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Um so this part is referencing um those larger contracts um that we have to have fair bidding practices for with due dates and timelines. Um and there are the availability of vendors to uh tell us um I want to be placed on on that list when you go out to bid for example school lunch specialed transportation um I want to be on that list to to be able to submit my competitive bid. Um may I ask a question here? Um you referenced the 25,000 u because that's a circumstance where we know we're likely to have to do that. Um but the previous um policy mentions the amounts over 15,000 requiring or aiming to to use uh at least two bids. Um so I and I just want to sort of ask some clarifying language at the front at the front of this policy here where where it says um when possible at on at least two competitive grants.
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All right. So, if I remember correct, so this is still with, you know, within the 46 certificated administrators allowed under the resolution. Correct. Did I see your hand? Okay. And that's any further questions. There's a Is there a motion? There's only a motion. Nobody a second. I'll second for, you know. Okay. So, we have a motion and a second. Uh, is there any more discussion or are we going to vote? Seeing no more discussion, let's vote. Um, all in favor, raise your hand. 5-0. Motion passes unanimously. Okay. So, we will uh now be going to close session. U Mr. Uh, Superintendent Sarda, would you please um Uh, yes. We will be going into close session for 4.3, public employee discipline, dismissal, release, reassignment. Uh, 4.4, public employee appointment, public employment, uh, government code section 54957, titles, principal and principal and special assignment. And then 4.5, conference with legal counsel existing litigation.
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So unless I wanted to retype it by hand, I was just like, well, I guess we'll just ignore the whole whatever the heck it is. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. It's funny because it even shows up in the scratch red part system. So, do folks still need more time to review or they have questions for discussion? I'm number of them were just changing changing of the titles Mr. Hopkins authorities and Mr. a lot of like see for example advisory 882 DD budget funding proposals grant sources and special projects they just took out proposals grants and special projects and put budget added budget funding and they added sources so a lot of it was was changing the titles and um so okay just FYI okay so if there's no discussion or questions that we'll go on to the next item. Approval of the annual performancebased compensation for the country.
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What else I wanted to mention is is and talking with Mr. Moore there there are several probably more than several districts around the state but two that come to mind that I've heard over the last year Roosevelt school district and the Isaac school district are closing schools. They're closing schools and and we're financially sound to where we can continue with these compensation increases which is very positive. So just some more information. Okay. Any further questions? Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you guys. Bye bye. Have a good night. Bye. Okay, I'll make a motion to I will second. All those in favor say I. I.
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Up next is the Brandeise University Award. Brandise Brandeise University is proud to sponsor a book award that is presented to a high school junior who is committed to social action, community service, political activism, social justice, or volunteer work. The recipient of this year's Brandeise Book Award for Social Action and Civic Engagement is Taylor Newman. [Applause] We have a new award this year. This is the Brown University Book Award. The Brown University Book Award is presented to an outstanding junior who exhibits excellence, verbal, and written communication skills. The recipient of this year's Brown University book award is Sydney Miller. [Applause] Up next is the Columbia University Book Award. This award is presented to a junior who has demonstrated outstanding academic achievement. The recipient of this year's Columbia University Book Award is Susanna Batterton. [Music] Cornell University is proud to sponsor this book award given to a junior who demonstrates not only academic excellence but also the Cornell spirit by epitomizing good citizenship, innovative thinking, and an awareness of cultural diversity.
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So are the exceptions for that the ones that are listed right below and those are the only situations in which you would not uh it would not be possible to get the the two bids in. Is that correct? Yes. Um I I made reference before there are times where um either state, local or federal or or even uh on a grant level might have uh a different number stipulated. So for example, federal purchasing uh the limit is set to 10,000 um for any I believe they call it a micro purchase. So in that case, if something were to flow through to our uh grant coordinator and they were to notice that it was on a federal uh federally funded grant, then that 10,000 would be would be subject. Okay. Um, thank you for clarifying, Kelly and Mike. I just because I I just was looking at it here and I thought I saw, but it might have been in another policy that we were reviewing in preparation for this.
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And that'll be it. Thank you. Thank you. So right now to take public comment on items in to be discussed in close session. Okay. Any public comment on close session items? Um so I just want to clarify if I sound like I'm trying to get information that's confidential. That is not my intent at all. So I just want to apologize for that. Um, I I do ask that when you go into that room and you make your decision about uh our principal um that you ask yourself, are you doing what's best for our kids and our school? Um, a lot of decisions are out of your control. We are losing our front office staff, basically all of them. We have we're losing our community liaison. We are losing our custodian. We are losing those people that without them it's hard to run a school. And now on top of that, losing our administrator when our sta our staff is doubling, our student population is doubling, that's a huge obstacle to overcome.
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Yes, Mr. President, members of the board, um Mr. does have a performance-based compensation um clause under contract for achievement of performance goals to the 2425 school year. Performance based compensation gave over by the super by the I believe it should say by the principal is 5% of the base salary. There is no board action necessary. This is a study session. I mean, you have uh you have the attachments that show um you know the the goals real they're all very critical of the continued professional growth and development that's through uh the partnership with lead now the Puma County Superintendent of Office Dusty Williams. She started right away I believe um that to start right beside them to start in the last class were in person but it was virtual all year at Pixel. So we believe that was very helpful in the first year that she was getting mentored by a former person who was a former principal himself but she was also collaborating with principles so she had that hands-on and well you know um the also the cogn was very critical to the accredititation and increasing family engagement but um I'll let her uh talk a little bit about you know the goals she was she was living them breathing them the whole year so it's important anything you want to add about your goals or anything particular for one I'm for the professional development you know I'm a lifelong learner I just love to learn and I think that's I don't know or even if I know already the more you hear about it the more that you embody it and more so so that and then attending the the lead Now I really love that.
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The recipient of this year's Cornell University Book Award is Tara Nevice. [Applause] Dartmouth College welcomes the opportunity to recognize an outstanding member of the junior class who demonstrates strong character and has made a positive contribution to the school community. The recipient of this year's Dartmouth College Award is Haley [Applause] Miller. New this year is an Endeott Book Award. The Endicott College Book Award recognizes a member of the junior class who exhibits academic achievement and engaging citizenship with strong leadership skills inside and outside of the classroom. The recipient of this year's Endeott College Book Award is Ally Freeze. [Applause] The recipient of the Harvard Book Award is a junior who displays excellence in academics and impeccable character along with high achievement in areas outside of the school environment. The recipient of this year's Harvard Book Award is Mura Oy. [Applause] The John's Hopkins Book Award is for a junior who best exhibits the qualities and characteristics that form the core of the John's Hopkins ethic, which is a demonstrated desire for intellectual and moral growth and strength of character for the betterment of society.
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Is there um an exception for an emergency by with superintendent like an emergency authorization where we have a I don't know a break of some sort of a water mane break. I don't know what it is. We need to bring ServeP Pro in here immediately or or something along those lines. We don't have time to go out and get bids and stuff. Is there language on this one? I thought I read it in another one, but I don't. I forgot about it. In in this policy, there's not, but in other policies, it does defer to the superintendent and in those types of situations, emergency situations. I think it it doesn't hurt to also include it in here if we wanted to. Okay. Maybe just a line for e like emergencies or something. So going going back to the area uh Kelly that you were talking about inserting.
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So just please ask yourself, are you doing what's best for our kids? And did you give all parties involved the same investment and respect and time as far as their thoughts and feelings of the whole situation? Because unfortunately it does not feel like that. It feels like certain people were able to share their thoughts and feelings and others were not. Thank you. Thank you. Good evening. Veronica Talton, a performing arts teacher assigned to Okala for next school year. Um, and also a constituent. I just want to say that um, there's been information out and people are not exactly clear on what's going on. As someone who's new and has only gotten information basically about what my room assignment is, it's very unsettling once all the dust has settled from the school consolidations and closures to see changes once again. So for transparency sake, I just ask that there would be full communication to the community and to the students and staff that will be working there next year.
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I love the that it's not too extensive and it's not whole day just four hours uh once uh Saturday um from August till April and then the the mentor was a principal for 13 years. I couldn't remember you know so so that's Miss Susan. And then the the second one from the moment I started working July 1st I was welcomed with culinary accredititation leave for high school. So starting July 1st till I think end of February is an intensive work of making sure that high school reacredited and and by April I think March 31st we received that letter that we are reacredited till 2031 if I remember right. Yeah very intensive. Oh my gosh. The third one, I know there's more, but these three find them like one of the things that one of the feedback uh that we got from from the survey at the beginning of the year um August of 2024 was to increase family engagement and and one one of the things that I thought of is you know what let's have a monthly newsletter and I I work very closely with the news newsletter coordinators making sure that we have you know um the information that our families need and that's from preK to 12 and all our initiatives are there.
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The recipient of this year's John's Hopkins University Book Award is Charlotte Morlock. [Music] [Applause] Sacred Heart University is pleased to honor a high school junior who has an outstanding academic record and has made significant extracurricular contributions to his school and community. The recipient of this year's Sacred Heart University Book Award is Joelle Jam. [Music] [Applause] The St. Ansela Folk Award recognizes a student who demonstrates academic success, exceptional leadership, and civic engagement. The recipient of this year's St. Anselm College Book Award is Ava Le. [Applause] The Tain University Hook Award recognizes high school juniors who have demonstrated excellence in academics, leadership, and public service. The recipient of this year's Tulain University Book Award is Brenn [Music] [Applause] McCarthy. This year, our 21st century leadership award is sponsored by our school counseling department. The role of a leader is not to come up with all the great ideas, but to create an environment which great ideas can happen.
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Sorry I see you're typing there. I'm just putting something in here. We can massage the language, but just for talking points. Um, back to the area that you were mentioning here where when bidding procedures are used in excess of $25,000, um, can you help me just uh process why $25,000 is the marker versus 15? I I think that was uh the 25,000 was just where it says note. It references the Connecticut General Statute uh 7-148. I think that and they're talking about the sealed bidding. Okay. Yeah. So that's the bidding procedure we're talking about. Okay. Yeah. And um Kelly referenced the transportation. We also just went through this with the school launch process. It was a sealed bid. So So these bidding procedures and again if we want to say um like sealed b billing, I'm sorry, bidding procedures. We could, but this is really meant for those larger contracts that go into place for a longer duration.
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I'm sorry. This is I'm taking public comment only for what's on close session. I know. Okay. So I I don't see what you're saying here. 4.4 4.4 for Okala. Okay. Yeah. And so what I was going to say is that um you know there's already a lot of displacement and things happening in the district in general and this month in particular when people can make the decision to stay in the district or not stay in the district by the bargaining agreements. I just ask that you all would take into consideration everything. We don't want to lose good people from the district. So that's what I wanted to say and I believed I was talking in reference to 4.4. If not, if you don't feel that that is, strike it from the record. Thank you. So, right now it's 7:18. Um, we will be going into close session immediately.
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I may have only uh mentioned here the three but there's a lot more you know we have the kindness initiative that we started back in October and tracking attendance and what else Fox so all these if you open the newsletter right the link all the newsletters are there with hopefully I put everything there it's in English and Spanish version and there's a couple of months where you know we we inform the the families where we are with our fast our attendance rate. So and then I think we ranked who got first with attendance and I know prek was number one you know they they were 95 40 something% in attendance. So so that I really I really love that and I enjoy working you know with the team and we used Canva for that and at the end of the year I became an expert of Canva.
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The recipient of this year's 21st century leadership book award are there's two of them, Maria Qualo and Bradford Silly. [Music] [Applause] Up next is the PTO persistence and grit award. It was established by the Brookfield High School PTO in 2019. Persistence and grit award recognizes two students from each grade level who have an excellent work ethic, determination, persistence, positive attitude, and demonstrate a consistent desire to improve academically. This year's recipients receive a gift card, a book, Grit, the Power of Passion, Perseverance by Angela Duckworth. Recipients, we're going to start with the ninth grade class are Joseph Ferrero and Sophie Link. [Applause] Our recipients in 10th grade are Marley Knack and Matthew Mel. [Applause] Our 11th grade recipients are Brooke Carpenter and Alexander Lopez. [Applause] [Music] Up next is an achievement certificate. The Society of Women Engineers is a nonprofit organization that was founded in 1950 for the purpose of informing and fostering a favorable attitude in the industry toward women engineers.
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This is not talking about the textbooks that we're purchasing that are, you know, 10,000, 15,000 or even 25,000. Okay. Thank you very much. I appreciate uh the explanation. Well, thinking of textbooks, what do you do with your old textbooks? So, I'll let you. Yeah, we're we're doing some house cleaning now. So, it depends on the on the book, Terry. For a while, we used to be able to sell them back. There was a company that would buy them back and and they wouldn't give you much, but it was, you know, was it was we we did due diligence on it just to we always made made sure that we checked the ISBN numbers to make sure that there was no value left. Um, so once there's no those those companies have recently disappeared uh with the surge of digital textbooks, right? So now um now what we do is as textbooks become obsolete and there are no we make sure that there's no uh value to the book at all then we just make a recording of if we have a hundred uh US history books from 1972 and here's the title and ISBN.
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Um, and I'm saying I'm thinking it's going to take an hour and a half or let's just say we'll be back at 9ine. If we're here sooner, then we're here sooner. Thank you. [Music] We're back at 7:52. Mr. Toico, can you please report up? Thank you, Madam Board President. Uh, close session items 4.3 and 4.4. The board by a vote of 50 approved the reassignment of one principal to the position of principal and special assignment effective July 1st, 2025. and the board by a vote of 50-0 also approved the reassignment of one principal on special assignment to the position of principal effective July 1st, 2025. There are no further actions to report. Thank you. Okay. So, uh we have a another board meeting on June 12th at 5:30 and hope to see you all there.
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