School principals select these remarkable students based on their outstanding commitment to their education, their school, and their community. These students set the bar high and are recognized for their efforts in academic achievement, demonstrating great character, helping others, and being great ambassadors for their schools. Congratulations, Spotlight students. As I call your name, please come forward to receive your certificate. And give a quick fist bump to the governing board and Dr. Lopeman. And then head to room 123 for a group photo. Mr. Harmon is standing by the hallway and will point you in the right direction. Give us one more wave, Mr. Harmon. All right. Congrat Congratulations to Maline Alvarado, kindergartener, Butterfield Elementary [Applause] School. Brea Miller, fifth grader, Maricopa Elementary School. [Applause] Sely Taylor, kindergartener, Pimabute Elementary School. Oscar Capato Jr., fourth grade student, Saddleback Elementary School. Dallas Malone, first grader, Santa Cruz Elementary [Applause] [Music] [Applause] School, and Bodie Richberg, preschooler, Santa Rosa Elementary School.
Um, and that's helping us kind of feed into the next initiative. So, uh, 3 years ago, we were offering ESL at two locations, the Danbury Library and Danbury High School. This year, we offer 13 different locations. uh six of them are at the elementary schools and what we've really done a lot of work in over the last two years is how that programming ties into supporting the elementary schools. So a lot of the ESL instructors that we have that do that family literacy programming are teachers during the day in the elementary school and then they come back and they teach at night. So they're not only having at times some of the kids that are in the K5 but also the parents of those K5 students, right? We've talen to a number of different uh adult learners that have said like I've left a note on my kid's desk the next day saying that he better behave or like that he has to do really well in the spelling.
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We're just going to take all that money and build a new school." It's against the law. So, so the fact that you're at a high level, why would you be at at at such a high level? In in large part is because again, we're talking about potentially three or four bond sales. So we're talking about somewhere between the January of 26 to sometime in in 30 or 32 depending on how many sales and we don't know if infrastructure right now it appears that HVAC and roofing are really big as an example. Well, what happens if if a water cooler goes down at the high school? And so there may be other priorities that that that come up and so you have to stay high but also have the backup so that if people are wondering what we took a look at as an example, we can talk about the pool in in a few minutes.
Elizabeth Oliver, eighth grader, Desert Wind Middle [Applause] School. Willie Michael Hall III, seventh grader, Maricopa Wells Middle School. [Applause] Jesse Garcia Garcia, senior, Desert Sunrise High [Applause] School. Camille A. Costa, senior, Maricopa High School. [Applause] and Miriam Sarah, seventh grader, Maricopa Virtual [Applause] Academy. Jere Jenkins, Senior Ram [Applause] Academy. Congratulations again to these outstanding spotlight students. Parents, we have one more recognition before you can meet your kiddos in room 123. In partnership with the Maricopa Rotary Club, we'd like to honor a deserving group of students. Rotary students are young people who are developing leadership skills and making a difference in their communities. Rotary, as I call your name, or Rotary students as I call your name, please come forward and Mr. Wells and Miss Coutree will present you with a special certificate. And in addition, you'll receive a $50 gift card on behalf of the Rotary.
Um so that's been very very encouraging for us. In addition to that uh we've been able to start offering GED Spanish programming. Um we have a wait list for that. This is the first year that we're offering it. We have 30 students enrolled in that program. It's a hybrid program. Uh so in the state of Connecticut you are allowed to take the GED in English or Spanish. So uh that's something that we have not offered before. We've also um just recently started allowing people to come in and test at our location. Um we're hoping eventually that we will be able to be a official GED test location um which would bring in additional funding. The struggle that we have with that is we need to have a hardwired building to internet and a lot of our building is uh Wi-Fi based. So we do one-on-one where they set up with a laptop and they test right at our location.
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We want to show that we've looked at those things in the package will also be contingency and project management. And so what's a a legitimate contingency contingency to be available in the event of inflation? Um and that if that goes ahead and increases the um the cost of projects if we do the first sale in 26 and you don't get to 28, you may have inflationary impact that's even greater when we projected. So there's a contingency to help with us. When we do our community meetings and our facts, if you guys decide to vote yes to go out for an election, then we will talk about some of the ideas of what we're having. So when we say health and safety, we'll be able to say we're looking to do X, Y, and Z. It doesn't lock us into doing that because again, it just depends on a number of different factors that that come into play.
A special thank you goes to John and Mary Lu Smith Education Foundation for their sponsorship that helps make tonight special for our honores. Congratulations to Ruben Zavala, 8th grader, Maricopa Wells Middle School. [Music] Espironza Windley, eighth grader, Desert Wind Middle School. [Applause] [Music] Dominic Silva Rivera, senior, Maricopa High [Applause] School. Anelie Frillo, senior, Desert Sunrise High School. [Applause] Kelsey Tanner, sophomore, Maricopa Virtual [Applause] Academy and Justier Jenkins, senior from Ram Academy. congratulations to our Rotary students of the month. Parents, you can meet your kiddos in room 123. We'll take a break about five minutes to allow everyone who is here for recognition to make their exit and then we'll begin the business portion of our meeting which you're welcome to stay for. Hold on. Here we go. Good job. All the That's what So, so the um the internship is closed. Okay. But if you're interested in coming in just to build a portfolio or strengthen your photography skills, you might be able to work something out on like an event bye-bye event basis if you're interested in that.
Um we're also hoping to get a pair of pro preparation program off the ground. We've cleared all the hurdles. The last piece that we need is for the testing on site for the hard wire for internet. Um and that's been in partnership with Kelly and Kim. Uh so that hopefully as students finish our programming whether it's CDP or GED um we are we're working towards a program that would allow them a guaranteed interview for a PAR position once they finish that parro. So um it's kind of a multi-prong approach to helping not only our adult learner but helping some of the initiatives that are happening in the district. Um I talked a little bit about our workforce partnerships which has brought in additional funding. And then last but not least, this is kind of big because it's also brought in some funding for us. Uh last year, um the state had for many years a um partnership with Charter Oak for adult learners that allowed adult learners to take their classes for CDP online.
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You also need to understand that u as an example in 26 for you are up for election. So the new board that's constituted in 26 still is bound by the ballot lang the bond pamphlet language ballot language and the limitations but their priorities within those categories may shift and so therefore when we talk about projects this is an exercise of identifying everything so we go down into the weeds but now we got to pull ourselves back up and get up high and look at categories that we work on and then as we move forward if the bond if you were to call for the bond and if the bond were to pass um there may be some some modifications just based on any number of factors. So, we just want to let you know it's it's kind of we're going back and forth uh within this within this piece and and so if someone sees one particular thing um there's no guarantee that that's automatically going to get done.
Yeah, I'm going to let you think about it. There's no space there. So, this is for my office. Montana is kind of my second assistant. So, if you want to pop both of us in the email, let us know. Um, if you are interested in a paid internship with other other departments, I would encourage you to apply like ASAP because they're filling up. So, um, so yeah, we'll let you think about that. If you want to come in on an event bye-bye event basis, let's work something out. Okay. All right. Thank you. My feet are numb. That's not good. Shoes too tight. I don't know. They're just messed up. They're just cheap. I've got so much. My wife has had lots of problems with her feet since she uh about six months ago she got a bunion removed and that was out of action like for about three weeks, four weeks not able to drive but since then she's had other problems without saying either do laser six treatments treatments or Yeah, these are just not the best.
Last year, Charter Oak said that they were kind of through with that partnership. Um and it left a lot of adult ed providers high and dry. there were no online options for their students. We were a bit proactive with that because we weren't really loving the programming offered through that partnership. So this summer before that partnership had dissolved, we started creating our own online classes. We are currently offering four of those classes online to our partners. We're also offering to area providers their ability to enroll students into that program and pay per student into that program, which brings us in funding at no additional cost to us. So, that's helping to offset any additional funding from the board. I really want to take a lot of time tonight to go through the family literacy programming. It's something that I'm really proud of. It's something that we've spent a lot of time, a lot of funding, and I think it's the most bang for our buck.
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Um can you hear me? All right. Um so one one thing that I did um to get the list of items is I met with each one of the site administrators. Um I've done inspections at the sites um and then I developed rough scopes of work and identified needs from that. Then um I used what we call uh industry standards rough order of magnitude and you take a lot of con a lot of things in consideration in order to develop that scope and develop that rough estimate and it's broken down like Dr. Wyman said over 100 or over 320 items and then we grouped them together uh after we had the meetings with the committee grouped it into the categories and then we divided those up by the magnitude of each category uh to come up with the $80 million. Uh but a lot of contributing factors go into that.
Hello. We we will resume the meeting in about one minute. Thank you. Whenever she was getting a good way of getting stem cells. Okay. How much is it? He goes, "It's $3,300." $3,300 and say, "Okay." He said, "Well, here's the other thing. It's going to sound like a drug deal, but I need cash two weeks before the surgery." So, obviously, it's not covered by insurance. It wasn't covered by Did I What? No, not not. But that's okay. I will. I just didn't have I didn't get to it between it's a voucher, correct? Yeah. Yeah. No. Okay. We resume the meeting. Specifically, item five, information item. Um item 5A, classroom spotlight, Butterfield Elementary School. Miss Fielding. Good evening, President Downey, esteemed board members, Superintendent Lopeman, colleagues, and community members. Thank you for the opportunity to share the incredible work happening at Butterfield Elementary Steam Academy. At Butterfield, we are deeply committed to ensuring that every student excels in foundational reading.
Um, so there are four components to a family literacy program. They're up on the board. The adult education is the first. Um, for all of our family literacy program that looks like ESL. So, we're currently operating out of six elementary schools. All participants come in, they have an hour and a half of ESL. The second piece to that is parent and child together activities. That could mean anything from learning how to read with your child at home. It could mean learning how to do certain math uh activities or examples at home. Um the second piece, the third piece of that rather is parenting education. So right now um we've done a lot of work on what that looks like. That could mean um effective communication at home. We've also had admin from those six elementary schools come in and actually work with the parents on how to understand their child's ready scores and the importance of attendance in school.
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Uh when when the those particular projects are funded, what materials are used, uh what inflation is, uh materials availability, uh contractor availability at the time. So that's why it was important that we also had a contingency uh in the bond program as well. my previous experiences working with bonds and working with boards and uh community members, I've always said think about your own home as you consider uh what's needed and and what the goals are, what the priorities are. And so again at the top as we look at the the different buckets of projects that we have the first one is health and safety project. And again thinking of your own home you want to maintain your home. You want to make sure that it's uh up todate. It's um uh safe. Uh and in this case we look at these four areas of classroom safety, school safety, extracurricular and playground and school renovations.