City Council · 2016-11-16

OREM CITY COUNCIL/ALPINESCHOOL DISTRICT
SPECIALJOINTMEETING
56 North State, Orem, Utah
November 16, 2016
This meeting was for discussion purposes only. No official action was taken.
Mayor Richard F. Brunst
CONDUCTING
OREMELECTEDOFFICIALS Councilmembers Debby Lauret, Sam Lentz, Tom
Macdonald, and Brent Sumner
OREM STAFF Jamie Davison, City Manager; Stephen Downs,
Assistant to the City Manager; Chief Gary Giles,
Police Department Director; Captain Ned Jackson,
Orem Police Department; and Jackie Lambert,
Deputy CityRecorder
ALPINEBOARDOFEDUCATION John Burton, Mark Clement, Sarah Hacken, Wendy
Hart, Paula Hill, JoDee Sundberg, and Deborah
Taylor
ALPINESCHOOLDISTRICTADMIN. Sam Jarman, Superintendent; Rob Smith, Assistant
Superintendent; Kimberly  Bird,  Assistant to
Superintendent; and David Stephenson, Admin
Public Relations
ABSENT/EXCUSED Mark Seastrand and David Spencer
INVOCATION Sam Lentz
Mayor Brunst called the meeting to order at 12:06 p.m.
Items of Common Interest
DISCUSSION-Incoming and Outgoing Alpine Board Members
Mayor Brunst expressed thanks to outgoing Board Member Debbie Taylor for her twelve years
of dedicated service to the community, and asked those present to join him in a round of
applause. Ms. Taylor thanked the Mayor and said that while she felt she was ready to move
forward, she was grateful for the time she had serving on the board.
Mayor Brunst asked new board members Sarah Hacken and Mark Clement to introduce
themselves.
Ms. Hacken said she had recently retired from teaching; she taught grades 6 to 8 for over 30
years. She said she had loved teaching and wanted to continue to make a contribution to her
community. She would be taking Ms. Taylor's position on the board representing Orem schools.
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Ms. Hacken said she was an Orem resident, and having been a teacher in Alpine School District
for those many years she loved the kids and the families in the district and was very aware of the
issues they would face. She said she was sad to see Ms. Taylor go but was excited for the
opportunity to serve.
Mr. Clement said he currently worked as a computer science professor at BYU and was heavily
involved in encouraging girls to be more involved in science, technology, engineering, and math.
He said he rode his bike to work regularly and loved using the Murdock Canal Trail to do so. He
said he was happy to get this opportunity to work together.
Mayor Brunst congratulated Superintendent Jarman and the Board for the Alpine School District
bond passing during the recent election. He said the outreach to the community had been well
done and certainly was a factor in the bond passing.
Superintendent Jarman said it passed with 68 percent of the vote, which was one of the highest in
the history of the district. He said they had held 300 public meetings since the last spring, and he
wanted to thank Orem and all those city officials that helped endorse the bond item. He said Ms.
Bird, Mr. Stephenson, and Mr. Smith all did a tremendous amount of work for the bond and he
voiced his thanks.
UPDATE-Mountain View High School (MVHS) Mass Casualty Incident
Superintendent Jarman expressed his overwhelming gratitude for the emergency responders for
everything they did at MVHS. He said the Orem PD and the School Resource Officer (SRO) in
place at MVHS were outstanding in their responses. He also shared some of the acts of service
from the community immediately following the incident, and said he was impressed with the
community response and those acts of kindness. He asked Ms. Bird and Mr. Stephenson to share
additional information.
Ms. Bird said there had been two safety incidents in ASD high schools in the past year, with one
some months ago at Eagle Mountain and the other just the previous day at MVHS. She said
while both had been unexpected, the district had learned a lot from both experiences. Ms. Bird
said they were impressed with Chief Giles and his team, and one thing they had learned from
him and his leadership was how to streamline the information that was being released to the
               
Martinez they had been able to keep the messages consistent and minimize calls from the media
because the information was being shared through social media as well. She said as an Orem
resident she appreciated that she lived in such a well-run and organized city. Ms. Bird added that
the students had been helpful in maintaining the message without releasing sensitive information,
and she was impressed by how they handled the situation.
Mr.Macdonald asked about the conditions of the students.
Capt. Ned Jackson said that three victims were at the Utah Valley Regional Medical Center
(UVRMC) in the intensive care unit. He said they were in critical condition but were stable, and
all had undergone surgeries the day before and kept for 24-hour observation. He said another had
been transferred to the Salt Lake Regional Medical Center for surgery. Due to the nature of his
wounds he had suffered some nerve damage and they were trying to repair that with specialized
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surgical procedures. He said the suspect in the incident had received medical attention and was
being detained at Slate Canyon. He said that any information about the attack being racially or
ethnically motivated or motivated because the suspect was bullied was erroneous.
Mr. Stephenson said it was evident that the responders in this incident had trained closely with
school personnel and everything went according to the training. He said some of the media
representatives he had spoken to were amazed that there were full-time officers in the schools.
Ms. Bird commented that much focus had been on the kids involved, but the adults involved in
the incident needed the same support. The two P.E. teachers and Principal Chun and Vice
Principal DeWitt had put themselves in harms’ way to protect their students and were visibly
shakenby theincident.
PRESENTATION-ApolloProject
Principal Zach Eager of Hillcrest Elementary introduced the six other elementary school
Cascade; Dr. Joseph Backman, Foothill; Eric Woodhouse, Northridge; Aaron Stevenson,
Orchard; Lori Bellitti, Scera Park; and Mike Larson, Sharon. Mr. Eager said they were excited
to share the information with this group, and had previously given the presentation at a meeting
heldSeptember8,2016.
Mr. Eager said the name of the project - Apollo - was strategically chosen because of the
association with the NASA Apollo spaceflight missions in the 1960s. He said there was power in
story, and the story of the early American space program had the connotation of boldly charging
into the unknown to prepare for the future. He shared the famous clip of President John F.
Kennedy speaking at Rice University in Houston, Texas, where President Kennedy declared,
"We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things; not because they are easy,
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child to be ready for the 21st century; to help them tackle the challenges and realities of the 21st
century and meaningfully contribute.
Mr. Eager said like with the Apollo missions, where great thinkers came together under a unified
vision to do something untried and unprecedented, he and his colleagues came together to
implement the project, drawing on teachers and staff for a clear vision of the goals of the project.
The educational challenge of getting every student ready for the 21" century felt nearly as
daunting as sending a man to the moon, but they believed in their mission and they would be
bold as they carried it out.
Mr. Larson and Ms. Bellitti shared some of the challenges mentioned by Pres. Kennedy in why
the Apollo missions would be so overwhelming. This required the use of new and untested
materials and procedures. Mr. Larson said the goal was for every student to be successful, so the
question was what they would need. The three things needed were: (1) knowledge, (2) skills, and
(3) dispositions. Ms. Bellitti said students would need to be prepared in ways that had never been
thought of before. She said knowledge not only meant content knowledge, but knowing how to
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reading every bit of information that one could find on the game of soccer, but until a ball was
introduced and someone began to play, their knowledge was just theoretical.
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Ms. Bellitti continued that skills included things like:
·Critical thinking
Problem solving
Collaboration
Effective communication
Time and goal management
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Creativity and innovation
Self-awareness
She continued that students needed to engage in higher order thinking, meaningful interaction,
and future planning. Using these skills to transfer knowledge was critical in helping students be
future-ready. Mr. Larson said dispositions were the “"be" part of the “know, do, and be" objective
of the Apollo Project. These were about how they wanted students to act as they interacted with
others and how they would face the challenges of life. As educators, they wanted to help students
develop an attitude that would help them find success in whatever opportunities they chose to
pursue. Mr. Larson continued that dispositions included things like:
·Initiative
Resilience
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Grit and Persistence
Adaptability
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Leadership
Responsibility
Empathy
Self-control
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they would need to accomplish the task. He said the 747 aircraft had revolutionized the aviation
industry, but it still was not capable of getting a crew to the moon. They had to look at different
means and use different materials and rockets to launch a spacecraft. Mr. Stevenson said they
used this analogy to identify what “vehicle" they would use in the Apollo Project to help launch
students into 21st century learning. They would use the engineering design process, which
followed the problem-solving pattern of Ask > Imagine > Plan > Create > Improve and repeat.
Mr. Woodhouse said the Orem cluster of elementary schools had been using the engineering
design process for years to have hands-on opportunities where students could apply their
knowledge and practice their skills. He shared the example of a 5th
 grade class studying a
magnetism unit and discussing Maglev Trains and air quality. The class did a hands-on activity
to create a small-scale vehicle that worked through magnetic levitation, and it was one of the
more difficult tasks they had to complete. The class was so inspired by the project and their
discussions about clean air that they decided to write to Governor Herbert about their experience
and encourage him to consider maglev trains in the future for transportation needs. Gov. Herbert
responded and thanked the class for being involved in their community. Mr. Woodhouse said the
Apollo Project was allowing students to become thinkers and take initiative to be problem
solvers.
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Mr. Campbell said they invited teachers and administration to a four day training on the Apollo
Project where they got to experience the assignments and experiments first-hand. This allowed
would also meet together according to grade bands so teachers could collaborate and support
each other and share their experiences. He said every classroom would have between four and
Dr. Backman said that this program would help students be more actively engaged in their
lessons. It was not a passive process of listening to a teacher lecture and having only a small
portion of that information stick. He said the Apollo Project was encouraging the education we
all wish we had. It was also great to have the collaboration of educators and administrators
working together and building up the Orem cluster in a united way. Finally, he shared this
thought from astronaut Buzz Aldrin: “The true value of Apollo is the innovation and teamwork
that overcame the many obstacles to reach the moon." Through innovation and teamwork, they
were working to help every child succeed in the 21s"t century.
Superintendent Jarman said this project had a positive excitement around it, and the energy was
palpable. He said that sixteen more schools were planning to come on board with the Apollo
Project program, and more still had expressed their interest.
Mrs. Sundberg said this was not a mandate from the State or the district but was a groundswell
effort by these seven principals and their teams. They had taken ownership of this program and it
had flourished because of their collaborative efforts.
DISCUSSION-StudentPedestrian Safety
There was a brief discussion about school crossings and student pedestrian safety. There had
recently been an accident that caused some parents and city residents to worry and wonder why a
stop sign or a crossing signal was not at a certain intersection. Mr. Davidson said that there were
State requirements that the City was legally bound to follow and often times certain areas did not
warrant more stringent traffic control. So while accidents were certainly tragic and unfortunate,
there were times when the City's hands were tied in terms of adding traffic control devices.
Mrs. Sundberg said she appreciated that, and that the school district often found themselves in
similar situations on certain issues, bound by State laws and regulations.
SetDateand TimeforNext
The next meeting was scheduled for January 11, 2017, at noon in Orem.
Mr. Macdonald moved to adjourn the meeting. Mr. Lentz seconded the motion. The motion
passed unanimously.
The meeting adjourned at 1:40 p.m.
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