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good evening I would like to call this meeting of the bbrsd school committee to order um Please be aware that your voice or image may be recorded thank you Julie let's all stand we'll start with Pledge of Allegiance thank you I pledge allegiance to flag the United States of America to stand one nation under God indivisible liy and justice for all okay we will start with public comment is anyone here to make a public comment okay Mr Dy you like to stand you state your name sure thank you my name is Peter dy I am an English teacher in the ELA Department here here High School um I wanted to speak today uh would like to read a letter that I just finished finally finished today uh to the school committee regarding um policy subcommittee that's looking at masc policy I dear members of the Berlin boilson Regional school committee and superintendent Costello I began writing this letter last Monday it's spent a week and I must have written at least 10 drafts by now since there are so many things I feel need to be addressed from the meeting on 6 June 2024 regarding the proposed amendments to MSE masc policy I in the ensuing discussion for the sake of relative brevity I'll keep this letter to what I believe are the most important issues I plan to attend the entire meeting in August and will gladly answer any questions during the meeting that may arise during the discussion of this agenda item as a followup to my emails from Sunday 9 June 2024 which expressed my concerns that the adoption of proposed amendments to masc policy I would unintentionally Target and marginalize certain students and therefore open the district to litigation I'm encouraging the school committee to reject the policy subcommittee's proposal I found the potential ramifications to both our students and our district of such concern I decided to contact a civil litigation Law Firm for guidance to see if my initial thoughts were Justified based on communication I have had over the past week with the firm as well as conversations with tono's social studies department chair step Mico and history teacher Daniel Rinker who are well-versed in the state mandated Civic Action Project which plays a role in the impetus behind this policy change proposed amendments to masc policy I are problematic for multiple reasons first and formost for most if masc policy I is adopted as amended by the policy subcommittee is a serious concern that the policy would be discriminatory and could open the district to discrimination litigation on multiple counts an education Advocate and specialist with within the firm I consulted believes that quote specifically listing sexual orientation gender or preferred gender into the districts optin PA opin policy where all other types of surveys would not be subject to the same opin rules would be clear discrimination end quote additionally by making this policy opt in which creates a major obstacle in students receiving data for the research it could be argued that the district creating obstacles for only students who wish to potentially research sensitive topics that are fundament fundamentally important to who they are directly opposes the amended access to equal Educational Opportunity regulation 603 CMR 26.0 and the non-discrimination provision of the Char School regulation 6 3 CMR 1.0 which quote requires schools to establish policies and procedures provide training and Implement and monitor practices to ensure that obstacles to equal access to school programs are removed for all students to reiterate obstacles need to be removed not created during the June 6 meeting I heard members of the subcommittee argue the amended policy is to protect parential rights and that no students would be NY the equal opportunity to study these sensitive topics while that may be true by creating a separate set of rules and conditions for one group of students as opposed to other groups with no such rules and conditions this policy is dangerously close to echoing the infamous separate but equal Declaration of plusy versus Fergus in 1896 which was later overturned by Brown versus Board of Education 1954 considering our nation's troubled history in this area I hope it is safe to say that no one wants to promote a policy that creates a separate but equal environment in our school while I respect and agree with the subcommittee's desire to protect parental rights which the original unamended wording of masc policy I guarantees based on the anti-discriminatory protection of pupil rights amendment I believe the proposed changes to the language go too far and actually make masc policy I discriminatory which will then in turn cause irreparable harm to our district and our students as the department of Elementary and secondary education States all students need a safe and supportive School environment to progress academically and developmentally and administrators faculty staff and students each play an important part in creating and sustaining that environment potential civil rights violations aside it is the opinion of my colleagues Steve Pico Daniel Rinker and myself that the proposed policy would also negatively affect and in some cases directly oppose the state mandated civil action project as well as the Massachusetts Social Studies Frameworks which encourage students to freely research topics of importance to them which often include the sensitive topics listed in masas policy ields on a similar note tono's own senior exhibitions would also be adversely affected by this policy for the same reasons des's documents titled race racism and cultural responsive teaching in history and social science in Massachusetts frequently asked questions directly addresses the study of sens sensitive Topics by stating and I quote an effective history and Social Science Education incorporates diverse perspectives and acknowledges that perceptions of events are affected by race ethnicity culture religion education gender gender identity sexual orientation disability and personal experience the traditional model of the United States is Unum out of many one a history and Social Science Education that does Justice to the remarkable diversity of our country must tell the history of individuals and groups and honor a plurality of life stories while acknowledging our ongoing struggle to achieve a more perfect union teaching how the concepts of Freedom equality the rule of law and human rights have influenced United States world history necessarily involves discussions of race ethnicity culture gender gender identity sexual orientation and other characteristics effective instruction challenges students to Value their own Heritage while embracing our common ideals and shared experiences as they develop their own rigorous thinking about accounts of events effective instruction celebrates the progress the United States has made in embracing diversity while at the same time encouraging honest and informed academic discussions about Prejudice racism and bigotry in the past and present race and racism are part of America's complicated history and a complete history and Social Science Education must include an honest examination of prejudice bigotry and oppression in the past and present end quote by adopting the proposed changes our district would have a policy that in essence discourages students from studying sensitive issues by implementing restrictive regulations thus reducing the opportunities for our entire Community to engage in discussions of race ethnicity culture gender gender identity sexual orientation and other topics that are the core of our Collective American experience as I said earlier there are many concerns I have that I am happy to address at the next meeting for now I'll end with a few suggestions on how we can move forward from here so that both parental and student rights are not infringed one reject the proposed amendments to masc policy I two create and distributed document like countless other documents our district has created that allows parents to officially opt out of surveys that surround the sensitive topics listed in MC policy I the particulars of this can be worked out any policy subcommittee three reconvene the policy sub sub commmittee for further discussions of this issue but amend the subcommittee to include a a Tahanto administrator b a civil rights education law expert C faculty or Department chairs whom this policy would affect and d a student representative for for further information on the Civic Action Project please feel free to access the hyper links below I put uh in my digital copy of my letter a bunch of links to the civil action project thank you for your time and consideration Peter thank you okay did anyone else want to say anything from the public okay thank you I appreciate that the time you took to write that all right uh Communications did anyone have any Communications Meg I want to take some time yes y kind of communication not really communication the past few weeks we know ending last night budget was uh a little bit stressful for everybody everybody had some frustrations to the point where even Mary had some nice things to say last night so that was very [Music] welcome um a couple months ago Megan we had a meeting and I was a little short with you at one point kind of snapped out at you so sorry for that thank you all right Jess same with you you mentioned the hyperlinks a couple weeks ago and I SN to you too so I'm sorry to you too uh last night shaking hands with Peg and Scott Hawkins and everybody was an interesting event so hopefully we move on and get this financial situation unraveled thanks okay great all right any other Communications all right thank you um could I please have a motion to approve the consent agenda goie second Jess any discussion on that all right all in favor I I I'm an i as well that motion passes all right Nicole's taking notes from home okay we'll move into my report um so I'm going to do my report and then um Mr JY is here because he has a field trip as well so we can do that vote because we have a a presentation from our Auditors coming up and then we're gonna have a presentation about portrait of graduate going to some budget discussion we have the administrative reports it's going to be lengthy so I want to get that vote done so that that way if you want to take off no judgment I would take off if I could trust me um okay so quickly my chair report so for anyone that still has not heard the news um the budget did pass last night the school budget um we did cut about $225,000 uh and then we agreed to apply another $150,000 of cash um or Revenue you know search breaker or school choice or end wherever wherever we have um we have to take a look at that and see where we may have some excess um so that's something that Michael will be working on um in the future I don't know if he has an update tonight we'll wait till his turn but obviously it's hasn't been 24 hours so not expecting anything um but I did want everyone to know that so essentially what happened was we met smack dab in the middle right we had about a $750,000 difference from the town of Berlin and the schools gave the 225 plus the 150 which is the 375 and the town threw in some cash and then they raised the tax levy slightly so in the end everyone ended up compromising like Mike said it ended up working out and hopefully moving forward we've learned some lessons and next year will be a lot easier hopefully okay that's all I have to say um so did we want um Mr Dy did you want to present this is the um the overnight trip to the C this is this is uh our other than the co years this is our annual cap trip um with AP students in our n be class on the multidisciplinary study y the weekend so the itinerary at this point is still building um Le a couple of months away I just wanted to get this approved now because I know how busy things have been and yep um I think we have to seek two months in prior to our trip which is October 19 through 21 so I wanted to make sure we got this in as early as we could yep yeah because uh we do not anticipate to meet over the summer so we will not be convening again the committee will not be convening again until the end of August so probably a good idea to get this done now so it's basically the same trip you know just we'll be staying in the same Hotel we've stayed in the last two years we'll be taking the bus down it's great having Chris cavino additional chap plus his science knowledge and his bus skills so okay great did anyone have any questions on this it's always nice to see the presentation when they come back so it's a wonderful experience they to have this is the one on the book what's the book The I bought the book and I still haven't read it yeah I would love to yeah okay great and I plan on attending as well like I i' I've always attended and I continue to I attended last year and I'll attend this year as well okay this was our bra child three of our back in yeah yeah that was a little silly okay buil character um all right any other any questions okay could I please have a motion to approve um the overnight field trip to Cape Cod with Mr Dy okay Jess and Julie any discussion all right all in favor I I all right I'm and I as well that motion passes thank you so much thank you gon take all right next up is going to be uh we have a proposal from our Auditors so these are not our Auditors this is a these uh folks are um they're like a sister company of our audit company because we we have to keep things independent so the proposal tonight and uh Carol and I well one of the findings from our last audit was that we needed um we had weak internal controls which is very common right um for small offices um so we asked uh our auditors to recommend somebody that could put together a proposal for us and the company's called Markham our Auditors is powers and Sullivan right um so Markham so they these uh Michael and Jim are going to come up tonight and they're going to talk to us about the proposal was in the drive um on some of the services they may be able to offer us that will help with internal controls okay and without further Ado please take it away Michael and Jim do you want to come up and sit between Michael and over there this is Michael M and Jim low from Mark accounts and they're the parent the parent company of the parent company of powers and sullan previously we had provided a PowerPoint I don't know if that was distributed I do have some copies as well folks it was in the drive everyone drive right okay anyone likes paper yeah you can pass it around in case anyone has questions should we put it up on the screen uh fine yeah that's fine I don't I would spread it you have on computer all right I was gonna say I have so thank you very much for the opportunity to present tonight we'll do some introductions and we'll go right into the presentation my name is Jim L I'm the partner in charge of internal audit services from Marvin 31 years in Professional Services industry where I've been external audit internal audit forensics audit every type of compliance audit regulatory audit r i lead up the group and we specialize internal controls control assessments Enterprise risk assessments prod assessments my colle Mike yeah Mike McShay um 30 years in Industry been working with Jim for the last almost seven years I'm a director in our group and uh we'll Echo everything that you just mentioned our our bios are probably on page I think six of the presentations everything else prior to that was just some general information on the firm some of our credential in the space so the rest of that is is for light entertainment tonight or tomorrow over the weekend and as mentioned our bios are on page six um and then on page seven we get into the discussion around what really were proposing based on discussions that we had with the with the school um over the last couple of months here kind walk through bit that if you want your walk through yeah just high level we propose two phases um obviously we can do it concurrently or separate or this one but we wanted to break it up based on the discussions we had with Carol and Megan just to show the different options as to how we actually scoped it out and openly priced it so when we talk about phase approaches a lot of what we see is you know communities whether it's the school system within the community or the town or the city of municipalities themselves they're looking at problems that they're facing a lot of those are around Staffing constraints the resources that they have do they have the right experience enough experience what type of documentation exists if somebody leaves who can come in pick things up so part of the reason we break this out also is to give you know the realization that this is a lot this isn't something that's routine to a to either a town or to a school district like this to say we're going to come in potentially and do all this work and and be in everybody's business you know for for a number of weeks so phasing it also gives everyone a chance to absorb what we've gone through make some decisions do some analysis and then consider is the phase that we've proposed where you still want to go or do you want to go someplace else because we've gone through and done some analysis some the leg work and potentially raised an issue that was unexpected it takes us in a completely different direction so again breaking it up gives everyone that chance to as well and you consider where the direction needs to continue so the first phase here the nature of services is just a disclaimer the the body of it is in Phase One we're talking about basically going through the budgeting process and conducting a review over that entire scope of services that that everyone is involved in that would be from the town Side school department side the actual folks that are in uh the finance and accounting department we're just one up actually jul and I we've been working on one in a different state that had this pretty much this exact same request they just weren't sure how budgets got constructed how did budget inputs get analyzed how do we ensure that the numbers were using are coming from the right sources that they're constantly updated for any changes that are taking place whether it be Financial impact you what we're actually getting uh in for the for the allocations themselves are there any changes at the federal and state level so we've been asked to do this a couple of times like I said we're just wrapping one up very similar scope uh the results of that is also a phased approach and we've prepared to see deliverables on the right hand side which talks about what would you actually see afterwards a lot of times we find that even in corporate life in Corporate America people don't really have a good understanding what the process even looks like so we talk about creating flow chart while might seem fundamental at its core you'll find in a lot of places this these don't even exist and that's an easy way to point out you know where this disconnects where do we have some seg of do these issues where do we have information that's coming from the source that nobody has to handle on or control over or access to whether it be a funding source or information that it at a data level so a flowchart is a great way to kind of after you go through all these interviews with folks to stand with the process is see it on paper see basically the road map from start to finish and that points out where there could be disconnects as well communication breakdowns process breakdowns a black hole or something just goes there and doesn't seem to get followed up on and we could also identify where there are gaps in the process where there are gaps in controls whether it be missing policies procedures the general understanding do the people have the right access are they doing too much of of the whole process themselves again talking about certification so that process would take a couple of weeks it's it's not a linear process necessarily to say it starts today and it ends three weeks from now a lapse time it's a couple of week project of interviews and Analysis then we go back and forth to make sure we've got all the right information because the last thing we want to do is hand something over and somebody raes their hand says well we didn't ask me you didn't get my input so it does take a little bit of time to go through that and then from there if things continue and the district decides they want to go on to phase two which is on the next page that talks about a broader assessment of all operations which is a risk assessment and that's also something we're working on in a number of instances as well both in school settings and the dist settings this is where you you get everyone together independently of each other and you find out you know in their mind where are the risk where do you think is a problem whether it be Financial Risk Town school department might have is a reputational issue is it something they don't want to be in the newspaper over as something that could potentially Impact Services could impact you financially so we gather those from all the different um elements to be able to present back a risk assessment to say budget process aside here's a whole bunch of other things that you should consider and where are these to be able to address those you know do we actually come up with something at the end of the day that people go we had no idea that we had this risk facing this this could be ADA compliance you know you think of the spectrum of things that could be out there U it's just a great opportunity to get people to speak freely about what things are that they think are of concern you know we weigh it and evaluate and ask questions back and forth to make sure it isn't just a a gripe you know it's an actual RIS that's foreing and then we would also prepare a report based on that which has um if folks are familiar with heat map red yellow green basically a nine quadrant uh Cube and then we help plot that out and obviously the things that are in the red the things to worry about the things that are in the green at the end of the day yes it's a risk but chances are it's not going to have any material impact and that also then use your road map forward when you talk about where do we need to spend time energy resources you know hiring decisions cutback decisions anything along those lines is the benefit of a risk assessment so right now those are the two uh options that we came up with through discussions again all the procedures are kind of basically Rel out on page seven eight and then page nine gets into cost and fee assumptions into a couple of points on phase one one it becomes a living document over time it will change as your process change but it also becomes a training manual as new people come in in new roles they're not starting from scratch it allows for them to get a head start as they come in so then that's probably one of the biggest understated value propositions that come out of this is that you've got a road map for anyone that's coming in in fact if you're actually looking to bring someone in you can explain that you have this documentation and they may want to come because you have it and not learning it from scratch on the risk assessment what do we what we also try to do is aggravate the risks connect them is there a common root cause that's causing Downstream three or four risks because we know you cannot mitigate 100% risks it's just too expensive but you have to come up with the concept of what is the residual risk that you can live with and can you connect your risk to actually mitigative one that has the down street consequences with the minimal amount of effort to be able to keep that structure together so a lot of what we try to do is think of sort of what are the pros that come out of this as opposed to actually coming in and looking at what we're trying to solve for what can a value come out that's not seen right away so we're happy to of course take any questions and try to answer anything that's out this is fitting the timing of this Carol and I had started talking to them back I don't know months ago right Carol and we just had I'm sorry we put you off three times probably already um been putting up fires left and right here so um yeah I just think the timing of this is uh very fitting because this budget process was difficult to say the least um and we have had a lot of turnover in that department and I think there's a lot of question marks not I don't think anything bad is happening I think we could all benefit from somebody independent coming in and documenting process and kind of streamlining streamlining the budget process because I think right now you know the turnover in the Director of Finance role what if we had like seven or eight director of finances in the past 10 years I mean it's so I think that this might be a huge benefit to the district regardless of whoever ends up taking that seat permanently Michael is inum um so I don't know what anyone else thinks I just think that this this might be a a a huge value add to the district and uh you know listening to some of the public feedback about you know frustrations with the budget process can I ask you a question when you said you work with the town did you mean the town the finance department in the town or you were specific to just engagement that M was referring to we we we we were engaged by the town the finance department of the town but we worked at the school administration went across both but in that scenario the town actually engaged us because they didn't have any insight into the school it was almost perhaps revers from what we're perhaps talking about today but they wanted to get a level of insight all of our interviews were on the school side but then we brought it back to the town and we actually met with the town C the school council as well in a session like this interview them like in a session like this right that would be helpful so you could go to like the different town finance committees and kind of understand their process and like document it and bring it back to us what we do is out swim so you can see from the town in the school back to the town to the approvals and in that scenario we had a big red arrow stopped right here they still haven't approved that town their budget yet and all of our findings that came out were concluded to our suggestions as to why that was there but I think seeing it documented in swim Lanes between the town and the school it becomes a lot more transparent and then it becomes a lot more evident as what the holdup are so it isn't it isn't necessarily A on size fixes all but it does help point out the you know the obvious breakdowns uh like I said the roads to knowwhere the bridges to knowwhere if there are activities that taking place it don't seem to make sense you know we're also going to provide recommendations as part of it what would fix this is it a communication problem is it you know more structured meetings need to occur with agendas and deliverable dates between all the parties is it a knowledge breakdown to sobody not have the requisite skills to be able to do it or is it just you know at the end of the day it's it's money you can only squeeze the rock so much to to get you know what you're looking for and this is not uncommon everyone that we've been talking to it's it's a budget issue in terms of where do we where do we have to cut them so we know that there's a lot of these asss coming out and it's what doesn't help is having any confusion over whole you know the process that's going into it in the first place so if there's uncertainties or confusion or uh just lack of accountability things like that's can at least Point those things out and offer recommendations to to remedy them you know it's up to whether or not those are actionable in the short term the long term financially of course is a cost a lot of the fixes that you need to put in of those problems but you'll at least have that that road map of where things are and what you need to do to get to where you want to be what's the ideal future State and we have two towns so that wouldn't affect the quote right no no that the quotes all in yeah yeah and what was unique in the one that we were just talking about we actually met with that State's Department of Education to understand their interaction with the school department and the data that they have so we could do benchmarking study of districts that they thought were comparative to them whether it was total population student population the number of schools ratios of students just to show all that is an expense or it shows the expenses and when you actually start to see the data and the data that that State Department of Ed that that town was not even using as part of forecasting it became pretty event whereever the breakdown a question what is the timeline that you would anticipate for like the phase one and then how soon when you do typically do this work and how soon would we need to let you know you as soon as you want or as late as you want we'll be here so I wouldn't worry about that phase one is generally coming up three to six week project and may maybe um the report writing sometimes takes a little bit longer because there's versions that are going through and we want to make sure we obviously going to take the first crack in a drafted report but there's going to be feedback we're not going to get everything 100% right and there's that going back and forth same with the second phase another three to six weeks same sort of thing we don't need to do concurrently consecutively we can do one wait six months do the other on so we can break it up anyway that you see appr but that's that went to the point about it doesn't have to be linear it just becomes problematic sometimes when you think about it it's I only have three weeks to get this done and then half the people we did we were at the cave or on vacation or something so field yeah a lapsed time but you know wi year it just is going to depend on schedules and trying to get in you know hurting all the cats together to get the information that we thank you so it would be something we if we move moved forward with this it would be something we would have for next spring for the budget might be upful or for when we have a permanent Director of Finance um again a new person I think that would I can't speak for Michael but I'm sure it was difficult coming into what you came into it's been some Moments One of the Del walk whoever that person that comes in through our reports and what we we can hope to un them yeah yeah yeah we just hear you and the idea you have creating creating a road map for people coming in it's it's that's probably one of the most important things is having a set of documented policies procedures process and so on and just I think what's important about it is a refresh at least on an annual basis it doesn't need to be a full but just to be sure a confirmation going on various Department I think change just to confirm it so it's you're keeping it fresh we've seen a lot of times where folks would create documentation put on the Shelf wait three or four years and it's not worth the paper it's written on right right changing sounds like an amazing process the parts tag after yesterday to swall and you know I respect your work and the time you put into it but it's hard after the last several months right especially but I mean having it would that would prevent that situation happening yeah that's how I would look at Future looking forward yeah and I think it's helpful it's almost I feel like that was where we got the most criticism was the whole budget process it wasn't oh you guys want more books or oh you want another teacher it was this process is not clear it's not I'm confused so I feel like it would address something that in my opinion publicly people have been disgruntled with and so yeah I think that's something first we'd have to take it to Michael and see about funds obviously I don't know that the school committee has to vote on this or if it's a decision that Carol has to make I just I don't know the process on that like because it's not really a contract right it's just she's she would be um making a decision on um right I I don't know I I guess I would feel like I wouldn't want to make this DEC this as you to your point this isn't a costly um right service I would absolutely want you to vote on this and I think it's also the benefit to the school committee as as myself right so okay but it see it seems like if we take this into consideration we can in order to get get Jim and Michael consider it over the summer and get back to them in the fall we'll have a better sense of where the budget is better SES yeah I think of possibly sh cost sharing as you mentioned I don't know if this is something in the towns would be interested in right because we're all feeling it's not just us you know what I mean I think they you know and the other thing is and I really want to say in my charity Bo all of these boards are volunteers even the select boards I don't know that you can get paid if they do it's stien school committee doesn't get paid these Finance committees don't get paid so I you know to have some guidance would be very very helpful all across the board right yeah so yeah why don't we do that we could bring that up with April and Kristen and see if it's something that they would be interested in yeah like to to your point cost sharing because if they're going to be interviewing the towns for the budget process then it feels like based on the feedback we've gotten this year and the town's desire to work collaboratively would be a nice a gesture anyway to to consider this anyway with them together just and that's up to you you know a suggestion guess there were PID answer followup questions through uh through email or phone call anyone share the information you have our emails please feel free to reach out structured it also in a way where there's some flexibility in terms of like almost like a menu type of options we did break out some of the services to give you a total um there's been a potential of starts and stops as well so we take a look through that information within you'll see that it does have particular line items for different types of services within each of the phases thank you sure thank you for the presentation and for coming in thank you very much with us we did make sure before the summer came but Beach weather Beach weather yeah all right anyone have any more questions before Michael and Jim take off all right great so next step we Carol and I will talk we'll be in touch and then we'll put a formal vote probably in the August meeting I know the committee will probably convene over the summer and a we'll probably Retreat over the summer or something but yeah super fun all [Music] right thank oh thank you thank you so much fun all right next so we're g to roll right into portrait right sure so Carol's gonna talk about our portrait of a graduate well we're introducing this for the first time to the school committee and we're going to be hopefully taking this on the road early uh next year but we wanted to to share with you first this is a culmination of months of work from this amazing Committee of individuals who volunteered their time uh from different different aspects of our district community members staff administrators parents um to come up with this document that you see in front of you you'll have two of them you'll see this graphic which we plan to use as our kind of logo going forward and we'll describe that in just a moment um and then the portrait of a graduate all of the different pillars that were ident that were created by this Comm committee moving forward this is the vision that this Comm this Committee of 21 people put together um based on their own very different perspectives as they were coming into this session um we were those of us who were coordinating this at first we a little um cautious maybe that's a good word about how this would go over with so many different thoughts and different um different way different ways of thinking I guess I would say and at the end belt it into this one amazing United group who came up with all of these these pillars um during that time together the group had a chance to listen to alumni um both younger alumni as well as those who had been out of Tanto many years it was interesting to hear how much how similar their perspective on Tahanto was and what they needed um what they felt they needed as they graduated and then also we had a chance to we had admissions counselors coming in from colleges in the area colleges and universities to talk to us about what they what they saw coming forward to them and what they felt they needed for the skill sets um and characteristics of students that they were admitting into these colleges and universities so I have several of those individuals here tonight um well Jen and Joey over there I do want to read the names of all these committee members um because I so appreciated the time um I fed them which seemed to help lots of sandwiches from the deli um and they were really great about that some pizza mixed in but um they were just amazing also I I do want to talk about the graphics for a moment that you see here once the committee had its ideas together um one of our parents Amber bio from Berlin who I was hoping would be here tonight I don't see her um she planed to come to the meeting before anyway Amber worked with John Campbell and myself and a little bit with Adam Wilbur a couple others to look at this graphic design that we would use so if you see it the two hands represent the two elementary schools holding up this tree that's the Tahanto Green Tree um and those and those different images around it are actually represent the resilience the community and so on so the next phase of this um is the Strategic plan that's more the nuts and bults of the work we need to do I think it's a perfect time because it will tie into that three-year plan um that we had developed a while ago that I BR forward again the beginning of next year to kind of wrap all of that up and begin really digging into what we need to have for our our children our schools I think it will lead us and guide us into the budget process among things where do we need to spend our money what what do we need to do to develop our children on the curriculum work that we do um and just generally the culture of our schools so I will stop talking but I do want because I do want Jessica was on that Lisa May um our folks down here all of them and then Jen and Joey so I don't know if you want to share your experience what you learned from this or your thoughts go ahead I thought we were going in order she start I will say I I felt the same way in the start there was a very uh wide range and eclectic group of people from all different areas and was curious how it was going to work out um but I will say that once we started to get into it and realized what we were trying to accomplish which was sort of an inspiration document motivational big picture type thing um people started to get behind it and there were some places where we were in agreement but we just couldn't agree on how we wanted to express ourselves um so there was a lot of conversation about that because we wanted to make sure that we were saying exactly what we wanted to say um but it was it was a good experience and I think at the end we all came up with something where we could all stand behind us say yes this is what we feel and having the people that came in students that came in from uh who were current students or past students was incredible to listen to their real like some of them were very open about what really goes on in school which was um and then hearing from those admission officers I I went home with a page full of notes for my daughter who's about to apply to colleges like this is what they're saying so um there's a lot of really good information I think we could certainly use to spread around thank you J we also we also were sure to include those who may not be taking the college track we had a lot of discussion on The non-college Graduate or not yeah that weren't going off to college but we wanted to make sure that was all part of this um discussion and this decision creation Sy I would like to say that um just bringing everybody to the table the different perspectives of teachers and administrators community members parents was very eye opening for me I mean I know as an administrator we hear what parents want but having us all at the table sharing those ideas was very beneficial um not only as for the district and going forward with this but for bees as well and just hearing what everyone had to say and a lot it was very similar just was very nice to me thanks J thanks Cindy John follow just real quickly I you know I I think that uh it was amazing to watch this kind of come together because there were moments when I I was not sure um this was the easy part right bringing this pretty document to life in our schools that's going to be the hard part to actually live up to our aspirations we'll work ahead I I would have to um Echo What U Joey had said I my favorite part was hearing from the students and having them at the table with us I think that's so important often times I I believe that the students feel that things are happening around them they don't have a voice and so that was incredibly important to me and and I too loved the the admissions officers from the colleges because I think they're um there's a lot of rhetoric out there of what our students need but I I I think we're in it like a Time shift like a lot of that rhetoric is what we remember college how you know that process being and it's shifted and we all have to kind of get on the same page so we're building up our students in a way that's you know they'll be productive for their future lives yeah I I just I was thinking about what Cindy said just having different community members um coming together I think that was really important and I know it was kind of a you know kind of an who would like to sign up for this right and it was kind of authentic but we ended up getting a variety of stakeholders which I thought was really important because some of the viewpoints of somebody who has a kindergarten student right um is very different than somebody who's has a graduate that you know um is 21 years old so I thought that was that was it you know we did have so many different viewpoints but I did think it was really important to hear from all them that was good Jessica um so as was like a tonr and the school Committee Member and a parent of kids in the elementary school you know I have certain perspectives hopes for the education of my own kids and and it was really great to hear the kids in college on Zoom you know giving their perspective now that they've left and and what they feel they needed and what they got from their education so and you know it it was amazing you know there was a lot of different opinions and a lot of different people and and it was a really great process and I thank you for organizing it um you know it's it's a really good project to bring them the school to a certain Vision thank you I'm s oh much like what Rene was saying about the variety of people I also was just impressed about how many participants it was a very large group which I thought was great and I also thought that when we had discussions it was very everyone was focused and it was there were really good Rich conversations so it was a great experience well we set Norms early on you know and really I think everybody was respectful of different opinions and I think that worked well in as you look at the pillars here the community resilience Civic engagement critical thinking and creativity it was this kind of all of the words in here mattered and to see all of these people trying to Wordsmith and get wasn't about wordsmithing it was getting the right words to convey what they meant in each of like the first word the community and bringing it down to these one this what did it mean to us each of these had meaning um so we worked very very hard on that it seems like it was simple but it really was very complex so um I'm grateful to all of them so I just if you don't mind just want to take a moment just to read Nam of the individual on the committee and um so thank you Amber Vio Linda Chola Cindy Sykes Patty and Inwood Lillian cedo who our our student representative Stephanie Woodward Jen Smith Renee Leandra Lisa sequera deer Lisa Mayer Adam Wilbur Karen Gordon Kathleen Barry darling yunin Joseph floro Katrina laon Sally stles and then John Campbell so thank you to all of them and work ahead that's awesome if I could I think the the organization of it you know be you know um Carol John and Sally each session was well orchestrated so I don't believe anybody felt like their time was wasted it was very um focused but fun and engaging and purposeful and I thank you all for doing that our next step is to bring these forward to the school to the um PTO beginning of next year and our school councils to get them familiar get more people on board and hopefully we'll be able to have folks who were willing to volunteer for the Strategic plan so you'll have a committee next year that will work on the Strategic plan and that will essentially turn into like the district Improvement plan okay for like the fall or that'll be for the following like fall of 2025 the fall of this coming year fall we'll invite folks to join that committee but before that the the administrative team is getting training this summer and theate creating a strategic plan from our colleagues in Menon lton to do this to learn how to do this well so because they have if you go on to the m Upton website you will see their their portrait of a graduate with their strategic plan so I think it'll really lend itself to a deeper richer um plan for the next several years great thank you all for participating in that project question oh yeah sure Carol this is the I think this is the third year we've been talking about for of graduate two years ago you kind of brought it up to everybody last year you started planning for it this year was the committee work I know you just you mentioned next year we're going to take a whole year to do a strategic plan I I look at the infographic and the logo and they're great they're beautifully done but the infographic specifically what are what could we tell parents today your taking a step back document that you had in there what is a portrait right it says it takes us from where we are to where we want to be but nothing else that I see in the drive or anything we can tell parents tells them well where are we and where do you want to be I look at the infograph and I think a lot of parents might have the question that I have is well this is where you want to be I was under the assumption that we were doing this or that we should be doing this now so what's what's the outcome of this when will it come because next year will be the fourth year now that we're involved in it in some way I don't know I just I guess I thought after this year after all the work not to diminish the work that was done because I know it was a lot of work that was done I talk to people on the committee all the time about it but I just thought we might have something more at this point what's going to change what needs to change why does it need to change what's it going to be how are you going to do it when is it going to be done those types of questions yeah those are the questions that would get answered Mike with the Strategic plan yeah that strategic plan is going to take the whole next years no it's not no no I I don't feel it's going to be the whole year I think it's going to be the fall of next year um and I would say with the vision and to your point I don't recall because I just took like I talked about it last year when I was two years ago you brought it up je was still here you mentioned it to me at least I was really excited about it Jeff was against it last year you started talking about planning trying to find the money for it this year you put the committies together then we did the work yeah I just I'm looking for this to be in place like I'm excited about it when is it going to be there what's going to change how is it going to help is a strategic plan going to be in place before the budget talks next year should be yes yeah okay y and I think I think it's just putting down what Danto is already building towards and and have for decades at least from my point of view and so I think it it really was just putting into words and ideas of what the staff is already working towards yeah and not only that Jessica I think just in general across elementary schools and the high school um to really say this is what's important to us now this is what's to the parents to the community members to the to the staff and to students about what what we want to have for our children when they graduate so I guess that is the question what is important to us now like I see the resilience okay students will demonstrate the ability to face challenges will collabora dependently with adaptability perseverance and G they don't do that now um I don't think it was ever defined I don't think it was ever actually in on pav I don't think it was ever ident identified we could say well this student has resilience and maybe that student doesn't you know needs need some help with that we can't really tell but we can at least now look at these are vision statements so we want to make sure that all of our students come out with a sense of resilience to what it means to them to be successful individuals when they graduate from T I guess that's my question yeah the vision statement it's like a company has a vision statement it's not good unless you do anything absolutely to live it so are you going to make changes over the summer to the course offer to change any of this or do like what is going to be done to do this and that's what we're learning about this summer to guide us and creating that strategic plan as well right how how slow the whole process works I guess yeah it is slow but me take time slow and but means are you guys all what did you meet six times felt like seven we me for s but it was like you guys met once a month so I yeah once a month yeah it was if you met once a week for six weeks then it that's not how volunteers yeah it's not achievable for volunte for 20s something volunteers so I do hear what you're saying but I I get it because it's government and it's volunteers and it's just yeah and being respectful of people's time to try to not make it a weekly meeting and um burn everybody out it's hard to make commitments I think for folks to do we have it's hard to right we have a monthly meetings here but um I think it was monthly and it gave people a chance to think and talk in between that time Joey I'm sorry did you have your hand up I don't I would I'm not sure why I would speak a second time I made do the first one sorry I wasn't paying attention I felt like I wanted to speak because one of the things I said about at the beginning when we sat to what you were speaking about I think we all realized that there were 20 something people there that we were all doing these things but we're all saying it differently calling it different things and and so part of it was just the unity of hashing it those conversations going oh we're all we're all saying the same thing we're just saying it a different way so the unity came in finding a way that we could all accept this is how we're going to say it from now on so it's sort of that that not a motto but sort of we are all on the same we were all on the same page we were just reading it slightly different like the old elephant thing we were all healing it part of the same elephant so now we identified right here's so a lot of it was just coming to that Unity because we are doing these things we aspire to trying to accomplish but now we just sort of have a way to say it in un I think was part of that thanks I think too like at the elementary schools do you still have sore yeah yeah so it's like a vision I don't know what that is what's sore we don't have that do we it's like our B safe oh it's like it's PB I'm not question whether it's great I'm just get it I know no I get it it took a year to gather information and now it's going to take another six months to actually execute on the plan I get it all right anything else good thank you to all the participants in that um especially the principals and the employees that are working all day and then doing these meetings and coming to school committee meetings so thank you that's great thanks Jess and Lisa too okay next up did anyone anything else before we move on Michael did you have anything that you wanted to say um about the budget tonight I don't want to put you on the spot you can say no I don't anything yeah I mean it the next phace really is to start of rebuilding um especially Berlin's and tant's budget y to address those um cuts and changes so that's why I spent most of my day today is looking at T I met the special ed department and I'll meet with um Lisa to go over you know what those like changes need to be and have to address them okay and get to a bottom line great and do that with John for Burman Elementary and uh we met briefly today with Cindy to talk about you know if there were impact with with Boon but of course there aren't so well there would be if we are using cash the impact Boon would be that cash will come back and we have to decide that's a different yeah we'll have to decide if we're going to lower the assessment right right and then we'd have to let the town out or if we use the cash right the committee can vote to do you know there was a we had a laundry list of asks for Boyston Elementary School y there's a piece of playground equipment we had originally said the bathrooms need to be red done um we were postponing parking lot project because we didn't have an appropriate quote at the time so I mean depending on how much cash we end up using out of end and all that stuff so um I guess my question is I know we've got seven days to get the assessment to the town right um but we can always lower it so we can go with the you know we could try to get a meeting um do we have to vote I guess is the question you don't because we've already voted on the assessment yeah all right what about Boon it's the same assessment um unless we lower it unless we lower it if we lower it we got a vote and we do a new assessment letter right okay but if we don't lower it you're you could stay the course um but you need to have a conversation with the their finance committee and their their select board so that can happen you know at their okay invol them ter of their okay so once you have numbers solidified we can get together I'll Reach Out Julie and I will we can put a subcommittee meeting on and we'll get with Howard and Matt is here so we'll definitely get with Boon and figure out um Berlin you'll get that assessment letter over all right that's good and then you'll present to the school committee what we ended up doing as far as we use this much cash we yes all right yeah all right great all right so did anyone have any questions I felt like it moved like 5,000 miles an hour last night even for me who was very deep in the details it was moving quickly did anyone have any questions or followup they wanted to discuss since we have it on the agenda or or we like budgeted out and we want to just move on did you have I'm just hopeful that from the 225 or what ended up being 215 that we won't impact any Middle School sports that weren't that aren't happening that list was solid so I don't think we're changing anything on that list it's just the 150 yeah yeah well there's that piece and then there's definitely the 150 as well that that was going to be more cash applied than reduction for that we kind of need to look at like it would be great I Mike and I were talking after the meeting last night it would be great and I don't even know if this is doable right now I know Michael you got so much on your plate it would be great to get monthly financials and like a budget to actual like a monthly yeah yeah we've never had that before definitely so to have that type of visibility and I know I'm not like asking for it now or even like next month because I know you have to build all that from scratch but it would be great like sometime with the beginning of next school year to have that so the school committee can gauge you know we the school committee took a lot of criticism for this budget it was frustrating because we all had so much skin in the game we were all working so hard we were all doing the best that we could with the information that we had so I think it would be wonderful and I mean Mike I remember Mike when he was chair asking for these reports this isn't like something new um so that would be wonderful yeah that's yeah that's that's it something we never had before all right great okay moving right along unless anyone had anything else to say all right Carol I know Matt here for the CPA conversation yeah do you want to do that before we get to administrative reports in your eil yeah that would be great yeah you not at all sorry no you Joey and Joey and Jen if you don't feel like I I just always feel about don't feel like you have of studies your portrait of graduat done there's anything else all good it's all good thank you both great so thank you yeah have a wonderful summer I know they were both there last night too okay go ahead Carol yeah so Matt texted me earlier today to ask about tonight to talk about the the CPA the preservation application um and some things that we he wanted to share about uh fixing our Fields over at Tanto and some of the money that's available to us so Matt would you like to go first and I can talk about this application um sure so oh I guess I missed that CP okay it was great though they were so helpful yeah they were they were really yeah they were waiting they were waiting for I talked to I ran into a lane and Sue um so kind of how I got pulled into this is there Junior the junior class the civics class yeah it's a Civics project um three of the students there chose to you know as they to the athletic fields um they asked me to help then raise some funds um and obviously CPA is the first thing that comes to mind um and I think you know car I think you guys probably have more conversations with them my initial conversation with oilon side is they were certainly willing to go down that road yeah but I know there a process and you know there's a long to go there they're willing to entertain it anyways um I think it's it's probably two phases is my guess is the first would be that soccer ac Crossfield inside the track which is a full renovation for what I'm told jul may know better than me I you've done some more work on um but to me that's what it use it's a full renovation and maybe the other fields don't necess quite I think the baseball probably next but second as far as the amount of we go um there's certainly traction right now with some businesses in town to help fund call phase one that that few set track um either through you know cash donations or labor donations or material donations I a couple meeting set up with some landscapers that are interested in helping out um what offer already to you know get the at Cost but um so there's a lot there as like I think I guess the only reason I want to come to I really want to make sure the three girls that have kind of Tak on this project stay involved because I don't want to discourage them you know the work that they put in I they quotes they want to put project together they're going to present to some of these businesses and things like that so I just want to make sure that they stay involved and get a wi that's the way it's going yeah so um my first thought is Julie we should like we have a I feel like we haven't had a subcommittee meeting in a while for budget so maybe we can get that on the books and that was something Matt Julie and I had talked about back in the fall and then when budget season hit yeah we just kind of everything else kind of just slipped through the crack so I'm very much looking forward to um getting back on that again and uh Elaine Jones is my neighbor and talked to her about CPA money from Boyston and the big thing she said was she's absolutely you know I think we get we got to go through application process it's something we can look at together um but also she she said you know Berlin has a share in that as well so and I know Julie you're on that committee as well and I think there's some funds there so I I feel like I'm very positive about this project and I think it's just kind of like getting a meeting on the books and getting started and I I took um I think is it Taylor's email yep I have her email so I told her I would reach out to her and we could all connect and I think it's wonderful that students are getting involved in this so I do think we can probably get phase one funded outside of CPA okay earlier on one way or another and if it sounds to me the simplest way to do that is to run through the booster club and then they get the project to the schools like so you guys would have to accept it all that but it'll make it more stream easier start process and all that so just some work to do there I think the initial timeline will start this summer see that happening I'd love to say the fall that may also be optimistic but um we'll see Y is it used in this [Music] trr that's a whole another aspect is a full year of no use yeah they told they said that they said they were G to talk to shury um they said they could use Hillside I don't know if anyone saw their Civics project it was great I don't know they they like have thought of everything I meaning 16 years old and going through this I thought it was phenomenal but I asked them that and they were like yeah we found out that you can't use the fields like six months after they're done right so she said they were going to look into like using fields in shury using the hillside working you know with parks and Ro in Boon burlin fields did you have something to say sorry no I Matt thanks for bringing this up but how old do these fields at 10 years old 13 school yes 20 13 years old 14 probably I remember in the spring when we T the schools we were talking about Fields Julie brought it up yes and it's 13 years old it doesn't seem like that old what's the issue that caused them to be in such a position they need to be completely lack of Maintenance so all right that's yeah that's what I figurability we talked about this in the fall with Dan and new Carol is there a written m plan going forward so C CP will require yeah okay Y for the application so we'll have to do that like I do have okay because I know that was we talk we've been talking about that since what was that September we talking about like you and you've been doing since before then I know yeah no I'm talking as like funding for that just like even a feel that size I mean that could be $40,000 just for maintenance right I understand $40,000 to maintain it or how much is going to be to completely redo it every couple of years because we don't me well no I agree with you you need to have a maintenance plan built we talked about that I don't know it's but when you think about like things that are cutting you're like oh I'll just you know pull the fertilizer for this first application it's not a big deal but it turns out is a very big deal which you probably they got maintenance so we had this is really frustrating too because we had in our original budget in February of 20 24 full-time meain and Par at Danto which I personally think probably to have a full-time ground ground person right the person would full-time be doing grounds for the district and that would eliminate needing to hire a maintenance company right or no they would have to Outsource right you would still have to Outsource a fertilizer yeah you need all that stuff it's a lot do s in land right yeah also have a drainage issue which we don't have so the drainage issue I believe um I need to confirm with the super he had gnl Plumbing that was going to come and put a camera down there think he said it was coming this week they were coming this week so we can find out what the deals with that pipe because either there's a valve close or there's a blockage or something we don't know the issue or or we know there's a pump that the pl a pump we don't know if that's real not I know the pump is not there we know the pump's up there we don't know PL say supposed to be installed so the water not making to the no knows why and this is a natural grass field because you can't do artificial because of the water right is that right artificial is tricky actually artificial is more to costly to maintain yeah more costly to maintain and put you're looking at so the quote right now is 268 for that field and you're probably at 1.2 for that's but it's over a million doll tur and like look at Messi won't even play on Turf so is it really that great oh I mean I I think it would be an issue yeah I was just gonna say yeah the conservation that's nasty stuff too yeah yeah yeah we brought them in in in the fall to look at it they weren't too keen on the idea of an artificial turf there for sure so um didn't we build in like $25,000 into the budget for Photon I can't remember if we removed that or if it's in in the capital I'm trying to BR the to but it doesn't it just it doesn't go that was just for like maintenance or something if it's if it's a mess out there right you're going to pour in all this money fertilizer you need to do like several applications of fertilizer and seed to kill out the stuff that's there add to that you can only treat when kids aren't on campus yeah that issue you had someone come and I thought we put I can't remember now it's very Tri we put 25,000 in for this budget sounds like they have a PR good plan yeah that's really accurate just for that a little bit High because of the way the condition of the fields are I got I got two quotes want to uh redo the whole this is just soccer field this cost $268,000 let's redo the whole soccer field if a little bit of maintenance plan uh $25,000 right I thought you we you brought that to us and I thought we put that into the capit yeah might as well the yeah all right yeah I don't think I saw renovation from golf course just but was but I do think we can bring that number down just through donations of material and things like that I don't know how much but and I think we can bring you know we can get M Athletic Field renovation 29240 we have we have we built that into the capital budget 29240 so that was just to do minor Renovations or maintenance or whatever but it's built into the capital budget for um Tanto for 2024 2024 yeah $ 229,230 not 2020 not no I'm looking at this right now the sub total is 10 19,800 of which Boon had like 70 something thousand and Berlin had like 28 or something yeah it was 29 240 for the athletic field 8,100 for the hbac 15,000 non-student device repair walkie-talkie P talk about next fiscal year sorry 2025 yeah starting it starts two weeks July yeah so that was approved on both ends so the cash is there for that we have the 20 it's 29240 so that should be something to jump start the project or whatever put a deposit down or whatever is needed but that was built into the budget Athletic Field renovation and that the money for this grant would be for next summer but we need to have and the the committee recommended getting two individuals one from each town to we have to get a um determination of Eligibility form completed and submitted by September 1st so I'll me so they asked me to get two volunteers from the school committee to do that this Sumer and and also asked about getting Berlin to work with us on that yeah I can work so Julie why don't we have a subcommittee meeting and we can work on that all right we'll do that we'll figure out that's it quotes on the rest of the fields so the only one I the softball field and I was just told that's good I don't know about the rest but just what those I mean does the DCR have any regulations about the fertilizer put down well that's the thing fertilizing is Trick more expensive you got games yeah we have the same thing too because weour so I'll just keep you guys posted on what I can raise and then see what the G is there yep yeah you just ra all the money yeah right through the booster club that's perfect that's actually SM um yeah so I think we all right that's great thank you so much thanks for coming back appreciate it we should have some plan for getting that field at least as much grass as possible before soccer starts off for the fall yeah so I play need do a couple formalization applications right they already did one oh great they just did one oh great all right there's also an OP of those quot that just do half of that field which I assume means the other half must not be T I think it is too unless we ra that and then we just we'll see we'll see all right thank principal reports Mrs Sykes would you like to go first I would love to thank you for allowing me to share uh the positive things at the end of the year that came fast and furious uh we had a lot of field trips we had a lot of parent involvement coming in which I'd like to see more of that through the course of the year instead of the end of the year next year but we'll work on that we had an amazing field day uh fifth grade recognition and the biggest thing I'd like to highlight is we have the PTO and the bef have joined forces and are now known as beepo yes I notto Boon education parent teacher organization and they provide us both organizations provided us with so many resources for our students we look forward to working with them again um next year there is a proposal I'll bring up later for the after school program that's okay yeah did anyone want to talk about the after school program so Cindy had a a proposal out there for the after school program to increase the um the fees I did not realize that um are the fees at bees were different than the fees at BMS I had no idea until I looked at that well Carol brought that to me like a week ago or two weeks ago she was said did you know and I said I had no idea my kids don't do after school so um did you guys want to discuss that did anyone have any questions on that can I explain oh yeah why don't you go through that so um thank you so um Michelle hadam and eile McQueen are the they run this and they have come to me with this a little bit the main reasons is there's some staffing and training for the staff there's some things that happened in the after school program that I'd like to get ahead of um for next year um but it's basically trying to make it more consistent with other districts our program and BMS but our our program is very big uh sometimes we have 80 kids there sometimes we can have 125 and we want to make it safer we want to make sure the staff is trained there um and we have enough staff to watch that many children so it's bringing it up probably about 20% and then having a discount for as the children go ahead that is something um Michelle hayam kind of compared it with BMS to see where they are and make it a little bit um consistent but also to give that percentage discount if you have more children so everything is laid out there what it would look like compared to other districts she did her homework both of them did um just to see where that is so the proposed increas is on the second page and so for example if you have one child that goes one day a week it would be $60 per month instead of 50 in set their Fe okay so these are monthly fees and we were looking at about a 20% increase this year so not hit parents too much but to to raise it we were talking with M about that and that's recomended and raise it a little bit every year till the till the both schools I mean coming from daycare to after school cost like that's it's quite cheap well can't believe how far under we are yeah I mean with everything we did last night you're going to have to probably increase that yeah yeah it's shocking yeah that's the the difference um it's just shocking so um yeah say that someone who uses it two or three days a week for two kids I think this is a leftover from the days will Mo to sep districts and so the districts were [Music] setting yeah yeah but bees just never raised their fees for like nine to 10 years right that was the situation so yeah I mean I don't think these increases are too so we'd be voting on raising bees to the proposed increases which was on page two it's about a 20% increase for one child if you have two or three kids you get a discount okay does anyone have any uh questions on this he's Fair where where does where does the money go for after school program rol than obviously to revolving fund it should be dedicated um to the the after school program right um I haven't looked into it but uh I understand there are some uh fees that may go to related cost like some for the custodian that's there that during the time that they're there to help out things like that also look at that make sure that you know it's apportioned appropriately U or how it's a portioned but um you know anything that's related to the operation of the program um can come out of those that involving it account and then any excess which just stays in a revolving just a revolving for the district not for after school no ST dedicated to that to after school to after school yeah I mean the you know we could we could come up depending on again you know like we were talking about last night we want the funds to to be there perpetually uh so you know we could look at you know cost for rent rental of the space because it's you know it's a sort of it's an Enterprise fund it's running itself um cost from running having director having you know staff is it staffed appropriately I think there's some question about the number of staff for students so you know maybe we come up with a rule that we should have one adult or 10 10 children you know whatever you know and figure out a budget for it and and say okay well now you know we're not quite doing it that way we kind doing it backward backwards in the sense that you know we're just trying to even out between the two Community programs um but you know we should we could do that and and actually a portion some cost um back to the general fund so speak so that they're operating yeah so that's a that's a good idea yep okay okay great all right Mrs syk did you have anything else no that is it all right thank you all right Mr Campbell I'll be brief thanks for uh including me um yeah end of the year was as lovely as always I think the thing I'll highlight is probably the uh end of the year concert that our combined fourth and fifth grade Bandon core students to I'm always amazed always amazed at the quality of music that comes out of very small children because I hear them in fourth grade I think they're never going to be able to tun and miraculously Mrs bruss always gets them there um the same thing with Audrey Thompson who is just an amazing thing I did have a concern you know the whole New York theme was fine but you know there were several lovely Buffalo songs they could have wrapped into it um and chose not to um but other than that you know Nature's Classroom was amazing the kids really enjoyed that um GL day school and clap out it was it was a good end of the year not nearly as stressful in my school as it was for the committee so thanks all right great thank you all right um did I know have questions for John okay Miss aquera thank you thank you for um asking me to share this I it was very busy end of the year I knew it was going to be busy and I wasn't quite expecting it to be um as busy as it turned out to be uh first um all testing was completed um the first week of June I think that's always a surprise that we are doing mcast testing right up through um June 4th and 5th I think it's important to note that the eighth grade students had four they sat for four separate mcast exams this year uh you know math Ela science and they added the Civics exam this year and that was two separate sessions so therefore they only tested only as web testing they only sat for that twice this year um but that um is important to note to understand um how much testing our students um undergo for graduation graduation exercises for the class of 2024 were held on June 2nd um at 2 pm um it was a beautiful ceremony and I was so proud of the students 76 students um earned their diploma and there there are a few stats that I'd like to share there were 69 seniors that applied to 174 different postsecondary institutions so there was a lot of applications um and quite a few of those um there will be students attending colleges and universities in Massachusetts but also in 17 different states outside of Massachusetts that's pretty impressive we have um about 76 6% of the students um went off to a four-year College 11% to a 2-year 4% to Career Education or technical training programs and 8% joining the workforce and we had one graduate who was already part of the United States Army so that was um an impressive group of young people um we will miss them um a great deal I think the last two high well last three highlights the career fair which had been the like one of the very few snow days the original Career Fair held we rebooked it for June 6th and it was really a wonderful opportunity for our community members to come in and meet with our students and for them to share their work um experiences and the training that went into professions in various different fields I think that it's incredibly worthwhile um and the guidance Department creates a scavenger funds to go around so the students actively because it's I mean high school student they they're you know kind of like oh what do I say you know but this gets them and then once they start talking that it becomes this really fruitful conversation and we've heard several people mentioned the cat Fair the Civic Action project this was the first year we invited community members to come in and share their projects and that was amazing I was so proud of all the projects and I was so proud of the work they did and the confidence they had and how they presented themselves and it was just it was that is what Tanto is all about and I was so proud of them it was um great and Shout Out fantastic Middle School f day PTO hosted an amazing Field Day Julie thank you so much for all of your help it was really that was um it was an outstanding kind of um end of the year and then we had eighth grade graduation on the last day and it was it was great great year thank you thank you for letting me share any questions no thank you that was great all right um oh so I did want to say one thing sorry I just got distracted for a sec um thank you for including us for the the Civil the Civics career the Civics Action Project sorry I thought that was excellent um I was blown away by the projects and some of the ideas that the kids had um you I forgot what it was like to be in high school it's been so long and I have little kids but it it really blew me away to see how much some of these kids want to give back to their community so thank you for including us I I hope that the school committee will and I saw pretty much almost everyone on the committee at least popped in so um I'm hoping that you'll include us next year yeah I love all I saw board and yeah I saw people all different people um Steve marrow was there from the highway department so it was awesome to see everyone from the community it really was I love I love that that we did that this year that was really great yeah all right Fant FC okay anything else from squa might want to expand it to the gym oh yeah we actually just did we had no idea you know so so moving forward right absolutely so moving forward we absolutely will have a diff um bigger we thought it would be like nice and cozy we very was great okay uh Janelle um sure so I submitted a report to you with a snapshot of um student data for the last um I believe that that is six years representing um different student groups that constitute um High needs and you know I think it's interesting to show how our small District changes little by little um over the years and um on the second page you can see that there's some definitions there that um accompany those categories okay great did anyone have any questions about this okay is there anything else okay uh Sally yeah so You' seen my report so as you you saw that there's a couple items on there that leis actually just spoke about one of them being the career fair and so I know you've already talked about it but I was just also very impressed that um first of all last year I think we had about 16 different participants and this year we originally when we um scheduled it for April we had 24 which I thought was great and although we had rescheduled we still got 20 participants to come back so um great so I was really happy about that and it was a nice variety of participants as well the other thing Lisa mentioned was also the Civics Action project um another thing is that um I know that we came in and um had a first read on the new wellness policy and there were some great questions that were brought up actual draft so that we can bring it back for a vote in the fall um but in the meantime Lisa May and also Lisa lamro who's our um lead nurse of the district and I were invited to a wellness to a a conference in Norwood in May where we were recognized by the um acting commissioner for being Wellness champions for the work that we did with the coaching program um that we were associated with there so that was really great and um then the other one was just that I also was um asked to do a presentation um for des's um digital literacy and computer science conference in Westboro and um that was a great conference too because they um had all sorts of different topics um that I was able to bring information back to umon awesome thank you did anyone have any questions for Sally okay wonderful moving right along Paul good evening um I also had a pretty brief report um just highlights um about state and federal reporting um again update on the federal side um we did um when last time I reported on this um we hadn't submitted yet we did submit on time um all the data was reviewed um by by the feds and at this time um they have any questions or um need any further details from for from us about our submission so that's always a good when when you get past that review process um and again noted that um typically this isn't every other year but because of covid last year was delayed um and so we will be um having to to do that report again and again at this point we probably already have about 60% of the data um ready for next year submission um end of year typical stuff from the state includes those four um different reports that I've noted um basically it's kind of like covering the schools the student side the teacher side the course and our course offering side and in the end of the year they have't added um school safety and discipline report that that needs to be done and again um most of that reporting is um is looking good we have some minor areas that still need to be corrected um before the August deadlines for those reports but um that should not be issued for us to do um I did want to and on that second page of the report um want to commend Bon Warren um who um is the data support specialist I think is her official title um she does a wonderful job keeping our our data um clean and up toate and um error free as much as possible so that um when it comes to my portion of what what needs to be done as far as like actually getting it to the state or to the feds makes that um that job so much easier so again I wanted to take the time to publicly say that as well that money more does a wonderful job and I don't know how I can do my part of that without her support um and then the second second item was the fiber Grant U project um it is moving all the fiber has been run to this building to Berlin Memorial and um Central office they were supposed to actually finish today uh running into um Bon Elementary but they ran into Subs at the 14070 split and so um it's currently um going to be now because they actually are losing some of their crew that they was going to work it's not going to happen until next Thursday um but again should be done by the end of the month um and um from the internal side um Carol approved POS today that will um get the equipment that once the fiber runs are completed um will allow us to actually have the communication between the buildings and again make some improvements in that our internal Network all right great did anyone have questions for Paul is there any sell service update sell service yeah um so the on the town side they keep asking Verizon 4 um um updates as far as like where they're at with again like they have added additional 5G um um networking along Route 70 um they have an indicated to back to the town whether you know they're going to add more again they just basically continue to testing you'll see every once in a while that there will be a Verizon truck out and um again they they spot test but um yeah I I don't have a lot of information for you because they Verizon is very close about what they're doing and they're installed past center of town towards like I think it's almost like those things are installed all the way to Tanto right they they are um again originally they had told the town that they were going to do about every third or fourth pole and then it became more like uh we might do four or five betweene 70 and um in Tanto and there is one right out in front if you don't have a 5G phone it's not really um helping you at this point um again anecdotally I can tell you that um most folks still have an issue here unless they uh get out front being in a building that has is made of concrete and metal is still going to be an issue even with that there okay something and again I think you like in the school Tech in the in your subcommittee to talk I I think before you start thinking about okay are we gonna do other things in terms of trying to get a better signal in here you're dealing with whether you wanted to have kids having cell phones on their bodies at any point anyway so um you know it's like those conversations I think almost have to happen for before you start saying going down the road of all right do we need to to add repeaters internal yeah that's the repeaters that we talked about yeah was like 200 Grand right okay I thinking more when people are in the school like parents if they're at things yeah a safety issue the other thing is like a safety issue like today did you see the 911 lines were down yeah so it's just stuff like that scary 69 to 1113 right oh my God you got memorized from childhood yes good for you teach my yes thank you very much okay last but not least Dan hi just a couple updates from the roof we're doing an initial walk through on July 18 10 a.m.

it's 5:38 sites and Facilities June 17th we're gonna I'm going to move it right over to Mike because we have a one important item on our agenda so let's get going thanks all right so uh thank you all for making time even though school is out uh we still have official business here before the board so the big item on tonight's agenda one item is going to be the naming of the new facility at the former ctis now there's actually two names that we need to consider uh one is the school itself and two is the sort of Campus the larger site the complex that is there so we have a couple ideas that have been sort of bounced around this came up once before a little over a month ago um and when this body agreed on it it went through to full board but the the full board couldn't come to an agreement on it so now it's come back to us again so we're hoping that this time when we uh come up with the name it will go board on Thursday and uh we'll be able to submit this all up to the state make sure it's there in time for our sign to get built um we are really up against it here if we don't get this in we won't have sign the credit will be Pennies on the dollar which means we may not get to sign for a very long time or it will be a very cheap sign so um Cara can I throw it to you for some recommendations sure thanks mikee um and again just uh just to reiterate that the the the sign the sign package is included in the the overall project so it behooves us to to to stay within the the project guidelines um so the the two the two names that we hope go forward um so for the site itself which is the um the Dual building of the high school in the Board of Ed as well as potentially some other areas that could you know be in development in that area so we've all heard that there's I think we have first right of refusal for the hologic building that's a little bit further down the hill um and there's some space back there that has still some potential to be developed so um with that in mind with that growth in mind and with already the two different programs that are housed on the site we'd like to call um the site the Danberry Public Schools education complex which opens up to a broad a more broad um use and signals as to what the site or the campus is used for and on the second portion I know that has been a little bit more uh tossed around a bit um but there's been some very strong recommendations to continue to have Danbury High School West Campus so Dany High School main campus which everyone is very familiar with and then on the west side of town the West the west campus um but we tossed around the idea that we would just call Dy high school and we'd have the address um it was Antonio or Dan or one of the Architects said that the GPS direction fin it's very important to make sure that we have a clear distinction in the title um West and Maine or or you know Maine and something else so that people don't get lost especially when visiting the school so the two names stanbury uh Public Schools education complex for the site and deny High School West Campus for the High School portion of that site turn it over to the Dan do you want to give us your uh I just seen a lot of confusion is where I'm coming from from the school side when uh even now when we look at the plans the paperwork the the illustrations of the architect comes out it still says dan Career Academy on it and immediately makes people think that that's the Career Academy and it's that Stanford high school and there my biggest fear as I've said before is as the principal of the building is going to be how are they not separate trying to keep them under one we were all at that graduation the other night and that was one high school graduating you know and when we graduate even though that other building is still going it's going to be under at that place under D high school so to me keeping a name that may seem silly but just to keep a name that keeps them connected those two buildings connected is very important I think it leads a lot to keeping it as one place and as we get better at this I'm hoping that travel back and forth and classes on one and the other will start seamlessly work a little bit better it'll take us quite a few I think years to get there uh but that those are my really good concerns thank you do we have any questions from committee members so um are these two separate motions that you're bringing for two correct vote on both correct one would be the complex and one would be the building than don't building itself I mean a little bit fuzzy the complex you want to refer to it as the Public School Educational complex right it's in move of something like is on clap for bridge what is the the second one is that more of a directory type yeah so so the sign the complex the educational complex sign will be down towards the bottom of the hill so when you go down um if you've ever been up to the site it' be great to get everybody up there to go visit but if um at the bottom of the site where the entrance is that's where that educational complex um signage would go when you get up to the actual site um well there's going to be a Boe side to the building that'll have a board of education um signed which that's has not been in question so that's kind of a no-brainer but on the high school side of the building with those High School entrances that's the portion where we'd like to say deny High school-west campus so you'll have a board of ed and you'll have the deny High School West Campus but the but the the site in totality and anything else that any future developments would you call the deny de book schools education complex sorry are we look at the the U on the turn appd when you have the the complex sign will there be another l of the the high school the B bed or whatever else you so I don't think so on that initial sign um I think that that would come I think there's room for that underneath so we could put like the you know whatever goes in underneath that over time but the original the big big expensive sign is the the big one that we're looking and I do not believe the logic and then they still going to be underneath like they'll still be on the same picture you know like Square Mall it's got square and listed underneath everything on it this would be D educational complex and then H would be down there D High School West danur Board of Education and car mentioned if you you know get another building because theic leaves and D decides they want that for whatever D Public Works D whatever would all be but the top name will be Danberry public school public school educ [Music] complex Al I think the con if you if you go to bethle public schools down at the bottom they have Beth I think Beth schools complex or something to that sort so when you take that driveway you know you're going into the school into the schools and then as you go up the driveway their main road they have either the elementary school middle school and the high school top okay so I think that I I'm okay with that and that perspective from the road sign on kosha what I still still own by the Westside DHS wests side okay and the reason is that there are a lot of people in this community don't don't even know where Westside Middle School is located they know it's on West Side not really weird okay so if we're going to name VHS West campus I'd rather go with DHS Kenosha campus Because know everybody knows that it's down on the kosha area and becomes more specific to the location Terry um thank you for letting me talk um first of all there's another consideration uh based on my years at Westcom being two campuses all the mail was directed to the Main Street campus is that something what you're going to consider I mean just thinking down the road and then the other other thing the main sign um I don't like so much the public education D public educ I like the de Education Center in that way you could call it the deck you know go to the deck Center as opposed to like even um uh Dan was calling it the education center we don't really need public Dan public education center I just like the shorten version you know Danbury education center and call it the de campus or whatever but as far as the building goes yeah that could be up for grabs anybody else [Music] I'd like that I guess I'm approaching it from a perspective of like how do we keep this simple I don't want to make things complicated I know that folks have expressed confusion like you talked about Al but I also think like part of that is just people getting used to something new um you know we've had changes with locations or the names and things before there's always a period of transition and so I wouldn't want to make a decision based on what people's immediate reaction is going to be but rather like down the line um I guess I'm looking at Westcon they have a Midtown campus and they have a Westside campus so that's sort of like the thought I have in my head about it I think when we start to get specific with labels although I understand in the immediate that's helpful for people to identify I'm not sure like to me just the same way and maybe that's just my own bias and my experience with Westcon that's kind of leading into this but that's sort of where I'm going for a moment um you know as far as the complex is concerned you know I don't really have a problem with name you know I understand where you're coming from on that Terry but um you know I think it's possible also to have name like that that's appli to it even though the formal name on the sign might look different just also something for us to consider is that you know sometimes these things happen like we call this place be Brook we don't call it the beook administrative Center um and sometimes we just call offices or central office um so those are just some things for to keep in mind that you know we're choosing a name but um what's the expression that Rose by Any their name would smell just sweet um I kind of feel like you know if our if our school leadership is coming forward with these names um you know I'm inclined to you this particular issue I just see it [Music] deal the first motion you know I mind the second one the only thing I'm that adverse to what you have it's just that all of our other schools are named after streets it it might be approp appropriate to to keep in here or to consider the Danbury High School appleid Road campus or something like that um it just keeps the continuity of all of the other schools that we have that are referred to by the locations that we have but I would go with both it's not that important to me to waste that's a good one art art campus appleid Apple Ridge Road campus Ark you know believe in the I'm think I'm not I'm not that creative I I just thought you know to keep the continuity may want to consider that my quick thought is and I know that we have been talking about uh naming the school for quite a while in meetings and I think we have to not patch this but we have to move on the procedures I'm comfortable with you know gamb Public Schools education come as I go to the men specialist weeks and weeks after weeks and I go to these big building and they tell me to come to building number two on this Stree and then when I get there down in the lobby or before I get to the lobby it said go a this is where you go B is what and this is what I'm sort of looking at okay as for as naming this then Public Schools I would want to take public schools out of it because we are supporting D public schools and that's the way I'm doing that the second motion I'm comfortable with that Dan High School Westside campus okay just west just west whatever so I'm comfortable with moving forward to much and that's all that I have to say anybody else kosha did come up a couple times too again I I just it's nothing against the west side you you know I'm more of a more specific and and you know as another issue when I talk about Administration when we get to that but that's a different story but right now for for the name I I still find that you know even when I was working at the in a courthouse there are and I knew damri pretty well and there were certain areas I just didn't know okay but somebody said well so off Kos now I know where to go to Direction that's why you know so yeah West Side got it but we still got to find follow the question where on West Side is it located then you're going to say apple whatever it is where is that but if you say it's off kosan on kosan it's not on Kos yes it's not on kosan but the entrance to the school is going to be off Kos the actual address is out the I I understand it but you still got to travel on kosha to get there if you say West Side what part of West Side am I going to I'm just saying you having a conversation understand I just think high school has no it's not D school on Ridge it's not D High School on Main Street off just Broad View is on house I got that's like the part I worried about when you start talking about roads it's not off it's not off you still have to find the sign up but you see the sign it says D Public Schools complex you know that's going to be right there and and if the if there's going to be a sign that says dem Public Schools education complex or or Dem Public Schools complex whatever you want to call it I'm okay with that whatever the name is underneath somewhere is going to say demy high school but still people are going to say Where's that where is the complex at no you know I just think it's it's important you know obviously to be unanimous we got here last time and everybody felt pretty good about it then we got to the the larger board meeting and it kind of fell apart so um you know I I whatever we decide is is fine I as long as I think we move together in unison so that we can move this forward for for Thursday because it is the timing is eminent it's a costly expense if we were to not move forward with it and we be left holding the back on the expens on our own so good again uh at Westcon things uh programs on the westside campus were confused uh with the main campus vice versa people were unsure because they used the address on Main Street and that was a problem they didn't have separate addresses so that was another conflict with two a dual Camp it was hard it was the only uh University with the Dual campus at the time okay so why don't we okay address I don't see all the M coming to high school if it does like it'll have its own address you know I'm just saying this is what they experien I didn't know something to consider going forward uh the problem with using just one address it was good in one way but tough in the other cuz people got confused yeah we would use two addresses and something got sent to us at high school that had to go over there we put the carer is it possible I mean it sounds like we're all in agreement with the first motion yeah with regard to the second is it possible that we come up with three variations see what the general feeling is on on that and just get it done tonight I mean there's one position is koser I made a recommendation that you call it the Apple rge the Apple and you can leave it at as such and just see how many people favor each one and go with that all right well let's if we're all good with the first motion why don't we move forward with at least the complex and get that off the table Apple Bridge Ro D Public Schools education complex Apple Bridge [Music] Road I'm saying the address the address is on the address is is Apple it's Apple app yes okay yes okay so does somebody want to make the motion the first motion no go ahead oh did you want to I I'm a second one okay let's let's finish the first one get it off the table and then we can move on to the second one I'd like to make a motion to name the new site forly the cartis building on Apple Bridge the Danbury public school's education complex okay motion second by Rich all in favor I I motion passes okay now now we can let's discuss the second one and going back to the second the second one as I said like I said I'm I'm in support of point kosha but to get this going to the point where we got to get the sign in there I'm I'm okay with going with West Campus or whatever cuz we can always change the sign somewhere down the road if you comes down I mean we have to change the name anyway because of the academy was under the budget and the proposal and all that other stuff so it's going to be changed anyways but I'm okay go forward and you know with West Campus although I don't agree with it people are going to get confused but I'll go with it I think the reason we're here so we don't have to do that ass change because I'm okay with anything that says Den school after what you do after that um I'm kosha Apple Ridge West I'm really okay with any one of those I just think West is simpler I think West is main but the big one for me is the dam Career Academy needs to come out of that's after that I thought had right IDE able to you know I'm not going to reinvent the wheel on so I'll stay with the motion as his so we can get it done quick clarification on the first motion is it um a recommendation to the full board it yes want me to make a motion yes the name of the new High School portion of the site formally referred to as dber create Academy of part site on appleid Road Danbury High School West Campus okay made by do I have a second I'll second second by Al all in favor I motion passes we have nothing else I'll take a motion to ajour I make a motion toour oh did you want to say something okay um oh sorry I just didn't know if it had um made the agenda your suggestions that to come to sites and Facilities recommendations or was that something for NE beginning next year beginning next school year yeah that was for next year yeah y I'm good okay same same thing we're going to talk about with the the electric lights yeah all that stuff yeah we just wanted to get this in we were to get this done okay so motion tojn motion to adjourn thank you and before you all leave if you took your college home on Thursday after graduation please bring it to Carol Mr L Roa will want those cols back and I know we as board members are oh it's brighten but pretty as you look at it walking down so we don't have money to order new cols let's keep what we got unless we going to pay and get them to order some more okay let's be comfortable with what we have and keep our mouth CL please bring it's three people three people Mr L Roa is asking so could you get it responsib I wasain thek my goal was to get out of that parking lot before anybody start okay see everybody

on the 26 works for both of you y have it in my calendar okay so um Karen will get an agenda out tomorrow probably and we'll have that um available and it'll be so Wednesday at two o'clock we'll have our our um meeting to approve the sedexo contract said five o' yeah I think we should have a quorum if there's an issue we may give you a call but I think it should be fine so that's wedn any questions on anything addressed in the superintendent oh yes um and Sam you'll have to forgive me I don't know your last name I'm gonna let you why don't I let you introduce yourself this is our new food service director for with sedexo pleasure to meet you the camera will catch you pleasure to meet you president Thomas members of the board my name is Sam schoy I Am the new area general manager for sedexo in charge of the whole Northern Arizona territory if you will ranging from here to next door of the Neighbors in Cottonwood and all the way down to Fountain Hills I'm from Gilbert Arizona here currently have my house there I bring 10 plus years of school Food Service experience to the table with affiliations with ad NDA and CD as well so I've served in three different states and I'm just glad to be back in Arizona and helping schools here helping us Thrive and through children welcome we look forward to working with you thank you yes it's a lovely place and been here for two weeks and we're going strong and there's actually an agenda item later on the agenda to maybe put him in a tiny home so we're um we're we're hopeful and and but uh but we're excited to have him he he brings some good experience and we've had some good interactions with him over the last couple weeks so we're glad he's here thank you that's great any other questions from Mr SCH his last superintendent report anything youall want to ask okay all right then item 7 B1 is financial reports Mr Livingston please okay looking at the the month end at May 31st 2024 of May was a busy month for our budget it got increased by about million3 we took it up2 milon 4,000 for operating budget we did that on May 13th the end of the month uh we had a budget then of 20, 4,000 for our operating we spent 8,1 192,000 which was 90.5% of the budget but almost 92% of the days gone as of the end of May there's only 30 days left in June so we like that when we have a little lag rather than spent 95% of the budget 50% of the days have gone like that so we have that nice little 08 of a of a percent there so we we like a little drag that way Capital we've got a budget still of the the two million we' spent 64% of that we do have some encumbrances left some in our operating fund of course are salaries benefits we've got utilities and and fuel uh Capital we do have a few items that are still encumbered um as well and our our policy is has been for the last three years to just really really really scrutinize everything in that capital budget and we've been able to buy I think 1.2 million in curriculum last few years just because we've been able to to do that and it's been it's been really helpful to have those Capital dollars uh ending cash overall the district 6.6 million um the report there that shows cash is I'd like to just focus on that for just a second the one that's got the vertical and that's got starting at 010 in the upper left corner and it goes down to 9 959 the one is looking at there uh it's not really deceiving it's just it's got to be written in a certain way to show incumbrance so if we take a look at fund 691 it's about tenth from the bottom it shows the beginning cash of zero and what we do when we pay bills like tomorrow well Wednesday we're paying another $700,000 of bills out of this fund so we wait for those revenues to to clear the county account from the school facilities board and then we match the revenues to those expenditure invoices and we pay that so after we pay our bills to to our we've got seven different contractors we paying out of there cash always goes back down to zero so when we started the 23 24 year cash bu if you come along there you see the total revenue is 12, 2,000 so that's what we've brought in 12 million 2000 the reason expenditures are a little bit different is some of those if you remember back in July August September up to October last year we were spending money out of indirect costs not of of M to pay Millennium gas because they they shook our hand with us June 26 and said we'll have Del Rio's gas lines in by August gosh it was July 26 they they discovered the leak in the gas lines of Delio by August 4th they had them completely redone but they said when we need payment we're going to need payment tomorrow we can't wait around for the state so the expenditures are are a little funy there I'll have to Che those up because it's more than 9 million it's 12 million spent make sure was into that account right move it in shortterm borrow it and then once the cash from the state comes in so that's why we've got a little bit of but 12 million 200,000 has come in and then you follow it across to the encumbrances of 19 million and then you see the ending budget balance 17 million that's that's not quite right it's just that those encumbered amounts like we've still got $7 million encumbered for the high school we've only paid them about 350,000 for the high school agac because they don't have any units going they've been getting materials on site so we've got to encumber that same amount for next year same with territorial we haven't paid them much I think we've paid almost 600,000 on a $5.2 million budget territorial so those 13 million are all encumbered for next year so the encumberance are are the most accurate thing here about 19 million and those will carry out in next month you'll you'll show them again the new budget y so so there's three things going on there's beginning cash and then Revenue then there's expenditures and incumbrances and those incumbrances kind of drag that ending budget balance out so you're seeing two things you're seeing cash but you're also seeing incumbrances which have nothing to do with cash so but it's a liability that we have to hang on to so it's it's it's kind of overstated so but the one that's perfect so to speak is 010 at the front end the very top one there is actually at the end of April exactly that amount that 1.4 million cash in because we don't count in cences for those we just spay them four times a year this is our our teacher special fund we just pay them four times a year so whoever's here at the time and the principles approved that they're on course and meeting standards pay them amount given this year was 13,500 per per full-time teacher that met all the standards so that that fund is doing extremely well and that but again it has no incumen so any any questions on the month end report again I anticipate out of the 20 million M budget we'll have at least a million to carry forward to next year any questions any musters all right uh Mr Student Activity fund report case great so that's that's on the following page and that's one uh our purchasing person Charlie all purchasing and accounts payable does and if you look there in the incumbrance column second from the right you see there's no incumbrances so that 164,000 cash has no incumbrances against it so it better not be they're not in school anymore yeah so because that that is connected with a student motion student body motion to approve expenditure so way to go anyone that's involved in watching Student Activity accounts they had their last meeting to approve their last expenditures before school let up so then we could write those checks and one of the later later things was in May I believe M Crawford might correct me but I think they went on the senior trip in May is that right so then that was the last big expenditure from student council went to California it was all approved funds were in the account all I can say is really well done on the Student Activity takes a lot of time and and dedication on the part of our staff to make that's all I have on thank you so much item 7c is our Chino Valley Unified School District Workforce housing project Mr SCH so um six months ago um I was several superintendents were approached by um Tim C of the county superintendent saying hey there's another housing Grant um and you got a month to take care of it to get everything in and so it actually no one was ready for it and so um no one applied for it and and so the County Schools office said hey there's going to be another opportunity in September for this and so that gave us plenty of time to to plan and so um I've been talking to Cindy and um we've and then also Chris sheriff who's our facil director and I was we have a piece of land at the high school that I thought would be an ideal ideal location which is on the northeast corner over behind the softball field and we have done a great job about getting our single teachers housing um we could use something for more f for more family housing um so there is again the opportunity for this grant uh we also know have have been told that if we partner with other entities that we might have an advantage in um the being awarded this this Grant and so we have reached out to the town of Chino Valley to see if they would like police housing um along with uh the central Arizona fire and medical authority to see if they would like firefighter housing and both of those entities were excited to hear about this grant opportunity we met Cindy and I um met with both um groups and so um we have if you if you look on the um there is a satellite picture of kind of like the location you can see the softball field there um and then there is a um Chris Sheriff reached out to somebody um who owed us a favor and they kind of Drew up some plans and so right now on that 6100 squ foot area which is behind the softball field and we would move in the softball field fence we would move it in um the softball coach wants that because there's a temporary fence now we're not hitting enough home runs and so they'd like to fence in a little closer so that would provide some more area um we are thinking that we can put four duplexes or eight units on that property um of the 61 thou th000 square feet we have access to Road one East through an easement so they the um residents would not have to travel through the school they could directly come off of one East to that property uh it was a it's 1300 foot homes um three bedroom two bath homes um easily it could either be multiple single people or um families that could live there um we're thinking also longer than just the maybe the transitional housing this may be longer term housing um but the the neat thing about it is this would be a $3 million project it would only be we'd only have to come up with 10% of the funding so that means that we could potentially come up with 8, units and what the proposal would be would be $100,000 from our school district $100,000 from kma $100,000 from the town of Tino Valley and then the fourth contribution would be the school district providing the land and so um because we would be providing 200 half of the um half of the donation or the contribution we would get half of those housing units so it would be four housing units for the district um and then each $100,000 addition $100,000 would get two additional housing units so the town will get two units the cap would get two units they decide who stays there and how they want to use those housing units they're Theirs to do that um just like ours housing units would be for us to decide we would all be on the same rent amount um things like that uh to and then it would all be all three entities maintaining these housing units this would all be contingent on obtaining the grant um it's a right now we're being told it's a $30 million direct Grant from the federal government um through Senator Kelly's office and for Workforce housing so that would be this is an ideal solution it would be the exact same process for selection selecting the grant awardees as we were awarded last time we have evidence that we can we can deliver on what we say we're going to do that would be an advantage we have the partnership we have um ideally um we would have support from the other two entities this is just information only at some point down the road we' come to um with you to you for an IGA we just are kind of testing the water to see what kind of um interest there is from the board Cindy and I are meeting with the Town Council next Tuesday for a study session to give them the same information and um to kind of so that they have this they we can kind of get an idea from them what um how they feel about it so again our partners would be kma and the town um estimated cost would be 3 million only 300,000 would have to come from the partners um eight units uh I'm trying to think if there's anything else two for kma two for the um fire depart or the police department four for us and the third the well this is being the Fiscal Agent is Coconino County and the the operational agent is Yavapai County that means those two Counties have the first opportunity to apply for this grant this is the same thing happened in the last Grant then it opens up to the 13 rural counties and so really um I we have a I think we have a really good um really good chance if the grant is out there to get this money if we can move forward with some kind of plan we have we have a location we have you know a a track record yeah a track record we also have a plan of what we want to do if we can get the support from the other two entities we can show that and so um that's what kind of wanted to throw it out there and answer any questions you may have um and again we're not voting on anything I ask you just kind of get the feel for the what the board thinks about this um we went through Coconino to get our first uh housing Grant didn't we it was the same same thing the the Yavapai County Schools office was the one that actually uh evaluated the the the proposals they awarded it Cino County was the Fiscal Agent so same basic process that's the same it's going to be the same committee even that approves the project and we were told that just because you got it the first time does not mean anything as far as NE negatively um for the second go round it would be positive things that would it would impact so I know the town's excited about the project so I think of anything bad to say trying the the the cost to do this normally at three million none of us would be able to afford it um if we can get this grant we it's free you know free money um a 90% match is enormous and so we can't pass up this opper in my opinion much better than the the first 10 yeah we that was only a third one-third match yeah so we had to come up with the with the other million dollars to do that we can get um you know figure for us it'd be uh 26 40 um you know 5200 Square ft um which is less than what we paid for over or that we have over there but um no it's actually more than what we got over there for uh one 15th of the cost it's hard to think of any negatives on this and the utility wise the nice thing is there's um sewer access off of one East there is um we have water um which we actually do city of presc water um electrical we'd have to bring in but the utilities are right there also so it's it's kind of a it's kind of a a great location U because of utilities and access and it wouldn't impact or would yeah the rest of the campus it's not like the C central campus or anything so it's kind of land that's vacant now um so it works out really well any other comments be great to help some of the teachers or people you help with yep great all right well no other questions then we'll go to item 7D our 2324 retention information miss good evening and shair board members Mr SCH Daniels I wanted to share with you um information regarding our retention rate of our um certified staff which includes teachers and counselors and U we're really happy with our numbers um you can see that I gave you um the total teachers and the point five is that we have some positions that are half at maybe at one school or another or we have people that work just part-time for us um and then you can see that um the information given about resignations um so we started off with a total of 127 um FTE or full-time equivalent teachers and then um we had 22 resignations uh two terminations seven retired retirees and then I took off of there um the position reductions because we had two positions at each site that we did not fill because of the budget limitation right so if you look at that um you can see that um we've went ahead and retained um um you know for the majority of the schools about mid 80s a percent which I think is really um good and it shows that um you know we're having a still about a third of our or uh little less between um 20 to 30% of our staff leaving but um but I feel that the numbers are have increased since last year last couple of years um then below that um the classified staff was just par professionals and office staff because I was looking at the numbers that really pertain to the schools and that their staff there and you can see that we had 90 total employees 19 resignations uh three terminations and four retiring so um you can see that overall we had about 29% that left and um we retained 71% and those are things that I have for my goals for next year in the HR department is to look at retention and how we can have our employees stay with us especially for the amount of time and effort they put into their education and we put into um helping them get to where they need to be so you have any questions for Miss W while she's here on this one thank you for the information that was very helpful moving on to our consent agenda if we get a motion to approve items a through p [Music] ftic all in favor I okay item 9A teacher performance a valuation adoption Madame President members of the board happy June I'm GNA um have anuka come up here with me and um we are here to request that we um adopt a new teacher evaluation it's not really new it's just updated it's the same um program um framework Charlotte Danielson but we um went to the state and the state has improved their tool and so this is based off of the state's tool so we're here for questions or you have it in your um I don't know if if you had time to look at it um we follow the policy they spent about one million hours on this I can't tell you how many hours we spent on it and then um we had the committee so we had a special a teacher we had two gen teachers one is a self-contained teacher one was a Content teacher from the high school we had an elective teacher Sonica and we had four instructional coaches and then Brandy and myself Fant and we started on this in February and um we looked at two different Frameworks and the committee chose um Charlotte Danielson So Randy and I really just um let the teachers look at this and coaches and decide what's best for them because they would know the purpose of the tool is to improve instruction so we really wanted um input and buy in from teachers Jo me and I'm express my total ignorance I thought we had a prior evaluation process or was this the first time we've done this we did about gosh I want to say how long we do that 12 years ago no I thought I you were you were on the board back way back then I thought we that's why was was timed up David no that's that's and I have to tell you this was our third go at it um over the years Brandy and I have served on um three different committees and um every time we would start on it it was just so overwhelming and we're like okay we'll just keep it and it still matched the state but this time we stuck with it and we had a great committee and um they were really determined to make a difference in the teachers anuka do you have anything um just that the the conversations were really um wholesome and had the best interest of all stakeholders not just teachers but the kids the community um and the people being evaluated as well as the people who will be evaluating um it it's a really it's colorcoded and Julie was really proud of that but as somebody reading it it's it's easy to read and it's easy to know which domain as a teacher being evaluated what it is that they're looking at and why um as well as the evaluator I imagine can probably just Channel it a little bit better um it's it was the mindset of growing uh was a big piece so rather than having staff who are not uh you know where they should be or maybe they need to work on something um and they're being maybe feeling like they're being put down uh it's more of a we want to improve we want to give them the tools and the resources that they need to improve on whatever it was that they were docked on so that they can come back stronger and better um and then serve our kids so the the appendixes and the the live Doc and stuff show all of the the forms for those remedial um processes as well as um self evaluations video evaluations which um I hate watching myself teach but that is something new we added Peter that wasn't with the old um evaluation in this evaluation tool um in order for a teacher to be highly effective they have to self they have to videotape themselves at least 20 minutes with instructing a class and they have to do a self-reflection that's cool and take that back to their principal the principal won't ever see the video just the teacher will and they'll have to fill out the self-reflection that you that's in here in the packet and um what was the other thing we added we added the video self reflection can you hear [Laughter] me oh the instructional coach thank you um we added the instructional coach into this evaluation and so they the teachers will have to do a professional growth plan and they'll have to do that and work with their instructional coach to write that plan based on their current evaluation so where where do I need to grow so once this gets started that will happen in the spring once they finish their evaluation and the instructional coach will work with the teachers to do that and then the instructional coach will meet with the principls and give the principal all of those um professional plan growth plans three questions um do you know of any other districts that's utilizing this tool there are districts in the state but not in the two surrounding ones actually one surrounding one didn't want to share and then the other one is using a different framework what a problem um okay that about how long is this process going to take for so there's a timeline so if you go to it's it going to be in the append right one thing they did really really well was clarify all the language that described the teachers performance before there were so many things that were ambiguous about it that the it was more subjective right so it was very subjective and we wanted to take subjectiveness out of this because a teacher could be evaluated by three different principles and come up with three different scores and we wanted to take that terminology out of this and either they Master it or they don't M so um we wanted that so if you go to your pendix list you want to go through those um help me um so the timeline is there for the principal and the teacher to follow and the instructional coach fantastic okay and then if you go to attend B like um Cindy said it's really explained in here what is expected of the teacher and what the principal should be looking for we gave a summary of each domain which those four are Charlotte Danielson and then there's a rubric and the rubric our goal is for every teacher to be effective if they're highly effective then that's wonderful but um we as you can see it's molded the effective and um if you look in that rubric we also give attributions attributes and so that's what another example this kind of describes what they could be doing to get the effective and then this one there's an artifacts if you go appendix D it gives artifacts that the teacher can share with her principal for each domain because she may not see everything in this uh evaluation tool but the time that she's with me for that hour or um and so I can come back after and say you know you didn't see the student portfolio but here it is and this is evidence for domain whatever wonderful as an employer and an employee I know how important this process is and the reason why I was asking the time frame is usually the more in depth you have to get into it the less likely people are to do it but the thing I have found is number one there should never be anything on an evaluation that they don't already know and that means constant communication and this is what this is doing that's right Sindy and they will be two principles and instructional coaches will be using that tool for their walkthroughs as well they would not go in for a walkthrough looking for all four domains but they would choose a domain they're going to focus on that would be my recommendation is to choose a domain you're going to look for that month during your walkthroughs let your teachers know you're looking for this one uhuh and because under each domain are best practices that every teacher should be doing and every principal should be looking for there should be no questions wondering what am I doing wrong or what should she be doing I think it's more valuable to the employees KN what's going on your real rather than now those are the evaluation and you know what everything you've been doing wrong instead of right I like it well I have one criticism no you find a misspelling No appendix C if you're over 40 you can't see that SI I agree but I just have to hold it closer I did that and it still hurt my eyes by the time I I got we wanted it to fit on the page nicely didn't we well please guarantee you you have some staff you have over 40 staff on just had to be trying to read this stuff a chart like that no really I tell you I was I know it's hard and we'll work on that Peter we need to make the print bigger I got will do that I'll tell you there are many hours our committee spent many hours and then Brandy and I took what our committee requested and spent hours and hours I'm not a computer Guru so Brandy is so she spent hours formatting or format's great your format ry's having a hard time hearing some us can't see of us can't hear yeah what do we say just smile hopefully this tool will help retain teachers too because they'll know where they're at what they need to improve on and they can work on that and if if the teacher showing I'm improving that's when they should be praised for that you know right and honest yes all right well this is an action item if we could get a motion to approve the evaluation adoption then I will move on agenda item 9A adoption of a teacher performance evaluation partially let's say with an amendment of larger type size we will send one to you here thank you m fantastic all in favor I thanks ladies thank you very much item 9B teacher St staff so our um currently our Ada unit has not been utilized um this school year so um and our policy states that District housing shall be reserved for full-time District employees and a lot of our employees don't like the layout it's personally my favorite but you know I'm not renting it but they don't like it because it's one big room the um the kitchen's off to the side and then there's a living area in the bedroom because you would need that um room for somebody that would be in a wheelchair or whatever and so we are we were asked about renting it out to um one of our um sedexo Partners um and um totally happy with the unit um the other units we currently have four units available one has been spoken for by a teacher new teacher to us and the Ada units another one that's available we have two more available my plan is which I've sent out emails asking if it if we have even classified staff that are interested in the units so what I'm looking for um today is to get your permission um to wave the policy just for that particular unit not the other units with all the same policy the two-year term and that's things still exist yes yeah all of the same they'll they'll sign a lease and they'll have to do the same with the deposit first last month deposit all that stuff and under the same rules of no smoking no drugs no pets that those things will still be part of that okay any questions no okay this is also an action item if we can get a motion to approve the uh teacher staff housing policy I will motion to approve the way of the policy GCB D- a so that SED sedoso sedexo sedexo I'm sorry food service manager can rent the Ada teacher meeting tested second all in favor I thank you welcome item 9C Personnel reports you have the Personnel report for June and also a small supplement um we have six new certified staff um teachers five new classified uh six resignations one termination one um individual declined the offer of employment two certified changes 16 classifi changes three extra duties and 187 time sheets anyone have any questions on tonight's Personnel report number 18 what does that mean uh resignation by default well that's because it's a classified substitute that's a great question and what happens is that um the HR department Shelly we she reaches out to our subs and sees if they want to continue being a sub um for our classified positions in the in the district and this person never responded to emails or or phone calls so fact that's the what we're calling in yes yeah all right see no other questions um I'll entertain a motion to accept tonight's Personnel report along with supplement my turn so I will say on item 9C I move to approve the Personnel report the I was second all in favor I all right item a Mr L thank you um budget yes yes members of the board so item 10 proposed budget I mentioned a few factors I'll review them and then uh the way I see it many factors in play and then there's another one that I did speak about earlier uh student count I just estimated for the beginning of the school year to use last year ending student calendar 170 that's average daily membership that's not taking into account all the heads and seats that's the weighted student account that we end up with for actual membership the base level has been increased but we'll leave that now at the $494 per student we know that's going up 2% to just over 5,000 we're basing 350,000 coming back from the capital fund back to the operating fund that reduces the capital fund for next year 1.1 million bumps the operating fund up to 19 350 canot mention these uh five of the budget there's a really small spot there to put in if you want to do it adjacent ways Levy we've done that the last several years and we propose an adjacent ways Levy it's right in the middle of page five and it's got a little sign there uh District moded writing P by districts that are levying any amount for adjacent ways must in the truth and tax worksheet use this number and that's got a $350,000 number there that increases the tax we went through this the other day with President Thomas and with Daniels increases the rate right now it's $993 up to $12.66 so $100,000 home assess value in the district that's what the tax rate that's assess value is for the tax purposes was paying $993 for $100,000 valuation now that'll jump to $126 valuation so if you've got a $200,000 basis for your home it'sit 126 * two or $252 so a slight increase about uh this year's Levy was 250,000 next year we jump to 350,000 jump $100,000 uh for the district uh we ended the year with about 240,000 ,000 we add the 350,000 next year so that would lead us into a good spot to do two or three things we've got a quote from Road Runner asphalt they do a lot of fire lane work uh and we got a quote from them for over 1.4 million for some adjacent ways eligible expenses for next year things like fire Lanes things like bringing in fire lane over here to the mini to the houses on the east side that we might put in um just for the fire LAN this year at the many houses on the west side of of Del Rio and that was $70,000 to put in that fire lane from this portion of it it didn't cover it all and the work south of Del Rio just the work South where we put in French trains we put in parking we the parking areas there was 43,000 so we have slurry seal coats we have chip seal we can do in several places to increase the the license expand of fire Lanes uh we also have some subsurface soil that has moisture issues and other issues uh we got a quote from Road Runner for 1.3 million to do some fire approvals hopefully that'll stand up in the next couple years and we can chunk these over the summer months when uh fire lane U operations are are approved rather than during the school year where we really interfere with traffic so that would be an additional factor that we want to increase that way $100,000 a quick question are all the improvements around the perimeter of territorial now done we talked about earlier I believe several of those are not done because I walked every every square foot of the fire Lanes last March of 2023 with Sunland asphalt and with James from Road Runner and that was one of the places to the north of territorial especially that that still need to be approved well that because you can't go that way because of the construction but last time why it look like there's an awful lot yet to do that's that's why I was asking the question then for instance this area immediately south of the district office might be 130 by 90 ft wide that's all considered fir Ling that's all considered eligible for jent Waste funding and you don't get adjacent waste funding unless you do the taxation U piece and then we have to notice that in the July meeting with another uh public hearing and then just we can present our needs it's a really effective way of increasing these otherwise we have to take it out of our capital or out of our operating fund that are really really tight District maintenance for fire lanes and again the one on the east side there would be an expectation if we move forward with Kaa and the local PD that we would put in the fire lane on our own property and this would help us help us with that now there may be some grant funding a little bit available for for that but this is this we don't want to end up short I sound and valid the way it's written any questions further question no I just want to reiterate that I'm glad that we're raising the I'll be honest there was another proposal to go even higher I was on board they talk sens me so thank you thank you all right this also as an action item in uh I'll entertain a motion to approve tonight's expenditure proposed budget I will approve motion to approve the FY 2425 District expenditure proposed budget thank you all in favor item 11 a ufli ponics adoption Madam president members of the board I'm up here again so we are going to talk this time about um some aonics curriculum for territorial I came to you a couple of months ago and asked if we could um pilot it and territorial had several teachers pilot the program and we had our me last meeting on May 15th and I just want to read some of the comments um from everyone do please note that I had um three parents three te teachers and administration at um both of my adoption piloting um meetings so one thing that happened not only did they pilot It But Lizzy their instructional coach did a training a presentation of the youly curriculum to the entire staff there was a 95% um attendance at that meeting I was there as well I was very impressed with Lizzy and how well she presented it and um the teachers seemed to be very excited about it not only were they teachers there but they were there were classified personnel there as well which is wonderful and um teachers are seeing the teachers that piloted it said they are seeing an increase of confidence by their students and that a parent said comment was that my child went from not wanting to read to reading every and so they were very excited that that confidence was there with their with the child um the consistency helps the students become comfortable and it helps um students stay on task they know what to expect and their scope and sequence I know bry's teachers worked hard um creating a scope and sequence with the curriculum they have now the Wonders program and they um combine youly and the wonders together so they have I've seen it it's a beautiful nicely formatted um scope and sequence and colorcoded it's primary very primary um it's a spiral a spiral so that is really um one thing the teachers like as well so I recommend that um you vote to adopt this new um curriculum you fly like I said I used this 20 years ago and when I taught first grade and I absolutely loved it so questions anything to help the children learn that's right I think it'd be very beneficial all righty then see no other questions we'll entertain a motion to approve I guess on agenda item 11a I move the adoption of the ufli fic program thank you I second all in favor I I thank you very much yes okay item 12a tonight is just the first reading of some revised policies i j n DP use of Technology resources and instruction I found this kind of amusing um one change was they took out a reference the compact discs and floppy discs when it comes to technology um but mainly it has to deal with or it deals with um how AI artificial intelligence should be used in a classroom and as part of instruction um they talk about using it in an ethical manner um something that can be accessed to all students um um those that are English language students or um maybe have disabilities of some kind but really it just provides some General guidance as far as be careful with how you use it is how I I kind of read it um this is was provided to us by the asba so this is their their their policy that they would give to all all districts it's not something that we put together and um again it's a first reading so things can be changed between now and then but uh pretty generic stuff can you know any examples of the AI that could be used in the classroom or would be well I know that in many in some cases there's um there are students that are using AI to generate and their work um which isn't necessarily that's not their work necessarily but yeah translation is a so using um translation programs AI programs to translate like if a teacher gives a handout in English and we have a student who has no English skills whatsoever they're using like Google Translate for an example which is a type of AI it translates it for them it can read it to them in English and Spanish and things like that so that's when we were using it to enhance learning right now but as John pointed out we've had a few students wander into plagiarism land but the high school has owned subscribes for year turn in.com yeah to turnit in.com and we've been subscribing to that for probably seven or eight years and it's a program that allows teachers to run students work through that a AI program to identify whether it's been plagarized or not just curious for the viewers some parents are concerned about AI I I do like that helping children to translate from their language to English so they were English to their language so they can understand and that was the main reason why I asked for examples because to me those are that's just technology that's right not a figure that's been produced so right well and that's that was going to be my only comment AI has gotten to be such a generic term right that there's some neat live streaming programs I've been watching some of the national papers have had programs and all and it leaves me more confused than enlightened just because is what we want to talk about it and that's that was my sort of main question here but I think the example of the language one is a supreme good example of I call just technology than AI so AI won't be taking over actually teaching our children is what I'm concerned about I don't know Marsh our retention rates are pretty good I think we're okay but you know what I'm saying yeah well human o robotss are not going to replace teachers in our our lifetime know I'm impressed obviously I'm using Ai and I didn't know it so this is awesome that's pretty amazing no we don't have a no no plan on the horizon to replace instructors with artificial intelligence Personnel children need as much absolutely well this is just a first reading so there's no action to be taken on it and we move to item 12b which is the first reading of new policy daa fund balances Mr okay this this uh came I guess to more scrutiny or to more notice when I was doing the annual financial report last year for the October meeting that we had in palden I believe and there's now a page that you have to fill in your unspent fund balance on the annual financial report so if you've got a a million dollar budget and you spend $900,000 your unspent amount is that $100,000 so that would be a 10% unspent amount the state likes to consider that fund balance except over for the next year and so many districts are struggling with that now U those respectable or what they consider within range I've talked to the auditor general what do you consider is in range and is pretty hard to ignore for years and years and years and years they look at 4% so that million dollar budget if you spend 960,000 you got 40,000 left say if you don't have 40,000 left over on a million dollar operating budget you may not have enough to to operate the first few months of next year uh if a slight increase in say State retirement rates comes along I came to Arizona those of you that were working in Arizona public uh employee uh pension back in 1999 2.4% of my salary was put into my own account and then the employer would match it by 2.4% and it was so low that we had employees uh Cino County that weren't even on it they thought it was just a joke so they would take their their employer and their their own money and stick it into a 401k and thought that was better well now it's 12.2% because they've increased it because they couldn't reach payouts um so they've increased it so we have nothing to to say asrs increases that from 12 the 15% we have nothing to say if the federal government increases the 6.2% for associal security to 88.5% we just have to adapt we have nothing to say minimum wage jumps like it has the last five years so we have to have some reserves so after some discussion I've uh just some data the auditor General's got reports on 207 school districts if you go I think it's the second to last page in your packet you see a a nicely colored report thank you Karen I think I gave you some some of these copies you've got yellow you've got red you've got blue you don't have any pink or green or orange yellow red and blue and they they kind of indicate a pattern they they draw out four districts that are in in ex extreme difficulties right now making current um the big deal is that make current obligations so if you can't make payroll you can't pay for your accounts payable you're in one of these four districts it gives you the names left of these four districts and they all have at least five knockouts on these 10 Factor uh we've got two if you go to the page just up from there uh change in fund balance according to their data from the 23 year says we've got a fund balance issue high-risk financial position general fund change in fund balance uh and then so we would be one of the 27 out of 207 that's the only real serious Mark that they have for Chino Valley District right now um I don't really know if it's reasonable to try to say 8% of it at one District down in the valley U I think it was tols to District they had 15% goal for fund balance so on that million dollar budget they'd be spending 850,000 and then they stop and I don't know that's I don't know if that's really realistic if you have a lot of one-time money that's that's coming in uh donations like back in the day there were some grants in the 80s and 90s in early 2000 from Bill and M the gates they were one time software and Hardware grants those if you're living off money like that it's a it's a slippery slope you don't want to you want to live off your foundation funds like our $20 million budget for the current year 12 million came from the state n or 8 million came from local property tax you could say that basic sure there were some other funds so so we're positively funded by the state other districts get nothing from State Equalization it's all done on the property tax but those are just things that I think uh if we we make a goal and say go back to the million dollars at the annual financial report that I bring to you in October if we had a million dollar budget I would have to State again what our fund balance policy said which I couldn't really say last year I said our fund balance objective but I couldn't really tie it to a policy uh if it was 4% and we spent 950,000 we'd still be under that would be excuse me make it because our fund balance would let us spend 96 60 on a budget of a million dollar 4% be at 40,000 left well last year I just said it was 4% and we came in with maybe 30,000 we had spend but if I made it to 5% we so it's it's a goal that we have lots of variables we look at overall cost we look at overall Staffing we've got a staffing plan to to stay within our staffing limits and our St plan and then we look at overall revenues and side and all of those have to be in balance and I think we we spent a lot of time uh I gave you a copy hopefully it was in your packet we do have a policy called da fiscal management I don't know if that made I cited that there's there's five priority objectives in their policy da and one that I focus on is to maintain within budget limits uh a level of per student expenditure needed to provide high quality education I don't know if you got that it was not put in there so that's just one that we have if you approve one here and you might call it daa or da2 or U I did put in a sample but I cited those so this is a draft if you want you want and it's on the agenda item I guess the draft and I just put in those in bold there reasonable level of unspent budget balance and the operating fund is 4% that would be unspent annually Capital would be and capital is powerful because it could go back to operating budg if we need it uh would be 20% so any other comments this would be a good time we bring this back for approval and Adoption of the [Applause] July the only note I want to point out is on the policy uh proposed policy is a b AA and it should be D as a dog AA so that's we can make those changes between now and we'll have a corrected version for the um adoption I'm just glad our school district is doing pretty good we try to really follow that that policy we already have daa best policy best possible budgeting and then greatest education returns but it's really a balance you can give up something to get something else just try to do that cost benefit analysis thank you this again was just a first reading no action this evening however with that see yall next week well maybe probably not a few people will be here yeah I'll be here

and then uh we had a closed session on uh the docket but I don't think believe we have any need to go in so um I think that's it um can I get a motion from the Board of Education to adjourn so moved second K moves Cara seconds all in favor we are adjourned and there is cake to celebrate Jim here we'll get it here in a second for

85% compared to 52. 41% the year ago expenditures are at 78% compared to 7.69% a year ago um no impact fees or transition fees came in this month since the last board meeting and and then the bills payable reports for both Central and Northern cane are typical for the month of June we have schools wrapping up all of their year end getting ready for next year's bills are in there um and then we have a bond and interest payment in there um for $430,000 $475 and then our Property and Casualty Insurance payments and that for $687,000 any questions for Dana Fulk yes Hil yes Nolan yes papis yes aif yes Corman yes motion is carried next motion second are required to discuss and approve the boys track team overnight trip to ihsa State Track and Field competition Eastern Illinois University that occur May 23rd to 25th 2024 so moved second it's in our board packet director Jus coming up packet I'm not skipping okay information in the board packet uh we did have one gentleman qualifying 100 meter unfortunately he did not make it past day two but uh if you follow any track that 100 meter is a pretty staffed event throughout the year so we we're proud of hearing for making it down there and having that opportunity so thank you I just have one question T how do we figure out coaches attending it seems crazy that there was one qualifier with an alter I don't know if he went but one of the coaches has a dual license drive a bus so in times of Transportation when coach burner went down there he was paid to drive the bus down there and then Mr Schmidt retired we've got Dan Morgan stepping in to take his his role so we thought about him kind of getting his feet wet and seeing that then I believe the last one those John poot John P been there for years as well he's been there for years those are all considered our boys track coaches they all have a hand in working with the student but it's something we can certainly look at as we go forward but I know this situation was unique with Mike retiring Dan stepping in taking the race he's been at the middle school all year this would be his first experience and we're hopeful that this continues to happen and Dan hopefully gains some experience all right it seems like if it was a shop hood or discus you wouldn't need four especially you know those coaches that don't deal in those events you know you know so I think it' be a good thing to look at in the future absolutely so cool thanks H yes Nolan yes papis yes aif yes vul yes Gman yes motion is carried next the motion in second are required to discuss and approve the donation of PE supplies to Central High School move second so we had a donation from a business owner to um new yoga mats that were never used um so the value of them um would have been $870 and so since it's over the $500 we bring it to the board to approve before we um just accept the donation so Brandon Nolan yes papis yes a thief yes Fulk yes enil yes Corman yes motion is carried motion second requir to discuss and approve the addendum to real estate purchase agreement for the woron property so a few things happened second exting you I so moved eroke up take a b right there so the real estate purchase agreement went through for the Meyer property uh couple things happen within the purchasing agreement U Myers actually uh for kind of gave us real estate taxes we should have owned in terms of the rest of the year because when you purchase land you always have to go back and pick up a piece of that they actually absorb that as part of the cost that was rechanged they actually gave us those extra dollars as part of the purchase agreement so this is a purchase agreement addendum to allow us to actually accept that and get them giving us the dollars for those real estate dollars so they're giving us the money for the real estate taxes okay papis yes yes Fulk yes pil yes Nolan yes Gman yes motion is carried next the motion in second are required to discuss and approve the denim to Illinois cash Farm lease for the roron property so moved second so another denim to the uh cash Farm lease uh so we sold the Myers property there was a time frame in between that the district own the property prior to the Myers taking over the property as purchasing it um and they use land to actually plant on it so when they started to plant and use the land prior to the sell uh we took in Lee dollars or rental dollars for that land so additional payment of $1,530 for the usage of the land prior to them actually owning it um was paid the district as well EXC okay aif yes ful yes hille yes Nolan yes pepis yes Gorman yes motion is carried next the motion and second and requireed to discuss approved the fuel bill for the 20 to 24 2025 school year second so bid specs went out to vendors we had 12 vendors that I emailed to four bids came in officially um Feast oil who's our current um supplier came in with basically a0 per markup on the adjustment so he was doing a different strategy he said um we confirmed that it was not a typo and um so compared to the other three that we bid and your you have a recap in your packet but it's about a $20,800 savings for the district job all right a yes F yes Hil yes Nolan yes papis yes Gorman yes motion is carried next motion and second are required to discuss and approve the depositories for school funds for the 2024 to 2025 school year fiscal year I'm sorry second so I have a whole bunch of annual things that we have going on here but this is the first one um every year we approve um policy requires us to approve the um Financial depositories that we use for Central um currently we have Old Second Bank and the Illinois funds um and then I put pm on here PMA Securities um in case we ever decide to invest or do anything more with it good Fulk yes Hil yes Nolan yes papis yes a th yes Forman yes motion is carried motion second a require discuss and improve the depositories for school funds for the 2024 to 2025 fiscal year for the northern kinge County Regional Vocational system second um same approval for Northern cane um the only depository they have is Old Second Bank all right mfil yes noan yes papus yes a yes PA yesman yes motion is carried Motion in second are require to discuss and approve the appointment of Dana flug as the treasurer for Student Activity funds for the 2024 2025 school year so moved second so another annual policy that we approve a a treasure that treasur is recommended to be myself for next school year um and then listed in the memo are all of the admin assistants that actually handled the accounts at the school level um they follow the same process that we do for all of our bills so they would put in the purchase order the principal approv it the students are um sign off on it and then it comes to district office and then we do the cutting the checks and mailing out who does hbt MPV yeah they don't have accounts oh okay at this time okay okay Nolan yes papis yes aif yes Hulk yes Hil yes Forman yes motion is carried motion second required to discuss and approve the audit committee for the central 301 so moved second so each year um we have two board members being approved to be part of the audit committee um basically the auditor makes a phone call to one or two of the board members um last year we had um B and Nolan and we just need to appoint two people I'm I'm happy to do it again there's no reason not to it's multiple years for me you can have it all yours you don't want to do the extra papis yes aif yes Fulk yes Hil yes Nolan yes Gorman yes motion is carried next motion and second are required to discuss and approve the audit committee for the northern King County Regional locational system so second so this is the same appointment of um two people to serve on the aut committee for Northern pain I'll take it you sure same same one phone it's one phone call so I'll I'll do we'll just keep it the same we'll just make it easier for them too unless anybody else wants to do I think you excellent not an issue right all right AED yes F yes pil yes Nolan yes papis yes Gman yes motion is carried Motion in second a require to discuss and approve the appointment of persons to prepare the tenative budget for Central 301 some second yes um so school code requires us to designate a person to um prepare the tenative budget for the new fiscal year um who do you recommend Dan would really like to recommend don't give her that option right so um obviously recommend myself it's a team effort we have HR payroll Finance we have all the building principles curriculum everybody's involved in it so um it's a team effort but I would be the one designated as the winner do we feel like we should go with Dana let's do it okay yeah fingers crossed aif yes Fulk yes Hil yes Nolan yes papis yes Gorman yes motion is carried motion second required to discuss and approve the appointment of the same person no of a person to prepare the Ted budget for the northern King County Regional Vocational system so moved second wait she didn't say she do it so same same recommendation but this one is with my finance team and Terry St the director of the northern G he's the one that work me to slightly smaller animal it's a lot smaller right ful yes Hil yes Nolan yes papis yes aief yes Forman yes motion is carried motion second requir to discuss and approve the resolution designating interest in the education fund operations and maintenance fund Transportation fund and working cash funds so moved second um so required annually to approve this resolution to designate those four funds um and it basically just prevents interest to turn from turning into principal um just gives us the flexibility to use it when we when we truly need it at a later date tempil yes Nolan yes pepis yes a yes ful yesman yes motion is carried motion second required discuss and approve the resolution authorizing payment of custodial maintenance salaries and utilities from operations and maintenance Fund in lie of Education fund second so another required resolution to authorize us to basically pay for custodians and the utility bills through onm fund um we've done this for for many years but in the school budget technically it comes out of the education fund so this resolution allows us to continue our practice that we've been doing Nolan yes Pap yes aif yes F yes H yesman yes motion is carried motion second are required to discuss and approve the resolution for working cash fund abatement or the W policy for col 10 limit on expenditures and excess of budgeted amounts second so this year the onm fund expenditures will be in in excess of an estimated $ 1.9 million policy 410 states that the um the amount budgeted as expenditures in the fund is the maximum amount that may be expended for the category except when a transfer of fund is authorized by the board um So based on this policy we prepared two options for the board one we can either transfer money from working cash funds to onm fund um that would through the resolution to cover the excess that would reduce the working cash fund balance um to cover that amount or we can approve the waiver of the policy 410 um liit on the expenditures for the excess in respect to onm fund for fy2 24 um so basically you could transfer money from working cash to om and M taking that money out for good um to cover that amount that we've been using for construction projects in the onm fund um I believe that the on M fund has proper um balances that they have sufficient funds in there to be able to cover this to support that amount um and then policy 2240 provides that the board by a majority vote of the members present at the meeting May temporarily suspend a board policy except for Provisions that are controlled by law or contract um school code says that the budgeted expenditures is an estimate um it does not expressly prohibit expenditures from going over um so and then isb's guidance suggests that the budget should be viewed as a limitation on the expenditure Authority so ISB will not interfere with local control in regard to school districts including our district um we've been doing this it's it's a practice that a lot of schools do um so it's my recommendation that the board hold on to the fund the working cash fund reserves um and approve the waiver to the policy U 410 thank SM from a budgeting standpoint is there any benefit to doing one or the other um well you're you would take your working cash fund from 3 million down to whatever a million and that's it's a small fund that it's just a very little Levy that goes in there to build that back up um the onm fund we had budgeted um a deficit of six million and right now we're at only three million deficit because we've brought in more money than we anticipated to kind of offset it that's why you're a recommended wa right do what we've been doing yeah all right yes yeah language all right papis yes aif yes Fulk yes Hil yes Nolan yes Gman yes the motion is carried motion second are requir to discuss and improve contracts with public vendors that exceed $11,000 net revenue to move second so this is an annual approval for um vendors that exceed a th in net revenue um when I do the actual audit and we have or the actual budget is be there's a page in there I'll tell you the dollar amounts that we actually profited this is just getting um approval of the vendors that we could use for fundraisers um the list is the same it doesn't change ever very much um last year we added the um Scholastic in because they started doing the Book Fairs again at the school rather than the pto's um but this is the same exact list as last year what's the process to add what what's the process to add to the was um well it's a projection we don't know I mean some of these people might only make $800 instead of a thousand but we just put them on here for approval um if they think that they might get to that point and if they did then next year I would just bring them an ad them if they do start creeping up there okay thank you all right aif yes hul yes Hil yes Nolan yes papis yes Gorman yes motion is carried motion and second are required to discuss and approve school lunch fees for the 20 24 to 2025 school year so second so no changes from last month's proposal um just seeking approval right a thief yes Fulk yes Hil yes Nolan yes papis yes Gman yes motion is carried motion and second or required to discuss and approve the renewal of veterinarian affiliation agreements second second so this is an annual process we've been going through for many years since the ven program was alive Stephen's not here today but this is basically all renewals that we're bringing forward today nobody knew um in terms of our business partners that we work with for veterinary uh clinics so everybody we're bringing forth have already been part of our program for multiple years did everybody reew uh we still have some other ones out there that will come back next month but nobody that said no thank you as far as we're aware most of the veterinaries like to work with our students matter of fact many of our students work with um from internship programs and get hired from them so we had great great responses from our veterinary clinics that's great good pulk yes H yes Nolan yes papus yes a yes Gman yes motion is carried motion and second a required to discuss and approve the Mid Valley classroom agreement for the 2024 to 2025 school year so move second so annually we look at the needs across our district and we share programming with Mid Valley um as you're well aware we sometimes send students off to Mid Valley classrooms when they go to St Charles um sometimes we offer those programs within our own District um the need for our students is growing uh we have a lot of kids that are you know have autistic needs and they have a lot of programs that are autistic so we are bringing an additional classroom to prw an additional classroom to Central High School to meet the growing needs of our families who actually live in our district um so we will be offering programs within our district for those population the space that you see there's another space one that was actually there this year and asked for it it's actually a calming space at the high school also kind of an OT space for some students at the high school that are in the life skills program it's actually the old the ticket booth that was put in it's a very very smaller kind of I want to say closet it's pretty small area that they use um for that the rate of increase for a rental of that space going went up a little bit the disadvantage we don't want to go too high uh because we already P tuition um so we're trying to offset some toys but also the space issues with that's the dollars that we have here for the midley room rentals for fy2 2425 that we would receive back uh deduct deduct from the tuition we pay for our kids atmin valy Hil yes Nolan yes pepis yes aif yes Fulk yes Gman yes motion is carried motion and second required to discuss and approve the board meeting dates for the 2024 to 202 school year so moved second so in your board packet you have the dates for next school year uh that we're looking to approve a few dates to talk about as always the September date we push back usually about a week primarily because the budget has to sit on the shelf for 30 days and to make sure we have that 30-day window we have to push it back so September 23rd is actually the fourth Monday would that be the third Monday so it's a little bit different um and then we have the two holidays that happen in January and February we have Martin Luther King that's in January and we have Pres in February and so those two um dates January 21st and February 18th are on a Tuesday versus a Monday uh but once you approve these dates I will have M to put them into a calendar invite for you so that you have them for next school year any concerns or questions regarding the dates they're pretty consist the all right noan yes papis yes aif yes Fulk yes hemp yes Gman yes motion is carried move on to information items uh first up natural gas bid update so at last month's board meeting um the board authorized us to conduct a a process to accept and ex execute a natural gas um agreement um not to exceed 48 months um we did three refreshes um shortly after that um to work on the amounts and the the timing um the natural gas prices were between 35 and 39 cents per THM um the current rates when they were triggering 40 to 45 a THM when we were looking at the 10e history of nikor um those are the 35 to 39 um averages so we felt like this was a little bit higher of a time that those rates were in um so we determined not to lock into a 48 month because it was a little bit higher we were going to kind of wait to see if um prices start to come down um but then when we were trying to we're we're looking into locking into just a one year um having a super hot summer which was hot today or a really cold winter could affect that when we go back out next to do it again so we determined that a two-year to lock into um the 24 month would be the best decision for the district um so we locked in 24 months with NG resources at 39.73 okay and then how many with the RFP process how many different vendors to be um I think there were four that submitted so it's 100% fa f price so that's what it is and some a lot of vendors don't like that because of the swings right so okay thanks D facilities director paway provid us the facilities update thank youy for letting me go first you're welcome don't know what exciting stuff Ted has so I'm going to try to really amp this up tonight um summer time uh summertime well that did it that did it you amp up you wanted to be amped up appreciate that appreciate that so um summertime that wasn't the song I chose um summer cleaning uh summertime brings summer cleaning brings a ton of work for our staff our department not that we're not busy during the school year but I mean getting everything wrapped up from where the year end ended up to kind of getting it ready for next year so we had our first staff meeting in the summer you know showing appreciation for them um and all the hard work they've done through the school year and then moving forward for the summer um they put in a lot of hours a lot of effort to make sure those classrooms and buildings are ready for our teachers and kids next year so I want to make sure I give them plenty of Kudos um this year also we were privileged enough to get I think we're at 13 or 14 summer help staff which is a record since I've been here you know six or seven was a good number a lot of those are former students and staff members um students so like college kids you know 18 and over students they help with custodial work help moving furniture they help us cut grass we actually have a painting crew um Teresa's daughter speaks highly of that crew um so they're doing a lot of good things for us so that's been a great benefit so I want to make sure I give them kudos for coming and and out and doing that for us um High School addition obviously the main project we have for this summer um encountered um another slight delay in HVAC equipment from our vendor one of the parts for our uh two air handling units is on delay so we're working through those things to try to see how we can remediate that and what we can do to kind of get things back on track again unforeseen things we didn't plan you know we we planned ahead with trying to get stuff procured and ordered in time but supply chain issues is just kind of the nature of our business and we got to kind of work through those um generator project so we've wrapped up Lily lakes and the transportation and maintenance building generator so we've got startup on those those are all up and running those two projects are completed so heaven forbid we have a power outage at at Lily Lake that building will be fully supported so we'll be in good shape there um our contractor electrician's working through Prairie View and hbt right now so hopefully by the end of this month those will be kind of wrapped up and we'll be looking at doing startups for those in July um we're still working on the uh we've had some some questions about our our bid for uh Prairie and no parking lot and for PVS playground asphalt so we're still working through those so I'll be bringing that probably to the board next month with more information trying to get that bid package out and getting all the details itemized has been a little challenging so we're trying to work through that and along with that we'll be working on um Lily Lake and hbt's asphalt playgrounds will also get a revamp and a replacement this summer kind of get those up to speed to make sure those are in good shape um seal coating as you noticed out here seal coating started already um staff here was was worked around us on Friday so we got that done so we'll be working through the district getting a lot of that stuff done to obviously make sure our asphalt to last just as long as we possibly can get it to last are we going to get the poth holes over at Country Trails filled in too yep yep yep so we're not doing massive repairs or those will be spot repairs that lot will be that Bus Loop will be the next one on the on the docket for replacement yep yep um and then painting projects I talked about the in-house stuff um looking at exterior doors classrooms hallways those kind of things we have our in-house staff that's kind of they're working in hbt right now they'll be kind of going throughout the district and then we Al also have a contractor that come in do more of the detailed work more of the fine-tuned stuff that I think is might be a little bit more than our staff and the students can handle they'll be taking care of some of that stuff so we'll have a lot of that forthcoming to the summer and that's a lot but I'm sure there'll be other stuff I'll come up with something else but do you foresee any delays with the heat when it comes to the addition as far as the it being 90 degrees all week do you think there's I don't I don't think so because we've got everything buttoned up we actually have uh portable air conditioning and fans running in the building that we had to do to get mud to dry and paint to dry and all those things so the building is getting pretty contained right now so hopefully that won't be a delay it's hasn't been a delay thus far we'll see how the week goes any other questions awesome thank you thank you thank you that's G be a tough followup is here here we go take a chance take a chance take a chance on me appreciate what you did everybody's waiting to he about this RSP update build build it up um just want to give you an update first of all thank you again for everything um I know I've been up here in the fall and the winter we've had some success our Spring by far athletically was kind of above and beyond our girl soccer team took forth that state and uh if you were out there Friday when they lost to Chris Lake Central the the number of community members uh students staff or just general people who were excited to see them compete were out there at North Central College and uh thank you Dr Ming for coming out as well it was just it was awesome to see that kind of community involvement for for something like that and then you ducktail that into a baseball sectional final at Sycamore there's like 250 people at a park in Sycamore watching sycore and Burlington play play baseball or Central play baseball so um just awesome to see uh not to overshadow but uh we had boys and girls lacrosse who kind of took their first steps as a varsity varsity sport this year unfortunately they fell short in the sectional but they were competing with the St Charles the Huntley the schools have been doing it a lot longer um softball numbers were improved they had a they had a great game they lost a heartbreaker as well one nothing and then obviously the success that we had with with boys and girls track taking that first step in a 3A they went from being the big fish in the small pond to being the small fish in the big pond and still uh as we continue to see that growth I think we're three or four years years away from a lot of our other sports making that step up going into that kind of high higher bracket um from a club an activity standpoint uh the past two years we've put a lot more emphasis and focus on that uh the numbers have gone up I think that's part of our growth but it's also getting those opportunities out there for kids to see what we have that may not be interested in the athletic portion but some of the activities we offer I do know with some of the activities we're kind of at a a standstill with things like Robotics and some different things just because of the space it's needed to dedicate to that but we're looking at some uh hopeful Solutions on trying to figure that out and allowing some kids to really excel in those areas with some of the other classes that they're adding but if I looked at the rough rough numbers between five Labs what we have I mean we're we're right around 70% of our students who go to Central High School are involved in something whether it's a band whether it's a sport and as we know a fine art or a club or activity as you know if you've done any of that attendance and academics are better because those kids are invested and our coaches and sponsors are really trying to tackle that whole child mentality so uh just wanted to give you update there again thank you to Dan and his staff they were out there if you've been to the high school with the drop off from the oneway entrance as we await PL Road and everything else they did a great job mapping that out that seems to be a a smooth traffic flow despite last week having like what seemed like 500 little kids and parents running around round between basketball baseball soccer and everything else so um thank you for that thank you for all the support this year greatly appreciate hopefully you enjoy your summer and looking forward to next year already so thank you thank you next move up to the move on to the RSP update so RSP update uh basically we've been working with RSP to get a contract sign we still do not have a signed contract with them um we C get over to our teams to basically work together there's some uh challenges with the foil language um specifically more for RSP than for us uh to ensure that their Preparatory elements of their own materials are held U tightly it sounds like they had a hiccup with some other Illinois school and so they're just making sure that they're covered from a a third party vendor that works with the school district to ensure that they can keep their materials and the things that they do safe and that nobody can get their hands on them to fo um so right now we're still working I thought I was going to up today but uh did not so we will continue to work through the process to get the the signed contract the good news is they did give me in advance some of the materials they're looking for so we are pulling stuff and putting them in a file to hold until the signatures it must be signed by both parties both of the board and them before we can submit and the contract is complete so depending on that depending on the signatures uh we'll then get the information to them um that they're asking us to call most of the time frame is actually pulling the data so um at least having that information and being able to work with different parties uh within our own organization to get that a lot of our building Administration we're very busy pulling stuff me for the building Steve Nelson's pulling stuff from lks darnby we're working with Kan County to get information relevant to Maps some of those types of things as well as Les Stone our student information for our student data so all that is being pulled but we're still waiting for the are we anticipating a delay then when I talked to Rob who was the owner of the organization uh a week and a half ago um when I'm like what what's going on why can't we get this contract done um he basically said that uh he still felt we could make that as long as I was able to pull some of the stuff in advance that's why he was willing to give that to us so we're just pulling hopefully to give as as much stuff as we can right off of that yeah so there's not a delay okay cool and give a time frame while hopefully get this still figure out honestly I think our attorney fell it was done too um when I received I received it myself today this morning um for it to our attorney and um she's like she's got some questions relev to what they put in so now it's just got to go back to their attorneys so we're close okay right next up is the Kane EF 110 work based learning update good evening thanks to the board and thanks to Dr mgan for allowing me to come and get an update uh some of you may remember this is the third summer now we've Run summer internships uh the first summer we had 52 students involved last year it grew to 83 and I'm excited to say we're at 143 students now uh that are in paid summer internships across the region uh 24 of those are from Central 301 uh so we're really excited to have that uh this summer we went back to having our pharmacy tech internship which is a great program we had last summer h on top of that we've now grown into a medical rotation internship so students were rotating through 10 different departments at the hospital uh so we have 10 students in involved in that program as well so overall 143 students uh and actually we had all four districts agree on a single mou for summer internships moving forward so we're even more excited about the fact that all four of them can gr the same mou to for companies to sign as we move forward so overall great things going on with summer internships and work based learning throughout the region thank you thank you then we have a handbook update so um we decided this year with the handbook the handbook has always been three separate handbooks elementary middle school and high school and one of the things we're working on right now is putting the hbook into one District handbook we will have a appendices that deal directly with different levels so if this is something different for an elementary or middle school or High School there'll be appendices that will address those differences but for the sake of a parent who has you know Mr Ash mentioned today he's got students at all levels just makes it easier for one big read uh to be able to get on the handbook and the discipline policies and the procedures that we have within that handbook so it will come in front of the board for open or for uh information next month with all the shifts and changes in one handbook and then it will come for um obviously for Action in August in time we just have to by law we can't give a handbook out early we have to give within 15 days of the school to starting and so it puts us right in time for the time frame of what we need uh it's a little tighter for our board usually we're here this month but trying to combine this one handbook has been a little bit more of the task and we're also trying to streamline some of the bo policy so that it's embedded inside there so parents can click on links just to make a little easier for them to view so we're embedding all the links so parents can just select those links and go View and have those at their access so it's just taking a t bit of time for my administrative group to really kind of put that down into a level then me to review it to make sure that it's in it's in fine shape as well as our handle committee that we have from our building Administration okay all right uh next up is our board member vacancy we had a board member resign recently so we are accepting applications uh we put sent out emails to a couple groups hopefully vast majority of the district received it but I wanted to make an announcement here also so email or uh applications can be emailed to me at jeff.

news site uh there's a list of all our district stations on there the public in the local uh District station where they live can call those numbers and actually um call the local police department if you need police services uh in addition if you're having any issues U you know medical related or EMS or fire related you can go and pull your local uh call box that that's the red light boxes that the fire department has in local streets and Corners uh to also get medical attention that way um this is uh could be very temporary and uh we're waiting to hear a little later about how long it would last but we thought it was important particularly with the heat uh that we're about to experience to make sure that we give people the opportunity to uh know what's going on in regards to the 911 system so I'm going to have EMS and fire just uh reiterate uh ways that you can contact them directly good afternoon thank you in order to get the Boston fire department today I would start by calling the number number 617 343 2880 your second choice would be to pull a firebox on any street corner with the red light as the commissioner said and then your third option would be go into a firehouse those three options will work today that number works I just tried it so that would be your emergency contact for today to get the fire department if the issue is medical or fire we will respond good afternoon folks uh similarly for uh for Boston we're collocated in 911 C along with Boston we link to Boston fire uh we have a couple of administrative lines uh 617 343 14400 uh normally again we use that for administrative purposes however uh that'll hunt over to a couple available operators where all located in the same thing so we can uh we had the uh possibility of entering a call there as well so 617 343 14400 and uh the beauty of the system in Boston is police Fire EMS we share the same CAD system that's working fine so any information that gets entered by any of the agencies or somebody contacts fire police or BMS and we need the services of the other agency we send each other a message we talk on radios and we bail each other out so as long as it gets in the system uh we'll be able to connect to the right service thank you um thank you all so um again just to reiterate for our residents if you are experiencing an emergency if you find your way to police fire or EMS we will make sure that you get to the right place so don't worry about needing to have the exact right number or anything as this is getting resolved hopefully very quickly um there are multiple places on the Police website you can find the phone numbers for all of the district stations and uh that those will be available also on social media so um please please um help spread the word in in this moment period

um what it bid the what bid would be awarded on July 29th anti anticipated completion date with be September 30th uh I was told that should not fix school that's great yeah Matt sent an email today so this report and the drive didn't get a chance to read this whole pages I was like who wrote this um all right how now how often do those get done those reports talk about the BS roof no I'm sorry I thought she was going back to the report now yeah I I just was referencing this report th this is new report yeah what was this from I don't talk about the AI yeah that's the T facility addition assessment that was perform that's too I did not know that we did a Tanto facilities assessment did what that was not in the budget it's part of last year's Capital yeah it was in capital it was last year's Capital I did not sorry no no no that's good thank you yeah we decided BMS I don't know why thought we put it off like we're like we'll do that in two years because it was but anyways this is great I haven't had a chance to read through this so Jesus it's a long report yeah it's 232 pages I I I I I did find a curious highlights there was a lot of uh so on the report the report is a really good report it's an excellent report I mean I reach out to HBY for aot we talk to another company and this company AI consultant came out the lowest cost um I to get a reference check on them came out so they did a Boston Housing Authority they did a couple schools in in uh in Maine so I went ahead and gave him the job we met here walked through the whole entire building in and out um we have a lot of mechanical issues as you can see on the report um what I like about this report they also give you a 10e capital plan MH the cost estimates I think we had boiler repairs already in the budget right which is one of the things they so what are the highlights a lot lot of work to be done in gear 7even yeah a lot of out so we need to start do we have so we need to we should create like stabilization funds or is like I mean I guess we can take this offline we don't need to get deep into this but I feel like and like again this kind of goes to the budget subcommittee and the more I keep thinking I'm like maybe we do need a third person on that committee so you got immedate your your shortterm shortterm repairs you get the asphalt frame work rep um pbac 256,000 we have like 15,000 in the buget I got to tell you when I read the report and I I did I I went to the things that I know which was the athletic I I I I questioned how he could rate or she or whoever did this report the athletic fields in good condition because they're in deplorable condition yeah so it made me think and I highlighted some of the areas that I told him that we are planning on to redo which is a sh ah so he wrote it was in good condition despite it not being in good condition I guess that's it just led me to believe that if he wrote that's in good condition I I I I don't I'm not versed in all the mechanical stuff to know but it did it did we do know we have a lot of mechanical issues here but currently right now the cafeteria AC is not working yeah um uh the rooftop unit over the band room compressor uh compressor leak you know about that also the one in the Cs room just same wants to I'm just hoping that he got all the areas that need yeah repair that it's in here so we have a starting point to go from when we're at these you know what I mean basing that on what I'm saying is the athletic fields he said we're good and they're awful so if there's other things in here that he said we're good and they're not and you know we need to prioritize what needs to be fixed yeah right in general I guess my comment on this is like we need to have like some type of stabilization fund for this building because we own it as a district this isn't something we can throw back to the town and say hey the air conditioning doesn't work in the whole building we need a building like this many rooms don't have Windows you can't not have do you know what I mean not have some type of ventalation if something breaks that's significant do we have I mean this is the district owned building right we can't go back to a town and say hey these windows are the roof is leaking fix the roof we can't do that with this that's on us and we don't have any type of stabilization fund and to go back to the towns and and wait for a budget cycle and be like oh we need a roof it's going to be $5 million or you know a year seven we need $5 million worth of repair like it's just not logical so we need to figure something out for this building that's number one number two to Julie's point like I mean I I don't I'm not here personally so I can't speak to the fields but I just feel like we need a better maintenance plan on on like everything I mean I feel like Mike brought this up before um it's just Troublesome that um it's scary I don't know it's scary is is what it is to [Music] me another project to add to the D list right but I think I think opening up the dialogue with the towns with these assessments like you know because like oil and Stu Up on the Roof you know they but they own that building they like by the least they kind of have to but like knowing it's coming right so kind of like along lines of stabilization I mean where does the money come from ultimately the town yeah we just have to say we're trying to yeah so we're GNA budget in this many years is gonna need this you know can we budget we need to start budgeting now yeah like in year seven we need this money and we need to put away like an extra $100,000 a year $50,000 a year but I think that's something I don't know if that's common Regional districts where the region owns the bill I I just don't know anything about those finances I mean yeah not a stabilization per se but a developing a capital plan that balances it out so that the each year it's not too drastic yeah so you look at the projects and the costs and you know even even though the RO isn't as bad now you know you you tried to maybe do the roof first and then other projects along the way million is going to be borrowing anyway so so what becomes now with this 232 page document do you sit down and then prioritize Lis Carol okay well with a subcommittee like we did for remember we did it for bees jie sat down yeah but this is like I know wow this is yeah it's like that to an exp minute yeah yeah yeah that one was like 40 pages right this is big yes Middle High School yeah okay so we definitely have some work this summer okay great thanks Dan any want to have questions for Dan anything okay wonderful moving right along okay so um Jess do you have any updates on the student sucess and Technology subcommittee um we didn't have a meeting after that one on that Friday since the last meeting um but kind of to what Paul was saying about you know cell phones with the school that has to be kind of tackled like the two subcommittees policy and the and the technology St success um because I think you know it's affecting mental health and so I think that should be addressed pretty early on next yeah I wonder if you guys could do like a joint meeting um but I agree uh budget we have not met we talked about the budget we've been talking about the budget Non-Stop um but we we should meet sometime in July okay great um I'm gonna skip superintendent evil because I know Jess you're gonna present all of L's stuff I'll just skip over to Mike first and then we'll let you go do that and that'll be the last thing we have on our agenda tonight we have a few votes so um Mike did you have a policy so the committee update I do okay great thanks so we took I off the vote for tonight because we hadn't heard that from the attorney after we took it off we heard back from the attorney afternoon yeah so we're going to take a look at uh he said two things basically he said uh the Amendments as written uh he used the term legally sound and then he did suggest a couple logistical changes so that the school would have easier time meeting it uh but that's the update we have from him so we're going to get back together and take a closer look at it and it came in like I don't know 3:00 I was still in the office today so yeah I just read through quickly but U that's the all right awesome thank you yeah no need to rush on on that stuff so yeah you guys will meet and figure that out so thank you okay Jess um take it away thank you for doing this for lri yep so um Lori and I were on the um superintendent evaluation subcommittee and so Lori had done this in the past so she led the effort um so masc kind of puts out a template and um you know Carol was very nice in setting her goals according to that template which made things exponentially easier I have heard in the past years um so I just want to thank you for organizing your goals and and your evidence align with that that evaluation template um so just kind of to read the purpose of this so it's a summative evaluation report compiling five individual superintendent evaluations submitted by the members of the merland Boon Regional school committee on May 25th 2024 um so there are two purposes to this report first it provides a rich source of feedback to the superintendent as part of an ongoing Improvement cycle and th should inform reflection on current Year's efforts as well as goal setting for the upcoming school year second the report provides the basis for the school committee's deliberations and decisions regarding its evaluation of superintendent performance which is Tied by contract to the superintendent salary so following the receipt of this report the burlin and Regional school committee will discuss the compiled evaluation results in a public meeting striving to understand committee members VAR perspectives and to reach a consensus on the superintendent's overall performance rating um the committee then records two votes a vote to accept the final report with any proposed revisions and two a vote on the committee's overall performance rating of the superintendent's performance for this past school year so thus the report as rep represented here does not represent the committee's final deliberations or decisions and may undergo revisions during this school20 meeting um and so in past years I guess it was summative so all the different feedback was looked upon and kind of condensed um and so we agreed that um it's Lost in Translation so there quotes were you everyone's feedback was given um and you know names are taken off and it was put into the report in its entirety um and so I just very briefly wanted to pick some highlights that kind of summed up um the overall report um and again these have no names attached to them so Carol is a rare combination of hard work passion and peaceful presence it's clear that she has worked diligently creatively and collaborating to exceed her goals on behalf of the students in District we're very fortunate to have Carol at the helm she always puts forth a positive attitude works better than most people and welcomes everyone's point of view in problem solving she values District policy student safety and the education of each child in this District above all else Carol needs to continue to build a strong central office staff to complement her performance I'm confident that she will continue to sharpen her knowledge of Regional School District budgeting over the next year it's been a pleasure and privilege working with Carol this year I know superintendent uh Costello is curious to find new and different ways to build and fund programs for our district and when you're curious you find lots of interesting things to do as we complete this evaluation was still uncertain results for the budget and uh say that while superintendent costella has done great things there are still many things to improve upon Carol costell gathered detailed documentation of her obvious efforts to improve the district and herself as a superintendent her efforts for Community engagement and witness many times dressing up in a costume for elementary Halloween parades coffee chats at the Town libraries attendance at Town meetings school performance and sporting events I appreciate her drive to learn via Mar mentors and mass and masc resources and look forward to her and us to grow from what we learned this budget season congratulations to Carol and her well documented growth as superintendent this year we're thankful for such a level-headed thoughtful superintendent superintendent costell has demonstrated Proficiency in her goals this school year while some Focus areas are stronger than others this particular year presented several unforeseen circumstances that challenge the leadership ability of Carol she remains steadfast and committed to reaching her goals throughout these challenges I would however like to see super costell continue to develop a better understanding of the budget and spend more time observing teachers in action superintendent costell has a great strength in the areas of instructional leadership parent and Community engagement professional culture and has greatly improved in the areas of policy which a self- admitted weakness URS in the on from the outset she approached each goal with commitment visible via her evidence of meetings action plans walkthroughs book talks Retreats and other methods I would encourage superintendent costella to refine her goal for Budget to revise that goal for next year this is the only go area that needs Improvement the 2023 24 school year was not a predictable or easy one despite the difficulties that even a season superintendent would struggle with Miss Costello persevered and gave her goals and this District her all thank you that was great for some reason it will not open on this computer right now on this internet I'm don't know I I opened it at home and now I can't open it here sorry no it's fine I read it um did anyone have any comments questions Carol did you want to respond I I just told just before the meeting I just got this at 2:30 I know I know you probably Haven circumstances so anyway I haven't had a chance to fully digest it but I will respond to the school committee around it it's a lengthy document it is and that's what we have to do is we give it to you right before we discuss it so that was right that's what we have to do is give to her like the DAT right before we discuss it yes I'm pretty positive about that recollection of how that goes yeah I think it wasn't supposed to open today or something yeah okay all right anyways um that's fine so yeah I'll respond I'll respond can do this yeah and we can talk about it um but we do have to all right so that being said Jer do you have anything else what about the selfie that did not are we not done that that there was something wrong with that so we had a customized one and our masc field agent switched or retired or is no longer with masc and so we have I guess lost that and the new one said no here's a generic one yeah I did the generic one it was very generic um so I think we we haven't had a okay that's okay that's okay discuss worries yep no we have all been totally buried with school committee work so um yep I I texted lri when I did it and I was like is this supposed to not have any comment fields and she was like nope it's supposed to have comment Fields um no worries all right great so did anyone have anything else to say about superintendent evaluation because we do have to vote to accept the uh the summative report so the overall score ing among all the six members five was proficient which is what we expect and one was exemp Exemplar that's great okay could I please have a motion to accept the superintendent evaluation summi of report so Julie Mike any discussion on that all right all in favor I I'm an i as well that motion passes um we already voted on the field trip I'll skip the donation just now let we talked about the after school program I feel like we already discussed that did anyone have any other discussion before we get into that or is everybody okay with those fee increases it's a great service for working parents yeah yeah I agree with the incre increases they haven't increased in a while and that will hopefully give the ability to the school to maybe add staff or to have a little bit more wiggle room with the program all right so could I please having a motion a motion to approve the bees after school program fee increase as based on the schedule provided jul and Mike any discussion okay all in favor I'm me I as well that motion passes okay we had a boon liance Club donation to the bees art Department Cindy do you want to give us the two second version on that yes they donated $1,000 I believe um they reached out to Lauren cuffins just offered it I don't think she went after it her and I were supposed to connect and we just didn't have time but they're giving $1,000 towards the arts department that's from Katie's 5K Katie oh that's the Katie's 5K oh did she really nice she very much in the Arts oh it's so wonderful oh my God that's great well thank you for that um did anyone have any questions about that okay could I please have a motion to approve the Boon Lions Club donation of $1,000 to the boilson elementary school art Department Mike Julie all right all in favor I I'm an i as well that motion passes okay thank you so much everyone we are going to move into executive session everyone else can leave uh can I please have a motion to enter into executive session without returning back to open session we have one quick vote we have to do so Julie Mike all right we'll do a roll call vote uh Jess Julie I Mike I'm an i as well all right that motion passes meeting adjourned we're going to go into executive session thank you so much have a great summer we made it I didn't think we were gonna but we did we did

Gorman central301 or they can be mailed to the district office here um and the term is going to be for about 10 months uh then that person would go up for a two-year remaining um well they wouldn't have to but the election for the next term would be two years to fill the entire um term of the original board members term so the other thing I wanted to mention we found out that there for PL Township we have a limit to three people per Township for the board Plato Township is already capped is there are three board members on here so we can't accept any further applications and no appointment will be made from a person residing in Plato Township um I think that we'll figure that out with the election for the two-year term because I think one or two people from Plato Township are up for re-election also so and that's that then we have Northwestern Illinois Association executive board ballot so we have always been part of the ni or Organization for many many years and as part of the uh being as part of the executive board as an executive board Bell and it has become the board of education for you guys to be able to select or elect a director special education and the at large member um there's one running for each of those so it should be a really tough ballot to fill out but you do need to fill out the ballot and sign it as part of being that executive uh director um within the ni group all right we move on four so we've been getting uh lots of foas uh we continue to get many many foyers uh Mrs Aro received request for invoices receiv received for paint purchases U made by the district over the past five years um we were able to comply with the request and was able to pull all the painting information that we needed and so we were able to comply with that request smart procure which we get annually that's something we always get consistently received a request for purchase orders or records from April 27th through April 29th of this year um we to comply with that request as well uh CA we received the request for invoices from our legal councel related to ca grievances filed on April 11th along with any other expenses incurred by the agreements um we were able to comply in part um we denied in part as well uh some documents were redacted and we Deni the request for redacted portions of bills as they are protected by attorney client privileges um Miss Martinez we receed a request for purchase orders and communication between vendors sh mcnut and the d uh district for furniture f hbac and electrical components showing supply chain delays with estimated delivery uh we were able to comply with the request however we did redact some personal email addresses from that and then Mrs cisus we received a request for written comments provided to the district from the twoo post election survey and the post election survey in April 2023 and were able to comply with requests however we we redacted personal names phone numbers and email addresses from that so those were for is for this all right motion second to adjourn Open Session and move to close session for the following exceptions 2c1 2c2 2c3 and 2 c21 soov second give options all right CIS yes aif yes Fulk yes pil yes Nolan yes Gorman yes the motion is carried thanks again for coming out tonight thank you have a good evening thank you did you

e e e [Music] [Applause] [Music] e e [Music] e [Music] e e [Music] oh [Music] [Applause] [Music] e [Music] e [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] good evening graduates staff families board members and special guests I'd like to welcome you to our graduation ceremony and offer my congratulations to the class of 2024 it gives me great pride to introduce Hannah Rodriguez for the singing of our national anthem please stand [Music] [Applause] oh say can you see by the dawn's early light what so proudly we H at the Twilight last gleaming who broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous f or the real parts we watched were so gallantly streaming and the rocket red glare the bombs bursting in air gave proof through the night that our flag was still there oh say does that stars fangle b w or the L of the free and the home of the please be seated at this time I'd like to introduce Matthew kavanau senior class president to deliver the class of 20124 [Applause] address hey Mom I see you I was told I'll be sleeping outside if I didn't give her a shout out all right I think I can start now hello and good evening to friends relatives parents and CCT Tech staff we all here sitting in the very very hot sun for the next two hours for one reason the class of 2024 my name is Matthew cavel known as Mr press by many especially by Marco bruy sitting right over there I could stand up here today and talk about my own experiences and accomplishments at CCT Tech but I want to switch it up as our senior class vice president Michael nardelli and I promised during our campaign last year we are for the people so in creating this speech I spoke to my classmates and heard your stories for the next few minutes I want to share your words your accomplishments and your memories because you are the people who really mattered today C of 2024 during freshman year we started in quite the odd fashion we would go to school two days a week and our teachers had to find ways to engage us under these crazy circumstances luckily according to our senior class we have many teachers who are great at that our Star Quarterback Brook Joselyn says Mr Sharp is one of the girls and is up to date with all the tea and we all will never forget our Kilt wearing apling teacher Mr Campbell our senior class sergeant of arms kathlyn lamb shared that Mr Campbell's humor is unmatched and is constant care for his students is admirable Mr Campbell was able to make something as stressful as AP Lang pretty enjoyable don't tell him I said that though it'll get to his head and we all appreciate Mr Riggins sing right over there our senior class advisor he planned our Disney trip on top of every other senior event while seeming to wear a different suit every day this is just a small sample of the great things you said about your academic teachers they have made a memorable impact on all of us we could also talk for hours about the counselors administrators and staff who hel help endlessly with college applications and personal crises thank you Mrs hickey and the reason we all chose Tech was because of our programs if I don't mention Mr Ziller and Mrs Shaw they might never speak to me again without taking environmental sustainability FR sophomore year I wouldn't have the passion for the field so thank you for guiding me down my career path next year I plan on going to Virginia Tech while majoring in chemical engineering class of 2024 you also told me about your future plans in a few short months we will be spread out across the world some of you will be moving into dorms some will be working some will be serving our country in the military and some will be taking a gap year to explore and travel for example Michaela is entering the Army Edward Thurman is going to Princeton and Tristan Gribble already has a job lined up with diamond materials this this might be the last time all of us are sitting here together whether that makes you happy sad or you have mixed feelings about the future I think we can all agree these past four years have had an impact on who we are in the journey we are about to embark on it is the impact of the tech experience that's provided us with skills confidence and connections for life but we also had fun before we leave I would like to share some of those memories like Michael Jordan of the Chicago Bulls in '96 and 97 we are the only class to win in back-to-back years for the Powderpuff also we will never forget Mr CCT Tech especially big pinkles performance [Applause] and or the music cutting out on Brendon Martinez and him still killing it so many of us including Crystal Peko Trevor Donnelly and Jacob butcher will remember the CC Tech Deo and Parker Phillips will remember will never forget when he lost a battle to a punching bag at the same event yeah how's how's that RF it was the battle for for world domination in model un that will remain a favorite memory for Liliana delvicario Han and the rest of the model Congress Club Kristen Cornell earned money and experience working at Mor's over the summer and I know and I know that Mandy Benitas will always remember throwing a going away concert in the bathroom for Kyle Gilson who was going to miss the last day of sophomore year and speaking of bathrooms all of us guys will always remember Trucking through the school just to find an unlocked one this year thank you underclassman as we move toward the end of this speech and also our high school experience my goal is for you to not remember my words today but our memories are for the past four years I want you to remember going not leaving I know everyone has pretty early dinner reservations tonight so I'm going to wrap this up now to end this off I want to thank every single one of you for the past four years of my life you guys have given me something that I will truly cherish forever until we meet again for our reunion so long to the teachers staff students and CCT Tech overall in conclusion and in keeping with the themes of you I'm going to end with the wise words of my friend and classmate Browski she shares that I had the best of times the worst of times Amazing Friends terrible friends good love bad love and so much more I gained a big sense of self and traits that will always be with me forever High School is confusing perplexing and downright hard but I couldn't be prouder of these 252 seniors sitting in front of me the accomplishments this class will make in their profession will improve our world for years to come and I truly believe that with every fiber of myself class of 2024 we finally made it [Applause] thank you Matthew I would now like to introduce our keynote speaker sha McDonald is a multifaceted individual whose journey is marked by determination versatility and a commitment to personal and professional growth graduating from oakrest high school Sean carved out a path that led him through very ious Fields with unwavering dedication Shawn went on to compete as a student athlete at both the University of Tennessee and Old Dominion University where he not only excelled in his studies but also demonstrated exceptional Talent on the sports field this culminated in a remarkable stin as a professional baseball player with the Chicago Cubs organization where Shan honed his skills and embrac the challenges of elite level competition transitioning from the world of professional sports he earned a bachelor's degree from Stockton University he then earned a master of business administration degree of Ruckers University while simultaneously embarking on an apprenticeship with the United Brotherhood of Carpenters Local 623 immersing himself in the art and craft of carpentry armed with a diverse skill set and a wealth of experience Sean spent 15 years in the commercial carpentry industry honing his craft and contributing to numerous constru struction projects with precision and expertise however recognizing the call for a new challenge he embraced the transition into the realm of Education currently serving as our construction trades instructor at CCT Tech Sean brings a wealth of firstand experience and practical knowledge to the classroom shaping the next generation of skilled Professionals in the construction industry his journey stands as a testament to the power of perseverance continuous learning and the pursuit of Excellence across multiple domains it gives me great pleasure to introduce our keynote speaker Mr Sha mcdonal [Applause] thank you Mr mcra and thank you Dr rossie for agreeing to let me address this to class your trust in me and all of our instructors is shown every day throughout CCT Tech Dr Rossy Mr mcra and all of our Administration work closely with us to bring forth curriculums and environments that truly reflect the actual workplace yes this does make our jobs as instructors more challenging takes extra time but through all of this we're able to provide students with that extra leg up that little bit of an edge so that when they leave here success is within Arms Reach and not out on the horizon the students here whether they realize it or not have been provided with an education that kicks the gluteus maximus I can't say what uh we would say on a job site but uh you got a badass education here thank you to all the family members members here tonight job well done you see most Journeys we go through in life are not solo Endeavors the journey these young men and women have just completed could not have been possible without your help family friends and faith will be needed as many more Journeys again tonight you did good but continue to do good my life so far has been taking me down many paths some smooth some bumpy uphill downhill dead ends I have been fortunate to wear many hats throughout the different stages of my life I could spend many an hour up here talking about who I played against A-Rod that gentleman you said Michael in the the speech right before me when Michael decided to try baseball even in the time we made will the thrill Clark in the backseat of a car even though he was the reigning nlm could even talk about the time my carpentry crew hopped in an elevator in Atlantic City and went face to face with Beyonce and her crew heading up for an opening night performance to say that her crew was shocked and so was my crew is an understatement storytelling the oldest form of Education after Mr mcgr asked if I would address these graduates I started thinking about other commencement speeches and some common themes I thought about my stories and my learning experiences transitioning from player to coach is way harder than most people think much like my transition from Carpenter to instructor was challenging as well your transition from high school student to college student to trades person to entrepreneur to those very special members of this graduating class who will be joining the military ranks we thank you all right there to formalities now here comes the good stuff we're gonna get at it I've decided to treat this speech like a halftime talk no matter which sport we play coaches have been using a very effective means of delivering both positive and negative criticism athletes we call this the praise sandwich so here's how it goes first I'm going to provide you with some positive reinforcement make you feel good going to soften you up for what's next to constructive criticism and then we're going to finish it off with some more positive reinforcement but before I start I see that you you hopefully you notice I'm wearing a baseball hat my very first one in the Chicago Cubs organization when I played for the Dayton in the Cubs I'm also wearing my gown from Ruckers University I wear these for two reasons thank you the first I earned it many hours many sacrifices but many many Smiles just like you have earned the one you wearing tonight many hours many sacrifices many many smiles and second you sweat I sweat my crew my team if my team is training then I'm training if my crew is working then I'm working all for one and one for all I know our uh English teachers probably recognize that as being from the three uh um Three Musketeers right although I believe Shakespeare said it first so a little under 1400 Year sorry that's a long time ago a little under, 1400 days ago you first walked into this building as freshman can you remember it you can a little bit I know us the instructors and teachers here in administration remembered quite well our world was flipped upside down due to covid-19 you saw new faces new teachers everything seemed huge fast forward four years went pretty quick didn't it feels a lot smaller now feels way more comfortable CCT Tech feels like that second home for you you've come a long way but there's a long way to go just look at all of you have look at all that you have accomplished here at CCT Tech so many skills USA Awards so many host of medals so many high school sports championships we have people are in the in the 100 hit club we have a Discover Channel national award winner we have so many scholarships that we given out through throughout every single program the list goes on and on and I see you back there strive I didn't forget you look at all the special Olympic medals you have won and all those cool things we got to build all those really cool things we build in the shops you they know it we built some really cool stuff thank you this graduating class of 20 24 is so special but in baseball we have a saying Prospect to suspect overnight your accomplishment accomplishments are awesome but there is more to come I can feel it and I know you can feel it but the new Journey awaits the new goals the new desires the new accomplishments but there's always someone coming to take your place I had the great privilege of having Jimmy peaw as a coach while playing in the Chicago Cubs organization if you're unfamiliar with jimmmy peaw please do yourself a favor and learn about his life fear strikes out is a book and movie documenting his life you can grab his book as well it's called the truth hurts Jimmy used this phrase so often I learned very quickly that if I wanted to hear the truth you go to Jimmy he had no problem telling you exactly as he sees it so here's my tribute to Jimmy and to you and a little bit of Truth Hurts especially for you and it's time for me to change my hat in construction trades we have a saying I have it written on my hat right here it says dyj or DCM everybody get that all right do your job or don't come Monday simple phrase but packed with meaning do your job the success of any team crew club or organization relies on everyone and I mean everyone doing the tasks assigned to them doing their job if you're heading off to college or trade school go to class get there on time do your job your class syllabus will have deadlines they are not suggestions hand you're working on time do your job my baseball coach in college Pat McMahon used to say on time is late my wife also a teacher and way way better than I am says to her students the plane is going to leave if you're late they will not wait for you get to class manage your time wisely do your job I heard Carl Bass CEO of AAS on a podcast and he said you never make a dent by sitting in the back of the room you never make a dent by sitting in the back of the room so get to the front show your face do your job for those heading into the trades do your job if you weren't sure then just ask don't be afraid to ask questions do not be afraid to fail and don't forget to work it's not about working the other person it's about outworking yourself do your job make mistakes but remember to clean them up be on time if the job starts at 7 don't roll in at 7 with a cup of coffee in your hand 7 o'clock means work begins at 7 drink your coffee in the car and show up early be prepared for anything that might happen that will delay you work until the stop time not 10 minutes before not five minutes before we have a saying in the trades eight for eight you work eight hours you get paid for eight hours don't get lazy on me put the phones away do your job changing hat again all right back to the happy all right Bruce Springsteen had a very intriguing line in his song growing up he wrote when they said sit down I stood up the rebellious spirit I guess every generation has their form of rebellion throughout history each generation has used Rebellion to adjust to overcome to advance to get better your generation is unique your generation is different from my generation is it the Greek philosopher Socrates said and this is 400 BC the children now love luxury they have Bad Manners contempt for Authority they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in the place of exercise children are now tyrants not the Servants of their households they no longer rise when Elders enter the room they contradict their parents chatter before company gobble up anties at the table cross their legs and Tyran tyrannize their teachers I don't know if that's gen Z or my generation Gen X kind of sounds like all of us doesn't it so how much have we really changed but what you do the things you do are amazing you see the world through a lens that is much different than previous generations and this bothers some people and let's face it some people do not want to accept your unique way of thinking please don't be discouraged I believe what you are bringing to this world is a much needed fresh face a fresh Co to paint and if something that you truly believe in please keep doing it when they say sit down you stand up find your passion find your path find your course and hold strong if you ever had the fortune some call it a misfortune of visiting the construction trade shop you'll know that our playlists are all over the place as the gra l the great Lyricist it's not a about you this time Mr Campbell but um but Vanilla Ice once said you got to get in where you fit in find you be you and love you when they say sit down you stand up go go places go on a new adventures go live your best life do do good in this world move our bodies are meant to be in motion get moving help help the people you know but also help the people you may not love love your family your friends yourselves dance sometimes you lead sometimes you follow either way just get out on that dance floor you don't have to make us proud we already are you don't have to make your moms and dads proud they already are make yourself proud you lead we will follow go get them [Applause] I'm going to wing it without the earpieces we'll see how I do let's give another round of applause for the one wonderful Mr sha [Applause] McDonald so in graduations passed I make Mr mcgr a little uncomfortable because I go off script he likes a script in fact a few minutes before we started he asked because he saw me up here did you touch something and I said no I promise but I usually go off off scripts and he knows it this is the first graduation I need not go off script because Matt Kavanaugh and Mr McDonald said everything there needs to be said to all of you I'm just going to add one thing we had a fantastic assistant principal here at Tech way before a full-time school way before all of you were here and he did everything with kindness so that is the only thing I'm going to add today go out do but do it with kindness so with that it is my privilege to certify that each member seated here today of the class of 2024 has met all all of the graduation requirements set forth by the New Jersey Department of Education and the Cumberland County Board of vocational education Mrs Ruth Hans our board president I ask you to stand graduates I ask you to [Music] stand teachers I ask you to stand parents I ask you to stand County officials Foundation board members I ask you to stand I confer the high school diploma on the class of [Music] [Applause] congratulations now our crowd favorite I would like to int uce Mr Sean Wiggins to begin the awarding of the diplomas to the class of [Applause] 2024 I would like to offer my congratulations to the class of 2024 this evening we will begin with the awarding of a diploma to the student enrolled in the agricultural Sciences program this student attended her Career and Technical education classes at our satellite location within Cumberland Regional High School Kristen [Applause] bump I would like to invite our automotive technology instructors Mr Jenkins and Mr Platt to help with the awarding of diplomas to students enrolled in the automotive Technology [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] Program Anana [Applause] bunting Matthew Campanella [Applause] [Music] Santino Finelli Hugo Herrera [Music] Fuentes Jesse Jimenez [Applause] [Music] nesio Jimenez Romeo [Music] Lopez Alexander Martinez SSA Mason mzn [Music] Ruben Mendes Brian Myers Dolan pots [Applause] Jonathan Reyes Isaac [Music] [Applause] Roberts Carter schaer [Music] [Applause] I would like to invite CCT Tech Foundation Board member Miss Heather Garrison to the stage along with our construction trades instructors Mr Barons Mr doerty and Mr McDonald to help with the awarding of diplomas to students enrolled in the construction trades program Bernardo Alman Robert [Applause] bitman Christian [Music] Bautista Juliana Del Vicario [Music] Han Ian Garcia [Music] laaz Caleb Garrison [Applause] [Music] Daryl [Applause] [Music] gold Tristan Gribble Ryan Hernandez Daniel Jimenez [Applause] [Music] Nunes Timothy [Applause] Johnson Brook jlin Irving [Applause] [Music] seeden Ryan schaer Samantha slimmer congratulations Joseph [Applause] DEA Wyatt welen [Music] I would like to invite our cosmetology instructors Miss boy and Min a Casio to help with the awarding of diplomas to students enrolled in the cosmetology program [Music] giovana [Applause] areto Maria araga [Applause] [Music] noela [Applause] Sela Serenity [Music] [Applause] AZ odiz Bautista Cruz [Music] Wendy burrito Torres Julian brood SM [Music] [Applause] Jus Alicia [Applause] finger Marley Gant Elise [Music] George Cara Gusman [Music] Isabella [Applause] [Music] Howard Jennifer Lopez [Music] Natalia [Music] Morales Allison [Music] [Applause] win Kendall pulio [Applause] your hair always look so good I'll miss you NAIA [Applause] Ramos Anna Ruiz Olivia Smith [Music] [Applause] [Music] I would like to invite our culinary arts and Hospitality instructors Mr alberty and Mr Olsen to help with the awarding of diplomas to students enrolled in the culinary arts and Hospitality program [Music] shines [Applause] Alvarez Miguel [Applause] Flores Alysa [Music] [Applause] [Music] Garrick franisco Gil [Music] Chris hansar Dominic kerer Liara Warren Mariah [Applause] [Music] moldonado Brenan Martinez [Music] [Applause] [Music] Macy [Applause] [Music] MCA Jose [Music] Matos death [Applause] Patel Diana Perez [Music] batia Jesus Rosado [Applause] Marquez Grace [Music] rusy Trista supi [Music] [Applause] Kayla [Applause] Torres weon Torres [Applause] [Music] de your [Applause] [Music] right Tina Zoo [Music] I would like to invite our engineering technology instructors Mrs Shaw and Mr Ziller to help with the awarding of diplomas to students enrolled in the engineering technology program [Music] Barry [Music] Borio Vanna [Applause] Bara Marco barufi [Applause] [Music] Mand [Applause] [Music] benovitz kayen [Applause] [Music] bevon duu Brooks [Applause] Chanel [Music] [Applause] [Music] caps George Cardona [Music] Nan [Applause] corano Joseph [Applause] [Music] Dominique Edward fif [Applause] Lis [Applause] Gonzalez Sean Guadalupe [Applause] [Music] Logan [Applause] [Music] Hannah Gavin [Applause] [Music] H Steven Horvath [Applause] [Music] Nathaniel Howard [Applause] Hunter Travis HT [Applause] Evan [Music] [Applause] [Music] Huntley Matthew [Music] [Applause] Kavanaugh Julian quinza [Applause] Jessica [Applause] [Music] Lee Nathaniel [Applause] McGregor Christian McCormick [Applause] Gabrielle and [Applause] [Music] McMahon Ethan [Applause] Middleton Anna Nichols [Music] Katherine or o [Applause] Patel Luke Patterson [Applause] wendelin [Applause] Porter Christian konia [Applause] [Music] Jessica Ramirez [Music] [Applause] Lopez James [Applause] [Music] Robertson Jonathan Sabio [Applause] Angel Santiago [Applause] Ramirez Callie sloon [Applause] Edward Thurman [Applause] [Music] Jr Oscar Trinidad [Applause] PGE Marissa Tod Hill [Applause] [Music] Fon [Music] yield and a zoom [Applause] I would like to invite our health sciences and Medicine instructors Mrs bsaw Mrs simonini and Miss vieri to help with the awarding of diplomas to students enrolled in the Health Sciences and medicine program [Music] Heaven [Applause] [Music] oo Alexandra [Applause] [Music] aguar Jenna bman [Music] [Applause] Angel boner Andrea Cruz Ortiz Julian quena [Applause] Michelle [Applause] dong Jesse donalene [Applause] [Music] Natalie [Applause] drada doce [Music] [Applause] [Music] Duran daia Durham Russell [Music] elani [Applause] aaria Caitlyn [Music] edminster Alexa figurilla Marcado Isabella franchetta Anthony Fuentes Cruz Emily Gonzalez [Applause] Spencer Hickman [Applause] [Music] Haka Brenda iglasia [Applause] cernas fith Johnson [Applause] [Music] [Applause] much [Applause] Haley Jones [Applause] Brook [Applause] [Music] Kowski Katherine [Applause] Liam yena medata Reyes Karina [Applause] Marcado Michael [Applause] nardelli em and neon [Applause] Ashley [Music] aorto Eva [Applause] Patt s today Reyes [Applause] Alis Julian [Applause] Riviera Adam Maris roblero Ryan roblero [Applause] [Music] Romero jelli [Applause] Roman Rebecca [Music] Royer Isabella [Applause] saltar Grace [Music] stanker Skyler for roots [Applause] [Music] Savannah Whitehead [Applause] I would like to invite our information technology instructor Mr Morales to help with the awarding of diplomas to students enrolled in the information technology program Aiden [Applause] Andrews Jackson penssylvania [Applause] Noel Cano [Music] Andrew [Applause] [Music] Cooper Michael [Applause] DeVito Victor [Music] Fernandez Todd [Applause] foki and IAM Garcia [Music] haa Michaela hand [Applause] Ryan [Music] hoodley Teresa [Applause] engineering Carson Ando Aiden [Applause] [Music] John arielis Martinez Antonio [Music] picardo Noah KZ Jonathan [Music] Ramos Ivan [Music] Romero Mina salmon [Music] [Applause] Mariah [Applause] [Music] Santiago Gabriel Sherman Aiden Wen [Music] Isaac [Music] [Applause] worel I would like to invite our law enforcement instructor Mr carado to help with the awarding of diplomas to students enrolled in the law enforcement program [Music] Natasha [Music] AA Alicia Breslin Oscar bionis [Applause] contras Jacob [Applause] [Music] butcher Christen Cornell Trevor [Applause] [Music] Luke fan Lya [Applause] Fletcher Olivia Fred [Applause] Artio Garcia [Applause] Garcia Nolan herchel off yolissa Hernandez [Music] [Applause] Vasquez Morgan Haron [Applause] Amaya Reagan [Music] long diara McGriff Julia Ortiz [Applause] [Music] RZ Crystal pachos [Applause] SOA Parker Phillips Hannah Rodriguez Gabriella Rodriguez Bellum Michael [Applause] Sanchez Ranna snail [Music] Sophia [Applause] [Music] Stockbridge Emily [Applause] wiel ELC Yak Lopez [Music] I would like to invite our studio production and broadcasting instructor Mr Neer to help with the awarding of diplomas to students enrolled in the studio production and broadcasting program [Music] Emily Bruce Anthony Callahan Carley [Applause] Ferguson Michaela [Applause] [Music] Gomez Leslie [Applause] [Music] Hernandez Lanna in quen [Applause] [Music] Jamie [Applause] Maran Gavin [Applause] Miller Jaden molter Cleon Emma J Mont mayor [Applause] [Music] kaiun Angelina [Applause] [Music] Oliva Cheyenne aliv [Applause] L Ramirez [Applause] Ruiz Evan [Applause] [Music] Rosado Matthew sui Eva [Applause] Vini Maximus Zera William [Applause] Zer Daniel Zimmerman m thank you thank you I would like to invite our welding technology instructors Mr boner and Mr Jones to help with the awarding of diplomas to students enrolled in the welding technology program [Music] Rowan [Applause] Adams Alejandro [Music] alvario toan Bennett [Applause] Karen candelerio [Music] bayz Jer [Music] Carmona McKenzie [Applause] [Music] toico Logan do Alexis [Applause] Flores Michael [Applause] jenko David [Music] [Applause] gon Donald [Music] [Applause] Hunt Ashley [Applause] [Music] lure Morgan [Music] Mion Michael Murray [Music] Joseph Spiel [Applause] moer Willi sprous Tyler Supa [Applause] [Music] Mason [Applause] [Music] WIlliams I would like to invite our strive instructors Miss Korn Mrs casbas Mrs Kesler Mr Lawless Miss Smith Mr love and Mrs Monahan to help with the awarding of diplomas to students enrolled in the shrive program [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] Devin [Applause] Harris Jasmine Newton [Music] [Applause] Autumn s [Applause] Martino Jennifer Vining [Applause] lar [Music] [Applause] Williams budy [Applause] [Music] at this time I would like to call Matthew Kavanaugh senior class president back to the podium for closing [Music] [Applause] [Music] remarks fellow graduates please stand it's time as a symbolic gesture of your completion of high school you may now turn your tassels [Applause] I'm so proud of all of you today I'm so proud this concludes our ceremony thank you all for coming this evening congratulations class of 2024 we did it let's go [Applause] you [Music] all [Music]

e e testing testing one two three testing e e e we're going to call this me to order at 6:30 p.m. roll call please okay Mr alre here Mr gagos here M rup is here Mr swales here miss site stumbris here Dr Hall here president Brown here all right next we'll have the Pledge of Allegiance L by Mr G and the mission statement by myself I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all in our mission statement Empower each student to positively impact the world for a bright new Future Okay um I would like to make a motion to move closed session n item number four which is Clos session which is is at the begin now next to the end of the meeting so moved second all right so so move by Mr gagos and second by Mr zeit sers any should we say exactly is it exactly where as far as um um so close session would be moved to um right after are we doing after new business did we say yes okay right after new business right before ger and then we'll probably need to also move the uh action item under business or excuse me under Personnel report of we have to do that evaluation will come out of close session okay so we have one motion and then do I have to make another motion for that one you can just why don't we just make a motion we get to it okay okay okay okay so right now we're going to vote on a motion to move close session to to after new business so after number 11 on the agenda yes okay Miss site stus hi Mr swales hi roup is an i Mr gagos I um Mr alch I Dr Hall I all right motion passes all right so now we have board updates any board updates public comment oh I'm sorry I missed that public comment we have public comments now do we have any public comments no public comments okay so any board updates uh the juneth celebration was phenomenal uh had really good weather um it it got a little hot but uh everything went well the uh the speech that Reverend hunt made was phenomenal uh I had fun on the freedom walk um the drum circle afterwards was like that was the the cherry on the Sunday it was really it was really fun um so I actually went home and and got my drum to play at the drum circle so that was fun cool any other board updates all of the performances from the students were great okay no further board updates we will move to administrative updates all right under good news we had uh a special young man we wanted to recognize tonight we're going to kind of hold off on that we're hoping that he's going to come a little bit later um so we'll move on for that and I appreciate you mentioning about the juneth we were really excited about the juneth this last weekend uh we just met today uh we're going to start planning for the next one in uh SE August September uh to get that up and running so uh we're really excited about that and our I think our students really showcased weal um we had a lot of talent in the district um and so we were really pleased with them so our other good news just arrived and that's G uh Gabriel Gabriel Chapman and I'm gonna have Mr keki give a little bit of information on him this is a young man that exemplifies giving student voice and advocacy for things that he he believed in and um so I'm going to have uh Mr Ki share a little bit more about that how are you good to see you thanks so much for coming in appreciate it um so I want to take a moment here to speak about uh Mr Chapman's component and work with getting our boys volleyball team started here at the high school uh Dr koganes members of the Board of Education it brings me great pleasure to introduce you to an outstanding student athlete who recently graduated from high school uh Gabriel Chapman wanted to play volleyball at Creon High School school we did not have a program in place in his freshman in sophomore year he came to the athletic director's office uh inquired about it was given several steps that had to take place in order for the program to be put in place uh he did all those things including but not limited to outreach for our students and also finding a uh coach who would participate in Miss Barb belan uh as our boys volleyball coach through his work over the first two years at high school we added a boys volleyball team in the spring of 2023 um I'm proud to announce that through these original conversations and student Outreach that Mr Chapman uh had with our office uh that we now presently have two levels of boys volleyball here at the high school uh both a JV and a varsity team I think it's also important to note that in addition to his work with starting our boys volleyball team uh Mr Chapman was named to the uh inaugural uh Southland Athletic Conference All Conference team as well as named the player of the year in the Southland Athletic Conference for boys volleyball and if that's Lastly lastly that's not impressive enough and I think this is obviously all those things are fantastic all the work that he's done is fantastic all the Outreach but Mr Chapman is an ignition mentor and he fully embodies what it means to be a student athlete uh in addition to his outstanding work on the athletic pitch he is graduating from our High School Magna kumlati and he will continue his studies at Rosevelt University uh please join me in congratulating Mr Chapman on his accomplishments at creep Mooney High School Additionally you haven't seen this yet uh and actually no nor of the Board of Education this has been sitting in my office uh so we took the last two years we've added two separate programs uh you know we took an orts team which we added uh at the same time that we added boys volleyball so this will now be this will be displayed uh in the athletic hallway and this is a picture of the very first win of the team you see that right there and then as well as number one Jersey and this will be PID shadow box and be placed up in the uh athletic hallway for all people to see as they come through and obviously this none of these things could happen without your original inquiries and you're pushing and a prodding and we appreciate you working towards getting an i HSA San sport added to the high school so thank you very much nice [Applause] job thank you yeah thank you outstanding work yes admire your initiative thank you for doing that that's awesome good job best wishes at Roosevelt too yeah so will you be able to play volleyball there what will you be able to play volleyball there yes awes awesome excellent great all right we're going to move on uh to the next item um we have just completed the strategic planning process this is something we've been working on all year we had several um board members that were on the committee as well in our audience we have Mrs Janine galberth and Jay farar they were on the committee as well from and Christine quinland yes as well she she participated as well and this has been a uh a process that was very enlightening it was very uh energizing to really get together with everybody to talk about where our district is going to need to go into the future so tonight with me we have uh Dr mu okay okay U we'll go to the next one and and then if it's all right with the board I might text her to find out where she's at okay then we're going to move on to our agenda is teaching and learning and I've got Miss Perkins is here apparently so miss Perkins I want to see you in two places at once she could though she could I'm sure she can but not it's notary we're moving you up a little bit in the agenda Dr Mueller is not on yet so I'm GNA text her to see where she's at I I can I can run in these yes yes uh congratulations again to uh G uh Gabrielle Chapman um one of my uh previous student so that was uh where I was giving um back some love there all right good evening uh to the board and to Dr carlines to our um uh staff and um families and that are here this evening um and to our families and staff that are watching um at home this is our academic cohort data uh report that we promised that we would give to the board in June it follows the work of our students assessment from the map assessment um if you remember back in April Mr albre asked if we could isolate our students um from the students who transition in and out of our our schools um because we have a high Mobility rate and if we can look at that data over time and so this is what that report um does give us and so as you look at the report and the report is published um on the website uh it is um a few glossery terms here are our cohort growth um and these are our students who were with us for three years and took all segments of this map assessment so that means they have nine pieces of data with us then we have our non-cohort growth which are the students who were with us over that three-year period but they may not have assess with us um at each of those intervals and that could be that they moved in or out um it could be that they were new to the district but that is what constitutes our non-cohort growth and then we have our map RIT score and this is the national Norm that is set um by NWA and it shows how much students have grown um at each segment of this assessment we give this assessment three times a year and the teachers use this this data um to help inform their instruction and it individualizes um for the students as you look at the chart it will show you um where students are performing at low low average average high average to high and then it gives you the percentile of where they are and that is a comparison number our students can receive a score a rid score were between 100 and 350 so we looked at the average of how these students grew over these cohorts so on the first slide with the data it shows if you look on the leftand side these are our students who are currently our second graders and so it shows where they were from 21 to 22 from 22 to 23 23 to 2 four the First Column shows their math growth and then the second column shows their Ela growth and so if you look what you can see is that every year that those cohort students that were with us again 191 190 students they um grew every year I know the question often gets asked by um the board and and the public like well they are growing but are they meeting um The Benchmark and so an average of where students should be would be we would want we want them at 50% and um as I've discussed before we are putting in platforms and programs and support um at the the teachers um working with our students to make sure that we get to attainment which is at that 50% level but you can see the trend with the cohort is that they continue to grow and that plus 29 means they grew 29 as a cohort they grew 29 Points um the second row shows those students who kind of were I told you were fluctuating in and out 206 students um and over that course of three years those um students uh grew uh plus 31 points all students together when we averag them out in math grew a total of 29 Points and so it goes through for each of these components for each of our cohorts you will notice this is our second graders and in 2021 this would have been the year that these students were in prek and we would have come back from the pandemic and were in some type of hybrid um if they were uh able to access our Early Learning Center uh program our Early Childhood Program and so it goes from each grade again here's here are current third graders again making growth you'll see that this is the trend um and I think this is what Mr arre was asking um do we see a trend of our students that stay with us do they continue to grow I will reiterate that we know that we need to accelerate that grow growth um and then we have uh platforms and um instructional work that is being put in place to help support that fast rate of growth that we need for our students uh but this is our third our current third graders again our fourth graders broken up again by that cohort to non-cohort and then this continues uh and then if somebody from the tell me if you want me to go through every slide okay I no but I had a I had a question um what so under the year uh 2122 you have a you have a score right yes and then under that it says low average so what um I see some of them say average or some of them say low and then low average what what's the difference what's the difference yeah okay so on the Rich score ranges it shows what percentile they're in so if they were low that means Across the Nation scores that are in low mean that they scored Across the Nation lower than the 21st percentile low average means they score between 21 and the 40th percentile average means they were in the 41 to 60 percentile and remember our Benchmark is to get us to the 50 at least to the 50 percentile and so what that shows is a comparison to their peers nationally of where where they fall and then that um score of I'm just going to take a score here that 155 to 171 to our second graders uh ending at 184 depending on what grade level you're in um that number will fluctuate for what determines if you're low low average average and so again this answers I believe Mr Au Does this answer kind of what you were asking in that uh April board meeting yeah I think it gets it that and um I'm not you know I'll have to digest some of this I'm not seeing kind of a discernable difference so far you know compared to the average um it seems like in some cases the non-core Hort jumped more which means we've done very well with those students maybe they started from kind of a lower base right yes and and and we've improved them but the overall score for our cohorts are higher than the non-cohort yes so in most in most cases and again we have some students um who um have significant scores and that can sometimes um change that non-cohort and so we look at those students and see if there's again ways that to make sure that we're accelerating and giving every student what they need because they have such a significant um score but for example if I'm looking at the eighth grade students yes you know the cohort low average low average got to average low average low average average that's that's exactly the type of improvement we want to see yes and and we want to continue to Trend upward and the um higher that we the higher scores that we get will move us into that average range uh and then I will end with you know we've talked about this um all year we'll talk about part of this in the Strategic plan as we move forward with our our district goals um as the buildings are working um on their school Improvement plan plans we had one team that was there today working on their school Improvement plan um and again it's around those um our keyword of Empower engage and impact and so how are we going to do that from an instructional level is that we're building uh the capacity of our teachers and our teams um and our principles that we're uh looking at student growth that we're continually uh closing the achievement Gap we have a wonderful coaching program um instructional coaches that we're using to help um Propel our work um we have very targeted focus on what we're going to be working on in reading and math this year we're using evidence-based practices all the things of uh to move us and move that Trend forwards collaborative cultures continuous Improvement making our decisions based on our data having our teams do walkthroughs doing professional development and then incorporating Innovative practices to engage our students um and again we're using all of this um and using feedback and um evaluation tools to help us uh become better at our craft okay well I know this was a lot of work to put together so I really appreciate it yes yes I might suggest you know instead of doing this three times a year as you come to us maybe you know once at the end of end of the each year just to I think you just saved Miss Camp a lot of hours yes um any additional questions about this all right thank you thank you all right we're gonna go back and see if uh Dr Mueller's online if not I will jump in there she is hi Dr Mueller can you hear me hi dreller can you hear me okay terrific well it's really great to see you so we've uh shared with the board that we are really so excited about the process that we uh engaged in under your guidance and uh we're really excited to present the Strategic plan this evening so I'm going to turn this over to you uh to share the PowerPoint and uh take it from there sounds good and you all can hear me okay yes okay sounds good so first of all I just want to say I'm so grateful again for the opportunity to come and work with your community your staff you have amazing students they're soet and so invested in the success of your district and so I'm really thrilled that the end result here of a plan to help guide you moving forward is really well done and it includes everyone's voice so with that um our purpose tonight is to report out on the process that we used and present to you the main components of the new plan and then outline the next steps that we're going to use to implement the plan that's the hard work believe it or not it wasn't getting you to this point but what's next is going to be even more challenging in a good way I want to make sure I give you time to ask questions and then ultimately our goal here is to seek your approval on the components of the plan to help us move forward with uh creating all the additional Communications and tools that we use to implement the plan and starting to roll that out with your community your school community so that's our purpose for tonight again why do we do strategic planning why is this so important it's an opportunity to bring all of your audiences your constituents together to collectively engage about our why our why being our students uh it provides intention and focus for us because we continue to think about how do we improve and you know that is that is part of the why for school systems right is to focus on that continuous Improvement it guides decision making often you find yourselves as board members grappling with decisions and sometimes it's nice to have that strategic plan in front of you to say now wait what did our constituents say to be our priorities and where does this particular fall within the priority or decision- making that we're doing here it helps us set very specific actions for Progress to meet the goals that have been identified as priorities and it offers us the ability to monitor evaluate and adjust as we need to it helps us be smarter with the work that we're doing for the benefit of our students so the process we use is we we spent quite a quite a good amount of time assessing the health of the district the state of the district and from there we we looked at what you previously had as a mission and vision statement and we we worked them a little bit we went through a process called a SWAT activity where we identifi the strengths of the district places where we know we need to grow opportunities for continuous growth or Improvement and what threatens the success of the school district we took time to Define our values that we hold for our students upon graduation we really Dove deep into understanding the needs that your school system faces and then from there we determine the priorities and and we asked from the community work group what are some areas for goals for the the district team to operationalize the plan so that's the process we used and we met over four times and one of the things that we did before we met Community work group and while we met with the community work group is we conducted a series of focus groups and uh before we even met with that Comm work group met with these different um subgroups of your staff but we also spent time talking to your students and I love this photo of your kids and this I'll tell you is one of the highlights of my entire experience with cre which say says a lot because every experience I've had has been positive with you all but these kids are outstanding and uh we learned a lot from them and I think probably one of the most things I learned from them is that Co really hurt them and they are eager to be in school and they're eager to gain from their teachers and from the school system what they need to be successful moving on after gradu they see that value and that's really outstanding to then uh what I don't have number of participants that but I would say we were 40 to 60 every night when we came together uh we had four meetings with that Comm Community workers and we also had internal staff that were serving as facilitators and I would say we had really high level of engagement at all those meetings at the last we asked everyone to complete a quick exit slip and to share in one word how they would describe the process and this is a word cloud from that where if you're familiar with word clouds the larger words are the ones that were repeated the most participants and the smaller words are like maybe one from um from a participant but you can see really positive experience right for people it good it was productive exciting energizing collaborative enlightening fful is really nice to see in there so really great response from those who participated so let's talk about the components of the plan the first one is mission right and I always like using the slide with groups to help clarify that the mission is what we're doing today it's our why today vision is where we're headed what our future what tomorrow is so I thrilled to present to you after four meetings and hard work from that worker the new mission statement is engage and Empower our students to positively impact their community and and future along with that that's our why the day where we're headed what the future is driving communities through inclusivity collaboration and academic Excellence then we identified the core values for our students and again these are values that we hold for our students upon graduation so we think it's important for our students to be accountable that our students have the ability to collaborate we value equity for our students Innovation inte and respect so we ask the group to Define what each of those core values mean for our students and here you will see the collective definition from the group about what of those mean for us so if you look at for example Equity because Equity means so much to every for this school district we Define equity as ensuring every student feels see and achieves a sense of belonging in the school community so I can let you take a look here at the others and again these are these are the values that we hold for us what does it mean for our students that's how we Define these may I ask a question absolutely why wasn't educated one of them well that's a really good question and we we will talk about that a little bit with priorities I think when we do strategic planning with groups I'm getting a lot of feedback is it just me talking or someone else asking a question is it just me um when we work with strategic planning groups I am often surprised how education or educ doesn't become a core value or doesn't even become a priority in the Strategic plan and I think the reason it doesn't come up it's because it's assume right people are assuming that well that's our why that is our why that's what we're doing back your mission is engaging empowering students to positively impact their community and future education's not in there same with vision although you see academic Excellence with vision hold on to that question see if it shows up in priorities for you so if we look at our priorities we landed on five different priori areas for the district and if you look at yellow one expand student programs and services that's where you're going to find a lot of action around the education pie you're also going to find it underneath the where it says ensure instructional quality and Effectiveness the other priorities that came out was we want to strengthen family and Community engagement you can see an attention to the whole child here with enhancing student and staff wellbeing and then the green is optimizing the funding and safeguarding fiscal responsibility and stewardship so often and I know Dr K asked me this question and we talked about this with your group often when we do strategic planning our priorities for guiding us forward over the next couple years usually land in four buckets so when you look at these five priorities I think you'll see that they fall into the typical four buckets the first bucket is around student performance and our student so you can kind of see that reflected here one of the other buckets is around our staff and in this case you see that with blue uring instructional quality and Effectiveness the third bucket usually is around Communications or community outreach and you see that with the the red here with the engagement and the fourth bucket usually falls into operation and Facilities which you're seeing with the green bucket so when we think about that question that you just asked about educate although it's not clearly stated as educating that's what the I I would argue the yellow the blue and the purple do right we focus on those priorities that's what we're doing educating now um if I move forward this is how the whole plan in one little nice package if you will uh this is kind of like the aesthetic of the plan right like here are the main components of the plan here you'll see the mission the vision the core values and the priorities stated you'll see a QR code that takes that'll take people to the website to see the plan in more detail so this is a really high level this components and that's what we're asking you to to approve tonight you'll see that we landed on a tagline for the district as part of your branding and promoting the district with engage Empower and impact and if I go back into your mission statement you will see those three words in the mission that we're you know we engage we Empower and we impact so when I go back to the poster here um you can see that right above the the 2024 through 2028 strategic plan engage Empower impact and we can really lean into that for a lot of your branding efforts moving forward as well as the the that we created for the Strategic plan which is Unified for our Student Success now this is the the high level piece again that we're asking you to approve tonight but this doesn't impact what happens right it doesn't impact education that comes in the actual details of operationalizing the plan so we met with your District leadership team and we asked them to take the components of the plan and map out the strategies we're going to deploy as action to enact the plan for just the first year for the 2024 2025 school year so when you look across the top here and it's probably kind of small for you but you'll see that we set student goals for Education right so um English language arts 100% of our students can actively interact and comprehend grade level test Tex sorry at least 75% of our students will demonstrate Mastery on our common speci that's a goal for English language arts you can see that we have similar goals for math we set a goal for a attendant the percentage of chronically Trent students by 10% you can see we have some goals for Behavior goals for graduation goals for our operations and sustainability and a goal for staff retention what we like about this as a team if we have many more goals it's really hard to have success get to thin so we tried to keep our goals really tight to ensure success then what we did to operationalize the plan is we listed out how are we going to measure success with those goals and that's what's going to get reported back to you all as a board so that you can see are we making progress towards meeting our goals or do we need to you know double down on some strategies do we need to shift the work that we're doing to get a better return on our investment of our time so that's that's work that going to come and be presented to you as we move forward if I continue on the details of the plan you'll see here that your team has mapped out in relation to each of the five priorities from the plan they've mapped out what are some strategies that we're going to deploy during the 2024 2025 school year to reach those goals so let me kind of help you understand maybe I'll pick an easy one family and community engagement is one of your priority areas in order to to achieve the goal of 100% of students can actively interact with and comprehend level time under family and Community engagement parent University training will provide sessions to help families support their students interaction with grade level text at home you see how they're lined up to to make sure that they're success with that one goal um if I continue in that same o if I continue in that same area let me go back one um under student programs and services if I'm still focusing on English language arts we're going to ensure and offer programs and services that enrich literacy we're going to offer after school tutoring to reinforce classroom instruction and provide additional practice opportunities and we're going to create opportunities for literacy clubs that offer pleasure and comprehension outside the classroom so these are strategies that you're District leadership team has identified um for working towards that goal under the lens of our strategic plan and we Carri that through all the priority areas here you can see how we're supporting ly through funding and fiscal responsibility this is the plan that will be brought forward in terms of monitoring for you all you can see again are we making the progress that we need to make and if not then we we know that we need to adjust our strategies so what's next with all this again tonight is about sharing with you all the main components of the Strategic plan that's being recommended by your community work group that was consistently of 40 to 65 people that came over four nights and said these are these are the things that are most important to us in terms of our mission our vision our core values and our priorities for continued Improvement we want you to take action on that if you're comfortable doing so tonight and then from there what we'll do is one of the things that you get in terms of working with us around your strategic plan is you get all the communications and tools to share this work with your community so you know some of the things that we do is included there two of the things that want to talk about is we're going to create a promotional brochure that you can use for your marketing efforts in terms of attracting uh some students and families but also attracting businesses to your community as well as attracting hires and so we'll include the Strategic plan within a promotional brochure that includes like points of Pride for the school district we'll also create a video that helps roll out the Strategic plan in a way that's accessible to your to your community and Dr Cara has worked to identify and seek uh interest from those who participated in the planning efforts to do some testimonial for that video and then the hard workk right we operationalize the plan and that's kind of getting into the details that I was just sharing you sharing with you from your District leadership team we're going to do progress reports to you all and to our community we're going to create an online dashboard to to keep track of our progress so anybody can look at our progress over time and again we we'll have to monitor evaluate and respond if we're not making the progress that we need to with our investment of time um part of the progress report to the community is going to be through your regular newsletters and we're we're right now working on a newsletter that's going to go out to your community as you know kind of in sync with the start of the school year and we'll be able to not Shar the new strategic plan through that we'll also be able to share some progress already being made in the different priority areas of so I know that I a lot at um I'm happy to answer questions but we wanted to make sure that we say thank you to the members that we could get our hands on their names of all the people that have been involved over time um it's been four months of work if not longer and uh you know I'm just again really thrilled to see how this has all come together for you all and I'll pause and let Dr Cara insert any additional information I know we have a couple individuals maybe in the audience that wanted to say a few words but we're also happy to answer any questions at this time I know we have some people in the audience but we're not going to make you say anything um they've been certainly supportive and we do appreciate you being here tonight we're really excited about moving this forward um and starting to get this out there and uh So the plan is for the first year is to get this socialized we're going to have posters and all the classrooms all the um all the offices um so that we can start working on the work and communicating that my intent is also to go out to uh various Community venues to share our strategic plan so the community knows where we're going and the work that we are going to do any other any other questions that's yes beond I'm thinking like responsibility sorry my mic's on now um like on fysical responsibility on page 16 you know incorporate preved maintenance practices awesome develop a long-term capital plan awesome but you know something about um you know making sure that you know we're not running deficit spending or you know that we're you know looking at you know surpluses you know maybe there may be a year where we need to go have a little deficit spending but on a three-year average or something you know how do we how do we craft that so that we're not uh wildly spending the new Revenue that we have coming in right and I think that's what the the the job of the board is to to set those uh set those parameters as we go through each year so absolutely that is part of your your role I love that I love that the board is willing to engage like that I'm sure Jason will appreciate it too a member of our audience Mr farore uh he was part of the process and I think he has decided he'd like to add a few things so no no Nelson just to to clarify I know one of the things that we focus on Ken was at my table uh and was the fact that when we're communicating to the community specifically about financial accountability uh and uh being appropriately use of the finances it's good to let the community know you're not just spending your money on every single thing that comes along as a whim and things like that and so this the the part of that was a reinforcement is it it fares well in the community when they know you're not just chasing every little whim but you're doing things that are structurally needed and so I think that the way that the school district is being run and has been being run uh it it far as well to communicate the fact that we want to point was the other day when it was presented regarding the Middle School changes there's a lot of things you could have done but you chose the most coste effective Jason you know you did a great job uh wrapping all that up the other day but the the reality is is you could build another building somewhere you could bu buy more land you could do all sorts of things you're not doing those things you're you're being as coste efficient as possible and that kind of messaging to the community calms people when they look at 70% of the tax bill goes to schooling and when they look at that you're not just being abusive and just saying well we're just we think we're whatever you know you're you're being you're being as guarded about the spending as you would your own finances and I think that messaging is what part of the point with this here was the community interaction and letting people know that that was just just two cents in regarding that particular aspect of it thank you appreciate that feedback thank you all right I think Dr Mueller I think we covered everything thank you I look like I'm on the face of the sun I apologize for that I don't know there we go know in two places tonight so anyway thank you so much for being here virtually um we look forward to our continued work together on this project great job thank you yeah thank you thank you again you guys have a beauti beautiful Community I know you serve a number of communities in terms of uniting them it it's been a really fun process you have lots of great engagement and uh the community is lucky to have you all there to lead them through the next few years thank you thank you good night great take care go for it you get it go ahead how do I hand it back over to Mr Brown you can continue on yeah doing a great job next oh okay that was um administrative updates no and we did te we're on eight consent agenda approval I have a motion to approve the consent agenda so move so move by Mr Brown second second by Mr gagos gagos um any questions we're approving AA right right yes 8 the whole thing is it the whole thing the whole thing oh it's the whole okay yeah the whole and you want to ask if there's anyone want to pull something out does are there any questions or anyone wants to pull something out of the consent agenda that's a day through C if no if that's no then roll call please all right Mr gyos i m rup is and I miss s stumbras i Mr swales I Mr [Music] alre I Dr Hall I president Brown I all right it motion move passed um next is number nine I believe we do 9A which is under action reports um a is business and one so one at a time so A1 um we are looking for a motion to read it out okay oh okay read it out accept the bid results for garbage removal and Recycling services and all Sites located in the district submitted by Alli Waste Services um doing business as Public Services Incorporated in the amount of $524 12 for annual Serv service for the 2425 fiscal year moved second all right so mooved by who's that Mr Nelson I mean Al yes and then Mr gagos any questions thoughts concerns roll call please Mr gagos I miss z stus i Mr swales I Mr alre i m rers and I Dr Hall I president Brown I all right motion pass now we are um Action Report under a business number two approve the 2324 amended budget can I have a motion some moved some moved by Miss G gagos and second by Miss rot um any questions I just comment just I want to keep us apprised of when we get that um transportation funding in to close the deficit okay roll call please all right Mr Alber I Mr gigos i m rubson i Mr swales hi Miss stumber I Dr Hall I president Brown I all right um still under nine action reports we at B personnel and culture it's to approve superintendence evaluation for the 23 24 I move that's we need I mooved to move that after close session okay so we have a motion to move that to after close session second we have a second by Mr swales that's it we got oh you make the motion you second okay I'm sorry all right uh any questions roll call all right Mr GEOS i m rup is an i Mr alre I Mr swales I miss s sters i Dr Hall I president Brown I all right so we're at nine c and teaching and learning approve 24th 28 strategic planning for the school years of 20 2024 2028 the Strategic plan um can I get sub moved sub mooved mros second anyone second second by Miss root any questions thoughts concerns no I know a lot of work went into that I think it's a pretty good product can I get a mo uh can I get a roll call certainly Mr gyos hi Mr alre I Mr sees hi Miss Sun i m r and i Dr Hall I president Brown all right moving on to Old business any old business I just is there an update on where we are with the portion of CIT that we had an issue with the um the Border or those families that were impacted by the district map um the attorney had counseled us last time and said that they're not they don't even look at it until September so we've submitted the paperwork they're not going to look at it until probably September okay so as soon as we find out but we're communicating with those families and yes yeah all right they can did you have something you T is that undone y Nelson just as a followup to your question about Transportation because I just looked it up it was vouchered yesterday so that means it has been sent over to to the controller of the state to be paid to the districts so we'll probably get it prior to June 30th but it has been vouchered the last payment there aw which is what Brian was talking about yep okay any more old business new business any new business um number no your mic this is this is the only opportunity I have left and Kon you have to get that last one in huh this is K his last meeting with us and Ken you have beeny so you have to stay another month for giving us that information uh thank you Ken for all the many years you have been here supporting this school district not only in the financial capacity but other capacities as well you've been my my big brother in crime over the many years you have been an excellent business manager as assistant superintendent and you make things very easy for us to understand and I just tell Jason you got a heart a big shoes to feel man they stink but they're big we're GNA miss you man we really are so give us your address in the next state that you tend to yeah go in that direction has my number I said address no phone numbers address I'm going to sneak up all you so really appreciate it thank you and also this is I'm not sure if any anything was stated on on the event we had on this past weekend it was a tremendous event it was very successful I thank all of the board members who was able to come out and those who could make it they truly had their heart to attend but for whatever circumstances came up they was unable to and J jnel you were I mean you was a warrior truly a warrior in all the hard work that you put forth in that event and obviously Dr Cara as well the maintenance department the security department and all the other people that was involved Creek Police I mean I can go on and on I knew I shouldn't have named one person because I'll forget somebody so look forward to next year and one thing that stood out for me in that event was at the end I never knew it was coming they had a what they call a drum circle and that drum circle to me was indicative of how I visualized this community to be it was white men in that white men in that drum circle it was white women it was black men it was black women it was teenagers of all colors and we even had Alex bring his special drum unannounced to me that he was going to be there so I really really appreciate it was truly a community event and I look forward to it next year and then some and thank you board members for again being there for for me for the community and it did my heart well if he wasn't there physically he was there in the spirit that's all I have all right any more new business okay that being said um we have next a motion to go in I would like to make a motion to go into close session for a reason foror purp appointment employment compensation discipline performance or dismissal of specific employees so move so move by Mr Brown second by Mr Al R any questions roll call please Mr Al I Mr guos i m rson i Mr swales I miss stus I Dr Hall I president Brown I okay motion passed how about how long so I I about 45 minutes we should be in a Clos session um we do have one final thing to handle when we come out of Clos session before we go into adjournment so we will what is it n under action number n b u personnel and culture excellent all right so we're in close e e e also all right we are coming out of close session at 8:33 oh do I need to do a motion to come out a close session no no okay we're coming out of close session at 8:33 p.m.

e e e good afternoon ladies and gentlemen or I should say good evening as we are here at hopkington high school getting ready to start the first senior Ruth game of the summer season senior Ruth baseball back in hopkington and you have two senior Ruth teams for hopkington the 15 through 17 year olds and the 13 and 14 year olds and today you're getting a look at the 15 through 17 year olds Tom nappy happy to be on the call with you today as Hopkinton welcomes in Ashland Medfield and we have our first pitch of the day and it's slightly outside Ben Ellis is the pitcher for hopkington and it's nice to have uh some summer baseball back here in hopkington we're going to bring you some senior Ruth coverage throughout this season as that pitch got away and you'll be getting a good look at the future of the hopkington hillers leading things off that's will Daly for Ashlin wind up and the pitch little inside there and he is going to draw a walk so so daily starts things off with a walk and that'll bring up Joey Secor for Ashley let's take a look at the Ashlin Medfield lineup will Dy LED things off he just walked Joey Secor batting second DK aen COA hitting third Isaiah Campbell hitting clean up as the runner from first is going to steal second throw not there in Time Jake Le is batting fifth Griffin Ford hitting sixth Adam Riley hitting seventh cam bosor hitting eighth John roas hitting ninth first game of the season for both these teams and we have uh stoppage here it looks like we may uh have someone coming to the bench that's a center fielder Nathan Bruce so looks like we're going to have a change at center field and it looks like they're going to get some help from an Ashlin Medfield player since they only have nine guys on their team so now you have Sam cray over in center field and have number four for ashin take it over in right so Ashen Medfield help it out they don't want them to have to Forfeit just because uh you're missing an outfielder certainly want to uh be able to play these games out there and this league it's all about experience for these young players and it gives them uh an extra some extra um experience towards uh playing uh high school ball and leagues like this certainly help these guys advance to the next level and that's why it's great to see the senior Ruth program back in Hopkinson runner from second taking off from to third throw got away but quickly stopped by the third basem so daily advances another stolen base and Hopkinson missing a number of guys on their roster tonight that they will get back as the season goes on as we get another walk here so Joey seori draws the walk and Derek Asen COA will step to the plate runner from first taking off and the batter is hit runner from third is going to go home as the ball gets away so a bit of a rough start for Hopkinson and with n guys available for Hopkinton tonight it's going to the pitching situation will certainly be interesting inside see if Ben Ellis is able to settle down a little bit pitch just outside nice night for baseball it was very hot during the day but temperatures have since cooled off a little bit you have a nice breeze coming in right up in the pitch and this is up the left side that's going to get through the Gap and be a base hit here comes another run for Ashland and Joey secator will come around and score dere aen COA up to Second and Isaiah Campbell at first with an RBI single that'll bring up Jake lay oh nice start for Ashland Medfield as they are up two nothing now this is the Tri Valley Senior Ruth summer league that we're going to be getting some glimpses of this summer you got regular season games for a little over a month and some playoff action towards the end of July and potentially into early August as that pitch grabs the inner corner for a strike and we can't say we're going to get you every game but we're going to get you a few games here and there got to have some summer baseball here on H Camp wind up and the pitch swinging a Miss Nice strike out there well kneed out one away that'll bring up Griffin Ford Runners on first and second for Ashland Medfield swing in a Miss looks like Ben Ellis might be settling down a little bit which is good to see so Ean Bruce who was originally in uh center field moved over to short stop swinging a Miss there center field now you have Sam cray right field number four from Ashlin bedfield I guess he's going to be assisting hopkington tonight as there's another strikeout about that a couple KS for Ben Ellis as Adam Riley will step in and left field looks like you have John hul as this will drop along the third basine picked up by Ellis and he overthrows it another run is going to come around on the error and are we going to get two runs on the error yes we will so a costly error there and Adam Riley reaches on the error and advances to Second ends up getting a couple RB out of it cam Bosworth will step to the plate so you know it's first game of the season for both these teams and this is where you work out those Kinks those defensive Kinks and that's what you're going to see in these early games during the summer season you have canol medy at first for hopkington as we're trying to fill in the lineup here Kyle ghouly at second Nathan Bruce at Short and that's filed away and we'll get away so an advance there by Riley that's fed off over at third base for Hopkinson that is Tom karthy and it gets away here comes another run and the defensive struggles continue for Hopkinton as the lights come on here at the turf fields and I don't know how much experience these athletes for hopkington have on the turfield it it could be a very tricky place to play a tough surface to get used to swinging a Miss there by Bosworth [Music] and he strikes him out so despite three strikeouts Ashlin does plate five runs and they lead it five to nothing as we head to the bottom of the first in the senior Ruth game on ham e [Music] welcome to Bragg and [Music] GRS well actually just a [Music] glory spiders do we have spiders wow this is hon a roll [Music] okay this is going completely downhill yeah I honest here our ship is going down I agree with that statement teams please write down your risks what is a state in the western part of the United States come on world map where are you when I need show [Music] all right folks welcome back in the hopkington high school turf fields we are ready for the bottom of the first we'll get our first look at this Hopkinton senior Ruth group it's the 15 through 17 year olds and taking a look at the Ashlin defense you got Griffin Ford in center field on the mound is number 13 Derek Asen COA and I remember him he was a uh quite a crucial part of the clockers this past season over at first base you got will da at second base Adam Riley Isaiah Campbell is your short stop Jake La Mayer third baseman wind up and the Pitch hit in the air right side and foul at a play your catcher is Joey seori pitch a little outside there little high at the plate for Hopkinton right now that's number eight Connor Harris and the walk is drawn so hopkington in business there's a strike at the plate it's number 34 Ben Ellis who was the starting pitcher today gets that one foul up the third base side set the deal that's filed off hits this one in the air fou out of play little outside there get this one in the air F out of count is one and two slight lead by Harris over at first as that one's fed off good battle here between Ben Ellis and Derek Asen COA so it's Camp BOS to is lending his talents to Hopkinton since they were short of player he was playing a little bit of Outfield and they had to sub him out because he ended up coming up to the plate for Ashland swinging a Miss there one away so Ben Ellis goes down by way of the K we'll get the third hitter of the inning for Hopkinson looks like this is Tom mcarthy stepping in fouled off Tom mcarthy the starting third baseman today little inside there got away from the catcher runner from first Harris advances Advance on the wild pitch wind up and the pitch fouled off that was a nice job by the hopk to Parks and Recreation getting this senior Ruth program back together getting them on the field this season certainly looking forward to covering some of these Senor root baseball games and perhaps uh we may have some little league coverage as well stay tuned for for more on that check in at second runner back safe and now he's going to try to advance to third as the throw gets away and he will so an errant throw there allows Harris to advance to third hopkington looking to Plate some runs get back back in this game as that pitch outside two and two three and two the count as this is hit in the air that'll drop in a center field and it's going to be an RBI single for Tom McCarthy Conor Harris around to score and that'll make it a five to one game good piece of hitting there that pitch down low wi up and the pitch little inside is Nathan Bruce at the plate moved over to Short Stop for Hopkinson runner from first is going it won't matter as Bruce draws the walk so two on one out a run in for Hopkinson and this is Canal medy at the plate fifth hitter in the lineup starting first baseman for Hopkinson pitcher steps off karthy back to the second base bag two on one out for Hopkinson swinging a Miss it's two and one laen COA has thrown 29 pitches so far in this first inning leg lift and the pitch there is a strike little outside there the head coach for Hopkins in is Jim Bruce actually the father of Lexi Bruce who is a terrific basketball player for the hillers was a tremendous contributor to some of those great varsity girls basketball runs Neil medy is the assistant coach two outs is Canal Med struck out at the plate right now you got number 12 and the ball's going to get away aant throw and another run scores Bruce up to Second McCarthy around and it's a five to2 game these uh athletes actually just got their jerseys today so this is their uh first game of the year as the inning will end with a strikeout Sam cray goes down by way of the K but Hopkinton plates a pair a runs and it's a 5-2 game as we head to the top of the second on hcam e welcome back we are ready for the top of the second Bellis back on the hill first pitch a ball it's John roas at the plate the right fielder 91 and two hitters do up for Ashlin Medfield fouled off so in the senior Ruth program there's three leagues really there's the Babe Ruth senior Ruth league which is really the top one and then here is kind of the mid-level league it it's the tvl summer league is the 15 through 17y old then you have the 13 and 14 year olds and this is more so to get experience but they do have a postseason as well amongst the league as we get out number one a strike out there for roas and now here comes cam Corker in to the plate and you have more uh than a ninan lineup in this league everybody available they go through uh everybody on the bench regardless if they are in the field or not so this is the 10th hitter in the lineup swinging a miss wi up and the pitch swing and a miss and how about that another strike out let tell you benell is starting to feel it out there he's pitching well these last few hitters he started off the game with a couple walks hit a batter and gave up a single but then after that he struck out three of the four hitters that came up next and now in this inning has strucking out the first two oh hits that one however will daily will get a free pass over the first base he's hit by the pitch and Joey seori will come up to the plate that might be they're bringing in a new Runner [Music] Perhaps Perhaps uh Dy just had to go back over and shake off being hit by the pitch yeah Del is still in the game it looks like as at first base so that's good to see he wasn't too shooken up that is hit in the air and that'll drop into Right Center daily going to round second heading to third Secor heading to third Here Comes da around to score throw to Third and it's not in time an RBI triple for Joey Secor and will daily around to score it is now a 6-2 Ashlin Medfield lead good piece of hitting there by The Catcher And now Derek aen COA steps in and he gets hit as well so some control issues periodically for Ben Ellis Isaiah Campbell will step to the plate looking at the names on both these rosters I'd say oh that's going to get away here comes another run to throw home and it looks like he might have got him so they did indeed get the or they did indeed get the out that is a huge break for hopkington they needed that they get the out on a Secor who was trying to score off the wild pitch and we will head to the bottom of the second with Ashlin Medfield leading 6-2 on Hamp e Saturday morning cartoons are back every Saturday at 8:00 a.m.

e e e good afternoon ladies and gentlemen or I should say good evening as we are here at hopkington high school getting ready to start the first senior Ruth game of the summer season senior Ruth baseball back in hopkington and you have two senior Ruth teams for hopkington the 15 through 17 year olds and the 13 and 14 year olds and today you're getting a look at the 15 through 17 year olds Tom nappy happy to be on the call with you today as Hopkinton welcomes in Ashland Medfield and we have our first pitch of the day and it's slightly outside Ben Ellis is the pitcher for Hopkinton and it's nice to have uh some summer baseball back here in hopkington we're going to bring you some senior Ruth coverage throughout this season as that pitch got away and you'll be getting a good look at the future of the hopkington hillers leading things off that's will Daly for Ashlin wind up and the pitch little inside there and he is going to draw a walk so so daily starts things off with a walk and that'll bring up Joey Secor for Ashley let's take a look at the Ashlin Medfield lineup will Dy LED things off he just walked Joey Secor batting second DK aen COA hitting third Isaiah Campbell hitting clean up as the runner from first is going to steal second throw not there in Time Jake Le is batting fifth Griffin Ford hitting sixth Adam Riley hitting seventh cam bosor hitting eighth John roas hitting ninth first game of the season for both these teams and we have uh stoppage here it looks like we may uh have someone coming to the bench that's a center fielder Nathan Bruce so looks like we're going to have a change at center field and it looks like they're going to get some help from an Ashlin Medfield player since they only have nine guys on their team so now you have Sam cray over in center field and have number four for ashin take it over in right so ashin Medfield help it out they don't want them to have to Forfeit just because uh you're missing an outfielder certainly want to uh be able to play these games out there and this league it's all about experience for these young players and it gives them uh an extra some extra um experience towards uh playing uh high school ball and leagues like this certainly help these guys advance to the next level and that's why it's great to see the senior Ruth program back in Hopkinson runner from second taking off from to third throw got away but quickly stopped by the third basem so daily advances another stolen base and Hopkinson missing a number of guys on their roster tonight that they will get back as the season goes on as we get another walk here so Joey seori draws the walk and Derek Asen COA will step to the plate runner from first taking off and the batter is hit runner from third is going to go home as the ball gets away so a bit of a rough start for Hopkinson and with n guys available for hopkington tonight it's going to the pitching situation will certainly be interesting inside see if Ben Ellis is able to settle down a little bit pitch just outside nice night for baseball it was very hot during the day but temperatures have since cooled off a little bit you have a nice breeze coming in right up in the pitch and this is up the left side that's going to get through the Gap and be a base hit here comes another run for Ashland and Joey secator will come around and score dere aen COA up to Second and Isaiah Campbell at first with an RBI single that'll bring up Jake lay oh nice start for Ashland Medfield as they are up two nothing now this is the Tri Valley Senior Ruth summer league that we're going to be getting some glimpses of this summer you got regular season games for a little over a month and some playoff action towards the end of July and potentially into early August as that pitch grabs the inner corner for a strike and we can't say we're going to get you every game but we're going to get you a few games here and there got to have some summer baseball here on H Camp wind up and the pitch swinging a Miss Nice strike out there well kneed out one away that'll bring up Griffin Ford Runners on first and second for Ashland Medfield swing and a miss looks like Ben Ellis might be settling down a little bit which is good to see so Ean Bruce who was originally in uh center field moved over to short stop swinging a Miss there center field now you have Sam cray right field number four from Ashlin bedfield I guess he's going to be assisting hopkington tonight as there's another strikeout about that a couple KS for Ben Ellis as Adam Riley will step in and left field looks like you have John hul as this will drop along the third Baseline picked up by Ellis and he overthrows it another run is going to come around on the error and are we going to get two runs on the error yes we will so a costly error there and Adam Riley reaches on the error and advances to Second ends up getting a couple RB out of it cam Bosworth will step to the plate so you know it's first game of the season for both these teams and this is where you work out those Kinks those defensive Kinks and that's what you're going to see in these early games during the summer season you have canol medy at first for hopkington as we're trying to fill in the lineup here Kyle ghouly at second Nathan Bruce at Short and that's filed away and we'll get away so an advance there by Riley that's fed off over at third base for Hopkinson that is Tom karthy and it gets away here comes another run and the defensive struggles continue for Hopkinton as the lights come on here at the turf fields and I don't know how much experience these athletes for hopkington have on the turfield it it could be a very tricky place to play a tough surface to get used to swinging a Miss there by Bosworth [Music] and he strikes him out so despite three strikeouts Ashlin does plate five runs and they lead it five to nothing as we head to the bottom of the first in the senior Ruth game on ham e [Music] welcome to Bragg and [Music] GRS well actually just a [Music] glory spiders do we have spiders wow this is hon a roll [Music] okay this is going completely downhill yeah I honest here our ship is going down I agree with that statement teams please write down your risks what is a state in the western part of the United States come on world map where are you when I need show [Music] all right folks welcome back in the hopkington high school turf fields we are ready for the bottom of the first we'll get our first look at this Hopkinton senior Ruth group it's the 15 through 17 year olds and taking a look at the Ashlin defense you got Griffin Ford in center field on the mound is number 13 Derek Asen COA and I remember him he was a uh quite a crucial part of the clockers this past season over at first base you got will da at second base Adam Riley Isaiah Campbell is your short stop Jake La Mayer third baseman wind up and the Pitch hit in the air right side and foul at a play your catcher is Joey seori pitch a little outside there little high at the plate for Hopkinton right now that's number eight Connor Harris and the walk is drawn so hopkington in business there's a strike at the plate it's number 34 Ben Ellis who was the starting pitcher today gets that one foul up the third base side set the deal that's filed off hits this one in the air fou out of play little outside there get this one in the air F out of count is one and two slight lead by Harris over at first as that one's fed off good battle here between Ben Ellis and Derek Asen COA so it's Camp BOS to is lending his talents to Hopkinton since they were short of player he was playing a little bit of Outfield and they had to sub him out because he ended up coming up to the plate for Ashland swinging a Miss there one away so Ben Ellis goes down by way of the K we'll get the third hitter of the inning for Hopkinson looks like this is Tom mcarthy stepping in fouled off Tom mcarthy the starting third baseman today little inside there got away from the catcher runner from first Harris advances Advance on the wild pitch wind up and the pitch fouled off that was a nice job by the hopk to Parks and Recreation getting this senior Ruth program back together getting them on the field this season certainly looking forward to covering some of these Senor root baseball games and perhaps uh we may have some little league coverage as well stay tuned for for more on that check in at second runner back safe and now he's going to try to advance to third as the throw gets away and he will so an errant throw there allows Harris to advance to third hopkington looking to Plate some runs get back back in this game as that pitch outside two and two three and two the count as this is hit in the air that'll drop in a center field and it's going to be an RBI single for Tom McCarthy Conor Harris around to score and that'll make it a five to one game good piece of hitting there that pitch down low wi up and the pitch little inside is Nathan Bruce at the plate moved over to Short Stop for Hopkinson runner from first is going it won't matter as Bruce draws the walk so two on one out a run in for Hopkinson and this is Canal medy at the plate fifth hitter in the lineup starting first baseman for Hopkinson pitcher steps off karthy back to the second base bag two on one out for Hopkinson swinging a Miss it's two and one laen COA has thrown 29 pitches so far in this first inning leg lift and the pitch there is a strike little outside there the head coach for Hopkins in is Jim Bruce actually the father of Lexi Bruce who is a terrific basketball player for the hillers was a tremendous contributor to some of those great varsity girls basketball runs Neil medy is the assistant coach two outs is Canal Med struck out at the plate right now you got number 12 and the ball's going to get away aant throw and another run scores Bruce up to Second McCarthy around and it's a five to2 game these uh athletes actually just got their jerseys today so this is their uh first game of the year as the inning will end with a strikeout Sam cray goes down by way of the K but Hopkinton plates a pair a runs and it's a 5-2 game as we head to the top of the second on hcam e welcome back we are ready for the top of the second Bellis back on the hill first pitch a ball it's John roas at the plate the right fielder 91 and two hitters do up for Ashlin Medfield fouled off so in the senior Ruth program there's three leagues really there's the Babe Ruth senior Ruth league which is really the top one and then here is kind of the mid-level league it it's the tvl summer league is the 15 through 17y old then you have the 13 and 14 year olds and this is more so to get experience but they do have a postseason as well amongst the league as we get out number one a strike out there for roas and now here comes cam Corker in to the plate and you have more uh than a ninan lineup in this league everybody available they go through uh everybody on the bench regardless if they are in the field or not so this is the 10th hitter in the lineup swinging a miss wi up and the pitch swing and a miss and how about that another strike out let tell you benell is starting to feel it out there he's pitching well these last few hitters he started off the game with a couple walks hit a batter and gave up a single but then after that he struck out three of the four hitters that came up next and now in this inning has strucking out the first two oh hits that one however will daily will get a free pass over the first base he's hit by the pitch and Joey seori will come up to the plate that might be they're bringing in a new Runner [Music] Perhaps Perhaps uh Dy just had to go back over and shake off being hit by the pitch yeah Del is still in the game it looks like as at first base so that's good to see he wasn't too shooken up that is hit in the air and that'll drop into Right Center daily going to round second heading to third Secor heading to third Here Comes da around to score throw to Third and it's not in time an RBI triple for Joey Secor and will daily around to score it is now a 6-2 Ashlin Medfield lead good piece of hitting there by The Catcher And now Derek aen COA steps in and he gets hit as well so some control issues periodically for Ben Ellis Isaiah Campbell will step to the plate looking at the names on both these rosters I'd say oh that's going to get away here comes another run to throw home and it looks like he might have got him so they did indeed get the or they did indeed get the out that is a huge break for hopkington they needed that they get the out on a Secor who was trying to score off the wild pitch and we will head to the bottom of the second with Ashlin Medfield leading 6-2 on Hamp e Saturday morning cartoons are back every Saturday at 8:00 a.m.

call this meeting 2018 finance department of order take the attendance Teresa B pres K Cana here Monita Bush Harris here and Mr janelli is here have 100% I'm going to ask my friend Kate to take the minutes thank you very much okay we've got a lengthy agenda tonight so everybody has copy of the package we're going to start off with the first item on the agenda and we're going to turn that over to John SP talk thank you Rich so um so this is about the bus contract and U extending it or not extending it and we uh our bu contracted as everybody knows is with SDA student transportation for America and we currently are in the middle year contract that was started in July of 2021 and the contract um so it has two more years to run starting in July and that contract would call for increases of 3.75% next year and another 3.75% in year five and it's uh it's common in with u contractors in the bu business when they get to the end towards the end of their contract they'll come in and ask uh for some type of extension or they'll offer um an incentive and so generally it's at the end of year four that the contractor comes in and may say okay I'll I'll offer you uh 1% next year uh if you give me a new 5ye contract it happens a lot if you um you know if your if your bus company has a good safety record which are ours does and if they've had U enough bus drivers and uh you haven't had late buses and things like that generally it's probably in your best interest uh to extend or do something um in particular in a place like we are because there only some big bus companies could take it on vehicles um first student would be big enough to do it that Coe would be big enough to do it but there aren't a whole lot of others so uh were we to go out to bid maybe three or four bids there AR aren't a lot that could capable um so that that's normally what happens and uh but what we did this time when we saw that uh the budget was going to be as difficult as it was we said to ourselves Maybe we should approach them uh they had compared to our neighbors uh they've uh had plenty of drivers we haven't had some of the problems that other towns around us have had with Service uh their safety record has been good and um generally they're pretty pleased so we reached out to them and said we think we're going to have a difficult uh budget season um would you like to maybe at uh doing some starting a new contract um 2 years earlier um in exchange we would expect a 0% increase in year one we would be interested and uh they were and so we started some conversations uh back and forth and uh they made uh they said a couple things they had just themselves settled a a new contract with their drivers a little higher than they expected so they they felt some cost pressure whether some of that was posturing just trying to get an edge I don't know uh but we um came to what was a verbal understanding uh that we would have a start a new contract of course we would come to you first and to the board uh that would have a 0% increase next year instead of the 3.75 and that would save us roughly $350,000 we could cut the budget line next year um they we talked about the second year and the third year and what we agreed to was a zero of CA uh 4.75 in year two followed by 3 years of 6 6% 6 and6 or an average of 4.55 over the five years um and we're did we we thought it was a good idea we um even talked about putting it on the board's agenda tomorrow night but as we uh thought about some more uh meeting with Rich and some others um we'd like to uh continue to negotiate and to see if we could do uh even better than this it's a big contract it's more than1 million um they don't want to give it up to a competitor um so we'd like to we' like to try and so that's what we're here tonight to ask U if you you would agree that we could continue probably I'm sure by August we' have an answer well before the school year starts the savings would be lost highlights Pi up John to to to to John I agree because when he came back and indicated what the proposal was my feeling is if you don't ask for something you're not going to get it I'm not too happy with the three consecutive years of 6% particularly there's nothing in this in the calculations that we have I did a quick calculations that at the end of the contract based on the information we have we would have increased over the current year $2.5 million just incrementally and when you get 6% it's 6% this year on top of 6% higher year so it's high compounding um we're not in the rush and I think that and and an important thing to remember too it does not include right now it's 136 buses I believe it doesn't include the additional buses that could be anywhere from 20 28 buses I'm not sure in terms of the academy at about $70,000 of bus so again that's going to increase costs um the contract that was attached I'm not interested in that because I don't have expertise in that so the people that with contracts relative to D that's their expertise our purpose tonight was just to see if we can get a consensus from you all that there be no rush in accepting this we have place hold in the budget for approximately 350 and if you think it wise as as John and I do and others that we go back and see if we can get a little bit more money uh we'd like to get out of that consensus okay um I I for the most part I would I would agree I think we you know we got the time to try to bargain with them a little bit we should take advantage of that time that we have worst case scenario where we are now um I'm wondering if those 6% increases you know if some of their tactic is in consideration from the previous contract that we had because if I remember correctly that was negotiated before the pandemic broke and we had negotiated that pretty well and then the pandemic happened it really um threw their operations into flux and subsequent uh area um schools that were negotiating districts that were negotiating found that they we're seeing higher and higher rates and so we kind of patted ourselves on the back at that point and said hey we did a good job here so I'm just wondering if that 6% is their attempt to kind of reclaim and position us where some of these other districts are and you know I I say that out loud because I wonder in the continued negotiation with them if there's some way to sort of bring that forward and and sort of um not leverage it against them per se but um you know make it part of the conversation so to whoever the the district lik to do negotiations at least we could and tell them that we agree that we'd like to go back to have further conversations on this I'm going to assume that it would be unanimous that we then do this that be correct I'm all for yes thank you very much the second item we can I just one thing and I know at some point we had discussed this a little bit um but the the buses will be parked um so my understanding that there's a desire to have the buses be parked at the new site in the back lot so there's a value to that for them as in not renting or leasing additional space for the added buses and so I think it would be who us to to get an appraisal on what that value component is we could use it to negotiate Marg the contract thank you second item on the agenda is the May 24 financial report I'll turn that over both John and Mike package I was presented was for the 11 months ending May 30 versus said uh the this month the total expenditures came in at 15 milon which is about $3 million higher than our 8 month average PRI it's around 12.4 and the reason for that is um just about every year there are two months out of the year since we pay by weekly where there are three payrolls December is usually one in May so this may there were three payrolls um and each payroll is about $3.3 million so that that makes up that difference um and if you'll not along with that you'll see that the average benefit cost didn't move much and that's because benefits are are deducted from paycheck twice so um we pck monthly on board so that's that's not going to change that that that increment was offset partially by Transportation cost so um as we said before we pay kind of as we go where our cash bases so we um did not pay for the transportation income out of the the bank in in May you'll see that in the financial report since that you'll see came out in April probably come out again next month so that additional incremental expense in that third paer will partially offset by that Transportation cost for the year we $19.1 million in expenditure with another 31 million encumbered and that is leading us with a $231,000 favorable VAR the the note to watch was carried forward again from last month was our brok AJ Gallagher has shared concern with the expense of healthare that's still a concern we typically see our plan year ends in August of every year and we typically see the second half of the year the latter part of the year of the plan year is where most of the expense come so this is um while it's still in line with their original projections is worth that might just add M said so the unencumbered balance uh right now is about $230,000 um that will drop a little bit um by the end of June but no way will that turn red or go into the minus um we've opened up the new budget year and people are principles and things people like that are placing their orders for the fall against the new budget and once you open the new budget that takes all the pressure off the budget so there's very few things that are coming in it will chew up that $230,000 we have one more payroll to go but it's only the 12mth people all the 10mon people or our teaching staff our Paris most of the secretaries they've all received their final paychecks so next week's final payroll uh is much smaller we a very good idea of what that is so we're um confident that um this number or slightly less will what we'll look at at the end of juny the the first payroll of June as John mentioned that that last payroll for the 10mth employees some of our employees have the option of taking a balloon payment at the end of the year so that 3.3 that I said is our about our average payroll you're going to see that increase with the first payroll in June but rich as you always point out it is incom that was how much how much that $21 million so when you look at current month next month when I show you the cash flow next month that monthly figure is going to jump because of that the the I like the the monthly it has strawb back course it's a cash basis but it it does explain certain idiosyncrasies that that's to pick up and if you understand the the reasons why you know it helps us better understand the the implications so the fact that we didn't pay the transportation it's just a payment cycle doesn't mean we have money or things like that so um it it's it's only used as a guide what is import is at this particular stage game is that uncovered balance of $231,000 which on M seem to feel looking at the the the accounting expenses weekly that we seem to we seem to be I'm going to say we myself based what they tell me comfortable that we'll wind up in Black this year um so we keep our fingers crossed uh but that being the case we've come a long way from what we Lally started the year at so things work that well I'm hoping next year that with the the budget the alignments and and the the accounting of work expenses go we can get more involved into variances Mike I and John are talking more about incumbrances because there's some synes with the way the software works and and basically even my of thinking of what incence includes um it did may not always include a an estimate or the so we we're trying to figure out a way to present a financial statement that basically is all inclus that being said we we'll go through the the grants uh in a minute but are question fin I just um you had said that there were two months out of our school year that there's a three paycheck is that uh the December and may yes so if you look at you'll see that de is about million okay thank you and then once every 10 years there are 27 payrolls it's just enough to everybody F okay notifications when you look at the summary and also when we look at the details Financial I recommended to for next year that we continue the same format that is breaking the report two parts that showing the the first part is part of the budget expenditures against the budget City appropriation of $160 million and then the second part when you look at it that's comparable here to the the money the reement we got for the U for the Cyber and special ed uh that's $7.5 million will be listed separately with own budget items and expenses against it so we don't com into it and makes clearer and better accounting is to be the use and the source of funds I'd like to move to the grants um my comment before I ask John Mike on that my comment on the grants is over my experience in time on the board we' never really spent much time dealing with grants the numbers have grown with the exception of the years they really it became High um the grants really weren't weren't looked at very much but I'd like to do is focus next year and to to further that is to get a better understanding as to what these grants are what they mean the difference between title one two three and four Le all the other stuff uh which we I personally hear about but I really don't understand what they mean so I I think better understanding that we have for these grants the better off we are and then also graas some sort of notation as to put of these GRS go for more one year my point to John there's an unincumbered balance here about $6 million does could you share the page that you'll read in front on the grant page when you look at the grants it's two pages Grant says Grant fund summary second page thank you sorry there is an unincumbered B of $6 million um does that $6 million include funding that are for a period greater than this physical year or I guess also what I'm saying is how much of that we anticipate can expect that could be favor favorably left over maybe at the end of the year I think it would be um uh less than a million dollars some grants the two-year grants you mention you can carry over unused budgets some of those have limits formulas how much you can carry over and those you can't but um what you'll see um certainly next month is the the bigger grants uh will all be fully utilized the alliance the sr3 uh some of those the state Ed Department um accelerated a usual process that we follow uh of all times of year they're closing their system down for maintenance couldn't pick a worse week so they asked all of the school districts to uh put in their expenditures either what they've spent or what they've recovered and expect to spend through the end of June we had to do that by last Friday so we did uh but as we did it we made sure that all of the grants that we could utilize reutilize set aside so there there'll be very little left uh at the end of next conf normally we would do that next week early July there was a grace period but we had to didn't have that luxury this um is it possible or is it worthwhile breaking down the grants to uh federal grants state grants private grants I mean is it worthwhile doing that I think it is I think that's come up before and I I believe we promised to do that I'm sorry we have it so I'll make sure on our next report we have that yeah along with expiration date or whatever if I can just if I could just add to that it is helpful to categorize them because some of them have very similar characteristics so a Federal grant versus the state tlement grants um there are you know onetime grants there are competitive grants there are grants that we get every year is automatically some go up so it it is a lot to Wrangle and and and while there's you know there are so many oneoff small smaller grants that are I wouldn't say they're inconsequential because we rely on all of them but they're um it it's at least a worth a walk through the the largest grants that we have to understand how they support the district and then what we're allowed categorically to spend on it's going important and also I asked John and Mike for next year that we have a budget in the set aside for the alliance being the only Grant was it's close to $30 million I'd like to see that historically we've never had a budget for that so that maybe you know I don't know how my number in there but it's big enough you know it represents close to you know more than let's say 50% of the total budgets but again what we're doing the more we understand about what we're looking at the more questions you have the more we can refine it so that it has a significance and a meaning to us the whole purpose of all of this is to be good stewards of the some $200 million that we're entrusted with and that we can feel comfortable that we understand what's being presented uh to us and then have any questions to you know the that would satisfy our interests so and just to add the request for the information the additional information um as I'm looking at this and understanding it we have um a budgeted amount from a grant we have um year to date the amount that has been used or dispersed correct the encumbrance and then the budget balance so I'm a little concerned that we have um year to dat some are zero and so are we and because I don't know the span of time to use the Grant have we turned it back I mean in other words it went to waste we got the grant we didn't use it and now it's dead in the W right um I'm not sure and that's why I think that additional information gives us something to go on um when we look and say so what's the reason you know we got the grant we didn't so that's I'm just the process um process I described that we had to go through last week uh told us that we would not be turning back we made the effort to use the money before while we could um our grant accountant told me that was $2500 it would have been left over he asked the state for a special waiver and they said okay so we think that's gone too um so right now we don't expect anything going back and that's you that's what we try and do you know as you get into the second half of June like we are we try to First make sure that no money goes back to the state um at all back to the federal government that kind of guides our activities um and we you know we fight hard for our budgets so we try and make sure that they're used for the reasons we originally set down and I don't want to say not turn it back to the city um but if we had to turn something back rather turn it back to the city than to the state or the federal government because stays Within and that's that kind of drives our actions well that will be helpful because um the amounts of some of these and then to go over and see Zero it would be helpful to know if it's a a city or estate Grant and um to know a little bit of then I would be able to ask the question of and now how was that used how was it displayed um maybe from what my understanding is sometimes grants have stipulations of how it can be used most GRS most of course most do but I mean we may not be able to pay certain things salaries or different things but those would be the questions that would I would ask on the year-to DAT items that currently have a zero but I think what you're telling me is that when we get the next report those zeros may not be there correct okay so then the question would be so tell me how that thatone thank you what I'd like to do what I'd like to do is add to the minutes temporarly we can Define this and correct it as we go ahead is is that for next year that we look to have the a budget for the alliance grant that we hope to have the presentation of the grants done by category by category would be by state federal agencies private agencies however you need to see it and also the the term of the grant whether it's a one year 2year Grant and for starters I think that would help dress up the the information and then enable us to to get appointed with it and then go on from there to ref find it that's okay that $6 million uh balance that can go roll over till next year I think less than a million would be we call it carried over roll over same thing um the rest of those will be obligated oh there AR a lot of carryovers well I shouldn't say that not a lot of money that the carry over probably the biggest might have a little left in ID here's a and just to add there's as John mentioned you know this sheet runs through 531 and the end of the year is like a frenzy of you know finishing ordering the things that haven't been ordered yet and finalizing those invoices and asking companies can you please bill us so we can we could you know pay for this service um so that is what makes June kind of a crazy month for and that we we spend a lot of time during spend down period to to rectify and reconcile Grant so um and again that that date did catch everybody that uh maintenance thing through everybody so it's been it's been hectic but that those those bigger numbers especially will go down and then of course some of these are are two year over two years um there's also a lot of grants that run through December not a lot but at least aware of a few that you have to spend through December so I think we can safely say let nobody go on St suggest a motion that the finance committee recommend to the full board that they accept financial statements for May 31st ter app so moving ahead next item on the agenda is the exempt staff compensation 2425 I'm going to open that with suggesting that car start the presentation on that sure thank you um so there's I believe it's labeled document three in your packet if you have that um and so there there there is a schedule of um the proposed raises for the exempt staff the exempt staff has broken out into two categories um one based on a um cabinet extended cabinet on contract and the other as a list of our typical exempt staff um the proposed increases for the regular exempt staff are 3.49 and the remaining contractual staff cabinet staff extended sta at 3% um This falls in line with the raises um and percentage increases that um our other groups have um have been offered or heading into this year and coming out of last year um so for example we have the teachers at 5% and 4.3 and then administrators at 3.61 and 267 and so the 349 is a smooth over average of those two comparable groups and and the 3% is below that um uh is below that but that is that is what's proposed you'll notice on the sheet as presented that there are a few positions that we do not have uh this heading into next year um or that are are in the process of having to be replaced so um you'll see adjustments on that on that proposal in those areas um overall as a group as the entire group um the the increases represent a netive 2.39 when you remove out some of the positions uh that were not filled not back filled for overall of a negative 120 I think it's 12540 um so this is a a group um that we definitely trying to retain I think retention heading into this school year and next school year with our staff is going to be very important um and uh we have certainly you um kept this in line with the other groups um as presented and we've negotiated across the last two years before we start the conversation just and I want to clarify something it's been my experience and I just want to get a clarification that with my absence in the last couple of years prior to that the the board hasn't voted on this this is nothing that we vote on it's something that the superintendent as their job recommends recommends guess it's the best word I can think of or advises us as to what they are looking to do this money is already incorporated into the budget we have place all across the board with 4% this is the superintendent's way of saying this is the way they going allocate money spent for for these people it's my understanding also this that these number of people are the only people that are not is that right so to the point that K all the other unions that received increases um is a fact so I I guess at the end of the the conversation is there's I I don't believe there's a v here to be taken and I want to clarify with Kim am I correct on that or how do we proceed you are correct on that um there you do have a policy about it um the um the policy is in keeping with the general understanding of the wall which is that your superintendent is the CEO of your organization and um once she has been allotted a a sum of money an amount of money that it's her um to provide a system of compensation and so she comes to advise you about that and that's what your policy says that's and it doesn't preclude us from expressing an opinion so that's you know that's fine uh being involved in this it's this is totally about money this has got nothing you do personalities or anything but because we um had asked 180 million and we've gotten 167 million we're short million uh and K did a wonderful job saving jobs um with minimal uh Cuts but for example the elementary school students um have been cut some of their band instruments and we're weighing we're taking that away from them and giving raises we gave raises last year how come we need to do it again this year when we're also going to face another fiscal crisis financial crisis next spring that's all I'm going to say thank you thank you um you know you rich you just made a statement prior to this presentation um on the agenda saying that it is important that we do our due diligence that we make sure that we are using our funding and monies in a responsible manner um that we continue to sit before the city to show them that we have indeed done just that um listen I just feel that we would be remiss in um adding on to the salaries at this point and Stage when the comments over and over and over again are that we are at a fiscal cliff that is not going to go away next year this does not mean that people are not doing their job nor are they um not worthy you know of that addition it's just the position that our school system is in right now and our integrity with the community and our school system um as we St a raise was was given last year um I don't agree with increasing it beyond that right now right now um and so that is my and the other thing that had come up in our meeting and I do need clarification is that this is from my understanding this is not a pool of raises in other words they could be individualized um position by position so to be to be handed and say here here's the group and this is what and I think that we need to be very careful how we present ourselves in stepping forward with this that's number that's one comment the other thing is we had a [Music] um and I'm I guess we will get to this point also is that we have a number of um the contracts and when they are due and I'd like to know when they will be looked at and we talked about realigning some duties and positions so I don't know if that's part this um but at some point no it's not at some point I would like a discussion on that thank you okay thank you I'm don't you take questions do two parts one if I care to respond to to your question as to why she feels that this is necessary then the the issue on contract side maybe K could answer that or care you know I'm not in position to answer question we all have our own opinion there's when I look at opinions there's no right or wrong in an opinion and so it's a belief I tend to think that on a conceptual point of view we've got there are 50 people here that we penalizing 50 people out of the 2,000 that we employ it be simpler if we just told these people to get a bargaining unit we don't have to do this which creates you know more a problem but the the I'm not in charge of the school districts I'm not the CEO I'll let Cara answer why she thinks this is important and how she feels it it would help her with the morale and and if not what the consequences she feels would be um I do that because we put her in charge and she's got to at the end of the day we hold her accountable for making manage you know I guess they say take care sure thank you and I appreciate I appreciate all questions um and it is it is a challenging time um but I would say you know ever more so it is important and imperative to retain a quality staff the the duties here particularly in this office and I I do want to point out that that the the rates were differentiated down here so they are they have been differentiated um by by group so I did do that that is separated out on here um with the cabinet staff receiving 3% and you know it is it is important to maintain comp to retain uh competitiveness here um the there are less people here than there were um not too long ago the absence of of my former role has created an additional workload on everyone here um you know we are we're heading into another tumultuous period it is very difficult to um say to this staff here as well as the other folks on this list that they're different um in terms of their what they're able to secure in terms of um a percentage for their performance um particularly some of the folks here in this building who night Day weekend around the clock to help um land the plane so that we have $200,000 in the bank and and um um and and heading into uh another crisy situation and to be able to retain a staff that has institutional knowledge um and able to calm the waters here in the way that we're able to do so this year um you know it is U Danbury has struggled to retain competitiveness I think there's been a thoughtful due diligence with negotiating the contracts that have come before us in the last year and two year to maintain that competitive competitiveness um and and certainly the the positions that are in here on this on this paper um you know if we if we do not keep up with that even in that range of that um Danbury becomes the next you know revolving door of of folks um it's happening now currently um and I think it's something that is of great concern um you know the the folks who at the top of the scale tend to be the targets on a regular basis for um you know these types of situations and I think it's important to acknowledge the work that they do and in a district of this size that is already underst staffed um at all levels and I don't I don't make that argument for just the group on this paper I make that argument for all groups um and I think that the negotiations that we've engaged in as over the last couple of years have reflected that same commitment and so I'm saying that we wouldn't treat another group differently um particularly in this climate and particularly with with in the spirit of retaining staff um who who can go elsewhere right now heading into where we're heading so I do think it's important um we have a lot of strategic goals to make to to execute um I need a team that's going to be committed to doing that um already it is um experiencing the shifting Sands of turnover where it is hard to grasp um and get people to the table because they are leaving um and that number is is growing by the minute so um I think it's going to be a conversation for us for all groups moving forward how are we going to retain um a quality Workforce thank you if I could to reiterate your question regard the contracts toim so it's clear and that you get the answer you're looking for or I believe K is the one that before sorry I'm sorry I've heard excuse me I've sit on the board many many years and and I've heard this discussion many many times when it always came to giving out raises and the superintendent always brought the cabinet and exempt people to the board and say this is what I'm recommending to you I never thought as it looking at it to be a name or a person or what they're getting because during negotiations we talked about keeping it at 4% okay and I most of you sit on quite a few of those teams and you know how it is okay people work hard we do not have the resources that we really need and I know people keep saying that they don't want to work in this District because we are right now so fragile okay so if we don't do this to me in the face of looking at people and being honest with people and trying to maintain some type of people that's going to be honest and work along with our superintendent to help us move forward this is not money that they we going to have to go out and seek and we find this money is already budgeted into our budget am I correct and when we sit down and negotiate we try to keep it within that 4% I'm comfortable Common counsil People whoever want to ask me why do you give race okay so no one wants to work a whole year for nothing and I remember and I'm going to call Dr s when on sit on this board and I think it was for a year or two years he did not get a raise or would not accept the raise because he wanted his cabin and his support St to get a raise I'm comfortable it's not my money I believe it's the right thing for us to do to to move forward on accepting this what superintendent is bringing forth to us that's all I have to say mine is a separate issue contract so I'll continue discussion I can't I can't accept this um especially when we are depriving our elementary school students without instruments in exchange for this I am I was involved in the budget process we faced the ad hoc committee city council we Face the ire of the Union President right here in the boardroom for mismanagement and out of all that that was most upsetting cuz we tried and and I know these people try but we got to draw the line um the budget is tough and to neglect items for our children for raises at this time is I took not appropriate thank you I just want to address the music for a second um so we do have our staff right now has been working very hard to um separate out uh and and redefine some things and so we are very close to being able to offer strings in grade four for the kids who took it in grade three to keep that going and we've also embedded and purchased ukuleles and um recorders teach all students music so we before we haven't had that so we we're adding that in and we are we do believe that the way we did a creative way reorganizing the staff and they're working on those schedules now and the new music teachers will be getting new schedules over the summer um so the group is working very very diligently on that to maintain those instruments uh in grade four and five grade three is much different story um but it's also not that common that we have to pull out individual semi-private lessons gr three um but we that is going to be difficult to maintain moving forward in almost any budget but um we are we've definitely come around and have been able to add on that and I I don't want I do want to say it's not necessarily A tradeoff for salaries for instruments I don't I I don't think that's a fair comparison and I understand because it hurts us just the same but every year since I've worked here it is books it's computers it's laptops it's infrastructure it's other Staffing that we don't have um it's you know there's been a quiet Slow Burn here in this District in the form of just not filling jobs and so last year was more public in the sense that we actually had to physically cut real people and give a pink slip uh for the first time in a while but every single year this this district has done uh more with less uh across the board every group you name it um and and and we certainly here in central office you the pressure of that dynamic um on a regular basis and so whether it's books whether it's computers this year the instruments um were part of that um but I but but what does it say then about next year and the year after as the budget crisis continues to unfold that that that if you work in Danberry you will just continue to um you know lose the competitiveness of your salary not be um not get U an increase cost a CPI adjustment for the time that you're here we've been in a we've been in a budget cycle for for quite a while um that is not been positive and in the next couple of years I think we're going to continue to experience the same um but in order to run an operate this place we need a minimum threshold of staff and we need them to stay with us and so that is that is why I put forward the raises that I have Lise if I called on you in the notom commit I'll never hear the end for Mrs co wait until the end no committed Members First committtee Members First try understand policy proced get in so um I I understand I I really I feel the concerns that financially as a district what the consequences are for our students for our staff um you know to the point that you're making Terry about what does it look like for us to give raises well we've already given out raises to all the paring that's already taken place and and so I'm just saying that just because I I want to Circle back to what car is saying which is that you have a group of approximately 50 people here who are not part of a bargaining and we are qualitatively treating them and quantitatively treating them differently than everyone else and I know it looks different it looks different and it feels different because the numbers on the page are different they're larger than some of the other numbers that we see but the message that we deliver is the same that we deliver with the bargaining unit what we sit down for those conversations which is either that we value with the work that you contribute here and we're negotiating for you to see an increase in your salaries for the terms of your contract in a way that that validates you know that value um that's the first piece and then the second piece for me is is you know sort of to what Dr Casmir was talking about to me it's about the functioning of our organization and while I love to be able to say you know I'm not concerned about whether or not people leave the reality is that bringing people into these higher level positions who don't have experience in our district or who are going to need some training to get to the point to where they become functional cabinet members that's a big operational loss for the district and everybody is going to pay for that so I am concerned that if we don't value this employee group the way that we evalue other employee groups and some of them decide you know what I can go to a neighboring district and I can make more money that I'm making here and I'm going to have less aggravation and I'm going to have a board that you know values me enough to uh incentivize me to stay that's just reality and maybe it does make me feel a little bit like I'm being held hostage a little bit but my choice is either acknowledge the reality which is that some of these folks who are very valuable and integral to our operations are going to leave and we're going to be faced with the reality of replacing those folks and Dr kmir is going to be faced with that reality which is going to take her away from any other work at the table or make a decision to move forward with something that optically doesn't look great to other folks even though and and then maybe they're not going to understand fully why I'm making the decision that I'm making but I'm doing it for the health of the over the overall health of the organization because the problems we have to work on are not going to get easier with fewer experienced people that's just the way I look at it thank you yes I want to uh Circle back around um when we elected to come on to the board I don't think um that we came before the board without having courage and sometimes that courage requires Us in in the face of a storm to stand grounded I'm again I'm new to the board but when I look at this and try to out our our responsibility to the district and our community and to our students I cannot in good faith um accept um what's what's on the paper um I don't know if that's negotiable or not um and that's something that I would I don't know if you want me to go to my next question about the contracts or you want to stay with us you can ask the question I to answer on one of the presentations one of the screens um were the cabinet executive members okay um and their um we were interested in the role and responsibili of each of those um as well as um the contract endings and so um I don't think and then also on the screen it was proposed changes to the contracts is that information that would be forthcoming prior to the end of those contracts and that has nothing to do with this so they're separate from from the raises for next year and so the contract so obviously we're we need to do a little reorganization um you know some of that from time to time happens very informally internally in terms of so I'll give you an example uh one year we might say uh Mike you're going to be in charge of x uh handling this and John you're you know you've been very busy because you're doing another project so your assignments this year will look like like this and so those are in formal internal organ organizational U just operational things that we would do from year to year so some of those in the contracts uh will be delineated so this summer as we sit down um with the existing staff that we'll do those things other major like a major change would be like a major change to someone's role and so one of the in the you know presentation that we made to the board that there were three positions in particular that we were looking to uh reduce that there was three cheap positions and that we were looking to go down to two and so there would have to be some reorganization there so there' be some larger chunks to those jobs that would be redistributed so we plan to do that and sit down the summer to do that um there are some things in the works now that will be deciding factors on how that work gets distributed based on my knowledge of where things are with some some of our folks okay um other changes that that were discussed were about creating some structural changes here um in terms of our staffing operationally um to provide some uh a different structure uh provision with um some folks and so that requires some staffing additional Staffing Staffing changes to look similar to other organizations who've accomplished what was what was discussed um and so that doesn't mean that a person's contract would not continue to move or roll forward but rather that that person uh would or people or a group would continue to work for us but the the operational roles may look different moving forward so but that would be you know we talked about um that we would need to add organizational staff to some things we're down the the finance office is down like four people HR department I mean if we look at other comparable organizations there's like 10 and 15 people we've got three people um running things so there's there are folks that are covering tremendous amount of ground doing multiple roles and so over time we're going to have to add you know Kelly's department is the same thing there's a couple positions that we'd like to add under that people Services um pound for pound I I have a you know I'd love to to review it with with this group in particular the um just in our dur by comparison um I think we have 18 we have 18 central office staff members um and in other districts compared L if we were similar to the number of staff and students that they have to us it would be the double it would be a double digit increase in central office staffing um and I have I have that just just a simple math equation it's available on on public um public websites at the Staffing levels we're very underst staffed here and I say that and I don't not recognize the fact that our schools are underst staffed as well um but to make some of the substantive Chang es that I think that we're talking about um they require additional Staffing because we have people covering a lot of basis here a lot of ground and so um the contract the contracts get renewed each year based on performance um so that's and that is under my purview to renew those each year based on performance and that would be a a function that would be reviewed each year um so the the the contractual changes that you saw with the dates are as a result result of decisions that we're moving forward with um for next year and the year after so as we move forward um the dates that you see there will be will be implemented now the there could be some changes to the role and the functions as we reorganize um but the contractual extensions are are what was listed there um you saw some indicators of uh not sure how I indicated them I took some put some notes realign realignment right but but also um some kind in a in a situation where a role would change very dramatically we would have a whole new contract written up with a different job description um and so the contract now is sunset um and there's one position that falls under that uh in that group and I think I put a little little indicator on that okay I just want to add to the seriousness that I've observed the leanness in the leanness of the staff the last month I've been spending a lot of hours here work with John Mike and as was mentioned earlier the largest per of the year was just done it was done by John the Director of Finance because the young lady who handles the P was out before with a operation uh was then came back was held again because of an illness uh he had to jump in and to to do the Peril this is a serious issue God forbid something happened to him you have 2,000 people that not getting paid uh they're going to be knocking on your door you know saying this is all baloney uh we are dangerously low from where I could look at I really don't have any areas that knowledgeable other than the financial area that I would not want to to be in charge of a place this me with the possib so we're really working but the I'm going to Teresa before I get to you Mrs Cooper do I do I entertain the question from louiser the end of the the meeting or at the end of just this session um for for her to make the comment well if know other board members have any particular question concerning what we're talking about there then you will answer Teresa do you have any uh from listening to everything and being on the board for the last couple years finally realized there are no caps on these positions this could go on and on and on on and on I mean some of these salaries are whoa um not to say they're not justified but where does it end there's no caps the management here is off the charts um there's got to be and not and that's where the raise is coming every year you got to give a raise you got to give a raise you got to give a raise that's not true in the real world it's not true and you do want to keep your people you do but people know it's tough times and this financial crisis it was tough so to say 3.49 it's just too much too too too much thank you so any other board members have any other questions on this subject it's not thee go ahead thank you uh first question was were these raises budgeted in the 180 million yes so because we didn't receive the 180 million was it ever discussed when we're looking at all the cuts or adjustments that we were doing to the district how did this how did this come into play when we when we we're balancing it out and I and I know that we've had to make a lot of shifts and adjustments with positions and that kind of thing but I'm I'm you know and I know that we're bringing in different musical instruction but it's very difficult to look at a third grader and say well next year you can't play band if you can do it in fifth grade and then the parents are going to get wind of this and how do we balance that how how does that how do we do that and the fact that it was budgeted in 181 million was fine if we got 181 million that I have no issue um but we didn't even come close to that and we had to get an additional 7 and a half from the city to help us on top of that so um I do not doubt anybody's worthiness of this at all I do not I I don't question question that um I just I'm trying to wrap my head around all all of this and it's it's sometimes it gets a little hard to figure that thank you I in my opinion is is that the I still look at it that the 50 or some of people that were talking about we putting all the s in the district and financial you know problems we're having on these 50 where every other bargaining unit has been uh and the current bargaining units that we're doing um has been in range an acceptable range here um I high look at it as I said that it's conversation that that we had each of us has their own opinion which I think is is is correct to have that opinion at the end of the day this is the opinion orom of the superintendent um I think to close this out I I don't know but I asked for I there's no vote on here the only thing I can say as far as the minutes goes is that with regard to the proposed recommendation on salaries that 50% of the committee members agree with the the proposal and 50% don't but there's no as I look at am I correct there's no board Vote or no motion on on the thing for Wednesday so list is is that this car was introducing a new curriculum uh in here for holding her responsible to achieve certain things and the are one of the the assets or tools that she feels necessary in order to achieve her her objectives gos how do I phrase this for for the for for the meeting on Thursday so K can I just introd before you you respond to that and and I and I I want you to know I do take um everything that you're saying seriously and and I too have had to weigh the optical look um but I'm also very cognizant of area salaries positions I'm cognizant of the difficulty we've had in filling positions positions that already exist right now um the competitiveness of area systems where there is more money on the table for folks and benefits with in a stable work environment um and that has been you know we have reached out to folks to try to get people back and they won't come back um it is these types of you know especially in this category here this is this is a perennial an annual you know discussion and this always seems to be the the group that you know does does bear a lot of of the grunt but um I can tell you that you know these are these are all high in demand jobs that are on on these Pages here and again people here cover a lot of ground there's a tremendous amount of institutional knowledge attached to a lot of these jobs um replacing folks who leave and we're experiencing that now is extraordinarily taxing on district and we don't have manpower to train other people we have no people underneath the people here so when when when when someone leaves there's no understudy and there's no two or three people in the office ready to step in and and take over that doesn't exist in this location here and so that is one of the reasons while you know there's some salaries that many people would would say that's it's a wonderful salary um the Heth and the support underneath that is not here and again um you know we're experiencing that now where folks are leaving and there is no one else they are we joke about it all the time here that person if they ever get in a car crash we're in trouble here don't ride together in the same car I that's how that is how much um that a lot of the people here do do carry and do cover um covering ground we are a district that has been on the verge of um a large District but still at a small and medium Staffing level um in many areas and so that has we just have not grown with the demands of this place and then you throw in and people have stayed with us out of the out of Goodwill out of loyalty um true D varians but that the sentiment is changing um and I just think it's very important to make sure that we're that we're taking care of everybody um CU we cannot afford to head into next year and at even with the Skeleton Crew that we have right now I'm very concerned thank you um just a point of clarification so um at the board meeting um you will present this document um for it it would be wonderful if if being entire is here here but um are they going to ask the chair what the board thought or the committee thought about that presentation I I know they well it should be well that was my next question I was going to phrase it this way from a finance committee when I report what we've done is that as I said here when we get to this particular item is that half committee members agre and have it didn't and there was no no vote necessary with regard to the motion I'll leave that up to Kim and GL car to decide if there's any motion or how that's reced on there's no motion are you what I'm trying to say is I think it should be clear that at the meeting there's you know not ultimately we're not looking for a vote on this it's just 11 people expressing the opinion as five of us did here correct I I guess what I'm asking is is as usual you may be called by the media to give your opinion on the presentation to the board for the um raises in the salar will you and in your response are you going to be responding um with regard to the committee or I would be responding the committee has the superintendent made a recommendation to the committee for the exempt and cabinet the committee discuss this and the committee is in favor of moving this for no that's not only % of us are in favor of it but it's it's not a vote just saying that b no I'm I still hear what you're saying but I'm still saying if you're bringing it from the committee to the board because at some point the board has to know right that are not here right and they the 11 people could then Express their opinion and it could be six to can in that public setting okay great thank you you my final thing and I'll be real quick okay and again we've heard the discussion and I would just like to for us as a board as we get past this or however you want to discuss how you feel and you have that right as a board as an effective official as we look at this list here and there's some things in some position that we should be looking at as a board come September when we start back up that we need some restructures some redirection some accountability for those positions and I think that's a lot of position that we have talked about earlier that you know even with this what we're going through now there are some position that need to be restructured in order for this District to move forward in a positive way now Mr but we we also discuss that but we can only recommend that from what I understand that will be a discussion in SE shift or change yeah where does that leave a dead discussion or and so um what I've always said is nothing changes if nothing changes and if we don't have that courage to speak up to ask to recomend men to suggest and to expect changes then have we don't but I think also you know and I don't want to you know I think what yeah the board has asked questions over the years you know the information that we have given as board members okay we don't know if that information was 100% when we got it we went on the faith of the person that was bringing it to us and we base our questions on that information that was brought to us so maybe we didn't ask the question that n that you're asking because you're different on the board and you bring a different perspective okay I'm talking about what information that was brought to us as board members how we saw to judge what we was going to ask I'm going to say I you know again I don't hold the money part I think it's the right thing to do is to move this recommendation for that the superintendent had brought for to us the next item on the agenda we have is is review report fund sources I ask John to put something together just so that in a global picture we are all aware of the amount of money that's being spent on education for the kids in not to say it's not enough but we keep talking about the city appropriation of the 160 million Etc when you look at this it's far greater than that and as I said earlier each of these components eventually will get to understand more specifically what's involv in it so it could be better stents at least understanding spending of the money so John just briefly go through in your page and very briefly uh it's estimated for next year and what I've done there is just shown the different sources of funds so U you see the local sources that's what comes from the city council and underneath that uh direct State Grant from as pointed out some Grant are State some are federal underneath that are the federal I've shown the the larger ones and then grouped everything else together um there are few non I call them non-governmental grants uh the bar Foundation you're familiar with that will fall in there and then another category of city services that called inine services but that's um the city mows our Lawns and clears our snow and things like that so there's a a value for that but um kind of interesting it it'll add up to about $250 million uh next year and 2third of that is from uh say from the city council from the the taxpayers but a third is coming from other sources and one out of every $3 we spend is coming U from these other places I thought it's kind of interesting U this is just a snapshot to us idea of who is how much thank you my opinion that we should be the city and the taxpayers US should not be the ones supporting this much of Theo we should be looking to get ways to get more federal state money also this schedule does answer one of the questions we had in terms of the format of the grant schedule laying it out by by category so things thank you the the other question the um I wonder if it be um helpful to share this with City Council shot um because I've heard different information come for about what you know what out of every dollar comes from uh local funding um and I feel like this might help clarify some of the understanding there so could send it to the City Finance directive tomorrow and ask them to share I think it would be helpful also for the council thank the next item is the status of due diligence on rund to contracts including health insurance when I met with Mike and John on this and again going to look at every so being not unturned it it's part of our due diligence to be respectful relative to the expenses we have and princi the large ticket items here the salary is a large ticket items we we do that by negotiations health insurance Transportation uh cop paper going down the line or large St items what we and it's always good to review this just as as I review and maybe yourself you reviewing your own personal life uh things at home whether it be your health insurance your water Insurance your house insurance just to make sure that there's something out there that could be a little bit cheaper that gives you the same the same benefit this is all we're trying to do here is at the end of the day you go before the council we can actually say we've done our due diligence we review let's say I talk about health insurance something that was good 13 15 years ago may or may not be I don't know the answer to that but if we have an independent evaluation comes back and and blesses whichever way we go on that we can say that this is a huge expense for us and we've checked it off indicating that we're safe similar to the the transportation contract we're doing the due diligence on it so again we are being better stewards of the money and being proactive to to uh to to the city government to the people that that we responsible for for the money that we're doing a good job John briefly just go through you know what what you're talking about and the possibility of who would do such a evaluation U so our our agenda tonight as you can see got longer as the weeks got closer and originally we're going to start on the the program that rich was talking about where each month we look at a different vendor and questions um but and so but we didn't want to give up on the idea of introducing the concept and so what I uh put in front of you today tonight is U report on what's called this the state partnership plan it's a health insurance plan um if you could just look at page two I'm it's going to stay very high level let say um fiscal year 2023 I'm just going to point a couple things out um you know insurance is all about size the more you the more the bigger your pool uh the more risk you can spread within that pool and what the U state has done uh really going back to 2011 um I'll skip the history there was they put together a health insurance program that combines local cities towns and boards with the state employees themselves to make gigantic plan and what what you see here is just the um the plan that's for the local board cities and towns um but as you can see just on the fourth line here under executive summary the claims from both plans the state employees and the local employees get pulled to determine the premium cost that's where you get the the benefits of size um so today there's 2,000 employees in the plan who are work for local governments uh along with their dependence if you add their dependence there's 52,000 people who are covered under the this part of the plan um and just to give you an idea here in danber we have between 1100 and 12200 people who sign up for health insurance probably 20 2200 members so if the the 22,000 were in it right now employees we would be another thousand to that so um I won't go through U the details uh too much if you look um if you just want to look to page eight what they do in their report is they show what each board or town contributed in premiums and what they paid out in claims some PID some places uh paid more than they got it back in claims others paid less but they show it here uh but after that I just I printed out the list for you of who the members are now I checked off a couple that uh we recognized the B field Board of new MILF Stanford and nor of the cities in town you can look at that for yourself Bridgeport is in it they're the biggest um and then on the on the last page I think it's kind of interesting the way they look a black and gray page and the way they uh they do their pricing is uh they they segregate some groups uh they have their active employees uh single employee plus one family then they have a group of pre-65 retirees those are U retirees who are not yet eligible for Medicare uh so that's it's more expensive for them to participate and then uh post 65 non-medicare retirees that's even more expensive so they they separated out what they've started doing the reason you see these different counties listed going down the left is a doctor here in Fairfield County uh charges more than say a doctor in Colin County or in London so it's it's more expensive for us to buide and uh for the same benefits than someone up the line so um the state plan um want to point out uh benefits are one of the three mandatory subjects of collective bargaining wages benefits working conditions so um any changes uh would have to be bar can't be things we unilaterally pick so as rich said I think more of these will be on the finance committee agendas going forward we just want to preview of kind of any comments couple questions um the first would be so you're John you're saying that 1100 of our employees would be eligible to participate well uh you know we go through an open enrollment every year like other employers and U right now there are 1100 employees who have signed up for health insurance okay with your dependence I think it's 2200 cover lives and that some people don't maybe they have insurance with their spouse or something else okay and would this plan also cover dependence would the plan would this would the state insurance cover dependence it does something John said was important is that this is a mandatory and and we have to discuss teachers union on the last couple of Cycles so we order to get those people maret over that so all of our units that are in the sign plan right now are in the sign plan because that is cont depy thank you I just I have just one thing to point out and I don't know if I noticed it before but it is nice to have an employee plus one category on here I and I think that could even if we just stick with our current wondering if that's something we could ever look into because it could save folks some money we do look into it regularly every maybe every other year and our census numbers are such that we actually don't have a lot of plus one so it's a better premium deal for us to only do two cies people thank you the next item discussion creating of an sub committee this is a pet peeve mine um just recently there was an article in the paper that indicated that the June 22nd a was just completed I haven't seen the audit yet but it it took maybe two years to do this it went on to indicate the Staffing uh limitations relative to the city city government that they were short they hired people and then one of the last couple of paragraphs there was a com people indicating that the delay which created a downgrade in our bonding rating from tripa to a a which essentially means you pay high interest rate for taking out du bonds or refinancing but this council person made a statement that appeared to make it sound as if the Board of Ed was responsible for this and this happened a year or two ago it was that I wasn't on a board and so all I was doing is reading the the stuff that was in the paper in my experience it it's criminal that we as an entity do not have a seat at the table of discussing issues with the the the city the audit period I took the opportunity John gave me the name of the partner of the audit firm to reach out to him telling that it was my suggestion that the Board of Ed and its members being a chairperson the superintendent of schools the Director of Finance and the chair of the finance department that we as a committee want to have access to these committee meetings with the the order committee so that we can be apprised of what they're doing any issues improvements and more importantly to to me is hopefully to get a management letter that tells us what we're deficient in the accounting cycle he responded to me this afternoon right before the meeting and to say yes he would certainly do that and he would recommend it to the the audit Committee of the of the city so we I Look to have SE at the table with the the people so that at least we can report back to the board what's happening on on the audit the June 23rd audit is just starting generally the beginning of the audit there's a whole bunch of schedules and wish list that that's furnished the clients I'm not sure how much of that yet has done but my personal feeling is that this audit this year although should be done by December is going to be perhaps whe Aid maybe not so much to the out for it and it might be another consideration so that we avoid this mess this is something in the future to see that we since we do pay a sum of money to the city for the share of the audit it may be something that we can get our own independent audit firm to commit audit our books so that we don't have to be tied into schedule with City or is we do it on our schedule that is is um in line with what the schedule is and have the city accounting firm rely on the certification of the public accting but you know that's something for down the road but at least I think we made headways here to to have seated the table regarding this particular function U Teresa um I agree but being on the finance committee for the last couple years and working with John um I find they uh they omitted one important point in that article was that this all happened during Co and as John told us numerous times when he replied to their requests he didn't hear anymore instead of meeting around a table say well we need this paper and so he would give it you would give it to him fine but in Zoom you didn't it just went into the ether realm um to me these Auditors I don't want them anymore I don't know if there's any other Auditors I expressed my displeasure in the past to the city these people like I said it's it was Co during Co but going forward if they don't meet in person this is crazy what was happening am I right John the the entire audit that they just finished not one time did any of their staff put a foot into the damre Board of Education to any of their facilities they never walked in here that may be how the bigger firms do it now I suspect it probably is um but what's going unet I believe is um the Auditors have changed the way they they audit uh in terms of some closing entries and you would just make that they don't do that anymore they they make you make them change your books give it back to them they check it out they look it again um they also very briefly a municipal audit takes our monthly report say and then uh the Auditors recasted in terms of generally accepted accounting principles that used to be something the Auditors just used to do themselves before they publish the report nowadays they want us in in the city to do that for them do it as we go along or to recast things ourselves and it it's really created a whole U new element of getting these things done that uh just two years ago was not there now when I've asked them they said well you know what happened with andiron and we have to be careful we have to cover ourselves I think there's there's part of that too so there's a lot of different things that play here but um I'm not going to disagree with you what you say I feel this gives as I said it's a seat at the table something where we actually need we pay for the service we should have a right to voice our opinion and we should have the right being a board to understand if there are any challenges or differences um that Rel to us there any other discussions on that just like to say when we get the seat at the table that's the right people that's sitting at the table and that we be very careful when we sit at the table and who we're sitting with so you know if we're going to move forward on this I have no problem with it and coming through uh our superintendent and the finance director and possibly the chairperson of the finance but let's make sure that this is the way that we want this to be handled the item number seven presentation to Grant Willow eliminate because we've had conversations on that item number eight is something I put on here I've asked before and I'd like you to think about what other kind of reporting that you would like to see the the I've asked John and Mike that in the near future I like to see reporting on the what I refer to as an Enterprise fund there there is a fund that's held by that used to have a substantial amount of money in it a number of years ago uh for the rental of the facilities the high school and stuff like that um I don't know perhaps 3 four years ago was the last time that that was done um but those are uh funds that we should be aware of the other thing there is is aesco accounting that we should be looking at but point if there are other reports or issues that you feel that you need or that you'd like to see whether it be Financial or academic I think it gives us the opportunity the reason I came up with this is because when the first got on the board one of the board members made a statement relative to the past that we're given a financial statements and so yes you give the financial statements and we try to interpret the financial stats have a conversation about but if there's something in those statements that you feel that you need in order to make you more comfortable with understanding it then it behooves you to to at least speak up and ask about it or if there's something else within the educational system that you feel you need in order to do your job or to to understand it better then speak up so um when you get a chance just let me know those and try to put it on the list of wish thank you can I can I recommend um a list of scholarships you recommend whatever you put in listate yeah what what scholarships we got and what's the word okay where they come from um item number nine forget will be pretty much cover and with that I know it was a lengthy agenda I thought the items were important um but uh we got through thank you for your participation if there are no if there no other questions U I would ask for a motion to Second seconds all in favor

e e e okay um open session is called to order there was no action taken in closed session please stand for the [Music] flag ready begin I alance to the flag United States of America for it stands one nation indivisible first we'll hear from KT poock and words of appreciation thank you very much she said my name is Kurt Paul you probably don't know me from the guy street but I used to work here once I was in Step SE wasn't I yeah is it my oh that button okay I didn't think but that's okay um my turn with the district is coming to an end the end of July and I take it with great pride what we've been able to do over the last 10 years this has really been 10 years um but I wanted to recognize all the people who made it possible made it special I started immedately with Randy Randy took on a job that well what the heck let's put this disease out here we won't see the kids forever but you still have to educate them still have to grade them and still figure out how to do the rest of it I mean thank you Stephan for helping you figure out how to do distance learning but it's a team I me without the without the principles without all of the teamwork of the teachers that going to happen so take great pride in that one alongside Randy is jeie who always shuddered whenever she had put out an agenda because she knew Kurt was going to be looking at it sure enough he'll find that date that's wrong or something misspelled and she she was so kind she always said oh I appreciate that you catch it before everybody else say so I got a little too good out of it so now your replacement doesn't even get to get to have that Eagle Eye watching her so they'll do a great job Tara what can I say it's been a lot of years I was on your interview panel and people were going that's that's person should she looks too smart um but she did she did it the right way she went out got education got the certificate program now it's back to real hard no there's just so many things that go on in that office that aren't in a book and you know you got to call somebody and that's somebody leading so good luck I'll still I'll still be around I just may not answer the believe it or not the end of July will be the end of my 50th year California school Finance so back in the days when we didn't even have a computer is how I started all this we a lot of adding machine tap colored paper and that was about it so that was that's way too long ago Robert in the back there having dinner can't say enough about him and his team I mean he was he's there's just so many things being put on his plate least of all is the portable classrooms and that's all I'll talk about on that they changed every regulation possible just to make it impossible to try and put a box on a piece of ground and let kids learn sadly that won't be done by the time I'm done but we've got some good help um the greatest Pride I had the last few years is when oi had to get the freezer that one just we luckily got a great vendor came in and said hey can I do something early we get it done worked with our calendar and suddenly it is working so okay I should have passed that before but yeah I appreciate Robert so much um why am I missing somebody Rhonda Rhonda here tonight what what's your phone number okay Ronda I really appreciate appreci she was one of the the two remaining board members that were on the board when I was here but then there's this lady Julie was so funny my very first board meeting Tera wasn't here yet there was a previous her name was Moren and her first board meeting she's gring Moren with all these budget questions poor Moren couldn't answer him and she kept looking over at me sitting on the Flor you know everything from the game limit to the revenue limit all kinds of things and she always look over at me I finally after about four or five questions you know kind of puzzl puzzled to look and said um Morin goes oh that's my teacher he's the one that taught me everything I know I used to work for a little company old school services in California and we did workshops on all kinds of schol planets but these last 10 years has been fantastic I'm so proud of this District what you've been able to accomplish to get these kids educated healthy fed everything has just been amazing so my final thought is you know how sometimes you get money you get a donation and but you got to spend it on something I don't do that I'm just going to give each of these principal 250 bucks to spend any way they want there is one catch you have to send me a picture of what you do yeah I don't doubt that for a minute my final closing thought be ready for the next three years y you're got your budget tonight it's they passes the all of the tests but like about 800 other districts in the state the next three years going to be tough you don't know have you noticed the state's financial situation isn't that great that's the trickle down you're going to see it coming to you and sadly I'll be living in Oregon living the same thing but I don't have to fix it only Oregon schools I don't even know how Oregon schools work I'm going to keep it going I'm just going to enjoy myself well actually what is today Tuesday I supposed to be home B hay but I'll do that when I get home next Friday everybody have a great next year be proud of what you accomplished this year and just keep it going congratulations on your retirement good luck feel like we should have some words of appreciation for you and all that you've contributed and finding grants and special programs and reimbursements and rebates and things for uh school buses and the Portables and all the things that you do for quote unquote fun um many many thanks for all the time and effort that you put in I know you're compensated but you know got to have the heart to do it and the Curiosity and I've always appreciated your part of a teacher and informing and explaining and never shortcutting anything and I feel like part of my finance education came from you being on the board and so I just really appreciate all the time and effort that you've put into not just the district but me as an individual so thank you all right moving alone item number six the consent agenda is there a motion I'll make a motion we approve the consent agenda is there a second is there any discussion no hearing no discussion roll call vote I I I and I motion carries item number seven monthly items and Financial reports this is the monthly approval of Warrant is there a motion I vot to approve is there second any discussion I I couldn't help but notice the pg& did really well with us last month did we was that air conditioning 35 Grand yeah once it's it's cyclical because you'll see like the gas bills go up in the winter also some electrical and then as it starts getting warmer the AC's kicking on and so yeah it was for two months yeah it was more than one month on this war that'll go down over the summer yeah hopefully you know with the classrooms being saw the expense for the Catalina trip the tour bus so I hope we get to see some pictures of the C trip any other questions or comments regarding the warrant roll call vote i i i i motion carries uh next item is 7B the 2023 24 budget revisions so part of building the budget for next year the first step is to do I need to put this on you're fine um the next step is to the first step is to clean up this year's budget and get it in uh balanced so that we Rel load everything in to start next year's budget so since there were revisions made we bring that to the board I have that screenshot that's there that just shows you the difference so second interim would have been the last time in March when we looked at a period in the budget and then the budget updates are next to it so you can see some minimal changes there in revenues pretty much offset by expenses the um the biggest increase you see there with the classified salaries and benefits with the raise because during Second interim we had just done the raise for certificated at that point so now you'll see that that's why the classified section has gone up and then other than that there weren't any other major changes our fund balance stayed pretty close to what it was at second minum as well when we meet our Reserve so um since those changes were made if you approve them tonight then that's moves on to the next case which is the next year that's not an action item yes it is therefore is it I'm with approval of the 2023 24 budget revision I'll second do you guys have any questions for CH roll call v i i i i motion carries hey I it number eight hearing the person is wishing to address the board um we have one did we get any emails we did not okay uh we have one it looks like this evening John pero good evening uh John perro and um I recently read a book and have listened to numerous podcast by a renowned social psychologist Jonathan height by the way this guy's so this isn't a red or blue or left or right issue he has written a New York Times bestselling a book called The anxious generation had a great rewiring of childhood is causing an epidemic of anxiety depression and mental illness among today's youth some of the key findings is that there's a significant rise in anxiety and depression rates among teenagers starting in 2010 to 2015 and Beyond which is when the smartphone came in with the front facing camera and also social media started Facebook uh Twitter and all the other stuff um uh and so this trend is particularly pronounced among girls young girls uh 10 to 14 with incidents of self harm and Suicidal Thoughts showing alarming increases he attributes this trend to the pervasive use of social media smartphones which have altered the social Dynamic of and lessons social media causes social deprivation these platforms amplify P comparison and cyer bullying contributing to a sense of inadequacy and isolation among teenagers especially young girls between 10 and 14 the constant pressure to present a curated perfect life online exacerbates the feelings of anxiety and depression another Finding is cognitive fragmentation because of constant distraction and this so-called multitasking which we know it's impossible another Finding is Strong Addiction 6 to8 hours a day is the average use of teenagers on smartphones today he has something called safetyism and this is an overemphasis on safety and protection limits in which limits children's ability to develop resilience by preventing young people from experiencing learning to cope with normal challenges and failures of Life leaving them ill equipped to handle stress and adversity and there's a lot of other stuff as well so the reason I'm bringing it up tonight is he has four suggestions he says number one no smartphones before high school that's a parental issue no social media before a minimum of 16 years old that is a parental situation and Tighter enforcement by tech companies bare finding age restrictions on social media and adult websites number three this is where you guys come in bone free schools and there is a school as I website called phone preschool.org there are several States Indiana Florida even California in 2019 have a starting adopting policies at F school and then the last the fourth thing is more free play in Independence so the reason I'm bringing this what I like to see the school board do is to adopt a policy of phone free schools more emphases on physical activities recess replay interactions and so the education on dangers smart so I request be placed the agenda if possible thanks thank you very item nine action items um 9A approve the workplace violence prevention plan I move to approve the workplace violence prevention plan a second any discussion presentation look pretty th the templet that we used was one that was sent to us by kosa specific to education so that was the the bones of it one of the requirements of developing it was to get input from our employees both classified and certificated which we were able to do via survey through Google forms and I attached the results and some of the feedback that we received from our employees to this item on the agenda there's a lot of lot of information there made it into the plan and then it's a starting starting point for our what will be the workplace violence prevention committee uh to take up um as we get into the next questions I I did have a couple but um well six people are on the responsibility team which is you know the staff and the principles pretty much and I said 17 on the committee and I wondered when does the committee meet or is that just um something you just will decide at the future dates that'll be decided in the future uh but there it is a requirement that they meet regularly it could be quarterly it could be twice a year it could be annually it's really up to local decision on that okay and that's where the input from the committee members is going to come into okay then everything look good um but I wondered if there should be some sort of language in there regarding if a minor is involved in the uh violence you know and how a parent should be notified or or any of that you know I don't think it it needs to be in the prevention plan because we already have board policies that dictate when parents are notified when a child's involved in a disciplinary situation so it it would be doubling up on that we already have the handles somewhere else not in this all right yeah cuz I know when um there's an incident and a minor is involved there's it's a lot more things come into play when you know it's a older teenager or an adult well I think what what is important to remember is that this prevention plan really is specific to our employees it's our workpl so it doesn't deal with student on student other than an employee who becomes injured inter intervening between two students who may be already five um so the focus is not necessarily on our students on this it's more of having our workplace be free of violence as much as we can and make sure that we're doing everything in advance to prevent by we got our Camas and lock doors yeah okay those are my question any others definitely comprehensive very impressive thank you a lot of work you can see okay roll call though hi hi I I motion carries action item 9 B um approve the injury and illness prevention plan this is an annual update is there a motion I'll make a motion that we approve the injury and illness prevention plan second I don't uh any uh presentation please okay this is an annual update the the only change to this year's plan is is notable and Kurt mentioned reference to the covid-19 pandemic earlier in his remarks um the state did pass language that we were to remove just similar to what the board did with the board policy couple months back removing the covid-19 policies all of those have now timed out and we were able to remove the covid-19 prevention plan from the injury and illness prevention program plan so I removed those items everything else remains intact questions it did shorten the document by about 34 pages he any questions comments roll call I I oh sorry it's probably just a time post it's on page 22 thank you for identifying the page there was something highlighted in yellow wonder that was I couldn't figure out um it's highlighted in yellow because it it's not part of the plan if you want to see the that any list the list of any locations that may present an elevated risk to asbes um those those locations are maintained on a list that is held by yeah there a lot on yeah good question that was it for okay roll call vote i i i i item 9 C approve revised 2024 2025 certificated support and director salary schedules so these you is there a motion I motion to did I over talk I'll take number two then got a 2024 25 ceric support and direct and Sten second okay um presentation so these two salary schedules were approved in February um when we approved um both years for the 4% for the 23 24 certificate scheduled and then uh 2425 the 2% raise um but after that point we um realized we were going to revamp Michelle's current position because so much of it as special ed so that's the same salary schedule that was approved for her position but we changed the title that's why it's highlighted yellow the director of special education and student services so it'll tie in the special ed piece but then also have the student services piece she was doing as a director of special Pro projects and programs so that one is just a title change and then the other one um with some discussions with our um staff we realized that uh and some search other districts the speech and language pathologist was um paid at the same level or sometimes could be higher than the nurse and ours they were below a row below so we decided to put the nurse and the speech and langine which pathologist on the same row um which also is helpful and we were trying to fill that vacancy as well so we could be competitive and then the educational program specialist is a new title um that is our current districtwide case manager who is Mrs Tomkins um um but we redid the job duties and changed the title on that position and moved it to this support salary schedule currently she had been paid on the teacher schedule and since there's some more days included there than the teachers um we decided to have it on this schedule the psychologist didn't change and then the last one you see there is the PBIS specialist as you know before we had the bhi behavior interventionist which you saw um through the process where we uh changed having that position and um we came up with this one um it's like a hybrid of that but also um new new duties and programs and then that one will be paid on the teacher salary schedule but we wanted the title of the position on this certificated support and they'll not be a classroom teacher per they'll work districtwide as one person with all three sites so since we made those changes to the schedule we brought it back to you and but they all they'll have the 2% was approved previously any questions good to see there's a a second psychologist being hired that really yeah we're going to have three overall one at each side right now we just have the two so it'll be a big difference ramping that with program with our new director of special education and student services at the helm of that and getting everything as Michelle say shorted up hopefully with all of our students needs good we call vote i i i i motion carries next item is 9d approv the 2024 2025 my club after school program contracts I move we approve the 2425 my club after school program contract so a second second so that you'll see if you were keeping track this year we had approved a contract that um was around 440,000 so you'll see that looks like a big difference um but if you compare the two side by side and I'm happy to show you both contracts um there's a large number of Staffing added which is awesome because we have such a high participation I think over 200 kids are enrolled that doesn't mean they all attend but out suuma and then here at Ur site um so they had to add several uh more staff members and then they also gave everybody a little bit of a raise too um as everybody else does each year so everybody stepped up a bit and then they added in a transportation piece for the summer program um so there's some additions as well as their supply costs and things that went up um but the program is really robust and we have huge participation and a lot of students are benefiting from it all the different activities you've seen when uh came and presented to us about all the things and now they're uh they're doing their summer program so some of that also includes those summer days it includes holidays or early out days so there's a little bit more um increase from that as well um because when school closed there it's a break uh what school gets out earlier on those Mondays they have you know additional hours of Staffing for that do you know the hours for the summer program uh I do not but I think it is 7:30 to 6 or it's all day yeah so and they have it all at o in the summer so they don't have the Luma site but there's a ton of kids in Luma that come to Oaker site now so then they'll also have the pool contract which you previously approved for the pool services for the summer but right now they're um that'll be revised because they're doing some repairs so how do they get from the site to the pool that's where the transportation piece was built in um you know that they'll be transporting I think they're going to get some bands and they rotate the groups of students so different age groups get different turns on different days they can bring them all at once it's great for the kids in the summer they're not stuck at home it's like summer camp with enrichment so it's really a great program be interesting to see um about Sumer rning loss while they you know the kids participating in the extended school year program maybe we'll see a decrease in learning they could that summer slide yeah summer slide to encourage some of the kids to read over the summer it's helping the second grade class there are a few but one in particular can't read at all which is really to me very sad he very anxious he ask them to read so you know would ask these kids to make sure their mom reads and dad you know so even may had some pinky swear me so very good yeah mind all right is there um any more questions I have a comment I it took me a while come to grips with this it just seemed like an awful lot of money just when I actually spent the time and studied it I we're getting a lot for a lot of people are working for pretty low pay to do what they're doing and it's actually I just never realized how much it was in looking at the whole top figure and then the what they call it and so I'm on board with don't misunderstand me so the other other comment was um the effective day for this is July 1st and your last day is June 30th so shouldn't it be our our new superintendent from here no because you take action on who can sign contracts through the year and the two that the board approves each year is the superintendent M CBF signature required now you're signing it but she's basically I'm signing on behalf of the district they're all cool with that it's this is funded by our elop funds uh our Extended Learning opportunity program so it covers the cost of that program isn't anything extra that we're having to take out of our budget majority of the funds we get go to this okay hey uh any other questions roll call vote hi hi I I motion carries okay item 10 information items um the public hearing to review the lcap for 2027 um we are now going to have the public hearing regarding our local control and accountability plan also known as the elcap the elcap is a critical document for our district as it outlines our goals actions and expenditures to support student achievement and overall School Improvement this plan is not just a requirement it's our road map for ensuring that every decision we make as a district aligns with our comment commitment to educational equity and Excellence tonight we are here here to hear your feedback suggestions and concerns about the elcap draft for the upcoming year your input is invaluable to us as we finalize this plan to best serve the needs of all of our students in our community during this hearing we encourage you the public to share your thoughts openly and honestly whether you're a parent Community member educator or student your perspectives help us better understand the diverse needs of our district and shape our PRI priorities accordingly please note that this is a listening session we are here to listen to you and while we may not respond to every comment tonight your input will inform our deliberations and decisions moving forward with that said let's open the public hearing on the lcap draft I invite incoming superintendent Townsen to provide an overview of the draft plan after which we will open the floor for public comments and thank you for being here tonight and let's for proceed with tonight's discussion thank you can you guys hear me yes yes okay so um I'm not going to go through all 87 pages so I did a nice summary of the goals and actions for um our new elab it's a it's a new template so for the next three years we have our goals and our actions it is a living documents so we can make changes if needed doesn't sound weird little bit okay I'll keep going okay so um there's a summary up behind me and I'm just going to go ahead and go through we have three goals and in each of the goals there are actions on how we plan to achieve those goals um in the actual document itself if you'd like to look at that it is attached the agenda it does have our Baseline data on where we are with many of these actions and then like our project our goal for three years out where we would like to get get to so I'll go ahead and start goal one is each and every student will receive high quality instruction and learning opportunities that will prepare them for high school and their postsecondary Pursuits for example College trade school military Etc provided by highly qualif by Professionals in clean caring safe and secure environments I'd like to note that the highlighted items are new additions from our previous elcap so the action might be the same but um like the title of the action but some of the things um maybe were changed a little bit depending on what some of our um educational Partners responded with and some of the conversations that we've had throughout the district so the first action is the same that we've had in our previous L which is professional development and um staff will receive professional development on days at the beginning of the school year before students return for instruction certificated employees have three of these days and classified as one and teachers will also be compensated for district sponsored professional development that they attend outside of their Duty day um staff will be given time during the school year to attend professional development during the school day when this happens they will get a substitute and um Mark that at school business and some of the professional development topics are listed here some of them include um student achievement data analysis um academic support applications science of reading um see some ones here behavior and social emotional health and safety trauma and fored practices academic intervention service Services PBIS which is positive behavior intervention strategies um and so forth those are some of the things that um we are dedicated to for professional development any questions on that okay action two special education and response to intervention curriculum so this came up quite a bit this past year in meetings that um we are in need of of this and we our educational partners are interested in um obtaining some new curriculum for our response to intervention and especially in our special education classroom so we're looking at that and dedicated to making sure that that happens and so um we have started a spreadsheet to look at what we already have in the district as far as curriculum and then we're going to be looking at that to determine what we want to keep and maybe um some things that we don't have curriculum for that we want to F in some pools for both those areas so that's a new action action three educational technology department and Technology teacher support specialist so ask comments on action two yes oh sorry yes I didn't know waiting till the end no I just you know got excited yeah um just curious is it only curriculum curriculum related or interventions are open to other so like are you thinking like for like our social emotional yes yes we are also looking at those as well for inter have go for it I'd love to hear your comment U first of all congratulations on your position thank you for and I came specifically to thank Randy who uh I don't know if you remember Lor prenis uh I have had three children go through here and I'm grateful for your incredible leadership and you a steadfast um commitment to the community not just your students and staff and I very much part R up here from to be able to tell you that but I'm very appreciative for you um even when my children w't here you know you you have big shoes to go I'm sure you'll be able to fill them but um I'm very grateful um for your leadership thank you um as far as interventions especially social emotional I have Bonnie right here with me she is a therapy dog in train she will pass her test um very soon and when she does I would like it consider to have her come um and becoming part of a um campus or campuses where she can make an impact of those students who are having trouble with human connection um maybe they've had trust issues maybe they have moved the area they will have a lot of connection there so I do have a proposal that I've already given to um uh to UniFi and I present it to them um and I have sever organizations which can give more information if it's if it's desired if it's needed if it's determined that it would be beneficial for Community here um there are times when um when not just children staff members as well well and I think that one more way that we can offer help and support and um another option for um you know retaining staff for um keeping students um calm and keeping them focused and for have meaningful connection is something to be considered so I I put that before those here and I want to go ahead and make sure that that is consideration and I am prepared with as many powerp slides as needed in order to um present information that is a concern to the you don't want to get sued with a dog bite there's there's um data that goes that level and they also don't want to have somebody who's uncomfortable before sitting your do or another you know another so I think there are um there are concerns that are very legitimate and I wanted to make sure that those are um addressed and considered if it's deemed that that would be in the best interest of your campuses of your child students thank you thank you okay moving on to action three educational technology department and Technology teacher support specialist so we're continuing to have this as an action where the district will continue to maintain the educational technology department Department staff will be responsible for maintaining and upgrading existing technology infrastructure connectivity throughout the district the highlighted section here is for our new TSS position which is technology teacher support specialist position which is um kind of taking place of was it the Tech coach was that the name of the prior yeah um and so this position is um a classroom teacher who has additional days added on um that will allow this person to work directly with teachers on how to um Implement applications in the class classroom how to implement different um tools for their for learning um technology and learning into the classroom and doing some trainings across the district on some of those applications any comments on that question will AI be part of that artificial intelligence yeah there will be training on on portions of AI and how to appropriately use that thanks I think there's a whole like Google AI component that um the person who's doing the job has been exploring yeah we'll be able to do Action Four clean caring safe and secure learning environment so this is exactly the same action as we've had previously in our elap so the district will continuously provide clean caring safe and secure learning environments for its students staff families and communities enclosed but is not limited to physical repairs and upgrades of facilities maintenance our camera systems clean drinking water our catapult emergency management system the new clock spell speakers um the door locks the inspections from our insurance California Risk Management Authority our facilities inspection tools our health and wellness committees um the list of on and on we did a lot of a lot calls under any questions or comments about that action oh do you have something no okay action five healthy students and staff the district will provide healthy meals and snacks to all students all students will also participate in a physical education program we have PE teachers at each site the district will review an update school safety plans Wellness policies um Implement programs to improve student and staff physical physical social emotional and mental health and wellness we provide a districtwide nurse and a and health aid to service all students and the district also um provides Wellness tips and support to staff through the wellness committee the district is also planning to more regularly message to staff this is a new part of the action um the health and wellness benefits that are available through the district's Health and Welfare insurance company comments I just have one comment that Lydia sent out emails about things with the insurance and I think it is really helpful because you don't always know how to dig into those benefits and find what's there and I think it is incredibly helpful so yeah I think I've heard that from some of our staff too because they forget they go oh yeah there's that this app or oh I'm using I'm using that have you tried this and so I think sometimes in the business we forget so we're trying to do better about communicating that more regularly I had something to add to that particular item healthy students and staff So based on what Mr pero mentioned with social media the anxiety and all of that what can we do to notify parents let them know this is really an emergency that the uh Surgeon General has issued a warning I mentioned meetings ago yeah um that you know that's something that's why we're having this meeting right if you have ideas or thoughts you can jum them down and and certainly like like I said this is a living document we can update it and do what we need to do yeah so maybe some like parent information meetings requires I think that would be extremely important I think that's going to happen anyway earlier this evening before the board meeting I received an email from Capital advisers regarding I was going to include this in my superintendent report this evening but it's appropriate now Dian since you brought it up um there was an announcement made that Governor Newsome is supporting a uh some legislation that is making its way through the legislature right now to restrict smarton use in schools ACTA the association of California school administrators is co-sponsoring Senate Bill 976 that's been put forth by Senator Nancy Skinner of alam it would require parential consent before companies can send an addictive social media feed to miners as well as several other details and it does reference the US Surgeon General report regarding this so there's a lot of foot right now on this topic and now that legislation is moving through the board's going to see it once it's passed signning the law the board's going to see it through policy updates that'll be coming in the fall um so it it's definitely something that everybody is aware of and as was mentioned earlier this is not a left or right issue this is an issue solely about the health safety of our kids um so I think it's going to pick up steam very quickly and there's going to be some requirements passed on to schools that I think will include parent notification and parent education so it's coming make a quick comment on that so this isn't the first time this Rodeo played a lot of people beening on there are good resources out there there there's a lot of good resources out there various curriculum safety curriculum for that kind of stuff and um know your Tech Guy do that or ping me if you want to I mean I'm just get wet on some of this stuff I've known it's been bad but I didn't know how bad it was until probably the last couple months but um there are good resources out there so you don't have to reinvent the wheel some St okay thank you and I have a question what are our policies I mean Stephen we kind talked about this last month looking into looking at rest I was asking about but what what can we get information on what do we have any policies in T at all I know there's policies in the handbooks for each site and there's a the kids can't during during school hours okay and it's it's stripped I mean they're if they're out they're taken for the day and they can pick them at you know goes to the office and it gets picked up at the end of the day but yeah they're not they're not out and I think there's like a reminder Bell at oci in the morning that goes off that to remind kids okay time to put it away um so the principal can speak I don't think that there's problems with that on our campuses during the school day we have some issues I mean kidss are sneaking sneaking anything whatever but um repeat times having their phone taken U and make an agreement with the parents and have check in their phone every day often times parents want them to have their phone after school so they can make plans and whatnot um the fact the matter is until 7:45 the Bell Rings they go away for the most part uh and as soon as school's over with everybody's got their phone out but during school they're strictly disallowed we take them if they're ever out um they get a punishment for that and then like I said if they're repeat fenders often times we'll have them check them in they just have PR to the office on a daily basis with their parents permission okay but it's not always a popular opinion with some parents no well maybe this legislation will you know provide some strength behind it it's going to save this for board comments but it's appropriate for right now um I have an email oh sorry Julie had turn it off feedback okay uh yes I was going to save this for comments but I received an email from enough and that is enough and it's an organization that uh helps to promote legislation that will protect children uh and this particular email refers to uh there's a Senate Bill uh right now and it's called the kids online online safety act the earn it Act and the stock seesam act so these policies will protect children from exploitation and abuse by holding tech companies accountable for the spread of child section abuse material so right now as it stands with the cell phones apple and some other Tech organizations do not have the child um safety features turned off so in other words any child can access pornography child abuse and sexual exploitation pictures right now thousands upon thousands so this is a very serious thing I would also love to see parents be aware of what's going on and so um citizens are being urged to contact uh Majority Leader Chuck Schumer's office to um support this legislation right now it's pass one of the Committees so so whatever needs to happen to uh protect children I just want to mention one more thing since we're on the subject is um this email also says that in 2023 uh ncmec cyber tip line received 36.2 million reports of suspected child sexual exploitation online containing more than 105 million images video and other files so I just wanted to bring that out I think um you take things out of darkness and bring them into the light then people can take action to stop this it's really a dire evil against children I wish those would do more to protect children in that regard thank you thank you okay action [Music] six highly qualified that the district will continue to hire retain and appropriately assign qualified teachers and instructional support sound highlighted here is with the state teacher shortage being a real hurdle the district has established ass signing bonance for certificated positions that have been vacant for six months the first implementation of this will be this upcoming school year and there has been a signing bonus attached to our special special education teacher vacancy how much are we doing them how much it's a $122,000 signing bonus given over the course of three years $4,000 okay that covers goal one we'll move on to goal two each and every student will receive access to high quality intervention and support programs services and enrichment activities with an emphasis on individ izing academic and social emotional behavior health and safety challenges and responsibilities and physically emotionally and cognitively safe learning environments action one behavioral and social emotional health and safety program The District supports behavioral and social emotional health and safety students will receive social emotional support from the PBIS and student support team this team is composed of the school psychologist there will be one at each site PB as professionalist one districtwide PBIS par Educators one at each site site principles teachers instructional AIDS and Par Educators each School site will have a complete PBIS and student support team on our campus to support the behavioral and social emotional health of our students several members of the team um PBIS and student Support Services will also be trained in crisis response to ensure student safety the budget also includes applications such as the rethink program that helps students with behavior strategies assessment materials PBIS student store rewards and other materials to support this program sounds competent okay action two response to intervention response to intervention instructional support services are provided to students reading one or more grade levels one or more level below grade level this program is implemented districtwide with one reading intervention teacher at each of the following School sites I have a question yes is um are we doing anything with math in response to invention or is it something different nothing like this correct okay something different thank you um well in the last threee cycle elap there was a math goal which was just basically about math curriculum and implementation of that in the classrooms there wasn't really anything extra so I took that out because we weren't really adding anything extra to it so um I know we talked about that but right now the budget just just doesn't there's no so we're just going to continue to say vus on extra reading intervention teachers that doesn't mean we're going to ignore them but we're going to have to address that in classrooms and the St hard thank you I have a question about the RTI reading do we have any data on kids getting exited like kids come in kids leave RTI this is the first year that at the end of this year we asked for that data and moving into the this coming year we're going to be paying closer attention to them because um we do have quite a few kids that have been kind of like viers right and that so we're we're paying attention to that more carefully that's good yeah okay uh action three Extended Learning opportunities after school program eil Academy and Bliss so this is the same that we've had the district will provide students with Extended Learning opportunities including it not limited to our mic Club program summer enrichment homework clubs Esports sping clubs all types of clubs that happen after school um The eil Academy which is here at OB and we also will um continue to have the Bliss program which is our independent study are B like independent study school so it's kind of like a home school program which um allows families an option for here it is a home school style programming and then um my club is in oh this just what is the term my club is in a 5800 yeah it's under non-personnel so you see that big number there if you looked at the lcap breakdown of the budget so it's um because it's a vendor so we pay them through that but it people and staff it's just non-personnel in terms of questions about that actions Action Four res Community Day School so I know there's been kind of a lot of talk about Resident black Community Day School and what's happening with it for now it is staying open and it's and it's an action we have a teacher staff there through like the beginning of January and then um we're going to kind of look at the program District leaders and principes and um look to see if we want to do any restructuring of that program a little bit so that we can um hopefully keep it for for the upcoming school year so there's been rumor saying that we're closing it for sure and that's not not the case certainly the budget is the budget and we'll be looking at that but have not made a decision to absolutely sure close it we are it's going to stay open for this school year sta until the retirement the teacher and then we're going to be looking at um hopefully keeping it with maybe some changes and then staff hiring somebody for the the following school year and what grades does that cover four through eight I'm getting feedback that the younger children are needing to be in that type of program because of the major disruptions in the classroom by law you cannot intermingle in early age elementary with the 4 through eight so to do that means we would have to open up a second Community Day School program and as Michelle said right now the budget is restriced it's not the a blind eye is being turned to the situation but that's why we're doubling down on oural program PBIS yeah and PBIS to correct those those issues without going to the extreme of opening the second Community Day School and it's important to remember that that school that Community Day School is for expel VI um fortunately we don't have a lot of expel you so we have used it for voluntary placement so those are some things that we also you know need to look at moving forward on how we want to structure that you know continue to keep it like that and then like Randy said we would have to have two different programs but we certainly wouldn't want a second grader and an eighth grader and it's really important to mention and emphasize the majority of our placements of pres flots in my tenor year over the last seven years have been voluntary placements which means they weren't expelled but the parents finally were seeing the light if you will and agreed to have their child place to have pres flat Community Day because of the individualized attention that they receive and the Improvement Market improvement over a short period of time with such intervention um it's been our experience that the younger student the less excited parents are about placing their child in a more restrictive environment something has to break a lot of times or get close to Breaking before a parent will agree to have a child removed from the Ed program placed in the Community Day School so while staff definitely are in favor of a second Community Day specializing in early age to move forward on expulsion of a young student is almost impossible and so with that being Fact one and then Fact Two being that parents are reluctant to agree to voluntary placement we're going to have a situation we have a school open no students but we're fully sta meanwhile we still have to provide the education in in the regular incentive But It's Tricky it's it's it's not a black and white response that should be affected are there any opportunities to team up with other districts to provide this service there's a county program as well yeah there there are there have been in some cases like in our area where maybe you s a unified might age to partner in program we have had no discussions with them or anybody else about that but that is an outside the box idea that I think if if a district chooses to go down that path even maybe to keep personal class open that might be a way of doing that to to partner in that type of endeavor so definitely on the table for sure action five English language development program the district will support the needs of our English language Learners the comprehensive English language development program staff assigned to the ELD program will receive additional training on ELD principles strategies and processes um highlighted here is the district um is also going to be revisiting its reclassification criteria for our e students as part of the revision to our e master plan that also include um potentially more trainings and maybe even also looking at the curriculum that we're using for those students um our El students and families will have the resource of the district e family and Community Le liaison to assist families with school to home Communications um this liaison will also help to assist individual School sites with recruiting eel parent education Partners to service on site committees so that they can have um their ideas and thoughts as part of things like the do we have any staff doing that now yes we have two V on now okay questions or comments about that action six California CET core leadership program so we're going to go ahead and continue to maintain program very good that okay action seven healthy meals and snacks the nutritional services department will provide will prepare and provide healthy meals and snacks for students throughout the district includes breakfast lunch and after school snacks um the meals are prepared at oci in the central kitchen and then are transported to wasuma president blad Elementary um there's also some e funds that provide um snacks for after school and there's no exclusion to children so any child is corre eligible F eight Transportation the district will continue to provide transportation to and from school for families experiencing difficulty and providing their own transportation and this is directly related to School attendance um trying to make sure that we get our kids here so that we can reduce our chronic absenteeism rate which is currently at 31.1% um and then the district will provide transportation for various Extended Learning and co-curricular Student Activities as needed field trips conect cor Etc could you please be more specific on that statistic 31% seems like a lot so maybe I'm not understanding itly there's 31% of our students that are chronically absent which is below 90% attendance rate yeah that number that number exploded coming out of the pandemic I know if was interpr wences in one school year is chronically absent 31% of our students currently are in that and that that number is very very similar Statewide part of why and you know that directly relates back to the budget I mean there's just a lot of things obviously academic achievement so we are in um differentiated assistance for that from the state we get county Support um we have to meet and come up with plans on how we're going to address that and so um those are things that we're going to be paying very close attention to in this upcoming school year in fact there's an action for it we're getting there um okay action n comprehensive school safety program the district will Implement maintain a comprehensive school safety program districtwide each School site will have a safety plan um again mentioned here is our catapult emergency management system and we also um provide active threat training and the first one was at the beginning of last school year and we'll do that every other year so um active threat training is what to do in the event there is a significant threat on campus which could be anything but um most specifically this training was in regards to school shootings and and what we should do to protect our our students and our staff in the event in the event that that should happen so um we're on every other year with a program called knowledge saves lives for that um questions comments okay action 10 physical health and fitness program and extracurricular activities district will provide students an enhanced physical health program for students to learn Healthy Lifestyles that include physical fitness and training activities L by certificated instructional staff such programming will include PE um physical education instruction during school hours as well as inter School ass athletic opportunities and um and then it just goes on to say that we have a fulltime PE teacher at each each site except so all of our our main School STS comments action 11 Foster Youth and homeless Student Activities this the district will provide necessary activities supplies and materials to support the needs of Foster and students who are experiencing homelessness action 12 is a new action because of differentiated assistance due to our chronic absenteeism so the district will Implement attendance incentives and an effort to decrease chronic absenteeism the district will also consider implementing an attendance report card that will be shared with parents at the same time quarterly report cards are dist distributed there will be a strong effort to communic the importance of attendance to our students and their families through regular messaging that will include statistics around academic achievement and School attendance can you give us an example of a statistic that might be included in this report card like students who Miss so many days of school are so many grade levels behind in reading and when students are are so far behind in reading or in literacy than what that equates to as far as like high school dropout rates and um there will even be statistics on there on how that um is related to like earning potential for students who maybe after high school just go into the workforce or maybe they want to you know go try and get into a college and so we're working on putting together a flyer that messages some of that information out to our we're almost there this is the last goal and it has the least amount of action goal three each and every educational partner will receive opportunities to engage in the learning process by promoting opportunities that strengthen skills competencies and abilities of students parents staff and the community action one Health and Wellness committee so the district will establish and has establish and will maintain the health and wellness committee to address such issues and provide input to school and District leaders to assist in the decision-making process um the committee is also responsible for annual reviews the committee will be comprised of a variety of educational Partners including School staff District Personnel parents Community Partners specializing and health and wellness initiatives next action District Safety Committee so there will also be a district Safety Committee to address the variety of safety related issues that develop in schools the committee is expected to provide input to school and District leaders particularly in the development of the comprehensive school safety plan the committee will be comprised of a variety of educational Partners including School leadership District leaders School staff from each site site parents and Community Partners who specialize in school and community Safety Action three educational Partners survey the district and schools will periodically provide surveys to various educational Partners to continuously assess the effective effectiveness of programs practices and schools in general the survey provides immediate feedback necessary for evaluation of the service Works still trying to come up with creative ideas on how to get more particip in that share any um Action Four School site councils and parent advisory groups each site will provide a School site Council a body comprised of various educational Partners Representatives including teachers classified staff principles parents Etc a primary responsibility of the site council is approving the the school plan for student achievement each year authorizing expenditures of cator and input from the site council is vital in the process option five parent teacher associations and or councils so ptaa or PTC each School site will continue providing parent education Partners opportunities to participate for participation and input through a PTA or PTC such bodies provide various fundraising and special events but otherwise would not be possible and then last one action six school to home Communications program educational partner meetings and special events the district will strengthen and maintain an effective and efficient school to home Communications program the program will be comprised of a number of components including parent Square updated and maintain school and District websites which is going to be the task of the new TSS position which was like way when we started this hearing um under technology um School School site social media accounts that's going to start to be a little bit more explored a little more also this year weekly principal newsletters and telephone messages um so to get information out to parents and students and each School site will periodically host special events to welcome parents and families in the community to campuses for example open house back to school night and schools in the district will utilize various local and social media Outlets to promote outstanding accomplishments of students and staff I have a question I have a question about the the survey participation so parent Square seems to be an effective communication tool so is there a way instead of having a survey that has lots of questions if just periodically you throw on one question on parents fa just one and then just do that once a month or whatever I don't know how many questions you need to answer but just do one thing because people's attention spans are so low so it's like just answer one will you answer when it pops can you answer one question maybe they will yeah that's a great idea I want ask sure that would work with me primary person on the account Square so if there's two involved parents you have a different opinion in my experience um my husand is able to name first and was act sare with ph so okay well perhaps that's other people's concern as well maybe I'm not the the only person with that concern it might be wor into you know making peopleware that there is a soltion thatw okay thank you I have a question on the parent Square do parents have access to all the library materials yes not through parents Square through website yeah was it constantly updated it's regularly updated yeah when they give you books they put it in there you go um do you have any more comments about the El you can bring them to the district office between now and the meeting next meeting is the 20 um June 26 is when we will adopt so anybody has any questions or comments um please direct those to Mr steal or pres all right we'll go ahead and close the hearing and move on to our next hearing like hearings item 10 be oh let me turn for the people in the back oh um item 10 the public hearing of the 20242 budget we will now have the public hearing regarding our District's budget for the upcoming this year the budget we are discussing tonight is more than just a financial plan it reflects our District's commitment to providing the best possible education for every student while ensuring fiscal responsibility and transparency throughout the year our district has engaged in a thoughtful and collaborative budgeting process involving input from our administrators staff parents and community members this process is essential in aligning our financial resources with our educational priorities and goals tonight we invite you to share your thoughts questions and suggestions regarding the proposed budget your input is crucial as we strive to make informed decisions that benefit all students and support the continued growth and success of our schools we understand that budget decisions impact various aspects of our district from classroom resources to extracurricular activities and support services your perspectives help us ensure that our budget reflects the values and priorities of our entire Community before we We Begin I'd like to thank each of you for your time into participating in this important discussion your engagement demonstrates a shared commitment to the future of our schools and the success of every student tonight's agenda includes a presentation of the proposed budget by our Chief Financial Officer Tara Campanella please feel free to share your feedback concerns or questions or ideas after her presentation once again thank you for being here and the public hearing on the District budget is now open so you'll see there in all the attachments I'm just going to give you a brief overview of that and then dive into the presentation and I ask that you if you have any questions or comments if you can wait till the end when we apply after that just so I can stay on the script that I have in my brain um you'll see in there uh the the attached presentation which I'm going to go over and then the cast flow which I gave copies of for this year and next year's cash flow to the board members there's also the narrative that I always do that's PDF there that says the budget fund restricted U or I'm sorry the budget uh the budget b01 restricted detail YP um and then you have the full budget packet as well which is also posted was posted our website last week by the deadline um if you want to look at all the fund forms I'm not going to go through the financial forms because I cover anything in my presentations but in the um 2425 budget fund 01 restricted detail on NP you'll see I have the fun one which is where majority of our expenses are out of I have revenues and expens highlighted as well as the ending fund balance there's a restricted detail page which goes over all the restricted monies that are for specific programs and that's a slide that I have and then the multi-year projections is what's most important because we're here um to talk about saying that we can meet our financial obligations um for the this current coming up school year 2425 and then the two following fol years so we certify the budget and adopt it at the next meeting that's what we're saying that we can meet our obligations for those three years so the multi-year projection shows that it shows the the proposed budget as well as the projections for 25 26 and 26 27 so I just gave you abbreviated Financial forms in that PDF so now I'm going to go to my presentation so the first slide you'll see there is the budget compared to now so the 202 425 budget compared to the current one um you can see that there's quite a reduction there in the revenu that mainly under the federal revenues you see it's because of all the co funds ending and all those extra onetime funds that are now coming to a close as well as adjustment on our lcff Revenue which I'll cover on a later slide and then uh the expenses to offset that obviously having more less less revenues we have um to tighten up some budgets on the expense side but you'll see at the bottom there that will still meet our requirement which I go over in the later slide but I just wanted to kind of give you a side by side so you could see it where we were at now with um all those categories and where we'll be for 242 so the next slide is the one um that really shows the story and this is one that Kurt always helped me with um saying you know write out the date what are some expenses that you have to pay you can't cut you know everyone um each year steps up a step uh on their salary schedule and then also our um retirement benefits for Ste and purs rates have gone up each year um but first up the gate you see there we're using our lower attendance average uh so our our lcff funding right out the gate is 880,000 less than what we're funded at currently and that's a combination of things which I will go over but with our lower attendance rate and then there's a $58 million deficit in State um right out the gate we are starting with less money than we have currently but then you have the Stires and purs increase and then the classified and CER certificated steping column which those increases add up to the 218,000 um but but taking that out of the deficit as well we're just starting right out the gate with negative 300,000 so when we started building this budget uh it was very very um you know overwhelming to see that right out the gate you know each year our expenses go up utilities go up supplies salaries so it's really hard to know that the that they're not funding um districts at what they're currently funded at they are um you know saying that they're trying to look at other plans and legislation but right now is what we have to work so this is a snippet from our lcff calculator that's a main source of our funding which is our property taxes and I just highlighted on there where you can see the lower Ada so Ada is our average daily attendance and our enrollments around 82 820 students but our average daily attendance is 758 you're aware of that because of the meetings when I show the enrollment and then I have those attendance rates compared to adaa so you're being funded on 70 or 80 less than what en is and when we first came out of the pandemic in 2122 we were held harmless and we were funded at 1920 Ada level back then that was 840 average dat attendants so 2122 22 23 we you'll see those numbers I underlined there in yellow was that that's because they have the 1920 attendance rate in the threeyear average and then now as we've come past that point and we're using the actual numbers we don't have the higher numbers of buffer they were saying that's like a clip because you're dropping off and you're actually being M at that adaa and Michelle covered that in her presentation as well as The Chronic aism and all the other issues with um behaviors and getting students to school so all these things compounded um are affecting the budget that's why at the the number at the bottom there the circle is lower you can see right next to is our current year back you know so that's where right out the gate we're seeing that decrease and building a budget off less so these are some budget assumptions we always uh have assumptions that that we use as factors in our multi-year projection so we're using that ADA 758 um we're using the 1.07 cola I don't know if you remember at this time last year our budget we were building at an 8.22% Cola and they've even come out and said they should have never given one that high they actually want us to pay money back but they can't go back and collect money that was already spent when I first started building the budget they told me to use a s and then they got really excited because they said well we're going to give you you know seven so still not what we need because if you see um a lower attendance rate you apply that to a colet it's basically raising that 1.07 would be an increase on our budget if our attendance was exactly you know right by our and then we use the stirs and Pur rate uh Pur rate went up a little bit this year that's the classified retirement program and then also in the multi-year projections we put in everybody steping column so we plan for each year everybody moving up a step that's you know um if nothing is negotiated that's something people can look forward to until they're topped out of course and then Health and Welfare was coming in around 4% increase for this next year which is good news over last year where it was 8% higher everyone's benefit cost so it's a little bit less um our staffing is level we have minimal changes we have some resignations or retirements but it really just talk sets each other and people are kind of shuffled around we have a few vacancies that we're working on filling right now at elementary and middle school level and then any new positions that we added if there's talk you know they're adding new positions well they're added through the learning recovery block Ram which is onetime funds um and other than the two new music teachers which are under that special prop 28 ongoing music funding um so anything we're doing it's more of certificated support or Psych just interns they're all under that onetime funding because it's just um going to be not something that's ongoing unless other funding comes in so even though we're deficit spending we're projecting to certify a positive um through 26 27 but only if the lcff funds stay as they are proposed um so next year the Ada will use even lower numbers and um unless our tenance comes back up which is great that we're I mean it's not good to be in differentiated syst but it has we have the county backing us to work on these incentives and things with our Administration to get those attendance rates to come back up and that would be really helpful in terms of the budget so uh this is kind of what I was mentioning just a second ago with the cola the only thing kind of sustaining Us in 25 26 26 27 is and in our multi-year projections the only way we were able to meet our reserve and qualify as positive is them saying that okay the state saying we'll have a little bit more coola in the next two years and that's kind of what would help us that always changes by the time the budgets come out but that's what you plug into your multi-year projections just so your numbers can balance out and then our projected ending fund balance you can see there bundling down um especially want to point out the restricted that's all those onetime uh a lot of those one time funds for specific programs other than the prop 28 music and art funding and then elop which are ongoing um the other restrict funds are going to be um gone and we'll just be having our unrestricted balance that we have to meet our 4% Reserve but it's getting Tighter and Tighter without additional funding um this is something also that was covered in Michelle's elcap discussion but this is a slide from school services from the May budget Revis that I wanted to include and it's speaking to the same thing about um our students being absent and being chronically absent so back in 1920 students Miss nine days of school annually on average and and they don't have that of this current year for but in 2223 students Miss 14 days of school annually and um there something they pointed out during this may Governor Workshop they said average school month is about 20 days so if it's 14 days that's close you know getting closer and closer to if you add it up that student is almost missing a whole month of school each year and that's why with the the committee and differentiate assistance will be sending out some of that data she was explaining to is there a reason for that there's just not as much effort as kids getting to school there's there's a whole bunch of factors family involvement there's um different mental health issues there's a whole bunch of whole bunch of stuff part one of the kids has doctor in PR they're going to take everybody with them they're going to be worried about making so part of it is our location um so the next slide here is contributions to other programs so uh you used to see on here the cafeteria but that program funds itself now as I reported out in a previous meeting so that's good we're not having we used to have to make a contribution there um but special education and routine maintenance routine maintenance is something you're required to contribute 3% of your expenses to this budget to keep up your sites and your facilities so as your expenses increase then um you have to make more of a contribution there so you can see an increase there um and then special education um this number blows my mind because um you know currently we're contributing 1.4 million and we're funded Bally in from the state at 295,000 for special education um so the cost of the program is around 1.6 million next year it's looking more like 1.8 um because we'll receive the revenue and then our contributions going up to almost 1.6 million and so um I have to tell you the number in the middle there the projected Revenue it used to be 272,000 so they increased it to 295,000 and if you hear about things that we discussed at the meetings with our students needs and um Staffing and all the support and IEPs um it's just this is something I get on my soap off about but I just don't understand why it's so underfunded um and those students all our students need supports but so we're really having to make up the difference and what a contribution is is we take that out of our general unrestricted all our other funding that's for everything else we have to dip into that and take it out and and fund the special ed program with it so before it would be more of like close to a match you know maybe we' put in five or 600,000 but now you know it's triple triple that so that totals over two million are contribution to those and if you look back to other presentations you'll see how much it's gone up just in the last five years alone and then this slide I just added last minute today so if you had already looked I this popped in my brain in the middle of the night to add um I just wanted to show you just for example it's not even just you know everybody stepping up um it's not just supplies and other costs going up but if you just look at our util just in a 4-year period you can see what a huge increase that gas there's an aster there because Mindy who's our accounts payable rockar U negotiated with our local propane dealer and got them to reduce 10 cents a gallon and that has saved us some money this year she is Relentless with um calling people and she's the sweetest lady you ever meet but she if you give her a Tas like that she's like I'm gonna get a yeah she she loves she loves getting deals she gets really if she gets them you know credit back on Bill and she saves us the money so that one went down but electricity I mean look at that um you know 115,000 just been four years and then water sewer um has gone up about 20,000 and then trash has two asteris byy it because we were notified that our rates will be going up 14% next year so is there extra in the budget for that no so what are we gon have to do Robert and I will have to have a conversation is there some Services we can reduce maybe there's not as many trips or empties of dumpsters things like that I mean it is tight this budget is tight we have enough for salaries benefits and the minimal of everything else um so there's not there's not extra and I even reached out to the um refu company asking if there was any other kind of pricing for school districts and they're stuck too because their fees have gone up for dump and and it's not just like you know they're having to passed on to us and we see that in every area the cost of everything increasing and it's being passed down to and then what is left in the restricted ending fund balance I know this one's hard to read but it's out of the financial forms because that's what I wanted to point out to you um ex standard learning opportunities um that one is ongoing um and then you have also um The Learning recovery emergency block grant if you see here that there's not B balance like an elop it's because um uh you know things are budgeted for that comes in but things like um the Arts music instructional material disc discretionary BL try to say that five step is that a plan that we adopted a few me ago where we put our PBS par Educators um in order to be able to move things around for the raise um luckily our prop 28 funding will be ongoing and then elop but those restricted balances that you see me present each time it keeps going down you know things like the co funding has gone away in the next year budget so you don't see that 7 million or so we received over the last three or four years from Co funding where we were able to do a lot of great things like the cameras and the locks and the devices and Portables and all that but that funding is going away so we all kind of have to put the brakes on any of those big kinds of projects so I just wanted to kind of go over that but I don't know if you'd heard word on the street that we hired two new art and music teachers um so that's great news because we had interviewed two great kid and went into it thinking maybe we would just do the one but with the carryover from this last year where we didn't have any art music commands other than what's already currently in place at the high school with the band we were able to budget out for several years to have the two teachers um and we could look at building all different schedules each year with um music instruction and bringing that back into to the classroom um The Learning recovery one time block rant we use that for some of the certificated support positions and interns and then the art and music blocker and I just covered that that we use that for the PBIS SP Educators the co funds are ending and uh technically they end at the end of this fiscal year but you have till September 30th to wrap things up and mainly we're going to be working on the Portables once we get approval from the state architect there's been um some old projects from the 90s 10 projects that Robert been working on with me and a vendor trying to close up old projects because you can't proceed with new project Pro you wraps up so that's been a big roadblock but he's been working tirelessly with me and Kurt has helped us as well so we're hoping to get that wrapped up so we can get those new Portables ready for school um there's going to be some costs associated with that so we'll have to have some discussions in future meetings about using developer fees or some of the capital facilities fund from the sale B Lake school and then you'll see one of the if I go back to I can't on the screen go back to the previous slide but the restricted Lottery fund funds is one of the big restricted balances that was left um that's different from our regular unrestricted Lottery funds that we use for all of our supplies every school year uh restricted ones are for textbook adoptions so uh in the future when we get to that point of having to change a new the curriculum or doop new curriculum that money is kind of just rolled over each year and set aside H for that in the future so the next steps will be the budget adoption at the next meeting and then we're going to we actually we have several uh purchase orders in the system ready us not submitted but saved and ready for when um we can start purchasing the the spite secretaries have been rocking that they're done by before the end of June so they've been getting Gathering up orders for all their staff all their teachers getting it all ready for the next school year um mean probably 50 60 orders going you know and it's it's no easy feet getting that going and um and then after that the governor will sign the budget by June 30th and the Auditors will be looking at our past year financial statements starting in July and then in August we bring back budget revision so if they say oh we're not giving you a cola or we are giving you more um we have to bring back revision last year we didn't bring back any because they hav't changed anything from June to August that would be ideal in my mind um I don't want to worry about them taking more out of the budget um so if anyone has any questions or comments this would be a good time I have a question about the learning recovery emergency block grant so it was a little over a million dollars do you know how much we might have left that like what's being spent on those inur and that's what in on that one slide there where it has the restricted uh fund breakdown so you can see there um I have that number off the top of my head oh oh it says with left okay so there's still a million oh no no excuse me there's 51,000 that's at the end of 2425 so we have a million going into this next fiscal year and then we put things in the budget that are going under that block ring and so we'll end the fiscal year with half of that and that's the PBIS specialist the psych interns and then we have some support positions and things um to get next year kind of um short up as I mentioned that sh um so nothing that's any regular teachers you know any of that kind of stuff it's just more um programs that we're doing to implement things and get them into place for next year okay any other questions com okay all right I'll go ahead and close the hearing we're going to be voting on um the lcap and the budget at our next meeting next Wednesday next WN is Wednesday yeah okay um moving on to information item 10c enrollment attendance percentage report um it's information no I can go I just have been jumping the you knowum goe um sorry so this report was run uh on uh June 10th so you can see those are the most up to- dat numbers we had toward the end of the school year the previous month we had had 822 and then it was 823 when the school year ended um there was just a little bit of changes at each site but nothing really major to report and um if you want to do some calculations you could kind of change the grade by one on everything and kind of try to figure out where that's all going to be that's the site they're working on with Michelle and classes and figuring that all out seeing what we can see if we have so forth and we're hoping to see an influx of students um post pandemic we were 890 students and then right after we got down to 810 with the new apartments that have been built in town and we did receive some developer fees from that we don't know there's people already living here that are going to be the number won't change because they maybe we're seeing with family members or maybe some new people will come into the community we could use um some higher enrollment numbers to help with our attendance rates and then the other one is the Ada and enrollment summary that I had referenced earlier but you could see what the average enrollment is versus the attendance so bill is over 90% which is good but we used to be 95 and above so want to get back to those rates but that's why we have it in the lcap and then there's plans in place to have some attendance initiatives and awards and data and all that good stuff just to get get those numbers back up where they should be when I first started here the Ava was always about 30 or 40 less than enrollment you know and now it's double we really want if we've got 820 students we should have maybe 780 889 in a perfect any questions okay moving on item 10d academic achievement differentiated assist so I shared with you some reports from I ready [Music] yes so the first one I'm looking at at the top it should say subject math upper left and then the first page should be the fall Diagnostic and then the one behind it should be the scen diagnos that yeah yep so I thought for tonight we could just pay attention to the top Barr that said overall placement you guys see that at the top where from the left it's green and then it goes to yellow and then it goes to Red okay so if you look at them side by side in the B we had this is grades 1 through 8 that tested okay so in the fall we have had 15 students that scored mid or above grade level and then in the spring which not testing window was um March 11th to April 15th so it went from 15 students to 66 students that's good and then you move one to the right um in the fall early on grade level was 61 students and in the spring it jumped to 129 then you move over to one grade level below was 282 St 282 and then that dropped down to 270 which is good right now like we want it to drop down and then two or grade levels below 159 students and then that dropped to 116 and then three or more grade bubbles below went from 141 to 89 good the right direction little snapshot for math okay questions do you have one of those hold that right now good I was just G to say what are the shortcomings what in iry and not that I like this is showing great progress and this is e e e

and we are thank you revisiting um action reports nine teaching and I'm sorry personnel and culture approving superintendent evaluation 2324 school year can I have a motion second so moveed by Mr alre second by Mr gagos um any questions thoughts concerns all right roll call please miss s stumber i Mr swales I Mr rup and I Mr gagos I Mr alch I Dr Hall I president Brown I all right motion passed and guess the next thing is adjournment okay motion to adjourn a motion just okay second and then all okay all and faai hi nay all right meeting is adjourn thank you guys

H Cam's toe time has an hour of classic cartoons from Betty Boop to Superman to papy to Bugs Bunny and more you'll see your old favorites and discover new ones so tune in to tune time Saturdays at 8 and start your weekend off with a laugh e bottom of the second inning 6-2 ashy Medfield lead as that's fouled off at the plate that is number five for Hopkins in that is Kyle ghouly Kyle gly the second baseman L up and the pitch swinging a Miss Nice breaking pitch there and that'll be one away that's go has some pretty good stuff good movement on his pitches this is John hul coming to the plate oh look out little inside there H the left fielder for hopkington there's a strike and there's a [Music] strike one and two it's turning into a very nice night here at hopkington high school really cooling down very humid during the day but certainly a nice evening here as this is hit in the air foul out of play and I think uh a lot of local sports fans very happy today after what happened last night Boston Celtics of course winning their 18th championship title and franchise history they now have the most NBA championships out of any franchise including the LA Lakers who only have 17 and that pitch going to grab the outer Corner two away solid pitching by Derek Asen COA at the plate here that's Conor Harris little outside there wind up in the pitch and he gets a piece of this one hit in the air right side and it'll drop for a hit around first he goes heading to Second the throw is going to be in time and they got him so that ends up being a 9 to4 out for out number three Harris was nearly there but a great throw from right field and we will head to the top of the third with Ashlin Medfield leading 6-2 on hcam H cam program programming is supported by our viewers thank you and by fips Insurance Agency representing companies such as mapfree insurance their family-owned independent agency is deeply rooted in the communities they serve and offer time- tested Insurance products to fit individual needs since 1950 fips Insurance specializes in home auto business condo and renters insurance e welcome back we are just about ready for the top of the third a 6-2 Ashlin Medfield [Music] lead Ben Ellis out on the hill for another inning of work do up is the 4 five and six hitters Isaiah Campbell Jake lay and Griffin Ford yeah you've had some good action in this game some good hits and some interesting base running situations and some good defensive plays as well both of these teams just starting their season today and it's going to be a pretty busy five or six weeks for these teams that pitch outside one and0 to Campbell Isaiah Campbell had an RBI single in the first inning and ended up scoring the fourth run of the five run inning as that is fouled away Ellis set to deal nice pitch grabs the inner Corner leg lift and the pitch just outside one and one look out little Shin music there two and one well you wonder uh with the leash will be with Ellis he is already thrown 45 pitches and there's a walk Jake L will step to the plate so runner on first no outs for Ashley Medfield he's taking off no throw stolen base for Campbell hit high in the air left side Short Stop ranging back but will be called off off by the left fielder who will make the catch Griffin Ford makes the play for the out Campbell stays at second one away correction that was John H making the catch Griffin Ford coming up to the plate Midfield Ashley and the left fielder swinging a miss just outside runner from second taking off for third they got him Campbell caught stealing that was a good throw by the catcher we it's Conor Harris behind the plate oh and won the count swing and a miss here's the one two got him nice strike out there and that'll be the third out of the top of the third you had Jake lame fly out Campbell get caught stealing Griffin Ford strikes out we are heading to the bottom of the third with Ashlin Medfield leading Hopkinton 6-2 here on Hamp [Music] e welcome back we are ready for the bottom of the third a 6-2 Ashlin Midfield lead we'll see if the Hopkinson bats can make some noise here it's Conor Harris at the plate he walked back in the first inning and he gets a piece of this one ripped up the left side and it's bobbled by the third baseman throw to first it's going to get away safely aboard with the hit is Conor Harris oh wait correction that was number 34 it looks like that was Ben [Music] Ellis so Ben Ellis reaches with the single now you have Connor Harris at the plate inside there two and0 count he's going to get a piece of this one picked up by the second baseman flips it to the short stop for one that's all they'll get so Harris reaches on the fielders Choice that's filed away there's a strike and this is a dribbler up the middle picked up by the shortstop throws the first got the out my and this is hit in the air and that's going to drop in front of everybody and a run is going to score and now the runner from first advances to Second and how about that Canal medy aboard at second gets the RBI it looks like there's been some quite a few changes in the uh hopkington lineup so I apologize folks trying to keep up with them they may have had some late arrivals show up as this is a dribbler up the middle throw to first they'll get the out runner from third is going to score but it will not matter as that was the third out so a six to3 out to end the inning but hopkington does plate a run it's 6 to3 as we head to the top of the fourth on hcam e e e welcome back we're in the top of the fourth six to3 Ashlin Medfield lead at the plate you have Adam Riley second baseman now pitching for Hopkinton that's John H so he moves over from Left Field takes over on the mound the starting pitcher Ben Ellis is now the short stop as we'll have a strike out to start off the fourth inning that'll bring up cam Bosworth bit of a sidearm motion there by hul on the mound now the short St as we have a strike out to start off the fourth inning working from the stretch there's a strike BS bossworth so far is 0 for one and uh almost like a bunt type of hit there as it rolls up the middle picked up by hul throw over the first no problem one to three for out number two that'll bring up John roas the right fielder that pitch up high one and0 swing and a miss almost like a type of hit there as there's another strike it'll make the count one and two look out high and inside that one just outside Full Count now and the walk is drawn so roas will jog down a first base and then we'll have camp worken to the plate there's a strike just outside there one and one quer and struck out his last time at the plate back in the second inning swing and a miss John H has some good stuff on the L I went a little high two and two inside there full count another walk here it's going to be two on for Ashlin Medfield with two outs now we'll have the top of the order will daily stepping to the plate you're tuned in Tri Valley Summer League baseball 15 to 17y Old division Midfield and Ashland versus hopkington as it's going to get away from the catcher wild pitch both base runners will advance roas up to Third and corkran up to second two and0 the count that'll grab the outer corner for a strike little high there three and one now the count so how in danger of walking the bases loaded here Andy will three straight walks and that'll bring up Joey Secor the catcher we're going to get a discussion on the mound as the assistant coach Neil medy coming out for a chat we'll see what the leashes with John hul he's already up to 25 pitches i' like to think at least see him get through this inning little outside there base is loaded for Ashlin Medfield they have a chance to break this game open two and0 count now there's a strike two and one second tour has walked and tripled in the second ining also scored two runs fouls that one away two and two oh that's behind the hitter Full Count oh just missed and a run will score with the walk roas around to score corkran up to third Dy to second second to First Derek as Asen COA to the plate as and COA puts this up the middle and that'll trickle in one run is in score here comes another they throw to third is going to get away and the bases are going to be cleared by Asen COA as three runs will score so score that a three RBI single and a advanced on the error corran's in DA's in second T is in and it's a 10 to3 Ashlin Medfield lead Isaiah Campbell set to step to the plate inside [Music] pitch outside two and0 well first game of the season this is where you work out the Kinks not everybody available for Hopkinson today they got a lot of the younger guys going and they're missing several guys on off their roster today only nine available and they actually have someone for ashid Medfield playing right field they a big thank you to uh cim Bosworth playing some right field for Hopkinson today there's a strike oh that's stuck in the top of the back stop I can't say I've seen that that is unbelievable that is the first time I think I've seen a ball get stuck in there nice job by Denise showing where the ball went that pitch outside Tom nappy happy to be with you on the call Denise on Tak on camera very nice Tuesday night the opening night for senior Ruth baseball in the tri valley League it's Tri Valley summer base ball actually senior Ruth is the league uh that's slightly above the tri valley League senior Ruth is uh 15 through 17 year olds as well but it's a more competitive league this is the tri valley league as that pitch is going to get away it was a walk so Campbell will head down to first base bases are reloaded that was La may actually who walked Griffin Ford set to step to the plate Ashlin Medfield is batted around they've done all that that with uh two outs there's a strike inside one and one swing in a miss one and two count now little low there the two two outside gets away from the catcher here comes another run uh having a some control issues out there but hey this is the type of League where you just get experience you work out those Kinks this is why uh you have the Tri Valley Baseball League get that experience over the summer and these players will certainly get better and better as the season goes on there's another walk so Ashlin Medfield has batted around and cam Bosworth uh heading back to the bench because he's going to have to bat again soon and a new right fielder will come into the game for hopkington Courtesy of ashin Medfield Adam Riley set a step to the plate Dereck Asen COA taking over in right field and Pitch outside for Adam Riley is 0 for two today did reach on an error in the first and scored a run as have two RBI eyes who his credit chance to add some more runs here there's strike three and finally the inning will come to an end but it is an 11 to3 Ashland Medfield lead as we head to the bottom of the fourth on hcam ham Sports is supported by our viewers and by the dentist at Hopkinton the dentist at Hopkinton provides services including Comprehensive Dental Care same day crowns facial Aesthetics perodontal care cosmetic dentistry and Implant Dentistry the dentist at Hopkinton is located at 77 Main Street and online at hop.com e e e bottom of the fourth inning and 11 to3 Ashlin Medfield lead and looks like uh we have another late arrival at the plate number 12 let's see if uh we were given the name for number 12 doesn't look like we were they just handed out the jerseys tonight so uh no one really knew what number they would end up with until tonight so we're doing our best here folks number 12 at the plate now for Hopkinson is it I thought I saw I was going by the game changer here oh it was five all right so the game changer was wrong that was Kyle ghouly at the plate so Kyle ghouly is at first base on the walk and this should be John Hulk coming up to the plate a little confusion there where and hul is going to get hit with that pitch so it'll be two on now no outs and I believe it'll be Connor Harris coming up now so Conor Harris at the plate two on no outs swinging a Miss Asen COA still on the hill for Ashlin Medfield he's thrown 67 pitches so you can't imagine the leash is too long that's filed off into the back stop nice breeze here at the Hopkinson High School teer fields and it's going to be a hot one tomorrow folks so make sure uh you stay hydrated this week very humid and a hot week but at night it is going to be uh very nice like tonight so if you get an opportunity to check out some nighttime baseball I highly recommend ended there's a strike and one away Harris goes down by way of the K this is Ben Ellis at the plate Runner advancing to third did they get him yes they did caught stealing is gouie well hopkington needs some runs they're taking some risks and that one doesn't pay off there there's a strike that one going to get away and the runner from first will advance that's John hul advancing to second on the pass ball there's a strike Ellis one for one on the day singled his only plate appearance back in the third as he takes a strike there Full Count now swing and a miss and he got him and that's the third out we will head to the top of the fifth it's an 11 to3 Ashlin Medfield lead on hcam hcam programming is supported by our viewers thank you and by fips Insurance Agency representing companies such as mapfree insurance their family-owned independent agency is deeply rooted in the communities they serve and offer time- tested Insurance products to fit individual needs since 1950 fips Insurance specializes in home auto business condo and renters insurance e e top of the fifth inning John H stays on the hill for Hopkinton as that's filed off that is Cam Bosworth at the plate Ash Medfield batted around last inning and ended up plating five runs it look like Hopkinson had something going they had two on no outs but then uh you had a strike out and and Kyle gouy got caught stealing for the second out and then a strike out by Ben Ellis ended the inning there's a strike out we'll see if hul has calmed down a little bit perhaps after last inning get a little bit of trouble finding the strike zone John roas steps in and a couple errors didn't help either ashon Midfield in fact scored all five runs with two outs last inning there's a strike to roas going to the count oh just missed one and two little outside there two and two you're tuned in Tri Valley summer League Baseball on hcam Tom nappy happy to be on the call Denise on Tak on camon be bringing you some of these games Hopkinton has uh two teams they got the majors division which is the 15 through 17y olds that's what you're watching here tonight and they have the miners which is the 13 and 14y olds we also hope to maybe get a game or two from the miners as well on hcam Roa straws the walk that'll bring up cam corkran it's good certainly good to have uh some Summer League Baseball going on here in hopkington of course we used to bring you some Ashlin Legion Baseball you had a lot of Hopkinson kids go to the Post 77 program and un fortunately that program is no longer with us as it came to a stop a couple years ago it was some great baseball with uh Ashlin Legion swinging a Miss there another strike out two away top of the order now for Medfield Ashland will Dy will step to the plate inside it looks like uh hul has calmed down quite a bit this inning there's a strike I'll tell you you'll see a lot of these Hopkin athletes in a Hiller's uniform over the next couple of years if some of them already are as the runner going to take off throw to Second not a little off the mark there stolen base for Roos and uh got away see threw it into the pitcher fortunately no Advance there by the runner oh did that hit him that's going to get away and roas advances to third on the wild pitch of swing and a miss nice pitch there that'll fill up the count if you could get the out here that would be a huge boost to Hulk's confidence got him get some looking well needed out there that'll wrap up up the top of the fifth no harm done we'll head to the bottom of the fifth it's an 11 to3 Ashlin Medfield lead on hcam [Music] e bottom of the fifth inning a pitch outside it's a ball at the plate this is Tom McCarthy and he gets a piece of this one a little trickler up the left side picked up by the third baseman throw over it's going to get away and McCarthy is going to keep going heading to second base and he will stop there nice piece of hitting by McCarthy could score that as single with an advance on the error and that'll bring up Nathan Bruce the short stop couple strikes there to Bruce to start things off Bruce sends this one in the air right side and it's over the head of the right fielder mcarthy advancing to third he's being waved home throw to Second and now the throw home is it in time new it's a Hopkin run Tom McCarthy slides in safely good piece of hitting by Nathan Bruce score that a RBI single with an advance on the throw actually Bruce ended up at third I mean you could be harsh and score that an error on the right fielder but he didn't touch it so we're going to score it a hit at the pl late canol medy and medy is going to put this one up the middle picked up by the short stop throw a first they will get the out but a run will score so a sacrifice RBI ground out for medy job well done there so another run comes in for Hopkinton and just like that it's an 11 a five game and now Sam cray will step to the plate there's a strike and Craig is going to put this one up the middle in a center field it goes base hit there's a single for for cray and that'll bring up Kyle gouie checking at first runner back safe inside swing in a Miss by gouie one and one the count just misses there two and one swing and a miss runner from first taking off throw to Second they got him third Runner of the third base runner of the day to be caught stealing by Hopkinson so Sam Craig gets caught and you know it's a shame uh you had a little rally go and you had one out you have something going and you get caught stealing again and it kind of just breaks up any momentum that you had that pitch outside Full Count now look out walk is drawn he could have had two on with one out but instead you got one on two outs John HK coming to the plate but first we're going to get a visit from the ashin Medfield coach and we may have a pitching change coming here he will indeed take the ball ASD Co up to 92 pitches so his time has run out and we'll see a new pitcher for Ashland Medfield and we'll let you know who that is when we come back you are tuned in to Tri Valley Summer League Baseball on hcam e e e welcome back ladies and gentlemen just about ready to continue on here in the bottom of the fifth new pitcher for Ashland is Jake leay taking over on the hill Derek Asen COA had a good start he went four and 2/3 of an inning gave up six hits five runs only two of which were earned struck out seven walked four through 92 pitches overall the hopkington starter who you saw come out of the game after the third he had three Innings pitch giving up three hits six runs all of them earned six strikeouts and three walks it was Ben Ellis who got the start for Hopkin in today runner from first is taking off a nice easy steal there for gouie at the plate John hul hoping to do some damage a pitch outside so on the M now it's jab may he started the game at third base so he moves over from third base to take over on the hill for Ashlin Midfield there's a strike and that will wrap up the inning as he Strikes Out hul Hopkinson did PL a couple runs in the inning and as we head to the top of the six it is an 11 to5 Ashton Medfield lead on hcam e all right folks there's a time limit for tonight's game so through five innings it is going to come to an end and 11 to5 will be our final score ashin Medfield starts off the season with a win as hopkington will fall today 115 to a talented ashin Medfield team but it was uh very fun covering this Tri Valley summer league matchup and we certainly look forward to covering more of these games throughout the summer perhaps some little league games we're working on that potentially as well but we want to certainly get you some local Hopkinson baseball all summer long but that is going to wrap up our coverage here tonight Ashlin Medfield Victorious over hopkington in the tri valley league summer league opener for Denise hakei on camera I'm Tom nappy we thank you for watching Hopkinson Sports on hcam take care enjoy the rest of your day and we will talk to you again soon goodbye everybody [Music] [Applause] [Music] e e e

H Cam's Tune Time has an hour of classic cartoons from Betty Boop to Superman to puy to Bugs Bunny and more you'll see your old favorites and discover new ones so tune in to tune time Saturdays at 8 and start your weekend off with a laugh e bottom of the second inning 6-2 ashy Medfield lead as that's fouled off at the plate that is number five for Hopkins in that is Kyle ghouly Kyle gly the second baseman L up and the pitch swinging a Miss Nice breaking pitch there and that'll be one away that's Co has some pretty good stuff good movement on his pitches this is John hul coming to the plate oh look out little inside there H the left fielder for hopkington there's a strike and there's a [Music] strike one and two it's turning into a very nice night here at hopkington high school really cooling down very humid during the day but certainly a nice evening here as this is hit in the air foul out of play and I think uh a lot of local sports fans very happy today after what happened last night Boston Celtics of course winning their 18th championship title and franchise history they now have the most NBA championships out of any franchise including the LA Lakers who only have 17 and that pitch going to grab the outer Corner two away solid pitching by Derek Asen COA at the plate here that's Conor Harris little outside there wind up in the pitch and he gets a piece of this one hit in the air right side and it'll drop for a hit around first he goes heading to Second the throw is going to be in time and they got him so that ends up being a 9 to4 out for out number three Harris was nearly there but a great throw from right field and we will head to the top of the third with Ashlin Medfield leading 6-2 on hcam H cam program programming is supported by our viewers thank you and by fips Insurance Agency representing companies such as mapfree insurance their family-owned independent agency is deeply rooted in the communities they serve and offer time- tested Insurance products to fit individual needs since 1950 fips Insurance specializes in home auto business condo and renters insurance e welcome back we are just about ready for the top of the third a 6-2 Ashlin Medfield [Music] lead Ben Ellis out on the hill for another inning of work do up is the 4 five and six hitters Isaiah Campbell Jake lay and Griffin Ford yeah you've had some good action in this game some good hits and some interesting base running situations and some good defensive plays as well both of these teams just starting their season today and it's going to be a pretty busy five or six weeks for these teams that pitch outside one and0 to Campbell Isaiah Campbell had an RBI single in the first inning and ended up scoring the fourth run of the five run inning as that is fouled away Ellis set to deal nice pitch grabs the inner Corner leg lift and the pitch just outside one and one look out little Shin music there two and one well you wonder uh with the leash will be with Ellis he is already thrown 45 pitches and there's a walk Jake L will step to the plate so runner on first no outs for Ashley Medfield he's taking off no throw stolen base for Campbell hit high in the air left side Short Stop ranging back but will be called off off by the left fielder who will make the catch Griffin Ford makes the play for the out Campbell stays at second one away correction that was John H making the catch Griffin Ford coming up to the plate Midfield Ashley and the left fielder swinging a miss just outside runner from second taking off for third they got him Campbell caught stealing that was a good throw by the catcher we it's Conor Harris behind the plate oh and won the count swing and a miss here's the one two got him nice strike out there and that'll be the third out of the top of the third you had Jake lame fly out Campbell get caught stealing Griffin Ford strikes out we are heading to the bottom of the third with Ashlin Medfield leading Hopkinton 6-2 here on Hamp [Music] e welcome back we are ready for the bottom of the third a 6-2 Ashlin Midfield lead we'll see if the Hopkinson bats can make some noise here it's Conor Harris at the plate he walked back in the first inning and he gets a piece of this one ripped up the left side and it's bobbled by the third baseman throw to first it's going to get away safely aboard with the hit is Conor Harris oh wait correction that was number 34 it looks like that was Ben [Music] Ellis so Ben Ellis reaches with the single now you have Connor Harris at the plate inside there two and0 count he's going to get a piece of this one picked up by the second baseman flips it to the short stop for one that's all they'll get so Harris reaches on the fielders Choice that's filed away there's a strike and this is a dribbler up the middle picked up by the shortstop throws the first got the out my and this is hit in the air and that's going to drop in front of everybody and a run is going to score and now the runner from first advances to Second and how about that Canal medy aboard at second gets the RBI it looks like there's been some quite a few changes in the uh hopkington lineup so I apologize folks trying to keep up with them they may have had some late arrivals show up as this is a dribbler up the middle throw to first they'll get the out runner from third is going to score but it will not matter as that was the third out so a 6 to-3 out to end the inning but Hopkinton does plate a run it's 6 to3 as we head to the top of the fourth on hcam e e e welcome back we're in the top of the fourth six to3 Ashlin Medfield lead at the plate you have Adam Riley second baseman now pitching for hopkington that's John H so he moves over from Left Field takes over on the mound the starting pitcher Ben Ellis is now the short stop as we'll have a strike out to start off the fourth inning that'll bring up cam Bosworth bit of a sidearm motion there by hul on the mound now the short St as we have a strike out to start off the fourth inning working from the stretch there's a strike BS bossworth so far is 0 for one and uh almost like a bunt type of hit there as it rolls up the middle picked up by hul throw over the first no problem one to three for out number two that'll bring up John roas the right fielder that pitch up high one and0 swing and a miss almost like a type of hit there as there's another strike it'll make the count one and two look out high and inside that one just outside Full Count now and the walk is drawn so roas will jog down a first base and then we'll have camp worken to the plate there's a strike just outside there one and one quer and struck out his last time at the plate back in the second inning swing and a miss John H has some good stuff on the L I went a little high two and two inside there full count another walk here it's going to be two on for Ashlin Medfield with two outs now we'll have the top of the order will daily stepping to the plate you're tuned in to Tri Valley Summer League baseball 15 to 17y Old division Midfield and Ashland versus hopkington as it's going to get away from the catcher wild pitch both base runners will advance roas up to Third and corkran up to second two and0 the count that'll grab the outer corner for a strike little high there three and one now the count so how in danger of walking the bases loaded here Andy will three straight walks and that'll bring up Joey Secor the catcher we're going to get a discussion on the mound as the assistant coach Neil medy coming out for a chat we'll see what the leashes with John hul he's already up to 25 pitches i' like to think at least see him get through this inning little outside there base is loaded for Ashlin Medfield they have a chance to break this game open two and0 count now there's a strike two and one second tour has walked and tripled in the second ining also scored two runs fouls that one away two and two oh that's behind the hitter Full Count oh just missed and a run will score with the walk roas around to score corkran up to third Dy to second second to First Derek as Asen COA to the plate as and COA puts this up the middle and that'll trickle in one run is in score here comes another they throw to third is going to get away and the bases are going to be cleared by Asen COA as three runs will score so score that a three RBI single and a advanced on the error corran's in DA's in second T is in and it's a 10 to3 Ashlin Medfield lead Isaiah Campbell set to step to the plate inside [Music] pitch outside two and0 well first game of the season this is where you work out the Kinks not everybody available for Hopkinson today they got a lot of the younger guys going and they're missing several guys on off their roster today only nine available and they actually have someone for ashid Medfield playing right field they a big thank you to uh cim Bosworth playing some right field for Hopkinson today there's a strike oh that's stuck in the top of the back stop I can't say I've seen that that is unbelievable that is the first time I think I've seen a ball get stuck in there nice job by Denise showing where the ball went that pitch outside Tom nappy happy to be with you on the call Denise on Tak on camera very nice Tuesday night the opening night for senior Ruth baseball in the tri valley League it's Tri Valley summer base ball actually senior Ruth is the league uh that's slightly above the tri valley League senior Ruth is uh 15 through 17 year olds as well but it's a more competitive league this is the tri valley league as that pitch is going to get away it was a walk so Campbell will head down to first base bases are reloaded that was La may actually who walked Griffin Ford set to step to the plate Ashlin Medfield is batted around they've done all that that with uh two outs there's a strike inside one and one swing in a miss one and two count now little low there the two two outside gets away from the catcher here comes another run uh having a some control issues out there but hey this is the type of League where you just get experience you work out those Kinks this is why uh you have the Tri Valley Baseball League get that experience over the summer and these players will certainly get better and better as the season goes on there's another walk so Ashlin Medfield has batted around and cam Bosworth uh heading back to the bench because he's going to have to bat again soon and a new right fielder will come into the game for hopkington Courtesy of ashin Medfield Adam Riley set a step to the plate Dereck Asen COA taking over in right field and Pitch outside for Adam Riley is 0 for two today did reach on an error in the first and scored a run as have two RBI eyes who his credit chance to add some more runs here there's strike three and finally the inning will come to an end but it is an 11 to3 Ashland Medfield lead as we head to the bottom of the fourth on hcam ham Sports is supported by our viewers and by the dentist at Hopkinton the dentist at Hopkinton provides services including Comprehensive Dental Care same day crowns facial Aesthetics perodontal care cosmetic dentistry and Implant Dentistry the dentist at Hopkinton is located at 77 Main Street and online at hop.com e e e bottom of the fourth inning and 11 to3 Ashlin Medfield lead and looks like uh we have another late arrival at the plate number 12 let's see if uh we were given the name for number 12 doesn't look like we were they just handed out the jerseys tonight so uh no one really knew what number they would end up with until tonight so we're doing our best here folks number 12 at the plate now for Hopkinson is it I thought I saw I was going by the game changer here oh it was five all right so the game changer was wrong that was Kyle ghouly at the plate so Kyle ghouly is at first base on the walk and this should be John Hulk coming up to the plate a little confusion there where and hul is going to get hit with that pitch so it'll be two on now no outs and I believe it'll be Connor Harris coming up now so Conor Harris at the plate two on no outs swinging a Miss Asen COA still on the hill for Ashlin Medfield he's thrown 67 pitches so you can't imagine the leash is too long that's filed off into the back stop nice breeze here at the Hopkinson High School teer fields and it's going to be a hot one tomorrow folks so make sure uh you stay hydrated this week very humid and a hot week but at night it is going to be uh very nice like tonight so if you get an opportunity to check out some nighttime baseball I highly recommend ended there's a strike and one away Harris goes down by way of the K this is Ben Ellis at the plate Runner advancing to third did they get him yes they did caught stealing is gouie well hopkington needs some runs they're taking some risks and that one doesn't pay off there there's a strike that one going to get away and the runner from first will advance that's John hul advancing to second on the pass ball there's a strike Ellis one for one on the day singled his only plate appearance back in the third as he takes a strike there Full Count now swing and a miss and he got him and that's the third out we will head to the top of the fifth it's an 11 to3 Ashlin Medfield lead on hcam hcam programming is supported by our viewers thank you and by fips Insurance Agency representing companies such as mapfree insurance their family-owned independent agency is deeply rooted in the communities they serve and offer time- tested Insurance products to fit individual needs since 1950 fips Insurance specializes in home auto business condo and renters insurance e e top of the fifth inning John H stays on the hill for Hopkinton as that's filed off that is Cam Bosworth at the plate Ash Medfield batted around last inning and ended up plating five runs it look like Hopkinson had something going they had two on no outs but then uh you had a strike out and and Kyle gouy got caught stealing for the second out and then a strike out by Ben Ellis ended the inning there's a strike out we'll see if hul has calmed down a little bit perhaps after last inning get a little bit of trouble finding the strike zone John roas steps in and a couple errors didn't help either ashon Midfield in fact scored all five runs with two outs last inning there's a strike to roas going the count oh just missed one and two little outside there two and two you're tuned in Tri Valley summer League Baseball on hcam Tom nappy happy to be on the call Denise on Tak on camon be bringing you some of these games Hopkinton has uh two teams they got the majors division which is the 15 through 17y olds that's what you're watching here tonight and they have the miners which is the 13 and 14y olds we also hope to maybe get a game or two from the miners as well on hcam Roa straws the walk that'll bring up cam corkran it's good certainly good to have uh some Summer League Baseball going on here in hopkington of course we used to bring you some Ashlin Legion Baseball you had a lot of Hopkinson kids go to the Post 77 program and un fortunately that program is no longer with us as it came to a stop a couple years ago it was some great baseball with uh Ashlin Legion swinging a Miss there another strike out two away top of the order now for Medfield Ashland will Dy will step to the plate inside it looks like uh hul has calmed down quite a bit this inning there's a strike I'll tell you you'll see a lot of these Hopkin athletes in a Hiller's uniform over the next couple of years if some of them already are as the runner going to take off throw to Second not a little off the mark there stolen base for Roos and uh got away see threw it into the pitcher fortunately no Advance there by the runner oh did that hit him that's going to get away and roas advances to third on the wild pitch of swing and a miss nice pitch there that'll fill up the count if you could get the out here that would be a huge boost to Hulk's confidence got him gets some looking well needed out there that'll wrap up up the top of the fifth no harm done we'll head to the bottom of the fifth it's an 11 to3 Ashlin Medfield lead on hcam [Music] e bottom of the fifth inning a pitch outside it's a ball at the plate this is Tom McCarthy and he gets a piece of this one a little trickler up the left side picked up by the third baseman throw over it's going to get away and McCarthy is going to keep going heading to second base and he will stop there nice piece of hitting by McCarthy could score that as single with an advance on the error and that'll bring up Nathan Bruce the short stop couple strikes there to Bruce to start things off Bruce sends this one in the air right side and it's over the head of the right fielder mcarthy advancing to third he's being waved home throw to Second and now the throw home is it in time new it's a Hopkin run Tom McCarthy slides in safely good piece of hitting by Nathan Bruce score that a RBI single with an advance on the throw actually Bruce ended up at third I mean you could be harsh and score that an error on the right fielder but he didn't touch it so we're going to score it a hit at the pl late canol medy and medy is going to put this one up the middle picked up by the short stop throw a first they will get the out but a run will score so a sacrifice RBI ground out for medy job well done there so another run comes in for Hopkinton and just like that it's an 11 a five game and now Sam cray will step to the plate there's a strike and Craig is going to put this one up the middle in a center field it goes base hit there's a single for for cray and that'll bring up Kyle gouie checking at first runner back safe inside swing in a Miss by gouie one and one the count just misses there two and one swing and a miss runner from first taking off throw to Second they got him third Runner of the third base runner of the day to be caught stealing by Hopkinson so Sam Craig gets caught and you know it's a shame uh you had a little rally go and you had one out you have something going and you get caught stealing again and it kind of just breaks up any momentum that you had that pitch outside Full Count now look out walk is drawn he could have had two on with one out but instead you got one on two outs John HK coming to the plate but first we're going to get a visit from the ashin Medfield coach and we may have a pitching change coming here he will indeed take the ball ASD Co up to 92 pitches so his time has run out and we'll see a new pitcher for Ashland Medfield and we'll let you know who that is when we come back you are tuned in to Tri Valley Summer League Baseball on hcam e e e welcome back ladies and gentlemen just about ready to continue on here in the bottom of the fifth new pitcher for Ashland is Jake leay taking over on the hill Derek Asen COA had a good start he went four and 2/3 of an inning gave up six hits five runs only two of which were earned struck out seven walked four through 92 pitches overall the hopkington starter who you saw come out of the game after the third he had three Innings pitch giving up three hits six runs all of them earned six strikeouts and three walks it was Ben Ellis who got the start for Hopkin in today runner from first is taking off a nice easy steal there for gouie at the plate John hul hoping to do some damage a pitch outside so on the M now it's jab may he started the game at third base so he moves over from third base to take over on the hill for Ashlin Midfield there's a strike and that will wrap up the inning as he Strikes Out hul Hopkinson did PL a couple runs in the inning and as we head to the top of the six it is an 11 to5 Ashton Medfield lead on hcam e all right folks there's a time limit for tonight's game so through five innings it is going to come to an end and 11 to5 will be our final score ashon Medfield starts off the season with a win as hopkington will fall today 115 to a talented ashin Medfield team but it was uh very fun covering this Tri Valley summer league matchup and we certainly look forward to covering more of these games throughout the summer perhaps some little league games we're working on that potentially as well but we want to certainly get you some local Hopkinson baseball all summer long but that is going to wrap up our coverage here tonight Ashlin Medfield Victorious over hopkington in the tri valley league summer league opener for Denise hakei on camera I'm Tom nappy we thank you for watching Hopkinson Sports on hcam take care enjoy the rest of your day and we will talk to you again soon goodbye everybody [Music] [Applause] [Music] e

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relatively quiet talk can be disruptive to the program thank you for your support and cooperation as we share in this remarkable day please stand as it is my honor to introduce to you the Marine Corp J Roc of Clifton High School that will be presenting the colors this evening so when they she'll be up next when they finish you're going to say as soon as they stop it's mhm okay for please remain standing for the national anthem performed by the musim concert band and signed by Mr ler sign language two seniors followed by the Pledge of Allegiance [Music] la [Music] [Applause] I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all please be seated The Honorable mayor Grabowski and city council Board of Education president Mr Paris and members of the Board of Education superintendent of schools Dr Rober toy assistant superintendent of schools Mr Jenaro superintendent of curriculum and instruction Miss Kus levich assistant superintendent of business Mr shahada principal Mr Honda administrators faculty parents and friends on behalf of the class of 2024 I welcome you to our commencement program my name is Elias ragdale this year's student council president and I am proud to welcome you to the class of 2024's high school graduation please join please join me and welcoming our principal Mr [Applause] HDA good afternoon parents staff members of the Board of Education members of the city council and most importantly the class of 2024 your finally here after 4 years of tests you're finally here and I don't mean tests in the traditional meaning I mean that you were tested in life for the past 4 years you all started your high school career virtually behind the computer screen then you were thrust back into school while wearing masks and learning behind dividers so many of you had to quarantine and M time in school after far too many years of social distancing here we are finally together you persevered because of the pandemic so many people counted you out I read so many articles about learning loss and the effects of the pandemic on your social emotional learning the so-called experts said that the effects of the pandemic would impact you in a greatly negative way and I always felt like the people that wrote those articles never spent a single day with you guys you are some of the most impressive young men and women I've ever had the privilege of working with your intelligence humor and character embody the spirit of Clifton High School your resilience and ability to adapt were never mentioned in those articles about your G generation those articles focused on what could be lost but you all focused on what you had to gain no matter what you're going to pursue in life please remember those attributes that made you successful here at Clifton High School I heard a quote recently that resonated with me to be successful at anything you don't have to be special you just have to be what most people are not consistent determined and willing to work for it you've all shown consistency in your work determination to succeed and a willingness to do what it takes I ask one thing of you as you go forward keep yourself open to possibility and opport do not turn down chances because they scare you but say yes because of how they might pay off take risks you've taken risks time and time again over the past four years and it paid off here tonight allow me to leave you with a few quick reminders never forget where you came from you're always going to have a home here in Clifton you will always have a family at Clifton High School and you will always be a must St congratulations class of 2024 please welcome our Senior Choir as they sing good riddm time of your life under the direction of Mr wise manle [Applause] anybody extras extras extras extras anybody else extras I only have a couple extras really p [Music] one [Music] person everybody the in the RO you by [Music] the make best why it's not a question a l Le it's something unpredictable but in the end is right I hope you have the time of [Music] your so take a pH in your mind on [Music] [Applause] [Music] it was it's something unpredictable but in the end is right I hope you have the time [Music] o so make the best of this and don't ask it's not a question but a less Lear time it's something unpredictable but in the end is I hope you have the time your it's something unpredictable but in the end is right I hope you [Music] have thank you Mr wise man to inquire now please welcome The Honorable mayor [Applause] galski thank you superintendent Rober toosi assistant superintendent Jen garer faculty staff of our schools member of the Board of Education parents grandparents family members and most especially the Clifton High School class of 2024 first let me Begin by introducing the members of the city council we have councilwoman Mary sag Jula Rosemary Pino councilman Billy Gibson Joseph Cog Antonio Lona and Chris tomato also in attendance is our city manager Mr Dominic volano first let me say it's an honor and a privilege for me to come to this field and give the official greetings of the city of Clifton and to celebrate with generations of Clifton High School graduates I would like to thank our Clifton families for giving me this honor we are a HomeTown great family traditions High School graduations are one of the traditional events that have made us a very special place generation after generation of Clifton families come here year after year celebrate another step in their graduates life my message to the class of 2024 is that happiness should be your primary goal in life remember that expensive cars houses will make us happy but our families and our friends joining together and laughter is true happiness this makes us a very wealthy human being so always embrace your parents your grandparents your siblings your extended families and mostly your closest friends they are your treasure in life they will always be there for you in good times and bad so remember we live in the greatest country in the world where opportunities are boundless so go out in the world help people and always always be kind always be a person that builds up and never tears down may God bless all of you congratulations class of 2024 thank [Applause] you thank you mayor Grabowski I am now honored to introduce the president of the Board of Education Mr Alan Paris ladies and gentlemen fellow Commissioners mayor and city council School administration faculty parents families friends and most importantly the Clifton High School class of 2024 as the president of the Clifton Board of educ ation and a proud alness of the class of 1977 it is an honor and privilege to speak with you to today 47 years ago I sat on this field where you are now filled with anticipation and hope of what may lie ahead today you the class of 20124 stand on the brink of your own future a limitless future only bounded by your imagination Clifton High School is more than just a place of learning it's a second home a place where friendships are forged dreams are nurtured and memories are made it's where we discover our passions explore our interests and find our voices and though you may walk different paths after today we will all forever be re Bound by the experiences we share here as Mustangs use your knowledge skills and passion as a tithe that lifts you and even more importantly others your hometown is a very special place a true microcosm of America's past present and future Clifton New Jersey is home of one of the most culturally diverse communities in in our great nation this diversity is our strength it enriches our lives and broadens our perspectives your varied backgrounds cultures and experiences have equipped you to be the Chang makers and unifiers of tomorrow today we celebrate you and the culmination of years of your hard work and dedication in the face of challenges remember the strength you've gained here in Clifton you not only survived but thrived through a pandemic this nation hasn't seen in over 100 years in the midst of adversity and in a world that often seems uncertain your education your community and your spirit will guide you Eleanor Roosevelt once said the future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams believe in your dreams class of 2024 they will illuminate the path to your future as you Embark the next chapter in your life story carry with you the values and lessons you've learned here be proud of and never forget your Clifton Roots be open to new experiences and be Fearless in the pursuit of your passion the world is waiting for you and I have no doubt that you will leave an indelible mark on it congratulations class of 2024 it is now my pleasure to introduce to you my dear friend our salutatorian Lilian Usha [Applause] good afternoon family friends faculty and most importantly the class of 2024 today marks a significant milestone in our lives one that we've eagerly awaited and tiously work towards as I stand before you today I'm filled with gratitude for the unwavering support of my family friends and teachers whose encouragement has been my guidance light through the highs and lows of high school I want to especially thank my mother for her Relentless support as well as J Witter and Stephanie Fano for being by my side for the last 11 years without you this journey would have been impossible as a Palestinian American student while I am so grateful to be standing in front of you today it is impossible not to acknowledge the students from around the world who do not have the same good fortune we have many students were not able to stand in front of their friends and family and be rewarded the same celebration I would like to honor them and say that my heart goes out to them and to their families throughout my years I CHS I've witnessed firsthand the profound impact that our generation can have I've seen the seeds of change take root within our hearts and I'm filled with hope for the F future that we Collective ly shape as we step into the next chapter of Our Lives Let Us carry with us not the lessons of empathy compassion and solidarity let us strive not for only for personal success but also for the betterment of our communities and the world together we possess the power to enact meaningful change to uplift those who are moralized and to pave the way for a brighter more inclusive future no matter the next steps you are going to take whether it be College trade school or straight into the workforce I genuinely believe we will all go on to make great change and have a positive impact on those we can't out town so class of 2024 let us embark on this journey with courage determination and an unwavering commitment to Justice and equality our potential knows no bounds and with our hearts United there's no obstacle too great to overcome congratulations and may our futures be as bright as the promise we hold within us and as always it's a great day to be a Mustang thank you thank you for all your hard work and dedication to and now I am honored to introduce this year's senior class president miam jabro [Applause] Sal I'm running out of words to say in different languages but hello welcome everybody how we feeling that's what I like to hear today I'm blessed and honored to be here with you guys and instead of a traditional speech I decided to put you on something that I gained from high school and it was a couple of lessons so you ready for this slam poetry yeah yeah okay I'm a little [Music] nervous thank [Applause] you peep gang stay ready so you a't have to get ready everybody wants to be at the finish line with confetti but you need self disipline to keep your foundation steady to quote the wisdom of my big bro B how you do anything is how you do everything so yeah aim to be financially stable but also tip your waiter and clean your table seek selfhelp but also get off the game and carry the groceries inside chase your dreams but also parking between lines yo parking between the lines like but y'all not hearing me though peep gang shut up not everything needs your opinion you got two ears and one mouth for a reason be able to humble yourself enough to listen stop putting your words in places they don't belong educ educate yourself you never want to be loud and wrong and don't ever let your tongue commit treason against another I know people are grimy how to learn to put a lot of pain behind me but dirt don't clean dirt and revenge just leave you hurt but y'all not hearing what I'm saying peep gang y'all hear me I don't know hold on peep game peep game don't let anger be a punishment you give yourself for the other way people move let your pain be something you go through to grow through anybody would have been folded if they walked in your socks let alone your shoes so break the cycle and use your rage for revolution anger is Justified when your mind and heart are occupied by political pollution don't let power teach you Division and lead you to confusion there's more than just personal problems individualism is a delusion so yeah hustle for your mother but also for your brothers overseas stuck under the rubble so so yeah stay righteously upset so yeah stay righteously upset stay righteously upset and protest the politically correct and you realize that ins solidarity is the solution but yall not hearing what I'm saying peep gang can no flower bloom without the sky rain it took somebody something some situation to put you in that capping gown today shout out to my single Mama om me heaven lies under your [Applause] freak I love you mama oh me heaven lies under your feet and I love you to pieces after all the weathers we stormed to my soul sister who see me at my weakest then continue to breathe light back into me I love you Jenna to my peers I go away back for years amena Joel mun Omar Shanti theor Ela Chico y'all forever in my heart and you better act like you know and to my gods Miss just miss Paul Mr Tim with a t Mr Rogers Mr Henry Miss Milam and Mr oy token no I promise to learn and pass the lessons you taught me in your honor cuz one hand can't Clap by the self and those are the Jew my Egyptian grandmother um stay dropping on me and you y'all not hearing what I'm saying peep gang every one of us ain't choose the easy path these past 4 years many of us juggle School workor extracurricular grief and a life itself had is fear in a fail but you must fail in order to Prevail struggle looks different on everybody and what bends you may not break me and what break me may not Bend you but in Brokenness is where God begins to rebuild and when I look at y'all today I could truly say damn I feel fulfilled for those of you growing up with single moms who the da I'm proud of you for all the kids who had sleep for dinner and still woke up and decided to be the bread winners I'm proud of you for all of you that fled home to start a new life on foreign land my heart's in my hand too you I'm proud of you for all I you that had to bury someone that you love just know that they smiling from above they and I are proud of you for all of you that still feel lost so do I sometimes we're all living life for the first time so whatever you drawn to just try and I'm still proud of you and I'll say this even louder too just like struggle success looks different on everybody and there's no rebuttal congratulations y'all we made it now don't fumble y'all hearing me now thank [Applause] you thank you Miriam for a wonderful four years and now it is my pleasure to introduce to you the valedictorian of the class of 2024 Miss Ashi good evening everyone and congratul ladies and students to the class of 2024 before I begin I would like to thank my parents my younger brother Arian my best friend Priscilla my group group Chad that I believe is now named the grassy goers uh Con Academy the teachers and faculty of our school spark notes and last but not least Google translate just kidding about that last part I'm sure you've all been waiting for today for a good 12 years or at least I did when I found out about Park test testing our class has gone through many difficult times together such as making it through the pandemic the wild fire smoke and hard L of all physics shout out to Mr dickerman and Miss Taylor through freshman year we adapted to exercising on camera during Jin class in sophomore year we faced the challenge of communicating with with one another with Des Shields and mask in junior year we started our dreaded college applications and took the daunting SATs notably on paper and finally in senior year year we all obtained the most communicable disease of all time senioritis and made it out our life we spent hundreds of hours memorizing formulas for math and science and we've shed our Blood Sweat and Tears over creating perfect essays for English or for some of us dbqs for AP History I'll never be able to look at a picture without thinking about the foreground midr background hands and color again though we've all faced many challenges throughout our high school career we should cherish the moments we spend with one another I don't think I'll ever forget the great gasby party in Miss Hamilton's class the carnival fair in Mr Goodman's class playing Uno with Dr McCoy or the times when Mr O'Reilly accidentally kicked his cabinet I certainly won't forget Mr ketki trying on reindeer antlers before Christmas break we should also always remember the little moments in our time at C chess like peering out the window while watching the first snowfall of the Season sketching during autumn in studio art or seeing the family of duck South while walking through the Halls whatever it is for you all individually remember those moments as they have shaped us all into who we are today while I may not be offer while I may not be able to offer lifechanging advice I will say that we should all keep hope for through the future and look towards the life except if it is during the solar eclipse remember the sky is not the limit but dressing up as good as Miss SM is we couldn't predict our future when we were in freshman year and we can really predict it now but even so we can have faith in ourselves and try our best to succeeded in whatever way we can Albert hubard once said don't take life too seriously no one makes it out alive thank you class of 2024 and have an amazing [Applause] future thank you Ashi for all your diligence and inspiration now please join me in welcoming the assistant superintendent of curriculum and instruction Miss Kus levich [Applause] good evening board president Paris doc vice president Dany Board of Education honorable mayor Grabowski members of the city council esteemed faculty parents friends and most importantly the members of the graduating class of 2024 as assistant superintendent of curriculum for the Clifton Public Schools it is my honor to accept this class of 2024 today you celebrate an event that you will remember for the rest of your lives we all share a deep sense of gratitude for being here with you together today your graduating class has overcome many obstacles having entered high school during a pandemic you not only persevered but thrived you created a new reality excelling and redefining what high school means through remarkable technological advances remember before that pandemic we didn't have onetoone Chromebooks you have thrived in this changing World adversity does build character and this class has faced some of the most significant character building CH challenges of all time you have handled your high school years with strength determination and compassion for one another and for that you should be incredibly proud I wholeheartedly believe that the experiences you have shared the well-rounded socially conscious individuals that you have become will leave a lasting and positive impact in the many areas of society where you will influence and build the future remember your successes cherish your family and friends and stay true to your ideals keep moving forward as you prepare to go your separate ways always remember what you have accomplished here together as one Clifton now I hereby certify this graduating class and attest that these students have met the requirements of the Clifton Board of Education and the New Jersey Department of Education and are therefore able to receive their diplomas congratulations Mustangs [Applause] [Music] in just a moment the class of 20124 will be receiving their High School diplomas each graduate has worked diligently over the past several years to prepare for this evening our family and friends are here to share in this ceremony a pleasant atmosphere is essential before we start we'd like to request your cooperation as the names are called because the class of 2024 is so large the names will be read in Rapid order we are asking that you hold your applause until each and every student has received his or her diploma the families and friends of the graduates deserve the right to hear the names of the graduates as they are called without any interference again even relative relatively quiet chatter can be a disruptive element to this elegant ceremony your cooperation is deeply appreciated by the class of 2024 thank you [Music] [Applause] you you want the part here or something [Applause] [Music] [Applause] right back [Music] [Applause] [Music] first hand [Music] pull the wire out [Music] you know how [Music] that validor ashir saluted Oran and SCA secretary Lilian Usha senior class president Mariam jaell SCA president Elias Ragsdale senior class vice president Mia Gallow SCA vice president Maria Jose Martinez senior class treasur Monir Yim SCA treasur Dylan Cabrera senior class secretary Karen mcale SCA communications director Mia Rodriguez senior class communication director pram 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good [Music] evening welcome to Fisher promotion ceremony I'm deeply grateful that all of you are here tonight to celebrate about 250 students from fiser Middle School's class of 2024 you and high schol school's graduating class of [Applause] 2028 tonight's program will be divided into two parts first we're going to honor the remarkable accomplishments and contributions of our students following that we will promote those who have met the academic and attendance requirements for advancement to the ninth grade though this evening is just a small step in their Journey it is a significant occasion that we will all remember and cherish so to ensure that the ceremony proceeds smoothly I ask that you turn your cell phones on silent and hold your applause until all names are called I do ask that you respectfully hold your applause and any cheering because what happens is that the next name that's read nobody can hear it and we want all our kids to experience their moment so that would be greatly appreciated at this time we ask that you stand for the national anthem [Music] the [Music] [Applause] special thanks to Mr Filipino Heather Davidson Sandra Harrington Lily jol Amaya kho Olivia love Taj mcra em Emily Nelson Janine pasal and Richie bz for their beautiful rendition of the [Music] anthem before we proceed I'd like to acknowledge some special guests board vice president Mike Miller and board members Mr Daniel angrand Mrs Sandra Harrington Mr Anthony massina Mrs Jennifer Miller and Mrs Harris additionally I'd like to recognize Mrs Caitlyn Caper and Mr Donald Cox Jr who be presenting the Y Ying kuis Don Cox senior leadership award thank you at this juncture I would also like to to acknowledge the president the presence of superintendent Dr David Gentile who will now graciously address the audience for a few [Applause] moments good evening everyone oh come on good evening everybody all right you have to forgive me this makes uh the fourth commencement or step up ceremony in a couple days I've had the pleasure of being at Elementary uh step up for fifth grade I'm sure our eighth graders remember that moment well um and I'm happy to be here uh with you guys tonight to celebrate this momentous occasion where eighth grade become high schoolers so let's give the high schoolers soon to be a round of applause to the eighth graders I want you to take a moment look around and think about all of the family members uh your parents your relatives that are all in your camp they're all supporting you helping you get to this moment and give them the round of applause they deserve please your family members will be there with you when you uh succeed they will be there when you stumble and they are going to play a very important role in your lives now as you get older your friends become more important than your parents' opinion I know that firsthand with having two high school students of my own at home let me just caution you make sure that you choose your friends wisely and in this I ask that you stress quality over quantity find people that are going to help you get to where you want to be okay think about [Music] that all right and I know we want to get here to the students and celebrate them I won't take up too much of your time but I do ask the eth graders As you move into high school you're starting to get grown you're getting to the point where you really start thinking about your future and what comes next because I will tell you that the next four years come so quickly when I talk to graduating high school seniors the number one thing they tell me is I cannot believe how fast it went and I wish I would have done X or Y all right so think carefully about the things that you're doing and spending time on because those things will become your future people tell you all the time you can become anything you want that's not quite accurate you can become anything you work for okay okay so set some goals and then work for them sacrifice work hard if you don't like the outcome so far and you don't like where you are today and you wish that you had uh done better or you had done something differently it's not too late to change but don't keep pushing that change down the road don't keep waiting to do it do it today decide today that you're going to be the best version of yourself and then make some goals close group of friends that are going to help you get there and go for it so I wish you the best of luck it is my honor to be here as part of your celebration and and cheer you on we wish you the best as you move into the high school we'll be watching and I can't wait to see you in 4 years parents thank you again very much for all of your support family members uh keep cheering them on be patient because they're going to keep stumbling they're going to make mistakes and if they're not making mistakes push them harder because that means they're not working hard enough okay all right growth comes from mistakes so keep pushing them so yeah give that a round of applause I got want to make sure I tell later for all the Applause rounds of Applause and stuff we get but um lastly I want to thank the staff members that are played a role in helping these eighth graders get here because it isn't just the middle school it's all of the elementary school staff members teachers staff at the middle school it's help get them here as well so give them a quick Round of Applause I promise that's it I'm going to step aside turn it over to your principal best of luck wish you only only the best in the future thank you thank you Dr Gentile now I'd like to introduce the Fisher Middle School leadership team assistant principal Mr DWI assistant principal Mr sheetlock dean of students Mrs renco and PBI specialist m Freeman I also have to recognize the Fisher parent Association and co-presidents Mrs Greener Mrs French for their tireless fundraising efforts this year without them we would not had to inre Dan trip or any my heart felt appreciation extend to all the teachers and support staff who have volunteered their time here tonight especially Mrs Marina Mrs Hawkins were out front and have been diligently working behind the scenes for several weeks to organize this ceremony and additionally special thanks to all the custodial staff for their hard work in setting up tonight finally I welcome all of you parents Guardian family members who are here tonight to celebrate our students as they take this important step towards high school and now we are going to start celebrating fiser Middle School class of 2024 with our awards first Mr [Applause] CH thank you Dr Hannah and good evening to [Music] everyone each month our 8th grade are nominated and voted upon by their team teachers to receive that month student of the month award they receive an engraved plaque their photo is posted in the main lobby and their favorite the invitation to the end of the year ice cream party the following winners please stand at your seat and we will save the round of applause until the last name is R students please stand Amanda Alisa Josiah Andino Kimberly Barrera Lopez kamay Bernett Naisha dvo Melanie Flores SoDo Tyler French Michael Gamboa bini Noah goosi Chiron Harvin jail Huck Sophia civo Alexander Kramer Tiana Lewis rilen Lewis uty Marissa lugos Taj MCC Aaron Medina Danielle Norma dorales Nora Emily Nelson Kira newberger lancen newn Sierra Owens Kendrick AA Mena Maya pgam Sophia Robinson wilfrey Rodriguez Santos Alanis Rosario Negron Casper zutek Justice Thorne nice round of applause for [Applause] the spirit of leadership award this award was created to recognize students who show emerging leadership skills they take initiative ownership and have the potential to inspire others three recipients of this award tonight and students when you hear your name please come forward for your award first winner of the spirit of leadership award Sophia Cano the next winner of the spirit of leadership award Kira newberger [Applause] the third winner of the spirit of leadership award Josiah Andino another round of applause for the [Applause] [Music] three at this time it is my honor to introduce Miss Caitlyn paper and Mr Don Cox Jr please come to the podium for the Don Cox senior leadership [Applause] award good evening the U Kanas Club is pleased to present the Don Cox senior leadership award to two students who have contributed outstanding service to fiser middle school and the UN Community this leadership this leadership award has been given annually since 1957 this year the award was renamed in honor of the late Don Cox senior we have the honor of having his son Don Cox junor here to help present the awards Don Cox uh senior sorry grew up in ying and attended Ying schools he devoted his life to numerous nonprofit and Community organizations in Mercer County also fun fact he organized the Key Club at Ying high school so eth graders please check that out next year uh the two students who are receiving this award tonight were selected by the fiser Middle School awards committee and will be given a letter and a monetary award the U Kanas members would like to wish all the eighth grade students continued success in high school and Beyond this year's recipients are colani Gary and Jackson Harvey [Applause] thank you I have the honor awarding the next three Awards the first one is the fiser Middle School outstanding Citizenship Award this award is designed to acknowledge students who are goal oriented enthusiastic respectful of school policies additionally they maintain a friendly and respectful rapport with their peers and faculty and they serve as positive role models within our school furthermore they exhibit pride in being an eagil by positively contributing to the Fisher community the first recipient is Taj [Music] [Applause] MCC the second recipient for the official fiser Middle School outstanding Citizenship Award is Julia Zusi the next award is the fiser Middle School human relations award this award was created to encourage and recognize student behaviors that promote good human relations here at fiser middle school and within the unan community students who are honored with the human relations award exemplify Fisher's commitment to diversity and positive interpersonal actions with others regardless of religion ethnic or socioeconomic background or ability this year's recipients were selected based upon their outstanding character sense of others and selfless Behavior the first recipient is Maya Pegram the second recipient is Michael Gamboa [Applause] or the next award is the Fisher Middle School Integrity award this award is designed to recognize students who are honest sincere responsible dedicated determined and caring the student aims to do the right thing knowing that nobody's going to know whether or not they did it the first recipient is n bu malab the second recipient is Naisha [Applause] Doral good evening I said good evening even so I have the honor of acknowledging the PBIS award now this award recognizes a student who has diligently adhered to our sore core values at Fisher Middle School this student excels in leadership serving as a peer mediator effectively assisting classmates in resolving conflicts encouraging Positive Choices and she created an overall safe environment now this student is also being recognized for using self-regulatory skills to their emotions while setting an example for others please note we're not highlighting Perfection but this students commitment to becoming a better human being and it truly was a privilege watching them evolve as a sixth grader until now an eighth grader and that person is none other than Faith Settles the Fisher Middle School Eagle Award this prestigious Eagle Award is designated for an exemplary students who personify sword safety ownership achievement and respect these students are exceptional role models for their peers they are highly motivated and committed to their academic behavioral social extracurricular and personal goals these students possess exceptional judgment and Leadership skills they work diligently and have made a significant impact on the FMS Community our first recipient of the Eagle Award is Xander [Applause] [Music] our second recipient of the Eagle Award is samama white [Applause] girl [Applause] our next award is the principal's academic Excellence award the following students have earned all A's in every class throughout their 8th grade [Applause] year I'm happy to announce that I have 16 names to [Applause] Aluna day [Applause] atoya Xander C NAA Dickerson Naisha Daval Tyler French Michael Gamboa or maai Hill jabil Huck Angel [Applause] Johnson Sophia kibo Marissa lugas railen Lewis U Casper [Applause] J Naomi [Applause] Wilson Julia Zusi and Jason's [Applause] Doom another round of applause for the we now move on to the principal's academic Perfection award Perfection is defined as all A's in the eighth grade year in every class all A's in the seventh grade year in every class and you guessed it all A's in every class for their sixth grade year [Applause] I have five names that we would like to [Applause] weliz our first recipient is Heather [Music] Davidson lanen n Sophia [Applause] ordini Sierra [Applause] Owens and Lyla Bean [Applause] another round of applause for [Music] that thank you before we move on to actual reading of names in our promotion ceremony I do have some words to and about our eighth graders so ladies gentlemen proud parents and Guardians teachers guests and most importantly our eighth grade students it's an honor to stand before you today as we celebrate the significant milestone in your educational Journey over the past few years you've witnessed tremendous growth and development among you Middle School is a time of profound transform transformation where young minds are nurtured and challenged where friendships are forged and where the seeds of lifelong learn learning are planted yet faced academic challenges with determination embracing experiences with enthusiasm and navigated the complexities of adolescence with resilience today we acknowledge not just your achievements but the remarkable individuals that you become through dedication hard work and most of all a supportive Community as you stand on the brink of high school let us reflect on the culmination of your middle school experience this moment signifies more than the completion of the e8th grade it's a testament to perseverance and growth each of you has contributed uniquely to our school's culture you leave behind a legacy of kindness creativity and spirit as you embark on the next chapter remember the lessons learned here the importance of curiosity the power of collaboration and the value of empathy carry these with you knowing you're well prepared to face future challenges and seize new opportunities as you prepare to leave middle school and embark on the exciting journey of high school I want to remind you of the mtter that has guided you throughout these years sore safety ownership achievement and respect safety it's the foundation of everything we do in Fisher halls and classes we work together to create a safe and supportive environment where everyone feels Val valued and protected as you move forward remember that your safety both physical and emotional is Paramount look out for one another make wise choices and always strive to create spaces where everyone feels secure and included ownership these past three years you've learned the importance of taking responsibility for your actions your learning and your future ownership means understanding that your choices matter and that you have the power to shape your destiny as you step into high school take charge of your education your goals and your dreams be proactive stay accountable and most of all own your journey achievement we've witnessed your incredible achievements both big and small these last three years from acing a tough test to mastering a new skill skill each accomplishment has been stepping stone on your path to success remember achievement is not just about grades or Awards it's about setting goals working hard and pushing beyond your limits continue to strive for excellence celebrate your successes and learn from your challenges finally respect at the heart of store respect for yourselves for others and for the world around you respect means appreciating diversity valuing different perspectives and treating everyone with kindness and dignity as you enter this new chapter let respect be your guiding principle build positive relationships stand for what is right and always act with Integrity as you leave fiser and soar into High School carry these principles with you they're not just words but a way of life safety ownership achievement and respect will help you navigate opportunities and challenges ahead to our parents and families we thank you for your unwavering support and encouragement these last three years to our dedicated teachers and staff thank you for your commit to nurturing and inspiring our students and to our remarkable eighth graders congratulations we are very proud of your accomplishments and are excited to see all the incredible things you will do in the future and my parting words to you are as they were to the class before you remember that we will always be interested in you and your destiny wherever you go whatever you do whatever you become your Joys and Sorrows we will be happy to share now we can begin the promotion ceremony I just remind you I know that we applauded for all the awards but if we can hold the Applause until the very end and everyone's name is read and recognize that would be greatly appreciated thank you before we begin the presenting the certificates you will notice that some students names are preceded by the statement president's award now these students have met specific criteria and have earned this Accolade of high achievement now when I say president award I'm speaking the president of the United States and there is a letter from the White House that I am going to present to you now Jill and I are happy to join your family friends and teachers and congratulating you for earning the 2024 pres showed curiosity persistence and determination to succeed I hope you are proud of all you've achieved I often say that we are at an inflection point in history a moment where we will answer the questions that Define our nation's future who are we what do we stand for what do we believe and who will we be and I have never been more optimistic about our future because your generation the most tentant tolerant and generous generation in American history will help us answer those questions I look forward to seeing the great things you will accomplish in the years ahead whatever path you choose I hope you will keep working hard keep believing in yourself and keep remembering that there is nothing you cannot do please accept my best wishes for your future filled with happiness and success signed President Joseph [Applause] Biden enia abas president's award president's award Ty Adams oloya happy aay president's award Amanda Alisia jayen Alisia Camila alberado morel president's award Omar amarti president's award Josiah andena Jamon arwine jaah Arrington president's award Christopher Bailey Landon Baker president's award Kimberly Barrera Lopez Faith Bell London Bennett president's award Christopher bleedy Marcus bua chaj n Baha president award Christopher Bowers Elias bman priston Brad Elijah Brown Mel Brown Jerome Burgess president's award kamay brunette Maximus Bush Isabella Butler Christian Casey president's award Isabella Chason Daniela Chang Lara camon Clemen Demetrius Cole Isaiah Coleman Cameron KY president's award Xander Cen president's award Madison [Applause] kuer Kenny Cruz urales Caitlyn DVA president award Heather Davidson president award Nicholas dide Emily De Jesus Silva Zoe Desa mikai Dickerson president award NAA Dickerson Diana [Music] do s door president's award Naisha dval edrick Duma Cole [Music] dun Chase dski president award DNE Edmund marietti Ariana Evans Ren f fuson president's award Kaden figuroa president's award Paul F tyani Fitzpatrick meani Flores sto Amir Forest president's award Tyler French president's award Michael Gamboa ordini colani Gary president's award Noah garski Tamar goldart J Gonzalez Christina Gonzalez Athena green Jayla green Yaki Jesse Adam president award McKenzie [Applause] hail president's award Jackson Harvey presidency award Shon R Harbin Trinity Henry Jasmine hernandz gregario Angel Hernandez Rano marari Herrera Sandra Harrington blurk Jana High Smith maai Hill Thomas hoofer Nicholas Herer anus Horton jabel Huck president award Daman Jackson president's award Allan jackz Maria Maya G Pierre Christopher [Applause] Jenkins Gabriel [Music] JZ Jaden [Music] Judy president award Lily jof Aaron Johnson president's award Angel Johnson [Applause] Zoe Johnson Briana jolima Dominique [Applause] Jones Dev Jones president award Nathaniel [Music] Jones president's award KY Joseph Hernandez chrisel Juliet president's award James camer president's award Sophia Cibo Amaya [Applause] kho Kayla Kerr Jackson Clank Ethan Knight Christina CRA Christian Crow my apologies Alexander krer president's award Emanuel kering Chelsea Lam David law [Music] kamora [Music] [Applause] La Tiana Lewis president award railen Lewis utzi yir Lopez [Music] Rodriguez president's award Olivia love president's award Amina low president's award Marissa [Music] lugos Asher Mason Briana Mason sh mat annay ma Lisa mlan Taj [Applause] MCC Michael [Applause] McCrae Deon [Applause] McKenzie Devon McKenzie president award Joseph mcneel Sky mcneel president award Aaron Medina president award Adriana Medina castain Ayanna me Jana Melo Torres Faith [Music] Mendes fando Mendoza AG fando Joshua men [Applause] GOI Molina aana [Music] Montgomery Bradley [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] Montgomery president award Rachel Mor Alexander MOA Ros Jordan [Music] Monroe Danielle narma dures Nora Enrique Naro Dr Nelson Emily [Music] Nelson president's award Kieran newberger Lanson win president award Faith Oliver president award Sophia ordini Amaria Orosco Jana annah overon president's award Sierra Owens president's award Kendrick auu Mena Esther Palestina Leno [Music] Parham jensy Patel Janine [Applause] pasal president's award Lyla pan president award Maya pgum yise Perez Carion reminy [Applause] Perry Marissa [Music] Peterson rir [Applause] Peterson Natalie Pierre [Music] Moreno president's award Lis p Michael panel Sebastian Pinkney [Music] sod Davidson pompy Christopher Porter president award Micah perro Anthony Ral Elijah Raywood Christopher Reeds Amir [Applause] Renee Kenneth [Applause] rice Ariel Richardson Jazelle Rios Liliana r president's award Henry Rivera escar president War Sophia Robinson Robson [Applause] smithi [Music] Ros Alex Rodriguez jayen Rodriguez blurry Rodriguez Nelis Rodriguez president award wilfrey Rodriguez president award Joella Rogers Alanis Rosario necron Chase Rosenberg president award Casper Tech bararia [Applause] Saunders lilan skoie fith settles sha [Applause] shelman Amani Sila Chloe Smith president's award Jim Smith president award Chloe Smith president's award R [Applause] Smith president's award Debbie [Applause] [Music] sya Tavia step [Music] Devin Stevens Celeste [Applause] Sam Jeremiah tar president War Den tat okay okay president Justice Nan tiar leis Torres Joz Jordan Tucker president [Applause] l b time Jo [Music] Vargas Alexander Vasquez kendle Vasquez Enriquez Richard B Carana bente Bia Wallace Tristan [Applause] Watkins chance [Applause] we Alicia Weir Soma White [Applause] [Music] [Applause] Alo [Music] [Applause] Whitlock Amari [Applause] Williams Josiah [Music] [Applause] Williams Jaden Williamson Christian Wilson [Applause] president's award Naomi president award Micah [Applause] wridge Angel [Applause] young our Cur president award Julia zeleski [Applause] president award Jason Christopher [Applause] zigga parents friends and guests is now my honor to promote all of these students as un High School freshman and graduating class w [Applause] this now concludes our promotion ceremony teachers please escort your students out of the gym parents if you can wait until the students [Applause] are it's not I you want to come I'm going to go [Music]