Um 200,000 I That leads me to the next item uh that makes up the 1.6 million, which is 200,000. Um and that is to go towards capital, specifically for the schools. And that is because um the schools are going to take over the maintenance and scheduling of their school fields. So, currently it's being done by our cemetery, parks, and trees department in the DPW. Um And so, once that moves over to the fields, or excuse me, to the school department, we can't use that um enterprise fund anymore. So, we need the the school department needs the revenue or the funds in that in order to make capital purchases associated with their taking on the maintenance of the fields. So, that is why 200,000 of uh rainy day funds is going over towards the school department to help um to help them get the equipment that they need to maintain the fields.
Sachs Sachs oh, passes back to Schneider. Schneider quick give and go back and good save by Lacey. Great set up by the Raiders. Motley gets it back. Pass to Williams. Up to Olson to Spalding. Under two to go now. Two goal lead for the Raiders in this young game. And it's going to be Ursuline ball. Taken right now by Mayhew. Mayhew getting chased. Hartnett blocking the pass. Loose ball. Spalding gets it. Spalding getting harassed right now by Rowan Luber. Shakes it off. Going in. Spalding still has it going towards the net. Switches hands. What a goal! By Waverly Spalding. Gets her first of the game. And what a doozy it was. So four to one right now with 1:15 left to go in the first quarter. Say two good bring you the action here today. I'm Brad Crandall. Camera girl is Alyssa Sukso. Kim Crandall somewhere.
Mic went out. So, uh excuses if we're not super energetic tonight. It's been a little rough week at Danbury High School. So, um, you know, we're going to try to do the best we can and bring our energy like we always do with the the goal always of being becoming the number one urban district in the state of Connecticut. Uh, I'm going to present a little bit on just the overview of Danry High School and I'm turn it over to the people behind me, uh, who will tell you what's actually going on within our academy models. With me tonight, I have Dr. Martins, our stand up bad hip and all. So, she's here. Uh, Karina Janeo, who's our exploration academy director. you'll hear from her. John Lar Rosa who's in the back over there. Miss Teal who is our art engineering design one. Miss Loren, we just saw you in the back there is Miss Grant.
If you are a current board member, they are due April 30th. So, if you haven't done it, go home right after the meeting and do it right away cuz it is due. Um and that's another thing that we've been noticing the School Ethics Commission being very strict about is making sure that everybody has their financial disclosure statements filled out. It's something that school all school commissions have to do. I had to do one as a NJBSA staff member. They're public. You can look anybody's up online, but they're not asking for your salary. They're really asking for where your income is coming from to ensure that there's no conflict of interest. And here we just have an example of a financial disclosure case from 2025 where a board member uh did not disclose an organization because this organization that they were involved with and there was a recommendation for a reprimand was found to be a violation of school ethics act.
The employee benefits, that's our biggest. That's where you see the biggest increase. That's the 23 and 1/2% for health. Again, that's why we had the waiver. This is the first year that we've encountered the waiver, because otherwise, we've been able to include a 7%, 9% increase in health care within our budget. This is the first year that we took the waiver to go above the 2% because of the cost of health care. Special ed instruction, the building maintenance did go down because we have finished the boiler projects, and I did not have to incur any additional monies for any repairs while we were waiting for the new boilers. The administration, tech, guidance, secretaries, increase, and transportation. And then our other expenses. >> So, the special education students out of district and related services increase for any of our out of districts, the health care increase is 23 and 1/2% dental is five.
This is the special This is my favorite picture in the book. Marco took the butterscotch candy out of his pocket and pressed it into his grandfather's warm hand. Marco did not need to ask his mama. He knew this was the best Memory Day surprise of all. Seeing his Abuelo in the Memorial Day parade. Isn't that a special story? Memorial Day surprise. Hope you enjoyed that. And I hope you will do something special on Memorial Day and remember to think about the soldiers that we lost that were protecting our country. Thank you. Maybe you can ask your family if you have any family members that were soldiers or are currently soldiers. Great. I hope you enjoyed that story. Now, I have just a fun story today about a funny character named Penelope Rex. Now, she's actually This is Penelope Rex right here. She's actually a dinosaur, a Tyrannosaurus Rex, but they call her Penelope Rex.
I assume it's on the agenda this evening. >> It is. >> Uh I can do whatever you wish. I think our public hearing is supposed to begin at 7:15. So maybe wait for >> I have one minute to go before I have to stop what we're doing to address the the hearing that's at 7:15. >> Okay. Don't mind waiting. >> Okay. Thank you, William. >> All right. We have to do this by the book or else I get myself in trouble. by the board. Two minutes to go. So with that in those two minutes, I would just quickly like to go to the consent agenda and see if um we want to approve the consent agenda. I'll make I'll entertain a motion. >> So moved. >> I'll second that. >> All those in favor accepting the consent agenda as presented. >> I That's three. I just want to mention that it did include some gifts and donations and um you know really a lot of those gifts and donations were to the emergency fund.
Now, what will happen, and this becomes very complicated mechanically, um is next year we will put on the warrant a motion to dissolve that enterprise fund, and then the money into that will flow back to free cash through a series of mechanics. So, essentially this will be a wash, but we um um the school department needed the funding now in order to make those capital purchases in time uh to to take over the fields.
Um He did start off announcing with me, but So did my daughter. So he took her. Took one for the team on that one. We also have C- Sienna Peter on Instagram. Follow us DSCableTV one word. We'll follow you back. So Motley with it on that far side right now. Dishes it behind the net to Schneider to Hartnett. Hartnett to Spalding. Spalding to Sachs. Sachs to Williams. Raiders working it around. Schneider back Motley Olson up to Hartnett. They're just working it around really well right now. Looks like they might be holding out for the last shot of the quarter. But you never know with this team. Schneider up to Spalding. Spalding working it and pass to Sachs. Sachs And the whistle blows. It's going to be a good opportunity here for Sachs with 14.5 left to go. Seconds that is in the first quarter. I'll pass it off.
She's one of our our deans. So, um uh we'll hear from most of them in a little bit. So, as I mentioned, the school leadership team, the bolded people are the ones that you're going to hear from tonight uh as we begin to talk. So, as a reminder to everybody, this is the setup of how ourmies work. Every single eighth grader in the district starts at uh when they come into ninth grade at Danbury High School on the main campus where they are put into Miss Janeo's Exploration Academy where we work very hard on I can't I'm doing it again, aren't I? Yep, that's her. Look to stop talking about what I'm going to talk about. uh to get them to understand our academy model and then in uh the end or should say the middle of nth grade they make their selections to which academy they would like to go into 10th grade.
And you have I did send your BA a PDF of this that she can send out to all of you and you can look up any of these cases. If it has a C in front of it, that means it's an an ethics case. If it has an A, that's an advisory opinion which we'll get to. But all of these um are online. You can look them up and read them. They're long. They're pretty interesting. They are long but they're interesting to read and go and read them. Uh the school ethics commission does have somewhat of an expectation that board members are really familiar with advisory opinions and just the provisions of the act. Try to familiarize yourself as much as you can if you have the time. Now we'll get into what the actual code of ethics is. So the first one is I will uphold and enforce all laws, rules, and regulations of the state Board of Education and court orders pertaining to schools.
The regular gen ed um excuse me, the gen ed tuition increase for Manasquan went from 21,389 up to 23,6 63. So, that was the actually it's a hair over 10% increase. Their CLI program went up as well. We have a student there. The adjustment we were I want to say fortunate to have 24,000 in the tuition adjustment for the students going to Manasquan, but we have to anticipate a $200,000 increase for any out of CR sections that we get billed in July for the completing this school year. Now, after all that, because the value of the town went up 9% versus our 3.55% increase in tax levy, and I went through several different scenarios, there will be a decrease in the school portion of taxes. For a house borough average, it went down 366 and change. For a house valued at 950,800, it went down 258 and change.
And this is a fun story about her getting a pet, and she has lots of problems with her new pet. Do you have a pet at home? Like a cat, a dog, a guinea pig? Uh maybe a fish? Do your pets sometimes cause problems, and you have to try and help out? Well, let's find out what happens with Penelope Rex and the problem with pets. And this is written by author and illustrator Ryan T. Higgins, and he's written lots of fun books with Penelope in them. Do you think this is Penelope's pet? What kind of animal's that look like to you? We'll have to read and find out. It looks like he's doing something mischievous. I think it's like a shoe in his mouth. Do your pets ever take your shoes and eat them? Oh my. Let's find out what happens in Penelope Rex and the problem with pets.
Uh many of them were from the uh program in the program in the fall um leading up to the holidays that our human resources department runs. And so I just want to thank all the people in the community who were able to um in some way support um our families. >> Yep. Thank you, Claudia, for doing that. So, that uh vote was three zero and two absent. >> You did good. >> You done good. Okay, it is now 7:15. Um I announced um a public hearing and I have to read the legal notice. Notice is hereby given that the select board will conduct a hearing regarding the transfer of an all alcohol liquor license. Pledge of inventory and pledge of collateral. The applicant is Na Newman Dada Corp DBA Main Street Wine and Spirits located at 197 Main Street in Ashland. And I hope I'm pronouncing it right.
Any questions associated with that? Okay. Um and I should say the rest of it I I accounted for 750 and 200 out of the 1.6. The rest of it is to just go and fill the gap in between our operating expenses and our our continuing operating expenses and our revenue. So, Article 3 is to transfer money from our special education stabilization fund um to the general fund. So, we have, in addition to our rainy day stabilization fund, we have a couple of funds that are associated with specific purposes. One of them being out-of-district special education costs. Uh and so, what we try to do and what the superintendent and his team does a good job of is really try to identify um where those uh those costs are are going to come or try to anticipate what those costs are. And so, that 300,000 is what they have identified as what they're going to need uh from that general or excuse me, the special education stabilization fund.
Generous play. Good defense by Ursuline. I mean by the Raiders. Actually I'm confused now. Good defense by Ursuline. Good passing for the Raiders. Just to clear that up. So at the end of one quarter four to one right now. Ursuline needs to try to figure this out if they want to get back in this one. I'll be back momentarily. I'm trying to figure out this audio situation right now. Check. Check. Check. Check. Check. Nothing? How about Check. Check. Check. Check. Check. Can you hear me? Yeah. Was I muted like the whole time? You heard me. Okay, good. All right. We are Check. Check. Check. Check. Check. Check. Check. One, two, three. Mighty loud. Check one, two. Check. Check. Check. Check. Check. One, two, three. Check. Check. One, two, three. Cam's back. I am back, folks. That was kind of funny, wasn't it? Agnes is a She's going to be a handful.
Uh our wildly important goal or wig goals this year uh were to improve our SAT scores, reduce our chronically absent students uh and students back on track to graduation. You know, we would love to see our SAT scores go way up and our chronically absent rate go way down. Uh but it's a struggle with what's going on, not only coming out of COVID, but the current political climate is causing a little bit of a problem for us with attendance and the number of students who have left Damry High School in the last year. Um from there, uh we're trying to raise our on-track graduation numbers as long as our four-year cohort. So, the driving numbers we had our junior SAT score, which went up, we had a nice bump this reporting out of last year's group. U now we're trying to figure out why. Why?
Desired changes shall be brought about only through legal and ethical procedures. So this top part comes from the statute. The bottom is the standards that of factual evidence that needs to be met in order to uphold a finding or violation of that part of the code of ethics. And again, you are if you took your roles and responsibilities or your governance one, you know that you're volunteers but you're also state officials. You're considered state officials. I will make decisions in terms of the educational welfare of children and will seek to develop and maintain public schools that meet the individual needs of all children regardless of their ability, race, creed, sex, or social standing. And again, below that are the standards of evidence that would need to be met for a violation. I will confine my board action to policy making, planning, and appraisal, and I will help to frame policies and plans only after the board has consulted those who will be affected by them.
And I tried several different addresses, and it looks like it will be a decrease in the school portion. Because again, the value of the town went up, so our figuring our tax rate went down. So that at least went in our favor. That 9% was in one year? Mhm. It went up 8% the year before. Right. Last year the value was 2. 6 billion. 2.684 and this year it's 2.9 200. So it went up a significant amount. So that's where the tax rate dropped. Thank you. Do you want to add anything? I think so. So, you know, I I commend the board and Diane. You know, they've been very fiscally responsible and that has allowed us to continue in a very in a very effective education for our students here in Brielle. So we're, you know, proud to say that our fiscal responsibility allows us to meet all of our obligations and really, you know, advance our programming for our students.
There we go. So, here's Penelope, and it looks like she's holding the leash of this pet. Lots of parents give their kids dogs or cats or guinea pigs or goldfish. Penelope Rex's parents gave her Mittens. This is Mittens. And Mittens is a saber-tooth cat. Look at the big teeth, long fangs that are hanging down the front. Doesn't look like a typical house cat, does she? Let's find out what happens. Penelope was surprised. She didn't even know she wanted a pet. Penelope had talked a lot about ponies, but there but that was because they were delicious. Do you think T-Rexes eat ponies? Is that why maybe she's thinking ponies are delicious? She wasn't too sure about owning a Mittens, but she was willing to give it a try. Oh, look. He already likes you. Why don't you take Mittens up to your room and get ready for bed.