Okay, perfect. Okay. Yeah. Thank you, Tina. Yeah. Um I've done Ed Red the last few years. Um I can continue with that or I can do the alternate if somebody else feels strongly about attending the Ed Red meetings. Um they can be attended virtually, which is how I think we'll go. Um it's up to you guys. I can I can do I can do Ed Red or alternate. Okay. So. I'll I'll with Ed Red. I was going to I was going to say Foundation. Yeah, no, that's right. I would do Ed Red Alternate. >> Perfect. Thank you. Thank you. Kathy, would you do Foundation? Sure. Awesome. Thank you. Okay, and that leaves IASB Northbrook. Ron? Yeah, I'll do that. Thank you, Ron. Okay, so we have Ron for IASB Northbrook, we have Tina for IASB West Chicago, Eugene for Ed Red, we have Stephanie for Ed Red Alternate, and Cat for Foundation Club.
So it would just be working with our tech team and our calendars to look into that. I think the other piece too with that is and and actually it's almost a nice segue to what Ryan's going to talk about. We are also making sure that kids are connected in other ways through activities, athletics, and all of those things. And so, while it's not directly relationship mapping, it's ways to make sure that our students are connected in the building. >> Exactly. Yes, exactly. So, like it's a Again, it's not the actual survey, but there are other points throughout the year where we again, we're checking in to make sure, okay, what are you connected with? And again, one of the responses to and I'll I'll speak for North, one of the responses to um the relationship mapping and the fact that the boys have less relationships than the girls, we've created a group at North called Men of DGN.
You've got evidence that that can do that. Um and it's there. And handling transition to traditional sixth grade, um I believe that this is really kind of where in looking at surrounding districts, this is a very much where districts stop at fifth grade and not go to middle school and high school. There is no plan whatsoever at this point in time to move this any higher than fifth grade. Sixth grade is when they start changing classes. They have, you know, they have science and social studies every day. They have their encore. It kind of lends itself to that. Um you know, maybe we can work with um the fifth grade teachers and sixth grade teachers on on how to transition that a little bit. Um so, yeah, I think we need to kind of keep talking about that. Um I don't think I don't see it as a wall that we can't climb, but I do think that we have to have those up and conversations with those teachers.
Um two things just to share. We are doing some fun activities at these sites as well to encourage the children to come. We're partnering with Indiana Department of Education. Uh specifically there's Farm to School Group and we're doing participating in cucumber craze. So we're doing Carl the Cucumber. I keep calling him Carl the Pickle but it's Carl the Cucumber and we're going to promote cucumbers for the kids. We're going to give them seeds, show them how to grow them, give them recipes on how to make your own pickles and there's fun activity sheets. Um I will not be dressing as Carl the Cucumber but I'm I'm tempted so we'll see what happens this summer. Um but so we're doing that and then we also of course will try to when see how the season goes but we'll be providing local um cucumbers in our in our recipes and menus for the students.
And Vaughn you want to just talk a little bit more about your >> Oh yeah. Okay so if you look at the top right you can see the gondola and in the back is the motor and then on the bottom there's the battery mounts and the boards that we use to power the motors and the LEDs. And then in the bottom right we have what we've called throughout the year project ceiling fan. It's practically a motor that we have a tiny little piece of balsa wood on the bottom and then we have coupons on each of the sides and then we have weights mixed with coupons. >> Okay so these coupons we would Well so our original idea was to shoot t-shirts off of this to give away but we're like that's very impractical or it it's just impossible basically. Yeah it's it is a felony as Vaughn would say.
Um but we were limbo there for a long time with no trainer, and I know that was a pain for a lot of people, including myself. Uh Parkview did a really good job for us um as far as getting us people when they could, especially for our big basketball games and uh Larry Mehlman did all of our wrestling for us. So, we had a lot of people help us out, but they were finally able to get us a trainer uh or get a trainer available for us through the approval of this contract, and I think they're going to be a great partner moving forward. They've already done a lot of good things for us not being an official partner. Um They just I think it's going to be very beneficial for everybody program-wise and for school-wise. So, I'm just excited about it. Thank you. May I have a motion on the recommendation to approve Parkview Sports Medicine athletic training contract?
Oh, okay. from the elementary school. Jodie Kvachkov. Congratulations from Timothy Ball Elementary School. Beth Peters and from Winfield Elementary School, Lisa Posier. Now on to our winners. Uh I where's if I can come Kathy come closer to Mary and then Josh come on in here get your just do for winning this award. First of all to our teacher of the year at the secondary level Mary Bpoint High School. Our teacher of the year elementary level from Winfield Elementary, Josh Huddle. Employee of the year from Jerry Ross Elementary, Kathy Burke. Please, if you all would remain here, we do have our administrator of the year. We're I'm turning this over to March and Fermy. Okay. So, um those of you who don't know this is a surprise. So, the people in the room right now do not know or the winner does not know this right now.
And shoulders now we usually breakfast about 2:30 in the afternoon but but I'm just wondering if that can give them a little more time. >> And then the last thing on my list is just um thanking our staff for a great school year. Uh students and families also, we've There've been a lot of things to celebrate this year and many things to feel good about. So, grateful for all of those things. Looking forward to the summer months. >> Well, I I just like to say I think you've done a great job in your your first little uh dash uh around the school district and in regards to your governance and and working alongside everyone and I think everyone has really um um gotten around you and wants to see not only you but the district to move forward and um you know, Dr. Smith did a great job and it's a new year now.
>> All right. Any comments, questions? You said that they're going to do all of them or just some days >> middle school and high school all the summer. So, they would be done. I think what was the date that >> gave mid early to mid July date they would get here and then they would install them and then I'm also working with empower on setting up a training for the teachers um we've had our principles came in and they looked at them and all different types of them and they all seem plug it in and you go very similar to what the projector is now so >> so it'll display everything that it does now certainly there's more interactivity um that you can choose to use and tools of that nature But the main thing is a lot of our staff members rely on displaying their content but there is a lot of interactivity utilized by not just staff students.
Boston has one. There's a one in Cambridge, one in Somerville. So you have to if you Google refill stores near me, you have to you have to look. Uh, there is a company called um, Supply Bulk Food that does food only, but uh, she delivers to different uh, areas around the Boston area twice a month and she she is at Dorchester and she fills up with all the bulk shelf stable things, packages it in uh, non-plastic items and you can pick up there. So Supply Bulk Food is I don't know if they deliver if she delivers out here though. Uh, are any of those resources listed on Beyond Plastics? >> On the website, so Mhm. No, but Beyond Plastics is a national group. So we have the Boston area. >> are starting to list. I think I thought they they were listing like um uh, fulfilled goods like some of the some of the the the bulk stores.
So, you'll have all kinds of assurances in place. MassDEP is part of the RAM and the review of that is also involved. So, there's layers of protection here uh, for the commission and the public. Um, the next category is soil gas sampling. Um, based on the 2024 sampling, one compound, TCE, exceeded the MassDEP residential criteria. No compounds exceeding commercial or criteria were identified. Um and that sample was the SG3 sample. Um which is right here. This is the SG3 sample down here. Um >> sample under the building? Oops. Yes. Yes. So So you did test through the floor there. Right. Okay. Um and finally groundwater. Oops. Um groundwater has been monitored for VOCs at both the upgrading and downgradient locations on the site. VOCs exceeding the MassDEP GW2 criteria during the 2022 through 2025 groundwater sampling results are summarized in the tables that we included in um supplement number three.
And that's all I have. Thank you so much. Great presentation. Yeah, great great job. Mike, Mike, congrats to uh to you and to your your classmates for a job well done. I did some fast math uh with the minutes that you guys read at the part of school and I came up with 6,200 hours. That's a lot of hours and that's a great job and that's what you needed to do and I'm very proud of the whole school for what what you did and congratulations to you and to your parents and everyone else who helped you do that. So keep up the good work. >> And just quickly thank you all. I want to thank you all for making us gifts. Um we will treasure them. Um, so thank you so much. And just one quick question for the composting folks. Um, how would you respond to somebody who says, "It's just too hard to compost, so I'm not going to do it." >> They don't have to compost.
I know with your facilities committees, right? Who knows if the seventh grade goes into that school. I I'm not pushing it. I'm just saying, right? Um Every other school in Franklin County has that 7 to 12 where they can draw numbers down into those activities at that school. There's lots of things that are beyond your plate. Never enough Never going to be not any work for you in the future. Know that. Well, thank you for this cuz this I really honor you for this. We're all very appreciative that in a time when our neighbor districts are cutting positions, we've managed to preserve. But, I do want to talk about the long-term picture a bit more cuz it sounds like next year we will be okay. But, farther down >> Andy's Andy's nodding his head for people listening. But, farther down the line um I want to know what our long-term consequences as much as we can reasonably predict would be.
Um I think if you um rush to judge or jump in with opinions or statements of you know what you know whatever the the meeting is um you're not going to build that relationship and I think special ed is a business of relationships, right? We we do hard work. Our staff does does you know a difficult job every day and differentiating for kids and um really trying to um capitalize the time that they have and so I think relationships are what support and and build capacity of teams. So I I think that listening element is critical and and and in some ways I think I might have mentioned this during my interviews, I think it's it's just as important um as a background in special education and a skill set of you know understanding the laws and ethics behind the work that we do. Um my greatest challenge or something that I would like to continue to work on.
Any questions? Tim? I have no valid questions for this one. This is my fault. Sorry. Happy to see you. Could we get that on PowerPoint? Sure. Absolutely. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, we teach you at this point at Saxton College as you may this does come to mind. Um basic finance, checkbooks, stuff like >> back to the uh uh second or third Oh, yeah. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yeah. So, we we offer 18 business um different business classes. Um and I was just saying um five essence our presentation five years ago through now um six of those classes are for college credit. Okay. So, um we um we've partnered with Tunxis um one of the um Connecticut College um system schools. Um accounting one, two, advanced personal finance, introduction to business, um and then we partnered with UConn, and we have AP ECE micro and macroeconomics. And uh though and those are among the um the courses that we teach.
As Dr. Tomko mentioned, uh we understand that the goal is is to have the best educational environment for our staff, for our students, for our families come September. Um and so, that that work will continue in maintaining those programs. Um, it's something that the board had asked that we do and and it's something that that we still have in in in plans to do. Uh, but I want to stress that what's going to happen over the next few months. Um, the involvement of building administration increases, the formulation of of um, schedules for 26-27, the ongoing registration process, both pre-K registration and our regular registration, uh, will continue. Uh, again, we are a transient district. We know that you know, our our community, um, has some some variables in terms of our numbers from building to building and in grade to grade. Um, so that's going to be managed through the the academic side and of course through Dr.
And over time, that adds up. These actions turn doubt into confidence, effort into progress, and small repeated decisions become the reality of who we are. And graduating isn't just a milestone. It's evidence of everything to it took to get us here. The late nights and early mornings, the failed tests and endless test corrections, the teachers who pushed us, and the loved ones who believed in us. Most importantly, it showed the way we used the time we were given. Because that's what it comes down to, time. It moved whether we noticed it or not, and it's going to keep moving. So, what matters now isn't waiting for the perfect moment. It's recognizing that moments don't wait. It's easy to think we'll have time later to try, to risk, to begin. But later is never guaranteed. And someday it's just time passing without us in it. Instead, we start.
Do we have policy that specifically kind of focuses on that? >> Uh we don't beyond um gender discrimination and um harassment. Uh so when we say standing policy uh uh Mr. Man was mentioning like we do have specific protections for na like uh should have looked it up origin of nation of origin something like that. So maybe we align it to that. So standing policy I just meant like current policy. I also am just jotting notes. So, we definitely need to word smmith. But that was what I was trying to say like take what we have and make sure that it's like encompassing maybe to um ensure it encompasses um the needs of our um so align standing policy or I guess I should put current I don't know why I said standing current policy to And I I also have a follow-up question too when you're done.
And then we'll just invite them all to the Yes, like we've mentioned. Yes, yes, yes. Tina's saying that we will treat information always. Right. Well, I mean Of course. >> Yeah, for We'll invite you We'll call you on a Zoom call the day before, yeah. Okay. Okay. Now for our regularly scheduled meeting, everybody. All righty, we got this. Okay. So, first up we have new board member orientation with Dr. We need the cabinet. This is cabinet. Thank you. Okay. I got to pull up Mr. Burn Losey move here. Okay. I know that we've run through most of this, Mr. Memon, once already with uh your visits, but for the benefit of going through our process here and then to also meet each of our cabinet members and to give a brief update what their purposes and their departments and the work that they do. I'll start off with the um the things that you would learn from IASB, but all of this is taken straight from IASB's work and also with our work with Triple I.
And so, one of our counselors runs that group during our access and it was in direct response to some of this data. So, there are other ways that that connection is happening outside of that survey, too. >> It does. I remember you talking about that in the beginning of the school year. How often were they able to meet? Have you seen They met quite a number of times um during access is awesome. They they're a great group and uh Nicole Gibson is our counselor who has [clears throat] set that up and uh again, they meet during access probably twice two to three times a month. So, like rough not quite once a week, but almost. And um they do various things throughout the building. Um again, when time allows and sometimes that depends on our access calendar, too, but Approximately how many students are involved in that?