So, we're going to start with Brookfield High School. We'll go the opposite way this time. The face of a village. Karen, how where are you? [Applause] I think our next staff member of the year has taught every subject at Whiskiner, done everything we've ever asked her to do and volunteered to do other things. Miss Agy Burns. [Applause] [Music] [Applause] from Candlewood Lake. Our next staff member of the year, people see this person running around like the Energizer. One of our faves, Julio Lebert. Congratulations. [Applause] And then representing uh the town and school offices uh as this is at one of our uh all school or district employees from the maintenance department. We wouldn't be cool or warm without this individual. Joe [Applause] Durant has some cooling in the library I think right now. So that's what's going on. Um all right. So I think we've got everybody.
We asked them you know to help define these things for us. These are big broad concepts. So we brought sustainable, affordable, equitable to them. And what arose during that was they felt that we had not captured these things these bullet point here uh which I think would have some overlap with commission. So I wanted to pull them out. The public had asked for us to add dynamic as as a value which they have given us some helpful um pointers on what they mean by that. So a people centered approach to growth character of place and identity creating vibrant spaces through placemaking and economic development and preparing the city to adapt for future changes. So they want us to be vibrant. They want us to be evolving. Um they want us to be dynamic. The other thing that we like to share with people is that um a lot of this plan is written so that it gives us the next steps.
He has a dozen articles up on the website right down to work and often writing and publishing the same day as our meetings which I don't know if you guys are familiar with the movie all the president's men older people right right story of how they exposed water on class right um Christian reminds me of them they were junior reporters just as they were called and they were want to be pulled from the article and somebody the editor editorial board like no but they're hums they're workers and that's what Christian reminds me of he'll be in a meeting and I'll be like all right let me know when your article's done he's like it's done it's good it's you know he comes in he gets down to business he writes he embodies the meaning of high school journalism finding your passion finding your voice he utilizes the written form as a means of selfexpression and as a mode of diving deeper into what he's truly passionate about Christian's articles whether discussing movies they're informative and They're enjoyable to read.
But we wanted to really focus on this because there's a lot of information, a lot of good information and always to go with this quote who used to be our online reading coordinator. It's going to kind of take the helm here because our other coordinators are at the leading change leading change conference. for the M. Please take it away. Yes sir.
We'll leave that to Jordan. Yeah, I was gonna say not break it. I'll break Tik Tok. I think it also helps. I'm sorry. I Go ahead. That's very good to hear. It also helps eliminate the misinformation that's out there on social media. Uh, and you'll have those groups of individuals that solely are out there to put it out. It may be the wrong information, but that's that's their goal and that's that's their that's what they like to do. And now that you have gone through this program, hopefully you can see just face value in and of itself how the finances work. It's it's not something that we just, you know, pull numbers out of a hat. There there's a formula and there's there things that need to be done. And um you know, when we we got Michael Bond a little over 11 years ago as a town manager, Michael's big big thing with me uh was the fact that he was very conservative in his his approach in in budgeting.
First, our fifth grade band members in the audience right now are going to stand up, exit through this door, line up in order the hallway starting with percussion, and then as you will pull in. Go ahead and do that now. You just do everything. You do it all, huh? Well, [Music] Weather was awesome. Let's get married. [Applause] So our friends [Music] Just holds up. [Music] beautiful. This is her wife. [Applause] Good luck. I know. [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] Fore! Foreign! Foreign! Hello. Hello. [Music] Mommy. [Music] Please join me in welcoming our fifth grade and to the [Applause] stage. In our fifth grade band this year, we work on ensemble skills like balance, blend, tone, and intonation. These guys are an extremely musical and talented group. And I wish you all the best of next year in middle school. Thank you. Um, the first piece that we will be performing for you today is a long tone warm-up, which helps students develop a great sound and gives students the opportunity to listen outside of themselves, to their neighbors, to their section, and to all of the different layers of the band.
She's net by Grace Howard. It looks like a charging call on Marrison. Good work by Grace Howard to keep her feet planted. Take the charge. I think that's the same as basketball. I'm not 100% sure. She kicks the ball back to Jenna Holly. Jenna Holly air mails it up to M. Whitwer. That's been working today. M Whitler blows by Grafton looking to set up the Spartan offense. Mcknne with the ball over to Marino. Marino over to Mckne. Mcknney to Lucas. Like they're playing a little twoman. Over to Mckne. Keney goes in and out. Nothing there. Goes around the back of the cage. Turns around. Tough pass from M. Whitward to get turnover by the Spartans. Grafton quickly coming up with it. Making headway, but met by once again Kylie Marino. Willer with the ball. Marino giving chase. Connor kicks it over to Lazarin. Scallion to Hamilton as the Spartans defense is just closing everything and Willer moves the ball around.
So thank you all. Congratulations for all the work you do before back to Dr. It's just important to recognize um we we always have the teacher of the year uh here in Brookfield. brought the staff member of the year recognition because um I referenced the old TV show home improvement with Tim the Toolman Taylor and he talked about every job having two things in common. It has to be done and it has to be done well. Everybody is equally and critically important to the smooth operation of any organization. So um how about one final round of applause for all of our outstanding Thank you very much, Dr. Burle. Okay. Um, Mr. Ble, it's your turn. Are you guys ready with the tech? Was that wonderful? So, figuring it's, you know, summer, almost summer, and we all need a little bit of travel inspiration, this might do the trick.
And as planners, our next steps are often to update our zoning code. That's how we regulate land use through the city. Um, and I think that a in a market like this, sometimes people think that zoning is destiny and we want to make clear that if we do rewrite our zoning uh code to reflect our new goals and the directive we've been given that these are the things that we have control over here. Number one and two is our regulations, our zoning and the land and infrastructure. But that is just a way for us to enable development. But now there are many other factors that go into this equation. So construction costs, capital, return on investment, these are other things that are also going to dictate whether development comes. So just because we say this is what we want and this is what we will allow doesn't mean that it will necessarily come to us.
His writing skills have grown greatly in the last two years and I look forward to seeing and being part of your continued success here at Yuing High. Um, and as a member of our sorry our newspaper club Ying [Applause] Good evening. My name is Mr. Haynes and it is the other advisor of robotics club. Tonight we are honoring bring him up his accolades up. has been on the robotics team for two years and this year took on the role of technical manager which small basically he was in charge of building making sure the robot functioned and when I say when the robot broke because it broke um he was in charge of repairing it got back on the field. And I say uh for no small fee, the robot went back on the field every single time. We didn't miss one week and a lot of that is due to Ezra and his dedication and commitment to working on the robot.
Good evening everyone. So we have here the result for end of the year um debuff assessment. So first off we have the kindergarten classroom. If you remember our caller band, the red stands for well below benchmark. Um the yellow stands for below benchmark. The green stands for at benchmark. And then the blue stands for above benchmark. And then number one in here would signify beginning of the year scores. And then the number two would signify end of the year numbers. So, so for well below beginning of the year we have four students identify well below benchmark and then the number dropped down at the end of the year to three and then one of them moved to at benchmark. Um these three students were identified two are in special education program and one program. Um moving on at the beginning of the year um eight students were identified below benchmark.
And I have to tell you, the the rainy day fund that we had uh years ago, it only had like a half million dollars in it. We're up close to $7 million now because of the uh the conservative approach that's been taken. So, you know, all these little things that you've been discussing, you know, the US versus them and that actually happened. I mean, I was part of that, unfortunately, part of that group when it when when the ugly heads reared up and you know, well, we need this, we need this, and well, no, we're here collectively. thanks to Michael and you know it it it started to work out and cooler heads prevailed and the superintendent and Mike got together and they they worked out a a policy program and things seem to be working a lot better. You know the tri board meetings that we have are very uh promising and we're working together collaboratively as a group and not as individuals you know trying to get the last morsel off the off the dish type of deal.
Please note that this piece has measures of rests or silence. When we are through, we will lower our hands and instruments. Please wait until this time to applaud. After this peaceful song, we will amp up the intensity for you with March of the Romans, or as many of our students have lovingly renamed it, Munch of the Ramen Noodles. [Music] Come on. [Music] Thank [Music] [Applause] [Music] you. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] [Applause] [Music] Okay. [Applause] [Music] What's that? [Music] Green handle. Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] [Applause] Everybody. Our last fifth grade band piece tonight is entitled Mechanical Monsters. In this work, you will hear the sounds of metal, gears, and steam used to overlay a repeating plotting through that suggest something shambling its way across a darkened countryside, drawing ever closer to the unsuspecting city. Completely unaware of the havoc that is about to befall them.
Oh, nice move. Nice move by Robertson with even better save by Jenna Holly to either save or get in the way. But good from up here. Lazarin with the ball. She goes around the top of the key. She has a oneway. She turned around off the post by Lazarin. Loose ball once again. Grafton comes up with it. And that's going to be a penalty on Kylie Marino as she gave a little bit too hard of a check to Scallion. Gator ball just outside the 12. Spartans up 6-1 with 627 to go. Kick the ball over to Hawkland. Over to McGrath. McGrath will get herself an 8 meter. Hawkland had a goal last time she came here along with Robertson and Alves McGrath turns around fakes driving in takes a step out and gets a shot by Jenna Holly goal number 22 McGrath McGrath gets her first goal of the game chips away at Spartans lead a little bit.
Oh, she brought a special guest. Okay. So, you guys can hear me. Okay. Right. That's all. Perfect. So, I'm going to take a little bit to speak to you about the 2025 French host exchange that we had this April. I have a student guest here with me as well, Miss Alma Lee, who will speak about her personal experience and then I'll talk about our transcript proposal for 2026. Get started first on what we did last April. So, we hosted some students from France here in Brookfield. That's the whole gang in front of Whiskanir when they got here. Um, and this gives you a little breakdown of kind of how many people could we host and what did we do. So, there were 25 Brookfield families. So, big shout out to all of those families who helped host students. Total of 48 of them were here.
We do suspect though and we have some you know understanding of where we think there is quite a bit of pressure and where things will change but there have been instances where we have changed things and waited for for a couple years before anything has happened. Um so I want to talk a little bit about the future land use. I'm not going to go in a ton of detail about this, but one of the challenges of planning is we try to convert all of our goals that we have onto a map, right? It's a it's a discipline that's very spatially uh focused. And so we've created what's called a future land use map. And that's sort of our aspiration for our city of how we would like it to to develop over time. And then we would try to gear our zoning towards that. So that is when the change would happen through zoning.
He has no power to the technical management. Ezra gave us 110% of his time and commitment and we say that as a factual thing because that's not figurative. That's literal. We have the data to prove that he was at the meetings for over the hours that he was meant to be there which is absolutely great. Shows his dedication. Uh he's planning to move on to Ruckers after this and planning to go in the field of astrophysics. probably a little bit harder than a lot just just slightly. But no, we really appreciate everything that Edon did this year and we appreciate everything is going to miss him, but we hope that he comes back, visits us and tells us of his great achievements that achieve the master faces. Thank you. I'd like to invite Emily Who's my SARS? Emily is one of the hardest hardest workers um that I have on our yearbook staff.
those eight students um it dropped to one and then three move to at benchmark and then four move to above benchmark. So that's really good progress. And then for at benchmark beginning of the year we have two at benchmark students and then those two move to above benchmark. And then lastly at the start of the school year we have one kid already above benchmark and at the end of the year that kid still stay above benchmark. So at the end of the year we have about four, five, six, seven kids above benchmark in the kindergarten classroom.
So, uh, like you said, we're all in this together. You, us, and everybody that's out there watching, we're all in this together. And hopefully that'll bring more people to town meeting. It's kind of hard when you vote. Close to 87 million budget. Yeah. And there's only 250 people that vote, you know, and it only takes 10 minutes. But yet on something very, you know, small, we we discuss it for a half hour, you know, but that's the way it's been. So hopefully we can change that with these types of programs and people take a concerned effort. So we thank you all for being here and doing it. So which is great. I'm so glad you guys got so much value out of this. So I know there's a lot of time and effort that Michael and his team put into this, but you know, it's really about getting the community more involved in all of this.
In this piece of music, you will hear students piff to imitate the sound of steam, pencils tapping on metal music stands to imitate the gears, and metal sounds from the percussion. Micah, can you do us a big favor and demonstrate for us? [Music] [Applause] [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] perfect. Happy [Music] birthday. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] Thank you. [Music] [Applause] Heat up here. [Applause] All right. At this point in time, we have a massive transition to make before we welcome Chorus to the stage. So, we'll have about a 20 minute intermission. Please listen. students, parents, volunteers to directions carefully. First, our fifth grade percussion will start moving percussion equipment safely back to the band room. You may go, percussion. While they're doing this, the fifth