So yeah, I would just add, you know, with respect to the athletics at the uh high school level, it's not so much of an impact on the varsity athletic program, more so on um subvarsity sports that maybe don't have the same lighting um opportunities that the varsity programs have. uh at the um but you know again stuff that we could work through the schedule with the the bigger impediment is Emily was saying is it the with the athletics at the middle school if we're getting out at 3:40 that's about an hour after most of our peers get out and so you know by the time we get on the bus and get there nobody's going to want to play us an hour and a half two hours after their school day ended. So, you know, um that would be a more dramatic impact there where we might have to do more of an inter mural athletic program to accommodate that which, you know, many people wouldn't be bothered by, but some people would be bothered by.
Where we stand right now, just so you know, is we have to take those scoring sheets that we did and submit them to the state and the state has an opportunity to review those scoring sheets and make sure that they're in compliance with all the various rules and regulations, make sure we followed everything. Um, and we're just waiting to hear back. um with with the green light from the state. Questions? Is there another district locally that uses charm? Yeah, as part of the process they have to list um life-size schools in in Connecticut as well as some of their administrative reviews. Um they they do have uh I I'm trying to remember uh the list that Chartwells has uh off the top of my head, but I think Stanford and Norwalk are the the two that I I can remember. Did you try the food?
Any more questions or comments? before we vote to approve the proposed high school cross country trip to Vermont for the fall as provided. Second. All in favor? I I have fun. Thank you. Have a good summer. Thank you. You as well. Okay. The Wacker request that is I was there the other day. They had asked me um to come in and uh interview our students from the chorus who were going to be coming the next day to perform and be recorded. There were 40 of them. So, and they were amazing. And it turned out that I was available and I could run right over. And I was just so impressed with their talent and reminded about how much talent we have here on all different levels, right? the athletics and the debates and the music and all of it. But this was really special. While I was there though, they asked me if I'd be willing to come periodically after our meetings and give a report on what happened at the meeting because I guess Yolanda is doing that for the select board.
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Um the other thing is the $73,000 savings there is rather conservative. Um like the other numbers are conservative. And if indeed we did not have a middle school um intercolastic athletic program and had an inter mural program, the savings would be increased by probably another $100,000 on top of that. So, um just again points of consideration, points of information. I frankly I'm not advocating for any of these. Um, I mean, if you if you ask me to make a recommendation, I I could make a recommendation, but that all these are options on the table, I think, for people to talk about and ultimately we'll make a decision. Tim, yeah, thank you. Um, do we have uh any inter mural sports at DOD right now? Intercolastic, we have more intercolastic sports. Um, limited inter mural activities. Yeah, because the one thing I'm the So, as as everybody here knows, I think everybody here knows um my kids are approaching Dodd.
Honestly, I'm just serious. Yeah. So that that is um that can certainly be part of the process. Um we did not this time. um kind of kind of upset about that as a foodie, but um you uh how long is the contract? Uh the contract uh is typically a renewable contract for a term of 5 years, but we're certainly not locked in. So if at the end of this year, for whatever reason, we're unhappy, uh we have the ability to go through this process all over again, uh to select new vendors. it seemed like at the right time to to see what else was available out there. It's been a very long time since we even entertained a change. Um we also have a new very large building coming online, a new high school, and so we have to make a lot of changes there and bring on new staff.
I saw one posted the other day. I don't know if you guys have had a chance to see it yet, but what they're looking for is just a like five minute, 10 minute, you know, on May 28th we met. These were the items on the agenda. you know, it's just kind of a way to broadcast to the community what we discussed. Another way to get some information out there about what we're doing. Um, so my answer was just that, you know, it sounds great. I'm available. I'd love to, but I want to talk to the committee, make sure it's something that you guys want. And also, if there was somebody else dying to do it, give whoever an opportunity to throw their hat in. So, that's the request. Um, number one, do you think it's a good idea? And number two, um, wants to do it.
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Um then I'm starting to have more conversations with parents at DOD and the um I'm just wondering it the feedback that I've gotten a little bit is kind of like eighth graders get to participate in intercolastic sports at DOD and seventh graders don't. at least for some of the smaller sports. And true that to that extent um uh is there a is there a benefit to the seventh graders um with more of an inner mural focus rather than inner scholastic focus? I I just I and I put this out kind of rhetorically. It's what go you know what's going through my mind. I'm not sure. I I'm I'm confident that there would be people who would be upset. And we also have So my kids are not really involved in sports, not organized sports. I also feel like there's a lot of these travel and United Leagues.
So, the timing um although there's so much happening right now, it uh was a little daunting to to make the lead to try to see what was there, but uh we thought it was the right thing to do and um it was it's a very long involved process that tied up folks here for quite a long time. So, appreciate the work that your team did on that and uh we look forward to to a new relationship. All right. um how does that affect um our folks that are working in the schools in the cafeteria? Good question. Kim, do you want to take that one? There are folks. So, yeah. So, all of the folks with the exception of a couple of the very senior manager folks that we um have from they sec or they loan to us. Um all of the employees, so all of the members of the school edge collective bargaining unit are all Danbury public school employees.
I think it's a great idea. um just you know get more information out there even though it's not going to be you know a super in-depth but just these are the things we people really interested they can go find the minutes they can watch the recording um can tune in on Wednesday night they can tune in absolutely yeah and I mean I saw I didn't see the whole thing but I saw the snips snippets that were on social media you did an amazing job so I vote you I am more than happy to let you take the lead on that I think I think it was great looked like a lot of fun it was a lot of fun but um like you like we usually pick people on committees in the summer. I just wanted to make sure before I said yes that it was supported by everybody and and again the intent is not to go too deeply into anything.
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Does that only go up through sixth grade? No. Or that continues like into high school like some kids who get into potentially professional sports like Brian Leech or Brad Osmus. Um. Right. And so I wonder I wonder how if we if I wonder how big of a how big of an impact it would be if we move to if we move to more of an inter mural and less of an intercolastic focus for I mean that's a really good question and it's a fair question worth asking whether or not we were changing start times you know I mean the the point you made about on smaller sports teams um that are uh roster limited like let's say basketball. Um yeah, I mean the the team often will have a eighth grade game and like a seventh grade game. So there are some like a JV middle school sort of game where they play maybe a quarter.
So I I um explained it this morning as if you think of it as there's the shell and now a new person will be providing the shell and our folks will continue to do their bargaining unit work unabated. So it's just a couple. Any other questions to Kim? I think it's time for a change. So, ever since I've been sorry. Okay, great. Um, all righty. And then the last one is the Westside Academy at the AHS West Transportation. Um maybe about a month or so ago, we started to talk about um some potential run accommodations and scenarios and we needed some time to work through those um and for the bus company to take the addresses and to lay out a plan that could work and then to test that plan to make sure that they could um do the runs that that they thought would would work best um from an efficiency standpoint um but also from uh just a logistical standpoint.
It was really just a summary of what already happened. Um and it's more going to be a moving forward kind of thing because we only have we're probably only going to have one meeting left after this because the other thing we were going to talk to you guys about was possibly not having the last meeting of the year because it's after school gets out and there's probably not going to be a need for it. So there's really only one meeting after this one as far as this goes. Um, so were they looking to have us have somebody come after every single meeting or I can't remember. Do you remember Paul? It's either after every meeting which or after every or maybe once a month but Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Sure. Okay. So yeah, so it would be um however often we have meetings and if there is something and actually I think it's a nice opportunity for us.
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Um but the the um the roster the competitive roster is predominantly eighth graders which does make some sense. It's a competitive team um that kids try out for and they generally the older kids um have that advantage and are more likely to play on the team. Um, and then most of the seventh graders, and by the way, all of those eighth graders who also make those teams play in community leagues or travel leagues. Um, so there's a lot of that that happens. And, you know, I think you could make a great argument for involving more kids, playing more inter mural athletics after school, and not having the intercolastic component. Um, I think you could make a great argument for having an intercolastic component in middle school. It's just as a community, what do we want to do? Yeah, I'm going to make I'm going to make another point that just came to mind for me for the uh moving toward the inner mural and away from intercolastic or I shouldn't say that.
We um are moving forward with the combined runs, the 6121 run from Westside Academy and DHS West. Um and what that will mean is that um the high school the the buses pick up students from all over across the city. Uh the the stop will be at uh DHS West first and then they would head off to DA to Westside Academy. Here we go. Westside. um they would head off to uh Westside Academy uh for the drop. And so right now the proposed time for DHS um would be a 6:55 drop off and then they would drop the students off at Westside Academy around 7:10 or 7:25 start. So they'll be they'll be starting about 15 minutes earlier than they than they normally would. So it's not too too bad. Um one of the things that I mentioned before that we'll monitor is how long those runs take.
It's a nice tool um if there's something that we're talking about and sometimes I know we're wishing like if only people knew this or even myself. I mean if we didn't have these students coming in like we did this year like there's so many things going on in the buildings that we might not otherwise know about if our kids aren't in those buildings anymore. So things that we see at the meeting that we want to highlight, it's an opportunity I think it aligns with our policy that you speak for us anyways. Uh if you're willing to do it, then it's great. And I'll just throw it out to Paul that when we do have those uh student things in our meetings and you talk about it, maybe he can just hack splice that onto the end of that so that we they get an a bridged version for somebody wants the aided version of what happened, but also the parents can have a snippet of just when the students did their That's a great idea.
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