Yeah. Thank you. You're welcome. Anyone else have any other questions? Discussion? No. Okay. Roll call vote. I I I I I unanimous. Okay. Our next item is seven monthly items in financial reports. A is the monthly approval of warrants which requires action. Do we have a motion to approve this? I motion to approve. I'll second. Discussion on the warrants. I have a question. Um I just had Okay. On page one, the professional development, which I know Diane had a question about too, but discipline boot camp. I think it would be cool to hear about it. Oh, Ron, could could you speak up, please? Oh, sorry. I was just saying on page one um of the warrants there were many um different entries for professional development on discipline boot camp and I just thought it would be fun to hear an update on that professional development.
Um but they can't eat inside. So, it's a matter of like do you eat lunch or do you get drenched? Um, and outside I've counted about three covered lunch benches that I was able to find around campus, and those only hold about five to six people. So, not many people um can can actually sit at a table. Um, on these days when my son has to make a decision of whether to get out of the cold and wet weather or sit outside and eat lunch or get drenched, um, he just has to make his quick decision, you know, and that one day he just ate two bites before going in cuz that's all he could bear before, you know, having to walk in. Um, we tell our kids to pay attention and listen in class, but how can they when they cannot properly refuel and re-energize their minds and bodies?
He has helped me come to love basketball and continues to be a positive influence on my journey and my dream play. This summer I will be attending basketball camp with the support of my family and my coach. He's helping me be ready for that challenge by giving me training advice and taking time to help me with my technical training. He's tough, honest, and encouraging. My hope is that this basketball season become a larger team and with coach David, let's go up the help. I'm looking forward to turning this next season into a winning one and potentially making playoffs. I believe we can with good coaching, commitment from the players, and hard work. Thank you for this opportunity to speak. This helps the school board and see what most of us see, which is a good coach. Thank you. Hello. Good evening. My name is Daisy Y.
There's several finalists there. The Eagles in Ellsworth had an exciting uh April. First and sixth graders had a blast at the cowboy glowdown dance music lights western theme. Um third graders wild families and staff with their music performance of Journey and Touter Space. Um our first graders took the stage to perform a year with a frog and a toad. Um and so it's just been exciting things happening at Ellsworth Stallions over at Simington also. uh are working hard. Um they're representing what it means to be a stallion by growing our pop-up positivity program with the support of our counselors and PTO. Fifth grade students successfully completed their testing. And third and sixth have also uh completed their doubleASA testing and they went to musical uh musical instrument museum field trips. I know the board approved us to send kids there. I think CTA went there recently too.
Um, because that red is restricted as to formula. As a as a reminder, uh, it's at an individual property owner level, not the district level. Anybody who has a home, for instance, year-over-year that grows in market value by 10%, their tax value is capped at up to 5% growth. for any homeowner, any commercial property, the highest uh the tax value can grow is 5% year after year. And so you're above 5%, which tells me uh not only was it just individual homes, existing homes growing, uh it was also new new homes, new new commercial hitting the tax roles, which is a great which is great for for the district's uh values. Um up on the top right up there, uh you'll see the 10-year average and the five-year average. If you go to the far right under the red column there, the district's 10ear average is 8.46% for the for the net limited assessed property value.
Singh's son and he will be also performing with us and um I'm here to just briefly talk about um Indian history. India was ruled by British Raj for over 200 years and we got independence at the midnight of August 14th 1947. India is one of the populous and most diverse nations on the planet. It is a home for over 1 billion people. Every 100 to 200 miles you travel in India, you get to see different cuisines, clothes, customs, best practices that reflects centuries of cultural evolution. India's linguistic diversity is extraordinary. There are over 1,600 languages spoken in India and 22 of them are made official. Hindi language is the world's third most spoken language at this moment with the Sanskrit being one of the oldest spoken languages in the world. We also have Tamil language as the only oldest living languages on this planet. India's joint family system is unique.
this year was kids uh playing basketball in the hallways and hitting the walls. Um they really hold everybody accountable and they really protect our school. So um I just think we all owe them a huge thank you for being so respectful of all of our buildings and when the TVs were at the school, all the coaches were very kind. So yeah, thank you. I'll go next and I'll let you go last, Mrs. Zantichi. Um thank you Mrs. Baker for sharing that. That was amazing. Uh what a great way to t to start the meeting off. Thank you. Um I'd also like to extend my thanks to Mrs. Sanuchi. I'm not going to say goodbye because we still have one more partial meeting with you. Um but it has been the perspective that you have brought to the board is there. You can't put a value on that.
And the bids ranged uh from a base uh year 1 base price of $722,440 to uh a little bit over a million uh with total 5-year price ranging from 3.7 to $5.3 million. Uh we did include the bid tabulation for the the board to review. Uh and due to the size and scope of the bids that were submitted uh they are available uh for review at district office. However, Miss Potter, we will look to see if we can uh get the the one bid up on to the uh the board docs for you. Um once we open the bids, we did uh uh look at and vet each bid. We went through each one. Uh we questioned the three lowest biders after we confirmed that uh upon review that their bids were responsive. Uh we contacted references for all the lowest uh three biders. Uh and those were conducted by our coordinator of operations who I I must say he entered this process halfway in between as we were looking through the custodial bid.
On top of that, we created anformational video that was played for the whole school and their advisory class on the first day of our drive. As the drive began, we all came into school early to collect and organize donations. And during our win class, we would go around to every classroom to count and collect the items donated. On the last day, we boxed up all of our donations and made a final item count. We were able to to collect 745 items schoolwide in 4 days. But this wasn't the end of our donation drive process. We still needed to drop off our items at the shelter. So on our half day before winter break, we came back to the school to load up all of our items and made our way to the pad shelter. Our win teacher, Mrs. McCann, came with us. We weren't able to see the inside of the shelter to protect the privacy of those staying at pads, but we did talk with the staff and learned how our items would be going directly to those in need and would benefit all staying at the shelter.
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I'm standing in for Sam Johnson tonight and it's my honor uh to introduce uh the wrestling team, the girls wrestling team, all state award winner. Uh Meley has been a backbone of not only the girls wrestling team, but the whole wrestling program since she's been a little kid before girls wrestling was a thing. She competed against boys all through elementary school, all through junior high. And then once she got to high school, she was able to kind of branch out. And uh this year she became officially though we've had many state places she became the first ever IHSAA state place winner for Madison taking third place at state. Her only loss being in the state semifinals. On top of that her excelling in the classroom is just it shows that she's really got both sides of it and we're super appreciative of her. Ladies and gentlemen, Mey Skin [Applause] do the girls.
They also offer many different um ways to finance this trip. There is a an initial um deposit of $249 per person and then the final payment is due 60 days prior to departure and between that they can set up payment plans based on preference of the group. Um that would be something you know to talk about with families monthly payments or bimonthly whatever um is the preference and um that would be something we could discuss with the tour operator uh once we have uh proposed different scenarios. They'll have access to a portal um that will take them to Jump Street which is the name of the tour company. It is a bus trip. So, we would be leaving on the very early morning hours uh on a Friday um Friday, February 6th. Right. I don't have the date. It's the 6th. 6 through9. Yes. February 6th.
It's getting too late in the school year to be making these decisions right now. Please try and hold off this decision for a year. Thank you. My name is Jessica Pollock. I am a Greenfield resident, a homeowner, taxpayer, Greenfield High School employee, and parent of a third grade greater in the Greenfield public schools. For nearly 25 years, I've been a Greenfield City employee and have worked at GHS for the past 15 years. I have worked under several mayors, including the first, a a couple of town department heads, four superintendent, and five principles. I've seen leadership that works and leadership that fails. I understand the roles and responsibilities for the different positions in our city and how difficult it is to manage a department and a city of our size. I'm here tonight to express my concern about what I've seen happening at recent school committee meetings in regards to the budget and redistricting.
grant offsets, excuse me, especially with professional development supplies is now showing an increased deficit of $22,499 as an additional adjustment was needed for technology software. Other is status quo from last month and this gets us to general education ending the month of March with a surplus of $121,879. below. Under special education, salaries is status quo from last month. Benefits is now showing a decreased deficit of $13,848 due to some benefits adjustments. Services is now showing a decreased deficit of $133,042 as some savings were found in budgeted outplacement tuition and professional services. Supplies and other remain status quo. Special education ends the month of March with a deficit of $15,135. Down below, under operations and overhead, salaries remain status quo from last month. Benefits is now showing an increased surplus of $51,74 as there were additional savings in benefits. services is now showing an increased deficit of $17,755, reflecting some adjustments for insurance and legal services.
Michaela is an actively engaged member in all classes ranging from AP literature to AP United States government. She has distinguished herself as an exceptional student who doesn't shy away from a rigorous course load. While she thrives academically, Michaela has also consistently participated in several extracurricular activities in and outside of school. to name a few. She's an active student council member, editing chief of the BHS literary literary magazine, yearbook editor, NHS member, volleyball coach, and percussionist. Through these activities, Michaela is able to give back to her community while also fulfilling her own interests. For example, Michaela has written and illustrated, wow, a child's book that she is pursuing getting published. Michaela's strong work ethic and character makes her a deserving recipient of this award. She's in the process of selecting which post-secondary institution to attend in the fall and plans to pursue a double major in creative writing and marketing.
I understand that there's only two camp twommies of upcoming juniors that are going to the main campus and the rest six will be remaining in the main campus along with upcoming seniors implying the fact that most people who would be willing to take those hard APS will remain in the main campus and will have the opportunity to take those classes. I don't think it's fair that we're being restricted on classes we can take solely because of the location of our academy. If I was an upcoming junior in the main campus, I would have been able to take Cal AP Cal BC or AP Cal AP. I don't think the location of our pathway should dictate the classes we can take and math is a core subject that fits into any academy and regardless of its alignment or pathway, we should be given the opportunity to take it.
Thank you. Thank you. going to have um Miss Moratti, Mackenzie Moratti come up and talk to us a little bit about our core, but I think it's important to talk about um this was one of the investments in the ESR funding was funding this particular program and I think it was a very prudent move on the board's part to adopt all the way through fifth grade. So that what we're seeing in fourth and fifth grade now is very impressive. Thank you. So, um I think some of the great growth that we've seen um throughout the elementary schools this year can be attributed to the Arcore program because it's an extremely engaging and rigorous program and starting right away from kindergarten. We see that students are using very high levels of academic language and vocabulary in the classrooms along with teachers students. Um we're seeing all across the board throughout the schools.
Um my question on number two was clean truck check program on page two. Is that like an annual fee or I was just curious what that was about. Robert? And that one is um the new um smug checking for the diesel engines. So that's starting. Okay. We'll be in testing on them twice a year in CA 2027 and then four times a year that Wow, it's a lot. Okay. Um and then the last question I had was on page six. The absent I can't read my own writing. Absence management asset management tuneup is is that again is that like part of the like sub binder? Yes, we have um front line which all of our um employee absences are entered in as well as now all of our employee onboarding um in addition to subs are put into there and what we did um frontline worked with us to update it because in the past people could put in leave even if they didn't have a balance and then on during payroll it creates a lot of extra work for Lydia to have to go back um and dock the pay and keep track of all that.
Being forced to eat outside in the inclement weather sends a message to the students that they don't matter and nobody cares because they come from uh like we came from Vincy Park where everything was great and then we came to the middle school and it seemed everything was downhill and it it seemed like a basic need uh or um requirement that need assumed that would be offered by the school and I asked other parents about it. They were also um surprised and appalled that this was happening and nobody knew because you know middle schoolers don't talk to their parents about these things. They just bear it. Um I wanted to ask um if we're able to set aside funds for the new gym at Pedmont, can we make it a priority sometime in the future um for a new multi-purpose room or a lunchroom for the moral?
I live at 130 West Street. I have lived in OP for almost 16 and a half years. I have coached junior varsity and varsity volleyball at different times throughout this time, most recently for the fall season of 2024 in partnership with coach Corey Mills. I am here today for several concerning issues. First, I'm here to publicly support and defend David, Coach Leco. Um, you just heard from my son, and I'm so proud of him for being willing to speak up and in support of his coach. David has great integrity and has shown repeatedly that he is here to serve the youth of that community. He gave my son a reason to rise up and push boundaries and limitations that other coaches has set on him. David inspired him to set new goals and dreams for himself. I have seen him do that repeatedly for several youth in our community.