All right, let's see. The shot and goal, an absolute snipe there by Luber. And she gets her second of the game. And they are chipping away at this lead. Yeah. >> Now 12 to 6. They are chipping, Cam. So, the Raiders have not scored in the third quarter, and Ursuline's put up three. Yeah. I mean, with that math, it's not quite enough to win, but it's definitely making it more of a game. Sure is. Making it more exciting. Ball is up. And here we go. Good face-off win there. Katie Mayhew with it. She sound passes off to Lubov. And oh, with that squeak of the air horn, that's the end of the third quarter. Yes. That was a squeaker, all right. So, yeah, after three, score right now is 12 to 6. Raiders still in charge. But the Bears are crawling and clawing back in this one.
Um but our kids stood out in how well-versed they were. And I want to give a huge shout out to Justin Morgan. Um that's his class. those top two photos and the engineering notebooks that he has them keep um because they they know what they're talking about. They document it. They track it. You can see their growth in those things. Um oh, and I'm so sorry. I'm going to go back for one second. I also like to call us the Iron Man Academy. I want to give a shout out to Dr. Ory who created our AED logo. That's Iron Man as the Hatter. um just because of a lot of the skills that Iron Man uses in the Marvel movies are a lot of the skills that we focus on in our academy. Um we've had some amazing field trip opportunities this year. Um specifically or more recently, um our kids got to tour the Amazon facility in Windsor, Connecticut.
And then when you are in the building volunteering, we do recommend that you make it really clear that you're there as a community member and volunteer not as a board member. And same goes for your parent. You're a parent and you're talking to your child's teacher, you come in for a parent-teacher conference, that's totally fine. Just don't sit down with your child's teacher and say, "I'm a board member." Like Yeah, make sure that the staff is always clear to everybody that you're there as a as a parent or what capacity you're in in the school building.
You know, it was coming. Refresh my memory. What what is the Is there maximum or what is the capacity? po- possible amount of kids in the school? I don't know the answer to that question. I I can only a reasonable I mean, 20 kids in a class. Yeah. Gosh, I would have to count up the number of classrooms. So, like for example, right now, we have two classrooms. One is being used as a professional development room, and one is being used in a different capacity, a non-classroom. You know, so right there, there's two classrooms that are open, you know. Um our class sizes are reasonable. We also have the the luxury of when um students go to a specials class, that classroom remains vacant. You know, so when you have a higher population, you know, scheduling gets a little bit tricky be- because you can make your schedule work so that every classroom is being used during every period.
6 months after it was placed there, we were told it had to be moved. We were told it wasn't compliant for the ADA. We haven't moved it, but apparently there's not going to be a patio at the community center. So, you got to decide where it's going to go. And I understand the town is uh that was a a very expensive bench made by a monument company, not in this town, but in an adjacent town, and then a plow hit it this winter and broke the legs, and the town is now paying 1,500 bucks to have the legs replaced. So, it's u it's I don't think you need a whole bench policy to cover one problem bench. I do question what I say here is uh there's going to be a $1,500 fee to engineer a spot where a bench is going to go and the benches we're paying are less than onethird of $1,500.
What this change does is it establishes a new committee for each project that goes before design review. Um and so this uh was a decision of the planning board to put this forward. All right. So, we're through with the warrant.
Climbing, crawling, doing bear stuff. Yep. Be back in a minute 40 seconds. All right, 12 minutes on the clock. Fourth quarter about to begin. It is 12 to 6. Yep. >> Raiders with the six-point lead. And let's see here. Motley scooping it up. Motley breaking away. Motley passing it to oh, Hartnett, and she buries. And there's the answer from the Raiders. >> Yeah, so yeah. So, with that, that one right there, Cam. The Raiders are going to go 7 to >> [laughter] >> Ursuline going to fall to 6 and 3. What 25 seconds on the clock can really do. Can change a point of view like none other. Sure does. >> [laughter] >> I said Joe Mantegna. And back, Motley again. Motley's just going off right now. She is so fast. Oh my goodness, Motley. You know, something about this uh field might be tilted.
It's 3.8 million square feet. Can you hear me? Yeah. 3.8 million square feet. Um one of the biggest in New England. Um and the kids were actually able to interact with a lot of the equipment and um they're also going to Eversource next week. Um there's an architecture field trip that's happening where they're actually going to get to tour the city of Danbury and talk about the architecture in the actual city so they can see some of the stuff that they've talked about in their classes. Again, providing a real experience so they can see what they're learning in action. Um, we have Larry Smith who works for Hubble Electric Heaters came in and spoke to our students, but also spoke to the teachers in the academy and that's been another piece too that I've really tried to emphasize this year is that this work is happening in all of the classes.
Any questions on volunteering? So then again, whenever you're visiting the school, we do advise that uh you let your superintendent know that you'll be there and refrain from any board discussion or board business and just stay on point with what the purpose is of your visit. You want to eliminate the perception that you're trying to run the schools. Social media. That's another big one. So this the school ethics commission will consider the content of your post. You absolutely have freedom of speech as a board member. You do not give up your right to freedom of speech because you're a board of education member, but the school ethics commission will look at the content of your post and whether you can be perceived that you are speaking for the board or posting as a board member. And they will look at that. They'll look at the nexus between post and your role as a board member.
And we don't That's not even a concern for us at all. When our students leave to go to PE, it's not like the Spanish teacher's going into that class- classroom to teach a Spanish class. You know, I said like I said, my only frame of reference for this particular building is my understanding that, you know, class sizes here or grade sizes used to be much bigger and there were 700 to 800 students here. So Yeah. Mhm. Yeah. Thank you. I think in another 2 years. It was done right before I started. And that's a required uh Yes. amount of time that we It's a 5-year, right? I think it's 5 years. I know when my daughter was here and graduated in 2010, there were four sections and there were close to 100 kids in her grade. Yeah, that's what we experienced. Yeah. Yeah, but 20 years ago, 25 years ago, we were living in trailers.
So, I don't think you're going to get many people that are going to be willing to donate benches. I know you have some fancy benches around the public library that were donated by groups and those are fancy expensive ones, but uh I I was just shocked to see this policy that hadn't even been voted on and approved already in effect and taking place. >> Yeah, I mean I I understandably so. I think I agree with you that um if if that would happened prior to this policy that that we need to investigate and figure this out right and uh make it all right. And I think there must be some benches in town that were purchased and installed prior to this. I mean this policy doesn't exist yet, right? So there must be some benches in that in town. So >> the Lions have donated those.
I'm happy to answer any questions related to articles, related to town meeting, related to finances. Um happy to answer those. Okay. Catherine, would you Do you have anything to add? No. Okay. Um I'll just you know, I will I will just speak as the as the town manager. Um And understand when we talk about an override, it's a very personal decision for people. Um and people have to feel like whether the investment being asked uh by the by town officials um is appropriate, number one, and then you have to look at levels of affordability within your own home. And I know everybody is struggling with rising costs. So, I certainly I I don't begrudge any any homeowner um their decisions. Um democracy is, you know, not necessarily what we see on TV. It's democracy is is the family that has to run the numbers again at the kitchen table just to make sure um things work out right before they sign on the dotted line.
>> [laughter] >> Goals just happen in that side rather than the other side. Come second half. >> You know, you're kind of right. >> [laughter] >> I mean, when it when they bounce it over there, it could just go straight in. >> Yeah. Are there magnets in this field or what's going on here? It is now 14 to 6 with 11:34 left. If the Raiders have a 10-goal lead at any point, the clock will start running. And nice face-off win there from the Raiders. Hartnett grabs it. Pass it off to Williams. Oh, just missing on that one. Yeah, the Raiders were like playing a little cat and mouse game there in the third, it seemed. >> Third quarter, they were very quiet with no goals. >> But they had like all the almost all the like offensive possession time, you know. Yep. They just were working it around.
Um, so that the teachers who teach English still feel connected to the work that's happening in the engineering classrooms. Um, so we've talked a lot about soft skills and when we've brought speakers in, we've talked a lot about what skills should those teachers be focusing on. If they're not talking about ACDC or CAD certifications or things like that, what are those types of things? And if you have no idea what I'm talking about, don't worry. I didn't know what it was either till like a year or two ago. Um, but essentially, they're the different types of certifications um in the engineering field. um and um just what kind of skills the teachers could be using in their classes, whether they're teaching English, history, art, um all of those amazing things that are happening um in the future. What's happening here, we have um some of those equipment that you see in those pictures, that um is a mockup of the two labs that are coming to Danbury High School.
Thus, we always caution that you be really, really mindful of what you're posting on social media because your community, they do view you and see you as a board member even if you're posting in your personal capacity, you're seen as a board member a lot of times. So it may not be a post that's in your capacity as as a board member. Always be advised of or mindful and uh consider of perceptions. We do recommend a dis- Well, the School Ethics Commission recommends a disclaimer. This is what it says, but the disclaimer is not 100% So, you can put the disclaimer up and post something and there have been cases where someone used a disclaimer and they were found to be in violation of school ethics. So, the disclaimer is the following: "Statements are made in my capacity as a private citizen and not in my capacity as a board member.
Yeah. And before before the rebuild. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I was I was on the board then. I remember I do. Me, our our kids My kids were babies. I don't hear you. I told you you LOOK GREAT, GEORGE. I APPRECIATE IT. WE APPRECIATE YOU. Thank you. Thank you. All right. Um no correspondence, it looks like. Uh so that will bring us to committee reports. Uh Mr. Rotelli is not here tonight. Did they Did district operation I don't even think No. Okay. Um Representative of administration. Dr. Imperiale. The only thing of note is there's a vacancy on the management board which applications were taken to fill it. Got it. Do you have any input on that? One second. I wasn't at the meeting but I I did have a vote. That's unfortunate. Got it. All right. Ms. Street curriculum and program. All right. So the curriculum and programs committee just met at 6:00 p.m.
So wouldn't those, you know, fall under um >> I think there's one at the stone pot, too, by Cherry Street, if I'm not mistaken. >> I think this was for benches moving forward, you know, weren't necessarily going to Right. That >> seems retroactively, you know, kind of apply to it. >> Yeah. So maybe the DPW was acting, didn't realize that this was still in process and and that it needs to play itself out here. >> Well, I I'm unaware Who granted permission for it to be in the arboritum? >> I don't know whoever requested the bench. We don't volunteer to spend money. We usually get asked by somebody and we had been re asked by a former select board member to order another bench for somewhere and we ordered the bench and have paid for it and it's but that's neither here. I'm just trying to find out about this policy that's all.
And you know, it's also being able to drive your sister to the polls when her car breaks down. And you know, these are that's democracy, not like what we see on CNN. So, I totally understand people might have different positions. Um that being said, I think the school department uh Jim Adams and his team as well as the school committee have really approached this uh very very soundly. This um is not I can say this um I can say this uh very confidently. This was not a okay, we need more money. We need to go and ask the voters for it. Um this has been part of a systematic restructuring of the school department's finances in order to make it more sustainable. So, to the extent that we can control, we don't have to go and ask voters for an override again. I'm not saying that that's going to not going to happen or is going to happen.
Cat and mouse. Passing it up. This is Olson with it. Olson firing it over to Sachs. Barrett Sachs. Good footwork, good stick work. Passing it to Williams. Williams to Sachs. Over to Hartnett. Hartnett to Olson. To Motley to Schneider. Up to Hartnett, over to Williams. Williams. Oh, the pass to Olsen goes through, but Olsen's going to run it down, goes just out of bounds. It's going to be bare ball. >> Yep, bare ball. Bears throw it to the goalie, but our volunteer, Sienna, said that that she agrees that this team should be called the mermaids. Is it cuz you said it so many times by now? Well, >> [laughter] >> Oh, good save from Lacey. No, well, you know what what gets me is like oh my gosh, did that thing roll in? Nope. Oh, the goalie made it seem like it made it in.
The one on the left is our manufacturing lab that's going to get put in over the summer. Um, and what was really cool, especially on the Amazon field trip and the UB field trip, is a lot of the equipment that the kids got to inter that the kids got to interact with, we're actually going to have in their classrooms. So, next year when we get to replicate that Amazon field trip, they'll know what the equipment is when they're seeing it. It won't be the first time that they're seeing it, and they'll be able to have conversations around that, too, which is really cool. We're also designing an AED design lab um which will be for the architecture students where they'll get to do regular mockups and blueprints like they would as real architecture. So again emphasizing the real hands-on experience for the students. And um I did just want to add too I wanted to give a shout out to um Alise Tobin and Melissa Noo because we've gone on a ton of field trips this year and um between ReadyCct and the board the kids have not had to pay for anything um which has been really really great.