7:30 for Cheshire Indiana. Uh Gary, Indiana on the western side of Indiana, but still in the eastern time zone, Eastern Standard is I believe their sunrise and sunset are about 45 or 50 minutes behind us. and and and so the point that I'm making is that the the the information that I've seen before and I hadn't heard about what Sam had said about um some of some studies being inconclusive which for me adds to the discussion a bit. Um I haven't seen it with I haven't seen it where it's uh location specific. it speaks broadly and I that doesn't I don't mean to say that it's uh irrelevant. I just am curious to know what it really means for Cheshure when we have close to a 1 hour time difference with another time the the other side of our time zone and to that extent Cheshire is probably starting later in the daylight time.
um ongoing has been uh teacher hiring, teacher pupil services staff, uh para educator, non-certified folks, um and doing the last final touches on all of our summer school hiring. So, we've been super busy. Um those of you who in this building today saw I had two of the four temporary um helpers that I have from CF Staffing who've been amazing. Um I have them for this summer and they are uh batting cleanup on all of the paperwork that's involved in all of the onboarding for um what's going to be several hundred people this summer. So we're in full swing and uh we hope to yield some good results. Thank you very much. Thank you again for today. You can see it's quite a process because if you ever participated in the panels, it's it's quite a long day and it's it's a very involved process, but one that always yields the, you know, the what should happen happens.
So, I think that's one thing that this year we're going to try and reach out a little earlier and then definitely emphasize to them that, you know, it's not as scary as it sounds. And we def we had some freshmen go last year and they loved it. Um, but I think that's, you know, one thing that we want to work on this year is making sure that we get as many. I know there were like two freshman last year who keep saying they're like, "Oh, we but we didn't know. We didn't know if there were going to be bathroom." Like um and they're they're all in on going this year and so we just want to make sure we get all those kids. All it takes is a few kids to spread the word, right? Yeah. Right. So, I'll probably duplicate some of the stuff we talked about last year, but uh logistically, how did things work last year?
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Forget about clock time, daylight time. We're probably actually starting later than Indiana does. Does that make sense? Yeah. Okay. And again, I'm not saying I'm not saying no to it by any means. I'm just adding that I think that that's uh for me that's relevant. Um if that is part of the reason that you're doing it, so it's better start times for the kids. Uh but aside from that, I totally get the idea that this is a complete this is this is a lot to deal with. And so if the start times if it's appropriate to have start times change, I I'm open to that as well. Um because there's so much going on here. And you're already talking about like adding what 15% in runs going from 36 to 41. So a lot of this is going to be changing anyway. It needs to change, right?
So, it's a it's a good process. Um, okay. Food service management update. So every every year there's an opportunity to um do something called a uh enter into an RFP which is a request for proposals um where we can see other vendors for all of our uh basically everything that we do but in this case this year it was for our food service management. Um we have used for quite a while um but we uh definitely threw our hat in the ring to see what other vendors and service providers there are out there. And um I'm going to turn it over to Mike in a second so I can prep your mic up for for a bit. Um but we have gone in a different direction for next year. Um and seeking um just a a good opportunity for in terms of price service um the health and nutrition for our kids and what we're serving and um some creative uh options for our district.
both from your perspective and I also know from there was leaving our meeting there was stuff to work out uh cory's and and all the other things for uh for everybody going including I think said it was your parents place whatever so they were going to be up there you know core and uh so how did the logistics go how what would you change um and things like that yeah so the parents that um came are parents that worried and I conversation I had it with you after the fact or Kevin but um because Emily's parents are in Vermont. So that that that's not true. Cory's a core is for us. It's not for them. It's it's for us to do nothing would show. It only shows mass records. It doesn't show unless you do the national fingerprint. I I I'm sorry. I did check on that.
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And I think that's the point I want people to really walk away with is that um you know, we're not just doing this because hey, you know what would be a fun project? Um changing all of our school start times. Um yeah, we've got enough fun projects. So the the issue is that you know given the geographic locations of the buildings and the we have to do something different with our busing anyway. Um and so yeah that's why we're doing this. Um and that the the busing is going to be impacted and school start times might be impacted to a degree. Um, so I'll jump to the the proposal for later high school start times. Uh, beyond the late high school start, you'll notice that this proposal is similar in the sense that it follows the three- tier model of where we are currently in the first proposal.
So Mike, do you want to talk a little bit about uh how that process what yielded from the process? Yeah, we had uh a total of uh five companies respond initially to the request for proposal. Um everything is outlined um fairly in detail by the state. Um and in working with uh Janet who is our um our coordinator here. We had them in. We went for a tour to each one of the schools.
I wouldn't But yeah, so the same thing holds that, you know, and Emily's parents are very willing to sign if there's a Vermont version of the Corey that they need to get. I know actually both of them work volunteer the schools up there. So they Cory only does Massachusetts things. It doesn't do any federal stuff. Correct. There's also a fingerprint, but there's a federal one. That's different. Correct. Um so they were they were not quied but the other parents were absolutely so like other logistics uh you know it's like it's like a 5 to1 you said ratio roughly right uh were where they split into groups like hey you you make sure you know this this chaperone uh ensures that they're keeping tabs on on certain groups rather than just hey the parents are around or whatever. How did it work logistically to change it?
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Uh, Tim about cost implications, you'll see that this is actually a cost savings propos uh proposal uh to the tune of $73,000. Here you can see if we pushed Cheshire High School start time to 8:15, that would mean getting out at 2:45 p.m. Uh we would need to do some shifting of the tiers. So you can see in this specific proposal, Dittle and Barnum are put in tier one. Um and Dodd and Highland are in tier three, which pushes their dismissal to 340. Um and I I'll say that this is the most costneutral of the proposals that we're going to go through tonight. So, just that you can kind of like temper your expectations in terms of we just saw like three over 300,000 um increase and this is this one is less $70,000. Uh and the reason for that is you can see the max runs per tier is 35 which is actually less buses than we're running now.
So they had an opportunity to see the operations and then there was a period where they could ask uh any questions in in detail if uh they needed to clarify anything. Um out of the five companies that came, four of them uh submitted uh bids. We publicly opened the bids on uh May 1st at 2:00 uh and we began the uh rigorous grading process. Each bid that came to us was in about a 3-inch binder um with a required USB drive. Um and there were thousands of pages each. We're required uh to submit as part of the process sort of a grading rubric on how many points we're going to award for the various categories. uh some of the categories I can't list them all but price um quality menu selections um their participation in uh farm to school um was one of them. Um and so there were four graders in total.
I mean, I guess when we were at the house campsite, um they were basically all visible like they were around their tents. They I mean, they played manhunt and were hiding once, but um you know, they were all kind of visible to all of us. Uh when we went running, um we had someone you know, at the front, someone bringing up the rear um and then people kind of in the middle. Um, and then same thing when we went hiking and we went swimming once and there were I think that was only about that was twothirds of the kids maybe because I know some of them went into handover. Um, and we had three adults there. So, two of the kids wanted to look at Dartmouth College. And Emily, your dad and Jim, I know one of the other things that was going to be worked out afterwards was some of the medical stuff like, "Hey, you know, have you making sure they have first aid?
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Um but some of the the you know the tradeoffs or potential challenges here uh are go along with like sports. Um you know running later high school start times means that our kids are getting out later and that can present some challenges with sports and our our league. Um just because we don't have a ton of schools that have later later uh end times for high school. The ones we were talking about are mostly in in Fairfield County. Um, and putting Dodd in a third tier with a 340 dismissal is pretty challenging in terms of having an athletic program um there. But there is a cost-saving measure here. Uh, developmental appropriateness for our high schoolers and then having some of the elementary schools start a bit earlier when kids are up earlier when they're smaller. Um, you know, are some of the benefits of this specific model.
Um, we had the opportunity to go and grade each one and then sit down together and put all the grades for each of the food service management companies on their own individual rubric and then transfer them over to a main sheet. Uh, tally everything up and give everyone an average score and then see who placed um highest on uh on the list. Um I can't share too much but as uh Cara alluded to um although we were with Sedexo for 40 plus years and had some really great experiences there. Um we uh wound up going in a different direction for this year. Um the contract is going to be awarded to Chartwells which is part of the compass group. Uh we notified them uh last week uh as well as the remaining three who were not selected. Um, so this week coming up, Carara, myself, uh, and Janet are going to meet with the, uh, leadership team at Chartwells and begin the process.
How was all the what are you going to do and and in these events?" And did that all get worked out and everything? We had a first aid kit and you had all the um the ad and everything. Okay. Amy's our trainer. I think we did have one minor fish incident um that that was actually dealt with at Boy Scout um knew exactly what to do, but yeah, we had the you had the first aid kit and then um I think we said this last year that it's about 10 miles from Hanover where there's Dartmouth um Hitchcock Medical Center which is um medical center. So if anything Unfortunately, that actually we have worse things track meet and cross country. I think we had a blister and a fish. Yeah. Nope. Not for not for cross country. Well, it sounds to me like it's been a great experience and will continue to be.
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