When the secretary calls your name, I ask that you come to the microphone, state your name for the public record and provide your feedback. Please note that comments are limited to three minutes per person and no responses to your questions are permitted. Comments should address the board of education as a whole and not be directed to an indiv individual board member, audience or staff member. The board of education will not address concerns against individual employees. Rather, a complaint against an employee must be in writing and signed by the person who makes it and the board of education. Follow up to your questions or concerns will be addressed by administration through the contact information provided on the comment card. Thank you. Quiz Jackson. All you're missing is a whistle. Thank you for your time. Uh my name is Chris Jackson. Uh, I volunteered this last year as a assistant coach with AB Abby Jamber as a head coach, Chris Valforte as an assistant coach, and Melvin stood starting the girls flag football team at Asiggo High School.
Sure. I've got a question, Mr. Can they get them on school buses? You come up with the right with the right amount of money. I'm sure we can do it on bus time. Perfect. Much appreciated. Um, I had another question though on those other goals that you had about chronic illness and trauma and injury prevention. Um, do you have plans for what to do about those things? Can we go about them or is it coming later? Oh, yeah. Yes, we're working on them. So, okay. Um, those are the other two goals are not as much school based as the tobacco one. Although a piece of it is the uh under the trauma and injury prevention, we're working on um suicide prevention. So that will be a piece that will affect the schools. Um so we've got different things in the works that we're doing for that.
He came in at seventh place for the regular season and tonight is going up against Stalpo, an absolute legend in the IHSN Tetrio League. Very good competitors, crazy matchups we have today. We're going to see some high level stuff straight off the bat. Our first matchup of the afternoon, I think we have Hunter versus Yeetstroke, the revenge match. This is Yeetstroke's third Cyber Tiger of the bracket. Is this not going to be his last or will it be? We will see. So, Yeetstroke, uh, he already took out two of our Cyber Tigers in the tournament. Yes, he took out EMTT and Owen. Oh, man. All right. Well, hopefully he can um avenge them with this game. Yes, it is time for revenge. Hopefully, we hope that our seed one, our golden boy or the golden goose is going to pull through here. We're not going to start immediately.
And you have to ask yourself, why? What are we getting? What do you see? You know, on your drive to the studio today, how many potholes did you hit? How many bridges did you drive over that probably aren't in the best shape that you want? Uh you really have to start questioning like, what are we getting for our taxes here? Well, then they go ahead and they complain about Diana Duglio who wants to audit everything so she can uncover where the waste, the fraud, and the abuse are. And they're fighting tooth and nail to hide the truth. Now, why do you suppose they even though the voters want that? The voters did overwhelmingly they voted for it. What's the deal behind that? It's got to be so bad that they will actually go to court to fight to not to be transparent. That's right. Yeah.
Now, You know, there's been conversation about ultimately that's going to have to be replaced and we've been collecting search charge on tickets for the entirety of the existence of the field. It's not enough to, you know, replace the field. It's enough to put a nice dent into it, but um not replace it. And so, you know, I think the expectation is that if it were going to be funded through the community again, they would be putting up money to support that effort. Again, if this arrangement were to continue, so that's why it wasn't like, you know, wasn't like it was an oversight. It was not a conscientious decision, you know, and our our fields are, you know, are all season usage anyways. They're not rentable often because our sports teams are using them more so. I mean, the gyms are also used quite a bit, but um and we don't have if we wanted if we were charging people, we don't have anything listed in our regulation right now for the rental fees.
Okay, any questions on that? Next item up then is the certified [Music] resation try to mention last name. Mr. President members of the board Bob College Casey has submitted his resignation to the principal of the superintendent of effective April 30th, 2025. There's no board action necessary. This is a study session. We did uh a meet as a staff last Friday and sharing with the teachers Mr. Casey and and what's going on and how he's he's moving on and we wish him the best and he's given a lot of great years of service and so uh um we just wanted to go over that with the teachers Friday. So, uh, that's where we are and and he will be missed, but we know that he is, uh, he's going to be doing fine and we thank him for all of his years of service. He did a great job and and, uh, but, um, everybody was informed and our teachers, speaking for myself, glad to see you go.
Uh the city decided to uh do a feasibility study. Um they brought to the city council. City council did support that. So they uh brought in a company called Theater DNA who you're going to hear from tonight. But I can't tell you how amazing it is to have a city council, our mayor Sarur. Um as I said, Bob, Chris Kendra's here, John Cavalto, um from the nonprofit. Um thank you guys for being here. I can't tell you how um important it is to me to have uh the communication, the collaboration, and the willingness to work together um in order to provide something for this community because it takes all of us to provide an amazing community um and and we cherish that. I cherish that relationship. So, I thank you for that. Um and thank you for coming here to support us tonight. Um with that, a lot of a lot of resources have gone in, a lot of different meetings.
And I'm here to advocate for them because uh they've done such a great job advocating for themselves. We had about 80 girls out this year as a club. Asiggo East had 100 girls. Um, it's uh it's been wonderful. It's pretty amazing. I know it's going to come up for vote and I know that uh there's challenges as always and trying to make things work financially. In my private life as a father of five, I'm a CFO and director of M&A. So, I deal with budget all the time. Raphael, I know there's hard decisions to make all the time. Um I've been coaching for 27 years from three years old up through college. I've actually coached three of Amy's kids. I coached Cali when she was this little. I coach her now when she's this big. I love it. Uh my motto is work hard, do your best, have fun.
Um we are currently passing out um suicide prevention kits at several places that we are attending and doing wellness screenings including Mother's um the Pentecostal food pantry. Um we're going to the apartments, but we're not passing out kids there, the elderly apartments. Um and we're going to IGA once a month as well. So, we're going to different places to do wellness screenings. That's a part of the chronic disease piece. Okay. And but while we're doing that, we're also giving out information on the tobacco and we're giving out the suicide prevention kits. We're going to give those out at the health fair. That's at the 26 and we're also going to give them out at the county fair. And then we are working on getting a podcast going, a Brown County podcast going um maybe once a month to begin with, but we're going to have guest speakers on different topics and suicide will be one of those topics that will be included and we'll have different guest speakers possibly from Centerstone and different places.
We have a little bit of a delay now with this uh little added extra pressure there to try to avenge his teammates. What's uh he going to do a little different here? Are we going to see any uh different strategies, different game plays? Um I'm not sure. He I expect the same strategy that's been working for Hunter. If it's not broke, don't fix it. Yeah, if it's not broke, don't fix it. Maybe he goes a little harder. It is a thing that Hunter does sometimes. He'll take the match like not as seriously. Like he'll go on his phone or start talking to his other Cyber Tigers before a round starts. Maybe since this guy's already taken out two of us, he might take this more seriously. I would hope he's going to be locked in and ready to go with this. Yeah, maybe. Anyway, we got both players in the lobby exchanging their words, and we have our match ready to go.
What are they hiding? How bad is it really? It's like the m It's like the Musk thing, you know, really, honestly, because they don't want the audit and there's a reason they don't want the audit. If they were on the up and up and there was nothing, no hanky panky going on, they'd say, "Yeah, go ahead. Audit me, you know, no problem." It's crazy. They they don't want the audit. And they also want to return these uh these violent criminals that we had deported, saying that they didn't get their due process. It it's just crazy how they're they're u supporting all the things that are destructive rather than constructive. I don't understand that. You know, you people are working so hard either in Massachusetts or on the federal level to not have somebody look at the books. And you know, like you mentioned the audit in Massachusetts, but then we mentioned Doge.
So, we want to at least include that, but I don't we haven't been charging for that usage. Um so with that information said the recommendation is that we update the costs. Uh that includes post modernization. So we don't want it to just last for next year but kind of case us into when we have burn them up and do more in life. And that means that we need to kind of restructure how we're charging spaces and I'll explain that in a minute. Uh and then my recommendation is to match some of our policy with our current practice. So, superintendent just mentioned like those group one and twos, chester junior football, lacrosse, etc. are not getting charged. They're group two even though um we do have a rental listed for group two. Uh but I'm saying we can get rid of some of that grouping where we're actually just not really charging people.
It's always been good and informative when you're here. The best data analysis I've ever seen presented by Next item is the certified reassignment of the dean of students. Mr. President, members of the board, administration posted and interviewed internally for the position of dean of students. Uh the committee is recommending Mr. Roland Ses 2025. Um there's no board action necessary. It's a study session of item. It was an internal posting. We had an interview committee two very um strong applicants in the end. Miss and I just talked about it for a few days and and um Mr. CZ is going to hit the ground running. He's going to be after testing is done April I think 14th. He will be shadowing Mr. Casey for a few weeks just to get up close up front policy and discipline working with parents and he's going to start May 1st.
I will tell you, Theater DNA has been an amazing company. You're going to hear from Alex here in a minute. D is going to introduce him. Uh they've done an amazing job at um just seeing if this will actually work. Is it something that's going to work for the school district, something that's going to work uh for the city? And they've spent a a numerous amount of hours uh digging through interviewing. Uh you'll see in a second some amazing information about uh the Vista and what we can do with it. So um as we go through this uh we kind of want your feedback and your thoughts. Um that was presented to the city as you heard. We had a few board members I I myself was there um this past week or last week on Tuesday um to hear the presentation on the city side and it was a great job.
And uh girls flag football has it's super special. Um it's something where people are learning together. It's inclusive. There's joy. They're learning all those skills that I use every day as a business professional. Teamwork, leadership, communication. Pretty much the opposite of what's going on a lot in club sports now. High costs, exclusivity, not letting people play other sports, and pushing more athletics than just students. We're academically led at as a school sport and we hold those girls accountable. It's great. It's really what we need. You know, some of the stats right now are really terrifying. 40% of teen girl teen girls don't play a sport. Boys have 1.3 million more sports opportunities than girls. And a recent survey showed that of a million teen girls, 43% had considered themselves athletes but stopped playing after elementary school. Girls select football is perfect timing to help solve this problem.
Um on the podcast will also address chronic disease issues, tobacco issues and other things like that. So the chronic disease piece, we are um doing our wellness screenings, but we are also looking at um providing vouchers for uninsured people that have no access to health care. So um with our funds, our idea is to provide each person that we meet screenings that cannot does not have a doctor or insurance to provide them with a three month month voucher to go to the wellness center. Okay. And then after they do that, Brown County for better health care is partnering with us to um think about either getting them a navigator, a health navigator, or extending their um services at the wellness center. And you're talking about our wellness center, right? Yeah. Proactive MD. Yeah. We're doing our contract with Yeah. So, you know what what'll happen is at our screens and this has already happened.
All right, we're on. All right, that's Lazy Soul 7 on the left side of the screen. That is your Cyber Tiger on the left. Root for the left. I've been told to constantly bring up Howie. We got to root for the left. All right. So, well, for those first time viewers or those that who aren't viewing very often, that is helpful to know which side of the screen to be paying attention to. And as a first time watcher here, there is a lot going on. This is a fast-paced game, Jaden. Yeah. So, Tetris, formerly a very slowpaced uh single player game, you turn it into a battle format by So, every time you clear a certain amount of blocks, it sends garbage, which are the gray blocks at the bottom of your uh board to try to force your opponent to top out. You can do this a number of ways.
PE I mean people are turning violent because Elon Musk is exposing fraud. I mean, so the people that are getting mad about it, how rich have the have they've gotten about well being part of this fraud. And it's not just Democrats, it's even the Republicans. You have to ask like where are the Republicans on this? Like being awfully quiet. There needs to be some reform. Yeah. And Elon Mus himself, he said, you know, the people that that are caveting the loudest about this are the ones that are the fraudsters. And Mora Healey puts out a I saw this today puts out a tweet say Trump is taking food from the mouths of our children in the Commonwealth because he cut some program by 3.4 million. I tweeted back Massachusetts spends $170 million a year on school lunches. I don't see starving children. I see obesity rates at 17% of our youth.
So, the recommendation is on page one appendix D. So, that's your page. It's kind of small, so I'm sorry about that. But the biggest changes are one, the hourly rates are listed instead of this 5h hour minimum. So you can just see the hourly rates and moving from a 5h hour minimum to a three-hour minimum, which allows people to utilize the space, but doesn't mean that they have to do like an all day rental and you can just see the hourly breakdown. The other big change is switching. Um, group two had rental fees listed and I'm saying don't charge those group twos which again cher junior football lacrosse the sports that are offering direct services to our students. And the other thing you'll notice is how the the rooms are grouped. So it's K8 schools, the high school gymnasiums and then the exterior. I mentioned we don't have exterior rates listed right now and moving towards a gymnasium model because Barnham online and New Norton online.
So, uh, we want to have him preparing. He'll he'll finish out the year May up there in the DM students office and we'll find a strong placement to cover his class the rest of the year. Next question. You have questions or comments for me. Next, we have this classified read assignment ESS office manager. Mr. President, members of the board, uh we posted internally to the position of uh we want to focus on on on that ESS acronym now educational support services versus special education ad that's what they call their their department and uh we just want to try and be a little more proactive but we had five internal applicants apply and were interviewed great great applicants um recommending Nunes as DSS office manager should start at the after the year's over she has to get to to the end of the year to Missy just for the transition to the office of children even until school's over.