And I encourage you to listen for what resonates most with you. If by Redard Kipling. If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you. If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you. But make allowance for their doubting too. If you can wait and not be tired by waiting or being lied about, don't deal in lies. Or being hated, don't give way to hating. And yet, don't look too good nor talk too wise. If you can dream and not make dreams your master. If you can think and not make thoughts your aim. If you can meet with triumph and disaster and treat those two impostors just the same. If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken twisted by naves to make a trap for fools. Or watch the things you gave your life to broken and stoop and build them up with worn out tools.
There's no um wood or anything in the building. It was built to be completely fireproof on purpose and has these massive beams um going every which way. So on the third plane, you can see that um the idea of a landing, a second landing at the bottom of the stairs um is impossible uh for two reasons. Um one is a headroom issue. There's the the main carrying beam for the the all the floors above goes right where that would um overhead of that landing which only leaves you I think it's like 5 foot 8 or something 5'6 headroom. Um and that that beam is not it's you can't it's impossible to move that beam. Um the other reason is that there's um the main HVAC system that was just installed also runs through there, which would cost uh a lot of money to move, but it doesn't really matter because there's no headroom.
Um and so um that has changed the percentage of responses we get. We used to get you know a very high percentage of student responses. Is this done at school on the computer? Yes. Okay. For the kids. How about the parents? Is that done on the computer as well? Yeah. Their phone or computer, but they do that on their own time. So it's outside of school. So yeah. Gotcha. Uh is there more to this one, Cass? No. No. Okay. Um Um Yeah, I'm liking that, you know, almost that we have a high percentage of kids who say almost never fights. And and I will say to you that we've worked really hard this year, particularly at our upper grades, to help parents, students, and staff understand um the difference between assaults and fighting. And um uh the general the general definition among students and parents is um that anytime any student hits or kicks or whatever another student that that's a fight.
Yeah, those are the two um halftime nurses and so they'll be filled with a full-time position, right? But you didn't say I didn't add the nurse. You didn't say them on a vacation. Where did I miss them? You didn't say their names whenever um for the resinations. Yes. And I'm drawing a blank on their names and it's not written down on my sheet. Carrie Kler. Carrie Kettler and Jason Archer. Jacquellyn Archer. Thank you. Carrie Kettler and Jacqueline Archer are the two Eagle View part-time nurses. My apologies. So, we need to amend this for PE Health and nurse. Yes. Yeah, we need the nurse vacancy as well. Okay. All right. Any other questions, concerns, additions, subtractions? Thank you for catching that. Hear none. We may like to make a motion to approve the consent agenda as presented and amended. I'll make the motion. Thank you, Tyson.
Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Hallelujah. [Music] Here we [Music] are. Heat. Heat. [Music] [Applause] [Music] Yeah. Oh yeah. [Music] [Applause] But um both Isaac and Luke soled on that song and the Second [Applause] song. Thank you [Music] very practiced it with my middle schoolers. If you guys were here last night, we had it. He can attest for it, right, Joe? Okay, stand up. We're going to practice the B. Thank you for putting it up with me. [Music] Yes. All right. So, now we're going to bring the thunder. This is the Taha Rock. Hasn't even started yet. But, um, while we're getting this going, as my seniors come out, I'm going to, um, introduce them to you a little bit. It's uh a tradition we do here kind of, you know, meets the senior. I'll tell you a little bit about uh what their plans are in life and maybe what size shoes they wear or something like that.
I think Jeff, you do a really good job. Um, and and I don't want to I don't want to look for I don't want to look for somebody else. And I don't mean to say just pointing out the cost that whenever we do end up going out for new superintendent at some point, let's say you retire in 10 years or something like that, um there is the cost of the search firm uh relocation because the town charter requires the superintendent to live here in the town of Cheshire. Um, so there's a number of costs that are baked into that that are also uh would exist most likely if we went to new superintendent. Again, I want you to stay, but I'm just pointing this out as sort of a backdrop to what we're looking at as a board. What I'm what's going through my mind.
If you can make a heap of all your winnings and risk it on one turn of pitch and toss and lose and start again with your beginnings and never breathe a word about your loss. If you can force your heart and nerve and senue to serve your turn long after they are gone. And so hold on when there is nothing in you except the will which says to them hold on. If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue or walk with kings nor lose the common touch. If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you. If all men count with you, but none too much. If you can fill the unforgiving minute with 60 seconds worth of distance run, then yours is the earth and everything in it. And which is more, you'll be a man, my son. Class of 2025, your future is filled with endless possibilities.
Um, so we're basically asking for just one quarter of an inch um of height variance from the 7 to 7 and 1/4 riser in order to be able to make a um much wider and much less steep angle and definitely much safer uh staircase. Um the whole idea is just to make this a lot safer. This is the main um stairs between the main floor and the basement which gets used hundreds of times every single day. Um and we're just trying to make it so that this is like uh a lot safer for all the people that use the stair. Okay. Thank you. Any comments? I would just uh ask clarification. So the um tread depth as measured from the nosing to nosing of the step below it would be the 11 in that's not well which version do you mean? You mean on the are the propos what you're proposing.
And by definition that's not a fight, that's an assault. Fight takes two or more. And uh uh so you know I'm I'm this is three through five so I'm not particularly disappointed about this but I think there's some muddy in mud in this water relative to uh fights because based on the data from our schools this year we have had very few actual fights. We've had assaults where one student attacks another student and um uh I'm happy that we've not had as many fights at any of our sites this year. Um you know, but we now are working on reducing the number of assaults as well. Is there anything done on this survey to uh explain to parents how important it is that their kid takes part in this and they take part in such a survey? It's in the letter we sent home and we posted on Facebook and stuff, but Oh, it was okay.
Do I second? I'll second. Thank call, please. Norin Friedrich. Yes. Kelly Moyer, yes. Greg Meyer, yes. Lisa Schumacher, yes. Tyson search. Yes. Perfect carries. Our next item is communication reports and presentations. Uh enrollment report is in your packet. And we have a little special presentation tonight. I think Ann Noble is here. Guardian. There you are. You're hiding right in the front. Hiding right out front. That's right. Right in plain sight. These kids are way more fun than um just want to give you guys an update on the last piece of burn for the construction project. Um we we are down to the nitty-gritty. Um so tonight I'm just going to walk you through um the process that we'll be doing and then Can I interrupt you real quick? I just wanted to let everybody know that's watching and in the audience. Anna is with Stiffl and she's our finest person that's financing our bonds to build the the school project.
But um yes, so I have three seniors and we'll get into that in a minute. But while I actually actually while I have one senior present, let me start with him. This is Mr. Connor Chrisman. He he is well known throughout all of Tahanto as the Arctic cat. Um he he can explain to you or actually I can tell you why. Um one of the reasons he's known as the Arctic Cat because one of his favorite things to do is to ride snowmobiles, right? He also Mr. Connor I feel like this is like a beauty. I feel like uh or excuse me, Connor also plays a lot of fight and drums. So, he has a rich family tradition of playing uh traditional Americana fight and drum music throughout uh Connecticut and parts of Massachusetts. Um anyway, he his plans after college are to major in music and mechanical engineering and he plans to attend the University of Southern Maine.
Um, and I think that, yeah, the the one thing that goes through my mind the most, I think you as a superintendent, sort of the standard superintendent role, the curriculum, I think your focus on SEAL, the complex thinking, I like it. I appreciate it. I think you're doing a really good job with that. Um, but the one thing that we have here that most towns don't have is school modernization and getting us through the next 15 16 months, getting the schools open on time and within budget. I have every belief that you will do it and that is that's probably my number one expectation in terms of this contract. So, uh, thank you for everything you've done and in advance for what I expect you're going to be doing in the years to come. Other comments? So, I I'm going to echo Dr. Solen. I think I'm the only one that probably knows you the longest, having my children gone through you when you were assistant principal and principal at Dodd and then principal at, you know, the high school and then as superintendent.
So stay curious, be resilient, and dream big. I am confident that you will shape our world in remarkable ways. And as a D20 grad, we welcome you back to share about your future adventures. So let's give it up for the class of 2025. [Applause] [Music] Thank you, Mrs. Habberer. At each graduation, we have members of the senior class, and we ask them if any of them wish to speak at graduation. This year, we have three senior speakers. First to the podium is Ash Acavdo. Welcome, Ash. [Applause] To all the graduates you see before you today, we did it. For many of us, we achieved something we never thought possible. High school is tough and for me, if it weren't for an amazing school full of opportunity like Aspen Valley High School, I wouldn't be standing here speaking to you right now. I'm deeply honored to have been chosen to speak today and help us all cherish this incredible moment.
So I think we were it earlier Dwight I think you were measuring it and not including or the dimension we were using um was including the nosing and the code requirement did not include the nosing. So we may need a tread variance on the tread. Oh. Oh yeah. I thought you meant the other one the other version. Yeah. No no I just wanted to make sure that that that we were clear on what was being requested. Thank you. Right. Yeah. So, what is the proposed riser to riser dimension on the tread? What's that? Riser to riser dimension on the proposed plan is 10 and a quarter then. No, the riser is seven and a quart tread. The tread length. Um, no, it's 10 10 in with a 3/4 in nosing plus 3/4 in nosing. Okay. You're asking for an inch variance as mentioned going from 11in tread to a 10in tread.
That's what I didn't know. Okay. Could we just instead of doing them all, could we just do the school? Yeah. um school level for the eighth, sixth, eighth grade because I think this would be a better comparison than right so uh so even though it says 6 through 12 of course that's 6 through eight for us and uh 46% u uh indicate feeling safe at school. Look at the number of responses. Still not what we want though. No, no, it's not. You know, we'd like to have more than that. Um, and once again, we'd like, we'd like to be able to drill down and find out are they not feeling safe with each other or are they not feeling safe in the environment, you know, in the school. um because that isn't real clear to us what they mean, you know, what they're which which perspective they're using for that.
So, thank you, sir. Perfect. Sorry. Thank you. All right. So, um we have already financed about 24 million in bonds. We did 10 million in 23 14 million and 24 and this year we are scheduled to do the last 29 million to get you at a total of 53 million for all of the facility improvements. Um obviously most of that being at the high school. So um we are going to do that in two pieces just like we did last year. uh we will sell debt certificates first which are essentially a bridge loan and then those get taken out and replaced by the funding bonds. Um so it is a two-step process and four meetings of the board, four pieces of action. So that's highlighted for you on page three. So tonight we're just discussing briefly. Then in June you'll approve the resolution for the debt certificates.
Uh, his favorite memory of band was the Six Flags trip we had last week. It was a good time. Yeah. Read nonstop. The whole the whole team was non-stop. Very Yeah. You guys know the deal. We all been there. All right. My next senior is is hiding right behind me. This is Ari Rock. So, her plans um are to go to community uh Quinc Sigman Community College for automotive and she wants to be a mechanic and Formula Formula One car. Right. Right. That would be a good time. Right. All right. Her favorite her favorite band memory. Oh, she has multiple. That's nice. So do I. Um is that she did not realize before she played at um in a Tanto talent show how much she was really going to enjoy uh rocking out in front of a live crowd of people, which is absolutely fantastic.
Um, and I, you know, being in the business, so to speak, it's it's data driven. And, um, I've clearly been able to see from a parent perspective, from taxpayer perspective, that what you do well is that you take feedback and you try to improve um, based on the community feedback and the members on the board here, no matter what board it has been, um, that is something that I've always um, admired about you is the fact that you listen and then you apply. And so I appreciate that. I appreciate being able to navigate especially this year one of the hardest budgetary seasons ever for your however 10 years as super. So um but just to inform the public there are accountability measures um you know it may sound from what Mr. White has said that the salary might be a lot right um but built into that there are accountability measures that Dr.
Each of us here should be proud we've made it to this stage and I truly believe we are all going far in life. If you would have told me two years ago that I would be giving a speech at graduation, I wouldn't have believed you. But because of the support of this amazing staff and community, here I am. The teachers and team at Aspen Valley have always been welcoming, always there to lend a hand, and always making sure we stayed on track. And our community, the friends, the classmates, the mentors have made this school feel like home. They've made sure none of us ever felt excluded. I want to thank the people in my life who helped me get this to this day. Thank you to my aunt Sabrina who stepped in at the perfect time to help guide my family forward. Your humor never fails to leave a smile on our faces.
Uh, right. which is the residential code. This is multif family. No, I know I what all I mean is that it's not it's not it's it's comply with residential code but this is considered commercial because city ban concerns it considers this commercial use. staff have any comments or questions? Yeah. Um, from the proposal you had the first time till now, um, there were at the bottom of the stair there were two doors leading out and now there is just one door. The It looks like there's a wall missing on the right hand side of the proposed variance plan. Yeah, we just uh in the last meeting they said that it would not be required to be a fire exit since we already have the two. So, we removed that in order to make it more open to the lower space. So, it's an open stair with a guard rack, right?