Kiley even with these buybacks is is the intention that everyone will it will carry over at least five days is that built into the contracts a standard across the board yes it varies from contract to contract how many days so in some cases it's ten days some cases it's five days but yes this is these days would be over and above the maximum carry forward perfect and just from my own knowledge are we looking at how many weeks are we looking at where the most that someone would we'd be buying someone out of three weeks two weeks any idea yeah we we have some folks with as many as three weeks vacation that they were unable to use you know probably planned it but obviously circumstances being what they are you know weren't able to to use those days all right I'll just go you know go and say that I'm in favor of a bot of the buyback I think that Dartmouth I think us as a as a school district and a school committee I think we've done our best and I think we've done a really good job that the group of us to really take care of our staff as much as we can and I really hope that people recognize that because you know I want what's we need to take care of each other we need to take care of our students it's really important that we we're all in this together then will we get through this together so those are just my two cents any of my other colleagues have any comments or questions mr.
lamendola asked him if he was going to audition he said of course he said ok I'm holding you to that he said with a smile I wouldn't miss it mr. glama Dolan knew at that moment this tooth was bound to give his heart and soul to Brookfield high school drama department he went on to have lead roles and all for BHS musicals he participated in Pugsley and The Addams Family Lord Farquaad and struck Robbie Hart and the wedding singer and this spring he was slated to star as J Pierpont Finch in How to Succeed in Business unfortunately we did not get to see him on stage this spring but I assure you we all know it would have been his best role yet we all wish him the best of luck in a future that looks quite bright this year's BHS long metal player scholarship award goes to Colin McClelland congratulations up next we have the Ben Jordan Memorial Scholarship dr.
Nunes yeah thank you Thank You mr. chairman mr. Kylie I'm gonna kind of make an assumption that most of these carryovers is because people had plans just for discussion purposes they were going to Disney World and of course you know with the covert 19 they were unable to go to Disney World so that vacation got canceled there's no place else they can go right you know typically I mean there will be people who you know school vacation week obviously is a is a popular week for folks and no one was you know able to really do anything at that point in time and it's yeah unfortunately I think people would normally plan things and we don't have people normally turn back vacation days so usually folks will use vacation days now to be clear this is just vacation days yeah so personal days if they haven't used them they lose them if they if they're more than what they can carry over and sick days are subject to their own language in the contracts this is strictly vacation time that was crude and and really is owed to them in one way or the other the only option would be to allow additional carryover or pay oh thank you okay thank you Jim anyone else all right so I'll entertain a motion to approve vacation buyback as stated by mr.
ben jordan was a beloved member of the Brookfield high school mathematics department students and staff alike enjoyed his teaching appreciated his collegial contributions looked to him for advice laughter this comedic timing and miss him dearly dr. Jordan worked with students at all levels from AP calculus and differential equations to algebra and geometry he took joy in watching a student persevere through to the solution of a problem they found difficult this award will be given to a student who has overcome challenges to succeed in mathematics the scholarship recognizes hard work and persistence not just achievements this year's recipient of the Ben Jordan Memorial Scholarship is Emma Mangold going to pause here for a second I just make sure we're good on the technical difficulties the joys of technology and autofocus as we're trying to do this remotely I'm hearing getting some feedback that it's zooming in and out and seems to be focusing we zoomed it out a little bit hopefully that will make it better but certainly you always have this audio track and I will be sharing these slides again so everybody gets a chance to see a so let's move on to the Brookfield Education Association DEA and Eugene L McGowan memorial scholarships each year the Brookfield Education Association Awards three scholarships to graduating seniors who have consistently displayed excellence and leadership in both academics and extracurricular activities these five and dollar scholarships are fully funded by the faculty and staff at Brookfield public schools it is not our to announce this year's three recipients Kylie block Erin's bagnolo and Juliana Lavoie congratulations this is a new scholarship this year is the Brookfield Animal Hospital scholarship they're offering this scholarship to a senior who was graduating and intends to pursue a career working with animals this year's recipient has taken both zoology one and two this year courses that focus on investigating and researching the unique behaviors anatomical structures and functions that promote survival for ocean and land animals both classes also explore animal threats survival and the impact of conservation these classes were the perfect foundation for her that she intends to study animal behavior and conservation at SUNY College of environmental science and forestry in the fall congratulations to Stacia Grossman the Daniel burka first-generation scholarship this is another new scholarship to Brookfield high school awarded to a senior who is a first-generation college student and demonstrates natural aptitude for learning and critical thinking this young lady is a focused hardworking and motivated student who sets goals for herself and works hard to achieve them she has overcome many obstacles and she now knows she can accomplish any goal she sets her mind to as a first-generation college student we are proud to announce that she will attend Western Connecticut State University and study a science related field with aspirations of going to medical school congratulations Haley Galia moving on to the Danbury old-timers Athletic Association scholarships the Danbury old-timers Athletic Association that's a real thing is an organization that was founded by the athletic communities of the Greater Danbury area in an effort to raise money for school teams and to award scholarships to local high school students this year's deserving recipients are Kaylee Keith and Adam frame congratulations we'll be gone to the Catholic War veterans Danbury post one zero for two scholarship this year there could be awarding a total of thirty thousand five hundred dollars not to one student to fifteen students from thirteen high schools throughout the area this year's Brookfield High School recipient is receiving the dentist and mica scholarship for $2,500 an additional five hundred dollars for exceptional academic performance she will be attending the University Connecticut and the fall congratulations to Morgan I you the Robert Jake on seniors scholarship was designed to acknowledge a graduating senior who demonstrates the commitment of volunteering to help a person or a group of people who have some type of special need and require help navigating everyday tasks since mrs.
Crowley and as found on the memo addressed to the School Committee I'll second that AB emotion by mr. Nunes a second by dr. Cara focus on the motion any other discussion Kate and a roll call vote please Chris Oliver yes Carol Carrodus yes Kathleen Amaral yeah John Nunes yes motion carries unanimously thank you thank you Jim Thank You Kate thank you for your support and I believe we're gonna continue with the Jim Kiley show summer maintenance projects okay so I normally would would send you a list which I'm sure you were all familiar with and I and I haven't done that yet I certainly be happy to provide you one for the next meeting I'd like to highlight a few things and some that are you know relevant to town meeting coming up so we have items some items recommended by the Finance Committee by the capital improvement planning committee by the Finance Committee by the Select board and you folks that are on the agenda for the that xx to be approved some of which we we'd hope to accomplish this summer if possible it's quick turnaround and there's a whole set of logistics and the ability to order things is the availability of items is is challenging but we are going to make efforts to accomplish some things so the things on that town meeting agenda are physical security improvements which are largely focus [Music] it sounded like a train like a train in your backyard yeah that was not me at any rate so physical security improvements camera project bleachers at the Quinn and middle school art equipment at the high school which would be the photography equipment that is deteriorated and needs replacement and the big one would be the boiler retrofit and replacement at the middle school that one we will we've already worked were working with our utility company and we have also the town has applied for Green Communities funding to coincide with that so you'll remember we did the big project at the high school a few years ago and we'd hope to continue that with working on the middle school this would not accomplish the entire project but it would be a substantial improvement and should be in a quite an efficient improvement that would save us some money in the long run so those things are all on the Town Meeting warrant for the 20th the other items that we're going to focus on this summer are class we're doing classrooms at the middle school flooring projects throughout the district we are we are working on finishing the locker room projects which had mostly impacted the high school but also the middle school to some extent and the other thing that is on my mind that I think is to be I don't know well we shall see what what it looks like is what kind of adjustments are we gonna need to make to these facilities so we know as much as we need to be what from a budgetary perspective we need to be flexible from a maintenance perspective and a facilities perspective to figure out okay if we're starting school at the end of August that's not a lot of time to adjust to whatever but recommendations the Commissioner of Education hopefully has for us fairly soon so but the good news is you know I have a Rick Ferreira who's amazing in terms of his you know his abilities to get to get things done we are a little short-staffed on the on the facility side we had a resignation and we have someone injured so we're short-staffed but we're gonna get done what we can and focus on the priorities obviously thank you Jim any questions for mr.
Kahn and her husband were in high school they both gave up their time to help individuals with special needs as well as raising their own children to follow in their footsteps congratulations to Katherine Coneybear onto the dorothea angstrom scholarship award angstrom was a Brookfield Girl Scout leader for 50 years this scholarship was established to honor her the committee set out to choose a worthy recipient whose values and love of Girl Scouting closely maps dogs since Girl Scouting is an international leadership development program we are very proud that this particular young lady earned the gold award the highest recognition in Scouting she's been a scout for 11 years and run an outstanding essay regarding what Girl Scouting meant to her and she has the desire to become a mechanical engineering beginning her studies at Vanderbilt University in Nashville Tennessee this fall the recipient of the Dorothea Engstrom scholarship this year is Molly bird saw next award comes to the married Worcester chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution the Daughters of the American Revolution is a women's service organization that was founded over 125 years ago the objectives of the society are to promote patriotism historic preservation and education in our community the Mary Worcester chapter is proud to present the certificate of award for outstanding work in American history to Faiz Isaac we'll be going to the rook field pop water scholarships each year Pop Warner Awards scholarships for higher education to the most deserving seniors eligible students must have completed one full season as a Pop Warner football player cheerleader and/or completed two years as a Pop Warner student demonstrator coach or volunteer these students are also involved in service to the community and to the Brookfield public schools Pop Warner is proudly awarded over 1 million dollars in scholarships since 1993 and this year they are proud to present two scholarships congratulations to Juliana Lepore and Ty Sylvia the new talent Savings Bank scholarships the New Towns Savings Bank Foundation traditionally provides college scholarship donations annually within each of the bank's primary communities that it serves their primary goal is to invest in the health of the communities where the bank branches do business and to provide support and financial resources that benefit Social Services affordable housing initiatives education Community Economic Development Health and Human Services as well as arts and culture congratulations to our to Award winners this year Logan Scribner and Maria Maciel or Macy oh I'll get up my graduation the next award is the outstanding achievement just his learning award this dude like many struggle with distance learning at first however she slowly came around seeing the positive results of her routine and built up her confidence on the foundation of some well done assignments the student who was once avoidant has overnight transformed into one who is thirsty and excitement she is sharing her ideas asking for help and talking through difficult assignments she's even recently started working with a peer nearing zum calls helping him through zoology and personal finance assignments her grades have improved as has her excitement for learning we are pleased to present the outstanding achievement distance learning book award to Irina de Legazpi Irina will received the forensic science of CSI written by Katherine ROMs lab under the dawn limbo Morial scholarship dawn Lynn was a typical American team who loved playing video games eating at Wendy's and hanging with his friends he never shied away from hard work and managed to work full-time at his parents restaurant while going to school dawn was driven to attend college and he was accepted at Western Connecticut State University he enrolled at WCS you knowing would take him to buses to get to campus on Tuesday November 22nd 2011 I thought was killed by a distracted driver in front of the West on campus while he was rushing to catch one of his buses in honor of his memory this scholarship is being awarded to a deserving young man DeAndre Jefferson congratulations the robbie cirno boreal scholarship robbie sertner graduated from Brookfield High School in 2013 on October 9th 2016 the fall of his junior year at Manhattanville College he was walking back to school when he was tragically killed by a drunk driver Robbie was a friend to many and remembered his always smiling he personified kindness and was known to say never leave your smile at home this scholarship is to be awarded to the senior with the most welcoming smile and kindly with peers as recognized by the staff at the Brookfield high school congratulations to Roy carpenter the Robert Warren Lundqvist Memorial Scholarship Robert Lundqvist attended Longmeadow junior high school and Danbury High School in 1968 graduated from Western Connecticut teachers scholars he was a better educator and taught mathematics for his entire career so Robert teaching was not a career but it was his passion he truly cared about his students and was well respected by the mall to preserve the ongoing memory and legacy of Robert Warren Lundqvist this scholarship was established to recognize outstanding and successful mathematics students who exemplified good citizenship citizenship citizenship and traits as well congratulations to Kaley Snyder the decks minyak foundation scholarship is presented in honor of ducks men nagging a former Brookfield high school student Dex was known for his good nature from the disposition his ability to be a great friend this year's recipient is someone who embodies these treats these distinguished characteristics deserve to be recognized and rewarded sometimes all it takes is one friend one caring soul to make a difference ferns men yak Texas mother billion Katy Texas best friends would like to congratulate James Onorato and wish him the best of luck as pursuits after high school congratulations James the Kelly Marton scholarship for outstanding leadership can leave Marton established a scholarship in 2006 to commemorate the positive role of Brookfield in her life through school community and career achievements she learned how one's actions can have a meaningful impact on others with this scholarship she hopes to inspire other young adults to develop their unique strengths this year's recipients of the Kelly Martin scholarship is Bryan Villanueva congratulations Bryan the Women's Club of Brookfield is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to promote interest and pride in our community to stimulate participation and civic and cultural activities and to encourage friendships the Women's Club is recognizing two well deserving students for their annual Ward thanks to their commitment to supporting their community congratulations - Emma grab guard and Adam frame up next is the PTSO persistence and grit award but before I present this award I want to take a moment to thank the heart and soul of the Brookfield High School PTSO Linda frame there's been such a pleasure working with her for the last five years and now that our youngest is graduating the torch will be passed to the next generation of leaders Linda has been a blessing to Brookfield High School a tireless advocate for education and a constant supporter to improve our entire community I will truly miss working with her and her family Thank You Linda for everything you have done for me and for the students of Brookfield under the award the persistence and grit award was established by the work field High School PTSO last year the persistence of grit award recognizes two senior students with an excellent work ethic determination persistence positive attitude and those that demonstrate a consistent desire to improve academically the recipients this award will be receiving a $50 gift card along with a book by Angela Duckworth entitled gripped the power of passion and perseverance congratulations to Ella reali and Marcos Delta next up is the BHS Booster Club community spirit scholarship these two students are very active within the Brookfield high school athletic community either as an athlete team manager Spectator a fan their overall high school experience has been enhanced by their various roles in our athletic community making the winners of this year's BHS community spirit scholarship congratulations to Sinead Ballack and Adam fraim the BHS Booster Club last act sportsmanship scholarship sportsmanship scholarship house calm this award recognizes students that actively demonstrate the principles of the CI a C class act initiative Brookfield strives to follow an established set of guidelines for behavior of sporting events and as a student-led group to monitor an address sportsmanship concerns within the school the CIA C serves as a sponsor for the program which aims to provide a framework enabling schools to promote encourage and monitor positive sportsmanship within their departments congratulations to this year's winners Leila Cafone and Brian Ritter the Connecticut Association of boards of education cave Leadership Awards the recipients of this award consistently demonstrate a willingness to take on challenges work well with others are capable of making difficult decisions and show concern for those in need they are willing to commit and follow through on projects are diplomatic and able to see all facets of difficult issues congratulations to mod C bagua and giovanni cinta the kinetic association of schools Fine Arts Awards is a program that annually honors two outstanding seniors from each of the member schools in the state who excel in their performing or visual arts these students must also possess the supporting qualities of scholarship and leadership well they weren't able to attend the banquet this year congratulations to Molly bird saw and JD Paris the connected highschool CIA C's Scholar Athlete Awards the scholar athlete program annually recognizes to Connecticut high school seniors one male and one female from each member school their academic and athletic careers must be exemplary their personal standards and achievements must be a model for others and they must possess high levels of integrity self-discipline and Kurvers this year's awards go to Jamie via treaties that are found as mayor on to one of the biggest collar ships we award this scholarship will talk about a minute is the better part of $5,000 renewable every year for four years the viola Mike martini wide lick scholarship became Masari viola martini white light became Brookfield's first town clerk in 1931 her office was in the basement of Town Hall which later became the Joyce Memorial Library and is now the Brookfield Museum and Historical Society the people that remember viola best describe her as being an amazing caregiver she enjoyed baking and sewing and even conducted much of the town's business out of her own home the viola martini scholarship is presented to a student who embodies these exemplary qualities this recipient should intend to pursue an education in the healthcare profession have a good work ethic and show enthusiasm for taking care of others this year's recipient is Salma Nasser congratulations on we also think whether the wide-leg family for the Raymond G wide life scholarship Raymond widely the son of George and aforementioned viola while it was born raised and lived his whole life of Brookfield during his working years he was an accountant Street farmer and held the position of Brookfield's talents treasurer for 30 years many of Ray's stories about growing up at Brookfield are documented in the book titled the ironworks district which can be purchased at the Brookfield Historical Society the Raymond G wide-leg scholarship is presented to a student who plans to pursue an education aerospace research scientific research or mathematics the recipient must have a good work ethic and possess excellent critical thinking skills this is recipient will receive a $5,000 annually renewable scholarship congratulations to Molly bird saw we'll begin we have simple awards to give several suits have been recognized with a President's Award for educational excellence when the GPA of 4.0 are higher and I'm going to now read a letter from the President of the United States congratulations to the recipients of the 2020 presidents Education Award over the past year the individuals who have earned this distinguished honor have exhibited exceptional work ethic and determination our nation will soon look to these future leaders for guidance and I'm confident they will continue to build a stronger and more prosperous future for our great country the first lady joins me in applauding the educators administrators parents and other community leaders who have been there every step of the way to encourage and uplift these bright young men and women as these talented students pursue their dreams and passions we send our best wishes for continued success keep up the great work Donald Trump so now I'll read the names this is where it's really gonna mess me up because I'm not typically what happens in these at this point in time and the award ceremony as there's a a clap and I can't rely on mr.
Kiley regarding summer maintenance projects good no I'll just I'll sound like I'm getting an echo sounds like it's gonna be a busy summer it does sound like it's gonna be a busy summer and I appreciate the fact Jim that you've taken the time to realize that we we need to be flexible with maintenance and who knows what the guidance is going to look like and what types of whether it's Plexiglas barriers whether it's stations I don't want to speculate so thank you for the update [Laughter] anyone else all right that is it for mr. Colley's portion of the show take the rest of the meeting off mr. Cogley no I'm kidding I'm kidding a superintendents update dr. Gifford sure thank you so obviously the big deal for this week was the graduation the parade I know most of you if not all of you were on the route somewhere and I think it went off the attack it was fantastic the excitement in the air even at the high school in the morning when I was there waiting around mr.
show you can do it I don't expect it to but there's a page that goes to this so I apologize if I'm a little off you know without the crowd here it's a bit different than has been before but I want to recognize the following students are fond eyes Marion Morgan I you sinead ballot Muncie barn wall Molly Byrd saw Jackson boo tree Jacqueline burr Kathryn capozella Giovanna Coelho Bridget Connelly James Croce Marcus Dalton Isabela D'Souza Daniel devraj's Alessandra daliyah Imam al-mahdi Sophia for Lanza Lucas Freedman Tanisha Gaikwad Thomas Garza lino Maya good Emma grabbed Oh Fernanda hashira Jamie via treaties kimberly coulis Matthew Cavanaugh Amman common Taylor Lynch Alan mom Maria Maceo Emma Mangold alia Leduc Salma Nasir Kaylee O'Keeffe Nyree oh Vanessa Emily part schinsky thighs kaiser Maryam Kaiser Brian Ritter Rasheeda Sarma Giovanni cinta Cameron Spiro Kourtney Spiro Kevin tang and Brian Villanueva congratulations all those that received the President's Award for educational excellence go on to the formal announcement of the many know already to introduce the class of 2020 salutatorian and value Tori this would be the last recognition of the evening so let me first recognize our salutatorian of the class of 2020 congratulations fyz Kaiser and onto the velvet-- Orion at the class of 2020 is my pleasure to recognize earth on Oz their congratulations so tonight we awarded the better part of seventy one thousand dollars in scholarships to Brookfield high school students thanks to the school community members so I want to make sure I send a special thank you to all our local scholarship providers here is greatly appreciated I truly do miss having you join me on stage and be able to see the joy and parents faces and students faces when they're surprised when they win these awards and they're recognized for all their hard work and the different things that they do to make their community and themselves better or let them know that scholarship checks will be mailed home and the days following the ceremony I also want to say that this has been a very tough time for all of us not just you at home but us here this is not what any of us educators signed up for this is the kind of night I look forward to be celebratory I look forward to seeing those smiling faces the dollar signs and parents eyes as they realize their children got money for college and I'm unable to do that tonight I know it's all for a good reason it's the health and safety of others it still doesn't make it any easier and nor does this ceremony which is far from what I expected or want for my seniors and for their parents and families and friends just know that I sent my sincerest congratulations to you and you can't tell you enough how proud I am of everything that you've accomplished and before I go I'll say a couple more thank yous I said to the students I just started with that thank you for being who you are for families I like to say that my daughter has clearly played with this particular slide so you'll see the transition is much different than the others so thank you to Madeline my name year old at home so think of the families who are supporting from all the students throughout their their k12 career and it's couldn't do without you so the staff was here day in and day out whether it be distance learning or in person to support our students to push our students to achieve their best thank you so much for being who you are and doing what you do - mrs.
Nunes was there as well kids were excited and then watching the virtual ceremony after to me it was just incredible and I've seen a lot of other communities and not that I want to compare but I think we did a very good job as a whole as a community and the one thing one thing I really came away with it also is that I think this was a really good thing for the community the energy the excitement and people coming together and rallying around the the graduates so I invited mr. Tebow to our meeting tonight because I really wanted him to say a few words about mr. Perotti excuse me cooperation and help from DC TV as well of course but mr. Perotti has been a shining star not only through graduation but throughout all of this as you know the videos I've made on my phone he's edited he's put out so anyway I don't want him to have a big head back there but I wanted to surprise him mr.
Colavito and - mr. Conklin who helps set up this ceremony tonight virtually so that you can all see it he's dreaming and I'll be saved and archived I couldn't do it without them I wasn't expecting this excited to be here but mrs. Sadie thank you very much your name's not here mr. shady but thank you for joining me here tonight I also want to thank mrs. Hopcroft for all the work she's done she helped a lot with the undergrad Awards and the senior awards as well and then a really big thank you to mrs. Genovese who organized the scholarships he's been emailing students since day one since we went out to make sure you applied and hopefully did your best to to put yourself out there to try to get some of this and she organized this slide shows we put it all together I could not do this without her and her support so I'll leave you with this last quote behind you all your memories before you all your dreams around you all who love you within you all you need I couldn't think that couldn't be more poignant message than tonight so congratulations to all our senior scholarship award winners our course Award winners our department winners our salutatorian our valedictorian and to all the parents family and staff thank you and have a good night [Applause]
Tico come in and say a few words about the work that he's been doing Christy bow thank you thank you for inviting me and I really appreciate the ability to come in and speak about mr. Perotti and I can just say this I knew this morning the graduation was over because for the first time in a week I didn't have a text message at 6:00 in the morning from mr. Perotti who had already started editing for the day and I'm hoping that he doesn't text me at 9 o'clock tonight either to let me know that he's done for the day all joking aside though he handled all of the edits for the commencement ceremony but on top of that I think we can lose track of the fact that he's a teacher first and so he continued with enrichment lessons for his kids he continued to oversee we had the scholarship and awards ceremony last week as well and I'm gonna ask the superintendent that at the next school committee meeting we can invite the students from the DHS TV media production there are three or four students in particular who really helped but mr.
Parvati from mr. Perotti provided direction to them while he was making the edits for the commencement ceremony as well last week so you know each day it was it was long day they were long days to film the individual aspect of every student walking across that stage getting their diploma turning the tassel all of that but mr. Perotti was able to kind of stay ahead he got the footage each day he was the last person we are at the end of each night because he'd come in and get the footage from decent TV so he could immediately stop you know again I can't stress enough if everyone had mr. peratis can-do mindset we could do great things and we do do great things but there's never a time we've gone to mr. Perotti and said can we do this or he said no figures out a way and I think it's a testament to the great work that goes on in our community and he really exemplifies the mindset that I think we we all should embody and embrace you know and again I just want to stress one last time the fact that he's a teacher first you know it would have been easy after all the extra hours you put in you know he was there at the parade yesterday filming with the drone after all those extra was I don't think anyone would you know fault him for taking it easy today but he's exting me about he set up a virtual field trip for his kids in the program to visit virtually URI because they just made a large investment to their program the immediate program and he let me know that last week or a couple of weeks ago during the shutdown his class took a virtual field trip to a university in Florida again that's got a strong media program so the amount of work mr.
Perotti does the quality of the work and if the party does its people like him who made yesterday in the past week so positive and then while I have the the floor here real quick I also want to thank the members of the administrative team at Dartmouth high school as well because again I know is five minutes for each individual student but when you have two hundred and fifty nine students in a class the time that it took to film it was well worth the investment but the administrative team worked around the clock for those three days and so I just would really like to recognize and thank Rachel sha ba Mike Martin rich Gill Andrew Crisafulli and and Bridget de Silva because it really was a team effort that all possible so again thank you for allowing me to come on and and to really highlight the great work mr.
Perotti did and continues to do for us well thank you mr. Tebow as as I said in my email I think that I sent out to you and your administration and dr. Gifford as well as mr. Perotti because I know the time and the effort that it takes is that you you're very fortunate to have someone and yeah like you said let's not make mr. peratis head go too big but you're very fortunate to have someone of his caliber and at Dartmouth high school and be able to put together the types of projects that he does so kudos to to rob but also to your entire team for putting together the parade that I thought the parade was phenomenal a lot of energy a lot of heat and it was dr. Gifford hit the nail on the head with it brought the community together it was just great to see Elm Street just lit up with people the village over right over the bridge and Ponte Gansett and all the way down sloping road as they followed behind the parade after it and there was just a lot of happy faces and I think it was good to just get the community together and and just get everyone out to see our graduating seniors so thank you very much for stopping by to to share that with us thank you for providing the opportunity really appreciate it Darryl has something oh I didn't I don't see her on screen Carol you see me all night mr.
Oliver my other tab I just want to echo what everyone had said and the thing that struck me the most well first of all I look tat the number of students that were going up there and I couldn't imagine how much time it was taking for you to be up there and your team to to have each student be up there getting the diploma and their family being there in the pictures but I think the the parade and I was thinking about it all day yesterday after watching was how the community really was excited about our graduates and I can read somewhere one of the social networks that should be done every year celebrating our kids and I know all these these take a lot of time and a lot of work and I know mr. Perotti has been a great asset to our system and I would just say the leadership to of a high school because I know sometimes we have great people on staff but there are times when the leadership doesn't want to take any risks so thanks to you your team everyone involved our school administration and of course everyone at Bush Street for their support and enabling this to go forward so thank you thank you and I want to speak for dr.
Gifford but I'm all in on a parade every year I do think that that was we have to send very special thank-you notes to the police and the fire department though the idea you're on that and I think for thank-you notes it's it's often email is expedient but I like a handwritten note sometime so we are we are in the front there in snail mail unfortunately by the way we really appreciate the police department they were with us from day one in terms of all the planning that went into it you know so we really appreciate that as well as having the fire apparatus there as well was was a nice touch and then I just wanted to comment one other thing our photos mentioned she mentioned all the hours that it take took about 24 hours of footage of real time and so again I share that because it highlights how much editing mr.
Perotti had to do he compressed hours into that 45 minutes that the ceremony took so you know it really was a bit of editing to do so I loved it seamless nice job yep mr. Nunes and then he will go with this is a morale Thank You Kathleen wants to go for us go I'm good with that ladies first well thank you no I just echo it what my colleagues said and you know I know we're in the beginning of the alphabet being the a but you know it was just a wonderful experience and thank you for everyone that really put the effort in and you you made it welcoming you made it comfortable and it was the graduation and then that parade was fantastic I just I really just echo what my my colleagues have said and just thanked everyone I just enjoy mr.
Perrotti is enthusiasm for what his ideas and and and as you said that mindset that really makes things happen and and that leadership that brings people in really all of you have made a difficult time enjoyable memorable and yeah thank you for for making it as special as you did No thank you mr. Nunes I think it was Thank You mr. chair yeah I've just gotta echo everybody I mean with a great job I was at the high school yesterday wanting to see the students often boy the excitement you you know you think of sports events everything else the the excitement in the air was unbelievable with these students and even the faculty that was there and I gotta tip my hat to you know the class advises that were there and some additional faculty you know they were walking all around because I guess they were judging the cause is you know who got first who got second you know honorable mentions and everything and you know they just the the faculty of themselves did a wonderful job I mean go back and watch that graduation you're right it's seamless you you just go right down the line with the students you know the way they you know picked up their diploma stood there you know the moment of fame and congratulations to them the what ceremony I watched that right after you know and the way you know that was done mr.
Tebow was perfect absolutely excellent and what I really enjoyed in all seriousness was at the end with going through and you know the pitches of the students and the colleges that they're going to and what they're majoring in that was really something to see I mean where we have students going you know you know Colorado you know California Illinois New York Connecticut you know Virginia who knows where else and what they're majoring in I mean you know Computer Engineering mole molecular science geology I mean what our students are majoring in and the classes that they have taken I'm not quite sure how these students are able to juggle all of their their studies and their after-school activities and clubs and still take three four or five AP classes a year and get you know one student got a 5 in chemistry god bless them you know I'm just over thrilled I'm just thrilled with what our students did in you know my congratulations to everyone mr.
Perotti Peter chasing the crew at DC TV mr. or a Tebow in his administration central office just you know you made what had been a tough last semester I think really really great for our seniors I just want to add one money mr. Oliver also in addition to all the high school staff just going along the parade route and seeing the staff from all the other schools as excited it was just a real like I said a real a real boost for the community having gone through you know struggling right now and and all of that but I've never seen an admin team or folks like a mr. Perotti really step up to the plate beyond and come together and do what needed to be done to celebrate our kids and I don't know it was very it was very moving and emotional so I I just it was wonderful could I just add one more thing gonna go on all night about it sure I wanted to thank as dr.