AROUND THEM WERE USING WHICH WAS INTERESTING YOU KNOW AND IT WAS VERY CONSISTENT ACROSS THE BOARD THAT WAY THAT THE PERCEPTION OF IS VERY HIGH AMONG OUR YOUTH. SO WITH ALL OF THAT DATA AND WHERE WE'RE AT IN THAT SUPPORT THAT WE'RE DOING, WE WANTED TO JUST BRING YOU SOME NEXT STEPS THAT WE'RE WE'RE LOOKING AT SO WE ARE LOOKING TO EXPAND HEALTH AWARENESS DOWN TO FIFTH GRADE. THAT WAS A ASK ACTUALLY FROM PIZZA COUNCIL THAT THEY WOULD REALLY LIKE SOME OF THE EDUCATION AND SUPPORT TO START BEING EXPANDED EVEN YOUNGER TO GET AHEAD KIND OF WHEN STUDENTS ARE STARTING TO MAYBE ACCESS IT OR COME UPON THAT WE ALSO ARE LOOKING AT HOW WE CAN HOW WE CAN CONNECT THIS RESOURCE TO OTHER WORK WE'RE DOING. SO WE AS A TEAM HAVE TALKED A LOT ABOUT WHEN A THREAT ASSESSMENT COMES UP AND FLAGS ANY OF CHEMICAL USE HOW CAN WE CONNECT THIS RESOURCE TO PROVIDE MORE SUPPORT FOR OUR TEAMS WITHIN THE SCHOOL? A GREAT EXAMPLE IS WE'VE ALREADY CONNECTED SOME STUDENTS WHO MAY BE POP UP ON, YOU KNOW, PRINCIPAL'S RADARS BEHAVIORS IN SCHOOL AND WE FIND OUT THAT THERE'S A LOT OF USE IN THEIR HOME FE ZERO HAS ACTUALLY BEEN ABLE TO MEET WITH STUDENTS WHO MAYBE AREN'T USING BUT THEY'RE SURROUNDED BY YOUTH AND THAT'S BEEN A REALLY VALUABLE RESOURCE AS WELL TO HELP THEM CREATE A SAFETY PLAN FOR THEMSELVES AND TO PROVIDE REGULAR INS AND SUPPORT FOR THEM AROUND THAT. SO WE TO CONNECT THAT LIKE I SAID WITH THE THREAT ASSESSMENTS AND THE OTHER WORK THAT WE'RE DOING THAT WE'RE SURE THAT WE'RE SUPPORTING OUR TEAMS AND CONNECTING THOSE RESOURCES TO STUDENTS WHO REALLY NEED IT. WE ARE CONTINUING TO REDUCE OF ACCESS TO THE CHEMICAL HEALTH SERVICES. WE ARE BRINGING IT DIRECTLY THE STUDENT AT NO COST AND WORKING WITH STUDENTS AND FAMILIES TO REALLY EXPAND THE RESOURCE AND MAKE SURE THAT THERE ARE NO BARRIERS IN PLACE FOR THEM TO RECEIVE SERVICES AROUND THIS. WE ALSO CONTINUE TO WORK WITH OUR IN COLLABORATION WITH OUR ALTERNATIVE TO SUSPENSION PROGRAM WHEN SOMEONE IS TO THE ALTERNATIVE TO SUSPENSION PROGRAM AND SPENDING A DAY THERE THEY ARE NOW STARTING TO TALK WITH STUDENTS AND ASK THEM QUESTIONS AND IF CHEMICAL USE COMES UP AS AS A BIG PROBLEM FOR THE STUDENT THEN THEY'RE WORKING TO CONNECT WITH OUR CHEMICAL HEALTH RESOURCES WHICH IS GREAT. AND THEN LASTLY WE'RE EXTREMELY EXCITED BECAUSE WE GOTTEN FULFILLMENT OF TWO CURRENT GRANTS THROUGH HENNEPIN COUNTY OPIOID SERVICES AND HENNEPIN HEALTH SERVICES COOPERATIVE. AND SO WE GOT THOSE GRANTS. WE SPENT A LOT OF TIME APPLYING FOR THEM AND WORKING TOWARDS THEM TO KIND OF HELP CONTINUE TO FUND THIS THIS WORK WITHIN OUR SCHOOLS AND WE KNOW THAT IT'S MORE ENCOMPASSING YOU WITH THE COMMUNITY WE WANT TO CONTINUE TO PARTNER WITH THE COMMUNITY AND GET AHEAD OF IT. AS YOU CAN SEE WE'VE REALLY IDENTIFIED THOSE RISK FACTORS . WE WE FEEL WE HAVE SOME GREAT IDEAS TO TRY AND GET AHEAD OF THAT AND REALLY GET OUR STUDENTS CONNECTED BACK TO EACH OTHER AND HAVE CONNECTION WITH SOME MEANINGFUL ADULTS WITHIN OUR DISTRICT YEAH DEFINITELY IS FROM THE RESEARCH THAT DR. CESAR HERE WITH US TONIGHT WAS ABLE TO PROVIDE US HELPED US AS HANNAH WAS SAYING KIND OF VALIDATE BUT ALSO PUSH US FURTHER TO SAY ARE OUR NEXT STEPS BECAUSE AS ADULTS WE'RE THINKING WE KNOW WHAT A MEANINGFUL RELATIONSHIP IS WITH OUR STUDENTS. WHEN WE DO FOCUS GROUPS WITH STUDENTS, OUR STUDENTS ARE LIKE THAT'S NOT A MEANINGFUL CONNECTION. THIS IS WHAT WE MEAN BY THAT. SO WE KNOW AS THE ADULTS GOING INTO THIS WE HAVE WORK TO DO HERE TO UNDERSTAND WHAT TRULY STUDENTS ARE NEEDING AND WE'RE THANKFUL WE'RE THANKFUL THAT THE WORD OF MOUTH IS THAT WE'RE SEEING AN INCREASE OF OF NEED OR THAT NECESSARY BUT OF IDENTIFYING OF COMING OUT TO TALK TO FOLKS ABOUT IT IN OUR SCHOOLS THAT HAS BEEN ENCOURAGING TO US TO BE ABLE TO SAY WE'RE GETTING THERE SOMEHOW AND SO WE'RE JUST HOPING THESE NEXT TO PUSH EVEN FURTHER SO WE DO HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY FOR QUESTIONS BUT PERHAPS IT'D BE BETTER TO PASS ON TO DR. GOING TO CALL YOU CAGE I DON'T KNOW WHY KELLY TO DR. KELLY IS WELL THANK YOU YES WELL RIGHT JOT YOUR QUESTIONS DOWN IF YOU HAVE ANY AND WE WILL COME BACK AND SO DON'T GO FAR SO GREAT DR. KELLY MAYOR COUNTS MEMBERS OF CHAIR AND OH IT'S A PLEASURE TO BE HERE AGAIN AND AS YOU HEARD FROM HANNAH AND JENNIFER, THERE IS AN AWFUL LOT THAT NEEDS TO BE HAPPENING AND IS HAPPENING AT THE SCHOOL DISTRICT LEVEL MEETINGS, SOME REALLY EMERGENT NEWS THIS IS A DATA YOU SAW ABOUT A YEAR AND A HALF AGO REALLY REINFORCES SOME OF THE THE REALITY OF WHAT YOU JUST HEARD AND. THE STUDENT SURVEY DATA JUST KEEPS REINFORCING SOME OF THAT WORK. THE REALITY OF THAT CONNECTION WAS ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE TALKED ABOUT ABOUT A YEAR AND A HALF AGO OF FEELING THAT DISCONNECTION AND THAT'S A RECURRING THEME THAT WE KEEP SEEING TO ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I WANTED TO REMIND YOU ABOUT IS THERE IS A SUBSTANTIAL OPIOID INVESTMENT THAT IS HAPPENING AND WE ARE WORKING THROUGH THAT PROCESS TO GET TO MEET SOME OF THOSE NEEDS REALLY DRIVEN BY AS YOU SEE THERE'S THREE AND A HALF MILLION DOLLARS WE'RE WORKING THROUGH A SURVEY IN BLOOMINGTON, INDIANA IN RICHFIELD THAT WORK IS REALLY BEING DRIVEN BY A COLLABORATIVE WORK GROUP THAT'S A PLAN AND THAT PLAN IS MOVING FORWARD IN SOME MAJOR AREAS. WE ARE CONTINUING TO WORK THAT PROCESS OF LIKE HOW DO WE BEST PIVOT AND MOVE SOME OF OUR A FUNDING PROCESS THAT IS SETTLEMENTS ARE NOT SOMETHING WE'RE ALWAYS USED TO PROCESSING ON OUR END GRANTS CONTRACTS. WE DO THOSE ALL ALL THE TIME BUT. SOME OF THOSE NUANCES OF COMPLYING WITH THE SETTLEMENT ARE A LITTLE BIT MORE COMPLICATED SO WE'RE TRYING TO MAKE SURE WE'RE DOING THAT CORRECTLY SO THAT WE CAN DO THAT WELL MOVING FORWARD, ALL OF YOU ARE AWARE OF THE BRAIN HEALTH PROGRAM THAT EPD LAUNCHED THE REALLY INNOVATIVE APPROACH TO TACKLING SOME OF THE ISSUES YOU JUST HEARD CONVERSATIONS ABOUT AND SOME OF THAT GAP GETTING ACCESS TO CARE WITH THE POLICE DEPARTMENT LAST WINTER . I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO WHEN WE CAN COME BACK WITH CHIEF HODGES AND TALK ABOUT WHAT THAT PILOT LOOKS AND HOW THE OUTCOMES ARE. WE'RE CONTINUING TO LOOK AT HOW WE GET OUT SOME OF THE OPIOID FUNDING WHETHER IT'S AN RFP OR AN RFI OR SOME OF THAT PROCESS. WE'RE HOPING THAT THAT WILL HAPPEN SOON. ONE OF THE THINGS THAT'S HAPPENING THAT MAY NOT HAVE BEEN ON YOUR RADAR IS WE USE SOME OF OUR COVID RECOVERY FUNDING TO WORK ON THIS RECOVERY WORK. WE'VE HAD THIS PARTNERSHIP WITH THE DISTRICT WHERE WE'VE BEEN ABLE TO DO THESE MENTAL HEALTH POP IN SEVERAL SCHOOLS WITH A MIDDLE MIDDLE SCHOOL POPULATION AND GET SOME INCREDIBLE USING A VERY, VERY INTERACTIVE PROCESS WITH MENINGITIS TABLE AND SO THEY ARE WRAPPING SOME OF THOSE THEY'RE DOING SOME MORE WITH SOME OLDER ADULT POPULATIONS A COUPLE OF MORE AND AS WE PULL THAT STUFF TOGETHER THAT IS GOING TO BE AN INCREDIBLE SOURCE FOR US TO KEEP DOING THAT PARTNERSHIP AND DRIVE THE DISTRICT ON HOW DO WE DO SOME OF THIS WORK. IT'S AMAZING WHAT YOU HEAR WHEN YOU BREAK BREAD TOGETHER AND TALK ABOUT A COMMON ISSUE ON THAT POINT WE ARE OUR COMMUNITY HEALTH ASSESSMENT PROCESS THIS WE'RE DOING A LOT OF THE DATA WORK NOW BUT YOU'RE GOING TO SEE A LOT MORE OF THAT THIS SUMMER CONTINUING INTO 25 AS WE PULL A LOT OF THAT STUFF TOGETHER AND GET THAT FEEDBACK FROM WHAT'S GOING ON. ONE THING THAT'S REALLY CLEAR IS YOUTH MENTAL HEALTH AND ADULT MENTAL HEALTH IS GOING TO BE ONE OF THOSE PRIORITIES THAT'S A CRYSTAL CLEAR WITH ALL THE DATA THAT WE'RE DOING WITH OUR DATA AND IN COLLABORATION WITH HENNEPIN IN MINNEAPOLIS THAT IS JUST GOING TO BE THE PRIMARY FOCUS OF ALL THAT WORK ACROSS THOSE HEALTH DEPARTMENTS HENNEPIN COUNTY SO WE SHOULD BE BACK SOME LATER THIS YEAR WITH MORE OF THAT ENGAGEMENT REPORT AND IDEA HOW WE'RE GOING TO TACKLE THAT ISSUE. IT IS A GROWING AND COMPLEX CHALLENGE. ONE OF THE WAYS I'M EXCITED ABOUT THIS IS WE ARE TAKING ADVANTAGE OF AN INVESTMENT THAT THE STATE OF MINNESOTA HAS PROVIDED TO PUBLIC HEALTH AND SO WE BASED ON THAT INVESTMENT IN THE OPIOID SETTLEMENT, THE UPCOMING CANNABIS, WE'RE GOING TO BE ABLE TO ADD NINE FULL TIME STAFF TO OUR DEPARTMENT. A LOT OF THAT WORK IS GOING TO BE HELPING ON THIS AREA BECAUSE IT IS THERE'S NOT ALWAYS A PERFECT ALIGNMENT WITH WHAT OUR GRANTS AND FUNDING ALLOW US TO DO AND THE NEEDS WE SEE IN THE COMMUNITY. THIS IS ONE OF THOSE RARE TIMES WHERE WE ARE GETTING SOME UNIQUE FUNDING THAT'S GOING TO LET US PIVOT AND DO SOME STUFF THAT WE'VE NEVER BEEN ABLE TO DO BEFORE. SO WE'RE GOING TO BE CREATING A SUBSTANCE USE MENTAL HEALTH AND POLICY TEAM ON OUR END THAT'S GOING TO BE ABLE TO WORK REALLY CLOSELY WITH OUR DISTRICT PARTNERS TO, HELP DO MORE OF THAT WORK THAT WE CAN'T DO RIGHT NOW ALONG WITH THE HEALTH EQUITY SPECIALIST AND SOME RESILIENCE STAFF WORKING ON EPA AND CLIMATE ISSUES AND A STAFF TO REALLY HELP NAVIGATE SOME OF THOSE COMPLEX HOUSING ISSUES THAT ARE ALSO INTERTWINED SO MUCH WITH THE MENTAL HEALTH AND SUBSTANCE USE. SO WE HAVE SOME EXCITING WORK COMING BUT THERE IS A LOT OF CHALLENGE AND AS YOU HEARD DISTRICT IS DOING INCREDIBLE WORK. WE'RE DOING EVERYTHING WE CAN ON OUR BACK END TO TRY AND SUPPORT AND SUSTAIN THAT AND I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO THESE NEW STAFF ON BOARD IN THE NEXT FEW MONTHS AND HOW THAT CAN ACCELERATE THIS WORK. SO I THINK NOW IS A GOOD TIME FOR QUESTIONS ARE FEEL VERY GOOD WELL THANK YOU THANK YOU ALL VERY MUCH OPEN IT UP TO QUESTIONS FROM THE COUNCIL OR FROM SCHOOL BOARD. I HAVE A QUESTION AND MAYBE JUST KIND OF A KICK OFF HERE. YOU ALL IDENTIFIED VERY CORRECTLY OBVIOUSLY THE CONNECTION BETWEEN SUBSTANCE ABUSE AND MENTAL HEALTH. I MEAN WE SEE THAT IN YOUTH. WE SEE THAT IN THE ADULT POPULATION AS WELL. SO MY QUESTION IS A CHICKEN AND EGG QUESTION DOES MENTAL HEALTH DO MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES LEAD TO SUBSTANCE OR DO SUBSTANCE ABUSE LEAD TO MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES OR YES. YES, YES, I DO. DO YOU SEE A PREVALENCE ONE WAY OR THE OTHER. IT KIND OF A CHICKEN OR EGG ISSUE. WE SEE STUDENTS WITH MENTAL USING SUBSTANCES TO NUMB THAT OR CHECK OUT FROM IT OR AN ESCAPE FROM IT. WE ALSO SEE STUDENTS WHO HAVE USED SUBSTANCE USE AND AS A RESULT ARE SEEING SOME MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES FROM SO I WOULD SAY WE SEE IT BOTH WAYS AND THE DATA AND RESEARCH SHOWS THAT IT CAN GO BOTH WAYS AND IT DOES GO BOTH WAYS I WOULD SAY JUST AND ANYONE ELSE CAN CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG. THIS IS JUST PERSONAL FEEDBACK FROM WHAT I'VE SEEN AND WHAT I'VE TALKED TO ARE FAIR ZERO REGARDING I WOULD SAY IN WITHIN OUR DISTRICT WE TEND TO SEE STUDENTS USING TO NUMB OR ESCAPE MORE OFTEN. THANK FOR THAT AND I APPRECIATE THAT BECAUSE I'M SURE IT INFLUENCES THE DECISIONS YOU MAKE ABOUT WHICH TO WHICH DIRECTION TO TO ATTACK THIS PROBLEM. SO ON THE FACT THAT IT IS YES, I THINK MAKES IT EVEN MORE DIFFICULT. BUT I APPRECIATE THE THE CANDOR AND THE OTHER THING I'LL SAY AND THAT THE HARD THING THAT WE HAVE HEARD BACK FROM PHASE ZERO IS THAT THE REALLY HARD THING ABOUT THAT IS SOME SUBSTANCES DO A REALLY GOOD JOB OF ALLOWING A STUDENT TO NUMB OR ESCAPE FROM THE MENTAL HEALTH OR THE SITUATION THEY'RE IN . AND SO THAT CAN BE A REALLY TRICKY THING AND WHY SUPPORT AND PEOPLE WHO ARE REALLY IN IT AND UNDERSTAND IT ARE REALLY IMPORTANT FOR THOSE STUDENTS AND THANK YOU TO COUNCILMEMBER LOWMAN AND THEN COUNCILMEMBER LOGAN, COUNCILMEMBER CARTER AND COUNCILMEMBER THANK YOU MAYOR SURE. SO I'M CURIOUS A LITTLE BIT YOU KNOW I'VE HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO BE DOING SOME WORK WITH THE METROPOLITAN ALLIANCE FOR HEALTHY FAMILIES UNTIL THAT EVOLVED INTO SOMETHING AND ONE OF THE MAIN THINGS THEY TALK ABOUT AS PART OF THAT IS ACES THE IMPACTS OF THAT YOU KNOW, AS YOU KIND OF MOVE YOUR WAY THROUGH THROUGH TIME AND I'M CURIOUS ABOUT THE YOU KNOW, THE RESEARCH AND SOME OF THE THINGS AND WHEN I SAY ACES I MEAN ADVERSE CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES. SO IN CASE YOU'RE NOT FAMILIAR WITH THAT, THAT'S WHAT THAT TERMINOLOGY MEANS. BUT I I'M VERY CURIOUS ABOUT YOU KNOW, WHAT ARE YOU TRACKING THAT THAT THOSE THOSE AS WE GO THROUGH THAT AND THEN I'M ALSO CURIOUS ABOUT YOU KNOW, SINCE WE HAVE A DEMOGRAPHIC SHIFT AND CHANGE WITHIN OUR SCHOOLS ARE YOU SEEING ANYTHING YOU KNOW, BEYOND JUST THE SCHOOL LEVEL YOU THE GRADE LEVEL ARE WE SEEING POCKETS WITH DIFFERENT DEMOGRAPHIC GROUPS THAT ARE PART OF OUR OUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS SO WE WE DON'T ACTIVELY TRACK ACES BUT WE HAVE DONE QUITE EXTENSIVE AROUND ACES. WE'VE BROUGHT EXPERTS IN TO WORK WITH OUR SOCIAL WORK SCHOOLS LIKE SCHOOL COUNSELORS NURSES ANYBODY WHO'S WORKING THE MENTAL HEALTH AREA AROUND ACES AND SO THEY IN PARAPROFESSIONALS WE'VE BROUGHT THEM IN TO WORK WITH OUR INSTRUCTIONAL AIDES PARAPROFESSIONALS AROUND TRAUMA SECONDHAND TRAUMA, TERTIARY TRAUMA LIKE ALL OF THOSE AREAS BECAUSE WE'RE FEELING IT AND EXPERIENCING IT AND THEN THEY THEMSELVES THE ADULTS AND THE PRACTITIONERS ARE ALSO FEELING AND EXPERIENCING IT. SO WE'VE DONE THAT TRAINING. WE HAVE RECENTLY BEEN TALKING IN THE AREA RISK AND THREAT ASSESSMENTS. DO WE BRING IN ACES AS WELL? DO WE START TO LOOK AT WHAT WOULD BE SOME OF THE OTHER INFORMATION PIECES OF INFORMATION WE WOULD WANT TO HAVE IN LOOKING AT IF YOU'RE DOING A SCREENING FOR RISK OR THREATS WITH A STUDENT OR A SITUATION. AND SO YES, VERY LOOKING AT THE ADVERSE CHILDHOOD EFFECT I WOULD SAY FOUR DIFFERENT POCKETS AND HANNAH CAN SPEAK TO THIS AS WELL. WHAT WE WERE SEEING WITHIN THAT DATA THAT HAS BEEN PROVIDED FOR US BY OUR RESEARCH EVALUATION ASSESSMENT TEAM EARLIER ON MIDDLE SCHOOL SIX THROUGH EIGHTH GRADE THERE'S A REPORT OF MORE INCREASED USE PERHAPS IN NOT SIGNIFICANTLY BUT INCREASED USE IN ALCOHOL AND THEN AS WE'RE GETTING OLDER IS VAPING AND MARIJUANA AND THEN ALSO OTHER CONTROLLED ARE UNCONTROLLED SUBSTANCES AS THEY'RE GETTING OLDER AS REPORTED BY A SURVEY RIGHT WHAT WE DO SEE IN POCKETS WHEN WE LOOK ACROSS OUR DISTRICT IS THERE IS SEEMS TO BE INCREASE IN USE OF CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES IN PARTS OF OUR DEMOGRAPHIC AND A USE OF VAPING MARIJUANA IN OTHER DEMOGRAPHIC OR PARTS OF OUR DISTRICT. SO WE DEFINITELY ARE SEEING DIFFERENT TYPES USE WHICH DOES HELP US TO KIND OF FOCUS IN THAT TRAINING WITH THOSE MENTAL HEALTH TEAMS. BUT THEN ALSO AS WE'RE TARGETING THAT DEEPER ONE ON ONE CHEMICAL HEALTH SUBSTANCE USE SO IN EFFECT COULD YOU KNOW THE REASON WHY I'M INTERESTED IN THAT IS YOU KNOW, WE'VE MADE AN INVESTMENT YOU KNOW, TO SOME DEGREE WITHOUT THOSE EARLY FAMILIES AND I'M CURIOUS TO SEE IF THOSE FAMILIES THAT HAVE GOTTEN SOME OF THAT ASSESSMENT HELP THE IMPACT LATER ON OR ARE WE SEEING THOSE REEMERGING LATER ON? YOU KNOW, OFTENTIMES WE MAKE THE CASE THAT IF WE MAKE THIS INVESTMENT EARLIER, YOU KNOW, WE'RE GETTING SOME DIVIDENDS OFF OF THAT. SO THAT'S SORT OF REASON I'M KIND OF ASKING THE QUESTION WITH ACES PEER MAYOR COUNCILMEMBER LOWMAN, THE THE THE QUESTION ON THE INVESTMENT SIDE WE ARE NOT IN A POSITION TO TRACK INDIVIDUALS THAT WE PROVIDED SOME OF THAT INTENSIVE HOME VISIT IN THAT IS SOMETIMES A MOBILE POPULATION. WHAT WE DO SEE THOUGH IS THAT CONSISTENCY THE LITERATURE THAT THAT STRONG FOUNDATION DOES HAVE SIGNIFICANT PROTECTIVE FACTORS AND HELPS OVERCOME SOME THOSE ADVERSE CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES BUT OUR OUR ABILITY DO SOME OF THAT STUFF WOULD BE FAIRLY COMPLICATED WITH PRIVACY AND OTHER ISSUES BUT THE THAT THERE IS THAT STRONG CORRELATION WITHOUT PROTECTIVE FACTORS LIKE SOME OF THE THINGS THE DISTRICT'S DOING SOME OF THE EARLY CHILDHOOD WORK WE IN THE DISTRICT DOES THAT IS IS DO INCREASE THE LIKELIHOOD OF SUBSTANCE USE . COUNCILMEMBER THANK YOU MAYOR AND CHAIR WHAT I FOUND REALLY INTERESTING WAS JUST THE THE PIECE ABOUT COMMUNITY AND BELONGING BETWEEN BOTH THE CITY AND, THE SCHOOL DISTRICT AND I KNOW THE CITY. WE'VE DONE A LOT OF WORK TO IDENTIFY THAT SENSE COMMUNITY IS VITALLY IMPORTANT TO THE PROSPERITY OF BLOOMINGTON AND I I STARTED THINKING AS YOU GUYS WERE SPEAKING ABOUT SO MANY WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT LIKE OUTSTATE MINNESOTA SO MANY SMALL TOWNS THRIVE AROUND THE SCHOOL DISTRICT RIGHT WHEN THE SCHOOL DISTRICT DOES WELL THE CITY DOES WELL EVERYONE CAN HAVE THAT SENSE OF COLLABORATION CONNECTION THAT THIS IS WHERE WE BELONG. OUR CHILDREN ARE DOING GREAT THINGS. WE WANT TO CELEBRATE THAT AND AS WE HAVE HEARD MANY TIMES BLOOMINGTON IS A BIG SMALL CITY RIGHT FOR. BUT SOMETIMES WHEN WE'RE THIS BIG IT FEELS LIKE THAT BUT IT CAN ALSO GET SO AS WE'VE IDENTIFIED AND UNDERSTAND THAT THE SCHOOL AND THE CITY NEED TO WORK TOGETHER, I'M WONDERING LIKE WHAT MORE CAN WE DO TO CREATE THAT SENSE OF CONNECTION BETWEEN RESIDENTS AND THE SCHOOL DISTRICT TO CREATE THAT BLOOMINGTON PRIDE SO THAT WE CAN KIND OF BUILD THAT AND MAKE SURE THAT STUDENTS FEEL CONNECTED TO THEIR THEIR SCHOOLS, THEIR PEERS AND ALSO THAT WE HAVE SOMETHING TO CELEBRATE. SO WHETHER YOU HAVE KIDS IN THE SCHOOL DISTRICT OR NOT, WE CAN CHEER ON BLOOMINGTON BECAUSE WE KNOW BLOOMINGTON SCHOOLS ARE DOING GREAT THINGS. SO FEARLESS WAS YOUR QUESTION BUT I THOUGHT IDEA OF HOW WE CAN CONTINUE TO COLLABORATE AND CELEBRATE THAT AND BUILD THAT CONNECTION THROUGH THE SCHOOL TO HAVE THAT BLOOMINGTON PRIDE MAYOR COUNCILMEMBER THAT IS A 2.1 I TALKED ABOUT OUR COMMUNITY ASSESSMENT. A LOT OF THAT IS GOING TO BE FRAMED UP THE SURGEON GENERAL'S WARNING ON SOCIAL ISOLATION. THERE ARE POLICY OPTIONS, THERE ARE ENGAGEMENT. THERE'S OTHER THINGS IN THERE THAT AS OUR STAFF ARE LOOKING AT THAT AND TALKING WITH OUR PARTNERS WE ARE SEEING SOME STRONG ALIGNMENT WITH OUTCOMES IN BEAUTY SOME OF THE YOUTH TOWN HALLS THAT CITY IS DOING SOME OF THE RACIAL EQUITY ACTION PLAN WORK. THERE IS A LOT ALIGNMENT THAT I THINK WE WILL SEE SOME REALLY NICE AND BUILD ON A LOT OF THE INCREDIBLE WORK THE DISTRICT'S DOING AND WILL CONTINUE TO BE DOING THAT WILL ALLOW US TO ADDRESS THAT SO I COULDN'T AGREE AND JUST TO SHARE A COUPLE OF EXPERIENCES I'VE HAD IN PROBABLY THE LAST SIX MONTHS AND IN THE DISTRICT THAT I'VE IT REALLY EXCITES ME IN YOUR QUESTION AND YOUR YOUR THOUGHTFULNESS IN THAT IN THE SENSE OF COMMUNITY AND THE SENSE OF PRIDE WITH BLOOMINGTON REALLY COMES OUT. SO LAST BEGINNING OF LAST FALL AT VALLEY VIEW MIDDLE SCHOOL, ONE OF OUR MIDDLE SCHOOLS WE BROUGHT IN FOOD TRUCKS AND WE HAD FAMILIES COME IN AND SO FAMILIES CAME IN AND HAVE DINNER AND THEN THEY WERE ABLE TO PARTICIPATE IN THE SCHOOL ACTIVITIES AND REALLY HANG OUT IN THAT GENERAL AREA. AND I ACTUALLY BROUGHT MY KIDS UP WITH ME AND EVERYTHING AND THEY PEOPLE WERE THERE LIKE THE COMMUNITY CAME OUT AND WAS JUST SUCH A SENSE OF YOU YOU COULD FEEL IT RIGHT? YOU COULD FEEL THAT SENSE OF IS THE VALLEY VIEW MIDDLE SCHOOL PRIDE. THAT WAS REALLY GREAT TO FEEL OUR TEAMS WITHIN OUR OFFICE OF EQUITY AND EDUCATION THAT HAVE BROUGHT TOGETHER WITH ST MICHAEL'S IN TOWN HERE ON SATURDAYS WE'VE OPENED UP ST MICHAEL'S HAS BEEN WONDERFUL TO OPEN UP THEIR DOORS TO BRING IN ANY OF OUR NEWCOMERS OR SOME OF OUR FAMILIES THAT ARE IN OUR OVERFLOW SHELTERS IN THE HERE IN BLOOMINGTON. AND THE FIRST DAY THEY DID THIS IT WAS A LITTLE BIT OF HESITATION, NOT SURE WHAT TO THINK BUT NOW THAT THEY'VE DONE IT A COUPLE OF TIMES WHAT I'M HEARING IS THERE'S JUST AN OUTPOURING OF THE KIDS ARE GETTING TO KNOW EACH OTHER AND THEY'RE PLAYING AND THERE'S JUST A SENSE OF TRUST AND A SENSE OF COMMUNITY THAT SENSE OF COMING TOGETHER. AND SO THERE ARE EXAMPLES THAT THOSE ARE TWO I PERSONALLY KNOW BECAUSE I'VE SEEN THEM RECENTLY BUT EXAMPLES LIKE THAT OUR IN OUR DISTRICT AND IN OUR COMMUNITY I THINK OF WHENEVER I GET THE BLOOMINGTON FARMER'S MARKET AND THE THE PLACES WHERE PEOPLE ARE LIKE OUT PLAYING MUSIC AND YOU COME TO JOIN THAT GETTING TO SEE THE SUPERINTENDENT SING IN THE SUMMER WITH YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN THAT'S JUST CENTER A SENSE OF PRIDE RIGHT IN BLOOMINGTON WHICH I COULDN'T AGREE WITH YOU MORE TO GIVE THAT SENSE OF BELONGING A SENSE OF WE ARE ONE RIGHT AS A AS A CITY AND AS SCHOOL DISTRICT SO MORE THAT WE CAN DO LIKE THAT I THINK AND IF PEOPLE ARE ASKING FOR IT BECAUSE THEY USE THEIR FEET TO SHOW UP I THINK WE NEED DO MORE OF THAT. YEAH YEAH. COUNCILMEMBER CARTER THANK YOU MAYOR. I JUST WANTED TO SAY THANK YOU. I KNOW IT'S A LOT OF REALLY HARD A LOT OF HARD WORK NOT JUST FROM LIKE A TIME AND ENERGY PERSPECTIVE BUT FROM AN EMOTIONAL PERSPECTIVE. SO AGAIN, THANK YOU. I THINK I WAS JUST REFLECTING BACK ON A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO WHEN YOU CAME IN PRESENTED THE STUDENT SURVEY DATA AND I MEAN IT WAS DEVASTATING AND WE WEREN'T DOING AS MUCH AND SO TO SEE ALL THAT IS NOW HAPPENING ACROSS THE SCHOOL DISTRICT AND WITH PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE PARTNERSHIPS AND AND I KNOW A LOT YOU'RE BUILDING ON MANY YEARS OF PARTNERSHIP I KNOW THAT BUT IT JUST MAKES ME FEEL SO HOPEFUL AND AND I FEEL LIKE WE'LL START TO WILL CONTINUE TO SEE RIPPLE EFFECTS IT WILL JUST CONTINUE TO BUILD UPON ITSELF AND THEN TO COUNCILMEMBER WAS QUESTION AND YOUR COMMENTS I DO THINK IT WOULD BE INTERESTING TO GO BACK TO THE AND FIGURE OUT LIKE WHO IN OUR COMMUNITY IS REALLY THAT SENSE OF ISOLATION AND ARE THERE TRENDS AND WHAT WOULD BE THE THINGS THAT ARE MEANINGFUL TO THOSE SPECIFIC GROUPS OF PEOPLE BECAUSE I MEAN I HAVE KIDS IN THE SCHOOL DISTRICT AND THEY'RE IN SPORTS AND THEY'RE ACTIVE AND WE FEEL REALLY CONNECTED AND WE LOVE IT BUT KNOW THAT'S NOT THE EXPERIENCE RIGHT OF EVERYBODY AND SO YEAH THAT'S JUST KIND OF ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I'M THINKING ABOUT IS JUST WHAT IS THE DATA SHOW US IN TERMS OF WHO IS DISPROPORTIONATELY IMPACTED WHICH I ASSUMING THAT YOU ARE LOOKING AT THAT BUT YES AGAIN INITIALLY ALL I WANTED TO DO IS JUST SAY THANK YOU TO COUNCILMEMBER DALLESSANDRO. THANK YOU, MAYOR. GOOD EVENING EVERYONE. SORRY FOR THE TARDINESS. CAN'T MOVE A MEETING AROUND FOUR TIMES AND EXPECT EVERYBODY TO SHOW UP TO IT I DON'T THINK SORRY ABOUT THAT. I HAD OTHER OBLIGATIONS EARLIER. I'M GLAD I GOT TO SEE YOUR PRESENTATION. THANK YOU. UM, I DO. WE HAVE WE HAVE A NEW PROGRAM IN IN BLOOMINGTON THAT'S RUN THROUGH OUR OFFICE OF RACIAL EQUITY INCLUSION AND BELONGING CALLED THE WELCOME TO BLOOMINGTON PROGRAM. I WAS CURIOUS ABOUT HOW I DO KNOW THAT THERE ARE SOME FOLKS FROM THE DISTRICT ON THE ON THAT IT'S THIS SATURDAY IS THE FIRST ONE I THINK AT NINE MILE BREWING FOR EXAMPLE I'M CURIOUS ABOUT HOW YOU ARE THINKING ABOUT USING THAT PROGRAM TO TO DO SOME OF THAT ENGAGEMENT THAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT IN MEETING PEOPLE WHERE THEY'RE AT. IF YOU COULD ARTICULATE WHAT YOU MIGHT, YOU KNOW, PLANNING TO DO IN THOSE WELCOMING AND HOW AND HOW MOVING FROM THAT THEN TO THE FOLLOW UPS AND THINGS LIKE THAT THAT WOULD KEEP THOSE FOLKS ENGAGED KNOWING ESPECIALLY THAT SOME OF THE FOLKS THAT YOU MIGHT BE WORKING WITH IN THE AREN'T NECESSARILY FROM BLOOMINGTON AND SO LIKE HOW DO YOU REACH THEM KNOWING THAT THEY MIGHT NOT BE GOING TO THAT THEY MIGHT NOT THINK TO GO TO THOSE THINGS, YOU KNOW, BECAUSE THEY DON'T LIVE BUT WORKING HERE PLAYING HERE, YOU KNOW, ALL THOSE KINDS OF THINGS ARE IMPORTANT REASONS TO BE ENGAGED AS WELL. JUST CURIOUS ON YOUR THOUGHTS IF YOU'RE TO ATTEND IN WHAT YOU ALL ARE DOING. THANK YOU. I'M SURE SO I MEAN I MEAN TO GIVE MY BEST ANSWER I CAN THAT AND THEN I'LL TURN IT OVER TO TO HANNAH SHE HAS MORE TO SHARE. I I DON'T I DON'T NECESSARILY KNOW HOW TO DIRECTLY YOUR QUESTION BECAUSE I KNOW THAT WE HAVE PLANS ON THAT PARTNERSHIP AND HOW WE ARE UTILIZING LIKE THE EVENT THAT'S HAPPENING THIS SATURDAY AND THEN THE FOLLOWING SATURDAY IS THE EVENT ST MICHAEL'S AND REALLY WHERE WE HAVE BEEN REALLY SUCCESSFUL PARTICULARLY IN THE FAMILIES THAT ARE COMING IN NOW ARE COMING CONSISTENTLY IT'S BEEN WORD OF MOUTH AND BEING ABLE TO GET THAT INFORMATION OUT THROUGH OUR OFFICE OF EQUITY IN EDUCATION WE'VE BEEN ABLE TO REALLY TALK TO FAMILIES AND FAMILIES THAT HAVE COME AND THEN SHARING THAT OUT OTHER FAMILIES NOW ARE THERE FAMILIES THAT WE ARE MISSING? YES, THERE ARE BUT OUR TEAMS I KNOW AND I'M SPEAKING FOR MS.. DINA WADE WHO IS FANTASTIC IN OUR IN OUR DISTRICT AND DOES THIS WORK? I KNOW SHE IS GOING OUT INTO THE COMMUNITY AND WORKING WITH FAMILIES TO MAKE THEM AWARE OF THE EVENTS THAT ARE OCCURRING SO. THEY CAN COME IN AND BE ENGAGED WITH THAT. IT HAS REALLY TAKEN A OF ITS OWN SO THAT'S ENCOURAGING. I KNOW FOR HER ENTIRE TEAM THAT WE ARE AHEAD NOW PLANNING THE EVENT THAT WE'RE GOING TO HAVE IN AUGUST TO WHAT WE HAD LAST AUGUST. SO I KNOW THEY'VE THEY'VE GOTTEN THE SAT'S OUT THROUGH THE END OF THE SCHOOL YEAR AND THEN ALREADY STARTING INTO NEXT FALL FOR FAMILY EVENTS LIKE THIS TO TO CREATE. SO OUR HOPE IS THAT THROUGH THAT WORD OF MOUTH, THROUGH THAT ENCOURAGEMENT, THROUGH A REALLY NICE SHOW OF FOLKS FROM THE DISTRICT THAT ARE COMING TO BUILD THOSE WITH PEOPLE KNOWING IT'S RELATIONSHIP BASED THAT'S MY BEST WAY TO ANSWER THAT WITHOUT HAVING THIS WADE HERE TO ANSWER YOU MORE DIRECTLY ON THAT. YES YEAH YEAH YEAH. I THINK, I WOULD ECHO WHAT JENNIFER SAYS AND SAID AND JUST TO ADD TO IT IS THAT I THE DISTRICT HAS BEEN WORKING REALLY HARD AND HAVING LOTS CONVERSATION ABOUT ADDING DIFFERENT WELCOMING RESOURCES FOR FAMILIES AT THOSE EVENTS. SO FOR EXAMPLE WE HAVE BEEN WORKING TO SET UP VACCINATION CLINICS FOR FAMILIES AND VISION AND HEARING SCREENINGS FOR FAMILIES AND RESOURCES TO REFER TO. AND THEN ALSO JUST WE JUST HAD A MEETING THIS WEEK THE DISTRICT MENTAL HEALTH TEAM TO WORK ON INVITING OUR STAFF TO BE THERE AS A FAMILIAR FACE TO WELCOME STUDENTS OR WELCOME THEIR STUDENTS THAT MAY BE NEW TO THE SCHOOL IN . SO SENDING IT OUT TO ALL OF OUR NURSES AND ENCOURAGING OUR NURSES TO GO THERE AND I KNOW I HAVE SEVERAL NURSES WHO ARE BILINGUAL WANT TO SHOW UP TO HELP AND SUPPORT AND BE A FAMILIAR FACE. SO I THINK WE HAVE BEEN TRYING TO WORK FROM MULTIPLE DIFFERENT ANGLES JUST TO HELP FAMILIES FEEL WELCOME AND CONTINUE THAT SUPPORT FOR THEM. THANK YOU. COUNCILMEMBER RIVAS, FIRST OF ALL, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE HARD WORK THAT YOU DO ON A DAILY BASIS. AND JUST OUT OF CURIOSITY, I JUST HAVE A QUESTION THAT HAS TO DO WITH LEGALIZING MARIJUANA DUE TO THE FACT THAT THE CHALLENGES THAT YOU DEAL WITH ON A DAILY BASIS WITH YOUNG STUDENTS. DOES HE HAVE A NEGATIVE EFFECT? IS THERE ANY DATA OR OR STUDIES ON ON REGARDS TO THE LEGALIZATION OF MARIJUANA AND AFFECTING THE YOUNG GENERATION OF USERS AT THE MIDDLE SCHOOL OR HIGH SCHOOL LEVEL? YEAH, I CAN TRY TO SPEAK TO THAT AS WELL. SO I THINK WE PRESENTED ON THIS ABOUT A YEAR AND A HALF AGO ABOUT HOW WE WERE ANTICIPATING THAT WAVE TO COME THROUGH AND WE'VE DEFINITELY SEEN REALLY WHAT HAPPENED WITH THE LEGALIZATION IS ACCESS, RIGHT? A LOT MORE STUDENTS HAVE ACCESS TO IT AND IT'S EASY ACCESS. THE OTHER THING THAT'S HAPPENED WITH IT IS THAT IT'S IN ALL SORTS OF FORMS. IT'S REALLY HARD TO EVEN IDENTIFY IF SOMEONE HAS IT BECAUSE. IT CAN BE IN A DRINK, IT CAN BE IN A SNACK, IT CAN BE IN A LOT DIFFERENT FORMS THAT ARE REALLY EASILY CONCEALED AND HARD TO EVEN IDENTIFY THE NEGATIVE IMPACT THAT WE SEE AND RESEARCH HAS SHOWN OR WE'VE LEARNED ABOUT FROM OUR PARTNERS THAT REALLY ON A DEVELOPING BRAIN IT CAN SOME PRETTY SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS A LOT OF OUR STUDENTS WHO ARE USING IT ARE ARE STILL DEVELOPING IN THEIR BRAINS ARE STILL DEVELOPING AND HAVING THE STRENGTH OF MARIJUANA THAT THEY'RE USING ON A DEVELOPING BRAIN CAN HAVE A REALLY SIGNIFICANT IMPACT AND CAUSE A LOT OF DIFFERENT SIDE EFFECTS FOR THEM. THE OTHER PIECE JUST THAT THE MARIJUANA THAT WE ARE SEEING OR THC WE'RE SEEING NOWADAYS IS A LOT MORE POTENT THAN WHAT WE SAW YOU KNOW, NINE TIMES MORE POTENT THAN WHAT WE HAD SEEN BEFORE. AND SO WE ARE SEEING THOSE IMPACTS. WE WE SEE THE SIDE EFFECTS ON STUDENTS AND WE DO HAVE THEM ACCESS MEDICAL CARE BECAUSE OF IT. YOU KNOW, OCCASIONALLY AND SO WE ARE SEEING THAT IMPACT AND I WOULD SAY THE BIGGEST THING BEEN ACCESS AND THEN THE FORM OF IT THAT WE'RE SEEING THROUGHOUT SCHOOLS VERY COMFORTABLE. SO I WOULD ALSO REMIND THE EVERYBODY HERE THAT THE CANNABIS FUNDING THAT I ALLUDED TO WAS SPECIFICALLY AUTHORIZED BY THE LEGISLATURE WHEN THEY LEGALIZED TO SUPPORT PREVENTION ACTIVITIES FROM A PUBLIC HEALTH STANDPOINT TO MINIMIZE THE IMPACT ON INDIVIDUALS UNDER 21 PREGNANT PEOPLE AND OTHER VULNERABLE POPULATIONS. AND SO THAT'S WHAT WE ARE GOING TO BE PIVOTAL IN WHEN THAT FUNDING SHOWS UP SOMETIME THIS SUMMER WE CAN HIRE A HEALTH EDUCATOR TO HELP DO SOME OF THAT WORK WITH THE DISTRICT TO HELP MINIMIZE THOSE THOSE CONSEQUENCE AND HELP PROTECT THE HEALTH AND WELL-BEING OF STUDENTS. THANK YOU, DR. CARMEN. THANK YOU. I'M JUST TRYING TO NOT LET NOT BECOME TOO PASSIONATE ABOUT THIS. I LIVE IT EVERY DAY IN THE CLASSROOMS. RIGHT. EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THOSE TOPICS THAT WE ARE ADDRESSING TONIGHT AND I JUST WANT TO SAY THAT I REALLY APPRECIATE THE ALIGNMENT THAT WE HAVE HERE TONIGHT. YOU KNOW WHEN WE TALK WE'RE TALKING ABOUT HUMAN RIGHTS AND WE'RE TALKING ABOUT OUR KIDS AND WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE THE WELL-BEING OF OUR STUDENTS OF YOUTH AND IN HOW WE CAN BETTER SUPPORT THEM. AND I'M SO GLAD THAT YOU BROUGHT UP THE FACT THAT DURING SATURDAY MICHAEL'S HAS BEEN HELPING US WITH BY PROVIDING A SPACE FOR OUR KIDS TO BE KIDS TO HAVE A SPACE THEY CAN JUST DO SOMETHING DIFFERENT OTHER THAN BEING INSIDE A ROOM WHERE THEY CANNOT COME OUT RIGHT AND. SO I AM VERY APPRECIATIVE OF THE YOU KNOW THE PARTNERSHIPS THAT WE HAVE WITH SOME OF OURHURCHES AND IN OTHER GROUPS AND ORGANIZATIONS AND THAT WE HAVE THESE THIS COMMON SUPPORT THAT WE'RE WORKING TOGETHER HERE SCHOOL BOARD AND CITY COUNCIL . AND I THINK IT'S DEFINITELY VERY IMPORTANT WHEN WE'RE TALKING ABOUT NEWCOMERS THAT WE ALSO WILL WILL TACKLE MULTILINGUAL STUDENTS THAT WE DO THAT FOLLOW UP WHAT IS HAPPENING WITH THEM, WHAT'S HAPPENED IN THEIR LIVES AND TO BE AWARE THAT OUR STUDENTS HAVE GONE THROUGH A LOT OF TRAUMA NOT ONLY BECAUSE OF THE PANDEMIC BUT BECAUSE OF THE PANDEMIC THEY TO MOVE FROM COUNTRY TO ANOTHER COUNTRY TO ANOTHER COUNTRY MISSING SCHOOL PROBABLY FOR TWO OR THREE YEARS FOR SOME OF THE CASES HAVING TO GO TO WORK AND THEN CROSSING IN COMING HERE IN IN A WAY THAT IS THAT IS LIKE MANY OF US CANNOT EVEN IMAGINE THE THINGS THAT THEY GO THROUGH DURING THAT TIME IN WHAT THEY SEE. SO OF COURSE MENTAL HEALTH AND PREVENTION AND SUPPORT IN OPPORTUNITIES IN GIVING THOSE OPPORTUNITIES TO THE KIDS TO HAVE THINGS THEY CAN DO AFTER SCHOOL ACTIVITIES, THINGS THAT A KID SHOULD ACTUALLY BE ABLE TO DO. RIGHT. JUST THE NORMAL THINGS, ENJOYABLE THINGS AND. SO AS WE CONTINUE TO TO WORK WITH OUR COMMUNITY WITH ALL OUR STUDENTS BUT AS WE LOOK AT THE STUDENTS THAT HAVE GONE THROUGH THIS SEVERE TRAUMA TO MAKE SURE ALSO THAT THE LIVING CONDITIONS ARE THE RIGHT ONES . SO I JUST WANTED TO SAY THANK YOU AND THANK YOU CARMEN THE PERSPECTIVE THAT YOU BRING AND APPRECIATED. THIS HAS BEEN A FANTASTIC CONVERSATION I WANT TO GET MOVING ON. LET'S I'LL ONE MORE QUESTION AND WE'LL MAKE SURE WE GET THROUGH OUR AGENDA THIS EVENING SO IF WE COULD DIRECTOR MAYBE BE BOARD MEMBERS FOR OH NO YOU CAN JUMP IN AT ANY TIME WE'RE ANYTIME YEAH I HEARD SOME ACRONYMS AND I WASN'T SURE WHAT THEY MET. ONE WAS YOU MENTIONED ABOUT OUR PEERS RF ISE, BBR AND IP DIRECTOR VB SO RFP REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL RFI REQUEST FOR INFORMATION BBR WOULD BE BLOOMINGTON, INDIANA AND RICHFIELD AND IS THE COMMUNITY HEALTH IMPROVEMENT PLAN. IT'S A PARTNERSHIP HENNEPIN COUNTY, MINNEAPOLIS PUBLIC HEALTH AND US WORKING ON BEHALF OF A DOWNTOWN RICHFIELD TO DO COMMUNITY HEALTH IMPROVEMENT PLANNING IN PARTNERSHIP BASED ON OUR COMMUNITY HEALTH ASSESSMENT ANOTHER ACRONYM WOULD BE THE CHA WE THROW OUT SOMETIMES SORRY ABOUT THAT. OKAY THANK YOU. MAY ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS AND TO YOUR QUESTION DIRECTOR B JUST BECAUSE WE HAVE THE HOME FIELD ADVANTAGE DOESN'T MEAN WE GET TO GO FIRST. YOU CAN ANYBODY CAN JUMP IN AT ANY TIME PLEASE DO PLEASE DO. THANK YOU ALL VERY MUCH FOR THE WORK YOU'VE DONE. THANKS FOR YOUR PRESENTATION TONIGHT AND. LOOK FORWARD TO THE NEXT UPDATE THE NEXT TIME WE'RE TOGETHER. MORE GOOD NEWS . THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH ADAM 2.3 ON OUR AGENDA IS AN ON THE BLOOMINGTON SCHOOLS TECH HUB I GOT JOHN WIESNER AND DR. ALEXANDER HOLTER ON THE AGENDA HERE BUT I KNOW THAT THERE'S A CERTAIN SUPERINTENDENT WHO'S VERY EXCITED ABOUT THIS SCHOOL'S TECH HUB AND DR. MELBY, DID YOU WANT TO KICK THIS OFF FOR US AT ALL OR. WELL MAYOR BUSS IS PROBABLY REFERRING TO THE FACT THAT I WAS CHEERLEADING YES, I DID CHEERLEADING IN COLLEGE A LITTLE BIT BUT THAT'S ANOTHER STORY FOR ANOTHER MEETING PROBABLY. BUT AT THE YEAH THERE MIGHT BE PRE-INTERNET SO PROBABLY NOT AT THE CHAMBER EVENT THIS MORNING BECAUSE THERE WERE A LOT OF NEW FOLKS IN THE ROOM SMALL BUSINESS OWNERS, RESIDENTS WHO EVERY TIME I GO TO A MEETING I ASK PEOPLE HEY ARE YOU FAMILIAR WITH LANGUAGE IMMERSION SCHOOLS IN OTHER DISTRICTS? SPANISH IMMERSION IMMERSION WHATEVER THAT MIGHT LOOK LIKE AND EVERYBODY'S AND GOES UP ALL THE TIME AND THEN THEY SAY HOW MANY PEOPLE KNOW BLOOMINGTON HAS A COMPUTER SCIENCE IMMERSION PROGRAM AND A HANDFUL OF HANDS COME UP AND THAT'S WHERE I TAKE ADVANTAGE TO EDUCATE FOLKS THE ROOM ABOUT THE GOOD WORK WE'RE DOING. WE'RE LITERALLY LEADING THE STATE IN COMPUTER SCIENCE PROGRAM IN THE SCHOOL BOARD ASSOCIATION THEIR ANNUAL CONFERENCE DOWNTOWN A COUPLE OF MONTHS AGO AND THE THEME OF THE OPENING DAY WAS ALL ABOUT COMPUTER SCIENCE PROGRAMING AND THINK US FROM BLOOMINGTON OVER THERE WERE SWELLING WITH PRIDE AND THEN WONDERED HOW MANY PEOPLE KNEW HOW SWOLLEN WITH PRIDE WE WERE BECAUSE OF THE PROGRAMS HAVE IN BLOOMINGTON. SO ANY OPPORTUNITY WE GET TO HAVE THESE GUYS COME UP AND SHARE THE WORK WE'RE DOING IN TECHNOLOGY IS IMPORTANT. SO THANKS FOR THE OPPORTUNITY. ABSOLUTELY. DR. MELODY. GOOD EVENING. WELCOME. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, VICE CHAIR DEMOCRAT AND MAYOR BUFFY AND CITY COUNCIL AND SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS. I'M JOHN WEISER, DIRECTOR OF TECHNOLOGY FOR BLOOMINGTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS. I'M HERE WITH DR. ALEXANDRA HOLTER, OUR COMPUTER SCIENCE COORDINATOR FOR THE DISTRICT I LOVE THE PRIDE THAT IS BEING DEMONSTRATED ALL THE TIME AROUND OUR OUR EFFORTS AND I OFTEN GET THIS OPPORTUNITY TO PRESENT WHAT I FEEL IS LIKE A TEAM'S WORK AND OTHER PEOPLE'S WORK. SO A LOT OF WHAT YOU'RE SEEING HERE IS A PROGRAM THAT ALEXANDRA AND TEAM CONTINUE TO BUILD WITH IN CLASSROOMS AND A LOT OF SUPPORT FROM COMMUNITY AS WELL AS OUR STAFF JUST TO SET OUT WHAT WE'RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT FOR THE NEXT 15 MINUTES OR SO, WE WANT TO GIVE A HIGH LEVEL OF WHAT COMPUTER SCIENCE LOOKS LIKE. THE FIELD OF COMPUTER SCIENCE IN THE STATE OF MINNESOTA SPOILER ALERT IT'S NOT WE'RE NOT IN A GREAT POSITION CURRENTLY THEN. WE'RE GOING TO TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT BLOOMINGTON'S ROLE IN KEEPING KEEPING THE CITY OR THE NAME BLOOMINGTON IN THE MINDS PEOPLE AS A TECHNOLOGY LEADER IN THE STATE WHICH I WE ARE IS A SCHOOL DISTRICT AND I BELIEVE WE ARE AS A COMMUNITY BASED THE NUMBER OF HIGH TECH BUSINESSES IN OUR COMMUNITY AND THE PARTNERSHIPS HAVE WITH THOSE BUSINESSES WE'VE GOTTEN SOME RESULTS SO FAR SO THERE'S PLACES OF PROMINENCE THAT WE CAN REALLY BE PROUD OF THAT WE WANT TO HIGHLIGHT AND THEN HOW WE CAN MOVE FORWARD TOGETHER SO YOU'LL GET THE OPPORTUNITY TO VOLUNTEER TO WORK WITH SMALL CHILDREN AND AND SHARE YOUR EXPERTIZE WELL I GET INTO THIS RATHER COMPLICATED SLIDE I'LL JUST I'LL JUST TELL YOU A LITTLE BIT OF STORY. I GET TO BE THE DAD OF A 27 YEAR OLD ALMOST FULLY HUMAN. IVAN WAS ARE SCHOOL WAS A STRUGGLE FOR HIM NOT ALWAYS A GREAT FIT FOR SCHOOL BUT WE GOT HIM THROUGH IT. HE GOT HIS DEGREE IN BIOLOGY I THINK ON STATE UNIVERSITY ARE TWO YEARS AGO HE WAS LAUNCHED INTO THE WORLD GOT HIS FIRST JOB GREAT LANDED A GREAT JOB A BIO LAB AT THE U OF M SO GOT TO DO WHAT HE WAS PASSIONATE IT WITH HIS BIOLOGY DEGREE A YEAR LATER THAT BIOLOGY SHUT DOWN IT'S KIND OF COMPLICATED STUFF THAT GOES ON WITH MONEY AND FINANCING AND IN HIGHER ED AND HE WAS LEFT WITHOUT A JOB AND AT POINT AS WE WERE TRYING TO HELP HIM FIGURE OUT WHAT TO DO NEXT HE SAID YOU KNOW, THE PART OF THE JOB I LIKED THE BEST WAS THE DATA ANALYSIS, THE TECHNICAL WORK IT BECAME. HE WENT IN FOR BIOLOGY BUT IT BECAME VERY TECHNICAL JOB IN THE END PIVOT ONE YEAR LATER HE NOW WORKS FOR UNITED HEALTH CARE. THEY'VE BEEN TRAINING HIM FOR THE LAST YEAR TO BE A COMPUTER SCIENCE PROGRAMMER. SO I SAY THAT STORY TO SAY LIKE THE JOB MARKET TODAY FOR ALL OF OUR KIDS IS DIFFERENT THAN PROBABLY WHEN YOU AND I WERE GROWING UP AND MOST CAREERS ALMOST ALL CAREERS ARE TOUCHED BY REALLY A LOT OF HIGH TECH SKILLS FOR US THE JOURNEY EVERY EVERY PLACE YOU SEE NEXT TECHNOLOGIES FOR LEARNING WITHIN BLOOMINGTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS INFORMATION THAT IS ARE REALLY OUR PLAN THAT REALLY STARTED BACK IN 2012 AND 2013 THAT'S WHEN THE DISTRICT FIRST LAUNCHED THE SAFE AND INNOVATIVE SCHOOLS REFERENDUM. THAT WAS A TEN YEAR REFERENDUM THAT PROVIDED THAT FOUNDATIONAL FUNDING AROUND IN OUR DISTRICT AS WELL AS INNOVATION IN TECHNOLOGY. I THINK THAT THAT THAT SUPPORT SERVED US SO WELL BECAUSE AS WE GOT A FEW LATER IN 2020 MAYBE YOU REMEMBER IT WASN'T GREAT TO FIGURE OUT WHAT TO DO IN BLOOMINGTON. WE WERE WELL PREPARED HAVING SAFE SCHOOLS BUT ALSO A FOUNDATION OF 1 TO 1 COMPUTING FOR OUR STUDENTS AND ONLINE DIGITAL RESOURCES FOR OUR TEACHERS AND INSTRUCTION WHERE WE WERE ABLE TO WEATHER THE PANDEMIC SO MUCH BETTER THAN. OTHER DISTRICTS WHO HADN'T LAID THAT FOUNDATION ON OUR FOUNDATION FAST FORWARD A COUPLE OF YEARS 2023 JUST A YEAR AND A HALF AGO WE WERE ABLE TO PASS A RENEWAL ON THAT REFERENDUM. OUR COMMUNITY CAME WITH SUCH STRONG SUPPORT OVER 70% POSITIVE VOTES THAT WHICH I THINK IS JUST A TESTAMENT TO REALLY OUR COLLABORATIVE WORK THE CITY TO SAY LIKE BLOOMINGTON IS A GREAT PLACE TO LIVE AND HAS A GREAT FUTURE HERE IN BLOOMINGTON WE ARE WE ALSO THROUGH A STRATEGIC PLANNING PROCESS OVER THE LAST YEAR OR SO AND SO WE TRY TO IN THE TECH DEPARTMENT LIVE OUR MISSION OUR MISSION OF EMPOWERING AND EQUIPPING EACH LEARNER TO IN A RAPIDLY CHANGING WORLD RAPIDLY WORLD IS THE KEY THERE FOR ME. WE TRY TO LOOK THROUGH LENS OF TECHNOLOGY TO TO MODIFY THAT TO SAY REALLY IT'S THE POWER OF TECHNOLOGY THE TOOLS AND RESOURCES WE HAVE TO EMPOWER EACH AND EVERY STUDENT SO PERSONALIZING TO THE NEEDS OF EVERY STUDENT THAT WE ENCOUNTER TO SUCCEED IN A RAPIDLY CHANGING WORLD WE DON'T KNOW WHAT THAT WILL LOOK LIKE 15 OR 20 YEARS FROM NOW WHEN THAT STUDENT LAUNCHES INTO THE WORLD GIVING THEM THE SKILLS AND THE TECHNOLOGY, THE UNDERLYING TECHNOLOGY SKILLS IS IMPORTANT TO US WITH. I'LL TURN IT OVER TO OUR KENDRA HI. I'M GOING TO GIVE YOU AN OVERVIEW OF OUR COMPUTER SCIENCE PROGRAM AND ALSO FEW OTHER THINGS THAT WE'RE EXCITED ABOUT THIS YEAR INCLUDING AI AND EDUCATION AND OUR NEW CODE ACADEMY. SO I'M I KNOW I DO HAVE ACCESS SO ALWAYS NICE TO GROUND OURSELF AND A COMMON DEFINITION SO IN STATE POLICY AROUND A LOT OF NETWORKS CODE.ORG COMPUTER SCIENCE TEACHERS ASSOCIATION SEE THIS DEFINITION OF COMPUTER SCIENCE COMPUTER SCIENCE MEANS THE STUDY COMPUTERS ALGORITHMIC PROCESSES INCLUDING THEIR PRINCIPLES, THEIR HARDWARE DESIGN, THEIR IMPLEMENTATION AND THEIR IMPACTS ON SOCIETY. I BRING THIS FORWARD BECAUSE IT'S A LOT TO WRAP YOUR AROUND AND I'M GOING TO COME BACK TO THIS LATER WHEN WE TALK HOW BLOOMINGTON IS GOING TO TACKLE THIS DEFINITION FIRST LET'S GROUND OURSELF NATIONALLY. SO WHEN WE LOOK CODE DAWGS 2023 STATE OF CSR IT PLACES MINNESOTA IN LAST PLACE WE ARE CURRENTLY AT 28% OF HIGH SCHOOLS ARE OFFERING CSE FOUNDATIONAL COURSES. THE SUCCESS HERE IS THAT WE'RE UP FROM 21%. I FORGOT WHAT I'M HERE FOR. I WAS WONDERING WHY THEY'RE STARING AT ME. THERE YOU GO. OKAY. UM, NO, I'M NOT SURE. OKAY, SO WHY IS SIGNIFICANT? I MEAN, WE ARE UP FROM 21% FROM THE 2022 REPORT. HOWEVER, WE ARE STILL SIGNIFICANTLY LAGGING COMPARED TO OUR NEIGHBORING STATES I BELIEVE LIKE NORTH DAKOTA LAST YEAR JUST PASSED SOME SIGNIFICANT ICE POLICY AROUND BRINGING CYBERSECURITY TO ALL STUDENTS. THANK YOU. THIS BECOMES EVEN MORE IMPORTANT WHEN WE PAIR WITH THE NEED FOR COMPUTER SCIENTISTS AND TECHNOLOGISTS IN MINNESOTA SO WE ARE LOOKING AT JUST UNDER A NEED OF 100,000 NEW TECHNOLOGISTS IN THE NEXT COMING YEARS AND IF WE DON'T PREPARE OUR STUDENTS THEY'RE NOT GOING TO ABLE TO MEET THIS NEED AND THEY'RE THEY'RE GOING TO MISS OUT ON SOME REALLY HIGH PAYING JOBS AND KEEP THEM IN MINNESOTA. MINNESOTA HAS RESPONDED SO WE DID A COMPUTER SCIENCE EDUCATIONAL ADVANCEMENT ACT LAST YEAR WHICH ALLOWED US TO GET STARTED WITH A STATE PLAN AROUND CSU EDUCATION. SO THAT INCLUDES THE DEVELOPMENT OF A US WORKGROUP THAT IS PUTTING TOGETHER HOW WE'RE GOING TO TACKLE TEACHER LICENSURE STANDARDS AND ALL THE ELEMENTS THAT COME ALONG WITH GETTING US UP TO SPEED. OTHER LEGISLATION IS HOUSE BILL 3492 THAT'S GOING THROUGH RIGHT NOW THAT'S ASKING FOR ADDITIONAL FUNDING TO SUPPORT THESE INITIATIVES. ALL RIGHT. AND ARE WE DOING IN BLOOMINGTON? SO BLOOMINGTON IS UNIQUE IN THAT IT RECOGNIZES THE POTENTIAL OF CIS IN ITS ABILITY TO PROVIDE ALL STUDENTS WITH SKILLS TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN A TECHNOLOGY DRIVEN FUTURE WE RECOGNIZE THIS FIVE YEARS AGO AND WE'RE GOING TO DISCUSS HOW OUR PROGRAM IS UNIQUE AND THEN ACTUALLY WHAT THE HEART OF THE PROGRAM LOOKS LIKE WE HAVE APPROACH TO COMPUTER SCIENCE AS SOMETHING THAT IS ESSENTIAL FOR EVERY SINGLE STUDENT BECAUSE COMPUTING AND TECHNOLOGY EXISTS IN EVERY SINGLE INDUSTRY AND BUSINESS RIGHT NOW SO THERE ISN'T A SPACE YOU CAN GO THAT THIS IS ABSENT. WE'RE NOT TRYING TO CREATE WHOLE HOST OF COMPUTER SCIENTISTS. WE'RE TRYING TO CREATE STUDENTS WHO ARE CONFIDENT USING COMPUTING SKILLS TO BE CREATIVE AND MAKE THOUGHTFUL CHOICES AND BE INFORMED CITIZENS. SO IN BLOOMINGTON WE LIKE TO SAY THAT COMPUTER SCIENCE IS USING THE POWER OF COMPUTERS TO SOLVE OUR PROBLEMS AND EXPRESS OURSELVES AND I WOULD INVITE YOU INTO ANY OF OUR ELEMENTARY CLASSROOMS BECAUSE THEY HAVE A LITTLE CHANT THAT I'M NOT GOING TO DO WITH YOU RIGHT NOW BUT IT INVOLVES THIS AND IT IS THERE IS CHOREOGRAPHY. YES THERE IS. YEAH. THE MAYOR HAS DONE THIS CHANGE YOU KNOW THIS A WAY TO MAKE COMPUTER SCIENCE ACCESSIBLE. SO THIS IS WHAT WE TELL OUR PARENTS AND OUR STUDENTS AND THIS BUILDS THAT SENSE BELONGING AND THAT SENSE OF IDENTITY AND JUST THAT I DO THIS THIS ISN'T SOMETHING SCARY. I'M NOT THROWING OUT ALGORITHMIC PROCESS AT YOU KNOW, I JUST I WANT YOU TO ENGAGE THIS SO YOU CAN SOLVE PROBLEMS. UM, AND THAT'S A FRIENDLY WAY TO BE ANOTHER IMPORTANT PART OF OUR PROGRAM WE ALWAYS LIKE TO BRING FORWARD IS THIS IS FOUNDED ON SKILLS EQUITY, JOY SO EVERYTHING WE DO IS FOUNDED ON THESE THREE PRINCIPLES. SO SKILLS IS TEACHING ABSTRACTION AND PERSEVERANCE TO SECOND GRADERS TO CODING LANGUAGES IN HIGH SCHOOL EQUITY MEANS THAT WE ARE FINDING WAYS TO SERVE ALL STUDENTS. IT'S THIS SHOWS UP IN OUR COMPUTER SCIENCE PROGRAM BY ENSURING DIVERSE AND ACCESSIBLE ENTRY POINTS INTO THE FIELD SO WE'RE ENABLING ALL STUDENTS TO LEARN IN A WAY THAT MEETS THEM SO STUDENTS GET ACTIVITIES, THEY GET ON SCREEN CODING ACTIVITIES, THEY TO WORK WITH PHYSICAL COMPUTING DEVICES THAT MIGHT LOOK LIKE THIS. IT'S MEETING EVERY SINGLE STUDENTS NEED IN A VARIETY OF TEACHING METHODOLOGIES AND THEN JOY JOY IS EVERYWHERE I AGAIN INVITE YOU INTO OUR CLASSROOMS AND NOT SEE JOY. IT IS OUR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS WORKING WITH OUR BLOOMINGTON TECH STAFF AND WATCHING THEM GET EXCITED ABOUT HAVING SERVERS EXPLAIN TO THEM IT IS OUR KINDERGARTNERS GETTING TO CODE WITH ME BUT SO OUR COMPUTER SCIENCE PROGRAM IN BLOOMINGTON WE'VE GOT ABOUT THREE DIFFERENT COMPONENTS TO IT SO WE HAVE COMPUTER SCIENCE IMMERSION AND WE HAVE IMMERSION OPTIONS AT SIX DIFFERENT SITES THREE ELEMENTARY AND THREE MIDDLE SCHOOL AND THIS IS REALLY DEFINED BY NUMBER OF HOURS STUDENTS AT THIS THESE SITES CAN EXPECT TO GET A MINIMUM OF DIRECT MINIMUM OF 25 DIRECT SEE US INSTRUCTION HOURS INCLUDING INTEGRATION INTO CONTENT AREAS DIRECT INSTRUCTION IS PROVIDED BY A US SPECIALIST AT OUR CS AND SCHOOLS THOSE STUDENTS RECEIVE CS OPPORTUNITIES THROUGH OUR DIGITAL LEARNING SPECIALISTS THROUGHOUT THE YEAR ALSO DURING THIS AD WEEK AND WHAT WE'RE CALLING THINKS YES IT HAPPENS IN APRIL AND MAY FORMALLY KNOWN AS THINK LIKE A COMPUTER SCIENTIST MONTH SEGMENTS ITSELF IT'S A LONG MOUTHFUL. WE REBRANDED A LOT OF WHAT WE DO IN THE CARE SPACE ALL BASED ON A COMPUTATIONAL THINKING. SO AGAIN MAKING SCIENCE MORE ACCESSIBLE AND IS FOR OUR STUDENTS, OUR TEACHERS AND OUR FAMILIES WHEN WE APPROACH TEACHERS WE SAY WE WANT YOU TO TEACH COMPUTER SCIENCE WITHIN THIS MATH LESSON SOMETIMES THAT SOUNDS SCARY BUT THEN WE START SAYING WELL WE YOU ALREADY TEACH LOGIC LOGIC AND WE'RE GOING TO DO IT WITH TINKERING AND WE'RE ALSO GOING TO INCLUDE SOME COLLABORATION . IT BREAKS DOWN THOSE BARRIERS AND AGAIN CREATES A SENSE OF BELONGING FOR EVERYBODY WITHIN OUR SYSTEM. SO JUST REAL QUICKLY, HOW WE HOW DO WE MEET THESE COMPUTER SCIENCE NEEDS WITHIN OUR SPACES WE'VE GOT A LOT OF ONLINE PLATFORMS SCRATCH A CODING PLATFORM FOR ELEMENTARY AND WE ALSO USE PHYSICAL COMPUTING DEVICES LIKE THE ONE I BROUGHT IN THE MIDDLE SCHOOL AND THE THING THE SYSTEMS LEVEL UP AND THEN WE ALSO PHYSICAL COMPUTING DEVICES FOR THEM AS WELL IN THE HIGH SCHOOL WE HAVE WE HAVE SUGGEST SORTED PATHWAYS BASED ON STUDENT INTERESTS SO WE KNOW STUDENT INTEREST VARIES AND WE WANT TO WE WANT TO HONOR THAT AND PROVIDE FLEXIBLE SUGGESTIONS NO MATTER WHERE THEY ARE, NO MATTER WHERE THEY'RE AT IN THEIR JOURNEY. STUDENT ENTER HIGH SCHOOL THINKING THAT THEY WANT TO DO A FOUR YEAR COLLEGE MAYBE HALFWAY THROUGH THEY DECIDED TWO YEAR TRACK IS BETTER MAYBE THEY SWITCH BACK SO THEY CAN THIS IS DESIGNED TO HAVE VERY LITTLE PREREQUISITES. HOPEFULLY WE CAN GET TO NONE SOMEDAY AND BE ACCESSIBLE BY ALL SKILL LEVELS AND A COUPLE OF SUCCESSES THIS YEAR THAT WE'D LIKE TOELEBRATE RIGHT AS WE ADD OUR MAYOR AND EDUCATION JETT COME VISIT ONE OF OUR ELEMENTARY EMERGING SCHOOLS INDIAN MOUND FOR SEASIDE WEEK. IT WAS VERY EXCITING AND I JUST ABSOLUTELY ADORE THIS PICTURE SO THANK YOU FOR BEING A PART OF THAT. AND ANOTHER EXCITING EVENT IN DECEMBER WAS THE CITY'S PROCLAMATION OF BLOOMINGTON'S SEASIDE WEEK THE TEACHER HERE BECCA SCHULTZ SAID THIS IS ABSOLUTE HIGHLIGHT OF HER YEAR. SHE STILL TALKS ABOUT IT WHEN I SEE HER AND THE PROCLAMATION IS PROUDLY HANGING IN THE RICHFIELD ELEMENTARY MEDIA CENTER. SO I'M HOPING THAT WE CAN CONTINUE TO DO THIS AND GET MORE PROCLAMATIONS AT OTHER SITES. WE HAVE IT WE ADDED THE PICTURE THAT THE PICTURE IN THE LOWER RIGHT THERE IS RIGHT OUT HERE IN THE HALL AFTER THE PROCLAMATION WHERE STUDENTS WANTED TO TOUCH THE PROCLAMATION SO EVER EVERYTHING THOSE PROCLAMATIONS ARE AN IMPORTANT ARE IMPORTANT ANOTHER THING THAT'S BEEN THROWN AT US THIS YEAR IS ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SPECIFICALLY GENERATIVE A.I. AND BLOOMINGTON HAS DECIDED TO TAKE THE LEAD ON THIS AS WELL . WHY STOP WITH COMPUTER SCIENCE SO WE WORKED AS A TEAM THIS AND WE DEVELOPED SOME A.I. GUIDING PRINCIPLES BUILT UPON OUR STRATEGIC PLAN. THE FOCUS FOCUSES ON HIGH STANDARDS AND EXPECTATIONS, FUTURE READY SKILLS AND CULTURAL PROFICIENCY. AND THIS IS WHAT LEADS OUR WORK WHEN WE MEET WITH TEACHERS, WHEN WE TALK ABOUT HOW WE MIGHT INTRODUCE THIS TO STUDENTS, WHEN WE TALK ABOUT HOW WE TALK ABOUT WHEN WE DISCUSS HOW WE TALK ABOUT THIS FAMILIES WE ALWAYS GO BACK TO THESE THREE ELEMENTS AND HOW THIS LOOKS WITH TEACHERS. WE GET A LOT OF QUESTIONS HERE AND I JUST WANT TO HIGHLIGHT THAT WE CENTERED AROUND STUDENT USE CASES SO WHEN WE HAVE PD WITH TEACHERS WE ASK HOW THIS MIGHT LOOK. WE'RE STUDENTS KNOWING THAT I CAN HELP WITH EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONING, IT CAN HELP WITH CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION. SO HELPING TO CENTER THOSE CONVERSATIONS AND REALLY MAKING SURE THAT WE ARE USING AI TO ENHANCE AND EMPOWER STUDENTS LEARNING NOT PROVIDING A TOOL THAT DOES IT FOR THEM. NEXT WE HAVE OUR NEW CODE ACADEMY WHICH IS OUR K-12 ONLINE SCHOOL ALSO COMPUTER SCIENCE FOCUSED AND THIS JUST A PHENOMENAL PROGRAM BECAUSE IT HELPS MEET THE NEEDS AGAIN OF ALL OF OUR STUDENTS, ALL OF OUR FAMILIES WE KNOW THAT BRICK AND MORTAR MAY NOT BE THE BEST CHOICE FOR EVERY SINGLE FAMILY IN BLOOMINGTON AND WE'RE PROUD TO OFFER THIS AND. WE'RE PROUD WE'RE PROUD FOR ALL OF THESE REASONS. SO WHY NEW CODE IS JUST TOO MANY TO NAME INDIVIDUALISM LET YOU EXPLORE THAT AT YOUR LEISURE A NEW OF COURSE IS BUILT WITH PARTNERSHIP FROM THE U OF M AND THAT HAS RESULTED IN SOME EXTREMELY EXCEPTIONAL EDUCATORS SO FROM HOLLY SCOTT SOME WHO THE BOOK ELEMENTARY ONLINE LEARNING TO OUR OTHER ONLINE EDUCATORS WHO HAVE BEEN RECOGNIZED NATIONALLY. ALL RIGHT WE'RE ALMOST DONE. SO SPEAKING OF IMPACT AGAIN BLOOMINGTON PRIDES ITSELF ON BEING MINNESOTA'S LEADER IN K-12 COMPUTER SCIENCE EDUCATION. WE'RE GOING TO TACK ON AIR TO THAT. DON'T WORRY. AND THE TEAM I GET TO WORK WITH JOHN ANDREW ON HOW HE SCOUTS THEM WE THINK WHY STOP AT BLOOMINGTON? WE DO ALSO SHARE OUR KNOWLEDGE IN OTHER PLACES WE'VE SPOKEN A FEW CONFERENCES. HOLLY IS JUST FLYING IN NOW FROM AUSTIN AND WE ALSO HAVE SHARED OUR KNOWLEDGE ELSEWHERE. OF COURSE WE NOT DO ANY OF THIS WORK WITHOUT OUR OTHER COMMUNITY PARTNERS THAT WE THESE PARTNERS HELP US DEVELOP OUR PROGRAM AS WELL AS HELPING US WORK WITH STUDENTS AND ENHANCE THAT LEARNING WITH THEM. RIGHT. AND THEN MOVING FORWARD HOW CAN WE WORK TOGETHER SO WE ALWAYS NEED HELP DEVELOPING JOB SHADOWING OPPORTUNITIES FOR STUDENTS AND INTERNSHIPS OUR STUDENTS LOVE TO HEAR PROFESSIONALS TALK ABOUT THEIR EXPERIENCE SO THE MORE NON-LAW LINEAR YOUR CAREER PATH HAS BEEN THE BETTER WE CAN FIND A GROUP OF STUDENTS FOR YOU TO TALK TO THEY WILL BE IMPRESSED THAT ONE DAY YOU WERE A PART ATTENDANT AND THEN YOU WERE A TRAILHEAD LEAD AND THEN YOU WERE HERE. I DON'T ACTUALLY KNOW I WAS RIGHT. I THINK THAT WAS OUR THING. YEAH. SO PLEASE COME TALK TO OUR STUDENTS. THEY THEY DO LOVE TO HEAR FROM YOU. OTHER OPTIONS ARE CO-HOSTING FIELD TRIPS OR FAMILY ENGAGEMENT EVENTS AND FIELD TRIPS CAN BE STUDENTS OR STAFF. WE'VE HAD QUITE A BIT OF SUCCESS TAKING STAFF ON FIELD TRIPS TO TARGET HEADQUARTERS. US BANK IS JUST AS IMPORTANT FOR THEM TO KEEP LEARNING AS OUR STUDENTS STUDENTS SO THANK YOU FOR THAT TIME. WE'LL TAKE YOUR AND IF YOU ASK A QUESTION THEN YOU OWE US A SPEAKING ENGAGEMENT WITHIN OUR SCHOOLS. WELL FIRST OF ALL WOW I MEAN DR. M.B., I CAN UNDERSTAND YOUR ENTHUSIASM NOW IT'S THE OUTSTANDING WORK AND I THE DAY THAT I WAS ABLE TO SPEND THE MORNING AND THEN I WAS ABLE TO SPEND I JUST GOT A TASTE OF IT. BUT TO HEAR IT IN ITS COMPLETENESS HERE AND TO SEE THIS PRESENTATION WELL DONE. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. I GREATLY APPRECIATE IT. SECONDLY, I'LL GIVE YOU AS MANY PROCLAMATIONS AS YOU WOULD LIKE. PLEASE KEEP COMING BACK. IT'S THAT THAT NIGHT IN DECEMBER WAS WAS SPECIAL BECAUSE WE HAD OUR OMAR AWARD WINNER WHO WAS A BLOOMINGTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS EMPLOYEE AS WELL. AND SO THE ENERGY IN THIS ROOM WAS FANTASTIC JUST THE ENERGY OF THE STUDENTS AS THEY STOOD IN BACK ALL THAT WAS GOING ON AND EVERYTHING ELSE IT WAS IT WAS FANTASTIC. YOU'RE ON THE SCHEDULE EVERY DECEMBER HERE WE WILL DEFINITELY DO THE PROCLAMATION EVERY DECEMBER, I PROMISE. SO COUNCIL OR SCHOOL BOARD QUESTIONS COUNCILMEMBER AND THEN COUNCILMEMBER DALLESSANDRO AND COUNCILMEMBER LOWMAN AND ANYBODY ELSE? ALL RIGHT. THERE WE GO. COUNCILMEMBER THANK YOU, MAYOR . I JUST WANT TO SAY I LOVE THAT YOU HAVE A GUIDING PRINCIPLES I DON'T THINK THAT'S SOMETHING WE'VE DONE YET AND I THINK THAT'S A FANTASTIC IDEA ESPECIALLY BECAUSE WE DON'T KNOW WHAT THE STATE IS GOING TO PASS DOWN OR WHAT THE COUNTY IS GOING TO PASS DOWN. BUT TO STAY AHEAD OF THAT TREND, I THINK THAT WOULD BE A FANTASTIC IDEA JUST TO HAVE A PRINCIPLE AS WE START DIPPING OUR TOES IN THE AIR. SO I LOVE THAT YOU SHARE WITH US AND I THINK IT'S IT'S VERY FORWARD THINKING AND ALSO SETS US UP FOR THE FUTURE. RIGHT. SO LIKE WHATEVER HAPPENS, WHATEVER LEGISLATION IS PASSED, WE'RE READY FOR THAT. SO WE'D LOVE TO SEE THE CITY DO SOMETHING LIKE THAT TO COUNCILMEMBER DALLESSANDRO. THANK YOU. NICE TO BE WITH YOU BOTH. FIRST QUESTION IS WHAT ARE THE CHALLENGES THAT THAT YOU MIGHT EXPERIENCING IN GETTING EDUCATORS IN SUPPORT? OF COURSE I IMAGINE THERE'S SOME PRETTY STIFF FOR THEM TO ACTUALLY IF THEY HAVE CODING SKILLS GO GET JOBS THAT PAY THEM MORE AND AND ALL THAT KIND OF THING. AND SO I'M CURIOUS IF THERE HAVE BEEN AROUND THAT AND WHAT YOU ALL HAVE HAVE SEEN YOU KNOW, IN IN SUPPORT EITHER AT THE STATE OR WHATEVER AND MAKING SURE THAT WE HAVE THE EDUCATORS THAT WE NEED TO DRIVE THE OUTCOMES LOOKING FOR . YEAH IT'S A CHALLENGE STATEWIDE AND WE'VE BEEN VERY FORTUNATE BLOOMINGTON THAT WE'VE BEEN ABLE TO ATTRACT HIGH QUALITY EDUCATORS THAT WANT TO STAY WITH US AND THAT ARE ABLE TO TRAIN OTHERS. SO LAST YEAR WE HAD TO HIRE FOR A NEW ELEMENTARY SPECIALIST AND JUST HAD THE EXPERTIZE WITH OUR INTERN AND IT WAS PHENOMENAL AND HOPEFULLY WE CONTINUE TO JUST GROW OUR OWN I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE STATE IS GOING TO DO IT REALLY DEPENDS ON WHAT THE WORKFORCE GROUP COMES UP WITH BUT I DO WITHIN THAT PLAN THERE'S A LOT OF TALK ON THE PRE-SERVICE COMPONENT OF THAT AND WHAT OUR UNIVERSITIES ARE DOING TO BUILD COMPUTER SCIENCE INTO PRE-SERVICE PROGRAMS, BUILD THEM INTO MATH EDUCATOR PROGRAMS AND JUST TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHERE ELSE THAT MIGHT FIT. WE'RE ALWAYS GOING TO BE IN STIFF COMPETITION WITH WITH BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY BUT HOPEFULLY, YOU KNOW, EDUCATION CAN PROVIDE THOSE ADDITIONAL PERKS LIKE THE JOY OF YOUNG CHILDREN AND THOSE SO I DON'T KNOW GREAT. MAY HAVE A FOLLOW UP QUESTION FOR YOU. SO MY SECOND QUESTION THANK YOU IS KNOWING THE NUMBERS STATEWIDE ARE ARE VERY LOW MEANING THAT THINK IT WAS 28% OR 38.8% AND AND WE SAY WE ARE THE LEADER. LIKE WHAT'S THE GAP THERE LIKE ARE WE THE LEADER BECAUSE WE'RE AT 30 OR WE'RE THE LEADER BECAUSE WE'RE AT LIKE THE WHOLE THE WHOLE SCHOOL DISTRICT CAN TAKE PART. HELP US UNDERSTAND THE GAP AND HOW MUCH YOU'RE EITHER BRINGING UP THAT NUMBER THROUGH BLOOMINGTON'S WORK OR KNOW LIKE ARE WE THE ONLY BRIGHT SPOT IN THAT WHOLE CONVERSATION AND AT THE MOMENT I MEAN I'M BIASED I THINK BLOOMINGTON IS THE BRIGHT SPOT BUT THERE ARE DEFINITELY PROGRAMS THAT ARE THAT ARE LEADING AS WELL. WE ARE THE LEADER THOUGH JUST TO BE SURE THOSE NUMBERS ARE BASED ON HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATIONAL COURSES WHICH REALLY GOES BACK TO PLACEMENT COMPUTER SCIENCE PRINCIPLES. SO AP, CSP WE HAVE BEEN OFFERING THAT IN BLOOMINGTON FOR A GOOD FIVE YEARS AND WE KNOW THAT IT'S BEEN OFFERED AT OTHER PLACES AROUND THE STATE. ANOTHER COURSE THAT THEY LOOK AT IS THE SECOND LEVEL WHICH IS A P C S A WE DIDN'T COME UP WITH THE NAMING STRUCTURE COLLEGE BOARD DID AND WE'RE JUST OFFERING THAT THE FIRST YEAR THIS YEAR SO WE LEAD BECAUSE OF WHAT WE'RE DOING IN OUR K EIGHT SPACES AND OUR HIGH SCHOOL AND THAT IS EXTREMELY UNIQUE. YOU WILL NOT FIND ANOTHER CSE IMMERSION PROGRAM ACROSS THE STATE. YOU'D BE HARD PRESSED TO FIND PLACES THAT ARE ACTUALLY DOING CSE AND INTEGRATION LIKE WE ARE IN THAT SPACE SO WE'RE LEADING IN THAT REGARD. BUT WHEN YOU LOOK AT THAT DATA THAT DATA REALLY CENTERS AROUND HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATIONAL OFFERINGS WHICH WHAT THEY MEAN IS THAT APEX CLASS. OKAY GREAT. THANK YOU. I'LL COME VOLUNTEER. IT'S NOT A PROBLEM. I'M A COMPUTER NERD ANYWAY SO AND I'M THE A.V. NERD IN MY FAMILY SO I'M HAPPY TO COME BY ANYTIME. THANKS. I WOULD JUST ADD I LINKING THOSE TWO QUESTIONS COUNCILMEMBER IS GREAT BECAUSE I THINK THEY'RE RELATED IN THIS WAY. THE MINNESOTA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION IS DOING THE BEST JOB THAT THEY CAN BUT IT'S COMPLICATED AND THE RESOURCES THAT THEY'RE STRUGGLING WITH ARE THE SAME RESOURCES WE'RE STRUGGLING WITH WHICH IS TIME AND ARE TOO MANY THINGS TO DO AND AND RESOURCES AND TIME. RIGHT. SO THE REID ACT IS REALLY UP ALL OF THE ENERGY OF EDUCATION RIGHT NOW AND TRYING TO MAINTAIN PROGRAMS WHILE YOU'RE ALSO TRYING TO GROW PROGRAMS REALLY A CHALLENGE FOR EVERYBODY. WHAT I OUR POINTS OF PRIDE LIKE ARE WE LIFTING EVERYBODY UP? YEAH BLOOMINGTON IS DR. HALTER IS ON THAT MDA WORKING GROUP REPRESENTING ALL OF US IN ONE OF I DON'T KNOW HOW BIG IS THE WORKING GROUP IT'S 20 INDIVIDUALS THAT'S HELPING CRAFT THAT LEGISLATION WORKING BUSINESS FOLKS AND HIGHER ED FOLKS AND SO ON. SO ARE SUPER PROUD THERE AND THEN ARE NEAR CODE ACADEMY OUR ONLINE SCHOOL DOES THAT COMPUTER SCIENCE AP PROGRAM SO WE HAVE A STUDENT WHO IS ATTENDING WHO'S PROBABLY LIKE 14 MILES FROM THE CANADIAN BORDER WHO IS A FULL TIME NEW CODE ACADEMY STUDENT WHO CAN TAKE COMPUTER SCIENCE AN AP LEVEL A COMPUTER SCIENCE FROM THEIR HOME THAT COULD MOVE INTO A SEE US PROGRAM AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA. SO IT'S FROM A WOMAN WAS SURE THERE'S SOMEBODY FOR ME SO KIND OF A DELICATE QUESTION HERE BACK IN YOUR SLIDE I THINK IT'S 45 WHICH IS THIS COMPUTER SCIENCE IN BP NOW IT'S HIGH SCHOOL. YOU KNOW, MY MY WIFE A VERY BRIGHT PERSON AND I'M LUCKY I'M QUITE AS BRIGHT AS SHE IS. AND SO WHEN I LOOK AT THESE PATHWAYS HERE THAT YOU HAVE, YOU KNOW, IF YOU'RE GOING THROUGH THE PROCESS BY WHICH TO BECOME THE INTERESTED IN CS CAREERS AND OR FOR YOUR CS DEGREE MY MY QUESTION IS FOR THOSE FOLKS WHO YOU KNOW MAYBE MORE MY LIKING NOT AS BRIGHT AS MY WIFE AND CAN'T GET INTO THE AP TYPE COMPUTER TYPE CLASSES IS THERE IS THERE IS ARE PATHWAYS IN WHICH TO KIND OF GO THROUGH FOR SOME OF THOSE OTHER ONES WHERE THAT AP IS KIND OF THE TOP END OF IT AND THE REASON WHY I ASKED THAT IS YOU KNOW JUST FROM A DEMOGRAPHIC STANDPOINT HOW HOW DOES THAT LOOK? YOU KNOW, AS FOLKS ARE TRYING TO FOCUS IN AND TRYING TO GET THROUGH THOSE THOSE ARE THOSE THOSE PATHWAYS AND MAKE SURE WE'RE MAKING THEM ACCESSIBLE AS POSSIBLE. YEAH I'D SAY ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE'RE REALLY FOCUSING ON IS CHANGING THAT NARRATIVE OF WHO CAN DO APPS. YES. SO WE HAVE NINTH GRADERS IN IT RIGHT NOW THAT STARTED IN SIXTH GRADE CSS IMMERSION AT OLSON AND THEY'RE DOING GREAT AND I THINK THAT APEX IS IT'S AN ACCESSIBLE COURSE FOR ANY STUDENT WHO WANTS TO TAKE IT AND HOPEFULLY WE CAN GET MORE STUDENTS TO TO SEE THAT THROUGH, YOU KNOW, MARKETING AND COMMUNICATION AND JUST AGAIN BUILDING THAT SENSE OF IDENTITY EARLIER BEFORE THE STUDENTS GET TO SCHOOL AND MAKE THOSE CHOICES OF I'M NOT THIS PERSON, I'M NOT THIS TYPE OF PERSON SO THEY CAN THEY CAN DO ALL OF THIS AND OUR STAFF IS THERE TO SUPPORT THEM THROUGH THAT. BUT IF YOU DON'T WANT TO TAKE A YEARLONG APEX COURSE WELL IT'S IMPORTANT TO NOTE IS THAT SOME OF THESE ARE ONE TRI CLASSES THAT COULD STILL CONTINUE THAT LEARNING AND BUILDING THOSE FOUNDATIONAL SKILLS IN CSC LIKE OUR CYBERSECURITY CLASS A.I. IN ARTIFICIAL OR SORRY ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN MACHINE LEARNING CLASS. SO THOSE MIGHT BE PLACES FOR YOU TO KIND OF CONTINUE TO EXPLORE, SEE WHERE YOU'RE INTERESTED IN AS YOU BUILD THOSE SKILLS THAT AP COMPUTER SCIENCE COURSES ARE. I BELIEVE IT'S THE ONLY COURSE ONLY AP COURSE THAT DOESN'T HAVE A PRE RACK SO YOU CAN COME IN WITHOUT HAVING ALREADY BUILT UP A TRACK RECORD OF SUCCESS AND GET INTO A PROGRAM THAT IMMEDIATELY EARNS YOU DUAL CREDIT. WELL THANK YOU I'M A FAR LESS INTIMATE MAYBE ABLE TO COMPETE WITH MY WITH MY WIFE OR THE COUNCILMEMBER ACROSS THE WAY DIRECTOR STARKS OKAY I KNOW WE'RE PROBABLY WANTING TO MOVE ON BUT I JUST WANTED TO ADD A LITTLE BIT OF CONTEXT THAT I THINK IS PRETTY COOL. YOU KNOW WHEN DIRECTOR WISER THAT LIKE BLOOMINGTON WAS WELL-POISED FOR THE PANDEMIC AND THE CHALLENGES THAT BROUGHT BECAUSE WE ALREADY HAD THE 1 TO 1 LEARNING AND THE TEACHER SAID ACCESS AND STUDENTS HAD ACCESS TO ONLINE LEARNING THAT STARTED 2013 SO WE HAD LIKE A SEVEN YEAR HEAD START BECAUSE A LOT OF FOLKS IN THE ACROSS THE TWIN CITIES WOULD BE LIKE HOW HOW ARE YOU GUYS DOING THIS ALREADY? AND WE'RE LIKE WELL WE HAD A HEAD START. WE DIDN'T KNOW IT AT THE TIME BUT WE'RE CREATING IT. WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE WORK GROUP THAT ALEXANDER VERY EXCITED THAT YOU'RE PART OF THAT REPORT THAT CAME IF THE TIMELINE HOLDS THAT THE WORKGROUP IS RECOMMENDING M.D. SCHOOLS WOULD BE AT THE PLACE WHERE ARE RIGHT NOW IN 2031 SO WE HAVE ANOTHER SEVEN YEAR HEAD START WITH WHAT WOULD GO FORWARD I KNOW THE BILL THAT'S THERE NOW IS GOING TO TRY TO SPEED THAT UP HOPEFULLY. BUT YOU KNOW SO WE ARE JUST IN BLOOMINGTON SO FAR AHEAD OF OUR PEERS IN SO MANY WAYS AND THEN AS A CONSEQUENCE OR COUNCIL MEMBER MORE MENTIONED THE AIR PEACE I SEE THAT NOW WE'RE GOING HAVE ANOTHER SEVEN YEAR HEAD START SO I'M REALLY PROUD OF WHAT BLOOMINGTON BRINGS. I WAS ACTUALLY AN EVENT TWO WEEKS AGO AND I WAS TALKING TO SOMEONE WHO WAS QUITE WITH THE TIMELINE OF 2031 AND THEY FOUND OUT I WAS FROM BLOOMINGTON LIKE OH NEVER MIND. SO IT'S PRETTY THANK YOU. WE WILL PLEASE. I JUST WANT TO THANK JOHN AND ALEXANDRA BECAUSE THEY'RE THE REASON THAT WE'RE MOVING FORWARD AND THIS WAS ALSO A VISION FROM LAST WOODSTOCK THAT HE BROUGHT IN . HE SAYS WE'RE GOING TO NEED THIS AND THIS WILL MAKE IT MORE EQUITABLE FOR OUR COMMUNITY OF STUDENTS. AND I THINK THAT'S BECOME A REALITY. SO THANK YOU. ABSOLUTELY. BEFORE YOU CUT ME OFF, I'LL SAY THAT OUR OUR OFFER IS SINCERE LIKE HAVE OUR EMAILS AND WE REALLY DO KIDS REALLY DO GET EXCITED COMING TO VISIT LIKE YOU MIGHT THINK YOUR LIFE IS MUNDANE BUT THEY WOULD REALLY BE EXCITED TO COME OVER HERE AND THEY WOULD REALLY BE EXCITED FOR YOU TO COME IN AND SEE THEM. SO EMAIL CARL IF YOU HAVE AN IDEA YOU WANT TO CO-HOST SOMETHING JUST TO GIVE US ACCESS TO YOUR TEAM OR YOUR OR YOUR AREA OF EXPERTIZE. PLEASE DO TAKE US UP ON THAT OFFER. VERY GOOD. WELL, THANK YOU AND CONGRATULATIONS. OUTSTANDING WORK AND KEEP IT UP OUTSTANDING. THANK. MOVING ON END OF 2.4 ON OUR AGENDA THIS IS AN UPDATE ON THE BLOOMINGTON FORWARD PROJECTS VIA NEWS FROM OUR PARKS AND REC STAFF IS HERE GOING TO BE FOLLOWING KIDS WITH LOVING UP PROCLAMATIONS I'LL DO MY BEST. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. WELCOME SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS AND THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE TONIGHT. THANK YOU CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS FOR INVITING ME HERE. AS MENTIONED, MY NAME IS LEAH HUGHES. I'M THE DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF PARKS AND RECREATION AND I'M GOING TO GIVE YOU A BLOOMINGTON UPDATE. I KNOW WE'RE RUNNING LATE SO I'M GOING TO KEEP THIS REALLY BRIEF AND HIGH LEVEL. SO IF YOU HAVE QUESTIONS AT THE END I WILL ABSOLUTELY TAKE THE TIME TO ANSWER THOSE FOR YOU. BUT I'M GOING TO TRY TO BREEZE THROUGH THIS PRETTY QUICK. I KNOW YOU GUYS HAVE A LOT ON THE AGENDA SO FIRST AND FOREMOST WHAT THINGS I'M GOING TO TRY TO EXPLAIN TO YOU TONIGHT ARE WHAT THE THREE PROJECTS ARE, WHAT IS IT INCLUDED IN EACH PROJECT THE TIMELINES AND THEN HOW BLOOMINGTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND THE SCHOOL BOARD CAN BE ENGAGED IN THESE PROCESSES? OH WHAT IS BLOOMINGTON FOR IT ESSENTIALLY WHAT IT IS IS IT'S $155 MILLION INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT FOR THREE SIGNIFICANT PROJECTS IN BLOOMINGTON. ALL OF THESE HAVE REGIONAL SIGNIFICANCE WHICH MEANS NOT ONLY ARE THEY SERVING THE COMMUNITY BUT THEY ARE DRAWING INDIVIDUALS FROM OUTSIDE THE AREA INCLUDING THE STATE AND THE REGION. HOW DO WE GET HERE? A LITTLE BIT OF BACKGROUND. THERE'S A LOT WORK THAT WENT INTO THIS STARTING WITH CITY COUNCIL. THEY HAD TO WORK TO FIGURE OUT WHAT THESE PROJECTS WERE GOING TO BE AND TO DEVELOP THE BLOOMINGTON FORWARD PLAN. OBVIOUSLY THERE WAS A LOT OF WORK THAT WENT INTO GETTING THIS INTO LEGISLATION AND THEN ULTIMATELY ON NOVEMBER 7TH THE RESIDENTS DECIDED THAT THESE PROJECTS THEY WANTED TO MOVE FORWARD AND THAT THEY WERE A SIGNIFICANT INVESTMENT, THAT THEY WANTED TO MAKE IN THE COMMUNITY GOING FORWARD. ULTIMATELY WHAT HAPPENED WE HAVE A HALF CENT SALES TAX OPTION THAT IS GOING TO GO INTO EFFECT ACTUALLY APRIL 1ST IT'S GOING TO BRING IN $155 MILLION TO COVER THE PROJECTS. THESE THREE PROJECTS WITH THE ADDITION OF $4 MILLION IN STATE BONDING THAT IS GOING TO GO IT WILL BE DIVIDED BETWEEN TWO PROJECTS ONE FOR PRE-DESIGNED FOR THE BLOOMINGTON ICE GARDEN AND THEN ALSO FOR THE PUBLIC HEALTH COMPONENT OF THE COMMUNITY HEALTH AND WELLNESS CENTER. SO JUST A LITTLE ABOUT EACH PROJECT THE COMMUNITY HEALTH AND WELLNESS CENTER THIS IS BY FAR GOING TO BE THE LARGEST OF THE THREE PROJECTS. THE TOTAL COST IS POINT $101.8 MILLION $100 MILLION COMING FROM THAT SALES TAX AND THEN 1.8 COMING FROM THAT BONDING FROM THE STATE. WHAT YOU SEE BEFORE YOU IS SOME OF THE INFORMATION THAT HAVE GATHERED OVER THE LAST TEN YEARS. THE COMMUNITY HEALTH AND WELLNESS CENTER HAS BEEN A CONVERSATION THAT DIANE KIRBY AND MANY THE CITY DEPARTMENTS AND FRANKLY A NUMBER OF YOU IN THIS ROOM FRANKLY HAVE BEEN WORKING FOR QUITE SOME TIME. SO WELL DONE. IT'S COMING TO FRUITION SO. CONGRATULATIONS ON ALL THAT WORK. SO THIS LIST SOME OF THE FEEDBACK THAT WAS GLEANED IN 2019 OR PRIOR AND MANY OF THE THE TASK FORCE AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT PROCESSES THAT HAPPENED BEFORE THEN. BUT AS MANY OF US HAVE MENTIONED TONIGHT THE PANDEMIC HAPPENED SO THAT HAS CHANGED THE LANDSCAPE FOR SOME OF THE THINGS. SO WHAT WE'RE GOING TO BE DOING NOW WITH THE COMMUNITY HEALTH AND WELLNESS CENTER, WE ARE GOING TO BE ENGAGING IN A NEW FEASIBILITY STUDY AND STATISTICALLY VALID SURVEY THAT WILL ACTUALLY BE STARTING THIS SPRING. IN ADDITION, AN EXTENSIVE COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT PROCESS THAT WILL HAPPEN BETWEEN 2024 AND 2025. WHAT WE'RE TRYING DO IS FRANKLY FIGURE OUT ARE THESE STILL THE AMENITIES THAT THE COMMUNITY WANTS AND NEEDS IN THIS CENTER IN ADDITION TO IF SO, HOW HAVE THEY CHANGED OR EBBED WITHIN THE LAST FEW YEARS AS WE'VE MANAGED THE PANDEMIC AND NOW WE'RE COMING OUT AND KIND OF NEW EXPECTATIONS WITHIN THE COMMUNITY THE COMMUNITY HEALTH AND WELLNESS CENTER IN ADDITION TO THE OTHER TWO PROJECTS HAVE FORMED TEAMS LITERALLY NOVEMBER 8TH WE'RE GETTING CALLS. WHAT'S YOUR PLAN? WE'VE GOT A PLAN. IT TOOK US THREE MONTHS TO GET IT. SO WHAT WE'VE BEEN DOING OVER THE LAST THREE MONTHS IS ASSEMBLING STAFF TEAMS, WRITING RFP IS HIRING CONSULTANTS TO DELIVER THE WORK AND FIGURING OUT WHO ACROSS CITY DEPARTMENTS ARE GOING TO BE ENGAGED THESE PROCESSES THIS IS A TEAM FULL HANDS ON SUPPORT AND WE'VE GOT THE BEST PLAYERS ON THE FIELD FOR ALL THREE OF THESE PROJECTS INCLUDING MANY, MANY CROSS-DEPARTMENTAL INDIVIDUALS THAT ARE SERVING ON BOTH THE THE LEAD STAFF TEAMS AND THE PROJECT TEAMS FOR THREE OF THESE THE COMMUNITY HEALTH AND WELLNESS CENTER TIMELINE YOU'LL NOTICE THAT ALL OF THE TIMELINES I TALK ABOUT TONIGHT ARE VERY AGGRESSIVE. THAT IS BY DESIGN. INFLATION IS REAL. WE KNOW THAT THESE BUDGET DOLLARS ARE REALLY AND WE WANT TO TRY TO DELIVER THESE PROJECTS AS QUICKLY AND EFFICIENTLY WE CAN SO WE ARE GETTING THE MOST BANG FOR OUR BUCK. SO AS I MOVE INTO OF THESE TIMELINES YOU'RE GOING TO NOTICE THAT FRANKLY A LOT OF THEM HAVE ALREADY STARTED WITH SOME OF THE CAPACITIES OR THEY ARE SOON TO START WE IN THE PROCESS OF HIRING OUR ARCHITECT AND ENGINEERING FIRM FOR THE HEALTH AND WELLNESS CENTER THE RFP OUR REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL TO TO YOU KNOW WHAT THE ACRONYMS ARE BECAUSE I KNOW THAT CAN BE TRICKY POSTED ON FEBRUARY 1ST. SO WE WILL BE INTERVIEWING AND HIRING THE ARCHITECTS AND ENGINEERS FOR THAT PROJECT STARTING MID APRIL. IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT TO GET THE ARCHITECTS AND ENGINEERS ON BOARD WITH THESE PROJECTS EARLY BECAUSE THEY NEED TO BE A PART OF THAT ENGAGEMENT. THEY NEED TO HEAR WHAT THE COMMUNITY IS SAYING AND WHAT SORT OF TRENDS THEY'RE SEEING COMING FORWARD SO THAT WAY THEY CAN BASE THEIR DESIGNS AND THEIR DECISIONS OFF OF THAT FEEDBACK THAT WE'RE GETTING. SHORTLY AFTER THAT WILL BE HIRING THE CONSTRUCTION FOR THIS PROJECT. WHAT THE CONSTRUCTION MANAGER DOES IS THEY HIRE OR THEY MANAGE ALL THE BACKGROUND DETAILS AND THEY'RE THE DOERS WITH THE CONTRACTS AND THE ACTING AS LIAISON AND THE PLANS AND THE SCHEDULES MAKING SURE EVERYTHING IS GOING ACCORDING TO PLAN AND STAYING ON SCHEDULE AS INTENDED THAT INDIVIDUAL WILL BE HIRED ON STARTING IN JULY. THE FEASIBILITY ASSESSMENT THAT WILL BE HAPPENING FOR THE COMMUNITY HEALTH AND WELLNESS CENTER WE JUST HIRED PROS CONSULTING AS THE FEASIBILITY FIRM THAT WILL BE HELPING US WITH THAT. WHAT THAT'S GOING TO HELP US DO IS IS DO THAT REENGAGE JUDGMENT WITH THE COMMUNITY AND SO THAT'S GOING TO INCLUDE A MARKET ANALYSIS I'M AN EXAMPLE OF WHY THAT NEEDS TO HAPPEN IS PRIOR TO 2019 THERE ARE A LOT OF GYMS AND EXERCISE FACILITIES IN THE CITY OF BLOOMINGTON. MANY OF THOSE HAVE FALTERED OR FAILED BETWEEN NOW AND 2019. SO JUST AN EXAMPLE OF US NEEDING TO TO REVISIT THE MARKET, REVISIT WHAT THE COMMUNITY IS LOOKING FOR THROUGH THROUGH MARKET ANALYSIS, FIGURE WHAT THE COMMUNITY IS LOOKING FOR AND IF IT'S STILL THE SAME AS IT WAS BEFORE THROUGH THAT STAKEHOLDER AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AND THAT WILL HELP US IDENTIFY CORE PROGRAM AIMS IN ADDITION TO FRANKLY FIGURING OUT WHAT PEOPLE WANT IN THIS FACILITY, WHAT THEY'RE WILLING TO PAY FOR AND HOW MUCH THEY'RE WILLING TO PAY FOR IT. SO THEN WE CAN ALSO AT THE TAIL END OF THAT FEASIBILITY STUDY OUT WHAT THE OPERATIONS MAY LOOK LIKE FOR THIS FACILITY GOING. WE DO HAVE A CONSTRUCTION TIMELINE THE GIVE ME HEALTH AND WELLNESS CENTER 2024 AND 25 ARE PREDOMINANTLY GOING TO BE COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AND THAT WILL HELP INFORM THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEERING FIRM 2025 WILL STILL INCLUDE SOME OF THAT ENGAGEMENT AS WE MOVE INTO THE DESIGN PHASE OF FIGURING OUT WHAT THE SPACES WILL ACTUALLY LOOK LIKE AND ENTAIL. AND THEN 25 AND 26 WILL BE THE CONSTRUCTION WITH THE HOPE THAT A GRAND OPENING WOULD HAPPEN EITHER OPTIMISTICALLY THE END OF 26 MORE LIKELY SOMETIME IN 2027. I WILL SAY THAT THESE ARE DRAFT TIMELINES. AGAIN WE HAVE NOT HIRED THE ARCHITECTS OR THE CONSTRUCTION MANAGERS YET. WE THINK THIS IS FEASIBLE AND WE'RE BASING THAT OFF OF CONVERSATIONS THAT WE'VE HAD WITH PROFESSIONALS IN THE FIELD. SO OUR HOPE IS THAT ONCE THOSE THOSE FIRMS ARE ON BOARD THAT THEY REAFFIRM THAT THIS IS POSSIBLE AND WE MOVE FORWARD FROM THERE. NEXT IS THE MY MELD CREEK QUARTER PROJECT. THIS IS PROBABLY THE LEAST VETTED OF ALL OF THE PROJECTS. THIS IS ULTIMATELY A NATURAL RESOURCES PROJECT NINE MILE CORRIDOR IS IS CONSIDERED A GEM IN CITY OF BLOOMINGTON IT INCLUDES THREE PARKS HARRISON MOUA CENTRAL PARK. IT IS ALSO A CONNECTION TO THE MINNESOTA STATE TRAIL ALONG THE MINNESOTA RIVER. IN ADDITION TO HAVING MANY OTHER JUST WONDERFUL NATURAL RESOURCE AMENITIES THAT WE WANT TO AND MAINTAIN GOING FORWARD. SO REALLY THIS THIS BALLOT ITEM IS REALLY A COMMITMENT TO NATURAL RESOURCES IN THROUGH THIS REALLY IMPORTANT REGIONAL ASSET NATURAL RESOURCE THAT BLOOMINGTON HAS THE COST FOR THAT PROJECT IS 20 MILLION IT ALSO HAS A PROJECT TEAM THIS PROJECT TEAM IS UNIQUE IN THAT IT'S A COMBINATION OF CITY OF BLOOMINGTON ENGINEERING FACILITY NATURAL RESOURCES PARK MAINTENANCE AND RECREATION STAFF AND SO THERE'S A LOT OF INDIVIDUALS ARE GOING TO BE WORKING ON THIS PROJECT IN ADDITION TO SOME OF OUR PARTNERS INCLUDING U.S. FISH AND WILDLIFE, THE NINE MILE CREEK WATERSHED DISTRICT AND PROBABLY A FEW I'M FORGETTING BECAUSE I'M TRYING TO BE BRIEF BUT IT'S GOING TO BE NOT ONLY THE DNR. IT'S GOING TO BE AGAIN A REAL TRULY NATURAL COLLABORATION BETWEEN THE CITY, THE STATE AND OTHER ENTITIES THAT ARE HEAVILY INVESTED IN THIS PARTICULAR AREA. THE TIMELINE FOR THIS WE ARE JUST IN THE PROCESS OF WRITING REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS FOR ASKING THAT ARCHITECTS AND ENGINEERS THE COUNCIL WILL BE LOOKING AT SOME OF THOSE THINGS COMING UP IN THE NEXT MONTH MAY AND JUNE. WE ARE DOING A TECHNICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ANALYSIS WITH SOME OF THOSE PARTNERS THAT WE RECORD THAT MENTIONED BASICALLY WE NEED TO DO AN ANALYSIS OF THE NATURAL RESOURCES DURING THE GROWING SEASON SO WE CAN KIND OF FIGURE OUT WHAT'S THERE, WHAT WE NEED TO WORK AROUND FAR AS ON DOING AS LITTLE TO DISTURB SOME OF THE WILDLIFE AS CAN DURING CERTAIN PARTS OF THE SEASON SO THAT'S GOING TO INFORM SOME OF THE OTHER PROCESSES. WE ALSO WILL BE STARTING PRETTY SIGNIFICANT COMMUNITY. THERE ARE A LOT OF PEOPLE IN BLOOMINGTON THAT ARE REALLY INVESTED IN THIS PROJECT AND WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE GET THEM ON BOARD AND GET THEIR AND START THAT EARLY AS WE START ASSESSING THE REST OF THE PROJECT AND SO YOU'LL BE SEEING STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT FOR THIS PROJECT THROUGHOUT ENTIRE TIME AS WELL STARTING THIS SPRING IT WILL LIKELY GO UP THROUGH OCTOBER FOUR AND COMMUNICATE AND THEN BETWEEN 24 AND 25 AGAIN WHEN WE GET TO 30% DESIGN AND 60% DESIGN. WE'LL CONTINUE REVISITING FEEDBACK WITH THE COMMUNITY AND SOME OF THOSE STAKEHOLDERS AS WE MOVE THROUGH THE PROJECT CONSTRUCTION FOR THIS PROJECT WILL BE PROBABLY IN 26 AND 27 THE BLOOMINGTON ICE GARDEN IS FRANKLY IT WAS THE EASIEST OF ALL THE PROJECTS WE KNOW EXACTLY NOT WORKING IN BIG WHICH IS AT THIS POINT IS ALMOST EVERYTHING. I DON'T KNOW IF ANY OF YOU HAVE DRIVEN BY IT LATELY BUT WE CURRENTLY HAVE A TEMPORARY CHILLER PARKED OUTSIDE PLUGGED IN BECAUSE WE HAVE TWO THINGS THAT HAVE FAILED IN THE LAST MONTH. BIG JUST FRANKLY IS AN INFRASTRUCTURE AGING INFRASTRUCTURE ISSUE AND SO ALL THE MECHANICAL SYSTEMS NEED TO BE REDONE AND REPLACED IT IS NOT ADA COMPLIANT SO NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT ACCESSIBILITY IS DEFINITELY LOOKED AT AND IMPROVED THAT SPACE IN ADDITION TO JUST WANTING TO INCREASE THE USER AND EXPERIENCE THERE BIG BIGGEST ONE OF THE TOP THREE HEAVY MOST USED ICE ARENAS IN THE STATE. EVERY TIME I GIVE THIS PRESENTATION WE ALWAYS ASK IF THERE'S HOCKEY PARENTS I'M I'M SHOCKED AT HOW MANY HOCKEY PARENTS THERE I PROBABLY SHOULDN'T BE BUT YOU ARE JUST EVERYWHERE AND SO BASICALLY WHAT WE'VE BEEN DOING IN 2023 IS WE DID HIRED JAY ELGIE TO DO A PRE ASSESSMENT SO WHAT THEY DID IS THEY WENT IN WITH WITH MECHANICAL ALL THESE DIFFERENT TEAMS TO JUST ACCESS CURRENT FACILITY FIGURE OUT WHAT WE HAVE FIGURE OUT WHAT WE NEED, WHAT THAT'S GOING TO COST IN ADDITION TO PRIORITIZING ALL OF THESE DIFFERENT SO OBVIOUSLY REPLACING THE ICE SYSTEM IS PRIORITY NUMBER ONE BECAUSE OF THE FUNCTION OF THAT SPACE THAT PRE ASSESSMENT FINISHED IN DECEMBER OF 2023 IT HAS NOW MOVED INTO THE DESIGN PHASE AND SO WHAT WE'RE DOING NOW IS WE'RE TAKING THAT INFORMATION IN AND WE ARE STARTING TO BUILD THE BIG PACKAGES FOR THE LONG LEAD ITEMS THAT WE NEED TO PURCHASE. FOR EXAMPLE, IT TAKES 18 TO 20 MONTHS TO GET THE ICE MECHANICALS ORDERED AND SHIPPED TO US SO THERE ARE CERTAIN ITEMS THAT WE NEED TO DESIGN AND ORDER NOW ORDER FOR THEM TO SHOW UP IN 2025 WHEN THE CONSTRUCTION FOR SOME OF THOSE THINGS ACTUALLY STARTS YOU ARE GOING TO SEE SOME CHANGES AT THE BLOOMINGTON ICE GARDEN STARTING THIS SUMMER. WE ARE GOING TO DO SOME CONSTRUCTION THAT WILL NOT IMPACT THE ACTUAL PHYSICAL USE OF THE SPACE QUITE YET BUT WE DO NEED TO GET A JUMPSTART ON SOME OF THE CHANGES THAT WE'RE MAKING WITH THAT MECHANICAL SYSTEM MEANING WE NEED TO BUILD THE ENVELOPE THE NEW MECHANICALS WILL GO IN BECAUSE THIS IS A REALLY AGGRESSIVE TIMELINE MAINLY DUE TO US NOT TO IMPACT THE BLOOMINGTON HIGH SCHOOL AND YOUTH HOCKEY SEASONS. SO WE'RE GOING TO BREAK GROUND THIS SUMMER TO DO SOME OF THE NON NON ICE IMPACTING WORK THERE WILL BE A FULL SHUTDOWN STARTING IN MARCH OF 2025 WHERE EVERYTHING WILL BE SHUT DOWN AND AND BIG'S TO LOOK LIKE AN ANTHILL. THERE'S GOING TO BE A MILLION CREWS IN THERE WORKING OVER THE COURSE OF SIX MONTHS WITH THE GOAL TO REOPEN BIG FOR THE THE 2025 HOCKEY SEASON IN SEPTEMBER OR EARLY OCTOBER SO WE'VE GOT A LOT GOING ON AND THAT'S PROBABLY THE THE PROJECT THAT'S THE FURTHEST BECAUSE WE KNEW EXACTLY WHAT WE NEED TO DO WITH THAT ONE. THE PROJECT TEAM HERE THIS ONE'S A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT. WE ALREADY DID THE STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT AS A PART OF THE ASSESSMENT SO YOU'RE NOT GOING TO SEE SOME OF THE SAME COMMUNITY DEPARTMENTS OR A CITY LISTED ON THIS BECAUSE FRANKLY BIG HAS REALLY SET STAKEHOLDER THAT WE'VE BEEN ENGAGING THIS ENTIRE TIME. IN FACT BLOOMINGTON PUBLIC Y'ALL LIKE TO KNOW THAT I WAS MEETING WITH YOUR ATHLETIC DIRECTORS AT 10 A.M. THIS MORNING TO TALK ABOUT WHAT EXACTLY DO YOUR KIDS NEED IN THIS SPACE. AND SO THAT IS SOMETHING THAT YOU'LL SEE CONTINUALLY THROUGH THIS PROJECT TOO. WILL WE WILL YOU'LL BE ENGAGING WITH OUR MAIN STAKEHOLDERS, THE MAIN USERS TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE BUILDING THE BIGGEST AND BEST BLOOMINGTON ICE GARDEN THAT WE CAN FOR THE NEXT GENERATION. THE TIMELINE I MENTIONED WE'RE GOING TO START BASICALLY ORDERING THINGS IN Q1 OF THIS YEAR. WE'RE GOING TO BREAK GROUND EARLY AND THEN DO THE FULL SHUTDOWN. MARCH 2025 AND THEN HOPEFULLY REOPEN IN SEPTEMBER OF 2025 WAYS THAT YOU CAN GET ENGAGED AND BRING YOUR FAMILIES TO TO THE ENGAGEMENT PART OF THIS PROCESS IS WE HAVE TRANSITIONED USED TO BE THE BLOOMINGTON FORD REFERENDUM PAGE INTO PROJECT TRACKING PAGE NOW SO WE SPENT BASICALLY DECEMBER AND JANUARY TRANSITIONING THAT PAGE TO INCLUDE THE INFORMATION THAT WE HAVE ON THESE PROJECTS UP TO DATE WE KEPT A LOT OF THE FACTS FROM THE REFERENDUM SO PEOPLE KNEW AGAIN HOW WE GOT HERE BUT THIS PAGE IS GOING TO BE A LIVING BREATHING PAGE THAT AS WE MOVE THROUGH THESE PROJECTS UPDATES ARE PUT ON THIS PAGE SO PEOPLE CAN A ONE STOP SHOP WHERE THEY CAN FIGURE OUT WHERE WE'RE AT WHERE YOU CAN BE ENGAGED. SO WHEN COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT ON ANY OF THE THREE PROJECTS WILL HAPPEN DATES, TIMES, LOCATIONS IN ADDITION AN E E SUBSCRIBED OPTION IF PEOPLE UPDATES EMAILED INTO THEIR THEIR EMAIL BOXES PARKS AND REC TEAM WHO OWNS ALL THREE OF THESE PROJECTS ESSENTIALLY WE WILL MANAGE AND OPERATE THEM WILL BE DOING REGULAR EMAIL UPDATES OF ARE INTERESTED IN GETTING ON THAT E NEWS LIST AND WE HAVE A WEBSITE OR I'M SORRY AN EMAIL THAT IS DEDICATED TO THIS PROJECT. SO IF ANY OF YOUR FAMILIES STAFF WHOMEVER HAVE QUESTIONS THEY CAN EMAIL THE FOR IT AT BLOOMINGTON DOT GOV THAT IS GOING TO GO TO ONE BUCKET WHERE DEPENDING ON WHAT THE QUESTION IS IT WILL BE SENT TO THE APPROPRIATE CITY STAFF WHO CAN RESPOND TO THAT QUESTION WITHIN 24 HOURS. IN ADDITION TO A LOT OF THE OTHER FAMILIAR WAYS OF ENGAGEMENT LIKE THE BLOOMINGTON LET'S TALK WEBSITE, YOU CAN PUT INFORMATION ON AS WELL. SO WE'RE TRYING TO FIND AS MANY ONLINE AND PHYSICAL WAYS THAT THE COMMUNITY CAN ENGAGE WITH ANY OR ALL OF THESE PROJECTS AS AS THEY WOULD LIKE. SO IF YOU COULD PLEASE SHARE THAT INFORMATION OR PARTICIPATE YOURSELVES, THAT WOULD BE REALLY A GREAT WAY TO BECOME INVOLVED AND THAT WAS QUICK. SO IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS LET ME KNOW AND BE HAPPY TO ANSWER ANYTHING. WELL COUNCILOR, WE JUST HEARD THIS TWO NIGHTS AGO SO THERE SHOULDN'T BE ANY QUESTIONS. YES, I'D BE SHOCKED IF ANY OF YOU HAD QUESTIONS BUT WE HAVE SOME NEW FRIENDS HERE SO WE DO GO AHEAD TO WELL I GUESS JUST A SMALL QUESTION. SO THE LOCKER ROOM FOR THE HIGH SCHOOLS THAT ARE GOING TO BE COMING IN COST TO THE DISTRICT GUESS MY ONLY QUESTION I THINK THAT'S YET TO BE DETERMINED. I MEAN THAT'S A CONVERSATION THAT I KNOW CITY STAFF ARE HAVING WITH WITH SCHOOL DISTRICT STAFF. I MEAN CONVERSATION TODAY REALLY REVOLVED AROUND WHAT ARE YOUR NEEDS? I MEAN MANY DO YOU NEED WHAT DO YOU NEED TO LOOK LIKE FOR THE FORMAT? DO YOU NEED CERTAIN TECH AND TRAINING SPACES FOR YOUR FOR YOUR KIDS? BUT THAT CONVERSATION I THINK IS SOMETHING THAT'S THAT'S TO BE HAD. YEAH. MR. FARUQUI MR. MAYOR AND COUNCIL MEMBERS YOU MIGHT HAVE HEARD LEO REFER TO TIMELINES A COUPLE OF TIMES DURING THE PRESENTATION AND THIS IS ONE THING THAT WE ARE REALLY FOCUSED ON ESPECIALLY WITH BIG PROJECT BECAUSE IF WE LOSE EVEN A MONTH ON OUR TIMELINE WE LOSE A YEAR AND SO YOU KNOW WE KNOW THERE'S A A REALLY STRONG INTEREST AND EXCITEMENT IN THE COMMUNITY FOR ALL OF THESE PROJECTS AND WE NEED TO DEMONSTRATE PROGRESS. SO THE TIMELINES WE UP THERE, OUR STAFF IS UNDERSTANDING THAT WE ARE GOING TO BE LASER FOCUSED ON HITTING THOSE TIMELINES AND DELIVERING THESE PROJECTS ON TIME. ANYTHING ELSE? DIRECTOR MAYBE WE NEED TO WHEN YOU TALKED ABOUT 155 MILLION FROM THE HALF CENT TAX, WAS THAT PER YEAR OR OVER HOW MANY YEARS THAT IS OVER 20 YEARS FOR T WAY YEAR SO THE WAY THE SALES TAX WILL WORK IS IT WILL BE COLLECTED OVER THE COURSE OF 20 YEARS OR FRANKLY LESS. THE ONE THING WITH THE SALES TAX IS IF IF IT GENERATES MORE THAN WE EXPECTED THEN ONCE IT REACHES THAT 155 MILLION THEN IT WILL SUNSET. SO IT'S 20 YEARS OR LESS I GUESS IS A MORE MORE APPROPRIATE WAY OF SAYING THAT IT CANNOT GO BEYOND 20 YEARS AND IT CANNOT BE TRANSITIONED TO ANY OTHER PROJECT SO THAT THAT'S SALES TAX IS USED ONLY FOR THESE THREE PROJECTS THAT THE BLOOMINGTON VOTERS VOTED TO USE THAT TAX FOR. THANK YOU. YOU'RE WELCOME . DR. MILBY AND ANYTHING TO ADD ON THIS SECURITY FOR MY LIST. LET'S GET TO THE NEXT ONE. VERY GOOD. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. I APPRECIATE IT. WE WILL GET TO THE UPDATE IN 2.5. OUR SUPERINTENDENT DR. MELBA. GREAT. THANK YOU MAYOR. THANKS FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO GIVE A BRIEF UPDATE I THINK IT'S EXCITING TONIGHT BECAUSE COUNCILMEMBER CARTER POINTED OUT WE HAVE THE CHEMICAL HEALTH MENTAL HEALTH UPDATE IN A YEAR AND A HALF AGO WE ALL LEFT GOING BOY AND NOW YOU GET TO HEAR THINGS HAVE BEEN HAPPENING AND WE'RE WORKING HARD TO ADDRESS AND SUPPORT ISSUES. YOU GOT TO YOU KNOW NOT HEAR ME CHEERLEAD AND HEAR SOME OTHER PEOPLE CHEERLEAD OUR AMAZING COMPUTER SCIENCE PROGRAM IN BLOOMINGTON AND WE'RE JUST GOING TO CONTINUE TO SPREAD THAT SPREAD THAT WORD. I THINK IT CAN ATTRACT FAMILIES EITHER TO MOVE INTO TOWN OR TO OPEN ENROLL OUR DISTRICT WHICH WOULD BE BENEFICIAL EITHER WAY BETTER IF THEY MOVE TO TOWN. I GET THAT AND THE ABOUT THE PROJECTS IS HELPFUL FOR UNDERSTANDING AND AS YOU POINTED OUT SHE MET WITH OUR AIDES TODAY ROD AND I ARE MEETING WITH THE AIDS PROBABLY NEXT WEEK THE AGGRESSIVE TIMELINE IS SO WE'RE GOING TO BE VERY BUSY WORKING TO UNDERSTAND HOW SCHOOL DISTRICT CAN TAKE ADVANTAGE IF I CAN PUT IT THAT WAY OF THE IMPROVEMENTS I'D BEG AND MAKE SURE THAT OUR KIDS AND FAMILIES HAVE THE BEST EXPERIENCE CAN HAVE WHEN ACCESSING THE FACILITY. SO BOARD MEMBER HAS A MORE TO COME PROBABLY PRETTY QUICKLY ON OUR INVOLVEMENT WITH BIG A COUPLE OTHER UPDATES HE'S NOT HERE TONIGHT BUT I'LL PUBLICLY THANK CHIEF HODGES IF YOU REMEMBER AT THE END OF LAST SESSION THERE WAS A LOT OF HEARTBURN AROUND MINNESOTA WITH AND SCHOOL DISTRICTS AND LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES AROUND SCHOOL LEADERS AND OFFICERS OR SCHOOL RESOURCE OFFICERS WHICH LED TO A LOT OF RELATIONSHIPS BEING SEVERED AND LOSING THOSE OFFICERS IN THEIR BUILDINGS. THAT NEVER HAPPENED IN BLOOMINGTON CHIEF HODGES AND I MET REGULARLY. I APPRECIATE THE CHIEFS AND THE CITY'S COMMITMENT TO HAVING THE SUPPORTS OUR SCHOOLS EVEN THOUGH THERE WAS HEARTBURN THAT CAME ALONG WITH HAVING THOSE SUPPORTS IN THE SCHOOLS BASED ON SOME THE LAW CHANGES AND JUST THE OFFICERS WHO WERE COMMITTED TO SHOWING UP AND DOING THAT WORK IN OUR SCHOOLS EVERY DAY. SO WE'RE THANKFUL FOR THAT JUST SO THE PUBLIC CHIEF HODGES AND I HAVE A QUARTERLY STANDING COPY MEETING CAN OFTEN FIND US AT THE CARIBOU AT THE CORNER OF OLD JACOBEAN FRANCE. HE'S A LITTLE MORE FAMOUS THAN I AM EVEN THOUGH I HAVE MY M.B.A. MONTHLY. I DON'T QUITE GET IT. BUT YOU PEOPLE COME UP, HE'S IN UNIFORM. THAT PROBABLY HELPS, RIGHT? BUT SO WE GET A LOT OF COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT JUST HAVING COFFEE A FEW TIMES A YEAR AND I APPRECIATE THE THE PARTNERSHIP AND THE COLLABORATION I KNOW THAT SOME CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS AND PROBABLY SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS ARE CURIOUS. WE'VE WORKING ON OUR STADIUM ISSUES AND THE SOUND IN PARTICULAR WHICH WAS OUR BIGGEST HURDLE TO DECLARE FROM THE PLANNING COMMISSION MEETING. SO WE HAVE UTILIZED ONE OF THE CONSULTANTS RECOMMENDED BY CITY STAFF AND HAVE THE RESULTS OF THEIR STUDY ON ON SOUND AND ACTUALLY BASED ON THEIR ANALYTICS THE DATA WE HAVE ADD AND ALL THAT SUPPORTS THAT THE STADIUM SHOULD FALL WITHIN THE CITY SOUND ORDINANCE SO WE ARE COMING BACK TO START WITH THE PLANNING COMMISSION PROCESS SHORTLY WE HOPE TO GET THROUGH THAT PROCESS CITY COUNCIL PROCESS EARLY THE SUMMER AND PUT THE PROJECTS OUT TO BID SO WE CAN GET CONSTRUCTION STARTED AND NOT NEXT FALL THE FALL AFTER HAVE STADIUMS HOPEFULLY READY TO USE COULD BE EXCITING FALL BIG AND FOR SPORTS IN BLOOMINGTON RIGHT I KNOW SOME FOLKS ALSO WANTED TO JUST GET AN UPDATE IF YOU'VE BEEN WATCHING OUR SCHOOL BOARD MEETINGS OR COMMUNICATIONS WE PUT OUT, IT'S NO SECRET THAT WE'RE WORKING HARD TO RIGHT SIZE OUR BUDGET FOR THE NEXT SCHOOL YEAR. THE BOARD ACTUALLY APPROVED THAT THIS EARLIER THIS WEEK. THE REASONS WE HAVE TO RIGHT SIZE OUR BUDGET IN THE BLOOMINGTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS ARE REALLY TOO BIG THINGS AND THAT'S THE ENDING OF FEDERAL ESSER MONEY THAT WE HAVE BEEN RECEIVING THROUGHOUT THE PANDEMIC YEARS WHICH WE USE TO MAINTAIN AND STAFFING AT LEVELS AND SUPPORT STUDENTS AND FAMILIES AND AND OUR ENROLLMENT OUR ENROLLMENT WE'VE BEEN PREDICTING TO DECLINE AND THAT PREDICTION IS COMING TRUE AND SO WE ARE WORKING HARD ON PLANS TO INCREASE ENROLLMENT THINGS LIKE OUR COMPUTER SCIENCE PROGRAM ANOTHER GREAT I MEAN THERE'S SO MANY GREAT THINGS HAPPENING IN BLOOMINGTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS THAT WERE I'M CONFIDENT WE CAN IMPACT OUR ENROLLMENT BUT IT IS DECREASING AND SO WE'RE GOING TO OUR BUDGET BY $4 MILLION ROUGHLY 4 MILLION A LITTLE OVER 4 MILLION FOR NEXT YEAR. JUST FOR CONTEXT THAT REPRESENTS ABOUT 2% OF OUR ANNUAL BUDGET AND THEN FOLKS WATCHING OR SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS KNOW THIS BUT CITY MEMBERS MIGHT GO WHAT DIDN'T THE STATE, YOU KNOW, JUST UNLOAD THE CHECKBOOK ON LAST YEAR RECORD FUNDING YEAR YES IT WAS RECORD FUNDING BUT ABOUT HALF OF THAT RECORD FUNDING WENT INTO CATEGORICAL AREAS CANNOT BE USED IN OUR GENERAL FUND WHICH IS WHERE WE HAVE TO MAKE THESE ADJUSTMENTS . SO WE CONTINUE TO ADVOCATE MATTER OF FACT A NUMBER OF BOARD MEMBERS. THEY ARE GOING TO BE OVER IN SAINT PAUL NEXT WEEK TO TALK ABOUT OUR LEGISLATIVE PRIORITIES IF YOU JUST WANT A QUICK SOUND BITE SPECIAL FUNDING, ENGLISH LEARNER FUNDING THOSE ARE OUR TWO THINGS THAT WOULD REALLY HELP BLOOMINGTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS BUDGET ISSUES IN TERMS OF THE ENROLLMENT DECLINE, I DO HAVE SOME GOOD NEWS TO SHARE BECAUSE WE STARTED THIS RIGHTSIZING OUR BUDGET PROCESS IN DECEMBER, GOT BOARD APPROVAL ON OUR PLAN JUST TWO DAYS AGO, THREE DAYS AGO AND NOW WE'RE DOING STAFFING SHEETS I WON'T GET TOO IN THE WEEDS WITH HOW SCHOOL STAFFING WORKS BUT OUR PRINCIPALS THEN GET THEIR STAFF IN SHEETS AND UNDERSTAND WHAT THEY'VE GOT TO WORK WITH. AND WHEN WE STARTED OUR PROCESS JUST BASED ON OUR ANTICIPATED ENROLLMENT WERE PREDICTING EIGHT FULL TIME EQUIVALENCIES TEACHER IS TO BE REDUCED JUST DUE TO THE ENROLLMENT AND THEN WHEN WE FINALIZE OUR STAFFING SHEETS IN THE LAST WEEK THAT NUMBER SHRUNK TO ONE SO WE ARE SEEING SOME IMPROVEMENT NOT WHERE WE WANT TO SEE IT BUT THERE'S A LITTLE BIT OF GOOD NEWS THERE AND AS I SAID, WE'RE WORKING ON A PLAN TO ADDRESS THAT AS WELL AND I JUST WANTED TO IT OUT. THERE'S ALWAYS ROOM FOR IMPROVEMENT BUT OUR PARENTS, STUDENTS, STAFF SATISFACTION RESULTS WHICH WE'VE BEEN SHARING AT SCHOOL BOARD MEETINGS ARE ALL STRONG. I THINK THE MOST PART ARE OUR CONTRACTS IN PARTICULAR OUR TEACHER CONTRACT SETTLED SO WE'VE WE'VE GOT STABILITY AND WELL GENERAL GENERAL HAPPINESS YOU KNOW AMONG OUR A LOT OF OUR CLIENTS AND. SO WE'VE GOT TO BUILD ON THAT AS WE AS WE WORK ON OUR ENROLLMENT. YOU JUST HEARD ABOUT OUR COMPUTER SCIENCE PROGRAM EARLIER TONIGHT. THAT'S ONE EXAMPLE OF OUR STATE LEADING WORK WE'RE DOING IN THE DISTRICT. OUR CAREER PATHWAYS WORK AND OUR PARTNERSHIPS WITH INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER ED LIKE NORMAN DALE COMMUNITY COLLEGE TECH ARE ALSO LEADING THE WAY. AN EXCITING UPDATE THINK THAT I THINK PROBABLY SOME OF THE SEED OF THESE CONVERSATIONS TOOK PART WHAT THE MAYOR'S DONE CONVENING THIS WORKFORCE STEERING AND THE WORK HAPPENING THERE BUT BECAUSE OF THOSE SUMMER RELATIONSHIPS THAT I'VE MADE WITH FOLKS ON THAT COMMITTEE WE'RE HOLDING THE MEETING HOPEFULLY KIM IS HERE IN THE ROOM TRYING TO ORGANIZE ALL THAT STUFF BUT WITH FOLKS FROM OUR BURGEONING SEMICONDUCTOR INDUSTRY IN BLOOMINGTON TO MEET WITH MYSELF, JOHN ALEXANDER AND SOME OTHERS IN THE TO TALK ABOUT HOW WE CAN LIKE QUICKLY BUILD THAT PATHWAY FOR OUR STUDENTS TO SUPPORT THAT INDUSTRY AND HAVE GREAT HIGH PAYING JOBS RIGHT HERE IN BLOOMINGTON. I SAID IT EARLIER SOMEBODY TOOK MY THUNDER AND BLOOMINGTON'S THE BIGGEST SMALL TOWN IN THE WORLD IN MY OPINION AND SO PEOPLE LOVE IT HERE. THEY GROW UP HERE THEY MIGHT LEAVE AND CHECK OUT THE WORLD BUT THEN THEY COME BACK AND THEY BUY A HOUSE AND THEY RAISE THEIR FAMILY AND THEY SAID I'M ON THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND YOU KNOW, WE'RE WE'RE GRADUATING 7 TO 800 YOUNG ADULTS EVERY YEAR THAT CAN HELP FILL SOME THE WORKFORCE NEEDS IN BLOOMINGTON. SO WE WANT TO KEEP WORKING YOU ON THAT. AND THEN FINALLY I REGULARLY HEAR FROM STUDENTS I HAVE SOME STUDENTS AT JEFFERSON WHO ARE DYING TO PLAN THEIR OWN BLOOMINGTON IF YOU WILL, TO CELEBRATE HOW AWESOME BLOOMINGTON IS. I HEAR FROM BOARD MEMBERS I HEAR FROM PARENTS IN THE DISTRICT LOOKING FOR MORE OF ONE BLOOMINGTON EVENTS THAT WE CAN WE CAN DEVELOP AND BRAG AS THE MAYOR LIKES TO SAY ABOUT AND HAVE FUN IN BLOOMINGTON. SO I'M JUST LOOKING FORWARD TO SHARING SOME OF THOSE IDEAS THE MAYOR AND CITY MANAGER AND MAYBE GETTING SOME MOMENTUM ON SOME SOME THINGS LIKE THAT IN THE FUTURE AND WITH THAT I'LL CONCLUDE MY REPORT. THANK I APPRECIATE IT AND PLEASE LET US KNOW WHAT HOW WE CAN CONTINUE TO WORK TOGETHER ON ALL OF THESE THINGS THAT YOU HAVE TALKED ABOUT AND I SAY THAT TO THE REST THE BOARD AS WELL. PLEASE LET US KNOW. COUNCILMEMBER DALLESSANDRO, A QUICK WITH A QUICK COMMENT A QUICK QUESTION. YEAH. THANK YOU, DR. MILLEY. ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I DIDN'T SEE ON THE AGENDA TONIGHT THAT I WAS HOPING THAT WE MIGHT GET AN UPDATE ON SO I'M GOING TO ASK THAT WE MIGHT BE ABLE TO DO THIS NEXT IS THE IMPACT ON THE BLOOMINGTON SCHOOL DISTRICT OF THE FREE LUNCH PROGRAM THAT WAS ROLLED OUT IN THE PAST YEAR. I'D LIKE TO KNOW IF YOU HAVE THE ABILITY TO GIVE US AN UPDATE ON HOW THAT'S GOING WHAT YOU'RE SEEING IN TERMS OF IMPROVEMENTS YOU KNOW THAT WHOLE THING IS ROLLED OUT IN ORDER TO IMPROVE THE EDUCATIONAL OUTCOMES FOR FOLKS BECAUSE HUNGRY KIDS CAN'T LEARN RIGHT AS WELL AND SO ANYTHING YOU GUYS CAN PULL TOGETHER FOR OUR NEXT MEETING WOULD BE GREAT. THANK YOU. DULY. ANYTHING ELSE? MR. ROONEY. THANK YOU, MR. AND MEMBERS. I'M GOING TO APOLOGIZE IN ADVANCE. I LEFT MY READING GLASSES IN THE CAR SO I DON'T KNOW IF MY ARMS ARE LONG ENOUGH. I WANT TO PICK UP WHERE DR. MELBY LEFT OFF IN TALKING ABOUT SORT OF THIS ONE BLOOMINGTON IDEA OF EVENTS IN OUR COMMUNITY AND HOW THEY HELP US TO BUILD COMMUNITY. I WANT TO REMIND EVERYBODY AGAIN OUR MISSION IS TO CULTIVATE AN ENDURING AND REMARKABLE COMMUNITY WHERE PEOPLE WANT TO BE. WE HAVE THREE OVERARCHING OBJECTIVES A WELCOMING A HEALTHY COMMUNITY WHICH THANK YOU TO JENNIFER AND HANNAH FOR THEIR PRESENTATION THIS EVENING AND THE WORK THEY DO WITH OUR PUBLIC HEALTH TO ADVANCE A HEALTHY COMMUNITY AND THEN A COMMUNITY THAT HAS EQUITABLE ECONOMIC GROWTH. SO THOSE ARE THREE KEYS. SO WELCOMING COMMUNITY PIECE FITS IN WITH WHAT DR. MELBY WAS SAYING. SO A COUPLE OF EVENTS WE HAVE COMING UP. BLOOMINGTON HOME FAIR IS ON APRIL 20TH AND THANK YOU TO THE SCHOOL DISTRICT ALLOWING US TO USE VALLEY VIEW MIDDLE SCHOOL FOR THAT EVENT. BEFORE HAS BEEN CALLED THE HOME IMPROVEMENT FAIR AND WE ARE BECAUSE WE'RE NOT DOING THINGS THE WAY WE'VE ALWAYS DONE THEM WE ARE TAKING A DIFFERENT APPROACH AND WE ARE BROADENING WHAT THE SCOPE OF THE FAIR IS RIGHT SO IT'S BASICALLY FOCUSED NOT JUST ON HOME IMPROVEMENT BUT ALSO ABOUT HOMEOWNER OPPORTUNITIES AND FINANCIAL WELLNESS. SO WE'RE GOING TO BE CONNECTING THE COMMUNITY WITH HOUSING RESOURCES THAT PROMOTE SOME OF THOSE THINGS AS WELL AS CONNECTING CURRENT AND POTENTIAL HOME BUYERS WITH INDUSTRY. AND THEN WE'RE GOING TO BE CREATING AN ADDITIONAL SPACE FOR COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT. THE FAIR IS COMMITTED TO CREATING AN INCLUSIVE AND WELCOMING ENVIRONMENT FOR. ALL OUR ATTENDEES WHETHER THEY'RE FIRST TIME HOMEBUYER, A RENTER LOOKING TO TRANSITION INTO HOMEOWNERSHIP A CURRENT HOMEOWNER OR SIMPLY INTERESTED RESOURCES TO PROMOTE FINANCIAL WELLNESS. SO THE WEBSITE FOR THAT BLM DOT M AND SLASH HOME FARE WHICH IS PRETTY EASY TO REMEMBER. ALSO WELCOME TO BLOOMINGTON DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION TEAMS HAVE WORKED TOGETHER TO PRODUCE NEW WAYS OR AMPLIFY EXISTING WAYS THAT HELP THE CREATE A WELCOMING COMMUNITY FOR NEW AND CURRENT RESIDENTS. ONE COMPONENT OF THE PLAN IS AN ANNUAL CULTURAL FAIR THAT WOULD MULTICULTURAL PERFORMANCES AND ENTERTAINMENT FOOD TRUCKS, CRAFTS, MULTIGENERATIONAL ACTIVITIES AND THAT'S GOING TO BE HIGHLIGHTING THE DIVERSITY OUR INTERCONNECTED COMMUNITY. CURRENTLY WE HAVE A SUBGROUP OF THE WELCOME TO BLOOMINGTON DESIGN TEAM THAT IS SERVING AS A AS THE PLANNING COMMITTEE MEMBERS FOR THAT EVENT. AND THIS IS THE PART WHERE THEY HAVE ME TO ISSUE AN OPEN INVITATION TO ANYBODY HERE IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO BE PART OF THAT PLANNING COMMITTEE TEAM. WE ARE ALWAYS LOOKING FOR MORE PEOPLE WHO ARE WILLING TO HELP . WE DO HAVE A SHORT LIST OF EVENT PLANNERS WE'RE INTERVIEWING AND WILL BE MAKING SELECTIONS SOON FOR THAT. THE EVENT COORDINATOR WILL GUIDE THE PLANNING EFFORT WITH SUPPORT FROM OUR OFFICE OF RACIAL EQUITY INCLUSION AND BELONGING. WE'LL HAVE MONTHLY AND BIWEEKLY MEETINGS WITH THE PLANNING COMMITTEE LEADING UP TO THE EVENT ITSELF WITH THE CULTURAL FAIR SCHEDULED FOR LATE AUGUST OR EARLY SEPTEMBER SO YOU CAN LOOK FOR A MORE PRECISE DATE TO BE COMING SOON. SO THAT'S AND THE CITY EVENTS NOT DONE YET. I'M ALMOST THERE. WELL, I'VE GONE BACK AND FORTH SO THERE WAS INTEREST IN ISSUES RELATED TO AFFORDABLE HOUSING WITHIN THE COMMUNITY AND. THIS IS FRANKLY COUNCILMEMBERS AND BOARD MEMBERS A POINT OF PRIDE FOR THE. I TELL PEOPLE FAR WIDE THAT I MY BELIEF AND IT'S BACKED UP BY DATA IS THAT BLOOMINGTON IS DOING MORE TO ADVANCE HOUSING THAT'S AFFORDABLE THAN JUST ABOUT ANY OTHER COMMUNITY IN THE REGION. YOU KNOW, MAYBE THE CORE CITIES ARE DOING MORE BUT I'D SAY MAYBE ON A PER CAPITA BASIS WE'RE COMPETING VERY WELL WITH THEM. SO BACK IN 2019 WE ESTABLISHED AN OPPORTUNITY WE CREATED WE ADOPTED AN OPPORTUNITY HOUSING ORDINANCE AND CREATED AFFORDABLE HOUSING TRUST FUND SO THAT WE HAD TOOLS TO START DOING THIS WORK. SO OUR AFFORDABLE GOAL FOR THE PERIOD OF 2021 TO 2030 WHICH IS SET BY THE METROPOLITAN COUNCIL WAS FOR 842 NEW UNITS. THAT'S THE GOAL FOR 2030 842 UNITS IN 21 AND 22. WE HAD 730 THAT WERE OPEN UNDER CONSTRUCTION APPROVED AND AWAITING CONSTRUCTION AS OF 2023 537 UNITS AFFORDABLE AT OR BELOW THE 60% AREA MEDIAN INCOME WERE OPEN AND UNDER CONSTRUCTION AND AN ADDITIONAL 347 AFFORDABLE UNITS ARE APPROVED FOR DEVELOPMENT. SO IN TERMS OF COMPLETED OR UNDER CONSTRUCTION WE ARE WE ARE WELL AHEAD OF SCHEDULE FOR OUR 2030 GOAL. I WILL TELL YOU THAT ONE OF THE PRIORITY FOCUSES RIGHT NOW IS ON DEEPLY AFFORDABLE UNITS. WE'RE A LOT OF SUCCESS IN THE 50 TO 80% AMI AMI AS AREA MEDIAN INCOME AND IN THAT 30 TO 50 RANGE WHERE IT REALLY TAKES A LOT OF RESOURCES TO HAVE ELIGIBLE UNITS IN THAT RANGE GET CONSTRUCTED. WE HAVE TO DEVELOP A LOT OF PARTNERSHIPS WITH LOT OF DIFFERENT FUNDING ENTITIES MINNESOTA HOUSING FINANCE YOU KNOW A LOT OF DIFFERENT RESOURCES THAT WE PULL IN BUT . ONE OF THE COMMENTS THAT WE MADE THIS MORNING AT THE BUSINESS CONNECTION EVENT THAT DR. MELBY WAS CHEERLEADING WAS OUR RECOGNITION THAT HAVING HOUSING THAT'S AFFORDABLE IS A REALLY IMPORTANT COMPONENT OF MAKING SURE THAT WE HAVE A WORKFORCE THAT'S GOING TO BE ABLE TO SERVE THE BUSINESSES IN OUR COMMUNITY. SO WHAT SCHOOL DISTRICT IS WORKING ON WORKFORCE? WE'RE WORKING ON WORKFORCE KNOW THAT WE'RE ALSO DOING WELL WORKING ON AFFORDABLE HOUSING PLANS SEE? HENNEPIN THERE WAS A QUESTION ABOUT HOW WE ARE ADDRESSING ISSUES HOMELESSNESS WITHIN OUR COMMUNITY. I THINK THAT MANY OF YOU AWARE THAT WE DO HAVE A HENNEPIN COUNTY OPERATED SHELTER SERVICE AT THE HOLIDAY INN SITE AT 94TH AND 35 W HOLLY HENNEPIN COUNTY HAS SUBMITTED AN APPLICATION TO AMEND BLOOMINGTON CITY CODE BY MAKING CONGREGATE LIVING FACILITIES INTERIM USES IN AI TO INDUSTRIAL ZONING DISTRICT WHICH IS WHERE THAT'S LOCATED . SO CONGREGATE LIVING FACILITIES ARE CURRENTLY NOT ALLOWED IN THAT DISTRICT. THE COUNTY IS CURRENTLY LEASING ROOMS AT THE HOLIDAY INN FOR THE PURPOSE OF TEMPORARILY PROVIDING SHELTER TO HOUSED UNHOUSED. SO YOU MIGHT ASK THE QUESTION WELL IF IT'S NOT ALLOWED HOW IS THAT OPERATING NOW WITH OUR WITH OUR CODE RELATED TO HOTELS THEY IF THEY HAVE A STAY THAT'S LONGER THAN 30 DAYS THEY WOULD BE AN EXTENDED STAY AND. SO THE HOTEL HAS PERMISSION TO HOST PEOPLE FOR LESS THAN 30 DAYS AT A TIME. AND SO THE COUNTY IS AWARE OF THAT AND THEY'RE MANAGING THE PEOPLE THAT THEY'RE SERVING IN THAT FACILITY SO THAT THEY ARE BEING CONSCIOUS OF OUR CODE AND REMAINING WITHIN IT BECAUSE IT IS STILL A HOTEL USE FOR ZONING PURPOSES. SO SHOULD THE CITY COUNCIL APPROVE THE AMENDMENT FOR THE ZONING DISTRICT? IT WOULD OPEN THE DOOR FOR THE COUNTY TO APPLY SUBSEQUENTLY FOR AN INTERIM USE PERMIT FOR A TEMPORARY CONVERSION OF THE HOTEL FOR CONGREGATE. THE CODE AMENDMENT IS SCHEDULED FOR PUBLIC HEARING AT THE PLANNING COMMISSION ON MARCH 7TH AND A PUBLIC HEARING BEFORE CITY COUNCIL IS PART IS ANTICIPATED ON APRIL 1ST. IN TERMS OF SOME OF THE MORE HUMAN SERVICE COMPONENTS OF THE HOMELESSNESS ISSUE, OUR PUBLIC HEALTH TEAM IS REGULARLY WORKING WITH OUR PARTNERS TO PROVIDE SERVICES SUCH AS IMMUNIZATIONS, CONNECTIONS TO RESOURCES SUCH AS WICK HOME VISITING EARLY CHILDHOOD SCREENING AND PARTNERS TO HELP MEET NEEDS LIKE CLOSET OF HOPE. WE KNOW WE HAD SOME CONCERNS ABOUT THE NUMBER OF FOLKS WHO WERE TRYING TO UTILIZE SERVICES AT. WE KNOW THAT THERE ARE STUDENTS IN BLOOMINGTON SCHOOLS AND WE ARE WANTING TO CONTINUE TO WORK WITH THE SCHOOL DISTRICT TO MAKE SURE THAT THERE IS PERMANENCE EDUCATION BECAUSE WE KNOW THAT TRANSIENTS IS IS A BARRIER FOR CHILDREN TO SUCCEED. RIGHT. SO WE'RE MAKING SURE THAT HOPEFULLY THE COUNTY FOLKS ARE WORKING WELL WITH SCHOOL FOLKS TO BE COGNIZANT OF THAT. ONE OTHER ISSUE THAT WAS REQUESTED TO DISCUSS WAS ABOUT WORKFORCE AND SPECIFICALLY WORKFORCE RELATED TO SCHOOL DISTRICT INTERESTS. YOU BE FAMILIAR WITH BLOOM IN BLOOMINGTON WHICH IS AN INTERNSHIP PROGRAM WE LAUNCHED FOR THE FIRST TIME LAST YEAR. IT WAS VERY SUCCESSFUL. RIGHT. WE HAVE 12 BLOOMINGTON PUBLIC SCHOOL STUDENTS WHO HAVE APPLIED FOR THIS YEAR'S IN BLOOMINGTON COHORT . THAT APPLICATION IS STILL OPEN SO IT CLOSES ON SUNDAY AS A MATTER OF FACT. SO IF YOU WANT TO AMPLIFY SOCIAL MEDIA, I WOULD ENCOURAGE YOU TO DO THAT. INTERESTED STUDENTS CAN APPLY AT AT OUR WEBSITE UNDER OUR GOVERNMENT JOBS LINK WHERE THE BLOOM INTERNSHIP IS POSTED SO THE STUDENTS WILL WORK MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. 40 HOURS A WEEK OVER THE SUMMER NOT PULLING THEM OUT OF SCHOOL FRIDAYS OUR PAY DAY HOWEVER THE STUDENTS WILL BE ATTENDING A LEADERSHIP ACADEMY ON FRIDAYS WHERE THEY'D ALSO LEARN LEADERSHIP AND GET OTHER PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT. SO WE WE FOCUS ON EXPOSURE IN THE WORKPLACE TO PROFESSIONAL SKILLS BUT THEN WE ALSO HAVE FOCUSED TIME TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE DOING PROFESSIONAL AND LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT AT THE SAME TIME. SO IT'S REALLY A WONDERFUL PROGRAM. OUR PARTICIPANTS LAST YEAR I THINK GOT AN AWFUL LOT OUT OF IT AND AS WE CONTINUE TO THE PROGRAM IT'S ONLY GOING TO BECOME MORE VALUABLE FOR OUR PARTICIPANTS AS A MATTER OF FACT, WE JUST HIRED ONE OF OUR COHORT FROM LAST SUMMER TO BE AN EMPLOYEE IN OUR OFFICE OF RACIAL EQUITY INCLUSION AND BELONGING AND SHE IS AN ABSOLUTE ROCK STAR SO. PRODUCTS OF BLOOMINGTON SCHOOLS ARE DOING GREAT THINGS . THANK YOU. THANK YOU, MR. FREBERG , MAY I ASK A QUESTION YOU CERTAINLY OR A COMMENT? I DON'T KNOW. UM SO WE A HIGH LEVEL EARLY CHILDHOOD ADVOCACY COMMITTEE OF WHICH I WAS WIFE IS ON AND THEY BEEN YOU PROBABLY KNOW THEY'RE DOING A COMBINED BABY FAIR WITH THE CITY AND THE SCHOOLS AND I JUST WANTED TO MENTION THAT I THINK THIS GROUP WOULD BE EXCITED ABOUT HELPING OUT WITH THAT. WELCOME TO BLOOMINGTON COMMITTEE THAT YOU SAID THAT YOU NEED PEOPLE TO PLAN BECAUSE THEY TALK ABOUT THEY'RE VERY ENTHUSIASTIC WELCOMING PEOPLE INTO OUR EARLY CHILDHOOD PROGRAMS AND I THEY'D BE GREAT GREAT. I'LL SHARE THAT WITH OUR STAFF THANK YOU DIRECTOR. THIS FINAL COMMENT COMES FROM A WOMAN THANK YOU, MAYOR I KNOW THAT THE LAST TIME WE HAD GOTTEN TOGETHER I'M REMINDED THAT IT COST A DOSE. ONE OF THE OTHER ISSUES THAT WAS BROUGHT FORWARD WAS AROUND GUN IN PARTICULAR WITH THE EVENTS THAT JUST TOOK PLACE. I WONDER IT MAKES SOME SENSE THE NEXT TIME WE GET TOGETHER TO BRING ISSUE FORWARD IT'S ALWAYS A PERSON ISSUE WITH SCHOOLS AND ALSO WITH THINGS THAT HAVE HAPPENED RECENTLY. DO THEY NOT AFFECT YOU? MY FINAL QUESTION FOR EITHER OF YOU THE NEXT NEXT PLANNED OR POSSIBLE MEETING OF THIS GROUP TOGETHER? MR. MAYOR, COUNCIL MEMBERS WOULD CERTAINLY LOOK TO THE BODIES TO GIVE US DIRECTION. I THINK WHAT WE'D LIKE TO DO WE HAD BEST INTENTIONS THIS YEAR DIDN'T QUITE LAND THAT BIRD YET BUT I'D LIKE TO GET IN A REGULAR CADENCE OF MAYBE HAVE A MEETING RIGHT AFTER THE START OF THE SCHOOL YEAR PERHAPS ONE MIDYEAR AND ONE RATE TOWARDS THE END OF THE YEAR AND IF THAT IF THREE IS TOO MANY THEN AT LEAST CERTAINLY DOING IT TWICE A YEAR SO THAT WE COULD POTENTIALLY DO SEPTEMBER OR FEBRUARY MARCH IN THAT NEIGHBORHOOD. ALL RIGHT, SUPERINTENDENT, DO YOU HAVE ANY THOUGHTS? YEAH, I ENJOY THE MEETINGS AND I WILL CERTAINLY TALK TO OUR CHAIR AND VICE CHAIR AS WE MAKE OUR PLANS AND GET BACK TO YOU ON A CADENCE, IF YOU WILL. AGAIN, IF ALL RIGHT. LAST THING IN THE EVENING, MR. CHAIR, ANY COMMENTS? I JUST WANT TO SAY THANK YOU FOR FOR HOSTING US HERE FOR THE VERY ROBUST CONVERSATION TODAY. YOU'RE ALWAYS WELCOME. THANK YOU. I WANT TO THANK EVERYBODY FOR BEING HERE TONIGHT AND THANK YOU FOR THE CONVERSATION FOR THE QUESTIONS THANKS TO THE STAFF FOR SOME OUTSTANDING INFORMATION VERY. EXCITING TO HEAR SO MANY DIFFERENT THINGS. THE ONE THING THAT I KNOW THAT TOOK NOTE OF THE NUMBER OF TIMES HEARD PARTNERSHIPS I HEARD ALIGNMENT TWICE I PARTNERS AND COLLABORATION ALL THAT WE'RE DOING I MEAN IS AN OBVIOUS EXAMPLE BUT EVERYTHING ELSE THAT WE'RE DOING IS AS WE DO THAT THE MORE THAT WE DO THOSE TYPE OF THINGS, THE MORE SUCCESSFUL WE'RE ALL GOING TO BE IN EVERYTHING WE HAVE AND WE HEARD IT SO MANY TIMES TONIGHT AND I DON'T THINK WE COULD BE AS FAR AS WE ARE AS A COMMUNITY THOSE PARTNERSHIPS AND THOSE COLLABORATIONS. AND SO LET'S CONTINUE TO LOOK FOR THOSE. SO THANK YOU ALL SO VERY MUCH FOR BEING HERE THIS EVENING. HAVE A GREAT REST OF YOUR WEEK. THANKS MUCH. WE ARE ADJOURNED AS ARE WE. WE ARE ALSO ADJOURNED. THANK YOU