Australia: How will Synthetic turf impact urban heat island and microclimate around Hosken Reserve?

 

Adding a synthetic pitch to Hosken Reserve will increase the Urban Heat Island Effect (UHIE), reduce the Cool Park effect, and be felt mostly strongly by local residents. Artificial turf elevated temperatures will affect playability and heat stress to players, and not only in Summer but also for warm days in both Spring and Autumn when the temperature is elevated. Our Melbourne summers are getting longer.

For the most part it is local residents that would need to live with this permanent impact on increased microclimate temperatures over summer months and during warmer days in Spring and Autumn. Urban Heat island effect is more prominent during the night than during the day. This will likely increase evening energy use from air conditioners of local residents which will have a feedback of putting more heat back into the local environment.

Our temperature research at Hosken Reserve natural grass oval and Clifton Park synthetic pitch shows on a warm day (around 30C as per BOM records) the surface temperatures on the synthetic pitch are regularly 80-90 percent greater than natural grass, and may on occasion reach double the temperature of grass.

Moreland’s heat vulnerability is already at a high level, synthetic turf will contribute more heat when we need to be trying to cool our suburbs through green infrastructure. Moreland Council needs to find cooling solutions not exacerbate the problem with converting a much loved community shared grass oval to a fenced synthetic pitch...

https://climateactionmoreland.org/2021/04/03/how-will-synthetic-turf-impact-urban-heat-island-and-microclimate-around-hosken-reserve/?fbclid=IwAR0IqXoyvSEXZJYbmdZnTxJYEZwRmcI8dcCCdMO9YTaeQG-lN8kxbK9BNU8

Jack Smith contract litigation from Calvert County. Now Smith is withholding $800K Contract Term from MoCo Board of Ed.

Let's review what happened when Jack R. Smith was the Superintendent of Calvert County Public Schools. 

SoMdNews Online

March 5, 2015
...Members of the Calvert board of education claim they were unaware of the executive team contracts held between the employees and Smith and said because the contracts were signed with Smith and not the board, the provisions stated in the contract were not to be extended past the June 30, 2013, date...

SoMdNewsOnlineSeptember 2, 2015
...At the end of the 2013 school year, Smith announced his resignation as Calvert’s superintendent of schools to become chief academic officer for the state. In the following months, some Calvert County Board of Education members uncovered the amount of money Smith was permitted to take from the school system in comprehensive benefits.While Smith’s contracts paid him an annual base salary of $169,000, his total compensation was upward of $300,000 in his last year as superintendent. Smith said the additional income was due to benefits, including life and health insurance coverage that will continue for life for him and his wife, paid by the Calvert school system and approved by the previous school board.Smith also was permitted to cash in annual sick leave he hadn’t used. Though Smith’s salary remained at $169,000, his take-home amounts increased each year.Smith also had granted similar contracts to his executive team members. Many Calvert school board members, including current board member Kelly McConkey, were not aware of these contracts.“I couldn’t believe somebody could do what they did and be promoted to a position of importance like that,”..
Now, here we are in 2020, in the beginning of a global pandemic where schools are closed and the public is not allowed to attend public meetings.  

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Now let's look at what is happening this week in Montgomery County Public Schools. 

• Tomorrow the Montgomery County Board of Education will be given a MEMORANDUM that purports to detail a CONTRACT.  
• The Board of Education is to vote on the CONTRACT without ever actually seeing it.
• Based on the years of litigation generated in Calvert County by then Superintendent Jack Smith's signing of contracts one would think that Superintendent Smith would be providing Montgomery County Board of Education members with the actual CONTRACTS that they are voting on.  But that won't happen tomorrow, April 21, 2020.

On April 21, 2020, the Montgomery County Board of Education will vote to spend up to $800,000 for an artificial turf football field for the City of Gaithersburg without even knowing it. 

Here is the MEMORANDUM that Superintendent Jack R. Smith is presenting to the Montgomery County Board of Education: 

Jack Smith Memo to Board of Ed.

 https://www.scribd.com/document/457356446/Gaithersburg-Cluster-ES-8-Land-Acquisition-Agree-1

But here is the ACTUAL CONTRACT that Superintendent Jack Smith has sent to the City of Gaithersburg.  
The Parents' Coalition has obtained the actual document and made it public.  

http://parentscoalitionmc.blogspot.com/2020/04/emergency-mcps-must-agree-to-fund-up-to.html

In the actual Contract it says that the City of Gaithersburg shall construct a field of THEIR choice, either artificial turf or natural grass.  The Contract says that if the City of Gaithersburg builds an artificial turf field then the Board of Education shall reimburse the City for up to $800,000 for the design and construction of an artificial turf field.  

On April 21, 2020, the Montgomery County Board of Education will unknowingly vote to spend $800,000 on a luxury item for the City of Gaithersburg, meanwhile children in Montgomery County are out of school, missing meals and families are in crisis.

FYI KIDS: You are Playing on Plastic #COVID19 #ArtificialTurf

Below is BCC HS. @MCPSMD2 @MCPSAthletics @mocoboe BOE @what is WRONG with you?? LOCK THE GATES !!! NIH reports virus lasts for up to 3days on plastic and kids are often asymptomatic carriers. #PhysicalDistancing #SavesLives @SHPFC pic.twitter.com/5y0grUGZPj

— Kathy Michels (@KathyGreening) March 25, 2020

Scientists discovered the virus is detectable for up to three hours in aerosols, up to four hours on copper, up to 24 hours on cardboard and up to two to three days on plastic and stainless steel.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/03/200320192755.htm

Shipping WJHS Plastic Football Field to Malaysia, 120 Tons of Crumb Rubber will Not be Recycled. #PlasticPollution #Landfill #UsedTires

Jan. 11, 2020, WJHS failed artificial turf field.

The Montgomery County Board of Education has announced their plan for the used plastic football field at Walter Johnson High School.  The 20 tons of green plastic grass will be rolled up and sent to Malaysia and the 120 tons of ground up tires used as infill will not be recycled.  

That would mean that the 120 tons of ground up tires is going to the County landfill in Southern Virginia.  There the 120 tons of WJHS crumb rubber will join the 100+ tons of crumb rubber and plastic football field from Richard Montgomery High School where those football fields will reside for the next 1,000+ years. 

According to their announcement, the Board of Education has contracted with Target Technologies International, Inc.  Target Technologies was featured in the recent FairWarning article Fields of Waste: Artificial Turf, Touted as Recycling Fix for Millions of Scrap Tires, Becomes Mounting Disposal Mess 

At this link Target Technologies explains their plan for used plastic football fields.  Target Technologies makes clear they are only recycling the plastic backing and green grass fibers.  They do not list any process for recycling the 120 tons of ground up tires used on each plastic football field. In fact, the Board of Education does not have a plan for recycling the 120 tons of ground up tires from the WJHS plastic football field in their removal plan.   

Target Technologies states that they partner with Poly-Pacific Inc.

Here is the Poly-Pacific Inc. warehouse in Malaysia:

This excerpt from the recent FairWarning article details the results of their investigation into the recycling that takes place in the Poly-Pacific location in Malaysia:

...FieldTurf once advertised a “take back” program where its customers can send fields back to the company at end-of-life so they can be recycled into coasters, park benches, garbage cans, shirts, school bags and new infill.

The program slideshow says nothing about sending the used turf over 8,000 miles away to Malaysia.  

This was the case for three fields that were removed from San Francisco over the last four years. City records show that a company called Target Technologies International, based in British Columbia, Canada, shipped the artificial grass to a recycling plant in Malaysia, where it was reportedly processed into new products. According to its website, Target Technologies says it recycles turf through an environmentally sound process and its owner boasted in 2017 that his is the “only company that recycles 100 percent of the synthetic turf” into post-consumer products.

San Francisco officials received three “certificate of compliance” letters signed by Target Technologies’ owner, John Giraud, guaranteeing that the turf from each field was recycled. 

“The Recreation and Park Department has been looking for all opportunities to recycle the material,” a San Francisco communications officer said in an email. “This was the only option at this time that we were able to find.”

But the communications officer did not answer a specific question from FairWarning about whether anyone from the city had ever toured the Malaysian plant. The official also didn’t say if anyone from San Francisco had ever examined the post-consumer products that Target Technologies claims to produce.

Giraud refused to respond to multiple phone calls and an email. FairWarning was unable to reach Thomas Lam of Poly-Pacific Inc., Target Technologies’ partner in Malaysia...

 https://www.fairwarning.org/2019/12/fields-of-waste-artificial-turf-mess/

MCPS Superintendent Jack Smith Has A Secret #ArtificialTurf #plasticpollution

On Thursday, January 9, 2020, the Board of Education will be presented with a Resolution for the replacement of the defective, failed Walter Johnson High School artificial turf football field.  The Resolution (shown below) mentions that there is a detailed recycling plan for the old artificial turf and infill when it is removed.  But, Superintendent Smith doesn't actually tell the Board of Education or the public about that detailed recycling plan. 

The Board of Education will vote on the removal of this plastic field without knowing what will happen to all that plastic and the 120 tons of ground up tires. 

RMHS artificial turf in dumpster (2018)

Recall that when the Richard Montgomery High School artificial turf football field was replaced the old field littered the ground, polluted storm drains, spilled on the street, and was ultimately dumped by a river in Baltimore County.

Superintendent Jack R. Smith and MCPS COO Andrew Zuckerman didn't want to discuss the massive pollution that resulted from the removal of that artificial turf field. They considered questions about the pollution a distraction from their "core mission of teaching and learning."

     The statement read in part:

...It is unfortunate that there is a small group of individuals attempting to mislead and misinform our community about this issue. This behavior distracts from our core mission of teaching and learning. I am particularly troubled by the fact that in this case we are fielding questions about a paintball facility’s reuse of artificial turf in White Marsh, Maryland when here in Montgomery County locally we are focused on creating opportunities for all students to learn and achieve at high levels...

http://parentscoalitionmc.blogspot.com/2018/08/parade-of-pollution-july-30-2018-smith.html

Superintendent Smith even said what happens to the removed plastic and ground up tires was "beyond the control of MCPS."

http://parentscoalitionmc.blogspot.com/2018/08/superintendent-smith-says-what-happens.html

MCPS dumped RMHS plastic field by Bird River.

Now, here we are in 2020 and another MCPS artificial turf field is about to be torn up and thrown away.  But where will the old plastic field and 120 tons of ground up tires go?  

Will it once again be dumped by a river?

Will it once again go to a landfill in Southern Virginia?

Superintendent Jack Smith isn't telling.

   Award Cont Replace Turf Field Walter Johnson HS by Parents' Coalition of Montgomery County, Maryland on Scribd

Parents in the Montgomery County school district are raising concerns about artificial turf.

TOXIC PFAS CHEMICALS FOUND IN ARTIFICIAL TURF

PFAS CHEMICALS HAVE been identified in synthetic turf, according to lab tests performed on several samples of the artificial grass that were shared with The Intercept. The presence of the chemicals, members of a class that has been associated with multiple health problems, including cancer, adds to growing concerns about the grass replacement that covers many thousands of acres in parks, schools, professional sports stadiums, and practice fields around the U.S.

In one set of tests, the PFAS chemicals were detected in the plastic backing of two samples of the turf. In another, in which the “blades” of the artificial grass were analyzed, scientists measured significant levels of fluorine, which is seen as an indication of the presence of the chemicals.

“We’re seeing unexplained levels of fluorine-based compounds in all of the eight samples of turf grass blades we’ve looked at,” says Jeff Gearhart of the Ecology Center, a nonprofit environmental research group based in Michigan that tested the turf blades. The samples of the blades that tested positive for fluorine were made by two different companies, Shaw Industries and Turf Factory Direct...

https://theintercept.com/2019/10/08/pfas-chemicals-artificial-turf-soccer/?fbclid=IwAR34pPH76ac3H1XYhrWE-4Zd4VVzdFwxh9CyPeU9pYUDWTJNulzpUewfPDI

Draft MOU for MSI Soccer's Take Over of Public School Playground at Julius West Middle School

Note:  Montgomery County's Noise Ordinance calls for quiet hours to begin at 9 PM on weeknights and on weekends quiet hours end at 9 AM.  MSI Soccer wants to use these stadiums until 9:45 PM on weeknights and start games at 8 AM on weekends.  

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MEMO from City of Rockville on OCTOBER 7, 2019
PUBLIC HEARING
regarding the MSI take over of Julius West Middle School playground.

   Julius West Middle School memo by Parents' Coalition of Montgomery County, Maryland on Scribd

MANDATORY REFERRAL

   Julius West Middle School Mandatory Referral by Parents' Coalition of Montgomery County, Maryland on Scribd

DRAFT MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING

   Julius West Middle School Draft MOU with MSI Soccer for take over of public playground by Parents' Coalition of Montgomery County, Maryland on Scribd

PUBLIC HEARING: Artificial Turf Stadiums at Julius West Middle School. Mayor and Council of Rockville, Maryland, will conduct a public hearing on Monday, October 7, 2019, at 7:00 p.m #artificialturf #heatislands #climatechange

September 26, 2019 Julius West Middle School stadiums

PUBLIC HEARING NOTICES
NOTICE OF HEARING

Notice is hereby given that the Mayor and Council of Rockville, Maryland, will conduct a public hearing on Monday, October 7, 2019, at 7:00 p.m., or as soon thereafter as it may be heard, in the Council Chamber, Rockville City Hall, 111 Maryland Avenue, Rockville, Maryland, in connection with a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS)  regarding the use of the lighted artificial turf fields at Julius West Middle School (JWMS), located at 651 Great FallsRoad.

The MOU is proposed to address a condition of approval of Mandatory Referral STP2018-00340. MCPS and the City of Rockville have created the draft MOU to monitor the impacts associated with traffic, parking, noise, and lighting, and to set the hours of operation. The MOU is also to include joint mitigation measures addressing future impacts that may arise in the areas of traffic, parking, noise and lighting.

The public hearing will be held on Monday, October 7, 2019. The meeting begins at 7:00 p.m. The agenda and briefing materials will be available beginning Wednesday, October 2, 2019 at the following link: https://www.rockvillemd.gov/AgendaCenter/Mayor-and-Council-5.

More detailed information on the above application can be found on file in the City Clerk/Director of Council Operations Office at Rockville City Hall. Persons wishing to testify at the hearing are asked to call (240) 314-8280, before 4:00 p.m. on the day of the hearing to place their names on the speakers' list.

Mayor and Council of Rockville

By: Sara Taylor-Ferrell, City Clerk/Director of CouncilOperations

Today: Baking the Kids on Plastic Football Fields. With the sun out this afternoon.... surface temperature readings of asphalt parking lot, running track, and artificial turf.

@ABC7Kevin NEW: A fight broke out during the Paint Branch High School v. Springbrook High School football game last evening requiring dozens of police officers from multiple districts to quell the chaos.

NEW: A fight broke out during the Paint Branch High School v. Springbrook High School football game last evening requiring dozens of police officers from multiple districts to quell the chaos.

"Off-duty 2373! Start us some units to Paint Branch! Large fight!" - officer on scene pic.twitter.com/hvIfP9CQ1x

— Kevin Lewis (@ABC7Kevin) September 21, 2019

MORE: MoCo Police not stated what started the fight at the football field, but officers arrested multiple juveniles/young adults.

"Just let them know we are getting hit with bottles and cans from the top of the stands! Just tell the officers to be careful!" - officer to dispatch pic.twitter.com/ogmHWw3S0y

— Kevin Lewis (@ABC7Kevin) September 21, 2019

MORE: A teen later called 911 to report he was robbed of his iPhone XR during the melee at Paint Branch.

The victim said the suspect implied he had a gun, but never showed a weapon.

Paint Branch beat Springbrook 50-6. @BlueDevils_FB says the game was called due to the fight. pic.twitter.com/0T5ICDzwZ2

— Kevin Lewis (@ABC7Kevin) September 21, 2019

Las Vegas high school football fields flagged for fouls #artificialturf

LAS VEGAS, NV (KTNV) — High school football players at several local schools are finding one of their toughest opponents isn't the one lining up against them it's the one under their feet.

13 Investigates digs up some serious safety problems with area football fields.

From Pop Warner to the NFL, there's serious talk about concussions and brain injuries. They're re-designing helmets and re-writing the rules of the game to protect players. But what good is all that when the very field your child is playing on isn't safe?

"My concussions had gone up 300%. I think we had like 15 concussions last Fall," says Gabrielle Crawford Rancho High School's assistant principal and athletic director.

"All this stuff just started unfolding like a puzzle that's been waiting to be played," says Ms. Crawford. "And I don't think it's right it took this long."

Rancho's football field is artificial, completed in 2007 by a company called FieldTurf. But the Rams can't even use it this season.

https://www.ktnv.com/news/investigations/high-school-football-fields-flagged-for-fouls?fbclid=IwAR182odppA13aaeSK6bedy7L5GKHbT4VfLe-QD2KYNYyKhb0E3ZE4aROqPk

Weds Sept 18 at 6:30pm at #JuliusWest MS. Meeting on use of mega-field, stadium lights, noise, trash, security, parking, bathrooms. ⁦@Rockville411⁩ #artificialTurf. Be There!

Weds Sept 18 at 6:30pm at #JuliusWest MS. Meeting on use of mega-field, stadium lights, noise, trash, security, parking, bathrooms. ⁦@Rockville411⁩ #artificialTurf. Be There! pic.twitter.com/S1dT9DQ2LV

— Lyda Astrove (@LydaAstrove) September 16, 2019

‘Why don’t we get the field?’: Use of playing field pits an elite private school against D.C. public schools

An elite private school has been granted special access to a public playing field in Northwest Washington in exchange for funding upgrades to the site. But the deal with D.C. officials has some residents and politicians calling foul on a move they say shortchanges public school students.

The deal between the Maret School and the D.C. Department of Parks and Recreation allows Maret exclusive use of the field at the Jelleff Recreation Center during the hours of highest demand, 3:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m., on weekdays for the next decade, according to Marjo Talbott, Maret’s head of school. In exchange, the school is spending about $950,000 to improve the turf field, add a fence and renovate the recreation center building, Talbott said.

In response, a coalition of public school parents, elected officials and area residents is petitioning Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) to reverse the deal...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/social-issues/why-dont-we-get-the-field-use-of-playing-field-pits-an-elite-private-school-against-dc-public-schools/2019/08/31/5081b5de-ca5c-11e9-a1fe-ca46e8d573c0_story.html

Potentially toxic dust cloud from artificial turf field settles over Bethesda neighborhood

BETHESDA, Md. — Video and pictures taken Tuesday by neighbors of Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School show clouds of construction dust kicked up by crews placing infill on a new artificial turf field. Grass seed was replaced with materials called zeolite and silica. Safety sheets about those materials state airborne silica may “cause cancer by inhalation.”



https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/local/bethesda/dust-cloud-bethesda-chevy-chase-high-school-turf/65-f44b3c43-375c-44b5-b3b5-58358d615f93

In @mcps "Let's Play Ball!" is Let's Play with Urethane! #artificialturf #plastic #urethane

BCC High School artificial grass field installation.

Information sheet for Turf PU 1K

High school football concussion risk greater for young athletes and on turf

BOSTON — Concussion risk in high school football is greater for younger players and on practices on [Artificial] turf-based surfaces, according to a study presented at the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine Annual Meeting.

The epidemiological study examined high school football concussion data in male players aged 14 to 18 years at 1,999 U.S. high schools. Scott Burkhart, PsyD, and colleagues collected data between 2012 to 2017 using the Rank One Health Injury Surveillance Database, a software used for mandatory and voluntary student-athlete injury documentation.

“While concussion prevention efforts like education and safe tackling appear to be working in high school football, it may be advantageous to provide more sports medicine coverage at more vulnerable time points like freshman and JV football,” Burkhart told Orthopedics Today. “Further, data supports reducing practice exposures on turf-based surfaces may lead to lower concussion incidence.”

The study included nearly one million male athletes who played football. Researchers recorded a total of 14,103 concussions in this group, accounting for 6% of all injuries in high school sports and making this the largest epidemiological high school football concussion study to date.

Rates of injury decreased from 2012 to 2016 in both practices and games. Burkhart noted injury proportion ratios decreased by year from 2012 to 2016 with an increase in 2017. He added that more concussions occurred in games (51.8%) than during practices (48.2%).

“No matter how we looked at this – whether it was injury proportion rates, overall incidence rates or risk ratios – you can see significant difference from games to practices,” he said at a presentation at the ASSOM meeting.

Turf outweighed all other mechanisms of injury, including helmet-to-helmet and grass. Almost 90% of all injuries occurred on turf-based surfaces, according to Burkhart...

https://www.healio.com/orthopedics/sports-medicine/news/online/%7B095e875c-8c2c-4f31-8340-b0aaf576a4ce%7D/high-school-football-concussion-risk-greater-for-young-athletes-and-on-turf?fbclid=IwAR0y5Vd5ESFL5gGVqF-f9QDlmSvyRzVGgIOfIZ1z0le3icly9_CQryt01UI

BCC High School Plastic Grass Stadium Cost Overrun of $295,000 in Capital Budget Funds. Bad News for Other Capital Budget Needs.

BCC High School plastic field installation.

MEMORANDUM 
To: Members of the Board of Education 
From: Jack R. Smith, Superintendent of Schools 

While the building addition at Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School was completed and opened in September 2018, the site work aspects of the project are continuing. This site work includes the installation of an artificial turf stadium field. This summer, the progress of the site work was paused when a concealed, preexisting stormwater management condition was discovered in the area of installation of the new stadium field.

This condition presented an unanticipated obstacle to be addressed. Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) staff worked with the project contractor and officials with the Montgomery County Department of Permitting Services to design an acceptable resolution that would allow the project to move forward. At this juncture, work is proceeding on the designated approach for this project. There is not an anticipated impact to the opening of school, but minor work may continue into the school year. The unanticipated additional requirements for the site work have increased the cost of the project and will require an additional $295,000 to complete.

Due to favorable bid experience, this amount of funding is available as unexpended funds in the addition project for North Bethesda Middle School. I recommend that the Board request a transfer of $295,000 from the North Bethesda Middle School Addition project to the Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School Addition project in the Fiscal Year 2020 Capital Budget. This will allow MCPS to address the needed site work at Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School through a budget-neutral approach.

 https://go.boarddocs.com/mabe/mcpsmd/Board.nsf/files/BF8PCC5E768C/$file/FY2020%20Cap%20Bdgt%20Amend%20FY2019-2024%20CIP%20Trans%20Funds%20190829.pdf

Community meeting about the impact MSI Soccer #JuliusWest #artificialTurf will have on neighboring @Rockville411 communities. Wednesday Sept 18 at 6:30 pm at Julius West MS, 651 Great Falls Road, #Rockville.

Community meeting about the impact #JuliusWest #artificialTurf will have on neighboring @Rockville411 communities. Wednesday Sept 18 at 6:30 pm at Julius West MS, 651 Great Falls Road, #Rockville. Qs? Call 240-314-1000 (Gary Mosesman) pic.twitter.com/k7wSuqlBc1

— Lyda Astrove (@LydaAstrove) August 28, 2019

BCC High School Construction Update

A message from BETHESDA-CHEVY CHASE HIGH

Good evening,

As many of you drive along Sleaford Road, I know you are wondering when our field and track could be completed. Not unlike many construction projects, there have been delays.

Members of our athletics boosters joined me in a meeting with with the MCPS operations team yesterday to get some concrete answers about the delays we are experiencing. One major delay was due to a drainage system that had to be cut out and replaced before the work on the track and field could begin. A pole also had to be removed on the track to ensure the lanes can be regulation size.

The most recent estimate is that the field will be ready by by the first day of classes, Tuesday, September 3rd. The district has no plans to move or reschedule any of our home games.

The base paving on the track will begin tomorrow and the MCPS Division of Construction anticipates the rubberized surface going down September 9th. There is a 14-day period between the asphalt and rubber. The Division of Construction will coordinate with school activities.

The track will take time to cure prior to use, but we can still access the field during this cure time. The lines will be painted on after the curing period is complete and the Division of Construction will coordinate that work to avoid conflicts with practices and games.

We have all been anxiously anticipating these upgraded athletic facilities, and I am confident that they will soon be ready for our amazing students and community to enjoy! I am so appreciative of the wonderful partnership of this community...and the leaders of athletics boosters have been outstanding.

Please don't forget that this Sunday, August 25th, from 3 - 4:30, I'm holding a Meet-and-Greet. I invite all families to drop by, meet our administrative team and PTSA leaders, have some cookies and peruse the F-wing...we'll be back in school soon. I'll be so excited to see our students!

Sincerely,

Donna Redmond Jones, Ph.D.

Principal