So, anybody in the neighboring towns who's part of the Minute Man Library Network, they can reserve this device that's called an acousta meter that we bought in 2016 with a $400 grant with great thanks to our select board that funded me for that. Um, other towns, Upton now has one, Pittsfield has one, and others around the country are getting funding from their libraries to put a radiation detection meter on loan. And the one that was recommended most recently at the EMF medical conference is called the Safe and Sound Pro2 broadband radio frequency radiation detection meter. It's about a $400 device, but it does allow us to see and hear these signals. We look at the maximum spike. >> And in the scientific literature in our living areas, they want us to be at 10 microwatts per square meter or less. And so it is critically important to have a meter.
It was just Okay. 10 presentations tonight. I see green. It's not up there though. >> Not up there yet. Delay. Okay. Um hello. I'm Kieran Cade. I'm a senior at Ashland High School. >> Welcome. Um and this presentation is sort of just an overview of the plan that I've been creating over the last um for a composting program. I'm really interested in environmental science and I hope to do it in the future and it's something that I'm passionate about. Um so, I really wanted to make that come to life because I've seen how sustainability can work in the real world and I really want this to sort of be a springboard to hopefully make it so that um people realize that we can be more sustainable and so that we can create more program programs in the future. Um this is Resham. She's kind of like my successor, I guess.
Um, and it's been very difficult uh to uh to locate that special education teacher, but we're in a process where we think we have some viable candidates and looking to um bring somebody on board real soon. Um, with that, I'm going to tell you a little bit about our school improvement goals. Uh, I've had a a great experience so far working with our school council. have uh some very invested parents um who uh heard a draft and um uh I don't want to say pushed back but asked questions, wanted wanted clarification, wanted some history. Um and so uh the first goal that we have is about um uh providing uh and accelerating student learning and literacy through the use of uh focused uh datainformed small groupoup literacy instruction daily. Um and this is with every classroom teacher uh providing um uh interventions as needed uh in small group settings with students uh with similar needs.
Have some very invested parents um, who, uh, heard a draft, and, um, uh, I don't want to say pushed back, but asked questions, wanted wanted clarification, wanted some history. Um, and so, uh, the first goal that we have is about, um, uh, providing, uh, and accelerating student learning and literacy through the use of, uh, focused, uh, data-informed small group literacy instruction daily. Um, and this is with every classroom teacher, uh, providing, um, uh, interventions as needed, uh, in small group settings with students, uh, with similar needs. Um, and then what as well in conjunction with our reading interventionist. And so, each grade level team is supported by a third teacher whose focus is reading, um, and who is, um, as we all have been growing through this year of professional learning, um, taking on more and more ownership of this, um, uh, system and this matrix of of working with students, um, in what we call the science of reading.
A one-of-a-kind park designed to look like real roads and streets. This park helps children in grades 1 through 5 learn important safe driving school skills while riding their bikes in a fun hands-on way. The Safe Play Park includes stop signs, street signs, and road markings, just like in real life. It allows kids to practice safe biking and driving habits in a safe gated environment. Through pretend play, children can learn how to follow traffic rules, stay alert, and understand the importance of paying attention. This is especially important because distracted drive driving is the number one cause of death for teens. Teaching kids safe habits early can help them grow into more responsible and safer drivers in the future. We are proud to say that Danbury is one of the first cities in Connecticut to have a park like this. This was made possible thanks to the generous support of our community.
It's like another arm. So, we wanted to make sure they know that arm is going to be cut off. So, um so then we also enter into the time tracker and then also during our uh beginning of the school year, our PBIS uh we started as well informing the students. Uh so, first offense is pretty similar. Go to the office. uh if it's taken kid can pick up in the afternoon. Second offense, the phone is also placed in the office. However, guardian must pick it up. Now, the third offense, you place on a 30-day phone contract. And what that states is every time you come to the office, when you come to school, you go straight to the office and drop your phone off. Then, uh at the end of the day, you come back and pick it up. So, that's for 30 days. So, problem solving.
The people of this community and nation are tired of the craziness. I will ask again, please show us parents of Chico that you stand behind us, not against against us, and revote to remove the parental secrecy policy. Thank you. Nathaniel uh Becker Hello, I'm Nathaniel Becker. I am an active student at Chico High School and I happen to be the president of our robotics club. Um we brought some of our work here today in case any of you guys take interest and would like to take a look later, but I figured I should start by explaining what we do as a club. As a club, we get to meet and do what many schools, including ours and others all across the country, um get to spend an entire class on, which is to build a robot, program a robot, and send this robot with some students to competitions in order to compare it to other people's and gain from other people's insights and otherwise um test our ideas and see how they come to fruition.
>> So we have our one through three which we have a a few teachers start right here and then it goes you move over as your education increases. So, uh, a teacher with a BA with, uh, eight years is paid a little less than a teacher with an MA plus six years. So, they could be the same. They could both be math teacher, they could both be have six years, but because their education and the education has to align with with what they're actually teaching at the time, then they move up in salary concepts. So this is what the proposed 1100 and then this is >> 11,000 sorry >> um is coming and then each of the steps goes down as the education and years of experience >> Mr. President Mr. introductory. A long story short, each step now you can go up an average of 2500 from the start of just a bachelor's degree to having a doctorate.
There's no way. I mean, right? I know how dirty the gym was from that project, let alone do it again. You know what I mean? So, >> I was just going to ask if there was a way where if it was going to be a perimeter, we're going to put that scaffolding up. >> I'm thinking the same thing. >> Bang them both out at the same time, but >> I don't know if we need to >> that stuff. Yeah, the perimeter stuff. I mean, it was really something we're going to work off sc we're going to work off just like Baker scaffling, rolling two tier scaffold, but it wasn't it wasn't called for it to be that high on the balcony areas. >> Okay. Um the only place that we'd have to do anything tricky is the stairwells again. >> Gotcha. Yeah. >> If we did a perimeter.
That's a problem. If they report that to the proper places, then they're not the ones getting in trouble. And then we don't have this mass hysteria. Most of these threats come in and there's somebody from overseas. There's somebody from somewhere way way different. they cover their screens or they show a a stock image gun or something like that and they want you to elicit fear. So, I would encourage you to talk with your students about if they see something like this, reporting it and not if you repost it, you have a chance of getting law enforcement at your door, school um officials calling you, things like that. So, report, not repost. Okay, this one's going to blow your mind, guys. This app on your left looks like a calculator app, right? Can you play that for me? calculator vault. That app looks totally benign. Your students can put whatever apps they want in there.
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>> Thank you guys. >> Good job. >> Am I supposed to leave John up there? I hope. >> Okay. So, we'll go ahead and continue on with the consent agenda. 26-101, approval of agenda for the March 11th, 2026 regular meeting. 26-102, approval of minutes of the February 5th, 2026 work session, executive session, and February 11th, 2026 regular meeting. 26103, approval of payment of claims. 26-104 approval of financial report. 26-105 approval of construction payments. First one Landmark Aquatics for $59,71.31. Second one Smitten Associates uh property process for $150. Smid the third one Smitten Associates preschool $210,33720. 26-106 Approval of Personnel Report. 26-106.1 Add agenda to personnel report. 26-107 approval of donations and grants. We'll start off with the Madison Junior High School. Uh first one, Farmers Bank of Milton donated $665 to be used for the purchase of Crossing the Ditch shirts and incoming fourth graders.
and asking your library to put one on loan is a a wonderful way to have a tool in the community that everybody can borrow. Measure your car, measure your schools, measure your office, measure your home >> because as our doctors will tell us, the cumulative effect as with any toxin >> gets greater and greater with dose. So this the game is to do the scavenger hunt and remove as many of these exposures and especially during sleep. Otherwise the body can't sell repair. We've only got so much energy and it's really well calibrated to get us through a normal day. And when all of our energy is depleted just trying to fight off all these signals, there's not much left to do the regular cell repair and regeneration. >> I can vouch for the quality of that safe and sound. I had previously an acoustter which was fantastic for for some things, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth.
Welcome. Hi, I'm Resham. I'm also a high schooler. I'm a junior this year. Um and yeah, hopefully if it works out at Pittaway, we can expand the project um and I can help out with that. And I'm also part of the Environmental Action Club that's going to be part of the maintenance program for this. Excellent. Thank you. >> Um so, the location um is going to be at the Pittaway School. Um we're hoping to have it in sort of like the driveway area where the dumpsters are. It'll be in a tumbler that spun um after the compost is deposited into it. So, that's where it'll be. Um so, the Environmental Action Club from the high school is going to be the one depositing the compost from the bin into the tumbler. Um so, Eric Tracey, I'm sorry if I'm pronouncing that wrong. Um the Pittaway Nutrition Services Manager is going to be the one who's accumulating the compost as he handles sort of all the vegetables and fruits for the kids um since he's the one who's mainly cooking in the kitchen.
Um and in as well in conjunction with our reading interventionist. And so each grade level team is supported by a third teacher whose focus is reading um and who is um as we all have been growing through this year of professional learning um taking on more and more ownership of this um uh system and this matrix of of working with students um in what we call the science of reading. So uh determining through progress monitoring and benchmarking not just um where you may be in the total uh spectrum of progress but why and how your issue or challenge may be uh similar to somebody else's but different from your peer next to you. So um grouping is very uh important and focusing on uh the key elements that's really uh holding a child back uh in terms of literacy and uh and uh reading and overall reading comprehension.
So, uh, determining through progress monitoring and benchmarking not just, um, where you may be in the total, uh, spectrum of progress, but why? And how your issue or challenge may be, uh, similar to somebody else's, but different from your peer next to you. So, um, grouping is very, uh, important and focusing on, uh, the key elements that's really, uh, holding a child back, uh, in terms of literacy and, uh, and, uh, reading and overall reading comprehension. Um, and so, this has been very exciting, uh, and very challenging, uh, but also, um, uh, very, uh, spirit building for our our community of of elementary teachers. And I'll speak to my building that people are really, um, invested in this, um, and that I I'm fortunate to have joined in the second year. I understand the first year as you might, you know, uh, understand and, uh, you know, that sort of storming, norming, forming kind of, uh, process, um, is challenging to take on a brand new, uh, set of expectations, um, and, uh, and learning new curriculum.
Last year, Modzelewski Towing donated $39,000, the Danbury Rotary Club donated $5,000 and the Fairfield community donated $2,500. We also wanted to thank the Danbury Police Department, Mayor Alves, and the PAL building for their support and for providing the land to make this park possible. Now now that the park is built, our next goal is to raise awareness of families and schools now it exists and can use it. Today, we are asking the board to help us share free educational curriculum with K-5 teachers. These lessons can be used as emergency substitute plans and are aligned with national standards. They include reading materials and books that support learning. All of these resources were created by educators from a non-profit organization called Impacting Drivers, which focuses on preventing distracted driving and promoting safety education. We also created a flyer to help spread the word about the park. We brought copies with us today and kindly ask if you would help distribute them to elementary schools.
I need to contact my guardian. Well, we informed all our students and parents. There are over 45 phones on our campus. So, you're pretty near a phone or you can be sent to the office from the teacher if you need to use the phone in private in the office or in the nurse's office. Um, how now? However, office phones use has reduced students calling to be picked up from the rest, excuse me, for safety concerns. One of the things is that the phone, the public phone is right in front of the office. So, you do have access to use a phone. However, you might not ask certain things on that phone because it's right in front of the office. But, we do have uh our front office staff to assist our students in those phone calls because as you do know, and we all have, we don't know anybody's phone number.
Um We have been performing very well as a club team this year and um we made it to the Northern California Championships and qualified individually from there to the World Championships down in Missouri, which is something that no team from Chico High has ever made it close to doing before. Um admin at our school, I hear, I'm not involved in these conversations, but I hear has been asking our um IT department to do more and um really give people more opportunities. However, when we as a team filed to have a field trip to a to be able to go to this trip in Missouri um to compete at the global championships we were shut down because we were told that it was not an appropriate notice beforehand. We did not have the 2-month notice that our school uh desires. This has a number of effects on our ability to go to this competition.
Whereas before pretty much you were locked in at that number and as far right as you went with additional graduate studies, you were still locked in at that number. So, so that's the change that Tyler helped guide us with on the M amount, the big number with this classroom size fund base that we're able to move up from 8421 last year to 9421 this district now to 11,000. This is this is a best practice that other districts do. And so, like he stated, you see the numbers, we have a very healthy reserve. We have a healthy reserve of of 1.7 million after doing this. and the money is still coming in for the next 20 years. >> So I guess my question would be we can't allocate a little bit more of this to the teachers. We have to have that big amount of money in the in the fund.