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Let's hope they pick the right stage this time. All right, Scott, it's time to press A and it's time to begin, isn't it? Alrighty, so Scott has to take as many stalks as he can. But first, he's got to jump off the stage twice or uses or sword slash the air off the stage. Uh, whichever whichever you want to do. Oh yeah, man. Get him real close to that blast zone. And now it's time to begin. Yep, they taunt. And now it's time to go. All right. So, I wonder how Lucina's going to counter Scott cuz she has seen how Scott has played at this point. You know, she's probably watching in the background and being like, "Okay, so that's what he's going to do." She didn't see the the forward smash coming. Got hit by that. Scott trying to read. Oh, and he gets right back to the stage.
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Hearing none. All those in favor signify by saying I. >> I. >> Opposed. Same sign. Motion carries. Item 4.14.2 financial business. >> Yeah. Ask for your approval. Payroll claim listing check dated 13 2026 amount of $462,478.83. Check date 2 or 213 of 26 and amount of $458,82910. and accounts payable register from 12426 to 22526 amount of 1,ion10,967.32 cents. Ask for your approval as presented. >> Okay. Entertain a motion to approve financial business as presented. >> So moved. >> Second.
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Uh I tried to make it a little more infographic type um which might resonate with with more members of the community than it than it does with me to be honest with you. Um, let me see here. Share screen. And I want to thank while while we're here, um, the principles who are all online. Uh, so if we have general questions, they can chime in. Uh, Miss St. Kerr is actually at a MIA girls hockey game uh, tonight. So whether she can chime in or not, uh, if you have questions for her, um, hopefully she she will if we get there. um soon enough. So again, just the update. Uh as you know, we've had the conversation that this is probably the the most challenging budget um scenario or cycle that that we've had certainly in the past five years, but probably in my entire tenure as superintendent.
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That equates to a 0.89 increase. personnel moved from grants $227,000. We did lose money if you recall based upon our open choice funding that we have less less students that we have to account for that. I will at this time answer the community question regarding grants relative to the commissioner's network grant that is due to the Canton Middle School. we were offered if the for those board members that were here, let me give a little bit of history. Prior to my arrival, uh during the months after I was hired, we were offered by the Connecticut State Department of Education based upon student achievement scores with our students with disabilities, specifically in English and language arts. So, we're talking about students relative to kids that have special education needs. It could be possibly kids that have free and reduced lunch. But Kent Middle School was identified as a school in need in that area in English and language arts.
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And what I really love about the plan is before the teacher gives an assignment, they actually have to spell it out to the students if they're allowed to use AI, if they're not allowed to use AI, and in what capacity they can use AI. So it really gives them what the expectation is prior to them, you know, uh, taking on the assignment. So I think that that was excellent. 5111. This is important for us, too. Eligibility of resident nonresident students. Employees of the board of ed who do not live in town are not allowed to have their children attend schools. So, anyone who does not live in town and yet is an employee of the board of ed will no longer be able to petition to have their child attend their schools. And we talked many times about the overcrowding situations and so forth. So, this is really, as I said in our meeting prior, putting our cliffside residents and our cliffside students first.
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Good evening everyone and thank you all for being here tonight as we come together to celebrate, honor, and remember our beloved Miss Arleene. Miss Arleene was so much more than a school secretary. She was the heartbeat of our school. She was with her warm smile she greeted us every morning, her calming voice on the phone, and her steady presence to always make us feel better on our busiest day. She made everything more manageable. She made everyone, students, parents, especially the parents, they loved her and colleagues. She made everybody feel seen, valued, and safe. Her family was everything to her. If you knew Arlene, you knew her family because she could not express on how much she loved them and they were a huge part in her life. And while she was always kind and gentle, she also had a fierce side. Arlene would never let anybody put anybody down, whether it was family, staff, or students.
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Okay. And I can see like a couple of things we added was about like pictures, videos, and social media. But that one I don't think we changed very much. Okay. Um, Oh, whoops, sorry. Share this tab instead. The one part of this like district sponsored activities, I had reached out to some principals to ask what they thought. Um, Oh, wait, maybe it's all the way up here. I I was wondering if we should have a conversation about what we're putting in here in terms of like their grades and their like eligibility to participate in stuff in regards to like how often we're checking and um well really just that because I think that I've noticed that logistically it's been very difficult for our teachers and our students and the coaches to keep track every week to get the grade check signed. And so I was wondering if we could and it's not clear in here it just says that it's like what their performance is.
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So I was really impressed with that. I thought and we had seen that at one of the tour one of the schools that we had toured last last year two years ago. Um I did attend the state of the city uh Desert Sunrise High School hosted it. Um, and it was a very well attended and very nice event. And I attended this past Saturday, I was at the Copal Cultural Night at Copper Sky. Um, again, a great evening. A lot of a lot of turnout. Um, saw a lot of people that I hadn't seen for years. It's like a lot of people were like coming back out again. So, it was nice. Couple of announcements. Um, Be Awesome is doing their dine and discover their session two on Monday, March 2nd at 5:00 PM at Copper Sky. And this is going to be about underageed drinking.
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Thank god he's on one stalk. So, he's got to make sure he p he perseveres and preserves his own stock. He's got to make Oh, yeah. Doing a doing a roll to dodge the forward smash and doing a ford smash of his own. That forward smash has so much freaking super armor, it's not even funny. Countering Lucina's dash attack and sending an explosion along with it. Unfortunately, the explosion didn't hit her, but the dash attack does does an up smash. if he had hold it held it for just a little longer. Oh, and she does a side B. Does a side B and and Sephro gets right back to the stage now. Lucina tried to counter him. She countered Sephrod's counter. That's kind of funny. All right, he does a dash attack sending her over to the left. Going to Oh, tries to throw a grab.
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Any questions or comments on the docket? >> Just just one question. So um I didn't see the daycare fund report. >> Okay. It's in there. Was it in there? I missed. >> So, it is on the running report that was sent to the board last week. So, that's updated every update. >> Yep. Yep. I'm sorry. >> So, it's one of the tabs. It's one of the tabs at the bottom. >> Okay. I missed it. Yep. Thank you. >> Okay. Any additional questions? >> Yeah, I guess I have one that So, for I'll call it discretionary spending like all the Amazon purchases. Are we doing those through purchase orders now? >> Correct. So there is a >> that's why I thought they were organized the way they are. >> Correct. >> Thank you. >> And it's it's only once a month, ladies. Is that correct? >> We are allowing Amazon orders on the 1st and the 15th of the month only, unless it's an emergency situation.
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Uh where we the the time is is catching up to us with regard to the continued use of one-time funds. uh and and we'll outline that uh a little bit later and how it really will impact the school district uh moving forward. But I think it's critically important. You've asked this question a lot of me um in the past. What does it really cost to run the Ash public schools? And this is just an an example of the FY2526 school year. what we're this year, what it truly costs uh the Ash public schools to be run uh at the level of service that we've come to expect. I think there's this understanding that when we go to town meeting that folks believe there's just this whatever we appropriate at town meeting is that's the budget of the schools and that's not really the case, right?
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So one of the first decisions that I made as the superintendent of schools was to agree to participate in that. It did not mean that we were one of the lowest performing middle schools in the state of Connecticut. That is not the case. What it means is that the state had a program called the commissioners network that offered educational and professional development resources but it also as the community member cited it also provided us the opportunity for some funding. So over a period of four years we were receiving approximately $350,000 each one of those years. So over three to four years it will equate to about a million dollars. As I've been saying to the board of education from the very beginning in the onset of accepting those funds that we need to really analyze how we are use utilizing those funds. Are they one-time expenses which we spoke about?
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So, uh again, employees who don't live in the town can no longer have their children attend school. 5460 high school graduation. The board will cover the costs of the seal of bi literacy. That's an exam and it's really beneficial to us and it's a uh an honor to have our students have that seal of by literacy. I believe that we just recognized actually at a recent meeting the students who met that criteria for having biiteracy uh so that we're paying for the cost of that is is important and that's a very good thing to be able to do. 5514 student use of vehicles on school grounds. This becomes important nowadays because we have opened the lunch and as we've opened the lunch first for seniors now for juniors we have to start thinking about cars and we've talked about it from time to time. So students are not allowed to park cars on school property during school hours.
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She was always there to make sure that everybody was treated fair and especially her family. And her family was also her friends because they became a close part to her. Miss Arleene was not only loving and strong, she was also full of life. She was the life of the party. You knew when Arlene walked in the room, she came there to have a good time. She loved to go dancing. I used to tell her, "I'm going home to bed. Where are you going? I'm going out tonight." She would go dancing. She laughed loudly and she embraced every adventure she went on. She was a travel connoisseur that loved to go everywhere. Whether it was a celebration, a gathering, or a simple moment, she brought joy with her. She carried light into every room. And when she laughed, you laughed because some of her stories, Woohoo!
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Um so I'm just wondering if we want to do like at the time of tryouts um or here's my proposal. You do it at the time of tryouts and at the time of um like progress reports and then again like if they make the championship it would be like um if it like there was like where they were still within the season when report cards came out. And then when Dr. Dupin was here he had suggested that like in high school kids don't typically get like kicked out of a sport or like not allowed to play just because of the grades that a lot of the high schools um they end up just having like now you get put into like a study hall and you have to like progress in a plan to improve in order to play and so I was wondering if you went to try out and you had D's or F's you had an additional component to your um eligibility that you were required to do until you were like eligible again.
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Um, the access and uh the risks that are involved in that. So, I encourage anybody uh to attend. Um, and then I think they also do a little giveaway, too. And we do have um MUSD, the next volunteer, the volunteer training is going to be held on March 26th at 10:30 uh here in the district office. Uh I believe I said it last meeting, you know, we're getting into the field trip season um end of the school year. Uh so if parents want to volunteer, um they need to go through that uh training. So and it's just show up. Um and then last, um we all know this is this is the year of elections. Uh even for the governing board, we do have two open seats. Uh my seat as well as member Garcia's seats are up for reelection. Um I encourage anybody who's interested um in being up here and trying to make a change uh to pull your packet or ask one of us what it's like to be a board member.
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Oh, and he dodges and he Oh, he tries to go for a side B. I did not expect that. Sephro actually has two different upbees. One where he swings his sword wildly and one which is just a quick one. Scott seems to be a fan of the one with the with a ton of different Oh, well, I know he's not a fan of getting forward smash, but that freaking happened to him. That's a shame. All righty. Lucina ended up winning, so it looks like they're sending in someone with blue headphones. Heck yeah. All right, I was talking to this guy not too long ago. There we go. I was talking to him not long ago and apparently and apparently he was and apparently he's been picking up Lucas a bit more. Alrighty. What's up, Scott? >> What's goody? >> Everyone's f everyone's favorite Seth Roth.
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So just kind of helps keep somewhat of a standing on the >> Thank you. >> Any other questions? Hearing none. All those in favor signify by saying I. >> I. >> Opposed. Same sign. Motion carries. Visitor comments. >> Not registered. >> Okay. So, that brings us down to item six, the personnel report. We're going to do this just a little bit different tonight. We're going to lump 6.1, 6.2, 6.3 together. and then we'll vote on 6.4 as a separate since it's an administrator position, it'll be a roll call vote. So, >> okay. >> Recommendations. Lexi Rose, preschool instructional assistant, PCE. Karen Hartwick, lead caregiver, PCE. Zach Sparks, head soccer coach, middle school. Chelsea, assistant soccer coach, middle school. Gary Porter, third shift custodian, high school. Uh Kobe Boy, maternity leave substitute uh elementary school. Lauren Echelman, sub cafeteria worker and subbus aid. Under resignations, Victoria Shown, school counselor, middle school.
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Uh because we're we're subject to uh cuts at federal levels uh the state level uh for grants uh for uh circuit breaker for special education reimbursement uh for um all of the um school choice you know that impacts us. Are we allowing school choice? Are we not allowing school choice? And how do we spend those funds? So, as you can see by this slide, we're closer to a $49 million organization with 400 plus employees. It's a pretty good size operation uh that we run. Um, and you'll see how it's broken down here. And I think I know you know Marcy has asked for this a number of ways uh previously and hopefully this shows a little bit clearer to the community what it costs to run the school system. So, we've got that 44 million that's appropriated at town meeting and then 2 almost 2.9 million in grants and other funds and those other funds are our school choice building revolving fees we charge for transportation um you know circuit breaker reimbursement is a huge one that's the special education uh students who are out of district that we get reimbursed uh at the state level and what I can say is by law they're supposed to fund 75% of that they don't always fund that full circuit breaker amount right so we we aren't always guaranteed the full reimbursement uh level.
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Are they long-term expenses? something that we would have to um have in our budget in the future or is it something that is durational expenses? What we said that we were going to utilize those funds for are one-time expenses and durational expenses. And if there were any that were going to be um long-term expenses, it'd be something that we would uh be talking about and that we would incorporate within our budgets moving forward. Most of this money, as we've discussed, is one time and durational. So, we have applied that to be extended one more year. So, not just 26 27s, but Mr. Bishop and I just got a had a meeting with the the partnership and I included this in my update um to you two weeks ago. We asked if we could be extended into 2728 that would even bring another 350 to $400,000.
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