Um and then their competition season starts. But they were wonderful. Um food service was out outstanding. security, Robin Tobias, Pam Panza, everybody, custodials, they were fantastic. So, the entire staff, you know, the that was involved, they did an outstanding job, let alone the kids were amazing. They performed at I think 620. Our Cavaliers did an outstanding job. So, I know Miss Summerris was there helping out because their son's in combo and I I think you saw the performance. >> I did. They were great. But Mr. Swallish is being far too far too like humble. He throws a fantastic gig. He's in charge of this shindig. Everything from like the food to making sure the wifi was like getting people in to like the Wi-Fi went down and the panic and he just was in there fixing everything with and and hi. And our friendly guy here, I forgot.
But, >> yeah. So, we we typically have >> rotate two, >> maybe even three. I'd have to ask Mr. Camp off the top of my head. big buses and then we typically have a few white buses obviously like there are some days all after school every activity bus is gone right or on the weekends but during the school day we run three of them I think three or four maybe I can't remember off top my head do you know Mrs. Pierce is it three >> three >> yeah as a regular route um so there's a lot of those sit back there so you know you do have some flexibility right for some reason but yeah we I mean like Mr. Campbell's had that bus, you know, in the shop for the last week and a half or whatever it's been, you know, but um so we've got some extras and then he had he had kind of mentioned that same thing like maybe I'll kind of maybe rotate some buses around so we're not putting all the miles on maybe trips on just you know if if bus number two up there is the best bus.
Jen will fix those minutes. Could I please have a motion to approve the consent agenda as just amended for the January 20th minutes? So moved. >> Beth second. >> Lisa. All right. Anyone to comment on those? Anything else that's in there? >> Okay. All in favor? >> I. >> Anyone against it? >> All right. So, that passes as well. Next up, uh, some policies. I have a few things to say here about these policies. I thought it was a, uh, an appropriate time to point out a few of these policies. to sort of govern how school committee operates and members behave based on recent circumstances, recent events, especially given the fact that we have uh three candidates for an open seat on the committee tonight. Once you take that oath of office, whether we agree personally with policies, norms, procedures, uh that's what we're signing on to when we take that oath of office.
Um I think I often uh say that uh I don't know if the school could run during those times had she not been in charge. And uh so uh she was a person that uh we should uh at at uh definitely uh remember, honor and respect. She left a legacy that uh very few people who have ever worked here uh can follow. So uh if you knew her, you would know uh what an amazing human being she was in person. Uh and it was all about kids. She really cared about the students that went to school here and her commitment was to those students to provide them the best opportunities under the most difficult uh challenge uh situations at time. So she she'll be missed in our community as well as she was very instrument uh very active in our community as well uh from and she lived in the town of Andover.
Um, so, uh, any questions to the committee? And by the way, Jordan sat through it the whole time. So, thank you for doing that. >> Long process. Okay, hearing no questions. I'll take a motion then that the move to the camp board of education appoint Amy Le Chance is member of camp board of education for a term to expire on November 16, 2027. We have a motion. Thank you, Kim. A second. Thank you, Michelle. We're good. Uh, any further discussion and hearing? None. All those in Felicia's online. Hello, Felicia. All those in favor three. So, we are unanimous as 480. Thank you very much for that vote. Amy, congratulate. Tracy Marco here is our our town clerk and uh she is ready to swear you in. And we actually have a temporary platform for you and the seat ready to go. So Tracy, if you wouldn't mind, >> we're going to take some pictures as you're doing this.
It was a big deal. And so >> convocation, too. >> And convocation. Oh my gosh. Yeah. So, there's definitely, you know, there's a little bit >> almost playing tricks. >> Yeah. It's almost playing tricks. So, tonight when the weather forecast was starting to get a little funky, um, my biggest fear is that we would have to delay this again. So, I'm so glad that you're here. I'm glad that your family is here again and your adorable daughter. Um, but we just wanted to say thank you again. We have a nice award for you, a little certificate. Um, and we'd love to take some photos. Um, maybe get some autographs later if you're up to it. Okay. So, we're gonna we'd like to present you with an award. I'm going to come around and then we're going to do some pictures. But, thank you again. Round of applause for Brian Bettish.
Now, I would like to introduce Magnolia School Student Council President Caesar, who will lead us in the pledge of allegiance tonight. Please stand. Place your right hand over your heart. Ready? Begin. I pledge algiance 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. >> Thank you, Caesar. Don't go anywhere. We have certificate for you. Will board member Ariana please read the certificate? >> Yes.
And I have one more thing to present with her. We just started this new thing in January. Shine, here is a yellow jacket challenge coin, okay, that we give you as part of the athletic department. Now, this is an honorary thing that we give you and you can lose this. So, you have one week. There's a quote on here that you need to memorize and I'll personally come to you and ask for that quote. So, keep it keep it on your person all the time. This is a representation of who you are as a person, the high moral standards that you have, and the ability that you have to impact the students around you. We're so very grateful for you. We love you. We appreciate you. We hope that you continue to do the great things that you do at Blanchage High School. Shauna Dean Ko.
You were up 6% this year at 350 million. That's what the county has to levy your taxes. Okay, your 2627 numbers. I think they're going to be out, aren't they, Courtney? Pretty quick. I think they're going to be out soon. We would expect probably four to 5% growth again. Good news. And you can see your growth percentages in column three. Column four and five is what I talked about earlier. That's that current bond where that that graph dropped down. So once again, we got a million6 for the next couple three years and then we dropped down to 750,000. Your current secondary tax rate as we speak is 47 cents for the bond. That was that blue line. Okay? So, if the district does not call a bond election and does not issue any more bonds in the future, your tax rate will will hover around that 45 cent number and then of course in 2930 down to 20 cents.
So there's really nothing much about Let me let me just Is there any questions about this category? >> What was the reason for the movement? I mean, what was the the contributing factor to >> the contributing factor was we had plenty of money sitting in our capital fund to cover all of our capital expenditures and then some and to take those funds, move them into M. Hopefully to, you know, get out some raises based off of those as well. >> So then why does the state consider that a high risk? >> Because we've actually moved the money from one fund to the other. If the money would have just stayed there without moving it, it would be another blue category. >> So then if we have the money and it's and it's a good fund, why do they consider that a high risk? >> Because we actually move the money.
So, we expect for that to continue to go up as they become more comfortable with this assessment. Okay. Okay. The next one is I pulled fifth grade um ELA and this is an ASA mimic. So, ASA Mimic, our assessment platform, designs assessments that mirror the blueprints we get from the state of Arizona. So, they pull together and they use psychometricians to determine what proficiency bands should be so that we can make accurate predictions for what a student will get in the springtime assessments. The MOI data we take very seriously because it's still actionable. We still have time um to improve upon what you're seeing in the data here. Fifth grade, we really want to celebrate. Check out the jumps from there. Two years ago, we were at 57% proficient or passing, which we're going to consider proficient plus highly proficient and we're at 70% this year.
>> I'm Zachary Ashton. I'm a senior. >> I'm Cassidy Clifford. I'm a junior. >> I'm Jack Livka. I'm a junior. I'm April French. I'm the troop director. Pamela Pamela Simmons, assistant principal. >> You know, I thought one group that would not be afraid of the microphone would be the thesans to come up here and you guys. April, if you could just say a few words about what happened at the conference a little bit more. >> Yeah, this is our annual conference that we go to. Uh we have over a hundred schools that come out from our state and we have a two-day event. So we have competitions, we have performances. Um they actually performed their one act uh but directed by Shawn over here and they got a superior uh we have our gold troop status which was taken care of by Francisco and Riley by putting together a massive application which also helped us to get the award of distinction for the fourth year in a row.
>> Uh good evening everyone and happy Black History Month. Um a couple of updates. So, I did get an opportunity to attend uh the district's legislative updates um session. So, it was my second year attending. Very enjoyable. Last year, I know our legislators did not get an opportunity to attend because they were busy downtown at the capital fighting for us. Um so, it was very nice to um have them there um and talk about some of the bills and different things and how they address things that we as individual community members can do. So, always love that. Um and then yesterday I had the opportunity to attend the governor's state of the state um annual event at the capitol and um some of the things that they mentioned were uh their focus on the workforce which I know is very important for us because that's part of the portrait of the uh the graduate on making sure that our students are prepared for the workforce for whatever um path they choose.
Please, Don. Yeah, I know. But I was going to use your last name, not >> Bruno. Okay, Mr. Bruno did a good or I got it wrong again, but whatever. He did a fantastic job getting us up and running. And the kids were fantastic. And all of the parents that came in and supported, great job. And all of the food service people that were there, phenomenal. And I'm going to get a tattoo with Bill's mom. We got plans. But really, they he does a fantastic job. >> The kids are amaz the kids are amazing. And the two director, you know, uh Mr. Elephantis is the director and Miss My is the assistant director. And listen, those those two kids, and I call them kids because I'm 53, the amount of time they put in, it's it's great. It's it's amazing. And the what the kids do after school and the amount of time they put in, it's it's incredible.
Well, I know everybody wants to use bus two. Maybe we'll rotate those miles a little bit, you know, and that's something we just kind of naturally do anyways just to kind of balance mileage on trips. But again, we use our activity buses here so much um that you know, our activity buses are actually the ones that really rack the miles, not not necessarily our yellow buses. >> Do we have have it? Are we buying any more activity buses? >> No. So, we we bought three last year. Um the next activity bus would be on there until >> I think it's number four >> is number four. >> Oh, yeah. So, four and five. So M8 and M1 are both activity buses. Um so that 2015 one that would be you know that would be getting up there um by that point you know at 2028.
So we all wear multiple hats as committee members. We're parents. We're volunteers in the school. We're committee members. But once that oath is taken, you have to be very careful to keep these separate and maintain that separate disconnect between our different hats. So a few of these policies here, policy BBA, these are all online if anyone would like to read them. I'm just going to summarize them here. This concern concerns school committee member authority. As we all know when we sign up and we take our training individual members have no independent authority on the school committee. The authority only exists as a complete body. So we take votes, we have meetings. They're properly posted according to open meeting law and that's what we do. So as individual members, we should not be representing ourselves or exercising any authority in the school buildings or in the community outside of that context.
So, uh, uh, we cared about her. We loved her, and, uh, we, uh, will miss her. Thank you. >> Thank you, John. Well said. Uh, before we get to the roll call, I'd like to, uh, tell you about a couple minor changes in the agenda. Um, when we, uh, vote to accept the minutes of January 9th, it was stated that Mrs. Richardson, assistant superintendent Richardson was intend in attendance. She was not in attendance at that meeting. She's a correction there. Um there was another one that we have uh a time uh decision to make on a travel voucher for uh travel out of state travel. And the uh there's been an update on ICE. The state department uh just had a meeting uh the week we had our original meeting and the policy has been updated. I think we can vote on all three of those at the same time unless anybody has a question on any of them.
>> Where would you like to sincerely affirm as the case may be that you'll faithfully discharge according to law your duties as a member of the Canton Board of Education for the town of Canton, which has been appointed to the best of their ability to still help you guide penalty of All right. >> Thank you, Tracy. We'll see you. Okay. Uh with that, that was a good piece of business. We'll move on to the part of public comment. Um public comment is an opportunity for anyone in the audience or online to uh to make a comment or a question.
[applause] >> [applause] >> I wasn't sure how this was in the background. >> It says public schools. Brian, state of Connecticut teacher of the year. [applause] [cheering] And this is our certificate to you and it is signed by myself and our >> congratulations. [applause] We're gonna go by the seal. We're going to do uh pictures like four or five pictures have the board or chair and then I like >> so get your smile Take a picture. Can I have a hand This one chair. And then I do want the whole board to come as well. Okay, >> all right, board members, come on in. >> You make the I'm not sure. [laughter] Thank you. Sorry. members, please folks, stay there. We're going to take a quick photo. >> Gonna try to do this very quickly. Quick, >> quicky. All right, great picture. >> Thank you.
Auza Unified School District certificate of recognition is proudly presented to Caesar Messa for leading the pledge of allegiance at the Suza Unified School District meeting today, February 10th, 2026. Signed by Superintendent Mr. Ortega and board president Sandra Benvidas. And we would like to go ahead and give this to you and take a picture. All right. Colleagues, >> colleagues Moving on to item 5.0, report action of close session matters. By a vote of 4.0, the board of education approved student discipline case number 25-261-8. Moving on to item 6.1, recognition of Isuza High School robotics team. Mr. Fernandez, I turn it over to you. >> Good evening, board president Benvitas, members of the board of education, cabinet, and attendees. We would like to thank the board of education for taking this time to recognize their expanding CTSO robotics team that had two teams compete in the first Tech Challenge FTC robotics this season.