Take ownership of your actions, knowing that each step you take shapes who you become. Celebrate your accomplishments, no matter how small, and recognize the effort it took to get there. Just as you show yourself compassion, extend that same kindness to others. You never know the battles they're facing. In the end, kindness isn't the most important thing, it's the legacy you leave behind. Thank you for allowing me to be uh the honor of speaking to all of you today. Um I wish you, the Tanto class of 2025, nothing but the best future success. [Applause] [Music] [Applause] At this time, I'd like to invite Lisa Squa back up to the podium. [Applause] Thank you, Mr. Cavino. I um I told you it was going to be good, right? So at this time to superintendent Al Ganam Jr. to school committee chair Michael Tottman I am pleased to certify that the graduates before you have completed all state and local requirements for either either a diploma or a certificate of achievement from Tahanto Regional Middle School would superintendent Al Ganam Jr.
School Committee Chair Michael Tottman, Assistant Principles Richard Cameron and Renee Leandre, School Counselor Eileen Rodman, and Senior Class Advisor Daniel Ashman. Please come to the front for the presentation of diplomas. [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] Michelle Cynthia Donaghhue. Michelle is a recipient of the John and Abigail Adams Scholarship. [Applause] [Music] Princa JMO Camning. Prince is the recipient of the John and Abigail Adams Scholarship, the Matthew John Phillips Scholarship, and the Robert P. Goule Memorial [Music] Scholarship. Edith Spry Abson. Edith has won the valadictorian award, the Boilston Lion Service Award, the George A. Pendergrass Memorial Scholarship, a John and Abigail Adams Scholarship, the Katie Shallo Memorial Scholarship, the Mary Felby Logan and Francis Logan Jr. Scholarship, the Matthew John Phillips Scholarship, the Superintendence Award, and the Tahanto Leo's Service Award. Isabelle Anne Brassette. Isabelle is the recipient of the Saludiatoran Award, the Tahanto Booster Club Award, the John and Abigail Adams Scholarship, the Matthew John Phillips Scholarship, and the Stags PTO [Applause] Scholarship.
Sophia Grace Vani Sophia is a recipient of the Tahanto Booster Club Award and the John and Abigail Adams Scholarship. [Applause] Paige Elizabeth [Applause] Agurkus, Lydia Rose [Applause] Anderson, Jackson Noah Babino, [Applause] Aravan [Applause] Bachali Carolyn Irene Bashaw Carol Carolyn is a recipient of the John and Abigail Adams scholarship. Adam Benelor. Adam is a recipient of the John and Abigail Adams Scholarship. Abigail Ruth [Applause] Biddinger, Adam Sherwin Bradford. Adam is the recipient of the Myrtle Thirsten Memorial Scholarship. Reed Lawrence [Applause] Bradford. Matteline Claire Briette. Meline is a recipient of the John and Abigail Adams Scholarship, the Matthew John Phillips Scholarship, and the MCPHHS Presidential Scholarship. [Applause] Taylor Audrey Brown, Madison Lee Bergwinkle, [Applause] Alexina Marie Grace Burkhart. Alexena is the winner of the Boilston Lion Service Award, the George A. Pendergas Memorial Scholarship, a John and Abigail Adams Scholarship, and the Matthew John Phillips [Applause] Scholarship.
Nicholas Gregory Caramanica Nicholas is a recipient of the Clinton Savings Bank Scholarship and the Matthew John Phillips Scholarship. Isabelle Joan Shahadi [Applause] Alli Rashelle Shaette. Ally is a recipient of the Matthew John Phillips Scholarship. [Applause] Connor [Applause] Chrisman, Caitlyn Mary Elizabeth [Applause] Cisneros, Jessica Lynn Cormier, [Applause] Annaliyah Isabella [Applause] Depalo Elijah McBur, [Applause] Alexis Roman Diaz, [Applause] Parker Anthony Eckleman, Robert Julio Foley. Robert is a recipient of the John and Abigail Adams Scholarship, the Tahanto Leo Service Award, and has earned the seal of biiteracy. [Applause] Ariana Michelle Francisco. Ariana is a recipient of the John and Abigail Adams Scholarship. Shosana Bell Pas Shana. is a recipient of the Matthew John Phillips Scholarship. Robin Anne Withers. Robin is a recipient of the John and Abigail Adams Scholarship, the Stags PTO Scholarship, the Student Council Award, the Tahanto Leo's Service Award, the Tahanto Regional High School Scholarship, and the University of Massachusetts Deans Award.
Lillian Elizabeth Tessier Record. Lillian is the recipient of the Matthew John Phillips Scholarship and the Tanto Regional High School Scholarship. Ian Hughes. Ian is a recipient of the John and Abigail Adams Scholarship. Robert Joseph Thibo. Robert is a recipient of the Boilston Ucc scholarship, the Katie Shallo Memorial Scholarship, the John and Abigail Adams Scholarship, the Matthew John Phillips Scholarship, and has earned the seal of biiteracy. [Applause] Katherine an Jenny. Katherine has earned the Tahanto Leo's service award. Molly Elizabeth Gardner. Molly has earned the Matthew John Phillips Scholarship. Katie Anne Hayes. Katie has earned the AMSAN John A. Birkhart Jr. USN Memorial Scholarship. Alexander Frederick [Applause] Hine, Lucas Edward Hogan. Lucas has earned the John and Abigail Adams Scholarship. Isabelle Marie Holio Isabelle has earned the Matthew John Phillips Scholarship and the TJX Corporation scholarship. [Applause] Naom [Applause] Jana Erggus Jashari. Ergus has earned the John and Abigail Adams Scholarship.
Kendall Josephine Fuller. Kendall has earned the Matthew John Phillips [Applause] Scholarship. Eli Dory Jy [Applause] Elias Salem Cass. Elias has earned the John and Abigail Adams Scholarship. Abdul Rasmani D. Kanda Roz has earned the Matthew John Phillips Scholarship and the Clinton Savings Bank Program scholarship. Lucas Matthew Lvali. Lucas has earned the John and Abigail Adams Scholarship and the Stags PTO scholarship. Jackson Money. Jackson has earned the Boilston Youth Soccer Scholarship, the John and Abigail Adams Scholarship, the Massachusetts Elks Scholarship, and the Moses Reed Tyler [Applause] Scholarship. Alana Grace Muns [Applause] Chloe, Rebecca, [Applause] Nimi, Rowan Noel. Rowan has earned a Matthew John Phillips scholarship, the CPAC Success in Education Scholarship, and the Principal Award. [Applause] Bianca Menzes Nunez. Bianca has earned a John and Abigail Adams scholarship. Alana Love an Pquette [Applause] Samantha Railsback. Samantha has earned a Matthew John Phillips [Applause] scholarship. Samuel Aiden Raver Sam has earned a John and Abigail Adams [Applause] scholarship.
Connor Matthew Rice. Connor has earned the Matthew John Phillips Scholarship, the Stags PTO Scholarship, and the Tahanto Booster Club [Applause] Award. Alexis Irene Wheeler. [Applause] Alexis has earned the Debbie Anne Johnson Memorial Scholarship and the Principal Award. [Applause] Alter Gracia Lea Xenon [Applause] At this time, I would like to invite Princess Cam Nang and Paige Aerkis up for a special word. [Applause] [Music] [Applause] To our friend Rachel Janiski, we dedicate part of this yearbook to you. Rachel started at Bees in kindergarten, which is where most kids in the class of 2025 first got to know her. when she completed her time at BES. [Music] Okay, sorry. Can I start from the beginning to our friend Rachel Janiski? We dedicate part of this yearbook to you. Rachel started at BES in kindergarten, which is where most kids in the class of 2025 first got to know her.
When she completed her time at BES, she moved up to Tonto with the rest of us. She did leave to another school in seventh grade, but returned for the start of junior year. We were lucky to rebuild or form new connections with her and get to know her as the incredible person she had become. Rachel loved music and often found herself offering one of her earbuds to her friends. Her taste in music rubbed off on many people around her. Her memory still lives on around all of us and in this yearbook. She will forever be a part of our lives and is honored in spirit. We miss you, [Applause] Rachel. And to our dear friend Matthew Phillips, we're honored to dedicate part of this yearbook to him. Ever since his early days at Bees, Matt never failed to not only wear a smile, but put one on the faces of those around him.
Knowing Matt was a privilege. He was a definition of what it meant to live life to the fullest. His love for sports and exhilarating TV shows such as Cobra Cry radiated off of him, adding to his outgoing personality. Many of his peers have a daily symbol of Matt's impact worn on their wrists as in a form of a bracelet, reminding us to strike first, strike hard, and no mercy. It is with a heavy heart that Matt will not graduate with us today, but our hearts soften up the fact that he is watching over us every step of the way. We miss you dearly, Matt, and we thank you for your positive influence on each of our lives. [Applause] [Music] Thank you, Paige and Princet, for those beautiful words. and for the heart that all of you have and for the time you spent in so thoughtfully paying tribute to very special people members of the class of 2025.
12 years ago, we started a tradition here at Dhanto where all seniors hand a rose to someone who has helped them get to where they are today. Will all seniors please rise and give your rose to that someone special. Yes, I think so. Hold on. Let's go. [Music] Okay, before we do the tassels, before we do the tassels, wait one second. I want everyone to take a big deep breath because this this was really emotional and there was a lot of hearts tugged and tears. So, what we're going to do is we're going to take a nice deep breath. We are living in the moment right now. Princet and Michelle, the honors, please. [Applause] [Music] [Applause] That's right. [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] I hope [Music]
Uh, Mr. Hopkins here. Okay. Mr. President, Mr. Beth here. Mr. Kursner is absent. Mrs. Olsen here. Dr. Saltro here. Mrs. Aron. Miss Venezuela here. May I have a motion to adopt the agenda? I'll make the motion. I will second. All those in favor say I. I.
Okay. Dr. Sero here, Mrs. Aron here, and Mrs. All in favor say I. Any opposed? Motion carries four to zero. To the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. And the only item on this agenda is the budget. Yes, Mr. uh President, members of the board um public hearing to present the 2026 proposed budget for the A Unified School District number 15. All districts shall prepare the proposed budget and a summary of their proposed budget as allotted by sketch. Um ARS15-905. The district should close the standard 24-hour advanced notice of the board meeting and hold the public hearing. This is a budget hearing for the 2026 proposed budget. There is no board action necessary at this time. We have our true professionals finance consultant, Mr. Tyler Moore to present the proposed budget.
[Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] Hello everyone. We're here at the Hopkinson Medway Little League Challenger World Series and with us now is Carrie Rich, who runs it for runs this program, right, for the Hopkin Challenge. I do. And I have to say that this is my most favorite day of the year. And Sundays are by far my favorite day of the week because we get to hang out with all these amazing players, their buddies, their parents, and coaches. And this is an extremely special event where we can get two challenger teams together and play a real game. Car, we were talking to the Medway coach earlier and it sounded like he had about 21 players on that team plus the buddies. What about over on the Hopkin side? So on the Hington side, we have about the same roster size, about 21, but we have an amazing group of 55 buddies that range in ages from 12 all the way up to seniors in high school.
[Music] Heat up here. Heat. Heat. Good evening. If everyone could make their way to their seats, we'll get the evening started in just a few minutes. So, please make your way to your seats and we'll get the evening started. [Music] Ha! Heat! [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Yeah. Heat. [Music] Hey. All right. Good evening. [Music] Good evening and welcome to the 2025 Brookfield High School Academic and Athletic Celebration of Excellence. This is always one of my Thank you, Jonah. One of my favorite ceremonies of the year because we get to recognize our best and brightest students for what they've accomplished in school, in sports, and in the community. There's a few people I want to make sure that I recognize uh that are here. I saw a few of you, so I apologize. I did see at least one board member. I saw Mrs. Greenstein here.
please. Um, we have really just one uh policy on the agenda this evening as you can see that uh Kelly has pulled up on the screen. Thank you very much. Um, Kelly, could you just do me one favor and make sure that when the policies get opened um that we're at 125% viewing for everybody? Yes, I will. Thank you. I will be happy to turn this over to you, Kelly, um, and to to Mike as well for any input he may have on, uh, policies 3320 and 3323 that will replace our existing policy. Sure. So, thank you everyone. Um, as you can see from the agenda, um, we are going to move uh move away a little bit from the student series 5000 and into the 3000 series, which are our financing and budget policies. Um, and these are two policies that are important to get into place as we start the next fiscal year.
Oh, come here. You can use the library. I don't see one more minute. Good evening and welcome everyone. to this special board meeting on Monday uh June 2nd, 2025. Uh Miss Patricia, can you please do roll call? President Linda Chavez, present. Vice President Andres Cantero, present. Clerk Menfam, present. Member Corina Loera Era, present. Member Menwin. Superintendent Heban Serda, present. So we have quorum and we this meeting is being recorded.
Any opposed? Motion carries four to zero. To the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Okay. And it looks like we have no public comments this evening. So go to the first action item, which is approval and advertisement by the proposed budget. Mr. President, members of the board, the administration has prepared the proposed 2026 fiscal year budget. The board review the proposed budget is being recommended for approval. The administration is asking permission to advertise the proposed budget for an ARS5-905. Recommend that the board approve the AUSD proposed fiscal year 2026 expenditure budget and allow the administration permission to advertise a budget for ARS 15-95. Okay, I will make that motion. I will second.
Mr. Moore can you hear me? Yes, sir. All right. President vehicle issues, so want to make down. Um, tonight I'm presenting a proposed budget for 2026. Um, this takes effects July 1 through June 30, 2026. Can you have the presentation up or do you want go ahead and go through it tire? That'd be fine. The power. Yes. Um, okay. So with the the agenda, I'm going to talk about a little bit about the legislative changes for 26 and go through the M budget, the capital budget changes, and the upcoming budget conversation. With regards to the legislative changes, um right now the state has not still not approved a a state budget. So with no state budget approved, K12 does not also have an approved budget. And so what we're proposing um for 26 is these are on preliminary budget forms and a couple things that we do know going into 26 include um a couple potential reductions.
And they've gotten work shifts covered. They come every week, weekend and week out. And it's just an amazing commitment from a volunteer program. So that makes me very proud of this team. Oh, absolutely. And I mean, I've seen this program grow year over year. I mean, how long has have we been doing this? We're in our fifth season. We're in our fifth season. And what's fantastic about the growth is that we have players not just from the Hopington community, but from the Ashlin community, Milford, Hollist, and even buddies that come from Ashland and other communities surrounding Hopington. Good afternoon and welcome back to WACA. We're joined here today with one of our um amazing Challenger buddies who are here at the Challenger World Series. Um what is your name? Connor. Connor, how you doing today? Okay, I guess. Okay. You excited for this big game?
I also saw our superintendent. Uh Dr. Burrell is here as well. We have several presenters who you'll hear from you'll see later. Um our from the community as well as our administrators here at the high school. Um Mr. Abrago, Mr. Hill, Mrs. Shidy, and Dr. Spencer is here as well. Um also, thank you to our I think most are peer counselors or students earning their community service hours, uh handing out programs as you walk in the door. So, thank you. But the biggest thanks really have to go to Rosa Hopcraft who's sitting over here, Lisa Genevies, and Mary Ne. They do the majority of the work and I just stand up here and read. Um, so thank you very much for all your help. Um, the next slide is going to outline our program for the evening. Um, but I want to explain the process for the students.