Okay. That was all my question. Thanks. Okay. No worries. [Music] Looks like the video froze, sir. Okay, no worries. What are you guys working on today? This is challenge. So, we'll give you instruction. They make material possible basically the cheapest chopstick. Okay, good job guys. Keep up the good work. Did you bake that? I worked on it. Yeah, I did. I did. Yeah, I'm get I'm getting a little bit better and better, I think, each time on it. So, especially from the first time I was here. So, very awesome. Appreciate it. Thank you guys. Thank you all principles for your presentation. Let's give all principles a big round of applause. Moving on with our agenda. Number seven is the barber school district governing board member reports. Miss Sylvia, anything? I don't have anything. Miss Anamarie, do you have anything to report? I do have something to report.
Too late. I'm sorry. On the spot. I apologize. Okay. Trust me, it's been months. We literally started this in October and we've had maybe 10 to 12 meetings each being 45 minutes to an hour. So, um, a lot of the concepts that you guys have brought up were brought on the brought to the table. But there are a lot of limitations with the mascots and making it a costume that's uniform from anyone that can be in it. So, that way you don't know the person. You you can't you don't have to worry about the limitations of the person that's inside of the costume. And I do want to just say that the costume design um company that we went with because we tried out four different ones um they actually have 30 years of experience. They actually designed the costume for the Chicago Bears and other like you know not for just football teams but large organizations.
Zamboni. Zamboni. That's what it looks like. It does. But you uh Baker, you know what a Zamboni is, isn't it? Yeah. You play hockey, don't you? Yeah. See? Yeah. See those? Yeah. They're they're playing a game and they got one team playing together against another team and you see that object right there, that blue object. They're trying to push that down the street. See that? And the other team's trying to not let it push it down the street. What do you think? Pretty good explanation. Pretty good. Yeah. So again, you want to go see the game? Yeah, this is the game. Yeah. Yeah. And then when we're done, we'll go see the tiger eyes out there. Remember those big tiger eyes in the comments? Yeah, we'll go see that when we're done. Okay. But right now, we're going to watch the Cyber Tigers win. And then when they win this one, they're going to win another one.
Um so that's it. So next next meeting you'll have that. Um we're happy to post that online as we've done with the prior reports or the prior report. We've provided one so far and this will be our second. Yes. I said we do have two memos later in the meeting but I can handle them whenever. So last report was end of last quarter that was Yeah. So these are quarterly so that was through December 31st. This won't be through March 31st, right? Can you agree? Yeah. Three months. Perfect. Three is a quarter 12. Yeah. Carry the one. Yeah. Um yeah, I I can go over if if you want to handle my two memos now or we can do those. It doesn't matter to me. Let's do them. Yeah, let's do them. That is fine. You talking about the um business items yet? Yeah, there's two business items that relate to my office.
Felicia any any feelings? I mean I like two3 vote but just my personal consistent keep the way it is. Um Peggy and two3 Kim so I was for majority and the main reason for that was I was concerned about um attendance and what we would do in that instance. So it would be a delay and possibly pushing something forward. Um but you know I'll go with the majority. I'm just kidding. Um, but we saw that this year with a policy that that passed with an overwhelming majority but not six votes. Correct. Shown on attendance. Yes. So that was my only concern really. Cindy, I would be on the board with the two/3 vote. 2/3. Russell 2/3 or 50/50? Two3 cup. Sorry. Took me a second to get me. I think I have your answer. Okay, great. Thank you. Uh, second item. I'll be quick here.
Not so not unlike that many think tanks in many ways. Um so there were um and there and there's other folks there's a lot of folks with that have experience around a lot of the issues that we've been talking about. Um so I mean I think those are the kinds of things that would be great to bring them in and students participating as part of that. um um and others would be would be you know fantastic. So I think there's there's a lot of um there's a lot of crossgenerational knowledge, there's a lot of cross technical knowledge, there's a lot of implementation knowledge that's out there and finding ways to bring bring some of that in and sort of leverage it at different times is is really important. Um, okay. So, as chair, I'm just I just want to communicate that I'm I'm mindful of time and also want to move move things forward for you all.
The question is simple. Is this the Clifton we want for our kids? We do not uh do we not see the warning signs from our neighboring towns? Do we not value our children's future more than a rigid 2% tax levy? We have a choice now. To invest in our students or to watch the slow erosion of our quality and care we built over this generation. Our students deserve more. Our community can do more. Let's be bold. Let's be compassionate. Let's be the Clifton, the city that cares. Thank you. Is there anyone else who wishes to speak this evening? Thank you. Good evening. I'm Donna Papowitch. I do not work here. I used to. Okay. Um, I have no position. So, I guess I should disclaim that everything I say is just for me. Um, first I'm just going to ask the people sitting up there.
Because of rising home prices, which is obviously completely out of our control. Part of that is also the fact that we continuously raise property taxes every year. We price out retirees who one in four are not signed up for the property tax freeze. Um you know lowincome households, fixed income households, whatever the situation may be. We have to be extremely detailed about any additional tax levy that we're going to take and we have to have a list of priorities that's going to say this is going to help our staff help our help our staff genuinely impact students, right? uh which your point is taken right I'm not saying that those administrators they're you know they don't they don't do anything to benefit students again it's a cost cost-effective ratio right can I jump in with just a quick question and and I'm sorry if you said this already but public comment is that coming before we say yes okay yes I know there's a lot of teachers here the the admin the admin positions were a new addition to what we're looking at.
I didn't. Right. But I do have something to report. Go ahead. I did have the opportunity to visit schools along with Missart. It was great event. I'm really grateful for the opportunity I had to go and visit. It was very inspiring to see the campus but also to see the possibilities of things that we could incorporate on our own campus. I left there feeling inspired and I also truly appreciate it. Uh appreciate spending time with the ladies having conversations. We walked away with so many wonderful things. Um, one of the things that I think really stood out for me is that every year they post a chili cook off and they give they actually chips. Um, they all have some kind of garden in front of their door and in front of their door they all have something related to culture, language. Um, another thing that stuck out to me was the the rewards to um get perfect attendance by those students who get perfect attendance was one of them was creating stickers and you get one at the end of every week and if you collect more then you get to pickle trip in your family um for I think it's like five weeks and to go out on an event.
So he's been very um specific in every detail of what has come to what you see now. Um, but we did speak to non like stuff that was neutral, stuff, stuff that would be acceptable for preschool all the way through the seniors. We want to make sure it represents something that actually speaks to our mission statement and our visions. So, I don't know how deep you want me to go into it because I know you know you have the floor, but just let me know and I can tell you, but everything you said, we all said you want me to keep you want. Okay. So, Arrowhead was the number one choice. That was in honesty. We said we're going to change it into a spear, right? because it it made it we were trying to be Native American adjacent, right? So because of the nature of this community, Native American, the history is present.
And then we'll go out and look at the Tiger Eyes and go home and have some cheeseburgers. What do you think? Go home and have cheeseburgers. All right. You want to go have a cheeseburger? You come my house. We'll give you some cheeseburgers. Right now, we've got their and did a great job there. We took them out and so we'll start pushing the carnival float back here.
Yeah, let's keep all the business items. Okay, all right. Thank you, Al. So, good evening. Thank you. Um I first want to start out with Matthew Dow, our student counseling rep, and he was going to give us an update what's taking place here at Tanto um Regional Middle High School. Yeah. Um there has been quite a couple awesome things. So, I'll start off. So last month at the beginning of March um our student council had a group of people attend the MASC conference in Hyannis in Cape Cod. Uh it's about 3 days long. It's an awesome experience. I mean there's over a thousand people there from all across the state. They have speakers and leadership workshops and it's a tremendous experience. There's a big concert there. Um I went last year and I can confidently say it's one of the best things to do. um you learn a lot.
that school climate policy uh has been approved by the state legislature and we are obligated to uh retire our current bullying policy and add in the new school climate policy. Spend an hour talking about it uh tonight. So, it's important that we understand it. It'll be up hopefully for a first read at the AP uh the main meeting, but ask you it's not that long. the school uh it's called called school climate policy and then there's a restoration practices policy.
Um, this feels like it's been a a good um take and and some awareness building around some of these that are in place. Um, perhaps not a fully list. Um, we had an ambitious agenda I think from the start of trying to take stock of what was already in place and happening. um and some additional options that may have already been discussed that were in discussion as from different areas in different sectors. Um we didn't necessarily um prioritize things or get into that granular or of level but we've identified some other options to discuss. Um and we've also talked about some areas where we're trying to um maybe where we're falling short or think things to to focus on. one I mean part of the reason I think we did this for the from the perspective of council members and council member Mal chime in here if this I mean I think we're trying to also identify you know where we might want to carve out let's say a future resolution about what kinds of incentives to take on or move forward from the perspective of the energy commission or some as yet unnamed commission in the future.
You see how I'm sitting forward speaking into my mic. That's what you all need to do. I'm sitting in the room and I can't hear you. Okay? You and and I'm hearing impaired. So, it's really not fair if you have a mic if you're not using it correctly. So, please do like I'm doing right into the mic. Okay. I had time to prepare something because I was teaching today and as usual, no one's listening to me. Um um egg prices are going up. Um everything I want to buy goes up. We just had a floor collapse in my bathroom. We had to redo everything. I mean, man, you're talking about economic uncertainty. That's like in my own house. It looks like we're heading for a recession. And I know everything costs a lot. But if we're only thinking locally, you know what? That's selfish. We have to think broadly, globally, about what is needed.
I would very much like to hear from the teachers where your thoughts are and if you think that is something that would be beneficial to you and the and the kids. Yeah, Miss Fox comment before we vote. Yeah. And just to clarify for the board, Macy, since there's three administrators there now, so how is that working out? Is that a huge problem? We need to know these things and nobody communicates them to us. Yeah, I mean that might be and that's a problem. So yeah, so we are adding that real quick. um to address the point of oh we can add this so we should right I think that's the complete wrong way to go about looking at this issue right um I'm not here to say that there isn't an issue as far as you know uh you know administrators being overworked being you know having a lot on their plate right you have more experience it sounds like meeting with them seeing what their experience is like than I do so I will fully recognize that um again the point that I made earlier though was the the strain has I felt been felt across the district on on all different levels.
So, I think that was really amazing. Um, I really highly encourage anyone else if they have the time to go visit the school. Um, just another thing that stuck out in my head was um a student that attends TLC. Uh, her story was really remarkable. She was um very required to volunteer their time in a prek class and she was doing that while her daughter was in school and eventually got into school at TCC and is currently now working out in that classroom and thought it was amazing. Wanted to share that. I think that's it. Thank you. Excellent. Thank you, Miss Stevens, for the report. Um, as far as myself, I don't have much to support other than you noticed I did attend the math um night at the intermediate campus which was um I was really really really excited and impressed um and thankful for the effort I think that the culture teachers are taking in with the students especially in the numbers.
We don't want to erase that. We don't want to eliminate it. And we wanted to stay with them warrior. So when we did the spirit, it looks like a Christmas tree. And it was very, it was to the point where if someone were to maneuver in it, they would have to be very stiff and not like fun and huggable and loving and things like that. So that's what threw that out the vote. Um, next was we Google warrior, whoever just said that, and samurai, knights, Vikings, all of these names came up, but it all tied to a historical reference. So, that's what we I think everyone initially was on board for, we have to have a human because it's a warrior. Um, the gentleman that's that's working with us through the mascot company, he actually said, I think you would be safer with an animal.
So they got Norwell's got three minutes and we're moving in the right direction. So Cyber Tigers did a great job there. Good teamwork. So I see we got someone up on the roof. I got two guys on the roof. Yeah, you always want the high ground, right, in battle. Always looking for that high ground. Yeah, except for the character playing Reaper right there. That the guy in the black. He He needs to get in a lot closer. Remember, I learned that from you. He's got Reaper's got to get close to the action. Yep. Right now he's doing nothing up there. Okay. But but but he's waiting. Okay. All right. We got waiting for him to come down the street. Little bit of an ambush. He needs to get into do something right now cuz he's not doing anything. Okay, now we're almost we're basically fighting four on five right now.
And I also want to specifically recognize at that conference um our student council from Tanto nominated Miss Aqua for a very special award as administrator of the year. Um and unfortunately for some bizarre reason um no one knows why really but she managed to somehow not win the award even though just know we all think that um And I'm just going to read a little quote from a very wonderful letter written um about Miss Aqua that quote, "There is no one more courageous, more giving, more understanding and uplifting. She has truly left those forever footprints on the soul of this school." So, Miss Aqua, thank you very much from the student council for all that you do. Um, beyond that, um, we started our spring sports season. So, we have baseball, softball, track, and lacrosse. I believe we do with Hudson High School as a co-op.