good evening I'd like to welcome everybody here tonight uh I'm Armen Ray I am the chair of the school building committee for uh the project here in town uh we are so glad that so many of you are here tonight to help us with this um L medal High School I mean l middle middle school project um we have our partners here today from jwa and from cers uh who will be taking us through some exercises and leading us through uh the project be open give us your thoughts don't hold back be a part of the the solution uh we've been through this once about what was that Mr MKS about 10 years ago or well it's 2008 when we started with the high school so we know what this journey is kind of like but it's kind of evolved and uh so this is another chance to uh give input into the future of what our children will be uh getting get used to at the the Middle School uh level so again thank you all for coming tonight uh give us much input as you can and then am I hand off you Christian then I Christian from J jwa so this doesn't it is working okay so still project even though I'm holding microphone um so thank you guys all for coming uh thank you for coming tonight we really appreciate it so uh Christian wit it with Jones wit architect story Brooks um and I are the two partners with the firm we have Suzanne from B and Christ um and then Adam from col your the owner project manager and George Dole also from our office who was here looking at existing conditions today um I'm going to open it up just talking a little bit about process and schedule um dory's going to go a little bit more into kind of uh some inspirational images and thinking about the future and then we'll turn it over to bason to do a little bit more on the uh on the visioning tonight and we'll have some uh interaction with Mentor meter where you'll see kind of your responses and results on the screen and then we'll also have some um table activities at the very end I think we will turn off the community television when we go to the table activities because that's kind of hard to capture on television but we wanted to broadcast this portion of it so that we can um let the community know as much about the process as possible so uh just in terms of kind of how the team is arranged um the the the district has partnered with the Massachusetts school building authority uh msba uh for this project they're a a grant organization so they help uh fund the project um and in exchange for or as part of that funding um you kind of go through a very rigorous process because it is State money uh that's going into the project so they want to make sure that that it goes um forward in in the way that they see see fit um colier project leaders is the owner project manager you'll hear that acronym OPM a lot they're kind of the go between between the town town or the district and the msba uh overseeing the process they uh help at the very beginning they're the first um professionals that are hired and then they will also be uh at the job site during construction uh overseeing that portion as well uh the long Met School building committee is really the client they're your uh representatives from the district and the town they're who tells us what your priorities are they help make a lot of decisions on budget what scheme we go forward with um so get to know uh members of your of your school building committee um and then the design team is a is quite a large design team with lots of consultants and Engineers um which I'll get into uh just a little bit about Jones wizard Architects we're an Architecture Firm uh out of Greenfield up uh in Greenfield um a few of our some of our recent projects um Springfield Prep charter school uh we do do some um charter school work as well uh Gardener Elementary School which just opened about a year ago it's about a thousand students at that school in Gardner um Templeton Elementary School um and Plains Elementary School in South Hadley um some of our our recent projects um vason Studio who's helping us with the visioning on this project um it's an interesting combination because they'll help us with both the visioning which happens at the very beginning of the process and they'll also help us with the furniture fixtures and equipment which we get your input towards the beginning of the process but really becomes import at the very end of the process so um we'll be involved throughout the process um and you can see some of their their work here in terms of that large team of Consultants I was talking about this is probably hard to read from that distance but that's okay it's just just know that there's a lot of folks involved everybody from a mechanical engineer structural engineer to Security Consultants acoustic Engineers um all uh focused on on um making this project as successful as possible um the msba so the Massachusetts school building authority um it's one uh Cent from the sales tax um goes to the msba for school funding and that gets distributed throughout the state so um basically everyone's already contributing to the funding of these schools everywhere um they partner with districts a certain percentage of the school cost will be uh funded by the grant a certain percentage will be local um often that's raised through property taxes um and so it's a combination for each project but also it's that um that state money that's has uh helped fund over 13.6 billion um in uh in school construction across the state um this is a kind of a diagram showing the the msba process um it all starts off with District submitting a statement of interest um Long Meadow has been submitting statements of interest for a very long time they've been interested in their middle schools uh for a very long time so the first statement of interest that we could find went all the way back to 2007 um so you can see it's a very very long process uh the msba was invited to uh or the district was invited to join the program in June of 2023 um and so that's when your you went from the elig eligibility period into forming the project team and again the first uh folks that you hire is uh are the owner's project manager which was callers um and then eventually the designer and the design team which is us and now we're in this uh series of phases the feasibility study and the schematic design so right now we're in very early feasibility study um just kind of getting the project started um and then we'll get into schematic design as we progress further along and we find out exactly what the preferred option is then the whole process kind of pauses for a little bit and that's when we stop and go for the funding the project and that needs approval at both the state level with the massachusett school building authority and then also approval at the local level um usually with with a town boat um if that's approved that's when we can move forward into detailed design construction and then completing the project so it's kind of a there's two major steps you know this is kind of step one and then funding and then that would be step two um just to look at it graphically uh again here we are in feasibility I think I have to click through um we have two submissions to the state um during that feasibility study process um the first one is kind of what we're doing tonight visioning and also looking at all the existing conditions of the of the schools um and then we move into what's called our preferred schematic um that's where we're really start narrowing in on one preferred option um um and then into schematic design at the end of schematic design we do a cost estimate these uh triangles here are representing cost estimates that happen throughout the process um and this one at the end of schematic design is very important that's what sets the budget for the rest of the project so that's what the um town will vote on it's what the msba will hopefully approve um and that really you know that is the number that we're then um living by for the for the whole rest of the the process um so we're targeting an msba board meeting in the summer of 2025 with a local approval probably in the fall of 2025 and then kind of below that line uh we're nervous even showing that at this point because there's so many unknowns but typically um design is about 9 to 12 months going through uh design development and construction documents getting into much more detail and then roughly two years of construction uh that can grow if it's an addition renovation project that can potentially shrink a little bit depending on the um you know general contractor construction manager that's much further down the line we we'll get into that but um mostly showing this in that it's a long process um we'll be coming back to the community often for input and feedback um and why we're very glad that you're here tonight to uh to to start off um this is going through those deliverables in a bit more detail again our first um submission to the state uh happening in early May and that's really looking at the education program that the district um actually writes and that is a guiding document for the rest of our design process we really want to make sure that the design fits with what is needed by the community and what's needed by by the district um a space summary program is really getting into the nitty-gritty of the square footage of the building um evaluating the existing conditions it's important to look at the current state of the school tools look at whether an addition renovation option is possible um you know just really making sure we do our due diligence to see what what possibilities are out there and then developing just preliminary Alternatives and options um through that process we're hoping to get to a preferred schematic and that's again where we decide we would like one school on this site for this many students um and and that goes to the state in August if that um is approved then we moved into schematic design again with the uh with the really the goal for that is is that detailed cost estimate I'm going to turn it over to Dory to talk a little bit more about the visioning portion uh can everyone hear me I'm funny I see the point here not amplifying so uh Dory Brooks johns with at Architects um so uh as Chris was saying this first initial phase of the project a lot of what we're doing is listening to the community The Faculty the parents uh the students the district um and and while we're listening we're also essentially trying to create a conversation between those groups to talk about um the vision for the school so It's tricky because we're all working together today trying to design a school that will last for decades so we won't be here 40 years down the road or 50 years down the road when this school's operating and I can't think of a more difficult time to have that kind of a conversation because we've just had so much change in society most recently coming out of the pandemic things are interesting right so that's why this is a really important process and we're grateful for you to for being here to be part of that conversation which will extend the school building committee will be the group that we have the most conversation with um but everything we do with them will be reported back out to the community and we will regularly have larger Community forums like this to to update you and to continue to take questions and hopefully to continue that that dialogue um we've already done some visioning work um we began with a faculty engagement visioning Workshop they haven't have a professional development day so right away we jumped in before we we really had even you know gotten our feet under ourselves just to start that process of talking to the faculty at both uh middle schools um to engage them both in the process even though Glenbrook is our study site obviously you can't talk about reimagining Middle School in Long Meadow without engaging both schools so we we we've been doing it that way we've also had a district leadership session um and you're going to do some of what they did uh with us today and then today we began our actual shadowing and interviews at the school so we were at Glenbrook today observing classes um photographing um doing some activities with the students and then interviewing teachers just a small group of teachers just to get a feel for things uh we'll do the same thing tomorrow and then we'll ultimately um bring this back to the faculty to do so workshops with them and at that point we're really starting to talk about where the school might go based on what we're hearing start offering options a lot of our work and our job is to really provide you information and by you I mean you the whole community and it happens all along the process sometimes it's about offering you options of ideas showing you other schools other educational plans um and then eventually working through the school building committee sharing a lot of uh information if they don't understand something that we've said or if they want more information or analysis on a building system um or a layout or an option then we it's our job to provide that so so we completely work for you that's the real important point there um before we get to the visioning tonight uh I just thought it might be helpful to sort of take a big look back here step away from the project and talk about the value of our schools to us uh Beyond simply the educational value so we've all known of their significance obviously we've all gone to school um but I'd say since the '90s the science around schools has become more clear and by the science I mean the impact of the environment on students and their learning so we know what's been happening there um I think as Architects we've always felt that certain things matter but scientists have been studying that more clearly and it it matters because students are in schools for almost 16,000 hours in their childhood from C to to graduation of high school um they'll be in a school environment so that environment not only is impacting their ability to learn in many ways but it's also impacting their their well-being and their health and sort of setting them up um for their future so we take the the process of design very seriously not just to provide educational experiences but also to to Really further the health and well-being of students so that they can be successful in that environment um uh as I say since the 1990s uh there's been a lot of research kind of talking about the different parts of the design and it's a complex building somebody once said it's like trying to eat an elevant where do you start you know how do you design a school there's so many facets to it so many systems at play um and so many things that ultimately impact students and while we care about the things that are invisible we also care about the things they touch and feel and breathe and interact with so uh this process is long and complex and ultimately it results in in the most important space which is the space where students are learning um in studies that have looked at uh the impact of schools um it's true that a lot of what impacts students success happens before they get to school um and it's a fairly small percentage of things that actually impact them once they're in school in the environment but still 16% of their actual educational impact comes from the quality of the environment and that again is hard to break down because there are things that overlap and they're very distinct in different environments um uh but uh sorry um you would think knowing what we know now about the importance of air quality daylighting Acoustics Acoustics is a really big one here right because we we it's an unusual situation for students uh at in your school uh at Glenbrook to have classrooms without closed partitions and and doors in some cases how that acoustically impacts their ability to focus um is is a really critical thing for us to pay attention to and understand and there's certainly lots of science that talks about the impact of Reverb on students ability to focus so all of those things play into how we design they certainly have played into the experience thus far and you'd think knowing these things now we would have really strict standards on how schools should be designed but we don't um there is no actual you know reference book to go to in a sense that says this is what you must meet um but there are in Massachusetts requirements that schools are designed according to Green certification standards so we we will ultimately have the committee choose between us gbc's lead schools um versus chips the co uh you know uh chips is an alternative system it's a collaborative for high performing schools and they're very similar uh essentially they are a mechanism for us to work with you as a community to decide what your priorities are um and your goal post about material choices um ventilation energy consumption uh carbon reduction you know um site sustainability goals and we it it sort of allows you to customize what your priorities are and it holds both the design team and the contractor to task to be sure that those priorities are met and it's a clear and visible reporting system that ultimately guarantees that you Pro you're provided with a certified Green Building um so we'll be working through that process and there'll be a lot more information about that down the road um so that's just a little bit of an overview of some of the the bigger picture issues at stake here uh and how we go through what we do and hopefully gives you some reassurance that we're we're kind of monitored closely in our work to be sure that we deliver the best school we can uh I'm going to uh just bring us to this slide to give you just a kind of a teaser of the different qualities of spaces that we're talking about when we talk about schools so it's both the the physical environment but also the activities that happen and making sure we're designing for those activities in a way that really supports students and their learning needs uh and uh all of these these spaces matter to us and again the challenge of like dealing with that elephant is uh as somebody said schools are unique in that they are both uh a restaurant um a physical fitness activity space an art space a performance space it try you have to design for all of these different things at the same time which is unusual um tonight we are going to talk about the configurations that we have on mind at the moment to explore and it may be that you have strong feelings about this already we're open to hearing those those views it's our job to research them all and provide information to the community about them all regardless uh of whether or not the community already has a commitment to them partly because the msba um wants to know that we have provided the community with the information about um the different configurations Glenbrook being the the primary school that we're looking at um we want to provide information to the community about what it would cost just to bring Glenbrook up to code so it was built in 1967 when there was no building code what would it cost to bring it up to code including um the new green stretch code energy stretch code in place um structural seismic concerns everything accessibility all of those costs just so you know and have something to compare to as an option and it is an option for you um then there's the option of an Renault at Glenbrook um just to um take the existing School population there essentially and just improve the school at that site um and then there's the option of a new school on the same site um the option of um a larger Consolidated School that retains part of what's existing at the same sites um there's the option of an entirely new Consolidated School at Glenbrook there's the option of uh uh a Consolidated School um using part of Williams at the Williams site there's the option of a new 665 student school at Williams so what the only thing you probably saw that wasn't there is a new um School the size of Williams currently at Williams Because Williams was not the study site that's not actually the school we're technically looking at replacing but because the district is interested in consolidation we're looking at consolidation options okay so that's as much as we're going to do to chew up your time um we will um take a moment here if if you have questions about any of the process and see if we can answer those questions um and then if there are no questions or as quickly as we can we'll we'll move on to start the visioning process and get your conversation going yes sirat uh the architectural team brings a cost estimating team to the table and uh the owner's project manager does as well so you have two estimators um and uh we work with PM andc cost estimating uh and I'm not sure if the opm's cost ESAT is determined depends on who you use we've used PMC we kind of try and not have the same we use different cost estimators and that just helps so they kind of compare and then typically if you go with you know a CM at risk model then you're then bringing the contractor in later but that's down the road and then you have a second estimator um from that side yes sir what's the current enrollment of both schools comp combined uh the combined uh well exactly the It's relatively close to 665 um about 660 yeah yeah so how that enrollment goal is established is uh prior to the design team being formed the msba requires that the district have an enrollment study done that they you know sort of provide the the mechanism for that um and it's often a point of contention because districts say oh we expect to grow it's based on some fairly you know well- determined data and I will say that it doesn't mean that the school only fits 665 students because there are are guidelines in the state about how many students you're designing to within a room we have very generous guidelines for space in Massachusetts actually so there's there's still plenty of allowance but it's essentially a functional design goal for us yeah yes sir I don't know if this is too early if it's part of the vision The Next Step but you say one the options bring thanks for asking that's a really great it's almost like I planted you um uh it's to bring it up to code and it's not to improve the educational space so it would not be to move this wall to make a more logical relationship between these two rooms that's not a part of it it would be um uh just code so in the case of Glenbrook where you have no elevator and it's inaccessible adding an elevator would be included but not you know improving the science rooms and that's one of the things we'll do is look at the exist fairly quickly is we'll show what the square footages of spaces are relative to State guidelines so you can see which are undersized currently that would not be addressed through the code issue yeah great we'll we we I'm sure I have more time for more conversation later but I'll pass along to Suzanne thank you thank you good evening everyone thanks for coming out tonight I really appreciate everyone's time and just know that your contribution and any uh thoughts that you provide is really integral and important to the process um as uh the rest of the team has been kind of saying all throughout the presentation so far it's really a process where we look to you and the students and the faculty and the district to give us information first and foremost to really be informed by who you are and um who Long Meadow is so we kind of go through this process in the visioning and design side where um we are looking to investigate and gather a lot of information then we um look at how do we um evaluate that information and then iterate on that information so we've done some investigation so far and now we're going to kind of get additional information from you all so I'm I'm going to start by working um with the um what we call mometer so I'm going to switch screens quickly um and if you have a device that you would um be able to utilize if you are not um comfortable or don't have a device you can use the Post-it notes that are on the table and write down your responses for this um but you use the QR code or you can go to mentee.com and I'll give you all a moment to navigate to there if you're having trouble let me know oh yep so when you have that it's because I haven't changed the screen yet does everybody see that just saying that good question though give everyone just another moment everyone good okay okay here we go okay so the first that should move on your phone with the slides everyone good see the movement okay great so the first question for visioning is critical success so really big high in the sky once the reimagined school is complete what outcome to you will mean that the project was a success and the process was a success so consider how it feels how you experience the building the site how community and education happens and once you have those thoughts please enter them in your phone it should is it not showing on your phone too okay sure so once the reimagined school is complete what outcome will mean that the process and the project was a success to you thinking about how it feels how you experience it building site Community Education and if you're having trouble just raise your hand and we can help okay I will I'll get give everyone a moment to think e so I'm seeing some really great answers um around Clean safe and functional there's some other comments about safety and how important that is um that students have a bright open space for learning that Embraces modern technology um comfortable enjoyable collaborative environment and health and health and safety again um that those issues are resolved that the students look forward to coming to the new learning environment um again safety is repeated several times um that kids are happy to learn in a modern place that's accessible to all people are excited there's a buzz around town even if they aren't a student that it's considered a top school building in the state that's a great one Premier Community um for in Western Massachusetts for Education quality education and personal development but also creates a subc commmunity of Middle School families these are great answers that the facility will serve educational needs of all middle school students and that is scalable flexible allowing for growth over time Clean safe and easy easily maintained did everyone get a chance to respond if they wanted to okay so hopefully you can see from those in the room um there's some great aspirations around this project and kind of looking at what are those measures of success um one of the things that we do with this is make sure that um we kind of uh look at creating some guiding principles for the project and check back to them often so understanding every time there's a decision made are we making uh strides towards these things that you're saying are that critical success piece so safety uh modern learning environment and so forth okay so the next piece is what we call Essence and the idea is to provide two to five uh short responses so a word or a short phrase and again if you uh don't want to participate on your phone you can use the Post-it notes but we'll use the uh phone mentimeter again and so the first one is essence of Long Meadow so if you were to describe Long Meadow as a close personal friend how might you describe your community your place and so forth for for so seeing some really good responses again safe and safety is a really common theme that's kind of the biggest word in the middle there welcoming uh Community friendly and then there's a lot of other words so family um familiar family focused so elements around that um close Community great place to raise kids caring um uh walkable smart beautiful inclusive healthy and walkable financially secure knowledgeable hardworking so I think just if you all hopefully if you can't read them hopefully you were able to kind of hear some from what I was saying but to to kind of keep those in your mind because they are going to inform the the um paper exercise that we have in a little bit did everyone get a chance to respond okay so a couple others so one is regarding educational programming how should the Middle School support students and learning so again a short phrase or word to describe this for you for for okay these are great responses too so the first one that came up so is adaptive I think that's huge also Dory was talking about you know the school's 4050 plus years into the future so adaptable inclusive safety again I think that keeps coming up technology accessible um let's see enrichment Cutting Edge best practices Green Space Community Hub great teachers scalable technology flexible technology diverse opportunities variety of learning methods so there's some elements around diversity of um learning opportunities Mental Health Services inspirational visually appealing is there any I'd love a volunteer is there anything on here that you'd really like to emphasize so something that sticks out to you that you just want to kind of give another emphasis too in the back neighor yeah that's wonderful thank you so much for sharing that is there another volunteer that wants to emphasize something yes something at this building on a bike or some kind of Safeway or what to schol field whatever aori for different concerts or classes or some kind of like you was saying like family yeah something where there's more ways to move their bodies outside that's not 15 minutes of recess or I don't even know what goes on at middle school I have a kindergarten but they definitely don't move their bodies enough so I can only imagine it gets less yeah great and we have warmer days upon us in the future so it' be nice if we could kind of figure that out yeah excellent yes over here I I have a question not a comment the question is about one of the things on there that says Cutting Edge how do we keep from creating another Glenbrook Middle School I was in here in 1962 but at the time they wanted a Cutting Edge school open concept no walls and I believe and although I don't have the inside track it's that problem with security now that's created a situation where the msba has selected Glenbrook rather than Williams as the School of Choice so how do we get Cutting Edge without getting soap Cutting Edge our our buildings obsolete in 15 or 20 years yeah that's a fantastic question um I think one of the things as Dory was mentioning earlier the research that's been happening since the '90s a lot more so really pulling from that pulling from kind of um lessons learned and you know trying to make sure that it is adaptable for the future right now to in order to upgrade anything in the in the existing Glenbrook it's a big Todo right so how can that be a little bit easier knowing that times change but then also setting it up to be um kind of based on all of that research I don't know if the team wants to add anything to it okay I will say um the word flexible always comes up because we want to be adaptable and flexible and when that was considered in 1967 flexibility meant you know walls um and often now I think what we often find um are help is helpful to is to bring a more varied type of spaces to the school um because again there were a lot of things that were not anticipated as needs that you can't do in a foot classroom you need actually a different type of space and you can't do if everything segregated into Pockets you need s more variation throughout this world so I think we're really careful to try and talk about it in the context of um the again making it environmentally effective without making it ridiculous I mean there again I think it was great I understood why they thought in 1967 flexibility would be good by having it all open everybody would learn from each other and collaborate but we now know enough about how students learn to know that that was a mistake and when we talked about flexibility or um change we need to be more pragmatic about it but in reality things need change time technology particular know will change and and there are interesting conversations to be had about I had a lot today about technology in its role and and how you kind of prepare for the possibility of it it changing by providing the addition resource within the school for to be updated but no perfect answer but I think caution is helpful I'll take one more and then we I'm going to move along yes in the back there yeah I mean I've participated in design and construction of several schools in the country but also a few here uh in the state using the msba program and um actually on school but but um a lot of the things that we're discussing that we're worried about they're etched in stone already by the state we really it is a very prescriptive model we have square footages that are assigned to us we have spaces that are assigned to us it is based on a lot of really impressive research done by the people there people who ran the MSP when it started got organized uh came together with really amazing program for uh uh matching uh spaces to the standard pedagogy uh method of teaching that we have here in Massachusetts and that's been uh that's been prescribed to in association with um the uh the MTA the Teachers Association so we really frankly in terms of visioning all the things that we're talking about here um are really more along frankly the architectural Design Elements and really kind of the feel the place when it comes to the actual uh functionality of the space uh fact is I mean here in mon meow I can't remember what we qualify as for the highest percentage I mean I know that I I did the two tornado schools and uh we had the state uh and um um the uh both the feds and the state emergency the agencies working with this so those schools were done almost 100% financing with very little input from the city Springfield and even those those schools um their spaces were specifically done uh according to the msba standards um so I don't think we really have to worry frankly right now about stuff when we say Cutting Edge it all depends on uh frankly the nities what we want to have for technology things like that that will not be provided by the state and frankly given uh the conversations that we have I know um on Facebook public meetings stores and that that uh this budget is going to be very tight very constrained uh by how much l Meadow wants to spend and this is really going Beyond tonight and going beyond the discussion this is what makes this town the town we are I remember 15 years ago being here for the high school I'm sorry and uh there were there was a very very vocal minority saying hey wait a minute you know what about us what about you know this community that Community um you know why are we spending so much money on a new school this is going be a big challenge uh for Middle School we really have to uh let people understand that we don't have a commercial tax base here uh our tax base is based primarily on our property values and our property values directly reflect our industry here is the education and we just we just have to get out there and proze and understand that there's going to be a long hard slog in my head to get uh a really good Strong building built this this is really uh they' laid out the process it is it's a very lengthy process uh with a lot of checks and balances that fall along the way so I think we're worried at all about having something that is uh way out there anything like that again looking back at what was going on in the' 60s there was no State Building emplo uh School State Building emplo there were I mean there were building codes but nothing specifically for you had to have this or that for school buildings so our hands I I would say I wouldn't say our hands are tied but we have very very strong guidance this process thank you um so I'm going to move us along just in the essence of time um so similar question but related to community programming so how should the middle school's Middle School support Community the community of long meow Long Meadow for e so there's definitely some common themes I'm seeing Hub right in the middle there so kind of going back to the comment earlier about a a community Hub and emphasizing that also seeing elements about walkable um thinking about activity and how uh students can get their bodies moving also then seeing some uh maybe elements that can support the community uh needs around uh Community programming performance space Fields um things like that also accessibility um space for parent Gathering community events technology lighting inclusive Recreation so there's you know potential uh for seeing this project as a support for students and the community and the the community of students so thinking through kind of just take a moment to kind of read through some of these if you can see it um and they'll again inform the paper uh topic that we're going to do in a moment here yeah why what what motivates that I can answer that uh so the Middle School fields are horable they are disgusting they have not had any work done on them other than 20 years and they're unsafe right now what's happening is more and more of the youth sports teams have to play on the high school fields and what's going to happen is you're going to see the steady degradation of Russell wolf Squat and all the other fields that are operational and do provide at least a decent base that people can play on and everyone knows we have extremely limited Financial Resources we will be in the hole again in five years with fields that are just going downhill so if you go back to and I'm sorry I will be the community Hub Guide tonight I really really see this school as a unique opportunity in that it can really serve as a hub not only for the education that we all want but for all the sports organizations that have no home because they are in middle school you can have uh what you see today in the high school I mean kind of the possibilities are Limitless you can have an eighth grade band that can play at halftime for girls LaCrosse or boys lacrosse or youth football and to me that is really what I see the vision of this school being all about because right now it's completely devoid of all those sort of satellite support activities there is no cohesion and what we do in the fifth sixth seventh eighth grade levels thank you field are used beond Middle School I would just add that this is the kind of feedback that's very valuable to the entire committee as we go along in this because there are things within the process that the msba will and will not reimburse us for so when we start talking about Community Hub some of these things might come out as very important to the community we will have to weigh the financial ramifications of those choices as we go along another thing that I think would be very popular to thr out there would be like an auditorium an auditorium is not a sponsored as part of the school by the msba but probably really important to the community right so there are going to be a bunch of things that we're going to have to talk about along this journey together and and I div visioning is awesome how that we get the words and was like with the teachers as well what's so important to the community so that the community can take it back and then prioritize those with our partners thank you just like a random but can think you're trying to make money off of things um can we rent like to rent an auditorium you can that's what we do here like something like that where we'd be like hey dance recital come have your just I'm just trying to think of ways to use the building 247 you know make it like a hub like he's saying but also it's more than a school I think to to us yeah that's a great point and I think there's some protocols that if you kind of sort through some of those things and the district can um determine what's viable then the design can support those um okay last one for this and then we're going to move to the um paper activity so how top of mind or of value are the following educational opportunities to you specifically regarding Middle School Learning so it's ranking at zero not at all to 10 extremely valuable and you should see some sliders on the on your phone all of them that was quite the first answer okay hopefully everyone got a chance to put their response in there um we're kind of taking this as a question to all of the stakeholder groups to kind of get a sense of where things land um a lot of things are important these days we put a lot of um students are kind of really looking for a variety of things as well as needing to you know there's high performance uh performing in terms of academics and sports and everything um so just kind of taking a good gauge of this so we're going to uh jump into the group activity so if here in the back I'd love to have you come to a table in the front and kind of distribute uh a little bit evenly across the tables as you're as you can um and Kristen is handing out a worksheet so there's two sides we're going to start with the front side oh yes okay um and at this time we're going to formally um conclude the recorded session thank perfect we got it all right go stop what you to priorities