Yeah. It's one headset. So, this is the headset. Let me get someone on wireless are they going to have a a communication headset? This is my connection. This is the headphone amplifier. And a mixer. That we use to connect those headsets to. It also has to connect to my interface. So these are the two connections that go out of the back of that into my audio interface. That's all I'm going to bring in today. Same with All right, then we need a battery for this camera, right? You want to take it out of the same same bag that we got out of. >> [cheering] >> So uh This one? Yeah. All right. And then generally like when we're doing uh any kind of camera work Well, we go in order. The batteries are are numbered 1 to So we go start with the lowest number and work our way up.
Congratulations to Lucas. And next wearing number 30, Franco Montemayor. >> [cheering] [applause] >> Franco is walking out with his mom and dad, Marissa and Ezekiel. Congratulations to Franco. And next wearing number four, Captain Charlie Hartnett. >> [cheering] >> Charlie is walking out with his mom and dad, Liz and John. Congratulations to Charlie. >> [snorts] >> And next we have number five, Captain Oliver [screaming] Atwood. >> [cheering] >> Oliver is walking out with his parents Jeff and Jen. Congratulations to Ollie. And next wearing number 11, Captain Henry Fowler. >> [applause] >> Henry is walking out with his mom Messina, dad Julian, and brother Kier. Congratulations Henry. And last, certainly not least, wearing number 18, Captain Sam Weisman. >> [cheering] >> Sam is walking out with his mom Jennifer. Congratulations And congratulations to the entire senior class of 2026. Well, you know what? They're probably going to do We might not do anthem.
Uh, members of the public may speak for up to three minutes. Um, and when you get up here, please just say your name, uh, and how like what your relationship is to the schools. If you're a parent, community member, staff member, etc. Nan, we got any community public comment. >> First up, we have Bill Gordon. >> Great. >> You good? Okay, great. There you go. Good evening. My name is William Gordon. I reside on Country Club Road here in Greenfield. My children went to school here. I'm a taxpayer in the city and a voter for the uh school committee elections. I'm here this evening to follow up on a formal complaint and request for investigation that I previously submitted in writing to committee committee member Childs regarding a potential procurement issue with within the school department. On March 30th this year, I observed the budget and finance subcommittee meeting where there was a detailed discussion about expenditures for landscaping services at the Greenfield High School.
Uh members of the public may speak for up to three minutes. Um and when you get up here, please just say your name uh and how like what your relationship is to the schools. If you're a parent, community member, staff member, etc. Nan, we got any community public comment. >> First up, we have Bill Gordon. >> Great. >> You good? Okay, great. >> There you go. >> Good evening. My name is William Gordon. I reside on Country Club Road here in Greenfield. My children went to school here. I'm a taxpayer in the city and a voter for the uh school committee elections. I'm here this evening to follow up on a formal complaint and request for investigation that I previously submitted in writing to committee committee member childs regarding a potential procurement issue with within the school department. On March 30th this year, I observed a budget and finance subcommittee meeting where there was a detailed discussion about expenditures for landscaping services at the Greenfield High School.
>> I'm Claire. Okay, go ahead. >> Good evening to all of our distinguished guests. We appreciate the board of education for the opportunity to spotlight Stallion Ruff Elementary. We are the student leadership team. Our school's journey is rooted in the Danbury public school's goal to become the number one district in Connecticut. Tonight, we'll briefly share how the school's key priorities and actions help us become strong advocates, collaborators, communicators, innovators, and learners. This work could not have been completed without the dedication, insight, and passion of our school leadership team. Our school leadership team has worked together to examine the data, discuss with other staff members, and determine innovative ways to address our problems of practice. Like so many across Danbury, our school is committed to supporting every child every day. Now, let's dive in with our wildly important goals. Our goal is to make our district the best it can be.
specifically helping close the achievement gap in between um different groups if you wanted to say. >> Thank you, President Hog. Yes, this evening is definitely a special opportunity for us to be able to give our congratulations to the entire Piedmont Middle School community. Our um this is definitely a combined effort amongst all of the staff, the teachers, the support staff, the parents, the students, and administration. and uh they just recently received their award by our state superintendent Tony Thurman. That was just about two weeks ago at a celebration in Southern California. So, I'd like to take this opportunity to welcome uh Dr. Barnes, the principal, and his entire team if they would please all come forward. As we know, um these achievements don't happen overnight. They take lots of concerted effort and a lot of different um goals and objectives that the school establishes. One thing that I I like to share about the California Distinguished School Award, it encompasses a variety of different areas.
At the Village, we get to forge our own path. We are given the flexibility to decide how we use our time. Nobody had the same schedule or layout, and that's what makes us better built for future endeavors. No one person is the same, and we have to learn learn to work with others around us who do things differently and want different outcomes. Whatever the case, Village taught us perseverance, to channel an internal drive, not just external pressure. Showing up even when nobody was watching, continuing when it was hard, and getting back up when we felt like there was no hope to finish. In the real world, we won't get the luxury of having someone to lean on every time something goes wrong. Thankfully, we have been equipped with the tools to tackle any challenge that comes our way. We have learned that there are consequences to our actions.
Members of the chapter will now share more about each pillar. At this Sorry. Please welcome Diana Castino. >> [applause] >> Good evening everyone. Martin Luther King Jr. in the purpose of education wrote, "The complete education gives one not only power of concentration, but worthy objectives upon which to concentrate." To us, this means hours dedicated to our studies and a focus on the lasting benefits of a cultivated mind. Scholarship denotes a commitment to learning gained through experiences both in and out of the classroom and continuously looking for opportunities to gain more knowledge. To me, scholarship means being dedicated to learning, seeking out new ideas, expanding on knowledge one already has, and challenging things we were taught to believe. Being members of the EHS chapter of National Honor Society, we are committed to our education and curiosity in various aspects of our lives. For some, that meant bravely taking AP biology or challenging themselves with AP calculus.
And then that's the budget that would be adopted for the school year. What we do the m the major area that we're going to have to build on for any budget in Arizona actually across the country is what's your student enrollment. So as you remember we had a analysis on a demographic and enrollment by Mr. parameter in applied technologies, excuse me, applied economics u back in January. And so the number that we're going to go ahead and use, I'll give you in a second, but it's based on that assessment that we had Mr. Brammer do. To the extent possible, we want to protect staff and students. Um that's always been our goal. Uh they're who we're all about. Uh but we also have the realities of what a budget looks like in the state of Arizona. And then we also want to make sure we're meeting priorities of what we think's most important when we build um a budget.
To summarize, the final revision reflects a net decrease of $148,000 across all three main funds. This brings our combined budget limit for these three funds of 113,229,675. That concludes my presentation.
>> And then we tell us what was the most important. So they did an out here and they want to the most fun. They laughed all the time. So, congratulations. Have a good night. Sorry, I struggle. CONGRATULATIONS. >> You definitely want to take this team if you want to get in front. You can come down. >> So, next we're gonna come up here for the state unified bowling team. >> Thank you. Uh good evening. Thank you Dr. Brown and the board for allowing us to recognize some very special individuals this evening. Our unified teams help promote inclusion through shared sports training and competition experiences. Unified sports brings people together with and without intellectual disabilities on the same team, creating meaningful relationships, teamwork, and opportunities for all students s to succeed together. We are incredibly proud of our team members and honored to participate in the unified sports program through Special Olympics Indiana.
It it it recurs based on how many students we have coming to this district from another district. >> So eventually if you're not keeping pace with that, that's a that's a lot. That's I think about $1.1 million to be taken out of school choice every year. So we can't continue to fund our positions etc at that level. Um what Mr. Adams has done is look at the school department and say okay what can we how can we get down to the bare minimum? Now some people would say that he we were already at the bare minimum. >> Um you know we are 362nd in terms of per pupil expenditures. uh compared to the entire state of 396 districts. So that's really low. We get tremendous um >> bang for our buck. >> Yeah, we get tremendous bang for our buck. All right. So, um, so but you know, one thing that I did look at recently was if you look at even some a town that gets 2,000 that's putting $2,000 more per student >> than we are, then that would basically take care of this inequity, right?
He started the National Park System and Antiquities Act. And then uh in a democracy, the highest office is the office of citizen. Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter. And I really love that quote because we have a an org chart somewhere in town. I've got it somewhere I pile of stuff. And on the very top above everyone is town meeting. And I think we forget how important or people want us to forget, um how important the citizens actually are in a setup ours. And I think it's also when if you want to complain about something, but you're not doing something, it's a reminder to us as citizens that we have to do our part. Yeah. Um people I think sometimes feel a little nervous about speaking up when it I feel it's your civic duty to speak up. And I think that needs to be promoted more more.
Um I just put in pictures. The picture on the left is our um senior bingo night, um which we had I think over 30 seniors came, which was um they loved it. It was a really big deal. It's our second year doing this. And then on the right is pictures from [clears throat] our um What was that? That was our Thanksgiving food drive, and that's also our second year doing this, and we did over 450 donations to the um food pantry this year. Um so, yesterday after school, we had our whole group come out after, you know, school and clean up the courtyard in the middle where there's picnic tables and like a nice little cement area as pictured. And but it's like can be a little bit, you know, not so nice at times, and so we were just trying to clean it up especially with the nicer weather and if teachers are kind of done teaching with their AP classes or whatever can go out there and have a nice time.
Okay. That way when we charge them at night, we know which ones are charged. All right. Got you. It's like it will wrapping is important. It always has to be wrapped. So we're going really fast today, but we're going to do this again. Let's try to do it. We're going to do this rolling nice around the floor, especially cuz I got to go to school tonight. Go through it and you plug it in. That's how our cables are wrapped. That's it. Another [cheering] score. I have to do this to make sure this is transmitting SDI. This camera can do SDI and also use the max output. All right. Jeff, are you receiving the wireless SDI? Yes, I do see it. You do see it? Yeah. On the back of this is the power. So this is pretty good. In here it's kind of dark, so And phantom power means that some microphones need power from the mixer to I know.
For We'll do anthem, but um they're probably going to do stick check and then Jim or Paul, when do you guys want to do the anthem? Do you want to do a sound check or your stick check or captain's meeting? Yeah. Um Yeah, maybe as soon as they're once they're over, we'll do anthem. Okay. And if we could please ask everyone to please rise, remove your hats and helmets. We are going to honor our country with the singing of our national anthem by our manager Arabella Clark. Oh. say can [singing] you see by the dawn's early [singing] light what so proudly we held at the twilight's last gleaming, whose broad stripes and bright stars [singing] through the perilous fight or the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming? And the rockets' red glare the bombs bursting in air gave proof through the [singing] night that our flag was still there.
Following that meeting on April 1st, I submitted a public records request seeking all current and future contracts related to the landscaping services, including the specific contract discussed as well as any quotes obtained in connection with that contract. On April 14th, I received a response that included an unsigned document dated January 1st, 2025 for Snows and Suns covering services through June 30th, 2026 totaling $35,892. The scope of the work work included seasonal cleanups, mowing, trimming, fertilization, irrigation services, and other maintenance. In addition, I received invoices for various services across multiple school properties, bringing their parent total cost for fiscal year 2026 and private landscaping to approximately $42,627. See public records request 2608. However, the response did not include any of the requested competing quotes associated with this contract. I subse sub subsequently filed a follow-up complaint regarding the incomplete response and I was informed but by the city's I was informed that the city's procurement department may hold the records but after additional delays and multiple follow-ups I ultimately received a final response saying that there was no response of records existed within the city of Greenfield and that the request may be directed back to the Greenfield public schools.
Following that meeting on April 1st, I submitted a public records request seeking all current and future contracts related to the landscaping services, including the specific contract discussed as well as any quotes obtained in connection with that contract. On April 14th, I received a response that included an unsigned document dated January 1st, 2025 for Snows and Suns covering services through June 30th, 2026 totaling $35,892. The scope of the work work included seasonal cleanups, mowing, trimming, fertilization, irrigation services, and other maintenance. In addition, I received invoices for various services across multiple school properties, bringing their parent total cost for fiscal year 2026 and private landscaping to approximately $42,627. See public records request 2608. However, the response did not include any of the requested competing quotes associated with this contract. I subse sub subsequently filed a follow-up complaint regarding the incomplete response and I was informed but by the city's I was informed that the city's procurement department may hold the records but after additional delays and multiple follow-ups I ultimately received a final response saying that there was no response of records existed within the city of Greenfield and that the request may be directed back to the Greenfield public schools.
And we're the ones at the center of the list. Here's what that looks like for us, the whole child. Here at Styley Love, we feel healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged. Portrait of a graduate. We are building the specific skills we need to be ready for the world after high school. Wildly important goals. Our school is focusing on the areas that help us grow the fastest, achieve our best, and keep our well-being a priority. These goals are bold, but they reflect our greatest opportunities to accelerate student success. For our first goal, for our first goal of increasing proficiency in math as well assessment, we have already seen a lot of growth in math according to i scores for the spring. Some of the things that the teachers and administration have done to see this improvement are departmentalized fifth grade targeted flexible small groups and men 30 to 45 minutes in my path weekly professional learning community meetings with the math teachers and myths ward from the district math department for our first goal of decreasing the number of students scoring below grade level in foundational skills.
So, it's not just about um academic achievement. That's certainly a key area, but it also includes all of the criteria that's listed in our California dashboard. So, um, you know, in terms of, uh, student attendance, student character, you know, showing up for school every day, all of those things matter in terms of, you know, their their citizenship and their success in their academics. So, I'd like to give Dr. for Barnes an opportunity to share a little bit about some of your focus areas and your own thoughts in terms of this achievement >> and you can also introduce who you have here with you. >> Absolutely. We'll start there. Um special thanks to the team for showing up tonight. Um, assistant principal Rhonda Jacobs, Katherine Walterbeek, core teacher, math core teacher extraordinaire, Miss Laur Umali, Karly Pridam, and Lydia Siggoaniano. Thank you guys so much for being here.