Um it was great to see uh the Quinn school they the families and students they were invited or attended the Providence Bruins game >> and so I got some great pictures from Audrey. I thank her for that. About 46 of our students had the opportunity to actually get onto the ice and sing. Um, so sounds like you saw some of that on social media. Um, and Dr. Thomas sent me some pictures and it looks like every all the kids and families were having a great time. >> And then over the weekend we did have some athletic uh our athletic events. Our hockey team played Saturday night. I did get to go out and see it. Um, they played a tough game. They played really well and it was one of those heartbreaking lose in overtime, you know, the ones that really do sting. Um I know and um I I feel as a goalie's a former goalie, a mother of a former goalie, I feel I feel that pain for the goalie's mother.
So she had the students have they had questions. So she always has the students do a little pre-ressearch. Some of the students had read our book club. You could pick any of his books for that for that month. Um and then of course Kim said that they had a class. >> Yeah. >> Um read the book. >> And with him, especially one of his books being on the Lincoln Award just a year ago, we had many students that recognized him right away. Um sought out, you know, looked to we had an opportunity to provide some field trip opportunities to students that couldn't come with the class, but really wanted to see. We had a student that really wants to be a writer, so he came and asked if he could come. So we were able to get him a field trip for the period to see um the author.
Uh season never ends just like how uh Coach Trueblood talked about all the off-season work that these guys put in. It It's never-ending, especially if you want to be successful. And congratulations to uh I think he said eight uh all academic all-state for East. And North, to my knowledge, had at least four. So, uh it's pretty nice to see not only they're succeeding in athletics, but they're doing it in the classroom as well. Mr. Blake? Ms. Lloyd? I certainly echo everybody's comments. It's really nice to see East back again so soon. Um a few things that maybe haven't been mentioned. Congratulations to Coach Branham and the Northside Spartans on their first place team competition win at Mathcounts. It's really exciting. Um also, congratulations to the CSA Elementary students who won the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra Symphony in Color Art Contest. Um their some of their art is online and it they did a really wonderful job.
will follow up with more backup um or things that we can easily incorporate in the next few days and submit. So, we really do feel that we're uh have whittleled their comments down. Um would you like me to discuss those at the high level or go through their memo with like all the the red comments that remain and address them one by one? >> What do you think? Well, personally personally, I'd maybe just go over the ones where there's any discrepancy still. I mean, if if uh GCG is comfortable with your answer, then I think I am. And why don't we just go over the ones that are yet to be resolved? >> Sure. So, I'll I'll go through their letter uh and just I'll just pause on the one I'll Mike, if you don't mind me paraphrasing in the interest of time. Um, please do >> I'll I'll paraphrase and comment on the ones that I think um are worthy of of an update.
Um but the team played really well and they should be proud of the season they had. Same for the girls basketball team. Um they played in Whitman Hansen at Whitman Hansen and that was a really strong Whitman Hansen team but you could tell the kid the girls really gave it their all even though the scoreboard didn't reflect it. Um I was able to go to that game as well and one of my favorite moments I was sitting behind the bench is when the basketball coach he shared the playboard, you know the board they have that dropped the plays with the kids and instead of plays on it, it just said don't give up. And I thought that was a really wonderful message um of resilience to share with the students and I thought the girls did display that. I thought, you know, there was a really good sense of team camaraderie and uh yeah and they stayed positive throughout.
So certainly not the majority of them have read his book, but many have. >> So many have. I don't know the percentage though. >> Yeah. Okay, >> that's awesome. >> I will say um usually when we do author visits, it's like another author. >> I was there >> and I I got to see this author and he didn't just talk about like the book, he talked about the book writing process and being an author as a career choice and um how that career is changing and he just talked about the creation process and how important it is to be creative um and not write for somebody else, write for yourself. And I thought that was really cool. So that's a great opportunity >> and he did a good job too of you know he left a lot of time at the end 15 to 20 minutes at the end for questions and usually they're like you know that's gonna >> how's that going to go but he had these amazing sent like question starters and one of them was he stepped on Beyonce's foot >> and it like just got the kids rolling.
Um the last thing I just have to mention and I was interviewed recently with some of the Central Charger students in their new green room um for my day job. Uh so, it was just a bonus that I got to see behind the scenes and it is amazing. Real green screen, incredible cameras, and a student anchor who did a fabulous job. And I just I walked away being reminded of the endless opportunities that our kids have in this corporation. And it was it was such a great day. Made my month. So, if you ever get a chance to watch the Charger News, um those students do a really good job. So, kudos to them. Thank you, Ms. Lloyd. Uh in addition to the East students that we recognized this evening, that know North had additional good news that Dr. Phillips shared with us five national merit scholarship finalists from North High School and four US Presidential Scholars recognized at North High School.
>> Okay. Sorry, I've seen the page numbers at the bottom. I will take credit that the response we submitted this last time had page numbers. >> Thank you. >> All right. Um on GCG's uh letter page four um at the top there's red text regarding the um peak discharge rates uh to our design point one which is the 12-in RCP culvert beneath Waverly Street that the applicant has offered to replace. Um I got it. Uh GCG is of the opinion that the 100year um 24-hour storm event um discharge where the existing flow rate is about 1.1 CFS and the proposed discharge rate is 2.25 I believe. So we're increasing it by 1.15 >> CFS. Um the project team, it is our professional opinion that one CFS increase in the 100redyear storm when it's raining 8 in um over that time period is not significant, but we've re received indication that um that is a substantial increase.
So people did get out of the house this weekend. >> So thank you. That's my report. >> Thank you very much. >> Thank you. Um, I have nothing to report other than fun in the snow. Anybody else? Yes, Mr. Nudes. >> Thank you, Madam Chair. Just s um two things. Number one, our percussion is scheduled to head to New Jersey this weekend for uh down to Tom's River for a regional. So, good luck to them and safe travels. Uh I know I've talked about it a little bit, but now I got a little bit more finalized information. Uh we're hosting our uh winter indoor percussion and color guide event on uh Saturday, March 14th. We've got uh 39 groups performing uh starting at 1:00 in the afternoon and going till, you know, almost 8:30. Uh our junior varsity color guard is on quarter 1. Our varsity color guide is on at the 20 4 with awards at uh scheduled for uh 4 450 and then our percussion goes on at uh 7:42 with awards at quarter 8.
>> Yeah, usually it's awkward at the end. >> Yeah, it was not awkward at all. Like the bell rang and students after 8th hour were still just watching and they weren't moving. Um, >> so he was he was wonderful. >> Great. Are there plans for other authors in the future? >> We like to ask the author that's there who they recommend because >> when we've kind of always done that which like who do you recommend and he said something like um my friend Tiffany and we were like are you talking about Tiffany Jackson? Um so for us it was like you know these are like stars to us. These this is our jam. So, um, and then there's another local author that Kim and I have talked about that focuses on non-fiction because we really try to mix it up. >> She's from Wheaten. >> Yeah, I think Candace Candace Fleming.
So, lots going on at all our schools. Uh we do have the best students. We've got the best teachers. We've got the best parents in the state. We thank them all. Success is not a possibility without everybody pulling together. Uh upcoming meetings for the board and for the school corporation, we have an executive session on March 23rd, 4:00 p.m. Uh that will not be a public meeting. Um but the board does advertise executive session meetings just like we advertise our regular school board meetings. And the next regular school board meeting will be after spring break, Monday the 30th, 6:30 p.m. And instead of meeting here, that meeting will be at Columbus North High School. Kind of sound like my voice is changing there. I might be going through puberty. Um Dr. Phillips, is there board members, is there any additional business to come before the meeting?
Um I just want to pause before we go any further because we haven't heard this feedback from the commission. I don't believe if the commission is in agreement that a 1 CFS increase during a 100red-year storm is substantial and needs to be addressed. >> Well, according to this I mean I looked at this is your summary sheet of the runoff, right? it. This is dated uh 32. Is that >> uh we submitted that this afternoon? Yes. >> Yeah. >> I don't see where there's an increase of one CFS. >> Yeah. Cuz that's the what we scrambled to prepare today to show what a solution would be to address that. We think that the solution we've come in to address that with the numbers you see in front of you >> is substantial a substantially overdesigned system for this what we consider to be a dimminimous increase um for a 100redyear storm.
So if I'll get an email out to people and looking for presenters >> great >> for you know specifically you know you know 10 minutes of 5 and and 9 and you know quarter past 8 but you know with the other times in there if you're interested right >> and able to to be there. >> That's all I have. Thank you. >> Thank you. Anybody else? >> Take a motion to adjourn. >> Next meeting. >> Oh next meeting. Let's see. Thank you, Mr. Nunes. Next meeting of the school committee is scheduled for Monday, March 23rd, 2026 at 6 p.m. right here in the Dartmouth High School Media Center. Motion to adjurnn. >> So moved. >> Second. >> All right. Motion by Mr. Oliver, second by Miss Beckwith. All in favor? >> I.
>> Candace Fleming. >> She writes young adult middle school and elementary school non-fiction. So, she's on our list. >> She's on our list. >> Her newest book is also on the link in the newly released link in the list. So, yeah. So, we have we have a couple that we're we always have in the background. >> We try to hook them before they the price goes up. That's amazing. >> It's fantastic. >> I know. in my heart. >> I got a smile. >> Put on my reading glasses and be like, >> "All right, >> she have one left and Alison's gonna stay up here." >> Not finished with me yet. >> No, we're not finished with her yet. She's got more to share. >> And this one's pretty cool. I can't wait to hear more about it, too. her MetaQuest. >> Okay. So, we since I started at um North nine years ago, we always had virtual reality, but those devices became they were becoming obsolete in that it was really tech was working our our school, you know, our building tech is amazing and it was becoming very difficult for them to work with those because they weren't connecting to I mean Hank could speak to this.
I just wanted to say I I just wanted to echo the senior project. Um I was I was just having dinner with family members last night and there were some mid-20 year olds. The other thing that's unique about them is that no one in graduates from BCSE without remembering what they did for their senior project and they can tell you about it 10 years later, 15 years later, they can tell you exactly what they did. Might forget a lot of things they did in school, but they almost always remember that. And Mr. Major, the there's a picture up there from the robotics competition or one of them. Uh the end of the day last Saturday on the final uh match to go, the kids rushed the floor. That's how exciting it was. It's the first time I've ever seen the the judges had to keep kids back from hitting the table.
So >> is that when you say an over overd design of what you're already proposing or is it just making the components bigger? >> Making the components roughly four times bigger than they need to be >> to catch that one CFS. >> And that's at the 100redyear storm. >> Yes, sir. And can is the the I think we you said that the pipe has about 2 and a half cfs capacity. >> Yes. >> And this fits within that capacity. >> Yes. The the comment was that where the 12-in RCP daylights into the stone box culvert. >> Yeah. >> And then where the stone box culvert discharges to uh a small channel um on the north side of Waverly Street that that is going to cause flooding during the 100red-year storm event, one CFS increase. And it is our professional opinion that that is not the case.
They weren't connecting to the network really well. The guest network was getting in the way. Um, so we did a lot of research to to determine what we wanted next. Um, because virtual reality helps us to work with a lot of departments. You know, a lot of people think that, you know, libraries only work with English departments, which is not the case at Downers North and South, but this helps us to work in areas outside of research. So, um, we did research and we found these. We started looking into a metaquest, but they're very expensive. And so we wanted to purchase six of them and also the learning management system because the learning management system helps us to push out content all at once. So if we are going from a science class quickly to a CTE classroom to a social studies classroom, we could do that in a short amount of time because everything can be pushed out quickly.
It was It was crazy exciting. Uh and then I want to congratulate This is a strange one, but congratulations to the eighth graders at Northside who are going to move into their uh permanent home for the rest of the school year. And I believe for those students it's the first time since maybe if especially if they went to Parkside or Schmidt that they haven't been in construction. They'll be in a new area for the first time in maybe 4 years of their careers. Um and then if you haven't been out to the Westside to see the structure coming up around uh the Maple Grove building coming together, it is quite shocking how quickly that is starting to look like a school. And the last thing I just want to say is please everyone be safe over spring break and come back uh ready to go um at the end of a well-deserved break.
We just wanted to ask one more time before we went down the road of catch chasing that one CFS if the commission agreed with the peer reviewer that that was a substantial increase that had to be addressed. >> Well, why don't we hear from Yeah, I I agree. >> Okay. Uh Mike Carter, GCG. Um during our previous discussions over the last three hearings, the commission has indicated they don't want to see an increase leaving the site and um that has been the case in pretty much most of the last 25 years. I've been doing peer reviews for the planning board in the town of Ashlin. Um and so with that with that goal in the last few hearings, we've asked them to meet that. um and they're close. One CFS doesn't sound like a lot um when you're looking at the overall thing, but it's one CFS in one direction towards the culvert.