[Applause] Laosa Mateo [Music] [Applause] Sandovalina Romina Daniel Tamayo [Applause] Love you, Ariana. [Music] [Applause] [Music] Marier John Jr. [Applause] [Music] Now that congratulations graduates for receiving your diplomas. [Applause] And now to officially mark this moment of transition, I invite the student council vice president Abriana Valdez to the to lead the turning of the tassels. [Music] Graduates, please rise. On the count of three, one, two, three. You may now turn your tassels. [Applause] [Music] Ladies and gentlemen, I now present to you our graduates, the class of [Applause] [Music] 2025. Graduates, this is it. is now the beginning, the first chapter of the rest of your story. Congratulations once again. You have made us all very proud. Thank you for joining us tonight. Please remain in your seats as the graduates exit the stage. [Music] [Applause] [Music] I can see it clear as day. [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] Looking for the answer.
But if there's one thing we have proven to ourselves is that we are ready for this beginning. Congratulations, class of 2025. [Applause] Our next speaker is John Lewis. [Applause] We're here for you if you need it. Okay. All right. Thank you. Well, we made it. It's kind of hard to believe we're here. Ready to step into the next chapter of our lives, but I think back to when we first started, and high school was kind of just a blur for me. I wasn't always the most focused student. I didn't always take school seriously. But things changed in when my mom was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in January 2022. My priorities changed. School became harder cuz my mind was elsewhere. I was worried about my mom and wondering if she'd be here to see this day. Then last year in April, she passed away two days after her birthday.
Special luck in your future endeavors. We have two recipients this year for the scholarship both getting $1,000 each. We also would like to thank all of you that did apply for our scholarship. We make our jobs very difficult um to make this final decision. But the two recipients this year are Joseph Y and Katherine Schwar. [Music] Good morning. My name is Jamie Holamp and I am here to present the Adam Holamp Memorial Scholarship. I would like to start off by talking a little bit about my husband, Adam. Adam was a Greensburg Community High School graduate in 2005. He was a farmer in Decar County his entire life. His passion, knowledge, and versatility for all things agriculture was impressive. He gained a degree in egg systems management from Purdue University in 2009. He worked for several years as a manager at Premier Egg in St. Paul in here in Greensburg and he held a position as an account manager for an agriculture software company that allowed him to travel the country all while also working on his family's farm.
Any discussion? No. All right. We'll take it to a vote. Mr. Phillips I. Mr. Pesca. I. And I vote I. Item number two. I recommend to the board that they accept the following teacher resignations. Courtney Gray effective May the 9th. Amber Ratcliffe. Ashley Parszic. Linda Scartosi and Kylie Eldridge resignations effective at the end of the school year. We've heard the recommendation. Do we have a motion? I'll make the motion. I'll second the motion.
Okay. Uh we have the map in front of us. questions from That's pretty straightforward. Questions or comments from the board. Well, that's why they're doing a conduit. Conduit, right? Yeah. Okay, that's fine. Y be before we move on on and vote on it. Um, Jac, I do have a quick question for you. How's the uh how's the process going with trying to remove uh the double polls in town? Actually, before you ask her that question, Joe, let's wrap this up and then you can ask her that, okay? So we can keep this. Um, is there anyone here to talk against or for this project for the Grover Road Eversource? No. Okay. Um, Susan, did we get anything from anybody against this for this supporting comments? We did not. We did not. Okay. So, we've announced the public hearing. Is there any other information that the select board needs or any deliberation from the board in before we can close the hearing and take a vote on this uh project?
Mack Whitward knocks the ball off. She's looking. That should have been a No check. Gets the ball up to Calibies. Calib feathers one in uh just a little bit behind Parsons and that will get out of bounds. Spartans have coach Moses and Coach Thompson down there. Coach Naza not making the trip up to Spartan Field tonight. You can tell what type of game it's going to be if Coach Maz is here or not. Constantini gets the ball over to CrarAel. Crarabel back to Constantini. Back whiter there to displace it. Some type of call. Constantini. Constantini running the ball around. Gets the ball over to Lorac. Ball gets lost again. Tough time for for Awam today. They seem to get one two passes and then the Spartans are there to knock it away. But good job by Angelina Trul to knock it loose. She makes headway down.
Now we are back to the top of the fifth inning. Mason Rule still on the mound and a 19-1 ball game. Number 24 looks at a ball. The one swing. I miss strike one. If the Spartans don't get within 10 runs in this inning, it will end via mercy roll as the 1-1. So I got a missed strike two. Unbelievable. It's like February. The one two sort of miss. Strike three. One [Music] out. Do it again. Number 17 not being subbed into the game. Miss check one [Music] off speed. two. [Music] Swing a miss. Strike three. Two down. [Music] Number 12. No. stepped up to the dish. Way early on that one. Strike one. [Music] Oh, count. And he swings way late on that one. Strike two. Now how the y2 count. Swinging a miss. Strike three. Oh, he's going to go down to first and he falls down for the third out.
And our uh par educators will be continuing with the 321 training which has been um one of the kind of requisite trainings that we've been having them work their way through. Can you just clarify what happened with the AP static? I don't know. I AP stat or AP psych? AP stat. I did not hear anything about AP stat. Sorry. Give us something to look forward to talking about tomorrow. Yeah, certainly asked. Um, thank you, Anna. Appreciate that. Uh, under business and operations, uh, a big congratulations to the board, board of selectment, board of finance, uh, and and congratulations to our students and our staff and, uh, a real thanks to our residents for getting out and voting. um with the passage of the referendum for not only town budget, school budget, but also capital budget. So, we all can now really have the laser focus on preparing for next year with with a budget in place.
So if I understand you're using in my own terminology the way I put it in my own mind the opera money using as a reserve as a contingency reserve to see how things work out come come June 30th allowing these costs to remain in the operation account. Best case scenario, if we don't have to use it, then we have that proper money to spend on something else. Is my thinking correct? That's correct. Um, additionally, and I want to say it, um, I'm just checking now. Um, so the the 7.7 I said none of it has been spent. Um, there are no actual expenses, but we do have $3,700 income, but it's technically not correct there. the small and I thought there was something that was said on the spending of that offer. It was accelerated to we had to spend it by the end of 26 or am I wrong?
So, um it sometimes it's hard for it's a hard concept for board members. Um you're not going to surrender your individual um judgment on your independent judgment on anything and you're also not going to use your position for the gain of yourself or your friends or your family. This is confident. This is about confidentiality. You will hold all things confident confidential until such time that they're not confidential because by rel which means like in an executive session periodically you may release the minutes if that whatever you discussed was no longer confidential things that are done in committees although because it's not a public meeting so you might consider them confidential until they show up on a board agenda for discussion um or they're in the in the the board you know the support of the committee. Um and and you know if by releasing confidential information you can real do real harm to people.
Uh she started as an elementary school teacher, made her way over to the middle school ELA department and hasn't looked back since. Um she thrives. Um she she works. She's a grinder. Um the one thing I always thought about teaching was that teaching the high performing kids, the honor students, the AP students, those are the easy students to teach because they're self motivated. They push themselves. They don't need a teacher to give them that extra boost. Where Mrs. Palmary thrives in her teaching is with the kids who struggle. It's with the at risk students, students who may be reading below grade level, writing below grade level. And I'm just an amazement what she's able to do with these kids year in and year out. And every year when we're talking about courses that the teachers are going to be teaching, the following year, I feel like Allison's name always comes up with the kids who need that support the most.
It was the hardest thing I've gone through. But in the midst of it all, something clicked. I realized I needed to honor her memory by pushing myself, getting back on the right track, and by making the most of the life she encouraged me to live. So, as we step forward, let's carry the lessons we've learned, the memories we've made, and the dreams we hold dear. The future is ours to shape. Let's embrace it with courage, compassion, and a relentless pursuit of our goals. Wow. Our next speaker is Eileen Morales Aris [Applause] Mendes. Congratulations. It's right here. You're going to do great. Good afternoon. My name is Eileen Morales at Mendes. Standing here today, I can't help but think about how fast time moves. One day, we're walking into the school for the first time, unsure, nervous, wondering where we'll fit in. Now, here we are at the end of this chapter.
One of his favorite jobs on the farm was hauling cattle to Nebraska in his kennas with our dog Brantley in the passenger seat spending hours catching up with his buddies on the CB radio as he drove. He even coined our basement gathering space after this. the Bullhaller Saloon. In 2016, Adam and his father took a leap of faith and established their own farm together, Whole Camp Family Land and Livestock. In March of 2020, he achieved his primary career goal to provide for his family by working full-time on his own farm. As his wife, I experienced all of the dedication, hard work, and faith that Adam put into all things agriculture. Adam's life ended far too soon in January of 2021 at 34 while completing his routine morning chores on our farm. Adam was incredibly intelligent, talented, and capable in many arenas. He had goals as high as the sky, though he measured success a little differently than most.
Any discussion? Discussion. Okay, we'll take it to a vote. Mr. Phillips, I. Mr. Pesca, I. And I vote I. Item number three, I would recommend to the board that they approve to hire Diana Flanigan to be the principal at Edison Junior Senior High School effective with the 2025 2026 school year. We've heard the recommendation. Do we have a motion? I'll make a motion. I'll second.
Everyone had everyone has had a chance to look at the documents. It's 65 ft of conduit. I guess actually I do have one question, Jacqueline. This does look like some of it's in the road. Is that correct? Yes. So, um, will you be putting the road back to its best of original state after you're done? Absolutely. Okay. Because that's I know sometimes it's been an issue where work's been done and it's been patched, but it then causes issues moving forward. So, Okay. Yes. Great. Any other questions or comments or deliberation? No. I can get a motion to close the hearing, please. So moved. Okay. All those in favor? I. Is there any other discussion?
She's looking. Lucy's got to turn around. Get the ball over to Kenna Marino. Kenna Marino hits Mckne coming in. Mcknney. Nothing there. Gets the ball to Marino. Marino feathers a pass in. Calibaries with a Twizzler. And Calib is getting a dangerous shot. Looked like a Twizzler shot. I don't know how that's going to be dangerous, but she must have hit the Awan player as Calibra will spend two minutes in the box. Spartans will be down. A player 10-1 9 minutes to go. Mcknney trying to check good rope or Bernard. Bernard going all the way down. Nobody stopping her until Yeah. Kendall Reed says, "No thank you. I'll take that." Jenna Holly scoops it up. Quickly gets the ball up. Ball's loose. Ken Marino in there. Agaw ends up with the ball. Mahoney has it. Kicks it. They can't see that far. Constantini with it. Techn gets called for a cross check.
Back to back. One, two, three inning for Monument. 19 to1 going bottom five. [Music] Let's go. All you. All you. Let's go. Now in the bottom of the fifth. Number 12 hits it out to left and make the catch for the first out. [Music] Let's go. No off the bat. Yo Acavo Ball inside. So you're going to miss strike one. Y strike two. [Music] Yi and strike three. Two down now. [Music] Oh, outside to Maruga. Hit in the air to right. Foul territory. We'll get down. [Music] Hit on the ground a short. Flesco has it. And that'll be it for the third out. Monument wins 19 to1 via mercy rule over East Meadow. East Meadow season comes to an end. Their two seniors who have played their last baseball game, Derek Hellberg and Mason Kelner. for the rest. It should be back the next year.
So, that's that's actually really great news. Um and thanks to to the administrative team and everybody uh along with the budget uh along with the board for all the work on the budget and uh deliberations over the years and certainly um again board of selectment and board of finance with a lot of help and a lot of scrutiny we we got through the process as we always have and I can't believe I'm closing out on a 10th but it's been a decade. Unbelievable. Um we are really excited actually to move forward on a school breakfast program for next year. That was one of the items I included in the update to the state of the district. last week and I'd asked uh Casey to share a little bit about that, what that might look like. Sure. Sure. So, we've started the process with the state um and have confirmed fortunately that uh making this change to include the uh add the breakfast program to the n as part of the national school lunch program will not uh require us to go back out to bid again.
Was there an acceleration? June 20 that one is June 2026. There are other grants that were recently accelerated. This is not okay. Yeah. Um and and in addition uh in a similar manner, there was money in that the $7.5 million spending plan for information technology. The um in order to get uh the money from ARPA, it's reimbursed from the city. What has to happen is we have to give all the documentation and that documentation has to include very specific language and verbiage in the purchase order and requisition. Um in addition the vendors have to uh fill out an an addendum. Everything is very specific. Um once the funds are expended, we then submit them to the city and the city sends them to a legal team and that legal team reviews them to make sure that they are in compliance with uh with ARPA. Uh once they give uh their documentation and they give their okay, they tell the city and the city would then release the money um to the to the schools.