Um from Danbury Public School System to you, we presented you with a little bit of a gift. Um of course, everyone needs another mug at their house. Um but I'll just read the inscription um cuz we do appreciate your service. When you know, when you sign up to for board member service, I don't think anybody really tells you how many meetings you have to attend and how complicated it is and how grocery shopping will never be the same again. Um but we do appreciate your effort and service to to the district and it is completely volunteer. So, um once a year, the least we can do is get you a little little trinket for your kitchen. Um so, the the note says, "Thank you for your leadership, your dedication, the service to the students, families, and staff of Danbury Public Schools. Your commitment to our community makes a meaningful difference every day, and we appreciate all that you do.
Okay, good evening everyone. Um, we are reconvening to open session. It is 7:08 p.m. and we have three trustees with us. Um, trustee Shin Vassan, would you like to lead us in the flag salute? Sure. Thank you. And Trusty Boak, would you like to read the district mission statement? >> Yes, of course. Beressa Union School District provides all students the skills to become lifelong learners and successful 21st century global citizens. >> Thank you. And I will read the norms for the board of trustees. The Beressa Union School District board of trustees agreed to focus on the best interests of students at all times. Be respectful. Listen openly. Address problems and process not persons. Keep each other informed. Maintain confidentiality. Work toward the f future. Learn from the past. Equal participation from all members. And please stay on task. Disclosure of action taken in close session.
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. Okay, at this time I'd um like to ask Greg to introduce the student reports. All right, we have Principal John Gunderson here from Chico Junior. Take it away. Thank you. Uh first off, I just want to take a moment to thank all of you for everything you do. You have an extremely difficult job and we appreciate all the work that you do to support our schools. I also want to recognize all of you for supporting us administrators and our schools, our staff, and our students. We really appreciate y'all and everything you do. I know it ain't an easy job. I'm here tonight to talk about a really cool program that we have at our school that I'm extremely proud of.
Simon and also for our campus security guard. And I want to specifically I want to thank Miss Kotay for her work on this school safety program grant. Next, you have um primary playground grant. If Angelina can pull up, that's our brand new primary playground equipment on the primary playground from Freeport and Aaho operations for $66,000. This is through generous support from the Freeport Foundation and Amo operations. Want to thank you to Miss Alone for her hard work and also to uh Miss Cotay and the facil facilities team for making this getting this all set up. So just to all of our our board members and and families and students and staff that's that's put up right now that's in the primary playground. So our students have brand new primary playground equipment. Our entire campus is going to have improvements to our school safety, school safety upgrades and also for uh this is the second year of our of our school kindness program and the desert diamond casino.
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. >> A moment of silence and we'll read our mission statement. Clinton Central School Corporation will provide an educational setting that promotes rigor, relevance, and relationships to develop the students full potential in a safe and stimulating environment. >> Okay. Please let the manager know we have six guests. Six um six of our board members are here in Mr. >> Any revisions? >> No. >> All right. We will take a motion to adopt the agenda. >> A move to adopt the agenda. Second. >> Moved by Amy, seconded by Gina to adopt the agenda.
So, I heard a student directed a school safety threat to another SCu student. Why will the school not tell me that student's name who made the threat? We get this all the time. Um, inquiring minds want to know. And so, we have obligations as public schools, not only in Indiana, but nationwide. Any public school that gets federal funding is covered by what we call the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act. The short acronym for that that gets thrown around a lot is FURPA. And so when you hear people talking about FURPA and a student's FURPA rights, what that means is that every student has a right to confidentiality with regard to their personally identifiable information that is maintained by the school corporation. Now there is there are multiple exceptions within the FURPA. one of which comes into play the most frequently when we're talking about school safety matters.
Actually, the way Smash Bros. works, if you for those that don't know, is that the higher your percentage, the easier the easier it is for uh for the enemy team to launch you really far actually. So, you want to get that percentage up and hit a really big hit. >> Good to know, Jordan. Mhm. >> My question is, how do they decide on their characters? >> How do they decide on their characters? Well, there's a lot of stuff that goes into it. Could be a character you're nostalgic about since pretty much every character in Smash Bros. has appeared in a separate game before. Maybe they're a fan of their move set. Maybe they just think they look funny. >> Okay. >> Mhm. Could be a lot of stuff. But rest assured, all these all our players tonight have picked their favorite characters and they're planning on playing them.
Bryley Craig. Congratulations. >> And Penelopey Smith get down. You can come down if you like. >> Stay there. >> Good job. Next will be the USA swimify >> Kirsten Johnson. >> It's okay. Thank you. In Indiana, swimming is very competitive. Athletes only advance to the state meet by winning their sectional or achieving a state qualifying time, making this an extremely tremendous accomplishment. This year we have five swimmers who competed at the state level. In our sectional, our swimmers won eight of the 11 events, which is absolutely outstanding. What makes this even more impressive is that these athletes committed to many 5 a.m. practices throughout the season. Their dedication and work ethic have been incredible, and I'm extremely proud of them. Um, I will start with our first time state qualifiers in alphabetical order. We have Ava Canada, who is not here tonight. She won the 200 medley relay, the 50 freestyle, and the 400 freestyle relay.
um uh you know one it's not taught at all in in medical school. Um but after uh researching um you know doing the deep dive in terms of you know how did that conclusion get determined um there's obviously more to the story and um that's you know basically the the the deep dive that I've had. >> Excellent. And you make such good points, both of you, is that as trained professional doctors, you were never taught about these low-level nonionizing, non-therrmal microwave radio frequency exposures that we are all now immersed in today. And we are so very pleased that there are experts all over the world working on this. The first medical school textbook is now available. And with great thanks to Dr. Panagopoulos out of Greece. He pulled together experts from literally different countries and different specialties to create this medical school textbook that is called electromagnetic fields of wireless communications, biological and health effects.
Hello everybody. Thank you all so much for being here. You want to come on up to the microphone so we can see you on TV. Hey Mike, you want to Pull that mic down. Pull that mic down. This is part my mom will check in the parking lot. Yes. She she's Sophie. It's now his turn. Thank you. We are the lunch program. Thank you for having us. This is a presentation for the lunch program. I hope you like I hope you like the presentation. Thank you. Made our cheese. My name is Jose Serrado Carrillo and I hope to go to a vocational day program. Thank you. Um This is on, right? We hear you. My name is Alex Belozubov and I hope to join a I hope to start a community I hope to start a computer programming training program. Thank you. Sophia Markov, I hope to have a job.
The priority application deadline for grade nine was February 1st. Completed in-district applications received by this deadline have been entered into today's lottery. Applications received after February 1st are placed in a late application pool and will not be considered until the initial waitlist for that member community has been exhausted. GLTS uses an unweighted town apportionment system to ensure each sending community receives a fair allotment of seats based on enrollment guidelines. In accordance with DESE guidelines and our approved admissions policy, the admissions lottery is being conducted in a public place and reasonable public notice has been given. Applicants' privacy during any public session will be maintained. The lottery will admit resident students before admitting any non-resident students. I will now explain the resident community seat allocation process. Beginning with the admission cycle for students entering in the fall of 2026, GLTS will implement a resident community seat allocation procedure.
If you have not already signed up for public comment, you can see our recording secretary, Nan over there. Um, we'll start with we'll start with some folks in the room and then we're all we'll alternate uh with any folks online who would also wish to give public comment. If you are online, please put your name uh in the chat. Um, okay. So, who's who's on first? Thank you. And give me just a moment. I need to get my timer.
>> Thank you for joining me in that. Um and I hope that you'll be sending your condolences in your spirit or in person if you know those that family um for their loss. Um and it is truly a loss to our whole community. Um at this time, um we will open up to public comment. If you have not already signed up for public comment, you can see our recording secretary Nan over there. Um we'll start with we'll start with some folks in the room and then we're all we'll alternate uh with any folks online who would also wish to give public comment. If you are online, please put your name uh in the chat. Um okay. So, who's who's on first? Uh first I got Virginia Haskell followed by Allison Smith. Thank you and give me just a moment. I need to get my timer.
And so, thank you again. Okay. All right. So, with that, um spotlight your school, South Street Elementary School, come on up. All right. Principal Guevara, and it looks like you have some students with you today and maybe in a few parents. So, um that's wonderful. So, we'll turn it over to you, and I believe your PowerPoint is up. Thank you. Good evening, everyone. Good evening, board members, and good evening, cabinet members. My name is Carmen Vargas Guevara. I'm the school principal of South Street Elementary School. Thank you for this wonderful opportunity. It is a little bit past my bedtime, but uh Dr. Casmir does want me back early, right, Dr. Casmir? So, I will not take much of your time, but there's so much I can share with you about South Street. Um I'll just give you a quick glimpse of our wonderful school, and of course, our goal and our motto is to be the number one urban district in Connecticut.
No actions were taken. Just discussion. And do I have a motion to adopt the agenda? >> Move to adopt. >> I second. I'm sorry. >> All in favor? I >> I. >> All right. And there were are there any public comments on consent calendar? Doesn't look like it. So, can I get a motion to approve the consent calendar, please? >> Move to approve consent. >> Second. All those in favor? >> I approve. Okay. All right. And now we have um three speaker cards on non-aggenda items. And I am going to read the speaker conduct card for all who wish to address the board during public comment periods. Speakers are requested to state your name and affiliation for the record.
Um and I'm just the lucky guy that happens to work at the school that works with the individual who did all this cool stuff. Um we were able to bring Mr. Wes Bill over to our school and in the few years that he's been in our school he's revolutionized our iTech program, uh brought in a couple hundred thousand dollars worth of grant stuff, and we are doing amazing work. So, I'd like to introduce him and uh he'll introduce a couple of our students from our iTech 1 class and then we have iTech 3, which is our advanced iTech class, and they'll kind of showcase what they're doing in some of their classes. So, uh Mr. Bill, if you'd like to come on up here, please, sir. And you want to introduce the kids and bring them Yeah. Thank you. Hey, first of all, I'd like to say thank you to the district.
Uh the nation is going to also provide resources for that. Uh the final um part of my report can pull this up. Um this was a story from channel 13 on February 24th on our career technical education CTE archential drafting program. Miss Isabella Liscoco came to our beautiful AUSD campus. She was in Mr. Roma's classroom. She took video of some of our high school students. They were working on their AutoCAD software program and working at their desk for current blueprints. The end goal now that we have a construction focus to our architectural drafting program is mini homes. And so they're designing their mini home right now. And Miss Visco interviewed uh one of our students, Princess Montes, and also spoke with Mr. R. But I wanted to show everyone this tonight so we can see uh that this was this is a big deal. This is great positive news for our school, for our campus.
Uh there's not any discussion. We'll vote. All those in favor say I. >> I. >> Opposed. Motion passes 6. Uh there is no public comment. So >> Levi, you're up. >> All right. So um first up, uh we're going to look at some facility improvements. Appreciate the three gentlemen in front of you that came. Phil Savage is on the left from RC Engineers. Um Andrew Jackson from KRM Architecture. and then Max Lane with Hearn. And so, um, as you know, back when we did, um, gym renovation project, obviously, there was, um, block cracking and and structural concerns, things like that, we did quite a bit of repairs. Um, Herm was the general contractor on that project. And so, we did quite a bit with the advice of Phil and Andrew kind of piecing that together for us. Um, and so, but obviously there was kind of like that that next level maybe of recommendations and things.
So that is what we refer to as the health or safety emergency exception under the FURPA. So this federal privacy law does allow it doesn't require but it does allow a school to disclose a student's personally identifiable information from their education record even without parental consent. If the student's a minor or if the student is 18 or older, the student's written consent, if it's appropriate under the circumstances to deal with a health or a safety emergency. So, typically when you're going to see this is going to be when maybe we have a threat that has been posed, there are kids involved and a school's working with law enforcement. We're going to be able to disclose information to our law enforcement officers in order for us to be able to cooperate and work together to be able to try to mitigate and hopefully resolve the threat.
Well, >> okay. Can you explain the stocks again? >> Sure. The stocks are their lives. And when you get launched off of the stage and fall into what's known as the blast zone, you'll see a big colorful uh column. And that basically means that they lost a stock. Uh you have to lose all your stocks. Uh you have to make your opponent lose all of their stocks in order to win the fight. >> Mhm. So, as you can see, Asher is on his last stock. So, if he falls off one more time, which is right there, he's lost all three of his stocks, and he's got to move on to the next. And we have to move on to the next round. But since he managed to take a stock off of the Samus, >> uh, the Samus has to jump off because, well, they lost their stock, you know, you can't just get them all back.