America and to the republic for it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Okay. 602 would like to call the meeting to order on May 7th. Um any modifications to agenda? None. Any visitors that need to speak from the audience? Presentation discussion items. Uh I would like to have somebody make a motion to accept minutes from April 21st, 2025. Approve minutes of April 21st, 2025.
[Music] You pull [Music] over like I'm still working. This is like um yeah, we did a really intense road trip. Um but we drove to my family. Um and we made it almost two week. It was great. It was 30 hours. That's the distance you get along to get there. We went through West Virginia. It's really like 14 hours. We are unmuted and live. Right. to call school committee meeting to order at 5:08 p.m. on Tuesday, May 6th. Um, and there are two items uh written items for public comment um that you can review and other people can review since they're here on board docs. um and also posted on the town's website along with all the other documents. They're posted in both places. Um so we have minutes from our last meeting. Thank you Sarah as always. Um does anyone have any corrections or additions?
Uh, good evening. Um, I'd like to call the May 6th meeting of the Ashland Board of Health to order. Um, the first thing on our agenda is citizen participation. Do we have any citizen participation? Doesn't seem like we have any. I'm sorry. All right. Um, you'll have to mute. Are you all muted? Turn the volume down. You have to turn your volume. Oh, you know what? [Music] test. Why is it Can you just shut it off? test. Okay, now we're good. All right, let's try that again. Good evening. I'd like to call the May 6th uh meeting of the Ashland Board of Health to order. The first thing on the agenda is citizen participation. Do we have any citizen participation? No. Oh, wait. Mark. Um, can you unmute? Go ahead, Mark. Can you hear me? Yes, we can hear you. Mark, go ahead. Okay. Thank you.
This is an official meeting. Okay. We'll do two roads today. one prior to the oaths and then one after the Okay, everybody signed the one pager, right? Kept a copy for themselves. Thank you so much. Take the road. Mrs. Abru here. Mr. Capan here. Mrs. Fredo here. Mr. Garcia here. Mr. Drew here. Mr. Ringort here. Mr. Russo here. Mr. Bakia here. And Mr. Yanuzi cannot. Okay. So, now we'll start off the the only two individuals that will be swearing in tonight. Mrs. Fredo and Mr. Mr. Lrew. Mrs. Fred, you want to come down? We're going to do a little reading. Put yourself there. You have to sign both and then I keep one. Keep one. Get the Bible out. By the way, your left hand goes on the Bible, your right hand goes up. Can you see? You can see that. Okay. I, Lisa Fredo, I, Lisa Fredo, do solemnly swear do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States that I will support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of New Jersey and the Constitution of the State of New Jersey and that I will bear true faith and I and that I will bear true faith and allegiance and allegiance to the same to the same and to the government and to the government established in the United States and this state and this state under the authority of the people under the authority of the people.
Thank you, Mr. Merrell. We'll start Mr. Kluff and Miss Ashcroft, can you come up please ascrep and introduce the teams and let's start uh coach with the junior high with and then we have coach Kodlesie and coach Willilifford. Here they are. Is that it? I want to come up here. Squish in. Squish in, guys. Are you done? Are you good? Hey, could I have all the high school track athletes please line up right here? Give me Give me seniors, juniors, sophomores, and freshmen. So, just a a brief rundown real fast on on spring sports as it stands. Our our boys were 13 and four on the year. Boys baseball, they were the 11 seed going into the tournament. They played a playin game last week against Chin Lee. They won 4-2. They're currently playing down in Snowflake right now in the first round of the playoff.
And when we leave student voice out of the most important critical things that we do is a missed opportunity for us, right? So, we appreciate having the students here and also the families, parents, and caregivers that allow the time and also and allowing us to have your students and actually be involved to when we hired our superintendent that happened, you know, last year to actually improving our goals. Um, some of these goals and guardrails that the district has focused on in the last two years has been direct um input from your students and your kids in the classrooms and we don't take that lightly. So, thank you so much for that. And with that, I would like to turn it over to Mr. Man, which is our superintendent. Thank you so much, President Curio. I I would also like to extend my deep appreciation and thanks um to the families and the students who have helped us through the Kraton Kids Congress process.
Dr. McCord. Thank you, Mr. President, governing board members. I think we kind of gave you a heads up that this will be coming. And this is revision number three. Probably the last one, you believe? Is this from 2021 or what year is this from? I'm just kidding. Um, budget revision number three. We have Bonnie Betts and her crew. She I don't think you're talking much, correct? I think it's going to be Jackie and Lauren. I have threatened to not talk too much, especially regarding the ribbing I received at the last governing board. Yeah, I would not I we got your back. Don't worry. All right. So, I am very happy to hand it over to Miss Matin and and Miss Torska. And yes, this is our final budget revision and our final budget revision has to be completed prior to May 15th. So, you will not see another budget revision for the current year.
Let us stand for the pledge of allegiance led by board secretary Mr. Alex Gahos, followed by a mission statement read by Dr. Hall. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. And our mission statement is to engage and empower our students to positively impact their community and future. Thank you both. That moves us to public comments. We have three, four actually. And the first one on the topic of Mr. Maine, Andrea Cham Chambers Good evening. My name is Andrea Chambers. Um, I wear many hats in this district. I'm a parent of students who attend CSK. I'm an active community member, an alumni, and an employee. However, tonight I'm speaking to you as a CSK staff member and a CMEA union representative for Kretta Scott King Magnet School.
Any discussion? Vote. Doug, yes. Carol, yes. Vicki, yes. Amy, yes. Jes, yes. Motion carries. Um action needed items. I have the recommendation to approve the donation of $492 from multiple donors to SMA Elementary School class of 2036 field trip t-shirt fund. I'll get a motion to accept. So moved. Second. Second.
None. Rachel, you say yes. Okay. Um, I move to approve the minutes of March 4th. Second. Okay. Any discussion? No. Okay. All those in favor? Great. Thank you. All right. Uh warrant reports. Again, the warrant reports, I think we have six today. Um they're posted for people to view. Um so then I we have no gifts. Um chair's update. Um I have a couple pieces of information that I came back with. Um one is about the absenteeism conversation or the information we had last time. I just wanted to in summary say after talking with after having the presentation and talking with Mickey. My understanding is that in Pelum they allow students to arrive at 8:10. Um the students 8:00 8 o'clock. The other schools are 8:10. The other elementary schools. Okay. Um when the doors close at 8:20, students are considered tardy. Present. Oh, after.
Okay, good evening. Oxy 119 Main Street. It's been a pretty good uh while since I' I've been partitioning it here, but I would like to um ask through the chair if I can ask the um u what's his name? The health director. a a question. Please go ahead. Okay. Knowing that um Tom Town means coming up tomorrow night and we have a future of people again um graduating from college in the medicine science field. Does the board of health director know any new medical futures that are coming out now within the next year, two years? Mr. Done, are are you asking uh if if if some if some people are graduating? Is is that your question? Well, I know that the the state college is well, this is this is uh May, so they'll be graduating soon within the next couple months. I was just wondering if if any of the science, technology, technical, biological stuff that's new in the pipeline that's coming down on the road.
So help me God. So help me God. I, Lisa Fredo, I, Lisa Fredo, do solemnly swear do solemnly swear that I possess the qualifications that I possess the qualifications prescribed by law prescribed by law for the office for the office a member of board of education a member of board of education and that I will faithfully and and that I will faithfully impartially impartially and justly perform and justly perform all the duties all the duties of that office of that office according to the best of my ability So help me God. So help me God. Mr. in a drink. Thank you. Thank you, Jack. It's not snowing. You be cold enough on the Bible. Whatever works. You're young. You can No, you can't. Yeah. Yeah, I can read it. Uh, left hand of the Bible, right hand up. I Clayton the Drew solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of New Jersey.
Yeah, back up a little bit. Girls softball didn't make the playoff. They were six and 12 on the year. They were ranked fourth in the region, but they were 32nd overall. So, they didn't make the playoff. And then golf season just finished up this last week. They had 14 meets this year. They did their White Mountain Invitational, they had 22 teams show up this year and and did really well. So, they're in a little bit of growing year. Uh Noah Chi, who is also a baseball player, doubled as a golf athlete and a baseball player. So, did fantastic on the year. Really good. So, what I'm going to allow these kids to do real fast since they never get a talk is I'm going to allow them to introduce themselves and they're going to say what event events they qualified in. Hey, shh. This isn't hard.
Um in addition to some of the things that President Curio shared, um we have in the last two years adopted new math curriculum and new science curriculum. And I believe it is the first time we've had that the depth of student involvement in that selection process. And one of the things that really impressed me was not only the um intentionality and the the depth that students brought to the conversation, but also the influence that they brought particularly with our science curriculum. I remember them talking about, yeah, this book doesn't engage me, but this other set of books really does. And if we're not engaging students, then you know what? What's the point of having the resources that kids really can't engage with effectively? So, um, in addition to that, um, the students that we're recognizing tonight have served as leaders in the district as peer role models and even to some degree um, in providing um, resources and information back to staff.
With that, I am happy to hand it over to Miss Matin. Thank you, Miss Betts. All right. Uh FY2025 revised budget budget number three. You sure you don't want this? So, today we'll talk about the student counts um and average daily membership. We'll talk a little bit about the revised number three M budget and unrestricted capital. And then finally, um unrestricted capital spend. We'll provide some details on that. and Miss Torska will take it away from here. Perfect. Thank you so much. All right, so average daily membership comparison. Um all of the grids that you're going to see tonight are going to look um very similar and hopefully very familiar to you. Um so we've got first our ADM comparison. We wanted to take a look at the last revision for last year compared to our adopted budget for this year compared to this final revision just to kind of tell that story as Bonnie likes to say.
I'm here to represent the many voices that we feel have not been heard. We're aware that many staff, current parents, and former parents have reached out sharing their concerns. We want to thank those of you in attendance for taking your time to stand with speaking with us about the injustice that's occurring to Mr. Brian Maine. We additionally appreciate the board providing us this opportunity to speak up. and representing this staff tonight. We are devastated and we're confused. We're asking why. Others are speaking tonight to reference data and speak to emotions, but we are overwhelmingly asking that you do what is right by this individual and our students. You have the data regarding the effectiveness of our school. The last time we as a staff stood before you in this room, you were commending us for our US World News Report recognition. Mr. Maine is the reason for our school's continued success.
Any discussion? Thank you. Vote. Doug, yes. Carol, yes. Vicki, yes. Amy, yes. Yes. I have the recommendation to approve a donation amount of $500 from the University of Indianapolis to Brown County Schools for the benefit of TEDex. Can I get a motion to accept? Move to approve donation 500 bucks. Second. Thank you.
Yes. After. Sorry. Once the doors close, they're considered tardy. Yes. Um, and the parents have to come in and sign them in. Um, so I just wanted to say that out loud because I don't think we got that quite detailed last time. Um, the another thing is that I got in touch with the chair of the Ammerst Housing Committee and got some information back from him today. So at 20 AS road which is the large building in front there are six apartments right now I believe five of them are occupied there are a total of six children three of whom are already enrolled at school choice in pelum they're six seven and nine there's a oneyear-old and a 2-year-old also um and then 22 Ammerst road, which he said they'll start moving in in May, has 28 apartments. There are 22 one-bedroom apartments, four two-bedroom apartments, and two three-bedroom apartments.
Is is there anything new that's on the that is in the office now that can got to be looked at when they graduate they'll be looking for work. So Mr. Don only thing I'm aware right I mean I am not aware about science and technology folks but uh for public health folks right uh they do reach out to us you know uh here and there for asking for internships or guidance you know in in the in in public health field. So those I regularly communicate with you know but not not with science and technology people you know. And what about the medical medical science field? U just public health you know because I mean at least our department we are from public health. So I did had an email from somebody in Ashlander resident last week as well you know asking for for information you know or guidance in public health field.