Boille ended up with nine after he shot a good percentage from three and then Kerr finishing the game with 11. Uh, rounding off for the Tigers. Abbott led the way with six and Stler had five as Bumgardner and Gerber both had four. Griezer had three and then Vince Lambert and Alex Maghard rounded the scoring out with two. Yeah, a very not a very high offensive efficiency for either team this game. Very defensive. Lots of turnovers for both teams as the first half was very low scoring. I think in the third quarter the Tigers were able to almost put together a little bit of a run, forcing a lot of turnovers on the Patriots. [music] Both teams kind of going cold, so the game was close the whole time and then the Tigers was able to find that way to pull out the win. Any key thoughts for this upcoming varsity game?
Uh yeah, like I said earlier during our halftime break, uh the Tigers are are really just going to have to do a good job of controlling their emotions. Uh the Patriots as well, uh they're not going to want to get that anger that I know they have built up inside of them from the revenge that they're wanting for what happened to one of their star players on the court. And I know that they'll just have to keep those under control in order to uh keep this game. Yeah, expecting a very physical game. Lots of, as I noted, two key senior guards for the Patriots as we'll see if Marshall Gerber will be able to lock both of them down. Maybe looking for some other key perimeter play specifically from Maddox White, seeing if Gibson Grezer gets any minutes as Chase Kisser also looks like he's suited up for varsity to see if he gets any time on the court.
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Call this meeting to order and start with the pledge of allegiance. Welcome everyone here this evening. It's sure to be exciting. And do we will start first with comments from the audience. Is there anyone in the audience who would care to make a public comment this evening? All right. Um now turn things over to the superintendent. Good night. celebration of excellence. >> Like to welcome Mr. up here, please. And uh we have some student representatives here that are going to put on a performance for us tonight. And we'd like to recognize some students that uh earned a fabulous recognition um for their musical talents. >> All right. Thank you. Um so I'm here to recognize the CMEA Eastern Region Music Festival and Elementary Honors Festival students. We had a total of 14 students from BCS and BHS who were selected to participate in the Connecticut Music Educators Association music festivals this school year.
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These include the Eastern Region High School Music Festival at the University of Connecticut in January, the Elementary Honors Festival at the University of Bridgeport this month in February, and the Eastern Region Middle School Music Festival next month in March at Coventry High School. In order to participate in the regional festivals, each student had to perform a live audition in front of a professional adjudicator from the CMEA. The auditions are highly competitive and it is an honor to be selected for one of these elite ensembles. For the elementary honors festival, music teachers from across the state nominate qualified students by submitting a written recommendation for each individual student. During each festival, students rehearse and perform in large ensembles featuring up to 150 musicians. After several hours of rehearsal, the festival culminates in a concert featuring each ensemble performing several pieces of challenging and exciting repertoire. And I'm going to say all the students names and I would like for you to gather over by where Mr.
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McCormick is standing and uh and we will uh recognize everyone and take a photo after. So for the Eastern Region High School Festival, please join us in celebrating these students for their accomplishment. Allison Hartzog for flute. Nicole Denunio for flute. Christopher Allenson for jazz tenor saxophone. Sophie Dow for tenor saxophone. Kelsey Perkins for soprano voice, Kora Murray for soprano voice, and Olivia Urianiano for soprano voice. Uh, and then for the Eastern Region Middle School Festival, we had Elliot Garcia for percussion and Savannah Sheel for alto voice. And finally, the elementary honors festival. We have Mave Duffy for percussion, Olivia Zky for trumpet, Ariana Ferrer for soprano voice, Jackson Sadler alto voice, and Brooke Cordier alto voice. Please join me in congratulating them. for a quick look right Congratulations guys. >> Miss. >> Yeah. >> Hi. Good evening. You guys can organize while you're chatting. Um I'm Jen Carvalo.
This is and we are in the um close to the end of producing our annual musical which this year is the Spongebob musical. So we've been invited to share a little bit of our work and we appreciate the opportunity to rehearse with the live audience. Give us kind of like a little mini taste of what it's like to perform um in front of people before we head next door and continue rehearsal. Um so this is not all of our cast. This is a portion of our cast. Um, and we're presenting um, one of the numbers from the first act. We don't want to give too many spoilers about the show. Um, so we're not really gonna tell you what the one's about. Um, other that there's there's a conflict in Bikini Bottom and Spongebob and Friends are trying to fix that conflict. Um, and so they're talking about what tomorrow is going to bring as they do that.
So tickets are currently on sale boltonhigh.com. $5 students, $10 adults. And the show is February 26th, 27th, and 28th at 700 p.m. right next door in Sunni Common. So, we hope you join us. We have a lot of lot of surprises in store for the production this year. So, should be a lot of fun. I'm gonna turn it on real quick just to make sure one's okay. Don't start. We're okay. >> Yeah, that's good. That's good. Okay. My only try to Our world ends. However, we are just white. I feel I succeeded this thought the for the night of I'm not ready. world. We'll add in real quick that's just our rehearsal track that they're singing to. We do have a live pit this year for the show um that both Mr. McCormack and Mr. Er are a part of. So the actual background music will be far superior to the uh what we call the click track that was playing tonight.
So we hope to see you all in a couple weeks. Thank you. >> Um, all right. Congratulations to the Eastern Regional Music Festival Award winners and um, we're about to move on to our regular business meeting. And if people are so inclined, they our feelings will not be hurt. If you would like to go home, now is a great time. But please feel free to say all righty. Um now we get into the agenda this evening, right? Uh, we will have routine business and the approval of minutes. Could we have a motion, please, to approve the minutes of the January 8th, 2026 board of education business meeting? So, move. >> Anyone would like to second? >> One second. >> Uh, does anyone have questions, comments, or edits for these minutes? All those in favor of the motion, please say I. >> I. Opposed or abstaining.
All right. On to committee reports and we'll start with curriculum. The curriculum committee met um earlier this week and we saw a presentation from Misso um for a requested um text and digital companion um for the economics class. There were three text options presented um and the teacher pre preferred text is from SAVIS which is also being used in other history and world US history and world history. Um and after reviewing the three options, the subcommittee approved economics principles and action which is from SAVIS and plan to bring it up for a first read in March. Um and there was also a brief discussion of the AI planning committee and where they're going and how eventually we will need to have a policy committee meeting after all that. >> Thank you very much. Um finance, who was doing finance? >> Yeah, I'll do that. Um the finance subcommittee met today.
Uh additionally, since the last time we met, we had the town's board of finance meeting and two Kappa uh meetings. So, you threw us right into a busy time of year. Um but as of January 31st, the budget is uh approximately 47% expended, which is consistent with this point last year. Overall spending trends were stable across all budget areas. Several budget transfers were completed this month as you can see on your list and we're going to review those. Um the transfers didn't increase any overall spending but basically reallocations to address specific instructional and operational needs. Uh additionally the CAP committee met to review, discuss, and approve the school and town capital projects plan for the next four years uh ensuring alignment between educational priorities and long-term municipal planning. and we're going to review that in more detail later. >> Thank you very much. Um, do we want to approve the transfers now or is anyone gonna um do we have a motion please to approve the POE transfers for January?
>> I mean I'll make a motion. Uh, second. Anybody? >> I'll second. >> Does anyone have any questions or comments on any of these >> worthy ofation? We don't need the professional development um money from DCS to go for instructional supplies. We have an access there. >> Oh, for music. >> Yes. Yes. there was a um a transfer there to the instructional supplies fund professional development. Uh it might be something that they're not participating in this year.
>> So anyone have any questions or comments about any of these transfers eight? >> All right. Hearing none. All those in favor of the motion please say I. Hi. >> Anyone opposed? Abstaining. All right. On to communication. Our first ever communication meeting. You all set up. >> We didn't pick a person. So, >> yeah. >> Would you like to or we don't need to? >> You You can. >> Okay. Uh we met two weeks ago. Um it was our first uh meeting. It was more of a bouncing ideas off each other how we would like to effectively communicate moving forward more effectively communicate uh moving forward um for the board of ed the bud upcoming budget season and some plans to implement moving forward. Um we talked about um moving some things on the board website. um yeah, some plans moving forward, different strategies we can use to uh more effectively communicate with the community at large.
I think we're waiting to finalize the the budget calendar and we're going to be meeting again next next week >> to make a more detailed plan. >> Yeah. One of the things I want to mention that we talked about was um having like a a place where people can go and check out like highlights or summaries of of different things that are going on. So, uh they can keep up to date with things without having to search through a bunch of different websites and links and um uh documents. So, we talked about that and um had a lot of really good ideas and looking forward to next steps. Thank you very much. Uh community meeting reports. Has anyone attended any meeting? Actually, I'm here. >> Sorry. >> Um so just uh start uh next week on Tuesday at 6:30 at WPS Library, we have um our general meeting with guest communication with students and support services um for Bolton School.
Um, so all this should attend. I think there there's usually somebody there to help if you have littles with babysitting and goodies and everything to that. Um, see, listen. Um, there came to our attention that there was a community member that reached out to the DOE that reached out through to the PTA about confusion about the playground and the funding for that. Um, so I just wanted to reiterate what how that is done to hopefully clear up any confusion. So, we received a 520,000 general bond and this from the state. Um, and it's not a bond like where you when we built redid bolt and high where we have to pay it back. It's more like a grant um like a donation. It is I don't like the fact that it's called a bond because I do feel that it leads to a lot of misinterpretation of what it actually means.
Um, so think of it as a very large donation from the state and we are currently working with the town um to submit the paperwork early next week um uh to with that is technically town property that the playground does sit on and not BCS or school district property. Um we are submitting bid requests for developer and um bids and proposals in addition to the 80 85,000 that we have fundraised. And then we are also looking to make sure that if we need any additional costs, especially with having to restructure the grounds to make sure that it is accessible for our need. Um and we're hoping to break ground sometime between this spring and this fall. Obviously, we can't do it right now because of the sun. Um, some other things that are coming up for the PTA on Fridays, we have our someone special dance for the pre-K through fifth grade.
Um, was very well attended last year. We're hoping for a good turnout again this year. We have urban air night at on the 26th of this month for so come jump around, get kids run wild, get their crazies out with all this pooped up time. U, we also have crispy cream fundraiser in conjunction this year with the the high school's project graduation. So, it's a dual fundraiser for both the elementary school and Project Grad. And orders must be in by the 28th of this month. Um, all of these things can be found out on our Facebook or the Bolton PDA website, but I'm sure Project Graduation has their listing for that as well. We also have Glaze Pottery Night. Um, seats do fill up fast for that and that's the end on March 26th. So, there's limited seat for that if you would like to attend.