So, I'm in support of this um, policy on a really broad terms because I think it sends the message that we want to send, which is we are supporting all families and all students in our school district. >> Yeah, absolutely. And I I mean for the past year since uh President Trump took office, I've I've tried to highlight the concerns that I have particularly with the superintendent about making sure that we're following the laws. Um because I I do think that it's obvious there's people that uh there are federal agents who they at minimum they're not trained um not trained adequately or properly. No, I I I agree with that 100% on following the law and I do think that we have the policy in place. Um, so that's federal the state law as well. We do it's a state the state law requires everybody whether you're uh whether you're documented on whe whether you're a citizen whatever or if you're homeless we teach homeless kids who live here in town.
>> And then the storage building is >> that's place. Oh, that might get approved too by the NGSBC. Okay. Okay. I mean, I think I I think I shared my thoughts in general. I don't know that I said something about everything. Like I see flooring here in the district-wide and flooring to me is probably similar to parking lot repaving. >> We got to do it. >> Yeah. >> But it doesn't necessarily have to be done. And I don't want to kick maintenance down the road like five years just to avoid a tax increase or minimize taxes. But at the same time, I think this year is, and I don't even know how this would play in. This might hit taxes the following year. I forget the timing on the capital budget versus the operating budget, but generally speaking, what we're looking at right now with the operating budget is a big tax increase.
I just do. I think we will be we're the biggest school district in the in the county. I think co-op I don't want this to happen, but I believe if all the schools leave the co-op that have put their letters in, co-op's going away. They're not they're not going to be able to sustain it. They're just not. um they're they're going to have to find ways of what you talked about county by county if that happens if we decided to stay in the co-op one of my biggest concerns would be if all the other schools left the point you brought administrative fees what are they going to do with them because I I would be in Steve's ear big time saying look they just dropped four schools their administrative fees better be well the reality is when you run a co-op anybody familiar with those kind of situations just because you lost four schools whoever they're hiring in their administrative roles is not going to care about that.
Beautiful cut by Maggie. Nice pass, too. And she got hammered, too. That was on the on the foul. These refs don't care today, I guess. Julia trying to come up with it. Nope, Kendall does. Keep that stick up, Kendall. Keep that stick up. Geez Louise. Gettem is out for blood here, getting that ball back. And then we got 3 minutes left to try to put some balls in the net. Let's be smart with it here. >> of girls shaking off uh bumps and bruises right now, from the looks of it. Can see Maggie still moving. Yeah, I don't know if she was feeling rug burn she was feeling or I think we should just hold this ball for 2 and 1/2 minutes, Kev. What do you think? >> that would be just fine. Maybe a little too early to start thinking about margins of victory for the power rankings, but it it does eventually make a difference.
I I understand all that completely. I just was making a point that I don't see a I don't see a relationship between the undocumented students and our student because he did absolutely he was doing everything correctly >> and yet he's in jail. >> Well, yeah, absolutely. Like I said, that's a travesty. >> He's sitting in a jail has been for 10 days more. It's >> now you're getting me riled up, Tim. Plus, it's like, is it 90 degrees in here? >> Isn't there a motion on the floor? >> There is a motion on the floor. Any more discussion? With that, I will call for the vote. All those in favor of policy 5111.3, undocumented students. Um, please signify. >> Can we have a roll call, please? Yes. >> Yes. >> Mr. White. >> No. >> Thank you. Okay. Um, >> are we finished with policy?
So, just looking for opportunities to minimize additional tax increases, particularly at this moment in time. >> Uh well, let's start with our big big projects then, right? Um with some heavy here. Yeah, we have turf two million right now. Um, >> I'm I'm all for pushing it forward, >> keeping it in your one. >> Yeah, I'm hoping. >> Yeah. >> Well, yeah. >> And the hope here is next time we meet, like I've taken all of these suggestions and we're in a place to to vote to approve. So, I know that this is not obviously a motion, but they will go into the final, >> you know. So, I think that the ones at the high school that the big ticket items that the the loading dock, the turf and the windows should be in year one. >> Now, the question if we're talking about the the loading dock, you know, we had the 874 allocated assuming design work.
Their their workflow in their minds is going to be right where it was in their expertise. So, I don't know what will happen. What I don't want to see happen is us be the school that doesn't leave co-op and everybody else leaves because anybody that leaves co-op and we're not getting into that. Perhaps I'm going too far into the weeds. We have to hire teachers for all the spots. Yeah. >> So if other schools leave, they're [clears throat] going to snatch up the cream of the crop of staff members. >> And and I think what we have to do is just take the honest look at the program, the structure, the the compliance side of it. The financial piece is, I believe, the biggest piece that has to be ironed out and we have to feel comfortable with moving forward. So, um, that's where next month is going to be the the deeper dive into the financials because I think we've got to put our best effort into showing the board what that's going to look like.
Um but yeah, I hear you. In a circumstance like that, probably you would behoove them to check the ball a little bit. Duffy should be doing nothing with the ball when you're up by four with 2 minutes left. Here she comes. Yua, a nice check from behind. Duffy with a huge save. That was a great stop. Uh Numbers, whoop. All that adrenaline must have got to her on the throw. Also, uh shout out again to Yua for a nice defensive play. It looked like uh Avery Landers going in alone, and Yua did a good job. >> Oh. Another good slide by Yua, just a little she's got the shot off. Almost picked off by Duffy there, nice. 10 to 7 Kevin, 10 to 7. Let's win this draw and hold on to the ball, man. It's all about possession at this point. 1 1/2 minutes left, 10 to 7, we're up by 3.
That was our only >> That was the only policy we had this week. Thank you. Are there any other standing committees that any board member wishes to report on that we didn't address? >> Great. Let's move on to approving the minutes of our March 19th business meeting. Do I have a motion to approve the minutes? >> Yes, I have it. moved that the move that the Cheshire Board of Education approve the minutes from the business meeting held on March 19th, 2026. >> Do I have a second? >> Second. >> Thank you, Mr. Eki.
So, there was a question of do we redesign it, push this amount back into year two, and then put $50,000 in year one um for a redesign where we're just looking at redesigning the the loading dock, separating the storm drainage and the the bottom of that parking lot. So, >> to me, I don't want to throw away $50,000. You know, I think that if we can kill two birds with one stone, If we do the if we do the loading dock, we're going to have to do something with the parking lot anyway because there's only one way in and one way out. So, if we can if we have to do them both at the same time, I think it would probably better to do it that way than, you know, cherry rigging the the parking lot with the, you know, the drains that are there are dry wells, which I, you know, I was down there for 40 years.
You got to feel comfortable with it or not. >> So, what has happened with I'm sorry. [clears throat] Go ahead. >> What has happened with federal funding? You know, they talked about getting rid of the federal board of education and >> it was a talk. >> If that ever happened, it would just go to the state level. They would still transfer the funds. I'm I'm very confident that federal grant plan B things like that, they're not going >> overall. Typically, sped funding continues to increase. Not not as much as you'd like to see or want to see. those same kids I hate to put it this way but they're still an equal ADM number right >> we we get a base amount for every student and then depending on different complexities so special education and depending on what their disability area is >> actually more >> it's more but it's dependent upon what their their distinction they need >> and then we use those funds to of course get the resources they need >> through the complexity index to any anybody that falls under that special education umbrella is going to bring in more per pupil ADM than a traditional student just but I I don't I don't foresee any issues with the federal funding because that's political suicide for anybody that wants to go down that road or your you know >> we need to be able to have the resources to be able to provide correct >> for every student's IEP and yes 700 keep in mind too that these These are students who have not really some who may not have started school with us.
Ashley on the draw, Payton on the circle, Lily Vitti on the circle. Let's see if we can do it. Minute minute and 40. Yeah, yeah, I think you're right. If you get possession, just take it into the offensive zone, they'll be playing really high pressure. They've played high high pressure all day. They've been very aggressive all day. This time they'll be really trying to cause a turnover and get the ball. Come on, Lil. Get there, Lily. Nice, we're getting the body in the way, nice box out. Nice job, 13. >> That was Let's control this ball. Let's control the ball, wait. Take it easy, Payton. Payton dribbles the ball, coming into the zone here, over the restraining line. Ashley back down to Elaine Early. Okay, so Elaine goes up to Maggie. Well, Lily was wide open there. So, with a defender right on her, I'm not sure if they the lane to get the pass off was there.
Uh, any discussion? Any changes, corrections? So with that, I will call the vote for um for approval of the minutes of from the business meeting um held on March 19th, 2026. All those in favor, Miss Fitzgerald, are you in favor? >> It is unanimous. Thank you very much. Um next is correspondence. Mr. White as secretary. Is there any correspondence be to be read? >> I defer to the superintendent on this. >> I don't have correspondence. >> All right. Thank you. >> Sure. >> Does that sound right, Mr. Jazenski? Because we know who the boss is on when it comes to things like that. >> Okay. Thank you very much. Um, let's move on to the superintendence report, >> Mr. Solen. Dr. Soul. >> Sure. Um, so I'm going to try and rip through uh we were honored as a gold recipient for the 2025 healthy workforce designation uh through Sigma Healthy Workforce uh assessment.
I had no idea, you know. So, I think it would be good to just get that whole thing going. >> Yeah. And I'm not I'm not like actively opposing this by any means. Um, I just I guess I'm wondering about alternatives to I don't want to I the voters said no once. I think having a lot of referenda go out at the same time is a problem. But while we're sitting here right now today, I wonder how many referend are going to go out this year. I have no idea. >> No idea. >> And the thing that goes through my mind is as an example, I may have said this before, but like we get hit with a major flood in the next few weeks. Totally possible. I have no idea. It's April, May, we could get hit. We could have a few bridges blow out and $500,000 a piece.
They might be receiving speech services, you know, at 3 years old, four years old. So, it's more than just the 3500 that we have enrolled. >> And [clears throat] that 700 is in 222 if you go to >> Yeah. know almost 800. >> Yeah. >> What does what does compliance look like and auditing and how does what how does that look? Is it I mean is it >> the state will audit some of it >> but it's a federal grant so it will [clears throat] come under pretty tight scrutiny. It's a it's a icky >> are you talking financial >> compliance? >> Well all over all the legal >> they they keep track of the percentage of students we have that are um have an IEP. They keep track of the testing. They keep track of students who are um being assessed through the alternative assessment.
Maggie being patient and smart with the ball. With 1 minute left. No need to do anything besides hold that ball, Maggie. There you go, good job. She keeps trying to drive. Payton, nice nice cut, Payton. Hey, Payton Trip on the board today. 42 seconds left, 11 to 7. Nobody was expecting that. She missed her defender and walked right in. I think that was a result of the high pressure defense again, doing anything they could in their power to try to get the ball. When it didn't happen, left a wide open lane, so back to that four-goal lead that it was just a moment or two ago. Actually Forrester on the draw again against number seven Mary Kate Cronin. Actually had it there for a minute. She did. Aggressive cradle kind of threw out of her stick. Allie Marseglia with feet. Nice check by >> [screaming] >> Gustellis same side in the turn.
Um proud of that. Uh some personnel updates. Uh if you're looking at our HR page, you may see some uh openings potentially. We're currently working through the hiring of a elementary supervisor for special education. As you know, Christina Sherwood was promoted to PPS director with Robin retiring. Um she'll take over July 1st and we're currently working through the 70 plus candidates we had for that position. Um the uh we have a few job openings posted that uh are budget contingent. So, if you see them out there, we try and um collect candidates in the event that the budget gets approved, we can then pull the trigger quicker and hopefully get in the best people um right after it's finalized. Uh we recently hired a new supervisor of technology support services. So, um Mike Papa is the director of technology for the district. His um second in command was uh Mark Brusso.
They're all going out to referendum and it is necessary because they're on the verge of collapse. Like where we are right now. I don't even think the town manager of public works would necessarily know what will what will be recommended for going to referendum uh this fall. And that's that's in the back of my mind. I don't want to spend $50,000 on it either. Um, but I also don't I don't know that that I don't know that sending that 874 back out again is I don't know that the result will be any different this year. >> I think there was the way it was worded that it was a south parking lot and I think a lot of people thought that's that the student lot. We're gonna we don't need to spend money on a student lot. >> Yeah. No, I I agree. I agree.
They put parameters and guard rails on all of those numbers. And if you go over certain amounts, then individual schools and some of the principles back here can attest to we get compliance reports are saying you're not in compliance and so you need to develop a school improvement plan to address that subgroup of students. And it's a huge process and they make sure offering [clears throat] least restrictive environment. >> That's what I was looking for. Like what data are they taking? >> Yeah, those audits are are far worse than our financial the financial piece of it is actually pretty easy when it comes to auditing. >> I mean, it's and it's only easy because of the great people we have doing all the paperwork, you know. I mean, Josh Yankee is big in that and getting everybody quoted correctly. Um, so when they're coming from the financial piece, that's that's pretty straightforward.
They are letting those checks go today, man. Those are pretty aggressive checks today. What is that called, sir? Shooting space from neck to the net? I don't know if it was shooting space or three seconds, was it? I'm I'm not quite sure what they're calling there. Clock stops with 18 seconds left. Yeah, that might have been three seconds in >> So Zio wasn't really on anybody. >> Yep. Okay. Oh, nice pass looking up. Oh, Duffy with a beautiful save. 10 seconds left in the game. That's a big one. She turns and looks at the clock. She knows exactly what to do here. She just steps out of the crease and she's going to enjoy watching the clock tick down >> [applause] >> to 11-7 victory for Ashlin over Dedham. Moves their record to four and three on the year. First time over 500. Dedham will drop to five and two.