In this case, the human families can patients contain a mutation but it's in this in a protein that the worm also has and the protein is almost identical and it's the partner of micron. So this is a great opportunity for the model organism now to say we take a model organism and you model that mutation and see what you can learn from it. So are the genes that control your thumb repair. The same that controlled Anel's knee repair. He destroyed his knee a couple work in progress. Are they the same genes? And why aren't they forming eyes on his knees versus the skin? I mean, it's just a rhetorical question. Yeah. We don't we don't know. Yeah. I mean wound healing is but broadly speaking that was I was trying to allude you know and uh so what happened to your knee? But it's better now right?
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Any other questions before we wrap this up? Just Kate, I'm sorry I'm in the middle of driving so I I'm No problem. Go ahead, Michelle. Um so is everything that we are putting forward a regulation? In other words, these are the regulations. There's nothing other than just the slight changes that we're talking about administrative and how we personally do it, but everything else is Connecticut regulation by Cape. Yeah, these are Connecticut statuto uh state statutes that are required um and is the CA recommended policy minus the few highlights that I went over in yellow. Really just clarifying or additional, you know, specifying our personnel that are doing it here in district. Perfect. Thank you very much for the clarification. Uh any question any other questions before we move forward? All right. Then I am looking for a uh motion to recommend to the board for full reading for first read of 5141.21 student health services.
Yes. As an elected official, we're elected to guide the district. We represent the public. We're elected to do what's right, to be honest, and vote based on truth facts. I cannot in good faith support contracts of BMS or BHS based on the fact of volleyball coaching decisions for the 2025 2026 year. I do not support recommendations and we'll be voting no because the decisions made are not what is in the best interest of the student athletes or the program 7 through 12. So you be voting no on all that's correct. Further discussion notes. [Music] Okay. Yay. Card. Nay. Johnny Hernandez. Yay. Ron H. Yay. James Higgins. Yay. Selena [Music] King VHS supplemental conditions. Second motion second discussion. No discussion. It's like in a blue circle. It's spinning. Lucas Allen, yay. Cart, nay. John Hernandez, yay. Ron, yay. James Higgins, yay. Selena King, nay. Bob Palmer, A.
Um, and this is my 18th year coaching and teaching here in this district. So, just kind of giving you a little background here where I'm at. I'm not the longest tenure guy here, but I'm getting old. I'm getting close to the top, unfortunately. Um, I just wanted to kind of bring some awareness about the track facility and and the kind of condition that we deal with on a daily basis. Um, you guys already kind of talked about some of this tonight, but I the school's phasing money to refinish the floors yearly and I have occasionally on there. I wasn't on the logistics of what all it was every other year and stuff like that over here at Bush or at the CL of the rec center, but you guys kind of clarified on that today. Um, we got updated here last year, got the air conditioning is a great thing that Mr.
But tomorrow night they no Wednesday night they're having a celebration and sort of like a little graduation ceremony and we've had several parents request that we continue to kind of go to that next level. So we are seeking some instructors because we had community volunteers who told me Cindy we're just too dang old for this. Um, so they're hoping that somebody else can um, step up to the plate and continue the classes because they were so popular, which was super cool. U, I wanted to our enrollment has held steady throughout the course of the year. Um, you remember we started about a hundred kids down because of empowerment scholarship accounts. Um, we have pretty much maintained that level and so we're finishing the year pretty much where we started. And as you know, we have been really hitting that whole come to school thing hard this year.
And then we would need to start looking here. I'm going to just put it this first part in blue. Basically, what's in blue we would need to confirm everybody is good with. Um, when I read through this is like how we've been doing it. So, I think we could just read through as a group and decide. Um, that being said, I'd like to update you on the board thing and then the community council and then I might sedat if you guys are cool to do those lessons by yourself or we can just call it and say we didn't get this one done. Um so boy the community council was like super easy like people were very nice um after at the end and then the governing board they wanted to thank everybody for like all the hard work that you've all put into it. Um, and they were also really happy to hear about the changes that we've made and they basically intimated that they want the committee to continue to try to finish all the policies and they were really amendable to the idea of um eventually having a staff policy group that would um meet to kind of align these best as best we could.
And so there's just it's all positive uh things that that that we're that we're getting out of this. And so I'm really looking forward to being able to implement that. Um and I think it's it's exciting for us. So um going forward, uh this is not my slide. I think this is yours, but it's okay. Can I mention something about the station adjustment? So yeah. So, and this is the uh the next slide is the very last slide, but I but I want to highlight, you know, these guys have sat up here and talked about a lot of the things that the police department's doing and and you know, there's there's always positive stories, there's always negative stories, but I've worked with a number of different um agencies, if you will, and many times those relationships are transactional. And what I've seen with OPD and the two people sitting in front of you as well as our SRO's in the crowd is that they really do live what they say.
So, right now you show about a $300 and some thousand deficit for this year so far. Um, we've talked before about how sometimes having that repay month really hurts school district like this. And you have one more of those coming in August. I believe there's a gain loss at the bottom to show you what the gain losses are. your losses are there's not a gain in any of them as you can see but your losses have gone down um 327,000 what your loss is um there's a revenue comparison on the next sheet for 21 for January and April and then an expenditure comparison and your last sheet shows the best and the worst revenue for expenditure comparisons your best March 2022, your revenues were greater than your expenditures. That's the only month of the 20 months I'm looking at between January 21 and April of 20 25.
Uh, any questions or comments? Mr. Uh this is a spin for spear for cool chemicals for a total of 6,653. relevant to you know how much of an increase that is from last year heavy I've only got two. There's another one. Tim and Gil. Gill came in. I got it. Okay. Uh after 6.3 has passed, I'd like to get a motion to discuss 6.4 voice systems software maintenance for K. Uh what you have in your packet is an invoice from voice system. So this is our accounting management software. They also track our hourly employees time. uh they clock in and clock out using this system. This is a yearly software maintenance fee that we have paid in the past twice long time 15 plus years. Um and the amount for that is $6,360 to continue. Is that an increase at all? It wasn't. I mean, is this some are they a normal school provider?
uh our our basic foundation goes up from 6,800 to uh just under 7,000 in 2026 and then just over $7,000 uh per student in 2027. Um so there is some increase uh but not what we had hoped and what we'd seen in the past. Um, along with that, another piece of legislation that's really uh just now coming out and kind of changing the landscape of things in terms of uh benefits for teachers is what used to be the TAG or teacher appreciation grant uh where teachers that were effective or highly effective were awarded a stipen usually around Christmas time through the uh teacher appreciation grant the monies that were set aside by the uh legislature. that has changed where now you can only award the grant to up to 20% of your teaching staff annually. Um, and those awards uh are determined based on a uh what will be a rubric from the state and then the state will look at those after we submit our 20% and determine what level of stipen they may receive.
Um but not knowing when, where, or how a lot of these accounts were approved. Um it's my preference to just have the school committee approve everything sort of in in one fell swoop. You'll also see there is some movement. So we're eliminating some accounts. So the school committee policy indicates that every that any student activity accounts that ceases to be active for a period of three years um should be um there's a process for that um so with the realization that we probably have not followed that process um I went through with Lisa and Patrick Minahan who is sort of the overseer of the student activity accounts and we looked at accounts that really didn't have any activity in like more than five years and said let's let's scrub those and let's put those funds in appropriate areas. So you'll see some actions. So the community services club hasn't had activity in uh between five and seven years.
I mean imagine what it must take to heal a knee. I mean that's a very complicated thing you know. Um it's it's amazing. So I would say it's probably way more complicated than what happened. Thank you for the talk. Um research is always dependent on technology. So comparing the 70s and now and then the future is research becoming more less or the same dependency on technological advances? Is it getting better? are getting worse. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, when you were doing this project, we were actually technological advances were actually really helpful, right? There was like new stuff that was emerging that you could do. There was um but in the 70s everything was I mean relatively speaking it was much more labor intensive to do almost any of these things. like it took you and Rhonda three four years to to do this. Um and you know with the genome sequences which came online you know around 2000 or so um it becomes much more efficient to make inferences for example about about genes and how they're organized and how they're connected to each other and stuff like that.
That motion. Thank you Al. Is there a second please? Second. Thank you Michelle. Uh, all those in favor, please signify by saying I. I. I. Any opposed? Motion carries. Thank you very much. All right, let's keep going. 5141.22 communicable infectious disease. Second. Apologize. Um that's it's just going to populate for a second to bring to the right one the correct policy. Here we go. Um so this one is communicable and infectious disease. Um this is a pretty short policy. It is exactly uh taken from CABE. Um essentially it um if there was a situation in which there was um a serious risk of transmission of of a disease or illness from a student to the rest of the students or staff um this policy um in consultation with the medical uh experts and and nursing staff and Carrie Burke who is our coordinator of health services um would allow removal of that student from school.
Moving on to retirements. Motion to accept the retirement request of Deanna Sinclair with a red at the end of 2024 2025 school year has been a food service worker with US 244 for 13 years. [Music] motion to accept the retirement request of Mara Passing with Green Bread at the end of the 2024 2025 studio. Carlo has been a food service worker with USC for 14 years. We will miss Mara and Dina at the high school. Second. Thank you. Sorry. screen spreadsheets and show what are the BMS shows. Yes. Christmas. No. No. This is just Can you scroll down? I'm not sure why. [Music] So, six This list is on results monitor result. So well actually we talked a little bit about the infection or what I know Taylor and Matt are is the spots where for example on forensics there's blanks and then um let down on FFA.
Lowry got for us. um tennis courts were refinished back in 2014 and here just last year we got new sprinkler system in there and as all you guys know with yards fertilizing over seating is always a constant expense and my question I have is is what's been done with track so I'm going to get into some pictures and stuff um and more descriptions here while we do have a nicer dirt track I mean we made catch canvas last year for Pat Styles dirt track classic as I call it um hosting and that meet you know we have minor improvements have been made to that um back when they knew there how it bothered Diane a lot with a lot of my years in statistics here um they did do some work on the high jump runway out there or pits in about 2013 when they redided the parking lot since then it hasn't been touched and I got some pictures on here between the cracks and the chunks falling off out there that we try to practice on daily I hit the wrong button occasionally Ally, I think since I've been here and since 2011 and 12, we have purchased maybe two roll out mats for the kids on long and triple jump.
And our staff, especially I'd like to give a shout out to assistant principal Richardson who's made attendance his full-time job practically um to make sure that high school kids are there. And you can see our daily attendance rate for um since second semester started. And in your packet are the rates since school year started. But we have consistently held um at or above 90% average daily attendance. The our only little um downturn at fourth quarter which is to be expected is the senior class has been attending at 89%. So as the year wears on you know we're not quite as interested in school our senior year. So I had left a blank in your report that said about the value of the scholarships earned by the class of 25. That's because we were waiting till we had the final numbers last week. Uh $3.5 million is the value of scholarships earned by this year's graduating class.
They they also seem supportive, if the committee would like it, of shifting some of the committee work to virtual. And um can you repeat that? They were also supportive of shifting some of the work to virtual to make it easier on the team because we know that sometimes being able to be in this room is a has been a bit of a hardship for people. So I mean I think we need personally I believe we need some inerson meetings but I don't know that all of them need to be in person. So we we could certainly look at shifting and and sort of mixing that up for next year. And then Amen. Apparently I'm not getting push back from from the board member who's who's exio. Um and then the other thing was that there is a desire uh for some students to work on um a student bill of rights and that this committee might tie into that because a lot of what would be in there really would be influenced by the shift that this team has made in our student behavior policies to be more about rights and responsibilities than punitive, you know, reactions to behaviors.
We were on the phone today uh with Sergeant and he's like, "You know what? I we we got to do whatever we can to help this kid." Like there's no point in charging a 12y old or a 14year-old or a 16-year-old or a six-year-old because that's not getting us to where we want to be. And so they can talk about these things and they can give you all the bullet points and all the bolded bolded print and all that other stuff, but they are living what they say. And as I said, I've worked with many agencies where that's not always the case. No, that is not. And so to have a leadership to have leadership sitting here saying this is what we believe in, but they're actually acting on it and trying to keep kids out of the court system and trying to keep kids um to have a relationship with law enforcement that is not a negative interaction or a traumatizing interaction is huge.
You have a couple that are down, not a lot, and you've got couple, and I think part of that uh as far as the worst ones show is going to be because I think that's right about the time uh Vicki came on board. I don't think she had had a chance to um access all the money from the state. Am I correct, Mickey? Um you're saying 2022. 2021 and 20. Yeah, 2021. Yeah, 2021. Yeah. Yep.