Jane Williams to the podium please. Thank you. Hello, I'm Jane Williams and my address is 5567 North State Route 62. So, I'm speaking tonight to voice my full support for the proposed child care investment proposed by the Madison Consolidated Schools. I have several reasons um for supporting it, but um I do want to say that my family owns a local manufacturing company, Royer Corporation, and our corporation is blessed to employ many excellent employees that have families and desperately need quality child care, and we want that for them. In addition, I have two grown children and four of my seven grandchildren living in the area, and I really believe they're going to reap the benefits across their lifetime for quality child care um for our youngest citizens for all the reasons that have been stated already tonight. So, I want to say that um our community is so blessed to have Dr.
And that started the day that I announced it. We had a hearing uh Senator Cindy Cream uh Senate Chair of the Senate Committee on Global Warming and Climate Change had a hearing trying to uh get more to the bottom, get find out more about what some of the cuts mean to climate and global warming and what can we do as a state. Uh we filed a bill uh this past Monday uh Senator Cindy Freriedman, the healthc care finance chair and head of steering and policy on uh protecting uh women's reproductive rights and rights to health care and gender affirming care. And we will continue to do what we can. Uh we will be looking at all of the different areas. I've tasked the steering and policy committee to meet with all of the Senate chairs to find out what they are hearing. We will meet with the attorney general.
She seamlessly bridges community partnerships and academic rigor, creating a learning environment that is both dynamic and deeply meaningful. Her commitment to student success is matched only by her energy, enthusiasm, and kindness she shows towards students and colleagues daily. She challenges her students to reach higher, think deeper, and believe in their potential. Her ability to wear multiple hats while maintaining excellence in all she does is truly remarkable. Please join me in celebrating Tammy Taylor, our outstanding teacher, for this well-deserved superintendence award. Thank you. We appreciate your Congratulations. Here's the prize. Thank you. Congratul Yeah. You're welcome. Thank you. Okay, I get to talk. Yay. Um this boy this is really special for me because I got to work with Terry at three of the four locations and um I I know how dedicated she is and amazing and um my time at Chico High was much smoother.
I'm scared to stop people. Like I see these people but never talked to them in my life. And most of them look at me like they're annoyed. So like I don't know. I'm kind of scared. Fa. Phillip. Hi. Are you excited? Yes, I am. Yes, I am. Me, too. Who are you? Who do you Who do you think is going to come today? Do you want to stop? I I don't know who's coming exactly. Is your dad here? Probably not because he has something to do. Oh, it's okay. It's okay. Oh, I think we should get more in the middle. Also, we have to stand here. Keep going back. But we need to I was taking a break. Yo, you guys stand like the reason we stand so far back on the red carpet. He said Mr. McKenna said not to. You guys go through the back.
Really appreciate it. and our principles. Everything that Dr. Kirk Weber said, I am so um amazed by both of you. I think the things that you guys do, especially the way you collaborate all the time and uh I think it's important for our kids when they get to the next level that they had the same experiences in both elementaryaries. So the students are at the same level when they reach the junior high and high school. And uh I think what you two are doing are just amazing. So thank you for the great work you do. Shout out to our IT team. These microphones are awesome. Thank you. That's all I have. Perfect. Um, literally everything on my list. No, but uh it's it's repeat. Thank you everybody here and online. Um, Miss Miller, thanks again for coming and sharing that information. I'm glad we're going to share that on our website for you and uh for for our kiddos.
Make this comeback cuz I'm pretty sure Cuz I'm pretty sure since King K will waste so much. Uh the Steve is going to have to put on a lot of damage to get him. Did he just downgrade or do his tools just like last a certain amount of time? Cuz he went from diamond to iron. Okay, that makes sense. And also when your character dies, you um you reset back to wooden tools. Unless you have like a diamond or gold in your inventory, then you can just use that. Okay. With redstone, does that like make him get um like more minecart or No, mine cart is iron. Oh, I don't use redstone that much when I play Steve. What What does the redstone do with your down special? You can use it to make TNT with a pressure plate. Okay. It's pretty cool. Anyways, Sam winning against the Steve, knocking him out.
Teresa Brown leading our schools. Um we feel like now is the time. She has the vision. She has the energy. She's proved it. She surrounded herself with superlative staff. The child care programming she was able to implement at the junior high in such a short period of time was really amazing to us. We feel she deserves our full support as she tackles this key issue for our community. Um Royer has already reaped the benefits of the excellent child care provided by MCH MCS for their employees. Um, one of our very key employees is married to an MCS teacher and they have utilized the child care located this year at the junior high school for their infant son. And his dad describes, and I got a quote, "His experience has been totally awesome. Our son is always happy to arrive and happily reaches for Miss Tracy every morning.
There's so many lawsuits going on, find out what suits are going on, what has been successful so far, what are still waiting, and just to keep the the lines of communication o open. I think that there has to be um working to a working together of ultimately the House, the Senate, the governor, and her administration and the attorney general. That's the only way that we're going to get through this. And that's the only way then that we can better communicate this in unison to our municipalities, to our constituents to better understand. But ultimately uh only Congress can really fix some of this in terms of the budget or or stop some of some of the cuts. Um we'll have to see what ends up happening. Um you know I could talk a little bit about you know the governor's budget increased chapter 70 full funding of the circuit breaker and um you know gave some increase with local aid.
Thanks you so much because she just showed me what to do and where to go. And then Tammy and I go way back to card volleyball back in the day. Yeah. We got to work at PV together. And so um welld deserved makes me happy. Thank you. So as we transition into announcements, we're doing something trying something a little new here and it's uh really exciting. uh CSEA requested that they have the opportunity to recognize two of their own that they have uh selected and want to recognize just give a little public spotlight to. And so uh Kelly Surl is the one that came to me with this idea and we said we can put this under announcements. we can announce who these uh wonderful individuals are because CSEA our staff there truly does make school happen for so many kids. So all you Thank you, Kelly.
It's okay. Sorry guys. I wonder who's watching. Hey guys. Huh? I don't see any problem with the carpet. Huh? I don't see any problem standing on it. Mr. McConey said so people could pass by. I'm just going to stand here. And if I go back, I'll just move. Well, you're the one in the dress and the flower and the hair like, you know, stand on that red carpet. You're right. with them. Cake pop cake pop. I play cake pop. Cake pop. Oh, guys, there's a lot of people. Do you think we could get a family member? I'm kind of scared. I'm going to get a Hispanic. Nothing against anyone who I just I'm kind of scared. Hello. I don't know if I want to get a family member. Hello. Her hair look good. She Yeah. Yeah. People getting pictures. Okay, guys. I know. I should stop them.
Um, congrats to Miss Havens, her staff, and and uh the bold teams and the students. I love coming to these elementary schools and getting all this info and seeing what amazing stuff you guys are doing. It makes sitting up here worth every single meeting. I I absolutely love it. Um all staff, you guys are doing great. I know you mentioned um Liz, I just I I gotta I gotta echo your your shout out to her. I mean, she has just done so much for this community and these schools and from all the hard work she did with referendum and pushing info and just I mean just she deserves a huge shout out. So, good job. Uh again, to echo Mr. Tenerio, we said it a 100 times. I'll keep saying it. You guys coming together is is great. Like he said, for these kids to have the equal opportunity obviously until North American games when Bailey wins.
Good job to Sam. Alrighty. That was a nailbiter. That was a nailbiter. All righty. But before we continue to the next match, I do want to shout out one of our absolutely lovely sponsors, which is on this page. All right. So, do you, Dominic, I got a question for you. Do you have a favorite nonprofit that could use an awesome fundraising idea? I do not. Oh, well, if you do, Auctionit is an online per and in-person auction platform that can help your nonprofit host a great charity auction. Find out more at auctionit.io. That's a u t iio nit.io. Here we go. Yep. So, thank you to Auctionit for sponsoring us. Oh, it's the it's the Captain Jiggly. According to Bird Boy, it's just it's like a sweet it's just a sweet sour spot with uh like Sam not killing up smash. Yeah, the up smash.
The facility is beautiful and always spotless. The staff is highly professional and we get thorough paperwork daily describing his activities. I leave relaxed and ready to work. So, we believe that highquality, reliable child care will help attract and retain highquality employees as we know it's already attracted highquality teachers. Madison is currently benefiting from energetic city and community leadership that is helping to bring many new amenities to our area, including, we hope, a state-of-the-art community center to serve all ages. These new amenities along with comprehensive child care led by the schools will take Madison and Jefferson County, we think, to a new level and improve the quality of life for everyone. So we very enthusiastically uh in support Dr. Brown and the entire school board in their efforts and we urge all citizens to do the same. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Jane. That concludes the uh people that have signed up.
Uh again, I I feel like it would be good to let Jack go through what the House went, you know, did and then again, it'll come to the Senate. Um but I I think that uh all of you know that education has been a really important part of my career in the legislature. So, we will continue to uh prioritize uh from cradle to career. Early education and care has been important. We reformed it last session. We put a billion and a half dollars to it. We still need to do more with it. K to2 fully fund the student opportunity act. I was hoping to take a look at it uh this coming se starting this coming session because it's a multi-year process. we will at least take a look at some aspects of it knowing that many of our consunities, Ashland included, um is still hurting over the chapter 70.
Thank you Chico Unified and school board for allowing CSEA the opportunity to uh honor our member of the month. Classified employees are a vital part of all of public public education and we are so grateful will for this opportunity. This is member ran. So members did a survey and selected who they thought would be a great choice. I'd like to introduce Celia Biano. She is um CSA Chapter 110 chapter communications officer and she's going to introduce the members. Hi, I'm Celia Biano. And um it was really hard to choose out of so many strong candidates. Um, and for March, we chose a woman named Amanda Herd. Amanda is an instructional paraprofessional at Pleasant Valley High School. She um she was nominated by a co-worker because she started a monthly collaboration meeting with the other uh instructional pair of professionals who work in the mild to moderate classrooms.
They don't look like they want to be interviewed. I'm going to get him. Just 3 seconds. Come here, please. I don't think anyone else wants. He doesn't like him. What do you think? Um, yeah, you're on camera. Okay. What are your thoughts on the film festival? I don't know yet. I never seen one. Oh, are you like an overnight security guard? No, I'm just here for the film festival. Oh, I thought you were a security guard. I am. Wait, what? Working for the film festival. Oh, what's your name? Mr. Security Guard. Mr. M. Mr. M. Guys, it's also taught me. I can't call him that. That's disrespectful. It's okay. It's okay, though. I'm not. It's okay. Um, okay. We're done holding you hostage. I don't want to hold you hostage anymore. Hi, guys. You're still on camera. You know that, right? Edit that. He looks like Breaking Bad.
I get it, right? I get I understand. Um and I'm a Bailey kid. I get it. Um no offense, just you know, that's the only difference. We we'll have the bell. Uh but you guys are doing great between you two getting together and making sure your staff's all on the same page. It's it's a lot and you guys are knocking it out of the park. So great job to that. Um Miss Flan again, thanks for joining us even though you are at the big school. So, it's nice to see you come here and support your your other admin. Um, that is all I have, Miss Bea. Thank you, Mr. Wright. Uh, first, congratulations to the math and science full students. That's always very exciting, and we appreciate you representing our schools and our district. So, thank you. With that, it goes along with thanking all of you for the referendum.
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Is there anybody else would like to speak? Okay, seeing none, we'd like to thank you all who participate in the hearing. We appreciate your time and interest in the projects and the future of our community. Please note that this is just the first step in a legal process. The board will continue to work with the administration and its professionals to look for efficiencies to conserve tax dollars while meeting our educational needs. And I'd like to invite Amy back to the podium, please, to uh summarize the project resolution. Thank you. The project resolution is required when the school is planning to spend more than $1 million per building. It contains the estimated hard and soft construction costs and the cost of issuance and establishes the total project costs. It also contains the estimated tax impact. Thank you. Entertain a motion and a second to adopt the project resolution.
And uh I will continue to help fund the public higher education to continue free community college and lower the cost of tuition and fees for our public state universities and our UMass system. Um, you know, uh, I think, um, I just would like to spend a couple of moments to talk about our legislative, uh, accomplishments last session. Um, we had probably the most productive legislative session, two-year legislation in decades. Uh, and it's something that, uh, I I think that we all can be proud of. Right out of the gate, we started with a major tax relief proposal, the largest tax cuts in the history of Massachusetts, helping all of our residents from uh increasing our child care credit and dependent care credit, doubling the senior circuit breaker, uh doubling the estate tax credit, and there are so many other areas that so many of our residents will benefit from.