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Minutes of the Regular Meeting of Council <br />Monday, Februaxy 15, 2010 <br />Page 12 <br />Mr. Ross replied, for this particular type of program, it would be like any of the other <br />vocational programs that we offer that are very community-based. We have programs at <br />different businesses in the area. Basically the agreements that we have with those is that <br />our insurance follows that. If we were living in the building or using it more as a regular <br />classroom space, we would have to do things like sprinkler codes and fire alarms and <br />things like that. We had a program for the last five years at Hilltop Village Retirement <br />Community which is down in Euclid. They had given us a furnished apartment there. We <br />unfortunately had to move out of there because of circumstances beyond our control. As far <br />as standards for this type of program, it's very unique. We are probably the only program <br />like this anywhere else. <br />Mrs. Mills asked, how many students will be there? <br />Mr. Ross replied, there will be eight students in the morning and eight in the afternoon. <br />Mr. Ross has a full-time teacher and instructional assistant that would be with the kids. <br />Most of the time, half of the kids are actually in the facility cooking and cleaning, laundry, <br />things like that, while the other half are out in the community doing community living <br />skills such as shopping, access to community services, things like that. <br />Mr. Marrie asked if the home is used to teach them life skills. Could you explain that a <br />little more in detail, please? <br />Mr. Ross replied, absolutely. CEVEC has been around since 1980. What we have done is <br />provided community-based vocational training opportunities for our student population. <br />We know that putting kids out in a real work environment and giving them training there is <br />a whole lot more effective than trying to teach skills in an academic type of environment. <br />In 2004, the Advisory Board came to Mr. Ross and asked if we could design a similar <br />program not focusing on vocational skills, but more on teaching kids how to do laundry, <br />cooking, home maintenance, cleaning, budgeting, things like that. We use the Life Center <br />Career Education Curriculum with our students. Basically each of the students that come <br />in have an individual plan of what they are going to work on. For some students, the focus <br />may be on learning cleaning skills. For other kids it would be cooking. It really is very <br />individualized. <br />Dr. Parker asked Mr. Ross if he is looking to make this a permanent location at this point. <br />Mr. Ross replied, actually no. Mr. Ross is hoping that given your approval and given his <br />school board's okay at the February 24th School Board meeting that we will be able to use <br />the home from now until the end of the school year. At this point, we are looking for <br />another home come next year. Mr. Ross would be lying if he didn't tell you he has some <br />creative ideas running around his head that this property could be something that could be <br />maybe more of a permanent type of partnership between the schools and the city. He likes <br />to write grants. We have a great construction trades program in Mayfield. He has an idea <br />of using this home to maybe design an echo-friendly model green-type of home.