Well, we're mainly interested to see what all the cast students have prepared. Yeah, especially this one film being of Fight Club. I didn't really watch I'll be honest, I haven't seen the movie, so I think this will be a fine introduction to the both of us. Besides, we've heard great things about Fight Club, so it should be good. I've actually never heard of it, but I'm sure you guys are very excited to watch it. Do you guys happen to be any actors or producers in any of the films? Wait, wait, wait. Repeat that. Do you happen to be any producer or actor in the film? Well, no, not really. We only just came here just to support everybody. Exactly. I mean, but we've known these people who are in these films, and I really am proud for the hard work and effort that they did, for the craft they created.
Hearing none. Mr. Bips, I. Mr. Mlesca I. Mr. Musk I. Mr. Tinario I. And I vote I. The next item under new business I recommend to the board that we approve the facility request from Mrs. Edmonston, the cheerleading coach at Edison Junior Senior High School to have a cheerleading camp using the junior high gym and the high school gym for this cheerleading camp on July 17th, 2025 from 11 in the morning to 7 in the evening. I would recommend that the board approve this facility request hearing the recommendation. Motion to support it. Second. Any comments?
Yes. I thought Steve was banned. Not anymore. Oh, it's is just like doing the autokill tech band probably. I'm not sure. Okay. All right. Eli self-destructing because he lost two stucks. Could you explain to the viewers, I guess me, what like the Steve like autokill tech is? Uh, basically from what I know of it, I'm not that much of a Steve player, but basically with a um or was it he goes invincible? It was I it was either auto kill or like he just can't die. That's all I remember. I thought it was the fact that he broke shields really quickly with anvil. I'm not sure. Oh boy, he's got a crafting table and building a wall. Wow. Mine cart. Putting putting King DDD in a minecart. Wow. Now he's mining it up. Oh, and a Ford air and a Ford special. Okay. I'm pretty sure Eli does have a little bit of experience fighting Steve because Lucas, who was here uh last year for a bit, he also played Steve.
So anyway that's what he wanted me to share. And so I will ask though that you will approve um ask that you approve the uh adoption of wonders for grades three through five. Okay.
We just completed a deep community-led initiative to build our strategic plan and uh through a lot of listening sessions uh that was had a lot of uh community partners uh child care was undeniably at the top and when I define child care in this case it's really around affordable highquality child care and with emphasis to potentially having a 24 access uh 24-hour access for all three shifts of families that are working. The issue was defined through a study as um really a workforce issue. When families cannot afford reliable child care, uh parents, especially mothers, are forced to reduce hours um which weakens our local businesses and specifically lower income families are disproportionately affected um and which perpetuates gener generational poverty and businesses struggle to fill jobs. In that case, um I think Dr. Robinson touched on this. Early years of a child's life are critical for brain development and currently we have limited access to quality child care um which again affects lower income families.
So, thank you very much for that as well. So getting to to the budget, I'll talk a little bit about the budget with her re the governor came out with her recommendations in January. The House uh released its today uh and they will do their version of the budget the week after school vacation week and the Senate comes out with its version the first or second week in September. In September in um May. I know we're jumping ahead here trying to block out some of this move forward. Yeah, I know. Um in May and will be done before Memorial Day and then June is when the two branches hash out the differences. So the good news um on on the state revenue side is that revenue collections have increased yearover-year things are tight. They're not terrific, but they're they're not as bad as was originally forecasted two years ago, a year and a half ago, when all the economists were saying there was a good chance of a recession going on and that 2026 was going to be a tough year.
I have uh the more of the digital graphic design classes. Yeah. Um and I think the way that we see this is that uh at least for me my first semester's fall will be like teaching a lot of fundamental stuff. This will still be in my beginning level students. So some of the stuff that you're seeing and the students that are working on this all levels of of everything. Um and and that then second semester we will be kind of partnering game designers with animators and they'll be I think this year is just kind of our pilot to see what it looks like. But next year, spring would I think really this is where it would take off that we would be and we're lucky to be able to to do that. So I understand now. Thank you. That's this is an amazing project. Thank you both.
Any questions or comments from the public or anybody online? Seeing none, can we please get a motion to approve uh the April 16, 2025 consent agenda? I'll second it. Roll call. Lou, Mrs. Abru, yes. Mr. Capano, yes. Mr. Fredo, yes. Mr. Garcia, yes. Mr. Nadrru, yes. Mr. Rancor, yes. Mr. Russo, yes. Mr. Bakia, yes. Mr. Yunzi, yes. Okay, at this time I think it concludes our meeting. Can we get a motion to adjurnn? And I'll make a motion to adjourn. Second. All in favor? Everybody, happy Easter. Happy Easter. I'll ask Mrs. Calibri and uh Lou and myself to just stick around. Just want to discuss one item if that's okay.
That's all we have. Is there anything you guys want to say to the live news out there watching? I don't know if there's a lot to say, but um hope this goes well and um brush your teeth, stay off drugs, and uh go touch grass if you feel salty. Thank you guys. Enjoy. Thanks. Bye. We're rehearsing. Okay, great. Come here, buddy. Okay, we're here with Miss Diva. She looks so good. What's your name? Gianna. Hi, G. Oh, Miss Giana. This is Giana. We've heard so much about you. What are you guys What film in? Cuz I know you're in one of the films. Yes. Our film is called The Locker, which is Honestly, we'll leave it up to you guys. You'll see it at the end. We were not going to give you anything about it just yet. Are you also in it? Yeah. I'm the other producer, Roberto.
Hearing none. Mr. Bips I. Mr. Plesca. I. Mr. Music. I. Mr. Tinario. Hi. And I vote I. Mr. President, at this time I have no further business to come before the board except to remind the board and our audience this evening that our next regularly scheduled schoolboard meeting will be Wednesday, May 21st, 2025. And our host for that school board meeting will be Bailey Elementary School. So, we look forward to visiting with Mrs. Hayes and her staff at Bailey Elementary next month. Thank you, Mr. President. Thank you, Mr. Phillips. Any closing comments? I have none except thanks for coming out, Mr. Pisca. Thank everybody for coming out. Um, great job to the math pole and the science kids. Great job and keep up the great work. Appreciate you. I don't think I need to ask. I know. Mr. Music's got some stuff. Yeah, I've got a couple things, but um just real quickly, um I want to thank uh our principles for being here.
H Mhm. So maybe he can use some of that experience. It was from a while ago, but Oh well. Tries to force tilt the anvil. Don't you shouldn't do that. That was Oh, he jumps on Steve's head. Mhm. Gets the magma block. Up special. Oh no, no, no. Up special. Oh, gets hit by the minecart. Oh, but he survives. He survives. Trying to read a minecart by inhaling. Oh. Oh, nope. Nope. He won't die from that. Side can't get touched. Dodging. Oh, boy. Oh. Oh, that that is game. Unfortunately, he did have to only work with one stock. And yeah. Mhm. Quite sad. Ah. And Steve eats uh eats some beef. Yeah. I think our team's got beef with him now. Oh boy. Alrighty. All right. So, who do you think on our team can handle a Steve? Um, Tristan. Sam. Tristan or Sam. I feel I feel like those would be good against Steve, but we'll we will see.
We have motion and second to approve wonders for grades K through three through no just three through five. Three through five. Yes. So second got a motion second to approve wonders for grades three through five. All those in favor say I. I. Any oppose? Was that the one you picked? Yes. He has a lot of influence on our team. So, just wanted to make sure we were still alive. I saw the nod earlier, so I I signed it. All right. Um, move on to new business. We need got a recommendation to approve a new the new elementary grades 3 through five name as Northfield Elementary starting uh beginning of school year 2026 2027 and let me just share a little bit of that. um even though that's another a whole another year away. Um the reason for that is uh for different reasons like their apparel and things like that.
But child care is also could be an economic engine and attract reliable and having reliable child care is one of the factors that parents consider when they look to move to an area. So from a workforce and vibrancy perspective, it's really critical. And having a safe, nurturing childcare environment really contributes to mental health and well-being for both children and parents, which is a top priority for Bethany Legacy Foundation. So essentially, we see the benefit of having a facility like this uh as checking many boxes and we call it sort of a force multiplier. supports working families, enables parents to work and contribute to the economy, boosts school readiness, especially kindergarten readiness. Um, high quality care, builds cognitive and social skills, and prepares for the future, attracts young families, is appealing to new residents and talents, helps mental health stability, and reduces stress for caregivers, and fosters healthy childcare environments.
Uh our revenue is is at least increasing. It's above uh the original fiscal year 26 p projections. That's the good news. The bad news is something I think all of you are hearing as well. Uh the chaos and t tremendous uncertainty coming from the Trump administration in Washington. Federal funding cuts to services and grants will have a very significant impact on Massachusetts. Um a lot of these bud budget cuts I believe are cruel and uh not at all necessary. Um, just to give you an idea, we have a $62 billion budget. We have approximately 12 to$16 billion dollar of that reimbured by the federal government for Medicaid services. We have taken advantage of getting a lot of our residents on health insurance and getting good health care. um and all the other things that Medicaid kicks in for our seniors, our veterans, our disabled. Uh if some of that is cut from 12 to 16 billion dollars, even if 12 billion is cut or 13 billion just from Medicaid alone, that is a significant percentage of our state annual budget.
Thank you so much. Yeah. Thank you. No, it was great. Thank you. [Applause] I just want to add our students never cease to humble me just from the art to the technology to uh what you're doing at the courthouse. very very impressive. So, thank you and huge thank you to our staff for leading that. And while we're still with secondary, I would like to invite Miss Erica Sheridan, principal of Chico High School, to the podium. All right. Well, this evening, hi, I'm Erica, principal of Chico High. Like she said, um I am super excited to be able to have two different um superintendent awards to present to you tonight. Um I can I bring them up? You sure can. Can I do Okay. Can I Terry? Will you join me, please? I want people to see who she is. She's amazing. All right. This is her.
Oh. And how was it getting the film, creating it, behind the scenes? It was definitely a roller coaster of emotions together. We uh had our ups and downs, our yelling at each other, laughing at each other, but it was definitely fun. and worth the experience. Um, I mean, it happens. I mean, we can't keep our faces straight, but I mean, we had a great time doing it and we had a lot of fun. And is this your first time being in the film festival? Yes, it is. Are you guys excited to see your film on the big screen? Very excited. Very excited. Yeah. A I'm so excited to see your guys film. I did see you on the morning news. It's very interesting. You guys look so good. Thank you. And I am very excited to see your guys's film. Thank you. I appreciate that.
I want to thank our our teachers, Miss Quick and Miss Leaden, for what they did with the the bowl teams. Um those things are always uh pretty fun. Um I did science Olympiad a little bit when I was in high school. I know I'm that nerdy. Yes. Um so um those things can be very fun though. Um I know Liz and uh Liz has done a great job around here. Um, and I've heard good things about Ginger so far as well. So, it's really great to see everyone working together so well. Um, the one thing that I I did want to touch on briefly, um, as I mentioned on Facebook, um, after, you know, tax property tax information was released for the year, there was a little bit of confusion. So, I just wanted to make sure that I followed up on my posts on the various pages.
We will see who gets the who they get. Who gets the controller next? Who will get it? Looks like Sam Sam's going up to play. Oh boy. Here we go. That was one of my predictions. All righty. Okay. Playing uh yellow and black king K rule. I don't really know if that's a reference to anything or if it's just a Smash original. I'm not sure. Okay. Here's to a good fight. At least he's at least he um at least he has good morals about this situation. Yeah. Yeah. So, King K Rule does have a counter. So, if Steve does try to send his mine cart or his anvil out, he can just counter it. Yeah. Mhm. Oh, sending it in. Sending into his bus. He does almost hit him with the crown on the mine cart. That would have been a very devastating dash attack.
Do they buy Sharp Creek um clothes and different things like that for one year if they're going to move on? So they'd like to know for sure officially what that is. And so we talked about a little bit in our cabinet meeting. Felt like it was um good thing. You know, we do have Southwood Junior Senior High School and Southwood Elementary. And so North Junior Senior High, Northfield Elementary, it makes a lot of sense to do it that way. So we also have signage requests as far as Yeah. signs for the building that need to be decided on. Should get done earlier than later. So there's nothing we have to do yet with the DOE. The new superintendent will take care of that next year. Uh because they'll have to do some there's some paperwork and job forms have to complete to make that happen.
So from our perspective, we are 100% in support of this initiative because child care is not a luxury. It should be part of our infrastructure at Jefferson County. And so we want to work together to build a system that works for parents and families and children. Thank you. Thank you, Dor. Next, I'd like to invite to the podium our mayor, Bob Courtney. Good evening, board. Thank you for the opportunity to be here and represent the city of Madison in full support of the investment that you're proposing here tonight. Uh last year I was honored uh to be invited by uh education secretary Jenner uh to join Mayor Jensen from Noblesville to represent the state of Indiana in a policymaking fellowship with the Hunt Institute that focused on early learning. And what was so powerful about that fellowship uh was learning about how critical we are as a country and particularly as our community in the need for uh better delivery and access for affordable child care and the powerful return on investment in early learning.