So it's been a huge hit in our building. Thank you to Mrs. Bailey. That was one of her ideas that she brought to the table. Looking ahead to next year, several staff members have already expressed interest in launching new student clubs and activities, which will further enhance our culture of engagement and belonging. We've also seen a significant increase in our PTO involvement since I've been here. Where she's at? She's right there. There's a couple of them here. So, thank you ladies for helping almost every day throughout the school year. I don't know what we would do without you both. Um, we have lots of school dances this year, weekly treats on Fridays. We did a staff appreciation week which was amazing. And then this year we came up with student appreciation week which we started off with an awesome assembly with a science wizard. I don't know if your students came home talking about it but it was my mind was blown away.
It basically got skipped over compared to the tree bylaw. It was just it was just the way the discussion went. It does not show relevance for one or the other in the comprehensive. It should show relevance both there. It should show relevance for people living and the future of people coming. Thank you. You're welcome. Sometimes maybe we should look at I think um discussion and consider that things that are discussed the least um are sometimes the most important. like at town meeting when we just very little discussion about the budget and then there might be a $1,000 item that gets a lot of discussion. Good point, Claudia. Thank you. The way it is. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Moving on our agenda, we have introduction of our two new assistant town managers. Michael, we might have to pause you to put the hearing in place, but Okay.
early timetable of the the game, finding out yesterday that tonight's game was tonight. Lucky I got somebody to cover for me at work tonight. Little does he know I will be calling out sick and he will be working 12 hours for the whole night. Hope you enjoy working all night. Kevin, if you're watching loose ball trying to knock the ball around trying to get possession of it and wants just getting a tough time for a coming up with a draw. Ball gets displaced by Mourinho. Awam holds on to it and a foul by one of the Spartans. Looks like M. Whiter and Awam will hold on to the ball for the longest time they've had all game so far. So Awam looking to get up the field and get one on the board. Jenna Holly last time getting a shut out against Awam on senior night.
Ball one. [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] The 10 AP thous. Was it back on sale? And this kid has [Applause] fast ball in there. Strike two. One and two count. Russian. Fast ball high. Ball two. [Applause] And battle call time. [Music] One, two. Ooh, a slider buckled Chappelle for strike three for number two. [Music] Now it's a bat. Ollie Clacko runner on first. Two down. Bottom of the second inning. [Music] L's offering is chopped over to third. Third baseman throws over and the batter will be safe as a first base making the tag drop the baseball and Clacko will reach on an error. off to bat Mason [Music] Ker a high ball No sir. [Music] One count back. [Music] one one offering slider in there. Strike two. Slider seems to be working for Luff. [Music] The one two fast ball in there. Strike three. Three strikeouts this inning for Monument.
Second, as a general principle relative directly relevant to the May 7th meeting, any board member who is subject to of that ethics complaint, such as the respondent to this complaint must recuse themselves and leave the de deliberation table during any discussion or vote pertaining to the complaint or handling it. They should also be recusing themselves from the vote of this meeting of meeting minutes. Third, regarding item 12, uh, consent a uh, the consent agenda, which includes the reading of the final reading of the bylaw 9211, resignation and removal of officers, reasonable cause exists for the removal of at least one board officer under the bylaw's provision. Therefore, any such officers have a direct personal conflict of interest in the deliberation and vote of bylaw 921's adoption. To avoid a clear ethics violation, these officers must recuse themselves from the issue entirely as trained by attorney Ton Mooney on October 30th and leave the deliberation table for the for this specific item.
And so, Teresa, let me ask a question, then I'll get to you. The the work you're doing currently, Mike, and that you've just explained is part of the the cleanup process for the prior years as well as for the current year that we were in. And according to you, you still continue come July 1st when a new budget is prepared. Is that going to necess necessitate again looking at different individuals or all the individuals and finding out where you're going to have to put them in order to accommodate the budget that you're going to create for for next year? Yeah, that's a good question and I wish the answer was once we did this um that was it. But um the fact is, you know, sometimes um folks will move from one location to another or perhaps they take a different assignment. Um and I I think that they'll be few and far between.
Uh and the these have not really changed significantly except for governance one. Uh right now um the last two years you have to complete governance one within 90 days of being sworn in otherwise you're found to be out of compliance. Governance two and three you still have the full year to do that. Governance four you have to do the first year every time you are reelected. And you know we have many options. It's no no longer where you have to be in person. We have live virtual. We have self-paced online. We have in-person options, all sorts of stuff. So, if you need your gov two and three, um we also offer that um in in uh Atlantic City. There are one of the things that the school ethics commission can do is issue an advisory opinion to a board member. So, what is an advisory opinion?
You all sitting around podium. Congratulations. Smile. Excellent. Our next team earned bronze medal for the state of New Jersey and they have been award winners several years in a row now. So, Victor Freighas want to stand in front. Muhammad Elhindi tomorrow. Juan Hernandez. Thank you. Thank you. Next up, we have this Eric Lo. Eric Lo. And it looks like our last one. Oh, wait. Hold on. Okay. Sah Bash and Max Grand. All right. So, uh, ladies and gentlemen, bronze medalist for the state of New Jersey. How are you doing? Congratulations. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Great job. We did that. Mr. President, it's up to you. Throw it. Yeah, we spoke through it. We're not doing No, Miss Calib, we are just going to proceed with your teacher of the year presentation. I would have left you and Captain Garcia down here.
But not this time. Stepping into the next chapter of our lives, some of us have a clear path to follow, and others plan to go wherever life takes them. Either way, we're all making a big big leap towards adulthood and saying goodbye to the place where we spent some of our most formative years. It's scary to know that everything changes from here. But it's also exciting. There are endless possibilities waiting beyond these auditorium doors. Decades ahead that are completely undetermined right now. I'll miss the chilly football game nights I spent cheering until I lost my voice and the car games I played in class with friends, mostly to avoid doing our work. But I know that there are plenty more great memories to be made in the future. When we're older, we'll probably feel nostalgic for these years. But the good times are far from over.
We get to see you grow. We get to see you overcome challenge. We get to see you persist and become the people you are. And it's it's something to definitely celebrate. So, congratulations and enjoy your [Applause] night. Tonight, we celebrate an amazing group, the graduating class of 2025. Sitting in this space tonight are young people pursuing their dreams in every area that you might imagine. Students who have completed career and teched certifications for future careers in areas such as dental assisting, robotics, heavy machinery, welding or autos programs, just to name a few. There are students who have been awarded scholarships and internships to continue their education and training beyond high school and others who are enlisting in the military. Our students interests are diverse with 80% of our graduating class continuing on to formal training programs or college after graduation. They are committed to being lifelong learners and we are proud of them for pursuing their goals wherever that takes them.
These students are Daniel Fizzy, Max Hunter, Christopher Baines, Quinton Miller, Madison Orland, Tan No, Chase, Elena Weber, and Joseph Y. The following students have enlisted in the United States military. Landon Shepherd Army Hammer Marines [Applause] The following students have earned the governor's work ethic certificates. They are Brent Abram, Ava Austin, Alexis William, Cody Case, Lance Hoy, Daniel Fizzy, Tiffany Graham, Caleb Riley, Tristan Oetler, Brooklyn Jones, Carson Miller, Sai Miller, Tam No, Taylor Perez, Kayla Tam, Chasey, Eva Tungate, Emilina Weber, The Bill Edwards Power of Nation Award goes to a senior member who personifies the idea of Mr. Edwards that you should have went and could have participated in something and presented yourself in a way that led the fire blue. This year's recipient is Mr. Chase. Good morning. My name is Philip Sers and I'm here to John Sers. Sadly, we lost him April 19th, 2020.
So I think they had a great time too. Um so we just want to keep recognizing them for all of the good that they're doing. And then back to my PTO members. I just want to thank you all for all of the time and energy you pour into our building each week. Um, and then one of the things that I did uh bring to the school this year was um through Northwest Indiana No Child Hungry. Mrs. Gretchen Mercer is the individual that I've been working with to allow some of our students to have buddy bags, which is um they can sign up for a buddy bag, which is non-perishable items they can have through the weekend at home. So, I'm excited to continue that into next school year. So, if that's something that your child wants to sign up for, we can definitely make that work.
Um well, thank you. Um so, yes, as as everybody is aware, we've had uh we've had a few shifts in in town hall and had some departures after many years of service here to the town and um people going in different directions in their uh career. And I can tell you one of um one of my my prouder moments as a town manager is when you span the organization when you do have some vacancies and you realize you don't have to look that far to find qualified great people to fill them. And uh so that is uh exactly what has happened in this case. And um so with the departure of our previous assistant town manager when that left a vacancy, we were able to use that opportunity to restructure a few things and um I do want to really reinforce for the public that it was budget neutral that that we had discussed.
Jenna's first shut out of the season. Spartans looking to double team. They get the ball up to Mahoney. Mahoney gets the ball displaced. The Awam stays with it. Bazinski with the ball. And Awam was offside. So Esau Meadow will get the ball. Not something Awam wants when they very limited possession so far in a game. You don't want to be turning it over due to an offsides call. Can Marino plenty of daylight gets the ball up the field. Ball bounces by. Addy Jordan there to pick it up. Addy goes by one. Addie Jordan will be getting herself an eight meter. Eddie Jordan runs it in. Goes low far post. Eddie Jordan with another goal. Spartans up 6 nothing with 737 to go in the first quarter. It's Addie Jordan's 14th goal against Awam this season. And I'm sure Awam will not be missing Addie Jordan next year.
Eight nothing going top three. I know, right? Top of the third inning. Owen is up the bat for Monument. Shboro in relief for Sean Croll. The wind up in there. Strike one at the bottom of the zone. [Music] Oh, one fast ball in there. Strike two. [Music] Fast ball again. Popped up. Foul. [Music] The 02 count again. Hit on the ground short. Croll picks it up and throw will be away. Gets through the first basement and the batter will now go to second base. Now the bat will be Domco. One for two with an RBI single. [Music] Dom's bunt balls outside of ball one. [Music] Pitch will step off and throw over to second. [Music] throwing showing bun again. This is low for a ball. Two all count. Fast ball in there. Strike one. 2-1. Slider in there for a strike. [Music] again. This is on the ground.
Finally, regarding item 13D, request for funding, the finance committee is recommending requesting $332,000 from the boards of selectment of finance. I suggest that this BOE reduces that to 200,000. Brookfield T tax taxpayers have not should not be funding excessive legal expenditures that appear primarily to defend questionable actions of board members or to support actions construed as harassing other board members, students, and their families. Reducing the request to 200,000 reflects a more responsible approach until this board demonstrates better fiscal stewardship over legal costs and a commitment to ethical conduct that doesn't necessitate such spending. Thank you. Thank you.
It'll be nothing as drastic as these. Um but in you know in reviewing this and seeing that part of the reason this happened is due to when the implementation was done um the the district was forced to give uh Tyler Technologies a list of everyone and what their codes were and I think that it was probably during a crunch time in COVID they didn't have enough time to make sure that everything was accurate. So a lot of them went in initially inaccurate. Um and then as people were added they were added um that um they were not added accurately. Um so I think that's the majority of it. Um but in addition, one thing that wasn't happening that we're going to do um going forward is after each payroll is produce a list uh we call it the labor distribution. And it's a list of each employee um by name um and where they're being charged.
An advisory opinion is where a board member is concerned that an action that they may take would be considered a violation. So they ask ahead of time to the school ethics commission whether they feel whether they you know what their determination is on that action. Um and um you know they provide all the information. Uh the school ethics commission will issue an advisory opinion. they will they can make that advisory opinion public if six members of the commission approve that. If they make the advisory opinion public, they scrub it of all identifying information. And you'll see that um in in a few of in a few of the advisory opinions that we list. So, you don't know who it is uh or what district because then you might be able to tell who it is for the advisory opinions. Um and again you have to the board member has to ask for that information that advisory opinion before they take the action and they have to listen to that to that whatever that opinion states it the you know their board member some board members have said it's an advisor it's an opinion I don't have to follow it well if a police officer gives you their opinion that a certain action will get you a ticket or get you arrested and you do that action you really shouldn't be surprised if you get arrested or you get a ticket.
That's fine. We need exercise. Ladies and gentlemen, this afternoon, our teachers of the year were honored at the Glen Point uh with Mrs. Calib in attendance as well. I thank all the principles for being here tonight. Mr. Calibri to honor them once again. Captain and Lieutenant, if you could join. So, on behalf of the administration and the board of education, I would like to um thank you all for being here tonight. And I would also like to recognize our teachers of the year and our educational specialists. So this evening is also about celebrating the educators who have um we thrive as a district because of you for your passion, your dedication and your commitment to our students. We want to thank you today. We were so so blessed to um share you with the county and um it was a beautiful lunchon and today uh I I do have to tell a little story today.
And for some of us, they just they've only just begun. It took a lot of work to make it to this moment. Graduation has always seemed like the ultimate goal. And now that it's completed, it's hard not to look ahead and worry about what comes next. Watching each senior senior class graduate over the years, it never quite sunk in that it would be us up here one day. But here we are and I have no doubt every one of us will have a bright future in store. Congratulations class of 2025. Thank you. Look gorgeous. Our saladan has earned the second highest weighted GPA in the class of 2025. This students record speaks for years of focus and responsibility. Please help me welcome and congratulate our saladian Chloe Cotay. [Applause] Thank you, Miss Mercy. Good evening, everyone. Family, friends, teachers, staff, and of course, the graduating class of 2025.