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All right, very important. Now, unfortunately, I'd like to add even more teachers if possible in years to come, but now we're running out of space, right? You all know that. So, it's a it's a space issue. Okay, but this these are the these are the teachers right here. Um, we're excited. I just put on an addendum tonight. Um, we finally have a chemistry teacher joining us, okay? As soon as possible. Uh, we met with her. I just met with her the other day. Um, we need to hire another chemistry teacher as well. Okay. So, we have all this here. Elementary teacher and English teacher, language arts, all these things you see here. Um, kindergarten teacher, uh, preschool, LDTC, social workers, behaviorists, all these things are in this budget. Um, and there's going to be a lot of work this summer hiring some incredible candidates. We already have, uh, we've already gone out to different colleges, uh, different fairs.
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So, we have not had a K-9 unit at the Huntington Police Department for almost a decade and a half. So, we are super excited that our staffing levels have gotten to this point and our fundraising levels have gotten to the point where we're able to resurrect this program and share with you guys some very exciting news this evening. Our focus when uh we went to resurrect this program was really focused on the patrol dog side of things for the community and the department because again that's what we have lacked for the last decade and a half and so that's where our our thought process uh began as you guys know through a collaborative effort with Mr. Trout, his administration, you guys as board members, over the last 15 months, local law enforcement, specifically the Huntington City Police Department, the Huntington County Sheriff's Department, we've been able to uh increase our school resource officer program by adding three additional officers.
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The shaft of the arrow is long, straight, and true. A reminder to the scout to always be straight with, and tune to themselves, and that this is sometimes a difficult and long journey. At the tip of the arrow is a sharp point reminding the scout they must always remain sharp, alert, and aware. Each arrow has the same parts, but each arrow is different. It is individual. Each arrow represents the scout's own trail through the Cub Scouting. The arrow of light is important. It is the only Cub Scout badge that can be worn on the scout uniform for the rest of your life. But more important than the badge itself is what you have learned, the work you have done to help others, and the fun you have had earning it. We will now hand arrow of light badge to each of the adult family members and ask them to turn to present it to you.
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There's one in, uh, Bergen County coming up in Mawa. Uh, so all these things we're looking to recruit excellent teachers like so that we complement what we have already. So these are our goals. Sorry, it's a little fuzzy. Um, expand the mission. That's, you know, our our core requirements, right? Our mission here. um advance themies and programs that we've talked about. We're adding public safety, CTE, continue the junior ROC program that we put in this year and a leadership academy as well. Our personnel needs enrollment trends. We talked about obviously initiatives uh with the infrastructure, all our facilities, things that everybody's been talking about every month, right? Every month we got more money from the SDA, thank God, um to help us out with that. uh we want toi continue the uh programmatic uh things that the the the teachers and administrators are doing already.
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Right now, we now have one officer in each of our middle schools. We have an additional officer here at the high school to help Ben Whitman in our middle schools. both of those officers, one with the sheriff's department, one with the city police department, they're both certified DARE instructors. So, not only have we resurrected that DARE program in the elementary level, but we're now teaching the DARE program in the middle schools, which was also a dream of mine. Sheriff Newton, Chief Deputy Hamill, were super excited about the expansion of that program. This opportunity that we're presenting before you tonight was only going to add to that momentum that we've already started through those those other opportunities. Two years ago, Sheriff Newton and I, we had a uh a conversation and it was a discussion and it through that conversation, we both expressed a desire to not only add additional SRO's in our schools, but also to add canines in our schools.
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So scouts, if you have your arrow of light in your bag, please hand it to your parent. With that, our duty is done. May the arrow of light shine forth from you and may you set a worthy example for others to follow. Congratulations to these scouts. May you see many exciting adventures on the journey that lies ahead of you. Please join me in congratulating these scouts and their families with a huge round of applause. [Applause] the exciting time of the crossover. Arrow of light scouts joining Ashlin Troop 232. Please stay seated until your name is called. The bridge before you is a symbol of your crossing from Cub Scouts to all that lies before you. And you have all prepared yourselves well for this crossing over. I now the scouts and the leaders of Ashlin Scout troop 232 to come forward. Hello scouts of troop 232.
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All right. So we want to maintain that in this budget. Uh we have to increase or enhance the academic programs through RTI or or multi-tered systems. This is what was big for COVID for the learning loss or you know I think learning loss happens every year in the summer but uh for some of those kids if you have a COVID kid a kid who was you know in high school or middle school transition during co you know exactly what I'm talking about right their social skills are a little different um they're more into online stuff we need to still work with them through these RTI and FTSS measures uh security measures all right there's something from the governor that was put in with some of this aid that was tapped through all these schools people don't know this but every school has to have a security guard.
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To be honest with you, it kind of felt like a pipe dream because I thought this will never happen, right? My priority's got to be the the patrol dog. So, can we make this happen? two years later, I can assure you that we uh the reason I brought this team with me tonight, including Chief Deputy Hamill and uh Sheriff Newton sends his regrets, much like Mr. Allen, he's having to attend the county council meeting this evening. So, that's why Mr. uh Sheriff Newton is not here, but I can assure you that I have their support. And uh I'm going to turn the mic over just briefly to Chief Deputy Hamill for a few words about that. Very briefly. Uh so, I'm Chad Hamill. Uh we this first of all, like uh the chief said, the sheriff apologizes. He had a council meeting this evening. He does send his hells though, his greetings.
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Hello scouts of pack 3001. What do you desire? We have 20 of the scouts in our pack who have prepared themselves for entrance into your troop. Each has contributed much to their dead and pack and we shall miss them. We welcome you scouts to join our troop and learn our ways. Scouts, you are now leaving us to enter ash and scout troop 232. There you continue to grow in scouting skills and friendships. Dent leaders, please bring your Arrowite scouts, their family or family members forward to the edge of the bridge that joins our pack and troop at one one at a time. I will send my scouts over to escort each scout and their adult family member over the bridge. You will be given the neca chief of our troop troop 232. It shows the world that you are one of us. Now wear it with pride as many have done before you.
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Garfield's way ahead of the game on that. We already have that here. Um, but we're going to continue to enhance that. And then STEM, steam, and now stream as well. Stream is robotics, right? The art is robotics. It's an important piece of everything that we do now, uh, moving forward. So, special education goals, instructional supports, program expansion, you know, big thing there is tuitions, right? We have to maintain the tuitions. If something's in IEP, we have to cover it. uh if someone moves to town with an IEP, we have to cover it for a certain amount of time until maybe we don't agree with it. But all these things are happening. Um as more kids uh need these these uh these expanded programs, they they're costly. Okay. Um next, our technology goals. We have a 5-year agreement coming in to fix that entire infrastructure program that we've been talking about.
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Uh what I wanted to to basically tell you all is this program that the chief is talking about, this has been my vision for over six years since I've held this position that I'm in. But, uh, I won't stand here and see how many excuses I can make, but with the jail build and, uh, uh, adding employees to the jail to to facilitate that footprint along with, uh, again, as the chief said, with our two school resource officers that we finally are able to implement into the school system, that was another one of our dreams for so many years. U, I just want you to know how firmly embedded we are with our partnership with the HPD and this idea. Um, because we are such good partners, I want you to know that uh, initially when the chief brought this up to us, I said, "Are you kidding me?" But I said it inside my head because I'm not really competitive with these guys.
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When your name is read, please pause at the beginning of a bridge. Wait to be met by a new fellow Troop 232 scout. Then be escorted with your adult family member across the bridge to troop 232 scouting. Sam Colette [Applause] Jace [Applause] Cutler, Elias Doyong. [Applause] Jacob Feder [Applause] Eo, Jacob Felenbomb. [Applause] Jack Francis cannot be with us tonight. Evan Ganesakara [Applause] Verat Coparapu. [Applause] William Costic Leapor. [Applause] Right. Anchar Kashir Sigar. [Applause] Brian Lavador. [Applause] Tommy McKay, [Applause] Christopher Mahoney. [Applause] Cameron McHugh. [Applause] Patrick Morren [Applause] Shrian Manti [Applause] Noah Romano Arman Shini Vasan [Applause] Um, Andrew Suarez [Applause] Anand Vignash. Thank you. [Applause] As scout master of scout troop 232, I welcome you and your family members. There are many traditions in national scouting that will interest you. I am only a guide for these scouts. These scouts are the ones who will help experience the world of scouting.
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Uh I know that past boards have tried to do this. Uh it just wasn't there. It wasn't the money wasn't there. We have a leasing idea to do this. I've been successful with it before. Uh we want to implement state-of-the-art hardware. Uh again, we've had our kids come up here talking about it, right? We put a temporary band-aid on it for Active Directory. Uh and Minds Eye was the was the company that came in early, did that for us on an emergency funding basis just to get some of our kids to log on because some of the switches and permissions and stuff are off. Now, we need to do a whole revamp. It's a big number, but we're able because of cooperative bids, we're able to do it over a five-year program, uh a five-year pay schedule. This is the the fir well, actually, this would be technically the second payment, believe it or not.
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U, I will say that, uh, I hope to have further conversations with adding to this program. Uh, and that's what I personally want to leave you with. Uh, he beat me to it this time, but we'll see. I'm going to get to the blessing that allowed us to beat beat beat beat beat beat beat beat beat beat beat beat beat them to it it so to speak as he says but uh we've just been very very fortunate our community our community partners humongous assets for us and and I'm going to get to that in our presentation here. Um in the summer of 2024 the sheriff and I and along with our administrative teams we actually met with Mr. Brimberry and we discussed these additional SRO's that we've now since added to the corporation. In that discussion, we also spoke about police canines and the opportunity that they uh present to us and and our desire to continue down that path.
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Welcome to our [Music] troop. Before I uh say congratulations, uh wow, 20 new scouts for us. This is fantastic. So, uh just so you guys know, Wednesday night's our first meeting. We're right back here. Moms, dads, come on down. We'll talk all about it. And then our next camping trip is next month. Hopefully, you guys are all going. Please join me in congratulating these scouts on their completion of the Cub Scouts and crossing over and embarking on their new adventure in scouting. [Applause] All right, for everyone in the room who's able, please rise. Scouts, here on the stage and in the audience, scout sign. And together, let's all recite the scout law. A scout is trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courageous, kind, obedient, cheerful, brave, clean, and reverent. Thanks, can you? Um, before we close, uh, we're almost done. Uh before we close, uh since tonight, this very night is the 115th anniversary of scouting, um I wanted to touch on uh some of the people that all of you scouts are connected to through this history and legacy of scouting.
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We're going to we're going to try to get some of that in here. Now, um also, Edge Climber and other things that we're putting in here are very important. I know our teachers are going to love that. It's going to help them um look at the whole child and what your children need. So, for example, Edge Climber, click on something. Oh, Johnny did this wrong. Blah blah blah. This is what he needs. Page five and this. It's it's all there. It's all automated. It's all ready to go. Uh I know we're they're going to love that. Thank you. Facilities goals constantly working on HVAC IPM integrated pest management policies. We were talking about Ahira today, which is your asbestous abatement plan. All these things that happen, all these things have to be maintained. Um obviously there's there's water concerns uh in the in the city uh lead indoor air quality.
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Mr. Brimberry at that time gave us his blessing. I know he conveyed that message to to Mr. Trout because Mr. Trout and I have since had those conversations and I know we have his blessing as well and I just appreciate that. Again, at that time it really truly still felt like a pipe dream but here we are and now it's a reality. So, um, at the start of the school year, school resource officer Daniel Oes came to myself and chief assistant chief McCuten with an idea and, uh, he presented it. He said, "Hey, I know that as a department chief, we're working on, you know, adding a patrol dog K9 to our department. I would really think and and like to see us continue down this path of a police K9 in our schools." And again, you know, I I I had a hard time with that because I don't want to seem like the greedy guy that asked the community for two dogs, right?
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Um so just a few people who are some of the remarkable people who have been scouts over the years. Um astronauts like Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, inventors like Pho T. Farnsworth. And if anyone doesn't know who that is, that's who invented the television. So, a very important person in all of our lives. Um, business leaders like Bill Gates and Sam Walton who founded Walmart. Star athletes like Hank Aaron and Michael Jordan. Civil rights leaders like Martin Luther King Jr. and Percy Sutton. Entertainers like Jimmy Stewart, Harrison Ford, Jack Black, and Chris Pratt. Along with presidents Kennedy, Ford, George HW Bush, Clinton, George W. Bush, Obama, and Biden. All were either Cub Scouts or Boy Scouts. So, these are all some of the famous people out there. I can't wait to see what all of you scouts do in the world. Um, I'm going to lead us in a closing reading and then we will get to some dinner together.
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Uh, I have a habit of making sure we do air quality samples every summer, right? So, we have a base mark every summer. I think people don't understand how air quality works. Sometimes if the inside of your classroom is the same as the outside of your classroom, that doesn't mean that there's an issue. Okay? Sometimes there's pollen inside outside, but I want to make sure we have a baseline. So, we that's something that's going to be new here uh moving forward. And I think that's important to understand because even though it's it's it's not extremely costly, it's important because it doesn't mean that we think there's a problem. It means that we want to benchmark. So if a teacher comes to me or your parent says, "Room 101, my son has a headache now." At least I have a benchmark of where that is, right?
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Um, but in the back of my head, I'm hoping that our fundraising efforts get us there, and they have. What I asked Daniel to do at that time was I asked him to arrange a visit. I asked him to show us this program. We want to see the benefits. He quickly arranged a a field trip, if you will, to Belmont High School. For those of you guys that are familiar with North Adams and Belmont, you know they're a unique situation in that they have K through2 under one roof. Essentially, they've built three individual buildings, but at the same time, they've connected them with long hallways. So, they have K through 12 under one roof. So, their school resource officer and and I don't want to steal Daniel's thunder because he's got a great presentation for you, but they have a uh Labrador Retriever. It's a friendly floppy ear dog.
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