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So that's just my thought process I think. So >> be good to kind of see some kind of ideas come from that. But >> you have overtime. Well, I think that was a request to compare the prior year to what it is currently. >> Okay.
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So it's about 19.6 compared to the 12.2 um when you kind of look at the taxes afterwards. Real quick, Mac, do you remember um because we presented at ASPA in the winter, do you remember how much it costs if you retired from at 55 and you got this the the single person plan through ASRS, how much money did it take to get to 65 to get to Medicare >> just for premium alone? So, it's this year it's about $510. That's after you get a subsidy. So, quick math, 5* 12 is 6,000. You got 10 years you need to go. That's $60,000 just in premium. If you're plan on retiring at 55, staying on ASRS and getting all the way to Medicare, it's just $60 just to have your plan. That's not even considering if you have to pay actually have real medical expenses. That's just in premium alone.
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>> Okay. Very nice. Any other questions? >> No. If not, I'll take a motion. >> A motion to approve Ritan Construction to complete classroom renovations as presented. >> I second. >> All in favor? >> I motion carries 5 to zero. >> Thank you. Okay. 8.4 discussion and consideration of formal adoption of K5 English language arts core curriculum. Second reading. Evening, Madam President, members of the board, Dr. Wyman, and of course, Miss Judy, the glue. >> I got to read across America, too. But I got to be with Mr. Hogan, and he's got an epic book on paper, rock scissors. It's complete with voices and characters. Maybe at a future board meeting. It It was quite hysterical. Um, and then he had >> governing board um retreat. >> Then he had some challen some some paper rock scissors challenged with students. Teacher took him down though.
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I actually work at the preschool. I'm one of the speech language pathologists there. Um I'm the president of the Ashlin Mom's Club as well. So I just love this town and have benefited immensely from the grants. Um between the preschool PTO, my kids are involved in sports and lots of different activities in town. Um we there's a lot of other organizations that I've been a part of or that we've benefited from. So running for the town of Ashlin has been a really um amazing opportunity. I was a very casual runner prior to this. Um, but once I found out that I was selected, I've met some amazing people in the running community who've been really supportive and have been helping kind of push me um, very much beyond my comfort zone, which has been, but I'm running a marathon. You're gonna >> Absolutely. >> Love getting back into running.
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That's all right. Okay. Thank you so much. So, um, yeah, I think if if I could just set some context, um, you know, we had a board retreat, uh, the other night, um, and we had an opportunity to, um, discuss, um, some areas that we can continue to, um, build off the great foundation here in Brookfield Public Schools. Uh, some of those being and focusing on areas, uh, I would call them kind of four main areas. Um the first would be an investment in potentially pre kindergarten and expanding that uh so that way we can offer full day prek uh at CLES. Another area would be expanding our special education offerings uh for specific students with IEPs so that way we can uh educate our more students here in uh the Brookfield public schools. um leverage the evaluation system in professional learning as I spoke to earlier the great work that Ped's already doing kind of leverage that um to be able to accelerate that as well as continue um the evolution and alignment of our multi-tered system for supports which includes um what happens in the classroom, how our support staff support what happens in the classroom and outside of the classroom.
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Any opposed? Motion carries. Looks like we're in a similar situation with 5145.124 breathalyzer testing. Yes. Um there are really no substantial changes to this policy either. Um this does allow I think there might just be questions of when this is in use. Uh traditionally, I'll give you an example, um it it is something that is relied on at events like the prom. Um if there is a need to see if a child is potentially under the influence of an item like alcohol. Um that in this policy dictates our ability if it is a school-sponsored or school-sanctioned events uh in order to maintain the safety and security and well-being of everyone in that environment that this is something that our administrators can use if needed. And then I think the other important part of this policy, which is not a change but just a highlight, um you know, if for some reason a child were to be found in violation of this policy, it would then refer to the suspension discipline and potential expulsion.
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And um is there a motion to adjurnn? >> So move. >> Thank you, John. Second. >> Second, >> Peggy. Peggy. All right. All in favor? >> I >> thank you, Chris. Thank you so much for all your work. And thank you, Cynthia. We appreciate you being here. >> Thank you all. >> Representing
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>> And I don't know if there's any questions, but it's just information. >> And that's comparing FY 25 to 26. >> Okay. >> 26 year to date. >> Is that to date? 26th or just so your fiscal year's run what? July. >> July. This was probably July through January. >> Is that when he gave it to you in January or February? >> President, members of the board, members of the community. Uh this was one of the board request. Um and it was originally in our February uh meeting and it was table since we didn't have u the entire board. we wanted to uh table it and bring it back so we can then fulfill um there was a a question regarding the overtime and how it how much overtime was spent last year versus this year. Um and we wanted to compare it by bringing it to your attention.
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There are medical expenses. That's generally the thing is most people, you know, you haven't maybe used your plan a lot, but going into retirement as you get older, you're going to have medical expenses. >> It will be the most costly thing you have in retirement. Point blank. Fidelity comes out with an article. You can look it up. Every single year talks about retirement, the health care costs in retirement. And they estimate this is from 65 and on. So Medicare because Medicare has a premium. This year it's 20290 a month. Um then if you get a supplement or you go through the ASRS plan, those have premiums, but they estimate that you need over $60,000 um once you hit Medicare for health care costs in retirement. So I can't we can't stress enough. I mean, the health care costs will be there. It's not a attractive thing.
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did lose to the teacher. So, all right, on the more serious note of our ELA adoption here, um I'm going to go very quickly because these first few slides you have seen before. Um so, I won't take any of your time on that. Just a reminder, these were the overall scores um after the materials review. These were the overall scores based on the vendor presentations. Um from that, we brought you these top two selections last month. Um these were the scores from ED reports. I remembered this time to update the slide and add for you the gateway components at the bottom. So they're judging it based on text quality, building knowledge, and usability. Um, so that's the information there. Again, high scores for both of the potential proposed vendors. Um, both of them have some strong findings with the science of reading. This is the other vendor.
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So, >> good. That's awesome. >> Thank you again. Thank you so much. Hi, my name is Demetra Edwards. I moved to Ashlin in July, so I'm still I'm still very new. We're both feeling very welcomed already. >> Um I So when we moved in July, it was whirlwind. We were plann October at the Warren Center. So >> nice involved. >> Definitely involved. >> Yeah. So feeling very part of the community already. But when I saw the Google form to fill out to put my name into the lottery to run, I was like, probably never going to get this, but you know, it's worth a shot. Just moved. Why? I'll do it. So, I was very excited to get the opportunity. And um I've been running since high school. So, it's, you know, like everybody has said, it's any any runner's dream come true to run the Boston Marathon.
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So really building uh that strong system and structure uh for that to be um you know highly effective. Uh again like I mentioned met with that team and already seeing some great work there. So I you know the foundation is there for a lot of these things to just continue to evolve. Um so with that if I could kind of put even uh the background in context which I referenced a little bit in my um superintendent report you we we need to be aware of where we are today right so at this time uh the first selectman's office um has proposed a45% reduction to the approved adopted budget by the board of education which was 4.86. So that brings it down to 4.41% total or a reduction of approximately $250,000. So that's kind of where we are today. That has now been passed over to the God bless you the board of finance uh for their opportunity to deliberate and potentially take action from there.
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Um it ties this policy back to um you know, the importance of following our discipline code uh whether it is on school grounds or at a school-sponsored or sanctioned event. Thank you, Kelly. Questions from committee members. Kelly, is this the uh excuse me, this is this the entire policy cuz I didn't get a chance Okay. Cuz I'm a little bit Yeah. Okay. I didn't get a chance to print it all. That's okay. And and I think the important part for the board is that there is no um substantial change uh to the prior policy and this one. Any other questions about this policy? Okay. In that case, I will call for a recommendation to the board for first read for policy 5145.124 breathalyzer testing. I'll make a motion that we move uh 5145 .124 breathalyzer testing uh to the board for board for first read.
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>> So it is through January then if it was included in in February's >> okay so then the 26 is probably going to increase the remainder of the fiscal year. >> Yes. And probably you can see there that the biggest one there is for transportation and that's something that's needed. So I don't I don't see that going away. >> Does overtime reflect not just the actual time with students and this is a question you can answer later Mr. or or Miss Clementina. Um, does that reflect to be blunt, does that reflect management of the actual time used or is there things that we're missing when it comes to hey, these are probably hours that we're not considering when it comes to typical hours as opposed to overtime hours like the hours that we're going to be given back later on in the agenda as far as what those needs are.
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Like Max said, usually in the first couple years, not a lot of people go that route for the for the health reimbur. But as it time goes on, people realize like this money's coming out of your out of your pension check every month. Like you can get reimbursed for that. You're going to have to pay for health care costs. So that's why this this plan is uh implemented and such a benefit for employees. But Mac will go over the the tax deferred side now. All right. So, >> I'd just like to add that it's great because it is a 401k. The difference is that for us is a pension and whether we put enough into contributions or not, the pension is until we die and the 401k you just suspend it and you can still have 20 or 15 years of of life. Again, it's it's a great choice, but that's the difference between a 401k and our pension.
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All stuff you saw last month. I just added those gateway pieces down below. Um what I'm bringing to you this month just to give you that other piece of information um is a little bit of updates on the pricing components. >> Um so the overall cost didn't change from last month to this month, but we do have a couple of different ways to break that down. Um so we reached out to both vendors and said what would you be able to offer in terms of a payment plan knowing that we're working on some budgetary constraints. So um the first possible vendor of Wondersh was a total cost of just over $600,000. um they would offer us an opportunity to break that down into a three-year payment plan at approximately $200,000 per year. Um we went into this looking at a budget of 750. The less is better.
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And I'm very happy to be doing it for Ashlin. Um, feeling very supported by my neighbors, by the community so far. So, I'm happy to give back even though, you know, we've only been here for six months, but >> Well, we're happy to have you. So, >> thank you for doing this. >> Thank you so much. >> People online. >> Do we have some people online? >> We have some folks online. >> Nick, unmute yourself if you would. Thank you. >> Awesome. Thank you. Um, right. Yeah. My name is Nick Kanuk. Um I don't know. Can I show myself even on here? >> Uh no letting people >> um That's okay. Um my wife and I I grew up in Framingham. Um my wife and I uh moved to Ashlin from NIC in 2023. Um I wish I was there in person, but we have a three-month-old and a two and a half year old.
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Um they can uh approve that, they can reduce it more or they can increase it. Right? So action can be any which way. Um so kind of that's that's where we are right now. Um and so what I would share is um some of those areas that we spoke about and focused on in the retreat that I just referenced, those four areas. Um they do take an initial investment. um the initial investment in staffing to make that happen, the initial investment in training uh and the inial initial investment in minimally resources. Um but we do have a lot of great resources here. So I don't see much there but particularly it would be staffing uh and training that we want to make sure that when we build programs we build them well and sufficient enough that they are programs that are really meeting the needs of all of our students.
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Thank you, Gladys. Motion made by Gladys. Is there a second, please? Second. Thank you, Wanita. All those in favor, please signify by saying I. I. I. I. Any opposed? Okay, motion carries. Thank you very much. All right, we are down to our final policy on this agenda and that is 5145.21 student government. Um so this policy uh again, very minor revision to the previous policy. Uh this is meant to talk about our student government in our schools um and really the oversight or direct responsibility of administrators to help support um and provide appropriate guidance to any of our student government so that they can um you know, promote positive citizenship, contribute it meaningfully to our school community and our larger community uh within Danbury. Um and the language change in this policy from the previous policy, um we made a change uh that talking about to this last sentence here.
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Sorry, M. President Modia. Um, one of the examples will be operations. Um, we have seven uh vacancies in that department and we're trying to fulfill all of the needs in that department by providing overtime um where yeah, we're not spending the money for that position that is vacant um and is reflecting here on overtime. But that's one of the areas that you will see that over time is going to be used because we still uh to fulfill all of the different positions in in in operations grounds and custodial services. Um the other one is is transportation um depending on what additional routes are needed um for for sports sporting events or any field trips and then we need to then um bump the overtime hours. So, those are the ones. Any of the other ones depending on the individual needs. Um, and all the overtime needs to be approved by the superintendent.
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