Peer counseling is hosting their annual St. Bodrick's events on Thursday, April 2nd from 5 to 7:00 p.m. in the cafeteria. Um, this is essentially event raised to um help uh donate money for childhood cancer research. Um they're currently accepting donations in posters located all around the school and online. Um and we're also looking for shaveies in the community. Uh whether it's students, uh family members, parents, anyone, anyone can shave their head or cut 10 inches off their hair. um and that'll go towards um the research. And so I definitely encourage students and everyone in this community to come and show out. Um Leo Cup is still running their fundraiser collecting and donating shoes. Um this weekend they're having their drive-thru event um which will be from 10 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. on Saturday. And then students have had the opportunity the past two weeks to sign up for three different career dy sessions that will be hosted next week during school.
Thanks, Rich. Um, Ken, do you have them or would you like me to pull them up? Sure. You go. Mark, Mike, start with the the narrative as you and I have talked about and the correction to the narrative so that we can get that out of the way to to begin with. Okay, I will pull them up now. Mr. Jelly, I just want to let you know that Julie's on the call with us now. Okay. Okay, great. Hi, Julie. How are you? Hi. My apologies for being late. No problem. Glad you could make it. Thank you. Hey, is the summary uh visible for everybody? Yes. Yeah. Yeah. So, I I um we try our best to get these out the Friday before this meeting happens. So, I hope everyone had a a chance to um briefly take a look at this. But this month we're presenting the financials uh through the end of February uh of last month.
Mhm. You Yeah. So for me, cricket is very closely related to my family. Um, my dad loves the game and he passed it down to me and my brother and he's obviously taught me so much. And I don't know, with him, I kind of feel like he's been trying to teach me that he's teaching me lessons that aren't just related to cricket. He's teaching me a lot about life also. Um, how if you want to become great at something, you're going to have to put in a lot of work to get better. But I can't give him all the credit. Um, my mom and my brother, they also sacrifice so much for me and um, be I don't know how it feels for them to watch me on crick clubs and watching my score tick up or tick down. Eventually I get out, but I know they're always refreshing a crick club crick clubs and they're my biggest fans.
So, uh, um, actually, that's a good opportunity to introduce some of our select board members that I see here in attendance who played a big role here. I see Claudia, you're hiding in the back, and got Claudia Bennett, Yolanda Greens, our chair, Brady Kinsman, our vice chair. Um, I don't see Joe or Makita here, but they were certainly involved. But, um, thank you for everything that you do in town, um, including support, uh, businesses like this. So, uh, without further ado, Beth, you want me to turn it over to you or do you want me to turn it over to Susan? No. Representative I stand a few steps behind me. All right. Well, I will give the middle of them and I will now introduce Representative Jack Lewis. I was hoping for more time to dry off, but thank you so much. Well, I can talk, so um, while I lettered in marching band, it may be a surprise to you I'm not an athlete.
So I'll look forward to telling you guys more in depth about the ones that I chose and how they went. So thank you. That's great. Thanks so much. Any questions for Melissa? Okay. Thanks a bunch. Um now we're going to move to our student spotlight which looks very uh exciting. Um this is uh our musicians from Kendallwood Lake Elementary School. Um and we we are really eager to hear what you have to share with us. Dr. Young, if Dr. Pepsoski could come up and do a brief introduction. Now we're on. Okay. I am so thrilled to introduce Wes Marchana. He is our band director at Candle Lakeake Elementary School. He has brought an exceptional group of musicians. Winter concert. I thought I was at a high school concert. They were so amazing. No pressure. Uh but I'd like to just turn it over to you, Wes, for a few words.
Um for for this month uh ending February expenditures fell just where kind of where they have we were at 15.7. Um there were only two payrolls uh as there usually is. um in in this month um particularly toward um toward the end we've been working on identifying individuals that are being um charged incorrectly still. Um it was mentioned once before, but as we started to go through the the budget for this year and see who was charged where by location, we noticed that um many people are charged either in the incorrect job codes or the incorrect locations. and in some cases uh the the incorrect funds. So we've began to identify one by one each of the individuals that are not classified correctly and going through the process of um of actually getting them corrected in the system um both retroactively and prospectively. So that is it's a very large lift to go through all 2,000 employees and all the the various salary lines, but um it's something that uh that really needs to be done.
But also like Arav said, um, players for me it's been Sugman Gil for a long time. Um, AR of knows. I talk a lot about him. Uh, I just feel like I love the way he looks when he bats and he just has so much confidence and obviously he's the number one batsman in the world right now, but I'm not a bandwagon. I've liked him for a long time. Yeah. Um but yeah, another thing for me is I love um obviously it's very not rare but it's you have to work a lot for this to come but I love playing for like the kind of like the dream of scoring 100 or winning something big and so speaking of that India just won the champions trophy. So what did you guys think about this performance from them? Uh I thought it was great. I mean all our players played well accordingly.
Uh, and that was that was a lot. Uh, I'd never played pickle ball before. And when it was described to me, it was described as tennis, but less difficult on the joints, I think, was the person. They were lying. I have no idea what they were talking about because I feel gross. Um, but alive. I feel alive. I should come back and do it. Um, there's also Signature Cocktails, which may be the real reason uh I I come back, to be honest. Um, I am so excited to bring a citation. I know Susan has one from the Senate President as well uh celebrating this grand opening uh here signed by myself, the Ashen State Rep and the Speaker of the House. Uh I hear about pickle ball from constituents all the time. Typically, it's good things like we need more pickle ball courts. I was sharing I think with Beth beforehand, there's a park in Framingham where the people play it too loudly and the neighbors complain and so I'm going to send them here.
And spotlight CL. Thank you, our board, for having us, administrators and community members. March marks music in our schools month across states. And that's not very musical, is it? To mark this occasion, our students have prepared a selection from the Olympic suite to honor the Olympic Games we just had this past summer. And we might have an Olympian present with us here in Dr. Man. So, I hope you recognize the tune. Here is the Olympic fanfare by the CL advanced rest position. 50% ready position. playing position. One, two, one, two, red. Play. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] [Applause] Each of these students you just heard belongs to an auditioned ensemble. So each student up here had to earn their right and earned a spot in in our playing with this ensemble. One more round of applause for the fantastic [Applause] No fan is complete without some awesome trumpet players.
Um and I just did want to say although some of the the folks are not um in the correct locations or the correct job code in a in total um in the grand total in the grand sum uh the numbers are correct. It's just the the allocation that we're we're working with. Um Rich, I I shared with you when when you came in a little bit about what that process looks like. Um there are several people involved, but just for the benefit of uh everyone on the call, um the way it works is after we identify um an individual that's charged incorrectly, um we work with the cabinet to find out where they should be charged, um Angela Walsh, who is uh who is here on this call, will then reclassify the previous salary expense uh and the incumbrance of their salary going forward to the correct location.
We had multiple performances in each uh levels like we had Kohley hitting 100, Roach Charman in the finals hitting 70, we had Sherman Gil performing. Um we had a bunch of bowlers playing. So yeah, what about you guys? All right, I just have I have one question for you. So I know you open. I'm sorry to interrupt, but so as an opener in watching Rohit Sharma bat, do you like what do you personally think is more important from a team perspective? Do you think it's important for somebody like Rohit Sharma? Like as I said, he played so well in the finals. Do you think it's more important for him to give India like a good start up top scoring like 40 or 50 off 20 and 30 balls or do you think it's important to have an opener like Shubman who will take the innings deep?
um the complaining neighbors to the bar, but the pickle ball players uh to to play. Uh but no, really excited and happy to have been able to to give it a try myself. Uh I'll I'll just read a part of uh the citation. Be it hereby known to you all, the Massachusetts House of Representatives offers its sincerest congratulations to Clock Tower Pickle Ball. In recognition of your grand opening, the entire membership extends its very best wishes and expresses the hope for future good fortune and continued success in all endeavors. Signs this March 19th, 2025. Congratulations. So, I'm happy to be representing Senate President Keran Goa, Ashland native. Um, I just saw her when I was leaving the state house. She was going into some sort of glum meeting and she looked especially jealous that I was going to be here cuz she knew I'd be in a place that was celebratory and so supportive.
My trumpet players, please stand up. AJ Sarasini, Lucas, Gabriel, Russell Sykes, and [Applause] Amy. We thank you for having us on Music in Our School's month, and we hope to see some of you at our concert on April 30th just down the hallway in the VHS auditorium. Thank you very much. Thank you. music instruments offers and thank you parents and families for uh giving us this treat and making time in your evening for this. Thank you so much. All right. Um I think we can resume. Uh it is time now for public comment. And first we have Mrs. Rice. Um the folks who are signed up to um to speak tonight are are uh veteran public comment people. So, I don't need the whole um statement probably, but I I did want to just um alert the public and um everyone who's here that uh we're no longer asking you to um indicate your street uh number, but just that you are a Brookfield resident along with your name, please, when you start.
um that puts uh a journal entry in Q for me in the system to review. Uh I then review and approve it and then it goes to our payroll department to rerun um behind the scenes the scripts to actually put them in the right place. Um so it takes um a few quite a few minutes um to run each person. Um and each of the each of the folks that we're looking at h have several salary lines. It's not just their base salary line, but that includes any supplementals that are charged as well. So, we're going through um daily and and identifying those and making the moves. Okay. So, in essence, you're cleaning up a lot of issues that would make the report a little bit more meaningful. Yes. So, absolutely. Um it will make I I will say that as we move people um and we do uh have finally when we do have a set of financials that are um correct and accurate it will be difficult to compare um cost center to cost center just because of prior years people were in the incorrect spot but um over the course of time that will go away.
I think both players are really important for for this because Rohit Sharma his like there's roles in a team and every player for a team to win every player needs to make or accomplish their roles and whatever they've been given. So I guess Ro Sharma's role in the team this champions trophy was going out there scoring the big runs in the power play which is the first part of the innings where the field restrictions are on. Exactly. And um I think uh Shman Gil is just there in case of a topple of wickets or something happening he's there to kind of secure. He's like the solid rock where everyone rotates around him. That's his role. And I think without him, Roy Sharma would not be able to do what he was doing as well. So I think they both play a really big part in in their in India winning and of course then there's the rest of the batting lineup Kohi Shrea Sire.
So, she did have this citation made up, asked me to read it to you from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts State Senate official citation. Be it known that the Massachusetts Senate hereby extends its congratulations to Clock Tower pickle ball in recognition of the joyous occasion of your ribbon cutting and it's filed and signed by multiple people including Senator. Thank you. Two more. Adam from the Ashlin Businesses president of the Ashlin Business Association. Steve, congratulations. Uh, Adam Saxs, uh, Ashen Business Association. Um, congratulations to you, your partners, uh, Mike, Tim, Eric, Phil, um, and Eric. Um, if I said Eric twice, I apologize. You should say it twice. He's on top. He's the best. Um, you know, I've been a tennis player for since I was like 5 years old. I love tennis and I've been sort of uh holding back and um you know I'm excited uh that uh today was the first day I actually played pickle ball.
Thanks very much. Uh yeah, you're here to speak about the 1312 is what the Okay, thanks. Are we good? Okay. Denise Rice, Brookfield resident. I see that the 1312 is on the agenda. Last board meeting, when a 14-year-old student got up to speak about her experience, the conversation was shut down by a board member whispering something to another and acting. She stated, "It's not for the board to discuss." It is. The student and her parents went up the chain of command, which proved pointless and frustrating. Nothing was done right, and a 14-year-old was allowed to be told by her bully she was proud of what she had done to her. No Brookfield employee in that meeting stepped in. The student ended up more victimized by the bully and left feeling the adults and now board hates her. This is the wrong message. You didn't even you didn't really even need to look at it as an issue with one particular student.
All right. The other thing that we had talked about just want to call the attention on your second bullet point where it says year to date I think maybe third the fifth line down you make a comment that you're looking for the balance of year end to be a break even which would not necessarily as I understand it and we talked about be the chase because of the amount of open positions currently available to to supply and to demand. So, um I just want to Yeah. Yeah. That that is uh that is a typographical graphical error, Rich. You picked up on it. Um my apologies. I missed that before it went out. Um it there there is looking as of right now to be a favorable variance toward the end of the year. Um that is due two to two things. One is the relocation as I just spoke about of staff um in and out of grants.
Um how did you like the way Kohi played in against Pakistan, India versus Pakistan? I mean it's it's not really a surprise. He's obviously I feel like he's built for all the big games. Of course, unfortunately, we didn't see him um make runs in the final, but even in the T20 World Cup, he was he's been out of he hasn't been at his best for a while, but every big game, India can always count on him. So, it was no surprise for me to see him make runs against Pakistan. Yeah. And Yeah. I mean, he's the ultimate chaser, right? every time uh every game they call him the best finisher because of this. I mean he always brings the game deep. He doesn't push too hard trying to score runs maybe like Ro Sharma but that's not his role. So he takes the game in deeper and deeper scoring runs keep on taking the scorecard until he has that solid base and then he can um finish with like higher number of runs like fours and sixes later on in the innings when it might be necessary.
Uh Kathy raise your hand Kathy. Kathy knows the rules of uh pickle ball. She was my partner and gave me some instructions. Very exciting. I printed out actually on your website all the rules. So u kitchen uh ball has bounced twice back and forth. So that's great. So on behalf of uh the board, I'd like to introduce some of our board members. Sandy Monosino, Dino Weissberg, uh Bill Gaff, Beth Reynolds. Uh National Business Association is really geared to help create uh visibility for our businesses here in town, create a healthy business environment. Ultimately, we also give back to the community in various ways. Certainly giving uh scholarships to Ashlin High School seniors that exemplify community service. Uh we're very excited to have a speed networking event next uh Tuesday at Bagel Table. All are welcome to attend. Um you know ultimately um this is just really exciting to have a great business like this here in town and um we have a little certificate of recognition.