meeting to order at 5:31 p.m. on March 3rd. Um, I think we'll do a roll call. So, we'll start with uh Rachel >> present. Um, Sarah Bess >> present. >> William >> present. >> And I thought I saw Jenny, but >> I'm present. >> You're present. Ah, there you are. Thank you. Okay, so everybody's here. Awesome. All right. So, um I'm wondering, do you see anybody, Seth, that looks like they might want to give public comment? >> Yes, possibly. We have two attendees. Um I just don't actually know Zoom. Oh, I can hit allow to talk. Um Megan, could you handle the public comment? I'm just not as well versed in Zoom. >> Apparently, only the host can do it. Oh, wait. No, I got it. I can do the allowed talk the allowed talk. Um, yes, I can do that. If you are in the attendee list and you would like to make public comment, please just raise your hand so I know that you would like to do so and I will unmute you.
Are we starting? We're live. You ready? All right, I'll call this meeting of the Brocton and Walter Regional School Committee to order. Please rise and pledge allegiance. I pledge allegiance 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. All right. So, tonight we're going to be going through the budget, but before we do that, despite the weather outside, I kind of wanted to uh take a moment here. So, usually we're celebrating the successes that come across our district, right, in these meetings, but tonight uh I'm going to ask everybody here in the room, and if you're watching online, just take a moment to reflect on some of the things that are happening in the district right now. I know some of the some of our community members in our district right now are going through some pretty tough times.
Moved by Commissioner Adams, seconded by Commissioner Mills. Is there any discussion of the minutes? All those in favor of the motion, please say I. I. Any oppose? The motion carries. That takes us to agenda item number five, reports. Um, and uh, yes, uh, reports to the planning commission and written communications. I think we have, uh, commissioners, uh, Commissioner Dish's report printed. So, Manager Kelly, were you planning to read that into the record? Great. So, I will turn it over to you for this whole section. Uh there have been two council meetings since your last planning commission session and I can report that at the 219 meeting 7:15 through 717 East Huron resoning was approved at second reading. Uh the community participation signage UDC amendment was approved which takes effect July 1st and the uh bike parking UDC amendment was however sent back to this body for further review uh with a note to um take a closer look at the class A requirements in the D1 and D2 zoning districts, increase barrierfree requirements, and also review opportunities for more class B bike parking across the city.
And we will come back when we're done. Thank you. All right. Sorry we're a little bit late tonight. We're going to go ahead and move on to our brief board business meeting and I'll call this meeting to order and we'll ask Miss Wilson to do roll call, please. >> Dr. Blake Robersonson >> here. >> Mr. Jesse Brainard >> here. Miss Jill Humphre >> here. >> Miss Shaina Murray >> here. >> Mr. Chad Thompson >> here. >> Mr. President, you have a quorum. Everybody's present. >> Thank you, Miss Wilson. Moving on to action item 3.01, appointment of Lindseay Duran as director of career and technical education for the 2627 school year. Is there a motion? I move that we appoint Lindseay Duran as director of career and technical education for the 2026 2027 school year. >> Thank you very much. Is there a second? >> Second.
Please join me in a moment of silence followed by the Pledge of Allegiance. >> I motion to approve the agenda. Second. That would be Ms. Jarman seconding. Ms. Huelsmeyer's is loading. Do you want to verbally? Yes. Yay. It went away. Would you also like to verbally? That'd be great. Okay, great. Ms. Zimmerman, is that five yays on your end? Okay, great. Thank you. Motion carries 5-0. Mr. Watsonheiser, you're up. President Wade, members of the board, it's so exciting for the Superintendent's report and the Higley Happenings Points of Pride and upcoming events tonight. I would like to remind the audience that there will be a time that we will dismiss the audience after we go through all of this and we would appreciate if you would stay while we recognize all of the different people that are here today for not just Points of Pride but our Higley Happenings.
>> Point of order. Is the meeting being recorded? Do we have to also record it or is it just live streamed on YouTube and then YouTube saves it? the latter. >> Okay. >> I don't see any raised hands. All right. Well, we do have one recorded, one voicemail, so I'm going to switch over here and see if I can play it. Board docs has been really slow for me this afternoon. >> Hello, this is Julio Malonga, Pelum resident, pel tax practic, and resident of two children at Pelum Elementary. I'm calling in regards to the proposed revision to goal three of the superintendent evaluation plan. The revised goals are for committee that has not been made yet. Shouldn't the goals be modified based on the information requested by the futures committee once the committee is formed? Is the superintendent participation in the select board futures group going to be completed as part of a normal job salary expectation or will the town of Colum be charged more in central office costs for superintendent participation?
I'm not going to mention family names. I've not spoken to the families, but some of you may know who they are. I don't know that they would want their name last in public, but um I think it's appropriate for those of us who do maybe know them to take a moment and reflect. And if you don't know who I'm referring to, maybe you can just take a moment to reflect on how the School Committee and the school community can best support our community members in in these tough times like this. So, despite whatever personal agreements you might have as individuals, at the end of the day, we're all on the same team. We're all growing in the same direction. So, um for those that are affected, um know that the BBRSD community is there for support if you need it. And so, if we could all just please take a moment and just reflect how you think you best should.
So, there will be some staff work on that and you will be seeing that again at this table. And then at the March 2nd meeting, the 558 South Fifth, the dean resoning uh was approved a second reading. So, that is your council report for the manager report. Um for any students or recent grads who are listening, planning services has a current paid internship opportunity posted. This closes on March 12th. We're bidding farewell uh as of last month to our uh longtime intern of over the past uh roughly year, Beth Hartzog, who assisted with the comprehensive plan work and some other important initiatives. She did credit us uh in her internship with securing her full-time position. So, we are very happy that that worked out and was a beneficial learning opportunity. um at your March 10th planning commission work session. That will be at a regular time, but it will have a different format than usual.
>> All right. I there's no discussion. Is there a discussion? >> Doesn't have to be. >> There could be, but >> there could be. But I think I think we've had our discussion. Uh, we'll go ahead and I'll go ahead and call for the vote. Uh, all those in favor of appointing Lindseay Duran as director of career and technical education for the 2026 2027 school year say I. >> I.
But what an exciting All right, we're a little bit ahead of the game right now. There we go. All right, for Higley Happenings, we have a few different groups that we'd like to recognize today and so if we could go on to the first one, please. All right, let us first welcome up, and if they wouldn't mind coming up here, congratulations to the Sossaman Middle School Spartan Cheer Team. >> [applause] >> So, the Spartan cheer team this year won the junior high show cheer state championships. A special thank you to our coaches, Beth Knutsvig and Tristan Kramer, for their leadership commitment to excellence. We're incredibly proud of this outstanding achievement. Way to go, Spartans. And I'm going to turn it over to our athletic director, Mr. Keeling, who's going to say a few words about the about the team. Thank you very much, and that description was very accurate in describing the hard work and effort that these ladies put in all year long.
What specific programmatic questions in phase one is it designed to answer? What assumptions, if any, are being made about the long-term viability of Pelum Elementary? And most importantly, will the review by the superintendent explicitly include models for sustaining pelum, not only models that reduce or eliminate it? Thank you. >> Okay. Um, that was the only public comment by voice and I had received no emails. Um, so we'll move on to new and continuing business. And the first item on the agenda is the quarter 2 budget update from Shannon. >> Hi Shannon. >> Hello. I I'm going to present my screen. Just give me one moment. >> Okay. Can you see it all? Can everybody see it? >> Yes, I I think so. Yes, that's good. Okay. Um so this is for the quarterly quarter uh quarter 2 report which ends December um 31st. Uh right now in our payroll lines it's under what we would like or what we would typically see.
All right. Thank you. Uh so our first item on the agenda tonight is public comments. So I see no public. So nobody here for public comments. So here we go. Our next item will be Mr. Aaron Osborne to tell us about the fiscal 2017 You should join me down front. I don't The budget information for everybody listening at home is available on the school district website. It's under the school committee menu on the all agendas page. It's the agenda link is there. Also the link to a drive with this presentation we're about to see as well as um write-ups from all the principals and department heads explaining their needs for their budget requests. So you can go through, read that. And next week on the 10th, Tuesday, we'll have our budget hearing, which is a chance for everybody to come here, tell us what you like about the budget, what you don't like about the budget, your ideas how it could be a better budget, what should be cut, what should be kept, what should be added, whatever it is that you feel.
It will be in council chambers at 7:00 p.m. It will be open to the public, but it is not planned to be streamed or recorded in order to encourage open discussion. Staff will be giving a planning 101 presentation, and there will be more opportunity for dialogue between the commission and audience members than in a typical meeting. This has been communicated through the city's meeting calendar and our email subscription service and commissioners will wishing to suggest agenda topics should contact manager Leonard by this Friday, March 6th. As a final note, I would like to mention that if all goes as planned, city council will be voting on the comprehensive plan on the March 16th agenda. So, um, barring any changes from our clerk's office or, uh, unforeseen circumstances, that will be going before council at that time. >> Uh, thank you, manager Kelly. Uh, just a note on the work session.
>> Any opposed. And that's that. Let's go ahead and take a brief moment and we'll celebrate uh Mr. Anne and then we'll move on with the rest. >> Can we give her an opportunity to speak? >> We can absolutely do that. Would you like to say a few words? >> Come on up, Lindsay. Right there. First of all, let's give her a hand. Welcome to Gilbert Public Schools. We're very happy that you're here. Um, I had an opportunity to talk to you a little bit before the board meeting. And, uh, before we do that, I want to say thank you to Doug Daly for all of his years of service, not just to Gilbert Public Schools, but CTE. Let's give him a hand. Thank you, Doug and Lindsay. You're going to be stepping in and uh the mic's yours. >> Well, thank you um board president, members of the board, superintendency.
7:00 a.m. practices multiple days a week, every week up until this point. And so, we are so proud of what they have accomplished, and the scores that they got at each competition improved from competition to competition to competition, which just speaks to the effort that you guys put in every single week in practice. So, we are super proud of you, and congratulations on your state championship. >> [applause] >> Mr. Keeling, would you do me a favor? Would you just pass the mic down so everybody can introduce themselves? So, we'd like to know who's here tonight. So, just have them introduce themselves. I am Beth Knutsvig. I'm one of the cheer coaches. I'm Amelia Wait. I'm Quinn Wait. I'm Grayson Rice. I'm Keely Torres. I'm Bailey Burns. I'm Payton Piatt. I'm Teagan Morris. I'm Avery McDevitt. And I'm Avery Gibson. And then, I'm coach Tristan. I'm the second coach for this team.
Part of this is that the unit A and C um APA contracts our largest bargaining unit was just ratified. I think that was last week. Um, so once those retros from those contracts are completed, we'll see that jump to where it actually should be. Um, but not yet for unit B. And I'm not sure what where that stands at this at this point. But, um, that's why it's kind of underutilized. And the substitutes line, it's um, it seems okay for where it's at right now. It's lower than where it was last year at this time, which is good for us. Um, that's a good sign to see. In terms of special education, I'm going to look at my notes because these two pieces in special education and support services gets a little confusing. Um, so for special education, we had a student um choice into the district um that uh needed services um for at an out of for an out of district placement.
All right now, Aaron, if you could >> [clears throat] >> All righty. So first things first, um you'll notice this is uh this budget presentation is getting weighty at 59 slides. I am not going to walk through the whole thing tonight. Um we've walked through a lot of it. Um a lot of it is informational. Um I'm going to walk through the key changes, the key items that you'll be looking for. Um a couple precursors, uh this budget is a level service budget. Our effort right now is to preserve services to the best of our ability for our students. It [clears throat] does continue cuts that were made last year in many cases. Uh the um all of the slides, as Mike said, are available on the district website. Um, and I also want to share um, I was at Berlin's FinCom meeting last week.
We made that change at my request and we made the change um that precludes it from being recorded uh at my request because we're not going to sit at the dis. We're going to sit uh down in the audience so that we're together uh having a conversation and it can't be recorded um when we're down uh in the floor and in the chamber. So that's why there's uh changes uh for that. Okay, great. And then uh Manager Kelly, just a clarification. Is it uh does the comp plan that comes before council on the 16th, is that a first reading or is that the complete um reading? Oh, sorry. Planner Bennett is going to answer. >> Um that will be the the final decision can be made that night. There doesn't have to be a first and second reading with the comp. >> Okay. They there is there's a public hearing and then a vote at that meeting.
I really appreciate this opportunity. Um very big shoes to fill with Doug um retiring. So um I am very excited for the opportunity to work with all of you and the leadership here in Gilbert and the teachers and the administration at the site. So, thank you again for this opportunity. >> All right. Now, let's go ahead and take a little break and say congratulations. And we're back. We're excited for uh Mr. Ran and her family and for GPS and what what this means for GPS and going in in the right direction in regard to our CTE programs. So, we're excited. We're going to move on to 3.02 02 discussion and possible action to change spring break dates for the 2026 2027 school year. Is there a motion? >> So moved. >> Thank you, Dr. Robinson. Is there a second? >> Second. >> Thank you, Miss Murray.